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Mimi Auldridge Van de Houten ’54 1 “A few
members of the Class of 1954 met for lunch at Cedar Creek in Orange County in March 2021.” Pictured are Pat Moffat O’Fallon ’54, Sheila Sullivan Conant ’54, Margaret Volken Klecker Miser ’54 and Mimi.
1960s 60th Reunion Mass & Brunch Classes of 1960 & 1961 Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021 10 a.m. in Strub Hall Presentation of the 2020 Cornelian Award to Susan “Todd” Warner Jackson ’57 and Sr. Anne Kelley ’65 Spouses and significant others welcome!
Patricia Smith Kunz Delgatto ’60 “I finally
retired in 2018, at age 75, having worked for 30 years as a Director of Human Resources in health care. My husband is a lung cancer survivor so we started looking for healthy places to live outside of California. We settled on St. George, Utah, and relocated in December 2018. It is truly a spectacular place to live and just a five-hour drive from Pasadena. I have two sons and two grandsons. My older son is Chief Medical Officer at a Virginia hospital and my younger son
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makes documentaries. I will be attending our 61st reunion in October and look forward to seeing my classmates.” Cornelia Reynolds Gould ’66 “Ed and I have been living the good life—Lake Tahoe in the summers, Indian Wells in the winters. We have five grandchildren, including twin boys born last summer, who’ve been in Salt Lake City during the pandemic but are about to move to New Jersey. We’ve been playing lots of online bridge, but are starting to transition back to in-person games. I’d love to catch up with all of you. Perhaps we can have a late 55th reunion?” Sally McFadden Gordon ’67 “My husband, Steve, and I started the pandemic almost in a fog. Suddenly all the streets in the Napa Valley were quiet and we went out about every two weeks for groceries. It seemed very quiet and falsely peaceful until we started getting the news from New York. So many cities followed suit with truly tragic reports and the good feelings we had evaporated overnight. As the months passed we realized we missed our families more and worried about them accordingly. Santa Cruz seemed like another country and Chicago another continent. In May we finally left home and went to Joshua Tree to see some friends from Los Angeles. We saw my family and then flew to Chicago to see Steve’s clan. What an incredible relief! The exhale was audible and we are feeling much better but still a little weary. Steve is painting (thegordongallery.com, if anyone is interested) and I am still working as a life coach. Call me if you need me at (707) 927-8082. Always free for Mayfield alums.” Farley Egan Green ’69 “I wrote a poem last year about one of my favorite teachers and shared it with some of my classmates via Zoom. They encouraged me to send it to you. After graduation, I went on to Scripps College, got a degree in English, and pursued a writing/communications career. I’m now retired and have returned to writing poems, something I first tried at Mayfield. Have even published a few. I live with my husband, Tom, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.”
One day in history class Mother St. Charles plants herself by the blackboard. She lectures the girls on the architecture of France, her long black habit swirling as she moves. “A grand cathedral!” she says. “Gothic!” “Our Lady!” “Centuries to build!” She stretches an arm overhead and leans into the board, hard, channeling the arches of Notre Dame. “Flying BUTTresses!” she exclaims and of course the students laugh. Years later, Notre Dame’s flying buttresses withstand the flames that bring down the roof. They hold the walls steady. Like Mother St. Charles, who taught school in a world that was starting to shake, where girls got pregnant, a biracial couple went to the prom, and nuns came back in the fall with girlhood names and new outfits.
1970s 50th Reunion Dinner Classes of 1970 & 1971 Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021 5 p.m. in Strub Hall Spouses and significant others welcome!
Missey Moe-Cook ’71 “The Class of 1971
is gearing up for its 50th Reunion celebration, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 2 at Mayfield Senior School, starting at 5 p.m. (See details above.) Less than four months away (at the time of this writing) many in the Class of ’71 have indicated they will be there that evening. It is sure to be great fun for all. We are still looking for some of our Mayfield sisters. If anyone has any contact information for Kathleen Aiken ’71, Betsy Natzel ’71, Linda Contreras ’71, Shadell Giessinger ’71 or Gwen Schad ’71,
