Communiqué 2021

SUMMER 2021

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Communiqué

Bryn Mawr alumnae, this is your magazine.

We want Communiqué to reflect—and celebrate— the bold voices, lifelong connections and vibrant spirit of Bryn Mawr alumnae. You are a dynamic group of over 3,500 graduates living all over the world and working in every conceivable field.

You are leading considered and consequential lives that draw upon your Bryn Mawr education and experiences in ways that continue to unfold with time.

We hope this magazine inspires curiosity about the present, nostalgia for the past and excitement for Bryn Mawr’s bright future.

LETTER FROM HEAD OF SCHOOL

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Dear Bryn Mawr Alumnae, As I write this, I am looking at the Graduation Garden with its white chairs, awaiting closing events. I can’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude.

We have come so far this pandemic year!

At this time last year, I wasn’t even sure we would be able to open campus, yet here we are one year later, and we’ve been able to provide a safe, supportive and stable learning environment for our students throughout. My profuse thanks go to the faculty and staff whose creativity and persistence made this school year possible. They are truly an inspiration.

We have also been deeply engaged in conversation around equity, examining how best to fully support each member of our community around the myriad dimensions of identity. As we strive to build a community where every member feels a powerful sense of belonging, I have appreciated both the excellent partnership and the call to do better from our community's bold voices.

As Bryn Mawr alumnae, you have played an essential role in the life of the school, even from afar, by getting involved with student projects (see page 8), helping to arrange senior internships, organizing your virtual reunions and making generous, transformational gifts (see page 3). This engagement signals that

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04 you, our alumnae, support Bryn Mawr’s mission and want it to endure for the students of today and tomorrow. For that, we are profoundly grateful.

The deep connections you have as alumnae are inspiring, life-changing and in some cases, lifesaving (see page 12). I am moved by your commitment to each other and to the school. I hope in the year ahead we’ll be able to welcome you home to campus.

Amidst this tumultuous year, we have been introspective and generative, launching innovative programming, sending our graduates off to amazing college careers, supporting families through the impact of the pandemic and delivering our powerful mission to provide exceptional education for young women. As we slowly emerge from this pandemic, I’m extraordinarily proud of our resilience this year and optimistic about Bryn Mawr’s future.

Head of School

Contributors

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DEBORAH BAUM Senior Director of Communications and Strategic Institutional Marketing

ELIZABETH J. HIMELFARB HURWITZ ‘93 P’26 ’31 Contributing Writer

AMY SEAGO Design Manager

DEANNA M. BOYD ’05 Director of Alumnae Engagement HANNAH KLARNER ’09 Assistant Director of Communications

SUE SADLER Head of School

Photography Hannah Klarner ’09 Jason Putsche Anne Stuzin P’15 ’17 Jaime Windon

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Editors

OUR PANDEMIC YEAR

LISTEN UP Communiqué is published annually for the Bryn Mawr alumnae community.

Please send change of address to alumnae@ brynmawrschool. org and all other correspondence to the Communications Office, 109 West Melrose Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21210 or communications@ brynmawrschool.org.

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Hooray for Pre-K! Bryn Mawr opened Baltimore’s first and only all-girls pre-kindergarten this year. Students (in tiny uniforms) spend a full day in their new space and enjoy Lower School specials like P.E., music and world languages. “COVID really gave us an opportunity to think about what was important… a bright, warm and engaging classroom where girls are excited to begin their first school experience,” said Pre-K Teacher Tynaya Quickley.

Daisy Day 2021 Around the world, the Bryn Mawr community came together in spirit and service to celebrate Daisy Day on January 29, 2021.

Students in all divisions shared their generosity with the greater Baltimore community through divisional service projects, including assembling toiletry kits for House of Ruth, collecting more than 10,500 diapers for ShareBaby, creating soup and biscuit kits for Empty Bowls and penning notes to Bryn Mawr employees as well as residents of Keswick, Broadmead and Kennedy Krieger.

In addition to community service efforts, Bryn Mawr parents and past parents, alumnae, grandparents, employees, trustees and friends joined together to raise over $89,400 for The Bryn Mawr School. Kudos to the Class of 1995 for having the highest participation for the second consecutive year and to the Class of 2011 for raising the highest dollar amount at $7,183.

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Poetry as Protest A poem by Caroline Knight ’22 titled “free and brave,” written in response to the death of George Floyd last year, was published by The Hopkins Review. Caroline credits the Middle School publication Magpie as helping her discover a love of writing poetry. Poetry, to Caroline, is her form of protest. “It is the way I express my activism and allyship for my community,” she shared.

DEI Work Inspires Major Gift

Leadership in Action A new initiative this year, Leadership in Action, is a comprehensive character, curiosity and community-building program for all students, pre-K through 12th grade, that brings together personalized leadership development, community engagement experiences and social impact opportunities.

The program year culminated with the Leadership in Action Student Expo, featuring 40 groups of students showcasing projects that demonstrate problemsolving and social entrepreneurship. Projects included an app coded by a group of fifth graders to promote recycling, building a “My Little Library” box in a local neighborhood, a student-written and -directed production of Little Women and a blog to promote minority-owned small businesses in the Baltimore area.

Learn more at brynmawrschool.org/leadership.

Go Mawrtians!

Photo credit: Anne Stuzin P’15 ’17

Despite major restrictions with game schedules, facilities and fans, Mawrtian Athletics made it work this year. The fall season started with non-contact drills for tennis, field hockey, soccer and cross country, progressed into full practices and eventually ended with a few IAAM league games, meets and matches. The basketball, squash and swim teams were able to compete in scrimmages through the winter, but competitions were largely limited due to the indoor facilities. The spring season ushered in the first league-sponsored competitions of the year for Bryn Mawr’s badminton, golf, lacrosse, softball and track teams. Badminton finished second in the IAAM league tournament, golf finished second at team championships and—in one of the toughest conferences in the country—lacrosse had its most successful season of the last five years. “Mawrtian Athletics has given us a sense of community and unity when we needed it most,” said Director of Athletics Tina Veprek. “This year will be one we’ll always remember.”

An anonymous alumna committed $1 million to support Bryn Mawr’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming, and to provide financial aid for students of color, including an endowed scholarship fund. This generous donor wants her gift to accelerate the positive steps Bryn Mawr is taking to become a more equitable community, and hopes to inspire fellow alumnae and community members to get involved and support this work.

“For Bryn Mawr to be a true leader in this important work, philanthropy is essential.

Alumnae and community members must do all we can to bring financial resources to the table,” the donor shared. “It is the right thing to do, and I hope this initial gift inspires others.”

“Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the core of our mission and purpose at Bryn Mawr,” said Head of School Sue Sadler.

“We are deeply grateful for this transformative gift that will support and advance DEI initiatives right now and far into the future.”

”It is the right thing to do, and I hope this initial gift inspires others.”

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OUR PANDEMIC YEAR It has been a year unlike any other at Bryn Mawr. Reopening school during a pandemic tested our community in ways that required creativity, resilience and innovation. We are proud, and grateful for this memorable year.

Reopening Bryn Mawr was one of the first schools in the area to reopen for on-campus learning. In June 2020, our Little School team opened their doors, providing a successful example that allowed the rest of the school to follow in late August. Welcoming students back for in-person classes involved reimagining campus logistics, new investments in equipment and a constant assessment of the changing health landscape. HERE’S A LOOK AT HOW WE DID IT!

Old Traditions, New Ways Beloved traditions carried on this year, with some COVID modifications. After going virtual for last year’s event, the Middle and Upper School students were able to gather on the turf for the 117th annual Gym Drill. Alumnae faculty and staff members participated, representing all alumnae in the Banner March, students socially distanced on their “blobs” and attendance was limited to only parents of seniors. As All-School Captain Serena Cooper ’21 noted, Gym Drill provides comfort and a sense of belonging. “That is the magic of Gym Drill: the hierarchy we may see and feel every day as a Bryn Mawr student disappears with a swell of school spirit,” she said.

Bryn Mawr Where You Are Leveraging the school’s successful shift to distance learning last spring, a 400 percent growth in 2020 Summer Session enrollment and the continued honing of virtual learning best practices throughout this year, Bryn Mawr is piloting Bryn Mawr Online. This diplomaawarding high school program will open next year to an inaugural cohort of ninth-grade students from across the country. It will operate independently from our oncampus program, but still offer a challenging curriculum through live, synchronous classes, personalized student success coaching and a college counseling program. Find out more at brynmawronline.org.

OUR PANDEMIC YEAR

HOW WE DID IT TECH TIMES

LUNCHTIME

29,000 bagged lunches provided

by Hoene Dining Hall in classrooms and outdoors

62,092

15 million

virtual Bryn Mawr classes and meetings totalling…

minutes of collective Zoom time, including…

276 hours of COVID Task Force meetings

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square feet of acrylic barriers for classrooms, offices and restrooms

signs and floor decals to encourage social distancing

tests for COVID-19 performed on campus

air purifiers in classrooms and commmon spaces

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hand sanitizer stations throughout campus

tents erected around campus for outdoor learning

brand new sinks built outdoors to encourage hand-washing

electro-magnetic sanitizing sprayer backpacks

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GOOD TO KNOW Engaging Across Differences

Over the last year, schools and organizations across the country, including Bryn Mawr, accelerated initiatives to build and strengthen their diverse communities so that every person feels invited, respected, supported and valued. In order to make meaningful progress, individual action is essential.

Here, Bryn Mawr alumnae from a variety of fields share their advice, experiences and expertise on how to get involved.

KEONNA HENDRICK ’01 First things first: Most workplaces, schools and organizations are tremendously varied in beliefs, races, religions, political ideologies and identities. To be successful, Keonna Hendrick ’01 believes individuals need to learn how to effectively engage across differences. Hendrick is Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access at the Brooklyn Museum. During a virtual alumnae program earlier this year, she shared important information and tools to help people better understand the interconnectedness, assumptions and biases that come with identifiers such as gender, race, socio-economic status and ability.

REBEKAH ROBINSON ’17 For some, a bold voice might be metaphoric, but for Rebekah Robinson ’17, it’s quite literal. Her work as an audio producer and writer for Hart House Stories and Living Well has given her insight into the world of podcasts, which can allow listeners to learn more about themselves and others—a key step in beginning to engage across differences. She encourages people to diversify the stories they listen to and read about in order to enrich and broaden their viewpoints. “Podcasts are a great way to learn from a new perspective or experiences that may be unfamiliar to you,” Robinson shares. “They also, many times, come directly from the people whose stories they are.”

DAWAN JULIEN ’94 Reading and listening to the stories and experiences of people of color is a good start, but Dawan Julien ’94 believes that is only one piece of the puzzle. As an Equity Transformation Specialist with the national organization Courageous Conversation, Julien encourages people to reflect on their own lives and experiences.

“You can have all the reading lists in the world. But if you aren’t reflecting and making changes in how you live your life every day, all that reading is not going to take,” she says. Julien explains that this internal work “is critical and it is the difference between performative and authentic allyship.”

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GRACIE HARRINGTON ’11 The first step in a journey towards active allyship can be daunting, says Gracie Harrington ’11. While she works in development for Bryn Mawr College, she also stays connected to The Bryn Mawr School by facilitating LGBTQ+ alum affinity groups.

She wants those interested in starting the process to know, “Be kind to yourself. No one is knowledgeable about everything.”

She agrees with Julien that understanding one’s own privileges and biases is the first step to being an ally. “From there, take another step. When you know better, do better,” she says.

Harrington suggests leaning into the process to continually improve. She says, “when you begin to learn how you’ve done something or said something harmful, apologize, don’t make that mistake again and teach others what you have learned.”

KARIN WALSER ’84 Karin Walser ’84, had a professional background in political and campaign communications, but one night in Washington, DC she met a group of children experiencing homelessness and was compelled to do something. She founded Horton’s Kids in 1989, a highly respected social services nonprofit, and ran it for 20 years, taking it from an entirely volunteerdriven organization to offering multiple specialized programs for academic and social-emotional health. Walser emphasizes the power of each individual. As she says, if you see an issue, don’t assume someone else is solving it. “Every single one of us has something to offer—time, money, support, creativity, connections or love,” she says. Her advice? Don’t be afraid to get involved. “The more sincere and humble your efforts, the greater an impact they will have. And all of those little impacts rolled together can make profound, lasting change.”

“You can have all the reading lists in the world. But if you aren't reflecting and making changes in how you live your life every day, all that reading is not going to take.”

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CLASS IN SESSION Course: Voice and Vision Division: Middle School Eighth-grade students have boundless energy, varied interests and at Bryn Mawr, a belief they are unstoppable.

Five years ago, the Middle School created the capstone Voice and Vision Seminar to bring together these important aspects of eighth-grade students.

The overall goal of the yearlong seminar is for students to create “something real for someone real.”

Eighth graders select any topic of interest and create a deliverable final product. The process includes researching and interviewing experts, presenting an elevator pitch and participating in a leadership session. As professionals in various fields, alumnae are often involved with projects, serving as mentors or panelists, connecting students to organizations or simply offering advice.

This year, the Class of 2025 developed projects on a range of topics, including limb length discrepancies, food allergies and animal adoption.

Isabelle Nicolas ’25 (pictured above) focused her Voice and Vision project on starting a community garden. She educated Bryn Mawr kindergarteners on the importance of caring for the environment and worked with them to plant flowers in biodegradable containers. “I loved getting to teach younger kids about the environment, it was the highlight of my project,” she says.

To learn about all-natural garden cultivation, Isabelle spoke with Helen Bowie Campbell ’79, owner of Helen’s Garden, a floral farm in Greenspring Valley, Maryland.

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While students practice interview skills, research, pitching ideas and public speaking, they are also learning from struggles and failures as they are encouraged to share their “best mistakes” along the way.

“Voice and Vision is a learning journey that helps you make your imagination into something real and beneficial,” Nicolas shares. “It helps you learn what you are passionate about and prepares you for real-world situations.”

“It helps you learn what you are passionate about and prepares you for real-world situations.”

Alumnae in Action

More than 40 alumnae spanning five decades provided feedback and guided students on their projects, including:

Leslie Crocker Snyder ’58

shared her experience working in New York's judicial system.

Sameera P. Hafiz ’93 spoke with Riya Narasimhan ’25 about her Voice and Vision project to help raise awareness for refugees.

Niara Robinson ’16

helped coordinate projects for all eighthgrade students as a teaching assistant in the Middle School.

Isabelle Nicolas ‘25 You can inspire students through your work!

To get involved contact Deanna Boyd ’05: boydd@brynmawrschool.org.

Purchase The Alumnae Association Cookbook for $18 by emailing: bmscookbook2016@ gmail.com.

LET’S DISH With Lucie Boucher ’21 and Elizabeth Polydefkis ’21

For their Senior Project, Lucie and Elizabeth teamed up to create a family recipe cookbook using recipes from their heritage and, along the way, welcomed support from chef and food stylist Idalee Wagman DiGregorio ’81. Here, they share a special recipe with the Bryn Mawr community near and far.

Directions

Nonni’s Pupparates

4. Gradually add liquid mix to the large bowl of dry ingredients. Add up to 1 additional cup of all-purpose flour so the dough is no longer sticky.

Prep time: 20 minutes +10 minutes of assembly Cook time: 20–25 minutes Yield: 16 delicious cookies

This simple yet delicious recipe comes from Lucie’s Nonni, whose family hails from northern Italy. It’s been passed down through generations!

1. Preheat oven to 325°F. 2. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and salt into a large bowl.

3. Blend with a mixer: eggs, sugar, vegetable oil, molasses, warm water and orange juice.

5. Flour your work surface and divide dough into 16 equal portions.

6. Roll and shape 16 “snakes”—shape them into a circle, making sure to seal the seam and make six 1-inch cuts on the outer edge.

7. Place on a baking sheet with parchment paper and bake for 20–25 minutes. Check at 20 minutes; a toothpick should be clean after being inserted into the cookies and the edges of the cookies should be slightly browned.

What You'll Need Ingredients: ▫ 9 cups all-purpose flour + 1 cup (as necessary) ▫ 5 teaspoons baking powder ▫ ½ teaspoon baking soda ▫ 2 tablespoons cinnamon ▫ ½ teaspoon nutmeg ▫ 1 ½ teaspoons allspice ▫ ½ teaspoon salt ▫ 3 eggs ▫ 1 cup sugar ▫ ¾ cup vegetable oil ▫ (1) 12 oz jar molasses ▫ ¾ to 1 cup warm water ▫ ½ cup orange juice Supplies: ▫ Large bowl ▫ Mixer ▫ Baking sheet ▫ Parchment paper

Cut along the lines for your grocery list

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HONORING OUR ALUMNAE Each year, we honor outstanding Bryn Mawr alumnae who embody the school mission of leading considered and consequential lives through their service and achievements. Read more about this year’s Alumnae Award winners and how they each positively contribute to Bryn Mawr and the greater world.

Distinguished Alumna Award Margo Vassar ’91 is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Alumna Award, which is given to an alumna who embodies the highest ideals of the school through her professional or volunteer commitments.

Vassar graduated cum laude from Brown University with a degree in health and society and a focus on international health. She was granted a Fogarty Fellowship to study malaria in Mali during medical school at University of Maryland and later interned with the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland during her cardiology fellowship.

Vassar’s practice now focuses on echocardiography and non-invasive cardiology. After a few years of private practice, she joined The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii and the University of Hawaii at Manoa as an assistant clinical professor.

In addition to her practice, she teaches cardiology fellows, medical residents and students. Vassar is also a certified yoga instructor and incorporates holistic methods in both teaching and patient care.

Public outreach has always been an important aspect of Vassar’s practice, whether it be volunteering in free health clinics, speaking in the community, appearing on local television stations on various health topics or, more recently, volunteering in COVID-19 vaccination clinics. Vassar’s Byrn Mawr classmates note her confidence, courage and multifaceted talents.

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Senior Alumna Award This year’s Senior Alumna Award is presented to Monica Brunson ’81 for her significant contributions to the community in the area of healthcare for seniors.

For more than a decade, Brunson has helped match families with compassionate and affordable supportive care or assisted living care throughout Maryland.

In addition to her work as CEO and senior consultant at Brunson Healthcare Consultants, Brunson co-owns Berries by Quicha, a gourmet chocolate-coveredstrawberry shop in Federal Hill. She also serves as a minister at her church. Classmates describe Brunson as an “indefatigable entrepreneur” who has taken the lead on this year’s Reunion Committee. One friend noted, Brunson “not only embodies all the qualities Bryn Mawr fosters in its students…but she is an untiring cheerleader for her classmates and for Bryn Mawr.”

Young Alumna Award A 2020 graduate of Pitzer College, Grace Greene ’16 holds a degree in cognitive science with a minor in legal studies.

Her passion lies in helping young people reach their full potential. She is currently working as a research associate at Hopelab, a social innovation lab focused on designing science-based technologies to improve the health and wellbeing of teens and young adults. Greene has served as a member of the Recent Grads Committee for The Fund for Bryn Mawr and on her fifth Reunion Committee.

She has also returned to Bryn Mawr, both virtually and in person, as a speaker for Upper School convocation.

Greene frequently shares her bold voice, writing about her experiences and identity on gracelrgreene.medium.com.

Anne Edmunds Croker ’58 Alumnae Service Award Diana Salsbury ’11 has been one of the most engaged young alumnae since she graduated from Bryn Mawr.

Salsbury is a software engineer at Google, where she has worked since graduating from Dartmouth in 2015. In addition to her work on the Reunion Committee and as a fundraising volunteer, Salsbury stays consistently connected to Bryn Mawr as a STEM mentor, participant in the annual Maryland STEM Fair for Girls and frequent classroom speaker about her career as a software engineer. She has also hosted gatherings for alumnae and Upper School students at Google headquarters in New York City. We are grateful for her dedication and service to the school.

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CONNECTED, FOR LIFE

By Elizabeth J. Himelfarb Hurwitz ’93 P’26 ’31 From our earliest days in green uniforms and brown Oxfords, Bryn Mawr extracted from our lips a promise: If years from now we meet the test, We’ll thank thee then, Bryn Mawr.

Beyond the shelter of Bryn Mawr’s porticos, life brings no shortage of tests. Armed with bold voices and faith in the power of sisterhood, we slay our dragons and tip our hats. But a small band of alumnae have made merit with acts so worthy they lift all our faces a little closer to the sun.

Photos clockwise from left: Emily Fetting ’02 and Hannah Fetting ’05 capturing moments during their hospital visits (top two photos); Michelle Foots Holloway ’97 (center) surrounded by Bryn Mawr alumnae, including the Classes of ’95, ’97, ’98, ’18 and ’19, at the graduation party of Kayla Evans ’19, daughter of Farah Hinds Evans ’98; Rachel Arnot Rockwell ’97 (right) and Kate Christensen Corzine ’97 (left) dressed for surgery 12

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Michelle ’97 and Farah ’98 “In the 1990s,” reflects Farah Hinds Evans ’98, Director of Student Support Services at Bryn Mawr, “the older Black students took us under their wing. It made my experience so much more meaningful.”

Michelle, Farah and friends from the Class of ’98, Tomeka Chance, Maya Kelly, Kelli Anderson and Shirin Nikbakht in the gym lobby Dec 1996

Among those upperclassmen was Michelle Foots Holloway ’97. In her senior year, Michelle gave birth to a son. Later that same year, Farah, a junior, found herself pregnant. Although her family transferred her to public school for her senior year, her Bryn Mawr advisor continued to call Farah regularly to ensure she was on top of her homework and her college applications. (She was.)

Meanwhile, Farah’s connection with Michelle deepened. “We were two teen moms with goals.

Our best friends had gone away to college and were doing the things 18-year-olds are supposed to do.

We were here in school with our families.” Soon, they were inseparable. Overcoming the challenges of early motherhood gave them a unique bond and strengthened their confidence: “We can figure this out, just like we figured that out.”

GIFT OF LIFE When she was 21, Michelle noticed joint swelling and was diagnosed with lupus, an autoimmune disease.

Michelle’s systems rebelled in succession. “In 2012,” Farah remembers, “they said she needed a kidney.

We were all like, ‘Where do we sign up to get tested?’”

Farah was identified as the most viable candidate.

Farah (center) at her high school graduation with Michelle (right) and daughter Jordyn

“It was a gift I was happy to give,” Farah says, “I’d do it again and again and again.” But in time, Michelle’s disease targeted the transplanted kidney as well.

Years later, Michelle underwent a second transplant, but a series of strokes precipitated a stepwise decline.

When Farah returned to Bryn Mawr in 2019, Michelle was thrilled. “Some students have segues they didn’t plan for,” Farah muses. “I want to help them navigate their path.”

LEGACY OF RESILIENCE

Michelle and Farah with Melanie Harris ’98 and Amirah Baker Wilson ’98 at their fifth reunion CONNECTED, FOR LIFE

Michelle passed away on July 23, 2020. “I attribute much of my resilience to her and the life that she lived,” Farah says, brushing aside tears and waving a student into her office. “I thank Bryn Mawr for that bond.”

Hannah ’05 and Emily ’02 Early in 2021, Upper School Dean of Students Emily Fetting ’02 gave her sister Hannah ’05 a piece of her liver. The transplanted organ (known between them as “Louise”) hasn’t made Hannah the champion crossword puzzler Emily is…yet. But in a matter of months, Louise (formerly known as Emily’s left lobe) will be fully grown. Then, all bets are off. “‘Stop bugging me’ was 100 percent our relationship growing up,” Hannah laughs.

“It was never a question of us volunteering.

The only message was, ’we're here, we're ready.‘” Emily Fetting ‘02

“She used to come to my door and ask, ‘Do you have anything you don’t want anymore?’” Emily recalls. “‘Like a part of your liver?’” adds Hannah. “We had no idea how prescient that was. I wanted to be like Emily in any way that I could.”

HER BEST HOPE Eight years ago, Hannah was diagnosed with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC), a condition which damages the bile ducts, trapping toxins in the liver. There is no medical treatment; transplant is the only cure.

A nurse practitioner at Johns Hopkins, Hannah serves patients with a complex set of needs. Still, she says, “Until you sit in that place…”

In the summer of 2019, Hannah was sick enough to claim a spot on the national transplant list, but other patients would supersede her until her disease progressed to a devastating degree. In consultation with her doctor, reality set in. Her best hope was a living-donor transplant.

Hannah (left) and Emily (right) embrace in late 2019 after learning about Hannah’s definite need for a liver transplant

SIBLINGS STEP UP “It was never a question of us volunteering,” Emily says of herself and Hannah’s two other siblings. “The only message was, ‘we’re here, we’re ready.’”

In late December 2020, Emily told her siblings, “I’m going to do it.”

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Rachel ’97 and Kate ’97 PSC is rare, affecting one in 10,000 people.

Nevertheless, the diagnosis that bonded the Fetting sisters also reunited Rachel Arnot Rockwell and Kate Christensen Corzine, both Class of ’97.

Rachel’s daughter Hannah ’26 was nine months old when Rachel found herself profoundly fatigued.

Bloodwork revealed a problem with her liver and she was diagnosed with PSC.

A PLEA Episodes of intense itching and debilitating fevers followed. In May of 2020, after six years on the transplant registry, Rachel’s doctor urged her to seek a living donor. In June, she posted a plea to Facebook. “I know it’s a big ask,” Rachel wrote.

Many who read her story lined up for screening.

Among them was Kate. As students, Kate and Rachel were not exceptionally close. It didn’t matter. “This is who Kate is,” Rachel says.

Kate, a wound care nurse and mother of five, didn’t tell Rachel she was under consideration. “There were multiple moments it looked like it would not be me,” she remembers. But—after batteries of tests and interviews—Kate emerged the best match.

Kate (left) and Rachel (right) reconnect for the first time in 15 years just one week before their transplant surgery

“There was some fear that I was being a little bit reckless,” Kate admits. “But the more I learned about the surgery, the more I felt at peace with it. If I were in Rachel’s situation as a mom with so much life left to live—and with something that was both terminal and treatable—I would really, really want someone to lend me a liver.”

“Lend,” scoffs Rachel. “Give,” Kate corrects, laughing.

PRAYERS ANSWERED The transplant coordinator called with the news of a match on the last day of a 40-day prayer practice Rachel had undertaken.

“I knew when the phone rang that I’d been matched,” Rachel reports, still mystified. But she was floored that her donor was Kate. “I tried to rewind as though I’d missed all the clues in a movie.”

The movie version is a feel-good flick: in September 2020, doctors performed the transplant.

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Rachel welcomes her children Oden and Hannah ’26 for an outdoor visit during her two-week hospital stay

LISTEN UP With Brittany Anderson Beverley ’03

Q: HOW DID YOU END UP STARTING A PODCAST? I wanted to share my thoughts, feelings and experiences concerning dating to a greater audience and this was the best way to achieve my goal.

Q: TELL US A LITTLE MORE ABOUT DATING UNIVERSITY. Dating University (DU) began in 2016 after a series of failed dating and relationship attempts.

I began to post status updates and quick video clips that resonated with my online followers so much that I decided to make it a weekly event with my permanent co-host, Charles Pratt. DU has listeners from all over the world…we average between 500 and 3,500 listeners per week.

By day, Brittany Anderson Beverley ’03 is a systems analyst for the Social Security Administration, but on the side she’s a popular podcaster sharing “the good, the bad and the ugly” about love, relationships and dating. Hundreds of listeners tune in each week for Brittany’s live episodes of Dating University on Thursday nights.

Here, she gives Communiqué a peek into her process and shares what’s up next in her podcast queue.

BRITTANY RECOMMENDS:

See.Plan.

Do Show

Garry O'Neil Jr.

The “Meme” -ing of It All

The Jest3r/Pablo, CDot & ”Best Friend“

Q: WHAT ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS YOU’VE COVERED OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS OF HOSTING? We’ve talked about first dates, online dating, dating over 40, dating people who have children and being content with being single.

Q: THIS SEEMS VERY DIFFERENT FROM YOUR JOB WITH THE SSA. WHAT’S ENJOYABLE ABOUT DU? I find dating and relationships so fascinating and am passionate about human interactions.

Q: YOU GOT MARRIED IN OCTOBER 2020. HOW HAS THAT CHANGED DU? My perspective on dating is the same because dating is something that is for everyone, regardless of marital status.

I still date my husband!

Q: YOU CAN INVITE THREE GUESTS (DEAD OR ALIVE) TO AN UPCOMING SHOW. WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE? My mother since she is a huge fan of the show and always asks to be a guest; any ex, to give my audience hope that all failed relationships do not always have to end on bad terms; and my grandparents to discuss dating from an elderly perspective.

Dating does not discriminate based on age!

Q: WHAT MOVIES AND TV SHOWS HAVE YOU ENJOYED DURING QUARANTINE? Married At First Sight, Love is Blind and 90 Day Fiancé. Do you see a theme here? Dating and relationships are a passion of mine! It also gives me ideas for future show content.

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Lovers’ Quarrel Dani & TJ

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CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 2021!

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In a new tradition, senior Tahra Khanuja ’21 paints her Bryn Mawr uniform skirt with her college logo.

SEE WHERE THEY'RE GOING! The 78 members of the Class of 2021 are heading off to 55 different colleges and universities next year. In a senior year unlike any other, students were guided through the college admissions process without the usual ability to travel for campus tours or overnight visits. Director of College Counseling Ann Marie Strauss said, “In spite of the challenges of a pandemic, the Class of 2021 navigated the process with determination and bravery.”

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Class of 2021 College Matriculation

Pennsylvania State University

Please note that a school name with a numeral next to it indicates the number of students attending that institution.

Rice University

Princeton University Roosevelt University Skidmore College

Barnard College

Trinity College Dublin

Bentley University

Tulane University of Louisiana (4)

Boston College (3)

University College Dublin

Brown University

University of California, Davis

Bucknell University

University of California, Irvine

Carnegie Mellon University (2)

University of Chicago

Case Western Reserve University (2)

University of Colorado Boulder

College of the Holy Cross

University of Delaware

Columbia University in the City of New York

University of Florida

Community College of Baltimore County

University of Maryland, College Park (4)

Cornell University Davidson College Denison University Florida Southern College Georgetown University Harvard University (2) Hofstra University Howard University (2) Johns Hopkins University (3) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Richmond (2) University of Rochester (2) University of Southern California (2) University of Toronto Vassar College

Middlebury College

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (4)

New York University (2)

Wake Forest University

Northeastern University (2)

Washington and Lee University

Old Dominion University

Washington University in St. Louis

Pace University

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CLASS NOTES Class Notes are here! We hope you enjoy reading updates from your classmates and friends. To submit a Class Note for the next issue, visit brynmawrschool.org/classnotes.

1950s 1953 JUDY DEVLIN HASHMAN ‘53 shares, “I am still in touch with June Costin ’53, Alice Bowdoin Poole ’53, Sandra Dailey ’52 and Mary Holman Miller ’53 after all these decades. I am [also] now a step-great-grandmother of a COVID baby. Life goes on.”

1954 During COVID confinement (not quarantine!), DIANE CARLINER ‘54 wrote a fivepage story about the social mores of Bryn Mawr at the time. It is supposed to be humorous, Diane shares.

“I was a newspaper reporter for 22 years, so writing is not

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a problem. Other than that, I keep in touch with classmate Ellen Russell Lewis ’54, who lives in Milton, MA. We have pleasant conversations about what we are reading.”

1957 CAROLE RITTENHOUSE BRICK ’57 reports that she is still alive and well. After nearly 23 years she is still living at the same home in New Mexico.

1958 MARY STEWART HAMMOND ALLEN ’58 wrote with sad news: “My husband of 49 years, two months and 12 days died suddenly, unexpectedly and unnecessarily on August 3rd in

Names shaded in gold represent deceased alumnae. Additional alumnae are honored in our In Memoriam on page 43.

the Martha's Vineyard Hospital ‘without cause.’ This is being investigated. Kappy MacLean Bovey ’58, who had been my matron-of-honor, invited Sue Peirce Hartshorn ’58 and Neilson Peirce Andrews ’58 to come to her house on the Vineyard for a weekend in September so we could be together, masked and outdoors, except when eating. We looked through pictures in an album from our wedding and there was Mrs. Peirce standing right in the middle of a whole bunch of you. It brought laughter and tears. I returned to NYC near the end of October. I feel safe here and surrounded by Arthur in our apartment.”

1959 SILVINE MARBURY FARNELL ’59 writes, “The biggest thing I have to celebrate in our Class Notes is my luck in living in a continuing care retirement community where there have been no deaths and only a very few people have gotten ill, and they have recovered. And it's full of interesting people, some of whom are part of a bi-weekly poetry group where we share and talk about our favorite poems—you can imagine how much I love that! And there's a book group called Race Matters, where we're currently reading a fascinating book called The Three Mothers, about the mothers of James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Their courage and resource in the face of incredible racism—totally inspiring. Would love to hear what others are up to!”

Zoom meetings have “been a blessing” for CAROL DICKEY WILSON GARVEY ‘59 since she no longer drives. “I remain very involved on a volunteer basis in health care access, women’s reproductive health and the elimination of the disparities in pregnancy outcomes.”

ANNE HOENE HOY ‘59 shares, “I'm continuing to edit for the New York Historical Society— and though the pay is on the same level as my PC skills (in the cellar), the projects are worthwhile. The latest is ‘Scenes of New York City: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection’ to accompany an exhibition this fall of 110 paintings and drawings of city landmarks by 20th-century artists, mostly American, from Stuart Davis to Andy Warhol.

The suspense is whether this developer's collection will be given, as promised, along with support for this hardcover

and a named gallery in the NYHS. The Historical covers art and history, e.g., Audubon's original watercolors for the Birds of America prints and the largest number of Tiffany lamps in a public institution and a Center for Women's History, including Billie Jean King's championship tennis dress. (Of course there's more, and the changing as well as permanent exhibitions are for more than NYC students).

It's at Central Park West and 77th Streets, steps from the Museum of Natural History and The Rose Center for Earth and Space.

We (longtime partner Brian Harra and I) got our second Pfizer jab in February and are daring to return to NYC for routine dental and optical exams. Connecticut is rated fourth in the United States for vaccinations—but I could be out-of-date! Will we ever believe politicians again— especially those from the Neanderthal era? Eager to hear from you all who are able to do safe volunteering and those who really like their care facilities. If yes to the latter, what are your tips on finding them or trustworthy caring caregivers for home visits?”

MARJORIE “VANDY” STISSEL HUMPHREY ‘59 shares, “Herb and I are in an independent living apartment house, Chapel Oaks, that is part of the Saint Ann's Community for continuing care in Rochester, NY. We really like it and are very happy here. Herb at 94 has lost a lot of short-term memory and ability to be independent.

We moved here and sold our home five years ago because I could no longer keep him safe in our home. Here I can care for him, and we can both have an interesting and vital life.

The way to find a good facility like this is to talk to many people who live in the ones you are thinking about. We did and we visited, and my mom and dad did that before they moved into Roland Park Place where they were happy and safe. My mom was beautifully supported after my dad died six months after they moved in.

The same thing applies to finding home health care. Talk to the people who use those services. I wish I had been able to before we hired aides after Herb broke his hip. The aides were very good, but the agency was awful, disorganized, difficult to communicate with.

They did not bill accurately and did not pay one of the aides fully for all the time she worked for us. We discontinued the service as soon as we could.

I hope all of you are healthy and relatively happy in this strange new world of COVID-19, and I hope ease of restrictions can happen for us all safely! Stay safe!”

MYRA ROSENFIELD LITTLE ‘59 has been busy! “I have used the COVID-19 lockdown to work on my book The Hôtel de Cluny in Paris: Continuity and Innovation in French Fifteenth Century Domestic Architecture, which is to be published by Brepols in Belgium. I am now writing the conclusion and will then have the task of putting together the six chapters all written at different times. We have also used the time to renovate our kitchen. I hope next year, the border between the US and Canada will reopen and we will be able to come to the US.” During the stay-home era of COVID constraints, MARJORIE MUECKE ‘59 “took up planning Zoom programs put on by Penn’s Village for seniors living

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Anne Allen Boyce Dandy ’45 Seen here on The Bryn Mawr School Lacrosse team during her senior year in 1945, Anne Allen Boyce Dandy ’45 (standing in the top row, second from the left) is one of several remaining classmates from her Bryn Mawr class. It is a fond memory sent in from Anne's daughter, Nancy Dandy Patz ’72.

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in Philadelphia. Penn’s Village is part of a network of some 250 Villages in the United States, each working to assist older neighbors to thrive when living independently in their own homes by increasing social engagement through a network of volunteers (pennsvillage. org). I saw what my twin Madeline Muecke ’59 was giving and getting from it as a volunteer in the Chicago Village, so decided to check it out here. I’ve developed Zoom programs for it here through a weekly short story reading program, and by recruiting expert speakers on topics such as: All About Recycling; Avoiding Fraud and Scams; Healthy Trees and You; Heart Health and You; Immunizations for You and your Grandkids; Resources in Holistic Health; and COVID and End of Life Decisions. By planning these programs, I’ve pushed the perimeter of my own social and professional networks here and made some use of my career in healthcare.”

BETSY ALLNUTT OSHA ’59 shares, “As I write this I am in Key West, which I adore and where I have been coming since 2001. There is a wonderful cinema here started by Judy Blume called the Tropic. A few of us have been invited to 10:30 a.m. screenings and I have been lucky enough to see Supernova, Nomadland and The Father and Minari, all of which I have loved. I read The Last American Aristocrat about Henry Adams for my book club in Connecticut. It is heavy going in places, but reminds me of Mrs. Smith’s fabulous history class on the Middle Ages where I learned so much. I am currently reading Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie for my book club. I am here with Wiley, daughter of

Bonnie Day ’59, and Ariel Dallam ’79, a younger BMS graduate. We are in a threeapartment complex called Hidden Beach and I hear the waves and the air is soft and delicious. Every Saturday morning we get up and go to tag sales. They are like treasure hunts. Either you get them or you don’t. For the three of us, it is our most exciting time. I have one friend who is bedridden and another who has severe memory loss and still another who has multiple bad ailments which no one can decipher, so I try to stay in touch with them. Another friend is vaccinating people in California. She says she was like a carhop. I recommend Hamnet. It is a lovely book.”

ANN MCKENRICK TURNBULL ’59 sends greetings to classmates.

“My good news is that I am vaccinated! Such a relief! So I have now resumed visiting my grandchildren in DC every week. They are in 11th and 8th grade now. My greatniece Maggie Winstead ’22 (granddaughter of my late sister Elizabeth McKenrick Winstead ’56) is in 11th grade at Bryn Mawr. Of course all my travel plans in 2020 were cancelled (three cruises and three other trips), but my sister Alice McKenrick Horst ’60 and I have optimistically booked a cruise to Hawaii in November and our annual vacation in Cape May, NJ in September. We’ll see! I am completely retired from practicing law after 43 years, but continue to update annually a form book for lawyers that I originally published about 40 years ago.

I took piano lessons for about a year recently; I had lessons at The Peabody for years as a child, but that was for classical music (which I still don’t like

to this day). My recent teacher, a young man in his early 30s, taught me to play the blues. It is so much fun, I play just about every day. It’s great to hear from those of you who have sent in notes; everybody stay safe.”

1960s 1962 Notes compiled and edited by Kate LeBoutillier O’Neill ’62

BEV DAVIS ’62 sent a memory of Bryn Mawr that your class secretary disputes…After a spring rain, she and her daughter Iris Bierlein ’01 came upon a desiccated earthworm on the pavement.

“Portico,” they said in unison.

Bev says all Bryn Mawrtyrs will have the same image.

I [Kate] say: “Not the portico.

The blacktop!” (Members of the jury? What say you?)

COVID didn’t stop Bev’s yearround, outdoor volunteering at the Cylburn Arboretum, which welcomed unaccustomed crowds of visitors. Back to BMS: Bev says, “I’m briefly representing aged alumnae on an Alumnae Association nominating committee (awards, board seats, etc.) and have had my crew socks knocked off by the qualities, youth and diversity of the candidates. Very encouraging!

Bryn Mawr, like so many institutions and individuals, is stretching to meet the changes and opportunities of these acutely interesting times.”

PAT MORRIS FRANKLIN ’62 retired from Seattle Children's Hospital last September when it became clear that she could no longer be away from home three days a week.

Despite multiple health issues, her 86-year-old husband is doing well, but Pat needed to assume the transportation and shopping honors, along with the cooking (which she’s particularly enjoying). Leading up to the 2020 election, Pat wrote heaps of letters and was delighted with both the opportunity to participate and the outcome. “We consider ourselves lucky to have all six children and nine grandchildren living within 10 miles—even though we couldn't hug them for so long!”

She loved our “quarantini” Zooms and looks forward to more, as well as to May 2022 and our 60th reunion!

Still in Tucson, HELEN LOCH BARBER ’62 loves her quiet, new, much-smaller home in the mountains, with an incredible view across the Tucson valley.

As she goes through the many collections of her late husband Kevin, she has been grateful to have her son Mario living in Arizona as well.

When she replied, Boulder resident SUNNY LEVERING BROWN ‘62 was still in shock from this spring’s mass shootings. “The Boulder bubble is no more,” but the community had come together, Boulder Strong, finding hope in their Christmas star, relit and shining in the foothills.

Vaccinated and ready to go, she is selling her downtown home of 40 years and moving to her great, one-story, “not-solittle” mobile home with a view of the Flatirons. Sunny loves volunteering at her community hospice organization’s thrift shop, handling—in part—a vintage cash register. Her son lives close by, working remotely doing internet tech. “He feels successful and I have my own personal techie, as needed.”

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As she rode out the closings and lockdowns in Florida, CAMPBELL BAKER WHISNAND ’62 enjoyed extra time with children and grandchildren, working and taking classes remotely.

“I feel as if Bridge (online), Netflix and reading are keeping us going,” she says, recommending Kristen Hannah’s The Four Winds and being deep into A French Village.

ELEANOR FREY COUNSELMAN ’62 seconded Campbell’s tips, adding The Australians Series, A Place to Call Home. COVID restrictions kept the Counselmans away from their son’s North Carolina wedding in October, but they’ll head south this spring to see the couple for the first time since December 2019. Their daughter lives in Connecticut, and full vaccination means Eleanor and Chuck can again enjoy those wonderful grandchild hugs. The crush of pandemic-related mental health issues meant a postponed retirement for Eleanor, but a new, second home (near the grandchildren) may settle the retirement question once and for all.

With her fitness center off limits, Eleanor challenged herself to walk outside every day, all winter long, for 45 minutes. “I just about did it too. Some days I wore so many layers that if I had fallen, I believe I would have bounced.”

Dale and BERRY MARSHALL HOAK ’62 enjoy the couples book club they’ve belonged to for 42 years, with a wideranging reading list that is “certainly not what we read at BMS!” In addition, Berry regularly joins Zoom conversations on African American history with David

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Blight at Yale. Via FaceTime, she can watch her youngest grandson’s swim team as well as his budding acting career.

Her granddaughter, a writer, graduates from UVA this year, and another grandson is thriving at William and Mary, where he’s on the ultimate Frisbee team.

ALEX VON STACKELBERG STARR ’62, noting our literary theme, suggests interspersing our class Zooms with bookgroup-style discussions. All suggestions welcome! Although the coronavirus kept the Starrs from seeing their Seattle-based son and two grandchildren for 16 months, their daughter Amanda and her husband live on the ranch. Amanda, a therapist, is training horses to provide equine therapy to trauma victims. On top of the pandemic, the Starrs were dangerously close to two of the terrifying California grass fires last fall; the fire crew started a backfire that stopped the inferno right at their property line and, for two nights, they kept a fire truck parked in front of the house. Moving on: a new storage barn, topped by 40 solar panels, means “we now laugh instead of crying when the power bill arrives!”

SYBIL MILLER HEBB ’62 appreciated life on her farm during the pandemic, especially the freedom to walk in the woods and soak up nature. But, like so many children, her grandchildren had a rough year, missing both school (“hard to believe!”) and friends. Fortunately, by midspring she and her family were seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Sybil caught up with Vi Graveure Patek ’62, who came down from Boston to visit her mother in Gettysburg, and spent a winter afternoon with

Betsy Mason Baker ’62 on the patio, wrapped in blankets.

SUE NAQUIN ’62 worked happily through the year on a book about statues of Chinese saints and a pilgrimage mountain—“very long and far, far from a bestseller.”

Her reluctant purchase of a desktop camera turned out well, allowing virtual participation in events at Princeton and Zoom attendance at lectures she wouldn’t previously have taken time for. As a volunteer trail clearer, she slowed the effects of age and got out into the woods. At home, her patio allowed small-group socializing through late fall and resumed in early spring; an optimistically purchased fire pit ended up hibernating.

With travel out of the picture, Sue adopted a stray cat, which promptly went into witness protection behind the washing machine. Three months later, something clicked and the cat emerged as a normal and very sweet companion.

DI LOW ’62 keeps busy with varied church activities, a writing group, a book club and WomenExplore, a group that plans programs with local speakers in the fall and spring. While staying widely connected on Zoom, she looks forward to being reunited with her family and seeing us at our 60th reunion.

MARY HASSETT MILES ’62 writes, “We have managed to hang in, hang on and hang out (home) and witness this historic year.” While missing family, friends and familiar activities, she is distressed by the devastation in the lives of so many others. She looks forward to travel to Cape Cod and California and, hopefully, an inperson 60th reunion next year.

After a long year without real family contact, LESLIE BEDFORD ’62 and Frank spent six weeks in LA, in the daily orbit of their son and his family. She is enrolled in a program at CUNY Graduate Center, the Institute for Retired Professionals, where the members both teach and participate in “study groups” (senior collaborative learning) and it's generally a pleasure.

Since retiring, Leslie has gravitated to writing. She cocoordinates a weekly writing group and is in a four-woman writing group in the Berkshires/ Hudson River area, where they spent most of last year, joined by their daughter and her family. House sharing will end in June, when the little family moves to Albany. “I will miss them a lot. I am so very lucky to be able to live with my grandchildren for so long.” To all who have lost spouses and friends, Leslie sends wishes for strength and peace of mind.

Living on the Eastern Shore, in the country beside a river, CHARLOTTE KING LILLY ’62 finds “the silver lining” of the pandemic is the chance to slow down and appreciate her surroundings. She and Tom are both fully vaccinated and looking forward to getting out and seeing family again.

Their 13-year-old grandson is back in school, if only two days a week, and she is relieved. “Zoom classes have been no substitute for inperson teachers and friends.”

Within a month of losing her husband Tuck last February, DUTCH KENDALL TYLER ’62 found herself homeschooling her thensecond-grade grandson.

“The regular schedule has been good for me and helped with my grief.” After several

months of repetitious work from his elementary school, they switched to Moving Beyond the Page, a curriculum based on reading books and integrating them into language arts, science and social studies. Dutch and a neighbor celebrated their second COVID shot with a one-week jaunt to Florida. “A great boost that made us feel almost normal.”

Another remote-learning grandma, DONNA WHITELEY SIEVERTS ’62, was visiting her daughter in South Carolina last March when COVID hit the East Coast. A planned one-week visit stretched to 10 as Donna stayed on to help her grandson’s schooling: “A challenge!” Togetherness continued as her son and his family spent the summer at the beach with John and Donna.

We all recall her mother, Eve Whiteley, from Donna's lively Lower School birthday parties to, more recently, our reunion brunches. A warm and welcoming hostess, Mrs. Whitely was looking forward to celebrating her 103rd birthday when she passed away peacefully in early April, just a few weeks shy of that mark.

She was the last of our class mothers, all remembered with gratitude and deep affection.

DEBBY SHEPHARD JENCKS ’62 says Zooms have helped her family survive the pandemic and stay connected. Daughter Sarah Jencks ’92 spent three months with Steve and Debby, joining them for hours of postcard writing and call making for the general election and the Georgia runoff. “We are now busy trying to get rid of the filibuster so we can pass HR/1 S/1 bill to ensure voting rights. I keep hoping we can feel comfortable, but then something else comes up. I am

optimistic that our country is moving in a direction that will benefit all of us.” Debby wishes us all well and hopes that we will have conquered COVID by next spring, so we can celebrate our 60th in person.

Last February 29, HELEN JENCKS FEATHERSTONE ’62 said her head was spinning after getting strict orders from her daughters to hunker down in Gloucester. She soon felt incredibly fortunate. All three daughters and their families quarantined and then spent more than a month at the Gloucester house, enjoying the beach and the woods around them. And in July, Debby and Steve joined the fun. Once real life resumed, the Featherstones poured their energy into the election.

“Debby inspired us to write postcards to potential voters in Michigan and Georgia, and I like to think that the outcome reflects our efforts,” Helen said. “Zoom and FaceTime have made a huge difference to us. We have, in fact, seen more of some old friends in the past few months than we had in previous years.

Much to be grateful for. And I am especially grateful that I greatly enjoy hanging out with Jay.” Editor's note [Kate]: This spring, after suffering a series of small strokes, Helen was diagnosed with untreatable cancer. On June 16, she died peacefully at her beloved home in Gloucester, surrounded by her family: husband Jay, three daughters and five grandchildren. Helen's kindness, courage, wit and intellect made her one of our class treasures.

We will miss her always.

Our class teacher, Dinny Ball Cuthbertson, and her husband Elmer moved into a senior living facility in

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Hilton Head (“God's Waiting Room,” he calls it) on March 19, 2020—just in time to be locked down. Confined to their living quarters with only a couple of permitted outside activities, Dinny spent the next nine months knitting afghans for her two granddaughters.

“Remembering my two years of widowhood, I am so thankful that I have had Elmer’s love and support. My hat goes off to those who have had to go it alone during this time.”

Even sitting still, Matt and TINA JOHNSON DAALDEROP ’62 seem to be in perpetual motion.

They take advantage of online programs through their senior center and public library, do puzzles, watch documentaries, read and listen to webinars.

“We became so desperate for a major project that we tackled scraping the stippling off the ceiling.” Tina also volunteers packing up donations for the Toronto Food Banks and, learning of demolition plans on the old family farm on the Eastern Shore, she assembled a birthday memory book for her siblings. “With daily Nordic walking and online workouts, we seem to stay fit and sane, even if, in our tiny computer room, we have to be careful not to kick or collide with each other.” She looks forward to more ’62 quarantinis and May 2022 is on her calendar.

The only drama of the pandemic year for your secretary, KATE LEBOUTILLIER O’NEILL ’62, was a broken rib, followed by a trip to the ER two days later. “My feet tangled during my virtual Jazzercise session, and I fell against my desk. Fortunately, I was still able to crank out 600+ GOTV postcards. Meanwhile, Rutgers University cut ties with all their independent contractors

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and, poof, my writing career ended. I miss the process, the research and the craft, but not the deadlines. So, now I have time for three book groups, each very different, and I savor the found hours of reading time. And, speaking of silver linings, YouTube taught me how to trim Tom’s hair without making him look like a poodle!”

Editor's Note [Kate]: T-Whoop, classmates! Not one of you grumbled about mask-wearing, our small but crucial part in squashing the coronavirus.

You make Mama so proud!

1965 “I actually had a very momentous year, part sad, part happy,” writes KATHERINE BOUTON ’65. “My husband of 40 years was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January and died in late October.

During his illness, he managed to write a stunning book of poetry about having cancer in the midst of COVID. It’s called Terminalia, and his name is (was?) Daniel Menaker. He also walked our daughter ‘down the aisle’ in our backyard in Massachusetts, where she was married with eight family members present and a host of friends via Zoom. It was a wonderful occasion. A sad/ happy year for us. Luckily we lost no close friends or family to COVID.” JENNIE LEE WILLIAMS FOWLKES ’65 shares, “Like so many of us I am enjoying being vaccinated and taking baby steps into the real world after a year of virtual meetings, educational opportunities and travel online, Zoom-ing for gatherings of family and friends and way too much cooking.

What a blessing for Hobie and

me to be able see the smiles of grandchildren in person. I keep up with Bryn Mawr through the lens of a granddaughter in the fourth grade. Here's hoping for a Class of 1965 reunion in the not-too-distant future.”

TERRY THORNTON LOUGH ’65 spent more than half of the year in Sarasota, Florida where she reports that she is “busy with the master gardener program, playing tennis three times a week, golf once a week and bike riding. Siesta Key has sugar white sand and turquoise waters of the gulf and is absolutely beautiful. The arts, the theater and museums all add to the wonderful culture of Sarasota. The rest of the year, I am tending my perennial gardens that surround my historic Victorian home in Mount Washington, here in Baltimore. I traveled out west to Wyoming, Oregon as well as the Southwest. Bob and I together have six grown children and 12 grandchildren who all keep us very busy.”

MARNIE BROOKS PILACHOWSKI ’65 shares the following summary of her year: “Marty and I sold our house after 44 years in Stoneleigh to move to the new units at Broadmead. They added two new buildings, three stories high with different apartments sizes. We were lucky enough to get one of the larger ones and we couldn't be happier.

Ten-foot ceilings in parts and one side of every apartment is beautiful huge windows. Lots of light. The first morning there I walked out of the bedroom in my nightgown to find a man on a crane washing our windows.

So I backstroked to the bedroom to cover up. Lesson number one, do not walk out of the bedroom without covering up until you get shades. We are

loving it here and have met some really interesting people from all over. It's a very diverse population, which is great.

Broadmead is set on 94 acres and has all kinds of trails for hiking, etc. We have been here for a couple of months and just hung pictures, but we are getting there. Having lived in our house for 44 years, we had accumulated ‘stuff.’ Luckily, we started cleaning out about a year and a half ago, thank God. Because of the virus, we have seen our Cleveland family for one hour in the last 20 months or so. Hopefully we will be able to get out there this summer. We sure do miss them. We also miss our Miss Phoebe Dogg who we had to say farewell to last fall. What a void that leaves. She was the best and was so devoted to us. We are very grateful to be here at Broadmead and are looking forward to meeting even more residents. As usual, Marty has met a lot of people and he remembers everyone's name. Me, yes, I have met them also, but I remember no one's name. Well, maybe a few. That is our news. Hope everyone is doing well. Hang in there.

We will meet again in person.”

1966 DAWN OBRECHT ’66 reports that she is still doing some medical/addiction consulting and “trying to quit.” Married with two daughters, sons-inlaw and six grandchildren, she feels blessed to live in Colorado where she can hike, hunt, garden, swim, etc., all regularly. “COVID has not impacted me much, as most of what I do is outdoors. I also participate in Zoom meetings almost daily and enjoy having a home office.”

1969 Notes compiled and edited

by Bridget Murnaghan ’69

Like so many people, members of the Class of 1969 have been coming to terms with the enforced isolation and inactivity imposed by the pandemic and with the imperative to learn and do more in response to the racist history and ongoing injustice of our society. After a tough year of lockdown and separation from her Seattlebased children, COLLEEN DONAHUE LORENZEN ’69 concludes, “I don’t believe things will ever go back to ‘normal’ as we are all forever changed by the pandemic and all the social and cultural upheavals happening now across the country,” sentiments echoed by many classmates.

For some, this time has been rewarding as well as difficult.

LOUISE WOODS EATON ’69 writes, “But FWIW [ for what it's worth ], this past year has offered me one of the richest periods of my life as I have read more, studied more, discussed more on Zoom, explored more about systemic racism and white fragility, dived deep into contemplative (centering) prayer and spirituality and done more writing than ever before in my life.”

In a similar vein, both DEBBIE BONNET TUPPER ’69 and MARILYN KOEPPEL OGBURN ’69 have found especially valuable the Episcopal Church’s online program on race and faith, “Sacred Ground.” Debbie and Marilyn are among the many who have been deeply involved in new and ongoing forms of volunteer service. Debbie, who pulled off a mid-pandemic move from Baltimore to the

Northern Neck of Virginia, monitors butterfly and bird populations for the Virginia Master Naturalist program, works in a local food pantry and is studying to become a Court Appointed Special Advocate. Marilyn continues to volunteer for the Child In Need of Assistance Unit of Maryland Legal Aid, assisting with the appellate work. Marilyn and her husband Lee, who now works as a staff attorney for Legal Aid, welcomed their first grandchild, Caroline Lee, on April 1st.

Caroline is the first child of Claire Ogburn Homsher ’05 and her husband Paul.

Since the start of the pandemic, JENIFER ALMOND ’69 has been fostering dogs for Maryland SPCA and MidAtlantic Bully Buddies.

While still working full time, if remotely, for UM Shore Regional Health, KATE EDMUNDS LAMOTTE ’69 has been active with board membership and fundraising for the Neighborhood Service Center, which serves underserved populations in Talbot County. Kate has luckily been able to see both of her daughters during the pandemic: Grace, who lives partly in Lutherville and partly on the Shore where she sells mid-century modern furniture, and Elaine, who is close by and works at Academy Art Museum in Easton.

Many classmates have also been sustained by online yoga, cooking, gardening, walking and simply spending more time outside. PEGGY SPEAS ’69, who had just moved to a new condo in Somerville, MA to enjoy all the pleasures of urban life when COVID hit, also worked on the Biden/Harris campaign and

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with Swing Left. MARY TODD ’69 has been taking a rigorous online drawing class. KITTY ANDERSON ’69 has devoted more energy to painting and has returned to the violin for the first time since she was 12. PATRICIA BEATLEY-PATTERSON ’69 writes, “my husband Rodney and I are among the lucky couples who have become closer in the shutdown. We have been frustrated not to travel, as we would like to go to California and Arizona. We are both retired, and I have taken up writing and studying writing.

Our daughter Jaina is 24, a paralegal and thriving.”

VICKI VALSECCHI ’69 has been frustratingly confined to her house in northern France, missing her children and grandchildren in England and her mother in the United States, finalizing her French residency, working on decluttering, watching movies and playing Scrabble. Vicki is one of several classmates who report spending a lot more time following the news.

LINDSEY FRYER BRAMWELL ’69 is also putting down roots outside the US. She is selling her properties in Baltimore and looking for a house to buy in San Miguel de Allende, where she especially treasures the car-free way of life. Lindsey is occupied with a book club, bocce, walking her dog and opposition to GMOs. Three times a week she meditates together on Zoom with her sister, her ex-husband and her daughter.

BRIDGET MURNAGHAN ’69 is still teaching full time in the Classical Studies department at Penn. Over the last few months, she spent a lot of energy figuring out how to teach on Zoom, something she hopes never to do again.

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Like many classicists, she has been trying to engage productively with the field’s historical implication in exclusionary, hierarchical and white supremacist ideologies, which include some of the people involved in the early history of Bryn Mawr, such as M. Carey Thomas and Edith Hamilton.

WENDY SMITH ’71 enjoyed celebrating Easter with her sister De Smith ’68, her daughters Sophie and Tessa and their families.

Grandchildren Hollis (age 6), Beau (age 4) and Margot (age 1) enjoyed a spirited egg hunt. “Fortunately,” says Wendy, “we all live in town so we’ve weathered the past year together.”

1970s 1971 DORY RICHARDSON MESSENGER ’71 and her husband are still in Southern Maryland with “two dachshunds, two cats and one very personable turtle. Life has been exceptionally quiet this past year—I feel, as so many of us must, as if I have been held hostage. That said, the pandemic has certainly prioritized the necessities of life—family and toilet paper —on a few occasions, perhaps, in reverse order! We were blessed with the safe arrival of grandchild number two, William, in April of 2020. He joined his big sister Aria who is 17 months his senior. Hoping to schedule back surgery number three for sometime this summer to get this old carcass moving again, and meanwhile we are very grateful for the technology of video calls!

Happy 50th to our Class of ’71!”

Congrats! Dory Richardson Messenger ’71 welcomed her second grandchild William, seen here with big sister Aria.

Wendy Smith ’71 (second from right) with her sister De Smith ’68, (second from left), her daughters Sophie and Tessa and grandchildren Hollis, Beau and Margot.

MUFFY MCCOSH VASALE ’71 writes, “Since the fires of 2017 in Sonoma County changed our lives, we have had to evacuate two more times, as nearby fires threatened our town of Forestville. We headed up to Portland, Oregon where our oldest daughter lives with her husband. One whirlwind month later we were the owners of a lovely home on the western side of the Willamette River!

We are settling into our new town (what's not to like about a town named Aloha?) and loving it so far. I retired from nursing at the same time and am adjusting to that, as well as life during a pandemic, in a new house, in an unfamiliar town. I think my appetite for adventure may finally be sated!

2020 has been an ordeal, but

I am very aware that we are privileged as well as lucky, and I hope for more equity for our country's citizens.”

1972 Notes compiled and edited

by Natalie Wexler ’72 Editor's Note [Natalie]: Before I round up everyone’s news, let me remind you that next year will be our 50th reunion, a thought I find both sobering and exciting. Hard to believe that much time has passed, but let’s hope that by the spring of 2022 we’ll be able to gather in person, maybe even without masks. And now, to our news…

ability to do more with Mom, who still lives on her own close by.” She is exercising, drawing with colored pencils and playing the piano (“particularly proud of learning how to play BMS’ signature anthem, ‘Jerusalem’”). Her husband Auburn is teaching business courses at Loyola Maryland, and both daughters are pursuing careers in healthcare—Casey aspires to be a mental health nurse and Cameron is in genetic

counseling. “I continue to count my blessings, which include the many BMS friends in my life!”

Another of our many Nancys, NANCY DANDY PATZ ’72, is farther afield in Colorado, where she and husband David spend time driving around the state and interacting with their four “fun and exhausting” grandchildren, ages 2, 4, 5 and 7. “We are still getting a lot of hiking in, despite aging joints,” she reports. “We enjoyed some excellent backcountry

MALLORY DIGGES ’72 retired from her Design/Build business in 2016. She shares, “Now I’m in the process of downsizing to a condo. All is well. See everyone at the 50th reunion.

I expect everyone to remember the lyrics to ‘American Pie!’” BETTY VAN METRE DOMOWSKI ’72 has retired from nursing, but is busy helping elderly church friends and spending as much time as she can with her grandchildren (five boys, one girl and two “in the oven”). Her husband Bernie still teaches college and middle school math as well as the Bible in rural Belize, where they’re helping to build a library and are hoping to return after the pandemic. “I have recently lost 30 pounds and am back to my weight at BMS,” Betty adds. “In my heart I am only 30 years old, but my body tells me otherwise!”

Also retired, since 2019, is NANCY BARRY BELL ’72. She “instantly adapted to the more relaxed lifestyle, especially loving the dress code and

Nancy Dandy Patz ’72 Nancy and her mother, Anne Allen Boyce Dandy ’45, celebrate Nancy's birthday with a photo taken by fellow alumna Georgie Smith ’72. Nancy's mother Anne is 95, “still mentally sharp and able to enjoy her daily bird walks at Broadmead.”

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skiing this winter on low pitch, avalanche-free routes.” Now fully vaccinated, along with all the adults in the family, Nancy is looking forward to seeing her mother Anne Allen Boyce Dandy ’45 for the first time in a year and a half. “She is 95 and one of the three remaining classmates from her BMS class.

She is an inspiration to me, always optimistic and positive in her outlook, still mentally sharp and able to enjoy her daily bird walks at Broadmead.”

SUZY FELDMAN ROSENTHAL ’72 can also frequently be spotted in Colorado—her son Jack, a geologist, and his wife live there and recently had a baby boy. Suzy and husband Dave spent five months in Denver over the last year, but still live in Buffalo, where Dave works remotely as managing editor of an NPR collaborative focusing on public health. Suzy serves on two nonprofit boards there and—before COVID—visited the elderly with her therapy dog and worked with Burmese and Congolese refugees. Daughter Anne Rosenthal ’06 is still in Baltimore, where she is putting her MPH from Hopkins to good use as a nutrition and food insecurity specialist for the Baltimore City Public Schools.

Even farther afield in the UK is JENNY WAKEFIELD LIGGITT ’72, who retired two years ago from a 30-year stint at a healthcare company, working her way up from clinical nursing to running hospitals. She and John have been married for 45 years and have three children and six grandchildren, including one branch of the family in Australia that she’s been unable to visit during the pandemic.

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gardens, golfs and—until the pandemic—volunteered at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation organization. She has also been approved to administer vaccinations. “I still sing in a choir (sadly not at the moment) and often think about the Gilbert and Sullivan operas we performed with Gilman.”

Also living abroad is DENA BRIGHT ’72, who is in Pert, West Australia, where she has been for over two years. “We have been fortunate in WA to avoid the pandemic. Only returning citizens and visitors have been quarantined with some showing symptoms.

I have been saddened to see the extent of the illness and suffering in the United States.

My children there are all well and have been working from home like so many people. I spend my days playing Bridge at a club by the ocean. My husband and I have traveled a lot in Australia, but we have not been able to leave the country. It is beautiful here and I feel very blessed. We will return to the States this August and we look forward to seeing the kids and our dogs.

I hope the BMS community has survived the pandemic without loss and that life will return to ‘normal’ soon.”

ELLEE HALE THOMPSON ’72 has also been busy, although that’s mostly because her daughter and son-in-law and their two boys (16 months and 4 years) moved in temporarily after a fire and smoke damage at their house. “I became the Granny-nanny!” Ellee reports.

Her son also recently had a baby girl, bringing the total number of grandchildren to five. Now fully vaccinated, Ellee is looking forward to socializing and engaging in activities other than childcare.

NANCY HENESON ’72 writes, “I'm proud to announce the birth of The New Fab Four: Nancy Barry Bell ’72, Anne Potter ’72, Julie King Pryor ’72 and little me. Also known as Blonde Ambition, we're proof that the old school tie plus circumstance equals new and surprising friendships. We've been tearing up the town Tony Fauci style, sharing lots of laughs and behaving no better than we should be.” She’s also excited about a new project: “I’m co-leading a series of free writing workshops for first responders and health care workers, with the aim of helping them deal with the trauma of the pandemic through telling their stories.

Fellow classmates, if you or anyone you know could benefit from this opportunity for community and selfexpression, please contact me at nheneson@comcast.net.”

ELLEN ROWLAND CAYER ’72 and her husband Roger moved to Savannah nine years ago and love it. “We love our community and all that it offers us: golf, tennis, bocce, pickleball and croquet. I learned how to play mah-jongg…fun! I took up golf. I enjoy playing with the ladies, but I do not aspire to be very good. I am a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) for children who have been removed from their home and are in foster care. I spend a lot of time in court representing the children. Sadly, 80 percent of cases involve drugs and/ or alcohol. It is rewarding to see how many parents of these children try so hard to get their children back home.

Some cases take a year to close.

I also volunteer at the NICU in a hospital here, which I enjoy because of my nursing background. My daughter Liz is in tech in NYC and

Kate works with an addiction program in San Francisco.

I have three grandchildren and love being a grandmother.

My husband Roger is a retired OB/GYN. We both adore retirement. Roger kayaks and volunteers for the Caretta Project, helping loggerhead turtles as they lay eggs and, when the eggs hatch, gets them to the water, as there are always a few stragglers who walk away from the water. He also volunteers with a Georgia oceanographic facility here in Savannah doing plastic studies in rivers. It is amazing how much plastic resides in our water. I cannot believe that we graduated from BMS 50 years ago!”

More recently, RUTH FULTON KISELEWICH ’72 has also moved. She relocated from Baltimore to Falls Church, VA, near her daughters (Rebecca Kiselewich Haciski ’00 and Rachel Kiselewich Marin ’03) and grandchildren—three boys and a girl, ranging from 7 months to 9 years old, with another girl expected in July.

Ruth and husband Gary have regular childcare duties and Ruth still works part time on energy matters for a consulting firm. Although she misses Baltimore, she’s glad to be near family during the pandemic and able to balance that with enough work “to keep the brain cells active”—while also finding time for “just staring out my home's windows at birds, foxes and deer.”

“2020 has been the year to learn Zoom and have a good time using my skills with my church by doing online church services,” reports WENDY POWELL FEAGA ’72. “I have returned to my home church of Glenelg United Methodist where I am a Certified Lay

Minister, with media (or I should say technology) as my area of specialized ministry.

Initially, the church was not happy seeing graphics or words to hymns projected, but now, that's where we are.

My oldest daughter Laura is an acupuncturist and lives with me. She is a great roommate.

We share the house with four dogs, and outside are still the bunnies and two ponies. My younger daughter Heather has the most exciting news. She and her husband first managed to both get post doc positions at Columbia University, and last spring they both landed assistant professor, tenure track positions at Cornell. They have a contract on a house on top of this. First home! And they love Ithaca. Although I am still practicing part time as a veterinarian with my own practice, upcoming shoulder surgery may change this course of work into full-time ministry. I stay open to wherever I am led.”

GEORGIE SMITH ’72 and husband Mark are “officially retired,” but keeping busy with three granddaughters, including a first grader and kindergartner at Bryn Mawr.

Their mother, Georgie’s daughter Carey FettingSmith ’01, is an educator in Baltimore City Public Schools, and until the COVID-related shutdown, Georgie herself was volunteering full time in the Baltimore City school where she’d worked for years. Georgie’s two sons are in London and Los Angeles, an artist and a film producer.

She splits her time between New Hampshire and Baltimore, where she is active on the Bryn Mawr Board with a focus on antiracism work.

“Life is incredibly busy and happy and fulfilling.”

Not retired is JULIA HALLER GOTTSCH ’72, who says she’s “got barely one nostril above the waves this year.” Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, where she is ophthalmologist-in-chief, has been “doing wonderful work on the front lines during all of the pandemic.” Julia is still seeing patients and operating, while her research interests are moving into diversity and access-to-care issues. Her husband John is still doing research and mentoring at Hopkins/Wilmer, but “has a new career as a composer, including being named Composer in Residence for the South Florida Symphony and having a CD on Naxos about to release. You can check it out at JohnDGottsch.com.”

Julia reports that her kids have brought into her life “lots of lovely significant others but no grandchildren other than rescue mutt Indigo (with my daughter Clare Gottsch ’09) and cat Max (with my daughter Natalie Gottsch Fuller ’97)!”

NATALIE WEXLER ’72 says she is “also among the grandchildless, although my son Sam and his wife have a rescue dog (Kugel) who is needier than most toddlers. The dog has been in heaven during the pandemic, because his ‘parents’—public defenders living in Brooklyn—have been working from home.

My daughter Sophie, with a master’s in public policy, is working for the DC Office of the City Administrator, and it’s great to have her nearby. I’ve been busy due to continuing interest in two education books I’ve written or co-authored—The Knowledge Gap (2019) and The Writing Revolution (2017). (I got to observe Georgie Smith ’72 teaching a class while researching the former!)

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Before the pandemic, I was crisscrossing the country for speaking engagements, but I’ve spent the past year doing virtual presentations and interviews from my basement, which is way more efficient.

I’m also still writing about education issues, mostly for Forbes. So at a time when many others are retiring, I’ve embarked on a new career, and it’s been tremendously rewarding. I’ve also developed a new appreciation for the excellent education I got at Bryn Mawr and am working to try to make it possible for more children of all backgrounds to experience something like it!”

1973 SIGRID SODERBERG PINSKY ’73 is “happy to be out of 2020.

My family has fared well, but I have been involved in helping many families who are in crisis.

Having vaccines makes me feel safer, but I think the effects of this collective experience are going to be significant.

My kids are all great—all in college and making their way.

Stina is in New York studying theater. Fraser is studying art at Cornish College in Seattle.

David is taking classes at our local gem of a community college while figuring out what he wants to do. Jim is enjoying skiing, motorcycle riding and bicycle riding. He worked as a census enumerator last fall and found it fascinating.

I continue to serve on several local boards, including League of Women Voters, our County Behavioral Health Board and several youth mental health organizations. I was lucky to have all our children home for several months over the summer and a month over the holidays. It was just wonderful to have a full house! We had CLASS NOTES

lively dinners and lots of games and puzzles. We were able to get to Lake Tahoe over the summer, which was beautiful, and David and Jim have had some great ski trips.”

“Well, they were right when they said I’d be busier in retirement than when working full time!” shares SALLY WATERS SOUTHARD ’73. “I retired from Carilion Children’s in Roanoke in December 2018 after 38 years. My last position was as the pediatric nurse practitioner in the asthma and allergy clinic for 23 years. Now I am chairing one nonprofit board, vice chair of another and still very much involved with JDRF at the regional and local level. I just entered my ninth clinical trial at the Diabetes Research Center at UVA. It is amazing how far diabetes treatment has come in the 55 years I have had T1D. Bob and I have two adult children.

Rachel is married and lives about 30 minutes away. She is an occupational therapist. Eric lives in DC with his girlfriend of two years. He has worked for the PGA for seven years, but is looking for something else now—so if you know of anyone looking for a hardworking, organized 30-year-old with a sports management and business degree, please let me know. Haha! Bob and I are not grandparents yet, but looking forward to it someday, hopefully. We bought a house at Smith Mountain Lake two years ago. My sister bought one in our neighborhood last year, so I don’t get to Annapolis as much as I did when my parents were alive. If anyone wants a getaway to a lake in the mountains, you are more than welcome!

I hope we have an in-person reunion in two years, but would love to see folks before then.

Take care and stay well.”

1976 March 16th marked one year of working from home for ANDREA MYLES-HUNKIN ’76, who works for L.L.Bean.

“It's tough not having my peers around. We answer questions all day about fly fishing, hunting, winter sports, apparel…and no longer have a sample room to use if we need to give advice on a particular fly rod or hunting jacket. Ugh. The pandemic did bring two of my three adult children back to Maine for several months.

I miss traveling. I adore my new daughter-in-law from Tbilisi, Georgia. Thank you, Raughley. So happy gray hair is fashionable now.”

1979 Notes compiled and edited

by Gilly Obrecht Babb ’79

I write with a heavy heart, as our beloved classmate HEATHER GAINES ‘79 died in March while living in Virginia Beach.

She had been an extremely successful entrepreneur, with a career that took her from Faneuil Hall to Harbor Place and then eventually to Virginia Beach. Even though Heather experienced tremendous sadness in her life, she was never without her impish smile. There is no doubt that her wonderful sense of humor aided her during her challenges. She will be missed by many and fondly remembered for her quick laugh, athletic prowess and kind and gentle manner.

Heather is the second classmate we have lost, as sadly, Polly Schnert ’79 died years ago from cancer. Both losses weigh on all of us, as they were cherished members of the “volcanic” class of 1979!

Despite the fact that the vast majority of our class lead incredibly fulfilling and interesting, consequential lives, most were too modest to share the details. However, wonderful news came from JESSE WITTICH ANDERSON ’79, who has been in remission from leukemia for the last four years!! She and EMILIE BARTON KELLY ’79 both live in Colorado and find themselves celebrating over 50 years of friendship. During COVID, Jesse has started painting watercolors and has found it to be so freeing.

ANNE MITCHELL ’79 wrote, “I am healthy, although my career in hospitality with Pebble Beach came to an abrupt halt with the pandemic closures that decimated our industry.

My daughter Maeve transferred home her freshman year at Denver to the University of the Bedroom at Mom’s house, then back to University of the Sorority Room in the fall where she has been holed up for all of this year—thank god for skiing! My heart breaks for all the young adults out there, just raring to go make lives for themselves. Fingers crossed she will get to London for semester abroad this fall. I pretended to be a poet during lockdown and have awarded myself a Master's of the Fine Art of Observation, now able to identify: seven varieties of Oxalis in my garden; where the stick bugs prefer to breed; and what the fog sounds like when it swings from the lichen.

It was an interesting year of writing, reflecting, slowing down enough to realize that the spin of the rat wheel does not win the race, and I never liked races. If the gods are willing, the world will open up and I will be in Ireland this fall, listening to the storytellers by

a fireplace on a misty day in some countryside pub called The Singing Shamrock. Be well…”

I am excited to share that we have another gifted writer, CLARE MCHUGH ’79, who has published a novel entitled A Most English Princess. Hopefully, many of you will join me in buying it, in support of Clare!

LOUISE BOND HECK ’79 writes that she and her husband Bob had been empty-nesters until the pandemic hit. As a social worker at Kennedy Krieger for the last 27 years, she is considered essential, so she has been at work every day during this crisis. Her eldest, Thomas, is hoping to attend vet school in a year or so, having graduated from The University of Maryland. Her other son Michael also chose UMD and is a rising senior.

Go Terps!! Editor's note [Gilly]: Yes, one of my three is a graduate from there, hence the plug.

SARA KOLKER MORGAN ’79 is still living in Chapel Hill and hoping to retire in the next six months. Her daughter Helen (no doubt named after Helen Bowie!) graduated from Clemson and is living and working in Raleigh, but planning on attending graduate school in the fall.

ARIEL DALLAM ’79 is still in Bel Air and scoots down to Baltimore periodically, simply so she can treat Gilly Obrecht Babb ’79 to lunch. Ariel's daughter is getting married in the fall on their family farm.

Editor's note [Gilly]: I am waiting to be asked to be a bridesmaid and/or reader. After a winter hiatus, Ariel is again working for Brad’s Farm Market which sells fabulous produce.

Gilly Obrecht Babb ’79 still heads to New Hampshire every summer and has been able to spend time with CHANCE BROOKS ALLEN ’79, whose home is in Portsmouth, NH. Editor's Note [Gilly]: I can honestly state that Chance looks exactly like her yearbook picture. Hmmm… maybe she has received a little help??

CAROLYN HOLMES ’79 still lives and works in New York, but regularly comes to Baltimore to see her family.

HARRIET VAN KLEECK ’79 writes that the activities she loves— like volunteering, traveling and taking extensive bike trips— have all been placed on hold this past year. She is excited to resume these activities as soon as it is safe to do so.

The artistic genius GINNY PERKINS ’79 is still present, only now, she tends to use a camera to create stunning images. She lives in a lovely Bolton Hill home where she showcases some of her work.

The Greenspring Valley is home to the business of HELEN BOWIE CAMPBELL ’79, aptly named Helen’s Garden. She supplies local florists with flowers from her amazing garden, while also designing beautiful arrangements.

Both BARBARA BANKS MCDANIEL ’79 and Emily McDaniel Marget ’77 live in Baltimore and are sistersin-law, as Barbara married John McDaniel. Editor's note [Gilly]: This is old news, but I wasn’t sure everyone knew.

Last summer, with 14 guests present, Barbara’s youngest son (she has two) was married in Alexandria, VA. Peter and his wife Kate are moving to Baltimore where he will continue to work for

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Amazon, while she will start at Chase Brexton. It’s such a blessing to have one’s grown children living nearby!

KIM LONG RILEY ’79 is teaching history to Upper School students at BMS, while also serving on the Alumnae Board.

Kim Long Riley ’79 leads the Banner March in this year's Gym Drill, along with fellow alumnae faculty and staff, including Anne Eggleston Broadus ’88, Meaghan Walsh Knaub ’89 P’22, Kathie Guben Wachs ’90 P’19, Georgia Summers ’01, Julia Bielfeld ’02, Emily Birx ’02, Emily Fetting ’02, Irina Spector-Marks ’04, Deanna Boyd ’05 and Imani CauthenRobinson ’12.

VERNITA HAIRSTONMITCHELL ’79 is an accomplished doctor.

Editor's note [Gilly]: I believe neurologist, but my feeble mind may be mistaken.

Sorry, Vernita, if I am wrong!

GERALDINE KLAUBER ’79 has been a very successful administrative judge in Baltimore County and hopes to retire shortly. She plays a lot of tennis and is a talented player.

GINA GREEN RULE ’79 recently changed careers and is back in the finance world. Lest anyone be wondering—yes, she

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does still wear a lot of unique and gorgeous silver bangles, many of which she created.

PAM WOLF ’79 resides in Brookline and is a practicing psychologist. She is still an avid tennis player, often competing in amateur tournaments.

While LYNN MCQUEEN VAN GIESON ’79 did not graduate with our class because her family moved to Canada before her senior year, a number of our classmates are still in touch with her. She wrote, “Julia is 27 and loves her independent life but likes coming home every weekend. Helping animals remains her favorite hobby.

Beth is 16 and likes the 10th grade. She’s been able to continue marching band and guard during the pandemic.

She has her learner’s permit and is working on her Girl Scout Gold Award. The twins are in the seventh grade. Lynn continues as their troop leader.

They each recently earned their Girl Scout Silver Award.

Hal is happy as an antitrust economist for the federal government and I worked within the US Department of Health and Human Services on influenza (including pandemic preparedness) for four years before COVID-19, so my job naturally shifted in early 2020.”

ANNMARIE CAPPIELLO GRAHAM ’79 became a yoga teacher in 2018 and, during COVID, moved her classes onto Zoom, which worked well enough. After a very successful career in fashion design, she is now working on the retail side of the business (with J. McLaughlin) and is enjoying it.

KIRSTEN GOELLNER OESTE ’79 hopes that everyone has been healthy and safe over the past year. She shares, “I have three

children—our oldest, Simon, lives in Maine and has our two granddaughters, Olive (age 9) and Hattie (age 6).

Simon and our daughter-inlaw Nellie operate an oyster hatchery in Damariscotta, ME. We get up there to visit as often as possible, but it’s been over a year now, thanks to the pandemic. My daughter Jordan lives in Washington, DC and works for DC Wildlife Rescue taking care of squirrels, possums, turtles and anything else that comes through the door. She’s been in DC since graduating from American 10 years ago and loves the city life. My youngest, Tom, lives about 45 minutes from us and has our two grandsons, Harry (age 3) and Ash (age 1). Tom is a software engineer and he and our other daughter-in-law, Sarah, keep very busy with the little ones. We’re so grateful we can see our grandsons regularly! My husband Bob retired from the Johns Hopkins Press in January and I’m very jealous! I still work at Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, from home during the past year but normally in Mt. Washington.

We have a rescue dog and spend a lot of time hiking with her. Our life is pretty boring, even pre-pandemic, but our family is happy and healthy, so can’t complain.”

CRICKET COOPER ’79 wrote, “Well no surprise, I’ve gone full-on ‘Thoreau’ since retiring March 1, 2020 after over 30 years as an Episcopal priest. I enjoyed about one week of retirement before the lockdown. I had planned a year of travels to celebrate retiring, but of course none of that happened. I moved to a tiny house in the woods of Quechee, VT and have spent the pandemic playing paddle

tennis, writing, reading and taking crazy online courses. I am now an audiobook narrator and a certified Laughter Yoga leader! I help out a few hours per week at a nearby church in Hanover, NH (on Zoom, so I get to keep my pj bottoms on!) and also am an assistant chaplain at Dartmouth…which, this year has all been on Zoom as well. This spring I launched an online business, Maple Tree Mindfulness, through which I offer mindfulnessbased stress reduction classes for clergy. I am planning to add a Newfoundland to my family so we can do therapy dog work in the local hospitals and retirement communities.

And if anyone wants to see a picture of my thoracic cavity, it's on the cover of my book Chemo Pilgrim, which talks about a series of pilgrimages I made while I was doing chemotherapy a few years ago. A typical morning finds me drinking way too much coffee, playing the bagpipes and planning hiking trips to the Shetland Islands and Skopelos.” Editor's note [Gilly]: Cricket had promised to streak at our 20th reunion, but was a no-show. Maybe the 45th??

GILLY OBRECHT BABB ’79 continues to volunteer, tutor, act as team owner for Bob’s JHU baseball team and, most importantly, spends time with her parents and family.

She apologizes for failing to mention anything about Pia, Betsy, Geraldine G., Anne M., Wendy, Edith, Helen V.M., Leslie, Lydia and Mary Dixon!

Hoping each of us will keep in mind what Cricket shared at the end of her message, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence…is not an act, but a habit.” —Aristotle

1980s 1981 Notes compiled and edited by Amy Bowerman Freed ’81 Editor's Note [Amy]: So many of our classmates responded to our request for life updates with reports of major life and lifestyle changes, impressive accomplishments and family news that we couldn’t do them justice here. Below are some of the highlights. For all the juicy details (and some surprises), check your email or go to our Facebook page.

First of all, this class is a far-flung bunch. Among the places of residence are Toronto, Israel, London, New York City, Seattle, Santa Monica, Colorado, Raleigh, St. Louis, Panama, Naples (Florida), New Hampshire, Portland (Maine), Indonesia, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Indiana, not to mention our home of homes, Baltimore.

IDALEE WAGMAN DIGREGORIO ’81 has been growing her acupuncture practice in Towson.

TRACEY BROOKS CLARKSON ’81 has developed a small spiritual direction and dreamwork practice.

STACY COOK KLINE ’81 chucked media sales for a job as a promotional marketing consultant with Skylight Creative Ideas in Bel Air. Stacy also helps out at her husband’s Christmas tree farm in the Poconos.

Although technically not a career move, SUSAN WALLACE ’81 saw her job at The Walters Art Museum change drastically during the pandemic to include producing and installing COVID signage and designing and installing smaller exhibitions.

CLARKSON WOODWARD ’81 recently traded in the Portland Police Department for working in human resources for a long-term care facility.

Several 1981-ers had major career moves in the past few years:

LINDA DALY-O’NEILL ’81 just passed her specialty boards in integrative medicine.

MONICA BRUNSON ’81 has been aggressively growing her assisted living placement agency business and Berries

by Quisha, a business she co-owns. She has also been dreaming up fabulous 40th reunion activities for her BMS class while focusing on spiritual growth.

BARBIE VAN BUSKIRK ’81 has moved from consulting in consumer products to working with Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions.

RUSSELL ASHTON ’81 left brokerage trading to become Assistant to the Head of School at St. John’s Parish Day School.

MARIA JAMES ’81 became an ER nurse just in time for the pandemic.

REGINA HOLMES ’81 jumped from journalism to real estate and was joined by KIM FORSYTH ’81, realtor.

Regina spends her free time scouring the internet for vintage finds and conspiracy theories. Kim founded and heads up Baltimore’s Reservoir Hill Association and Lady Baltimore Park Historic District.

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RAHMY DAJMIL ’81, an OB/ GYN rockstar, is at the apex of her field and is sought after for the most difficult high-risk pregnancies.

TISH BARROLL BURTON ’81 is hoping to publish her first children’s book this fall.

ANDREA LEAND ’81 is pursuing law school in addition to working with pro tennis tours.

JANE MCDONOUGH BAYER ’81 said au revoir to engineering and bonjour to assistant patio manager and customer service liaison at Valley View Farms.

MARTHA WALKER ’81 became dean of arts and sciences at Mary Baldwin College Editor's Note [Amy]: Okay, maybe this was reported before, but it’s so impressive that it’s worth noting again.

AMY LONG WOOLF ’81 has expanded her architectural color consulting business to include full-service interior design.

Some alumnae have retired entirely from the workaday world: FELICITY ENDICOTT LAUDISA ’81 said goodbye to being a teacher and principal, GAYLE HENDERSON MAXWELL ’81 left her career teaching art in the Baltimore City School system, JEANNE MOCKARD ’81 phased out of full-time money management, ALISSA WOEL ’81 retired from research and AMY BOWERMAN FREED ’81 made the switch from corporate bigwig to mistress of her own domain (a farm).

As for marriages, some seemed to have chosen well right off the bat, considering longevity.

Among those celebrating 20+ years of marriage: TRACY HARRIS GRENOBLE ’81, ANNE GIBBS BARTLETT ’81, KATE HOLDEN ’81, EMILY CLARK CLASS NOTES

POWDERLY ’81, KATHRYN MURPHY NORMAN ’81, TRACEY BROOKS CLARKSON ’81, ELLEN BRODIE JARRETT ’81, GAYLE HENDERSON MAXWELL ’81, AMY LONG WOOLF ’81 and MICHELE KUTTNER GARDNER ’81. A couple of us have recently embarked on new relationships: STACY COOK KLINE ’81 tied the knot with Steve two years ago, and ROBIN WHITTINGTON ’81 is remarried in Colorado.

An impressive array of members from the Class of ’81 have successfully launched their offspring, no small accomplishment considering the challenges of the past year.

Among the tax paying are BLAINE HORNICK HAWLEY ’81 (two daughters), JEFF KEMP ’81 (son), TRACY HARRIS GRENOBLE ’81 (two daughters), EMILY POWDERLY ’81 (daughter and son), BETH MILLER FAIRALL ’81 (son), many children of JULIE SALKOVITZ CHALFON ’81 (the youngest of seven is 13 years old), TRACEY BROOKS CLARKSON ’81 (daughter and son), GAYLE HENDERSON MAXWELL ’81 (son), LISA KENNEDY MCKINNEY ’81 (two sons), VALERIE WORKINGER MCMILLAN ’81 (two boys), CARMEN FIAL SUND ’81 (two children), SUZY DINTZIS ’81 (daughter and son), JANE MCDONOUGH BAYER ’81 (daughter), ROBIN WHITTINGTON ’81 (two girls), MARIA JAMES ’81 (two daughters and a son), AMY LONG WOOLF ’81 (daughter), MICHELE KUTTNER GARDNER ’81 (daughter and son), KATE HOLDEN ’81 (two daughters), HYUN JA ’81 (son) and CAROL SIEGRIST CABALLERO ’81 (oldest son).

JEANY TUNG LUNDBERG ’81 has a daughter who is launched and her two other children are finishing up advanced degrees.

By the time this prints, ELLEN BRODIE JARRETT ’81 is proud to say her oldest son will have earned his college degree.

PEYTON MORAN WANGLEE ’81 is preparing for her oldest to start law school this fall, and her middle child will be a college graduate by summer.

Brace yourselves—a few of us became grandparents recently.

LISA KENNEDY MCKINNEY ’81, ROBIN WHITTINGTON ’81 and JULIE SALKOVITZ CHALFON ’81 now have two generations beneath them. Deep breath.

Many of us have been pursuing extra-family and career activities with gusto: TANJA HANYI ’81 has been working part time and touring with the band Little Feat for 20 years.

FELICITY ENDICOTT ’81 plays her violin.

KATHRYN MURPHY NORMAN ’81 bakes like it’s nobody’s business.

OLIVIA ECCLESHALL SWIFT ’81 wows the London jet-setters with her gorgeous bulldogs.

SOPHIE LIVSEY ’81 has been sharing her lovely California garden with friends and colleagues during the pandemic lockdowns.

GAYLE HENDERSON MAXWELL ’81 joined the Salt Box project as an artist refacing 64 salt boxes in Baltimore.

HYUN JA ‘81 is baking sourdough bread, trying to perfect the art of making kimchi and practicing TikTok dances.

SUZY DINTZIS ’81 hikes, bikes and runs outside Seattle, and takes stunning photos (accompanied by equally fabulous quotations on Instagram).

JEANNE MOCKARD ’81, in addition to her board positions, is camp director at her beloved Camp Strawderman.

CATHLEEN BLANTON ’81 converted her foster Australian cattle dog into her adopted pooch.

BETH MILLER FAIRALL ’81 creates amazing art.

MICHELLE KUTTNER GARDNER ’81 spent a few months in Switzerland pre-pandemic.

JULIE SALKOVITZ CHALFON ‘81 helps a young woman suffering from PTSD. KATE HOLDEN ’81 has been volunteering at COVID testing events and vaccination clinics.

1982 Members of the Class of 1982 have stayed connected throughout the pandemic by having regular Zoom gatherings. Classmates LEE LAFFERTY BROH-KAHN ’82, REBEKAH LORD GARDINER ’82, LAURA WHITE GROSECLOSE ’82, ANNE SAPIR DEMUTH ’82, ANNE GROSS HAMEL ’82, DOROTHY THOMAS ECKHARDT ’82, MAIJA BURNS JACKSON ’82, CAROLINE GILBERT MOORE ’82, PAGE WARD SEVILLE ’82, CATHERINE WHITEHURST STEINER ’82 and GREER COCHRAN VERHEYEN ’82 held their annual fall girls weekend by Zoom. While it wasn’t the same as being

in person, it was wonderful to be able to keep the yearly tradition alive!

1983 MARIKA HREHOROVICH FRANK ’83 is continuing to live in Baltimore with her children James and Juliet who are about to become teenagers.

Marika is employed as an independent public health consultant currently working on countrywide telehealth efforts. She looks forward to seeing her classmates when they come into town for a visit.

ALISSA WOEL ’81 cycles and plays tennis in her home of St. Louis.

To top it off, VALERIE WORKINGER MCMILLAN ’81 is involved in a weekly food drive for the neighboring indigenous community in Panama.

Sadly, a few members of the Class of ’81 lost loved ones recently: TRACY HARRIS GRENOBLE ’81 (Tracy's beloved husband of 31 years passed away in December), RAHMY DJAMIL ’81 (Rahmy's husband of countless years also passed away), JEFF KEMP ’81 (Jeff's mother died in January), IDALEE WAGMAN DIGREGORIO ’81 (Idalee's mother passed away in September) and JULIE SALKOVITZ CHALFON ’81 (Julie lost her father). Your classmates grieve with you.

The Class of 1982 Members of the Class of 1982 gathered on Zoom for their annual fall girls weekend.

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1986 Congratulations goes to LYDIA DIBOS ’86, who was awarded the International Peace and Justice Award at the 42nd annual Social Ministry Convocation for her work with Catholic Relief Services in Central America.

APRIL RIEDNER GAMBLE ’86 and her spouse Harry now have two rescue puppies as they prepare to become emptynesters. Henry (Denison) and Sophie (Hamilton) will both be off at college this fall.

1987

Xan Parker ’88 Known as a documentary producer highlighting social issues, Xan Parker ‘88 is currently working on Dear Evanston with a team of filmakers, including Whitney Dow and Erika Alexander.

The documentary will tell the story of Evanston, IL and the city's journey to implementing reparations. In addition to her work on projects such as Rebuilding Paradise, Tigerland and LaLee’s Kin, Xan has mentored many up-andcoming producers, including fellow Bryn Mawr alumna Ruby Nitzberg ’12.

CLASS NOTES

TONYA UNGER GARBER ’87 is grateful that she’s continued to work despite the pandemic.

“I’m still at the Department of Defense. I enjoy my work in career development and as a career coach. It’s rewarding to be able to impact people’s lives in a meaningful way. Dwaine and I [have been] married 24 years [this past May]. We’re still living in Towson. Our son Matthew moved out on his own this past summer, so we are adjusting to life as empty-nesters. With this crazy COVID year, the transition is not what we expected. We’re looking forward to getting back to our plans in 2021.”

1989 It’s been a “big milestone year” for AMY MORAN DUROCHER ’89 and many classmates. “I turned 50, celebrated 25 years of marriage and my oldest child turned 18 and is headed to college. My younger son is a ninth grader at Boys’ Latin.

In September I will have been a clinical social worker at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 25 years.”

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1997 ANNIE LYON ’97 is the new head librarian at The Langley School in McLean, Virginia.

1990 KATHIE GUBEN WACHS ’90 is still working at Bryn Mawr, overseeing Lower School admissions, and has tried to see the silver lining in the chaos of the pandemic, like more time with her family.

While the family dog has loved having everyone home all the time, the human kids do not report feeling the same way.

She's hoping that 2021 brings good things for everyone.

Marita de Lara Sobel ’90 in the TV series This is Us.

1995 LATOYA HAWKINS BELL ’95 has been in the property management field off and on for the past 20 years. Currently, she is working as a capital project administrator for Quest Management Group. She also shared some exciting personal news: “During COVID-19, Xavier and I got married. We are also very excited that Logan will be starting kindergarten at Gilman in the fall.”

1998 RACHEL ADAMS ’98 is the editor for the Child Welfare League of America, where she edits a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, the organization's magazine and academic texts on child welfare, social work, juvenile justice and more.

She is the editor of the literary journal Lines + Stars, which celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2021, and has published three collections of poetry; her latest, Space and Road, was published by the Philadelphiabased Semiperfect Press in 2019. Rachel lives in Baltimore where she enjoys seeing her BMS buddies frequently, and where she received her MA in writing from The Johns Hopkins University.

2000s 2002

Kathie Guben Wachs ’90 enjoying an afternoon with Tuck, the family dog.

Are you a fan of the NBC show This Is Us? If so, you might have seen MARITA DE LARA SOBEL ’90 who portrayed Dr. Gaby Rodriguez, head of labor and delivery. Marita says it was “so much fun channelling my mom, Dr. Nora de Lara, OB/GYN.”

Toya Hawkins Bell ’95 celebrates her wedding with classmates Kiana Hebron ’95, Laila Ali ’95 and Yolanda Johnson Wilkins ’95.

MOLLY NESS ’95 shares, “My fourth book was published in August 2020, and in August 2021 I'm hosting a two-day virtual conference for literacy activists united by the work to bring books to the 32 million American children who live in book deserts.”

EMILY FETTING ’02 is living her best life as Dean of Students at Bryn Mawr, where she uses the same pink detention slips that were around in the olden days (but fortunately, this year has been blissfully detention-free!).

Recently, seniors were in her office looking at old yearbooks and commented, “Ms. Fetting, life was just simpler then!” If only they knew!

2003 In February 2020, SARAH TOLZMANN ’03 left New York City for Columbus, OH to take the helm as creative director and head of brand at Express.

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“It's been a wild first year learning to accomplish complex creative rebuilding work almost exclusively via video chat, but it's also been an important learning opportunity for me and my team. Meanwhile, I've been thinking of all my BMS classmates in the medical field and on the front lines, and admire their hard work to keep their communities safe.

We appreciate your strength.”

MEREDITH MILLER KIMTIS ’05 and her husband Alex welcomed Sadie Rose Kimtis on March 18. Big brother Chase enjoys helping out with his new little sister!

2005 DEANNA BOYD ’05 is excited that two members of the Bryn Mawr Class of 2021 will be heading to her alma mater, The University of Richmond, in the fall. Deanna celebrated with Emma Rubin ’21 and Lucy Barger ’21 on College T-Shirt Day.

Hannah Klarner ’09 (and Winston) are happy to return with some Bryn Mawr spirit!

A big Mawrtian welcome to Sadie, the youngest new addition to the family.

Congrats, Meredith!

2007 Congratulations to CATHERINE HUGHES ’07, who was named manager of creative affairs at 20th Century Studios.

2009

Deanna Boyd ’05 celebrates College T-Shirt Day with Emma Rubin ’21 (right) and Lucy Barger ’21 (left), who will be attending Deanna's alma mater this fall.

CLASS NOTES

HANNAH KLARNER ’09 made her way back to Melrose Avenue after over a decade. She is now the school’s assistant director of communications. She loves getting reacquainted with Bryn Mawr traditions and seeing how those traditions have evolved, but she’s still getting used to calling her teachers by their first names! When she’s not working, you can usually find her on a hike with her dog Winston or sampling some of Baltimore’s great food and drinks.

2010s 2010 In February, JUSTINE HONG ’10 and Aleeza Hashmi ’11 spoke

by Zoom to Upper School students in a program cohosted by the Women in Business Club and the Arts Council. Justine, a marketing specialist for a footwear manufacturing company, shared how she combined her creative passions (like video production, art and photography), into her business career. Aleeza talked about her journey from premed at Harvard to Microsoft to Wharton, and her current role at a global venture capital fund. The club was lucky to have many wonderful guest speakers this year, including Sai Valluri ’19 who shared how she integrated her interests in science and business. Sai is studying pre-med at The University of Maryland and is working as a research intern for Natalist, a fertility company.

In Memoriam This list represents alumnae whose passing we were made aware of over the last year.

We honor their memories here.

Joan Polk Barroll ’52

Judith Clogg Mitchell ’53

Grace W. Beehler ’39

Pamela Phelps Nelson ’47

Eleanor Wheeler Bogert ’58

Marilyn Black Nuttle ’49

Kathleen Grady Brumley ’38

Eleanor Abell Owen ’45

Mary Hinrichs Coe ’45

Jane Howell Parrot ’43

Caroline Abell Coleman ’52

Gail Schmeisser Rinehart ’37

Mary Van Buren Davis ’43

Sarah Swindell Rinehart ’58

Helen Jencks Featherstone ’62

Susan Boyce Schumacher ’42

June Eager Finney ’45

Alice Hopkins Smith ’50

Lisa Frame ’86

Anne Taliaferro Smith ’39

Heather Gaines ’79

Katharine Ridgely Stierhoff ’48

Barbara Hanson ’53

Margaret Cromwell Taliaferro ’45

Barbara Hoffman ’61

Barbara Lenz Tucker ’49

Michelle Foots Holloway ’97

Susan Dembo Weinstein ’82

Sally P. Jenks ’39

Dagny Swigert Wetherill ’48

Patricia Killough Lamdin ’46

Katherine Ryland Williams ’45

Julia Riley LaMotte ’41

Katherine Nixdorff Wilson ’69

Alice Iglehart McAdams ’42

Patricia Newton Wright ’56

Margaret Finney McPherson ’39

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BOLD VOICES Which Bryn Mawr teachers made an impact on you?

"Mr. Waters.

His kindness and appreciation for different ways of learning helped build my confidence."

Sarah Tolzmann ’03

"I have never forgotten Ms. Clark and the love of reading, knitting and doing for others that she planted and nurtured in at least one little girl. Thank you, Ms. Clark."

"Two teachers really taught me how to write: Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Levine."

Gilda Mann Zimmet ’89

"Thekla Fitzpatrick posed questions in French and asked, ‘Victime ou volontaire?’"

Andrea Myles-Hunkin ’76

Sue Little Diehl ‘55

"Mrs. Stephanie Miller. She always took the time to check in with me as a person."

Marita de Lara Sobel ’90

"I remember learning about West African geography and literature from Mr. Peter Warren."

April Riedner Gamble ’86

"Ms. Diana Park. She is the nicest and most caring English teacher ever."

Julie Liu ’19

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NEXT GENERATION

CALLIE CHAMBERS ’21 AND HER MOTHER ANGIE MCAPHEE CHAMBERS ’94 P’19 ’21

NEXT GENERATION Bryn Mawr is much more than a school—it is a close-knit family, a supportive community and a home away from home. That’s why it’s always special when our alumnae decide to send their own daughters to Bryn Mawr and keep the tradition in the family.

More than 50 of our students have mothers, grandmothers or both who are Bryn Mawr alumnae. From the Little School to 12th grade, they represent the next generation of Bryn Mawr.

GRADUATING SENIOR ADAIR MARTIN ’21 WITH HER MOTHER SERENA BLACK MARTIN ’91

ISABEL VERHEYEN ’21 WITH HER MOTHER GREER COCHRAN VERHEYEN ’82 AND GODMOTHER LAURA WHITE GROSECLOSE ’82

JENNIE LEE WILLIAMS FOWLKES ‘65 P’89 ‘91 ‘96 AND HER GRANDDAUGHTER AGGIE ’29 ENJOY A DAISY COOKIE

LITTLE SCHOOLER CORINNE, DAUGHTER OF IMANI CAUTHEN-ROBINSON ’12, DECKED OUT FOR SPIRIT DAY

JESSICA WOLF SURIANO ’92 AND HER DAUGHTER JULIA SURIANO ’23 SHOW OFF THEIR RINGS 44

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109 W. Melrose Ave. Baltimore, MD 21210 www.brynmawrschool.org STAY CONNECTED!

Alumnae Weekend 2022 Friday, May 6 - Saturday, May 7 Third time's a charm! All alumnae are invited to return for Alumnae Weekend 2022. Join your classmates and friends on Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7 for a chance to reconnect, celebrate and see what Bryn Mawr is like today.

The weekend will include opportunities for you and your family to spend time with friends and former teachers, to meet current students and faculty and to show your class pride in the Banner March at Gym Drill. See you there!