Class Notes

Anne Spencer Caputo BA ’69 has moved into a new career as a hospital chaplain for the Inova hospital system in northern Virginia after working many years in marketing for news and media organizations.

Nan Forsyth Stewart BA ’69 writes: “Following graduation with a degree in French, I held numerous jobs, from legal secretary to accounting assistant at a Native American consortium on the Olympic coast of Washington to the Forest Service before undertaking graduate studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. I attained my master’s degree in international business with an emphasis on intercultural communication (French) in 1981. I worked for Nike for seven years, and in 1989, my husband, James Stewart, whom I married in 1974, joined the Foreign Service. I followed suit in 1994, becoming a consular officer in the U.S. diplomatic corps. During my career, I served in seven countries, the majority of which were in Africa. James and I retired to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2012, but we continue to travel extensively. I still do work as a consular officer for the State Department abroad for as many as five or six months a year. We do not have children but enjoy our nieces and nephews, who frequently accompany us on our travels.”

David Grube BA ’69 is national medical director for Compassion & Choices, the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit that advocates and educates about choices for end-of-life care.

Marcia Weidig Hilton BS ’69 retired from hospice bereavement work six years ago after more than 25 years in the field. She volunteers in a low-income second grade classroom, helping with small-group and individual needs. Hawai’ian culture has become dear to her, and she plays ukulele in a Hawai’ian orchestra that raises money to entertain in schools and nursing homes in the Eugene, Oregon, area. She also dances hula in a halau (hula school). She has a 3-year-old grandson in Salem, Oregon, who is very dear to her.

Michael Homan BA ’69 retired in 2015. He now lives in northeastern Oregon in the summer and the Southern California desert in the winter.

Paula Janz BA ’69 is enjoying her retirement, which includes travel (especially by RV) and spending time with her grandchildren.

Vicki R. Kreimeyer BA ’69 is currently enjoying the “flexibility” of retirement. She is involved in two nonprofit boards and serves as executive vice president of the Opera Idaho Board of Directors. She also continues to pursue voice through lessons and performance. In addition to singing in Aida as a member of the chorus, she is a member of an auditioned choir, Critical Mass Vocal Artists, which performs three concerts each year. She looks forward to participating in L&C’s Pioneer Travel Program to Cuba in May 2019.

Mike Shiffer BA ’69 has been thinking about his time at L&C in the 1960s. “Fifty years later,” he says, “we live in a time of turmoil. If you were on campus now, would you be as eager to protest as you were in the ’60s?”

Jo Ann Staebler BA ’69 became pastor of Presbyterian and Lutheran Services Church in Bealeton, Virginia, in July 2016. She was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in September 2016.

Jo Ann Staebler BA was ordained as a teaching elder (minister of word and sacrament) in September 2016 by the National Capital Presbytery. She is serving a federated Presbyterian and Lutheran church in Bealeton, Virginia.