Take Note need/want to get done. I look forward to the future and hope all my classmates feel as positive as I do. Be well, one and all, and let’s not let too much time pass before we make a plan to get together. Hugs to each of you.” Abra Prentice Wilkin sends word: Not much new at this end other than most of us are turning or have turned 70 this year. I become a septuagenarian in July and the day most likely will be a quiet one with family. Having celebrated my 40th and 50th in grand style with marathon weekends, it’s time for some quiet reflection and trying to act my age for a change. As for news of classmates, Alita Weaver Reed is recovering nicely from a hip replacement in Hobe Sound, FL, where we both winter. Carroll Townsend Tickner and I attended the January wedding of our mutual goddaughter, Caroline Bouscaren (Merry Bragonier Bouscaren’s daughter) in New Canaan. Merry is still selling real estate but looks forward to spending more time in France where she is rehabbing an old farmhouse with her husband and son Tre. Margot Campbell Bogert and I welcomed Harriet (aka) Betty Blees Dewey to the EWS board this year and we are all enjoying helping our alma mater thrive in her next century. I talked to Marcha Metzger Grant on her birthday. She is still living in L.A. as a caregiver and was upbeat about making it to 70. Our spring cruise to the Netherlands to see the tulips was cancelled because my husband, Jim, has a detached retina. This is not uncommon (another gift of aging) but can be tricky business and requires endless days of quiet healing. We’re just thankful this didn’t happen abroad because one cannot fly or be at high altitudes . . . but there are worse places to be stranded than Florida!” Phyllis Richard Fritts has been happily living in Vero Beach, FL, with Sally Goodrich (former EWS employee and trustee) and Edith Fenton Tuckerman ’61 right down the street. I aspire to their level of golf prowess! Our older son, James, is in Seattle with our two grandsons, aged 4 and 11, and loves the life there although he admits that the sunshine of Florida is pretty nice when 62
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they visit us. Our other son, Garret, is a chiropractor in San Francisco, so they see each other a fair amount, but we certainly envy our friends who can be ‘hands on’ grandparents. Had a blast at Jazz Fest in New Orleans where we celebrated my big 70! So, to all my classmates who are also passing that milestone, may all your moving parts be pain free and your life be blessed.”
1961 Leslie “Kim” Cutler 50 Drury Lane Worcester, MA 01609-1644 508-752-5383 kc.grafix2@gmail.com
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Robin Frost Bessin 184 South Gate Lane Southport, CT 06490-1464 203-259-1406 BurrFrosty84@aol.com
1964 Cynthia “Cindy” Higgins Roby 40 Cable Roadway Sausalito, CA 94965-2302 415-332-6556 croby@earthlink.net Elizabeth “Liz” Yinkey Moore writes, “The highlight of the year was the opening in January of Rembrandt’s World: the Clement C. Moore Collection of 16thand 17th-century Dutch drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. The exhibit, which runs through the end of April, was very favorably reviewed in the press. Chips has been a trustee of the Morgan Library for some time so this was a great treat for him. I am on the board of City Harvest in New York, an
organization that ‘rescues’ more than 30 million pounds of food a year to feed New York’s hungry people. A challenge for sure! We will be having dinner with Susan Day Mechelli and her husband, Alberto, this week in the city and in May I am going to play in a golf tournament in South Carolina with Anne “Pooh” Brainard Schmitt. We spent a couple of weeks at Ocean Reef in Key Largo, FL, for a little golf and a bit of fishing. Sorry to miss the grand Centennial Celebration last fall. It was a clearly resounding success!” Susan Day Mechelli lives in Florence and reports, “Alberto and I are both fine. Healthy and busy. We will be in the States for five weeks and hope to catch up with ‘Yinkey’ (Liz Yinkey Moore) and Chips for dinner in NYC. My grandsons are so much fun. They are now 11 and 8. They’ve gotten big so fast!” Celeste Royall Niarchos shares, “Tom and I have retired and just bought a home at Fiddlesticks, a golf (not retirement) community in Florida. We are both enjoying golf and the weather. I am learning how to play bridge. My work continues as President of the EWS Alumnae Board, and I am an Ex-Officio member of the Board of Trustees. The Alumnae Board is active and involved, with lots going on for Walker’s alums around the country: connecting, communicating, and collaborating.” Mary “Wendy” Frey Textor writes,
“We spend at least four months on Douglas Island in the Thousand Islands in the summer where we are basically caretakers of the island. We love it and never tire of the beauty of the river. The highlight is the time we spend with the family, usually a week in July. There are 12 of us now and the four grandchildren are getting to be so much fun. Georgie will be 6 this summer and the youngest, Will, will be 22 months. Our granddaughter adores her West Coast cousins and tells her New York parents that she wants to move to San Francisco to live with them. Son Andrew is now engaged and they plan a 2013 wedding. He is working at Google and Stephani is at YouTube (Google), so they both are in the high tech world of geeks and loving