PHOTO TAKEN BY JUDITH SANDOVAL
class notes
Polly Babcock ’54 at gallery show
Bartie Cole ’52 celebrates her 50th wedding anniversary with family
W. Page Dame, III retired in June 2010 after seventeen years as independent school CFO and thirty years as a banker specializing in international trade and project finance. He lived in Asia for six years and has also enjoyed extensive overseas travel recruiting boarding students. “I have been in Vermont since 2002 and we get down to NY and Boston for some civilization as often as possible. A lot of time is spent at our cottage in North Hatley, Quebec.”
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birthday celebration. Classmates Sue Baker Powell ’53 and Lucy Howard ’53 were also there. “Nantucket continues to be a great place to live and I enjoy the grandchildren, gardening, golf, and my pets.”
Hobart Fowlkes is retired. He finds himself spending time flying, fishing, golfing, and doing yard work. He has six grandchildren, two of whom (two year old twins) hope to attend Calvert. Jeanne West Riggs had a great time at Anne Dobbin Bailliere’s ’53 70th
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Hill Michaels ’51, Jack Luetkemeyer ’53, E.B. Harris ’78, and Brian Jones
She has become a photographer and just finished a group show and has applied to a gallery in Half Moon Bay a bit south of San Francisco. “Life is just gorgeous. Here’s my web site: pollyrichardsbabcock.com.”
Jeanne West Riggs ’53 and her grandchildren in Nantucket
Anne Luetkemeyer Stone loves where she lives, loves her friends, and gets along beautifully with her children. “Life is good. I have developed a passion for art (painting, sculpture, glass, etc.) which is fairly new; life is always interesting!”
Henry Hopkins shares, “After three years of retirement, I have concluded that it has been a nice way to wind down from my thirty-six year career at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. Plus, the institution “retirement” is especially rewarding when accompanied by grandparenthood. Thanks to our daughter, Missy ’89 and son-in-law Alden Smith, we have achieved the second status twice over, with the birth of Ellicott Amalie Smith (Ella) on December 3, 2008, and Alden Hopkins Smith on February 2, 2011. My wife Nancy is in her fourth year of retirement from teaching Kindergarten
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Pauline Babcock writes, “I’m still in San Francisco and I’m still just awed by the fact that I was able to fully retire, even though it has been 7 years!”
Corbin Marr ’55, Ned Murray ’33, and wife Cynthia Murray
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