cl a ss notes 1935 Elizabeth (Betty) Hitchcock Gaillard chats regularly with classmate Rosie Baldwin. Betty’s fondest Milton memories include spending evenings with her housemother, who let the girls sit on the end of her bed, listening to Bing Crosby. She believes that “the pattern of her life was set forth at Milton.” Two experiences made this so: talks students were required to give before the whole school, and her election to president of the Self-Governing Association. After Milton, Betty was involved with the American Red Cross during World War II and with the United Nations during the late-’40s and ’50s. She served in North Africa and Europe with the Red Cross. With the United Nations she was director of the guide service program and served as a public affairs officer. Betty is “profoundly grateful for the small talent released and encouraged in [her] by Milton.”
1954 Jean Worthington Childs and a “grand gregarious group of MAGUS ’54” gathered for lunch in Wellesley in November, discussing topics including symphony, the Tuaregs in Mali, outside water pipes in England, gardening, book groups, Colonel Barrett’s restored house in Concord, Massachusetts, birding, and Lilla Lyon’s winning a raffle of a “Timber Frame of Thoreau’s Cabin,” built by French artisans. The lunch included Liz Biddle Barrett and Rud, Cynthia Hallowell, Sally Sprout Lovett, Lilla Lyon and her husband Hank Drury, Cynthia Kennedy Sam, Kadie Maclaurin Staples and Chuck, and Jean Worthington Childs and John. Cynthia Hallowell spends a couple days each month as a docent at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 50 Milton Magazine
Martha Fuller Chatterjee and Jean Cutler Whitham connected at a conference focusing on issues of elections, media, money and religion. Rosamond Tudor van der Linde recently cruised the Amazon. Mary Pratt Ardant lives in England and welcomes classmates to visit. She spends summers at Squam Lake in New Hampshire. Carter Myer Gray spends time in Connecticut, but can most often be found in Wyoming near Jackson Hole. Sally Chase Flynn visits grandchildren all over the country, and still is active in tennis and golf. She and Kadie visit in Florida regularly. Ann Feeley Kieffer has cut back on her sculpting, but is still in New Hampshire. Duffy Royce Schade and her husband, Gerhard, have been active in bike riding around Vermont and parts of Europe. Jean Worthington Childs and her husband, John, continue volunteering their time and curling in the winter—they hope to ski on perfect days. They had a grand family reunion in Amelia Island, Florida, over New Year’s with Jean’s brother-in-law and his gang.
1955 Harry Gratwick reports that the Class of ’55 Iron Man Award of the Year goes to Ambassador Charles Dunbar for his bicycle ride from Brunswick to Thomaston, Maine, to meet Harry Gratwick, Jim Bowditch ’57 and a friend from Vinalhaven for lunch. After lunch, the intrepid Dunbar mounted his trusty Trek and returned to Brunswick, battling Sunday-afternoon traffic on Route One—a one-day total of 100 miles!
New Orleans and home building in New Mexico, coupled with cultural immersion activities. Early years included incorporating her artistic talents and initiating a faculty/staff art show. In Virginia, she is participating in her third art exhibition since April 2012. Her works include linoleum block prints, macramé, painting/collages and needlepoint masks.
1970 Class of 1957 member Bob Fuller’s short story “Flashback Morning” appeared in War Stories, an anthology of military stories, released on Veterans’ Day, 2012. Bob served in the Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He collaborated on the story with a former colleague who was a Maine National Guard veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Information on how to download the anthology, available in e-book form only, for $9.99, can be found at www.smashwords.com. Bob’s novel Unnatural Deaths is available at local and online bookstores. His Web site is www. unnaturaldeaths.com.
1957 Ann Wyatt-Brown’s husband of 50 years, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, died November 5, 2012, at Roland Park Place. He had just finished answering questions from the copy editor for his forthcoming book from the University of Virginia Press.
1958 Neilson Abeel announces the birth of his second grandson, Jasper Eliot Abeel Knoop, born August 25, 2012, in New York, to his daughter, Maud, and her fiancé, Stuart Knoop.
1969 Last summer, Janice Peters completed her 20th and final year at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., where she has served as admission officer, director of community service, and ethics teacher. She organized student trips for service work in
William C. Corea wants to share Richard Alan Wotiz’s ’77 obituary, which can be found at http://circuitcellar.com/fea-
tured/in-memorium-richardalan-wotiz/. Dick’s brother, Bob, is a member of the Class of 1970.
1985 J.R. Torrico recently completed his schooling to become a physician assistant. He is now practicing in gastroenterology in Fort Myers, Florida.
1994 Andrew Bonney and his young family have moved to Marion, Massachusetts. Andrew is in his sixth year planning route strategy for Cape Air. In September, Andrew accepted a commission as a first lieutenant in the Air National Guard serving at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod.
1995 Dawn Meehan Pologruto and her husband, Tom, welcomed their second son, Thomas James, on April 24, 2012, in Huntington, New York. “Big brother John loves his little brother!”
1998 Diana Potter Chevignard and her husband, Alban, welcomed Alice Valentine Elisabeth Chevignard on November 1, 2012. Alice’s great-grandmother, Eleanor (Hatch) Chevignard, was a French teacher at the Milton Girls’ School from 1944 to 1946, before returning to France after the war to marry her husband,