Class Notes

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.

Wade R. Watts, DE61, was honored this year by Marquis Who’s Who with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Watts, who served on the faculties of WashU’s School of Dental Medicine and School of Medicine, practiced in Clayton and Frontenac, Mo., for 52 years. He and Dorothy Skelton, GR55, have been married for 66 years.

Edward P. Ortleb, GR59, GR63, who for 30 years was the science supervisor for the St. Louis Public Schools, was tapped by the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) for its highest honor, the Robert H. Carleton Award. The award recognizes teachers who have made outstanding contributions to and provided leadership in science and education at the national level and to NSTA. Ortleb worked with Marlin Perkins and Charlie Hoessle to establish the St. Louis Zoo Education Department and with WashU’s Owen Sexton on several research projects in the rainforests of Panama.