1960
Class Notes
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Penelope Hart Bragonier 68 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02108 617-742-0093 Pbragon@gmail.com
1961
Fiona Morgan Fein 10 West 66th Street, #25D New York, NY 10023-6212 212-799-9542 ffein@mac.com Nancy Smoyer 375 Crystal Road Fairbanks, AK 99712-1249 907-457-8473 nrsmoyer@alaska.edu
in West Palm, but we ARE going to the UK and France for five months. The main reason is the unveiling of a project Larry has been sculpting for the past few months: 105 portraits of history’s greatest golfers on four bas-reliefs. It’s being given to the British Golf Museum in St. Andrews and unveiled during the British Open in July. After the unveiling, we will stay in Europe and travel to France and Italy. It was so wonderful to see Debbie again and meet her husband Peter. They came to lunch during their visit to Palm Beach and Key West. I haven’t seen her since the amazing reunion we had at her home in Dutchess County, and she hasn’t changed a bit. Still the warm, loving, generous, fun person she has always been.”
From Fiona:
Before we each speak for ourselves, I wanted to express our heartfelt condolences to Cary Smith Hart ’64 for the terrible loss of her sister and our classmate, Trika, who died of cancer on October 13, 2014 — and to thank Cary and her family for the beautiful celebration of Trika’s vibrant life held at NYU, where she was a professor. We also extend our sympathy to Trudi Goheen Swain upon the death, on January 25th, of her mother, Peggy Goheen, of whom many of us share warm, happy memories.
Polly Busselle Bishop: “Life on Cape Cod means tennis, platform tennis, lots of publicity for our Lifetime Learning program plus putting on three courses, most interesting of which is about Cuba, which I visited last year as part of a Witness for Peace delegation. Oh my, it was fabulously interesting — the Cubans are so friendly, artistic and welcoming. Am looking madly for a return trip.” Tibby Chase Dennis: “About all I can come up with at the moment is to say that I’m hoping and praying we’ll have no more storms around February 23rd as Elise, Cynnie and I have a tentative date for a visit around that time (I haven’t actually seen Elise since Chip and I were married five years ago.) On a bittersweet note, we lost little Peanut, our cairn terrier/toy poodle mix, in early January. Chip and I still go outside a lot ourselves when roads allow to our various groups and activities related to our two churches. Endless snow shoveling must be good exercise for aging hearts!” Julia Cornforth Holofcener: “As usual, the Holofceners can’t seem to stay in one place. We’re not selling the five-acre paradise
Julia Cornforth Holofcener ’61 and Debbie Moore Krulewitch ’61 JOURNAL
Sheila Long ’61 and Monk Sheila Long: “It’s nice here: cold, but the level of snow is manageable (accumulation of about a foot) and clean and sparkly. Trika’s service was very moving. She left me a legacy of two good friends: Kelvin, with whom she used to go to the opera, and his husband, who goes by the name of Glenn of Trees. They were both at that unforgettable birthday party (Trika’s 70th), and we’ve been in touch ever since then.” Julie Fulper Hardt: “I took a couple of months off [from the real estate business] for general sanity and to have a hip replaced — a miraculous thing. This year we added another grandson to our family, giving us a full complement of four light-of-our-lives grandchildren. Our younger son, Ben, and his family have moved to the Cambridge, MA area for post-doc fellowships. Josh and his family remain in Yardley and thoughtfully involve us in their children’s adventures. I’m grateful for friendships established back when I didn’t have a clue about much of anything, and chance to be with Pol in Maine every summer and Debbie at Christmas and throughout the year.” Lucia Norton Woodruff: “Hello from Austin. I am enjoying life! Just back in time last night from Long Island playing quartets with my buddies (flew up Thursday, two days after the
blizzard). Life is good: family, friends, lots of music for fun, travel and puttering. (I remember my father loving to just putter around at this stage of life.)”
Barbara Pearce Williams: “Just passed the sixth anniversary of my bi-lateral lung transplant (October 2008). Not all smooth sailing but I have no regrets. I live on my own with my constant companion, Casi (a yellow Labrador), and take each day as it comes. Life is good!”
Cherry Raymond: “Am enjoying my new life at The Abode, a spiritual retreat center in rural New Lebanon, NY, where I moved last summer. Community life has proven a boon, with interesting souls flowing through, many from overseas. I see much more of brother, Whit, now, who is in Albany. My weekly commute to Concord, MA to continue counseling work has been pretty feasible. I escaped to Florida last week just in time to warm up to near normal. I’ve learned that it isn’t the snow, but the arctic temps that stagger me. But not nearly so much as the reality of climate change — just in our lifetimes! — and the deconstruction of institutions, infrastructures, and values. Praying that something viable and wonderful will emerge from these death-throes, I sign online petitions, track sane voices amidst the fray, and follow inspiring activists, like McKibben and 350.org. I am sad we lost Trika this past year, but heartened by the beauty and warmth of her good life.” Jeanie Shaw Byrne: “All is well with us: grandchildren and family. Basically I have no news, which at our age and stage is good. Is spring really coming?” Cynthia Weinrich: “My main news is that as of last November I am no longer at my church job of the last 10 1/2 years. Although I didn’t initiate this, I had been thinking for a few years that it was time to move on, so I was not at all unhappy to agree to a cordial parting and accept the generous severance offer they made me. I have been SO much happier, and more relaxed since. Have been doing sub work regularly, which is a pleasant change. Greatly enjoyed seeing Fiona, Debbie, Polly and Sheila at Trika’s moving and inspiring memorial.”
1961 classmates: l to r: Debbie Moore Krulewitch, , Fiona Morgan Fein, Polly Busselle Bishop, Cynthia Weinrich with smiling faces, but heavy hearts, at the beautiful and very moving celebration of the full and distinguished life of classmate Trika Smith-Burke.