Barbara Osborne Vulkoff enjoyed seeing friends at our 55th reunion and said the experience left her with “warm” feelings. Discouraged from the hassles of travel-
ing, Elaine Merola Canavan is happy relaxing in her Danbury, Conn., home, where she reads and creates artwork with acrylics, watercolors, and colored pencils. Antonia Monetti Hobbins and her son
are planning a family reunion. She also stays busy bird-watching and serving as a “citizen-scientist” who voluntarily docu- ments bird species and numbers near her home in Madison, Conn. In addition, Toni volunteers as a reader for recordings of books for the blind and manages a thrift store that supports A Better Chance, a local nonprofit that helps underprivi- leged children. She keeps in touch with Betsy Helmer Nickerson, who lives in Southbury. After receiving a master’s degree from
Tufts University, Ellen Veeder Robertson worked as a senior planner for the Massachusetts Department of Environ- mental Protection for 14 years. She has two children and two grandchildren. After a nasty fall last spring, she was hop- ing to return to her job as a docent at the Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass. (the first garden cemetery in the U.S.), a job she loves. Working with the American Chronic Pain Association, Ellen co-runs an upbeat support group for chronic pain sufferers. A professional New England storyteller, she tells stories from life experiences to live audiences. Jane Goodman Hunter continues to
serve as a Stephen Ministry leader in Pittsford, N.Y. She and husband Randy enjoyed a trip to Steamboat Springs, Colo., to visit family before continuing on to Santa Fe, N.M., for a reunion with high school friends. Jane recently had lunch with Maggie Holahan Bilek and Barbara Rees Loucks. Elizabeth Humes Kornblum had a suc- cessful career as a soprano with New York Pro Musica, traveling throughout Russia, Western Europe, South America, the United States, and Canada to deliver 180 concert performances each year. She now serves as the executive director of the Great Lakes Performing Artist Associates, a nonprofit artist management and career development association in Ann Arbor, Mich. Liz also continues to give private voice lessons. She and husband Sylvan spend January through June at their apartment on France’s Mediterranean coast between Marseilles and Toulon. Monica Reis de Janosi participates in garden club and book club activities. Last
year, she had a wonderful rain-free trip to Ireland, where she enjoyed the friendly people. Monica keeps in touch with Cathy Yacker Winter, who lives in La Jolla, Calif. Valeria Hill Beckwith spent 40 years teaching art and tutoring elementary school students. She also bred, raised, and showed Norfolk terriers for 25 years. These days, Vallie devotes her attention to staying active in her church. Betsy Rugh Douglas is diligently at work on organizing a retrospective of her 35 years of metalwork for a planned exhi- bition called Metal and Beyond. She is a member of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. She admits to wishing for “a little elf” to help her execute all the tasks that her hands and eyes sometimes have difficulty in performing. Last summer, she and husband Bill took a wonderful trip from San Diego, Calif., to Astoria, Ore., to explore museums and galleries. En route, Bill enjoyed his newfound interest in photography. The class extends condolences to the families of Anne Glascock Fordyce, who died on December 2, 2012, Debra Block Boorstein, who died in December 2012, and Evelyn Dartnell Strickland, who passed away on March 18, 2013. I am really thrilled to be our class secre-
tary. After I retired from teaching art and Stan from his job with the State of New York, we left Albany for warm and sunny Tucson, Ariz., a place I never imagined I would live. But it has been an easy move and we are enjoying it. Arizona is a won- derfully diverse and interesting part of the country. We also travel extensively around the United States, Europe, Oceania, and Asia, always delighted to get lost and find our own way. I continue to do some painting and make my own greeting cards, serve in our homeowners association, swim half a mile every other day, watch my husband cook, entertain guests, and keep in touch with our com- bined family of five children and 10 grandchildren, who live all over the coun- try and are all taller than me (except for the 8-month-old and 3-year-old.) Although I have come through cancer and pituitary surgery, I have never felt better. I am currently taking an online class on world history. My oldest daughter recently moved to Cary, N.C., and while visiting her I had lunch with Ellie Vaughan Kanuri, with whom I also attended high school. What a great time we had catching up. Here in Tucson, Barbara Osborne Vulkoff lives just a few miles away!
BOBBIE HAYMAN SCHWARTZ 7130 E ONDA CIRCLE TUCSON, AZ 85715-3424
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a reunion planning weekend in Saratoga to discuss our upcom- ing 55th reunion, May 29 to June 1. Plans were made for great dinners, lively
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entertainment, (including jazz musicians), a bus tour of historic Saratoga led by Professor Emeritus of Art History James Kettlewell, and albums filled with memo- rabilia saved by class historian Maryann Bruno McCrea. Nursing majors are encouraged to contact nursing chair Carol Briller Furgueson with their ideas about Reunion. Nursing major Helen Lerner Halpern
took a weeklong trip to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with friends and then spent two weeks sailing and swimming with her kids and grandkids in Lake George, N.Y. She continues to work at a health center, volunteer at a local zoo, and participate in a current-events discussion group. Marilyn Ramshaw Adair joined a group of us for a lovely luncheon pre- pared by Maryann McCrea in Armonk, N.Y. Also in attendance were Ro Schainman Halper, Evie Schawbel Rosenkrantz, Sandy Bendfeldt, Ellen Rubinson Zamore, Gail Wheeler, Roz Sutton Oesterle, and yours truly. Roz Oesterle displayed and sold her art
work in the prestigious Armonk, N.Y., art show. My son and his family recently moved from Manhattan to Armonk, and he went over to say hello to Roz from me, as I was away that weekend. Another accomplished artist, Ro Halper,
is thrilled that granddaughter Elana Scaglia ’15 is one of our Class of 1959 scholars. Sandy Bendfeldt (whose stage name is “Benee”) is now the great-grandmother of a little girl named Amelia. Sandy contin- ues to sing and is also involved in acting. My husband and I had a fabulous trip to South Africa, part of a neuropsychoana- lytic conference he attended in Cape Town. Forty of us enjoyed a 10-day tour. We visited a game park for three days, where we saw and photographed many animals. We also visited Penguin Island and Robbins island, touring the prison where Nelson Mandela spent over 20 years. On the lighter side, we had great
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