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this program will and is changing the way we educate children about the earth and get them to directly connect to the magical way life works. I caught Beth Barker just before she was headed to London and Montalcino for her annual trip! Beth recently joined the board of the Di Rosa Preserve in Napa. She describes that it “is considered the best collection of Bay Area artists in the world and is located on 200 acres.” Beth is also still on the board of Oxbow School. She loves her work with kids with Autism at a therapeutic riding center in Petaluma. Still riding. My ponies and two sons are in their 20’s. Yikes!” Peggy McDonnell Vance writes from upstate New York where she and her husband, Cy, have a place. Peggy writes that the summer has turned kind of crazy. If you get HBO, you should watch the documentary, The Crash Reel. It’s about my nephew, Kevin Pearce, my sister Pia’s youngest son, and it’s fantastic. So much more than a snowboarding movie. It’s about love.” Our classmate, Monica Lozano made the news with President Obama recently. Kirby forwarded me an article that was in the San Francisco Chronicle (June 8) “Obama defends collecting phone data.” There, right beside our President was Monica as part of the VIP’s speaking on this subject. In case you didn’t already know, Monica is the publisher and CEO of La Opinion, the largest Spanish newspaper published in the United States. She is, also, CEO of its parent company, ImpreMedia. Monica is a member of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. What’s new with me, Sally Fay? I went to my youngest son Charlie’s, graduation from the University of Edinburgh on July 3—a lot of fun! Charlie started his first job working for the D.A. in Boston, who also happens to be running for mayor. I look forward to seeing more of him now that we are in the same town! Walter has a summer job in Cleveland, and Kerry is the best personal shopper I know at Neiman Marcus at the Stanford Shopping Center in CA! Lisa Sutton: “I am juggling both coasts this summer. I was just in N.Y.C. for the premier of the movie that she worked on last summer in Boston called The Heat. New York was fantastic!” She managed to squeeze in some theater. “Loved Matilda, adored Kinky Boots, and was so impressed with Holland Taylor’s one woman show, Ann, that has now closed, but worth it if it ever comes to your town!” Lisa continues, “I made a bit of a road trip out of this last east coast visit, going to Connecticut,
Rhode Island, back to the Brown bookstore (Wow! Providence has changed since I was in school with Jeannie and Susie), Camden, ME!, and ended up watching the fireworks in Burlington, VT. Spectacular! I am returning to NY next week to work on another film, to shoot in Brooklyn with Melissa McCarthy and Bill Murray and Naomi Watts.” I am imagining lots of travel this year. Looks like there may be work at some point in London. Thank you everyone for marking your calendars with our reunion coming up: March 7-9, 2014!
1975 The Class of 1975 is without a class correspondent. Please contact Gretchen Mueller Burke ’83, Director of Alumnae Relations, at Santa Catalina School to volunteer to serve your class in this meaningful way. Jeannie Jagels Vaugh: “In June my oldest daughter Emma got married to Ravi Agrawal. They met at CNN in London and the wedding was a multicultural event that brought out the best in everyone. His family were there from Calcutta, Singapore and San Francisco. There were at least 20 people from London, two from Germany, one from Pakistan, three from Italy plus people from all over the United States. Emma and Ravi’s friendships extend far and wide. The ceremony was a Hindu/Catholic ceremony and our own Monsignor Connelly, who had spent much time in Calcutta with Mother Teresa, gave the wedding a deeply spiritual essence. It was the happiest day I can remember and when I saw my husband dancing to Indian music at 4:00 AM with all men at that late hour. I knew it was a successful wedding. I am working at investment operating company which is a family business that my grandfather and gather started and my brothers have run for years. I have more time to travel now that I am not teaching. We went to Calcutta last Christmas to meet my new son-inlaw’s family, who are wonderful people.
Jeannie Jagels Vaughn ’75 at the wedding of her daughter Emma
India was a very intense experience. One of the highlights was going to the Mother House in Calcutta that Mother Theresa had started. Her orphanages are all over Calcutta and it was an amazing thing to see the influence of that tiny Albanian nun.” Sarah Colmery Preston: I have relocated back to CA finally! My husband, Bob and I have been trying for a few years and I got offered a full time job at Cate School in the Advancement Office. We had to sell our house in Bedford NY where we raised our family for the last 16 years, and then we were good to go. My parents are both in Casa Dorinda so I am able to see them quite a bit. Daughter Hallie is at UCLA Anderson; Claire has been working for Radical Media in Santa Monica; and Robbie is now a junior at Cate School. Despite’s Jeannie Vaughn’s trepidation regarding our trip to Turkey, we got along perfectly and loved every minute of Istanbul, Ephesus, and Bodrum! We saw great art, architecture, and ate and drank well and laughed a lot. Jeannie loved it so much she went back with her husband and repeated the trip five months later.”
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