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CLASS|notes ’50s Mary Hibbard Brennan ’56, Nsg., retired her nursing license and pin in 2009 after 53 years. She says her Nazareth education and Sr. Margaret Mary Townsend prepared her for a long and rewarding career. Janet Langevin Schwan ’56, Art, is a freelance writer and had essays published in the May and September issues of the Genesee Valley and Rochester area Parent magazine. Stephanie Sullivan Brown ’59, Spc., was the recipient of The Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina’s highest award to one of its citizens. Mary Doran Deane ’59, Nsg., is playing alto sax and tenor sax in the New Horizons Band through the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music.
Patricia Gay Mueller ’59, Nsg., is enjoying retirement and volunteers at Hope House, Women’s Club of Rochester, and Parish Council.
’60s Mary Pfeffer ’63, Eng., recently launched a new career at a parish church after careers in the museum field and libraries. Sr. Kathleen Bayer ’64, Edu., celebrated her 60th Jubilee as a Sister of Mercy in 2010. Jo Anne Zanio Gaudioso ’64, French, is traveling and working part-time as a site manager in an after-school enrichment program in the Williamsville schools. She is also serving as a docent at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in her retirement.
Carol Remacle Leary ’65, Music, travels extensively with her husband as he speaks on his 60 books on “Preparing for the Great Tribulation” and “Era of Peace.” Marcia Grucza Beck ’66, Hist., retired from her position at Davidson College in July 2006. Donna Arganbright Black ’66, Art, produced and exhibited pottery in the Bay Area. Dolores Hintz Tracy ’66, Eng., is still enjoying her classes in the middle school special education department in the Starpoint Central School District in Lockport. Katherine T. Smith ’67, Hist., was named Henrietta Woman of the Year in 2009 and is the president for the League of Women Voters in the Rochester Metro Area.
Last June, several out-of-state visitors prompted this luncheon in Lima, N.Y. Front row, L to R: Midge Sheehan Merritt ’58, Rosemary Dessel Taub ’58, Mary Ann Finnegan Roesch ’58, Jeanne Bryant Leonardi ’58, Arline Teschner Baughman ’58. Back row, L to R: Joan Korn Starkweather ’58, Anne Reed Suter ’58, Dorothy Krenzer Wing ’58, Judy Lang Atwood ’58.
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Kathleen Scheg ’69, Soc., served 25 years as a public interest lawyer and is now a pastoral counselor helping individuals, couples, and groups in Maryland and Virginia to heal and create more loving and fulfilling lives. Her specialty is facilitating the growth and transformation of the whole person by combining pastoral counseling and Core Energetics Evolutionary Process, a spiritually based body-psychotherapy.
’70s Catherine Aiken Labombard ’70, Chem., volunteers for the L. Geo Association on water quality committee and DEC. She is involved in New York state horseracing with her husband. Kathleen Madigan ’70, Soc., is a newly retired minister and has been playing the flute with the New Horizons Concert Band, taking art classes at the Memorial Art Gallery, and continuing the work of the Presbytery of Genesee Valley. Carol Pender Sinwell ’70, Art, is teaching in the master’s of education program at the University of Virginia and contributing to academic publications authored by Dr. E. Evans. Judith Donohue Ebbinghaus ’73, Soc., is the director for the nonprofit organization YRC, Inc.—Your Rally Committee, a camp for teens who suffer from incontinence diseases.
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