class notes 69
1967 Ann Kuchins kuchinsa@yahoo.com
Anne Neill anneneill@yahoo.com Renata Engler: Thank you so much for nudging me to contribute and for your generosity in sharing a view into your lives. The sense of fellowship and mutual encouragement/celebration of the gift of life in all its forms is wonderful and I am so thankful to be a part of this unique community. I miss you all so very much. It was a pleasure to connect in 2015 for the alumnae gathering in Chevy Chase, MD. Here are some updates from the EnglerNichols home: It has been both a short and a long year for JD and me, with many new challenges along with old ones evolving (mostly health related). I am so grateful for my new job and the fellowship of those I continue to work with. It has been an opportunity to evolve my love of medicine and the science of immunology into a more holistic context. What a joy and a humbling challenge! Our connection to our second home at Paradise Village in Nuevo Vallarta Mexico (Puerto Vallarta) nurtures JD in ways that give me such joy to watch and we are thankful that this allows us to get JD away from most of the winter days. I find it a constant miracle that the science of health, preventive medicine, and healing is validating the spiritual truths taught since the beginning of time. Many thanks to all of you for your kindness and friendship. It was so special this past year to actually
Wynn Woodward ’67, Joan Seamster ’67, and Anne Neill ’67 on a road trip to the Avocado Festival in Santa Barbara
Renata Engler ’67 with her husband JD Nichols in Puerto Vallarta
spend time and share fellowship, a walk in our beloved park, with Mary Whitney Kenney while she was here to visit her son and grandchildren. I pray there may be other opportunities for visits here in the D.C. area. We have been blessed with many such kindness moments and are so appreciative. Brenda Beckett: I’m getting married in a couple of weeks. Seeing as how this will be number five, it probably doesn’t qualify as “news.” Happy 2016 to all! Melissa King: I am on a quick trip to Denver to visit my younger son, Evan, who just moved here with his girlfriend. My other son, Andrew, came as well to ski, celebrate the end of Stanford’s football season (he now works for the team), and for family time. Amazingly we had dinner last night with Carolyn Layton GarnerReagan and her grandson, Logan (19 months). Carolyn is helping as a doting nanny/grandmother while her daughter is on a business trip here. Great fun, especially since our paths crossed while I was at the Stanford alumni Rose Bowl tailgate and she was at the parade. I remember with a smile and a tear doing these notes with Lucy Bush for many a year. Nan Peletz Grady: My daughter, Addie, gave birth to a baby girl in November. She and her husband named the baby Phoebe. I founded a program within the psychology department at Stanford, which does outreach to community college students who exhibit early signs of mental illness but who do not have the resources to get proper diagnosis and treatment. The program is called Fairstart. It will fund Stanford clinicians to diagnose and treat people who need help. As of January 2016, my paintings will be sold to benefit this program. Payments will be made to Fairstart and therefore will be tax deductible to the buyer. (I’ll send invitations to the exhibit next fall.) I’m looking forward to so many things this year but next year will is the big one, as we’ll celebrate our 50th
reunion! As they say, “Bring it on!”—and good for us! Sue Lloyd writes from long time home base in St. Augustine, FL that she counted the days looking for the end to 2015 since it was her absolute saddest of all time owing to the death in April of her sweet mother, Monterey (aka Monty). Sue writes, “She loved much and laughed often.” Do any of you remember the pool party Monty and Capt. Lloyd arranged for our entire class at the Navy Postgrad School when we were sophomores/ juniors? Do any of you remember Stephanie Monk, in our class, whose father also was posted at the Postgrad School? Like Sue, Stephanie was a day student but moved away before our graduation in 1967. Whatever happened to Stephanie? How about Pat Tracey Cravens? Or Pam Leggett? How can it be that hard today to locate people in the U.S.? (Editor’s note: Pam Leggett is in Dallas, TX. She is on Facebook.) If any of you are in Florida in 2016, as always, Sue and husband Glenn extend an invitation to you. Vicki MacLean Gourlay: Lots of changes for me in 2015. I moved to the country (an hour from Vancouver, B.C.) with my horses and dogs. Spent the year building my dream farmhouse. My eldest daughter, Jenny, lives on the farm next door with her horses and dog. We are having the time of our lives showing the nags and enjoying the great outdoors. I continue to teach children with disabilities to ride horses. Rosalind Boswell Seysses: I like to write about classmates I have seen, so here goes. Joanne Bosche Ehrlich is indomitable, despite numerous physical setbacks. She had hip replacement surgery and came through it like a champion. She is a fountain of culture—sees every good play in New York—and is my favorite person to go to museums with. Catherine Caufield continues to live in west Marin County. She has let go of her stressful job. She and her husband, Terry, camp in the desert a lot. I spend my time going to Katy Bates Kreitler ’67 and husband Peter in Tanzania with Masai warriors