58 ForOregonState.org/Stater OuR COMMuNIty IN MEMORIAM EDITED BY > SCHOLLE MCFARLAND A N D KATHERINE CUSUMANO, MFA ’24 SUSAN FROST JOAN RICKETTS TOOLE, ’56 Joan (Ricketts) Toole, ’56, died Feb. 15 in Alexandria, Virginia, at the age of 89. A home economics graduate, she championed the microwave throughout her career — not as a mere kitchen convenience for warming leftovers, but as an appliance as useful as an oven. “She was a trailblazer in this field,” says her niece, Susan Frost, ’69, who still uses her aunt’s recipe for chicken divan. “No one understood how to use a microwave — they were a little afraid of it.” In addition to writing the bestselling cookbooks Cooking with Microwave Magic, Cooking En Concert with Microwave, and Food for the Heart and Soul, which Writers’ Digest awarded a prize for Best Cookbook of the Year in 1998, Toole also developed a line of porcelain microwave cookware. She remained a staunch advocate for the appliance’s powers, even as The New York Times declared, in 1995, that it “failed to live up to its early promise.” “It just takes a little understanding,” she said then. She was predeceased by her husband, Jerry Toole, and is survived by her sons, Andrew, Ross and Rick, as well as by Frost. 1940s Monte Jane McCalla ’43, Walla Walla, WA • Robert Horn Stewart ’43, Wilsonville, Alpha Tau Omega • Thomas Edward Talbot ’43, Hillsboro, Phi Gamma Delta • William T. Wisbeck ’43, Estacada, Chi Phi • Ruth Alcorn Dennis ’46, Portland, Kappa Kappa Gamma • Lorraine Martin ’47, Corvallis • Donald E. Petersen ’47, Bloomfield Hills, MI • Jo Anne Petersen ’47, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Sigma Kappa • Ruth Warris Thompson ’48, Bloomington, IL • Norma Jean Fisher ’49, Caldwell, ID • Jean Agnes Kimsey ’49, Portland, Alpha Omicron Pi 1950s Marianne Michelle McDonnal ’50, Seattle, WA, Kappa Kappa Gamma • Jo Ann Shoemake ’50, Bellevue, WA, Sigma Kappa • William Eldon Butler ’51, Eugene • Bill Ding Kong ’51, Rancho Cordova, CA • Henry Robert Krebs ’51, Ione, Delta Chi • Mary Josephine Levenspiel ’51 ’71 ’75, Corvallis, Sigma Kappa • Jane McGee ’51 ’62, Gold Canyon, AZ, Alpha Gamma Delta • Ralph C. Shivers ’51, Lead, SD • Robert I. Theta • Helen Pieser ’57, Portland, Alpha Chi Omega • Ronald A. Anders ’58, Tucson, AZ, Phi Kappa Psi • Iral Dean Barrett ’58, Salem • James M. Busch ’58, Ukiah, CA, Alpha Tau Omega • Gary Leon Carnahan ’58 ’61 ’89, Pooler, GA • Wallace N. Cory, ’58, Yellow Pine, Idaho • Dorothy Gathercoal Cruickshank ’58, Bend, Delta Gamma • Charles Albert Fahsholtz ’58, Mercer Island, WA, Alpha Tau Omega • Norman Charles Leeling, ’58 ’61, Florence Phi Sigma Kappa • James A. Roberts ’55, Wilsonville, Alpha Tau Omega • Charles E. Trapp Jr. ’55, Fair Oaks, CA, Alpha Tau Omega • Susan Cooley Burgess ’56, Redmond, Kappa Kappa Gamma • Lorris Ivan Child ’56, Woodburn • Patricia Keller Jacobs ’56, Eugene, Kappa Alpha Theta • Robert M. O’Brien ’56, Renton, WA • Joan Claire Ricketts Toole ’56, Lady Lake, FL, Pi Beta Phi • Helen Louise Gienger ’57, Bay City, Sigma Kappa • Robert J. Hill ’57, Cheshire, Phi Kappa Young ’51, West Chester, PA, Sigma Phi Epsilon • Pauline Deggendorfer Beauchamp ’52, Laguna Hills, CA, Pi Beta Phi • William E. Fasnacht ’52, Campton, NH, Kappa Delta Rho • Myron Daniel McCall ’52, Portland, Sigma Alpha Epsilon • Richard Merrill Oveson ’52, Provo, UT, Beta Theta Pi • Robert L. Wagner ’52, Cornelius • Harry F. Weinert ’52, Hillsboro • Donald James Zarosinski ’52 ’55, Portland, Sigma Chi • Gerald G. Chadburn ’53, Springfield, Beta Theta Pi • John Alan Hentze ’53, Junction City, Theta Xi • Lester L. Hill ’53, Springfield • William K. Minea ’53, Santa Rosa Valley, CA, Theta Xi • Pauleta Robertson ’53, Portland • Gerald J. Anderson ’54, Zion, IL • Patty Craig Dumas ’54, Medford, Kappa Alpha Theta • Shirley Murrell Francisco ’54, Bellevue, WA, Tri Delta • George L. Noakes ’54, Moorestown, NJ • Gerrald Emanuel Church ’55 ’56, Bend, Sigma Nu • Duane Loren Day ’55, Kappa Delta Rho • John Frederick Hodecker ’55, Redmond, Kappa Sigma • James Patrick McClure ’55, Wenatchee, WA • Norman Ruben Ottoman ’55, Sherwood,
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