Class
Chatter
1940s
Jeannette Echevarria-Chabance de Lugo ’46 was happily married for 56 years until her husband, Arlando, passed away in 2006. She has three children: her daughter is a pharmacist, and her sons, a dentist and medical doctor. Her nine grandchildren are doctors, dentists, and lawyers. She has thirteen great-grandchildren, and a fourteenth coming soon! She always remembers the wonderful years spent at MSJA.
1950s Lorraine Sukalski McGlynn ’52 shares that her granddaughters enjoy interests they developed at the Mount. Hope Placotaris ’18 is a sophomore who enjoys her guitar group. Kara Spiller ’02 is working in the Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at Drexel University. Her sister, Krista Spiller ’02, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at University of Pennsylvania. Lorrie Beppel ’08 teaches second grade in New York City and was married in July. Her sister, Tara Beppel ’10, works at AMC Networks in IFC Original Programming and Production. Kelsey McGlynn ’09 is a sales manager at Advantis Global. Her sister, Michaela McGlynn ’11, is an investigator at the Philadelphia Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. Julie McGlynn ’12 was a member of the rowing team at the Mount, and continues to row at Drexel University. Adele Murphy Kittredge ’52 congratulates her niece Catherine Zimmerman ’16 on graduating this year from the Mount.
News and notes from the Mount Saint Joseph Academy alumnae and school community.
M. Alice Farrell ’54 says she is still alive and kicking…not really kicking, more like shuffling. She lives with her daughter, Molly, and her family and has her own sweet suite. Loving it, she gets to see three of her 20 grandchildren on a daily basis. Lorraine McDade Kelly ’55 sends congrats to Kathy McGee Burns ’55 on receiving the Alumnae Hall of Fame Award and hopes to see her at the Irish Center soon. Diane Zilligen McGoldrick ’56 has been living in Cape Cod for 13 years and loves it. She has 15 grandchildren, ages 4 to 28. Her first granddaughter was married in June. Dorothy Gallagher Hordubay ’56 enjoyed getting in touch with so many of her classmates to coordinate the 60th Reunion. Ninety-three percent of her classmates use computers for emails! Anne Schmid Muir ’59 shares that her 18-year-old granddaughter, Molly Muir, has been accepted into Princeton this fall. Time flies!
1960s Teresita Jover Tibbetts ’60 reflects that while at the Mount, the good times, the sad times, the fun times, the naughty times, the difficult times, and the easy times, all together make a beautiful symphony of memories. Joan Smith Agostinelli ’61 has been to married Stephen Agostinelli for 30 years. They have four sons, four grandchildren, and reside in Towamencin Township, Pennsylvania. She is happily retired for ten years. She returns to the family home on Cape Cod each summer. She loves traveling in the fall to see family in
San Francisco, CA; Natick, MA; Hickory, NC; Annapolis, MD; and Rumson, NJ. She also enjoys sports and theatrical events, and watches her grandchildren play ice hockey, basketball, volleyball, football, and lacrosse.
Elsie McIvor Kerns ’61 recently completed the fouryear Eden Energy Medicine Program in Phoenix, Arizona and is teaching Energy Medicine, wellness practices for lifelong health and vitality. Judith Hinkle de Turo ’62 and her husband, Sam, are now part-time southerners. They sold their home on Long Beach Island and moved to Kiawah Island in October 2015. Two of their children live in Charlotte, NC and the other two are in the Princeton area. Splitting the year between the two places, they will be able to see everyone often, having the best of both worlds! Suzanne Foster Hynes ’62 is still enjoying her second home in Rock Hall, MD. Retirement allows her to use it all year long. Her oldest granddaughter will be off to Penn State next school year and the youngest of the four will start high school. How time flies! Mary Catherine Kelly McCauley ’62 continues to work as the parish nurse at St. Thomas of Villanova parish in Rosemont. She will be celebrating 50 years as a nurse in May of this year. Her son, Joseph McCauley, married Jenifer Lincala in California on January 30, 2016. mount saint joseph academy
41