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Take Note has served for many years, and has “a gorgeous house overlooking Edgartown Harbor.” Edie is very close to her niece, Katy, daughter of the late Elizabeth “Liz” Radley Anderson ’53, and her three children, Ellie, Lulu, and Charlie. The family lives in Greenwich where Edie keeps an apartment as well. I can’t think of a nicer aunt. Evelyn “Evie” Lisle Rooney and I
had a good visit last week. Evie and her husband, Fred, live in Washington, DC, and spend part of the summer in Bethlehem, PA. Evie sounds exactly like Evie, and we hope to be able to go up to Bethlehem one of these years for the Bach Festival. All of Evie’s children and grandchildren live right around her. As we are both Episcopalians, we have had some interesting comparative notes about some of the candidates for Bishop of Washington and Atlanta, our own dean among them. Sara Cavanagh Schwartz sent in the
following note about her activities: “Sandy and I are still kept very busy writing and producing The Horse of Delaware Valley. This was a particularly interesting year, with the Olympics. Our equestrians didn’t do very well. For the first time since 1956, we didn’t win one equestrian medal, so we’ve been doing follow-up stories on the whys behind that. Been very interesting. Of course, we’re VERY nervous about the election and how it will affect our small business. On the bright side, my homebred Avilord won his first race, at Delaware Park on October 13. I may never be able to speak again after all the yelling I did! It’s particularly fun because I’ve raised him, fed him, etc., since he was born, and my son Frank broke him and still rides and works on him at Jonathan Sheppard’s training barn.” Thanks, Sara, for a very interesting note, including comments about the Olympics.
countries, including sights of long coats and eye-slit burkas! Mary and her husband, Peter, are happily ensconced in their new home in Pennsylvania, definitely have the travel bug and plan to go to northern Europe next summer. Mary and I had a long telephone conversation as by chance Mal and I had met a grandparent couple when we were attending our first Grand Day at Trinity School where our granddaughter, Caroline, is in Pre-K. When they mentioned that they had come down from Wilmington, I could not resist the urge to ask, “By any chance do you know” … and yes, the couple has known Mary and her family for decades. I had to call her! Since the Centennial a year ago, Virginia “Gigi” Pearson Smithers
and I have had several telephone conversations as well as emails back and forth. Gigi and her husband, Kip, divide their time between Vero Beach and their home on Cape Cod. Gigi wrote as follows: “This past summer the Smithers spent five weeks with their daughter’s (Sabrina Smithers DiMiceli ’81) family on the Cape. Her three boys go from one sport to the next (soccer and lacrosse during the school year) but on the Cape, it’s all tennis and golf. They are now 14, 12, and 9 and hard to keep up with (not much golf with “Mimi” anymore!!). Our son and his family also came for five days with his two sons (21 and 24) and our first adorable greatgranddaughter! So nice to have a little lady after five grandsons.”
Mary Laird Silvia sent a very
Gigi is busy with a number of volunteer obligations in both places as well as being an owner of an antique shop in Vero Beach. She remains an active reader, as is most of our class. She recommended several books: Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof, That Used to be Us by Sheryl Dunn and Thomas Friedman, Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, and Of Thee I Zing by Laura Ingraham.
thoughtful email, reporting first on their trip up the Rhine and then down the Danube, noting the large variety of architecture but also the burgeoning development of former Eastern European
On July 20 I awakened to the horrendous news of the shootings in Aurora, CO, Caroline “Carol” Stanwood’s present home, and sent off
an email of inquiry. I was relieved to receive a quick note back, saying that no one known to her or her family had been hurt. Carol sent a most interesting email for our set of class notes, part of which I would like to share with you. Carol has moved to Boulder, CO, not too far from Denver, where her brother and sister live with their families. She is living in a senior residence, and I had to commend her for thinking ahead in such a positive way. The whole question of living arrangements is certainly the topic du jour among many of our friends here, in Seattle, and in New York. Boulder is filled with music of all kinds; Carol is in a singing class at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is soon to audition to sing in the Boulder Bach Festival. We had lots of mutual interests to share, and vow to keep singing as long we can! Serena Stewart and I really are in daily contact with our Scrabble Game! And yes, she remains very much the champion. She is enjoying New York
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