Take Note From Beverly “Bea” Vander Poel Banker, “Ashley married Dutchman Nicholas Enthoven on 7/14/12. It was such fun, full of young and family, dancing until 2 a.m. and then an after party! Super for us as they are living and working in NYC. I am so glad I had not hit my big birthday until three months after the wedding.”
in Virginia. so please come visit if you are in the D.C. area. Love to all the 1960 ladies.”
’47, who is busy with photography and the garden club here, and Kathryn “Kathy” or “Eggs” McCarthy Parsons ’75, who has made Jupiter
Caryl Van Ranst Dearing notes, “Travels to Florida and Big Sky. I’m on the EWS Alumnae Board and having an interesting time. I wish Walker’s was the way it is now. Bessie is the best!”
Clara Perkins Stites writes, “On March 1, our daughter Elizabeth successfully defended her Ph.D. at the Fletcher School of Tufts University. Her thesis stems from her extensive fieldwork in Uganda. Never satisfied with keeping life simple, she then went on to have her second baby at the end of March, joining brother, Zoeth, at home in Brooklyn. Also in March, my novel Sand and Gravel finally became available as an eBook. I’ve added a section of questions for discussion or book clubs.”
From Margot Campbell Bogert, “I’ve enjoyed my time on the Board of Trustees at EWS and am excited about the new dorm.”
Island her winter home and is having fun decorating a new house. ‘I still drink, quit smoking in 2000 (mouth cancer), and tip the scales at 150 no matter how many workout or Pilates sessions I squeeze into a week. I used to be 5'10" and am now 5'9" and shrinking. I shorten another pair of favorite slacks almost monthly. My mousey brown hair is thinning no matter how many streaks I put in, my eyelids are drooping, and sleeveless is no longer an option in any weather. I survived the fallout from a book my eldest child wrote about a brutal mother-daughter relationship.’”
Patricia “Patty” Connors Warrender
Abra Prentice Wilkin reports, “Marcha Metzger Grant, still in LA,
emails, “Last year was a big year for most of our classmates but a few of us are clinging to the 60s for a little while longer. Gen Elkus’s party in NYC was fun and a good opportunity to catch up with some classmates who did not make it to our 50th. We are headed to Exuma to celebrate my birthday in April and then to Montana in August to celebrate our 30th anniversary with our family and friends. It has been a year of big milestones that give me great pleasure. Two of my grandchildren share my love of the mountains of Montana and the K Bar L Ranch, so we went again last summer with their dad and had a magical week of riding, hiking, and spending tech-free (nothing works there) time together talking on the porch in the cool evenings . . . a rare opportunity in today’s world. The dogs have a monopoly on my time at home and I serve on the Norwich Terrier Club Board, which is time-consuming and challenging but hopefully important for the breed. Anthony is still working but we enjoy travelling when we can get away. Each and every day it is a luxury and blessing to wake up feeling good. My hope is that each of our classmates shares that. Our door is always open here
Elsa Yannopoulos Spaulding emails, “2-1/2 months in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. We are awaiting daughter Christina’s new baby in April, so will be around through the early part of the summer. All of our San Francisco friends have decided to relocate to Florida for tax reasons!”
tells me that she has lost 70 pounds, stopped drinking, still smokes, is back to a size 10 and says 70 is definitely the new 50! A few have been less fortunate: Marilyn Hodges Wilmerding is recuperating in Aspen from a black ice fall, has been bed-ridden for weeks, and is considering back/hip surgery. Elsa Spaulding in San Francisco has had six surgeries in two years on an arm damaged after a bad fall in Mexico, but is anxiously awaiting the birth of another grandson. Alita Weaver Reed is loving her new hip after some nasty complications last spring. In other news, Merry Bragonier Bouscaren and husband, Tony, sampled a winter on Nantucket and will be spending more time at their home in France now that they both have retired. I frequently cross paths with Palm Beach snowbirds Carroll Morgan Carpenter ’59 and Miranda Sampsell Donnelley ’61. We are all involved with a group at Mass General Hospital in Boston spreading awareness about mental health. Liz Nash Muench ’55 and husband, Tom, just spent a few Florida nights with us, and we had visits with EWS alums Margaret “Peggy” Plunkett Lord
Phyllis Fritts writes, “We are off to Seattle and then the San Juan Islands for our son James’s remarriage at the end of May, followed by a visit with our younger son, Garret, who is a chiropractor in San Francisco.”
1961 Leslie “Kim” Kelly Cutler 50 Drury Lane Worcester, MA 01609 508-752-5383 Kc.grafix2@gmail.com
1962 Sage Dunlap Chase P.O. Box 238 Elkins, NH 03233 603-526-4788 sagedunlapchase@gmail.com Margaret “Margie” Holley Sparks 101 Bellant Circle Wilmington, DE 19807 302-655-1969 Margaret.holley@cox.net Sage Dunlap Chase shares the “excitement over our class’s New Hampshire gathering September 24-27, with Wednesday the 25th being the
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