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50th Reunion ✒Virginia McNeil Slep, 40 Jeffrey Rd.,
Wayland, MA 01778, 508-358-2478, virginiaslep@comcast.net ✒Barbara Bye Murdock, PO Box 266, Little Compton, RI 02837, 401-635-4876, barbara@ murdockadvisors.com ¶ Planning has
already begun for our 50th Reunion on May 16, 17 and 18. About 15 of us have been meeting monthly since July to plan the events. It’s time to begin planning to join us. We’re hoping that
A Reminder Class notes for the Spring 2014 issue are due to the Office of Institutional Advancement and Alumni Relations by February 1, 2014; each class is limited to 750 words. Notes received after the deadline will run in a later issue. You are invited to submit articles and news that are of interest to your classmates. If you know of an alumna/us who would make an interesting feature story, please let us know. News may be submitted directly to your class reporter or to the Office of Institutional Advancement and Alumni Relations by emailing classnotes@ regiscollege.edu or mailing: 235 Wellesley St., Box 30, Weston, MA 02493.
all of our classmates will come back to Regis for the festivities. Here are a few things you should know: First, we’re looking for memorabilia. We’re asking for photos, movies, videos of our days at Regis (graduation, Cap and Gown Day, Junior Weekend, Senior Prom, or even of our more recent Reunions). You can send the item—or scan photos and send them by computer. The college archivist, Sister Mary Rita Grady, CSJ, is a member of our class, and she has offered to serve as the collection point for all these items. You can mail them to or email them to: Sister Mary Rita Grady, CSJ, Archivist, Regis College, 235 Wellesley Street, Weston, MA 02493, maryrita.grady@regiscollege.edu ¶ Second, we’re looking for people to join committees to help us organize the event. Judy Higgins Donohue is chairing the Promotion committee from Florida, so distance is no excuse! We’d love to have your help and input for these committees: Hospitality, Memorabilia, Liturgy, Parade, Fundraising. If you live close enough to attend our planning luncheons, let us know and we’ll be sure to send you an invitation. You can contact the Reunion chairperson, Pat Luben O’Hearn, at pohearn2@ verizon.net ¶ Third, please be certain we have your email address. Send it
to Barbara or to me (Virginia) so we can maintain contact with you. Judy Donohue is planning a Reunion website just for us, which she will update weekly, and we want to be able to contact you with such information. ¶ Fourth, please send Barbara or me any contact information you may have on classmates that are listed in the Regis records as “lost”: Mary Crane Abatsis, Monica Belliveau Kane, Carolyn Capra Ryan, Mary Daniels Adams, Cathann Gammons Johnson, Linda Hanley Morris, Joanne Murphy Kiley, Mary McNamara Willey, Lois Pellicelli McHugh, Eleanor Rizzo Morris, Sharon Smith Brainard. ¶ And finally, Regis is planning to offer assistance to anybody who needs it because of physical limitations. There will be golf carts to transport classmates who may have mobility issues; the College will arrange to pick you up at train stations; there will be people to help anybody in a wheelchair, or anybody with vision problems. All you have to do it let us know. Dorm rooms will be available if you want to stay at the College, but rooms will be set aside at a local hotel if you prefer to leave your “dorm days” in the past. ¶ We hope you’re getting the idea that Regis REALLY wants all of us to come back for the 50th Reunion. ¶ And here are the class notes: Shelly Hackett Phipps wrote to me (Barbara Bye Murdock) unsolicited! Great to hear from Shelly as she is so enthusiastic about returning for our big 50th! Shelley and her partner Cathy had a whirlwind tour of the eastern Atlantic region this summer: “We had great adventures, learned some history, visited family, friends, professional colleagues and spent a few hours with Joan Fricker Burritt in Greer, SC, and Maureen Shea Dolan in Falmouth. In Tucson, Cathy and I are continuing with the house renovations and I am getting fit for my 2 USTA competitive tennis teams.” ¶ I wish to update you on the article in Regis Today last fall, “Alumnae Featured in Famous Photograph.” Gary Winogrand, acclaimed photographic artist, captured 6 of us, classmates of ’64 sitting on a bench at the end of the day, after we toured the 1964 World’s Fair. My roommate Mary Crane Fahey discovered this photograph several years ago. Mr. Winogrand passed away in 1984 and today there is heightened interest in his photographing women during the ’60s. His works are also featured in a book, “Women are Beautiful.” This photograph has appeared in a special exhibit at the MFA in Boston in 2011, at San Francisco’s MOMA, and this fall at the Worcester Art Museum. A review of the Worcester exhibit is featured in the WSJ, Sept. 12, 2013, D5. The Winogrand exhibit will continue in 2014 at the National Gallery in DC and at the Met of in NYC. We six are Karen
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were served in the Foyer. ¶ Our class contributed over $150,000 for our gift to Regis, with the majority of our class members contributing. A scholarship endowment was set up as well. ¶ One of our deceased members Jane Buckley Firla was honored on Aug. 18, with the Buckley Blvd named for her. The road runs along the perimeter of Morrison House, winding out past the Spellman Stamp Museum. Her husband, Bill, generously made a special donation to the College in her honor. ¶ Another classmate, Sister Ellen Powers, was honored with the 2013 Alumni Excellence Award at the Sat night dinner. ¶ One of the benefits of working on the Reunion committee was talking to classmates that had not been heard from. Georgine Volkommer Elsman lives in Charlotte, NC. She would have liked to make the Reunion but wasn’t able to. Another classmate, Judy Krampitz Ream, is living in MN. Connie Barton O’Brien is in Plymouth, MA, and enjoying retirement. Mary Jayne Higgins Johnson was married July 27, 2006 but sadly lost her husband Erle last winter. She is living in Roseville, CA. Joan Iverson Gallivan has moved from an 11-room house, having lived there 47 years, to a 4-room apartment in Norton, MA. ¶ Ann Hughes Restivo asked to remind you about the “Prayer Line,” which is a request for prayers for anyone who needs them. You can get more information from Ann at annrestivo@yahoo.com or at 781-2725682. ¶ Please call or email me when you have any news. I will be travelling in Nov. for 3 weeks, visiting Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos. ¶ Jean Harrington Gefteas has retired from years of teaching in her hometown, Canton. She’s enjoying time with her grandchildren, tutoring, and vacations with her husband, Bill. Chatham and Popponesset are favorite spots. The Lay Apostolate year in St. Thomas, V.I. remains a life-changing milestone. ¶ It is with much sadness that Barbara Groncki Audino reports that her son, Frank L. Audino, 50, passed away unexpectedly Aug. 2. Please keep him and the family in your prayers.
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