Scottish Highlander newsletter, 1963-1964

              H ighla nder
C hristmas L etter
1963
Dear Highlanders:
We really have an excuse for
being late with the 1964 High­lander
Christmas Letter this
time. We were up to our neck
in football season all fall, and
of course swung right into pre­parations
for the Foreign Trip.
Actually, Nadine Thornton had
to finally take all the letters
home and type them out at
home. She never could find
time in the office. This is noth­ing
new. We usually get it out
in July anyway. Alibies! Ali-bies!
First of all, thanks a million
to all you nice people for the
stack of Christmas cards. 1 so
thoroughly enjoyed seeing the
pictures of your youngsters, that
I ’d like to stare them with you.
We will print them with this
edition if its technically poss­ible.
As you have suspected
long ago, my real reason in
getting this Highlander Christ­mas
Letter together, is so that
I can hear from you people
and catch up on your doings
and travels. No matter bow
long it is since I have seen you,
I still can remember you, so
keep up the good work.
The following are excerpts
from the Highlander Christmas
Letter Questionnaries. Many
letters had to be edited to
avoid repetition. All of them, of
course, send Christmas greet­ings
to Highlander Alums no
matter where they are. All ask­ing
me about the Adamson fam­ily.
These comments have been
edited out, and I ’ll fill you in
at the end of the Christmas
letter.
GEORGE F. FIESELMANN
(1936-39) 905 E. 4th, Spencer,
Iowa. This ex-piper, is a physi­cian
and surgeon in General
Practice in Spencer. He marr­ied
Ruth Jane McCutcheon in
1944, and they have two child­ren:
John F. now 17 years old,
and Jane Am who is 14. We
do appreciate hearing from you,
and hope if ever you’re in Iowa
City, you wiH drop in for a
visit.
CARL HENRY LIND (C .H.)
(1937-40) 1835 9th Avenue North,
Port Dodge, Iowa. The owner of
C. H. Lind General Contractor
Company, 1099 Kenyon Road,
reports to us: “ Put on the first
Highlander uniform & took pic­tures
for publicity!” He played
the bugle in 1937. “Had hoped
to be one of the first to have
second generation in the High­landers,”
he continues, “ but
my oldest daughter, Ann Louise,
soon to be Mrs. Richard Koine,
age 22, chose to go to Iowa
State. The second daughter,
Carol, 18 is now a Freshman at
SUI; (John Henry is 16), and
Carol is interested in the High­landers,
but felt that the load
was too much this year but
hopes to try later.” We cer­tainly
hope she will drop in the
Highlander Office at the Union,
or over at the Barracks, and
make herself known, C.H. Do
teU her she is most welcome.
Mrs. Lind was the former Har­riett
C. Stanbra, and they were
married in June, 1939. It’s great
to hear from the early ‘male’
members. Thanks for answering
our Questionnarie, C.H!
NYLE W. JONES (1938-41)
16449 Septo, Granada Hills, Cal­ifornia
91343. This ex - tenor
drummer is Head of Personnel
Research, Aerospace Corpora­tion,
in Los Angeles and he and
the former Gret Yetter have
three children: Rick 11, Wendy
Sue 9, and Holly Anne 7. Nyle
says: “ Really not much to add
to last year’s digest of the Jon­eses’
doings. We got a little
ramping trailer early in the
summer which made several
weekends more enjoyable at the
beadies and mountains, plus a
fine week exploring the Californ­ia
coast up to the Big Sur
area and the Monterey Penin­sula.
Saw a wonderful perform­ance
by the Black Watch on
their visit to Los Angeles in
mid-October, and it certainly
brought hack the memories.”
Great to hear from you again!
LAURA DEMPSTER (Mrs. A1
Rice) (1939-43) 27180 Meadow-brook,
Detroit, Michigan. Lau­ra’s
husband is a partner in
Gail & Rice Inc., Detroit’s lar­gest
theatrical agency. This for­mer
dancer reports a wonderful
trip abroad for three weeks last
fail “ commencing with our land­ing
at Prestwick airport near
Glasgow. In all our flying ex­perience,
this is the firrt air­port
we’ve seen where the run­way
crosses a major highway!
Glad they have efficient stop
lights. Made the trip from there
to Edinburgh by car, travelling
through the “ TVossachs” , Rob
Roy country. Saw Loch Lom­ond,
Loch Drunkie, and thor­oughly
enjoyed the country side.
During our 4 day-stay in Edin­burgh,
we ate Haggis twice
(and enjoyed it, believe it or
not!) and sow all the wonderful
historic sights in the city, but
unfortunately didn’t get to see
any pipers or kilts! Following
our stay there, we went to Lon­don,
Paris, Nice, Rome and
Madrid. Needless to say we
came home exhausted but thrill­ed
with it all.” The four Demp­ster
children are Laurie 15%,
Tim 14, Leslie Ann 12, & Mich­ael
8%.
JOHN R. CHRISTENSEN
(1941-42) 2002 Barbara Drive,
Palo Alto, California. This ex-drummer
writes that he has
two children: John 13, and Kar­en
10, and his wife’s name was
Fay Williams. “ Last year - ‘63’
spent 5 months on a sabbatical
- 3 months - in Gateborg, Swe­den,
doing ear research and
study,” reports Dr. Christensen,
who is in Otolaryngology in the
Palo Alto Clinic. “ The remain­ing
time was spent traveling,
and one of the high points of
the trip was the Military Tat­too
during the Edinburgh Music
Festival. I hope you have a
chance to see it during your
trip. Good luck!” Certainly is
great to hear from you, John.
I agree, the Military Tattoo is
a thrilling experience to see and
hear.
KENNETH KRABBENHOFT
(1941-42) 27 Oakdale Blvd., Plea­sant
Ridge, Michigan. This ex-piper
M.D. is in the Department
of Radiology in Harper Hospital,
Detroit He reports: "Nothing
new. Nothing changed. Too
busy. Good luck on your Euro­pean
Trip!” Thanks to you for
taking time out from your very
busy life to answer our Ques­tionnaire
with kind words and
RICHARD C. PARK (1941-42)
Victor, Iowa. Snare Drummer
Park is a lawyer, graduated
from SUI in 1944, and ’47, and
who married Rita Skahill in
1947. They have three children:
Tom 15, Susan 14, and Bill 4.
"Always enjoy seeing the High­landers
at the Football games.
Best wishes on the Fourth Eur­opean
Trip,” he concludes. It is
always mighty fine to hear from
these ‘earlier male members’
yearly. Thanks again for writing
in!
JACK DROZ, (1941-43) Well­man,
Iowa. This ex-piper says
there is no change in his activ­ities,
except: “Governor Hughes
appointed yours truly to the
State Board of Chiropractic Ex­aminers
in June of 1963,” Con­gratulations
to you, Jack!
C. H. CROWE, JR. (1942) 1201
E. Broadway, Hewlett, New
York. Cliff, former Drum Maj­or,
manager of J. C. Penney’s
in Valley Stream, N.Y., is the
father of a son, Eddie, who
must be eight years old at this
writing. We repeat, it is good
to hear from you men of the
‘40’s. If ever you come this
way, don’t fail to look us up!
MARY LIX GILLEN (Mrs.
Robert J. Raim) (1939-41; 1946-
48) 7305 El Dorado Drive, Bueno
Park, California Forma1 dancer
and snare drummer Mary Liz
writes: “ This has been a long,
lonely year. Bob is on a ‘hard­ship
tour’ in Vietnam (Logistics
Advisor for the Civil Guard and
Self Defense Corp, Saigon) and
we, the children, Jeffrey 8, Tim­othy
6, Terry 5, and Kathleen
2, are sitting out our time in
the place we like best - Cali­fornia.
Bob will return in March
and then we pack up our gear
and head for a 2 year tour in
Germany. Such is the lot of an
Army Wife and I love it. We
will see you Highlanders in
Europe. I do hope you are own­ing
to Germany. Saw Bobbie
Ginter Huston in Sept., as she
and her family were in this
area for a Kiwanis Convention.
We had a great time talking
over the fun days in Highland­ers.
. .” Best wishes to you,
Mary Liz, and the Major, and
check with out 1964 Foreign
Trip Itinerary - we’d love see­ing
you!
JOHN A. LINKLETTER (1942-
43) 18 Park Avenue, Old Green­wich,
Connecticut. Joan Otter-man
Linkletter, and husband,
John - our ex-piper, have three
children. Gayle is 11, Scott 8,
and John 5.
DONALD E. JOHNSON
(1942 - )111 Second Avenue N.E.,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Don pur­chased
a set of pipes, much to
the chagrin of his wife and
neighbors!
GWEN BUSTER & JAMES
SLATER (Dr. and Mrs. Janies
L. Slater) (1942-43 Snare Drum,
Jim; 1943-47 Twirler and Snare
Drum, Gwen) 2101 S. 5th Aven­ue,
Arcadia, California. This is
a unique combination in that
both Jim and Gwen are former
Highlanders! Dr. Jim is a phy­sician
specializing in Obstetrics
and Gynecology. The Slaters
have three children: Jim 16,
Robin 13, and Mark 4 years old.
“How wonderful that you are
going to Europe again, Bill and
all!” writes Gwen . . . “ We
had planned to come to Iowa
last summer but were busy re­modeling
our house and just
took a week at Laguna Beach
instead. Will try again next
summer. Jim is now in high
school, Robin is in 8th grade,
and Mark will start next year.
(Big) Jim is busy, has a new
partner and so has a little more
time off.” Thanks, Gwen for the
addresses of two former High­landers.
We do like to keep our
files up-to-date, and your help
is greatly appreciated.
ELEANOR NISSEN (Mrs.
Robert Bell) (1943-44; 45-47)
1548 Melbrook Drive, Munster,
Indiana. This ex-piper’s husband
is Supervisor in the American
Oil Company, and they have
two children: Bill 12, and Kathy
10. “ The Bells have had a
healthy, happy 1963. We seem
to be perpetually busy with our
many activities. Little League
Team (Bill’s) won the Munster
A league Championship. PTA,
Church, bridge, dancing school,
Lion’s Club, Boy Scouts, and
Junior Girl Scouts to mention a
few. As the children grow older
it is quite a job to get everyone
where they should be at the
right time. We didn’t get to a
game at Iowa this year, but
hope to next year . . Had an
interesting vacation this sum­mer.
. . Washington, D.C.,
Gettysburg, Pa. . . Fontana
Village in the Smokies in North
Carolina for a week. We met
my sister, Phyllis Chenault from
Miami, Fla. and her family
there. Also got to stop for an
overnight visit in Lillington, N.
C. with Eileen Doerres and her
family. So good to see them. I
get to chat with Marsena Nel­son
Gerlach occasionally at Girl
Scout, or school, or American
Oil affairs,” concludes another
loyal ex-Highlander.
WILMA SEEMUTH (GUTK-NECHT)
(1943-44) 7302 E. Vista
Drive, Scottsdale, Arizona. This
ex-dancer-drummer, Willie, re­pents
that she has a nice job
with the First National Bank in
Scottsdale. Her children, Jack
Charles, a Sophomore, and Judy
Elizabeth, a Freshman are hap­py
in their high school. “ . . .
Think of you often, love to hear
news from Iowa City. I never
want to lose contact with you
and the wonderful Highlander
group. Your friendship and kind­ness
has always been so very
meaningful to me, BUI . . . ”
Again, I say how good it is to
hear from all of you, too, and
always feel free to write us at
the Office, even if it isn’t news­letter
time, we’re glad to hear
from you!
ROSEMARY REID (Mrs.
John W. Leon) (1943-46) 9517
Justine Drive, Annandale, Vir­ginia.
The Leons have two child­ren:
Christine 9, and Bruce 5.
This ex-piper’s husband is pri­vate
investigator and lie detec­tor
consultant with offices in
Washington, D. C. Rosemary
asks about the forthcoming Eur­opean
trip of the Highlanders.
You’ll be able to read the itin­erary
in the Newsletter else­where,
and we surely hope to
see you and other friends dur­ing
our short stay in Washing­ton
in June.
MARSENA NELSON (Mrs. J.
Guilford Gerlach) (1943-47 ) 8330
Crestwood Avenue, Munster, In­diana.
This snare drummer
says: “ Nothing very different
with us since last year at all.
Same people, same house, same
jobs. We keep busy now with
Girl Scouts, etc., and are plan­ning
a vacation eastward this
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summer to include the N. Y.
World’s Fair, probably in June-
July. The European trip sounds
wonderful, as usual. Daughter
Lynn is 10 years old. Guil is a
chemical engineer with the Am­erican
Oil Company, Whiting
Indiana, Refinery.”
LUCILE SCHOENFELD (Mr*.
Stan Lichtenstein) (1944-46)
12000 Jeanette Place, Granada
Hills, California. Stan is assis­tant
store manager of the J.C.
Penney Company in North
Hollywood. Their Christmas
poem, with 'Little Likeness of
the Lichtenstein’s’ and comely
picture is self explanatory:
“Our fourth Christmas letter
gives us a good reason
For sending you greetings this
Holiday season.
Last year's message was no
big thing,
But a poem to you makes our
hearts sing.
Susanne is near twelve, in the
chorus this year.
With Girl Scouts and choir
she finds time quite dear.
A close look at the picture
(unfortunately not reproduced
here) and you may discern,
A lesson in falling at school
she did learn.
Lucile as co-leader found Girl
Scouts great fun,
Camp-o-rama at Simi kept her
on the run.
The church and the circle
were added to her list
Of activities she helped and
gave an assist.
Penney's added appliances to
stire Stanley’s mind,
A new source of customers
he knew they would find.
The store’s doing fine, the
sales keep roaring,
His spirits are high if they
just keep on soaring.
This year brought us a black
Dodge » boM,
After fifteen years that Chry-sler’s
quite old.
We tried the new car in a
trip to Hearst Castle,
With luxury like that no trip
is a hassel.
Vacation at Santa Cruz midst
the tall Redwood trees,
Riding, hiking, and swimming
we soaked up with ease.
Sue trapped a mouse after
many hard tries,
And safe in a cage it stopped
ladies' cries.
Ti11 next Christmas letter
which we hope you’ll receive,
May many good blessings give
a warm Christmas Eve.
Another living tree is coming
and soon it will say,
'Have a very Merry Christ­mas
and a Happy Holiday!”
CONNIE CARLSON (Mrs.
Harry B. Carlson) (1944-48)
2613 48th Place, Des Moines 10,
Iowa. Harry is a manager in
the CPA firm Peat, Marwick,
Mitchell and Company, and the
ex-piper has three children. Al­len
14, Susan 11, and Douglas
8. “Miss seeing the Highlanders
perform at each game," writes
Connie. “ May you have a most
successful European trip. The
family made a trip west this
summer. Saw many of the pla­ces
we visited on the California
trip in 1947. Was fun to re-visit
them. We didn’t have to double
up on the beds on this trip as
on the train!”
M A R G E R Y MCDONALD
(Mrs. Chat W. McKinley) (1944-
48) R. D. 2, Box 149, Browns­ville,
Pennsylvania. Ex - snare
drummer and tenor drummer.
Our year was busy with the
activities of our five children,
Karen Lane 14, Laurie 12, Les­lie
9, Margery 7, and Chuck 6.
Chas spent most of his time at
the newspaper office with all
the problems a new press en­tailed.
I kept busy with church
work, PTA’s and a Brownie
troop. We had a terrific week­end
in Columbus at the lowa-
Ohio State game. Saw several
old friends. Our year ahead will
be busier than ever. Our son,
Chuck, is now on a new pro­gram
under the direction of
Philadelphia Rehabilitation Cen­ter.
It is a very time consum­ing
program but is bringing re­sults.
If any of you have a
brain injured child, feel free to
write to us and we will explain
this new neurological approach
that Philadelphia Rehabilita­tion
Center is using.
JOAN CARTER (Mrs. David
Ring) (1945-47) 1860 Mountain
View Drive, Tiburon, California.
The Ring children are Debbie,
almost 11, David 9 and Diane 7.
David, Sr. is an attorney in San
Francisco, and on the School
Board. Joan is working as a
volunteer Gray Lady in the
school program; works in school
library; a Girt Scout Leader,
and concludes: “ I also keep up
tennis with one morning a
week,” so it sounds as though
this former snare drummer
never has a dull moment.
MARIDEE HILL (Mrs.
George J. Hegstrom, Jr.) (1945-
47) 3600 Oakland, Ames, Iowa.
This ex-drummer’s husband is
internist at McFarland Clinic,
and the Hegstrom’s children are
Trey (George HI) age 14; Mor-ley,
daughter, age 11; and Erik,
10. “ Oh, the sameness of it all­same
husband, same children,
same address, in the same town,
and the same busy, active, chal­lenging,
fun life we’ve had since
we’ve moved to Ames,” writes
Mar idee. “ Same intentions of
going to SUI Homecoming some
vear, but we did get to the
Iowa - Minn. game. Plan to
take all three children to Aspen
in February - and just bet
things won’t be the same after
that! But the same best wishes
to you and your family, Bill,
and my cohorts of 1945-‘47.”
B A R B A R A HENDERSON
(Mrs. G. E. Korn) (1945-48) 16
Gerlach Place, Larchmont, New
York. Jerry is with LIFE books
as an assistant editor and Bob­bie
is assistant to the Children's
Librarian at the Larchmont
Public Library. Bobbie was a
tenor drummer, and she writes:
“ I ’m working on my Master’s
in Library Science at Columbia.
The schedule is unbelievable but
naturally the whole family
thinks it worth while since U
all goes well we will have 3 in
college at the same time -
(Ellen is 13, as is her twin,
Margaret, and Susan is 11) -
and I’ll be working their way
through. Is there a chance the
Highlanders will be at the
World’s Fair? I would so very
much like to know where and
when." You’ll be glad to read
the report on the Itinerary of
the European Trip - and how
wonderful if we can see you
when in New York in June!
SALLY ANN QUIST (Mrs.
Paul W. Kamman, Jr.) (1945-49)
11760 S.W. Breyman Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97219. Sally
Ann writes that her husband is
Art Director for McCann-Erick­son
Advertising Agency. They
have three children: Lynn 10,
Trent 8, and Kathy 6tt. This
ex-piper and tenor drummer
sent a newspaper clipping from
THE OREGONIAN, January «.
1964, by L. H. Gregory, Sports
Editor, the column entitled
GREG’S GOSSIP, in which he
had reflections on the recently
completed football season, the
Rose Bowl, etc., quoting: “Some
years back when the now hum­ble
49ers were flying high, we
saw a pro-football game in San
Francisco's Kezar Stadium
which was featured as 'High
Schcol Band Day,’ with bands
there in colorful uniforms from
nearly 90 high schools. Each
band was accompanied by at
least a full platoon of baton-twirling
majorettes, tall, med­ium
and on down to baby size .
At a California -Oregon game
in Berkeley, the same thing -
majorettes all over the place,
including a large contingent of
'em in the college bands. The
Rose Bowl also used to have its
quotas of ’em, mostly from Pa­cific
Coast schools, the Big Ten,
while not ignoring the majorette,
never made her a 'craze' item.
They sometimes let feminism
be represented in another way,
as with Iowa's 'Kilty Klanette’
(some name like that) of pretty
Iowa lasses, in full - skirted
plaids who marched around
most attractively, and no maj­orettes
at all . . . If drum
majorettes are out, what will
take their place as college Fem­inism’s
share in these spectac­les?
. . . Have your undressed
drum majorettes, if you insist;
we much prefer the dolled up,
dancing, look pretty chorus
line.” Thanks for the Interesting
dipping. We’ll put it in the
Highlander Scrapbook!
M A R G A R E T MCCASLIN
(Mrs. Richard M. Hemingway)
(194549) 314 3rd Avenue N.E.,
Waverly, Iowa. This ex - piper
has a daughter, Hollis, who is
ten years old now. She writes:
“ Hollis attacking the flute and
her practicing drives me wild.
Really, though, die does pret­ty
well for a 5th grader . . .
Like my job. I am now Assis­tant
Dean of Women at Wart-burg
College in Waverly, on a
half-time basis and in February
and March will practice teach
English in Waverly School Sys­tem
. . .The job is for this year
only but works out beautifully.
Plan to fly to Mesa, Arizona, to
spend the holidays with my pa­rents.”
It will be remembered
that Margaret lost her lawyer-husband
a year ago in Decem­ber,
and we are pleased to note
she is making a good adjust­ment.
NORMA HAEGG (Mrs. Don­ald
Pollock) (194549) 825 Olive,
Menlo Park, California. This ex­piper
sends “Greetings to all” ,
saying there is “ nothing new”
—but that her husband is with
Utah Construction, and their
children are Sally 8, John Hen­ry
6, and Suzanne 3.
BOBBIE GUNTER (Mrs.
Jack Huston) (1945-49) 356 Ali­cia
Way, Los Altos, California.
Ex-snare drummer and dancer,
with children Maridee 8, and
Robin 5*4, plus Jade, who has
the Russell - Huston Store for
Men, tells of their acquiring a
cabin at the seacoast town of
Aptos, inland among the red­wood
trees, on a mountainside,
with a view of the ocean, about
an hours' drive from Lot Altos,
where the Hustons can spend
weekends relaxing “ The latter
part of May we spent four days
at Yosemite National Park . . .
and we recommend the scenery
and hiking. The views of the
valley below, the wall on the
opposite side, and the surround­ing
mountains, breathtaking,”
writes Bobbie. “ Jack was un­usually
busy at the store all
summer. Maridee and Robin
spent a good deal of their time
swimming. Before we knew it
vacation time was over and
school was starting. Maridee is
in second grade, and much
more enthused about Brownies
than she is the academic as­pect
of school. Wonder where
she gets that? She has just
started piano lessons. Robin is
in kindergarten where she ex­cells
in art. Her real love is bal­let
and she is quite a serious
student. Jack continues to be
very active in community af­fairs.
Fortunately business is
good so the store operation is a
constant challenge. As for me,
it keeps me busy just keeping
up with my family. As fellow­ship
chairman of our local
A.A.U.W. branch, I'm busy right
now planning a program for
February. Then there is
Y.W.C.A., Brownies, PTA, golf,
country dub, etc., etc.!”
MARTHABELLE COOLEY
(Mrs. Elwyn C. Pickart) (1945-
49) 3004 Carolina Avenue, Lake­land,
Florida. Anne Elise is 7
years dd and Alan John is 2H,
and Pick is starting his 12th
year with American Agricultur­al
Chemical Company at Pierce,
Florida, and last spring was
promoted to Supervisor of the
Engineering Department for the
Phosphat Rock Mines, writes
this ex-bass drummer. “ Since
we live in the land of sunshine,
I am taking up golf, in self •
defense more or less,” contin­ues
Marthabelle, “ as I have
been a golf widow long enough.
It isn’t as easy as it looks, but
I keep at it as time permits.
With Anne in second grade, I'm
now beginning the PTA, Blue­bird,
etc., bit. Have spent some
time advising the 5th and 6th
graders in the Journalism Club,
and we have published two edi­tions
of the first elementary
school paper in these parts.
Alan keeps me busy the rest of
the time right hare at home-had
a broken left arm before
he was 2% years dd, from
falling out d a tree!” It is won­derful
you people plan to come
to New York for the World’s
Fair this summer. As you will
see from our itinerary — we’ll
be in New York June 13 to 17,
performing at the Fair on June
15th. See you there!
MARILYN GUENTHER (Mrs.
F. A. Rummel, Jr.) (1946-47)
Britt, Iowa. Marilyn, ex-piper,
and Floyd have three children:
Ellen 14, Arddl 11, and Floyd
III, 6. “ I greatly enjoy reading
the ‘Christmas Letter’ every
year,” writes Marilyn. “ Read­ing
it, and watching the girls
march at football games bring
back many happy memories.
‘Hello’ to all my dd friends!”
It is always good to hear from
you, Marilyn, and about your
husband who is president d the
First State Bank d Britt.
KAY KLOTZBACH (Mrs. Don­ald
L. Risk) (194649) 303 West
Diana, Phoenix, Arizona. Kay,
bagpiper, husband who heads
Builders Contrd Department
with the Arizona Title Insurance
and Trust Company, and three
children Bill 12, John 9, and
Janet 2, moved to Phoenix —
“ but the wonderful weather out
here makes us wonder why we
didn’t come sooner” , she adds.
“ Spent Christmas Eve day with
Margaret McCaslin Hemingway
who was out here with Holly
visiting her parents. It was fun
chatting about our dd Iowa
cronies with many fond memo­ries
d Highlanders, and you.
Bill."
JEANNE PETERSON (Mrs.
Arnold Charlton) < 1946-52) Prim-gbar,
Iowa. The Charlton twins,
Katherine and Lynn are now six
years dd. Arnold is cashier of
the Primghar Savings Bank.
“Our project for the year was
the trip to see Arnie’s folk in
Maine. We left on Good Friday
and leisurely crossed Vermont
and New Hampshire. The rude
awakening came the last morn­ing
on the way up when we
discovered Kathy had chicken
pox! We quickly viewed the At­lantic
and headed north - a
most memorable trip! Lynn
waited to show the 'colors’ until
the day after we came home.
The trip (fid not turn out to be
as relaxing as we’d planned,
but we did accomplish the
‘maine’ purpose, for this visit
was only the third Arnie’s folks
have bad with the grandchild­ren.
In November we had a few
days in Chicago while Arnie at-tened
a bank conference, and
wfaUe there we had a reunion
with Eloise Peterson Furber and
her husband and daughter,
Edith. The men were pleasantly
surprised with the personalities
'come to life’ and we had a
wonderful evening together.
Etoise and 'link* are most In­teresting
and vital, and those d
you within visiting distance are
fortunate. Janie Pauls Youngs-trom
and I met St Madison,
Wisconsin, in August and noted
the changes the years had
brought. Our husbands complet­ed
the three summer sessions in
the banking course and we ex­changed
pictures of children and
comments on our worlds. It is
such a thrilling occasion when
you can see what fine adults
your friends of college yean
have become . . . Thank you
BiH, and the McKinleys, and the
Staff who make this letter ex­change
possible,*’ concludes IM«
snare drummer.
JANE WALKER (Mrs. Paul
Koss) (1947 - 48) 1333 Jones
Street, San Fransisco, Californ­ia.
“Spent a great deal d the
past year traveling,” reports
this former piper. “Made two
trips to the Hawaiian Islands;
toured Japan, Hong Kong and
Thailand; made a fishing trip
to British Columbia (where in
Powell River, B.C. I found my-s
e 1 f doing a fantastically
RUSTY Highland flk « for some
members of the PoweH River
award winning pipe band). I
don’t think I convinced anyone
of any great hidden ehtitty, but
if I understood correctly what
was being said tfarougi the Scot­tish
accents, I did get an 'A*
for effort We have now just
returned from spending the
Christmas and New Years bdt-days
in Mexico and are busy
with plans for an European
trip around the 1st of April. I’m
afraid we shaH have returned
H l _ IT! i oetore me tug Jnifte.a.nIa ieir.ms a|, ir,r iv■e,
tt certainly would be thrilling
to be a spectator in Europe
somewhere while the Highland­ers
were performing!!" Jane’s
husband is owner of the Pad
Koss Supply Company.
1M3 HIGHLANDER CHRISTMAS LETTER PAGE THREE
VIRGINIA WHEELER (Mrs.
J. W. Spellman) (1947-49) 1306
Stephens Drive, Normal, Illinois,
61761. The Spellman’s three chil­dren
are Barbara 14, Jimmy 13,
and Mark David 10. Jim is
Actuary with the State Farm
Life Insurance Company. This
ex-piper reports: “ Jimmy got
an ‘Outstanding’ on his exhibit
at the state science fair held in
the new assembly hall at Ur-bana
this spring. We’re very
proud of him since its the first
year he’s altered, and most
awards (especially the highest)
go to junior and senior high
school students. Jim and I got
away this fall for 9 days - wan­dered
through Indiana, Kentucky
(mostly at night), Tennessee,
Virginia, North Carolina, and
ended up at the Greenbriar at
White Sulphur Springs, West
Virginia, where Jim had his
yearly physical. Oh, that place
is lovely! The service and food
are out of this world. Last year
we took the whole family out
to the Y.W.C.A. Camp at Estes
Park, and enjoyed it so much
we’re planning on doing it again
this coming summer, if we’re
lucky. We did a bit of remodel­ing
- replaced a window in our
bedroom with a large picture
window made into a bay. Then
with new bedroom furniture,
Jim and I nearly live in there.
The children are looking for­ward
to Christmas . . best
wishes to you all and my
thoughts will be with you
throughout the coming year.”
P A T R I C I A MOREHEAD
(Mrs. David J. Bullock) (1947-
49) 202 Crombie Place, Atlantic,
Iowa. This ex-piper reports that
her husband is Sales Executive
with O’Bryan Bros, Chicago.
They have four children. Susan
12, Cynthia 9, Leslie 6, and Eli­zabeth
1%. “We’re all at the
same stand, either growing up
or older!” writes Pat. “ Our old­er
girls have discovered the fun
of summer camp. Leslie is so
glad to finally be in school after
just missing it last year. Betsy
is the busiest of us all and
compiling quite a breakage rec­ord.
See you Homecoming.”
PATRICIA HODGEN (Mrs.
Jay Storey) (1947-50 ) 722 W 12
Street S. Newton, Iowa. This ex­piper
writes that her husband
is manager of the Wage and
Salary Administration of the
Maytag Company in Newton.
They have two children: Doug­las
10, and Barbara 7.
B. J. MILLER (Mrs. Robert
Penrose) (1947-50 ) 2604 Amelia,
Burlington, Iowa. B. J. says
they have returned to Burling­ton
after a pleasant and pro­ductive
year in Iowa City. She
adds: “ I completed work on my
M. A. in Elementary Educa­tion
— now back to teaching
here again and enjoying it more
than the ‘student-life’. Bob has
had a good year health -wise.
It was such fun being so 'close’
to all the Highlanders and cam­pus
activities last year and see­ing
so many former ‘clanswo­men’.”
Yes, we’re sorry you’ve
moved, yet Burlington is not too
far away for you to come see
us any time. We hope this ex-drummer
and dancer will re­turn
often.
DONA DOBSON (Mrs. Virgil
Harder) (1947-50) 6025 50 N.E.,
Seattle, Washington, 98115. This
ex-piper thinks that she must
be in a rut for having filled out
the Questionnaire much the
same way for several years:
“ Virg is still at the University
of Washington, Associate Pro­fessor
in B.A., and busier than
ever. The children, Christine 11,
and Donald 9, are involved in
everything and on the go per­petually.
I’m still a ‘coordina­tor
and taxi driver’ ” . But you
must remember, Dona, its al­ways
mighty fine to hear from
you—so keep on filling out your
Questionnaire!!
WA N D A KRABBENHOFT
(Mrs. Paul W. Brechler) (1948-
52) 2940 E. Bates Avenue, Den­ver,
Colorado. Wanda, ex-piper,
writes that Paul is Commission­er
of the Western Athletic Con­ference.
“ I was hoping to see
my favorite ‘Highlanders’ in ac­tion
last November at the Not­re
Dame game as I was in
Iowa on business due to my fa­ther’s
death. However, because
of the tragedy of President Ken­nedy’s
passing, I was doomed
to disappointment. Perhaps the
future will provide a trip to
Iowa and I can watch the gang
and remember when! I ’m very
envious of the gals making the
Fourth European Trip. My sin­cere
hope is that they have an
inspiring and wonderful time.”
MARICA MARY HEALY
(Mrs. Halsey M. Cook) (1948-52)
3802 Greenway, Baltimore, Md.
This ex-piper writes: “ . . .We
are presently deep in plans to
move back down town to the
Old Rectory, built in 1791 and
an architectural gem. It has
been used for offices recently,
but we feel if we’re going to
make our ministry to the busi­ness
community count for some­thing,
it’ll be a lot more effec­tive
from the area itself. Pre­sently
we’re living in a lovely
residential section — nice, but
it doesn’t make our commit­ment
to metropolitan mission­ary
work look very real. It may
be a little rough on the kids
down there, but since they go
to St. Paul’s school in the coun­try,
and we can get away to
the St. Lawrence River in the
summer, we figure they can
manage. (Hie children are Bill
8, Cynthia 10, Heather 7, Kath­leen
5, and Halsey, Jr. 1%)
The main library, the Pea­body
Institute and our new Civ­ic
Colter will be within walk­ing
distance, so they shouldn’t
suffer too much. I’m still teach­ing
school (at St. Timothy’s a
girls boarding school nearby)
three days a week and love it
as much as ever. Some people
have hospital committees or
P.T.A. and-or garden club, etc.,
for me, it’s teaching and I do
nothing else and find life very
satisfying. (I say ‘nothing’ light­ly
— with 5 kids and a 3-floor
house!)
Hope all is well with you and
family, Bill. How I ’d love to
see them — can hardly believe
they’re all grown up now. Be^
of luck on the European Trip
—I ’m a little green.”
Marcia’s husband is Rector of
Old St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church “ right smack in the
heart of downtown Baltimore.
In addition the par&i has 2
schools which help keeps him
busy, too,” concludes Marica.
Always good to hear from you.
JOAN DURR (Mrs. Robert E.
Fulton) (1949-51) 2606 East Col­umbia,
Davenport, Iowa. Bob is
with Crucible Steel Company as
a sales representative, and this
former piper-dancer reports:
“ Note our new address. Same
city — different house. We need­ed
a little more space so we
bought a larger house which we
are now in the process of try­ing
to furnish. Last summer we
attended a convention in Jasp­er
National Park, Alberta, Can­ada,
and while there I went
shopping in a store called Mal-owney’s
(Not very Scottish!).
Now I feel like I ’m back with
the Highlanders in my new kilt
purchased there. The Highland­ers
looked good at the games.
Noticed a few new routines.
Good luck in Europe — make
lots of good friends for the
U.S.A.!” The Fultons children
are Linda now 10, and Bobby 8.
SALLY YEATES (Mrs. Walt­er
A. Sedelow, Jr.) (1949-52)
335 Los Limes Drive, Pacific
Palisades, California. This piper
and drummer and her husband
are at the System Development
Corporation as Human Factors
Scientists — a non-profit cor-portation
which does research
in the public interest.
SHARON BROWN (Mrs. Char­les
Toland) (1949-52) 700 S.
Pine, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Shar­on,
ex-piper, and doctor-husband
have four children: Connie is 9,
Cory 7, Kent 4, and Anne 2.
Living as close as they do, we
hope they’ll come to SUI for
some games next fall.
BARBARA WICK (Mrs. Jay
C. Timmerman) (1949-53) 1716
E. Court. Iowa City, Iowa. This
ex-snare and tenor drummer re­ports
that her husband is here
at SUI in the Dermatology De­partment
of SUI Hospital as a
resident. “ Jay completed his
tour of duty with the U.S. Army
in August,” Barb continues,
and we moved from Fort Sill,
Oklahoma to Iowa City in time
to start Barbie, 6 years old, in
first grade . . .We enjoyed see­ing
the Highlanders perform
again and the girls are old
enough now to express their de­sires
to be ‘Highlanders’ too.”
Their other little girl Betsy, is
four.
JANIE WOODBURN (Mrs.
Marvin Moles) (1949-53) 1009 S.
13th Avenue, W. Newton, Iowa.
The Christmas greeting from
the Moles this year shows pic­tures
of their three children:
David 6Vi; Diane 4V6 and Don­ald
2. Marvin is a doctor assoc­iated
with the Newton Clinic.
He did a two week course at
Cook County Hospital in Chica­go
in April, at which time Jan­ie
took David along, and it turn­ed
out to be quite an eventful
trip! “ The church still takes a
good deal of our time,” Janie
writes. She is assistant nursery'
roll superintendent, and will be
a circle chairman this year. To­gether
Marv and Janie have
been Skippers, or presidents, of
the Mariners Couples Club, and
“Marv is on the session, and a
member of the Christmas Ed­ucation
Council. Also, he is still
president of the Jasper County
Medical Association, on the Citi­zens’
Committee for School So­cial
Concerns. Then he got his
private pilot’s license in April
and does a little flying now and
then . . .” Janie concludes,
“ Like homing pigeons, we all
returned to Shingwauk Resort
in Minnesota for our two week
June vacation. This was our
fourth trip there and the child­ren
think we own the cabin we
rent and confidently expect our
return to it each year. And no
letter is complete without news
of Mitzi the Mutt. She is still
with us, and still only tolerates
the Little Moles. She just can’t
forget that she, at age nine, is
the oldest ‘child’.”
MICKIE MCMULLEN (Mrs.
Ed Dickmann) (1949-53) 161
Ardmore Road, Kensington, Cal­ifornia.
“ I ’m employed as a
domestic engineer . . .My ‘spice’
has his own business —Gilbert,
Forsberg, Diekmann & Schmidt
—Civil Structural Engineers,”
reports Marilyn — piper, and
bass drummer for 3V4 years.
“ Ed’s business continues to ex­pand,
the children are growing
by leaps and bounds. Debbie 8,
is a Brownie Scout and quite a
swimmer; Cathie 5, is anxious
for her first day in kindergar­ten,
and trying her wings as a
‘ballerina’ ; and Laurie 3, is
a happy, chunky, pre - school­er.
The vice - president of the
Diekmanns finds herself acting
for the family, plus the usual
PTA, Church, Girl Scout activi­ties.
I ’m doing precinct work
for the G.O.P. and hope to get
to the convention in July. We
have had a marvelous 1963 and
are looking forward to another
wonderful year.”
JOYCE CHAPMAN (Mrs. Neil
L. Hysell) (1950-51) Mountain
View, Wyoming. Joyce, ex -
drummer, writes that Neil has
accepted a new position of Snow
Ranger at Alta, Utah, with the
Forest Service. But they will be
at the Ski Area for six months,
and in Mt. View six months.
Joyce has taken a temporary
leave of absence from her dut­ies
with the Forest Service to
transfer with Neil. “ Bill,” re­ports
Joyce, “ We finally made
it back to Iowa City to see the
Highlanders and Notre Dame
game only to have it cancelled.
It’s been 13 years and such a
disappointment. We visited my
parents in Webster City over
Thanksgiving, and my cousin,
Miss Helen Reich, of the Uni­versity
there in Iowa City. The
biggest shock of the year is the
expected arrival of our second
child in February ‘64. This event
surely limits my skiing ability
this winter. (Their son Jamey
is now 10 V4) Have a wonderful
trip to Europe this summer.
Hope we can make connections
for a visit and game within the
next few years.” We certainly
hope so, too, Joyce. Do try it
again!
EVELYN LEIB (Mrs. John
McFaul) (1950-51) 2033 San An-seline,
Long Beach, California.
“My husband finally got his
Ph. D. from California this sum­mer,”
writes crnr former drum­mer
and sword dancer, “ and is
now teaching at Long Beach
State College and I am a house­wife
at last and loving it!” The
McFauls have a daughter, Bon­nie
Ann, aged 9.
JOAN DUNLOP (Mrs. David
L. Dunn) (1950-52 ) 5502 Grape
Road, Houston 35, Texas. Joan’s
husband is with Humble Oil &
Refining Company in the Re­search
Division. Their two child­ren
are Mike 3V4, and Sarah one
year old. Ex-piper Joan writes,
“ The No. 3 addition to our fami­ly
is due in early March. En­joy
Houston but do miss the sea­sons
in the Midwest — the snow
for the kids. We were in Iowa
in July for a quick vacation.
Wish we could make it back for
a reunion some year. I know
the 4th European trip will be a
big success.”
BARBARA BEALS (Mrs. Don­ald
J. Moulin) (1950-52 ) 75 Mt.
Tiburon Road, Tiburon, Califor­nia.
“ We hope to come to Iowa
City this summer (1964) but
guess you will all be off to Eu­rope.
Nothing too new in our
household. Have one girl (Les­lie)
in kindergarten, and Laur­en
in nursery school. She is 3%
— so life has been vary care­free
this year.”
BARBARA BURDICK (Mrs.
John W. Evans) (1950-52) 1291
Loma Sola, Upland, California.
Barbara’s husband is a cardio­logist
with the Southern Califor­nia
Permanente Medical Group
in Fontana, California. “We
moved to Southern Califor­nia
the first of July, 1963,”
writes Barbara, “ and love the
sunny climate. We spent all
summer swimming and even
took a ‘dip’ on Thanksgiving
Day. We live in the foothills of
San Gabriel Mts., and Mt. Bal-dy
is our living room view. The
snow on the mountain peaks
helps to keep our vivid memo­ries
of Iowa City. We are wait­ing
now for Iowa to play in the
Rose Bowl and a chance to see
many of our friends and pro­bably
even the Highlanders
again. Keep up the good work.”
The Evans children are Steven
6, Lori 4%, and Bob 9 months.
NANCY SWEITZER (Mrs. Ro­bert
M. Gunn) (1950-52) 924
Greenleaf Avenue, Wilmette,
Illinois 60091. The Gunn’s child­ren
are Phoebe 5V4, Alan 4Vz,
and twins Damon and Charles,
1% years old. “ Bob is still
solving corporate tax problems
for clients of the law firm of
Spray, Price, Townsend and
Cushman,” comments this ex­piper.
“ We’ve no amazing news
this year. Bob has had some
good business trips, including
one to London. With four young
‘sweeties’ things are really
swinging at home, so that’s
where I spent virtually all my
time. Phoebe, Alan, and I did
take ice skating lessons for
four months at Northwestern.
They really made my ‘ladies’
class work. Bob and I have
managed to get away from it
all a couple of weekends. Next
week we’ll flap our wings and
take the whole kit and kiboodle
to Washington, D. C. where Bob
will attend a 1964 tax confer­ence
while the rest of us enjoy
the hospitality of the senior
Gunns. Again, I’m hoping any
of you who come to Chicago
will at least call me. It would
be such fun hearing from you.
The Newsletter grows more
fascinating each year.”
SANDRA SECHLER (Mrs.
Kent Bartges) (1950-53) 22 E.
60th Street, Westmont, Illinois.
Kent is a Physical Therapist
and Orthopedic Assistant for a
group of Orthopedic Surgeons in
Chicago. They have two child­ren:
Kurt 6% and Ellyn 4. This
ex-piper reports: “ We’ve had a
very busy year but somehow
there doesn’t seem to be much
to write about since we’ve had
no new baby, house or pets and
only our usual safari to Pa. But
I do so enjoy reading the News­letter
and will be looking for­ward
to the next edition and the
new chapter in everyone’s
lives."
OZZIE CARLSON (Mrs. John
Barton) (1950-53 ) 4700 Golf Ter­race,
Edina 24, Minnesota.
“ John is still straightening
teeth in Minneapolis,” writes
the ex - piper, and continues,
“ Please note change of add­ress:
moved last June to a
roomy house on the golf
course — John is in 7th hea­ven!
We can stand at our back
door and spit onto No. 16 green!
All are well and thriving here.
PAGE FOUR HIGHLANDER' CHRISTMAS LETTER 1963
With two in school—(Curtis 8%,
and Elise 7) all day it’s really
quiet at home (with Carol 4
and John Matthew 1%). When
are the Highlanders coming to
Minnesota? I want my girls to
see you!” We’ll keep you post­ed
in the Newsletter, Ozzie.
SALLY SACKETT, (Mrs. Har­ry
Eick) (1950-54) 1957 Pont-chartrain
Drive, Okemos, Mich­igan.
Sally, ex-piper reports
that her husband has been pro­moted
to an Associate Profes­sor
of Chemistry at Michigan
State University in East Lans­ing.
Also, she adds: “ Our year
. .included a family trip to
Florida in April and six weeks
in the summer at Los Alamos,
New Mexico at the Government
Lab. there. Our fifth son arriv­ed
on Valentine’s Day — Peter.
With Carol 9, John 8, Stephen
6, Timothy 5, and Christopher
2, — we expect to begin sche­duling
basketball games for our
team shortly. Any challeng­ers?”
EUNICE ACHENBACH (Mrs.
Everett H. Eide) (1950-54 ) 383
Dean Drive, Owosso, Michigan.
The Eide’s two children are
Linda, age 7, and Peter 4. This
ex-drummers’s husband is a
sales representative for Mun-singwear,
Inc. and she writes:
“ All is fine with the Eide’s in
Michigan. We enjoy living in
this ‘resort’ state. 1963 has been
a good year for us — no com­plaints.
The welcome mat is
out for any ex-Highlanders who
might pass this way . . .”
MARGE MARTIN (Mrs. Ben­jamin
J. Ruhl) (1950-54 ) 232 W.
36th Spokane 42, Washington.
“We had a delightful time at
the Iowa Reunion in Seattle be­fore
the Iowa - Washington
game. Ran into Jan Papke Lan-dess
and eight other Iowans who
were at Iowa when we were,”
reports this ex-piper. “ I nearly
got thrown out of the stands (on
the 50 yd. line in reserved Wash­ington
section). What a thrill to
see Iowa win! Took the child­ren
Debbie Anne 7, and Kirk
Martin 3, on a trip to the Olym­pic
Peninsula and back to Io­wa.
Met another Highlander on
the train dining room and after
the children were asleep in
their beds we spent hours talk­ing
about the wonderful times
we had with you. I will be think­ing
of you this summer. Envy
you your trip on the ‘Queens’
but yet, you could not possibly
have any more fun than we did
on the ‘Arosa Klum’, the laughs
we had our first night in Paris,
etc., Gosh, what fun!!” It’s a
great satisfaction to me to know
how well you all seem to rem­ember
these trips, memorable
to all of us, of course
JANE WALKER (Mrs. Sam­uel
O. Christensen) (1951 - 54)
510 Prospect Blvd., Waterloo,
Iowa. “My husband,” reports
this ex-piper and dancer, “ is a
children’s dentist, and I am a
housewife and mother. We mov­ed
into a new home in June
and were blessed with a future
Highlander on November 19,
1963. Ann weighed 7 lbs. 2 ozs.
John is 8, and Jim 6V4 years
old.”
JEANETTE NOBLE (Mrs.
George Conger) (1951-54) 485
Delaware Avenue, Akron 3, Oh­io.
This ex-drummer and her
doctor - husband (obstetrician)
have four children: Ann 8; Su­sie
7; Janne 4, and Nancy 14
months.
BARBARA BACON (Mrs.
Gerry Baumgartner) (1951 - 55)
1225 S. Riverside Drive, I owa
City, Iowa. “ My husband is a
nurse at V. A. Hospital. He is
planning to go to school this
fall to get his degree,” reports
this ex-drummer. The Baum­gartners
have a daughter,
Ann Marie, 13 months.
RUTH ASHTON (Mrs. Ronald
H. Johnson) (1951-55 ) 2503 Fair-mount,
Davenport, Iowa. Ex -
drummer, Ruth, has been as
busy as ever, we very much
enjoyed the Christmas letter
with enclosure! Ron went back
to school in the summer of
‘63, to work toward his Mas­ter’s
Degree in Business Edu­cation,
getting a 3.5 grade point.
“ Mike (7) became an official
member of the Davenport Swim­ming
Team, claiming his spot
on the 8 and under Boys Med­ley
Relay - the breast - stroke
leg. At Clinton he placed 3rd
in that event winning his first
medal.” Ruthie continues about
their children: “ Andy (5) and
Danny (2) are beginning to play
well together. It won’t be long
before Danny can keep up with
his brothers in swimming, too .
Our vacation extended over 3
weeks. Hie first week we spent
in Iowa taking in the swim
meets, and an all night AAU
registration meeting in Des
Moines. Then we headed West
for a wonderful two weeks in
which we saw North Bend, Ne­braska,
and their wonderful
popcorn factory, Rocky Moun­tain
National Park, Dinasaur
National Monument, Grand Te-tons,
Yellowstone Park (and the
bears ate our dinner!!) Custer
Park and the Black Hills, and
Mt. Rushmore . . We returned
to start a busy time again.
First came to the State Red
Cross Convention in which so
much planning had gone -then
the Red Cross sent me to Chi­cago
for an area conference for
3 days. We had our annual fall
swimming meeting in Iowa City
followed by the state AAU Gen­eral
Meeting in Des Moines. At
this point I decided to take a
vacation and so I had my ap­pendix
out Monday after the
Des Moines meeting! . . . The
highlight of a busy year for me
packed full of excitement was
the chance to go to San Diego
Dec. 4-9 as the AAU Age Group
Swimming representative for
Iowa.” Readers are to be re­minded
that Ruth is Physical
Education Teacher at St. Kath­arine’s
in Davenport, and Dir­ector
of the Swimming Program
on the Davenport Park Board.
DOROTHY MEANS (Mrs.
Walter B. Ingram) (1952-54 ) 624
Park Avenue, Beloit, Wisconsin
“ It’s been a quiet year,” writes
Dorothy, ex-drummer. “ Same
house, same job - Walter is with
the Fairbanks Morse and Co.,
as Engineering Supervisor in
charge of Research and Develop­ment
in the Compressor Depart­ment;
same number of child­ren
- Peggy 5%, Jill 3V4 and
Wally 15 months; and we’re
quite content. Always look for­ward
to reading other people’s
news!”
JANE WHITEHEAD (Mrs.
Earl Morrall) (1952-55 ) 6890
Plainfield, Dearborn, Michigan.
“ The Morralls had a big year
with Earl becoming No. 1 Q.B.
with the Lion’s and also begin­ning
a new job with Gar-wood
Industries in Ypsilanti,” writes
the former snare drummer.
Earl Morrall is a professional
football player with the Detroit
Lions. Jane continues: “ We en­joyed
a trip to Florida in June
and spent a month in northern
Michigan this summer. Both
Matt 6, and Mardi 5, enjoy
school and are becoming avid
swimmers and skiers. Mindi is
20 months.”
JONNE SHILEY (1952-56 ) 4553
Emerson Road, South Eudid 21,
Ohio. Jonne was a bagpiper for
three years, and the Drum
Major her senior year. She tea­ches
Physical Education at Wi­ley
Junior High School in Cleve­land
Heights. “ I have thorough­ly
enjoyed living in my new
home. My roommate and I have
become quite the ‘yard girls’ -
from starting our own flower
garden to cutting down trees in
the ravine behind the house.
We acquired a new puppy in
February and she has been a
constant source cf enjoyment
since her arrival. Her name is
‘Switzer’ from Switzer’s Licor­ice
as she looked so much like
a licorice stick when she was
young. I am presently writing
my thesis. If I finish this sem­ester
then I have just six hours
left of summer school next sum­mer
and I ’ll have my degree.
I thought I could just whip off
this thesis in nothing flat while
teaching this year, what a sur­prise!
I have never worked so
hard in my life. Because of this
Christmas letter I heard from
two gals that I had lost touch
with - Marge Martin Ruehl and
Dot Roudabush Carpenter. It
was wonderful to receive their
letters,” concludes Jonne. And
thank you for additional word
on Gingi’ Hunt’s new address.
We welcome any information
that will correct and fill in our
ever - changing files.
MARY SUE HANCHER (Mrs.
Richard Hockmuth) (1952-56)
407 West State Street, Marshall­town,
Iowa. Ex-snare drummer
Mary Sue and Doctor Dick have
three children: David 6%; Mol­ly
3, and Libby one year old.
Mary writes: “ Dick is in sur­gery
practice with Don Reading
in Marshalltown. He finished 4th
year of surgery residency last
July and we moved to Marshall­town
and private practice. We
see former Highlander Nan
Hunt Ryden and I ’ve ran into
Jacki Norgaard Devine.” It was
good to hear from you, Mary
Sue, and to know you’re back
in Iowa again. Drop in to see
us the next time you come to
SUI.
CAROL LEE JOHNSON (Mrs.
Kottong) (1952-56) 2402 Gisella
Blvd., White Bear Lake, Minn­esota.
Carol Lee, snare and
bass drummer, writes that she
is still employed at the Minn­esota
Mining & Manufacturing
Compnay in St. Paul in the In­ternational
Traffic Division as
a Clerk - Typist and Checker.
Her three children Jeffrey Dav­id
is 7, Susan Carol 6, and
Kathryn Lee 3Vz. She says: “ By
the time you read this Jerry
and I will have been divorced.
Unfortunately it was just one
of those things that was un­avoidable.
Probably sometime
in February I will move out to
Seattle, Washington, to be near­er
my parents. I will have to get
a job out there and at that
time I intend to complete my
college education and maybe if
the ambition and money hold
out I will try to get some
education courses, and maybe
end up as a commercial teach­er.
At least, that way I will
have the same schedule as the
kids. The children are all fine
and growing up so fast. Jeff
is now in the second grade and
has the idea that he is the
smartest one in the family now
including mother. Susie is in the
first grade and eagerly learning
how to read and write so she
can be as smart as Jeff. Of
course that leaves Kathy home
alone with the babysitter so she
is anxiously awaiting to get big­ger
so she can go to school,
too. I ’ll send my new address
as I know what it is.”
MARLYS DAGGETT CRE-GER
(1953-54 ) 562 - 28th, Des
Moines, Iowa. Marlys, ex-snare
drummer, is still with the Mere­dith
Publishing Company, and
is manager of the Mail Order
Advertising Department.
MARLENE BAUER (Mrs.
William Clements) (1953-55) 130
W. Cristobal, San Clemente,
California. “Our biggest news
this year was the arrival of
Alisa Ann on November 15th,”
writes Marlene, ex-drummer.
The Clements’ other children
are Carla 7, and Billy 3. Mar­lene
adds to their big news -
"Also the passing of the Cal­ifornia
Dental Board by Bill
last summer. We are seriously
considering staying out here,
but Bill has no definite plans
at this time ‘where’ in Californ­ia,
to set up his practice. We
spent 10 days at Clear Lake in
N. California last July and tour­ed
the Bay area, liked it very
much up there.” When you do
make up your minds where to
settle, remember to let us know
of your change of address for
our files. Thanks.
DOTTY PUTNAM (Mrs. Lar­ry
Bartelson ) (1953-56) 4579
Third Street, Pleasanton, Cali­fornia.
“ I teach 5th grade in
Livermore, California,” writes
Dotty, ex-snare drummer, “ and
have high IQ children. Larry is
a civil engineer at MacKay and
Somps in Pleasanton. Since I
missed the last letter, I guess
I have a lot of ‘catching up’ to
do! The last note I wrote I
was living on Balboa Island in
Newport Beach. The following
summer (1962) Jan, my room­mate,
and I flew to Hawaii and
spent most of our vacation there
enjoying the beautiful scenery,
and leisurely life at Waikiki.
Upon our return, we lived on
a yacht while its owner (our
friends) went on a vacation.
Needless to say, this was quite
an experience - we had a ball!
In September we moved to San
Francisco and it was there I
met Larry. We became engaged
in February and were married
in April. Our wedding was in
the old quaint chapel of the
Swendenborgian Church in San
Francisco and our reception at
the Mark Hopkins Hotel. After
a wonderful honeymoon at Car­mel
and Las Vegas, we moved
to Pleasanton where Larry is
employed with MacKay and
Somps Civil Engineers. We are
now busily scanning magazines,
books, etc., trying to plan our
new home. It’s real exciting!
Won’t you come visit us?”
Thanks! Sounds exciting!!
DOROTHY DOW (Mrs. Bob
Sorensen) (1953-56) 10112 Fre­mont,
Minneapolis 31, Minneso­ta.
Bob is employed with Rem­ington
Rand Univac in St. Paul
working on computers, and Dor­othy
reports: “ This year we
have spent much of our time
close to home to care for our
two children, David three, and
Carole Sue 16 months. I had
emergency surgery in May, so
spent a quiet summer here. Af­ter
Christmas we will take the
train to Iowa to spend several
days - hope to see some High­landers!
Happy Sailing to All!”
MARGARET ANN BATHKE
(Mrs. Lester C. Johnson) (1953-
56) 903 S. 12th Avenue West,
Newton, Iowa. The Johnsons
have two children: Leslie 6 and
Robbie, who will be 4 in Jan­uary.
This ex-piper writes: “ Lee
graduated from SUI Law School
in June. We moved to Newton
where he is an attorney with
the law firm of Cross, Hamill,
Selby, and Updegraff. Our dau­ghter,
Leslie, started kindergar­ten
this fall and enjoys it. Her
only regret is she can’t go all
day. Robbie goes to pre-school
two mornings a week. Yours
truly is busy as ever and en­joying
our new town and home.”
JAN BROOKMAN (Mrs. Paul
Kruse) (1953-56) Walthill, Neb­raska.
Jan, ex-piper, lives on a
farm one mile south of Walthill,
where they are engaged primar­ily
in cattle feeding — “ EAT
MORE BEEF, PEOPLE!” Jan
reports. “ Andy (Richard And­rew)
was born in Sioux City on
July 11, 1963. Also, my sister
Syd Clemens had their second
child, a son on that date. How’s
that few treachery to a grand­mother
who wanted to be in
two places at once?! Let me
say that Grandmother and
Grandsons came through with
flying colors! I thoroughly en­joy
getting the Christmas let­ter,
and bless you, Bill, for
providing the wherewithal to
make it possible. We widi we
were closer so that we might
be able to see you once in a
while. Best regards to you and
the Highlanders for another suc­cessful
year!” The Kruse’s have
also a 3% year old son —Peter
Brookman Kruse.
NAN BORRESON (Mrs. Rus­sell
Bomberger) (1953-56 ) 4089
El Bosque Drive, Pebble Beach,
California. Another ex - piper
writes us that her husband is
now an associate professor at
the U. S. Naval Post Graduate
School in nearby Monterey, and
he teaches history, logic and
literature courses. She says
there is very little news to re­port
yet — “ wouldn’t want to
miss the ‘Christmas’ letter for
anything. Moved only about a
mile, but discovered that
doesn’t make it any easier than
going a thousand! It’s not a new
house, but we love the extra
space inside and out. Can’t be­lieve
it’s time for another Eu­ropean
Trip. Have a wonderful
time.” There is a little daugh­ter
in the Bomberger household,
Ann, age 1.
CAROLE BARTELS (Mrs. Ri­chard
Loetscher) (1953-56) R.R.
1, Durango, Iowa. “My three
children, Penny 6, Andy 5, and
Joby 3, and I,” reports this ex­piper,
“went to Oregon this
summer to visit my sisters,
Bev and Nancy, and we cover­ed
all the interesting places in
Oregon from the Portland ZOO
to Crater Lake. We missed see­ing
the Highlanders perform at
Homecoming this fall, but we
did enjoy the game. Have a
wonderful time on your 1964
Trip.” Thank you, Carole. Ri­chard
is with the Coadco Manu­facturing
Company, and the
Loetschers have another little
daughter, Sara, now two years
old.
1M3 HIGHLANDER CHRISTMAS LETTER PAGE FIVE
LORI SHARP (Mrs. Floyd
Kemp) (1953-56) 1111 Mulberry,
Muscatine, Iowa ."Floyd is the
High School Art Instructor at
Muscatine High,” writes this ex­piper.
“He spent the summer
commuting to Iowa City to work
on his M.A.,” continues Lori.
"In August we all went to Wis­consin
for a vacation of fishing
and freezing . . .Also managed
to paint the exterior of our du­plex
before school started. We’re
now planning to put our home
up for sale after the first of the
year. In June we hope to move
into a barracks at SUI where
Floyd will complete work on
his Masters. It presents lots of
problems like — where will we
ever find room for all of our
various belongings — (now fill­ing
a house!) Anyhow, it seems
like a real adventure and we’re
looking forward to it . . .The
kids are growing plump and
jolly. Timothy 2tt, chatters con­stantly
and tries hard to be a
‘Big boy’. Ann, 13 months, is
learning to walk and is a gay
little flirt.” We’ll be looking
forward to seeing you in Iowa
City next year, Lori. Be sure
to let us know your change of
address.
BARBARA MIXSON (Mrs.
William W. Brauer) (1953 • 56)
112 Leblanc, Fort Bragg, North
Carolina. Barbara, ex- piper,
reports that her husband is now
psychiatrist in the U. S. Army
for two years. “ We moved in
July to Fort Bragg, N. C. .
continues Barb, “ where we must
spend two years in the service.
Elizabeth Mixson (Beth) is 4%
years, Barbara Wilken is 2
years, and we are expecting a
new addition in late February.”
Could be there’ll be another
prospective Highlander??? Keep
us posted!
MICK FAGAN (Mrs. Francis
Conway) (1953-55) 307 State
Street, Emmetsburg, Iowa. The
Conway’s children are Sara 6;
Susan 5, and Mark 4. Dr. Con­way
is practicing medicine in
Emmetsburg. Ex - drummer
dancer writes: “ We are out of
the Air Force, and my husband
is with two other young MD.s
in practice here. Our children
are ail growing so fast. . .The
giris are in school, and that
leaves Mark and I here at home
to entertain ourselves. We are
expecting a new baby in Aug­ust,
so that will no doubt add
to the ‘entertainment’. We real­ly
like it hare in Emmetsburg.
SHIRLEY CURTIS (Mrs. Don­ald
J. McKenney) (1953-56) 1717
Airfield Lane, Midland, Michi­gan.
Don is a Process Engineer
in the Saran Wrap Plant for the
Dow Chemical Company. This
expiper - dancer says: “ Every­one
buy Saran Wrap please!”
‘Cotton’ is a Computer Pro­gramming
Consultant for Dow.
Curtis Dean is 3%, and "Doug­las
was bom March 30, it looks
like one of our boys is going to
have to go to Alma College here
in Michigan if we’re ever go­ing
to have another piper in the
family!” writes Cotton. "Doug­las
quickly adapted to camping
at the age of six weeks—that’s
how we spent most of our sum­mer
vacation. Despite my work
in computer programming I
still have trouble adding up
bridge scores — that seems to
be my avocation this winter —
being a member of three
bridge dubs! A match dass
takes up my other spare time.”
Then Cotton continued — after
sending in the Questionnaire
quite a bit lata- than planned:
“While listening to a spedal
radio music program, ‘The Lilt
of the Kilt’ I suddenly realized
1 had never sent this off. I
guess a donation is never too
late. The music brought to mind
many fond memories.” And
thank you again, for remem­bering.
D O RO T H Y SCHWENGEL
(Mrs. Lloyd Neale Cosby) (1953-
57) 1218 Oakview Drive, Iowa
City, Iowa. Dottie, ex-piper, re­ports
that her husband is in his
second year teaching Army
ROTC in the Military Science
Department of the University of
Iowa. “ We are typical new par­ents
marveling every day at the
natural development of a child.
And we are continuing to enjoy
life in Iowa City — seeing dd
friends and making new ones.
Hunk you, Bill, for this yearly
contact with all Highlanders.”
You’re so welcome, and con -
gratulations on your new son,
Cameron Neale, born May 14,
1963.
JANICE BARNES (Mrs. John
T. Teegen) (1953 -57) 409 For-est
Avenue, Maysville, Ken­tucky.
Tlris ex-drummer reports
that her husband is now in gen­eral
practice, associated with
the Denham Medical Clinic in
Maysville. She continues: “We
have finally settled down - at
least for awhile. Jack finished
his tour to the Navy in Jan­uary
and we came straight to
Maysvifle from Norfolk, Virgin­ia.
Our baby arrived just three
weeks alter we did so life has
been a little hectic since Christ­mas!
Jack is fimttng general
practice even more demanding
than we had anticipated, but be
aiso finds it very satisfying. I
am learning to be the patient
doctor’s wife! Our children are
healthy and busy and keep me
jumping!” Hie Teegens’ child­ren
are: John 5, Rob 3, Betsy
1, and Mary Susan 4 weeks.
SUE DONELSON (Mrs. Don
E. Johnson) (1953-57) 1700 4th
St. S. E. Minneapolis, Minn.
55414. Sue, ex-piper, dancer, and
chair director, writes a very
complete Christmas letter, and
it is always good to hear about
fee year’s activities of former
Highlanders. Don is Protestant
coordinator at Juvenile Recep­tion
and Treatment Center,
Lino Lake, Minnesota, and Sue
is program consultant for Coff­man
Memorial Union on the
University campus, working
with students and developing
student activities and Union fa­cilities
on the new West Bank
complex. She writes: “ If Don
continues to grow in conviction
that he can best use his talents
and serve God in this field we
probably will stay in this area
a number of years, which won’t
be (tifficult to adjust to anm
we love Minneapolis, and may­be,
just maybe we can start a
life somewhat like those of the
average American. We’d have
to give up our secret dream to
make a hobo world trip around
the world for an indeterminate
time, but a life decision like
this is too important to disre­gard.
THs would mean that
doctoral training would be side­stepped
in favor of chaplaincy
supervisory training . . . We
both still have our paper to
complete those Masters’ de­grees,
- so dose but so far for
procrastinators . . For fringe
interests we’ve taken up the
fblksinging craze and with gui­tar
under arm render a ‘mean’
facsimile of favorites . . . Ser­iously,
it’s a wonderful outlet
for expression and we do en­joy
the ‘togetherness bit’ . . .
Good luck on the European trip.
O what memories!”
D O R O T H Y ROUDABUSH
(Mrs. Fred E. Carpenter, Jr.)
(1953-57 ) 3226 Albert Avenue,
Royal Oak, Michigan. Dotty, ex­drummer
reports: “ Fred is in
the second year of his eye, ear,
nose and throat residency, with
one more year to go. I am still
a writer at Campbell - Ewald
advertising agency in Detroit.
Not much news to report • it
seems as if all we have time
for is work! Fred is on call
every other night end on duty
every other weekend, so our
free time is rather limited. We
did manage to get to Ann Arbor
in November to see the Iowa-
Michigan football game. Wish
the outcome had been better,
but at least we didn’t get beat!
Last year’s Christmas letter
brought a most welcome phone
call from Nan Latch.”
JOANNE ODEM (Mrs. Wal­lace
Sails) (1954-56) 39 Oxford
Road, Lexington, Ohio. This ex­piper
writes: “ . . wanted to
send along an upto-date add­ress
so I would receive the ‘64
queatkmnarie promptly.” Her
husband is Sales Engineer, HP
M, division of Koehring Com­pany,
Mt Gilead, Ohio. Their
children are David 3%, and
Pamela 1%.
NAN LATCH (Mrs. Hank Hin-richsen)
(1954-56) 2576 Bucking­ham,
Birmingham, Michigan.
Hank is a Salary Administra­tion
Analysist with Vickers, Inc.
And this ex-piper says: “We
really got into the swing of be­ing
homeowners this spring and
summer. Some of our Iowa
blood proved useful as we en­joyed
eating ripe tomatoes from
the middle of Judy until Thanks­giving
Day. We also had other
vegetables, thousands of flow­ers,
and bushels of apples. It
took lots of work and time, but
it was worth i t Tim (5) is in
kindergarten this year, and lov­es
it. Bruce (1) is an exact re­plica
of Tim - a darling boy.
The boys and I flew home last
January. When we landed in
Iowa City it took great will
power not to get off the plane
and go ‘visiting’ with the many
Highlanders living there. I love
Michigan, but still have my loy­alties
in Iowa. Hank and I went
to the football game at Am Ar­bor
this faH. All the people
around us kept saying they wish­ed
the Highlanders were going
to be there. It made me so
proud to have been a member
of such a group. Good luck on
your European tour - I know
everyone will have fun.”
JEAN STOCK (Mrs. Elmer
Prescott) (1954-56) 114 Pleasant,
Rockwell City, Iowa. “Since last
writing, 2 years ago I believe,”
reports this ex-bass drummer,
“ several things have happened.
Elm received his M.A. in school
administration from S U I. we
built and lived in our new home
in West Branch for two years,
then decided to move to this
new location. We like it very
mud) here. Elm is high school
principal. We are already plan­ning
another home. Kelly is 5,
Kent 3, Jay B. 8 months, so fee
Prescotts number five now. We
will be looking forward to hear­ing
news of fee 1964 European
Trip.”
DARLA MOELLER (Mn.
Daniel S. Perkins) (1954-57) 1519
Elmhurst Drive, N.E., Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. “Our big news is
fee arrival of Todd Alan who
was born October 11,” announ­ces
Darla, ex-drummer. “ Sorry
to miss the Highlander get-to­gether
at Homecoming but was
in the hospital with him. We’re
looking forward to a trip
through the New England states
in June ending our vacation in
Dan’s home state of Vermont.
Hope the 1964 European trip is
a huge success.” Dan is in rad­io
sales for WMT Radio Station.
The Perkins have a two year
dd daughter, Kristin Lee.
E L A I N E ROGGENKAMP
(Mrs. Terry L. Fisher) (1954-57)
1920 Catherine Drive, Bismark,
North Dakota. Hiis ex-drumm­er’s
husband is engineering su­pervisor
with Northwestern Bdl
Telephone Company. “ This last
September we packed up and
made the move way up to North
Dakota where Terry was offered
this job as district engineer . .
I’ll have to admit we are really
located out on the open prairie-sorta
miss aU the green grass
that we were used to seeing in
Iowa. It is a rare occasion to
have a good shower of rain, so
consequently it is a dry and
dusty area. The Bismark Junior
College held their Homecoming
Parade this fall and it was then
that I heard the familiar sound
of bagpipes again They have a
bagpipe band which, of course,
is mudi smaller than your band,
but it was most enjoyable to
see fee group. We didn’t get
a chance to get to any of the
Iowa games this year because
of fee distance. We do look for­ward
to the day we will be able
to get bade to some games
again. We were able to get
back to Iowa for Christmas and
spent a few days in Iowa City,
but the campus was nearly de­serted
since R was during va­cation.
Seems to be a tot of
new building additions added in
the last few years and more
being built!! If anyone ever
gets in the Bismark area we
would certainly enjoy a visit
wife you.” Little Lori Jean
Fisher is 3 years dd now.
NANCY WEIH (Mrs. John H.
Hoskins) (1954-57 ) 6214 Thomas
Ave. S., Richfield 23, Minnesota.
Nancy’s doctor husband is in
his 2nd year of Urology resi­dency
at the Veterans Adminis­tration
Hospital in Minneapolis.
The Hoskins have two sons:
William Jon age 3, and James
Paul one year old. This snare
drummer asks: “ I would love
to hear from any ex - High­landers
living in the twin dty
area or any of those visiting
here. John has two more years
in urology so we will be in
Minneapolis at least that long.
I keep hoping to see fee High­landers
on T.V. or hoping they
will come up for a Minnesota-
Iowa game. Bill, a bit of news
that might be amusing to you.
My husband has a chanter and
is taking lessons. It seems like
old times hearing that sound.
I can’t tell you how much I
enjoy getting the Newsletter.”
Again thanks for your comment.
It makes us fed the work in­volved
in prepration, etc., of
the Newsletter is not in vain.
KERIN OKERLIN (Mrs. Way­ne
Moldenhaner) (1954-57) 1250
Nowata, Dubuque, Iowa. Kerin,
ex-drummer, and her ‘children’s
dentist husband, have two child­ren:
Robert 3%, and Kristen
ltt. Kerin is direding four
choirs, and she writes: “We
missed Homecoming again this
year because our national den­tal
meeting was in Atlantic City
at that time. Next year we are
planning on Homecoming. Have
to see everyone! Our daughter,
Kristen, chases Robert, as if
she were his age. TTiey are
keeping us young.”
GERALDINE HANSON (1954-
58) 332 Tappan Street, Brook­line
46, Massachusetts. Gerry,
ex-piper and bass drummer, is
teaching commerdal subjects at
the Robie School in Boston —
affiliation with John Robert Po­wers
Finishing Schools. “ I ’m
becoming a ‘proper Bostonian’
only in residence,” she writes.
“ I ’m an Iowan at heart. No,
that Boston accent is remain­ing
with the Bostonians — not
me. Have three charming room­mates
— all of whom are ele­mentary
teachers. Two are
from Cleveland and one of them
knows Jo Shirley. My s i s t e r ,
Lynne, is married and lives in
Laurel, Md. Her name is Mrs.
H. J. La Due. They have a beau­tiful
daughter. For anyone who
has lost touch wife her, the add­ress
is 418 Gorman Avenue,
Laurd, Md. . .if you’re in New
England call! I ’ll meet you in
my red VW convertible! Have
a wonderful European trip —I
received beautiful letters from
our 1956 friends in Inverness
and Aberdeen.”
JOY JARRARD (Mrs. Duane
H. Drake) (1954-58 ) 2625 B
Walnut, Los Alamos, New Mexi­co.
Duane is working as an in­dustrial
physidan for the Los
Alamos Scientific Labs. Our ex­piper
and tenor drummer says
that they have wdcomed anoth­er
Highlander to their family.
“ In August Elizabeth Frew was
married to my brother and the
ceremony was followed by a re­ception
where the wedding par­ty
danced the Red and it sounds
from reports as though there
were as many pipers as guests.
How did I miss the fun? Jill
Allison, now 4% months, chose
to be bom three days before
the wedding. We’re still in love
with our mountain home but we
now have a house which looks
GI on the outside but is very
large — plenty of room for
guests.”
MARTHA HICKERSON (1954-
58) 18 Wayside Lane, Scarsdale,
New York. Martha, ex-drum -
mer and dancer, is a medical
sodal worker in New York Hos­pital.
She writes: “ Looking for­ward
to your visit next sum­mer,
espedally your appear-rance
at the World’s Fair,
where I first saw ‘you’ in 1939
and remembered ‘you’ , al -
though I was only three!” Be
sure you look us up next June.
Marty.
CAROL CRAWFORD (Mrs. L.
Jay Ryan) (1954-58) 1103 Musca­tine
Avenue, Iowa City, Iowa.
The Ryans have two little boys:
Dennis 5 and David 2. This ex­piper
says that she enjoys read­ing
the Christmas letter very
much every year: “ It’s fun to
hear about old friends again.
We are spending our last year
in Iowa City for Jay graduates
in June from the Law School
and we’ll be moving to St. Paul.
Jay will practice with the law
firm of Oppenhdmer, Hodgson,
Brown, Wolff and Leach. We
are tremendously exdted and
know we will like St. Paid, the
twin dties, and Minnesota.
When you’re in the area, stop
and call.”
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MARY WOODMAN (Mrs. Ro­ger
N. Coe) (1954-58) 15 Chet-wynd
Road, Paoli, Pennsylvan­ia.
Mary writes that Roger is
a patent attorney for Houdry
Process and Chemical Co., div­ision
of Air Products, and she
adds: “We moved into our own
home in Paoli in March after
a year in a Philadelphia apart­ment.
I’m retired from teaching
and anticipating the birth of
our first baby in the spring.
We expect many visitirs in 1964
with the World’s Fair in New
York. Will the Highlanders per­form
enroute to Europe? As al­ways,
it was a thrill to see the
girls perform at Homecoming,
although I had hoped to see
more alums at the tea. Bill, you
don’t change!!” Thanks, Mary
—we’ll look for you — and your
new baby — in June?
NANCY STEWART (Mrs. Ro­nald
Frack) (1954-58) 107 E.
Briggs, Fairfield, Iowa. Ex-pip­er
and dancer, Nan, reports
that Ron is employed by Uni­versal
Producing Company as
assistant production manager
and plant engineer. “ They man­ufacture
plastic household items
such as garment bags, appli­ance
covers, etc.,” writes Nan­cy.
“ Things go on much the
same here in Fairfield, but we
are certainly enjoying being
back in Iowa with our family
and friends. The only new news
is the expected arrival of our
third child in early May. Nat­urally
we are hoping for a boy
this time, but would never be
disappointed with a third little
future Highlander. Our two
girls, Susan Ann 4, and Sara
Lee 2, are growing up so fast,
Susan attends nursery school
and singing classes. Already I ’m
becoming a chauffeur and taxi­cab
driver. Ron is quite busy
with work, bowling on 2 night
leagues and being president of
the Fairfield Men’s City Bowling
Association. He also gets in his
rounds of golf in the summer.
I took up golf again this last
summer after abandoning it
early in college and although
I’ll never set a course record,
I did enjoy getting out and the
good exercise. I’m also bowl­ing
in a women’s morning bowl­ing
league again this winter of
which I’m treasurer. That, plus
this big house, the children,
and a little bridge playing,
keeps me pretty well occupied.
We are still renting an old
house here, but are making
plans to build our own home
possibily this summer. I still en­joy
hearing from a few of my
old Highlander friends and real­ly
look forward each year to re­ceiving
the Christmas Letter.
It gets better every year! Good
luck on your trip . . .Your plans
sound fabulous from the little I
have heard from Susan Evans’
family” (Susan is an active
Highlander at SUI).
MARYANNA SPIES (Mrs.
Charles Sarazine) (1955-58) 413
Elm, Ankeny, Iowa, “ we mov­ed
in September to a 3 bed -
room home to accommodate
the newest member of our
'girls dorm.’ Lisa, who was
born October 18. She receives
many ‘hard pats’ and kisses
from sisters, Annette 2, and Ju­lie
one year,” reports this ex­piper.
“Wish I could renew
friendship with my old High­lander
friends. Since it’s im -
possible — I can at least keep
up on your activities through
this annual newsletter. Thanks
for this interesting newsletter,
Bill, all the effort it demands
is much appreciated.” Chuck
Sarazine is a claims adjustor
for the Insurance Co. of North
America in Des Moines.
SYDNEY BROOKMAN (Mrs.
Roger O. Clemens) (1955 - 58)
4421 Holdrege, Lincoln, Nebras­ka.
Roger is stationed at Lin­coln
Air Force Base with the
Strategic Air Command and is
a pilot on a B-47. This ex-piper
says: “ Our big news in 1963 was
the birth of our son, Chip, (Rog­er,
Jr.) in July; and to coin an
old but true phrase, he is a
‘chip off the old block.’ At 6
months he weighs 21 lbs, so he’s
on his way to being a 6 foot, 4
inches man like his father. Rog­er
has been away from home
quite a bit this year, ‘keeping
the peace’, and his travels have
taken him to Spain, Andarra,
France, and England. Our lit­tle
girl, Kristen Anne 2%, is a
singer and one of her lullabies
is 'Wee Doch’ along with ‘Hoot­enanny’
and ‘Camp Granada’.
I ’ve been doing a little private
therapy and a doctor and I are
teaching a Sunday School class
for severely hard of hearing
children in Lincoln. This is
very interesting and rewarding
and to our knowledge is the on­ly
Sunday School in the United
States for specifically hard of
hearing children. Have a great
time in Europe with your ‘girls’,
Bill, and we wish you and all
your Highlanders, past and pre­sent,
a very happy and peace­ful
1964.”
PRISCILLA THOMAS (Mrs.
Stanley R. Briney) (1955-56 ) 811
South Lincoln, Kirksville, Miss­ouri,
63501 — after July, 1964,
c-o Lansing General Hospital,
2800 Devonshire, Lansing, Mich­igan.
Priscilla writes that her
husband being a senior med.
student, is doing his Internship
at the Lansing General Hospi­tal,
beginning July 1, 1964. This
ex-piper reports: “ I took the
National Dental Hygiene Board
Examination in December 1963,
but as of this writing I haven’t
received any results. Jeff, 5
years old, goes to Pre - school
3 mornings a week and Kristi
Sue, age 1, is the climber of the
two. Good luck and have a
grand time in Europe this sum­mer.
I ’ll be looking forward to
the next ‘Christmas Letter’ ! ”
JUDITH MCLAREN (Mrs .
John G. Napier) (1955-57 ) 60
Bomford Drive, Redstone Ar­senal,
Alabama, 35809. Dr. Nap­ier
has finished his residency
in obstetrics and gynecology at
SUI and is in the Army for two
years. The Napier’s have three
children: Julia 5, John William
4, and Jefferson Scott 2 years.
Judith adds: “We are enjoying
the Southland and our time with
the Army. We find the wide
variety of people fascinating.
The children are all healthy,
happy and keeping us on our
toes. We hope you have a very
successful trip this summer.”
This ex-drummer and dancer
concludes, “We certainly enjoy
our travels but look forward to
settling down in awhile.”
JOANNE GILMER (Mrs. Don­ald
E. Gardner) (1955-59) C-3
Jardine Terrace, Manhattan,
Kansas. This ex-piper writes
that her husband is in graduate
school studyi ng bacteriology, and
Jo has been working on her
Master’s degree in speech path­ology.
“We’re still at Kansas
State University. We have mov­ed
to student housing similar to
Hawkeye at SUI . . .1 returned
to school to begin work on my
master’s . . .since it isn’t my
original major I have some
hours to make up. This past
semester I had an assistantship
and taught oral communication
here at K.S.U. However, in Ap­ril
we expect an addition to the
family so my education will be
discontinued for awhile. Fortu­nately,
I have been offered a
job assisting on some research
until the baby comes so I will
be quite busy second semester
too. Jan (Janice Lynn 2V4) seems
to grow up before our eyes. I
suppose like all parents we
could ramble on for hours about
all the cute things she says
and does. Right now I’m look­ing
forward to staying home
with the family in April and
getting thoroughly involved with
our home and family. Even
though I ’ve been lucky enough
to be gone only in the mornings
to teach and take my own
classes, it will be nice not to
rush so much. I hope 1964 will
be a wonderful year for every­one
and best of luck to every­one
on the trip.”
COLEEN SINGLEY (Mrs.
Charles J. Pinkerton) (1956 -59)
5876 N. W. 117th Drive, Hialeah,
Florida, 33012. “ Charlie is an
orthodontist who has 9et up his
practice in the professional cen­ter
of the Palm Springs Mile,”
writes this ex-piper. “We’ve
been enjoying the Miami area
ever since our big move to Flo­rida
in July. It certainly is nice
to have sun and warm weather
rather than Iowa’s cold and
snow. Charlie is now glad to be
out in private practice and we
feel he has a good office loca­tion
and he appears to be off
to a good start. I ’m now a full
time housewife and I ’m enjoy­ing
it very much. Our daugh­ter,
Cynthia 2%, keeps me quite
busy plus the usual household
duties, yard and beach. Our
home is located on a lake, so
we have our own private beach.
Many hours have been spent
there as Cindy enjoys the wat­er
and I like to acquire a tan.
Our holidays were certainly
wonderful. Hope every ones were
too. My parents and sister vis­ited
from Iowa. With other re­latives
visiting in the area, we
had a nice get-together. My sis­ter
is now a freshman at SUI
AND I ’m happy to say a mem­ber
of Highlanders. She brought
her bagpipes down and it cer­tainly
was fun trying to play
them again. This was the first
time in many years that we
didn’t get to see the Iowa foot­ball
games and Highlander per­formances.
Sure missed them!
Hope it won’t be too long be­fore
we can visit Iowa . .
JUDY HAMILTON Mrs.
Charles E. Crockett) (1956 - 59)
11242 Martha Ann Drive, Los
Alamitos, California. Judy, ex­piper,
says that they were in
Iowa City last summer to see
her folks, and “ we were amaz­ed
at how many new University
buildings have been construct­ed
in the last 3 years. Our first
home is really keeping us busy,
but we love U. We understand
that Barbara Slemmons McCarl
and husband are living in San­ta
Barbara so we hope to see
them soon. Our home is right
outside of Long Beach, and we
are about 2 miles from th e
ocean and 2 hours from snow or
desert. I certainly wish anyone
in our area would call or come
see us.” Chuck is Supervisor of
the Inside Sales Department for
Ducommun Metals & Supply Co.
Judy adds that he commutes
every day. She also reports that
they are expecting their first
child the beginning of April.
Send us an announcement!!!
CAROL WETZELL (Mrs. E.
John Landherr) (1956 - 60 ) 823
South Claremont Avenue, Chica­go,
Illinois 60612. Ex-piper Carol
writes: “ Time flies and so does
the stork, so that roll call in
the Landherr household now in­cludes
two possible ‘windy’
Highlanders - Kristine 2 years,
and Elizabeth 10 months. If we
continue at this rate, they’ll
have to form a governing board
of their own as emergency pro­cedure
in case their mother
temporarily loses her mind!
John is in his last year of med­icine
at the University of Illi­nois
Come July we’re hoping to
begin internship and 4 years of
surgical residency at Milwau­kee
County General Hospital.
This means we’ll be entering
Mary Jo Morrison Beenken’s
territory. We’re looking forward
to it in spite of her! We talked
to Jeanne Peckumn Lumley
while in Minneapolis this past
summer. Also saw Sybil Norton
Wiegman in Iowa City and have
heard from many other dear
friends. . . . About my only
exposure to anything Scottish is
an occasional TV performance,
I ’m thinking of the Mickey
Mouse Show in particular. It’s
times like these that take me
into tremendous fits of nostal­gia.
What a wealth of good
times and good people Bill has
made mine.” Thanks a million,
Carol. We have developed into
quite a huge Clan.
SYBIL NORTON (Mrs. Hugh
Wiegman) (1956 - 60) 505 6th
Avenue, Coralville, Iowa. Sybil
says that she is delighted to be
back in Iowa City and to see
many old friends. "Bill, I en­joyed
our visit at the Union and
the Highlander performance at
the football games. Would love
to be going to Europe with
you!” concludes this ex - piper.
Sybil is a teacher in the Coral­ville
Schools, and Hugh is an
otolaryngology resident at SUI
Hospitals.
JUDY CLARK (Mrs. David L.
Turpin) (1956 - 60) 349 B Cor­onado
Avenue, Imperial Beach,
California. David, this ex-drum-mer’s
husband, is a dentist, and
a Lt. USNR, stationed at the
Naval Amphibious Base in Cor­onado.
“ We will complete our
obligation for active duty in
July” writes Judy, “ and hope to
go on to school again. This time
David will be working toward
a degree in orthodontics. By the
time this is printed we will
know where we will be, but are
still waiting hopefully. Barbara,
15 months, is an active todd­ler.
She is a native Californian -
loves the beach, the mountains,
Disneyland, etc., and Imperial
Beach has a mild climate year
’round - almost always in the
70 s during the day, so she is
a real outdoor girl.”
CAROLYN FOOTE (Mrs.
John Heitz) (1956 - 60) Rural
Route, Oakville, Iowa. Carolyn,
ex-piper, and John are employ­ed
as teachers at Huron School,
which is an attendance center of
Mediapolis Community School.
Carolyn teaches 5th grade, and
John teaches Junior High School
Studies, and coaches Junior
High Sports. “ This has been
another busy year,” writes Car­olyn.
“ We are both . . . kept
real busy. I have been taking
Saturday classes at SUI towards
a Master’s Degree in Elemen­tary
Education. We spent
Christmas vacation in Florida
visiting my parents. We enjoyed
this trip. Best of luck on the '64
European trip. The ’60 Euro­pean
Trip was wonderfu, and
I’m sure this will be greater
yet!”
MARGARET LADD (Mrs.
William H. DeKock) (1956 - 60)
508 North Nevada Street, Apt.
D, Oceanside, California. “ Bill
is a dentist in the Navy for two
years stationed at Camp Pendle­ton,
California. I am still teach­ing
school - this time in Ocean­side,
in fourth grade,” reports
this ex - Drum Major, drummer,
and piper. “ Bill graduated from
Dental School at SUI in June,
1963, and we were off for Cali­fornia
where are to stay for his
two year’s Navy duty. I ’d been
here only a week and without
furniture at that, when I was
contacted to teach summer
school. It proved to be a busy
summer as we tried to get sett­led
and see everything in South­ern
California besides. We acted
as though we’d be here just for
a vacation the way we jammed
in ocean swims, jaunts to Los
Angeles and San Diego, not to
mention a visit to Mexico. Now
that I ’m well into the routine of
full-time teaching again and nor­mal
housekeeping, our pace has
slowed down a bit. The biggest
thrill to us is being aDle to play
lots of golf during the winter
months. We’re also taking ad­vantage
of the riding horses at
Camp Pendleton where both of
us are enrolled in equestrian
classes. Who knows — I may
be on one of those horses in
front of the Highlanders the
next time Iowa marches in the
Tournament of Roses Parade! I
do love riding though, and it
really beats Metrical! Judy
Clark Turpin is also in this area
with her dentist -husband. It
seems ironic how we keep chas­ing
each other all around the
world (since the 1960 European
Trip) Best wishes to everyone
from the ‘old’ 1956 - 60 vintage.
I ’d surely enjoy bumping into
all of you one of the times I ’ll
be getting ‘home’ to Iowa City.
But until then, it’s fun hearing
from you through this Christmas
letter.”
JUDITH CROFT (Mrs. Wil­liam
H. Carmichael) (1956 - 60)
11 Walker, Ft. Leavenworth,
Kansas, 66027. Judy writes us
that she is a housewife and
piano teacher, and her Bill is a
Captain in the Judge Advocate
General Corps of the United
States Army. The bagpiper and
former choral director contin­ues:
“ September, 1964, marks
our return to civilian life after
spending three wonderful years
in the army. Since Bill and I
spent quite a few of our impor­tant
years in Iowa City, liked
the area, the University, football
games, HIGHLANDER PER­FORMANCES,
etc., we decided
to settle down somewhere near
this memorable place - Cedar
Rapids took our hearts and
we’ve decided to start anew
there—Bill has joined the law
firm of Simmons, Pemne, Al­bright,
Elwood, and Neff and is
anxiously awaiting to join their
firm as an associate - We’re
both looking forward to return­ing
to our home state and re­newing
old acquaintances. I ’m
quite envious of the fourth Eur­opean
Trip - we frequently
view the films of our 1960 trip
and relive many wonderflu mo­ments
- anxiously awaiting the
Christmas letter and hearing
IKS HIGHLANDER CHRISTMAS LETTER PAGE SEVEN
about our wonderful Highlander
group and alums - see you next
Homecoming! ” The Carmichaels
have two little girls: Julie Lynne
20 months, and Stacey Am 4
months.
KAREN KAY LAUMBACH
(Mrs. A. P. Kenny) (1957 - 58)
101 Olympic Place West, Seattle,
Washington. Karen Kay was
married to Dr. A. P. Kenny
on December 28, 1963. Her hus­band,
Al, is practicing as a
physician in Seattle, and Karen,
ex-drummer, is working tem­porarily
as Staff Nurse at Swe­dish
Hospital in Seattle.
RUTH ANN WATKINS (Mrs.
James Daniel Lundeen) (1957 -
59) 1124 North 36th Street, Oma­ha,
Nebraska. “ I am working
two days a week at Immanuel
Lutheran Hospital on a medi­cal
- surgical floor,’ writes this
ex-piper. “ Richard’s interning at
Augustana Lutheran Church,
Omaha, Nebraska. In August,
1964, we’ll return to Rock Is­land,
Illinds, where he will fin­ish
his last year of school. Then,
in June, 1965, be will be ordain­ed
a Lutheran minister.’’ The
Lundeen’s have a son, Philip
James, who was born July 22,
1963.
JOEY FRUSH (Mrs. Richard
Gray Lord) (1957 - 59) 3612 S.
Clarence Drive, Berwyn, Illinois.
“ Dick may go into partnership
with an orthodontist in Wauwa­tosa,
Wisconsin,” writes this ex-drummer.
“He finishes school in
June as an orthodontist and we
think we’ll move to this suburb
of Milwaukee - Waauwatosa.
Richard, Jr. is 2; Robert Ham­ilton
is 8 months, and I ’m ex­pecting
my third baby in June.”
MARY SACKETT ( Mrs. Rich­ard
Alan Carson) (1957-59) Cor­al
Trailer Park, Coralville, Iowa.
“ I finished teaching at Prairie
High School January 17 - awaitr
ing arrival of baby (expected in
April) and Dick is in his last
year of medical school” , con-dudes
this ex-piper.
EMILIE KOLKER (Mrs. Ter­ry
B. Appelgate) (1957 - 59 ) 221
Summit, Waterloo, Iowa. Emilie,
ex-drummer, reports that her
husband is Lt JG, in Naval Av­iation,
stationed at Miramar
NAS, San Diego, California.
They have a 10% month dd
son, T. Bruce, Jr. “ Leaving De­cember
20 for Japan, for ten
weeks with husband who is on
the carrier, KITTY HAWK. Will
spend time in Tokyo, Yokosuka,
Yokohama, Japan; Manila, Phil-lipines;
Hong Kong; Hawaii’
Sounds as though you’ll be hav­ing
a very rich experience this
year. Good luck, Emilie, and
Boo Voyage.
NANCY KETELSEN (Mrs.
William C. Barnhart) (1957 - 59)
517 Prairie Avenue, Downers
Grove, Illinois. Bill is a Stock
Broker for Shearson Hammill &
Company, in Chicago. This for­mer
tenor drummer and her
husband have two children:
Nancy Elizabeth 3%; and De­borah
Anne who is one month
old.
JUDI OLSON (Mrs. C. David
Ellison) (1957 - 60) 20 E. 1st
Street, Spencer, Iowa. Judi wri­tes
us that she is a Schod
Nurse with the U. S. Army
Schools, and her husband is a
LT. in the Army, and their pre­sent
address is Munich, Ger­many.
How these Highlanders
do get around! Good luck to our
former piper, too.
DIANE WISGERHOF (Mrs.
Donald Shea) (1957 • 60 ) 3005
27th Street, Des Moines, Iowa.
“ I am employed by Interna­tional
Mailers Union in Des
Moines as a secretary and Don
is employed by General Filter
Company in Ames as a drafts­man,”
reports this former drum­mer.
JOANN LESCH (Mrs. Gordon
Williams (1957 - 60 ) 24 N. Van
Buren, Iowa City, Iowa. (JoAnn)
Kay ex-piper, teaches Physical
Education in the Iowa City
School System, and her husband
is finishing dental school in
June. She concludes: “ I also
hope to finish my M.A. in June
at SUI. The Highlanders looked
GREAT at the football games
this year. The BEST EVER!"
Thanks, Kay. It’s been good to
see you around this past year,
too.
B A R B A R A RATCLIFFE
(Mrs. John N. McRoberts) (1957-
60) 115-34th, Des Moines, Iowa.
Barb is teaching English in 7th
grade, and John is President of
his sub - contracting firm, H.
D. McRoberts, Inc. This ex-drummer
writes: “ After our
Highlander Trip to Europe in
1960, I could hardly wait to re­turn
and my husband and I
have made arrangements to do
so this coming April and May.
Both of us can hardly wait!
This has been quite a ‘travel­ing
year’ for us, for we return­ed
recently from Aspen, Cdor-ado,
where we spent a week
skiing — no broken bones, and
they didn’t ask us to join the
Olympic team, but we had fun
. . .Have a good European tour
this summer!” Thanks, Barb.
If you were to be in Europe a
few months later, our paths
might cross.
BARBARA BROHOLM (Mrs.
Gove G. Elder) (1957-60 ) 225
Herrick Road, Newton Centre,
Mass. “We are both studying
at Andover Newton Theological
Seminary; Gove is studying for
his Bachelor of Divinity degree,
and I, for my Master of Reli­gious
Education degree,” re­ports
this ex-piper. “ I can re­call
reading the Highlander
newsletter cover to cover both
western style (front to back)
and eastern style (back to front)
while we were still in Thailand.
What a thirst I had for news
from home. Thanks for every­one’s
efforts which made such
a newsletter possible. We’re now
back in the States, but I’m still
just as eager to hear about ev­eryone.
After my husband com­pleted
his three years in Thail­and,
we were assigned to Aach­en,
Germany, where we worked
with foreign students in the Uni­versity
that is located there.
(Aachen is very close to where
we were — Koln — on our last
Highlander trip.) After complet­ing
our assignment for Ger­many,
a very rewarding exper­ience,
we returned to the States
for family reunions and then
the books. Our present field
work which is part of our stu­dies
has introduced us to a Mr.
Norman Frazer — quite a Scots­man.
His cousin is one of those
responsible for making the
girls’ stay in Aberdeen on the
first trip possible. His cousin,
when in the States visiting Mr.
Frazer, proudly displayed the
fountain pen given to him by
the Scottish Highlanders of
‘iOwa’ ” .
JUDY GARDNER (Mrs. Don
H. Beimer) (1957 - 61) 617 S.
Clinton, Iowa City, Iowa. “ In
July of ‘63 I took the big step
and married a chemical engi­neer,
Don H. Beimer from Iowa
City, who is now in his senior
year of medicine at SUI,” writes
this ex-drummer. “ Since that
time we’ve, of course, been re­siding
in Iowa City, and daily
I’ve commuted to College Com­munity
(teaching 4th grade)
with a former Highlander, Beth
McDermott McDonald. Howev­er,
in June my husband and I
hope to head for a warmer cli­mate
and that interesting year
of internship. If anyone knows
of the whereabouts of Patti Pi
Phi Smith, I ’d greatly apprec­iate
a line. She’s undoubtedly
the first lost ‘gator in history!”
concludes Judy. You probably
have Pat’s home address, 666
Sunnyside Avenue, Elmhurst,
Illinois, and the last other add­ress
we have is 1334 North Ar­rowhead,
30, San Bernardino,
California. It could be, before
this Newsletter goes to press,
we may hear from Patti, too.
So watch for further informa­tion,
Judy.
JANE HARRIS (1957-61) 2523
Q Street, N. W., Washington 7,
D. C. Janie is Research Assis­tant
to U. S. Senator Tom Mc­Intyre
of New Hampshire. Our
ex-piper and Bass Drummer
writes: “ I am still playing the
career girl role here in Wash­ington.
Attended Di Merrill’s
wedding in Ida Grove in Aug­ust
and spent the Christmas hol­idays
in Iowa, enjoying the
sub-zero temperatures! Was
thrilled to run into Suzanne
Raymond Barnes whose hus­band
is also employed by the
U. S. Senate. Looking forward
to seeing the Highlanders in
D. C. next June.” And we’ll
watch for you!
MARY JO MORRISON (Mrs.
Duane Dean Beenken) (1957 -
1961) 7719 West Hampton Ave­nue,
Milwaukee 18, Wisconsin.
Mary Jo’s husband is an ac­countant
in Milwaukee and she
is the elementary music teach­er
at Cedarburg, Wisconsin. “ I
think of you so often and in­tend
to write but it seems that
I get around to it only once a
year — at Highlander Newslet­ter
time,” writes this former
tenor drummer. “ There are so
many things to tell — a person
just doesn’t know where to be­gin!
. . .Cedarburg, where I
teach music, is a town twenty
miles north of Milwaukee. After
I graduated from SUI, I
thought my drum days’ were ov­er
but they are just continuing.
I am also drum instructor at
the high schod. Our schod has
an outstanding Drum and Bub-le
Corps. This August I will be
accompanying than to the
World’s Fair in New York City,
as they have been invited to
perform. It seems Hke ‘High­lander
Days’ all ova-!! My sin­cere
wishes for a safe and re­warding
European trip this
summer. A lonesome Highland­er
Alum!” Do hope you’ll be
at the World’s Fair the same
week we are scheduled to be
there?? June 15th, you know.
RITA ROSENBERGER (1957-
61) 319 1st Avenue, S.E. Hamp­ton,
Iowa. “ I am still teaching
business education in the Hamp­ton
Community High Schod,”
reports our ex-snare drummer,
Rita. “ I enjoyed seeing you last
summer. Good luck on your trip
—Wish I could go again!”
JOAN MCNEIL (Mrs. John
Shrader) (1957-61) 2727 Arizona
Avenue, Apt. 32, Yuma, Arizona.
Joan, ex-piper, writes us that
John is Field Representative for
Minneapolis Honeywdl at the
Yuma Proving Ground. They
have one daughter, three
months, Kimberly Carol. “ John,
Kimberly and I are certainly en­joying
our winter in sunny Ari­zona.
We are here on a field as­signment
and plan to return to
Minneapolis in June.” Be sure
you Id us know of your change
of address, after June, if any.
MARY MILNES (1957-61) 1406
South Main Street, Burlington,
Iowa. Mary, ex -drummer and
piper, says that this is her sec­ond
year as teacher of 4th grade
at Corse School. “ I ’ve discover­ed
that this field is not only
‘rewarding and challenging’ but
also downright fun — in spite
of the fad that text books, met­hods
courses and even student
teaching somehow fail to give
proper insight into the actual
field situation . . .Bill, you don’t
happen to need a reed trimmer,
drone tuna, drumhead tighten­er,
for this summer, do you? I
think I could even stand to po­lish
spats! All kidding aside, I
bet you’re all in an uproar. The
girls are all excited, I ’m sure,
and asking the same silly ques­tions
we all asked 4 years ago.
I ’ll never forgd that trip. Not,
will I ever cease to be grate­ful
to you and all the others
who made it possible . ..Have
a wonderful time. My thoughts
will be with you.” Thanks,
Mary. We’ll try to make this
trip as good as the last!
NANCY HENDERSON (Mrs.
J. Colby Kegley) (1957 - 61) 111
East Bloomington, Iowa Ci ty,
Iowa. Nancy, ex-piper and Drum
Dancer, reports that Colby has
a research assistantship in the
Mathematics Department at
SUI, and working “madly to
create a Ph. D. thesis by Aug­ust,
1964,” she continues, “ I am
still playing the role of the
‘schod marm’ by teaching third
grade in the College Commun­ity
School District just outside
Cedar Rapids. I ’ve managed to
make good use of my High­lander
experience (while teach­ing
these past three years.) My
das9es have certainly enjoyed
having a fling at the FLING
and absolutely butchering the
Scottish dialect in ‘Wee Doch an’
Dorris’ ! Since February 1963,
Colby and I have been mother­ing
and fathering, or should I
say, looking after, the girls who
reside in the Alpha Delta Pi
Annex. This is the same place
in which I lived as a sophomore
at SUI. How strange it seems
to be living her now as an dd
married woman!” It’s been
wonderful to have you here in
Iowa City, helping in many
ways as an Alum. Hope you
won’t plan to move too far away
after August??
KATHLEEN WARREN (Mrs.
Fred E. Conner) (1957-61) Bruce
Street, Perryville, Missouri.
Fred Conner is a member of
the faculty of Missouri Univer­sity
in the Extension Division.
Kathleen is also a faculty mem­ber
d Perryville High, the Li­brarian.
“Our biggest news
event for the year is the arrival
d our little gki, Christeen Ca­mille,
5V4 months now, who
we’re hoping will be a future
SUI ffigUander lassie . . She’s
certainly the joy d our house­hold.
I started teaching this
year and really enjoy it. I’m
librarian for the new Junior
High Schod and have over 40
members in the library dub,
both girls and boys. Besides
having the library club, I am
cheerleading sponsor and one of
the 9th grade dass sponsors. I
certainly keep busy . . I think
about the Highlanders quite of­ten
and especially when I ’m ask­ed
to show the European slides
and give a talk on the trip.
I ’m anxious to read about the
up coming European trip and
hope that they have as good a
time as I. My one piece of ad­vice
might be that they be sure
and take plenty d pictures and
espedally ordinary street scenes
and of the people. I found that
I had fewer d those and more
pictures of famous building sites.
These ordinary stred scenes and
people are the ones people es­pedally
enjoy seeing.” Thanks
for your ‘trip’ advice. Soon, now,
we’ll be having talks on the
various aspects d the trip:
monetary, historical, etc. etc.
and all past experiences are an
aid to present and future plans.
KAREN CLAY (Mrs. Robert
W. Gable) (1958 - 59) 6937
Lockerbie Drive, Indianapolis,
Indiana. Word came from this
former piper that she has moved
from Ames, Iowa, as d Janu­ary
20th, to the above address.
Her husband is with Allison Di­vision
d General Motors as an
Aerospace Engineer. Their dau­ghter,
Susan Kay, is two years
old.
SUZANNE RAYMOND (Mrs.
Minor Barnes) (1958 - 60) 101 G.
Street S.W., A-720, Washington,
D.C. Suzanne, ex-d ummer, wri­tes:
“ Politics! Politics’ With the
1964 Presidential Election ap­proaching,
the Civil Rights dis­cussion
on the floor of the Sen­ate
and the breaking in d a
Texan Administration, Minor
and I are convinced that Wash­ington
is an interesting and ex­citing
dty in which to live. Mi­nor
has been the Legislative As­sistant
to Senator Jack Miller
for a year now. I became a re­tired
teacher when we moved
to Washington and have been
frequenting the famous histori­cal
places and seeing the sights
in and near the dty. Williams­burg,
Jamestown, Philaddphia,
museums and ait galleries have
had so much d the intriguing
past to reveal. We have joined
the Washington - Iowa Alumni
Association and hope that this
group can entertain the High­landers
during their stay in the
nation’s capitol this June.”
ARDITH BROCKA (Mrs. Les­ter
T. Jones, Jr.) (1958 • 60)
108 Washington Street, Pullman,
Washington. “This past year
has been a very busy one for
Les and me," reports this ex-piper.
“My husband took his big
preliminary tests this fall and
passed so his Ph. D. in Physi­cal
Chemistry is now only about
a year and half away. I retired
from my Medical Technology
profession this foil to make pre­parations
for the stork's arrival.
Little Trent Tyler was bom
January 12,1964, so I ’m a pretty
busy gal now.” Indeed you are,
and congratulations to the Les­ter
Jones’ !
ALICE SI LLETTO (Mrs. Da­vid
W. Gjerde) (1958 - 60) 11
Ridgewood Lane, Iowa City, Io­wa.
“ I am ‘just’ a housewife
now but did teach school till the
baby arrived11, (David Scott 16
months) writes Alice. “ David is
an engineering graduate d SUI
and works for Procter & Gam­ble.
There really is no interest­ing
news from us because we
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have built a lovely new home in
a ‘woodsy’ area here. So, we
are 'stay at homes’ and 'do - k-vourselfers’.
Did all the painting
and some finishing ourselves
with lots of assistance from
David Scott.”
JUDY KLEMESRUD (1958-61)
1734 N. Wells, Chicago 14, Illi­nois.
This former snare drumm­er
is a reporter with the Chica­go
Daily News. Thanks for let­ting
us know your whereabouts.
NANCY NELSON (Mrs. Den­nis
Weeden) (1958 - 60 ) 4633
Freeway Circle, Sacramcnto 41,
California. Nancy, ex- drummer,
writes: “My husband received
his M.S. from University of Ore­gon
last June. We then moved
to Sacramento, where he is a
geologist for Texaco Oil. We
think we will be here for sev­eral
years, and would love to
see and talk to some other old
Iowa Highlanders. Thanks so
much for theChristmasLetter.”
The Weedens have two children
-Denise 2, and Daniel who will
be one year old in February.
ALLENE M. HAYS (1958 - 62)
3046 S. Madison, Denver, Color­ado;
home address: 1317 W.
Street, Grinnell, Iowa At the
moment, Allene is an assistant
buyer at the Denver Dry Goods
Company, and she reports: “ My
fiance is stationery buyer. Right
now I ’m in the process of mov­ing
again since one roommate
married, another moved But in
April I hope to be settled for at
least awhile. Met my fiance
here in Denver, but he’s from
Des Moines. After my marriage
to Bill Brobst, I ’ll be looking
for a new job since company
policy won’t allow us both to
work. One of the most exciting
tilings I ’ve done this year is
see the Mack Watch perform.
(Mi! the glorious memories it
brought back! . . . Wonder how
many of us will make it back
to Europe? I ’d love to hear
from some of my rid Highland­er
buddies. Hope you’ve all had
as wonderful a year as I have,’
concludes this ex-drummer.
SUE POWERS (1958 - 62) 121
E. Park Road, Iowa City, Iowa.
Snare drummer Sue is secretary
to William D. Coder, Director of
Conferences, Division of Exten­sion
and University Services at
the State University of Iowa. It
is good to have her here, be-cause
at least she comes to the
Office of Events Arrangements
frequently - (which is a part
of the Highlanders Office - Bill
Adamson being Manager of Un­ion
Events ) - and she’s as
charming as ever.
MARY M. WALTER (1958-62)
1444 Filbert Street, San Francis­co,
California. Mary, ex - piper,
is working in the passenger de­partment
of a Norweigian shipp­ing
firm, as she reports: "help­ing
to send people on vacations
all around the world. Came to
San Francisco last summer with
two other girls to see what it is
like and liked it so much that
I ’m still here, although my
friends left in late August. The
city itself is beautiful, the peo­ple
friendly, and the climate
marvelous.”
NANCY KENNEDY (Mrs.
Terry McGrath) (1958-62) 1408
Memorial Drive, S.E. Cedar Ra­pids,
Iowa. Nancy, ex-piper’s
husband, Terry, is employed at
McGrath Pontiac. “ I taught
fourth grade last year at Hoov­er
Elementary, Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. This year I am a house­wife
and proud mother of a
baby boy, Timothy, bom on the
Fourth of July, 1963. Terry,
Timmy and I moved into our
new home in August. We like
living in Cedar Rapids, and it
is especially nice being close
to Iowa City where we have
the opportunity to watch the
Highlanders perform at the foot­ball
games. We thought the
Highlanders looked great this
year as usual. Thinking of the
1964 Foreign Trip brings back
many fond memories. Have a
wonderful trip.” Thanks, Nancy.
SHARON CONGER (Mrs.
John Thomas Walker) (1958 -62)
109 Diamond Hill Road, War­wick,
Rhode Island. Tim is a
Navy pilot in an anti - subma­rina
warfare squadron 32 at
Quonset Point, R. I. Sharon is
teaching 2nd grade at Central
School in Warwick. This former
snare drummer writes: “ Last
January - June, 1953, we were
living in the heart of ‘cajun
country’ at New Iberia, Louis­iana,
where Tim completed his
advanced pilot training for the
Navy and received his Navy
Wings of God We both discov­ered
these ‘cajun people’ to be
the friendliest people we have
ever met and enjoyed our short
stay there. Longfellow’s ‘Evan­geline’
was written very near
New Iberia, so we enjoyed tak-i
n g t r i p s to ma n y
interesting places not to men­tion
a couple of weekends in
New Orleans where 1 had my
picture sketched by a local
French Quarter Artists. After
leaving La. we had a nice long
vacation in Iowa, with our par­ents.
Took a couple ot fishing
trips up to Canada while we
were home and then left July 1
for a 5 week school in Norfolk,
Va. While Tim was in school 1
spent most of my time at Vir­ginia
Beach getting lazy. From
Virginia we were to go to Key
West, Fla where we were lo­cated
for 8 weeks while Tim
went through the Replacement
Air Group. Neither of us has
much to say about Key West as
it was so hot we couldn’t bear
it. Then when the heat let up
we had the hurricane seasons
and many frustrating experienc­es.
We were lucky that none of
them got to the Keys but we
still had a few anxious moments
of not knowing what would hap­pen.
We finally got into the
squadron here at Quonset Point,
Nov. 1, and are expected to be
here for 3V6 years. What a re­lief
to finally get our suitcases
unpacked. And we are anxiously
looking forward to Iowa visitors
this summer via the World’s
Fiar. So anyone who heads East
be sure to stop and see us! . . .
My 35 children in school keep
me occupied but after my vaca­tion
in La., Fla., and Va., it is
a pleasant experience. All of the
New England customs fascinate
us so far so we hope to have
a pleasant tour of sea duty in
Rhode Island. Don’t forget the
World’s Fair this summer and
visit us!" What a lot of ‘tour­ing’
you’ve been doing, and its
fine you can rest your heels a
while now in Rhode Island. Yes,
hope to see you in June.
SUSAN H. MAST (Mrs. Ed­ward
H. Wilson) (1959-60) 48561/2
Pescadero Avenue, San Diego 7,
California 92107. “My husband,
an Ensign in the U. S. Navy, is
Assistant Gunnery Officer on
the destroyer U. S. S. Lofberg,”
writes this ex-piper, and their
son Edward Forsyth (Teddy)
was bom November 11, 1963.
Congratulations on the new son!
JANET WETZELL (Mrs.
Charl es M. Koehler) (1959 • 60)
214 Windsor Road, Sterling, Illi­nois.
“ Chuck and I both grad­uated
from Northern Illinois
University in June,” this ex-pip-er
writes, “We remained in De-
Kalb through the summer while
Chuck began his Masters. This
feH we moved back to cur home
town, Sterling, Illinois, where
Chuck accepted a teaching posi­tion
in the Junior High. He
teaches tth grads History, is co­ordinator
of the intermediate
physical education, and coach­es
8th grade basketball. For the
past four months I have been
a legal secretary for one of the
local attorneys. I have enjoyed
my work immensely. But as of
Jan. 6th I will begin a new job
as secretary for the Appellate
Court Judge. I feel very fortu­nate
having this opportunity.
Erne to work we were unable to
attend any SUI footbaU games
this fall. But we are keeping our
fingers crossed and hoping that
we’ll make it to Iowa City next
year. Can hardly wait to receive
the Highlander Christmas let -
ter. I sure enjoy reading about
the others, and I ’m especially
anxious to read about the Eu­ropean
Trip. It should (Ming
back a lot of wonderful, unfor­gettable
memories.” It wiU be
good to see you next fall. Do
hope you can make some ot the
football games, and be sure to
look us up.
MARY HELSCHER (Mrs. Ya-ro
Chmelar) (1959-62) R. R. 1,
Washington, Iowa. This ex-piper
writes that Yaro farms with his
father and two brothers, and
Mary is going to school at SUI.
“My major is Special Educa­tion,”
continues Mary, “ I ’m get­ting
anxious to start teaching
next fall. We’ve bad a busy year
redecorating our big, oid, 10
room country home but now
that it’s nearly completed we
can sit bode and relax.”
KAREN KUTSCHER (Mrs.
James A. Vroman) (1959 • 62)
3900 38th Street, Des Moines,
Iowa. Karen, former drummer,
is working as school nurse in
the Des Moines School System
— she has three elementary
schools — and her husband is
an Accountant for CPA firm.
She continues: “ Saw the group
at Homecoming. Made we wish
I was bade. I want to wish you
and the group the best of luck
on your 1964 European Tour.”
Thanks Kami!
JEANNINE LOROS (Mrs.
Michael M. Sheppard) (1959-62)
440 Wales, Iowa City, Iowa. An
ex-piper, and drum dancer,
writes: “My husband is an Audi­tor
for the State of Iowa. I am
finishing my B. A. degree in
June, 1964. Michelle Rae was
born October 21, 1963.” Sounds
as though we may have anoth­er
little drum dancer for the fu­ture??
SHARON KAY MAYBERRY
(1959-63) R. R. 3, Anamosa, Io­wa;
job address: 336 N. Alfred,
Elgin, Illinois. Sharon, piper, is
teaching Modem Mathematics in
a Junior High School in Elgin.
She continues: “ Graduating
from SUI last June meant that
it was now time to go to work.
The enjoyments of college had
to come to an end — at least
for a while. I spent my summer
at home in Anamosa, clerking
in a grocery store (my 8th year
of this). Then in August I pack­ed
up and went to Elgin, 111.,
where I began the role of a
school teacher. 1 teach in one
of the four Junior high schools.
I enjoy it very much, however,
I ’ve found out that teaching is
composed of much more than I
ever thought it was.” We’re
sure you’re a good, conscien­tious
one!
PATRICIA STEENROD (1959-
63) 1858 40th Street, Rock Is
land, Illinois. “ This year I am
teaching at Rock Island Senior
High School,” writes our ex -
snare and bass drummer, “ and
it is quite an experience! The
Highlanders looked great this
year, Bill. Thanks so much for
all the wonderful experiences we
had during my stay with the
Highlanders — with memories
of the summer of 1960 — I do
envy these girls going abroad
in ‘64. Have fun!” Yes, and
we’ll take extra looks at the
Crown Jewels, etc., etc., for all
of you who were there in 1952,
1956, and 1960! Pat’s home add­ress
is: 111 Foster Blvd., Iowa
Falls, Iowa.
BARBARA JEAN PEARSON
(Mrs. Everette R. Brooks) (1956-
62) 1435 Lanewood Drive, Dixon,
Illinois 61021. Barbara Jean’s
husband is a pharmacist and
owns Brooks Drugs in Dixon.
This ex-drummer writes: “ I ’m
a housewife and mother and
love every minute of i t Our lit­tle
gal, Aline Elizabeth, bom
December 3,1963, weighed 6 lbs,
4 oz. at birth and was 19” long.
Has real lusty cry and I believe
almost enough wind to play the
pipes. (Hope she can join when
she is old enough!) I wish the
Highlanders lots of luck on their
European trip. 1 hope you aU
have lots of fun and give won­derful
performances.” Thanks
for your well wishes, and con­gratulations
on the new baby
daughter.
JEAN ANN JOHNSON (1960-
63) 1504 Bever Avenue, S. E.,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa; home add­ress
— 205 W. Kirkwood, Fair­field,
Iowa. Jean is in the Phy­sical
Education women’s depart­ment
of the Marion High School,
in Marion, Iowa. She is an ex­bagpiper.
JILL MCCLANNAHAN (1961 •
63) R. F. D. Mondamin, Iowa.
Jill, piper, is attending Dana
College at Blair, Nebraska, and
she says she likes it very much,
but continues: “miss Highland­ers
very much, also I work for
the Athletic Director part time
and think it is the most enjoy­able
job I ’ve ever had Best of
luck and fun in Europe this
coming summer. Wish I could
be with you. Hope to see you
sometime soon.”
Dear Friends:
Our greetings to to all the
Highlanders. We were saddened
this year by the death of Colon­el
Dailey, the founder of the or­ganization,
but glad to remem­ber
the great tradition that he
started.
Our best wishes go to those
visiting Britain and Europe this
summer. We recall with plea­sure
the visit in 1956. If any of
you go to New Delhi, India, dur­ing
the next two years, remem­ber
that Mrs. Hancher and I
plan to be there.
Sincerely,
Virgil M. Hancher
President
Letter to Highlanders
Ellen and I recall with more
pleasure than you can imagine
the trips we’ve made with the
Highlanders, and we regret the
invitations we’ve had to turn
down because of conflicts, life
gets so full ot conflicts!
We greet you all over the
country with this message and
brief report on growth of which
you can be proud at your old
school: The Alumini Association
has reached the greatest size
(thus far) in its history, and its
bi-monthly magazine now goes
to upwards of 8,000 dues • paid
members all over the U. S. Join
up the next time you’re asked!
As we like to say: "Except for
the annual Highlander News
Letter, TOE IOWA ALUMNI
REVIEW is the only magazine
in the world that cares about
YOU” (Association membership
is a great way to keep thorough­ly
posted on your old class­mates,
and on SUI, six times a
year.)
The Old Grid Development
Fund had its biggest year yet
in 1963, with $127,000 in contri­butions
from rid grads — in­cluding
many of you-all. (And
we appreciate your contributions
to the Highlander Scholarships
through OGDF!) Moreover, the
cumulative gift to the Univer­sity
of the SUI Foundation and
Old Grid Development Fund
passed the first million mark in
late 1963! Our baby is growing
up, and we're proud of him!
In fact, the baby is big enough
that the Foundation has taken
over a special challenge this
year — to raise $1 million in
private gifts to build a major
art gallery at SUI, as a part of
the expanded art building com­plex.
All grads will have a
chance at this before the cam­paign
ends. Meantime, if you
know of any big-gift possibili­ties,
let us know!
Warm regards to all of you,
wherever you are. Keep in
touch!
Loren Hickerson,
Executive Director
SUI Alumni Association &
SUI Foundation
Dear Highlanders everywhere:
I consider it a real honor to
be induded on the mailing list
of the Highlander Christmas Let­ter.
Even though I am a new­comer
to the University, having
replaced Dr. Earl E. Harper
last July, I fed like a bonafide
member of the Highlander fami­ly.
lU s year’s group has been
more than kind to Mrs. Kottner
and me, and we have thorough­ly
enjoyed the opportunities we
have had to watch them per
form and to learn of the tradi­tions
that ere a part of the
Highlanders. I especially enjoy­ed
seeing the tour off to Eng­land
last June.
I hope that 1 will have the
opportunity to meet many and
all of you when you return to
the campus for a Highlander Re­union
or for any University of
Iowa event. We want you to al­ways
fed that the Union is your
home when you return to the
campus.
Sincerely,
Loren V. Kottner, Director
Iowa Memorial Union
113 Varsity Heights
Iowa City, Iowa
1963 HIGHLANDER CHRISTMAS LETTER PAGE NINE
COLONEL AND MRS. WIL­LIAM
W. JENNA (Professor of
Military Science and Tactics
and Head of the Military De­partment
at SUI from July, 1946
to February, 1951) 830 Sistina
Avenue, Coral Gables, Florida,
33146. Hie Colonel and his wife,
Maude (Whiteside), have a son,
William, Jr., and two grand­daughters,
Valerie and Suzanne,
aged 6, and 8 months. “We are
retired after forty years of Ar­my
life,” Col. Jenna reports, “ I
work at the Coral Gables Con­gregational
Church, primarily
taking care of the Sunday
School records. Also, I assist
with some of the church finan­cial
records . . .It was a great
pleasure for Maudie and me to
spend a week in Iowa City in
June of 1962. We hope to repeat
the visit again some one of
these days. Give our love to all
the Highlanders and wish them
the very best and brightest of
New Years for us.” We recall
those years you had at SUI with
great pleasure and wonderful
frietK&iip for aU of us. Do come
see us again soon.
MR. AND MRS. GORDON
STRAYER —918 East Washing­ton
Street, Iowa City, Iowa. The
Strayers, Gordon and Faye, will
be remembered for their won­derful
help and companionship
on the 1952 and 1956 European
trips the Highlanders made.
Gordon is Acting Director and
Executive Editor of University
delations, and News & Inform­ation
Service at 10 Old Capitol
building. Faye continues with
her studies and writing, as well
as care for their two children:
Hilary 6 and Scott now 3 years
old. They send their very best
wishes to all Scottish Highland­ers
“ past and present!”
NADINE THORNTON (Mrs.
H. J.) 417 Ferson Avenue, or
Scottish Highlanders Office, Io­wa
Memorial Union, Iowa City,
Iowa. I ’ve spent many a happy
evening during the winter
months reading over the Ques­tionnaires
sent in by all you loy­al
ex-Highlanders. I ’d like you
to know, too, that I feel a deep
kinship with you, and for you.
Being a part-time secretary to
the Director and his Highland­ers
these recent years, has been
a most valuable part of my
daily life. Thank you for your
kind remembrances to me
through cards and generous
greetings. Let me take this bit
of space to return sincere and
best wishes to you and yours
always.
Last Year’s Activities—1963-64
The Highlanders performed at
all the usual football games in
Iowa City. The out-of-town foot­ball
game was at Purdue, and
the outstanding feature of the
trip was that we flew from Ce­dar
Rapids to Purdue, and re­turned
immediately after the
game. We traveled in costume.
One-way trip took an hour and
forty minutes instead of eleven
hours by bus. It was the first
time the Highlanders had ever
flown, and we’re all for teat
mode of transportation from
now on out.
We performed several dates
in and near Iowa City, however,
we curtailed any lengthy trips
because of our concentration on
our forthcoming Foreign Tour
this summer. Every place we
performed of course we ran into
ex-Highlanders, and it was cer­tainly
great to see them.
1964 FOREIGN TRIP
Our foreign plans are practi­cally
set now with the excep­tion
of a few details. Here is
our present itinerary:
June 8-11 — Rehearse in Iowa
City.
June 11 — Fly from Cedar
Rapids to Washington, D. C. Ro­ger
Smith Hotel.
June 12 — White House recep­tion,
and reception with Con­gressmen.
Probably a perform­ance
for the Washington - Iowa
Alumni. Our plans at the White
House and with toe Congress­men
are being handled by our
good friend, Congressman Fred
Schwengel. We expect to have
a buffet dinner before the even­ing
performance with the Wash­ington
• Iowa Alumni. As usual
we expect to have a grand time.
June 13 — Leave Washington;
arrive New York, Manhattan
Hotel.
June 14 — Possibly perform
at Ed Sullivan Show. He hasn’t
made up his mind yet.
June 15 — Perform at World’s
Fair in the afternoon, N. Y.,
Iowa Alumni at night.
June 17 — Board Queen Eliza­beth.
June 23 — Arrive at South­ampton;
entrain to London.
June 27 — Perform Battersea
Park, London. Imperial Hotel.
June 28 — Leave London.
June 29 — Arrive Edinburgh,
Masson Hall, 31 George Square.
July 1 — Perform Princes
Street Gardens, Edinburgh.
July 3 — Perform in Dunferm­line.
July 4 — Leave Edinburgh
for Elgin; perform Elgin that
evening.
July 5 — In Elgin.
July 6 — Leave Elgin for Ab­erdeen
July 7 — Perform Aberdeen.
July 8 — Leave Aberdeen for
Edinburgh; leave Edinburgh for
London.
July 9 — Arrive London;
Leave London; Arrive Harwick.
July 10 — Arrive Hook of Hol­land;
arrive Amsterdam, Hotel
Slessig.
July 12 — Leave Amsterdam;
Arrive Cologne, Atlantic & Min­erva
Hotels.
July 14 — Leave Cologne; ar­rive
steamer Coblenz to Mainz.
Train to Frankfort
July 15 — Arrive Vienna, Ho­tel
Zentrum.
July 19 — Leave Vienna; ar­rive
Venice, Spendid Suisse Ho­tel
July 21 — Leave Venice, ar­rive
Rome, Casa della Studente.
July 26 — Leave Rome, ar­rive
Florence, Hotel Croce di
Malta.
July 28 —Leave Florence; ar­rive
Berne, Bristol Hotel.
July SI — Leave Berne; ar­riving.
August 1 — Paris, Maison des
Eleves de lEcole Centrale.
August 6 — Leave Paris; ar­rive
Cherbourg; Board Queen
Elizabeth.
August 11 — Arrive New York.
So, if any of you people are
in or near these cities on our
Tour be sure and let us know.
It would certainly be wonderful
to see you. You will notice that
this is a more extensive tour
than we have ever done, add­ing
Vienna, Venice, Florence to
the Tour. We expect to have 78
girls, plus Fran and I. John will
be baggage manager; Heather
will be a dancer. Nadine is go­ing
as my secretary. Roger
Small man, Assistant will be go­ing
to assist; and of course, we
hope to have Public Relations
people for writing of stories;
still and motion picture shots of
the Tour, we hope to make a
motion picture of the Trip.
Annual Highlander Coffee Hour
We will have the Annual High­lander
Coffee Hour from 10:00
to 12:00 Saturday morning, Oct­ober
24th, Homecoming Day, in
the Old Gold Room off the
Main Lounge of the Iowa
Memorial Union. Take a break
and drop in, and meet old
friends. Hope to see as many
of you as can possibly make it.
Highlander Scholarships
Despite increasing cost in tui­tion
we’re maintaining our mini­mum
of not less than two scho­larships
per semester. Thanks
to you good people for your con­tributions
and also responses of
our performances, we are able
to continue this program. Dur­ing
the first semester, 1963 -64,
we awarded scholarships to Lo­is
Kuchenbaker and Kathy Wal­ter.
Kathy has been our choral
director all of last year, and of
course will continue the rest of
this year. She is a senior, and
unfortunately for us exposed to
graduation at the end of the
year. She will direct the chorus
on the Foreign Tour. She is do­ing
a marvelous job, showing a
great deal of initiative, and ori­ginality.
Incidentally, we also
have some new songs, especial­ly
arranged for us by the head
of the choral department of the
University here, Daniel Moe.
Lois Kuchenbaker has been one
of our best pipers, and most co­operative
worker in instructing
other pipers, and a high grade
person to have around when you
need to have something done.
We are in the process now of
accepting applications for the
two scholarships to be given the
second semester, 1963-64.
LATE BITS OF INFORMATION
As yu know, Dr. Harper re­tired
July 1, 1963, and Mr. Lor­en
Kottner of Kansas State was
appointed the new Director of
the Iowa Memorial Union. This
has been a very happy circum­stance
for the Highlanders be­cause
Loren has become one of
the Highlanders’ most enthusias­tic
boosters.
Sheila Cunningham Hogan had
a baby last week (March 6) and
Us name is Michael Patrick.
Judy Hamilton Crockett is
about to have her first baby!
And they had a boy, Charles
Hamilton — March 24th. Con­gratulations
to both families!!
Regret to inform you of the
passing of T. Scott Sutherland,
Chairman of the Aberdeen —
Iowa Fraternity, Aberdeen, Scot­land.
Tom Sutherland has been
the motivating factor in our vis­its
to Aberdeen and made our
stay there very pleasant.
Hie Out-Of-State Trip for the
Highlanders this coming year
will be at Bloomington, October
10th, when Iowa will play In­diana.
It would be great to see
some of you ex - Highlanders
who live in this area at the
game.
I received a wire yesterday
from California informing me
of the passing of Colonel George
F. N. Dailey on March 17th.
The Highlanders will remember
that Colonel Dailey organized
the Highlanders in 1937, and of
course was very proud of this
fact. The telegram stated in
part: “ Colonel Dailey always
looked with pride that the High­landers
have enjoyed since
their inception. He was always
extremely proud of the distinc­tion
they invariably produce
whenever they perform through­out
the world.” The Highland­ers
who knew Colonial Dailey
and wish to write to Mrs. Dail­ey,
her address is 865 Beach
Avenue, Inglewood, California.
We have just received the fol­lowing
letter which gives de­tails
on the passing of Colonel
Dailey. We are certainly pleas­ed
to hear that Mrs. Dailey is
in good health considering the
terrible shock she has exper­ienced.
Dear Mr. Adamson
1. Thank you for your kind