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We welcome your news! The information reported in Class
Notes is compiled from the reply cards included in each issue of
Reflections, alumni updates sent via email, newspaper clippings,
and your letters. We are happy to share news of weddings and
births once they have occurred; however, we do not report
engagements or pregnancies. Information received after March
24 will appear in the August issue. Stay in touch!
Chopin, is available through the Siena
Heights music department for a
donation of $20.
Patricia (Nancy) Illingworth Hill
’45 of Sacramento, CA, sends
greetings to all 1945 classmates,
especially Nadine Foley, OP, and to
“my special friend, Sister Miriam
Michael.” (Editor’s note: Contrary
to our Class Notes write-up in the
December 1999 issue of Reflections,
Nancy is a widow; her husband,
Major Thomas Hill, passed away in
1991 on Valentine’s Day. We
apologize for any distress we may
have caused. JHC)
Joan Chopp Scheuermann ’53 and
her husband, Robert, live in Pleasant
Ridge. Joan writes, “Would like to
hear what other classmates are doing.
Blessings far into the 2000s!”
Magdalena Ezoe, OP ’55 has
published several original liturgical
piano compositions with Alliance
Publications, Inc. in Wisconsin. The
new publications include several
pieces composed for use in Lumen
Chapel services at Siena Heights, and
several works for which Nadine
Foley, OP ’45 wrote the vocal text.
Magdalena’s new CD, featuring
piano performances of 20 works by
Madelyn Kennedy Thornton ’57
is a retired elementary school teacher
living in Addison. “I’m nearly 85
years young, but I do not just ‘sit.’ I
make scrapbooks for nursing homes,
play the piano and enjoy my five
children, 20 grandchildren, and 13
great-grandchildren with another new
one soon. God is so good.”
Jeanne O’Laughlin, OP ’58,
president of Barry University in
Miami Shores, FL, made national
news in January when she hosted the
closely watched meeting between 6year-old Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban
boy who was rescued at sea after his
mother drowned trying to reach the
US, and his two Cuban
grandmothers. Sister Jeanne, who
received the Siena Medal in 1997 for
her outstanding career in education
and service and who has a history of
involvement in humanitarian and
family issues work, was asked to
facilitate the meeting by Attorney
General Janet Reno. Jeanne has
assisted in several immigration cases
in the past. “The INS has always
known that when children are at stake,
they can count on me,” she said.
non-profit organization
devoted to giving at-risk and homeless
girls better life and career choices.
Barbara McGrath ’61 (formerly
Sister Mary Sybilla) lives in Mesa,
AZ.
Christine Wilhelm Clark ’63 lives
in Spokane, WA, where she is a
cli