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THEGREEN ISSUE

Elmhurst is preparing an environmentally engaged generation to tackle pressing challenges

1950s & 1960sMarvin Albright ’52 and Jo Ann (Ehlert) Albright ’54 are enjoying retirement life in Pleasant Hill, Tenn.

Donald Mayer ’55 and Lynnea (Almquist) Mayer ’58 received documents from the Catedral de Santiago on May

30, 2016, certifying completion of 116 kilometers of the Camino de Santiago. The trip, which their granddaughter encouraged them to take, was the longest backpacking excursion they have ever undertaken.

Ambassador Jacques Paul Klein ’61 was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of

Merit by Andrzej Duda, president of the Republic of Poland. Klein, a retired U.S. Air Force general and leader of three United Nations peacekeeping missions, was honored for his work in conjunction with Polish special forces that resulted in the arrest and trial of a war criminal in the former Yugoslavia, as well as for his sustained efforts in furthering cooperation between Poland and America. Elmhurst awarded him an honorary degree in 2002.

Robert Mills ’64 reached out to the Elmhurst College football team for help shoveling snow during the January 2019 snowstorm. Players Chandler Cowan and Mitchell McNitt came to his aid and Mills thanks them.

1959 The addition of a steeple marked the final phase of construction at Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel.

1904 Student bakers and cooks helped prepare meals in the College’s early years.

1970s & 1980s Steven W. Jemison ’72, an active volunteer and retired chief legal officer and secretary for Procter & Gamble Company, joined the Elmhurst College Board of Trustees on March 1. A Cincinnati resident, Jemison graduated from Elmhurst College with a bachelor’s degree in history and earned his law degree from The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law.

Chris Kurth ’76 is enjoying his second year of retirement from the Special School District of St. Louis County—trout fishing, baking, walking, reading and co-teaching a training course for pastoral lay chaplains. His favorite moments of retirement so far have been attending the Sept. 15, 2018, ordination of his son Michael to the Episcopal priesthood, and babysitting his granddaughter Avery, 2. Kurth and his wife, Carla, recently celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary.

Joyce (Scharmer) Turner ’77 moved to Arizona to live with her son, Bob Olson ’83, and his wife, Renee. She is enjoying the milder winter climate and developing new friendships through her church.

Annette (Holtmeyer) Pugnetti ’78 celebrated the birth of her first granddaughter, Skylar, on June

28, 2018. Pugnetti lost her husband, Gregory, to pancreatic cancer on Sept. 28, 2018.

CLASS NOTES

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1941 Women participated in most sports at Elmhurst, including archery.

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Sara Guralnick ’81 recently published her third children’s book, What’s So Special About Grandparents?

Mike P. Wagner ’87, a partner and director of client portfolio services at LSV Asset Management in Chicago, has joined the Elmhurst College Board of Trustees. Wagner earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Elmhurst and an MBA in finance from Loyola University of Chicago. A Chicago resident, he officially joined the board on Oct. 3, 2018.

Jack Wengrosky ’88 played lead and section trumpet on John Daversa’s 2018 album American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom, which won three Grammy Awards in February 2019. Wengrosky also played lead trumpet

on The 14 Jazz Orchestra’s album The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be, which was released in January 2019.

E.J. Donaghey ’88 recently was named the president and chief executive officer of Citizens Community Credit Union. Donaghey has more than 30 years of experience working in the credit union industry at the retail, state, national and international levels.

Jordan Baugh ’89 was recently named chief technology officer of the American Dental Association.

CLASSNOTES

1990s & 2000s Kelly (Jourdan) Duff ’92 wrote a short story that is featured in The Love Anthology: Stories and Poems About the Ties That Bind. Duff has won several awards for her soon-to-be-published works, mostly contemporary romance, and is excited to finally be a published author. She is also the employee engagement leader for Allstate Insurance at its Merchandise Mart location in Chicago.

Lance Marshall ’93, head baseball coach at Franklin College (Franklin, Ind.), led his team to an impressive 39–5 record during the 2018 season. The Grizzlies

finished the year with the best winning percentage in the nation. In 2018 Marshall won his fourth Heartland

Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honor and was named Mid- east Coach of the Year by D3 Baseball.com. In his tenure at Franklin College, Marshall has guided the Grizzlies to four HCAC regular season champion-ships. Marshall also serves as an assistant athletic director at Franklin.

Scott LaMorte ’95, ’04, recently was appointed vice president of business development at Itasca Bank & Trust Co. He has more than 20 years of business development and philanthropic experience in DuPage County.

Maria Veronica (Jimenez) Tarala ’95 recently earned a master’s in nursing and became a certified family nurse practitioner.

Dan Fries ’99 was named a Top 250 Wealth Advisor by Forbes and both a Top 1,200 Financial Advisor and a Best-in-State Wealth Advisor by Barron’s for 2018 and 2019.

A TOP PICKEstrella Vargas ’18, a first-generation college student who majored in political science, urban studies and intercultural studies at Elmhurst, has been named a 2019 Pickering Fellow.

Funded by the U.S. Department of State, the prestigious Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship prepares historically underrepresented students for careers in the U.S. Foreign Service through internships, professional development and financial support for graduate study. Vargas will begin a master’s program in foreign service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., this fall. After graduation, she’ll be assigned to a diplomatic post overseas.

“I’ve always wanted to dedicate my life to improving the lives of others, and the Foreign Service is the most impactful way to do that,” Vargas said. “This is something I’ve dreamed of doing, and now it’s going to become reality.”

James Magrini ’00 has published two new philosophy monographs: Plato’s Socrates, Philosophy and Education (Spring-er 2018) and The Ethical Call of Nature: Reticent Imperatives (Routledge 2019).

Tess Kossow ’04, MBA ’07 is the author of I’m Very Ferris, a children’s book that explains in vitro fertilization as told through the eyes of a child.

George Vlasis ’05 recently published a children’s book titled Helmet Man and the Chocolate Cake. Erin (Joyce) Jackson ’07 is currently researching the impact that politicized state-mandated abortion informed-consent requirements have upon a woman’s choice to terminate a pregnancy across different populations. She recently published two articles, one on the global problem of spousal rape and another on sexual violence and autonomy. Jackson serves as a health care attorney, taking a particular interest in issues of bodily autonomy.

Andrea Cladis ’11 was married on Sept. 22, 2018, and recently bought a home in Geneva, Ill. An English pro-fessor at Waubon-see Community College in Sugar

Grove, Ill., Cladis also is a fitness pro-fessional and serves on the Cambridge Scholars Advisory Board for Literature. She received her MFA in writing from Fairfield University in July 2018. In the past two years she has published three books, Finding the Finish Line; Tatsimou, Hold On!; and Forgotten Coffee.

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D. Josiah Montgomery ’12 graduated in December 2018 from the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist Univer- sity with a master’s of theological studies.

Brendan Chaplain ’15 married Kristina Terry on Nov. 24, 2018, in Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel. Groomsmen included Ben Meza ’14 and

Michael Randick ’14. Other alumni in attendance were the groom’s mother, Catherine Miller Chaplain ’92; the groom’s sister-in-law, Ashley Moore Chaplain ’14; uncles Marty Miller ’92, Steven Miller ’86 and Michael Miller ’88; and aunt Yvonne Miller ’90.Christa Payton ’15 was honored with the Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award, which pays tribute to St. Louis-area educators for their achievements and dedication to the field of education.

Two wedding dresses worn by brides with College connections were featured in “Heart’s Desire: Reflections on Love and Marriage,” a recent exhibit at the Elmhurst History Museum. In 1927, Martha Mayer wore a cream silk-satin sheath (left) when she married academic dean Theophil Mueller. Laura Scharringhausen ’71 wore a Jackie Kennedy-inspired A-line dress for her June 1968 wedding to Robert Hyde ’57 in Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last summer.

YES TO THE DRESSES

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Ruth L. Behle ’46 Dec. 4, 2018, Scottsdale, Ariz.

Andrew J. Wolf II ’46 March 10, 2019, Solana Beach, Calif.

Dorothea Fleer George Schuch ’47 Sept. 26, 2018, Green Cove Springs, Fla.

Roy W. Joellenbeck ’50 Sept. 7, 2018, Towson, Md.

Fred H. Gunzel Jr. ’51 Nov. 10, 2018, Villa Park, Ill.

Mary E. Kohlhagen ’52 March 18, 2019, Pompano Beach, Fla.

Rev. William L. Nagy ’52 Feb. 11, 2019, St. Charles, Ill.

Dr. Warren H. Winkler ’52 Feb. 25, 2019, Miami, Fla.

Edward H. Buchman ’53 Sept. 17, 2018, Portland, Ore.

June E. Dewsberry ’53 Dec. 19, 2018, Kansas City, Mo.

Rev. Harley C. W. Tretow ’53 March 15, 2019, Oshkosh, Wis.

Dr. R. Elliot Politser ’54 Nov. 1, 2018, Wheaton, Ill.

Betty Joens ’55 Nov. 25, 2018, Downers Grove, Ill.

J. David Wagner ’55 April 17, 2019, Louisville, Ky.

Rev. Jack Schauble ’56 Nov. 12, 2018, Mendota, Ill.

Judith A. King ’58 Oct. 23, 2018, Paxton, Ill.

Carol A. Hedeman ’59 April 6, 2019, Peoria, Ill.

James J. Helm ’59 Oct. 29, 2018, Oberlin, Ohio

Bruce W. Ranis ’59 March 14, 2019, La Crosse, Wis.

Nancy E. Curtis ’60 Sept. 23, 2018, St. Louis, Mo.

Mary A. Schroeder ’60 Sept. 16, 2018, Defiance, Ohio

Joseph C. Bicchinella ’61 Feb. 9, 2019, West Chicago, Ill.

Rev. William F. Johnson ’61 Sept. 19, 2018, Chicago

IN MEMORIAM

Tyree Carr ’72, M.D., an ophthalmologist who traveled the world to bring eye care services to underserved communities, passed away on December 7, 2018, at the age of 69. In addition to practicing medicine in Las Vegas, Carr provided medical and surgical eye care to people in need in Samoa and Haiti. In 2006, he was honored for his work as a “health care hero” by Nevada Business magazine. A biology major at Elmhurst, Carr was a faithful contributor to his alma mater and established several scholarships to support African American students at the College.

HEALTH CARE HERO

CLASSNOTES

An Early EnvironmentalistPaul Ries, a professor emeritus of geography who taught at the College for nearly 40 years, passed away on Feb. 16, 2019. He was 77. Joining the faculty in 1968, Professor Ries served as chair of the geography department and created an environmental management major in the 1970s that was popular for a couple of decades. An enthusiastic traveler who shared his experiences with students through slideshows, “he was an environmentalist before it was cool,” said Michael Lindberg ’83, a former student of Ries’ and current chair of the geography and GIS department. Several alumni who graduated at least a decade ago attended Ries’ memorial service in March, Lindberg said, “a tribute to his dedication to students.”

A Devoted TeacherEileen “Bobbe” Hackman, professor emerita of physical education and former chair of the College’s Department of Physical Education, died on Dec. 20, 2018, at age 96. An Elmhurst faculty member for nearly 30 years, she joined the College in 1965 after teaching in the Denver Public Schools and at Wheaton College. In 2000, an annual student achievement award was established in her honor.

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Sharon E. Kindred ’61 Sept. 12, 2018, Lemont, Ill.

John A. Pecoul Jr. ’61 Jan. 29, 2019, New Orleans, La.

Rev. Fredrick P. Suedmeyer ’63 May 18, 2018, Clermont, Fla.

David D. Hoefer ’66 Sept. 23, 2018, Salinas, Calif.

Rev. Dennis J. Carroll ’68 Feb. 2, 2019, Easton, Pa.

Christine E. Rasche ’68 June 30, 2018, Neptune Beach, Fla.

Mark I. Hamilton ’69 Nov. 26, 2018, Portland, Maine

Doris Hastings ’69 Aug. 18, 2018, Greenville, Ill.

Dr. John H. Meyer ’69 Sept. 27, 2018, Fairhope, Ala.

Marguerite A. Hubbard ’70 Oct. 14, 2018, Poplar Grove, Ill.

Susan M. (Rozehnal) Fredrickson ’72 Nov. 20, 2018, Hinsdale, Ill.

Paul J. Dopke II ’73 Nov. 2, 2018, Cherry Hill, N.J.

Louis F. Gilberti ’73 March 29, 2019, Bay Village, Ohio

Keith Groenwald ’73 March 25, 2019, Nashville, Tenn.

Harold C. Hamilton ’73 Dec. 30, 2018, Lubec, Maine

Felicia Moreno ’74 Oct. 24, 2018, Arlington Heights, Ill.

Dixie Ragsdale Jr. ’74 Feb. 8, 2019, Oswego, Ill.

Larry D. Bowen ’75 May 18, 2018, Leesburg, Fla.

Nathaniel A. Busteed ’75 July 5, 2018, Nokomis, Fla.

Olga Ruth Najacht ’75 Dec. 8, 2018, Wheaton, Ill.

Eula M. Sforza ’75 March 30, 2019, Geneva, Ill.

Paul A. Mollicone ’76 April 4, 2019, Bella Vista, Ark.

Mark L. Krueger ’78 Nov. 19, 2018, Fort Wayne, Ind.

Brian C. Templeman ’79 April 6, 2019, Geneva, Ill.

Donald A. Fafara ’80 April 27, 2019, Cary, Ill.

Roberta H. McCaffrey ’82 Jan. 16, 2019, Arlington Heights, Ill.

Robert V. Ford ’83 Sept. 11, 2018, St. Charles, Ill.

Deb L. Peterson ’83 Dec. 2, 2018, Libertyville, Ill.

Rudolf “Rudy” G. Schade Jr., a highly respected attorney and 23-year member of the Elmhurst College Board of Trustees, died on March 20 at the age of 77.

A founding partner of the law firm Cassiday Schade LLP in Chicago, Schade was a trial lawyer specializing in the defense of civil actions with an emphasis on health law. On campus, he was well-known not only as an active trustee but also as the son of revered professor Rudolf G. Schade Sr. In 1984, alumni established the popular Rudolf G. Schade Lectures as a tribute to Professor Schade. Recent Schade lecturers include presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and journalist Bob Woodward.

“Rudy literally had a lifelong connection to Elmhurst College, growing up on this campus and then serving as a trustee for 23 years,” said President Troy D. VanAken. “We will never forget the rich Schade family legacy that benefits us to this day.”

FAMILY LEGACY

Kenneth G. Stenzel ’83 April 7, 2019, Vonore, Tenn.

Gretchen M. Spreitzer ’84 Feb. 3, 2019, Marengo, Ill.

Joan W. Bell ’86 Nov. 5, 2018, Elmhurst, Ill.

Gavin Douglas Lux ’16 Oct. 19, 2018, Rochester, Minn.