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Tom Labert came with his wife, Nancy.
He retired after 40 years from the finance
department of Bethlehem Steel and has been
a realtor for 13 years.
Fred Woitscheck and his wife, Wanda,
are probably used to being last in a list and
he is again. Fred is CEO and owner of his
family business, Hi-Way Concrete Products.
1955
Helen Varady Keyser; 2038 Kemmerer Street;
Bethlehem, PA 18017
1954
Helen Desh Woodbridge; 3574 Browning Lane;
Bethlehem, PA 18017; ligon@enter.net
From Helen:
Dottie Ruyak was in Bethlehem in
August and came for a cookout at my home
with another high school classmate, Anne
Enright ’52 Secretarial.
The Bach at Noon concerts performed in
Central Moravian Church by the Bach Choir
of Bethlehem and the Bach Festival Orchestra
attracted, among others this fall, classmates
Lois Lutz Geehr and her husband,
Fred, Shirley Beck Dutt and her husband,
Karl, and Bev Bell ’56. We were sorry to hear
about the death of one of Lois’s sisters, Martha
Lutz Samuels ’50, but were glad to hear
that Lois and Fred enjoyed attending the
Shakespeare Festival in Canada this summer.
Our son John, from Michigan, was home
for this dad’s 85th birthday in early November,
and our son Rob and his family of four were
home for Thanksgiving. A highlight of their
visits here was a trip to Hawk Mountain with
lunch atop the north lookout. Both grandsons
will graduate this spring, Tim from Purdue
University and Brian from high school.
1953
E. Allen Schultz; 1601 43rd St. North; Unit 230;
St. Petersburg, FL 33713-4666; e.allen.schultz@
worldnet.att.net
Polly Rayner; The Court, Apt. 2-F; 2830 Linden St.;
Bethlehem, PA 18017
1952
Reunion May 18-19, 2007
Mary T. Pongracz; 321 W. Fourth St.; Bethlehem,
PA 18015
1951
Andy Jasso; 35 W. Greenwich St.; Bethlehem, PA
18018-2439
Carol Buechner McMullen; 9 Magnolia Ave.;
Montvale, NJ 07645; cbmcmullen@aol.com
From Carol:
June Shafer Scholl recently moved to an
apartment at Moravian Village in Bethlehem.
On September 21 she invited a group
of classmates to join her for lunch at the
Moravian Village dining room. Present were
Vanita Egge Marvin, Betsey Freas ’50, Jane
Kincaid Missimer, Fern Bachman Koplin,
Harold Gesell and his daughter Anne Marie,
Lois Shafer Smith and Dick, Janet Fabian
Andre and Paul with their daughter, June,
and myself. We enjoyed a delightful lunch
and admired June’s new home.
As I write this, Thanksgiving is almost
here. I hope all of our classmates have much
to be thankful for.
1950
Bob Scholl; P.O. Box 5083; Bethlehem, PA 18015
1949
Norma Boldt Wynne; 1570 Glen Hardie Road;
Wayne, PA 19087-1002; nbwynne@aol.com
Thomas F. Keim; 335 Spring St.; Bethlehem, PA
18018
From Tom:
I received a nice note from Bernie Terzigni.
He says that he is enjoying his family
and all the “good things God has given us.”
Retired from medicine, he does consult with
his boys and daughter-in-law as they are
practicing. He is busy finishing his book, A
Satire on the Motel Business. It contains cartoons
and many funny stories based on the
experiences he and Joyce had during their
17 years as hotel owners in Wildwood Crest,
N.J. He still hopes to take that cruise on the
QE2 someday.
1948
Jean Baxter McCracken; 490 Penllyn Pike;
Blue Bell, PA 19422-1628; Charleyandjean1@
verizon.net
From Jean:
I received the following e-mail from
Edythe Steers Smith, who regrettably was
with our class for only one year, yet we all
enjoyed her presence. Thanks so much, Edie,
for responding.
“Hi, Jean, I’m answering your request
to hear from old classmates. Kip Voorhees
Pels and I met last Tuesday on Long Beach
Island, N.J. This was our fourth meeting in
four years. It’s so good talking old times
and catching up on current times. Last year
our grandchildren played together. Who
would have thought we’d do that sixty-odd
years later? Kip and her husband, Al, are
still very active in their community in New
Hampshire. They look great. On a sad note,
my sister Ruth died March 7. She hadn’t
been sick, so it was a shock. Fortunately, she
didn’t suffer. I hope all is well with your and
family. Take care.”
Charley and I are still active, he painting
and I busy with a chair caning business.
These activities keep us both out of trouble.
We don’t travel much, although I did spend a
week in Cancun on a mission project—most
likely my last. Our daughter Faith took a
teaching job in New Zealand last February—
teaching English. It has been a hard year for
her, but she loves it there. Daughter Julie
and I went to her in July, and I survived the
twenty-hour plane trip!
Our 60th reunion will be coming up in
2008, so I hope to see some of you when you
come to celebrate!
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1947
Reunion May 18-19, 2007
George Kirkpatrick; 11250 Caravel Circle, No. 308;
Fort Myers, FL 33908-5236
Peg Loveless Browne; 256 Medford Leas Way;
Medford, NJ 08055; Pegbrownenj@medleas.com
Mary Jean Spangenthal has decided to take
a break from being class secretary, and Peg
Loveless Browne has agreed to take over.
From Mary Jean:
We’re ba-a-a-ck!! Thanks to some communication
glitches, we lost an issue or two,
but I think we’re on track again and the
first order of business is a mighty thanks to
Helen Kanuskey Canfield, Charlotte Unangst
Schisler, Kitty Nies Geiger, and Jean
Achey Schrader. They compose our reunion
committee and were very helpful in getting
information coming to me for this column.
Your letters reflect an effort to settle in
comfort for this next period in life, a move
to retirement communities or a rearrangement
of family members so that personal
independence can be preserved along with a
feeling of being cared for. Everybody sounds
upbeat and forward looking, accepting
responsibility for doing as much as possible
for ourselves to maintain good health and
to contribute to the world in which we still
live.
Mickey Coleman Silverberg is living at
Country Meadows, a retirement community
in Allentown, while Kitty Neis Geiger is still
maintaining her home and herself in ways
that will enable her to stay in her own home
a very long time. She says she feels cared for
by the young families living near her.
Jean Zehner Lombardi isn’t driving
much anymore, but her son has moved in
with her since the death of her 95-year-old
mother. She is active in two senior groups,
and frequently goes on trips with them. She
says that winter is coming and she’s ready for
it, since she won’t have to drive in the snow.
June Urffer Moyer and Bob are quite
content in California. They remain very active
in spite of Bob’s macular degeneration
and manage to maintain the trip schedule
they have enjoyed for many years, including
a trip east to visit with their son and
daughter.
Unfortunately, some of us are limited by
physical problems, vision being a major one.
Doris Trine Kennedy has had cataract surgery
and a recent procedure for her macular
degeneration. She said it was an arduous
process but she is doing well.
Betty Riegel Mesner, who lost her vision
many years ago, recently had two knee replacements,
but expects to be dancing again
in six weeks. She obviously has accommodated
to her handicap, for she knits caps for
babies and is learning to play a new Lowery
organ with special buttons for automatic
A Guide for Life
After leaving Moravian College
with a bachelor’s degree in
economics, Jean Sun Shaw
’75 saw the business world
from many angles. “I held staff
and line positions in different
corporations and different
sectors: commodities trading,
management consulting,
technology,” she says. But
she came to realize that what
she really wanted to do was
offer guidance to the corporate
professionals she’d been
working with. So, equipping
herself with advanced degrees
in counseling, she created
Life’s Journey LLC. “I’ve had an
interest in psychology since high
school, so the career change
was really coming full circle to
an earlier interest,” she adds.
In her New York City-based
counseling practice, Sun Shaw
works with mid-life professionals
who seek to make meaningful
change in their lives. Rather than
simply offering conventional
wisdom about networking and
transferable skills, Life’s Journey
also helps clients grapple with
deep questions like “Who am I,
really?” and “How do I express
myself more fully in my career
play. This is all in addition to her work and
activity in her church and family.
But the overwhelming theme of the mail
was family: accomplishments of children
and grandchildren and the joyous anticipation
of new members being born. Janet
Parks Weinland and Bob seem to lead the
pack with four daughters, eight grandchildren
and seven great-grandchildren! Three of
the four children and families live within an
hour and a half away.
Doris Trine Kennedy, Charlotte Unangst
Schisler, Ruth Heitz Bachman and I
also are enjoying the “great” generation and,
in my case, a second is on the way. Charlotte,
by the way, is still riding her horse, Rusty,
once or twice a week. In her words, “It helps
my morale and old muscles.”
Jean Achey Schrader and her husband
spent the last year looking forward to the
next dinner event honoring their granddaughter,
Jackie, who obviously is a very
talented person, both academically and
sportswise. Her sister, Jessie, occasioned
more celebration by marrying in June.
Helen Kanuskey Canfield had very different
news to send us. Her husband Don, a
veteran of the Battle of the Bulge in World
War II, has an e-mail relationship with a
Belgian doctor whose grandparents lived
in the battle area and had great admiration
and my life?” This approach
yields a more meaningful
process for both client and
counselor. “It’s very gratifying
to walk with my clients through
the exploration,” she notes. And
her time at Moravian seems to
have influenced Jean’s ability to
help her clients find their paths.
“My college years allowed me
to experience a wide variety of
subjects,” she says. “I met lots
of people, and had rich, diverse
experiences that gave me an
appreciation for the different
walks of life people are called
to take.”
WINTER 2007 MORAVIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE 29