TAKE NOTE | Alumnae Updates
Merrill Ware Carrington ’68, Beth Warner ’68 and Molly CoxChapman ’69
few times a year. And I volunteer at a charter school based on dance that a dear friend started after her daughter was killed in a car-bike accident. With Peter gone to Cornell I come late to the search for more to do. Martha Vermeil Lentz wrote: We decided to step into retirement a bit early, since everything we love to do (recreation wise) involves being in good shape: hiking and camping, kayaking and XC skiing. We have been busy volunteers for years, since you can be pretty flexible when you are self-employed and farming. I am still serving on local school board, local cooperative (farm service) and church women’s group. Also put in time at church fundraisers, Habitat, GRACE House (homeless shelter) and Community Cafe (upgraded soup kitchen). Still do a little farming and heat with wood, so we are never without a project and very grateful to still be healthy. Our one son is 2nd year law school and in the state, first time since high school graduation (he was in DC), so we get to see him more than once or twice a year, and life is good!
And from Catherine “Cathy” McKee Donovan via Ann Costello: Sorry I wasn’t able to be there with you. We were away that weekend and returned to learn that our 4th and youngest daughter is engaged! Geez, we just married our third daughter in June! Life is a roller coaster. You just smile and hang on for the ride! And we are so happy for them. They met at Vanderbilt and have been dating for five years. We moved to South Carolina four years ago. Built a home in a wonderful neighborhood between Hilton Head and Beaufort, SC, so come on down to the Low Country. We love it here. I hope you all or Kim will send us lots of news that you shared together of our classmates and the memories at Walker’s. The school seems to be in a good place with Bessie Speers. Beth Warner sent info about Kim Matthews Wheaton. She is living in Washington and paints beautiful landscapes of the Columbia River valley. Please check out her website www.kimmatthewswheaton.com
“The Cool of the Evening,” painting by Kim Matthews Wheaton ’68.
I also ran into Elizabeth “Betsy” Kittredge Little at a party in Connecticut. She and her husband live in Norfolk, CT, and work in real estate. Unfortunately, she had some sad news to relate. She knew that both Nancy Bulkeley Crocker and Sarah Rentschler had died within a couple of weeks of one another of heart attacks while driving. I’ll try to get more information to pass along. Kim Niles shares…My husband, John, and I are living in Groton, MA. He is on sabbatical from Groton School for a year and then will be doing consultant work for The Baker Group in MA. Our son teaches at Pomfret School, and is engaged to be married in June. And after 20 years in my sweater business, I’m a full-time gardener right now, loving it all.
Martha Vermeil Lentz ’68 hiking in Yosemite.
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So that’s the news. I hope I’ve gotten most of it right. Please fill me in on details of your lives or news from other classmates. We all want to hear anything at all. We’re all at the age where retirement isn’t all that far off. Let me know your plans, thoughts, experiences. All the best!