Class Notes

Kent Place learned that Cynthia (Drake) Hugli passed away on March 10, 2021 (see below). We offer our sympathy.

emily_wood46@hotmail.com Prue (Sanford) Regan died peacefully at her home in Westerly, RI, on September 11, 2020. Prue was the sister of the late Jane (Sanford) Ziegler ’42. She was the beloved wife of the late Jack Regan and matriarch of the Regan family, which grew to include six children, nine grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. We extend our sympathy to Prue’s family.

Kent Place heard from Katherine King that her mother, Mary (Dickason) King, passed away on February 20, 2021. “My mom always remembered her experiences, classes, and friends at Kent Place. Thank you for giving her such wonderful memories” (see below).

Sally (Fordham) Dietrick passed away on September 21, 2020. We extend our condolences to Sally’s family.

annedowell@triad.rr.com This has been such a different and difficult year. I hope we’ve all had our vaccines and will soon see things improving. It was good to find most of us doing okay.

Evelyn (France) Kalagher is doing fine. She can walk around the road out front and up to the clubhouse. During COVID, the bus drivers shopped for everyone. Now she drives herself for groceries. She loves to cook and eats at home more than at the clubhouse. She shares dinner on Sundays with a compatible friend. She goes to friends’ houses to Zoom for current events.

Joan (Skelton) Holmes lives in Heritage Village, in Southbury, CT, and is doing okay. She uses a walker and on nice days goes out front to read. She does crossword puzzles, loves to watch Jeopardy!, and reads a lot. Her son Blair lives in Chicago with his wife and three children; son Hunter lives in Boston and is a professional guitarist. Her daughter, Trilby, who lives nearby, is a nurse and has three children.

Nancy Purdy says she’s doing quite well. She still has her little spaniel, Henrietta, who is a great companion. Nancy lives in a ground-floor apartment with a living room/dining room and three bedrooms. She usually eats at home but goes to the dining room occasionally. She has a helper who shops for her groceries.

Eleanor (Rathbone) Nichols lives in a nice retirement home in Charlotte, NC. She had a brain aneurysm a while ago but is doing well. She does jigsaw puzzles, as her doctor recommended. She hopes physical and mental therapy will help so she won’t need a walker. Her eyesight is good and she likes watching history movies.

Nancy (Vreeland) Waits lives with her husband, Richmond, in Westminster Retirement Home, in Winter Park, FL. They’re on the eighth floor of a large building. They go to different exercise classes and eat all their meals in the dining room. The whole family gathered at Easter. Their twin great-grandsons are 11 and they have another great-grandson, who is 2 years old.

says, “We’re vaccinated but still wearing masks around Chicago. We’re using Zoom to do yoga and chat with friends. We FaceTime once a week with our 7- and 8-year-old granddaughters in Texas.” Their daughter, Eugenia, is a nurse in a hospital and is also a sergeant in the Texas State Guard. Their son, Christopher, is an English professor at Illinois State University, teaching classes on Zoom.

wind says, “Our family often gets together on Sunday evenings for supper at our daughter Donna’s home. This gives me a chance to get to know my 3½-year-old grandson and my 7-month-old great-granddaughter. We continued our 25-year family tradition of gathering at Hilton Head for a week in May. There were 18 of us to celebrate.”

Helen (Preus) Mairs says, “Life at Episcopal Home, in St. Paul, seems to be getting closer to normal. We have a singing group, a writing group, and many movies. Daughter Julia will be returning from a winter in Indian Wells, CA. Heidi, my Houston daughter, will come soon for her first visit since Labor Day.” Elizabeth lives nearby and hosted a lovely Easter brunch on her porch with help from Preusy’s son, Rob.

Kathanne (Harter) Webster says their restaurants are now open to residents only. She’ll return soon to working at their library. She’s been ordering books and having them delivered but she prefers going to the library. “I’m well,” she says, “though I can’t take long walks due to my spinal compression fracture, for which there is no safe cure.” Her Wellesley roommate died recently. They lived

In a time when postsecondary education was reserved primarily for men, Kent Place was preparing its graduates not only to earn college degrees, but also to advance the world.

Cynthia (Drake) Hugli ’37 went on to graduate from Wellesley College with a BA in political science. During World War II, Cynthia worked at the Towing Tank at Stevens Institute of Technology, a facility where scale models of maritime vessels could be evaluated and which contributed to the history of America in the 1940s when work at the lab was devoted almost entirely to supporting the war effort. She passed away on March 10, 2021, at the age of 101.

Dr. Mary (Dickason) King ’43 passed away on February 20, 2021, following an illustrious career in medicine. She had always wanted to be a doctor, and started working in a hospital laboratory in Newark at age 14. She worked there every summer until graduating magna cum laude from Smith College, and then earned her MD at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. She was a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry at the University of Chicago and pursued a fellowship at the University of Copenhagen; spent five years in the pharmacology and biochemistry department at Yale; and then served as associate clinical professor of pathology at the University of Colorado. When her children grew up, Mary took a residency in surgical pathology at Cornell and became a specialist in GYN-surgical pathology. After moving again, Mary pursued her work at Rush Medical Center and the University of Illinois. To keep up with her husband’s medical career, Mary moved eight times in 40 years, always managing to balance her pathology practice, teaching, and raising three children. Mary viewed it as a privilege to serve in the medical profession during a time of almost miraculous advances in both treatment and basic science. Source: The U.S. National Library of Medicine, “Changing the Face of Medicine: Dr. Mary Elizabeth Dickason King”

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near each other outside Boston and had stayed close all these years. Kathy is missing her terribly.

Sue (Savage) Speers is happy to have a new great-grandson, whose name is Mateo. He and his parents live in Dublin, NH, and she hopes to get a ride there soon. Sue now lives in a retirement home in Hanover but still has her house in Center Sandwich, just a mile from Squam Lake. Her son, Will, lives in Center Sandwich. Her children share a house on the lake, and they and the grandchildren come and go all summer.

I, Anne, am fine at Homestead Hills Community, in Winston- Salem, NC. I love my brick cottage backing up to big woods. I have bird feeders on my deck and can see birds right outside my kitchen window. I go to our saltwater pool to exercise, and to line-dancing classes. We now have archery outside and small bands playing in the gazebo. I’m lucky to have two daughters who live nearby and do so much for me.

Kent Place received the sad news that Anne (Haon) Cook passed away on May 24, 2021, at her home in Lancaster, PA, and that Ruth (Mace) Prime passed away peacefully at her beloved home in Lake Placid, NY, on January 13, 2021. Our condolences to Anne’s and Ruth’s families.

jlmckeown@icloud.com I have exciting news — Anne Frances McKeown, youngest child of Bob and Sara McKeown, was inducted into Iota Gamma Chi, Endicott College’s honor society for liberal studies majors.

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mbtedt@gmail.com Liz (Dun) Colton and I, Penny (Burley) Thomas, took it upon ourselves to become co–class secretaries since our class notes have been nonexistent for quite a while. Here’s what we’ve come up with as a debut.

Liz reports that she, Mabel (Depue) O’Brien, and Karla (Hofmeister) Williams got together for a mini-reunion at a picnic last summer in Waterfront Park, in Bath, Maine. They hope that Aileen (Black) Robertson, who lives in Florida, can join them next time.

Ann (Reeves) Reed lives a quiet life in Virginia. Her two sons live nearby; her daughter, who lives in Connecticut, visits often. Ann and Charlie have seven grandchildren, one at Wake Forest, another a rower at Southern Methodist.

Karla (Hofmeister) Williams lives in her same apartment in New York City, keeping a low profile, but will soon escape to Maine, where her children and grandchildren will visit.

Ted and I (Penny) are living in Princeton, downsized into a condominium located near town and the university. We’re excited to be adding a fourth great-grandchild to the family collection this summer. We drive back and forth to Idaho, where we spend a lot of time. Our children and their children like to visit — and to hike and ski.

mcchurchill@gmail.com Spring was filled with family reunions after a year and a half of pandemic isolation and finally vaccinations! As I write this, in May, the snowbirds are leaving Florida and heading north to beautiful spring weather, attending long-postponed weddings and either real or virtual graduations of our grandchildren.

Pat (Clarke) Seeger writes from Vista, CA, that she lives near the ocean, which attracts grandchildren and other family from Arizona. If you build it, they will come! Nice to hear from her. Pat keeps in touch with Alvene (Farrell) Carpenter, who reports that she and Larry are doing well and spend the summers in their Nantucket digs.

Joyce (Cudlipp) Wiggin and Mitch (age 95, God bless!) love independent living in Adamstown, MD, especially the daily physical and occupational exercises. She says the difference in their bodies is amazing. No substitute for exercising, stretching, and strengthening at whatever level you can. Daughter Darby just retired after 30 years at Wells Fargo, as vice president of home mortgage, in Maryland. Children retiring: what does that tell us? Hmmm.

MJ (Cabrera) Shaw made her annual trip in April from Stowe to Florida, where they had a family reunion at daughter Dani’s home on the ocean. She’s amazing, starting the golf season again with great enthusiasm, even after breaking her femur last winter stepping backwards over her granddaughter’s dog. Watch those little dogs. Go MJ!

Jim and Sally (Needles) Toffey made their annual trek north to Kennebunkport, ME, from Vero Beach. They sent a video shot off the coast of Maine showing two sharks near and then under the boat of their daughter, Debby, and son-in-law.

Here in West Palm Beach, sharks have been fairly close to shore, too. I (Mary-Carey) went fishing for smaller fish, and sharks bit big pieces of them as I reeled in. The fishing industry is furious. Yours truly was able to pull together a March family reunion with three kids, Carey, Charlie, and Chris (Mass., N.J., Calif.). Serious exercising during the day — biking (not me), swimming, and tennis — followed by raucous evening hilarity. I’ve become a croquet nut at the National Croquet Center here, though not your backyard croquet. Wickets are really tight. Lots of fun, strategy, and challenges, and let’s face it: It would be really hard to get injured! Lucky me, gratitude, gratitude.

Oh, and about the escapade with Miss Sampson. Here’s a teaser that will keep you glued to your seat till next time. Do you remember Connie Caulkins? I think she attended only for freshman year, lived out by McGee Marshall. A hilarious bird, Connie, she and I loved Miss Sampson and particularly how she sat on the desk running her hands through that great shock of gray hair while teaching us everything anybody would ever want to know about Egypt. As a token of our appreciation, we left a hot-water bottle on the chair. Why? I can’t possibly answer that. Idiocy might come close. We thought it was hilarious. Stay tuned for the next episode. In the meantime, stay as healthy and safe as you can.

Kent Place heard from Beth Stewart that her mother, Mary (Kler) Heisinger, passed away on April 5, 2021, after a short illness. Mary shared many fond memories of Kent Place with her family throughout her life. Our condolences to Mary’s family.

Kent Place also learned that Janice (Netland) Fenner passed away several years ago, on October 3, 2015. Our condolences to Janice’s family as well.

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Doreen (Crawford) Dun: I’m sorry to report that Jim, my husband of 53 years, died on January 22, a victim of pulmonary fibrosis. Living alone is hard, but Maisy (dog) and I are getting used to it. Good friends in Maine and elsewhere are most helpful, and it’s great to be with my children and grandchildren as time allows. Best wishes to all our classmates!

Kent Place heard from Amy Ashton that her mother, Betsy (Cumming) Dartt, passed away peacefully at Brookdale Senior Living in Sarasota, FL, on February 13, 2021. Our condolences to Betsy’s family.

Joy (Pattison) Wheeler passed away peacefully at her home in Post Falls, Idaho, on January 21, 2021. Our thoughts are with Joy’s family.

Thank you to Virginia (Tansey) Wilkinson for compiling notes from her class.

Thanks to the remarkable “chain letter” started by Lucy (Gale) Gaven, we’re incredibly together almost 65 years after graduation! As we emerge from the pandemic, Cheryl (Cushing) Campbell, in Chatham, NJ, describes the “thrill of being able to open our doors and venture out,” Molly (Harding) Nye writes from New Hampshire lake country, “Three cheers to Zoom for keeping us sane, socialized, and connected,” and Bee (Newman) Thayer, from her mountain in northern New Hampshire, writes “������ ����������.” Cheryl adds, “Think positive as we deal with the gains as well as the losses of the pandemic year.” She and Rob have sold their Florida winter get-away to divide their time between Chatham and Lake Winnipesaukee, NH.

Molly and Joe spent the year in New Hampshire, where, she says, “we have a farm and have lived in isolation surrounded by meadows and forests.” They gave up their “cherished twomonth stay in Palo Alto for the last three years,” but they did manage to catch a week in Florida after their two vaccines, and a trip to New York City to visit their son, plus a few quick trips to their home in Lexington, MA,

The Kent Place Advancement Office is delighted to announce the return of Green and Gold on the Road, along with exciting virtual and in-person programming. Please be on the lookout for invitations; we’ll be adding programs and events throughout the year.

preparing to move to a retirement community there.

Barbara (Biddulph) Preston and husband Dave retreated to their summer home in Squam Lake, NH, for four months, returning to Old Lyme, CT, for visits from their son, Chris, and daughter, Liz. Chris and his wife came from Washington state with their twin daughters for three weeks. Liz and her husband and son came from Oregon to surprise Dave on his 87th birthday. All three grandchildren are 17. Barbara continues to play golf and tennis and to “walk over a thousand miles.”

Also in their New Hampshire summer retreat for the year were Ellie (Nye) Ernst and her husband, Fred. Ellie has been valiantly battling Parkinson’s disease, as she is gradually losing her ability to paint, draw, and cook. Fred now helps with cooking and also with her daily walks. Refusing to be discouraged, she says, “I’ve been blessed with a great husband and family and many years of good health.”

Home base for Kathie (Daly) Stone has been Londonderry, VT, when she isn’t working for the Rotary Club, mostly in Vermont or New Hampshire, facilitating its Youth Exchange Program, or traveling the world for her own pleasure. She makes trips to Westport, CT, to care for grandchildren while their parents are away. She has three great-grandchildren, ages 1, 2, and 4; two live in Kenya and one in Key West. Her latest adventure is selling her home and moving in with her brother in Chesterfield, VT, a challenging adjustment. Among the challenges, “Who might want my Latin texts: Livy, Ovid, Catullus, Horace — Miss Patterson would be proud. Or perhaps Socratics, Husserl, Hobbes, Leibniz, et al. I Kant imagine who would not.”

After many years in Arlington and Fairhaven, MA, Jeanne Van Orman moved to Pennington, NJ. She volunteers at a Washington Crossing sheep farm, across the river in Pennsylvania, serves on a planning board for affordable housing, shares her home with a cat and a dog “who runs my daily schedule,” and continues her connection with a Buddhist community.

Carol (Spaulding) Bulkeley and John celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary in September. “We both have all our shoulders, hips, and knees, though the originals do ache periodically. I still walk 18 holes of golf,” she says. Having traveled extensively in the last 20 years, they found the past year at home in Mountainview, CA, challenging at times, but they’ll head to Idaho and Montana for the summer.

With another view of changes this year, Judy (Miller) Colie says she finds it “comforting to wake up each morning without a self-made government crisis.” Since being vaccinated, she has seen her Colorado children for the first time in two years and hopes soon to see her five grandkids, now in college. Her granddaughter at Ohio Wesleyan University is ranked 10th in the country as a volleyball setter. Judy continues to play tennis three times a week, takes two courses via Zoom, and has reconnected with the Episcopal church from her New Jersey years.

Louise Mackie, who was until recently head of the Islamic Art Department and curator of the Department of Textiles and Costume at the Cleveland Museum of Art, received the Wells College Alumnae Award this spring. Before going to Cleveland, Louise was the department head and curator of the Textile and Costume Department at the Royal Ontario Museum, in Toronto. The Textile Society of America, of which she was founding director and a past president, describes her as having “contributed enormously to the textile field.” (Do look her up online.)

The pandemic crippled Sally (Mathiasen) Prince’s brainchild, the Lemon Twist stores. Conceived as a boutique in Bethesda for women, men, and children 42 years ago, Lemon Twist grew to 11 stores in Maryland and one each in New Hampshire and Florida. Due to the business losses from the pandemic, Sally will close Lemon Twist in June, but will continue to sell stylish clothes, jewelry, and trinkets online and at bazaars. (Look up Lemon Twist online.)

From the horse farm near Bedford, NY, that she has managed for years, Judy (Hofmann) Richter writes, “Dogs and horses punctuate the days with demands for room service, mostly food at the accustomed hours.” There are no lessons, but clients still come to ride. Both clients and staff members have freed her from grocery trips in the past year. Judy had a scare after her second Pfizer vaccination, from a blood clot in her lung and congestive heart failure. After three hospital trips, she has managed to bounce back.

Emily (Reeves) Sloan, whose family moved from Summit before she could graduate from Kent Place,

has been lost to our class for years, but Lucy found her, living in North Carolina. Emily has joined our chain and we can expect to hear from her from now on. Also in the chain are Karlan (Sloan) McCarthy, Susan (Pyle) Smith, Margherita (Lindsay) Ramsay, and Marjorie (Mallard) Potvin.

Lucy (Gale) Gaven still chirps from her perch in Chicago, discusses books online with sixth-graders, finds fun old KP pictures in dusty boxes that haven’t been opened in 45 years, and longs for the good old days when she could last longer than an hour or so in her garden.

Sadly, we lost two active members in the last year, Edith “Skip” Wolff and Barbara “Bobbie” (Reid) Hecklinger. Kent Place heard from Susan Reid ’61 that her sister, Bobbie, passed away at her home in Annapolis, MD, the place she moved to decades ago when she realized her love of sailing and all things nautical, on December 4, 2020. Our condolences to Bobbie’s and Skip’s families.

anne@iskrant.com Sandy (Fiore) Roy reports from Bethesda, MD. At the time of her writing, boarded-up shops and offices (because of marches and protests) and a huge fence around the Capitol were “disheartening.” She and Stape, her husband of 53 years, survived the pandemic, but have missed seeing their seven grandchildren in St. Paul, Oakland, and Sacramento. Sandy lives in a village for seniors. They were the first in the country to set up a vaccination clinic in their neighborhood, which was wildly successful, and went on to set up similar clinics in churches and schools before the state took over.

Sandy (Lee) Simmers, in Purcellville, VA, had a stressful few months this winter trying to get vaccinated. She knew she couldn’t get sick because of her home and farm responsibilities. Grassroots Farm lost a mama cow in January, and Sandy took over feeding an orphan 3-month-old calf. And there were repair and improvement projects. She played pickleball and paddle tennis outside all winter, which gave some normalcy. She and Bob are feeling more hopeful with vaccinations and a visit from son Taylor and family in April, after 16 months of not seeing the grandchildren.

Jeanie (Blackmar) McLerie, of Silver City, AZ, reports that she and husband Ken (of Bayou Seco, “traditional music of the SW from SW Louisiana to Arizona”) didn’t travel last year but stayed on Fiddle Hill, continuing their weekly radio show. They play live and invite listeners here and abroad to jam with them. Perhaps a return to Europe in 2022.

Sue Hand is moving to a retirement community in Bedford, MA, the “Whaling City.” She is sorry to give up the seashore but tired of house maintenance. She’ll have a “cluster home” with lots of sun coming through its windows and people around to do things with, especially during the long winters.

Lillian (Eken) Najarian missed being away from New York in Sanibel and St. Lucia. She kept in touch by FaceTime and Zoom calls with family, friends, and multiple organizations; had food delivered by various websites; used Amazon for birthdays and holidays; and had virtual doctor visits. She reads a lot, belongs to the Mount Holyoke Book Club, and does an enormous amount of genealogy. She says the last few years have created a tremendous amount of anxiety because of the anger and hatred promoted by politics. She’s looking forward to more compassion and concern for individuals and society as a whole.

Just like the Lilian I remember, she ended upbeat. Recently on an extended visit with their son and family at a new beach house on the North Fork of Long Island, she woke early each morning to a 2-year-old banging on the bedroom door yelling, “Grandma, come out!” A welcome and loving experience.

Lilian wrote, “I like to hear about what classmates are doing or experiencing, but understand that some don’t feel up to contributing for many different reasons.” So to those of you who read this, next time, please tell us your stories.

Pat (Downs) Ramsay, in Yarmouth, ME, writes, “My quick advice to 15-year-olds, especially if other pandemics come along: Pursue hobbies and wide-ranging interests; they help fight off feelings of isolation.”

Olivia Pennock ’91 notified Kent Place that her mother, Virginia (Lada-Mocarski) Pennock, passed away on April 6, 2020. Our condolences to Olivia and the rest of the family.

Dale McKendry informed the school that his wife, Mary (Loblein) McKendry, passed away on November 7, 2020. Our thoughts are with Dale and his family.

m.s.bentley@comcast.net Kent Place extends its gratitude to Marianne for her 22 years as your Class Secretary! She’s done a wonderful job of keeping the Class of 1961 connected. If you’re interested in serving as secretary, please contact Aimee Singer ’88, at singera@kentplace.org.

Susan (Pilchik) Lyons: We’ve been at home for a full year and just received our second vaccines. It’s been peaceful and interesting. I took two online courses at the local college, gardened a lot, and gratefully stayed healthy.

Joan (Lockhart) Gardner: We still live in Minnesota (with some Florida in the post-Christmas months) and always welcome visitors. I’m still a community volunteer, so nothing has changed over the past six decades. I’m president and cofounder of Friends of IPWSO (the International Prader-Willi Syndrome Organisation), which raises money to support children who have PWS, their families, and caregivers in countries where diagnosis, knowledge, and resources are limited. Our middle son, who has PWS, is now 52 years old and certainly enriches our lives!

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gailgiblin29@gmail.com Nanie (Walsh) Flaherty: Like many of us and like our country, Jay and I, our three children, our in-laws, and our six grandsons (ages 3–10) have had a challenging year. Now double vaccinated, we’re slowly venturing out, and thrilled to hug kids and grandsons! Jay and I are both happily retired. With time on our hands, we expect to be as supportive and involved as we can with our daughter Jamie’s campaign to run for New York State senator in the 41st Senate District. The election is in November 2022. Would love to hear from any classmates in or near that district.

Katie (Bode) Darlington recounted her experience with February’s ice storm in Texas: “Single-digit temperatures outside and 40s indoors. Our house was without power and internet for 24 hours, no heat for two days, and no water for four days. We wore lots of layers and did without showers and hot coffee. We gathered snow to flush toilets. Then we had to boil water to drink, and the grocery-store shelves remained empty. Other Texans were without power and heat far longer, and a few thousand remained without water.”

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Candace (Connor) Eardley: Back in New Jersey (Wayne) after a very brief sojourn in Manhattan. It was exciting to be a New Yorker, if only for a little while. Happy and busy life with volunteering and working with women in a 12-step recovery program. Marc is actively working and just waiting for Broadway to reopen. Lots of great new stuff is coming!

jbwwny@gmail.com It’s been quite a year — challenging for many of us. We’re sad to have lost Sara (Kidwell) Swann Miller, a classmate well remembered. Thanks to all of you for writing in.

Candy Cushing: Big thanks again to Janet and Jane for organizing a Zoom mini-reunion. What fun — I’m still smiling! Throughout COVID I was able to continue my business of college counseling via Zoom, which allowed for social separation while helping kids plan for a future chapter of a life in current disruption. Now we’re focused on a new normal. I’m blessed that family and friends remain healthy. Hoping the same for you.

Marjorie (Lange) Sportes: Lucien and I still live in Montauban (southwest France) but in a new house as of September 2020, so we have lots of work to keep us busy even in lockdown. We’ve managed to avoid COVID-19 and get vaccinated. And that’s about it for this last, very strange year. A recent bright spot was the “class reunion” in Jane (Kolarsey) Kusterer’s Zoom room on May 6. We did our best to exchange 56 years’ worth of news in one hour!

Janet Williams: Still in my houseboat in Seattle. This year has been full of reading, spinning, knitting, canning, baking bread, and playing with my two new kittens. I had major rotator cuff surgery in December, but am hoping to be kayaking by the fall. Two of my kids and both grandsons are in California, and the restaurateur son lives in Rhode Island. I’m happily busy with some new volunteer programs, a little consulting, and work with my co-op and the Floating Home Association, so I have plenty to do!

finallylbj@gmail.com Fran (Griffith) Laserson: My daughter, Galen, and her husband, Matt Bussmann, welcomed daughter Ellis Ladd, aka Ellie, in the spring. I was able to be in San Francisco for a week to see them start their life as a young family. Big changes were also in store for me. After 40 years, I sold my New York City apartment and bought a villa in Vero Beach, where my sister, Laura ’68, lives. It’s located at The Moorings, the same community where Nicki (Dugan) Doggett lives and on the same street as Betsy (Busch) Crosby.

Judy Small: In March I was honored to visit, via Zoom, the Upper School French class of Madame Françoise Moreau to read poems from my recent book, Second Tongue, which draws on my experiences as an interpreter for French-speaking asylum seekers from North and West Africa. Because the book begins with my earliest recollections of learning French, when I started at Kent Place in the seventh grade, it was very moving to share poems with students, even virtually, in this space where so much began for me.

Lisa (Wilson) Hetman: As with most other people, this past year has been quiet. I’m am looking forward to heading to the United States in June and meeting Patty English, Lianne (Gerhardt) LaVoy, Pandora Jacoubs, Jeanne (Hammond) Daraio, and Phyllis (Arbesman) Berger in Montana for a “safe” reunion. We hope to restart our regular reunion in 2022 with a trip to Ireland.

Jeanne (Hammond) Daraio: Some of the 1967 boarders have managed to get together on several occasions. In 2019, it was in Vilano Beach, FL.

barbarawiss@gmail.com Jackie (Baird) Fiala: In March 2021, my husband, Jim, and I moved to Lancaster, SC, to a beautiful 55+ neighborhood called Treetops, just 30 minutes south of our daughter, Carolyn, who lives in Charlotte. Carolyn, husband Aaron, and 3-yearold daughter, Sage, are expecting another little girl in May. Our son, Brad, is working for USA Archery in Colorado Springs. His son, Michael, will soon be 14 years old.

Nancy (Kaufman) Dalva: Being in touch with classmates through social media and directly during this long pandemic year has been sustaining. We dream together.

Kathryn (Van Cleve) Kuhns: Oh, what a year it’s been. Our family, God bless, has been relatively unscathed by the pandemic. Here, I’ll put the spotlight on our son Dylan, who is now a LTJG in the Navy. He’s headed to the Naval Air Base in Lemoore, CA, where he’ll be in the second cockpit in an F18 Super Hornet. John and I and our new black Lab puppy went to New Jersey on Mother’s Day to visit my 95-year-old mother. Wishing all happiness and good health.

Anne (Hawley) Morgan: Life in the north woods is good — and busy. The grandkids are getting bigger. My soup business needs another employee. I’m helping my son market-garden. I really should do the final edit of my romantic suspense novel, but I’m taking an inner-conflict workshop using my time travel work in progress.

gaylegg@gmail.com Dear Class of 69: A hard, sad year has passed and with it some sad, hard losses. We have lost a great friend and class leader in Ann (Butterworth) Feakins, who passed away on May 13, 2021, after a valiant struggle with cancer (see tribute on page 61).

On a happy note, and a reminder that “life goes on,” I heard from Zoe Kontes, Laura (Staehle) Johnson’s daughter, a professor at Kenyon College in Ohio (my alma mater!), who sent a picture of her daughter Poppy, whom Laura had a chance to meet before she died, holding Laura’s favorite stuffed animal.

Becky (Chamberlain) Revelle wrote from St. Louis: In this past year our family managed to have two weddings. Our daughter, Hannah, was married in September 2020 and our youngest son, Matthew, in February 2021. The guest lists for both were cut to around 50 people, all wearing masks. My sister, Judy, and her family were able to attend Hannah’s but not Matthew’s, and many of the guests watched via Facebook. We’re all fine and everyone in our family, except the grandkids, has been vaccinated. My husband and I have spent time with our grandkids at local parks and have discovered a lot of parks in the St. Louis area that we never knew about.

I concur — this is a year of park discovery. I’m working on a park photography research project with the Garden Club of America, documenting landscape designs of Frederick Law Olmsted in honor of the celebration of his 200th birthday. A story I wrote about the founding of Central Park and Prospect Park was published on the Olmsted200 website. This year has made me thoroughly appreciate the miracle of FaceTime. My youngest daughter is living in Greenwich Village and my older son and daughter and three granddaughters are in the Boston area. I measure the length of the pandemic by the fact that my youngest, a COVID baby born March 2020, is now walking and talking. Chris and I are still happily living in Baltimore and have been lucky to spend a lot of time at our house in Brewster, MA. I’m also working part time as a floral designer.

Carol Cowan is happily living in Madison, NJ, and joined a group Zoom call this spring with Comfort (Halsey) Cope, who has continued to enjoy being a docent for the Arnold Arboretum, in Boston. It’s a beautiful place, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, and Comfort would be happy to show you around. Also in the Boston area are Patricia Williams and Mary Robinson, who writes that she doesn’t have real news, but she does . . . “Gratitude that my wife had a successful knee replacement, and can walk enthusiastically now. Gratitude that our older daughter, Sarah, got great care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and is recovering well from Hodgkin’s. Gratitude that I’m retired from hospital chaplaincy now and didn’t have to be on the front line for ICU staff, patients, and distraught families during COVID-19. Hope you all endured the pandemic, are well, and have things for which you are grateful, too!”

And in case any of our class needed to be reminded of the fact that many of us have a very big birthday this year, Lucy Weiger, who is happily married and living in the California wine district, sent pictures of her birthday in Cabo with her sister Barbara ’71. Lucy obviously knows how to celebrate and clearly has not lost a step!

Hope you all have happy celebrations. Keep in touch and let me know. I hope our paths will cross! Cheers, Gay

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lisaschmucki@gmail.com Harty (Platt) du Pont: I was recently promoted from ambassador to chair of the 1754 Society for the School of the Arts at Columbia University. I’ll be the first graduate to hold that position, for which I feel honored. I’m also chair of the Arts Committee for honorary degrees. I serve on the Committee of Alumnae/i Relations and on the Committee for Events and Programs. I keep in touch with Halli, Buff, Lynn, Butter, Chrys, and Lis . . . and miss you all!

Lisa Schmucki: I joined the grandparents club! My daughter, Eleanor Oakes, gave birth to a boy, Seneca Oakes Stanton, in November 2020. She and husband Hal live in Detroit, and I’m so thankful that they’ve all been healthy during the pregnancy and birth. I spent Thanksgiving through Christmas with them, and it was wonderful. Can’t wait for a return visit soon!

Tricia Tunstall: It’s spring 2021, and I’m not sick with COVID, as I was this time last year. Full of gratitude about that and many other things. I spent the year teaching piano on FaceTime, writing and editing newsletters about music education for social change, and taking care of my 97-year-old mother. I married Eric in a socially distanced family ceremony on October 3, on a sunny lawn in the Hudson Valley. His sister was the officiant; my sons sang a duet; a puppy was the ring-bearer. Hoping to see you all in person someday!

Betzi (Ulrich) Powers: Although I miss getting together in person, our class has been able to take advantage of Zoom and Facebook to keep in touch. John and I miss all the travel we used to do and are hoping that the world opens up by the time this is published. We have a new camping trailer and maybe my next note will talk about classmates I’ve visited!

Patricia Kummel: After five months of online therapy with the elderly, I returned in person, in full PPE. Very hot, but more satisfying. Still doing teletherapy with private patients. I just finished organizing an international virtual Group Relations conference — 34 presenters and 150 attendees across multiple time zones — rewarding but exhausting! Charlotte’s finishing her first year of college, in person but no social life, very weird. Les loves teaching remotely and never wants to return to the school. My joy is walking Jasper and taking photos in Riverside Park.

Judy Chamberlain: I’m a happily retired family physician. Karen and I spend our winters in Windsor, SC, and summers in Maine. We’re busy with our horses, gardening, and various building projects. We’ve both received our coronavirus vaccines and are thrilled to be able to be out and about more.

Emmy (Perina) Katz: COVID-19 put a damper on our international hiking this past fall and winter. Bruce and I were able to go cross-country skiing several times at the Rangeley Lakes Trail Center, in Rangeley, Maine. Once vaccinated, we were allowed to ski in Vermont at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center. When not skiing, we were hiking. We treated the grandchildren and their parents to a trip to Disney in April. Playtime is over and it’s time to start gardening.

Liv Eltvik: As with everywhere else, COVID had a great impact on life in Norway, but we’ve been able to keep the number of deaths very low. We’ve experienced various local close-downs, and Oslo has been totally closed for longer periods. But Norway is fortunate and has plenty of open space, so outdoor activities such as hiking and sleeping in tents or hammocks have become even more popular than before. Erik and I have done what we normally do, being active outside. But we’re looking forward to being able to see friends and family again.

debvettx@gmail.com Kathy Cook: I retired in January after a 43-year career with ABC Sports and ESPN. On the horizon, renovating a home in Truro, MA, overlooking Cape Cod Bay, with my partner of 25 years. Life is good! (For more about Kathy, see “In Her Words,” page 54.)

During the pandemic, I worked on my new website: www.sacredspaceharp.com. It reflects the many “hats” I wear as a professional harpist and educator, with emphasis on my recent interest in playing therapeutic music for patients, families, and staff in Denver-area hospitals. My family are well and as of the summer we have two additional grandchildren, for a total of five. It was wonderful reconnecting by Zoom for our 50th reunion. We were recently in Cabo to celebrate my sister Lucy’s birthday.

Lili (White) Durling lilidurling@gmail.com

cathy.slichter@gmail.com

From Liz Feakins Welburn, daughter of Ann (Butterworth) Feakins, and Comfort (Halsey) Cope ’69:

We’re sad to share that Ann (Butterworth) Feakins passed away on May 13, 2021, surrounded by her family at her home in Virginia Beach. Ann was a serious student and an accomplished, competitive athlete. She enjoyed the lighter side of school life as well, and was a master of the heart-to-heart talk.

From Kent Place, Ann went to Smith College, where she majored in economics and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She began her banking career in New Orleans as the first female loan officer in the city.

It was her husband, Paul (Delbarton ’69), their three children, and later six grandchildren, however, who were the focus of Ann’s devoted attention. When she took time for herself, she enjoyed her Bible study, book club, ballroom dancing, card-making classes, and travel. Committed to community service, Ann was for many years a regular driver for Lee’s Friends, an organization providing free services to cancer patients.

The Class of 1969 extends our deepest sympathy to Paul, Ann’s husband of 47 years; their three children, Liz Feakins Welburn, Susan Feakins Masry, and Nicholas Paul Feakins; and her siblings, Susan (Butterworth)

Lord ’66, Caroline (Butterworth) Forsman ’71, and John Butterworth.

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Jerome J. Graham Jr., the father of Victoria (Graham) Chadick and Kirkland (Graham) DeLaney ’78, passed away on March 20, 2020. We send our condolences to Victoria, Kirkland, and their families.

balibliss@yahoo.com Jerome J. Graham Jr., the father of Kirkland (Graham) DeLaney and Victoria (Graham) Chadick ’77, passed away on March 20, 2020. Our condolences to Kirkland, Victoria, and their families.

kathryn@nenning.com Ellen McAfee: I sold my house in Long Beach, CA, in 2018. After 24 years on the West Coast, my cats and I came east, ending up in Oxford, OH. Quite a change! My new house, bought in 2019, butts up against some beautiful woods. I’m surrounded by wild critters and green once again. I spend my time updating my home, delivering for Meals on Wheels, and recovering from some recent health challenges. If you’re passing through Oxford, please come for a visit. I wish all of you health, happiness, and peace.

tahenick@aol.com Vikki (Pollock) Underwood: I’ve been married to Chris for 28 years. Our son, who is 22, completed his master’s degree in divinity in May. Twenty years ago, we moved to the coast of Georgia, where I spent my childhood summers. I’m retired now, enjoying the beaches, exercising, and traveling when possible. I met Diana Lynch in Savannah several years ago and we had a great time. I went to New Jersey a few years back and spent three days with my oldest friend, Carol Cronheim. We visited our old homes in Short Hills.

Lisa (Brown) Langley: In April, my niece Gareth and I opened a store in Edgartown, MA, on Martha’s Vineyard. The name of the store is KIN. We’re selling my fine-art photogra-

phy (L. A. Brown) and Gareth’s incredibly beautiful, custom-designed clothing from her own company, Rooey Knots. Come see us!

Katherine Bailey: My retirement living on the Gulf near Sarasota, FL, is wonderful. I consult in early childhood education and am pondering doctoral studies. My sister, Alison Bailey, a professor at Illinois State University, has just published a book on the philosophy of race, The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance.

Megan (Rocks) Jackson: I celebrated Mother’s Day with my daughters, Rebecca (28) and Samantha (26), and my mom, who is doing great. She’s still as much fun as she was in our high school days. My son graduated from Auburn University in June. David and I are still living in Westfield and staying healthy. I hope to see my local KPS friends soon, after a long year.

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glosito@me.com Erika Amato: My beloved husband, Jeffrey Calamusa (aka Jeff Stacy), passed away suddenly on August 15, 2020. The photo above was taken on our 25th-anniversary trip to Taormina, Sicily, just 10 months earlier. I’m extremely grateful to all my KPS friends who’ve helped me through this terrible time, especially Kim (Kanner) Meisner, Virginia (Boyer) Losito, and Jennifer (Hull) Dorsey.

melissamccarthy@me.com

squamlake@gmail.com

Laura (Ketcham) Coccimiglio: I’m involved in Houston-area professional and regional theater productions and appeared in two local film productions. Spent the pandemic working via Zoom with theater companies in Houston, New York, and Great Britain, improving my costume and makeup skills. Returned to live theater in August in the title role of Medea for Harris County Precinct 4 as part of its Arts in the Park series. Oldest child moved to Fort Worth with his partner. Husband celebrated five years at Rice University in October 2020.

mevitali@comcast.net It’s been a quiet year as we come out of quarantine and resume what’s now the new normal. It was wonderful to see so many of you at our virtual reunion this year, as well as catch up with Mrs. Faber and Mrs. Schwartz. I’m hopeful that STAR will be held again this winter and I’ll get the opportunity to see many of you. Stay healthy and safe and I hope to see you soon — be it in person or virtually.

Audrey (Pukash) Bilsborrow: Was so much fun serving as cochair of the Kent Place Hall of Fame Committee with my little sis, Diana D’Alessio ’93. We’re excited for the second class to be announced. Kent Place athletics are on fire — do follow on Instagram. It’s an honor to know that KP remembers us from days ago and launched the Hall of Fame. We stay present in pandemic living and are thankful for our health and extra time together. I feel lucky to be part of this alumna class. Love you!

Sue (Alley) Franzino: After last year, happy that Alexandra was able to get on campus for the second half of her freshman year at the University of Vermont, and we’re enjoying getting to know Burlington. Teddy (10th grade) is not enjoying the extra time we have to monitor his homework and grades. I’m still at Princeton 19 years later! We adopted a kitten during the pandemic and she’s joined many Zoom calls, along with our other cat and our dog.

Maren (Eisenstat) Vitali: My younger son, Kelan, turned 14 and this fall started high school, where he was accepted into the Science and Medical Academy program. He’ll be taking specific classes and apprenticing in different hospital, doctor, and staff positions for the next four years. And I can’t believe it but my older son, Aidan, went off to Gettysburg College this fall. Where did the time go? I’m still working as a library media specialist at a 5–6 intermediate school.

acarsontanner@gmail.com Bayne Gibby: I was overjoyed to “see” my classmates at our virtual 30th reunion. It was a flood of wonderful memories. I’m still living in Los Angeles, acting and writing for a living. You should see me pop up on your television soon. Already looking forward to the next reunion!

Olivia Pennock notified Kent Place that her mother, Virginia (LadaMocarski) Pennock ’60, passed away on April 6, 2020. Our condolences to Olivia and her family.

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courtney.a.mead@gmail.com Susanne (Santola) Mulligan: Our world is slowly starting to feel normal-ish again. We hosted a party (gasp) for our daughter Finley’s ice hockey team in our backyard. There was something invigorating about party prep that I’d missed so much! That being said, I also enjoyed spending the summer at our beach house in Manasquan and not commuting to New York City. This was likely the last summer that this will be a possibility, so Greg and I are thankful for the extra time with our daughters, Finley and Hayden, and our quarantine pup, Parker.

LaRaye Brown: The pandemic has stirred lots of emotions, but the light at the end of the tunnel is that my baby started high school, at Bergen Catholic.

to Michael Hetman April 18, 2020

to Ryan Link September 6, 2020

to Jack Markham May 1, 2021

a son, Ryan Schulman September 15, 2020

a son, Christopher Ryan Adam May 11, 2021

a daughter, Margot Campbell Lynch October 6, 2020

a daughter, Susie James Mauro March 17, 2021

Kamilah (Ross) Heartwell: I moved back to New Jersey in 2019 and work at a small charter school in Jersey City. I finished my master’s in educational leadership at Montclair State University in summer 2021. This is my second master’s degree and the first major accomplishment since returning to New Jersey.

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Ai Mukai: Enjoyed our “virtual” class reunion on May 22, 2020, via Zoom and reconnecting with classmates. Still a practicing physician in Austin and survived the “snowcalypse” in February.

Santhi Yarlagadda: We decided to make the big move out of New York City after 20-plus years. We’ve moved to Princeton and are close to downtown Princeton and family, including my sister Kranthi Yarlagadda ’90. We’re happy here, and my son loves having a backyard and neighbors!

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KC (Anthony) Artemenko kcartemenko@gmail.com

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ceryan@gmail.com I hope everyone enjoyed a more normal summer. After last year, we all deserved it! I had a good time catching up with Heidi Milton, O’Nell Starkey, Ashley (Pinakiewicz) Smallwood, Michelle (Mohr) Nash, and Katie (Del Guercio) Walmsley at our virtual 20th (+1) reunion at the beginning of May.

Katie (Del Guercio) Walmsley: It was a pleasure to Zoom into our “21st” reunion get-together, which was a smaller virtual gathering than we had last year, but it was lovely to hear updates from you ladies! It was incredibly special to have Mrs. Clemens join us for the entire hour. We were so lucky to have quality time with her, and it reminded me of the lasting impact that KP educators have had on my life. Mrs. Clemens, we treasure you!

After a few years running my consulting practice, I started a new job as director of TC NEXT, the career center at Teachers College, Columbia University. I love being in higher ed full time, even though I was a pandemic hire and have yet to meet my team in person. In personal news, I’m thrilled to be expecting a baby girl with my partner, Lee, this October. I’m lucky to have so many amazing mom friends from KPS who are sharing their wisdom with this newbie!

Christine Ryan: I recently changed jobs. I’m now corporate real estate counsel with Ashton Woods Homes, a luxury-home builder based in Alpharetta, GA. My family purchased a home in May and relocated to Peachtree Corners. This was my

From 2015 to 2017, I worked as a speechwriter for Johnnetta Betsch Cole, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. I supported her extensive advocacy work on diversity and inclusion. Dr. Cole also had several speaking engagements to promote awareness of the contemporary illegal international ivory trade.

In 2018, I became special assistant to the director. Every day in the director’s office is different. There are meetings to coordinate across oceans and time zones, for example, and currently we’re having an exhibition, Caravans of Gold, with medieval-period artifacts generously loaned from Nigerian and Malian institutions. During the pandemic, we needed to extend these loans. We also have an exhibition on Nollywood portraiture coming up.

There’s quite a lot of diplomacy involved in day-to-day outreach. We’re part of a larger Smithsonian working group writing up policy on restitution of art objects internationally, especially African art. Although we spend a great deal of time seeking to right historical wrongs, there are also run-of-the-mill human errors to resolve; I once had to search the central mailroom for a shipment of shark’s teeth meant for the Natural History Museum.

—KRIS JUNCKER ’93, PHD COLUMBIA ’07

13th move since graduating college, so I’m hopeful to be settling into our forever home. COVID derailed a planned girls trip with Danielle (Mulligan) Kinney and Ashley (Pinakiewicz) Smallwood last year, so the countdown is on for 2022!

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saralizpickett@gmail.com

e.sauchelli@gmail.com

ginaferraioli@gmail.com Katherine Kalaris: After more than 10 years working in global health, during nine of which I was based in sub-Saharan Africa, in October 2020, I started a PhD at the University of Oxford. I’m researching how clinical networks may help solve problems of poor service delivery in low- and middle-income country health systems, focusing on neonatal service delivery networks in Kenya.

My family moved to Scotch Plains in winter 2019. I still teach special education at a middle school here. My second son, Ryan, was born September 15, 2020. His older brother, Evan, turned 4 in May.

Taylor Barry: See “15 Minutes With” on page 68.

lkkleinbaum@gmail.com

cara.manket@gmail.com

dvauriemma@gmail.com

lydia.deutsch@gmail.com Katherine (O’Donnell) Lynch: My husband, Joe, and I welcomed a new baby! Margot Campbell Lynch, born October 6, 2020, joins big sister Lucy.

Emily (Abramowitz) Adam: Justin and I welcomed our third child, Christopher Ryan, on May 11, 2021. His siblings, Brooke (9) and Trevor (4), are so excited about the newest addition!

nida.11.abdulla@gmail.com

cblack@fandm.edu

sarajosantos@gmail.com

oberlander.allison@gmail.com

courtney.simmons513@gmail.com

afg813@gmail.com Nicole Coscolluela: I’m pleased to have started a new position in community impact with United Way of the Greater Triangle, based out of the Research Triangle Park, NC. I’ve also been busy starting an urban homestead in Durham.

Maggie (Black) Mauro: On St. Patrick’s Day this year, husband Andrew and I welcomed our second daughter, Susie James, into the world! She is so loved, especially by her older sister, Emma.

Corey Szumski: My husband and I got married on September 6, 2020, in Rochester, VT. Despite our wedding taking place during the pandemic, we were able to have a small gathering of our close friends and family and we thoroughly enjoyed the day.

(973) 379-5347

rachelroselandau@gmail.com

lizzymiggins@gmail.com

malinawelman@gmail.com

victoriaacriscione@gmail.com Drew Silverman: After five years at Trewstar, a firm that specializes in placing women on corporate boards, I’m a full-time student in the MBA program of Berkeley Haas.

jb4628@nyu.edu

caroline.lewis915@gmail.com

Isabella.smith411@gmail.com

scp61@georgetown.edu Victoria Lynott: My sister, Caroline Lynott ’11, got married on May 1, 2021. I started medical school at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine in July 2021.

Abby Espiritu ’15 made her professional on-camera acting debut in February 2021 in a national Super Bowl commercial that was seen by almost 100 million viewers. She starred in the DoorDash commercial alongside Tony Award–winner Daveed Diggs (Hamilton, Snowpiercer) and the cast of Sesame Street. She is represented by Innovative Artists NY and managed by Mara Entertainment.

cmeckles7@gmail.com

bmikytuc@skidmore.edu

mckayjj11@gmail.com

dchanchuk@gmail.com

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