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for now, though none of my large and extended family is here. As a widow with no children and the youngest of seven siblings (five remaining), I feel at times the physical distance between us and a pull to the north. However, I am not yet at the point of making any big decisions.” I, Lorri Ditz McCarthy, love living in S.F. Since our reunion I’ve had lunch with Terry Ferrari Votruba, Donna Miller Casey, Libby Budge d’Hemery, Paula Sullivan Escher, and Perry Walker Freeman. We rehashed our reunion and compared travel notes. I went to Paris in May and thankfully missed the flooding and demonstrations. I am going to the Galapagos in September and am excited to see all that is there. I continue to see my grandchildren weekly and play golf at Stanford. My youngest daughter, Megan, is starting nursing school in Los Angeles in August—pursuing her second career. Katie is still in Texas working at the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame. Sara and Jenny and their families are in San Mateo and doing well. My grandkids are growing up too fast; Madison is starting Menlo in the fall in sixth grade! For those of you who didn’t make it to our reunion, we missed you. It was really wonderful so many of us could go. Dinner at Mary Alice’s on Friday was, by far, the highlight of the weekend. We are all grateful and appreciative of her generosity. Thank you again!! I’ll hope to hear from others of you lost ladies next time.
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Shannon Tunney McDonald ’84, lives in San Marino with her two children. Peter and I are going on a cruise around the Mediterranean in September, which we are really looking forward to. Love to all in our class!” Sharon Duffy Verhoef: “For the past four years, our ordinary life was turned upside down as I cared for my husband, Bryan, who struggled with worsening dementia. He entered an assisted living facility last August, and after a few very difficult months and a hospitalization he passed away early in November. I cannot say enough good things about the Hospice care he received at the end of his life and the help that Hospice was to me at that time. I feel fortunate to have had Bryan as a husband. We had a good marriage and a very interesting life together for 22 years, so I have no regrets along those lines. As I have begun, during this past year of grieving, to adjust and recalibrate my life, a highlight was traveling to California for our 50th reunion in March. With generous encouragement from Marcy Miller Sandgathe and Mary O’Hara Ryan, I bought a plane ticket and got myself there! They took care of me. We shared a car and a room, caught up with each other’s lives and had some truly good laughs! It was interesting to get an idea of what Santa Catalina is like now and to eat lunch with several classmates and Sister Claire, who had been an abstraction to me until then. The best part was seeing everyone who came! It always amazes and comforts me to be reminded that we are all just who we were then and are still the same remarkable people! Also, it was a time to get to know better formerly not well-known day students! This year I really enjoyed ‘meeting’ Annette Thorn! There is never enough time to visit with enough people, but I suppose that is the nature of reunions. Thank you, again, Mary Alice, for your lovely Friday night dinner, where conversation flowed. For a few days after our reunion I stayed on in Monterey for a wonderful visit with a grade school friend from back east who now lives in California. In that one week in March I had two good reminders of influences that shaped my formative years. I am now beginning to catch up with lots of things that have slid past me in the recent difficult years. I look forward to getting back into my studio to make some art. I have joined a summer art reading group at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College and committed to season theater tickets with friends. I will stay in Florida
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Ann Kuchins kuchinsa@yahoo.com
Anne Neill anneneill@yahoo.com We publish notes for each class once a year—oddnumbered class years in the spring and even-numbered in the fall. Look for your class notes in the spring issue!
Terry Durkin Wilkinson ’68, Sarah Ashby ’68, and Kate Barry Robinson ’68
1968 Eugenie Schlueter emschl@sbcglobal.net
Daphne Macneil daphnemacneil@yahoo.com The Class of 1968 is busy making plans for an “Open Weekend” together in September, breaking free from our various scattered campuses and convening in Asti, CA, courtesy of Dianne Rossi Andrews— just as we did 48 and 49 years ago. We are looking forward to a rip-roaring good time together, an age-adjusted slumber party to continue to enrich these 50+ year old friendships. Liz Moffitt and Gerry Robertson Working are the chief organizers, for which we give huge thanks. Class correspondents will be gathering notes for the next Bulletin, that is, news that Grandchildren of Gerry Robertson Working ’68