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September 2012


WICKLERS … (from page 1) sota (1953). Upon his arrival, he became a faculty member in the College of Education, where he su- pervised and coordinated the work- load of education students ready for student teaching. He also taught Practical Arts in the High School. During the 1955-1956 school year,


Howard Wickler became involved in the development and approval of a new curriculum offering a major in Industrial Arts and a minor in Agri- culture. The Philippine Bureau of Private Schools had included Practi- cal or Industrial Arts and Gardening in both Elementary and Secondary schools, disciplines which Silliman


already had experience in because of Mr. Glunz’s role in the devel- opment of the Industrial Arts program at the then Silliman Institute. (See June issue of PortalXtra on the Glunz family.) Rolando V. Magdamo, Danecio Flores andMaglintis Familar were recruited as new faculty for the implementation of the new program, given scholarships for graduate studies, and all subsequently taught at both high school and college levels. They carried the program on after the Wicklers left in 1971. In addition to all these responsibilities, Professor Wickler served


on the College of Arts and Sciences faculty where he was the Assis- tant to the Dean of Instruction in Visual Aids and was a member of the “troika” administration for the High School when no principal could be found to succeed Mrs. Fe Mancao. Dorothy Wickler became the Librarian of the Elementary school


Library which she organized and secured books for through churches in the United States. Free transportation for these books was pro- vided by the US Navy from California to Subic Bay and this practice continued until the writing and publication of children’s books in the Philippines was started. She was also a member of the Silliman Uni- versity Orchestra. When the Bureau of Public Schools would no longer allow Doro-


thy to work at Silliman without a college degree, she was undeterred and decided to pursue her undergraduate studies at Silliman Univer- sity. In 1971, she earned a B. S. degree, summa cum laude, with a major in Religious Studies and a minor in Library Science. She credits help in the pursuit of the required courses in Library Science to a visiting Librarian from Florida who had come to Silliman to organize books for the library. As early residents of Silliman Park, they realized the difficulty in


attending the Silliman Church’s mid-week prayer services due to its distance from the university and the travel time involved, so they began prayer services for the Park residents at their home and host- ing at other homes soon followed within the community. These Bible study groups have been reported to continue through the early 21st century. The Wicklers also participated in the Galilean Fellowships and other activities of the Silliman Church where Howard served as an elder. The Wicklers lived at Silliman for 16 years and they welcomed


into their family two more sons, Stephen and Roger, who were born in the Silliman hospital. In the true Wickler tradition, their children


eration and owns his own business in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he and his wife presently reside. Stephen Kent Wickler (B.S., Univ. of MN; M.S.,


Ph.D., Univ. of Hawaii) is working for the government of Norway as a marine archaeologist. He has 3 sons. Roger Edwin Allen-Wickler, wife Chris and their two daughters live in Sutton’s Bay, MI where they are in the business of producing “wearable art”. Both have BA degrees in Fine Arts from the Univ. of MN and MA degrees from Michigan. In addition to being proud great grandparents to eight with two more on the way, the Wicklers are also proud to share some of the achievements of their grandchildren with the Silliman family. Grandson Philip Lambrecht and his wife Kim, first


worked under the Wycliffe Bible Translators in Spain and later found themselves in the tribal villages of Cambodia where they translated their oral language into written lan- guage for use in Bible translation. Corrie Lambrecht Gird- ner, an astrophysicist, works in the observatory at the Uni- versity of New Mexico. Her hus-


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and grandchildren (a total of 12), now live very interesting and fulfilling lives in the United States and around the world in the countries of China, Norway and Canada. Daughter Diane has a B.S. in Education and teaches art


in elementary and high schools across Kansas. Diane and her husband, Herman Lambrecht, a Methodist minister, also served as Salvation Army officers for 15 years. They have four adult children. During her years at Silliman, daughter Diane Kay was involved in the CYF, Pilgrim choir, GSP, Junior Sillimanian and the Junior Homemakers’ Club. She returned to Silliman for a visit on Founders’ Day 2011.


Karen Wickler Moore (B.S., Biology, M.S., Botany)


and her husband, Doug, a Lutheran minister, have three children and live in New Brunswick, Calgary. Bruce Wick- ler got a certificate in air-conditioning, heating and refrig-


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