Picture This

...doors like this, with frosted glass in the upper half, save for a single pane? They were in a building that no longer exists on the campus, named for the family of which the man pictured here was a part. He was in the second of what is now three generations from his family to teach at Houghton. Do you know his name? Do you remember classes in this building, or when it came down?

Send us an e-mail with your memories and stories about this picture.

In the last issue, we asked if anyone knew who the artist and subject were in this picture:

Here are some responses we received:

I’m quite sure the artist pictured on the back cover of the summer ’06 Milieu is Aileen Ortlip Shea. In the photo, she looks very much like one of her grandchildren. We have great memories of Mrs. Shea and her husband Alton, who preceded us in the ministry of a recording studio in Sierra Leone. Their help was invaluable to rookie missionaries hungry to learn about the country and people to which we were called. Many of the portraits we were most familiar with were of beautiful African faces. The Sheas carried these from church to church to help portray the people they had grown to love.

Pat (Margeson ’68) Estes

Indianapolis, IN

The “Picture This” has to be Aileen Ortlip Shea standing with her portrait of the school’s first president. [Editor’s note: We hate to be too picky, but the portrait is actually of the founder of the school, Willard J. Houghton. Although the Houghton Wesleyan Methodist Seminary—out of which grew both the Academy and the College—bears his family name and he was instrumental in its beginnings, he never served as president or principal.]

Normally, we would not have responded to the solicitation for memories, but we were blessed to be seated with Mr. and Mrs. Shea during the first alumni weekend this summer. It was not planned, but it was a wonderful experience for both of us getting to know these two senior servants of the Lord.

Jerry and Marion (Wilson ’66) Meloon ’66

DuBois, PA

Milieu welcomes readers' comments.—Ed.