week in April. And before, I enjoyed a ‘sister visit’ with Becky Wyker Hawksley, ‘59, Debby Wyker Hoster, ‘61, and Marty Wyker Anderton, ’63, in Hilton Head, where we won a condo for a week at a charity raffle. So life is good.”
Sally Seifert Cohen is writing her first fiction mystery book. Meanwhile, she and her husband are celebrating their 44th wedding anniversary by taking a trip to Bermuda. During April, Sally helped the women of Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club by being one of the hostesses
The Class of 1961, Seated: Tana Sterrett Scott, Patti Schiff Hershorin, Susy Culter Meiling, Ginny Cunningham. Standing: Joann King Smith, Annie Saxby Houle, Debby Wyker Hoster, Karen Mykrantz O’Keefe, Marcia Ross Blackburn, Sharon Hill Isaly, Anne Kirsten Wilder, Margaret Sutherland Curtiss, Dottie Hubbard Segal, Abbie Hobbs Faerber, Ellen Larrimer Tripp.
for their spring progressive luncheon in Huntington Harbour. Last summer, Sally traveled back to Ohio for the 4th of July to celebrate her 50th reunion at Upper Arlington High School. She feels that life has blessed them so much.
1961 Anne Kirsten Wilder, Class Representative Karen Mykrantz O’Keefe writes now that she’s retired, she has gotten back into riding after a VERY long hiatus. She has a very large jumper who’s for sale, being ridden by a professional. She has a smaller jumper that she is competing on and having a lot of fun. Her kids are scattered all over. Oldest, David, is married and has a three year old son, Owen. They live in Bali doing research. Kathy is living in New Mexico and does body work… massage, cranial-sacral, and polarity. Andrew, youngest, is in Savannah, GA, working for Savannah College of Art and Design, and doing freelance carpentry. They are all great places to visit, and she does, often. Annie Saxbe Houle was honored by the Maine Women’s Policy Center on June 16, 2011 for exceptional commitment to
improving women’s wages and instilling leadership in Maine and throughout the country, her work on the Women’s Employment Issues of the Maine Jobs Council, her spirit of collaboration, and the impact she’s had nationwide training hundreds of students to negotiate for better pay (and a small army of trainers!)
50th Reunion What a blast for the Class of ’61! We DID have fun – about as much fun as we had 50 years ago! We partied all weekend and could have done some more. We discovered that we are just as attractive, most likely more mature and strong, and definitely more wise than in 1961. Just as silly and fun, though – we all wished that we had this knowledge of how really great we are 50 years ago – just think how much better we will be at the next reunion! Our overflowing weekend began with the cocktail party at CSG which we had never attended – it really was a special event and we will do it again. It was great to see everyone for the first time – we had some time to get caught up with each other. Then we carried the party to Neil and Sally Hubbard Larrimer’s, ’68, (brother of Ellen Larrimer Tripp and sister of Dottie Hubbard Segal) lovely
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Class News
As of March 31st, Karen Tweedy-Holmes was no longer at the Population Council where she worked as an editor and staff photographer for 18 1/2 years! She and her collaborator, Allison, a free-lance journalist living in Portland, OR, have signed a contract with Rizzoli, the international leader in the publication of fine art and photography books. Rizzoli has accepted their book on the work of horse sanctuaries in the United States!!! Their agent pitched their project to Rizzoli last June, and the project was approved about a month ago. The book will be 9” x 11”, about 256 pages, and hardbound. 8,000 copies will be printed and distributed worldwide. It will appear on Rizolli’s fall 2012 list at $39.95. “We will be featuring at least 12 sanctuaries in depth and describing a number of others in an appendix. I will spend two to three days at each sanctuary to make high-quality, compelling images. Never before have I been granted such an opportunity to “follow my bliss,” as they say. The dozen facilities that we have chosen are in NH, MA, SC, TX, AZ, ND, CA, OR, and WA.” All of the photography has to be handed over by the end of October, so Karen is planning four major trips by car beginning on April 21st and hoping to arrive at each sanctuary when the weather and landscape look best for each area: the West Coast, the Southwest, New England, and the South. She’ll be heading to Texas first where she’ll spend a night at the home of Helen Spencer! She is driving so that she can take all the equipment she needs and have no airline security hassle and also so she can camp out all over the country. She is very excited to begin this complex adventure and meet new horses and the people who take care of them. Her working title for the book is Rescuing Equus, but she imagines the publisher will choose a title that’s more marketable.