her out. Overall, I am probably the happiest person alive. I am blessed with health, a wonderful husband and family, a great job, and my wits. I keep hoping I can make one of our reunions as you guys seem to have such a good time when you are together. Nancy Gebelein Cornbrooks: I had so much fun at the reunion! I really do not have that much different to report; maybe at our age that is good thing! Kids are all status quo for now and I am busy selling the W by Worth line in my home throughout the year and I am back at making jewelry again. I see lots of RPCS alums doing this and that is so much fun! I also try to get Rehoboth when I can and hope we can do some sort of reunion again there soon! Christina Fales: I have been living in the New York area and working at a research institute where we investigate the brain basis of schizophrenia. It’s a really fun but nerdy way to spend your life. So, a side project for me has been studying how to function as a clinical psychologist. This involves learning to be a therapist, where people come in and tell me their “stuck points” in life. It is really rewarding, and also fascinating! Since I didn’t have kids, working as a therapist provides a way to get involved with people whose humanity sticks out, even if they are totally unlike me. I feel grateful every day that I have not one but two kinds of work I love. So come visit me in NYC! I’ll let you lie on my sofa and tell me all about your childhood neuroses. Or for more a directly therapeutic experience, you can snuggle with Bessie, my basset hound, who is, let’s face it, much cuter than any offspring I might have produced. Greetings to all! 2015 was a great year for Dorian McGlannan and her family. She is really enjoying retirement and has devoted a good bit of time to passions
that had to be largely set aside while working. She has joined the Northwest Chorale in Seattle, a choral group that raises money for the local food bank. She is training two minischnauzers that joined her family in late 2014. Walking, hiking, kayaking, swimming and cross country skiing get her outdoors on a regular basis. She is reading more than she ever has and has joined a local book group, and she is slowly getting more politically active. Her husband, Joseph Cospito, had a shoulder replacement surgery in November, but is doing well and will return to gardening soon. They celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in September by taking a cruise on the Inside Passage to Alaska (Brrr!) A young woman named Morgan joined their family when she left an abusive situation at home at age 18. She is now firmly a part of the family, is married and has an almost one-year-old daughter who is adorable, but lives too far away (NC). Joseph and Dorian love being grandparents! Their son Justin (23) has started a PhD program at Seattle Pacific University in the area of Organizational Psychology. They are really happy to have him so close. Daughter Lee-Joan (18) graduates from high school in June of 2016 and plans to have her black belt in Tae Kwon Do by that time. She also sings in the top choirs at her high school. She is not sure where she will go to college. Daughter Kaylee is a junior in high school and in a competitive equestrian program which involves ridiculous amounts of driving from her parents, but she is soon to get her driver’s license. Dorian is also leading Women’s retreats now and then, and does some supply work in churches in the diocese, but she is very content to be mostly sitting in the pews on Sunday mornings. Dorian writes: By the way, I
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am planning a trip to the east coast in September mostly to see Morgan and our granddaughter, but will probably stop in Maryland. If there any plans for a minireunion at the beach, let me know so I can plan around that. Gin Barrett Shanley: Gary and I continue to enjoy life as empty nesters and traveling between our home on one of New York’s beautiful Finger Lakes and our condo in Naples, FL which I have now completed building and remodeling respectively. Our son, Patrick, is an engineer specialist in the Army and is completing his training as a Green Beret at Ft. Bragg, NC. Our daughter, Margaret, is a research assistant at the NY State Psychiatric Institute in NYC. There are no weddings or grandchildren in our immediate future, but we are enjoying our “grandpuppy” Maxie who lives with Margaret and visits with us often. I am also going to Baltimore regularly to spend time with my mom, Pat Waters Barrett, 1945, and check on my Aunt Judy Waters, 1950. I don’t have to tell you, this aging process is tough! And it is hard to watch your loved ones try to endure it with grace and dignity. I also am hoping to make it to whatever RPCS does for Jean Brune’s retirement. My sister Barbara Barrett Neale, 1973 who works at the school tells me that this will be a very busy spring as the school prepares to say goodbye to Jean and I hope to be there for whatever I can. Louisa Lippincott Avery: Hello all, I know I have been off the grid! I have been living in Nashville since 1992 and am self-employed as a national and local trainer, training consultant and a program assessor for after school programs. Most of my non-work travel is to Baltimore and Raleigh to visit my wonderful family. I totally enjoy my two grandchildren: Rin at seven and Max at five who live in Raleigh. I just returned from Puerto Rico where I have gone for three years now with my brothers. They surf and I don’t. We have a great time! Pam Kellogg Green: I live in Washington, DC, with my husband of 36 years, Tom Green. We have four children - Josh and Michael, both living in DC, and David and Marisa, both living in Oakland, CA. David and Marisa are both married and Marisa has a daughter, Violet, four-weeks-old - our first grandchild. I’m in my 34th year at The Kellogg Collection and still enjoying it. I’m also involved in women’s Bible studies at our local church. This is my great passion. I haven’t seen many of our classmates, but was very happy to read what they generously shared about their lives. Nancy Strahan: My girls are now in college. Becky Blackstone, 2015 is at NYU at the Tisch School for the Arts studying film and television. She loves living in NYC, her courses and new friends. Don’t know where this will lead, but will keep you posted. Maggie took some