In Memoriam

Valpo Remembers

Richard “Dick” Lee ’60 passed away on January 13, 2019.

Having logged 30 years of service to the University, Professor Lee is best known as one of Christ College’s founding faculty members. After graduating from Valparaiso University in 1960 with degrees in religion, speech & drama, and English, Richard completed his bachelor of divinity at the University of Chicago in 1964. In 1968, while finishing up his doctor of religion at Claremont School of Theology (now Claremont Lincoln University) in Claremont, California, Richard received a letter from Richard Baepler, whom he knew from his work as an admissions counselor for Christ College’s precursor, the Directed Studies program. Dean Baepler invited him to return to Valparaiso University and bring his diverse skills to the new, interdisciplinary honors college in an unspecified capacity. He and fellow professor Strachan Donnelly, for whom the Donnelly Prize is named, were initially the only two faculty appointed to teach exclusively in Christ College; others were borrowed from the College of Arts and Sciences. Richard was known especially for his course “America at the Movies.”


1930s

Elmer Rehme ’36
May 5, 2019, Johns Island, S.C.

1940s

Robert Koschmann ’41
June 5, 2019, Carmel, Ind

Richard Oster ’42
Aug. 19, 2019, Traverse City,

Mich. Loide Noack ’42 Walsh
July 27, 2019, Crown Point, Ind.

Kenneth Freutel ’43
May 20, 2019, Rockford, Ill.

Ruth Plinke ’44 Harvey
July 24, 2019, Arcata, Calif.

Ruth Hohenstein ’45
June 25, 2019, Willow Street, Pa.

Dolores Leake ’46
Feb. 3, 2019, Mount Vernon, Wash.

Helen Puterbaugh ’47
April 12, 2019, Irving Park, N.C.

Gertrude Lovekamp ’48 Gierke
Jan. 11, 2019, Avon, Ind.

Esther Poggemeier ’48 Jabs
Dec. 4, 2018, Corvallis, Ore.

Morrison Marshall ’48
Aug. 10, 2019, Roseville, Mich.

Robert Muckler ’48
July 14, 2019, Oxford, Ohio

Ellen Krentz ’48 Pennekamp
April 9, 2019, Pittsburg, Kan.

Ferdinand Bopp ’49
June 22, 2019, Union, Mo.

James Dry ’49
July 19, 2019, Long Beach, Ind.

Anne Foelber ’49
Dec. 5, 2018, Fort Wayne, Ind.

Charlotte Gregory ’49
Jan. 29, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Gordon Klett ’49
April 1, 2019, Calif.

Carol Fulton ’49 Kupke
Sept. 7, 2019, Keswick, Va.

Audrey Macoicz ’49
Aug. 28, 2019, Chicago, Ill.

Helen Schrader ’49
Jan. 17, 2019, Mishawaka, Ind.

Dorothy Shore ’49 Westermann
Jan. 1, 2019, Lancaster, Pa.

1950s

Robert Bryarly ’50
June 8, 2019, Longmont, Colo.

William Dannemeyer ’50
July 9, 2019, Thousand Palms, Calif.

Eunice Frenk ’50
June 2, 2019, Joliet, Ill.

Ralph Graves ’50
Sept. 3, 2019, Visalia, Calif.

Julia Knoll Reinig ’50
Aug. 15, 2019, Marco Island, Fla.

Marianne Baerwald ’50 Sander
April 20, 2019, Naples, Fla.

Ed Schroeder ’50
March 1, 2019, St. Louis, Mo.

Elaine Davis ’51
Jan. 1, 2019, Flint, Mich.

Harriet Edwards ’51
July 29, 2019, LaGrange, Ill.

Marie Grossnicklaus ’51
Jan. 10, 2019, Corvallis, Ore.

Naomi Hanson ’51
Jan. 26, 2019, Windsor Heights, Iowa

Richard Horner ’51
Feb. 26, 2019, Fort Myers, Fla.

James Klein ’51
April 28, 2019, Indianapolis, Ind.

Dorcas Borcherding ’51 Luecke
March 5, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

James Ove ’51
March 18, 2019, Downers Grove, Ill.

Elaine Ponton ’51
Jan. 30, 2019, Holtville, Calif.

Gilbert Reinkensmeyer ’51
May 24, 2019, Portage, Mich.

Arnold Schlegel ’51
May 30, 2019, Gurnee, Ill.

Vaunceil Smith ’51
July 11, 2019, Fort Wayne, Ind.

Norman Sprung ’51
Dec. 6, 2018, Carlsbad, Calif.

Ruth Strege ’51
April 27, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Calvin Tiebert ’51
April 17, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Robert Tonjes ’51
Aug. 21, 2019, Overland Park, Kan.

Richard Umbach ’51
Feb. 6, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Gene Behnke ’52
June 22, 2019, South Bend, Ind.

Kathleen Conrad ’52
May 22, 2019, Napoleon, Ohio

Robert Gunther ’52
Jan. 12, 2019, Santa Ana, Calif.

Arthur Jacobs ’52
Jan. 20, 2019, Whiting, Ind.

James Olson ’52
March 7, 2019, Chesterton, Ind.

Gladys Aasen ’53
Feb. 20, 2019, Clifford, N.D.

Bette Brege ’53
April 13, 2019, Rogers City, Mich.

Clarence Ebel ’53
Jan. 5, 2019, Niwot, Colo.

Howard Engelking ’53
July 8, 2019, Geneva, Ill.

Raymond Gehl ’53
July 27, 2019, Concord, N.C.

Richard Hanneman ’53
April 5, 2019, Houston, Texas

William Kammerait ’53
Dec. 10, 2018, Oshkosh, Wis.

Janet Kepplinger ’53
Oct. 28, 2018, Lombard, Ill.

Jeanette Cottin ’53 Rensner
May 31, 2019, Greenwood, Ind.

Merle Seehafer ’53
July 3, 2019, Milwaukee, Wis.

Donald Spitz ’53
March 28, 2019, Idaho Falls, Idaho

Robert Stroebel ’53, ’55
Dec. 4, 2018, Rochester Hills, Mich.

Richard Williams ’53
Dec. 4, 2018, Eugene, Ore.

David Willis ’53
Dec. 14, 2018, Greenfield, Ind.

Harry Wissman ’53
Aug. 2, 2019, Cypress, Texas

Donna Brickner ’54
Feb. 24, 2019, Sheboygan, Wis.

Ruth Frankenstein ’54 Dickinson
Feb. 6, 2019, Ada, Okla.

Phyllis Buehner ’54 Duesenberg ’04H
June 12, 2019, St. Louis, Mo.

Faith Barthel ’54 Ebert
Dec. 9, 2018, Cincinnati, Ohio

Leona Kirk-Krause ’54
April 24, 2019, Berlin, Wis.

Peter Krentz ’54, ’56
Aug. 28, 2019, Plano, Ill.

Ferdinand Macholz ’54
May 1, 2019, Portage, Mich.

Marlene McGill ’54
Dec. 27, 2018, Mequon, Wis.

Norman Petersen ’54
June 24, 2019, Kensington, Md.

Janet Taschner ’54 Seltz
Sept. 11, 2018, Phoenix, Ariz.

Bernard Vahle ’54
Feb. 6, 2019, Indianapolis, Ind.

Frederick Wright ’54
Feb. 27, 2019, Battle Creek, Mich.

Raymond Heinrich ’55
April 1, 2019, Kewanee, Ill.

Melburn Huebner ’55
Dec. 21, 2018, Scottsdale, Ariz.

Mary Prust ’56 Damon
Jan. 13, 2019, Madison, Wis.

Diane Hoermann ’56 Krebs
March 15, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Jacquelyn Nilles ’56 Larsen
Jan. 18, 2019, Eau Claire, Wis.

Rosemary Sheeks ’56 McCart
Jan. 15, 2019, Plainfield, Ill.

Glenn Mulholland ’56
June 28, 2019, Loveland, Colo.

Janet Tiedt ’56
Dec. 29, 2018, St. Johns, Mich.

George Winkelman ’56
May 21, 2019, La Grange Park, Ill.

Gloria Jungemann ’56 Zupfer
April 22, 2019, Pompton Plains, N.J.

Donna Brucato ’57
Jan. 3, 2019, Ludington, Mich.

Robert Cunningham ’57
June 22, 2019, Oregon, Wis.

Joan Curtis ’57
July 30, 2019, Chester, S.C.

Philip Leege ’57
Dec. 23, 2018, Loveland, Ohio

Elfrieda Heuer ’57 Malte
Jan. 4, 2019, Walnut Creek, Calif.

Marguerite Knispel-Schmidt ’58
May 31, 2019, Columbia, Ill.

Judy Beckman ’58 Low
Jan. 28, 2019, Rancho Mirage, Calif.

Charles Shemenske ’58
June 15, 2019, North Ridgeville, Ohio

Kenneth Holm ‘59
April 20, 2019, Orland Park, Ill.

Chris Pappas ’59
Feb. 18, 2019, Melrose, Mass.

Sharon Coupland ’59 Pritz
March 3, 2019, LaPorte, Ind.

Frances Rushnok ’59
Aug. 17, 2019, Ashland, Ohio

William Schreiber ’59
June 5, 2019, Brookfield, Wis.

Henry Schulte ’59
Jan. 27, 2019, Richfield, Ohio

Burton Stensberg ’59
Feb. 27, 2019, Appleton, Wis.

Beth Yankee ’59
Feb. 2, 2019, Tucson, Ariz.

1960s

Robert Barley ’60
June 2, 2019, Bonita Springs, Fla.

Sharlene Moeller ’60 Gorden
April 2, 2019, Chicago, Ill.

Sharon Lenz ’60, ’66 MALS Hanusin
Dec. 27, 2018, Northbrook, Ill.

Howard Knorr ’60
Feb. 8, 2019, Beverly Hills, Mich.

Kenneth Korcek ’60
May 27, 2019, Bridgman, Mich.

Richard Lee ’60
Jan. 13, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Marvin Oltmann ’60
Dec. 1, 2018, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Anthony Schultz ’60
May 17, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Edward Thormahlen ’60
Aug. 25, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Rosalie Horstman ’61 Haines
Dec. 9, 2018, Elkton, Md.

James Maxwell ’61
April 10, 2019, Indianapolis, Ind.

Mary Schewe ’61 Seymour
Jan. 30, 2019, Chicago, Ill.

Jo Monk ’61 Wofford
May 8, 2019, Peoria, Ill.

Judith Wurm ’61
Dec. 25, 2018, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Nancy Vollman ’62 Foris
Dec. 8, 2018, Hot Springs Village, Ark.

Edward Karge ’62
May 20, 2019, Morris, Ill.

Rudolph Malz ’62
June 19, 2019, Hainesville, Ill.

Maralyn Marske-Walker ’62
Feb. 25, 2019, Loudonville, N.Y.

William Beu ’63, ’66 J.D.
July 25, 2019, Rockford, Ill.

David Giles ’63
June 3, 2019, Erie, Pa.

Albert Guemmer ’63
March 7, 2019, Tampa Bay, Fla.

Kenneth Gust ’63, ’65 MALS
Jan. 12, 2019, Munster, Ind.

John Harris ’63
Feb. 28, 2019, Culver, Ind.

Carolyn Brakebush ’63 Holin
Aug. 9, 2018, Vero Beach, Fla.

John Luedeman ’63
July 3, 2019, Seneca, S.C.

Joyce Czubik ’63 MacDonald
Dec. 16, 2018, Highland, Ind.

Gloria Endsley ’64, ’76 MAED Daxe
March 10, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Theodore Herr ’64
June 26, 2019, Tucson, Ariz.

Bonnie-Lee Kissling ’64
May 25, 2019, Fort Gratiot, Mich.

Dennis Olson ’64
July 24, 2019, Nogales, Ariz.

William Teel ’64
July 4, 2019, Gary, Ind.

Michael Hettich ’65
June 30, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Martha Grube ’65 Mettee
March 4, 2019, Bay City, Mich.

Richard Nehring ’65
Aug. 27, 2019, Colorado Springs, Colo.

James Teall ’65
Jan. 1, 2019, Goshen, Ind.

Richard Wade Webster ’65
April 18, 2019, Bettendorf, Iowa

Dale Cox ’66 MALS
April 17, 2019, Lapaz, Ind.

Allen Fornwald ’66
Aug. 28, 2019, Aiken, S.C.

Karen Hansen ’66
May 1, 2019, Grayslake, Ill.

Fran McNulty ’66
Aug. 19, 2019, Kokomo, Ind.

Donald Mueller ’66
May 3, 2019, Sheboygan, Wis.

Susan Zabel ’66 VanZele
May 19, 2019, Albuquerque, N.M.

Ronald Weary ’66
June 9, 2019, Phoenix, Ariz.

Mary Flynn ’67 MALS Casey
April 24, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Benny Dorsey ’67 MALS
June 16, 2019, Gary, Ind.

Edward Ferguson ’67
Jan. 26, 2019, Yakima, Wash.

Marilyn Minas ’67 MALS
March 11, 2019, Mercer Island, Wash.

James Paul ’67
May 28, 2019, New York, N.Y.

Philip Schaefer ’67, ’70 J.D.
July 6, 2019, Portage, Mich.

Janet Drouin-Evans ’68
Jan. 19, 2019, Pleasant Ridge, Mich.

Willard Fliege ’68
Aug. 25, 2019, Metamora, Ill.

Jacqueline Moller ’68 O’Sullivan
Dec. 17, 2018, Monmouth Junction, N.J.

Norma Nebinger ’68 MALS Reynolds
May 8, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

John Russell ’68 MALS
June 17, 2019, Terre Haute, Ind.

James Smith ’68
Feb. 20, 2019, Beaufort, S.C.

Jeffrey Debandt ’69
April 26, 2019, Rochester Hills, Mich.

Thomas Essig ’69
Nov. 22, 2018, Fort Wayne, Ind.

Dale Ulbrich ’69
April 19, 2019, Vicksburg, Miss.

William Wehrman ’69
May 17, 2019, Brownsburg, Ind.

1970s

Franklin Black ’70 J.D.
Aug. 3, 2019, Naples, Fla.

Jane Simpson ’70 Mark
Mar 16, 2019, St. Louis, Mo.

James Navta ’70
Feb. 22, 2019, Westmont, Ill.

Thomas Ostrander ’70
Aug. 7, 2019, Bradenton, Fla.

Frederick Strietelmeier ’70
Feb. 9, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Candice Klau ’71 Frost
Dec. 18, 2018, Canton, Ga.

Michelle Bevill ’72
April 7, 2019, Brook, Ind.

William Bleeke ’72
May 23, 2019, Fort Wayne, Ind.

Barbara Eaks ’72
Jan. 7, 2019, Ashland, Ore.

Sally Logan ’72, ’76 MAED Hauber
May 2, 2019, Naples, Fla.

Joel Junker ’72
Aug. 31, 2019, Seattle, Wash.

Robert Keenan ’72 J.D.
Jan. 2, 2019, Mt. Carmel, Ill.

Shirl Dant ’73 MALS Bietry
March 18, 2019, Michigan City, Ind.

James Browning ’73
Feb. 6, 2019, Gainesville, Ga.

Peter Dodson ’73
Feb. 20, 2019, Sebring, Fla.

Barbara Schutt ’73 Ross
May 9, 2019, Silver Lake, Ohio

Kenneth Teutsch ’73
Aug. 1, 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii

Mary Marks ’74, ’78 MALS Cezus
Jan. 21, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Marie Lennertz ’74 MALS Ehrsam
March 9, 2019, Crown Point, Ind.

Byron Koch ’74
June 16, 2019, Carmel, Ind.

Charlotte Strait ’74 MALS Padish
May 14, 2019, Phoenix, Ariz.

Mark Peters ’75
Aug. 17, 2019, Metairie, La.

John Gehm ’77
April 5, 2019, Sioux Falls, S.D.

James Gerler ’77 J.D.
Aug. 4, 2019, Pueblo, Colo.

Michael Allen’78, ’81 J.D.
March 31, 2019, Indianapolis, Ind.

Joseph Hajdusiewicz ’78
June 14, 2019, Gaithersburg, Md.

Thomas Hinck ’78
May 24, 2019, Centuria, Wis.

Ronald Lemon ’78 MALS
June 11, 2019, Knox, Ind.

Patricia Hoffmann’78 Wente
Feb. 21, 2019, Munster, Ind.

Mark Harris ’79 J.D.
Jan. 26, 2019, Chesterton, Ind.

Laurel Haffner ’79 Miller
Aug. 5, 2019, Westerville, Ohio

James Ronco ’79
May 24, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Jay Rosenberg ’79
Sept. 9, 2019, Yonkers, N.Y.

James Sanderson ’79
July 11, 2019, Grand Rapids, Mich.

John Tomczak ’79
July 23, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

1980s

Nicolas Bazan ’80 J.D.
May 11, 2019, Klein, Texas

Mark Stocks ’80
Feb. 20, 2019, Columbus, Ind.

Joan Fischmann ’81, ’05 MBA
Dec. 23, 2018, Tinley Park, Ill.

James Hord ’82
April 11, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Charlotte Pribish ’83 MALS Conjelko
June 5, 2019, Hobart, Ind.

Caroline McKinnon ’83 Verden
July 15, 2019, Auburn, Ind.

Susan Emanuel ’84
Jan. 1, 2019, Longwood, Fla.

Bernard Ausdenmoore ’85
Aug. 22, 2019, Germantown, Tenn.

Michelle Nagy ’85 Block
May 28, 2019, Schererville, Ind.

Eric Johnson ’86
Feb. 3, 2019, Wauwatosa, Wis.

Marilyn Martin ’88 MAED Schuetz
March 23, 2019, Venice, Fla.

Laszlo Balla ’89
Feb. 8, 2019, Naperville, Ill.

Mary Sawyer ’89
April 29, 2019, Schererville, Ind.

1990s

Scott Hughes ’92
Dec. 25, 2018, Kings Park, N.Y.

Kelly Whiteman ’93 J.D.
Jan. 3, 2019, Beech Grove, Ind.

Jeneen Rehmer ’95 Bauman
Dec. 10, 2018, Bartlett, Ill.

Marjorie Young ’95 J.D. Davids
June 28, 2019, Wadsworth, Ohio

Barbara Seaman ’96 M.A. Osmon
May 23, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Scott Bishop ’97 J.D.
April 3, 2019, St. Petersburg, Fla.

Linda Allen ’98 MALS
Dec. 10, 2018, Lafayette, Ind.

2000s

Carol Givens ’01, ’03 MALS Malone
June 3, 2019, Gary, Ind.

Anne Warner ’02 Martin
May 18, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

Nicholas Pacific ’04, ’08 J.D.
Jan. 12, 2019, Crown Point, Ind.

Thomas Shaffer ’08H
Feb. 26, 2019, Niles, Mich.

Carolyn AtonApril 28, 2019, Valparaiso, Ind.

2010s

Paul Bouman ’10 DSM
April 30, 2019, Oak Park, Ill.

Thomas Litscher ’10
Dec 31, 2018, Valparaiso, Ind.

Travis Weber ’11 J.D.
Feb. 11, 2019, Detroit, Mich.

Donald Pasko ’18 MALS
Jan. 1, 2019, Gary, Ind.

Marla Gee
Dec. 23, 2018, Gary, Ind.