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Carol Noonan Driscoll only takes short rides in her neighborhood. Last summer she stayed in her family’s beach house. Many generations of her family have had many happy times at that house. However, she has not been able to go to the theater or symphony. Her former roommate, Betty McCarthy O’Conor, flew from her home in Ohio rather than make the long drive to spend the summer at her home on the Cape. Three classmates who died brought many personal memories. Elly Zarotschenzeff Doyle was my best friend and a fellow history major. She died from several complications. Her family had her funeral “Zoomed” from California to Massachusetts. Many of the people that she and her late husband worked with showed up for her funeral. It had to be held outdoors due to the pandemic. Janet Petty was one of my two roommates during our freshman year, and we shared a love of history which we continued the rest of our lives. She moved to Georgia to be near her brother. Rosemary Weidner Mahoney was one of several of us who went to work for the NSA upon graduation. We shared with Rosemary her news when she met her husband, who was in law school at Georgetown University. His legal advice came in handy since she and Joan Keenan carpooled with two NSA guys who fled to Russia. It was the era of McCarthy and somehow the government was suspicious of these two Catholic women. Our generation moves on with new generations. Mary Hughes Noonan was celebrating her grandson’s marriage. Ann Pelchat Damerow lives in Seattle, WA, and has five children and ten grandchildren, nine of whom are in college. Ann is suffering from early-stage dementia. Her college roommate, Charlotte Maney Higgins, is now in a nursing home in Maine where her daughter lives. Geraldine (Gerry) McCarthy Ballotti has two great-grandchildren. She now lives in a townhouse condominium in Belmont, MA from which she does drive to her son’s home on the Cape. She attended Margaret Griffin Dion’s funeral in Sandwich, MA, where she met Margaret (Peggy) Larner Rago. Many thanks to Cynthia Souza Nakane who put me in touch with several classmates. Cynthia and her husband, Paul, did not make their annual trip east to go sailing with her brother or to take interesting travels. They do have a lovely place in which to remain, the beautiful Pacific coastal community of Cambria noted for its lovely downtown, arts, and food. It is within driving distance to their three daughters who live in Los Angeles, CA. The somber news is that 68 of our classmates have died. Well, there is also the fact that 83 of our class still live as far as we know. But there are all those not in service telephones.
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✒ Joan Meleski Kenney, P.O. Box 33, Hyannis Port, MA 02647, kenneyjo@aol.com ¶ We have often enjoyed sharing information
about our family graduates. This year has been extremely difficult due to the pandemic, and we want to celebrate the perseverance and resiliency that these young people have exhibited. I had two graduates; Kate Naughton from George Washington University and Joseph Annis from Northeastern. Kate was scheduled to do the first semester of her senior year in France, but two days after her group arrived in Paris they were told they must return to the United States within 48 hours—not at all what had been planned. Carol Finnell Kenney also had two graduates; her grandson, Matt Kenney, graduated from Providence College and her grandson, Thomas Moakley, graduated cum laude from Suffolk Law. After forty years of practicing law, Carol has decided to retire and hopefully do more traveling, including a visit to her “forever roommate” Pat Flanagan Neumann on Long Island, NY. Recently, Laetitia (Tish) Albiani Carney and Ina Catalanotti Roehre joined Carol for lunch at the Chart Room. The eight grandchildren of Lora LoConte Stosez weathered the pandemic pretty well. After a bout with COVID, the oldest (25) was promoted to Top Gun which made Lora watch the movie. The youngest (10) brought COVID home and gave it to her sister and mother but not her father. The oldest girl (21) started grad school last fall. The others managed to graduate from high school, middle school, and grammar school, all virtually. The good news is that all are healthy, happy, and thriving. We send our condolences to Carol Costa Doherty on the passing of her husband, Neal. She has four children—all married— and seven grandchildren. She is living in Marshfield, MA, close to her two daughters in Duxbury. Her third daughter lives in Atlanta, GA, and her son is in Andover, MA. She describes herself as “healthy and still driving.” Lucille Berube Williams shares news of the effects of the pandemic and surgery which kept her close to home. All is well now, and she went to New Hampshire on July 1 and returned to New York in mid-September. Two of her grandchildren are living in Chicago; the other two are in relationships in NYC and Washington, DC. She saw all of them in New Hampshire, as Lake Winnipesaukee is a good drawing card. She has a new phone number 914-393-7319. Anne Smith Tobin has discovered that the world really is very small. A good friend shares three grandchildren with the next-door neighbor of Carol Finnell Kenney in Falmouth, MA. Anne has been connecting with Elaine O’Connell Fitzpatrick regarding a stainedglass window in her church in Holliston, MA, and is trying to get Elaine to come to Holliston to take a “history walk.” Elaine walks in Waltham, MA, with Gail Oliver Corrigan. Lea Toto Dmytryck was to direct the play Lost in Yonkers in April 2020, but we all know what happened to Broadway and community theater alike. She happily reports that her group was granted the
licensing rights to perform the play for three weekends in October 2021. She had a cast of seven very talented people. Lea also enjoys her great-grandaughter who turned three in August. It is with deep sadness that we mark the passing of three of our classmates; Marijane Hill Kennedy in November 2020, Jane Gorman McCue in December 2020, Doris Good Marr in April 2021, and Patricia Burke Tarpey in July 2021. They will be greatly missed.
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✒ Maureen O’Connell Palmer, 101 Country Road, Hanover, MA 02339, 781-561-1016, maureenpalmer59@hotmail.com ¶ Well,
friends, it’s back to almost normal times…I think! Today I was just about to go into Shaws when I got a call from Rita Noonan Griffin. She and Bill were in Florida before returning to Minnesota. They had attended a Noonan family get-together on the Cape in July. Marcia Sheperd Heustis and Bruce love their condo complex in South Bend, IN. They went on a trip to New Mexico last fall. My grandkids and I were discussing college experiences. I referred to myself as a “dayhop” which we commuters were called. That termed caused hysterical laughter from the kids. Ergo, that term shall be retired! Judy Bresnahan Mawn had lots of company over the Fourth of July at the Cape. She still had enough energy to host Elizabeth Russell Bilafer, Jane McCarthy Murphy, Janice Canniff McCall, and yours
truly for our annual Lobster Roll Feast. However, the competitive floating contest down the creek was canceled. Rosemary (Bunny) Catalucci Hughes and I chatted a bit. She spent some wonderful time with her family in New Hampshire and with a friend in Vermont. However, she is ready for some “quiet” time. The Hilsinger family held a Memorial Mass for Patricia O’Hearn Hilsinger in June at St. Joseph’s in Medford, MA. It was an inspirational event for a heroic woman. Please remember in your prayers our dear classmates who passed away in 2021: Eunice Sylvestre Dupre Allard, Jean Letourneau Hampsey, Janet Clements Lavey, Joanne Myers, Antoinette Riordan Newhoff, Barbara Meyer Pierce, Margaret Doherty Rybicki, and Ann Tiernan. Rest in peace!
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✒ Kate Martin Hawke, 4 Rockland Road, Marblehead, MA 01945-1316, 781-639-3492, kfhawke@comcast.net ¶ Several members
of the class joined the Virtual Reunion Weekend in May: Judith Powers, Carroll
Beegan Follas, Lillian Leverone Peracchia, Barbara Hoyle Healy, Lee Hogan, CSJ, Mimi Fleming O’Brien, Sally White Harmer, Pat O’Connor Prindle, Ellen Donahue Foley, Mary Doane Cassidy, Susan Fallon Kolk, and Ann (Maxine) Webb Thelwell. I understand
that Lee Hogan, CSJ, who is still a major power in the order, gave an interesting
