WHEATON, Illinois, Dec. 2 -- Wheaton College issued the following news: Memories of Ruth Bamford '50 take the form of quick laughter, no-nonsense mentorship, and rook games on the bus to HoneyRock, Wheaton's Center for Leadership Development in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. She was not a flatterer, but an encourager. All kinds of people were beautiful to her. Bamford was born in 1928 in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from Wheaton in the "nifty class of '50" and went on to work in education an more PR