Seldom does the opportunity to celebrate an important milestone in one person’s life and celebrate another’s lifetime come along at the same time. However, sisters Kitty Wildman of Springfield, Ohio, Sally Ocasek of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Patti Grim of Terre Haute, Ind., managed to do both with a gift to their mother, Corinne Wetherbee, in celebration of her 90th birthday.
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Around Myers Hollow
Family Honors Wittenberg History With Unique Gift
The plan to give a gift that would beautify Wittenberg’s campus in her honor took on a new dimension when Wetherbee requested the gift be made in memory of her mother, Corrine Ort Nolte, class of 1906, and daughter of Wittenberg’s fourth president, Samuel A. Ort (1882-1900). “She loved every inch of the Wittenberg campus,” Wetherbee said. “She gave me so many memories of her life in the closely knit Ort family.” A memorial bench, placed amid a landscape of daffodils and a spring-flowering Snowdrift Crabapple tree, stands on the ground that was once the garden of the former president’s house on the hill by Weaver Chapel, where the home once stood. The gardens were the site of Ort’s marriage to Allan Nolte, according to Wetherbee. “I’m so happy we can perpetuate her love for Wittenberg with a place – the bench – where students and others will meet, rest and then go on their way with all that Wittenberg has to offer.”
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