Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011
Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011
Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011
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44 - Quadrangle<br />
At the Curry Club gathering in Toronto on May 28, <strong>2011</strong> L-R: Lillian<br />
Skinner Singh ’39, Barb Eadie Ruttle ’78, Neil Ruttle, Veer Singh,<br />
Bobby Singh ’86, Barbara Herman ‘S, Ruth Graham Hilliard ’40<br />
Ruby MOODY’S daughter, Martha. Steve &<br />
Martha had a daughter named Lizzie. Now, a<br />
generation later, MERRILL MOW’S grandson,<br />
Andrew has married Lizzie Wiser, who<br />
is DOUG’s & my common granddaughter!<br />
In closing his message, ARTHUR writes:<br />
as we all, Class of 37, draw near the end of<br />
our lives, I want to thank & greet the others<br />
for our yrs together. We have a lot to be<br />
grateful for. LAURENCE BURKHALTER’s<br />
daughter, Karol Crosbie is the editor of the<br />
Wooster College <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>. Over<br />
the yrs, she has brought him into contact<br />
with members of the Wooster/WS connection.<br />
These include ALFIE CAMPBELL (P),<br />
GORDON SHULL ’41, TOM STRICKLER<br />
’40, JANE WALLACE ANDERSON ’46 &<br />
BOB ’43 & ELLEN (S) ALTER. Following a<br />
visit with several of these folks last spring, I<br />
was sent a copy of an article by the late BOB<br />
ALTER, written in Mar ’11, entitled On Being<br />
a Christian Agnostic. I recommend the<br />
article to all who, like myself, question the<br />
accuracy of many Biblical stories. On the<br />
cover of the article is a beautiful photograph<br />
with the title Dawn Over the Tehri Hills from<br />
BOB ALTER’S Bench at Oakville.—Burky<br />
Class of 1939<br />
LOWELL BOLLINGER (as reported by<br />
his wife Joanne): after 22 yrs of dealing<br />
rather successfully with the challenges of<br />
Alzheimer’s, Lowell has entered a care<br />
facility in a pleasant location in ME. At 88,<br />
he is an active, engaging man with limited<br />
cognition, playing at horseshoes, swimming<br />
& taking walks. He continues to remember<br />
that his time in India was an extremely important<br />
part of his life as well as describing<br />
in his limited way that he was a sports hero in<br />
those early days. We all remember our Sports<br />
Day athlete. LORITA SHULL FISHER lost<br />
her husband of 66 yrs on Apr 9. He had an<br />
operation for a valve replacement, which<br />
was successful. However, it was followed<br />
by 2 debilitating strokes that left him unable<br />
to swallow, helpless &<br />
unaware of anything. In<br />
honoring his advance<br />
directive, which indicated<br />
he must not be<br />
kept alive artificially,<br />
if he lost his brain, the<br />
family brought him<br />
home to be under the<br />
care of hospice for 10<br />
days. He was a remarkable<br />
individual with<br />
many accomplishments<br />
including a career as<br />
diplomat in the Foreign<br />
Service, author, professor<br />
& world traveler. Lorita’s daughter Kathy,<br />
a nurse, lives in an apartment in our home<br />
& is a great support for her. Lorita continues<br />
to be in good health and spirits. CAMERON<br />
LYON reports that he did nothing notable<br />
this yr. He & Lorraine attended the WOSA/<br />
NA reunion in Eugene OR where he had a<br />
good visit with DOROTHY LLEWELLYN<br />
RODGERS. Dottie lost her husband, Dick<br />
Wilson, who died peacefully at home with<br />
hospice help on Feb 12. By moving to a<br />
retirement community in Bloomington, IN,<br />
to be near her daughter and family, she is<br />
adjusting to a new life in a new environment.<br />
Her activities include taking part in:<br />
a reading club, bean bag baseball, chair<br />
volleyball, ½ hr. exercise classes.& sorting<br />
files which she didn’t have the energy to do<br />
before she left CA. JOHN MANRY has just<br />
finished his 5th yr at Edgemont Retirement<br />
suites in Calgary, CAN. He says he is well<br />
looked after but is slowing down – ‘I sure<br />
couldn’t handle the Landour khud now’. He<br />
does find various projects to keep him busy<br />
& appreciates the help from his daughter<br />
who lives close by. HENRY SCHOLBERG<br />
was proud to represent the Class of 39 when<br />
he attended the 150th anniversary of WS<br />
in Mussoorie in 04, Henry’s name was on<br />
the Wall of Fame at the MN History Center<br />
during the 09-10 exhibit of The Greatest<br />
Generation, for service in Dr. Ancel Keys’<br />
starvation experiment. He was also the honored<br />
recipient of the Immortal Chaplains<br />
for Humanity, as a non-combatant volunteer<br />
during WW II. This yr, he celebrated his<br />
90th birthday & 60th wedding anniversary.<br />
LAWRENCE TEMPLIN reports they are<br />
living in a house they built 45 yrs ago, in a<br />
mutual care-giving arrangement with their<br />
son, with a little help from their local home<br />
health org. He writes poetry – at a rate of 1 to<br />
2 per wk, which is about par for my reluctant<br />
Muse. MARY LONG VATH is doing pretty<br />
well, considering she has pulmonary disease<br />
& osteoporosis. Her appreciated caregiver<br />
is her son-in-law, in whose house she now<br />
lives & with whom she shares her limited<br />
life.—Lorita<br />
Class of 1940<br />
It’s been great keeping up with all 10 grands<br />
and 12 greats as they participate in various<br />
bike races & tours. BILL SUPPLEE keeps<br />
remembering how invigorating it was for<br />
him he was their age. Now he spectates<br />
& applauds! A reasonably content retiree,<br />
NORM WILLIAMS lives in Riderwood<br />
Village, Silver Spring, MD. with wife Wini,<br />
whom he married 68 yrs ago after working<br />
as a deckhand on a Great Lakes ship delivering<br />
coal to the blast furnaces in Gary IN. He<br />
had rejected military conscription & flunked<br />
out of Oberlin College, where they had met.<br />
He served in various government roles on<br />
environmental issues, primarily the control of<br />
strip mining for coal in WV & in Congress,<br />
nationally. They have 5 grown children,<br />
all living their own interesting lives. He is<br />
writing his memoirs (entitled My Life with<br />
Wini) & cursing Microsoft for its absolutely<br />
abominable Windows Vista program. He also<br />
published Gandhi’s American Ally: how an<br />
educational missionary joined the Mahatma’s<br />
struggle against untouchability, iUniverse,<br />
2008. DAVID MOOMAW is now mostly<br />
retired from volunteer medical practice and<br />
remains well & in touch with the ‘County We<br />
Care’ medical program in Jacksonville FL,<br />
with the mission to provide medical care for<br />
uninsured & underinsured patients in the area.<br />
Yesterday marked the arrival of his 2nd great<br />
grandchild, born in Winter Park FL.—Bill<br />
Class of 1941<br />
It saddens HELEN CONSER MAYBURY<br />
that so many of the class have passed away.<br />
She & her husband recently celebrated their<br />
65th wedding anniversary with children &<br />
grandchildren in San Francisco. They now<br />
have 10 wonderful grandchildren. Helen<br />
recently published a book, entitled For the<br />
Souls & Soils of India, a memoir of her<br />
parents who were 2 courageous individuals<br />
who resolved to serve God & His people.<br />
They spent 37 years in India as well as 9<br />
yrs in Home Missions after their retirement.<br />
In addition to their personal history, their<br />
letters tell the story of India during a time<br />
of tremendous upheaval & historical significance,<br />
meetings with great leaders, such<br />
as Jawaharlal Nehru & Mahatma Gandhi, as<br />
well as Vinoba Bhave, the author of the landgift<br />
or sarvodaya movement. A non-violent<br />
revolutionary in the tradition of Gandhi, he<br />
collected millions of acres of land to distribute<br />
to the landless. The book can be ordered<br />
online at xlibris.com or amazon.com.—Helen