<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/fall-2003/two-generations-westmont-women.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Two Generations of Westmont Women</title><excerpt>When her husband died in a plane crash after only eight years of marriage, Luci Oberst Meissner ’55 was left with two small daughters. Major Rudy Meissner, an Air Force electronic warfare officer stationed in Alaska, survived a tour of duty in Vietnam only to disappear over the Bering Sea.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            
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