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Alumni News — 40s-50s
The cover of The Desire of the Soul: An Adventure of the Spirit!
and a Love Story (Brown Books) features photos of Helen
Peck Kleinert '40 — she's half of the love story.
The other half is her spouse, Hank (Henry) Kleinert x'40,
who's written his life story. Henry is the pastor of Grace Lutheran
Church in Ennis, Texas. During a summer visit to Madison, the couple
reminisced with some of the "kids" who were in Henry's
youth group at Luther Memorial Church fifty years ago. You may contact
the Kleinerts at 6211 West Northwest Highway, #2506, Dallas, TX
75225 or hkleinert@myexcel.com.
Crossing to Freedom (iUniverse) is Madisonian Elizabeth
Wells Bardwell '41's new book, a collection of stories
about hundreds of families that came to America to avoid religious
persecution in the Old World.
The gentleman who was On Wisconsin's January/February
1998 cover story — Lawrence Halprin MS'41
— is making a splash again. Later this fall, the American
Society of Landscape Architects will honor him as the first recipient
of its Design Medal. Halprin, of Kentfield, California, has garnered
acclaim for his work in Seattle, San Francisco, Washington, D.C.,
and Jerusalem. President George W. Bush has also awarded him the
Medal of the Arts.
"Extraordinary Fidelity and Essential Service," reads
the inscription on the Director's Medal that Betty Crawford
Villemarette '43 received from CIA Director George Tenet
at CIA headquarters in a June 2002 ceremony. That inscription sums
up her contributions to the agency over the course of more than
fifty years — as a former CIA spouse and a retired CIA employee
herself. Villemarette is now a counselor in Shepherdstown, West
Virginia.
Ever since high school, words have been very important to Beatrice
Schwartz Levin MS'47 of Houston. In addition to teaching
freshman English at the UW, and then creative writing for twenty-five
years, her body of work includes plays, short stories, sixteen books,
and more than one thousand articles. Today, she writes for four
antique magazines. Levin's favorite creation is Women and Medicine
(Scarecrow Press), now in its third edition.
"I will continue on as editor-in-chief of Vitamins and Hormones
and will be engaged in other pursuits, as yet undetermined, but
including golf," writes Gerry Litwack MS'51, PhD'53,
who's retired as chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Pharmacology and vice dean for research in the Jefferson Medical
College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and moved
to Toluca Lake, California. He welcomes e-mails at gerry.litwack@mail.tju.edu.
"After years of rejections from numerous publishing houses
(all with nice comments), I decided to publish this book myself,"
shares Niceville, Florida, freelance writer Audrey Kvam
Wendland '51. "This book," about her mother,
is Florence: The True Story of a Country Schoolteacher in Minnesota
and North Dakota (awendland.com).
The author is now at work on a mystery novel.
Who is Milwaukee's Sertoman of the Year? It's Ed Hida '53,
who, following that honor, received another one: a Salute to Volunteerism
award from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Civic Alliance. The Milwaukee
Sertoma Club, part of Sertoma International, provides funds to agencies
that focus on speech and hearing disabilities.
Aiken High School in Cincinnati added a new star to its hall of
fame in April: Victor Carman MS'54 of nearby Mason.
He was the school's first counselor when it opened in 1962, and
he served there for seventeen years before retiring. Carman is also
a past president of the Ohio School Counselors Association.
Even though she's retired from her position as a Spanish teacher,
Kay Kuester Doran '57 still finds herself teaching.
As part of an anniversary celebration held by the Delta Kappa Gamma
International Society for Women Educators, she presented a workshop
to teachers in Guadalajara, Mexico — in Spanish, of course.
Doran has also been a leader of the WAA chapter in her home community
of Antigo, Wisconsin.
Like Victor Carman (above), Charles Thomas '57
is a celebrity at his high school alma mater. Now a resident of
Glencoe, Illinois, Thomas grew up in nearby Evanston, where he was
honored in March with one of the first seven Distinguished Alumni
Awards at Evanston Township High School. He was the school's first
African-American teacher and administrator. Since 1991, Thomas has
been on the faculty of National-Louis University in Evanston and
is part of an educational consulting firm. He's also a past president
of WAA's board, as well as a 1995 recipient of WAA's Distinguished
Alumni Award.
We thank Roger Nichols MS'59, PhD'64 of Tucson
for his (most concise) update. He enumerates: "1. New book,
American Indians in U.S. History (University of Oklahoma, 2003);
2. Fourth edition of book, Natives & Strangers (Oxford
University, 2003); 3. Senior Scholar Fulbright award, University
of Cologne, Germany, 2003-04; 4. President, Pacific Coast Branch:
American Historical Association, 2003-04."
When the American Geological Institute concluded its induction
ceremony in October 2002, it had a true gem as its 2003 president:
M. Ray Thomasson PhD'59. A Denver-based exploration geologist
and geophysicist, he's also the founder (in 1990) and president
of Thomasson Partner Associates, and he's received a Distinguished
Alumni Award from UW-Madison's Department of Geology and Geophysics.
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