Alumni Class Notes

1940s

June Presar Garrett, '47 of Roanoke, Va., is now retired.

1950s

Alice G. Campbell, '52 of So Sioux City, Neb., recently celebrated her 84th birthday.
Lois S. Hungate, '51 of Indianapolis, Ind., resides in an independent living facility near her family.

1960s

Robin Reiss Adamski, '68 of Mount Sinai, NY, has earned her second master's degree and is a LMSW (Licensed Medical Social Worker) giving individual psychotherapy sessions at a mental health clinic on Long Island.
Susan Gail Bennett, '68 of Eureka, Calif., is the chair of the English Department at Humboldt State University in Arcata. A professor of English education and composition, she has recently retired as the director of the Redwood Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project Network.
David Bowman, '61 of Canton, Ohio, has retired twice but is currently the faculty department chair for the School of Education at Malone College.
Shay Sperber Sayre, '64 of Ennis, Mont., has written four books, her most recent being Entertainment & Society 2nd Ed. (2009, Taylor & Francis). She is now retiring after 25 years of teaching marketing communications in the California State University system, and moved from Laguna Beach, Calif. to Montana to paint and ponder.

1970s

Hardy G. Bennett, '76 MA of Washington D.C., is manager of Montgomery County Government Health and Human Services, where he has worked since 1985.
Donald "Jerry" Dawson, '72, '74 MA of Hot Springs Village, Ark., has re-released his book, Sales 101: Principles in Action.
Sarah "Sally" Holterhoff, '70 of Valparaiso, Ind., has served as the president of the American Association of Law Libraries. She is a law librarian with rank of associate professor at Valparaiso University School of Law.
John "Jack" Hutslar, '63, '75 PhD of Huddleston, Va., president of Honest Abe Log Homes, is raising funds to establish the Springfield (Ohio) High School Scholarships Program to help talented graduates go to Ohio State. His wife, Sally Hutslar, '63, '76 PhD, supports the cause. She is a retired dean from Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

1980s

Carol Ann Hackley, '84 MA, '85 PhD of Stockton, Calif., teaches at University of the Pacific in Stockton, heads the public relations sequence in Communication, and serves as the director of Experimental Learning for the department. She has recently won the Faye & Alex Spanos Distinguished Teaching Award and the Pacific Alumni Association's first-ever Faculty/Mentor Award.

1990s

Tara Abraham, '93 of Westerville, was honored as the 2008 Fundraiser of the Year Award by the American Red Cross.
Stacey Gabel, '91 of Bowling Green, Ohio, has written The New Blue Tractor and The Bulldozers Build a Pond, the first of the Reading Machine series for beginning readers from Dog Ear Publishing. Previously, she was a middle-school teacher.
Scott Glover, '95 MA of Mesa, Ariz., is the social studies coordinator and the coordinator of curriculum software for Gilbert, Ariz., Public Schools.
Michael J. Gocsik, '96 of Milan, Ohio, is marketing director for Veggie U, a program to combat childhood obesity. Developed four years ago by the Jones Family in Heron, it is used in 1,400 classrooms in 24 states. President Gee recently toured the farm.
Kimberly S. Parker, '91 of Matthews, NC, received National Board Certification for grades 3-6 in 2007.

2000s

Beatriz Alvarado, '02 MA, '06 PhD of Columbus, is the executive director of Killari, a nonprofit foundation aimed to empower rural Andean young women through formal education. She is also on the faculty at Capital University.
Todd W. Kenreich, '94, '00 PhD of Silver Spring, Md., is a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Japan. He is exploring the relationship between schooling and civic identity and lecturing on American culture at the Kansai University of International Studies.
Bethany L. McPherson McCartney, '02 MA of Newark, Ohio, is teaching the 6th grade at Nashport Elementary in Tri-Valley Local School District. She was married to Scott McCartney in 2008.
Michael V. Saad, '05, '07 MA of Washington D.C., who was married in August 2008, is a player marketing assistant for the NFL Players Association in Washington, D.C.
Christopher Washington, '02 PhD of Columbus, has been named the first provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Franklin University. He will oversee the formation of the university's new College of Business and College of Arts, Sciences, and Technology.
Anita Young, '04 PhD of Fairfax, Va., was named the American School Counselors Association's 2008 School Counseling Director/Coordinator of the Year. Currently she is the secondary counseling specialist for the Fairfax Country Public School District.

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