CLASS NOTES
7 months old and cruising around furniture. I have the privilege of being with her three days a week and she does keep me busy. I also continue to support our soldiers and do family readiness for the unit on the weekends when they are training. Since I live in an active, over-55 community, I decided to join the architectural committee and be an active volunteer in our community. I also support the activities of the Tigard American Legion as we do community service and support our veterans. Hope you are all well and active.
Martha Boyer Saunders ’59 Since my forced retirement a year
ago I have tried to make my spare time profitable both for the community and reaching out to other interests. I now volunteer with the American Cancer Society, providing support to patients receiving chemo infusions, in Bend. I am also completing two online courses through Central Oregon Community College in veterinarian assistant classes. And finally, I am presently in training to help with the census taking effort, which is quite challenging despite what my initial opinion was!
1960s
Carolyn (Van Winkle) Shannon ’60 Life is pretty much the same since I
retired. I still volunteer at one of our local hospices—visiting home/nursing home patients as well as assisting one day a week in the inpatient quads. I still continue to serve as deacon in my parish, encouraging local, national, and international outreach as needs arise. I attended the 50th reunion in June and enjoyed seeing classmates whom I haven’t seen for 50 years!
Barbara Torango Sullivan ’62 Unlike most of my contemporaries,
I still work. I’m a customer service rep at Vision Service Plan, the number one vision insurance company in the USA. I’ve been there for the past 11 years. Before that I taught and competed in
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ballroom dancing, was a model, sold real estate, and also sold advertising for an equine publication and subscriptions to Music Circus in Sacramento. I bred and showed Warmbloods and Arabians in dressage. I have just started breeding Pembroke Welsh Corgis. My first litter turned out very well. My husband and I go to a lot of musical theater in Sacramento, Modesto, San Francisco, Davis, and Santa Rosa. When I’m not working, the puppies and the theater keep us very busy.
Ellen Wheeler Guest ’65 Broadway bound! Jeanne Haile
Edwards, Mary Lampson, and Ellen Wheeler Guest are Broadway Bound, cruising from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to New York City on May 2. Ellen and her family (husband George and son Jud) invited Mary and Jeanne to join them on a quick last-minute cruise headed to Manhattan for some Big Apple fun. Ellen Wheeler Guest is working on
our 45th class reunion. Nancy Bishop Dietrich is planning our “dorm” accommodations at The Red Lion on the River in Janzen Beach ... just like we did for our Fabulous Fortieth! Mark your calendar from Friday, October 1, through Sunday, Oct 3, 2010 ... and make plans to be there! Classmates ... please contact Ellen at makanui@yahoo. com and indicate whether you can come or not.
Emily Zell ’67 I love teaching. I have two
daughters, Angela and Alexandra, and one granddaughter, Amara.
Marybeth Merwin Buck ’69 I am enjoying my fifth year of
retirement. I taught for 30 years in the West Linn School District. I keep very busy and get together with Paige Plummer Hasson ‘69 a lot. My husband, Ken, and I have been missionaries to Haiti each year since 2006. This year’s trip, however, was canceled due to the effects of the earthquake. We might go on an extra trip there a little later on this year to help with the building of temporary
housing for the refugees in the Les Cayes area (about five hours west of Port-au- Prince). I am the current coordinator for “Hope for Kidz,” which is a yearly sponsorship program for students in Haiti. If anyone would like to learn more about it you can email me at
MBsophierose@aol.com. My husband and I have been able to meet the two kids we are sponsoring—VERY special. The Haitians have definitely become like family to us. In my spare time I am working on my art skills. I was not the “artistic” kind in school (I was in Glee Club), but am really enjoying mixed media collage and other forms of art that keep my creative juices flowing. I have been blessed in many ways!
1970s
Kathryn Reynolds Janssen ’71 In the picture, that’s me in August
2009 posing on my 56th birthday with a neighborhood dog I regularly walk before going out to dinner (I don’t walk the dog in heels and pearls!) Life is very busy, despite my own
retirement in 2002 and my husband’s retirement a few years after that. We travel a great deal, still taking our bicycles with us on European trips, and yet doing a little more cycling in California and Oregon these days as well. We’re healthy and able to (almost)
Kathryn Reynolds Janssen ’71
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