CLASS NOTES
leper colony on Molokai, going down the steep precarious terrain via 26 hairpin switchbacks.“I developed a sincere respect for mules,” she wrote. As for my trip, my husband Jules and I spent February on Oahu, hiking, swimming and watching our granddaughter Sophie’s water polo matches. We hiked up to Makapu’u Lighthouse and were rewarded with some great sightings of the migrating humpback whales. Bill Hammond has relocated to San Diego. You can find him, along with Carol and me, on Facebook! We might even “friend” you!
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Susan Shinnick Hossfeld shossfeld@comcast.net Susan Kurtz writes from Roland Park Place that she enjoys her lovely apartment and spends time doing all sorts of “little things.” She stays busy, as she was accustomed to doing in her “old” life; she stills volunteers at the Friends School library and spends time with her sister, something she was not able to do in the past, and enjoys getting together with her Friends School and Hood College friends. Near the holidays, those of us living in the Baltimore area and those who were in town visiting relatives joined Betsy Banghart Flaherty along with Sandy and Dick Jeanneret for lunch. A fun time was had by all. I think the restaurant staff thought we would never leave! Carl and I just returned from Winter Park, Colo., with a side trip to Rocky Mountain National Park, in the Estes Park area. We just beat the major Feb. 13 snowstorm by flying back a day early, arriving hours before the storm hit. In a few days, we are heading off with our two boys and grandchildren to Snowmass, Colo. — with a side trip to a gold mine for the grandchildren — for their spring break. Later this spring, we will travel to northern Spain for a tour, and then we’re renting a car to travel through the Pyrenees Mountains, ending up in Toulouse, France.
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Ann Green Slaybaugh Friends59@verizon.net Many of our classmates gathered at Friends at the beginning of May for Alumni Weekend — and to celebrate our 55th Reunion from Friends School! Those who attended had a wonderful time and enjoyed one another’s company once again. No news to share this time around. Please make sure to email me your news for the fall edition of Collection.
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Mary McElroy Mem2008@comcast.net Tom Baker joined Bruce and Betsy Beatty Gamble on a visit to Monhegan Island as part of Tom’s visit to his cottage in Maine. Perhaps this is a new tradition! He also made visits to see his sons in Virginia and New Hampshire. He enjoyed having time with his grandchildren, Monterey “Monty,” 6, and Delphine, 6 months. Tom has returned to his piano, practicing daily, a love he had while at Friends. We all remember fond times at the piano with Tom. Catherine Felter is very active with a group, mostly from Stony Run Friends Meeting, working on violence prevention. They are creating workshops for children in elementary through middle school and developing a curriculum based on the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights and using resources from American Friends Service Committee. Alice Morse Mellin reports that she and Peter are slowly transitioning from work to retirement. They spend time with their 11 grandchildren, have traveled to Argentina with college friends and traveled to Medellin, Columbia to visit friends who have retired there. Like many of us, they have had joints fixed; Alice has new hips, but she is now ready to ski and sail again. As are many of us, Alice is getting ready for her 50th college reunion. She is remembering and missing her friends at Friends and hoping some will visit her in Maine. Dellie Strickland James says that her brother Guy Strickland ‘60 is a new grandfather; his oldest daughter Katie had a baby girl named Victoria on Feb. 18, 2014, joining her brother Charlie, 3. Dellie is very involved with the Baltimore American Indian Center and has just been elected vice-chair of their museum board. Her son Strickland is now a president at Washington Talent Agency. He has 13-year-old triplets. Steve Levinson had a heart attack last December but is much better now. He recuperated in Florida before returning to Baltimore in late March. Mary McElroy has started a busy year of travel. She just returned in early March from her annual trip to see family in Portland, Ore. This year’s visit included a side trip to Seattle to visit the Chihuly Glass Museum (“fantastic!”), the Space Needle and a fun visit to the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery. In June, she plans to attend her 50th college reunion in Beloit, Wis., and in early September will go on a Road Scholar cruise up Alaska’s Inside Passage — a trip that has been on her “to do” list for many years. She continues to make jewelry and had a
LINDA KARDASH ARMIGER ’62 and Eleanor Blake Fuller ’62 spent time at Eleanor’s
home in St. Petersburg, Fla.
very successful craft show last November. Her sister-in-law occasionally sells Mary’s sterling nautical pendants and earrings to friends in Maryland. Aside from her jewelry making, Mary has also been busy serving on committees and helping to organize materials in preparation for the Woman’s Club of Newton Highlands’ fall craft fair. We have both sad and happy news from Brad Meyer. His beloved wife Melissa died at the beginning of last October after a yearlong illness. Betsy Gable, Eli Renn and Mary McElroy attended the beautiful memorial service in a packed First Parish Church in Lincoln, Mass. The happy news is that in February, a boy with the impressive name of Ezra Ignacio Pope Meyer was born to Brad and Melissa’s son Jake and his wife Rossie. This is Brad’s fourth grandchild. Susan Huff Schmitt continues to enjoy life at Shell Point, a life care community in southwest Florida. She is visited each year by Susan DeHoff Montgomery. Susan reports that amusing white pelicans have settled into the lake by her apartment building, and Pat Clouse Epifanio ’61 turned up in a knitting class recently! Susan invites all her classmates to come and visit and enjoy her view of Sanibel, Fla.
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Barbara Turnbull Davis akitabay@gmail.com I recently heard from Bert Taylor up in Western Canada. It sounds like his winter has been as bad as ours here on the East Coast! He is now left with lots
of firewood from his damaged trees. His wife keeps him busy with her addition of a third horse, a Connemara (a wonderful Irish breed), and more fencing issues to be addressed. Bert is still busy helping to redraft his island community’s constitution and is hoping to increase his leisure time, get his 25-foot sailboat in the water and enjoy his French novels. Maybe he can help Jean Derioz with her French teaching as well! Again, Bert asks that we keep in touch with him, so just email me for his address.
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Eleanor Blake Fuller eaerobic@hotmail.com Diana Fleischer Schofied is doing just fine more than year after her kidney transplant. She is working part time in Baltimore County for an outpatient substance abuse clinic, handling two groups and a couple of individual clients. It is just enough to keep her busy. She says she is still working on her leg muscles at the gym but has most of her energy back. Her Friends School grandkids are doing well. Grey Blanchard ’18 is now 14 and is on track to complete all of the math he can take at Friends by junior year. Friends is working on having him take courses at Johns Hopkins University for his junior and senior years, and his parents are also considering a boarding school in Connecticut. Of course, Diana is rooting for Friends. I say a lot of the smart genes come from you, Diana! Henry Blanchard ’24, 8, is also
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