Class Notes
20
Eileen Quinn Knight ’69 of Orland
Park, IL, is head of the Faculty Senate
at St. Xavier University where she is
an associate professor. She has three
“wonderful” sons in college — and
“a busy life!”
Trudy McSorley ’70, associate
professor of theatre/ speech communication and director of children’s
theatre and child drama at Siena
Heights, was named 2000 Citizen of
the Year by The Daily Telegram in
February. “I like to think that
whatever my students are doing now,
they’re doing it a lot better because of
going through the (theatre or child
drama) program,” Trudy told the
Telegram. A 23-year member of the
Siena Heights faculty, Trudy also is
active as a board member for the
Family Awareness Center, an
advisory council member for St.
Joseph Academy and a United Way
volunteer.
Stella Perea ’71 lives in Salinas, CA.
Patricia Erickson, OP ’71 lives in
El Centro, CA, where she works at
the Immigration and Naturalization
Service Detention Facility.
Maureen Toplisek Hall ’72 of
Venice, FL, teaches religion for
grades 6-8 at Epiphany Cathedral
School. She and her husband, youth
minister Don Hall, have two children.
Andrew is one of her grade 6 students
and Anthony was adopted as a
newborn in June 1999.
Paul, moved into their new
home in Brown City this
past November. Charlotte
continues to work as a
teacher.
Kathy Forner ’73 of
Duncanville, TX, a suburb
of Dallas, “graduated” this
year from teaching first grade to fourth
grade and is “treasuring every inch
of it, particularly the language arts/
writing aspect.” Celebrating her 20th
year in education and recently
nominated by her school for a
regional teaching award, Kathy admits
she “loves teaching but hates all the
political baloney that goes along with
it.” Son Andrew is a 6’4" high school
junior. Two dogs, Minnie and Buster,
round out the “Forner foursome.”
Mary Lang ’74 lives in Portland,
OR, with her husband, C. Mort
Bishop. Mary has retired from
Kimberly-Clark Corp. and is busy
with daughter Elizabeth, a freshman
at Jesuit High School, and son Mac,
a 5th grader at Cathedral School. “The
Catholic tradition lives on in the LangBishop family,” she writes.
Marty Phillips ’74 writes that she is
“in the 6th year of being the ‘Lighting
Goddess’ at the Old Town Playhouse
in Traverse City. I design, set, focus
and run lights for the productions on
our main stage and studio theaters.”
She is in her third year as lighting
chairperson for the theater and is
“using my degree even though these
positions are volunteer. I’ve loved
lighting the 35-plus shows I’ve done.”
She also runs Marty’s Pet and House
Care Service and notes, “I have six
‘children’...five cats and one dog.
Sister Eileen Rice would be proud of
me!”
Darrell Issa ’76 of Vista, CA, was
the inaugural speaker in Siena
Heights’ Ford Motor Company
Business Lecture Series this spring.
The purpose of the program, funded
by a grant from Ford, is to enhance
awareness of the need for global
business management expertise and
practices. Visiting the Adrian campus
in March, Darrell spoke about global
business management, addressing
such topics as free enterprise,
entrepreneurship and competitiveness in a global marketplace.
Darrell is founder and CEO of
Directed Electronics, Inc. (DEI), the
world’s leading designer, marketer
and distributor
of
vehicle security systems
(including the
popular
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