Moore, William Terrence (“Terry”) Moore, (April 11, 1939—September 6, 2022)

Terry Moore from Ames, Iowa was an active member of our class. He served as an officer of Cowles Hall and as a member of the College Choir and the Scarleteers vocal group. He lettered in football as the starting center on the team and his senior year was All Conference (2d team) at that position. He obtained his Grinnell B.A. in physical education in June 1961.

As Terry wrote in our 50^th reunion booklet, “After our [college] graduation, I loved Grinnell so much that I stayed on for two more years coaching freshmen football, varsity and freshmen wrestling and assisting in track while commuting to Iowa City to get my M.A. at University of Iowa.”

“Then in 1963 I answered the call to become one of the early Peace Corps volunteers in Indonesia teaching and coaching.” [The next year Chip Salmon, my Grinnell friend and classmate who was a Peace Corp volunteer in the Philippines, met me in Jakarta, Indonesia’s largest city. We then traveled together to Bali, where we stayed at the only hotel on the island and took donkey-powered carts on excursions. The two of us have fond memories of our time on the beaches of Bali and listening to the nearly hypnotic music at a village festival.]

“On my return [to the U.S.], Grinnell had still not hired a wrestling coach so I spent two more years there, lived in Norris Hall as a Head Resident and coached Grinnell’s only Conference Championship in [that sport] in 1967.”

In “1967 I moved on to Webster Groves, MO (St. Louis) and spent the next 30 years in the 8^th grade at Hixon Middle School teaching math and helping kids grow in positive ways. There I helped bring the first computers and technology to our building.”

“It was through two of my students that I met their mother, [Shirley Peterson], who became my wonderful wife [in 1978]. [At the time of our class reunion in 2011, we had her two sons], 10 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.”

“When I came to St. Louis [in 1967], I became an investor in Camp Mishawaka in northern Minnesota. I spent 25 years there as a counselor and had various jobs from running the waterfront to training counselors to sharing the Director’s job.”

“[in 2006 Shirley and I moved to] a wonderful retirement community, Laclede Groves [in Webster Groves, MO]. Here we live in a cottage home next to the recreation center where I swim almost every morning and continue helping other senior residents with their problems with phones, VCR’s, computers and the intruding technology. Not only is this a great place to live but we enjoy the security and support of staff as we age. My memory is fading but my wife reminds me that ‘You’ve had a good life.’ As I look back at Grinnell College, Hixon Middle School, Camp Mishawaka and now Laclede Groves, it couldn’t have been much better.”

[As her 2017 obituary stated, Shirley “spent the last 39 years of her life enjoying a very loving, caring, giving relationship with Terry by her side, always.”]

Sometime after 2011, Terry was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, and his public obituaries asked for any donations in his memory be sent to the Alzheimer Association. As his public obituary stated, “Beloved by so many, Terry was truly a wonderful man, husband, father, grandfather, uncle, teacher, coach, counselor, mentor and friend.”

Terry is survived by stepsons Rolf (Karen) Peterson and Roger (Shari) Peterson, ten grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, three nieces, two nephews and nine great-nieces and great-nephews.

Duane W. Krohnke

 

Morris, John Porter (02/07/1939–01/04/1995). John Morris of New Castle, Pennsylvania received a B.A. degree in Psychology from Grinnell in 1961. He was a member of the drama group (Grinnell Players, 1957-58) and won the Selden L. Whitcomb Poetry Second Prize (1960-61). He spent his junior year at the University of Edinburgh. While at Grinnell he lived in Cowles Hall.

Grinnell Psychology Professor Givens Thornton was a helpful mentor to John and directed him to graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle. There John received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology in 1965. Later he completed a clinical internship that prepared him to work with clients.

From 1965 to 1969 John was an Assistant Professor at Denison University where he taught introductory psychology, child and adolescent development, and social psychology. He then joined the

Grinnell psychology faculty. At his alma mater, he was a tenured Associate Professor. He also started the Grinnell preschool program to serve both students and faculty interested in early childhood development. In 1975 John resigned his position at Grinnell and moved to Colombia, South America, where he started an import/export business.

A year later John returned to Seattle. There he engaged in clinical psychology in the prison system and in independent practice. In the early 1990s John retired from his Seattle psychology practice and moved to Tele, Honduras. He and friends worked on developing a resort on the coast. On January 4, 1995, John was stabbed to death while walking home at night in a random attack. His friends concluded Honduras was too dangerous for Americans and left the country shortly thereafter.

John married Linda Ann Finton ’61 in 1962. They had two children, Elizabeth and Katherine Morris. John and Linda divorced in the 1972.

John is survived by his two daughters and his sisters, Virginia Morris Weigel ’62 and Alice (Morris) Willis.

 

Muir, Mariel Rae (Meents) (11/18/1939–09/27/1996). Mariel Meents of Colorado Springs, Colorado received a B.A. degree in Chemistry with Honors from Grinnell in 1961. She had an excellent academic record: member of the freshmen and senior women’s honorary societies (Tassels and Mortar Board respectively), Phi Beta Kappa (1961) and the national chemistry honor society (Iota Sigma Pi). She was active in the Band and the Board of Religion.

Mariel earned a Ph. D. degree in Chemistry from Northwestern University in 1965. While there, she met and married a fellow graduate student, James A. Muir, in 1962, and they had two daughters, Molly and Martha.

She taught chemistry for a year at the University of Illinois (Chicago Circle). In 1966 she and her family moved to the University of Puerto Rico, where she became a Professor of Chemistry and Department Chairman while her husband became a Professor of Physics and Director of the Computer Center. Mariel conducted chemical research and published over 30 papers in the field, while mentoring 15 students for their Ph.D. degrees. Some of her research was done in 1973-74 as a Senior Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University.

When she reached early retirement age in 1992, Mariel and her family moved to Texas State University-San Marcos. She was Dean of Science there until her sudden death in 1996. Three years later the University established the Mariel M. Muir Excellence in Mentoring Award to recognize her commitment to the growth and development of those around her by annually honoring one faculty member and one staff member for exceptional commitment to assisting others to become more proficient in their professional activities and educational pursuits. (Texas State University at San Marcos, The Mariel M. Muir Excellence in Mentoring Awards, http://www.liberalarts.txstate.edu/about/news/cla-news2007-2008/muiraward08.html.)

 

McNeese, Robert W. (05/10/31–01/15/72). Bob McNeese of Newton, Iowa received a B.A. in Economics from Grinnell in 1961. Older than most of his classmates, he lived in his home town. After college, he worked for Armour & Company in Sioux City, Iowa in the 1960s. Later he was a contracts administrator for Kaiser Aerospace & Electronics. Bob was survived by his wife (Mary Ann McNeese) and three children.

 

John Z. McFarland, IV (March 1, 1939—December 29, 2019)

John was born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania in 1939. His family lived in various locations across the country, moving often because his father was in the military. Some of us learned from conversations that John, age 2, and members of his family were living in Honolulu on December 7, 1941, and survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor. John was an Eagle Scout and graduated from high school in Shreveport, Louisiana before coming to Grinnell for his undergraduate work.

John was a resident of Gates Hall for all his four years, 1957-1961, including his service as its president our last year, and hence on the Council of House Presidents. He also was on the Board of Publications and was awarded a freshman numeral for being on the wrestling team. He obtained his B.A. in Chemistry-Zoology in June 1961.

On August 28, 1961, John married Jonnene I. Dunlop ’63 and they had three daughters, Jennifer, Jeanne, and Janet.

John’s education continued that fall at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, where he received his M.D. degree. Fellow Grinnell classmate and Gates Hall resident, Joel Goldstein ’61, and wife Marcia fondly recall visiting John and Jonnene in April 1964 and being shown some New Orleans sights followed by a delicious crawfish dinner at their apartment. The next year John received an award from the city’s mayor for his disaster work after Hurricane Betsy.

John subsequently joined the Public Health Service and completed a radiology residency at the Tulane University School of Medicine followed by service at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. His professional career included working as a radiologist in Clemson, South Carolina and various cities in the western U.S., including Pueblo, CO; Colorado Springs, CO; Albuquerque, NM; and Reno, NV. After John and Jonnene divorced, he married Sherri Oldham in 1983. They retired to Moran, WY near Jackson Hole where they built a home.

John inspired in others a love of travel, good food, nature, and national parks. He enjoyed sailing, fishing, skiing, camping, canoeing, snowmobiling, and hiking. He was always up for an adventure and despite traveling throughout the world after his retirement, he always looked forward to returning to his beloved home near Jackson Hole. John is survived by wife Sherri, daughters Jennifer (Andy) Whisman, Jeanne (Steven) McDonald, and Janet (Cory) Burlile; stepsons Eric Holst and Paul (Christine) Holst; sister Marjorie H. McFarland ’63; and eleven grandchildren.

Duane W. Krohnke

 

Henry “Hank/Mac” G.L. McCullough, III—August 5, 1939—February 24, 2020

Hank came to our class in fall 1957 after graduating from Waukegan (Illinois) High School. Living in Dibble Hall all four years, he was on the varsity teams for basketball and track (shot put, high jump, low hurdles and relay teams). In June 1961, he was awarded his B.A. degree in Physics. In recent years, he served as our Class Agent.

After Grinnell, he completed graduate studies at the University of Arizona in nuclear science and engineering. From 1962-65 he was a 2^nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force stationed at Sandia Air Force Base, where he married the love of his life, Princess S. Naro, on November 7, 1962. They shared over 57 years of happy married life with daughters Jeanine, Amanda, and Ruth along with sons Darrell Walker, Bill Nelson, and David and later with three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Hank had a distinguished career in nuclear science and engineering with NASA in Greenbelt, MD; Kitts Peak National Laboratory in Tucson, AZ; The Babcock & Wilcox Company’s Atomic Energy Division in Columbia, MD; and Philco-Ford Corporation in Columbia, MD, where he was a principal nuclear consultant to the U.S. and Global Electric Generating Industry.

He was a registered professional engineer in IL, WI and IN. He was elected and served two terms as the director of the Council on Energy Independence and is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the Midwest (21^st edition) and Who’s Who in Engineering and Science. Hank also served as a nuclear energy advisor to President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George W. Bush Sr. and Congressman John Edward Porter (Rep., IL). In addition, he was a member of the recognized firm of Sargent & Lundy as quality assurance engineering supervisor for several operating nuclear plants and other such plants under modification.

Somehow, Hank found time to be a member of his local Board of Education and Assistant District Commissioner for the Boy Scouts of America as well as a Professor at Ivy Tech Community College in Elkhart, IN, 2002-06.

Mac and Princess were members of St. Pius X Catholic Church in Granger, IN and of its choir. He also was a member of the Fr. J.A. Nieuwland General Assembly, an organization honoring the work of Father J.A. Nieuland, a former professor of botany and organic chemistry at the University of Notre Dame.

Mac is survived by Princess, his loving wife of 57 years; daughters Jeanine R. (Larry) Palazzi and Amanda McCullough; sons Darrell Walker and Bill Nelson (Sheila); three grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; sister Josephine Luella Murphey; and brother-in-law Dennis R. (Nancy) Dash. Mac was preceded in death by daughter Ruth McCullough, son David McCullough, a sister, and two brothers.

Duane W. Krohnke

 

Lutter, Lowell Dean “Hap” (09/171939–10/04/2009).

Lowell “Hap” Lutter from Libertyville, Illinois received a B.A. degree in Chemistry-Zoology from Grinnell in 1961. Hap was actively involved in Grinnell as a student, a member of the cross-country team for four years and president of the Senior Class. He always gave Grinnell great credit for teaching him things about life that came from the classroom, the dormitory and the playing field. His life and career were unique in his service to others. Grinnell recognized his many achievements by honoring him with the Alumni Award in 2006.

The last four of his 70 years saw him valiantly wage a fierce battle against bladder cancer. His oncologists were amazed that he was riding his bike and swimming two days after chemo that sent most people to bed. The day before his death he was astonished and delighted to learn that his children, along with friends and colleagues, had created a fund to name the cross-country ski trails in Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis in honor of him and his wife Judy. A surprise dedication on October 2 saw him still full of life and love.

Hap graduated from the University of Chicago Medical School in 1965. An internship in pediatrics and his orthopedic residency at the University of Minnesota were interrupted by two years of service as a captain in the U.S. Air Force (1967-69). Hap then completed a fellowship with the U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Department in Tunisia, training orthopedic surgeons and treating children and adults with disabilities. Falling in love with Tunisia, he and Judy returned with their family 34 more times as he continued his work as a medical volunteer with CARE/Medico.

An orthopedic surgeon specializing in foot and ankle, he was a champion for children with dwarfism, brittle bone disease and muscular dystrophy. If you were a runner with an injury in the last quarter of the 20th century, he was the man you wanted to see, because he understood the runner’s obsessions as well as the mechanics.

In addition to an active private practice, Hap was a volunteer physician on the staff of Gillette Children’s Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota for 27 years and served as Editor-in-chief of Foot and Ankle International (1993-2004) where his monthly editorials were the highlight for most readers.

Hap lived a life full of joy and accomplishment — 47 years of it married to the love of his life, Judy, his Grinnell classmate whom he met in freshman chemistry class. At Hap’s memorial service Judy said there was always chemistry between them and a love for challenge, adventure and physical activity that enriched their lives. Unlike many of his generation, he played an active role in the lives of his three children, Wendy, Reid and Parke, enabling Judy to complete two graduate degrees and found a nonprofit organization.

To his family, Hap was a loving and inspiring husband, father and “Papa.” To his colleagues he was “a beacon of light.” To his patients, he was a kind and caring physician. To his worldwide circle of friends, he was a generous host, reassuring medical advisor and wry instigator.

Woven through all of this, he found time to be a healer, marathon runner, fly-fisherman extraordinaire, author, world traveler, conservationist, sculptor, volunteer and “someone who raised the bar on love and friendship” for all who knew him.

After retiring from practice Hap became a recognized sculptor, continually taking classes at the University of Minnesota where he delighted in knowing and encouraging young artists. Grinnell Alumni Council friends of Hap and Judy donated money which was used to buy equipment for Grinnell’s sculpture department and partially fund a collaborative art and chemistry papermaking tutorial.

By Judy Helen Mahle Lutter

 

Krebill, David Lloyd (10/06/39–08/06/92). David Krebill from Fort Dodge, Iowa attended Grinnell for his first year of college and lived in Gates Hall.

Krumel, Nancy Margaret (Strindmo) (November 2, 1939—June 15, 2021)

Nancy Strindmo from her home In Shawnee Mission, Kansas joined our class in the Fall of 1957 and was graduated with a B.A. degree in Sociology-Anthropology in June 1961. She was a resident of James Hall (freshman), Read Hall (sophomore) and Haines Hall (senior) and was active in Grinnell Players.

On December 29, 1961, she married Karl L. Krumel (Grinnell, 1960, chemistry B.A., from Santa Ana, California). They immediately moved for two years to East Lansing, Michigan, where Karl obtained a graduate degree at Michigan State University. And then it was on to Midland, Michigan, where Karl was employed by Dow Chemical Company for many years and where he was a co-inventor on many patent applications for chemical compositions.

The two of them had two daughters: Debra Lee, born in 1965 and Sharon Margaret, born in 1967.

For our reunion in 1986 Nancy said she was interested in tennis, bridge, sailing and volunteering for the Midland Center for the Arts.

Nancy died on June 15, 2021 in Bonita Springs, Florida. Four months later (October 27, 2021), Karl passed away.

Duane W. Krohnke

Obituary for Class of 1961 Website [dwk—9/10/15]

Kuebler, Barbara Elizabeth (Treweek)

April 16, 1940—December 13, 2003

Barbara Elizabeth from Lead, South Dakota obtained her B.A. degree in political science from the College in June 1961. She lived in Read and Cleveland Halls and was a reporter for the Scarlet & Black, which led to her membership in the professional journalism fraternity for women (Theta Sigma Phi). She also was a member of Young Democrats and the International Relations Club. Her photograph to the left is from the 1961 Cyclone.

From November 1961 through June 1969 she lived in Chicago (and Cicero), Illinois while she worked in the Legal Department of Employers Mutual Insurance Company and the Consumer Service Department of the Toni Division of the Gillette Company.

In August 1968 she married Donald Kuebler in Lawrence, South Dakota.

In 1969 she moved to Lake Worth, Florida, and in 1975 the Alumni Office lost contact with her. She died at age 63 on December 15, 2003 in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Duane W. Krohnke