Frances Stratton Monroe died July 15, 2010, in Green Valley, AZ, at age 84. Upon graduating from Wellesley College, she worked as a legal secretary at Hale and Dorr in Boston. After their marriage, she and husband Kenneth Monroe lived in Amherst, MA, for 20 years. Fran earned the first of two master’s degrees from UMass in community health education. Her second M.A. (in counseling psychology) was from Antioch New England. She was survived by her husband, three children and two grandsons. 1945 Joanne Livermore Potter of Wenham, MA, died July 11, 2009, at age 82. She was the wife of the late G. Glen Potter, and the mother of: George of Cambridge, VT; Carl of Rowley, MA; Charles of Adams Run, SC; William of Hamilton, MA; and Sarah Villa of Wenham. She also left seven grandchildren. Mary Buell Card of East Providence, RI, died on December 22, 2009. 1946 Carolyn Underhill Harmon died in Charlotte, NC, in December 2008. Carolyn was a member of PEO International (Philanthropic
Educational Organization) and a past president of Chapter E; a longtime volunteer caregiver with Hospice and Palliative Care Charlotte Region; and active in her church and community groups, including the Monday Menders and Persian Pickles sewing groups. She also served on the board of directors of Physically Disabled Adults. Her compassion touched many lives, and her warmth extended to the many foreign guests she hosted in her home and those she met on her travels abroad. She was survived by her husband, Kenneth; their children: Kenneth, Jr. of Roswell, NM; Lynn of Tulsa, OK; Royce of Waxhaw, NC; and Mark of Matthews, NC. She also left her sister, Dorothy Underhill Taylor ’48 of Lincoln, MA; a brother; and eight grandchildren Jane Young Smith of Dover, MA, died May 3, 2010. Jane received a master’s in music at the New England Conservatory and was a retired concert flutist who formerly taught music at Beaver. She was a longtime member and past president of the Ladies’ Dog Club and bred champion Dachshunds with her late mother. She belonged to the Noanett Garden Club and loved to travel. Survivors include her five children: Wesly of Hudson, MA; Evelyn of Woodstock CT; Deborah Mozzicato of Acton, MA; Douglas, Jr. and Bradford both of Waltham, MA; and seven grandchildren. Her husband Douglas predeceased her. 1947 Myra Blanchard Rucker died on August 14, 2009. With her husband, Jerry, she spent 14 years in the Far East and then 25 years in Bethesda, MD. In 1990, the couple retired to Ponte Vedra, FL. Myra sang in the choir of the Palms Presbyterian Church, played tennis at the Sawgrass Golf and Country Club and was a Life Master in bridge. For many years she volunteered for the Reader’s Aloud program in the Ponte Vedra elementary school system. Myra loved to travel and had visited almost every continent. Survivors included three children, seven grandchildren, a sister and a stepbrother. Her husband and a son predeceased her.
1950 Barbara Stickney Laughlin of Waltham, MA, died on February 13, 2010. She was survived by: her husband, Stuart; a daughter (Deborah of Allston, MA); a son (Scott of Natick, MA); a sister (Ruth Elsa Stickney of Boston); two grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. 1953 Joan Benedict Annese of Wellfleet, MA, died on March 29, 2010, at age 75. A former Needham resident, Joan left three children: Brian of Needham; Steven of Holliston, MA; Cindy Murphy of Bellingham, MA; and nine grandchildren. 1954 Sarah Anne Kraetzer Dallas of Concord, MA, died January 1, 2010, at age 74. Sally attended Garland Jr. College, and taught preschool and music at Brooks School in Concord and at The Miquon School in Pennsylvania. She volunteered in the Concord schools and at Emerson Hospital. When her children were teens, Sally and her family hosted two foreign exchange students, and she later served as president of the local AFS chapter. More recently, she became a trained facilitator with Communities for Restorative Justice, counseling juvenile offenders. She was a longtime member and dedicated volunteer at Trinity Church in Concord. Sally loved knitting, needlework, music, gardening and birds. She was survived by her husband of 47 years, George, and their three daughters: Martha of Burlington, VT; Sarah Milt of Winchester, MA; and Elisabeth of Washington, DC. She also left two grandchildren, a brother and a sister. 1958 Kerstin Fernström Molin died on December 9, 2009. Classmate Bobbie Wessell McCuskey ’58 shared these memories: Kerstin arrived at Beaver in September of 1957 to spend our senior year with us as our American Field Service exchange student. Her home was Norrköping, Sweden, where her father worked as a dentist. Her mother and younger sister, Eva, completed the family. Kerstin quickly immersed herself in many Beaver activities and will be especially remembered during her time with us as a remarkably warm and kind friend, a talented
In Memoriam
1944 Elizabeth Williams Ivins, of Centerville, MA, died at home on October 27, 2009, at age 83. She graduated from Skidmore College and Simmons College-Harvard Medical School, with a certificate in physical therapy in 1950. Elizabeth worked with polio patients at Children’s Hospital in Boston and at the Veterans Administration Hospital of White River Junction, VT. She and her husband, William C. Ivins Jr., M.D., lived in Lloyd Harbor, NY, for many years, and Elizabeth was an active volunteer, leading the Huntington chapter of Meals on Wheels and serving on the several nonprofit boards. In 1985 Elizabeth moved to the Cape, where she volunteered atthe Centerville Public Library, taught osteo exercise at the senior center and was involved in knitting circles. She was survived by her three daughters: Deborah Taylor Doylestown, PA.; Hannah Ivins Narowski of East Corinth, VT, and Sarah of West Hartford, CT. She also left five grandchildren and a brother.
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