CELEBRATING BEAUMONT ALUMNAE
CLASS NOTES Welcome to Class Notes online. Moving notes online helps us be good stewards of both the environment and your generous contributions. We encourage you to continue to share any recent life events at beaumontschool.org/classupdate or through your class rep so we may share your news online in future Class Notes.
1949 Class Representative: Annette Rini Geraci amgart8@aol.com Ann Dunigan Traverse, Jeanne Ackley Hoffmeyer, Martha Fiorette Adams, and Annette Rini Geraci recently got together to catch up at Cedar Creek Grill. They are looking forward to celebrating their 70th reunion this fall with their Beaumont Classmates!
1950 Class Representative: Mary Ann Black Warner mastepkawarner@hotmail.com Sr. Charlotte Trenkamp was the artist of the month at Apple Tree Books in Cleveland Heights during the month of November. Congratulations Sister Charlotte!
1951 The Class of 1951 is in need of a Class Representative! Please email csalata@ beaumontschool.org if you are interested.
1952 Class Representative: Carol Baird Roddy cbroddy35@gmail.com
1953 The Class of 1953 is in need of a Class Representative! Please email csalata@ beaumontschool.org if you are interested.
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1954 Class Representative: Patricia Koehn dbloh7@gmail.com
1955 Class Representatives: Sr. Maureen McCarthy, OSU mp.maureen@gmail.com Judy Kish Amundsen channelbend@cox.net Classmates attended a lovely Fabulous 50s luncheon in the Beaumont Theatre on October 9th; Christy Salata and committee did a great job! President Wendy Hoke and Beaumont Senior Meghan Kessinger spoke about enjoying her time at Beaumont. Chef Bo's food was so good! It was fun to chat with our classmates and others from Beaumont as well! We enjoyed seeing the slides of the 40's and 50's classes, and finding ourselves in them and in the yearbooks on the tables. Class of 1955 attendees: Rose Mary Selvaggio Fitzgerald, Patricia Meyers Willkomm, Lee Gibaldi Juratovec, Micki Comella Maniscalco, Terry Pezzino Lentini, Donna Cellura Brant, Joyce Pyne Hogsdon, Kathleen McMannaman Lasby, Merici Paulus Kramer and Sr. Ann Winters, OSU. Two classmates weren’t able to attend, due to illness: Sr. Maureen McCarthy and Mary Lloyd Deutschman. Sr. Maureen is looking forward to her move to Merici Crossings February 19th. Her suite mate is another Beaumont alumna— Sr. Joan Petersen.
1956 Class Representative: Patricia McIntyre Westropp pwestropp@yahoo.com Suzie Baird Fitzgerald had a wonderful visit with Sheila Dunn Burke in Arizona. It was perfect weather, lots of activity, good food, and always fun to be with a good friend. In October, Connie O’Connell Strong and Marie Penote Queenan went to visit Ann Mishler Hutzel and her husband Don in Tiffin, Ohio. Kathleen ONeill Dunn and her husband joined them. They had a wonderful time catching up and remembering lots of fun times over the many years they have known each other. Carol Hart Keck planned a fun trip to the winery in Geneva. Suzie Baird Fitzgerald, Janet Neff Newsome, Mary Anne Corlett Rotatori, Dolores McDonnell Ritt, Diane Junglas Richardson, and myself stayed at the Inn in Geneva, and had a driver take us to four wineries. We learned a lot about wine! The memorial Mass at Beaumont was very well attended. We remembered our deceased classmates Karen Kline Smith and Phyllis Bleich Greenhalgh. After Mass, Carol Egan Grady, Judy Bopp Loach, Dolores McDonnell Ritt, Diane Junglas Richardson, Janet Neff Newsome, Rosemarie Miceli Surace, Mary D'Agostino Mandalfino and myself attended brunch at Cedar Creek Grill. Our Fabulous Fifties Luncheon was also well attended. Lynn Harvanian Boyd, Peggy Walsh Varga, Diane Junglas Richardson, Dolores McDonnell Ritt, Mary Anne Corlett Rotatori, Rosa Schembri & myself all enjoyed the afternoon. Patricia McIntyre
BEAUMONT NEWS I A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNAE AND FRIENDS OF BEAUMONT SCHOOL I SPRING 2019
Westropp went on a bus trip to New York City in November. It was amazing to see Ground Zero, Manhattan, Brooklyn and the theatres. We encourage you to continue your support for our Scholarship Fund!
1957 Class Representatives: Barbara Schuele Schubert bschubert100@gmail.com Judy Patterson Nieser jpnieser@att.net Happy and Healthy 2019 to all! Maryann Papes Semancik reports not being tired at all(!) after a month-long visit from her five year old granddaughter followed by a two week visit after flying with her to her family home in San Francisco. A group of us met with Maryann while she was visiting in Cleveland (Thank you, Diane Toronski for arranging the breakfast at First Watch in Pinecrest). Maryann keeps busy visiting friends and family in San Francisco and San Diego, in addition to Cleveland. Cathy Hyland Hannon wrote from Battle Creek, Michigan (where she has lived since 1972) that her seven children, seventeen grandchildren and one great grandson live all over the country and the world. Cathy worked for twenty one years as a deputy clerk for the District Court and sang with her church choir. Since her husband, Jack’s death twenty two years ago she has volunteered in schools, helping children with reading and for the past six years has tutored a boy who has severe dyslexia. It must be thrilling for Cathy, who ranks reading and learning among her greatest pleasures, to see this boy actually enjoy reading. I, too, tutor young children who are struggling with reading and I can attest to the great rewards to the volunteer from this work. Mary Cavanaugh Lewis wrote about the trip she and Tom took to Ireland, reuniting with relatives, and then sightseeing on the west coast of Ireland with their daughters, son in law and three grandchildren. They also visited Hong Kong and Cambodia and the UK this year. Their daughter, Maureen, is relocating to London, where she will remain
with her present law firm in its new headquarters. (Seems like a good excuse to visit a wonderful city!) Mary also wrote about the stress seen in families over college admission for grandchildren. This is a comment that has been heard regularly from many grandparents of the class of ’57. In September, a dozen of us from the class of 1957 met at the Heights Grill for lunch and lots of talk. Present, were the following: Marsha Corlett Sarakaitis, Diane Golubski Toronski, Lynn Mann, Kitty Callinan Busher, Marianne Rocco Walton, Carole Margareth Marciano, Joyce Raviotta, Mary Lou Deucher Fuerst, Kay Winters O’Mally, Janet Wakefield (Sr. Praxedes, OSU), Judy Patterson Nieser and Barbara Schuele Schubert. We plan to do it again, with an even larger group, in the spring. On October 9th Beaumont hosted the “Fabulous 50’s Luncheon.” Peggy Madigan and Edie Holtzheimer Gruber joined the usual group, who reported that it was great to get together. I was sorry to miss the fun. On Nov. 29 Mary Ann Kinney came to Cleveland and all those available met at the New Heights Grill on Lee Road. A good time was reported as well as fun to catch up with Mary Ann. These notes come with a promise to plan a lunch, with plenty of lead timed, after the last freeze.
1958 Class Representatives: Mary Jo Abraham Antoon mjantoon@roadrunner.com
Diane MacDermott Mehling dianemehling@gmail.com
1961 Class Representative: Joanne Eafanti Gilliam (440) 461-2193 It seems some class members are on the move. Carol Geck Machael splits her time between condos in Iowa and Florida. Her kids and grandchildren are not close by, which can be difficult. Pat Friel Mayer is moving to the Pennsylvania countryside, close to her youngest daughter, and two hours from NYC. She will keep her house in California, winter, don't you just know! Touchstone Gallery is excited to present Mary D. Ott’s solo show Branching Out: Original Prints. The exhibit features hand-pulled prints that celebrate natural arboreal beauty.
1962 Class Representatives: Christina Collura Embrescia mceone@hotmail.com Cathy Reilly Doyle mcd11144@aol.com Donna Welsh ’62 and Terry Welsh ’65 share coffee where they live in The Villages, Florida. (Their sister, Sr. Ritamary Welsh, OSU, ’63 was visiting and gets the photography credit).
Sr. Martha Mooney mmooney@ursulinesisters.org
1959 The Class of 1959 is in need of a Class Representative! Please email csalata@ beaumontschool.org if you are interested.
1960 Class Representatives: Mary Carol Kundtz Lewis mcarollewis@roadrunner.com
Donna and Terry Welsh.
1963 Class Representative: Kati Callahan Crawford kati7845@aol.com
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