Ken Matson ’64 and Linda Matson ’65 celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2016! They have now lived in Florida for 32 years and still love it.

Gretchen (Grandfield) ’69 and John ’69 Leupold sold their Wisconsin home after 46 years and now live in their Florida home. They bought a Black Labrador puppy as part of their new addition to their new house. John fondly remembers his two roommates at the FIJI house, Jim Kent ’69 and Richard Jenkins ’69.

Carol J. Wiborg ’64 has been the co-editor of her church’s monthly newsletter for the past year, and is continuing with that work.

For the past sixty years, including the 1962 to 1967 years at Illinois Wesleyan, Dr. Collins has been studying the role of water in providing order in the living cell. Covalent bonding is accepted as the primary mechanism of order-formation between atoms in the molecular components of living cells; now Dr. Collins has proposed in the three new web sites below, that it is the dynamic covalent linear hydrogen-bonding between water molecules on surfaces of natural molecules which not only provides for their quantized orderly motions and interactions within living cells today but provided for their selection as integral function unites when cellular evolution began.

http://www.proteinhydration.com/

http://www.linearwater.com/

http://www.molecularcreation.com/

William is offering a full classical Recital this week, Friday the 4th of November at North Park University
on Chicago’s near North side, at Foster and Spaulding ( near Pulaski ).  The Recital begins at 7:30
pm, and admission is $8.00 for adults, $5.00 for students.  This program will be followed the next
day, Saturday the 5th at the same venue with a Masterclass — all are welcome to attend.

James Proctor Brown, III, gave the opening fall lecture to the Southampton Roads Torch Club in September on Kenya and its role in East African History. In late September Jim and his wife Helen spent a week at Massanutten, Virginia, with classmate Robert Fazzini and wife Lynne for a week of sight seeing, taking in Charlottesville, Monticello, Montpelier and the Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.

David Wilkes ’61 is the manager/promoter of Sultans of String.  They were recently nominated for World Group of the Year at the 12^th Annual Canadian Folk Music Awards  for their feast of ragas, reels ‘n’ rumbas, Subcontinental Drift, featuring special guest/sitar master Anwar Khurshid.

William Powers ’64, baritone, is currently singing with the Wichita Grand Opera in productions of Rigoletto and La Boheme, and will follow these productions with a solo vocal recital of operatic arias and selections from the Great American Songbook at the McPherson Opera House in McPherson, Kansas on Sunday afternoon, October 9th at 3:00 pm.

Ivan Maras ’63 was honored April 13,2016 Washington DC at the Congressional Award Ceremony  for the 65th infantry Puerto Rican regiment that was awarded the gold medal (2nd highest award congress can award next to the medal of honor) for outstanding service during the Korean War.

Sharon Hahs ’69 is retiring as the President of Northeastern Illinois University.

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