whether she is ready for it. Her other big question in life is whether to go “natural” with hair color. Her kids are great, doing their own things. Coincidentally her daughter, Anne, is a professor of political science at Chestnut Hill College and sees Sally Kitchen regularly. Chris echoes the advice of others who have lost friends or family members this past year: treasure the time we have with people we love. Mary Ellen Savarese is still working fulltime for NIH doing program support and contract management. She claims it is better than it sounds because the programs are interesting and diverse, making each day different and challenging. Retirement next year is her plan. In April, she will be joining classmates Francie Glennon Dunlop, Collette Cullen Zito, Liz Dunigan Gallivan, Mary Gildea Butler and Bea Gauvrey Pessagno who will take time out from her duties as newly elected council member in Cape May, NJ, and hopefully provide them with tales of political intrigue in a small town. Add a little wine and I think this will be quite the event in Florida...spring breakers move over. Maggie Kelly York and her husband are anxiously awaiting the arrival of their first grandchild and also looking forward to a visit from Mary Lou McGovern next week when they are here from England. Colleen Hallisy Schaefgen has a new grandson who is the first baby boy in her life. Her daughter and family live with her and she enjoys the daily interaction with the baby and his big sister. She is still working part-time and also greatly enjoys the Trinity dinners with the DC alums. I know out-oftowners get invited, so let it be known if you are ever going to be in DC and join the party. Allison Rapp was included last time. Ann Marie Hallahan Peters also writes from DC with the news she and Ken celebrated 40 years of wedded bliss with a trip to Paris and Seville. Now that is style! They also welcomed their first granddaughter last fall. A highlight for her was also our Pals reunion in LA (at least it was a highlight before we were cast into the shadow of the granddaughter) Celeste Pinto McLain hosted seven of us including Barb Slafkosky Blackledge, Shai Cassell, Mary Fran Cipolla Karanikolas, Kathy Gillis Sayre, Jane Streator Curley and myself. We were wined and dined and shown the town all while a week earlier, Celeste and Tom had suffered water damage so severe they had moved out of their house, dealt with the insurance company and contractors, got a rental property to live in for two months, etc. It was so special and we all are grateful to Celeste for all she did in the face of adversity! I mean the words: water, insurance company, contractors, rental house are the very definition of “stressful situation.” The coolest part may have been feeling we were all worth it! Speaking of Barb Blackledge, she and her husband have moved to NC. She still has a house to sell in Scranton, but is mighty happy that she has no more snow to shovel and has the bonus of being near her son, daughter and grandson. She has retired from teaching theater but is still in the acting game, looking for Equity jobs anywhere south of Pennsylvania. She and Mary Francina Golden are looking for a production they can do together in either NYC or North Carolina. Keep us all in mind if you get something! She is loving retirement and having the time to learn piano, paint and draw again, and read all those books that have piled up over the years. Another DC area resident is Patti Broderick who is still working as an associate judge presiding over adult criminal matters along with teaching trial
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advocacy at GW Law School. She still skis in the winter at places with programs for adaptive skiing. Her summer vacation included Amsterdam, Bruges and Sweden. She stays in touch with Karen Lordi, Sarah Kitchen and Kathy Houlihan Rao. Good to know they are well as I did not hear from them. Patti is thinking of retirement, but until she has a real plan for how it will shape up, she will keep doing the work she has found so rewarding. Newish to DC is Anna Maria Ingoglia Larsen who moved back after 40 years in Denver. She said it has taken awhile to adjust to the drivers! She and her husband Skip aka Les are blessed with eight grandchildren, five of whom are on the east coast. Being part of their growing years has been a great joy for them. She is continuing her work in the executive search business as well as being an executive coach after receiving her certification from Georgetown in 2004. They found the reality of the move more of a jolt than they expected, but reconnecting with TC women has been great. Her intent is to rekindle old friendships, make new ones, and create a new way of enjoying this cycle of our life journey. Well said, and a theme that ran through many letters. Paula Gizzarelli Lettice reflected on world and local events that have given us all pause and time to reflect and think about those closest to us and to count our blessings. Her term as a Trinity trustee is over, but she has replaced it with a spot on the board of Campagna Center, Alexandria’s largest non-profit and the provider of all Head Start programs under contract to the city. Her interest in Head Start began at Trinity with a field work/methodology course in political science. It is so great to see how the cycle continues. Paula also has a gal Friday business that is starting to pick up. She helps with down-sizing and staging homes. There are also four grandchildren in the picture and they had them all together for the first time at Thanksgiving. My favorite letter, mainly for its innovative approach (apologies if it is not you), was from Dawn Keenan. She went through her year month by month, then did my job for me with this: “I suspect you will edit this to something like: Dawn enjoys traveling in retirement and also gets together often with TC classmates – check Facebook. In addition she does genealogical research, plays bridge, is in two book groups, is the VP of a condo board of directors and goes to the gym for life insurance. She still hopes to see the Northern lights.” Wow, it will be tough for me to justify my newsletter salary...oh wait... Now for all my midwestern peeps...cold but not forgotten. Francie Glennon Dunlop is still working full-time and while the rest of us are reduced to tears by the Medicare maze, she loves helping clients deal with it. Her family is all fine and like Judy Brown Carlson, all sons and grandsons. They love attending the ten-year-old’s sporting events. Francie had one knee replaced last year and the second one last week. Since that is all of her knees, she is looking forward to pain free walking soon. She is also anticipating the April gathering of her TC friends in Florida...with that new knee, she’ll be dancing all over the place. We want photos next year. Another survivor of last year’s polar vortex was Beata Welsh in Chicago. She and her husband escaped to Miami for a bit and plan to do so again this year. They are still both working but have a trip to Italy scheduled for the fall. Their son got married this year, which was a very happy event. Debby Smith Zeman in Rochester, NY, might not technically be in the midwest, but it is cold and snowy and not east. She is loving retirement,
quilting, working part-time when she feels like it, attending and even teaching classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute attached to the Rochester Institute for Technology and spending time with five granddaughters. She also enjoys keeping up with TCers on Facebook. Just got a last note from Diane Sharkey Crowley who is retired on the Jersey Shore with her husband. She didn’t have too much news, just that they are well and enjoying life and grandkids. She has seen Kathy Sullivan Corrigan, Regina Cahill Keeley, Sally Foley and Kathy Fisher Sloane. She did wonder if she was the only one feeling the years a bit more of late? Uhhh, I know for a fact you are not the only one. OK, one more last note from Mary Bufford McGoldrick who got in just under the wire. She and Warren are loving retirement, as evidenced by their Facebook photos which are always somewhere exotic and fun. They had their first grandchild this year and are pretty excited to have a little girl in the family after having three sons. She also saw Kathy Whaeler last May and they enjoyed catching up. I just got the sad news today that Maggie Hollenbeck Rivers passed away from cancer. She spoke about her battle on Facebook and many of us who did not know her that well at Trinity got to know her over the past two years. We all admired her courage and devotion to her family and friends. Everyone knows I am writing this from California on our annual pilgrimage to visit Ron’s son and family. It is a great break for us from a long northern winter. My daughters in Minnesota will probably not speak to me until I am properly chilled after getting home. Our lives are great in retirement. We are traveling, enjoying the grandkids and our lake place in Wisconsin. We use it year round and get a lot of family time there which is fun. We are going to have “Nana and Papa camp” for a week this summer, three kids ages seven, eight and nine with no parents. If someone else is the scribe next year, you will know how it turned out. All the best to everyone and thank you so much for your letters and emails, I am so sorry that I have to edit! I got some book suggestions but don’t have room for them here. I will post on our Facebook page. If more of you join Facebook and find the “Trinity College 1971” group, I will add you. It is a private group with 52 members so far. Non-members cannot see content so we could use that forum to exchange information and news more fully. Lois Carolan 1861 Bayard Avenue St. Paul, MN 55116-1212 loiscarolan@comcast.net
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Dear classmates, It’s been a while since our years in Cuvilly, Kirby, and Main. 1982 graduation was a transitional time and it seems many of us have weathered other transitions lately, asmore of us adjust to empty nests, consider pursuits of further education, make travel plans, and look towards retirement. Although much time has passed, Kathleen Saunders-Mitchell says it seems like yesterday that she was graduating from Trinity. She continues to work as the disclosure officer for the US Mint, where she celebrated 37 years of federal government service in April, 2015. Daughter Delisa Mitchell graduated this past spring from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in architecture and Kathleen is