CLASS NOTES garden designer. In 2005 she remarried—her Neil did a wonderful job planning [reunion]! husband, Bill, is a retired schoolteacher. • Could not believe how well we’re all doing—I think we all look great! I remembered so many Marty Seely: “Most of my working life I was of you: Carol, Carrie, Muffie, Neil and Laurie, a costume designer and wardrobe stylist in theater, television, and film. After 30 years, I Jenny Porter and the second Dave (the good needed a change. Because I am an artist and husband), Ellen Frost, Ann Wiley, Peggy love working with my creative brain and my Wilson, Dibbles, Kim Wade Ryan, Mary hands, I began to take classes in metals, McGrath, Patty Pinkston, and the list goes designing, and making jewelry. My current on. We still have not given a cent to the old collection is selling internationally—I created a alma mater, but I will give a few pesos before small business (marthaseely.com). My work is September. See you all, if not before, at the selling in a limited number of galleries and 50th!” • Claire Schmidt Jones works on the shops in the U.S., London, and Australia—and Warner Brothers studio lot in Burbank, selling through Artful Home.” • Margo Fenn managing the telephone network. Sometimes she sees notables like Ellen, Conan O’Brien, is living on Cape Cod, and for many years was and the Batmobile. She also works closely with the director of the Cape Cod Commission—a NEC in Japan, which leads to some interesting regional land-use planning regulatory agency. email correspondence addressed to “Claire-san.” “I am retired from that now and am doing She enjoys riding her quarter horse mare on some part-time consulting work on a large trails. The highlight of the year was attending salt-marsh restoration project in Cape Cod the reunion and eating Bishop’s Bread three National Seashore,” says Margo. “My husband days in a row. • Linda Jameson has lived in and I recently moved to his mom’s former beach house in Yarmouth. We also still have a Madison, Wis., since 1974. She has been in family camp in the Adirondacks, where we communications and university outreach most spend time in the summer. Both places offer of her career, including many years as a radio many of the things we love to do: hiking, interview producer/host and reporter. She also biking, kayaking, and gardening.” • Peggy worked for a previous governor as deputy press secretary, for UW-Madison teaching Wilson lives in Collinsville, Conn., but she professional development in communications, and husband Daniel are making plans to move and for the UW Medical School directing when their house has sold. She works at Bristol women’s health outreach. Linda now runs a Hospital as the director of the outpatient small health advocacy business. She writes, mental health and addictions clinic, and “Reunion brought joy and gave me a few deep continues to be “an artist in administrator’s conversations. I caught up with old friends and clothing.” Once she moved out of direct miss others who were not there.” • Enid service—doing expressive arts therapy with patients—and into administrative work, she Sodergren Oberholtzer wrapped up an active was able to return to her own artwork. She is a year with the Choir School of Hartford and member of a small cooperative gallery, and Trinity Academy. “Such a privilege to work shows her drawings and paintings there with these highly talented youngsters,” said frequently. • Carol Ramsey: “August 2015 Enid. Regarding reunion, she adds, “It was a great feeling to re-connect with all our marked the end of my first year of retirement! ‘Northfield Girls’.” • Gay Peterson: “After I have had no trouble keeping busy: walking twice a week with Tess Pemantel Dunhoff, graduating from Colby College with an English degree, I went to Pace University and and chatting regularly with Carrie Pelzel and New York Medical College to get a master’s in Muffie Michaelson as we worked on reunion. nursing. Forty years later, I am still living in Retirement? What retirement? Looking the house that my husband, Rob, and I built forward to seeing as many of our classmates as on 60 acres in North Yarmouth, Maine, in possible at local mini-reunions in the coming 1979. I retired last year from a great career, year.” • Carrie Pelzel: “Working with Muffie which included teaching neonatal resuscitation and Carol on our reunion was so much fun. to nurses throughout the state of Maine, and I Yes, it was a lot of work, but watching the ended with my favorite job, doing occupaNorthfield ’70 class come alive over many tional health at L.L. Bean. When not traveling, months was enormously rewarding. The I dabble in my creative side—playing with reunion itself evoked lots of stories and, best of paint and fiber, and sometimes show my work all, launched friendships anew.” Carrie’s at craft fairs or local art walks.” • Stephanie husband, Bruce McClintock ’60, was at NMH celebrating his 55th reunion, so being Coons Frederick was an art teacher in the on the same reunion cycle was convenient! Midwest for several years right out of college, Both are now happily retired. They decided to followed by stints in the interior design sell their home in New Hampshire and start departments for Cambridge, Mass., architectheir next chapter as Boston residents. • tural firms; corporate space planning and design; project management for a software Muffie Michaelson: “I have never had so company in the Boston area; and showroom much fun working on a project as I had this and office manager for a custom furniture spring working with Carrie Pelzel and Carol company in Kennebunkport, Maine. Since Ramsey on the reunion. If you are invited to 2004 she has lived in the upstate New York/ volunteer for the 50th, don’t hesitate, because southern Vermont area working as a residential being back in touch with my Northfield
classmates may have added some more laugh lines, but it also took a few years off!” Muffie continues to volunteer locally for organizations, putter in the garden, take photography courses, and travel. Her older daughter, Alex, is a chief resident in internal medicine at Barnes Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis, planning to follow her dad into an infectious disease specialty. Her younger daughter, Charlotte, works in Chicago at the PR firm Edelman. • Roanna “Ronnie” Martin-Trigona lives in New York City and plans to attend the 50th reunion. • Kimberly Chase Adler writes: “My husband, Tom, and I spend three-quarters of the year in our original home in Norwich, Vt. The rest of the time we spend at our beach house at Goose Rocks Beach, Kennebunkport, Maine. I love to paint and take photos these days. The rest of our time is spent with our three daughters and five grandchildren in London, New York City, and Cambridge, Mass.” • Beth Eisenberg retired as a psychotherapist and is proud to say that her son, Ben (27), is following in her footsteps and enrolled in school studying social work. Beth and her partner, Paula—the love of her life for the past 20 years—were recently married. Paula is an artist and art teacher. They now live in western Massachusetts, but travel back to Tucson to escape the New England winters. Volunteering has been a fixture in Beth’s life, which she started doing at Northfield. • “I had never attended a reunion,” writes Cindy Stinchfield Ryan, “because I felt that, as a day student at Northfield, I just never made the kinds of friendships that would withstand the test of time. After joining the class Facebook group, I found out that wasn’t the case! My husband and I moved to Arizona in 2004, following our daughter and our grandchildren. I am still working as a bookkeeper, but after the hip replacement last year and the knee replacement this year, I am seriously thinking about retirement! A few of us mentioned having a mini-reunion in Arizona sometime next winter, probably February. I would love to hear from anyone already in the area or interested in putting a weekend together.” • Anne Shyavitz Foran was sorry to miss reunion, but loves catching up on Facebook. “This past year was a transition time for me. Sold my home of 22 years, retired from my 15-year career as a marriage and family therapist, and downsized my stuff to an office in my partner’s home and a storage unit. Celebrated my retirement last year on the island of Lanai—the first time to Hawaii since I was pregnant with my 28-year-old son. My 35-year-old daughter made me a first-time grandmother in late February.” • Nancy Hellens Gregory lives in Sudbury, Mass., with her wonderful husband. Last year they celebrated their 40th anniversary in Maine. They have two daughters and are grandparents of a toddler. Nancy retired from teaching in a cooperative preschool nine years ago due to health problems. Now she focuses
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