Leonette W. Wishard '23

Celebrating Leonette Warburton Wishard '23's 100th birthday and her lifelong commitment to teaching and the support of women and girls around the world, the Bridgeport Area Branch of AAUW initiated an AAUW endowed international fellowship in her name for support of a fellow's graduate study in the U.S. She was a prisoner of war during World War II, a teacher in Turkey and Greece and director of religious education at several U.S. churches and has been a member of the Bridgeport branch since 1945 * When the family and friends of Lena Cooley Mayo '24 observed her 100th birthday last August, the local Chagrin Valley (Ohio) Times celebrated her lifelong dedication to bettering the lives of children around the world. After heading the social service office in New York City, she was dean of the school of social work at Case Western Reserve University and later became vice president of the university.

Deaths: Elizabeth Kingsley Chapman '25, July 23, 2001, in Rhode Island, at 98 * Irma Davis McKechnie '26, September 11, 2002, in Huntsville, Ala., at 96 * Sylvia D. Crane '29, September 17, 2002, in Falmouth, Mass., at 95 * Eva Grant Tripp '29, October 23, 2002, in Burlington, Vt., at 94 * Gordon N. Johnson '30, August 12, 2002, in Forest City, Maine, at 94 * Richard H. Keith '34, October 20, 2002, in Brewster, Mass., at 91 * Mary Buss Krueger '34, September 16, 2002, in Providence, R.I., at 90 * Kathryn Caswell Abbott '36, June 5, 2002, in Auburn, Maine, at 88 * Roger H. Rhoades '37, August 17, 2002, in Concord, N.H., at 90 * Roger J. Bourassa '38, October 4, 2002, in Waterville, Maine, at 88 * Cecil M. Daggett Jr. '38, September 7, 2002, in Leicester, Mass., at 86 * Frank A. Record '38, September 8, 2002, in Peterborough, N.H., at 85.