Scottish Highlander newsletter, 1960-1961

              1960
Highlander C hristmas L etter
Dear Highlanders:
Here we go again on the High­lander
Christmas Letter for 1960.
As you know, this Letter is a
product of the Questionnaires pre­viously
sent to all members of
whom we have addresses.
Almost all the Questionnaire re­plies
contain Season’s Greet i ngs
to all Highlander Alumns.
Thanks a million to you H i g h-lander
Alumns for your excellent
support to the Highlander Schol­arship
Fund. As of the date of
writing this, we have received
$373.00 this year. See notes under
Highlander Scholarship below.
The Letters are arranged in
chronological order of the m em­bers
participation in the High­landers.
The dates in parentheses
following the member’s name,
are the years during which the
member was active in Highland­ers.
DR. RALPH C. APPLEBY
(1937-41) 1111 Sheridan Avenue,
Iowa City, Iowa. Ralph is mar­ried
to Beryl Kathleen Moss, and
the Applebys have two sons, Drew
14, and Gary 9. Dr. Appleby
played tenor drum with the High­landers
when the group was
strictly ‘masculine’ . Ralph writ­es:
“ After the war I came back
to SUI, finished dentistry in 1951,
and have been on the D e nt a 1
Staft teacYvmg since gradual i on,
receiving my M. S. degree in
1953. Good luck with everything,
Bill, you are doing a wonderf u 1
job.” Thanks a million, Ralph.
The doctor is Head of Prosthetic
Dentistry at the State Univers i t y
©w Iowa.
JANNES SAVERY (1937 • 38)
(Mrs. Richard Westerfield) 119
Jefferson, West Union, Iowa.
Jannes is a home maker and a
newspaper columnist, and her
husband, Dick, is publisher of the
f vette County Union, in West
I . xm. They have three children:
Monte 9, Jane 13, and Sara 17,
who will be entering the Univer­sity
of Iowa next fall. The form­er
dancer writes: “ Sara has had
7 years of drum and bassoon les­sons
and playing, and 6 years of
marching and concert band in
grade and high school. So wonder­ful
to see Fran, Bill, and all the
lassies at the Highlander Coffee
Homecoming.”
EUGENE F. CHALLED (1939-
41) 16214 E. Pasda Drive, Whit­tier,
California. Eugene, pharmac­ist,
writes that he has been active
in the SUI Alumni Associat i o n
of Southern California, ‘ ‘and if
any Highlanders livng out here
are interested in participating, but
don’t receive our mail i n g s,
please drop me their address on
a postal card.” This former drum­mer
is married to Priscilla Pat­terson,
and they have one son,
William E., 13, and a daughter,
Cynthia, who is 7 years old.
MARY ELIZABETH GILLEN
(1939-41; 1946-48) (Mrs. Robert J.
Raim) 9275 Ft. Hamilton P a r k ­way,
Apartment 37, Brooklyn 9,
New York. .
Captain Raim is Procurem e n t
Officer at the Military Subs, Sup­ply
Agency in Brooklyn. ‘ ‘We were
transferred to Brooklyn from Ft.
Joyce O'Connor Hngtgen, Bill 4 Fran Adamson, Marty Porter Fowler; Background is
Barbara Ratcliffe, and Mr. Merrill (Diana Merrill’ s father).
Lee last January and have spent
the year trying to adjust to this
busy, crowded, big, city living,”
writes Mary Elizabeth. ‘ ‘Highlight
of our year was seeing the High­landers
perform at the Astor Ho­tel
in New York. They were wond­erful
and it brought back such
wonderful memories. (It w a s
good to see you again last June,
too.) We will be in Brooklyn until
July, 1962, so if any of the High­landers
come this way be sure
and look us up.” This ex-snare
drummer has three sons: Jeffrey
5, Timothy 3, and Terence 2.
ROBERT J. PARDEN (1939-41)
19832 Bonnie Ridge Way, Sarat­oga,
California. Robert is D e a n
of Engineering at the University
of Santa Clara. He is marrfed to
Betty Taylor, and they have a
daughter Patty 4, and a son Jam­es,
2. Robert reports that he at
tended a reunion of the Class of
1940 at Iowa City High School last
June and adds: “ Each year the
male Highlander Alumni becomes
a smaller percentage. Suggest a
club within a club as we grow
outnumbered.”
DR. KENNEDH KRAFFEN-HOFT
(1941-42) 27 Oakdale Boule­vard,
Pleasant Ridge, Michigan.
Ken is a radiologist with Dr. L.
Reynolds & Associates, Harp e r
Hospital, and he and G l o r i a
have three children: K e n n eth,
Jr. 14, Doug 12, and Karen about
9%. They write they e n j o yed
Thanksgiving dinner with ex-High-lander
Mary Murchison Taoor,
her husband. Dr. Rodman Tabor,
and children this year.
RICHARD C. PARK (1941-42)
Victor, Iowa.
Our former snare drummer is a
lawyer in Victor. He and Mrs.
Park now have Tommy 12, Susie
11, and Billy age 1% years.
DONALD E. JOHNSON (1942)
1297 30th Street, N. E., C e d a r
Rapids, Iowa. Donald, ex-p i per,
owns and manages the Montieur
Studio, a photographic portr a it
studio, at 111 2nd Street, N. E.
His children are Cinda 11, and
Terrie Kay, 9. His first wife,
Mary Ellen Stamy, died in 1958.
He has since married Joan 0-
Connell. Don now has a n ew
practice chanter, and expects to
“ pick up” where he left off.
CLIFF CROWE (1942 ) 37 S.
Highland Avenue, Akron, Ohio.
Cliff, ex-Drum Major, is Manag­er
of J. C. Penny Company, in
Akron. The Crowes have one son,
Eddie, six years old. As to your
inquiry, Cliff, in all probab i 1 ity,
our next out-of-town football game
performance will be at Oh i o
State on November 4th. Hope to
see you there!
JOHN A. LINKLETTER (1942-
43) 816 Meadowlark Lane, Glen­view,
Illinois. Joan O 11 er-man
Linkletter and John have
three children: Gayle 8, Scott 5,
and John 2 . This ex-piper is As­sistant
Managing Editor of th e
POPULAR MECHANICS MAGA­ZINE.
It is certainly good to
hear from these former ‘m a l e ’
members.
MARY M. McCUNE (1942-45)
(Mrs. H. B. Thomas. Jr.) 117
Moran Circle, Monterey, C a 1 ifor-nia.
Cor. H. B. Thomas, Jr. USN, is a
career naval officer attending the
Naval Post Graduate School in
Monterey. Mary calls him "Bon­es.”
The Thomases’ have three
sons: Kenneth H., Steven McC.
and John K. Mary says: “ I was
in the beginning group of High­landers
— beginning as an all­girl
group, that is. . . . Bill, do
you remember my confession to
you at graduation that I had had
to memorize all the tunes to play
the drum because I had never
played drums before? You bland­ly
informed me that you had
known it all along but you knew
I’d Tit in*the dancer’s outfit —
You were too sharp, and I thought
I had fooled you!. . . .Although
throughout the war years we
didn’t travel, we had many happy
times — I still laugh when I
think of us struggling to make
the men’s outfits fit. Good old
suspenders! ‘Bones’ and I are
truly enjoying Monterey, although
our boys miss that Yankee snow.”
MILDRED CORDS (1942 - 45)
(Mrs. James L. Carlson) 3640 Mc-
Knight Road, White Bear Lake 10,
Minnesota.
The Carlsons have three children:
Jean 5, Jamie 3, and Mary Lou­ise
VA. This ex-piper says that
she is a dishwasher, duster, diap­er-
doer-upper; her husband is dis­trict
Sales Manager with the Re­tail
Credit Company. “ We ex-
Iowans transplanted in Minnesota
(happily, of course) are wait i n g
for the ’61 football season.” Thank
you for your generousfless, Mild­red.
RHEA F. HYINK (1943> (Mrs
John L. Johnston) 17350 P a rk e r
Avenue, South Bend 15, Indiana.
This ex-piper says: “ People have
expressed interest to me in the
Highlanders and wonder why
they don’t travel over here when
Iowa plays Notre Dame. Ev e r y
one here lodes forward to that
game as there seems to be a
great feeling of rivalry. T h e y
have heard so much about the
Highlanders, they would love to
see them.” It would be fine to
come to South Bend and N o t r e
Dame sometime, Rhea, but we
have one trip a year out-of-state
to a Big Ten Game, so that is the
reason Notre Dame is not chosen
as a possibility even. Rhea’s hus­band
is a surgeon at South Bend
Osteopathic Hospital. The John­sons
have two children: C y nthia
7V4, and David 2%.
WILMA SEEMUTH (1943 - 44)
(Mrs. E. C. Gutknecht) 7302 E.
Vista Drive, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Willie, ex-dancer and drummer,
has two children: Jack 13, and
Judy 11. Her husband is special
agent with the Northwestern Mut­ual
Life Insurance Company.
ELEANOR NISSEN (1943 - 44:
45 - 47 (Mrs. Bob Bell 7986
White Oak Lane, Hammond, Ind­iana.
Bob Bell is Supervisor with Stand­ard
Oil of Indiana. They h a v e
two children: Billy 8Y2. and Kathy
7. TTiis ex-piper reports that she
enjoyed the Highlander Coffee
Hour at Homecoming this fall,
and saw “ a few familiar faces,
and it was good to see Bill and
Fran. They both looked g r e at
and not much changed.” (Thanks
for those kind words!) “We are
busy with all kinds of activit i es.
Bob is taking courses toward his
masters at the Purdue Extension.
Our other activities include Lion’s
Club, Cub Scouting, dancing, art.
and swimming lessons for var­ious
members o f the family. Keeps
us busy and happy.”
ROBERTA HENDERSON (1943-
46) (Mrs. Gilbert Hill) Newell, Io­wa.
“ Busy, busy, busy,” writes
Roberta. “ Our two older child­ren
(Brian 12, in 7th graded Julia
Ann, 10 in 5th grade/ are learning
a dance combining a fling step,
and a bit of the sword dance with
arabesques and ballanades to give
the area Scotsmen, for whom they
will perform on Bobby Burns '
birthday, something new to pond­er.
Fun! Re-leaming all the cat­chy
Highlander songs brings back
many fond memoriesl, too. Brian
and Julia Ann are also work i n g
on organ Christmas music for the
church program; so I run, run,
run trying to keep the family on
schedule.” The Hills have tw o
other children, Timothy 6, in
first grade, and Lucinda who is
4. Gilbert is cashier of the First
National Bank in Newell.
R O S EMARY REID (1943 - 46)
(Mrs. John W. Leor.) 9517 Justine
Drive, Annandale, Virginia.
Mr. Leon is a private investigat­or
and lie detector consultant, and
owns and operates Allied Investi­gating
Service. They nave two
children, Christine Marie 6, and
Bruce Reid 2*4. Our ex- p i p e r
writes: “ Since we live in a suburb
of Washington D. C. we’ve been
fortunate enough to see the High­landers
when they performed
there last summer and in 1956,
on their way to Europe b o t h
times. This past summer my
daughter and I were photograph­ed
with Bill, Mrs. A., and one of
the Highlanders. If we d i dn’t
break the camera, and if anyone
has a copy of the picture, per­haps
from one of the I o w a
pipers?, would they please send
me one?"' It was nice seeing you
again, Rosemary, and we shall
check into the picture you a s k
about, however I have not seen
any copy to date. I know our pub­lic
relations representative travel­ling
with us gave the p'cture ‘0
one of the Washington newspapers
for publication.
LORRAINE MEYER (1943-47)
(Mrs. Chester H Schultz) 1006 N.
Howard, Indianola, Iowa.
This ex-drummer writes: “ It’s al­ways
a thrill to see the Highland­ers
perform! Keep up the good
work!” Chet is the engineer for
the Hubbell Realty C 0 m p a ny,
Des Moines. Lorraine cont i nues:
“ Sandra is 8, and right now she’s
one of Ellen Belle's dancers;
Jan. 3, tries, hard and wants to
! MARGARET GREEN (1943 -47)
(Mrs. Roger W. Grupp) 1220 No.
Virginia, Mason City. Iowa,
i Margaret's husband is a partner
| in the grocery business, and they
have four youngsters: Margaret
12, Billy 11, Becky 9, and Ricky
8. It has “ been a very busy year
for us, incorporating and b u ying
into the family grocery store and
adding another store to the corpor­ation.
We bought a 2 acre lot with
lots of trees in hope of building
another house someday. We have
our own orchestra i.ow co.isisting
of flute, saxaphone. drum and
violin, but we don’t seem to
have a very quiet home anymore.
We enjoy watching the Highland­ers
perform on television. Y o u
seemed to have lots more variety
this year,” concludes this former
drummer.
PAT SHORT (1944-45) (Mrs. Mi­chael
Thorniley) P. O. Box 177,
Talent, Oregon. Pat’s h u sband is
an orchardist, which is a “h i g h
class name for fruit grower",
writes Pat. "Talked to Gwen Bus-
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ter Slater last week as s h e
was filling out her High! a n der
Questionnaire. We were j u s t
winding up a trip to the Califor­nia
beach at Newport — wonder­ful
! Mollie. our 16 month o I d
daughter, chased sea gulls a n d
ate sand while Mike and I soaked
up sun. All this, after a hectic
summer of getting our inf a n t
orchard into production on Mike’s
part and canning, freezing and
pa>nting the hous ■ on mine. Sure
is 'Treat to see those t a 1 e n ted
H'"hlanders on T.V. . . . All
good wishes for a great 1961!”
CONNIE CARLSON (1944 - 48)
(M-s. Harry B. Carlson) 2613 48th
P b ce , Des Moines 10, Iowa.
H^rry is a manager in the D e s
Moines Office of Peat, Marwick,
M :‘ "hell & Company—CPA firm,
th:s ex-piper tells us, and t h e
Car'sons’ three children are Al­lan
11, Susan 8, and D o u g l a s
5. “ Nothing new in our life but
k e e ":,ig mighty busy now that
the children are all in school,”
writ^T Connie. “ Sorry the High-la
n ^ -s couldn't make a n o ther
trip to the Rose Bowl. Each time
the" were on TV nothing b u t
word- of highest praise were said.
He-” ' ijp the good work. . . . Found
ano!’-?r ‘old’ Highlander in D e s
Moir-s — Clark Shreck.” Let. us
know the address, Connie!
M / tG E R Y MCDONALD (1944-
4*i (Mrs. Chas. W. McKinley)
R. D. 2, Box 149, Brownsville, Pa.
Our year was busy with our five
cMdren and their activities. We
bad several nice long week-end
trins —the best one being Home-co,
v)ing and seeing so many old
fronds and you. Bill and Fran.
W l l see you at the Ohio State
grme in ’61.
Last September we spent a
w ^ gnd fw -Washington. D. C~5t
a ITPI meeting that was very in­teresting.
Lots of speeches, a tour
of Ih ■? French embassy and best of
all n:eeting Madame Alphand. I
envy you younger Highlanders
your trip to Paris.
Ou older girls went to camp
near Gettysburg this summer so
we i lade several side t r i p s
through that area.
We are planning to vacation in
Iowa this summer so hope to
sec some of you then. Our child­ren
are Karen Lane 11, Laura
9. I^slie 6, Margery 4 and Chuck­le
3.
JOAN CARTEK .1545-47) (Mrs.
David D. Ring) 1860 M o u n tain
View Drive, Tiburon, California.
Davd is an attorney in San Fran­cisco.
having bee> “ on his own
almost 5 years,” writes J o n .
‘ ‘Also, he. is on our element a r y
school board — a time consuming
but rewarding job. I ’m p 1 a ying
at p.;rt time ‘club woman’ — full
time Mommie. Our life has been
extremely busy this pas' y e a r
with David’s schoolboard activity,
and my volunteer clubwork. My
nursing activites have been con­fined
to measles and mumps and
‘ bandaid’ jobs, for the l i t t l e
ones. I saw Sally Quist Kamman
and husband, Bill, on their way
throvsh S. F. Also saw Highland­ers
o i TV at half-time at I owa -
Ohio State Game. With a thrill
and surge of pride to know I once
was a part of such an outstand­ing
'.roup. Keep up the wonder­ful
work! There are three little
Carters, and their former danc­er-
drummer Mommie rep o r ts :
“ Debbie is almost 8, David Jr.
is 6, Diane 44.”
GAY ZEDIKER (1945-47) (Mrs.
Willard D. Patrick) 251 H o l l y
Avenue, South., San Francisco,
California.
Pat is now with Safeway — a n d
Gay will be graduated in Janu­ary
with a secondary credent i a 1
from San Francisco State College.
“We sold our dairy in Iowa in
1959, and moved to Califom i a.
Having seen wonderful San Fran­cisco
the first time on our trip
in 1947, I was determined to live
here some day, and now my
dream has come true. I enrolled
in college to finish my work for
my A.B., and get a teaching cred­ential.
so you see I ’ve been ex­tremely
busy! I ’m doin® my stud­ent
teaching in San Mateo, and
loving every minute,” writes this
ex-drummer. The Patricks have
one son, Kim, 11.
EM EVANS (1945-47) (Mr s.
Charles A. Merulla) 3012 14th
Avenue, Marion, Iowa. This ex­piper's
husband practices medic­ine
in Marion. They have Anth­ony
8, Michael 6, and James now
2. “ We are still happy in Marion,
and I believe it is perman e n t.
Chuck is building a new office at
this moment (November) and it
should be finished by January 1,
1961. Our house is becoming a
bit small but will be home for a
while yet.” Thank you very much,
Em, for Betty Corwin Ketels e n’s
new address. We appreciate all
the help we can get on change of
address, because we want very
much to keep in touch with ALL
former Highlanders.
JANET GUTZ (1945-48) (Mrs.
John S. Way) 420 Hutchinson Ave­nue,
Iowa City, Iowa.
This ex-tenor and snare d r u m ­mer
writes a happy letter: “ This
was a banner year for the Ways!
John received his Ph.D. in August
— after seven long years. I join­ed
the ranks of the unemployed
in August, and how I love ‘fam­ily
retirement’ . Steven was born
last March and is the favorite
plaything of our entire f a m i l y .
We spent three wonderful weeks
in New England last July while I
John attended an M.I.T. seminar.
. . . Especially to you, Bill, our
hat is off! The kind of spirit and
respect you create in the High­landers
is never to be forgot­ten!”
(Again thank you, J an e t ,
for your loyalty to me and to the
Highlanders. It is deeply apprec­iated.)
The Way’s children, as
well as 9 months old Steven, are
Kathleen 84, Margaret 7, and Ben
6. “ John is on a postdoctoral fel­lowship
for this year in the De­partment
of Anatomy at SUI, and
is involved in research on t h e
nervous system,” Janet concludes.
.ALICE LOTRIDGE (1945 - 48)
(Mrs. Jim Dunley) 9 Plum t r e e
Lane, Levittown, New Jersey.
“ Found last year’s letter which I
neglected to mail. Jim returned
from a 13 month tour in Korea,
and we were in the midst of
moving east. Bill, when the boys
ask to hear some of the songs
we sang —( ’way back when you
were there. Mother’ ) I find I ’ve
forgotten the words. If you ever
put them together in a book,
leaflet, or even sheets of paper,
I ’m sure you’d have a market for
them. I ’d love to have a copy.”
Yes, Alice, we have separate cop­ies
of the songs, and will s e n d
you some of them. Jim is a
Captain, United States A r m ) ,
Infantry — in the ROTC Det. at
Temple University in Philadel­phia.
They have two sons, Edward
9, and Samuel 7.
BARBARA JEANNE HENDER­SON
(1945-48) (Mrs. Jerry Korn)
16 Gerlach Place, Larch m o n t,
New York.
“ Jerry is writing a book w i t h
Simon & Schuster, who are breath­ing
down his neck. It’s a g o o d
book about 4 men who raise a
wounded tanker and expect to
make a million dollars,” writes
this ex-tenor drummer. “ But liv­ing
with an author 'in the throes’
is far from exciting. Highland e rs
look better each time we see them
on television. Such precision! I
wouldn’t have lasted 2 weeks'”
(Well now, I don't know about
that.) Barb’s husband is Associate
Editor of LIFE MAGAZINE,
and the Korns have three daugh­ters,
Ellen Mary 10, Marg a ret
Hallam 10, and Susan Elisa 8.
SALLY ANN QUIST (1945 -49)
(Mrs. Paul William K a m man,
Jr.) 11760 S. W. Breyman, Port­land
19, Oregon.
Paul is Art Director for Bots-ford,
Constantine, and Gard n e r.
Inc., an advertising agency, and
Sally, ex-piper and d r u m mer,
writes: “We moved to PortI a n d
in March, and are certainly enjoy­ing
the beautiful scenery here in
the Pacific Northwest. We have
been on the same drive along
the Columbia River many times
that same one that we Highland­ers
took the summer of 1947 when
we played in Portland. It s e e ms
even more beautiful now than
it did then.” Their children are
Lynn 7, Trent 5, and Kathy 34.
MILDRED PE L L (1945 - 49)
(Mrs. James M. Wood) 329 Dela­ware
Avenue, McDaniel C r e st.
Wilmington 3, Delaware.
The children in the Wood’s family
are Dana, a girl, 8; Ben 5 and
Sarah 3. Jim is a teacher at the
Tower Hill School (Country day
school) and also teaches 8th grade
English; and 12th grade Religion.
Mibsy, former drummer, writes:
“We have a 4th child — but just
for the year. My 15 year old cou­sin
from California is seeing the
East and doing it over a period
of one year. He came in June
to spend two months with us in
Maine. Adding a different age to
the Family makes this year more
exciting. I have started a part
time job heading 3 classes, one
hour a week each for the Jewish
Community Center. Rather a
creative playtime — dance, crafts,
outdoor discovering, etc. All are
first and second graders a n d
are eager and alive to say the
least! Please, ‘Hello’ to all my
good friends whom I would love
to see. Thinking of you all makes
me want that wonderful f i e ld-house
dirt under my feet again.”
BOBBIE GINTER (1945 - 49)
(Mrs. Jack Huston) 356 A 1 i cia
Way, Los Altos, California. The
Hustons have two girls. Maridee
4, and Robin 2. Jack is co-owner
of the Russell-Huston Store for
Men & Young Men at 271 State
Street, Los Altos. (The other side
of this co-ownership is Bill Blaine
Russell, an ex-Highlander ten o r
drummer.) “ The children keep
me busy and the business helps
keep Jack occupied. Jack is also
very involved in civic activities
and Kiwanis.” Bobbie continues:
We are looking forward to at­tending
the Kiwanis Intemat i on-al
Convention in Toronto, J u l y
2-6, 1961, and travel thr ough
some of the northeastern states.
All of you in that area bew a r e
of free-loaders. The girls a r e
very excited about Christmas.
Just last evening Maridee. . .
was telling us that four of Santa’s
reindeers are Dancer, P r a n cer,
Blixen and Nixon! Robin is a live
wire as she doesn’t have red hair
for nothing.” (Thank you so much
for your generosity, Bobbie.)
NORMA LOU HAEGG (1945 -49)
(Mrs. Donald Pollock) 825 Olive
Street, Menlo Park, California.
The Pollocks have three children:
Sally 4, John Henry 3, and Suzan­ne
8 months. Donald is with the
Landman Utah Mining Corpora­tion.
Norma says that she has en­joyed
the stories of Highlanders in
United Airlines Magazine and
the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Also,
she enjoyed them on TV, seei n g
and hearing the Iowa - O h i o
State game. “ The Uni vers i t y
Band looked wonderful, too,” she
adds, “ it makes us transplanted
Iowans very proud.”
MARGARET McCASLIN (1945-
49) (Mrs. R. M. Hemingway) 314
3rd Avenue, N. E. Waverly, Iowa.
“ My husband is a lawyer, I ’m em­ployed
over the sink and stove. . .
Hollis, our little girl, is seven
years old. . . . Good to see you
before the first game, Bill. The
gals looked grand again at all the
home games this year. We’re
mighty proud of our football team
AND Highlanders! Never fail to
hear people sitting around us tell
proudly of girls from their home
towns who made the group. Have
a good ’61, one and all.”
K A Y KOTZBACH (1946 - 48)
(Mrs. Donad L. Risk) Independ­ence,
Iowa. “ The Highlander Cof­fee
was again a tremendous suc­cess,”
writes Kay, ex-p i p e r.
“ We were especially delighted see­ing
the McKinleys from Pennsyl­vania.
I don't think any o n e ’s
changed. We’re all getting young­e
r ! ” (Good girl! We hope_ this is
true.) Donald is in the real estate
and Insurance business, and Buch­anan
County Title and Loan Com­pany.
The Risks have two boys:
Billy 9, and John 6.
IL JOAN NISSEN (1946 - 48)
(Mrs. Robert Kriedeman) 915 Cir­cle
Drive, Wellman, Iowa.
This ex-piper’s husband is office
manager for Maplecrest Turkey
Farms. Joan says: “ I ’m always
so glad to hear news of f o r mer
Highlanders. . . . Our five little
children <Beth It), l.uAivn 7, Owfc
4, Paula I, and Scott 7 months)
really keep us busy; we should be
able to form our own Highlander
outfit! I enjoyed watching the
Highlanders on the televised gam­es
this year. Thought the ‘Donkey
Serendade' particularly good."
JEANNE PETERSON (1946-50)
(Mrs. Arnold Charlton I Primghar,
Iowa.
The Charlton girls, Kathy a n d
Lynn are three years old now.
Arnold is cashier of the Primgh­ar
Savings Bank. “ The twins are
too quiet," writes Jeanne, “ b c t
I ’ll try to ‘buy’ the time to re-aequamt
myself with years I
hold most dear. We’ve been back
in Iowa two years and are be­coming
entrenched in ,owa living.
Last summer I was a delegate to
the Republican Convention and
met the old ex-drummer herself,
Dinny Nieman. We had our own
Highlander reunion, ar.d we en­joyed
our ‘politicing’ too! I v o w
that next fall we will be at the
Highlander Coffee so that Arn i e
can meet my old friends.” (We
hope you will make it next Home­coming,
Jeanne.)
JANE WALKER (1947-48) (Mrs.
Paul Koss) 1330 Jones Street,
San Francisco, California.
Jane, a former piper, is married
to the owner of Paul Koss Supply
Company, and she writes: “ We've
been doing quite a bit of traveling
— Mexico, Hawaiian Islands, etc.,
and have plans for another trip
to the Islands over Christmas and
New Yea r ’s, and the Bahamas
this spring: with tentative p 1 a ns
to go to the Orient early this
summer. Busy being a hous e -
wife, playing golf and doing char­ity
work. Was delighted to see
a MAINLINER booklet aboard a
United Jet on a recent trip to
Iowa that featured the H i g 11-
landers.”
FRANCES AR T LE Y (1947 -49)
(Mrs. Philip Levine) 4727 E. Day­ton,
Fresno 3, California.
This ex-snare and tenor drum­mer’s
husband is a professor of
Creative Writing and Poetry in
the English Department at Fres­no
State College. Their three child­ren
are Mark 9, John 5, and Ted­dy
3. “ Found a really ter r i die
record that every Highlander (and
ex-Highlander) should own! An
album by Ewan McColl cal 1 ed
“ Songs pf Robert Bums” put out
by Folkways Records, No. FW
8758. If I ’m not misiaken. McColl
has other records of Scotch Bal­lads,
but I don't know recording
companies or numbers of them. . .
Saw the Highlanders on TV at the
Iowa-Ohio State Game, and good
to see you once in a while.”
(Thank you, Franny, for your
letter, too.)
PATRICIA HODGEN (1947 -49)
(Mrs. Jay R. Storey) 722 W. 12th
Street S., Newton, Iowa.
The Hodgens have two children,
Douglas, who is almost 7, a n d
Barbara (Bobbi) 4. Jay is with
the Maytag Company and is Man­ager
of Salary Administration.
VIRGINIA WHEELER (1947-49)
(Mrs. James W. Spellman) 1306
Stephens Drive, Normal, Illinois.
Virginia was one of our p i pers,
and has been such a fine, loyal
Alum. Her husband is an actuary
at State Farm Life Insur a n ce
Company, Bloomington, Illino is.
The Spellmans have three child­ren.
Barbara is now 11, Jimmy
10, and Mark David 7. V i rginia
writes: “ Seems that most of our
‘news’ consists of trips — to Col­orado
in June where Jim attend­ed
a special 2 weeks course for
executives in Boulder, and where
T spent one very enjoyable week
with ex-Highlander Mary R a e
Reimers Christofferson in Denver.
Took the kids on their first long
trip East (when it was blaz i n g
hot) saw Mammouth Cave, the
Smokies, Natural Bridge, W i 1-
liamsburg, Washington, D.C., At­lantic
City, and Wilmington, Del.
where we spent a few days with
my brother, ex-Highlander Norris
J. Wheeler. In September, Jim
and I flew to Toronto, Canada,
where he received his L.O.M.A.
(Life Office Management Associa­tion
i degree. And, finally, back to
Iowa City for Homecoming. . . We
took Jimmy with us to the game
and be was so thrilled. First big
football game he had seen, and
he really enjoyed watching ‘Moth­er
’s Highlanders” . . . . “ The child­ren
are active in and out of
school with Barbie a class officer,
in 4-H Club, choir, and t a k i n g
piano and clarinet. Jimmy play­ed
baseball this summer a n d
football this fall (their t e a m
won the trophy), Cub Scouts, choir
piano and cornet lessons. a n d
Dave with choir and piano. He's
the only one who really enj o y s
practicing, but then he enjoys
studying, too. Jim is, or seems to
be, always at the church s i n ce
he is on the session and a l s o
Sunday School Superintende nt,
which is a big job with a church
enrollment of 2400. Of c o u rse,
right now, every spare mom e n t
is spent hunting. And I keep busy
carting kids, when I ’m not active
with my own organizations. , . .
Wish you all the best.”
JUNE SCHMIDT (1947-50) (Mrs.
Bob Roth) 5409 North Arrow
Drive, Peoria, Illinois. T^ie Roths
have three boys ages 84 David;
Dan who is 6, and Ted 34. Bob is
with the Caterpillar Tractor Com­pany
as Internal Auditor, and this
ex-drummer adds: ‘‘You l ooked
wonderful on T. V. this fall.’’
Thanks, June.
1960 HIGHLANDER CHRISTMAS LETTER Pag'e Three
B. J. Miller (1947-50) (Mrs. Ro­bert
Penrose) 2604 Amelia, Bur­lington,
Iowa.
B. J., a drummer and dancer,
writes: "Same Song, fifth verse.
We are still in Burlington. I ’m
still teaching first grade and really
have no big news for 1960. We
have enjoyed seeing the Highland­ers
so much at the Iowa h o m e
games!”
MARILYN ANDERSON (1947-
50) (Mrs. Gerald W. E v a n s )
2921 3lst Street, Rock Isl and,
Illinois.
Marilyn was one of our pipers.
Her husband is a Manufacturers’
Representative. They have three
daughters: Nancy 5, El i zabeth
24, and Sarah 9 months.
MARJORIE CAMPBELL (1947-
50) (Mrs. Walter Larson) 1616
Crestwood Circle, Ames, I o w a
Majorie's husband is a pediatric­ian
at the McFarland Clinic in
Ames. They have two children:
Deborah Jo 8, and David Camp­bell
almost 4. “ We’re begin n ing
our 3rd year in Ames.” writes this
ex-piper. “ Debbie is in 2nd grade,
and so eager to do things. She's
in 4th year dancing, begin n i n g
piano and takes conversat i o nal
Spanish ( ‘for fun’ , she says). Dav­id
was rather late being baptiz­ed
— we just did that last Sunday
(he was 3 4 ). All of you with 34
year old boys know that I ap­proached
the day with a few mis­givings.
However, he was wonder
ful — didn’t say a word, but ]
must confess the reason. T h e y
wanted pictures of the seven coup­les
before church — so David
had a rehearsal: And the rehear­sal
took care of the questions —
David peered into the tureen and
informed the minister: “ Y o u're
getting a little low on w a te r !!!”
After it was over, (with many in
VY>e rtmrch VVien' Vie asVe<J
‘ "But where is the Holy Ghost?"
and as we walked up a now filled
church (to prepare for the real
thing), he announced in his own
loud inimitable way, ‘I ’ve done
i t ! ’ I ‘v e never been so glad to
have my picture taken before!
Walt is busy taking care of his
patients, and I ’m busy, too. Have
cut out a few things, so I c a n
stay home with my family — but
am still busy. Go to P.E.O. meet­ings,
was quite busy with t h p
Republican Party this fall, had
charge of the Blank H o s p i t a l
(Des Moines) Drive in Ames last
spring and am on the A m e s
Council of PTA. I ’m treasurer of
the Mortar Board Alums (it’s a
breeze, this office, because we
never have any money!) Also
I ’m on a couple of boards for
the 11]etas (but this just sounds
like something. . . . we m e e t
only once or twice a year.) I ad­ore
clubs oi*' groups like that. The
most exciting thing in which I ’ve
participated was being in t h e
cast of the musical ‘The B o y
Friend’ . Four of us were t h e
song-and-dance girls. (When I
tried out, I thought it was just
song). This was produced by ac­tors,
the Little Theatre C o mmun-ity
Playhouse in Ames. It w a s
fun — but for weeks I d i dn’t
know the ‘shimmy’ from the ‘knee
cross’ — almost. However, 8
weeks, 24 rehearsals, and 10
pounds (lighter) later, there I
was on stage saying a few ridicu­lous
lines and doing every Charles­ton
step that three choreograph­ers,
two directors, one musical
supervisor and Meridee Hill Hegs-trom
(now she was good! —luck­ily,
she danced two girls away
from me.) had managed to work
into six numbers. The whole thing
was rather frantic — but we had
sellout crowds. . . . Many a time
I had wished we were d o i n g
something familiar like ‘Brig a-
Jeanne Hughes, Highlander, went on 1960 Foreign Tour. Two unknowns!
doon’ but then probably the wo­men
didn’t do the “ fling’ in ‘Brig-adoon,’
either. You know, the
Fling is hard to ‘work into’ an
ordinary housewife’s routine —
but it is an individual d a n c e
step I know!!” Thank you Mar­jorie,
for the very interesting let­ter.
JEAN SAHS (1947-51) (Mr s.
Richard E. Tupper) 145 M a p l e
Hill Road, Huntington, L. I., New
York.
Jean, our ex-piper, says: “ D u r ­ing
the holiday season Dick is be­tween
jobs with The Maytag Com­pany.
We will be spending t h e
holiday here in Newton but t h e
first week in January we will be
moving to Huntington, L. I., N.
York. Dick will be Sales Manag­er
for The Maytag New York
Company. We are so very anxious
to know of the Highlanders living
in the New York area. We’re real­ly
going to miss those wonderf u 1
performances at all the football
games.” We wiU miss you, too.
Jean. L e t’s keep in touch, and we
hope you can find some N. Y.
Highlanders from this letter: if
ever you need any help in add­resses,
and we can locate a n y ­one
for you, don’t fail to write our
office about it. Good luck in the
East! By the way, the Tuppers
have a little son, Jeff, now 20
months old.
ELOISE PETERSON (1948 -51)
(Mrs. Lincoln M. Furber) 977
Pine Street. Burlington, Vermont.
Link is a TV and Radio Reporter
on WCAX-TV in Burlington, Va.
His show begins at 11:00 p.m..
but he does all the writing, edit­ing,
and the film work necessary
for his show as well, Eloise tells
us. This ex-piper continues: “ We
have had great fun travelling in
Canada as well as weekend trips
to New York City and Boston. I
have almost given up trying to
get out to Iowa for a f o o tball
game. My husband is a great fan
— he clipped the picture of a
few of the Highlanders on their
way to Europe from the ' n e w s
machine and pinned it up in our
kitchen. I was in Iowa for a
month this summer and I had a
wonderful lunch with Mari 1 y n
(Collison). It has been a l o n g
time since I ’ve seen anyone from
Iowa U. I saw the new addition
to the Union and I was amazed.
I t ’s beautiful. . . '. Keep up the
good work, Bill.”
WANDA KRABBENHOFT (1948-
52) (Mrs. Paul Brechler) 2940
E. Bates Avenue, Denver 10, Colo­rado.
Wanda writes that Denver is a
very enjoyable place to be —“ to
two ‘corn-fed’ Iowans since our
move here in August.” She adds:
“We have found the d im a t e
wonderful and the people v e r y
friendly and helpful. Just recent­ly
we experienced our first hock­ey
game. This sport is one oi
the leaders in Denver. I ’m cer­tain
we’ll enjoy it more when
we’ve learned the rules and regu­lations.
I'm anxiously await i n g
the Highlander Christmas Letter
to learn if any old Highland e r s
of my vintage are in the Denver
area. I thought the group locked
good during their TV performance
at the Iowa-Ohio State G am e ."
This ex-piper's husband i6 C o m ­missioner
of the Mountain States
Athletic Conference, (and Ex-Ath­letic
Director at SUI) “ This in­volves
the athletic policies of
eight universities in this area.”
Wanda adds, and “ due to t h e
shortage of secretarial help, I ’m
assisting in the office.”
JOAN DURR (1949 - 51) (Mrs.
Robert E. Fulton) 1708 Jer s e y
Ridge Road, Davenport, I o wa.
Bob is a sales representative for
Crucible Steel Company of Amer­ica.
The children are L i n da 7,
and Bobby 5. This former piper
and dancer writes: “ Our young­est
is now in school half days
and I hardly know what to do
with the free time. We attended
all the home games this year and
the N.W. game and Minnes o t a
games away. Saw a few o 1 d
friends at the Edgewater Beach
Hotel after the N.W. game. You
threw me a curve early this fall,
Bill, in recommending that I
teach the pipes to the two Mary-crest
and Ambrose students put­ting
on ‘Bridgadoon’ . I had to do
some quick brushing up (it’s sur­prising
how fast we forget), but
we managed to struggle through
it and in one short month they
had pretty well mastered t h e
three passages. Bob and I went
to the performance and thought
it was well done. I had the o n e
set erf pipes at home for a couple
of days so I took them to show
Linda’s first grade class. Most of
them had never seen bagp i p e s
before and were quite fascinated.
Thanks, Bill, for the chance to
renew my piping for a brief time
Good luck. . . . and best wishes to
all old friends.”
SHARON BROWN (1949 - 52)
(Mrs. Chuck Toland) 451 Grand
Avenue, Iowa City, Iowa.
I am employed in the Nurs i n g
Service Office as part - time sec­retary.
Chuck is a senior in the
College of Medicine,” writes Shar
on. “ This will be our last year
in Iowa City, as Chuck finishes in
June." The Tolands have three
youngsters: Constance 6, Ca r y
4, Kent 2.
MARJORIE BRICKNER (1949-
52) (Mrs. Charles L. John son)
4237 Edison Street, Dayton 17, Oh­io.
Chuck is a Speech Terap i s t
at the Veteran’s Administrat i o n
Center in Dayton, and the John­sons
have two sons: Randy 5, and
Brick 6. “We had an event f u 1
summer,” adds Majorie. “We
moved in June and are now fin­ishing
our upstairs as a room for
the boys. Chuck was in an automo­bile
accident in August which put
him in the hospital for a couple of
days and demolished our car. With
both boys in school I want to get
a teaching certificate soon. Chuck
will be teaching a speech course
at U.D. next semester.”
MARY SAHS (1949-53) (Mrs.
Howard King) 5621 Parker, India­napolis
20, Indiana.
This former bagpiper says that
they have moved into their first
new home and love it. “ I ’m plan­ning
on settling down to being just
a housewife,” writes Mary. “We
are eagerly looking forward to
March when our first addition to
the family is expected. Howard
and his father own a boat bus­iness
—‘King Marine^ I am still
working at the V.A. Hospital as an
Occupational Therapist in th e
psychiatric unit.”
^BARBARA WICK (1949 - 53)
(Mrs. Jay C. Timmerman) 369
Lexington Ave., Youngstown. Oh­io.
Jay is an intern at St. Eliza­beth
Hospital, writes Barbara, ex­drummer,
and the Timmerm a ns
have two little girls: Barbie 3,
and Betsy one year.
BEVERLY BARTELS (1949-53)
(Mrs. James Treneman) 906 S.
First Street, McMinnville, Oregon.
Ex-piper, Beverly, says that she
saw the Highlanders on TV, and
“ they looked fine. That’s about
as close as we’ll get for a while
so I was thrilled to pieces. We
like the West very much and all
it has to offer. We see a few old
faces occasionally and so its not
too far from home. Oregon is a
lovely state and full of fine people,
as we have discovered. My nus-band
is a physician in general
practice.” The Trenemans’ have
three girls: Ann 4 4, Nancy 3, and
Joan, one year.
JANIE WOODBURN (1949 -53)
(Mrs. Marvin Moles) 406 E. 13th
Street N., Newton, Iowar- " -
Janie, piper, has two children:
David Eugene 3 4. and D i a ne
Elizabeth 14. “My husband is a
physician in general practice, as­sociated
with the Newton Clinic.”
says Janie. “We have spent this
year planning our new home .
By next June our address should
be 1007 South 13th Avenue WTest.
We did spend two weeks at a re­sort
near Aitkin. Minnesota, last
summer. Recreational directors,
children, and adult sports, s w im-ming,
etc., plus dinner at t h e
lodge and daily maid service. . .
I decided that that is the way to
take a vacation!!!”
Rice.
Marge MacDonald McKinley, Bill Adam- son, Laura Dempster Rice, Fran Adamson, A1
MICKIE McMULLEN (1949-53)
(Mrs. Edward F. Diekmann) 1424
Everett, El Cerrito, Califom i a.
Mickie’s husband is a Civil Engin­eer
with Wm. B. Gilbert & Assoc­iates,
being one of the 4 princip­les
in the firm. This ex-bass drum­mer
says; “We bought a h u - k
of ground in the hills with a panor­amic
view of the Bay of S a n
Francisco. So far there are o n l y
weeds, but someday!!! I see ex-
Hiehlander Jan Bridges Halbach
and her husband and kiddies quite
often. It’s very nice to have an
old friend in the area. This year
has simply flown by and much has
happened to us. . . .My mother
who has been in Dubuque since
Dad’s death finally broke h e r
Iowa ties, moved to Califom i a
and bought a little home. Ed is
very active in Junior Chamber of
Commerce and did some lectur­ing
for the American Institute of
Architects. Our family will in­crease
again in March —a boy
this time we hope.” The Diek-manns
have two little girls: Deb­bie
4 4 , and Cathie 20 months.
ROSEMARY TALBOTT (1950-
51) (Mrs. Glen F. Stover) 2615
Everett Street, Lincoln 10, Neb­raska.
Page Four HIGHLANDER CHRISTMAS LETTER 1960
" I have moved around so
much since graduation,” writes
Rosemary, “ tha' Highlander let­ters
are always late catching up
with me. Going on the assumption
that contributions from old mem­bers
are still welcome, though, I
am enclosing a check which will
help cover the years I m i s s e d
answering.” (We thank you m o st
heartily for your generousness,
Rosemary.) She c o n t i n u e s :
“ I can’t begin to tell you ho w
proud I am to have once been a
member of your wonderful Scott­ish
Highlanders; and am so
pleased with the marvellous ap­pearances,
they have made in so
many places. . . . I married Glen
1 Smokey) Stover, also an I o w a
grad, shortly after graduation
in 1951 and we now have three
school-age daughters and live in
Lincoln, Nebraska. I would love to
receive a copy of your an n ual
Christmas Highlander Letter if it
is still being put out.” (Thanks
a million for writing, so that we
can bring the Talbott file up-to-date
now!)
VIONNE LONGSTRETH (1950-
52) (Mrs. Albion J. Young) Well­man,
Iowa.
A1 is an attorney in W e Um a n,
and Vionne had taugh* music for
several years in the schools until
their Robert Jay was bom thirt­een
months ago. “ I ’m busier with
one child than others are with
fiv e !” writes this ex-d r u m mer.
'It was good to hear from you,
after quite some time, Vionne.)
B A R B A R A Cl A R K (1950-52)
■ Mrs. Robert R. Jowett) 448 South
Warwick, Westmont, Illinois.
Barbara’s husband is with Joseph
r. Ryerson & Son, Inc., Chicago I
iO, Illinois. This ex-piper has two j
children: Susi 6, and B o b b y 4. j
‘Every-day living is keeping us !
yery happy and busy. Susan en-erea
urst grade' this year and
las started ballet lessons. I am
ioing substitute teaching again
ind love it,” writes Barb. “ Ex-
Rghlander Sandy Sechler Bart-
>es is a near neighbor — so I do
;et to see her often. We spent
hree weeks in August in Orlan-k>,
Florida. The children fell in !
ove with the ocean, so did their
parents. Bob and I are still play-jig
as much bridge as possible.
. . Certainly enjoy watch i n g
your lovely lassies!”
JOAN DUNLOP (1950-52) (Mrs.
David L. Dun) 3114 T h o m a s ,
Midland, Texas.
"My husband is a geologist (o i 1
and gas division) for J. H. Huber
Corporation,” writes Joan, ex-pip­er.
‘ ‘We wish we could get back
to Iowa for a football game some­time
— maybe next year. We did
enjoy seeing the one game with
the Highlanders on TV this fall.
We really miss Iowa and t h e
midwest after being in West Tex­as
for 2 years.” The Dunns have
a son, Michael David, 5 m 9 n ths
old.
BARBARA BEALS (1950-52)
(Mrs. Donald Moulin) 75 Mt. Tib-uron
Road, Tiburon, C a l i fomia.
"Lots of things have happened
this past year,” writes ex-p i per
Barbara, whose husband is an ac­count
an. with Peat, Marwick, Mit-chelle
& Co., in San F r a n cisco.
"We have a new home and a new
little girl, Lauren Elizabeth bom
September 18th. 'I^eslie is 2%).
Saw you on TV for the Iowa-Ohio
State game and you look better
each year. Saw ex-Highlander Jan
Bridges Halbach and her hus ­band
this summer. Ed Halbach
teaches law at University of Cali­fornia.
I was home in February
but I ’m afraid bad weather kept
Leslie and me at home most of
the time. Will take sunny Califor­nia
to ihe Iowa snow!”
NANCY SWEITZER (1950 -52)
(Mrs. Robert M. Gunn) 1140 Pratt
Blvd.. Chicago 26, Illinois.
Bob is a lawyer with the firm of
MacLeish, Spray. Price and Und­erwood
and specializes in corpor­ate
tax problems. There are two
Gunn children: Phoebe Ann 2%
and Alan Montgomery 1%. ‘ ‘Life
in the b-'g city has been p e r king
right along,” says Nancy, ex-pip­er.”
Through the year we have
managed to see a few plays, an
opera, etc. I spend very little time
twiddling my thumbs at home: I
always say one of the n i cest
things about having two energetic
toddlers is that I like getting up
in the morning. . . . each day I
think. ‘Ah, today I 'll get my
work done.’ We live onlv half a
block from a big. beautiful beach.
Last summer my fellow b e a ch-combers
nominated me "Martyr
of the Year’ . Bob went to Nassau
and Bermuda on business. At
least he said it was business! He
al«o has joumeved to Canada
and the coasts quite frequent 1 v.
However, the babies and I did
have a oleasant trip to Washing­ton.
D. C. where Bob’s parents
live. . . . Do call when you are
in Chicago.”
BARBARA BURDICK (1950-52)
(Mrs. John Evans) 5151. Eden-shire,
Memohis Y*. Tennessee.
Barb reports: "John finished in­ternal
medicine residency at SUI
in June. 1959. Came here to Univ.
of Tenn. Medical Center on. a re­search
fellowship in cardiology at
that time. In .Tune. 1961. will be
returning to SUI hofDitals where
he will be an Ass’t Professor In
Department of Internal Medicine.
We are enjoying the southern cli­mate
and hospitality but after see­ing
the Finlanders and Hawks
on TV with Ohio State footb a 11
same reallv made me homes '1 cV
for Iowa City. John has had more
free time than usual so have tak­en
several sight-seeing t r i p s !
around the South with the child-1
ren ( Steven 3. and Lori 15 months)
and all are becoming real fisher­men.
I find housekeeoing great
fun in this suburban living. Lori
has gotten to be a pretty g o o d
drummer so will send her around
in 1978! Since we’ll be permanent
residents of Iowa City in 1961,
will be looking forward to seeing
you all soon. Keep up the good
work.” It will be fine to welcome
the Evans’ back to Iowa City.
OZZIE CARI-SON <1950 - 53)
(Mrs. John Barton) 4228 L i n den
Hills Blvd., Minneapolis 10, Minn­esota.
The Bartons have three children:
Curtis 5, Elise 3%, and Carol 1.
The Doctor enjoys his orthodon­tics
practice as much as ever.
Ozzie says, and "we enjoyed the
Highlander Homecoming Coff e e
so much this year, . . . I think
someone told me that ex-H i g h-lander
Helen Roseberry and hus­band
are now in Des Moines and
have 2 boys and a girl. Does any­one
know where ex-Highl a nder
Gwen Scales and spouse are locat­ed?
Haven’t heard from her in
years.” The last time we had
word from Gwen die was living
in Iowa City. That was in 1955.
The parents’ address is 302 M e 1-
rose Avenue, Iowa City, and we’ve
sent Questionnaires there to be
forwarded. Let us kow if you
hear from Gwen, Ozzie.
MARY LEINFELDER (1950-53)
(Mrs. Edward E. Byrnes) 3519
Rexford Drive, South Bend 15,
Indiana. The Byrnes’ have three
children: Steven 4, Janet IV2, and
Eric 7 months. Mary’s husb a n d
is Chief Engineer with White­hall
Laboratories, in Elkhart, Ind­iana,
and has charge of engineer­ing
all new developments in
Whitehall plants and warehuoses
in the U. S. and Canada.
“We managed to keep the moving
vans away this year after 5 mov­es
in six years,” writes Mary.
“ We acquired a new son l a s t
April much to our pride. E v e n
that ‘last rank’ of drummers was
up with the rest. Things surely
have changed! Next year p u l l
a 'g o o f just for the poor 01 d
Alums!”
SANDRA SECHLER (1950 -53)
tMrs. Kent M. Bartges) 22 E.
60th Street, Westmont, I I 1 i n o is.
“ I certainly enjoy the letter each
year, and the little glimpses into
the lives of old schoolmates. Like
many others,” continues Sandy,
“ I have only my family to write
about this year. . . . and it is
growing. Ellyn Louise was bom
late in January of 1960. Just to
make sure that my days wouldn’t
be dull, Kurt got a German shep­herd
pup in March and he is al­ready
as large as a colt. We are
now getting ready to go to Pa.
for the holidays, and are looking
forward to Christmas with our
families.’ ’ Kentis a Physical Ther­apist
in Chicago, and their older
child, little son Kurt, is 3 h years
old now.
MARGE ANNE MARTIN (1950-
54) (Mrs. Benjamin J. R u e hi)
232 W. 36th, Spokane 43, Washing­ton.
The Ruehls have two child­ren:
Debbie Anne 4, and K i r k
Martin 3 months. "Our big news
this year is the birth of our baby
boy early in September,” adds
this ex-piper. " I enjoyed watching
your performance during t h e
Ohio State Game. My but it
does bring back many wonderf u 1
memories!” We're surely glad of
that. Marge.
MARCIA RAFFENSPF.RGER
(1950-54) (Mrs. Robert Schellea-berg)
215 S. 48th St., Oma h a .
Nebraska. This former bass and
snare drummer reports that she
and her husband are employed as
teachers: Bob is in Central High,
and she is in Monroe J u n i o r
High. “ Last year’ s letter got lost
on top of our desk — I know this
never happens to anyone else —
but this year I rescued it,” con­tinues
Marcia. “ My husband is
slowly narrowing the gap in his
quest for his M. S. in H i story.
This time next year should do
it. Played golf this past summer
with ex-Highlander Sally Finkbine.
Sal says she just plays for laughs.
I didn’t think it too funny when
she beat me.”
VERNA JEAN WEEMS (1951-
53) (Mrs. Edward E. Schmiedel)
713 7th Avenue, Charles Ci t y ,
Iowa. Dr. Schmiedel is practicing
medicine in partnership with Dr.
W. P. Pelz in Charles Ci t y .
They have two children: Barbara
Jean 6, and E. Andrew Weems, 3.
“We are busy just living it
seems,” writes ex-dancer - piper,
"Outside the home I'm b u s y
with Nursery School Board, PEO,
and Church activities. We always
come for 2 football games and
enjoy the Highlanders — especial­ly
the new dance that has been
added. Ed and I did vacation in
Canada. Learned to land some
large fish.”
A L E D A LEE LUNDQU I ST
(1951-53) (Mrs. Arlyn M. Moeller)
2100 N. Brentwood, Essex v i 11 e,
Michigan. Lee, ex-drummer and
piper, writes that her husband is a
practicing physician in Essexville,
and she is a homemaker and busy
mother. “ Two big newr i t e ms
from the Moellers this year —
first, the birth of Lisa Aim (6
months now), and second, my
husband’s new partner, Dr. A1
Moore. He came last A u g u st
and life is so much more enjoy­able
with a few evenings a n d
weekends to call halfway — o u r
own. As to the other members of
the family — Mark 5, st a r ted
kindergarten in September and
loves it, and Laurie 4, is n o w
taking ballet lessons.” (Tliank you
for your generousness, Lee).
MARY HAUER (1951-54) (M r s.
James G. Milani) 712 D r a k e
Avenue, Centerville, Iowa.
Mary's husband is County Attor­ney
of Appanoose County, and
Mary taught kindergarten until
the arrival of their son, Gregory
George, who is now 11 months.
Ex-Piper adds: “ Jim is beginning
his second term as County Attor­ney.
What little time we have to­gether
is spent marvelling — as
typical parents — at our wonder­ful.
. . . son. Occasionally, trips
to Iowa City never fail to bring a
little nostalgaia to both of us, es­pecially
upon seeing the Highland­ers
perform. I still am hearing
the question: ‘Were you a H i g In­lander?!!,
followed by, ‘Did you
go to Europe?’ And I ’m forever
grateful that once - in- a-life-time
experience, a European trip
with 60 girls, and Bill. . . Would
love to have any of you stop if
you’re ever near Centerville.”
JANE ANN WALKER (1951-54)
(Mrs. Samuel O. Christensen)
141 Easton Avenue, Waterloo, Io­wa.
“ My husband is a children’s
dentist and is associated with Dr.
Glenn C. Miller and Dr. Deward
D. Felcher,” writes this ex-piper.
"Saw the Highlanders at all the
home games and thought they
looked wonderful. I think the
dancers are excellent and I en­joyed
the new dances. I feel more
proud to be a past member of
the group more each year'.” There
I are three sons: John 5, Jim 3h,
ano Tom 10 months.
swimmer. He jumps off the deep
end and easily swims the length
of a 25 yard pool. As us ua l ,
the highlight of our year was the
two week canoe camping t r i p
into Canada. This time we had an
extra lesson in Survival thrown
in. A bear raided our camp and
ate all our eggs, bacon, crisco,
lunch meat, cheese, bread, sugar
and dried fruit. But the fishing
was good and we found a g o 0 d
roll of aluminum foil at another
camp site so we did p r e t t y
well.”
DONNA HAMERSLY (1951 -55)
(Mrs. C. Jimmie Carlson) 3500
East 42nd Street, Minneapolis 6,
Minnesota.
This ex-piper writes: “What a
fabulous year for the Carls o n s.
Jim was graduated from t h e
University of Minnesota Coll e g e
of Engineering in June and is
employed by a construction com­pany
in St. Louis Park — suburb
of Minneapolis — the T. E. Ibber-son
Co. Thus, we are happy to be
able to stayin beautiful Minne­sota.
Secondly, I retired from
Pillsbury, after 5 years, in Sept­ember.
And by far the m o s t
wonderful event was the birth of
out 10% pound son, Curtis James,
on October 15. We hope 1960 has
been as good to all of you as it
has been to us.”
JANICE M EYE R (1952 - 54)
(Mrs. Donald Waldron) 1213 N.
Shore Drive, Clear Lake, Iowa.
Ex-drummer Janice's life h a s
changed since she and family are
back in the United States: “ Had
a marvelous 3 years in L e o n ,
France. Returned home in Octo­ber
and just missed the Coffee.
Certainly enjoyed seeing you, Bill,
aiid Fran. Of all people to bump
into in Paris on the Rue de la
Paix.” Yes, it is a ‘small world’ ,
isr’ t it, to coin ! a trile p ^ T s s t .
JOYCE O’CONNOR (1951 - 54)
(Mrs. Richard Hingtgen) 3035
15th Avenue, Marion, Iowa.
“ I certainly want to comment on
the 1960 Highlander reunion at
Homecoming. Bill and Fran were
there eager to see old friends —
old friends of old friends were
there — the company and crump­ets
were certainly enjoyable and
enjoyed by all,” says this ex­drummer.
Dr. Hingtgen is a den­tist
in Marion. They have tw o
sons: Todd 2, and Peter 7 months.
SALLY SACKETT (1951 - 54)
(Mrs. Harry A. Eick) 916 C 0 1-
lingwood Drive, East Lan s ing ,
Michigan.
Harry is an Assistant Professor of
Chemistry at Michigan State Uni­versity,
and the Eick’s children
are- Carol 5, John 4, Stephen 3,
and Timothy l 1* . “ Spent a very
enjoyable summer at Argonne Na­tional
Laboratory —SW of C h i c-ago-,”
writes ex-piper S a l l y .
“We lived in the Guest Housing
right on the lab site — motel-like
buildings in a lovely wooded set­ting,
and spent most of our time
at the Argonne Club Park —where
I was astonished to run into ex-
Highlander Sandy Sechler. We are
very happy at Michigan State.
You ‘Hawks’ better look out be-c;
use next time we won’t fumble
away the ballgame in the l a s t
two minutes!” (Sally has been
at MSU too long.)
RUTH ASHTON (1951-55) (Mrs.
Ron Johnson) 2503 Fairmont,
Davenport, Iowa.
Ron is manager of the Sears Aut­omotive
Department in Moline, Ill­inois.
This ex-drummer's s o n s
are Mike 4%, and Andy 2. Ruth
adds: “ Mike is becoming quit® a
Janice continues: “ I'm si o wJy
getting used to all this h u stle
and bustle but sometimes miss
the peacefulness of France. We're
civilians now and Don likes being
a civilian. He is working at the
Mason City Hatchery. . . . I enjoy
the Highlander Letter more each
y ea r!” Their children are S c o t t
5, Craig 3, Todd 2, Brian is 6
months. (In explanation of the
above, let me add, that Fran and
I and a few of the girls were,
sitting at an outside table in Par­is,
Rue de la Paix, to be exact,
when a young lady approac h ed
us obviously an American, and
?sked me if I remembered her.
ohe looked very familiar and it
suddenly dawned on me it was
Janice Meyer! I persuaded her
to return to the dormitory with
us where she met and chatted
with Highlanders from her part
of Iowa. We all had a. wonderful
visit together that July day in
Paris — to think we would meet
while on the Foreign Tour l a s t
summer — I agree, Janice, it IS
a small w o rld !!! Glad to know
you are back in Iowa.)
B AH A MACKEY (1952-55) Mrs.
Tom Glazier) 1921 Daytona
Drive, Peoria, Illinois.
Baila’s husband, SUI Class of
’54, is an accountant in the For­eign
Trade Department of Cater­pillar
Tractor Company. B a i 1 a,
ex-piper, does some subst i tute
teaching. “ Timmy is almost a
year and a half now and is really
lots of fun. This year we are try­ing
to decide whether to put the
tree in the playpen or hang it
from the ceiling. He plays games,
is beginning to talk and can even
whistle a little. He loves music
and moves his fingers as if he
were playing the piano. Tom and
I took a wonderful vacation trip
to Florida last falL Timmy had
1960 HIGHLANDER CHRISTMAS LETTER Page Five
a grand time at his grandparents
while we were gone. We didn’t
get to Iowa City to see a game
this year but hope to n e x t
season. I thought the Highlanders
looked good on T.V. It’s been nice
visiting with you all through this
Highlander Christmas Letter.”
MARYDALE MERRILL (1952-
55) <Mrs. Norman F. D e s s el)
810 7th Avenue, Coralville, I o w a
City, la. Our ex-piper and Drum
Major, Marydale, has sent us a
very complete, and interesting
newsletter, parts of which are
quoted from below:
‘ ■June was really the highlight of
our year. Norm was selected to
teach College Physics for the sum­mer
National Science Foundat ion
Institute for outstanding h i g h
school students, and he e n j o yed
it very much. On June 27th Dia-ni.
celebrated her 3rd birthd a y,
with her first real birthday party
. . . Two days later, June 29,
we celebrated another birthday —
the real thing! Dirk Norman was
born at University Hospital. He
of course, caused a big change
in our lives, but we couldn’t be
more pleased —although every so
often Diana thinks maybe we
should take him back to the hos­pital!
Dirk has been a good baby
right from the start. Just eats
sleeps and grows (mostly). . . . In
August Norm went on a short
fishing trip to Northern Minneso­ta,
then was off to Maxwell AFB
in Alabama for an Air F o r c e
Instructors Training Scfiool. H i
description of the weather during
those 2 weeks unfortunately had
tu be censored! Diana. D i r k
Freckles (the 10 months o l d
beagle puppy, who replaced Sch-ultzie)
and I spent the time more
comfortably visiting Grandparents
Merrill and Dessel in Ida Grove
'K'yftv SejUcnibw, came the
ginning of another school year.
Norm wasn’t our only student.
Diana started to Pre-school. She
goes 3 mornings a week and loves
it. Norm moans that he thought
surely he’d be finished w i t h
school before his children start­ed:
He’s still plugging a w a y
tl.ough, teaching physics at U.
High, doing half time statistic a 1
analysis, teaching A F Reserves
and working hard on his disserta­tion:
‘A Proposed Revision of the
Biology Course at Davenport High
School’ . We rejoiced grea 11 y
when he passed his comps and
orals, another hurdle out of the
way. He hopes to get his degree
next June or August, but we
don’t have any idea yet where
we’ll be next year.” Marydale was
senior author of a research ar­ticle
in the September issue of
the American Dietetic Association
Journal entitled: “ Bacteria in
Electronically Cooked Food” . She
said it describes a project s h e
helped carry out in 1959 while a
research assistant in H o m e
Economics at SUI.” Guess that
brings you up to date on t h e
Dessels in 1960!”
Indiana. . . (Martha, the only
address we have now in Indiana
for Joyce is c-o Philip E. Palmer,
4426 Beaver Ave., Fort Wayne 6,
Indiana, however, we've not heard
from her since 1956. She is Mrs.
Edward J. Sitz according to rec­ords.)
Marty continues: "We are
expecting our fourth child in
May. Christine is 2V* and John is
4, and David is 1. So it looks like
a prosperous 1961 ahead for the
Fowlers. . . .”
JAN PAPKE (1952-55) (Mr s .
John Landess) 314 South Johnson
Street, Iowa City, Iowa.
" I am secretary in the Dep a r t-ment
of Physiology here at
SUI. John is a junior law stud
ent,” writes ex-piper Jan. “ This
past year flew by, it doesn’t seem
possible John will be through Law
School in another year and a half.
I miss seeing ex-Highlander Gin
ger Hunt this fall. She's teaching
at Oberlin this year. She stopped
by to see us when she came to
Iowa City for the Ohio S t a t e
Game and she seems very happy
with her new job. . . . I ’m sure
the Newsletter will provide lots
ot other news. Thanks so much,
Bill, for getting it out for us.”
MARTHA PORTER (1952 - 55)
(Mrs. John W. Fowler) 733 South
Cook, Barrington, Illinois.
Martha’ s husband is with Contin­ental
Illinois National Bank &
Trust Company, and is transferr­ing
from the Bond Department to
the Commercial Department. This
bass drummer reports: "We had
a very happy year. Attended two
Iowa games, Northwestern and
Icwa Homecoming, both of which
we saw the Highlanders perform
beautifully, and also several old
school friends. Enjoyed the reun­ion
Coffee so much. Ran into ex-
Highlander Joyce P a l m e r
(married) at O’Hare Airport one
day. She didn’t know about the
Highlander Letter. She's living in
VIRGINIA MILNES (1952 - 55)
(Mrs. Phillip J. Crumley) 16735
32nd Avenue N. E., Seattle 55,
Washington.
Virginia writes that “ the nomad­ic
Crumleys have been on t h e
march again. In the last f o u r
years, our ‘permanent’ addr e s s
has jumped from Iowa to France,
to Iowa and now to Wash i n gton.
Since we currently seem to be on
the move westward, I half expect
to find myself in the Orient next
. . . Our year in Muscatine, Iowa,
where Phil practiced dentistry in
an association with Dr. J. D. Mc-
PiVe, -was a moat enjoyable one,
but contained a few mixed bless­ings.
It included trips to C h i o-ago
and Des Moines for dental
conventions, many w o n derful
gatherings with friends and rel­atives,
the still birth of a daugh­ter,
a decision by Phil to return
to school to specialize in period­ontics,
two weeks of summer
camp for Phil at Camp McC o y,
Wisconsin, while Doug (their son)
and I visited with grandparents,
and ended with our move to Seat­tle
in a school bus. Phil’s interest
in peri odontology (which is the
study and treatment of disease of
the gums and supporting tissue),
had been whet after attending
perio sessions at the Chicago
dental convention. Last spring the
University of Nebraska conducted
an extension course in this field,
and it was after attending this one
that Phil decided to apply f o r
graduate work in this area. We
felt fortunate that Phil was ac­cepted
at the University of Wash­ington
in their two year periodon­tia
program. It is reputed to be
an excellent one, which includes
a government grant, a research
project, and upon completion of
the program, Phil will receive his
M.S.D. as well as being Board
qualified in periodontics. Barri n g
unforeseen calamities, like flunk­ing
out (Y ip e !) Phil thinks he
would like to combine a p a r t
time faculty position in a dental
college with a private perio prac­tice.
At this point, however, we’re
thinking it is wiser to limit our
planning to one quarter at a time,
rather than attempting to look too
far into the future. After deciding
to make the big move, there was
some debate as to HOW to make
it. Finances being the determining
factor, we decided to follow the
lead of one of Phil’s dental class­mates,
Bill Deeming, who bought
a school bus and used it to move
his family and household to Ariz­ona.
This was how we happened
to become proud owners of a 1952
Chevy school bus. Phil took out
all the seats except one for Doug
and me, and then proceeded to
spend hours with chalk in hand
and a list of our furniture dimen­sions,
experimenting with what
should go where. Somehow, be­tween
all the figuring and a lot
of hard work, we found room for
everything and everybody. L e s t
some of you diehard skeptics be­moan
the thought of two adults,
a two year old boy, a dog and
a bird bumping along over 1800
miles in a school bus, you might
be interested to know our total
weight was 7 tons and I ’m here to
tell ya that any time you cram
that much poundage in a vehicle,
it’s a pretty smooth riding buggy.
Our journey westward b e gan
from Rippey. Iowa, on September
1. and with the aid of a t ent ,
cooking supplies, sleeping bags
and a port-a-crib for Doug, we
camped out the first three nights
in Minnesota, North Da k o t a,
and Montana. Hie fourth night,
a storm and cold weather ended
our communing with nature. Our
fifth day found us in Spokane,
where we spent a pleasant day
with Jack and Joy Ghigleri. who
are friends from days in Or­leans.
Our sixth day on the road
brought us to Seattle, and t h e
home of Chuck and M a m i e
Bolender. Chuck was graduated
in dentistry at Iowa a year before
Phil and is now a member of the
University of Washington dental
faculty in prosthetics. . . . Chuck
helped us locate housing, and
within 24 hours of our arrival in
Seattle, my brother-in-law, h a d
driven in with our car and we
had rented a three b e d r o o m
home, which quite coincidentally
was located just a block away
from the Bolenders. Within
month, we had parted with our
bus for the amount for which we
purchased it, and thus ended our
experience of being a ‘two - car
family’ . We have a nice yard
and being up on a hill, we
have a lovely view of Lake Wash­ington
and the Cascade Mts. . . .
We have certainly enjoyed living
in Seattle thus far. The -weather
is quite similar to what we were
accustomed to in France, in that
there is considerable precipita­tion.
however, the temper a t u res
are more moderate than in the
midwest. . . . One bad thing about
living in Seattle is that it is hardly
a place one just happens to be
passing through, unless, perhaps
he is on his way to Korea—which
is a rather somber thought. With
all the available used school bus­es,
though, a person never knows
for sure what new paths will
beckon to him, so if your route
ever takes you to Seattle during
the next two years, be sure to keep
us in mind.”
Carol Lee reports that they have
their hands full with the t h r e e
little Kottongs: Jeffrey 4, Susan
3, and Kathryn 6 months. “We vis­ited
Iowa in January, 1960. and I
saw Bill for a few minutes. I ’m
sorry to say that the one time
I could have seen the Highlanders
perform on TV on the Iowa-Ohio
State Game I was in the hospital
recovering from an operat ion,
but I imagine they were excellent
usual. Jerry commented that
they were allright! Maybe we’ll
manage to catch an Iowa game
next year.” Jerry, husband of
this ex-bass drummer, is a Chem­ical
Engineer in Process Design
at Ethyl Corporation.
JOAN SCHUMANN (1952 - 56)
(Mrs. James Broshar) 822 M i 1 1-
crest Court. Clinton, Iowa.
Joan played the bagpipers in the
early '50s. Now she is married to
Jim Broshar, who is manager of
Northwestern Bell Teleph o ne
Company in Clinton. They have
one little daughter, Julie, 3 years
old.
as. an Assistant Controller. T h e
bakery serves much of the Great­er
San Francisco Bay Area. She
adds: " I retired from teaching
in January, 1960, after an enjoy­able
year and a half of teaching
in the San Lorenzo, C a l i f ornia.
School District. We are expecting
our first child in March, 1961. We
are tentatively planning to come
back to Iowa for the 1961 Home­coming,
and I hope to be able to
attend the Highlander Coffee and
see the Highlanders in person.”
We’ll, be looking forward to your
visit, Nancy.
MARLENE BAUER (1953 - 55)
(Mrs. William Clements) 84 Olive
Court, Iowa City, Iowa.
Ex-drummer, Marlene, w r i t e s
that her husband is a junior in
the College of Dentistry at SUI.
and they have Carla Sue, 4, and
another youngster due in March.
1961. It was certainly a pleasure
to see Marlene and Carla at the
Highlander Homecoming Coftee
Hour this year.
JONNE SHILEY (1952-56) 1576
Coventry Road, East Cleveland 18,
Ohio.
“ Iam still teaching physical edu­cation
at Wiley Junior High chool
and io v e it' ” , writes our ex-pip­er
and Drum Major. “ I h a v e
been instructing a course in ‘Slim-nastics’
for adult women. I have
41 at present and I don’t know yet
if they are trimming their figur­es
but I have lost 6 pounds!” ..
VIRGINIA YODER (1952 - 56)
(Mrs. Robert H. Walters) 2120
Forest Oaks; Dallas 28, Texas.
Ginny is with the St. Paul Hospit­al
as Chief Physical Therapist in
Dallas. Her husband is with the
Johnson Chevrolet Company.
CAROL LEE JOHNSON (19 5 2-
56) (Mrs. Gerald W. Koit o n g )
4418 Arrowhead Street, B a t o n
Rouge, Louisiana.
PRUDENCE MEDER *1952-56)
(Mrs. John Leachman) 1628 46th
Street. Des Moines 10, Iowa.
Pru, ex-piper, writes that John is
a salesman for Leachman L u m ­ber
Co., and she is enjoying being
a housewife. She continues: “ Al­though
I did substitute teaching
three days in a West Des Moines
kindergarten. I liked it — for three
days. We have just returned from
a fun weekend in Chicago. John's
friend. Rod Dickinson married a
girl from LaGrange Park a n d
John was an usher. Maybe some
of you remember him. We're look­ing
forward to April Fool's Day:
the supposed arrival date of our
second baby. (Sarah is now 2%).
This means we’U begin house
hunting the first of next year
as our present home has o n e
small bedroom and one l a r g e
enough for us and a baby basket.”
NANCY BEIER (1953-55) (Mrs.
Michel C. Thielen) 2617 Terr a c e
Road, Des Moines 12, Iowa.
Mike is employed by Mered i t h
Publishing Company as Advertis­er-
Merchandising Manager for
"Better Homes and Gardens ”.
They have a little girl n a m e d
Betsy who will be 2 in February.
"Mike was released from the
Army about a year ago,” w r i tes
this ex-drummer. "We have been
in Des Moines ever since. M i k e
likes his work at Merediths very
much and although we won’t be
here permanently we've really
enjoyed this past year. There are
many of our school friends here
and it’s been fun getting together
again after our two years in the
East. I'm keeping busy being a
housewife and mother. Betsy will
be two soon and this is such a
‘fun age.' Needless to say, o u r
world revolves pretty m u c h
around her. We attended a couple
oi games this fall for the first
time since we left school a n d
were amazed at the many chang­es-
in Iowa City. I was sorry to
miss the Highlander Coffee at
Homecoming but certainly en­joyed
their performance at t h e
game, and admired the s h i n y
new drums. The gals really look-eo
sharp, Bill. I ’ll be looking for­ward
to the Christmas Letter as
UoUal. It’s always such fun to read
about everyone and their famil­ies.
"Til next year then — keep jp
the good work!”
NANCY PAGE (1953-55) (Mr s .
Dean Ankmm) 26744 B a h a m a
Avenue, Haywood, California.
Nancy, ex-piper, reports that her
husband is with Cottage Bak ing
Company, a home service bakery,
M A RG A RET ANN BATHKE
(1953-56) (Mrs. Lester C. J o h n ­son)
1214 Oakview Drive, I o w a
City, Iowa.
“ The Johnsons left California bag
and baggage in September of this
year to come back to Iowa City
and school for Les,“ writes ex-piper
Maggie. “ He enrolled in the
Law College, a future we have
been eager to begin for q u i t e
some time now and decided we
best get started while tlie child­ren
were still pre-school e r s
(Leslie Margaret is 3, Robert Les­ter
is 10 months), and while the
old bones and brain were still
comparatively young and alert.
Know we will miss warm sunny
California but its always fun to
bt back in Iowa City and school
life is fun again, too. We
seen so many of you Highlanders
since we came back. The Home­coming
tea was wonderful and our
little girl enjoyed it too, the active
members’ uniforms cert a i n I y
caught her eye — she was thrill­ed
to just ‘touch’ one! We'll be
seeing more of you I'm sure.”
DOROTHY DOW (1953 - 56)
(Mrs. Robert E. Sorensen) 10112
Fremont South, Minneapolis, Min­nesota.
“ My Thanksgiving d a y
was spent in the hospital with our
first born, David Robert. We
think he’s pretty special and are
doubly thankful this year. We hope
to trip down to Iowa at Christ­mas
time,” writes this ex-drum­mer.
“ This past summer B o b
build our double garage and I
played ‘gardner getting our yard
in shape and planting flowers. I
finished my work at Northwestern
Hospital in October and now am
full-time mother. We had a slide
party recently and got t o see
more European pictures, p l u s
some of Moscow.” Bob is with
Remington Rand Univac, St. Paul,
a i an electrical engineer.
CAROLE BARTELS (1953 - 56)
(Mrs. Richard Loetscher) R.R.
No. 1, Durango, Iowa.
The Loetschers have three child­ren:
Penny is 3, Andy 2, and Toby
4 months. Carole, ex-piper, says:
“ Saw the Highlanders on T.V.
during half time of Iowa - Ohio
State game. Enjoyed the p e r ­formance
so much. Was sorry to
miss Highlander tea this f a l l
but we couldn’t make it to the
game —next year. Since l a s t
year’s newsletter the most excit­ing
thing was the arrival of our
baby boy on June 30. I felt like
pioneer that day — Dick (who is
employed in the Sales Department
of Farley & Loetscher Manufact­uring
Company) was out of town.
Page Six HIGHLANDER CHRISTMAS LETTER 1960
so I packed my suitcase, got into
the car, and drove seven miles to
the hospital. I had good practice
carrying that suitcase — all over
Europe — often think of the fun
we had in the Highlanders.”
NAN BORRESON (1953-56)
(Mrs. Russell Bombergcr) 235
Mar Vista Drive, Monterey, Cali­fornia.
This ex-piper states: "You
looked great in the telecast of the
SUI-Ohio State Game. . . . Russ is
a professor in Humanities Depart­ment
of U. S. Naval Post-Grad­uate
School in Monterey.
DORATHY PUTNAM (1953-56)
328 Sapphire Avenue, Balboa Is­land,
California.
Dotty, ex-snare drummer, is 5th
grade teacher in Fullerton, and
she reports“ Sure am enjo yin g
my new home on Balboa Island!
‘Beach life’ is great! Two other
teachers and myself have rented
a darling 3-bedroom home in this
quaint little village and love our
fireplace, patio, and view of the
bay. Beach parties, sailing, and
gatherings around our fireplace
keep us busy! It takes me half an
hour to drive to school each day,
but I enjoy driving my MG and
it’s worth the driving living on the
Island. ‘H i!’ to all! Would love to
hear from you!”
LORI SHARP (1953-56) (Mr s.
Floyd Kemp) 111 East 4th Street,
Muscatine, Iowa.
Floyd is teaching high school art
at the Muscatine Public Schools.
Lori is teaching art at Muscatine
Junior High School. Lori says that
Floyd graduated last June, follow­ing
which they loaded their pos­sessions
into an old farm-t y p e
wagon and hauled them to Musca­tine.
“ We’re living in a large rent­ed
house a block from the busin­ess
district. It has three bedrooms
aiTci .two baths, so come See us
sometime. We have the space for
company now!” This e x -pi pe r
continues: “We spent the summer
scraping paint from an old break­fast
set we acquired, and making
curtains for all of the windows.
I ’m planning to retire from the
teaching profession this January,
if alLgoes well. We are expecting
our first baby around the first
ot June. Our lives have really
been busy this year with activities
from two schools to attend plus
all of the papers, grades, a n d
testing programs. However, I
should soon be free as a bird for
a few months and would surely
welcome any of you if you happen
to get down to our part of the
state!”
SHIRLEY CURTIS (1953 - 56)
(Mrs. Donald J. McKenney) 1717
Airfield Lane, Midland, Michigan.
“ I960 was a ‘boom’ year for the
McKenney’s,” reports this ex-pip­er,
dancer. ‘ ‘We went to E u rope,
moved into our own home, and
our first child arrived. We purch­ased
a Volkswagen in Germ a n y
and toured Germany, Austr i a,
Switzerland, Northern Italy, The
Netherlands, and France. T h e
trip was even more interest i ng
than the 1956 trip with the High­landers
— there’s no better way
t( travel than by driving a car. I
wish we could have arranged to
see a Highlander perform a n ce
but time was limited and our trip
was nearly over when you arrived
in England. The first of August
we moved into our own home,
and the last of August our first
child — Curtis Dean — arrived
so we’re now settling“down to
raising a family.” Shirley’s hus­band
is employed as a chemical
engineer for the Dow Chemical
Company. Shirley adds: “ My de­gree
in chemistry is now applied
to making baby formula a n d
cooking!! ”
JAN BROOKMAN (1953 - 56)
(Mrs. Paul H. Kruse) Walthill,
Nebraska.
‘ ‘Lots of exciting things have hap­pened
to the Kruses since last
we had* a chance to visit with
you,” writes this ex-piper. “ T h e
biggest joy in our lives is our
husky eight month old son, Peter.
He continues to amaze, amuse,
and confuse his proud parents.
We have a lively playmate for
Peter in the form of a romping
four months old German shepherd
named Gus. Paul is feeding cattle
in northeast Nebraska, 20 miles
south of Sioux City. We live in
Walthill, and because of the fact
that the real estate here in town
leaves much to be desired we are,
at present, living in a rather glor-j
ified tar paper shack. We have,
however, chosen the spot on which
we hope to build in the very near
future. If any of you ever travel
up Highway 77 in eastern Nebras­ka,
we’d love to see you. A s k
anybody where we live. You know
how small towns are. Even the
Indians, of which we have many,
know where we live.”
ANN SUMMERWILL (1953 -56)
(Mrs. Robert Swaney) 34 Lincoln,
Iowa City, Iowa.
Ann, ex-drummer, writes: ‘ ‘Bob is
in medical school at SUI, and I
am teaching junior and sen i o r
English at Iowa City High School.
It was certainly fun to keep tr^ck
of the European trip this year.
I read every article I c o u l d
fine about it — and each of them
brought a hundred memories of
our w’onderful trip in 1956. I even
found myself singing our s o n g
about the Duke (who wasn’t one!)
and Miss H. (who’s still a liv e !)”
Your participation on a p a n e l
made up of ex-Highlanders, Jane
Richter Sebolt, and Jan Barnes
Teegen, and yourself, helped out
a lot. We want to thank you all
again for talking to the 1960 Eur­opean
Trip group at Orientation
Lecture time last spring.
SUSAN SALIE (1953-56) (Mrs.
James D. McKnight) Woods i d e
Road, Brunswick, Maine.
“ Tilings have really changed since
last year at this time,” writes
this ex-piper. ‘ ‘Last year Jim was
just starting his job as a Claims
Adjuster with State Farm Insur­ance
Company. Then after much
thought, he decided he really miss­ed
the Navy so he applied for a
regular commission. In Septem­ber
his orders finally c a m e
through and here we are way out
in Maine. Right now, Jim is in
New Foundland and has b e e n
since we got here but he will be
back for Christmas. We ha v e
rented a very nice three-beedroom
house on a hill overlooking the
ocean, three miles from town.
How’s that for real Maine living!
We had a pure black German shep­herd
for a while but her personal­ity
and mine clashed so she is no
longer with us. Maybe next sum­mer
when Jim’s home we’ll try
again. We really love it here.
The people are wonderful not only
the military but the civil i a n s,
too. I f anyone is out this w a y
tell them to be sure and drop in
on us. We’ll be here for 2 or
3 years. You had better hang on
to our Ida Grove, Iowa, address,
because for the next 20 or 30
years we’ll be doing quite a bit
of moving. Since we’ve b e e n
here we have seen a couple of
Iowa games on TV and the High­landers
sure looked great. The
announcer had glowing th i ngs
to say about them, too, and I was
so proud of you. James D.. Jr. is
2>4 now, and another due March 8,
1961.”
JANET BROCKROIIINK (1953-
56) (Mrs. Bertrand E. Hinrichs)
410 N. 14th Place, Springf i eld,
Illinois. This ex-drummer writes:
“ Bert is now a junior at Concord­ia
Theological Seminary and still
manages to keep ahead of the
pace in spite of all the Greek they
require here. The S e m inary
Chorus elected him their Trans­portation
Manager for the year.
TTieir Spring Concert Tour will
take them through Illinois, Michi­gan,
Ohio, and Kentucky. — Any
travelling tips, Bill? — The sum­mer
of ’62 may see our Chorus
touring South America. T h e y
have many Christmas concerts
this year. We enjoyed your tele­vised
appearances at f o o tball
games — especially the “ Donkey
Serenade.” The dancers look e d
so polished, and we just didn’t
see enough of the gals. Too many
commercials!. . . . Our two child­ren
are bundles of energy from
the word “ go’ . Randall Dean is
3, Paula Jean is 1 year a n d
3 months. . . . I t ’s quite a thrill
to me to see them learn new
tricks and develop. Randy can
say ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ , a n d
Paula waves and says. “ Bye,bye’ .
Guess you can tell I'm proud of
them. . . . I haven’t even tried to
go back to work yet since the
children are so small. I want to
share their growing up.”
JANICE BARNES (1953 - 57)
(Mrs. John T. Teegen) Br o a d-lawns
Hospital, Des Moines, Io­wa.
Ex-snare drummer, Jan, re­ports
that they have two sons:
John 2, and Robbie — “ g o o d
Scottish name! 3% months.” Dr.
Teegen is interning at Broad-lawns,
and Jan is a housewife.
“We will be in Des Moines until
July 1, 1961, then I think the Navy
will take over,” says Jan. “ I ’m
enjoying my two little boys, and
learning to be a doctor’s wife.
Jack is very busy this year but
feels he is learning a lot.”
JANE RICHTER (1953-57) Mrs
Frank Sebolt) 217 Johnson Street,
Iowa City, Iowa.
Jane, ex-piper, is teaching 4th
grade at Roosevelt School in I.C.,
Laura Dempster Rice, and A1 Rice
and Frank is teaching coll e g e
algebra and trig at SUI, and work­ing
on an M.A. in the Department
of Math. The Sebolt Greet i n g s
for 1960, in rhyme, follows:
“ Ah, ’tis that time of year again
We’re early that is true,
But that is just because we bring
First Christmas wishes to you.
There’s such a lot of things to tell
’Bout this year of sixty.
It all began with a trip we took
Below the land of Dixie.
Now Frank had been a soldier
boy,
You remember that — last year
As soon as “ Uncle” let him go
We were off like two wild deer.
We jumped in the bug and headed
south
We’re gone that veryday.
Such sights, we couldn’t believe
our eyes,
Along the Pan highway.
We headed off for Aztec land
’Twas built so long ago.
Christmas Day one found us
walking
Through the city of Mexico.
Then once again Frank started
school
That was February.
For now you see his major’s
changed
To be an Actuary.
With spring came talk — new
adventufe
A summer in Hartford, Conn.
While Frank would work f o r
Aetna Life
I ’d sit and soak up sun!
We came to Hartford early in
June
Without a place to stay.
We found a dandy one-roow\ p\ac«
In the heart o f ‘Italy’.
Frank liked his work with Actuar­ies.
I liked days of leisure.
But on the weekend it appeared
We'd had a camping seizure.
We camped in mountains or Old
Cape Cod
New York and Boston we’d see.
We swam in oceans or bright blue
lakes
Followed trails of history.
Two months — that went too fast
for us
When leaving our eyes grew damp.
But back to Iowa we must return
Frank headed to summer camp.
September found a familiar life
Oh, things were natural once
more.
I returned to teaching school
Yes, still am in grade four.
Then later on Frank opened his
book
In it his nose did dig.
He’s taking courses and also is
Teaching algebra and trig.
Now the year has moved along
December’s drawing near,
And with it comes a special time.
With a special kind of cheer.
It makes us stop and think of
friends
Whether far away or near.
And as we pause we sin c e r ely
wish
Merry Christmas!!
Happy New Y ea r !!
SHIRLEY JO JONES (1953 -57)
(Mrs. Richard E. Vogt) 300
Parkwood Place, Lewisville, Tex­as.
Dick is promotion manager at
WFAA-TV in Dallas, and t h i s
ex-piper taught 2nd grade in Lew-
.1960 HIGHLANDER CHRISTMAS LETTER Page Seven
isville last year, but “M i c h a e l
Kent was born December 2, 1960,
in Dallas. However, Ricky, now 2,
thinks the 8 puppies bom Decem­ber
9, 1960, — in the bedroom —
are much more exciting than a
new brother! Had a wonderf u 1
chat with ex-Highlander G i n ny
Yoder as she works in the hospit­al
where Michael was born. Dick
is enjoying the T.V. work and has
a weekly Sunday morning show.
We’re, all of us, enjoying o u r
new home_and the mild T e x a s
winter.’.' (Had a note from Jo last
April. She asked for the Highland­er
film —so we turned her request
over to John Hedges, D i r e ctor,
Audio-Visual Department, SUI,
who handles our films. We hope
that she received it, and that it
was enjoyed by all.)
DOROTHY SCHWENGEL (1953-
57) (Mrs. Lloyd Neale Cosby) 1500
Arlington Boulevard, Apt. 901.
Arlington, Virginia.
“ I am still working for Vice Pres­ident
Nixon and will be until ap­proximately
January 20, 1961,”
writes Dot. “ My husband is now
Aide to the Commanding General
of the Military District o f Wash­ington
and we will be in this area
until next summer. And will then
move on to Ft. Benning, Georgia,
for the Advance Infantry School.”
(We saw Dorothy and her father.
Representative Fred Schwengel,
as well as Vice President Nixon
on our Foreign Trip, with s t o p-over
in Washington, D. C. last
June, and they surely put out
the red carpet in great style for
all of us, and we enjoyed every
minute of our stay in Wash i n g-ton.
) And so Dorothy agrees by
summing up: “ I was glad to be
able to assist this time in t h e
Highlanders’ visit to Washington
last summer. This visit by t h e
Highlanders gave me a chance to
show my friends here the group I
talked so much about when re­ferring
to Iowa. And, the V i c e
President thought they w e r e
great! He asked them to do the
‘Drum Dance’ twice! It was a hot
day on the steps of the Cap­itol.”
Again, thank you, Dorothy,
for all you did for us.
D O RO T H Y ROUDAB U SH
(1953-57) (Mrs. Fred Carpenter)
2825 Southeast 14th, Des M o i nes.
Iowa.
Dot is still an advertising copy­writer
at Meredith P u blis h i ng
Company, and Fred is externing
until June. Dot adds: “ Fred and
I were married this summer —
and to add to the confusion my
sister was married 6 days later!
Fred and I will be in Des Moines
until June. Then he will begin an
internship, but we won’t k n ow
where for another month or two.
We were down for several of the
games, and as always, enj o y ed
the Highlanders.” (Dot was pleas­ed
to learn that Julie Stewart—
a freshman Highlander this year
— is with the Group. Julie was
a secretary for a few months in
the Meredith Publishing Company,
and the two girls got to k n o w
each other there.)
BARBARA MIXSON (1953-57)
(Mrs. William Brauer) 1202
Franklin, Iowa City, Iowa.
The Brauers have a 15 m o n t h s
old daughter, Elizabeth Mix son.
Dr. Brauer is a resident in psych­iatry
at the University of Iowa.
“We are very happy to be back
in Iowa City,” writes this ex-pip­er.
“ We certainly enjoyed o u r
year in Detroit and miss t h e
friends we left there. Beth is our
pride and joy. She looks v e r y
much like her father. She also is
getting very spoiled with the
grandparents’ living so close.”
Ozzie Carlson Barton.
S U E DONELSON (1953 - 57)
(Mrs. Don E. Johnson) Waverly,
Minnesota. Sue writes a delight­fully
interesting Christmas letter,
parts of which we are happy to
quote from; this ex-dancer and
choral director says: “ Last De­cember,
Don accepted a call to
become the student pastor of the
South Presbyterian Church erf Gal­ena,
Illinois. On the 24th we mov­ed
out o f our trailer into the cen-tury-
old manse. . . . For the rest
of the year we commuted to Dub­uque
where Don was in Seminary
and Sue taught music at Washing­ton
Jr. High. . Our work was
finished in Galena in September.
Seeking a place close to a school
where we could continue o u r
graduate studies, we negotiated
with a vacant two-point field 35
miles west of Minneapolis. We
were happy to be called to the
Waverly-Winsted parish October
16, and we are now situated with
our dog, Tuck, and our Siam e se
cat, McCafterty, in the \ o v ety
new manse built by the Waverly
people. These churches h a v e
been without a regular minister
on the field for some time, so we
feel there is a real challenge for
us to meet. Don will finish Semin­ary
in January, should be ordain­ed
by the end of Jan., and install­ed
here officially soon after. Sue
is planning to attend the Univer­sity
next quarter. . . . Highlights
! and memorable events during
the past year have been plentiful:
For Sue— teaching at Washington,
one semester of voice at the
Univ. of Dubuque, a Greek Orth­odox
Choir in Greek (? ), and in
a summer camp; preparing pro­grams
especially the vocal var­iety
show, ‘It’s in the Book’ ; hav­ing
a tea for over 100 home room
students and their parents, being
called suddenly to serve as regu­lar
organist at the G a l e n a
church. . . . farewell picnics at
school. . . . We find life pleasant­ly
full, richly satisfying, enjoying
each day, and anticipating the fu­ture
with glad hearts and joyful
minds. We hope that you find life
the same.”
JEAN STOCK (1954 - 56) (Mrs.
Elmer Prescott) West Branch, Io­wa.
" I am at home as wife and
mother — Kelly is two years, and
Kent is two months — and my
husband teaches Math, and coach­es
at the West Branch H i g h
School,” writes this ex - b a s s
drummer. “ This is our second
year at West Branch. My hus ­band
received his principal’s cer­tificate
in secondary education at
the conclusion of the 1960 summer
session, and we hope to remain in
this area until he receives his
master’s degree. I worked as an
office nurse until April, 1960, but
since have been at home. O u r
first son, Kent was born Septem­ber
20th.”
MICK FAGAN (1954 -57) (Mrs.
(Francis Conway > 406 Ware Aven­ue,
Apt. 881, Scott AFB. Illinois.
“ Fran is presently on the staff
of the OB-Gyn. Department here
at the Scott Hospital. Needless to
say, he is kept very, v e r y
busy!” Mick reports. This ex­drummer
has three children: Sa­ra
3; Susan 2; and Mark 1. “ The
big news,” Mick continues, “ in
our family this year is the birth
of our son, Mark. . . . he’s really
a husky guy, has already learn­ed
to fight for his rights with our
other two children. Sara goes to
nursery school this year and lov­es
every minute of it. Suz and
Mark manage to keep each other
and Ma busy here at home. The
Highlanders really looked great on
TV this year. All of our friends
remarked about how good they
were. We’ re enjoying Air Force
life Very much, but, of course,
we’re looking forward to the day
when we’ll have a home of our
own and Fran having his o w n
practice. I know your European
trip last summer was just wond­erful.
I had several of my Iowa
friends send me every newspaper
clipping they could get a hold of
concerning your trip. I think of
our trip four years ago so often
and remember all the wonderful
times we had."
MARDELL SHADEWALD (1954-
57) (Mrs. Dean Johnson) 1141
East College Street, Iowa City,
Iowa. Mardell’s husband is D i s-trict
Sales Representative f o r
Continental Oil Company. “ My
husband finished school last Aug­ust,
so he's still in the training
I period for his job,” this ex-piper
I and dancer, writes. “ We’ll be in
Iowa City until next s u m me r .
Bradley Dean was born in J u 1 y
and is really a chunk, weigh i n g
20 pounds at 5 months. Saw 2
football games and thought the
Highlanders looked really good!”
ANNE LARSON (1954-57) (Mrs.
Eugene Dierking) 223 S. Cornell,
Villa Park. Illinois.........................
This ex-piper says: “ I am employ­ed
by the V.P. Board of Educa­tion
as an 8th grade E n g 1 i s h
teacher. Gene is working as an ac­countant
for Touche, Ross, Bail­ey
& Smart, Accounting Firm in
Chicago,” Anne continues, “ I en­joyed
watching the Highland e r s
perform twice this year — once at
the Northwestern game in Evans­ton,
and again during the Home­coming
game in Iowa City. They
sure looked good! We have been
living in Villa Park for over a
year now and this is my second
year at the Jr. High. I r e a l l y
love the work, but am anxiously
awaiting the day I quit to pre­pare
for the birth of our first —
due early next June! Gene en­joys
his work very much though
I don’t appreciate his occas i o nal
traveling and long hours. I guess
after next June I ’ll have something
to fill up all those ‘extra’ hours!”
Diana Merrill, Mary Christensen, Jane Harris, - in background; Janet Gutz Way,
(at coffee table), with daughter, Kathleen,
ELAINE ROGGENKAMP (1954-
57) (Mrs. Terry Fisher) 7160 Gar­rison
Road", Des Moines 22, Iowa.
“ Terry is working in the Engin­eering
Department of Northwest­ern
Bell Telephone C o mp a n y
here in Des Moines. Last Decem­ber
Terry was transferred here
from Cedar Rapids, so we moved
to Des Moines in January. I finish­ed
teaching the first semesf e r
in Cedar Rapids, and taught the
spring semester in a junior high
in Des Moines. On October 27, this
fall, we were blessed with t h e
birth of a little daughter, Lori
Jean. Now I am busy 1 o o ki n g
after her. I was surprised l a s t
week to receive a call from ex-
Highlander Ginny Yoder Walters,
my roommate on our European
trip. She was in Des Moines
for only a few hours, but we man­aged
to get together and talk over
the past three years in t h a t
time!”
JOANNE ODEM (1954-57) (Mrs.
Wallace Sails) 332 East Grant,
Kent, Ohio.
Joanne, ex-piper, is teaching the
2nd grade again. Her husband is
at Kent State University, but will
graduate in June. “ David ar­rived
in February last, and we
think he’s the nicest little boy
there is,” comments Joanne. " I
thoroughly enjoyed the Highland­ers
on TV. They really l o o k e d *
great!”
DARLA MOELLER (1954- 57)
(Mrs. Daniel S. Perkins) 1538
4th Avenue S. E., Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.
Ex-drummer Darla, teaches first
grade at Johnson School in Cedar
Rapids. Her husband, Dan, is
Assistant Manager of the Tele­phone
Company.
CAROL JT. VALY (1954 - 57)
(Mrs. Richard W. Canady) 1010
S. Quebec Street, Apt. 8, Arling­ton,
4, Virginia.
“ I am a dental hygienist — work­ing
in Arlington. Dick is a Lt. J.G.
in the Navy. He is a lawyer in
the Judge Advocate General —
stationed in the Pentagon” , re­ports
this ex-piper.
C A R C L E J. PFALTZGRAFF
(1954-57) 1932 Del Mar, Aurora,
Colorado.
Carole, ex-drummer, is teaching
in the Denver Public Schools, her
third year with the 3rd grade.
She writes: “ I saw the Highland­ers
on TV for the Iowa - O h i o
State Game, and of course, am
always glad to see them. I cer­tainly
enjoyed being in the organ­ization,
and have very fond mem­ories
of it. I know you must have
enjoyed the Europe trip again.
I like Denver real well, and en­joy
skiing, and being up in the
mountains.”
KERIN OKERLIN (1955 - 57)
(Mrs. Wayne Moldenhauer) 1650
Alta Place, Dubuque, Iowa.
This former drummer reports:
“ We are now proud parents of an
adorable baby boy. We g o t
Robert Wayne when he was 5
weeks old. He has real dark eyes
and lots- of dark hair. At 6 months
he’s had three haircuts and2teeth.
We took our vacation to Los Ange­les
in October — missed Home­coming.
The children’s d e n t a l
convention was there this year.
My husband, Wayne, is a child­ren’s
dentist in Dubuque.”
NANCY ANN STEWART (1954-
58) (Mrs. Ronald C. Frack) 3930
E. Kinkaid, Wichita 18, Kansas.
Ron is employed as an Associate
Research Engineer in the Bomb­ing
and Missies Technology Group
of Boeing Airplane C o mp a ny.
Pasrc Eight HIGHLANDER CHRISTMAS LETTER 1960
an”
Nan. ex-piper and dancer, writes:
“ Not much new news since we
saw you all in October. It was
real good to talk to you ag a i n
and read about another success­ful
European tour. . . . Ron likes
his new work because he gets to
fly low-level flight tests as one of
the flight test crew on a B52 G.
Bomber. Susan will be a year
old on December 29, and is at the
stage of “ getting into everything.’
Since she has been such a good
girl we are planning on a b a b y
brother or sister for her about the
end of May. I ’m still just keep­ing
house and trying to keep up
with Susan. We plan to spend
tlie holidays in Iowa this year.
I ’m sure it will be much better
than spending part of them in the
hospital as I did last y e a r ,
so we’re looking forward to the
trip back ‘home’.” (We wish we
had the space and all to show
pictures of many of the children
o the ex-Highlander f a m i lies.
Your Susan’s picture on t h e
Christmas greeting is as lovely
at she is in ‘real life' —when we
Si.w you all last October. Do come
in anytime you’re in Iowa
City.)
MARY ANN SEBERG <1964 -58)
(Mrs. Edward D. Shuey> 3009 27th
Street, Des Moines, Iowa.
This ex-piper says: “ We spent 6
months in the San Francisco Bay
Area while Ed was in service.
After his discharge in November
we decided to return to the Mid­west
; we hope to see a lot of fam­iliar
faces at the football games
this fall. Thought the performance
ai the Ohio State Game was out­standing!
We saw it on television
in Salt Lake City. . . . Ed is a
Trainee with the Des M o i n e s
Savings and Loan, and I ’ve appl­ied
for a position as public school
therapist next semester, b u t
don't know whether there’s an J
opening or not.”
NORMA DOSS (1954 - 58) (Mrs.
Turnet Lett) 29 Elmo Park, Hop­kins,
Minnesota.
This former piper wrote us 1 a s t
June of their move to Minnesota,
and now: “ Turner was made Of­fice
Manager of his Company's
Branch Office in Minneapolis and
we moveo her from Cedar Rapids
last May. We are living in H o p-kins,
which is about 8 miles from
Minneapolis. We really like it here
and enjoy being close to so many
lakes. We do miss not being close
to Iowa City and the foot b a l l
games and, needless to say, I
missed not seeing the Highland­ers
perform last fall. Diane was
a year old Thanksgiving Day and
she seems to keep me busy most
of the day. She runs all day, so
consequently, I do too! and I en­joy
every minute of it. I ’d love
to hear from any Highlanders in
this area. I can always put on
the coffee pot.”
MARTHA H1CKERSON (1954-
58 ) 321 E. 71st Street, Apt. IF,
New York, New York.
Martha, ex-snare drummer, is a
medical social worker in the New
York Hospital, working with soc­ial
and emotional problems relat­ed
to illness. Sbe says: " Y o u r
'eastern’ admirers were indeed
thrilled with the pre-Europe per­formance
this summer. C o m e
back soon!"
JOY HARRARD (1954-58) (Mrs.
Duane H. Drake) 880 N.W. 13th
Court, Apt. No. 1, Miami 35, Flor­ida.
Ex-piper and tenor d r u m­mer
Joy says that she has retired
from teaching to become a full­time
mother. Her husband is an
intern at Jackson Memorial Hos­pital,
and they have a son, And­rew
1V4 years old. “We’re finding
Miami a beautiful city in which to
live.” reports Joy, “ We came here
in June with all our worldly pos­sessions
wedged into and p i l e d
on our ‘new’ station wagon and
arrived looking like a group of
wrongway Cuban refugees. Dur -
ing the summer that followed we
met all of the less desirab 1 e
denizen of the Florida summer
population — heat, humid i ty,
mold, mildew, fungus, 4 i n ch
spiders, scorpions, salamand e r s,
ants, and crowning the summer,
hurricane Donna. With the last of
October’s rains, I wiped t h e
rust of the sewing machine, clean­ed
the mold out of the typewrit­er
and now I ’m sitting back to be­gin
enjoying the weather reports
from Iowa while my 3 foot son
plays outside in the December sun
in only his diapers. Vacation
anyone? Look us up. You’ll find
us holding open house at o u r
apartment which is located prac­tically
in the Orange B o w 1.”
(Watch out, Joy, you may have
more guests than you'd p l a n ned
fo r !)
MARY WOODMAN (1954 - 58)
(Mrs. R. Norman Coe) 4600 Con­necticut
Avenue N. W.. Washing­ton
8, D. C. Mary, piper, writes
that nothing much has changed
since she last wrote for the news­letter.
“ Roger remains at the Pat­ent
Office as a patent examiner
in the chemical division. June
should find him completing his
last year at Georgetown Univer­sity
Law Center. Hie Montgom­ery
County, Maryland, S c h o ol
Board continues to be my employ­er,”
continues Mary. "We were
delighted to have the Highlanders
stop in Washington as they began
their third European tour. I re­lived
our experience in 1956, when
they performed under the v i g i l
of the Washington Monument. It
was good to see you and the
gals, Bill — (And it goes without
saying, we were mighty happy to
see you, Mary!) The white gloves
certainly add to the group! T h e
Highlanders, band, and fo o tb a l l
team made us very proud at the
televised game between I o w a
and Ohio State. Keep up the good
work. P . S. The gruelling h o u r s
of marching were most useful this
fall when I helped to organize a
squad of twenty-four girls w h o
drill at the athletic contests.”
KAREN GREENWOOD (1964-
5*) (Mrs. Donald R. Spiekerman)
9021* West Genesee, Saginaw,
Michigan. “We’ re located in Sag­inaw,
I ’m still the elementary art
supervisor for the public schools,
Don is chemist in Basic and Nu­clear
Research at Dow Chemical
Co., in Midland, Michigan.” T h e
ex-drummer continues:‘We were
married early in the summer, and
I spent the rest of the t i m e
canning, making jams, and taking
courses from U. of M i c h i g a n .
Almost every weekend we go
north 100 miles to Don’ s c a b i n .
It certainly is nice to have lakes
and trees — Iowa's a little short
on those. I almost learned how to
water ski, just couldn’t quite mas­ter
it, so I drove the boat! We are
planning to start building our own
home this spring. We’ll do most
of the building ourselves. It will
be hard work, but well worth it.
Here’s hoping all you other High­landers
are having a very happy
life !”
GERALDINE HANSON (1954-
58 ) 471 Beacon Street, Boston 15,
Massachusetts. “ Shorty” , p i p er
and ex-bass drummer, is Director
of Guidance at Burdette College,
and she is teaching typing a n d
shorthand in addition to t h e
guidance work. " I saw the High­landers
on T Vat the Oh i o
State game. Very good. The ranks
are always straight in front of
those television cameras! 1 a 1 s o
saw you. Bill, coming down from
the stands at halftime. How I
would have loved to have been
there! Bill, your fair city of
Boston truly is charming — quite
a change from Los Angeles, but
I love it. How was the European
trip? Gee, how I thought about all
of you. As you probably know.
ex-Highlander Karen C 1 a u se
Bloomquist is out here. In fact,
I had a nice chat with her today.
Believe it or not, I have another
two weeks vacation at Christmas
so will be back in Iowa. Someday
my luck will run out on these
Christmas vacations!” (I t always
would be nice to see you, Gerry,
drop in any time you have the
chance.)
CAROL CRAWFORD (1954 - 58)
(Mrs. Lehan Jay Ryan) 5 B Hat-chee
Rd., Elgin Air Force Base,
Florida. Carol writes that this is
their last year at Elgin, and the
last year in the Air Force. Next
fall they may be reached at 1103
Muscatine Avenue, Iowa City,
Iowa. “ Jay will be in Law School
at SUI, and we will be living "in
my parents’ home — They are re­tired
and are traveling around the
country — This year we are keep­ing
very busy—Jay with a new
assignment in the hospital — as
Patient Squadron Commander at
the Air Force Base H o s p i t a l ,
counseling patients — mostly psy­cho
patients — He prepares the
boards for service disabilties or
retirement, or separation act i on.
I have been doing some substitute
teaching in the Base Elementary
School and in the down town high
school. I am also taking a typing
class. Naturally almost two year
old Denny keeps me hopping, too.
This fall we have made trips to
the Bellingrath Home and Gard­ens,
and to New Orleans. In the
spring we hope to have one last
fling and go to Nassau and Miami
before returning to the academic
life,” concludes this ex-piper.
JEAN WILLIAMS (1954 - 58)
(Mrs. Ivor H. McGuire) 920 - 21
Street, Rock Island, Illi n o is.
Jean’s husband is with the Rock
Island Broadcasting Company, as
Radio Representative and Sports
Broadcaster. “ He is quite happy
with his work,” adds this ex-drummer.
‘ ‘We’ve been to several
football games and enjoyed see­ing
the Highlanders at the O h i o
State Game. Ivor has had very
good luck hunting and fishing this
fall and I ’ve gone with him a
few times. Our newest member of
the family is ‘Gingerbred SMOKY
MAC’ , our English setter we got
last spring. She and Kevin, now
age 2, are the best of pals. Moth­er
passed away unexpectedly in
September, which really stopped
everything. Although there’s a
great emptiness we’re getting
along pretty well. . . . Bill, the
girls really looked good on T. V.
and at the games. I'v e heard
nothing but praise and ‘How can
I become a member?’ from every
one I ’ve heard mention them. I'm
really proud to be an Alum.”
(Thank you, Jean)
LOIS ANN CAMPBELL (1954-
58) (Mrs. J. David Cox) 398 Oak
Street, Des Plaines, Illinois.
Dave is with the Harris T r u s t
and Savings Bank, and Lois Ann
is with the American Diary Assoc­iation
— in the Program Mer­chandising.
Division. This ex­drummer
says:“What a pleasant
surprise it was to see my old
friends at the Coffee Hour at
Homecoming. Brought back fond
memories of our 1956 E u r o pean
Tour. The Highlanders looked ex­cellent
at the Northwestern game
in Evanston. I heard many f i n e
comments from others sitti n g
near us. Dave and I have joined
the ranks of the commuters, work­ing
downtown Chicago and living
18 miles out in a suburb. But its
all very interesting — and keeps
us busy!”
PRISCIU.A SUE T H O M A S
(1955-57) (Mrs. Stanley R. Briney)
811 S. Lincoln, Kirksville, Missou­ri.
Priscilla, ex-piper, s a y s :
“ Stan received his M. S. in Psy-siology
this last August. He is
now a freshman in Kirksville
School of Osteopathy and Sur­gery
. . . He’ll have 3 more years
after this one. But so far he likes
the school very much. I got my
B. A. and D.H. certificate in June.
I am now working as hospital
receptionist at the Kirksville Oste­opathic
Hospital. I do a l i t t l e
bit of everything and enjoy it.
Only thing wrong is that I am
away from Jeff all day — He will
be 2 in December, ’60 —But we
must eat while Stan is in school.
Hope to work as a Hygienist in
the hospital as soon as the dentist
on call goes on full time staff.
Sure was good to see so many
of the old members at the Home­coming
Coffee. We thought the
girls really looked good on T. V.
and at the games we were able
to get up for. Those lines were
so straight. What are you doing
to them?” (We just keep working
along!)
KARMA JOLLIFFE (1955 - 57)
(Mrs. James S. Rile) 107 H i l l
Avenue. Ottumwa, Iowa. Karma,
an ex-piper, is secretary in the
Adjustment Department at John
Morrell Co., and her husband
is a pharmacist with Osco Drug
Company.
erful to see the Highlanders on
T.V. I even ran to the neighbors
to brag about the girls. We’re anx­ious
to return to Iowa City to
see everyone again.” (Don’t for­get
to drop in the Highlander
Office or Barracks to see us,
Joanne!)
MARY CHRISTENSEN (1955-
59 ) 306 2nd Street, Coralville, Io­wa
City, Iowa. Our former snare
and bass drummer writes: “ I ’m
still working on my master’s de­gree
here at SUI. I hope to get it
in June of ‘61 if all goes well. I
still don’t know where I ’ll be
next year.” (Good luck to you,
Mary, and let us know y o u r
address wherever you may go.)
F L O R E N CE ACHENBACH
(1956-57) (Mrs. Jack A. Fansher)
1140 S. 32 Street. Omaha 5, Neb­raska.
“ My husband is employed
at KMTV — television in Omaha.
He is an associate director -prod­ucer,”
writes ex-drummer Flor­ence.
“ Bill, I enjoyed the ‘write­up’
on you in the Cedar Rapids
Gazette. My mother clipped it out
and sent it to me. Dot and Eunice
in turn. We watched Iowa play on
TV twice and I am proud to say
that the Highlanders are looking
better than ever. I regret that
they aren’t able to make it to the
Rose Bowl. . . . May the coming
marching season be the best ever
for you and your group." (Thank
you, Flo.) The Fanshers’ children
are 2H year old Jack E., and
14 month old Elizabeth.
PATRICIA M n j.E R (195« - 57>
MARYBETH DODEN (1955 -58)
(Mrs. Larry C. Gipe) 700 Maren­go
Avenue, Marengo, Iowa. “ I am
a Speech and Hearing Therapist
in Iowa County. Larry is a senior
in Law School at SUI,” writes
ex-drummer Marybetb. ‘ ‘Aft e r
graduation in June we will be en­tering
the Air Force for three
years. At this time we have no
idea as to where we will be stat­ioned.”
(Be sure to send us your
address when you DO know.)
JANET NEWCOMER (1955 -58)
(Mrs. Kenneth A. Ploen) 1126
Grosvenor Avenue, Win n i p eg
9, Manitoba, Canada.
Janet’s husband, Ken, is working
as an Industrial Engineer f o r
Martin Paper Company, and is
also playing professional football
for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
This ex-piper reports: “This is our
first winter here in Winnipeg, and
I must say they are colder and
we have a little more snow than
Iowa City. We like Winnipeg very
much and plan on living here
till Ken is through playing foot­ball,
and then we will probably
move back to the mid-west. We
are both looking forward to the
first of next June, because we are
expecting our first little quarter­back
or cheerleader.” (Congratu­lations—
in June! to the Ploens!)
JOANNE GILMER (1955 - 59)
(Mrs. Donald E. Gardner) 407
Riverside Drive, Charles Ci t y ,
Iowa.
“Don’s in the Army but will be
out in February when he plans to
return to SUI for gradu a t e
work,” writes this ex-piper. "We
are presently in Milwaukee, but
in February will be back in Iowa
City. That's why I gave my Char­les
City address. Mail will always
reach me there. It was so wond­(
Mrs. Peter Schebler) 3004 3rd
Avenue, S. W., Rochester, Minne­sota.
Pat, ex-drummer, writes:
j “ After graduation day in J u n e
when Pete was finally done and
I had taught 5th graders at West
Branch for a semester, we left for
Rochester, Minn. Here Pete en­joys
his job with Dayton’ s very
much — a Manager trainee — I
spent the summer making new
friends, painting, sewing — espec­ially
maternity clothes — and
keeping house, thoroughly enjoy­ing
my leisurely past times. Now
Tami (Tama Jean, bom Novem­ber
29, 1960) keeps my busy. Since
she is so tiny yet she only eats
and sleeps. She’ll be less than one
month when she has her f i r s t
Christmas!”
BARBARA SLEMMONS (1956-
58) (Mrs. Steven R. McCarl) 662
S. Gaylord, Denver 9, Colorado.
Barb, ex-drummer, says: “ Steve
is a graduate of the University of
Denver and will continue to do
some graduate work in Polit i cal
Philosophy while I finish my first
year of elementary teaching at
Carson School.” It is to be remem­bered
that Barbara transfer r ed
from SUI to the University of
Aix-Marseille in France her jun­ior
y e a r . She continues:
“ Of course, the reputation of the
SUI Scottish Highlanders h a s
spread far and wide, and f i fth
grade pupils are much impressed
by the fact that their teacher was
a member of this group — and
that she even marched in a Rose
Bowl Parade. To prove my worth
one child brought his conc e r t
snare and asked me to perform
for him and his friends af t e r
school. They were a most ap­preciative
audience. Teac h ing
French to nine and ten year olds
is a real joy. However, we’ re
still yearning for more of the
real thing and hope, in the not
too distant future, to return
France.”
1960 HIGHLANDER CHRISTMAS LETTER
!
Page Nine
GAYE GROSS (1956-58) (Mrs.
Richard R. Hoth) 3838-36th Street,
Des Moines, Iowa. Gaye’s hu s­band,
Dick, is Assistant Secretary
for Century Mutual Ins u r a nee
Company. The ex-drummer says:
“ Dick and I were at the Ohio
State Game and enjoyed the High­landers.
Thought you all did fine
and found myself tottering a bit
when you played 'Over the Sea
to Skye’ . I will be working after
the first of the year as secretary
to Evan Hultman — rec e n 11 y
elected as Attorney General of
Iowa. I worked for him in Water­loo
before Dick and I were mar­ried.”
MARY KATHRYN KETELSEN
(1956-58) (Mrs. Edward L. D a n ­iel)
5311 Douglas Drive, Yakima,
Washington.
Ed Daniel is a salesman for Dan­iel
Equipment, Inc., of Y a k i m a
(International Harvester). T h e
Daniels have a son, Craig LaPlan-te,
7 months old. Our ex - t e nor
drummer reports: “ Ed is g o i ng
back to school in February of 1961
at Washington State University in
Pullman, Washington. F r o m
there, he hopes to go to a grad­uate
school of business. All the
Daniel family (all transp a n ted
Iowans) watched the Iowa f o o t-ball
games with much int e r e st
and especially the Scottish High­landers.”
Katy wrote me a per­sonal
note that I would like to
share with the Highlanders, if
she won’t mind? “ I just couldn't
resist enclosing this note . . . to let
you know what being a Highland
er has meant to me. I think the
fact that your son, Bill, was in my
class had more influence on me at
a tender age to become a High­lander
than anything else. l e a n
well remember the day you visit­ed
our class at Longfellow and
de.monstr a\ e<\ bagpiper. Miout
the same time, I was a d m ir in g
and envying my neighbor, Joan
Dunlop, in her Highlander uni ­form.
These two things convined
me that I wanted to be a H i g h-lander
when I got to c o l l e g e .
And finally that day came in early
September, 1956. You can’t ap­preciate
how proud and happy I
was to be a Highlander and still
am as an Alum. I just wish there
was some way that every g i r l
with the same desire could have
the opportunity of playing for you
in the Highlanders. I ’ll always be
an Iowa fan and a Highl a n der
supporter. Keep up the marvelous
work.” (Thanks a million, K a t y ,
for these wonderful comme n ts.
I do appreciate them very much,
and hope you won’t mind my
sharing them.)
COLLEEN SINGLEY (1956 -59)
(Mrs. Charles J. Pinkerton) For­est
View Trailer Park, I o w a
City, Iowa.
“ I ’m now dental hygienist in the
Hospital for the Severely H a n di­capped
Children and my husband
is a senior dental student,” writ­es
this ex-piper. “ It was certainly
good to be back in Iowa C i t y
again, even though it will probab-y
be just a year. After J u n e
graduation we don’t know where,
but eventually I hope the Sunny
South. Seeing the Highlanders’
football game performances h a s
been very enjoyable as it brought
back many memories of being a
Highlander. Also, I have an add­ed
interest because my neighbor
has joined the ranks as a piper.”
M AR Y K A Y SEABURY (1956-
19) 519 Iowa Avenue, C o u n c i l
Bluffs, Iowa.
Mary Kay, ex-student Man­ager,
and dancer, is Child Wel­fare
Worker in Pottawott a m i e
County. She writes: “ On Novem­ber
25, 1960, I was a bridesmaid
in Nina Neil’s and Bob Gower’s
wedding. Bob is the son erf Profes­sor
Gower in the Music Depart­ment
at SUI. His older son, B i l l
Gower, was there from Greeley,
Colorado. After finding that I had
been a Highlander we had a long,
long chat about the ’good ole’
days’ . Bill Gower was a Scottish
Highlander when the ‘men wore
the kilts’ , and Mrs. Adamson
danced on the drum. We, of course,
had a big debate as to who look
ed better in kilts — I think the
girls won out!”
We noticed in the Des Moines
Register, January 8, 1961, an
announcement to the effect that
Mary Kay Seabury. . . . is the
fiancee of McCormick Royal Cov­ington
of Dallas, Texas.” (Best
wishes, Mary Kay.)
Iowa. The group looked very good
on national TV this fall and Judy
Clark and I said we felt like we
were right out there on the field
with everyone as we watc h ed
together here in Berkeley. Judy
has no doubt told you that she is
spending a year of graduate work
here at Cal and we are able to
see each other from time to time.
There are two other Iowa grad­uates
(still single girls) also
teaching in my same elementary
school, and still another tw o
came out here at the beginning
of the year with me. You see,
California is just a conglomera­tion
of Iowa wanderers. This is
not to say, however, that we are
not still very, very, fond of Iowa
and especially THE STATE UNI­VERSITY
OF IOWA SCOTT I S H
HIGHLANDERS!! ”
MARGARET LADD (1956 - 60)
534 Stannage Avenue, Albany 6,
California. Our ex-drummer, pip­er,
and Drum Major, sent us an
extremely clever card — ’a Marg­ie
Original trademark’ — plus a
most enlightening and interesting
letter. I ’m tempted to quote from
it verbatim: “ Dear Bill and High­landers:
It hardly seems possible
that Christmas vacation has come
so soon and there hasn’t been a
sign of snow for this part of the
country. As you no doubt know I
am ‘weathering’ through a year
in sunny California as an old maid
school teacher. Shortly after our
return from the European trip, I
packed up again (this time with
two steamer trunks in addit i o n
to my big plaid bag) and set out
for San Francisco and the Berke­ley
campus of the University of
California. My teaching posit i o n
is in an elementary school for the
Berkeley Unified School D i strict
and so am living in the East
.Bay area. My schoo\ room window
't looks out over the Golden Gate
Bridge and the Pacific Ocean so
I ’m getting quite an exposure to
lovely scenery.
My class of children, ages eight
and nine, is very cosmopolitan!
I have many adorable Orient a 1 s
in particular who frequently bring
interesting relics from the Far
East to show to the class. Many
of their parents have only recent­ly
come to the United States from
Japan, Hawaii, and Hong Ko n g .
They, in turn, have been saturat­ed
with tales of a strange bagpipe
band stowed away in the middle
of the com belt and seemed con­vinced
that IOWA is the only place
on earth! At any rate, both teach­er
and pupils are learning a lot
this year, and in all, Miss L a d d
likes her job very much.
I am living with two other teach­ers
here in the residential town
of Albany, California. We h a v e
rented an entire home so have
plenty of room for studying (don’t
ever say teachers have it easy!)
and entertaining. We drive in to
Berkeley to teach and find t h e
commuting very easy.
The University of California has
many interesting concerts, lectur­es,
and other activities that keep
us occupied when we aren't grad­ing
papers and making l e s s o n
plans. San Francisco has a w i d e
variety of entertainment s p o ts
too, as anyone who’s lived in this
area knows. I t ’s really quite pleas­ant
living in the East Bay and
yet being close to metropolitan
San Francisco. In my estimat i o n
it vies for the same cultural rec­ognition
as some of the well-known
cities of our European
tour. I still look at the treasured
slides I have of last summer,
though, and think of the exciting
time we all had. Highlanders has
meant a lot to me after graduat­ion
as it did during those f o u r
trying years of Liberal Arts at
SY B IL NORTON (1956-60 ) 511
West Third, Spencer, Iowa.
This ex-piper plans to be married
December 31 to Dr. Hugh Weig-man.
He is at present interning
at the Highland-Alameda County
Hospital in Oakland, C a l i forma.
Sybil asks if we remember her
summer romance while in E u r ­ope?
Yes indeed we do, and in
London especially!!! Best wishes
and congratulations to you and
Dr. Hugh, from all of us!
CAROL WETZELL (1956 - 60 >
(Mrs. John Landherr) 2000 West
Van Buren, Chicago 12, Illinois.
Carol, ex-piper, says that her hus­band
is in school at Illinois Med­ical
School, and it is his first
year. Carol is editor of the em
ployee Magazine for the 111 i n o is
Agricultural Association just off
Michigan Avenue. She continues:
“ John and I simply love it here
in Chicago. My job is very inter
esting. I take pictures, write ar
Vic\es, do the layout and am
completely responsible, d o n't
mean to sound wrapped up in
myself, just really.love my job.
And John is terribly, ent h u sed
about medical school. We were
lucky enough to see several Iowa
football games this year, includ­ing
the Northwestern game where
the Highlanders performed. What
a funny sensation that was for the
first time. And to make it even
funnier, I ’m just sure they were
doing some of the E u r o p e a n
formations. Living in a cold flat
in the slums of the big cruel city
is quite different than Iowa City
environment, but we love it just
the same and wouldn’t trade this
experience for the world. We
have one of those abodes entitled
‘efficiency apartments’ but you
can hardly manage to find t h e
efficiency when you can’t get to
the kitchen sink to p r epare
breakfast until you have f o 1 ded
the bed back into the c o u ch.
Just teasing! But this one room
is ours, all ours, and we c a n
guarantee that happiness re i g n s
supreme among the microscope,
the bag of bones few study, the
piles of books, and a lovely k i l t
skirt straight from Scotland.”
(Fond memories of the summer,
Carol!)
CAROLYN FOOTE (1956 - 60)
(Mrs. John Lee Heitz) Box 42,
Prairie City, Iowa.
Carolyn, ex-piper, is the commerc­ial
teacher in the C o m m u nity
Schools, teaching typewriting,
shorthand, and office pract i ce .
She adds: “With five classes a
day plus being in charge of the
school newspaper and annual I
am kept very busy. John is at­tending
Drake University a n d
working toward his B.A. deg r e e
in education. I enjoyed very much
the Highlander Homecoming Cof­fee
this year and so glad to see
some of the girls and recall mem­ories
of our wonderful E u ropean
trip this summer.” (I t was nice
to see you at the Coffee, t o o ,
Carolyn.)
JUDITH CROFT (1956-60 ) 20
North Dodge. Iowa City, Iowa.
Judy is an elementary m u s i c
supervisor in the Iowa City Pub­lic
Schools, and this ex-piper and
choral director, adds: “ I was en­gaged
the morning we arriv e d
home from our 1960 European
summer trip, and now am busy
with plans for a February 4, 1961,
wedding.” Her husband - to be
is William Hughes Carmicha e 1,
and he will graduate from t h e
College of Law in June. She con­tinues:
“ Enjoy my teaching im­mensely,
couldn’t be happier in
any other profession. Couldn’t
get used to sitting high in the
stands after sitting lower with
my Highlander friends four years
at football games — would love to
get my Highlander Chorus back
again — can't tell you how proud
I was of that group and what
fine work they did for me.” (You
can be sure we have been mighty
proud of all you did for the
Highlanders, Judy. Again t h a n k
you a million for your successful
direction of the Highlander Chor­us.
‘Best wishes on your forthcom­ing
marriage, and best wishes
always!)
JUDITH CLARK (1956 - 60)
2540 La Conte, Berkeley 9, Cali­fornia.
Judy is a graduate student
at the University of California. She
writes: “ I finished the s w e a ter
I was knitting on the trip, and it
fit Dave! We are engaged now
and planning a weding on August
12. Dave still has another year
at Dental School after this, so we
will be at SUI next year again.
This ex-drummer adds: “ Cal is a
good school — and plenty challen­ging.
I am working for an M. A.
in International Relations. Margie
Ladd and I both watched th e
Ohio State - Iowa game on TV.”
JEANE PECKUMN (1956 - 60)
(Mrs. Dennis Lumley) 1915 2nd
Avenue South, Apt. 3. Minneapol­is,
Minnesota.
This former piper rep o r t s:
“ In September Dennis and I mov­ed
to our apartment in Minneap­olis.
And I thought ‘moving’ was
tough last summer! We haven’t
been able to understand yet how
all those things could fit into our
car and we still can’t find room
for them in our apartm ent .
Our furnishings may be meagre,
but the European influence is un­mistakable
— there are souven­irs
all over from my wonder f u 1
summer of travel. I soon be­gan
working as an executive sec­retary
for the Colie & McV o y
Advertising Agency. My job is so
interesting and there hasn’t been
a dull moment yet! Dennis works
for Republic Finance Comp a n y
and likes his work very much,
too. Minneapolis is a wonder f u 1
city — we love it here. We’re hop­ing
the Highlanders come here in
the near future for their ‘a w a y ’
game. They looked great on TV
this year at Northwestern . . . We
think of you often.”
ANNABELLE EHLERS (1957-
58) (Mrs. William H. B u r ke)
501 W. Adams, Fairfield, Iowa.
Annabelle' ex-piper, is private sec­retary
in Parson College. H e r
husband. Bill, is a student there.
They were married July 14, 1960.
MARY SACKETT (1957 - 59)
(Mrs. Richard Carson) Coral Trai­ler
Park, Coralville, Iowa.
Mary, ex-piper, is a senior in
Commerce, doing practice teach­ing
now, and hoping to teach next
year in the vicinity of Iowa City.
Her husband, Dick, is a fresh­man
Medical student. She says:
“ The reports and pictures of last
summer’s trip sounded so — in­teresting!
Best of luck to all of
you.”
JANE JINKINSON (1957 - 60)
2330 Terrace Road, Des M o i nes,
Iowa. Jane, ex-drummer, is a
Dental Hygienist, employed by
Dr. E. S. Neufeld, located in the
Des Moines Building.
BARBARA BROHOLM (1957-60)
2011 Hollywood Court, Wilmette,
Illinois. This ex-piper, who w e nt
on the Foreign Tour with us in
1960, is to complete her work here
at SUI in February.
BARBARA RATCIJFFE (1957-
60) 940 45th Street, Des M o i nes.
Iowa - 728 E. Washington, Iowa
City, Iowa. This ex-drummer is
still in school, “ struggling away,”
she puts it, “ and practice
teaching in English at U n iversity
High School and missing t h e
Highlanders very much!!! ( An d
it goes without saying that we
miss her very much.)
SUZANNE RAYMOND (1958-60)
4801 Harwood Drive, Des Moines,
Iowa—728 E. Washington, Iowa
City, Iowa. Suzanne, ex - drum­mer,
is a senior this year, but
because of a heavy sched u 1 e,
had to drop out of Highlanders,
too. She plans to graduate in
August, 1961. (We miss this ex­drummer,
too.)
BARBARA NICE (1958 - 60)
(Mrs. Karl Looff) 321 A v e n u e
East, Ft. Madison, Iowa. Barbara
works as secretary and bookkeep­er
for a Trailer Sales Company,
and Karl works with a surveying
crew at the Iowa O r d i n a n c e
Plant. Kurt Markam, their 4
months old son, “was bom pre­maturely
and spent his first month
in an incubator,” writes this ex­drummer,
“ He’s getting along fine
now. Karl and I are going back to
school next fall but we are trans­ferring
to the University of Miss­ouri.
Karl is going to get his de­gree
in Geology and I hope to
get mine in Elementary Educa­tion.
We saw the Highlanders at
the Ohio State game and thought
they looked terrific.”
COLONEL AND MRS. W. W.
JENNA (1946-51) 830 A v e n u e
Sistina, Coral Gables 46, Florida
“ Young Bill — (William W a l l ace
Jenna. Jr.) — is re-married to a
very fine young lady. The new
wife and baby, Valerie, aged 2
years and nine months, get along
like nobody's busine