Dental Hygiene Class of 1961
made a contribution to the Rinehart Foundation on their 40-year class reunion at the Midwest Dental Conference. Seventeen members of the class made contributions in memory of their deceased classmates: Rubena Siemens Jones, JoEllen Wary Cripes and Nancy Behnam Cooper.

Richard J. Ackerman, Jr. (D.D.S. ’65)
Dodge City , Kan.
served as president of the Dodge City Rotary Club last year. His daughter, Katie, received a master’s degree in film, stage and video direction from the California Institute of the Arts. His son, Richard III, received an MB.A. from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania .

Sharon Phillips Austin (DH ’69)
Oklahoma City , Okla.
is back in practice after 21 years raising four children. One daughter is a first-year dental hygiene student in West Virginia . Austin is the organist at church across from Murrah Bombing Memorial. T.J. is still her #1 guy after 32 years!

James R. Cole, II (D.D.S. ’67)
Albuquerque , N.M.
is president-elect of the American Association of Dental Examiners and is a public member of the New Mexico Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism.

Janet Chisholm Knauss Collier (DH ’68)
Portsmouth , N.H.
has worked 33 years as a full-time clinical dental hygienist in a periodontics practice. She has been married for eight years. She and her husband live on the sea coast of New Hampshire . She would love to hear from her classmates.

Richard A. Foster (D.D.S. ’61)
Corpus Christi , Texas
retired from dentistry and is developing real estate on Port Aransas Beach . He has two sons who are in dentistry, and one daughter who is a dental hygienist.

Homer E. Foutz (D.D.S. ’60)
Hays, Kan.
is still in practice limited to endodontics Mondays through Thursdays.

Jimmy W. Hively (D.D.S. ’67)
Reno , N.V.
announces that his last daughter graduated from college in May 2001.

Wayne A. Jenkins (D.D.S. ’62, M.S. Ed)
Sitka , Alaska
had 30-year mandatory retirement from the service in 1991. Since then he has worked as a dentist about 21 weeks a year all over the state of Alaska for Indian and Eskimo corporations. He only works three weeks at a time. Most of the time he works in the Arctic for Eskimo Corporation. His days range from 24 hours of daylight to 24 hours of darkness with temperatures from 65°F to 70°F below. During the summer, he fishes commercially out of Sitka for halibut and black cod. He also does some sport fishing, digs clams, picks abalone off rocks, and sets crab and shrimp pots. He does some deer hunting in the fall and harvests caribou when in the Arctic . He does his continuing education courses overseas and also travels. This is his retirement. EAT YOUR HEART OUT!

George W. Karr (D.D.S. ’60)
Warsaw , Mo.
is working with Miles for Smiles mobile dental clinic, which serves a seven-county area in Missouri . The clinic is in a trailer that is pulled behind a pick-up truck. Most of the patients are Medicaid children from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Allen Keenan (D.D.S. ’63)
Tulsa , Okla.
was named Oklahoma Dentist of the Year 2001.

Lee Lovaas (D.D.S. ’63)
Bonsall , Calif.
is thanking God for good health, a good wife, four children, and five grandchildren. He is still fishing, skiing, golfing and restoring old cars. He sends his very best wishes to the Class of ’63.

Judith F. Lowe (DH ’60)
is retired, as is her husband, John. They sold their home and are full-time RVer’s seeing the world (mostly this continent) and enjoying their grandchildren.

Robert A. McPherson (D.D.S. ’60, ORT ’67)
Las Cruces , N.M.
is practicing part-time now.

Margaret A. Minneman (DH ’62)
Winnweiler , Germany
and her husband are currently working as civilian contract D.D.S. and R.D.H. for the U.S. Army in Europe . Margaret, a.k.a. Peggy, was recently elected to her third term as vice president of the European Association of Registered Dental Hygienists’. They have two children, six grandchildren, and are enjoying life to its fullest.

Robert C. Riegel (D.D.S. ’68)
Las Vegas , Nev.
and his wife, Ann, have two children, Kristen and Mark. He has a practice in prosthodontics and implant dentistry.

Jack Rudd (D.D.S. ’65)
Lubbock , Texas
founded Teethsaver International, a volunteer project in Africa and Asia in May of 2000. Prevention and primary health of the six-year molar focus and Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) are the organization’s primary focuses. He would welcome any volunteers for any amount of time. Volunteers can extract bad teeth, do ART fillings, teach preventive seminars to primary school teachers and health workers, or teach in dental therapy school. He will be gone most of 2001 to Belize , The Gambia, Zimbabwe , Zambia , Malawi , Ehtiopia , Mongolia , Bangladesh , and India .

George Ruwwe (D.D.S. ’67)
Mexico
sent the following email message to the school: “I have moved to Mexico and have recovered from the flesh-eating bacteria by taking human growth hormones here in Mexico !  I am alive, well and retired.”

Julie Sharp Winklepleck (DH ’63)
Saudi Arabia
is still in Saudi Arabia , but building a home near Melbourne , Fla. She plans to retire in the fall of 2001 and return to the United States for good.

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