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30s
Marguerite Shee (BS39, MA42) of Plantation, Fla., enjoys taking exercise and writing classes. She tells jokes in talent shows and says, "Keeping busy keeps me healthy."
40s
Rowena Walker Markham (BS42) of Pasadena, Calif., has been a Presbyterian pastor's wife for 41 years.
50s
Genevieve Mahre Alexander (MA50) of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, retired after 35 years of teaching high school business courses.
Lores J. Borke (BS54) of Cupertino, Calif., retired after 32 years as a learning disabilities and ESL first-grade teacher at Vinci Park School in San Jose.
Ann Wells Kelly (BS54) of Phoenix retired after a teaching career for children with learning disabilities.
Evelyn Ransdell Richer (BS54) of North Barrington, Ill., a retired teacher, serves on her Northwestern reunion class committee, the board of the Chicago Drama league, is a member of the John Evans Club and chairs the Barrington Community Association of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is active in the American Association of University Women, in garden, bridge and book groups and in Northwestern-sponsored travel.
Lucy Jane Moore Block (MA55) of Austin, a retired elementary school teacher, has been married to Nelson (EB42, GSM54) for 60 years. They are parents of Stephen C. (EB68) and Jean Warren.
Stanley Krippner (MS57, PhD61) of San Francisco received the Ashley Montagu Peace Prize at the 11th Annual Peace and Conflict Resolution Conference.
60s
William W. Joyce (MA60, PhD64) of East Lansing, Mich., professor of education and deputy director of Canadian Studies at Michigan State University, was a guest editor of the spring 2003 issue of the Michigan Social Studies Journal, published by the Michigan Council for the Social Studies.
Elizabeth M. Mittelsteadt (MA62) of LaCrosse, Wis., teaches piano and organ in her home studio.
Roycealee Johnson Wood (C62, MA64) of Lake Bluff, Ill., was appointed Lake County Regional Superintendent of Schools for a four-year term.
Susan Firestone Hahn (WCAS63, MA65) of Winnetka, Ill., poet, playwright and the editor of Northwestern's TriQuarterly magazine, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievements in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishments. Hahn is the author of five books of poetry, two of which, Holiday and Mother In Summer, were named among the "Best Books of the Year" by the Chicago Tribune.
Joseph Karlson (MA63) of Chicago, a retired high school math teacher, enjoys activities with the NU Club of Chicago.
Kenneth W. Thorson (BS, Nav63) of Richmond was appointed Virginia's tax commissioner in May 2002. Previously he was executive director of a War on Poverty agency and held a commission as a naval officer. He is married to Eve Moses Thorson (J62).
Robert B. Townsend Jr. (MA64) of Gurnee, Ill., retired as associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the College of Lake County after 30 years. He was the first teacher hired by the college in 1969. His entire teaching career spanned 43 years. While at Northwestern, Norman Bowers (deceased) was his adviser.
Penelope Berlet (BS66) of Evanston, curator of education at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston, attended a workshop on "Using Museum Collections with Young Children" at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. The museum was awarded Evanston's Mayor's Award for the Arts for 2003.
Michael M. Buckner (BS66) of Akron retired after more than 36 years of teaching. In the summer of 2003 he began work at an Akron golf course.
Laval Wilson (PhD67) of East Orange, N.J., was appointed East Orange's school superintendent.
Lee E. Hanson (WCAS68, BS70) of Clayton, Mo., was named associate vice chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.
70s
Kathryn Barrath Tooredman (BS70, MS76, PhD81) of Palatine, Ill., was named vice president for human resources at National-Louis University in Wheeling, Ill. She and her husband, David (McC69), have a son, Scott, and a daughter, Jessica (McC01).
Jane Gaines (BS71, PhD82) of Durham, N.C., an associate professor and director of the Duke University Art Museum, was named a 2003-04 Radcliffe fellow. Gaines is writing a historical investigation of the work of women in the international motion picture industry from 1895 to the end of the silent film era.
Michael K. Jones (PhD71) of Greensboro, N.C., a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, has twice been president of the Northwestern Alumni Club in North Carolina. He writes a column for Patriot Newspaper on education and business interaction called "Ask Dr. J."
Darrell Lund (BS71) of Tenafly, N.J., signed a three-year contract to head the Tenafly School District, his second post-retirement job.
William Prince McLemore (PhD71) of Cordova, Tenn., a tour guide for the National Civil Rights Museum and former professor of Governors State University in University Park, Ill., traveled with his wife, Elsie, to Antarctica, the seventh continent they have visited.
Ronald C. Riley (BS71, L76) of Olympia Fields, Ill., was promoted to colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve in October 2002. In his role as a military judge advocate he oversees the legal services provided to the members of the facilities engineer group based in Darien, Ill.
Richard Wedemeyer (PhD74) of Three Rivers, Mich., was named the 2002 recipient of the President's Medallion at Glen Oaks Community College in Centreville, Mich., where he teaches.
Jim Blazevich (BS75, MA78) of Matthews, N.C., has started a sales and marketing firm in Charlotte, N.C., called the Blaze Group.
Jan S. Half (BS75) of San Mateo, Calif., promotes educational programs sponsored by NASA Ames and two nonprofit organizations, Tech Corps and Resource Area for Teachers.
Gloria Peace (PhD75) of Olympia Fields, Ill., is professor emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University.
Clement Craig Kopstain (MS78) of Mount Prospect, Ill., a former U.S. Navy captain and Middle East analyst and Desert Shield/Desert Storm veteran, has appeared four times on "Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont," a nationally broadcast weekly panel show on WLS-AM and Channel 20 (PBS) in Chicago. A world traveler of 97 countries, he manages Community Education Travel, a worldwide group educational travel program. Craig and his wife, Judy, are parents of Lori Kristine (WCAS89) and Eric (WCAS95, KSM01).
Deborah Fagen Lee (BS78) of Highwood, Ill., is the hospice clinical coordinator for the Lake County office of Palliative Care Center and Hospice of the North Shore.
80s
Ross D. Peterson (BS88) of Washington, D.C., is vice president for business and government relations for a public affairs firm in Alexandria, Va. He and his wife, Amanda, are parents of Nathaniel David and Margaret.
90s
William E. Hook (BS90) of Lockport, Ill., is an assistant principal at Morrill School in Chicago. He and his wife, Diane, are parents of Tommy, Nick and Michael.
Robin N. Black (MS93) of Chicago, director of government affairs for the Chicago Board of Education, received a fellowship from the German Marshall Fund to travel through Europe and learn about European education policy.
Dan Fouts (MS93) of Romeoville, Ill., a teacher and director of professional development at Maine West High School in Des Plaines, co-founded Minduniversity, a distance learning academy that offers correspondence technology courses to the K-12 community.
Lisa Michel Stone (WCAS93, GMS5) of Libertyville, Ill., is a math teacher at Community High School District 128. She and her husband are parents of Kevin Timothy, Emily Rose and David Michel.
Laura Smith Lang (BS96) of Chicago married Joshua Lang July 12. Laura is a reading specialist and English teacher at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill.
Suzanne Wagner Budak (BS98) of Chicago, a volunteer community liaison for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, celebrated her one-year wedding anniversary with Hasan Efe in Kocaeli, Turkey, Hasan's homeland.
Nichole Pinkard (MA98) of Ann Arbor, Mich., was a co-winner of the Jan Hawkins Early Career Award at the American Educational Research Association meeting and will speak at the 2004 AERA meeting.
Elizabeth Shook (MS98) of St. Louis creates and manages education programs for adults, age 50 and over, for OASIS, a national, nonprofit education and volunteer organization.
Iris Tabak (PhD99) of Fairfax, Va., received a fellowship for a year-long sabbatical in Israel.
00s
Nithya Candra (BS00) of Philadelphia has enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania's secondary teacher education program. She was awarded a Puente-Forchic Scholarship, created by comedian Bill Cosby and named after musician and philanthropist Tito Puente and Cosby's sixth grade teacher, Mary Forchic Nagle.
Dan Cottrell (MS00) of Northfield, Ill., a substitute teacher in Chicago-area middle schools, spends summers as a "smokejumper" with the U.S. Forest Service. With his colleagues he parachutes into the area of remote forest fires to dig fire lines and cut down trees in an effort to contain the flames.
Gary Kossman (BS00) of Granada Hills, Calif., works for America Learns. Out of 1,000 applicants he was named one of 10 2003 Fellows by the Echoing Green Foundation, an international venture philanthropy. The fellowship includes two years of seed funding and technical assistance.
Jim Withington (BS00) of Evanston teaches at the Illinois Institute of Art in Shaumburg, Ill.
Eric Baumgartner (PhD01) of Seattle and his wife, Laura, are parents of Grace, born July 7.
Stefanie Delucca (PhD02) of Baltimore is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Rachel Dunifon (PhD02) of Ithaca, N.Y., is an assistant professor in the department of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University.
Tondra L. Loder (PhD02) of Birmingham is an assistant professor of social foundations in the School of Education at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Loder's hometown.
Sam Fugazzotto (MS03) of Oak Park, Ill., is district registrar at New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill.
Amanda Klingman (BS03) of Chicago has opened Klingman Group, a permanent placement search firm in Chicago.
In Memoriam
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Ron Burton spoke at the 2000 convocation. Photo by Brian Kersey. |
Ron Burton (BS60), 67, Framingham, Mass., Sept. 13. Mr. Burton was deeply committed to Northwestern University, to football and to serving underprivileged youth. In 1959 he was named NCAA Back of the Year, nominated for a Heisman Trophy Award, and, in 1990, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. After graduation, he played for the Boston Patriots (now New England Patriots) until 1965.
SESP Convocation speaker in 2000, Mr. Burton was honored by Northwestern with an Alumni Service Award in 1978 and the 2000 Alumni Service to Society Award.
He established and directed the Ron Burton Training Village in Hubbardston, Mass., giving inner-city children the opportunity to grow athletically and academically. In summer 2003 he was honored with the creation of the Ron Burton Award for Community Service, to be given to the New England Patriots Player who best exemplifies a giving attitude and community commitment.
Mr. Burton is survived by his wife, Joann, and five grown children, all Northwestern graduates: Elizabeth H. Burton (WCAS85), Stephen Jourdain (WCAS85, GJ88), Ron Jr. (WCAS88), Phil (C94, GJ95, 96) and Paul (C96, GJ98). All four sons played football for Northwestern.
Class Codes
AF Air Force Commission
C Communication (formerly Speech)
CB Chicago Business
D Dental
EB Evanston Business
FSM The Feinberg School of Medicine
G Graduate (Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences or University College)
GC Graduate Communication
GD Graduate Dental
GJ Graduate Journalism
GL Graduate Law
GFSM Graduate Feinberg School of Medicine
GMcC Graduate McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
GMu Graduate Music
H Honorary
J Medill School of Journalism
KSM Kellogg School of Management or Graduate Business
L Law
Mu Music
N Nursing
Nav Naval Commission
SCS School of Continuing Studies (formerly University College), Continuing Education, Evening Divisions
Tns Transportation Center
Trf Traffic Institute
WCAS Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Liberal Arts