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✒ Mary Lou Wenthe, 8485 Berkeley Street, Honeoye, NY 14471, 585-2084337 ✒ Susan Schissel Fogerty, 113 Central Street, Byfield, MA 01913, 978-462-8647, fogerty@comcast.net ¶
Hello from your new class reporters! We would like to thank Sukey for her 15 dedicated years as our reporter. We only hope we can be half as good. ¶ What a great reunion we had celebrating 40 years! Thirty-five classmates attended reunion, with several of us staying over at Domitilla Hall. Friday night was the class party at Morrison House. After a wonderful dinner, we were entertained by Kathy Edwards Hall and her rendition of “Heard It Through the Grapevine.” Backup singers/dancers were Sharon McDede Kolor, Paula Downes Vogel, and Janice Carragher Charles. Mary Lou Wenthe
added her version of the “Regis Girl” showcasing 4 decades in 4 minutes. Janice Charles played guitar and sang songs we all remembered well. It was a fun night. We thank you all, especially our reunion committee, Marie Sullivan, Ann Hafey O’Neil, Mary Lou Wenthe, and Kathy Edwards Hall. ¶
Saturday was the Alumni Luncheon, class meeting and catch up with old friends. At night the International dinner was served under a tent at the tower. Dancing went well into the night and the class of ’72 showed off our stuff! We even group danced with our dynamic college President Antoinette M. Hays, PhD, RN. ¶ On Sunday we departed and vowed to meet again in 5 years, hopefully with more classmates. Check out some of the posted pictures on www. facebook.com/RegisCollegeAlumni. Search for the class of 1972. ¶ Audrey “AJ” Volckmann Leonard came in from Chicago. She is Assistant Director of Clinical Trials at Abbott Pharmaceuticals and looking forward to 2 weddings: her son, Dan’s, in October 2012 and her daughter, Mary’s, in June 2013. Ann McGrath lives in Exeter, NH. She is retired from teaching and works part time at the Phillips Exeter Academy library. Her husband, Steve, owns Exeter Music. Sukey Saunders volunteers at the Providence Animal Rescue League and runs a dog-boarding business from home. Fairlie Dalton and her husband were the lucky winners of a reunion-wide drawing for Red Sox tickets. They are also excited to attend an “Antiques Road Show” taping in Boston. The week after the reunion, Callie Shea Egan, attended her son’s graduation from Bowdoin
College. She and husband Daniel live in Newton, and she teaches. Kathy Ryan Carey works in banking and lives in Newburyport. ¶ As for myself, Susan Schissel Fogerty, my husband Bill and I have 4 kids. Bill is retired from the FAA. Our oldest, John, lives in Wyoming with granddaughter Erin. Our Mary and husband Devin are in Tucson, AZ. Daughter Laura is starting a graduate degree at Northeastern, and son Will lives in LA. We belong to all airline frequent flyer programs. While dancing at the reunion, Will texted me he’d just sky dived from 15,000 feet! I made my way to the bar quickly after that!
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40th Reunion ✒ Pat D’Amore, pattidamore@gmail. com ¶ Diane (Dee) Rando Hampe teaches Art Education courses at Boston U and supervises student teachers. She converted her single-car garage into a studio the summer she retired and, when not preparing for class, she is there painting and making collages. Her work was in the BU faculty show this year and she exhibits locally through the Dedham Square Art Guild. Last year, Dee received an Honorable Mention for a pastel landscape in the Plymouth Art Guild’s annual juried exhibit. This summer she painted in Italy, fulfilling a dream she has had since her semester in Florence in 1972. ¶ Liz Johnson and husband Bob are settled where they hope to retire, a medieval-inspired timberframe in the woods south of Charlottesville, VA. She telecommutes from there to Oracle, where she has been for 24 years. She published an article on reconstruction as a research technique in Brill’s Encyclopedia of Dress and Textiles in the British Isles c. 450–1450, which grew out of her work in history. Liz and Bob recently travelled through northern France. ¶ Save the date for our upcoming 40th (yikes) reunion: May 17–19, 2013!
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your mother-in-law as an inspiration, a joy, a gift to all who met her, the embodiment of grace, courage and love, and the person you want to be when you grow up, you are one very lucky daughter-in-law. Our prayers and support to Dr. Doug and Anne on this great loss. Sheila J. Murphy recently lost her sister-in-law, Karen, in a scuba accident. Karen was a beloved member of the Murphy clan and will be very sorely missed. Love and prayers to all. ¶ Shelia H. Murphy Cerjanec has taken up residence in Indian Rocks Beach, FL this summer and has proven herself to be quite the interior and exterior designer since moving in. She is also a killer Words with Friends player on Facebook. ¶ Sheila J. Murphy continues to teach Art at Matignon HS in Cambridge. She is a world class travel companion and is most gracious in pushing me around on our annual trips somewhere with Linda Faldetta. ¶ Dr. Linda is still a psychologist with the Comm. of MA Department of Developmental Services. Linda and I had a great weekend up in Kennebunkport doing the accessible trails and eating fresh caught seafood. Linda and her husband, Tom Lepisto, continue to organize and lead cross-country skiing treks in the winter and hike the rest of the year throughout New England and the Southwest. They also have fabulous vacations to the South Pacific, Egypt, and South America and anywhere there are wonderful astronomical event sightings. ¶ Cathy Stare has retired as Asst. Superintendent of the Rockville NY Diocese Dept of Ed. She has recently finished an advanced certificate in educational leadership from St. John’s U, NY. She is leading some groups in medical ethics at the medical school at SUNY Stony Brook. She is supervising student teachers for St Joseph College on Long Island NY. For fun, she continues to hike the Adirondacks. She has bagged all 46 of the highest caps and most of the less lofty. She loves hiking Long Island and attending theater, when not working on community issues for her congregation, The Sister of Charity of Halifax. ¶ MJ Curtain May dropped a note to say Kathy Moore Donohue and her family visited Skaneateles, NY twice this summer. Kathy was on her way to participate in a pilgrimage to Camino de Santiago de Compostela. MJ had wonderful trips to California and Cape Cod to visit with family with a focus on spoiling grandchildren. She also is a terrific Words with Friends competitor. I wish I could spell as well and had as good a vocabulary; she slaughters me regularly. ¶ Anne and Doug Meade will be celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in October. Ad Multos Annos. ¶ I continue to do
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✒ Grace Murphy, 6 Colony Road, Lexington, MA 02420, Grace.Murphy@ gdc4s.com ¶ We were saddened to hear of the passing of our classmates
Therese Murphy Connors and Nancy Hoy Sherwood. Therese lived in
Milton, MA, was married to Thomas Connors, and had 2 sons. She passed away in March of kidney cancer. Nancy lived in Vestal, NY, was married to Michael Sherwood, and had 2 sons and 2 daughters. Nancy also passed away in March, from complications of diabetes. Both Therese and Nancy will be remembered at the Memorial Mass on Nov. 18, 2012.
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