CLASS NOTES Class Agents are needed for the following years: 1943S, 1944B, 1944S, 1947B, 1948S, 1951B, 1964S, 1968S, 1979 Contact the Alumnae Office if you are interested in being a Class Agent!
1943B
Class Agent: Jane Swift Wood - 4231 Grattan Price Dr, Harrisonburg, VA 22801
1945B 65th Reunion!
Class Agent: Patricia Birt Morse - 735 Riomar Dr, Vero Beach, FL 32963, tmorse997@aol.com
1945S 65th Reunion!
Class Agent: Connie Johnson Corsiglia - 101 Country Side Rd, Greenfield, MA 01301 Class Agent: Barbara Cox Sileo - 8963 Oldham Way, West Palm Beach, FL 33412, jimbarb63@ bellsouth.net
1946B
1946S
Class Agent: Elizabeth McLean McLain -12725 Via Nasca, San Diego, CA 92128-1572
1947S
Class Agents: Jean Hill Macht - 2005Woodland Rd, Abington, PA 19001; Joan Hutton Landis 450 Osage Lane, Media, PA 19063, jlandis1@ swarthmore.edu Dear Classmates, Shortly prior to the holiday season, I received a note from MaryEm Bodman Kenner ’49S asking if I would be willing to contact each of you of the class of 1947 in the hope of coaxing you to a “Cluster Reunion.” MaryEm along with some volunteers like myself are reaching out to classes 1945-1952 inclusive. Cluster class reunions have been better attended and, of course, much more fun. The reunion dates this year are June 11, 12 and 13. So please try to join us. Another good reason to come would be to meet the new Head of School, Sally Mixsell ’69. She is so lovely and accomplished and a superb choice to lead the school forward. And not incidentally, she is the first Head of School to be a Stoneleigh-Burnham graduate. We can all be proud of this while thinking it’s about time. Also for those of you who have not returned, the various building projects and expansion of programs will be a treat to see and be informed about. I was able to go back for the first time for our 50th and again for our 60th. Shirley Beebe (just the same) Rachael Abadi, Janet Byron and I were there for our 50th. It was fun and interesting to see their youthful faces bleed through the inevitable aging. Each recognizable in seconds. For our 60th, I was the only one to return. I contacted each of you and did so appreciate the phone calls and e-mails despite the fact that none of you were able to make the pilgrimage. Nevertheless, so many wonderful women, young and old, embraced me in warmth and friendship that I returned again last year and now serve on the Alumnae Board. I might add that as an educator and from my own experiences as a student, I have grown to
appreciate the role of single-sex education and its importance to the fabric of education available. It may be a dying breed needed to be rescued. I couldn’t conclude this communication without a comment regarding MaryEm. No one, at least from our era, has done more to keep the spirit of Stoneleigh alive by staying in touch with so many graduates. A year has rarely passed that I have not heard from her with more news than The Bulletin is able to muster. What a vote of thanks we owe her. Please try to make it for yourself and as a tribute to MaryEm. I don’t think you’ll regret it. Besides, I’d love to see you.
1953B
Class Agent: Joan Fenton Clark - 313 Tally Ho Dr, Indian Trail, NC 28079, jclark020@carolina. rr.com
1953S
1948B 1949B
Class Agent: Jacqueline Oothouse Mitchell 131 Cumberland Rd, Burlington, VT 05408, jacqmitch@comcast.net
1949S
Class Agent: Sue Heubisch Milkey - 27076 Kindlewood Ln, Bonita Springs, FL 34134 MaryEm Bodman Kenner writes: I was delighted to be back at the school in June for the 60th Reunion of the 49ers and to see those who were able to return. Unfortunately several graduates who hoped to attend were not able to at the last minute. However, I heard from quite a few for the first time in many years, including Brownie (Anne Brown Stallworth ’50S) and Berta Abril Avello ’50S. I had a lovely visit with Betsy Abercrombie Flynn and her husband prior to Alumnae Weekend and did some research locating the 1835 homestead of my great-grandfather, Lewis Bodman, in nearby Williamsburg, MA. My grandfather was his 13th child!
1950B 60th Reunion!
Class Agent: Emily Cooper Stephenson - PO Box 957, Carmel, CA 93921, emilystephenson@ sbcglobal.net
1950S 60th Reunion!
Class Agent: Addie Warner Minott - 2518 Stage Rd, Guilford, VT 05301, pulpitfm@myfairpoint.net
1951S
Class Agent: Joan Walthers Parks - 37 Church St, Westminster, MA 01473, bowtie-1@mindspring. com.
Ivy Wahl Riley ’50S with her youngest daughter.
Class Agents: Gaye Alexander Cavanaugh - cjcava1@aol.com; Jane McGrath Packer jpacker796@comline.com
Class Agents: Pat Birge Johnson - 4130 SW 25th Pl, Cape Coral, FL 33914
1954B
Class Agent: Jill Crawford Stoll - spunkygram57@ aol.com
1954S
Class Agent: Linda Jennings Kraus - 58 Judson Rd, Fairfield, CT 06824-6655
1955B 55th Reunion!
Class Agent: Pat Reinking McBane - dpmcbane@ aol.com
1955S 55th Reunion!
Class Agent: Anne Shepard Stevens - shep24@ comcast.net Class Agent: Judith Howard Whitney-Terry judith.whitney@gmail.com
1956B
1956S
Class Agent: Linda Maiuzzo Budd - linnieb13@ hotmail.com
1957B
Class Agent: Roberta Lee Gerber - 47 9th St, Bonita Springs, FL 34134, rlgerber@me.com
1957S
Class Agent: Winnie Steel Walker - 14 Honey Corners Rd, West Topsham, VT 05086
1958B
Class Agent: Karen Preefer Hanauer khanauer@optonline.net
1952B
1958S
1952S
1959B
Class Agent: Sandra Williams White - PO Box 790, Franconia, NH 03580
Class Agent: Barbara Schaff Blumenthal - 36 Sullivan Dr, West Redding, CT 06896, Barbglea@ aol.com
Class Agent: Anita Smiley Bailey - PO Box 83, Boyce, VA 22620 Class Agent: Susan Cummings Campbell beachrosedesigns@comcast.net