Yale Divinity School

Notes from 2007

Gordon Corbett ’48 B.D. and his wife Winifred live in a retirement faculty in Monterey, CA. where the weather is nice enough that the two can enjoy getting out for walks most every day.  The community is a mix of people from all over the country and a wide variety of backgrounds (Gordon the only minister) which leads to some interesting talk.  Due to macular degeneration, both Win and Gordon are now classified as legally blind, but have a large reading machine that enables them to read their mail and the newspaper.

Doug Dorchester ’48 B.D. and his wife Janice live in Bourne, MA.  Janice struggles with atrial fibrillation, which constantly calls for new approaches and medicines, but she is hoping to complete her Supplement to the Dorchester Genealogy in 2007.  This team effort finds Doug acting as editor, while Janice researches and writes.  Both continue limited activity in the church and community, reporting that their family has been a great source of help for which they remain thankful.

Carl Viehe ’48 M.Div. is enjoying life in a Senior Center in Bridgman in southwest lower Michigan.  He has just passed his 90th birthday, for which his family gave him a royal celebration.  Viehe has a son, a daughter and three grandchildren.  He reports he is still going strong.

Robert E. Willoughby ’48 M.Div. continues to lead a full and rewarding life in Lakeland, FL where he supply preaches and participates in a progressive study seminar, where members share and discuss books, personal growth, and social issues confronting the nation and world.  He recently completed a manuscript on a survey of the Civil Rights Revolution of the ’60s, including his own involvement.  His five children remain active in social concerns in their various communities.  This spring, he attended his granddaughter Elizabeth’s graduation from the University of Michigan Medical School, where she earned an M.D.

Jean Scheufler Johnson ’48 B.D. is looking forward to a trip to Burma in December with her son, Tim.  Jean lives in a retirement center near Tampa Bay, FL, where she has found support from her “extended family” with the recent death of her husband, Jay Johnson ’47 B.D.