Ronald "Jamie” Assaf has recently retired after 13 years as the SVP - General Counsel of KEMET Electronics, a global electronic component manufacturer. He has relocated from Boca Raton to Sarasota with his wife Nadine, whom he met 34 years ago in law school. They are the parents of twin girls - Maegan, an occupational therapist in Manhattan, and Caitrin, a TV news anchor in Little Rock - and a son, Brendan, who's a senior majoring in Entertainment Design at Ringling College of Art & Design.

Wendy (Webb) Cook, Cathy Regan and Michael Mizenko met up in Denver in September. Wendy reports that time flew as they caught up, shared memories, and even shared some confessions!

Afforded more time during lockdown, Doug Gertner stepped into a new endeavor as a booking agent, working with five artists from the US and Canada, hunting and securing them gigs and routing concert tours nationally. It's fun, a nice complement to his ongoing role as a DJ on community radio and presenter of house concerts, and recalls the days as concert chair of the Kenyon Social Committee. Doug hopes you all are getting back out to support live music and keeping musicians (and Doug) busy.  

Sue Oakes (aka “Jonesie”) spent two months this summer hiking in Scotland, England, and Switzerland (with a quick 3-day end-of-trip layover in Iceland) with her daughter Dana ’18.  They were joined by Sue’s husband and son for the two weeks in Switzerland. Sue then drove with Dana cross-country to Durham, where Dana is starting the Doctorate in Physical Therapy program at the Duke Medical School. She also hosted the Kenyon area alum at her home in August, including classmate Doug Gertner and colleague Andy Folkerth ’84.  Back to work in early September, she is looking forward to retiring in a few years so she can have more holidays like that!  

Laura Nelson’s grandson Ira was born in April. She is so happy to be able to hang with him, and his parents, regularly. Retired life is good.

After years of donating some of her handmade jewelry to orphanages in the Ukraine, Dorothy Lenard has been watching the war with great concern. It is heartbreaking to think that the kids who received her gifts are in danger! The good news is that the organization she works through has been able to shift from supporting orphanages to supporting refugees. So, a bunch of kids who have had a very hard year will get a little something special for Christmas.

Wendy MacLeod is spending the fall semester in Rome, where she enjoyed a visit from Jon Cohen and Clara (Church) Cohen ’81.

Doug Page is enjoying post-retirement life. That includes: 
1) A tandem bike tour in Puglia, Italy in May
2) A 75-mile one day ride for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in September
3) Volunteering for Habitat for Humanity
4) Daughters’ visits to the south Jersey beach this summer

Gregory Sesler is easing towards retirement, spending less time working and more time traveling. He and his wife Beth went to Iceland and Spain this spring and just recently returned from a two-week self-drive canal boat trip in Belgium and France. It included a lot of World War I history. They very much enjoyed the land of waffles, chocolate, good beer, and french fries. Greg and Beth celebrated the wedding of their second daughter this past June and anticipate spending more time traveling this fall visiting their other three children, who are scattered about the country.

Read notes from the Class of 1982 and the Class of 1980. 

1981
Annual Fund Total: $100,640  
Class Participation: 38.60%

Presidents Society
Donors of $50,000 or more
Clark S. Kinlin*

Kokosing Society
Donors of $25,000 to $49,999
James F. Parker P'10*
Robert B. Payne 

Philander Chase Society
Donors of $10,000 to $24,999
Robert H. Dearborn P'11*
H. Gates Lloyd Jr.*
The Rev. Canon Mark K. J. Robinson P'12*
David P. Rose*
William J. Schmiedeskamp 
Lisa C. Wood 

Bexley Society
Donors of $2,500 to $9,999
Wm. McPherson Durrett P'12*
Jane W. Heiden*
Susan Oakes P'18*
Peter M. Olson*
Brian D. Rance*
Frederick S. Roffman 
Franklin P. Spaeth 

Kenyon Society
Donors of $1,000 to $2,499
Jonathan A. Bernstein P'10*
Mark A. Brown*
Lori L. Dhiraprasiddhi*
Mark S. Granger*
John C. Litchfield Jr. 
Kathleen S. Litchfield*
Michael J. Pariano*
Lenore J. Sprague*
Lisa Staffileno Laube P'16*
James H. Stueber*
Sandra P. Stueber*
Nancy VandenBerg (widow of Peter H. VandenBerg '80)*

Kenyon Society
Donors of $1 to $999
Samuel W. Adams 
Martine Adler 
Jay N. Anania P'14 
Anonymous
R. James Assaf 
Walker M. Bagby Jr. 
Christopher W. Bartlett 
Barbara Ann Belovich*
Hugh J. Burnstad*
Margaret P. Calkins*
Stuart W. H. Ching*
Steven R. Counsell MD 
Suzanne W. Crable*
Leslie Dallas*
William H. Derks 
Elizabeth A. Dickinson*
Daniel O. Dietchweiler*
Peter C. Dolan 
Adrienne S. Doobin*
Elizabeth A. Dougherty*
Robert J. Ferrante 
Lilith Z. C. Fondulas*
Michele P. Fracasso*
Karin Franck-Larsson*
Barbara Frazer Franks*
William A. Fullmer*
Douglas Gertner*
Laura H. Gifford*
Peter Goldsmith (widower of I. Robin Riggs '81) 
Randolph B. Gorman*
David E. Graham 
Clarence R. Grebey III*
David J. Gross 
Pamela M. Haley 
Kerry Hall*
Philip N. Haselton*
Susan S. Hatcher*
Catherine Hazlett*
Philip A. Hooker*
David C. Hoyle 
Diana Bryan Jeck 
Andrew E. Katz MD P'10*
Janet R. Katz P'10*
Richard I. Landau*
Susan Lawko Cuiffo*
Patricia D. Lynn*
David L. Maloney*
Parker E. Monroe 
Rhonda Moore Bedall*
Margaret Morgan*
Ellen Neiley Ritter PhD P'07 
Mary Louise O'Connell*
Susan K. Orlady*
Betsi L. Orth*
Douglas E. Page* 
J. Jeffrey Pasquale*
Robert F. Phillips*
Brett M. Pierce*
Belle Potter Marks*
Stephanie Resnick 
Matthew P. Richey*
William M. Rigger*
Sue A. Robb*
Merrill Robinson Peterson (widow of Curtis A. Seichter '80)*
Lynn M. Sabin 
Jonathan B. Schulze*
Judee G. Schwartzman 
Donald L. Shupe Jr.*
Katherine Simonds Dhanani H'16*
Lisa M. Slayman 
Malcolm J. Sutherland Jr. 
Barbara Swank (widow of Michael A. Swank '80 P'12)*
Elizabeth G. Swartz 
Richard B. Talbott 
Reed Valliant 
Joyce E. White 
Peter White Jr., MD*
Urquhart A. Wood*
Daniel G. Zeiser*

George Wharton Marriott Society
These alumni have included Kenyon in their estate plans or have made other planned gifts.

Margaret C. Chapin '81, P'14 and Rory P. Mach '82, P'14
Elizabeth A. Dougherty '81
Bruce A. Freeman '81
Douglas E. Page '81
James F. Parker '81, P'10 and Julia Parker P'10
Robert B. Payne '81
Sue A. Robb '81
Mark K.J. Robinson '81 P'12

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