Maida McIlroy Wedell

Eric

Cheyenne, WY  82001
artdoc323@aol.com

1975

My family loves the out-of-doors, and for that reason the proximity of mountains was the major criterion in our choice of a place to settle. We hike, backpack, camp, and ski(both downhill and cross-country). We also like biking, swimming and tennis. As for personal interests, Eric is a cellist who plays in the local symphony, and he also enjoys woodworking. I am into weaving, in addition to a variety of academic and civic activities. I am very disappointed that I shall miss our reunion! On July 19 Eric and I will have just returned from a backpacking trip in the Jim Bridger Wilderness of west-central Wyoming, and will be enjoying a visit from my parents. To bring you up-to-date on my whereabouts since 1960, here are 15 years in a nutshell: I graduated from the College of Wooster in 1964 with a major in Art, then received an MA in Art History at the University Wisconsin in January, 1967. The next month Eric Wedell, of Madison, WI and I were married. After he received his MD degree from the University of Wisconsin in June of 1967, we moved to Burlington, VT., where Eric spent four years in training, and where I taught art history at the University of Vermont. One of the highlights of those years was the summer (1969) we spent in Haiti, working at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital there. 1971-1973 found us living in Kansas City, OM, where Eric was stationed at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, and where our first child, Carl Havelock II was born. Then we moved to Minneapolis, where Eric spent another year in training at the University of MN, and where our second (and last!) child, Allison Inger, was born. We are settled at last here in Cheyenne, where we moved last summer. Eric is an internist with a sub-specialty in endocrinology; he practices in a group with four other physicians. Wyoming is very different from the Midwest and New England, but we are growing to love it and are very happy here. Our door is always open to OHS classmates!

2000

They said they wanted the "history of my life." Whew! Well, OK, here follows the nutshell version:

Following high school, I attended the College of Wooster, graduating in 1964. I earned a master's degree in art history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in January of 1967 and, on February 4, 1967, married Eric Wedell of Madison. He graduated from medical school that June. We then lived in Burlington, VT, for four years while he did his internship and residency. That was followed by Eric's two years in the Air Force, stationed outside of Kansas City, MO. Our son Carl was born there in 1971. We moved to Minneapolis for one year, where Eric finished his training and where our daughter Allison was born in 1974.

Livin' in the wild, wild west has been a wonderful experience for Eric and me ever since we moved to Cheyenne in 1974. We enjoy much of what the Rocky Mountain West has to offer, such as hiking, skiing, and backpacking. We also do a lot of traveling, with the major tri .~. of the last two years being to Greece and Turkey, London, and Hawaii. Eric continues with the private practice of internal medicine and endocrinology in a group with 13 partners, while I still teach art history part-time at our local community college. Both of us have long been involved in all manner of civic, cultural, professional, and Presbyterian church activities. We have been married for 33 years.

Carl (29) graduated from Carleton College, Northfield, MN, in 1993 with a degree in physics, and spent 1994 touring with Up With People. He now lives in Denver, where he is a senior systems analyst doing computer programming for The Hibbert Group, a marketing firm. For fun, he is very active in the Denver comedy scene, performing in both the improvisational and sketch varieties. Allison (26) also attended school in Northfield, where she graduated from St. Olaf College in 1996 with a double major in English and theatre. In 1999 she earned an M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) in theatre, with an acting concentration, from the Graduate School of the University of Louisville (KY). She was married on August 21, 1999, and lives with her husband in Denver, where she works as a book editor and he is a ground engineering technician. They will soon be moving to Seattle where each will pursue their career goals in the performing arts--she as a stage actress and he as a professional singer.

My folks still live in Oberlin, having moved to the new retirement complex, Kendal at Oberlin, when it opened in 1993. Their home on Shipherd Circle, where I grew up, is now owned by my brother and sister-in-law, Keith and Janet Clark McIlory, both OHS class of '62.

My parents will observe their 60th wedding anniversary in early June, and all their family will converge upon Oberlin to celebrate. That trip, plus helping our daughter and son-in-law move to Seattle in July, precludes my attendance at our 40th class reunion. I do regret that I shall not be able to see everyone, but I shall be there in spirit. I hope the attendance is excellent and that everyone has an absolutely wonderful time. Please know that the welcome mat is always out in Wyoming!

Go back to our Oberlin High School 1960 web site.