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Diane Danilson Bronzert

Diane has been working at the National Cancer Institute for the past 30 years, first doing breast cancer research and then administering grant research programs for the past 14 years. She has done quite a bit of traveling site visiting Cancer Centers across the nation. posted 7/2002

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Joan Delaha

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Miriam Elsas

First of all,Hanan, great job on the site and keeping us together. Just got in from an early spring snowshoe. Yes, there is still snow here...about 30 inches worth where the sun hasn't melted it down to a mere 8 or 10,....where?.. northern Wisconsin. Thought I should post some info about me and the last 40 years ...so that our conversation in two weeks can go beyond "what have you been doing?" For the last 27 years I've lived in a very rural and beautiful part of Wisconsin , with my husband of 32 years , Jim and our two children , various wonderful pets ...a dog, cat, laying chickens and Angus cattle( pets, we don't eat them because they supply manure..a very important commodity) Jim is the town (unincorporated town of 600 people and as many miles) bureaucrat, school board president , etc. Jim has an MBA from Northwestern University...qualifies him to do whatever, plus he cares about community. Before arriving here, I completed a BFA in Advertising Design at University of Denver and an MBA. The left and right parts of my brain work. I'm saying that, since the combo of business and art to some seem strange. Spent time in the corporate world in Chicago, product management and marketing types of things. Then retired to the north woods. I was going to do pottery and Jim was going to write. We did both., sort of. I opened a cooperative gallery with other local artists. It still exists ..cooperative, business, and artists worked together for a time ...and happily we were bought out. New paragraph...am the mother of two interesting , very independent children. Jesse, born in '78, received a BA from Macalester College in Chemistry and Physics. Went on to do physical chemistry at 3M ... washable paint is his forte' , Joe. This last year he followed his bliss and has been the cross country ski coach at Western State College in Gunnison , Colorado. Jesse follows his father's love for fun. Both of them are still trying to loosen me up...think I'm too driven . They should only meet some of you. Suzannah, born in '82, completed a BS in Environmental Biology at Beloit College and is now in Paraguay as a Peace Corps volunteer. Jim and I plan a trip to South America next fall and will begin cramming to learn Spanish, ..manana. As you might remember, languages did not come easy to me. What's happening now? We enjoy living on 100 wooded acres, growing our own vegetables each summer, being on the grid, and even having high speed wireless internet, ...now. Fifteen or so years ago , we didn't have hot running water , a TV or washing machine. Is this progress?...No...this is just un-simplifying . For the past 20 years, I've been affiliated with the technical college district . First as a part -time instructor ... economics, leadership, management theory ...and full time over the last too many years , now as Dean of Student Services for Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College. For relaxation, I grow flowers .....big time......it is like painting on a huge canvas. ( oh, Miss Guichard I should have listened to you and become a landscape architect) Sometime, I spend too much thought on woulda, coulda , shoulda's. I'm looking forward to seeing each of you! A friend of mine advised,,,, " Watch out for 40th Reunions... everyone wears a strange mask. Don't be afraid. Go up and talk to them for a while . The mask will melt . You'll know who they are and the years will disappear. " posted 3/2005

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David Fassnacht

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Ann Ferguson Mann

My family moved to North Carolina during my freshman year of college. I attended Florida Presbyterian College (now Eckerd College) for two years before transferring to UNC-CH. I received my BA in English in 1969 and met my future husband, Joe Mann. I moved to Boston after graduation and worked as a secretary at MIT. Joe and I got married in the summer of 1970 and moved to New Haven where he was attending Yale Divinity School. While in New Haven, I worked at Yale and took night classes at Southern Connecticut State University, earning a master's degree and teacher certification in English. I taught seventh grade in Guilford, CT. We returned to NC in 1972 and Joe became Associate Pastor at a church in Wilmington, NC. I taught at New Hanover High School until my son Chris was born in 1970. We moved to Raleigh in 1970. Joe worked at NC State as the Methodist Campus Minister, and I stayed home with my son for a couple of years. I worked for a year and a half at a private school and then accepted a job at NC State, where I worked for the next 24 years. Joe went from campus ministry to heading continuing education at Duke Divinity School, and then on to the Duke Endowment. I worked slowly on my doctorate and received it from NCSU in 1992. In 2000 I retired from State and took a job at Peace College, a very small women's college in Raleigh. My husband was transferred to Charlotte and we tried living in two places for a while. I moved to Charlotte two years ago and have settled in quite nicely. My mother and brother live here. My son is married to Sara Atkins Mann and they have one child, my adorable grandson, William Joseph Mann, II, called Liam. They live in Asheville, NC. posted 4/2005

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Jayne Ann Fox-Lidstone

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Tom Gaines

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Bill Girard

I have now been in Tyler at the Univ of Texas Health Center doing pulmonary medicine for 21 years. I have not been flying for a couple of years; it became expensive and was probably too dangerous anyway, so I took up motorcycle riding for awhile. I managed to avoid any wrecks but finally wised up to the danger of that so almost a year ago I decided to get off the streets and take up piano lessons again (an event from childhood with only partially happy memories). I found a very knowledgable teacher and have been enjoying that. I tried the violin for a couple of years but got to the place where it was taking a lot of practice time to get better. Trying to keep up with the medical information I need is always time-consuming and a challenge for one of us who did not finish in the top of the class. My son has finished his Internal Medicine residency at Univ of Virginia and is now in his second year of fellowship in Pulmonary/Critical Care medicine at Vanderbilt. I am pleased to note that he is much brighter than his dad. My daughter is still teaching elementary school but now lives in Plymouth, MI; her husband is an engineer and MBA and is working for Ford Motor Co in Dearborn. I am trying to stay healthy by playing tennis (although I have reached a plateau of mediocrity in that) or riding with the Tyler Bicycle Club. It's good exercise and I have been fortunate to have good health. posted 9/2004

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Harriette Grissom

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Jackie Grosch

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Lori Goldenberg

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Graham Haddock

I graduated from LSUNO in 1969 with a BS in Physics. My wife, Adele, and I have a son and two daughters, who have each graduated from college and started their own careers. I have been with Motorola for over 30 years, and we have lived in Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Worth, Austin, and currently Phoenix. While in California, I received an MBA from Pepperdine in 1979. I currently manage the Wireless Infrastructure Systems Division of Motorola Semiconductor Products in Phoenix. My main hobby is flying, and I currently fly a Beech Baron. My parents, brother and sister and their families all live in New Orleans, so we visit there four or five times per year. It is great to hear about some of the old classmates from Franklin. Somehow, I have always felt more of a sense of comradeship with my class from Franklin than I did from either of my college experiences. posted during 2000

Ray Haeuser

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Jackie Heckert

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Kenneth Keller Hickin

Died October 30th, 1994 Ken Hickin was one of our graduating classmates in the spring of 1965, with plans of pursuing his passion for Mathematics at the University of Kansas upon graduation. Apparently, he had made acquaintance with a mathematician there and was looking forward to working with this individual. So, off he went, and I am not sure any of us ever heard from him again. In anticipation of our reunion, I searched out information about Ken and found that he did pursue his dream, linking his mathematical passion with Dr. Richard E. Phillips. Dr. Phillips obtained his PhD from the University of Kansas in 1966, and subsequently took an appointment at Michigan State University in the Mathematics department with Ken moving with him as one of his first protégés. I am not sure how Ken's undergraduate curriculum proceeded, but by 1977 he received a PhD in Mathematics from Michigan State University. Ken took a position as the Gibbs Instructor, Yale University, from 1977 to 1979. By August of 1978, Ken had 24 publications when he applied for a tenure track position at Michigan State University. Ken took the appointment with the Mathematics faculty of Michigan State University, which appointment he held for 13 years, until shortly before his death in 1994. A review of the literature noted that Ken authored 28 publications in his field of mathematics from 1969 until 1993, an impressive mathematical legacy by most standards. This must be a partial list only, as it includes 17 publications after 1978, which would bring his total to 45, or more, if the 24 mentioned at the time of his application to the faculty of Michigan State University are included. A list of the titles of the publication that were found follows for any of you that are interested in the mathematical details. And it was the mathematical details that were important to Ken. Ken was born in 1947 in Macon, Georgia. In October of 1977, he married Deborah Platt and they had one child, Bessie Dale, born in August 1978. Ken's marriage was not lasting. He divorced and his ex-wife has also passed on. Other details of his life were difficult to obtain as his mentor; Dr. Richard E. Phillips has also died, (in 1999). I found Ken to be an approachable person at Franklin, although intense in his passion for mathematics, and it was with some sadness that I searched out and discovered these events of his life. If any of you have, or discover, anything more about Ken Hickin, such as details about parents, siblings, old friends, or colleagues, undergraduate activities, places of residence, please send it on to me as I retain an interest in this most remarkable individual. Compiled by: Kirt Smith 2/6/05 email: kirtley48@aol.com Publications: 1993, Locally homogeneous actions and universal extensions of groups. 1992, Highly transitive Jordan representations of free products. 1990, Universal locally finite extensions of groups 1988, Some applications of tree-limits to groups, I. 1987, Relatively homogeneous locally finite permutation groups. 1986, Universal locally finite central extension of groups. 1985, An amalgamation theorem for group extensions. 1985, a.c. groups: extensions, maximal subgroups, and automorphisms. 1983, Isomorphism types in wreath products and effective embedding of periodic groups. 1981, Adjoining conjugating elements to finite groups. 1981, Bounded HNN presentations. 1981, Boolean powers: direct decomposition and isomorphism types. 1980, Algebraically closed groups: embeddings and centralizers. 1980, Periodic groups generated by finite amalgams. 1979, A construction of locally finite simple groups. 1979, Joins of periodic groups. 1978, Complete universal locally finite groups. 1978, Non-isomorphic Burnside groups of exponent p2. 1977, Some algebraic properties of weakly compact and compact cardinals. 1976, A patching lemma. 1976, An embedding theorem for periodic groups. 1974, Joins of subnormal subgroups are serial. 1973, Countable type local theorems in algebra. 1973, On classes of groups defined by systems of subgroups. 1973, Local theorems and group extensions. 1972, On the equivalence of three local theorem techniques. 1971/72, On the normal product of FC-nilpotent and FC-hypercentral groups. 1970, On ascending series of subgroups in infinite groups. 1969, A class of groups whose local sequence is nonstationary.

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Robert Hinckley

After graduating from the Naval Academy, I was sent to a destroyer that spent most of its time patrolling the Vietnamese coast, firing at enemy troop movements and chasing behind an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin. Upon the completion of that two year tour, I was assigned to be the Aide and Flag Secretary to the Director of Naval Intelligence in the Pentagon. I worked for two admirals, which is as close I got to being one. It was a fascinating job and I still can't say much about it. At my request, but on their nickel, the Navy then sent me to Tulane Law school. Upon graduation I was sent by the Navy to the Naval Air Station Alameda as a JAG officer. Being a JAG officer was not a fascinating job (notwithstanding the fact there there has been a long running TV series) and in 1980 I resigned my commission and practiced law with a San Francisco law firm for awhile and then with Jones, Walker in New Orleans for a year. After the year in New Orleans, I returned to the Bay Area to be NEC's (the Japanese Company's) US general counsel, then was the Chief Financial Officer at Spectra Physics (a laser company and maker of the supermarket bar code scanners) and finally ended up at a semiconductor company -Xilinx - not exactly a household name. In 1999 I was divorced and quit my job at Xilinx to spend more time with my son, now 18 and in college. I discovered that I really liked not working. Consequently am still unemployed and fully intend to keep it that way. Click here to open a MSWord document containing the last "official" biography anyone prepared for me in connection with a government job in D.C., just in case you might want to know what really happened. posted 9/2004

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Marie Hyman Levine

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Marie & Stew Levine with Sarah & Hanan Lemann at the Brit of Marie & Stew's first Grandson, Yoni, in Migdal HaEmek

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Larry Johnston

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