The Chronicle-Express
Posted Oct 05, 2010 @ 02:47 PM
Keuka Park, N.Y. Charles and Dorisanne Osborn of Keuka Park celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Sept. 16.
They were married Sept. 16. 1950 in Kenmore. At the time, Charlie was a student at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School in Rochester. After his graduation in 1952, they served as missionaries at the Anadarko Christian Center in Oklahoma, working with American Indians.
In 1958, they moved to Rankin, Pa. where Charlie was a staff member at the Rankin Christian Center and a student in the Department of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh. He later served the First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh as the associate minister and also worked as a school social worker in area schools.
Dorisanne Osborn is a graduate of Keuka College and has served as President of the Class of 1951 the past 25 years.
She was a teacher at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf for 16 years and studied at the University for her masters degrees in Deaf Education and Learning Disabilities. She did her doctoral work in Curriculum and Supervision, while serving as a doctoral assistant.
She established the Special Education Program at Keuka College, and at Hobart-William Smith Colleges in 1979. She served on the Board of the Association for Retarded Citizens. Dorisanne has been active in the Keuka College Alumni Association, serving on committees and recently completing 4 years as a member of the Alumni Executive Council.
In retirement, she became interested in the work of Sasha Morgenthaler, the Swiss doll artist, publishing the international newsletter Friends of Sasha writing dozens of magazine articles and a book and presenting programs in the U.S. and abroad.
Since moving to Keuka Park in 1979, Charlie has been the Keuka Park water plant operator and was interim pastor of the Reed Corners Federated Church.
He has served as treasurer of the Friends of the Lightner Library, as a trustee of the Keuka Park Baptist Church, as a board member of the Finger Lakes Boating Museum and currently works in the Restoration Shop of the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport. Charlie has been called “The Ice Boating King of Keuka Park” and hosts local and all ice boaters whenever there is good ice. The Osborns are members of Friends of the Lightner Library, the Penn Yan Library, Yates County Art Center, Yates County Historical Society, Keuka Lake Association, Finger Lakes Boating Museum, and the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum.
They have three daughters: Anne Alsina of Saranac Lake, is a professor at Paul Smiths College; Jeanne DiMuzio of Fairfield, Conn. has served as an administrator at Fairfield University for 27 years; and Carol Buetens of Stuart, Fla. is a children’s librarian and the former owner of Spring Wheat Natural Foods in Penn Yan.
The Osborns have four grandchildren: Rachel Buetens of Indianapolis, Ind.; Sarah Buetens, Deland Fla.; Elizabeth Alsina, of Boston, Mass.; and Christopher DiMuzio Fairfield, Conn.
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