Dianne Cunnington Shuck (Collegeville, PA) After high school, Dee attended Simmons College in Boston, MA, graduated with a BS in Chemistry and got married two days later. John and Dee started out in the Washington, DC area where he worked in the basement of the Pentagon (as an Army draftee) and she worked at the NIH National Cancer Institute. After his discharge, they returned to Boston where he attended graduate school and she worked in the Biochemistry Section of a consulting firm.

They spent the 1969-1970 academic year in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan.  The year was pretty exciting because it was Bo Schembecher’s first year as coach of the Wolverines and they were able to get tickets to all the home games. (This was the season that Michigan beat Ohio State in the ‘upset of the century’.) It was also the season of student unrest, campus boycotts and class disruptions. Luckily, Michigan was on a 3 semester calendar and most of the students were off campus when the Kent State confrontation took place.

When their year in Ann Arbor was up, they took their VW camper and spent two months visiting the cities and National Parks in northwest US and Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. It was a once in a life time totally great experience.  

They ended up in Rochester, NY where John taught mathematics at the University of Rochester. Their daughter Amy was born there and Dee was a stay at home mother They were fortunate to be able to travel during the summers and packed up Amy and the camper and revisited the northwest US and later the southwest US.

In 1977, they moved to Collegeville, PA (outside Philly, near Valley Forge).  When they arrived here, the town was very much like Brecksville during the 1950’s.  There was one traffic light, no fast food, and one shopping center.  John taught mathematics and computer science at Ursinus College for 25 years, and she worked for several pharmaceutical companies as a bench chemist in Quality Control and Research and Development. During that time she was merged out of a job twice and finally ‘retired’ claiming she was too old to go through another job search. John retired a few years after she did.

Their daughter graduated from Hampshire College with a double major in English and Dance.  (Where did THAT come from?)  Currently she is a computer graphic designer and web site constructor for an advertising agency.  Amy is married and she and Ken have one son. They live in Philadelphia and they see them frequently.  Jason was born in August 2002, so Dee turned 60 and became a grandmother in the same week!

A few years ago, they did the Cleveland Area Nostalgia Tour revisiting sights and haunts in Cleveland, Brecksville, and places in between.  Her sister, Jill, signed for part of the tour, including corned beef sandwiches at the deli in Brecksville.