Remembering Senior Trustee Joe Rayl
The Austin College community was saddened to learn of the death on September 29 of senior trustee Joe F. Rayl ’54.
Joe joined the Austin College Board of Trustees in 1988, and following his term, he continued on the Senior Board until his death. He was a longtime supporter of Austin College projects, with gifts toward building renovations, annual fund, capital projects, and several athletics projects, in addition to gifts toward the renovation of Wortham Center, the Harry E. Smith Art History Chair, and the College’s Volunteer Leadership Assembly. He was inducted into the Austin College Athletic Hall of Honor in 1981.
Joe and his family had lived in Bolivar, Missouri, since the 1960s when he purchased a petroleum distributorship there. A few years later, he purchased a small bank in Greenfield and spent the next 40 years in banking and building community banks throughout southwest Missouri.
| ’38 Doris Hibbert Neves | March 8, 2014 |
| ’41 Kent Morrison | May 15, 2014 |
| ’45 Nancy Hatfield Everett | June 11, 2014 |
| ’46 Bev Ficke | November 14, 2013 |
| ’49 John M. Coffin | November 9, 2014 |
| ’50 Philip Morrow | October 16, 2014 |
| ’51 Lynn Porter Calvert | May 1, 2014 |
| ’52 Shirley May | February 13, 2014 |
| ’53 Richard Freeman | October 25, 2013 |
| ’53 Wayne Sebesta | October 19, 2013 |
| ’54 Anne Chaney Hardy | June 30, 2014 |
| ’54 Joe Rayl | September 29, 2014 |
| ’55 Edna Sue Hood | September 8, 2014 |
| ’55 Don Hulse | May 25, 2014 |
| ’56 Daniel Howell, Jr. | June 10, 2014 |
| ’56 Robert William Schaefer | July 28, 2014 |
| ’58 Geraldine Seaman Sanders | April 5, 2014 |
| ’59 Courtenay Marshall | June 8, 2014 |
| ’61 Imy Lou Caviness Walters | September 23, 2014 |
| ’63 Julie Lawrence Cochran | October 21, 2014 |
| ’64 David Mercer Martin | February 22, 2014 |
| ’67 Steven McAdoo | July 2, 2014 |
| ’69 Nancy Marchetti Maggard | February 22, 2014 |
| ’72 John Lane | February 19, 2014 |
| ’72 Ann Roberts Williamson O’Hara | November 2, 2014 |
| ’72 Penny Apple Trosper | November 2, 2014 |
| ’74 Joe Martindale | November 2, 2013 |
| ’75 Barbara Boren Marsh | February 3, 2014 |
| ’85 Dorane Docherty | August 29, 2014 |
| ’88 Cheryl Woodworth | May 25, 2014 |
| ’91 Laura Marble Arledge | August 10, 2014 |
| ’99 Brian C. Dodson | August 5, 2014 |
| ’99 Laura McCracken | April 11, 2014 |
Friends We Will Miss
Margaret Crow of Dallas, a supporter of Austin College projects, died April 11, 2014.