Class of 1951
Class Chair:
George Bard, 419/882-6380; Email: 
Class Notes:
Paul Kester
Mary, my wife of 57 years, passed from life as we know it on February 16, 2009. The cause of death was Parkinson’s disease, an affliction with which she struggled for over seven years. Her last months were full of happiness, beauty and love. Almost daily there were moments of tender joy that sustained us. More than 300 friends attended the Memorial Meeting for Worship that gathered to celebrate her life. She had the unique ability of energizing that of love that is in all of us. Among those attending were Jim and Elaine Katz Coate, ‘50, who introduced us. As for me, after a long bout with congestive heart failure, I had a valve job in mid December. They just unzipped me, took out the old valve, put in a new one (bovine, again) hooked up my defibrillator and sent me home a couple of days later, 30 pounds lighter. I am now well into physical fitness rehabilitation and am looking forward to golf.
(Posted March 25, 2009)
Lois Harned Jordan
I sold our family farm last year, donated the woods to the neighboring school for nature study, and moved to Friends Fellowship Community in Richmond. It's good to be here!
(Posted August 27, 2008)
Carol Roberts Todd
Carol Roberts Todd was recently featured in the Duxbury (Mass.) Clipper. "Todd's Still Going Strong After 25 Years".
(Posted August 20, 2008)
Obituaries:
Charles Pratt
Charles Edward Chick Pratt, 79, died January 19, 2009, in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was born in Tamaqua to the late Carl D. Pratt and Emily (Wallace) Pratt. He graduated from West Chester High School, West Chester, and Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. After college he served two years in the Army Chemical Corps. Charles had a successful career as a researcher and developer of specialty chemicals. He was the author of eight U.S. patents for the paint and ink industries. Over the course of his nearly 55 year career he served in a number of management positions with several chemical companies. Survivors: Wife, Kay; son, David and wife Laura; daughter, Rebecca and husband Stephen Ball; two grandchildren, Anna and Steve Ball; sister, Anne Reinhart; brother, John M. Pratt; several nieces and nephews.
(Posted February 11, 2009)
Esther Simon
Esther Simon of Kennett Square, Pa., died on October 24, 2008.
(Posted January 15, 2009)
Burdette Chapman
Burdette J. Chapman Jr. of Myrtle Beach, born October 20, 1923 died January 2, 2009 following an illness. Born in Munice, IN, the son of the late Burdette J. Chapman, Sr. and Irene Chapman. Mr. Chapman was a graduate of Earlham College in Richmond, IN and a US Navy pilot veteran. He then retired from a 30 year career at Nationwide Insurance Company. Mr. Chapman loved sitting on his porch and had an avid love for all animals. Survivors are his wife of 64 years, Martha Gerbert Chapman; nieces, Christine Scherman Willard of New York, Margaret Caro and Colleen Sporck of Pensacola, FL; nephew, Kirk Klien of WI; great-nephew, Dr. Casey Gilmore of Minneapolis; and great-great nephew, Benjamin Gilmore of Minneapolis.
(Posted January 07, 2009)
Gene Emrick
Eugene C. Emrick formerly of Richmond, IN passed away on July 17, 2008 at Boswell Hospital in Sun City, AZ. A graduate of Earlham College and a regular on the "Home Folks Party' in Richmond, Gene and his family later moved to California. He started his career with GE which later was bought out by Honeywell. Gene was a manufacturing consultant and traveled the US and Canada. He also was an outstanding organist and played for several churches from California, Texas, Alabama and Arizona. He also played and conducted his own choir in California and recorded an album. He and his wife, Laurel, owned a restaurant in Arizona which was named "Laurel's"; Gene and Laurel both cooked their specialties, real homemade cooking, and on Friday nights Gene would play the piano, you guess the song and get your dinner free, it was a big hit! The choir from Our Lady of Lourdes came into the restaurant after mass one Sunday, heard Gene play and thus Gene became their fulltime organist. He is survived by his wife Laurel, four children, 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild. He will forever be remembered for his music, his sense of humor, his love for life and church and the gourmet food he so loved to cook and eat.
(Posted October 10, 2008)
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