JANET EDLEFSEN finally retired fully this past spring, just in time for her 70th
birthday. It was hard to close her counseling practice after 40 years,
but the time had come! Frank and she are enjoying free time and good
health, and have spent
many weeks this summer out cruising on their boat.
DONALD CAMP spent a week in Delhi, Bangalore, and Madras in February seeing old friends; Arun Kapur treated him to a great lunch and many memories in Delhi. He is still living in the DC area but heading to NYC for the autumn to be the South Asia area advisor for the US mission to the UN for three months.
DONALD CAMP spent a week in Delhi, Bangalore, and Madras in February seeing old friends; Arun Kapur treated him to a great lunch and many memories in Delhi. He is still living in the DC area but heading to NYC for the autumn to be the South Asia area advisor for the US mission to the UN for three months.
CATE WHITCOMB continues to be employed at Chautauqua in the
summer and for the WCTU the rest of the year and with spouse JACK HINZ (S) is
an active member of the League of Women Voters and their Methodist
church. Travel to India in March 2018 with 11 Whitcomb family members,
including siblings JOHN ('69), PATRICIA ('72) and BOB ('77) culminated in a
three-day visit to Mussoorie and Woodstock.
BETSY TAYLOR had great fun with her cousin, Ginny Taylor exploring the Cincinnati
home places of our paternal grandmother -- Dr. Elizabeth Siehl
Taylor -- mother of John Taylor
('29) and Carl Taylor ('32). Betsy has been busy in her role as director of
LiKEN -- a link-tank that connects scholars with communities. Based in
Lexington KY, she enjoyed travels out West to various forums about climate
change and post-carbon energy transition.
CARLTON HOKE managed to get his entire family together for a
cruise this summer to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
After 52 years, KAREN SMYRES WOLNER made it back to India in
early April with son and daughter as well as sister, PEGGY ('72). It was
a wonderful trip and great to share that part of her life with her
"children". They left some of dad's and mom's ashes in Sisters
Bazaar as that is where they first lived while in language school.
REBECCA HILL CORD still lives in the dense woods of eastern
Texas, but traveled to Abu Dhabi to her niece graduate at NYU there. Son
Matthew and daughter Zoe, have moved in with her after his wife’s long illness.
She is very much enjoying being a grandmother; she still wants to
travel but enjoys the nature of east Texas if not the politics.
DAVE THOMPSON retired from
IBM at the end of June after 37 years with the company and almost immediately
left with his wife Eleta Jones for a 2-week road trip vacation in Sweden which
was just the right antidote to the sense of un-tetheredness that accompanied
turning in his company laptop and home office phone. Dave and Eleta
continue to live in Hartford, CT, where they are both active in the local
Quaker Meeting, and Dave is now pursuing his lifelong dream of becoming a
flight instructor which carries deep roots from his experiences at Woodstock.
CLAIRE BLICKENSTAFF BEERY retired from teaching at Santa Rosa Junior
College and is enjoying more time for family, music, gardening and planning
their 5-week trip to India in October with husband Bill Haigwood, daughter Zoë,
3 friends and a week in Mussoorie. Bill published his 4th novel and is
working on the next set in the late 60s in Berkeley.
MIRIAM HAQQ PRABHKAR, enjoying partial retirement, had her
three sons with family, visit her in India from the States. It has been 10
years since they were all together in India. It was great to introduce her two grandsons,
Isaiah and Micah to the birth place of their father; they loved it and adapted
so well!!
LINDA GAMBLE MCKENDRY enjoys the variety of
consulting, writing, face painting, jewelry selling (her sister's) and playing
piano at events when invited but notes too many memorial services these days. Husband
Jim still cautious with health issues. Her children and grandchildren are
doing well; God is good.
MARY ELLEN FRITSCHLE NOGGLE says her dad turned 100 in April
and she turned 70 three days later. The family feels very blessed to have him
this long as they lost their mom so young (Mary had just turned 18). Her
daughter Stephenie got married in July and her dad did the ceremony. All is well with “me and mine,” God is so, so
good.
PHIL DEVOL wrote that the poverty prevention work he is
involved in continues to expand to more communities and into new sectors so he
is sticking with it for a while longer. More and more he feels drawn to
sitting on verandahs and porches with family and friends.
KATHY COLEMAN YORK wrote that son Raymond married his
sweetheart Cristina in January in Costa Rica. Kathy and husband Pat are staying
active in various activities with their Seniors Association. They head to their
home in Sarasota mid November but plan on selling it this winter.
RUTH YODER DYAL’S husband Jim, passed away on June 9.
2018 - 10 days short of his 90th birthday. Although her house seems large and
empty she continues her medical practice which she loves, doing both the Ob and
the Gyn. Son Jamie is applying for fellowships in Pediatric Cardiology
and twin Jon is in a fellowship in Global Health through Harvard.
WARREN REES celebrated his 70th
birthday with Children and Grandchildren by renting a cottage at Callaway
Gardens - had so much fun that they did it again this year. On December 20,
Warren and Marie celebrate their 50th anniversary. Everyone they
knew in college said that they would last only six months, so he’s going to
take out a large ad AJC to show them that they were wrong.
JOHN CHAFFEE published a book, the result of many years of
research, entitled The Muslim Merchants
of Premodern China: The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750-1400 (Cambridge).
Second (and more fun), he led a group of 16 Chaffees and friends on a two-week
tour of China June 2018, splitting stops between tourist standards and out of
the ordinary places.
SUSY MCCULLOCH FRIEDERICKS and RICHARD FRIEDERICKS are
enjoying retirement in Port Townsend, where they remodeled bathrooms and
landscaped their back yard when not visiting children and grandchildren. Spring
2018 they took a 3-week driving tour of England and Scotland revisiting some of
Richard’s memories from when he lived there long ago. Both have been on their
local radio station, KPTZ, playing music from South Asia and Richard’s novel, Windhorse
Warrior, was published in India last August.
SHERRY SERGEANT COX and husband Steve are in good
health; Steve turned 65 this year and is contemplating retirement in 2019
and Sherry continues part time work, Bible studies, teaching Korean and
Japanese women English, a mission trip to Honduras, and enjoying being
grandparents. Daughter Sarah works for a chiropractor and her husband
Tony is a Major in the USAF; daughter Stephanie and husband John, with the
Highway Patrol, have 2 daughters and another granddaughter due in February
2019.
PETER PETERSON and wife Sheri are happy and healthy with the
exception of knee (Sheri) and hip (Pete) replacement. We have an active
life in NW Arkansas with the added blessing of our grandson, Ben. He has been working on digitizing his and his
dad’s photo slides dating back to 1946 and, of course, a slide history of his
parents' years in India; he thinks he’s half done with 1000’s of slides.
Raj Isar has
been Education Director for the Geneva-based Aga Khan Trust for Culture since
early 2017 and carries out the tasks this involves from his homes in Paris and
Goa, where he and Galia Saouma spend 7 months of the year. He is now
Professor Emeritus at The American University of Paris, Visiting Professor at
the University of Ahmedabad and Distinguished Scholar/Robert Schuman Fellow at
the European University Institute, Florence.
IN
MEMORIUM: JUDITH SCHEURMANN BENDER, dearest
classmate, passed away March 13, 2018. There was a memorial service for her on Hat
Island on June 2, 2018. She suffered
from COPD and was waiting for a double lung transplant. She is survived by her
husband Larry, son Jon Lee, another son and daughter Chanelle as well as
grandchildren. She had worked as a model
and was an artist and poet.
