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Marian Sullivan Monks ‘50 graduated from UC Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. She is now retired and lives in Sun City West, Arizona. Prior to her retirement, she explored professions in both the education and legal realm, including being a teacher, a paralegal and lastly, worked in travel as a Group Travel Consultant.
There was a gettogether lunch at Nan McAlister’s house in early March. From left to right: Ann Williams Regan, Judy Rees Cunningham, Nan Siracusa McAlister, Fran Cummings Kathy O’Mary, Darleen Tealdi Peterman, and Maureen
Shirley Sampson Latimier ‘50 writes from Eugene, OR where she and her husband live. After leaving the Bay Area, they moved to Northshore, Lake Tahoe where she taught first grade for 21 years and raised three children with hubby “Wally”! In retirement, they try to stay active and busy, and love time spent with her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. A favorite past time is doll collecting and looking for old dolls which she lovingly repairs and brings back to live another century. She looks forward to seeing the news from Mercy and can’t believe how “Mercy has grown so big and fabulous”!
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Rubis Leimbach all proud members of the Class of 59.
1960 Patricia Conway Putkey ‘60 and her classmates gathered together for their annual luncheon in Burlingame: Mary Conway Zodrow, Susan Torriglia Monahan, Patricia Conway Putkey, Margaret Mackesy Booker (photo)
All sent in by Mary Lou...
Mary Lou Woodman Whitcomb ‘56 and her husband, Ken took a cross country road trip last Fall, visiting their grandson at Oberlin College, then traveling to upstate New York where Mary Lou fulfilled a lifetime desire to ride on the Erie Canal. They continued through NH, VT, ME, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia before driving home. It was a trip of a lifetime! They continue to enjoy their lives at home in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Regina Burke’56 is now a Lay Carmelite, 3rd Order Carmelite after retiring from her position as a Clinical Lab Scientist at a hospital in the San Joaquin Valley. She and her sisters Anne and Joan enjoyed a wonderful adventure together in Africa last year. Cecilia Kollock Wolary ‘56 is under Hospice Care at home in El Dorado, CA.
Marsha Stanford Aliamus ‘56 recently passed away, may she rest in peace. 26 MERCY HIGH SCHOOL BURLINGAME
1961 Proud grandmother, Lourlene Studdert Klinger ‘61 and husband Michael wrote “Congratulations to the Class of 2020”, and especially to their granddaughters Jacqueline and Haylee Klingler ‘20. This is the Third Generation of Mercy girls, as their mom, Lori Smiley Klingler ‘89 also walked the halls of Mercy! Lourlene writes, “There are two more Klingler girls to come, Sierra will be an incoming Freshman and Liliana in four more years.” Left to right....Lori Smiley Klingler ‘89, Haylee Klingler ‘20, Jacqueline Klingler ‘20, Lourlene Studdert Klingler ‘61.
