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1954 Sr. Jean Thomas Dwyer, DC is living in Texas. Her legislative advocacy work is now at the State level. She is primarily focused on accessible and affordable health care for low-income families and individuals as well as immigration issues related to asylum seekers and DACA recipients.
1957 Ann Lind Bowers-Matthews had a wonderful reunion with Sheila McAnaney Kostanecki and Ann Thomason Oatway while visiting Vero Beach recently. They are living very close to each other in Florida and playing lots of golf and getting proficient at bridge. Ann Lind Bowers-Matthews is living in Far Hills, NJ. She has 4 children and 8
grandchildren, ages seven-29. Ann continues her work in the interior design field and is a past president of The Decorators Club in New York. During her free time, she enjoys spending time in her garden and teaching her grandchildren the joys and excitement of growing vegetables and flowers. Lynn Rhatigan Callagy is living in Rye, NY. She has three children and 12 grandchildren ages seven-24. She plays lots of golf and bridge and is active in many Sacred Heart activities. Judy Thompson Collins and her husband Dave are living in Nevada. Their summers are filled with golf, hiking, long walks with their yellow lab, and smelling the roses when they are in bloom. Mary Sue Flanagan is living in the Washington D.C. area and taking courses at Georgetown University as well as doing volunteer work. Sheila McAnaney Kostanecki has four children, 12
grandchildren, two stepchildren, and four step-grandchildren! Michelle (Micky) McQueeny Matthews is living in Westerly, RI. She has 12 grandchildren ages one-24. During Christmas 2019, Micky visited her son and his family in Bavaria. Lately, she has become a bridge whiz and continues to dabble in acrylics. Margaret (Peg) Power Mulry lives in Gulfstream, FL. Her husband, Tom, passed away eight years ago. She has seven grandchildren and is enjoying the company of her children who live close by. Ann Thomason Oatway has four children, 15 grandchildren, ages 30-seven. Sadly, Ann lost her wonderful husband, Bud, in 2019 after 57 years of marriage. Mary Jane Keck Proctor is living at Shell Point, FL. She remains very close to her four stepchildren and their spouses, as well as 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren!
Allie Lou Oeder Richardson lives on a 51-acre ranch in East Texas. She has four children and eight grandchildren. Allie has held many volunteer positions, including teaching CCD, working at town and school libraries, and became an EMT on her local ambulance corps. Her first and only paid job was Secretary and Matron for her local Police Department, which she thoroughly enjoyed. Suzanne Assheton Van Vechten and her husband, Ben, are living in Kennett Square, PA. Being so close to Longwood Gardens and Winterthur, she developed a love for all forms of horticulture and Bonsai. Suzanne received a Master’s Degree in Social Welfare from Stony Brook. She became director of the town of Wilton Social Services department in 1984 and most recently became the first director of a program called WIC (Women, Infants and Children) at Stamford Health Department.
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