Johnson Celi, Audrey Dalton Gorman, Mary Crane Fahey, Fredda Callahan Megan, Barbara Bye Murdock, Louise Brennan Murray. Don’t miss the exhibit
near you!
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✒Kathleen McCaffrey Ford, 491 Everett St., Westwood, MA 02090, 781-3268273, Mixief@verizon.net ¶ Sadly, I
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report the death of our classmate and friend Janet Sline Heimbuch. Janet and husband Kenneth lived in Omaha, NE. She is also survived by her daughter Lisa Fox and husband Chris, son David Heimbuch and wife Vanessa Lampe Heinbuch, grandchildren Drew, Jake, and Brooke Fox and Zoe Heimbuch, as well as her brothers Richard and Paul Sline and an aunt Eleanor Sline. ¶ In the fall, Mary Ellen Lavenberg was eagerly anticipating a most difficult spiritual adventure of a lifetime, a 500-mile hike the spiritual Way of Saint James in northwest Spain. In order to celebrate her courage in undertaking this personal challenge and acknowledge her Regis roots, many members of our class pledged support by donating to the Class of 1965 Fund. In the spring, the trustees of our 50th Reunion Class Gift Fund will host a luncheon and a slide show of Mel’s journey. ¶ Class President Katherine Moynihan McGovern and her husband Bernie have become permanent residents of Fort Myers, FL. They will continue to spend summer months in Manchester, CT. ¶ Kathleen Davis Sparrough and husband Michael were looking forward to the birth of their first grandchild in Oct. ¶ A few years ago Joanne Massey Howes engaged in some genealogy research that unveiled several 2nd cousins. Joanne relays her summer highlight: a trip to Ireland to meet them. She and her husband Dick traveled with family for a 5-day reunion attended by over 125 second cousins and their families. ¶ In the fall, Carole Groncki McCarthy and husband Ken planned to travel to Warsaw to pursue Carole’s quest to research family roots. ¶ Again this year, our class had an impressive turnout at the annual Cape Cod Luncheon, which was held in Aug. at the Wianno Club in Osterville. I was joined by Barbara Doran Sullivan, Deidra Casey, Kathleen Frawley Phillips, Anne Marie Fontaine Healey, Patricia Gaumond Kasierski, Sharon Gibbons Riordon, Carole McCarthy, Kathleen Henighan, Anne Heron Healy, Gail Hoffman Burke, Marie Shatos , Mary Ellen Lavenberg, and Katherine McGovern. ¶ Paula Danca Lane forwarded an update written by Dorothy DeVincent Pittorino. Dorothy notes that besides a great education, Regis gave us a circle of friends that we have treasured for nearly 50 years;
they still laugh and enjoy their Regis stories, discuss the latest books, share recipes, and chat about their children and grandchildren. She and Paula get together with Joanne Ansaldi Pyne, Maureen Boyle Butler, Maura Turco Dwyer, Marie Van Buren Mee, Janet White Case, and Carol Wollaston Peecha on a regular basis. Last summer Dot, Carol, and husbands took a river cruise in Eastern Europe. The group’s big annual event is a 3-day visit to Carol’s Cape home. This year to celebrate their 70th birthdays, they plan to go to DC to visit Janet. ¶ I received a “hello” to the Class of ’65 from Patricia Minichino Licklider. After 43 years, Pat is about to retire from teaching English at John Jay College. She is looking forward to spending more time with her daughter’s infant twins, Nancy and Malcolm. Pat and husband Roy love living in NYC. Roy continues to commute to Rutgers where he teaches International Relations, specializing in civil wars around the world. Every summer, they enjoy a month in Maine. ¶ In late Aug., I ventured to NY for a visit with Joanne Massey Howes and Louise Sciubba Young.
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✒Betsy Burns Griffin, 38 Pine Ln.
Framingham, MA 01701, 508-877-8826, betsygriffin@verizon.net ¶ Season’s
greetings! In Aug., 22 classmates met at the home of Eileen McCann Wickham in Harwichport and talked non-stop for 6 hours—perfect. ¶ Great to see Jane McCarthy Smith and Joan Dorgan Jordan, first-timers at the Cape potluck. Joan lives at Pine Hill in Plymouth, MA, after 31 years in Medfield. ¶ Class Regis Fund rep Beth Healey Kossuth happily reported that our class had 50% participation in fiscal 2012–13, contributing $41,166—excellent for a non-Reunion year. Eileen Gaquin Kelley retired from St. Francis Xavier Prep in Hyannis in June—40 years of teaching, all told. ¶ Jo-Anna Rapp-Holden’s daughter was married last May, and Jo-Anna requested (no, insisted) that guests Diane Valenti Liebmann and Susan Airoldi Kalloch wear their own “mother-of-the-bride/groom” dresses to the event. What a good idea! ¶ In October, Mary Lou Collins and Anne Ross Baxter co-hosted a get-together in Georgetown for the D.C. area ’66ers. ¶ Lida McMahon Harkins, still working at the Massachusetts State House, has begun a side business as a travel organizer, taking a group (including Mary Adams) to Normandy and Paris in October. ¶ Sister Ann Christine, CSJ, also a 1966 graduate of Regis but from the “Framingham Campus,” came to the Cape party and expressed the hope to interest some of her fellow grads to participate in the 50th Reunion. ¶
From Eileen Dooley: “In August, 19 classmates at the U of Chicago from the late ’60s/early ’70s met in Gaithersburg for a reunion after 40 years—it was like yesterday!” Anne Bernson wrote, “In March 2014, to celebrate turning 70, Susan Hennessey Kobayashi, Nancy Greene Barry, Mary McAuliffe and I will cruise from Buenos Aires to Santiago.” ¶ From Kathleen Sullivan: “I remember going to a 5th or 10th Reunion and seeing the blue-haired ladies celebrating their 50th—thinking I’d never get that old...” Kathleen wrote from “WAY downeast South Addison, ME,” where “the news is about being lucky. And grateful.” And we can reassure her, no blue-haired ’66ers! ¶ Irene Megan Norian reports from Middlebury, VT, that she and Roger “hosted multiple sessions of Camp Midd for various clusters of our 10 grandchildren” last summer. ¶ Donna Page Sytek was recognized by the Manchester Union Leader last June for her work “improving our way of life in New Hampshire” and in Oct. received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the NH Business and Industry Association. “Although these sound like end-of-life accolades, I’m still going strong (albeit with a rolling walker).” ¶ Esther Long Krapf was recovering from a hip replacement and still using a cane in September—better now, we hope. ¶ Nancy Corcoran, CSJ reports that she and 829 other sisters attended the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in Orlando in August. Guest speaker Bishop Sartain answered all audience questions by saying only that he would work with LCWR presidents. ¶ Eleanor Merrigan Olsen is active in the Virginia Beach area DAR and the VA Mayflower descendants. Her goal: to attend the 400th anniversary of the Plymouth landing [2020] with her 5 grandchildren. ¶ From Louisville, KY Carol Cardillo Young wrote about continuing her life’s work resettling refugees in the US in retirement by consulting for the State Department, evaluating refugee agencies all over the country. Happy 2014, friends!
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✒Carolyn Sammartino Moran, PO Box
43, Oak Bluffs, MA 02557, 617-921-5759, cmoran6@comcast.net ¶ Condolences of the class to Phyllis Mae Carberry Mueller
on the deaths of her mother in Aug. and mother-in-law in April. Mrs. Helen Carberry was 104, the oldest Franklin resident, and taught for 40 years. With the care of Pam and her husband Joseph, she lived in her home for 92 years. She had been pictured in BU’s Bostonia magazine on the occasion of her 100th birthday. Pam had a career change from teaching and worked for IBM as a software engineer until her