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CLASS NOTES +
1940s
KATHRYN RUTH HAGGERTY, EHD40,
Women’s College callback: “The owner of the soda shop on
was interviewed by UD Magazine for
Main Street at the time would allow us to call and order what we
her 105th birthday on Dec. 29. Sadly, she
wanted, and he would bicycle down and deliver it to us. We weren’t
passed away on Feb. 5.
supposed to do this, so when he got to our campus, he would go to
1960s
the back windows and tell us he was there.”
JOHN BARTLEY STEWART, M.D., AS60,
of Newark, Del., received the Ricardo
Castro M.D. Community Service Award
Kathryn Haggerty’s
in October. A pediatrician for nearly 60
CARL MARK KOCH, EG66, of Glen
KATHRYN RYON MCKAY, AS83, of “fellow classmates
years, he continues seeing patients at
Mills, Pa., has self-published a poetry
Bethesda, Md., has been hired as a Newark Pediatrics.
book entitled Pandemic Poet: The First
writer for the chief officer for Scientific wore her out with
Two Years, which contains over 250
Workforce Diversity at the National repeated admonitions
THOMAS J. ROMAN, AS64, of Newark,
poems about the pandemic, childhood
Institutes of Health.
to ‘toe-in,’ yet her
Del., has retired and returned to Main
memories, nature, travel adventures
CAROLINE JONES, ANR84, of Fairfield, Street, living in the Washington House
particular mode
and more. Originally from Orefield,
Pa., published a self-help memoir, Condos after 20 years as a Delaware
Pa., the author met his wife, NANCY
of walking is as
Broccoli for Breast Cancer, which
state trooper and 38 years at the law
VARADY, EHD66, at UD in 1962. She
characteristic of her
follows her cancer battle and includes firm of Kimmel, Carter, Roman, Peltz
edited the book.
anecdotal and evidence-based tips.
as her nose-wrinkling
and O’Neill.
1970s
laugh and her love of
SALLY DONATELLO, AS66, of Newark,
WILLY MIRANDA, AS70, of Newark,
sleep and merriment.”
Del., has published a photo essay
Del., received his Ph.D. in art history+ Fond memory: During one UD
in Confluence, the journal of the
From The Blue and Gold
Yearbook, 1940
from University of Madrid, Spain.
Association of Graduate Liberal
Winter Session, Lew Gorman
Studies Programs.
MICHAEL LARKIN, AS73, of Wilmington,
completed a study abroad trip to Del., has published nearly 400 choral
compositions, as well as a new book on
five countries—Denmark, France, choral conducting. Larkin conducts the
Germany, Belgium and Holland. While Newark Chorale and the Brandywine
there, he met with ministers of
Pops Orchestra.
agriculture to see how they managed PAUL SCHERER, AS77, of Chicago, had
the land (or, in the case of Holland, his opera La Trout Lily premiered in its
fully staged version at the Otherworld
reclaimed it from the sea). But the Theater with the New Moon Opera Co.
trip wasn’t all work and no play—
in March.
Gorman still remembers how, after a COL. (RET) LEWIS E. GORMAN III,
wine tasting 32 varietals strong, ANR73M, of Cherry Hill, N.J., received
his German hosts asked
the Camden County, N.J., Vietnam Era
Service Medal.
which one he would “like
to try,” the Blue Hen
1980s
says. “But at that
MICHAEL SULLIVAN, AS82, of
Somerville, Mass., married his longtime
point, most of us were
partner, Ed Barton, on June 3, 2022,
on the floor.”
in the MIT Chapel. It was the 40th
anniversary of their relationship.
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