Barbara in person later this year. Former class secretary Barbara Holden Moulton and husband Roger moved into assisted living in Winchester, Mass. “People here are very welcoming and there are a lot of options for things to do,” she notes. They’re just 10 minutes from their home in Arlington, which they have been fixing up to sell. The move was an adjustment that Barbara says they could not have made easily without the help of their children, Pam and Dudley. Ann Trainer Williams and John love their assisted-living facility just a mile from their former home. They have a spa- cious apartment that accommodates fre- quent visits from family. Ann runs the couples bridge group there. She also serves on the vestry of an Episcopal church and is in her 21st year volunteer- ing with Hospice. Jane Mackay Howe loves hearing news from grandson Mackay Howe ’18, who is enjoying life and many friends at Skidmore. His twin sister is also having a good experience at St. Lawrence University.
Phyllis Miller Green celebrated her “sweet sixteenth” year after selling her companies to the marketing and advertis- ing company WPP Worldwide. She con- tinues to chair the Florida division. Our bucket-list idol, Norma “Billie” Fisher, took a river cruise in Germany to see the Christmas markets in Nurenberg, Bamberg, and other towns. Unfortunately she arrived a week before they opened and only saw the stalls being put up. “Oh, well, I had some good bratwurst and sauerkraut!” she quips. Natalie Jones Neri and husband Gene had Gene’s recently widowed sister-in-law living with them temporarily last year. They enjoyed a wonderful week out west visiting granddaughter Kate Neri Savage ’11, whom we all met at Reunion. Venice, Fla., resident Anne Houston Conover invited me to visit and join her at one of the two Sarasota luncheons hosted by Skidmore each winter. Pat Seymour Forstman, Judy Axford McCoy, and Anne have made a tradition of attending these gatherings to catch up with one another.
Josephine “Jodo” Kleinmaier Tornes and husband Jim took a train across the country last summer and loved it. Jodo sings with a women’s choir, though “we seem to spend more time lunching than singing,” she admits. Unfortunately, we have lost a number of classmates: Myrna Friedman Silver on June 14, Jeanette Gagne Johnson on July
10, Nancy Woodberry Sherman on August 29, and Betsy Pratt Guenther on November 13. The class extends heartfelt condolences to the families of these remarkable women.
I had an unexpected visit from my old- est grandson, Pierce, who lives in London and will enter medical school in the UK next year. As many of you are relocating to more comfortable quarters, be sure to update your address and other contact information: call the Alumni Office at 800-584-0115 or email
alumni.affairs@
skidmore.edu. MARYANNE “MIBS” WADE MENK 14 DEXTER DRIVE S. BASKING RIDGE, NJ 07920-1552
MMENK@VERIZON.NET
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Californian Martha Parks Kimmich has been selling her
Walnut Creek and Berkeley residences and moving to a retirement community to accommodate issues with neuropathy in her feet and maintaining her balance. She is nonetheless still playing golf— “just not as well.”
Myran “Mickey” Sawyer is still working two days a week as an administrator in a health facility. She plans to retire “some- day.”
Emily Whitlock Moore visited the
World War II Memorial and Museum in St. Louis, Mo., last August. It brought back memories of a time that her kids and grandkids consider “ancient history.” She does not feel that old and wonders how we went from newsreels to iPads. Joanne Ewig McCallum and husband Bruce celebrated their 50th anniversary last summer by taking the entire family to Hawaii. All three generations “had a great time.”
Dorothy O’Keefe Dube is very content in
her retirement community. She is involved in many activities and enjoys good neigh- bors “of a certain age” who share stories of “remember when.” She says her glass is half full and “doesn’t leak.” Sandy Strouse Gaylord and husband
Tom love living in Vail, Colo. Tom retired from Vail Nature Center but still hikes with a group twice a week. In July they took a group of friends on a three-day hut trip in the Colorado wilderness. In November they attended a grandson’s wedding in Tulsa, Okla., with the entire family. Sandy loved seeing everyone at our 60th reunion. Sylvia Sutton is up to her ears in causes, such as wildlife and environmental con- servation and advocacy for domestic ani- mals.
Barbara Churchill Thompson has moved to a new address in Greenwich, Conn. She enjoyed the Christmas holiday with her daughter’s family in Madison. Mary-Alice Yells Bessette and husband Andre love to travel by car. They took a month this past fall to see relatives and went through 22 states, logging in 7,773 miles. They made stops in Knoxville, Tenn., Rochester, N.Y., and Port Huron, Mich., before heading home to Florida. They repeated this itinerary at Christmas time. Adelaide Warner Minott and husband Addison celebrated their 61st anniversary in September with a lovely trip up the coast of Maine. Their fourth great-grand- son was born in April and their daughter Meagan was married in June. They wel- comed a 10th grandchild in December. The couple volunteered at the Vermont Expo in June. They are grateful for their health and plan to make it to our 65th reunion.
Joan Stevenson Brennan and husband
Tom went to Washington, D.C., to hear son Clay, a superior court judge in Mendocino County, Calif., argue a case before the US Supreme Court. They were thrilled when Clay’s ruling was upheld. The Brennans took river cruises on the Rhine and Danube last year. Tom has increased his great-grandchild count to nine. They both enjoy the opera, sym- phony, and theater. Betty Carpenter Evans attended her granddaughter’s wedding in Olympia, Wash., in August. Betty still lives in her four-bedroom house, and the thought of moving overwhelms her. She plays “old folks” tennis, takes exercise classes, sings in the church choir, and plays canasta. She enjoyed attending our 60th reunion. Buena Vista, Va., resident Delsa Walsh
Wilson was sorry to miss our 60th. Her son Tim lives with her, and she is writing poetry and painting. My daughter Leslie and I had a nice visit with Delsa while traveling to see my grandson, who attend- ed college in Virginia. Evelyn Smith is now living at Seabury Life Care Community in Bloomfield, Conn., and has discovered a few similari- ties to college life—except that “there are a lot of old people here!” She is adjusting well and glad she made the move to be with other seniors.
Some of you may remember Gerald Kranz, husband of the late Marguerite Roberts Kranz. Sadly, Gerald passed away on November 17. We offer our condo- lences to his family.
The class also expresses its deepest sym- pathy to the families of Dorothea
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