class notes Young alumnae (above and below) returned to campus for 8 weeks as counselors at Castilleja Summer Camp
Adele Landenberger Haynie 550 Main Street Morro Bay, CA 93442
1943
Marilyn Hill McKae 4855 Snyder Lane, #218 Rohnert Park, CA 94928
1945
Send News to School Nancy Tomer Pickford has some happy news to share: “I am blessed with two great precious grandchildren, Emma and Mason, who live in San Jose. In 1945 we wouldn’t have imagined such a thing!”
1949
Carolyn Hornkohl Gillespie 531 Rosarita Drive Fullerton, CA 92835 chgillespie@sbcglobal.net Arlayne Overfelt Fifer reports, “Norm and I celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary (June 22) with a trip up the Inland Passage to Alaska on America Cruise Lines with two of our favorite jazz bands and a few jazz friends. We returned to Olympia, WA, for a jazz weekend and then a visit with some old Richland, WA, friends who live in Lacey. We’re finding out that aging is not for wimps. We stay active in our church and I still create projects in my craft room and participate in some local craft shows/ boutiques. We have a wedding coming up at the end of September—the last of our three granddaughters will go to the altar. :) Only three of our nine grandsons have found the love of their lives, but the others are seriously working on it!”
1950
Send News to School Caroline “Patsy” Chickering Fish reminisces: “My news is mostly about my memories. I have just become 80, as I imagine my classmates have also. I love being 80. I have been thinking of the girls I loved. Celia King Cebrian, who died long ago; Micheline Verlinden, who has also passed away; Jeanese Crist Rowell, who was one of my very best friends, whom I do see once in awhile; Jean Dinkelspiel Chaitin, who drew naughty pictures with me in the eighth grade; Adela Youngerman, whose birthday was the same as mine, who I would love to see if she is around; and Janice Macabee McFarlane, who I had so much fun with and who I remember very well. Where is she? I was never much of a ‘student,’ but I remember all these girls and also many teachers. I remember Miss Schnyder, my art teacher (the only class in which I got an A!!!), Miss Huckvale, and Mrs. Valentine. Once when Mrs. Valentine was teaching us a class in music, someone put a piece of mud on her piano stool. She twisted around back and forth as she taught and played. When she was done, mud had gummed up her gray pleated skirt. I never liked Sibelius!!! I’m sorry, Mrs. Valentine, that I thought it was very funny. Great memories of Casti!”
1951
Keep in Touch with Castilleja Please send Class Notes to your Class Representative, or to Castilleja:
Maggie Ely Pringle ’71 Director of Alumnae Relations Castilleja School 1310 Bryant Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 (650) 470-7743 mpringle@castilleja.org
Or go online to www.castilleja.org/notes
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1942
Cynthia Kaiser Floyd 150 La Sandra Way Portola Valley, CA 94028 Susie Stark Pollock is back in the Bay Area: “After living for 23 years in a Seattle suburb, I have moved, as a widow, to San Mateo because all three of our sons live in California. It is great to be back in familiar territory and blue skies.”
Carolyn Hornkohl Gillespie is still doing a little healthcare consulting, but is retiring for sure at the end of 2012. She has the same husband, two sons, and five grandchildren!
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