Reflections Magazine Issue #70 - Fall 2009 | Page 29

Alumni News—Class Notes Theresa Cannon Hammons ’04 is completing her secondary art/teaching certification in Maple Falls, Wash. She will teach full-time this fall at a middle school in Bellingham, Wash. She married her long-term boyfriend, Josh, in June 2009. Carol Krueger ’04 was recently promoted to theatre services manager for the Shakespeare Theatre Co. in Washington, D.C. She and her husband, Timothy Wilson Jr., live in Washington, D.C. Ryan Swierlik ’04 and Andrea Twiss were married Sept. 27, 2008, at Divine Child Catholic Church in Dearborn, Mich. Ryan is employed at Auto Catalyst Recycling Corporation in Detroit. The couple lives in Dearborn. Kerry Hamilton-Smith ’05/MA was named the interim executive director of the Tecumseh Area Chamber of Commerce. She has more than 25 years of experience in public relations, marketing and event coordination and also serves as president of the Tecumseh Schools Foundation. Kelli Morrison Campbell ’06 teaches mathematics and is the cheerleading coach at Jonesville (Mich.) High School. She and her husband, James, have two daughters, Lauryn and Madisyn. They reside in North Adams, Mich. Daniel Rutkowski ’07 is employed as a lead customer service representative for First Federal in Tecumseh, Mich. He resides in Morenci, Mich. Olivia Rawson ’08 married Curtis Shaw March 21, 2009. Curtis Parsons ’09/MA is the emergency management coordinator for Lenawee County. He and his wife, Gail, reside in Tecumseh, Mich. Deaths Alumni Sister Marie Rachel Forster ’39 Jeanne Hall ’46 Sister Francis Winifred Schnell, OP ’55 Sister Anthonita Porta, OP ’63 Sister Margaret Naber, OP ’64 Kimberly Serling ’65 Darrell Sternberg ’67/MA Dorothy Tombaugh ’65/MA, who received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Siena Heights in 1982 for her pioneering work with the disabled, died July 3, 2009, in Denver, Colo. Tombaugh, 92, taught high school biology and chemistry in Adrian, Mich., and Euclid, Ohio, and also worked as a chemist and medical lab technician. She spent the last five years of her teaching career touring the country with her husband, Roy, to present seminars on teaching science to the disabled. Sister Lois Spear, OP ’46, who taught as an adjunct in the Humanities division at Siena Heights and edited the McNair Journal during the 1990s, died June 1, 2009, at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Mich. Her presence at numerous university events spoke of her interest in Siena Heights and was a walking testimony to life-long learning, according to SHU Vice President of Academic Affairs Sister Sharon Weber, OP, PhD. Friends Thomas Kramlinger Jeannette “Jan” McCusker Kohler Give Receive & I n exchange for a gift of cash or appreciated stock, a Siena Heights University Charitable Gift Annuity provides the following benefits: • • • • guaranteed, partially taxfree, lifetime income stream with attractive payout rates immediate income tax savings through a charitable contribution deduction capital gain tax savings for gifts of appreciated stock the ability to see your gift at work on the Siena Heights University campus A Siena Gift Annuity is a great alternative for donors who have bank stocks which no longer are paying dividends. For more information on setting up a Siena Heights Charitable Gift Annuity, call the Advancement Office at: [phone]. Or email us at: [email protected]. Reflections Fall ’09 29