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Susan Smith Baldwin 34 Pleasant Bay Road North Ferrisburgh, VT 05473 susiebaldwin108@gmail.com
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Alissa Kramer Sutphin joined her son, Andy, his wife Helen and their children, Annelise (above left) and Aidan (right), in celebrating Granddad Bill’s birthday. Andy and Helen’s Princeton house was built in 1962 on the former Turnbull property on Olden Lane .
Susie Smith Baldwin: What a delight to hear Nancy Miller raving about “my 11-day 75th birthday celebration at my favorite London hotel, The Goring, with my niece, Ann Miller Paiva ’86 and her children Alex (11) and Sophie (5). We then had a full week at Hampton Court Palace with family and friends filling both Fish Court, where Henry VIII had his fish pies made, and the Georgian House, built by George I. Everything was glorious… including the weather. Back at home my regal chickens thrive in their American version of ‘Cluckingham’ Palace.” Anne Gildar Kaufman joyfully shared that “living vicariously through eight grandsons is exhausting and thrilling. Owen graduated from college; Aidan from HS and Griffin from MS. Andrew, Eric and Tyler traveled for their personal passions and the youngest, Julie’s Jack, visited with us for a week on Long Beach Island. Harrison and a friend wrote a musical two years ago, at 18. It was selected for the NY Music Festival. Now they’ve raised the money to hire a director, produce Fable and have it performed July 22-27. I can’t wait to see it!”
after the reunion – so stay tuned for the next column when I will report news of the reunion for those who were unable to make it. In the meantime, you might be interested in a fantastic coincidence that happened this March. My younger son, Eric Keuffel, was in Norway for a cross-country ski race, The Birkbeiner. At the last moment the race was cancelled due to high winds. Eric was interviewed by the local paper and he emailed me the clipping, which was in Norwegian. I asked our classmate, Dr. Berit Jansen Sellevold, who is in semi-retirement Members of the Class of 1960 at a reunion last June. Front as a research scientist in osteoarchaeology at the row: Caroline Godfrey Werth, Harriet Gaston Davison, Penny Norwegian Institute for Hart Bragonier, Carol Garrigues Scofied, Louise Scheide Cultural Heritage Research, Marshall, Nancy Davis Sachner, Anne Kales Howson. to give me the gist of the Back row: Mary Lee Skinner Bayne, Mary Liz Alexander, clipping and she translated Eileen Baker Strathnaver, Martha Thompson Eckfeldt the entire article and told me that her son, Simen – an orthopedic sur1960 geon − also had been scheduled to participate Penelope Hart Bragonier in that very race! Perhaps they will meet at this 68 Beacon Street race next year. Berit travels quite a bit and we Boston, MA 02108 hope we will see her sometime in the States. 617-742-0093 She has another son, Nico, an architect. Her Pbragon@gmail.com sons each have two children, making Berit the We did it again! Last June, eleven of us gathproud grandmother of Marius (14), Julie (12), ered for four days at Louise Scheide Marshall’s Leo (8) and Anna (4). lake-shore hideaway near Middlebury, VT, for what was, by my count, our twelfth reunion in 1959 fourteen years. Ann Kinczel Clapp 5 Farview Road Had blue ribbons been available, they might Baltimore, MD 21212 have been awarded as follows: for Distance to 410-464-9471 Eileen Baker Strathnaver and Harriet Gaston AnnClapp@hotmail.com Davison (from England) and Anne Kales Howson (from San Francisco); for Stamina to Eileen, Annie, Martha Thompson Eckfeldt and me for coming straight to this reunion from our chock-full, four-day Vassar 50th; and the blue ribbon for Spirit to Caroline Godfrey Werth, who postponed the start of chemotherapy so she could join us.
Wendy Yeaton Smith ’59 with one of hundreds of fish caught in Mexico.
Little did we know that headline news awaited us in Vermont. Host-husbands have presided at a couple of our otherwise all-female gatherings. This time, though, a strange man greeted us. “Who?,” we wondered, until dinner that night when Louie announced, “Peter and I are getting married!” Peter is Peter Kelly, well-credentialed as one of Robert and Carol Garrigues Scofield’s oldest friends.
Many trips: Cecilia Aall Mathews to Tanzania to visit her son, take a safari, and rest in Zanzibar. Wendy Yeaton Smith to Mexico to bonefish. Dana Conroy to Denver to a dude ranch. Jean Schettino Conlon to Japan, and I cruised to the Baltic capitals. Harvey and I have moved to a yard with a house on it to accommodate two HUGE German Shepherds.
Retirement is among the pleasures many of us now share. Time for travel, volunteer
Molly Menand Jacobs said that her children and grandchildren were “thrilled about the family picture in the last PDS Journal. Granddaughters Emily and Lyla, Cricket’s twins, began at PDS in the fifth grade this fall. Send news and photos. Email is the only sure way to catch me journeying from Vermont to warmer climes.
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Nancy Hudler Keuffel 1329 West Indian Mound Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 248-540-8024 acornnhk@aol.com
The deadline for this column comes before our October Reunion at Faith Wing Bieler’s home in Vermont and the publication date is a bit JOURNAL
Joy at Louie’s announcement and at our being together again was a hallmark of the reunion. And plenty of humor (sometimes raucous). But also, I think, a growing appreciation of our shared humanity, knowing we have all experienced joys and sorrows, the stuff life has thrown our way. That understanding seems to bring us closer every year.