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near us. We have been happy and healthy (mostly), and I wish the same to our classmates. The clue is to be so busy that the aging bug can’t land on you and bite!” • Karen Falb Forslund stays closely in touch with NMH school activities. “I was sorry that I couldn’t attend the honoring of the school’s day care center last May. I looked up the Moody Center and saw that they’re already planning tours and had an event in the Auditorium. It will be quite interesting to see how it all evolves and to see what the school community thinks about all this. Daughter Alison ’03 and her husband, Justin, had a very nice time at a recent Delaware NMH function.” • Sue Lawrence Anderson wrote, “[Daughter] Ina ’86 is so lovely, and I’m so very proud of her. She’s spent most of her last 20 years coping with very serious physical health challenges, and she’s now doing much better. She recently became a grandmother, making me a great-grandmother! I’m still studying twice a year at Oxford in England. An English maternal ancestor, newly discovered by my cousin, Heidi Martin Makela ’58, led me to the churchyard where our ancestors from the 1500s are buried. This church is very near Jane Austen’s home, and a Jane Austen self-identity took hold. I’m now taking an Oxford course to study Austen’s novels and letters. Oxford’s teaching methods aren’t easy, but they’re not as hard as Miss Palmer’s class!” • Carol Hall Dempsey wrote, “I have warm memories of my years at Northfield. After many years of nursing, I retired in 1967.” Carol continued working, though, at a ranger station in the Ocala National Forest in Florida. “Previously, I was married to a wonderful guy from Brooklyn named Jack Dempsey,” said Carol. “He has died, but I’m still here!” Carol sends special greetings to Gary Weale — they had dated for a while after high school, and Carol has since lost track of him. She searches NMH Magazine for familiar names, although her memory isn’t the best. “I wish you all best regards for the next reunion,” adds Carol. “I won’t be there, but it’s good to hear how awesome we are!” • “I continue to enjoy New York City and am busier than ever,” writes Emily Tucker Dunlap. “I joined the New York Society Library, which has excellent classes and a good place to work on writing. Last spring, I took a class on Parade’s End, the novels by Ford Madox Ford. It was most interesting and well taught and was appropriate for commemorating the 100th anniversary of World War I. I continue to enjoy opera, museums, and theater. Son Alex and his family are in Seattle, and my granddaughters are now 10 and 8. Time flies!” • Sally Curtiss Campbell is still a Quaker singer-songwriter. “If you’d like to hear some of my songs, I do have a YouTube channel now, as well as a CD that I’ve been
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giving away,” says Sally. “If you’d like me to mail you one, you can reach me via email at scampfriend@earthlink.net. I have lived in the same rent-controlled apartment on the Upper West Side of New York City for 50 years — 49 of them with my husband, Chuck. I was deeply impressed by the diversity presentation at Mamie’s Spoonbread in Harlem last March. I was one of the oldest folks there! It brought back many memories, and NMH’s future plans sound like they will enrich students’ experiences there.” • “Ralph and I renovated the inside of the house last spring; this year it was the yard and patio’s turn,” wrote De MacKinnon Love from Houston. Last summer, De and Ralph took a road trip to Connecticut to visit Ralph’s brother and went to Northfield for a couple of days. This autumn, they’ll hit the road again to Jackson Hole and Yellowstone. They also enjoy visits with their kids and grandkids whenever possible. • Ginger McCann Giammattei has had wonderful visits with kids, grandkids, and Hill School alums on the East Coast and in California, and an especially welcome two weeks of rest and relaxation on Nantucket Island after Labor Day, with friends from Vermont joining them the first week. • As for me (Nancy), my husband, Bill, is still working hard on his recovery from hip surgery in the summer of 2016. He’s making progress, but it’s very slow. Rehab has been especially difficult because of his “pre-existing condition,” and we’re no longer projecting any date when he’ll be able to walk normally on his crutches. I’m most grateful for the thoughts and prayers that many of you and other friends have sent and continue to send our way. They have definitely buoyed us during this difficult time. • From Tom: Jim Newman moved his summer home from Vermont to a 55+ community in Plymouth, Mass. So delighted by the social life there, he moved his Phoenix winter home to a similar community. Jim frequently sees his children and grandchildren, sings in a glee club, golfs, and travels with his wife. He went on the D-day tour of Normandy, where he attended Memorial Day services at the American Cemetery on Omaha Beach. Jim looks forward to our next reunion in two years. • Peter Olsen continues to work as a chaplain for a local hospice. He also spends time with two grandchildren and two daughters not too far from his home. He still writes nonfiction books, “but not best-sellers,” Peter adds. He’s looking forward to fly-fishing on Yellowstone River in the autumn — a passion of his. “Charles Wantman, Clark Peters, and I got together at Clark’s place in North Carolina,” wrote Peter. “Looking forward, by the grace of God, to attending the next reunion on the Hill.” • Charles Wantman, Tom Bethea, Dan Poteet,
Clay Pruitt ’58, and spouses gathered for dinner in March at the Arizona Inn, sharing memories and stories. Charles, Clay, and Clay’s wife were in a course together on modern Turkey at the University of Arizona last winter. • Bob Friedman had a wonderful winter in Sarasota in his new home and has been in his Storrs, Conn., home. “We’re excited, as our son, Kent, is moving to Wilton, Conn.,” said Bob. “We will see our granddaughter more now. [Wife] Win continues to study jazz piano, and I continue to read, exercise, and try to stay physically and mentally active. Anyone near Storrs, look me up — we will remain here until late October, when we return to Florida.” • Bob Myers flew across Delaware Bay so he and I could have the chance to get together. Bob said, “It was great fun visiting with you in January. The long catch-up lunch (trying to cover 58 years) that you graciously hosted was too short. Meeting you again in Milton, Del., with your daughter at the NMH Founders Fest gathering was a real pleasure.” • Bob Emmet writes, “I have, for the last four years, wintered in a historic Dutch pilothouse ketch in the boat-building town of Galesville, Md., on the West River of Chesapeake Bay. Our town of 700 has Christmas Children’s Choir, and square dancing and town meetings in Memorial Hall, just like old New England. Two Hermonites live nearby: Ed Allen ’62 and Geoff Elliott ’75. Ed has been a Galesville sailor for 40 years, and Geoff helps me with my business. I manufacture and export three-phase electrical equipment. Last summer I flew to London on delivery and spent three nights in Scotland. My extended family is St. Anne’s Parish, Annapolis — one of the original Anglican parishes from the 1692 Maryland Establishment Act. I am a trustee and head usher. We celebrated the old Scottish ‘Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan’ service, complete with
Paul Sheldon ’60 after a demonstration of civil disobedience.