joined a number of Doug’s relatives in Colorado for a family reunion. Ginger is thrilled that one of her West Coast grand- daughters is a freshman at Dartmouth. Nancy Marsh writes, “At 75, I should


feel old, but I don’t!” An occupational therapist for home health, she is also preparing to become certified in Matrix Energetics. She enjoys watching her grandchildren grow up as she visits them in varied parts of the country. Pam Bartholomew Armstrong and husband Dick spent their 20th Christmas with their two sons and families at their winter home in Florida. In January they cruised the Panama Canal to South Amer - ica, completing the trip with a visit to Machu Picchu. Last summer Pam visited with classmates Joey Haufler Rosental and Nancy Rae Scully. Jane Haddad Evans and Joan Cangel -


osi Kicska had plans to meet up in Se attle, WA, where Jane lives and Joan visits her son and his family (son Greg and his wife are both physicians and have two preschoolers). They also planned a Febru ary spa vacation in Vancouver, British Columbia. Roe Schainman Halper proudly reports


that her home was on the Westport (CT) Historical Society’s holiday tour of artists’ homes. She says 500 people (in booties or no shoes) saw her art (from 1961 to the present, realism to abstract) on the walls. In Sturbridge, MA, Anna Wakefield Milano had a pre-Christmas luncheon with Doris von Conta, Anne Sawyer Manners, Carol Copeland Sullivan, and Barbara Engster Sullivan. Anna reports it was “such a lovely and fun get-together.” Anne-Marie Philippe deTourbet, e-mail -


ing from France, said, “Bonjour, ‘mom- straker’—because you are like a mom for the class of ’59, gathering news from all of us!” She is thankful for e-mail, and to Sally Gray Perry for sending birthday cards that are “always delivered on the right day.” The de Tourbets have traveled to Burgundy, the French Basque country, Chamonix, and Berlin. They play bridge and golf and enjoy their grandchildren, ages 4 to 20. Mary Heep van Riper wrote shortly after the school shootings in Newtown, CT. She and her family live five miles from Newtown, which was their home for 25 years. Mary keeps in touch with Joan Greenfield Axelrod, whose son Jim is an anchor for CBS News. He was in Newtown to cover the shootings and told Mary and her husband that this tragedy was even worse for him than being in Iraq. Evy Zoda Shippee says that six weeks


after Superstorm Sandy, the Jersey Shore, where they live, still looked “like a war zone. Power is back in a few places, but not heat. We lost our beach house, other family houses, and my store.” At age 70 Evy got her real estate license and now assists son Bob ’86 with buying property and marketing new homes. Daughter Laura ’87 manages her store and is now focused on cleaning out the old and developing the new. Says Evy, “Having a large family has been a blessing in the turmoil of this situation; each of my chil- dren is playing a key role in our return to normalcy.” Evy hoped for “a sunny, blessed 2013.”


Sue Clark Jorgensen loves living in Sara -


toga Springs and notes that “Skidmore offers wonderful opportunities for the community.” Her two granddaughters row for the Saratoga Springs High School crew; they won a national competition, resulting in an all-expenses-paid invite to Australia to compete. Sue was traveling to Italy this spring for a two-week hiking trip with several people from her home in Massachusetts. I had one of the best New Year’s Eves


ever! Our daughter and her husband went out, and we stayed home with our 4-year- old grandson. After playing soccer in our NYC apartment hallway, we watched a Batman movie, and then I gave him a bath. He’d barely dried off when he began to dance around naked to the music of Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift on televi- sion. He stayed awake until the ball dropped, and we all passed out on our king-size bed with him snuggling between the two of us. What could be better? CAROLYN BROWN STRAKER 500 E. 83RD STREET, APT. 11K NEW YORK, NY 10028-7208 MOMSTRAKER@AOL.COM


ries in Williamstown, VT, which were compiled for the newest Williamstown History Book, released in December. Becky “really enjoyed the challenge of editing and the fun of making connections among neighbors.” She is president of the Williamstown Historical Society, which boasts more than 2,000 artifacts housed in a restored old building. Leilani Holloway Eells’s youngest son, Brad, and his wife, Amy, welcomed twins Carly and Cooper last February, bringing the grandchildren total to seven. Leilani’s family meets frequently at the home of one of her children 10 minutes away in Brentwood, CA.


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Becky Martin Watson helped col- lect and edit several family histo-


Savannah, GA, resident Barby Morse


Townsend was thrilled to see Pam Cross - ley Faulkner last summer; Pam was in town visiting an aunt. Although they had just a brief chat, it was full of delightful memories. Barby still paints. She and her husband took a weeklong tour of Italy last spring. Joyce Jacobs Grand and Bernie enjoyed


a wonderful day with Debbie Wager and husband Bob, who hosted them at their country club near Washington, DC. Joyce finished her novel Margaret: from Newton to Nerja; it’s been well received by local book groups, and Joyce is looking for an agent who will help publish it. The Grands’ travels included trips to Acadia National Park in Maine, hiking with another couple in the Dolomites in Italy, and driving and hiking through Slovenia and Croatia. They returned to Palm Des - ert, CA, for January and February and flew to Portugal in March. “We’re trying to work down the bucket list!” notes Joyce. Mary Winters Cooper flew to Philadel -


phia in October for the baptism of grand- daughter Elsa. They were surprised to dis- cover the location was just minutes from the Foulkways retirement center where Hadley Sillick Robertson and husband Dick reside. The Coopers enjoyed lunch at the Robertsons’ home, followed by a walking tour of the facilities. Mary says, “It was fun to be with them again! Hadley is very involved with producing the com- munity newsletter, and is as lovely as ever.” Mary Kelchner Lindner passed along


the sad news that Marilee Karins Pelle - grini passed away in December. The class extends condolences to her family. She was a delightful spirit and will be greatly missed. While hosting a Skidmore event last spring in Tucson, AZ, Alan and I met Ellen Samek Citron ’62 and her hus- band, George. We had never met as stu- dents, although Ellen lived in my dorm, Court Street, when she was a freshman and I was a junior. GAIL BENDIX JAFFE 5431 N. PASEO ESPEJO TUCSON, AZ 85718-5229 520-575-0165 GAILBJAFFE@MAC.COM


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About 10 years ago, not knowing she was a classmate, I met Ann


Cromwell McInnis, who taught at the Cranbrook School, during my summer stays in Leelanau County, MI. We have sung together in a community chorus and church choir, walked weekly with the


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