Take Note Hilary Hale Spencer is still a happy California girl and did not have anything to report other than that they were expecting their first grandchild in March. I hope all worked out well, Hilary! Wendell “Wendy” Miller Steavenson has written me wonderful,
long letters loaded with news telling about what seems to be a charmed life with amazing children. She lives in London and gets back to New York on a regular basis and visits many of our classmates such as Alice Albright Arlen, Susan Scott Rowland, Barbara Sudler Maltby, Marty Bloch McLanahan, Frances Stewart Ingraham, and Lila Wilmerding Kirkland. I am very sorry to report that Wendy said that Susan Scott Rowland is not at all well after her
husband, Tony, died; Susan had a stroke from which she has slipped into some sort of dementia. How very sad! I am sorry Susan, may you please get better! Wendy has three children and her oldest son lives in New York and has provided three grandchildren to dote on. Her daughter is a staff writer for The New Yorker and is in all the hot and worrisome places in the Middle East. Her other son is in Indonesia, India, etc., setting up a biomass company. They all get together once a year at some wonderful place to vacation and re-connect. Karen Fitkin Swensrud also has had a charmed life and lots of stories to tell. Now she is living in a lovely condo on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee and traveling to tropical heavens in the winter. About her life she said that she is happy and done it all—everything she could wish for has been done except perhaps skydiving, and she would do it all over with more golf and tennis. I visited her at the lake with Beverley “Bev” Dunn Wadsworth in the summer and we had a really wonderful time. Karen had two children but lost her son. Her daughter has had two daughters for Karen to spoil. Karen works with the local Humane Society to initiate and fund a “no cost” spay/neuter program and a trap-neuter-release
program. Her career was in political work, ending with an appointment in Washington, DC, for five years. Beverly Dunn Wadsworth and Dyer
have just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and went back to the hotel where they honeymooned in Key Biscayne, FL. Bev and Dyer live in Maine in the summer and visit their two daughters and three grandchildren. In the winter they are in Sarasota. Bev is still taking classes in history, literature, and economics, and she enjoys gardening and volunteer work (seven hours a week in the Salvation Army kitchen and driving the elderly to appointments!). She had a career in property-casualty insurance and is still president of a small family company. She enjoys travelling and last summer they took almost a month in Australia and New Zealand.
Phyllis Mills Wyeth ’58 and Jamie Wyeth with Union Rags.
projects. Living in a wheelchair doesn’t seem to have slowed Phyllis down a bit. She said that Walker’s taught her discipline and how to get along with other people. It actually prepared her for her job at the White House at 19, but maybe not the horror of breaking her neck at 21. She said that an EWS French teacher who was fortune-telling told her that something like that would happen. She said she has had a great life with a great husband (married 45 years) who brings her joy and beautiful art subjects that he has. You, Phyllis, are amazing!!
1959 Bev Dunn Wadsworth ’58 and Dyer Wadsworth
Phyllis Mills Wyeth is still celebrating the wonder of her great racehorse Union Rags and all her other animals out on the Point Lookout Farm near Wilmington. Other than raising thoroughbreds, which has to be fun and is a long-time family tradition, Phyllis is involved in having inner-city children come and learn to grow vegetables on the farm. She is also involved in a project in Port Clyde, ME, called Herring Gut Learning Center for Marine Science where they raise fish and oysters and learn about the ocean. She said on her questionnaire that she has never stopped taking classes and learning and will never retire from her full-time work on these
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Lynn Sheppard Manger 8 East 81st Street New York, NY 10028 212-772-3068 nathypertension@aol.com I am writing these notes on the first of April, a beautiful spring day. I remember how exciting it was when spring came to the Ethel Walker School, just weeks left until graduation. Now on to the class notes. One of my EWS roommates, Ann Middleton Buckley, writes, “I am sorry that we did not get to New York this Christmas. It was such fun to see you and Bill in 2011. This past Christmas seemed to be filled with many events with the grandchildren, which truly brings out the spirit of the holiday. As
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