class sorry for ourselves. Then it occurred to us that we had had a narrow escape from death and we were thankful we had survived a potential tragedy. Another plus was that John started to tell everyone what a super driver his wife is.
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✒ Betty Ann Hynes Elliott, 38 Oxford Road, Wellesley, MA 02481, 781-2354697, baelliott2@verizon.net ¶ The
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✒ Anne Swiston O’Hara, 55 Lexington Avenue, Magnolia, MA 01930, 978-5253227, alfreda1928@gmail.com ✒ Jacqueline Choquette Picard, 70 Hadde Avenue, Cumberland, RI 02864, 401-658-0625, littlecho7@gmail.com ✒ Mary Daily Neylon, 69 Voila Street, Lowell, MA 01851, 978-453-4237, mdneylon@verizon.net ¶ Our condolences go to the families of Eleanor Wadden Davis, Nancy Gaynor McGuire, and Mildred Riley Nugent. We cherish
wonderful memories of our Regis days with them ¶ Doris Toohey McCue and Anne Alfreda Swiston O’Hara recently reminisced about their college days as Psych majors. Doris and her late husband Jack had 10 children and 20 grandchildren, some still in college, others graduated. Doris and her Air Force surgeon son will travel to San Francisco to visit his daughter who will attend a Jesuit college there. ¶ Amy Marie Chin Guen is trying to sell her house in Florida and live in Boston in her condo. Amy’s son is a psychologist, and her daughter, a widow and the mother of three sons, is a wellknown landscape architect in Chicago. ¶ Barbara Tyrrell Nugent attended the Cape Cod Luncheon. Barbara lives in Mashpee, MA. She enjoys the women’s club at her church and likes to attend track and swim meets of her granddaughter, a star athlete at Falmouth High. ¶ Pauline “Polly” Doyle Powell visited from Washington, DC. Terry LeBlanc Gray and Alfreda loved hearing about her travels. Polly claims to be slowing down, but travels to France and Malta soon.¶ Beth Finn Deschenes lives in Centerville near her brother and sisters She helps her siblings as they have health problems. ¶ Katherine “Kitty” Grimes Crotty lives in an elegant retirement home in New Hampshire. She enjoys singing in a chorus. Kitty has 6 children and 13 grandchildren living nearby, 2 of them begin college in Boston this fall. ¶ Mary Daily Neylon had a phone chat with Alice Boyce Smith, who had just returned from a wonderful tour of Toronto and Quebec City with a church choir group. It was a delightful trip, with Mass everyday at 6 am and many historical site visits. ¶ Catherine “Cay” Nolan Sokol escaped the heat and humidity for a few weeks vacationing on Cape Cod ¶ Jacqueline “Jackie” Choquette Picard called Virginia “Ginny” Looney Weamer in Missouri; it was a blast reconnecting. They were 19 again in a nanosecond! Ginny keeps in touch with many Regis friends and they are a source of strength and stability in her life. She mentioned how valiant and courageous Nancy McGuire has been these last few years. George and Jackie celebrated their 61st anniversary last
spring in Antigua—and survived driving on the wrong side of the road! ¶
Etheldreda “Dreda” Kallaher George
enjoys bridge these days. All is well in her corner of Rhode Island.
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✒ Ann Brown Janes, Harvest Circle Unit 301, Lincoln, MA 01773, 781-430-6181 ✒ Anne Downey Tierney, 80 Penzance Rd., Rockport, MA 01966, 978-5466749, JFTAFT@aol.com ¶ The Golden
Tower Luncheon on May 18 took place at noon in the Lower Student Union. It was very noisy, but the lunch was delicious. In attendance were Ann Brown Janes, Florence Kelly McKenna , Barbara “Bobbie” Palmer Schlichte, Janice McBride Power, Elizabeth “Betty” Cullen, Mary Lee McLaughlin Girouard, and Jean Williamson Horsman. Anne Downey Tierney missed it for the first time as she was in the Lahey Clinic having a shoulder replacement. ¶ The new President Antoinette M. Hays, PhD, RN, circulated among the tables. Former President Mary Jane England was recognized for her years of service. Of the class members present, 1 was single, 1 was with a living husband, and the rest were widows. ¶ Margaret “Margie” Linney Carroll has successfully completed cancer surgery. Yeah! ¶ Barbara Phair McCarthy is not too well and has breathing problems. ¶ Ann Comerford Kelly reports from California that she is fine but not planning a trip East in the near future. ¶ Sr. Marjorie Marie, CSJ (Rosemary Howe) is not too well. She resides in the Bethany Health Care Center in Framingham. ¶ Barbara Coolen Corrado celebrated her 82nd birthday (young!) in Del Mar, CA, at her daughter Ann’s home. Also present were her son from Singapore and her daughter from England. Barbie has 9 grandchildren: 7 boys and 2 girls. ¶ Some of you business majors probably remember Sr. Garnier. Sr. lives at Bethany in Framingham and recently celebrated her 90th birthday. Congratulations, Sr.! ¶ Congratulations also go to Phil and Anna Moran Phalon who just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary and to Phyllis Dinneen and Dorothy Welch who are celebrating 60 years as Sisters of Saint Joseph. ¶ Please send all the news that’s fit to print (and even some that isn’t) to Ann or Anne.
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Golden Tower Luncheon in May brought out many ’49ers as usual. One highlight of the day was receiving a copy of Katherine “Kaye” Barron Cox’s latest achievement: getting published in her local Belmont newspaper. The article, titled “Giving thanks for the time I had with my mother,” covers the trip Kaye and her mother took to Bermuda for her mother’s 95th birthday. Kaye’s mother was the life of the party; many hotel guests fell under her spell. Lovely story, Kaye, thanks for sharing it. Kaye has become a student again and is taking a class in memoir writing at the Lifelong Learning Program at Regis College. ¶ Sadly we lost two classmates recently: Pauline McCarthy in May and Ann McGrath Cullinan in July. Pauline had an interesting background. She attended Regis for 1 year, then left to serve in the Navy during WWII. After 5 years in the Navy, she returned to Regis in 1946 to join our class and graduate with us. Kaye, Mary Breslin, Catherine “Cay” Foley Hines, and Rosemary McAuliffe attended her funeral in Belmont while Nancy Natoli Fay and Marion Comerford Cowie were at the National Veteran’s Cemetery on the Cape for her burial. Ann Cullinan passed away July 31 after a courageous battle with cancer. Ann and I became friends freshman year and remained close. I will miss her terribly. Once Ann settled in North Conway, Nancy Fay and I (with Jims Murphy originally) spent a few days with her every fall: enjoying the mountain views, shopping the outlets, and enjoying each other. Joe and I drove up for Ann’s wake and funeral at Our Lady of the Mountains’s beautiful church in North Conway. Ann was buried with Arthur in the North Conway Cemetery, looking out on the mountains she loved. She is survived by her 5 children and 10 grandchildren. ¶ Mary Breslin gathered a group of ’49ers for lunch at her summer home in Hull again this August. She’s most gracious and hospitable; everyone there enjoys this get-together so much. All in attendance are doing well and enjoying life, for which we were very thankful.
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✒ Joan Hartley Meagher, 102 Blodgett Drive, Folsom, CA 95630, 916-9850643, marrhar1@comcast.net ✒ Pat Hogan, 100 Luce Street, Lowell, MA 01852, 978-453-1502 ¶ Pat Hogan and I were elected at our recent reunion to be your new class reporters. Many
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