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President’s DeskApparently Wyoming Seminaryis the place to be in the summer!This year’s summer termprogramming experienced solidenrollment and great success,most notably in our Lower Schoolsummer activities, English as aSecond Language (ESL) Institute,wrestling camp, girls basketballprogram, College Prep Instituteand our largest program, thePerforming Arts Institute (PAI).One of PAI’s weekly conductors,LTC (Ret) Tim Foley, a highlyregardedformer director of theU. S. Marine Band “The President’s Own,” commented, “I can’t beginto tell you how much I enjoyed my week with PAI…It seems to methat music and the arts offer the one sure way we will always have toconnecting and communicating with one another. And as we witness theendless wars, unspeakable violence, cynicism and alienation, paralysisand hypocrisy of our elected officials – and a society generally spinningout of control – music and the arts send a simple and clear message thatit’s possible to create, rather than to destroy. The gift of music that youand the good folks at Wyoming Seminary are offering to the youngpeople in our Northeast Pennsylvania community is priceless.”Arts education is certainly about creation and PAI’s highly entertainingperformance of “West Side Story” was a highlight of the summer.Now, at the beginning of our 169 th year, I am pleased to report thatour enrollment appears to be turning a corner in a positive direction.Although we had three iconic teachers retire last year, I am enthusiasticabout our outstanding group of new faculty and staff members. Inaddition, we have some major projects both in planning and underwaythat will help to attract new students and families to Sem:•••Early Childhood initiatives: With the help of a major gift, Sem hasopened an expanded early childhood center in a newly renovatedfacility adjacent to campus. The facility houses our new ToddlerProgram and expands our preschool program.STEM: Science teacher Rachel Bartron, the new director of theLouis Maslow School of Science, Technology, Engineering andMath (STEM), has been busy leading the design of this excitingprogram, generously funded by the Maslow Family.Digital Learning Environment: Once again this year, each fourthgradestudent is using a laptop computer to access the universe ofinformation and learn how to make sense of all that information,under the nurturing guidance of their teachers. The third gradersnow each have an iPad to engage their learning. We continue toupgrade our very strong wireless environment that encourages anoptional “bring your own device” (BYOD) technology program inboth the Middle-School and the Upper School.A most exciting time•Sprague Avenue: In June, the Kingston Council approved anordinance to permit the closing of Sprague Avenue, which will beaccomplished sometime this fall.•••Carpenter Athletic Center: Spectacular new windows in theCarpenter Athletic Center have produced a like-new building oncampus. The windows also will help with both heating and cooling.Center for the Creative Arts: Plans are coming together for thedesign of a new 600-seat auditorium, instruction and rehearsalspace and art gallery.Football and Nesbitt Stadium: The school is now in the process ofhiring a new football coach to assist in our efforts to return footballto Sem. We also are working on plans to transform Nesbitt Stadiuminto two lighted turf fields that can accommodate all our fieldsports, including baseball and softball.Our goals for the 2012-13 year are linked to the Accreditation Self-Studynow underway, in preparation for a re-accreditation visit in Fall, 2013.The self-study goals will include reflections and recommendations forimprovements in the following areas in particular:• Communications• Programs•Financial Management•People: to help provide a healthy school culture and design a salaryphilosophy, system and evaluation plan that meets the strategic needsand mission and guarantees our school will maintain the ability toattract, retain and reward those who most reflect that mission.This is a most exciting time in education, as the Sem community movestowards creating a 21 st Century School. We are studying and askingquestions about the skills and values that this century will demand andreward, and we are adapting our efforts to ensure that all our studentsgrow strong in their capacity for creativity, cross-cultural competency,character, critical thinking, collaboration and communication.Our mission and values provide clear guidance for all our decisionsand efforts. However, it is the unswerving and generous support of ouralumni, parents and friends that permits us to continually adjust toensure the best possible education for all our students. Thank you for allyou do for this wonderful school.Best wishes from Wyoming Seminary,Kip P. NygrenPresident

Rosemary ChromeyJohn DowdKathi S. FlackAnne Nieh HouJeffrey Metz ’88 Robert Tamburro ’91Six new members join boardWyoming Seminary’s Board of Trustees has welcomed sixnew members: Rosemary Chromey, Wilkes-Barre; John Dowd,Lehighton; Kathi S. Flack, Dallas; Anne Nieh Hou, ClarksSummit: Jeffrey Metz ’88, Shavertown; and RobertTamburro ’91, Moosic.Chromey serves as president of the Upper School ParentsAssociation. Most recently she was the global human resourcesmanager at Sandvik AB in Sandviken, Sweden and had served asthe director of human resources at Sandvik Materials Technologyin Clarks Summit. She is President of Temple Israel and an activemember of the Temple Israel Sisterhood; she also is a past chair ofthe Hebrew School and is a member of the board of Jewish FamilyServices, the Jewish Community Center and the Suzuki Schoolfor Strings. She also previously served on the Advisory Board ofBlue Cross, the Labor Management Council and the advisoryboard of the Lackawanna County Vo-Tech School. She holdsbachelor of music education and master of public administrationdegrees from Marywood University, a MBA from the University ofScranton, and a postgraduate certificate in labor relations fromCornell University. She and her husband DICK GOLDBERG ’55are the parents of Leah ’13.Dowd is founder and president of Sundance Vacations, anational travel company that operates in four states and employsmore than 400 people. Sundance is an INC 5000 fastest growingcompany in the USA and has also been recognized as a “BestPlace to Work” by the PA chamber of business and industry. Healso owns and manages several office buildings and hotels. He isan active member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Bowmanstownand has served the community through his work with theLuzerne Foundation, Wyoming Valley Children’s Association,St. Vincent dePaul Kitchen and Volunteers of America. He is thefather of Morgan ’13, Madison ’14 and Bridget ’22.Flack, a Susquehanna University graduate, currently servesas a member of the Susquehanna University Board of Trusteeswhere she chairs the Learning Committee and is a member ofthe Alumni Engagement Task Force. She is a member of theBoard of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic where sheserved as president for four years and co-chaired the SponsorshipCommittee for one year. She also is active in the LuzerneFoundation, the Back Mountain Chamber Board of Governorsand Grace Episcopal Church Vestry. She also previously servedas a member of Misericordia University’s Women With ChildrenProgram, Wyoming Seminary’s Parents Association, CelebrityLuncheons, PCA Governor’s Awards, the Back Mountain Library,as a founding board member of the Northeast PennsylvaniaChapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, and many other localcommunity organizations. In addition to her community serviceshe has worked in media services for the Don Bennett AdvertisingAgency, the Lynn Organization and Montgomery & Associates.She is the mother of Chad ’01, Alex ’05 and Jamie ’05.Hou serves as president of the Lower School Parents Association.She has worked in global management consulting for almost 20years and most recently served as the senior manager at KPMGConsulting/KPMG LLP in New York City and Stamford, Conn.She previously served as treasurer of the Lower School ParentsAssociation and is an active parent volunteer and substituteteacher at the Lower School. She also serves on the CornellUniversity Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network andAlumni-Student Mentoring Program. She has also been activewith Habitat for Humanity, the United Way-Capital Region andthe Workforce Diversity Council. She holds a bachelor of sciencedegree from Cornell University and a MBA and law degree fromthe University of Connecticut. She is the mother of Isabel ’20.Metz serves as president and chief executive officer of MetzCulinary Management in Dallas, an on-site food managementcompany that operates 150 accounts in 14 states. The company’srestaurant division includes 14 T.G.I. Friday’s, Ruth’s ChrisSteakhouse, Wolfgang Puck and Lucky’s Sporthouse. Under hisleadership, Metz Culinary Management was recently named aTop Five Company to watch by Food Management Magazine andplaced 18 th on their top 50 food service management companies.He also serves as the Chairman of the Board of the PennsylvaniaRestaurant Association and ran the board’s political actioncommittee and the political education committee. A graduateof Washington & Jefferson College, he is a member of theYoung President’s Organization and the Presidents’ Council atMisericordia University. He is the father of Kaitlyn ’18, Ashley ’22and Jeffrey ’28.Tamburro serves as Trustee, General Partner of TFP Limited,a Wilkes-Barre based real estate development and managementfirm. He serves on the boards of the United Way of WyomingValley, Penn State Wilkes-Barre, Geisinger Wyoming Valley,and Lackawanna Valley Heritage Partners. He also servesas first vice president of the Luzerne County CommunityCollege Foundation, as treasurer of SAFE (Supporting Autismand Families Everywhere) and on the President’s Council atMisericordia University. In addition he served as president of theWyoming Seminary Alumni Council. He chaired the Sem OpenGolf Tournament committee for four years and participatesin many other alumni and school activities. A graduate of theUniversity of South Carolina where he was named to Phi BetaKappa, he received the Sem Outstanding Young Alumnus Awardin 2003 in recognition of his professional accomplishments andcontributions to the school. He also takes interest in the TamburFamily Foundation, a philanthropic trust founded by his parents,Robert and Virginia Tambur.

News & Laurels con’t.Retiring teachers reflect on their years at SemAt the end of the 2011-12 academic year, three of Wyoming Seminary’s most experiencedteachers announced their retirements: Carolyn Foran, Dr. John Moriarity and Raleigh Myers. All arelooking forward to spending more time with their families, catching up on their reading and maybe alittle traveling. But as they were wrapping up the school year, each teacher sat down with The Journal tolook back over their years at the Lower and Upper School.Carolyn ForanLower School Testing Coordinator, Mathematics DepartmentChair and math, reading and study skills facultyCarolyn Foran first came to the Lower School in 1993 as a substitute teacher and within oneyear was hired full time to teach fifth grade. Later she taught reading, math, English andstudy skills and was named the testing coordinator in 2001. She also served as AssociateDean of Admission, Marketing and Testing for a few years and oversaw the introductionof the Educational Research Bureau (ERB) testing program, but the pull of the classroomproved to be too strong; she returned to full-time teaching of reading and English in themiddle school. She taught in several different schools before she came to Sem.What were your expectations when you came here?My teaching experiences along the way were unique and made me love it even more. … Having ourchildren come here first (Emily ’01 in fifth grade and Wesley Carroccio ’97 in ninth grade) and seeingwhat they were learning certainly made me know that it was a high achieving school where teacherstook pride in their work. Having pride in what you do is important. Opportunities came to me;being in administration broadened my understanding of the school environment and service to thecommunity.What have you enjoyed the most over the past 18 years?The students, definitely the students. They keep you honest, they ask amazing questions and thereis such a sharing of time and life and hobbies. They are just fun to watch, and the actual teaching isalways fun; the actual instructional time is without a doubt the favorite of any teacher.What do you feel you’ve given your students over the years?Honesty and reflection; I try to teach them that everyone has strengths. We all grow at different paces;don’t be too hard on yourself; give yourself time. They come with the knowledge; it’s just channelingthe knowledge. Some will learn more quickly than others, but they all get it in time.What are some of your most memorable challenges?I often say to the students: you all didn’t start to walk on the same date; you all started to walk atdifferent stages and that was acceptable. So don’t expect to learn at the same rate. I think (the majorchallenge was dealing with) the maturity factor, socialization, all those pieces of growing up, andtrying to help each student to understand that it’s all right to be different, that it’s all right not to dowell in everything as long as you continue to try and try your best and take challenges; don’t give up.There were some great kids over the years at both ends of the spectrum: some who push your buttonsand then there are others who blossom early, who take leadership roles and you are always amazedat what they do. … Helping parents to understand a child’s role in school is a challenge. It isn’t whothey are at home; they have a different job here and they handle it in a way that a parent may not befamiliar with at home. This is a place to grow, to try out new things in a safe environment, but helpinga parent to understand a student’s performance, student goals and student growth here at school issomething that I’ve tried hard to perfect over the years. I’ve been lucky enough to have parents whocare, who’ve been open to listening and trust us as professionals, to know that we have their child’sbest interest (at heart).... see Foran on page 9

wyomingseminary.org7Dr. John (Jack) MoriarityChair of the Upper School English Department and English facultyDr. Moriarity came to Wyoming Seminary in 1972 and has taught English at Sem ever since. He had served as a teachingassistant at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned master and doctoral degrees in 18 th century British literature.He served as chair of the English department for at least 31 years, dorm master of Darte Hall for 10 years, and director ofthe Honor Council. He received the Maslow Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1990.What are some of the courses that you have taught that havestood out in your mind?In recent years the ones I enjoyed the most—and all of my courses are values-centered debates—arecourses such as “Rebel, Misfits and Renegades” which look at the moral challenges facing someonewho feels he can’t operate within a system or within a particular group; I just really enjoy the kinds ofclass discussions we get. In the fall I taught “The Quest for Success” which is a great time to reflect withseniors on a whole range of issues about what a successful life looks like. In some ways it is a philosophycourse; a reflection on what is a good life. Also there is the juxtaposition of teaching PGs and freshmen;throughout my career I’ve had both ends of the spectrum, the youngest students and the oldest. Thefreshmen have been a complete joy; the whole dynamic with the younger students is so different fromthe interaction with the older students and there is an energy and spontaneity; they don’t have all thepressures of the college agenda yet upon their shoulders. The course has been a team-taught course – adifferent and enjoyable structure to operate in, with electives being the other counterpoint. Betweenelectives and freshmen every trimester, my structure has always been changing so it’s really a pretty activestructure. For many, many years I taught all the PGs which was a whole different challenge in which Iwould have as many as 18 PGs in a writing class. That was a whole other kind of dynamic, since PGs camefrom so many diverse backgrounds. I had kids that were adjusting to the prep school life from all differentangles. As a teacher I encountered diversity and challenge in interacting with kids and I really enjoyed thatopportunity.What have you enjoyed the most over 40 years?There is no doubt that it’s the academic freedom to embed myself in the literature that I enjoy the mostand the freedom to structure the study of that literature in the way that seemed best to me. I could havetaught at the college level but I can’t imagine having more freedom to teach quality literature to talentedstudents. Professionally that opportunity was the most meaningful to me. My dissertation supervisor,when I told him I was teaching “Hamlet” at a prep school, said, “Well, it doesn’t get any better than that.You’re teaching something that everybody would want to teach if you’re a serious student of literature.”What do you feel you’ve learned?My early years were definitely trial and error, because my biggest mistake as a rookie teacher was usingas my main role models my college professors or the most demanding teachers, the Professor Kingsfieldsof the world, and I thought initially that was the persona to adopt with high school kids. That was amiscalculation …When you come right out of an academically-intense program like getting a Ph.D. inEnglish, your focus is so much on the rigors and discipline of literary analysis and when you are teachingteenagers you have to find the personal connection in the literature. That challenge has been verymeaningful and fulfilling to try to find the point of personal connection for students while you still keepthe rigor and discipline of the study of literature. That’s part of what we should be doing. At the highestlevel that’s just taken for granted but with teenage kids I like to take the “value-centered” approach. I’vesaid to kids every year, “I teach courses about success and other topics, and I teach courses in which Ilike the questions that are raised because I don’t have the answers. I don’t have a formula for success or ablueprint for rebellion.” I’ve had the pleasure of teaching “central question” courses that reflect on thosethings and those questions are as meaningful to me now as an elderly gentleman as they were when I was24: the nature of success, the nature of rebellion, the essence of manhood and the moral dilemmas thatscience and technology present. I have enjoyed wrapping my head around all of those issues.What are some of your most memorable challenges?Early on in teaching, it was to move from just teaching something that would have been appropriateon the college level that is not appropriate for the core agenda with high school students. I’ve found... see Moriarity on page 9

News & Laurels con’t.Raleigh MyersDirector of the English as a Second Language (ESL) Program and English facultyRaleigh Myers, who began his career in public schools, came to Sem in 1986 from Martinsville, Virginia to teach in theEnglish department. He has taught “Style and Structure” as well as all levels of English and many electives, especially coursesusing literature from Japanese, Afghani, Chinese and Indian writers. In 1992 he became director of the ESL program. He alsoserved on the Honor Council and standards and curriculum committee, as an advisor to the Opinator and as the assistantdean of students in charge of boarders. He received the Maslow Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2009.What were your expectations when you came to Sem?To survive! (laughing) To try to be a good teacher and to watch my two children (R. Dwayne’93 and Peter ’97) grow and flourish and I think they did. The school was especially goodfor them musically. I enjoyed working with the kids in the dorm; that was probably one ofthe nicest things about teaching at Sem, to be able to interact with the kids in the dormduring those years because I lived in the dorm for 11 years (in Darte Hall) and then moved toCarpenter Hall. I took one year off (1999-2000) and ran a dorm in Thailand…that was quiteenjoyable and interesting.What have you enjoyed the most over the past 26 years?I have enjoyed watching my own children grow up and reaping the benefits of having beenhere. And of course working with the international students…in some ways teaching theinternational students allows me to teach some of the best students in the school; they arehere almost completely because they want to be. In some ways I am teaching some of the beststudents from other countries in the world. The international students are highly motivatedand they want help, they want to make good grades and they will really fight for them as theybuild their skills and get ready to move up. … I liked the freedom to teach the books I wantedto teach. It allowed me to meet students that I didn’t meet just in ESL and by teaching someof those electives I got to see some of the ESL students again. It helped me to see how theywere doing and see how the ESL program was working.What have you learned from your students?I have learned about different cultures and to look at people in different ways; one way I’velearned to look at people is that there isn’t a right or wrong way, only different because ofdifferent cultures. One of the things I tell my students every year is that it doesn’t matterwhich country you go to; every country you go to you see the international flag: laundrydrying on the line. People are certainly different from culture to culture but what you begin torealize after a while is that they are much more the same than they are different.What was one of your most memorable challenges?One of my biggest personal challenges came when my older son had cancer because it mademe look at teaching in a somewhat different way. When something like that happens youbegin to understand more fully something you thought you understood before, which is thatalthough academics are important, they are only one piece of the bigger puzzle. There aremore important things in the world. I think one of the biggest challenges for me academicallyhas been to try to keep my classes interesting but at the same time resist the temptationto jump on bandwagons: modern technology, for example. I’ve seen the pendulum swingback and forth in education because I’m getting old and I see things that we discardedcoming up again in different ways. For example in the 1940s in language we discarded theold audio-lingual method. A lot of people are trying to bring it back again under the guise ofcomputer programs. It’s the same thing: it doesn’t really teach people to negotiate meaningin a language. I feel the best way to teach in many cases is to sit in a circle and have aconversation. ... And one of the big challenges for an ESL teacher is to come to understandthat the more the teacher talks, the less the students are learning. The teacher needs to makethe students talk. Another challenge is fighting the concept that grammar is unimportant.You cannot build any language without building some type of grammar to hang it on. It justdoesn’t work.... see Myers on page 9

wyomingseminary.org9Foran con’t. from page 6What are some of yourproudest moments?You feel most proud when a child sayssomething to you about a difference thatyou’ve made. I remember a few times thatstudents have said to me, “You’re notalways easy but you’re always fair.” That’sspecial. Being fair, having students trustwhat you say, knowing that they feel safeto tell you they don’t know, that it’s okayto make a mistake, seeing growth overchallenging time (“I can’t get it, I can’t getit, I get it!”), sharing in the joy of “I getit…now I see.”Any favorite memories?I do have a favorite. As a fifth-grade teamwe took the students to Cape Cod for acouple years on a three-day trip and weused to stay at the Morse Pond Schoolin their gym. We did science units on thebeach, we visited Wood’s Hole, we wentto museums and Plimoth Plantation. Sowe covered every unit. We cooked ourfood in the cafeteria and had our dinnersthere, and it was a lot of fun. Some reallygood memories came from that. Wedid a lot of hiking in the spring duringtick season so we dealt with ticks whichreally freaked the kids out. We went to amuseum in Sandwich and there we metpeople who were familiar with Sem. Wealways met people along the way whowould recognize us, talk to us, ask usabout what we were doing, and that wasalways nice. If you’re open to learning,you’re always learning. It’s a skill of alifetime.Moriarity con’t. from page 7during much of my career that I had to decide what to forget about my studies, andall of the books and all of the issues that really weren’t appropriate to explore inmany ways with the group I was teaching. To me, the greatest challenge has alwaysbeen to decide what’s going to work with this age group and what’s going to be theangle of attack on a particular work. The other side of that is that you’re supposedto be stretching their talents and their thinking. I used to argue that all Englishdepartment classes were AP (Advanced Placement) in content and I feel very goodabout that perspective. I feel my classes have been AP level courses year in and yearout but somehow within those courses we are supposed to find a dynamic, a rhythmand a syllabus that would allow kids with a range of ability levels to have a positiveexperience. That part of teaching to me is why any new teacher going into our systemis going to have an opportunity to grow in so many ways. It’s a great place to growas a teacher if you’re committed to the discipline because there will be so manyopportunities to see different dimensions of presenting literature to students.What are some of your greatest accomplishments?I take my greatest pride in working with my colleagues and I would like to thinkthat over my time in my department and as an on-line member of the faculty that Ihave been very much a supporter and an ally of my colleagues in this profession. Ithink this is a very demanding profession. It can take the idealism of teachers andchallenge it in a way that could change it to cynicism very quickly and I think there’salways the incredible pace at which teachers work. I like to think in some ways I’vebeen one of the people that has been a good representative of the positive qualitiesthat the faculty have traditionally represented at this school. During my whole careerI’ve had opportunities to consider more administrative positions but I’ve known mypleasure has been to be in the ranks. I hope I have conveyed to my colleagues, bothat Upper and Lower School, my pride in being in the ranks and I hope I have beensensitive to and supportive of the needs of faculty. I think my courses have set up kidsfor success in college and in life as men and women who are intelligent readers andanalytical thinkers. My core belief is that Wyoming Seminary should be a reading,writing, and thinking school and all my energy throughout my time has been directedat getting kids to read thoughtfully, write precisely and think critically. That’s why Iconstantly challenge students to reach judgments about what they’ve read and tofigure out why they feel what they do and to ground their judgments in the evidenceof the text. Those are the critical skills that to me are the cornerstone of an educatedperson. … I’ve had great colleagues, I’ve been able to teach what I want to teach,I’ve had fulfilling relationships with a vast majority of kids, and I’ve enjoyed strongadministrative support. It’s been a pretty good 40-year run.It’s just been a great experience.Myers con’t. from page 8What are you particularly proud of?I am proud of the fact that I helped a lot of students, especially the international students, develop theirEnglish skills and move on up. I know that the program we employed here at Wyoming Seminary forthe last ten to twelve years has worked. I’ve watched a lot of students succeed and I don’t believe theysucceeded just because they were using English. I think we actually facilitated their growth and helpedthem move on more quickly which is what an ESL program is supposed to do. … For example, in summer2011 I was in Bangkok for a week and I saw a number of my old students. I saw successful people and Ifeel that we helped them to get there.I certainly would tell anybody that this is a good school. I am sure that everyone will work to keep it agood school. I’ve always felt that Wyoming Seminary is stronger than anybody here and it will survive. Ibelieve that.You may contact these threeretired teachers at the followinge-mail addresses:Mrs. Carolyn Foran atcforan@wyomingseminary.orgDr. John Moriarity atjmoriarity@wyomingseminary.orgMr. Raleigh Myers atraleighmyers@hotmail.com

Campus HappeningsLower School Green STEMprogram fosters love of scienceTechnology in the form of iPads camein handy when seventh-grade studentspartnered with their preschool friendsto identify trees growing on the LowerSchool lawn, as part of the school’sGreen STEM program. The students inJill Carrick’s science class, who had beenstudying urban forests and air pollution,showed the preschool students how touse the iPad LeafSnap app to identifytrees by their leaves. The seventh-gradersalso participated in a LEGOS RoboticsChallenge, and sixth-grade studentsworked with LEGOS robots to compete ina Green City Challenge. Both classes builtand programmed LEGOS robots. Theseventh-grade challenge included usingsensors, and sixth-grade class robotstravelled and completed tasks on the“Green City” map. LEGO materials, iPadcarts and other equipment for the GreenSTEM program were funded by a generousgrant from the Kenneth and CarolineTaylor Family Foundation.China sabbatical inspires Ris familyDiscovering the ancient in the midst ofthe modern was only one of the highlightsof a six-week trip that Steve Ris, chair ofthe history department, and Jean Ris tookto China in March and April. The couplespent much of their time in Shanghaiwhere their son Andrew RIS ’06 livesand works as a history teacher, theaterdirector and head dorm parent at the newYK Pao School, a middle school that isexpanding to include high school grades.Steve taught a few history classes andinterviewed several members of the schoolabout ancient and recent history, whileJean assisted Andrew with creating propsand costumes for a play he was directing.They also traveled to Beijing to tour thecity with Sem Director of DevelopmentKay Young and attended familyconferences with parents of Sem students.Walking along the Great Wall, studying theterracotta army at Xi’an, marveling at theThree Gorges Dam and hurtling along on abullet train at 200 miles per hour were justsome of the many incredible experiencesthe Ris’s enjoyed during their visit. “Wesaw some beautiful places, such as the13th century Jing’an Buddhist temple setin the middle of ultra-modern downtownShanghai,” Steve said. “And we had thebest food; every meal was an adventurein cuisine. I was continuously astoundedat the unprecedented rate of growthcoexisting with present and ancienthistory. Seeing the radically rapid changeamidst the most ancient civilization wasa juxtaposition that I was always veryaware.”During their visit to Beijing, Kay Young and Steveand Jean Ris visited with Sem parents and met withprospective students and families. Seen at a banquetwith Sem parents are, seated from left: Kay Young; JeanRis, third from left, and Steve Ris, fifth from left.Seen learning about leaves are OliviaLovito ’17 and Genevieve Nardone’17 with preschool partner Karli Emel ’26.Andrew Ris ’06 works with students who willappear in a YK Pao School play.New toddler program expands Early Childhood offeringsOn Tuesday, Sept. 4 the newest andyoungest Wyoming Seminary studentsbegan their Sem educations. Ten toddlers,all between the ages of 18 months andthree years, happily explored their newclassroom and playground, located in acompletely renovated facility adjoiningthe Lower School. Lead teacher MargaretMcCann, a 22-year veteran of thetoddler program at the Wyoming ValleyMontessori School, will guide the childrenin a well-designed and individualizedprogram that introduces independence,promotes self-discovery, developslanguage skills, fosters self-esteem andconfidence, and provides the foundationto enable the children to succeed inSem’s preschool program. The preschoolprogram, led by veteran teachers LoisFeibus and Karen Woytach, is also nowhoused in the new facility.

Inaugural dance marathon benefits area childrenIn April the Wyoming Seminary UpperSchool community raised more than$12,600 in support of the Geisinger JanetWeis Children’s Hospital in Danville andChildren’s Miracle Network by holdingthe First Annual Sem Dance Marathon.More than 270 Sem students, faculty andstaff took part in the event, which lastedsix hours. Participants learned a specialdance called a “morale dance,” whichfeatured seven families whose childrenhave been treated at the Weis Children’sHospital. The event also included gamesand activities for the participants.According to Elizabeth Blaum ’07,a Sem student activities staff memberwho worked with student governmentmembers to organize the event, the goalwas to have at least 200 participantsand raise at least $5,000. At the endof the marathon, the participants hadraised $12,678.25; an additional $665.00was raised after the marathon endedfor a total of $13,343.25 for the WeisChildren’s Hospital and the Children’sMiracle Network. Seen following theconclusion of the Sem Dance Marathonare, from left: Blaum; CarolineReppert ’13, government secretary;Devin Holmes ’13, government vicepresident; Renata O’Donnell ’12,government president; Sean Banul ’12,government treasurer; and Jennifer Siff,director of student activities.A memorable tripto AsiaSem Director of DevelopmentKay Young also spent sometime in Asia last March, onher second trip to Hong Kong,Taiwan and the People’sRepublic of China to visit withparents of Sem students aswell as Sem alumni.1 23 41››› Exploring the sights at Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong with some Sem parents. 2››› Enjoying the enthusiasm of an elementary school class in Nanjing, People’s Republicof China with Steve and Jean Ris. 3››› Discussing American education with a radio talk show host on SZMG in Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China. 4››› Sharing adelicious dinner with parents of Sem students and alumni in Kaoshiung, Taiwan.Four-legged library mascot remembered“Bugsy,” the Golden Retriever library dog known and loved by many Upper School students, passed awayfrom inoperable liver cancer in May, 2012. Adopted from Delaware Valley Golden Retriever Rescue in 2005,Bugsy fell in love with the students, employees and faculty children at Wyoming Seminary. He spent his dayshappily greeting tours and having his fur continually stroked by students studying in the library. Diagnosedwith liver cancer last spring, Bugsy split his final days between the library and the home he shared withCourtney Lewis, director of libraries and Ethan Lewis, history faculty and college counselor. Mr. and Mrs.Lewis personally thank all the students and adults who filled Bugsy’s life with love and belly rubs.

Scene+HeardPhoto credit: Ed BergerJazz Band performs at Marywood UniversityThe Upper School’s Jazz Band had the distinguished pleasure ofserving as the day two opening act for Marywood University’sCole Porter Jazz Festival in March. The three-day festival featuredcomposition of Cole Porter performed by different types ofensembles. Sem was the only local high school to perform at thefestival.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Original composition at spring concertOne of the highlights of last spring’s music department concertwas the world premier performance of “Introduction forOrchestra,” composed by Sem orchestra director Anthony J.Kubasek. Although he has written nearly fifty musical worksand arranged several pieces for orchestra, this is his firstoriginal composition for orchestra. The work is intended tohighlight the strengths of various sections of the orchestraand to serve as an instructional work. The orchestra alsoperformed an arrangement of favorite Disney movie themesand Ravel’s popular work “Pavane for a Dead Princess.”The Wyoming Seminary Orchestra+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Russian composer Dmitri ShostakovichcelebratedThe instrumental and vocal work of Russian composerDmitri Shostakovich, one of the 20 th century’s most acclaimedcomposers, was celebrated in a special concert festival on March31 and April 1. The festival was organized by Sem artist-inresidenceChristiane Appenheimer-Vaida and supported in partby the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.In the first of two concerts, Shostakovich’s Piano Trios No. 1and 2 was featured as well as Seven Romances on poems byAleksander Blok for soprano, violin, cello and piano.The second concert featured Shostakovich’s piano quintet,his Five Preludes for Violin and Piano and his Five Pieces forTwo Violins and Piano, as well as choral pieces and the Adagioand Allegretto for string quartet in an arrangement for stringorchestra. The Wyoming Seminary Madrigal singers performedthe choral pieces and the chamber orchestra featured studentsfrom Sem’s string ensemble who performed with professionalsection leaders.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++“Dance Portraits” highlights secondgrade studentsStudents in the Lower School’s second grade presented theirversion of the Broadway hit musical number “Ease On Downthe Road” from “The Wiz” during the annual spring danceperformance titled “Dance Portraits.” This much-anticipatedevent also included music from the movie “Star Wars” presentedby the Handbell Choir, and a variety of dances featuringcontemporary music from popular musicians such as Adele andFlorence and the Machine.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++“Our Town” enthralls the Sem CommunityThe Wyoming Seminary Players presented the great Americanclassic “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder in late April. Theperformance was presented in a “black box” setting with limitedseating on the stage, which highlighted the intimacy andimmediacy of the play.Seen during rehearsal for “Our Town” are, from left: Sienna Tabron ’15, EmilyMackesy ’15 and Eric Cholish ’12.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

wyomingseminary.org13It’s gonna be a fair fight!The Performing Arts Institute (PAI) wowed audience memberswith a stirring performance of the huge hit musical “West SideStory” on August 2 and 3 at the F.M. Kirby Center in downtownWilke-Barre. The performances closed out the fourteenthsummer for PAI.Among this season’s highlights were performances by The Powerof Ten Little Big Band, nationally acclaimed jazz drummer SteveFidyk, and the Quey Percussion Duo and Friends. Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch, principal dancer with the Martha Graham DanceCompany and Tim Early, founder of Opus One Dance Companyshared their talents with students, as did Colonel Timothy W.Foley, the 26 th director of “The President’s Own” Marine Bandand Michael Barone, host of NPR’s “Pipedreams.”Kudos to ourmusicians and artists!Upper SchoolThe following students were honored at Pa. Music EducatorsAssociation (PHEA) festivals:District Band – Matthew Blom ’12, Morgan Dowd ’13, BrydenGollhardt ’13, Tyler Harvey ’13, Scott Kwiatek ’13, Chia-Yen Lee’14, Seo Jin Oh ’12, Margaret Rupp ’12.Regional Band – Matthew Blom ’12, Morgan Dowd ’13, BrydenGollhardt ’13, Tyler Harvey ’13, Scott Kwiatek ’13, Seo Jin Oh ’12,Margaret Rupp ’12.All-State Concert Band – Tyler Harvey ’13, Scott Kwiatek ’13and Seo Jin Oh ’12.District Jazz Band – Matthew Blom ’12, Scott Edmunds ’14,Bryden Gollhardt ’13, Tyler Harvey ’13, Scott Kwiatek ’13,Margaret Rupp ’12.All-State Wind Ensemble – Matthew Blom ’12, BrydenGollhardt ’13.All-State Jazz Band – Margaret Rupp ’12.District Orchestra – Kelsey Dolhon ’12, Bryden Gollhardt ’13,Scott Kwiatek ’13, Margaret Rupp ’12.Regional Orchestra – Kelsey Dolhon ’12, Bryden Gollhardt ’13,Scott Kwiatek ’13.District and Regional Chorus – Aria Zarnosky ’13.Top photo: West Side Story; Bottom photo: PAI Wind Ensemble and Jazz Bandwith Col. Timothy Foley, on stool, and Michael Barone.Lower School57th Annual Fine Arts Fiesta art exhibit – Lorraine Johnson’17, graphics/colored pencil, Certificate of Merit and JoelJones Art Award; Alex McCarthy ’16, graphics/colored pencil,Certificate of Merit; Danica Polachek Mits ’18, photography,Certificate of Merit and Maria Livrone Art Award. LowerSchool art teacher Eileen Warren also exhibited a painting in thesenior art division. Seen with their works are, from left: Warren,Johnson, Mits and McCarthy.

New FacesNew members of the Sem communityNew Upper School faculty members for 2012-13 include, first row from left:Reed Gilbride, English faculty and coach of girls ice hockey and boys lacrosse; RachelGleicher, English as a Second Language (ESL) faculty, TOEFL and dance; Erin Griffin,English faculty and head girls soccer coach; Kathleen Rickrode, math faculty and coachof girls basketball. Second row, from left: Harry Shafer ’04, Director of StudentLife; Timothy Goggins, history faculty and coach for boys lacrosse and boys soccer;Mary Kolessar, math faculty and coach for cross country.New Lower School faculty members for 2012-13 include, from left:Douglas Piazza, middle-school music teacher and jazz band director; Cecilia Galante,eighth-grade English faculty; Rebecca Scavone, toddler program assistant teacher; andMargaret McCann, toddler program lead teacher.Eric Turner, new Director of EnrollmentManagement, oversees all admissionand financial aid programs for bothLower and Upper School. He has servedin a variety of faculty, admission andleadership positions at both privateand public schools and is a graduate ofthe Loomis Chaffee School. He holds abachelor of arts degree in philosophyand sociology from Colby College and amaster of arts degree in liberal studiesfrom Dartmouth College.

upper schoolCommencement1 2 31››› Dr. Jack Moriarity, in his charge tothe graduates, described some of the lessonshe had learned during his 40-year tenure as ateacher of English and as chair of the Englishdepartment and the Honor Council.2››› Sean Banul gave the student addressand encouraged his classmates to reflect ontheir memories of connecting with friends,coaches and teachers at Sem.3››› Renata O’Donnell received theRuggles Award for Outstanding Graduate.44››› Members of the wrestling teampose for pictures with their coaches afterCommencement.

InternationalreceptionInternational students who graduated in May, and one-yearinternational students, gathered with their families for aspecial reception prior to Saturday’s Baccalaureate Service.The Office of International Admission and the DevelopmentOffice hosted the event in the Kirby Library.Hyo Bum Austin Shin ’12, fourth from left, celebrated his upcoming graduation with, from left: Jack Eidam,Dean of Admission; brother Jung Bum Steve Shin; father Chang Seong Shin; Librarian Ivy Miller; andmother Eun Ju Park.Sem LegaciesRegina Allen, Director of International Admission, visited with JuliaMag ’13, Ute Kraemer ’14 and Mengqi Wang ’13.UpperSchoolLegaciesFirst row, from left: FrankHenry ’50, Jane Henry ’12,Clare McCarthy Parkhurst’75, Katrina Grosek ’12and Anthony Grosek ’74.Second row, from left: ScottHenry ’76, Scott Parkhurst’78, George Parkhurst ’12and Harry Parkhurst ’12.Lower SchoolLegaciesFirst row, from left: Jeanne Roscoe Elinsky’62, Robert Mericle ’16, Richard HughesIV ’16, Alex Grosek ’16, Samuel Parente’16, Alex McCarthy ’16, Kristine ErtleyMcCarthy ’86, Carole Schalm Ertley ’62.Second row, from left: Joseph Elinsky ’56,Carol Valenti ’58, Richard Hughes III ’79,Anthony Grosek ’74, John Parente ’85,Lee McCarthy ’80.Third row, from left: Garrett Boyd ’16,John Platt ’49, Kevin Platt ’16, AlexandraCuddy ’16, Barbara Albert Cuddy ’90.Fourth row, from left: Pia Taggart ’83,Hugh Hughes ’86, Hunter Hughes ’16,Dawn Lombardo Gaudino ’87, JosephGaudino ’16.

eighth gradeGraduation2 311››› Gabriel Pascal ’17 opened graduation ceremonies by ringing the Flack Bell,used to begin the school year for the preschool students in the Little White House.2››› Jay Harvey ’80, Dean of the Upper School, presented the faculty response duringthe graduation ceremony.3››› Richard Hughes IV ’16 gave the graduation address.

Randolph I. Granger, Academic DeanBernardine Vojtko, creative movement teacher and dance company director2012 Maslow Teaching Award recipientsR andolph I. Granger, Academic Dean and member ofthe history department at the Upper School, receivedthe prestigious Frances and Louis Maslow Awardfor excellence in teaching during the school’s 168thCommencement ceremony.Since joining Sem in 1994, Granger has served asa teacher of American history, chair of the historydepartment, associate dean of students, directorof f inancial aid, associate director and director ofadmissions, Advanced Placement coordinator, deanof faculty and academic dean. He also has served as adormitory parent and an assistant lacrosse, boys icehockey and football coach. In addition he served asco-chair of a steering committee which established theNational Association of Independent School AdmissionProfessionals.Prior to joining Sem, he served as chair of the historydepartment, director of summer school and a member ofthe admission committee at the Wasatch Academy in Mt.Pleasant, Utah, and was associate director of admissionand history teacher at Hebron Academy in Hebron,Maine. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in historyfrom Trinity College and a master of science degree ineducation from Wilkes University.Bernardine Vojtko, creative movement teacher at the LowerSchool and dance company director at the Upper School,received the prestigious Frances and Louis Maslow Awardfor excellence in teaching during the school’s recent eighthgradegraduation ceremony.Since joining the faculty in 1981, Vojtko has worked tocreate a developmental and sequential creative movementcurriculum for primary students and has choreographednumerous Lower School performances, including theannual Maypole dance and several holiday and springchoral concerts. At the Upper School she has built a dancecurriculum that today boasts over 50 dancers of all abilitylevels, and has directed over 30 annual dance programsand numerous musical theater performances. In 2010Vojtko received the Teaching Excellence Award from theBoard of Higher Education and Ministry of the UnitedMethodist Church.She has taught dance at Misericordia University,Marywood University and Wilkes University’s EncoreKinder Music Camp. She was a faculty member at BravoDance Conservatory under the direction of TrinetteSingleton of the Joffrey Ballet and has choreographedand directed for numerous regional theaters and highschools. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in dance andelementary education from Mercyhurst College.

wyomingseminary.orgClass of 2012 Colleges and Universities19Name College ST Name College ST Name College STOren Adam Pennsylvania State University PATipok Aekviriyasathane United States Naval Academy MDAli Ahmed St. Joseph’s University PAImaz Athar University of Pittsburgh PASean Banul University of Pennsylvania PAJacob Berger The Citadel SCMatthew Bilodeau Temple University PAMatthew BlomEastman School of Music,University of RochesterOlivia Bolus College of the Atlantic MEBrandon Bombe University of Pittsburgh PAVictoria Bost New York University NYEvan Botwin Duke University NCChristina Bradley Drew University NJEmily Brecher Worcester Polytechnic Institute MABethany Brody Cornell University NYScott Burstall Worcester State University MALauren Cappello East Carolina University NCAmanda Chan Drexel University PATseng-Yu Chang Skidmore College NYHan-Ting ChengNYGeorgia Institute of Technology GADanielle Chichilitti La Salle University PAEric Cholish West Chester University PAJonas Crass Temple University PAJahneece DavisRochester Institute ofTechnologyKelsey Dolhon Carnegie Mellon University PAFrancesca Domiano Ursinus College PATyler Edwards Ithaca College NYTimothy Fetcher Fort Lewis College COAnna FiskeGap YearTyler Fraley Clarion University PAW. Cohl Fulk North Carolina State University NCKristopher Gildein Beloit College WIJoshua Greenberg Yeshiva University NYKatrina Grosek College of Charleston SCJane Henry Pennsylvania State University PANYHsin Hwang The Gunnery – PG year CTAmanda Immidisetti Rutgers University NJPamela Jagne Eckerd College FLHan Seol Jeong Boston University MAHunter Jones Clarion University PAJoseph Kapolka Bucknell University PAHaley Karg King’s College PAGrigor Kerdikoshvili Wyoming Seminary – PG year PALinh Hai Khuat Susquehanna University PAAlex Kolessar Pennsylvania State University PABrendan Larar Pennsylvania State University PAHuong Thanh Le Clark University MAPhong Hoang Le Lawrence University WISun Ho Lee Boston College MAJoshua Lefkowitz Drexel University PAOlivia Levine University of Scranton PAJie LianChing-Kuang LinPennsylvania State University-AltoonaMaryland Institute Collegeof ArtI-An Lin Purdue University INRyder Linde Drexel University PAPAMDYu-Liang Liu University of Washington WAWei-Hung Lu Loyola University of Maryland MDDominick Malone Northwestern University ILKatherine Marsman SUNY-Potsdam NYLogan May University of Pennsylvania PAEllie McDougalNew York Institute ofTechnology- Old WestburyKathleen Mooney SUNY-Potsdam NYJessica Neare Temple University PAChiu Lok Ng Michigan State University MIRenata O’Donnell University of Pennsylvania PASeo Jin Oh University of Maryland MDGeorge Parkhurst Siena College NYHarry Parkhurst Pennsylvania State University PAKatherine Perrine Chatham University PANYRobert PolachekAdithya PugazhendhiJuniors ice hockeyPennsylvania State University-Schreyer Honors CollegeBenjamin Puza Temple University PAAshlyn Reiser University of Miami FLJ. Justin Rivero Syracuse University NYAnn Romanowski Villanova University PABrandon Rome University of Miami FLMargaret Rupp Susquehanna University PAMercedes Rutherford Stevenson University MDAshLeigh Sebia Boston College MAMatthew Seyer Valley Forge Christian College PAAmy Shick University of Richmond VADong Min Shin Rhode Island School of Design RIHyo Bum Shin University of Connecticut CTKai Smith Florida International University FLEmma Spath George Washington University DCKristian Stefanides Fairfield University CTDaniel Steward Pennsylvania State University PASheena Syal Boston University MAQiuandra Taylor Goucher College MDVarodom Theplertboon University of ColoradoPACOHai Yen Trinh Lewis & Clark College ORSavina Vavlas Monmouth University NJTruth VensonGap YearAnthony Vizcarrondo West Virginia University WVKrysten Voelkner Drexel University PATuan Viet Vu Boston University MAThomas WalshUnited States Merchant MarineAcademyConor Wasson Rutgers University NJYaxi Wen Bucknell University PATessa Witherspoon-MuilenburgSUNY-CortlandKristina Yannotta Saint Michael’s College VTYe Eun Yoon New York University NYSimon Zafrany University of Edinburgh UKJoe Zhou Boston University MANYNY

AthleticsWinter Sports ReviewBoys Basketball:Head Coach – C.J. Kersey ’90Overall Record: 8-14Girls Basketball:Head Coach – Ron StrothersOverall Record: 8-13Boys Ice Hockey:Head Coach – Glenn PatrickOverall Record: 8-16-4Girls Ice Hockey:Head Coach – Leah Eyerman ’04Overall Record: 3-25-1New Leadership for Ice HockeyProgramsJeff Barrett, CEO of the Wilkes-Barre/ScrantonPenguins, has been named director of ice hockeyoperations at Wyoming Seminary and will beworking with JOSHUA MORGAN ’03, who wasrecently promoted to head coach of the boys icehockey team. Eric Turner, director of enrollmentmanagement, has been named interim director ofthe girls ice hockey program, with Reed Gilbrideand Brian Tweedy serving as assistant coaches ofthe girls team.Boys Swimming:Head Coach – John Eidam ’90Overall Record: 6-4Girls Swimming:Head Coach – John Eidam ’90Overall Record: 1-9Spring Sports ReviewBaseball:Head Coach – Brian KaschakOverall Record: 8-8Boys Lacrosse:Head Coach – Jon SiffOverall Record: 6-9Softball:Head Coach – Ethan LewisOverall Record: 4-10Girls Soccer:Head Coach – John HanniganOverall Record: 2-10-1Matthew Doggett ’14Grapplers pin down more winsContinuing its tradition as a Pennsylvania powerhouse, the Sem wrestlingteam under second-year head coach Scott Green took first place for the sixthconsecutive year at the Pennsylvania Prep State Tournament and came in secondplace at the National Prep Tournament held at Lehigh University, behind onlyperennial national power Blair Academy. This is the sixth time the Blue Knightshave won second place on the national stage. Two wrestlers, Dominic Malone’12 and Eric Morris ’13 earned national championships.In all, 10 Blue Knights were named Prep All-Americans:Dominic Malone’12 126 lbs. 4-time Prep All-AmericanEric Morris ’13 170 lbs. 3-time Prep All-AmericanTyler Fraley ’12 132 lbs. 2-time Prep All-AmericanAJ Vizcarrondo ’12 215 lbs. 2-time Prep All-AmericanDaniel Boychuck ’15 106 lbs. 1-time Prep All-AmericanMatt Doggett ’14 195 lbs. 1-time Prep All-AmericanMichael Johnson ’15 Hvwt. 1-time Prep All-AmericanLogan May ’12 113 lbs. 1-time Prep All-AmericanConor Wasson ’12 182 lbs. 1-time Prep All-AmericanTyrel White ’14 138 lbs. 1-time Prep All-American

Photo courtesy of Kristen Mullen, Citizens VoiceKatherine Perrine ’12.Harry Parkhurst ’12, Mike Balutanski, head tennis coach; and GeorgeParkhurst ’12: photo courtesy Parkhurst FamilyGirls lacrosse repeats as districtchampionsLacrosse is fast becoming one of the most popularmiddle-school and high school sports in the nation,and especially in the Wyoming Valley, where the Semgirls lacrosse team is building a reputation as theprogram to beat. The Blue Knights defeated rivalDelaware Valley 15-5 to win District II and later movedto state playoffs. A tough Cocalico team ended theirrun in the first round and capped their season witha 13-8 record. US Lacrosse, the national governingbody of men’s, women’s and youth lacrosse, namedEmily Granger ’13, attack, and Kristen Mericle’13, center, to the 2012 High School All-AcademicTeam in recognition of their academic and athleticaccomplishments.Player of the YearWhen you’re competing for a district championshipin tennis, it really helps to know your opponent. Andthis year’s champion in District 2 Class AA boystennis could expect a tough match: it came downto George Parkhurst ’12 against his twin brotherHarry ’12 for the title. George went on to win andhelped lead the Blue Knights to a 11-0 regular seasonrecord. George, who has been the Blue Knights’ No.1 singles player for all four years at Upper School,competed in the state singles championship, reachingthe quarterfinals. He and the team also competed inthe finals of the PIAA Class 2A Team Championships,bringing home second place and ending the seasonwith an 18-2 record. Both the Citizens Voice andTimes Leader newspapers named him Tennis Playerof the Year. Harry and Henry Cornell ’13, bothnamed Tennis All-Stars, finished second in the districtdoubles championship.

Wyoming Seminary2012 ParentAuction12 3If there was a deal to be had on items rangingfrom handmade student projects to travel and sportingopportunities, then parents, members of the faculty, staff andalumni who attended the annual Sem auction on March 30 werenot disappointed.41››› Rosemary Chromey, the Upper School Auction co-chair, andMaureen Conyngham, the Lower School co-chair. (Photo courtesy TheTimes Leader.)2››› Kay Young, director of development and Kathy Coslett. (Photocourtesy of The Citizens Voice.)3››› From left, Barbara Straub, Paula Chaiken, and Amy Leahy. (Photocourtesy of The Citizens Voice.)4››› Cathy O’Donnell, President, and Lois Spath, Vice President of theParent Association. (Photo courtesy The Times Leader.)An online auction conducted two weeks prior to the live eventfeatured over 250 exclusive items allowing out-of-town biddersto participate in the fun. Local bidders were vying for 86 silentauction items, including French wine baskets, a Penn Statetailgate package, fine jewelry, Upper and Lower School clubsand team photos, and unique items like a “green” tub madeby the Lower School environmental club. Following a deliciousdinner, bidders waved their paddles high for over 32 live auctionitems, including a garden shed and Yankees tickets.This year’s event raised approximately $40,000 in support ofthe Upper and Lower School faculty wish-lists which supportacademic and extracurricular programs and classroomrenovation projects.This year’s event was chaired by Rosemary Chromey and MaureenConyngham and was sponsored by Cathy and Neil O’Donnell,Marilyn and Kip Nygren and the River Street Jazz Café.

2012 Upper SchoolStudent AuctionGoing, going, gone!An enthusiastic crowd of students hung on first yearauctioneer and Residential Life Director Logan Chace’severy word, as he auctioned off a variety of attractiveitems. Thanks to the efforts of parents, faculty, staff andlocal businesses who contributed goods and services,the auction raised $2,500 for the Upper School StudentGovernment Association.2012 Family Field DayVibrant orange t-shirts could be seen everywhere onLower School’s Zimmerman Field on Family Field Dayin May, as families celebrated the end of schoolwith fun and friends.

Alumni“Within an exponentiallychanging world…” so beginsSem’s mission statement. Aswe opened the 169th academicyear of this grand old school,I couldn’t help but reflecton these words and becomeexcited about the many changesoccurring right now on campusand in the years to come. You see, this year we introduce TheLouis Maslow STEM School at Wyoming Seminary. STEM,which stands for science, technology, engineering and math, isa national academic agenda in which these four disciplines areintegrated into curriculum throughout all grade levels in a waythat bolsters critical thinking skills in our students.In true Sem form, we have become one of the first schools inour area and in the independent school network to begin theimplementation of this agenda to improve college readinessand career choices for our students. Through STEM funding,Wyoming Seminary will be able to enhance our already rigorousacademic classroom program with real world experiences,technology and problem solving. Our students will be able totake what they learn in one subject area and apply it another—asthey will have to do in real life.Think of thisas anotherway to giveback to theschool andcontribute toits excitingfuture.Wyoming Seminary’s STEMdirector Rachel Bartron and I hadthe pleasure of having lunch thissummer with the program’s generousfunder, Richard Maslow. A currentSem grandparent and former parent,Mr. Maslow named the new programafter his father, Louis Maslow.Louis was a self-taught engineerwho owned dozens of registeredpatents over his lifetime. His sontold us many stories of his father’shard work, one of which was thesuccess behind Metropolitan Wire Goods Corporation, whichlater became the industry giant InterMetro. Louis developed thecompany’s wire products, designed the machines that producedthem and was even personally involved in their marketing andsales. Louis certainly embodied the spirit of what is behindour aspirations for this new STEM program and for our futuregraduates, and therefore is a perfect namesake for our new school.An integral part of the new program is encouraging youngstudents to think about careers in STEM disciplines by exposingthem to current opportunities within these fields of studies. OneCalling all STEM alumni!way to directly have an impact on our students is to introducethem to members of our greater Sem community—alumni,parents and friends – who have enjoyed successful STEM careers.Therefore, here in the alumni office we are in the process ofestablishing a Sem STEM network whose members we can call onto be part of a speaker series or mentor our students.We hope that by sharing alumni stories and talent we will enrichthis important initiative and encourage students to consider aSTEM career. If you or someone you know would like to helpus in this endeavor, please get in touch with me. Think of thisas another way to give back to the school and contribute to itsexciting future. In the meantime, I hope to see you sometimethis year or in the coming years on campus or at one of ournational gatherings so you can see and learn first-hand aboutwhat is happening at Sem. As our full mission says: “Within anexponentially changing world, Wyoming Seminary dares to teachour students to honor and strive for the true, the beautiful, andthe good.” It is a quest worth working toward and we welcomeyour involvement!Sincerely,Julie McCarthy Strzeletz ’81Director of Alumni ProgramsTo add your name to the Sem STEM Networkand become a mentor or future guest speakereither on campus or by Skype, please call or emailJulie Strzeletz at jstrzeletz@wyomingseminary.orgor 570.270.2142.STEM at SEM Mission: The Maslow School at Wyoming Seminarywill engage and inspire students interested in science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) through holistic andintegrated paths of study within the classroom, exposure toand education about current advances and career paths withinthese fields of study, and opportunities for authentic researchexperiences and problem-solving on and off campus. The missionof the Maslow school, within the context of a Wyoming Seminaryeducation, is to prepare students for collegiate study and toenable them to effectively respond to the global challenges andtechnological advances in today’s rapidly changing world.

FloridaspringGATHERINGS135246Miami, Florida—February 27, 2012 1››› Dr. Kip Nygren, Sem president, and Carl Laks ’47 2››› Ellen Dreikorn Redick ’66 and RonaldBruni ’84 with Dr. Kip Nygren Boca Raton, Florida—February 27, 2012 3››› Dr. Kip Nygren, Carolyn Goeringer Bassler ’53, KathrynSieminski ’99 and Linda Chivers, former Lower School faculty member 4››› Eleanor Hutcheson Epler ’49, Allison Holtzman Garcia’82, Bill Levine ’65 and Debbie Rothberg Covitz ’88 Orlando, Florida—February 28, 2012 5››› Marcia Turner Frey ’53, JudyKolfrat Cable ’63, John Shafer ’71 and Katia Deriabina ’00 6››› Seated: Marianne Genetti ’55 Standing: Maureen ShedleskiBrady ’50, Dr. Kip Nygren, Irwin Hertz ’43, Katia Deriabina ’00 and Marilyn Nygren.1 2 34 5Sarasota, Florida—February 29, 2012 1››› John Shafer ’71, Bob Allen ’62, Susan Allen, and Pat Hennigan, 2››› Nelda Jones, KentleyJones ’61, Sandra Pritchard, and Jack Pritchard ’58, 3››› Bruce Crawford, Joan Patterson Sheil ’54, Marian Berk Barr ’49 andHarold Barr Naples, Florida—March 1, 2012 4›››Denise Nelson, Jean Flack, Fred Lombardo, TerrY Casey ’75 and Dawn LombardoGaudino ’87, 5›››Betsy Bell Condron ’45, Jean Gonchar, George Bell ’49, Kathy Bell, Martha Wagner Ostrowski ’54 and BobOstrowski.

Washing ton, D.C.2143Washington, D.C.—March 21 1››› Megan Dimond Holeman’96, Mathew Lapinski ’98 and Jonathan Weinberger ’942››› Caitlin Lucchino ’01, Maria Insalaco ’05, Kyle Dagenais’04, C.J. Libassi ’06, Sean Morgan ’06 and David Wallace ’973››› Omeed Firouzi ’10, Molly Allen ’11 and Dr. Kip Nygren, Sempresident 4››› Jeanne (Gigi) Lopatto ’77, Jack Evans ’71, MaryLopatto ’72, John Lopatto ’69, John Shafer ’71 and DebbiePost Stevens ’71.New YorkNew York City—March 28, 20121››› Joseph Lach ’09, JohnAnistranski ’09, Adam Thalenfeld’10 and Gia Querci ’10 2››› First row:Lauren Toczylowski ’02, AlexisAnselmi ’02 and Andrea Paciotti’02. Second row: Drew Pascucci, LeslieDewees ’02 and Ashley Amato ’05.Third row: Nathan Davis ’99 andChristian Weilage ’98.Syracuse, N.Y.—April 11 3››› RobertLaubach ’36, Virginia BanerDewey ’55 and John Shafer ’714››› Linda Miller, Peter Miller’62, Hannah Darr ’13, Jan Darrand Russell Darr ’79 5››› TessKornfeld ’11, Julianne Merryman’09, Emily Ruopp ’09, Kyun Il Bae’10, Yun Ji Ro ’11, Brianna Wise ’11and Amanda Quick ’10 6››› RobertDewey, Jean Swengel Arbogast ’40and William Arbogast.1 23 45 6

The Wyoming Seminary AlumniAssociation celebrated the life andaccomplishments of the late RustyFlack ’72 during the 28th AnnualWyoming Seminary Open in May.More than 120 golfers turned out toremember Rusty, who was chair ofthe Board of Trustees when he diedin May, 2011.Beginning in 2013, thetournament will be calledthe Wyoming SeminaryRusty Flack Open.12 31››› Seen with the tournament trophy are, from left: Joe Perfilio ’91,Golf Tournament Chair; Alex Flack ’05, Chad Flack ’01, KathiFlack, Jamie Flack ’05, Robert Tamburro ’91, Alumni AssociationPresident; Harry Flack ’06, Hal Flack ’77 and Michael Flack ’102››› Kristen Armstrong, Kathi Flack, Carole “Sis” Schalm Ertley ’62and Daylene Thomas Burnside ’623››› This year’s Open winners were Danny Kluger ’79, Scott Henry ’76,Lester Smulowitz ’79 and Charles Parkhurst ’79.44››› John Henry ’10, Alex Olsen ’10, Michael Flack ’10 andChad Adonizio ’10

wyomingseminary.org292012 Outstanding Alumna Award 2012 Oldest AlumnusMary Lopatto ’72, seen withDr. Kip Nygren, Sem president,received the 2012 OutstandingAlumna Award at the AlumniConvocation.Fred Mack ’32, this year’soldest alumnus celebratinghis 80th Reunion, receiveda standing ovation atConvocation as he accepted aspecial gift.Class of 1967 IcebreakerAbove: Kathy Anselmi, Carol Morris, Janet (Jeffie) Flack, Jeff Grogan and MargotMcCormickAbove Right: Ira Goldstein and Philip SantarelliRight: Shelley Rosen Chamberlain and Jackson KoffmanClass of 72 IcebreakerSeated, from left: Dottie Smith, Rosa Lane Willamson andJohn MoscaStanding, from left: Enid Harris, Mary Lopatto, MarneySpohrer Smith, Maddy Newman Wolf and PollyMitchell

Gathering at Kip Nygren’s homeTop Row Left: Carolyn Wright and Orville Wright Jr. ’52 Top Right: Marianne Pearlman, Joel Pearlman ’62, Skip Falbo ’62 and Gina Falbo Bottom Row Left:Yaxi Wen ’12, Fred Mack ’32 and Junkai Zeng ’13 visited for a few minutes during the party. Right: Joseph Flanagan ’42, Gail Hutcheson Fair, MarianneTinsley Finnerty ’57, John Dimond ’57, Beth Tribler Corrigan ’62 and Mark WinterGathering at John Shafer’s ’71 homeTop Row Left: DORIS CRESKO ’67 and retired English teacher Harry Nageli Center: Janet Flack ’67 and Scott Borowsky ’67 Right: John Mosca ’72 andDean of Upper School Jay Harvey ’80 Bottom Row Left: Director of Athletics Karen Klassner, Jeanne (Gigi) Lopatto ’77 and Tim Evans ’77 Right: RosaLane Williamson ’72, Denise Vonderheid, Gail Vonderheid ’72 and Joe ShedlAwski ’72

wyomingseminary.org31Alumni Gathering at The Cottage at The Lands at HillsideTop Row Left: Elliot Miller ’72 and Ellie Grosek Stein ’72 Top Row Right: Ira Goldstein ’67, Scott Borowsky ’67 and Rick Williams ’77Bottom Row Left: Jeannie McCarthy Clements ’77 and Jeanne (Gigi) Lopatto ’72 Bottom Row Right: Polly Mitchell ’72, Cindy PearsallSussman ’72 and Steven SussmanAlumni Baseball GameKneeling: Ethan Lewis, head softball coach; Elliot Miller ’72. Standing: Dylan Seeley ’07, Dan Sperrazza ’01, Vincent Lorusso ’01, Jeff Arch ’72,Jim Kersey, Ryan Molitoris ’06, Jon Yoder ’01 and Robert Seeley ’73.

Classes of ’42, ’47, ’52 & ’57Class of 1942 Seated: Robert Edgerton, Stanley Davies, Mary Elizabeth Maycock Flanagan, Joseph Flanagan andMarilyn Coughlin Rudolph. Standing: Stanley Blazejewski, Charlotte Benjamin Morris, Robert Tippett and Richard Levy.Class of 1947 John Sampson, Georgia Johnson Besecker, JohnMachun and Ned Hartman.Class of 1952 First row: Benjamin Phillips, Jackie Mulcey, Richard Ide, Elizabeth Tesiny Bohstedt, Deborah Gutman Cornelius, Sally Tonrey Morelli, Helen Miller Davis, BasiaMieszkowski Jaworski, Nancy von Arx Merrill and Eileen O’Boyle. Second row: Marvin Metzgar, Warren Epstein, John Dungan, Jim Lord, Robert Morgan, Stuart Uram, John Magagna,Paul Beane, Frederick Trumbore, Claire Conlon Evans and Orville WrightClass of 1957Abigail Hutcheson Fair, John Dimond, Marianne TinsleyFinnerty, Fred Eister and Elaine Leandri Balderson.SaveThe Date!SpringreunionMay 3-5, 2013

wyomingseminary.org33Class of 1962 at WoodlandsHolding Banner: Ruth Chariton Shaffer, Steve Alinikoff, Gerry Schwartzbach and Rena Bergsmann Rutstein First row: Ken Leyshon, Carol Silberman Nelson Dembert, Barbara RudolphZeller, Lyn Berry, Gail Dixon Menapace, Amy Miner Fleming, Flora Franconi, Daylene Thomas Burnside and Millie Kaiser Fleetwood Second Row: Simon Russin, Skip Falbo, HarveyRosenkrantz, Chuck Aqualina, Bill Yoder, Scott Burnside, Al Thomas, Peter Foldes, Joel Pearlman, Dick Steidel, Elizabeth Tribler Corrigan and David Massey Third Row: Ed Jenkins, JohnHassler, Berry Mertz, Fred Graboske, Carole “Sis” Schalm Ertley, Bob Allen, Lee Turner, Gwen Weaver Van Landingham, Tony Carey, Chris Lacy, Joan McLaughlin Smith and Russ SmithAbove Left: Peter Foldes and Joel PearlmanAbove Right: Fred Graboske and Steve AlinikoffRight: Ruth Chariton Shaffer, Flora Franconi, Gwen Weaver vanLandingham and Rena Bergsmann Rutstein

Classes of ’67, ’72, ’77, ’82 & ’87Class of 1967 Seated: Shelley Rosen Chamberlain, Janet Flack,Doreen Johns Tewksbury, Doris Cresko, Amy-Lyn Pouser Webband Margot McCormick. Standing: Scott Borowosky, Ira Goldstein,Jackson Koffman, Howard Patton, Jim McDonald, Jeff Grogan,Philip Santarelli, Ralph Edwards and Deborah Salsburg.Class of 1977 Seated: Barbara Lumia Rogers, Ginny SpohrerWright, Jeanne (Gigi) Lopatto and Jeannie McCarthy Clements.Standing: Rick Williams, Tim Evans and Jim Rogers.Class of 1972 Seated: Marney Spohrer Smith, Jeffrey Arch, Rosa LaneWilliamson, Dottie Smith, Enid Harris and Cindy Pearsall Sussman. Standing:Madelyn Newman Wolf, John Mosca, Robert Clements, Elliot Miller, JoeShedlowski, Rod Kaiser, Sandy Singer, Gail Vonderheid, Barry Schub, MaryLopatto, Polly Mitchell and Ellen Grosek Stein.Class of 1982 Joseph Kluger, Susan Dantona Jolley, PeytonHawkes, Polly Spohrer Bliss, Elaine Elbich and MelanieMaslow Lumia.Class of 1987 Seated: Robert Finlay, Mark Johns, CarolynKeplinger Kuduk, Susan Vanderburg and Erin Moore Axton.Standing: Laurie Nelson, Christopher Shenefield, BrianBufalino, John Galante, Dawn Lombardo Gaudino, MegBevevino Cramton, Michael Cramton and Jennifer Banks Santo.

wyomingseminary.org35Four honored with service awards atTower Society and DSA ReceptionWyoming Seminary presented its annual Joseph C. Donchess Distinguished Service Award in May to four peoplewho have demonstrated exceptional service to the community and Wyoming Seminary: Max Bartikowsky ’48, MarcHoltzman ’78, O. Charles Lull and Lillian Davis Smith ’53.The Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Wyoming Seminary Board of Trustees on behalf of everyone associatedwith the school. It expresses appreciation for the life and example, sacrifices and devotion of those who are honored.Seen prior to the award presentation are, from left: MARY LOPATTO, ESQ. ’72, Board of Trustees vice-chair andaward presenter; O. Charles Lull, award recipient; Evelyn and Seymour Holtzman, parents of Marc Holtzman ’78,award recipient; Lillian Davis Smith ’53, award recipient; Max Bartikowsky ’48, award recipient; and Dr.Kip Nygren, Sem president and award presenter.Tower SocietyTop Left: At the annual reception thanking members of the Tower Society(donors of $1,000 or more to the annual giving campaign), members alsocelebrated the recipients of the Distinguished Service Awards. Seen during thereception are, from left: Robert Schaub, Dr. Peter Casterline ’61,John Vaida and the Hon. Richard Hughes III ’79.Top Right: Peggy Wade, Shayna Shramko and Anna Cervenak were on handto celebrate with DSA recipient Max Bartikowsky ’48.Left: Enjoying the reception and awards presentation were JulieMcCarthy Strzeletz ’81, director of alumni programs; RebeccaSmith ’79, Amy Smith Johnson ’81, Terrell Smith Juth’86 and Karen Klassner, director of athletics.

Titleand Sem female athletes:a winning combinationSports fans around the United Statesand the world tune in regularly to ESPNto watch games and keep up with theirfavorite athletes. So when Title IX ofthe Educational Amendments of 1972reached its 40th anniversary on June23, 2012, the network and its womens’athletics channel, espnW, marked theevent with a companywide multiplatforminitiative, featuring broadcasts of variouswomen’s sports and documentaries aboutthe ground-breaking legislation and thegrowth of women’s athletics.But it was espnW’s remarkablepresentation of a mosaic of photos ofwomen athletes, titled “The Power of IX,”that attracted national media attention.The photos were compiled in a digital,moving format and were projected uponthe Newseum’s 74-foot-high outdoorFirst Amendment table in Washington,D.C. on June 21. Four thousand picturesof women and girls competing in sports,submitted by the athletes themselves,went into the mosaic (www.espnW.com/IXMosaic), creating the largestever collection of girls and womens’sports images. One of those photos wasof Wyoming Seminary alumna LauraSuchoski ’05 during her career as amidfielder and two-time captain on DukeUniversity’s field hockey team.But Suchoski was much more than a facein this crowd. As social media managerfor espnW, she and a colleague developedthe “Power of IX” project to honor femaleathletes and commemorate Title IX’sanniversary. She contacted well-known“No person in theUnited States shall,on the basis of sex,be excluded fromparticipation in, bedenied the benefitsof, or be subjectedto discriminationunder any educationprogram or activityreceiving federalfinancial assistance.”— Title IX of the EducationalAmendments of 1972Laura Suchoski ’05, social media manager for espnW, is seen during the presentation ofESPN’s Title IX Mosaic displayed on the wall of the Newseum in Washington, D.C.Suchoski, at right, a four-time All-American at Duke University, takes a shot in a 2008game against the University of Maryland. Duke won the game, 3-2.

Athletics has always been an importantpart of her life; while at Sem she playedfield hockey and won four varsity lettersin swimming, serving as swim teamcaptain for two years and setting poolrecords. In recognition of her swimmingachievements she was inducted into theWyoming Seminary Varsity Club SportsHall of Fame in 1987. A collegiate All-American at Springfield College, Ruthwas a co-captain of the women’s swimteam for three years and rememberswriting a letter to the college’s newspaper,defending the team’s right to equalpractice time in the pool under TitleIX. She has competed in triathlonssuch as the 1982 Ironman; has been asuccessful bodybuilder, winning a MissPennsylvania title; and still lifts weights,bikes and runs every day to stay in shape.“If Title IX had been in force when I wasgrowing up, I definitely would have takenup track and field, because I was alwayspretty quick,” Ruth says, adding that shewas the first girls track and field coach atLiberty High School and coached bothboys and girls in the throwing sports; shewas the only female throwing coach inthe district. “I think it’s wonderful to seehow far women athletes have come andto see how women can compete at sucha high level even after college. Athleticsdoes so much for girls, allowing them tobe independent and competitive.”And thanks to Title IX, athletics is justone of the ways in which women can nowcompete on a more level playing field, saysKaren Klassner, Sem director of athletics.Whether in education, employment orhigher pay, the legislation has madeit possible for women to reach theirpotential in ways not previously available.Klassner began her career at Sem in 1971,just before Title IX was passed. Sincethen she has served as one of the firstfemale athletic directors in the area andas the first female athletic director atSem. She has seen how the legislation hasenabled her to assist her female athletesto aspire to and play for premier NCAAHead field hockey coach Karen Klassner, center, discusses game strategy during a break in the action onKlassner Field.Div. I programs. And she notes that atthe 2012 Olympics the women athletesoutnumbered the men, indicating thatwomen are taking advantage of a growingnumber of opportunities to excel.“Title IX has also helped males,” shepoints out. “An example of that is theopportunity that boys have had to playfield hockey here, because of their love offield hockey. They could play because therules of the legislation said they could.”Klassner, who played basketball, fieldhockey, soccer and softball in high school,says she always aspired to be an educator,to inspire students and help them reachtheir goals. Title IX has aided her inrising to leadership positions within theschool and in field hockey, and in helpingher students to set and achieve highexpectations.The future game planUsing the media to teach girls and youngwomen about Title IX and to develop anenthusiastic audience for women’s sportswill ensure that women maintain andadvance their achievements in athleticsand other aspects of life, Aronowitz andSuchoski maintain.“Women’s sports need to get the samerecognition as men’s, and in ourbroadcasts I do everything I can to makewomen’s sports compelling and presentunique aspects about the athletes andtheir sport,” Aronowitz says.“You can’t be about what you can’t see,”adds Suchoski. “Even though Title IX isin play, girls need to see what’s possibleand that’s what the media need to show.”

wyomingseminary.org39Class Notes1932FRED MACK, Newton Square, recently returned tothe Upper School campus in Kingston to celebratehis 80th Reunion during the annual AlumniWeekend held in May. A retired aeronautic designand industrial design engineer, Mack helped designfighter planes during World War II. A former pilot, hehas completed two tandem skydives from 13,000 feet:he made his first dive when he was 95 and his secondonly last year, when he reached his 100th birthday.He has been driving for more than 90 years and is theoriginal owner of a 1953 Jaguar XK-120; Jaguar hasconfirmed he is the oldest active Jaguar driver in theworld. He was a competitive skier into his 70s and didnot stop skiing until his 90s. Mack, who grew up inthe Wyoming Valley, was the only member of his classto attend Alumni Weekend and received a standingovation at the Reunion Convocation, where he waspresented with a special gift.194370th Reunion—May 3-5, 2013M. GRACE WHITE WHIDDEN, Post Falls, Idaho,writes, it is now three years since I left my home of fortyyears in Houston, Texas and settled in a brand new retirementhome in Idaho near my two daughters who had retired here.I feel quite at home now and have acquired a whole newcircle of friends and become very involved in many of theprograms and activities offered. Shortly after I moved in I gotpermission to organize a Residents Welcoming Committee.We assist new residents adjusting to their new lifestyle here.They come from all over the country in order to be near anadult child. Although I am far removed from my “roots” Imust admit I couldn’t be living in a more beautiful part of thecountry. Tourists flock here to take advantage of the countlessrecreational activities available year-round. The naturalbeauty of the area is absolutely breathtaking and brings manypeople here to retire. When I first arrived here I contacted ourclassmate JOHN DAVIES who had come to Coeur d ‘Alenewhen he retired to be near his daughter. Unfortunately, Johnnever fully recovered from a stroke that landed him in anursing home shortly before my arrival. Sadly, we were neverable to get together and he has since passed away. I’ d dearlylove to return to Sem for our 70th class reunion if I thoughtthere would be a good turnout. However it would be a majorundertaking were I to attempt it. I am still undecided. I’mcontinually amazed at how far Seminary has come just sinceI attended there. I’ve never stopped being grateful for thescholarships I received that made it possible for me to attendas a boarder for three wonderful years. I’ ll always cherish thememories I made there.NORMAN WEISS, Naples, Fla, has published hismemoirs. Titled “Spider’s Web” the hard cover editionis available on Amazon and it is available as an ebookon Kindle.1944MARY BURNSIDE MANGELSDORF, NewtonSquare, writes, Just realized it was 68 years ago that Igraduated from Seminary—a whole lifetime ago! My husbandand I live in a retirement community outside of Media,Pennsylvania called White Horse Village. It’s not too far fromSwarthmore where we lived for so many years and raised ourfour children. Paul taught physics at Swarthmore College. Iworked at the Friends’ Meeting House (Quaker) on campus.194865th Reunion—May 3-5, 2013ELLEN DAVIS BENDER, Fleetwood, writes, Bill and Icelebrated our 60th wedding anniversary. We welcomed ourfirst great granddaughter, Riley Baldwin. Our annual familytrip to the Jersey shore is fun!1952PAUL BEANE, Tunkhannock, writes, Barbara and I areenjoying retirement with three different lifestyles: Summertimeat our log home in northeast Pennsylvania with family (LakeCarey); Winter time in a retirement community in Ft. Meyers,Florida; International travel with Overseas Adventure travel.We have made 15 trips covering 30 countries. We round thisout by visiting 6 kids and 12 grandkids in California, Arizona,Vermont, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York City.195360th Reunion—May 3-5, 2013RUSSELL CRAMER, Pocono Manor, writes, I’ve beenretired from my family business for over ten years now and Iam enjoying every minute. I now have time for my interestswhich include: native American archeology, tennis, kayaking,vintage jaguars and of course my eight grandchildren. My wifeSara has continued her real estate career and currently ownstwo realty franchises with our daughter as a partner in thePoconos. For my part I enjoy doing the photography for herhome tours and website. All of this seems to keep me very busyand the days just fly by.BETTIJANE LONG EISENPREIS, New York, N.Y.,writes, I would love to come to the reunion but, typical NewYorker that I have become, I have Met Opera tickets for May 4.Impossible to change. Our big news since last reunion is thatmy son, Steven, now has his own apartment—a two-bedroomcondo on the 19th floor of a lovely building 11 blocks from me.We are both very happy.LIESEL VON STORCH HICKS, Auburn, Calif., writesWe are enjoying life in our recreation community where wehave lived for 40 years, now with time to improve in golf,tennis and to soak in the lake. I gave up my slalom water skibefore my titanium knees and the advent of wake boards.Our grandchildren have added three spouses and a greatgrandchild to the mix. Some are in grad school, college, somein high school, middle school and elementary.JEANETTE MORGAN OBORNE, New Castle, Del.,writes, Finally retired after 50 years of nursing in the USNavy, Letterman County Hospital, Veterans Administration inDelaware, school nursing for 10 years. Travel yearly with theVA Medical Musical Group: 300 medical people perform everyVeterans Day in the U.S. then go abroad to continue concerts.WILSON VARCOE, Sellersville, writes, My wife of 53years, Patricia, died in 2011. I am remarried to Tanis W.Varcoe and have moved to a new home in Sellersville. I am stillactive in the Methodist Church and I have been chairperson ofthe District Building Committee for over 20 years.1957NICHOLAS QUACKENBUSH, The Villages, Fla.,writes, 2011-2012 has been busy for us. We did a 3-monthTDY at the American Embassy in Astana Kazakhstan in thefall of 2011; a ski trip to Telluride in January; and another3-month Astana TDY this spring. This summer we are off toAlaska for two months with an Airstream Caravan. Just tryingto get it all in before we fall off the branch.195855th Reunion—May 3-5, 2013KAY ANN KARMILOWICZ GORDON, Burlingame,Calif., writes, I’m currently semi-retired. Every year I doCELDT testing in all schools from Kindergarten through juniorhigh in my district. I’m trained by the state of California.MARY GIFFIN INTLEKOFER, Stuart, Fla., and herhusband Al moved from Maryland to a waterfrontcondo on Hutchinson Island in August 2010. After alengthy illness, Al passed away in May 2012.MICHAEL SUMNER, Teaneck, N.J., writes, My wife,Adele, and I returned recently from a 17 day tour of China. Wescheduled the trip a year ago when my nephew was working inShanghai. He was supposed to be there until the end of June,but unfortunately he was asked to return to the USA by hisfirm in March. He did send us information about Shanghai,which we made use of when we were there. Shanghai is theonly city on our trip that had signage in both Chinese andEnglish. Based on recommendations from good friends, wesigned up with China Spree as the tour operator. The tripwas fantastic. We saw the scenic and cultural sites in Beijing,

Passing Historyon to the YoungBy Don Spatz, Reading EagleEditor’s Note: Stanley Blazejewski ’42 of Downington, Pa. was one of nine members of his class to returnto Sem for Reunion in May. The story below recounts his 2004 return to Luxembourg to commemoratethe 50 th anniversary of the World War II Battle of the Bulge and his participation in the war.Sixty years after leaving it, Stan Blazejewski ’42 found hisold foxhole.And he cried.The (87-year-old Downingtown, Pa.) man was aninfantryman in the 9 th Armored Division during WorldWar II’s Battle of the Bulge.Beginning on Dec. 16, 1944, his company of 100 menspent 10 days defending a cliff on the Luxembourg side ofthe Saar River, not allowing attacking German troops topass.Fifty of his comrades and several hundred Germans diedin that patch of the dense Ardennes Forest.Blazejewski spent the 10 days in a foxhole behind a tree,standing in freezing water. His feet went numb and stayedthat way.I talked to Blazejewski in November, 2004 for ananniversary package we published on the Bulge, one ofthe most famous battles in the war.He told me he and his (then) 17-year-old grandsonJonathan Jordan were going to Belgium and Luxembourgin December with other Bulge survivors.“If I can find that cliff, maybe I can find that foxhole,” hetold me.Actually, 101 vets, each with a spouse or companion orrelative, met in Brussels for a tour that surprised them.The streets were lined with people as their buses drove by.They had motorcycle escorts. They were met by Belgium’sPrince Phillippe. They attended – and were honored by– memorial services that are celebrated there every fiveyears.“They were so full of gratitude,” Blazejewski said. “Thesepeople were so glad to see us. They wanted to hug us andkiss us. I was getting writer’s cramp because they all hadbooks for us to sign.”There’s reason for the gratitude. Hundreds of thousandsof Americans gave their lives for Europe.I’ve often thought the best thing that ever happened toEurope was for Japan to bomb the United States.Pearl Harbor got us mad, shook us out of our isolationistlethargy and got us into the war in time to stop amadman before hehad the chance todevelop the atomicStanley Blazejewski ’42 is seen at right withbomb and the jetpoweredheavy Alumni Weekend festivities.classmate Robert Tippett ’42 at last spring’sbomber that hisengineers were working on.He most certainly would have used them to blackmail therest of the world, including the United States.When Blazejewski’s tour group had a day off inLuxembourg, he and another 9 th Armored vet took up anoffer to be driven wherever they wanted to go.They drove to Beaufort, where the other veteran – injuredthe first day of the battle – had been treated in an aidstation in a hotel basement.They couldn’t find the hotel, but their driver found theBeaufort mayor’s secretary, a history buff who knewwhere Blazejewski’s company was during the battle.“He drove us out to the Ardennes Forest on a dirt road,”Blazejewski said. “When we got to the end, we walked,and then we saw the area and what looked like the pathcoming up from the Saar River, where the Germans werecoming up (in 1944).“We found a bigger foxhole; it was the emplacementfor the 30-caliber machine gun. And to the right was asingle-man foxhole behind a tree, and that was mine.“That was really an emotional point. It got a little muchfor us. I took myself back 60 years, to think of thatmorning, and what happened.”Protected by a building ban, that foxhole had filled inover the years and was only a foot and a half deep, he said.Still, his grandson stood in that hole and heard the othervets’ stories.That third generation needs to learn what happened 60years ago. What a way to teach it.(Reprinted by permission of the Reading Eagle Company. Thiscolumn originally was published on Feb. 9, 2005.)

wyomingseminary.org41Xian, Guilin, Chongqing, and Shanghai. Along the way, wetook a three day cruise down the Yangtze River to the ThreeGorges Dam. Highlights include: The Great Wall and TheTemple of Heaven in Beijing; a formal tea ceremony and theterracotta warriors in Xian; the terraced rice fields and theKarst Hills along the Li River in Guilin; the Chongqing Zoo anda walk through the old food market; and Shanghai’s Bund/Pudong area at night and wandering through the old JapaneseConcession community. Aside from breakfast where westernand Chinese food were served, the meals were all Chinesemeals served family style. There was a great variety of foodas each city prepared food slightly differently. My conclusionsfrom the trip are that the Chinese government’s centralplanning facilitates accomplishment of their priorities. “Arolling stone gathers no moss” is an appropriate metaphor ofthe pace of progress. The government is building apartmentsin the cities as the younger generation is moving there for abetter life. Anyone born post 1976, when Mao died, wantsto live the good life. They still are acculturated to remain athome with their family, and to take care of their parents andgrandparents. But more of the young people are becomingindependent. Another conclusion is that the Governmentwants to maintain some of the past way of life to show bothforeigners and its own young people. I think many currentoccupations will disappear as the current workers retire andare not replaced by their children, who will have moved tothe cities. Store mannequins and much of the advertisingshows western Caucasian features, which to the Chinese aredesirable, especially for the women. I don’t think I saw anyobese Chinese people. Most appear thin. I am interested inyour opinion of the Chinese life style.1962JOEL PEARLMAN, Columbia, Md., writes, Marianneand I enjoyed the 50th reunion and wished that it could havecontinued even longer. We want to thank AL THOMAS ’62and the reunion committee for their great planning. I retiredfrom a Washington, DC law firm several years ago and nowIsaacs named to lead arts schoolNORMAN ISAACS ’62, Pasadena, Calif., a former middle schoolprincipal and founder of an arts charter high school, was selected tohead the Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts, arelatively new high school in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Hetook over as the principal last fall, coming out of retirement to do so.We caught up with Dr. Isaacs to find out how things are going.Journal: Cortines High School opened in 2009 and this year’ssenior class will be the first class to graduate that started out asfreshmen. Tell us a bit more about the school and your first yearthere.NI: My first year was phenomenal. The school was developed to meetthe needs of kids in the downtown [LA] area who are not exposed tothe arts. Eighty percent of our students are on free or reduced lunch.It’s a public, audition-free school with 1,800 students. This school year[2012-13] is our first year of full enrollment. We offer an eight-periodday over the traditional six so that our students can take two artsclasses on top of their six academic courses. We have 16 full-time artsteachers. The school’s art syllabi mirror what college art classes offer.Our graduates are able to get college credit in their discipline. As for myappointment, the [LA United School] district had trouble recruiting aprincipal—most declined for various reasons. For me, this is a volunteerposition. I take no salary and spend about 12 hours a day here. I hopeto raise $1 million per year and I have promised this year’s class offreshman that I’ll stick with them through their graduation.Journal: Why come out of retirement to take on the challenges thatleading a school like this represents and not get paid for it?NI: I got excited about it because it really hasn’t been done before atthis level with kids who haven’t been exposed to the arts. They get achance to have that one-on-one support that a dancer, or a painter, or amusician, should have. I took piano lessons as a kid three times a weekand just never thought about it, it was just money. These kids don’t haveexposure to piano lessons or whatever before coming here. Take dance:the ninth grade girls get here and they can’t go on point. And we pairthem with professional dancers from the Martha Graham Company orthe Alvin Ailey Company and within a year they are proficient—they arenot experts yet but they have learned the discipline and have a basicunderstanding of what it is to become a professional dancer. Besides,I was training for a triathlon and tore my Achilles heel. I couldn’t trainanymore, so I took the job.Journal: What do you remember about your days at Sem?NI: I was not a traditional student and I stuttered. I ran all the time.We lived out at Harveys Lake and I used to run around the lake almostdaily. I didn’t like to sit and I couldn’ttake notes but I could memorizeanything I heard if I concentrated.Most teachers probably thought I wasdumb and they never called on mebecause of the stuttering. Today theywould probably diagnose me as ADDand I would have been that specialed kid. However, Mr. Betterly made a difference-he recognized the wayI learned. But mostly I was bored. There was very little art or musicoffered at that time, if at all. I do recall that the senior oration was avehicle that allowed me to get out there and put myself in front of thecrowd. I think that was important.Journal: After Sem you attended Temple University and studiedeconomics and math. How did you end up in education?NI: I was offered a job with Standard Oil but something didn’t ring truefor me. I always felt this need to give back and so I made the decision toaccept a position as a teacher. I thought I’d only do that for a year or so,but here I am.Journal: According to the LA Times article about your latestappointment, you worked your way up through some of the mostdifficult schools in the system before you became the principal atMillikan Middle School in the San Fernando Valley in 1995. Whilethere you nurtured a well-regarded arts program. Later you foundedand championed a charter high school for the arts. Though you playthe piano, you claim to not be an artist. Why have the arts become soimportant to you?NI: Times have changed. When I went to Sem, all of us could get a job.Go to a prep school and you could be a doctor, lawyer, whatever— youdidn’t have to be great. I wasn’t a good student, but I did okay. Nowyou have phenomenal students who can’t get a job. To get a job todayit’s vital to have confidence, poise, and be able to express yourself.The arts will make you a better lawyer, better doctor, better writer—everything. I think my time feeling awkward at Sem, remember I wouldhave been that special ed kid, really helps me to identify with these kids[at Cortines HS]. We teach them how to build a support system, how toprepare for college, how to form a study group.Journal: Anything else you’d like to share with our readers andyour fellow Wyoming Seminarians?NI: My son Jeremy is a chemical engineer. My daughter Jenny is ateacher. My wife Cristina is a clinical neuropsychologist and thesmartest person I know.

wyomingseminary.org431975 (and 1988)Last spring, Sem alums TERRY CASEY ’75, Dallas,and CATHERINE DEPASQUALE MIHALICK ’88,Shavertown, formed a new partnership, ChancellorFinancial Group, with offices on Public Squarein Wilkes-Barre. Combined with a third partner,Stacey Wyandt of Dallas, the group has 61 years ofexperience in the financial and investment fields.They have formed a relationship with PennsylvaniaTrust Co., Philadelphia, and Fidelity Investments,to provide financial products and services. Allare former employees of M&T Bank. Casey ispresident of the firm. Mihalick is vice president, andadministrative and compliance officer.1979ELIZABETH KLUGER COOPER, Great Falls,Va., was the subject of an August 2012 article inthe Washington Business Journal, spotlightingher brokerage career and current position asInternational Director at Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.The article notes that she has “completed 10 millionsquare feet worth of leases and become one of JonesLang’s top five revenue producers and was namedone of the [D.C.] region’s top leasing agents.” Cooper’ssecret for success? “You have to be able to step upand speak your mind. People who just spew factsand statistics really aren’t helping a client solve theirproblem. You have to be a problem solver and beanalytical about it. You have to ultimately be able totell your client, ‘This is the right decision. This is whyI guide you in this direction.’…Don’t be afraid. I thinktoo many brokers and too many business people don’tlead.” Good advice for just about anyone really!JOHN HORRIGAN, Baltimore, Md., was namedto head the Media and Technology Institute of theJoint Center for Political and Economic Studies. TheCenter is one of the nation’s leading research andpublic policy institutions and the only one whosework focuses primarily on issues of particularconcern to African Americans and other peopleof color. Dr. Horrigan, who for nine years wasAssociate Director for Research at the Pew Internet &American Life Project, recently served on the FederalCommunications Commission’s team that developedthe National Broadband Plan (NBP), where he createdthe research agenda for the Plan’s digital inclusionelements. He also designed and conducted the FCC’sfirst national survey on broadband adoption andusage, the findings of which were highlighted in theNBP’s first working paper.1980ROSS MACARTY, Wilkes-Barre, has been tappedto oversee real estate and special projects duties atthe Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business andIndustry. He is tasked with managing all chamberreal estate development, property managementand financial analysis. Macarty, who has lived andworked in southern New Jersey the past nine years,said he moved back to the area to be closer to hischildren and his “ancestral home.” He said he’s lookingforward to the challenge of attracting businesses torelocate to the region, noting “there is a very salablestory to tell. The wind is now beginning to blow atour back and we’ve got space available and we’ve gotraw land that’s developable.”DAVID SCHWAGER, Kingston, was appointedto the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court ofPennsylvania for a three-year term. The DisciplinaryBoard is an independent agency funded by theSupreme Court of Pennsylvania, consisting of thirteenmembers: eleven attorneys and two non-lawyers fromacross the Commonwealth. It assists the SupremeCourt in carrying out its exclusive jurisdictionover the licensing and discipline of attorneys inPennsylvania. The members meet regularly to decidecase, policies and board administrative matters.Schwager is a partner in the Wilkes-Barre firm ofChariton, Schwager & Malak, with a practice focusingon real estate, title insurance, real estate taxation,business law, commercial litigation, municipal law,and creditors’ rights.1981DAWN LLEWELLYN WASHO, Montrose, hasobtained her license to practice geology in the stateof Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is one of 28 statesto adopt the geology licensure practice. Much oftoday’s geological practice affects the health, safetyand welfare of the public, the environment, andthe economy and feasibility of engineered works.Thus, the public should be protected. Dawn andher husband Jerry moved to Montrose in the fallof 2001 and started the environmental consultingcompany Resource in early 2002. Dawn received amaster of science degree in geology from BinghamtonUniversity in 2009 after successfully defending herthesis, “Using membrane interface probe (MIP) tocharacterize chlorinated volatile organic compoundsin glacial sediments.” Through Resource, Dawn hasworked with several licensed professional geologiststo develop environmental/geological methods andexpertise. She qualified to take the ASBOG exams inSeptember 2011 and received notice of passing andsubsequent licensure in November. Resource worksextensively in the areas of pollution prevention,PADEP Land Recycling/Brownfields programs, andhazardous/non-hazardous waste management.Dawn, Jerry, and their children Emma (14) and Romey(12) continue to live in Montrose. As a family theyenjoy skiing at Elk Mountain where Jerry is on skipatrol. In the summer they can be seen on stand uppaddle boards in Lake Montrose or hiking in one ofthe nearby nature areas.1984Mini ’84 Reunion!Seen at Kevin’s Restaurant in Kingston are (seated)CLAIRE DALEY KENNEDY and AMY LLEWELLYN.Standing are MARISSA MENN LINDER andCAROLINE MCCARTHY YOUNGMAN.1992TRICIA CLARK WILLETT, Tampa, Fla., writes,Married for 12 years. Have two beautiful boys ages ten andseven. Working per diem as a Pediatric Registered Nurse.Godmother to Isabelle Rose Quinn, daughter of GINGERHALE QUINN ’92.1997CHRISTIAN HANISCH, Erfurt, Germany, writes, Thepast year has been quite exciting for us. We moved to Erfurt,Germany in mid 2011 to begin my new assignment within theBosch Group at Bosch Solar Energy in Arnstadt and shortlyafter our second daughter, Antonia, was born. Erfurt is abeautiful city with lots of young families and children, situatedwithin the state of Thuringia amidst lots of nature. Work atBosch Solar Energy is challenging, the difficult PV market iskeeping everyone quite busy these days. I can also report twoalumni meet-ups: In July 2011, I met PJ WASKIEWICZ ’97 inUlm, while he was on a business trip in Germany. In June 2012,we visited VERONIKA (KISS) KARLSEN ’97 and stayedwith her for a couple of weeks in Nøtterøy, Norway. It was apleasure to meet old friends!PETER WASKIEWICZ JR., Portland, Ore., writes,I’m still at Intel, researching next-generation Ethernettechnologies. In addition, I’m now an adjunct faculty professorat Portland State University in the Electrical ComputerEngineering program. I currently teach Embedded OperatingSystems and Device Drivers. That’s the biggest update for me!1999ANNIE ZINKAVICH, State College, has been hiredas an assistant coach with the University of Virginiafield hockey program. At Virginia, Zinkavich willcoach the goalkeepers and assume the recruiting

coordinator role along with alumni outreachefforts. Zinkavich arrives in Charlottesville afterspending the past six seasons as an assistant coachat her alma mater, Penn State. With the NittanyLions, she worked primarily with the goalkeepersand assisted in the day-to-day operations of theprogram. Zinkavich helped Penn State to fiveNCAA Tournament appearances and coached theNittany Lions in the 2007 national championshipgame. During her time there, she also mentoredthe goalkeepers to three first team All-Big Ten andfour All-America honors. Penn State won the BigTen regular season title in 2009 and claimed thetournament championship in 2011. Zinkavich, agoalkeeper, played four seasons at Penn State (2000-03) where she was a three-time NFHCA All-Midwestregional selection and helped the Nittany Lions to thenational title game in 2002. She was also selected tothe senior all-star game in 2003. Zinkavich receivedher bachelor’s degree in psychology from Penn State in2004. A native of Kingston, she was inducted into theWyoming Seminary Hall of Fame in 2011.2000BARRET KATUNA, South Glastonbury, Conn.,married Benjamin E. Kehl on December 17, 2011 at theWater’s Edge Resort & Spa in Westbrook, Connecticut.CARA KATUNA WAGNER ’98 was Barret’s matronof honor. Barret is in her fourth year of graduate studyat the University of Connecticut and is about twoyears away from finishing her doctorate in sociology.Her research areas include gender and humanrights. Barret presently teaches two upper-levelcollege courses; she teaches Political Sociology at theUniversity of Connecticut and Women in Society atthe University of Hartford. Barret recently publisheda chapter entitled, “Hurricane Katrina and the Rightto Food and Shelter” in Human Rights In Our OwnBackyard: Injustice and Resistance in the UnitedStates, edited by William T. Armaline, Davita SilfenGlasberg, and Bandana Purkayastha. Barret is alsothe head United Nations Delegate to the Economicand Social Council for Sociologists for Women inSociety and will represent this organization at theCommission on the Status of Women at UnitedNations Headquarters this spring. She is also anactive member of the Junior League of Hartford andpresently co-chairs the Freshplace committee.2002KURT HOFFMANN, Dayton, Ohio, writes, On June 1,2012, Kris and I became the fifth couple to sign Dayton’s newlycreated Domestic Partnership Registry. We have been togethernearly four years and look forward to the day we can join ourfriends and loved ones as a married couple.2003NOYURIMITSUHASHI,Tokyo, Japan, writes,I got a chance to go toBangkok in March forbusiness training and gotin touch with YANINEENACHOM ’03 for thefirst time since our graduation from Sem! It was so nice tomeet up with her and catch up on the nine years of our livesafter high school. We now both have work and things havemoved on, but there was so much that hasn’t changed and itfelt so natural talking with her! Interesting enough, we bothwork for similar institutions - Yaninee is an officer at ThaiMinistry of Foreign Affairs and I’m with the U.S. Departmentof State (Embassy in Tokyo). We hope to stay in touch for nowon and our lives cross somewhere in the world again. I wish Icould see teachers from Sem sometime in the near future too.2004GORAN AMIDZIC, Zagreb, Croatia, was appointedas a project officer at Financial Access Survey withthe Financial Inclusion Division of the InternationalMonetary Fund’s Department of Statistics. And, yes,he admits that’s a mouthful!MEGHAN DAVIS, Philadelphia, won the title of“Mary from Dungloe” at the 45th annual competitionin Ireland. Davis is the sixth Irish American to winthe title, which is the culminating event of the Maryfrom Dungloe International Festival in CountyDonegal. To win, one must be of Irish decent andshow qualities of “kindness and generosity whichrepresent what Mary from Dungloe was like.”Contestants do not have to speak or perform, butmost do and Davis played the harp and performed“Ave Maria.”2005MATT ABRAHAM, Black Canyon, Colo., is now aLaw Enforcement Park Ranger at Black Canyon of theGunnison National Park in Colorado. He graduatedfrom the Parks Law Enforcement Academy at SkagitValley College in Mt. Vernon, Washington in April,2012, and began working at Black Canyon in May.Fulbright UpdateSince the publication of the spring 2012 JOURNAL and our story “My Fulbright Year” whichhighlighted several Sem graduates and their experience as Fulbright scholars, two more Semalumni have joined their ranks: CARMELLO “CJ” LIBASSI ’06 and JACK MORTON ’07. Thetwo were selected from a pool of more than 9,000 applicants for the 2012-13 academic year.Libassi, who completed a two-year termwith Teach for America as a foreignlanguage teacher, won a Fulbright TeachingAssistantship to Spain. “I’m teaching in asecondary public school called InstitutoGabriela Mistral in Arroyomolinos, Spain,a suburb of Madrid,” said Libassi. “I’m ateaching assistant—they call us ‘conversational auxiliaries,’ for Englishin some form, either directly in an English class or indirectly in someother content area that is taught in English. In all truth it seems likea very similar role to the one I did when I was a counselor for Sem’ssummer ESL program. I’ll be there for the Spanish school year, whichstarts a little bit later than our own, so I’ll be heading to Spain in earlySeptember and my commitment will be done June 30, 2013.” Libassigraduated magna cum laude from The University of Scranton in 2010.A 2011 graduate of John CarrollUniversity, Morton won aFulbright Teaching Assistantshipto the Ukraine. He is teachingEnglish and American cultureclasses at East UkraineVolodymyr Dahl National University in Luhansk. “Iwill also be contributing to the city’s English LanguageMicro Scholarship program and any other culturalprograms, which might arise,” he said. “The city ofLuhansk is located on the border with Russia andits inhabitants mainly speak Russian. Having takenRussian classes with Mr. Konstantin Lyavdansky atSem, I have been very well prepared to communicatein this sort of environment.”

Patel is co-founder of newTanzania orphanage/schoolA summer, 2011 visit to an orphanage in Arusha, Tanzaniainspired Pooja Patel ’10, a junior majoring in political scienceand economics at the University of Pittsburgh, to tackle a projectfew Americans would even consider: to build a new orphanage/school for some of the country’s neediest children. Pooja and herfriend and fellow Pitt student Robert Snyder came up with theidea after they spent a few weeks volunteering at an orphanageand meeting one of the teachers there. That teacher, HeriethJones, had a dream of starting her own new school in her homevillage, and Pooja and Robert decided to help her. They workedtogether to find a plot of land and paid the down payment, andwith that, the new Green Hope Orphanage was born.After spending several weeks there this past summer, Poojareports that the school has more than 50 nursery-school-agedstudents, three classrooms, a kitchen and staff office and threeteachers. She worked with Robert and several other friends tobuild the kitchen, purchase kitchen utensils, construct office andclassroom space, set up a fence and a chicken coop and developan accounting and management system for the orphanage.Headmistress Herieth Jones manages the school and stays intouch with Pooja and Robert, who together with a dedicatedteam of volunteers carry out a variety of fundraisers to raiseenough money to keep the school going.To make fundraising more effective, Pooja and Robert createda non-profit organization called Green Hope and they are in theprocess of applying for 501(c)(3) status. The pair also presentedPooja Patel ’10 is seen with Deborah, one of the students at the new GreenHope Orphanage in Olgilai, Tanzania.the project at the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative University. Theireventual goal is to enable Green Hope to be completely fiscallyself-sufficient.“Next year, we hope to raise enough money to tear down theoriginal building and create several larger buildings of classroomsso that we can expand the school into a primary school as well.This is Herieth’s dream and we hope to see it become a reality ina few short years,” Pooja explains. “Green Hope is also well on itsway to becoming completely self-sustainable and we hope to seethat happen within the next two years.”For more information, or if you’d like to contribute to the Green HopeOrphanage, contact Pooja Patel at poojaamipatel@gmail.com.2008ALYSSA HOCKENBERRY,New York, N.Y., writes, I justgraduated from Wilson College withhonors in the major of art history. InMay 2011, I was named the MargaretCriswell Distert ‘20 Honors Scholar,the highest honor at Wilson, for my capstone on the artisticexchange between Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Ipresented my capstone in April to the Wilson community andagain to Wilson’s Board of Trustees. In January 2012 Itravelled to England and Scotland for a course on theReformation. While in Edinburgh I was lucky enough to seeJAN MICHALKO ‘06 as he was studying at the University ofEdinburgh. I am excited to say that I am moving to New Yorkand will begin FIT’s MA program Art Market: Principles andPractices in the fall.2009Neil Philip O’Donnell, Wilkes-Barre, graduatedwith honors from John Hopkins University in May,receiving a bachelor’s of science degree in biomedicalengineering. Additionally, the JHU BiomedicalEngineering Department awarded Neil the LindaTrinh Memorial Award—a high honor for excellencein the department.2011JON SIDNEY APFELBAUM, Lewisburg, is asophomore at American University and a memberof Lamada Chi Alpha. He is also an employee ofChesapeake Bay Conservancy.OMEED FIROUZI, Washington, D.C., writes, I servedas an aide to State Rep. Phyllis Mundy (D-Kingston) in herdistrict office during summer 2012 and as Back MountainNeighborhood team leader for the Obama campaign duringthe same time. At school I am, among other roles, presidentof GW for Obama-Biden 2012. In this capacity I met VicePresident Biden last April at a fundraiser in which I served asa host committee member; several Sem alumni, parents andfriends helped me reach my fundraising goal.From a Recent Mock Trial AlumnaNOTE: The student experience at Wyoming Seminaryis enriched by support from community leaders:faculty, administrators, staff, parents, alumni,and friends of Sem alike. It is the enthusiasm,kindness, and generosity of each of these individualsthat compels Sem students to strive to become asimpassioned as those who guide them. I would liketo take this opportunity to recognize two of thoseoutstanding leaders, Attorneys Neil T. O’Donnell,Esq. and Catherine R. O’Donnell, Esq. In 2005, theO’Donnell’s took their level of support for Seminarystudents to an entirely new level, volunteering toserve as the mock trial team’s attorney advisors. Thetwo spent countless hours working one-on-onewith team members, teaching trial basics, givingvaluable advice and insight, encouraging studentsto be confident, and indulging the team with theirlight-hearted presence. The O’Donnell’s went aboveand beyond the scope of what a typical attorneyadvisor might do, making arrangements so thatstudents could practice in real courtrooms, havingreal expert witnesses advise the team, and more. TheO’Donnell’s level of dedication resulted in the team’sburgeoning successes: the Sem mock trial team mademultiple showings in the quarter and semi-finalrounds of State Competition. In 2011, the team wonits first ever State Championship and was ranked thesixth best team in the nation. In addition to helpingstudents prepare case materials, the O’Donnell’saccompanied the team to every single competition—whether across the Market Street Bridge at theLuzerne County Courthouse, across the state inPittsburgh, PA, or across the country in Phoenix,AZ. Attorneys Neil and Cathy O’Donnell madebeing a member of the mock trial team a rewardingexperience in every sense of the word. After servingthe program for seven years, the O’Donnell’s willno longer be the attorney advisors for the Seminarymock trial team. On behalf of all of the studentswho have benefited from Attorneys Neil and Cathy’sleadership within the program, thank you for gracingus with your knowledge, kindness, and compassion.

Marriages2003REBECCA CONYNGHAM, Dallas, married Eric Weaver on August 4, 2012.1988MARLA PARENTE, Monroe Township, marriedRobert Polisham on June 27, 2012 at the AtlantisResort in Nassau, Bahamas. The bride’s daughters,MARINA SGARLAT ’21 and SAMARA SGARLAT’25, were flower girls.1997JACQUELINE GENETTI, Wilkes-Barre, marriedMichael Sullivan II on April 14, 2012 at the GenettiBest Western in Wilkes-Barre. Jacqueline earnedher bachelor of fine arts degree with a concentrationin graphic design at Maine College of Art. She isemployed by Whole Foods Market in Providence, R.I.,as a graphic artist. The groom is a certified carpetcleaning technician for J. Brian Day EmergencyServices in Plainville, Mass.1998ARIA VAIDA, Malden, Mass., writes, I was marriedto James Antonopoulos on October 15, 2011 in Watertown,Conn. My new name is Aria K. Antonopoulos. CARA MARIECENERA GUILFOYLE ’98 was my maid of honor.Eric and Rebecca in NewHampshire on their wedding dayFront Row: Corrine Conyngham ’15, Avery Conyngham ’17 , Lindsay Romanowski’03, Julie Howell ’03, Emily Conyngham ’06, Caroline Anzalone Dehne ’96Back Row: Peter Mailloux ’71, John Schooley ’66, Ed Romanowski ’75, GeorgeConyngham ’75 , Edward Griffith ’66, Jessie Conyngham Griffith ’65, JessieConyngham ’05, Katie Conyngham ’99, Will Conyngham ’66, Rebecca ConynghamWeaver ’03, David Conyngham ’00, Stephen Killian ’66, Elsie Conyngham McHale’81, Frank Conyngham ’70, Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski ’75, Clare McCarthyParkhurst ’75, Scott Parkhurst ’78, Matthew Schooley ’71.MORGAN CAREY, Portland, Ore., married RickJoseph Park on July 21, 2012. The event took placeat the Carey’s home on Lake Louise in Dallas. Thebride’s sister, DEVIN CAREY ’05, was the maidof honor. Morgan is a 2007 graduate of LoyolaUniversity in New Orleans. While at Loyola, she wasan active member of the women’s basketball teamand a scholar athlete award winner. She is now anelementary school teacher in Portland. Rick works atUnited Pacific Forest Products and attends PortlandState University pursuing a degree in environmentalscience.Aria and James are seen here with Harry Nageli.Morgan and Rick Joseph Park2006MAUREEN ARSCOTT, Orlando, Fla., marriedCharles Fraser Ross-MacCormack on September11, 2011. CHARLA KLAAS ’06 and CARA JOCASTELLINO ’06 were bridesmaids. JAMESARSCOTT ’04 was an usher. The bride earnedher bachelor’s degree in theatre from MarywoodUniversity. The groom is a graduate of JoelBarlow High School, Redding, Conn., andattended Marywood University.2007MICHAEL ‘MAX’ MILLINGTON, Berkeley,Calif., married Mary Wise on May 19, 2012 at theHomestead Resort in Hot Springs, Va. The couple metat Thomas Aquinas College. The bride’s family lives inFredericksburg, Va. and the couple currently lives inCalifornia where Max is studying ancient Greek. Theyplan to stay in California until he knows where he isgoing to graduate school.Max and Mary Millington

wyomingseminary.org47BirthsObituaries1989KENYATTE IRBYWINSTON, Baltimore,MD, and her husbandJohnny welcomed theirdaughter, KennedySimone on July 30,2011.1991JOANNA SIEGEL GOVER ’91 and CLEM GOVER’00, Lehman, welcomed their son Bodhi Gover onAugust 8, 2012. The baby was a healthy 10 lbs, 16.6oz at birth. He joins big sis, Lyla Grace, age three.1994HENNINGER “HANK” BULLOCK, New York,N.Y., and his wife Jane welcomed a baby girl,Elizabeth Jane, on April 27, 2012. The babyweighed 9 lbs and 11 oz.1996COLLEENCONYNGHAMMAZIN, Natick, Mass.,writes, My husband Daveand I welcomed our secondchild, a daughter namedSamantha Jessie, on July10. Mom, dad, and bigbrother Joey are all doingwell!1999BROOKESCHULER SCIUTO,Sacramento, Calif.,and her husband Johnwelcomed daughterAnnabel Marie onJune 10, 2012. Thebaby weighed 5 lbs,10 oz.1933Eva Ignatovig Townley, Daytona Beach Shores, Fla.,March 30, 2012.1934WILLIAM GUNSTER, Dallas, February 18, 2012.Mr. Gunster was a graduate of the Dean School ofBusiness and also attended Bucknell Junior College,which is now Wilkes University. Mr. Gunster wasthe former president of Luzerne Bank and was alsoa member of its Board of Directors for 50 years. Heformerly held the Office of Luzerne County Clerkof Courts. He was a licensed Real Estate Agent andInsurance Broker and owned and operated the W.J.Parry Agency in Luzerne up until the time of hisdeath. He was preceded in death by his brother,EDWARD “NED” GUNSTER who studied musicat Sem from 1928-1930 and by a sister MARIONGUNSTER BRADY ’46. Surviving are his wife,Ada; two sons, and a daughter, WILLA GUNSTERHEVERIN ’63.1935G. HENRY TURRELL JR., Wyalusing, February2, 2012. After graduation, Mr. Turrell went on toCornell University for engineering. Henry assumedresponsibility for running his family’s dairy farm inSugar Run after the passing of his father. He was amember and a deacon at the Kingston PresbyterianChurch. He was a life member of the PennsylvaniaSociety, served as the Bradford County RepublicanCommittee Person representing Wyalusing Borough,a member of the Westmoreland Club, a member of theGuthrie Health Care System Board of Trustees, andthe Dairyman’s League. He was a founding memberof the Wyalusing Municipal Authority, and a pastdirector of Peoples State Bank. He was predeceasedby his wife, Ellen, and three brothers, includingRICHARD TURRELL ’42. Surviving are nephews,caregivers, and several cousins.1936THEODORE SMITH, Lakewood, May 1, 2010. Mr.Smith served during WWII as a civilian airplanetechnician for Wright Aeronautical in India for over2 years. He was a Metropolitan Insurance Agent for32 years. He was a member of the Lake UnderwoodNimrod Club for 58 years and volunteered at theLakewood Food Pantry for over 20 years. At thetime of death, he was survived by his wife Mary andten children. He was survived as well by his sister,NANCY SMITH EDWARDS ’43. However, Mrs.Edwards died in 2011.1937DAVID PARKE, Kennett Square, April 19, 2012.WILLIAM ROAN, St. Davids, January 3, 2012. AfterSem, Mr. Roan attended Temple University. Heserved four years in the U.S. Army during WWII. Heis survived by his wife, Marianna, his children andgrandchildren.1938MARION PAYNE TUBBS, Haverford, June 23, 2010. Atthe time of death, she was predeceased by her sisterBARBARA PAYNE ATCHLEY ’39 and survived byher sister, ELIZABETH PAYNE SHANNON ’41.1939EDITH WILLIAMS LLEWELLYN, Cincinnati, Ohio,February 28, 2010. Mrs. Llewellyn was a graduate ofthe Dean School of Business.MARIANNE EDER MEBANE, Kingston, November13, 2009. Mrs. Mebane was a graduate of Forty FortHigh School and Wyoming Seminary and receivedher bachelor’s of science degree in economics fromDuke University. During World War II, she worked forRCA Corporation, Philadelphia, as a time-and-motionengineer. After raising her family, she was employedby the Wilkes-Barre YMCA. Marianne was a formerGirl and Cub Scout Leader, and a former boardmember of the YWCA.BARBARA BLACKBURN SHEPHERD, SaintPetersburg, Fla., February 13, 2012.HELEN ALLEN SMITH, Halifax, April 26, 2011.LOIS ROSSER ZEEK, Picture Rocks, May, 6, 2011. Shewas preceded in death by her husband, Walter, andone daughter, Ruth. Surviving are two daughters andmany grandchildren.1940BARBARA RIPPARD BROOKS, Las Cruces, N.M.,August 13, 2010. Mrs. Brooks was a Tri-schoolgraduate and later the Dean School of Business.She joined the WAVES in 1942 and was stationedat Great Lakes Naval Training Center in the officeof the commander of recruit training. Mrs. Brooksworked in real estate for several years and worked asa consultant for Otis Elevator. She is survived by herhusband, Frank, and her two children.ELLEN GREGORY CRISPELL, Gorham, Maine,May 26, 2012. Mrs. Crispell was predeceased byher husband DARREL CRISPELL ’33. Both weregraduates of the Dean School of Business.MERCEDES TOOLE LEIGHTON, Wilkes-Barre,August 17, 2012. Mrs. Leighton was a graduate ofthe Dean School of Business. Mrs. Leighton served

Obituaries, cont’d...four terms as Wilkes-Barre City Controller. Duringher tenure she was active on several city and stategovernment committees. She is survived by herchildren and grandchildren.ROBERT SLOAN JR., Palmdale, Calif., January 30,2012. Mr. Sloan spent his life traveling the worldwith the C.I.A. He is survived by his wife, Bok HuiSloan and his son. He was predeceased by his sisters,including MARGARET SLOAN ’40.1941MARY SIMMONS CUNNINGHAM, Charlevoix,Mich., April 20, 2011.MARGARET BRACE GARRIS, Vero Beach, Fla.,January 27, 2012. She was a teacher in the DallasSchool District for 32 years and a member of DeltaKappa Gamma. She was predeceased by her husbandRalph. She is survived by her daughter and her son.LAURA BERRYMAN JENDRICKS, Troy, Ohio,December 31, 2010. Mrs. Jendricks attended the DeanSchool of Business. After Sem, she attended bothWharton and the AIB School. She was a member ofthe Vandalia, Ohio business community where shewas employed as the managing officer at Bank Onewith over 30 years of service, before retiring in 1986.She was predeceased by her husband Charles.STANLEY MORRETT, Salt Lake City, Utah,December 23, 2011. Mr. Morrett was predeceased byhis wife, Aurora.1942BETTY ANN ASTON HARRY, Plymouth, April6, 2012. She was a graduate of the Dean School ofBusiness. Mrs. Harry worked as a secretary for theRobert D. Kuschke and Son Insurance Company for34 years before retiring. She was predeceased by herhusband, Stewart. She is survived by three children.1943LAVERNE HOBLAK BORIS, Harveys Lake, March 12,2012. Mrs. Boris was a graduate of the Dean School ofBusiness. She was preceded in death by her husband,Dr. Frank Boris, Jr., her son DR. FRANK BORIS III ’69and by her brother WILLIAM HOBLAK ’45.JOHN DAVIES, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, March 27, 2012.Upon graduation from Wyoming Seminary, Mr.Davies served in the U.S. Navy for three years. Afterthe war, he attended Princeton University, graduatingin 1951.While at Princeton he was a member of theTower Club and also performed in the cast of thefamed Princeton Triangle Show. Mr. Davies beganhis career in the advertising business in New YorkCity. This was followed by an extended period asowner and operator of a ski lodge in Waterville Valley,N.H. In 1978 he retired to Palm Beach, Fla., and thenlater moved to Santa Fe, N.M. Finally he moved toCoeur d’Alene to be close to family. He is survived byhis children and grandchildren and by his brother,STANLEY DAVIES’ 42. He was predeceased by hissister ALICE DAVIES STANELY ’36 and brotherJAMES DAVIES II ’39.S. JANE POWELL PETERS, Mechanicsburg,February 20, 2012. She was predeceased by her latehusband, Roy. She is survived by her two sons.ANDREW ROAN, Oviedo, Fla., January, 4, 2011.1944RICHARD “DICK” WILLIAMSON, Turbotville,December 3, 2010. He was predeceased by a sonwho died at birth in 1948. Mr. Williamson served inthe Navy from 1944 to 1946. He was a Fire ControlMan, 2nd Class on a landing ship that was partof the “Gator Navy,” as amphibious naval servicewas affectionately known. Following his militaryservice, Mr. Williamson graduated from BucknellUniversity with a degree in commerce and financein 1950. He soon joined his father in operatingWilliamson’s Wholesale Meats, Inc. He assumedownership in 1962, and served as president untilthe business closed in 1980. During this time heexpanded the business to include a sales areacovering most of central Pennsylvania and openeda retail meat market. Following closure of the meatbusiness, Mr. Williamson found his true avocation.He was a passionate advocate for those strugglingwith addiction and was employed first as the housesupervisor at Transitional Living Facility, Lewisburgand later as lead detoxification counselor andcoordinator at Geisinger Medical Center. Followingretirement in 1990, he continued to assist othersacting as a patient advocate for those confined tonursing homes. He was survived by his wife, Evelyn;two children and his grandchildren. He is alsosurvived by his sister, BARBARA WILLIAMSONKING ’48.1945RUTH COBURN BLAKE, Burbank, Calif., March 28,2012. Mrs. Blake was a graduate of the Dean School ofBusiness. She is survived by her husband James.ALBERTA MURAWSKI HELMECKI, Harveys Lake,August 14, 2005. Mrs. Helmecki was a graduateof the Dean School of Business. She attended theWharton School of Accounts and Finance of theUniversity of Pennsylvania. She held a bachelor ofarts degree from College Misericordia and a master’sdegree in psychiatric social work from the WestVirginia University School of Social Work. She wasemployed by the Veterans Administration System as apsychiatric social worker. She was preceded in deathby her husband, Leonard. She is survived by her sister,FLORENCE MURAWSKI FRANK ’45.GAIL PHILLIPS, Aurora, Colo., April 4, 2012. He issurvived by his wife, Ruth.1946MADLYN BIKOWSKI, Pittston, July 31, 2012. Ms.Bikowski was a graduate of the Dean School ofBusiness. Prior to retirement, she was employed bythe Department of Public Welfare, Wilkes-Barre.DONN INNES, Dallas, March 8, 2012. He attendedthe Harry Hillman Academy, Wyoming SeminaryDay School and Preparatory School and graduatedfrom the Taft School, Watertown, Conn. He servedin the United States Army from 1945 to 1947. Mr.Innes then attended Cornell University, where heearned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.At Cornell, he was a member and past president ofDelta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Following college hereceived a commission in the United States Air Force,serving from 1951 until 1953 as an early warningradar specialist in Japan. After his military service,he was employed by the W. H. Nicholson Company,Wilkes-Barre, where he spent his entire professionalcareer. He became president of Nicholson Division,Datron Systems. At retirement, he and his wife settledin Amelia Island, Fla., returning home to Dallas inthe summer. He was a member of the WestmorelandClub, Wilkes-Barre, and the Amelia Island Club,Florida. Surviving are his wife Carolyn, and children,DONN INNES ’72, TRACY INNES RICCETTI ’76 andCHRISTIE INNES ’79.MARGARET STRAYER STROME, Naples, Fla., June18, 2012. She graduated from Skidmore College andprior to her marriage to CHARLES STROME JR.’46, taught at Springside School in Chestnut Hill.During her marriage, “Peggy” was active in the JuniorLeagues of Philadelphia and Westchester County, N.Y.and the League Club of Naples. She is survived by herhusband, children and grandchildren.REV. BURTT SWEET, Hammond, N.Y., December25, 2011. He graduated from Camptown High Schoolin Camptown and then entered the United StatesNavy in 1944. After his service he attended WyomingSeminary and then went on to receive his bachelorof arts degree in 1950 from Lycoming College inWilliamsport. He earned his master of divinity degreefrom Drew University, Madison, N.J. in 1955. Rev.Sweet served at 16 churches during his career, movingto Sheephead Point in Hammond after his retirement.He is survived by his wife, Marilyn, his children andgrandchildren.1947MARGARET PACKARD ARO, Colorado Springs,Colo., November 17, 2011. Born in Kermanshah, Iran,she was raised in a Presbyterian medical missionthere and moved to the U.S. in 1943. After Sem, Mrs.Aro graduated from Colorado College in 1951, as

wyomingseminary.org49“Outstanding Senior Woman,” with a double major inzoology and education. Her marriage to Ralph “Skip”Houston of Crockett, Texas, brought her two sons.In the 1960’s she hosted KVOR Radio’s “Open Circuit”talk show, chatting with callers, offering advice andgathering recipes which she typed and distributedeach week. She also emceed fashion shows, taughtmodeling and speech diction, and chaperoned MissTeenage America contestants to national pageants.She interviewed many celebrities including Nat KingCole, Jack Benny, Loren Greene and the SmothersBrothers. In 1963 she married KKTV broadcasterHarold “Sam” Aro, and gave birth to two more boys.In the 1970’s Margaret earned her master’s degree ineducation and began a 22-year career at Helen KellerElementary School, where she excelled at teachingchildren with learning challenges. She received theClara Barton Award for her work as the Coordinatorof Volunteers with the Pikes Peak Chapter of theAmerican Red Cross, served on the National Boardof Directors of the Boy Scouts of America, andchaired the Colorado Advisory Board for the UnitedStates Commission on Civil Rights. She ran for statelegislature, was a soccer referee, volunteer docent atthe Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, and sang in the choirat the First Presbyterian Church for over 50 years.In retirement Margaret enjoyed a new marriageto Robert Brooks. She became an accomplishedwatercolorist, selling and showing her work atrestaurants and galleries. She wrote and publishedher father’s story, “Hakim Sahib - Sir Doctor.” She issurvived by husband Robert Brooks of Denver, andher sons. She is also survived by her nephew, formerSem President Jeremy Packard; and her great nephewsMICHAEL PACKARD ’98, DENNIS PACKARD ’00and H. MATTHEW PACKARD ’03.MONSIGNOR F. ALLAN CONLAN, Clearwater, Fla.,June 5, 2012. Monsignor Conlan began his priestlyformation at St. Mary’s Seminary and Universityin Baltimore, Md., and completed his studies atthe North American College in Rome, Italy. In 1954he was ordained to the priesthood in Rome byArchbishop Martin J. O’Connor, D.D., rector of NorthAmerican College and former Auxiliary Bishop ofScranton. Father Conlan received a Licentiate inSacred Theology from Gregorian University, Rome,Italy, in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Catholic Universityof America, Washington, D.C., in 1958. Father Conlanserved as assistant pastor at Our Lady of Sorrows,Wyoming; Christ the King, Dunmore; St. Lucy’s,Scranton; St. Thomas the Apostle, Elkland; St. Paul’s,Scranton; and St. Matthew’s, East Stroudsburg.He was administrator of Holy Cross, Scranton;and Pastor of Holy Child, Mansfield; ImmaculateConception, Scranton; St. Ignatius, Kingston; andSt. Eulalia’s, Elmhurst; and upon his retirement hewas named Pastor Emeritus. After his retirement heserved as chaplain of St. Francis Chapel, Eagles Mere;St. Mary’s Villa, Elmhurst; and after his retirementas Chaplain of the Marywood Generalate of theI.H.M. Sisters. He was named a Prelate of Honor byHis Holiness on July 10, 1990. Along with his pastoralduties he was associate editor of the Catholic Lightfrom 1958 to 1961 when he became editor-in-chief,a position he held until January 1970. He served theDiocese as a professor at St. Pius X Seminary; a judgein the Diocesan Tribunal; a member of the Collegeof Consultors; and as dean of the Kingston area. Hewas director of Campus Ministry at Mansfield StateTeachers College while pastor of Holy Child Parishin Mansfield. Monsignor Conlan was preceded indeath by his sisters ANN CONLAN ’50 and MARYKATHERINE CONLAN ’49. He is survived by twoother sisters who did not attend Wyoming Seminary.PEGGY LYNN FIELDS, Kingston, February 6,2012. Following her graduation from WyomingSeminary and then Marjorie Webster Junior College,Washington, D.C., Mrs. Fields attended the Tobe-Coburn School of Fashion Design in New York City.She pursued a career in fashion publicity in New York,working with the Abbott Kimball Advertising Agencyand renowned fashion photographer Richard Avedon,with whom she coordinated models and photo shootsfor Vogue magazine. In June of 1952, she marriedMatt W. Fields of Lancaster where they resideduntil relocating to Kingston in 1955. Mrs. Fields issurvived by her husband, Matt, and children, CATHYFIELDS MCHUGH ’78, CHRIS FIELDS ’78, MARKFIELDS ’80, JEFF FIELDS ’82 and her grandchildren,including JESSE MCHUGH ’10.CATHERINE GRIFFITHS JONATHAN, Nanticoke,August 19, 2012. Mrs. Jonathan was a graduate ofthe Dean School of Business. Early in life she wasemployed as a bookkeeper at J.L. Turner PlumbingCompany, Nanticoke. She served as a deaconess andwas active in Sunday School at Bethel and morerecently greatly enjoyed volunteering at Nebo’sVacation Bible School. She was preceded in death byher first husband, Frank J. Pilarek in 1952 and secondhusband, William D. Jonathan in 1978. Surviving areher sons including WILLIAM JONATHAN II ’86 andher grandchildren.PAMELA LAZARUS THOMAS, Wilkes-Barre, June27, 2012. She was a volunteer for the American RedCross, March of Dimes, Commission on EconomicOpportunity, Food Bank, American Cancer Societyand a Daffodil Days driver. She had been employedby Fowler, Dick and Walker as a buyer of variousdepartments and as a teller for PNC Bank. She waspreceded in death by her late husband, WILBURTHOMAS ’49. She is survived by her brothers Eugeneand STEPHEN LAZARUS ’60, and sister POLLYLAZARUS THOMAS ’47.REGINALD LUKISH, Luzerne, December 9, 2010. Hewas a staff sergeant in the Army during World War II.Mr. Lukish graduated from Philadelphia University ofScience and for 14 years he was the owner of LukishPharmacy in Luzerne. He was a past member of theLuzerne Borough council. He is survived by his wife,Mary.AUDREY BREIDENBACH MILLER, Sudlersville, Md.Date unknown.MILDRED SHOVLIN, Wilkes-Barre, June 23, 2012.Ms. Shovlin was a graduate of the Dean School ofBusiness. She was employed by First Eastern Bank for43 years. She was a board member of the IndustrialDevelopment Authority of the City of Wilkes-Barre,where she participated as a steward of the city’seconomic development. “Millie” also proudly servedas an officer of the Residents’ Council at Little FlowerManor, where she resided for 24 years. She is survivedby her sister, JEAN SHOVLIN WASNICK ’44.1948JEAN ROBBINS HUGHES, Kingston, April 12, 2012.Mrs. Hughes was a 1952 graduate of Wheaton Collegein Norton, Mass., and a student at the KatherineGibbs School in New York City. Prior to her marriageto FRANK H. HUGHES ’47, she worked at herfamily’s business, the Robbins Door & Sash Companyin Wilkes-Barre. She spent more than a decadedelivering for the Meals on Wheels program, was alongtime member of the Wilkes-Barre Junior Leagueand its sustainers, and served as both volunteerreader and on the Board of the Greater Wilkes-BarreAssociation for the Blind. Mrs. Hughes was an ownerof Wyoming Valley Motors. She sat on numerouscommittees at the Church of Christ Uniting inKingston, where she also taught Sunday school formany years. In 2010, Wyoming Seminary honoredMrs. Hughes with the school’s highest token of itsappreciation, the Joseph C. Donchess DistinguishedService Award. Preceding her in death were herhusband, Frank, and brother, WILLIAM ROBBINS’52. Surviving are sons, FRANK R. HUGHES ’74,WILLIAM HUGHES ’76, daughter, Betsy Phillips;and several grandchildren including ANDREWHUGHES ’10.1949HUGH JONES IV, Harveys Lake, April, 25, 2012.Mr. Jones attended Penn State University where hewas a member of the football and boxing teams,and graduated from Eckel’s College of MortuaryScience in Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U. S.Marine Corps in 1952, serving during the Koreanconflict. He owned and operated the Hugh JonesFuneral Home as the fourth generation of his family,located in Edwardsville and later in Kingston, untilhis retirement. He was a life member and trustee ofthe Franklin Hose Co. 2 in Edwardsville and servedas Fire Chief in Edwardsville for 35 years. Mr. Jones

Obituaries, cont’d...was one of the founders of the Edwardsville Fireand Ambulance Association and first president ofthe unit, commander of the West Side Mutual AidAssociation for many years, member of the LuzerneCounty Fire Chiefs Association and Six County FireAssociation. A member of the Kingston Lodge 395 F.& A.M., American Legion Post 395 of Kingston, IremTemple, Board of Directors of People National Bankin Edwardsville for 30 years, and served as secretaryof the board. He was formerly the security chief atthe West Side Mall. He was preceded in death by hisdaughter, Virgina. Surviving are his wife, Marilyn,daughter Janet and son Hugh. Also surviving areseveral grandchildren including grandson, HERBERTNAHAS ’04.NONDAS QUINLAN PLONSKI, Binghamton,N.Y., February 17, 2012. A graduate of MarywoodUniversity, Mrs. Plonski taught elementary schoolgrades at St. Ann’s and Floyd Bell Elementary inBinghamton and Lincoln Elementary in JohnsonCity, N.Y. She is survived by her three sons andgrandchildren.1950ANN NOGI, Devon, March 11, 2012. After Sem,she attended Penn State University and SkidmoreCollege. She owned and operated a women’s clothingstore in Long Beach Island, N.J., for many yearsbefore moving to Philadelphia. She was a formermember of Temple Israel and Temple Hesed, theJewish Community Center and Hadassah. She issurvived by three daughters and five grandchildren,including DEBORAH ROTHENBERG ’05 and DAVIDROTHENBERG ’08.1951HAROLD EVANS, Mt. Prospect, Ill. Date of deathunknown.DORIS KIRKENDALL MORRIS, Marshall, N.C.,January 26, 2010.COREY WAGNER, Kingston, September 12, 2008. Mr.Wagner graduated from Kingston High School andwas a postgraduate student at Sem. He went on toearn a bachelor’s degree from Lehigh University. Hewas co-owner of Wagner Construction and worked inconstruction management for most of his life. He issurvived by his wife ELLEN O’CONNELL WAGNER’57 and three children and his grandchildren. Heis also survived by siblings, MARTHA WAGNEROSTROWSKI ’54 and MARILYNNE WAGNERHARRIS ’62.1952MADGE KLEIN BENOVITZ, Dallas, March 24,2012. Mrs. Benovitz attended Cornell University,University of Pennsylvania and graduated fromWilkes College. She was an Eternal Light memberof Temple Israel and its sisterhood, a member of theJCC, an emeritus member of the Board of Directorsof King’s College, a member of the PennsylvaniaState Board of Education, Board of Directors of theNational Association of State Boards of Educationand many other civic, educational and religiousorganizations. She spent her life volunteering andwas Past Vice President of the Wilkes-Barre Chapterof Hadassah, Past President of the United Way ofWyoming Valley, Past President of the League ofWomen Voters of Pennsylvania and was chairmanof Temple Israel’s 70th Anniversary Celebration. Shereceived the Wyoming Seminary’s Joseph C. DonchessDistinguished Service Award in 1992. She is survivedby her husband of 57 years, Dr. Burton Benovitz;daughter, JANE BENOVITZ FEINSTEIN ’74, threegrandsons, ANDREW FEINSTEIN ’02, ERICFEINSTEIN ’03, and ROSS FEINSTEIN ’06. She isalso survived by her brother HARVEY KLEIN ’49 andhis wife JUDITH RAUB KLEIN ’47.JOANN BONFANTI MILLER, Hershey Mill, March5, 2012. She is survived by a son, a daughter and sixgrandchildren.1953MURIEL KELLER JACOBY, South Hero, Vt., March6, 2011. An educator and caretaker for most of herlife, Muriel received a B.S.N. from Hood College anda diploma from Johns Hopkins in 1958. She practicednursing in various locations including Abadan, Iran,New Haven, Conn. and Boston, Mass. In 1974 sheearned a masters degree at the University of Delawareand went on to teach nursing at the University ofVermont, Lycoming College in Pennsylvania andAtlantic Cape Community College in New Jerseywhere she served as chair of the Nursing and AlliedHealth Department. Retiring to Vermont she starteda gardening group and newspaper column. Hervolunteer positions included teaching reading at theSouth Hero Elementary School and ESL at VermontAdult Learning and the Beijing YMCA. She also servedon the South Hero Library, CHAMP and HochelegaYWCA Camp Boards. She is survived by her husbandRaymond, her children and grandchildren.1954ROBERT FLYNN, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., November18, 2007.BERNARD MINAKOWSKI, Willow Grove, October17, 2010. He served as a lance corporal in the MarineCorps during the Korean Conflict. He attendedWyoming Seminary and went on to earn a bachelorof science degree in electrical engineering fromPenn State University. He worked his entire careerwith Philadelphia Electric Co. as an engineer. Heis survived by his wife, Virginia, his children andgrandchildren.1955ROBERT DAKE, Lansing, N.Y., November 15, 2010.Mr. Dake attended Ithaca High School in New Yorkbefore graduating from Wyoming Seminary. Heattended college at Bowling Green State Universityin Ohio graduating with a bachelor’s degree ineducation. Mr. Dake was a well respected teacher andwrestling coach in the 1960’s at Lansing Schools andwill be forever remembered by many as the foundingfather of Lansing Wrestling. He and his family movedto Westlake, Ohio where they lived for 25 years. Whileresiding in Westlake, he was one of the originalfounding members of the Westlake Demons Junior AllStars football program, a program that is still goingstrong 38 years later. After returning to the LansingArea in the 1990’s, Mr. Dake continued to work withyoungsters, sharing his wealth of knowledge andpassion for the sport he knew and loved so well. In2004, he was inducted into the Lansing High SchoolAthletic Hall of Fame for his contributions to thewrestling program. He is survived by his wife Andrea,his children and grandchildren.ALFRED PIATT, Greendale, Ind., April 20, 2012. Mr.Piatt graduated from Penn State University. He wasemployed for many years at U.S. Steel. He served inthe U.S. Army. He was a member of the Penn StateAlumni Association and the Elks. While livingin Cape Coral, Fla., he volunteered with the CapeCoral Hospital and Police Department. Survivingare his former spouse, Eydie, and his children andgrandchildren. He is also survived by his nephew,CLARKE PIATT II ’86.HERBERT SCHREMPP, Pittsburgh, March 16, 2011.He is survived by his wife, Mary.1956EDWIN CURTIS, Hollywood, Fla., March 5, 2011.1957WILBUR PERSON, Lehighton, August 9, 2011.After Sem, Mr. Person received a bachelor of sciencedegree from Bloomsburg University. Person was anArmy veteran of the Vietnam War, having attainedthe rank of sergeant with the 79th Infantry. As anArmy Reservist, he was called to active duty duringthe Cuban Missile Crisis. A self-employed real estateappraiser, he also taught real estate at Penn StateUniversity and worked in the insurance brokerageindustry. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, hischildren and grandchildren.WILLIAM PRITCHARD, Hazelton, October 11, 2009.Dr. Pritchard was a chiropractor in Hazelton. He issurvived by his wife, RUTH THOMAS PRITCHARD ’58.WADE RENDLE, Lenox Township, March 18, 2012.He was a 1957 graduate of Wyoming Seminary anda 1958 graduate of the Dean School of Business.He also attended Harpur College in Binghamton,N.Y., where he studied business administration.

wyomingseminary.org51He was a third generation railroader and workedfor the Lehigh Valley Railroad. He retired fromGould National Battery Company, Dunmore, whichlater became Exide Corporation, after 30 years. Healso did government quality control for Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company and worked at ANSCOFilm Corporation and Charmin. He was a foundingmember of the Railroad Museum of NEPA, belongedto Endless Mountains Model Railroad Club andhelped charter two chapters of the National RailwayHistorical Society. He is survived by his wife, Gail andhis daughter and two sons.1958ALEXANDER TAYLOR, Greenwood, S.C., January30, 2012. Following Wyoming Seminary, Mr. Taylorwent on to the University of Delaware where he was amember of Sig Ep fraternity. Mr. Taylor was formerlyemployed by Avisun, Home Insurance Co. and, in1979, founded T-3 Enterprises, in Wilmington, fromwhich he retired in 2004. He is survived by his wifeLynn, his children and grandchildren.1959JAMES FIELDING EYSTER, Seven Valleys, May 19,2011. After graduation, Mr. Eyster attended CatawbaUniversity. He served in the U.S. Army during theVietnam War. He was an accountant for Kochenour,Ernest, Smyser and Burg. He is survived by his wife,Dorothy, his children and their families.ROBERT LYTLE, Williamsport, July 21, 2011. AfterSem, Mr. Lytle attended Lycoming College. Hewas the president and owner of Canteen VendingCo. He was involved in several vending industryboards, a board member of the Susquehanna HealthSystem, Penn College Foundation, Hope Enterprises,Community Arts Center, and the St. Ann’s CatholicChurch Finance Board. He was a veteran serving inthe Army Reserve. He is survived by his wife Barbara,his children ROBERT LYTLE ’85 and STEPHANIELYTLE VOSS ’86 and by his grandchildren.1960EDMUND ROOS JR, Wilkes-Barre, August 16, 2012.Mr. Roos was a longstanding resident of Wilkes-Barre, graduating in 1959 from Meyers High School,where he played on the senior football team as a tightend. Going on to Wyoming Seminary in 1960 as apostgraduate, he then graduated from Wilkes Collegewith a degree in business in 1964. Mr. Roos joinedthe family business of E.A. Roos Meats on SouthMain Street, Wilkes-Barre, and helped to continuethe success of the company until the floods of 1972threatened the long-term viability of the plant, whichemployed many local staff. More currently, he hadbeen employed by the Pennsylvania Department ofAgriculture. Mr. Roos was active in the community,including U.S. Army Reserves, mini and high schoolfootball refereeing, and the Shriners of NorthAmerica. He is survived by his wife, Gina, his childrenand grandchildren.1962MYRTIS FUNKE BURNS, Philadelphia, March 13,2012. Mrs. Burns attended the Lower and UpperSchools of Wyoming Seminary and graduatedfrom Beaver College. During her entire career, sheworked for the City of Philadelphia. At the timeof her retirement, she was Deputy Commissioner,Procurement Department. She is survived by herhusband, John, and sisters DOROTHY JEANNEFUNKE PERLEY ’53, ELSA ANN FUNKE BAINER’54, and GAIL LOUISE FUNKE STETTLER ’57.1964JAMES HEMSTREET II, Bergen, N.Y., died December2, 2006.1965DENISE LINDER DUNBAR, Key West, Fla., May 25,2012. Following graduation from Seminary she movedto California and attended San Jose State College.Returning to the Scranton area, she owned a ClarksSummit book store and was employed by Joseph TheFurrier and Jewelcor Travel. She was married to ColinHolmes whom she later divorced. She married GregDunbar in 1982 on Long Beach Island, N.Y. Over thefollowing years, they lived in Philadelphia, Charlotteand Chicago, sharing a goal to someday live in awarm climate. In 1989, while visiting her brotherRobert in Key West, they agreed that was the place. In1995, after many visits to the island, they purchaseda home, left the corporate world and settled in KeyWest. Her brother’s untimely death from AIDS ledto her passion to assist others. She was a tirelessfundraiser for AIDS Help and Wesley House FamilyServices. She served both nonprofits as their Directorof Community Relations. After a bout with coloncancer, she retired in 2010 to spend as much time asshe could on their “other island,” Isla Mujeres, Mexico.She is survived by her husband.HAROLD SEAMANS, Gaines, June 11, 2012.1966LUCINDA WOLFE HUGHES, Elmira, N.Y., August 10,2012. Born in Scranton, she was the daughter of thelate Samuel M. Wolfe Jr., and JEAN KELLEY WOLFE’32. After graduating from Sem, she went on toSkidmore College, graduating in 1970. She is survivedby her husband Frederick and her daughter. She isalso survived by her brother SAMUEL WOLFE III ’64.1967MARGARET BRIGGS, Montgomery Creek, Calif.,June 21, 2012. She is survived by her brother DAVIDBRIGGS ’66.DOMINICK MISTROT, Dallas, April 10, 2010.1971HOWARD GRAEFFE, Emmaus, February 8, 2012.He was a graduate of Wagner College, and receivedhis MBA in finance from Temple University. Mr.Graeffe was pivotal in the formation and growthof several businesses throughout the LehighValley and Poconos. After founding Graeffe andAssociates with his brother, they opened multipleJiffy Lube locations. He joined the NationalInstitute for Environmental Renewal as the CEObefore becoming the startup executive for CambistInc. He became COO of Markward Group, whichled to the foundation of ValleyWide PropertyManagement. Under Mr. Graeffe’s leadershipValleyWide Property Management, which startedout with only a management aspect, has expandedthree fold to include Real Estate and Leasing aswell as Construction Maintenance and Services.He was a board member of the Allentown Chamberof Commerce and the Wildlands Conservancy. Hewas also a committee member of the Urban LandInstitute, and alternate federal commissioner forthe Interstate Commission for the Potomac RiverBasin. He was a past member of the DistanceLearning Task Force Senate for the Commonwealthof Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania and Lehigh ValleyBusiness Education Partnerships, the Alliance forthe Chesapeake Bay and the Southern Lehigh SchoolDistrict. He is survived by his wife, Lea Ann, and hisfour children.1997JASON ANTHONY WILLIAMS ,Wilkes-Barre,April 23, 2012. He is survived by his sister TRACEYWILLIAMS ’94.

The passing of Sem LeadersGEORGE SORDONI ’64, Dallas,May 22, 2012. Mr. Sordoni splithis time between Naples, Fla.and the Back Mountain area.He was an active member ofthe community and led a lifededicated to helping others.He was one of the foundingmembers of the LuzerneFoundation, a board member ofthe Geisinger Foundation from1973 to 2010, and served on theBoard of Wyoming Seminary since 1980. George helped to lead the school andthe board through the celebration of Sem’s 150 th anniversary celebration duringthe 1993-94 school year. Three Wyoming Seminary presidents benefitted from hisbusiness and fund raising acumen. During his tenure as board chair the schooldeveloped and constructed the sesquicentennial wing at the Lower School as wellas the addition to Sprague Hall and Klassner Field on the Upper School campus.A champion of financial aid, George played a critical role in further broadeningthe socio-economic diversity at Sem. Surviving are his wife Andrea GrosekSordoni, his children SARAH SORDONI BRUNO ’96, SAMANTHA SORDONI’99, NICHOLAS SORDONI ’02, and ABIGAIL SORDONI ’07. He is also survivedby his granddaughter ELLA BRUNO ’28, his brothers ANDREW SORDONI ’61,WILLIAM SORDONI ’63 and STEPHEN SORDONI ’66, as well as many niecesand nephews.ANTHONY GROSEK JR., Dallas,May 29, 2012. He served in theU.S. Navy during World War IIand earned a B.S. in architecturalengineering from PennsylvaniaState University in 1950. Heand his late brother, Edward,were partners in Grosek & SonsConstruction Inc., a firm foundedby their father in 1910. Theywere responsible for the buildingof numerous schools, churches and residential and office complexes across thearea. After Hurricane Agnes in 1972, the firm helped to rebuild many parts of thecommunity. In particular, the renovation and reopening of Wyoming SeminaryPreparatory School in time for the ensuing school year may have been his proudestprofessional accomplishment. Subsequently, he co-founded Management AllianceInc. and was President of A.J. Grosek & Associates, developers and managers ofsenior housing throughout Pennsylvania. He was also the owner and developerof The Ramada Inn on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre. An active member of thecommunity, he had served on several boards and was honored to have receivedthe designation of Trustee Emeritus from Misericordia University and LifeTrustee from Wyoming Seminary as well as its Joseph C. Donchess DistinguishedService Award in 1992. Surviving are his wife Helen, daughters Andrea GrosekSordoni, ELLEN GROSEK STEIN ’72, sons ANTHONY GROSEK III ’74, ROBERTGROSEK ’78 and DAVID GROSEK ’83. He is also survived by 13 grandchildrenincluding SARAH SORDONI BRUNO ’96, SAMANTHA SORDONI ’99, NICHOLASSORDONI ’02, ABIGAIL SORDONI ’07, KATRINA GROSEK ’12, JULIA GROSEK’14 and ALEXANDER GROSEK ’16.JOHN “JACK” MUELLER ’52,Lake Forest, Ill., May 3, 2012.Mr. Mueller attended WyomingSeminary and The Taft School. Hegraduated from MassachusettsInstitute of Technology witha bachelor of science degree inchemical engineering and businessadministration in 1956 and anMBA from MIT’s Sloan ExecutiveManagement School in 1957. Jackworked at Dow Chemical and AbbottLaboratories before he helped create Norse Chemical, where he was responsiblefor the invention of Sugar Twin, one of the first patented dietary sugar substitutes.He subsequently worked at Alberto Culver and was a vice president at MaremontCorp and Motorola before purchasing G&W Electric in 1978. In 2009 he purchasedMEA Inc. With his extensive experience in the chemical and electrical engineeringfields, he had served in various capacities in the National Electrical ManufacturersAssociation in Washington, D.C., which included the Board of Governors andChair of the Switchgear and Power Equipment Division. In addition, he servedas chairman of the Executive Council of the Conference Board, New York, N.Y.He was past chair of Alembic Inc., Grand Cayman; G&W Electric Co., Blue Island,Ill.; Canada Power Products Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, and SurvalentTechnology, Mississauga, Ontario. Mr. Mueller was also an active member of theWyoming Seminary Board of Trustees, serving as both the Chair of the Board aswell as the Chair of the Board’s Property Committee. He was awarded the JosephC. Donchess Distinguished Service Award in 2010. He is survived by his wife,Corliss, as well as their children. He is also survived by his siblings ANN MUELLERCOUGHLIN ’47 and CHARLES MUELLER ’48.CHARLES LEMMOND JR., Dallas,May 30, 2012. The former statesenator served on the WyomingSeminary Board of Directorsstarting in 1980 and became a LifeTrustee. He grew up in Forty Fortand attended Forty Fort schools,graduating as president of his seniorclass. After serving in the U.S. Armyin post-World War II Italy, andearning degrees from Harvard andthe University of Pennsylvania law school, he joined the law firm of Silverblatt &Townend. He served as solicitor for several municipalities, townships and schooldistricts; as First Assistant and Assistant District Attorney; and as judge in theCourt of Common Pleas, Luzerne County. He ran for Pennsylvania state senate in1985 and served with distinction until his retirement in December 2006. He wasawarded the Joseph C. Donchess Distinguished Service Award from WyomingSeminary in 2008. He is survived by his wife, BARBARA NORTHRUP LEMMOND’52 and their four children including CHARLES LEMMOND ’77 and DAVIDLEMMOND ’83.

Report of Gifts2012

A Bittersweet Year…On behalf of the advancement team, I extend my heartfelt thanksto the alumni, parents, and friends of Wyoming Seminary, whosegenerosity is celebrated in our Report of Gifts. The Report ofGifts recognizes members of the Sem community who have madea contribution to the School during the period from July 1, 2011to June 30, 2012. They include our leadership-level donors, ourCapital Campaign and Annual Fund participants, our corporateand foundation contributors, our volunteers, and donors who havecreated bequests and other gifts that Sem will realize in the future.The following is a comparison of giving for the last five fiscal years:UnrestrictedAnnual GivingRestrictedAnnual GivingTotal AnnualGivingGifts for AllPurposes2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12$759,585 $709,553 $750,904 $621,472 $611,978$965,309 $720,7819 $702,946 $650,979 $643,400$1,724,894 $1,430,334 $1,453,850 $1,272,451 $1,255,378$3,253,429 $2,732,848 $3,136,926 $8,370,689 $5,623,070The 2011 – 12 campaign represents the third most successful fundraising year in the school’s history following on the heels of lastyear’s record-breaking total of $8,370,689. Once again a greatdeal of time and volunteer leadership was focused on the “quietphase” of the school’s capital campaign to improve the school’sfacilities and to augment the endowment – almost $4.4 millionwas contributed to these two objectives. We are also pleasedthat under the leadership of Sharon and David Hourigan ’71 wewere able to achieve our annual giving goal of $1.2 million. Theyand their team, especially the members of the Leadership GiftsCommittee, did an outstanding job.We will remain ever indebted to George Sordoni ’64, Jack Mueller’52 and Rusty Flack ’72 for their remarkable and dedicatedleadership as board chairs and as the driving forces of the capitaleffort which has now stretched over a number of years. A trusteesince 1992 and chair of the board from 2008 to 2011, Rusty passedaway in May 2011. Jack Mueller succeeded Rusty as board chairin June 2011 until his death in on May 3, 2012. George Sordoni,board chair from 1993 until 2008, tragically passed away on May22, 2012. It was under George’s leadership that the board beganthe capital campaign with George asking Rusty to serve as thenational chair. Upon Rusty assuming the board chairmanship,Jack Mueller became one of the guiding forces steering the capitaleffort. It is hard to imagine three individuals who loved WyomingSeminary more than these three gentlemen and who have workedharder to make it better in every way than George, Jack andRusty. Their philanthropic support and volunteer leadership wasremarkable and the void they leave is large. We all know, however,their vision for what this school can be is only partially completedand they would want us to accomplish all of the goals of thecampaign they conceived and led.I could not be more delighted that at the June meeting the boardof trustees elected Dick Goldberg ’55 as their new chairman.Dick is a loyal and dedicated alumnus, an enthusiastic parent oftwo graduates and a daughter who is a senior, and a respectedattorney and leader in our community and region. He will bean engaged and active chairman and has already addressed thefaculty and staff as well as the parents at their opening meetingsof the year. He has a clear vision to help the school sustain andenhance our mission. Please notethe article earlier in this issueabout Dick and Mary Lopatto ’72who the board selected as the newvice chairperson.Wyoming Seminary has beenapproved since October 2001by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a “ScholarshipOrganization” under the guidelines of the EducationalImprovement Tax Credit (EITC) program. Through this program,Pennsylvania corporations who pay certain state taxes can make agift to the scholarship program at Sem in lieu of paying up to 90%of those state taxes if the company makes a two year commitment.We are most grateful to the following companies for their supportduring the current fiscal year: Almo Corporation, Benco DentalCompany, First Liberty Bank & Trust, First National CommunityBank, Frontier Communications, Lackawanna Insurance Group,Luzerne Bank, The Martz Group, Masonry Preservation Services,National Penn Bank, and Straub Metal International.A school like Wyoming Seminary has not been able to growand develop the way it has, however, by current gifts alone.Indeed many of the gifts that have helped to grow the School’sendowment to a market value of $49.4 million on June 30, 2012have come in the form of bequests and deferred gifts. Since 1982Wyoming Seminary has received more than $20.3 million in estategifts. We are honored the following alumni and friends continuedthis legacy during the 2011 fiscal year with bequest distributionscoming from each of their estates to Sem:Sarah Barr ’34 Charles Holman ’49Carol King Frederic Salzman ’28James Scheifley ’30 James Troutner ’43Jerrold Trumbower ’42 Edward Williams ’32As noted above, the School continues in the “quiet” phase of acapital campaign with the dual focus of significantly increasingthe School’s endowment as well as creating some new campusfacilities while also providing major renovations on others. During“phase one” of the quiet phase the school raised $10 million. Thegoal for the second phase is $40 million and at this point $25million has been committed. Over the next three years we hope tosecure pledges of $15 million to satisfactorily complete the totalcampaign effort with $50 million!We are most grateful for the leadership and financial supportprovided by the members of the board of trustees and loyalbenefactors of the institution to achieve the above capital dollartotals. There are some very ambitious plans and exciting objectivesfor the next five years to move Sem forward. If we all worktogether they are achievable. Thank you for your commitment toand generous support of Wyoming Seminary. I look forward toseeing you in my travels around the country or on campus in thenear future.John H. Shafer’71Vice President of Advancement

2012 Leadership Recognition Givingwyomingseminary.org55Donchess SocietyZelia and Quincy Abbot ’50Sidney and Carole Hertz Apfelbaum ’44Michael and Christina ApfelbaumPaul Beane ’52 and Barbara FassettOski Beane ’53Estate of Sarah Barr ’34Shirley and Howard Beane ’49James and Amy Valli Bennett ’94Black Horse FoundationJoyce and Harold Buckingham, Jr. ’48Laurel and Richard Caputo, Jr. ’84Marcia and Frank Carlucci, III ’48Charitable Gift FundRebecca Binder and Chares Cohen ’84Ann Mueller Coughlin ’47Degenstein FoundationJohn and Tina DowdFirst Liberty Bank and TrustKathi FlackRob Friedman ’73Frontier CommunicationsRosemary Chromey and RichardGoldberg ’55Patricia and Frederick Graboske ’62Carl Grivner ’71Dorothea and Frank M. Henry ’50Estate of Charles Holman, Jr. ’49Leonard and Lita InsalacoEstate of Carol KingF.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.Jin Kyu and Sun-Hee KimMary Lopatto ’72Luzerne BankThe Luzerne FoundationLuzerne Intermediate UnitHeeyun and John Magagna ’52Martz GroupRichard MaslowMcCole Foundation, Inc.Robert and Kim MericleCorliss and John Mueller ’52Nesbitt Family CharitableFoundationGeraldine NesbittPerforming Arts Institute GalaHilary and Charles Parkhurst ’79Hedy and Ronald Rittenmeyer ’65The Rjack Family FundErica and Thomas RomanowskiRichard A. and Virginia SimmsRose ’81Estate of Dorothy and JamesScheifley ’30Rhea and Ronald Simms ’56Larry and Isabel SmithAnnelise and Robert Smith ’56Sordoni Foundation, Inc.Margaret and William Sordoni ’63Rebecca and Alex Steinbergh ’58Straub Metal InternationalDoug and Barbara StraubKenneth and Caroline Taylor FamilyFoundationTrey and Christina TaylorEstate of James Troutner ’43Estate of Jerrold Trumbower ’42United Way of Wyoming ValleyBeth and Paul Wasserott ’49Wyoming Seminary Alumni CouncilWyoming Seminary Lower SchoolParents AssociationWyoming Seminary Upper SchoolParents AssociationHuansha Zeng and Sihong ChenPresident’s AnniversaryCircleAnonymous (2)Albert and Barbara AlbertSusan and Robert Allen ’62Almo CorporationMax Bartikowsky ’48Benco Dental CompanyBloomsburg Metal CompanyBrown Brothers Harriman & Co.Eugene and Roslyn ChaikenMatthew and Barbara Albert Cuddy ’90First National Community BankPeggi and Peter Foldes ’62The Merritt L. Harding EducationalTrustJean and John Hassler, Jr. ’62Sharon and David Hourigan ’71The Kefalas-Pinto FoundationKNBTJames Levey ’81Hilary and Ethel Evans Lipsitz ’51Zhicheng Lu and Wenli ZhaoDorothy Darling Mangelsdorf ’68Marjorie Henry Marquart ’78Masonry Preservation Services, Inc.Metz Culinary ManagementScott Meuser and Susan Talbot-MeuserMohegan Sun at Pocono DownsThe Nabi FoundationBette and Stanley Nabi ’48National Penn BankKip and Marilyn NygrenNeil and Catherine O’DonnellThe Philadelphia FoundationJane and Harvey Rosenkrantz ’62Dorothy and Frederick Rudolph ’38Jennifer and Arthur Sherwood ’56The Shoval FoundationJudd and Susan Weiss Shoval ’70Ellie Kay and Alfred Thomas ’62David Wallace ’97Xin Wang and Nancy ZhaoNancy and Jeffrey Weiss ’73Wells FargoThe Wight Foundation, Inc.Virginia and Alexander Williams ’39President’s CabinetAcorn Hill FoundationCharlotte Glinka and CharlesAlexander ’58Benefit ConceptsDan and Anne BoychuckMaureen and C.J. Bufalino, III ’78Leslie Turrell Bullock ’63Yen-Chen Chung and Chi-Hui LinPatricia and Stanley Davies ’42Karen and Brian Davis ’73Jeffrey and Lisa DoggettClaire Conlon Evans ’52Joseph Flanagan, Jr. ’42 and MaryElizabeth Mayock ’42Freddie Mac FoundationViola and Charles Gommer, Jr.Helen and Anthony Grosek, Jr.Ramah and Christopher HackettMary Ann and William Hinko ’82Allan Kluger ’45 and Sue KlineKluger ’55Lackawanna Casualty CompanyJames and Christine LacomisYong Li and Aiming HuangSandra Lloyd ’48Melanie Maslow Lumia ’82Marquis George MacDonaldFoundationKevin and Helen McDonaldJohn Morton, III ’63 and MarionHarvey Morton ’63Janet Murray ’76North Star Consulting, Inc.Charles and Mary ParenteRichard and Marion PearsallPioneer Aggregates, Inc.Jeffrey and Leah PoppleAkemi and Thomas Price ’71Paul and Avalyn QuickEdward Romanowski ’75and Cornelia ConynghamRomanowski ’75Estate of Frederic Salzman ’28Catherine and John Shafer ’71Charles Strome, Jr. ’46 and MargaretStrayer Strome ’46Qi Hong Zhou and Xiao Li ZhaoThe Founder’s SocietyAnonymousBarclaysRedge Meixner and Leon Bonner,Jr. ’61Sara and Edward Brewster ’43Matthew Bruno ’94 and SarahSordoni Bruno ’96Yvette and Frank Carlucci, IV ’81Wendy and Terrence Casey ’75Communities Foundation of TexasKevin and Leslie Dymond Marks ’84Dave Esler ’62Nadine and Steven Foldes ’66Robert Hartman ’48 and NancyJackson Hartman ’48Hai Duy and Thao Minh KhuatHong Seok Lee and Koeun KimPatrick and Bonnie LenahanLlewellyn & McKane, Inc.James Lord ’52Lynne LordValerie and Robert Montgomery ’57Mary Beth and David Oblon ’65Daphne and Sanford Padwe ’57ParenteBeard LLCJohn and Marjorie PassanFoundationJulie and John Platt ’49Steve and Nicole RifkinAdina and Stephen Rosenthal ’93Kim RossJoanne and Carlo Santarelli, Jr. ’68Nancy ShaferH. Alexander Smith, Jr. ’44 andLillian Davis Smith ’53Thomas Tengowski and CorneliaSaceanuUnited Methodist Church Board ofHigher Education & MinistryGrace White Whidden ’43Nelson Tower AssociatesNorma and Hervey Ahlborn ’49Senen and Mila AldayStephen Alinikoff ’62 and Sally SimsAlinikoff ’65Mary Berninger Allan ’47American Center for PhilanthropyFred Dietz and Estelle Andrews ’65Recognition Giving LevelsDonchess Society$10,000 or morePresident’s AnniversaryCircle$5,000 to $9,999President’s Cabinet$2,500 to $4,999The Founder’s Society$1,844 to $2,499Nelson TowerAssociates$1,000 to $1,843Levi Sprague Fellows$500 to $9991844 Club$250 to $499Dean’s Society$100 to $249Blue & White Club$1 to $99Editor’s Note: The Donchess Society was establishedin the mid-90s to recognize the philanthropy ofindividuals who had contributed at least $10,000 ayear to Wyoming Seminary. This premiere giving levelis named in honor of Lucille and Joseph Donchess ’26who made very generous gifts to Wyoming Seminaryin their lifetimes and who also remembered theschool in their estates with bequests totaling $5.9million.Persons listed on these pages—grouped byconstituencies and ordered according to givinglevels—have generously supported WyomingSeminary’s programs and services and institutionalneeds. Recognition reflects gifts to the schoolrecorded between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012.

R e p o r t o f G i f t s2012 Leadership Recognition Giving, cont’d...Bank of AmericaHarold and Marian Berk Barr ’49Millicent Auerbach Baschkin ’51Stuart and Carolyn BellBell Foundation, Inc.Anthony Berger ’73 and CatherineEvans Berger ’75James and Georgia JohnsonBesecker ’47William and Ena BigelowRobert and Judith Casper Bohorad ’59Brennan Electric IncorporatedPaul and Elaine BurgMalcolm Burnside, II ’62 andDaylene Thomas Burnside ’62Christine and Donald Bush, Jr. ’50Charlotte and Peter Casterline ’61Daniel Bryant and Mei Castor ’78Centris Consulting, Inc.Century 21 Smith Hourigan GroupChien-Tong Chen and Wen-WanChuangCheong Sub Cho and Jeong Sue JangGrace ChungRobert Clements, Jr. ’72 and JeannieMcCarthy Clements ’77Wayne Clements and Diane HainesLawrence and Sally FriedmanCohen ’59Miriam and E. Parker Colborn ’38Betsy Bell Condron ’45Ann and Wesley Crompton ’43William and Esther BaumDavidowitz ’51Davidowitz FoundationFrank and Patricia DeVivaLouise and John Dixon ’50James and Elizabeth DohertyJon Dungan ’52Tracey and Robert Eggleston, Jr. ’87John and Elaine Eidam, Sr.Thomas Evans ’51Gloria and John Fassett ’51Michael and Andrea FrantzGoldman Sachs & Co.Bruce and Elizabeth GoverDavid and Mary GrangerGabriele and Jonathan Greenwald ’60Paul Griesmer ’43John Hancock Financial Services, Inc.Richard Hazzouri and Kim Quinn-HazzouriHML Global Packaging, Inc.Seymour and Evelyn HoltzmanAlice and Frank Hughes ’74Frederick and Lucinda WolfeHughes ’66Barbara and William Hughes ’76Richard Ide ’52Jewish Communal FundCarole and Richard Johnson ’80Michael JuhngBrian KaschakHarry Katerman ’71Gordon and Lael KieslingEstella and Stephen Killian ’66Do Kyong Kim and Seongmee ParkHarvey Klein ’49 and Judith RaubKlein ’47Amanda Wright-Kluger and JosephKluger ’82John and Beverley Davies Kolb ’43Jennifer and William Kozicki, Jr. ’92Joseph Kraus and Paula ChaikenDavid Lauderbaugh ’59Ann LevandoskiJaye Ellen Hindin Lewis ’72Kenneth Leyshon ’62Susan Long ’50Jeanne Lopatto ’77Luzerne Products, Inc.Thomas Mack, Jr. ’51 and JudithMills Mack ’56Regina and Frank Maguire ’73Mary Jule McCarthyMary Eagen McDonald ’48Gail and Marvin Metzgar ’52Morgan Stanley Smith BarneyRichard and Lisa Caputo Morris ’82Moyer Realty Advisors, LLCCharles and Kim MoyerDavid and Cynthia NapeEric and Hong Anh Thi NguyenStumpff ’82Quoc Hung and Kieu Thu NguyenNorthrop Grumman FoundationPenn State MechanicalContractors, Inc.Van Kha Phan and Thi Hai Au PhamElizabeth PhillipsBill Plante and Robin SmithPocono Arts CouncilKim and Donald Reiff ’88Faye and Robert Rosenberg ’72Phillip Roth ’71Abhijit and Mousumi RoyGeorgette and John Sampson ’47Robert and Susanne SundaySanderson ’56Irene SantarelliPhilip Santarelli ’67Schwab Charitable FundLaurie and David Schwager ’80Susan and Gerald Schwartzbach ’62Mary and William Scott ’54Elaine and Leonard Silverstein ’39Joseph T. and Helen M. SimpsonFoundationJane SlaffMatthew Sordoni ’95Jennifer and William Sordoni ’93Barbara Soyka ’58Paul and Ellen Grosek Stein ’72Barbara and Samuel Stettler ’72Lawrence Stirewalt and PennyMericleJian Su and Qing LinRobert Tippett ’42Edward and Margaret BrownTregurtha ’81Kerry and Lee Turner ’62Sally and William Unger ’63Lillian Langotsky and Stuart Uram ’52Bac Vu and Lan DinhElizabeth Stevens Walter ’35Woodlands Inn and ResortCarolyn and Orville Wright, Jr. ’52Jill and Bernhardt Wruble ’59Menghu Xu and Danqing ZhangJoanne and William Yoder ’62TrusteesFaculty & StaffDonchess SocietyMichael ApfelbaumBarbara Fassett Oski Beane ’53Amy Valli Bennett ’94Harold C. Buckingham, Jr. ’48Robert C. Friedman ’73Richard M. Goldberg ’55Frank M. Henry ’50Leonard InsalacoMary Ann Lopatto ’72John F. Magagna ’52John D. Mueller ’52Charles H. Parkhurst ’79Erica RomanowskiRichard A. Rose, Jr.Robert Harle Smith ’56President’s AnniversaryCircleDavid P. Hourigan ’71Dorothy Darling Mangelsdorf ’68Marjorie Henry Marquart ’78Scott MeuserKip P. NygrenCatherine O’DonnellArthur W. Sherwood ’56President’s CabinetCharles J. Bufalino, III ’78Leslie Turrell Bullock ’63Stanley S. Davies ’42Charles F. Gommer, Jr.Anthony Grosek, Jr.Christopher HackettSue Kline Kluger ’55Janet E. Murray ’76Richard L. PearsallCornelia ConynghamRomanowski ’75The Founder’s SocietyFrank C. Carlucci, IV ’81Nelson Tower AssociatesAnthony L. Berger ’73Wesley R. Crompton ’43Harry M. Katerman ’71Stephen B. Killian ’66Joseph E. Kluger ’82Levi Sprague FellowsA. John Dimond ’57Anthony J. Grosek, III ’74Richard M. Hughes, III ’79Dean’s SocietyHarry F. Lee ’53President’s AnniversaryCircleKip P. NygrenMarilyn NygrenPresident’s CabinetChristine LacomisJohn H. Shafer ’71The Founder’s SocietyThomas TengowskiNelson Tower AssociatesRachel BartronElaine BurgPaul BurgPatricia DeVivaElizabeth DohertyJames DohertyElaine EidamJohn R. Eidam, Sr.Elizabeth GoverBrian KaschakJane SlaffLevi Sprague FellowsKayanne Vanderburg Barilla ’84Charles CarrickJill CarrickSharon ConwayDavid DamicoLaning J. Harvey ’80Claire HornungJohn HornungCatie KerseyChristopher J. Kersey ’90Renee McGowanNancy L. SandersonBen SchallJennifer SiffJonathan Siff1844 ClubCatherine Callahan ’88William DavisKaren KlassnerAlexis M. Kropp ’99Dawn Leas

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R e p o r t o f G i f t sClass Reports: 1929–19471929Dean’s SocietyW. Curtis Montz1933Blue & White ClubRuth Dattner SwanEva Ignatovig Townley1934Dean’s SocietyAnn Marsh Potter1935Nelson Tower AssociatesElizabeth Stevens WalterLevi Sprague FellowsEdythe Dickover TessenDean’s SocietyFrank A. Dix1936Levi Sprague FellowsRobert S. LaubachBlue & White ClubRuth Troutman Franklin1937Levi Sprague FellowsGertrude H. SchumakerBesanconDean’s SocietyWilliam H. DendleHenry C. JohnsonBlue & White ClubBarbara Rosenthal Casper1938President’s AnniversaryCircleFrederick RudolphNelson Tower AssociatesE. Parker ColbornLevi Sprague FellowsHarry W. Croop, Jr.Dean’s SocietyRobert R. RossBlue & White ClubShirley Eaton Wirsing1939President’s AnniversaryCircleAlexander M. WilliamsNelson Tower AssociatesLeonard L. Silverstein1844 ClubRobert VandenbergDean’s SocietyMarcella McCormick FayJohn PattenBlue & White ClubRowena Davis Watson1940Participation: 47%Dean’s SocietyEttore J. LippiThomas J. McDonnellJo Ann Wilson RoseMary Jeter TraurigBlue & White ClubFlorence I. AustinLouise Traher CochraneElizabeth Crawford KillianJames C. Lurba1941Participation: 55%Levi Sprague FellowsRichard J. MillerDean’s SocietyBarbara Wiener SmithConstance Keller TingleyBlue & White ClubVirginia Price FauxMargaret Schall JohnsonEdna Price Schott1942Reunion Gift Chairperson:Robert S. TippettParticipation: 57%President’s CabinetStanley S. DaviesJoseph P. Flanagan, Jr.Mary Elizabeth MayockFlanaganNelson Tower AssociatesRobert S. TippettLevi Sprague FellowsMarilyn Coughlin RudolphDean’s SocietyClara Kerrick AlvesRobert G. Edgerton, Sr.Miriam Nelson FleischmanThelma Kaftan ZerfossBlue & White ClubWilliam O. AshtonThomas P. RoanIrwin Sagenkahn1943Participation: 35%The Founder’s SocietyEdward C. BrewsterM. Grace White WhiddenNelson Tower AssociatesWesley R. CromptonPaul D. GriesmerBeverley Davies Kolb1844 ClubPeter ManningDean’s SocietyFrank E. DietrickMarion Stephens HeissRuth Pettebone HoffordRichard RushmoreCarl J. SchmittKatherine JohnsonEdgertonElizabeth Miner EstenWilliam L. EvansJacqueline Anderson KeplerDaniel D. OlszewskiHilma UnterbergerStanford L. WeissGloria RothsteinWhitesmanStephen H. WolfBlue & White ClubArthur H. AndrewsCharlotte MuschlitzArbogastBetty Hourigan BurkeNancy Abbott CohenAlvin L. DattnerNancy Cohen JuddMary BurnsideMangelsdorfBeverly Rittenberg Sims1945Participation: 36%President’s CabinetAllan M. KlugerNelson Tower AssociatesBetsy Bell Condron1844 ClubDonald J. EagenNancy Randall GwilliamDean’s SocietyFrank W. Anderson, Jr.James P. BaileyLevi Sprague FellowsEdward B. Berninger1844 ClubEleanor NettleshipBowersoxIrwin E. LeckerCatherine TurnbachPetragliaDean’s SocietyIrving S. BravmanBernice Perloff FiermanGeorge J. LeacacosRuth Merwin MoserRobert E. Post, Sr.Blue & White ClubGeorge P. Heffernan, Jr.Rita Malyndziak SandorJean Foley Wahlstrom1947Reunion Gift Chairpersons:Beverly Slocum Brougher andEdward W. HartmanParticipation: 30%Donchess SocietyAnn Mueller CoughlinNelson Tower AssociatesMary Berninger AllanGeorgia Johnson BeseckerJudith Raub KleinJohn L. SampsonLevi Sprague FellowsJ. Louis BushJohn C. Machun1844 Club1944Participation: 49%The Founder’s SocietyH. Alexander Smith, Jr.Nelson Tower AssociatesDaniel F. Sneberger1844 ClubBarbara Matz BlissRobert C. BuckinghamDean’s SocietyHelen Lewis CackenerRalph G. BeaneArthur H. SchwartzHerbert M. WeissBlue & White ClubKatharine Lamme Stevens1946Participation: 40%President’s CabinetCharles Strome, Jr.Margaret Strayer StromeStanley C. Lange, Jr.Dean’s SocietyWilliam L. AllanEdward W. HartmanGladys Daniels JohnstonMaxwell B. SpoontBlue & White ClubKarl F. Arbogast, Jr.Beverly Slocum BrougherLucille Ichter HorsefieldWilliam Pickering

Class Reports: 1947–1952wyomingseminary.org61Elizabeth Brownlee SherkAlbert C. FoskoMarilou Croop KayeNancy Heffernan ValtinElizabeth Lugg KneereamJoan Friedman Rittenberg1948Participation: 44%Donchess SocietyHarold C. Buckingham, Jr.Frank C. Carlucci, IIIPresident’s AnniversaryCircleMax BartikowskyStanley A. NabiPresident’s CabinetSandra R. LloydThe Founder’s SocietyNancy Jackson HartmanRobert S. HartmanNelson Tower AssociatesMary M. Eagen McDonald1844 ClubEllen Davis BenderElaine Barnett EspeyPatricia HeffernanFerenbachNatalie Isaac HenkelmanGeorge E. LehmanDean’s SocietyVirginia Harris BarrettGeorge J. CardoneWilliam J. DonovanJohn M. FearLouis F. GoeringerWilliam IsaacsM. Evelyn Letham KeatingJohn H. KleinRichard J. LaulorRebekah NicholsonMalkemesElizabeth R. ReynoldsMetzgerJohn E. ToddBlue & White ClubJoseph P. BonchonskyJane Treat CableJoan Wieand ThomasDixonJoann Brook EhrlichMiriam Thomas NoussairFlorence Gill ProciakJoan Libenson ScheinholtzJune Johnson StevensC. Merle TischlerPeter L. WardThomas Yeeles, Jr.1949Participation: 44%Donchess SocietyHoward C. BeanePaul D. WasserottThe Founder’s SocietyJohn D. PlattNelson Tower AssociatesHervey D. AhlbornMarian Berk BarrHarvey S. KleinLevi Sprague FellowsRaymond P. Wilson, Jr.1844 ClubJohn H. AllanM. Clark ConlonRita Kilgallon ConlonBayonne Ward GowanHarriet Feinberg SegalDean’s SocietyNancy Luetzel BoyeaShaela Netzel CahillDonald F. DembertJoseph A. EagenEleanor Hutcheson EplerJohn A. KastorLewis J. KleinrockJoan Powell NusbaumMargery GoldsteinRosenbergRodion J. RussinAnn Peterson ZablockiBlue & White ClubEdna Price BaileyGeorge T. BellHans C. DreherMyra Kornzweig SmulyanLois Kiefer Trowbridge1950Participation: 41%Donchess SocietyQuincy S. AbbotFrank M. HenryNelson Tower AssociatesDonald P. Bush, Jr.John D. DixonSusan LongLevi Sprague FellowsJohn P. CossaJacob Antrim Crellin, Jr.1844 ClubAnne Cook DickersonNancy Brader GibsonDean’s SocietyLeonard F. BenziBeverly Balliett BrooksJoel B. GoldsteinKenneth W. Hitchner, Jr.Barry J. IscovitzAuvo I. KemppinenNatalie Cattanach LewisBarbara Miller ScheuerMargery Hutter SilverBarbara Dykins Von DranSally Landau ZinmanBlue & White ClubSally Eisen BaschMary H. BestederMaureen Shedleski BradySamuel B. Dilcer, Jr.Ruth Bass FiedlerJack E. LockledgeRichard G. MurphyPriscilla Davis PerryBarbara BaickerReisenbachNancy Gillis SheridanMary Hileman WilliamsWilma S. Hess Williams1951Participation: 33%President’s AnniversaryCircleEthel Evans LipsitzNelson Tower AssociatesMillicent AuerbachBaschkinEsther Baum DavidowitzThomas G. EvansJohn B. FassettThomas J. Mack, Jr.Levi Sprague FellowsRichard D. Rivers1844 ClubNorman A. ClemensMillard F. LongDean’s SocietyHarold C. W. BirthEmilie Davis CaseyVincent E. DioguardiWilliam D. GolightlyKathryn Netzel GrauszSherry Howell HatchE. Bowman McLeanStephen J. ParadiseRobert L. RansavageJohn T. StevensBlue & White ClubJoseph John BarbacciClaire Nachlis BergerHoward A. BermanElizabeth Isaacs CooperRuth James GavenusMarion Stevenson Steiner1952Reunion Gift Chairpersons:Claire Conlon Evans and JohnMagagnaParticipation: 49%Donchess SocietyPaul L. BeaneJohn F. MagagnaJohn D. MuellerPresident’s CabinetClaire Conlon EvansThe Founder’s SocietyJames E. LordNelson Tower AssociatesJon R. DunganRichard A. IdeMarvin E. MetzgarStuart Z. UramOrville Wright, Jr.Levi Sprague FellowsMadge Klein BenovitzBarbara NorthrupLemmondJacqueline MulceyBarbara Bauman O’HanlonRobert S. ParkerJerrold R. Williams1844 ClubJean Schoch GriffithRobert N. LevyRobert C. MorganBenjamin F. PhillipsIrving C. RothsteinFrederick R. TrumboreDean’s SocietyNancy M. Wagner BanzElizabeth Tesiny BohstedtBasia MieszkowskiJaworskiNancy VonArx MerrillSarah Tonrey MorelliSylvia Brown NadelWallace L. PeltonJanet Ahlborn RobertsBlue & White ClubLucy Theis BergmanJanice Lamb BeyrentMildred Monchak BilskiC. Ruth Graeflin DiltsWarren M. EpsteinBernadine MalyndziakJastremHarry S. Keller, IIIJoann Bonfanti MillerSheldon NelsonMargaret DombroskiSchmidt

R e p o r t o f G i f t sClass Reports: 1953–19591953Participation: 32%Donchess SocietyBarbara Fassett Oski BeaneThe Founder’s SocietyAnonymousLillian Davis SmithLevi Sprague FellowsWilliam S. AssiffJeanne Malkemes Hickman1844 ClubBettijane Long EisenpreisJack Sallada, Jr.Dean’s SocietyCarolyn Goeringer BaslerBetta Steingart ClairRoger G. ClarkRuth Schulz CottrellR. Lawrence FrazeMarcia Turner FreyRobert Keith HastieMuriel Keller JacobyAhmad KazimiBarbara Harter KoehlHarry F. LeeJoseph F. NearyElena English ParkhurstAlbert A. PrushinskiElizabeth MorganSalisburyCarol Evans StorrsAnne-Louise StricklandJohn J. TurnerLiesel von StorchSarah Cochran WarmBlue & White ClubSamuel T. Buckman, Jr.Nancy Mains EnnulatBetsy Everett HubingerGaeton A. LongRoxie Daron SandersGeorge Uritis1954Participation: 30%Nelson Tower AssociatesWilliam J. ScottLevi Sprague FellowsWilliam S. PierceLaura Semmer Sobol1844 ClubElsa Funke BainerElizabeth Hutcheson FetterRobert S. HartmanJohn L. Higgins, Jr.Jean Cattanach SziklasThomas E. WatkinsDean’s SocietyEileen Congdon BarrancoMagdalen M. BenishSarah Kear BraunElizabeth Bloss BreischLoretta Knorr BufalinoLouise Engle DoveLeonard R. JaskolRuth Gates KellySally Teller LottickErnest H. MukamalShirley Baroody MyersMartha Wagner OstrowskiRoger K. PagetSarah Ide ShaneJoan P. Patterson SheilSally Skinner-SandfordBlue & White ClubMargaret Lyon AllenPaula Heffernan DaleyRalph E. DulaBarbara SchwartzbachFelderLarry E. KaufmanIda Kiefer McClaryDonald H. RoeskeAnthony W. Stremic1955Participation: 28%Donchess SocietyRichard M. GoldbergPresident’s CabinetSue Kline KlugerLevi Sprague FellowsJ. Thomas Williams, Jr.1844 ClubSylvia Kehoe AbrantesVirginia Baner DeweyCarol Ann Hyman LevitinLouise Loucks MooreDean’s SocietyJanet Silver FalkRichard FritzMary W. HaasBarbara Stevens HammondCarl T. HeddenJohn S. HoldenHelen TinsleyLynne Herskovitz WarshalRalph WetzelBlue & White ClubMiriam Hughes CarrollIda Ruth Baum CitronDavid B. ClemensThomas G. DamianiJohn F. DunhamMarcia Deflaun GillisDonna Jeanne Gay KaplanMartha McLean KelleyRichard Carl MaurerDavid M. MicahnikDavid B. RiversRoslyn Nelson SachsEben ShafferJohn T. Valenti, Jr.1956Participation: 26%Donchess SocietyRonald W. SimmsRobert Harle SmithPresident’s AnniversaryCircleArthur W. SherwoodNelson Tower AssociatesJudith Mills MackSusanne Sunday SandersonLevi Sprague FellowsHelen Hoffa HughlettMurray S. Scureman, Jr.1844 ClubAldo J. CasseriKelly J. MatherKeith S. RosennDean’s SocietyLewis D. DanaJoseph P. ElinskyNancy FernRobert S. MeckCharlotte PerkinsSchmuckerBarbara KurlancheekShafferCharles A. ShafferEric StusnickDavid C. TellerHenry T. WadzinskiBlue & White ClubThomas B. DeckerFrederick A. FarberI. Charles FeldmanEllen Gerstein HollandsRobert P. MargieWilliam R. Perry, Jr.John W. PieplowMary Hess QuarrierDonald W. RobertsHelen Schainuck RubinMary Jane Sunday Whelan1957Reunion Gift Chairpersons: A.John Dimond and Linda MyersGermanParticipation: 19%The Founder’s SocietyRobert K. MontgomerySanford I. PadweLevi Sprague FellowsA. John DimondStark G. Jones1844 ClubWalter E. Dean, Jr.James O. JudgeDean’s SocietyDorothy Memolo BheddahBonny M. CochranJoseph M. DiGiacomo, Jr.Marianne Tinsley FinnertyJudith A. Decker GeraetsDiane Burnside HaddleBurton KarmielEllen Shaffer MeyerClaire Trethaway OldhamVirginia Margavitch PayneNicholas B. QuackenbushJule Znaniecki WnorowskiBlue & White ClubDavid W. AstonLois Wasserstrom MorrisJane Muncy CampbellJo Ellen Lawson Wilson1958Participation:28%Donchess SocietyAlex M. SteinberghPresident’s CabinetCharles W. AlexanderNelson Tower AssociatesBarbara S. SoykaLevi Sprague FellowsAdolf L. Herst1844 ClubSally Edwards BohlinRosemary Shea CaputoJohn W. CharltonDean’s SocietyJean Gibbons AmickDavid E. BravmanJames R. EdwardsGail Hillard ElstonJay M. ElstonFlorence Moore GoeringerLinda Bryan GossEdward D. Griffith, Jr.Barbara Tiffany PhillipsHowellMary Giffin IntlekoferJohn E. Morris, IIIJohn H. PerkinsJudith Terry SmithGeorge A. ThatcherCarol ValentiDonna Levine WalkerBlue & White ClubJoy Crayton BensonMartha Jones FrederickG. Carl RobertsMichael StemniskiMichael Sumner1959Participation: 32%Nelson Tower AssociatesJudith Casper BohoradSally Friedman CohenDavid M. LauderbaughBernhardt K. WrubleLevi Sprague FellowsSamuel S. PearlmanJacqueline SpencerWilliams1844 ClubGerald P. Dwyer, Jr.Ann Popky FisherRobert E. JonesGayle W. Jenkins MandleNancy K. WelkerDean’s SocietySusan Eaton CalvertArthur H. DarlingIrwin S. DavisonLynn Kurlancheek GoncharRobert HausmannBettina Clark MurphyFrancine SteinCharles T. Sutherland, Jr.Jeanne Cowan WalkerRobert L. WoodBlue & White ClubGeorge J. BehlerHarriet Rudolph DavisJohanna Borowski HendonJane Graham KishbaughMarian A. Stevens

Class Reports: 1960–1965wyomingseminary.org631960Participation: 21%Nelson Tower AssociatesG. Jonathan GreenwaldLevi Sprague FellowsDaniel W. RosennJay N. Weinberg1844 ClubEllen MacCartney WarrenDean’s SocietyDeirdre Parker ArntzJudith Fassett AydelottIrving BrandStephen L. BrandweneWilliam J. KolbJoseph G. Montross, Jr.Fred W. OrtmanRichard S. ScottMurray UfbergBlue & White ClubCarol AndroskyPlatt Townend ArnoldWilliam L. BarneyEleanor Louise ParsonsCoppedgeSusan Teller GoodmanJane M. MorrisCarol Cutting PickeringPhilip D. ThompsonSusan Yashan1961Participation: 30%The Founder’s SocietyLeon W. Bonner, Jr.Nelson Tower AssociatesPeter F. CasterlineLevi Sprague FellowsJudith Mullens CohenHoward E. Gardner1844 ClubRaymond John BolekMarcia Berger HarrisW. Kentley JonesSheldon W. LawrenceDale H. MosesDean’s SocietyJane Cochran ChambersThomas ChambersSuzanne Hess HazeltonAsher S. LevitskyGeorge Arnold PahlsElizabeth Greene RossBlue & White ClubDavid M. ClostermanCynthia TownendDonaldsonSusan A. Ertley EikenberryRaymond HowardJane Charlton HueyW. David LarmouthElizabeth ClostermanRobertsCharles E. RomaneSanford G. ThatcherHoward T. Watson, Jr.Alan D. Wilcox1962Reunion Gift Chairperson:Alfred ThomasParticipation: 46%Donchess SocietyFrederick J. GraboskePresident’s AnniversaryCircleRobert W. AllenPeter A. FoldesJohn H. Hassler, Jr.Harvey RosenkrantzAlfred W. Thomas, IIIThe Founder’s SocietyDavid P. EslerNelson Tower AssociatesStephen M. AlinikoffDaylene Thomas BurnsideMalcolm M. Burnside, IIKenneth W. LeyshonM. Gerald SchwartzbachLee TurnerWilliam W. YoderLevi Sprague FellowsAnthony L. CareyRobert W. CreskoCarole Schalm ErtleyPeter H. MillerAlbert C. Molter, Jr.Simon S. Russin, IIIRena Bergsmann Rutstein1844 ClubCharles A. AquilinaMichael G. DiNunzioVirginia Greenwood DubbsSkip FalboGail Dixon MenapaceGeorge Z. WilsonDean’s SocietyRuth Shaffer CharitonM. Elizabeth TriblerCorriganRobert L. DeetsJeanne Roscoe ElinskyMildred Kaiser FleetwoodFlora FranconiEmily K. Pickett GriceNorman H. IsaacsChristopher A. LacyAnn Horlacher MurrayCarol Silberman NelsonDembertTerry Salsburg NelsonMarilynn C. PawlowskiNicholsonJoel PearlmanCharles M. PreeceJ. Richard SteidelKaryne Miller WilnerBarbara Rudolph ZellerBlue & White ClubCarl W. GuckelbergerKenneth Dale JonesDavid H. Massey1963Participation: 19%President’s CabinetLeslie Turrell BullockJohn Morton, IIIMarion Harvey MortonWilliam B. SordoniNelson Tower AssociatesWilliam A. UngerLevi Sprague FellowsMarylee BomboyJ. Ronald Seacord1844 ClubRobert G. DealamanNorman H. KresgeSusan L. SgarlatDean’s SocietyMargaret Perkins BeersJohn Johnson, Jr.Harry B. Schooley, IIILon Youngquist SchooleyJohn D. SieminskiBlue & White ClubMary E. GaleKaren LichtigHoward MorrisJill James SmithSara Thomas UriskoLinda Renville Wardell1964Participation: 21%1844 ClubEllen Steinberg HerringSusan Mason HornDean’s SocietyKaren Carter DreyfussRobert EvansHarvey J. GolubockEdward MillerSamuel K. Mitchell, IIIJudith A. RobbinsW. Thomas WalkerChristina Shafer ZardeckiBlue & White ClubA. Anthony AnzaloneMartin W. KeckGail Karnofsky MorrisPatricia Klein RosenthalGeorge J. SickFrank J. SmithMyrtilla Abbott SquitieriLawrence G. Stets1965Participation: 18%Donchess SocietyRonald A. RittenmeyerThe Founder’s SocietyDavid J. OblonNelson Tower AssociatesSally Sims AlinikoffEstelle B. AndrewsLevi Sprague FellowsHoward Y. Harris, Jr.Reuben A. MundayWinifred W. Rowe1844 ClubKathryn Montz MillerDean’s SocietyMichael L. CunninghamHelen M. JonesJoanne C. PattonP. Thomas ShouldiceGailey Chambers TellerMarjorie Shaffer VictorRobert R. ZimmermanBlue & White ClubH. Pamela Bird

R e p o r t o f G i f t sClass Reports: 1965–1971Claire Vonk BrooksRonald L. PostJeffery S. ThielenFrederick S. ValentineStephen K. NelsonStephen F. StettlerGeorgia A. DzuricaSusan Gottesman RabkinDean’s SocietyDean’s SocietyLori Simon PanzerSusan Kelly WagnerSharon Phillips EwingDonald E. MorrealeDiane Giering WasilewskiElizabeth Thomas Young1966Participation: 37%The Founder’s SocietySteven FoldesNelson Tower AssociatesLucinda Wolfe HughesStephen B. KillianLevi Sprague FellowsEmily Harvey MahonEllen L. Dreikorn Redick1844 ClubMeredith Hopkins MosesMaxwellAnn Helen RobertsLeonard J. ThacherDean’s SocietySarah P. CarrLoren N. CrispellJohn F. GagerMartha McDowell GuerinCarol Anne Jackier KingWilliam C. JohnsonRobert N. KlemowEdward W. Lopatto, Jr.Tedi Piken NajarianBarbara L. SmithRosanne SmithRobert WasnickAnn Jones WeigleAnne Fisk WilceBlue & White ClubRichard H. BlumNancy Stewart CableAllison I. CarterDavid F. LacyLawrence E. PuttermanRobert RosenkrantzJill Blum ShermanMark C. StrobinoWilliam H. Vincent1967Reunion Gift Chairpersons:Janet Flack and JacksonKoffmanParticipation: 27%President’s AnniversaryCircleAnonymousNelson Tower AssociatesPhilip J. Santarelli1844 ClubJanet E. FlackSusan Pool MosesHoward J. PattonLewis E. ThayneSheldon P. BergerScott C. BorowskyRobert B. Burnside, Jr.Ira M. GoldsteinEllyn Harris-HesliJackson KoffmanMarcia Roeder WrightBlue & White ClubEllen Francis BolarShelley Rosen ChamberlainRalph B. EdwardsCarol MorrisDeborah E. PattonSusan J. SalsburgElizabeth Smith1968Participation: 20%President’s AnniversaryCircleDorothy DarlingMangelsdorfThe Founder’s SocietyCarlo H. Santarelli, Jr.Levi Sprague FellowsSusan Tippett HouseCarolyn GrahamMcLaughlin SmithAnn Kolesar Wood1844 ClubJonathan L. LevyHenry HorbaczewskiBruce G. LoganKenneth MacArthurAtlee RobinsonMia SieminskiBlue & White ClubCathy Rudolph BreishRobert S. DolphCynthia A. GarmanLinda Jeter HarrisJames T. JamesTrisha Johnson ReeceVictoria MattesKaren D. Speicher1969Participation: 24%Levi Sprague FellowsRichard P. AbramowitzMaribeth JonesKathryn Perkins O’Fee1844 ClubPauline A. ThomasDean’s SocietyRobert G. Edgerton, Jr.Joseph W. HarpsterAlan S. HollanderKenneth A. Lambert, IIIRobert J. McFann, Jr.Bruce T. SlaffJoseph J. WaiterRichard C. WeissBlue & White ClubRobert C. BothwellJoan Webster CohenBurrell Montz CoveyK. Christine HibbardM. Elizabeth HibbardNettie Hourigan MaguireDenise Goobic MeckLloyd J. MillerSally Strohl MoorePhilip D. ReidNorma Thomas RucknoSara Parkhurst Van Why1970Participation: 19%President’s AnniversaryCircleSusan Weiss ShovalLevi Sprague FellowsGary L. BushelliEllen Brenton McAllister1844 ClubKathy Isaacs MillerDean’s SocietyJonathan BlumMegan Thomas GoellerRobert M. HymanRobert L. KleinChristina GrahamOuelletteSanford H. PahkBlue & White ClubFrank E.P. ConynghamStanton G. FinkelsteinErika FunkeAlan F. JackierJoel W. Lidz1971Participation: 27%Donchess SocietyCarl J. GrivnerPresident’s AnniversaryCircleDavid P. HouriganPresident’s CabinetThomas M. PriceJohn H. ShaferNelson Tower AssociatesHarry M. KatermanPhillip W. Roth1844 ClubHope Berger RubinDebra Brown SiglinDean’s SocietyDavid J. AbelsonThomas E. DickinsonJack EvansMary Jane Griesmer EvansMichael E. FlowersMichael J. KeoughRobert E. Maloney, Jr.Jack Daniel MillerEllen Firestine RebertBlue & White ClubSharan Jacqueline BaranElizabeth Reid BeebeGary M. CohenLinda Mertz CohenDonald G. ConynghamCarol Wasnick DomskyLee R. EpsteinLee R. Kessler-SalvatoSylvia M. Santarelli KroppDavid E. LopattoVincent F. PerdeusDeborah Post StevensSusan Rogers Spreat

Class Reports: 1972–1980wyomingseminary.org651972Reunion Gift Chairpersons:Patrick Loftus and MaryLopattoParticipation: 26%Donchess SocietyMary Ann LopattoNelson Tower AssociatesRobert D. Clements, Jr.Jaye Ellen Hindin LewisRobert L. RosenbergEllen Grosek SteinSamuel L. Stettler1844 ClubSara Hultsch-SmithElliott R. MillerMary Post MitchellJohn W. Smith, IIMadelyn Newman WolfDean’s SocietyJane A. DuvallJack W. FreyGary C. KleinPatrick M. LoftusBrian R. SchlierBarry A. SchubDorothy L. SmithCindy Pearsall SussmanBlue & White ClubRegina EngelElliott R. MillerJoseph F. ShedlawskiSandy L. SingerRichard J. ThomasGail W. Vonderheid1973Participation: 18%Donchess SocietyRobert C. FriedmanPresident’s AnniversaryCircleJeffrey A. WeissPresident’s CabinetBrian L. DavisNelson Tower AssociatesAnthony L. BergerFrank P. MaguireLevi Sprague FellowsBarbara Samuel LoftusRobert D. SeeleyDean’s SocietyCarol Weiss BaltimoreRuth Graham ConaghanJames P. Harris, IIIDebra Fainberg HollanderJanet MalkemesEarl W. Phillips, Jr.Frederick M. ShortzElizabeth DeeringWilkinsonSandra M. KabeschatWytoshekBlue & White ClubAlan D. HarrisRichard M. Ross, III1974Participation: 22%Nelson Tower AssociatesFrank R. HughesLevi Sprague FellowsEdward F. DoblixAnthony J. Grosek, III1844 ClubPatricia McCarthy LastDebra Turner ReinhardtDean’s SocietyH. Jefferson GatesMargaret S. HallRobert A. PicconeDavid PollockCharles E. ScottGeorge A. Spohrer, Jr.David B. StettlerBlue & White ClubJane Benovitz FeinsteinJanet Yuscavage HarrisRobert S. LewisDavid P. RittenbergJenni M. Rodda1975Participation: 18%President’s CabinetCornelia ConynghamRomanowskiEdward S. RomanowskiThe Founder’s SocietyTerrence W. CaseyNelson Tower AssociatesCatherine Evans BergerLevi Sprague FellowsClare McCarthy ParkhurstMary Pavia RollaMary Shafer Wakeman1844 ClubElena J. HolakDean’s SocietyGeorge G. Conyngham, Jr.April KrajeskiJennifer Loveland-CurtzeRoberta Bravman MarksBlue & White ClubCarolyn P. SpohrerMarleen A. TroyDeirdre Beckwith Wrenn1976Participation: 19%President’s CabinetJanet E. MurrayNelson Tower AssociatesWilliam HughesLevi Sprague FellowsScott E. HenryKatherine Yohe Linneman1844 ClubHoward Baird, Jr.Thomas E. HeffernanSean MoranDonna Jackson PattersonBruce H. SaidmanDean’s SocietyHeidi Weber GeigerBarbara Klein WindhamBlue & White ClubBruce C. BuckleJohn A. LicataAmy Hollander VeloricJanet Hughes Wiles1977Reunion Gift Chairpersons:Jeannie McCarthy Clements,James C. Rogers, III, BarbaraLumia Rogers and Robert J.Wise, Jr.Participation: 19%Nelson Tower AssociatesJeannie McCarthyClementsJeanne T. LopattoLevi Sprague FellowsRobert J. Wise, Jr.1844 ClubScott H. BeyerDale P. HooverDean’s SocietyBarbra Ann Berley-MellitsAmy Prashker CohenTimothy S. EvansKathleen FairmanMarjorie HenkelmanMinnichRobert C. Williams, Jr.Eric A. WroblewskiBlue & White ClubBonnie Jean ReidBarbara Lumia RogersJames C. Rogers, IIIConrad J. Sarnecki, Jr.1978Participation: 18%President’s AnniversaryCircleMarjorie Henry MarquartPresident’s CabinetCharles J. Bufalino, IIINelson Tower AssociatesMei L. CastorLevi Sprague FellowsScott P. Parkhurst1844 ClubNancy Neary BairdS. William GoidellDean’s SocietyStephen J. BoyerRobert D. GallagerDana L. GriffithJohn HogoboomBlue & White ClubJoan Morris HippTimothy J. JordanL. Mark NelsonBarbara Coplan PhillipsCharles W. Umphred1979Participation: 15%Donchess SocietyCharles H. ParkhurstLevi Sprague FellowsRichard M. Hughes, IIIRebecca Ferguson SmithMark A. Weinberger1844 ClubMary Frances DonleyForcierJulie Goldstone MarcleyDean’s SocietyElizabeth Kluger CooperRussell L. DarrDonald Flick, Jr.John P. HendrzakPhilip J. PowlickMichael G. RobsonSara SlaffBlue & White ClubHarvie Ruggles1980Participation: 12%Nelson Tower AssociatesRichard S. JohnsonDavid E. SchwagerLevi Sprague FellowsMaria Agati EdmundsLaning J. Harvey

R e p o r t o f G i f t sClass Reports: 1980–19931844 ClubTamara L. PearsallDean’s SocietyMadhu AlagiriBernard C. Banks, IIIJohn B. McCarthyDonald M. RobbinsBlue & White ClubGarth A. MyersR. Carl Wilbur, Jr.1981Participation: 11%Donchess SocietyVirginia Simms RosePresident’s AnniversaryCircleJames K. LeveyThe Founder’s SocietyFrank C. Carlucci, IVNelson Tower AssociatesMargaret Brown TregurthaLevi Sprague FellowsAmy Smith Johnson1844 ClubJoann S. GoncharF. Paul LumiaJulie McCarthy StrzeletzBlue & White ClubDouglas C. Burak1982Reunion Gift Chairpersons:Elaine Elbich, Margaret NicholsHutchins, Susan Dantona Jolley,Melanie Maslow Lumia andBasil MusnuffParticipation: 16%President’s CabinetWilliam W. HinkoMelanie Maslow LumiaNelson Tower AssociatesJoseph E. KlugerLisa Caputo MorrisHong Nguyen Stumpff1844 ClubMargaret Nichols HutchinsMark C. WilliardDean’s SocietyKimberly Albert BoackleChristine Mohr GrenierSusan Dantona JolleyPaul M. KotchJessica A. OskiJocelyn E. PicconeAmy SchallBlue & White ClubElaine ElbichPeyton R. Hawkes1983Participation: 14%1844 ClubPia TaggartDean’s SocietyChristopher L. BarrettLauralie Chapin CookDavid C. GrosekKaren A. JeremyDavid H. LemmondEllen Daley WagnerLynne Harvey ZawadaBlue & White ClubMargaret M. CsalaPaul R. Ryneski1984Participation: 20%Donchess SocietyA. Richard Caputo, Jr.Charles F. CohenThe Founder’s SocietyLeslie Dymond MarksLevi Sprague FellowsKayanne VanderburgBarilla1844 ClubChristine Brown TealDean’s SocietyDavid P. BassRandolph DomolkySarah Yohe HathawayAmy Beth LlewellynWillisa Y. RolandJohn D. Warriner, Jr.Caroline McCarthyYoungmanBlue & White ClubChristopher S. BriggiBarbara Hoopes CackovicR. Scott CreskoCharlotte LeSage JavierThomas J. KosmalaJoseph R. Nardone, II1985Participation: 10%1844 ClubPeter BoveDean’s SocietyJohn C. EvansAnn Marie HendrzakLynne D. Morgan LaffertyG. Douglass Lewis, Jr.Blue & White ClubMelissa A. GaudioJennifer L. PearceLori J. Woicicki Tigani1986Participation: 16%Levi Sprague FellowsChristopher BerryTerrell Smith JuthDean’s SocietyJames A. AntinnesClifford K. BoothRebecca Gilliand BoothRobert P. Koons, Jr.Donna Swanson ThiessenBradley W. YoderBlue & White ClubLisa Marie Kosenak AyersAmy John KehnerKristine Ertley McCarthySylvia Bain Moran1987Reunion Gift Chairpersons:Susan Vanderburg and ToddVonderheidParticipation: 8%Nelson Tower AssociatesRobert H. Eggleston, Jr.1844 ClubSteven J. FalkowitzThomas A. ImperialeDean’s SocietyAnastasia Fay BassEric M. CohenLaurie J. NelsonBlue & White ClubLiane Kersey Thakur1988Participation: 11%Nelson Tower AssociatesDonald A. Reiff1844 ClubCatherine CallahanCatherine DePasqualeMihalickTara Mugford WilsonDean’s SocietyTretha Milkanin ChromeyScott G. KerridgeMatthew J. LehmanMarla ParenteBlue & White ClubMichael C. AvernaSean Robbins1989Participation: 7%Levi Sprague FellowsDavid J. Bujnowski1844 ClubScott C. CooperJennifer Butler SokolowskiAnthony K. TamaDean’s SocietyFaith Colburn LewisJennifer Wideman-Green1990Participation: 11%President’s AnniversaryCircleBarbara Albert CuddyLevi Sprague FellowsChristopher J. KerseyMelanie Dostie McConvilleDean’s SocietyMary Ann Gaska CameronJohn R. Eidam, Jr.Samantha Ireson SwinskiBlue & White ClubJoanna Garbush DuPriestKimberly KozemchakPasterCarrie Rampp1991Participation: 5%1844 ClubThomas A. LawrenceDean’s SocietyChristie Meyers PoteraBlue & White ClubA. Jeffrey DimondJoseph S. Prusko1992Reunion Gift Chairpersons:Jennifer Riddle Harding andDeanna Rapp BaroneParticipation: 5%Nelson Tower AssociatesWilliam L. Kozicki, Jr.Dean’s SocietySarah Fried ClaySusan Stricker CowderJennifer Riddle HardingBlue & White ClubJean M. Bart1993Participation: 6%The Founder’s SocietyStephen J. RosenthalJennie A. York

Class Reports: 1993–2012wyomingseminary.org67Nelson Tower AssociatesWilliam E. SordoniLevi Sprague FellowsDavid Paul BonitaDean’s SocietyThomas ChangBlue & White ClubJeffrey J. Malak1994Participation: 11%Donchess SocietyAmy Valli BennettThe Founder’s SocietyMatthew Bruno1844 ClubJennifer Eidam DavisDean’s SocietyStacey KutishHolly E. ZugBlue & White ClubNatalya Sharp CherryKristen Kasulke HampPenny Ann Treas SchadeHaley Morris Toledano1995Participation: 9%Nelson Tower AssociatesMatthew Sordoni1844 ClubSheila Flanagan-SheilsDean’s SocietyMargaret Rose LombardoBlue & White ClubSandra Davis ChisholmHolly Naugle EatonJames MatysczakJennifer Savage Matysczak1996Participation: 16%The Founder’s SocietySarah Sordoni BrunoDean’s SocietyKatherine A. GaleAlida KuhnChristopher J. MoonCarlo H. Santarelli, IIIBlue & White ClubWendy Taylor BradburyMegan Dimond HolemanKristy KozlekColleen Conyngham MazinJelena Todorovic MeiselMarjorie Bart SalcedoJennifer BradburySchweikertMelissa Stuckey1997Reunion Gift Chairpersons:Betsy Lombardo Tucker, JasonCohen and Stephen MolitorisParticipation: 8%President’s AnniversaryCircleDavid Wallace1844 ClubWesley Foran CarroccioDean’s SocietyHrvoje BenkoJason Yale CohenChristian HanischMasato KawashimaCourtney WilliamsSantarelli1998Participation: 5%Levi Sprague FellowsChristian H. Wielage1844 ClubMichael Thomas C. PackardDean’s SocietyJonathan BradburyPatrick J. RosenthalBlue & White ClubKerry I. Morris1999Participation: 11%Levi Sprague FellowsMargaret Sordoni MorrisBrooke Schuler Sciuto1844 ClubAlexis M. KroppTimothy O’DonnellDean’s SocietyCatherine A. ConynghamNathan T. DavisKyle A. DroppersElizabeth RosenthalHoffmeisterLukas PavlicekBlue & White ClubAndrew HollanderKathryn Sieminski2000Participation: 3%Blue & White ClubChristopher D. DaviesJohn G. Doyle, IIIBarret M. Katuna2001Participation: 5%Levi Sprague FellowsEmily Blaum BradshawThomas J. BradshawTrenton A. MillerBlue & White ClubEdward C. PriceKristen A. Yarmey2002Class Agents: Alison Ris Ross,Hume Ross and CourtneyDombroskiParticipation: 10%Levi Sprague FellowsLauren Toczylowski1844 ClubAlison Ris RossHume RossDean’s SocietyKathryn A. DelaneyBlue & White ClubAlexis N. AnselmiKurt D. HoffmannKrystin E. KopenLiqian MaConnor McCormickGeorge H. Shafer2003Participation: 6%Blue & White ClubEmily R. AlinikoffChristopher H. BoyleMatthew V. KernsJason B. NataupskyH. Matthew C. PackardNicole M. SantoWittawat Tantisiriroj2004Participation: 4%1844 ClubScott A. KutlickBlue & White ClubLeah EyermanDaniel A. HollanderHarry T. Shafer2005Participation: 6%Dean’s SocietyAli Brennan KornfeldRobert UrbanBlue & White ClubSasha P. AnselmiCatherine K. GibbonsMaria E. InsalacoJason Michael ReckDavid Phillip Vorozilchak2006Participation: 4%Dean’s SocietyRoss Nathan FeinsteinBlue & White ClubAoi Suzuki MarsitJillian L. NataupskySamantha A. Ostrowski2007Class Agents: Elizabeth Blaum,Phillip Kachmar and CatriceCarterParticipation: 8%1844 ClubSamantha D. MarquartBlue & White ClubCarrie CravenTimothy FrankPhillip KachmarSasha Fuller Luks-MorganJack MortonDouglas RosnickJustin SmithKaitlyn L. SnyderMichael Vojtko2008Participation: 7%Dean’s SocietyBryn M. HarveyKathleen Curran SharkeyBlue & White ClubRachel Elisabeth AckermanKevin W. BoyleJonathan DoblixAshley Rae FedakAlyssa Ann HockenberryJanet Calhoun HughesAshley Rosemary Pavill2009Participation: 4%Dean’s SocietyMichael HirthlerBlue & White ClubDuncan CampbellMaria Emily FiskeKatherine LevandoskiJoseph McMullan2010Participation: 4%Dean’s SocietyBrigid SmithBlue & White ClubKyle KopervasMichael McMullanSara OuelletteNicholas StrzeletzAllison Zoranski2011Participation: 17%Dean’s SocietyZachary L. HarveyChibueze OnwunakaMary Elizabeth ThedeBlue & White ClubLina M. BaderJohn CartwrightAshley CasterlineSilas DrewchinEmily Beth EdwardsOmeed FirouziCasey FlynnMeghan E. HouriganAnnabelle L. JonesAlexandra M. KijekSarah KnaggsJoshua McLucasPatrick McMullanSamantha McNeilShane OlenwineLauren SkudalskiCarly Elizabeth SokachLaura A. StrzeletzJessica SwobodaCongratulationsto the first donorsfrom our mostrecent graduatingclass!2012Dean’s SocietyBrandon RomeSimon ZafranyBlue & White ClubKristian StefanidesQiuandra Taylor

Honors & MemorialsR e p o r t o f G i f t sIt is a privilege for the school to remember those many alumni and friends in whosenames gifts are made for various purposes throughout the year. From July 2011through June 2012, memorial gifts were contributed to the Annual Fund, existingendowment funds or to special purpose funds for the following people:In Honor of Jerome CampbellMr. and Mrs. Peter BohlinMr. Duncan CampbellMr. and Mrs. John R. Eidam, Sr.Ms. Nancy SandersonMrs. Virginia SandersonPMEA District 9In Honor of Elizabeth WalkerCarlisle ’22Rev. and Mrs. Charles CarrickIn Honor of Winthrop C. CollinsMr. and William L. Kozicki, Jr.In Honor of John R. EidamMr. and Mrs. Matthew MarsitIn Honor of Carolyn ForanMr. Christopher BoyleMr. Kevin BoyleDr. Timothy Hou and Ms. AnneNieh HouMr. and Mrs. James KopecMr. and Mrs. Bradley ShickWyoming Seminary Lower SchoolFacultyIn Honor of Randolph GrangerMrs. Christine VaughanIn Honor of Maggie HornungMrs. Megan ThomasIn Honor of Steven KafrissenMr. and Mrs. Edward BirkDr. Ruth HorwitzIn Honor of Nathan KuhlDr. H. Jeremy Packard and Atty.Ingrid CroninIn Honor of KonstantinLyavdanskyMr. Jack MortonIn Honor of William S. Merwin ’44Mr. and Mrs. Randolph DomolkyIn Honor of John MoriarityMr. Christopher BoyleMr. Kevin BoyleMr. Connor McCormickMr. Sean Moran and Mrs. KristenKulinowskiIn Honor of Jacob Ruderman ’22Mr. Adam Ruderman and Ms.Catherine CallahanMr. Gram DohertyMr. and Mrs. James DohertyMr. and Mrs. Christian MackesyMr. and Mrs. Charles R. VargoMr. Nikolas VargoIn Honor of Elizabeth SchmaltzMr. Benjamin WoytachIn Honor of John H. Shafer ’71Mr. Alan CrockerIn Honor of Lillian Davis Smith ’53Mr. and Mrs. William BenderMrs. Bettijane EisenpreisMr. and Mrs. James JohnsonMr. and Mrs. David JuthMs. Rebecca SmithIn Honor of the WyomingSeminary Lower SchoolFacultyMr. John and Dr. Claire HornungIn Memory of Jonathan Balester ’72Mrs. Madelyn Wolf and Mr. RichardEichenIn Memory of Madge KleinBenovitz ’52Dr. and Mrs. Jorge AbrantesMrs. Nancy ShaferIn Memory of Joseph B.Bittenbender ’47Mr. and Mrs. Spencer G. Nauman, Jr.In Memory of Dominique AliceBlakelyMr. and Mrs. Steve RifkinIn Memory of Helen BrownDrs. Joel and Deborah GoldsteinIn Memory of Glenn BurgDr. Joseph Kraus and Ms. PaulaChaikenWyoming Seminary Lower SchoolFacultyIn Memory of Alice CarolanMr. and Mrs. Timothy ForanIn Memory of ConcepcionMontalban CastroMr. and Mrs. Timothy ForanMs. Angela PignataroMr. and Mrs. Bradley ShickWyoming Seminary Lower SchoolFacultyIn Memory of Charlene Chung ’87Mr. and Mrs. Bubba Eggleston Jr.In Memory of HiYoung ChungDr. and Mrs. Edward ChoiDrs. C.K. and Deborah ChungMs. Grace ChungMr. and Ms. Stephen CookMr. and Mrs. Bob DeLlarteDr. Glenn DuPontMr. and Mrs. Burdett EvansMr. and Mrs. Robert GelbMr. and Mrs. Edward C. HoffmanMr. and Mrs. Robert JabersMr. Michael JuhngDr. David KistlerKoch & Hoffman, P.A.Mr. and Mrs. Rick KornfeldDr. and Mrs. Michael KotchMs. Clementine MacarioDrs. Haragopal and DwarakiPenugondaMr. and Mrs. Emmanuel PonsRenal Consultants of WyomingValley PCDr. and Mrs. Francis RhiewDr. and Mrs. Dennis Zeveney, Jr.Ms. Eleanor ZubaIn Memory of Ronald A. Cohen ’52Mrs. Dorothy CohenIn Memory of Donald CooperMr. and Mrs. Bradley ShickIn Memory of Donna GrietenCottleMr. Jerome Campbell and Ms. NancySandersonIn Memory of Mary CurleyDr. and Mrs. John DickinsonIn Memory of Fern P. PooleDavies ’43Mr. and Mrs. David DaviesIn Memory of James DurkinMr. and Mrs. Stephen J. RosenthalIn Memory of Ronald ErtleyMr. and Mrs. Timothy ForanDr. Timothy Hou and Ms. Anne NiehHouMr. and Mrs. Allan KlugerMr. and Mrs. James KopecDr. Joseph Kraus and Ms. PaulaChaikenMrs. Louise MooreMr. and Mrs. Bradley ShickIn Memory of ChristopherConlon Evans ’83Mr. and Mrs. Anthony L. BergerMrs. Claire EvansMr. and Mrs. John C. EvansMr. Timothy EvansMr. and Mrs. William B. EvansIn Memory of William B. Evans ’44Mr. and Mrs. Anthony L. BergerMrs. Claire EvansMr. and Mrs. John C. EvansMr. Timothy EvansMr. and Mrs. William B. EvansDr. Paul GriesmerIn Memory of Anne M. Fassett ’83Ms. Jessica Oski and Mr. JonathanShentonIn Memory of Peggy Lynn Fields ’47Mrs. Claire EvansIn Memory of Charles D. Flack ’72Degenstein FoundationMr. and Mrs. William DavidowitzMr. and Mrs. Bruce E. GoverMrs. Ellyn Harris-HesliMr. and Mrs. Carl T. HeddenThe Luzerne FoundationM&T BankMrs. Louise MooreBrown Brothers Harriman & Co.Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. RomanowskiThursday ClubMr. and Mrs. Ben SchallMiss Elizabeth SmithTimes LeaderMrs. Madelyn Wolf and Mr. RichardEichenIn Memory of Buell FlahertyMr. Simon Russin, IIIIn Memory of Saul GelbMr. and Mrs. Frank M. HenryIn Memory of Jean GelbMr. and Mrs. Frank M. HenryIn Memory of Nevin Gerges ’16Mr. Wayne ClementsIn Memory of Emil GoryebMr. and Mrs. Vincent GriffinIn Memory of Kathryn NetzelGrausz ’51Dr. and Mrs. Norman A. ClemensIn Memory of Anthony Grosek, Jr.Dr. and Mrs. Jorge AbrantesDr. and Mrs. Fredric BrownMr. and Mrs. Harold C.Buckingham Jr.Chancellor Financial GroupDr. and Mrs. Robert ClementsMrs. Claire EvansMr. Timothy EvansMr. and Mrs. Leonard GoncharMs. Mary Ann KeefeMr. and Mrs. John F. MagagnaMrs. Louise MooreMr. and Mrs. Richard RosenthalIn Memory of Janet GunsterMr. and Mrs. Leonard GoncharIn Memory of Merritt L.Harding ’34The Merritt L. Harding EducationalTrustIn Memory of Mabel HarterMr. and Mrs. Timothy ForanMr. and Mrs. James KopecMr. and Mrs. Bradley ShickWyoming Seminary Lower SchoolFacultyIn Memory of Lois HarveyMiss Bryn HarveyMr. and Mrs. Laning J. HarveyMr. Tyler HarveyMr. Zachary Harvey

wyomingseminary.org69In Memory of Jean RobbinsHughes ’48Dr. and Mrs. Jorge AbrantesDr. Mary AllanMr. and Mrs. Harold C.Buckingham Jr.Dr. and Mrs. Robert ClementsMr. and Mrs. Clark ConlonMr. and Mrs. Stephen DisneyMrs. Claire EvansMr. Timothy EvansMrs. Patricia FerenbachMrs. Betty Y. HarrisMr. and Mrs. Frank HughesThe Honorable and Mrs. Richard M.Hughes,IIIMr. and Mrs. William HughesMrs. Barbara KoehlMr. and Mrs. O. Charles LullMrs. Herbert McDonaldMr. Guthrie MitchellMr. and Mrs. Leo MoskovitzMs. Elizabeth PhillipsMr. and Mrs. Richard RosenthalMr. and Mrs. Stephen J. RosenthalMr. and Mrs. John H. ShaferMs. Julie StrzeletzIn Memory of Donn InnesMr. and Mrs. Stanley S. DaviesMrs. Marilyn RudolphIn Memory of Paul Kafrissen ’88Dr. Steven KafrissenIn Memory of Elliott LewisKatunaMr. Benjamin Kehl and Ms. BarretKatunaIn Memory of Charles D.Lemmond, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Harold C.Buckingham Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Stanley S. DaviesMr. and Mrs. A. John DimondMrs. Claire EvansMr. and Mrs. Leonard GoncharMr. and Mrs. John F. MagagnaIn Memory of Gerald LevandoskiMr. and Mrs. Timothy ForanIn Memory of Audrey RadlerLord ’54Mr. Frank AnknerIn Memory of Diane RingawaMagagna ’58Mr. Stephen Brandwene and Ms.Anna PruettIn Memory of Lee J. McCarthy ’44Dr. and Mrs. Robert ClementsDr. Paul GriesmerMr. and Mrs. W. Michael LastMr. and Mrs. John B. McCarthyMrs. Mary Jule McCarthyMr. Lee McCarthyMr. and Mrs. Scott P. ParkhurstMs. Julie McCarthy StrzeletzMiss Laura StrzeletzMr. Nicholas StrzeletzMr. and Mrs. Charles YoungmanIn Memory of Lynn C. ConlonMerwarth ’50Mr. James MerwarthIn Memory of Jozia Mieszkowski ’57Miss Bryn HarveyMiss Maria InsalacoMr. and Mrs. David JuthMr. Steve Schneider and Ms. LaurieNelsonMiss Samantha OstrowskiMs. Amy SchallIn Memory of Margaret MitchellMr. Guthrie MitchellIn Memory of Betty HopkinsMosesMr. and Mrs. James MaxwellCaptain and Mrs. Dale MosesIn Memory of John D. Mueller ’52Mr. and Mrs. Benson BartronMr. and Mrs. Paul BeaneMr. and Mrs. Harold C.Buckingham Jr.Mrs. Ann CoughlinMr. and Mrs. A. John DimondMrs. Claire EvansMr. Robert FriedmanMr. and Mrs. Laning J. HarveyMr. and Mrs. Frank M. HenryMr. and Mrs. David P. HouriganMr. and Mrs. Stephen B. KillianMr. and Mrs. John F. MagagnaMrs. Howard A. NusbaumMr. and Mrs. Charles H. ParkhurstMr. and Mrs. Ben SchallMr. and Mrs. John H. ShaferMs. Joyce StroupIn Memory of Michael J. MuroskiMr. and Mrs. Bradley ShickIn Memory of Joseph M. Nelson ’50Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Rose Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. SimmsIn Memory of Alfred J. NorrisMr. and Mrs. Spencer G. Nauman, Jr.In Memory of Horace ParkerMrs. Claire EvansIn Memory of Marie PayneMr. and Mrs. Allan KlugerMr. and Mrs. Stephen J. RosenthalIn Memory of Adrian M. PearsallMrs. Nancy ShaferIn Memory of William I. andMarion PentecostMr. Alan Hughes and Mrs. PollyPentecostMr. Eric Hunt and Ms. ElizabethHughesMs. Kathryn HughesMr. Allan Hughes and Mrs. PollyPentecostMr. and Mrs. Fred C. StringfellowMs. Ann WoodlandMr. Jeffrey WoodlandIn Memory of John Glenn PoppleMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey PoppleIn Memory of Kimberly Popple ’82Mr. and Mrs. Mark BoackleIn Memory of Patricia ReeseMr. and Mrs. Bradley ShickIn Memory of John RindgenWyoming Seminary Lower SchoolFacultyIn Memory of Sesto SantarelliMrs. Irene SantarelliMr. Philip SantarelliIn Memory of Anne SchererMr. and Mrs. Joseph ZinkavichIn Memory of Thomas Earl ScottMr. and Mrs. William J. ScottIn Memory of Edward A. Shafer ’36Mr. George ShaferMr. Harry ShaferMr. and Mrs. John H. ShaferMrs. Nancy ShaferIn Memory of Sun-nye ShinGeneral and Mrs. Jin Kyu KimIn Memory of QuinleyGenevieve SiffDr. and Mrs. Mark AllenDr. and Mrs. Anthony AquilinaMr. and Mrs. Benson BartronMs. Linda BednarMr. Jerome Campbell and Ms. NancySandersonMr. and Mrs. David CardellRev. and Mrs. Charles CarrickMr. and Mrs. Jon CarvenMr. and Mrs. Dominick CassetoriMr. Logan ChaceMr. and Mrs. Craig CirelliMr. and Mrs. James ClementeMr. and Mrs. Neil ConwayDr. and Mrs. Andrew CostelloMr. and Mrs. Frank DeVivaDr. and Mrs. John DickinsonMr. and Mrs. James DohertyMr. and Mrs. James EdwardsMr. and Mrs. John R. Eidam, Sr.Miss Leah EyermanMr. and Mrs. Paul EyermanMr. and Mrs. Timothy ForanMiss Elizabeth FrosiniMr. and Mrs. Bruce E. GoverMr. and Mrs. Scott GreenMr. and Mrs. Vincent GriffinDr. and Mrs. Thomas W. HanlonMr. and Mrs. Laning J. HarveyHML Global Packaging, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Donald HopkinsMr. and Mrs. Christopher J. KerseyMr. and Mrs. D. James KerseyMr. and Mrs. James KopecMr. and Mrs. James LacomisMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey LeasMrs. Kristine McCarthyMr. and Mrs. Robert K. MericleMetz Food Service EmployeesMrs. Ivy MillerMr. and Mrs. David MorganMr. and Mrs. Michael MoserMr. Raleigh MyersMr. Harry NageliMr. Adam O’BrienMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey O’MalleyMr. and Mrs. James R. PembertonMr. and Mrs. David PetroskiMr. and Mrs. Donald E. PetroskiMs. Florence PetroskiMs. Karen PetroskiMr. and Mrs. Walter PetroskiMr. and Mrs. David A. ReppertMr. and Mrs. James C. Rogers, IIIMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey RosengrantMr. Adam Ruderman and Ms.Catherine CallahanMs. Harvie RugglesDr. and Mrs. Bruce H. SaidmanMr. and Mrs. Ben SchallMr. and Mrs. Joseph Schmid, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Scott SchukraftMr. and Mrs. John H. ShaferMr. and Mrs. Bradley ShickMr. and Mrs. Jonathon SiffMr. and Mrs. S. David SiffMrs. Jane SlaffMr. and Mrs. Edward StankusMr. and Mrs. Robert R. StefanidesMr. and Mrs. Matthew StretanskiMs. Julie StrzeletzMr. Robert TarudMr. and Mrs. Jason ThatcherMr. and Mrs. Gary VanderburgWyoming Seminary Library AdvisoryBoardWyoming Seminary Lower SchoolFacultyWyoming Seminary Upper SchoolChristmas Chapel DonationsWyoming Seminary Upper SchoolFacultyMs. A. Kay YoungMr. and Mrs. Emile H. ZafranyMr. Simon ZafranyMr. and Mrs. Joseph ZinkavichIn Memory of George B.Sordoni ’64Dr. and Mrs. Jorge AbrantesMr. and Mrs. Bernard Banks, IIIMr. and Mrs. Charles BarberMr. and Mrs. Paul BeaneMr. and Mrs. Dorrance BelinDr. and Mrs. Frank BermanBrennan Electric IncorporatedDr. and Mrs. Fredric BrownMr. and Mrs. Harold C.Buckingham Jr.Dr. and Mrs. Charles N. BurnsThe Honorable and Mrs. A. RichardCaputoMr. and Mrs. Gregory CarroccioCohen Family Charitable TrustCongregation of the Sisters, Servantsof the Immaculate Heart of MaryMr. and Mrs. Donald G. ConynghamCorbett Cawley Inaugural CommitteeMr. and Mrs. Stanley S. Davies

R e p o r t o f G i f t sHonors & Memorials, cont’d...Mr. and Mrs. A. John DimondDunmore Roofing & Supply Co., Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Bubba Eggleston Jr.Mrs. Claire EvansMr. Timothy EvansFirst Liberty Bank and TrustMr. and Mrs. Timothy F. ForanFriedman’s Men’s FurnishingsGeisinger Health SystemMs. Sandra GoldmanMr. and Mrs. Leonard GoncharMr. and Mrs. William J. Haas, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Laning J. HarveyMr. and Mrs. Carl T. HeddenMr. and Mrs. Frank M. HenryHuntsville Golf ClubMrs. Mary HurlbuttIsle Verde Neighborhood AssociationMr. and Mrs. Ronald KosmalaMr. and Mrs. Michael KowalskiMs. Barbara KrywickiMr. and Mrs. R. Allen LewisMr. and Mrs. O. Charles Lulllululemon athleticThe Luzerne FoundationMr. and Mrs. Michael MacDowellMr. and Mrs. John F. MagagnaMr. and Mrs. John MaguireMr. Richard MaslowMr. and Mrs. Dave McLaughlin SmithMr. and Mrs. Robert K. MericleMr. and Mrs. John MetzDr. and Mrs. Joel MindelMr. Guthrie MitchellMrs. Louise MooreMr. and Mrs. Ethan MorrisDr. and Mrs. Gary NataupskyMr. Jason NataupskyMiss Jillian NataupskyDr. and Mrs. Gary NataupskyNielsen CompanyMr. and Mrs. Joseph ObuhoskyMr. and Mrs. Robert OstrowskiParenteBeard LLCMr. and Mrs. Charles E. ParenteMr. and Mrs. Charles H. ParkhurstPennsylvania Chamber of Businessand IndustryDr. and Mrs. Charles RogallaMr. and Mrs. Harold RosennMr. and Mrs. Stephen J. RosenthalMr. and Mrs. Richard RosenthalMr. Don RosiniRosenn, Jenkins & GreenwaldMs. Susan RutchauskasMr. and Mrs. Ben SchallMr. Bill ScrantonMr. and Mrs. A. Joseph SekeraMr. Frank SerafiniMr. and Mrs. John H. ShaferMr. and Mrs. Bradley ShickMs. Marjorie H. SmithMs. Karen SnyderMs. Julie StrzeletzMr. John ThalenfeldTIFF Advisory ServicesMr. Frank TrembulakMrs. Susan TrynoskiUnited Way of Wyoming ValleyMr. and Mrs. Rufus WilliamsIn Memory of Wallace F. StettlerDr. Elena HolakRev. Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. JohnsIn Memory of Ann StineMr. and Mrs. Richard RosenthalIn Memory of Dorothy SnyderStrohl ’42Ms. Sally Strohl MooreIn Memory of Judith BrownTurner ’53Miss Jane MorrisAtty. and Mrs. Charles A. ShafferIn Memory of Teresa Urban ’89Mr. and Mrs. Joseph SokolowskiIn Memory of Lily and GeorgeVensonMr. Perry VensonIn Memory of Gordon E.Weightman ’75Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. GoverIn Memory of Charlotte DavisWentz ’46Mrs. Louise MooreMrs. Jane RossMrs. Nancy ShaferMrs. Lynne ZawadaIn Memory of J. SherwoodWilson ’53Mrs. Carol StorrsWe are pleased to present to you the 2011-2012Wyoming Seminary Report of Gifts. You may notice thatthis year’s report does not include Endowment Fundsand Awards. You may access this list and additionalWeb content by visiting www.wyomingseminary.org/journal. Thank you for your generous and continuedsupport of Wyoming Seminary.Yesterday, today & tomorrow.Wyoming Seminary2012-13 Annual Giving Campaign

The Westlake Societywyomingseminary.org71The Westlake Society recognizes those alumni and friends of Wyoming Seminary who have indicated that they have made provisions for a gift to the School in theirestate plans, or through membership in The Living Endowment Society. This recognition society was previously known as The Planned Giving Honor Roll, but wasrenamed in memory of Emory H. Westlake Class of 1896 in recognition of and with appreciation of his generous bequest to the School in 1996 at the time of the150th Anniversary Campaign. Mr. Westlake creatively planned his estate in order to maximize his giving to those charities most important to him. Within a fewmonths of the 100th anniversary of his graduation, Mr. Westlake’s bequest created the Westlake Scholarship Endowment Fund at Wyoming Seminary. The Schoolfeels his wise use of charitable and estate gift planning is an example for others to emulate.In addition to the names that follow, there are others who have included Wyoming Seminary in their estate plans, but at their request, their names are not listed.19351950196119691975Frank DixEdythe Dickover Tessen1939Marcella McCormick FayRobert Vandenberg1940Frank SklarisAllan Slaff1942Stanley S. DaviesJoseph P. Flanagan Jr.Mary E. Mayock FlanaganCharlotte Benjamin MorrisRobert S. Tippett1944Helen Lewis CackenerNancy Abbott Cohen1945James P. BaileyBetsy Bell Condron1946Edward BerningerIrwin E. Lecker1948Harold C. Buckingham Jr.Barbara Clark ButlerFrank C. CarlucciNancy Jackson HartmanRobert S. HartmanGeraldine Ruddy HouriganCollette Touey KeanSandra R. LloydMary Eagen McDonaldElizabeth Reynolds Metzger1949Howard C. BeaneQuincy S. AbbotAnne Cook DickersonFrank M. Henry1951John T. Stevens1952Sylvia Brown NadelStuart Z. UramJerrold Williams1953Ronald Del DucaJeanne Malkemes HickmanJoanne Torbert Seifried1954Thomas E. Watkins1955Richard M. GoldbergBenjamin R. Jones III1956Virginia Miller Schmidt1957Linda Myers GermanSandy PadweRobert J. SiegelAlice Robinson Thompson1959Bruce AmbroseGerald DwyerRobert E. JonesJackiann Beattie Smith-McKernanBernhardt K. Wruble1960Jennifer Bailey MacPhersonJay N. WeinbergLeon BonnerRaymond S. HowardPeter K. JohnsonW. Kentley JonesV. Paul Zanecki1962Stephen M. AlinikoffVirginia Greenwood DubbsMildred Kaiser FleetwoodPeter FoldesAlfred W. Thomas IIIWilliam W. Yoder1963Leslie Turrell BullockRobert DealamanJohn Morton IIILisa Harvey MortonDavid C. Sanford1964R. Scott Hummel1965Estelle AndrewsElliott S. Robinson III1966Steven FoldesPaul R. FreemanBarbara HauckStephen B. KillianLeonard J. Thacher1967Bruce LoganCrawford C. Smith1968W. Edward Conklin Jr.Robert R. JamesJoseph W. HarpsterM. Elizabeth HibbardJames W. HuntAlexis S. C. IszardJohn S. Lopatto IIIRobert J. McFann Jr.Pauline Rodgers MoonSteven RussellJohn P. SgarlatJoseph J. Waiter1970George P. DroelleMargot Meeks HenningsDonald R. Murray1971Anthony C. AdonizioDavid P. HouriganRobert Maloney Jr.Phillip RothJohn H. ShaferRichard C. Stauffer1972John CioccaDeborah KapralGary C. KleinPatrick M. LoftusElliot MillerThomas PersonRobert L. RosenbergMarian E. SpohrerSamuel L. Stettler1973Charles BaltimoreBrian L. Davis1974Anthony J. Grosek IIIFrank M. Henry Jr.Jeffrey KleinGeorge G. Conyngham Jr.1976Shelley FreemanDavid I. KlugerJohn A. LicataDana Pearce LyonsJanet MurrayWilliam Wolf1977Kathryn Reynolds-BellasJodie Lyons ElyacharJon HallingstadJason KurchnerC. Thomas ShannonRobert J. Wise1978Marc L. Holtzman1980Louis J. ButeraRobert S. Tippett Jr.1982Susan Dantona JolleyFriendsJohn N. Conyngham IIIWilliam MainwaringRichard MaslowCharles E. ParenteRichard PearsallPatricia RummageNatalie SolfanelliLaroy Ziegler

2011–2012 Wyoming Seminary VolunteersBoard of TrusteesMichael ApfelbaumBarbara Fassett Oski Beane ’53, Life TrusteeAmy Valli Bennett ’94Anthony L. Berger ’73Harold C. Buckingham, Jr. ’48, LifeTrusteeCharles J. Bufalino, III ’78Leslie Turrell Bullock ’63Frank C. Carlucci, IV ’81Wesley R. Crompton ’43, Life TrusteeStanley S. Davies ’42, Life TrusteeA. John Dimond ’57Robert C. Friedman ’73Richard M. Goldberg ’55Charles F. Gommer, Jr.Anthony Grosek, Jr., Life TrusteeAnthony J. Grosek, III ’74, Ex-officioChristopher HackettFrank M. Henry ’50, Honorary TrusteeJonathan P. Hosey ’74David Hourigan ’71Richard M. Hughes, III ’79Harry M. Katerman ’71Leonard Insalaco, TreasurerCollette Touey Kean ’48, Life TrusteeStephen B. Killian ’66Joseph E. Kluger ’82Sue Kline Kluger ’55, Emeritus TrusteeHarry F. Lee ’53, Life TrusteeCharles D. Lemmond, Jr., Life TrusteeMary Ann Lopatto ’72John F. Magagna ’52, Life TrusteeDorothy Darling Mangelsdorf ’68Marjorie E. Henry Marquart ’78, SecretaryScott MeuserJohn D. Mueller ’52, ChairmanJanet E. Murray ’76Kip P. Nygren, Ex-officioCatherine R. O’Donnell, Ex-officio TrusteeCharles H. Parkhurst ’79Richard L. Pearsall, Life TrusteeCornelia Conyngham Romanowski ’75Erica M. RomanowskiRichard A. Rose, Jr.Arthur W. Sherwood ’56Robert H. Smith ’56George B. Sordoni ’64Wyoming Seminary Alumni CouncilJennifer Eidam Davis ’94, SecretaryAlex Flack ’05Janet Flack ’67Dawn Lombardo Gaudino ’87R. Clements Gover ’00Jami Layaou Hearn ’96Rebecca Janerich ’98Sarah Killian ’03Madeline Kropp ’05Debora Maseychik ’83, TreasurerRobert S. Tippett ’42Permanent Voting Members ofAlumni CouncilCharlotte Muschlitz Arbogast ’44Frank M. Henry ’50John E. Morris, III ’58Stephen B. Killian ’66Patricia Klein Rosenthal ’64Samuel M. Wolfe, III ’64Claire BrierSean McCormick ’04Trent Miller ’01Joseph Perfilio ’91, Vice PresidentKristyn Kelleher Polishan ’99Sean Robbins ’88Sara Rosenberg ’05Robert Sherwood ’99Robert Tamburro ’91, PresidentJonathan Tenenbaum ’95Corine Leoni Treslar ’85Louise Loucks Moore ’55Elena Horrigan Parkhurst ’53Robert D. Clements, Jr.’72Philip J. Santarelli ’67Scott P. Parkhurst ’78Claire Conlon Evans ’52M. Elizabeth Hibbard ’69Jonathan Spohrer ’78David Schwager ’80Ross Macarty ’80Tara Mugford Wilson ’88Stephen J. Rosenthal ’93Cathy Fields McHugh ’78Upper School Parents AssociationRosemary ChromeyMaureen ConynghamMark GavinJoeann GavinLori GoldenDarcy GollhardtLower School Parents AssociationNehal DandamudiTony Grosek ’74,PresidentLisa GrossmanRenea HammermanLee Ann LloydCathy O’DonnellClare McCarthy Parkhurst ’75Eddie PlaksaAvalyn QuickMargarita RoseFouzia HancockAmy MaseychickKim MericleShelley MeuserCathy DePasquale Mihalick ’88,TreasurerMarla Parente Polishan ’88,SecretaryJackie SoperLarry StirewaltTina Yvette SmithLois SpathLisa StellaCheryl ThomasKerry TurnerBindu VyasMindy Zafrany

JEFFMARTIN’77Bringing anAmericanstyle to theGermanopera stageJEFF MARTIN ’77 in the role of Baron Kronthal in “Der Wildschütz” (The Poacher) by Albert Lortzing.He’s been a prince with a magic flute, a vengeful Norse fire god, a youngsoldier who tests his girlfriend’s fidelity, and a Biblical king who ordersthe death of a great prophet. These and other well-known characters ofopera have been a part of Jeff Martin’s life for the past 30 years.Martin ’77 is a well-regarded opera singer who has performed in manyof Europe’s fine opera houses, and since the mid-1980s he has made hishome in Germany. After earning degrees in music and performanceat Westminster Choir College and the University of CincinnatiConservatory of Music, he decided to try his luck as an opera performerin Europe. At the time there were many more opportunities to sing onthe continent than in the United States (although the U.S. now housesmore opera companies than Germany or Italy) and Martin started outin Germany, performing in a variety of state opera houses and concerthalls. He has also sung in France, Italy and Russia and, in addition tobeing fluent in German can get by in Italian and France. (He admits hehas not had as much success learning Russian.)“I love to sing and it doesn’t really matter where,” he says. “There arebeautiful opera houses in Munich, Dresden and Moscow where it is areal pleasure to sing.”Martin, whose tenor voice has been critically acclaimed as “clear, strongand consistently brilliant,” is highly respected for his interpretationsof works by Mozart, Wagner and J. S. Bach; he also received praise forhis lead role performances in Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” andRichard Strauss’ “Salome.” Reviewers have commended him for hisacting ability, calling his performances “a pleasure for the eyes and ears.”“I have always loved singing Tamino in Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute,’ butas I get older my repertoire has been changing,” he says. “I now sing quitea bit of Wagner. I get mostly character roles but last year I had the chanceto sing Siegfried in a reduced arrangement of Wagner’s ‘Der Ring desNibelungen,’ the Ring cycle. Two other characters from the Ring cycle,Mime and Loge, also are among my favorites.”Martin notes that with age, his voice has grown bigger and moredependable; he feels he is still on the right path technically and that,with few exceptions, he can tackle whatever role he is offered.“One of my dreams has always been to sing Edgardo in ‘Lucia diLammermoor’ by Donizetti,” he says, adding that the roles of Max in“Der Freischütz,” Peter in “Peter Grimes,” Siegmund in “Die Walküre,”and parts in less-well-known Strauss operas are also on his wish list.In addition to opera, Martin sings art songs and some sacred music.“I have always had a soft spot in my heart for the large choral works ofBach. A few years ago I had the opportunity to sing the ‘St. Matthew’sPassion’ in Paris at Notre Dame Cathedral. It was quite an experience,”he says. “I also enjoy art song repertoire although it is difficult to findaudiences these days. Songs by Schumann, Schubert, Wolf and Fauré aresome of my favorites.”A native of Trucksville, Martin now lives with his family in Nürnberg,Germany where he enjoys bicycling. He feels fortunate that his workallows him to travel and sample good food in several different countries.And he credits the opportunity to sing with the Madrigal Singersunder the direction of John Vaida, and winning a silver medal at theInternational Choral Festival in Rome during his senior year, withsetting him on the road to attending Westminster Choir College andlater to his life in opera.Martin holds out the possibility that he may one day have theopportunity to perform in a major opera house in the United States;if not, he will continue to share his passion for great music andgrand stories of love, hate, tragedy and comedy with appreciative anddiscriminating audiences throughout Europe.To see Jeff Martin’s current performance schedule visit his Web site atwww.jeffmartin.eu.

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