to practice law and also to enjoy their vacation home in New Zealand.
In my request for news, I mentioned that most of us would be turning 70 this year and so if anyone wanted to report on that transition, she should feel free. The only one who did was Sheila Long who wrote: "Who’s turning 70? I’m going to be 69 on Saturday and Cynthia follows me on Sunday. I can’t believe I’ve lived that long. Mrs. Stohlman, who lived next door to us on Edgehill Street, will be 100 in October.
New Zealand is also one of Suzy Scarff Webster’s ports of call as one of her sons and his family live there.
Classs Notes
48
Ann Lea Fries and Russell travel from Savannah to their home in Nova Scotia each summer.
1959 Ann Kinczel Clapp 5709 Visitation Way Baltimore, MD 21210 410-464-9471 AnnClapp@hotmail.com
’60 Classmates: Penny Hart Bragonier, Carol Garrigues Scofield, and Mary Liz Alexander at the Maine reunion.
Thanks to so many of you who inquired about Sandy’s damage to my Jersey Shore house. Even a small amount of seawater does a lot of damage, but structurally the house is fine, so I am luckier than most.
Fiona Morgan Fein 10 West 66th Street, #25D New York, NY 10023-6212 212-799-9542 ffein@mac.com
Lucy James created Notre Dame, with lights, in gingerbread for Christmas this year; she just returned from a visit to Cuba! She and Jean Schettino Conlon meet often in the Big Apple.
Nancy Smoyer 375 Crystal Road Fairbanks, AK 99712-1249 907-457-8473 nrsmoyer@alaska.edu
Cecilia Aall Mathews serves on the board of Morven, the old governor’s mansion next to the old MFS location and would be happy to take any of us on a tour. Dana Conroy Aymond feels she is slower and life is faster, but Charlie is retiring in February so they plan more traveling. Susan Stevenson Badder has been awarded a “Scholar Residency” for the month of March in Italy!
Class of ’60 reunion in Maine, summer 2012: (front row) Harriet Gaston Davison, Carol Garrigues Scofield, Eileen Baker Strathnaver; (second row) Mary Lee Skinner Bayne, Sally Hagen Schmid, Nancy Davis Sachner, Penny Hart Bragonier; last row (standing) Jane Dielhenn Otis, Mary Liz Alexander, Martha Thompson Eckfeldt, Louise Scheide Marshall, Caroline Godfrey Werth, Anne Kales Howson
1960 Penelope Hart Bragonier 68 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02108 617-742-0093 Pbragon@gmail.com
JOURNAL
1961
Excerpting from Joan Yeaton Seamon’s Christmas letter, I can report that she and Hal had a wonderful three-week trip to Vietnam and Laos under the auspices of Overseas Adventure Travel. They spent time in small villages and were hosted by tribal chiefs, visited schools, and navigated the Mekong Delta waterways and beautiful Halaong Bay. The kids and grandkids all seem to be thriving with a temporary timeout for a case of chicken pox. Julia Holofcener wrote: "Once again, we have a different address! In September we moved from a furnished townhouse in busy Cowes on the Isle of Wight (the world’s yachting capital) to a lovely unfurnished house overlooking the English Channel in the sleepy untouristique village of Bembridge. This meant, of course, that our annual trip to the States for the holidays with the kids and grandkids was spent sorting and packing all of Larry’s paintings, sculpture, as well as molds, and most of our belongings ready for filling the 40’ container for a trip across the pond. We’re getting too old for this, but we’re hanging in there and by the time this is read in the Journal, we should be a bit more settled. "Before we left for Christmas, Larry had another unveiling of a new, younger life-size Churchill for the London Hyatt Regency - The Churchill off Portman Square at the end of November. Randolph Churchill, Sir Winston’s grandson, and granddaughter Celia Sandys unveiled the sculpture and seemed very pleased. If they were happy, we were happy! He’s also got a solo sculpture exhibition at the prestigious Kendall Gallery in Cowes for the month of April. "How long we will be here is a mystery, as opportunities just seem to keep on popping up. A dear friend said we are "fluid," which is the kindest way of saying we’re crazy. Who else drives a Daihatsu Move? We are so lucky to have so many friends and family who accept us for what we are - vagabonds!"
"As for news, at the instigation of a young (almost 40) friend, I have started a blog. It’s a community blog, rather than a personal one, so I’m not the only one contributing. I’m finding the technology rather daunting, and am learning words like ‘upload,’ ‘widget’ and ‘plugins.’ If you’re interested, you can ‘visit’ the blog by going to our website www.transfigurationmonastery.org and clicking on ‘Contact Us,’ and if you’re really interested, you can become a ‘follower’ and receive an email alert whenever I make a new ‘post.’ Whew! Learning computer skills somehow doesn’t feel the same as acquiring skills or knowledge in other areas that seem more real; e.g., gardening, cooking, learning a Bach fugue, or a new language or history or psychology. Maybe it’s a generational thing." Well I’m turning 70 all right and I just can’t wrap my mind around it!! But as when I turned 50 and 60, I’ll probably calm down once the day has passed. In the meantime nothing else has changed very much in my life. I’m still working hard to learn to play classical guitar, still on the boards of Wells College and the Schneider concerts, still loving living in Manhattan. Happy Birthday to all my fellow septuagenarians!
1962 Needs Correspondent
1963 50th Reunion Alice Jacobson 2924 NE 21st Avenue Portland, OR 97212 503-528-8489 alice_jacobson@comcast.net The email bag was more full than usual this time perhaps because our 50th reunion is on the horizon. I exchanged an email with Colleen Coffee Hall, and we agreed that we are hoping for a large turnout. It was great to hear from Kleia Raubitschek Luckner. She reported that she has been retired for over two years from her job as Administrative Director of Women’s Services from a hospital that delivers over 4,000 mothers a year. She made many contributions to that facility including creating a 60-bed neonatal ICU. She increased the specialists on staff, and she has had a major impact on the childbirth experience in the Toledo, Ohio area. Because obstetrics remains such a legally contentious area, Kleia decided to go to law school at night. After a stellar career building the ancient art collection at the Toledo Museum of Art, her husband Kurt died several years ago. They had two children, Mark and Maia. Both children went to Georgetown, their parents’ alma mater. Maia became a lawyer, married, and has two