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Kathleen Sittig Dunlop sent her wonderful Christmas letter telling of her time with her daughter in Paris at the French Open. She celebrated her 70th birthday with her husband Richard and daughter, Allison, in Iceland in The McPherson family at Thanksgiving 2015: L-R: August. 2015 travels took the Dunlops to Mexico, Morocco and the Panama daughter Elle, daughter-in-law Selina, son Rob, Canal. Other important activities daughter Sandy include being with her sister, Sigrid, volunteering, and all the activities around her surprise she knew nothing about his living in faith and church. Princeton, having gone to PCD and finishing at PDS, so I told her, perhaps none of you Anne Updike Burt wrote that she had a dream knew that either, which is why I had to put this about me! We were visiting tribes in Maine. in our Journal. Andy was taking an aboriginal art class and gathering photos for her film (is this part real, 1963 Andy?), “It was lovely to hang out with you Alice Jacobson in the dream.” Sounds good to me!! Andy is 2924 NE 21st Avenue working (real life, not dream life) on the Down Portland, OR 97212 to Earth Storytelling Project about climate 503-528-8489 change. She invites us to check out the website: alice_jacobson@comcast.net http://igg.me/at/downtoearth/x/3244191. Andy is on the short video explaining the project. Pamela Sidford Schaeffer celebrated her 70th Donations from us for this project would be well birthday with a Neil Diamond concert, and received by Andy and others! She concluded, they celebrated Leonard’s 70th with fireworks “Just know I’m appreciative of many memories at the Cape. Pam reminisced about our good I have of each of you that I bring out often to time with Laura Rogers and our spouses in enjoy. I am finding that reminiscing is much Oregon last August. We did have a great time more of a pastime these days than ever before.” in Portland and Ashland! Pam reported that her new best friend is the rat control man who In January, I celebrated my 70th on a cruise is now coming monthly to take care of the ship off the west coast of New Zealand. It was problem. The big news: daughter, Jaq, is prega great trip. No question that the best thing nant, and she and husband Jake expect Pam that happened in 2015 was my marriage to and Leonard’s fourth grandchild in the fall. my partner of 20 years, AJ Arriola. We had a great party on October 4, our friend, Stephanie, Kathryn Kilgore pulled my leg and chastened married us, and we celebrated with over 200 my usage by commenting that my question, friends and family. No way to top that! So even “What was your fondest memory of 2015” though you won’t receive this until the late employed the old-fashioned word “fondest.” Who knew? But as a poet, she has my blessings spring, I am writing this on Valentine’s Day, and I wish all our classmates a great 2016! (as do the rest of you, too) to challenge what I write and how I write it! Kathryn’s moment: 1964 “when Larry’s brother, Dan, jumped up and Barbara Rose down in an elevator to scare me to death.” The 2C Brookline Court point was to make her laugh…and she did, Princeton, NJ 08540 even after 10 hours waiting outside the oper609-937-1700 ating room after Larry’s last cancer surgery. I barbarabrose@me.com hope that he has fully recovered and that you are both doing well. As Princeton Day School celebrates its 50th anniversary, we, members of the class of 1964, Colleen Coffee Hall said her fondest memocelebrate our 52nd year since our graduation ries include the June 4 birth of her new grandchild, Keaveney, and a tour of Crete in October. from that venerable institution known as Miss Colleen is still busy selling real estate, and I get Fine’s School. Astoundingly, I’ve had news from no fewer than 12 classmates in preparanotices of the fabulous homes she is selling in tion for the writing of this column. I believe it Princeton. must be a record of some kind! Thanks to all Sharon Stevenson Griffith wrote from who shared their stories. Pound Ridge, NY. Her best memory from last It is my sorrowful duty to report the death year was the week that her family spent on of one of our own. Wendy Fruland Hopper Nantucket. She loved her December trip to passed away last September after a long illSouth East Asia. Sharon and I both endorse ness. If you’d spent any time with Wendy Overseas Adventure Travels, and we compare during the last 18 months of her life, you notes on our trips. would not have known she was ill. Wendy Kleia Raubitscheck Luckner said her best lived her life to the fullest right up until the memories were “celebrating the Christmas day she succumbed to cancer. holidays in one place with her two children and For those of you who didn’t have the privilege three granddaughters.” Although she misses
of knowing this “life force” called Wendy, she attended MFS until eighth grade, when she and her horse departed for the Oldfields School in Maryland along with Beirne Donaldson and Leslie Dupont Myrin. But she always stayed in touch and even helped organize our 50th class reunion two years ago.
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Toledo and all her friends there, she appreciates her closeness to family including those children and her sister, Marita, and brother, John.
Friends were extremely important to Wendy and she managed over her lifetime to build and nurture an amazing number of them through many and varied interests. An accomplished equestrian, she competed in several different disciplines. She was also an avid foxhunter as a member of the Amwell Valley Hounds. In addition to her riding interests, she enjoyed the outdoors of the Adirondacks. From her home in Keene Valley, New York, she would climb the mountains, fish and hike the streams and row the lakes. A gardener, she was a past President of the Stony Brook Garden Club. She had an eye and a flare for decorating, each of her homes reflecting the warmth and joy she felt in just being alive.
1964 Classmates: Barbara Rose, Beirne Donaldson and Wendy Fruland Hopper taken on May 1, 2014. She leaves behind her husband of 47 years Arthur Hopper and three daughters, Allison Hopper Skinner of San Rafael, California, Emily Hopper Carifa ’91 of Far Hills, New Jersey, and Hilary Hopper of Burlington, Vermont. To her five grandchildren she was known affectionately as “Gobgob”.
Wendy and her special “joi de vie” is and will be sorely missed.
I can’t help being somewhat jealous as I learned so many of our class have retired and are doing just what they want to do, which seems to include, across the board, lots of travel. Who knew we could develop such wanderlust; perhaps seeds planted long ago at MFS. Penny Pettit Kreinberg wrote from Oregon “I’ve been retired for thirteen years from teaching and counseling in community college. I have no idea how I ever found all those hours to work each week. I love being retired, but haven’t managed to find a slower pace. We have three wonderful kids, one of whom still lives with us. We take care of our three Portland grandchildren three days a week and visit our three Pasadena grandchildren as often as we can. As rich as this makes my life, my passions are art and travel. So I do as much of both as I can find time for. Life just keeps getting more and more precious. We were fortunate to be together all those years ago and we are privileged to be here now, relishing this amazing planet.” Fran Wolf, class president our senior year at MFS, wrote similarly. “I love being retired and
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