’70

Adrienne Drake joined the board of directors of Art & Creativity for Healing of Laguna Niguel, Calif. Adrienne is a retired physician who spent 20 years as a solo private practitioner in Laguna Hills. • Leigh Pomeroy was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from the First Congressional District in Minnesota. • Jane Rawlings, assistant to the publisher of The Pueblo Chieftain since 2002, has been named president of the Pueblo Rotary Club and president of the Southern Colorado Community Foundation. She also has been elected to a one-year term on the board of trustees of the El Pomar Foundation in Colorado Springs. • After three decades of teaching at Steamboat Springs (Colo.) Middle School, Winston Walker has retired. He plans to do a lot of hiking, fishing, hunting, and taking nature photographs.

’71

Bill Allen was named the 2004 Alumni Athlete of the Year by The Blake School, the prep school he attended before coming to CC. The award honors an alumnus/a who was active in athletics at Blake and continued to excel after graduation. Bill played hockey and soccer at CC, and after graduation and a return to his focus in sailing, he and two teammates participated in the 1972 Olympics and won a gold medal in the Soling Class in Kiel, Germany, in September 1972. Bill continues to race in national and international events around the world. He lives in Plymouth, Minn., with his wife, Susie.

’72

Marcy McIntire Gitt and her family have relocated to Chandler, Ariz., where she will continue her work in international adoption. • Grant Lyddon is the owner/operator of Real Estate Management Associates in Cupertino, Calif. • Julia Wells received a Hall of Achievement award from her first alma mater, Monmouth High School in Monmouth, Ill. The award honors former students who have distinguished themselves as adults. Julia lives in Grahamstown, South Africa, where she is a professor in the history department at Rhodes University. She also represents the Eastern Cape on the National Heritage Council, is an elected official, and serves as a consultant to a king.

Class Secretary:
Jesse Sokolow
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Riverdale, NY 10471-3212
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CC friends and Delta Gamma sorority sisters met at a recent Nikken convention in Los Angeles. From left, Markie Jordan Burch ’74, Jennie Greenewald Areson ’75, and Kathie Simpson Zier ’73.

’73

Henry Doyle, an Episcopalian priest, has been chaplain and religious studies chairman at Shattuck-St. Mary’s School in Fairbault, Minn., for the past 15 years. He recently received the 2004 Book of Golden Deed award from the Fairbault Noon Exchange Club for his contributions to the community, and last fall was presented with the Sertoma Club’s 2003 Service to Mankind Award. • David Herbert continues to enjoy practicing infectious disease and critical care medicine with Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento, Calif., where he is also assistant physician-in-chief. • Owen Kendrick is the director of Felicity Street Redevelopment Project, a nonprofit inner-city housing development corporation in New Orleans.

’74

Tim Davis recently designed and published a 2005 calendar using photographs of train details. • Deborah Lehman-Irl teaches business English (as a second language) in the business administration department at the University of Applied Science-Deggendorf, Germany. Deborah’s husband, Sepp Irl, who was the Max Kade head resident in 1973-74, toured the CC campus in March with 28 Bavarian secondary students when he came to Colorado for his 10th annual German-American Partnership Program. They enjoyed lunch with Professor Horst Richardson before traveling to Santa Fe, N.M.

’75

Marian Davenport was named president and C.E.O. of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Houston. • Jim Gabbert is chairman and C.E.O. of Gabberts Furniture and Design Studio in Edina, Minn. • Donald Shepard was named chairman of the board of the Menasha Corporation, based in Neenah, Wis. Donald is a fifth-generation descendant of Elisha D. Smith, founder of the company. He is a partner in the Minneapolis law firm of Faegre & Benson, and has been a Menasha director since 1989.

’76

Hal Howard works for the State Department as a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru, where he lives with his wife, Mary Mendenhall ’78, and their daughters Lucy and Ellen. He reports that Bill Anschuetz ’78 and his wife, Sarah, moved to Lima at the same time and live just a few miles away. • Eric Paddock’s photograph exhibit “Belonging to the West” was on display last spring at the Robischon Gallery in Denver. • Ted Warner lives in Greeley, Colo., where he is president of Connecting Point.

’77

In addition to his position as chief investment officer, David Fitch has assumed the duties of president for Gables Residential, a property management company in Boca Raton, Fla. • Julie Marine Leshay was elected treasurer for Kappa Kappa Gamma women’s fraternity. Julie lives in Wilmette, Ill., with her husband, Jeff, and their son Austin.

Long-time friends from the class of ’79 meet every two years to renew the bond they formed as students. Sebastopol, Calif., was the location for their September reunion. Front row, from left, Julie Edelstein-Best, Nancy Levit, Susan Sonnek Strater; back row, Kathy Loeb, Debby Parks Palmisano, and Mimi Hsu Rumpp.

’78

Elizabeth Farr and Timothy Luken were married Aug. 6. They live in Colorado Springs. • One of David Mason’s poems was read by Garrison Keillor during Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac” radio program on May 26.

’79

John Burke is a vice president and commercial loan officer at Colorado Business Bank in Denver. • Deborah Olin Norris was honored with the faculty award for outstanding teaching in an adjunct appointment for 2004-05. Deborah is a professor of psychology at American University’s College of Arts and Sciences in Washington, D.C.