The Penn State Alumni Association

What’s been happening:

After receiving my Ph.D. in 1974, I started my academic career at the University of Pittsburgh and continued at DePauw University in central Indiana, where I was a tenured Associate Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences. I met my husband, Lewis Hogarth, a professor of Chemistry, at Depauw and we married, then commuted for 3 years between Indiana and Columbus, OH where he had taken a job. I finally moved to Columbus and continued in management and organizational development for a Catholic healthcare system, retiring a little early in 2009 to oversee/visit/care for my parents (ages 90 and 92) in a nursing home in Columbus. While I do not have children, I have been Mother to many cats over the years, currently owned by 4 (all strays). I am active in cat welfare support, The Transition Network (for women) local chapter, a Red Hats group who likes to eat out, a book club, creative cooking and gardening and otherwise trying to figure out what "retirement" can mean. My husband seems to work year-round as an academic, and loves chemistry both as a vocation and avocation, along with science fiction. Hopefully we can travel a bit in the years to come, especially to England and Scotland where my husband was born, raised and attended universities.