It is with great sorrow that I inform everyone that I have just learned that one of my favorite persons has passed away. That dear friend was Stephen Wallace Collett our class "most popular" who passed from his body on July 29, 2024. From starting in Mary Jane Junk's home room together in seventh grade, we became fast best friends and remained so until the end. We stayed in touch always over the years and I couldn't understand why he hadn't been answering my emails and why i couldn't reach him on his phone. Richard Ransohoff and I were talking about Steve the other day and he googled Steve and found his obituary on the Quaker United Nations Office (quno.org -- Remembering Stephen Collett) website. It's well worth a read. Steve was a wonderful man and represented the best in humanity, dedicated to family, education, peace and love. To know him was to love him. He will be deeply missed by all who knew him.
Steve was my first friend outside of my family. We lived four houses apart on East Hill Avenue when we were born in 1946 and my parents and his were best friends. Throughout elementary school we were best friends, spending many nights at each others houses. We drew apart in high school and went our own, very different ways. I was very sad to learn of his death.
I met Steve the summer before we started Walnut Hills. His sister Jane was my Big Sister.
I was so glad he was able to attend our last reunion in 2023. Found him to be so easy to talk to. He had such a joyful spirit.
Steve was a special guy and I always felt like he had a charisma and sense of creativity and mischievous joy that was infectious and great to be around. It makes sense to me that, with his adventurous spirit, he lived abroad and raised a big bunch of kids, and did such important humanitarian work.
May his memory be a blessing. I will miss Steve and his big, luminous and playful presence.
I was awed by Steve's prowess in swimming class. No one was faster at free style. I got to know him better in later years and was impressed by his sincerity, generosity and grace. A fitting WHHS class ambassador to Norway. So sorry to lose him....
David M. Schneider
It is with great sorrow that I inform everyone that I have just learned that one of my favorite persons has passed away. That dear friend was Stephen Wallace Collett our class "most popular" who passed from his body on July 29, 2024. From starting in Mary Jane Junk's home room together in seventh grade, we became fast best friends and remained so until the end. We stayed in touch always over the years and I couldn't understand why he hadn't been answering my emails and why i couldn't reach him on his phone. Richard Ransohoff and I were talking about Steve the other day and he googled Steve and found his obituary on the Quaker United Nations Office (quno.org -- Remembering Stephen Collett) website. It's well worth a read. Steve was a wonderful man and represented the best in humanity, dedicated to family, education, peace and love. To know him was to love him. He will be deeply missed by all who knew him.
Charles Judd
Steve was my first friend outside of my family. We lived four houses apart on East Hill Avenue when we were born in 1946 and my parents and his were best friends. Throughout elementary school we were best friends, spending many nights at each others houses. We drew apart in high school and went our own, very different ways. I was very sad to learn of his death.
Ann Shepard (Rueve)
I met Steve the summer before we started Walnut Hills. His sister Jane was my Big Sister.
I was so glad he was able to attend our last reunion in 2023. Found him to be so easy to talk to. He had such a joyful spirit.
Mary Benjamin
Steve was a special guy and I always felt like he had a charisma and sense of creativity and mischievous joy that was infectious and great to be around. It makes sense to me that, with his adventurous spirit, he lived abroad and raised a big bunch of kids, and did such important humanitarian work.
May his memory be a blessing. I will miss Steve and his big, luminous and playful presence.
Dale Gieringer
I was awed by Steve's prowess in swimming class. No one was faster at free style. I got to know him better in later years and was impressed by his sincerity, generosity and grace. A fitting WHHS class ambassador to Norway. So sorry to lose him....