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Fall 2008
magazine
2007–2008
ANNUAL REPORT
OF GIVING
The Wheelock
Connection
Across
Generations
• The Class of 2012
• Convocation with
Marianne O’Grady
’94MS
• All Together at
Reunion
Reunion
2008
Record Numbers Back at Wheelock
Reunion Weekend, with over 250 alumni back on campus — a record attendance in recent
history — raised the decibels of laughter and number of alums boasting “most events attended”
to new highs this year. Class members returning home to Wheelock spanned more than 70
years, from senior alumna Betty Quick Collin, who celebrated her 70th Reunion (representing the Class of 1938), to student helpers in the Class of 2011, who glimpsed the celebration
awaiting them in the future when they return to campus as Wheelock graduates.
Many alumni arrived early on Friday to meet up and catch up with classmates as well as to
enjoy weekend kickoff events, including the Luncheon in the Alumni Room, the Boston Pops
Concert, and the post-Pops Dessert Reception. Saturday brought a full day of Class Meetings,
the always-colorful Annual Procession, a State of the College
presentation by President Jenkins-Scott, and the Awards
Ceremony at which alumni and guests were entertained
What a busy an
with a surprise Reunion slide show (with music!) combining phod wonderful
Reunion! It was
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tos of the current campus and students with those of classmates and events taken in ear- one
t seeing everytogeth
lier decades. Thanks to Director of Alumni Relations Brianne Kimble for creating this ories and er, sharing Wheelock memtraditio
should-be-Oscar-nominee! The Annual Alumni Luncheon brought more time for catch- the great variety ns, and hearing about
of wor
ing up with friends, shoptalk, and photo sharing before heading off to a duck tour and a plished in different fie k being accomlds. Come back
soon. Your next
trip to the MFA — an event made extra interesting by tour leader Maddi Cormier ’66.
Reunion is in
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Passion for Action
Scholars
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A Message From the President
3
On Campus
3 Upward Bound for Teacher Bound Initiative
3 International Students on Campus
4 Conference Connections
6 Welcome — New Wheelock VPs, Trustee & Corporation Leaders
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Students & Faculty
8 Certificate Program in Community-Based Human Services
10 So Sexy So Soon—Diane Levin ’69MS
10 Improving Attitudes Toward Mathematics—
Galina Dobrynina
10 SENCER Leadership Fellow—Ellen Faszewski
11 The Weight of Light—Gregory Gómez Exhibit
Editor
Christine Dall
12 Alumni
13 FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow—Julia MacMahon ’08
Production Editor
Lori Ann Saslav
15 Service Learning & Travel
16 Lunch & Learn
Design
Leslie Hartwell
Photography
Christine Dall
Lauren Wholley
Brianne Kimble
17 2007-2008 Annual Report of Giving
18 Annual Fund Giving Yields Big Student Returns
19 Passion for Action Scholars on Campus
Conference
Connections
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Wheelock Magazine
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Volume XXIX, Issue 1
20 Interview: Adrian Haugabrook, vice president for
student success and diversity
21 Donor Recognition
37 Pre-Commencement Dinner—Kip Tiernan Remarks
38 Convocation—Students, Faculty, & Marianne O’Grady ’94MS
40 Reunion—Across the Generations, One Community
41 Class Notes
Wheelock Magazine invites manuscripts and photographs from our readers, although we do not guarantee their publication, and we reserve the right to
edit them as needed.
For Class Notes information, contact Lori Ann Saslav
at (617) 879-2123 or lsaslav@wheelock.edu.
Annual Report
of Giving
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Send letters to the editor to: Wheelock Magazine,
Office for Institutional Advancement,Wheelock
College, 200 The Riverway, Boston, MA 02215-4176.
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Cover:The alumni tradition of welcoming incoming
students with a plant give-away was continued
this fall by (L to R) Laurie Fraga ’02, Barbara Tarr
Drauschke ’72, Bonnie Page ’76, Mila Moschella ’75,
Brenda Noel ’93, Rachael Thames ’07, and Beverly
Tarr Mattatall ’72.
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MESSAGE
Dear Alumni and Friends,
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his fall, Wheelock welcomed 237
first-year students to campus, the
largest entering class in its history,
and nearly 40 transfer students. This is a
smart, talented, idealistic group of students,
many from Massachusetts but others from
California, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Texas,
and other states, who represent the country’s
great regional diversity. As I watch these new
students start out on an educational journey
that will transform them as learners and
shape the choices they make throughout
their lives, I am reminded that they are at
Wheelock during a time that is transformational for our institution as well.
The spectacular new Campus Center
and Student Residence (CCSR) is moving
very quickly toward completion, changing
the face of the College on the Riverway
to one that reflects our modern, forwardlooking identity. This beautiful building is
“[The Bringing Theory to Practice
project] will support Wheelock in
helping our students achieve all
of the core outcomes of a strong
liberal education and in defining
conditions for sustaining the
College’s institutional excellence.”
an external representation of our community
and of the many ways in which the College
is changing internally to enhance our students’ educational experience. As we enter
the third year of Wheelock’s strategic
initiative to create a vibrant, exciting, and
thriving learning community, we are participating in two new national programs that
will move us significantly forward toward
meeting this goal.
The first is the Wabash National Study
of Liberal Arts Education. Wheelock is
among 15 national and 10 New England
institutions selected to participate in this
longitudinal study of student learning funded by the Davis Educational Foundation
and the Teagle Foundation. The goals of the
study are to help colleges gain information
about what teaching practices, curriculum,
and institutional structures best support student learning, and to develop methods of
assessing a liberal arts education. The study
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focuses on seven outcomes associated with
excellence in liberal arts education: effective
reasoning and problem solving, inclination
to inquire and lifelong learning, integration
of learning, intercultural effectiveness, leadership, moral reasoning, and well-being.
Congratulations to Wheelock’s vice president of academic affairs, Julie Wollman,
who was instrumental in securing a place
for Wheelock in the study. The learning
outcomes identified in this process fit especially well with Wheelock’s mission, its academic guiding principles, and its general
education goals. The study will offer significant and relevant data to guide us in designing a general education curriculum which
best helps our students to develop critical
thinking and communications skills.
Participation in the study, which began
with new student orientation in September,
is led by a very committed group of faculty
on the College’s General Education Task
Force — Associate Professors Mary Battenfeld, who leads our effort; Marjorie Hall;
William “Bill” Thompson; and Emily Cahan,
along with Richard Williams, director of
First Year Experiences.
This fall, Wheelock has also been selected
to participate in the Bringing Theory to Practice Project, which, in partnership with the
Association of American Colleges and Universities, is bringing 45 diverse colleges and
universities together to create a leadership
coalition and commit their campuses to
becoming national models for what a liberal
education can and should be. With generous
support from the S. Engelhard Center, the
Charles Engelhard Foundation, the Christian
A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, and Lumina Foundation for Education, Wheelock and
the other coalition institutions will receive
grant support for work over the next two
years that will demonstrate the benefits of
making it a priority to create and sustain a
campus culture of learning — how it elevates
expectations, involves greater faculty and student interaction, broadens reward structures,
and results in greater student attainment of
academic achievement, well-being, and civic
development.
The initial activity of the coalition is a
President’s Symposium scheduled for Nov.
10-11, 2008, in Washington, D.C. The event
is a working session for presidents to learn
from each other about transformative change
at their institutions and to share ideas and
experiences about current challenges facing
higher education. I am very excited about
participating in the symposium and in the
project. It will support Wheelock in helping
our students achieve all of the core outcomes
of a strong liberal education and in defining
conditions for sustaining the College’s institutional excellence.
Wheelock’s participation in this project
will advance its strategic agenda and its role as
a thought leader in higher education. It is a
very exciting opportunity to be engaged with
other institutions that are, like Wheelock,
actively pursuing institutional transformation.
This issue of Wheelock Magazine contains
news about the College’s accomplished faculty and new administrative leaders as well as
reports on conferences that are contributing
to Wheelock’s growth as a center for sharing
information and ideas. A look at first-year
students — the Class of 2012 — reveals a
wonderful diversity of interests and accomplishments that is impressive to say the least.
Welcoming such an outstanding group to
our learning community of students, faculty,
staff, and alumni who all share the same
mission is exciting and encourages us to do
our very best to provide them with what
they need to achieve their goals.
This issue also includes the College’s
Annual Report of Giving. On behalf of the
children, families, and students Wheelock
serves, I want to sincerely thank each and
every individual and organization who
chose to support the College in this most
important year. Our accomplishments are
many and are made possible because of
your generosity.
Sincerely,
JACKIE JENKINS-SCOTT
President
Fall Catch-Up
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ast summer and into early fall, Wheelock’s
Teacher Bound program laid the first stepping
stones in a pathway to college it is building for
students from the Boston area who are interested in
becoming teachers. Teacher Bound received a four-year
$1 million Classic Upward Bound TRIO grant — it was
the only teacher development initiative in the country to
receive Upward Bound funding — and lost no time in
immersing a group of 50 high school students in the first
phase of its program.
For six weeks during the summer, we had ninth- and
10th-grade students from nine Boston neighborhoods
and 13 Boston schools on campus and in classes all day,
Monday through Thursday. After completing Introduction to Teaching and summer courses in science, math,
critical writing and reading, and digital storytelling,
the students are back at Wheelock this fall for Saturday Academy, continuing the gains they made on the
summer pathway to teaching.
ON CAMPUS
Teacher Bound
A Summer Success
Recycling for
AIDS Education
Immersed in Learning
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heelock’s commitment to global awareness and international learning continued to
expand this summer when the College’s Center for International Education,
Leadership, and Innovation welcomed students from Singapore, the Bahamas,
and Taiwan to the first international Summer Immersion Program on the Boston campus.
In June, 59 students from Wheelock’s Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Educational
Studies and Leadership program at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore arrived for five weeks
of intensive study. The students, all in their second year of the program, took courses in
Assessing Students with Special Needs and Parent-Teacher Communication, and absorbed
practical experience visiting educational and child care centers that support children with
learning challenges. Wheelock Family Theatre Educational Director John Bay ’94MS and
Professors Felicity Crawford, Susan Kosoff ’65/’75MS, and Susan Harris-Sharples
connected the students to many resources and individuals throughout their time in Boston.
In July, the Center welcomed 20 students from Wheelock’s Master of Science Programme in
Early Childhood and Elementary Teaching, offered in collaboration with The College of the
Bahamas, for a four-week immersion session. During their stay on campus, the Bahamian students
completed intensive courses taught by Dr. Linda Banks-Santilli ’85, Dr. Vicki Bartolini, and
Dr. Kathleen Reed, prepared to conduct independent study research projects, visited the Perkins
School for the Blind, toured a Bright Horizons child care center, and observed summer literacy
programs in Brookline schools.
Students from Taiwan began their study tour with a reception hosted by President JenkinsScott at which they were greeted by Dr. Shan-nan Chang, director of the Taipei Economic
and Cultural Office in Boston, and a Taiwanese newspaper reporter. Professors Vicki Caplan
Milstein ’72 and Min-Jen Wu ’00/’03MS co-taught the students in the course Introduction
to Inclusive Early Childhood Education in a Multicultural/Multiracial/Multilingual Society.
Throughout the course, students had the opportunity to observe inclusive early childhood
classrooms in Brookline schools.
Associate Director of Alumni Relations Brianne Kimble welcomed the students with a
preview of coming attractions available to them when they join the ranks of Wheelock graduates.
Each student received a Wheelock College license plate frame — the hit of the presentation.
(See Wheelock WARES at www.wheelock.edu/alum to order your own frame.)
The three visits gave staff and faculty a welcome opportunity to connect more closely
with the College’s international students and learn more about relevant issues in their education systems. And the presence of the energetic students on campus definitely contributed
to making this a very active and student-oriented summer.
he good news is that Wheelock has new
athletics uniforms. And the other good
news is that the old uniforms are being
put to excellent use by the TRIAD Trust. TRIAD
is a consortium of exceptional athletes, artists,
musicians, filmmakers, physicians, educators,
policymakers, and health care advocates dedicated
TRIAD kids wear WHEELOCK
to increasing HIV/AIDS awareness and encouraging prevention. TRIAD trains local leaders to run
sustainable sports, arts, and media programs for
orphans and vulnerable children in areas affected
by HIV/AIDS. Early intervention combined with
stimulating activities kids naturally love is their
route to raising healthier, happier children.
Diana Cutaia, Wheelock’s director of Athletics,
Recreation and Wellness, works with several youth
development organizations in Boston, including
Charlestown Lacrosse, whose director went to
South Africa on behalf of TRIAD in July. When
Diana got a call for material donations, she packed
up Wheelock’s still-got-life-in-them uniforms and
some water bottles and off they went!
Go, TRIAD kids!
Students from Singapore, the Bahamas, and Taiwan
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s it possible that summer’s less pressured tempo influences creative thinking and synapse connectivity? Both were very much in evidence
among those who attended conferences and institutes held on campus last summer. Wheelock’s summer programs offered another
strong selection of educational opportunities for educators, child life professionals, and students alike. Conferences, graduate courses,
and professional development classes blending theory and practice generated an abundant sharing of ideas that no doubt are being applied
this fall in elementary school classrooms and on campuses in the U.S. and internationally.
For Credit, PDPs, Continuing Education Points, or Audit
Last summer, Wheelock faculty offered a great selection of institutes that could be taken for graduate credits, professional development
points (PDPs), and continuing education points, or simply audited: Media Madness: The Impact of Sex, Violence, & Commercial Culture on
Adults, Children, & Society; Supporting Children’s Emotional Development in Schools and Communities; Children’s Racial and Cultural Identities; Multicultural Children’s Literature; Boys: More at Risk Than We Think?; Fathers: Their Impact on the Lives of Children; and Language and
Literacy: Teaching Literacy to English Language Learners.
Keep Wheelock’s Summer Institutes and conferences in mind for next summer when planning on adding PDPs. In addition to the
May 22 conference, Annual Community Dialogue on Early Education and Care: New Initiatives, New Realities, a noncredit summer
conference on June 5 and 6, Environmental Education for Children: Going Beyond the Hype, also offered PDPs.
Building Leadership and
Management in the Social Sector
Environmental Education
for Children
Wheelock Hosts Invitational Seminar
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s the nonprofit sector continues to grow and develop, there
is a continual need for senior leadership and management
who have the skills needed to provide innovative direction
for organizations so that they can better fulfill their missions. In June,
Wheelock hosted an Invitational Focus Seminar designed for rising
senior leadership and tailored to meet both their professional development needs and the needs of their organizations. The seminar goal was
to help prepare the rising leaders to be entrepreneurs and founders of
future nonprofits.
The participants concentrated on gaining leadership insight and
skills through case studies, interactive problem solving, and discussion,
and they worked with current nonprofit presidents, CEOs, and
COOs who had turned their ideas into major regional and national
programs. These were Jeffrey L. Bradach, co-founder and managing
partner of The Bridgespan Group; James Weinberg, founder and
CEO of Commongood Careers; Alan Khazei, co-founder and former
CEO of City Year Inc. and founder and CEO of Be the Change Inc.;
David S. Ford, executive director of the Richard and Susan Smith
Family Foundation; Gerald Chertavian, founder and CEO of Year
Up; Kim Syman, managing partner and director of the Action Tank
unit of New Profit Inc.; Rob Waldron, vice president of Berkshire
Partners and president and COO of Waterworks; and President
Jackie Jenkins-Scott.
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ast June, a Wheelock conference on environmental science for
children in early childhood and elementary classrooms emphasized
how critical a foundation of science literacy is to the future generations
who will care for our planet. Conference speakers and workshop leaders supported immediate conservation efforts such as recycling and protecting endangered species, but the real focus was on basic science concepts children can
explore and experiences educators can provide to begin to build a foundation
of understanding in children that they will need for future decision-making
when they are adults.
Former astronaut Jeff Hoffman, a five-flight veteran, who is now a professor
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a highlight of the conference,
explaining how the U.S. and other nations study our home planet from great
distances and showing some of the amazing discoveries made by viewing Earth
from outer space.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, an interactive panel of educators and
environmentalists discussed down-to-earth learning opportunities (and challenges) available to students right in their own school neighborhoods. The panel
consisted of Meg Watson, elementary professional development specialist and
science program manager for the Boston Public Schools; Gloria Villegas-Cardoza, director of education at the Massachusetts Audubon Society; Ross Wilson,
principal of the Dennis C. Haley Elementary School in Boston; and Kirk Meyer,
founding executive director of the Boston Schoolyard Funders Collaborative.
Thanks to the Applera Corporation for sponsoring the event, with additional support from the Wheelock College Math/Science Education Initiative, the Colleges of the Fenway Environmental Science Program, and the
Massachusetts Audubon Society. And extra thanks to Cathy Clemens, Wheelock’s Math/Science Education Center manager, for organizing such an informative conference.
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International Froebel Society
Chooses Wheelock for Its
First Conference in the U.S.
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riedrich Froebel changed the way we think about early childhood education by demonstrating the central role that play has
in learning. In 1840, Froebel created the word kindergarten for
the Play and Activity Institute he had founded three years earlier at
Bad Blankenburg, Germany. There, he designed educational materials
(now known around the world as Froebel Gifts or Gaben), which
included wooden geometric building blocks, balls, tiles, sticks, and
rings, and demonstrated that children learn by playing.
“After many disappointments in spreading the idea of kindergartens in
Germany, Froebel looked to the U.S., where there was both a growing
demand for early childhood care and increasing numbers of social workers
and teachers,” says Dr. Suzanne
Pasch, director of Wheelock’s Center
for Scholarship and Research.
“When introduced to the public education system in Boston, the idea of
kindergartens began to spread, and the
U.S. became the base for the kindergarten movement worldwide.”
Suzanne Pasch, director of Wheelock’s Center for
Scholarship and Research, and Kevin J. Brehony, chair
of the International Froebel Society Conference
Organizing and Review Committees and professor at
Froebel College, Roehampton University, London
Third Annual Dialogue on
Early Education and Care
Coalition Building to Improve Services for
Our Youngest and Most Vulnerable Children
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heelock’s annual dialogues on early education and care
began in 2006 when the College hosted field professionals,
community leaders, policymakers, and advocates to review
the impact of the Early Education for All legislation passed in 2005.
Building on the success of the first conference, Wheelock hosted the
Second Annual Dialogue on Early Education and Care, which focused on
the important issue of investing in a diverse workforce, in 2007.
“The enactment of the Early Education for All legislation was an
important first step toward improving the lives of children and families
throughout the Commonwealth, and in three years much progress has
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Lucy Wheelock was asked to train Boston’s first kindergarten teachers, and her classes were the early building blocks of what evolved into
Wheelock College. The strong connections of Miss Wheelock to
Froebel, the intersections of their work with young children and those
who educate them, and the existence of a wealth of source materials
(including a journal of Miss Wheelock’s “pilgrimage” to Germany in
1908 and many Froebel Gifts) in the Wheelock Library archives are
among the reasons why the College was chosen by the International
Froebel Society for its first conference in the U.S.
A mix of scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students from four
continents, each of whom is engaged in work emanating from Froebel’s
contributions to early childhood education, gathered at Wheelock to discuss contemporary international perspectives on play and learning. Dr.
Pasch was an organizer of the conference and a presenter; Wheelock faculty
members Dr. Emily Cahan and Dr. Eleonora Villegas-Reimers participated as presenters; and Dr. Diane Levin ’69MS was a keynote speaker.
Honoring Dr. Ed Klugman, Faculty Emeritus
On the final day of the conference, attendees honored Dr. Ed Klugman,
faculty emeritus, for his contributions as a “gifted educator and timeless
advocate for all children’s right to a world rich in play.” He was presented
with a stone sculpture by the Shona in Zimbabwe which was inscribed,
“You never stand so tall as when you bend down to help a child.”
The next week, Ed sent a letter expressing his appreciation, which read
in part: “With my thanks and deepest respect to all of you for continuing
to carry on the Lucy Wheelock tradition with sensitivity, caring, and
sharing that which is most important, the
human and humane connection. I admire
all of you for your courage and persistence
in continuing to create a future unlike the
past. Wishing all of you continued success
in improving the quality of lives of
children, families, and the future.”
“You never stand so tall
as when you bend down
to help a child.”
“. . . shifting realities of leadership change,
resource limitations, and policy implementation
are posing new challenges.”
— President Jenkins-Scott
been made,” President Jenkins-Scott said in welcoming those attending
the Third Annual Dialogue, held at Wheelock last May. “At the same
time, shifting realities of leadership change, resource limitations, and
policy implementation are posing new challenges.”
This year’s Dialogue presentations, panel discussions, and facilitated
sessions helped to frame current initiatives and realities in early education
and to develop strategies for coalition building and moving forward as
a unified field. Leaders at the event included Wheelock Professor of
Education David Fernie; Dean of Education and Child Life Eleonora
Villegas-Reimers, and Senior Director of Government Affairs and Civic
Engagement Marta Rosa.
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Wheelock
Welcomes
Dr. Adrian K.
Haugabrook
Vice President for Student Success and
Institutional Diversity
Executive Director of the Aspire Institute
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n July, Wheelock welcomed Dr. Adrian K.
Haugabrook to the newly created post of
vice president for student success and institutional diversity and as the executive director of
the College’s new Aspire Institute. Dr. Haugabrook is well-known at Wheelock as he served
on the Board of Trustees as chair of the Educational Policy Committee last year, contributing
a wealth of experience and knowledge and
demonstrating a great passion for Wheelock’s
mission, which he sees as the core of the College’s vitality. “Wheelock is an extraordinary
institution with an extraordinary mission,” he
says. “I quickly arrived at the epiphany that
people don’t come to Wheelock to just learn or
work; they come to realize their mission.”
Haugabrook has an extensive background
in higher education as a practitioner, teacher,
speaker, and writer on topics that include sociology, education policy, creating successful
learning environments for students, and diversity. As vice president for student success, he is
leading initiatives supporting student achievement throughout their undergraduate and
graduate years at Wheelock, supervising areas of
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Services, Field Experience, First-Year Experience, Career Development, and School and
Community Partnerships.
Haugabrook also serves as Wheelock’s first
chief diversity officer, a new position recommended by the College’s Community Diversity
Initiative Committee. Prior to coming to
Wheelock, he successfully introduced campuswide multicultural and diversity programs
and services at Framingham State College,
Southwestern State University, and the University of West Georgia.
As executive director of Wheelock’s new
Aspire Institute, Haugabrook is leading the
initiative to build partnerships and apply
Wheelock’s academic resources to “real-world”
challenges facing schools and organizations
serving children, families, and communities.
Haugabrook came to Wheelock from The
Education Resources Institute (TERI), where he
was vice president for the Local College Access
Program. TERI provides programs and services
to young people and adults to help them plan
and pay for college and other career-building
programs. TERI achieves this through collaborations with neighborhood centers, middle- and
high-school-based programs, and outreach
efforts at community organizations. At TERI,
Haugabrook worked closely with higher education institutions locally and nationally to address
issues of postsecondary access and success. Previously, as executive director of public policy
alliances and innovation at the nationally recognized Citizen Schools, a Boston-based afterschool apprenticeship education program, he led
the organization’s national programs and its state
and federal policy strategy, which resulted in
state-funded legislation for Citizen Schools in
Massachusetts.
several different positions at the School of
Education, including professor of elementary
education, interim and then dean of the Feinstein
School of Education and Human Development, co-director of the Rhode Island College/
University of Rhode Island Joint Ph.D. in
Education program, and assistant chair of
Elementary Education.
In these capacities, Wollman initiated a
range of innovative projects and worked with
faculty committees to develop a revised mission
for the school that focused on excellence
through equity, diversity, and social advocacy.
Under her guidance, the school developed new
graduate programs in Educational Leadership,
Advanced Studies in Teaching and Learning,
and Special Education. She was an advocate for
faculty research and scholarship and assisted in
bringing millions of dollars of research grants
to the college.
Since 2007, Wollman had served as vice
president of academic affairs at Worcester State
College, where she led the work of 20 department chairs, numerous academic centers and
programs, several directors, two associate vice
presidents, the assistant vice president, and the
president. During her time at Worcester State
College, she led the restructuring of the Assessment and Planning Office, redesigned the
academic program review process, developed
Dr. Julie Wollman
Vice President of Academic Affairs
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ollowing an extensive search process,
Wheelock College has appointed as
vice president of academic affairs an
experienced academic leader and a talented
scholar, administrator, and community
builder with over 16 years in urban higher
education: Dr. Julie Wollman. Dr. Wollman
spent 15 years at Rhode Island College in
Dr. Julie Wollman, vice president of academic
affairs, and Sandy Christison ’92MS, president
of the Alumni Association Board, at August
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a plan for improving the academic library,
expanded the study abroad program, and
improved the culture of scholarship and external
funding for research. She also led the college’s
strategic planning effort.
Wollman brings to Wheelock a passion
for leadership and excellence. “Above all, I
hope to empower others to succeed while
moving Wheelock forward as a premier college
in New England and the country,” she says.
“Wheelock is perfectly positioned for growing
success in educating undergraduate and
graduate students in model programs and for
impacting our community and society in
ways that advance equity, access, and opportunity for all. In order to do that, we need
to look beyond what is, and to envision
what might be.
“I’m very excited about the challenges
and rewards of policy and program development
that is collegial, that is inclusive of stakeholders’
voices, and that will promote innovation and
excellence in teaching and learning,” she continues. “To me, Wheelock seems the ideal place to
do that. It is my very great pleasure and privilege
to be working with President Jackie JenkinsScott and an outstanding institutional leadership
team, faculty, and staff. I’ve been warmly and
graciously welcomed, and now I’m getting down
to the hard work ahead.
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New Board of Trustees
and Corporation Leaders
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his fall, Wheelock welcomes three new individuals to positions of leadership at the
College. Wheelock’s two new trustees and one new corporator will contribute much
time and thought to Wheelock’s well-being, and we are grateful for their service.
Patricia S. Cook ’69, Ph.D., is the chair and
CEO of Cook & Company, an executive search consulting
and advisory firm. She has more than 20 years of experience in management and marketing consulting, financial
services, and executive search. In addition, as a licensed
psychologist, Pat has conducted management evaluations of
senior executives on behalf of acquiring organizations or
newly hired CEOs. She received her Ph.D. from Boston
University, where she was an NDEA Teaching Fellow. Pat is
active in the International Women’s Forum, the Economic
Club of New York, and the Bronxville School Foundation.
She has two children: a daughter who works for Fidelity
Investments in Boston and a son who is a sophomore at
Lehigh University.
Alan Morse has had four diverse careers. He was a commercial banker for 27 years, ending up as chair of the United
States Trust Company (now Citizens Bank); a public servant
for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as commissioner of
banks, then as undersecretary of administration and finance,
and finally as supervisor of financial services; chair of Harvard
Pilgrim Health Care; and a high school math teacher in the
Boston Public School System. Alan is also a trustee of the A.C.
Ratshesky Foundation, a director of The Writers’ Express and
The Pioneer Institute, and an adviser to Civic Capital Group, a
specialized hedge fund. He continues to tutor math in Boston
schools and is an elected School Committee member in Brookline. He and his wife, Rebecca Steinfield, have two children
and four grandchildren.
Barry Wanger is president and founder of Wanger Associates, a public relations agency specializing in nonprofit organizations and higher education. Barry holds a master’s degree in
Public Relations from Boston University. He was Wheelock’s first
director of public affairs from 1975 to 1979 and went on to serve
in similar positions at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Brandeis
University before starting his own agency. Barry has been awarded
a lifetime achievement award from the Public Relations Society
of America (Boston chapter) and the Publicity Club of New
England. He served on the board of the Wheelock Family Theatre for 10 years and currently serves on the board of directors
of Adoptions with Love in Newton and as a new member of the
Corporation at Wheelock. Barry and his wife, Wendy, have a
daughter who is a student at Newton South High School.
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STUDENTS & FACULTY
Certificate Program
in Community-Based
Human Services
by Associate Professor Stefi Rubin
T
his is the fifth year of the Certificate Program in
Community-Based Human Services, a 16-credit program
designed for juniors or seniors who want to explore
new professional directions, either in terms of potential career plans
or further graduate studies. Central to the program are supervised, 150-hour, semester-long practica of students’ own choosing
in which they discover both the complexities of working within
human services and the personal rewards such work can offer.
Over the years, practicum sites have included many nonprofits, ranging from the Starbright Foundation, the Samaritans,
AIDS Action Committee, and the Child Witness to Violence
Project, to the United South End Settlements, Germaine
Lawrence School, Casa Myrna Vazquez, and St. Mary’s Women
and Children Center.
A number of the first 39 alumni of the program have gone on
to graduate school in social work, counseling, prevention studies,
human services administration, elementary and secondary
education, special education, and higher education. Others have
undertaken positions on the staffs of places such as Youth Build
Boston, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, St. Ann’s Home, Project
Joy, Action for Boston Community Development, Boston City
Hall, South Shore Early Intervention, Danvers Building Blocks
(serving preschoolers with autism), the Probation Office of
Middlesex Superior Court, Schenectady, NY, Association for
Retarded Citizens, Hartford Head Start, the Baltimore Public
Schools, and AmeriCorps.
This year, 11 students completed the program —
congratulations to them on their accomplishments!
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Stefi Rubin, the program coordinator and supervisor (right), and Yvonne Achilles ‘90MS,
practicum and seminar supervisor (middle), watch Kathleen Kirk Bishop, dean of the
School of Social Work and Family Studies, hand out congratulations and good wishes to
graduates (who included Laura McNulty ‘08 seen here) along with the all-important and
well-earned certificates in Community-Based Human Services.
Citizenship 101:
Wheelock Students Vote
M
any Wheelock students had the opportunity
to cast their first votes during this year’s
presidential election, and Wheelock took
the initiative to encourage full involvement in the election process. A major voter registration drive at the College and on other Colleges of the Fenway campuses was
a huge success, signing up 91Wheelock students at one
event alone. Scheduled gatherings in the Student Center
to watch the presidential and vice presidential debates
with discussion afterwards; a presidential Jeopardy game;
and formal student debates on the economy, education,
and early care and education engaged students in the
issues of this election year and emphasized the responsibility to be informed and vote.
National Hispanic Heritage Month
(Sept. 15 – Oct. 15)
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heelock students had a chance to enjoy and learn more about the diverse
cultures, heritages, and contributions of Hispanic Americans during
National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 – Oct.15). Activities at the
College and around the city included art gallery tours, the Boston Latino International
Film Festival, Latin music and dance, restaurant reviews, links to information about
famous Hispanic inventions, and more, giving students a good start on continued
exploration beyond the officially designated monthlong celebration.
National Hispanic Heritage Month was established by Congress in 1968 as a
two-day commemoration of independence day in six Latin American countries: Sept. 15
in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and Sept. 16 in
Mexico. In 1988, the celebration expanded to include Día de la Raza on Oct. 12,
which recognizes the influences of the people who came after Christopher Columbus
and the multicultural, multiethnic society that evolved as a result; Chile’s independence day on Sept. 18; and Belize’s independence day on Sept. 21.
First Run for Wheelock’s
Cross Country Team
Karen Peterkin ’08 and
Leslie Jordan ’08
Field Scholars Program
in the News
A
press release from Roxbury-Weston Programs,
whose mission is to bring families together in a
learning community dedicated to the celebration of diversity and excellence in early care and education,
has recognized the contribution that Wheelock’s Field
Scholars Program is making to establishing high-quality
after-school care. Congratulations to Leslie Jordan ’08 and
Karen Peterkin ’07, two recent Field Scholars graduates
who are featured in the release and who are now working
with the Roxbury-Weston Programs.
Roxbury-Weston Programs Press Release
Nashua, NH—Wheelock’s cross country team competed
for the first time in school history when members traveled in September to New Hampshire for the Daniel
Webster College Invitational. The Wildcats placed fourth
in the five-team competition with 76 points.
May 19,2008 — A significant step toward ensuring high-quality standards in after-school care was marked with the spring graduation of
more candidates from the first cohort of Wheelock College’s Field Scholars
Program.Leslie Jordan and Karen Peterkin,teachers from Roxbury-Weston
Programs’after-school program,CATCH [Children Achieving Through
Community Hope],have earned their bachelor’s degrees from Wheelock
with scholarship assistance from the Department of Early Education and
Care and a grant to CATCH from the Linde Family Foundation.
According to the Massachusetts After School Commission,teachers
with bachelor’s degrees contribute to high-quality after-school care,
which helps children,especially at-risk children,achieve more in school
in all grades and can potentially aid in closing the achievement gap.
Wheelock College,in response to the Early Education for All legislation in
Massachusetts,created the Field Scholars Programs specifically for individuals who work in early childhood education to earn their bachelor’s
degree while working in the field so that there are more highly qualified
teachers in center-based programs and schools.
Jordan and Peterkin were able to realize their goal and earn their
degrees within three years,which otherwise would not have been possible for either of them.Peterkin will lead as site coordinator for CATCH,
which is in Roxbury and serves kindergarten through third-grade children with after-school educational enrichment and support.Jordan will
serve Boston Public Schools children in Brighton and as a member of
Roxbury-Weston Programs’Board of Trustees.
Roxbury-Weston Programs,established in 1965 in response to the
Civil Rights Movement,has made it their mission to provide equal access
to high-quality early education.The Field Scholars Program is a perfect
example of positive change toward providing high-quality early education for all children,which ultimately benefits all communities at large.
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S T U D E N T S
&
FA C U LT Y
Dr. Ellen Faszewski Named a
SENCER Leadership Fellow
On Sabbatical —
Improving
Attitudes
Toward
Mathematics
A
ssociate Professor Ellen Faszewski’s programs, which always
emphasize relevant applications of science, are a hit with Wheelock students. Now her recent work has been recognized by the
National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, a National Science
Foundation research center, which has appointed Faszewski to be a SENCER
Leadership Fellow. SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) is a faculty
development and science education reform
initiative that engages students in science and
mathematics by focusing coursework on
science- and math-related problems in society
and the natural world (aka “real-world” problems). This method is intended to extend the
impact of student learning across the curriculum to the broader community and society.
In appointing Faszewski, the SENCER
fellowship board noted her innovative leadership in the collaborative COF (Colleges of
the Fenway) Environmental Science program,
eagerness to network with other science educators to advance reform in science education, dedication to developing courses and curricula to improve
science education and to mentor colleagues and future teachers, and recent
publications and presentations in this area.
Dr. Julie E. Wollman, Wheelock’s new vice president of academic affairs,
congratulated Faszewski, remarking that the appointment brings honor to
Wheelock and that she is delighted to be working with such a fine example
of the College’s outstanding faculty.
So Sexy So Soon —
An Important New Book from
Professor Diane Levin ’69MS
P
rofessor Diane Levin ’69MS has
been a lead voice among childhood
experts concerned with the sexualization of young children’s culture for years,
illuminating the ways kids’ healthy development is undermined by the commercial
interests making enormous profits by selling
“sexy” to kids too young to see the problem.
Now Levin’s book So Sexy So Soon: The
New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents
Can Do to Protect Their Kids (written in
collaboration with Dr. Jean Kilbourne and
published by Ballantine Books) is out, an
invaluable and practical guide for parents
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S
haring research at conferences attended by faculty
from other institutions is
an important element in the continuing scholarly development of
Wheelock faculty members. The
experience always provides good
contacts; presents new ideas, information, and research; and can valuably
inform one’s own teaching and research. It also offers Wheelock faculty
the chance to share their ongoing work and the work of the College more
widely with others.
As part of Associate Professor of Mathematics Galina Dobrynina’s
sabbatical research last summer, she presented at the 11th International
Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME) in Monterrey, Mexico.
ICME is held every four years to provide a forum where mathematics
education professionals from all over the world can exchange ideas, information, and viewpoints and develop productive dialogue with their peers.
“The title of my poster presentation was Impact of a Three-semester
Sequence of Mathematical Content Courses on Knowledge of Pre-service
Teachers,” reported Dr. Dobrynina. “My poster demonstrates how mathematics content courses designed for pre-service elementary school teachers
promote students’ specialized mathematical knowledge and improve their
attitude toward mathematics and themselves as learners of mathematics.”
who do see the problem but know that just
saying “no” won’t work. Launched nationally
in August with a featured spot on NBC’s
Today show and Fox News’s Weekend Live
program, among other national venues,
So Sexy So Soon is winning uniformly high
praise from leading experts and authors in
the field — Mary Pipher and David Elkind
to name just two.
Pipher, author of
Reviving Ophelia,
says, “This book —
by two of America’s
leading experts on
the effects of media
on children — is
powerful and
profoundly useful.
It is packed with
great stories and poignant examples of the
stress children face in our sex-soaked culture.
Best of all, the authors offer sane and practical solutions for all of us who want to make
things better for children, parents, schools,
and the culture at large.” Elkind, author
of The Hurried Child, agrees: “So Sexy So
Soon is a most timely and important book.
For parents who are troubled and worried
about what their children are seeing and
hearing, it offers helpful guidance and support; it not only documents the trends but
provides parents with many useful strategies
to combat them.”
Levin’s book was the Boston Wheelock
Alumni Book Club’s choice for its October
discussion group. For more information about
So Sexy So Soon, go to its website at
www.sosexysosoon.com.
S T U D E N T S
&
FA C U LT Y
The Frames,
bronze sculpture
The Weight of Light
Gregory Gómez Exhibit
at OH+T Gallery
A
ssociate Professor Gregory Miguel Gómez had his third one-person exhibition
at Boston’s OH+T Gallery in June. The Weight of Light, an exhibition of bronze
wall sculptures, depicted early maps, footprints of Old World fortifications, airport plans, and vacant picture frames — what Carole Anne Meehan, curator at the Institute
of Contemporary Art, described as “curious, invented relics.”
In his artist’s statement, Gómez noted that the exhibition brought together relief works from
several themes that he has been interested in for the last several years: “Graphic images of Early
World Maps, the footprints of old world Fortifications, and plan views of Airports, have each
been translated to heavily textured cast bronze with a dark patina. What these images share is
the genesis and evolution of their designs as determined and influenced by multiple factors,
including: their function; human design and imagination; and the shape of the landscape in
which they reside. Along with ‘The Frames,’ these works find themselves fitting into the familiar language of Modernism, while they also seem to respond to its broken promises.”
Faculty Summer Short Takes
■ DEBRA K. BORKOVITZ, associate professor of mathematics,
already has an individual website (http://faculty.wheelock.edu/dborkovitz)
that is essential for Wheelock students taking her courses and helpful to
teachers of higher-level mathematics. It’s filled with math materials organized by content, by tool/type, and by process and includes assessment
materials as well. This summer, she made a series of 15 videos on Excel
for Math Classes, which are available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.
com/dborkovitz. The series offers a variety of skill levels for both math and
Excel users, but most are accessible to people who are new to Excel and
many address elementary mathematics.
■ DIANE LEVIN ’69MS, professor of education, gave two invited
talks at the NAEYC 2008 National Institute for Early Childhood Professional Development, which was held in New Orleans in June. Both
talks focused on technology in early childhood education. In a featured
session, Levin spoke on “Remote Control Childhood: How Violence,
Sex and Marketing in Media Harm Children’s Development, Behavior
and Play, and What We Can Do about It.” At the closing plenary
session, she co-presented with Makeda Mays, of the Sesame Workshop,
“Opportunities and Challenges of the Technological Age on Children’s
Development and Learning.”
■ SARA LEVINE, instructor in science, has been teaching environmental education programs for children aged 2 through 12 at Bauer
Park in Madison, CT, for the past five summers. This year, two
Wheelock students who had been in Levine’s classes Introduction to
Plants and Animals, and Animal Behavior, Marty Busch and Amy
Goods, had the benefit of working with her and assisting with children at her Nature Camp. Marty assisted with the 5- and 6-year-old
group, and Amy worked with groups of children ranging in age from
5 through 10.
■ TERRY MEIER, associate professor in language and literacy, was
involved in three summer activities. In July, she taught in the Summer
Dialect Teacher Project, which is sponsored by the Center for the Study
of African American Language at UMass Amherst and draws faculty
and participants from colleges and schools all over the country. In
August at the Simmons College institute for Boston Public Schools
(BPS) teachers, Meier presented Literacy is Liberation: Examining
the Transformative Power of Literacy in the African American Tradition. Also in August, she co-taught with a BPS teacher, Kim Parker, a
four-day literacy institute for BPS teachers titled A Strengths-Based
Approach to Literacy Instruction.
■ IVY VALERIE SCHRAM, instructor in mathematics, holds a law
degree in addition to master’s degrees in math and in geology and is an
environmental lawyer. Last summer she lectured on International Environmental Law at Suffolk Law School’s summer program in Lund, Sweden.
■ JULIA WHITCAVITCH-DEVOY, instructor of human development, published an article (with David Blustein) in the June issue of
Career Development Quarterly, “The psychology of Working: a New
Framework for Counseling Practice and Public Policy.”
■ MICHAEL WILLIAMSON, associate professor of science, was in
Perth, Western Australia, for three weeks to teach students at St. Mary’s
Anglican Girls’ School marine biology, research methods, and data analysis,
and to conduct a weeklong program in the field at St. Mary’s Metricup
campsite near the Margaret River. In addition to his teaching, Williamson
conducted TV and radio interviews, assisted in developing Western Australia’s first online database for whale and manta ray research projects, and
met with fisheries representatives and the Curriculum Council of Western
Australia about the possibility of generating a professional development
program for their marine sciences high school teachers.
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ALUMNI
Policy Connection
Wheelock’s New Online Resource
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Congratulations to the 10 undergraduate
and 48 graduate students who received
Wheelock degrees last August, and welcome
to our alumni community!
Joining the Procession
O
ne of the rewards of being a member of Wheelock’s Board of
Trustees or Corporation is participating in Commencement
and seeing students fulfill their goal of becoming Wheelock
College graduates. For trustees and corporators who are also alumni,
the day can be even more meaningful. Among those attending Commencement 2008 were (l to r): Lois Barnett Mirsky ’54, corporator; Lynne
Wyluda Beasley ’66, corporator; Madeleine “Maddi” Tufts Cormier
’66, trustee; Ellen Tague Dwinell ’61, trustee; Susan “Sue” Moyer
Breed ’52/’79MS, corporator; and Judy Parks Anderson ’62, trustee
and chair of Wheelock College Corporation.
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Fall 2008
heelock’s new Policy Connection
website launched by the Office of
Government Affairs (http://www.
wheelock.edu/policyconnection/) connects alumni
to the current local, state, and national policies
intersecting with the College’s mission to improve
the lives of children and families. It’s a resource for
alumni who want to be informed about and get
involved in policy and advocacy issues affecting
children and families, and share their own professional and personal concerns.
The site is an excellent resource for learning
about and tracking pending federal legislation, pinpointing key advocacy organizations, investigating
relevant research, reviewing local budget processes,
exploring effective lobbying tips, and finding representatives on Beacon Hill and in Washington, D.C.
The Wheelock in Action section keeps alumni
updated on the College’s engagement with policy and
programs such as the Winter Policy Talks and Annual
Community Dialogue on Early Education and Care.
There is information about Wheelock’s Student Policy
Fellows and the College’s Political Caucus, and you
can find updates on President Jenkins-Scott’s work
with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s Readiness
Project and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s School
Readiness Action Planning Team there too.
In Extraordinary Times —
Wheelock Advocacy
and Policy Alerts
D
uring these extraordinary times,
when it is hard to keep up with the
latest news, never mind details of
government policies that are in play, it is all the
more important to be aware of how children,
families, and education are being affected.
Wheelock has initiated a way to make
sure alumni can be up-to-date on very important policy issues and be informed advocates
for positive change. Sign up for policy e-mails
and action alerts from Wheelock by e-mailing
alumnirelations@wheelock.edu. You will receive
current information as we gather it from
our Office of Government Affairs and other
reliable resources.
A L U M N I
Career Congratulations
to Kyla and Bri
T
he dynamic duo of Brianne “Bri” Kimble and Kyla McSweeney
’94/’97MS, co-directors of the Alumni Relations Office, has been
a great collaboration that has helped our alumni programs
grow and flourish. Now they are starting new and, we are certain, fabulous
chapters in their careers.
Kyla Moves On
Congratulations to Julia MacMahon ’08
Wheelock’s First FAO Schwarz
Family Foundation Fellow
Kyla left Wheelock in August to take a new position as director of the
Children’s Corner at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Wellesley, MA. The
Children’s Corner is a nonprofit, nationally accredited (NAEYC) child
care center located on the campus of Newton-Wellesley Hospital. The
center serves approximately 50 children between the ages of 1 and 5.
From 2006 to 2008, Kyla helped to develop our Policy Talks and led
our very successful reunion programs. She also coordinated our participation
in NAEYC and helped develop our alumni international travel opportunities. Kyla served on several college committees, and we all appreciated her
great sense of humor, her ability to remember many camp songs, and above
all, her love for and commitment to Wheelock. We miss Kyla but have been
happy to have her still involved in some of our fall alumni programs, and
next spring we will see her when she attends her 15th Reunion!
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heelock’s Juvenile Justice and Youth Advocacy Program and
the School of Social Work and Family Studies welcomed
Julia MacMahon ’08, the College’s first FAO Schwarz
Family Foundation Fellow, who began her two-year fellowship position
in September. The fellowship is funded through a generous grant from
the FAO Schwarz Family Foundation.
During the first year, Julia is devoting half of her time to developing
best practices for conflict resolution with a focus on youth in urban
settings. She will explore a variety of strategies — peacemaking circles,
group conferencing, peer/gang mediation, community peace-building —
by researching, networking, and conducting interviews about these strategies. The other half of her time will be spent in direct service: teaching,
training, implementing, and institutionalizing the best practices. Julia’s
direct-service work will take place with the children, youth, families,
and communities served by the after-school and summer programs at
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the South End. The fellowship will evolve
in year two to include a broader range of scholarship and direct service.
As an undergraduate, Julia transferred to Wheelock from American
University in Washington, D.C., where she was awarded the Deans’
Scholarship for Academic Achievement. While at Wheelock, Julia typically
worked full time, and she has held a number of youth-related positions,
including youth worker and program supervisor at the Department of
Youth Services Somerville Transition Shelter; intern and legal researcher
at the Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts in Lynn; teen staff director
at the B-SAFE summer day camp; PULSE service learning coordinator
at St. Stephen’s After School Program; and teen program director at
St. Stephen’s After School Program.
Bri Steps Up
Bri, who began her career at Wheelock in 2002 as the administrative assistant for the Institute for Leadership and Career Initiatives and has served
in the Alumni Relations program since 2004, is taking the next step in her
career development at Wheelock. She is now the director of Alumni
Relations and has overall responsibility for the Alumni Relations Office,
including supporting the Alumni Association Board and its committees,
planning and overseeing professional and social networking events, and
cultivating relationships with alumni locally, nationally, and internationally.
Bri will also oversee Reunion Weekend 2009, and she is looking forward to working closely with alumni, faculty, and staff to design events
and programs that will engage our alumni in the life of the College. Bri’s
enthusiastic spirit, great sense of humor, and high energy in service to
alumni contribute so much to our alumni programs, and we are thrilled
to have her leading the Alumni Relations Office.
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A L U M N I
Stonewall Communities
Lifelong Learning Institute
T
he Stonewall Communities Lifelong Learning Institute at Wheelock College presents many public
events and brown-bag lunch discussions funded in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. You can find a schedule of events as well as community resources at their
website: www.stonewallcommunities.com.
At an event held last June titled Liberty and Justice for LGBT Students: What the Safe Schools Movement
Teaches Us About Organizing, we learned that 300 Massachusetts high schools and middle schools now have
gay-straight alliances. From the start, students have organized the Safe Schools movement with the support
and counsel of adults. The Departments of Education and Public Health; the Governor’s Council on Gay &
Lesbian Youth; the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network; Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians
and Gays; the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth, and local churches have all
been involved in crafting a unique collaboration for social change and safe schools.
Web and Print Resources
The event recommended several print resources that can be downloaded from Stonewall’s website. Locate
them under the Lifelong Learning Institute Calendar of Events, Past Events.
• “How to Mobilize Students to Ally for Safe Schools,” an article from the March 2008 issue of Peacework
magazine, the peace and social justice magazine of American Friends Service Committee
• “Just the Facts,” a fact sheet that summarizes important statistics about the impact of homophobia on gay
and lesbian youth
• Outright, Your Right to Be, a brochure that outlines the rights of gay, lesbian, and bisexual students in
Massachusetts public schools
Child Life in San Diego
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heelock alumni were
among the record-breaking
1,050 who attended the
2008 Annual Child Life Council Conference in San Diego for three days of
networking and educational sessions.
Back row (l to r): Kerry Cahill ’05MS,
Karen Swartz ’97/’98MS, Assistant
Professor Paul Thayer, Samantha
Doyle ’07MS, Elizabeth Shaughnessy
’06MS, and Kathryn Weagle ’06MS.
Front row (l to r): Chrissy Rupp,
Chelsea Kingsbury ’07, Mallory
Kowal ’05, and Beth Lebowitz ’05MS
Next year, the Child Life Council
will be heading to Wheelock territory
for the 27th Annual Conference on
Professional Issues. The conference will
take place May 21-24, 2009, at The
Westin Boston Waterfront hotel.
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Wheelock’s
Center for Career
Development
Is Here for You
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heelock’s Center for Career
Development (CCD),
directed by Mary Sullivan,
offers many career services and resources
for alumni to help you in thinking about
or actually taking that next career step.
Career counseling appointments, résumé
critiques, job search techniques, workshops and programs, and access to
Wheelock Works! job postings have been
developed just for you. In addition, if you
or your workplace has openings, we can
help you hire a Wheelock student or
another graduate. Take advantage of this
free resource designed to provide outstanding service to Wheelock students
and alumni, as well as to potential
employers.
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Reunion 2009
Would you believe? Alumni are already planning
Reunion 2009!
That’s right. Alumni in classes ending in 4 and 9
are celebrating their Reunion next May, and some
early birds attended the Reunion 2009 Kickoff Event
held at Wheelock last September to begin
planning a great time for everyone.
Don’t miss out . . .
Save the dates May 29-31, 2009
You’re Invited —
Service Learning Trips
for Alumni
heelock designs its international and national service learning programs to promote cross-cultural
understanding and literacy among our students, and
we welcome participation by alumni and staff at the College
who enjoy lifelong learning through direct experience.
Past trips to Reggio Emilia, Italy; Belfast, Northern Ireland;
Guatemala; Singapore; Ghana/Benin; and New Orleans, LA,
have been phenomenal. Students and alumni returned from
the trips inspired and excited about the integration of learning
and service and the chance to share the experience together.
Three great service learning opportunities for alumni are
coming up in 2009. Contact the Alumni Relations Office for
more information at (617) 879-2261.
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■ New Orleans, LA: Jan. 3-10, 2009
■ Belfast, Northern Ireland: Feb. 13-22, 2009
■ Puerto Rico: March 8-14, 2009
Alumni E-mail
From: Carol Rubin Fishman ’83
Belfast ■ Northern Ireland
C
ongratulations to the members of last year’s field
hockey team on winning the 2007 NFHCA Division III
National Academic Team Award and on 10 of its members
being named to the 2007 NFHCA Division III National Academic
Squad (as seen in the Spring 2008 Wheelock Magazine). That’s
quite an accomplishment! I was the charter team’s captain
(1980 [first year of team], ’81, and ’82), and we didn’t have
such opportunities to be recognized. I don’t remember even
being in a division! Our big accomplishment in those first three
years was improving our score against Pine Manor College:
1980 = Wheelock 0, Pine Manor 1
1981 = Wheelock 1, Pine Manor 1
1982 = Wheelock 1, Pine Manor 0!
We played other teams such as Tufts JV (they beat us
miserably!) and some other small schools (bigger than
Wheelock!) that I can’t remember. We had just enough players
to field a team plus a sub or two. We shared a coach (Coach
Cora) with Simmons and shared our kilts as well! (We’d have
to wash our kilts and get them to the Simmons Student
Affairs Office before their next game and vice versa!) We’d
also use their players (shhh!) when we didn’t have enough!
It gives me such pleasure to see that the team lives on!
Best of luck this fall! Keep the grades up!
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Resources
Post-Grad Opportunities — Fall Deadlines Coming Up
T
he Broad Residency in Urban Education is a two-year leadership
development program that places participants into full-time high-level
managerial positions in school districts and Charter Management Organizations, where they can have an immediate impact on the education of
America’s students. The residency is designed for
individuals with an advanced degree (master’s or
higher), at least four years of work experience,
and a successful track record of leadership
and/or management.
Residents earn starting annual salaries of
$85,000 to $95,000 and participate in a
series of professional development sessions
over the course of two years. Residents
are often tasked with leading major
projects like opening new schools, leading
budgeting processes, increasing operational efficiencies, or
improving human resources. At the conclusion of the two-year program,
the Broad Residency expects that school districts and CMOs will hire
T
he Kip Tiernan Social Justice Fellowship is
offered by Rosie’s Place. This 12-month fellowship provides a $40,000 stipend and health benefits
and is awarded annually to a woman who will use
the funds to develop and carry out an innovative
project in New England that will benefit poor and
homeless women. Informational sessions will be
offered in the fall. Concept papers are due Dec.
1, 2008. The Fellowship will be awarded the
following spring, and the Fellow will begin the
following September. For additional information and application
materials, visit www.rosiesplace.org or contact smarsh@rosiesplace.org.
Lunch & Learn
Math Puzzler
Human Development Brown Bag Lunch Series
The Mathemagician claims to have 4,827,659
hairs on his head.
I
T
f you’re in the Boston area, here’s a great opportunity to go back
to class for an hour and catch up with the latest best thinking
on an array of subjects and programs of interest to Wheelock
alumni. Catch one or all of the monthly presentations in a brown
bag series sponsored by the Center for Scholarship and Research and
the Department of Human Development.
Nov. 19
Youth Philanthropy for Urban Community Change
Presenter: Felicity Crawford
ACE 224, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Jan. 21
Using Online Discussions to Nurture Reflective Judgment
Presenter: Debbie Samuels-Peretz
Location TBA, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Feb. 18
Bridging Communities through Service Learning Research
Presenter: Detris Adelabu
Location TBA, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
March 18
Supporting Children’s Emotional Development: From Theory and
Research to Practice and Curriculum Frameworks
Presenter: Petra Hesse
Location TBA, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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residents permanently in their current positions or promote them into more
senior leadership posts.
The Early Cycle Deadline is Dec. 1, 2008; the Regular Cycle Deadline
is Feb. 2, 2009. See the Broad Residency website program information:
http://www.broadresidency.org/.
Fall 2008
he physicist Enrico Fermi used to like to give estimation questions that seemed impossible at first glance but with some
thought could yield a very good estimate. Debra Borkovitz,
associate professor of mathematics, does too. She also likes big numbers.
And she likes Fermi questions because they challenge students to ask more
questions, not just provide “an answer.”
Try This Fermi Question
The Mathemagician (a character in The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton
Juster) claims to have 4,827,659 hairs on his head. Is it plausible for a
person to have this number of hairs on their head? Or is the number too
low or too high? Can you figure out a strategy for estimating the number of hairs on your head?
Hint, hint, hint . . . There is a website that looks at mathematical
patterns in African-American hairstyles (http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/
special/gilmer-gloria_HAIRSTYLES.html). A braided hairstyle can help with
the estimation.
Teachers . . . Ask your students to try this and then send a sample
or two of the approaches they take to Christine Dall, Editor, Wheelock
Magazine, Wheelock College, 200 The Riverway, Boston, MA 02215
or e-mail cdall@wheelock.edu. Selected solutions will appear in the winter
issue of the magazine.
You can find this Fermi question and others at Borkovitz’s website (http://
faculty.wheelock.edu/dborkovitz), or invent your own. How many minutes —
or seconds—has it been since you graduated from Wheelock?
2007–2008
ANNUAL REPORT
OF
GIVING
“’Ask and it shall be given’ was written by someone a while ago. . . . Wheelock did,
so I did . . . with great pleasure for the work it is doing and for what it did for me
when I was a student. It helped transform the dream to support human dignity —
from our littlest to our oldest — into reality on the global front. Wheelock accepted
us where we were, appreciated our limited or expansive talents, and let us grow,
keeping curiosity and creativity as our lifelong pursuits. . . . Now that’s a real gift!”
— RUTH ANGIER SALINGER ’53
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CALLAHAN MOORE,
NANTUCKET
Worked four jobs in high school
. . . a master list maker and
organizer . . . Wheelock basketball team . . . work/study in the
Towne Art Gallery . . . planning
a human development major
with a focus in psychology and
concentration in Juvenile Justice
and Youth Advocacy . . . likes
that Wheelock is in a city but it
is small and people are friendly
LI YU, CALIFORNIA
Loves writing and singing . . .
won first place for choral soloist
in U.S. and Canadian high schools
choral competition . . . plans a
humanities major with a focus in
social relations . . . loves Boston’s
diversity . . . thinks Wheelock faculty are incredibly responsive . . .
favorite classes are social science
and global encounters . . . agrees
with Florida and Texas firstyears — it’s brrrrrr in Boston!
KARINA VERGARA,
TEXAS
Top activities in high school were
Habitat for Humanity in Mexico,
reading program for children in
women’s shelter, and softball
team . . . active in ALANA and
GSA at Wheelock . . . favorite class
is Human Growth & Development
(instructor Julia Whicavitch-DeVoy
is “awesome”) . . . has always,
always wanted to be a teacher
AMAL SHARIFF,
NEW YORK
Vice president of senior class in
high school with 8,000 students
. . . headed up Red Cross blood
drive . . . soccer player . . .
co-founder and president of her
church youth group . . . very happy
with Wheelock’s small size and
ease of getting to know people . . .
favorite class is Media, Race, and
Society . . . interested in psychology
and teaching
ELLIOT HERNANDEZ,
FLORIDA
Basketball team captain for
three years in high school . . .
interested in psychology . . .
is bilingual . . . loves his
Wheelock English class 110
and teacher, Shana Deets . . .
likes the variety of students
and making new friends —
biggest adjustment: Boston’s
freezing [60 degrees] cold
weather!
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Big Student Returns
nnual Fund giving plays a pivotal role in growing student enrollment,
making it possible for more students to afford Wheelock as their firstchoice college. In a year that has proved extremely challenging financially
for families of students who want to pursue private higher education, 237
first-year students enrolled at Wheelock this September — the largest number
in the College’s history. Thirty-eight students transferred from other colleges
and universities.
The vast majority of incoming students are successful in achieving their goal
of attending Wheelock because of our Annual Fund donors. Thanks to Annual
Fund giving, 95 percent of first-year students received essential financial
assistance. Fifty-one of these qualified for Merit Scholarships.
Annual Fund donors can be sure their contributions are changing lives and
that they are deeply appreciated.
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Math wiz • President of Latinos in Action organization • Two debate team members • Two
on varsity lacrosse • Two started clothing drives for children and their families • Over 200
hours of community service • Two took all AP courses in high school • Two environmental
club advocates • Two had perfect attendance throughout high school • Varsity field hockey
• Highest GPA in senior class • Four senior class presidents • Vietnamese teacher at
church • Eleven basketball athletes • Two Boston Ballet Company dancers • Six full-time
employees while in high school • Six drama club leaders • Works for T.i.P. Teens in Print •
Two City Year participants • Nine National Honor Society members • Volunteered to teach
in Haiti • Passion for mathematics • Knows four languages • Two members of Big
Brother Big Sister Association • Four dance instructors • Zookeeper • Four coaches for kids
sports • Three teacher assistants • SADD president • Mentor for autistic children • Can play
every instrument in the orchestra • Yankees fan! • Two preschool TAs • Community service
in Dominican Republic • Two vice presidents of Student Council • Two peer ministers •
Varsity volleyball • Special needs volunteer • Three Best Buddies volunteers • Animae artist
• Two magicians • Ran Boston Marathon • Musical theater performer • Future Business
Leaders of America • Toys for Tots leader • Aspiring astronomer • Future Teachers of America
• Four Special Olympics volunteers • Animal shelter volunteer • Women’s shelter volunteer •
Sunday School teacher • Newspaper
writer • ESL teacher • Award-winning
horseback rider • Early Childhood
Education group president • Swimming coach • Started own jewelry
company • Three Model U.N. members
• Advocate for children with special
needs • Member of Project Hope •
Soccer team captain • Special Olympics
participant • Two varsity swimmers •
Works with autistic children • Mexican
folklore dancing group member •
Sailing instructor • History Honor
Society • Fourteen took AP Courses • Ashley Lee, (far left)
Irish step dancer • Habitat for Humanity Class of 2012, arriving
P.S.: We have enough musicians to
start a Wheelock orchestra!
from Hartford with mom,
dad, and best friend
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heelock’s November 2007 Passion for Action Leadership
Awards Dinner brought together 400 community leaders,
corporate executives, and philanthropists at the John F.
Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum to honor Christopher
“Chris” Gabrieli with the College’s first Passion for Action Leadership Award and to recognize five Jenzabar Emerging Leaders,
student leaders from Greater Boston high schools who exemplified
Wheelock’s mission of service. Contributors to the event raised
$200,000 for scholarships for deserving
Wheelock students
from the Boston area.
With the funds,
Wheelock created
a new Passion for
Action Scholarship
Program for outstanding first-year students who have demonstrated a
commitment to community service and involvement and are prepared
to participate in a unique academic program designed to develop
their leadership and community service skills through individual
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service projects, meetings with community and business leaders,
seminars in service and leadership, an international or national service
learning project, and a “passionate idea” capstone project.
This fall, less than one year after the awards dinner, five Passion
for Action scholars are on campus pursuing their college educations.
Each student received a $20,000 Passion for Action scholarship for
the 2008-09 academic year, a scholarship they will receive again each
year while working on their undergraduate degrees at Wheelock.
Wheelock could not have created this scholarship program
to prepare young leaders for continuing community leadership
without the generous donors who stepped up and took action to
improve the lives of Boston’s children and families through education. The College is grateful to each and every contributor who
has made a very significant difference in the lives of these outstanding students, who themselves will go on to have a lasting
impact on the lives of those they serve. Special appreciation and
recognition go to the seven leading contributors: The Jenzabar
Foundation, Shawmut Design and Construction, Larry and
Atsuko Fish, Ted and Beedee Ladd, Robert A. Lincoln, and
two donors who wish to remain anonymous.
MONIQUE BRUNNER
LAYLIN CHONG
EMILY DADDIO
AVA JENNINGS
LISA KRISZUN
“She exhibits courage beyond
her years and the ability to
stand her ground with her
peers, remaining firm in her
commitment to do what is right.
I’ve seen her evolve from someone who didn’t think college
was in her future to someone
who is excited and eager to face
new challenges.”
“Laylin is a young woman characterized by her leadership,
community service, commitment to excellence, and motivation, and she has worked
hard to break barriers faced
by immigrants.”
“Emily is a model student and a
multi-talented member of our
high school community. The
level of her maturity and her
earnest efforts are exemplary.
She is a positive role model.”
“A young woman who already
possesses the desire to do the
right thing.”
“Lisa is a delightful young
woman with a personality
shaped by self-motivation,
independence, and hard work.”
— Jean Dorcus, Monique’s supervisor,
Boston Nature Center
National Honor Society member
and vice president of Student
Council at English High School —
worked with Teen Empowerment
Program to organize a Youth
Peace Summit for Boston teens —
member of a mediation team
sponsored by a law firm that
hosts problem-solving sessions
for Boston youth.
— John Travers, senior class adviser,
Brighton High School
Came to the U.S. from Ecuador
when she was 8 years old and
lives with her father and brother —
vice president of the National
Honor Society (4.2 GPA) and a
peer mediator at Brighton High
School — volunteer for UNICEF,
Red Cross, and Project Bread —
active participant in the Asian
Club, Gay Straight Alliance, and
the Key Club – worked 30 hours
weekly while in high school
— Joseph Vilaine, guidance counselor,
Somerville High School
National Honor Society member
who ranked 13th in a class of 323
at Somerville High School — threeyear participant in Best Buddies
program, providing assistance to
special needs students through
activities and events — worked in
high school early education program — editor of high school yearbook — co-captain of varsity
cheerleading team — active school
and community volunteer
— Lisa Patrick, TEACHBoston
Summer Program director
John D. O’Bryant School of
Mathematics & Science graduate —
participant in TEACHBoston program of the Boston Public Schools,
which prepares high school students to pursue careers in education — member of Teen Voices, an
intensive journalism mentoring
and leadership program — trained
in public speaking at the Moakley
Public Speaking Institute at the
John F. Kennedy Presidential
Library and Museum
— Melissa Hammel, Lisa’s teacher
Lisa and her family are from
Germany, but her goal is to
become a teacher in the U.S. —
at high school in Berlin, developed
a 10-week curriculum for teaching
computer skills to elderly citizens,
tutored young children, participated
in multicultural alliance — nominated by her school to the Berlin
United Nations — participated in
an international peace program
for student leaders in Washington,
D.C. — worked in on-site preschool
classroom through her Early
Childhood Education class at
Newton North High School
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ADRIAN HAUGABROOK
vice president for student success and institutional diversity
WM: College affordability has been an issue for quite a while.
What impact is today’s economy having?
AH: The economy is placing greater demands on almost all families,
leaving them with fewer resources to put toward higher education. This
means students need more financial assistance and more and higher
amounts of loans. At the same time, obtaining college loans is more difficult now, so it’s a real challenge for everyone, not just a few.
WM: If it were easier to get loans, would that solve the problem?
AH: It costs $38,030 to attend Wheelock this year. Solving the loan
problem might make it easier on the front end to afford to get to college,
but then on the back end the loan debt waiting for our graduating students today is between $17,000 and $63,000, and it will go higher. That’s
a lot for any graduate, but for students who want to come here to become
teachers, social workers, and child life professionals, who will earn very
modest salaries, it’s huge. Right now, Wheelock is looking at how we can
increase federal assistance, reduce or subsidize the cost of attendance, and
raise more scholarship funds in such a stressed economy.
WM: Do you see the financial realities of today keeping students
from entering the field?
AH: It’s too soon to tell, but it does add to our challenge. Schools and
communities desperately need good teachers and social workers. And part
of the job of my office is to open the doors for qualified students and
make access to the field easier for them. We can’t have high school students
from moderate- and low-income families giving up on going to college or
on becoming teachers and social workers. And we don’t want colleges
going back to the days when they were the domain of the privileged few.
Of course, access involves more than just affordability.
Getting to
“GO”
in Going to Wheelock
Dr. Adrian Haugabrook, Wheelock’s new vice president
for student success and institutional diversity, spends much
of his workday grappling with issues of affordability and
accessibility, twin challenges that are affecting more and more
students attempting to go to college in current economic times.
WM: What brought you to Wheelock?
AH: I’m at Wheelock because the College recognizes the need to provide resources and a structure to address affordability and other issues of
accessibility. If we don’t address these issues now, not only do they become
worse while we lose time, but we also lose another generation of students
who have great talents to contribute to society but who can’t afford the
education needed to fulfill their potential.
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WM: Such as?
AH: Students and families need access to information and understanding
about what leads to college success. They need to know there is a path that
leads to college and how to get on it. Are they in a program that helps them be
ready for college? This is especially difficult for first-generation college students
and their families who may not know the college-going process, who need
financial assistance but don’t know what kinds of assistance are available or
how to fill out the forms. A while ago, I led a college planning session where a
parent said, “No one ever told me helping my son apply to college is a fulltime job.” For many families, the reality of that situation is a barrier in itself.
WM: So what is Wheelock doing?
AH: Part of Wheelock’s higher education mission is to reach out and
create partnerships and collaborations with schools and community organizations. It’s a way to build the path to college back into middle school and
high school — bringing students on campus during the academic year and
into summer programs and bridge programs so that they understand what
college involves and can prepare for it.
We’re also focusing on improving college preparation and success rates for
under-represented populations, including low-income and first-generation
students, as well as students of color and students with disabilities. Wheelock’s new Upward Bound program, which focuses on preparing high school
students for college and the teaching profession, is a great example.
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he Cornerstone Society was recently created as a way of
recognizing our most generous donors who make an annual
gift of $1,250 or more to Wheelock College. These individuals,
along with the students they support, are the cornerstones of
Wheelock’s future. The College would like to thank the following
individuals for their leadership support:
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Ruth Bailey Papazian ‘56
Nancy Fowle Purinton ‘64
Nancy Garnaus Rice ‘50
Stanley and Marcia Rumbaugh
Nancy Gebting Secker ‘61
Thekla Reese Shackelford ‘56
Kate and Ben Taylor
Lisa and Rex Thors
Suzanne Hamburger Thurston ‘54
Elsa Weyer Williams ‘54
1888 Circle
Lucy Wheelock
Benefactors
$50,000 or more
Anonymous (2)
Catherine Bose ‘75*
Keena Dunn Clifford ‘68
Sylvia Tailby Earl ‘54 and James Earl
Irene Frail Hamm ‘60 and Charles Hamm
Nancy Kelly Hershey ‘69
Alice Keith ‘39*
Ted and Beedee Ladd
Robert A. Lincoln
President’s Council
$25,000 to $49,999
Anonymous (1)
Charles Ames
Stephanie Bennett-Smith and
Orin R. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Creighton
Shirley Hotra Neff ‘58
Catherine Hargrave Sykes ‘50
Wheelock Fellows
$10,000 to $24,999
Judith Parks Anderson ‘62
Barbara Mead Anthony ‘60MS and
Stephen H. Anthony
Zelinda Makepeace Douhan ‘63/’75MS
Sally Reeves Edmonds ‘55
Larry and Atsuko Fish
Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins ‘56
Edith Hall Huck ‘48
Betty Jane Jalley*
Kathy and Bob Jaunich
Polly McAllister
Jack Meyer
Frances Nichols ‘63
Janice Porosky Olins ‘33*
Gertrude Van Iderstine Phillips ‘43-’44
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ‘54
Froebel Associates
$5,000 to $9,999
Anonymous (2)
Sandra Dunham Bowers ‘58 and
Ted Bowers
Susan Moyer Breed ‘52/’79MS
Rick and Nonnie Burnes
Ellen Cluett Burnham ‘60
Maureen Murphy Coakley ‘58*
and Ed Coakley
Jeff and Catherine Coburn
Madeleine Gatchell Corson ‘59
Tina Feldman Crosby ‘67
Barbara Elliott Fargo ‘52
Mary McBride Felton ‘58
Deirdre Conrad Frank ‘65
Joan Freeman*
Paul S. Grogan
Thordis Burdett Gulden ‘66
Cynthia Hallowell ‘58
Charlotte Pomeroy Hatfield ‘58
Priscilla Alden Hayes ‘62 and Robert Hayes
* Deceased
Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS and Bill Helm
Elizabeth Berry Horner ‘47
Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Jim Scott
Reta Schoonmaker King ‘60
John F. Knutson
Mary Pescatello Lewis ‘69
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ‘54
Pamela Long
Persis Luke Loveys ‘54
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Marshall
Mary Meeker ‘58
Carolyn Bail Miller ‘71
Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy ‘69
Suzanne Newton
Linda Bullock Owens ‘69
Abby Squires Perelman ‘73
Adelaide Duffy Queeney ‘88MS
Barbara Grogins Sallick ‘61
Page Poinier Sanders ‘65
Katharine duPont Sanger ‘66
Barbara Silverstein ‘56
Elizabeth Robinson Smith ‘63
Geneva S. Thorndike and
William Thorndike Jr.
Joan I. Thorndike
Diana Chang VanHoutum ‘68
Amaryllis Morris Volk ‘55
Suzanne Weinstein
David C. Weinstein
Helen Small Weishaar ‘45
Katharine Lewars Weymouth ‘42-’43*
Carole Hayes Williams ‘66
White and Gold Circle
$2,500 to $4,999
Anonymous (1)
Judy McMurray Achre ‘58
Betsy Hunter Ambach ‘54
Steven Aveson ‘78
Lisa McCabe Biagetti ‘80
Henriette Pennypacker Binswanger ‘56
Joyce Pettoruto Butler ‘73
Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ‘62 and
William Dearstyne
Cynthia Doherty ‘02MSW
Ellen Tague Dwinell ‘61
Susan Grearson Fillmore ‘56
Betty and Larry Fuchs
Maria Furman
Roberta Weiss Goorno ‘62
Barbara and Steve Grossman
William R. Hall
Mr. and Mrs. George Hall
Priscilla Chase Heindel ‘47
Sally Schwabacher Hottle ‘59
Michael J. Jolliffe
Phyllis Forbes Kerr ‘64
Jane Ann Hartzell Knebel ‘51*
Catherine Ley Lawler ‘82
William A. Lowell, Esq.
Toby Congleton Milner ‘70
Emily Cook Moore ‘47
Robin Mount
Nancy Stewart Nadig ‘69
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$1,250 to $2,499
Anonymous (1)
Ruth Flink Ades ‘53
Margaret Benisch Anderson ‘53
Beth Atwood ‘57*
Lynne Wyluda Beasley ‘66
Kathleen Kirk Bishop
Linda Larrabee Blair-Lockwood ‘65
Jean Heard Carmichael ‘62
Melanie Waszkiewicz Chadwick ‘68
Geraldine Walsh Clauss ‘51
Kathryn Smith Conrad ‘73MS
Patricia Cook ‘69
Madeleine Tufts Cormier ‘66
Ann Carter Craft ‘53
Barbara Pratt Dancy ‘62
Barbara Tutschek Ells ‘60
Lucia Santini Field
Diane Abitbol Fogg ‘64
Kristine Sheathelm Gerson ‘79
Joan Blanchard Gray ‘50
Patricia Conzelman Greeley ‘52/’90MS
Mary Bloomer Gulick ‘57 and Bob Gulick
Patricia Haas ‘59
Janet Marshall Haring ‘64
Christine Theander Harper ‘63
Jeanne Wilson Hatch ‘59
Anne Mulholland Heger ‘49
Jane Luke Hill ‘69
Carol Jeffers Hollenberg ‘64
Mathilde Clark Holmes ‘49*
Jane Hanna Houck ‘57 and
Emerson Houck
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Susan Towle Huckman ‘55
Sytske Humphrey ‘89MS
Janet Ferry Jenney ‘52
Tom and Roberta Kelly
Jone LaBombard ‘80MS
Ann Longfellow
Helene Stehlin Lortz ‘60
Anne Sullivan Lyons ‘62
Rose Kurkjian Margosian ‘68
Mary Baker McConnell ‘74 and
Mike McConnell
Olivia Hutchins Meek ‘52
Suzanne Mullens Morgan ‘64
Nancy Ware Morrow ‘63
Deanne Williams Morse ‘60
Anne Hallowell Newton ‘66
Phoebe O’Mara ‘66
Maralen Moody O’Neil ‘58
Edith Rizer Paffard ‘38*
Wanda Yeomans Patterson ‘93
Mary Stone Phipps ‘57
Ruth Angier Salinger ‘53
Betty Appel Schaffer ‘60
Susan Bruml Simon ‘73
Sally Clark Sloop ‘68
Patricia Cotter Smart ‘56
Ann Emerson Spaulding ‘53
Nancy Clarke Steinberger ‘65
Mary Anne Dresser Stringham ‘49
Daniel S. Terris
Sylvia Buffinton Tompkins ‘55
Ann Fisher Tuteur ‘67
Diana Spence Uehlein ‘76/’94MS
Lucy Hannan Vaill ‘67
Mary Ann Baker Wagner ‘62
Alice Parke Watson ‘63
Joan Anderson Watts ‘65/’83MS
Nancy Clay Webster ‘66
Joann Bridgman Webster ‘48
Judith Schwarz Weinstock ‘70MS
Jean Cutler Whitham ‘58
Sincerest thanks from
the entire Wheelock
community go out
to all our donors.
Alumni Scholarships
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he Alumni Scholars Program brings together individuals at the
heart of Wheelock College: students and alumni. Alumni Scholars
donors make an annual gift of $5,000 to support one undergraduate
or graduate student during their time at Wheelock. These contributions
help defray the cost of a Wheelock education, and through an
exchange of letters and meetings at events, the donors are kept
up-to-date about their students’ studies and activities. Reciprocally,
students learn about their supporters and their Wheelock experience.
The students join the College in thanking the following individuals:
Anonymous (1)
Judith Parks Anderson ‘62
Barbara Mead Anthony ‘60MS and
Stephen H. Anthony
Susan Moyer Breed ‘52/’79MS
Keena Dunn Clifford ‘68
Madeleine Gatchell Corson ‘59
Tina Feldman Crosby ‘67
Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ‘62 and
William Dearstyne
Deirdre Conrad Frank ‘65
Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS and Bill Helm
Anne Wingle Howard ‘57
Edith Hall Huck ‘48
Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Jim Scott
Mary Pescatello Lewis ‘69
Carolyn Bail Miller ‘71
Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy ‘69
Linda Bullock Owens ‘69
Gertrude Van Iderstine Phillips ’43-’44
Page Poinier Sanders ‘65
Katharine duPont Sanger ‘66
Helen Small Weishaar ‘45
Carole Hayes Williams ‘66
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ‘54
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he 12 months ending June 30, 2008, were a difficult period for investments. U.S. markets, as evidenced by
the S&P 500 Index, were down 13.1 percent for that period. Wheelock’s endowment, however, lost only
2.6 percent for those 12 months, attributable to the degree of diversification in the College’s portfolio. At the
same time, the endowment provided more than $2 million of operating support to the College during the year.
Contributions to the Annual Fund continued their upward trend, increasing to more than $1.3 million in
FY08. In an economy that affected so many donors and their giving priorities, increased participation in
annual giving is an excellent sign of confidence in the College’s future and its strategic plan for getting there.
Most important, Annual Fund giving supports the institutional priority of financial assistance for students,
which is needed to sustain Wheelock’s growing enrollment, as well as the faculty projects, programs, and conferences that help to grow the College’s academic reputation.
Annual Giving
FY08
Endowment
69%
Operating
Expenses
Sources of
Operating Revenue
Instruction 35%
Annual Fund
15%
Annual Fund/Interest
6%
Institutional
Support 17%
Financial Aid 22%
Campus Center and
Student Residence Building
16%
Other
1%
Student Services 10%
Endowment
6%
Tuition/
Room & Board
87%
Dorm & Dining 6%
Facilities 6%
Debt Services 4%
Annual Fund Giving FY 2004-2008
1,500,000
1,300,000
1,100,000
900,000
700,000
500,000
300,000
100,000
FY04
FY05
FY06
FY07
FY08
(Actual)
Value of Wheelock Endowment
(in millions of dollars)
$60.0
50.9
$50.0
47.1
43.1
$40.0
41.9
39.3
37.6
39.2
34.0
$30.0
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34.6
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WHEELOCK
• Meet or exceed FY09 fundraising
goal of $1.3 million in unrestricted/
financial aid
• Complete the Kresge Challenge
with $1.2 million in gifts or
pledges for the CCSR
• Met our Campus Center and
Student Residence fundraising
target — including a prestigious
$800,000 Kresge Challenge grant —
started construction, and ended
the fiscal year with the project
on budget and on schedule
• Increase funding for the Math/
Science Education Initiative and
the Upward Bound program
• Complete comprehensive capital
campaign plan
• Won a $1 million Classic Upward
Bound TRIO grant to help fund a
new teacher development program
for high school students
• Grand opening of the new Campus
Center and Student Residence
• Plan and begin renovation of
Riverway House
• Hosted Passion for Action, our
first major fundraising dinner,
raising over $350,000 for student
financial aid
• Opened two academic centers,
Aspire Institute and the Center
for Scholarship and Research
• Introduced new technology and
equipment on campus, including
increased wireless network coverage
and upgraded technology in two
science classrooms
• Enrolled another record-breaking
number of incoming undergraduate students and increased graduate
inquiries by 58 percent
• Successfully established a summer
bridging program, an honors program, and an outreach support
program for students
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ACTION STEPS
• Annual Fund reached a major,
record-making milestone with
gifts totaling $1.3 million.
• Opened a new math/science
resource center with state-of-the-art
technology and equipment
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• Make new investments in technology and equipment with a
special focus on supporting faculty
teaching and student learning
• Expanded our student life program
and introduced men’s athletics at
the College with an important
focus on academic success
• Completed three service learning
trips to New Orleans, Northern
Ireland, and Ghana
• Hosted a Youth Symposium and
Special Convocation honoring
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond
Tutu that drew 1,600 people to
Wheelock’s campus
• Continued our role as a policy
leader and facilitator, hosting three
Winter Policy Talks, the third
annual Conference on Early Education, and a successful series on the
Education of Black Male Youth
• Integrate the President’s Climate
Commitment with the Environmental Plan across the College
• Complete and implement a
Graduate Program Plan including
enrollment and retention goals
• Develop a plan to address issues
of student access and affordability
• Meet or exceed enrollment goal
of 325 new students
• Expand international residential
programs on campus through the
Center for International Education,
Leadership, and Innovation
• Address and implement key
Community Diversity Initiative
recommendations
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he Heritage Society was initiated in 1981 by then President Gordon Marshall and
celebrates those who have included Wheelock College in their estate or trust plans.
Alumni and friends who make a provision for Wheelock in their will or through a Pooled
Income Fund, Charitable Gift Annuity, Perpetual Trust, Bequest Intention, or other form of
planned gift provide for the future of the College. The College gratefully acknowledges
the following individuals for leaving a special legacy that will perpetuate our mission to
improve the lives of children and families:
Current Members
Anonymous (7)
Anonymous Lead Trust (1)**
Lois Abbott
Judy McMurray Achre ‘58
Ruth Flink Ades ‘53^
Virginia Pratt Agar ‘64
Nancy Wilson Ainslie ‘44
Judith Parks Anderson ‘62
Margaret Benisch Anderson ‘53
Stephen and Barbara Mead
Anthony ‘60MS
Margaret Boethelt Barratt ‘52
V. Bonnie Blick Benedict ‘69
Joan Chiappetta Benson ‘69
Elizabeth Palmer Bradley ‘64
Lorian Brown ‘68MS
Mary Turnbull Burnight ‘66
Evelyn Burr Caldwell ‘24
Sarah Carter ‘66
Edith Macnaughtan Cather ‘40
Mary Lou Center ‘56
Daniel S. Cheever Jr.
Clover Clark Memorial Trust*
Louise Close ‘77
Olin J. Cochran Trust*
Mary H. Corcoran
Ruth Corney Trust
Rebecca Berry Cramer ‘36
Harriet Spring Critchlow ‘44
Lora Erhard Crouss ‘37
Elizabeth Brayton Dawson ‘51
Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne ‘62 and
William Dearstyne^
Nancy Wicke Demarest ‘66
Jean Rogers Duval ‘50
Evelyn Jenney Eaton ‘56
Barbara Tutschek Ells ‘60
Barbara Elliott Fargo ‘52
Betty C. Fuchs
Lois Anne Gilbert Galbraith ‘49
Katrina Buckelmueller Gale ‘57
Natalie Smith Garland ‘53
Edwin and Elizabeth Dewey Giles ‘53
Frances Graves Perpetual Trust
Patricia Conzelman Greeley ‘52/’90MS
Beverly Simon Green ‘50
George A. Hall
Cynthia Hallowell ‘58
Jeanne Wilson Hatch ‘59
Priscilla Chase Heindel ‘47
Emily Hewitt
Elizabeth Berry Horner ‘47
Holly Horton ‘76MS
Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins ‘56
Jane Hanna Houck ‘57
Anne Wingle Howard ‘57
Robert C. Howe
Edith Hall Huck ‘48 and Rodney Huck
Jeanette McIntosh Ingersoll ‘67
Josepha Loskill Jenks ‘53
Maria Lind Johnson ‘68
Stella Barnes Johnson ‘55
Heritage Society Giving —
The Catherine E. Bose Scholarship in
Mathematics or Science
“Growth is a never-ending goal of education, to stretch
the boundaries of the mind even further in search of
new knowledge and truth.”
T
he dedication in Catherine “Cathy” Bose’s
1975 yearbook perfectly captures the expansive power of education to which she devoted her
professional life and the purpose of the fund established in Cathy’s name through her membership in
the Heritage Society. The Catherine E. Bose Scholarship in Mathematics or Science will provide a scholarship each year for a high-achieving student who intends to become a teacher
of mathematics or science, Cathy’s particular field of expertise as an educator.
Cathy was an exceptional teacher; she loved teaching children, and she understood the essential place of mathematics in their education. Her bequest will make
it possible for Wheelock to prepare more outstanding teachers who will “stretch the
boundaries” of children’s minds as they learn about math and science.
For many years after she graduated, Cathy was enthusiastically involved in alumni
activities and interested in Wheelock students and programs. Her leadership as a
donor was deeply appreciated, as were her gifts of friendship and commitment to
children and families. Wheelock is honored by her desire to contribute to the future
of the College and of math and science education through Heritage Society giving.
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Lyn Peck Kenyon ‘45/’69BS
Edward H. Ladd
Gloria Williams Ladd ‘65
Frances Tedesco Lathrop ‘54
Susan Cahn Levine ‘67
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ‘54
Sonia Loizeaux ‘57
Pamela Long
Persis Luke Loveys ‘54
Ann S. Lowell ‘69MS
Lucy Smith Lundin ‘46
Margaret Ryan MacIntyre ‘38
Meredith Huxtable MacNeill ‘91MS
Ann MacVicar ‘65
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Marshall
Olivia Hutchins Meek ‘52
Carolyn Humphrey Miller ‘64
Carol Moore ‘48
Deanne Williams Morse ‘60
Katharine Crosby Nasser ‘48
Anne Hallowell Newton ‘66 and
John Newton
Frances Nichols ‘63^
Mary Nisula ‘70
Mary Runyon Obaidy ‘59
Penny Power Odiorne ‘54^
Phoebe O’Mara ‘66
Maryann Mylott O’Rourke ‘60
Jean Osmond ‘34
Patricia Knowlton Paine-Dougherty ‘50
Elizabeth Buckstaff Paterson ‘56
Carol Drew Penfield ‘52
Jean Ingalls Perkins ‘52
Sandra Gewinner Perry ‘64
Elizabeth Gerow Peterson ‘53
Priscilla Harper Porter ‘64
Marylin Quint-Rose ‘48
Jeanne Girard Quinzani ‘48^
Judith Haskell Rosenberg ‘55
Stanley and Marcia Rumbaugh
Valessia Samaras ‘83
Page Poinier Sanders ‘65
Katharine duPont Sanger ‘66
Carlile Lowery Schneider ‘78/’79MS
Dorothy Hutchens Seelow ‘50
Susan Waters Shaeffer ‘56
Diana Holland Shafroth ‘50
Margaret Weinheimer Sherwin ‘58
Barbara Silverstein ‘56
Sally Clark Sloop ‘68^
Inez Gianfranchi Snowdon ‘40
Ann Emerson Spaulding ‘53 and
Charles Spaulding
Renae Ross Starker ‘71
Martha Stearns ‘72MS
Catherine Hargrave Sykes ‘50
Grace Viard Ward ‘51
Joan Bradish Waters ‘48
Edith Nowers White ‘50
Joan Wiggin ‘51
Marjorie Ferris Wilcock ‘37
Daphne Hastings Wilcox ‘65
Winifred Little Williams ‘41
Annette Stevens Wilton ‘56
Faith Butterfield Wyer ‘40 and
Harold Wyer
Past Members
Anonymous (2)
Elizabeth Abbott
Frank C. Abbott
Margaret Wilson Alexander ‘14
* Restricted to Scholarships
Bronwyn Baird ‘64
Marion Baker
Francis F. Bartlett
Laura Smith Bemis ‘28
Catherine Bose ‘75
Maureen Murphy Coakley ‘58
Katharine Hosmer Connor ‘33
Janet Woodbury Cooper ‘31
Wilhelmina Scheuer Cottone ‘36
Eleanor Day Cottrell ‘34
D. Clifford Crummey
Lois Hardy Daloz ‘32
Anne Walker Davis ‘43
Helen McMullin Dimock ‘33
Frances Dogherty ‘24
Nancy Parkman England ‘40
Ellen Brewer Flood ‘34
Edith Steere Floyd ‘30
Joan Crane Freeman ‘54
Dorothy Mercer Gilbert ‘24
Elizabeth Bartlett Gilbert ‘37
Nancy Corwin Gordon ‘67
Dorothy Greene ‘27
Helen Coots Hall ‘32
Eva Neumann Hartman ‘67
Helen Ruslander Haskell ‘28
Edna Charlton Hays ‘27
Colby Hewitt Jr.
Muriel Hirt
Mr. and Mrs. Myron Hoffman
Myrl Crocker Howe ‘34
Marian Clifton Hurlin ‘22
Barbara Jack ‘30
Louise Steele Jackson ‘28
Betty Jane Jalley ‘50
David S. Johnson
Margery Hall Johnson ‘38 Trust
Dorothy Kano ‘71
Alice Keith ‘39
Jeannette Vannah Kemp ‘38
Mary Neal Kendall ‘33
Wilma Dodge Marshall ‘23
Rhoda LeFavour Martin ‘31
Nancy Merryman Mattox ‘46
John F. McAllister Jr.
Margaret Merry
Ann Porter Mullen ‘49
Adeline Little Murray ‘38 Trust
Janice Porosky Olins ‘33
Janet La Foy Otto ‘26
Edith Rizer Paffard ‘38
Suzanne Pierce ‘41
Elizabeth Pursel
Robert N. Pursel Trust per the
will of Catherine Pursel ‘25
Mary Quirk ‘18
Mary Barnhardt Ridenhour ‘40
Elizabeth Cox Robbins ‘33
Elizabeth Sylvester Robinson ‘40
Jessie Hahn Shaffer ‘38
Wilma Roberts Sowerby ‘34
Ellen G. Sullivan ‘58MS
Patricia Blackmer Thibodeau ‘49
Ruth Baker Ursul ‘60
Margaret Cahill Vogel ‘33
Katharine Pulis Waldron ‘28
Judith Clark Weaver ’47 Trust
Katharine Lewars Weymouth ‘42-‘43
Charles Wintermeyer and Nancy Jane
Carroll Wintermeyer ‘45
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Dr. Peter Foukal’s Endowed Math and Science Prize —
Helping to Close the Math/Science Literacy Gap
“As a trustee and as a scientist, I believe it is important for Wheelock to produce its share of
young teachers who have the ability and enthusiasm to teach science and math.”
Named Funds
D
onors often establish named funds in honor or in memory of
a friend or family member. These funds are very important to
the College and provide support for student scholarships, faculty
assistance, campus improvement, and resource development. The
students, faculty, and staff of Wheelock College are so appreciative
of these generous contributions.
Scholarship and
Loan Funds
Anonymous (2)
Donald Bergen Abbott Memorial
Scholarship Fund
George I. Alden Scholarship Fund
Judy Parks Anderson ‘62 Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Anthony Family Scholarship Fund for
Graduate Students
Bronwyn Baird Endowed Scholarship Fund
Marjorie Bakken Endowed Scholarship Fund
Bank of Boston Endowed Student
Loan Fund
Ruth Kelliher Bartlett ’24 Memorial Fund
John L. Bates Scholarship Fund
Bernard W. and Helen Sagoff Berkowitch
‘28 Memorial Scholarship Fund
Black Mountain Foundation
Scholarship Fund
Gladys Brooks Endowed Scholarship Fund
Gertrude Flanders Bullen ‘52 Memorial
Scholarship Fund
Centennial Scholarship Fund
Daniel S. Cheever, Jr. Scholarship Fund
The James Christmann
Writing Award Scholarship
Ruth Clapp ‘34 Loan Fund
Clover Converse Clark ‘20 Memorial Trust
Class of 1954 Endowed Scholarship Fund
Class of 1956 Endowed Scholarship Fund
Carolyn Burrell Cochran ‘19
Scholarship Fund
Katherine Wendell Creighton ‘92
Scholarship Fund
Nancy LeCount Currier ‘50 Memorial
Scholarship Fund
Ennis-Murphy Scholarship Fund
Elinor Frumkin Feldman ‘52 Revolving
Student Loan Fund
Marguerite Franklin ‘17 Revolving
Loan Fund
The Frances Graves 1909 Charitable Fund
Cynthia M. Gregory ‘26 Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Ellen Gertrude Loomis Hall Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Margaret Hamilton ‘23 Arts
Scholarship Fund
Irene Frail Hamm ’60 Endowed Urban
Scholarship Fund
Evelyn Hausslein Child Life
Scholarship Fund
William Randolph Hearst Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Molly Cooper Hershey ‘23 Fund
for Student Aid
Aldus C. Higgins Foundation Endowed
Loan Fund
Myrl Rose Crocker Howe ’34
Scholarship Fund
Marian Clifton Hurlin ‘22 Scholarship Fund
Barbara Jack ’30 Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Kathleen Magee Jaunich Scholarship
Margery Hall Johnson Endowed Scholarship
Ruth Appleton Burge Johnson
1910 Scholarship Fund
* Deceased
**New fund in fiscal year 2008
Lyn Peck Kenyon and Walter Kenyon
Scholarship
Katherine Ehrler Kurth Scholarship Fund
Gloria Williams Ladd Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Frances B. and Paige D. L’Hommedieu
Scholarship Fund
Elizabeth Ann Liddle ‘47 Fund for
International Students
Agnes M. Lindsay Trust Scholarship
Lowell Scholarship
Kathryn Severance Makosky ‘30 Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Margaret H. and Robert W. Merry
Scholarship Fund
Gwen Morgan ‘76MS Scholarship Fund
Janice Porosky Olins ‘33 Scholarship Fund
Patricia Knowlton Paine-Dougherty ‘50
Scholarship Fund
Henry H. and Edith Nicholson Perry ‘19
Scholarship Fund
Theresa Perry Scholarship Fund
Mildred Engler Peterson ‘24
Scholarship Fund
The Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable
Trust Scholarship
The Catherine Pursel Emergency Student
Loan Fund
William E. and Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable
Trust Endowed Fund
Saul M. Silverstein Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Ching Yee Soong ‘65 Scholarship Fund
The Ellen G. Sullivan Endowed Scholarship
Susan Swap Community Service
Scholarship Fund
Mary A. Sweeney ’56 Scholarship Fund
Marion H. Towne Scholarship Fund
Frances M. Tredick Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Frances M. Tredick 1902 Scholarship Fund
Wheelock Club of Portland Scholarship
Wheelock College Alumni
Association Scholarship
Wheelock College Alumni Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Lucy Wheelock Endowed Scholarship Fund
Lucy Wheelock Student Loan Fund
Betsy Wilson Endowed Visiting Health
Lecturer and Student Scholarship Fund
Marjorie Cohn Wolf ‘51 and William H.
Wolf Perpetuating Loan Fund
Library Funds
Alma Bent ‘42/’43 and Janet Higginbotham
Washburn ‘42/’43 Library Fund
Linda Munroe Brady Memorial Book Fund
Beatrice Garnaus Library Fund
Nancy Corwin Gordon Memorial
Book Fund
Altina Mead Memorial Fund
Jone Sloman Library Fund
Other Funds
CAR Endowed Faculty Fund
Sandra Nesson Kivowitz ‘56 Memorial Fund
Edward H. Ladd Award for Academic
Excellence and Service
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ach spring, Wheelock celebrates two high-achieving students at the Math & Science Student Recognition Awards and grants them cash prizes made possible by
the generosity of Dr. Peter Foukal. Foukal is a noted physicist and Wheelock trustee
who, last year, endowed the prizes as a permanent way for Wheelock to reward
strong students and advance math and science learning at the College.
“The prizes are intended to address two issues,”
Foukal says. “I want to reward students who put in
the extra work required for a science or math degree.
The lab courses and generally higher difficulty of
math and science courses can deter many students,
yet these areas of study are more important today
than ever before. Second, I have felt for a long time
that rewarding straight academic excellence, based
mainly on GPA, is helpful in raising and sustaining
high academic standards. I believe that’s especially
important at Massachusetts teacher preparation colleges.
Last April, Foukal invited Heather Knudson, a graduate student in the astronomy
department at Harvard, to be a guest speaker at the Math & Science Student
Recognition Awards. “It was good for Wheelock students to hear how inspiring her
math and science teachers had been and how important they were to her pursuing
her interest in astronomy,” he says.
“As a trustee and as a scientist, I believe it is important for Wheelock to produce its
share of young teachers who have the ability and enthusiasm to teach science and
math. These are the two areas where the greatest teacher shortages continue to occur.
Everyone acknowledges technology drives our culture, and we know teachers are the
ones who are needed to make our children technically and scientifically literate.”
Cynthia Longfellow Teaching
Recognition Award
Master of Social Work
Restricted Scholarship
Math and Science Endowed Prize Fund
Singapore Education Fund**
The Dr. Sau-Fong Siu B.S.W Student
Assistance Fund
Wheelock Faculty Fund
Wheelock Family Theatre Endowed Fund
Board of
Trustees and
Corporation
Donors
Vanessa Alleyne ‘78
Charles Ames
Judith Parks Anderson ‘62
Barbara Mead Anthony ‘60MS
Stephen H. Anthony
Steven Aveson ‘78
Lynne Wyluda Beasley ‘66
Stephanie Bennett-Smith
Lisa McCabe Biagetti ‘80
Grace Macomber Bird
Margaret G. Blakelock
Susan Moyer Breed ‘52/’79MS
Ellen Cluett Burnham ‘60
Joyce Pettoruto Butler ‘73
Julia Challinor ‘75
Sandra Christison ‘92MS
Keena Dunn Clifford ‘68
Louise Close ‘77
Maureen Murphy Coakley ‘58*
Jeff Coburn
Kathryn Smith Conrad ‘73MS
Susan O’Halloran Constable ‘82
James M. Conway
Madeleine Tufts Cormier ‘66
Carolyn Drucker ‘88MS
Ellen Tague Dwinell ‘61
Sally Reeves Edmonds ‘55
Barbara Elliott Fargo ‘52
Peter Foukal
Betty Fuchs
Maria Furman
George Hall
William R. Hall
Adrian K. Haugabrook
Tina Morris Helm ‘64/’98MS
Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins ‘56
Kathleen Magee Jaunich ‘64
Michael J. Jolliffe
Thomas Kelly
Lyn Peck Kenyon ‘45/’69BS
Ranch C. Kimball
John F. Knutson
Edward H. Ladd
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ‘54
Robert A. Lincoln
William A. Lowell, Esq.
Vicki Caplan Milstein ‘72
Lois Barnett Mirsky ‘54
Juan Carlos Morales
Mila Moschella ‘75
Robin Mount
Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy ‘69
Diane Cassella Ohanesian ‘78MS
Maryann Mylott O’Rourke ‘60/’98MS
Bonnie Page ‘76/’92MS
Heather Peach ‘96MS
Betty Bain Pearsall ‘71
Abby Squires Perelman ‘73
Joseph W. Perkins
Marianna C. Pierce
Nancy Fowle Purinton ‘64
Paul Reville
Barbara Grogins Sallick ‘61
Susan Bruml Simon ‘73
Ellen Haebler Skove ‘49
Gloria Aisenberg Sonnabend ‘51
Kate Taylor
Daniel S. Terris
Geneva S. Thorndike
Joan I. Thorndike
Lisa Thors
Martha Walsh ‘67/’80MS
Valora Washington
Katharine Lewars Weymouth ‘42-’43*
Kahris D. White-McLaughlin
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ‘54
Barry S. Zuckerman
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Degree Donors
1973
Deborah Maher
Elaine Douglass Munn
Priscilla Cote Paquette
1974
Barbara Carter Brathwaite
Annie Barbee Gumbs
1977
Donna Blaikie Coleman
1978
Frances Hargrett Simkins
1979
Virginia Breedy
1984
Marlene Ross
1988
Karen Flowers Cagan
Christine DeLorenzo Davey
1990
Jewel Russell
1992
Deanna Germain
1993
Naomi Hargrove Robertson
Undergraduate
Degree Donors
1928
Mary Phillips Horton
1929
Wilma Small Halliday
Constance Putnam
1932
Bernice Hayes Hunt
1933
Olive Russell Frost
Janice Porosky Olins*
Elizabeth Cox Robbins*
1934
Jeanette Woodruff Fischer
Ruth Swanson Hallowell
Elizabeth Drowne Nash
1935
Mary Hammer Heron
1936
Vivian Oaksford Fisher
Harriet Hyde Sands
1937
Lora Erhard Crouss
Eleanor Blossom Fisher
Ellen Moak Lloyd
Carolyn Schmidt
Katherine Douglas Smith
1938
Betty Quick Collin
Rosemary O’Reilly Hoben
Anita Drucker Leibowitz
Margaret Ryan MacIntyre
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Edith Rizer Paffard*
Nancy Brown Stevenson
1939
Estelle Levy Dine
Jean Warner Eaton
Alice Keith*
June Jellison MacGinnis
1940
Mary Brewer Allen
Annette Brown Boland
Lois Burns
Rita Jaffe Govenar
Louise Martin Klemmer
Katherine Mara Madigan
Jean Davidson Rand
Inez Gianfranchi Snowdon
Faith Butterfield Wyer
1941
Joanne Lilly Abbott
Barbara Munson Carpenter
Ruth Andelman Danburg
Grace Fitzpatrick Frawley
Anne Wigton Hall
Barbara Finkel Jacobs
Bettina Beebe McCleary
H. Louise Jones Miller
Dorothea Ramsay Rutter
Katherine Rhodes Truswell
Ruth Kemball Tupper
Winifred Little Williams
1942-‘43
Gertrude Gerenbeck Coady
Gladys Davey Dunbar
Mary Anne Henderson King
Janice Gifford Rogers
Jean Mealey Slavin
Helen Roberts Thomas
Katharine Lewars Weymouth*
1943-‘44
Martha Prouty DeNormandie
Marjory Perry Johnson
Laura Kelly Peters
Gertrude Van Iderstine Phillips
Jean Sullivan Riley
Judith Elder Scott
Nancy Powell White
Jane Cooper Wyman
1945
Patricia Slater Carey
Sally Dvlinsky Glickman
Natalie Alger Gorczyca
Lois Hahn
Sophy Church Hansen
Nancy Peirce Kyle
Maryanne Weber Lockyer
Shirley Kellerman McBain
Elizabeth Matthews Piper*
Rosalie Russo
Maryanne Marsh Smith
Jane Spaulding
Helen Small Weishaar
Mary Davies Wolff
1946
Jane Clapp Donaldson
Cordelia Abendroth Flanagan
Margaret Lewis Glover
Rosamond Holt Haley
Louise Allen Hammond
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Louise Vialle
Mary Ruth Sanger Wotherspoon
1947
Sara Latham Coonley
Daphne Tait Cooper
Barbara Bolinger Crabtree
Mary Segoine Davis
Carol Sisson Freeman
Mary Hemphill Haring
Priscilla Chase Heindel
Elizabeth Berry Horner
Beverly Hayes Kallgren
Judith Klubock Medalia
Emily Cook Moore
1948
Jocelyn Van Allen Anderson
Priscilla Leahy Blue
Jane Russell Bolton
Ann Bieberbach Brown
Elizabeth Higgins Button
Miriam Seipp Christensen
Prudence Clemishere Ciaccio
Agnes Fitzgerald Davis
Ysabel Brown Dulken
Mary Horr Foster
Harriet Hoffman Frost
Phyllis Fishman Grossbaum
Charlotte Leary Guest
Edith Hall Huck
Cynthia Knight Lawson
Janet Gall Leonard
Gwendolyn Price Lukens
Catherine Creble McCarraher
Elizabeth McHenry
Eleanor Eckerson McIntyre
Carol Moore
Katharine Crosby Nasser
Faith Webster Peak
Marylin Quint-Rose
Jeanne Girard Quinzani
Edith Huntley Ridley
Lila Abrash Rosenthal
Sally Hunter St. John
Carolyn Blount Street
Barbara Sturgis
Jane Terry Thomas
Julia Walsh Van Veen
Dorothy Bone Warren
Dorothy St. Clair Webb
Joann Bridgman Webster
Ruth Chickering Wheeler-McKay
1949
Laura Anne McPhee Burton
Jean Dickson Chiquoine
Caroline Stafford Crossland
Margaret Edwards Francis
Lois Anne Gilbert Galbraith
Sally Stout Garner
Alice Roberts Gow
Anne Tremper Hall
Anne Mulholland Heger
Enid Stockbridge Holly
Mathilde Clark Holmes*
Emily Naramore LaBudde
Helen Casten Lewis
Doris Jackson Marshall
Jane Bartlett Mason
Caroline Rowlett O’Handley
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Frances Cummings Partridge
Barbara Ferguson Pieper
Carol Root Roth
Judy Rosen Rubenfeld
Suzanne Small Shanahan
Ellen Haebler Skove
Mary Anne Dresser Stringham
Mariah MacGilvra Temby
Elaine Macmann Willoughby
1950
Nancy Spencer Adams
Jean Rogers Duval
Barbara Moog Finlay
Joan Blanchard Gray
Beverly Simon Green
Barbara Shafran Greenglass
Mary Hathaway Hayter
Emily Wright Holt
Mary Gall Horlsey
Betty Jane Jalley*
Beverly Maurath Newell
Nancy Garnaus Rice
Jane Munroe Rice
Dorothy Hutchens Seelow
Catherine Hargrave Sykes
Barbara Thompson Trainor
Florence Milman Walker
Edith Nowers White
Edith Runk Wright
1951
Beverly Boardman Brekke-Bailey
Louise Butts
Geraldine Walsh Clauss
Nancy Noelte Cloutier
Betsy Baker Connell
Georgianna Hale Dana
Nancy Horton Evans
Elizabeth Lawson Forrester
Shirley Stevens French
Judith Handley Garvey
Prudence Smith Giffin
Leigh Clayfield Glenn
Patricia Gindele Guild
Elizabeth Cahill Haskell
Harriet Howenstein Hull
Jane Ann Hartzell Knebel*
Nancy Flint Lindner
Charlotte Sears MacVane
Janet Boynton Means-Underhill
Jane Steele Milchen
Jane Williams Miller
Nancy Williams Mohn
Laura Richardson Payson
Mary Anderson Riley
Marilyn Ames Sawyer
Barbara Nutting Sheldon
Gloria Aisenberg Sonnabend
Helen Taft Staser
Dorothy Etherington Thurnherr
Carol Pounds Wales
Grace Viard Ward
Elsie Williams Waterbury
Mary Rothwell Wattles
Joan Wiggin
Elizabeth Valentine Wood
1952
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Carolyn Cederholm Allison
Margaret Boethelt Barratt
Patricia Wolcott Berger
Susan Moyer Breed
Margaret Kind Childs
Ann Sibley Conway
Nancy Walker Driscoll
Barbara Elliott Fargo
Mary Grace Ward Fleitz
Ann O’Brien Fleitzer
Patricia Conzelman Greeley
Ann Foote Grey
Anne DeLamater Hansen
Nancy Dodd Horst
Tatsue Hozumi
Janet Ferry Jenney
Cecily Chandler Kalin
Margot Herring Kuniholm
Virginia Bell Libhart
Martha Brown McGandy
Olivia Hutchins Meek
Ann Harvie Ormond
Jean Ingalls Perkins
Mary Major Rubel
Jean Monson Smith
Nancy Morris Souville
Marie Dargie Sperry
Marion Taft Taylor
Betty Koenig Thomas
Joanna Smith Virden
Elisabeth Luckey Whittelsey
Elizabeth Wood
Rosemary Fettinger Worth
1953
Ruth Flink Ades
Ellen McMillan Aman
Patricia Russell Amendola
Dorothy deVausney Ames
Margaret Benisch Anderson
Barbara Johnston Baggesen
Priscilla Buckingham Banghart
Joan Sullivan Buchanan
Joan Halloran Corning
Ann Carter Craft
Ruth Shedden Crane
Katherine Reardon Currier
Suzanne Terry Curry
Justine Cavanaugh Donnelly
Cynthia Cranton Dygert
Alicia Eager
Mary Campbell Erdmann
Natalie Smith Garland
Elizabeth Dewey Giles
Patricia Kelly Greichen
Priscilla Marks Griffith
Shirley Hamilton
Jennifer Thorne Hayden
Margaret Talbot Howe
Josepha Loskill Jenks
Ann Bevins Jewett
Janet Knightly Jones
Ruth French Kiemle
Gail Maurath Lyon
Mary Roberts Mahoney
Carol Hulbert Maxwell
Nancy Brown Meagher
Nancy Oppy Merrifield
Antoinette Johnson Ogden
Elizabeth Gerow Peterson
Mary Holden Pratt
Thekla Polley Putnam
* Deceased
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Thank You, 2008 Reunion Classes!
P
resident of the Alumni Association Board,
Sandy Christison ’92MS, presenting the
2008 Reunion Gift check to President JenkinsScott at the Alumni Association Awards Presentation.
A HUGE thank-you to all Reunion classes for the
total Annual Fund Gift of $504,859.24!
Joyce Allen Rich
Ruth Angier Salinger
Jane Palmer Schaefer
Dorothy Steinberg Shaker
Ann Emerson Spaulding
Marjorie Linn Strong
Sally Williams Tallamy
Ann Sibley Thomsen
Sally Karr Torrey
Joanne Hersey Walker
Winifred Magee Williams
Patricia Lea Woodward
1954
Betsy Hunter Ambach
Ginger Mercer Bates
Beverly Bell Cibbarelli
Sylvia Tailby Earl
Nancy Rosenwald Foilb
Joan Crane Freeman*
Ruth McKinley Herridge
Nancy Shapiro Hurwitz
Frances Tedesco Lathrop
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu
Margaret DeLuca Loughead
Persis Luke Loveys
Eileen O’Connell McCabe
Caroline Howard McCarty
Lois Barnett Mirsky
Johanna West Norton
Penny Power Odiorne
Sumie Hamada Onzuka
Doris Halprin Reiman
Patricia Andrews Richmond
Frances Levine Rogovin
Frances Vail Russell
Suzanne Hamburger Thurston
Elsa Weyer Williams
Virginia Thomas Williams
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf
1955
Diane Codling Bartlett
Nancy Merry Bergere
Marilyn Dow Byrne
Sally Reeves Edmonds
Bonnie Simon Grossman
Dorothy Wayman Grudzinski
Joleen Glidden Ham
Anne Close Haskell
Josephine Smith Howard
Martha McGowan Howard
Susan Towle Huckman
Nancy Cerruti Humphreys
Stella Barnes Johnson
Joan Butler Kimel
Joan Nelson Leighton
Charlotte Cooper Lopoten
Louise Baldridge Lytle
Betsey DeWitt Matteson
Cynthia Weekes Montesi
Carolyn Giroud Nygren
Norma Geremia Paliotti
Joan Walthers Parks
Stephany Lindquist Rogers
Kathleen Rooney
Judith Haskell Rosenberg
Sarah Lippincott Sakols
Mary Jane McAuliffe Songer
Beatrice Clayton Stockwell
Jayne Haynes Tillotson
Sylvia Buffinton Tompkins
Amaryllis Morris Volk
Katherine Law Walker
Ann Butler Yos
1956
Henriette Pennypacker Binswanger
Ann Melrose Blauvelt
Margaret McLean Caywood
Mary Lou Center
Paula Boehn Clifford
Lucy Faulkner Davison
Mary Bates Duplisea-Palmer
Evelyn Jenney Eaton
Susan Grearson Fillmore
Dorothy Dorfman Goldstick
Madeleine Browne Hagar-Tierney
Persis Goodnow Hamilton
Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins
Patricia Markle Levy
Wilma Kinsman Marr
Elizabeth Specht Mihalaros*
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Ingeborg Buechling Nichols
Ruth Bailey Papazian
Mary-Louise Stickles Perkins
Adeline Bradlee Polese
Sally Simpson Redston
Beverly Haley Richter
Dorinda Hicks Sayre
Thekla Reese Shackelford
Susan Waters Shaeffer
Barbara Silverstein
Patricia Cotter Smart
Constance Foote Smithwood
Judith Rosenthal Tobin
Frances Streit Tripp
Julie Bigg Veazey
Dorothy Weiss
Mary Suggs Whiteman
Annette Stevens Wilton
Sachiko Yamada Yamamoto
1957
Beth Atwood*
Georgia Harwood Blackmore
Joan Patterson Brown
Gail Angleman Brusch
Margaret Meeks Chapman
Judith Hall Chase
Anita Stulgis Chouinard
Virginia Plumer Crook
Katrina Hoadley DeLude
Mary Gifford Everett
Judith Stock Farmer
Ann Hewes Foden
Dawna Wight Fowler
Janice Wright Freelove
Katrina Buckelmueller Gale
Mary Bloomer Gulick
Priscilla Ann Hill Harrison
Margot Block Haselkorn
Harriet Weil Hodgson
Jane Hanna Houck
Anne Wingle Howard
Dardana Berry Hoyt
Deborah Carlson Jacklin
H. Barbara Knowles Jacobsen
Maureen Rolfe Kelly
Sara Sibley Lenhart
Sonia Loizeaux
Phoebe Parker McMillan
Cecily Beal Mills
Jean Kishida Nishiyama
Ellen O’Donnell Page
Mary Stone Phipps
Susan Hunt Raasch
Mary Lou Cudhea Reed
Nancy Weltman Schattner
Shirley Collins Schwarz-Gutherz
Francine McNamee Shea
Janet Spaulding
Dorothy Donahue Sullivan
Mary Hartwell Truesdell
1958
Judy McMurray Achre
Nancy Alexander Anderson
Carole Leclerc Barry
Judith Littlefield Bateman
Dorothy Williams Batson
Sandra Dunham Bowers
Doris Hood Cameron
Sandra Meyers Chaiken
Maureen Murphy Coakley*
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Sally Bennett Cook
Nancy Hallock Cooper
Marcia Potter Crocker
Susan Howland Devey
Diana McElroy Dieterich
Eleanor Emerson Dini
Regina Frankenberger Dubin
Mary McBride Felton
Diane Huddish Fink
Elly Gorsey Forman
June Hayward Foster
Patricia Burke Freisen
Charlotte Gay Frost
Yumiko Hattori Furuhata
Patricia Morrissey Goglia
Carol Moore Graham
Jean Tulloch Griffith
Cynthia Hallowell
Charlotte Pomeroy Hatfield
Marion Cook Houston
Sandra MacDonald Ingmanson
Judith Fain Kanter
Jena Goldstein Kevelson
Laura Lehrman
Arlene Keizer Lovenvirth
Gretchen Franz Mackey
Marilyn Contas Magoulias
Laura Burhoe Maier
Mary Meeker
Frances Broomhead Meredith
Barbara Stumpf Moses*
Audrey Shulman Nachbar
Shirley Hotra Neff
Carolyn Lucas Norris
Sara Beckwith Novak
Maralen Moody O’Neil
Ann Manfuso Paras
Jane Bowler Pickering
Julie Russell
Cynthia King Schueler
Margaret Weinheimer Sherwin
Susan Smith
Carol Yudis Stein
Elizabeth Sturtz Stern
Elizabeth Bundy Taft
Janice Seybolt Theron
Patricia Dodd Ulmer
Sara Dunbar Waters
Carol Stuart Wenmark
Gail Wheeler
Jean Cutler Whitham
Sybil Magid Woodhouse
1959
Annette Rogers Barber
Suzanne Baker Bethke
Alice Thompson Brew
Rosalie Bradstreet Bromfield
Jane Menge Cooke
Madeleine Gatchell Corson
Patricia Haas
Sandra Hall Haffler
Virginia Gordon Hagan
Jeanne Wilson Hatch
Iris Hofmann
Sally Schwabacher Hottle
Lynne Grove Ives
Barbara Hampson Ivey
Joan Pannier Langley
Elizabeth Woodward Mack
Marilyn Proctor MacMahan
Marion Turnbull Mangels
Sue Abbot McCord
Virginia Ludwig McLaughlin
Mary Runyon Obaidy
Delleyne Eldridge Osborne
Patricia vom Lehn Overman
Elaine Fogel Parks
Doris Geer Petusky
Judith Scott Stolp
Patricia Wise Strauss
Gail Grew Thomson
Helen LaMontagne Warmuth
1960
Joan Adams
Joan Gardner Buchanan
Ellen Cluett Burnham
Barbara Tutschek Ells
Gail Gulbranson Frost
Elizabeth Brown Hall
Irene Frail Hamm
Peggy Oliver Hedeman
Helene Brunelle Hickey
Susan Rideout Jewett
Reta Schoonmaker King
Jane Coulter Langmaid
Helene Stehlin Lortz
Linda McSwiney Lynch
Edith Lermond Menkart
Margaret Washburne Miller
Meredith Moody
Deanne Williams Morse
Nancy Mullervy Newbrook
Carol Reed Newsome
Sara Thompson Orton
Jean Randlett
Elizabeth Appel Schaffer
Virginia Franks Seegel
Janice Halsted Sussebach
Ruth Baker Ursul*
Anne Pelletreau Woodbury
1961
Susan Quick Anderson
Helen Clark
Eleanor Kushner Dinitz
Ellen Tague Dwinell
Mary Jo Severson Fenyn
Barbara Lukoff Johnson
Marjorie Wilson Kingston
Jeannette Kwok
Judith Johnston Laurens
Linda Shemwick Lindquist
Eleanor Snyder Markowitz
Juliet Miller Moynihan
Marian Kopp Muir
Mary Rees Nann
Catherine Greenacre Robinson
Barbara Grogins Sallick
Gail Spivack Sandler
Sally Cessna Schanck
Ellen Nickerson Schmidt
Nancy Gebting Secker
Carolyn Kingsbury Sherbin
Jan Smart Stansbury
Helen Parker Tucker
Betsy Mark Weiner
1962
Daphne Angelis Abodeely
Joann Seidenfeld Adler
Judith Parks Anderson
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Thanks for Answering the
Phonathon Call
L
indsay had been at Wheelock only a few
weeks when she volunteered for Phonathon
— a great chance for her and other students
to meet alumni “over the wire.” Thanks for
answering the call and making your donation.
You make it possible for students like Lindsay
to be at Wheelock.
Betsy Berry
Phoebe Walther Biggs
Carol Tarr Bolter
Luette Close Bourne
Jean Heard Carmichael
Ruth Weeks Clark
Jenny Tincher Cleaves
Barbara Pratt Dancy
Elizabeth Townsend Dearstyne
Penelope Petrell English
Susan Ehrlich Gaynor
Roberta Weiss Goorno
Linda Marvin Hastie
Priscilla Alden Hayes
Roberta Goodale Kulas
Patricia Pierce Loring
Judith Rominger Lutkus
Anne Sullivan Lyons
Susan Haley Markee
Janet Easton Martin
Alice Greene McCauley
Diane Stephens Montgomery
Mary Joanna Ginty Neish
Judith Sherman Nevins
Helen Beck Noble
Marilyn Henkel Pollock
Betsy Miller Radler
Sara Kiley Reid
Laura Sibley Rhodes
Mary Richardson Rivers
Jean Barclay Rook
Mari Porter Seder
Emily VanderStucken Spencer
Mary Schubert Stearns
Judith Gollub Trieff
Hilly Gillespie van Loon
Marion MacKay Verdick
Brenda Richmond Verduin-Dean
Roberta Loveland Vest
Mary Ann Baker Wagner
Priscilla Plant Wing
Georgia Bradley Zaborowski
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1963
Linda Dale Anderson
Judith Hughes Arreola
Martha Bucknam Brogan
Susan Memery Bruce
Lorna Waterhouse Chafe
Gloria Maravell Clark
Beth Howenstein Crane
Veronica Connolly Cronin
Heather Hughes Dahlberg
Zelinda Makepeace Douhan
Yvonne LaBrecque Enders
Cynthia Jepsen Farquhar
Carolyn Collins Farrell
Margaret Fenner
Charlotte Giovanella Fullam
Bette Mosher Geci
Barbara Hamilton Gibson
Jessie Hennion Gwisdala
Christine Theander Harper
Cynthia Banister Hosmer
Joan Packer Isenberg
Jane Kuehn Kittredge
Jan Vary Kutten
Jacquelyn Taft Lowe
Susan Cross MacElhiny
Elizabeth Craft Meuer
Susan Wise Miller
Nancy Ware Morrow
Elizabeth Kellogg Morse
Paula Corning Newell
Frances Nichols
Sally Weatherbee O’Neill
Beverly Robbins Page
Lynn Sanchez Paquin
Sally Pease
Carolyn Stanton Peirce
Christine Price Penglase
Marjorie Sanek Platzker
Marthanne Uhlinger Pressey
Anne Little Reiley
Dorothy Allen Rhodes
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Maria Ryerson
Lani Tomita Sakoda
Ellen Sandler
Carolyn Allen Seaton
Judith Thompson Seeley
Elizabeth Robinson Smith
Lynne Foster Warren
Alice Parke Watson
Loraine Nettleton Watson
Susan Steele Weems
Gail Rosinoff Weiner
Laurel Holmes Whitaker
Helen Mesnick Wilker
Nancy Preston Wisneskey
Anne Safirstein Yarvis
Delores Watt Yeats
1964
Virginia Pratt Agar
Susan Greenleaf Anderson
Anne Fallon Aubourg
Judith Reutter Blanton
Sarah Dewey Blouch
Kathleen O’Keeffe Capo
Perrine Colmore
Jean White Comstock
Mary Jane Blackburn Cook
Nancy Ashton Dewey
Elizabeth McIntyre Doepken
Diane Abitbol Fogg
Jeanette Polhemus Glesmann
Noel Stoodley Gray
Deborah Niebling Grubbs
Janet Marshall Haring
Carole Cooper Harris
Christina Morris Helm
Carol Jeffers Hollenberg
Barbara Hodge Holmes
Lynn Sanderson Holmes
Mary Wolf Hurtig
Kathleen Magee Jaunich
Phyllis Forbes Kerr
Eleanor Noble Linton
Priscilla Nelson Linville
Jessi MacLeod
Judy Holmes Marco
Roberta Gilbert Marianella
Laura Brown Marshall
Gladys Tilley Miner
Suzanne Mullens Morgan
Sudie Nostrand
Ann Brown Omohundro
Barbara Wilson Parks
Nancy Fowle Purinton
Rhoda Henkels Pykonen
Hilda Wright Rhodes
Carol Eidam Schmottlach
Ann Meigher Smith
Mary Ellen Freeman Smith
Marjorie Blum Walker
Ann Burgess Wolpers
1965
Anne Goepper Aftuck
Elizabeth Marchant Armstrong
Barbara Curtis Baker
Nancy Rosenberg Bazilian
Judith White Beaver
Linda Larrabee Blair-Lockwood
Cynthia Cooper Buschmann
Anne Bonner Ceccarelli
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Barbara Stevenson Cox
Joanne Malynoski Dall
Elsa Chaffee Distelhorst
Paula Aufsesser Elkind
Karen Ellsworth
Sandra Tilton Elmer
Deirdre Conrad Frank
Carol Owen Funk
Elizabeth Smith Gavriel
Donna Johnson Grinnell
Kate Young Hewitt
Dana Seeley Hirth
Jane Kingman Hudgins
Sarah Spaulding Jonick
Darcy Black Keough
Ellen Towers Knopf
Susan Kosoff
May Koh Lam
Julia Clymer Lloyd
Abby Howd Macdonald
Kathleen Wilson Mallet
Adele Abate Manfredi
Edwina Burke Marcus
Trisha Henderson Margeson
Janne Pontius Mathes
Hinda Rose Niemeyer
Mary Barnard O’Connell
Madelaine Cohen O’Shea
Page Poinier Sanders
Libby Walker Schroeder*
Helen Birdsall Shepherd
Karen Gold Sokol
Nancy Tolman Stass
Nancy Clarke Steinberger
Elizabeth Earle Stevenson
Heidi Snow Stowe
Ruth Tilghman
Penelope Traver
Marsha M-Geough Vaughan
Joan Anderson Watts
Gwen Lloyd Wirtalla
1966
Lynne Wyluda Beasley
Joan Edwards Bottkol
Laurie Knowles Carter
Sarah Carter
Barbara Walker Collamore
Sharon Jenks Collinson
Madeleine Tufts Cormier
Nancy Wicke Demarest
Pamela Chesley Dennett
Barbara Baker Dowd
Christina Kovacs Durkin
Genevieve Ebbert
Lucy Olsen Fischer
Mary Byrnes Frueauf
Susan Leeb Fuhrer
Joanne Moskey Grady
Thordis Burdett Gulden
Pamela Carey Haggett
Martha Somers Henderson
Nancy Maida Hoffman
Susan Clark Howard
Susan McKee Kessler
Karen Kitfield Koeppl
Marka Truesdale Larrabee
Patricia Lewars Lucy
Margery Conley Mars
Jane Martin McMackin
Andrea Price Morse
Anne Hallowell Newton
Phoebe O’Mara
Susan Lodge Peck
Isota Epes Potter
Jane Wolcott Ready
Heather Robinson Reimann
Marcia Carlson Rintoul
Ruth Ann Welsh Rooney
Elizabeth Zwirner Ruggiero
Katharine duPont Sanger
Donna Kazanjian Scribner
Sylvia Thorndike Sheriff
Marian Harden Simino
Natalie Palmer Stafford
Ann Linden Stewart
Susan Magennis Underwood
Wendy Stuek Voit
Elizabeth Marks Voss
Nancy Clay Webster
Patricia Wild
Carole Hayes Williams
1967
Elizabeth Edwards Bell
Ruth Rupkey Bell
Virginia Stout Burau
Jane McIntyre Carlisle
Ingrid Hasskarl Chalufour
Susan Mitchell Cronk
Tina Feldman Crosby
Carol Armstrong Dillon
Charlotte Gignoux Dwyer
Donna Pulk Elliott
Susan Wells Ferrante
Judith Lambert Foster
Julia Devereux Glynn
Barbara Hicks Harting
Susan Burtch Hyde
Shyla Leary Irving
Lucy Schade Jackson
Donna Johnson
Linda Moritz Katz
Sally Desmond Kensel
Donna Klemka
Anita Klempner
Barbara Jenkins Milos
Heather Kateley Pettengill
Betsy Simmonds Pollock
Barbara Taylor Posner
Jeannette Stone Reynolds
Beverly Boden Rogers
Judy Davis Scanlon
Katharine Lancaster Thompson
Laura Shapero Thomson
Margery Peirce Thurber
Nancy Sullivan Tryzelaar
Ann Fisher Tuteur
Carolyn Wright Unger
Alison Hannan Vaill
Elizabeth Griswold Vershay
Martha Walsh
Sara Wolf
1968
Susanne Hall Alford
Susan Stein Backer
Louise Phelan Barber
Jane Carpentier Batchelder
Sandra Gustavsen Batten
Bonnie Poole Boulton
Rosalind Schonberger Brezenoff
* Deceased
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Melanie Waszkiewicz Chadwick
Keena Dunn Clifford
Nancy Perry Cornwell
Phyllis Cross Croce
Monica Freese Eppinger
Catherine Scheid Evans
Sherri Ades Falchuk
Penelope Ferenbach Franchot
Francine Gitnick Franke
Janice Gannon Gamber
Leslie Smith Gill
Sally Cissel Greenwood
Vaughan Cate Grubbs
Laura Chotkowski Hardy
Cheryl Hauser
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Susan Terragni Howe
Bonnie Stinson Hutchinson
Sarah Jarvis
Gretchen Burleigh Johnson
Ellen Hilcoff Kerstein
Margery Linn Kirsch
Cynthia Blum Kramer
Tobie Goldman Levine
Margaret Merrill Loutrel
Katherine Sayford Lucibello
Susan Ordway Lyons
Ann Knowles MacKay
Anne Stewart Macpherson
Kathryn de Sano Mahoney
Rose Kurkjian Margosian
The Kresge Challenge Grant
to Expand Our Community
and Make Us Stronger
I
n April, Wheelock received the wonderful news
that it was awarded an $800,000 challenge grant
from the distinguished Kresge Foundation to assist
in raising the remaining funds necessary to complete
construction of its striking new Campus Center and
Student Residence (CCSR). While the CCSR will be a
fabulous new addition to Wheelock’s campus, to student life, and to our on-campus community, the
Kresge challenge presents a great opportunity for
Wheelock to engage many more individuals and
organizations in supporting its mission to improve
the lives of children and families.
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Deborah Harpending McConnell
Susan Merritt McIlvaine
Lynn Grearson McWilliams
Lynne Brown Moores
Lou Ann Colonnese Mulcahy
Lani Kung Paone
Anne Perkins
Faith Schultz Perkins
Herrika Williams Poor
Kathleen Curcio Riolo
Susan Castleton Ryan
Marlene Shama
Cynthia Carpenter Sheehan
Marjorie Moss Shekarchi
Janice McLean Simpson
Sally Clark Sloop
Noel Gignoux Spevacek
Jacquelyn Pearsall Stack
Susan Webb Tregay
Diana Chang Van Houtum
Judith Velho-Baker
Rosemary Douglass Vena
Candace Erickson Weiler
Candace Aiken Wilson
Jane Desisto Worthley
Carlotta Dyer Zilliax
Susan Ackerman Zwick
1969
Linda Minker Abramson
Patricia Coughlin Adams
Sara Burns Adams
Mary Haffey Anderson
V. Bonnie Blick Benedict
Janice Bevan
Cheri Breeman
Susan Kilbourn Burkhard
Deborah Melia Clark
Patricia Cook
Molly Day
Hope Dean
Constance Marsden Fratar
Nancy Grant
Daphne Hunsaker Hall
Judith Hall
Marjorie Reid Hampson
Suzanne Hayden
Nancy Kelly Hershey
Jane Luke Hill
Gay White Hitchcock
Cynthia Lockett Hooks
Roberta Schwartz Klopfer
Robin Kuhn
Priscilla Phelan Lentowski
Mary Pescatello Lewis
Kathryn Scanlon McEldowney
Catherine Wells Milton
Margrete Miner
Constance Goehring Mitchell
Martha-Reed Ennis Murphy
Nancy Stewart Nadig
Linda Bullock Owens
Dell Redington
Elizabeth Webster Saba
Elaine Isserlis Sheftel
Margaret Snyder
Rita Sladen Sosa
Merrill Press Witty
Linda Gordon Wurzel
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1970
Leslie Walters Bohannon
Susan Costello Bryant
Susan Barrett Butler
Jill Hastings Cane
Mary Ann Allen Cowherd
Daphne Voyatzis Damplo
Suzanne Moon Dykhuizen
Terry Davidow Epstein
Maureen Heisler Garber
Barrie Miller Gollinger
Renee Fox Gould
Alison Carr Harris
Jane Kellogg
Julie Sinclair Kingsley
Suzanne Salter Krautmann
Susan Kelley Markowski
Toby Congleton Milner
Deborah Weinberg Mizrahi
Jan Frost Russell
Mary Curtis Skelton
Kluane Baier Snyder
Elizabeth Steele
Jermain Mueller Steiner
Susan Ormsby Stoehr
Mary Barber Stone
Martha Steele Strachan
Dona Fusselmann Vaccaro
Deborah Glickman Waldman
Eloise Dale Welz
Priscilla Hussey Worrall
1971
Phoebe Hemenway Armstrong
Belinda Ramizi Bendak
Karen Srulowitz Berman
Laura Bewick Brines
Morgan Shannon Butler
Christine Chase
Nancy Liberman Cohen
Kathleen Kiniry Cookson
Margery Feinburg Cooper
Phyllis Jew Danko
Cynthia Knowles Denault
Carolyn Morrill Follmer
Felice Shapiro Friedman
Pamela Wright Grossman
Beverly Janson Hammond
Elizabeth Hirsch
Priscilla Jeffery
Betsey Josselyn
Sheryl Berman Lovit
Ruth Hughes McGee
Carolyn Bail Miller
Betty Bain Pearsall
Patricia Swiriduk Perry
Geraldine Robinson
Nancy Millican Rogers
Donna Van Stone Schmidt
Renae Ross Starker
Patricia O’Shea Vonnegut
Ruth Steinhausen Wachterman
Vicki Coorssen Whalen
Sylvia Birnbaum Yasner
1972
Lynn Geronemus Bigelman
Priscilla Resevic Cosgrove
Margaret Taylor DeAgazio
Deborah Foster DeMarco
Barbara Tarr Drauschke
Alice Liberman Eberhardt
Priscilla Hedge Evilsizer
Susan Whiting Finan
Alexena Thun Frazee
Cynthia Johnson GaNun
Mary Barbour Hatvany
Janice Pearson Hildreth
Louisa Miller Hoar
Ann Jackson
Helena Marshall Keiser
Linda Carlson Kiley
Ronni Zuckerman Kirsch
Susan Knight
Jill Rosing Landel
Elizabeth Hile Lindsay
Priscilla Wold Longfield
Beverly Tarr Mattatall
Marilyn Meub
Vicki Caplan Milstein
Susan Rowe Morison
Barbara Zimmermann Murphy
Barbara Pinto Napoleone
Kathryn Worrell Newton
Anne Bagley Nielsen
Wendy Dubins Perlmutter
Karen Lundquist Peterson
Mary Dickerson Pierson
Pamela Goering Pierson
Carol Myers Pressman
Kimberly Cross Reichert
Sharon Flavell Rickard
Sarah Lundrigan Ross
Diane Palmer Soderland
Marjorie Taft
Shirley Meier Vautin
Gayle Ziegler Vonasek
Nancy McClement Waage
1973
Christine Appert
Sandra Birdsall Atteberry
Andrea Newmark Baker
Lynn Emerson Brownell
Laurie Paul Brustlin
Joyce Pettoruto Butler
Jeannette Byers
Ginny Holmes Carroll
Susan Weinstock Cobin
Nancy Cottrill
Deborah D’Amico
Karen Drazen
Susan Eblen
Faith Hesselgrave Ferguson
Janet Field
Lynne Siegal Fox
Marilyn Levick Fyfe
Jean Burrill Gailun
Pamela Pappas Goode
Dana Brewer Hahn
Diane Ellicott Kwiatek
Jill Lithwick Lieberman
Ann Bradford Ligums
Regina Frisch Lobree
Elizabeth Clarke Magruder
Wendy Millett Manninen
Amanda Griggs Miles
Ellen Luckenbach Moomaw
Diane Yeterian Moore
Diana Stiehl Palmer
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Priscilla Cote Paquette
Abby Squires Perelman
Carol Bigelow Riggs
Jane Hertig Roberts
Sally Bechert Robinson
Susan Mahoney Segar
Mildred Shelton
Susan Bruml Simon
Joyce Snowden
Cathy Bill Steer
Cynthia Coggeshall Trask
Marion Brigham Williams
1974
Margot Zabin Abrams
Karyn Brotman
Deborah Epstein Bunker
Melanie Carney
Paula Davison
Rebecca Smith Denevan
Kay Eng
Nancy Lamb Handler
Martha Balch Hubbell
Laurel Lassen Jonas
Kathleen Hughes Joyce
Rebecca Kaminsky
Debra Crossman Kwiatek
Linda Look
Alice Stasio Macfarland
Mary Ellen Piantedosi Margosian
Wanda Arrington Meekins
Julie Moffatt
Betsy Kinney Morgan
Dana Nelson
Janet Leonard O’Loughlin
Susan Brown Pendlebury
Jill Schunick Putnam
Linda Zaniewski Rosado
Diane Rothauser
Sandra Smith
Laurel Beach Tyrrell
Dayl Walker
Karen Banfield Waybright
1975
Donna Hansen Bailey
Carol Bryce Bibeau
Harriet Blanchard
Carol Boisen
Catherine Bose
Tootie Neale Brodlieb
Cathie Brown
Kathryn Spano Buley
Julia Challinor
Dorothy Cresswell
Joanna Miles Griffith
Allena Tabb Harper
Kathleen McCooey Hering
Patricia Gardiner Hill
Ray Eisenstadt Immerman
Carol White Jones
Rachel Henowitz Levine
Helen Hymerling Liberatore
Suzanne Smith MacEwan
Audrey Liberman Matson
Susan Curry Michaud
Sue Crispen Miller
Helen Burke Montague
Mila Moschella
Cheryl Adami Phillips
Joseph Richards
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Judith Rosenbaum
Barbara Stevens Rowe
Patricia Gontrum Sare
Kathy Witt Sturges
Amy Svirsky
Nancy Drummond Tindal
Mary Ainslie Tracy
Barbara Carnright Tyng
Patricia Ward
Sara Wragge
1976
Louisa Lothrop Affleck
Joan Lowd Ames
Terry Goldberg Bromfield
Cheryl Zalk Chandler
Brenda Rose Chaney
Marilyn Croteau
Jane Single DeLeo
Lisa Milanese Evans
Carolee Fucigna
Gayle Griswold Goldberg
Nadine Heim
Marianne Beckman Henderson
Tracy Robertson Howard
Brita Josephson
Melinda Kaiser
Amy Kitzen
Madeline Berry Lasley
Lucy Rand MacDonald
Mary Jo Keany Mason
Susan Conger McCarthy
Patricia McGowan McManus
Marian Miller
Sarah Davisson Moore
Constance Bell Moser
Daria Lyons O’Connor
Dale Zabriskie Pomerantz
Sherri Perk Reider
Nora Ray Richards
Kathy Richter-Sand
Patricia Grief Sammataro
Patricia Zimmy Schneider
Geraldine Small
Marghretta Gilbane Smithers
Wafa Bissar Sturdivant
Dolores Testa
Diane Gould Thompson
Diana Spence Uehlein
Sharon Welch
1977
Mary Grant Altshuler
Randy Altshuler
Joann Royal Balboni
Ellen Broderick
Judith Birofka Brown
Susan Trementozzi Charbonneau
Victoria Ash Christian
Louise Close
Nancy Oberlin Dzomba
Sarah Mann Hanscom
Andree Howard
Timothy Howland
Jill Schoenfeld Ikens
Kathryn Morton Ivory
Elena James
Deborah Danenberg Krol
Jacqueline Lampert*
Susan Colicchio Littleton
Susan Grause LoPresto
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Margaret McCarthy
Janet Wood Menser
Paula McAdams Moloney
Dale Sillan Morris
Peter Rawitsch
Cherry Whitaker Reiniger
Marcia Callahan Slatkin
Sheila Stewart
Wendy Carter Taylor
Cynthia Lauriat Vaughan
Susan Cook Vaughn
Tracy Weinberg
Susan West
Audrey Zabin
1978
Steven Aveson
Susan Boyce-Cormier
Susan Rosen Faden
Lora Anderson Goldman
Mary Deegan Hare
Susan Flaherty King
Karen Nuzzo
Pamela Hopkins Peckinpaugh
Donna Craveiro Sawyer
Carlile Lowery Schneider
Carol Sullivan-Hanley
Nancy Martinelli Waiculonis
Janet Welz-Kavanagh
Karen Musser Whitla
Arlene Botelho Williams
1979
Sherrill Holland Batson
Brenda Stone Clover
Maura Houlihan German
Kristine Sheathelm Gerson
Laura Elliott Jernigan
Donna LaRoche
Rebecca Sakshaug Pagano
Rosemary Rehm-Schantz
Anna Saladino Ricardo
Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski
Claudia Barnett Scott
Terri Weisberg Smith
Elizabeth Plourde Steinkamp
Leslie Finlay Sullivan
Molly Thompson
Elizabeth Hanson Walters
Claire White
1980
Lisa McCabe Biagetti
Holly McAlpine Dulac
Jane Aldrich Furr
Robin Gardner
Heather Rodts Garland
Cynthia Garvin
Jeanne Clark Giles
Kathleen Formica Harris
Laureen Dillon Hart
Bobbie Van Suetendael Helbig
Jane Henshaw Kinkead
Theresa Flaherty McCarthy
Mary Oliver McKechnie
Margaret Meath
Karin Patton
Edward Schantz
Patricia Barone Sokoly
Jane Tuttle Stimson
Emilie Richardson Temeles
Elizabeth Heger Wright
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Third Annual Community Dialogue
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hose who support Wheelock conferences help
the College bring some of the best scholars and
practitioners together to work on the most pressing
issues facing children and families today. Wheelock’s
co-sponsors for its Third Annual Community Dialogue
on Early Education and Care: New Initiatives, New
Realities were the Massachusetts Association for
Early Childhood Teacher Educators, the Nellie
Mae Foundation, the Bessie Tartt Wilson
Foundation, the Schott Foundation for Public
Education, and the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley. We thank them
for their commitment to the families and children of
Massachusetts and to our dedicated early childhood
educators and advocates.
1981
Linda Lievi Abdu
Carolyn Phelps Dent
Tracy Foilb
Bernadine Herbert Gittens
Diana Hamilton-Rousseau
Janine Hart-Hueber
Nora Lerdau Howley
Sarah Bowman Merry
Marion Ferguson Newton
Alexis Foster Reed
Cynthia Dill Rosenthal
Colleen Miller Rumsey
Catherine Barry Smith
Sara Dugan Springmeyer
Anne Marie Bergeron Tavares
1982
Susan O’Halloran Constable
Kathleen Mello Friedrichsen
Linda Abbey Gent
Catherine Ley Lawler
Sally Burnett Marr
Karen Mutch-Jones
Erika Fischer Oranges
Barbara Madison Ripps
Mari Dalton Walkowicz
Lisa Nord Zack
1983
Karen Corcoran Birner
Zoraida Correia Bohn
Maria Sugalski Carpenter
Lisa Jurman Cedergren
Evelina Ecker
Jennifer Estabrook
Lauren Wartenberg Finkle
Carol Rubin Fishman
Gail Rothstein Forstater
Sara Grande Gavens
Jane Donovan Huzar
Pamela Lee Kania
Laurel Massey Leibowitz
Mary Sienkiewicz Minalga
Lora Lopes Nielsen
Carrie Sobel Rubin
Marcia Gibbons Turner
Nancy Cutler Ward
Claudia Tillis Weger
Andrea Ades Woolner
Deborah Wurgler
1984
Monica Trussell Belkin
Katherine Bliss
Lee Block
Joan Cycenas
Lynn Pennacchini Dion
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Melanie Levesque Madden
Jackie Johnson Markley
Martha McNulty
Patricia Dowell Merrill
Doreen McKiernan Miller
Cynthia Gibb O’Leary
Cecilia Tatem Small
Elizabeth Stobart
Susan Potter Sweeney
Pamela Reid Towers
Jacqueline Trudel
Jody Mount Vorenberg
Kathryn Welsh Wilcox
1985
Linda Edwards Beal
Elizabeth Fixx Gumina
Nora Broughton Jestus
JoAnn Chambers Meehan
Patricia Norton
Kimberly Rice Thompson
Stephanie Poly Zapatka
1986
Anne Russell Cabral
Margaret Sturges McDermott
Karen McGuinness-St. Martin
Marlene Ross
Julie Simon
1987
Lisa Blake Carstoiu
Laura DeNucci Crosby
Kathleen Hurley DeVarennes
Wendy MacPhetres Hermance
Katherine Grabner McDonough
Jamie Jaskiewicz Pociask
Holly Hastings Socolosky
Elisabeth Hubbard VanDerMaelen
Brenda Richards White
Luanne Peters Wilson
1988
Rebecca Johnson Alexander
Helene Dunkerley Bettencourt
Lori Adamo Brothers
Lynne Harris Brownfield
Claudette DeGagne Dennis
Virginia Ernst
Christine Briggs Genannt
Christine Schuman Kenny
Elizabeth Malkin
Jennie Nelson Marshall
Jill Postma Martin
Deborah Nevins-Geswell
Carol-Ann McCusker Petruccelli
Anne Gomez Upson
Arlene Cromwell Vincent
1989
Laura Kramer MacMillan
Karen Matheny
Rebecca Lloyd Narvaez
Maureen Griffin Reen
Brian Scheff
Nadine Snyder
1990
Karen Flowers Cagan
Megan Ward Eriksen
Michelle Pine Lemme
Kimberly Oliver
H E E L O C K
Eleanor Cannon Smith
Maria Puente Walker
Lisa Wojtowicz Wood
1991
Rebekah Engel Elmore
Maria Maffeo
Meredith McArdle
1992
Rebecca Milke Barnett
Patricia Hyde
Laura Mahon Garand
Karen Delaney O’Neil
Leslie Hacker Overbye
Amy Rheault-Heafield
Heather Bogli Zilora
1993
Golden Bryant
Patricia Bys Carando
Deborah Cooper Crane
Elizabeth Bigham Dilts
Sara Hosmer
Nina Mortensen LaPlante
Cara Meade-Martin
Brenda Noel
Wanda Yeomans Patterson
Rochelle Perry-Craft
Bonnie Hannibal Reed
Renee Minotti Rhoads
Elizabeth Goldentyer Roberts
Leandra Poliquin Sargent
Gayle Critikos Saxonis
Kristen Quinn Shorey
Amy Hambleton Signore
Cheri Vercellone Smith
Hilary Hoffman Sowers
Karin Blumberg Taylor
Mary Vardaro
Tara Daniels Wider
Mary Kirrane Worster
1994
Lynne Harmon Aloisi
Alex Campbell
Vivian Carr
Kristin Wagner Matzonkai
Kyla McSweeney
Jennifer Schriver
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Sally Kokernak Millwood
Tammy Myers
Tonya Clawson Urquizo
Stacy Hogan Watts
Joan Packer Isenberg
Louise Brown Johnson
Kathryn Gilliam Morgenthau
Madelyn Krest Nash
Linda Fuller Wolk
1999
Catherine Marciello
Katherine McKibbens
1969
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Sharon Sabo Bilanin*
Joann Bush
Shirley Yett Chodin
Elizabeth Coates
Diane Blumsack Korelitz
Marian Wylie Krummel
Diane Levin
Jane Steele Milchen
Karen Tilbor
2001
Holly Evans
Sara Levy
2002
Melissa Bachetti
Lisa Goldman Henriques
2003
Stephany Melton
2004
Colleen Pierce Brown
Jessica Craw
Kiley Noonan
Kristen Johnson Parsons
Graduate
Degree Donors
1955
Louise Butts
Elizabeth McHenry
1956
Velma McEvoy Lindberg
1957
Sachiko Yamada Yamamoto
1960
Barbara Mead Anthony
Susan Hunt Raasch
1962
Virginia Gleason Crocker
Barbara Eberman Fisher
Deborah Carlson Jacklin
Dorothy Ulf Mayer
Barbara Sturgis
1995
Robin Melesko Toomey
1963
Natalie Bigelow Barlow
Sally Nichols McGucken
Katherine Lanning Winters
1996
Joel Ludington
1964
Ellen Smith
1997
Melissa Carnabuci
Lesley Coughlin
Julie Hess Croshere
Jenny Fogel Miller
Micaela Hall
Elizabeth Rackliffe
1965
Lucy Faulkner Davison
Susan Vetter Shoff
Georgia Bradley Zaborowski
1998
Danielle Abel
Anita Anderson
Christine Barry Beaulieu
Jessica Berry
Nicolette de Boer
Teresa Doughty
Christina Stiber Dwire
Mary Falcone-Farrell
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Carol Liu King
1967
Judith Klubock Medalia
Paula Corning Newell
Carol Stuart Wenmark
1968
Peter Abuisi
Lorian Brown
Alice Turner Elliott
Barbara Shafran Greenglass
1970
Karen Belleau
Barbara Walker Collamore
Katherine Reardon Currier
Signe Burk Ferguson
Julia Devereux Glynn
Ruth Harlow
Martin Lerman
Martha Brown McGandy
Judith Jones Orlandi
Anne Witte Stribling
Deborah Brown Tifft
Judith Schwarz Weinstock
1971
Susan Eisenhart Alexander
Katherine Condit Barone
Jeanne Steinberger Breinlinger
Janet Osborn Davis
Sarah Leach Jackal
Susan London Killip
Sharry Hofer Langdale
Judith Harrell Prymak
Betsye Petersen Sargent
James Wood
1972
Sandra Tavares Augustinho
Susan Fife Davis
Paula Curci Marcello
Constance Stampler Rabinovitz
Marlene Shama
Marjorie Spielman
Martha Stearns
1973
Louisa Lehmann Birch
Alice Wang Chen
Kathryn Smith Conrad
Judith Fleischman
Renee Fox Gould
Jean Healey
Margaret Neville Holmes
Judith Hawkins Johnson
Sara Avery Kelley
Joanna Phinney
Susan Castleton Ryan
Susan Sanborn Twombly
1974
Constance Gresser
Harris Hochberg
Harriet Foss Koch
Mary Baker McConnell
Sally Pease
Steven Silvestri
Judith Poley Walker
1975
Beth Reiter Blanchard
Zelinda Makepeace Douhan
Carol Dunkel Freidinger
Nancy Fuller
Dody Phinny Gates
Dorothy Gorenflo
Nicholas Haddad
Marilyn Idyll Hamly
Virginia Caldbeck Hogan
Susan Clark Howard
Susan Kosoff
Robert McCorkle
Marjorie Parker Mitchell
Barbara Zimmermann Murphy
Marjorie Moss Shekarchi
Hildred Dodge Simons
Deborah Imri Tully
Wendy Warnecke
Cynthia Mahler White
1976
Diane Taran Baker
Michelle Dames Denniston
Bess Emanuel
Marilyn Grimes Fraktman
Joanne Moskey Grady
Judith Flynn Haskell
Holly Horton
Ai-Ling Louie
John Magnani
Sally Simpson Redston
Virginia Beth Sauer
Judith Scott Stolp
Lois Strother
Ann Wanetik
1977
Maureen Riley Acorn
Maureen Rooney Brentrup
Joyce Calogero
Lorraine Damaduk Parmelee
Ramona Patterson
Alfreda Piecuch
Judith Potter
Susan Raymo
Linda Stoller
1978
Linda Minker Abramson
Sharon Jackson Clark
Kim Paddison Dockery
Annie Hale
Ann Jackson
Marie Langdon
Wendy McLeish
Diane Cassella Ohanesian
Dell Redington
Geraldine Robinson
Margaret Morgan Sutphin
Mary Beth Claus Tobin
Gayle Ziegler Vonasek
1979
Susan Blandy
Janet Hermsmeier Bossange
Susan Moyer Breed
Jean Gardner Cole
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Donna Hansen Bailey
Laurel Waiksnoris Bongiorno
Mary D’Addario
Jennifer Estabrook
Mary Garvey Gronski
Lucy Rand MacDonald
Benjamin Mardell
Elizabeth Merrill
1986
Cynthia Nelson Donahue
Brina Einstein
Patricia McGowan McManus
Susan Montrone-Cobleigh
Carol Staedeli Murphy
1987
Giovonne Calenda
Lucy Matson Hudson
Cynthia Cole Lawrence
Michael Pearl
Linda Russell
Karen Sturges
Silvana Vollero
$1 Million Classic Upward Bound TRIO Grant
for Teacher Bound
A
four-year $1 million Classic Upward Bound TRIO grant to Wheelock is
contributing to the College’s urban education initiative and its goal to
recruit Boston Public School students to become teachers in urban schools.
Teacher Bound at Wheelock is the only Upward Bound program in the country
that is funded to serve as a teacher development program. It will provide early
outreach, encouragement, and support to 50 students from Boston high schools,
opening doors to higher education as well as to the teaching profession.
Deborah D’Amico
Lisa Diamant
Andrea Doane
Paula Shapiro Gopin
Kathryn Parsons Liebowitz
Dorothy Lifka
Martha Ludwick Litle
Mary Mitchell
Mildred Paden
Janne Ritzenberg Piper
Gale Westcott Rome
Carlile Lowery Schneider
Virginia Franks Seegel
Kathy Simons
Joanne Frank Suna
David Thomas-Train
1980
Betty Beach
Liane Beier
Nancy Bigelow
Elizabeth Culick Bowman
Ellen Foley
Elizabeth Neavitt Frank
Jone LaBombard
Michael McCormick
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Jolene Christoff Pearson
Cheryl Adami Phillips
Anne Stair Rosenbloom
Barbara Silverstein
Phyllis Haffenreffer Stetson
Martha Walsh
1981
Louise Allen Hammond
Sandra Heidemann
Anne-Marie Rodrigues
Diane Rothauser
Nancy Wild
1982
Barbara Ryan Devens
Beth Cederberg Guertin
Ellen Henri
Jean McIntyre Hodgkins
Patricia Hertel Kemp
Laura Knight
Sandra Barreiro Ledvina
Donna Martin
Maria-Matilde Pieters-Gray
Diane Pucci
Susan Selya Rosen
Christina Larson Sabella
1983
Christine Hudson Abrams
Roberta Cox Cornish
Susan Wells Ferrante
Darlene Howland
Mary Kloppenberg
Patricia McCoy
Nancy Pettitt
Nancy Sullivan Tryzelaar
Joan Anderson Watts
1984
Elinor Worley Beatty
Pamela Carey Haggett
Christine Hammond
Peggy Kociubes
Sally Mazur
Susan Conger McCarthy
Ann Pallies-Card
Jill Schunick Putnam
Phyllis Springer
Joanne Fejt Trumbull
Claire White
1988
Rosaly Aiello
Maureen Donovan-Kelly
Carolyn Drucker
Suzanne Harkness-Wood
Marie Peirent
Adelaide Duffy Queeney
Lori Kayser Selby
Barbara Wilson
Susan Wolff
1989
Katherine Bliss
Meg Campbell
Cheryl Fertig
Christine Giddings
Emily Adcock Hayne
Sytske Humphrey
Jill Kelber Leibowitz
Donna Lomp-Bigony
Russell McNiven-Grossman
Marlene Ross
Margaret Franck Sparks
Candace Erickson Weiler
1990
Jean Bayless-Albrecht
Patricia Conzelman Greeley
Marie Morrison
Susan Tussing
Patricia O’Shea Vonnegut
1991
Eleanor Almond
Sally Butler
Margaret Donahue
Nancy Fredericks
Kaori Hattori De Panepinto
Sharon Howard
Michelle Pine Lemme
Meredith Huxtable MacNeill
Christine Kyriakakos Martin
Mary Jo Keany Mason
Barbara Peros
Nora Ray Richards
Ruthann Sneider
Phyllis Wendorff
1992
Patricia Abel
Cheryl Zalk Chandler
Maura Embler
Robin Hewitt Jones
Carol Derby Kuo
Laura Long
Jessi MacLeod
Ted Scheu
Thu-Hang Tran
1993
Karen Borchert
Elizabeth de Forest
Diane DiMaina
Jane Aldrich Furr
Joanne Gannon
Deborah Greenwood
Deborah Gilmore Hartline
Andrea Hippert
Patricia Hnatiuk
Susan Ludden
Robyn Geogan Noble
Betsy Nordell
Nancy Stillson
Vivian Swoboda
1994
John Bay
Patricia Beggy
Joanne Belanger
Lisa Davis
Susan DeLuca
Mary Faraci
Sarah Hammerness
Jennifer Wieland Knowles
Pamela Miles
Juliet Nagle
Rochelle Perry-Craft
Diana Spence Uehlein
Andrea Weaver
1995
Denise Burke
Carolyn Cohen Corliss
Susan DeAngelis
Christine Briggs Genannt
Lynn Policano Howard
Linda Burns Jones
Ellen Hilcoff Kerstein
Suzanne Taylor King
Maria Maffeo
Jennifer Matteson
Evemarie Brosnihan McNeil
Sylvia Mency
Carolyn Tobey
Alison Hannan Vaill
1996
Kristen Langdon Cohen
Laurie Conrad
Claudia Davidoff
Margaret Taylor DeAgazio
Kathryn Jones
Ann O’Hara
Eloise Orsini
Heather Peach
Carol Potier
Sylvia Micka Smith
Rebecca Merrill Thompson
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1997
Lynne Harmon Aloisi
Meryl Marcus Alpert
Alex Campbell
Suzanne Gould Corbett
Tracy Foilb
Jessie Hale
Kyla McSweeney
Amy Lieberman Melisi
Tammar Merav
Debra Smith
Jennifer Leary Stratton
Suzanne Wildman
1998
Donna Bent
Lisa Blake Carstoiu
Susan Hegarty
Christina Morris Helm
Lorgia Henriquez-Melendez
Margaret Mullen Hurder
1999
Alison Subin Belcher
Suzanne Marchand Cooney
Sharon Febo
Beverly Feeney
Paul Hokama
Maureen Jutras
Rachel Scheff
2000
Kellie Donahue
Lissa Fernandez
Elisabeth Gray
2001
Christine Barry Beaulieu
Nancy Connolly
Kimberly Delaney
Nora Galvin
2002
Esme DeVault
Cynthia Doherty
Jill Harrison
Yue-Li Lim
Katherine McKibbens
Michael Nappo
2003
Anna Watkins Schlieman
2004
Teresa Doughty
Yael Lenkinski
Catherine Marciello
Bette Renoni
2005
Colleen Pierce Brown
2008
Maria Sugalski Carpenter
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Margaret Andrews
Mr. and Mrs. George Bernazani
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Creighton
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Donovan
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Link
Gary Melton
Mr. and Mrs. Allan L. Schwartz
Faculty/Staff
Mike Akillian
Nina Aronoff
Lenette Azzi-Lessing
Linda A. Banks-Santilli ‘85
John Bay ‘94MS
Diana B. Beaudoin
Joan Bergstrom
Kathleen Kirk Bishop
Stephanie Cox Suarez
Catherine Donahue
Jose C. Ferreira
Marcia M. Folsom
Ellie Friedland
Gregory Gomez
Marjorie Hall
Maya Honda
Jackie Jenkins-Scott
Albie Johnson
Joeritta Jones de Almeida
Susan Kosoff ‘65/’75MS
Diane Levin ‘69MS
Anne Marie Martorana
Donna McKibbens
Kyla McSweeney ‘94/’97MS
Deanne Williams Morse ‘60
Tracey Mullane
Barbara Rosenquest
Stefi Rubin
Lori Ann Saslav
Roy Schifilliti
Joyce Hope Scott
Hope Haslam Straughan
Valerie Thornhill-Hudson
Claire White ‘79/’84MS
Lee Whitfield
Patricia Willott
Jeff Winokur
Karen Worth
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Dorothy Derick
Barbara Eskridge
Elizabeth Ferrara
Barbara J. Feyler
Janet Feyler
Suzanne Fiske
Carol Forgette
Fred and Edwen Goldstein
Paul S. Grogan
Arthur Hennessey
Patricia J. Igoe
Frances C. Ingram
Stephen Laffey
John Lam
Kai Biu Lam
C. C. Lee
Freda Lehrer
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Ann Longfellow
Barbara S. Longfellow
Herbert C. MacKinnon
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Marshall
Polly McAllister
Lois McInerney
Jack Meyer
Ann Moritz
Karen Nassauer
Charlotte W. Neinas
Suzanne Newton
Nancy Olins
Elizabeth Parrillo
Nancy Pelletier
Carol J. Poliziani
Peter Tin-Yau Poon
Norman B. Robbins
Friends
Government Grants 2007-2008
Anonymous (2)
Donna J. Amato
Karen Anderson
Marjorie Bakken
Robert P. Bigelow
Marjorie Boudreau and Family
Peter Buhl
Alison L. Chan
Kai Yuen Chan
Anita L. Chow
Ann E. Christmann
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Christmann
Huan-Hua Chye
Marilyn Cole
James P. Comer
Nancy H. Crosby
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Margaret Roque
Stanley and Marcia Rumbaugh
Beverly Sealey
Suzanne Silva
Sau-Fong Siu and Yum-Tong Siu
Barbara J. Smith
Yan Kok So
Walter Swap
Donald Van Cleef
Seth H. Washburn
David C. Weinstein
Julia Whiteside de Vos
Richard Williams
The Honorable Mark L. Wolf
C.S. Wong
Lai King Wong
Sharon Wulforst
heelock’s Math/Science Initiative is a fundraising priority of the College
that is building on a major NASA grant of $500,000 made in 2006.
Last year, Wheelock received three gifts from the U.S. Department of Education
Science Program ($200,436), the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
($150,000), and the Boston University STEM Partnership ($60,000), totaling
over $400,000.
A Department of Education Upward Bound grant of $1.2 million, a Massachusetts Board of Higher Education Teacher Quality grant of $275,000, and a
Massachusetts Development grant of $150,000 added more than $1.6 million in
government grants to resources supporting Wheelock’s education initiatives.
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he Wheelock Family Theatre (WFT) would like to thank all
those who made contributions in fiscal year 2008. It is
through the generous support of friends that the WFT can continue to create critically acclaimed productions for families and educational programs for children.
Wheelock Family Theatre
Professional, affordable theater for all generations!
past year I had the privilege of participating in professional theater
“T his
on Broadway. I originated the role of Jane Banks in the new musical
Mary Poppins. While I was away, I found that there was no difference
between Broadway and Wheelock. Just like any Broadway show, Wheelock
Family Theatre has professional costumes, lighting, set design, a great
production staff that amazes me every time, and the most talented cast
that treats each other with kindness and respect. I know how lucky I am to
be able to return home and still have the opportunity to participate in professional theater with people I love and in my own backyard.”
— Katherine Leigh Doherty as Lilly
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Tor Aarestad
Carol and Mike Akillian
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Anderson
Julie Anderson
Christina Andersson
Barbara and Stephen Anthony
Nina Aronoff
Jen Atwood
Steve Aveson
Janet Axelrod
Richard Baker
Marjorie, Martha, and Maggie Bakken
Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Linda Banks-Santilli
Arthur Barlas
Joan Barton
John Bay
Diana Brigham Beaudoin
Liora Beer and David Weingarten
Robert Benson
Steven Berger
Bergstrom Foundation
Kathleen Kirk Bishop
Linda Cabot Black Fund, a Donor Advised
Fund at the Boston Foundation
Ian Blasco
Pamela Blau
Nancy and Jacob Bloom
Pamela and C. Hunter Boll
Shelley Bolman
Danny Bolton
Kimberly F. Boucher
Luette Bourne
Amy and Ed Brakeman
Linda Braun
Mrs. F. Elwood Bray
Susan Moyer Breed
Kathleen Brown
Signs & Smiles
Debra and Jaycee Bullock
Butler’s Hole Fund, The Boston Foundation
Grace Bybell
Chilton S. Cabot
Eileen Caffrey, Alex Levine, and
Lilly Caffrey-Levine
Abigail Callahan
Ellen and Richard Calmas
Barbara Carton
Maria Paz Casado and Peter Cohen
Sheila Cavanaugh
Carole Charnow
Eleanor H. Chasdi
Valerie C.M. Ching
Veronica Chitwood
Marla Choslovsky and Paul Greenberg
Keena Clifford
Diane Cline
Ed and Maureen* Coakley
Catherine and Jeff Coburn
Sue and Ron Cohen
Community Development Corp of Boston
Judith Contrucci
Felipe Costa
Helen and Clare Cotton
Jeanine Cox
Stephanie Cox Suarez
Robert Crabtree
Tina Crosby
Mary Cutler
Maureen Danahy
Stephanie and David D’Angelo
John Davin
Susan DeColaines and Bill Swanson
Dean K. Denniston, Jr.
Andrea Devine
The DiMaggio Family
Andrea E. Doane
Robert W. Doane
Lauren and George Doherty
Catherine Donahue
Ann Donner
Zelinda M. Douhan
Elizabeth Dowd
Marcia Dworkind and Charles Merzbacher
Sally Reeves Edmonds
Larry and Joyce Eldridge
Bess Emanuel and John Vyhnanek
Priscilla Fales
Barbara E. Fargo
Judy F. Fask
Ann Ferguson
Marta and Jose Carlos Ferreira
Imogene Fish
Andrew Flanagan
Judith L. Fleischman
Janis Flint-Ferguson
Marcia McClintock Folsom
Roberta Fox
Robert B. Fraser
Janese Free
Ellie Friedland
Betty and Larry Fuchs
Hilary Gabrieli
Meryl Galaid
Amanda and Leanne Gallagher
Sharon Gallagher
Ellen Winner and Howard Gardner
Andi Genser and Sue Landers
Anne Giersch
Elizabeth D. Giles
Margaret and Fred Gilligan
Joseph W. Glannon
Lorenz Glazer
The Glick Family
Melissa Goldstein
Gregory Gómez
Carlo-Gonzalez Family
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Dot Gorenflo
Karen Gregg
David Gruber
Sherri L. Guiness
Helen Haley
Tucker Halpern,
in honor of Andrea Ross
Persis G. Hamilton
Danya Handelsman
Meredith Hannigan
Elizabeth Hanson
Hope Haslam Straughan
Jeanne Wilson Hatch
Barbara G. Hatfield
Julie Hayes
Purple Ink Insurance
Mary Hebert
Tina Helm
Maria Herrey
Lisa and Sean McGrath
Andrea C. Hoffman
Tim Hoffman
Emily Wright Holt
Maya Honda
Anne and Jim Howard
Kathryn G. Howell
Mary C. Huntington
Nancy and Michael Hurwitz
Jeri McElroy and Bill Hutchinson
Eldridge-Ingram Family
Shauna Jehle
Pat Jehlen
Albie Johnson
Joeritta Jones de Almeida
Susan Joseph
Kirk Joslin
Rachel Judelson
Arnold S. Judson
Ruth and Paul Kahn
Helen Kass
Dr. and Mrs. Jay Kaufman
Deborah Keefe
Jeanne Kelley
Elizabeth Kelly
Tracy Kelly
Andrea Kelly-Russell
Erin Gilligan and Hoil Kim
Sally Kindleberger
Nancy and George Kivel
Seth A. and Beth S. Klarman
Edgar Klugman
Judy and John Knutson
KOR Group
Barbara, John, and Andrew Kotzen
Nina LaPlante
Sasha Lauterbach and Peter Sturges
Kenneth Leeco
Anita Lang Leibowitz
Joan Lenington
Denise Leonard
Diane Levin
Nicky and Paige L’Hommedieu
Robert Lincoln
Jodi Long Godes
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Melissa Ludtke
Sean Lynn-Jones
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Ulla C. Malkus
Marian Mandell
Allan Mann
Carol and Gordon Marshall
Anne Marie Martorana
McCarter and English, LLP
Ethel McConaghy
Daniel W. McElaney
Abelardo Morell and Lisa McElaney
Martha McNamara and Jim Bordewick
Phyllis Menken
Carol and David Mersky
Nancye Mims and Chris Reeve
Lois and Irwin Mirsky
Wynona Mobley
Richard Monast
Mary Ann and Richard Morrill
Jennifer Morrison and Dick Marks
Robin Mount and Mark Szpak
Martha Mulcahy
Amy Nadel
Greg Nash
Antonia and Joseph Nedder
Charlotte W. Neinas
Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky
Anne H. Newton
Suzanne R. Newton
Tricia Norton and Jim Sheehan
Ingrid Nevar Nosko
Martha and Mark O’Connor
Lindsay O’Donovan
Locke Ogens
Suzanne Olbricht
Julie O’Meara
Elizabeth O’Neill
Patterson’s Back Bay Dancewear
Charlotte and Ed Peed
Pat Pellows
Gamalia Pharms
Sarah Plows
Frances G. Pratt
Professional Staffing Group
Nancy Fowle Purinton
Adelaide M. Queeney
Marchelle Raynor
Sarah Reed
Donna M. Reulbach
Liz and Fred Robbins
Ilyse Robbins Mohr and Glen Mohr
Sheila Roberts
Linda and Michael Robrish
Bonnie Rosenberg
Judith H. Rosenberg
Bobbi Rosenquest
Amy Rosenthal
Susan and Richard Rosin
Paula and Bill Ross
Julie Rowe
Stefi Rubin and Fred Marchant
Gloria Rudisch and Marvin Minsky
Rosemary Sanborn
Lori Ann Saslav
Ginger and Bob Sauer
James Scharback
Julie Schecter
Susanna Schweizer
Kelly Schwenkmeyer
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Herman Scott
Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Jim Scott
Joyce Hope Scott
Linda and David Seeley
Charles Siepold
Michelle Seligson
Robert Sewell
Debbie Shalom
Harry Sherr and Cynthia Strauss
Cynthia and Bill Sibold
Joan and Lawrence Siff
Spring Sirkin
Peninsula Charities Foundation II
Gonca Sonmez-Poole
Janine Spagnuolo
Linda Spengler
Lee and George Sprague
William duPont Staab, Jr.
Enid L. Starr & Alan D. Gordon Fund,
a Donor Advised Fund of Combined
Jewish Philanthropies
Martha Stearns
Bobbie and Bob Steinbach
Thomas Stemberg
Claire and Jeffrey Stern
Martha E. Stone
Dorothy Stoneman
Deirdre Sullivan
Marcia Sullivan
Julie Sutherland
Heather Tarter
Craig Thomas
Becky Thompson
Joan I. Thorndike
Valerie Thornhill-Hudson
Thu-Hang Tran and Mark S. Day
Krista Vanourny
Jennifer Varney
Vermillion, Inc.
Donna and James Viola
The Walton/Waterfall Family
Barry, Wendy, and Sarah Wanger
Karen and Stuart Watson
Suzanne Weinstein
Inez C. Wheeler
Claire White
Jenna Napolitano
Lee and Stephen Whitfield
Susan Wilkinson
Katie Willard
William Rawn Associates
Patricia Willott
Laura C. Wilmarding
Martha and Jeff Winokur
Jo-Ann and David Winston
Kathryn Winters
Pam Wolf
Jodi Wolk
Robina Worcester
Karen Worth
Charles and Claudia Wu
Hannah Yaffe
Susan and Lance Yamakawa
Charlotte Yarbrough
Tina and Sam Yoon
Stephen S. Young
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Foundations
Corporations
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heelock College gratefully acknowledges the
following foundations for their
support in fiscal year 2008.
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like to thank the following corporations for their
support in fiscal year 2008.
Anonymous (1)
Thomas & Joann Adler Family Foundation
The Boston Foundation
Clover Clark Memorial Trust Fund
The Clifford Family Foundation
Olin J. Cochran Trust
The Columbus Foundation
Combined Jewish Philanthropies
The Community Foundation for the
Capital Region
Community Foundation of
Sarasota County
Community Foundation for
Southeastern Michigan
Community Foundation of Western
North Carolina, Inc.
Crosby Family Foundation, Inc.
Farmhouse Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Fiduciary Charitable Foundation
Fife Family Foundation, Inc.
Fish Family Foundation
Goldberg Family Foundation
Perpetual Trust Graves Charitable Fund
Mary W. Harriman Foundation
The Hart Foundation
The Helena Foundation
The Hottle Family Foundation
Jaunich Family Foundation
Kenwood Foundation
Seth A. & Beth S. Klarman Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Agnes M. Lindsay Trust
Meek Foundation
Network for Good
The Nichols Trust
Rochester Area Community Foundation
The Saint Paul Foundation
The William E. and Bertha F. Schrafft
Charitable Trust
Elizabeth W. Schroeder Fund
Sondik Foundation
Spero Foundation
Ben & Kate Taylor Foundation
Alan D. and Judith Tobin Foundation
Webster Family Foundation
The Winston-Salem Foundation
The Hans & Elizabeth Wolf Foundation
Zurs Foundation
Anonymous (2)
Abt Associates
Acadian Asset Management, Inc.
Admissions Advantage
Aetna Foundation, Inc.
Alexander, Aronson, Finning & Co., P.C.
Analog Devices Inc.
Applera Corporation
Bank of America Matching Gifts Program
Bank of New York Mellon
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Century Bank
Charles Schwab Foundation
Children’s Hospital Boston
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
CIGNA Foundation
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
Continuum Dynamics Inc.
Cooper-Lewis Incorporated
Eduventures Inc.
EMC Corporation
Foley Hoag LLP
GenCorp Foundation Inc.
General Electric Foundation
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund
Goodwin Procter LLP
Goulston & Storrs
Grant Thornton LLP
Hartford Insurance Group
IBM Corporation
International Data Group
Jean Mark Coiffures
Jenzabar Foundation
John Hancock Financial Services
Kirkwood Printing
Lehman Brothers
Maguire Associates, Inc.
Mazonson, LLC
Mobil Foundation, Inc.
Morgan-Worcester Inc.
O’Neill and Associates LLC
Partners Healthcare System
Piccerelli, Gilstein & Co. LLP
The Procter & Gamble Fund
Red Sox Foundation
Schwab Charitable Fund
Shawmut Design and Construction
Susquehanna International Group, LLP
TERI
Textron, Inc.
Towers Perrin
Tufts Health Plan
United Technologies Corporation
UPS
The Wayland Group, Inc.
Wellington Management Company, LLP
Wells Fargo Foundation
William Rawn Associates Architects, Inc.
The Williams Companies Inc.
Yum! Brands Foundation, Inc.
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Gifts in Kind
In Memory of
Steven Aveson ’78
Marcia Holford Bedford ’82MS
Susan Bright Belanger ’65
Ellen Cluett Burnham ’60
Betty Quick Collin ’38
Susan O’Halloran Constable ’82
Erin Corbett ’02
Paula Davison ’74
Barbara Tarr Drauschke ’72
Sandra “Lee” Drescher ’86MS
Matthew Eidukinas ’98
Bonnie Simon Grossman ’55
Gwynne Wiatrowski Guzzeau ’93MS
Dana Brewer Hahn ’73
Priscilla Chase Heindel ’47
Elizabeth Gregg Horn ’62
Betty Jane Jalley ’50*
Kathy and Bob Jaunich
Maureen Kelly ’88MS
Lyn Peck Kenyon ’45/’69BS
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ’54 and
Paige L’Hommedieu
Susan Marr ’83
Beverly Tarr Mattatall ’72
Lois Barnett Mirsky ’54
Nancy Ware Morrow ’63
Mila Moschella ’75
Maryann Mylott O’Rourke ’60/’98MS
Susanna Barbour Schenk ’92
Joyce Day Sebian ’78MS
Christine Kamp Seidman ’67MS
Louis Torelli ’83MS
Helen Richards Atwood ‘26
Beth Atwood ‘57*
In Honor of
Priscilla Alden Hayes ‘62
Mary Schubert Stearns ‘62
Patricia Hogan
Donna J. Amato
Vivian Carr ‘94
Yael Lenkinski ‘04MSW
Beverly Sealey
President Jackie Jenkins-Scott
The Honorable Mark L. Wolf
Susan Kosoff ‘65/’75MS
Mary Schubert Stearns ‘62
Elizabeth Wheeler L’Hommedieu ‘54
Fred and Edwen Goldstein
Kyla McSweeney ‘94/’97MS
Lois Barnett Mirsky ‘54
Dr. Sau-Fong Siu
Alison L. Chan
Kai Yuen Chan
Anita L. Chow
Huan-Hua Chye
John Lam
Kai Biu Lam
C. C. Lee
Peter Tin-Yau Poon
Yan Kok So
C. S. Wong
Lai King Wong
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf ‘54
Julia Whiteside de Vos
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Mary S. Bakes
Jan Vary Kutten ‘63
Janet Robbins Balch ‘40
Norman B. Robbins
Diane Schmelter Buhl ‘63
Peter Buhl
Hortense Burleigh
Jessi R. MacLeod ‘64/’92MS
Mary Schubert Stearns ‘62
James Christmann
Ann E. Christmann
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Christmann
Katharine Hosmer Connor ‘33
Harvard Medical School
Sylvia Dickey ‘58
Arlene Keizer Lovenvirth ‘58
Mary Marshall Feyler ‘34
Karen Anderson
Marjorie Bakken
Marilyn Cole
Elizabeth Cugini
Dorothy Derick
Barbara Eskridge
Elizabeth Ferrara
Barbara J. Feyler
Janet Feyler
Suzanne Fiske
Carol Forgette
Patricia J. Igoe
Frances C. Ingram
Stephen Laffey
Freda Lehrer
Lois McInerney
Elizabeth Parrillo
Nancy Pelletier
Carol J. Poliziani
Jean C. Robey
Margaret Roque
Suzanne Silva
Barbara J. Smith
Snug Harbor – East Matunuck Civic
Association
Hillary Blair Stanton Foulkes
Donna LaRoche ‘79
Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski ‘79
Terri Weisberg Smith ‘79
Jane Stuart Righter Froelicher ‘53
Joanne Lilly Abbott ‘41
Robert P. Bigelow
Samantha Keller Gordon ‘94
Elizabeth Goldentyer Roberts ‘93
Harriet Faris Long ‘33
Pamela Long
Cynthia Longfellow
Ann Longfellow
Barbara S. Longfellow
Barbara Burrows MacKinnon ‘52
Herbert C. MacKinnon
Phyllis Taylor Moore ‘58
Laura Lehrman ‘58
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Barbara Stumpf Moses ‘58
Marjorie Boudreau and Family
Marcia Potter Crocker ‘58
Karen Nassauer
Elizabeth Sturtz Stern ‘58
Donald Van Cleef
Sharon Wulforst
Janice Porosky Olins ‘33
Marjorie Bakken
Nancy Olins
Susan Swap
Polly McAllister
Walter Swap
Ruth Baker Ursul ‘60
Janice Halsted Sussebach ‘60
Janet Higginbotham Washburn ’42-‘43
Seth H. Washburn
Christine Hillers Williams ‘38
Nancy H. Crosby
Richard Williams
Hans A. Wolf
Charlotte W. Neinas
Alumni
Organizations
The Alumni Association
Wheelock Club of Greater Portland
Organizations
Citi Global Impact Funding Trust, Inc.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
Iron Workers District Council of
New England
National Association of Industrial and
Office Properties
One Family
Orange County’s United Way
The Roxbury Latin School
Snug Harbor - East Matunuck Civic
Association
United Way of Rhode Island
Passion for
Action
Anonymous (5)
Abt Associates
Admissions Advantage
Alexander, Aronson, Finning & Co., P.C.
Charles Ames
Judith and Robert Anderson
Barbara and Steve Anthony
David B. Arnold
Bank of New York Mellon
Jeb Barnes
Joan and Gary Bergstrom
Lisa Biagetti
Kathleen Kirk Bishop
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
The Boston Foundation
Sandy and Ted Bowers
Susan Breed
Rick and Nonnie Burnes
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Ellen and Peter Burnham
Kathryn E. Cade
Century Bank
Gerald Chertavian
Children’s Hospital Boston
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
Keena and Chris Clifford
Maureen* and Ed Coakley
Jeff and Catherine Coburn
Consolidated Health Plans
Tina and Harvey Crosby
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Ellen T. Dwinell
Eduventures Inc.
EMC Corporation
John Kenneth Felter, Esq.
Tim Ferguson
Lucia Santini Field
Harvey Fineberg
Larry and Atsuko Fish
Cordelia Flanagan
Foley Hoag LLP
Goldberg Family Foundation
Goodwin Procter LLP
Philip and Sandra Gordon
Goulston & Storrs
Grant Thornton LLP
Beverly Green
Eloise Greenfield
Barbara and Steve Grossman
Tina and Bill Helm
Elizabeth Horner
Iron Workers District Council of
New England
Kathy and Bob Jaunich
Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Jim Scott
Jenzabar Foundation
John Hancock Financial Services
Holly and Bruce Johnstone
Michael J. Jolliffe
Steven Karol
Cameron Kerry
Kirkwood Printing
John F. Knutson
Ted and Beedee Ladd
Mary M. Lassen
Lehman Brothers
Mary K. Leonard
Elizabeth and Paige L’Hommedieu
Mary Lightfoot
Robert A. Lincoln
Shari Loessberg and Christopher Smart
William A. Lowell, Esq.
Maguire Associates, Inc.
Marion F. Mandell-Jacobson
Mazonson, LLC
Lois and Irwin Mirsky
J. Keith Motley
Robin Mount
National Association of Industrial
and Office Properties
New England Patriots
Charitable Foundation
Oldaker, Biden & Belair, LLP
One Family
O’Neill and Associates LLC
Peter E. Opara
Anthony Pangaro
Thomas W. Payzant
Kay Petersen
Marianna C. Pierce
Michael E. Porter
Tom Powers
Nancy Purinton
Red Sox Foundation
Paul Reville
Adrianne Rogers
The Roxbury Latin School
Barbara and Robert Sallick
Penelope Savitz
Roy Schifilliti
Susan Shaeffer
Shawmut Design and Construction
Albert Sherman
Susan Simon
Sau-Fong Siu and Yum-Tong Siu
Sovereign Bank
Helen B. Spaulding
Anne Stetson and Mark Dibble
TERI
Daniel S. Terris
Genie and Will Thorndike
Lisa and Rex Thors
Tufts Health Plan
University Health Plans
UPS
Lucy and Tim Vaill
The Wayland Group, Inc.
William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.
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At Pre-Commencement Dinner —
Leading Friends and Supporters
T
hose who become members of Wheelock’s
Cornerstone Society or Heritage Society choose
to improve the lives of children and families
by making the College a philanthropic priority. We are
very grateful for their commitment to Wheelock’s mission,
and each year we all gather together to celebrate it at
the College’s Pre-Commencement Dinner.
We also invite those who will receive honorary degrees
at Commencement the next day and present awards
recognizing their compassionate contributions to society.
At this year’s celebration, Wheelock recognized United
States Senator John Kerry; The Honorable Yu-Foo Shoon,
a lifelong advocate for the well-being of women and
children in Singapore; and Kip Tiernan, the founder
of Rosie’s Place and well-known advocate for social
change, who spoke about her pride in becoming a
member of the Wheelock family, “walking tall into the
future and demanding that everyone get a fair shake.”
“The journey to justice can only be
made in the company of others.”
— Kip Tiernan
Honorary degree recipient The Honorable Mrs.Yu-Foo Yee Shoon
(left) with Professor and Director of the Center for International
Education, Leadership, and Innovation Joan Bergstrom
L to R: Chair of the Board of Trustees Robert A. Lincoln, honorary
degree recipient Kip Tiernan, President Jackie Jenkins-Scott, and
Chair of the Wheelock Corporation Judy Parks Anderson ’62
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BROTHERS,
Thank you so very much
for allowing me to be a part of your celebration! The students and graduates here will go on to help make people whole again, and you will indeed
fulfill the legacy of Lucy Wheelock. . . . We will go on, you and I, to help
people become whole again in an effort to find justice for everyone — not
just the top 20 or 30 percent who have it all. Forty years ago, I jumped
from advertising, marketing, and public relations, to human and humane
needs. Forty years ago, I found a product I
could believe in — the human spirit, and which
I found is still dancing in the streets of this tragic theater of the dismissed.
At Rosie’s Place, the first drop-in emergency
shelter for women in the country and now 34
years old, we do it one day at a time, one
woman at a time, one dream at a time. And all
the other places we started, we do it the same
way. We have become nonprofit junkies, and we
have served and helped thousands of the citizens
of this area. And yet they would call us dogooders. We are not do-gooders, my friends, we are good-doers, as the
students of Wheelock are and will become, because we are willing to
devote our lives to the cause of justice for all of us, and that ain’t being
do-gooders by a long shot.
I am so very proud to become a member of the Wheelock family. You
and I will walk tall and proudly into the future, demanding that everyone
get a fair shake and what it means to be an American citizen. We are prisoners of hope, and remember this: The journey to justice can only be
made in the company of others.
When I think of Wheelock College, I think of two great quotes by one
of my favorite authors, Albert Camus: “Justice — we must make it imaginable again!” And this one, “Do not walk before me—I may not
follow. Do not walk behind me — I may not lead. Just walk beside me,
and be my friend.” Thank you again for this fabulous day in my life!
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All Come Together
At Convocation 2008 —
Students, Faculty, & Alumna, Marianne O’Grady ’94MS
Teach a Teacher and You Reach
Thousands of Children —
Marianne O’Grady ’94MS in
Afghanistan
“To all the first-years:
I welcome you to the family.”
— Senior Shannon Ahern,
Student Government president and
four-time service volunteer to New Orleans
Belief in the power of education and a cause greater than
the individual self is what binds
and motivates the Wheelock
community. Each fall, the spirit
of new beginnings presides over
Convocation, when students,
faculty, and alumni gather to
renew and share again the sense
of purpose that has brought
them to Wheelock out of all the
possible institutions of higher
education where they could
work and study. The focus of
Convocation is always the
students — from first-years,
who are officially transitioning into adult academic life to
seniors, who will soon take all
they have learned at Wheelock
and apply it in a world that
sorely needs their talents and
their service.
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lying halfway around the world from
Afghanistan to Wheelock via San Francisco to be this year’s Convocation keynote
speaker, Marianne O’Grady ’94MS
demonstrates the special passion that inspires
Wheelock students and alumni to do great things.
Her talk about her career as a Friends School educator and her volunteer work helping teachers in
Afghanistan rebuild their broken education system left no doubt that she is a remarkable individual and yet, as she insisted several times over,
not exceptional, not so special — if you believe as
she does that many do, and everyone can do, their
best to make the world a better place.
For the past four summers, Marianne has
volunteered to bring new inquiry-based science
and hands-on teaching and learning to remote
and often dangerous areas of Afghanistan. “Since
the fall of the Taliban, 6 million children have
come back to school, and half are girls, but it is
one step forward and eight back,” she told students,
faculty, and staff who filled the Lucy Wheelock
Auditorium at Convocation.
A shortage of teachers is one major barrier to
providing good education programs for Afghan children. “There are not enough teachers because during
the Taliban years no one was in school and there was
no need for them,” Marianne explained. “Now,
there are 100 or sometimes 150 students for every
teacher, the classrooms are outdated, sometimes they
are only tents, and there are no teaching tools. Some
teachers have come back out of their love for teaching, while others are good students who have moved
up — the top student in the 10th grade graduates
and becomes the next year’s 10th-grade teacher.”
When Marianne makes the 36-hour journey
from San Francisco to Kabul, she brings math and
science teaching materials with her, 16 containers of
microscopes, hand lenses, anatomy charts, textbooks, rulers, protractors, test tubes, and other basic
classroom supplies. Her students are teachers themselves who work three-hour morning shifts in their
own classrooms and then walk 20 kilometers to
learn the science methodology and hands-on education practices Marianne has come to teach them.
She brings out her container materials and shows
how to teach science with tools as simple as string,
water, rocks, and nails. “You can teach about inertia
and pendulums with these things,” she said. “The
teachers leave my class and walk back to their own
classrooms, and they are crying because now they
have tools and a way to teach basic physics.”
Marianne has worked in several areas of
Afghanistan and spent last summer in an eastern
Afghanistan war zone where she received death
threats because of her presence. “But the Afghan
people are the most wonderful people in the
M A R I A N N E O ’ G R A DY ’ 9 4 M S
“I just do a little bit but so do others, like a drop in a bucket, and the bucket
gets fuller. I believe everyone should put their drops in the bucket.”
Quaker and Friends educator, Marianne has spent 18 years as an East Coast/West
Coast second-grade teacher, first at Cambridge Friends School and then at Marin
Country Day School and San Francisco Friends School. As a lifelong learner cum
laude, she has trained at The Writing Project at Columbia University; Project Zero at
Harvard University; the Schools Attuned program, which focuses on differing learning
styles; NASA’s elementary educators program in aeronautics, engineering, and technology;
and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution marine biology workshop. Her particular
passion for teaching math and science has been recognized with a Presidential Award for
Excellence in Math and Science Teaching, a Christa McAuliffe Teaching Grant, and a
Fulbright Memorial Fund Grant to study and travel in Japan. During the academic year,
Marianne trains teachers to teach math and science at the University of San Francisco
Graduate School of Education and at the Bay Area Teacher Training Institute.
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world,” she said. “They want their children to go
to school and to have books. They want their lives
to be healthy and happy, and they want to have a
good family life. They are very respectful and
grateful for what I can bring them; they took good
care of me and kept me safe.”
And they are eager, open learners. One reason
some Afghan girls are not educated, Marianne
explained, is because of an ingrained belief about
women: Because women are physically smaller
than men, their brains are only half the size of
men’s; thus they cannot learn well and there is no
“Using donations,
we bought, brought,
and taught. A $2
magnifying glass can
change a science
teacher and a
budding science
student’s life.”
“Training and supporting teachers
means better education for that
many more children.”
point in schooling them. When Marianne explains
the science of the brain and anatomy, the evidence
of research on the subject, and the indisputable fact
that many women geniuses exist, it is a wellreceived revelation.
Marianne said that people ask her why she does
this kind of volunteer work, and she explained her
family background of social service and her drop-inthe-bucket philosophy. “It takes the world to make
the world a better place,” she said. “I just do a little
bit but so do others, like a drop in a bucket, and the
bucket gets fuller. I believe everyone should put their
drops in the bucket.”
When Marianne talks about her work as a second-grade teacher, as a teacher of teachers, and as a
volunteer bringing science to the most remote parts
of the world, there is no missing her energy and anything-is-possible attitude. Four years ago, she made
her first visit to Afghanistan, and now she is working
with the Afghan minister of education to try to
develop a national kindergarten program.
“We all need to find our passion and put our
drop in the bucket,” Marianne told the students at
Convocation. “Making the world a better place, caring about children and families — you have the
opportunity to do this too. I was hired for a job in
California because they knew I came from this college and they knew Wheelock’s mission.
“Listen to your heart. If you feel you can help
one person or 100 or 5,000 — do it. That’s your
job. That’s what you are supposed to do.”
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All Come Together
At Reunion 2008 —
Across the Generations, One Community
W
heelock alumni spend their educations well. Achievement,
service, and creativity characterize the individual stories
shared when alumni come back to campus for Reunion, no
matter what year they graduated. They phone classmates,
make flight plans, calculate gas mileage (ouch!), and head to Wheelock for fun,
to see what’s new, and to reconnect with the spirit of the place that helped them
grow into who they have become, so far.
Throughout the weekend, woven through the fun everyone is having,
there is the understanding that what is shared is more than memories and
more than place. Everyone knows that two graduates from classes decades apart can meet
anywhere and start up the Wheelock mission conversation without hesitation. Wheelock
alumni speak the same language, are on the same page, understand why children and
families should come first and not last in society’s view of what is important.
The winners of the 2008 Reunion “Making a Difference” Service Award are good
examples. Forty years separate the graduation years of Peggy Ann Benisch Anderson ’53
and Alicia Esparo ’93, but they both personify the Wheelock mission. Peggy has imprinted
her “Wheelock way” for decades on her community and family business as much as on the
elementary classrooms where she has taught. Alicia, who teaches in an integrated preschool
classroom, is a strong advocate who has helped build the Norfolk, VA, integrated preschool
program to exceptionally high standards.
Congratulations, Peggy and Alicia, and to all Wheelock alumni who are also out there
making the world not just different but better.
“Wheelock gave me what I needed as I made my way as a parent
and in my career. And so I go back to my roots and I give back.”
— Sally Clark Sloop ’68
60th Reunion
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Alumni Give B
ack in
Many W
ays
★ Diep Nguye
n ’98/’02MS an
d Matthew
Eidukinas ’98,
two young alum
ni who received
Lucy Wheeloc
the
k Award this ye
ar
based on their
individual service
to the College an
d to the Alumni
Association, dem
onstrate that Whe
elock alumni give
back generously
in many different
ways.
★ Congratulatio
ns to the Class
of 1968 on win
the Dr. Frances
ning
Graves Prize fo
r raising $320,770
the largest class
,
gift this year.
★ Ditto Class of
1958 on receivi
ng the Gertrud
Abbihl Prize w
e
ith 39 percent cla
ss attendance
at the Reunion lu
ncheon AND the
Beulah Angell
Wetherbee Pr
ize with 81 perc
ent of the class
donating to the
Annual Fund this
year.
★ A HUGE than
k-you to all Re
union classes fo
your total Annu
r
al Fund Gift of
more than a
half million do
llars — $504,8
59 to be precis
e!
CLASS NOTES
AT REUNION (L to R): Sisters-in-law Sherri
Ades Falchuck ’68 and Ruth Fink Ades ’53,
and President Jackie Jenkins-Scott
This Wheelock Magazine includes
Class Notes news that was received
before June 30, 2008.
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Congratulations to
Jeanette Gardner Langlois
on celebrating your
100th birthday on July 10!
Reunion 2009
May 29-31
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Barbara Robinson Brahms
Rebecca Berry Cramer sent greetings from her
retirement facility in San Diego, where she has
lived for 20 years. A couple of years ago she
moved into its assisted-living section. “Age-related
problems such as limited vision, needing a sturdy
cane when walking, and such are here; otherwise,
all is OK,” she wrote. “Glad to still have my name
on our class list — one of the survivors!” Mildred
Griffith Kohler enjoys being waited on and
going to activities at her Palm Beach Gardens, FL,
retirement community. She is still driving and
plays bridge. Elinor Livingston Sirinek’s assisted-living facility is in West Chester, PA, and she
invites anyone in the area to call her. She has four
sons, two stepsons, seven grandchildren, and two
great-grandchildren.
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May 29-31
1941
Lucy Parton Miller
Hello, dear Classmates of ’41. We’re at or nearing
our 90th birthdays. Congratulations to all!
I (Lucy) had a good phone call with Joanne
Lilly Abbott, my special friend who was maid of
honor in our wedding. She is still enjoying life in
Parkplace, a Denver retirement home. She drives
but avoids the highways, and she often takes short
trips in the area arranged by Parkplace. She has
special times with her busy families living around
Denver, and she still plays bridge and takes walks.
“A physical trainer helps keep me going,” she says.
Jean Tilton Melby shared warm memories of
classroom visits from Miss Wheelock. She would
drop by to say “hello,” Jean wrote, and would say
how proud she was of her school and its students.
What a long way Wheelock has come in furthering its founder’s dreams of opening opportunities
of learning for young children! Jean is happily
active with her family and close friends in Port St.
Lucie, FL. As with all of us, she says, “The engine
is slowing down a bit.”
H. Louise Jones Miller wrote that she is still
busy with a simpler but interesting life in a lovely
retirement home and church in Cheshire, CT.
She was looking forward to going to a grandson’s
graduation in Montana. Her daughter and family
love living in that beautiful part of the country.
Louise and her Wheelock roommate, Barbara
George Bean, still keep in touch. She gratefully
wrote, “Wheelock started me on my path to a
career which I loved.”
We were pleased to hear from Dorothea
Ramsay Rutter, who has moved to an independent apartment complex with family nearby. She
“had a few glitches this past year,” but in the spring
was back, gratefully, to part-time work. Dottie is
happy to keep in touch with Jean Allison Taylor
and Betty Beebe McCleary. She adds at the end,
“Grandmothering has to be the best.”
Laymon and I (Lucy) recently celebrated our
65th anniversary. Our three children were present,
along with our first great-grandson and his mom,
plus several special friends.
In early December, we were invited to New
Orleans, accompanied by our daughter, to attend
a gold medal award presentation to Laymon for
his outstanding work in acoustics. It was a
thrilling affair from beginning to end.
Laymon and I have five great-grandchildren
ranging in age from 2 years to 2 days (at the time
of this writing). We plan to see four of them this
summer; the fifth is in Minnesota. I am still
involved with three volunteer jobs at the nursing
home on campus; I enjoy my contacts with
patients and staff.
We send our best wishes to all of our class
who may be seeing this.
1943-’44
Jean Sullivan Riley
The Alumni Office received a message from
Ann Dolan. She lives at Mt. Vernon House in
Winchester, MA. She wears braces on her legs,
but we are sure that they don’t hinder her good
spirit. She said she “loved every minute of
Wheelock.” Eva Hoel Lion wrote: “I wish I
could be there for the 65th Reunion — but I am
also very happy that Felix and I will be enjoying
the celebration of our 65th wedding anniversary
up here in beautiful B.C. Canada. Soon after that
we are pleased to have the company of our only
grandson and his partner. He requested the visit
so he can show her the house that he wrote about
at age 9 (The Best House and Garden for Kids in
the World!). A great compliment.” Sally Keating
Walsh sent us her news from Buffalo: “God willing, Jack and I will be celebrating 65 years of
married life together on July 3, 2008. Our blessings are too numerous to count. Good health,
four happily married children, 10 grandchildren,
and two great-grands keep us recycled and give us
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An Active Wheelock Leader Throughout Her Life
Katharine Lewars (duPont) Weymouth ’42
heelock’s wonderful alumna and dedicated contributor
to many College initiatives as a trustee and corporator
Katharine Lewars (duPont) Weymouth passed away peacefully
on Aug. 22, at her summer home in Fishers Island, NY. She was
87 years old.
Kathie graduated from Wheelock in 1942 and continued her
active connection to the College throughout her lifetime. She was
a committed member of the board of trustees for 30 years and,
later, an honorary trustee, in addition to being a member of the
Corporation and participant on the Development, Educational
Policy, and Physical Facilities committees. She received an honorary degree from Wheelock in 1988, was a vigorous fundraiser
for Wheelock, and, as a member of the Heritage Society, generously provided for the future of the College.
Everyone who met Kathie enjoyed her wonderful sense of
humor, and she possessed an open-hearted spirit that won her
the respect and love of people not only at Wheelock, but also in other spheres of her life — as a president of
Planned Parenthood of Delaware; a member of the board of directors of Christiana Care Inc.; and a leader and
mentor at cultural, medical, historical, and educational organizations where she lived in Greenville, DE; Boca
Grande, FL; and Fishers Island.
Kathie began a family tradition of Wheelock attendance that extended to her daughter Katharine “Kandi”
duPont Sanger ’66; her granddaughter, Kyley Lyon ’05; and her niece, Patricia “Patty” Lewars Lucy ’66. The widow
of State Sen. Reynolds duPont of Greenville, DE, and Fishers Island, FL, and also the widow of George T. Weymouth
of Greenville, DE, and Boca Grande, FL, Kathie was part of a wonderfully large family including two daughters and
three sons and their families, her sister and brother and their families, and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and godchildren.
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Louise Vialle lives in Maine and works on church
committees. She spoke with Ginny Martin
Barton’s husband briefly after Ginny’s death. She
hears from Shirley Mann Creesy.
I (Cordelia/“Crow”) am living in a nice retirement community near Albany and near a daughter
and son-in-law and a granddaughter and grandsonin-law. I speak with Jacey Clapp Donaldson, who
lives in West Columbia, SC, and Naples. I also talk to
Martha Allen Farwell, who lives in Edgartown and
Needham, MA, and sometimes in Florida. Louise
Allen Hammond calls once or twice a year. Please,
any of you, send any news to the College or me.
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Carol Moore
Janet Gall Leonard wrote to share about a book
her daughter, Anne Nolen ’95MS, has co-written
that she thinks would be of interest to recent grads
who are new mothers. Mothers Need Time-Outs,
Too, published by McGraw-Hill, is available on
Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble and Wellesley
(MA) Booksmith.
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May 29-31
Anne Mulholland Heger
1951
Louise Butts
love and support far beyond what we deserve. Two
wars in which Jack served, and far too many since,
make me realize more every day of my life how
useless, devastating, and utterly ridiculous war is.
Our world must find a way to negotiate peace
without killing each other’s children.”
Jane Cooper Wyman is “fine and [keeps]
truckin.’” Once a month she plays the piano for
a sing-along with the residents of the Leland
House in Waltham, MA. “We do all the old gay
’90s songs,” she wrote. “One lady gave me this
second verse for ‘Bicycle Built for Two’: ‘Michael,
Michael, this is my answer dear. I can’t cycle — it
makes me feel so queer. If you can’t afford a carriage, there won’t be any marriage. ’Cause I’ll be
damned if I’ll be jammed on a bicycle built for
two!’ A recent interesting experience was an invitation to read a poem I wrote on NEW TV (they
produce programs for senior citizens). A special
‘Hello’ to my classmates of long ago. I hope you,
too, are able to ignore the creakiness that invades
our bones. Hang in there!”
Alma and I (Jean) have been your scribes
for many years. Sadly, I report to you that she
passed away peacefully in May with her family
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at her bedside. I shall miss her cheerful cards
and friendly input as we gathered together your
Class Notes news.
I am doing well. My bridge game is a little better, and I am having fun with my quilting friends.
We are making donation quilts for “Quilts for
Kids.” My family gathered in Philadelphia for a
weekend to celebrate my 85th. We had great
times — ages 3 to 85. Keep happy.
1946
Cordelia Abendroth Flanagan
Dorothy Spencer Chaudoin keeps busy at home
and being with friends. Her daughter and grandson
live nearby and visit often. Medora Wilson
Douden visited Russia with a daughter and granddaughter. Her oldest daughter is a Rhodes scholar at
Oxford. She enjoys bridge in the winter and golf in
the summer. Rosamond Holt Haley is trying to
grow old gracefully (aren’t we all?). She has happy
memories of Wheelock and misses her class friends.
Edie Maltz Miller has been president of her
condo board 10 times. Her friend, our classmate
Alma Nathanson Solar, lives at the same condo.
Greetings to the Class of ’51. I (Louise) am sure
there are many of you out there, and hopefully you
are all so busy you did not have time to respond to
the March request for news. There were only two
bits of news sent to Lori Ann Saslav. We were glad
to hear from Jane Steele Milchen ’51/’69MS,
who lives in Nashua, NH. Jane is busy with grandchildren in or graduating from college, enjoying
great-grandchildren, plus caring for loved ones. Jane
keeps active playing tennis and sees Sally McKey
Pieksen there also. Sad news from Beverly
Boardman Brekke-Bailey, whose granddaughter
has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. She is
the daughter of Beverly’s son, Kris, who was lost to
cancer in 2006.
We are all reaching that age when the loss of
loved ones, colleagues, and friends requires us to
face new challenges, to adjust and adapt to new
schedules and events. But our years at Wheelock
prepared us well. Just stop and think about the
impact on education we all have had since 1951 . . .
that’s 57 years . . . so carry on . . . stay in touch . . .
and look forward to our 60th Reunion in 2011.
Last year’s Class Notes reported that Jane Ann
“Ginger” Hartzell Knebel and husband George
had moved to Columbia, SC, so that they could be
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Front row (seated) L-R - Betty Quick Collin ’38, Jim Scott, Carol Moore ’48; back row (standing) President Jenkins-Scott (second from right) with
’48ers L-R Faith Webster Peak, Kay Crosby Nasser, Ruth Chickering Wheeler-McKay, Edith Hall Huck, Marylin Quint-Rose . . . celebrating Reunion
2008 with a Saturday dinner at the Garden Café on the Brookline Campus
closer to family. News has been received that Ginger
passed away in May. For all who lived at Carlton
House, as well as all her colleagues, we send special
thoughts to George and their family.
1952
Martha Brown McGandy
When I (Martha) took on the job as class scribe, I’d
no idea what fun it would be hearing from all of
you! What a fantastic response. Thank you all so
very much for all your news. What a vibrant group
we are! I feel lucky to have my five children, their
spouses, and six grandchildren (all boys) in New
England. We see each other often. I am still teaching
once in a while at MassBay Community College
and also volunteer (4-year-olds) at the Page School
at Wellesley College (now called the Wellesley Child
Study Center). I stay busy with church work and
sing in the choir and take care of the youngest of
the grandchildren. I see Kitty Brown and try to
stay in touch with Jean Ingalls Perkins, who is in
Pittsburgh in a retirement home. Jean spends summers in Chatham, MA. She’s written some great stories which I wish she would publish! Her youngest
child, Tristram, recently got married. Two of her
children live nearby, and she has eight grandchildren. Kitty Hodgdon Brown is still enjoying
Maine, though last winter was a challenge! Traveling
to visit her sons in Vermont, Minnesota, Wyoming,
and Maine is a part of life. She attends “Senior
College” classes, belongs to a book club, and volunteers at a local hospital. Kitty also enjoys her garden,
friends, and especially baby-sitting her “quite grownup” grandchildren.
“Spring weather is beautiful in Florida!”
Nancy Walker Driscoll wrote. “I have lived
here 20 years and never regretted the choice for
retirement. My husband, Tim, died of a heart
attack on March 12. We were married 54 years.
I feel blessed to have so many happy years with
Tim and our four children and five grandchil-
dren.” Nancy attended her grandson’s high
school graduation in Dallas and was planning to
visit Maine and New Hampshire over the summer.
Alan and Patty Davis Ferguson’s daughter
Laura adopted Ara, now 3, from China last
March, and they are enjoying her and were hoping to see a lot of them this summer. Pat
Conzelman Greeley ’52/’90MS and husband
Tony had a delightful lunch with Patty Wolcott
Berger at the Sudbury (MA) Wayside Inn in
March. Patty was recovering well from cataract
surgery. In April, Pat wrote: “Tony and I have
had our challenges this winter — two surgeries
for me and a seizure causing Tony to total his
Ford Taurus, which resulted in only minor
injuries. We feel VERY fortunate that he’s OK.”
Anne DeLamater Hansen and husband John
continue with their regular activities and interests. Anne went to help celebrate Marianne’s
50th in September 2007 and enjoyed seeing
Bryn Mawr, where Marianne works. Daughter
Sue’s husband took his first trip to Boston (from
North Carolina) in the spring, and Anne was
glad to hear from him that Durgin Park is still
thriving. She is still in touch with many
Wheelock — especially Riverway — friends and
misses her roommate, Laura. “I was thinking of
our trip to the circus the other day, Martha,”
Anne wrote. “That was a good Easter vacation.”
“Surprise of surprises — my local high school
class of ’48 elected me chairperson of its 60th
reunion,” Connie Krull Hutt wrote. “Such fun!”
Connie’s days are filled with music: She continues to
sing with three groups. In October, she completed
24 years as coordinator of the Prayer Line at her and
husband Earl’s church. They are thankful to the
Lord for continued good health and were hoping to
take a two-week tour of Italy in late summer.
Connie also shared: “After 77 years of a blessed relationship with a very special mom, I grieved her passing while at the same time celebrated her life [in
October 2007]. She was 102.” Libby Hutchins
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Meek sent the good news that granddaughter Katie
journeyed from Idaho to Boston a few months back
to join the first-year class at Wheelock! Ann Harvie
Ormond wrote, “My daughter and 7-year-old son
live with me — fun but quite challenging. Same
house, same school, and just as much activity!”
In the spring, Mary Major Rubel and her husband were looking forward to a visit from Karin
Stuth Armbrecht’s family. Karin died five years
ago. “It will be fun to show them about Boston,”
Mary wrote. Barbara Seif wrote that her college
roommate, Mary MacKay Marcus, died in 2007
of Alzheimer’s and pancreatic cancer. Barbara has
retired from her job as a librarian in a Madison,
WI, public school.
Both Edith Winter Sperber and husband Bob
are Brookline, MA, Town Meeting members and
serve on a variety of committees. Edith is still a
Brookline library trustee and has enjoyed that role.
She also serves on the Temple Israel early education
preschool, which she helped to establish. “For
Wheelock, I chair the Marge Wolf Endowment
Fund Grant Committee,” she wrote. “We have had
some excellent proposals.” In addition, Edith and
Bob are very involved with their seven grandchildren. Joan Smith Walter went on a fascinating
land and water tour in Russia between St. Petersburg
and Moscow in the fall of 2007. Betsy Luckey
Whittelsey stays very busy with Garden Club,
Habitat, and the Zoning Appeals Board of Mt.
Lake Park, MD, along with a 2-year-old rescued
poodle. “We go to doggie school to learn how to be
well-mannered!” she wrote. She was looking forward to having her children and grandchildren help
her celebrate her 80th birthday.
1953
Ruth Flink Ades
It was a fun time for 10 of us who participated in
our 55th Wheelock Reunion this past spring! It was
sooo good to see everyone.
We had our short class meeting where
Winnie Magee Williams gave each of us a
beautiful and colorful hand-painted silk scarf
which we all put on immediately. We decided
that our class would act as a “team” in making
decisions, and the first and only decision we
made at this time was to have a small class dues
of $50 which each of us gave to our “leader,”
Winnie, for her to use whenever necessary for the
good of our class. Two young people from the
Class of 1978 joined us while waiting for others
to join them. They had hoped to “gain some wisdom” from us. We began to share 55-year-old
memories, which were hysterical. I (Ruth) am
not sure they learned much wisdom from us, but
it was lots of fun.
How wonderful it was for me to enjoy this day
with my sister-in-law, Sherri Ades Falchuk ’68,
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and my daughter, Andrea Ades Woolner ’83.
We had our pictures taken with President JenkinsScott before the Processional. I believe we were the
only family present with three classes represented.
Carrying class banners, we were accompanied by a
bagpiper as we walked around the school campus
to the Lucy Wheelock Auditorium. We assembled
in the auditorium by class and enjoyed a program
including awards and a great Wheelock video of
modern life at our College. President Jackie spoke
to us eloquently with great love and passion for
the College and the great work we are doing
throughout the world in helping families to have a
better life through Wheelock’s caring and able students and graduates. Jackie referred to former
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who visited Wheelock
last year and spoke to the College with his philosophy of ubuntu. She quoted him by saying, “I
need you to be all that you can be, so that I can be
all that I can be.” She continued to say, “We want
each of you to reach your full potential, so that I
can reach mine.” A great applause followed.
As for our class, we all were very proud when
Peggy Ann Benisch Anderson received one of
the “Making a Difference” Service Awards, for her
untiring effort to reach our class members along
with all the work she does for our College.
Congratulations once again, Peggy Ann!
The afternoon for us was completed with a
Reunion luncheon held in the foyer of the Activities
Building since a new building is being constructed
outside of our Classroom Building. Some of our
classmates and husbands had attended Pops on
Friday evening and the class dinner on Saturday
evening in Wheelock’s Larsen Alumni Room.
Wheelock is a very exciting place to visit if ever
any of you are in the Boston area. Do make a visit.
It will make you feel very proud to see our College
developing physically, as well as intellectually, in the
year 2008 — 55 years after we graduated!
We passed on the news of the death of Peggy
Ann Benisch Anderson’s husband, Carl, in our
last issue. Later in the spring, Peggy Ann wrote, “He
was planning to attend my 55th Reunion with me
but was there in spirit. He thought a great deal of
our school.” At the time, she was still “climbing out
of paperwork with lawyers and accountants” but also
wrote of enjoying her usual church work and some
work related to having been recently elected to the
Commission for the Aging in Weston, MA.
Priscilla Buckingham Banghart had already
spent three months away from home when Reunion
time came up, so she couldn’t get away again, but
she thought and reminisced about classmates that
weekend. “My memories of our 50th Reunion
motivated my desire to repeat the experience,” she
wrote. “It was such an extraordinary experience to
remeet these beautiful women, my former classmates, most of whom have touched the lives of children in some extraordinarily personal way. Thank
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you, Wheelock!” Priscilla continues to find joy
working with children, in her case in a school system
“struggling to shed its far-below-average academic
status.” These days, instead of taking travel tours and
European river cruises, she and husband Bruce go
on mission trips to benefit Habitat for Humanity,
and they have now gone on “builds” in Louisiana,
Florida, South Carolina, and Mexico.
“We are still laughing over past and present
exploits,” Joan Halloran Corning wrote of her
and former roommate Rita Martin McKenna’s
desire to attend Reunion 2008 but inability to do
so (calendar conflicts for both of them). Joan is
enjoying two book groups and local “Meet the
Author” monthly meetings. Ann Bevins Jewett
thoughtfully checked in with the Alumni Relations
Office shortly before Reunion. She is sorry that her
terrible arthritis prevents her from coming to
Reunions or writing to old Wheelock friends anymore, but she thinks of the College and her classmates often, she said, and keeps in touch with a
few by phone. She enjoys life on the water in
Westport, CT, attending meetings, doing things in
the community, and seeing family. She welcomes
visitors. Regina Daly Lundstrom and husband
Bob are happy to be “finally settled” in Madison,
WI, where they find the area lovely and have been
made very welcome. They are enjoying being closer
to their children and grandchildren in the Chicago
area, but they admit that they miss Cape Cod and
people there and hope to go back to visit soon.
“I still have all my hair and teeth and most of my
mind,” Polly Roberts Mahoney wrote. She spends
most of the year living in Hamilton, NY — on the
third hole of the Colgate University Seven Oaks Golf
Club, so she plays lots of golf — but then as winter
approaches takes off for Venice, FL. She has three
grandchildren. Antoinette Johnson Ogden wrote:
“The last couple of years have seen quite a few
changes. Len has been diagnosed with cancer of the
esophagus, and my eyesight and walking problems
have not improved. Now the brighter side: Son Tom,
who lost his wife to cancer four years ago, remarried
a lovely girl last year; our Karen was married two
years ago; and Tom’s daughter was married two
weeks ago. We now have a 14-month-old baby with
our 13th grandchild on the way. Daughter Sue continues to fight cancer after 17 years.”
Libby Gerow Peterson will be the new 1953
scribe. Thank you, Libby!
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1954
May 29-31
Lois Barnett Mirsky
Elizabeth Bassett Wolf
Eileen O’Connell McCabe from Caldwell, NJ,
had a cochlear implant procedure in July. It needed
to be rescheduled because of emergency hip surgery in winter ’08. I (Chippy) had a brief phone
conversation with Beverly Bell Cibbarelli from
Keswick, VA, in the spring. It was wonderful to
hear how she bravely manages her lung cancer,
which now involves her hip, causing pain in her
leg. A new chemo pill seems to be helping. We
especially keep in our loving thoughts those class
members who find that living day by day is their
focus. Paige and Nicky Wheeler L’Hommedieu
of Convent Station, NJ, celebrated their 50th
anniversary on June 21.
See you at our 55th Reunion!
1956
Wilma Kinsman Marr
Annette Stevens Wilton
Hi there, ’56ers! We may be approaching the 3/4century mark, but we still are busy and involved.
Julie Bigg Veazey just finished her second novel
and is looking for a publisher, living part time in
New Hampshire and now Florida, and enjoying life
with her children and 12(!) grandchildren. Barbara
Silverstein is still working seven days a week with
her designs and personal appearances all across the
country. Way to go! Ruth Bailey Papazian and
husband George are still traveling — to Spain and
Morocco this year, and Ruth went alone to Egypt
last year. Adeline Bradlee Polese spent two
months in Sanibel, FL, and will travel to the
Galapagos in October. Inge Buechling Nichols
was to meet with Gretchen Sterenberg and
Frankie Streit Tripp in Ashland, OR, in
September. She and sister Lori Buechling
Schaefer ’64 visited Ghana, West Africa, and
learned how to make beads!
Barbara Ice Lake fell in love with Prescott,
AZ, and bought a house there after selling her
home in Washington state. She loves the sunshine
after the rainy winters there. Barbara celebrated the
summer solstice in Fairbanks, AK — another traveler! Penny Pennypacker Binswanger enjoys life
on the Maine coast with family and friends — and
visited with Ruth McKinley Herridge ’54 last
year. Some relatives were to have a reunion with a
93-year-old aunt in Switzerland in the summer.
Other than usual aches and pains, she and Robert
are well — BUT she sent a quote we should all
learn: Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “We don’t forget how to play because we grow old — we grow
old because we forget how to play.” Susan
Grearson Fillmore had a mini reunion in Solana
Beach, CA, with Pat Cotter Smart and Wilma
Kinsman Marr in March, when she and husband
Del took a trip to Southern California to visit
friends and to see wildflowers in Anza-Borrego
Desert State Park. Nancy Tilden Brown and husband David celebrated their 50th anniversary in
August 2007. Like many others, they have their
health problems — Nancy has Parkinson’s disease
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Wheelock Loses a Dedicated Champion
Maureen Sheila Murphy Coakley ’58
hose of us in the Wheelock community who knew Maureen
Coakley during her many years of service to the College were
saddened by her passing last August after a lengthy and courageous
battle with cancer.
Maureen’s service to the College included her leadership as a
member of the Wheelock Corporation from 2004 to 2008 and on
the board of trustees from 1996 to 2004, as well as through her
role as an alumni trustee from 1991 to 1994. She was chair of
the Annual Fund Major Gifts Committee, co-chair of the Major
Donor Committee for the Promise of Growth Capital Campaign,
an active fundraiser for Passion for Action urban scholarships,
an Alumni Scholar donor, and a dedicated volunteer for many
College programs and activities, including as a member of the
Alumni Association Board and the Wheelock Wellesley Club. Her
Wheelock leadership was widely recognized. In 1989, Maureen
received a Wheelock Centennial Alumni Award, and in 1998,
the College’s Distinguished Service Award. In 2003, she received
the President’s Leadership Award and an honorary Doctor of Education degree.
A dedicated volunteer in the child life program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Maureen enjoyed
working with the Wheelock graduates who staffed the program. She was a tireless fundraiser for the College and
worked especially hard with her class on every Reunion since graduation. She helped her 50th Reunion Committee
set a fundraising record and was very disappointed that her illness kept her from attending.
Maureen’s generous spirit was well-known and recognized at other Boston-area institutions to which she
contributed. When she retired after 19 years of teaching service at the Tenacre Country Day School in Wellesley, a
kindergarten classroom was named in her honor, and after more than 1,500 hours of service supporting children
and families at MGH, she received their Distinguished Volunteer Award.
Maureen was devoted to her husband, Ed; her four sons; her daughters-in-law; and her grandchildren. She was
so pleased that one of her daughters-in-law, Pamela Senese ’86/’97MS, was a Wheelock graduate. She was a true
friend who never lost track of friends from all areas of her life over many years.
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and rheumatoid arthritis — but still have a busy
life. They enjoy their five children and 11 grandchildren, and they have had some wonderful trips
in their motor home. A favorite spot is the Outer
Banks of North Carolina.
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Sally Schwabacher Hottle
1961
Ginnie Colquitt Schroder
I (Ginnie) think being class scribe is terrific! I’ve so
enjoyed reading the news some of you have sent for
this column. If you feel the same way, I do hope
you’ll be a contributor for the spring edition.
It seems that many of us are finding a variety of
ways to get the most out of our retirements . . . or
near retirements. Carolyn Kingsbury Sherbin
and husband Arthur are living in an active adult
community in Princeton Junction, NJ. All three of
their children found their way into educational
fields. Carolyn wonders if any of us live near her.
She would love to hear from fellow classmates.
Sara Jane Goldstein Drescher and husband Ira
have just moved to a new home . . . three miles
away from their old house! (“Don’t ask!” she says.)
Their new address is 13473 Shell Beach Court,
Delray Beach, FL 33446. Sara Jane’s big news,
however, is that she and Ira have been selected as
Volunteers of the Year at Women in Distress of Ft.
Lauderdale, FL. The Dreschers established a fund
in memory of Sara Jane’s daughter, who was murdered 13 years ago. The fund helps women who
have completed a period of counseling and have
lived three months at a safe house begin to establish themselves independently.
Writing from Upper Saddle River, NJ, Susan
Schaefer Goodnough says she is busy with home
duties and is taking a needed break from volunteer
work and teaching. Sue is enjoying reading . . .
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when she finds the time. Ellen “Nickie”
Nickerson Schmidt spends her time in photography, experimenting with double exposure and
macro images. Retired husband Wolfgang is showing his photographs, along with Ellen, in galleries
and art shows. Wolfgang has traveled to remote
spots to find subjects among indigenous tribes for
his theme “Sacred Faces.” Ellen has facilitated
“Artist Way” groups and enjoys modern art and
painting as well. She still dabbles in writing — especially short poems for handmade cards. Ellen also
sent news of Gege Wilson Kingston. Gege continues creative pursuits . . . creating felt hats and
crafting jewelry from recycled materials. She shows
and sells her work at the website Etsy. You can
Google Gege at sparklplenty. Both Gege and husband John enjoy singing in the local church chorus.
After a long period of waiting, Judy Johnston
Laurens has finally sold her condo and is in a new
home at the Edgecliff . . . still in Cincinnati. In the
spring she was unpacked and settling in at last. I
can relate wholeheartedly to Judy’s delight in being
able to move on, since my condo on Long Island
has been on the market for two full years. Timing
is everything! Avery Thompson Funkhouser
sent two pieces of news. She had a second knee
replacement in May and a new grandson, Jonas
Funkhouser Stumpf, in August 2007. I think the
latter item sounds like more fun! Hope your knee
is healing well, Avery.
For some of us, retirement from a paying job
has meant a greater involvement in volunteerism.
Mary Jo Severson Fenyn runs the local food
bank where she lives in upstate New York, managing 70 volunteers as well as handling scheduling,
food collections, and grant writing. She does reserve
some time in Florida during the winter months,
however. Jaye Kwok is “somewhat” retired. She
worked part time from October 2007 to January as
a substitute administrator and then resumed her
former position as coordinator for a year-round
school program, except working fewer hours. In
March, Jaye traveled to North Vietnam, Hainan
Island, and the southernmost part of China and
Singapore with her sister. Later in the spring, she
attended the 30th conference of the National
Association for Asian and Pacific American
Education in Santa Monica, CA.
Retirement is still to come for Elizabeth Han
Fung, Ph.D., psychotherapist and social worker.
She is teaching in Chicago and works at Children’s
Memorial Hospital helping youngsters with hemophilia. Her job requires travel to Istanbul and other
places. Husband Chris, a pathologist, has retired
and is seeking a partner in crime! Elizabeth would
love to hear suggestions from those of us who have
retired and are successfully dealing with this life
change. I hope this article has helped, Elizabeth!
Thanks to each of you who took the time to
write. I’m already looking forward to our next issue.
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Change of address?
News to share? Professional update?
tay in the loop by refreshing your contact information at
http://www.wheelock.edu/alum/alumupdates.asp.
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And remember, our 50th Reunion is only three
short years away (June 3-5, 2011)! Are you making
plans to be there?
1962
Roberta Weiss Goorno
Susan Bromfield Barber says her new area in San
Francisco, North Beach, is closer to the water and
has a “zillion good restaurants” and better weather.
She and Kent have four grandchildren in the Bay
Area and four in Colorado. They were on a committee to build a “columbarium” (in ancient Rome, a
sepulchre with niches for cinerary urns) in the back
garden of their church. The beautiful structure, a
three-year project, was completed and dedicated last
fall. Sabra Brown Johnson was leaving for a threeweek trip to China as she wrote, “Visiting Beijing,
Xian, Wuhan, a four-day Yangtze River cruise,
Guilin and Hong Kong.” Her other travels include
“Peru (Machu Picchu) and Ecuador (Galapagos
Islands — I learned to snorkel there)” and a
Caribbean cruise to eight ports. In May, Sabra went
to Minnesota to see her twin step-granddaughters
graduate from St. Cloud State College and visited
her son and his wife in Wisconsin. At home in
California, she volunteers with the Assistance League
of Diablo Valley, is an elder in her church for
Children and Family Ministries, and tutors a
Japanese girl in English. This August was Sabra’s
“50th (gulp) high school reunion,” and she returned
to her hometown in New York to attend it.
Susan Powers Knapp was sorry to miss
Reunion, but she and Ron were traveling in
Scandinavia at the time. She loves living in
Westport, MA, where the Westport rivers and
Buzzards Bay make it “a very special place to live.”
They see their children and grandchildren quite
often. Susan is involved with UMass Dartmouth’s
Second Half learning program — many interesting
courses are offered and facilitated by area volunteers — and wrote of another great program offered
by the Westport River Watershed Alliance to teach
schoolchildren about the river and beach environment. She works with grades K-6. Her garden club
is also involved with the school in planting seeds and
bird programs. Susan thinks it wonderful that
“Wheelock is growing and continuing to provide
great opportunities in education.” Dorothy
Loofbourow Nichols and Dave are “fortunate to be
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in good health and to live in a lovely corner of the
world” — Bellingham, WA. “Our favorite trip was
to the Tuscany area of Italy,” she wrote, “and the second, to the north corner of Costa Rica. Our favorite
ski areas are Whistler, B.C., and Sundance in Utah,
but we love being home best of all.” Dottie keeps
busy with grandchildren, bridge, walking, and
church Sunday school work. Helen “Bonnie” Beck
Noble and husband Wayne are now living in their
diesel pusher motor home in Morgan Hill, CA (near
San Jose), and managing an RV resort (www.coyotevalleyresort.com). “We love this lifestyle and have
committed to this job for three years,” she wrote.
“We also have our own business in RV park consulting.” Now wine connoisseurs, they have a wine cooler in their motor home and love going wine tasting.
They visit their daughter in Scottsdale, AZ, as often
as they can. Bonnie welcomes visitors.
Two new activities gave Jane Saltzman
Rosenberg great pleasure last winter while at Pelican
Sound in Estero, FL. One was a watercolor painting
class, which she planned to continue when she
returned home to Gloucester, MA. She also became
certified as an ESL tutor and worked with a student
from Mexico, a fulfilling experience for both of
them. She and her husband had a wonderful visit
with their newest grandchild, Elena Sophia, and her
parents. She met Judy Green Chaloff at the
Wheelock alumni luncheon in Naples last winter.
Brenda Richmond Verduin-Dean was widowed in
1999 and remarried in 2004. She and Herb traveled
a lot between their three homes — his on Cape Cod,
her apartment in NYC, and one together in
Worcester, MA — before deciding recently to give
up the Cape one. Back with family and reunited
with old (high school!) friends in Worcester, she says
her “life has come full circle!”
I (Roberta) have a fifth grandchild, Ariel
Edward, named for both granddads (Edward for my
late husband). This year I became a Florida resident,
though I will still spend half the year in New Jersey,
nearer to family. My eldest grandson had his bar
mitzvah in April. We are celebrating with a trip to
Rapid City, SD: gold mines, a buffalo safari, underground caverns, the lore of cowboys, pioneers and
Indians, Mt. Rushmore, fossils, Crazy Horse sculpture, and a Minuteman silo into which you can
descend! (I hope I survive all this fun!)
Great to see some new names in our Class Notes
section! Keep sharing, all of you!
1963
Jane Kuehn Kittredge
What a wonderful time the Class of 1963 had at our
45th Reunion! It was so much fun reconnecting and
reminiscing with our classmates. I (Jane) will try to
give a capsule update from those in attendance with
news not specific to the Reunion to be reported at
another time.
The construction of the new Campus Center
and Student Residence is ahead of schedule and a
real asset to Wheelock. The facility will be multifunctional and certainly will be made use of by our
50th Reunion. Our class processed to the luncheon
carrying yellow umbrellas which we felt might even
be needed, but the weather held for us. At the class
meeting, Nan Ware Morrow and Zelinda
Makepeace Douhan agreed to co-chair our 50th
with others willing to assist as before. Ellie
Starkweather Snelgrove will be anxious to have any
Wheelock photos sent to her as she plans to assemble a scrapbook. We missed Ellie, who was on a trip
to Mexico. She also took a cruise on the Danube in
November 2007, and she keeps active subbing and
working with the seniors. We also missed our class
agent, Lynn Sanchez Paquin, who was unable to fly
due to a vertigo condition which she has suffered
with since her wonderful cruise to the South Pacific.
She was planning to operate Crescent Cottage in
Block Island this summer as usual and was looking
forward to improved days. Also responding and
wishing classmates well were Suzi Dimmitt, who
had two sons married this summer, and Susan
Memery Bruce, who was attending her nephew’s
wedding in Florida.
Regrets came from Marjorie Sanek Platzker,
who had work obligations in California, where she
continues as associate director of Skidmore, Owings
and Merrill LLP, a commercial interior design firm.
She wrote, “I direct a wide variety of commercial
interior design projects in the areas of media, law,
financial services, and hospitality. Arnold continues
his pediatric pulmonology position at USC Keck
School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Los
Angeles. Our children both live in the New York
area. David and wife Susan are in the art world.
Kate Platzker is 8 and enjoys life in Soho. Liz, a
fashion designer, is married to Steve Kawut, a lung
transplant pulmonologist and pulmonary hypertension expert. Liz and Steve will be relocating to
Philadelphia this fall.” Jackie Taft Lowe is traveling
internationally with her husband, who is on sabbatical and teaching in Australia and Scotland, while
Judy Thompson Seeley and Larry still make their
home in Louisiana and were unable to come to
Boston in May. Nancy Clark Migneault and Al are
enjoying a busy retirement with three delightful
grandchildren. Nancy works with hospice and seems
“traveled out” after a month in Africa. She entertains
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ment plans but travels a lot — Florida, Mexico, and
cruises. She often “grandparents” some of the four
girls and two boys. Barbara “Cookie” Cohen
Weiner lives in Sarasota, FL, and attends Wheelock
alumni meetings there. She visited with her daughter
in New Hampshire after Reunion.
A newspaper clipping came to the Alumni
Relations Office about Judy Hughes Arreola. She
has worked in the Sarasota, FL, real estate market
for 24 years and has now formed a new partnership
with another realtor and is associated with Hunt
Real Estate ERA.
I (Jane) am not a seasoned roving reporter, so
forgive me if some of the information is not 100
percent accurate. (Is it ever in the media?) Thanks so
much for keeping in touch.
Noel Stoodley Gray ’64 and husband Don (right) welcomed Tina Morris Helm ’64/’98MS and husband Bill for a visit at their lakeside cottage in
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, in the fall of 2007.
many groups with a PowerPoint of her exciting travels. We encourage all to join us in 2013 and do try
to locate former classmates, so we can really celebrate in grand fashion!
The highlight of the weekend was the
Saturday evening dinner graciously hosted by
Nan Ware Morrow and husband Bob at their
lovely home in Wellesley. The social hour was
enjoyed in a beautifully landscaped outside setting and a delightful catered meal was served
from tables festively decorated by our hostess.
We were later joined by President Jackie JenkinsScott and her husband, both of whom are so
amicable and interesting. The evening ended
with many hugs, and fond memories will remain
of our time shared together.
These folks participated in some or all of the
Reunion activities:
Gloria Maravell Clark loves her new career as
an occupational therapist in home health care. She
has a 1-year-old grandson. Veronica “Roni”
Connolly Cronin retired after 37 years of teaching and subs for an adult English as a Second
Language program. She is on the board of directors and chair of the education and program committees of the Framingham (MA) Historical
Society and Museum. Heather Hughes Dahlberg
and Richard enjoy their six grandchildren and
weekend condo at Round Hill, close to Rhode
Island. Zelinda “Zee” Makepeace Douhan
’63/’75MS and John love retirement in South
Dartmouth, MA. Both worked on and completed
a 350-page family genealogy. Zee is on the board
of directors for her family cranberry/land development company and is involved with Grace
Episcopal Church. Peggy Fenner is forever smiling and talented with writing and handcrafted
jewelry. She displayed some at Reunion. (Some of
us own her unique pieces!)
Susan Yaffe Freedman and Larry find condo living in Needham, MA, just great and are always busy
with family and various activities. Barbara
Hamilton Gibson retired to Cape Cod, where she
is active in Rotary, the local Wheelock alumni club,
Eldredge Public Library, and St. Christopher’s
Church. She is taking watercolor classes and has had
work displayed.
As for Jane Kuehn Kittredge, I am still your
scribe and am now working on my 50th high school
reunion committee. Dave and I had a trip to St.
Thomas and St. John in May. Nan Ware Morrow
and Bob had a much-deserved trip to Italy in May.
In addition to being on her 50th high school
reunion committee, she is always busy with civic
work and helping friends and entertaining. Elsie
Kellogg Morse had some amazing hikes in
Patagonia with Doug this year. She takes a trip a
year but continues and loves tutoring. Fran Nichols
and Bill travel between Massachusetts and
Washington state. Still a photographer, Fran is
involved in numerous exciting projects.
Another classmate who pursues her artwork
and displayed her talent at Reunion is Carolyn
Stanton Peirce, who lives in Maryland (close to
D.C.). She teaches art part time at St. Patrick’s
Episcopal Day School and is on the board of
directors of Samaritan Ministry, which serves the
homeless and needy. She summers in Maine with
children and grandchildren. Marthanne
“Marty” Uhlinger Pressey and Tim have fun
with their children and grandchildren and enjoy
summers in Maine. Anne Little Reiley and
Hank have been married for almost 45 years, and
Anne has been working in real estate since 1978.
They have two children nearby along with three
grandchildren. Alice “Pixie” Parke Watson has
three children and six “grands.” She substitute
teaches and does some retail work. Alice is the
class Annual Fund liaison (contribute GENEROUSLY, especially for our 50th).
Even after 31 years of work in an internal medicine office, Laurie Nettleton Watson has no retire-
Reunion 2009
May 29-31
1964
Phyllis Forbes Kerr
Roberta Gilbert Marianella
1965
Mary Barnard O’Connell
Marsha M-Geough Vaughan
Jane Dexter Greenspan, a psychologist practicing
in Jamaica Plain, MA, writes: “I realized when I was
at Wheelock that I was more interested in psychopathology than I was in education. Still I treasure
a lot of what I learned. Mrs. Keough taught me to
write and to love the process. Mr. Collins
announced that the best BSO seats were on either
ends of the first balcony, so my husband and I have
sat there for over 30 seasons! To have had so much
hands-on experience with children in such a wide
variety of settings satisfied my passion to see and do,
and those experiences stood me in good stead in
graduate school.” In the summertime, Jane lives in
Wellfleet, MA, where she reads, gardens, writes, and
swims to her heart’s content. In the wintertime, she
is active in a small Episcopal church that prepares
men and women for the priesthood.
1966
Margery Conley Mars
Pam Miller Callard is teaching at Beauvoir School
on the National Cathedral campus in Washington,
D.C. In the summer of 2007, Pam had a travel grant
to spend time in Tanzania teaching children as a volunteer with Cross Cultural Solutions: “I lived with
26 other volunteers in a small fishing village on the
Indian Ocean. . . . We also went to the border of
Kenya and Uganda to visit a family we knew. . . . I
have always wanted to go to East Africa ever since
Wheelock days when, with Dr. Chasdi, we studied
the Kikuyu people of Kenya. So I was inspired many
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Alumni whose classes end in 4 and 9 —
Your 2009 Reunion is coming up!
ome see what’s new on campus (you’ll be amazed). Hear what
great things your alma mater is accomplishing (you’ll be
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proud). Talk with other alumni about the good old days (you’ll laugh). Have a
fabulous time (you’ll feel great). Gather your friends and start planning for the
weekend of May 29-31, 2009.
years ago!” Laurie Knowles Carter’s biggest and
most exciting news is the birth of her first grandchild
in January 2008, Madeline Grace Carter, who lives
in Vermont. Needless to say, there will be many
cross-country trips in the near future. Daughter
Sarah has returned to San Francisco after 10 years in
England and is at San Francisco State in the MFA
program in creative writing. Laurie wrote, “We are
celebrating the California Supreme Court decision
allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry. I am president of our local PFLAG chapter and serve on the
speaker’s bureau. Recently I started substituting in
our town and in the district where I worked as a
librarian. I find I am much more relaxed and patient
than I was in my younger years.” She and Bob have
been spending time at their Ashland, OR, vacation
home. Nancy Wicke Demarest and husband Bob
celebrated the 40th anniversary of their wedding in
June. “We have retired yet again, this time from the
B&B business we have run for the last 25 years at
our cabin on our acreage in the foothills of the
Virginia Mountains,” she wrote. “We spend as much
time as possible at our cottage near the Chesapeake
Bay and love traveling in our 21-foot motor home.”
Hope Binner Esparolini sends greetings from
Minnesota! She has been retired from U.S. Bank for
over a year and is now enjoying some volunteer
commitments as well as some travel. She serves on
the board of St. Mary’s University (where she got her
master’s in 1997) and uses much of her
business/organizational development background as
an adviser to the director of the Human
Development Program. She is also still very involved
with her church in downtown Minneapolis. Now
that her husband’s health issues are under control,
they will be traveling more, including a trip this fall
to their favorite town in Tuscany. Lucy Olsen
Fischer went on a trip up the northern California
coast, Point Reyes National Seashore and Bodega
Bay, and through the wine country, and then headed
inland for a visit with Wendy Stuek Voit and husband Dave. Wendy is still tutoring students of various ages. The Voits are building a beautiful log
home in the mountains, and of course, the conversation included talk of their three grandchildren. Lucy
shares visits with her mom often and continues her
studies in Spanish. She wrote: “I remember the terror in Betty Bobp’s class freshman year when we had
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to get up and do presentations. Well, hard to
believe, but my volunteer work for my Audubon
chapter involves ME giving slide show presentations
to garden clubs. She would be sooooo proud of me.
Heck — I’M proud of me!”
Susan Leeb Fuhrer and husband Jack, with
much anticipation, will be dividing their year
between Scottsdale, AZ, and Kalamazoo, MI.
Their lovely new home in the Midwest is designed
with Sue’s limitations in mind and was featured in
the Kalamazoo Parade of Homes in June, just prior
to their move-in. Best of all, it is just a short drive
to visit daughter Carolyn and granddaughters
Emily and Kira! Kay “Wink” Winkler Page has
been in India and Jamaica this past year. In India
she participated in a center that brings children off
the streets and begins an education in reading and
math. In Jamaica she trained teachers on better
methods of teaching effective reading as well as the
link between fourth-grade reading levels and people landing in prison. Leave it to her to find a way
to escape from the long old-fashioned Maine winter with huge accumulations of snow that we had
this past year!
“With mixed emotions,” Heather Robinson
Reimann retired this past June after 26 years of
teaching. “My husband, Joe, and I bought a 40foot RV and dubbed it ‘Boldly Going Nowhere.’
We are renting our two houses and off we go.”
Son Tucker and son-in-law Justan are in Kuwait
for a year, having left their wives and Heather’s
three grandsons. They are based in Newport
News, VA. Donna Kazanjian Scribner and her
husband went to Turkey visiting places of antiquities. While there, they had a reunion with a
lady who had rented their Boston apartment
years ago while her son was being treated for a
hip abnormality at Mass. General. Shortly after
getting back, they left for China with a tour
group. Natalie Palmer Stafford wrote that she
continues to do oil and watercolor paintings, and
she has a new studio in back of her home and a
website — www.echohillcards.com. “If anyone is
near the art fairs I do (listed on my website),
please stop by and say hi,” she wrote. Patricia
“Pepper” Wild had her book “Way Opens: A
Spiritual Journey” released on May 1. By June,
she was already working on the next one!
I (Margery) am still enjoying my watercolor
painting. I have just changed my website from
showcase to e-commerce. I invite you to check
out my online store at www.countryginghamdesigns.com. I am honored to design the tea menus
for Maine’s First Lady that benefit the renovations and restorations of the Blaine House, the
governor’s mansion. At one of the teas, I met
Gloria Williams Ladd ’65, and we had a pleasant and unexpected reunion. We had both
worked in the Admissions Office while at
Wheelock and had not seen one another since
those earlier days! My family and I continue to
enjoy traveling — this past year to the Pacific
Northwest and Southwest as well as a cruise to
southern Caribbean islands.
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Cynthia Carpenter Sheehan
Martha Mulcahy recently married Raymond
Farrell, and they live in Sandwich, MA. Martha is
a school psychologist in the Martha’s Vineyard
Public Schools.
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May 29-31
Jewelry-maker and potter Cheri Breeman had a
chance to talk about her art, as well as her teaching, traveling, and other hobbies, to a Summit
Daily News (Frisco, CO) reporter who did a
story on her back in March. Feeling that “learning through the process is more important than
the outcome,” Cheri loves that art fulfills her
need to be creative and gives her a sense of
accomplishment. Right now she’s especially interested in incorporating the two mediums of pottery and beadwork, and she does so by working
holes into her ceramics in order to put things like
handspun yarn through them. An early childhood special education preschool teacher in the
Summit School District until last June, Cheri did
a lot of open-ended art with the children and
says she would love to teach art. She currently
has a garage studio and dreams of setting up her
own full studio someday.
1971
Gwynne DeLong
Karen Srulowitz Berman is still teaching computer classes and now also teaches eighth-grade U.S.
history. She is a walking coach for Team in Training
and does three half marathons a year. Her next one
is the Mayor’s Midnight Run in Alaska. Jane Boyle
Cohn and Cathi Calitri Terry keep up via e-mail
and recently got together in Manhattan. Jane and
her husband split their time between Richmond,
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VA, and Naples, FL. Last winter Jane attended a
lovely Wheelock lunch at the Port Royal Club in
Naples and enjoyed hearing all the news from
President Jenkins-Scott. So many exciting changes to
the Wheelock campus!
It’s been a great year in Arizona for Elizabeth
Leydon. This spring she and I (Gwynne) (and
two of my family members) got together for a
visit in scenic Sedona. Beautiful red rocks, good
food and shopping.
I enjoy spending time with friends and family,
especially new granddaughter Samantha. Dave and I
continue to cruise — last winter enjoying time in
Key West with friends from Canada and then cruising the Caribbean. I am an active member of my
local League of Women Voters’ Working Group on
Girls, modeled after the U.N. group; this year we
are working toward a solution to the problem of
bullying among girls in our community. We
developed a great resource list, so if anyone wants
information on books for adults and/or children,
websites, or programs that work, I’m happy to share
(Gdelong528@aol.com).
1972
Bonnie Paulsen Michael
Mary Dickerson Pierson and Peter love their
home in the mountains (Grafton, NY) and
enjoy teaching together at Pine Cobble School
in Williamstown, MA. Son Chase continues to
live in Woodstock, NY, and granddaughter Isa is
9! They love being so close and having her come
for visits. Josh and Kei live in Southborough,
MA, and the family gathers together regularly.
Lynn Geronemus Bigelman wrote that she still
loves being an elementary school principal after
eight years. She is also the president of the
Michigan Reading Association. All of this, and
she is engaged to a wonderful guy named Karl.
Son Joey was married two years ago to Sharone,
and they now have a little boy and live only 15
minutes away. (Lucky grandma!) Lynn wrote,
“I was so happy that Vicki Caplan Milstein
attended my son’s wedding. I was thrilled that
Wendy Dubins Perlmutter was at both my
children’s weddings. Wendy and I attended
Vicki’s daughter’s wedding last March in Boston,
where we also got to visit with Priscilla Resevic
Cosgrove. Congratulations to my roommate,
Vicki Milstein, for being named Brookline’s
Woman of the Year!”
As for me (Bonnie), I still loving teaching and
am finishing my second year teaching fourth
grade at Westtown School near Philadelphia.
Westtown is a Quaker school and it is just the
perfect place for me. It’s great to be back in the
East where we’re a little closer to our children and
my parents. This June the entire family gathered
together as our daughter Ali and her partner,
Mike, celebrated their commitment to each other.
The party lasted for four rollicking fun days!
I have seen Karen Metanias Riordan several
times since moving east. In the past few years, she
and Ed have celebrated the marriages of two of their
daughters and the birth of a new granddaughter!
Oh, and they won a new car, too! Cat Austin
Franks wrote at Christmas that she, husband Will,
and their sons are all very happy living in St. Croix.
The boys are beginning to hit college age, and the
first has come to the Northeast for school.
If you’ve enjoyed reading about a few of your
classmates, send news and photos so we can share
in your lives!
1973
Jaci Fowle Holmes
Regina Frisch Lobree
Marilyn Levick Fyfe is still teaching third-,
fourth-, and fifth-graders in Kittery, ME, through
Title I. She will have five grandchildren by the time
you are reading this. Wendy Millett (Holden)
Manninen wrote: “After nine years of teaching in
Stoneham, MA, and as a result of my efforts in
increasing literacy skills in music and motion,
I was recognized by the Massachusetts Reading
Association as a Literacy Champion through an
awards program sponsored by the Massachusetts
Literacy Foundation and Verizon Foundation.”
“After 15 years as director of congregational care
in our church,” Cathy “Cece” Cuetara Nichols
wrote, “I was looking for a transition that would be
challenging yet draw on the skills I had developed
as a teacher and serving people in crisis. I recently
became the first funeral celebrant coordinator in the
USA. Lessons learned at Wheelock serve me well as
I meet with families, gather info, grasp the legacy
they want to convey, design a creative memorial
service, and function as the officiant at the service.
If interested in a second-half career, contact
cnichols@buschfuneral.com.” Carol Bigelow Riggs
is still teaching morning kindergarten but took a
new position as an elementary master teacher in the
afternoon. She works at a K-12 charter school and
is the elementary administrator. Carol had dinner
with Ann Kopp ’73/’80MS and her new husband
and son in January. Sally Bechert Robinson finished her 33rd year in Mansfield, MA, and returned
to first grade in September after eight years in a
looping 1-2 program.
As I (Regina) sit here at my computer sharing
these comments with you from our classmates, I
am a week away from leaving for Boston, seeing
friends, seeing the new campus, and walking
around the familiar fun spots of Boston. I am
most looking forward to seeing my roommates
Leezie and Mary again. I am completing my
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34th year of teaching and my 12th year at my
school in Winston-Salem. I am still teaching my
2-3 loop.
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1974
Laura Keyes Jaynes
Nancy Bailin Careskey had a joy-filled reunion
with Amy Friedman Doran ’75 at Amy’s beautiful Florida home. Nancy works as a children’s developmental therapist and attorney advocate in the
area of special education law. Daughter Holly graduated from Brown University and is a medical student at Tufts in the MD/MPH program. Husband
Josh is a Tufts Medical alum, so it’s “all in the
family.” Nancy was looking forward to visiting
Wheelock in September after attending Holly’s
“white coat” ceremony at Tufts.
1975
Leslie Hayter Maxfield
I (Leslie) have been the county director for
Oregon Child Development Coalition in
Klamath County (OR) for two years. Prior to
that, I was the education manager since June
2002. OCDC is the grantee for Migrant Head
Start in Oregon. I love my work and have
learned so much about the strength of migrant
families. I was a co-presenter on Quality
Preschool Literacy Environments at the National
Migrant Seasonal Head Start Conference in
Washington, D.C., in February. I was also a
member of a Bruce Perry Training of Trainers
Learning the Strengths of
Migrant Families
I
love my work and have learned so
much about the strength of migrant
families. I was a co-presenter on Quality
Preschool Literacy Environments at the
National Migrant Seasonal Head Start
Conference in Washington, D.C., in February. I was also a member of a Bruce
Perry Training of Trainers program in
our county. I am so proud that our Early
Childhood Community dedicated funds
and priority to having Dr. Perry work
with us for a year. We are making
inroads in the public schools and juvenile justice system.”
— Leslie Hayter Maxfield ’75
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N O T E S
program in our county. I am so proud that our
Early Childhood Community dedicated funds
and priority to having Dr. Perry work with us for
a year. We are making inroads in the public
schools and juvenile justice system. I became a
grandmother in November 2006 and now have
two grandchildren. My daughter is a wonderful
mother. I am sure my Wheelock education had
played a part in strengthening her desire to
become a teacher and support the next generation. Not to mention that her grandpa is her primary child care provider! For the past few
months I have been in contact with Lanie Link
Beck. We discovered each other on the Internet
and started off where we ended 30 years ago! It
has been so much fun!
1976
Angela Barresi Yakovleff
I always welcome the time I have to get out
some news of classmates to all. This year we’ve
heard from only a few, but it’s great news
nonetheless. Be checking your e-mail in the
upcoming years so you can get news to us electronically. Carolee Fucigna is in her seventh
year teaching pre-K at the Nueva School in
Hillsborough, CA. Her teacher research is centered on dramatic play. Maryanne Galvin was
one of four Boston-area filmmakers who
screened their short films at an event held at
Wheelock back in March in honor of SWAN
(Support Women Artists Now) Day, an international celebration of women artists. Her What’s
Going On Up There? was shown, and she later
participated in an audience Q&A. Patty Grief
Sammataro had exciting news. She and Tony
have a beautiful new granddaughter, Alexandria.
Patty continues to teach at Beth El Nursery
School in New London, CT — her 16th year!
I (Angela) am teaching fourth grade this year
(2007-08). I’ll loop to fifth grade next year and keep
my class. I’ve been teaching at Whitingham School in
Jacksonville, VT, for 30 years! Matthew and I celebrated our 25th anniversary in July 2007. We put off
celebrating until February, when we visited Mexico. I
had pleasant memory flashes of my Wheelock winter
term traveling there with Bob Meredith and five
other students. Our son, Alexander, is now in
Brooklyn teaching preschoolers to play soccer and
picking up an occasional acting part. Amie, our
daughter, is happily studying nursing at University of
Southern Maine. I keep in regular touch with Karen
Berg Ezzi, Dale Zabriskie Pomerantz, and Melinda
Kaiser. Karen now lives in Arizona. Her youngest
daughter, Allison, graduated from Michigan State in
May. Son Matthew is self-employed. Sarah will be
married on the Cape in September 2009. Now Karen
and Dave are truly empty nesters. Dale has been
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spending time at book signings of her newly published book, Secrets of Great Parents. I hope next year
I’ll hear from many more of you. Reunion is only
another three years away!
Reunion 2009
1979
May 29-31
Linda Henderson Standley
Jody Norskey Lary is still teaching eighth-grade
language arts at Camden (ME) Middle School.
1981
Colleen Miller Rumsey
Kathy Walsh Berube started a new career in April
as director of volunteer services at Maine Medical
Center in Portland. She recently moved within
South Portland. Laura Shustak Bradford has
been working in the preschool field since graduation and is currently the teacher/director of Clinton
Path Preschool in Brookline, MA.
Now “experiencing the empty nest” in
Norwich, CT, Dawn Lawlor Brown wrote of
enjoying her work as an early intervention and
toddler teacher at Connecticut College Children’s
Program, an early childhood laboratory school for
the college. Dawn enjoyed going to our 25th
Reunion and keeps in touch with Nancy Lyle
Burlingame. Roger Cacchiotti wrote: “I turned
50 this year and celebrated the event with my partner and family at the Eliot Hotel in Boston, my
past professor, Dora Ullian’s family hotel. It was
wonderful to see her again since Wheelock College
in 1981. My career is in professional theater, real
estate, and teaching. Currently, I am teaching at
Tony Bennett’s high school for the performing
arts in NYC, and as an adjunct professor for La
Guardia Community College. I use my experience
in theater and my skills from Wheelock College in
special education to meet the demands at the high
school serving as a drama and resource room
teacher. I teach English at the college level. I live
between New York City; Wellfleet, Cape Cod; and
Tyler Hill, PA — I need all three environments to
survive. I would love to hear from others who still
remember me.”
The Alumni Relations Office apologizes to
Marian McAfee Facciani, whose news was lost
and who couldn’t be reached during the summer to
get replacement news into this issue. Jacqui
Borstein Gorlick wrote in the spring, when she
was finishing up her third year as principal of
Nunaka Valley, a pre-K through grade 6 school in
Anchorage, AK. “Nunaka allows me to use all I
learned at Wheelock about ECE as I have three
classes of preschool students with disabilities,” she
wrote. Jacqui and her “best friend and husband,”
Terry, have a cabin on 10 acres on a river on the
Thank you,
Wheelock professors!
M
y Wheelock education prepared
me for training staff in the everchanging environment of health care.
Many of the lessons taught by Wheelock teachers can be adapted to the
adult population. Patience, compassion, an eagerness to learn new things
and teach others were lessons learned
at Wheelock that I take with me every
day of my life, whether in my job, my
home, or as a parent of college- and
elementary-age children! Thank you,
Wheelock professors!”
— Robin Michel Motyka ’81
Kenai Peninsula where they go to relax and fish in
the summer.
“I have unfortunately never fulfilled my dream
to teach at the elementary level,” wrote Robin
Michel Motyka, “but having a young son later in
life has given me the opportunity to be a classroom
parent volunteer for many years. I have had a very
rewarding career managing a large Boston orthopedic surgical practice where my teaching background
provided the foundation for assisting patients during a difficult time in their lives. In addition, my
Wheelock education prepared me for training staff
in the ever-changing environment of health care.
Many of the lessons taught by Wheelock teachers
can be adapted to the adult population. Patience,
compassion, an eagerness to learn new things and
teach others were lessons learned at Wheelock that I
take with me every day of my life, whether in my
job, my home, or as a parent of college- and elementary-age children! Thank you, Wheelock professors!” In addition to 7-year-old Brandon, Robin
has Scott, 20, and Mikaela, 18.
1982
A+ for Barbara Madison Ripps! She took Lori Ann
Saslav’s idea about sharing memories of college days
(from the March appeal for Class Notes news) and
ran with it! Here are her reminiscences: “Having a
triple and using the closet as a bedroom, opening our
windows to hear the Yankees and Red Sox play at
Fenway Park, going to Phi Gamma Pi (Northeastern
fraternity) for their parties and the Northeastern
football games, going down to Government Center
every weekend to shop/look around/eat, being asked
to come to see TV pilots and rate them at a local TV
studio, going on the Booze Cruise, learning how to
C L A S S
fall asleep when others were watching TV in your
room, dealing with people who had boyfriends come
from other schools, drowning out the sound of ‘the
pit’ in Peabody Hall when you were trying to sleep
and/or work, going down to the dining hall in your
robe and not caring what other people think, making
that LONNNNNG walk in the snow to student
teach, teaching famous people’s children and treating
them as you would any other child, making your
own games/activities for your student teaching placement, waiting at the bus stop for a very long time in
the cold weather until someone you knew came
along and asked you if you wanted a ride, going to
Swampscott to the beach when it was 55 degrees, sitting out on the lawn (now Winsor parking lot) when
it was nice with your backrest to get a tan (only to
find out the next day that you were really sunburned), having wine and cheese every weekend with
your friends, visiting the houses of your friends while
being away from home, learning what it was like to
walk around with a nickel in your purse, being
responsible for your own checking account, introducing friends to your boyfriend’s brother (only to
find out in the years to come that they were to be
married), learning how to live in a big city, making
Jewish meals for my friends and connecting with
other Jewish people on and off campus, taking risks
that I would not normally have taken, learning to be
independent and think for myself, socializing with
the MCP boys in Peabody, going to Cape Cod for
the weekend with friends, seeing how much you
could shove into your parents’ car when coming in
August and leaving in May, cooking for a 90-yearold judge several times a week and feeling honored to
do that, asking to be escorted home by one of the
men on campus (through ‘Pervert Park’), shopping at
the Coop, walking home from a BU party at ‘The
Zoo,’ going to an MIT party not realizing that the T
stopped at a certain time during the night and asking
a policeman to drive you as close to Wheelock as
possible, making great friendships, learning from
great professors, and having a lifetime of experiences
to share with others.”
1983
Carol Rubin Fishman
Greetings, ’83ers! I (Carol) just returned from
Reunion, and I’m ready to go back immediately! A
small but dedicated group of 12 was there, plus
four husbands who became “one of us” within minutes! We all TRULY wish all of you had come! It
was wonderful talking with everyone, whether special friend, classmate, or spouse, to hear about the
similarities and differences our lives hold! PLEASE
join us in five years!
Sandy Hansen Hill was “glad to see all the
Wheelock gals at Reunion 2008!” she wrote. She is
still teaching first grade in Littleton, MA, and has
Judy Jacobs Albertine ’83 (standing, left) and husband Jeff (seated,
right) with son Scott and daughter Jessie around Christmas 2007
two beautiful children, ages 8 and 17. They enjoy
traveling and attending sporting events. Sandy had
made plans to meet up with Nancy Cutler Ward
at Reunion. They’ve been in touch all these years.
Nancy’s husband, Walter, is a fisherman/lobsterman!
“I get fresh seafood constantly, a definite benefit to
living near the water,” she wrote. Their blended
family is doing great, and Nancy seems so happy!
Before Reunion she wrote, “I am working as a case
manager for early intervention services. After living
and teaching in Georgia for 19 years, it’s hard to
believe I’ve been in Maine for seven years. I did
miss the fall in New England.”
“Made it to Reunion!” wrote Mary Sienkiewicz
Minalga. “It was awesome! It was great to reconnect
with our class. Please know you were sorely missed!
We hope to see more old friends at our 30th! Bob
and I will celebrate our 21st anniversary in August
2008.” Mary joined Laurel Massey Leibowitz and
me (Carol) at a bed and breakfast owned by Lynne
Wyluda Beasley ’66. We had a delightful time
catching up and looking at pictures into the wee
hours! I am substitute teaching (and LOVING IT!)
while Rae (15) and Josh (11) are in school, so that I
can be available to them. Laurie Wartenberg Finkle
and I try to get together at least once a year and email frequently. She missed Reunion due to a Finkle
family wedding (don’t they know better?). Laurie is
also substituting at her local elementary school. We
also tried to get Carrie Sobel Rubin and Deborah
Wurgler to join us, but obstacles (pet sitting and illness) prevented it. Andrea Ades Woolner made it
for the parade of classes, along with her mother and
aunt, also in reunion classes, and her nearly 2-yearold son, JT. “After 17 years of teaching first grade, I
am loving every minute of being a stay-at-home
mom!” Andrea wrote.
Susie Marr continues to teach preschool in the
San Francisco area. Recently she hosted a Wheelock
alumni event at her preschool. She coaxed Debbie
Sickels Robinson to join us at Reunion. It was a
pleasure to catch up with Debbie!
N O T E S
Karen Corcoran Birner and Jane Donovan
Huzar organized our class dinner (a delicious
clambake!). Karen has five children, from 20 years
on down, and holds a full-time teaching position.
Jane, who has four children, says Karen did all the
work, but I don’t believe her! These two brought
their husbands, Tim and Doug, respectively, both
Mass. College of Pharmacy students who were
housed at Wheelock and are, therefore, part of our
class. Sarah Lindsay Holden brought husband
Regis, who became resident photographer! Sarah’s
been teaching for a very long time in the same
school that she attended in the Pittsburgh area. She
teaches special education middle school students.
Claudia Tillis Weger and Mike were there,
leading us in bell-ringing along the parade route!
Claudia’s daughter Emily, a current Wheelock
student, worked much of the weekend. It was a
pleasure to get to know her. She’s delightful and
always smiling! Claudia’s e-mail to me reads: “I
had such a blast at our 25th Reunion. I think
we all looked great! The dinner was fun, and the
PowerPoint was touching. Let’s not wait five
years! Love to all my Riverway girls.” Tina Huber
Banos was expected but couldn’t make it. Her
son was in a college-level baseball game that was
expected to be on ESPN that night. Some of the
group tried to watch it at the Cask!
Just after Reunion, Laurel Massey Leibowitz
wrote: “I am back to being a professional volunteer
running events for families in town [Tolland, CT]
with special needs through a wonderful organization, SEPTA (Special Education Parent Teacher
Association). I coordinate and run special events
and programs for the families to enjoy. This is my
17th year as a Girl Scout leader and church school
volunteer. And I continue to be my children’s and
husband’s #1 fan! It was awesome to reconnect at
the Reunion and see the progress at Wheelock. It
continues to be an amazing community that makes
me proud to be a graduate!”
A technology trainer for the Board of
Cooperative Education Services in New York,
Sara Grande Gavens wrote: “I deliver technology training to teachers who purchase educational
technology services through our agency. It is a
very interesting job because I work primarily
with the administrative staff of the school districts that contract through us. I am teaching
courses on Blackboard (online education) and do
face-to-face [technology]. I also deliver training
at various school districts when requested. At
times I do miss the little guys, but it is nice being
in an adult environment! The downside is that
this is a 12-month position, so I’ve lost my summer vacations.” Sara lives right behind Barbara
Madison Ripps ’82, and their kids go to the
same schools. She also sees Laurie Wartenberg
Finkle (in the next town) quite a bit and has seen
me (Carol) a lot over the last 15 years.
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Wheelock To Do List
✔Classes ending in 4 and 9, plan for Reunion 2009.
■
✔ Go to a Wheelock alumni event.
■
✔ Attend an on-campus event.
■
✔Use the Center for Career Development resources.
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✔Check the alumni website (updated monthly) for news:
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http://www.wheelock.edu/alum/index.asp.
✔
■ Send a change of address to:
http://www.wheelock.edu/alum/alumupdates.asp.
I received two other letters by mail and e-mail.
Judy Jacobs Albertine is a reading specialist at
Atlanta Speech School. She and husband Jeff live in
Marietta, GA. Nancy Jones Stice wrote: “I
returned to China (again) and opened a child development center that is based on the idea of our children’s museums. I now live in Phoenix, AZ, and am
director of exhibits of the new Children’s Museum
of Phoenix.” Nancy was director of the Resource
Center at Wheelock in the 1980s through 1994.
Start planning for Reunion 2013 (May 31 to
June 2)! Put a note at the end of your current calendar and move it forward as the years progress! See
you at Wheelock!
Reunion 2009
1984
May 29-31
Kathy Welsh Wilcox
1986
Julie Simon
Hi, all, and greetings from the sadly diminished
Class of ’86! Kellie Glennon wrote to say she
completed her second year as a paraprofessional
working closely with two sixth-grade boys in the
Weymouth, MA, Public Schools. She is learning
about Asperger’s syndrome and loves what she’s
doing as well as the people with whom she works.
Kellie lives in Quincy with 10-year-old son Jared
and is very involved in school activities and Jared’s
Boy Scout troop. Kathi Zack Hajjar is living in
Springfield, PA, with her three children. She
describes herself as a typical soccer mom: Her
evenings are filled with baseball, soccer, and cheerleading. By day, she teaches 3- to 5-year-olds in a
pre-K program at Friends School in Lansdowne,
PA. Karen Fitch Voellmann has spent the last 18
years raising her children and volunteering for various organizations. Her son has gone off to college,
and her daughter is in her junior year in high
school. In the spring, she wrote, “It’s hard to believe
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I have a son going to college. Wasn’t it just yesterday when we were all there?!” Karen is pursuing a
new passion: She is completing training at the
Cambridge School of Culinary Arts. She will be
trading in some of her parent caps for a chef’s hat
and making delicious pastries! I’m sure you all join
me in wishing Karen health and joy in her new
career. I just have one question. . . . When can we
all come over for coffee and sweets?
As for me (Julie), I continue to live in Dracut,
MA, with my daughter, Lauren, who is a secondgrader with many interests and gifts. She is a joy in
so many ways and has helped me to grow and learn
as I continue on this journey. Professionally, I have
had a year of mostly energizing change. After teaching in an integrated preschool setting for the past
10 years, I took on the role of teaching music and
movement to all the preschoolers and kindergartners in my school. I was fortunate to spend an
amazing week at Kripalu in Western Massachusetts
to participate in Creative Kids Yoga training. I try
to infuse some basic yoga principles into my classes,
while honoring each child’s individual style and
contributions as much as possible. Sometimes, this
can be a difficult task in a public school setting.
With the increasing demands to fit an ever-expanding curriculum into our youngest children’s school
day, I find it refreshing to be able to provide the
opportunity for movement, music, and play. Of
course, there are many challenges . . . and with
them come many more rewards! Now, it’s your
turn: Please let us know how you are and what is
bringing you inspiration.
Reunion 2009
1989
May 29-31
Susan Kelly Myers
Lisa Grossman Headley married her “longtime
live-in guy,” Don, in Providence, RI, on April 6,
and they took a cruise for their honeymoon. They
continue to live in Virginia. Lisa tells a great story:
“My best friend has been going to Hasbro
Children’s Hospital in Providence weekly for her
daughter’s leukemia. One day Hannah told me
about ‘Lisa.’ Her mom, Debbe, came on the phone
and finished telling me that Lisa was someone who
helped them with things at the hospital and ran a
camp and answered questions. We went back and
forth, and I figured out who ‘Lisa’ was. I knew
Lisa Cantore was working at Hasbro but never
thought my best friend would have weekly contact
with someone I have known for so many years. It
turned out that Lisa was working closely with
Debbe and Hannah for the past three years on a
weekly basis and over the summers when Lisa ran a
great summer program. Hats off to Lisa Cantore!”
1991
Alyssa Greeley
Rebekah Engel Elmore lives in Newburyport,
MA, with her husband and four children. She has
started her own organizing consulting business
called Everyday Solutions, which helps residential
and corporate clients. Gina Wayshak Hames has
been working at the DSS Hotline for almost 17
years and lives in Malden, MA, with her husband
and two sons. Sara Regan Levine stays busy as a
PTO president and booster for the many sports
teams that her sons have joined. Kristen Munger,
who lives in Tomball, TX, works at a resort near
Houston. In the spring, she wrote of her recent
involvement in two organizations. One, called Little
People of America, is for people who are under 4
feet 10 inches in height. “It is nice when we get
together because I am finally around people my
own size,” she wrote. She has also joined the Spina
Bifida Association of America and in June was
headed to her first SBA conference, in Tucson, AZ.
Sara Rice Patt, who has been a happy housewife and mom to three children in Wenham, MA,
for 11 years, is ready to return to teaching. Since
graduating from Wheelock, Jocelyn Sosnicki
Pensa has received her master’s degree in Deaf
Education Specializing in Parent/Infant Education
from Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. She
went on to teach at Cleary School for the Deaf in
Nesconset, NY, and she and husband David have
two children. While on maternity leave, Jocelyn
facilitated an American Sign Language program for
hearing infants/toddlers and their parents, taught an
adult education ASL class at Walt Whitman High
School, and interpreted for the deaf at St. Patrick’s
Church in Huntington, NY. She recently returned
to work teaching ASL at Nassau Community
College. Deborah Beaman Wood wants to let
everyone know that son Taylor, whom many of you
helped care for, headed off to Quinnipiac University
this fall. She is considering returning to work since
her other children — Hayden, Emily, and Carson —
will be in school.
C L A S S
Sarah Rice Patt ’91 celebrating her 38th birthday with her children, Zach, Ben, and Olivia, and dog, Boca
As for me (Alyssa), I recently moved into an
incredible loft apartment in a converted textile mill
in Slatersville, RI.
1992
Christine Smith Imani
The Alumni Relations Office apologizes to Laura
Higgins Beverly, whose news was lost and who
couldn’t be reached during the summer to get
replacement news into this issue.
In June, Jen Croce wrote of her exciting plans
to open an organic home day care (in her home in
Billerica, MA) called GreenBaby Home Daycare
in September. She has put her psychotherapy
career on hold so she can be home with her two
girls. “I offer organic and all-natural child care
(i.e., serve organic/all-natural food and use nontoxic products in my home),” she wrote. “I am the
first day care in the state to be certified as an EcoHealthy Childcare by the Oregon Environmental
Council. Eco-Healthy Childcare is an award-winning program that helps improve the environmental health of child care facilities.” Robyne
Newman Hockett lives just outside of West Palm
Beach, FL, with her husband of seven years, their
6-year-old daughter, and Robyne’s two stepchildren. She works with the developmentally disabled through the Medicaid Waiver program in
Florida and is a part-time romance enhancement
specialist (www.slumberpartiesbyrobyne.com). Jeanie
Morse Pettengill wrote about her “crazy” life:
“Lyndsey, our 3-year-old, was diagnosed with
acute lymphoblastic leukemia in March, and we
have been on an emotional roller coaster. She is in
remission, but we have two long years for treatment at Dana Farber. Please keep her in your
thoughts and prayers. Lauren, our 8-year-old, is
taking it in stride! She is a great big sister and
wants life like it was. I hope everyone else is well,
and I often think about Wheelock.” Jennifer
Werb and husband Tony celebrated their second
wedding anniversary during the summer. She has
been in her position teaching middle school special education students at Salem School in Salem,
CT, for 10 years and still loves it. “Amanda
Siebert, a Salem School graduate and current
Wheelock student, spent an afternoon visiting my
classroom,” Jennifer wrote in the spring. “We had
fun comparing Wheelock and Peabody of ‘now’
and ‘then.’”
N O T E S
proud mom of two beautiful girls and is working as
head toddler teacher at USM Child and Family
Centers. Kimberly was unable to attend Reunion
because she got married on May 31! She would love
to hear from any alum at kimrh2008@yahoo.com.
Hilary Hoffman Sowers was married to husband
Mark in June of 2007. Afterward, they spent three
glorious weeks traveling through Italy. They live in
beautiful Sonoma County, CA, and Hilary is still
teaching fourth grade. She is also working on a
doctorate degree in education at UC Davis. In
addition, a big congratulations to Hilary for being
chosen Teacher of the Year!
I (Nina) also hope everyone had a wonderful
time at Reunion this year. It is always great to
be able to get together with old friends to reminisce, have a good time, and create new memories as well.
Reunion 2009
May 29-31
1994
Heidi Butterworth-Fanion
Lisa Ann Strolin-Smith, husband Derek, and son
Justin are proud to announce the birth of Lindsay
Ann on April 21.
1995
Katelyn Guiney Wojnarowicz
1993
Nina Mortensen LaPlante
Jennifer Batts Brown loves her new job — staying
home with 1-year-old Madison. Daughter Alexis is
2. Maria Mazzarella is a December ’93 grad who
is a primary transition class teacher at the Patrick J.
Kennedy Elementary School in East Boston.
Maria’s principal is Marice Edouard Diakite, and
she was very glad to find out that her boss was a
fellow alum. Marice was someone Maria had
remembered from school even though Maria is
older and was a commuter who had a different
experience at Wheelock. It’s a small world. Norma
Cañas McBride (norma.mcbride@yahoo.com)
wished she could be at Reunion, but flying across
the country when you have two little ones can be
tricky. She is delighted to announce that her family
has grown. Jesse Ray was born in May 2007, and
they adopted him from birth. She feels that her
family is now complete. She continues to stay
home full time. Norma often thinks back to our
Wheelock days and has fond memories — she can’t
believe it has been 15 years! Wanda Yeomans
Patterson, husband George, and big brother
Nicholas welcomed baby Katharine Grace on
March 18, 2008. They are all thrilled!
Kimberly Roney Hatfield moved back to her
home state of Maine four years ago and is loving
every minute of being near her family. She is the
Rachelle Basich Doring has been living in
Patterson, NY, since 1999 and has been working for
Bright Horizons in Bethel, CT, as a toddler teacher
for a little over a year. “I am really enjoying it and
enjoy the close-knit family that is at my center,” she
wrote. Alexander, 4, gets to go to work with her
each day and attends the pre-K program. Anthony, a
third-grader, makes Rachelle and husband Bill very
proud with his excellent work at school. These days
Amy Armstrong McCay is staying home (Beverly,
MA) with her three boys. Callan Michael was born
in the fall of 2007. “I recently brought Griffin [4]
Rachelle Basich Doring ’95 and husband Bill with (L-R) Alexander and
Anthony on the occasion of Anthony’s First Communion in May
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N O T E S
Robin Fradkin Matthews ’96 (left) and wife Marcia at their wedding in
Massachusetts on May 5, 2007
back to Wheelock to see the Peter Pan show at
WFT with Nicole Tangney Radulski ’95/’98MS
and Cheri Piscetello Burke and their boys,” Amy
wrote. “It was fun to be on campus again!”
1996
Kerrie Ryan Gerety
Heather Clagett Andersen ’96/’01MS moved to
a new home in Wilmington, MA, in 2007. She is
still enjoying being a stay-at-home mom of four.
In March, Christina Comenos Batchelder
wrote: “My husband, Chris, and I were blessed
with a second daughter, Sophia, on Dec. 27,
2006. We knew that she would be born with a
degenerative neurological disorder. What we didn’t
know was how long she would be with us and
how much she would profoundly change our lives
and the lives of everyone that knew her story. I
took time off from my social work career to care
for Sophia (at home, surrounded by the love of
her 5-year-old sister, Alethia, family, and friends).
As exhausting as the round-the-clock care was for
our precious angel, we don’t regret a single second
of our time with Sophia. We just wish it had been
longer. Sophia was lovingly returned to heaven on
Jan. 22, 2008. Who knew that my experience as a
child life specialist and in both pediatric/adult
hospice would play such a direct role in my life?
What I thought had been a strong and healthy
Ines Soto Palmarin ’96 with husband Jorge and son Jorge Yerden on
the day in April 2007 that his adoption became official
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appreciation for life and the blessings I had been
given, has grown beyond what I could have ever
imagined. We are all trying to regroup as a family.
I am enjoying every opportunity I have to be with
Alethia. I am exploring different work opportunities and am open to the next journey this universe
will bring me on. I am also grateful for Sophia
bringing me back together with my dear friend
Robin Richard Springfield. I would like to say
hello to all my former Wheelock friends and hope
they are all happy.”
Maria Vanessa Jaramillo ’96/’98MS (vanessa_hellokitty@yahoo.com) of Watertown, MA, has
been teaching first grade in Boston for five years.
In the spring she had a long visit with her dad in
Colombia. Karen Moy Joe-Yen ’96/’99MS and
her husband, Anton Joe-Yen ’99/’04MS, are the
proud parents of adorable little Sean Peter, born
June 13. “We are so lucky that school is over so we
can spend the whole summer getting to know
Sean,” Karen wrote in late June. Robin Fradkin
Matthews and wife Marcia are still living in
Media, PA, and Robin is teaching writing at
Drexel University. Carolyn Assad Norris wrote
to announce the birth of daughter Zara Dilan on
Feb. 2. She and husband Matt live in Tampa, FL,
and she is an emergency room nurse at Tampa
General Hospital. Shannan O’Brien got an
M.S.W. (with a concentration in Older Adult/End
of Life) at Salem State College in 2007 and now
enjoys being the director of social services in a
nursing home. She lives in Grafton, MA.
“Our hearts are overjoyed with parenthood,”
wrote Ines Soto Palmarin. She and husband Jorge
were so proud to officially adopt Jorge Yerden
Palmarin in April 2007. He was born Oct. 7, 2006,
and came into their home about 10 days later.
We are sorry to now have to report that Ines’ husband, Jorge, died of cancer on May 3. “Our son
keeps me strong,” Ines wrote in July. Earlier this
year, Michelle Smith Perry (shelmy@aol.com)
drove across the country to move from Boys Town
MTFC Foster Care Program in Washington, D.C.,
to Orange County, CA, to take over an adolescent
boys home within Boys Town Treatment Family
Services Residential Program with husband Malik.
“I am also still helping others achieve life changes
through www.successfuldiligence.com,” she wrote.
Kelly McGrath Szalewicz
(kellynben@hotmail.com) wrote in the spring of her
and her husband’s having become licensed foster
parents with the Massachusetts Department of
Social Services and having welcomed a 3-monthold boy into their home in July 2007. “We don’t
know how long he will be with us, but we hope he
becomes a permanent member of our family,” she
wrote. “He is very loved by his foster sisters.” Kelly
is enjoying being able to stay at home with the kids.
“I have become a grandmother,” Arden
Teplow wrote. “Not many 1996 graduates can say
that.” Jordan, her 2-year-old granddaughter, lives
nearby and is both a joy and a source of exhaustion,
Arden says. She has left her position at Cedars-Sinai
Outpatient Cancer Center, where she did psychotherapy, and is “taking time off to pursue some
volunteer adventures and decide what to do with
the rest of [her] life.”
1997
Heather Gelmini
Nicole Beaudin DeBlois married husband Joseph
in 2002, and they have a 2-year-old daughter,
Samantha.
1998
Christine Barry Beaulieu
Jillian Kaufman
Megan King Abbott wrote to share about the
birth of her daughter, Brooke Catherine, on June
11, 2007. Angela Taddeo Holt lives in Milford,
MA, and teaches third grade in the Woonsocket,
RI, Public School System.
Reunion 2009
1999
May 29-31
Aimee Farrell Dos Santos
Stacy Zimov Belliveau is home with her 1- and
4-year-old daughters. As if they don’t keep her busy
enough, during the spring she wrote that they were
also putting an addition on their home. “Never a
dull moment!” Stacy wrote.
Heidi Benton Fleury ’01 and Scott at the Log Cabin in Holyoke, MA, on
their wedding day in April 2007
C L A S S
2000
Sara McGarry
Stacy Dorfer, a lead science teacher in Newark,
NJ, is engaged to marry David Carson in January.
She had a baby girl, Emily Grace Carson, in
December 2006.
2001
Carrie Watson
Heidi Benton and Scott Fleury were married in
April 2007 and live in West Springfield, MA. She
has a master’s degree in Physical Therapy and loves
the job she’s had for three years at a rehab facility
in Windsor, CT. Cesarina Hiciano Gonzalez,
husband Royson, and their two girls had a wonderful family vacation to the Dominican Republic
early this past summer. She works at Community
Teamwork in Lowell, MA, as director of the Child
and Family Services division.
The Alumni Relations Office apologizes to
Julie Dyer James, whose news was lost and who
couldn’t be reached during the summer to get
replacement news into this issue. Corey Lubin
lives in Quincy, MA, and is a kindergarten teacher
in the Boston Public Schools.
Congratulations to Kristy Volk Marriott on
the birth of son Adam Matthew on March 6.
Kristy is home with Adam and daughter Avery,
2, but also does “charity work for children and
families in need.” Polly VanDeusen Benjamin
and husband Brad, married on Dec. 23, 2006,
“are lavishing [their] love and attention on [their]
crazy dog, Sparks.” Polly is teaching second grade
at Duanesburg Elementary School. They are both
still very involved in competitive waterskiing and
enjoy putting on waterskiing shows with The U.S.
Water Ski Show Team in Scotia, NY. “My grandmother, Bunny Warner Zenowich ’47, passed
away last year,” Polly wrote. “She always thought
very highly of the school.”
“[I]n love with the Southwest” since working
at an outdoor education summer camp in the
Four Corners region, Beth Williams has been living in Albuquerque, NM, since 2002. She taught
fifth grade at a public charter school and earned a
master’s in Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural
Studies at the University of New Mexico in 2004.
She met husband Josh while teaching, and they
got married in July 2006. Now taking “a break
from it all,” Beth is working on a Ph.D. in
Family Studies and working in a pottery studio.
She misses Boston, and she and Josh plan to
move back to New England someday.
I (Carrie) am living in Seymour, CT. I am
the Christian education director for United
Congregational Church in Bridgeport. I have
been taking classes at Hartford Seminary School
Debbie Martin ’02 (left) and Kiva Leibowitz ’11 skate together for the
Hayden Synchronized Skating teams and did the walk for multiple
sclerosis this year.
to broaden my knowledge of Christian education. I have been working with children and
families in many different venues and offering
my talents to many. I hope all my fellow classmates are doing well and are flourishing in their
current paths.
N O T E S
Melissa Mignardi married Robert D’Angelo
on Oct. 18. She is in a new job as an assistant
teacher in a 3-6 classroom at a Montessori
school. Whitney Pacelli ALSO now has the
last name D’Angelo! She married Michael
D’Angelo at the Westmount Country Club in
West Patterson, NJ, on Aug. 31, 2007.
Whitney lives in New York City and is an
account executive for a European children’s
clothing showroom representing more than 20
European designers. Beth Simon received a
master’s in Literacy Birth to Grade 6 from The
College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, and now
lives in Parkland, FL, with Michael Harwood,
whom she married May 31. Melissa Arnold
Martin ’01 was one of the bridesmaids in
Beth’s wedding, and Mary McEachern attended. Beth teaches kindergarten at the Donna
Klein Jewish Academy in Boca Raton.
Kate O’Leary Swinburne and husband
Shane welcomed son Griffin on March 11. They
are enjoying parenthood very much! Debbie
Will married TJ Pruell in Scituate, MA, in June,
and they honeymooned in Mexico. “Some girls
from Pilgrim might remember his frequent visits,” she wrote.
Reunion 2009
2002
Jenna Ebert-Pina ’02/’07MS and husband Joe
were married on a beach on Cape Cod on Oct. 6,
2007. She loves every minute of her job teaching
sixth grade in Randolph, MA. In April, Lauren
Kasimer wrote: “I’m going to be marrying Lance
Chavin on Aug. 17, 2008, in Arlington, VA. I am
now living in Springfield, MA, with him and am
still teaching toddlers at the Springfield Jewish
Community Center nearby.” Nadia DeMasi
Keller wrote to announce that she, husband Joe,
and daughter Isabella welcomed daughter Gabriella
Alexa to the family last Dec. 30.
Debbie Martin and Kiva Leibowitz ’11
skate together for the Hayden Synchronized
Skating teams. “Kiva was on the Junior Lexettes
Team in 2007-2008,” Debbie wrote in April.
“They came out second at Nationals this year,
making Team USA! She will be a Haydenette
next season. They are the National Champions
for the Senior division (most prestigious!). I was
on the Adult and Masters Teams: Esprit de Corps
in 2007-2008 and will be on Esprit de Corps
Adult next season. We are second place nationally in Adult. Kiva and I got together this week
with our teams and did the walk for MS. One of
my teammates was diagnosed last season, and she
became the team manager for the Lexettes this
season. Donations can be made to the National
MS Society in the name of our teams: Hayden
Synchronized Skating Teams.”
2004
May 29-31
2005
Congratulations to Tim Putnam! In April, he
wrote: “I have been selected as a participant in the
October cycle of the Japan Fulbright Memorial
Fund Program. The grant allows me to travel for
three weeks with 200 other educators from around
the United States to Japan for cultural enrichment
and professional development.”
2007
Karen Peterkin is site coordinator for CATCH
(Children Achieving Through Community
Hope, a Roxbury-Weston Programs’ after-school
program), which serves kindergarten through
third-grade children with after-school educational
enrichment and support.
2008
Leslie Jordan is working with children at the
Winship Elementary School (Boston Public
Schools) in Brighton, MA, and is a member of the
Roxbury-Weston Programs’ board of trustees. In
June, she wrote, “I have been accepted to UMass
Boston Graduate College of Education/Teacher
Education Program for the fall of 2008.”
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C L A S S
N O T E S
M a s t e r ’s D e g r e e s
Jane Steele Milchen ’51/’69MS (See Class of ’51.)
Zelinda “Zee” Makepeace Douhan ’63/’75MS
(See Class of ’63.) Carole Tagg ’76MS is proud to
announce the completion of two successful years
operating her own management consulting business, Resources for Human Services in Waltham,
MA. “My business specializes in providing a variety
of corporate, public relations, development, and
human resource services to private nonprofit
human service and educational organizations,” she
wrote in March. “I also provide direct services to
individuals and families in the area of development
and cognitive disabilities. For more information,
contact me at caroletagg@comcast.net.” Lucy
Matson Hudson ’87MS, director of the Court
Teams for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers Project
at Zero to Three in Washington, D.C., wrote in
March about her important work: “At each of the
project’s demonstration sites, judges, attorneys,
social workers, mental health clinicians, and a wide
range of other community agency representatives
convene on a monthly basis to address the systemic
barriers to improving outcomes for very young
children in foster care. In the summer of 2008, the
four original teams will be joined by four more.
To learn more, you can visit http://zerotothree.org/
courtteams.” Pat Conzelman Greeley ’52/’90MS
(See Class of ’52.)
Lisa Sachs Goodman ’91MS wrote: “It’s so
nice to read about the wonderful things happening
at Wheelock. I use the knowledge I learned professionally as a school psychologist in a K-2 school
though I am using it now as a mom to 2-monthold Kate! It is amazing to watch the daily developmental changes in your own baby.” Anne Nolen
’95MS has co-written Mothers Need Time-Outs, Too
(McGraw-Hill). It is available on Amazon.com and
at Barnes & Noble and Wellesley (MA) Booksmith.
Alicia Carroll ’96MS, a teacher/mentor in the
Boston Public Schools, recently co-wrote an article
with Dr. Barbara Brown at Boston University for
the National Council of Social Studies. In “Beyond
Wildlife: Teaching about Africa and Stereotypes,”
printed in Social Studies and the Young Learner 20
(4), Alicia helps give educators recommendations
and lesson plans for teaching about Africa and
Africans. Maria Vanessa Jaramillo ’96/’98MS
(See Class of ’96.) Karen Moy Joe-Yen ’96/’99MS
(See Class of ’96.) Heather Clagett Andersen
’96/’01MS (See Class of ’96.)
Kimberly Wright Brooks ’05MS and new
husband Harvey had a beautiful wedding in
Riverside, CA, on March 15, and their reception
was held at a nearby American Legion post. Her
cousin performed the ceremony, and her brother
presented her to her husband at the altar.
“Hawaiian dancers performed the ‘Waterfall
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Fall 2008
Congratulations,
Craig Simpson ’89MS!
raig, who is the infant/toddler team leader at
the Yawkey Center for Early Education and Care
in Dorchester, modestly wrote to Brianne Kimble,
director of alumni relations, with some wonderful
news back in April.
“I usually don’t make public these events in my
life, but I thought Wheelock might be interested in
knowing that I just received the Abigail Eliot Award
from the Boston Association for the Education of
Young Children (BAEYC) at the Early Childhood Gala
in Randolph, April 18. This is an important award
given to pioneers in early childhood education, as
Abigail Eliot was. Other Wheelock people who have
received the award are [Wheelock faculty members]
Diane Levin [’69MS], Ed Klugman, and Gwen
Morgan [’76MS]. I believe I am the first teacher
and the third male to receive the award.
“Also, in May I will be attending the World Forum
of Men in Early Education in Hawaii. There will be
men teaching young children from Africa, Asia,
Ireland, and Europe. I will be one of the only attendees
from New England.”
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Carolyn Assad Norris, a daughter,
Zara Dilan
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Megan King Abbott, a daughter,
Brooke Catherine
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Stacy Dorfer, a daughter, Emily Grace
01
Kristy Volk Marriott, a son,
Adam Matthew
02
Nadia DeMasi Keller, a daughter,
Gabriella Alexa
02
Kate O’Leary Swinburne, a son, Griffin
Unions
93
Hilary Hoffman to Mark Sowers
93
Kimberly Roney to John Hatfield
02/07 Jenna Ebert to Joe Pina
02
Lauren Kasimer to Lance Chavin
02
Melissa Mignardi to Robert D’Angelo
02
Whitney Pacelli to Michael D’Angelo
02
Beth Simon to Michael Harwood
02
Debbie Will to TJ Pruell
Deaths
30
Agnes Bainton Thompson
32
Jeannette Ross Thomson
34
Helen Canning Sims
38
Barbara Kerr Calder
38
Adele Aronson Mason
38
Florence “Polly” Naylor Mohlere
39
Marjorie MacEachern Goehring
40
Marjorie Glendon Denaro
40
Martha Werneken Devlin
42
Ellen Stanton Farrell
42
Virginia Reynolds Huggins
42
Katharine Lewars Weymouth
Arrivals
45
Elizabeth Matthews Piper
91MS Lisa Sachs Goodman, a daughter, Kate
46
Phyllis Schuyler Lindsay
93
Norma Cañas McBride, a son, Jesse Ray
46
Barbara Robjent Moore
93
Wanda Yeomans Patterson, a daughter,
Katharine Grace
49
Mathilde “Teally” Clark Holmes
50
Betty Jane Jalley
Lisa Ann Strolin-Smith, a daughter,
Lindsay Ann
51
Jane Ann Hartzell Knebel
52
Mary MacKay Marcus
Amy Armstrong McCay, a son,
Callan Michael
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Maureen Murphy Coakley
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Elizabeth Van Horn Ratchford
Dance’; Riverside Poly High School Army ROTC
performed the Arch of Sabers Ceremony; and the
President and Mrs. Bush sent us their well wishes
from the White House,” Kimberly wrote. Jenna
Ebert-Pina ’02/’07MS (See Class of ’02.)
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96/99 Karen (Moy) and Anton (’99/’04MS)
Joe-Yen, a son, Sean Peter
Sally Clark Sloop ’68
to
the Future
Giving Back
S
ally Clark Sloop depended on student loans to attend Wheelock and
considers it the best educational investment of her life. “My Wheelock
education has been foundational in every aspect of my professional work
for the last 40 years and in the development of our family as well,” she says.
Sally was a classroom teacher for 25 years and for the last
15 years has worked in the disability and family support field,
a career shift influenced by her own experience as the parent
of a child with special needs. “If it had not been for my
Wheelock education, I would not have been able to understand what was possible and best for our son, Peter, so that he
could be successful,” she remembers. “Before we had any
special needs laws or programs in the schools, Wheelock was
already grounded in the philosophical belief that all children
have strengths and all children can learn. I am so impressed
now when I see that Wheelock students are still being taught
to focus on the individual child from the start, but within a
comprehensive scope that includes the family, community,
“I think that as
alumni, we need
to continue to be
responsible and
special needs, health care, and so much more.”
As a Cornerstone Society member, Sally feels she is giving
back — something she has always wanted to do. “I think
that as alumni, we need to continue to be responsible and
responsive to the new generation of teachers who are coming
up,” she says. “I remain inspired by my Class of ’68 and its
recent significant financial gifts to the College at our 40th
Reunion in June. To prepare young teachers to give the same quality of care to
children living in very different times than we did is so important.”
responsive to the
new generation of
teachers who are
coming up.”
Sally joined the Heritage Society this year too. She sees it as another way of
giving back, and to the future. “I am forever grateful for my education, and I
don’t know of a better cause than Wheelock,” she says. “It is my allegiance to
the mission of the College and to children and families of the future that makes
me want to contribute.”
For information about the Cornerstone Society and the Heritage
Society, call (617) 879-2328 or visit www.wheelock.edu/giving.
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Calendar
of Events
Wheelock
Family Theatre
November 19 • 5:30-8:30 p.m.
2008 – 2009
Season
WFT Drama:
Saint Joan
Alumni Association Board Meeting
43 Hawes Street, Brookline Campus
December 4 • 5:30 p.m.
Alumni Book Group
Alumni Relations Office
43 Hawes Street, Brookline Campus
October 31–November 30
George Bernard Shaw’s provocative
drama about the life and
trial of Joan of Arc
December 11 • 6:00-10:00 p.m.
Alumni Night at the Holiday Pops!
Reception at 43 Hawes Street,Brookline Campus
& transportation to Symphony Hall for concert
Contact (617) 879-2302
WFT Musical:
Seussical
January 3-10, 2009
Alumni Community Service Trip to New Orleans
Contact Brianne Kimble at (617) 879-2261
or bkimble@wheelock.edu
January 30–March 1
A musical adaptation of the
whimsical wordplay and colorful
characters of Dr.Seuss
by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty
February 15-21, 2009
Alumni Travel Program to Northern Ireland
Contact Lauren Thorman at
Lthorman@wheelock.edu
WFT Children’s Show:
Charlotte’s Web
March 8-14, 2009
Student and Alumni Study Tour to Puerto Rico
Contact Brianne Kimble at (617) 879-2261
or bkimble@wheelock.edu
For more information and event updates,
watch your monthly E-Newsletter,check
the College website at www.wheelock.edu,
or e-mail alumnirelations@wheelock.edu.
llustration by Joni Liberman
April 10–May 10
E.B.White’s classic children’s tale
of a friendship that
transcends differences —
truly a story for all ages
To improve the lives of children and families
200 The Riverway
Boston, MA
02215-4176
(617) 879-2123
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