CLASS NOTES Let us know what you are up to! We love to have information for the Class Notes section of The Oaks. Submit your updates and photos online through the Mercy website at www.mercyhsb.com/alumnae/submit-news. If you prefer to email us, you can send your news to alumnae@mercyhsb.com. We can’t wait to hear from you! — Jamila Sinlao Zanette ‘04, Alumnae Relations Manager
1941
Ruth Curran Dolim turned 95 on February 6, 2019. The whole family came home on the weekend of February 2, 2019, including Steve and Margie Dolim, Michael and Stephanie Dolim, Clare Dolim, Judy Dolim Shafer ‘77 and Lily Shafer, as well as Greg Dolim and Terry Timmons Dillon. They celebrated with a wonderfully delicious lunch at Mezzaluna in Half Moon Bay. A good time was had by all!
Motel restaurant in Millbrae. We dwindled from 30 to three and this year only Mary Monast Carvalho and Roberta still hope to have lunch there before the year is out. Joan Retchless Lawson died this year and Pat Morton Butler is unable to travel. I wish I could tell all our stories, the joys and sorrows of 69 years! We will never forget our four years at Mercy that gave us a wonderful, educated start to our Future!”
1947
Joan Lorentz Del Secco enjoyed a fun lunch with
Sr. Marilyn Gouailhardou ‘47, RSM, Natalie Cirigliano Brosnan ‘02, and Mary Lund.
1949
Kathleen Morgan Hatthorn now lives in Helena, MT with her husband Marv, near their daughter Siobhan.
1950
Roberta Pinn Craig writes, “It has been 69 years since our Class of 35 young women graduated from Mercy High School, Burlingame. Our stories are varied and remarkable as we are. We started meeting every April, ten years after Graduation. Three of our classmates had died and we felt it necessary to keep in touch. First our Reunions took place in someone’s home and then in various restaurants and finally for years, at the El Rancho 42 MERCY HIGH SCHOOL BURLINGAME
1953
Lois Daly Bonvicino, JoAnn Lyons Quadt, Kathleen Doherty Moran, and Nancy Conway DeSmedt got together at Kinkaid’s in Burlingame for lunch on August 6th. They can’t believe it’s been 66 years since they graduated. Lois writes that the gathering was filled with “lots of laughs and lasting friendship!”
1955
Carol Ann Bocci Nulk and her husband Bob celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with family and friends on June 13, 2019. Subsequently they took an adventurous land and sea cruise tour to Alaska seeing breaching whales, eagles, sea otters, puffins, bears and lots of ice! Many beautiful scenes, glaciers and mountains where the culture for many is to live off the grid. Absolutely fascinating! They traveled by train, bus, plane and ship from the Inside Passage to the Yukon, Barrow on the Arctic Coast, Mt. Denali, Anchorage, Homer and Kodiak. A wonderful way to celebrate many years of love and happiness. Carol writes, “We have been truly blessed.”
