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Class of ’54

David Alli­son reports that his fam­ily kept him busy this sum­mer. His grand­son just returned from a church mis­sion to Guatemala build­ing fur­ni­ture and is now work­ing as a pool life­guard. He will be a senior at Syos­set High School this fall. One of his grand­daugh­ters, a sec­ond year art stu­dent at Adel­phi Uni­ver­sity, is a coun­selor at the 4H camp in River­head, Long Island and received her Girl Scout “Gold Award” this year. His other grand­daugh­ter, who is enter­ing her sec­ond year at Penn State, is work­ing for the Town of Oys­ter Bay in Long Island this sum­mer. He writes, “Not nec­es­sar­ily retired, I was just named pres­i­dent of our home­own­ers asso­ci­a­tion here in Cutchogue, Long Island and I still serve as our Parks Com­mis­sioner. Carol and I will cel­e­brate our 54th wed­ding anniver­sary in Sep­tem­ber. Sorry to have missed a Wes­ley Alumni get-together in West Islip ear­lier this year.”

Class of ’58

Susan (Kempf) Tay­lor wrote in to share that on Sep­tem­ber 2, she had the plea­sure of meet­ing up with 2 friends from Wes­ley, Ed Moore and Judy (Wood­ward) McCormick while vis­it­ing her brother in West Hol­ly­wood, CA. Ed lives in San Clemente while Judy lives in Hunt­ing­ton Beach. Susan writes, “Ed and I decided that we would each go about halfway and meet on Judy’s home turf. What fun we had talk­ing about the ‘good old days’ of Wes­ley Junior Col­lege. Ed had brought his year­book, so we thumbed through the pages and found things to talk about on each page! We enjoyed a leisurely lunch at a place called Dukes which over­looks the beach and the Pacific Ocean.” Susan has been com­ing back for Wesley’s Home­com­ing annu­ally, and Ed and Judy will also try to make it back to Wes­ley for their class’s 55th next year.

Edward P. Moore has recently writ­ten and pub­lished a book. It is titled “Out of Da Nang” and details the obsta­cles of becom­ing a pilot in the Marine Corps and fly­ing UH34D Siko­rsky chop­pers in Viet­nam com­bat. It is a fic­tional novel but based on real life expe­ri­ences. Edward served one tour of duty as a pilot in Viet­nam and was hon­ored with the Dis­tin­guished Fly­ing Cross and Viet­namese Cross of Valor for his role in one par­tic­u­lar mis­sion
out of Da Nang. Ten per­cent of all prof­its of the book will be donated to Wounded War­riors and sim­i­lar orga­ni­za­tions to sup­port veterans.

Class of ’60

Ted and Mar­i­lyn (Hopen) Sim­pler, Bruce and Ginni (Gra­bin­ski) McNally, Bill and Bar­bara (Swank) McNamee, and Scotty and Bar­bara (Peter­son) Quillen had a lun­cheon in Sebring, FL last March. They all met at Wes­ley when it was a two year col­lege and have fond mem­o­ries of Wes­ley. Two cou­ples will cel­e­brate their 50th wed­ding anniver­sary this year and the other two cou­ples will cel­e­brate theirs next year. At their gath­er­ing in Florida, they planned to meet again in Lewes, DE in sum­mer 2012.

Class of ’61

Sue (Rath­mell) Daino sadly reports that her hus­band Grant passed away March 15. They were mar­ried for 44 years. She writes, “His legs just buck­led one night when he walk­ing to the liv­ing room to watch TV, and he broke both tib­ias and fibu­las. He had to be very care­ful all the time not to fall. His legs were not always that strong due to his hav­ing Polio when he was 16.” Sue had known her hus­band since she was 12. He and her older brother palled around when they were teenagers.

Class of ’67

Elaine (Yohn) Molesworth writes, “It is with great sad­ness that I have learned of the death of Bev­erly A. Young. Bev­erly passed away peace­fully at home at the age of 64 in Wind­sor, CT on March 26. While at Wes­ley Bev was Pres­i­dent of Richard­son Hall, a mem­ber of the Wes­ley Play­ers, a cheer­leader, a mem­ber of the honor soci­ety and very active in cam­pus life. She had worked for the National Oceanic and Atmos­pheric Admin­is­tra­tion in Wash­ing­ton, DC prior to her mov­ing to Connecticut.”

Class of ’70

Eric Mond­schein would like to share that he has a web­site. He invites fel­low alumni to visit him at www.ericmondschein.com.

Class of ’71

John Mahaf­fey and his wife Judy moved to Char­lotte, NC in 2008 to be closer to their chil­dren, Jen­nifer and Jack, and grand­chil­dren Car­son and Kennedy. John retired in Decem­ber after 37+ years with Kodak, where he spent the past 18 years man­ag­ing strate­gic accounts for the imag­ing spe­cialty divi­sion. Judy retired after 16+ years teach­ing spe­cial edu­ca­tion in Rochester, NY. John writes, “Life after Kodak includes exec­u­tive board mem­ber for the BSA-MCC Coun­cil and Rotary Club of CLT. We thought we would have lots of extra time, but the grand­kids seem to be keep­ing us busy.”

Class of ’73

Jean Wertz Zaun’s recent oil paint­ings will be a part of a two-person exhibit at the Gallery at Sec­ond located at 608 N. Sec­ond Street in Har­ris­burg, PA. The show will open on Fri­day, Octo­ber 19, and run through­out the month of Novem­ber. Visit the web­site at www.GalleryatSecond.com for more infor­ma­tion. Jean writes, “Would love to see some old Wes­ley friends.”

Class of ’75

Cyn­thia “Corkey” (Cor­nell) Fitzger­ald reports, “Still lov­ing the Bed & Break­fast busi­ness! We have been doing it for 18 years and meet won­der­ful peo­ple from all over the world. After retir­ing from teach­ing, it has been a great and cre­ative way to enjoy life. Please visit our web­sites at www.wellsboroinnonthegreen.com and www.crossroadsbb.com. Come and see us! The hills of Penn­syl­va­nia are beautiful.”

Class of ’88

Eliz­a­beth Meechan and her hus­band Keith Hard­ing recently cel­e­brated the first birth­day of their beau­ti­ful son, Sean Hard­ing. Sean was born on May 18, 2011.

Class of ’94

Stephen Pizzi is pleased to announce that he got mar­ried on August 23 to Dana Thomas. The cou­ple was mar­ried in Grand Cay­man. They are cur­rently liv­ing in Hous­ton, TX and Stephen is work­ing for Weath­er­ford Inter­na­tional as a finance manager.

Metlife named Chris Fur­rule man­ag­ing part­ner for two New Jersey-based MetLife firms, col­lec­tively known as Cre­ative Finan­cial Group of New Jer­sey (CFGNJ), where he will pro­vide care­ful, well-rounded finan­cial strate­gies for his clients. New Eng­land Finan­cial has named Chris’ firm the 2011 Firm of the Year. He resides in New Jer­sey with his wife and three children.

Class of ’95

Mar­shall and Amanda M’06 Downes are proud to announce the birth of their first child. Their daugh­ter, Clara Char­lotte Downes, was born Jan­u­ary 18. Clara weighed 6 lbs., 14 oz. and mea­sured 20 inches long. The fam­ily cel­e­brated Clara’s Chris­ten­ing on May 13 –Mother’s Day. Amanda is the direc­tor of alumni rela­tions at Wes­ley and Mar­shall is employed by the State of Delaware and man­ages tech­nol­ogy for Wood­bridge School District.

Class of ’03

Brett Thomas and his wife wel­comed Kaytin Leigh Thomas to their fam­ily on June 13.

Class of ’05

Matt Lin­dell won a four-way race for a seat on the Cap­i­tal School Dis­trict Board of Edu­ca­tion in May. His total votes out­num­bered the other three can­di­dates vote totals com­bined, which included an incum­bent. Lin­dell is a for­mer his­tory and social sci­ences teacher in the Cap­i­tal School Dis­trict and he is cur­rently employed as a teacher in the Cape Hen­lopen School Dis­trict. Upon his swear­ing in at the July 18 Cap­i­tal School Board meet­ing, Lin­dell, at age 31, is the third youngest elected board mem­ber cur­rently serv­ing in Delaware. Before his term expires in 2017, his goals include increas­ing fis­cal trans­parency between the dis­trict and tax­pay­ers to ensure that tax­payer dol­lars are being used effec­tively and effi­ciently for the ben­e­fit of all stu­dents in the school dis­trict. He also wants to increase dis­trict part­ner­ships with area col­leges, includ­ing Wes­ley, to bet­ter serve all students attend­ing schools in the Cap­i­tal School District.

James Sacra sub­mit­ted this pic­ture of his fam­ily. Pic­tured left to right is Mark, James, Lydia (on lap), Roshini and Jude.

Class of ’06

Jes­sica Ray­mond is pleased to report that after much study­ing, she com­pleted her require­ments to become a Cer­ti­fied Pub­lic Accoun­tant and as of Jan­u­ary, is offi­cially a CPA. She has been work­ing at Ray­mond F. Book & Asso­ciates for the past five years and loves it. She writes, “If any­one needs help with taxes, pay­roll, book­keep­ing, audit­ing or other attest engage­ments, or any other account­ing ser­vices, give my office a call.”

Tamara (Cohen) Hartzell and her hus­band Shane Hartzell ’02 proudly announce the birth of their son, Caden Con­nor Hartzell. He was born on May 2 and weighed 6 lbs., 5 oz. and was 20 inches long.

Class of ’07

Saman­tha Feld recently grad­u­ated from Jef­fer­son Med­ical Col­lege with her MD and started her res­i­dency in June. She is doing her res­i­dency in med­i­cine and pedi­atrics at Stony Brook in New York.

Class of ’09

Edward Mor­ris and his wife Melissa, of Mil­ford, DE, are thrilled to announce the birth of their son, Lan­don Mor­ris. He was born at 4:15 p.m. on July 12 at Mil­ford Memo­r­ial Hos­pi­tal. He weighed 8 lbs. and was 20 inches long. His mater­nal grand­par­ents are Mr. Clark Moss of Lin­coln, DE and Ms. Diane John­son of Lau­rel, DE. His pater­nal grand­par­ents are Mrs. Sharleen Mor­ris and the late Mr. Edward Mor­ris who just recently passed away. His great­grand­par­ents are Mrs. Bar­bara Mor­ris and the late Mr. Hubert Mor­ris. Hisstep grand­par­ent is Lynn Moss. Edward and Melissa are also pleased to share that they got mar­ried on Sep­tem­ber 1 at Holy Cross Church in Dover, DE. Fol­low­ing the cer­e­mony, they had a wed­ding recep­tion at Har­ring­ton Ban­quet Hall.

Class of ’11

After grad­u­at­ing with a bachelor’s degree in media arts in May 2011, Christo­pher Agar is now work­ing at Wes­ley College’s Office of Insti­tu­tional Advance­ment as a com­mu­ni­ca­tions assistant.

Kelly Mor­gan had an oppor­tu­nity to use her media arts degree from Wes­ley to work as a pho­tog­ra­phy assis­tant on a short term assign­ment with the mag­a­zine True Story. Cur­rently she is work­ing as a bank teller at Ben­e­fi­cial Bank.

Jesse Trump com­pleted his intern­ship at the Uni­ver­sity of Alabama at Birm­ing­ham (UAB) and has now moved back up to Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity. His intern­ship at UAB led to another intern­ship he recently started, work­ing at the James J. Peters Vet­er­ans Med­ical Research Divi­sion via the Mount Sinai School of Med­i­cine. He will have his require­ments for Colum­bia com­pleted at the end of this semes­ter and cur­rently has a job offer for a four month posi­tion at Cor­nell Uni­ver­sity to poten­tially work there for the spring semes­ter. He is also in the process of explor­ing and plan­ning to apply to Ph.D. programs.

IN MEMORIAM

Anna Wright ’45
John Blanken­ship ’57
Gary Marine ’64
Ronald Hof­fecker ’66
Bev­erly Young ’67
Den­nis Duffy ’69
John “Jay”Albert ’73
Mary (Carey) Smal­ley ’92
Gilbert Scar­bor­ough (trustee emer­i­tus)
Eva Wil­son (for­mer employee)

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