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Border Collie, Basset Hound, Shepherd and Siberian Husky, and is spoiled rotten. If we want to stay active as we mature, she highly recommends adopting a pet. They learned in November that Bill is still in remission from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and he is feeling much better. They are grateful for this good news. She has been in touch with Ada Deforest and is hopeful that Ada will recover from her current pulmonary problems that landed her in the hospital several times in the last months. Ada would welcome notes or calls from class members. The Rudolphs recommend adoption also. We adopted two kittens (siblings) from the Worcester County Humane Society (a no-kill shelter) in Ocean City and they now run the household and bring us much pleasure and affection. It’s hard to feel sad with a purring cat in your lap. We still have the beach house in Ocean City, Md., but are thinking it is time to downsize in Bel Air. Eight grandchildren, now ages 7 to 23, with parents celebrated Christmas and New Year’s with us. We’re grateful for health and family, and echo Scottie’s motto, “Keep Moving!”
1956 Giving Participation: 37.89% · Total Class Dollars: $7,985
55th Reunion June 10-12 Ginny Turnbull Hecklinger 114 Rhoderick Circle Middletown, MD 21769 (301) 371-6536 Our condolences to Barbara Benchoff Miles whose cousin Mary Louise Kilpatrick Benchoff died Jan. 15, 2011, in Waynesboro, Pa. In an effort to gather news for our class, I (Ginny Turnbull Hecklinger) suggested telling about what gives us joy. The results pointed to family, travel and successes in recoveries, moves and talents. Thanks for your input. I received notice of the death of Elizabeth Borden Dunn in Marietta, Ohio, Oct. 9, 2010, in her home with family. We send our sympathy to husband, Jerry, and family. More sad news. The daughter of Mary Vizzi Swarm called to inform me of Mary’s death Dec. 7, 2010, at home in Lancaster, Pa. The first response to the joy question came from Cinny Sternberg Schein. She inspired me with the pure delight she has in her life. She visits and is adoring of her three sons; and she has friends around her to share meals, play chamber music, and work and relax. She travels to different locations to fit all her fun together for the year. Way to go, Cinny! Barb Tovell Tennant returned a few e-mails to me. It’s good to hear she can hold her own in bridge games against her top-player husband. She makes lovely silk flower lapel pins and sells them. She also raises bonsai trees. I realize how hard this is to do! We had hoped for a visit with Mary Lu Urban Walker and Tom this fall but plans were canceled. M.L. said she is taking matters as they come and may come next year from Guthrie, Okla. She likes travel. Carole Oswald Carter took a trip West to see her sisters in California in November. It’s a treat to find time for a small lunch here in the area with classmates. Ann Helfenbein Bohnet from Silver Spring usually joins us. I look forward to the poetry by her husband, Dick, that arrives with their Christmas card. Sue Peters Wirths C’69, M.A. ’79 and Sandy Newing also are part of the lunch with Carole and me. Jackie Kling Kreider and Ed went on a cruise in the Baltic Sea. She reports that she has a new perspective of the area. In most countries, she saw few children. Family gathered with her for the holidays. I had a chance to stop for dinner with Jackie and Ed on my way to southern Tennessee to visit my daughter. Walter drove those many hours with me. Incidentally, he also traveled to Seattle on his first flight at age 72 to visit my son and family, and to see Mt. Rainier! Sarah Stone-
hurst sent a video of Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders, distributed by United Healthcare to benefit breast cancer. She is settled in Richmond, Va. Sydney Kahn Hamburger has left New Mexico for a blueberry farm in Pemberton, N.J. Her sculptures did not make the trip without damage, so repairs are in order. She looks forward to the new acreage to begin sculpting again. Kathy Crook Heidelbach had two “stops” implanted in her back to relieve nerve pain in her leg. She had the assistance of Becky Eppers Byrd after surgery. Thank you, Becky! Her plan is to sell her Catonsville home and move to Fairhaven, a retirement community in Sykesville, Md. She enjoyed a visit at her Bethany Beach hideaway with her “little sister” Gwen Finkey Merolle ’58. Exciting news came from her granddaughter, who is interested in going to Hood. Hooray! Maryann Owen Morin celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in St. Maarten in June. She is a snow bird during winter in Florida, hoping to sell the Cape Cod home. Her new grandchild arrived in May. Anne Althouse Martin is recovering from foot surgery. Hold the foot up, please! Her setting in North Carolina affords beautiful lilies, gardenias and azaleas for a long season. Barb Hanna Pour has a long list of activities—garden club, bridge, docent at the Walters Art Museum, travel and guiding a book club. The main priority is her 8-year-old grandson and his parents. Outside of Baltimore, Barb attends to her warm and welcoming Cape May home in New Jersey. She still plays tennis there with friends. Pat Fowler Smart attended the National Docent Symposium in Toronto in October. It was a good time and good information. Her granddaughter was married in May to an Englishman. Welcome to the States. Kay Shriver Scott is on a local committee for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, a way for the elderly to keep learning. She’s still nursing at a Boston hospital after 23 years; 53 years of service altogether. Cynthia Bromberg Rogers’ joy comes in knowing that her children and grandchildren are happy and healthy. She now is becoming computer savvy—owns her first one. E-mail address? Friend Joe keeps her up-to-date. Kay Shriver Scott, Helen Ward Wheeler and Cindy Bromberg Rogers are my good old pals that keep in touch and have busy lives with family, as the rest of us do. Add Kathy Bachman Yen to that list! Hood has provided me with the best of friends. I look forward to the 55th reunion in June 2011. As of now, Sandy Newing lives a block away from me in my Middletown village for adults ages 55 and older. It’s great having her close by! Christmas will be over by the time this magazine arrives but my report came before cards and decorating this year! Best to all of you in the new year.
1957 Giving Participation: 25.66% · Total Class Dollars: $5,020
Molly Smith Sperandio 8501 Merrimoor Blvd., E. Seminole, FL 33777 mollymom1@msn.com Alice Riddle Metry and Fred spent four weeks of autumn days in Bonita Springs and returned from Michigan Dec. 31 for four months. If you get down here, please give them a call at (239) 992-3760. Antoinette Peirson and Eda Joan Scheir Rubin keep in touch by phone and regularly meet for lunch and local errands. Antoinette has changed her e-mail address to ampeirson@gmail.com. Bob and Barbara Thomas Yinger were at Hood in October for a big gala event honoring donors. President Volpe gave a glowing report about the great things happening at Hood and the architect’s drawing of the new athletic complex was unveiled. They are expecting the arrival of their first great-grandchild. Good crabbing, fishing, garden club and quilt guild activities keep her busy.
Tommie and Bob have two cruises planned for 2011. Eugenie Krauss Wikberg has lived in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for more than 50 years, is involved in property rentals (her own) and has recently purchased a condo in the Vail Valley of Colorado. Genie’s three children all live in Florida and her grandson is active in ice hockey. Joanne Adickes Walker wrote that she just finished her second season as docent at historic Walnford Park. There is a grist mill in the park and in the off season, she will be working on a brochure featuring winning recipes from Walnford’s cornbread contest. She is also working on an anthology of love poems with two other friends. The working title is “Wear Red and Bring Two Love Poems.” Tuesday she plays bridge; and then there is the New Jersey Literary and Pizza Pie Society, a newly named but 12-year-old book club. Joanne wrote, “Life is full and the days are swift.” For Louise Reed, walking has become more difficult and rotator cuff surgery set her back six months. Weezie keeps busy with her children and their families who all live close by. She knits afghans for hospitalized children and enjoys reading, playing bridge and volunteering at the local Council on Aging. Louise also sings in a senior choral group, performing in some 50 events yearly in retirement and nursing facilities, and intergenerational programs. Margaret Hart Kaminer wrote she just spent a few days with Sylvia Blackburn Felcyn in Greenwich, Conn. She saw Merry Jo Sorensen Harris in March in Orlando. Margie lives in Cashiers, N.C, with her daughter Tracy and her family; her son Michael lives in Boca Raton, Fla. Margie travels, plays bridge and volunteers for several local organizations. Cataract surgery is supposed to clear your vision but, post-surgery, Margaret Reeves Leopold failed the distance test to renew her driver’s license and became “car-less” for a month until new glasses found her face. If Peg couldn’t walk to places, which she did most of the time, a friend in her master gardener (MG) class hauled her around. The MG students give back 50 hours in volunteer work on Virginia Beach projects and share a program, Ready-Set-Grow, with first and second graders. It’s fun to play in the dirt! Mary Jane Harkness Nace and Dick are still in Parker, Colo. They just returned from their annual vacation in St. Maarten in the Caribbean. Their daughter Cathy Nace ’80 is at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda Naval Hospital as the director of medical education for both institutions. She and her husband David live in Silver Spring, Md. Their daughter Beth and family are in Columbia, S.C. Meredith Sorensen Harris and Burns are in Orlando, Fla. Merry Jo received a grant for a traveling exhibition. They spent the Christmas holiday in Baltimore and Philadelphia with their younger son, his wife and two granddaughters. Their older son has two boys—one in his second year at The Art Institute of Chicago and another in high school. He and his second wife have a little girl. Miriam Spaulding Keyser and Bill volunteer at the library and at their local hospital; Mimi works in the infusion center. They traveled to Michigan for the marriage of their great niece and spent a week at a road scholar (Elderhostel) course on Mackinac Island. She is re-caning two chairs that had been damaged over the years. She talks to Dorothy Hofstadter Lewis regularly. Mimi said they have plenty of room in Bel Air, Md., and are just off I-95 for anyone coming this way. During Martha Smith Sperandio’s summer, she enjoyed her California family of four grands visiting their Florida cousins, driving to Pennsylvania for a family reunion, flying to California for another visit with family and seeing “Wicked” at the Orpheum in San Francisco. Molly cruised the Alaskan waters and toured the Denali tundra, seeing lots of animals and “the Big One.” She was thrilled to experience six zip lines, a suspension bridge, a long slide and rappelling off a platform in Ketchikan; she also enjoyed the helicopter ride out to and the walk on the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau. What an incredible state! She drove