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Bobbie Dozier Spurgin ‘49

[I sent Bobbie a copy of the last Oak Leaf and will make sure she receives future issues, too. I hope she doesn’t mind my publishing her reply.]

Dear Paul,

Many thanks for sending the copy of the Oak Leaf. I really enjoyed reading it. I was pleasantly surprised to see so many pictures of my father and comments about him. He really treasured his association with Nu Alpha Phi.

I have enjoyed the NAP connection too, and I look forward to receiving more Oak Leaf publications. Thank you for putting my name on the list.

I am sure that editing the Oak Leaf means a lot of time and energy spent, but you are doing a great job and your work is appreciated.

Thanks again.

Sincerely,

/s



Walt Dougher ’57#458

[Sent dues, back dues, and a scholarship fund donation.]

Subject: 2002 Pomona College Reunion - Walt Dougher

I attended Pomona College Reunion of my class ('57) and was happy to see that Ken Smith ’33 #138 was still holding down the NAP booth. Pictures of fondly remembered brothers and a place that all of us that returned this year could call home. I have a picture of Ken, Walt “Zib” Zabriskie ’32 #109, and myself taken at the booth. I will send it in a separate note. Zib's class of 1932 was at the front of the line in the parade of classes. Of course, we all enjoyed the annual breakfast on Sunday where I was honored to be the MC. Good attendance, but serious business.

Things in my life are much the same as my last report. No longer Mayor, but still on the Manhattan Beach City Council. Also, just appointed to another term on the L. A. County Beach Commission. I was recently honored at the 37th Annual Older Americans Recognition Day by the L. A. County Board of Supervisors and The L. A. County Commission on Aging. I was honored for Community Service. Very nice to be selected, but somewhat chagrined to find that I was old enough to be recognized.

Thomas H. Ward ‘78 #824

Subject: New Address

Greetings,

After almost two years in remodeling, I have finally moved into my new digs - right next door to the old ones... but much nicer. Anyone driving through the Keys is welcome to stop for a cold one (in proper Nappy style, it's on tap).



John Crowley ’68#655

[Sent dues, back dues, Wash fund, cabin fund, general fund and scholarship fund donation.]

Subject: 47

Any Alias fans out there? Who from Pomona is writing in all the 47 references?



Clifford “Sparky” Hui ’67#648

[Sent dues, back dues, and a general fund donation.]

I am getting more satisfaction than I expected from nurturing tropical plants in my small greenhouse. Perhaps it’s because they’re much quieter than our two dogs and four birds.

/s



Robert Piety ’68#658

[Sent dues, general, and cabin fund donations.]

Hello to all. After reading about the fires this year, I hope the cabin is still standing. Enclosed are 2002 dues and funds for the cabin. Would like to see a few of you at the May reunion.



Richard Strong ’54#413

[Sent dues and cabin fund donation.]

Thanks for another very good Oak Leaf. This alone is worth the annual dues and more Nappies who receive it should be sending in $! Just completed a 3200 mile trip in a motor-home. Visited LA, Las Vegas (yuk), Southern Utah, Idaho, and eastern Oregon. Hi to Roger S. (Now send money to NAP!)



Ken Smith ‘33#138

For more than seventy years the Glendora Sheltons have played a very special and important part in the leadership of the Nu Alpha Phi Fraternity. In addition to Agee, Bob, Charles, and Jack, the fraternity made Pop Shelton an honorary member.

On February 3rd 2002 at age 86, Charles died after five years of serious strokes. He was a successful newspaper publisher and for a number of years he published our fraternity newsletter. In addition he wrote many stimulating letters to the Oak Leaf.

Charles was a born naturalist. In addition to saving many sick or orphaned birds and animals he once had a pet fox that followed him everywhere on a leash.

Charles and his three brothers served as distinguished officers in leadership roles during World War II.

I am sending a donation to the Memorial Scholarship in Charles’ name.

Fraternally,

/s



Anthony “Andy” Mazzarella ’79#818

[Sent dues, back dues, and a very generous cabin fund donation.]

I’m sorry to miss Alumni Day this year—I will be leading a Boy Scout outing that weekend.

Life is good with Susan and the kids. Three sons and one daughter, ages 3 through 11.

Thanks to Chris Hall ’82 #870 and Paul Nagai ’88 #978 for keeping the Oak Leaf alive.

Cheers,

/s



Adele Anderson ’56

Dear family and friends,

Christmas is past, but New Year greetings are still in order. I wish for each of you a new year full of health, worthwhile things to do, satisfaction in some great project, and not a little adventure.

This letter marks the end of an era. Ted has written a Christmas letter to loved ones, friends, and colleagues for more than fifty years. He started the practice when he was in high school including a photo each year. December 2000 was his last. Ted died on March 29, 2001 of acute pancreatitis. It was a sudden illness, totally unexpected, and, mercifully, short. His ashes are scattered on Mt. Baldy and in his beloved Claremont, both in Southern California.

His magnum opus, The Cactus Family, had just come out in February. It was the culmination of five years work in the writing and forty years of field work and photo taking. A book signing party had long been scheduled by the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden for a few days after Ted died. At the suggestion of the Garden’s Director, the party was turned into a time of tribute to Ted. During the weeks that followed, I received condolences and tributes to Ted and his work from sixteen different countries in Europe, Asia, and Latin America and from hundreds of friends and colleagues here in the States. Ted would have been utterly surprised and overwhelmed at the outpouring of esteem and affection expressed by so many.

Being married to Ted has lead to a lifetime of adventure. We started out with a year in Germany in the 1950s when Ted was an officer in the US Army and the West was constantly on edge with the cold war. A Fullbright Teaching Fellowship took us and two children to Guayaqujil, Ecuador in 1965-66. In 1969-70 we were in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where Ted taught at the University of Malaya on another Fullbright Fellowship. By this time we had three children with us. The Vietnam War was raging and Cambodia crumbled around us while we were in Phnom Penn. The next sabbatical leave started a series of three sojourns in Chiang Mai, Thailand (1976-77, 1983-84, 1987-88) during which Ted taught, collected plants and did the major part of his ethnobotanical research on the hill-tribes’ use of plants in Northern Thailand. His book Plants and Peoples of the Golden Triangle came from that experience. We had variously three to five children with us during these travels.

After thirty years of teaching at Whitman College, the move to the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix focused Ted back on his first love – cacti. This meant lots of field work where it had begun as a graduate student in 1957 in Mexico and extended to Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. I got to share a lot of that field work that we had started out together, especially after the children were all grown.

Way beyond being a wonderful supportive husband, and a good father, and a fine man (he was certainly all of these), he led us all on great adventures that opened up the world and widened the horizons for all the family. Truly, I married adventure! Ted and I were great partners in life for forty-five years. The faith and love we shared, the children we reared, and the experiences we coped with or reveled in, all mean that I have long been truly blessed. Surely, I cannot complain!

May each of us experience God’s richest blessings in the New Year and have the perception to recognize them.

Blessings on you all,

/s



Paul Taylor ‘37#181

[Sent dues and general fund donation.]

Hi Everybody!

Attached is my check that I would like to have you divide up between 2002 Dues and General Fund.

About all the news I have to offer is the fact that I’ll be 88 in March and my health is not too good. However, as they say, “I’m still here.” My latest health problem began with having pneumonia in which case my muscles in my throat are not strong enough to push my food into my stomach and it goes into my lungs. Consequently, I am now a dysphagia patient, which means in medical terms that I have a tube in my stomach where I’m fed four times a day by nurses. Fortunately, I’m still at home and hope that I can stay out the course here in my lovely home with my charming wife, Peggy Rosemary Taylor, ’39. I have three nurses that take care of me around the clock and hope that you never have to go through this experience yourself.

Much love and best regards to all,

/s



Mithril [Tyler] Cox ‘92#1027

Subject: Thanks

Hey Paul, Thanks for all the work you do. I'm god-awful at staying in touch with people, but I love getting the news. I'm still living in S.F., happily married and teaching elementary school. Life is great. All my love to my brethren and sistren.

-Mithril



Burdette Boileau ’34#125

[Sent dues and a general fund donation.]

Helen and I are happily ensconced in the assisted living portion of Oak Tree Lodge. Wonderful place. A bit handicapped-but happy.

Congratulations Paul, on the great job you are doing in carrying out the Nappie tradition.

Best,

/s



Alan P. Wick ‘61#550

[Sent dues and a general fund donation.]

I was retired for 2 years as a single man—two very good years—and went back to work part time in November 2001, doing technical computer stuff. Life is good. A lot of my energy goes into a men’s support group and community service, and—oh, yes—trying to keep from deteriorating physically too fast.

/s



Henry A. Flores ‘81#882

[Sent dues, back dues, and Wash fund donation.]

Too much to write at this time so … I’ll just say, “Hi,” to everyone I’ve missed over the years. To the Nappies, to the friends, to the Wash …

Thanks for everything.

Love,

/s



Stan Madsen ‘57#468

News …

Thanks for all the work on the Oak Leaf. We need more from my class of ’57 to send along their news!

I have been retired for nearly 4 years after about 30 years as a Geotechnical Engineer. I have decided retirement is the way to go. My wife Sharron and I enjoy skiing, hiking, and traveling. We have a small RV and have taken 3 to 45 month trips to Canada, Alaska, and the East Coast. We just returned from an 11-day trip to island of Kauai, and in early April we’ll be hiking to the bottom of the Grand Canyon with four other couples. Most years we are involved in a Habitat for Humanity project somewhere in the U.S. When home, we are quite active in our church.

/s



Doug Buckmaster ‘54#388

[Dues, general fund, and scholarship fund donations in the name of Ted Anderson ’54 #387, Marvin Miller ’54 #404, and John Mills ’53 #379.]

Hooray, again, for Clarence Lee’s Chinese New Year stamp design!



Ralph Pursche ’55#427

[Sent dues and a generous general fund donation.]

No news from this maggot. Still enjoying golf, but unlike wine the score does not improve with age.

Travel has diminished since 9/11. Our prayers are with John ‘55 #422 and Louann Jensen who are doing missionary work with Worldwide Ministries in Tajikistan and Afghanistan.

/s



Gunthar Hartwig ‘92#1030

Subject: new e-mail address

Hey folks:

After an eternity of internet time, I have switched service providers and hence e-mail addresses. Please don't send e-mail to gunthar@sirius.com anymore. The new address my provider gave me is: gunthar@ixpres.com. And of course, there is always the incredibly easy to remember: me@gunthar.com

Hope this finds you all well. Chelsea and I are hanging in Atlanta where the weather is good and the okra is fried. I am working on a couple of cool projects in my studies at Georgia Tech, including a Virtual Reality art piece that will allow people to see under their own skin. Chelsea is teaching 2nd graders at a school nearby. We've been exploring the southeast when we can - heading up into the Appalachians, down to Savannah, and many points in between. Our big hope for the spring is to catch a Civil War re-enactment, for which my curiosity has been piqued by reading Tony Horwitz's “Confederates in the Attic”. And they say us Burning Man folks are freaks!

Ciao for now

- gunthar



Matthew A. Frohling ‘87#949

Please note that Matt, Jennifer, Hannah and Claire have moved! We are at the address below.

Salud!

Matthew A. Frohling



William Ruiz ‘02#1280/2?

Subject: listing update

I'm writing to update my information:

William Ruiz

Claremont McKenna, 2002

Loyola Law School, 2005

NAP Number 1282

[Our records indicate Will’s maggot number is 1280. This has been a busy year and I don’t think I’ve done any research into resolving this confusion, though. –Ed.]

My postal address [below] is good through May 2003.

I would love to start receiving the Oak Leaf.

[Any Nu Alph who graduated from a school other than Pomona can now receive the Oak Leaf if I have their correct address. If this is you, e-mail all of your contact information to editor@nu-alpha-phi.org. Please also indicate which Claremont College from which you graduated. –Ed.]

Also, I remember reading that an alum was living on Whitman St. in Tucson, AZ but I lost that issue of the Oak Leaf. I want to figure out who that is because I think they are currently living in the house I grew up in... Any help would be appreciated.

[I haven’t done this research either. Maybe that alum will recognize themselves and contact Will? –Ed.]

Thanks,

Will



Greg Anderson ‘81#855

Subject: update

I have been out of touch for a while. Moved to Massachusetts and forgot about NAP and Pomona College.

I just updated my address on the college web site, but here it is for you. Thanks for putting your time and effort into the Nappie web site.

Greg



Edward H. Heneveld ‘64#588

I have retired from the World Bank and no longer access that e-mail address. If you wish to contact me, I may be e-mailed at my new e-mail address.



Adam Garson ‘00#1206

Subject: salutations and contact info update

Hope all is well at the Oak Leaf. I was sorry to hear about the cabin.



Dues, Donations, and Address Changes

Steven D. Smith ’76#778

[Sent dues, a very generous donation to the general fund, and an extremely generous donation to the memorial scholarship fund.]


Loren A. Yoast ’25#39

[Sent a scholarship fund donation in the name of Thomas Warren ‘26 #49.]


Dave Bear ’57#453

[Sent dues and a scholarship fund donation in the name of Mac Hege ’57 #462.]


William Schultz ’56#447

[Sent dues and back dues and a donation to the memorial scholarship in the name of Marvin Miller ’54 #404.]


Charles Carpenter ’54#389

[Sent dues.]


David G. Johnson ’81#890

[Sent dues, back dues.]


Paul Muchnic ‘62#562

[Sent unspecified dues and/or donations.]


Stan Madsen ‘57#468

[Sent unspecified dues and/or donations.]


Scott H. Whittle ‘74#777

[Sent dues.]


Jean Edelhertz ’83#912

[Sent dues, back dues, cabin fund, wash fund, and general fund donations.]


Matt Chavkin ‘86#916

[Sent dues and a general fund donation.]


Roger H. Soulanille ’54#411

[Sent dues and a general fund donation.]


Kim Swanson Daswick ’84#923

[Sent dues and back dues.]


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