Alumnae Service Award Recipients
2021 Jean Clinton Roeschlaub ’44 Alumnae Service Award
Diane (Campbell) Sher ’71
Diane (Campbell) Sher ’71, CPA, CFP, AIF, earned a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Stephens College, as well as a Bachelor of General Studies in Accounting from the University of Missouri - St. Louis in 1977. After working as a CPA in a Big 8 firm and an officer in a regional bank corporation, Diane began her wealth management practice in 1986 as a CFP in a regional Registered Investment Advisory firm. She transferred selected clients and founded her own firm, The Sher Group, in 2003, which she sold in 2016. She continued as a senior vice president and private client wealth advisor of Krilogy – The Sher Group through 2019, when she retired. She maintains her professional credentials and memberships while considering her next chapter.
Throughout her career, Diane also served as a leader for many civic and not-for-profit boards and organizations, which she continues today. Her current volunteerism includes membership in the American Association of University Women, St. Louis Chapter; Board — Horizons St. Louis in Kirkwood; Talk, Toast, Taste Committee — KWMU-Public Radio St Louis; Class of 2005-2006 — Leadership St. Louis; Leading Ladies — The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Alumnae Association Board, Reunion Committee, Class President — Stephens College; Board, Secretary, Advocacy Committee — Women’s Foundation of Greater St. Louis.
Diane provides financial support for numerous arts, education, historic, social and legal justice, women’s issues and political organizations.
Among her many personal interests are world travel, a book club, golf, beginners bridge, a movie club and entertaining. She is an avid season-ticket-holding St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan, and attends a variety of film, theater, and musical performances each season at home in St. Louis, and occasionally in New York and London.
Having served as Class President multiple times, as well as a member of the Alumnae Association Board and one of the Reunion Committee co-chairs for the past five years, Diane’s commitment, service and dedication to Stephens students and alumnae, in addition to countless community and civic organizations, is exemplary.
2020 Jean Clinton Roeschlaub ’44 Alumnae Service Award
Erleen Anderson ’91
Erleen Anderson ’91 graduated from Stephens in 1991 with a B.A. in Business Administration (cum laude) and a minor in East Asian studies. After teaching English in Columbia’s Japanese sister-city (Matto-shi, Ishikawa-ken), she earned an M.B.A. from the University of Washington with an emphasis in marketing and IT before embarking on a consulting career. She then joined DHL holding various strategy and global customer roles in Seattle, Brussels and London where she now resides with her British husband of ten years.
In 2014 she earned an M.Sc. in Digital Marketing Communications from Manchester Metropolitan University and has worked with a range of corporate, public sector and non-profit organizations. She is a trustee of the Harlow Art Trust, helping look after a nationally significant public sculpture collection near her home. Henry Moore’s Family Group is one of her favorites, having been introduced to the sculptor by Jim Shirkey in her humanities class.
Erleen came to Stephens from her hometown of Olympia, Washington. She chose Stephens based on family friends’ recommendations, uncertainty of her major (Stephens offered all she was thinking about) as well as receiving an honors scholarship. She was thrilled with her choice and has never looked back.
She remembers sending her first “email” (a bulletin board posting for Mortar Board) from the only modem-connected computer in the lab 1990. The National Model UN in NYC, taking photography, a trip to China and various sorority shenanigans are among her best memories. Friendships and faculty connections from Searcy, Pillsbury and Omega Psi as well as political science and business classes have lasted a life time.
Her connection with the College has ebbed and flowed over the years, but she has always kept in touch and encourages all alumnae to do so. The “strength of weak ties” should not be underestimated personally or professionally, especially with the online world of today.
Erleen was co-president of the Seattle alumnae club in the late nineties and is co-chair of the U.K. and Ireland Stephens alumnae network today. Erleen has met more than thirty Stephens students and alumnae in England and Scotland and looks forward to meeting more when travel resumes. She is passionate about travel — believing it truly makes you grow and become a better person. Study abroad changed her life in high school, having spent her junior year in Melbourne, Australia. She highly encourages all students to consider how studying or working abroad may contribute to their own learning while at Stephens or after graduation.
After attending her 25th reunion in 2016, Erleen joined the AAB and started a reunion committee. As co-chair for the past five years, she has contributed to reunion program updates as well as this year’s change to a virtual reunion. She has also actively identified and engaged milestone class leaders to help strengthen alumnae connections with the college. As her own class president, she has “found” several missing classmates via online research and sending newsletters. At this year’s inaugural virtual reunion she is excited to “see” many of them via Zoom from as far away as Australia and Italy. Stephens is grateful for and proud of Erleen’s enthusiasm, service and dedication to Stephens and her alumnae.
Erleen is receiving the Jean Clinton Roeschlaub ’44 Alumnae Service Award for 2020 for her long-standing service to her class, the Seattle Alumnae Club, for representing Stephens in England and Scotland, Admissions volunteerism, the Alumnae Association Board, and co-chairing the Reunion program.
Past Alumnae Service Award Recipients
2019
Diane Hunter Robertson ’86
2018
Jennifer Nitzband Flaks ’03
2017
Kerry Brocker ’82
2016
Doris Painter Littrell ’58
2015
Geri Blaha Bennett ’57
2014
Teresa Peacher Maledy ’78
2013
Jennifer Stout Brinkmann ’95
Sally Wibbenmeyer Gregory ’98
Shannon Blankenship Walls ’93
2012
Penny Scalone Kunzman ’67
Laurie Kempson ’77
2011
Kathleen Fung ’67
Diana Reese Groshong ’61
Julia King Muller ’61
Elizabeth Taylor Reid ’71
2010
Patricia Burnett ’67
Jill Griffith ’72
Mildred Swearengen Patterson ’60
2009
Gayle Flannery Bentsen ’67
Jeannene Thompson Booher ’56
Wendy B. Libby
2008
Rachel Gross ’93
Donna Ensign Marshall ’58
Kathy Stolte Sherrod ’71
2007
Wendy Parish Anderson ’92
Michael Quevli ’84
2006
Linda Podas Chapman ’65
Sara Jane Johnson ’56
Carolyn Skoglund Kuttenkuler ’65
2005
Joy Katzen-Guthrie ’80
2004
Laura Gross ’91
2003
George Ann Harding ’58
Choo Choo Hannemann Boyer ’65
2002
Frances Dare ’82
Gretchen Bush Kimball ’57
2001
Carol Anderson ’66-’68
Katherine Dietzen ’86
2000
Mary Josie Cain Blanchard ’67
Allen Hull Hermann ’63
1999
Mary Rose Silverthorne ’55
1997
Natalie Rosenberg Frager ’53
1996
Ellen Vollrath ’86
1995
Ramona Adams Kemper ’59
1994
Joy Underdown ’54
1993
Lois Hulen Todd ’49
1992
Patricia White Barry
1991
Muriel Hensler Lawrence ’36
1990
Jane Kayser Depew ’49
1989
Alyce Roberts Cheatham ’40
1988
Judi Strain Vanet ’73
1987
Jean Steven McVicker ’49
1986
Priscilla White Dunn ’40
1985
Linda J. Adler ’70
Alice McKell Roden ’69
1983
Bernice Linderman Williamson ’32
1982
Jeanne Akers Bloom ’55
1981
Margaret Phillips Burris ’29
1977
Bernice Linderman Williamson ’32
1974
Mary Lee Prunty Johnston ’40
1973
Sara Fair Sleeper ’35
1972
Kate Stamper Wilhite ’17
1971
Madolyn Youse Babcock ’44
1970
Christine Wood Graham ’42
1969
Ruth Lovelace Courteol ’19
Ann Webster Dearborn ’36
1969 (Faculty Alumnae Service Awards)
Naomi Holt ’29
Dorothy Martin ’29
Bernice Linderman Williamson ’32
1968
Ethlyn Wisegarver Bott ’18
1967
Barbara Courtright Nowell ’36
1966
Geraldine Hall Dalton ’24
Gertrude Buckley Windsor ’16
1965
Geneva Drinkwater ’15
1964
Ann Sorency Bedell ’30
Marion Cox Lichty ’35
Audrey Webb ’24
1963
May Laydin Chadwick ’28
Harriette Steward Fristoe ’25
1962
Grace Hendon Chancey ’19
Donna Stillwagon Hammond ’35
Nancy Johnson Schuessler O’Brien ’49
1961
Loraine Brunson Bohenkamp ’22
Helen Walker Eakin ’16
1960
Virginia Boos Bigelow ’41
Keitha Miller Deer ’39
Evalyn King Joachim ’29