class notes traveled from Rome on a four-week road trip to Sardinia, Northern Sicily and Southern Italy, followed by visits to islands off Sicily, including Stromboli. At home, she continues to enjoy her docent duties at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Marcia Brazina Littenberg finally retired (at 75!). She’s glad not to commute in traffic, but she will miss the classroom where she taught since she left CC in 1962. She had plans to travel to Corsica in September, to the Turks and Caicos Islands in December, and to Cuba in February. She volunteers at Bideawee, where she trains puppies to walk on a leash and cleans up puppy Susan Rosenberg Rose ’62 (left) and Seyril poop. She kayaks, hikes, and does Siegel ’62 P’06 at the Banqueting House, Pilates and yoga. She hopes to train her Whitehall, in London, England. new dog to be a Read-to-Me Story Dog teaching an adult watercolor class, as for libraries and schools. Her message to her classmates is “stay young in well as painting, sculpting in clay and spirit.” exhibiting work. She and Harry spent Your correspondent (Seyril Siegel) time last summer in Watch Hill, R.I.; son Scott and his wife have a shop that thanks you for your submissions. In features Scott’s wife’s jewelry, as well April, I visited daughter Isabel Siegel Griffith ’06 and son-in-law Benjamin as some of Sally’s work. Scott plays Griffith ’06 in San Francisco, and blues guitar in New York. Daughter Gillian works as a freelance filmmaker from there, I went to L.A. to see my sister and Susan Rosenberg Rose and writer; her husband, Pete, is with Bloomberg. Grandson Miles, 7, spent a to plan our trip to Italy. Susan rented an incredible apartment in Florence, long weekend with Sally in August. Margo Conderman Arnold’s book, where we spent a memorable week. “Shameless Self-Promotion” (available Then I went by train to Milan, where I met a Venezuelan friend and went to on Amazon), came out last February. On May 5, she had a stroke en route to Lake Como and then back to Milan. Beijing from Toronto. The pilot diverted From there to cold and rainy Berlin, and then to London, where I met up with the plane to Calgary. Three hospitals Susan (roomies again after 50 years) later, she was in recovery, “which has been amazing!” Her devoted husband, and more friends from Venezuela. I did Doug, took care of everything, including the queue at Wimbledon—five hours in the hot sun—but got in! At the end documenting the whole ordeal on of August, I went to New York for the Facebook. U.S. Open. Finally, Columbus, Ohio, for Lys Marigold is busy every a mini high school reunion—Ohio State moment during high season in the fever was at a pitch, with everyone Hamptons. She serves as vice chair dressed in scarlet and gray. of the local zoning board and warden of St. Luke’s Church, and guides her fantastic daughter, Skye Marigold ’17. Correspondent: Bonnie Campbell Billings, Judy Biegel Sher had a great trip bsq22@aol.com to Japan to celebrate her 75th. She Wally Coates Paprocki had a enjoys her eight wonderful grandkids, busy summer biking (1,400 miles as two of whom are in college (Michigan of early September) and volunteering and Tufts). She had travel plans to at her local library. While traveling to Cuba in the winter. She loves life on Vancouver to visit her younger daughter the beach in Santa Monica — “Life and family, Wally found herself is good!” spending the night on the floor of the Jean Cutinelle Tinelli took a sixNewark airport, a victim of United’s week trip to Saudi Arabia and Italy. In computer glitch. “Nice to finally get Saudi Arabia, she participated in an home to our house in the country, where Aramco reunion, where she and 600 we’ve lived for 40 years. I know we others enjoyed typical Middle Eastern should think about the next steps, but feasts, bazaars, deserts and oases, beaches, museums, and ancient ruins we’re awfully happy here.” Without responses beyond Wally’s as guests of Aramco. In Italy, they
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Class of 1963 meeting in Maine. (L-R) Cynthia Nichols Travers, Bonnie Campbell Billings and Elana Brown Anderson.
to my pleas for news, most of what I (Bonnie Campbell Billings) have for you is from my own personal contacts. My husband, Joe Wauters, and I got together for dinner with Diana Altman and her husband, Richard Siegel, at their apartment in NYC in April. With both daughters and two grandchildren in San Francisco, they are often in the air. Daughter Claudia’s Altman Siegel Gallery is doing well and is worth a visit. Elana (Lanny) Brown Anderson wrote a perfectly hilarious account of their early summer trip to Hong Kong to visit son Spencer and family, including two grandchildren. Diane Lyons Dunning, of Ambler, Pa., spent a week visiting the Andersons this summer. And in early August, Lanny and Bill spent a week cruising with us on our sailboat in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. Joe and I, with friends, spent most of the summer sailing Deep Powder from Nova Scotia to Rockport, Maine. We stopped in to visit Lanny and Bill at their home in Deer Isle, Maine. Cynny Nichols Travers was in the area, so she joined us for breakfast one morning. Cynny had, barely two weeks before, completed the move from her home of more than 40 years in Newton, Mass., to a small apartment in downtown Boston. “I never imagined the amount of work that would be involved, but it all feels like the right thing to have done.” She makes frequent trips to New York City to visit her twin grandchildren (and her son and his wife). Her daughter is in Denver. Cynny gets together at least once a year with her sister-in-law, Ann Travers Butler, often planning trips around their mutual passion for opera. Now that Roberta Slone Smith lives in Vermont, she and I get together frequently for lunch and a visit. Her
older daughter, Pamela, remarried recently, and her younger one, with husband and 7-year-old daughter, moved back to Austin, Texas, last year. Roberta visited Patti Keenan Mitchell in Beverly, Mass., in June while Patti was recovering from hip replacement surgery. I had lunch with Aggie Cochran Underwood, who summers in Middlebury, Vt., away from her home in Naples, Fla. Aggie stays in touch with Belinda Breese and recently got together with Jill Davidson Brett. Aggie had a wonderful three-generation trip to the south of France in August to celebrate her daughter-in-law’s graduation from medical school. She frequently visits her grandchildren (ages 2 and 4) and family in Washington, D.C., where she lived for most of her career, including 15 years as headmistress of the National Cathedral School. I learned, independently, that Aggie was honored by the National Cathedral School with the naming of the Agnes C. Underwood Athletic Center. She continues to work as a headhunter and managing partner of the global faculty recruitment firm of Carney, Sandoe & Associates. If anyone is willing to help me with our class notes, especially someone from a different part of the country and/or with a different network of classmates, I would most welcome the assistance.
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