exhausting trip filled with special moments. Travel is our favorite hobby.” After biking in New Zealand in 2015, Sharon bought an e-bike and got in shape putting 700 miles on it last summer, which helped her navigate the hilly terrain of Andalusia when they biked in Spain in October. They also spent a week in Barcelona with a group from Gary’s college, enjoying Gaudi, Picasso and Dalí, and the Costa Brava. After the holidays, they volunteer in the Tax-Aide program January thru April. “If I avoid the news, socialize with friends and exercise, life is good.” Susan Thorward Sheinfeld and Bob celebrated by spending October in Australia (their sixth continent and 10,000 miles from home in Spring Lake, N.J.) and New Zealand. They enjoyed experiencing the diverse landscapes and visiting the many historic sites of both countries, as well as snorkeling, sailing, swimming, and going on safari to see kangaroos, koalas and other native animals. Susan and Bob have two daughters and two much-loved grandchildren, for whom they were the “granny-nannies” from 2011 to 2015. Rebecca, 37, an economics major who worked in project, data and account management, earned a master’s degree in nursing from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in May and is currently employed as an emergency department nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Maria Varela Berchesi’s California family, with three birthdays in August, visited Montevideo to celebrate theirs and hers. “I invited 80 members of our extended family and had a great celebration at the new secondary school building everybody was eager to see. I also traveled to the Mediterranean with a friend, and I spent a day at Avignon, France, 50 years after I had taken a course there when I was a student at CC. Beautiful memories.”
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Correspondent: Myrna Chandler Goldstein, mgoldst@massmed. org Kathie Thompson Otte continues to work as an adoption consultant. “It is such a rewarding career to help build families through the miracle of adoption.” However, Kathie was profoundly impacted by Hurricane Harvey. “Sadly, I was one of the flood victims. I had four-and-a-half feet of water in my house for 12 days. The first floor of my house was a total loss. I will be living in an apartment for at least nine months until my house is rebuilt.” Donna Rosen reported on her September food and wine tour in northern Spain. “This was my third trip to Spain, but the stops were all places I had not seen, except Madrid.” The
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tour began in Santiago de Compostela, the end of the Camino route. “We worked our way across northern Spain, visiting the wine country regions of Rioja and the Ribera del Duero, and ending up in Madrid. We visited seven wineries. The food and wine were outstanding. This was perhaps the best trip I have taken.” Donna plans a trip to Southeast Asia in February: “I have wanted to go to this part of the world for at least 15 years.” Pamela Bliss is busy with music and fiber arts. She teaches weaving at an art center in Lakewood, Colo., and she is part of Lakewood’s Art Attack program, creating a spontaneous woven work in cooperation with a spoken word artist. Pamela also weaves and dyes Japanese shibori style. For fun, Pamela plays bodhran and hammered dulcimer for contra dancers. Pamela reports that her husband, John, and her dogs “fill her life with joy.” On Martha’s Vineyard, Terry Appenzellar and husband John Caldwell enjoyed getting together first with Lucy Thomson and her daughter, Tory, then with Lucy and her husband, Arthur Peabody, who have purchased a cottage in Vineyard Haven overlooking Lagoon Pond, which they will be renovating for a while. In October Terry and John reconnected with Carol Campbell and husband Jack McKenna over the Yale/Dartmouth weekend in Hanover. John recently retired and is cultivating a photography hobby while they continue traveling. Last year they spent a month circumnavigating Australia, visiting inland at Uluru, and also Papua W I N T E R 2 0 1 8 | Class Notes
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New Guinea, Bali and Komodo Island, and had plans for a trip to Spain later in the year. Terry is on the board and serves as treasurer of a small nonprofit focused on protecting Vineyard wildlife and educating the community about local species.
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Every fall, Barb Witter Enman and Margo Reynolds Steiner travel to Williamstown, Mass., for their annual reunion with classmate Sherry Page Bode and her husband, Bob. Naturally, this year they all wore their Never Underestimate a Woman Who Graduated from Connecticut College T-shirts! The fall colors hadn’t quite turned yet, but their Saturday evening lobster extravaganza was as messy and delicious as ever. In October Margo traveled to Berlin for a week to care for two rabbits while their owner vacationed in London. She belongs to a website that seeks pet sitters for everything from dogs and cats to larger farm animals for people traveling for a week or two, with worldwide locations. Paying only roundtrip airfare of $450, Margo enjoyed a week in one of her favorite cities for free. However, there was some adventure, as one of the rabbits died on the second day— she spent the first two days hustling back and forth to the vet! Fortunately, Margo speaks fluent German and has experience with rabbits, having owned 10 over the past 30 years. Everyone tells her that there’s a short story there—we look forward to reading it! Carol Neitlich Bridges enjoyed visiting her daughter, Jamie Bridges Walzer 53
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