Class Notes

William Dillon, DE63, is first president of the Saxony Lutheran High School (Jackson, Mo.) board of regents. He has served as a dental adviser to Southeast Missouri Head Start and as district governor for Lions International.

Rick Hesse, EN62, SI65, SI68, professor emeritus of decision sciences at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School, received the “Best Learning and Education Research Paper” award at the Decision Sciences Institute 51st Annual Conference (online) in November 2020. The paper, titled “Adjusting Forecasts with Seasonal Data,” represents some of his work with Solver moving averages. Hesse says, “Not bad for an 80-year-old!”

Polly (Crawford) Dozier, LA62, is semiretired after her last senior minister assignment in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, B.C., and is living in Florida to be near her son and granddaughter. She still enjoys speaking on inner peace and relationship harmonics, and is writing a book about her experience as a liaison between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Communist government.

Thomas Spring, GR60, moved from Hawaii to Cupertino, Calif., to help care for his elderly and infirmed Marianist brothers.

Del Schwinke, BU59, in late 2019 was tapped by the Advertising Club of Greater St. Louis for its Lifetime Achievement Award. The award recognizes dedicated leadership and outstanding service to the St. Louis advertising community. Schwinke has taught advertising in University College since 1999.

Alice Helmer, FA58, celebrated her 85th birthday last year. She lives in the Kansas City area near her children, grandchildren and great-grandchild, and enjoys the many opportunities to view and enjoy art. Helmer writes that she is impressed with the many changes and additions to the WashU campus since the ’50s when the school was lovingly referred to as a streetcar university with no dorms.

Betty (Johnson) Smith, LA56, stays busy with Zoom meetings, bridge, exercise and church, all online. She looks forward to the restart of in-person class reunions.

Byron Roe, LA54, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Michigan, updated his textbook Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (Springer International Publishing, 2020). Now in its third edition, the book is a practical guide to the use of probability and statistics in experimental physics.

Brenda Torteya, EN20, is an operations analyst at Goldman Sachs.

Zachary Steinberg, EN20, is part of a six-month Capital One Developer Academy that trains software engineers. After completion, he will join a two-year rotational technology development program at Capital One.