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and a few current students who seemed very enthusiastic as well about their life and education at Wells. Significant efforts are being made to bring the enrollment up to 180-200 freshman each year. All in all it sounds like a lively and vibrant community—which is very good news!! Dotty Law Hoobler is looking for-
ward to more frequent visits from her daughter, Ellen, and son-inlaw who are moving from Iowa to Baltimore this fall. Ellen will be the curator of Pre Columbian Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In the meantime Dotty and Tom have written two children’s books: one about the San Francisco earthquake which is in stores now, and the other is about the Taj Mahal; it will be available later this year. Pat Lash Lieberman visited Viet
Nam and Cambodia this last winter and then, in September, took a trip to Africa, stopping in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia—topped off by a safari in Kruger National Park. She continues to participate in a course at NYU which examines a wide range of films and discusses what makes them exceptional. Pat spends as much time as possible with her five grandchildren, and, in August, took her two oldest grandsons to Los Angeles for a fun-filled three days. When she can, she also travels to Los Angeles to visit her son and his husband… And in spare moments she plans her next journey abroad. Louise Karabekian Glover has
seven grandchildren who keep her busy—along with her commitment to a historical book club and volunteering weekly at a food pantry. Jessie Robinson Cochran and
Cathy Ricketts Greenwald usually go to a Broadway matinee together every month or so. The plays are great, but often the lunch conversation is just as lively and interesting. Jessie and Sam are planning to move to a townhouse
In Memoriam Charlotte Tanner Timbers ’36 Mary Frances Neilson ’40 Helen Nagle Rynd ’41 Katharine Lane Hall ’42 Jane Whittemore Brace ’44 Margaret Starbuck Clark ’44 Nancy Torbet ’45 Katherine Fisher Chase ’47 Olivia Ray Singleton ’49 Betty Lee Snyder DeVoll ’52
Susan Avery Peckham ’55 Barbara Rothe Merin ’56 Martha Ackerman Achilles ’58 Carol Britton Pellegrine ’59 Mary Jones McChesney ’61 Helen Townsend Thomson ’62 Janet Lord Neale ’63 Marcia Cox Vaughey ’65 Margaret Howey Trautz ’65 Nancy Mallet Fry ’67
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as much as possible. We still spend every February in San Juan, although we’re adding Sarasota to our winter getaway this year.” Barbara Aex Miller continues her
career as a fulltime luxury properties realtor in Wellesley. Her son, Jason, is a litigating attorney in Denver and daughter, Elizabeth, is a well-known cultural anthropologist who has been featured on NPR and in the Los Angeles Times recently for her work with refugees. Barb writes that she loves traveling to San Miguel D’Allende, Mexico and anywhere in France! Her husband likes to split his time between Massachusetts and their home in Colorado. Barbara joins him whenever her work permits. Betsey Minthorn wrote that her re-
this spring—but they will stay in Chatham, where their younger daughter Allison and family live. Jessie also visits Boston regularly to see daughter, Caroline, and her three granddaughters. Ellen Gordman Kornrumpf feels
lucky to still be enjoying beautiful Maine, lots of activities such as volunteering at a library bookstore (“I always wanted a bookstore, so for three hours a week I can pretend I have one”), singing in a chorale and chamber choir, and being part of the local garden club, as well as seeing a group of Wells friends in Maine regularly, and always finding time for loafing at Reid State Park beach (in the summer, of course). Her grandchildren are close by, except for Casper in England, aged almost two. She works per diem at an addiction treatment center, and makes frequent vows to join the local gym. “Aside from weird things like cramping pinkie fingers and some arthritis here and there, I am well, but I have a chill in my bones which has nothing to do with Maine winters or being 75, and everything to do with November 8. So am hoping for the best, for us all!”
Jean Reynolds Haddon wrote “I
am loving every minute of retirement. I have six grandchildren with another on the way. They’re all in Brooklyn and New Jersey, easy trips from Connecticut. We’ve decided to stay in our home rather than go the retirement community route, so I’m still very busy with gardening and maintenance and coping with the inevitable pitfalls of home ownership. It’s worth it when I see all the little ones enjoying the pool in the summertime. I’m doing a bit of work, mainly organizing a blog called The Nonfiction Minute which offers teachers a daily essay on various topics of interest to upper elementary and middle schoolers. Am in the process of converting parts of the effort to a book which will come out next fall. Other than that, I do Sabbath services at the local federal penitentiary, serve on the state-wide humanities council which advocates and coordinates cultural activities in the state, do occasional food pantry or homeless shelter work, and am on the board of the foundation that supports our local orchestra. My husband has a small retirement pulpit in Amenia, NY, that closes up for January and February so we hightail it out of the cold weather
tirement in May 2015 has brought some rest and renewed goals. “I hope to return to our local community college for more interior design classes, focusing on sustainability. Portland is certainly the place for the green focus, and I have toured some beautiful urban projects. I still volunteer in the nearby elementary school’s Read to Me program for kindergartners and various Audubon projects. Hatha Yoga practice along with beginning Tai Chi have been extremely beneficial for staying in shape. They are both great for physical balance, which is good for my diagnosed osteoporosis. It has been so heartening and supportive to have stayed in touch with some ’63 classmates. I still hope I can get back East again, next time on the train. Two of my brothers have returned to our home town of Longview, WA (an hour north), and we get together with longtime friends for holidays. Through all this I have remained on the spiritual path of Paramahansa Yogananda who wrote the classic, Autobiography of a Yogi (Steve Jobs mentor). I am grateful for the teachings, especially through these changing times.” I am happy to have Wells alums in the neighborhood and enjoy getting together. This past fall Dotty Law Hoobler, Noni Hollmann, Pat Lash Lieberman, Louise Karabekian Glover, Jessie Robinson Cochran and I had lunch together. Occasionally Bonnie Baron Shrager, Joan Abrahams Bennett, Ginny Weyant D’Ercole and Leslie Lippincott Riordan join us.
-Cathy Bonnie Baron Shrager writes that
Dotty Law Hoobler ’63, Noni Hollmann ’63, Louise Karabekian Glover ’63, Pat Lash Lieberman ’63, Cathy Ricketts Greenwald ’63, Jessie Robinson Cochran ’63 having lunch in December 2016 26 March 2017
she and her husband have travelled a bit. “In January we spent a week on the west coast of Florida with our relatives. In March we spent a few days in Jamaica...taking lots of beautiful pictures and really relaxing. On May 1st I celebrated my 75th birthday at a wonderful