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1 Members of the Class of 1959 and their husbands at the Belle Haven Club, Reunion 2014 Front row: Andrea Formel Carmichael and Ceci Halpern Morgan Back row: Ceci’s husband Bob Morgan, Suzanne Eberson Adams and her husband Dan Adams
6 BK Young Bates ’65 and Shelly Gilmore Bell ’65 at a Decades Luncheon at GA, spring 2014
2 Nancy Hathaway Healy ’63’s granddaughters, Addie (5) and Darcy (6)
8 Marilyn Makepeace ‘68 (right) and her partner Anne Maczulak at Port Lockroy in the British Antarctic
3 Anastasia Jones Robinson ’63 with her new Golden Retriever show puppy Zephyr 4 Dana Stambaugh Semeraro ’63’s son, Ken Semeraro, who attends the Henry Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences at the University of New Haven 5 Lucette Dunlop Favreau ’64 and Yale Stockwell Nicolls ’64 at Reunion 2014
city’s charm, exuberance, beauty, and youth. This year we are staying closer to home, planning on a couple of weeks in Montreal and Quebec. Daily, we are both very involved in our church, the local libraries, the historical society, the Democrats, and have both been elected representatives in our town government in Groton, CT, dealing with budgets. After having retired 10 years ago from Manhattan to Mystic, we are still trying to find enough time to wander the less-traveled roads and towns in Connecticut.”
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Laura Vanderbilt Ernst writes, “Though I only spent my senior year at GA, I look back now and realize how well I was welcomed, and what a wonderful senior year I had.”
Lucy Mitchell writes, “I had the pleasure of a visit from Anne Hughes Kieve in early April. She was on the verge of becoming a first-time grandmother. Son David and wife Kate Bedingfield have a son named Hughe. I was able to spend six glorious days in June at our house in Vermont. I will return for a longer stint in September. I do look forward to being able to spend my summers there along with the rest of my family. The city of Tucson has made an unsatisfactory initial offer for my bakery building. I’m hoping they’ll see the error of their ways. They need to get the building demolished by early 2015. My life will be pretty chaotic for the next few months.” Vicki Van Rensselaer writes, “I’m currently building a website (www.putnamafield.org) that contains some
7 Jennifer Thompson Dott ’67 (right) with her daughter Mimi Mayer Leone ’00 and Jennifer’s grandson, Grant Matthew Leone, born April 2014
9 Mary Tietz Wheeler ’71 and Alice Gerster Breed ’64 celebrating Alice’s birthday in Rehoboth, DE. Mary and Alice report, “We are friends who found out that we both went to GA. Although we weren’t at GA at the same time— these are ties that bind!” 10 Ellen Ackerman Miller ’74 with her daughters and new grandbaby
Lila Lovejoy who was born New Year’s Eve, 2013 Left to right: Toby Eyre (who taught at Greenwich Academy for two years!), Ashley Eyre, Ellen, Lila Lovejoy, Avery Eyre Lovejoy, and Libby Eyre 11 Terry Markey BWK ’75 and Pinky Crabtree Markey ’73 with Claire Rauh McDonough ’00 and Craig McDonough BWK ’90 at the husband and wife golf tournament, Greenwich Country Club, spring 2014 12 Vivian Patterson ‘73 as a student at GA 13 Vicky von Gontard Skouras, Ruth Ragsdale Blick, Susan Holt, and Susanne Benson Villemarette at Darcy Schaffer Hadjipateras’s house for the Class of 1974 Reunion Dinner
“Antarctica is an absolutely incredible place. We saw whales, albatross, four types of penguins, and icebergs. We went on Zodiac tours through iceberg graveyards, through rock canyons, were followed by a pod of Minke whales, saw avalanches, and watched icebergs calve. We went out to ice floes to watch seals sleeping on the ice. On shore we visited penguin rookeries, watched elephant seals dozing Jennifer Thompson Dott shares, “Our on the rocky beaches, walked in a horrendous wind up a exciting news is that we became grandparbeach to the edge of a dormant volcano, and hiked on snow. ents on April Fool’s Day with the birth of Grant Matthew It was windy, snowy, sunny, and always beautiful. Did you Leone, the son of my daughter Mimi Mayer Leone ’00 and her husband Michael. The Leones live in Branford, CT, know that penguins have pink poo?” which is close, but not close enough now that we have our Jessica Baker Strater writes, “After living adorable grandson!” in the Seattle area for almost 30 years, my Susie Lenahan Kimberly reports, “After husband Bill and I are moving to Park City, UT, in pursuit a very harsh winter, spring has finally come, of sunshine. I will be teaching yoga there when we get settled in. Would love to see my GA sisters if you are in and the real estate market in Buffalo is over the top! It is a true seller’s market and crazy prices. Lots going on in town. the area!” religious information that I have found to be educational and interesting in recent years. The ‘Putnam’ in the website name is a reference to Putnam Avenue in Greenwich where my childhood Episcopal parish, Christ Church Greenwich, is located.”
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Looking forward to seeing everyone at our next reunion!” Marilyn Makepeace writes, “In January I went to Argentina for a two-week motorcycle trip starting in Bariloche. We rode through the Andes, across Patagonia and down to Tierra Del Fuego, finishing our trip at Fin Del Mundo in Ushuaia. On the first day I had an accident on my bike and injured my foot, so I spent the rest of the time, except the last four days when I was able to ride two-up with our tour leaders, riding in the support truck. Anne met me in Ushuaia, and from there we took a 10-day cruise to Antarctica.
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Kim Coleman writes, “Vivian Patterson, student president of Greenwich Academy for the Class of 1973, passed away on June 9, 2014. Vivian received her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Williams College and was a curator at the Williams College Museum of Art from 1980 until her retirement in 2012. Her parents, Helene and Warren Patterson, were French teachers at Greenwich Academy from 1954 to 1975. She is survived by her husband, Stephen N. Pagnotta. The Class of 1973 fondly remembers her intelligence, quick wit, sardonic humor, dramatic interludes, athletic prowess, and tiny penmanship.” (continued on page 54 >) G R E E N W I C H AC A D E M Y.O R G
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