Janet Hinds Pivalis ’71 Honored by University of Findlay
Janet Hinds Pivalis was one of eight people honored at the University of Findlay’s Homecoming and Family Weekend. Janet is a retired educator who taught for 34 years in what she calls her “dream job” in Delran Public Schools. After retiring from Delran in 2009, she was an adjunct professor for seven years at Rowan College Burlington County, teaching intensive reading and composition.
Janet earned numerous teaching awards throughout her career including the New Jersey Governor’s Teacher of the Year Recognition in 1988 and 2006. In 2007, she was named the Special Education Outstanding Educator by the National Association of Special Education Teachers. Janet has also dedicated time and energy to helping various nonprofit organizations over the years. She served as a 211 telephone crisis counselor for Contact of Burlington County, and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, food pantries and food kitchens, and EARS Animal Rescue Thrift Shop in Englewood, FL, where she and Frank, her husband of 43 years, reside during some of New Jersey’s cold months.
Alumni News
Celebrating a 60-Year-Old Transatlantic and Multi-Generational Friendship: Rowland Ricketts ’57 and Peter Thiele ’57
In honor of the Class of 1957’s 60th reunion to be celebrated during Alumni Weekend 2017 festivities, Rowland Ricketts ’57 installed an exhibit featuring the work of his classmate Peter Thiele ’57, a German graphic designer. Peter was an exchange student at Moorestown...
2017 Alumni Association Award Recipients To Be Honored at Dinner Among Friends
Moorestown Friends Alumni Weekend will be held on May 5-6. To begin the weekend, alumni have been invited to attend the Dinner Among Friends banquet at 6 p.m. on May 5 which features the presentation of the 2017 Alumni Association Awards to Bill Gardiner ’67, Sonia...
Bob Gale ’67 – The Antique Designer
Residing on three acres alongside the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge in Alma, WI, Bob Gale is settling into a peaceful retirement after over four decades as a master woodworker and fine furniture restoration artist. Bob’s work guided him on a journey that...
