[CLASSNOTES uvm.edu. John Darwin is active in the local land preservation trust. Family activities at the Shaws Cove cottage keep him up with grandchildren. Diane (Deedee) Weiss Mufson and her husband, Maury, still live in Huntington, West Virginia, most of the year, but spend some winter months in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida. Their three children have provided them with five grandchildren ranging from new born to age 20. After more than three decades as a licensed psychologist, Deedee retired this past summer. She continues to write weekly op-ed columns on Wednesdays for the Huntington newspaper, which can be found online at herald-dispatch.com/ opinions. Last year, Deedee, Marsha Eisen Schorr, Elsa Levinson Kleinman and Josie Emden Cook ’60 held another fun spring reunion in New York City. Our 55th Reunion will be celebrated October 10-12. Mark it down, save the date. This is our once in five-year opportunity to gather with some really old friends, press the flesh, give a hug, and remind one another about some funny, old times. Campus is gorgeous! Make reservations now, because hotels are booked solid at that time. Also please, if you haven’t already, send your annual contribution to the UVM Foundation. Be a faithful Green & Gold; be generous. We need the numbers; the University needs the cash. Send your news to— Henry Shaw, Jr. 112 Pebble Creek Road Columbia, SC 29223 hshaw@sc.rr.com
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Brian Harwood and Janet Savageau Harwood ’77 are semi-retired, living in Waterbury, Vermont. Janet works as a middle school tutor for the Stern Center. Brian hosts a morning drive- time classical music program on a station in Stowe. They are contemplating a move to Burlington in a year to be closer to events at UVM and other offerings in the city. Virginia Low Coolidge relocated three years ago to Wake Robin, a continuing care retirement community in Shelburne, and loves being back in Vermont after 52 years. Ira Raff is living and working as a urologist in Florida part-time in Delray Beach. He writes, “I am active in sports: bike to work, tennis, golf, and stickball. I run a non-fiction book
club, and health prof club. I retired from Danbury, Connecticut in 2007 but did not want to retire. My wife and I have traveled to southeast Asia, South America, and Antarctica. We have also kayaked in Alaska and Baja; we have our own double kayak and a tandem bicycle on which we have traveled across various states. In Iowa we were in an event called the RAGBRAI.” Ruth Fundin Randle is proud of daughter Sarah Randle Murawski ’91 who has recently opened Randolph (Vermont) Regional Veterinary Hospital on Route 12. Sarah is a graduate of Texas A&M Veterinary College, class of 2000, and for her, this is a dream come true! Grant Corson is pleased to announce the recent release of his two new books on Amazon, The Ratcatcher’s Son and The Weed Road Chronicles. Sue Fidler Shimalla writes that she, her sisters, and brother-in-law continue to travel together several times a year. They recently made a road trip from sister Patty’s in Sacramento, California, to New Mexico, and visited National Parks that were not affected by the government shutdown. Sandra Fidler ’67 of Coral Gables, Florida, June Fidler Gendron ’59 and husband, Ray Gendron ’61, of Newport, Vermont enjoyed the sights with Sue and Patty. Send your news to— UVM Alumni Association 411 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 alumni.uvm.edu/classnotes
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Chuck Eldred reported, “August 12, 2013 was our 50th wedding anniversary. We celebrated in June at the Outer Banks of North Carolina with our three children and their spouses, and our eight grandchildren. In late September, we traveled to Ireland with a church group for eight days with a tour guide and then a week on our own.” Sally and Jay Pedley of Northfield, Vermont, visited children and grandchildren in Colorado last summer, where they met Olympic skier Billy Kidd. While there, they also linked up with Ian Ferguson ’60. Check out the alumni.uvm.edu/gallery for a picture of Sally and Jay Pedley with Billy Kidd. Adele Kahwajy says, “I am planning a trip to my hometown of Bennington, Vermont, in March to celebrate my 75th birthday. I would like to know
what others of our class are planning for their 75ths.” Jamie Jacobs writes, “Retirement continues to be rewarding. I’m doing many of the things I could only dream of while working as a cardiologist. In addition to playing golf, fishing, hunting, skiing in Utah, and traveling, I’ve helped develop a non-profit we call ABLE, Inc. (Assisting Better Living Everywhere, Inc.) which has two main thrusts: internationally, building, renovating or improving schools, often connected with orphanages; and, locally, assisting senior and/or disabled citizens with maintaining their residences to be livable and within local codes. We have sent missions to Haiti, Myanmar (Burma), Ghana and Kenya, as well as regionally to Kentucky/Appalachia this year. ABLE, Inc. has no administrative costs, as everything is done by volunteers. A couple of weeks ago, the Kentucky Chapter of the American College of Cardiology recognized me with their annual Honorable Maestro Award for lifetime achievement in cardiology.” Cindy Beilig Bendelac continues to live in San Rafael, California, where she hikes, meditates, tends to an Airedale and sells imports from her Bendelac Ltd. Moroccan Collection, which includes folk art, kilim rugs, baskets, fashion-forward clothing and accessories. Cindy is in contact with Kathy Famiano Farrow, B K Marino Stropianno and Marion Force Abell ’62. And Kathy Farrow writes,“I lost ten pounds this summer and fall by going on the J.J. Virgin Diet. I spent the entire summer having pneumonia, which might have more to do with the weight loss than the diet. Suzie Lopez O’Malley and I got together for a good gab fest last week”. Kathy and Ced Farrow live in Shelburne, Vermont. Doug Benjamin ’60 and Ellie Lissner Benjamin shared, “Our great news is that we finally have gotten a granddaughter to enroll in UVM. Rachel is a freshman this year and loves it. By coincidence our grandniece, Rachel, is a teaching assistant there getting her master’s in math. Doug and I continue to travel and last winter we went through the Panama Canal and on to Costa Rica in January and spent the month of March in Florence, Italy. Our summers are spent in Castine on the Maine coast. We have several trips planned for 2014 and hope to get up to Vermont in the fall to visit our students.”
Lynda Foley Blevins says she is still playing tennis on one of the teams at her club, though not at the top of the ladder. She recently had lunch with Susan Pearlberg Weinstein who lives in Sacramento. Bob Hobbie writes, “Presently I am recovering from back surgery. As a physician I am learning to give up control and be a patient. Hopefully I will get back to work in a couple of weeks, at least part time. Besides Joyce, Jan Mashman has been my greatest advocate. It’s been a close 56-year relationship dating back to freshman year at UVM—truly a special friend/brother.” Ray Pecor was the inaugural David Hakins Award inductee into the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame last fall. The Hakins Award recognizes a business leader or an organization for exceptional promotion and development of sports, athletics, and recreation in the state of Vermont. Ray is the owner of Vermont’s lone affiliated minor league baseball team, formerly the Vermont Expos and now the Vermont Lake Monsters, an Oakland Athletics affiliate. Kay-Frances Mingolla Wardrope reported she was in Vermont this summer and had great fun with John and Jane Wood Andrews, along with Jim Whitmey ’65 and Mary Ann Mingolla Whitney ’63 at a Lake Monsters game. She caught a happy hour in Brunswick, Maine, with Carol McKillop Willard and Buff Harrington ’60 and lunch with Jane Kelly Choate ’60 in Middlebury. She says when the snow flies, think Hollywood, Florida. Roger Zimmerman says, “My wife, Lynne, has retired from pediatric nursing, but is very busy with a variety of things, including being on the board of our local senior college. I’m still working, but as per usual, in the winter, I cut way back in order to continue being a back-country ski guide, mostly out West. This year’s backcountry trip to Yellowstone, my 27th year, is filled, as per usual. I graduated last June from the Maine Master Naturalist program, and have been doing volunteer work teaching kids as well as seniors about wildlife, the environment, etc.” The November request for news got the following report from Lillia (Lynda Kittle) Davidson: “I’m currently at the homes of two sons and family that are living in Vancouver, British Columbia. We are surrounded by snowy mountains, and have picked the last per-