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Caroline Bruner Dean and her
husband enjoy their summers in the Thousand Islands. They stay busy keeping up with their four children—three in Ohio and one in south Texas—and 10 grandchildren and three great-grands. The Deans play golf and are active in their church.
In Franklin, MA, Sue Storms Johnson plays golf and bridge. She and her hus- band have two children in Maryland, one in New Hampshire, and one close by. Son Bill recently conquered throat cancer. They also have eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Audrey Platt Jacobson was in Marco Island, FL, until March. Elaine Straka Silverman and hubby cel- ebrated their 60th wedding anniversary twice—first in Hartford, CT, at the UConn- Stanford women’s basketball game on De - cember 23, and then at a family brunch. Working as a team, Kay Christie Shaw and Jack have created a wildlife sanctuary in their backyard, a model-train world in the barn, and an art studio in their home in Scituate, MA. Kay sings in a church choir and shows her work in a local art gallery co-op.
Adelaide Hodgman Marx had to miss Reunion because of two broken ankles she suffered while walking her dog. She had a knee operation in July and is finally get- ting back to her three-mile walks. She plays bridge, volunteers at the hospital, and works with her church.
Dorinne Shutter Armstrong reminded
me to honor Marge Litz Burgess and Dick for their generous gift to Skidmore a few years back: the Burgess Cybercafé in Case Center. She and Helen Davis Smith en - joyed a snack there during Reunion. The café is equipped with computers and of - fers drinks, pastries, and other food. Phyllis Dye Turner enjoyed a family re - union in New Mexico in September. The clan of 14 stayed in several casitas and one home in Quail Run. They spent time hik- ing, swimming, playing tennis and golf, and visiting museums and sites like Puye and Taos. They also took in the Santa Do - mingo Dance Festival and worked in lots of family visiting. Pat Hickey Powell’s daughter, a profes- sor of piano at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, finished a doctorate from Catholic University in Washington, DC. Pat sees both her kids fairly often and travels to see them when she is up to it. Katherine Morse Pincus and her hus-
band are staying at their Ft. Pierce, FL, get-away until mid-May. Betti Detrick Williams does 15 or more
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art shows a year and has her work in five galleries. She is a member of the New Hampshire, Manchester, and Seacoast Art Associations. Betti gifted each classmate who came to Reunion with a watercolor. Married for 60 years, she and Don are very active.
Patricia McLeod Leeming has moved
into a condo in Forest, VA, to be closer to two of her children. There are many sen- iors in the community. She is trying out for the choir in her new church. Pat en - joys memories of her friends at Skidmore.
Edith Lange Smith chatted with Ruth
GoldWest in Paoli, PA, who reported the happiest Christmas she has had in a long time. Rufus has a new sunny workroom where she looks out at the snow. Her new friends are a generation younger than she is, but great at getting her around. She has applied for her driver’s license and hopes to get it soon. She finished her sixth book of science projects.
Mary Lou Woodruff Street reports a
“better than average” year. A cruise on the
Royal Princess of Athens took them to
Greece, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and Italy. They went down to Daytona Beach, FL, for golf school in February and have a new rental condo on Amelia Island. Mary Lou reports that Bud finally sold his Lincoln.
Joan Fredericks Whetstone and Stan
spent the summer in their house in Park City, UT. They visited their daughter and grandchildren in Colorado, returning via “wild” I-80 from Wyoming to Utah. On the way home, they made stops at Colo - rado’s Anasazi State Park and Bryce Can - yon and Utah’s Capitol Reef Country and Rochester Creek Rock petroglyph panel. Cruise-goer Joan Hull visited Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe and saw Komodo drag- ons in Indonesia. She also visited son Scott in Hong Kong; he works throughout Asia and lives in Thailand. On the way home from Reunion last year, the Hulls stayed with daughter Darcy in Tuscon, AZ. Leah Cunningham Wood’s whole fam - ily visited her in Boca Raton, FL, over the holidays. Daughter Lorraine arrived from North Carolina and son Tom from Penn - syl vania. Leah’s three grandsons partici- pated in the two-mile ocean-swim event in front of the Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft. Lauderdale.
Dorothy Kritcher Fajans returned from
traveling in the Arava region of Israel, where she studied orchards that grow des - ert plants with minimal water and organi- zations that build homes out of inorganic waste and mud. She is off to Brussels, Bel - gium, to visit family. Marge Fee Neff continues as caregiver to
husband Charlie, who had complications from triple-bypass surgery; he requires oxygen and a walker. Despite macular de - generation, Marge is able to see with the assistance of shots she is given; however, she has stepped down as partner in Med Advocates, the firm she and daughter Debbie founded to help clients maximize their health-care benefits. Marge’s grand- son Alan and his wife presented her with her first great-grandchild. Sadly, I have word that Ellen Turner Odegaard is no longer functioning well— Alzheimer’s has taken over. I had my family at home for Thanks - giving and Christmas. Daughter Dawn gave me the pleasure of dog-sitting her four-month-old retriever-and-border-collie mix for four days. In January I ran a luncheon bridge party for the women’s auxiliary of the Richmondtown Historical Society. l am a little upset that the city is taking my house on Cedar Grove Beach this year. I have been going there for 72 years. Now I have to clean out the house and will miss my vegetable garden.
EDITH ARMEND HOLTERMANN 319 CLARKE AVENUE
STATEN ISLAND, NY 10306-1127
HOLTERGLAS@AOL.COM
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Sallie Holland
Corish lives in
a retirement home. She has five grandchildren and one great-grand- child. She feels “truly for- tunate to still have good health.”
JUNE 3–6
This past winter in Palmyra, VA, Nancy Gallup Barbano experienced one of the biggest snow storms she has seen in many years. She spent Christmas with her kids and grandkids.
Jan Sutherland Fairservis visited with
daughter Jenny ’84 in Ireland in October, and she later traveled to Mexico to stay at an artist’s house and paint in the studio. Jan has one grandchild, Olivia, 4.
PEGGY KAHLES GUYDER
300 GOLFVIEW TERRACE, #149 BOYNTON BEACH, FL 33426
PKGBX7@NETZERO.NET
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Loisjane Perry Vannorsdall took
a trip to the Greek Isles and Rome with her husband, Don. She says it was great climbing all the way up the Acropo - lis to the Parthenon “at our age.” Ann Caspar was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. She had a lumpectomy followed by radiation; all is well now. After a series of falls, her 99-year-old aunt
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