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the bulletin Stoneleigh-Burnham School Spring 2010

Defining Success

STONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL The Bulletin • Spring 2010 Head of School Sally L. Mixsell Editor Holly N. Mott Contributors Carolyn Austin ’68B Liz Feeley Dr. Regina E. Mooney Holly N. Mott Bethany O’Connell OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNAE RELATIONS Dr. Regina E. Mooney Director of Development & Alumnae Relations Liz Feeley Assistant Director of Development for Alumnae Relations

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What a great school Bulletin!

You really put this together in magnificent fashion, starting off with a well deserved homage to Miriam Emerson Peters, going on to “Who We Are”... and so on.

You know it is a terrific job if it can interest a 92-year-old father of Chris Hart ’71.

Good work!

- Don Hart P’71

The Mission Stoneleigh-Burnham School is an academic community that inspires girls to pursue meaningful lives based on honor, respect, and intellectual curiosity. Each student is challenged to discover her best self and graduate with the confidence to think independently and act ethically, secure in the knowledge that her voice will be heard.

The Board of Trustees Kathy Seyffer Opdycke ’70, Chair

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Mapping Success Alumnae talk about their paths to success

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Kelley Stiles LeBlanc ’95 by Liz Feeley Teach Your Children Well

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A Tribute to Mrs. Peters A Beacon Through the Decades by Carolyn Austin ’68B

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Letters from Abroad by Bethany O’Connell A discovery of letters from Mrs. Peters’ youth

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Distinguished Alumna Award Recipient Karen Van Lengen ’69

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Unveiling the Equestrian Wall of Fame

Sally Leach Mixsell ’69, Ex-officio

Departments

Nancy L. Diver ’53B, Emeritus

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Small school, big world

by Sally L. Mixsell, Head of School

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Around the Oval: News around campus

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Alumnae Pages 17 Class Notes 20 Alumnae Getting Together 23 Alumnae Snapshots 27 Alumnae Family Portraits 29 In Memoriam 30 Get Connected, Stay Engaged, Be Involved 31 Message from the Alumnae Board 32 On the Road with Alumnae

Allison Porter ’89, Vice Chair Rich Hubbard P’00,’02,’05, Secretary Jacque Waxenberg ’77, Treasurer Shayna Appel ’78, P’04 Dr. John Barrengos Annette A. Cazenave ’74 Nancy Corsiglia ’74 Anne Quantrell Dennen ’70 Kimberly Eldridge ’92 Charles Gledhill P’13 Laura B. Richards ’60S Helene A. Robbins Taffy Bassett-Fox ’88, Ex-officio

Michael F. Donohue Jr. P’78, Emeritus Elinor Johnstone Ferdon ’54B, P’76,’78,’82, Emeritus Benn W. Jesser P’63, GP’81,’94,’06, Emeritus John McNear P’79, Emeritus

Amy Lawrence Fitzgerald ’84 by Bethany O’Connell A New Direction Leads Back Home Lauralyn Fredrickson ’79 by Regina Mooney A Journey of Circumstances

Small school, big world

by Sally L. Mixsell, Head of School

Those of you who graduated within the past 30 years or so are familiar with housemeeting, our weekly gathering for announcements, presentations and guest speakers. It is where many of you have stood for the first time in front of a group and spoken publicly, where many of you first realized you had a voice.

In a recent housemeeting we had a group of educational consultants visiting for the morning, and they got to see first hand why so many of us hold this school dear.

This particular housemeeting was a snapshot in time, representative of our school’s values. We started with speeches from the four girls running for next year’s vice president of Student Council (StuCo) – one from Boston, a rising four-year girl; one from Taipei, who began here as a sophomore; another from Miami, by way of Colombia, who started just last fall; and the last from Shenzhen, China, also in her first year here. We heard each voice in a different accent speak about her love for the school and why she wanted to give back through this position on StuCo. Each one was a remarkably moving speech.

Sam and Katherine came up from the barn to tell us about A group of seniors on the yearbook staff present the 2010 yearbook their trip to the Garden State Horse Show and announced dedication to Spanish teacher Jess Durfey at housemeeting. the winners of the previous weekend’s SBS Horse Show.

Cyndee Meese presented a Shining Star to Connie, a junior, for her concerted effort to fully embrace the excellent academic offerings at Stoneleigh-Burnham. Miriam PrzybylaBaum honored Maah, a 7th grade boarder who volunteered to help clean the dorm one recent weekend and ended up doing the dirtiest job around – without complaining. Ellen Carter, our school counselor, spoke about the new bullying law in Massachusetts and our efforts to respond to it. She will be holding lunch conversations each Thursday to hear from any member of the community about his or her thoughts on this topic as we work to hone our own policy.

The more usual announcements took place – athletic results and requests to attend the next games; weekend activities which included Miriam’s bike ride along the river route in Turners; and our Athlete of the Week, the JV softball pitcher. Bethany O’Connell from the Development Office thanked the students who had participated in recent phonathons and asked for more volunteers for that weekend. Jess Phillips Durfey showed an iMovie of last spring’s first annual Phillips-Fagan Tennis Tournament. The montage of photos was meant to inspire the students each to find a faculty or staff partner and enter the tournament as a new team this year.

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I had just come back from our very successful alumnae event in New York and told the girls where I’d been. They were fascinated by the story of Red and Sarita, former roommates from the Burnham classes of 1957 and 1958, who had lost touch but happily rediscovered each other at the reception. You can find more details of this event and its hosts, twin sisters Helen Colcord ’55B and Hannah Nunn ’55S, on page 32.

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The Spanish II class regaled us with a Cinco de Mayo song and explanation of the Mexican holiday. And last but not least the Multicultural Club brought all adult females a special message; on the count of three the students created hearts with their arms over their heads, smiled and shouted, “Happy Mother’s Day.” One of our visitors approached me as we were walking out of the Capen Room to say, “That was amazing. I love this place!”

We didn’t do anything unusual to make this impression on her; it was just one week’s messages. But it represented so well why I too love this school and the people in it. It’s no wonder that our students grow into the kinds of interesting women highlighted in this issue of The Bulletin. We hope you enjoy it! v

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Senior Represents US and SBS in World Championship Senior Bryna Cofrin-Shaw represented Stoneleigh-Burnham School as a member of the American team at The Summit of Youth Leaders, this year’s World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship in Lithuania. Bryna qualified for the twelve-member team in November at Deerfield Academy’s 28th Annual International Independent Schools Public Speaking Competition where she placed second overall against 168 competitors.

In April, the American team traveled to Vilnius, Lithuania where they competed for five days against thirteen other countries including Germany, Hong Kong, Pakistan and South Africa.

Although Bryna did not place among the overall winners, she returned feeling proud of her performance and thrilled to have had the opportunity to experience such an event.

This is not the first such honor for Stoneleigh-Burnham School; Bryna joins the ranks of nine other Stoneleigh-Burnham students who have qualified and competed at the World Championships. Christine Claffey’88, Julie Bastarache’91, Dionis Gauvin’92, Stephanie McCusker’94, Kelley Stiles’95, Alexandra Madden’01, Emma Nolan-Thomas’04, Obehi Utubor’05 and Emily Palmer’06 all competed on the American team in South Africa, England and Greece, keeping our competitive legacy strong.

Miriam Emerson Peters Speaker Series in Global Awareness Sally and Donald Goodrich, A Story from 9/11 Sally and Donald Goodrich, founders of The Peter M. Goodrich Memorial Foundation and subjects of the documentary Axis of Good: A Story from 9/11, visited Stoneleigh-Burnham in January as part of the Miriam Emerson Peters Speaker Series in Global Awareness. Accompanied by two students from Afghanistan, the Goodriches spent the day visiting classes and speaking to the whole school community at housemeeting.

Excerpts from the documentary were shown at a public lecture in the evening.

Incredible Edibles

Donald and Sally Goodrich (second and third from left) with students from Williams College, Dana Hall School and Stoneleigh-Burnham.

You could get a true taste of Stoneleigh-Burnham this spring with edible representations of the school seal and buildings, at Spring Family Weekend in April. Mike Phelps, Director of Dining Services, prepared his bread horses and the SBS seal, while the SBS Auction featured two cake replicas of Mary A. Burnham and StoneleighBurnham Schools, prepared by 2nd Street Baking Co. of Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

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The Goodriches lost their son Peter on September 11, 2001 when the hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 he was aboard hit the World Trade Center. Committed to transforming their loss into hope for others, Sally and Donald created a foundation in their son’s name, which works primarily in the Pashtun provinces of Afghanistan to support education and address the fundamental needs of fragile populations. Sally directs the work of the Foundation, which has included the building of a school for over 500 girls in Logar Province that opened in 2006.

Donald Goodrich founded Families of September 11 to raise awareness of the effects of terrorism and public trauma. He has testified before Congress regarding the passage of intelligence reform and the Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.

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Mapping Success We spoke with three alumnae about their paths to success and happiness. Each was valedictorian of her class and each has achieved success in the real world on her own terms. All three agree that the best things in life sometimes happen without a plan, and that the key is knowing what you value most and putting it first.

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Amy Lawrence Fitzgerald ’84 with students from Donohue Elementary and Middle School where she serves as principal.

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Want more? Visit www.sbschool.org/ oralhistories for Amy’s full oral history recording.

Amy Lawrence Fitzgerald ’84 A New Direction Leads Back Home

by Bethany O’Connell An astute educator will counsel a student to develop a set of goals and stay focused on achieving them; sound advice that few would argue against. Yet Amy Lawrence Fitzgerald, an educator herself, is quick to tell you that sometimes success is achieved by laying aside the master plan, and Amy’s success is a case in point. It was an article in a local Holyoke newspaper describing available scholarships that prompted Amy’s mother to visit headmaster C. Robert Wray to learn more about Stoneleigh-Burnham School. Amy had already been accepted to a number of private schools in the area, but it was clear to mother and daughter that Stoneleigh-Burnham was the place for Amy.

Amy recalls her trip home in 1982 from the first Debate and Public Speaking tournament at Roxbury Latin School as a perfect example of the navigational adventures SBS provided her. The team was really excited about having just received three wins and three losses and may have been a little distracted. After driving for what seemed like hours, Dr. Bassett pulled over to ask directions, only to find a sign that said, “Welcome to Gloucester.” They had been driving home in the completely opposite direction. “Needless to say, it was a very long ride home that night,” laughs Amy, “We weren’t even the best debate team, but we were the first. And look where they are now.”

When asked how attending SBS influenced her life after graduation, Amy replies emphatically, “If I hadn’t gone to Stoneleigh-Burnham, my life would have been completely different. I think a lot of the things I’ve done, I wouldn’t have done if I hadn’t been there. Stoneleigh-Burnham helped me open my eyes to life beyond Holyoke.” When she first arrived as a boarding student at SBS in 1981, Amy could not have predicted that one day she would be writing the valedictory speech for her graduating class under the guidance of teacher and mentor Dan Verdery.

After graduating from Stoneleigh-Burnham at the top of her class, Amy enrolled at Smith College as a pre-med student.

She soon realized that what she really wanted was to be an educator. By the time she graduated from Smith College, she was fully certified to teach and had an offer for a teaching position. Amy received a master’s degree in education in 1997 and along the way has taught every subject except math. She moved to Dean Technical High School in Holyoke in 2004 and became Academic Coordinator the following year. She then served as assistant principal at Donahue Elementary and Middle School before taking over as interim principal.

“I absolutely loved being an assistant principal, and I love being a principal, but they are very different jobs,” she says.

“It’s just great, I love it. I mean, who has a job where you can go to work and get out of your car in the morning and little kids come running towards you saying, ‘Good morning, Mrs. Principal!’ because they can’t pronounce Fitzgerald?”

“When I think back now, I guess as a little girl I used to play school all the time and I loved the chalkboard. But I always thought I wanted to become a doctor. And I never thought I would be an English teacher. Sometimes even now I find myself going into a classroom and just taking over because I miss it.” When it comes to giving advice to young people about their future, Amy’s life influences her counsel more than anything she could have learned in school. “Don’t worry about knowing what you are going to do or what you are supposed to do,” she advises, “because life just happens. Life just takes different turns. It wasn’t part of my plan, but I absolutely love what I do.” v

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Amy is interim principal at Maurice A. Donahue Elementary and Middle School in Holyoke, Massachusetts, yet being an educator was not always her dream. She had long thought she would pursue the goal of becoming a physician. However, Amy credits her favorite teachers for inspiring her love of history and English. Teachers John Beattie, Manjula Salomon, Tom Iampietro, Dan Verdery and Anna Romer all encouraged her to look at the world in new ways. She loved the unique global perspectives on American history she received through lectures by Ms. Salomon (from India) and Mr. Iampietro (from Great Britain and Canada). She also credits Paul Bassett and her travels with the debate team with expanding her worldview.

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Lauralyn Fredrickson ’79 A Journey of Circumstances

by Regina E. Mooney

“Life is a neverending parade of having to go with the flow and deal with what comes at you.”

Laurie with her husband Sheldon Itzkowitz and children Elizabeth and David.

For Laurie Fredrickson M.D., life is a dance between the plans we make and the circumstances that plan us. Arriving at Stoneleigh-Burnham for her junior year at age fifteen, Laurie was excited to pursue riding even after incurring a serious injury. Riding anchored her and kept her out of trouble. Her academics pulled her and she dedicated herself to intense study, Octet and the Deerfield musicals.

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As a young woman, what Laurie appreciated most was the small, supportive environment StoneleighBurnham afforded, which she claimed, “stabilized our teenage minds.” Laurie’s father, a surgeon, was likely the one to put medicine as a future vocation into her thoughts at an early age. But medicine was not a foregone conclusion and Laurie entered college open to where her studies would take her.

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Laurie’s college years saw their share of difficulty.

Laurie had to contend with her parents’ divorce and her mother’s death after a battle with cancer. Laurie quickly learned that any plan was at the mercy of life’s obstacles. During her mother’s illness she had grown suspicious of the medical establishment and held off medical school to take a job as a chemist.

Wanting more, medical school became a next step.

For this article Laurie explained, “Life is a neverending parade of having to go with the flow and deal with what comes at you.” Pushing her thought a bit Laurie opined, “It seems as though, while many of the paths we follow are planned and we just march

along, we also hit some roadblocks. The big changes in life can happen in an instant. By having to deal with adverse circumstances and go on, we learn that we can still follow our dreams even when they don’t work out exactly as planned.”

In her dual life as psychiatrist/psychoanalyst and wife/mother, Laurie is a prime example of this exact observation. She is in private practice in Manhattan while a staff psychiatrist part-time at a local hospital, doing out-patient care for some of New York’s most severely mentally ill. Her work sometimes takes Laurie to some unlikely places, one time to a nearby bridge under which her patient had taken up residence. She shrugs off any danger associated with her work with a declaration that her patients, being severely mentally ill, are bound to exhibit abnormal behaviors. Getting to them quickly is important for their safety and that of their caregivers.

How does Laurie manage each day with such a hectic life? Not pulling any punches, she answered, “Well it helps to be a masochist!” Tempering her remark

only a little, she reflected on how she has had to make compromises and always put her kids as her number one priority. Laurie and her husband Sheldon Itzkowitz, a psychologist/psychoanalyst, have two children; Elizabeth, 13, and David, 10. She acknowledges her work is intense and exciting, but as the needs of her children have become more intense she admits she has not been able to excel in her career at the level she might otherwise choose, nor does she attend all the professional events she once did.

allowed me to let my intelligence show. And I didn’t have to look attractive to anyone in class--I could roll out of bed and just concentrate on learning.” Bringing our interview to an end, I asked Laurie for some stories about her days at SBS. She responded with schoolgirl impishness saying, “I think I’ll have to plead the fifth… my interesting stories would include activities that would incriminate me or my associates. I will say that some of the best times of my life occurred at or as a result of SBS.”

“But,” she proudly claims, “I have been to every parent-teacher conference, school performance, and sick call, and have taken the kids to school for the last ten years or so.” As an aside she added, “I could use an old fashioned 1950’s ‘wife’ but I guess that’s not in the plan. You can’t do everything at all times, so you need to choose the things in life that you really value and put them first.”

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Reflecting back for a moment on her high school years, Laurie noted that she felt “held” by StoneleighBurnham. “I really loved having an all-girls haven at that point in my life. Being a smart girl was not so attractive to boys my age, so being in girls-only classes

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Today’s Success Stories, Tomorrow’s World Leaders It is a fact that the world leaders of tomorrow are walking through the hallways of Stoneleigh-Burnham today. This year’s senior class is no exception. With an impressive list of college acceptances and a range of talents that encompass the arts, public speaking, riding, athletics and the culinary arts, it is a comfort knowing that the class of 2010 will one day be the decision makers for the world in which we all live.

This year’s valedictorian is a sixyear senior who has garnered more awards and accolades than her humble character cares to acknowledge. Bryna Cofrin-Shaw leaves SBS this spring with her sights on Brown University where she will begin her undergraduate study this fall. She has led quietly by example as StuCo co-president, and has championed many causes along her middle and high school journey.

From left: Bryna Cofrin-Shaw, Valedictorian; Elisheba Odei, Sweater Girl; Kimberly Balk, Senior Class President.

program. Elisheba Odei is a four-year senior who set the bar high for herself and those around her by committing herself to academic excellence every step of the way. Sheba will begin the next phase of her academic career at Williams encourage us all College this fall.

Our teachers to grow stronger as people by challenging us to do things we never thought we could.

- Kim Balk ’10

The Class of 2010 Sweater Girl is multi-lingual and will return to graduate with her class after a year abroad in China, where she completed her final year of high school in an immersion

Senior Class President Kimberly Balk stepped outside her comfort zone when she ran for class president. She didn’t want to leave SBS without having given voice to the things she values most, and she felt a sense of obligation to her classmates and the greater community—she wanted to do her part. Although modest and quiet by nature, Kim has risen to the expectations of her role, and it is evident by the trust granted her by her classmates. Kim will pursue her passion for Asian studies at Kalamazoo College this fall.

Kelley Stiles LeBlanc ’95 Teach Your Children Well

by Liz Feeley

In 1970 Graham Nash penned the lyrics to the well-known song “Teach Your Children Well.” Almost twenty years later Kelley Stiles Le Blanc ’95 had the opportunity to begin her journey to teach her own children well with an outstanding academic experience at Stoneleigh-Burnham School. With diligence and a deep Christian faith, forged and nurtured by her parents Kathy and Bob Stiles, Kelley flourished as a student and ultimately graduated as the valedictorian of her class.

Kelley reflects on her years as a high school student and says, “I am incredibly thankful to my parents and grandparents for making it all possible. I knew the sacrifices they were making to create the opportunity, so I took my studies seriously, like it was my job.”

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In high school Kelley was an accomplished member of the debate team and was considering a career in law. She attended Louisiana State University where she graduated summa cum laude. As many college students do, Kelley changed her major, in her case from pre-law to English literature. She was focused on getting an education and preparing for a career; getting married and starting a family were the furthest things from her mind.

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After graduating from LSU, Kelley followed a longstanding passion for riding and moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to work within the equestrian field. She worked at a stable in the early morning and throughout the long day, then waited tables at a local resort just to pay for boarding her horse. The opportunity arose to join an actor’s conservatory in New York City, but Kelley did not want to give up her horse.

Instead, she moved to California where she got a position

as a trainer so she could continue to follow her aspirations in the horse industry.

Kelley became a member of Grace Community Church and it was there that she met her future husband, Justin Le Blanc. Kelley and Justin shared the same family, faith and educational values and they soon fell in love and decided to marry. When their first son was very young they began to look at educational options. Passing on the importance of a sound academic, social and moral education to their sons, Kelley and Justin made the decision to homeschool their children, joining a growing national phenomenon.

While supportive of public schools, Kelley believes that homeschooling her sons Luther and Henry is best for her family.

As would be expected from a dedicated student, Kelley did her homework on homeschooling laws in the state of California. Her home is technically considered a “private school” by California law, and she follows state standards by maintaining the curriculum, attendance and grade records for Luther and Henry. She shares that there is a “plethora of support and curriculum materials to choose from,” when

“I get to hug my kids all day. I consider that a privilege and am thankful that we can do this…

It is our responsibility to teach our children well.”

Opposite page: Kelley with her youngest son Jesse. This Page: Kelley and sons Luther, 6, and Henry, 5.

investigating the homeschool option. Most importantly for Kelley, she was looking to establish a Christian curriculum, a biblical worldview and strong literature and history foundations.

problems. I get to hug my kids all day. I consider that a privilege and am thankful that we can do this. We want to help them build a biblical worldview. It is our responsibility to teach our children well.”

Similar to the sacrifices Kelley’s parents and grandparents made in order to provide her the opportunity to attend Stoneleigh-Burnham, Kelley confides, “It’s a sacrifice for us. My husband works very hard to make this affordable and happen for us.” She notes that her boys have many activities for social development. Kelley’s sons are very active in extracurricular activities such as community soccer, karate, church functions and daily trips to the park.

Kelley Stiles Leblanc still takes her studies seriously, and has shaped her career to suit her desire to teach her children at home while preparing them for the world. She concedes that this was not in her master plan, but for Kelley, success is defined by living a life of integrity and meaning, a goal she seems to have achieved. v

Drawing upon her deep faith and life experiences to shape an education for her sons that fits with the values held by her family, she reflects, “Everyone has to make their own choices, but for us we deal with their heart as well as math

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A Tribute to Mrs. Peters On the following pages we pay tribute to Miriam Emerson Peters, former Assistant Principal and Associate Head of Mary A. Burnham, Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill and Stoneleigh-Burnham Schools, who passed away at the age of 100 on October 29, 2009. Carolyn Austin ’68B reflects on the impact Mrs. Peters had on her life, alumnae share their thoughts and memories, and we share a glimpse of this remarkable woman’s private life through excerpts from letters archived at Smith College.

A Beacon through the Decades

by Carolyn Austin ’68B Mrs. Peters demonstrated grace, strength, patience, loyalty and compassion to her students for over six decades. As a Mary A. Burnham graduate, I believe these values were pivotal in my development. They taught me to be more thoughtful and to respect the past, live in the present and be open to the future.

The Emerson family, starting with Mrs. Peters’ mother, were true visionaries; establishing both Burnham and Stoneleigh as leaders in creating a diverse social, political and cultural environment through international representation. For example, when I graduated, ten percent of the students represented ten foreign countries. Today twelve foreign countries are represented and eight different languages are spoken by our current students.

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In Mrs. Peters’ yearbook letter to the 1967 Mary A. Burnham seniors she wrote, “Schools for girls[…] are called preparatory schools. Preparatory for what?[...] Preparation for life—or better expressed— for living —is the true aim of any good ‘prep’ school.” She was keenly aware that academics were important. But she also knew that awareness, understanding and embracing diversity, multiple cultures, religions and races, would enrich our lives and prepare us for the real world.

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She continued to be a beacon of warmth, support and grace for many of her girls through the decades.

Mrs. Peters was there for those who reached out, even strays like me who hadn’t seen her in twenty years. Thanks to all of you for showing Mrs. Peters in her final days that you remembered her and her efforts, and thank you for supporting the Initiative for Global Awareness named in her honor. v

Mrs. Peters at a Maypole celebration.

Date, student name and location unidentified.

Reflections on a Life Well-lived

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Read more alumnae reflections on the legacy of Mrs. Peters at www.sbschool.org/peters.

I have such fond memories of Mrs. Peters. She made it to 100 and what an accomplishment! She had such a great outlook on life and I remember her so much from Roundhill and Southwick.

Jill Crawford Stoll ’54B How sad I was to learn of Mrs. Peters’ passing, but how fortunate for all of us that we had an opportunity to have had her in our lives.

Meredith Lang ’65B I remember Mrs. Peters with fond memories - she would visit Stoneleigh on many days, but one particular day comes to mind. We were to receive our marks and her grace at dinner that day was, “Be thankful for what you are about to receive!” I graduated many years ago, but Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill School was a wonderful part of my life and gave me so much. It made me the person I am today.

Jacqueline Paulding Hauser ’48S Mrs. Peters was a huge influence on all her students. I graduated in 1961 and Mary Burnham is a constant memory of happy times in my life! It’s wonderful to think the school has been so successful through so many difficult times. I wish the best for its future!

Linda Ran Jones ’61B

Mrs. Peters with Carol Cobley ’67B.

This was a wonderful woman and one who made a big impact on my young life. I want to join the ranks of those who feel the same way, and I know there are many. I feel so lucky to have been a Burnham girl. Because of Mrs. Peters, I received the ‘N’ for Nobility, Nobless Oblige, when I graduated. I also received an English award and a Spanish award. Wow, it gave me so much confidence to forge ahead in my life and become “something.”

How can one ever pay that back?

Lynn Dender Kelly ’58B We all have our individual memories of Mrs. Peters. I remember her from Mary Burnham, my first two years. I often stayed at school over the long weekend of Thanksgiving and had more to do with her at those times. I also remember being the server at her table many times and the humour we shared. Most of all I remember going to her home and her stories of her youth and how she met her husband. This was reserved for me and one other student who stayed back for Thanksgiving as well… her life was so important, and she influenced my life.

Virginia Garlick ’69 The memories of Burnham and the standards that Mrs. Peters set have helped to carry me through an eventful life of good and bad times. The older I get, the more I appreciate the values, many of which I learned during my four years at Burnham.

Cynnie Mitchell Bassett ’68B I will always remember that Mrs. Peters offered me a lifeline out of a very difficult and somewhat dangerous home situation at a critical time in my life and that my life might be very different (not better) if she hadn’t done that.

Henrietta Jordan ’69 Mrs. Peters presenting Sarah McFadden ’68B with the Mabel Hood Emerson Award.

How sad for all of us... she certainly was a big part of my life in the 50’s. I last visited her with Gaye Cavanaugh a few years ago at her home on Fox Farms Rd. She will be missed by us all.

Jane Packer ’53B

Letters from Abroad

Miriam Emerson’s student year abroad 1930-1931

by Bethany O’Connell

The excitement one feels when a letter is delivered, the postmark from a foreign land, the feel of the paper in the hand as the words of a far-off loved one are read and re-read still offer no comparison. In this golden age of email, texting and twitter, keeping in touch with family and friends has never been so efficient, or so ephemeral. By contrast, the epistolary letter, as exemplified by the correspondence between young Miriam Emerson and her mother Mabel Hood Emerson, provides a detailed and timeless account of Mrs. Peters’ life as a young woman.

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While researching the life of Mrs. Peters last year, a new window into her past was revealed, written in her own pen. Preserved carefully at Smith College for the past eighty years as part of the Sophia Smith Collection, is a collection of letters written

by Miriam Emerson during her year of study abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris and addressed to her family back home in the US.

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Thoughtful and tender, the letters provide an authentic glimpse into the student life and family relationships of Mrs. Miriam Emerson Peters before her work began at Mary A. Burnham and Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill Schools. Addressing Mabel Hood Emerson as “darling mother” and “dearest adorable mother,” her letters read like a vivid travel journal for the classicist. Each visit in Paris to the theater and each trip to the surrounding landmarks of France and Switzerland reference the great works of literature and history with the sensitivity of the 18th century Romantic poets. Printed in part here, with permission, is an account of her trip to the South of France in 1930.

Mrs. Peters’ words most certainly inspire even the staunchest technophile to dust off her personal stationary, add a stamp, and perhaps even affix a wax seal. v Above: a postcard from Mrs. Peters addressed to her mother, Mabel Hood Emerson. Opposite page: an illustration from one of Mrs. Peters’ letters.

Background: detail of one of Mrs. Peters’ letters archived at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College.

“A marble statue of a girl with a lark was dazzling in the sunlight against a background of trees almost black in the shadows—I have never seen such striking lighting.”

September 23, 1930

September 26, 1930

Dearest Mother, Yesterday morning we were up bright and early at six o’clock and took the train for Avignon. I could hardly believe that I was really going to see the “Pont d’Avignon” that was one of my first recollections of anything French[…]but before seeing the bridge, we visited the Pope’s Palace—It is an enormous building, built on rocks with great walls towering into the blue sky. We had the most marvelous guide—an old man who just made everything live before your eyes, and who sang songs of the troubadours and quoted Petrarch. It was in Avignon, you remember, that Petrarch met Laura[…].

This morning at half past five Connie and I were awakened by the sound of thousands of tinkling bells. We couldn’t imagine what it could be, but on jumping to the window we saw in the pale light that was just beginning to appear, the street just full of sheep—hundreds and hundreds of them as far as we could see in both directions. The shepherds went ahead with little red lanterns, and the dogs along both sides. They all had little bells around their necks twinkled and made the loveliest sound, quite different from anything I have ever heard. They were coming down from the mountains where they go to spend the summer, and were going along the Valley of the Loire which joins the Rhone, to the Camargue, an enormous plain near Arles which we saw from the arena there. On one side of the river there are great meadows and fields for the sheep; on the other side there is the same thing for the cattle.

[…]An autocar took us in the afternoon to Nimes where there is another arena. The walls were covered with announcements of a coming bull fight. We saw the Maison Carrée, that perfectly preserved temple in the Greek style built by the Romans in the first part of the first century. It is beautiful in its simplicity and the harmony of its proportions. I like the Greek style, even where adapted by the Romans[...]we strolled about for a half an hour in a perfectly charming and typically French garden, laid out geometrically with canals of water as green as emeralds, reflecting gorgeous flowers, marble stairs and balustrades, and those lovely wide spreading cypresses and southern pines. A marble statue of a girl with a lark was dazzling in the sunlight against a background of trees almost black in the shadows—I have never seen such striking lighting.

I hated to leave that beautiful spot and could have stayed there for hours. But we had to go on and our next stop was at the Pont du Gard, that famous Roman aqueduct that brought water from the mountains to the city of Nimes and also to Arles. It is tremendously high where it spans the Rhone and we walked over the top. It has three tiers, like this:

Mme. Puillotin came to visit Mme Villet yesterday to see our rooms and to know how we were getting along. Mme Villet thinks we don’t talk enough at the table—but really we don’t have a chance because she and the two French boys talk so much! Perhaps if we were French and didn’t mind talking at the same time as everyone else, we could get a few words in! But now Madame tries to have us talk more—especially Connie, who is generally very quiet, and we carry on quite long conversations. […]It is quite cool here today—really like autumn and the mountains are very clear. I hope it will be as nice tomorrow when we go to Aix-les-Bains, the country of Lamartine and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. I have just read “Raphael” by Lamartine—very romantic, of course—a masterpiece of that sort of writing. I’m afraid this letter is not in very good handwriting, but I will try and do better next time.

All my love, Miriam

We had a glorious view from the top[…]on the way back over the road we picked ripe figs to eat. We had tea at an open pavilion, and then started our ride back to Arles—along splendid roads through olive orchards until we came to Tarascon. Have you ever read Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon?

If so, that name will recall many memories to your mind[...].

The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, archives, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women’s history. It was founded in 1942 to be the library’s distinctive contribution to the college’s mission of educating women.

z Karen Van Lengen ’69 2010 Distinguished Alumna Award Recipient

by Regina Mooney “Architecture gives shape to the fabric of our democracy.”

Stated by Karen Van Lengen when she appeared on the Charlie Rose Show on Public Television in 2006, these words clarify a grounding principle of her work as an architect and point us toward the spaces that give us our public identities. As professor and former dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Van Lengen teaches how our public spaces define who we are as a nation and how our individual or private identities are shaped by the spaces we create and inhabit.

The Bulletin Spring 2010

Karen Van Lengen’s creative vision and thoughtful articulation, verbally and on the drafting table, make her an architect of stature who early in her career won an international competition to design the Berlin American Memorial Library. Recognized for her work, she was invited to compete for Berlin’s proposal for the 1992 Olympic Stadiums. An intellectual descendent of Hans Schauroon, Alvar Aalto and I.M. Pei, Van Lengen designs aesthetic environments that promote the enhancement of our multiple senses as a way to invigorate both the social and physical experiences of our public realm. She strongly believes that thoughtful architectural design should respond to a wide range of issues that include the stewardship of our landscapes, our biodiversity and our resources in the context of a democratic society that continues to be nurtured by the local spaces and opportunities for human interaction and communication.

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As a member of the Stoneleigh-Burnham Class of 1969, Karen started out at Mary A. Burnham and joined that pioneering class that merged the two schools. At both Burnham and StoneleighBurnham she was known as serious-minded and levelheaded, making her an ideal candidate for Vassar College where she majored in psychology and graduated cum laude and with departmental honors in psychology. She later co-authored a book with Lisa Reilly on the college’s architecture. From Vassar she pursued her architectural studies at Columbia University,

and apprenticed with I.M. Pei, world famous architect and design innovator. With him she designed the first hotel built in China after President Nixon’s famous visit that opened up relations between the two countries. After a Fulbright Fellowship in Rome, she returned to New York and opened her own architectural firm while teaching as a guest critic in several noteworthy institutions. She was later tapped to lead the Architectural Department of The Parsons School of Design in New York. Her articles have been published in scholarly journals and popular magazines including Architectural Design Publication, Dwell Magazine, Ladies Home Journal and The Journal of Architectural Education, demonstrating the breadth of her audience and appeal.

As her work has evolved Karen now designs spaces that explore the role of technology in public and private space. The Mix House, a recent polemical project completed in collaboration with Joel Sanders, explored the role of sound in the domestic environment. I asked her to explain the design to my untrained design mind and she quipped after the explanation that it is as simple as it is complex. Indeed it is, although I found myself reeling in my own process of unraveling the complexity as I studied her drawings.

Brilliant, gracious, demanding, and imminently approachable, Karen Van Lengen represents the best of Stoneleigh-Burnham School. Indeed she embodies our mission statement’s exhortation to “become our best selves.” Yet if you are to ask her if she’s there yet, she’d tell you there are many more ideas to pursue, buildings to design and problems to solve in a world that needs many more integrative thinkers. For her intrepid spirit and creative mind, Stoneleigh-Burnham School is proud and delighted to bestow our inaugural Distinguished Alumna Award on innovator, friend, classmate, sister alumna and international role model, Karen Van Lengen. v

2010 Wall of Fame Inductees Suzy Bell Fraser ’72 Jerilyn Jacobs ’85 Amy Stegall ’86 Vicky Castegren ’94 Sam Pleasant ’02

Mina Payne Williams ’78, Samantha Pleasant ’02, Suzy Bell Fraser ’72, Vicky Castegren ’94, Amy Stegall ’86, Jerilyn Jacobs ’85 and Head of School Sally Mixsell ’69.

The Equestrian Wall of Fame A New and Exciting Form of Recognition for a Signature Program

The day began with morning clinics for students run by inductee Vicky Castegren ’94, followed with a lecture by Vicky on “Getting into the Equine Business.” Vicky has built a successful corporation as founder and CEO of Hyperion Studd LLC. She specializes in bringing the best showjumping bloodlines of Europe to the American market and offers young stock, competition horses and Stallion services.

Head of School Sally Mixsell ’69 opened the induction ceremony with a warm welcome and shared her thoughts with the attendees, “There is a legacy left behind here; one of exceptional riders and horse lovers who have come and gone from this school. It is those women whom we are here to honor today.”

Mina Payne Williams ’78 thanked Dr. Clyde Johnson in absentia for planting the seed for the idea of the Wall of Fame and then introduced each honoree with a biopic of their accomplishments. Sally presented each inductee with a plaque and the audience was treated to some special words from each honoree, which was particularly illuminating for the current riders in attendance. They were shown a diverse example of careers in the equine field and an opportunity to learn from successful women who share the Stoneleigh-Burnham experience.

Suzy Bell Fraser ’72 is a full-time writer at Dartmouth College and author of two nonfiction horse books, The Dressage Competitor’s Handbook (an amazon.com “best seller” with a five star rating) and Financing Your Equestrian Activities. She also owns and operates a dressage farm in Fairlee, Vermont.

Jerilyn Jacobs ’85 graduated from Smith College as a Biology major then went on to veterinary school at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. Jerilyn works as an Associate Veterinarian at Vermont-New Hampshire Veterinary Clinic in southern Vermont. This practice has been caring for horses at Stoneleigh-Burnham for many years and Jerilyn had met the owners while she was a student at Stoneleigh-Burnham.

Amy Stegall ’86 has been extremely active at the grassroots level in the equine world. Her many positions have included President of the Connecticut Agricultural Education Foundation, Chair of the Connecticut Farm Bureau Equine Committee, President of the Connecticut Horse Council, and Advocate of Connecticut Canine Search and Rescue. Samantha Pleasant ’02 has been a part of the Stoneleigh-Burnham School Riding Department since 1995 as a camper at Bonnie Castle and then as a student. In the fall of 2008 she joined the Equestrian Center as a full time Riding Instructor and started working with riders of all levels A celebratory cocktail reception in the Blue Room and a buffet dinner in the Red Room followed the induction ceremony which was attended by family, classmates and friends of the inductees. v Visit the riding page at www.sbschool.org to view full profiles of each inductee.

The Bulletin Spring 2010

The Wall of Fame was established to spotlight and celebrate the achievements of alumnae who have brought distinction and excellence to various sectors of the Equestrian world. On February 20, 2010 Stoneleigh-Burnham School inducted its first class into the Equestrian Wall of Fame.

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The Bulletin Spring 2010

Class Notes In Memoriam Alumnae Board Update Alumnae Getting Together

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Left to Right: Amanda McLane ’04, Jessica Meese ’04 and Joyhdae Albert ’01 in New York City, Fall 2009.

CLASS NOTES Class Agents are needed for the following years: 1943S, 1944B, 1944S, 1947B, 1948S, 1951B, 1964S, 1968S Contact the Alumnae Office if you are interested in being a Class Agent!

1943B

Class Agent: Jane Swift Wood - 4231 Grattan Price Dr, Harrisonburg, VA 22801

1945B 65th Reunion!

Class Agent: Patricia Birt Morse - 735 Riomar Dr, Vero Beach, FL 32963, tmorse997@aol.com

1945S 65th Reunion!

Class Agent: Connie Johnson Corsiglia - 101 Country Side Rd, Greenfield, MA 01301

1946B

Class Agent: Barbara Cox Sileo - 8963 Oldham Way, West Palm Beach, FL 33412, jimbarb63@ bellsouth.net

1946S

Class Agent: Elizabeth McLean McLain -12725 Via Nasca, San Diego, CA 92128-1572 patmclmcl@ hotmail.com

1947S

Class Agent: Joan Hutton Landis - 450 Osage Lane, Media, PA 19063, jlandis1@ swarthmore. edu

1948B

Class Agent: Joan Fenton Clark - 313 Tally Ho Dr, Indian Trail, NC 28079, jclark020@ carolina. rr.com

1948S

Jacqueline “Jackie” Paulding Hauser writes: As I celebrate my 60 years at Lasell College, it brings fond memories of my years at Stoneleigh.

My two years at Stoneleigh were the highlight of my teen years. I was very fortunate to be part of a wonderful school. Coming from a small town in Massachusetts, I met so many from different areas of the states. It was wonderful for me. I loved every minute of my time at Stoneleigh. I have not been in contact with any of my class mates, except Ginny Archer who also came from the same town. I met her sometime ago and we had an enjoyable lunch together. I would like to send my regards and love to both Sally Hartwell (my roommate) and Adine Teich. I am now living in Pembroke, MA and my life is very full. I am very active in the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, a Master Flower Show Judge and compete in many of the Flower Shows in this area.

I am also active at Lasell College serving on the Alumni Board. I have three adult “children” and eight grandchildren. My oldest grandchild is a Freshman at Connecticut College. I have not been able to attend my reunions at Stoneleigh-Burnham, but enjoy reading about the activities planned. My regards and love to all my friends from the original Stoneleigh.

1949B

Class Agent: Jacqueline Oothouse Mitchell - 131 Cumberland Rd, Burlington, VT 05408, jacqmitch@comcast.net

1949S

Class Agent: Sue Heubisch Milkey 27076 Kindlewood Ln, Bonita Springs, FL 34134

1950B 60th Reunion!

Class Agent: Emily Cooper Stephenson - PO Box 957, Carmel, CA 93921, emilystephenson@ sbcglobal.net

1950S 60th Reunion!

Class Agent: Addie Warner Minott - 2518 Stage Rd, Guilford, VT 05301, pulpitfm@myfairpoint.net

1951S

Class Agent: Joan Walthers Parks - 37 Church St, Westminster, MA 01473, bowtie-1@mindspring. com.

1952B

Class Agent: Sandra Williams White - PO Box 790, Franconia, NH 03580

1952S

Class Agent: Barbara Schaff Blumenthal - 36 Sullivan Dr, West Redding, CT 06896, Barbglea@ aol.com

1953B

Class Agents: Gaye Alexander Cavanaugh - cjcava1@aol.com; Jane McGrath Packer jpacker796@comline.com

1953S

Class Agents: Pat Birge Johnson - 4130 SW 25th Pl, Cape Coral, FL 33914

1954B

Class Agent: Jill Crawford Stoll - spunkygram57@ aol.com Sandra Meagher writes: All are invited to Sandy (Krebs) Meagher’s one-person show of charcoal drawings (Conumble Series) at Art Place Gallery (11 Unquowa Street, Fairfield, CT 06824) from June 1 through 27. The reception is Saturday, June 5, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

1954S

Class Agent: Linda Jennings Kraus - 58 Judson Rd, Fairfield, CT 06824-6655 From Linda Jennings Kraus: Sorry I missed Reunion last June – wonderful if all the class came back from 1955 or 1956. Hope I can get up there for our 60th reunion. Busy doing a new bathroom, it’s small but a lot of work; 44 years old. I had a

Jackie Wieber Woode ’48S wonderful summer boating, swimming, walking and fishing with my son on our boat. I keep busy walking with the pacers group at the senior center, working out at Fitness Edge, meeting with my Happy Rug Hooking group, knitting and cooking.

My youngest son is still with me in the house – never lonely or in need of help – a big job to take care of all the chores. My best to all my classmates, Bobbie Creamer, Lyn Eddy, “Shep” (Ann Stevens Shepard), Sue Loy Landers, Dennie Duval and Marilyn Leach. Would love to hear news from them! Think often of my wonderful years up there with Mr. & Mrs. Emerson. He taught me how to snow ski!

1955B 55th Reunion!

Class Agent: Pat Reinking McBane - dpmcbane@ aol.com Thayer Reisner Adams says: Right now I am preparing to go to Colorado and ski. I will be there for one month enjoying a rest from my too busy life here in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the summer. I continue to do court-ordered custody mediations and I am reinstating my law license as I will be expanding into family law and divorce mediation. With the explosion of divorce I see the need for a non adversarial approach to this crisis for families. Although I love being retired, I have a skill that I need to put to work! I have also started playing bridge again and love making new friends!

Carole Weeks Pratt shares: I still live in my home in Covington, GA. I have a son Win who is a rheumatologist, one daughter Suzy and daughterin-law Ginger and a son-in-law Jamie Mitchell.

Ginger is a retired RN and Suzy works in her husband’s dentist office. My dear husband of 48 years, P.W., was diagnosed with cancer in January 2006. Radiation and chemo worked until May 2008. The cancer settled in his back, pressing on his spinal cord, causing great pain. He passed away on June 19, 2009. My family and friends have been very supportive and always there for me. I like to keep busy with my clubs, bridge, walking and yard work. I have four grandchildren Matthew is 16, Allison is 17, John is 20 and Laura is 12. I wish I could attend the Reunion but I do not feel that I can make it. I send my best to my classmates and I’d love to hear from them; where they are and what they are doing.

1955S 55th Reunion!

Class Agent: needed!

1956B

Class Agent: Judith Howard Whitney-Terry ­judith.whitney@gmail.com Judith Howard Whitney-Terry writes: Christmas letters have brought some good news about our class. Sandy MacDonald Wemmerus seems to have spent most of 2009 on the road! Trips took them to CO, MO, GA, VT (for Bill’s Middlebury reunion), NY and finally a long awaited trip to Alaska on a cruise. Sandy is playing in a dulcimer group, volunteers at their local AARP, the Red Cross and Gemanna, a local historical site. Seems like she’s keeping busy!

Andy Welsh Campbell writes: “We are tucked in here in Vermont, 44 years later in the same house and the same town and about to celebrate our 52nd anniversary. Seems like 25 years, until I look at my son who is about to be 49! Well, isn’t that the truth. How did our children get to be this old when we are still so young? Ursula Kendretavich Hogan is doing some occasional substituting and traveled around the US of A this year. Lyndsay Pond White enjoys family gatherings at Boca Raton. She recovered nicely from cataract surgery this past year; another thing several of us are experiencing these days. She and I had a long chat and it’s obvious from her conversations with others that we are all very busy in retirement. Jean MacLean Jankowski heads the Ohio Garden Club this year and she and Alan continue with their Elder Hostel trips. We had a lovely visit together in late summer. Bob and I continue our hectic schedules of conferences (we will be in San Jose late March and Alexandria Egypt in the fall), our work with Peace Corps, living in Mexico five months of the year and six months going back and forth from the Cape to Cambridge with a month on the road in between. Perhaps I’ll be able to call a few of you as we pass by on our way home from CA to MA. I continue to volunteer with the Lower Cape Outreach Program in Orleans and as a director for NCA, an educational support group in Mexico. Tennis and theater consume our “free” hours. We were all saddened to hear of the deaths of Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Fallon…an era has passed. So that’s the news from a few of you. Please send me YOUR news too! I’d love to hear from you.

1956S

Class Agent: Linda Maiuzzo Budd - linnieb13@ hotmail.com

1957B

Class Agent: Roberta Lee Gerber - 47 9 St, Bonita Springs, FL 34134, rlgerber@me.com th

1957S

Maine for a boat tour of the harbor. We had a good visit and are still in touch with each other since our Stoneleigh days. I stopped at Stoneleigh-Burnham on my return trip home to Vermont. That was on September 13th. It`s good to realize the growth of the school. My best to all!

1958B

Class Agent: Karen Preefer Hanauer - khanauer@ optonline.net Karen Hanauer shares: I am sad to tell you that our classmate, Bebe Sedgwick Gray passed away on January 8, 2010. She is survived by her husband Spencer and two sons and their families. There was a memorial service for Bebe in Rhode Island in February and it was attended by Lynn Dender Kelly who was her roommate at Burnham and her lifelong close friend. Also attending were Valerie Brenhouse Mace, Gail Benger Reifsnyder, Linda Nims Weaver, Betsey Evans Paige, Joan Burling Kenower, Linda McAusland Council, and Susie Gage Barros. I also heard from Marjorie “Red” Naughton who wrote, “I’m taking Spanish for the first time, at Baruch College, where I struggle along with 18 and 20-year-olds to master the tricky verb forms. At Burnham, the Spanish 1 and Spanish 2 students fostered the notion that Spanish was an “easy” language. How not true that turns out to be! At least, not when you’re 69! Sister Betty Naughton, (Northfield ’69) and I are planning a trip for May or June to a “Spanish school” in Guatemala later this year. I am hoping in that two week instructional period the Miracle of Fluency will descend upon me, and I’ll be able to order huevos rancheros and café con leche without a hitch.” I spent several wonderful days with some of my classmates last September in the Finger Lakes region visiting wineries, catching up, and just enjoying each other’s company. Peggy Baxter Streeter, Valerie Brenhouse Mace, Linda Nims Weaver, Martha Bailey Kirk, Dale Herrman Sack, Gail Benger Reifsnyder, Lynn Dender Kelly, and Betsey Evans Paige were there with me in a wonderful house we rented that Peggy found for us. We are at a stage in life where we share stories about our children, our grandchildren, our travels and hobbies and we enjoy reconnecting. We actually stay in touch with each other during the year, as well as with other classmates, and it is nice to have the camaraderie that has developed.

Valerie “Midge” Brenhouse Mace and Lynn Dender Kelly took a cruise to Scandinavia and Russia last summer. Gail Benger Reifsnyder and her husband Peter were also in Russia at the same time but their paths didn’t cross.

1958S

Class Agent: Anita Smiley Bailey - PO Box 83, Boyce, VA 22620

1959B

Class Agent: Susan Cummings Campbell beachrosedesigns@comcast.net

Class Agent: Winnie Steel Walker - 14 Honey Corners Rd, West Topsham, VT 05086

1959S

Winnie Steele Walker writes: On my way to South Egremont, Massachusetts to a family gathering, I spent a few days with friend and schoolmate Barbara Holden Hobart.

Barbara spends her summers in Stoddard, New Hampshire and winters in Arizona.

We took a prearranged bus tour to Portland,

Barbie Meistrell Lind shares: It’s me! I’m still living in Sarasota, Florida with my husband Jon, a Cockatoo named Aquilla, a Sun Conure named Cappy, three very old Gouldian Finches and one

Class Agents: Betsy Barry Beaudin – betsy@ beaudins.com; Joannah Hall Glass – jhallglass@ aol.com

Lionheaded Rabbit named Wallace. I am still working 12-hour shifts at Sarasota Memorial Hospital (night shift no less). My five daughters are wonderful and my three grandchildren are great and healthy. I bought a lovely five-acre farm in Crystal River to take my animals and husband when we retire but Progress Energy has eminent domained it for a new nuclear power plant so I might as well just keep on working. They have not made me an offer yet so each day I just wait for the ax to fall and be told when I have to move my furniture out. Other than that life is great! Cheryl “Fafa” Meistrell ’63S lives in Marshville, MA with her daughter and her two grandchildren.

Deane “Dedi” Kelley ’61S lives in New Orleans where she is a practicing Ph.D. psychologist. Dedi was wiped out with Hurricane Katrina and came to live with me for awhile but then chose to go back and help rebuild. I hope some of my classmates send in class notes also! In case anyone wants to call me my cell is 941-735-4866. Just leave me a message as I might be sleeping when you call. I hope everyone is well!

1960B 50th Reunion!

Class Agents: Rachael Chamberlain Schlegel – rcs4335@aol.com; Cynthia Poltrack Skinner – cynth6@earthlink.net Susan L Reisman shares: I have moved back to Syracuse, New York. I am an accountant, a CPA and I have two sons and two grandchildren. I am on the board and treasurer with the Dewitt Rotary club and on the board and treasurer of the Crouse Hospital Auxiliary, both here in Syracuse.

1960S 50th Reunion!

Class Agents: Margery Lawton Cooper – mtlcooper@yahoo.com; Laura Richards – lrichards102@gmail.com

Mimi Cooper writes: With our 50th Reunion coming up, Laura Richards and I have been in touch with several classmates. Here are some updates and greetings. Bette Killam Silvert says she most likely will not attend Reunion, as she is care-giving her husband Rob who is dealing with multiple health issues. She has spent 17 years in Montana, caring for the elderly, hiking, skiing and obviously enjoying the beautiful country. She says her five years at SPH were, “. . . a great and most needed time of my life, growing up with stability and direction with dear friends.” She hopes the Reunion will be a great success and sends her love to all. Laurie Price Muth writes from Montana also. She will not be at our Reunion, as she is going to be attending the 50th reunion of her kindergarten through 10th grade class in Chappequa, NY. Wow! She’s about to retire from nursing, but it doesn’t sound as though she will not be at all lacking for activities. She does some serious hiking; last summer she hiked the Grand Canyon with nine women and this May she plans to go back to the southwest with three others to hike and camp. As her husband Bob doesn’t care to travel, she spent two and a half weeks in Hawaii last October with friends; hiking and snorkeling. She and Bob have a farm and have recently purchased a couple of miniature horses and Bob plans next to have miniature goats.

Sounds like Montana is a fun place to be! She says that she and Bette occasionally run into each other in Kalispell. Small world. Marci Currier Currier and Rey’s kids and grandkids are scattered all over the country. They are planning a trip

from their home in Southport, North Carolina to the northeast to visit family in New Jersey, New Hampshire and Connecticut in June and will end the tour in Greenfield for Reunion! It sounds like Marci is still an avid golfer. And she doesn’t change a bit. Check her out on Facebook. Beth Barker Park writes from Seattle that an east coast trip is not on for her this year. “Maybe our 60th!” she says. Beth has been able to feed her desire for travel, but it is usually foreign, and back to parts of Asia. She has three dogs that keep her fit and entertained and she continues her involvement with child advocacy. She started a non-profit eight years ago to advocate for children in custody disputes, one of the few programs in the US totally devoted to custody issues. She does fundraising as well as covering cases and going to court for the children. And she loves Seattle. Alixe “Pete” Carpenter Hugret says that she and Jeff will most likely be on an extended sailing trip circumnavigating Vancouver Island at Reunion time. Her reunion with Jan Mottershead O’Donnell, Nancy Frisbie Clark and Susan Lawson Farmer last year in Florida was very special. Jan writes that it was “terrific in every way. . . we laughed, cried, reverted back to school girls and told hysterical stories on each other.” Jan has 7 wonderful grandchildren, all close by. Patrick has a new twist in his career, working business deals instead of politics. Jan has taken up golf, in desperation, as all of her tennis pals have moved to the links. She also is the sole caregiver of her mother, 93, living in a continuing care facility close by. She says the 50th is looking doubtful for her, with her schedule as stretched as it is. But she sends her “love to all Stoneleigh ‘60 girls!” Quite a bit of news from Susan. As of mid March she was planning a trip to California to spend time with her daughter Steffie (SBS ‘98) and two little “grandmonkeys.” Daughter Heidi is a real estate agent in Rhode Island, and Mac is “rumbling” about retiring at the end of the year. Susan’s health has been an issue since being diagnosed with cancer in 2001. Her “new (experimental) chemo is holding nicely . . . keeping me afloat!” Susan had to retire in 2004, but keeps busy with gardening, golfing, working out with a trainer, reading, cooking and more. She mentioned last year’s visit with Frisbie, Pete and Jan. She said that it was all terrific, that they all just picked right up from where they had left off 49 years before. Susan has been elected to the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, with induction on May 1st. Ceci Ament Roberge sent a “quick catch up” on her life: she graduated from the University of Connecticut with a nursing degree, married Leo, had 2 children, received her MA from Fairfield University, and worked as a nurse in many different capacities for 40 years. She joined the Connecticut National Guard in 1981, was activated during Desert Storm, and retired from the Army in 2002 as a LTC. She has three grandchildren in Connecticut, which accounts for her spending summers there, although she and Leo live on Florida’s west coast in Sun City Center. She is planning to attend Reunion, and is excited about seeing everyone.

As is Sally Jo Gottleib, my dear silly roommate.

We’ve been emailing and phoning, and as far as I can tell, all is fine with her and Robert in Stockbridge, Vermont. And all seems to be well with Laura. And all is well in lovely St. Augustine, although this has been the coldest, rainiest winter we’ve had since settling here in ’98! We’re hoping to have more responses regarding Reunion. We’re

looking forward to a fun time in Greenfield in June! Quite a milestone! Thanks, everyone for your news. Let’s keep it up!

1961B

Class Agents: Judy Vandeveer McDermott – judithmc33@aol.com; Toni Schust Zegras – tzegras@optonline.net

1961S

Class Agent: Julie Stephens Wyman – Julie4cats@gmail.com

1962B

Class Agent: Kathy Conathan Reardon – kathyr1230@aol.com Libby Apfel Sanderson writes: I am curious to hear how many of you have retired and how you are spending your time. I’m just not ready. I worry that I will spend the day in my pajamas drinking coffee and reading (although at the moment that sounds wonderful). I love my job as a school psychologist in Newton, MA, and next year my daughter is starting a school psychology internship in Newton so we will be colleagues! I wish everyone would get it together to make it up here for a reunion. There was no one at our 45th and only Jane Konheim and I showed up last June for Mrs. Peters 100th. Of course Mrs. Peters couldn’t come either but was there in spirit. I was sad to hear that she had died a few months later. At a special reception for former Burnham students, Jane made me sing the class song (“The class of ’62 is the best class at Burnham...”) with her and after a few glasses of champagne, all the old Burnham girls stood up and did the B is for Betterment thing we used to do at Friday chapel. The champagne helped. So I’m up for a reunion sooner than our 50th, which scarily, is not that far off. Two years away? How did that happen? I still feel young and rebellious.

Susie Wilson Ashcom writes: Bev Burgess and I got a chance to see each other when she was visiting her sister Jean Boggs here in Virginia a few months ago. It is always amazing how we just fall back into that same old comfort level. We became friends at Burnham BEFORE we discovered we were “Virginia Cousins”. My grandchildren are thriving in private schools in Washington, DC and San Jose, CA and their parents make me proud. My real estate brokerage isn’t funding safaris in Africa yet, but it is definitely greasing the skids of my life again! Bobby and I have nice foxhunters and are actively hunting and caring for them and our 27 calving Angus momma cows. The farm helps us to stay fit and enter the Medicare/Upper Middle Age bracket more gracefully, but still grudgingly.

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Class Agent: Sally Miller Fuller – ImFuller@ sopris.net Lynn Houston shares: I enjoy living in Naples, Florida for the winter months. I recently had my

first grandchild, Ronan, now eighteen months old.

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Class Agents: Gail Martin Clock – GCLOCK@ aol.com; Ellen Chello McFarland – ejmcfarland@ snet.net

1965B 45th Reunion!

Class Agent: Ann Mickelson de Brauw – amdebrauw@aol.com

Susan Errickson writes: My husband may be retired but I’m still busy with my non-paying activities: Elected as Secretary on the Planning and Zoning Commission, Treasurer for Tolland Republicans, and Ways and Means Chairman for Tolland historical society. I also am an avid hiker, knitter and reader. Our three wonderful sons and wives have produced four granddaughters and one grandson. Keeping up with them keeps us young!

Life is very good!

1965S 45th Reunion!

Class Agent: Patricia Roberts – proberts6@nyc.rr.com

Laurie McKinley Brown and Ann (Andi) McCully Kleinman found each other through Facebook after 35-plus years of being out of touch!

So Laurie, the ever-intrepid traveler, flew to Flagstaff, Arizona for a 4-day weekend at Ann’s house. Andi says, “We had great fun remembering old times, playing catch-up and introducing Laurie to my extended family. It was so good being together; we hope we don’t ever get ‘lost’ again!”

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Class Agents: Kiki Black – henshaw66@yahoo. com; Mandy Burr – RevMandy@aol.com; Judy Arnold Conner – jmac333@comcast.net Roxy Bowker writes: I am still teaching elementary school music in Littleton, NH and secretary of the Littleton Lions Club and president of the Littleton Community Center board of directors, a non-profit corporation. My son Robert, age 36, is a Merchant Marine captain of a boat for the oil industry in Angola, Africa and he lives with me when off duty. This summer he is taking his girlfriend and me on a 26-day trip to Europe!

Mandy Burr reports: I saw Anne Farmer. We had breakfast together last July when I was in Northern California, just before she left for her new job in Maine. When the school found out what dire straits it was in, Anne was without a job again. We talked for two hours the night before last and she is trying to get her house in Atlanta, which sustained some storm damage, ready to rent all while trying to arrange and prepare for job interviews. I finally finished my Nursing Master of Science Degree in Health Care Systems Management in December. People sort of wonder why I did that, but I started the degree back in 2006 when I was a full-time Nurse Manager. I quit work on a Nursing Masters back in 1979 when I went to Seminary and I wasn’t about to quit the degree again when I was appointed as the full time pastor at the United Methodist Church in Palm Springs, CA. I was ordained in the Christian Church and

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NEW YORK CITY Left to right: Sally Mixsell ’69, Regina Mooney, Miho Aioki ’94 and Christina (Sandra) Gil ’95.

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although I am serving a United Methodist Church it takes quite a bit of work, time and investment to accomplish what is termed “full connection” in the denomination. I am back taking courses at Seminary to complete the requirements. In the meantime, I love what I do, and love where I am doing it.

Deborah Ecklund Moore writes: I cannot believe that it has been almost 44 years since I graduated.

I do believe that my education at Burnham has been pivotal in creating me as the woman I am today. I am proud of my family and my career in Nursing. I send my best regards to friends and classmates.

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Class Agent: Susie Hine – PO Box 96, East Dennis, MA 02641 George E. Rippey, age 61, of Fairfield, passed away peacefully on Monday, March 15, 2010 in Branford, CT surrounded by his loving family.

He was the beloved husband of thirty-six years to Susan Farnum Rippey.

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Class Agent: Joyce Cornish Suter – ljsuter@ comcast.net Joyce Cornish Suter writes: I’ve retired from substitute teaching, but I still tutor and teach a remedial reading and writing class for 4th graders at the nearby elementary school. My husband Larry hasn’t retired yet, but he’s thinking about it. When he does, he’ll probably divide his time between the grandchildren and soaring. He’s just received his instructor’s certificate. I’m “friends” on Facebook with Laurie “Fly” Williams, Karen Kline, Nancy Ward and Sandy Wettingfeld, also Sally Mixsell and SBS of course. If you want to be friends, just send a request! I also learned that Pam Schmutz has two grandchildren. One grandson is in Adelaide, Australia with another due any day now and a granddaughter in Richmond, Virginia.

Pam and Jim have lived in South Carolina for 32 years. They raised five children there. Jim retired last year from teaching Chemistry at a small private Christian university. Pam has been working halftime for the Cooperative Extension Service in the area of food safety for Clemson University for 10 years. Pam says that she can’t believe that we’re talking about our grandchildren! I’ll add, “Where’s the time gone?”

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Class Agent Chairs: Meg Long White – megevents@gmail.com; Bonnie Briskin – bonnieb351@yahoo.com; Class Agents: Mary Maloney -- maloneym@ummhc.org; Deborah Chamberlain – dorchamb@aol. com Sally Leach Mixsell shares: Shelley Jones and I have been trying to get together ever since I came to Greenfield, and we finally succeeded in December 2009. We met at Wiggins Tavern and had a wonderfully long reunion lunch (fortunately, the wait staff was patient and didn’t seem to mind that we stayed longer than anyone else). It had been a long time since we’d seen each other so we had

a lot to talk about! Years ago Shelley came back from Colorado and went to work for ESPN in its fledgling years; she stayed there for 20 years so she really knows the ins and outs of production!

For the past few years she has been caring for her mother in New Britain, CT and hopes to take on a new career before she really retires. Shelley still plays golf. She wanted to get in touch with Sue Pease and Andree Markoe with whom she will hopefully have made contact by the time this note is published!

Nancy Robbins Schrader shares: I won’t be able to make it this year. My daughter will be graduating and we will be in California that weekend. I will miss all of you.

Nancy Ward writes: I enjoyed catching up with classmates at Sally’s installation and again at reunion last summer. Amazing what friendships endure and blossom after 40 years! Returning to Northampton was a highlight and thanks to the school for making that happen! 2009 was a year of graduations for us: Nelly, from NYU Law and embarking on service in public interest with a focus on education and Julia graduated from Davidson with a tremendous love of history, a flair for baking and some very interesting internships to get her started. I continue to run the Independent Journalism Foundation as it slowly goes out of business, mission accomplished. Now to find a new career! Alex and I still love living in New York, where we recently caught a glimpse of Karen Van Lengen.

Mimi Morgan Merola shares: Reunion really was a blast! Forty years! That is amazing. To think at the last minute I was not going to go. I thought to myself, so many years have passed, we’re all strangers now. What if no one I know goes to Reunion? Who will I talk to? Wow, was I wrong.

I re-met some of the nicest, interesting women ever! In early March I traveled to California for a family wedding and was able to reconnect with Ruth Settembrini. Who by the way looks exactly like she did 40 years ago! The same great big smile. She is amazing! We had a few hours to chat and I was able to hear about her husband, her children, and saw the most adorable pictures of her grandchildren. She has an amazing family who are very close and active together, much like mine.

I shared with her the pictures I had on my camera of everyone at reunion. The time went so fast, I had so many more things I wanted to know about all the years that have flown past the two of us.

Poor Ruth, she must have thought we were playing twenty questions. We decided that we can’t wait for another Stoneleigh reunion, that we must gather the old gang and try to meet somewhere and really reconnect!

Sue Ellen Rothery writes: I was one of the class of ’69 that attended the ’09 reunion. This was my first reunion in 40 years! I had a wonderful time getting to know the women that I shared three years of my life with as well as other alumnae.

Bonnie Briskin and I roomed together! I will be attending this year’s reunion and look forward to supporting our ‘little sisters’ as they celebrate their 40th reunion! Last December I attended the holiday party at Stoneleigh-Burnham and met staff members as well as parents of students. One conversation in particular resonated with me.

The family had been living in Russia and wanted to provide their daughter with a finer education so the mom started the search for a prep school.

Long story short, she met Sally Mixsell and said, “whatever that woman is involved in, I want to be a part of it!” She bought a home in Northampton and

her daughter is thriving at SBS! That pretty much says it all! My life: my passion is my work, interior design. I started my business on a ‘part-time’ basis at the end of my husband’s life 17 years ago and here I am, still at it! The last three years have been challenging for us all and I am so looking forward to a vibrant economic recovery! I live in Avon, CT and invite you to visit if you are in the area. There are so many people I look forward to reconnecting with soon. Give some serious thought to Reunion 2010. It should be on your ‘bucket list’.

Sally Richardson Roberts writes: After working in the insurance business for 28 years for Phoenix, GE and Genworth Financial, I retired in January of 2007 and I walked out that door and never looked back! Retirement is great. I split my time between Greenfield (yes I still live there) and Whitefield, NH. I have eight grandchildren. My son has three kids and lives in Utah and my two step daughters have five between them and both live in CT. I love being a grandmother and spending time with the kids. When I am not playing Gramma, I play golf and tennis, kayak, hike, walk, ski, snowshoe, read, play a card game called Quiddler, enjoy my friends and do whatever other fun things I can find to do. It was great to see so many at our 40th class reunion and I have enjoyed connecting with some of you on Facebook. Marty Evans…where are you? My email is salr51@yahoo.com. Gill Folley White says she is living on a cattle ranch in Wyoming and hunting and fishing as recreation.

Holly (Roisman) Hahn writes: In a nut shell, I have been living in south Florida for the past 30 years and now reside in Boca Raton. I am married to Jeff, and have one great son and three great stepchildren. Most of my life I have been in nursing and retired many years ago as a hospice nurse.

Barbara Mayo Llewellyn shares: I have stayed in touch with Gail Cray. One of her twin daughters lives in the Bay Area. We have the chance to visit when she is here to visit with her daughter Adrienne and her husband Greg Goode, a very successful photographer, and their baby. I chatted briefly with Shorey Albiston’68S when I was in Denver a couple of years ago. We have had a difficult time catching up with each other since.

I am pretty sure she still lives there. I just had a fabulous gathering of alumnae at my business, including Sally Mixsell. We were cooking, nibbling and sipping. I have spent the last 22 years building a catering and event planning business in the bay area: Barbara Llewellyn Catering and Event Planning. I have also been raising two boys, Taylor and Blair. I serve on the board for the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Feeding the hungry, helping women in business and education of young people are my three focus areas to give back. I work with the Women’s Initiative in the East Bay (the director is a Smithie) and now I feel a reconnection with SBS. This is the area where I possibly contribute to the education of young people. I would love to hear about the other fabulous women in our class.

Tori Askerberg shares: Well, I’m still busy at IBM helping to build a Smarter Planet. No, I’m not in any of the commercials. I did actually leave my home office last week and traveled to the Windy City for a day. They let me out of my bunker for a day. I used to travel all the time but now I’m kind of getting used to being home all the time, quite frankly. I’m looking forward for the days to get longer and warmer so I can get back outside and hit the links; golf now being my passion in life.

Laurie “Fly” Janov writes: What goes around

comes around. I have thought it since I first walked into my dorm room as a sophomore in 1966 and I now know 41 years later that the friendships forged at SBS are life-long. We are family, we are sisters, we have grown fat and thin with each other, laughed and cried, mourned those that died and rejoiced in new relationships and births. Like many of us, I got cancer. I caught it early and I will be fine. If it were not for the enormous support from my SBS friends, it would not have been much fun. BUT, strange as it sounds, my girlfriends made it fun. I had visits from Sally Leach, Sally Richardson, Mary Maloney, Meg White and Liz Feeley from the Alumnae Office. I received mountains of ‘glorious apollo’ flowers, funny and touching cards, phone calls from my beloved buds Mimi, Hershey, Ginger, Pris Henry, Bonnie, and very special healing cookies from Perky Hamill ’70. From out of the woodwork they came and into my heart they crawled. You all warmed me, fed my spirit and my body, became the beat to my heart and once again reminded me of why our sisterhood is a forever thing. You made me laugh and you made me cry. But the greatest gift of all is that you have been here for me. You are in my heart forever and I hope that in some small way I can fit into yours forever as well. Thank you, thank you, thank you my sisters and girlfriends of forever.

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Class Agent Chair: Kathy Seyffer Opdycke – wlpmom@ comcast.net; Class Agent: Perky Heath Hamill-- peezola@optonline.net A reminder to all! Our 40th Reunion is June 11-13th, 2010. Now is the time to register! View the schedule for that weekend and get all the details of the event…all which can be found on the Stoneleigh-Burnham web-site. See you then!

Congratulations to Perky Heath Hamill who is now the proud grandmother of Vincent Armand Roberti, III (Trey), born on February 24, 2010 at 9:47 p.m. at 7 lbs. 1 oz. 20 inches. Perky has been a great help to me in contacting and re-connecting with classmates Nancy Johnson Bercaw who is in New London, PA and Sue Cutler Ray who lives in Apex, North Carolina. Perky also connected with Betsy Moore Joseph who lives in Massachusetts and loves her summer house on the Cape. Betsy occasionally runs into Pam Feather Osborne.

Also, Nandy Firth Corson and I emailed several weeks ago. Nandy has a cottage industry with hand painted floor cloths, decoupage lamps and home accessories (www.hampdendesigns.com) located in an out-building on the grounds of her childhood (ancestral) home “Hampden” in Trappe, Maryland. Nandy included pictures of her grandson who is adorable! For anyone who may be interested in renting a vacation estate on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Nandy tells me that Hampden is available as a vacation rental (www. easternshorevacationrentals.com). Kathy Burke sent me a lovely note several months ago from her home in Pennsylvania. I attended the San Francisco alumnae event and had a wonderful time seeing Darcy McCormick Tarbell. Darcy is with a private college in the San Francisco area. The event was hosted by Barbara Mayo Llewellyn ’69 at her catering and event planning industrial kitchen.

I would go anywhere for a cooking class. We all became sous chefs for the evening, prepping and cooking our food. It was a blast! Also attending were Sue Conklin ’69 and Pam Lee Cranston ’68 and Sue Tuttle ’72 as everyone had wonderful memories to share of their time at Stoneleigh-

Burnham! I enjoyed coffee with Stephanie Viada ’06 in January. Stephanie is attending RandolphMacon College in Ashland, Virginia and is pursuing a degree in sociology. She loves Randolph-Macon but really misses Stoneleigh-Burnham! Pamela Coffin Williams and I have been e-mailing regularly and talking on the phone. Pamela has a strong background in development and capital campaigns with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida and has been instrumental in helping me with organizational strategies for the Class of ’70.

Pam, many thanks! As Head of our school Sally Leach Mixsell ’69 has filled the hallways with laughter and very happy students. It’s a joy to be on campus…come see for yourself!

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Class Agent: Lynda Decker Gallagher – lyndadeckergallagher@gmail.com Charlotte Newton shares: Hello to all! I have had the opportunity to see Vivian Lee as her daughters both attend school here in the states. It is always fun to be together, and with luck I can make a trip to Hong Kong! I continue to attempt to improve my golf game, the eternal quest to lower one’s handicap! My Trustee/volunteer activities with The Boston Conservatory have me very busy as we are in the midst of a major building project, one of very few in the Boston area at this time. It is very exciting for the school as it will add wonderful new dance studios and an orchestral rehearsal studio as well. I will be traveling to the coast this summer for my eldest nephew’s wedding. Party time in Santa Cruz! Best wishes to all!

Amy Matthews Elftmann shares: I live in Florida now. I often go to the Winter Equestrian Festival in Palm Beach / Wellington, FL and wonder if there are SBS equestrians there! If you are there, I wish you good luck!

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Class Agent: Melissa Leach Dickson – MelissaLDickson@gmail.com Ellen Easton shares: I had the pleasure of a preChristmas afternoon tea with Mercedes Serralles at Lady Mendl’s. Despite not having seen one another in thirty-seven and one half years and only keeping in contact via writing and telephone, it was as if time stood still. The conversation flowed as if we had just been together yesterday. Even the big NYC blizzard and freezing weather could not deter us from having the best time.

Jean M. Thoren writes: I just got back from a wonderful visit with Mercedes Serralles in Lyon, France. I was there on Business in early March.

Mercedes and her lovely husband Edo took the time to drive over from Geneva to spend a day and evening shopping, eating and drinking all over the beautiful city of Lyon. It was so nice to get to know Edo better (he is a peach by the way!) and catch up with Mercedes, who is very happy in her new life. Normally we see each other on her home turf when I come through Geneva every year in June, which we will do this year when both Jim and I go to see Edo’s newly renovated home on the lake near Geneva. My three boys are all over the world.

Robert is in Bolivia with his Jaguars; Teddy at Two Hands Vineyards in Adelaide AU making wine; and Will, who is still living in LA with Jim and me, is making Didgeridoos, playing in concert and selling his photo’s of the Santa Monica Mountains in a nearby gallery and on-line. Will is currently visiting his girlfriend who dances for the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago. Check out Will’s site at www.willthoren.

com. I hope if any of you are between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles you will plan to stop by and stay in my guest room on Malibou Lake. Just find me at: jthoren@animationmagazine.net or on Facebook. Love to all!

Charlotte Lewis-Hankus writes: I am still working at the ENT office in the Audiology dept and love it. My house is empty except for my husband, Julian, and my two dogs, Rontu and Chinook. We run around listening to the echoes. I am constantly checking in with Mom as I live closest to her. My family is having another reunion June 12th in New London, NH so that Mom will not have to travel. I have enjoyed catching up with some of the friends from SBS on Facebook; it’s been a lot of fun. My two sons have grown and gone. Craig, almost 25, is an electrician in Hooksett, NH and is doing very well. My other son Scott, almost 23, is heading off to Los Angeles, California to follow a modeling and acting opportunity. He also is a certified personal trainer and has his degree in Hotel management and Business. He leaves the New England nest for the west coast at the end of May. I wish him nothing but success, but I will miss him.

Melody Wynn shares: I continue to run a Small Preschool out of my home in Santa Barbara but its classroom is now an “outdoor environment” with no child left inside. My husband and I just celebrated 26 years of marriage. Our son Skylar is studying to be a fireman and did his first night interning at Goleta Hospital this March. This is my first year of doing horse shows and we are doing well.

Karin Whittemore writes: I live in Mystic, CT in my grandmother’s house with husband Peter and Golden Doodle, Marley. We love our community here with all of the wonderful things that living by the water offers. I have been working with and studying photography for several years and have had success showing my work at several galleries over these last three years. I am involved in the arts as well as several non-profits in the area. Peter is in construction and has been an asset to keeping this property, as well as our family’s cottage next door, in great shape. After traveling extensively throughout Canada in the 90’s we turned our settings to Europe after I had done a trip to Greece with friends in 2005. We went to southern Italy with friends and liked it so much that we returned several months later and did northern Italy and hope to go back as soon as possible and explore more of the country as well as other countries in Europe. We are both very blessed to enjoy good health, family and friends! I continue to enjoy being in touch with my old pals from SBS and especially this last year by joining Facebook. It is just like old times and I am so grateful to those old friends that I still have in my life.

Mercedes Serralles says: Barbara Porta wrote to me through my art website and it was so nice to hear from her. She was very loving and complimentary about my work. Just before Christmas I saw Ellen Easton after all these years of writing, calling and missing each other. On the 23rd of last December in NYC we were back to day one like we had never left. She took me to one of her exquisite tea houses and we caught up with the world. The weekend before last my husband and I went to Lyon to meet Jean Messinger Thoren after one of her Cartoon Events and we had a blast once again. I have seen Jean a few times on her European travels and I am so grateful to have my

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true friends again. Gigi Abbo ’71 just emailed me and she will be back here in June for her daughter’s graduation so I will most likely be seeing her again soon.

Liz DeVito went to see the Broadway revival of Hair with her 13-year-old goddaughter. She was transported back to her first day at Stoneleigh Burnham in the fall of 1968, “The first thing my roommate Stephanie Fox told me was that she had seen Hair on Broadway, which made her one of the coolest freshmen ever. On top of that her Mom was wearing a mini skirt that day. My freshman anxiety was blown away by the wonder of meeting someone who had seen Hair (naked people!) with her mini-skirt wearing Mom on Broadway in New York City. The combination was mind-boggling!

My goddaughter was duly shocked when the cast stripped at the end of Act One and even more amazed that someone as old as I am knows the music and lyrics to every song. So, Stephanie, if you’re reading this, thanks for the Be In freshman year. Peace, love and freedom!”

Sharon Calkins-Hubley shares: My family and I got back from a great two week trip visiting Peru and Maccu Picchu for two weeks to celebrate my husband’s and my 25th wedding anniversary and our son Cameron’s graduation from Landmark with an Associates in Business Management with Honors. Gluttons for punishment, we had put our house that we had lived in for 21 years on the market just before we left and fortunately sold it before taking off for Peru and when we returned we moved into a townhouse we bought up on Capitol Hill two blocks from the well-known Eastern Market. Caroline, our 14-year-old, keeps us very busy with Science Projects. Best to everyone at SBS and alums!

Kim Butcher writes: After living in St. Petersburg Florida for ten years I figured out I was not a Florida kind of gal. My pooch of 14 years, Big Head Fred, and I moved back to the Midwest which has turned out to be a good move. Just recently however, age caught up with Fred and he is now chasing squirrels and lizards in that big back yard in the sky. I work in a rural mental health center as an addictions therapist. The majority of my clients are court mandated and I am surprised at how much I like working with them. A number of us SBS’ers have reconnected on Facebook. On a daily basis I am amazed not only at our strength, collective wisdom, and how incredibly funny we are, but I am also grateful to have these women back in my life.

Lisa Bailey White shares: I got your e-mail (Melissa) a day after my second grandchild was born so my grandmother status is uppermost in my mind right now. Although I shudder a little when I hear someone call me a “gramma,” I love this new role. Myles was born in September and I was lucky enough to be there. It was an amazing experience!

Maeve arrived nine days early so I missed being there. I leave for California the day she turns six days old. The rest of my life seems insignificant right now but I do have one. I am still working for Head Start as a home visitor which keeps me busy.

I’m looking forward to spring and getting into my garden which has become a passion in the last several years. Bill and I are also looking forward to doing some hiking and biking this summer.

Melissa Dickson writes: I am still doing my personal training in home with an emphasis on Pilates. This April my husband Rick and I are planning our second “him captain, me crew” sailing trip to the BVI for ten days. We went a year and a half ago and it was about the best vacation we ever

took. Our three children are all living and working in NYC: Elliot, 30, a teacher and Dean at the Spence School; Alexandra, 28, actor and SAT tutor; and Lizzy, 25, an assistant Kindergarten teacher at Convent of the Sacred Heart. Lizzy is pursuing her M.Ed. at Fordham. So, they are all happy and thriving as are we! Facebook has been an amazing vehicle for reconnecting with SBS classmates and a few in surrounding classes, as we have a thread going where we exchange, happy things, difficult things, and general silliness. It’s been a wonderful, uplifting, addition to my days! Thanks to all of you for e-mailing me your news for the Bulletin.

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Class Agents: Susan McVie - 1731 Rose Ave, Bethlehem, PA 18018 Margaret Hall writes: Wishing friends from many years ago (and your families) all the best for the new decade. As several of you are aware, after disappearing from the East Coast pretty much after graduation, my life has unfolded since 1975 out in the West (Northwest) starting in San Francisco, moving to Oregon, then Idaho. I spent several years in Seattle working and going to graduate school.

I live and work now from my home located near Priest Lake, Idaho primarily with non-profits on sustainable community development projects. Over the last several years I have worked mostly with an organization in Spokane, WA on green affordable housing projects. Recently I have undertaken a new project that may take me on a slightly different and more national direction. We will see what happens. My husband, Thomas, and I do get back east from time to time to visit family in Vermont and other parts of the east coast. One of these years, hopefully, I will be able to catch up with some of you in the East or out in the Northwest if you happen to travel this way. Though many years have passed, would love to visit in person. Take care of yourselves.

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Class Agent: Victoria Claman Hewitt – vchewitt@aol.com Abbe Janov Litvak writes: Following up on an unbelievably wonderful Reunion, Annette “Nettie” Cazenave (and kids), Mimi Gridley and I descended on Sarah Turner for a weekend in Michigan. It was like going to summer camp; boats, planes and automobiles! I got to fly in her Piper Cub which was the highlight of my year!

Nettie’s little ones, Rudy and Ahni, are precious.

Sarah is blessed with a wonderful husband, Jack, who tolerated all that estrogen in one room! A big ‘hello’ to everyone in the class of 1974.

Sarah Turner shares: Annette Casenave, Mimi Gridley, and Abbe Janov traveled out to the wilds of Hickory Corners Michigan to fish, fly and generally cavort with me in August of last year. Many songs were sung and toasts were made to “old SBS.” Annette’s kids, Rudy and Ahni, caught their first fish from Gull Lake. My sons, Michael and Kevin, are making their mother proud and nervous by skirting the globe pursuing their extreme sports (kite boarding, base jumping, and wing suit flying). Both sons are traveling to Sweden in April to film the Super Session Freestyle Skiing event at the Are Resort in Sweden as part of Team USA. This will be a unique situation as Michael will fly a paraglide tandem with Kevin who will be filming the aerial maneuvers of the skiers. Kevin’s film “Sound & Light” is one of the

top ten finalists for “Action Sports” at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth in Seattle on May 2nd (his 21st birthday!) The whole family, including Gramma, will be there to cheer him on.

As for me, I am waiting for Jack to retire from Steelcase, as a corporate pilot, so we can chase our children all over the world!

Gay Thorn reports: We’re having fun visiting both our children living in New York City now. My youngest daughter is recently graduated from Columbia Teachers College with her Masters and continuing to get her credits needed for a Therapist while working with autistic kids. My oldest is enjoying his job in Stamford, CT working as an international oil broker for Odin Marine. We added another chocolate lab puppy to the family which livens up the place! He’s now two years old. Our nine hens are producing eggs again after a bit of a rest during the winter. It is lots of FUN! Gardening, always my passion, is keeping me busy through volunteering for the garden club and the Florence Griswold Museum Garden Gang, as well as tending my back yard. Hope all is well with everyone, we had lots of fun last year at the reunion! I biked the MS Challenge 30 mile tour in New York City in October 2009 with my daughter Katrina and her boyfriend Tim. My daughter Katrina and I also attended the Martha Stewart Lily 50th Celebration Show in NYC. She surprised me with tickets she won sharing our lily history.

1975 35th Reunion!

Class Agent: Susan Murphy Mulcahy – emeraldsm@sbcglobal.net

Jeanne Zavell Harris shares: Where does the time go? I am well and working for a marketing agency focused on the nonprofit sector. My son Conor graduated from William and Mary College last May and is currently looking for a position that will leverage his double major of Hispanic Studies and International Relations. His focus is on an advocacy position in Washington, DC as he weighs the benefits of law school and a career in civil rights law. My daughter Emily is wrapping up a semester abroad in India where she has participated in a Social Work program combining classroom and fieldwork around the empowerment of women. My youngest is at Johnson & Wales getting training as a chef and was accepted into the nutrition program.

1976

Class Agents: Nancy Maurer Preston – npreston07@gmail.com; Susan Tyrrel – styrrel@ cox.net Karen Schmitt Montgomery writes: After many years of living on the West Coast we made the decision to move to North Carolina and start our own business called “elizabeth keith designs.” My husband and my 9-year-old daughter have made the adjustment to the south well. I on the other hand have had a little trouble adjusting to fried pickles, biscuits and gravy and BBQ everywhere! I have been able to locate some long lost pals through Facebook and have enjoyed touching base with everybody. It is still hard to believe it has been 34 years since we left SBS!

1977

Class Agent: Kathryn Whitney Mansfield kat.mansfield@verizon.net Sarah “Ferg”Ferguson Hock writes: We are fine in St. Louis! I wish we could get back to Greenfield

Mixsell ‘69, hosted by Barbara at her cooking school in Oakland.

1978

Class Agent: Bridget O’Brien – bobrien@comcast.net

Class Agent: Lynne Schulthess – SabrinaS@optonline.net Melinda O’Brien shares: I have been contacted

by Tina Livingston-Ford and we have enjoyed some good catch up times on the phone! My daughter Casey graduated from Salve Regina in the spring, my daughter Betsy is at James Madison University, and my son Charlie is at West Virginia University. My parents (the Merriams) had visitors during Reunion 2009 and enjoyed it tremendously.

Shayna “Sam” Appel shares: Hey all! I am serving a small church in Townsend, MA and the Board of Trustees at Stoneleigh-Burnham while living in Milford, NH with my beloved Robin and four cats! I had lunch with Sara (Smith) Brassard the other day. She is still in Hollis, NH with her husband Dave and running a thriving Yoga and body work practice. I also heard from Marcie Schaefer a short while ago. She was mourning the loss of her youth as she prepared to flip the big 5-0! It’s happening to us all, right? Hang in there Marcie! I know you will all be pleased to know that Lynne Schulthess is still Lynne Schulthess!

(You’ll always make me laugh girl!) Mina (Payne) Williams can generally be found in the barn at the bottom of the driveway most days. In a world that sometimes seems to spin out of control, it is good to know that some things don’t change!

If you haven’t found your way to SBS’s Facebook page, you should! I’ve heard from all kinds of folks from our neighboring classes and it’s great to know you’re all as “out there” as you ever were!

Blessings & Peace!

1979

Class Agent: Melissa Lichenstein Knop

1980 30th Reunion!

Class Agents: Kim Day - 403 Pacific Cir, Newbury Park, CA 91320; Dawn Slaney Hill - 303 Tutwiler Dr, Trussville, AL 35173; Cindi Grader Viola – jckviola@comcast.net Susan Dowdney Safipour shares: It has been a great year in Nor Cal! I’m having lots of fun in my 10th year at Diablo magazine, and with our newest publication, Napa Sonoma magazine. My son, John, turned 10 and races J 4/5 for Northstar, which means my husband, Fred, and I get to lug lots of ski gear to various mountains and cheer on the kids.

It’s been especially fun this year, finding out that one of the Bay Area’s top caterers is a StoneleighBurnham gal. Barbara Mayo Llewellyn ’69 and I have been able to work together on a few projects over the years, and in September I was a guest at a delicious wedding she catered in Oakland. It’s no surprise an SBS gal would be top of her biz, right?

We also got to connect with a lot of SBS Northern California alumnae at a mini reunion with Sally

Class Agent: Lois Kuiper Fuller – lcmfuller@comcast.net

travandboo@sbcglobal.net; Kelsa Fuller Zereski – kelsa96@aol.com Kelsa Fuller Zereski has been busy a few winter weekends this year thanks to the opportunity to compete with Stoneleigh-Burnham’s Mighty Mouse in the adult jumper division in Wellington, Florida. She has seen Lorna Conway, Alex Warriner ’90 and Cassandra Armento ’87 while in Florida. The class of ’88 is discussing a get-together through Facebook. The date is still pending, but we hope to see everyone at some point soon. Many thanks to Laura Kelley who we understand made a visit to help plan a beautiful garden at Stoneleigh-Burnham.

Erin Lowe-Pagliaro writes: I have been living in Atlanta for the past two years, teaching in a great preschool with my kids Reine and Finn. Laura Edison ‘87 lives upstairs and we are enjoying watching our little ones become great friends too!

My husband and I are in the process of moving back to Asheville, NC. Somehow we still manage to have our home and sailboat in the Bahamas for summer vacations. Looking forward to getting together with classmates this year…on an island or the mainland! Cheers!

Jenn Bete-Brown tells us: I continue to live in Greenfield and work as a Spiritual Counselor for Hospice of Franklin County. Last Spring I became a Certified Funeral Celebrant and established my website www.lifejourneycelebrant.com.

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Stacy Bissell writes: I was in touch with Melissa Weisberg Donovan recently and Heather Schabb as well as Brooke Reynolds Cheney and we were thinking of making an appearance at Reunion. It would be great to see everyone. I still live locally.

My daughter is 16 years old and driving with her permit now and my son is 14 and gearing up for the baseball season. I work for Gentiva Health Services as their Director of Clinical Operations and Services. My partner Sandra is a professional photographer and works in Alzheimer’s Care for Northeast Health. My email is sbissellrn@gmail. com if anyone would like to be in touch and I am also on Facebook! Hope to see some friends at the Reunion.

Katy Evers Chiapperini writes: I am working as a Social Worker at a School Based Health Center in New London, CT. My husband and I moved back to our home town two years ago and are enjoying being back in Mystic, CT. We recently had our first baby on December 13, 2009. His name is Milo Banks Chiapperini. I have been enjoying my time off with him and continue to be challenged every day. Parenthood is hard work! Again, hope everyone is well and if you are in Mystic, CT drop me a line!

Andrea Dougherty O’Naghten writes: Sorry to have missed our 20th reunion last June. I was full term with our third child in just over three years.

Carolina Sofia was born on June 26, 2009 and just a few months later she was already earning her keep (and Roth IRA money) as a baby model for HannaAndersson.com. Carolina (9 months) is following in her two older sister’s footsteps.

Isabel (3 yrs) and Noel (2 yrs) are already models appearing in catalogs and even on diaper packages in Columbia (yes, South America!). In addition to having babies and modeling them, for the past four years I have been growing a consulting business that assists non-profit arts organizations

1981

Class Agent: Becky Rawson Aronson Weaver – baronson75206@yahoo.com Debra J. Van Dyke went to Haiti for thirty days for the earthquake relief in January and February 2010. Debra spent time on the USNS Comfort, the Navy’s hospital ship, where she provided care for victims of the earthquake.

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Patty Amsler Becknell writes: I’ve enjoyed catching up with everyone on Facebook over the last year. We keep busy in Chattanooga, TN with our girls, Samantha 13 and Sophie 9, and our work. I am in the mortgage business with SunTrust and have been busy helping my clients get low rates. My husband George has enjoyed getting settled in his new position at Northwestern Mutual Financial. If anyone passes through Chattanooga, please contact us.

1983

Class Agents: Susan Mahoney Casey – suem65@flash.net Class Agents: Sophie Aikman – sophieaikman@ hotmail.com; Sharon Barbour Petrecca – spetrecca@ cox.net; Suze Stutzman – suzedesigns@ hotmail.com; Evelyn Trebilcock – Evelyn. Trebilcock@oprhp.state. ny.us

Laurie Filios Blanchard tells us: I have a new baby daughter, Annabel Mary Blanchard. She was born December 7, 2009 at 7lbs., 7oz. and 19.5 inches. She joins big sister Georgieanna, who is two years old!

1986

Class Agents: Elizabeth Engel – eengel1241@ aol.com; Liz Tichenor Percheson – elizabeth. percheson@pharna.com Donna Lynn Sparks says: “We have had a busy year so far! We relocated from Michigan back to Syracuse, NY last summer. I am still teaching dog training classes, working as a Parent Representative for our school district’s committee on Special Education and keeping busy with my kids. This move puts me in driving distance of Stoneleigh-Burnham and I was fortunate enough to attend the Wall of Fame induction with some of my classmates!

It was wonderful to see all who could attend and being back at Stoneleigh is always amazing!

1987

Class Agents: Damiane Adamczyk – dadamczyk@ snet.com; Jenny West Pender – penderjenw@ yahoo.com

1988

Class Agents: Linwood Bardusch Kenneally buggie221@yahoo.com; Taffy Bassett-Fox – tbassettfox@hr-k12.org; Travis Stewart –

Class Agents: Julie Gunther - julesgunther@yahoo. com; Sam Loud Migon – migons@bellsouth.net

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but something is always going on. Any free time we have is spent visiting my folks in Florida. Our daughter Elliot is finishing her master’s degree in speech therapy and will work with Bilingual Therapies hopefully in a school in Charleston, South Carolina. I can’t believe our son Christian turns 18 on St. Patrick’s Day and will go to college in the fall! John is thankfully still with IBM. I am taking some time off from teaching and staying busy volunteering at a Shriners hospital. Our 50’s promise to be a time for adjustments without the kids, maybe that means we can get back to New England.

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with the preparation of government and foundation funding proposals. I have helped 6-8 clients a year raise $4 million aggregate in just as many years. I work with the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and the Young Arts program, which conducts an annual search for high school seniors throughout the U.S. who excel in the arts: performing, visual and literary. The program distributes over $500,000 (awards of up to $10,000) to over 700 winners annually and nominates the Presidential Scholars in the Arts. I mention this organization specifically because in October 1988, while I was a junior at SBS, I applied to this very program in photography. All I got was a certificate, but they have been my client for two years and are certainly making it up to me now.

1990 20th Reunion!

Class Agents: Dionne Cason - 5904 Terry Parker Dr N, Jacksonville, FL 32211; Melanie McCusker Fenstersmaker – dmfence@aol.com; Tamar Cooke Luck – twnsrul@yahoo.com; Teresa Williams-Yetming – paris100@aol.com

1991

Class Agents: Amy Christiansen-Burton – ajchristiansen@aol.com; Rebecca Whiting Harr – rwharr2@aol.com; Brooke Harris – ebrooke326@yahoo.com

1992

Class Agents: Tracy Allison Evans - 1611 Prather Ave, Saint Louis, MO 63139; Leelee Harrison – leelee_harrison@yahoo.com

1993

Class Agents: Jennifer Anderson Hayes – jhayes36@yahoo.com; Sarah Johnson – sarahflies2004@yahoo.com

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Anne Stevens Frost writes: We relocated to the Philippines in July 2009 and it’s starting to feel like home. It’s not as glamorous as one might imagine, but it has come with some perks. My husband was transferred here to open an off-shore branch of the company, and at this point it looks like we’ll be here for five years or so. I’m still homeschooling our girls (almost 4 years now!) and using some of my free time and the internet to work to educate lawmakers on the ins and outs of homeschooling.

The kids and I are past the initial culture shock and have settled in to a routine. All I can say is I am suddenly that much more impressed with my international friends at SBS who went through a culture change at a much younger age than I am now. You can prepare for the big differences, but it’s all the little things you don’t think to prepare yourself for that end up driving you a little nuts.

We took the girls up to Hong Kong in February to visit Disneyland and they got to hear “Mie Kay” speaking Cantonese. This life of mine is full of things I never thought I’d be doing, and I’m loving the adventure.

Heather Rutka Coliccio writes: I am living in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn with my husband Matthew and our son Gus who is now just over 2.5 years. We are expecting number 2 in August! I am working part time as a speech pathologist and teaching a language based creative movement class for toddlers. We often dream of a simpler life in

the country with nature all around, but can’t bear to leave all the interesting people and friends, food, and daily living so unique to NYC, especially after being here for 13 years already. Just finished the application process for preschools and think it was comparable to my grad school process. Crazy!

Turns out that it has a similar price tag too! Gus is funnier every day and is definitely a dancer I am proud to say! With that big toddler belly, in his “dance pants” he looks like Mark Morris. Best to everyone.

Kim Cartier Dome tells us: I am still in New Hampshire. I am running my business with my event Horses and hopefully relocating south soon.

I met up with Vicky Castegren and Devon Edson at the SBS Equestrian Wall of Fame induction on February 20th at the SBS Equestrian facility. It was great to see everyone and catch up as well as make some new friends!

Stephanie Swift Kroth shares: We had our first little girl Margaret “Maggie” Dorothy June 30th and cannot believe that it has been 8 months already. Time sure does fly. We are still in Denver and are loving it. Been a busy year visiting lots of family and friends.

Catherine Manning writes: My news continues along the same lines as before and I am still living in Oregon. I have my Masters in Education, and plan on adding on to that next year. The men in my life are Kodiak and Red, my dogs, and the women in my life are Kanga and London, my horse and cat.

Courtenay Boncy Monfore says: Hello SBS friends! Several of you I have enjoyed keeping up with, but for those I haven’t here is an update on my life. I’ve lived in Klamath Falls, OR for the past six years working as a family therapist for a nonprofit agency. My husband John and I got married in ‘03 and we have two great girls Emma and Avery, four years and sixteen months. I think of SBS often and hope to see you at a future reunion!

Beth Stockwell writes: I am living in the greater Portland area of Maine and I have my own practice as a Naturopathic Doctor. I also teach at a nearby college in their Medical Assistant Program. I am living with my boyfriend and have no children.

Hello to everyone!

Sara Colgan shares: I am working at Stratton, a ski area in Vermont. It’s really fun! Tate, my fiancée, and I are in the process of opening a wine shop in our town called Meditrina, the Goddess of wine and health. Can’t wait for that either! We should be open by early May. Kelly Morrison Kennedy says: Hey! I am still living in Dallas, GA and loving it! I have been married 6 1/2 years and I have one son named Jack, who is 3 1/2. I stay home now, which I love! I see Laurie Kwolek-Brister and Brady at least once a week. We live down the street from one another and I see Grainne Johnson Archer about once a year, but we talk every week! Life is good, just busy with Jack and my hubby!

Colleen Pearl writes: I completed my Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in August 2009 and that has been an enormous relief! I still live in Paris and I teach at the American University of Paris and at Parsons Paris. I really love living here and I only really miss my horse, which continues to live in California and is being cared for by a lovely family (and I still hold out hope that I will bring him here one day!). I return to San Francisco every summer and spend as much time with him as possible.

As much as I shy away from the public sites like Facebook, I appreciate how much it has allowed

me to reconnect with so many SBS friends! I hope you and yours enjoy a wonderful spring!

Amie Tessler Butman shares: I have been married for 8 years and living in San Diego. I am a stay-athome mom with my three girls. Emily is 6, Lindsay is 3 and we welcomed our third daughter Sara in October. I enjoy staying at home with them and watching them grow up, although I wish many days that it would slow down. We enjoy living where the sun shines most days and love the 70-80 degree weather. I enjoy keeping up with many of my SBS friends and am glad Facebook allows us to do that.

Laurie Kwolek-Brister shares: I am expecting baby number two in August. We still live in Marietta with our Catering business. I have seen Courtney Bartlett Cardona quite a bit last year as she also lives in Marietta. I see Kelley MorrisonKennedy all the time. Our boys are one year apart and best of friends. Katie Matthews recently moved to Atlanta and I have seen her a few times as well. It is always good to see old faces and keep in touch with friends from SBS.

1995 15th Reunion!

Class Agent: Emily Clarke Whitney - ewhitney@ bement.org Hello Class of 1995! I can’t believe we graduated FIFTEEN years ago! I hope everyone is planning to attend our reunion this June. Please save the date, June 11th-13th! Recently I heard from Becky Velinsky Weiner who is married and still living in Washington, D.C. with two little boys, Joshua & Robbie. She is on maternity leave for a few more weeks until she goes back to her job in advertising.

Bari Gordon and her boyfriend Barry are living in Florida and she is hoping to combine a trip to the reunion with a Phish concert this summer! Her kids are 5 and 7 and loving school! As for me, I am still living in Deerfield at The Bement School with my husband John and our three boys, Jake (5), Sam (3) & Cooper (1). I work as a dorm parent for eleven teenage girls and I love it! I am looking forward to seeing you all in June. Please keep in touch! I run into Beth Jenest from time to time and she writes, “Greetings from good old Greenfield. It is hard for me to believe that our 15 year reunion is upon us.

Where has the time gone? Time sure flies especially once you start having children. I have a wonderful 4-year-old boy named Tyler. He has such a great little personality and I am so blessed to have him in my life. I work at the YMCA as the Assistant Aquatic Director. I teach water fitness, therapy, and swim lessons. I just started back to school. I am taking A&P and hope to get into the PT program. I am on Facebook if anyone wants to “chat.”

Caroline Enders Shibley writes: My son Noah will be 5 in August and will start kindergarten in the fall where I teach. I am still a Montessori toddler teacher in Northern Virginia. My husband Keith is waiting to get in the FBI. Things are going well and we are looking forward to our new arrival.

I really would love to come to reunion but I have no idea if we can do it!

Tangerine Curry writes: Well I am doing really well. My husband and I are really enjoying our son Thatcher. He is at such a cute age (19 months) and so much fun to interact with. Motherhood is really fun, but challenging. I am still teaching grade two at an amazing creative art based school in Nassau, Bahamas. Thatcher will join me in September, in the two-year-old class. I am going to try to make it to Reunion 2010. It would be really nice to see everyone.

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1996

Class Agents: Marguerite Barrett - margueriteb@ yahoo.com; Mary Ellen Hennessey Blake – mary_ ellen_hennessey@hotmail.com

1997

Class Agents: Erin McDonald – emcdonald82@ hotmail.com; Becky Plough – rtp9979@aol.com; Kilian Tracy – kiliantracy@yahoo.com Erin Robinson shares: This year we welcomed our fifth son, Judah Turngren Robinson, into the world on March 19. Judah was named in memory of my husband’s sister (Rebecca Turngren) who passed away tragically the month before he was born. He was a tiny 7 pounds even at birth, but has quickly grown and now weighs 23 pounds at 9 months of age! He’s ready and excited to be up and running with the other boys, and I know it won’t be long before he is! We are into our 3rd year of full-time homeschooling and it is going wonderfully. Homeschooling is challenging, fulfilling, and always fun! I absolutely love being a homeschooling mom. I celebrated my 30th birthday this year and look back in absolute amazement. I never would have imagined myself a mother to five boys and celebrating 11 years of marriage at the age of 30! I wouldn’t have it any other way and am thankful to the Lord for His abundant blessings.

1998

Class Agents: Sara Brown Gibbons – sarambrown@hotmail.com; Melissa Hemming McWeeny – melissa5074@yahoo.com; Meg O’Brien – megoatc@hotmail.com Melissa Hemming McWeeny writes: Just wanted to give everyone an update! I am still living in West Hartford, CT with my husband, Tucker, and daughter, Cailynn, who is now 5 and in Kindergarten (can’t believe it!). In April, we welcomed a 7lb, 10 oz. baby boy, Declan Kenneth into our family! I am still working as a clinician at Community Renewal Team in Hartford and love it.

Hope everyone is doing well!

Kate Echeverria shares: I graduate in May from North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine with my DVM and I have accepted an internship position at Southern Equine Services in Aiken, South Carolina.

1999

Class Agent: Alexandra Slack Hindle – alexandra. slack@gmail.com Cristen Cirrincione says: I’m still living in the Dallas area with my husband, Forrest, and my two daughters. Sonora is now 9 yrs old and Bettysue is turning 2 on April 15th. I miss my SBS ladies and hope you are all doing well. Look me up on Facebook if you haven’t already!

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2000 10th Reunion!

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Class Agent: Caisey Jefferson Kakascik– cjeff2@ yahoo.com

2001

Class Agents: Joyhdae Albert - simply.joyhdae@ gmail.com; Katelyn Morgan - kmorgan@hartford. edu From Jackie Trombly: Greetings alumnae! I am living in Keene, NH with my daughter Abella Pearl who was born April 12, 2009. I’ve been running my family’s furniture store in Swanzey,

NH since 2002. I still get together at least once a year with a few of my Stoneleigh girls but I am looking forward to seeing everybody at our ten year reunion next year. I cannot believe how quickly a decade seems to have passed by! I’m sending a picture of Abella and me taken this past Christmas.

2002

Class Agent: Samantha Pleasant – sampleasant@ gmail.com

2003

Class Agent: Jessica Fydenkevez – jess. fydenkevez@gmail.com

2004

Class Agent: Jessica Pleasant – jpleasan@student. umass.edu Molly Councilman shares: I am working on my M.S. in Health Care Administration at the University of New Haven.

2005 5th Reunion!

Class Agent: Erika Marback - Wedges9@aol.com Rachel Van Oudenaren is living in Groton, MA and working at Staples as a manager. Currently she is working on getting her Microsoft certifications.

Amy Klegarth graduated from Lafayette with a Biology degree in 2009 and is working at a genetics lab which tests for connective tissue disorders. Additionally, she has applied to several Ph.D. programs and hopes to begin Ph.D. research in the Fall of 2010. Amanda Streeter is living in Putney, Vermont and finishing up her EMT program. Amanda is a volunteer on the Putney Fire and Rescue Department. She is taking some down time for the summer and then will start nursing school in September! She says, “I am new to the healthcare system, especially EMS, but I love it!

It’s so fun learning how our bodies react to things!”

Obehi Utubor graduated from Georgetown University last May with a self-designed degree in Culture, Politics, and Theater. She is currently based in Boston as an actor, playwright, and director. She is an Artistic Associate and Playwright-in-Residence for Up You Mighty Race Company. Obehi is the recent recipient of an individual artist grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in support of the development of her newest one-woman show. Besides her work in theater, she is also working as a community builder, teaching artist, and minister in her church. For the past two years Lauren Kasnet has been attending the North American Racing Academy (NARA) in Lexington, KY, learning how to ride race horses and prepare for a career as a jockey. Lauren says, “Our first year and a half we were taking classes in Lexington and I was exercise riding Thoroughbreds in the mornings for a trainer at the training center where our program is located. I am currently in my last semester of the program which consists of an internship with Christophe Clement, one of the top trainers in the nation. I exercise ride for him every morning and I have an apartment in Stuart, Florida with two of the other people that are in my program as well. They are both riding at the same track as me but working for different trainers. I will graduate this spring with my Associates degree in Equine Science and as of right now I am not exactly sure what my future plans are yet!”

Erin Anderson shares: I am working on a dual degree at Berry College in Physics and Engineering and living in Georgia now.

From Veronique Hurley: I graduated summa cum laude from the Hartt school last May and I now

live in Astoria Queens in New York City. I have two cats, Mighty Martin and Teddy Bear. They are really adorable and very smart. I am pursuing acting and going on auditions and taking acting classes. One must always be learning! I have recently gotten into hot power yoga and I am still dancing. I am very happy and have been blessed with wonderful opportunities.

Heather Hoover shares: I am living north of Boston, finishing college at UMass Boston for exercise and health science and working as a personal trainer at Boston Sports Club. I took off 2 years of school, lived in Australia and traveled around Asia and Latin America.

From Cassie Coughlin: I graduated in May from St. Lawrence and I worked/lived at home for the fall. I just moved to Boston and live with some friends from St. Lawrence. I keep in touch with Colleen Barnett; we went to college together.

Colleen lives in Boston too. In December I visited Kayleigh Walsh in San Jose, California where she is in her third year of law school.

Elizabeth Stensrud Simmons reports: I got married on December 16, 2006 to a great guy named Malcolm. He is from Maryland but we met while he was stationed in San Diego with the United States Marine Corps. Our daughter, Lillian, was born June 12, 2007. I am in school, working towards a degree in Psychology and loving being a mother to Lillian. I am still living in San Diego (after a short move to Maryland for about 8 months). I keep in touch with Erika Marback and she is coming out to stay with me in March.

Alicia de la Vega Billingsly shares: Since leaving Stoneleigh, I have been at UMass Amherst. I took time off during school and traveled to Guatemala. I lived with a host family for three months and took classes at a Spanish immersion school. During my three months there I also traveled to Mexico.

I am currently at UMass studying Hospitality and Tourism Management and working at a hotel in the area.

Emily Rosenfeld writes: I graduated from University of Rochester in May. I am living in San Francisco and doing research in Addiction Medicine at UCSF.

2006

Class Agent: Natalie Rosenstock – rosenstock_n@mitchell.edu; Marcy Segel – mwindy15@aol.com Erika Ahbel is currently student teaching at Malletts Bay School in a 5th grade classroom in Colchester, VT. After graduation she is planning on staying in the Burlington area to teach and is hoping to eventually head abroad. Liz Smith is graduating in May and heading back up to Massachusetts to look at graduate schools with a focus in library sciences. Amy Falcone is graduating magna cum laude from Roger Williams with a BA in visual arts and moving to Los Angeles to intern with a major TV network for prop design and illustrating for a popular web-comic. Chelsea Crowl is working on her senior project which is writing, illustrating, designing and printing three different children’s books. In May she will be graduating with a major in Graphic Design and moving to Los Angeles.

2007

Class Agents: Ashlee Houle – ashleehoule@ gmail. com; Kirsten Porter – kirst.porter@gmail. com

1921 MAB Dorothy K. Howerton March 26, 2010 1948 MAB Joan Campbell Switzer November 10, 2009 1949 MAB Eleanor Ann Key-Yocius May 4, 2009 1954 SPH Priscilla Driggs Bevin December 8, 2009 1958 MAB Bebe Sedgwick Gray January 8, 2010 1968 MAB Mary Anne Page January 11, 2010 1972 SBS Linda Brooks Murray April 27, 2010 1993 SBS Erin Strecker March 29, 2010

2008

Class Agents: Martha Kingman – foremek@sover. net; Caroline Marsden – cmarsden@student. umass. edu

2009

Class Agents: Audrey Lewis –alewis@sbschool. org; Chi-Hung Liao -xurucj@hotmail.com; Colleen Mangan – cmangan@sbschool.org

Edward Eaton Finney, 82, passed away on February 24, 2010.

Edward served StoneleighBurnham School as a trustee from 1976 through 1981. He was the father of Sarah Finney ’77 and brother of Jean Haberman Finney ’64S. In 1981 the Board of Trustees declared a resolution to, “record permanently and publicly its gratitude to Edward E. Finney for his service above and beyond the call of duty, and commend his example to all who shall serve after him.” The resolution also states that Edward was dedicated, in his own words, “to the firm belief that the choice for women to attend a single-sex secondary school should prevail.”

Elinor Ferdon ’54, trustee emeritus, shares her thoughts on Edward, “He was truly an extraordinary individual and I was deeply honored to have had the opportunity to serve on the Board of Trustees with him. He provided extraordinary insight into the issues the board had before it on so many, many occasions. He was an outstanding trustee whom we all admired.” Mr. Finney graduated from The Yale School of Engineering in 1951 and was a World War II Navy veteran. He was a long term resident of Mountain Lakes, NJ and Chief Executive Officer of Panelgraphic Corporation in West Caldwell, NJ, a coating technology business that he and his ex-wife, Lynne (Morris) Finney started in the early 1960’s. He is survived by his chidren Sarah Finney ’77 and Reed Finney (Susan), his sister Jean Haberman ’64S, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Dorothy K. Howerton, Ph.D. Mary A. Burnham Class of 1921 In January, Head of School Sally Mixsell and Assistant Director of Development Bethany O’Connell visited alumna Dorothy K. Howerton, Ph.D. on the eve of her 105th Birthday. Dorothy graduated from the Mary A. Burnham School in 1921, attended Wellesley College and went on to earn her master’s and doctorate degrees at Simmons College and the University of Michigan respectively.

Dorothy was clearly touched by the visit, during which she opened a birthday present from the school and shared a few words of thanks.

Dorothy passed away peacefully on March 26, 2010. She was the oldest resident of Orleans, Massachusetts, where she lived in her own home until her death. Stoneleigh-Burnham School is proud to have known this accomplished alumna, an inspiration to generations both young and old.

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In Memoriam

Edward Eaton Finney Former Trustee

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Get Connected, Stay Engaged, Be Involved!

by Liz Feeley, Director of Alumnae Relations Eight months ago Stoneleigh-Burnham School was just a landmark that I would occasionally pass on my way to the Townline Creamie in Bernardston for a summertime ice cream treat. Today, eight months and many miles later, I see Stoneleigh-Burnham as an exceptional institution with the mission of educating young girls to become strong, intelligent and confident women of the world.

As the new Director of Alumnae Relations, I have come to understand the mission of the school through the stories and pictures alumnae have shared with me when we met for coffee, lunch or chatted at an alumnae event.

I have had the great privilege of working at some of the finest academic institutions at the college level and when I arrived at Stoneleigh-Burnham last August I was quite impressed and taken by the rich history, positive energy and vibrant vision for the school. The mission, I was informed, is to connect the alumnae with the current-day version of the school and spread the word that today’s school continues to be your school.

The Alumnae and Development Office knew it was important for us to get out there and meet you in person. And in due time it would be wonderful to be able to say that throughout our travels we have met each and every one of you! In the meantime, we decided to utilize modern technology as a way to help you get connected, stay engaged and be involved.

Thus we have engaged in Facebook, Youtube, email ‘blasts’, e-newsletters and created a more userfriendly website. These tools allow us to reach out to you, yet also allow you, our alumnae association members, to connect with each other.

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The printed Bulletin, letters and phone calls have not been abandoned for modern technology. Our goal is to reach you through whichever means of communication you prefer. There are so many

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Join SBS Alumnae Facebook Update your email address Visit the Alumnae Portal

Director of Alumnae Relations Liz Feeley, left, visiting Amie Butman ’94 in San Diego, CA.

wonderful things happening on campus and incredible accomplishments achieved by our alumnae every day. We intend to share these stories with you and encourage you to get connected, stay engaged and be involved.

So, if you haven’t joined the Stoneleigh-Burnham Alumnae Facebook family yet, join today! Send us your updated email address so you do not miss out on any alumnae or school announcements and check out our website regularly to see what events are slated for on and off campus.

And if you ever have any questions about alumnae affairs or how to connect with us, and each other using modern technology, just use some old-fashioned technology and call me on the phone at (413) 7742711 extension 247.

Stay Engaged!

Visit www.sbschool.org Attend Reunion and Regional Events

Be Involved!

Join the Alumnae Board Host an Alumnae Event Become a Class Agent

Lost and Found Finding Old Friends With Facebook Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill alumnae Laurie McKinley Brown and Ann “Andi” McCully Kleinman from the class of 1965 found each other through the Stoneleigh-Burnham Alumnae Facebook page after more than 35 years of being out of touch! After they connected, Laurie flew to Flagstaff, Arizona to visit Andi and her family for a four-day weekend.

They had Sunday family breakfast at what Andi calls her “very small” house with seventeen people in all, including Andi’s daughter and son, their spouses, three of her four grandchildren, in-laws, her daughter’s three dogs and more!

“It was joyous bedlam!” says Andi. Laurie brought her yearbook and photos on the trip because Andi thinks she lost her book in a move. “We laughed a lot!

Laurie and I made mini scrapbooks while she was here.”

Stoneleigh-Burnham School has over 1,250 alumnae as ‘friends’ on the Alumnae Facebook site. The common thread of shared experiences at school seem to transcend the many years and many more miles that might come between true friends.

Laurie’s Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill yearbooks and other memorabilia.

Andi McCully Kleinman and Laurie McKinley Brown ’65S in Flagstaff, AZ.

Andi tells us, “We had great fun remembering old times, playing catch-up and introducing Laurie to my extended family.

It was so good being together[…]we hope we don’t ever get ‘lost’ again!”

The Stoneleigh-Burnham Alumnae Board

As an active committee, the Alumnae Board volunteers to help clean the courtyard grounds in preparation for graduation vespers and Reunion; participate in an Alumnae Board phonathon; make connections with Class Agents and help to organize Reunion each year. They also sponsor and host a cocktail party at Coleman House the Friday evening of Reunion.

We are planning to expand the membership of the Alumnae Board and are looking for alumnae interested in joining in the fun while making a difference for the school. If you are interested in becoming a member of the Alumnae Board, please contact Liz Feeley at lfeeley@ sbschool.org or call 413-774-2711, extension 247.

Alumnae Board President Taffy Bassett Fox ’88.

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The Stoneleigh-Burnham Alumnae Board is comprised of volunteers representing the years spanning Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill, Mary A. Burnham and Stoneleigh-Burnham Schools. Members of the Alumnae Board assist the Alumnae Relations Office with on-campus events, including Reunion, and work directly with Class Agents to help strengthen the Alumnae Association. They serve as the voice of the Alumnae Association (which is comprised of all alumnae) and act as ambassadors of the school in promoting the school’s mission.

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On the Road with Alumnae Coonley Sisters Host New York City Event

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Helen Coonley Colcord ’55B and twin sister Hannah Coonley Nunn ’55S graciously hosted an alumnae reception at Helen’s home in New York City in April. Helen and Hannah are both Interior Designers with Helen covering the east coast from her home office in New York and Hannah working the west coast from Saint Helena, CA. Alumnae in attendance spanned the years from 1953 MAB through 1964 SPH and into 2005 from Stoneleigh-Burnham. It was a lovely evening with over forty alumnae from across the decades attending and mingling.

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Barbara Llewellyn Hosts West Coast Cooking Class Barbara Mayo Llewellyn ’69 hosted a beautiful reception and cooking class for alumnae and friends of StoneleighBurnham School at her catering business in Oakland, CA in February. Barbara Llewellyn Catering and Event Planning is, “dedicated to setting the standard for the event industry with style, creativity and an unsurpassed commitment to excellence in every aspect of their work.” Head of School Sally Mixsell and trustees Laura Richards, Kathy Seyffer Opdycke and John McNear also joined in the fun.

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Susan Safipour’80, Pamela Lee Cranston’68S, Susan Tuttle ’72, Laura Richards’60, Kathy Opdycke’70, Suzanne Conklin’69 and Emily Rosenfeld’05; Llewellyn Catering and Event Planning chef, Salete, demonstrates for the group; Suzanne Conklin’69 and Susan Safipour’80; Kathy Opdycke’70, Laura Richards’60, Darcy McCormick Tarbell’70, Emily Rosenfeld’05, Sally Mixsell’69, Barbara Llewellyn’69 and Pamela Lee Cranston’68S; Trustee emeritus John McNear P’79 and wife Anne McNear; Sally Mixsell’69 and Barbara Llewellyn’69.

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