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Class of ’60

Bar­bara Har­ris mar­ried after her first year at Wes­ley, and chose not to return to fin­ish her degree. She and her hus­band had four sons, John, Don, Ron, and Tom. Bar­bara sadly reports that two of her sons have passed away from lung can­cer: John in 2010 and Ron in 2009. She has 11 grand­chil­dren and eight great-grandchildren, the youngest being a girl born in Jan­u­ary 2013. She wishes to say hello to her class­mates and says that Wes­ley will always remain in her heart.

Class of ’63

Rose­marie (Gim­ber) Adami­etz reports, that she and her hus­band, Hel­mut, moved to New Kens­ing­ton, Pa. (a sub­urb of Pitts­burgh) in 2007 to be closer to their son and his fam­ily. Rose­marie retired in 2002 after 18 years at IMS Health as a project man­ager in the Inter­na­tional Divi­sion. Prior to that, she spent 19 years at Glax­o­SmithK­line, in var­i­ous posi­tions, start­ing as a sec­re­tary and end­ing as an inter­na­tional mar­ket research ana­lyst. Hel­mut also retired in 2002 after more than 40 years in the print­ing busi­ness. She writes, “We still miss liv­ing in the Philly area, but wouldn’t give up being close to our grand­chil­dren and par­tic­i­pat­ing in all their activ­i­ties. I would like to remind class­mates that our 50th Class Reunion will be Home­com­ing Week­end, Oct. 4–6, and I encour­age every­one to attend. There will be a vari­ety of activ­i­ties dur­ing the week­end. Check our class page on the Wes­ley web­site at: www.weare.wesley.edu/1963 for the sched­uled events and check peri­od­i­cally there­after for updates. If you haven’t been back to Wes­ley for awhile, you’re in for a big sur­prise. Dover is no longer the single-movietheater, sleepy lit­tle town it was in the early 60s and Wes­ley is no longer the small junior col­lege we attended. Come back to Wes­ley and recon­nect with class­mates, relive some of the old mem­o­ries and make some new ones. If you have any ques­tions, feel free to con­tact one of us on the com­mit­tee. Hope to see you in October!”

Class of 1963 Reunion Com­mit­tee:
Rosie Gim­ber Adami­etz (radamietz@comcast.net)

Lois But­ter­worth DeFreyre (loisdef@aol.com)

Keith W. Gab­bett (gabbettkeithw@hotmail.com)

Ellen Pen­ny­packer Jack­son (ellenpenny1@aol.com)

R. Jim Jones (rjjclj@yahoo.com)

Keith Gab­bett writes, “The Class of 1963 50th Reunion is com­ing up this fall! How can that be? I am look­ing for­ward to see­ing and get­ting reac­quainted with for­mer class­mates. Wes­ley was the start of my col­lege edu­ca­tion and I will always remem­ber those first two years.” After grad­u­at­ing from Wes­ley, Keith con­tin­ued his col­lege edu­ca­tion at Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity. He then spent 27 good years work­ing with Swiss Bank Cor­po­ra­tion in var­i­ous human resources areas and moved to a Japan­ese com­pany to work with expa­tri­ates. Keith appre­ci­ates that both posi­tions gave him the oppor­tu­nity to travel abroad. Recently he and his wife Dorothy have been tak­ing bus trips through­out the west­ern and north­east­ern parts of the United States, enjoy­ing the coun­try and the travel expe­ri­ence. In the colder sea­sons, the cou­ple heads for one of the Caribbean islands or takes a relax­ing cruise. He writes, “Retire­ment is great.”

Ellen (Pen­ny­packer) Jack­son is hap­pily antic­i­pat­ing the 50th Reunion of the Class of ’63 Oct. 4–6. She regrets being unable to come back to Wes­ley for past reunions due to tim­ing and dis­tance. After grad­u­a­tion, she and her fam­ily moved to Tulsa, Okla., where she met her hus­band Bill, and they also lived in Chicago. Busi­ness drove the cou­ple to Bran­don, Miss. (a sub­urb of Jackon), where they lived for the past 40 years. Ellen sadly reports that Bill passed away four years ago, but she is thank­ful to live near her daugh­ter, son-in-law, and three grand­chil­dren and be able to be a part of their active lives and attend their sport­ing events. Ellen works part-time, plays team ten­nis and is very active in Relay For Life. She and her fam­ily have a sum­mer home in Chau­tauqua, Ill., near St. Louis, where Bill spent his sum­mers grow­ing up and she enjoys recon­nect­ing with friends and fam­ily each year. Ellen writes, “If any­one comes to the ‘Deep South’ or Mid­west, give me a call!”

The past 50 years have taken R. James Jones around the world– Asia, Europe, South Amer­ica, Mex­ico, Canada and all 50 states. He and his wife Lynn have been mar­ried 42 years, raised 3 sons and 2 daugh­ters, and now have eight grand­chil­dren. With a career in the health­care indus­try, Jim was involved with three start-up com­pa­nies and has been run­ning his own busi­ness for the past eight years. In antic­i­pa­tion of his class’s 50th Reunion right around the cor­ner, he writes, “Time goes by too fast. I still have won­der­ful mem­o­ries of the class of ’63. Some have attended reunions in the past. Many of you have never attended a reunion, includ­ing myself. Let’s all come together and enjoy each other’s com­pany and share old mem­o­ries dur­ing the first week­end in Octo­ber.” He invites any­one inter­ested in help­ing out with locat­ing mem­bers of the class, reunion week­end activ­i­ties, or col­lect­ing pho­tos and devel­op­ing a reunion book­let to con­tact Rosie (Gim­ber) Adami­etz, class reunion chair, at radamietz@comcast.net. or con­tact him at rjjclj@yahoo.com.

Mar­i­lyn (Parker) Prota and her hus­band Neil retired in 1997 from IBM in Bethesda, Md., and moved to Lit­tle River, S.C. (out­side Myr­tle Beach) to enjoy golf and the beach. Mar­i­lyn is strongly involved in Blue Star Moth­ers of Amer­ica and enjoys scrap­ping cards. The cou­ple has four grand­chil­dren, whom they call the delight of their lives. She is very much look­ing for­ward to the Class of 63’s 50th Reunion in Octo­ber and writes, “Our jour­ney in this life is get­ting shorter; we may not pass this way again. It would be won­der­ful to see our old friends and classmates.”

Jane (Bowles) Young reports that she received an AS degree in vet­eri­nary tech­nol­ogy in 1996 from Har­cum Col­lege in Bryn Mawr, Pa. “I just love work­ing with ani­mals,” she writes. When she moved to her cur­rent home in Lan­caster, Pa., she had trou­ble get­ting a job and decided to start a pet-sitting busi­ness in her home. She has since joined the Pam­pered Chef fam­ily, and lives a rel­a­tively busy life in retirement.

Class of ’70

In Novem­ber 2012, Eric Mond­schein pub­lished and pre­sented an arti­cle titled “Sex­ual Harass­ment and Bul­ly­ing: Sim­i­lar, But Not the Same,” with his col­league Ellery Rick Miller, Jr. at the annual Edu­ca­tion Law Asso­ci­a­tion Con­fer­ence in Hilton Head, S.C. They also pre­sented a webi­nar with the same title for the Law and Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion. Mond­schein encour­ages any­one inter­ested in the sub­ject or receiv­ing a copy to con­tact him at ericmondschein@hotmail.com.

Class of ’71

Den­nis Dougherty retired in June 2011 from Thad­deus Stevens Col­lege of Tech­nol­ogy, where he held the rank of pro­fes­sor and taught in the Graphic Com­mu­ni­ca­tions & Print­ing Tech­nol­ogy Depart­ment. Dur­ing his last year at Stevens, he was the recip­i­ent of the Print­ing Indus­tries of Amer­ica Edu­ca­tion Award of Excel­lence pre­sented at Graph Expo in Chicago. He also received the Inter­na­tional Graphic Arts Edu­ca­tion Association’s Fredrick Kagy Life Achieve­ment Award in July 2012 for his involve­ment with print­ing edu­ca­tion. Den­nis and his wife Elaine, who also retired from teach­ing in 2011, are the proud grand­par­ents of four grand­chil­dren –Alex, Patrick, Riley and Stella. They split their time between Ephrata, Pa. and Thorn­burg, Va., near where their son and his fam­ily live and where they keep their RV. Their two daugh­ters and their fam­i­lies live close to home in Lan­caster County, Pa.

Derek Hunter cel­e­brated his 700th win as a girls bas­ket­ball coach at Booker T. Wash­ing­ton High School in Mem­phis, Tenn. He reached this mile­stone on Nov. 30, 2012 dur­ing his 31st sea­son over­all as a coach. A 6-foot-5 for­mer cen­ter who grad­u­ated in 1969 as the first 1,000-point scorer at High­land Falls High School in New York, Derek grad­u­ated from Delta State in Cleve­land, Miss., after attend­ing Wes­ley. He planned to play for an Orange County semi-pro team in the East­ern League. How­ever, the squad folded prior to its open­ing game, and he ended up return­ing to Delta State to com­plete his master’s degree in phys­i­cal edu­ca­tion. Before becom­ing the girls bas­ket­ball coach at Booker T. Wash­ing­ton, Derek coached at nearby Cen­tral High in Mem­phis for six seasons.

Edwin Moore has recently pre­sented three papers at two inter­na­tional con­fer­ences and had one pub­lished in the Acad­emy of Man­age­ment Jour­nal: Cam­bridge. His pub­li­ca­tion stream cov­ers the demo­graphic changes in Europe and the United States and its impact on busi­ness and pub­lic pol­icy. His pri­mary inter­est is the insti­tu­tional eco­nom­ics of East­ern Europe.

Class of ’72

Jim “Thurston” How­ell, Philip “Smitty” Smith, and Bob Forbes recently met in New York City. Together, they took in good food, great con­ver­sa­tion, the beau­ti­ful NYC sights and scenery, and went for a mem­o­rable walk on the High Line.

Class of ’99

Tim Kalick and his wife Beth are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Tessa Grace Kalick. She was born May 20, 2012, weigh­ing 7 lbs. and mea­sur­ing 21 inches long. The fam­ily lives hap­pily in Cherry Hill, N.J.

Class of ’02

Nick Brett is pleased to share that he is now mar­ried and he and his wife, Shelby, have an 8 month old baby boy. They are cur­rently liv­ing in Fair­less Hills, Pa.

Class of ’04

Court­ney Stew­art and James Pen­newell were mar­ried on New Year’s Eve in Ocean City, Md. Many Wes­ley friends were in atten­dance includ­ing: Jen (O’Mara) Parkes ’03 and Adrian Parkes ’06, Kath­leen (McDade) Testa ’07, Lind­say Dukes ’07, Chris­tine McGrath McDer­mott ’98 and Kevin McDer­mott ’99, Krys­tal (Scherer) Bar­bano, Brit­tany Haberek ’07 and Lee Shipe ’03. Kris­ten (Stew­art) Jones ’07, M’08 was the maid of honor and Jamil Humes ’08 DJ’d.

Nicole (Pagano) King and her hus­band Eddie King are happy to announce the birth of their new baby girl, Ingrid King, born Jan­u­ary 2. She weighed 8 lbs., 3 oz. and mea­sured 21 inches long.

Jen­nifer Racz is cur­rently attend­ing vet­eri­nary school at the Uni­ver­sity of Edin­burgh in Scot­land. Once she grad­u­ates, she will become a vet­eri­nary sur­geon (same as Doc­tor of vet­eri­nary med­i­cine in the US).

Class of ’05

Stephen Fat­ula and his fiancé Erika Olsen ’09 proudly announce the arrival of their daugh­ter, Cadence Eliz­a­beth Fat­ula, born March 30. The fam­ily cur­rently lives in Cal­i­for­nia. Stephen and Erika will be mar­ried in Cam­bridge, MD on Sept. 21, and Wes­ley fac­ulty mem­ber Dr. Jeff Mask will be offi­ci­at­ing. Stephen is an attor­ney in the firm McCoy|fatula, LLP, which he started with a fel­low attor­ney. He also co-founded the Lume­naris Group, Inc., which designs and makes inno­v­a­tive, edu­ca­tional and fun prod­ucts for families.

James Sacra and his wife Roshini are pleased to announce the birth of their new baby girl, Naomi Adele Sacra, who arrived on Feb. 26. Naomi was wel­comed by her older broth­ers and sis­ter, Mark, Jude and Lydia. The fam­ily resides in Dover, Del.

Class of ’07

Kris­ten (Stew­art) Jones and hus­band Chad Jones were blessed with a gor­geous baby girl on June 18, 2012. She arrived the same day as Kris­ten and Chad’s first wed­ding anniver­sary. Rea­gan will become a big sis­ter this July.

Class of ’08

Lynda Grace Stan­ley and Mark David Rut­ter were mar­ried on Sept. 7, 2012 at The Water­fall in Clay­mont, Del. Lynda is cur­rently employed as an inves­ti­ga­tor for the Delaware Divi­sion of Fam­ily Ser­vices and is pur­su­ing her master’s degree in men­tal health coun­sel­ing. The Rut­ters reside in Newark, Del., with their two Yorkies, Kirby and Roxi, and are expect­ing their first child in July.

Abi­gail Green­wood is cur­rently employed in the qual­ity con­trol depart­ment at Med­ical Diag­nos­tic Lab­o­ra­to­ries, LLC in New Jersey.

Jake McK­oskey was recently named the WJBR Teacher of the Month for Feb­ru­ary. He is a health, phys­i­cal edu­ca­tion and AVID teacher at Newark High School in Newark, Del., and also coaches the men’s lacrosse team.

Class of ’09

Rachael (Ono­rato) Mears is now the direc­tor of Cap­i­tal Resources for the Delaware Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Office. In this role, she man­ages the finan­cial arm of the agency. She also is a board mem­ber of the Next Gen­er­a­tion – South­ern Delaware (a part of the Delaware Com­mu­nity Foun­da­tion), a Lead­er­ship fel­low in the cur­rent class of 2014, and is an instruc­tor at Club Fit­ness in Dover.

Shan­non Carter is cur­rently enrolled in the Ph.D. pro­gram in envi­ron­men­tal soil chem­istry at the Uni­ver­sity of Delaware.

Class of ’11

Reg­gie Mil­ner, for­mer defen­sive back for the Wolver­ines, has recently won the Rookie Teacher of the Year Award at Menden­hall Mid­dle School in Greens­boro, N.C. Reg­gie teaches 7th grade math at Mendenhall.

Class of ’12

Megan Con­don was accepted to Uni­ver­sity of Hull in York­shire, Eng­land. She plans to com­plete a master’s degree in mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary lit­er­a­ture, and she will teach while work­ing on her doc­tor­ate afterward.

Joe Guar­ino reports that he recently took the GRE and is apply­ing to grad­u­ate schools for video game writing/design or cre­ative media writ­ing. He is cur­rently liv­ing in Newark, Del.

IN MEMORIAM

Jeanne Lin­de­man ’51
Don­ald W. Grier ’56
Harry M. War­ren ’57
Cordell M. Page ’58
Edward T. McGee ’58
W. Jerome Ster­ling ’60
Joshua A. Mes­sick ’63
Gary R. Gsell ’73
John W. Blair ’75
Eugene D. Bookham­mer (trustee emer­i­tus)

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