Reflections Magazine Issue #48 - Spring 1998 | Page 31
Class of 1967
Together again! Celebrating their 30th
reunion at the champagne buffet are
(from left): Lois Sever, Mary Ann Matvey
Smith, Anne Birnbryer MacMillan
Eichman, Kate Gedert, Sr. Pat
McDonald, Pat Hoffman Kostell. Others
at the reunion included: Mary Alice
Comar, Mary Walker Dombro, Kathy
Kennedy Emery, Susan Conley Weeks.
dozen class members made it to campus
for all or part of Alumni Weekend, with
good times had by all. The 30th reunion
yearbook was given to those who attended
the reunion and mailed to everyone who
contributed a write-up for the yearbook. If
you did not receive a copy and would like
one, contact the Siena Heights alumni
office, attention: Jennifer.
Patricia Sleno Whalen 68 of Waterford
and husband Lawrence celebrated their
daughters wedding in May.
CLASS OF 68: Your 30th reunion is set for Sept.
18-20, 1998. (Note the earlier Alumni Weekend
dates.) The more you get involved in the planning,
the better your reunion will be! Want to help?
Contact Jennifer Hamlin Church in the alumni office.
1970s
Phyllis Gabriel Hoban 70 teaches radio
and television, theatre production and
drama at Martin Luther King Jr. High
School in Detroit and is the Detroit high
school winner of the Newsweek-WDIV
Outstanding Teacher Award. She taught
for 18 years in Detroit-area Catholic
schools before moving into the public
school system 10 years ago, first at Henry
Ford high school and now at King. In an
article in the Detroit Federation of
Teachers newsletter, she remembered her
days as the only black drama student and
the only black in her senior class at Siena,
and recalled her studies with Sr. Therese
Craig: She was very strict and demanded
so much of me. At first I thought she was
racist, then I realized she only wanted me
to be the best I could be. She taught me
so much and Ive never forgotten her.
Mary Phillips 72 and husband Rick
Sayre traveled through France and
Belgium in May and toured Italy in
November. Otherwise, were busy at our
jobs at Phillips University in Enid, Okla.,
where Mary is professor of art and Rick is
librarian.
Luis Marrero 72 is director of organization
development for t