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MILWAUKEE-DOWNER Betty Jay Davis M-D’46 • After graduating from Milwaukee Downer College in 1946, Betty enrolled in a dietetics internship at the University of Chicago Hospital. She met Dwight H. Davis in Chicago and they were married in 1948. When Dwight was called up from the Army Reserves for active duty in 1951, they lived in Okinawa for two years. Upon their return stateside, they lived in Milwaukee, where Dwight worked for the A.O. Smith Corporation. They raised four daughters. In the 1960s, A.O. Smith sent the family to Arkansas and Texas where Dwight helped open new plants. In 1978, A.O. Smith sent them to Kankakee, Illinois, where they decided to stay upon Dwight’s retirement. Betty returned to Milwaukee in 2020, where she currently lives at St. John’s on the Lake and can see some of the old red Milwaukee Downer UW–M buildings from her high-rise perch. Kikue Kikuchi Rich M-D’49 • I returned to the same CCRC in 2019 after 12 years in Bend, OR. I continue well and active turning my front and backyard into native plants after reading D. Tallamy’s book Nature’s Best Hope ... a new approach to conservation ... I wish everyone a healthy, joyful 2022.
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As a proud Lawrentian, I have been given the opportunity to apply my personal passions in the classroom and use my research to help others. Through my coursework, I learned how entrepreneurship can be used to solve social problems. I also got involved in KidsGive, a nonprofit at Lawrence which does philanthropic work in Sierra Leone. As a black first-generation college student from a low-income background my education would not be possible without the Lawrence Fund. Thank you for your support!” —Gabriel Chambers ’22
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Anne Dunst De Leo M-D’50 • The year 2020 was an eventful year for me. At 91 I survived COVID-19 with minimal symptoms and recovered in time to greet my new (#4) great-grandchild. I am fortunate to still be living in my home of 57 years and driving! Thank God. Colleen Schmechel Chambers M-D’51 • It is difficult to believe that last June it was 70 years since we graduated from Milwaukee Downer. A great deal has happened since then. Graduate school, marriage, raised five children and have been a widow for 14 years. The two older children are deceased, and I have eight great-grandchildren. I still live alone and have an aide once a week. The past year has been a struggle with post-herpetic neuralgia due to shingles, which is with me 24/7 and no cure. This was acquired from the COVID-19 vaccination even though I had the shingles vaccine. All considered, it has been an interesting 92 years. Gloria Groleski Tolaro M-D’51 • I made it through the worst of the pandemic in Arizona, but 2020 was more difficult in other ways. Jay Tolaro, my 94-year-old husband, friend and lover of 66 years bravely suffered and beat prostate cancer but then succumbed to Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in August. With great support from children, family and friends, I am well and feel so fortunate to have had this great experience and memories. Mary E. Van Gorden M-D’51 • Although now 92 years old I am in good health and continue to be involved in community activities. I’m fortunate to be living in a senior cooperative here in Black River Falls called “Spaulding Place.” It’s usual for older persons to do considerable “life review.” Some of the happiest times in my own reviewing involve life at Milwaukee-Downer College. What a great place it was! Elizabeth Schumacher Windsor M-D’53 • 2021 marked two big celebrations for me … one, I turned 90 (I can’t believe it myself!), and two, my grandson got married to a beautiful young girl. I was fortunate to be able to celebrate both with family and friends. God bless you and stay safe out there!
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