Reflections Magazine Issue #68 - Fall 2008 | Page 19

Alumni News—Class Notes
Alice Allhoff ’57 of St. Clair Shores is a “retired”
art teacher now concentrating on creating large
abstract and non-objective charcoal and mixed
media drawings. Her work is regularly included in
juried exhibitions and she is active in the Detroit
Society of Women Painters/Sculptors and the
Birmingham Society of Women Painters.
Fern “Julie” DeMattia ’57 (formerly Sister Juliette
Marie) of Woodhaven retired in 1994 after 21 years
teaching in the public schools. She is very active—
swimming, ice skating, bowling, traveling and
volunteering with “Bread of Life” ministry—and
enjoyed catching up with Sr. Helen Duggan,
OP ’41 at last fall’s reunion (photo below).

Anne Carrier ’58 enjoys retirement in Redford
where she volunteers at church and at an adult
literacy center, maintains a home and yard, and
savors a good game of bridge.
Catherine DeClercq, OP ’58 of West Bloomfield
is Vice President, Governance and Sponsorship of
Trinity Health Services. In the position, she has
“developed a Collaborative Formation Program
with five other Catholic health systems to train and
support the persons, women religious and lay, who
now have the sponsorship responsibilities for large
Catholic health systems in the United States.”
Marjorie Tulloch Hobbs ’58 and her husband
Harrison (photo below) divide their time between
Florida and Kingston, Jamaica—where Marjorie
was raised and where she and Harry lived and
worked while raising their two children from 1971
to 1997. (Marjorie was sorry to miss the ’57/’58
reunion last fall—but Siena Heights alumni director
Jennifer Hamlin Church was able to bring a little
bit of Siena to her this past May, when she joined
a SHU student service trip to Jamaica.)

Carol Caldwell Samulski ’57 of Roseville works
for the Archdiocese of Detroit and travels to the
Southwest as often as she’s able.

Two Unique Siena Heights Travel Opportunities:

City Stay: London
February 26 – March 5, 2009

Valerie Apel Dryden’57 of Grosse Pointe Farms
tutors at her parish school, studies yoga, and
enjoys biking, cross-country skiing and visiting
grandchildren with her husband John.
Collette Wendt Herman ’57 and her husband
Gene of Plantation, FL, celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary last fall in the Florida Keys
with children and grandchildren. Gene manages
Herman Construction Services; Collette is an active
leader in the parish and community.

Spend Spring Break
with Siena Heights!

– London, Windsor, Theater, Museums, Dickensian Walking Tour
Optional additions: Stonehenge, Bath
– $2,418 per adult ($2,153 per student), double occupancy
Carole Johnson Howell ’58 and her husband
Gene (photo below) live in Columbus, OH, where
Carole enjoyed a varied career in geriatrics in nursing
homes, senior services and as a long-term care ombudsman at Catholic Social Services. Now retired,
she focuses on family.

Discover T
uscany!

Eleanor Taylor ’57 of Warren has traveled
extensively since retiring from teaching in 1992.
Although recent arthritis has slowed her down
somewhat, “I continue to enjoy the world and its
fascinating people.”
Sister Paula Mary Turnbull ’57/MFA (photo
below) continues to work daily in her art studio
at the Convent of the Holy Names in Spokane, WA,
where she was on the art faculty at Fort Wright
College for 25 years. A sculptor who works in wood,
clay, stone and metals, her work is included in the
collections of the Corcoran Gallery (Washington,
DC) and the University of Oregon, and private
collections in the U.S. and Canada.

February 26 – March 7, 2009
Jane Patterson Kimball ’58 of East Dundee,
IL, has spent several decades helping survivors of
domestic violence, first at an agency and now as
local coordinator of the Family Violence Coordinating
Council for the 16th Judicial Circuit in Illinois.
Recently, she rediscovered art and has become
“an avid paper artist.”
Marjorie Wetzel Kinn ’58 and her husband Gene
winter in Fort Myers, FL, and spend the rest of the
year in Fostoria, OH, “helping children and grandchildren, volunteering and traveling whenever
possible.”

Barbara “Bobbi” Bryan ’58 lives in Port Charlotte, FL, which she repor