Reflections Magazine Issue #61 - Spring 2004 | Page 21

Class Notes
visited all 50 states and 56 countries,
and continues to enjoy traveling. “My
two single children and I go on a cruise
every winter.”

age children at the Independence
Education Center. “I have enjoyed the
challenges and rewards working with
these children.” Julianne and Orville
have traveled through the U.S. and in
Celia Cintron Olsen ’53 has spent most
several European countries—but these
of her life since Siena in Connecticut
days they mainly visit their children
except for a few years in Atlanta. Her
and grandchildren.
late husband, Bob, worked for General
Dynamics and Celia worked in retail Margaret (Peggy) King Vaughan ’53
sales along with raising three children. writes from her home in Las Vegas, Nev.:
She now lives in Waterford and enjoys “Las Vegas is a wonderful place to visit. If
her seven grandchildren.
anyone is in the area, give me a buzz.”
Jean Annette Rudolph, OP ’53 enjoyed
30 years of teaching and more than 20
years in parish ministry and hospital
chaplaincy. Now living in Adrian, she
ministers as receptionist for the Weber
Center and the Dominican Life Center
where she resides. “God has walked
with me throughout my years and led
me in paths rewarding, fulfilling and holy.
Would that every journey could be so
wonderful!”
Catherine Rupp, OSM ’53 recalls the
summer night of her graduation from
Siena: She, a Servite Sister, was the
only one in black among throngs of
Dominican Sisters and novices in white
habits receiving their diplomas! Catherine’s career since then has included
high school teaching, college teaching,
college administration, and 10 years
in congregational and mission work in
Rome, the U.S. and other countries such
as Uganda. She now is a Hospice volunteer in Omaha where she lives.
Joan Chopp Scheuermann ’53 of
Pleasant Ridge has published a book
of poetry titled “Reflections From the
Wood.”

Jane Korte Waldo ’53 and her husband, Ron, call Hudson home now, but
have lived in many places in the U.S.
and around the globe. While Ron was
a career Army officer, Jane taught and
raised four children. “As we moved
around the world,” she recalls, “volunteering became a way of life”—supporting the Girl Scouts, working on behalf of
disadvantaged children, teaching religious education, and serving the Siena
Heights Alumni Association, among
many volunteer assignments. “Now, as
retired folks, we like to travel and visit
grandkids.” Having taught school for
20-plus years in many different settings,
Jane now teaches a religion class “to
keep in touch.”
Connie Winters ’53 lives in Jackson and
is a certified “master gardener,” having
completed the required series of horticulture classes at Michigan State University
and volunteer hours. She retired from a
career as a librarian/media specialist in

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Jackson Public Schools, but continues to
volunteer in the medical library at a local
hospital. “Retirement also has provided
the time and opportunity to visit shut-ins
in the parish on a regular basis—and to
take the Holy Eucharist to them. This
service is a real joy.”

1960s
Christine Wilhelm Clark ’63 lives in
Deer Park, Wash., and is a transfusion services laboratory technologist in
Spokane. While visiting Siena Heights
for her 40th reunion, Chris enjoyed
reconnecting with Julia Franko Opalek
’63 of Euclid, Ohio, and with two of their
Siena faculty mentors: Irma Gerber, OP
‘42 and Helen Duggan, OP ’41 (formerly
Sister Ann Charles).
Sister Nancyann Turner ’63 of Livonia
wor