Class Notes
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Paris, then fly to Vienna where Adelaide will meet them to spend her ten-day fall break with them, then on to Rome for a few days before returning home in early November.
Chloe King is spending considerable time preparing to move in September. The Needham house has been sold, and the move will happen sooner than we think! We are going to live in a brand new 55+ community on the south shore of Boston! We will miss our home of 47 years, but the time has come to give up home ownership!!! Still enjoying our cottage in the NH woods, especially when the Boston area was SO hot this summer! Hope to hear from more classmates next time around!
1956
Cicely Tomlinson Richardson 58 Bear Tree Road Orford, NH 03777 603-353-4608 jctr@together.net
1957
Susan Smith Baldwin 93 Webster Road Shelburne, VT 05482 susiebaldwin108@gmail.com
Susie Smith Baldwin wrote: As class correspondent, I speak for all of us in sending congratulations to Alissa Kramer Sutphin, and her husband Bill on their 58th wedding anniversary this past June. They receive our longest married couple trophy. Alissa added wise and loving words: “58 years: took two good people, love, flexibility, and a lot of luck.”
Alissa Kramer Sutphin ’57, far right, with her husband Bill celebrating their 58th wedding anniversary on June 12, 2016 at Agricola (former Lahiere’s) on Witherspoon St. in Princeton with complete strangers who were celebrating their 30th. Eugenie Rudd Fawcett sent: “Cheers to all. Jim and I shall both be teaching at Berkshire Country Day School in Stockbridge, MA again this year. Jim teaches English, I teach Latin.
“Our four children, their spouses and the grandchildren are all well. In September, Eliza Fawcett started her sophomore year at Yale, Elisabeth Fawcett started her freshman year at Dartmouth, Rudd Fawcett is a fifth former at Andover, Richard and Clara Fawcett are in the fourth and second grades at St. Luke’s School in Manhattan, and Zachary and Elliot Sedgwick are in the fourth and second grades at PS 29 in Brooklyn. JOURNAL
“Jim still has a flock of thirteen polled Dorset sheep, who help keep the meadows open, but our children have forbidden us to bale the hay!”
Susie added: Fun to imagine the Eugenie Rudd Fawcett possibility of our ’57 and her husband grandchildren Jim in Tyringham, MA knowing each other at their respective schools or colleges. Keep the photos and news coming.
1958
Nancy Hudler Keuffel 1329 West Indian Mound Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 248-540-8024 acornnhk@aol.com
Lots of news from Susie Frank Hilton who is in her ninth year as a docent at The Baker Museum of Art; she loves every moment, every exhibit, every opportunity to bring the engagement and enjoyment of and with art into visitors’ lives. She has also just been reelected to serve her third term as a Deacon at Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church, where she has been a member of the choir. Her husband Dick is Clerk of Session at the church, a leadership role with the congregation and the clergy. The couple live in Naples in a community with almost 24/7 golf, which they love. Mrs. Frank, her mother, is 102-year-old and is in great mental and physical shape and living in an assisted living community near Susie. Linda Mullaly Masten and her husband have a home in England and they were off to spend a bit of time there when she emailed. They also have a place in New Zealand, but neither location receives long visits as Linda is still a busy lawyer. Her mother recently passed away at age 101. Linda’s grandsons are in Portland, Oregon. They are ages 10 and 13 and are home schooled, which seems to be going very well, as they are avid readers and also participate in sports, drama and web design.
I had a wonderful chat with Emily Vanderstucken Spencer who lives in Kennebunk, Maine and hopes to spend more time in the Tucson area, as she is not a devotee of winter. Her daughter, Polly, has an AirBnB in Kennebunkport, which sounds just lovely and at the time of our conversation she was working on refurbishing the garden.
1959
Ann Kinczel Clapp 5 Farview Road Baltimore, MD 21212 410-464-9471 AnnClapp@hotmail.com
Again I heard from the usual suspects. I wish the rest of you would share your news.
Nan Nicholes Goodrich will spend 19 days on the Queen Mary II with her daughter. She has sold her house and bought a condo in Hancock, NH.
Jean Schettino Conlon fractured her ankle, which won’t stop her from traveling to Paris and London this fall. She is in the same book club as Lucy James, who recently toured Civil War sites in Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi and actually consumed a SLUG BURGER!
Food of a different flavor for Abby Pollak who enjoyed cooking classes and Italian immersion school with her partner, Helen, in Lucca before sightseeing in Paris with eight-year-old twin granddaughters. Dana Conroy Aymond spent two weeks babysitting in the Colorado mountains while her son’s team won Race Across America.
Susan Stevenson Badder managed a Smithsonian residential study program in Florence for 28 people, Later she was captivated by Petra, Jordan. She can walk to her position of Adjunct Professor at the Maryland Institute and College of Art where, among other courses, she interacts with students in “Art Matters.” My mentee graduated from Cristo Rey and will attend McDaniel College in the fall after a huge downward spiral in grades, attendance, attitude, etc. during the last semester of high school (after being in the top 5% of the class for 3 ½ years!). I am searching for the cause with little success and hoping for better times when she moves from home. Harvey and I took a wonderful Viking river cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest.
1960
Penelope Hart Bragonier, Ph.D. 68 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02108 617-742-0093 Pbragon@gmail.com
Thanks to those of you who answered my request for news or reflections. Next time more please, especially from classmates who have kept silent for too long. No doubt, the piling on of decades has created, for some, a sense of distance from the class. But others seem to grow ever more keen about staying in touch as time passes but memories remain. We are so much a part of each other’s histories!
One link between then and now is Carol Garrigues Scofield’s 55th wedding anniversary. Remember when Carol, fresh out of Foxcroft, appalled her family by running off to marry a guy named Robert? “And who said we were ill-suited to each other?” she wrote now from Maneskootuk, the enchanted family island in Maine, where she and Robert spend their summers among the wildflowers. Still qualifying as a newlywed, Louise Scheide Marshall Kelly wrote from the other end of the marital spectrum. She and Peter “are trying our best to make the most of every minute we have, all while feeling enormously blessed to be together in this crazy and even wonderful world of ours.” They treated themselves to a “spa-like vacation in Antigua,” then two weeks in Ireland, Peter’s first visit to the land of his forebears. In September, they’re off to see the Canadian Rockies by rail.