Extracurricular Activities at Sem - Wyoming Seminary

Fall 2010 

WYOMING SEMINARY 

J O U R N A L 

Making Memories: 

Extracurricular Activities at Sem

Representing 436 years of service to Wyoming Seminary, this august group was 

honored at a retirement party in May. “Although we will miss our colleagues, we 

gather today in recognition of their enormous contribution to what makes Wyoming 

Seminary great,” said President Kip Nygren. “Decades of students and teachers have 

benefitted from your passion, wisdom and talent.” 

Left to right: 

John Morris, 42 years, 

business manager 

Joyce Ashley, 19 years, 

Lower School English and reading teacher 

Mary Ann Hopkins, 31 years, 

Upper School English teacher 

Harry Nageli, 54 years, 

Upper School English teacher 

Marsha Costello, 30 years, 

Upper School Latin teacher 

Sally Thomas Urisko ’63, 27 years, 

Lower School math teacher 

Betsy Stankus, 23 years, 

Admission Office assistant 

Billie Kinney, 31 years 

Lower School English and study skills 

Susan Trynoski, 24 years, 

Lower School fourth grade and reading teacher 

Daryl Moriarity, 24 years, 

Lower School French and Latin teacher 

Andrew Costello, 35 years, 

Upper School math teacher and department chair 

Lubomira Wilczewska Torbin, 27 years, 

Upper School photography teacher and dorm head 

Imants Gailis, 25 years, 

Upper School science teacher 

Tim Swanson, 44 years, 

Lower School social studies teacher 

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Above: At a gathering in their honor, 14 retiring faculty and 

staff members posed for this photo taken outside the Jazz 

Café in Wilkes-Barre. Photo: Michael Touey. 

On Front Cover: The Sem Government Fourth Annual 

Walk-A-Thon, which raises money for government projects, 

is one of many activities in which students take part. Seen 

during the event are, from left: Evan Botwin ’12, Devin 

Holmes ’13, and Kristian Stefanides ’12. 

On Back Cover: Students in Elizabeth Schmaltz’s 

kindergarten class enjoy making applesauce while learning 

about Johnny Appleseed. 

Photo Credits: Except where noted, all photos taken by 

Wyoming Seminary PR Office staff. 

Design: Nanette Bozentka

Wyoming Seminary Journal Fall 2010 

A China Odyssey 

The best learning experience I enjoyed this summer was the three 

weeks my wife, Marilyn, and I spent touring the People’s Republic of 

China. With eight other tourists and a trip leader we visited Beijing, 

Xian, Chengdu, Lhasa (Tibet), Chongqing, the Yangtze River and three 

Gorges Dam, Wuhan, and Hong Kong. I tell students that learning is a 

24/7 activity and it definitely was for us on this exciting trip. Much of 

the time I found myself observing the Chinese people, their buildings, infrastructure, vehicles and 

culture. 

Perhaps the most striking realization is how rapidly things have changed and how adaptable 

the people have been to the pace of change. From the oppressiveness of the Cultural Revolution 

to today’s remarkable blend of single party governance with capitalism, the transition has been 

phenomenal. Yet, it is clear. Rapid advancement in one sector of society creates complications 

elsewhere. The dense smog is a case in point. Regulatory authorities are working on policies to 

get control of polluting industries and automotive emissions. Two things are certain: First, the 

Chinese will solve this problem. Already, the electric bicycle is growing in popularity. Second, the 

Chinese will become the world’s experts in nuclear energy for electricity generation, since that will 

allow them to close many of their coal-generating plants. 

Our tour guides were very open to questions concerning the culture and the government, 

not nearly as reluctant to speak as I expected. They told stories about living through the Cultural 

Revolution. Life was drab and uninspiring, and there were food shortages from time to time. 

While Mao is still revered by the older generation – primarily for providing land to peasant farmers 

– the younger generation sees him as an out-of-favor national leader during a time that most would 

rather forget. 

As a result of watching too many Indiana Jones movies, I expected to fly to Tibet on a twin 

engine propeller airplane, but we were pleasantly surprised to find the flying experience in China 

even better than flying in the U.S. The airports are largely new and impressive and the airplanes 

and service are top quality. The same fine service and accommodations were true of our threeday 

cruise down the Yangtze River from Chongqing to Wuhan through the Three Gorges and the 

Three Gorges Dam. 

It was surprising to see English along with Chinese characters on most traffic signs. They 

seem to be having a difficult time including all the new words and abbreviations invading English, 

so they sometimes just adopt the English. For example, on the expressway I noticed the letters 

“ETC” interspersed within Chinese characters. The bus driver said it stood for “electronic ticket 

check” for the vehicle toll charge. 

Lhasa in the province of Tibet was a most fascinating city. It is built in the old style and a 

mere village of only half a million people. At an altitude of 12,000 ft (3,700 m), the sparse air 

requires a little getting used to. I do not imagine a more Buddhist country exists and the people 

employ prayer wheels, beads, walking around temples and prostrating themselves numerous times 

on their way to a temple to increase their good karma and provide for a superior future life. 

The sensitive nature of the China-Tibet relationship was evident in the numerous Chinese military 

patrols observed throughout Lhasa, but we encountered no problems in our trip to the “rooftop of 

the world.” 

In the end, we saw many very interesting locations, events and people on our China trip from 

the Great Wall to the terra cotta warriors of Xi’an to the pandas of Chengdu to the Three Gorges 

Dam to the booming island of Hong Kong. It was an enriching journey in so many ways. Marilyn 

and I are enjoying our chats with students from all over Asia about their travels throughout the 

region and about making friendships in foreign lands. 

Best wishes from Wyoming Seminary, 

In this issue ... 

Feature Story: 

2 Making Memories: Extracurricular 

Activities at Sem 

News and Laurels 

6 Merwin named Poet Laureate 

9 Board of Trustees names 

New Members 

10 Sports Reviews 

11 New Faculty 

12 Upper School Commencement 

15 Lower School Commencement 

Alumni News 

16 News from the Alumni Director 

17 Alumni Weekend 

25 Reunions 

Class Notes 

35 Class Notes 

37 Alumni Profile: George Stevenson ’70 

40 Alumni Profile: Cindy Pearsall 

Sussman ’72 

43 Marriages 

44 Births 

45 Obituaries 

Report of Gifts 

51 Report of Gifts 

Kip 

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Making Memories: 

Extracurricular Activities at Sem 

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” goes the old proverb, but that’s 

a condition few Wyoming Seminary Upper School students need to fear. Sem 

students do work hard every day in the classroom, but the school’s extensive and 

diverse extracurricular activities program allows them to play hard as well. 

In the process, Sem students develop the time 

management skills, talents and interests, discipline and 

enthusiasm that enable them to succeed in their colleges and 

universities, and later still in life. 

Just ask Iain Flannery ’07, a senior literature and 

religious studies major at Stonehill College, who credits his 

involvement with Sem’s theater program, fencing club and 

the Chorale and Madrigal Singers with teaching him timebudgeting 

skills and discipline. In addition to serving as a 

resident assistant and one of Stonehill’s Skyhawk mascots, 

Flannery works as a teaching assistant for French literature, 

as a tour guide for the admission office, as an organizer for 

the college’s annual service trip to New Orleans and as a 

coordinator for the Civic Ambassador organization which 

brings in speakers. 

International Food Night is an annual event at which 

students prepare native dishes to share with the whole 

school community. 

Or Hannah Frantz ’09, a sophomore English major at 

Gettysburg College, who spent a lot of time singing with 

the Chorale and Madrigals and performing in the orchestra 

and other ensembles while at Sem. Now she serves as the 

program coordinator for Big Brothers, Big Sisters in the 

Center for Public Service. She performs with the college 

orchestra and chamber ensembles, works in a tutoring 

program and takes master classes in flute. 

“Being so involved in music at Sem helped me a lot,” she 

says. “I learned to be responsible for doing what needs to 

be done, how to appeal to and work with other people and 

how to earn their respect. Those skills helped me get the job 

I have now and put me a step ahead of my peers.” 

“The value of my experience at Sem became apparent in 

the first weeks of my freshman year. I felt very comfortable 

in college because I had the discipline to maximize my time 

and to choose what I wanted to do,” says Flannery. 

Extra-curricular activities have been an important 

aspect of Sem school life since at least the early 1900s, 

when societies such as the Independent and Plattonian held 

literary events and debates, and many students worked on 

major publications like the Opinator and yearbook. Other 

activities were athletic teams for boys and girls, public 

speaking competitions, fraternities, sororities, and chapters 

of the YMCA and YWCA. 

Today the Upper School offers more than 60 clubs, 

publications, and service and arts organizations to students; 

students attending the Upper School are required to complete 

a minimum of one participation (Excolo)credit per year. 

In addition to nurturing students’ time-management 

skills, Sem encourages students and teachers to create clubs 

that reflect their own interests. The result is that Sem has 

clubs and programs that are hard to find elsewhere. 

Just a few examples of these include a cricket club, 

which competed against a local Penn State team; the film 

club, which hosts a film festival and has helped some 

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students win awards at regional festivals; the tai kwon 

do club, which is open to students and faculty and was 

originally led by a student who held a high ranking in the 

sport; and the fencing club, which offers competition at the 

regional level. 

Jennifer Siff, Director of Student Life since 2006, 

oversees many of the programs and activities that students 

participate in, from residence life to extra-curriculars to 

government. She is continuously inspired by the energy, 

creativity and enthusiasm of the students she works with, 

and she enjoys watching them develop skills that they will 

use for the rest of their lives. 

“This is a time in their young lives when memories are 

made,” she said. “It is a time for students to try new things 

and broaden their horizons. We try to make it possible for 

everyone to explore their interests at Sem. If they have an 

interest in an area unrecognized by the school, students can 

easily start a club or group and we will support their efforts. 

By being part of a club, team or group, students learn 

to be committed and accountable, and they learn about 

budgeting, planning and time management. In many ways 

this is more than just fun and games. It teaches them to be 

a leader in a way that is meaningful to them. It is rewarding 

to see them so excited and passionate about what they do.” 

Interim Upper School Dean Jay Harvey, who served 

as activities director for eight years, sees himself as a 

good example of a student who grew in leadership and 

organizational skills because of his participation in Sem’s 

student activities and theater program. A member of the 

class of 1980, he served as a disc jockey for school dances, 

helped build props and sets for proms and theatrical 

productions, and did a lot of set-up and tear-down for many 

campus events. He particularly remembers the Snoopy’s 

Dog House set that he helped build out of cardboard for a 

formal dance held on campus. 

“The student activities program is important because it 

gives students something fun to do and helps them develop 

leadership and social skills, especially skills that don’t 

always fit into academic classes. It teaches student to plan 

and take responsibility, which are personal skill sets that 

help guarantee success in life,” he says. 

For the teachers who serve as advisors to various clubs, 

being a part of these activities offers them opportunities to 

help students develop new talents and interests that they 

otherwise might never have explored. 

Jason Sherry ’91, English teacher, drama director and 

advisor of the film club, notes that the club is open both to 

students who take his film production class and those who 

don’t. Club members help each other learn how to shoot 

and edit video, how to write and organize a script, how to 

Upper and Lower School jazz ensembles enjoy unusual performance 

opportunites, such as this concert at Disneyworld. 

direct actors and how 

to use images, audio 

and sometimes special 

effects to present 

a compelling short 

video. 

“The students 

begin to learn what’s 

good and what’s bad 

in both amateur and 

professional films, and 

they begin to recognize 

film techniques that 

Director of Student Life, Jennifer Siff (left) 

and Katie Levandoski ’09, collected and then 

delivered food to a local food bank. 

they’ve learned,” he says. “This is pure teaching: to teach 

students something they didn’t know before, and then 

see them take that teaching and do something new with 

it, something I didn’t expect. I am constantly inspired by 

what my students are doing; their learning process helps me 

understand more thoroughly my own craft.” 

History department chair Steve Ris, who advises and 

coordinates the Model United Nations club, notes that 

when students attend conferences and take on the personas 

of UN delegates, they become motivated to learn more 

about the world. Some also enjoy the competition between 

themselves and other delegates, presenting positions and 

swaying others to support their positions. 

“It is wonderfully rewarding to see students blossom 

and come into their own during these conferences. Many of 

them are students who are very successful academically but 

have never tried this sort of activity before. They learn about 

communication, leadership and collaboration skills and 

discover that they can succeed in a different area,” says Ris. 

Librarian and public speaking teacher Ivy Miller serves 

as advisor to the Opinator, the Media Club and the Action 

and Awareness Club. In all these activities, she encourages 

the students to take responsibility for their projects, whether 

painting posters advertising the weekend’s football game, 

organizing a movie night to explore diversity issues, or 

deciding what stories to cover for the next issue of the 

Opinator. 

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“Ideally students will take ownership of a project and 

when they do, they discover self-empowerment,” she says. 

Athletics is an important aspect of extracurriculars at Sem; 

86 percent of the student body plays at least one sport, and 

many play two or three sports. Karen Klassner, Director of 

Athletics and varsity field hockey coach, sees athletics as a 

way for students to experience a complete education. Besides 

the physical benefits, athletics teach teamwork, discipline, and 

how to deal with both defeat and success. These lessons can 

be life-altering. “Many of our graduates credit athletics with 

helping them get to where they wanted to be in life,” says 

Klassner. 

Learning how to manage Sem’s challenging academic 

requirements while playing a sport, performing in the 

orchestra or serving in student government encourages many 

students to improve in diligence and responsibility. 

Members of the SRG (Science Research 

Group) design experiments, coming 

together in the spring to demonstrate their 

findings to students, faculty and parents. 

Dominick Trombetta ’08 is seen discussing 

his project. 

Students such 

as Logan May ’12 

or Jessica Swoboda 

’11 are among the 

many Sem students 

learning to use their 

time effectively. 

May, a member of 

the varsity wrestling 

team, spends at least 

15 hours a week in 

wrestling practice in 

addition to traveling 

and competing in 

meets during the 

season, yet still finds 

time to participate 

actively in Mock 

Trial and Model 

United Nations and 

“Toys for Tots” is just one non-profit organization supported by 

Sem’s Community Service Group. 

serve in Blue Key, all while taking honors and AP classes. 

As a member of the field hockey and basketball teams 

and manager of the softball team, Swoboda also finds 

that sports take up many of her after-class hours. Add to 

that her role as government secretary and member of the 

government executive committee, her participation on the 

student activities committee, Blue Key, Peer Group and 

Medical Club, and her position as a Levi Sprague Fellow, 

and she admits that she has very little free time. But she 

likes it that way; she says her extracurricular activities 

helps offset the stress of a course load filled with APs. 

“Being active at school makes me more aware of what 

goes on here and helps me expand my horizons and reach 

out of my comfort zone,” she says. “I think it is really 

important to get involved.” 

Another Levi Sprague Fellow, Joshua McLucas 

’11, says that Sem’s commitment to active arts and 

community service programs helped him reconnect to his 

enjoyment of music and taught him about the importance 

of cancer research. He’s a member of the Madrigals’ 

bass section, a leader in the Environmental Awareness 

Club, a member of the Sem Players, captain of the cross 

country team, and one of the leaders for the school’s 

Relay for Life team, a 24-hour walk to raise funds for 

cancer research. Noting that his participation in Relay 

for Life was his first experience with community service, 

he found that the event and its emotional candle-lighting 

ceremony resonated deeply with him. Since all four of his 

grandparents suffered with cancer, the event has led him 

to realize the value of becoming involved in a significant 

social cause. 

“Being involved in as many activities as I am has 

helped me develop time management skills. It’s helped 

shape me into a better person,” he says. 

Omeed Firouzi ’11 established a new club, the Junior 

Statesmen of America (JSA) Club in 2009 as a forum 

for political discussion and debate. By inviting area 

government representatives to speak to the club, he met 

State Representative Phyllis Mundy (D-120 th District) 

who in turn was so impressed with his interest and 

understanding of politics that she hired him to be her 

campaign manager for her 2010 reelection campaign. 

Working full-time all summer and part-time in the fall, 

Firouzi had an inside look at what happens during a 

campaign for state office. 

“One of the most appealing aspects of Sem is that it 

has so many activities and has something for everyone,” 

said Firouzi, who also is active on the student activities 

committee and serves as senior class president and 

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government vice president. “Our student activities 

program supports the idea that we are a diverse school 

and is consistent with the message that we welcome 

everyone and offer lots of opportunities to try new 

things.” 

After graduating from Lower School, Dominick 

Trombetta ’08 was impressed with the wide range of 

choices available to him in student activities. While at 

Upper School he was very active in the Science Research 

Group and was a co-leader of the group in his senior year; 

he also worked on the yearbook staff and participated 

in the debate club. Now a junior neuroscience major at 

Franklin & Marshall College, he is a member of the crosscountry 

team and runs winter and spring track; he also 

volunteers at the Lancaster Regional Medical Center. 

“Knowing how to divide and manage my time put 

me very far ahead of many of my colleagues in freshman 

year,” he says. “Participating in Science Research Group 

gave me the ability to work independently, solve problems 

and plan. Also, living in a close school community 

prepared me for life in the dorm as well as in class and 

extracurricular activities.” 

The Sem student activities program: lots of work, 

lots of learning, lots of preparation for the future, and as 

Logan May says, “I have fun doing these things!” 

The Madrigal Singers traveled to Germany in June 2010 where 

they performed in numerous concerts. 

More than 85% of Upper School students participate in at 

least one competitive sport. 

Upper School students have a wide 

variety of sports, clubs and activities 

to choose from, and frequently 

establish new clubs in which to share 

their particular interests. 

Arts-related: 

Chorale 

Orchestra 

Madrigal Singers 

Jazz Band 

Wind Ensemble 

Handbells 

Dance Company 

Sem Players (theater) 

Stage Crew 


PAI Civic Symphony 

Orchestra 

Service 

Organizations: 

Government 

Peer Group 

Resident Assistants 

Blue Key 

Library Advisory 

Board 

Athletic Training 

Assistant 

Peer Writing Lab 

Student Activities 

Committee 

Action/Awareness 

SADD 

Community Service 

Publications/ 

Clubs: 

The Wyoming 

Yearbook 

The Opinator 

Mock Trial 

Model U.N. 

Junior Statesmen of 

America 

Science Research 

Group 

International Club 

Spanish Club 

French Club 

Art Club 

Photography Club 

IT Club 

Medical Club 

Tae Kwon Do Club 

Chess Club 

Improv Club 

Italian Club 

Media Club 

Math Club 

Athletics: 

BOYS: 

Cross Country 

Golf 

Tennis 

Football 

Swimming 

Wrestling 

Ice Hockey 

Basketball 

Baseball 

Soccer 

Lacrosse 

GIRLS: 

Cross Country 

Soccer 

Golf 

Field Hockey 

Tennis 

Swimming 

Ice Hockey 

Basketball 

Softball 

Lacrosse 

“Titanic” was the fall 2009 musical and engaged dozens of 

students as actors, musicians and stage crew. 

Students with a passion for both sports created and nurtured the Tae Kwon 

Do Club (still current) and Cricket Club (2006). 

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The poem “After School” was written with 

his experiences at Wyoming Seminary in 

mind. It appeared in The New Yorker on 

September 2, 1985. 

for a long time I wanted 

to get out of that school 

where I had been sent 

for the best 

I thought of climbing 

down the vine 

outside the window 

at night 

after the watchman 

had turned the corner 

to the boiler room 

in the sweet autumn dark 

I wanted to slip 

through the still dining hall 

and down the cellar stairs 

in the girls’ wing 

Sem alumnus named 

U.S. Poet Laureate 

William S. Merwin ’44, recipient of Sem’s Joseph C. Donchess 

Distinguished Service Award in 2002, was named Poet Laureate on 

Wednesday, June 30. 

After two years as a boarder at Wyoming Seminary, Merwin 

graduated from Princeton University and spent the next several 

years traveling, tutoring and writing. He has lived in France, 

Mexico, Boston and New York, but settled in Maui, Hawaii in 1975. 

With nearly fifty books of poetry, prose and translation to his credit, 

Merwin’s work is considered to be among the most widely read and 

imitated in America. In a 1997 article, the Atlantic Monthly noted 

that his poems have appeared in their pages more frequently than 

those of any other poet. 

He has won many prizes and awards, such as two Pulitzers (1971 

and 2009), the National Book Award (2005), the Tanning Prize, the 

Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the PEN Translation 

Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award and others, and many prestigious 

grants and fellowships. 

Although most widely known for poetry, Merwin also wrote 21 

books of translation, several plays and five books of prose. 

For much more information about Merwin including a link to a 

video of Merwin reading his poem “Yesterday” at the Geraldine 

R. Dodge Foundation Poetry Festival, go to Sem’s Web site, www. 

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where I had set the waltzing 

in the first book 

of “War and Peace” 

I would pass unseen in that crowd 

into the cellar 

and the secret door to the steam 

pipes 

and under the street 

to the swimming pool 

I would have persuaded 

a girl I liked 

to meet me there 

and we would swim whispering 

because of the echoes 

while the light from the street 

shone through the frosted 

windows 

like the light of the moon 

all down the long hot room 

where the sound of the water 

made the heart beat loud 

to think of it 

but I never 

got away then 

and when I think now 

of following that tunnel 

there is a black wolf 

tied there waiting 

a thin bitch 

who snaps at my right hand 

but I untie her 

and we find our way 

out of there as one 

and down the street 

hungry 

nobody in sight at that hour 

everything closed 

behind us.


April concert boasted two Stradivarius violins 

Two exquisite Stradivarius violins made their Kingston debut on Friday, 

April 16 as part of a special concert held at the Upper School. 

The concert, titled “The Sound of the Stradivarius,” took place in the 

Great Hall; proceeds benefitted the music department and its programs. 

Violinist and alumnus John Michael Vaida ’00, an artist-in-residence 

at Wyoming Seminary, and Colin Maki, a renowned violinist from 

Chicago, performed. The Madrigal Singers and select members of the 

Sem string ensemble accompanied them. 

The evening’s program included the “Double Concerto” by Bach, the 

“Sonata for Two Violins” by Prokofiev, “Two Concert Etudes” by 

Wieniawski and the 

“Cantique de Jean 

Racine” by Fauré. 

“Instruments of this 

quality are rarely heard in 

live performances, and it 

is even more rare to hear 

two such violins together 

in such an intimate setting 

as the Great Hall,” Vaida 

said. “Both these violins 

are great examples of 

Stradivari’s work. It is a 

thrill and a privilege for 

both of us to perform on Colin Maki, left, and John Michael Vaida ’00 

violins of this caliber.” 

The 2010-2011 Levi Sprague Fellows announced 

During the May awards ceremony at the Upper School, eight juniors 

received Levi Sprague Fellowships, the highest honor that the school 

bestows for student leadership and service. 

Awarded annually to commemorate the 70-year tenure of Wyoming 

Seminary’s fourth president, the fellowship honors student leaders in 

academic, athletic and extracurricular life. It also fosters a close and 

positive relationship between the day and boarding communities of the 

school by bringing some day students into the dormitories. 

Levi Sprague Fellows are expected to serve as models to the rest of the 

student body. Nominations of juniors by students and faculty members 

are gathered in April and May and passed on to a committee of faculty 

and current Levi Sprague Fellows. The committee makes the final 

decision, selecting five to eight Fellows annually. 

Recognized students receive full room and board for their senior year 

and must agree to board on campus for their senior year. 

Ballet great featured at Celebration of the Arts 

Lower School students dabbled in drama, dance, music and art during 

a special “Celebration of the Arts” day held in May. The event, 

coordinated by teacher Bernardine Vojtko, featured special workshops 

in a variety of arts for students in primary and middle school. The event 

included an assembly that featured Upper and Lower School performers 

and an address by Barbara Weisberger, founder of the Pennsylvania 

Ballet. She discussed the importance of the arts in the lives of students 

and their communities. Vojtko is the director of the Upper School’s 

Dance Company and teaches creative movement to primary students at 

the Lower School. 

Seen following the assembly are, first row from left: VOJTKO; ARIKO 

ANDO ’13, WEISBERGER, and MOLLIE FRIEDMAN ’10. Second 

row, from left: AMANDA SEDOR ’13, BRIANNA WISE ’11 and 

SONALI VARHADE ’10. 

Lower School students placed 

First in MATHCOUNTS Competition 

The MATHCOUNTS team at the Lower School took first place in the 

Luzerne County Chapter competition held at Wilkes University. The 

full day of MATHCOUNTS competition featured individual and team 

events, including sprint, target, team and countdown rounds. Dr. V. 

Ming Lew of Wilkes University coached this year’s team. Celebrating 

its 26 th anniversary, MATHCOUNTS is a nationwide math enrichment, 

coaching and competition program designed to increase interest and 

achievement in mathematics among all intermediate school students, 

to assist in developing a technically literate population essential to U.S. 

global competitiveness, and to improve the quality of life. 

The 2010-2011 Levi Sprague Fellows are, first row from left: JESSICA 

SWOBODA, LAUREN SKUDALSKI, REBECCA HOSEY, and 

LARISSA BOHN. Second row, from left: PATRICK MCMULLAN, 

JACK CARTWRIGHT, THOMAS MARTIN, and JOSHUA 

MCLUCAS. 

Eighth-grade members of the 2010 MATHCOUNTS team are, 

from left: ANDREW LEVANDOSKI, SAI ABHISHEK, LEW, BEN 

HORNUNG and WYATT COX. 

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Upper School Players presented “Letters to the Editor” 

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Issues that were 

important to residents of a small town 200 years ago – such as road 

maintenance, politics, the schools, and public safety – are much the same 

as those facing today’s citizens. 

These issues and many more, and how people feel about them,were 

discussed in the play “Letters to The Editor” in the Buckingham 

Performing Arts Center in May. 

Originally written and produced by the Bloomsburg Theater Ensemble, 

“Letters” made its world premier in the Alvina Krause Theatre in 

March, 1996. The show is a compilation of written correspondence 

to the editors of newspapers published in the Bloomsburg area over a 

period of about 200 years. A cast of 13 students portrayed as many as 

130 different characters, each presenting his or her opinion about life in 

a small town in central Pennsylvania. 

A spare set, projected historical images, special lighting effects, 

silhouettes and evocative costumes set the scenes for the production 

including live instrumental and vocal music interludes. 

In rehearsal for the spring production were, from left: BRANDON 

GOLDEN, IRIS OUELLETTE, AMANDA REISER, JOSHUA 

MCLUCAS, BANNER WHITE, ASHLYN REISER, JONATHAN 

VOJTKO, KATHARINE MICHAELS, MARCO SANTARELLI, 

MARY SIOBHAN BRIER, ADAM THALENFELD, MEGAN 

MOLITORIS, and ALLISON CONSIDINE. 

Sixth graders communicate with school in Thailand 

What is it like to go to school in Thailand? How is it different from 

school in Northeastern Pennsylvania? Sixth-grade students at Wyoming 

Seminary Lower School explored these and other questions as they 

communicated with a school in Thailand. The Sem students exchanged 

post cards with seventh-grade students at the Wang Khaem Wittakahom 

Secondary School, describing what it’s like to be in sixth grade and what 

they are studying in science. Later in the year, the students used “voice 

thread,” a way to combine e-mail with vocal recordings, to learn more 

about their Thailand counterparts. 

Seen with some of the post cards are, from left: GABRIELLE 

GROSSMAN, ROBBIE MERICLE, ALEXANDRA CUDDY, ELIJAH 

LATIMER, and CONNOR GRAHAM. 

SRG students on both campuses earned awards 

Members of both the Upper and Lower School’s SRG (Science Research 

Groups) won awards for their research projects at regional and state 

competitions in May. The students presented oral reports and posters of 

their research to panels of judges and other students. 

Ten Upper School students competed in the Pennsylvania Junior 

Academy of Science State Competition, bringing home six First Awards 

and four Second Awards. Six eighth graders competed and earned four 

First Awards, one Second Award and one Third Award. 

At the PA Junior Academy of Science (PJAS), Northeast Regional 

Meeting, held at King’s College, 12 Upper School students participated, 

receiving two First Awards/Perfect Scores; eight First Awards; one 

Second Award and one Third Award. Of the eight Lower School 

scientists who participated, one received the First Award/Perfect Score 

and the Excellence Award. 

For much more information and a list of the winners, please go to 

“News” on the Web site: www.wyomingseminary.org. 

PAI brings Broadway actor to stage production 

Robert Cuccioli, Tony-nominated actor for “Jekyll and Hyde,” 

played the Duke in PAI’s summer production of “Two Gentlemen of 

Verona, the Musical.” The actor rehearsed with PAI theater students, 

sharing his energy and talent with them in small and large groups. 

Winning Tony awards for Best Book and Best Musical in 1971, “Two 

Gentlemen of Verona, the Musical” is an exuberant rock musical 

based on Shakespeare’s play of the same name. Cuccioli is the third 

professional actor to be featured in PAI’s theater productions over 

the last several summers. Students have benefitted from working with 

David Canary (from TV’s “All My Children”) and Austin Pendleton 

(“My Cousin Vinny”). 

Harvey is new interim dean 

Jay Harvey ’80 has been named Interim Upper 

School Dean, filling the position vacated in June 

by John Gordon who accepted an administrative 

position at St. Christopher’s School in Richmond, 

Virginia. Most recently Class Dean, Curriculum 

Coordinator and math teacher at the Upper School, 

Harvey oversees all aspects of the Upper School’s 

academic and student life programs, college 

guidance program, registrar’s office and faculty. Harvey came to work at 

Sem in 1984 as a Lower School math and computer teacher and coach. 

Moving to the Upper School, he has filled an impressive number of 

roles over time including math and computer teacher, coach, Activities 

Director, dorm head and Commencement Coordinator. He holds a 

bachelor of science degree in math from Penn State University and a 

master of science degree in education from Wilkes University. 

Photo: Edwin A. Davis Photography 

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Board of Trustees names six new members 

The new members are Michael Apfelbaum, Lewisburg; Amy Valli Bennett ’94, 

New Canaan, Conn.; Robert Friedman ’73, Dallas; Anthony Grosek ’74, Kingston; 

Harry “Mike” Katerman ’71, Bloomsburg; and Catherine O’Donnell, Wilkes-Barre. 

APFELBAUM is co-chair of the law firm of 

Apfelbaum, Apfelbaum & Apfelbaum of Sunbury 

and co-trustee of The Degenstein Foundation. He also 

serves as the solicitor for The City of Sunbury and 

the Northumberland County Airport Authority. He 

is a member of the Board of Evangelical Community 

Hospital and a member of the Board of Counselors 

Michael Apfelbaum for the Penn State Dickinson School of Law. He is a 

1982 graduate with Distinction and Special Honors in 

Political Science from George Washington University and was named to 

Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his law degree from the Dickinson School of 

Law, with induction into the Order of Barristers for Trial Advocacy. 

BENNETT has served as a development professional 

at the Charles River School in Boston, the Collegiate 

School in New York, N. Y., and for the Darien, Conn. 

chapter of the American Red Cross. She also served 

as a volunteer for several community organizations 

such as the Young Womens League of New Canaan, 

New Canaan Cares, the Hoyt Farm Association, and 

several area schools. She has been an active member Amy Valli Bennett ’94 

of the Wyoming Seminary President’s Council and a 

class agent and reunion gift committee chair. She is a 1998 graduate of 

Muhlenberg College. In October 2009 she received Sem’s Class of 1986 

Outstanding Young Alumna Award in recognition of her professional 

accomplishments and contributions to the school. 

Robert Friedman ’73 

FRIEDMAN is president of Friedman Electric of 

Exeter and owner of the River Street Jazz Café in 

Plains. He also is owner of Friedman Farms in Dallas. 

He is a member of the King’s College Board of 

Trustees, the Domestic Violence Service Center Board 

of Directors, the Temple Israel Board of Directors and 

the Jewish Federation Board of Directors. He received 

a bachelor of science degree in 1977 from Franklin and 

Marshall College. 

GROSEK is the operator of his family’s Ramada Inn 

on the Square in Wilkes-Barre and manages various 

real estate holdings throughout Pennsylvania. He 

currently serves as president of the Wyoming Seminary 

Lower School Parents Association and previously 

served as President of the Board of the Wyoming Valley 

Montessori School. He received a bachelor of science 

degree in finance in 1978 from Penn State University Anthony Grosek ’74 

and a master of science degree in real estate and urban 

affairs in 1987 from Georgia State University. 

KATERMAN serves as the representative of 

the Susquehanna Conference of the Methodist 

Church to the Sem Board of Trustees. He is the 

previous owner, president and CEO of Magee 

Industrial Enterprises of Bloomsburg, a national 

and international manufacturer of carpet 

automotive systems, which included two radio 

stations, the Hotel Magee, restaurant franchises “Mike” Katerman ’71 

and a carpet distribution firm. He is a past 

member of the Boy Scouts Board of Directors of Columbia- 

Montour Counties, is a 15-year member of the Columbia 

County United Way, served on the Geisinger Medical Center 

Regional Advisory Board, is the chair of the Columbia 

County chapter of the Tocqueville Society of the United Way 

and is active in many other community service organizations. 

In 2001 he served as the chair of the Bloomsburg Bicentennial 

Committee. A previous member of the Sem Board of 

Trustees, he received the Class of 1986 Outstanding Young 

Alumnus Award in 1989 in recognition of his professional 

accomplishments and contributions to the school. He is a 

1975 graduate of Penn State University with a bachelor of 

science degree in textile science. 

O’DONNELL is a practicing attorney in 

Kingston, specializing in the areas of estate 

planning and administration, personal injury, 

orphans court, product liability, workers’ 

compensation, business, corporate and municipal 

law, municipal finance, elder law, Social Security 

appeals and disability and supplemental security 

income. She is a member of the Philadelphia, Catherine O’Donnell 

Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, 

Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations and has been 

admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court. She 

has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer for 2007, 2008 

and 2009. She also is a member of the Wilkes-Barre Law and 

Library Association, the American Association for Justice 

and the Pennsylvania Association for Justice. She previously 

served as the Wilkes-Barre Redevelopment Authority Solicitor 

and as a District Justice. A previous member of the Sem 

Board of Trustees, she currently serves as president of the 

Wyoming Seminary Upper School Parents Association and is 

active in St. Therese Church, Wilkes-Barre. She received her 

bachelor’s degree, MBA and law degree from the University of 

Pittsburgh and was named to Phi Beta Kappa. 

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Tim Hanlon ’12 

Kristina Yannotta ’12 

Ronni-Lynn Martinez ’10 

Baseball 

Head Coach – Brian Kaschak 

Record: 4 – 13 

Softball 

Head Coach – Ethan Lewis 


Boys 

Lacrosse 

Head Coach – Jon Siff 

Record: – 8 – 7 

Girls 

Lacrosse 

Sunny Stirewalt ’10 

Matt Smith ’10 

Boys Tennis 

Head Coach – Catie Kersey 


Bijoy Ghosh ’11 

All sports photos: Michael Touey 

Head Coach – Mike Balutanski 


Division Champions 

District AA Champions 

Qualified for States (lost first round 

to Moravian Academy 2-3) 

Girls Soccer 

Head Coach – John Hannigan 


Leah Eyerman is Sem’s new head coach for girls ice hockey. 

Leah is a 2004 graduate of Wyoming Seminary where she was on the first girls ice hockey team, serving as 

co-captain for three years and scoring 150 points in 60 games played. 

She started her college career at Buffalo State University where she was co-captain of the women’s ice hockey 

team for two years, played in 68 consecutive games and won the Unsung Hero Award in 2005. Leah graduated 

from Neumann College and played ice hockey for their team, which was ranked 10th in the nation. Prior to 

coming back to Sem, Leah spent two years at the Rumsey Hall School teaching science and starting their 

women’s ice hockey program. Leah has also coached at the Keystone State games for the last three years and 

served as a Power Skating Specialist Coach for Northwestern Hockey Program in Connecticut in 2008-2010. 

Scott Green is the wrestling team’s new head coach. 

Green completed his fourth season as assistant coach at Binghamton University, his alma mater, in 2009- 

10. During that season he helped guide the Bearcats to a 21st place finish in the NCAA Div. I National 

Championship, a 2010 Colonial Athletic Association Conference championship and a 14-7-2 season record. 

Prior to joining Binghamton in 2006 he enjoyed a successful six-year tenure as wrestling coach at Oxford 

Academy and Central School in Oxford, N.Y. He also founded and runs Shamrock Wrestling, one of the 

largest and most successful wrestling clubs in the country. 

In 2010, Green served as a coach for the USA World Wrestling Team competing at the Junior World 

Championships in Budapest, Hungary in July. He received the USA Wrestling FILA Junior/University Person 

of the Year Award in 2009 in recognition of his many contributions to the sport. He also was named the state 

Sectional Coach of the Year in 2004 and Northeast New York Regional Coach of the Year in 1999 and 2001. 

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Welcome to Our New Teachers 

2010-11 New Lower School Faculty 2010-11 

New Upper School Faculty 

Lisa Bailey Fourth-Grade Teacher 

Bailey holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of 

Scranton and a master in business administration and elementary 

certification from Wilkes University. Bailey is a Lower School parent 

and worked in the front office for several years. 

John Eidam Fifth- and Sixth-Grade Science Teacher 

Before joining the Sem faculty, Eidam taught at the Swain School, 

St. Andrew’s Lower School and in the Miami-Dade County Public 

School System. A 1990 graduate of Wyoming Seminary, he holds a 

bachelor of science degree in elementary education from Susquehanna 

University. 

Nancy Federici First-Grade Teacher 

Federici has returned to Sem after having taught kindergarten at the 

Lower School several years ago. She has also served as substitute 

teacher and fifth- and sixth-grade field hockey coach. She holds a 

bachelor of arts degree with elementary certification from Wilkes 

University. 

Erin Griffin Fifth Grade Literacy Teacher 

Griffin has taught English, writing, oral communications and 

literature courses at area public and parochial schools and has 

worked as a free-lance writer. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in 

English from Villanova University and a master of education degree 

in English from East Stroudsburg University. 

Dawn Leas Eighth Grade English Teacher 

Previously the Lower School Director of Admission, Leas holds a 

bachelor of arts degree in communication from the University of 

Scranton and a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from 

Wilkes University. She recently published a book of poetry. 

Renée McGowan Eighth-Grade Math Teacher 

McGowan has served as a substitute math teacher in the Pittston Area 

schools and at Sem and also worked as a computer programmer/ 

analyst at Met Life. She holds a bachelor of science degree in 

mathematics with secondary education certification from King’s 

College. 

Marilyn Nygren First-Grade Teacher 

Nygren, a 2009-10 long-term sub in one of Sem’s first-grades, taught 

kindergarten at the Fort Montgomery/Highland Falls School District 

and the West Point preschool and pre-kindergarten school in upstate 

New York. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State and a 

master’s from SUNY, New Paltz. 

Aaron Stoker Middle-School Math Teacher 

Prior to joining Sem’s faculty, Stoker taught math at the former Bishop 

Hoban High School and served as an adjunct math teacher at Wilkes 

University. He also served as a math teacher in the Wilkes Upward 

Bound program. He holds a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications 

and journalism from Wilkes. 

Janet Thatcher Middle-School Math Teacher 

Thatcher most recently taught math at the Pocono Mountain School 

District and has served as a music therapist and a resource coordinator 

at Lourdesmont High School. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in 

music from Misericordia University and teacher certification in special 

education and middle school math from Marywood University. 

Antoinette Allen Math Teacher 

Allen is a 2000 graduate of Columbia University with dual 

degrees in economics and political science as well as an M.A. in 

mathematics education from Teachers College, Columbia (2005). 

She has been teaching in public and private schools since 2004, most 

recently at the Pine Crest School (Fla.). At Sem, Allen teaches algebra 

I, II and geometry, coaches field hockey and lacrosse and lives in 

Swetland Hall. 

David Danilack Math Teacher 

Following a five-week stint as a substitute in our math department 

last spring, Danilack returns to a full-time position this fall. He 

retired from Wilkes-Barre Area in 2009 following a more than 30- 

year teaching career. He has a math degree from King’s College and 

an M.B.A. from the University of Scranton. 

Jim Doherty Math Teacher 

Doherty is a 1986 graduate of The University of Florida where 

he earned a B.S. in mathematics education and an M.Ed in 

mathematics education. He is currently pursuing an Ed.D. at Florida 

Atlantic University. Doherty has been teaching in independent 

schools since 1987 as well as at the community college level. He was 

the math department chair at the Kent Place School in New Jersey. 

At Sem, he is our math department chair and teaches pre-calculus 

honors, AP statistics and AB calculus. 

Leah Eyerman Admission Assistant and 

Girls Ice Hockey Coach 

Eyerman is a 2008 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Neumann 

College, where she received a B.S. in environmental science and 

education. She started her college career at Buffalo State University 

where she was a captain of the women’s ice hockey team for two 

years. A member of Sem’s first women’s ice hockey team, Eyerman 

works in the admission office and is the girls head ice hockey coach. 

Scott Green English Teacher and Wrestling Coach 

A 1993 graduate of Binghamton University (B.A. in literature and 

rhetoric), Green has taught English and Special Education at two 

schools and has helped to run the Children’s Home for the Wyoming 

Conference. He was the assistant wrestling coach for Binghamton 

University and runs the Shamrock Wrestling Club, one of the most 

successful wrestling training clubs in the United States. At Sem, Scott 

teaches public speaking and English and is the head wrestling coach. 

David Klann Science Teacher 

Klann earned an M.S. in astronomy from the University of Arizona 

and an A.B. in physics/geophysics from Brown University. He has 

been teaching in independent schools and community colleges 

for over thirty years. He also taught at the Stony Brook School in 

New York. At Sem, Klann teaches physics honors, AP physics and 

astronomy and is part of the team teaching robotics. 

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Upper School Commencement 

May 30, 2010 

Photography by Andy 

Steve Ris, chair of the history 

department, gave the commencement 

address urging the graduates to stay 

true to the child inside each of them. 


Jakub Husek was the 2010 

Outstanding Graduate. 

Photo: Curtis Salonick 

Winner of the Maslow Award for 

Teaching Excellence was Lubomira 

Wilczewska Torbin, teacher of 

photography and Swetland Hall icon 

for 27 years. 


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Senior Class Officers 

Left to right, Front row: Allison Considine, Pharoah Rodriguez, 

Nicholas Strzeletz; back row: Gia Querci, Nathaniel Tucker, Gibb Parks 

Alumni Parents and Grandparents with their Graduates 

Front row, left to right: Cathy McHugh ’78, Jesse McHugh, Peggy Fields ’47, Frank Henry ’50, John Henry, 

Scott Henry ’76; Second row: George Tsioles, Cynthia Veras Tsioles ’80, Marco Santarelli, Carlo Santarelli ’68 

Third row: James Rogers ’77, Barbara Lumia Rogers ’77, Paul Lumia ’81, Olivia Lumia, Melanie Maslow 

Lumia ’82, Max Schwager, Gia Querci, John Querci ’68; fourth row: Emily Rogers, Blair Saba, 

Harvie Ruggles ’79, Julie McCarthy Strzeletz ’81, Nicholas Strzeletz, David Schwager ’80, Bob Clements ’72, 

Julia Clements, Jeannie McCarthy Clements ’77 

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Class of 2010 Colleges and Universities 

Kristina Ishimwe Adera University of Scranton 

Gina Insalaco 

New York University 

Pooja A. Patel 

University of Pittsburgh 

Charles A. Adonizio 

Benjamin Russell Adrian 

Tachporn Akharaekpanya 

University of Arizona 

Rollins College 


Kyle Lewis Johnson 

Michael Carl Kachmar 

Kutztown University of 

Pennsylvania 

Pennsylvania State University, 

Schreyer Honors College 

Jesse Aaron Placourakis 

Cheuk Yan Pong 

Giovanna Querci 

Mesa Community College 

Manhattan School of Music 

Pratt Institute 

Khalid Abdullah Al-Rashed 

University of Tampa 

Michael Anthony Kapolka 

Wilkes University 

Amanda Quick 

Syracuse University 

Nicole D. Amaranto 

Louise Bulow Andersson 

Kyun Il Bae 

Gregory M. Barber 

Igor Bayder 

Mordechai Judah Bell 

Lukas Bilek 

Caleb William Bowers 

Stephen Andrew Bravo- 

Brown 

Emmanuel Justin Brown 

Rebecca Nicole Bub 

Bryce Edward Caiazzo 

Jee Min Cha 

Han-Wei Chen 

Julia Loftus Clements 

Allison Considine 

Emily Rose Cornett 

Amelie Corriveau St-Louis 

Max I. Cutler 

Olivia Rose Dworak 

Marissa Egipciaco 

Molly Alexandra Friedman 

Joseph Fulginiti 

Brendon Rashad Gannon 

Audrianna Nicole Gavin 

Brandon Joseph Golden 

Amber Alayna Gollhardt 

Katherine Granger 

Kelsey Rose Grossman 

Madeleine Hackett 

Eun Young Han 

Kelsey Brett Hannigan 

Dalton Richard Harbula 

Danielle Michelle Harbula 

State University of New York, 

Buffalo 

Connecticut College 


Lehigh University 

Randolph College 

Tulane University 

Susquehanna University 

Gettysburg College 

University of South Florida, 

Tampa 

Seton Hall University 

Temple University 

University of North Carolina, 

Chapel Hill 

Boston University 


Saint Joseph’s University 

Pace University 

Lake Forest College 

Neumann University 

Temple University 


St. John’s University 

Queens Campus 

McDaniel College 

Concordia University 

Western Michigan University 

Drexel University 

Franklin and Marshall College 

Baptist Bible College of 

Pennsylvania 

Boston College 

Brown University 


Boston College 


United States Merchant Marine 

Academy 

Manhattanville College 

Courtney Hannah Karg 

JaJa Kentwell 

Connor Michael Kincheloe 

Simon M. Kitzis 

Katrina Rose Klunk 

Artur Kochuev 

Elizabeth Helen Kolvik 

Garrett Konecke 

Kyle Joseph Kopervas 

Jason Daniel Kwiatek 

Hyuck-Jun Kwon 

Duc Van Le 

Chieh-Mei Lee 

Leah Levine 

Yu-Jui Lin 

Olivia Lumia 

Ronni-Lynn Aurelia Martinez 

Molly McFadden 

John Jesse McHugh 

Bridget Forcier McLaughlin 

Michael John McMullan 

Ambrose Jeru McMurphy 

Donald M. McNeil 

Connor Stuart McRae 

Anastasya Menaker 

Katelyn Mericle 

Katharine Michaels 

Vanessa Mok 

Christopher Michael Moon 

William Edward Moore 

Anusorn Mudla 

Giang Hoang Nguyen 

Quoc Anh Nguyen 

Atsuro Nishiuchi 


Old Dominion University 

Penn State University 

University Park 

University of Missouri, Columbia 

Seton Hill University 

New England College 

Hudson Valley Community 

College 


Alvernia University 

Marist College 


Rochester Institute of Technology 

Parsons School of Design, 

New School University 

Penn State University, 

University Park 


Colby-Sawyer College 

Bowdoin College 

Misericordia University 

Moravian College 

McDaniel College 

Northwestern University 

Elmira College 

University of North Carolina, 

Greensboro 

Concordia University 


Fordham University 

Fordham University 

Dean College 

Virginia Polytechnic Institute 

and State University 

Monmouth University 

Purdue University 

Lake Forest College 

George Washington University 


Kathryn K. Reinert 

Amanda Elyse Reiser 

Beau Reznak 

Pharoah Xavier Rodriguez 

Emily Bly Rogers 

Thomas Clifford 

Romanowski 

Chelsea Anne Ruane 

Elizabeth Blair Saba 

Marco J.Santarelli 

Keland Sarno 

Max Samuel Schwager 

Sarun Seepun 

Sierra Marie Segear 

Kristina Seiger 

Robyn Lynn Shonk 

Tyler Anthony Skroski 

Emily Smallwood 

Brigid Louise Smith 

Matthew Brian Smith 

Sunny Marie Mericle 

Stirewalt 

Nicholas Strzeletz 

Adam Thalenfeld 

George Tsioles 

Korey Nathaniel Tucker 

Brennan Twardowski 

Megan Elizabeth Ustynoski 

Chelsea Lee VanGlahn 

Sonali Kranti Varhade 

Zazriel Villamor 

Kathryn Marie Voelkner 

Michael Paul Voitik 

Rafiq Olufemi Wallace 

Banner Matthew White 

James J. Wieller 

Albright College 

American University 

King’s College 



Bucknell University 

The Art Institute of Philadelphia 



Wagner College 

George Washington University 

Pitzer College 

Lehigh University 


Luzerne County Community 

College 

Lebanon Valley College 

Clarion University of 

Pennsylvania 


Schreyer Honors College 


University of Pennsylvania 

Georgetown University 

Eugene Lang College, 

The New School for Liberal Arts 

King’s College 

Harvard University 

Merrimack College 

Michigan State University 

Plattsburgh State University 

Tufts University 

Arcadia University 

Saint Joseph’s University 

Jacksonville University 

Nassau Community College 



John Patrick Henry 

Chung-Hua Ho 

Huy Nhat Ho 

Jakub Husek 



Bryant University 


Johnathan Michael Novak 

Sara Iris Ouellette 

Gibb David Parks 


Wilkes-Barre 

Arcadia University 

Lafayette College 

David Joseph Wimsatt 

Yue Wu 

Xin Zi Xu 

Trinity University 

College of William and Mary 

University of California at 

Berkeley 

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Lower School Commencement 

June 3, 2010 

All photographs this page: Photography by Andy 

Alumni Parents and Grandparents with their Grads 

Left to right, front row: John Parente, John Parente ’85, Lee Turner ’62, Molly Ann 

Turner, Nora Fierman, Bernice Perloff Fierman ’46, Daniel Fierman ’73; 

Second row: Maria Agati Edmunds ’80, Scott Edmunds, Nicholas Querci, Lee Ann 

Earl Sedor ’76, Bradley Sedor, Julia Grosek, Tony Grosek ’74; 

Third row: Kayanne Vanderburg Barilla ’84, Alex Barilla, John Querci ’68, 

Bruce Saidman ’76, Asa Saidman. 

Paul Burg, Director of 

Athletics at the Lower 

School, was honored with 

the Maslow Award for 

Teaching Excellence. 

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News from the Alumni Director 

“What does Wyoming Seminary 

Owe You?” 

That question was asked at an alumni focus 

group in Philadelphia a few years ago. After a few 

uncomfortable minutes of silence, a young alumnus 

spoke up, “All Sem needs to do for me is maintain its 

great reputation, so when I say I went to Sem, I can be 

proud.” 

As someone who has many affiliations with Sem – 

alumna, daughter of an alumnus, sister of alumni, 

employee, and perhaps most importantly, mother of one 

student and one alum – I have experienced the school on 

many levels and over the course of many years. To our 

friend in Philadelphia, I say this: “You needn’t worry. 

Our school is as great as it ever was!” 

Sem’s programs – academics, athletics, the arts and 

of course the multitude of clubs and activities – are 

impressive. Log onto our Web site and get a glimpse of 

all that is going on at Sem. I recommend that you click 

on “Sem Video: Get to Know Us!” as well as check the 

news, sports and other pages regularly. 

But more than anything else, I urge you to come back 

and see for yourself why you can be proud of your 

alma mater. Take time at reunions to see the students 

in action. You are always welcome to sit in on a class, 

watch a play practice or simply hang out on campus and 

observe the Sem of today. 

I promise you, you won’t be disappointed. 

Julie McCarthy Strzeletz ’81 

Director of Alumni Programs 

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2010-11 Alumni Events 

October 22-23, 2010 

Homecoming & Parents Weekend 

April 29 – May 1, 2011 

Alumni Weekend 

New Director of Alumni Programs Julie McCarthy Strzeletz ’81 

reconnected with alumni at reunions in May. Left to right, they are: Tish 

Mack Grosek ’80, Jessica Ross Davis ’80, Gina Cotton Simpson ’79, Susie 

Cockburn Bradbury ’81, Amee Alagiri and Strzeletz. 

In July, Elizabeth Frosini joined the Alumni & Development team 

as the new Associate Director of Development, replacing Julie 

McCarthy Strzeletz after her move to Alumni Programs. Liz’s 

responsibilities include the planning and 

execution of Sem’s Annual Giving campaign, 

communicating with all of our various 

constituent groups. She will also work as a 

school liaison with the Upper School Parents 

Association and help to plan the annual school 

auction, a major school event that will take 

place in April. 

Liz is a graduate of The George Washington University, where she 

earned her bachelor of business administration from the School 

of Business and Public Management with concentrations in 

international business, business economics and public policy. Most 

recently she worked as an Assistant Director of Undergraduate 

Admissions at GW. Prior to that, Liz worked in private industry 

and served as a legislative intern in the office of Arlen Specter. 

Welcome, Liz!


Alumni 

April 30, Friday Daytime Activities 

Weekend 

April 30, May 1, 2 

2010 

Members of the class of 1948 and their spouses enjoyed lunch in the Swetland Hall parlors. Left to right, seated: Anna 

Cervanak, Joyce Buckingham, Ellen Davis Bender, Jean Robbins Hughes, Tish Heffernan Ferenbach, and Mary Eagan 

McDonald. Standing: William Bender, Max Bartikowsky, Louis Goeringer, Bill Isaacs, Hal Buckingham, Collette Touey Kean, 

Nancy Jackson Hartman, Bob Hartman, George Lehman and Rebekah Nicholson Malkemes. 

After lunch, members of the class convened in one of the 

modernized classrooms on the third floor of Sprague. Funds 

raised by this class supported the modernization and supported its 

dedication to former English teacher Helen L. Brown ’18. Standing: 

Hal Buckingham. Seated beginning with far left row, front to back: 

Jean Robbins Hughes, Anna Cervenak, Joyce Buckingham; row 2: 

Tish Heffernan Ferenbach, Bob Hartman, George Lehman; row 3: 

John Shafer ’71, VP of Advancement; row 4: William Bender and 

Nancy Jackson Hartman. 

Seniors ate lunch in Fleck Hall with some members 

of the 60th reunion class. From left to right: Brennan 

Twardowski ’10, Ben Reinohl ’50, Kelsey Grossman ’10, 

Arlene Cossa, Jack Cossa ’50. 

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Friday Evening Ice Breakers… 

Class of 1950 

Hostess Barbara Dykins Von Dran, Jim Dunham, Maureen Shedleski Brady 

Celebrating alumni enjoyed “ice breaker” parties at 

various locations Friday evening. Here Sally Landau 

Zinman and Dottie Henry talked on the breath-taking 

terrace of Bischwind, a b&b owned by classmate Barbara 

Dykins Von Dran. 

Ben Reinoehl, 

Patricia Judge 

Lewis, Frank 

Dunne 

Class of 1960 

The class of 1960 met at the Atrium in Kingston. 

Seated here were Lynn Sheehan, Marion Brand, Irv 

Brand, Nelson Banks, Susan Teller Goodman 

Ellen MacCartney Warren, Bill Warren, Susan Zeller Lynn 

Leigh Kooker Utsch, Susan Yashan, Nelson Banks, Lenore Wadzinski ‘60 

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Class of 1965 

Charlie Shea, Georgia Dzurica, Margie Sondheim Kelk, Bob Zimmerman 

Class of 1975 

Sally Sims Alinikoff, Fred Levy 

Class of 1980 

Pearl Butera Fulton, Daun Rose Margin, Deidre Beckwith Wrenn and 

other members of the class of 1975 held their party at the Woodlands. 

Carl Wilber, Tom Crissman, Ross Macarty and Keith Larson attended 

the ice breaker for 1980. 

Mark your calendars for 

Alumni Weekend 

at Sem! 

April 29 to May 1, 2011 

For members of the classes of 1936 to 1986 

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Friday 

Evening 

Tower 

Society 

and DSA 

Reception 

The annual reception thanking members of the Tower Society (donors of $1,000 or more 

to the annual giving campaign) also celebrates the recipients of the DSA (Distinguished 

Service Award). Annual Giving chairs John Lopatto ’69, Mary Lopatto ’72 and Gigi 

Lopatto ’77 and Jane Nicholson enjoyed the festivities. 

DSA recipients honored in May 

Sem’s Board of Trustees presented its annual Joseph C. 

Donchess Distinguished Service Award to four people who 

have demonstrated exceptional service to the community and to 

Wyoming Seminary. 

Alice Hughes, William Robbins ’52, Debbie Madden, Richard 

Hughes ’79, and Dean of Admission Jack Eidam 

The Award is the highest honor bestowed by the board on 

behalf of everyone associated with the school. It expresses 

appreciation for the life and example, sacrifices and devotion of 

those who are honored. 

Jean Robbins Hughes ’48, Susan Weiss Shoval ’70, Judd Shoval and 

Betsy Hughes Phillips. 

Pictured immediately prior to the ceremony are, left to right: 

President Kip P. Nygren; recipients Clifford K. Melberger, John D. 

Mueller ’52, Marvin Antinnes and Jean Robbins Hughes ’48; and 

Mary A. Lopatto ’72 representing the board. 

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May 1, Saturday Daytime Activities 

Members of the class of 1960 connected in Sprague Hall: Ellen MacCartney 

Warren, Bill Warren, Marcia Weinberg and Jay Weinberg. 

Co-chairs of the 1980 reunion committee, 

Richard Johnson ’80 and Tish Mack Grosek ’80, 

talked with President Kip Nygren. 

Blue Key student Alison Considine ’10, center, gave this group of 1960 alumni a tour 

of the campus. 

President Kip Nygren congratulated Jay 

Weinberg ’60 who was named the Outstanding 

Alumnus during the Alumni Convocation. 

These alumni represented their classes as speakers at the memorial service. Seated: Ruth Brooks 

Chapin ’40; Standing, left to right: Tish Mack Grosek ’80, Jon Greenwald ’60, Liesl Harder 

Kielp ’85, Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski ’75, Erika Funke ’70, Maureen Shedleski Brady ’50, 

Dave Micahnik ’55, Betsy Bell Condron ’45, Ronald Rittenmeyer ’65. 

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Alumni Games 

Alumni Baseball 

Left to right, front row: Jon Janerich ’07, Ryan Molitoris ’06, Jim Kersey, Irv Rivera ’70, Vincent LoRusso ’01; 

back row: Jack Monick ’69, Ethan Lewis, Anthony Andrews ’85, John Lopatto ’69, Jon Hendrzak ’79 and 

Jonathan Yoder ’01. 

Boys Alumni Lacrosse 

Left to right, front row: Keith Mecca ’89, Scott Cooper ’89, Lindo Sabatini ’91, Pat Son ’03, Christian Switzer ’05, Matt Packard ’03; 

second row: Mike Hanlon ’05, Jason Young ’08, Tyler Mattingly ’08, Jon Lawrence ’08, Jeff Kratz ’08, Henry Maguire ’08 and coach 

Jon Siff. 

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May 1, Saturday 

Evening Activities 

Alumni got together on campus at the homes of President Kip Nygren 

and VP of Advancement John Shafer ’71 for cocktails Saturday evening. 

Among other party-goers were Quincy Abbot, Frank Dunne, Margery 

Hutter Silver and Barbara Miller Scheuer, all from the class of 1950. 

From the class of 1980, John Wartella, Rust Tippett, Madhu Alagiri, 

Amee Alagiri. 

From the class of 1960, Marcia Weinberg, Susan Yashan, Jon 

Greenwald, Jay Weinberg. 

Jack Monick ’67, Valerie Monick, John Shafer ’71, Marv Antinnes, Irv 

Rivera ’70 

Richard Kellman, Ann Burnate Kellman ’60, Gaby Greenwald 

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Find 

the old 

friends you 

promised 

you would 

never forget. 

Announcing Our Upcoming 

Alumni Directory. 

Even if it has been years since you last made contact, 

you can still reconnect with long-lost friends. We are 

currently compiling an Alumni Directory, an invaluable 

resource with personal, academic and business 

information on all of our alumni. Don’t miss your 

chance to be included. Complete and return your 

directory questionnaire as soon as possible. 

Thank You 

for helping us to create an accurate 

Alumni Directory 

that will be a valuable asset to members of the 

greater Sem family. 

We appreciate your prompt responses to the 

postcards sent to you by Harris Connect over 

the past few months. 

If you have any questions asbout this directory, 

please contact us. 

Wyoming Seminary Alumni Office 

570-270-2140 

Thank 

you 

for your 

support of 

the 2010 

Auction! 

• donating items 

• volunteering your time 

• bidding online 

• attending the concluding gala event 

• participating in live bidding 

The Parents Associations’ major fundraising 

event of the year is the much-anticipated 

all-school auction. This year’s successful team 

raised $52,000, with YOUR help. Your gifts 

help fund classroom projects and purchase 

wishlist items in support of Sem’s academic and 

extracurricular programs. 

Special thanks go out to current parents 

Clare McCarthy Parkhurst ’75 and Maureen 

Conyngham for heading the committee efforts 

and current parents Bob Clements ’72 and Loren 

Grossman who reprised their roles as the energetic 

and amusing auctioneers! 

Have something to donate to next year’s auction? 

Please contact Liz Frosini in the Alumni and 

Development Office: 570-270-2140 or 

efrosini@ wyomingseminary.org. 

And don’t forget to mark your calendar for the 

2011 auction: online from March 28 to April 6 

and live auction and party on April 8. 

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eunion 

Classes of 1940 1945 & 

Left to right: Florence Austin, Jim Lurba and Ruth Brooks Chapin at lunch. 

Two of three members of the class of 1940 

join President Nygren at Convocation. 


Herb Weiss, Allan Kluger, Joe Baicker 

Laura Wideman, Ed Wideman ’60, Herb Weiss ’45, Joe Baicker ’45 

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eunions 

Class of 1950 

Front row, left to right: Barbara Dykins Von Dran, Margery Hutter Silver, Joe Nelson, Glenn Jacoby, Natalie Cattanach 

Lewis, Ruth Bass Fiedler, Barbara Miller Scheuer. 

Back row: Maureen Shedleski Brady, Barry Iscovitz, Frank Henry, Ben Reinoehl, Susie Long, Ken Hitchner, Quincy Abbot, 

Auvo Kemppinen, John Moore, Frank Dunne, Sally Landau Zinman, Jake Crellin, Sally Eisen Basch, Don Bush, Priscilla 

Judge Merek, Richard Murphy, Neil Gutman. 

Photo: Michael Touey 

Arlene Cossa, Jack Cossa and Jake Crellin at lunch. 

Natalie Cattanach Lewis, Sally Eisen Basch and Priscilla Judge Merek 

Also at lunch were Margery Hutter Silver, Barbara Miller Scheuer, 

Natalie Cattanach Lewis, Maureen Shedleski Brady and 

Mimi Davis Dunham. 

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Richard Murphy and Frank Henry

eunion 

Class of 1955 

Left to right, front row: Helen Tinsley, 

Carol Hyman Levitin, Virginia Baner 

Dewey, Louise Loucks Moore, Sue 

Kline Kluger; second row: Sylvia Kehoe 

Abrantes, Donna Gay Kaplan, Mimi 

Hughes Carroll, Dave Micahnik; third 

row: Richard Goldberg, President Kip 

Nygren and Carl Hedden. 


Helen Tinsley, Carol Hyman Levitin and Mimi Hughes Carroll 

Carl Hedden and Dave Micahnik 

Virginia Baner Dewey and Donna Gay Kaplan at lunch 

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eunions 

Class of 1960 

At the Bell Tower 

Left to right, front row: Ann Harmon Kellman, Leigh Kooken Utsch, 

Bill Kolb, Susan Zeller Lynn, Susan Yashan, Ellen MacCartney 

Warren, Mimi Rowland Murdock; second row: Steve Brandwene, 

Lynn Sheehan, Irv Brand, Jay Weinberg, Lenore Wadzinski Yousef, 

Jon Greenwald and Bill Lawry. 


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Jon Greenwald, former Director of Alumni Programs Liz Hibbard and 

Gabby Greenwald

At the Evening Party 

Left to right, front row: Ellen MacCartney Warren, Lenore Wadzinski Yousef, Nelson Banks, 

Mimi Rowland Murdock, Susan Yashan, Leigh Kooken Utsch, Ann Burnat Kellman; second row: 

Steve Brandwene, Lynn Sheehan, Bill Kolb; third row: Irv Brand, Jay Weinberg, Bill Lawry, Jon 

Greenwald and William Lawry. 

Not present when photo was taken: Susan Teller Goodman, Murray Ufberg, Susan Zeller Lynn. 


Murray Ufberg and Mort Lynn 

Kip Nygren meets Nelson Banks, again! 

Rosemarie Banks, Bill Lawry, Nelson Banks 

Irv Brand and Steve Brandwene 

During Alumni Weekend, May 1, 2010, President Nygren 

discovered that he’d made a Sem connection 40 years earlier. 

Meeting Dr. Nelson Banks ’60 at Saturday’s cocktail reception, 

Nygren recognized the medical doctor assigned to his first Army 

unit, the 3rd Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment located 

in Amberg, Germany. Serving together in February 1970, Nelson 

gave Nygren a physical exam required for entrance into flight 

school. Casually correcting Nygren’s erroneous assumption that 

he had hay fever, a condition that would have disqualified him 

from becoming a pilot, Banks changed Nygren’s life forever. 

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eunions 

Class of 1965 


Left to right, front row: 

Betsy Thomas Johnson, 

Georgia Dzurica, Marlene 

Lippi Furey, Estelle Andrews, 

Barbie Aston; second row: 

Charlie Shea, Gailey Teller, 

Kathy Montz Miller, Richard 

Snowdon, Sally Lowe 

Shea, Nancy Siegel Harris, 

Margie Shaffer Victor, Bob 

Zimmerman, Diane Giering 

Wasilewski, Bunky Day, 

Bob Anton, Franklin Coslett, 

Sheilah Wiener Ziccardi, 

Caleb McKenzie, Margie 

Sondheim Kelk 

Betsy Thomas Johnson, Kathy Montz Miller and Richard Snowdon 


Left to right: 

Nancy Siegel 

Harris, Margie 

Shaffer Victor, 

Caleb McKenzie 

and Sally Sims 

Alinikoff 

Bob Anton, William Newman, Nancy Siegel Harris and Joe Harris 

Sally Lowe Shea, Reuben Munday, Richard Snowdon and Kathy 

Montz Miller 

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eunion 

Class of 1970 

Bill Hall and Randy Gale 

Left Front row, left to right: Francie Baltimore 

Handman, Jill Jeter Tallman, Esther Gray 

Peacock, Marcy Goldberg Wesalo, Tina 

Graham Ouellette; second row: Cynthia 

Rudolph McClorey, Randy Gale, Pam Pethick 

Gale, Laney Izenberg Ufberg, Frank (Parky) 

Conyngham, Rob Klein, Bill Hall, Irv Rivera, 

Rob Buntz, Sandy Pahk 


Henry Tallman, Esther Gray Peacock, Jill Jeter Tallman 

Sandy Pahk, George Conyngham ’75 and Irv Rivera 

Francie Baltimore Handman, Bill Hall, Cynthia Rudolph McClorey, 

Marcy Goldberg Wesalo 

Frank (Parky) Conyngham and Henry Tallman 

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eunions 

Class of 1975 

Pam Pethick Gale ’70 and Ed Romanowski ’75 

Left to right, front row: Corny Conyngham 

Romanowski, Lisa Weingeroff, Daun Rose 

Margin, Deirdre Beckwith Wrenn, Pearl Ann 

Butera Fulton, Clare McCarthy Parkhurst; 

second row: Tim Evans, Karl Arbogast, 

Terry Casey, Jeff Tihansky, Ed Romanowski, 

George Conyngham. 


Left to right, front row: Corny Conyngham Romanowski, Jeff Tihansky, 

Deirdre Beckwith Wrenn and Pearl Butera Fulton; second row: Ed 

Romanowski, Lisa Weingeroff and Daun Rose Margin at lunch. 

Karl Arbogast, George Conyngham and Terry Casey at the Jazz Club 



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Pearl Butera Fulton, Cathy McHugh ’78, Corny 

Conyngham Romanowski, Jeff Tihansky, teacher 

Jim Kersey, Deirdre Beckwith Wrenn, Daun Rose 

Margin and Lisa Weingeroff at the Jazz Club.

eunion 

Class of 1980 


Left to right, first row: Madhu 

Alagiri, Richard Johnson, John 

McCarthy; second row: Gina Cotton 

Simpson ’79, Susie Cockburn 

Bradbury, Jodie Arenberg Semel, 

Jessica Ross Davis, Tish Mack 

Grosek, Felicia Serpico, Tammy 

Pearsall, Kevin Bufalino, Hilary 

Maslow Naud, Lee McCarthy, Chris 

Stanisci; third row: Craig Martin, 

Bill Lamoreaux, Doug Murphy, Rust 

Tippett, Lou Butera, Jay Harvey, 

Bill Cebak, Carl Wilbur, Hampton 

Oberle, Mark Sherman, Blair 

Jennings, John Wartella, Mark Fields, 

Keith Larson, Bobby Kaslander; 

fourth row: Thomas (Tucker) Slattery, 

Matt Panich; Ross Macarty, Tom 

Crissman. 

Not present when photo was taken: 

Harry Sandberg and David Schwager. 

Left to right, front row: Mark Fields, 

Julie McCarthy Strzeletz ’81, Ross 

Macarty, Amee Alagiri, Madhu Alagiri, 

Doug Murphy, Gina Cotton Simpson 

’79, Susie Cockburn Bradbury ’81, Tish 

Mack Grosek, Jessica Ross Davis, Bill 

Cebak, Hamp Oberle; second row: 

Chris Stanisci, Harry Sandburg, Lou 

Butera, Bob Kaskander, John Wartella, 

Richard Johnson and Matt Panich. 

Blair Jennings, Hilary Maslow Naud, Felicia Serpico, Jessica Ross Davis, 

Tammy Pearsall, Carl Wilbur and Keith Larson at the Jazz Club. 


Former teacher and coach Gary Vanderburg, Kevin Bufalino, Lou 

Butera and Chris Stanisci. 

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Photo: Curtis Salonick

eunions 

Class of 1985 


Ann Marie Hendrzak and Faith Jabers 

Matzoni 

Left to right, front row: Victoria Baran, Faith 

Jabers Matzoni, Ann Marie Hendrzak; second 

row: Toni Pitman, Corine Leoni Treslar, 

Anthony Andrews, Liesl (Ann) Harder Kielp, 

Emily Bittenbender. 


Anthony Andrews and Liesl (Ann) Harder Kielp 

Toni Pitman, Emily Bittenbender, Jeffrey Matzoni, Faith Jabers Matzoni and Ann 

Marie Hendrzak 


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C l a s s N o t e s 

Class Notes printed on the following 

pages represent news sent to us by 

August 15, 2010, with the exception 

of several obits. 

Please send hard copy news and 

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1941 

MARJORIE TAITE AUSTIN, Steamboat Springs, 

Colo., writes, My time at Wyoming Seminary was 

spent as a 7-day boarder. My favorite professor 

was Leroy Bugbee and my favorite administrator 

was Dean Adams. My UN-favorite things were 

wearing hats, stockings, and skirts off campus 

and having only two weekends away at my 

grandmother’s farm in Tunkhannock. My work 

duty was to clean the girls’ gym and I lost one 

study hall each day to work in the library. Let’s 

see, Sem owes me ___?___ study halls! The only 

meal we were allowed to miss was lunch. The 

second floor had no bathrooms so we had to go 

up to the third floor. Lights were out at 10 PM 

and study hall was from 8 PM to 9:45 PM. But 

we liked most everyone and there was a respect 

and consideration which I hope is still there. 

My great grandparents met at Wyoming Seminary. 

They were members of one of the first classes-- 

Benjamin Manning Hall who lived on a farm in 

Tunkhannock and Asenath De Witt who lived 

on a farm in West Pittston. He walked from 

Kingston to West Pittston to ask her to marry 

him. He walked back because he had no money 

for a horse and carriage. He was late for school 

the next day and worried that Dr. Sprague would 

punish him. I was born on that farm. My father 

Manning Taite inherited it. 

I started at Goucher and left there to join SPARS 

U.S. Coast Guard-W.R. Our first WWII training 

was in Palm Beach, Fla.! I continued my studies 

at the University of Virginia where women were 

allowed to study only nursing, education or attend 

graduate school. I didn’t want nursing so I took 

education and that’s how I became a teacher. I 

married and had two children, Robert and Jayne, 

and my husband Captain W.H. Austin Jr. was in 

the school of engineering. 

What do I think of so-called prep schools? I was 

at Sem four years. My father was a graduate of 

the Peddie ’14. My brother spent 4 years at St 

Bernard’s in N.J. My son attended Episcopal 

Academy in Merion, where I taught for 10 years, 

and my daughter went to the Shipley School. My 

son-in-law was the Head of School at Lowell 

Whitman School in Steamboat Springs, Colo. My 

daughter and her husband graduated from The 

George School, a Quaker school in Newtown Pa. 

I have two grandchildren, a girl and a boy. Both 

graduated from the University of Virginia. I also 

have four great-grandchildren. 

Go WYO! 

MTA 

1944 

KAY JOHNSON EDGERTON and BOB 

EDGERTON ’42, Dallas, celebrated their 60th 

wedding anniversary on June 24 at a party given 

by their sons ROBERT EDGERTON JR. ’69 and 

Ritchie Edgerton. Many members of ’42, ’44 and 

other Sem classes were in attendance. 

1950 

JOEL “JIM” GOLDSTEIN, Bryn Mawr, writes, 

I’m still seeing patients although I get to my office 

an hour later and come home an hour earlier. 

I’m also still teaching residents at Drexel College 

of Medicine and at the Psychoanalytic Institute. 

We’re doing pretty much what we were doing on 

our 50th. Debby is retired from pediatrics, but is 

doing a lot of work for the College of Physicians 

and is president of the Franklin Inn Club – a 

literary club. (Miss Brown never did approve 

of dashes.) Paul, our son, is an environmental 

biologist, working in Massachusetts. I wish you 

well and hope you stay healthy. 

1951 

HAROLD “HAL” C.W. BIRTH, Santa Monica, 

Calif., writes, I met my wife, Shirley Lovelace, 

at the US Embassy in London where she was 

employed in 1968. We have two living children, 

Cynthia and Victoria. Bradley (Sem class of ’76) 

lost his battle with cancer in 2009. We have two 

grandsons, Bradley and Alexander Birth, living 

in Virginia. I entered the US Air Force as an 

enlisted Aviation Cadet in 1953. After two years 

of training, I was commissioned a 2 nd lieutenant 

and jet pilot. My next two duty assignments 

were in 18 th Air Force then in 12 th Air Force 

Headquarters. My first operational assignment 

was at RAF Alconbury, England flying secret 

reconnaissance missions over Europe in a Douglas 

B-66 aircraft during the Cold War. My return 

to the US was short as I was sent to Vietnam 

on classified orders with a Diplomatic Passport 

to fly military missions over North Vietnam. 

After flying 84 combat missions my one year 

tour was complete and I was transferred back 

to RAF Alconbury England and trained in the 

new Douglas RF-4C Phantom II reconnaissance 

aircraft. After I completed my four year tour flying 

classified missions in Europe I received a change 

of command to the Strategic Air Command flying 

the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress at Grand Forks 

AFB ND. As a brand new crew we quickly earned 

a top overall lead crew rank making us eligible 

for an Arc light tour of duty in Vietnam. As a lead 

Aircraft Commander, I led a cell of three B-52’s 

over targets in Vietnam, dropping a total of 90 

tons of bombs on each of my next 58 combat 

missions. My war record includes: 

142 combat missions over Vietnam 

The Distinguished Flying Cross 

The Meritorious Service Medal 

The Air Medal with 9 Oak Leaf Clusters 

After retiring from the USAF, I gained 

employment as a pilot instructor at Continental 

Airlines. I quickly rose to Lead Instructor on 

the Boeing 737 followed by Lead Instructor on 

the Boeing 747. After receiving many accolades 

in innovative pilot training techniques from 

classroom computer based facilitator to simulator 

training instructor, I retired with 25 years of full 

time employment. Following my retirement I was 

called upon to do part time training at Continental 

for four more years. I now remain active as 

President/CEO of Princeton Villas Homeowners 

Association, Inc in Santa Monica, Calif. 

JOHN B. FASSETT, Fort Meyers, Fla., moved to 

Ft. Meyers in 1960 and has practiced law there 

for over 50 years. Shortly after moving there, he 

married Gloria A. Ankers of South Bend, Ind. 

They have two daughters: Jane, an attorney in 

Alamo, California, and Anne, who was employed 

as a counselor with the Department of Juvenile 

Justice of the State of Florida until her untimely 

death from a stroke at age 33 in 1999. John is a 

member of the St. Lukes Episcopal Church in Ft. 

Meyers. He is on the Board of Directors of the 

Fort Meyers Community Concert Association. He 

is past director of the Prince Gardner Company, 

an originator, past president and member of the 

Board of Directors or Southwest Florida Self 

Help Housing, Inc., past chairman of Lee County 

Muscular Dystrophy Association, past secretary 

and current Vice President of the Fort Myers 

Optimist Club and a member of the organization’s 

Board of Directors for over 40 years. Mr. Fassett 

was president of the Lee County Association for 

Retarded Citizens from 1980-1984. He helped 

Barbara Mann create the Lee County Alliance 

of the Arts and served on its Board of Directors 

for years. He is a former Municipal Judge, being 

sworn in by the County Clerk in 1964 and in that 

capacity served as Director of the State of Florida 

Municipal Judges Association. All municipal 

judges, in every city in Florida, were retired in 

1972 and the courts were merged into County 

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Courts in each county. He was past secretary and 

treasurer of the Lee County Bar Association and 

is a member of the Estate Planning Council of Lee 

County. His present law firm limits its practice to 

Wills, Estates, Probate and Corporations. 

RICHARD RIVERS, Benton, writes, Senecing 

[sic] nicely, and escaping the heat wave at 2500 

feet on the shores of Lake Ganoga with nothing 

specifically wrong, just general decrepitude. 

1953 

JOANNE PEMBERTON ANDERSON, 

Hamden, Conn., and her husband Gerald 

celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with 

family and friends at a gala dinner party in their 

new residence at Whitney Center in Hamden, 

Conn., on May 1, 2010. 

Our new mailing address is: 

200 Leeder Hill Drive, #407 

Hamden, CT 06517 

Email: Joanne_P_Anderson@msn.com 

1955 

DONNA GAY KAPLAN, Mt. Gretna, writes, 

Mel and I love living in idyllic Mt. Gretna where 

we are active in leading and participating in many 

fine programs throughout the year. 

PEG SMEDLEY, Cleveland, Ohio, writes, Not 

much has changed since my last submission of 

‘notes.’ I am currently a professor in psychology 

at Cleveland State University specializing in 

workforce issues in the 21st century. I am also 

a training consultant in many areas that include 

brain research and workforce and the boomers. I 

still ‘brag’ about my prep school education in my 

college and graduate school courses ... seems like 

just a few years ago. Keep up the great work you 

all do. 

1956 

FREDERICK FARBER, Montclair, Va., writes, 

After 34 years in Naval uniform, I retired as 

a captain and then worked for a Washington 

defense contractor for nine years, directing 

business development. Now retired for the 

second time, my spouse of 46 years and I live in 

Dumfires, Va. Patty enjoys tennis and I coach 

soccer and do some fishing. We have two sons 

and one daughter. Four grandsons and four 

granddaughters are our blessing. All are doing 

well…happy and healthy. Hello all of you in the 

class of 1956. 

KELLY MATHER, Sebastian, Fla., suggests 

classmates look out for the coming web page: 

theoddluminary.com 

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Look for Wyoming 

Seminary on facebook 

1957 

JUDITH SCHIFFMAN HOLLAENDER, 

Philadelphia, reports the passing of her husband, 

William, on February 23, 2010. 

1959 

MARY RUTH CURTIS, Mount 

Dora, Fla., writes, Visiting 

China was not on the bucket 

list, but when the choral director 

at nearby Stetson announced 

that Stetson University Choral 

Union was teaming up with the 

Indianapolis Symphonic Choir 

to do a concert tour of Shanghai 

and Beijing, I signed on. 

Our nine-day visit to China was illuminating as 

well as productive. We sang six concerts, two of 

which were the Brahms “Requiem.” The other 

concerts were Americana, some spirituals, some 

standards and the proverbial “Take Me out to the 

Ball Game.” After our first concert at the Great 

Wall, our Chinese guide told us she especially liked 

“Take Me out of the Ball Game,” and the term 

“lost in translation” took on new meaning for 

me. We toured cloisonné, silk and jade factories, 

saw the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace, 

climbed the Great Wall, and toured the World 

Expo where we sang three concerts. 

The Chinese are very curious about Americans 

and want to talk to and be photographed with 

us, using their cell phones. Since the children take 

English in elementary school, it is easy to carry on 

conversations with them and their parents, while 

the children translate. As I have found in other 

foreign countries, when language fails me, smiles 

are universal and infectious. I enjoyed speaking 

with the people and eating most of their cuisine, 

which lacks sweets, except for fresh fruit. 

In both cities we were told to drink only bottled 

water; but in the restaurants Chinese beer, Coke, 

and Sprite were abundant. Beijing was shrouded 

in smog for the five days we stayed there. Even 

though they removed the factories for the 

Olympics in 2008, their emission standards are 

higher than ours are, and they allow only light 

trucks, cars, and cycles in cities, the number of 

vehicles precludes healthy air. If you still doubt the 

effects of carbon emissions on air quality, I would 

suggest you make a visit to Beijing. 

Although I enjoyed my visit to China and I 

am encouraged to visit other countries to sing, 

something about this trip continues to make me 

realize I am not only very proud, but also very 

grateful to be an American. 

1960 

JOCELYN SHUPACK, Irumbai Tamil Nadu, 

India, writes, Sorry that I did not make it to the 

reunion. I have a non-fiction book on 

amazon.com and Barnes and Noble titled “The 

Antithesis of Yoga.” 

1961 

HOWARD GARDNER, Cambridge, Mass., 

writes, I moved to Cambridge and Harvard 

in 1961 and been here ever since—as a college 

student, graduate student, researcher and 

professor of psychology and education. I’ve had a 

wonderful professional and personal life with four 

great children, a lively grand child, and my wife 

Ellen, with whom I share work and play. 

PETER JOHNSON, Oro Valley, Ariz., writes, 

Rick Geisinger was my best friend and I really 

miss him. We loved Wyoming Seminary and 

the excellent education we received from the 

outstanding faculty. Sports played an important 

role for us in developing our competitive spirit 

and sense of sportsmanship. Life keeps us moving 

towards maturity, wisdom and contribution to 

community. We value the life lessons afforded by 

our Wyoming Seminary experience. 

DALE MOSES, Port Townsend, Wash., writes, 

Susie and I are enjoying life in the beautiful Pacific 

Northwest. With both of us now retired and our 

two kids out of the house, it leaves plenty of time 

to use our 41-foot trawler to cruise the many 

waters of our area. In addition to being our yacht 

club’s Commodore, [I am} starting [my] second 

year as President of our condo association while 

Susie keeps busy with AAUW, singing, book clubs 

and needlework. We are also doing more traveling 

long distance (usually by air) and enjoying not 

doing the 8-5 routine. 

CHARLES ROMANE, Fort Myers, Fla., writes, I 

am retired, living in Florida. Enjoying life but not 

enjoying new things like “The Doughnut Hole.” 

1965 

CALEB MCKENZIE, Hoboken, N.J., was named 

“Technical Advisor” to the City of New York’s 

sponsored UrbanSHED International Design 

Competition as a part of Mayor Bloomberg’s 

sustainability program. Caleb represented the 

Illuminating Engineering Society of New York 

(IESNY) on a team made up of design experts 

and construction industry stakeholders. His 

responsibility on the team was to meet and 

advise, critique and encourage the semi-finalists 

to formulate final proposals which would 

include lighting and energy concepts that were 

sustainable, cost-effective, but also would enhance 

the quality of life of visitors and citizens alike. 

The competition included 175 international 

submittals from architects, engineers and designers 

as well as students. Caleb is a member of the 

International Association of Lighting Designers, a 

board member of the IESNY as well as chairman 

of the Richard Kelly Grant. The Grant provides 

funds for young people whose ideas illustrate 

ways in which the conceptual or applied use of 

light is used in innovative ways. Caleb is a senior 

associate at T. Kondos Associates, Inc. in New 

York City and lives in Hoboken, N.J.

A l u m n i P r o f i l e 

George Stevenson 

producer/cameraman for the 

World Series of Poker 

Written by Polly Mitchell ’72 

eorge Stevenson ’70 has never had a job that required him 

to wear a tie. 

His non-traditional journey has taken him from bar coowner 

to ranch hand to videographer, from Delaware to 

California to Las Vegas, almost always in jeans and a t-shirt. 

One could certainly say that George inherited some of his freethinking, 

carpe diem attitude towards life from his creative, supportive mother. 

When he was still a student, his mother bought him his first camera. 

Throughout the year, on the “perfect fall day” (or winter or spring), she’d 

say to him, “No school today. Stay home and take photographs. You 

need to capture this glorious day on film.” 

After three years as a boarder at Wyoming Seminary (1966-1969), 

George finished high school in his hometown of Hawley, Pa. Following 

graduation, he took his first steps away from a suit-and-tie lifestyle when 

he moved to Newark, Delaware to work with his brother, Bill Stevenson 

’68. Bill had purchased an old inn and turned it into a legendary 

rock’n’roll bar. The Stone Balloon became a prime destination for live 

rock music concerts featuring the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Pat Benatar, 

Blood, Sweat and Tears, Manhattan Transfer, The Pointer Sisters and 

Hall and Oates. 

George, initially too young to have a drink at his own bar, kept the 

books, cleaned and made his first contacts in the television industry when 

the co-hosts of MTV came to film concerts. 

After ten years working at the Stone Balloon, George moved to northern 

California and worked on a 500-acre ranch, helping to turn it into a 

retreat for video game executives. Gravitating to southern California 

and living on a boat, he gained enough knowledge of boats and boat- 

owners to be offered a job on ESPN’s “Boating World.” At the beginning 

George set up interviews but he soon established a friendship with the 

cameramen. One day when an audio technician was unable to work, 

George jumped in. Over time, continuing to work for ESPN, he learned 

audio and camera techniques from the pros, honed his skills and earned a 

good reputation. 

In 1989, a producer from ABC called. He needed a video crew to 

work on a show called “Primetime Live” with Diane Sawyer and Sam 

Donaldson. George grabbed this opportunity and cultivated audio and 

video skills in the field of investigative reporting, winning three Emmy 

awards and a Peabody during his years on Sawyer’s personal crew. 

Among the first people to put cameras in buttons and smoke detectors, 

George was later hired by NBC to shoot “To Catch a Predator.” 

Many years of investigative video work brought George an expertise in 

working with small cameras, and that expertise led him back to ESPN 

and the World Series of Poker (WSOP). 

Shot in Las Vegas in June and July, the WSOP consists of 57 events and 

calls for an enormous crew of people working with dozens of pieces of 

equipment. The concluding two games require 27 cameras and a threeday 

set-up time. These are arduous days and nights, but the crew gets a 

glimpse of a real-life drama worth millions of dollars. 

Producers of poker tours around the world have hired George to 

shoot their events as well. “Filming the poker shows has given me the 

opportunity to travel to China, the Philippines, Australia and many other 

places,” George says. “It’s been quite an adventure.” 

Looking back on his extraordinary life path, George 

comments, “Although my experiences have been 

somewhat colorful, they are just the way my life turned 

out, and it’s kind of like the song ‘Live Like We’re 

Dying’ - Live each day like it might be the last, and 

hope it’s not. 

“Would I do it all again the same way? ‘You bet cha’ I 

would, but I’m also envious of the much smarter people 

in my life who accomplished more important things in 

their journey, and I hope my daughters (Rachel, 14 and 

Jessica, 17 ) follow in those footsteps. But I truly have 

had a great time!” 

Look for George’s work on ESPN, and contact him 

at hunter@lookingforamerica.com. To read more of 

George’s impressive videography, go to 

http://lookingforamerica.com/. 

A large team works behind the scenes at 

the World Series of Poker. 

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RONALD RITTENMEYER, Plano, Texas, has 

been appointed by the Department of the Treasury 

to serve on the AIG Board of Directors. The 

Treasury Department has the right to appoint 

directors to AIG’s Board under the terms of the 

Series E Fixed Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual 

Preferred Stock and the Series F Fixed Rate 

Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock issued by AIG 

to the Treasury Department 2009, in the event 

that AIG does not pay dividends on those series 

of the Preferred Stock for a total of four quarterly 

periods. 

Ron was also named Chairman of the Army War 

College Board of Visitors and has joined the Board 

of Directors of IMS, a $2B privately held company 

specializing in Health Care information. 

1966 

KAREN NIELSEN BEVAN, Bronxville, N.Y., 

recently celebrated her 30 th wedding anniversary 

with husband J. Stuart Bevan. Her son, Andrew, 

graduated from Duke University last May. She 

spent the summer in Newport, R.I. working on a 

new musical to be performed at charity functions, 

clubs and private homes. 

JILL BLUM SHERMAN, Amherst, Mass., had 

a granddaughter born to daughter Kimberly 

Sherman and son-in-law Steve Mardon. Kimberly 

is a school psychologist in the New Orleans 

schools. Steve is a science writer. 

1970 

LIZA ROOS LUCY, New Hope, Pa., writes, 

The fourth book I co-authored has just been 

published: “Simple Shape Spectacular Quilts.” 

1971 

CAROL WASNICK DOMSKY, Blue Bell, 

writes, I have been working the last few years 

for Miraclesuit, Naomi and Nicole, and TC 

Fine Shapewear- a division of Cupid Intimates. 

I am the mid-Atlantic coordinator covering 

Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. I am 

pleased that my job also brings me to the Wilkes- 

Barre/Scranton area so I have the opportunity to 

visit with my wonderful parents and family. 

JAMES DUGAN, Hanover, was awarded the 

Knight Foundation grant in 2001 and attended 

the Media and American Democracy Forum at 

Harvard University. In 2003 he was selected to 

attend the ASNE (American Society of Newspaper 

Editions) High School Journalism Institute at the 

University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of 

Journalism. In 2009 his granddaughter, Abigail 

Kelly, was born to stepson Noah Kelley and his 

wife Lois Kelley. 

JACK EVANS, Washington, DC, writes, On July 

30 th , John Shafer and I went to our fifth annual 

Nationals Baseball game. The Nats won 8-1. John 

and I celebrated with a cold beer. 

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HARRY “MIKE” KATERMAN, Bloomsburg, 

sent in updates about himself and his family. His 

son Eric Katerman graduated from Williams 

College. He received his Ph.D. in Math from 

University of Texas, Austin. Presently working 

in a new partnership with company name, 

Hurricane Party. His daughter graduated from 

Wake Forest and lives and works in Washington 

D.C. She is presently attending graduate school 

for her masters degree. Wife, Yvonne, is the head 

of Bloomsburg Hospital’s gift shop. She also holds 

an officers position with P.E.O. As for himself, 

Mike sold his international business five years ago. 

Today he is director of four different boards. He 

is an avid fly fisherman, enjoys his old mahogany 

wood boat, travels, plays golf, and camps. He 

enjoys snowmobiling and skiing and relaxes in his 

home on the beach in Hilton Head, S.C. 

DOROTHY GRASSO SESCILLA, Easton, 

writes, David and I celebrated our 30 th wedding 

anniversary this past June. In March, our second 

granddaughter arrived. 

1976 

JOHN LICATA, Locust Grove, Va. The National 

Wrestling Coaches Association announced the 

addition of John Licata to their staff as of July 

2010. He will be filling the coaching development 

coordinator position recently vacated by coach 

Neil Turner. In this role, Licata will manage 

the NWCA coaching development programs 

and services for youth, high school and college 

coaches. 

Licata’s two main duties will include the oversight 

of the NWCA State Chairman program which is 

designed to help ensure the NWCA is receiving 

important feedback on the unique needs and 

challenges of high school wrestling coaches in each 

state across the nation. He will also work closely 

with the NWCA College Coaches Leadership 

Academy, where he will serve as the primary 

oversight person for the mentoring component of 

the Academy. 

Licata currently serves on the Board of Directors 

for the Virginia State Chapter of the National 

Wrestling Hall of Fame. He is also part of the 

alumni group that is working to support wrestling 

at West Chester University. 

Licata owned and operated one of the largest 

North American Van Line companies in the 

nation, which he recently sold. He now wants 

to apply his business expertise toward helping 

coaches strengthen their CEO skills. 

Licata will be working remotely from Virginia and 

can be reached by email at jlicata@nwca.cc 

1978 

JOSEPH DIRENZO, Suffolk, Va., writes, On 

May 19, my wife Captain Karen DiRenzo, NC, 

USN, and I watched our son, now Ensign Joe 

DiRenzo IV, walk across the stage and receive 

his diploma at the United States Coast Guard 

Academy in New London, Conn. A few minutes 

later Karen, with then USCG Commandant 

Admiral Thad Allen, handed Joe his commission. 

As I write this, Joe is already underway as the 

ANAV on CGC VIGILANT a 210’ medium 

endurance cutter home-ported in Coco Beach, 

Florida. On top of the excitement of graduating 

from the academy and heading to sea, Joe was 

also selected for a Fulbright Scholarship. In 2011, 

he will depart VIGILANT and head to Iceland 

where he will enter a program that will result in 

a master’s degree in renewable energy science. He 

will study hydrogen cell design and its application 

to cutters. Following completion of his studies, 

Joe is slated to return to VIGILANT to finish 

his Deck Watch Officer tour. It was pure joy for 

both Karen and me to watch Joe enter “the family 

business.” 

As for Karen, she is still stationed in Newport R.I. 

as the Director of Nursing and Director of Branch 

Clinics for Navy Health Clinic New England. In 

addition, with the current OIC deployed to OEF, 

she is tripled-hatted as the acting OIC of Naval 

Branch Clinic Groton where she has run into a 

few members of the Class of ’82 in both Groton 

and Newport! Karen has one more year left on 

the tour. Being in New England has worked 

well as Joe and our daughter Lauren (who just 

finished her freshman year at Mitchell College) 

were an hour and twenty minutes away from 

Karen’s apartment in Newport. As for me, with 

Coast Guard modernization came a small change. 

I am now the Chief of Operations Analysis at 

Coast Guard Atlantic Area. Our branch does 

all the ops research work, modeling, simulation 

and technology interaction with our R&D center 

supporting the Commander of Atlantic Area who 

is a three star. Little bit of change from my former 

job which was Chief of Operational Planning 

and Anti-Terrorism Coordination. The new billet 

is exciting, wonderful people and a challenging 

environment every day. I get to work with the 

Navy Labs, and the DHS Academic Centers 

of Excellence. I am still teaching for American 

Military University online and as an Adjunct at 

the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk. 

1979 

DON FLICK, Charlotte, N.C., received his 

masters at Virginia Tech and has become an 

architect with SFCS in Charlotte, N.C. He has 

studied further in “green building,” using recycled 

and environmentally friendly materials. He 

and his wife, Linda, bought a second house in 

Charlotte to renovate which is allowing him to 

expand his creativity. SFCS deals mainly with 

college campus buildings and nursing homes 

and has not allowed the creative expression he 

craves. He needed extra land to expand the 

footprint of the house they are working on. It is 

now a two story with many personal touches and 

handcrafted details. It is within walking distance 

of the Panther’s Stadium. 


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1980 

WENDY FLICK, Cambridge, Mass., completed 

a masters in public administration at Harvard 

Kennedy School with a specialty in “International 

Sustainable Development.” This interest came 

from the 10+ years with the Pond Foundation in 

Santa Fe, which led her to international projects 

in Kenya and Haiti. In the winter of 2010, she 

accompanied a church director in the Boston area 

who needed to deliver donations to Haiti but 

spoke no Creole. Wendy has been there 14 times 

and has become fluent. She had to get permission 

to skip a week of classes but promised to report 

back! Her ease with languages came from the 

early lessons in French at Wyoming Seminary 

Day School and continued into high school 

with (teacher) Herb Quick. She graduated from 

Harvard on May 27th. 

DAVID SCHWAGER, 

Kingston, a partner 

in the Wilkes-Barre 

law firm of Chariton 

& Schwager, began 

a three-year term on 

the Pennsylvania Bar 

Association Board of 

Governors at the close 

of the organization’s 

annual meeting, May 

14 in Hershey. 

One of 12 zone governors who serve on the 

PBA board, Schwager represents Bradford, 

Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Sullivan, 

Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming county 

lawyers. 

Schwager is a past chair of the PBA Real Property, 

Probate and Trust Law Section and a past chair of 

its Financing of Real Estate Committee and Real 

Estate Taxation Committee. A member of the PBA 

House of Delegates, he served as chair of the PBA 

Statutory Law Committee and vice chair of the 

PBA Bylaws Committee. He is also a Life Fellow 

of the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation. 

Named a 2010 “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer” by 

Philadelphia Magazine, Schwager is a member of 

the Advisory Committee on Real Property Law 

of the Joint State Government Commission of the 

Pennsylvania General Assembly. He is a past vice 

chair of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law 

Committee of the American Bar Association’s 

Young Lawyers Division. He is the treasurer of the 

Middle District (PA) Bankruptcy Bar Association 

and also served as a past president of the Luzerne 

County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. 

Schwager is president of the Jewish Community 

Center of Wyoming Valley and president of the 

Board of B’nai B’rith Apartments. He is a past 

president of Temple Israel of Wilkes-Barre, the S.J. 

Strauss Lodge of B’nai B’rith and the Wyoming 

Seminary Alumni Association. He served as chair 

of the United Hebrew Institute School Board and 

the 2007 Jewish Federation campaign. 

Schwager is a graduate of Lafayette College and 

the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania 

State University. He serves on the executive 

committee of the Lafayette College Alumni 

Association and on the board of the General 

Alumni Association of The Dickinson School of 

Law of the Pennsylvania State University. 

1984 

RANDY DOMOLKY, Fairfax, Va., writes, I 

am pleased to report that I have successfully 

completed my first half-marathon, raising over 

$5,600 for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of 

America (CCFA) and finishing the 13.1 miles in 

2 hours and 15 minutes. This race pace was 7% 

faster than my revised goal and only 4% slower 

than my original goal of running the entire race at 

a 10 minutes per mile pace. The huge hills on the 

course (ouch!) slightly more than equally offset the 

cool temperatures, the race day adrenaline and my 

proper training. 

As far as fundraising goes, the $5,679 in supporter 

contributions exceeded my fund raising goal of 

$5,000. Thanks so much to everyone who helped 

the CCFA raise over $1,800,000 from this race 

alone toward finding a cure for Crohn’s Disease 

& Ulcerative Colitis! 

1985 

GERRY GUNSTER, Washington, D.C., has been 

promoted to partner at Goddard Claussen, a 

political strategy and public-affairs firm. He most 

recently served as senior vice president and has 

been a deputy to co-founder Ben Goddard for the 

past 10 years. Goddard is perhaps best known 

for creating the “Harry and Louise” ads that 

helped sink health care reform during the Clinton 

administration. Gunster also has some film 

experience: He was associate producer of HBO’s 

“Last Best Chance,” a thriller about nuclear war, 

and he wrote the documentary “Our Land, Our 

Future,” about the Shinnecock Indian Nation. 

Joining Goddard Claussen allowed Gunster to 

return to Washington, where he had worked 

for Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., shortly after 

graduating from college. 

Gunster, 43, also sits on the board of Brighter Day 

Care, a center in Loudoun County, Va., that helps 

children with autism. 

1990 

KIMBERLY CORNELL McWATT, Winnetka, 

Calif., writes, I recently left the entertainment 

world to return to news. I am now the Executive 

Producer of Special Projects for KTLA News in 

Los Angeles. My greatest love and joy is our 6 

year old son, Cade. 

1992 

RAPHAEL BONITA, Philadelphia, Pa., recently 

joined the Philadelphia hospital as assistant 

professor of medicine in the Cardiology Division. 

He completed his advanced Heart Failure and 

Cardiac Transplantation fellowship at Jefferson 

and is now one of the hospital’s advanced Heart 

Failure and Cardiac Transplant physicians. 

Bonita, a Plains native, holds a bachelor’s degree 

in biology from Franklin and Marshall College, 

a master’s degree in immunology from Johns 

Hopkins University and his M.D. from Drexel 

University College of Medicine. 

1993 

STEPHEN ROSENTHAL, Kingston, and partner 

FRED LEVY ’65 are pleased to announce the 

formation of a new Merrill Lynch team to be 

known as Levy Rosenthal & Associates. Steve 

joined Merrill in May 1997. He specializes in 

investment management, corporate and small 

business retirement plans, banking and lending. 

He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, 

board member of the YMCA and Leadership 

Wilkes-Barre and vice president of the Jewish 

Community Center. 

1995 

SANDRA DAVIS CHISHOLM, New York, 

N.Y., writes, I was recently married, November 

21, 2009 in Key West, Fla. Classmate, APRIL 

BAKER, attended my wedding. I am enjoying 

my new career [psychotherapist] and life as a 

newlywed in New York City. 

2004 

ANNA MICHALKOVA, Bratislava, Slovakia. 

In her correspondence with Jack Eidam, Anna 

writes, Much has happened since the last time 

we saw each other in Stockholm. For one, I have 

successfully completed my graduate studies, so 

now I am officially master of social science. I 

have also moved from Sweden and live in the 

Netherlands now. In fact, I moved back in April, 

as I was finishing my master’s thesis. I got an offer 

from the Hague Center for Strategic Studies to 

work as a policy analyst – intern for a period of 

five months. It was a tough choice to make, as I 

had a temporary job in Stockholm as well, but 

I felt ready for a change and for new challenges. 

It would be me though, to make things just a bit 

more complicated, so instead of ‘only’ working 

on my thesis and working (full time) at the Hague 

Center, I was also working (remotely) for about 

10-15 hours a week for my Stockholm job. I was 

only able to have these three jobs until the end 

of April, and then I had to start really focusing 

on my thesis while working in the Hague. So, 

now that it’s over and I ‘only’ work full time, it 

feels almost like a holiday. My contract expires 

in early September, and I am not exactly sure 

what will happen after that. I enjoy living in 

the Netherlands. It’s a really beautiful country, 

certainly worth a visit at least! 

2005 

MATTY ABRAHAM, Missoula, Montana writes, 

Hey Sem! Sorry I can’t make it to the class of 05 

reunion, but I just wanted to touch base and let 

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A l u m n i P r o f i l e 

Cindy Pearsall 

Sussman 

Alumna Cindy Pearsall Sussman, former director of 

Emergency Services at Robert Wood Johnson 

University Hospital in 

Hamilton, N.J. and her 

family – husband Steve, a 

gynecologist with Lawrence 

Ob/Gyn Associates in 

Lawrenceville, N.J.; daughter 

Laura, 24, recent graduate 

of Rhode Island School of 

Design now starting her 

second year of the masters 

in architecture program at 

University of Pennsylvania; 

and son Brian, 20, a junior 

at Boston University – hatched 

a plan. 

They would spend eight days on 

a very unusual “vacation.” 

Inspired by what she heard 

about Carolina Honduras Health 

Foundation,* Cindy proposed 

a trip that would allow the 

entire family to help people who 

desperately needed it, sharing an 

experience that would be lifechanging 

for the entire family. 

Because Cindy had maintained 

her board certification, she and 

husband Steve would be able to 

bring medical help to a small village 

in Honduras that sees doctors only 

18 weeks out of 52. Laura and Brian 

would help in a variety of ways, 

assisting their parents and working 

with the villagers. 

The following is what Cindy wrote to 

friends on Facebook: 

*www.carolinahondurashealth.org 

EIGHT LIFE-CHANGING DAYS 

By Cindy Pearsall Sussman ’72 

HI Friends! 

I wanted to let you all know that Steve, Laura, Brian and I just got back from a fabulous medical mission to 

Honduras. We were there for eight days, and it was positively life changing! 

After a rocky start, we arrived in La Ceiba, a small city about four hours from San Pedro Sula. There we met 

our team: two other doctors – one the 86-year-old founder of the organization – and three nurses, a dentist and 

his assistant, a lawyer, and an engineer. 

The first thing we did was buy food as our village was hours from the nearest grocery store. We each had a 

shopping list made up by the nurse leader, and we tackled our lists in pairs. We also were told to buy any snacks 

we might want. (Boy, did we underestimate on that one!) 

We loaded it all into a van and a truck, and off we went onto dirt roads that kicked up so much dust it was 

like driving through a dense fog. Four hours later, we arrived in our village, a small coastal town called Limon. 

The clinic overlooks a gorgeous beach and had eight bedrooms (boys on one side, girls on the other; Laura 

and I were roomies as were Steve and Brian) flanking a central kitchen with the clinic downstairs. Only the 

exam rooms were air-conditioned, and it was hot-hot-hot, so we took a lot of cold showers and slept with fans 

blowing through our mosquito netting! All of the food was cooked by local women, but the menu was made up 

by the South Carolinian nurse who was our leader. In an effort not to offend anyone, she served “all American” 

food: spaghetti, boxed cakes, potato chips, even Jell-O and “bug juice.” Steve said it was like eating at camp 

in seventh grade! We ended up drooling over the locals’ meals of fresh fish and plantains. Oh well, we weren’t 

there for the food! 

During our first night, I was in a sound sleep when Laura woke me up urgently, saying, “Mom, there is a sick 

baby downstairs!” I grabbed my backpack, jumped into a pair of scrubs, and tumbled down the stairs, with 

my whole family behind me. (But no one else! Where was the rest of the team?) In the waiting room was an 

entire Honduran family with a mom holding a small child in her arms, wrapped in a towel. I gingerly pulled the 

towel back and looked into a pool of the most gorgeous, warm, brown eyes. “Hi Baby, are you sick?” I asked, 

knowing full well none of them spoke English, but instinct reigns in those situations. Her face exploded into a 

brilliant smile. “You don’t look sick!” I laughed, as we brought the whole family into an exam room where we 

gave her a thorough examination and diagnosed (whew!) roseola! 

I was euphoric, and have stayed on that high ever since. We had a ball! We treated everything from a 12 year 

old’s toes being lopped off with a machete, to the worst fungal infection of a scalp I have ever seen (the poor 

child had no hair, just pus), to happy pregnant women who were delighted to see an American ob/gyn. Laura 

and Brian worked harder than anyone taking vital signs, triaging, and doing blood sugars in the packed, hothot-hot 

waiting room. At night, we sorted pills into Ziploc bags for the next day’s onslaught. We saw about 160 

patients a day, all waiting patiently in the broiling heat. A school bus was sent out in the morning to round them 

up, then, while we ate lunch (peanut butter and jelly) and swam on the beach (bath water!), a new group was 

brought in. One day we went to an outpost clinic about an hour away. Some people rode horses to get there. 

No running water, so washing up between patients was a challenge. Gotta love those Clorox wipes! 

At the end of the week, I asked our family what they liked best about the trip. Laura and Brian liked the fast 

pace, the teamwork, and the fact that we were taking a vacation where we had much-needed jobs to do. 

Steve loved taking care of patients without having to order a million tests, and I just adored getting back into 

medicine again and having this experience with our whole family working together. 

The organization, called the Carolina Honduras Health Foundation, was very well run, and I would 

recommend it to anyone. It was a vacation to change lives! 

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How did your experiences at 

Sem affect your educational, 

career or life journey? 

CPS: 

Hmm. Well, I think I first decided on a career in medicine in about 

seventh grade when I had my first real science class with Mr. 

Landau, an excellent teacher. 

At the Upper School I absolutely loved my biology classes with 

Mr. Flick. He allowed me to do extra projects like following 

the course of developing egg embryos and preserving them 

throughout an entire growth cycle, to helping me dissect a frog 

to its bare bones. I wonder if that skeleton is still in the lab 

somewhere? He helped me mount it and I was inordinately proud 

to have it displayed in his lab. But it was really Mr. Nageli who 

most influenced me in high school. He taught the best English 

class I ever had, where we learned more about ourselves than 

we did about literature. Mr. Post (history) guided me to Kenyon 

College where I was able to pursue my love of science and still 

remain a determined English major. 

So sure, it all adds up to make a life! Who knows where we get 

our biggest influences? Sem certainly reinforced a sense of needing 

to “give back,” and (then President) Wally Stettler boosted my 

confidence immeasurably when he gave me the President’s Award 

at the end of our senior year. 

I have been so lucky in life! Now I am proud to see the ideals I 

was invested with as a child being reflected back at me through 

my own children. It is incredibly gratifying! 

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everyone know what I’ve been up to. I graduated 

from Temple University in the fall of 2009 with a 

degree in entrepreneurship, and plan on starting 

an adventure tourism business out west in the next 

few years. In September, I wrapped up my third 

summer in Maine as the head of the Outdoor 

Tripping program at Camp Laurel, the premier 

summer camp in the country. Following camp I 

outfitted and prepped my Land Rover Defender 

110 for a month-long cross country adventure 

trip, which will include lots of biking, sailing, 

snorkeling, surfing, climbing, mountaineering, and 

backpacking. I will eventually settle in Montana 

in late fall. Follow my travels on my blog: http:// 

mabraham86.wordpress.com/ Hope everyone 

is well! 

SASHA ANSELMI, Shavertown, writes, I hope to 

be attending culinary school in 2010. 

ABIGAIL FRIED, Jamaica Plains, Mass., writes, 

I spent the year after college backpacking around 

Africa. This year I’m entering the Peace Corps 

and will be spending two years teaching English 

in Africa. 

ARIELLE WAITE, Center Valley, graduated from 

Denison University in May 2009 with a B.A. 

in history and theatre. She will be spending the 

next year working for OTZMA’s Israel Teaching 

Corps. During this time, she will participate in 

the grassroots/volunteer organization by teaching 

English in an under-served Israeli public school. 

2006 

JESSIE HOOKER, Winchester, Va., is in 

rehearsals for the national tour of the Broadway 

musical “Legally Blonde.” Jessie and the rest of 

the cast will head to Chattanooga, Tenn. for dress 

rehearsals and then open the tour in Jacksonville, 

Fla. Hooker will be back in the Wyoming Valley 

when “Legally Blonde” comes to the Scranton 

Cultural Center in November. 

Jessie graduated from the Shenandoah 

Conservatory of Music in May. During the last 

month of school, students audition for talent 

scouts and distribute their resume and head shot. 

That led to three auditions for Jessie before she 

was finally cast in the show as a featured ensemble 

member and understudy to one of the leads. She 

has a 16-bar solo in the opening number. 

NICHOLAS MILLER, 

Scranton, graduated with 

a degree in Linguistics, 

Summa Cum Laude and was 

inducted into Phi Beta Kappa 

at Georgetown University. 

During his rising sophomore 

summer, he participated in 

the Princeton-in-Beijing immersion program. The 

following summer he participated in the seventh 

Chinese Bridge competition at the international 

level and placed third. He spent his junior year at 

the International Christian University in Tokyo. 

After he returned, he and NORA MARIAN 

’06 spent several weeks exploring Brussels, 

Amsterdam and Paris. In summer 2010, he 

won the State Department’s Critical Language 

Scholarship in Korean and studied in another 

immersion program. His favorite part is staying 

with a host family. When he returns, he will travel 

back to China to study Chinese and education 

taking advantage of the year scholarship he won 

as part of the seventh Bridge competition. His 

plans after that are to take part in the Jet program 

(teaching in Japan) and will then concentrate on a 

doctoral program. 

JILLIAN NATAUPSKY, Collegeville, graduated 

from Connecticut College in May of this year. At 

UConn, her studies focused mainly on culture, but 

specifically on American and gender studies. She 

is looking forward to beginning her career as an 

undergraduate admissions counselor at Ursinus 

College. 

ERIC SAM, Berkeley, Calif. is a first year law 

student at the University Of California Berkeley 

School Of Law. 

JESSICA WILCOX, Annapolis, Md., is one of 

19 women who were selected this year to serve 

aboard the all-nuclear-powered submarine fleet. 

Wilcox will join the pioneering group of women 

after a Navy policy change in April that opened 

the door for them to serve aboard submarines. 

The issue of women on subs was considered and 

rejected several times since 1994 when women 

were allowed to serve on surface ships. 

RACHELLE ZAFRANY, New York, N.Y., has 

joined Chanel, Inc. as an Executive Assistant 

for the New York 9 West Office and will be 

reporting to Doug Ostling, Director – Events 

and Training. Rachelle recently graduated from 

Yeshiva University with a B.A. in International 

Business and previously interned at Chanel in both 

the Fashion Sales & Marketing and Fragrance & 

Beauty Education departments. 

2007 

MARINA CSERMELY, Pécs, Hungary, writes, 

I was at Sem in 2005/2006. It was one of the 

happiest and most fantastic years of my life so 

far. Through this life changing experience, I have 

become more open to other cultures and other 

people. Thank you! 

COREY KONYCKI , Hunlock Creek, is in his 

senior year at Robert Morris University majoring 

in business. He is starting his fourth year as right 

tackle on the RM football team. 

JACK MORTON, Moscow, a senior physical 

education and exercise science major at John 

Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, was 

granted the prestigious Congressional Award 

Gold Medal by United States Senator for 

Pennsylvania Robert P. Casey, Jr. in August. 

The Congressional Award Gold Medal is the 

highest honor legislated and presented to young 

Americans by the United States Congress. Jack 

enrolled in the Congressional Award Program in 

the summer of 2004 and completed 400 hours of 

voluntary public service, 200 hours of personal 

development, 200 hours of physical fitness and 

12 days of expedition/exploration activity. Jack 

first learned of the Congressional Award program 

while he was a student at Sem, where he played 

varsity basketball and served as a photographer 

and photo editor for the Opinator. This fall Jack is 

student-teaching at Kelvin Hall Science College in 

Kingston upon Hull, England. 

2008 

Jacob (Jake) Cole surprised friend and Sem 

classmate Paul Anderson at the U.S. Military 

Academy at West Point in August when Jake 

arrived for his “exchange” (fall semester 2010) 

from the U.S. Naval Academy. Friends since 

Lower School, Paul and Jake are now both in the 

third year at their respective service academies. 

They will be commissioned as officers upon 

graduation. 

Jacob (Jake) Cole, left, and Paul Anderson 

JONATHAN MICHAEL DOBLIX, Hanover 

Township, received the Dorsey Scholarship for 

the 2010-2011 academic year at the University 

of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Va. 

Undergraduates selected for the scholarship are 

outstanding students from diverse backgrounds 

who demonstrate a commitment to community, 

service, good citizenship and leadership. 

CHRISTINA INSALACO, Philadelphia, writes, I 

did a two-week study tour in Amsterdam in May. 

I then spent the summer in Philadelphia as an 

intern at Career Wardrobe where I helped counsel 

people going from welfare to the workforce. 

AMANDA MADDALENA, Cortland, N.Y. is 

a junior at SUNY Cortland and is still playing 

ice hockey. She was named one of the assistant 

captains for the 2010-2011 season. 

IVORI ZVORSKY, Charlottesville, Va. is studying 

abroad in Lille, France for four months. 

2009 

MASON ASTENEH, Dallas, transferred from 

LaSalle University to Misericordia in fall, 2010. 

LEE MOLITORIS , Scranton, writes, Wyoming 

Seminary made college easy! 

NEIL O’DONNELL, Baltimore, Md. won second 

place in Business Competition at Johns Hopkins 

University, which included graduate students. 

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M a r r i a g e s 

1987 

ROSE ANN SERPICO, Brooklyn N.Y. married 

Frank Powers on June 5 at the White Elephant 

Hotel in Nantucket, Mass. A wedding celebration 

was held on July 17 at the Loeb Boathouse 

in Central Park, New York, N.Y. The couple 

honeymooned in Rome and Positano, Italy. 

1998 

1971 

JACK EVANS married Michele Seiver Saturday, September 

18 in Georgetown. Evans, the Ward 2 councilman, and 

Seiver, an interior designer, tied the knot in front of 100 

family and friends at Grace Episcopal Church, followed by 

a reception at Jack’s Boathouse under the Key Bridge. The 

couple are D.C.’s version of the Brady Brunch: the blended 

family has three girls and three boys (ages 13-21), who all 

served as bridesmaids and groomsmen. 

2001 

EMILY BLAUM and THOMAS JAMES BRADSHAW ’01, Scranton, were united in the 

sacrament of marriage on Aug. 21, 2009, at St. Therese’s Church, Shavertown. The bride 

chose Sameera Desai as her maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Nancy Germano, friend of the 

bride; KENDRA SIRAK ’07, cousin of the bride; CAROLINE BLAUM ’04, cousin of the bride; 

Chriselle Bramante, friend of the bride; and Lindsay Mazzocco, friend of the bride and groom. 

Ella McWilliams served as the flower girl. 

The groom chose his brother, Jonathan Bradshaw, as his best man. Groomsmen were 

Christopher Swales, Nate Martian and Sal Carroll, friends of the groom, and Louis Blaum III 

and BRIAN BLAUM ’95, brothers of the bride. Sean McWilliams served as the ring bearer. 

The bride earned her bachelor of science degree in psychology from the University of Scranton in 

2005 and her master of science degree in occupational therapy from Thomas Jefferson University 

in 2009. Emily is employed by Fox Rehabilitation as an occupational therapist. 

The groom earned his bachelor of science degree in finance from Lehigh University in 2005. T.J. 

is a branch manager and senior financial adviser for Ameriprise Financial, Center Valley. 

1998 

LAURA BONITA, Plains, and Richard Charles Roloff were 

married on June 6, 2009 in Tarrytown, N.Y. Laura is the 

daughter of Barbara Bonita, Plains Township, and the late 

Dr. Raphael Bonita. The wedding party consisted of the bride 

and groom’s family and friends. The bride’s sister, DIANE 

BONITA ERAYDIN ’95 served as the matron of honor and 

the bridesmaids included MIRIAM ALINIKOFF ’99, NAOMI 

GREENWALD ’98 and BRIDGET MORIARITY ’98, originally 

of Kingston. The bride was given away by her two brothers, DR. 

RAPHAEL BONITA ’92 and DR. DAVID BONITA ’93, who 

were among the seven groomsmen. 

MATT LAPINSKI, Washington, D.C., and Mary Sumpter Johnson were united in marriage 

on January 2, 2010 in a private outdoor ceremony on Exuma Island, Bahamas. Members 

of the bride and groom’s immediate family observed as Rev. Kendal McKenzie officiated 

the ceremony. The couple chose sister of the groom AMI LAPINSKI ’00, and brother of 

the bride, David Johnson III as witnesses of the ceremony. A post wedding celebration was 

held at the Meridian House in Washington D.C. The bride is a graduate of the Westminster 

School and Vanderbilt University. She is Policy Advisor for Health and Labor, HELP 

Subcommittee on Children and Families with US Senator from Tennessee, Lamar Alexander. 

The groom is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he graduated Magna Cum 

Laude. He is managing director with Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal in Washington 

D.C. The couple honeymooned in Cabo San Lucas. They reside in Washington D.C. 

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1982 

MARK KULBASKI, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., 

writes, Our son Joseph Mark Kulbaski was born 

August 2, 2010, 7 lb 4 oz, 21 inches. Mom and 

baby are doing well. 

1995 

LUKE TILLEY, Philadelphia, and his wife Micki 

welcomed their third child, Elizabeth Mary, on 

March 31, 2010. Ellie weighed 6 lbs 13 oz and is 

adored by her older brother and sister, Sam and 

Charlotte. 

1999 

EILZABETH ROSENTHAL HOFFMEISTER, 

Milton, Vt., writes, I thought you might like to see 

a picture of my baby Annie in her Seminary bib! 

1983 

MARK ANTINNES, Tunkhannock, and his wife 

Michelle announce the arrival of their third child, 

Jack Oliver on July 6, 2010. Jack joins brothers 

Matthew and Kyle in the family. Mark writes, He 

is healthy and happy and so is mom. 

1996 

LINDA STEELE VAN SICKLE and husband, 

John, live and work near the Harrisburg area. 

They have two children: Matthew, 2 years old, 

and Adam who was born in May 2010. 

GAEL ZAFRANY New York, N.Y. and her 

husband Richard Malish welcomed Raviv Shimon 

Malish on July 7, 2010. Raviv is seen with Uncle 

Beau Zafrany ’12. 

1993 

JENNIFER and BILL SORDONI ’93 welcomed 

Samuel Edward on June 16, 2010. He weighed 9 

lbs. 6 oz. and was 21.5 inches long. He joins sister 

Caroline ’24 and brother Will. 

1997 

KAREN SUMMERHILL O’DONNELL, Mystic, 

Conn., and her husband Thomas welcomed baby 

Sarah Elizabeth on May 12, 2010. She weighed 

6 pounds 9 ounces and was 18 inches long. 

“William and Anna Kate are thrilled with their 

new baby sister!” 


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1928 

HELEN BUHLER, Greer, S.C., formerly of North 

Main Street and North River Street, Wilkes- 

Barre, died Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010, in McCall 

Hospice House, Simpsonville, S.C., following 

an illness. Miss Buhler was born in Baltimore, 

Md., a daughter of the late Albert and Rosalie 

Fontan Buhler, and lived in Baltimore, Md., and 

Hazleton before moving to Wilkes-Barre. She 

was a graduate of the class of 1926, James M. 

Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre, and of the 

Wyoming Seminary Dean School of Business. 

She had been a secretary and had been employed 

by the Miners Bank of Wilkes-Barre, Miners 

National Bank, Midlantic Bank and the United 

Penn Bank, all of Wilkes-Barre, and had retired 

in 1973. Miss Buhler was a lifelong member of 

Calvary Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre, and 

of its successor, Holy Cross Episcopal Church. 

She was very devoted to her church and was a 

member of the choir and the altar guild and had 

been parish financial secretary for many years. 

She was preceded in death by her sister, Blanche 

Anderson. Surviving are several nieces and 

nephews, including Albert Anderson and his wife, 

Muriel, of Taylors, S.C. 

1931 

MILDRED SPEICHER, Dallas, died August 16, 

2010, at the Meadows Nursing and Rehabilitation 

Center in Dallas at the age of 100. She was born 

in Plymouth on October 30, 1909, and was a 

daughter of the late Augustav and Anna Schiefler 

Speicher. After graduating from Larksville 

High School, she attended Sem’s Dean School 

of Business. When the Plymouth Presbyterian 

Church closed after the flood of 1972, she became 

a member of the Cherry Street Bible Church. 

She was a member of the Eastern Star Plymouth 

Chapter. Two brothers, Frank and Ralph, and two 

nephews, Dr. Frank Speicher and Forrest Speicher, 

preceded her in death. Surviving are great-nieces 

and nephews, great-great-nieces and nephews; and 

great-great-great-nieces and nephews. 

1932 

ARTHUR KUSCHKE, Dresher, died July 1, 2010. 

He was 96 years old. He was born in Wilkes- 

Barre, a son of the late Arthur Wyndham Kuschke 

Sr., and Mildred Parkhurst Kuschke. His only 

sibling, Mary-Carson Kuschke, died in January of 

2010. Mr. Kuschke received his early education 

at Wyoming Seminary. He obtained a bachelor’s 

degree from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill., in 

1936. He then attended Westminster Theological 

Seminary in Philadelphia, from which he received 

a bachelor of divinity degree in 1939 and a master 

of divinity degree in 1940. Upon graduation, 

Mr. Kuschke served the seminary as a field 

representative. In 1942, he became librarian of 

Westminster Theological Seminary, a position he 

filled with distinction until his retirement in 1978. 

During his long tenure, the library’s collection 

was greatly expanded and a library building was 

erected. Rev. Kuschke was an ordained minister 

in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He 

served the denomination faithfully and well on 

denominational committees and as a member of 

its Philadelphia Presbytery. He was a member of 

the committee that produced the Trinity Hymnal 

for the denomination. In 1951, Rev. Kuschke 

married Charlotte Milling. They were blessed 

with three children: David (Carol), John (Kristin) 

and Margaret Cowell (Jesse, Sr.). They have five 

grandchildren. Summers at their home in Prouts 

Neck, Maine, were memorable times for the 

family. 

1933 

DOROTHY JAMES SINON, Harrisburg, passed 

away on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, at her home. 

Born on January 19, 1915, in Plymouth, she 

was a daughter of the late Governor Arthur H. 

James and Ada Morris. She was also preceded 

in death by her twin brother, Morris; another 

brother, Arthur Jr., and in 2003, by her husband 

of 60 years, Frank A. Sinon. She leaves behind 

a daughter, Leslie Sinon Powell and son-in-law, 

William R. Powell, of Harrisburg. During 1939, 

Mrs. Sinon’s father, Arthur H. James, a widower, 

campaigned for and was elected Governor of 

Pennsylvania. Shortly after taking office, acting 

First Lady Gracie Hainey Morris, his motherin-law, 

died. As a result, Dorothy’s career took 

an unexpected turn. Headlines read “Promising 

Career on Stage Interrupted To Become 

Governor’s Housekeeper,” “Efficient Clear-eyed 

Business Woman Tends to Job of First Lady.” 

During the ensuing two years of her father’s 

governorship, Dorothy served with distinction as 

First Lady. Then one night at a Supreme Court 

dinner, Dorothy met a distinguished young 

lawyer serving as a Deputy Attorney General in 

her father’s administration, Frank A. Sinon, of 

Austin. The following year on November 14, 

1942, Dorothy and Frank were married. Dorothy 

became the first daughter of a war-time governor 

to marry in Pennsylvania history. 

1935 

CHARLES LAYCOCK, Beverly Hills, Fla., June 

9, 2010, at home. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Charles 

spent the first 36 years of his life there and always 

considered the Wyoming Valley his true home. He 

graduated from the Hill School, 1935; Princeton 

University, 1939; and Cornell Medical School, 

1943. In 1942, he wed Elizabeth Crook in Bucks 

County, Pa. She predeceased him in 2001. Surviving 

are children Elizabeth Aumack, Charles Laycock, 

COl abs is t uN aor ti e s 

Frederick Laycock and Margaret Holtsclaw; four 

grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He 

spent his working years as a general surgeon in 

Wilkes-Barre and Long Branch, N.J. 

1937 

CHARLES EPSTEIN, Dallas, died at Wilkes- 

Barre General Hospital on February 25, 2010, 

at the age of 90. He was born at home on South 

Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, on January 15, 

1920, to the late Charles M. Epstein Sr. and Helen 

Levi Epstein. He was educated at Harry Hillman 

Academy, Kingston schools and Wyoming 

Seminary, graduated from Horace Mann, N.Y., 

and attended the University of Virginia. He served 

in the U.S. Army from November 1941 until 

October 1945, when he was honorably discharged 

as a first lieutenant. During his service, he earned 

the bronze star and five battle stars. It was during 

his service that he met his future wife, Juliette 

Glesener of Wiltz, Luxembourg. They married 

on May 28, 1945, and enjoyed 55 years together 

until her death in September 2000. Upon his 

arrival back in Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Epstein began 

his professional career with the family business, 

Liberty Throwing Company. He served as CEO of 

Liberty and remained active in the business, going 

to the office every day until his death. During his 

life in Wilkes-Barre, he took an active interest in 

the community and served on many boards as 

board member and/or officer/chairman including 

the Boy Scouts, Westmoreland Club, Penn State 

Wilkes-Barre Campus, College Misericordia, First 

Eastern Bank, United Fund, North Mountain 

Club, Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, SPCA, 

Children’s Service Center, Wilkes-Barre Chamber 

of Commerce, Planned Parenthood and the 

Heritage House. In addition, he chaired the United 

Fund Drive, the Wilkes-Barre Industrial Fund 

Drive and the Planned Parenthood Drive. He was 

an avid fisherman from the time he was a young 

man and throughout his life. He particularly loved 

to fish at the North Mountain Club and counted 

his times there with friends and family as some 

of his happiest. At age 62, he decided to take up 

flying, earning his pilot’s license and instrument 

rating with his small Piper Cherokee that he kept 

at the Forty Fort Airport. His sister, Dorothy 

Sicher Roberts, preceded him in death. 

Mr. Epstein is survived by three daughters, 

LINDA EPSTEIN ’65, Baltimore, Md.; SUSIE 

FISHEL ’68, Lexington, N.C., and SALLY 

EPSTEIN ’71, Santa Fe, N.M.; five grandchildren, 

Laura, Stephen, Brandon, Charles and Michael; 

six great-grandchildren; and two nephews. 

MARY NELSON JAMES, Fort Myers, Fla., 

passed away on March 3, 2010, at the Barrington 

Terrace Nursing Home. She was born on February 

18, 1916, in Plymouth, a daughter to the late 

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O b i t u a r i e s 

Thomas and Amelia Nelson. She graduated 

from Plymouth High School and Wyoming 

Seminary School of Business with honors. She 

was extremely proud of her long employment 

with UGI Utilities Corporation in Kingston and 

Lancaster, and never failed to tell anyone she met 

that she was “secretary to the president.” Mary 

was preceded in death by her parents and sisters, 

Isabelle Nelson Powell and Ruth Nelson Weaver. 

Mary is survived by her husband, Archie James, 

of Barrington Terrace, Fla.; a nephew and nieces. 

She was a member of UGI’s Quarter Century Club 

and the First United Methodist Church, Lancaster. 

MARGARET HUTCHINSON PETROSKI, 

Kingston, died on February 24, 2010, at the 

Laurels, Kingston, where she was a guest. She 

was born in Mount Holly, N.J., on January 20, 

1922, a daughter of the late Howard and Sarah 

Purcell Megee. She graduated from Kingston 

High School and Wyoming Seminary. Prior to 

her retirement, she worked as a seamstress in the 

garment industry. Her husband, John Petroski, 

preceded her in death. Surviving are her son, Allan 

Jones, Kingston; grandson, Andrew Jones; and 

granddaughter, Dawn Jones. 

1938 

GLADYS KURLAND COHEN, Forty Fort, died 

August 30, 2010, at the Manor Care Nursing 

Center in Kingston. Born in Edwardsville, Gladys 

was the daughter of the late Isadore and Sarah 

Kaplan Kurland. She graduated from Edwardsville 

High School and Wyoming Seminary Business 

School. For many years, Gladys was employed 

as secretary at Temple Israel. Gladys played 

world-class bridge and enjoyed telling stories to 

her grandchildren. She was a member of Temple 

Israel. She was preceded in death by her beloved 

husband, Samuel Cohen; and her brothers, Dr. 

Albert Kurland and Leonard Kurland. She is 

survived by her two sons: Mark and his wife, 

Lillian Cohen, Wilkes-Barre, and Paul and his 

wife, Traci Azer, Newport Beach, Calif.; and five 

grandsons: Benjamin and his wife, Carla Cohen; 

Isaac Cohen, Daniel, Jeffrey and Gabriel Azer; 

and two great-grandchildren, Julian and Sophie 

Cohen. 

1939 

BARBARA (BOBBIE) PAYNE ACHTLEY, Acton, 

Mass., died March 4 at Lifecare of Nashoba 

Valley in Littleton, where she had lived for the 

past six years. She was 88 and had been a resident 

of Lincoln since 1956 and a summer resident 

of Edgartown since 1967. Barbara Standish 

Payne was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Dec. 

16, 1921; her parents were Bruce Bullard Payne 

and Marion (Monnie) Woodward Payne. She 

grew up in Wilkes-Barre and graduated from 

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Wyoming Seminary in 1939. She enrolled at 

Wheaton College but left because she felt she 

was not contributing to the war effort. She later 

enrolled at the Katharine Gibbs School where she 

received her degree. She worked in the pathology 

laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital. 

In the summer of 1953, she met Dana Winslow 

Atchley Jr., and they were married on May 1, 

1954. They had four daughters: Marion (Quita), 

Abigail, Cornelia and Katherine. An avid tennis 

player, sailor and horsewoman, Bobbie loved to 

ride her horse, Joplin, at Pimpneymouse Farm 

on Chappaquiddick, and sail her Herreshoff 

Jumpstart during summers on the Vineyard. 

She was mother to all. Her expansive family 

of children, stepchildren, grandchildren, stepgrandchildren 

and their friends filled her house 

during winters in Lincoln and summers in 

Edgartown, always to her great delight. She loved 

having young people around her and unfailingly 

took a keen interest in what they were doing with 

their lives. Her daughter Abbie died in May of 

1977 at the age of 21, and the loss profoundly 

affected Bobbie for the remainder of her life. 

Following Abbie’s death, the Atchleys founded 

the Anorexia Bulimia Care Organization, known 

as ABC. 

1940 

WARNER COOK, Whiting, N.J., passed away 

Feb. 25, 2010. He was born on December 15, 

1920, in Warren, Ohio, and was a son of the 

late Ethel Athey Cook and Benjamin J. Cook, 

of Kingston. He attended Wyoming Seminary 

and Bucknell Junior College. He owned and 

operated the camera concession in Fowler Dick 

& Walker Boston Store, Wilkes-Barre. He was a 

member of Christ Evangelical Church, Whiting, 

N.J., and served as a trustee, a steward and 

on the official board. He was a member of the 

Masonic Lodge No. 531, Dallas. Warner was a 

U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War II, 

where he served as a Staff Sergeant. Warner was 

preceded in death by his son, David, in 1973 and 

his daughter, Damaris, in 2008. He is survived 

by his wife, Gwyneth Sturdevant Cook; two sons 

and their wives, Warner Jr., and Linda Cook, 

and Thomas and Jeanette Cook; one sister and 

brother-in-law, Anne and Maurice Dickerson; 

and six grandchildren, Erica, Julie, Allison, Kevin, 

Jonathan and Stephanie. 

1942 

DONALD MCELROY, Dover N.J., passed away 

on March 24, 2010. He spent only one year at 

Wyoming Seminary, but spoke of it often and 

fondly. After graduation, he attended Dartmouth 

College and served in the Navy in the Pacific 

during WW2. After the war he attended the 

University of Maryland School of Dentistry and 

practiced dentistry in Dover, N.J. for 55 years. He 

was widowed in 2003 after 58 years of marriage 

to his wife Jeane. He is survived by a son (also 

a dentist as was Donald’s father), a daughter, six 

grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. 

1943 

MARGARET FREDERICK EATON, Chesapeake 

Va., and previously of Forty Fort, died May 19, 

2010, at Chesapeake Regional Medical Center. 

She graduated from Briarwood Junior College 

in New York. She was a fashion consultant, 

bookkeeper and housewife. She was married 

one week shy of 50 years to Raymon M. Eaton 

Jr., also from Forty Fort. Surviving are their two 

daughters, Ellen W. Eaton and Jayne H. Eaton of 

Chesapeake, Va., and formerly of Forty Fort. 

JOHN GREGSON, Brownsville, Vt., died April 

28, 2010, at the Springfield Health and Rehab 

Center, where he had been a resident for the 

previous 14 weeks. John was born in Troy, N.Y., 

May 1925, son of the late George Chadwick 

Gregson and Noeline Vernon Gregson. The family 

moved to Dallas in 1932, where he attended 

school, graduating with the class of 1943 from 

Wyoming Seminary. He joined the U.S. Navy 

V12 program and attended Princeton before OT 

school at Cornell. In 1946, on his 21st birthday, 

he became commander of his ship as he outranked 

a second young officer by one day. John would say 

“and that’s how we won the war.” An attractive 

offer from Texaco brought him into foreign sales 

with a five-year assignment to Nicaragua and 

Honduras. On his first leave back to the States, he 

proposed to Abbie Buckman, who joined him in 

Honduras. Their next move was to Connecticut 

and export sales of heavy equipment for Thew 

Shovel Co. In 1960 he became an insurance agent 

with Mass Mutual. Several years later, he became 

interested in the large corporate insurance market, 

joining Alexander & Alexander Inc., where 

he was vice president and sales manager in the 

New York office. Soon, in partnership with John 

Alden, he founded the Alden Gregson Co., an 

all-purpose insurance agency operating statewide. 

He directed AG until he sold it in 1981 to found 

J.V. Gregson Associates with his wife, Abbie. For 

many years, Hartland, Vt., where he served as 

Justice of the Peace, was their home. They moved 

to Brownsville, where he was an active participant 

in the Men’s Breakfast, delivered Meals On 

Wheels and was a member of the First Universalist 

Society of Hartland Four Corners. He was a loyal 

Rotarian both in Honduras and in Woodstock, 

Vt. John was preceded in death by his parents and 

both sisters, AGNES ’35 and BETTY GREGSON 

’37. He is survived by ABBIE ’47, his wife of 60 

years; his son, George, and his ex-wife, and their


children, Taylor and Edith; daughter Barbara 

and her husband, John Himmelien; and her two 

children; daughter Bonnie and her husband, Louis 

Coakley, and their children; as well as a daughter, 

Phebe, and her husband, Burton Miller; and their 

children. 

JOHN JAMES, Kingston, passed away on May 

22, 2010. Born in Kingston, he was the son of 

the late John and Florence Koch James. John was 

a graduate of Kingston High School, Wyoming 

Seminary Dean School of Business and University 

of Pennsylvania Extension School. He was a 

U.S. Army veteran of World War II. John was 

employed by the former Harris Hardware and 

Supply Co. and retired from Pennsylvania Gas 

& Water Co. John resided in Kingston most of 

his life. He was a member of Church of Christ 

Uniting, Kingston. Preceding him in death was a 

sister, Mary Louise James. 

LUCY HYDOCK SHERMAN, Plains, died 

May 26, 2010, at the Milton S. Hershey Medical 

Center. A lifelong resident of Plains Township, she 

was a daughter of the late Thomas and Pauline 

(Wolanski) Hydock. Lucy was a graduate of Plains 

Memorial High School and Wyoming Seminary 

Dean School of Business and was employed as 

a server for the Golden Palace, Parsons, and last 

for the Plains Ambulance Association Hall. She 

was a member of Ss. Peter & Paul Church, Plains 

Township, and the church choir and church 

quilters group. She was an avid sports fan cheering 

for the Phillies, Eagles and Penn State. She was 

preceded in death by her husband, Joseph A. 

Sherman, in November 1969; brother, Joseph 

Hydock; sister, Angela Naber; and grandson, 

Jonathan Boris. Surviving are her daughters, Susan 

Eustice and her husband, Eugene, Shickshinny; 

Marie Boris and her companion, Leonard Schall, 

Plains Township, and Jane Stewart and her 

husband, Edward, Plains Township; son, Paul 

Sherman and his wife, Barbara, Wrentham, Mass.; 

grandchildren and great-grandchildren; sister, 

Helen Rutkowski, Kingston; as well as nieces and 

nephews. 

1944 

ALBERT GROBLEWSKI, Captain Cook, Hawaii, 

February 2, 2009. 

SUSAN SAYES MCGHEE, Homosassa, Fla., died 

at Tuscany House in Ocala, Fla. on March 31, 

2010. She was born on April 2, 1927 in Wilkes- 

Barre, Pa., the daughter of the late Brinely and 

Louise Sayes. Susan was a member of St. Anne’s 

Episcopal Church in Crystal River. A lifelong 

educator, Susan taught at the high school and 

university level before completing her career at St. 

Anne’s School. She enjoyed golf, bridge, and New 

York Times crossword puzzles. She graduated Phi 

Beta Kappa from Dickinson College in Carlisle. 

and earned her master of arts degree at West 

Chester University in West Chester. Susan was 

preceded in death by hr husband, John McGhee, 

sister Margaret J. Van Zandt and granddaughter, 

Heather L. McGhee. She is survived by sons Dr. 

J. Robert McGhee of Ocala, Fla., and Michael E. 

McGhee of Belle Mead, N.J.; daughter Susan M. 

Davis Westminster, Md.; grandchildren. 

1945 

RITA GOLDSTEIN WOLBERG, Kingston, 

passed away on April 12, 2010. Rita was the 

daughter of Sara and Sol Goldstein of Wilkes- 

Barre. She was born in 1928 and attended 

Wyoming Seminary, graduating cum laude in 

1945. Rita attended the University of Chicago 

and married Don Wolberg in 1948, and was 

divorced in 1975. Their two surviving daughters 

are Judy (Mrs. Ron Michaelson) and Sally 

Wolberg, a psychotherapist in Metuchen, N.J. 

Initially, Rita taught a Dixieland jazz class in 

the Wilkes University Music Department. She 

had an avid interest in music, art and literature. 

With the passage of time, she became active 

in the community, focusing on the League of 

Women Voters. Other interests included the 

YZA, (young Zionist Association) and the Jewish 

Community Center Drama Guild. In 1985, Rita 

was appointed to the newly formed Board of 

the Luzerne County Commission for Women. 

Rita was affiliated with many local academic 

institutions. She maintained lifelong participation 

in the Wyoming Seminary Alumni Association, 

supported fundraising projects at King’s College, 

and was a student of Wilkes College theatre 

classes. Mrs. Wolberg was the President of the 

Wilkes-Barre Philharmonic. 

1946 

JESSIE POWELL SCHOECK, Las Vegas, Nev., 

passed away Aug. 15, 2010. She was born to 

Cyrus and Edna Powell, Aug. 11, 1927, in 

Scranton. Jessie, a retired registered nurse, was a 

graduate of Meyers High School in Wilkes-Barre, 

Wyoming Seminary, and the Nesbitt Memorial 

Hospital School of Nursing in Wilkes-Barre. She 

worked as an RN for 61 years with many of those 

years being at Sunrise Hospital. Jessie enjoyed 

playing golf, bingo, going to the beach and 

spending time with her children and grandsons. 

Jessie was preceded in death by parents, Cyrus 

and Edna Powell; husband, Raymond Hoover; 

husband, George Schoeck; and infant grandson, 

Kyle Hoover. She is survived by her loving 

daughter, Denise Olsen (Stan); sons, R. Scott 

Hoover (Lori) and James P. Hoover (Sandra); 

grandsons, Cameron, Eric and Christopher; and 

many nieces and nephews. 

1947 

STEPHEN LUKAS, Forty Fort, passed away 

August 28, 2010, at the Wilkes-Barre General 

Hospital. Born in Tichy Potok, Slovakia, he was 

a son of the late John and Martha Rejnic Lukesh, 

and immigrated to the United States with his 

family at the age of 5. Stephen was a graduate of 

Swoyersville High School, Class of 1941. He also 

graduated from the Wyoming Seminary Dean 

School of Business and the Williamsport Technical 

Institute. Stephen served in the United States 

Army Air Corps during World War II, where he 

sustained injuries. He also worked in maintenance 

at the Tobyhanna Army Depot. Stephen was 

facilities engineering supervisor in the engineering 

department at the Wilkes-Barre Veteran’s 

Administration Medical Center, and retired in 

1981. He was a life member, past commander and 

served on the board of directors of the American 

Legion Post 644, Swoyersville. He was also a life 

member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars 283, 

Kingston, and the Disabled American Veterans 

Chapter, Wyoming Valley. Stephen was president 

of Region 11 of the National Slovak Society, a 

member of Assembly 617, N.S.S., Ashley, and 

Tatra of Luzerne County. He was a member and 

past president of the American Federation of 

Government Employees. He also served on the 

board of directors of the VA Credit Union. As 

an immigrant from Slovakia, Stephen recognized 

the importance of people finding their ancestral 

heritage. He made eight trips to Slovakia and 

other areas of Europe, and assisted many in 

finding their relatives and hometowns in Slovakia. 

Stephen was a member of St. Nicholas Byzantine 

Catholic Church, Swoyersville. He is preceded in 

death by his sisters, Mary Smith, Anna Jakubczyk, 

Catherine Pitcavage, Martha Skerchak and Helen 

Zaterick. Surviving are his wife of 60 years, the 

former Margaret Zaterick of Swoyersville; his 

daughters and sons-in-law, Stephanie and John 

Kurilla of Larksville, Jeanne and John Barilla 

of Swoyersville, Cynthia and Michael Russo 

of Pipersville, Patricia and Robert Grande of 

Lansdowne, Mary Ann and Robert Wagner of 

Rock Tavern, N.Y.; and his eight grandchildren, 

Susan Kurilla, Jared Barilla, Stephen, Rebecca 

and Matthew Grande, Zachary and Renee Russo, 

and Emma Wagner. Also surviving are numerous 

nieces and nephews. 

1948 

CHARLES J. BUFALINO, JR., West Pittston, 

passed away on June 21, 2010, surrounded by 

his loving family. Born in Pittston on April 17, 

1931, he was a son of the late Attorney Charles J. 

Bufalino Sr. and the late Gaetana Volpe Bufalino. 

He was a devoted member of the St. Anthony 

of Padua Church in Exeter, where he served as 

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a eucharistic minister. Charles was a graduate of 

Wyoming Seminary, Villanova University and the 

University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 1954, 

he began his distinguished legal career out of the 

Pittston law office that was founded by his father 

in 1930. In his storied and accomplished 54 years 

of practicing law, he was part of litigation that set 

precedents in areas of First Amendment rights and 

the freedom of the press. At the age of 75, Charles 

personally argued a matter before the Supreme 

Court of Pennsylvania that set a precedent 

on behalf of workers in the area of Workers’ 

Compensation. He was a zealous defender of 

the rights of those with mental health issues and 

intellectual disabilities. Charles served as a Special 

Assistant Attorney General, Luzerne County 

Solicitor and Solicitor to many municipalities, 

including the Borough of West Pittston, of which 

he was a lifelong resident. During his tenure as 

a Luzerne County Solicitor, he was an integral 

part of the team that brought minor league 

baseball to Northeastern Pennsylvania. He was 

active in countless charitable and community 

organizations, including the Pittston Rotary 

Club and the Wilkes-Barre Chapter of Unico. 

Charles and his wife, the former LORETTA ANN 

KNORR ’54, enjoyed 51 years of marriage and 

have five sons, Attorney CHARLES J. BUFALINO 

III ’78 of Dallas; DR. KEVIN T. BUFALINO 

’80 of Philadelphia; JAMIE C. BUFALINO ’83, 

a Senior Editor for People Magazine in New 

York City; Attorney BRIAN A. BUFALINO 

’87 of Shavertown; and Attorney MARK W. 

BUFALINO ’88 of Trucksville. He is survived by 

his wife and sons, as well as by his daughters-inlaw 

Maureen Bufalino and Kathy Bufalino and 

grandchildren. 

CHARLES MOFFAT, Scranton. Born 1934, 

he was the son of the late John G. and Jane M. 

Scull Moffat Sr. He was a longtime resident 

of the Abington area and a member of The 

Church of The Epiphany in Glenburn. Prior to 

his retirement, he was the superintendent of the 

Dunmore Cemetery. He had been employed with 

Hirman Walker and J.H. Brooks & Co., and 

owned his own stock option business early in his 

career. He attended Wyoming Seminary before 

graduating from St. Paul’s Preparatory School. 

He attended Duke University and New York 

Institute of Finance. He wrote a column for The 

Abington Journal in the 1960s, dealing primarily 

with political issues. Charles served in the Navy 

where he was a golden gloves boxer. He was a 

manager for several local boxers and a partner at 

the original Century Boxing Club in Scranton. He 

is survived by three daughters, Melette Elizabeth 

Moffat, Glenburn; Christina Louise Moffat, Cape 

Coral, Fla.; and Julia Jane Moffat Wanat, Newton 

Lake; a grandchild; two sisters, Jane Mueller and 

Margaret Young, and several nieces, nephews and 

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cousins. He was preceded in death by brothers 

John, David and Stanley and a sister, Grace. 

ROBERT POLLOCK, Portville, N.Y., passed 

away Feb. 14, 2010 in Sisters Hospital, Buffalo, 

after a brief illness. Born June 1, 1927, in Portville, 

he was a son of the late Arthur and Christel 

Comes Pollock. On Sept. 17, 1949, in the First 

Presbyterian Church of Kingston, Pa., he married 

the former Lila K. Garrahan, who survives. A 

veteran of World War II, Bob served with the 

U.S. Army Air Corps in Florida. He was a design 

draftsman at Clark Bros. for 10 years, and then 

operated the family oil lease until his retirement. 

He was a member and elder of the First 

Presbyterian Church of Portville, was one of the 

oldest members of Portville American Legion Post 

814 and was a member of the Ismailia Shriners of 

Buffalo and Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite 

in the Valley of Jamestown. Surviving besides his 

wife of 60 years are three sons: Garry A. Pollock 

of Portville, Thomas C. Pollock of Orlando, Fla., 

and Christopher A. Pollock tof Portville; five 

grandchildren, six great grandchildren; a brother, 

Thomas C. Pollock of Portville; a niece; and a 

nephew. 

1949 

ROBERT FRANKLIN, Chatham N.J., died at 

Garden Terrace Nursing Home in Chatham on 

Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. Born in Kingston, 

Mr. Franklin lived in Chatham for 53 years. 

He received his bachelor’s degree in English 

from Upsala College and later his master’s in 

psychology from Montclair State University. He 

worked as a lab technician at Bell Laboratories 

in Murray Hill from 1954 to 1960; and from 

1961 to 1971 as a development engineer at Tung 

Sol Laboratories in East Hanover, where he held 

two patents for electron multipliers. He spent the 

remaining years of his working life, from 1971 

to 1997, as a commercial lines underwriter at 

Chubb and Son, Inc. Robert Franklin was an 

active member of the Chatham United Methodist 

Church, where he volunteered as an usher and 

Sunday School teacher for many years, and with 

the Steven Ministry. He was also a member of the 

Kiwanis Club. He is survived by his wife of 56 

years, Dona, née Weaver; his sisters Jean Newman 

and Elizabeth Ridall; his children, Amy Richter 

and her husband Eric of Garrison, N.Y.; Fred 

and his wife Joanne of Chester; Paul and his wife 

Karen of Chatham; Tom and his partner Jonathan 

of Chatham; as well as seven grandchildren. 

1955 

MARYLIN KEEFER CARTER, Mountain 

Top, passed away on Saturday, July 3, 2010. 

Born October 8, 1937, in Askam, Pa., she was 

a daughter of the late Samuel P. and Minnie R. 

(Rowe) Keefer. A graduate of the Bloomsburg 

State Teachers College, Marilyn taught English in 

the Crestwood School District from 1962 until 

her retirement in 2003. During her years there, 

she established the Independent Study Program, 

served as English department chairperson, was 

an advisor to various student groups and was 

active in the Crestwood Education Association. 

Marilyn was a member of the NEPA Writing 

Council and worked with the Wyoming Seminary 

Alumni Association for many years. She was also 

a member of the Christ United Methodist Church 

of Mountain Top. Marilyn is survived by her 

children, John Carter and Jacqueline Fine; sonin-law, 

Howard (Sam) Fine; and grandson, all of 

Mountain Top. 

1957 

WESLEY FRANKLIN, Moscow, passed away 

February 19, 2010, at Mercy Hospital, Scranton, 

surrounded by his loving family. His wife is the 

former Carole A. Galardi. The couple celebrated 

their 47th wedding anniversary on January 5, 

2010. Born in Scranton, he was a son of the late 

J. Wesley and Hannah Charlotte Franklin. A 

graduate of Wyoming Seminary and Amherst 

College, Wesley received his master’s degree 

from Syracuse University. He retired as the 

executive director of the Advanced Technology 

Center at Luzerne County Community College, 

Nanticoke. Wesley was a member of Moscow 

United Methodist Church, Masonic Lodge No. 

504, and Moscow Sportsman’s Club. He was a 

quintessential sportsman who enjoyed hunting, 

golfing, and spending time outdoors. Wesley 

was a member of the North Pocono School 

Board, serving one term as president, and was 

also a member of the Moscow Borough Council. 

He was an avid baseball fan and coached the 

Moscow Little League and North Pocono Babe 

Ruth baseball teams. A beloved husband, father, 

grandfather, and friend, his quick wit and sense 

of humor will be greatly missed by all who knew 

him. His love for his grandchildren, literature, 

music, and baseball provided him endless 

joy. Wesley’s compassion and understanding 

touched the lives of many; he gave freely and 

without hesitation. These traits he passed on to 

his children. A sister, Jean F. Birchard, of Reno, 

Nev., preceded him in death. Also surviving are 

two sons, John Wesley II and his wife, Andrea, 

Moscow, and Daniel Joseph, Denton, Md.; a 

daughter, Sarah A. Sobotor and her husband, 

Thomas, Warwick, N.Y.; two granddaughters and 

two sisters. 

1967 

JAMES R. WEISS, Potomac Md., passed away 

suddenly on June 27, 2010. Beloved husband

of 38 years to LYNN ’68; devoted father of 

Allana Kelly (Mike) and Tessa Hicks (Dan); 

adored grandfather of Jonah; cherished son of 

NORMAN ’43 and the late ZELDA WEISS 

’45; loving brother of SUSAN ’70 (Judd) Shoval 

and JEFFREY ’73 (Nancy Freeman) Weiss. 

Also survived by many caring nephews, nieces, 

cousins, friends, partners and colleagues. James 

spent his childhood in Wilkes-Barre and was 

a graduate of Northwestern University and 

Catholic University of America Columbus School 

of Law. He practiced antitrust law for 36 years. 

He was trial attorney with the Antitrust Division 

of the United States Department of Justice for 

14 years, ultimately serving as its Chief of the 

Transportation Energy & Agriculture Section. He 

was the first recipient of the Antitrust Division 

Harold M. Stephens Award in 1988. Since 1988 

he had been a partner in the law firm of K&L 

Gates LLP and its predecessor firms and co-chair 

of the firm’s Antitrust & Trade Regulation 

Practice. James was an avid biker, tennis player 

and outdoorsman. 

1976 

BRADELEY BIRTH, Sterling Va., died on October 

6, 2009 at his home surrounded by his family. He 

was born on November 24, 1958 in Waco, Texas. 

Brad was the beloved husband of 25 years of 

Kathleen P. Birth, devoted father of Brad J. Birth and 

Alex C. Birth both of Sterling, and son of HAROLD 

’51 and Shirley Birth of Santa Monica, Ca. Brad was 

a 1992 graduate of Drexel University and spent the 

last 27 years working as an electrical and computer 

engineer for Lockheed Martin. He volunteered as a 

Boy Scout leader for five years in the Sterling area 

and was an avid Dallas Cowboys fan. 

1982 

DANIE BISHOP, Harding, passed away on April 

14, 2010, at the Shoemaker Animal Hospital, 

where he was an associate veterinarian. Dr. 

Bishop was born in Altoona, Pa., in 1964, moving 

to Harding in 1967 where he spent his entire 

life. He attended Wyoming Area Schools until 

the seventh grade, and he then transferred to 

Wyoming Seminary, where he graduated in 1982. 

He attended Wilkes College and graduated magna 

cum laude with a degree in biological science. 

He attended St. Matthew’s School of Veterinary 

Medicine, Grand Cayman Island. During the 

past year, he completed his clinical studies at 

the University of Illinois in Champaign, Ill. He 

graduated January 19, 2010, passed his National 

Boards and received his Pennsylvania Veterinary 

license just three weeks before his death. Though 

it was to be short-lived, he realized his lifelong 

dream of joining his father in practice. Dan was 

preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, 

D.C. and Camilla Bishop, of Harding; maternal 

grandparents, Robert and Daisy Leverett of 

Manteno, Ill.; and his father-in-law, Stephen 

Simko, of Harding. He is survived by his wife of 

20 years, the former Theresa Simko, of Harding; 

his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Bishop of 

Harding; his mother-in-law, Dorothy Simko, of 

Harding. His sister DEVON BISHOP ’84 passed 

away on May 6, 2010. 

1984 

DEVON LEE BISHOP, Swoyersville, passed 

away May 6, 2010, after a courageous battle with 

colon cancer. She was born August 16, 1966, 

in Altoona. She moved with her parents and 

brother to Harding, at age one. Recently she had 

resided in Swoyersville. She attended Wyoming 

Area Schools and Wyoming Seminary, where she 

was active in musical and theatrical productions. 

Devon was a member of a musical family and 

began performing as a child with her mother and 

brother. At age 14, she appeared with her mother 

and uncle in a production of “South Pacific” at 

Enchanted Hills Playhouse in Syracuse, Ind. She 

was a member of the Music Box Players and 

appeared in many productions. She also played 

“Yenta” in the Jewish Community Center’s 

production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” She played 

in several pool leagues and had been a part of a 

bowling team. She had been office manager at the 

Shoemaker Animal Hospital, West Wyoming, for 

over 18 years. She was preceded in death by her 

brother, DR. DANIE MARK BISHOP ’82, who 

died suddenly April 14, 2010. She is survived by 

her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Bishop. 

KURT REISINGER, New York, N.Y., died on 

June 29, 2010. Born March 22, 1966, in Wilkes- 

Barre he spent the better part of his first 30 years 

growing up in the Wyoming Valley. Kurt attended 

Meyers Junior High School and graduated from 

Wyoming Seminary where he was a member of 

the lacrosse team. Kurt attended King’s College 

and graduated magna cum laude with degrees 

in political science and business administration. 

After graduation, Kurt was employed locally in 

the commercial real estate business, developing 

and managing substantial rental housing. He then 

relocated to New York City and earned his MBA 

in commercial real estate at NYU’s Graduate 

School of Business. Kurt focused his career on 

substantial commercial real estate leasing and 

sales transactions in the Wall Street area. He 

was preceded in death by his mother, Kathleen 

Fortune, of Wilkes-Barre. Kurt is survived by 

his father, JOSEPH R. REISINGER, Esq. ’63, of 

Wilkes-Barre; his brother, Joseph Reisinger Jr. and 

his wife, Kim, of Redding, Calif. 

2002 

COl abs is t uN aor ti e s 

EVAN JUNOT, Wynnewood, passed away 

suddenly, on June 30, 2010 at age 27. He is 

predeceased by his father Elvin Webber and 

survived by his mother, Hope Junot; stepmother, 

Diann Webber; grandmother, Addie Webber; 

grandparents, George and Jean Junot; a multitude 

of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and dear 

friends. Evan was born and lived until age 3 in 

the Washington, D.C. area before moving to 

upstate N.Y., where the majority of the Junot 

family has lived for generations. He completed 

primary school years in Pittsford, N.Y. and went 

on to Canandaigua Academy for high school. 

He attended Wyoming Seminary for one college 

prep year in Wilkes Barre, Pa., attaining a football 

scholarship to Wagner College to study as a 

physics major. Evan excelled in various sports and 

was an extreme musical talent. 

Former Faculty 

THE REVEREND BRIAN LEE CLOUD, Rydal, 

died Aug. 5, 2010. He was 68. Born Nov. 7, 

1941, Brian was raised in Philadelphia, where 

he graduated from Frankford High School. 

He subsequently attended Lycoming College 

and Lancaster Theological Seminary, where he 

received his masters of divinity degree. Brian was 

the minister of several United Methodist churches 

in Pennsylvania located in Lansdowne, Mahanoy 

City, Allentown, and Doylestown. He also served 

as chaplain at Wyoming Seminary. In addition 

to his ministerial work, Brian was active in the 

community serving as president of the Allentown 

Center City Ministries, and a member on several 

boards, including the Allentown School District 

board of directors, Ocean Grove Camp Meeting 

Association, Board of Pensions and Council of 

Finance and Administration of the Eastern PA 

Conference of the United Methodist Church, and 

the board of directors of Evangelical Manor and 

Heritage Towers. Brian is survived by his loving 

wife, Jacqueline Lee Davis Cloud, whom he met at 

age 10 and lived happily with for 47 years. They 

were married in 1963, and have three children: 

Blaine and his wife, Michelle, Christian and his 

wife, Lynda, and Noelle and her husband, Sean 

Dugan. He also is survived by six grandchildren, a 

brother, Bruce, and sister-in-law. 

BRENDA DYMOND, Shavertown, passed 

away August 17, 2010. Born in Birmingham, 

England, on May 9, 1932, she was a daughter 

of the late David and Annie May Pugh Scott. 

Brenda graduated from business school to work 

as executive secretary to the president of Baldwins 

of Birmingham, England. She met Franklin M. 

Dymond of Wilkes-Barre during his military 

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CO lb ai st s u aN r oi et se s 

service in England and moved to the United States 

in 1955 to marry him. She was a resident of the 

Wyoming Valley for the rest of her life sharing her 

British voice, experience, gracious smile, talent 

for theater and music, and a passion for reading. 

Brenda sang in church choirs and used her talents 

for entertaining at luncheons and teas around the 

Valley, later gathering together a new group called 

the “Harmonaires” to continue this tradition 

for many years. Just after the Agnes Flood in 

1972, Brenda joined the library staff at Wyoming 

Seminary where she remained employed until an 

early retirement in the early 1990s. While at Sem, 

Brenda often went beyond her duties such as being 

a guest classroom lecturer on “Growing up in 

World War II England & Wales,” participating in 

faculty-student drama performances and creating 

a student audio-visual club. Brenda is survived by 

her husband, Franklin, Shavertown; daughters and 

sons-in-law, Daryl and Donald Knott, Virginia, 

and LESLIE DYMOND MARKS ’84 and Kevin 

Marks, California; as well as grandchildren. 

ELIZABETH (BETTY) HOPKINS MOSES, Bear 

Creek and Medina, N.Y., passed away on Sunday, 

August 8, 2010. She was born in Cazenovia, N.Y., 

on November 20, 1911, and was a daughter 

of Edith (Burden) and Merritt J. Hopkins. Her 

husband, DR. BENJAMIN HOPKINS MOSES 

’30, died in 1983. She is survived by three 

children, DALE ’61 (Susan) Hopkins Moses of 

Port Townsend, Wash., GAARD HOPKINS 

MOSES ’64 of Aspen, Colo., and the Yukon, 

and MEREDITH ’61 (the Rev. James) Maxwell 

of Medina, N.Y.; five grandchildren; and her 

sister, Barbara Judson of Bonita Beach, Fla. 

Betty graduated from Nottingham High School 

in Syracuse, N.Y., as valedictorian, then from 

Syracuse University in 1933 where she majored 

in fine arts and was inducted in Eta Pi Upsilon 

(Senior Women’s Honorary), Phi Kappa Phi 

(National Scholastic Honorary) and Sigma Chi 

Alpha, (honorary public school art fraternity), 

and then pursued graduate studies. She was also 

an active member of Kappa Alpha Theta (the 

oldest women’s fraternity). While at Syracuse, 

she excelled in artistic and athletic ventures. After 

college, Betty was an art educator in Skaneateles, 

Fulton and Syracuse, N.Y. and was active in Girl 

Scouts. Betty and Ben were married in 1939, and 

lived in Syracuse and Endicott, N.Y., and then 

Woodbridge, Conn., where Dr. Moses served as 

registrar of Yale University. In 1959, they moved 

to Kingston when Dr. Moses became president 

of Wyoming Seminary and then later registrar at 

Wilkes University. At Wilkes, Betty started the 

Foreign Students Organization and was president 

of the faculty wives club. She and her husband 

spent summers at Bear Creek and later retired 

there. She was an active member of the First 

Presbyterian Church in Wilkes-Barre and played 

tennis into her 90s! In 2006, Betty moved to 

Medina, N.Y., to be near her daughter. 

Mission 

Statement 

Within an 

exponentially 

changing world, 

Wyoming 

Seminary dares 

to teach our 

students to 

honor and strive 

for the True, the 

Beautiful, and 

the Good. 

At Sem, we value these words and know 

they mean a great deal to you. As we move 

forward as an institution, we depend on your 

help to fulfill our mission. 

Throughout our history, the school has been 

fortunate to receive bequests from many 

generous and far-sighted alumni and friends. 

There are various ways to provide for Sem in 

your will or living trust as well as to maximize 

income and reduce taxes. Although it is 

essential for you to consult with your attorney 

or tax advisor, we would be happy to answer 

any questions you may have. 

For more information, please contact 

John Shafer ‘71 

Vice President of Advancement 

jshafer@wyomingseminary.org 

(570) 270-2140 

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Report 


of Gifts 

2009 2010

Message From the Development Office 

With a Little Help from Our Friends 

It was a year of great challenges and big accomplishments. The 2009- 

2010 academic year began with economic uncertainty for the country, 

our school community, our students, and their families. If it is true, 

however, that in tough times you find out who your friends really are— 

then this year was further confirmation of what we already knew. We 

are blessed with great friends. Over the course of the year, we received 

continuous encouragement and support from all of you, and each of 

you did what you could to ensure Wyoming Seminary’s continued 

success. We are grateful. 

Despite the unique obstacles presented by the economic downturn, the 

Wyoming Seminary annual giving program surpassed its goal of $1.2 

million, reaching $1,453,000. Also noteworthy, $3,139,000 in cash 

was raised for the School—the seventh highest total in school history. 

These achievements are the direct result of your generosity and support. 

In the face of this year’s challenges, Sem had to identify and focus 

on those priorities that are most essential to our mission. To that 

end our alumni and friends could choose to designate their gifts to 

annual giving in support of financial aid, faculty resources or a specific 

program area. This change highlights the importance of your support in 

providing students with the financial support they need and the quality 

of teaching they deserve. 

The following is a comparison of giving for the last five fiscal years: 

Unrestricted 

Annual Giving 

Restricted 

Annual Giving 

Total 

Annual Giving 

Gifts For 

All Purposes 

2005 – 06 2006 – 07 2007 – 08 2008 - 09 2009 - 10 

$812,015 $826,738 $759,585 $709,553 $750,904 

$745,098 $815,043 $965,309 $720,781 $702,946 

$1,557,113 $1,641,781 $1,724,894 $1,430,334 $1,453,850 

$3,442,012 $3,885,059 $3,253,429 $2,732,848 $3,136,926 

On behalf of the entire Advancement Team, I want to thank John ’69, 

Mary ’72 and Gigi ’77 Lopatto for chairing our annual campaign. 

They and their team, especially the members of the Leadership Gifts 

Committee, did an outstanding job. 

Wyoming Seminary has been approved since October 2001 by the 

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a “Scholarship Organization” 

under the guidelines of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit 

(EITC) program. Through this program, Pennsylvania corporations 

who pay certain state taxes can make a gift 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 support during the current fiscal year: 

Almo Corporation, Benco Dental Company, Diamond Consolidated 

Industries, Diamond Manufacturing, First Liberty Bank & Trust, First 

National Community Bank, Frontier Communications, Lackawanna 

Insurance Group, Luzerne Bank, The Martz Group, Masonry 

Preservation Services, Medico Industries, Inc., Medico Rental Inc., 

National Penn Bank, Petroleum Service Company, Pride Mobility, 

Sordoni Construction Services and Straub Metal International. 

A school like Wyoming Seminary has not been able to grow and 

develop the way it has, however, by current gifts alone. Indeed many 

of the gifts that have helped to grow the School’s endowment to a 

market value of $40 million on June 30, 2010 have come in the form 

of bequests and deferred gifts. Since 1982 Wyoming Seminary has 

received more than $18 million in estate gifts. We are honored the 

following alumni and friends continued this legacy during the 2009 

fiscal year with bequest distributions coming from each of their estates 

to Sem: 

Sarah Barr ’34 Mary Keeler Beacham ’35 

Agnes Gregson ’35 Elizabeth Sickler Lampp ’33 

R. Willard Reese Frederic Salzman ’28 

Dorothy James Sinon ’33 Phyllis Smith 

Throughout its 166 year history, Wyoming Seminary, like most 

educational institutions, has relied on these three pillars of support – 

annual giving, endowment and capital support. The School continues 

in the “quiet” phase of a capital campaign with the dual focus of 

significantly increasing the School’s endowment as well as creating 

some new campus facilities while also providing major renovations on 

others. Specifically in terms of facilities it is important to celebrate all 

that has happened in the past five years all geared toward the strategic 

vision and master plan of the institution: 

• Klassner Field, a new turf field for field hockey, lacrosse and 

soccer, was constructed in 2006. 

• A comprehensive exterior structural renovation of Swetland, 

Fleck and Darte Hall was begun in 2007 and will be completed 

this October. 

• A complete renovation of the Kirby Library in 2008. 

• Resizing and modernization of the entire first floor and 

entryway at Lower School accomplished over the past 

two years. 

• The modernization of classrooms and the hallway on the third 

floor of Sprague Hall to include the addition of interactive 

whiteboards completed in 2009. 

• The creation of a new third floor classroom lab in Nesbitt Hall 

and the installation of interactive white boards in most rooms 

were completed this summer. 

• The construction of the Lull Tennis Center was completed 

in 2009. 

Over this five year time period, $10 million has been contributed by 

the members of the board of trustees and loyal benefactors of the 

institution to achieve the above objectives – yet another indication of 

the generous support of our friends. There are ambitious and exciting 

goals for the next five years to move Sem – we know we can count on 

our friends once again. On behalf of the Alumni/Development Office 

staff, I thank you for your commitment to and generous support of 

Wyoming Seminary. I look forward to seeing you in my travels around 

the country or on campus in the near future. 

John H. Shafer’71 

Vice President of Advancement 

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Leadership 

Recognition 

Giving 

Donchess Society 

Zelia and Quincy Abbot ’50 

Charlotte and Charles Alexander ’58 

The Estate of Sarah Barr ’34 

Paul Beane ’52 and Barbara Fassett 

Oski Beane ’53 

Shirley and Howard Beane ’49 

Ralph Beane ’45 

Benco Dental Company 

The Bergman Foundation 

Justin Bergman ’38 and Cordelia 

Trethaway Bergman ’42 

Joyce and Harold Buckingham, Jr. ’48 

Laurel and Richard Caputo, Jr. ’84 

Marcia and Frank Carlucci, III ’48 

Charitable Gift Fund 

Rebecca Binder and 

Charles Cohen ’84 

Lawrence and Sally Friedman 

Cohen ’59 

Ann Mueller Coughlin ’47 

Degenstein Foundation 

First Liberty Bank and Trust 

Kathi and Charles Flack, Jr. ’72 

Frontier Communications 

Carl Grivner ’71 

Dottie and Frank Henry ’50 

Linda Famiglio and 

Jonathan Hosey ’74 

Estate of Ruth Hosey 

Leonard and Lita Insalaco 

F. M. Kirby Foundation, Inc. 

Ki-Yeon Kwon and Seo Young Lee 

LACE Foundation 

Estate of Elizabeth Sickler Lampp ’33 

The Lenfest Foundation, Inc. 

Mary Ann Lopatto ’72 

The Luzerne Foundation 

Luzerne Intermediate Unit 

McCole Foundation, Inc. 

Recognition Giving Levels 


$10,000 or more 

President’s Anniversary Circle $5,000 to $9,999 

President’s Cabinet $2,500 to $4,999 

The Founder’s Society $1,844 to $2,499 

Nelson Tower Associates $1,000 to $1,843 

Levi Sprague Fellows $500 to $999 

1844 Club $250 to $499 

Dean’s Society $100 to $249 

Blue & White Club $1 to $99 

Medico Industries 

Lawrence and Nancy Medico 

Robert and Kim Mericle 

Mericle Properties 

Scott Meuser and 

Susan Talbot-Meuser 

Corliss and John Mueller ’52 

Joan Powell Flack Nusbaum ’49 

PAI Special Support 

Hilary and Charles Parkhurst ’79 

Barbara and Benjamin Reinoehl ’50 

Hedy and Ronald Rittenmeyer ’65 

Thomas and Erica Romanowski 

Richard and Virginia Simms Rose ’81 

Estate of Frederic Salzman ’28 

Estate of Dorothy James Sinon ’33 

Estate of Phyllis Smith 

Andrea and George Sordoni ’64 

Rebecca and Alex Steinbergh ’58 

The Paul D. Wasserott Foundation 

Beth and Paul Wasserott ’49 

The Wight Foundation, Inc. 

Wyoming Seminary Alumni Council 

Wyoming Seminary Lower School 

Parents’ Association 

Wyoming Seminary Upper School 

Parents’ Association 

President’s 

Anniversary Circle 

Anonymous 

Almo Corporation 

Max Bartikowsky ’48 

Black Horse Foundation 

Robert and Judith Casper Bohorad ’59 

James and Barbara Bruno 

Eugene and Roslyn Chaiken 

First National Community Bank 

Nadine and Steven Foldes ’66 

Sumit and Martha Ghosh 

Gabriele and Jonathan Greenwald ’60 

Estate of Agnes Gregson ’35 

Alfred Gross ’41 

The Merritt L. Harding 

Educational Trust 

Sharon and David Hourigan ’71 

Zeinulla Kakimzhanov and 

Mierkue Kundauletova 

Editor’s Note: The Donchess Society was established in the mid- 

90s to recognize the philanthropy of individuals who had contributed 

at least $10,000 a year to Wyoming Seminary. This premiere 

giving level is named in honor of Lucille and Joseph Donchess 

’26 who made very generous gifts to Wyoming Seminary in their 

lifetimes and who also remembered the school in their estates 

with bequests totaling $5.9 million. 

Persons listed on these pages - grouped by constituencies and 

ordered according to giving levels - have generously supported 

Wyoming Seminary’s programs and services and institutional 

needs. Recognition reflects gifts to the school recorded between 

July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. 

Allan Kluger ’45 and 

Sue Kline Kluger ’55 

KNBT 

Beverly and David Lauderbaugh ’59 

Hilary and Ethel Evans Lipsitz ’51 

Doris and Patrick Loftus ’72 

Luzerne Bank 

Marjorie Henry Marquart ’78 

Martz Group 

Medico Rental, Inc. 

Daniel and Shelley Meuser 

The Nabi Foundation 

Bette and Stanley Nabi ’48 

National Penn Bank 

National Philanthropic Trust 

Neil and Catherine O’Donnell 

The Philadelphia Foundation 

Pride Mobility Products Corporation 

Paul and Avalyn Quick 

Estate of Willard Reese 

Dorothy and Frederick Rudolph ’38 

Rhea and Ronald Simms ’56 

Sordoni Construction Services, Inc. 

Straub Metal International 

Doug and Barbara Straub 

Mikiya and Miho Teshigawara 

Nancy and Jeffrey Weiss ’73 

President’s Cabinet 

Acorn Hill Foundation 

James and Amy Valli Bennett ’94 

Sara and Edward Brewster ’43 

Maureen and C.J. Bufalino, III ’78 

Leslie Turrell Bullock ’63 

Yvette and Frank Carlucci, IV ’81 

HiYoung and Helen Chung 

Citi Smith Barney 

Datar Corporation 

Patricia and Stanley Davies ’42 

Diamond Manufacturing Company 

Jeffrey and Lisa Doggett 

John and Elaine Eidam, Sr. 

Tina and William Evans, Jr. ’81 


Janet Flack Interiors, Inc. 

Charles and Viola Gommer, Jr. 

Anthony and Helen Grosek, Jr. 

Loren and Lisa Grossman 

Robert ’48 and 

Nancy Jackson Hartman ’48 

Mary Ann and William Hinko ’82 

Charles Holman, Jr. ’49 

Jean Robbins Hughes ’48 

Lackawanna Casualty Company 

Tracey and James Levey ’81 

Chin-Feng Lin and Shin-Yu Liao 

Ludwig and Heike Luehl 

John Magagna ’52 

Richard Maslow 

Masonry Preservation Services, Inc. 

North Star Consulting, Inc. 

Kip and Marilyn Nygren 

Charles and Mary Parente 

Petroleum Service Company 

Akemi and Thomas Price ’71 

Larry and Faith Edwards Sarratt ’56 

Jennifer and Arthur Sherwood ’56 

Judd and Susan Weiss Shoval ’70 

John and Suzanne Simon 

Annelise and Robert Smith ’56 

Jeanette and Daniel Sneberger ’44 

Margaret and William Sordoni ’63 

David Wallace ’97 

Marcia and Jay Weinberg ’60 

Virginia and Alexander Williams ’39 

The Founder’s Society 

Albert and Barbara Albert Barclays 

Bloomsburg Metal Company 

Leon Bonner, Jr. ’61 

Shawn and Michele Casey 

Woon Young Cha and 

Young Sook Moon 

Joseph Flanagan, Jr. ’42 and Mary 

Elizabeth Mayock Flanagan ’42 

Freddie Mac Foundation 

Robert Friedman ’73 

Ellen Winner and Howard Gardner ’61 

David and Mary Granger 

Susan Grumbacher Gregory ’60 

M.S. Grumbacher Foundation 

Kiseung Lee and Ock-Kyung Chu 

Sandra Lloyd ’48 

James Long ’48 and 

Rosemary Waverka Long ’52 

Jeanne Lopatto ’77 

James Lord ’52 and 

Audrey Radler Lord ’54 

Suzanne and Kelly Mather ’56 

Mary Jule McCarthy 

Mario and Jill Nardone 

Mary Beth and David J. Oblon ’65 

Gary and Cynthia Olenwine 

Richard and Marion Pearsall 

James Revie and Susan Powell 

Edward Romanowski ’75 and 

Cornelia Conyngham 

Romanowski ’75 

Adina and Stephen Rosenthal ’93 

Michael Rupp 

Nancy Shafer 

Barbara S. Soyka ’58 

Charles Strome, Jr. ’46 and 

Margaret Strayer Strome ’46 

SKM Industries, Inc. 

Shanta Syal 

United Methodist Church Board of 

Higher Education & Ministry 

Nelson Tower Associates 

Anonymous 

Norma and Hervey Ahlborn ’49 

Mary Berninger Allan ’47 

Fred and Estelle Andrews ’65 

Harold and Marian Berk Barr ’49 

Estate of Mary Keeler Beacham ’35 

Bell Foundation, Inc. 

Anthony Berger ’73 and 

Catherine Evans Berger ’75 

Estate of Gwendolyn Black 

Brennan Electric Incorporated 

Matthew Bruno ’94 and 

Sarah Sordoni Bruno ’96 

David Bujnowski ’89 

Paul and Elaine Burg 

Christine and Donald Bush, Jr. ’50 

John Butts ’63 

Bonnie and John Capone, Jr. ’55 

Gus and Susan Cuscela Carlson ’84 

Philip and Miriam Hughes Carroll ’55 

Wendy and Terrence Casey ’75 

Daniel and Mei Castor ’78 

Central PA Conference of the 

United Methodist Church 

Centris Consulting, Inc. 

Sheng-Ju Chang and 

Hsiu-Mei Tseng 

Chung-Cheng Cheng and 

Li-Wen Chu 

Rosemary Chromey and 

Richard Goldberg ’55 

Wayne Clements 

Betsy Bell Condron ’45 

Helen and Harry Croop, Jr. ’38 

David and Melanie Damico 

William and Esther Davidowitz ’51 

Davidowitz Foundation 

Diamond Consolidated Industries, Inc. 

Louise and John Dixon ’50 

Norman and Adele Dressler 

James Dunham ’50 and 

Miriam Davis Dunham ’50 

Phyllis Eckman 

Ruth and James Edwards ’58 

Tracy and Robert Eggleston, Jr. ’87 

Claire Conlon Evans ’52 

Thomas Evans ’51 

Tim Evans ’75 and Margy Simms ’79 

Gloria and John Fassett ’51 

Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund 

Bryson and Linda Bryan Goss ’58 

Patricia and Frederick Graboske ’62 

Paul Griesmer ’43 

Kristi and Gerald Gunster ’85 

Marny and Howard Harris, Jr. ’65 

Hemmler Camayd Architects 

Kristen and Marc Holtzman ’78 

Seymour and Evelyn Holtzman 

Ruth and Richard Hughes, III ’79 

Mary and Alexis Iszard ’69 

Won Jae Jeong and Maria Park 

Carole and Richard Johnson ’80 

Carol and Morgan Jones ’57 

Karen Klassner 

Harvey Klein ’49 and 

Judith Raub Klein ’47 

Jeffrey Klein ’74 

Amanda and Joseph Kluger ’82 

John and Beverley Davies Kolb ’43 

David and Mary Kolessar 

Charles Laycock ’35 

Gerald and Ann Levandoski 

Jaye Ellen Hindin Lewis ’72 

Kenneth Leyshon ’62 

Kuan-Shou Lin and Pei-Jung Chen 

Llewellyn & McKane, Inc. 

Susan Long ’50 

John Lopatto, III ’69 

Lynne Lord 

Melanie Maslow Lumia ’82 

Thomas Mack ’51 and 

Judith Mills Mack ’56 

Regina and Frank Maguire ’73 

Kevin Marks and 

Leslie Dymond Marks ’84 

James Matysczak ’95 and 

Jennifer Savage Matysczak ’95 

Donald and Ellen Brenton 

McAllister ’70 

Mary Eagen McDonald ’48 

Margaret Fischer McGroarty ’60 

Gail and Marvin Metzgar ’52 

Robert Montgomery ’57 

Kathlene Morgan 

Stephen and Kimetha Morris 

Cheryl and Reuben Munday ’65 

Janet Murray ’76 

David and Cynthia Nape 

Mark and Hilary Maslow Naud ’80 

Northrop Grumman Foundation 

Daphne and Sanford Padwe ’57 

ParenteBeard LLC 

John and Marjorie Passan 

Foundation 

Penn State Mechanical 

Contractors, Inc. 

Howard and Dorothy Funke Perley ’53 

Bill Plante and Robin Smith 

Kim and Donald Reiff ’88 

Steve and Nicole Browning Rifkin 

James and Annabelle Rogers, Jr. 

Richard and Kim Ross, Jr. 

Phillip Roth ’71 

John and Georgette Sampson ’47 

Robert and Susanne Sunday 

Sanderson ’56 

Irene Santarelli 

Philip Santarelli ’67 

Schwab Charitable Fund 

53

Laurie and David Schwager ’80 

Mary and William Scott ’54 

Richard Scott ’60 

Scranton Area Foundation 

Catherine and John Shafer ’71 

Jin Shik Shin and Min Ja An 

The Shoval Foundation 

Elaine and Leonard Silverstein ’39 

Eva Campo and Matthew Sordoni ’95 

Gregg and Lois Spath 

The Spencer Foundation 

Wallace Stettler 

Lawrence Stirewalt and 

Penny Mericle 

Timothy and Lisa Swanson 

The Greater Tacoma Community 


The Tambur Family Foundation Trust 

Robert Tamburro ’91 

Lillian Thalenfeld 

Ellie Kay and Alfred Thomas, III ’62 

Thomson Reuters 

Robert Tippett ’42 

Carolyn and Joseph Torsella ’81 

Lillian and Stuart Uram ’52 

Verizon Foundation 

Elizabeth Stevens Walter ’35 

William and Ellen MacCartney 

Warren ’60 

Grace White Whidden ’43 

Laura and Edmund Wideman, III ’60 

Wilkes-Barre Law and 

Library Association 

Woodlands Inn and Resort 

Carolyn and Orville Wright, Jr. ’52 

Jill and Bernhardt Wruble ’59 

Ken and Etsuyo Yamashita 

Joanne and William Yoder ’62 

Chuanwei Zhang and Jing Li 

Trustees 


Barbara Fassett Oski Beane ’53 

Harold C. Buckingham, Jr. ’48 

Charles D. Flack, Jr. ’72 

Carl J. Grivner ’71 

Frank M. Henry ’50 

Jonathan P. Hosey ’74 

Leonard Insalaco 

Mary Ann Lopatto ’72 

Scott Meuser 

John D. Mueller ’52 

Charles H. Parkhurst ’79 

54 

Erica Romanowski 

Richard A. Rose, Jr. 

George B. Sordoni ’64 

President’s 


Sue Kline Kluger ’55 

Marjorie Henry Marquart ’78 


Charles J. Bufalino, III ’78 

Leslie Turrell Bullock ’63 

Frank C. Carlucci, IV ’81 

Stanley S. Davies ’42 

Charles F. Gommer, Jr. 

Anthony Grosek, Jr. 

John F. Magagna ’52 

Kip P. Nygren 

Arthur W. Sherwood ’56 

Robert H. Smith ’56 


Richard L. Pearsall 

Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski ’75 


Anthony L. Berger ’73 

Richard M. Goldberg ’55 

Richard M. Hughes, III ’79 

Joseph E. Kluger ’82 

Janet E. Murray ’76 

Levi Sprague Fellows 

Wesley R. Crompto ’43 

A. John Dimond ’57 

Stephen B. Killian ’66 

Charles D. Lemmond, Jr. 

Joanne Santarelli 

1844 Club 

Paula Chaiken 

Collette Touey Kean ’48 

Dean’s Society 

Christopher Hackett 

Harry F. Lee ’53 

Faculty and 

Staff 


Elaine Eidam 

John R. Eidam, Sr. 

Kip P. Nygren 


Elaine Burg 

Paul Burg 

David Damico 

Karen Klassner 

Mary Kolessar 

John H. Shafer ’71 

Timothy Swanson 


Charles Carrick 

Jill Carrick 

Sharon Conway 

Andrew Costello 

Marsha Costello 

Ben Schall 

Heidi Schukraft 

Megan Thomas 

1844 Club 

Kayanne Vanderburg Barilla ’84 

Elizabeth Blaum 

Kevin J. Blaum 

Laning J. Harvey ’80 

Claire Hornung 

John Hornung 

Brian Kaschak 

Dawn Leas 

Polly Mitchell ’72 

Raleigh W. Myers 

Barbara Lumia Rogers ’77 

Lucille Marie Shick 

Alicia Kay Young 


Denise E. Barber 

Rachel Bartron 

William Davis 

John J. Dickinson 

Toni Filipczyk 

Carolyn Foran 

Christine Gasper 

Judith Golumbeski 

Sally Graham Sprankle 

M. Elizabeth Hibbard ’69 

Catie Kersey 

Christopher J. Kersey ’90 

D. James Kersey 

Patricia Kilyanek 

Concepcion Kopec 

Philip Liva 

Janel McCormick 

Ivy Miller 

Laurie Morgan 

John T. Morris 

Harry Nageli 

Cassandra Ouellette 

Patricia Paciotti 

Edward Plaksa 

Rebecca Rosengrant 

Nancy Sanderson 

Elizabeth Schmaltz 

Jennifer Siff 

Jonathan Siff 

Heidi Sims 

Jeffrey Sims 

Jane Slaff 

Gail E. Smallwood 

Elizabeth Stankus 

Jill Stretanski 

Julie McCarthy Strzeletz ’81 

Robert Tarud 

Susan Trynoski 

Bernardine Vojtko 

Peggy Zinkavich 

Blue & White Club 

Regina Allen 

Joyce Ashley 

Colleen Ayers 

Jill Bradbury 

Adam Carlisle 

Craig Cirelli 

Maria Coons 

Patricia Ann DeViva 

Michael John Fedak 

Elizabeth Gover 

Sheila Hartman 

Lisa A. Iskra 

Terry W. Karg, Jr. 

Billie Kinney 

Mona Lawrence 

Robert Lawrence 

Anne K. Lew 

Courtney Lewis 

Ethan Lewis 

Justin Naylor 

Joyce B. Ostrum 

Jean E. Ris 

Steven A. Ris 

Jason Thatcher 

Sara Thomas Urisko ’63 

Friends 


Mr. Wayne Clements 

Ms. Lynne D. Lord 

Mrs. M. Kathlene Morgan 

Mr. Bill Plante and Ms. Robin Smith 

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Rifkin 


Mrs. Barbara Weisberger 

1844 Club 

Anonymous 


Mr. Steven M. Adam 

Mr. and Mrs. Al Battaglino 

Mrs. Elizabeth Burgess 

Mrs. Shirley T. Butler 

Mrs. Dorothy Cohen 

Mrs. Patricia Conlon 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Disney 

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Ehret 

Mr. Joel P. Gardiner 

Mrs. Helen Hazinski 

Mr. Alan Hughes and 

Mrs. Polly Pentecost Hughes 

Mrs. Susan Simione 

Mr. and Mrs. John Storb 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Williams 

Ms. Ann Woodland 


Ms. Linda Brown 

Drs. Mark and Eleanor Capeless 

Mr. Richard Counts 

Mr. Alan B. Crocker 

Mr. Walter J. Cybulski, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Durst 

Mrs. Ann Evans 

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley E. Fleming 

Mrs. Dona E. Franklin 

Mrs. Mei-Ling Fry 

Mr. Ralph J. Greco 

Mrs. Howard Y. Harris 

Ms. Joan Huber 

Ms. Elizabeth W. Hughes 

Ms. Kathryn F. Hughes 

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Kaufer 

Ms. Janet Kosek 

Mr. Hank Krok and 

Ms. Marge Weller 

Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Lennon 

Mr. R. Titus Leo 

Ms. Joan Lupinski 

Mr. Dave Martin 

Ms. Karen A. Mason 

Ms. Kathleen McGrann 

Mr. Guthrie Mitchell 

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Morgan 

Ms. Patricia A. Rindgen 

Mr. E. Bryan Rutledge 

Mrs. Helen Schieffer 

Ms. Susan Smith 

Ms. Starr Snead 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Spotts 

Rabbi and Mrs. Arthur F. Starr 

Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Stringfellow 

Current 

Parents 

Upper School Parent 

Fundraising Committee: 

Cathy O’Donnell, Chair, 

Lydia Charney, Rosemary 

Chromey, Tricia Considine, 

Sharon Hourigan, Joanne 

Santarelli, John Simon, Lois 

Spath, Mindy Zafrany 

Grade 12 – 2010 

Participation – 32% 


Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Insalaco 

Mr. Ki-Yeon Kwon and 

Mrs. Seo Young Lee 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Mericle 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Romanowski 

President’s 


Mr. and Mrs. Paul Quick 


Dr. and Mrs. Loren J. Grossman 


Mr. Woon Young Cha and 

Mrs. Young Sook Moon 


Dr. Kuan-Shou Lin and 

Mrs. Pei-Jung Chen 

Ms. Melanie Maslow Lumia 

Atty. and Mrs. David E. Schwager 

Mr. Lawrence Stirewalt and 

Dr. Penny Mericle 

Mr. and Mrs. Ken Yamashita 


Dr. and Mrs. Robert Clements 

Ms. Sheryl Maher 

Mr. and Mrs. Carlo Santarelli, Jr. 

1844 Club 

Wanchai and Manee Akharaekpanya 

Mr. and Mrs. Scott E. Henry 

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kachmar 

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Kopervas 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kwiatek 

Mr. and Mrs. James Rogers, III 

Mr. and Mrs. James Coulter Rogers 

Drs. Henry and Catherine Smith 


Mr. and Mrs. William Adrian 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barber 

Dr. and Mrs. Ivan Bub 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Caiazzo 

Mr. and Mrs. John Considine 

Mr. and Mrs. Harris Cutler 

Mr. and Mrs. Seth Gollhardt 

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hackett 

Mr. and Mrs. John G. McMullan 

Ms. Paula Michaels 

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ouellette 

Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Reiser 

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Smallwood 

Mrs. Julie McCarthy Strzeletz 

Mr. John Thalenfeld 

Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Villamor


Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Adonizio 

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Byers 

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Hannigan 

Mr. and Mrs. Nevelle R. Johnson 

Mr. and Mrs. Terry Karg, Jr. 

Mr. Richard Novak 

Mr. and Mrs. William Reznak 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph V. Smith 

Mr. Michael Twardowski and Ms. 

Ann Brennan 

Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. VanGlahn 

Dr. James Wimsatt and Dr. 

Rebecca Beal 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Zoranski 

Grade 11 - 2011 



Dr. Jonathan Hosey and Dr. Linda 

Famiglio 

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Medico 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Rose, Jr. 

President’s 


Drs. Sumit and Martha Ghosh 

Mr. and Mrs. David P. Hourigan 

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Meuser 

Mr. and Mrs. Mikiya Teshigawara 


Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Luehl 

Mr. and Mrs. John J. Simon 


Mr. Gary and Dr. Cynthia Olenwine 


Mr. and Mrs. Paul Burg 


Mr. Chuanwei Zhang and 

Mrs. Jing Li 


Dr. and Mrs. Robert Clements 

Mr. David Corson and 

Mrs. Dianne Thomas-Corson 

Mr. and Mrs. Rick Kornfeld 

Mr. and Mrs. Scott P. Parkhurst 

1844 Club 

Mr. and Mrs. Aminderjeet Aulakh 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Charney 

Mr. and Mrs. Laning J. Harvey 

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Leas 

Dr. and Mrs. Bruce H. Saidman 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Santarelli 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Sokach 

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Wallace 


Mr. Momoun Bader and 

Ms. Phuong-Truc Pham 

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Baker 

Attys. Matthew and 

Marion Cartwright 

Mr. Edward Charney and 

Mrs. Deborah Cooper-Charney 

Dr. and Mrs. John J. Curtis 

Drs. Masoud Firouzi and 

Fariba Modares-Firouzi 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gilbert 


Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Kijek 

Mr. and Mrs. James Michael Kopec 

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Linde 

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Magaziner 


Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O. Onwunaka 

Mr. and Mrs. David J. Perry 

Mr. Krisana Sriratanaban and 

Mrs. Wichuda Wongluang 


Mr. and Atty. William J. Thede 

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Vojtko 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Youngman 


Mr. and Mrs. Mark Allen 

Ms. Colleen Ayers 

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hess 

Ms. Mary Innes 

Dr. and Mrs. Anatoli Ivanov 

Mrs. Lisa Klee 

Mr. Gregory McLucas 

Attys. John and Janet Wiles 

Mrs. Olga Zimlin 

Grade 10 - 2012 




President’s Anniversary 

Circle 

Dr. Zeinulla Kakimzhanov and 

Mrs. Mierkue Kundauletova 

Attys. Neil and Catherine O’Donnell 


Mr. Chin-Feng Lin and 

Mrs. Shin-Yu Liao 


Mr. Kiseung Lee and 

Mrs. Ock-Kyung Chu 

Dr. Michael Rupp 

Mrs. Shanta Syal 


Mr. Sheng-Ju Chang and 

Mrs. Hsiu-Mei Tseng 

Dr. Chung-Cheng Cheng and 

Mrs. Li-Wen Chu 

Mr. Won Jae Jeong and 

Mrs. Maria Park 

Dr. and Mrs. David Kolessar 

Mr. Jin Shik Shin and 

Mrs. Min Ja An 

Atty. and Mrs. Gregg Spath 


Dr. and Mrs. Rony A. Adam 


Mr. Ke Huan Wen and 

Mrs. Shaojun Zhang 

1844 Club 

Ms. Kimberly Domiano 

Mr. and Mrs. Scott E. Henry 

Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Shick 


Dr. and Mrs. Matthew Berger 

Mr. Anthony Grosek, III 

Dr. Rebecca Kimpel 

Ms. Monica LaSalle 

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Linde 

Mr. Teng-Yu Liu and 

Mrs. Hsiao-Tzu Liu Wan 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nardone 

Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Reiser 

Mr. Perry Venson 

Dr. Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman and 

Dr. Vasanthi 


Mr. and Mrs. John R. Bilodeau 

Mr. and Mrs. George A. Blom 

Dr. and Mrs. James P. Dolhon 

Drs. Ned Fetcher and 

Janice Voltzow 

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Fiske 

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gildein 


Atty. and Mrs. Sidney D. May 

Ms. Kellie McDougal 

Grade 9 - 2013 





Circle 

Drs. Sumit and Martha Ghosh 


Richard Goldberg, Esq. and 

Mrs. Rosemary Chromey 


Mr. and Mrs. John Dowd 

Mr. Steven Dressler 

Mr. Andrew Pace and 

Mrs. Barbara Warren-Pace 

Mr. and Mrs. Ben Schall 

Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Schukraft 

Mr. Charles Schwartzapfel 

Mr. Qianru Yu and Mrs. Liping Fan 

1844 Club 

Atty. Peggy Engle 


Dr. and Mrs. Todd Holmes 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kwiatek 

Dr. Sang Mo Park and 

Mrs. Wan Sook Kang 

Mr. and Mrs. David A. Reppert 

Drs. Henry and Catherine Smith 


Mr. Kenneth Coulter 

Dr. and Mrs. John J. Curtis 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. DiPippa 


Dr. and Mrs. Charles J. Hubbard 

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Joanlanne 

Mr. Gary KornfeldDr. Carolann Littzi 


Mr. Michael Molitoris and 

Dr. Sandra Pensieri-Molitoris 

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Obeid 

Mr. and Atty. William J. Thede 

Mr. and Mrs. David Williams 

Mr. Richard Williams and 

Ms. Linda Casey 


Atty. and Atty. Frank J. Brier 

Ms. Valerie Crowe 

Ms. Susan Norris 

Mr. and Mrs. Persopio J. Pinto 

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Stevens 

Mr. and Mrs. Jason Thatcher 

Lower School Parent 

Fundraising Committee: 

C.J. and Maureen Bufalino, Chairs, 

Carlo and Doreen De Luna, 

Bobby and Jackie Soper, 

Paula Chaiken and Joe Krause, 

Anne Nieh Hou and Timothy 

Hou, Joseph and Beth Ridilla, 

Sean and Tina Smith, Bob Tuttle 

and Margarita Rose 

Grade 8 - 2014 



Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Doggett 



Mr. and Mrs. H. Scott Edmunds 

Mr. Joseph Reilly and 

Ms. Kelly O’Dwyer 

1844 Club 

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Barilla 

Mr. John and Dr. Claire Hornung 

Drs. Gerald and Diane Levandoski 



Attys. Matthew and 

Marion Cartwright 

Mr. Eric Durst and 

Mrs. Christina Rodis-Durst 

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Goldstein 


Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kilyanek 

Dr. Prahlad and Ms. Vani Murthy 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nardone 

Drs. Robert Tuttle and 

Margarita Rose 


Ms. Lynn Dobrowolski 


Mr. and Mrs. John C. Stevens 

Grade 7 - 2015 


President’s 


Mr. and Mrs. Paul Quick 


Mr. and Mrs. Shawn Casey 

Mr. and Mrs. Mario P. Nardone 





Mr. and Mrs. H. Scott Edmunds 

1844 Club 

Mr. and Mrs. Aminderjeet Aulakh 

Mr. and Mrs. James Rogers, III 

Mr. and Mrs. Sean P. Smith 


Mr. and Mrs. George G. Conyngham, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Joanlanne 

Mr. Borys Krawczeniuk and 

Ms. Karen Jeremy 

Mr. Lee McCarthy, III 

Mr. Edward Plaksa 


Atty. Gerald Idec and 

Dr. Marian Hiester Idec 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lawrence 

Mr. and Mrs. Jason Thatcher 

Grade 6 - 2016 





Circle 



Dr. and Mrs. Loren J. Grossman 


Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Hughes, III 

Dr. and Mrs. David Kolessar 


Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Cuddy 



Mr. Stephen Boyd and 

Atty. Pia Taggart 



Dr. Prahlad and Ms. Vani Murthy 



Grade 5 - 2017 




President’s 


Mr. and Mrs. Doug Straub 

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Mr. and Mrs. David J. Nape 

Mr. Lawrence Stirewalt and 

Dr. Penny Mericle 


Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Schukraft 

1844 Club 

Mr. and Mrs. John Fletcher 


Dr. and Mrs. Michael Adler 

Mr. and Mrs. George G. Conyngham, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark McCormick 


Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hartman 


Grade 4 - 2018 



Mr. Scott Meuser and 

Mrs. Susan Talbot-Meuser 

President’s 


Mr. and Mrs. Doug Straub 


Atty. and Mrs. C.J. Bufalino, III 





1844 Club 


Dr. Joseph Kraus and 

Ms. Paula Chaiken 


Mr. Shekhar Melkote and 

Dr. Bharati Eshwar 

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Sims 

Mr. Perry Venson 

Dr. Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman and 

Dr. Vasanthi 


Atty. Gerald Idec and 

Dr. Marian Hiester Idec 

Ms. Lori Rider 

Grade 3 – 2019 





Mr. and Mrs. Mario P. Nardone 




Mr. and Mrs. Richard Connor 

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Sullivan 

1844 Club 



Mr. and Mrs. Benson Bartron 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kilyanek 


Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Iskra 

Grade 2 – 2020 





56 

President’s 




Mr. Robert Friedman 


Dr. and Mrs. Hanna G. Kaspar 

1844 Club 

Dr. Timothy Hou and 

Ms. Anne Nieh Hou 



Mr. Robert Tarud 


Mrs. Gina Tarud 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Williams 

Grade 1 - 2021 









Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Swanson 


Rev. and Mrs. Charles Carrick 

1844 Club 


Dr. Joseph Kraus and 

Ms. Paula Chaiken 


Mr. and Mrs. John O. Coates 

Erik Kruger, M.D. and 

Vanessa Ferber-Kruger, Esq. 

Ms. Marla Parente 

Mr. Frank Sgarlat 

Drs. Glen and Cari Tellis 


Dr. and Mrs. Ming Lew 

Kindergarten – 2022 



Mr. Robert Friedman 



Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Mihalick 

1844 Club 



Mr. and Mrs. Benson Bartron 

Dr. William Irwin and 

Dr. Megan Lloyd 

Erik Kruger, M.D. and 

Vanessa Ferber-Kruger, Esq. 

Mrs. Ivy Miller 


Mr. Adam Ruderman and 

Ms. Catherine Callahan 

Mr. and Mrs. Adam Carlisle 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Cawley 

Dr. and Mrs. Devon Poesnecker 

Pre-Kindergarten – 

2023 



Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Popple 


Mr. and Mrs. William Davis 

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hackett 

Dr. and Dr. Robert Panzik 

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Stretanski 


Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Iskra 

Pre-School – 2024 



Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Popple 

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Sordoni 


Mr. and Mrs. John O. Coates 


Mr. and Mrs. Adam Carlisle 


Parents of 

Alumni 

(Non-Alumni) 

Mary Agnes Kratz, Chair 


Mrs. Ruth Hosey 

President’s 


Dr. and Mrs. James Bruno 


Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Grosek, Jr. 

Dr. and Mrs. HiYoung Chung 

Mr. and Mrs. John Eidam, Sr. 

Rev. and Mrs. Charles F. Gommer 

Mr. Richard Maslow 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Parente 


Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Albert 

Mrs. Mary Jule McCarthy 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Pearsall 

Mr. James Revie and 

Ms. Susan Powell 

Mrs. Nancy Shafer 


Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Holtzman 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen I. Morris 

Mr. and Mrs. James C. Rogers 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Ross 

Mrs. Irene Santarelli 

Dr. Wallace Stettler 


Mr. and Mrs. Neil Conway 

Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Costello 

Mr. and Mrs. David Davies 

Dr. Steven Kafrissen 

Dr. and Mrs. C. Warren Koehl 

Mr. and Mrs. Sandor Rudin 

Atty. Sheila Saidman 

Mr. and Mrs. Brian Thomas 

1844 Club 

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Blaum 

Dr. and Mrs. Fredric Brown 

Mr. Clifford Fay 

Dr. and Mrs. John Gaudio 

Drs. Thomas and Margaret Hogan 

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Jeremy 

Mr. and Mrs. N. John Maza 

Mrs. Mary Meltzer 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Molitoris 

Mr. Raleigh Myers 

Ms. Linda Schreiber 

Mr. and Mrs. William Smulowitz 


Mrs. Deborah Amato 

Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Antinnes 

Mr. and Mrs. George Barnard 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Benson 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Brown 

Dr. and Mrs. William L. Bryan 

Mr. John Burbank 

Mr. and Mrs. Rick B. Burkey 

Mr. Jerome Campbell and 

Ms. Nancy Sanderson 

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Conant 

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Davis 

Dr. and Mrs. John Dickinson 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Doyle 

Mr. and Mrs. Allen W. Erwine 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Eyerman 

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Finlay 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fischer 

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Foran 

Dr. and Mrs. James N. Frangos 

Mr. Michael and Dr. Andrea Frantz 

Mr. and Mrs. Gus Genetti 

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Golumbeski 

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gonchar 

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Gover 

Mrs. Sally Graham Sprankle 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Harding 

Dr. and Mrs. John H. Hepp 

Mr. and Mrs. George Isaacs 

Mr. and Mrs. D. James Kersey 

Dr. and Mrs. Nikola Knego 

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Krasavage 

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Kresge 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Langdon 

Dr. and Mrs. William B. Lawrence 

Drs. Chia-Hsiang Lin and 

Mongkon Lertburapa 

Mr. and Mrs. O. Charles Lull 

Mr. and Mrs. William Mainwaring 

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy McGinley 

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford K. Melberger 

Mr. and Mrs. David Morgan 

Mr. and Mrs. John T. Morris 

Dr. and Mrs. Gary Nataupsky 

Mr. and Mrs. Spencer G. Nauman 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. O’Hara 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Olsen 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Paciotti 

Dr. H. Jeremy Packard and 

Atty. Ingrid Cronin 

Mrs. Ann Parkhurst 

Dr. and Mrs. Satish D. Patel 

Mr. and Mrs. William F. Paule 

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Piccone 

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Picker 

Mr. and Mrs. William Reimer 

Dr. and Mrs. John Rothschild 

Dr. Azra Sehic 

Mrs. Jane Slaff 

Dr. and Mrs. Thyagarajan Srinivasan 

Mrs. Linda Stallone 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stankus 

Mrs. Jeanne Sviatko 

Mrs. Liela Taggart 

Mrs. Susan Trynoski 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Wall 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Wallace 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Zinkavich 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Zug 


Mr. and Mrs. William C. Adams 

Ms. Joan Alles 

Mr. and Mrs. George C. Anderson 

Mrs. Jasmine Barnes 

Mrs. Irene Blum 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bourque 

Dr. and Mrs. David Bradbury 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gleim 

Atty. and Mrs. J. Lawrence Brown 

Mr. James Bullock 

Dr. and Mrs. William Burak 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Coons 

Mrs. Mary Lee Cuscela 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank DeViva 

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Dombroski 

Mr. and Mrs. John G. Doyle 

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Dymond 

Reverend and Mrs. Henry Fairman 

Mr. Allan and Atty. Ann Farias 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael John Fedak 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Flick 

Mr. and Mrs. Glenn H. Frank 

Mr. John Furgele 

Mrs. Gabriella Gahagan 

Mrs. Mary Gale 

Mrs. Jeanette Garber 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gardner 

Ms. Adrienne Gerhard 

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Gover 

Dr. and Mrs. David Greenwald 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Halloran 

Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hartwell 

Mr. Thomas Isenberg and Mrs. 

Tamatha Corwin Isenberg 

Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Johns 

Ms. Jeanne Kerridge 

Dr. and Mrs. Bradford Kinney 

Mr. William Klaips 

Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Knight 

Mr. Theodore Kosenak and 

Dr. Catherine Kosenak

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Koslosky 

Ms. Divna Kostic 

Mrs. Anne Lynch 

Ms. Sandra Madl 

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Matysczak 

Ms. Ruth McAdams 

Mr. J. Llewellyn Miller and 

Dr. Linda Ledford-Miller 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Milligan 

Mrs. J. Lenore Morgan 

Mrs. Betty Hopkins Moses 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Nardone, Sr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Nogi 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Novack 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Orlando 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Orlando 

Mr. and Mrs. Persopio J. Pinto 

Mrs. Susan Price 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Rifkin 

Hope Riley 

Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Ris 

Atty. and Mrs. Eugene Roth 

Dr. and Dr. Rainer Matthias Ruckteschler 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Savitz 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Shadie 

Mrs. Ephraim Troy 

Mr. and Mrs. David Volodarsky 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Walsh 

Dr. Stephen Wartella 

Dr. and Mrs. Michael Weiss 

Mrs. Carol Wilcox 

Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. York 

Grandparents 

Mary Jule McCarthy, Chair 


Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Henry 

Mrs. Ruth Hosey 

President’s 


Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Chaiken 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Simms 



Mr. and Mrs. John R. Eidam, Sr. 


Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Parente 

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Sordoni 


Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Albert 

Mr. and Mrs. David Granger 



Mr. and Mrs. Norman Dressler 

Mrs. Phyllis Eckman 

Mrs. Ann Levandoski 

Mr. and Mrs. James C. Rogers 

Mrs. Lillian Thalenfeld 


Dr. and Mrs. Ira Brecher 

Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas Colangelo 


Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Kuharchik 

1844 Club 

Mr. and Mrs. Domenick Avallone 

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Baker 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Durst 

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Jeremy 

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Smith 

Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Stauffer 

Mr. and Mrs. John Touey 


Ms. Marie Belasco 

Ms. Madeline Berry 

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Biggs 

Mr. and Mrs. David Buran 

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Caiazzo 

Dr. and Mrs. William F. Calhoun 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Curtis 

Ms. Fran Durst 

Mr. Thomas Engle 

Mrs. Bernice Fierman 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gilbert 

Mr. and Mrs. William Howell 

Mr. and Mrs. Barry Iscovitz 

Mr. Ronald Leas 

Mrs. Sandra Lefkowitz 

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford K. Melberger 

Mr. and Mrs. John Metz 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morrell 

Mrs. Ann Parkhurst 

Mr. and Mrs. Ethan Petersen 

Mrs. Letitia Pupa 

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Romanow 

Mrs. Theresa Shibley 

Dr. Henry Smith, Sr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Swoboda 

Mrs. Liela Taggart 

Mrs. Lily Venson 


Mrs. Bernardine Borinski 

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Burgess 

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Cooper 

Ms. Gloria Eastwood 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Ertley 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Grieten 

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hiester 

Mr. and Mrs. John Hojnowski 

Mrs. Marion Kasko 

Mr. and Mrs. C. Martin Kelly 

Mrs. Kenney 

Mrs. Mary Kilyanek 

Mr. Mark Kornfeld and 

Mrs. Sandra Goldman 

Mrs. Frieda Kurzweil 

Mrs. Ruth Lacek 

Mrs. Rosemary Lloyd 

Ms. Regina Paglia 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Plaksa 

Mrs. Lydia Reppert 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rupp 

Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Jusuf Salam 

Mr. Angelo Tullo 

Ms. Corina Walker 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Warriner 

Matching 

Gift 

Companies 


Barclays 

Freddie Mac Foundation 


Northrop Grumman Foundation 

The Spencer Foundation 

Thomson Reuters 

Verizon Foundation 


Guard Insurance Group 

Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc. 

Motorola Foundation 

The Wachovia Foundation 

1844 Club 

Berwind Corporation 

New York Times Company 

Foundation, Inc. 

Norfolk Southern Foundation 

Northwestern Mutual Life 

Foundation, Inc. 


Bank of America Matching Gifts 

Program 

Campbell Soup Company 

Intel Foundation 

J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation 

Merck Partnership for Giving 

Microsoft 

Pfizer Foundation 

Prudential Foundation 

Raytheon Company 

Sprint Foundation 

Vanguard Group, Inc. 


Aetna Foundation, Inc. 

GE Foundation 

Unilever Home & Personal Care 

USA 

Businesses 

Chris Hackett, Chair 


Benco Dental Company 

First Liberty Bank and Trust 


Medico Industries 

Mericle Properties 

President’s 


Almo Corporation 


KNBT 

Luzerne Bank 

Martz Group 

Medico Rental, Inc. 

National Penn Bank 

Pride Mobility Products Corp. 

Sordoni Construction Services, Inc. 

Straub Metal International 


Citi Smith Barney 

Datar Corporation 

Diamond Manufacturing Company 

Janet Flack Interiors, Inc. 

Lackawanna Casualty Company 

Masonry Preservation Services, Inc. 

North Star Consulting, Inc. 

Petroleum Service Company 


Bloomsburg Metal, Co. 

SKM Industries, Inc. 


Brennan Electric Incorporated 

Centris Consulting, Inc. 

Diamond Consolidated Industries, Inc. 

Hemmler Camayd Architects 

Llewellyn & McKane, Inc. 

ParenteBeard LLC 

Penn State Mechanical 

Contractors, Inc. 

Woodlands Inn and Resort 



General Mills 

Golden Business Machines Inc. 

1844 Club 

Kronick, Kalada, Berdy & Co. 


TARGET 

UGI Energy Services Inc. 


Eastern Insurance Group 

Eastern Pennsylvania Supply 

Company 

Fino’s Pharmacy 

Mark J. Sobeck Roof Consulting, Inc. 

Nahas & Donahue Orthodontics 

Pendragon Center 

Penn Security Bank & Trust Co. 

Pennsylvania Paper & Supply 

Service Electric Company 

T&F Tire Supply 


AGIA, Inc. 

Huntsville Golf Club 

Ligus Electric Service 

Medical Oncology Associates 

Foundations/ 

Organizations 


The Bergman Foundation 

Charitable Gift Fund 

Degenstein Foundation 

F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc. 

LACE Foundation 

The Lenfest Foundation, Inc. 

The Luzerne Foundation 

McCole Foundation, Inc. 

The Paul D. Wasserott Foundation 

The Wight Foundation, Inc. 

President’s 


Black Horse Foundation 

The Merritt L. Harding Educational 

Trust 

The Nabi Foundation 

National Philanthropic Trust 

The Philadelphia Foundation 


Acorn Hill Foundation 


M.S. Grumbacher Foundation 


Bell Foundation, Inc. 

Davidowitz Foundation 

Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund 

John and Marjorie Passan 


Schwab Charitable Fund 

Scranton Area Foundation 

The Walter L. Schautz Foundation 

The Shoval Foundation 

The Greater Tacoma Community 


The Tambur Family Foundation Trust 

Wilkes-Barre Law and Library 

Association 


Community Foundation of New Jersey 

Communities Foundation of Texas 

Jewish Community Endowment 

Foundation of Stamford, Inc. 

Pasadena Community Foundation 

Stahller Family Foundation 

The Salvation Army – Scranton 

United Way of the National 

Capital Area 

1844 Club 

Combined Jewish Philanthropies 

Isabel Francis Smith & Ralph 

Lawrence Smith Foundation 

North Branch Friends Meeting 

Patty Foresman Foundation 

United Way of Wyoming Valley 


Jewish Community Federation of 

Cleveland 

United Way of King County 

United Way of Lackawanna County 


Wyo-Val West School Employees 

Federal Credit Union 

Class 

Reports 

1929 


W. Curtis Montz 


57

1932 

Class Agent for the 1930’s 

Roman Ulans ’32 


Roman I. Ulans 

1933 


Ruth Dattner Swan 

Eva Ignatovig Townley 

1934 


Clark W. Hunt 

1935 

Participation - 100% 


Elizabeth Stevens Walter 


Edythe Dickover Tessen 

G. Henry Turrell 


Frank A. Dix 

Harold L. Golubock 

1936 



Harold F. Symons 


Robert S. Laubach 


Doris Smiles Firestine 

Catherine Hann Morgan 

Daniel F. Weisberger 

1937 



Gertrude H. Schumaker Besancon 

William H. Dendle 

Charles M. Epstein 

Henry C. Johnson 


Barbara Rosenthal Casper 

1938 



Justin Bergman, Jr. 

President’s 


Frederick Rudolph 


Harry W. Croop, Jr. 


E. Parker Colborn 


Robert R. Ross 


Emmajean Ellsworth Pittman 

Archer C. Puddington 

Shirley Eaton Wirsing 

1939 



Alexander M. Williams 


Leonard L. Silverstein 

1844 Club 

Robert Vandenberg 


Marcella McCormick Fay 

John Patten 


Helen Allen Smith 

Rowena Davis Watson 

1940 

Class Agent: Robert Slaff 



Mary Jeter Traurig 


Ellen Gregory Crispell 

Ettore J. Lippi 

James C. Lurba 

Thomas J. McDonnell 


Florence I. Austin 

Ruth Brooks Chapin 

Louise Traher Cochrane 

Joseph A. Fiske 

Jo Ann Wilson Rose 

1941 

Class Agent: Bruce Ross 


Photo: Michael Kudelski 

President’s 


Alfred G. Gross 


Richard J. Miller 


Marjorie Taite Austin 

Elizabeth Jane Chipman Coker 

Bruce E. Ross 

Barbara Wiener Smith 

Constance Keller Tingley 


Alice Davies Cadwallader 

Edward G. Chapin, Jr. 

Virginia Price Faux 

Margaret Schall Johnson 

Stanley D. Morrett 

Edna Price Schott 

1942 

Class Agent: Stanley Davies 



Cordelia Trethaway Bergman 


Stanley S. Davies 


Joseph P. Flanagan, Jr. 

Mary Elizabeth Mayock Flanagan 


Robert S. Tippett 


Jerrold S. Trumbower 

1844 Club 

Marilyn Coughlin Rudolph 

Thelma Kaftan Zerfoss 


Clara Kerrick Alves 

Miriam Nelson Fleischman 

Thomas P. Roan 

Margaret Dewitt Willis 


William O. Ashton 

Elizabeth Abbott Dawson 

Donald McElroy 

Charlotte Benjamin Morris 

Edward N. Pollock 

Irwin Sagenkahn 

1943 

Class Agent: Grace White Whidden 



Edward C. Brewster 


Paul D. Griesmer 

Beverley Davies Kolb 

M. Grace White Whidden 


John Conyngham, III 

Wesley R. Crompton 

1844 Club 

John K. Davies 


Frank E. Dietrick 

James P. Harris, Jr. 

Marion Stephens Heiss 

Joan Kastor Kesselman 

Richard Rushmore 

Carl J. Schmitt 


Gertrude Marvin Burke 

Elizabeth Pettit Varner 

1944 

Class Agent: Daniel Sneberger 



Daniel F. Sneberger 

1844 Club 

Charlotte Muschlitz Arbogast 

Barbara Matz Bliss 

Robert C. Buckingham 

Jacqueline Anderson Kepler 

Susan Louise Sayes McGhee 

H. Alexander Smith, Jr. 

Stephen H. Wolf 


Helen Lewis Cackener 

William L. Evans 

Daniel D. Olszewski 

Thomas C. Pollock 

Gloria Rothstein Whitesman 


Arthur H. Andrews 

Ruth Betty Bloch Baltimore 

Nancy Abbott Cohen 

Alvin L. Dattner 

Nancy Cohen Judd 

Mary Burnside Mangelsdorf 

Beverly Rittenberg Sims 

Henry Tuck 

1945 

Class Agents: Allan Kluger 



Ralph G. Beane 

President’s 


Allan M. Kluger 


Betsy Bell Condron 


Joseph Baicker 

1844 Club 

Donald J. Eagen 

Nancy Randall Gwilliam 

Herbert M. Weiss 


James P. Bailey 

Marjory Popky Blacher 

Eddie Lou Brownlee Bush 

Lois Arbegast Schweitzer 


Judith Nelson Getzels 

Elizabeth Luetzel Lacy 

Katharine Lamme Stevens 

1946 

Class Agent: Ed Berninger 



Charles Strome, Jr. 

Margaret Strayer Strome 


Edward B. Berninger 

1844 Club 

Eleanor Nettleship Bowersox 

Irwin E. Lecker 

Marilyn Malkemes Sharpe 


Irving S. Bravman 

William H. Cole 

Bernice Perloff Fierman 

George J. Leacacos 

Leo R. Maestripieri 

Ruth Merwin Moser 


Barbara Smith Bollman 

Carolyn A. Clark 

George P. Heffernan, Jr. 

Robert E. Post, Sr. 

Rita Malyndziak Sandor 

Jean Foley Wahlstrom 

Charlotte Davis Wentz 

1947 

Class Agents: Georgia Johnson 

Besecker and Beverly Slocum 

Bougher 



Ann Mueller Coughlin 


Mary Berninger Allan 

Judith Raub Klein 

John L. Sampson 


J. Louis Bush 

1844 Club 

Karl F. Arbogast, Jr. 

Stanley C. Lange, Jr. 

John C. Machun 


William L. Allan 

Jane Ackerson Cleaver 

Gladys Daniels Johnston 

James A. Mack 

D. Wade Smith 

Maxwell B. Spoont 


Georgia Johnson Besecker 

Beverly Slocum Brougher 

Phillip C. Fisher, Jr. 

Edward W. Hartman 

Robert W. Havens 

Lucille Ichter Horsefield 

Murray Milkman 

Carrie Lamoreaux Murray 

Elizabeth Brownlee Sherk 

Nancy Heffernan Valtin 

1948 

Class Agent: Rebecca Nicholson 

Malkemes 



Harold C. Buckingham, Jr. 

Frank C. Carlucci, III 

President’s 


Max Bartikowsky 

Stanley A. Nabi 


Nancy Jackson Hartman 

Robert S. Hartman 

Jean Robbins Hughes 


Sandra R. Lloyd 

James A. Long 


Mary Eagen McDonald 


William E. Evans, III 

Marilyn Isely Everett 

Patricia Heffernan Ferenbach 

Lila Garrahan Pollock 

58

1844 Club 

Ellen Davis Bender 

Elaine Barnett Espey 

Natalie Isaac Henkelman 

Joan Everett Hoffman 

Collette Touey Kean 

George E. Lehman 


Virginia Harris Barrett 

Lewis P. Bush 

William J. Donovan 

John M. Fear 

Louis F. Goeringer 

George Graveson 

William Isaacs 

M. Evelyn Letham Keating 

John H. Klein 

Lawrence O. Kline 

Rebekah Nicholson Malkemes 

Elizabeth Reynolds Metzger 

Charles F. Mueller 

George Rose 

John E. Todd 


Joseph P. Bonchonsky 

Jane Treat Cable 

George J. Cardone 

Arthur H. Chasin 

Joan Wieand Thomas Dixon 

Albert C. Fosko 

Joy Baltimore Greenwald 

Frank S. Kapral 

Elizabeth Lugg Kneeream 

Richard J. Laulor 

Miriam Thomas Noussair 

Florence Gill Prociak 

Joan Libenson Scheinholtz 

June Johnson Stevens 

C. Merle Tischler 

Peter L. Ward 

Anthony F. Zabicki 

1949 

Class Agent: Howard Beane 



Howard C. Beane 

Joan Powell Nusbaum 

Paul D. Wasserott 


Charles S. Holman, Jr. 


Hervey D. Ahlborn 

Marian Berk Barr 

Harvey S. Klein 


M. Clark Conlon 

Thomas F. Ferguson 

Keith O. Malkemes 

John D. Platt 

Raymond P. Wilson, Jr. 

1844 Club 

Rita Kilgallon Conlon 


Shaela Netzel Cahill 

Donald F. Dembert 

Joseph A. Eagen 

Bayonne Ward Gowan 

John A. Kastor 

Lewis J. Kleinrock 

Sondra Gevanthor Pickelny 

Joan Friedman Rittenberg 

Margery Goldstein Rosenberg 

Rodion J. Russin 

Harriet Feinberg Segal 

Sally Strayer Smith 

Ann Peterson Zablocki 


Edna Price Bailey 

George T. Bell 

Nancy Luetzel Boyea 

Walter W. Buckingham 

Hans C. Dreher 

Constance Perloff Green 

Marilou Croop Kaye 

Myra Kornzweig Smulyan 

Constance Tremayne Temple 

Lois Kiefer Trowbridge 

Lois Agnew Zadilka 

1950 

Class Agents: Don Bush, Anne Cook 

Dickerson, Nancy Brader Gibson, 

Frank Henry, Susie Long, and 

Barbara Dykins Von Dran 



Quincy S. Abbot 

Frank M. Henry 

J. Benjamin Reinoehl 


Donald P. Bush, Jr. 

John D. Dixon 

Miriam Davis Dunham 

R. James Dunham 

Susan Long 


John P. Cossa 

Jacob A. Crellin 

William C. Morgan 

1844 Club 

Maxwell E. Davison 

Anne Cook Dickerson 

Nancy Brader Gibson 

Kenneth W. Hitchner, Jr. 


Sally Eisen Basch 

Leonard F. Benzi 

Beverly Balliett Brooks 

Joel B. Goldstein 

Barry J. Iscovitz 

Glenn E. Jacoby 

Auvo I. Kemppinen 

Nancy Weiss Klein 

Natalie Cattanach Lewis 

Priscilla Judge Merek 

Richard G. Murphy 

Barbara Baicker Reisenbach 

Barbara Miller Scheuer 

Margery Hutter Silver 

Barbara Dykins Von Dran 

Sally Landau Zinman 


Mary H. Besteder 

Maureen Shedleski Brady 

Samuel B. Dilcer, Jr. 

Ruth Bass Fiedler 

William C. Gutman 

Nancy Gillis Sheridan 

Mary Hileman Williams 

Ronald Wingerter 

1951 

Class Agent: Richard Rivers 


President’s 


Ethel Evans Lipsitz 


Esther Baum Davidowitz 

Thomas G. Evans 

John B. Fassett 

Thomas J. Mack, Jr. 


Richard D. Rivers 

1844 Club 

Norman A. Clemens 

Donald O. Coughlin 


Harold C. W. Birth 

Emilie Davis Casey 

Vincent E. Dioguardi 

William D. Golightly 

Kathryn Netzel Grausz 

Sherry Howell Hatch 

E. Bowman McLean 

Arlene Krieger Minott 

Richard N. Neuman 

Stephen J. Paradise 

Robert L. Ransavage 

John T. Stevens 


Joseph John Barbacci 

Claire Nachlis Berger 

Howard A. Berman 

Elizabeth Isaacs Cooper 

Anne Robertson Spencer 

William E. Streater 

Paul Ulshafer 

1952 

Class Agents: Claire Conlon Evans and 

John Magagna 



Paul L. Beane 

John D. Mueller 


John F. Magagna 


Rosemary Waverka Long 

James E. Lord 


Claire Conlon Evans 

Marvin E. Metzgar 

Stuart Z. Uran 

Orville Wright, Jr. 


Barbara Northrup Lemmond 

Jerrold R. Williams 

1844 Club 

Madge Klein Benovitz 

Jean Schoch Griffith 

Robert C. Morgan 

Irving C. Rothstein 

Margaret Mitchell Wiemers 


Lucy Theis Bergman 

Elizabeth Tesiny Bohstedt 

Edmund L. Dana, Jr. 

Helen Miller Davis 

Richard A. Ide 

Robert N. Levy 

Nancy VonArx Merrill 

Charles L. Mitri 

Sarah Tonrey Morelli 

Jacqueline Mulcey 

Sylvia Brown Nadel 

Barbara Bauman O’Hanlon 

Wallace L. Pelton 

Benjamin F. Phillips 

Frederick R. Trumbore 


Nancy M. Wagner Banz 

Janice Lamb Beyrent 

Mildred Monchak Bilski 

C. Ruth Graeflin Dilts 

Warren M. Epstein 

Barbara Davey Fitzgerald 

Mary Lou Runstall Grontkowski 

John D. Husband 

Bernadine Malyndziak Jastrem 

Basia Mieszkowski Jaworski 

Harry S. Keller, III 

Sheldon Nelson 

Janet Ahlborn Roberts 

Margaret Dombroski Schmidt 

1953 

Class Agent: Barbara Fassett Oski 

Beane 



Barbara Fassett Oski Beane 


Anonymous 

Dorothy Funke Perley 


William S. Assiff 

Jeanne Malkemes Hickman 

1844 Club 

John Aponick, Jr. 

Bettijane Long Eisenpreis 

Hilbert C. Lehman 

Marilyn Lundy Lehman 

Jack Sallada, Jr. 

Lillian Davis Smith 


Flora Quint Bell 

Betta Steingart Clair 

Roger G. Clark 

Ruth Schulz Cottrell 

Jim Fisher 

R. Lawrence Fraze 

Marcia Turner Frey 

Alice Daw Heffernan 

Betsy Everett Hubinger 

Muriel Keller Jacoby 

Barbara Harter Koehl 

Harry F. Lee 

Harriet L. Epstein Maidenbaum 

Joseph F. Neary 

Albert A. Prushinski 

Elizabeth Morgan Salisbury 

Anne-Louise Strickland 

John J. Turner 

Liesel von Storch Hicks 

Sarah Cochran Warm 


Samuel T. Buckman, Jr. 

Thomas L. P. Cook 

Thomas M. Dewitt 

Nancy Mains Ennulat 

Gaeton A. Long 

Edward J. Palanek 

Elena Horrigan English Parkhurst 

Roxie Daron Sanders 

1954 

Class Agent: Elizabeth Hutcheson 

Fetter 



Audrey Radler Lord 

59


William J. Scott 


Elizabeth Hutcheson Fetter 

William S. Pierce 

Laura Semmer Sobol 

1844 Club 

Elsa Funke Bainer 


John L. Higgins, Jr. 

C. Peter Speth 

Jean Cattanach Sziklas 

Thomas E. Watkins 


Eileen Congdon Barranco 

Magdalen M. Benish 

Sarah Kear Braun 

Elizabeth Bloss Breisch 

Paula Heffernan Daley 

Gerald Donald Gunster 

Leonard R. Jaskol 

Larry E. Kaufman 

Sally Teller Lottick 

David E. Morgan 

Ernest H. Mukamal 

Shirley Baroody Myers 

Joan Patterson Sheil 

Sally Skinner-Sandford 

Catherine Howell Susanin 


Margaret Lyon Allen 

Deborah S. Rosen Cohen 

Louise Engle Dove 

Ralph E. Dula 

Barbara Schwartzbach Felder 

Jan Helbig Jemison 

Ruth Gates Kelly 

Ida Kiefer McClary 

Donald H. Roeske 

1955 

Class Agent: Mimi Highes Carroll, 

Ginny Baner Dewey, Dick Goldberg, 

Carl Hedden, and Sue Kline Kluger 


President’s 


Sue Kline Kluger 


John J. Capone, Jr. 

Miriam Hughes Carroll 

Richard M. Goldberg 

60 


Sylvia Kehoe Abrantes 

Marilyn Keefer Carter 

Louise Loucks Moore 

1844 Club 

Janet Silver Falk 

Carol Ann Hyman Levitin 

Constance Morgan Scanlon 

J. Thomas Williams, Jr. 


Ida Ruth Baum Citron 

Mary W. Haas 

Carol Wywiorski Halliday 

Carl T. Hedden 

John S. Holden 

Donna Toledo Thomas 

Helen Tinsley 

Lynne Herskovitz Warshal 

Ralph Wetzel 

Sara Bierly Willoughby 


David B. Clemens 

Virginia Baner Dewey 

Donna Jeanne Gay Kaplan 

Martha McLean Kelley 

Richard Carl Maurer 

David M. Micahnik 

George Murdock 

Joyce Roberts Murray 

Roslyn Nelson Sachs 

Eben Shaffer 

John T. Valenti, Jr. 

1956 

Class Agent: Robert Smith 


President’s 


Ronald W. Simms 


Faith Edwards Sarratt 

Arthur W. Sherwood 

Robert H. Smith 


Kelly J. Mather 


Judith Mills Mack 

Susanne Sunday Sanderson 


Helen Hoffa Hughlett 

1844 Club 

Edwin C. Curtis 

Rita Biscontini O’Donnell 


Robert Q. Busch 

Aldo J. Casseri 

Lewis D. Dana 

Nancy Fern 

Constine H. Yahara Lewis 

Robert S. Meck 

Charlotte Perkins Schmucker 

Barbara Kurlancheek Shaffer 

Charles A. Shaffer 

Eric Stusnick 

Henry T. Wadzinski 

Durbin L. Wagner 

Francine Bernstein Wilson 

Joyce Schneider Zeluck 


Thomas B. Decker 

Frederick A. Farber 

Ellen Gerstein Hollands 

Robert P. Margie 

William R. Perry, Jr. 

John W. Pieplow 

Stuart I. Price 

Mary Hess Quarrier 

Donald W. Roberts 

Helen Schainuck Rubin 

Sandra Epstein Solomon 

David C. Teller 

Mary Jane Sunday Whelan 

1957 

Class Agent: John Dimond 



Morgan R. Jones 

Robert K. Montgomery 

Sanford I. Padwe 


A. John Dimond 

1844 Club 

David L. Barr 

Walter E. Dean, Jr. 

Stark G. Jones 

Bertrand J. Reese 


Rosalie N. Banks Arnold 

Dorothy Memolo Bheddah 

Bonny M. Cochran 

Joseph M. DiGiacomo, Jr. 

Judith A. Decker Geraets 

A. Michael Greenwald 

Diane Burnside Haddle 

Judith Schiffman Hollaender 

Burton Karmiel 

Virginia Margavitch Payne 

Carole Teplitz West 


David W. Aston 

Donald K. Bogart 

Jane Muncy Campbell 

J. Thomas Engle 

Ellen Shaffer Meyer 

Lois Wasserstrom Morris 

Claire Trethaway Oldham 

Wilbur G. Person 

Herbert C. Thieme, Jr. 

Jo Ellen Lawson Wilson 

John A. Wood 

Dorothy J. Edwards Young 

1958 

Class Agents: Charles Alexander and 

Alex Steinbergh 



Charles W. Alexander 

Alex M. Steinbergh 


Barbara S. Soyka 


James R. Edwards 

Linda Bryan Goss 


Adolf L. Herst 

1844 Club 

David E. Bravman 

John W. Charlton 

James F. Haas, III 

John E. Morris, III 


Jean Gibbons Amick 

Rosemary Shea Caputo 

Margaret Doumaux DeFlavis 

Gail Hillard Elston 

Jay M. Elston 

Florence M. Moore Goeringer 

Edward D. Griffith, Jr. 

George B. Henne 

Barbara Tiffany Phillips Howell 

Mary Giffin Intlekofer 

John H. Perkins 

Judith Terry Smith 

George A. Thatcher 

Donna Levine Walker 


Catherine Halloway 

G. Carl Roberts 

Michael Sumner 

1959 

Class Agent: David Lauderbaugh 



Sally Friedman Cohen 

President’s 


Judith Casper Bohorad 

David M. Lauderbaugh 


Bernhardt K. Wruble 

1844 Club 

Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr. 

Robert E. Jones 

Francine Stein 

Nancy K. Welker 


George J. Behler 

Susan Eaton Calvert 

Arthur H. Darling 

Ann Popky Fisher 

Lynn Kurlancheek Gonchar 

Robert Hausmann 

Bettina Clark Murphy 

Samuel S. Pearlman 

Jacqueline Spencer Williams 

Robert L. Wood 


Marilyn Hughes Brookhart 

Harriet Rudolph Davis 

Johanna Borowski Hendon 

Norman D. James 

Marian A. Stevens 

Michael Ufberg 

1960 

Class Agent: Jonathan Greenwald, 

Ellen MacCartney Warren, and Jay 

Weinberg 


President’s 


G. Jonathan Greenwald 


Jay N. Weinberg 


Susan Grumbacher Gregory 


Margaret Fischer McGroarty 

Richard S. Scott 

Ellen MacCartney Warren 

Edmund C. Wideman, III 


Michele Levine Hoffman 

Fred W. Ortman 

Daniel W. Rosenn 

1844 Club 

Charmaine Kanjorski Aponick 

Carol Cutting Pickering 


Judith Fassett Aydelott 

Nelson Banks 

Irving Brand 

Stephen L. Brandwene 

Stephen A. Dana 

Ann Burnat Kellman 

William J. Kolb 

Joseph G. Montross, Jr. 

Jane M. Morris 

A. David Neiman 

Philip D. Thompson 

Murray Ufberg 

Lenore Wadzinski Yousef 


Carol Androsky 

Platt Townend Arnold 

William L. Barney 

Susan Teller Goodman 

Lorraine Rowland Murdock 

Susan Yashan 

1961 

Class Agent: Jane Charlton Huey 



Leon W. Bonner, Jr. 

Howard E. Gardner 


Judith Mullens Cohen 

1844 Club 

W. Kentley Jones 

Sheldon W. Lawrence 


Raymond John Bolek 

Gerald M. Coopey 

Suzanne Hess Hazelton 

Anne Harvey Howell 

Jane Charlton Huey 

Peter K. Johnson 

Gary S. Kornfeld 

Asher S. Levitsky 

Dale H. Moses 

George Arnold Pahls 

Parker D. Roberts 

Elizabeth Greene Ross 

Sanford G. Thatcher 

Sandra Laidler Valenti 

Margaret Havard Vogelson 


Joseph G. Ashley 

Mary Jo Cronin Bassing 

Jane Cochran Chambers 

Thomas Chambers

David M. Closterman 

Susan A. Ertley Eikenberry 

Avery D. Gentle, Jr. 

Katherine Drapiewski Harrison 

Raymond Howard 

W. David Larmouth 

Thomas M. Mairs 

Virginia Johnson Maravilla 

Herbert M. Pickett 

Elizabeth Closterman Roberts 

James J. Shields 

Howard T. Watson, Jr. 

Lewis W. Wetzel 

Alan D. Wilcox 

1962 

Class Agent: Al Thomas 



Frederick J. Graboske 

Kenneth W. Leyshon 

Alfred W. Thomas, III 

William W. Yoder 


Myrtis D. Funke Burns 

Peter H. Miller 

Harvey Rosenkrantz 

1844 Club 

John H. Hassler, Jr. 

Albert C. Molter, Jr. 

Simon S. Russin, III 

George Z. Wilson 


M. Elizabeth Tribler Corrigan 

Michael G. DiNunzio 

Virginia Greenwood Dubbs 

Flora Franconi 

Ann Horlacher Murray 

Carol Silberman Nelson Dembert 

Rena Bergsmann Rutstein 

J. Richard Steidel 


Stephen M. Alinikoff 

Ruth Shaffer Chariton 

Barry L. Derolf 

Carole Schalm Ertley 

Skip Falbo 

Sara Kauffman Moss 

Terry Salsburg Nelson 

Karyne Miller Wilner 

1963 

Class Agent: Leslie Turrell Bullock 



Leslie Turrell Bullock 

William B. Sordoni 


John E. Butts 


Marylee Bomboy 

1844 Club 

Robert G. Dealaman 

Stephen R. Ingraham 

Norman H. Kresge 


Margaret P. Perkins Beers 

John Johnson, Jr. 

Richard L. Kramer 

J. Ronald Seacord 

Susan L. Sgarlat 

John D. Sieminski 

William A. Unger 


Mollie Harris Farmer 

Mary E. Gale 

Verna Pritchard Holman 

Karen Lichtig 

Harry B. Schooley, III 

Lon Youngquist Schooley 

Jill James Smith 

Sara Thomas Urisko 

Linda Renville Wardell 

John C. Wise 

1964 

Class Agent: Patricia Klein Rosenthal 



George B. Sordoni 


Peter Jay Smyrl 

1844 Club 

Susan Mason Horn 


Karen Carter Dreyfuss 

Robert Evans 

Ellen Steinberg Herring 

Edward Miller 

Samuel K. Mitchell, III 

Judith A. Robbins 

Patricia Klein Rosenthal 

George J. Sick 

Christina Shafer Zardecki 


A. Anthony Anzalone 

Roslyn Schor Fishman 

Gaard Hopkins Moses 

Myrtilla Abbott Squitieri 

Lawrence G. Stets 

W. Thomas Walker 

1965 

Class Agents: Sally Sims Alinikoff, 

Caleb McKenzie, and Ronald 

Rittenmeyer 



Ronald A. Rittenmeyer 


David J. Oblon 


Estelle B. Andrews 

Howard Y. Harris, Jr. 

Reuben A. Munday 


Daniel J. Drapiewski 

Winifred W. Rowe 

1844 Club 

Camilla A. Ayers 

Helen M. Jones 


Robert D. Anton 

Nancy Siegel Harris 

Caleb Alexander McKenzie 

Kathryn Montz Miller 

William A. Newman 

Joanne C. Patton 

Richard W. Snowdon 

Gailey Chambers Teller 


Sally Sims Alinikoff 

H. Pamela Bird 

Laurence M. Davidow 

Georgia A. Dzurica 

Donald E. Morreale 

Elliott S. Robinson, III 

Charles Shea 

Sally Lowe Shea 

P. Thomas Shouldice 

Marjorie Shaffer Victor 

Diane Giering Wasilewski 

1966 

Class Agent: Marshall Rumbaugh 



Circle 

Steven Foldes 


Lucinda Wolfe Hughes 

Stephen B. Killian 

1844 Club 

Ann Helen Roberts 

Leonard J. Thacher 


Sarah P. Carr 

Loren N. Crispell 

John F. Gager 

Barbara J. Hauck 

William C. Johnson 

David F. Lacy 

Meredith Hopkins Moses Maxwell 

Tedi Piken Najarian 

Ronald L. Post 

Susan Gottesman Rabkin 

Barbara L. Smith 

Ann Jones Weigle 

Susan C. Yelen 


Richard H. Blum 

Allison I. Carter 

Martha McDowell Guerin 

Robert N. Klemow 

Mary E. Lawson 

Edward W. Lopatto, Jr. 

Sally Ann Brehm Martin 

Lawrence E. Putterman 

Robert Rosenkrantz 

Marshall D. Rumbaugh 

Jill Blum Sherman 

Mark C. Strobino 

William H. Vincent 

Anne Fisk Wilce 

1967 

Class Agent: Janet Flack 



Philip J. Santarelli 

1844 Club 

Janet E. Flack 

Barbara Goldstein Kline 

Lewis E. Thayne 

Jeffery S. Thielen 


Ira M. Goldstein 

Jeffrey L. Grogan 

Jackson Koffman 

Susan Pool Moses 

John Olaynick 

Howard J. Patton 

James R. Weiss 

Marcia Roeder Wright 


Ellen Francis Bolar 

Shelley Rosen Chamberlain 

Ralph B. Edwards 

Gerald T. McLaughlin 

Deborah E. Patton 

Susan J. Salsburg 

1968 

Class Agent: Susan Tippett House 

Annual Giving Total - $3,420 

Donors - 20 



Christopher F. Harris 

Susan Tippett House 

Carlo H. Santarelli, Jr. 

1844 Club 

Jonathan L. Levy 

Ann Kolesar Wood 


Henry Horbaczewski 

Bruce G. Logan 

Atlee Robinson 

Mia Sieminski 

Lynn Levey Weiss 


Cathy Rudolph Breish 

Robert S. Dolph 

Cynthia A. Garman 

Linda Jeter Harris 

Trisha Johnson Reece 

Catherine J. Cannon Kosenak 

Kenneth MacArthur 

Mariana Heim Moore 

Helen MacLellan Simon 

Jayne Bourke Steeg 

1969 

Class Agent: John Lopatto, III 



Alexis S. Iszard 

John S. Lopatto, III 


Kathryn Perkins O’Fee 

1844 Club 

Richard P. Abramowitz 

Pauline A. Thomas 


Nancy E. Barnes 

Alisa Berger Cotter 

Robert G. Edgerton, Jr. 

M. Elizabeth Hibbard 

Alan S. Hollander 

Stephen K. Nelson 

Lori Simon Panzer 

S. Kerr Smith 

Sara Parkhurst Van Why 

Larry VanScoy 

Joseph J. Waiter 

Richard C. Weiss 


Robert C. Bothwell 

Joseph W. Harpster 

K. Christine Hibbard 

Nettie Hourigan Maguire 

Robert J. McFann, Jr. 

Denise Goobic Meck 

Lloyd J. Miller 

Jack Monick 

Mary McGlynn O’Karma 

61

Philip D. Reid 

Norma Thomas Ruckno 

Diana T. Watlington 

Daniel W. Wheeler, Jr. 

Ellen Schmaltz Young 

1970 

Class Agents: Esther Gray Peacock 

and Jill Jeter Tallman 



Susan Weiss Shoval 


Ellen Brenton McAllister 


Margot Meeks Hennings 

1844 Club 

Gary L. Bushelli 

Kathy Isaacs Miller 


Jonathan Blum 

Erika Funke 

Pamela Pethick Gale 

Randall G. Gale 

Megan Thomas Goeller 

Robert L. Klein 

Christina Graham Ouellette 

Sanford H. Pahk 

Irving F. Rivera 

Elaine Izenberg Ufberg 

Susan Kelly Wagner 


Frank E.P. Conyngham 

Stanton G. Finkelstein 

Marion Barnard Finn 

Lisa A. Harris 

Joel W. Lidz 

Liza Roos Lucy 

Stephen F. Stettler 

1971 

Class Agent: Michael Flowers 



Carl J. Grivner 

President’s 


David P. Hourigan 


Thomas M. Price 


Phillip W. Roth 

John H. Shafer 


Michael J. Keough 

1844 Club 

Hope Berger Rubin 

Debra Brown Siglin 


David J. Abelson 

Thomas E. Dickinson 

Lee R. Epstein 

Jack Evans 

Mary Jane Griesmer Evans 

Michael E. Flowers 

Lee R. Kessler-Salvato 

Robert E. Maloney, Jr. 

Jack Daniel Miller 

Susan Wise Powell 


Sharan Jacqueline Baran 

Elizabeth Reid Beebe 

R. Bruce Birnbaum 

Carol Wasnick Domsky 

James Guyll 

Ann L. Carey Harding 

Joel H. Hollander 

Stephen L. Johns 

Kent S. Jones 

Alan B. Langrall 

David E. Lopatto 

Vincent F. Perdeus 

Ellen Firestine Rebert 

Mary Ann K. Plevel Yenason 

1972 

Class Agent: Robert Clements 



Charles D. Flack, Jr. 

Mary Ann Lopatto 

President’s 


Patrick M. Loftus 


Jaye Ellen Hindin Lewis 


Robert D. Clements, Jr. 

1844 Club 

Elliott R. Miller 

Polly Mitchell 


Jack W. Frey 

Gary C. Klein 

Susan Edwards Rivera 

Barry A. Schub 

Joseph F. Shedlawski 

Bradley P. Wartella 

Madelyn Newman Wolf 


John C. Carothers, III 

Jane A. Duvall 

Regina Engel 

Rodney L. Kaiser 

Patricia Hauck Kline 

Robin DeYoung Newman 

Robert L. Rosenberg 

Brian R. Schlier 

Sandy L. Singer 

Samuel L. Stettler 

Richard J. Thomas 

Gail W. Vonderheid 

1973 

Class Agent: Robert Friedman 


President’s 


Jeffrey A. Weiss 


Robert C. Friedman 


Anthony L. Berger 

Frank P. Maguire 


James J. Rosenthal 

Barbara Samuel Loftus 

1844 Club 

Robert D. Seeley 

Elizabeth Deering Wilkinson 


Nancy Bravman 

Ruth Graham Conaghan 

Brian L. Davis 

James P. Harris, III 

Debra Fainberg Hollander 

Alan J. Klein 

Janet Malkemes 

Earl W. Phillips, Jr. 

Frederick M. Shortz 

John W. Siegal 

Gary Wattie 

Sandra Kabeschat Wytoshek 


Alan D. Harris 

1974 

Class Agent: Ed Doblix 



Jonathan P. Hosey 


Jeffrey S. Klein 


Edward F. Doblix 

Patricia McCarthy Last 

Debra Turner Reinhardt 


Jane Benovitz Feinstein 

Anthony J. Grosek, III 

Margaret S. Hall 

Frank R. Hughes 

Robert A. Piccone 

Jenni M. Rodda 

Charles E. Scott 

George A. Spohrer, Jr. 

David B. Stettler 


Gary Baker 

Nancy Hughes Cline 

Janet Yuscavage Harris 

Robert S. Lewis 

Keith A. Newman 

David P. Rittenberg 

Anthony J. Shipula, II 

Ronald P. Sweeda 

Clinton H. Walker 

1975 

Class Agents: Karl Arbogast, III, 

Catherine Evans Berger, Tim 

Evans, Pearl Ann Butera Fulton, 

Robert Greenwald, Clare McCarthy 

Parkhurst, Ed Romanoski and 

Cornelia Conyngham Romanoski, 

and Joe Yuscavage 



Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski 

Edward S. Romanowski 


Catherine Evans Berger 

Terrence Casey 

Tim A. Evans 


Clare McCarthy Parkhurst 

Mary Pavia Rolla 

1844 Club 

Robert D. Santarelli 

Mary Shafer Wakeman 


George G. Conyngham, Jr. 

Robert M. Greenwald 

April Krajeski 

Daun Rose Margin 

Roberta Bravman Marks 

Jed Pearsall 


Karl F. Arbogast, III 

D. Andrew Hogoboom 

Carolyn P. Spohrer 

Marleen A. Troy 

Jan Morris Whelan 

Deirdre Beckwith Wrenn 

1976 

Class Agent: Howard Baird 



Janet E. Murray 

1844 Club 

Howard Baird, Jr. 

Scott E. Henry 

David I. Kluger 

Katherine Yohe Linneman 

Donna Jackson Patterson 

Bruce H. Saidman 


Bruce C. Buckle 

David W. McIlwaine 

Pamela A. Collins Rhodes 

Barbara Klein Windham 


Thomas E. Heffernan 

John A. Licata 

Amy Hollander Veloric 

Janet Hughes Wiles 

Richard N. Yelen 

1977 

Class Agent: Jeannie McCarthy 

Clements 



Jeanne T. Lopatto 


Scott H. Beyer 

Jeannie McCarthy Clements 

Kathleen Fairman 

1844 Club 

Dale P. Hoover 

Barbara Lumia Rogers 

James Coulter Rogers, III 


Barbra Ann Berley-Mellits 

Timothy S. Evans 

Jon R. Hallingstad 

Raymond A. Kresge 

Deborah Ann Brandwene Lese 

Marjorie Henkelman Minnich 

Robert J. Wise, Jr. 


Kathy Jo Abraham Adonizio 

Amy Prashker Cohen 

Nina Slomowitz Davidowitz 

Weinberg 

Peter K. Hunt 

Charles M. Isaacs 

Timothy Moran 

Joan P. Schooley 

Robert C. Williams, Jr. 

1978 

Class Agent: Cathy McHugh 


President’s 


Marjorie Henry Marquart 


Charles J. Bufalino, III 


Mei L. Castor 

Marc L. Holtzman 


Scott P. Parkhurst 

1844 Club 

Nancy Neary Baird 

Robert D. Gallager 


Stephen J. Boyer 

S. William Goidell 

Dana L. Griffith 

Robert A. Grosek 

Harry K. Hiestand, Jr. 

Joan Morris Hipp 

John Dale Hogoboom 

Timothy J. Jordan 

Nancy Lynn Repa Toker 


Kurt D. Lettow 

Gerald R. Mowry 

L. Mark Nelson 

Charles W. Umphred 

John Weinberg 

Karen Backer Young 

1979 

Class Agent: Rebecca Smith 



Charles H. Parkhurst 


62


Richard M. Hughes, III 

Margy Simms 


James E. Hoyes 

Mark A. Weinberger 

1844 Club 

John B. Horrigan 

Julie Goldstone Marcley 

Philip J. Powlick 


William E. Burak, Jr. 

Elizabeth Kluger Cooper 

Russell L. Darr 

Donald Flick, Jr. 

Mary Frances Donley Forcier 

Regina Germain 

Nan Slomowitz Greenwald 

John P. Hendrzak 

Norman F. Lyons 

Rebecca Ferguson Smith 

Lester S. Smulowitz 


Judith Dunham Shaal 

1980 

Class Agents: Patricia Mack Grosek, 

Blair Jennings, Richard Johnson, and 

Ross Macarty 



Richard S. Johnson 

Hilary Maslow Naud 

David E. Schwager 


Maria Agati Edmunds 

Tamara L. Pearsall 

1844 Club 

Laning J. Harvey 

Blair S. Jennings 

Robert A. Kaslander, Jr. 

Donald M. Robbins 

John D. Wartella 


Madhu Alagiri 

Louis J. Butera 

Patricia Mack Grosek 

Randall W. King 

William C. Lamoreaux 

John B. McCarthy 

Lee J. McCarthy, III 

Daryl Goldberg Simon 


Christopher C. Dankmyer 

Garth A. Myers 

1981 

Class Agent: Joseph Torsella 



Virginia Simms Rose 


Frank C. Carlucci, IV 

William B. Evans, Jr. 

James K. Levey 


Joseph M. Torsella 


Steven C. Dressler 

Margaret Brown Tregurtha 

1844 Club 

Ian Ferguson 

Marianne E. Horrigan 


Anonymous (Dawn Llewellyn 

Washo) 

Joann S. Gonchar 

Robina MacIntyre Marshall 

Maria L. Motto 

Julie McCarthy Strzeletz 


Douglas C. Burak 

Jennifer F. Davis 

Lowell B. Meltzer 

Philip G. Weatherly 

1982 

Class Agent: Kimberly Albert Boackle 



William W. Hinko 


Joseph E. Kluger 

Melanie Maslow Lumia 


Lisa Caputo Morris 

1844 Club 

Arthur Berry, III 

Margaret Nichols Hutchins 

Susan Dantona Jolley 

Basil J. Musnuff 

Mark C. Williard 


Christine Mohr Grenier 

Gaye C. Gustitus 

Christopher J. Hall 

Paul M. Kotch 

Jocelyn E. Piccone 

Amy Schall 


Elizabeth Post McKelvey 

Jessica A. Oski 

1983 

Class Agent: John Morris 


1844 Club 

David C. Grosek 


Lauralie Chapin Cook 

Karen A. Jeremy 

Gregory D. Lull 

Pia Taggart 

Ellen Daley Wagner 


Christopher L. Barrett 

Margaret M. Csala 

Paul R. Ryneski 

1984 

Class Agent: Marissa Menn Linder 



A. Richard Caputo, Jr. 

Charles F. Cohen 


Susan Cuscela Carlson 

Leslie Dymond Marks 


Neil J. Neveras 

1844 Club 

Kayanne Vanderburg Barilla 

Jennifer Mack Jennings 

Christine Brown Teal 


R. Scott Cresko 

Sarah Yohe Hathaway 

Marissa Menn Linder 

Amy Beth Llewellyn 

Willisa Y. Roland 

Caroline McCarthy Youngman 


Christopher S. Briggi 

Joseph R. Nardone, II 

1985 

Class Agents: Gerald Gunster and 

Liesl Ann Harder-Kelp 



Gerald D. Gunster 


Andrea J. Hendrzak 

1844 Club 

Victoria M. Baran 

Liesl Ann Harder-Kelp 

Emma Simms Kluger 


Anthony P. Andrews 

John C. Evans 


Melissa A. Gaudio 

Ann Marie Hendrzak 

Jennifer L. Pearce 

Donna Zavada Wilkinson 

1986 

Class Agent: Christopher Berry 



Christopher Berry 

1844 Club 

Neale M. Dougherty 


Clifford K. Booth 

Rebecca Gilliand Booth 

Terrell D. Smith Juth 

Robert P. Koons, Jr. 

Shelly Kalins Lutz 

Tammy J. Perkins-Mack 

Christopher E. Weiler 

Bradley W. Yoder 


Lisa Marie Kosenak Ayers 

Amy John Kehner 

Sylvia Bain Moran 

1987 

Class Agent: Todd Vonderheid 



Robert H. Eggleston, Jr. 

1844 Club 

Paul E. Bartley, III 

Margaret Bevevino Cramton 

Michael J. Cramton 

Christian C. Hampel 

Todd A. Vonderheid 


Eric M. Cohen 

Kim Gramlich Heller 

Laurie J. Nelson 

Karen A. Lottick Perry 

Jennifer Banks Santo 


Erin Moore Axton 

1988 

Class Agent: Tara Mugford Wilson 



Donald A. Reiff 


Catherine DePasquale Mihalick 

Tara Mugford Wilson 


Dominic P. Fino, Jr. 

Scott G. Kerridge 

Matthew J. Lehman 

Marla Parente 


Michael C. Averna 

Nicole Romano Borland 

Catherine Callahan 

Deborah Rothberg Covitz 

Robert M. Nelson 

1989 

Class Agent: Scott Cooper 



David J. Bujnowski 

1844 Club 

Stephanie Ruckno Bartley 

Kristen E. Farmer-Vonderheid 

Jennifer Butler Sokolowski 

Jennifer Wideman-Green 


Yoon-Mi Chang Chang-Turbitt 

Scott C. Cooper 

Robert F. Eagen 

Jennifer A. Ivers 

Anthony K. Tama 

Jennie A. York 


Lisa A. Cameron 

Hyunah Choi 

Roberta Tunila Hyland 

Audrey Lilly Kenjura 

1990 

Class Agents: Jane Goldberg, 

Christopher Kersey, Thomas Lull 



John V. Calce 

Barbara Albert Cuddy 

1844 Club 

Thomas A. Lull 


Lori E. Blue 

Christopher J. Kersey 


Mary Ann Gaska Cameron 

Joanna Garbush DuPriest 

Jane R. Goldberg 

Samantha M. Ireson 

Carrie Rampp 

Ann E. Semwanga 

Ronni Racusin Stuart 

Jennifer S. Leonard van der Veen 

1991 

Class Agent: Gretchen Vanderburg 

Niggel 



Robert S. Tamburro 

1844 Club 

Thomas A. Lawrence 

Laura W. Owens Skinner 


Cynthia Ruckno Anderson 

Christie Meyers Potera 


63


A. Jeffrey Dimond 

Joanna Siegel Gover 

Matthew N. Klank 

Shelley Stahl Parnell 

1992 

Class Agent: Jennifer Riddle Harding 


1844 Club 

Heath T. Bates 


Sarah Fried Clay 

Tonya E. Drewniak DuBois 

Jennifer Riddle Harding 

Ginger R. Hale Quinn 

Edward J. Stankus, III 


Danielle Rudin Del Po 

S. David DePasquale 

1993 

Class Agent: Steve Rosenthal 



Stephen Rosenthal 


William E. Sordoni 

1844 Club 

Jennifer E. Bradley Stewart 


David Paul Bonita 

Thomas Chang 

Liza Tambur-Rolland 

Irina Vinitsker Vinin 


Melanie J. Evans 

Jeffrey J. Malak 

R. Dwayne Myers 

1994 

Class Agent: Amy Valli Bennett 



Amy C. Valli Bennett 


Matthew Bruno 


Jennifer Eidam Davis 

Joseph Giovannini, III 

Holly E. Zug 


Natalya Sharp Cherry 

Michele Crecca Glassic 

Kristen Kasulke Hamp 

Stacey Kutish 

John M. Sarmento 

Penny Ann Treas Schade 

1995 

Class Agents: Margaret Rose 

Lombardo, Jennifer Savage Matyczak, 

and Jonathan Tennenbaum 



Sandra Davis Chrisholm 

James Matysczak 

Jennifer Savage Matysczak 

Matthew Sordoni 

1844 Club 

Sheila M. Flanagan-Sheils 


Margaret Rose Lombardo 

Jackie G. Taylor Meier 


Sandra Davis Chisholm 

Holly Naugle Eaton 

Jonathan Tenenbaum 

1996 

Class Agent: Jeremy Dombroski 



Sarah Sordoni Bruno 

1844 Club 

Christopher J. Moon 


Douglas Bruno 

Robert J. Ciaruffoli, III 

Megan J. Dimond 

Alida Kuhn 

Jelena Todorovic Meisel 

Carlo H. Santarelli, III 

Amy E. Archavage Trapasso 


Wendy E. Taylor Bradbury 

Katherine A. Gale 

Kristy Kozlek 

Colleen Conyngham Mazin 

Melissa Stuckey 

1997 

Class Agent: Doug Sherwood 



David Wallace 


Elizabeth A. Murphy 

1844 Club 

John S. McLaughlin 


Melissa N. Barber 

Hrvoje Benko 

Jason Yale Cohen 

Christian Hanisch 

Masato Kawashima 

Matthew A. Trosan 

1998 

Class Agents: Jesse Renee Mermell 

and Michael Packard 


1844 Club 

Maria Mullarkey Burakiewicz 

Jesse Renee Mermell 

Jaron L. Stern 


Manuel Billups 

Jonathan Bradbury 

Michael Thomas C. Packard 

Michelle Pushefski 

Joseph Walsh, III 


Charlene Aquilina 

Michael Meadows 

Carolina Schinke 

1999 

Class Agents: Nate Davis and Robert 

Sherwood 



Margaret B. Sordoni Morris 

1844 Club 

Michael Messersmith 


Narada Edmund Campbell 

Catherine A. Conyngham 

Kyle A. Droppers 

Brooke M. Schuler Sciuto 


Beth Coplan 

Thomas J. Graham, III 

Andrew Hollander 

A. Randall Lawrence 

Hilary Ann Koehl Riedemann 

Kathryn Sieminski 

Michael Volodarsky 

2000 

Class Agents: R. Clements Glover, 

Dennis Packard, Taylor Wielage, 

Jaclyn Walkowiak Moser, and 

Lisa Wisnewski 


1844 Club 

Joshua E. Karoly 


Melissa J. Sviatko 

Gordon M. Weightman 


James Ask 

R. Clements Gover 

Barret M. Katuna 

Jaclyn Walkowiak Moser 

Dennis Malcolm C. Packard 

2001 

Class Agents: Patricia Rado and 

Karlina Zikor 



Charles D. Flack, III 

Trenton A. Miller 


Edward C. Price 

Madhan K. Srinivasan 

Andrew G. Volpetti 

Karlina A. Zikor 

2002 

Class Agent: Courtney Dombroski 


1844 Club 

Nicholas Sordoni 


Robert D. Isaacs 

Lauren Melissa Toczylowski 


Mary Jane Gover Ask 

Courtney R. Dombroski 

Kurt D. Hoffmann 

Courtney Klaips 

Liqian Ma 

George H. Shafer 

2003 

Class Agent: Rebecca Saidman-Krauss 



Daniel W. Volpetti 


Christopher H. Boyle 

Jennifer E. Campbell 

Geoffrey P. Cutler 

Eric Feinstein 

Allison B. Handman 

Matthew V. Kerns 

Jordan B. Koslosky 

2004 

Class Agent: Peter DeMarco 



Grace Marie Amico 

Matthew Brown 

Naveen Dasa 

Peter J. DeMarco 

Xinran Deng 

Leah Eyerman 

Daniel A. Hollander 

Luka Korica 

Ekaphan Kraichak 

Christopher Molitoris 

Harry T. Shafer 

2005 

Class Agents: Bridget Bunton, 

Elizabeth Clements, Alex Flack, Ali 

Kornfeld, and Harrison Russin 



Ali Brennan Kornfeld 


Alex E. Flack 


Elizabeth Clements 

Catherine K. Gibbons 

Maria E. Insalaco 

Madeline I. Kropp 

Jason Michael Reck 

Adam J. Rifkin 

Sara Lynne Rosenberg 

Harrison Basil Russin 

Nadan Sehic 

Robert Urban 

David Phillip Vorozilchak 

2006 

Class Agent: Laura Rose Musheno 



Nora Christine Benedict 

Sara Brown 

Ross Nathan Feinstein 

Frano Knego 

Jillian L. Nataupsky 

Mary Elise Novack 

Lindsay M. Stevens 

Alison Thatcher 

Sarah Veneski 

2007 



Christina M. Brown 

Phillip Joseph Kachmar 

Corey Michael Konycki 

Megan Fleming Messersmith 

Jack Lawrence Morton 

Douglas John Rosnick 

R. Dylan Seeley 

Alexander Ullin Shick 

Justin Smith 

Kaitlyn Louise Snyder 

Jacqueline Thomas 

Benson Ho Pan Yu 

2008 



Richard A. Rose, III 

Kathleen Curran Sharkey 


Rachel Elisabeth Ackerman 

Paul Michael Anderson 

Jonathan Doblix 

Ashley Rae Fedak 

Casey C. Klaips 

Ashley Rosemary Pavill 

Christina Marie Podrasky 

Linda Prihanti Thompson 

2009 


1844 Club 

James Cory Bennett 

Samantha Pinto 


Michael John Hirthler 


Sean Dickinson 

Maria Emily Fiske 

Rebecca Grinaway 

Katherine Levandoski 

Julia Livit 

Tyger Scott McGuiggan 

Joseph John McMullan 

Ashley Nichols 

Neil Philip O’Donnell 

Emily Grace Ruopp 

Honor/ 

Memorial 

It is a privilege for the School to 

remember those many alumni 

and friends in whose names gifts 

are made for various purposes 

throughout the year. From July 2009 

through June 2010, memorial gifts 

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were contributed to the Annual 

Fund, existing endowment funds 

or to special purpose funds for the 

following people: 

In Honor of Joyce Ashley 


In Honor of Lisa Bailey 

Wyoming Seminary Lower 

School Faculty 

In Honor of Alxis Boyle-Rodis ’14 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Durst 

Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Durst 

In Honor of Winthrop C. Collins 

Miss Carrie Rampp 

Mr. and Mrs. Stefan Schade 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Toker 

In Honor of Andrew Costello 

Mr. and Mrs. John Sciuto 

In Honor of Marsha Costello 

Atty. and Mrs. Sidney D. May 


In Honor of Charles D. Flack ’72 



In Honor of Richard M. Goldberg ’55 


In Honor of Daniel Gordon 

Dr. and Mrs. Gary Nataupsky 

In Honor of John & Gina Gordon 

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel K. Mitchell 


Mr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Thayne 

In Honor of M. Elizabeth Hibbard ’69 

Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Clements, Jr. 

In Honor of Mary Ann Hopkins 

Miss Jennifer Campbell 

Mr. Harrison Russin 


Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Trapasso 

In Honor of the Hornung Family 

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Smith 

In Honor of Jean Robbins Hughes ’48 

Mr. and Mrs. B. William Isaacs 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rosenthal 

In Honor of Billie Kinney 


In Honor of Karen Klassner 

Miss Andrea Hendrzak 

In Honor of Janet Leyshon 

Mr. Kenneth Leyshon 

In Honor of Dianne May 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Rosenthal 


In Honor of Daryl Moriarity 


In Honor of Benjamin Moses ’30 

Mr. and Mrs. James Maxwell 

In Honor of Harry Nageli 

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Buckle 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. 

Romanowski 

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Whelan 

In Honor of Mary Therese 

Pitcavage 

Mr. Jonathan Riddle and Dr. 

Jennifer Harding 

In Honor of Philip Post 


In Honor of Joseph Pupa 

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Insalaco 

Dr. and Mrs. Michael Weiss 

In Honor of Herbert Quick 

Drs. Gerald and Karen Dreyfuss 


In Honor of William S. Robbins ’52 


In Honor of Stephen Rosenthal ’93 

Rabbi and Mrs. Arthur F. Starr 

In Honor of Jonathan Siff 

Mr. Richard Counts 

In Honor of Wallace F. Stettler 

Ms. Mei Castor and 

Mr. Daniel Bryant 

Dr. and Mrs. David Greenwald 





In Honor of Nicholas Strzeletz ’10 

Mr. James Bennett 

In Honor of Timothy Swanson 

Mrs. Nancy Cline 

Mr. Randall King 

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Magagna 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. 

Romanowski 


In Honor of Susan Trynoski 


Mrs. Charlotte Wentz 

In Honor of Sally Thomas Urisko ’63 

Mr. Randall King 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Kramer 


In Honor of John M. Vaida 


In Honor of Lubomira 

Wilczewska-Torbin 

Mr. and Mrs. Erik Covitz 

Mr. and Mrs. Harris Cutler 

In Honor of the Wyoming 

Seminary Lower School Faculty 

and Staff 


In Memory of Donna Ames 


In Memory of Sherman Banta 


In Memory of Phyllis Barnes ’79 

Mrs. Jasmine Barnes 

In Memory of Justin Bergman ’38 

Dr. and Mrs. Jorge Abrantes 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bohorad 

Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. 

Buckingham, Jr. 

Mrs. Betsy Condron 

Mr. and Mrs. John Conyngham, III 

Mrs. Mary Lee Cuscela 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Dietrick 

Mrs. Marcella Fay 



Mr. and Mrs. Allan Kluger 



Ms. Kathleen McGrann 

Ms. Christina Ouellette 




Mr. and Mrs. John H. Shafer 


Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shaffer 


Mr. Robert Tippett 

In Memory of Bradley C. Birth ’76 

Maj. and Mrs. Harold C. W. Birth 

In Memory of Joseph B. 

Bittenbender ’47 

Mr. and Mrs. Spencer G. Nauman 

In Memory of Dominique Alice 

Blakely 

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Rifkin 

In Memory of Hildegarde G. 

Brown 


In Memory of Charles J. Bufalino ’48 



Mr. and Mrs. James Falzone 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Flack, Jr. 

Mrs. Jean Hughes 

Mrs. Rebekah Malkemes 


In Memory of Carla Chapin 

Mr. Robert Tippett 

In Memory of Ronald A. Cohen ’52 

Mrs. Dorothy Cohen 

In Memory of Charlene Chung ’87 

Dr. and Mrs. HiYoung Chung 

Mr. and Mrs. Bubba Eggleston, Jr. 

In Memory of James B. Davies, II ’39 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Traurig 

In Memory of Peter J. 

Drapiewski ’67 

Mr. and Mrs. Dick Steeg 

In Memory of Boyd Earl 


In Memory of Dorothy Edwards 


In Memory of Charles M. Epstein ’37 


In Memory of Christopher Conlon 

Evans ’83 

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony L. Berger 

Mrs. Claire C. Evans 

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Evans 

Mr. Timothy S. Evans 

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Evans, Jr. 

In Memory of William B. Evans ’44 

Dr. and Mrs. Jorge Abrantes 

Mr. Steven Adam 

Mr. and Mrs. George Barnard 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Beane 

Dr. and Mrs. Burton Benovitz 


Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bohorad 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Brown 



Dr. and Mrs. William Burak 

The Honorable and 

Mrs. A. Richard Caputo 


Mr. and Mrs. Clark Conlon 

Mrs. Patricia Conlon 

Mrs. Ann Coughlin 

Mrs. Ellen Crispell 

Mrs. Paula Daley 

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Dewey 

Mr. and Mrs. A. John Dimond 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Disney 

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Dressler 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Eagen 

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Ehret 

Mrs. Ann Evans 

Mrs. Claire C. Evans 

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Evans 

Mr. Tim Evans and Ms. Margy Simms 

Mr. Timothy Evans 

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Evans, Jr. 

Mrs. Patricia Ferenbach 





Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Henry 

Ms. Joan Huber 


Huntsville Golf Club 

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Kaufer 

Mrs. Collette Kean 

Atty. and Mrs. Stephen B. Killian 

Mr. and Mrs. Allan Kluger 


Mr. Hank Krok and 

Ms. Marge Weller 

Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Last 

Mr. and Mrs. Hilary Lipsitz 


Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Mack, Jr. 





Mrs. Herbert McDonald 

Medical Oncology Associates 

Mr. and Mrs. John Metz 

Mrs. Louise Moore 

Mrs. Elena Parkhurst 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Pearsall 


Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Rosengrant 




Atty. and Mrs. Eugene Roth 

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Rubin 

Mrs. Marilyn Rudolph 

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sallada 



Mrs. Susan Simione 

Mr. Tim Evans and 

Ms. Margy Simms 


Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Sneberger 

Mr. and Mrs. John Storb 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strome 


Mr. and Mrs. Andy Susanin 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tuck 

Mrs. Charlotte Wentz 

Ms. A. Kay Young 

In Memory of Kenneth L. Everett ’48 

Mrs. Kenneth Everett 

In Memory of Margaret Fay 


In Memory of Buell Flaherty 

Mr. Simon S. Russin, III 

In Memory of Verna Fedorchak 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Ashley 


In Memory of Theresa Fedorczak 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Ashley 



In Memory of Frank J. Franconi ’69 

Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Bushelli 

In Memory of Robert F. Franklin ’49 

Mrs. Dona Franklin 

In Memory of Nevin Gerges ’16 

Mr. Wayne Clements 

In Memory of Geraldine Graham 


Faculty 

In Memory of John V. Gregson ’43 

Mr. and Mrs. John Conyngham, III 

Mrs. Ann Coughlin 

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley S. Davies 

Mrs. Marilyn Rudolph 

In Memory of Theodore J. 

Hazinski 

Mrs. Helen Hazinski 

In Memory of Ruth Garber Hosey 


Dr. Jonathan Hosey and 

Dr. Linda Famiglio 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Flack, Jr. 



In Memory of J. Theodore 

Hughes ’24 

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Carroll 

Mrs. Sara Bierly Willoughby 

In Memory of Arthur H. James 

Mrs. Dorothy Sinon 

In Memory of Willard L. Johns ’33 



In Memory of Elliott Lewis Katuna 

Miss Barret Katuna 

In Memory of Paul Kafrissen ’88 



In Memory of Roslyn Celia 

Goldstein Kleinman 


Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lawrence 


Ms. Patricia Rindgen 





Faculty 

In Memory of Charlotte Levy 

Mr. Harry Nageli 

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In Memory of Anne Stenach 

Lopatto 


In Memory of B. Everett and Edna 

I. Lord 

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Lord 

Ms. Lynne Lord 

In Memory of Theo Lumia 


In Memory of Cornelia E. 

MacDermott ’33 

Mr. James and Dr. Terry Smith 

In Memory of Lee J. McCarthy ’44 


Dr. Paul D. Griesmer 

Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Last 

Mr. and Mrs. John B. McCarthy 





Mr. and Mrs. Charles Youngman 

In Memory of Susan Louise Sayes 

McGhee ’44 

Mr. and Mrs. Al Battaglino 

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley E. Fleming 

Mr. Joel Gardiner 

Mr. Ralph Greco 

Mr. R. Titus Leo 

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Morgan 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Spotts 

In Memory of Thomas McHale ’82 

Mr. Alan Crocker 

In Memory of Jack H. Meeks 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hennings 


In Memory of Margaret Mitchell 

Mr. Guthrie Mitchell 

In Memory of Julia Sheets Moore 



Mr. and Mrs. Sandor Rudin 

Mrs. Jane Slaff 

In Memory of Gregory Parker ’70 

Mr. and Mrs. Dick Steeg 

In Memory of Horace & Martha 

Parker 

Mrs. Jean Griffith 

In Memory of William I. and 

Marion Pentecost 

Ms. Elizabeth Hughes 

Ms. Kathryn F. Hughes 

Mr. Allan Hughes and Mrs. Polly 

Pentecost Hughes 

Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Stringfellow 

Ms. Ann P. Woodland 

In Memory of Robert Pollock ’48 

Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Buckingham, Jr. 


In Memory of J. Tal Richards 

Mr. Christopher Moon 

In Memory of Blanche Ris 


Faculty 

In Memory of Charles M. Robbins 


In Memory of Walter L. Royall 

Mrs. Richard L. Kramer 

In Memory of Louis Saccone 


In Memory of Sesto Santarelli 

Mrs. Irene Santarelli 

Mr. Philip Santarelli 

In Memory of Edward A. Shafer ’36 


Mr. George Shafer 

Mr. Harry Shafer 



In Memory of Vernon Shepard 


In Memory of Robert N. Smith ’44 

Mrs. Phyllis Smith 

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Sneberger 

Captain and Mrs. D. Wade Smith 

Mr. Bill Plante and Ms. Robin Smith 

In Memory of Louis Spallone 


In Memory of Anthony J. Stallone ’86 

Mrs. Linda Stallone 


In Memory of Nancy Dembert 

Stahller ’45 

Stahller Family Foundation 

In Memory of Mary Tribler 


In Memory of Teresa Urban ’89 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sokolowski 

In Memory of Daniel J. Woehrle ’59 

Mr. and Mrs. Bernhardt K. Wruble 

In Memory of Rita Goldstein 

Wolberg ’45 


Mrs. Jeanette Garber 

Mrs. Nancy Gwilliam 


Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Lennon 

Endowment 

Funds and 

Awards 

The following is a description and 

report of Wyoming Seminary’s 

endowed funds and awards. As of 

June 30, 2010, the market value 

of the School’s endowment funds 

was $40 million. Additions to the 

principal of a fund may be made by 

any donor at any time. To establish 

an endowment fund at Wyoming 

Seminary, please contact your 

attorney and either the School’s 

Development Office at (570) 270- 

2140 or the President’s Office at 

(570) 270-2150. 

Every effort has been made to 

report and define all funds accurately 

in the following list. If you detect 

an oversight or inaccuracy, please 

accept our apologies and inform the 

Development Office. 

Endowment 

Funds 

Theodore S. Abbot Endowment 

Fund – established in 1989 in 

recognition of Professor Theodore 

Abbot’s distinguished 42-year 

teaching career at Wyoming 

Seminary. The fund was 

augmented in 1993 by a matching 

gift challenge from the Edward E. 

Ford Foundation and a gift from 

his son Quincy S. Abbot ’50 and 

an anonymous friend. Income from 

the fund underwrites a one-term 

sabbatical for a faculty member. 

Elizabeth Albert/Marie 

Anderson Scholarship Fund – 

established in 1989 by Elizabeth 

Albert, a long-time friend of Marie 

Anderson, mother of Jacqueline 

Anderson Kepler ’44. The fund 

supports scholarship awards. 

Alumni Council Opportunities 

Fund Endowment – established 

in 2008 with a gift from the 

Wyoming Seminary Alumni Council 

to provide resources for needs at 

the Upper and/or Lower Schools 

not provided in the operating 

budget. 

Alumni Scholarship Fund – 

established in 1986 with a gift from 

the Wyoming Seminary Alumni 

Association to provide scholarship 

aid to children and grandchildren of 

Wyoming Seminary graduates. 

Helen L. Anderson Endowment 

Fund – established in 2005 with 

a bequest from Helen L. Anderson 

’30. Income from the fund provides 

support for the art department. 

Marvin Antinnes Athletic 

Endowment Fund – established 

in 1991 by former players and 

friends of Marvin Antinnes in 

recognition of his 25-year tenure as 

head football coach at Wyoming 

Seminary. 

A. Anthony and Barbara W. 

Anzalone Fund – established in 

1993 by A. Anthony Anzalone ’64 

and his wife, Barbara, to provide 

support for the Middle School 

football and creative arts programs. 

Bessie Garcelon Atwood 

Scholarship Endowment 

Fund – 

established in 2007 by Charles 

Laycock ’35 in recognition of and 

appreciation for Miss Atwood and 

all she meant so many graduates 

of the Academy, Institute and Day 

School. The income from the fund 

will be used to provide assistance 

to academically talented students 

who otherwise would not be able 

to afford a Wyoming Seminary 

Lower School education. 

Olive B. Barr Scholarship 


in 2007 by a bequest from the 

estate of Olive Barr ’37 to provide 

scholarship aid. 

Sarah S. Barr Scholarship 



estate of Sarah Barr ’34 to provide 


Bernard B. Baschkin and 

Herman and Anne W. Auerbach 

Memorial Scholarship Fund – 

established in 1991 by Millicent 

Auerbach Baschkin ’51 in memory 

of her husband, Bernard B. 

Baschkin, and her parents, Herman 

and Anne W. Auerbach, to provide 

scholarship aid. The fund’s name 

changed in 2001 to include Mr. 

Baschkin and acknowledge his 

bequest to the endowment. 

Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Beaver 

Memorial Scholarship 


in 2002 with a bequest from Helen 

Beaver Platten ’37 and named in 

memory of her parents. Income 

from the endowment provides 


Randolph and Margaret 

Lazarus Bennett Memorial 

Fund – 

established in 1961 by the estate of 

Dr. Clarence Elmer Bennett to help 

underwrite the salary of a biology 

teacher. 

Helen Berryman Endowment 

Fund – established in 2005 by a 

bequest from the estate of Helen 

Berryman to support the general 

purposes of the School. 

Bird Sanctuary Fund – 

established in 1997 by Robert 

E.’46 and Ruth Wood Post ’44. The 

endowed fund serves to maintain, 

improve and make use of the bird 

sanctuary property of Wyoming 

Seminary (formerly the Wycoff 

property), located on Center Hill 

Road, Dallas for the students of 

Wyoming Seminary, as well as 

anyone who gains permission from 

Wyoming Seminary to attract birds 

and wildlife. 

Joseph Bittenbender 

Scholarship Endowment Fund – 

established in 2001 by a bequest 

from Walter Vorbleski to provide 

scholarship aid and honor Mr. 

Vorbleski’s dear friend, Dr. Joseph 

Bittenbender’47. 

Frank Bonstein Fund – 

established in 1927 by the estate 

of Frank Bonstein to provide 


Helen L. Brown Scholarship – 

established in 1981 by Wyoming 

Seminary alumni and friends to 

honor Helen L. Brown ’18 and 

provide scholarship aid. 

Buckingham President’s 

Discretionary Fund – established 

in 1973 by Robert ’44, Harold 

’48, Walter ’49 and Barbara to 

honor their parents, Dorothy and 

Harold Buckingham. Memorial 

gifts augmented the fund in 1983 

upon Mrs. Buckingham’s death and 

again in 1992 following the death 

of Dr. Buckingham ’19, Wyoming 

Seminary’s eighth president. The 

fund’s revenues are used at the 

discretion of Seminary’s president. 

Ernest Buckman Endowment 

Fund – established in 2002 upon 

the death of Ernest Buckman ’43. 

He earlier had made a gift to the 

Wyoming Seminary Pooled Income 

Fund and the endowment will 

support the general purposes of 

the School. 

C. H. Burgess Scholarship 


in 1997 by the estate of Adaline 

Burgess. Income from the fund 

provides financial assistance to 

academically talented students 



education. Preference may be 

weighted for qualified students 

who reside in Luzerne County. 

Robert L. Casper Scholarship 


in 1996 by Robert L. Casper ’30 

with a gift to the 150th Anniversary 

Campaign to provide scholarship 

aid. 

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Edward G. Chapin Sr. and 

Eleanor Jones Chapin 

Memorial Endowment Fund – 

established in 1990 by Edward 

G. Chapin Jr.’41 in memory of his 

parents. 

Charlene Lisa Chung 

Scholarship Fund – established 

in 1989 by family and friends in 

memory of Charlene Chung ’87 to 


Class of 2002 Senior Parents 

and Grandparents Endowment 

Fund – established in 2002 by 

parents and grandparents to pay 

tribute to their graduating seniors. 

The purpose of the endowment 

fund is to enhance intercultural 

understanding and cooperation. 

The genesis of this Fund were the 

catastrophic events that took place 

on 9/11/01 during the class’ senior 

year. 

Coughlin Family Scholarship 


in 2000 by Ann Mueller Coughlin’47 

in honor of Coughlin family 

members who attended Wyoming 

Seminary. The fund provides 

financial assistance to academically 

talented students who otherwise 

would not be able to afford a 

Wyoming Seminary education. 

Robert B. Currie Scholarship 


in 1996 by Robert B. Currie ’53 with 

a gift to the 150th Anniversary 

Campaign to provide scholarship aid. 

Patricia S. and Stanley 

S. Davies Scholarship 


in 1999 by Anne Davies Newman 

’68, Peter B. Davies ’72, Gordon 

S. Davies ’77 and Molly P. 

Davies ’79 in honor of the 50th 

wedding anniversary of their 

parents, Patricia S. and Stanley S. 

Davies ’42. The fund underwrites 

scholarships for students from 

Northeastern Pennsylvania who 

otherwise would not be able to 

afford Wyoming Seminary, who 

show promise of benefiting from a 

quality education and are likely to 

contribute to the life of the School. 

Anne Louise Greene Davenport 

Scholarship – established in 1925 

by Hon. Frederick M. Davenport 

1885 and Ernest W. Davenport 

1890, and increased in 1957 by 

a gift from Frederick Davenport’s 

widow. The fund provides 


David L. Davis Endowment 


bequest from the estate of David 

Davis ’33 to support the general 


Arthur R. and Russell W. Edgar 


in 1985 by Mrs. Margaret B. Edgar 

in honor of her husband, Russell 

Edgar ’24, and in memory of her 

son, Arthur Edgar ’59, to provide 


Endowment for Faculty Salaries 

and Benefits – established 

in 1976 with gifts from alumni, 

parents and friends, to be used for 

faculty salaries and benefits. 

Myrddyn and Marjorie Evans 


established in 2003 by Hilary and 

Ethel Evans Lipsitz ’51 in memory 

of Ethel’s father and in honor of her 

mother, to provide scholarship aid. 

Faculty Development Fund – 

established in 1988 by alumni, 

parents and friends as a result of 

a challenge grant from the Edward 

E. Ford Foundation. The fund 

provides faculty with professional 

experiences which enables them to 

remain current in their disciplines 

and rejuvenated in new and 

different opportunities. 

Fassett Family Scholarship 


in 1994 by the Fassett family in 

recognition of their five generations 

of association with Wyoming 

Seminary. This scholarship award is 

to be made annually to a deserving 

student who demonstrates financial 

need and academic excellence, 

possesses high quality of character, 

and gives evidence of positive 

contribution to society. 

Joseph P. Flanagan Scholarship 


Joseph P. Flanagan Jr. ’42 and Mary 

Elizabeth Mayock Flanagan ’42 in 

honor of Joseph P. Flanagan, Class 

of 1903 at Harry Hillman Academy 

and later a student at Wyoming 

Seminary. Joseph P. Flanagan, 

an orphan who relied on his own 

initiative for basic subsistence, 

was educated in part through 

financial assistance by Harry 

Hillman Academy and Wyoming 

Seminary. The fund is dedicated 

to the support of intelligent and 

ambitious young men and women 

at Wyoming Seminary. 

Wilbur H. and Evelyn H. Fleck 


Wilbur and Evelyn Fleck to endow a 

chair for the academic dean. 

Fortinsky/Schwartz 


established in 1996 by Mr. and 

Mrs. Robert Fortinsky and Mr. and 

Mrs. John Schwartz with a gift to 

the 150th Anniversary Campaign to 


Greenwald Family Scholarship 


in 1993 by Henry ’26, Sylvia, 

Michael ’57 and Jonathan ’60 to 


Joseph C. Haldiman Kirby 

Library Collection Fund – 

established in 1988 by Craig Rozen 

’68 in honor of his good friend 

Joseph Haldiman, to purchase 

books for the Kirby Library. 

Merritt L. Harding Endowment 


Merritt L. Harding ’34 in honor of 

his parents, Professor Merritt L. and 

Sarah J. Harding, a teacher of Latin 

and French, 1903 to 1911. The fund 

provides scholarship assistance 

to the descendents of United 

Methodist ordained clergy. 

Howard Y. Harris Scholarship 


initially in 1989 and then 

significantly augmented by Mrs. 

Howard Y. Harris and family in 2005 

in memory of Dr. Howard Y. Harris 

’20. The fund provides scholarship 

assistance to talented students in 

Northeastern Pennsylvania. 

Ruby Thompson Harris and 

Burton L. Harris Endowment 


Doris Harris Hamilton ’35. Income 

from the fund underwrites resource 

materials for the Kirby Library 

and the Upper School’s history 

department. 

Harvey/Barney Scholarship 


in 1997 by Mr. and Mrs. Laning 

Harvey III, Mr. and Mrs. Laning J. 

Harvey ’80, and the W. J. Barney 

Foundation. The fund generates 

revenue for material goods, not 

covered in the budget, that furnish 

curricular and co-curricular items 

and benefit a cross section of 

the School population. Beginning 

with the 1999-2000 fiscal year 

and continuing with all fiscal 

years ending in even numbers, 

the income from the fund will be 

divided equally between the Upper 

and Lower School libraries. In 

alternate years, the income will be 

directed to the Dean’s discretionary 

fund at each division. 

W. Gano and Grace A. Hazen 

Memorial Fund – established 

in 1959 by the estate of Grace A. 

Hazen to provide scholarship aid. 

Hugh G. and Edith Henderson 



bequest from the estate of Jessie 

T. Henderson to provide scholarship 

aid annually for a deserving 

day student who resides in the 

Wyoming Valley. 

C. Emlyn and Mary S. Hughes 


by C. Emlyn Hughes ’31 and his 

wife to provide scholarship aid. 

Frank M. Henry Scholarship 


in 1996 by the Wyoming Seminary 

Board of Trustees in honor of the 

distinguished tenure of Frank M. 

Henry ’50, a trustee from 1967 

to 1996, and to recognize the 

inspirational leadership he provided 

as national chairman of the 150th 

Anniversary Campaign. Income 

from the fund provides financial 

assistance to students from 

northeastern Pennsylvania. 

J. Theodore Hughes Library 


in 2001 by Miriam Hughes Carroll 

’55 in memory of her father, J. 

Theodore Hughes, a 1924 graduate 

of Wyoming Seminary who joined 

the faculty in 1931 and served 

as Dean from 1950 to 1965. The 

fund perpetuates the Hughes Fund 

which Nancy Quin Davis ’55 and 

her classmates initiated in honor 

of Dean Hughes at their 45th 

reunion in 1990. It provides an 

annual income for the Kirby Library 

to purchase information materials, 

i.e., books, computerized research 

products, software, fees to access 

internet search engines, and other 

present and future inventions of the 

Information Age. 

Lea Hunt Fund – established in 

1951 by the estate of Kathleen M. 

Hunt to honor her husband, Lea 

Hunt, by providing scholarship aid. 

Governor Arthur H. James 


in 1984 by the estate of Emily 

R. James to honor her husband, 

Arthur H. James, and provide 


Dorothy S. Jones Fund – 


Dorothy S. Jones for the acquisition 

of books for the Lower School 

Library. 



in 1991 by Dr. Ben H. Kean in honor 

of his wife, Collette Touey Kean 

’48, to provide scholarship aid. 

Marie Welker Kennedy 



from the estate of Marie Welker 

Kennedy ’36 for the purpose of 

providing scholarship aid. 

Allan P. Kirby/Lafayette College 


in 1949 by Allan P. Kirby for the 

purpose of providing scholarship 

aid. 

Fred M. Kirby Fund – established 

in 1921 by Fred Morgan Kirby 

for the purpose of supporting 

classroom instruction. 

Maurice Kluger and Barbara 

Kluger Weinberg Library 


in 1990 by Ruth F. Kluger in memory 

of her husband, Maurice, and her 

daughter, Barbara Kluger Weinberg 

’57, for the acquisition of books for 

the Kirby Library. 

William P. Kocher Endowment 


William P. Kocher ’27 to provide 

an endowment fund for general 

purposes. 

Kopen Family Scholarship 


in 2004 by Dan and Kathy Kopen 

for the purpose of providing 


Korean Parents and Alumni 

Association Endowment 

Fund – established in 2003 by the 

Wyoming Seminary Korean Parents 

and Alumni Association. Income 

from the fund is to be used to 

honor the longstanding relationship 

between Wyoming Seminary and 

Korea, to further Asian studies and 

support of the English as a Second 

Language (ESL) program. 

Laycock House Endowment 

Fund – established in 2002 by Dr. 

Charles F. Laycock ’35. Income 

from the fund is used to maintain 

and support the property at 243 

North Maple Ave., the current 

president’s residence. The property 

was the Laycock family residence 

from 1922 to 1953. 

Esther Bennett LeGrand 



memory of Esther Bennett LeGrand, 

a 1939 graduate of the Dean 

School of Business. Income from 

the fund is used for the acquisition 

of books for the Kirby Library. 

Alice Kleinrock Levey 


in 1982 by Merle Levey in memory 

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of his wife, Alice Kleinrock Levey 

’51, to generate revenue for 

scholarships. 

Levey Family Endowment 


James Levey ’81. The fund provides 

financial assistance in the form 

of a scholarship to academically 


would not be able to afford a 

Wyoming Seminary education. 

Dorothy I. Lewis Memorial 


in 1982 by the estate of Dorothy I. 

Lewis ’28 to fund scholarships at 

Wyoming Seminary. 

Jack R. Linsky Foundation 

– Lynda Rosenthal Library 


in 2002 by the Linsky Foundation 

in honor of Lynda Rosenthal ’63. 

Income from the fund is for the 

exclusive use of the Upper School 

Library. 

B. Everett and Edna I. Lord 

Memorial Endowment Fund – 

established in 2005 by family 

members in memory of Edna and 

B. Everett Lord, teacher of science 

at Wyoming Seminary from 1943 

to 1965. Income from this fund is 

to be used to support the School’s 

physics and chemistry programs. 

Lottman Family Scholarship 


in 1998 by Ann Lottman in memory 

of her husband, Irving Lottman 

’30, and their daughter, Shelly 

Beth, who tragically died at age 

5. Income from the fund provides 

scholarships for academically 


could not afford a Wyoming 

Seminary education. 

Howard B. and Dagmar A. 

Matthews Endowment Fund – 

established in 1981 by Howard 

Matthews ’24 to purchase books 

for the Kirby Library. 

Lee J. McCarthy Jr. Scholarship 


in 2002 by family and friends of Lee 

J. McCarthy ’44 who died in March 

2000. Lee McCarthy’s children–Tish 

’74, Claire ’75, Jeannie ’77, Lee ’80, 

John ’80, Julie ’81 and Caroline 

’84–all graduated from Seminary. 

The fund provides financial 

assistance to a resident of Luzerne 

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County who is “an all-around good 

person”, meets the admission 

requirements of the School, and 

is likely to be active in sports and 

school activities. 

John McCole Endowed 

Teaching Chair in 

Mathematics – established 

in 1995 by family and friends of 

John McCole ’46 in recognition 

of his dedicated service to and 

lifelong association with Wyoming 

Seminary. This endowed teaching 

chair recognizes excellence in the 

teaching of mathematics. 

Jack H. Meeks Scholarship 


in 1993 by Patrick Loftus ’72 and 

Tom Person ’72 to recognize the 

distinguished tenure of Jack 

Meeks, Seminary’s first director of 

development. Income from the fund 

provides scholarship assistance to 

an Upper School student. 

Teresa Jordan and Frank J. 

Mehm II Scholarship Fund – 

established in 1985 by Paul R. 

Mehm ’28 to provide scholarship 

aid. 

Paul R. Mehm Kirby Library 

Acquisitions Fund – established 

in 1985 by Paul R. Mehm ’28 for the 

acquisition of books for the Kirby 

Library. 

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Moat 

Technology Endowment Fund – 


of Harry E. Moat ’30 in memory 

of his parents to provide monies 

for the purchase of technological 

enhancements for the Upper School 

program. 

Stella Miner Moat Library 



estate of Stella Miner Moat, a 

1930 graduate of the Wilkes-Barre 

Institute. This fund supports 

acquisition of books and other 

materials for the Lower School 

Library. 

Mary Harris Montgomery 



estate of Mary Harris Montgomery 

’31. Income from the fund pays for 

maintenance and furnishings for 

the Victorian Room in Swetland 

Hall, which Mrs. Montgomery 

helped to establish with gifts 

during her lifetime. 

Helen L. Pringle Moore 

Memorial Scholarship – 

established in 1983 by George E. 

Moore ’31 in memory of his wife, 

Helen L. Pringle Moore ’31, to 

provide scholarships. 

Morgan Family Scholarship 


in 1999 with a bequest from 

Charles K. “Red” Morgan ’38. A 

gift from Walter Morgan’16 WBA, 

Red’s uncle, made during the 150th 

Anniversary Campaign in honor 

of his receiving the Distinguished 

Service Award, was added later. 

Also, bequests from Dorothy 

Morgan’17 WBI, Walter’s sister, 

who died in February, 1992, and 

Jessie Lovett Morgan, Dorothy 

and Walter’s sister, a graduate of 

the Institute who passed away in 

June, 1996, were included. The 

endowment provides financial 

assistance to academically talented 

students who otherwise would 

not be able to afford a Wyoming 


Samuel O. Morreale 


established in November 1994 by 

Samuel O. Morreale ’31 for the 

purpose of scholarship aid. 

John and Marion Harvey 

Morton Scholarship 


in January 2008 by John and 

Lisa Harvey Morton in honor of 

the outstanding academic and 

athletic experience they both had 

at Wyoming Seminary (the school 

where they met) and also to honor 

Lisa’s family members, some who 

were early leaders and benefactors, 

and those who have attended Sem 

for generations. The income from 

the fund will be used to provide 

financial assistance to academically 

and athletically talented students 

who have an interest in attending 

the Naval Academy or West Point 

after graduating from Sem. 

Ben and Betty Hopkins Moses 

Library Endowment Fund – 

established in 1982 by Dale ’61, 

Gaard ’64 and Meredith ’66 Moses 

to honor their parents. The fund 

supports the acquisition of books 

for the Kirby Library. 

Lydia Stark Mosier Memorial 

Fund – established in 1927 

by Frank C. Mosier to provide 


Harry White Moyer Endowment 


distribution from the Wyoming 

Seminary Pooled Income Fund upon 

the deaths of both Mary Sigafoos 

Harshbarger ’39 and her husband, 

Laurence. This Fund honors Mrs. 

Harshbarger’s grandmother and is 

to support the general purposes of 

the School. 

Nesbitt - Orr Endowment Fund – 

established in 2003 upon the death 

of William Orr. Geraldine Nesbitt 

Orr earlier had made a gift to a 

charitable remainder trust in honor 

of her husband and the endowment 

will support the general purposes 

of the School. 

Harry Phineas Packard 


established in November 1995 by 

H. Jeremy Packard with a gift to the 

150th Anniversary Campaign, given 

in memory of his grandfather and 

implemented to provide scholarship 

aid. 

Horace S. and Martha I. Parker 


established in 2002 by Robert S. 

Parker ’52 and Cynthia Parker De 

Puy ’50 in memory of their parents, 

Horace S. Parker, a distinguished 

member of Wyoming Seminary’s 

faculty from 1929 to 1972, and 

Martha I. Parker. The fund provides 

annual income for the exclusive use 

of the Kirby Library for the twofold 

purpose of purchasing works 

of literary criticism, as well as 

appropriate fiction for young adults. 

Philip B. Parsons Memorial 


by Dorothe B. Parsons in memory of 

her husband, Philip B. Parsons ’30, 

to provide scholarship aid. 

Doris L. Patrick Fund for the 

Arts – established by Doris L. 

Patrick in 1978 for the support of 

the arts. 

Doris Patrick Endowed 

Teaching Chair for Fine 

Arts – established in 1998 by 

the estate of Doris Patrick. This 

endowed teaching chair recognizes 

excellence in the teaching of fine 

arts. 

Betsy Albert Price Endowment 


bequest from the estate of Betsy 

Price ’41 to support the general 


John W. and Lula S. Price 


in 1988 by the estate of Ruth E. 

Price Rammling ’13 in memory of 

her parents. The fund underwrites 


Stella Purvin Memorial 



memory of Stella Golomb Purvin 

’17 for the purpose of funding 


E. R. Quesada Fund – established 

in 1987 by Elwood R. Quesada 

’24 to endow a chair in the history 

department. 

Linda Kinney Reiser Memorial 


established in 1992 by family and 

friends in memory of Linda Kinney 

Reiser for the acquisition of books 

at the Sordoni Library. 

Harold and Shirley Rittenmeyer 


established in 1998 by Ronald A. 

Rittenmeyer ’65 in memory of his 

parents. Income from the fund 





education. 

Daniel C. Roberts Scholarship 


Daniel C. Roberts for the purpose of 

funding scholarship aid. 

Diane Travis Rose Library 

Fund – 

established in 1990 by Thomas 

Rose in memory of his wife, Diane 

Travis Rose ’47, for the purchase of 


Adrian Ross Family Scholarship 


in 2002 by Adrian Ross ’30 to 

provide financial assistance to 





Saidman Family Endowment for 

Religious Studies – established 

in 1993 by Dr. Lester Saidman 

in memory of his wife Bertha to 

enhance serious academic study 

of religion, specifically to provide 

Judaic studies on a mature level 

open to all students. 

Sesto P. Santarelli Scholarship 


in 1998 by family and friends 

of Sesto P. Santarelli, father 

of Philip J. Santarelli ’67 and 

Sylvia Santarelli Kropp’71, and 

grandfather of Gianna Santarelli 

’90, Paul Santarelli ’01, Alexis 

Kropp ’99, Madeline Kropp ’05, and 

Caroline Kropp ’09. The scholarship 

fund provides financial assistance 

to academically talented students 



education. First preference is given 

to students who achieve in the 

classroom while excelling on the 

football field. 

Schautz Scholarship Fund – 

established in 1990 by Walter 

Schautz ’53 and his mother, 

Madalene Schautz, for the purpose 

of scholarship aid. 

Rachel Van Gasken Schrider 

Scholarship Endowment – 

established in 1999 by Rachel Van 

Gasken Schrider ’25 in appreciation 

of the education she received at 

the Dean School of Business. The 

scholarship provides financial 

assistance to academically talented 

students who otherwise would 

not be able to afford a Wyoming 


Renee Manjin-Sherwood 

Senior Prom Endowment 

Fund – 

established in 1999 by Renee 

Manjin-Sherwood to provide 

financial assistance to senior

students, in particular, international 

senior students, who otherwise 

would not be able to attend the 

junior-senior prom. 

Sun-Nye Shin Scholarship 


in 2004 by a gift from General Jin 

Kyu Kim in memory of his mother, 

Sun-Nye Shin. The income from 

this fund is to be used to provide 

a scholarship to a deserving 

sophomore or junior student for 

outstanding citizenship. 

Slattery Family Scholarship 


in 1998 by Frank P. Slattery Jr.’55 

in honor of his mother, Marguerite 

Goebel Slattery, a 1924 graduate 

of the Wyoming Seminary Dean 

School of Business, and his wife, 

Mollie Devaney Slattery. The 

purpose of this scholarship is to 

provide financial assistance to 





Robert Smith Scholarship 


in 1998 by family, classmates and 

friends of Colonel Robert N. Smith 

’44, who was killed in action in 

Vietnam in 1969. This scholarship 

fund was created as the Class of 

1944 celebrated their 55th reunion. 

The purpose of this scholarship is 

to provide financial assistance to 





Wallace F. and Sue B. Stettler 


in 1990 with an initial gift by the 


Parents’ Association in honor of the 

ninth president and his wife for the 

purpose of scholarship aid. 

Wallace F. Stettler Lower 

School Scholarship Fund – 

established in 1969 with gifts from 

parents and friends to be used 

for scholarship aid at the Lower 

School. The fund was named in 

honor of Dr. Stettler in May 1990. 

Stewart Drake Scholarship 

Fund – established in November 

1994 by the estate of Sarah 

Stewart Peirce ’20. This scholarship 

fund was established by Mrs. 

Peirce in memory of her mother, 

Caroline (Caddie) Drake Stewart, 

an 1888 Seminary graduate, and 

numerous other relatives from the 

Drake and Stewart families who 

attended Wyoming Seminary. 

Warren Tischler Endowment 


bequest from the estate of Warren 

Tischler ’38 to support the general 


Trustee Scholarship Fund – 

established by the Trustees of 

Wyoming Seminary in 1982 for 

the purpose of granting two 

scholarships to students who 

excel in a competitive academic 

examination. 

William and Alethea 

Jones Ulerich Scholarship 


in 1991 by Alethea Jones Ulerich 

’31 to provide scholarship aid. 

Stuart Z. Uram Scholarship 


in 2002 by Stuart Z. Uram ’52 

in honor of his 50th Reunion to 


John M. Vaida Choral Music 


in 1986 by alumni, parents and 

friends in tribute of John M. 

Vaida, chairman of the fine arts 

department, and to provide funds 

for the choral program. 

Gary J. Vanderburg Scholarship 


in 2001 by former players of Coach 

Gary Vanderburg and their parents. 

Vanderburg coached basketball at 

Wyoming Seminary from 1971 to 

1999. The purpose of this fund is to 

provide financial assistance to an 

academically talented student who 

has an interest in basketball. 

Tracey Leigh Vandermark 



bequest from the estate of Ethel 

Vandermark in memory of her 

daughter, Tracey Vandermark 

’81. Income from this fund will be 

used to provide a scholarship to a 

freshman or sophomore student 

who excels in biology. 

Walter F. and Florence C. 

Vorbleski Scholarship Fund – 

established in 1988 by Walter 

and Florence Vorbleski to provide 


Esther Wainstein Faculty 

Development Fund – established 

in 2003 by family members and 

friends in memory of Esther 

Wainstein, teacher of Spanish at 

Wyoming Seminary from 1953 

to 1975. Income from the fund 

is to be used provide continuing 

educational opportunities for the 

faculty, especially in the area of 

summer enrichment study-travel. 

Nan D. Wallis Fund – established 

in 1960 by the estate of Nan D. 

Wallis to maintain and equip the 

furniture and furnishings of the 

Wallis Room. 

Anna Weeks Endowment 

Fund – 


from the estate of Anna Weeks ’21 

to support the general purposes of 

the School. 

Isabel C. Weeks Scholarship 



estate of Isabel C. Weeks ’24 to 


Zelda Klein Weiss Endowment 

for the Performing Arts – 


and friends in memory of Zelda 

Klein Weiss ’45. Income from the 

fund is to be used to support the 

performing arts program of the 

school. 

James C. Weissman Memorial 


Charlotte Smulyan Weissman 

Lewis ’36 in memory of her son 

James Weissman ’65 to purchase 



Robert Weller Endowment 

Fund – 


of Robert Weller ’32 to establish 

an unrestricted endowment fund 

to be used at the discretion of the 

School. 

Emory H. Westlake Scholarship 


in 1996 by the estate of Emory H. 

Westlake 1896 for the purpose of 

scholarship aid to a deserving male 

student. 

Williams Family Scholarship 


in 1996 by William and Marion 

Pentecost in memory of John 

H. Williams (1883) and Rachel 

Williams Williams (1882) and 

their sons, Roy Neath Williams 

and Ralph Bradford Williams. 

John and Rachel Williams were 

the paternal grandparents of Mrs. 

Pentecost. Income from the fund 


academically talented students. 

Thomas K. Williams 



estate of Thomas Williams ’31 to 

support the general purposes of 

the School. 

Rose Williamson Scholarship 


the estate of Rose Williamson to 


Endowed 

Awards 

V. Helen Anderson Art Award – 

established in 1961 by the 

Wyoming Seminary Faculty Wives 

Club to honor V. Helen Anderson, a 

teacher at Wyoming Seminary from 

1931 to 1958. Awarded to an Upper 

School student who has done the 

best sustained work in art. 

Bessie G. Atwood Fund – 

established in 1982 from memorial 

gifts received from friends and 

relatives of Bessie G. Atwood, 

beloved teacher and assistant to 

the headmaster at Wilkes-Barre 

Academy and Wyoming Seminary 

Day School for 42 years. Awarded 

to an eighth-grade student at 

the Lower School with a positive 

interest in English. 

W. Austin Bishop and Mary J. 

Muldoon Award – established in 

1980 by Lenox M. Muldoon ’35 in 

honor of his mother and wrestling 

coach, W. Austin Bishop. Awarded 

to a male scholar-athlete at the 

Upper School. 

Leroy Bugbee Prize – established 

in 1970 by Elizabeth Sickler Lampp 

’33 in honor of Leroy Bugbee, a 

teacher of history from 1926 to 

1972. Awarded to the student who 

submits the best research paper in 

a competitive contest. 

Parker H. Burt Prize – 

established in 1951 by an 

anonymous alumnus to honor 

Parker H. Burt, a member of the 

French faculty from 1919-1954, 

and awarded to the member of the 

graduating class who has attained 

the highest average in French. It 

was permanently endowed in 2001 

by Mrs. Kenneth Lee in memory 

of her husband, Kenneth Freeman 

Lee’51, who died in 2000; he was 

the anonymous donor who had 

sponsored the award for 50 years. 

Harold and Mollie Cruikshank 

Award – established in 1951 by 

Mr. and Mrs. J. Blanchard Carr 

in honor of Harold and Mollie 

Cruikshank, headmaster and 

directress at the Lower School 

from 1940 to 1947. Awarded to an 

eighth-grade student at the Lower 

School who has done the most for 

the School. 

Fern Poole Davies Art Award – 

established in 2002 by family and 

friends of Fern Poole Davies ’43, 

a graduate of the Dean School of 

Business. Presented to the student 

artist whose work is chosen in 

a competition open to all Upper 

School students. The winning work 

of art becomes part of the School’s 

permanent art collection and is 

displayed on the campus. 

Willis L. Dean Citizenship 

Prizes – established in 1943 by 

Mrs. George W. Carey in memory of 

her father, Willis L. Dean, teacher 

and director of the business school 

from 1875 to 1942. Awarded to the 

senior male and senior female at 

the Upper School who most closely 

approach the ideal Wyoming 

Seminary graduate. 

W. Carver Collins and Louise 

Loucks Moore Drama Award 

– established in 1992 by Charlotte 

and Herbert Levy in honor of 

Carver Collins and Louise Moore, 

veteran teachers of drama at 

Wyoming Seminary. Awarded to 

a student who makes significant 

contributions to the drama 

department. 

Jane Pfifferling Dimond 


friends and family of Jane Dimond. 

Awarded to an eighth-grade girl at 

the Lower School for excellence in 

athletics. 

Peter Drapiewski Memorial 

Prize – established in 1975 by 

Roman and Antoinette Drapiewski 

Chapa in memory of Peter 

Drapiewski ’67. Awarded to an 


School whose academic and 

extracurricular performance reveal 

qualities of integrity, versatility and 

friendliness. 

Michael Ellis Drama Prize – 

established in 1993 by Michael 

Ellis ’35. Awarded to a student who 

excels in dramatic productions. 

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Edward M. Griffith Memorial 

Spanish Award – established 

in 1989 by William ’31 and Helen 

Griffith Brenton ’35 in memory of 

Edward Griffith ’39 at the time 

of Mr. Griffith’s 50th reunion. 

Awarded to the member of the 

Spanish IV class who has most 

consistently demonstrated interest 

and excellence in the Spanish 

language, literature and culture. 

Eugene Goldstein Community 

Service Award – established 


memory of Eugene Goldstein. 

Awarded to the student who has 

demonstrated outstanding initiative 

and commitment in providing 

volunteer service to the community. 

Holman Religious Leadership 

Award – established in 1957 by Dr. 

C. S. Holman in honor of his wife 

and son, both of whom graduated 

from Wyoming Seminary. This 

award was permanently endowed 

in 1986 by Charles S. Holman Jr. 

’49. It is awarded annually to that 

member of the graduating class 

most likely to assume religious 

leadership, irrespective of church 

affiliation or the attachments of 

faith. 

John D. Hughes Memorial 

Mathematics Award – 


and friends of John D. Hughes, 

assistant headmaster at the Lower 

School from 1961 to 1965 and 

headmaster from 1965 to 1968. 

Awarded to a Lower School student 

for excellence in mathematics. 

Jerry A. and Edith K. Iscovitz 

Memorial Good Sportsmanship 

Award – anonymously established 

in 1975 in the name of Betsy 

and Nina Iscovitz in memory of 

their father, Jerry A. Iscovitz ’46, 

and their mother, Edith Kleinrock 

Iscovitz ’45. Awarded to a male 

and a female student at the Upper 

School who exhibit the spirit of 

sportsmanship. 

Adelade Jeffers Prize – 


from Adelade Jeffers 1897. 

Awarded to a junior at the Upper 

School who has achieved excellent 

scholarship during her school 

career. 

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Paul Kafrissen Memorial 

Computer Award – established 


memory of Paul Kafrissen ’88. 

Awarded to a student at the Upper 

and Lower Schools for creativity 

and excellence in computer studies. 

Charles B. Kanarr, Jr. Music 


family and friends in memory of 

Charles Kanarr, a former trustee, 

who had a great love for music. 

Awarded to a member or members 

of the graduating class who have 

demonstrated exceptional music 

growth and development during 

their career at Wyoming Seminary. 

Bradford Stuart Kline Award – 

established in 1968 by the family 

and friends of Bradford Stuart Kline 

’65. Awarded to a senior student at 

the Upper School showing promise 

in the field of biological sciences. 

Sheldon H. Kluger Memorial 

Science Award – established 

in 1970 by family and friends of 

Dr. Sheldon H. Kluger. Awarded 

to a seventh or eighth grade 

student at the Lower School who 

has demonstrated outstanding 

achievement in science. 

Wesley A. Kuhn Prize – 

established in 1946 by alumni 

and friends in memory of Wesley 

A. Kuhn, teacher in the Business 

School from 1883 to 1927. 

Awarded to an Upper School 

student who excels in economics. 

Charles Harold Laycock Latin 


Charles F. Laycock ’35 n memory of 

his father, Charles Harold Laycock 

’11. Awarded to an Upper School 

student who excels in Latin. 

Lyavdansky Russian Language 


Konstantin Lyavdansky, teacher 

of Russian at Sem since 1992. 

Awarded to an Upper School 

student who excels in Russian. 

Kenneth and Suzanne 

MacArthur Award – established 

in 1968 by loyal supporters of 

Kenneth MacArthur, headmaster 

at the Day School from 1959 to 

1967, and his wife. Awarded to a 

male student in the eighth grade at 

the Lower School for excellence in 

athletics. 


Frances and Louis Maslow 


the estate of Fay Maslow. The 

award is presented to a member of 

the faculty who has demonstrated 

effective teaching and support 

of the program and ideals of the 

School. 

Mazzitelli Memorial Music 

Leadership Award – established 

in 1978 by Dr. and Mrs. Edward 

Nork in memory of Mary Mazzitelli, 

a music teacher at the Lower 

School from 1964 to 1978. 

Awarded to a student at the Lower 

School who has demonstrated 

excellence in musical performance 

and scholarship. 

Frank J. Mehm Memorial 

Award – established in 1983 

by Paul R. Mehm ’28 in honor 

of his brother who died in 1931 

during his freshman year at 

Wyoming Seminary. Awarded to 

a senior student who most nearly 

represents the ideal Wyoming 

Seminary student. 

Anna M. Olcott Awards – 

established in 1952 and awarded 

to a male and a female student 

in the eighth-grade at the Lower 

School who are outstanding in both 

scholarship and citizenship. 

Horace S. Parker Prize – 

established in 1979 by Elizabeth 

Sickler Lampp ’33 in honor of 

Horace S. Parker, a teacher 

of English from 1929 to 1972. 

Awarded to a senior student 

at the Upper School who has 

demonstrated superior command of 

the English language. 

Charles Pfifferling Sr. 

Memorial Prize – established 

in 1956 by friends and relatives of 

Charles Pfifferling Sr. Awarded to 

the best all-around student in the 

seventh grade at the Lower School. 

Dr. William Schuler Pierce 


Doris S. and William H. Pierce ’30 

in honor of their son, Dr. William S. 

Pierce ’54. Awarded to a member 

of the graduating class who has 

excelled in chemistry and physics. 

Samuel Stephen Popky 

Leadership Award – established 

in 1972 by Mr. and Mrs. Charles 

Lebowitz and Mrs. Roslyn Burnat 

Kerber in memory of Samuel 

Stephen Popky ’55. Awarded to a 

senior at the Upper School who is a 

student leader. 

William M. Powell Prize – 

established in 1951 by Mrs. 

William M. Powell in memory of 

her husband, William M. Powell. 

Awarded to a Lower School student 

who best exemplifies traits of 

loyalty and school spirit. 

Quay-Adams Award – 

established in 1959 by Joseph C. 

Donchess ’26 in honor of Ernest E. 

Quay and James A. Adams. Awarded 

to a senior at the Upper School who 

is a male scholar-athlete. 

Irving Robin Memorial Prize – 

established in 1950 by Mr. and Mrs. 

Harry Robin in memory of Irving 

Robin ’46. Awarded to a senior 

at the Upper School who shows 

promise for constructive leadership 

in society. 

James A. Ross Memorial 


Elizabeth Ross in memory of her 

husband, James A. Ross. Awarded 

to a senior at the Upper School 

who has achieved high scholarship 

in religious studies. 

Harry W. Ruggles Award – 

established in 1953 by friends of 

Harry W. Ruggles 1899. Awarded 

to the outstanding graduate at the 

Upper School. 

John G. Ruggles III Memorial 


family and friends of John G. 

Ruggles III ’82 whose untimely 

death occurred during his senior 

year at Wyoming Seminary. 

Awarded to a Lower and an Upper 

School student for creative writing. 

Marjorie Harvey Smith Awards – 

established in 1979 by Harrison H. 

Smith ’35 in memory of his mother, 

Marjorie Harvey Smith. Awarded 

to a male and a female on the Blue 

and White Teams at the Lower 

School whose citizenship was 

outstanding throughout the year. 

Charlotte M. Sours Academic 

Achievement Award – 

established in 1997 by Charlotte 

M. Sours. The award is presented 

annually to a seventh-grade 

student who faculty deem has 

exhibited outstanding academic 

achievement in scholarship for 

the entire year. Seventh-grade 

teachers consider grade average 

and intellectual curiosity and 

success in representing the School 

in academic competitions in 

determining the recipient, 

Almeda Ruth Cushman Spencer 


John Oakley Spencer 1879 in 

memory of Almeda Spencer 1877. 

Awarded to a senior student at 

the Upper School who has shown 

genuine interest in religion courses. 

Margaret M. Stack Memorial 


family and friends of Margaret 

Stack, a teacher of foreign 

languages at the Lower School 

from 1947 to 1972. Awarded 

to a Lower School student for 

excellence in foreign languages. 

Mary M. Tribler Memorial 


family, alumni and friends of Mary 

Tribler, a teacher of mathematics 

at Wyoming Seminary from 1946 

to 1978. Awarded to an Upper 

School student who has made 

significant progress in the study of 

mathematics. 

Jennie Hess Wandell 

Scholarship Awards – 


Sterling Wandell to provide three 

scholarships for young women 

pursuing their education at an 

accredited college or university. 

Mabel Scott Wandell and 

Sterling Leroy Wandell 

Scholarship Awards – 


of Sterling Wandell to provide 

three scholarships for young men 

pursuing their education at an 

accredited college or university. 

Lindsley M. Washburn Prize – 

established in 1962 by Mrs. 

Lindsley M. Washburn in memory 

of her husband, a member of the 

Class of 1921, and permanently 

endowed in 2001 by their son, 

William B. Washburn. The prize is 

awarded annually to the member 

of the graduating class, who in the 

opinion of the faculty demonstrates 

outstanding interest and ability in 

mathematics. 

Wilkes-Barre Day School 

Trustees Prize – established 

in 1952 and awarded to an 


School who has the best scholastic 

performance for the year. 

Charles Wood Mathematics 

Prize – established in 1955 by W. 

Emory Wood ’26, Edgar H. Wood 

’29 and Walter C. Wood in memory 

of their uncle, Charles Wood. 

Awarded to a senior student at the 

Upper School who has excelled in 

mathematics.

The Westlake Society 

The 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 their estate plans, or through membership in The Living Endowment Society. This 

recognition society was previously known as The Planned Giving Honor Roll, but was renamed 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 the 

150th Anniversary Campaign. Mr. Westlake creatively planned his estate in order to maximize his giving to those charities most 

important to him. Within a few months of the 100th anniversary of his graduation, Mr. Westlake’s bequest created the Westlake 

Scholarship Endowment Fund at Wyoming Seminary. The School feels 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. 

1935 

Frank Dix 

Edythe Dickover Tessen 

1937 

David M. Parke 

1939 

Marcella McCormick Fay 

Robert Vandenberg 

1940 

Frank Sklaris 

Allan Slaff 

1942 

Stanley S. Davies 

Joseph P. Flanagan Jr. 

Mary E. Mayock Flanagan 

Charlotte Benjamin Morris 

Robert S. Tippett 

1943 

John K. Davies 

1944 

Helen Lewis Cackener 

Nancy Abbott Cohen 

1945 

James P. Bailey 

Betsy Bell Condron 

1946 

Edward Berninger 

Irwin E. Lecker 

1948 

Harold C. Buckingham Jr. 

Barbara Clark Butler 

Frank C. Carlucci 

Nancy Jackson Hartman 


Geraldine Ruddy Hourigan 


Sandra R. Lloyd 

Mary Eagen McDonald 

Elizabeth Reynolds Metzger 

1949 

Howard C. Beane 

Charles S. Holman Jr. 

1950 

Quincy S. Abbot 

Anne Cook Dickerson 

Frank M. Henry 

1951 

John T. Stevens 

1952 

Sylvia Brown Nadel 

Stuart Z. Uram 

Jerrold Williams 

1953 

Ronald Del Duca 

Jeanne Malkemes Hickman 

Joanne Torbert Seifried 

1954 

Thomas E. Watkins 

1955 

Richard M. Goldberg 

Benjamin R. Jones III 

1956 

Virginia Miller Schmidt 

1957 

Linda Myers German 

Sandy Padwe 

Robert J. Siegel 

Alice Robinson Thompson 

1959 

Bruce Ambrose 

Gerald Dwyer 

Robert E. Jones 

Jackiann Beattie Smith-McKernan 

Bernhardt K. Wruble 

1960 

Jennifer Bailey MacPherson 

Jay N. Weinberg 

1961 

Leon Bonner 

Raymond S. Howard 

Peter K. Johnson 

W. Kentley Jones 

V. Paul Zanecki 

1962 

Stephen M. Alinikoff 

Mildred Kaiser Fleetwood 

Peter Foldes 

Alfred W. Thomas III 

William W. Yoder 

1963 

Leslie Turrell Bullock 

Robert Dealaman 

John Morton III 

Lisa Harvey Morton 

David C. Sanford 

1964 

R. Scott Hummel 

1965 

Estelle Andrews 

Elliott S. Robinson III 

1966 

Steven Foldes 

Paul R. Freeman 

Barbara Hauck 

Stephen B. Killian 

Leonard J. Thacher 

1967 

Bruce Logan 

Crawford C. Smith 

1968 

W. Edward Conklin Jr. 

Robert R. James 

1969 

Joseph W. Harpster 

M. Elizabeth Hibbard 

James W. Hunt 

Alexis S. C. Iszard 

John S. Lopatto III 

Robert J. McFann Jr. 

Pauline Rodgers Moon 

Steven Russell 

John P. Sgarlat 

Joseph J. Waiter 

1970 

George P. Droelle 

Margot Meeks Hennings 

Donald R. Murray 

1971 

Anthony C. Adonizio 

David P. Hourigan 

Robert Maloney Jr. 

Phillip Roth 

John H. Shafer 

Richard C. Stauffer 

1972 

Jonathan J. Balester 

John Ciocca 

Deborah Kapral 

Gary C. Klein 

Patrick M. Loftus 

Elliot Miller 

Thomas Person 

Robert L. Rosenberg 

Marian E. Spohrer 

Samuel L. Stettler 

1973 

Charles Baltimore 

Brian L. Davis 

1974 

Anthony J. Grosek III 

Frank M. Henry Jr. 

Jeffrey Klein 

1975 

George G. Conyngham Jr. 

1976 

Shelley Freeman 

David I. Kluger 

John A. Licata 

Dana Pearce Lyons 

Janet Murray 

William Wolf 

1977 

Kathryn Reynolds-Bellas 

Jodie Lyons Elyachar 

Jon Hallingstad 

Jason Kurchner 

C. Thomas Shannon 

Robert J. Wise 

1978 

Marc L. Holtzman 

1980 

Louis J. Butera 

Robert S. Tippett Jr. 

1982 

Susan Dantona Jolley 

Friends 

John N. Conyngham III 

Anthony J. Grosek Jr. 

William Mainwaring 

Richard Maslow 

Charles E. Parente 

Richard Pearsall 

Patricia Rummage 

Natalie Solfanelli 

Wallace F. Stettler 

Laroy Ziegler 

71

72 

Wyoming 

Seminary Board 

of Trustees 

Barbara Fassett Oski Beane ’53, Life 

Trustee 

Anthony Berger ‘73 

Gary C. Boam 

Harold C. Buckingham, Jr. ’48, Life 

Trustee 

Charles J. Bufalino, III ‘78 

Leslie Turrell Bullock ‘63 

Frank C. Carlucci, IV ‘81 

Rev. Wesley R. Crompton ’43, Life 

Trustee 

Stanley S. Davies ’42, Life Trustee 

A. John Dimond ‘57 

Charles D. Flack, Jr. ‘72, Chairman 

Richard M. Goldberg ‘55 

Charles Gommer 

Carl Grivner ‘71 

Anthony Grosek, Jr., Life Trustee 

Christopher Hackett 

Frank M. Henry ’50, Honorary Trustee 

Jonathan P. Hosey ‘74 

Richard M. Hughes, III ‘79 

Leonard Insalaco, Treasurer 

Collette Touey Kean ’48, Life Trustee 

Stephen B. Killian ‘66 

Joseph Kluger ‘82 

Sue Kline Kluger, Emerita Trustee 

Harry F. Lee ’53, Life Trustee 

Charles D. Lemmond, Jr. Life Trustee 

Mary Lopatto ‘72 

John F. Magagna ’52, Life Trustee 

Dorothy Darling Mangelsdorf ‘68 

Marjorie Henry Marquart ‘78, 

Secretary 

Scott Meuser 

John D. Mueller ‘52, Vice Chairman 

Janet Murray ‘76 

Gregory C. Myers 

Charles Parkhurst ‘79 

Richard L. Pearsall, Life Trustee 

Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski ‘75 

Erica M. Romanowski 

Richard Rose 

Arthur W. Sherwood ‘56 

Robert H. Smith ‘56 

George B. Sordoni 

Kip P. Nygren, Ex-officio Trustee 

President, Wyoming Seminary 

Paula Chaiken, Ex-officio Trustee 

Lower School Parents Board 

Joanne Santarelli, Ex-officio Trustee 

2009 - 10 Wyoming Seminary Volunteers 

Permanent Voting Members 

(Past Presidents) of Alumni Council 

Robert S. Tippett ’42 

Charlotte Muschlitz Arbogast ’44 

Frank M. Henry ’50 

John E. Morris, III ’58 

Claire Conlon Evans ’52 

Stephen B. Killian ’66 

Patricia Klein Rosenthal ’64 

Samuel M. Wolfe, III ’64 

Louise Loucks Moore ’55 

Elena Horrigan Parkhurst ’53 

Upper School 

Parents Council 

Joanne Brady 

Ann Brennan 

Claire Brier 

Marion Munley Cartwright 

Lydia Charney 

Rosemary Chromey 

Tricia Considine 

Sharon Hourigan 

Lita Insalaco, Vice President 

Becky Kimpel 

Paul Lumia 

Jennifer Lynett 

John McHugh 

Kim Mericle 

Shelly Meuser 

Cindy Olenwine 

Cathy O’Donnell, Secretary 

Clare Parkhurst 

Cathy Reppert 

Erica Romanowski 

Barbara Santarelli 

Joanne Santarelli, President 

John Simon 

Lois Spath 

Mary Thede 

Mindy Zafrany 

Robert D. Clements, Jr.’72 

Philip J. Santarelli ’67 

Scott P. Parkhurst ’78 

M. Elizabeth Hibbard ’69 

Jonathan Spohrer ’78 

David Schwager ’80 

Ross Macarty ’80 

Tara Mugford Wilson ’88 

Lower School 

Parents Council 

Paula Chaiken, President 

Deborah Connor 

Maureen Conyngham 

Doreen DeLuna, Secretary 

Ann Nieh Hou, Treasurer 

Kathryn Hughes 

Jill Nardone, Vice President 

Melissa Parente 

Avalyn Quick 

Beth Ridilla 

Jackie Soper 

Pia Taggart 

JoAnn Zack 

Alumni Council 

Alana Anzalone ’00 

Jason Cohen ’97 

Jennifer Eidam Davis ’94 

Steve Dressler ’81 

Megan Erwine ’00 

Janet Flack ’67 

David Johns ’94 

Susan Dantona Jolley ’82 

Jami Layaou ’96 

Patrick Lenahan III ’88 

Guy Llewellyn ’86 

Debbie Maseychik ’83, Secretary 

Cathy Fields McHugh ’78, President 

Trent Miller ’01 

Rob Nelson ’88 

Joe Perfilio ’91, Vice President 

Danielle Rudin Del Po ‘92 

Kristyn Kelleher Polishan ‘99 

Sean Robbins ’88 

Bob Sherwood ’99 

Bob Tamburro ’91, Treasurer 

Jonathan Tenenbaum ’95 

Corine Leoni Treslar ’85 

Caroline McCarthy Youngman ’84 

Karlina Zikor ’01 

Lopatto siblings Mary ‘72, John ‘69 and Gigi ‘77 were the 2009-10 

Annual Fund Chairs. 

Thank you for your unwavering service to our school!

Financial Aid 


Building-Maintenance 

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Academic Support 


YOU 

are vital 

to our mission. 

You help us 

achieve 

the True, 

the Beautiful, 

the Good. 

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Wednesday, December 1 

2011 

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Monday, February 28 

Tuesday, March 1 

Wednesday, March 2 

Thursday, March 3 

Thursday, March 24 

April 29 - May 1 

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US Campus 

Business School luncheon 

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Boston, Mass. 

Hartford, Conn. 

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