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visiting from Avila Beach, Calif., and Rodi and Wick from Stonington, Conn.; Carol is a New York City resident. All Correspondents: Patricia Dale and Carol Chaykin, ccnotes66@gmail.com plan to attend our 50th reunion in June. Annette Allwardt lives in Lynn (Gigi) Goodman started her Amorbach, Germany, with her lifemate, own practice in July. Her mother, Class Christine, and four cats. She continues of 1938, is 98 years old, and Gigi’s to run her antiques shop, filled with daughter and son-in-law now live English silver tea sets, French Art nearby. Gigi values her CC friendships Nouveau lamps, paintings, furniture more every day. and more. Annette summers in After spending January 2015 in Mecklenburg, near a thousand-year-old Pelican Bay in Naples, Fla., and loving oak forest close to the Baltic Sea. She welcomes visitors and hopes to join us it, Susan Kirshnit Woodall and her husband decided to take the plunge at our 50th reunion this June. and move there. They would like to While in Denver for a family wedding in September, Carol Chaykin hear from any classmates who live in the area. Susan originally thought joined Kay Landen, Peggy Rifkin Lehmann and Rona Shor for lunch at that moving to Madison, Conn., in 2006 would be the last chapter in her the Denver Art Museum. memoir, “My Address Book: A Way of Patricia Dale is celebrating the Remembering…,” but now she’ll have release of the third and fourth CDs of to add another chapter! her grandfather Seth Bingham’s organ Ann Langdon reported plans for music, “Cathedral Strains,” which will be played at the Cathedral of Saint John the a 10-day visit to Cuba in October. Daughter Elizabeth Days continues Divine in New York City April 5, 2016. to work at Harlem Village Academy Toni Gold, Carol Katz, and Rodi in New York City and at various Weir York and Rodi’s husband, Wick, comedy venues. Her sketch “Flighty met for lunch at the Asia Society in Connections” has been produced New York City in May. Carol and Toni also tested their duplicate bridge skills four times around the city to great acclaim, and she is the female lead at the Honors Bridge Club. Toni was in the online sitcom Plant (now in its 60
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second season), for which she has received several awards. Ann’s older daughter, Alison Days, continues to expand her private pediatric practice in El Paso, Texas, and to edit the El Paso Physician magazine. Granddaughter Frida turned 9 in August; Georgia was 5 in November. Marny Morris Krause met with Nancy MacAlaster and Judy Lefevre in Brattleboro, Vt., for lunch. Sharon Myers received her master’s from Heartwood College of Art in Biddeford, Maine, in June, culminating a wonderful five-year program. Her senior thesis project included printing, embossing, installation and books. Marian Silber had lots of alumni visits in Naples, Fla., last winter: lunch with Karen Schoepfer Hagerty and husband, Ken; Karen’s sister Nancy Schoepfer Sanders ’64; and Asia Rial Elsbree and her husband, Hugh; and a second lunch with Kay Landen and Asia. Eleanor Abdella Doumato and Gabe also spent a few days in Naples. En route to a land tour/cruise in Alaska, Marian stopped in Seattle to visit Joan Bucciarelli Yim. Marian extends a big thank you to all ’66ers who made gifts through the Annual Fund after receiving her reminders and for the wonderful emails she received in response. She hopes that these “reCONNections” will carry through to our 50th reunion in June. Having moved from New Mexico, Lydia Wohlberg Berrong and her husband, Tom, have joined the other CCers at Carolina Meadows in Chapel Hill, N.C. Ten members of our class met in New London in September for a
productive planning session for our 50th reunion, this June 3-5. You should have received your invitation for this milestone reunion—if not, contact us ASAP! And please be sure to submit your write-up and photo for our Koiné Gold memory book. We all look forward to seeing you on campus for a memorable and fun 50th reunion! Thank you to all who sent us news. We love hearing from you, so please continue sending your news to ccnotes66@gmail.com.
1967 ——— Correspondents: Debby Greenstein, debbyg837@verizon.net; Marcia Matthews, marciamatthews3@gmail.com
Elayne Zweifler Gardstein and her husband, Hank, visited the Berkshires, where they saw the Van Gogh exhibition at the Clark Museum. Elayne enjoys her work as a faculty member of Adelphi University Libraries in Garden City, N.Y., teaching research skills to art history students, acquiring and cataloging rare materials, and working on exhibitions with wonderful colleagues in University Archives & Special Collections. Carol Friedman Dressler’s husband, Bob, had a massive heart attack when they were on vacation in Vienna and, sadly, he passed away on May 3. Carol is still reeling, but she is comforted by knowing that they were doing something Bob loved, and that he did not suffer. Carol and Bob would have celebrated their 26th wedding anniversary on May 21, 2015. We send condolences on behalf of the entire class. In the fall, Wendy Wilson Allen began her 40th year at St. Olaf. Wendy says it doesn’t seem possible, but it has been a very satisfying journey, both
Members of the Class of 1966 met on campus in June to plan their 50th reunion. (Front, L-R) Martha Blanchett Twigg, Marian Silber, Patricia Dale and Carol Chaykin; (Back, L-R) Kate Curtis Donahue, Lois MacLellan Klee, Elizabeth Leach Welch, Kay Landen, Pokey Davis Kornet and Bridget Donahue Healy.
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