Class Notes

Jim Oliver, BU71, and his wife, Debbie, have continued their big adventure by relocating from California to the north shore of Kauai, Hawaii. Oliver writes that “the nearest traffic light is 22 miles away, the temperature is always the same and the grandkids live five minutes down the road.” He says, “Aloha from paradise!”

James Marx, EN71, retired after 43 years with infrastructure consulting firm AECOM and moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina with his wife, Cynthia (Lowrey) Marx, LA71. He plays tennis as often as possible.

Jack Schnettler, EN70, continues his career as a senior transportation engineer with global firm Atkins from his base near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. After a year focused on hobbies, reading and home-improvement projects, he and his wife, Joan, look forward to resuming travel to visit friends and family in and outside St. Louis.

Gary Allen Marmolya, LA70, retired from radiology as chief of computed tomography at an 800-bed hospital, then he worked at a community hospital, followed by being a locum tenens. Marmolya also started a photography publishing business and built a privately held photography collection showing the evolution of landscape photography from the mid-1800s to today.

Gary Feder, LA70, LW74, GL80, was recently elected to the Clayton, Mo., Board of Aldermen. He will retire from the Husch Blackwell law firm at the end of this year, concluding 48 years of primarily practicing real estate law. An adjunct professor in WashU’s School of Law, Feder will continue teaching a class in commercial real estate law.

Susan Wilson Krechel, MD, LA67, HS75, penned How to Navigate the Minefield That Is Dementia with Your Loved One: A Guide Borne of Experience (Christian Faith Publishing, March 2021). Written for a lay audience, the book explains dementia and the latest research into cause, treatment, prevention and cure, and sets out a roadmap for obtaining care for a loved one.

Robert W. Duffy, LA67, wrote and edited at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for some 40 years and at the St. Louis Beacon, an online publication he helped found. For 30 years, he has served as an adjunct at WashU, teaching in the Sam Fox School’s fine arts division, the College of Architecture, University College and the College of Arts & Sciences. Duffy lives in the city’s Central West End with his husband, Martin Kaplan, GA88

Anna Katherine “Kay” Behrensmeyer, LA67, a senior research geologist and curator of vertebrate paleontology in the Department of Paleobiology of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, was elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS) in April. Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge,” the APS is the oldest learned society in the United States.

Vicki Sharp, LA62, professor emeritus at California State University, Northridge, wrote more than 55 books on statistics, medicine and the use of computers in schools as a computer consultant and trainer for publishers such as Little Brown and McGraw-Hill and for school districts. As a creative departure, Sharp wrote “When Retirement Equals Eviction,” for Academe, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors.

Warren Morgens, BU62, LW64, retired in 2004 after 40 years in the practice of law, during which he specialized in banking and securities regulation and in corporate law. Following law school, he served on active duty as an officer with the U.S. Navy’s JAG Corps (1964–68) and then worked in the general counsel’s office at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., until returning to St. Louis in mid-1969 as assistant attorney general in charge of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office.