Reunion Notes
Helen Duncan, OP of Detroit taught in
Lansing, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit,
and was a parish community worker in
Detroit and Grosse Pointe Park. She has
traveled twice to Italy with Foreign Study
League student groups, volunteers at Bon
Secours Hospital, St. Vincent de Paul,
and tutors at the Dominican Literacy
Center. Joys have come through her life as
an Adrian Dominican Christian; sorrows
through illnesses and the deaths of friends
and dear ones.
Betsy Stoltzman O’Neill of Sidney, OH,
is recovering from the death of her
husband, Winfield, at the Cleveland Clinic
on July 12. She asks, “Please remember
him in your prayers.”
Marie Ream of Clayton reviews the past
decades: “I was teaching in a rural school
and continued my college work at Siena in
summers. Later, I taught 3rd grade in
Clayton and in ‘57 began teaching 6th
graders in Adrian. Upon retiring in ‘82,
the governor honored me for 39 years of
teaching.” Marie has been active in all lay
capacities in the church and has traveled
to Europe, South America, the Holy
Land, the Dominican Republic, and in all
directions in the U.S. She lives on the
farm where she grew up, sharing the
property with other family members who
have built homes there, “so in spite of
living alone with six cats and a dog, I have
no time to be lonely.”
Joan Chopp Scheuermann of Pleasant
Ridge made her career as an art
instructor, poet and lyricist. She and her
husband, Robert, have six children, 12
grandchildren, and have traveled to
Europe, Mexico, Egypt and the Holy
Land. Joan volunteers at Manna House
nutrition center and helps “decorate”
church space.
Jodie Screes, OP of Adrian entered the
Adrian Dominican Congregation during
her senior year at Siena. “Since then, I’ve
had the privilege of teaching grade
school, high school, college and adult
students. Currently, I am on staff at
Siena as coordinator of the Program in
Theological Studies.”
Margaret King Vaughan retired in 1986
from the Farmington Public Schools and
now lives in Las Vegas, NV, with her
husband, Bill. “We thoroughly enjoy
western living. Once a week I volunteer
at St. Rose Dominican Hospital. What a
wonderful way to keep my connection to
the Sisters!” She and Bill have two sons
and five grandchildren.
Gladys Maria Vivaldi writes from San
Juan, Puerto Rico: “After graduation, I
came back to Puerto Rico where I
worked in a government agency as a
social worker until I married in 1959. My
husband, Cesar Cruz, is a civil engineer.
We have one daughter, four sons, and
seven grandsons. My daughter and one
son live in North Carolina, where we
sometimes go to visit.”
Anne Carrier of Redford taught 1st and
3rd grades in Southfield for six years after
graduation before spending a year with
the Department of Defense at Ramstein
Air Force Base in Germany. She then
spent 25 years teaching grades 1-5 in
Livonia before retiring this past spring.
Kathryn Cliatt, OP of Gainesville, GA,
in June completed six years of Adrian
Dominican leadership as prioress of the
Mid-Atlantic Mission Chapter.
‘53 alumnae at their 45th reunion lunch (from left):
Mary Magdalen Boff, Jane Korte Waldo, Margaret
King Vaughn.
Catherine De Clercq, OP of Southfield
entered the Adrian Dominican
Congregation in 1956. After graduating
from Siena, she taught elementary and
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secondary school for 12 years. She was
Co-Provincial in Detroit in the mid-70s
and served as assistant director of the
Leadership Conference of Women
Religious in Washington, DC from ‘74 to
‘78. She was a member of General Council
(1978-86) and is now assistant to the
president of Mercy Health Services in
Farmington Hills.
Jeanette Jabour, OP of Cincinnati, OH,
has ministered to elders in the Cincinnati
area for 22 years, first as a nursing home
administrator, then as a community
outreach social worker. She is currently in
community relations at Bayley Place, a
long term care facility run by the Sisters of
Charity. “Part of my job involves
providing education programs for professionals working with elders and also noncredit college courses for elders.”
Carol Ann Johannes, OP of Ann Arbor
taught for 10 years after graduation, while
also earning a graduate degree in English
from Notre Dame in 1964. She was
Novice Mistress for the Adrian
Dominicans from 1968 to ‘72, and then
earned her master’s degrees in divinity
and theology from Weston School of
Theology. She was Adrian Dominican
Prioress for six years (1978-86) and is
now associate director of the Dominican
Center for Religious Development in
Dearborn Heights.
Marjorie Elizabeth Wetzel Kinn of
Fostoria, OH, joined the accounting
department of the Ohio Power Company
in Tiffin after graduating from Siena. She
and Gene were married in 1960, and after
the birth of their first child in ‘62,
Marjorie left employment for motherhood
and did not work outside the home again
until 1981. “During the years as a
homemaker, I was involved in various
church, school, and community
organizations and endeavors” along with
raising a daughter and two sons.
Together they serve as tour escorts for
many of his trips. “Life has not slowed
down for me.