The "Hollyhocks" Vonnegut Orchards
The plat map of 1948 shows that Howard Oberlin had acquired the 28 acres and the Culver Military Academy had acquired the 51 acres |
Sep. 2005 - 2015, Sep. -- Warren K. Reiss v (MD) Revocable Living Trust |
A 1975 alumna of Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio, from which she graduated with a degree in classics,
Karzas is a native of Illinois. Following an early career at Kenyon shr served as Director of Development and
Alumnae Relations at her boarding school alma mater, Chatham Hall in Virginia for three years, and had worked
as both Assistant Director of Alumni Affairs and Assistant Director of Development at Kenyon. She then went
to Indiana's Culver Academies, where she was director of development and assistant secretary to the board
and a leader of a $200-million campaign after her 20th year there and a twenty-three-year hiatus she
returned to Kenyon to become the College's director of annual giving. A class agent for Kenyon, she has been active as an admissions, career-network, and phonation volunteer, as a member of her twentieth, twenty-fifth, and thirtieth reunion committees, and as chair of the Chicago Regional Association. Mary Kay was awarded Kenyon's Distinguished Service Award in both 1977 and 2005 and the D. Morgan Smith Award for Outstanding Class Agent in 1995. Since 1984, she has been involved with the Council for Advancement and Support of Education activities, especially District V, for which she served as chair. She received the Case V Distinguished Service Award in 2002. She was also a member of the CASE Philanthropy Commission from 2003-2006. She then returned to Culver in 2007, where she is now the Deputy Director of Development. Mary Kay oversees the operations side of the development office, including the annual giving team, stewardship, gift processing, research, and the support staff, and also works on Culver 's By Example Campaign. |