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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oat. ANNE HINDERER LOPEZ MOR-<br />
RIS lives in Chico CA, near the OR border.<br />
She was at WS in 56-57 & will never<br />
forget it, loved it there. Now retired, 3<br />
kids, 3 grandkids (almost all grown up),<br />
works a little at the library, voluntees at a<br />
homeless shelter. JIM MCKELVEY continues<br />
to live in the wooded hills just N of<br />
Colorado Springs in an underground, passive<br />
solar home he built. Now retired from<br />
teaching, Jim spends his time in Bible<br />
study, running, biking, volunteering for<br />
driving groups and rebuilding in disaster<br />
areas, gardening. Singing to God’s glory<br />
is his passion, in church, see first-pres.org,<br />
and to shut-in groups. JULIA RITTER-<br />
SHAUSEN BEERS & Jim are enjoying<br />
Carpe Diem, where she still dyes fabrics,<br />
performs on her dad’s violin now, travels,<br />
attends concerts & plays, preserves her<br />
local hills in Whittier CA & finds fun in<br />
every day web.me.com/gojulia. ANIL<br />
RAIKHY enjoys retirement in Pacific<br />
Palisades CA, plays tennis 3-4 time per<br />
wk, eating healthy foods & traveling (latest<br />
cruise to Panama Canal) with Liz.<br />
Daughter, Nicole, is not married, so no<br />
grandkids, but a new Yorkshire Terrier<br />
puppy. JIM RUGH though retired, continues<br />
to provide training in evaluation to<br />
staff & partners of many int’l developm’t<br />
agencies. During the past yr he traveled to<br />
14 countries. Recognized as one of the<br />
leading experts of int’l program evaluation,<br />
he received a lifetime achievement<br />
award from the profession & is the American<br />
rep to the Int’l Org for Cooperation<br />
in Evaluation, where he serves as VP.<br />
ANGELA SANDERS enjoys retirement &<br />
works with others trying to get summer<br />
jobs for Nepalese students who attend<br />
college in the US. She enjoyed a WOSA<br />
group meeting in Naples Fl where she met<br />
with the FORSGRENS (S) & others. LES-<br />
LIE SAUER & Sharon celebrated the arrival<br />
of their 4th grandchild, Eli<br />
Christopher Foraker-Sauer, on Jun 17.<br />
PENNY SHUMAKE) PIETRE continues<br />
to be involved with her non-profit org,<br />
grandchildren, travel, friends & music.<br />
BONNIE MCGRAW ’59 visited her recently,<br />
and she looks forward to seeing<br />
DALE FINLAYSON ’59 soon & anyone<br />
who comes this way. SAGAR RANA &<br />
EDITH THEIS-NIELSEN had a chat by<br />
phone. SAGAR is fine with no major<br />
health issues & still lives in Lalitpur, Nepal<br />
with his wife. His daughter, now 40,<br />
has 2 children (14 & 15). ALAN ROBIN-<br />
SON & Yvonne continue to thrive on the<br />
hilltop at Kaeo, NZ. The latest idea is to<br />
start plantations of timber trees of various<br />
sorts, on a relatively large scale, to help<br />
combat global warming & to be able to<br />
earn by selling carbon credits, starting<br />
with about 12,000 pine trees & a few<br />
thousand redwoods. JAGDISH SAGAR<br />
worked 38 yrs as a civil servant with many<br />
interesting tasks. He took a law degree in<br />
’06 which was 2 yrs after retirement & is<br />
now a partner in India’s leading intellectual<br />
property law firm, Anand & Anand,<br />
practicing in New Delhi. Wife, Gita, is<br />
also a retired civil servant. They have a<br />
married daughter, but no grandkids & a<br />
son, who is not married. JAGDEV SINGH<br />
is still doing family practice in Alamogordo<br />
NM until he has enough money to retire,<br />
but he is seriously thinking of<br />
reducing his workload substantially. He &<br />
his wife, a retired lawyer, travel all they<br />
can to many interesting parts of the world:<br />
Europe, India, S America & the US. DA-<br />
VID STEIN & Achva have become involved<br />
in developing a Master Plan for the<br />
Greenbelt in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, where<br />
they visited twice this yr & have been<br />
tremendously recharged by the renewed<br />
contact with the problems & opportunities.<br />
It represents a microcosm of all the issues<br />
involved in creating a sustainable response<br />
to the impossibility of creating an American/European<br />
standard of living for the<br />
entire world. They also welcome visits<br />
from friends at their home in Jersey City<br />
- only 2 stops from Manhattan on the<br />
PATH train! BOB WALTNER & Barbara<br />
(S) continue settling into their retirement<br />
in Mulvane KS. They are engaged in gardening,<br />
book discussion groups & travel<br />
to see 4 grandchildren. Bob’s trip to Taiwan<br />
was delayed by several mos with<br />
unexpected double bypass heart surgery,<br />
but good recovery. BARRY WHETSTONE<br />
continues to enjoy retirement yrs & stays<br />
in touch with brothers David ’63 & Raymond<br />
’69. He enjoys visiting with grandsons<br />
in Birmingham, AL, but the highlight<br />
of the yr was the birth of a granddaugher<br />
in May. Grace Adair Whetstone was named<br />
for her great grandmother, great-great<br />
grandmother & great-great grandfather.—<br />
Edith<br />
Class of 1961<br />
JULIE BUNCE ELFVING continues to be<br />
active with the Extension Master Gardeners<br />
program, which provides enjoyable<br />
camaraderie & a sense of giving back to<br />
the community. She serves on the board<br />
& exec committee of The KS Rural Center,<br />
was involved in the search for a new<br />
Exec. Dir. Water aerobics, karate & tai<br />
chi round out the active side of her life.<br />
Quadrangle - 61<br />
She took a brief garden-focused trip to the<br />
Brandywine Valley area of eastern PA &<br />
Philly area. At the WOSA reunion in Jul<br />
she enjoyed conversations with Max, Walt,<br />
Woody & other WS alumni.: During the<br />
last yr WALT BELL managed to achieve<br />
3 bucket list items: a rim-to-rim hike of<br />
the Grand Canyon, climbing Mt. Sinai &<br />
a hole-in-one in golf (1st in 50 yrs). They<br />
travelled to the Middle East a yr ago. Syria<br />
was calm at the time & they had a wonderful<br />
trip, including a visit to Damascus.<br />
They were especially blessed to visit the<br />
site where Saul (enroute from Jerusalem<br />
to Damascus) supposedly stopped to<br />
water his horse & was blinded by the<br />
Lord. A grandmother with her daughters<br />
& granddaughter gave us some apples &<br />
coffee. One of the greatest experiences of<br />
his life! MIMI SORLEY HINTERKOPF<br />
had delightful visits with WILLI KRE-<br />
ITZ in TN in Jun & JANET SMITH in<br />
KY.WILLI WELLMAN KREITZ is still<br />
living in TN, made it thru this very hot<br />
summer because of AC! Looking forward<br />
to a long & pleasant autumn, if hopes &<br />
prayers are answered. The highlight for<br />
SUZANNE LA ROCQUE MCCLINTOCK<br />
has been the birth of the 1st grandchild,<br />
Gavin David McClintock, in May. She is<br />
still in Sheridan WY exercising, gardening<br />
& a few crafts. Travels have been to<br />
the NE states last fall for leaf peeping,<br />
Dallas & Branson & St. Louis MO for<br />
fun & mtgs. Husband is the AARP WY<br />
state Rep for the tax prep program. BAR-<br />
BARA MACDONALD does watercolors,<br />
has joined the Kitchener Waterloo Art<br />
Society, is thinking of doing landscapes of<br />
Mussoorie. Grandson continues to grow &<br />
dazzle. PAUL MCGRAW’s son Oliver (26)<br />
was married at their IN house overlooking<br />
the Ohio River, officiated by Paul’s sister<br />
BONNIE ’59. He & Marty have enjoyed<br />
visits from old friends, including Phyllis,<br />
the widow of JIM MCMEEKIN, who recently<br />
remarried. In their camping trailer,<br />
they visited HENRY PRESLER ’58 & others<br />
& Paul helped JOHN WILSON cut 100<br />
foot tall Aspen trees for firewood. JOHN<br />
PARK was at WS only in gr 9. Although<br />
at 1st he hated having to go to India, it<br />
was an amazing yr & he has many fond<br />
memories of escapades & experiences.<br />
He returned to CAN, got an engineering<br />
degree, worked for a couple of yrs, got<br />
a MBA, worked as a mngmt consultant,<br />
then started his own co & retired at the<br />
ripe old age of 54. Now he is a compulsive<br />
day trader in the stock market. This spring<br />
MAX STEINKE & Judy bought a RV, reportedly<br />
to simplify traveling. They found