an Outstanding Service Award—at the Arthur Zankel Music Center in front of the assembled reunion classes—on behalf of Tibby Van Ness Reid, who couldn’t attend. M.J. says, “I can’t remember what I said, but everyone laughed and that helped.” She adds, “It was everything I expected and more.” M.J.’s art was dis- played in the Alumni Art Exhibition at the Tang Museum, which she deems a fantastic facility. Sadly I report the death of Mary Jane Bigelow Swick’s husband of 63 years, Bob. An RPI grad, Bob served in the Navy during WWII and enjoyed a long career as a chemical engineer. We send our condo- lences to Mary Jane and her family. GRETCHEN EISNER RACHLIN 115 RAYMOND AVENUE SOUTH ORANGE, NJ 07079-2339 973-763-6167 FAX: 973-762-3468
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dened to hear of Pat Hickey Powell’s pass- ing on Jan 10. Marge says Dori Higgons Popenoe, who is fighting cancer, is “a brave gal” and would welcome hearing from classmates. Marge and Charlie are holding their own in terms of health, but are glad to be in an adult community with help when needed. Charlie has heart and lung issues, and Marge, who has macu lar degeneration, has undergone 40 eye injections. Phyllis Dye Turner and Ned sold their home and acreage and have moved to a villa in a gated retirement community. They still hold family reunions in Santa Fe, NM, and the Ozarks. The clan now in - cludes a 9-month-old great-grandson who lives in Raleigh, NC, with his parents. Margery Buehler English enjoys living
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at Masonic Village, a retirement commu- nity in Lafayette Hill, PA, that she moved to seven years ago. She drives to her cabin in the Poconos, where 20 family mem- bers, including two great-grands, reunited in June. After selling her home, Dorothy Schaap Alder moved to Atria Senior Residence in the Long Island town of Roslyn, NY, ear - lier this year. Nancy Shoemaker Confar reports that
her life is fine and happily uneventful. She volunteers twice a week at a nearby hospital and enjoys the company of good friends and family who live nearby.
Marjorie Fee Neff was sad-
Mary Wolsey Rattray’s husband, Mau -
rice, passed away last November. We send our condolences to Mary and her family. EDITH ARMEND HOLTERMANN 319 CLARKE AVENUE STATEN ISLAND, NY 10306-1127
HOLTERGLAS@AOL.COM
time job.” She’s busy keeping up with friends, spending time at her lake house (90 minutes away), and tending to a fam - ily partnership that focuses on helping young entrepreneurs. Grandson Tom has created a new video game called “Color Sheep,” which is fun and nonviolent. Jane is watching his business grow with fascination and awe because, she says, “we really have no idea what he’s doing!” Carol Eaton McMillan enjoyed travel-
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ing in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and taking a riverboat tour of the Danube with fresh- man roommate Sibyl Avrett Carlson last summer. Joan Foreman Spangler keeps busy with church, work, reading, and, some- times, “being lazy.” PEGGY KAHLES GUYDER 300 SW GOLFVIEW TERRACE, #149 BOYNTON BEACH, FL 33426-4653
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Lois Fugarini Yanagi returned to her old job as organist and music director at St. Pius X Church in Montville, NJ, on a temporary basis while a new or - ganist is sought. Barbara Tyson Hartman had a busy spring; she sang with the Thursday Music Chorus, a Schenectady, NY, women’s group, which celebrated its 100th anni - versary in April. When Barbara became the TMC historian, she discovered that her mother, Mildred Lund Tyson, was the guest composer at the group’s 50th anni - versary concert and also had her music featured at Skidmore concerts. Barbara was delighted to see Pat O’Meara Jevons at a TMC concert. Barbara’s daughter Pam, in Virginia Beach, VA, has a son Logan, who went on a mission trip to Haiti during his junior year in college, and a daughter Kirsten, 17, who spent the summer in Greece. (Barbara’s college trips were from Unadilla to Saratoga via Sche - nectady on a Greyhound bus!) Son Brian lives in Sacramento, CA, and is the father of twins Chris and Elizabeth, who are freshmen at Cal Lutheran and UCLA, respectively. Anne Schaaff Wadhams loves to open Scope and read about classmates, but is
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Jane Nickum Eastman says retire- ment-community living is “a full-
sad that so many have left us. She and Charlie are “up and running” despite a few health problems; they have been together 63 years. Georgene Simon Dreishpoon notes
that getting older has not slowed her down. She is still enjoying the thrill of having published Pursuit of Paradise: Memoir of a Bahama Mama, whose royal- ties afford her and husband Irving, 88, the occasional lunch and drink. Irving was a World War II flyer who completed 28 missions over Germany at age 19. Georgene is still involved with the pub- lishing industry as it evolves electroni - cally. Son Doug ’76 is the chief curator at the Albright Museum in Buffalo, NY; daughter Lisa is a landscape architect with the New York Department of Transpor - tation, working on the 9/11 project; and daughter Nancy designs watches, charms, and buttons for her
Watchus.com. Geor - gene hopes her classmates will “keep on singing and swinging.” Pat Bryant Koedding is retiring after seven years of running her community gift shop and is finally getting a comput- er! Grandson Jon, a US Army Ranger, is in Afghanistan completing a nine-month tour. Granddaughter Lauren is a forensic pathologist with the medical examiner’s office in Newark, NJ. “It’s ghoulish work, but she loves it,” says Pat. Granddaughter Jocelyn is a project manager with TEL HI 360, a start-up in Lancaster, PA, that sells fair-trade items from Southeast Asia and also makes furniture from old barn siding and other reclaimed wood. Isabelle Bohman went on a river cruise
in France, from Paris to Rouen, and then took a bus trip to the Normandy beach- heads and American Cemetery. She enjoys the river trips because one does not have to pack and unpack frequently. Charlotte Heavens Bruins moved to
PGA Village in Port St. Lucie, FL, 12 years ago and has never once missed the cold and snow! In April she met Carl DeSantis and wife Barbara Ettinger DeSantis ’75 for lunch and good conversation in Vero Beach. Charlotte’s three children live in Virginia, Massachusetts, and California. She has two granddaughters: one at the University of Miami in Coral Springs, FL, and the other, age 4, in nursery school in Mill Valley, CA. It is my sad duty to report two more deaths in our class: Margaret Smith Har - rington, one of our “Big Three,” died in 2012, and the College was only recently informed that Leroy Saulpaugh passed away in 1993. We send our deepest sym- pathy to their families and friends.
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