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REUNION
Karin Polcer Bdera 24-03 86th Street East Elmhurst, NY 11369 718-429-7594 pinkwalk@gmail.com
Ashley Lickle O’Neil ’78 pictured with her family in Kennebunkport, ME. L-R: Colby (21), Tyler (19), Pierce, Ashley, Sammy, and Morgan (24)
the community, the Hudson River, and being close to NYC even though we don’t take advantage of it as much as we’d like. Ashley Lickle O’Neil emailed, “Greetings from Rowayton, CT, where empty-nesters Pierce and I have been living since 2011. We moved toward the water two years ago after 21 wonderful years in our New Canaan home. Life in the seaside town of Rowayton is so enjoyable as it has a year round vacation feel!
Where is our female flock now? Morgan is at Polo Ralph Lauren in NYC for her second year after graduating from the University of Richmond. Colby and Tyler are both at UVA (4th and 2nd year) which simplifies our visits and thrills me to death as I went to UVA too. I am so happy our girls ventured south and now fully understand why I encouraged them to do so. Life is good down there!! As I had been overloaded with the move to Rowayton and completely restoring our home in Kennebunkport, Maine; the dust has settled, and I divide my time between running our family’s life, volunteering with our Norwich Terrier, Samantha, at psychiatric hospitals throughout the area doing pet therapy, working part time for my dad’s publishing business, and now learning how to play golf and paddle tennis. I love a challenge, and life is never dull!
I LOVED the response we got for our 35th Reunion! We are shooting to get together again for a NYC “sleepover” in January. Hope to see many again and a few long-lost faces too! Stay tuned!” Laura MacIntyre Shaw mentioned,
“Rich and I are still in New Jersey where we enjoy early morning walks along Round Valley Reservoir with our Lab Bonnie. We celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary this year with our family at a gorgeous lake house in Maine. I am still working as a technical consultant and most recently completed an executive reporting iPad application for AT&T. All four of our girls have graduated from college. Our oldest Clara finished law school and is now an Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx. She and her husband had baby Eliza in March. Yes, I’m a grandmother! Our daughter Emily is working in Maine as a technical project manager and plans to marry her Dartmouth sweetheart in July. Her twin Margaret is a graduate student at MIT studying aerospace engineering. Our youngest Anna is spending this year managing an orphanage in Ghana, but will return in January to complete her master’s degree at NYU. After a few months of empty-nesting, we decided to host a foreign-exchange student from Ghana. So it’s back to meetings at the high school. The craziness of life kept me away from the 35th Reunion, but things will surely settle down before our 40th, right? Best wishes to everyone!”
From yours truly, I am enjoying retirement! I spend a lot more time doing the things that have been abandoned in the past; such as, traveling (trips to Aruba and an upcoming trip to Cuba, with a group of Seven Sister graduates), reading, crocheting, fundraising, walking for breast cancer, and spending time with people, and really listening to them. Nick and I celebrated our 24th anniversary last month, and we are both looking forward to the upcoming 35th Reunion at EWS. To remind everyone of those years, the photo is from our Senior yearbook—one photo that makes me glad that I DON’T look exactly the same as I did back then!
Karin Polcer Bdera ’79 in the “good ol’ days.”
From Eve Chilton Martirano: “I have a freshman at Loyola Marymount University, a sophomore at The Berkshire School, a 10-year-old who keeps me running, and twin 15-year-old stepsons who do not stop throwing balls and
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