Andy Updike Burt sent word that she continues to “work on a personal project to create study circle curriculum that focuses on Maine youth and adults who are taking bold actions inter-generationally for climate justice. I have been impressed by the spirit and passion in that movement that echoes back to the early Civil Rights struggle when young blacks in the Deep South were willing to take large risks to confront segregation.” Andy is doing audio interviews with activists in many struggles. She added, “I think the seeds for this project started when I was growing up in Lawrenceville and then in my years at Miss Fine’s.” Andy, too, loves having five grandkids, the oldest of whom is 14 and the youngest who lives right next door. Finally, Andy invites classmates visiting Maine to come see her!
Laurie and I will join Pam for our annual reunion in the spring, most likely in Washington, D.C. My partner AJ and I are off next week for a month in Bhutan and India, and we are very excited. Stay tuned for the next class notes, and I’ll tell you all about it.
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Barbara Rose 17 Otter Creek Road Skillman, NJ 08558 barbarabrose@me.com
Sue Jamieson retired from Atlanta Legal Aid after a 40-year legal services career, mainly dedicated to disability rights.
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Peggy Dennis sent news to Karen Fraser: I continue to be stretched to the breaking point with too many civic causes. I’m in my 14th year as editor of the Montgomery County Civic Federation monthly newsletter; working on getting local laws on deer hunting liberalized to cut down on the plague of long-legged, herbivorous rats with bottomless stomachs that we have here in the ‘burbs; working on
“Just to keep life more fun, I auditioned on a whim for A Christmas Carol and ended up with not one but three parts: Mrs. Fezziwig, Mrs. Poole and Joe, the fence. For the first time I had lines of my own to learn, a real challenge after just singing in the chorus of various musicals. But we had wonderful kids and folks to act with, and a good time was had by all.
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“Photo is of me costumed for a concert opera performance of Utopia Unlimited, a rarely performed, and not well known, Gilbert & Sullivan show that takes place on a mythical tropical island in the south Pacific. We found the political tie-ins just as appropriate for current U.S. politics as it was over 100 years ago. And great fun!”
We also learned that Molly Dorf’s mother, Ruth Kemmerer Dorf ’27 died in February at the age of 104. We send our condolences to Molly after her mother’s long full life.
Class Notes
Princeton Country Day
Ellen Levy is still making exquisite jewelry, and you can visit her web site at www.waverlyart.com.
If a class correspondent is not listed, please send your notes to Ann Wiley ’70 at awiley@pds.org
Colleen Coffee Hall invited all of us to her real estate web site at chall@callawayhenderson.com.
Pam Sidford Schaeffer is still thinking about our 50th reunion, as are all of us who attended. She said, “I am still feeling the warm sentiments and rewinding the great conversations.” Jacqueline, her daughter, was married in September. Pam reported that it was a great event, made even better by good weather. Pam loves the fact that Jac, her husband Jake, and their new Labradoodle puppy live close by in Venice, CA. Pam and Leonard spend a good deal of time with their two grandchildren, five- and three-years- old, the kids of her son, David.
legislation at the state level to slow the spread of synthetic turf playing fields (brown fields masquerading as green); working on bicycle advocacy issues; and working to get the best candidate for state delegate in our district—my son, Peter Dennis—elected to his first public office.
Classs Notes
Kleia Raubitscheck Luckner is enjoying retirement and its slower pace “set by me and me alone.” She was appointed by the Governor of Ohio to sit on the Maternal Mortality Commission. She said, “We are very good at identifying contributing factors but not so good on preventing these deaths.” Finally, Kleia plans to clear out and sell the house where she and Kurt lived and raised their family since 1972. Sometime in 2014 she will move to Annapolis, where her son resides, or Arlington, where her daughter lives with “two very winsome granddaughters, ages four and 19-months-old.”
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We are very sorry to report the death of Lacey Baldwin Smith. His sister, Susie, sent us the following: “professor emeritus of history at Northwestern University died at home in Greensboro, Vt., on Sept. 8, 2013. Smith was a Guggenheim fellow, twice a Fulbright recipient, and twice recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities award. He was considered one of the ‘big name’ historians, yet his writing was considered to be as entertaining as it was erudite.
Peggy Woodbridge Dennis ’65 in Utopia
“… ‘His election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences−along with an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bowdoin College−attested to his scholarly renown.’ Each year the history department recognizes two outstanding graduate student teachers with the Lacey Baldwin Smith Prize for Teaching Excellence. Lacey served as chair of the department twice and continued as a guest lecturer after retiring in 1993. “At the age of 89, Lacey penned Anne Boleyn: The Queen of Controversy (Amberley Publishing, 2013). He completed his first work of historical fiction just a few weeks before his death.
Congratulations MFS class of 1964; 50 years young!!!
“A memorial service will be held in July. Lacey’s wife of 43 years, Jean Reeder Smith, predeceased him, as did his sister, Mary Baldwin Smith Stoner MFS ’36. Three children, three grandchildren and two siblings,
Spring 2014