Alpha Chi Omega - University of Missouri

alpha chi omega | page 8 CHAPTER ETERNAL Carole Bibb Seifert '57 – June 8, 2024 ALUMNAE NEWS Jane Sennott Coakley '52 celebrated her 91st birthday in her hometown of Dallas, Texas, this year. She also recently caught up on the phone with Shirley Otto Breipohl '53. Email: janeredhat19@gmail.com Jo Wiseman Strickler '53 is enjoying independent living in a retirement community where she volunteers on a library committee and belongs to a knitting group that donates scarves to a clothes closet and baby hats to a hospital. Jo lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Email: mjstrickler653@aol.com Diana Plackmeyer Thomas '55 stays busy with two book clubs, lots of wonderful neighbors and Wednesday Club of St. Louis, where she sees Mary Ann Smith White '56 and Betty Adams Crouch '57 every week. Diana resides in Chesterfield, Missouri. Email: atwhich@aol.com Linda Waller Borgstede '61 finally stopped writing for the newspaper. Her local church celebrated its 70th year in 2024 and she is writing a history of the church. Linda has a house in the north Georgia mountains where she spends five months of the year. The other seven, you can find her in Jacksonville, Florida. Email: lindaborgstede@yahoo.com Molly Kaderabek Peterson '63 shared that her granddaughter, Elizabeth Zareh '20, was an Alpha Chi at KU in 2020-24, and Molly's mother was an AXO at DePauw University in 1938-41. Molly resides in Webster Groves, Missouri. Email: mpeters@swbell.net Janell Hays Bednara '67 transferred from Mizzou to Illinois Wesleyan, where she completed her BSN. She worked in cardiac care, cardiac rehab and teaching before retiring from nursing. Later, she returned to school to study accountancy, joining her CPA husband in his practice. Married with two adult sons, three grandsons and a wonderful daughter-in- law, Janell has served on the Osage Beach City Council, University of Missouri Extension Board and Camden County Senior Services Funding Board. She is also an active member of P.E.O., an organization that supports and promotes women's education. Both Janell and her husband are now retired, enjoy frequent travels and recently moved from Lake of the Ozarks to their peaceful farm in Osage Beach, Missouri. She continues to serve on the Senior Services Funding Board, which she finds rewarding. Email: jbednara@yahoo.com Elaine Prusak Smith '67 enjoys monthly Alpha Chi adventures with Maggie Harlan Vaught '66 and Connie Sarar Neumann '66, celebrating 57 years of sisterhood and friendship! She lives in Edwardsville, Illinois. Email: elaineprusaksmith@gmail.com Catherine Miller Youngblood '67 is enjoying retired life in Sealy, Texas. She has nine grandchildren and all but two live nearby. She keeps busy with church and retired teacher activities. She has a new rescue dog and loves training him! Email: rillay@hotmail.com Linda Ormiston Evans '68 retired after 45 years in nursing, including 12 years teaching at the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing. She now enjoys traveling, spending time with grandkids, watching sports and gathering with friends in Columbia, Missouri. Email: revans007@centurytel.net Pamela Himmelberger Moulin '68 mourns the loss of her son, Mike Moon, who passed away on June 18, 2022. She lives in Southport, North Carolina. Email: pammoulin@ec.rr.com Winnie Kuhn Partridge '69 retired in 2022 after a remarkable 50-year career as a flight attendant—14 years with Pan Am and 36 with United Airlines. She loved her job but loves retirement even more. A proud grandmother of three, with one more on the way, Winnie resides in Ventura, California. Email: winniepartridge@gmail.com Nancy Maute Waggener '71 and her husband celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary with a 10-day trip to Ireland. She lives in Lynchburg, Virginia. Email: nmwaggener1@gmail.com Deirdre Hirner '72 is enjoying retirement and frequent travels, often meeting up with Cindi Heisler Doerhoff '73 and Cindy Schirr Klover '72. Together, they've traveled to Mexico and Jamaica and attended each other's children's weddings. Deirdre lives in Columbia, Missouri. Email: dkhirner@gmail.com Ruth Evans Swanson '74 retired four years ago and now enjoys traveling frequently with her husband. When at home in Rockford, Illinois, she takes tap dance lessons and volunteers with the League of Women Voters. Email: ruth@swanson82.com Kim O'Donnell Smith '75 recently returned to the IRS, where she works as a leadership trainer in Bella Vista, Arkansas. Email: kpsmithpv@yahoo.com Cynthia Connett Roupe '76 retired in 2023 after 44 years with the State Library of Kansas, having twice served as interim state librarian by gubernatorial appointment. She also serves on the Kansas Book Festival Board. This fall, she traveled from her home in Topeka with her husband, Mark, to Provence, France; Florence, Italy; and Iceland. Email: cinrou@cox.net Nancy Shughart Hoelscher '77 is proud to share the Alpha Chi bond with her sister, Susan Shughart Hogsett '75, and hopes to visit the chapter house soon from her home in Kansas City, Missouri. Email: nhoelscher76@gmail.com Cindy Hall Smith '78 is living in the Twin Cities in Minnesota, where she is happy to be close to two of her daughters and her three young grandchildren. Her son recently returned to the U.S. after eight years in New Zealand, Alumnae Updates Janet Deppe '73 and Nancy Ryerson Landess '73 meet in Columbia to attend a football game and enjoy a tour of the house. Sisters from 1974 and 1975 enjoy a close game and a Mizzou win over Vanderbilt in September. From left: Lou Ann Pfeifer Wilcox, Melissa Newman Anderson, Cathy Barrett Summers, Lori Deubner, Terri Jasper Wagaman, Caren Levick Squitieri, Debbie Goodman, Lynn Elle Ratkey, Nancy Stevens and Debbie Hagan Dukeman.

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