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Inspiring Women: Campaign for Westover will strengthen our foundation and allow us to move boldly forward. Our campaign pillars are community, programs, and daily life . With your support, we will secure and enhance our intentional community of students and faculty and our unique, forward-thinking, leading-edge programs — the very heart of our school.

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Spring Magazine 2014

Today, more than ever, the world needs Westover women.

“My parents always taught me to seek a better education. Every day in my life at Westover is joyful.

Kayla ’16 discovered a passion for computer science in her first class with Kate Seyboth— wantliketoscience. change situation in “everything she teaches me, I put to use in my life.II didn’t Now I’mthe designing apps that millions of people may use someday.”

Afghanistan—rebuild schools and You can make a difference in the lives of Westover students, like Kayla, and the opportunities to study. give women teachers who inspire them to make a difference in the world. Now is the time to I would like to save my country.” invest in their future—every gift, no matter the amount, is essential to achieving our Annual Fund goal of $1,575,000 by June 30.

—Farahnaz ’14, shown above at left

Invest in Westover. Give to the Annual Fund.

Farahnaz ’14 began her education in

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the freedom to study is a joy.

Give now—only 3 more months.

Every Annual Fund gift, no matter the amount, is essential to achieving our Annual Fund goal of $1,575,000 by June 30, 2014.

Today, more than ever, the world Invest in great teaching.

Gifts made to the Annual Fund support all facets of a Westover education, including our faculty. Your gift will provide support for upgraded technology for our faculty as well as improvements to students’ rooms and lounges, maintenance of our beautiful campus, and so much more.

Invest in Westover. Give to the Annual Fund.

Use the enclosed envelope or give online at westoverschool.org/annualfund.

Questions? Contact Lauren Castagnola, Director of Annual Fund, at 203.577.4657 or lcastagnola @ westoverschool.org.

Give online at westoverschool.org or contact Lauren Castagnola, Director of the Annual Fund, at 203.577.4657 or lcastagnola@ westoverschool.org.

All gifts to Westover’s Annual Fund also count towards Inspiring Women: Campaign for Westover.

All gifts to Westover’s Annual Fund also count towards Inspiring Women: Campaign for Westover.

In This Issue Inspiring Women: Campaign for Westover

Faculty & Student Profiles • Ways To Be Involved • The Women of Westover Campaign Impact Highlights • Frequently Asked Questions Challenge Grant • Planned Giving Opportunities • Campaign Leadership

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Invest & Inspire

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Volunteers by the Numbers • Alumna Volunteer Profile • Alumnae Photo Album Westover Events • Alumnae Weekend 2014

Class Notes

Words from Ann Pollina • Athletic Highlights • Scholastic Arts Awards SOMSI Student Presentation • Student Spotlight • Parents’ Council News Summer Camp at Westover • Staying Connected

Alumnae Highlights

Class Notes • Alumnae of Note • Passages • Welcome New Trustees Thank You Retiring Trustees • Credits & Corrections • Westover Annual Fund

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We are pleased to present the next in a series of student and faculty profiles illustrating the foundations of our Inspiring Women: Campaign for Westover.

These are the women of Westover - and their inspiring teachers.

Hands-On Experiences in the Arts & Museum Research

Liv & Ali

“I have had a passion for Art History since the first day of Northern European Painting, an art

“Over the first six years of the Sonja Osborn Museum Studies Internship [SOMSI] program, what

history elective I took as a sophomore. As a student, I am constantly looking for an excuse to

has struck me is how invested, dedicated, and creative every student has been to developing

learn something new and different, and to widen my educational experience here at Westover,

themes connecting Westover and Hill-Stead that I had never considered. How the student

and beyond. Oftentimes, that means never saying no to the opportunities that come my way.

interns have taken on all the tasks surrounding their projects – not just undertaking the

The best thing about the SOMSI internship is that it isn’t narrowly defined; you can adjust it

research, writing their paper, and working with the staff at Hill-Stead Museum, but also working

to fit your interests and immerse yourself in a particular subject. Ultimately, you can make it

with Westover faculty and alumnae as well and preparing the exhibition area, right down to

about whatever you want it to be, which I think can also be said about a Westover education.”

prepping the display wall – never ceases to impress me. The comprehensive experience of

Liv Burns ’14 Lantern Art Editor in Chief 2013, Lantern Photography Editor in Chief 2014; Coagess Yearbook Editor in Chief, 2012, 2013, & 2014; Captain and founding member of Westover’s Crew team; Poetry Seminar participant; Invest in Girls participant 2012, 2013, & 2014; Invest in Girls summer intern 2012 & 2013; plans to study broadcast or print journalism in college

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the program and the self-directedness of the students to coordinate their projects very much captures what it is to be a Westover student.”

Allison Hildebrand Instructor in Art History & Humanities, SOMSI Coordinator since 2006; Middlebury College, B.A. in Art History; Williams College, M.A. in Art History

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Inspiring Women of Westover: Meg North ’06 Meg North ’06 is spending the year battling malnutrition among children in Uganda. Since last May, she has served as a program coordinator for the Initiative to End Childhood Malnutrition (IECM) in Rukungiri, Uganda, a collaboration between Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Global Hunger Initiative, and Nyakibale Hospital. She will return to the U.S. this May. “As part of my Master’s in Public Health,” Meg said, “I am required to complete a practicum and have chosen to work with IECM. What brought me to East Africa in the first place was my study abroad semester in Kenya through St. Lawrence University. Since then, I have made several trips back.”

“This region of the country is the most fertile and is often referred to as ‘the bread basket’ of the country. However, it has the second highest rates of malnutrition. Overall, 33% of children in Uganda are stunted as a result of malnutrition.”

“There are many challenges working in rural, western Uganda,” Meg said, “but the rewards far outweigh the costs.

On a daily basis the challenge is seeing so many sick children.

Malnutrition is an underlying cause of approximately 60% of child mortality in Uganda.” Many of the children enrolled in the program also suffer from HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, and anemia.

“The biggest success is seeing children get healthy and mothers beginning to understand the importance of nutrition,” Meg noted.

Many thanks to everyone who has supported the Campaign so far!

As we race toward the finish line, we need your continued support.

Ways to be Involved...

• The Annual Fund

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While in Uganda, Meg enjoyed having Annaliese Snodgrass ’10 volunteer with her last summer as well as a visit in October from her sister, Liz North ’04, and Markey Culver ’04. $45M

Campaign Progress as of December 31, 2013

If you have never given – Give Now! If you are a lapsed donor – Come back on board!

If you are a regular donor – Increase your gift!

• Make a Stretch Gift Two pronged: Annual Fund & Endowment. For example: Making a $250 gift to the Annual Fund (from your checking account) and a $250 gift to Endowment (from your savings account) each year for five years, makes you a $2,500 donor to the Campaign!

• Make Provisions in your Estate Plans for Westover Your bequest may be counted in the Inspiring Women Campaign: If you are or will be 80 years of age

by December 31, 2014 or if you are celebrating your 50th, 55th or 60th Reunion

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After May, Meg will return to finish her graduate coursework.

“I hope to be back in East Africa after I graduate,” she added, “working on public health programs in the region.”

Top to Bottom (L to R):

Meg North ’06 with a colleague training Village Healthcare Team workers to screen and refer malnourished children for treatment at their local health centers.

Meg with a 14 year-old patient, Mackline, at discharge who was hospitalized for three months as a result of an illegal abortion. One of her complications was malnutrition.

Meg and a colleague with Mackline four months after discharge, healthy and preparing to go back to school.

Colleague preparing high energy milk with nursing students at Nyakibale Hospital. High energy milk is given to severely malnourished children who are receiving inpatient therapeutic care.

Colleague with supplies of ready-to-use-therapeutic food at a Ugandan health center, who was being trained to treat inpatient and outpatients that are malnourished Helping unload and distribute supplies.

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Continuing Campaign Impact Highlights

Continuing Campaign Impact Highlights

Faculty Support

Support From Alumnae

• Westover was able to sustain raises for faculty during difficult economic times when other schools were not only holding pay raises, but also actually cutting back on faculty.

• Since the beginning of the campaign, we have reached our Annual Fund goal every year. This is a true testament to the loyalty and generosity of our alumnae.

• Because of the Campaign, Westover was able to both retain and hire teachers with advanced degrees:

2008 – 2009 = 44%

2009-2010 = 50%

2010 – 2011 = 57%

2011 – 2012 = 61%

2012 – 2013 = 63%

2013-2014 = 67%

Student Support • A sustained, strong commitment to Financial Aid allows us to stretch to meet the needs of our families. Many funds this past year went to keep students at Westover, increasing awards to some families and granting awards to families who in the past did not need aid.

• With the completion of the Campaign, we will continue to commit to a diverse socioeconomic student body, allowing us to bring the best candidates to our school.

Campus Stewardship • With a combination of solar panels and a new cogeneration system, 70% of the electric energy used by the School is generated on campus.

• Westover’s campus and grounds has always been one of the School’s greatest assets, its lawns, fields, and woodlands often used by teachers and students as a living laboratory for science classes, a source of inspiration for art classes, and a quiet space for reflection and study. One of the goals of the Inspiring Women: Campaign for Westover is to support Campus Stewardship and Sustainability; $5 million from the campaign will be allocated to preserve and maintain the campus, as well as increase the School’s sustainability and green initiatives.

Operations

The Campaign is raising funds in the following areas:

• Alumnae contributed $1,070,052 to the Annual Fund in 2012-2013, the highest amount ever donated by alumnae in one fiscal year.

daily life

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Programs • Because of the support of the campaign, Westover is able to continue to develop our signature programs. In the 2012-2013 academic year, 50% of Westover students participated in one of the following signature programs: Manhattan School of Music, Women in Science and Engineering, the Online School, and our Global Exchange Programs.

community $25 million

programs $10 million

• Our longest standing special program, Women in Science and Engineering, continues to produce amazing results, particularly with our sophomore students who take the AP Computer Science exam. In the state of Connecticut, Westover produced 21% of female students with the highest score (5).

Unrestricted • Because of the generosity of unrestricted gifts, Westover was able to develop new athletics programs in crew, cross country, and swimming.

• Westover launched a new program in Technical Theater. Technical Theater Apprentices receive “on the job” training including set building, lighting design, sound design and mixing, and involvement in campus events which require running audio systems and video production. Over the past three years of the program over 30 girls have enrolled.

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Campaign Progress as of December 31, 2013

• Because of the generous support of the Annual Fund, Westover has updated and renovated several classrooms throughout our historical campus, including providing the technology necessary for our flipped classrooms, including the addition of white boards and smart board technology.

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Q · The Inspiring Women: Campaign for Westover is a comprehensive campaign. What does this mean?

Q · What specific areas of the school will benefit from the campaign?

A · A comprehensive campaign is one that includes both the Annual Fund and the endowment. Throughout the duration of the campaign every gift is considered a campaign gift.

A · The campaign is about people—it will support the enrichment of faculty and students in all ways; and campaigns that support people—the lifeblood of the institution—are essential to delivering a superb education.

Q · What’s the difference between the Annual Fund and the endowment, and how do they fit into the campaign?

Q · How long will this effort be under way?

A · Think of the endowment as a savings account—you’re able to use the income that it generates to either spend when you need it or invest it in the future. The Annual Fund, on the other hand, provides the cash that Westover uses each year to support the operating budget. Westover would need another $30 million in endowment to generate what the $1.5 million raised in our Annual Fund every year. This is why the campaign is so important, because both of these funds work together.

Q · Why is increasing the endowment so important to Westover?

A · The endowment supports the long-term sustainability of the School. If Westover is to be here 100 years from now and continue to attract the most talented students and faculty and support them, we need an endowment to sustain us in both strong and challenging economic times. At a time when technology is changing the world at a rapid pace, a strong endowment gives Westover the flexibility to adapt to changing needs.

Q · During the campaign, will people be asked to support Westover through a gift to both the Annual Fund and the endowment?

A · All gifts and pledges received by 12/31/14 will count toward the Inspiring Women: Campaign for Westover.

Q · How do I become involved?

A · If you have never given, give now! If you are a lapsed donor, come back on board! If you are a regular donor, we thank you and ask you to consider increasing your gift.

Q · Does my reunion gift count towards the IWC? A · Yes, reunion gifts count towards the Inspiring Woman Campaign. Your reunion is the perfect opportunity to stretch your philanthropy to new levels. We hope that beginning with your reunion during the Inspiring Woman Campaign, you will consider a larger gift to Westover and continue this stretch going forward.

A · This campaign is two pronged: Annual Fund and endowment. For example, making a $250 gift to the Annual Fund from your checking account and then a $250 gift to endowment for your savings account each year for five years would make you a $2,500 donor to the campaign!

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Make or Increase Your Campaign Gift with a Planned Gift!

Did you know that MANY PLANNED GIFTS COUNT TOWARDS THE INSPIRING WOMEN: CAMPAIGN FOR WESTOVER? IF you would like to participate in the Campaign but feel unable to make a cash gift or pledge over time, or if you wish your Campaign gift could be larger, consider a planned gift. Here are some examples of planned gifts that qualify for the Campaign: BEQUESTS IF you will be 80 years old on or before 12/31/14, OR IF you are celebrating or will celebrate your 50th, 55th or 60th reunion in 2014.

Now is the time. Meet the challenge. Invest in Westover.

You can make a bequest to Westover that will count AT FULL FACE VALUE in the Campaign as soon as we receive written verification from you that you have made the bequest and do not intend to change it! Many Westover alumnae have made gifts to the Campaign in this way, with bequests ranging from $5,000 to $1,000,000. Every bequest is helpful as we move towards the end of the Campaign and secure the financial future of Westover.

CHARITABLE GIFT ANNUITIES

Today, more than ever, the world needs Westover women.

Independent, generous, openhearted, intellectually prepared…

Westover women make a difference in the world.

We challenge you to invest in their future.

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Double your impact.

An exceptional $750,000 matching gift challenge has been established by a visionary group of Trustees.

The challenge will double the dollar amount of your endowment gift to Inspiring Women: Campaign for Westover.

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Now is the time—only 10 more months.

Every gift to the challenge is essential to achieving the Campaign goals by December 31, 2014.

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IF you create an annuity with Westover such that you make a gift of stock or cash and Westover pays you income for life in exchange, you will be credited with a campaign gift for roughly half the amount of your cash or stock gift no matter what your age.

INSURANCE POLICIES OR RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS

IF you name Westover as a beneficiary on a life insurance policy or a retirement account OR IF you transfer ownership of a life insurance policy or a retirement account to Westover you will be credited with a campaign gift for the full present value of the Gift to Westover no matter what your age.

The Inspiring Women: Campaign for Westover is a COMPREHENSIVE CAMPAIGN. It includes gifts to the Annual Fund, endowment gifts for campaign purposes, and many planned gifts.

Invest in great teaching.

Gifts to the challenge will establish an endowed fund to attract and keep talented teachers who inspire young women to think, to do, to be.

Meet the Challenge —Invest in Westover today.

Contact Barbara A. Sabia, Director of Development, at 203.577.4646 or bsabia@ westoverschool.org.

To hear more about the importance of the Campaign from current Trustees, visit westoverschool.org/campaign.

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Paul K. Sutherland is Westover’s Director of Planned Giving. He joined the Alumnae and Development Office in 2003, following his service on the School’s Board of Trustees for six years. A lawyer by training, Paul has long been convinced of the importance of preserving and enhancing quality, single-sex educational opportunities for women. Paul’s “Wise Women of Westover” column appears regularly in Westover publications. If you are interested in learning more about planned giving opportunities at Westover, please call Paul Sutherland at 203.577.4590 or e-mail him at psutherland@westoverschool.org.

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Campaign Leadership Campaign Executive Committee Campaign Co-Chairs Martha Bacon Martin ’65 & David Martin Beth Smith Golden ’65 Maura Tansley ’00 Ann Pollina, Head of School Sara Belcher Wardell ’60 Francene Young ’71

Campaign Steering Committee Beth Smith Golden ’65, Chair Muffie Clement Green ’65 Toni Walker Hamner ’69 Lolly MacMurray-Cooper ’63 Martha Bacon Martin ’65 David Martin Louisa Jones Palmer ’54 Ann Clark Priftis ’96 Mary Maier Walker ’54 Sara Belcher Wardell ’60, Chair Nicky Johnson Weaver ’63 Francene Young ’71

Alumnae & Development Office Barbara A. Sabia Director of Development

Paul Sutherland Director of Planned Giving

Nancy Aordkian Pelaez ’86 Director of Alumnae Relations

Linda Pierce Assistant Director of Donor Relations

Lauren Castagnola Director of Annual Fund & Constituent Outreach

Katherine Blum ’08 Alumnae & Development Associate

Bart Geissinger Director of Major Gifts & Campaign Coordinator

Lindsey Donato Gifts Coordinator

Eileen McCormack Director of Development Operations & Services

Clare Tallon (P’14) Administrative Assistant

For a full listing of Westover’s Board of Trustees and the Alumnae Association Board of Governors please visit westoverschool.org/governance

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Academic Highlights

• As part of their work in Advanced Placement Environmental Science, students are researching the cultivation and harvesting of blue tilapia, a freshwater food fish, in the classroom. The students helped to set up three 65-gallon tanks as a sustainable system that circulates water through the tanks that provide a home to the fish, a bio filter of gravel and oyster shells that uses bacteria to filter waste from the water, and kale whose roots assist in the filtering process. “The fish will grow to close to two pounds by mid-May,” said Science teacher Michael Rowinsky, when they will be harvested for a fish fry for the students to feast on to celebrate the completion of their course.

• Three members of the Class of 2014 have been recognized as Commended Students by the National Merit Scholarship Program for their qualifying scores on the 2012 PSAT, scoring in the top 3% of all students who took the test nationwide.

Hope and Opportunity Ann Pollina, Head of School “What are the essential elements of a community of learning? Students with a seriousness of purpose, receptive and ready for learning – they are the fuel. Teachers with experience and passion to communicate their love of their subject – they are the spark. Together, they fire learning. But as Judy Brown reminds us, in her poem “Fire”, no fire burns without space between the logs. The purpose of a great school is to define that space, establishing the essence of real educational community. At Westover, we are intentional about what is in that space. Some of the key elements for us are facilitating deep and comfortable intellectual connections between teachers and students, creating a place where students support each other in excellence and respect each other’s gifts, and maintaining our commitment to teaching hearts as well as heads. If we are not growing the souls of our girls as well as their minds, we achieve nothing. Responsibility, compassionate concern for others, a sense of beauty, a true moral compass, and the kind of resilience that can only be called courage are qualities we aspire to develop in each of our young women…”

• In 2013, 79 students in grades 10, 11, and 12 took 144 Advanced Placement exams; 88% of the tests had scores of 3 or better (in 2013, 59% of all students taking AP tests in the U.S. had scores of 3 or better).

• Seven students formed a Robotics Team with WISE teacher Kate Seyboth as their advisor. The team participated in a statewide competition on February 1st. Westover’s team placed 15th out of 24 teams competing and qualified to take part in the March 8th state championship. During the qualifying event, each team’s robot took part in five qualifying matches, which included 30 seconds of the robot operating autonomously and two minutes of performing a series of tasks guided by remote control by a team driver. (Pictured below, Kate Seyboth, right).

• Two alumnae recognized for their poetry – Oana Marian ’98, the 2013 recipient of Westover’s Distinguished Young Alumna Award, and Felicity Sheehy ’10, an award-winning poet currently attending Yale University – gave readings of their poetry to dozens of students, faculty members, parents, and members of the public. Oana gave her reading on Oct. 19th and Felicity on January 17th.

“At Westover we believe that women will have a more critical role than ever in the next century. We believe the problems of this world will be solved by paying attention to the plight of women worldwide, and we believe those lucky enough to have access to the kind of education Westover provides will be key as they stretch out helping hands to their sisters across the globe. Our work as a school is to equip our students with the academic and practical skills they will need – the ability to write well and speak with confidence, proficiency in critical thinking and problem solving, facility in working with others, independence and creativity…”

“To Think, To Do, To Be, Westover’s motto, is as apt today as it was 105 years ago. It is a beacon to remind us to respect academic rigor, to remain active in the arts and athletics and service to others… but most importantly, it reminds us that our being, that hidden wholeness of educational community, will be the heart of our enterprise for all time.”

These excerpts are from Ann Pollina’s latest white paper. To read the full document, please visit westoverschool.org/pollina

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races and three World Duathlon Championships; qualified and competed in the 2011 U.S. Triathlon Age Group National Championship Olympic Distance in Burlington, Vermont.

Athletic Highlights Guy Davidson, Sophomore Wesleyan University Ashley Sanchez ’15atReceives Recognition in Squash Magazine

DROPSHOTS

Squash: as a freshman, played No. 2 on the ladder and finished the year 17-5. Named to the second team All-NESCAC list. As a sophomore he is currently the No. 2 at Wesleyan.

Baseball: Wesleyan’s starting shortstop as a freshman. Won the Terence Leary award given to a freshman on the baseball team for outstanding sportsmanship, character, and work ethic.SQUASH Starting shortstop for Team Cape Cod, two year New England MULTI-SPORT PLAYERS Regional champions.

SQUASH BOASTS

Jamie Crombie Squash: former men’s national team member, currently ranked No. 2 in U.S. Men 6.0 Other:Sanchez, has competed road races in the past ten years, plus numerous bike Ashley Junior in at forty-four the Westover School races and three World Duathlon Championships; qualified and competed in the 2011 U.S. Triathlon Age Group National Olympic in year Burlington, Vermont.

Squash: has been on the varsityChampionship squash team since herDistance freshman at the Westover School. Is currently playing No. 2 on the ladder. As a sophomore she received the Coach’s Award, given to the player who has contributed most to the promotion of good sportsmanship and competition through dedication, spirit, and teamwork throughout the squash season.

Other: two year tri-varsity athlete at the Westover School. She plays second base for the varsity softball team and also plays on the varsity Guy Davidson, Sophomore at Wesleyan University volleyball team. She was named volleyball Player of the Game twice, a recognition given to a student for their high level of dedication, confidence, skill, and effort throughout a game.

Squash: as a freshman, played No. 2 on the ladder and finished the year 17-5. Named to the second team All-NESCAC list. As a sophomore he is currently the No. 2 at Wesleyan.

Baseball: Wesleyan’s starting shortstop as a freshman. Won the Terence Leary award Anais Ortiz, Junior at Preuss UCSD given to a freshman on the baseball team for outstanding sportsmanship, character, andPlays work ethic. for Team Cape Cod, two year New England Westover Varsity Squash WinsYouth Big! Squash: No. 2 onStarting the co-edshortstop Access Academy team.

Regional champions.

Soccer: Plays sweeper and center-midfield for the Preuss UCSD varsity soccer team,

Congratulations to the Varsity squash team for their three wins this weekend at Nationals: 4-3 against Episcopal also plays for the San Diego Football Association. She earned all-league recognition as High School from Virginia and 5-2 against Blair Academy from New Jersey. The team also beat the Westminster a sophomore, being named First Team All-Frontier League.

Schools from Georgia, 4-3 and came in third place overall out of the 16 participating division teams.

Ashley Sanchez, Junior at the Westover School Squash: has been on the varsity squash team since her freshman year at the Westover School.

Is Senior currently playing No. 2 on the ladder. As a sophomore she received the Jennifer Davis, at The Tatnall School Coach’s Award, given to the player who has contributed most to the promotion of good sportsmanship and competition through dedication, teamwork throughout Squash: has represented the U.S. twice at the Ont-Ams spirit, Battle and of the Border; finished the squash season. third in last year’s GU17 U.S. Nationals.

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Soccer: Plays sweeper and center-midfield for the Preuss UCSD varsity soccer team, also plays for the San Diego Football Association. She earned all-league recognition as a sophomore, being named First Team All-Frontier League.

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Jennifer Davis, Senior at The Tatnall School

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Westover’s 2014 Scholastic Arts Awards

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The following students have been awarded 2014 Scholastic Arts Awards: 1. Catherine Caroe, Portfolio, Gold Key 2. Anna Chahuneau, Portfolio, Gold Key 3. Stephanie Crudele, Portfolio, Gold Key 4. Joscelyn Norris, Sculpture, Gold Key 5. Amy Tiong, Portfolio, Gold Key 6. Kira Hunter, Sculpture, Silver Key 7. Sharon Jeon, Painting, Silver Key

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8. Kira Hunter, Sculpture, Honorable Mention 9. Sharon Jeon, Painting, Honorable Mention 10. Joscelyn Norris, Drawing, Honorable Mention 11. Rachael Shurberg, Photography, Honorable Mention 12. Jessica You, Drawing, Honorable Mention

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For more information on the Arts at Westover visit westoverschool.org/arts

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Newfound appreciation for the art of letterpress has surfaced in recent years; small, locally owned presses in towns across America boast of the character and charm that can be found in the items produced on presses instead of laser printers. Similarly, there has been a resurgence of interest in letterpress at Westover, primarily attributed to the restoration of a Vandercook SP-20 proof press in the past year. However, the similarities don’t end there: just as letterpress isn’t a new art form, this isn’t the first time the School has heard of letterpress.

An Exploration & Revitalization of ‘Clare’, Westover’s Vandercook SP-20 Letterpress by SOMSI Student Liv Burns ’14 Westover’s Vandercook SP-20 letterpress was located in the School’s student center for over twenty years before it was unearthed

by Tom Juvan, English teacher and Westover’s letterpress expert. The letterpress – nicknamed Clare – has a history that is slightly less muddled than the other mysteries surrounding Westover’s history with letterpress. The press was believed to have been donated by Clare Leighton, a renowned wood engraver, printer, and artist who lived in Woodbury, CT. She had an association with the School, and some faculty members believed that it was she who had donated the press. However, it was later understood that it had been donated by the Newtown Bee when it went digital in the late 80s; Clare was one of the last pieces of equipment to be cleaned out from that era of print production. “I don’t really remember how the deal was struck to give the press to Westover …

The Bee no longer needed it, and Westover had a use for it, and so the donation was a good solution,” says Curtiss Clark, Editor of the Newtown Bee. Clare is special not just because she was lovingly restored; rather, old presses like Clare are truly coveted by artists. Vandercooks are incredibly easy to troubleshoot. Pam Markham Heller ’67 notes that “they were originally manufactured as proofing presses for newspapers, who had to get proofs out without running huge presses. They’re renowned for their ease of use and creative flexibility.”

The restoration of Clare could not have been accomplished without the assistance – and the plentiful passion for letterpress – of Pam Markham Heller ’67 and Tom Juvan, English teacher and letterpress enthusiast. Westover’s Letterpress Collective, a small group of dedicated students, have also put countless hours into making sure that Clare receives her fair share of use. The Collective printed a Robert Frost quotation on small cards that were sold at the Candlelight service in mid-December, and plans on hosting an open house in the spring.

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The School’s literary magazine, The Lantern, is just one of the items that was historically printed on a letterpress. Other print materials include graduation announcements, Chapel programs, Christmas cards, Westover stationery, and more. Though The Lantern was never printed here at Westover, it was published on campus; Muffie Green, Westover’s archivist, feels “that the designs and drawings for the press plates we have were sent out to be fabricated, then locked in with the type for printing.”

The press plates she mentions were saved by Westover’s buildings and grounds crew a couple of years ago, and she thinks that the collection in the Archives is just a small percentage of the plates Westover once had. Though The Lantern wasn’t printed at Westover, the printing was distinctly letterpress; indentations on the page and the raised nature of the paper are indicative of the unique process.

Interpretive designs from the sixties and clear illustrations of the School’s frontward façade are just two examples of the many plates now housed in Westover’s Maria Randall Allen ’42 Archives. Most dates for each plate, however, remain one of the many mysteries that cloud Westover’s history with letterpress, just as the meaning for each plate is often indiscernible until printed.

However, there is one set of plates that is distinctly dated, and those are Theodate’s own blueprint-plates. Pam Markham Heller ’67, Westover’s off-campus letterpress expert, notes that “Theodate must have wanted a record of the School in a much better form than in a blueprint; blueprints could not be refined in the way that relief printing plates could be. She wanted those plates to last, and she wanted them to be perfect.” The blueprint plates that Pam speaks of are also currently housed in the Archives.

The revitalization and restoration of Westover’s Vandercook printing press has been made possible through the generosity of a gift by Pam Markham Heller ’67 21

Pam Markham Heller ’67 notes that printing on a press is a truly meditative experience, and one that resembles the lives we lead, especially while students at Westover. “Once you get going, it’s fun – it’s truly thrilling – but you have to turn yourself into a bit of a machine, and you have to focus, and it becomes an automatic thing. You realize, though, that sometimes you have to step back and check everything, you have to troubleshoot. You can’t be on autopilot forever,” remarks Pam, noting that, “the humanists believed that you transmitted the best qualities of your civilization through art. What fits that better than beautiful words printed beautifully on the page?”

During Alumnae weekend, members of Westover’s Letterpress Collective, and aspiring letterpress students are organizing a printing session for Theodate’s quotation. This will give Alumnae a chance to see the letterpress at work. As a student printing one of Theodate’s quotations, I feel that I am contributing to a shared history of making ideas tangible realities. It is one thing to simply read something on a page, but letterpress lends a completely distinct character to the finished product. Each finished print on a letterpress is truly different; each has its own personality, found in the raised page and indented letters. The character of the printer can be found in the irregular edges of the paper used and the slight glisten of wet ink. Just as letterpress lends its own character to each print, the reader brings her own meaning to the work; written word is simply imagination, memories, and knowledge portrayed in language. That culmination of word and image is incomplete without the viewer. In printing a quotation of Theodate’s about Westover, I hope to bring together Theodate’s words with your memories of the place she describes.

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Just as Tom and Pam brought Clare to life, Theodate Pope Riddle brought to life Westover with the help of Mary Hillard. Theodate and Mary melded an idea and a plot of land, a blueprint and building materials, into a living and breathing space that has served hundreds of girls, faculty members, and the greater community in the 105 years since its opening. Though over a century apart, Tom and Pam’s work is incredibly similar to that of Theodate and Mary’s.

Theodate, in her quotation, urges Mary to fill Westover’s space with her spirit. Just as the warm, musty smell of Westover in the early fall and late spring would mean nothing without the memory of moving in freshman year, Westover would just be a big yellow building. Without the shared experiences, lifelong friendships, and the anecdotes found hiding within each room, scratched into each desk, and scrawled onto closet walls, Westover would just be a series of rooms built onto a plot of land.

I invite you to print the quotation of Theodate’s on Clare this Alumnae Weekend. With the act of printing, I hope to bring together the life found on campus now with the life of Clare, the life of Theodate, and your own important experience at Westover.

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Wanted: Westover Ambassadors

Student Spotlight: Farahnaz Afaq ’14 Afghan Student Has Westover Classmates Skype With Kabul; Somalia Next

The Office of Admission is looking for your help with a very important initiative. With 36% of our students enrolling as legacies and friends of Westover families, we see that our most effective advertising is done through word-of-mouth.

Westover School

Consider becoming a Westover Ambassador to help us strengthen our buzz marketing through recruitment, retention, and communication initiatives. We welcome your ideas, thoughts, and suggestions.

to learning.

Farahnaz Afaq ’14 instructs a group of Westover School students, faculty, and family members in making kites, a favorite Afghan pastime.

By Douglas P. Clement

Interested? Fill out our form at westoverschool.org/ alumnae and we will be in touch!

advantage: all–girls and independent

Best regards, Laura N. Volovski ’83 Director of Admission & Enrollment Management

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Since Fall 2010, whenever readers of The Paris Review pick up their copies of the prestigious quarterly literary magazine, they are looking at Charlotte’s elegant handiwork on every page. Charlotte was asked to redesign the look of the magazine from cover-tocover and remain on staff as its Designer and Art Editor. The new design garnered a lot of ACADEMICS AT praise, with The New York Times calling it “a thing of beauty.”

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Balancing her work on The Paris Review with her duties as Art Director of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Charlotte designs every cover and was the “guest curator” for the Winter 2012 issue creating a 14-page section devoted to “Women on Women.”

Charlotte credited her years at Westover as having “had a lasting effect on the way I see myself and the women I interact with all these years later.”

Alexandria Williams ’11

If anyone is looking for a different kind of evidence highlighting the need for far greater outreach, understanding, respect and tolerance among global peoples and cultures—and inspiration for how to proceed—it can be found at the all-girls Westover School in Middlebury.

The private preparatory school is in many ways a crucible of cultural interchange, as it hosts a very diverse international community of students. Nonetheless, the school’s boarding students remain in the world-view learning phase. And given that Westover’s students go on to Dartmouth, Brown, Smith, Tufts, Columbia and other top-tier colleges and universities, it seems safe to think that their counterparts at other private schools across the nation—and certainly at public schools—embody the same status.

Young Alumna on the College Stage Alex is studying at Manhattan School of Music (MSM). During her years at Westover, she was a voice student in Westover’s collaborative program with the MSM Pre-College Division.

What sets Westover apart in this arena are recent efforts involving an extra-curricular initiative to engender a more realistic and more constructive world view via some real-time connectivity among cultures that adheres to a fundamental educational principle: show don’t tell.

“I have been focusing on art songs in my performance classes in English, Italian, French, and German as well as musical theater,” Alex said. For her sophomore spring recital last April, she sang the role of Meg in ‘Things Change, Jo,’ from Little Women, Mark Adamo’s opera based on Louisa May Alcott’s novel.

During the past year, Alex has also had featured roles in “viral” YouTube music videos created by fellow students.

Currently Alex is trying her hand at writing her own musical with a composer, hoping to produce it in a workshop.

For additional alumnae accomplishments, visit westoverschool.org/alumnae

a sampling of clubs, extracurricul ars, & coed events Amnesty International

A Capella Singing Groups & Gospel Choir

Activities with our Brother Schools

Environmental Action

Coagess (Westover’s yearbook)

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French & Spanish Clubs

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Jewish Student Association

The Lantern (Westover’s art & literary magazine)

Prom

Football Games

Peer Support

The Wick (Westover’s school newspaper)

Dances

Movie Nights

WALSA (Westover’s African-American & Latina Student Association)

Westover School

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cogitare, agere, esse—to think, to do, to be Development and Leadership at Westover School.”

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and the school’s first student from Afghanistan, who graciously interrupted her lunch on a cold winter’s day to talk about the new outward-focused efforts.

For about 30 minutes last Nov. 8, according to a Westover release, Farahnaz and Kathryn T. Taylor Westover’s Interim Director of Global Programs, were joined by students and faculty members for the Skype session with 20 students from the School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA) in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Working with Taylor, Westover says, Farahnaz has also established a new club at the school, the International Student Alliance, “as a way of supporting all of Westover’s international students and offering another venue for them to share and learn about the students’ diverse cultures, experiences, and backgrounds.”

Continuing the efforts to give fellow students a better sense of the world and its misperceptions, in January Farahnaz gave what Taylor called “a very moving” chapel talk on the value of education, while sharing the experience of her childhood.

To read the entire story visit connecticutmag.com.

To hear Farahnaz’s Chapel talk, visit Westover’s YouTube station.

Joint Community Service Project

 Look for the third in our series: “To Be: Character

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Farahnaz Afaq ’14 and Kathryn T. Taylor, Westovers’ Interim Director of Global Programs.

As a result, in learning about their counterparts in Kabul, Afghanistan, Westover students didn’t hear a lesson, or read a contemporary account. Instead, they connected face-to-face via Skype to hash out their similarities, differences and common bonds.

The educator at the heart of the initiative—she’s actually a student, Farahnaz Afaq, a Westover senior

This story was originally published online at www. connecticutmag.com. Douglas P. Clement is Verticals Editor of Connecticut Magazine (facebook.com/ connecticutmagazine, @connecticutmag on Twitter) and The Connecticut Bride (www.theconnecticutbride.com, facebook.com/theconnecticutbride). He may be reached by e-mail at dclement@connecticutmag.com, and you can follow him @DouglasPClement on Twitter.

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SPEND YOUR SUMMER AT WESTOVER!

News from the Parents’ Council

JULY 6 - AUGUST 3, 2014 We are happy to update you on the work of the Parents’ Council. By full agreement of the Council, committees were established to address five key areas.

Admissions/Recruiting Annual Fund & Ongoing fundraising Parent Communication & Engagement Parent Programming Parent Association Meetings

Committee chairs from both the Parents’ Council and the school faculty were identified for each committee.

They were charged with developing the mission and goals of the committee, development of action plans and next steps, and ongoing reports back to the Council.

In addition to the ongoing work of the committees, three additional meetings were added to the annual schedule of Parents’ Council meetings in order to generate more momentum and to establish the foundation and ground work for next year’s council.

--Dom and Dawn Calabrese, P’14

Westover School’s Summer Programs in the Arts & Enrichment for girls entering grades 7, 8, & 9

Westover Squash Camp for Girls & Boys ages 10-18

English as a Second Language for girls ages 12-16

Visit westoverschool.org/summerprograms to learn more!

For more information, e-mail Camp Director, Ruth Curzan at summerprograms@westoverschool.org or call 203.758.2423.

Spend one to five weeks at Westover this summer!

Tell your granddaughters and other prospective Westover girls!

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Be more connected with Westover than ever before!

Visit Livestream.com and search “Westover School”...click “follow” and every time we broadcast an event, you will receive a notification!

Westover’s web presence has never been stronger!

Friend us on Facebook, see us on Instagram, follow us on Twitter, and LinkIn with us for professional development.

You can even read the latest student perspectives on Word Press and stay up-to-date with Westover trends on Pinterest!

The Westover Alumnae Portal: One Stop for All Things Westover!

Make a donation! Register for events! Connect with your classmates and other Westover Alumnae. It is simple to join our online community where you can then search the directory for both friends and networking.

Register & login at www.alumnae-westoverschool.org

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Alumnae Volunteers by the numbers

Caroline Demirs Calio ’93: Alumna Volunteer Providing Support to Planned Giving Program

These numbers are impressive and so are you! Thank you, volunteers for everything you do!

For Caroline, offering her legal expertise to Westover was a way she could help the School continue to provide the same kind of educational opportunities she received as a student.

Class Agents helping to solicit for the Annual Fund

“I really believe in women’s education,” she said, “and, obviously, Westover is a great institution. Anything I can do to help the School propel itself forward and increase its endowment to support its programs into the future makes sense.”

Number of years Maria Randall Allen ’42 served as Archivist Class Secretaries gathering news for the alumnae Magazine Hours per year an Alumnae Association Governor devotes to meetings and Alumnae Weekend duties

So Caroline reached out to Paul Sutherland in the Alumnae/Development Office to offer her professional help in planned giving matters. “I have worked with him when issues arise when individuals have offered planned gifts,” she explained.

Caroline is a Principal in the West Hartford, Connecticut office of Cummings & Lockwood LLC. She joined the firm in 2005 as an attorney in the Private Clients Group, where she practices in the areas of estate planning, estate settlement, and trust administration. Caroline received a B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Richmond and her law degree, cum laude, from Boston University School of Law. While at BU, she was an editor of the Annual Review of Banking and Financial Law. She resides in Hartford with her husband, Christopher, and their son.

Alumnae who have been President of the Board of Governors

miles The distance of the Secretary furthest from campus Laurie Blake Sawyer ’59 Kailua, HI

Years the Alumnae Association has been active

the number of Reunion class volunteers for 2014’s Alumnae Weekend

“It is very helpful having Caroline as a resource for the occasional practical and legal issues that come up involving planned giving options. Planned gifts are frequently customized to match the needs of individual donors, and Caroline’s understanding of both Westover and planned giving is a great asset to our program.”

Paul Sutherland Director of Planned Giving

The number of alumnae mentors working with the Invest In Girls program and the Alumnae Office program this year

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miles The distance of the Secretary closest to campus Brooke Whiteley Weise ’99 Middlebury, CT

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1. Judy Blair Green ’49 with 3 generations. l-r: Sophia Wilson (3), Sarah Hall Wilson, Macie Green Hall VanRensselaer Judy, Nora Ammerman (3) & Lizzie Hall Ammerman 2. Ann Priftis ’96 with son Harlan Cash Gilmore 3. Patricia Simonds Taylor ’68’s granddaughter Hazel in her Westover hoodie 4. Marietta Christie ’68 receiving her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Lesley University 5. Pam Handy Shepley ’75, Pam Whitney Duncan ’75, Lilo Smith Cunningham ’75, Gia Felis Watkins ’75, Libby Clark ’75, Jane Scheerer Parkes ’75, and Wendy Taylor Patriquin ’75 at Lilo’s house in Nantucket, Spring ’13 6. Jessie Cogswell Tichko ’75 and her husband fly fishing in the Canandian Rockies 7. Genna DeSimone ’12, second from L, volunteered last summer for the Caherconnell Archaeological Field School in Ireland, and yes, they found a tomb with human remains on the last day of the dig!

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2. Dawn Hines Hall ‘89 and husband, Franz, at their first baby shower (Jayden Anthony Hall due in April), farewell party as they begin a three year stay in Abu Dhabi, and his retirement from Goldman Sachs after 25 years 3. Elise Drew Leon ’03, far left, on tour with the Jose Limon dance company in Cali, Colombia 4. Pidgeon Hodges Harvey ’58, Penny Jackson Trask ’58, Barbara Moore Rumsey ’53 5. Marley Stover Reece, grandchild of Susan Handy Stover ’70 6. Wendy Stout ’80, Blythe Burgan Davis ’80, Blair Brickman Stuart ’81, and Becky Chase Hughes ’81 at a Summer ’13 get together

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Alumnae Events: Celebrating Westover

Alumnae Events: Staying Connected

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1. (L-R) Nancy Pelaez ’86, Piper Morris ’59, Abby Browne ’61, Carey Edwards ’66, and Patricia Virden Mitchell ’70 met at the Boston MFA, Fall ’13 2. Franklin & Marshall students Mackenzie Dix ’10, Sierra Blazer ’13, and Jazmin Matos ’12, met for dinner with Development Associate, Katherine Blum ’08 in Lancaster, PA, November ’13 3. Development Associate, Katherine Blum ’08 met with Hofstra freshman Stephanie Sorosiak ’13, November ’13 4. Local parents and alumnae attended the Head’s holiday donor reception, December ’13 5. Gabrielle Grimmett ’13 and her mom Shirley with Beth Wirsul, Director of Financial Aid, at December’s donor reception 6. Deirdre Sullivan ’76 with her husband Edward Harbur and Ann Pollina, December’s donor reception 7. Tom Hungerford with Alumnae Governor Maura Tansley ’00 and her parents Maureen and Thomas

Look for Upcoming regional and local events! For details, visit westoverschool.org/alumnae Have an idea for an event or interested in hosting one?

Please contact Nancy Pelaez, Director of Alumnae Relations, 203.577.4593. Thank you!

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Westover in London, Maine, New York City, & San Francisco

Westover: Recent Graduates Connect through Colleges, a WISE Panel Event at Westover, and the #WOvember Event in New York City.

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S aturday , M ay 17 A lumnae D ay

Reunion Weekend 2014 May 16 - 18 F riday , M ay 16 1:00 pm

Check in, Red Hall Student-led Campus tours available throughout the afternoon

5 - 7:00 pm

Meet and Greet Welcome Reception with Faculty, Schumacher Gallery & LBD Performing Arts Center. Exhibition of award-winning student artwork

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Glee & Student Showcase Performances and Alumnae Sing Along. Tribute to Dance Director Patti Buchanan, retiring this year

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Young Alumnae Bonfire and s’mores at Seven Sisters

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Check In, Red Hall. Breakfat served in the dining room

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Chapel service, guest speaker Andrea Lawlor ‘89

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Alumnae Association Annual Town Hall Meeting with Ann Pollina: Invest & Inspire! Alumnae Awards Presentation: Westover Award to Louisa Jones Palmer ’54 Volunteer Service Award to Antoinette Walker Hamner ’69 Distinguished Young Alumnae Award to Jin Lee ’04 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductions: Cathie Gemino Hillian ’99 and Caitlin Snyder ’04

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Picnic lunch in the Quad & Class Photos. 50th Reunion Luncheon at Lee House

1 - 4:00 pm Invest and Inspire workshops, student panels, & demonstrations Learn firsthand what is happening at Westover today!

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Alumnae Career Networking Happy Hour. Bring your resumes & business cards. This was a huge hit last year!

6:00 pm Reunion Class dinners, organized by Reunion Chairs 50th Reunion Dinner and 55th-75th Reunioners hosted by the School

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Morning options for all: Yoga, South Street Run, Memory Walk Farewell Brunch

Class Notes: Winter 2014

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Thank you to our Class Secretaries for submitting news to the magazine. Notes published in this magazine were received as of November 1st. News and photos received after this date will be published in the next magazine. Please submit news to your class secretary or directly to the Alumnae Office for inclusion in the Magazine. The next Reunion for all classes ending in 4 and 9 will be May 16-18, 2014! Mark your calendars to celebrate with your classmates.

Patricia Franck Sheffield writes, “I am still totally active, swimming almost every day in my Endless Pool. I’m still working as a Standardized Patient, training foreign doctors for the U.S. medical exams. I work about 50-60 days a year. I still write notes for my Bryn Mawr class for the Bulletin. I have my 9th cat, who started, terrified, from a hoard of 76 cats that were removed to a shelter.

She spent 4 years in a tiny cage with her sister. After 2 years with me she is now totally happy to be petted and is outdoors most of the time on my rural property. Her sister developed cancer and is the 8th cat I have buried.

My health is, I suppose, remarkable at 87, but I feel for so many who are in bad shape. But I think keeping this job for 11 years is part of my health being great, and my pool, which I had installed in 2008.”

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Although Polly Hopkins Biddle has stepped down as class secretary, she still sent in news for this round: “My husband Nick died in April and it’s been hard, but I think he’s happier because of health reasons. On a brighter note, I had lunch with Betty Blodget Kent and Mary McCreath Godley in August, which is always good. Also Polly Curtis Burrus ’40 had Maybury Viall Fraser ’47 and me for lunch at Bailey’s Beach in Newport. We had some great laughs. That’s about all from here. We’ve added a new great granddaughter. I’ll try to head her toward Westover!”

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Katharine Clarkson McDonald PO Box 94 Woodbury, CT 06798 It was good to catch up with those 1939-ers who answered my plea for news. Thank you!

Julie Morris Disston continues to enjoy retirement life in Lafayette, PA and summers in her childhood haunts in Bremen, ME. She missed our special classmate Anna Ingersoll Roberts, who died in March ’13. They had been close friends since age 4 and had met frequently over the years. Julie no longer drives because of macular degeneration. Gina Miller Bissell also kept in touch with Anna, with whom she lunched prior to attending Phila.

Orchestra concert series together. Gina, 39’s busiest globetrotter, writes, “I have to put away my traveling boots.”

It was a lot of work moving and getting settled at the New Canaan Inn, but Allison Garver Caesar loves her new home.

She says, “It is very attractive, with all kinds of program and new friends. I see a lot of Cornie Gibson Nelson ’48. Family is growing up and is loving and interesting. Unfortunately, none of them live in the New Canaan area.”

Jo Grace Henry writes from Dorset, VT, “We are having a spectacular fall season this year. My golf is down to family members only. Our international travel is to Canada (my husband is Canadian) and domestic travel is VT – FL. Grands have graduated from USC and Bucknell, while two are still in school.”

Jeanie Van Sinderen Henry remains happy at Pomperaug Woods with its many activities. She has great neighbors, Joe and Beth Molder. Jeanie has a son in Woodbury and another in the Boston area and loves visits with her grands and twin great-grands, a boy and a girl. She and Kay Clarkson McDonald had a delightful day in Old Lyme on Kay’s 92nd birthday with Sidney Lauck Mattoon, their luncheon hostess. Their excellent chauffeur was Tami Bettcher Walker ’76, who kindly offered to convey the two non-drivers to the Beach Club. Sidney, an voracious reader, still volunteers at her local library. Kay, like Julie, is receiving shots for macular degeneration. She is very fortunate to have a helpful son living with her. She misses the Westover archives, but someone with worsening eyesight is hardly an asset! She had a wonderful family gathering at her VA son’s home in Aug. ’13 with 3 of her 4 grands present. At home, she and Maria Randall Allen ’42 meet frequently for a sandwich.

A call to Anne Rogers Hawes found her in good spirits. She has a son living with her and sees some younger Westover alumnae in her area. She speaks for many of us when she says her calendar notes more dates with doctors than social occasions! Sue Perrin Kloman no longer drives but reports basic good health other than AMD. She sounded just the way she did back in our Westover days. It was fun to chat with her and Anne.

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Maria Randall Allen reports, “I celebrated birthday #90 in July, feeling fine, although a bit “tottery.” Still keeping house in Watertown, getting rid of “things,” and enjoying very good company and having daughter Heather Allen ’71 near enough to help if needed. I send love and happy memories to each of you.”

Mary Acheson Bundy says, “I am still living in the small renovated barn that is on the same property of our former house. Two children and two grandsons are in the Boston area, and one child and two granddaughters are in the L.A. area. I am still painting. I’m also recovering from a spine operation and a new hip all in one year. Life has slowed down but essentially is the same, except that friends seem to get younger.”

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Ann Slaymaker O’Reilly writes, “I am living at Essex Meadows Retirement Community in Essex, CT with another resident I met there. We spend time at his house in New London, CT and condo in Naples, FL. We are considering marriage.”

Alison Barbour Fox says, “Life goes on with our usual ups and downs, but a big event this year was a luncheon given by Yale to honor the 25th anniversary of the Fox International Fellows, the exchange program Joe founded and continues to support. My family are all Westerners, so I look forward to their visits to the East so much, including the chance to see two energetic great-grandsons.”

Elinor Bliss Malcom reports, “We are enjoying our expanding family. It’s fun with 5 grandkids and another on the way. Health problems persist, but we enjoy Wings Neck (Cape) all summer. Looking forward to all the news.”

Margaret Hull Chalif has shared the sad news about the passing of her husband, Amos Chalif, on Nov. 2, 2012 after 68 years of marriage. “I was the second one in our class to get married. The wedding was on Jan. 27, 1944 at “The Little Church Around the Corner” in NYC. My roommate at Westover, Ann Hillis, was one of my bridesmaids. Amos rose to full Colonel in the U.S. Air Force and was still driving his car the day he died at age 94 of a heart attack.

My older daughter, Wendy Chalif Eld, attended Centenary College and University of Phoenix, AZ, and is a computer consultant for several businesses, as well as an illustrator.

My younger daughter, Skye Van Saun, graduated summa cum laude with specialized honors from Drew U. and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence C. In 2008, Skye was invited to be a featured poet at the Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Poetry Festival. I recently read that a Westover group attended last year’s Dodge Poetry Festival. Skye is also Director of the DE Valley Poetry Festival and is a

poet/writer in the schools. My granddaughter, Molly Hull Van Saun Sumner, also graduated from Drew U. and is the owner of Kindred Companions, LLC, a dog training and pet sitting business.”

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Natalie O’Brien Conklin reports that she’s sold the house in Westhampton Beach and is now a permanent resident of Boca Grande, FL after a lifetime on Long Island. She has many memories and mixed emotions about leaving the NY area.

Elizabeth Baker Matthews has a new address in Vero Beach, FL. Please contact the Alumnae Office to reach her.

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Isabel Lincoln Elmer writes, “I am busy working at our archives for the Community of Jesus and at the Thrift Shop on Thursdays. A young family with three children and a young lady who has taken “single vows” live with me at my home on Cape Cod. There are 3 dogs and my little kitty cat also! I am a widow.”

Nancy Barnes Coffin shares the news that her husband of three years, Donald DeFeyter, passed away on Aug. 1, 2013. She says that they “lived on WY Ranch, boated in B.C., and wintered in Wickenburg, AZ.” She also serves as a board member and chair of the Scholarship Committee of the Oreg. Inst. of Tech.

Cintra Morgan Badenhausen says, “Still married, still in the same house, still working, still volunteering (MOW), and still driving, albeit at reduced levels.”

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Beatrice Bronson Garvan Penllyn Pike PO Box 304 Spring House, PA 19477 beagarvan@gmail.com Greetings all. E-mail helped this year – about half of you used it. Splendid. Your voices come through, whatever the media. Thank each other for this fun read.

Roxy Schulke Kaufmann’s came in right on time so she earns a first here: “One thing I can write you. I am not retired. John and I are still active in business; John has his design firm HAMA GALLERIES and architecture, and Tranquility Studio, and I remain on two boards, Advertising Associates Saatchi & Saatchi and one of Bermuda’s leading restaurants, “Henry VIII”.

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1946 Continued In addition to that we commute about every 4 to 6 weeks to our “holiday” house in Colebrook, NH where for over five years the old horse stables of the Balsams Hotel have been re-created to house a theater, art gallery and museum. John has donated his architectural time, and between us we had spearheaded the development of the project with financial support and overall direction.

The theater has now been named the Kaufmann Theater at the Tillotson Center. (We met when he was designing Bermuda’s outdoor theater in 1959). All six children are thriving. My second son, Graeme Outerbridge, is the mayor of Hamilton, and my daughter Cece is VP and senior international equity trader of the Boston Company.

Fourth son Andrew is practicing architecture in Bermuda and Princeton, NJ, where he and his family live. Stats: 13 grandchildren, two greats, and one about to hatch!

Tranquility is still “open house” to old Westover pals, including a recent (3 years ago) cruise visit from the late Clare Sutherland – wonderful reunion – but mostly it’s the younger generations.”

Another version of “tranquility”, from Teenie Upson Arnold on Tranquility Road, Middlebury: “I’m experiencing some family joys in my longevity – two healthy great grandsons were born this year. My sister Thyrza Upson Christel ’48, my brother Hiram, and I are all back in the Middlebury– Washington, CT area, and are all well into our 80s. T’is great seeing each other more often. So what if we and life are slower! When times are calm – that is good. Best to you and all the ladies of the Class of ’46.”

From (Susan Ricky Colket Rakestraw: “It’s been a very good year: me and mine are all well, have jobs, and seem happy. Best thing that happened this year was my son coming back from Dubai after 1 ½ years. He had been living over there and working in Sheik Mohammad’s Equine Hospital. He said it was a great experience. I had my 85th birthday last March and my daughter Trudy said that she, Dave, and their 3 sons would all come to Kiawah to help celebrate and that the boys and Dave would bring their guitars. They are all professional musicians but have other jobs! This inspired me to give a party for my good friends at Kiawah, as I could supply the entertainment.

I rented a room in the club, gave everyone simple food (Sliders), wine/beer, paper plates, and a big trash can so there was no clean up. The Munsick Boys (look them up on YouTube) played country-western and bluegrass music all evening. Everyone was still talking about the party of the winter when we all departed for our homes in May.” Wow! Maybe WO’s development office could rethink entertainment for the geriatric set.

Yes, go to YouTube. Harriet Costikyan is the one to contact if you want to do YouTube and see a picture of yourself at Westover. “Have been active at home working on my

great-great grandfather’s book and art collection, a daily dose of DVD courses, and writing blogs for Tumblr.” So I responded to Harriet, “What is Tumblr?” and got full instructions together with the most astonishing photo, all hair and lipstick.

Andy Clark Newbold Godfrey goes back and forth between Phila. and ME, organized as always: “The main change in Tom’s and my lives is moving from a house in the Beaumont Retirement Community to an apartment in Beaumont.

Luckily, we can go from our small terrace onto green lawn and lovely woods with a pond, as well as walking paths throughout. It makes our lives less institutional and more in touch with nature. As for activities, I am involved with two reading groups and try to keep up with the New York Times. I also attend Phila. Orchestra concerts and some simulcasts of the Met. Opera productions. I often think happily of our lives and friendships at Westover. I wonder about what the Westover motto “To Think, To Do, To Be” has meant to all of us in our lives and today. P.S. Have had some wonderful times seeing Mary “Smitty” Gibson Geer in Rockland when we are in ME. I’m awestruck by her voracious reading and rereading of classic and other books.”

If when you read these epistles, long and short, crafted by ‘46ers, you can go slowly and “see” each person; their words and focus seem so familiar, like Patsy Martin Seidler’s understated but full content: “My year seems to be about the same! I am still active in the same five charities, plus a book club and bridge class. A grandchild got married last weekend in the Napa Valley, which means that time marches on! “ And now think of Karen “Packy” Packard de Planque, full of laughter and action: her notes to me fly all around the page – wonderful. “Thanks so much for doing the write up for our dwindling class. I find the same for my old friends here, not many left of them – I guess it is because of our age. Only my sister Sabra ’49 left in our family except for some young cousins and my beloved daughter Michelle, who lives in Israel and faithfully keeps the family going, and visits me several times a year. I am now the great grandmother of 3 boys and 3 girls, with another coming. I went to Israel this past spring for 2 months to celebrate the wedding of my last granddaughter to a delightful young man of South African heritage. His family all live within bicycle distance of each other in the same town in Israel, Ra’anana – much like La Jolla. They are both in University and, at the moment, celebrating a delayed honeymoon in Paris. They all speak English, which is great for me. My oldest grandson is still a pilot in the Israel Air force and will continue in desk work in Tel Aviv this year. They are expecting a 4th child in a new house they have built near the City, as they have left the Air Force quarters.

I continue daily early tennis with a geriatric group from 7-9AM – gets me up but wears me out, too. Continue living in a nice condo in La Jolla village where I can walk to everywhere needed, including St. James by the Sea. Oh, my great-nephew has spent the last 2 summers in the dance group at Westover and is continuing in NYC this year. Sadly I lost my 2 older sisters, classes ’39 and ’41, but there are benches in Debby’s name by the Chapel.”

Speaking of Chapel, remember the glorious voice down the chapel line? Peggy Evans Dennis doesn’t mention singing but I hope she still does. “We now have one greatgrandchild who is older than our youngest grandchild. I wonder if that will make a difference in their relationship. We now have 11 grands and 2 great-grands, most of whom live elsewhere so I thank goodness for email photos. Of course, all are enchanting. After spending many, many years canceling each other’s vote, Reid and I are together. We cheer and we fret about the same things. He retains his old party affiliation but never votes with it. Presently numerous govt. functions are shut down with perhaps worse to come. I hope we are wise enough to keep our democracy and our good earth supporting us.”

Hey everybody, take a look at this roster – your two-year-girl contingent is making a fine showing: Ann Ellis Raynolds was so very smart at WO and is carrying on in true form. “Still work as a licensed psychologist in VT and NH (and love my work), serve on VT Psychological Association Board of Directors, live near family, still involved in politics, especially the Single Payer Health Care for All (another Board I serve on) initiative, which we hope to launch in VT in 2017. Currently we are all trying to live through the Affordable Care Act, which does not benefit VT’s lower income folks since we had good health programs in place already. And finally, although not as agile as formerly, I still try to play tennis every week. Am so impressed with Ann Pollina that I broke down and sent in a check to Westover this year for the first time. Saw Andy a couple of years ago visiting with Smitty in ME and am still in close contact with Smitty.”

Alumna of Note: Tonie Schildge Malone ’53

In 1993, Tonie Schildge Malone ’53 was in Haiti as a United Nations’ human rights observer during a particularly unsettled time in that troubled nation’s history. While there, Tonie witnessed firsthand the depths of poverty that had left Haiti the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. She came back wanting to do something to help.

When she returned to the USA, she submitted a proposal to the parish council of her church, St. Joseph’s in Keyport, New Jersey to have the parish establish a microcredit loan program with a sister parish in Haiti to support poor women in setting up small businesses.

This year, St. Joseph’s Haiti Parish Twinning Program is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its relationship with Pignon on the Grande Plateau. In our first year, Tonie recalled, “our budget was $8,000 and we gave $1,000 dollars worth in loans.”

By 2012, the parish had a budget of $179,000 and was able to provide $68,000 in microloans to the town of Pignon and its seven chapels. Most of the loans were made to market women; some to farmers.

“Last year, we gave 3,680 women – and maybe 25 men – loans to support the running of small businesses,” Tonie said. The loans range from $100 to $1,000, though most range from $100 to $300. “Most of the loans are to start small businesses or to purchase donkeys or oxen for transportation and plowing.”

The funds for the loans come from St. Joseph’s parishioners, from grants, and from supporters from all over the country. The project also provides educational sponsorships – because, as Tonie noted, a key to escaping poverty is education – and provides the salaries for a doctor and two nurses in a health clinic that they built in 2010.

Once or twice a year, Tonie and a delegation from her parish travel to Pignon to see how the program is operating and to meet with its loan recipients. Tonie said, “This year they told us, ‘You have done more for us than the government ever has,’ ‘You have given us hope that we can feed our children and that we can have homes,’ and ‘You have saved our lives.’”

For more information about the program, please visit the website loans4haiti.org or e-mail Tonie at toniepax@aol.com

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1946 Continued Getting the note from Ann tossed me back in time. My love for woods and waters began when some of us visited her on Lake George after graduation from WO. The result today and for some years past, is a “camp” on Raquette Lake in the Adirondacks where family gathers. Seven miles by boat has not deterred nine busy grands from a multi-hour drive from wherever to fill a sleeping porch or the outdoor shower. They come with friends in various combinations, with or without their parents: Lulu, Curator Fine Arts, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; Debby Lippincott ’72 organizes and moves the likes of us into retirement places and then “stages” their house for sale; Flann, an intellectual property lawyer in NJ; Wiz, dealing with the complexities of high-level kid’s sports; Bea II, tennis team at Emory U; Lydia, soccer in CA; son Josh is ranked No.1 high school quarterback in CA. As for me, I keep the “hotel” in the summer. The rest of the year, I spend five days and sometimes more doing what I did last year and will do next year if no disasters: writing the American Silver catalogue for the Phila. Museum of Art. The silver sparkles – I do not have to clean it. I am in archives and manuscripts, deeds, wills, court records etc.: the raw material of biography, hoping to give life beyond birth and death to American silversmiths, especially those who lived and worked in Philadelphia.

Everyone ended with “Best to all”.

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Mary Wells Jencks writes: “My husband Richard welcome visits from children and grandchildren and friends. But this “golden years” thing is not easy and we do not travel any more. Love to all classmates. And fond remembrance of those we have lost. I am proud of all that Westover has accomplished.”

Anne-Louise Baker Carroll sends news of the birth of her first great grandchild, a girl. Carolyn Grace was born in Chicago on July 7, 2013. She says that it saddens her to read the list of classmates still living and writes, “I miss so many of the departed. What a great class we had.”

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Sheila Edee 1510 Wedmore Court SE Smyrna, GA 30080 Mtnmom@mindspring.com Gayle Nin Rosenkrantz 990 Randolph Street San Francisco, CA 94123 gnrwriter@att.net

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How do we cope with aging? Gayle Nin Rosenkrantz and David installed a chairlift in our house so that we can stay here longer and not fret about going up and down the stairs. Even though David uses a walker, we do get around quite a bit. He put some big wheels on the front and back of the walker so he whizzes down the street from the streetcar stop to the opera house and symphony hall.

We feel so fortunate to be able to enjoy our SF symphony, opera, ballet and Repertory Theater. We have also taken up duplicate bridge and love playing at various clubs two or more times a week. We no longer take big trips, but we attend regional and national tournaments. In Aug. ‘13 we played in Colorado Springs and visited our daughter Valerie. In Nov. ‘13 we’ll play in Phoenix and share Thanksgiving with our son Bruce and his family.

During baseball season we take the streetcar to root for the Giants at AT&T Park. We are taking some interesting courses at a local center for education for elders and work out at the gym three times a week. I am still reading voraciously in both Spanish and English. Many of our friends have passed on and sometimes I miss the times I opened my heart to the ones who are gone. I am grateful for the friendships I made at Westover. I am grateful for every day and the gifts it offers.

Sabra Packard Cleveland is now the primary caregiver for her husband who is almost 90 and is suffering from dementia and macular degeneration. She is grateful that she is well enough to care for him even though this new responsibility reduces her volunteer activities. She loves reading about all of us. She and Shelia Edee stay in touch as always these past 82 years.

Joan Peterkin Foxwell is celebrating the birth of her greatgranddaughter Adelaide Foxwell in Phila., the daughter of her grandson Taylor Foxwell and his wife Anessa.

Sue Searle Dixon and her husband Wes married off two grandsons in April and Oct. ‘12, one in ID and one in GA. They were expecting a great-grandchild the end of Sept.

‘13. They have slowed down a bit but Sue was enjoying reading a book about Westover.

Nancy Lee Ballenger’s husband Bruce passed away in July of ‘12. Although we are sorry for her loss, Nancy says he was ready to go. She went on a train trip to VA earlier in ‘13 and is enjoying a biography of the Queen Mother Elizabeth. Nancy reports that there is no retiring in her retirement community (committees, fun groups, activities). Her biggest challenge is finding some peace and quiet for herself. Joan Pirie Leclerc is staying mostly at home, although she does occasionally go to NYC for the theater. She is blessed to have 3 grandchildren and three children in DC. Her oldest son, Robert Thayer, works for Food for Peace while her other son, Nate Thayer, is a reporter. Joan recommended we read Caleb’s Crossing.

1949 Continued Louise Levenson is still playing piano and is also working as a piano teacher in a music school for special students.

She is increasing her repertoire, and both of her activities give her great joy. She also takes art classes. Pamela Jayne Miller and her husband still spend a large part of every summer in ME, where their 4 sons and their families come and share the summer with the rest of the family.

The Millers sold the big house in CT, which they occupied for 40 years, and now are happy with their home in a very nice retirement community in CT. I tried but did not succeed in obtaining news from all of my group. I thank those who responded. It is not hard to understand that at our age, if we happen to still be alive, we may be overwhelmed with illness, aging related handicaps, or taking care of loved ones. We love you all and are grateful for the connections we made at Westover.

And from Shelia: As I, Sheila, explore Gayle’s bright report, I continue to be struck by how mobile, resilient and/or adaptable we continue to be. A vital factor, as I see it, is the ability to get from here to there. Gayle and her husband enjoy what is probably the most efficient public transportation in the nation. SF has seen the needs and met them. No word how those of any age navigate the considerable hills in that metro maze.

If memory serves, Luigi Horne Mumford does not even need to own a car in Chicago. Many of us have to be more ingenious as we dodge super size SUVs with drivers glued to cell phones. Or, work around friends’ and families’ schedules, waiting for a ride.

Kitty Devine Hayden is blessed with having son, David, a writer, live with her. He ferries her to and fro and does much of the heavy lifting. That frees Kitty to roam the rocks and rills around her very friendly home in Wilton, CT. She does all the housework in a three-story “nest”. I continually ask her where the endorphin rush is in scrubbing baseboards and routing out dust bunnies. Perhaps I will send a carton of Mr. Clean Magic Erasers for her holiday joy. Kitty still manages to get in a walk of several miles most days. She enjoyed reading the poignant Thank You For Your Service

by David Finkel.

Judy Blair McDonough opines on how delicious it would be for some of us to sit down and have a good chat.

Sometimes she is horrified at the world which she will soon leave for her children, grands, and great-grands.

Are we too close to an extinction of the world as it is? Can we turn things around? More importantly, do we have the collective will to do so? Judy has a Guinness-variety stat for our class: does anyone else have a daughter who attended a 40th college reunion this year? It was hard enough when the girl turned 60. Judy and husband, Tom,

are relieved to have a new internist in Cincinnati. He treats the entire family “from diaper to diaper.”

Bobby Lamb Johnson took a nine-day Road Scholar cruise through the Great Lakes last summer. Highlights included a stop at Mackinac Island, where her son, the late Christopher Reeve, filmed Somewhere in Time with Jane Seymour. She found a display about the film in an alcove off the grand porch of The Grand Hotel, where much of the filming took place. Bobby made a jaunt on her own to Norwalk, OH. With the help of the local public library, she located the house where her father and six of his seven siblings grew up. The youngest hadn’t been born by the time the 1902 Norwalk Directory was printed. Her youngest grandchild began kindergarten in the fall. Oldest granddaughter is still hard at work on the legal staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Lois Boots Berry enjoyed a move down memory lane when she visited Westover last spring. Her granddaughter attends Greens Farm Academy in Westport. The young soccer teams duked it out on the playing field, after which Lois gave some lucky students a back stairs tour of The Westover You Never Knew Existed. That in itself is sort of freaky. Lois had an informative chat with a senior. No word how different or similar the ladies are across the decades.

Never one to let anything but beautiful flowers grow under her feet, Barbara Crowell Wheeler admits to easing up in the garden and on the tennis court. The eyes see the ball, but the legs don’t seem to get it. Last year, she took a boat trip up the St. Lawrence River and bumped into Hedda von Goeben ‘48. These impromptu redux seem to pop up often with our convivial classmates. Barb had naught to say about her shipmates’ dire need of hearing aids.

No weeks at the spa for Sheila Grainger Edee. Nope, no Tauck tour, cruising the Adriatic Sea. This year I sprang for a Staycation. I live in a pleasant subdivision in metro Atlanta, where the yards are small and the neighbors close – very close. Now my curved patio sports a potted plant population, strategically spaced flowering trees, and a luscious layout of thick, green sod. Really pleasant – no Photoshop needed. My two small Dachshunds hate it. The cushy sod has obliterated all their digs. They don’t seem to comprehend the beauty of the lilies or the luxury of stretching out and practicing deep breathing. Although I am no student of Shakespeare, he wrote thusly in As You Like It: “Find tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

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1949 Continued As we all know, we are designed to wear out, but I am doing very well right now. I am working part time in my field of psychotherapy and painting, entering juried shows, having fun, traveling every once in awhile, and am extraordinarily grateful for my life. Fifth, I see my family periodically and was in OR with one of my sons and family over the holidays. My other son and wife are nearby… I treasure that fact. Besides grateful I am also full of thanks that I can inhale and exhale. I love being alive.

May all your storms be weathered, and all that’s good get better.

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Faith Emeny Conger 34 Greenhouse Drive Princeton, NJ 08540 Louise Hicks Crispin 535 Gradyville Road, Apt W103 Newtown Square, PA 19073 Sandy Baldwin Nissley has enjoyed a year of traveling with her husband Tom to Colombia, Cuba and Uganda. Mostly looking for birds, they found the gorillas in Uganda the most exciting. Yet to come is St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, with the Presbyterian Church in New Canaan.

Patsy Chickering Fish’s fond remembrances of Westover are many. “Friends who lasted a lifetime, the beauty of New England, the home of my ancestors, and the snowy winters. I learned humility, discipline, forgiveness, acceptance, compassion, thankfulness, wisdom, and patience.”

Weezie Hicks Crispin still enjoys their CCRC existence, the pretty countryside, friendly residents and the continuous activities available. Faith Emeny Conger continues to teach four yoga classes weekly and enjoys travels with family members.

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Francine LeRoux Haskell writes: “My family and I had our usual summer in Normandy this year with our children, grandchildren and friends. For my son Michael, his sales business has picked up recently; Christopher is happy with his new family; and our daughter Diana is very busy with her photography and A Book by My Dog, and her website is good fun: DianaHaskellPhotography.com. In Fall ‘13, I am directing a musical play, Saint-Exupery’s Le Petit Prince, which will be performed in NYC at the French Institute, as well as in Santa Barbara. I had a wonderful lunch recently with Ariane Yassukovich Wellin: she never changes!”

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Pam Miller Gerard writes that she is not used to retirement from retailing in NYC and having unstructured days, but is glad to be in the city with all its cultural events. She is the Co-Chair for the 55th Vassar Reunion, which coincides with the College’s 150th year. She enjoyed traveling to her niece’s wedding in Greece. Emily Nichols Wharton lives in her house in Stonington, CT and is on the boards of the Southeast CT Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Stonington Village Improvement Society, and active in a book club, a bridge group, a fitness group, and does genealogical research. This is what retirement is all about – or is it old age, she queries. From Nantucket, Nancy Tuttle Adam writes that she had to give up crutches and accept a wheelchair. One sister lives on the island and another comes for long weekends. Her son Andrew is teaching at the U of Glasgow and his wife is earning her PhD from Duke. Her daughter just closed her store in Greenwich due to the economy. Nancy lives with an orange tabby, Tango.

We had our 60th Reunion in May 2013! I had every hope of a wonderful celebration, as we did for our 50th. What happened was that Jean Ackerman Robinson showed up and we proceeded to have a grand time! We attended the Glee concert, art exhibit, and various social gatherings, including dinner at Ann Pollina’s home. As Jeanie writes to me, “No news except our 60th Reunion was celebrated by a dynamic duo recognizing our class motto ‘loyalty’ and missing all of our wonderful classmates! Let’s go for the 70th!”

Gillet Thomas Page 16 Oak Street Kennebunkport, ME 04046 gilletpage@roadrunner.com

Judy Croy Stevens has been Property Manager of her condo assoc. for twelve years, one with 45 homes and fields of wildflowers and grasses that keep her busy.

Having no computer, she and her husband keep in touch with family by telephone, including a sister in Australia and daughters in CA and Germany. She writes, “Being out in nature, hearing lovely music, being with my husband and friends makes me happy.”

Quita Woodward Horan writes, “Do not be afraid of going to a retirement community. They offer free time from the maintenance of your previous dwelling and meal planning. As either you or your mate decline in health, the community offers tremendous support by seeing you daily and observing your grief and they hold you in their arms.

We are a loving family bearing one another’s burdens and celebrate 90th birthdays with joy.”

Barbara Farwell Bayley writes that the last six months have been an adjustment because her husband Alan passed away. They had been married almost 54 years and now she is keeping busy. Barbara, we wish you well.

My news is that I had the thrill of exhibiting sculpture at Westover during the 100 years Celebration. The perfect installation of three bronzes and a stone carving and casting with other Westover artists in a gallery named for Mr. Schumacher and meeting faculty and students was a high point in my career. Then, Lyman and I returned for the big alumnae celebration and had the good fortune to see both Diana Tench Stovall and Nonie Wickwire Knight.

Esther Spaulding 17 E 89th Street Apt 12E New York, NY 10128 wilmurtews@aol.com

Tonie Schildge Malone lost her husband, Jack Rotgers, in 2011. Tonie continues to run her microcredit project in Haiti, where a health clinic has been built. Local youth have been sent to university and are now the doctors, nurses, and lab technicians running the clinic. Tonie spends time with her 27 grands and first great-grand! Patty Merritt Campbell had signed up for a Baltic sea cruise which started the day of our 60th Reunion. A Baltimore friend from Briarcliff accompanied her and they have signed up for the Westover Danube Cruise in June of ’14. Patty has lots of friends at her retirement community and is busy at her church and downtown. She has 6 grands. She and Jean Ackerman Robinson attended Ann Whitfield Roberts’ funeral and spoke on their experiences with her at Westover and Briarcliff.

Alice Bell Reid wrote that the year 2013 was spent on “operatic” travel, seeing Wagner’s “Ring” cycle in Munich and Seattle and other trips around the UK as well. She had dinner with other alumnae and Laura Volovski ’83, Westover’s Director of Admissions, in Oct. Report: Westover alumnae seem to be thriving, and it was great to hear about all the exciting things happening on campus.

Barbara Moore Rumsey wrote about the disastrous floods in CO; 7 days of continuous rains have measured what usually falls in 5 years. Her old home on the hill above the U of CO is on a street that became a river and, now, a sinkhole. Barbie moved to Denver in June ’13 and lives down the street from Penny Jackson Trask ’58 and two blocks from Elaine Hodges Harvey ’58. Barbie and her family are okay and offer assistance as they are chosen: food, housing, pet care, storage space, transportation to Red Cross centers, etc.

Dicka Hoadley DeLude also had a year of travel: in Nov. ’12 she visited Amsterdam for a week with Ann Reitsma – de Gardeyn, was in Tucson and Scottsdale, AZ to see Mary Gipson Barkley, and took a two week cruise in Norway followed by 5 days in Amsterdam with Ann. Since she missed our 60th, Dicka is aiming for our 65th!

Mary Reynolds Moser had a good year. Son Rich with his lady friend visited at the lake for 10 days during the summer.

Daughter Kathy and husband visited also but son Jim and family did not get there. Mary spent 7 weeks at the lake.

She is very excited at the prospect of singing with a singing group in Ireland and Rome at the Sistine Chapel.

Liesel Stylianidou Papathanassiou wrote that she and George are still up and around. They walk, swim in the sea every day in the warm months, and travel. The rest of the family is struggling along as this economic crisis has hurt everyone. Anne Chickering Hill wrote that her beloved husband Richard A. Hill died on Jan. 27, 2013 after 55 years of marriage. A daughter Wendy, a son Peter, daughter-inlaw Sara, and 3 grands, Emma, Katie, and Caroline, also survive. Dick came calling on Anne when we were students at Westover, which prompted Adele Q. Ervin ‘42 to say that Dick was, indeed, a member of the Class of 1953!

As the year 2013 winds down, I must mention these notable classmates who died and whom Jeanie and I mentioned at the Alumnae Weekend chapel service: Buffy Heffelfinger Delaney, Wendy Allen Wheeler, and Ann Whitfield Roberts.

A note from Barbie Moore Rumsey shared the sad news of Jamie Hickerson’s death. He was the son of Diane Woods Hickerson.

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Mary Merrill Hoffman 241 Sea Road Kennebunk, ME 04043 pthoff@yahoo.com Lavinia Meeks 42 Cliffwood Street, Apt. C Lenox, MA 01240 Barbie Edwards Hicks has generously agreed to host a 75th birthday gathering for the class on Tuesday, May 20, 2014.

More details on that will follow.

Dorie Milner Pease sent me the sad news that Georgia Kendall Sisson’s son, aged 43, died in April of a heart ailment. Georgia is now living in a retirement community in Dallas. The class extends deepest sympathy to her and her family.

Dorie has been busy as a Westover Governor and as our hard-working Class Agent. 2 of her 3 daughters and 3 grands live nearby, so they have visited NYC museums, the Bronx Zoo, Circle Line and many other attractions. She is very involved with her church choir, Pastoral care, Stephen Ministry, Meals On Wheels, hospice and is a board member of the local AAUW. Wow, Dorie! She recently enjoyed a long weekend with her sister Lillian Milner Smyser ’59 at Andy Soule Graves’s lovely house on Otisco Lake in upstate NY.

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1957 Continued Florence Lincoln Short started out on the Red Rock Ride with her niece, where they rode a horse or mule through the National Parks, starting at Zion and ending on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. Unfortunately, the trip ended with the shutdown and closing of the parks. They had a wonderful trip despite all.

Several classmates have been traveling. Barbie Edwards Hicks and Paul had a fun trip in July to Austria, Germany, and Holland and in August went to Cooperstown, NY to the Glimmerglass Opera. While at home time was spent walking the dog and gardening. She commented on how beautiful Westover looked in May at reunion. Diana Peabody Bell and Tom took all 11 of their immediate family to Bermuda and the Pompano Beach Club to celebrate their 50th and had a fabulous time. Summer is spent on Nantucket surfing, boating, and golfing with family and 3 visiting English friends.

There were 2 moves to note. Adrienne Leichtle Maxwell and Jack moved to a retirement community in Richmond, VA called Westminster Canterbury. They are only 20 minutes from their former home. Their new address is: 7 Glebe Close, Richmond, VA 23227, and telephone and e-mail remain the same. Lucy Noyes and Dick, after 30 years in Placitas, NM, have moved east near one of their sons. She is looking forward to catching up with eastern friends. Hopefully, Lucy, you will come to the birthday bash. Their new address is: 118 Locust Drive, Nyack, NY 10960, tel. 845-675-7108.

Lavinia C. Meeks is now full time in Lenox, MA. She volunteers at Kripalu Yoga Center, Lenox Library, and Trinity Church. Her health is “holding up” and she is hoping for a big turnout for the 75th birthday celebration.

Cindy Bennett Squire has been enjoying summer on Nantucket, busy with friends and family. She spent a week with her sons, Chris and Jon, and loves watching grands and their parents boogie boarding (Cindy vicariously) every beautiful beach day. She sends regards to all.

Baba Sommerhoff Patty reports “no dramatic news”. They have had a few medical issues but are “going along” and enjoying children and grands.

Varick Katzenbach Niles is in Naples, FL in the winter and Westport, MA in the summers. Her new venture is a studio/ gallery in Everglades City (35 miles south of Naples). She is open Fridays and Saturdays from Nov. to April and had a successful 4 months this past spring.

All’s well with me. I love being near the ocean and having lots of family around during summers and vacations.

Skiing was wonderful last winter and I enjoyed a great week at Sunday River. The whole family golfs, and our newest sport is paddle boarding. The younger family members have much better balance than I. Please keep me updated with your news and REMEMBER our 75th Birthday celebration.

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Penny Jackson Trask 2800 South University Blvd #100 Denver, CO 80210 ptrask3@gmail.com A great 55th reunion in May! We missed those of you not able to rejoice with us. For me it was especially special as it was my granddaughter’s Emily’s first reunion. Fun to be there together.

Marcia Catlin Coffey claims she leads a very boring life “mostly in the fantasy online world of the web.” Her daughter is with her and has finally returned to tennis.

Lynn Hamilton is still in Santa Barbara, CA, and continues to work world-wide with students for college, boarding school, and therapeutic placement. She loves all the travel. She went to the Galapagos with daughter-in-law Kathy and family. Kathy and husband Jim are in Boulder, CO, now, a sad move from Park City where their children were good friends with the grands of Mary Brereton Frost.

Jim is Exec Dir. of AIM House, a therapeutic program for young adults. Suzanne and Mike McKinney run Pacific Quest, a therapeutic program for adolescents and young adults, in HI. Chip and Pauline Meyer are in Osterville, MA; he is in the food distribution business and she works for a plant nursery.

Pidgeon Hodges Harvey says “all’s well in CO other than too much rain!” Trasks gave the Harveys a party for their friends, one of whom was Barbara Moore Rumsey ‘53.

Snow is around the corner but Pidge and I are ready for spring!

Peyton Chapman Horne says, “No news is good news.”

She and Deborah Morgan Luquer went to ME to visit Marcie McCormick Porter. The three went to Helen Tyson’s memorial service on Mount Dessert. “A sad occasion but we three had a wonderful time,” says Marcie.

Mary Brereton Frost has a “renewed sense of connection from Reunion 2013, more so than any other – a love for the place and the friends that’s bigger than it used to be.” She says to check out “4 Minute Fitness” on the web and we’ll do it at our 60th. No travels but lots of visitors and great coffee cups with grands at McGill, Bates, and Cornell. “Westover welcome mat is always out!”

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Alumnae of Note: Ann Priftis ’96 & Ambika Conroy ’98

As it is here in Denver, CO, in warm months in Tucson, AZ, during the winter… so come!

The Faberge Big Egg Hunt will feature a veritable Easter Parade of one-of-akind eggs designed by 250 commissioned artists, architects, luxury brands, and fashion labels. The event – which will have eggs displayed throughout New York City from April 1st-April 22nd – will showcase the talents of not one, but two Westover alumnae: Alumnae Governors President Ann Clark Priftis ’96 (left) and Ambika Conroy ’98 (right).

Anita Burroughs Fahy just writes that she is happy, happy, happy! Can’t beat that!

Kitsy Baird Smith 5 Spicer Road Richmond, VA 23226 kitsys@comcast.net It was wonderful to hear news from our 55th Reunion. I know everyone had a wonderful time and shared lots of memories and life stories. We are a special class. We must all keep in touch. It is important!

Ellen Lishman Robertson reports that after eight years, her husband had a successful aortic aneurysm repair. He was in the hospital for only three days.

He is up and about and doing great.

Ellen is taking a course on Proust and one on the Vikings. Next year: American Impressionists. In May they will be going on a cruise to Alaska! (Only 38 passengers on board, not a Carnival ship!)

Lucy Lisle Murray-Brown just welcomed her 13th grandchild. They range from two months to 22 years. She and Jeremy spend most of their free time traveling to see them. Lucy’s interests are very broad. She enjoys her role as a member of the Police Review and Advisory Board, and is also actively involved with a family guidance center in Cambridge.

She continues her work with victims of crime, plays bridge, enjoys tapping, gardening, and being a member of a neighborhood book club. She loves getting together friends and expressed how important old friends are as they gathered to attend our dear Selden Dunbar Illick’s husband’s funeral last summer. Lucy is a wonderful friend and I cherish all that she does for me.

“I was hired through my company, Clark Priftis Art to be the Head of Art for the Faberge Big Egg Hunt,” Ann explained. “My role is to identify and secure artists for the event. On April 22nd, the eggs will be auctioned off at Sotheby’s – and online – with the proceeds to benefit Elephant Family and Studio in a School.

“I contacted Ambika,” Ann said, “after I saw a BBC News clip on Facebook that featured Ambika as an expert on the humane treatment of Angora rabbits. She raises them on her farm in New York for the purpose of humanely harvesting their fur for her clothing and accessories line, Ambika Friendly Furs. She’s a powerful voice in the movement for the humane treatment of animals in fashion, and in the fur fashion industry in particular.”

Ann added, “Ambika’s fun and beautiful design concept was instantly approved by our Art Committee and will be in great company featured alongside eggs designed by Tracey Emin, Zaha Hadid, Ralph Lauren, Cynthia Rowley, RETNA, William Wegman, DKNY, Faile, Ronnie Wood, Pat Steir, Tommy Hilfiger ... the list goes on!”

On her website (ambikaboutique.com/friendlyfurs), Ambika explained that “raising angora rabbits and creating designs from their fiber was an obvious extension of my childhood obsession with animals. I stumbled upon the breed at a county fair in 2002 and immediately had to get some. My first two lived with me in Brooklyn and would hang out on the couch and watch movies. I sought out spinning classes after their fiber started piling up, and my obsession continued from there. I was fascinated with the idea that I could make a finished garment myself from my bunny. So for the past five years I have been studying angora rabbit husbandry, learning how to spin, going to wool festivals, seeking out spinners and crocheters for manufacture, and have ended up living in the country with two merino sheep, two angora goats, 13 English and Satin angora rabbits, a dog, and a cat. I hope to be able to collaborate with other designers in the future and to be a catalyst for the fur industry.”

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1958 Continued Mary Tremaine Soutendijk loved visiting Selden in Vero Beach, where she and Dirk will rent a condo next winter.

They have now returned from Muskoka where they spend much of their time. Dirk loves his garden and Mary loves to swim! Emily Taylor Ambler loves her summers in Jackson.

They just returned from Costa Rica with their son and two granddaughters. They saw lots of monkeys, sloths, and crocs, and loved zip lining and the water slide! Her son Ollie lives in Spain but she saw them when they recently visited Seattle. She has one grandson out of college and working in SF, 2 grandchildren in college. There are still the youngest ones, aged 4 and 7! She and Jim had a trip to Morocco when they visited Ollie in Spain.

Jane McPherson Nickerson is still living in Greenwich. Bill is commuting to NYC. They go to Delray Beach in the winter and have just bought a small house in Watch Hill, RI where they go for part of the summer. She has enjoyed seeing Peyton Chapman Horne. They had a trip to Ireland in July where they visited cousins and played a bit of golf. Bill is a rules official for the United States Golf Association!

This keeps him busy keeping golfers on the straight and narrow. What a job! Storm and Sarah are in NYC pursuing their careers.

A dear old friend ran into Sally Storrs Lind at the Americas Cup in SF this fall. I gather Sally is great, but I NEVER hear from her! Jodie Merrill Eastman and John continue their travels but also spend a lot of time with their grandchildren on Long Island. Their granddaughter, Merrill, continues to try to conquer type-2 juvenile diabetes. They walk every year to support JDRF in NYC and in Queens. All their friends and friends’ kids walk with them. Go Team!

Gordon and I traveled to South Africa in March. We had a wonderful meeting with Westover alumna Evelyn Mervine Gauntlett ’02 and her husband. We did not know each other, but met up and had a wonderful dinner at a local restaurant where we learned a lot about the government and all that is going on in South Africa. Kids are all great and we continue to visit our home on the Rappahannock River.

Kitsy’s one and only granddaughter graduated from Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbonalde, CO on a picture perfect blue-sky day. She was the graduation speaker and spoke of their class as being the millennium kids. They will always be in touch with each other through social media: Facebook, twitter, iPhones, iPads, and so on! She is now at NYU TISCH School where she has her first internship working with a production company that is making a movie. She will help with props! She is thrilled.

I sent her several nineties dresses. Jake is rowing and wrestling at Northfield Mt. Hermon School, Sam has the lead in his school play “How To Succeed In Business”, and

Silas is in his school’s jazz band playing the saxophone!

Ben loves his swim team and just seems to glide through the water. Charlie is busy being Charlie, the big little brother.

Penny Compton Jones writes: “Fancy remembering pansies after all this time! My e-mail has changed, I’m now living in Santa Rosa, CA (about 40 minutes from my daughter and her family), but my phone number is the same: (415) 847-3819.

I love living in CA, and now I am in Sonoma Co. with lots of gardens and vineyards, sun, and nice people. I am “The Resident Friend” at Redwood Friends Meeting (Quakers), and I have a small apartment and a garden to keep me occupied. Unfortunately, I will not be coming east this Spring, but I will think of you all, and look forward to reading all about your adventures in the Westover Magazine.”

It was lovely to hear from you, and I send love to all classmates!

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Laurie Blake Sawyer 18 Palione Place Kailua, HI 96734 lsawyer@hawaii.rr.com I am sad to report that Barby Rockefeller Bartlett passed away Oct. 5, 2012. Looking at her page from our 2009 reunion book, I quote a few of her Westover reflections.

“Chapel Line...how could we forget? The uniform...the black tie. Bowls of ice cream on Saturday. Libby trying to teach me to sing after lights out...an impossible task.” A truly lovely person. We will miss her.

Annette Eustis Jarman decided Guilford, CT was too far from her kids and grands in TX and MN, so she sold her house and moved to Northfield, MN where her son Baird teaches Art History and Architecture at Carlton C. Packing up an impossible amount of stuff in boxes, selling, giving away, or trashing millions of items she once held dear were just a few of the things accomplished before a nephew drove her at astonishing speeds for 2 days to her new Victorian house. The move almost killed her, but not quite!

She also commented that she thought unpacking would be a lot more fun than it actually was! Libby Folk Tracey is completing her chaplaincy degree and works as a nurse practitioner in hospice care. Her family is fine, all working and paying mortgages. Oldest grandchild is a junior at Hotchkiss, daughter Randall had a 2nd boy in the spring of ‘13 and is a successful Lower School head at Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan. 2nd son Michael was married (finally) and 3rd son Ted and wife Suzanne have 2 boys old enough to play football. Lib says, “great to be close to them all.”

1959 Continued Betsy Hartmann Rand and Richard live in Paris but return to the USA several times a year. Their youngest, Paul, graduated from law school in May ‘13, passed the AL bar, and works in the Public Defender’s Office in Birmingham. Over Memorial Day weekend, the family gathered in Banff, Alberta for son Sebastian’s wedding to Christina from Calgary, faithfully attended by Betsy Shirley Michel. The happy couple lives in Atlanta where he is an assoc. prof of philosophy and she a pregnant librarian running the Atlanta Bookmobile. Daughter Theo and 3 kids (who were in the wedding along with Paul) joined in a family reunion in June ‘13 at Lake Champlain.

Betsy has morphed into something of a photographer with successful (honors and sales) group shows in Paris, all enhanced by her travels in Asia, Africa, and most recently Beijing. Eleanora Patterson and Gordon went to Spain for 2 weeks in May ‘13 and enjoyed long walks, long outdoor lunches, museums, and speaking Spanish! El had just received her final paycheck after 30 years with Sonnex, but was delighted to learn the Spanish word ‘jubilada’ which is so much more celebratory than our word ‘retired’. Now El gardens to her heart’s content (joints willing), has more time to read, write, and be with her friends, her grandson and her family... and she’s almost succeeded in enrolling in Medicare.

Phoebe Pier Fairburn is still in Scarborough, ME most of the year. Her little place is right across the way from Nina Truslow McKee and Charlie. She and Nina have fun together until Nina and Charlie flee to Spring Is, SC for the winter months. Nina reports that they enjoy lots of family and friends, golf, and tennis in both places. They had a great trip to Alaska in the fall of ‘13. Her family is hale and hearty, and she is thankful for this time in their lives. She is also looking forward to our next reunion! For Christie Renchard Huffman the highlights of ‘13 include going to grandson William Low’s H.S. graduation in northern England in May ‘13. He is now nearby at George Washington U. as a Presidential Arts Scholar. The Huffmans were privileged to take part in a Smithsonian bird research project on their property, which culminated in a bird-banding day there. Granddaughter Jane was able to participate.

The English family, daughter Elizabeth, husband Dave and their 4 boys, spent 6 weeks stateside, mostly at Christie’s summerhouse in Eagles Mere, PA. Keith is still doing consulting work and Christie taking in injured birds. They live in VA close to 2nd daughter Heather and her family.

Lily Russell Heiliger had a wonderful week at the Wolfgangsee in Austria with all her family. She spent 2 weeks in NH, WA, and OR visiting her USA family, a whirlwind trip with no time to see friends! Lily says “our lives are, as always, full of music and friends.” Mimi Sammis writes from RI that her 2 children and 5 grands (ages 6 – 21 yrs) are the joy of her life. She is making an 11 ft bronze sculpture of empowered woman, going to FL. Someone called her the “mother of all children.”

Mimi finds it hard to believe she is actually responsible for something like this and says Westover had a huge impact on

her. She also still paints and teaches, but is slowing down a bit. Her new website http://www.mimisammis.com features 13 of her shows.

In Oct ‘13 MC Seymour Garfield sent me her news while on a do-it-yourself barge trip on the Canal du Midi in France. It ended in Trebes. She says, “the locks can be pretty physically demanding and you do not want to fall overboard, as all the septic waste from the towns and boats go into the canal.” MC and Michael decided they had better do these things while they are still able! They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in June, a wonderful event. Sue Sterling Monjauze is happy in Brooklyn close to her daughter, husband and their 3 children.

In the fall of ‘13 she was into watching her grandson, 11, play flag football. Sue has had lots of visitors...her brother, her sister, and Stanford classmates, plus she sees Linda Waldron Rudman when she visits her daughter Nina in NYC. When Sue is in London visiting her son and family, she “chunnels” to Paris to see Linda there, too. In 2012 Sue and Penny Levy Peet attended an exhibition of Mimi Sammis’s art. “It was great fun and Mimi’s work remains spectacular!”

Margo Stratford Russell is very busy painting every day. Out of 5 oil paintings and 2 watercolors, she has sold 5. She says “it feels great!” The Russells are in Boca Grande this winter for more art, tennis, sun, and stimulation. Their 6 grands are thriving. Their 2 sons are still unemployed. Nat and Becky (small animal vet) are happily back in the Denver area. Daughter Nina is Director HV at the Gates Foundation and husband Tom Rubin is head of copyright and trademark for Microsoft. Son Peter and Helen (art restorer) are in NYC. Sally Wade Smith enjoys volunteering, golf, walks, yoga, and visits with the grandchildren. In Apr ‘13 the Smiths went to HI with friends and golfed and snorkeled, and in July they took the whole family to Jackson Hole to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Everyone had a wonderful time rafting, horseback riding, walking, and being together. They spent the rest of the summer recuperating! In Sept. their children sent them to Atlanta to watch the PGA Tour of Champions.

Great fun to see all the “big players.” In Nov. ‘13 they went to Cuba with their daughter on a “cultural exchange.” Sally feels blessed to enjoy good health and family nearby.

In the summer of ‘13, John and I once again enjoyed all the grands here for our annual art camp, their summer play production, and the most fun for all right off our beach... surfing and boogie boarding! Our 3 children Jessica, Parker, and Holly, their spouses, and our 8 grands are fine. Stella was born in L.A. in Sept. ’12, and I was there to help out. Holly and family now live in our apt, so we have little ones (1 and 5 yrs) around once again! John and I still play golf and tennis and enjoy outer Island trips for more golf! John has been very involved mentoring the robotics and coding classes that he and son Parker started at Lanikai Charter El Sch. Thank you for all your news and don’t forget our 55th in ‘14!

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Berrell Mallery writes, “I have just returned from spending a day at Westover in the alumnae office with Sara Belcher Wardell. Together we reminisced as much as we could about all our classmates. The notes in the Westover annual fund appeal were the result of remembering the pages in our 50th reunion books as well as the email communications between many of us prior to our 50th reunion. We both felt like we spent a day catching up with classmates. It was more fun than we expected the day would be. And we are hoping that we will see many more of you at our reunion in 2015 than those who usually appear.

Further south Mimi Jackson Price on Kiawah Island is healthy and enjoying life working a few days a week in a great store and doing some serious playing on the others.

No fancy trips, no awards, no new romance, but her kids and grandkids are all doing well and she’s a happy lady.

Patty (Peg) Dugdale, after many years in CA, is back East in Wilmington and Delray doing everything she’s always foresworn – golf, bridge, girls’ lunches – and loving every minute. She sends a Happy 70th to Kathy Koshland Blue, hoping they haven’t changed in a bit in the 54 years since they were trying to hide a kitten in their room on New Girl!

I am enjoying having free time that gets filled with brain stimulators such as playing bridge each week and taking painting classes on a weekly basis. I still work one day a week and the rest is playing, “researching”, reading and enjoying occasional Westover events occurring in the city.

And now I’m wondering how many of our 40 classmates will connect with Westover with news.”

Merry Medina Murray has a new address (PO Box 5035, Quogue NY 11959), a fancy, shiny, chrome, arthritis-free new hip, a new disobedient but lovable yellow Lab puppy, and a new hobby interviewing elderly Quogue residents as part of their Historical Society’s oral history collection. She and Bob sold their bay-front home in Westhampton and down-sized to a smaller 100-year old farmhouse in the village of Quogue where they can walk out the back door to the ice-cream store or out the front for evening push-mepull-you walks with the new dog. Life is good!

Lisa Overly Markham writes, “Still living in Santa Barbara, CA. My husband died in Nov. ’10 after a full and successful career in the field of psychology. We have 3 grandchildren, and our son and daughter-in-law live in Santa Barbara. Our daughter is a clinical psychologist in Thousand Oaks, CA.” Priscilla White Givan writes, “Very exciting! I moved to southern CA in July ’12 from my 58-year home in Barrington, RI and never looked back! I am having a wonderful time in sunny CA where I can sail year-round and play sports every day! My daughter Amy is living one town away so we are able to be together quite often! This is a wonderful retirement community. It is loaded with very active seniors!”

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Skipper Skelly 5736 59th Avenue NE Seattle, WA 9815 skipper4488@hotmail.com Hello to all. If you enjoy reading this and did not send any news, remember that the next time I ask, OK? I thank all of you who did reply!

Alice Clement Needham retired in Jan. ‘13 and spent the month of March with her family in London. She’s completely loving retirement with the treats of playing tennis and seeing friends during the week – an impossibility during all those years of working in Boston. She’s planning to start volunteering at a nearby hospital, revisiting her London family, and spending time with her two other kids and grandchildren who live nearby. She and Katrina Rauch Wagner caught up and had a few laughs over lunch in Keene Valley last summer.

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Another new homeowner is Joan Atwood Kunzelmann, who bought her daughter’s apartment in NYC. Her daughter and family will move into a larger apartment on the same floor, so it will be granny down the hall. Fortunately her sonin-law is OK with the arrangement, most likely since she spends most of her time in FL with 1961’s loyal Westover representative Katrina Rauch Wagner and husband (of 10 years!). She and Bill divide their time between home in NH, St. Simons Is., GA and summers in the Adirondacks.

While Bill works on a memoir, Katrina enjoys Adult-Ed courses, occasional preaching, two book clubs, and trying to keep up with family, friends and regular exercise! Her step-son married a lovely girl from Mongolia in May ’13, and her daughter has been chosen to be one of two women to represent the MA Special Olympics swim team at the S.O. National events to be held in June ’14 in Princeton.

Very exciting! She also saw Linda Williams Cox Heins at a Westover gathering she co-hosted in the Adirondacks.

You know how NORAD tracks Santa on Christmas Eve? Well, that’s what Ellen Thayer Vahan’s grandchildren need to do with their Grammy, who spends inordinate amounts of time traveling the world birding and more. She’s traveled to Monterey, Napa, Mono Lake, and Big Bear in CA, Cuba for the birds and research on Mojitos, and England for antiques, plays and gardens. She loved most parts of her visit to the South Seas, but wasn’t very pleased with the inter-islands flights where she always had to step on the scales! Last trip of the year is in Nov. to the Andes of Ecuador for more birding. Goodness Ellen, you make us stay-at-home gardeners envious. You go girl!

1961 Continued Susan Russell Watson took a great trip to Alaska on a small boat up the inside passage in June ’13. Other than that, family takes center stage; she spent time with them in NH in the summer. Three grands are now in college! She and husband Dick obviously love their retirement community, where Susan manages the raised-bed garden while Dick spends his days in the woods building and maintaining trails. She is really pleased with herself for getting to be 70 – aren’t we ALL! – and has ordered up a party.

I, too, will have had a 70th birthday party in Jan. ‘14 with many more attendees than I would have expected. My daughter Khal is getting married here in Seattle around the same time, so my whole family will already be here to celebrate. I’m in Seattle full-time now, volunteering at Ronald McDonald House, chauffeuring grands, and doing lots of gardening. My previously brown thumbs have tuned green here on the west coast, where even a stuffed animal could grow anything! I love it! A brand new CO granddaughter will turn 1 in Mar. ’14. First new one in 8 years, which requires lots of visits of course. All in all I hope all of you are enjoying your lives as much as I am.

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Penelope Ferenbach Franchot 1819 Humbolt Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55403 polly6468@icloud.com With our 50th Reunion almost upon us the class of ’64 is busy and active. Charlene Claypool Hansen attended a family reunion in VT last summer and her 89-year-old mother, Nancy Heimbach Claypool ’42, was among the group. Char says her mother is a great example of “going with the flow of aging”.

Jeanne Edmonds Anderson reports that she now lives fulltime in St. Simons Island. Jeanne has been on the move with trips to Australia, New Zealand and Greece. Sandra Churchill Pabis Ticci is the proud grandma of a beautiful baby girl Gaia, who is the daughter of Sandra’s son Neri and his wife Sara. While visiting in Florence, Helen Tremaine Gregory and husband Stan had a delightful lunch on Sandra’s terrace. When she isn’t entertaining classmates, Sandra is refurbishing a little house on the Mediterranean coast.

Gail Funston Wasson, who celebrated her 45th anniversary with husband John, has been busy hosting four family weddings and welcoming two grandchildren, now six and eighteen months, into her growing family.

Anne Wigglesworth Walker spent a long, cool summer in Ireland where she and husband Mac rented a cottage in the Highlands. Wiggy also shared that her late sister Sally

Sweet Wylde ’61 created a community garden in Decatur, GA that has evolved into the Wylde Center, an entity that teaches environmental awareness through hands on gardening.

Lesley Bissell Hoopes and her entire family went to Boulder, CO to celebrate the 92nd birthday of her mother, Gina Miller Bissell ’39. Lesley and husband Toby cruised along the Dalmatian coast to celebrate Toby’s 70th. Brooke McInnes has retired after 42 years as an elementary school teacher in Phila. Brooke is married to a wonderful artist, Dick Runck, and has two daughters, Toby and Becky, and a new granddaughter Talula.

I still have a home base in Minneapolis but have retired, so I am spending winters skiing in Telluride, CO and summers on Cape Cod and am attempting to write some children’s picture books. We hope to see many of our class back for our 50th Reunion, May 16-18, 2014!

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Beverly Cutler 8470 N Russett Road Palmer, AK 99645 bevcut@gmail.com Phyllis Dewart Greene has “love and babies” in the air in MA: 12 great nieces and nephews, with more on the way. She and Michael relish an occasional christening or wedding event at their home. Fortunately both are healthy after some issues last year. Recently, Phyllis ran into Cynthia Perry ‘68 (literally) on a small island in the Bahamas. Phyllis still has her interior design business, and now a second home in Charleston, SC. Ann Quarles traveled to England for 2 weeks this Sept. with daughter Emily, auntie to Ann’s precious NYC granddaughter Aviva, age 1 this summer. Ann observed that hiking and pub crawling with one’s adult child gave satisfaction beyond belief, as did the scenery and the beer, even if they had a few more encounters than they would have liked with cows and wasps (nothing too serious.)

Abbe Clement Stein and husband John are deeply content in the CO countryside on their hay ranch outside of Steamboat Springs. Son John and wife are doing a 4-year veterinary radiology program at UW vet school.

Son Pete, musician, singer and songwriter, plays over 100 gigs a year. You can hear and see him at http://www. petesteinmusic.com. Daughter Annie is employed in custom off-road camper manufacturing; any roamers can contact her at http://www.earthroamer.com. As for Abbe herself, she is heavily involved in fire and rescue volunteer work in her 400 square mile area.

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1967 Continued Ali Peake recently hosted Abbe when Abbe’s dad was in the hospital in Hartford, CT. Wonderful and spirited classmate that Ali is, she actually picked Abbe up at the airport in the middle of the night even though they hadn’t seen each other for decades. Isabel Hill Fucigna also got to visit with Abbe in CO, bringing her beloved dogs for a couple of days last summer. Abbe hopes to return the visit to Isabel in Telluride this coming year.

Margot Clement Clark celebrated her 40th wedding anniversary with Jeff. Margot continues to thrive in her psychotherapy practice and her work as a clinical social worker but now can gladly confine her work to four days a week. Son Gordon is a passionate land conservationist in Pescadero, CA. Daughter Bess works in finance in NYC. Gone and grown, both! At some point, Margot and Jeff hope to consider retirement but meanwhile get to spend time in the Adirondacks and in ME in the summer.

Betsy Goddard Gentry sends the very sad news that her husband Doug has a serious metastasizing sarcoma of the connective tissues. When she wrote, they had just enrolled in hospice in the Adirondacks, their home away from home. [Note: Doug Gentry passed away on Nov. 9, 2013.] However, she also had good news: June 5, 2013 marked the birth of their first grandchild, Wilfred Convers Peacock-Gentry. Undoubtedly he is the cutest baby in the world.

In another outstanding class connection, Mari Hill Harpur and her husband Doug invited Patrick, son of Ann Quarles’s significant other, John, to work in New Zealand with them for a full year in their animal husbandry business.

Patrick is pursuing interests in quality food management endeavors.

As for your Secretary, I’ve been enjoying another wonderful year of part-time “senior judge” work sprinkled with liberal fixes of being a Nana. Happy to report that more grandchildren are on the way.

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Barbara Twichell McKeon 150 Stevens Road Lebanon, NH 03766 burnipdog@yahoo.com Well, I didn’t hear from many of you so either you are just sitting at home watching re-runs of “Downton Abbey,” which I doubt, or you were at our reunion last May and shared your news there, which seems more likely.

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Annis Gilbert Kukulan reported that she had no new news but that all was well.

Abigail Congdon did report that she spends her time in NYC and RI. She gardens, paints, and eats healthy food.

She also said she gets to Nairobi at least once a year to visit her daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter Abigail.

Marietta Christie did not make reunion because she was graduating that weekend from Lesley U. with a MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She now works three days a week at Framingham State C., which is demanding but enjoyable. Her son Andrew is happily living in Chicago and going to art school.

I did not reunion because I was at Marietta’s graduation party. I think it is really fantastic that a time in our lives when many of us are thinking of retiring, Marietta is just getting started on a new career! As for me, we went with our children and their partners to Iceland in August to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. And then in Sept.

Ryan and Tricia got married here in NH. It was a very busy couple of months but lots of fun.

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Barbara Fearey West reports that after 20 years as executive director of an association of medical research foundations and many more years battling for additional federal funding for medical research, I retired in Jan. ‘13.

I celebrated with trips to Morocco, Spain and HI. I see Kim Hoagland about once a year; I hope more often in 2014 now that I am exploring volunteer and board possibilities instead of working.

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Katherine Pratt 4571 Owensville Sudley Rd Harwood, MD 20776 katrinmd@gmail.com Lili Warner Geehr is happy to say that at present all is well with herself, Bob, Becca, and Michael (son-in-law of almost a year!). She continues, ”We are still MA residents but, as of last year, have become one of the increasing number of “snow birds.” Bob and I took over my parents’ home at Mt. Lake, Lake Wales, FL in 2010 and are spending much of the winter there. My body has a growing aversion to the cold, so this is a plus for me. The area where we live is in the middle of the state, surrounded by citrus and cattle, wonderfully quiet, with great bird life, gardens, golf, tennis (not that I’m playing any more), swimming, etc. When the need arises to seek out ‘more,’ it’s 1-½ hours to either coast, and an hour to Orlando. Best of both worlds for us!

1970 Continued Bob works part time at St. Peters Hospital in Albany, filling vacation slots for a great group of radiologists. It’s a win-win situation for him, as he works mostly during the summer months and is teamed with a very talented, educated group.

He still loves what he’s doing and this is a perfect way to ‘step out’ of his vocation.

As mentioned above, our daughter Rebecca was married Sept. 2012 in our backyard, which was grand. We had perfect weather the entire weekend, which only added to the charm of the event. She has just left the DA’s office in Suffolk Co., MA and taken a job at a mid-sized firm in Boston, specializing in medical malpractice.

Who would have thought? As for myself...well, I manage to keep myself busy. I’m an avid gardener, vegetable and beyond. The wedding allowed me to do a re-fashioning of my gardens, which was great fun for me. I did have to hire some strong arms to do what my back won’t allow any more, but I managed to get dirty nevertheless.

At the FL house I’m slowly trying to restore an Olmsted, Jr. garden. It’s definitely a step-by-step process, which works well for me. I’m not one for ‘instant gardens’. When not in my gardens, I’m working on my golf game, reading, walking, swimming, and doing some volunteer work.

Other than running into Nancy LeSage Hellmuth in Watch Hill, RI this summer, which was a delightful surprise, I have seen no other Westover classmates. My best to you all, and if you’re in my neck of the woods, be it FL or MA, please give me a ring!”

Ellen Pease Sole shares, “Our life is still the same: loving ‘Grand’ parenthood, traveling, various forms of exercising/game playing, and volunteering. Our west coast 3 sons are doing well; one started a hand crafted whiskey distillery in Seattle this year called 3 Howls...always something going on with them. But for us, we are enjoying our good fortunes of having lots of wonderful times with our family and friends…and not having much excitement, which is OK by me after raising 3 teenagers, my husband having a couple of annoying health issues, and watching my friend’s parents fading out. This seems to be a nice lull in our lives before things heat up again, with issues on the horizon. I’m savoring every moment!

NAME THE WESTOVER MAGAZINE! THE TIME IS COMING!!! Just a few more editions of the Westover Magazine before the campaign closes... and then it’s time to NAME OUR MAGAZINE!!

Be creative, be innovative...and send us your suggestions! Suggestions can be submittted to: Kristin Martinkovic White ‘91, Director of Marketing & Communications, at kwhite@westoverschool.org We look forward to your ideas!

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It is preferable, for printing purposes, that photographs have a minimum dpi of 300. We can reproduce hard copies of photographs submitted as traditional prints on photo quality paper. Thank you and we look forward to seeing more photographs!

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1970 Continued Both my husband and I sit on various boards – me working mainly with either our condo or the Martha’s Vineyard house. While in Cincinnati, I am a Cincinnati Park Docent, volunteer at Matthew 25, try to play tennis and golf, and do stretching with Pilates. We travel to fun spots to see the kids and grandkids – you can see where they live. We also went to Europe this spring. We’re in the Vineyard now and appreciate how beautiful this environment is; only now we throw croquet in instead of tennis. Hope you are all in a good spot!”

Sue Mohn says, “Art and I had an incredible vacation last summer at my favorite dude ranch outside Yellowstone in southwestern MT. Rode to my heart’s content. Oh my…sure do miss it! Unfortunately, it was followed in Oct. with the sudden passing of the husband of my sister Sally Mohn Kneen ’72. It was a really tough autumn for her and the whole family. Just reinforces to take nothing for granted and to live each day to the max. Mina Bolling Moyer came by for dinner a couple of months ago. She looks great. Her daughter and son-in-law have a place here in Boston. Was good to see her and catch up. Work has, thankfully, been super busy over the past year. The pace seems like it will be keeping me hopping for the next several years – yes!

My best to all!”

Nancy LeSage Hellmuth lets us know: “’Basically a banner year (2012) for the Hellmuths, as our daughter Grayson was married in June in Watch Hill. The weather was perfect, the bride and groom gorgeous, the parents over the moon with happiness. At the ceremony, our son William sang “Jerusalem” as a solo...wow! He knocked it out of the park!

So emotional for so many (as every boarding school claims it as “their song!”). William is a fully employed lawyer with a firm in DC and is living the groovy life downtown.

He passed the bar, so he is independent and also off the payroll! Double woo hoo! Bill and I are traveling, trying to stay connected with old friends, and having as much fun as possible with our kids – and each other, as we are beginning to witness a loss of friends around us. Aging parents are the topic for our age group, with little answers for any of us. Best to all, and cheers for a healthy, happy year!”

Marion Brown Webb relays, “Sam and I live between SC (near Beaufort) and Palm Beach. (We obviously love hot weather!) Sam loves to bird hunt here in SC and I love the horseback riding and “outdoor life.” We love the “Low Country.” It reminds me of memories of FL when I was growing up. I, too, have only had one child, a daughter.

The benefit (not everyone would use that word) is that we tend to mother other people/dogs/horses. I “mother” my husband, and it drives him crazy. I “mother” our standard poodles, so they’ve become very spoiled! [Ed. Note: Alas, me, too. Guilty, as charged!] We also travel a lot. This

summer we’re spending 2 ½ months in Cody, WY on a friend’s ranch, as we are very involved in a wonderful gem of a museum there called the “Buffalo Bill Center of the West.” See more at http://www.bbhc.org/.”

Margot Trotter-Davis shares, “My update hasn’t changed much. I still have a therapy practice and do health policy research at Brandeis U. The research is mostly in the addictions and health care system analyses, but increasingly we are working with DoD on behavioral health issues, such as PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and sexual assault. They are willing partners in reforming their services to veterans and soldiers, but moving such a huge system takes a lot of time and patience! I also work on projects evaluating the effectiveness of different interventions. It is exciting work and keeps me out of the candy closet.”

Pamela Coleman has a new position at Knowledge Marketing…sounds interesting!

Joan Davies Jefferys says, “No news. Life is good. I hope life is good for all of you, too.”

Elizabeth “Beppie” Huidekoper sent a photo of her and Annie Conant Schlafly! She shares, “Lucky me, I saw Annie last weekend on Fishers Isl. and loved every minute! I like to pretend I’m “too cool” for these alumnae things, but of course I read everyone’s fun comments! I am still working at Brown U. but hope to wind up soon and do something completely different. Latest thought: importing truffles from Serbia. Any buyers? I am sure that idea will be long gone in a week or two! Fun to fantasize! Hope you all are well and hope to catch up sometime soon.”

Susan Handy Stover sent a photo of her new grand child Marley Stover Reece, and she says, “Updates in my life include two wonderful events - my daughter Annie and her husband Evan giving me the gift of my first grandchild, Marley Stover Reece, born in April 2012, and my son Jamie marrying Ellie Berlin in the Adirondacks in June 2013. I am still working for Graham-Pelton Consulting and continue to enjoy helping non-profit organizations fulfill their missions.”

Sunny McNutt Shusta-Hochberg says, “2013 has been a good year so far. (Better than 2012 when I struggled with a fractured leg for months.) I am doing photography and creative editing of my photos. I returned to my meditation practice and resumed yoga as well. I have found great peace and serenity in that. I look forward to seeing and hearing Thich Nhat Hanh next month in NY. Steve and I have decided that the gulf coast of FL will be our winter venue in a few years, probably Naples. I am still fully in my psychology practice but thinking ahead to retirement in about four years. Steve’s been waiting for a decade for me to join him in that blissful state!

1970 Continued With that in mind, I have begun another practice, one providing practical guidance via phone, Skype, FaceTime, or face to face and have established my new business as “The Good Garden Life Guidance” (website is thegoodgardenlifeguidance.com and blog is thegoodgardenlifeguidance.blogspot.com).

I enjoy working with motivated folk with their goals and personal growth from wherever we happen to be, city or country, north or south. We will probably spend our summers in PA, where we spend about half the week now. Alex is doing well, seeing a lovely woman we like a lot, handling single parenthood capably – not easy with two teenage girls (12 & 14) who give most adults a tough time. The boys are 9 as of Oct. Thea Moore, Robin Tilp McManus, Mina Bolling Moyer and I met in June for birthdays. Best to all!”

Pam Gordon duPont is still bubbling with joy and she says, “I am thoroughly enjoying my life these days. I am working hard but not too hard. Bix and I have a breather in the tuition department. His daughter, Alta, graduated from Princeton in June (with honors!). She is working at a psychology lab at Vassar for a year while deciding where to go to graduate school for her PhD in psychology. I guess retirement is not an option for a while! But I still love my work as an Occupational Audiologist. Bix does custom woodworking, but this summer was slow because he had rotator cuff surgery in June so he was not able to work. I don’t think he missed the work much but he really missed kite sailing and paddle boarding, his two passions! We adopted a 3-year-old Golden Retriever last fall after I lost mine to cancer in 2012. He is a great addition to our family. We all had some great times out at Block Island this summer.”

Robin Tilp McManus says, “No news other than an afternoon get together with Thea Moore and Tina Warner Mulligan ...

Sadly, Tina had to run after a couple of hours in order to attend a memorial service for her King Charles Spaniel, who recently passed. The get together was at my 2-week summer rental in Chatham. Thea drove up. You will be able to see some of my designs for men’s Christmas socks at Lord and Taylor this Christmas... but I plan to buy up those myself... for presents!”

Val Clark McNeely informs she is “still kicking, and now a Grandmother twice over with two girls: Helen is 3 and Tess is almost 1! Much time spent in Harwich Port, MA, and a bit still in PA, but now I am a FL resident. (It happens to the best of us.) Still very involved in Boys & Girls Club of America and half way through a 2-year stint as President of a FL Garden Club. Of course I am still involved in the horse operation, with 2 daughters now trainers. Best to all.”

Carlyle “Carky” Claypool Conrad informs, “Tom and I have downsized to a townhome, one level, no basement, after taking 3 years (on and off) to sell our home of 30 years.

Loving every minute of it! My mother, Nancy Heimbach

Claypool ’42, purchased and finished the interior of the unit next to us this past winter after selling her home of 36 years after Pop’s death one year ago. It is wonderful to be close to Lake Superior and close to each other. Moving 3 times last year and then helping mom took its toll, as I had arthroscopic knee surgery for meniscus repair in May. Back to golfing! Son Van has just purchased an 80-acre farm between Babbitt and Ely with his friend Ellen, and they are going to farm sustainably! He will grow whatever he needs to survive on his farm and keep chickens, maybe goats. He is in the process of building a greenhouse to start all his own stuff early, since our northern MN growing season is so short. It will be fun to watch. Adam and wife Jenny have 4 out in Bozeman, MT area: Zack is 2 ½ and Addison Rene is 1…she has reddish hair and is so fun and tough with her older brother. The older girls, 15 and 9, are a great help to Jenny and Adam. He just took a job with the city public works department. Caroline and husband Aaron reside in Granite City, IL in the parsonage of St. Peter’s UCC, where he is the pastor. She works for Beyond Housing (large nonprofit) in St. Louis. They have Emmanuel James, who will be 1 in Sept. Nat and friend Joanna are renting 3 miles north of us, and he has his tree care business. I am jealous of the NH get-togethers! We had a great trip to Boston and ME this summer; Acadia is something else!”

Missy Taylor has been very busy and shares the following with us all: “This has been an extraordinary intervening year since we were last in touch… a time of gratifying accomplishment, of opening new chapters, of celebrating milestones, of deepening roots with family, and of healing. Just to touch upon a few highlights… I contributed to the writing and editing of a lovely, newly published book entitled Passion for Place - Reflections on the Carmel River Watershed. Joey and I celebrated our 40 years of devotion on March 10th, and we have discovered this year an exciting new dimension of our relationship in our shared passion for competitive chess! On April 11th, in the fellowship of wonderful friends, we honored the 20th birthday of my beloved mare Lily, bedecked with a garland of roses, in full procession on the Pebble Beach polo field. Later in April I spent four heavenly days on retreat in Big Sur with my Westover roomie, Carolyn “Lina” Miller.

And then for three weeks in May in Bermuda and on Block Isl., I stepped into a healing pool of rest and renewal with my sister Barbie. Also this May, just before ferrying across to Block Isl., I was having breakfast at the Shelter Harbor Inn when I, quite by surprise, bumped into Thea Moore, who was breakfasting there as well and who looked absolutely wonderful. Seeing Thea that morning really was such a gift to me, and I wanted her to know that.”

This was a difficult year to get myself motivated in doing anything without a lot of kicking and screaming (as it were). (If you were not contacted to contribute this year, it is because you have not sent your email address to me at katrinmd@gmail.com.

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1970 Continued I am certain you have noticed the remarkable weather heralding climate changes, rapidly rising tides threatening the entire coastlines of our county and much of the world, unspeakable worldwide political events, and a groundwork being set to undermine the quality of our land, water and air without recourse or recompense for a profit benefiting a miniscule minority, which most importantly, does not include me! Our class has always been at the forefront of change, involvement and purpose; each ripening to challenges in their own times and ways, so my faith in all of you to keep on “trucking” is boundless. Meanwhile, my farm is still on the market; ever the optimist, I continue to wait for this time of testing patience to pass. Meanwhile, my daughter Kirsten and her hubby Kevin are working in CA. (See her online shop at http://store.insouciantstudios.com.) They also are waiting for me to sell the MD farm and move there, too.

(Although, I think their motivations are closer to them wanting to raise chickens and sheep for wool when I buy another farm.) How small my world has become these days…I am beset with a burgeoning feral cat population that apparently have little to no self control, and worse they have learned to drop off their kittens who look into my kitchen sliding glass door with such woebegone faces that I find myself now with 3 feral cats living in my mud room and one recovering from being spayed in my garage.

Apparently, my current job is to open dozens of cat food tins and bags of cat chow, thereby proving that I am no better in the self-control department than they are. (My title, obviously, is cat-astrophy.) My only hope is that they will grow up and marry a nice, rich fat cat! (Alternatively, if any of you is desperate for a new challenge, can I interest you in a nice kitten…?)

Feel well and be happy!

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Lisa Stockwell 1221 Monroe Street Santa Rosa, CA 95404 lisabstockwell@gmail.com In a year when we have all turned another corner to face a new decade, classmates came together to share news through our email threads and on our Facebook page. If you’re on Facebook but haven’t joined the group, look for “Westover School Class of 1971.”

It’s been wonderful to hear from and see old friends, many for the first time since we walked out the doors of Westover and into the rest of our lives. Ours was an experience we’ve all questioned over the years, given the times we were there. But there’s no question that it created bonds that remain 42 years later. I think the values that Westover

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promoted then and now—the ability to think, do and be— rubbed off. Ours is a smart, accomplished, and incredibly generous group of women. And it’s wonderful for me to see old friends and acquaintances reestablishing connections.

This year, in March, eight of our classmates gathered in Jupiter, FL to celebrate our 60th birthdays with a mini-reunion. We had such a great time we vowed to do it again—and again. Karen Kjorlien Phillips (a senior financial advisor with Merrill Lynch) and Nancy Reighley Cavanaugh (member of the Westover Board of Trustees) were incredible hosts. The three of us had lunch with Suzanne Hooker Ainslie in Palm Beach before the rest of the group gathered. (Suzanne is in real estate and gave us a tour of her newly built home as the final paint was being applied to the walls.)

Our weekend group included Julie Bassett Aronson (an interior designer in NJ), Susan Hicks Jernigan (who is retired and splits her time with husband Steve between Vancouver and Mexico), Tanya Kazanjian (now living in Charlotte), Sarah Carleton Wechsler (notes below) and Francene Young (who is not only Westover’s President of the Board of Trustees but is now devoting her time as an Episcopal priest to a parish in the Houston area). Liddy Schneidman Lindsay had planned to join us but had to cancel at the last minute. (Liddy’s artwork can be seen at LiddyLindsay.com.)

Others who checked in but couldn’t make it included Katy Angstadt Rahe, Ann Bickford Keller, Susan Clark, Jules Connolly Means, Maria Deegan Murdoch, Lloyd DuPont, Francie Fifield, Cary Montgomery Stetson, Hilary Higgins Parker, Tammis Rehill Lazarus, Debbi Rowland-Caplan, Shelley Sagar Payer, Jane Watson Stetson, and Peg Urvoas Urvek. It was wonderful to hear from everyone!

I had the pleasure of seeing Karen again in Sept., when she came out to visit CA for the first time in decades. She is bearing the loss of her son Chris with incredible strength.

We spent the day with Heidi Swan Helvestine, who works as a medical assistant for an orthopedic surgeon in Marin Co.—when she’s not keeping up with her 5 kids (now all launched). I think we may have convinced Karen that CA is worth more frequent visits!

In other news (in their own words): Ann Bickford Keller: “No matter what has happened all these many years, I do think our hearts all have a very common place — together in our experience at Westover — for better or worse. There is a unique bond. I’m still living in Buffalo, NY. My daughter, Annie, is working in health administration in Boston and going for her MBA at Boston C. My son, Tom, is living in Buffalo and working in marketing for a large wholesale company.

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Alumna of Note: Julia Davis ’13

Bryan, my husband, is facing new challenges as part of the greying administration in a large corporation. I am working part-time for a small medical practice and keeping my brains active and challenged and adding to the retirement account.

I’m thankful that we are all healthy and in good shape.”

Sarah Carleton Wechsler: “I would say that turning 60 was not nearly as bad as turning 50. I have a SR and JR in high school so it’s a crazy time of life for them –and me, by association!”

Debbi Hartigan Rowland-Caplan: “I have not been able to attend any of our Westover gatherings because of geographic distance, so the email links and all of your great messages have helped to bridge the passage of time since our days at Westover. I truly wish you all a healthy and exciting 7th decade, too.”

Hilary Higgins Parker: “Retirement is glimmering at the end of the proverbial tunnel. In the meantime we are still ticking along in academe. Tom is in his 34th year at Woodberry Forest School teaching, coaching and mentoring. I’m still working part time in the development office, working on a long term archival project; when I am not doing that I am volunteering for our local five-county hospice, where I am in my 12th year on their Board of Directors. I don’t get to do as much patient volunteering and grief counseling as I’ve done in the past, as my Board position is pretty all consuming, but I’ll get back to it once I rotate off the Board in June. Our son Warren still works in the music business as the production manager for Charlottesville’s Jefferson Theater, owned by Dave Matthew’s Band’s management company, Red Light Management. In addition to that, Warren and a couple of friends started their own record label, WarHen Records, LLC, which produces limited edition vinyl records.

It’s still a fledgling label, but it’s doing well considering it’s a side business. Needless to say music has taken over his life and ours! Keeps us young! I love keeping up with everyone on Facebook, and especially love that my JR year roommate Martha Daily Iacovelli and I both have homes in Chatham, MA, where we get together every summer.”

Elizabeth McCabe Keith: “Thanks for persuading us to share our lives, or pinches of them, and dropping them all into the gumbo we know as class notes. All is well here in LA; the weather is lovely, the sugar cane crop is harvested, and the fields are burned off, which scents the air with warm notes of caramel and sends wispy cinders of ash into our courtyard! Our daughter Mariah was married to Nathaniel Morgan on August 10th in Salisbury, CT, and the event preparations were my main source of entertainment for nearly a year. We imported a Cajun band and danced to the fiddle and accordion, ate good crawfish etouffe and ‘gator balls’, and carried on in high fashion. Mariah is a senior account coordinator at an integrated tech ad agency in Portsmouth, NH; Nathaniel is a graduate student at Antioch/ Keene in Environmental Ed.

Julia Davis ’13 has been awarded a Character Does Matter Scholarship by the Travis Manion Foundation in recognition of her outstanding community service. She was one of four students to receive their scholarships at the 2013 “If Not Me, Then Who …” Gala in December in Philadelphia.

As a Community Service Representative during her senior year, Julia delivered a Character Does Matter presentation at a class meeting.

In her presentation, she shared the story of her cousin Chief Petty Officer Brian R. Bill, a highly accomplished Navy SEAL from Stamford; his fallen SEAL teammates, and other troops killed in action with Bill on August 6, 2011, in Afghanistan. She and her classmates then completed community service projects, creating and fundraising for care packages and letters to send to troops in Afghanistan, as well as a walk to support Multiple Sclerosis research and treatment.

A freshman at the University of Connecticut, Julia plans a career in the United States Navy.

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1971 Continued Our son Payton is based in Beaumont, TX, and is his employer’s (Harris DeVille & Associates) liaison for public affairs relating to the Golden Pass LNG Refinery, which boasts zero carbon emissions, a joint venture between Exxon Mobile and Qatar. My husband is now employed in Houston so we spend a great deal of time on I-10 crossing the TX/LA state line. And, yes! Francene and I are arranging a play date...the Lone Star State will never be the same! If y’all get too cold this winter, come visit.”

Carey Montgomery Stetson: “Well the big news in my life is that I wrote and published a children’s book called The Who in You. This book is meant to speak to a child’s deep inner need for a sense of significance—that feeling inside all of us that says: “You are valuable, important, loved, and your life has meaning and purpose in the sight of God.” For more info on the book, visit my website: www. whoinyou.com. It’s also available on Amazon.” Carrie is living in South Lake Tahoe and I’m hoping to get together with her one of these days soon! She’s been an RN for over 30 years and is a certified Health and Wellness coach.

Nancy Reighley Cavanaugh: “I survived my 60th and am adjusting to the new decade. The good news is I am in great health and all is well. My oldest, Jen, is getting married in November in FL, and I’m thrilled for her and my future son-in-law. It has been a fun process planning the wedding. Brooke and Allie are living together in NYC. It is great to have all the girls close by, and I get into NYC more often than ever, which is fun. Allie sees Karen’s son Walker quite a bit – our families continue to be close and I am so grateful for the friendships. I am enjoying my summers in Nantucket and winters in FL. I am enjoying my work on the board and – can you believe it – there are 3 of us from the class of ‘71 (Susan Clark just joined). Who would have thought from our rebellious class that several of us would stay involved? But Westover is a special place and I appreciate it more and more every day.”

Shelley Sagar Payer: “So sorry I couldn’t make the reunion, but I had a great reason! Jim’s daughter, Jamie, got married and had a baby girl, Emma Juliet, this year and it has been a whirlwind of joyous events all year long! Emma is our pride and joy, and grand-parenting is without a doubt the best.

I turn 60 in Nov. and Jim is taking me and 20 of our friends to Boca Grande and the Gasparilla Inn for the weekend.

I’m looking forward to a rousing tournament of croquet.

Living in the FL Keys is wonderful. Lots of fishing and golf.

Jim and I are really enjoying our retirement, but we keep busy with lots of volunteering for our Church community outreach projects. We are sponsoring a Celtic Festival in January of 2014 here in Marathon. I am the co-chair of the event and hope some Westover gals will come to visit.

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It is Jan 10 & 11. Website is www.celticheritageproductions. com/keys.htm, or check it out on Facebook. I know there are a lot of Celts in our midst!”

Audrey Smith Abbott: “I must say I really don’t care about the turn to a new decade. I imagine most of us at this point are more focused on the ups and downs of the lives of our loved ones, partners, parents, and children. I was in Lisa’s neck of the woods for a few days in late June to visit Muir Woods. It was supposed to be an ideal time to be there, but unfortunately for us, we collided with a “rare atmospheric river” weather formation, which dumped about 3 inches of rain on a very small geographic area in 2 days! In SF, barely more than 20 miles away, it only showered intermittently.

But in the density of that remarkable forest, we could walk and be protected by its thick and fragrant canopy.

Absolutely spectacular!”

As for me, Lisa Stockwell, I have to agree that my neck of the woods is spectacular. I wake up every day, look outside and am happy to be living in one of the most beautiful places on the planet (not that I don’t wish I could be on the road traveling and experiencing other beautiful places, but since I still have to work, I’m lucky to be here). I’m still a freelance marketing communications consultant and writer. I’m getting closer to the point I can work from just about anywhere that has a Wi-Fi connection. With three kids mostly launched, I suspect I’ll have that freedom soon.

Audrey Smith Abbott wants me to remind everyone that we’re not so slowly moving toward our 50th Westover reunion and there is no time like the present to start saving for our class gift to the school. The class of ’61 had a great idea to throw all the coins in their bags, pockets, backpacks, or whatever into a sock once a week that would be designated for the 50th gift. As I recall, they ended up with over $50,000!

In Audrey’s words, “We had the largest class ever, so we should be able to beat that (my competitive instinct clearly has not abated). I believe Westover is a much improved and more deserving place than the one we experienced in 1967-1971.”

So start saving and keep communicating. We’re building a strong community of old friends that can serve us all well as we enter our golden years. With classmates scattered around the country (and globe), it’s fun to have friends to share a meal (or even a house) with when traveling.

Staying connected with friends from our youth is good for our souls!

If anyone is in the SF area, do check in! Mi casa es tu casa.

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CO. She plays golf and pickleball 2-3 times a week and has been busy getting her parents’ house in Steamboat, CO cleaned up and ready to sell. She also recently started volunteering for the Red Cross. “Great seeing everyone at reunion!”

Hi Class of ’73! I only heard from a handful of classmates with news. Unfortunately I didn’t make it to our 40th reunion. If you got the Westover magazine, there is a wonderful photo of the group who were there. And you all look amazing!

Calli Guion lives in Norwich, VT and is currently a docent at the Hood Museum of Art in Dartmouth, NH. She loves learning and then teaching about the art in the museum and “leading tours on diverse subjects with diverse human beings”! Calli sings with a 40-voice ensemble and also sings at beside with a hospice singing group called Evergreen.

Nancy Handy Grogan 715 High Street Dedham, MA 02026 nphgrogan@gmail.com

Liz Wood Crane wrote from Portland, ME: “Tom and I have joined the ranks of the empty nesters, sending Lucy (19) off to UVM to join her sister, Maddy (22), who is a senior there.

We are working on gaining our independence from them and so far have taken junkets to Vinalhaven, ME, CO and UT. We are loving getting back to just the 2 of us but I miss them a lot. I am working at a community mental health agency in Portland with children and adults specializing in trauma, depression, and anxiety and am really loving the work. I can’t say I am not counting the months until we can retire, but in the meantime it’s incredibly satisfying. I am playing on a city squash league several times a week and still loving our life in ME. My husband Tom continues as a financial advisor and he’s playing old man ice hockey several times a week, which he loves. Love keeping up with some of you on Facebook and hope to see everyone at our 45th!”

Palmer Marrin Kleeman wrote that her daughter, Perry, got married June ’12 in Park City UT. Also, her son is expecting his third child, so Palmer will be a grandmother for the third time!

Susie Wadsworth saw Peggy Moorhead Williams and Allison Solbert Paine in the summer of ’12 for a “mini-reunion” in VT. She is beginning her 22nd year at Fitchburg State U. as an art history teacher. She went to Verona, IT in May ’12 for a month with her students. Susie’s son, Steven (19), is at Syracuse U. studying aerospace engineering, and this summer he worked to renovate and sail a 29’ Bristol Sailboat. John (16) spent 7 weeks canoeing in northern Quebec at Keewaydin Camp, where Susie’s husband Dave is a counselor during the summers. Lizzie (14) spent the summer with Mom and will join her brother, John, at Cushing Academy fall ’12. The entire family works as ski instructors in the winter months at Crotched Mountain. Susie creates and exhibits her artwork in NY, MA, NH and VT. Marion Markham Abood was sorry to miss reunion but was in Scotland at the time. Mares is still singing and acting and dancing. She is the resident cabaret singer at the Ocean House in Watch Hill, RI and played Kate in “Taming of the Shrew” at the Colonial Theatre. Both her kids are at Georgetown in DC, George in grad school and Leidy is an undergrad. She says she is going to Italy in Oct., Puerto Rico in Dec. and India and Nepal in Jan. Wow! Anne Hewson Keene wrote that she is retired now and is still travelling back and forth between Tuscon, AZ and Evergreen,

She writes: “I am one of the musical directors [of Evergreen] so there are more interesting problems to solve and people to interact with.” She says she loves living in Norwich because it is right across the river from Hanover and Dartmouth, where there is always a lot going on.

Janet Costikyan Waite writes, “Life at the Waite household never seems to be dull.” They live in Bernardsville, NJ. Courtney is a jr. at UNC Chapel Hill where she was recruited to play lacrosse. Her team won the women’s NCAA D-I tournament in the spring of ’13. “What a thrill to be in the stands watching your daughter and her teammates perform magic on the field for the final four weekend.” Her son, Parker, is at U of SC in Columbia. She still has 3 dogs and a cockatiel at home so they are not completely empty nesters.

Janet is involved with a number of charitable and local committees and continues to work on her golf, tennis, and paddle tennis games. She bumps into Alison Solbert Paine on the paddle court every once in a while.

As for me, Michael and I are still living in Dedham, MA and running our auction house down the street. We hold 3-4 auctions each year and sell furniture, paintings, jewelry, silver, and oriental rugs, mostly from New England estates.

Our daughter, Lucy (26), has just joined us and is the paintings and jewelry expert. She worked for the Jackson Hole (WY) Art Auction for a few years after college and we are thrilled to have her home on the east coast again. Our older daughter, Emily (28), is just finishing up a yearlong job working for Sotheby’s in London. Not sure what she’ll do next. George (23) is living and working in Portland, ME. We are taking a mini-sabbatical fall of ’13 and going to Florence for 6 weeks. I am very excited about this! Life is short and we have dreamed of doing this for many years. I saw Anne Scott Lynch in Northeast Harbor ME in summer ’13. Her darling daughter, Ali (19), is my goddaughter and she is a sophomore at Wheaton C. Annie lives near Portsmouth, NH with her husband, Greg, who has a very busy family medical practice. Annie stays busy painting with watercolor and playing on a USTA tennis team. She wrote that she loved seeing everyone at the 40th reunion.

So that’s all the news I received this year. If anyone wants to take over this job, please let me know. I am more than ready to hand it over to anyone!

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Susan Boynton 64 Allen Street Rumson, NJ 07760 sboynton56@verizon.net Our 40th reunion sure snuck up on us! It seems like only 20 years or so ago that we were in the quad receiving our diplomas from Mr. Molder. I don’t think I was the only one worried I was going to get a “please see me note” from Ms. Newton instead of the real deal. FB has reconnected so many of us, but there is nothing like sharing stories and memories strolling around the beautiful Westover campus.

Marcia Neidley did ask the question on our 40th reunion page: is it legal to party like we did in 1974? And the answer of course is no, Marcia, it isn’t!

I believe my reconnection with Mary Clark Jones Alvarez has been the most rewarding. She has very successfully homeschooled all 4 of her children from K-12. Her youngest, Timmy (19), is a very talented young filmmaker and has just graduated. Lexy (24), is in L.A. working on a Comedy Central show @midnight. Hannah (23) is in nursing school in VA. Mary and Jose will be moving from FL to Nyak, NY with Timmy and daughter Sarah (21). They have devoted their lives to their Christian ministry and have lived all over the world.

Marcia Neidley and Jim Lynch and live in Fairfax, Virginia and both work out of their home. He is an antitrust consultant and Marcia started a little online business on Etsy (http://etsy. com/shop/incogknito) where she creates and sells hand made items, many with recycled and natural materials. Her stuff is awesome, by the way! Their 3 children are doing well and her daughter Shannon, who works in the film industry in L.A., had lunch with Mary Jones Clark Alvarez’s daughter, Alex. Shannon is working in post-production on a comedy at NBC Universal Studios. Their eldest son is a writer with a law-marketing firm and our youngest son is finishing up his last year at the UVA School of Engr. He already has a job and he doesn’t graduate until May. Marcia and I have enjoyed a wonderful friendship through FB and emails. She is so funny and so talented with her Etsy line!

Tina Rees lives in Charlottesville, VA and works for UVA. Her daughter is working toward her Pharmacy degree at UTenn – Memphis. Tina is happily divorced and living life large – not that we would have expected anything less! Also living life to the fullest is Darcy Cullen Stephens in Sonoma, CA. Both her daughter Piper and son Will graduated from college this spring. Darcy and Bruce are expecting their 3rd grandchild momentarily and travelled to England to visit the first two last summer. Darcy loves her tennis and volunteering for the Sonoma International Film festival. I was able to visit Darcy a year or so ago on a cross-country adventure and was the lucky recipient of a few bottles of husband Bruce’s wine.

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Cyndy Travis Metzger and Jim are cozy in Hastings on Hudson, NY, where they care for their aging pets – I can relate! Cyndy is still working in Special Ed as a Pre K teacher in NYC and hopefully Jim is still doing his photography. I love his work! Their free time is spent helping out with their local Democratic Party. Judy LeSage Grassi still considers marrying Ned as one of her best life decisions. They live in the MD countryside with their beloved Springer Spaniels. Judy’s work as manager of Sallie Mae’s Department of Education contract keeps her in DC quite a bit as well as travels all over the country. Judy just became a Westover Trustee, so I know we all wish her well on representing our class! To relax she once tried yoga, but Zen it was not. I understand completely, as I’ve been asked to leave more than a few yoga classes due to the giggles.

As for your Class Secretary, I am hoping to make the move full time to Dorset, VT with my 2 crazy rescue Cavaliers. My kids are paid in full and on their own. Eric (29) is a police officer in Hartford, VT, where he owns a log home and has two enormous slobbery rescue dogs. Samantha (25) is in NYC working for Viacom as the coordinator for strategy and development for Comedy Central, TV Land, and Spike TV. She’s on the young professional board for Covenant House and a marathon runner. How did I end up with such great kids? Besides hiking, snow shoeing, running very, very slowly in half marathons, and serving on the Board for the Dorset Theatre Festival, I write exaggerated memoirs and enjoy evening cocktails with my friends and neighbors.

Cathy Stewart ’76 and I have reconnected as well. Westover certainly turned out a diverse and interesting group of women in 1974. Thank you all for sharing and being my friend!

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Susan O’Shaughnessy Warren 114 Wentworth Road Brookfield, NH 03872 susan@warrenclan.org Gia Felis Watkins writes that she is still living in Easton and running her marketing/design business. Lilo Smith Cunningham stopped in for a visit a few months ago. She is always great to see. She planned on seeing Jane Sheerer Parkes at her NYC studio. She has been printmaking and is having a show. At the time of writing, she hoped to be playing golf in the Joe Molder Invitation with Tami Walker. I played the first year. It was loads of fun.

Jessie Cogswell Tichko is still living in Canterbury, NH and working for the State, but she’s winding down after almost 30 years in the system. She is still very active in her community with new focuses on the NH Becoming an Outdoor Woman Program, a volunteer instructor for the NH Lets Go Fishing program, and now on the board to raise funds for the only remaining youth summer conservation camp here in NH (Camp Barry).

1975 Continued I am in contact with many Westover-ites from 1976 and Kristi McCarthy Robinson and Chris McIntosh Coffin.

Pamela Handy Shepley sent in a group photo of a get together this Spring at Lilo’s house in Nantucket (see Alumnae Photos section).

I am enjoying work at the local hospital and spending time travelling with my husband, knitting, hiking, and taking photos.

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Elizabeth Lubrano Dwyer 47 Hill Farm Road Pembroke, MA 02359 beth_dwyer@verizon.net Here we are again! Class notes time and a little over 2 years till our 40th reunion in May 2016! Mark your calendars now!

It seems like the last year has been an extremely busy one for many of us. There have been many joyous times and also some very tough and sad ones. I know I am not alone in being very grateful for the rally of support via email and Facebook whenever any of us are in need. Those cyber hugs always feel good. Paul and I were thrilled to host a great group of 76ers at our family’s spot in Maine this past September. It was a perfect mini-reunion in between the big Westover ones every 5 years. We had a spectacular time visiting with Cathy Stewart, Cathy Bushkoff Collins, Kristin Hartley Leithiser, Lauren Caldwell, Marianne Barbino Dubuque, Mihae Lee, and Annette Hall Quezada.

Thankfully, Paul had a couple of male (Tom and Steve) golf buddies so he did not go stir crazy with all the females around. For those who could not come, we missed you terribly. We will definitely plan another gathering.

Cathy Stewart has dealt with the ups and downs that life brings us all. We were all saddened at the death of Cathy’s dad, James Stewart. His memorial service was an incredible celebration of a life well lived. Cathy has jumped head first into local TV production in VT. She recently won 3 awards for her video work. Cathy’s documentary, Stone Valley Byway, won a 2nd place in the documentary category at the Alliance for Community Media/Northeast Region Video Festival. In addition, her short story, “The Transit of Venus,” won a 2nd place at the same event in the religion/ science category. The icing on the cake was that Cathy was the recipient of the Gnatty Award for Producer of the Year at GNAT-TV, where she volunteers her services. Paul and I just got back from a great weekend visiting Cathy and Tom in VT.

Eliza Montgomery Zimmerman has also had a year of ups and downs. We were all very saddened at the passing of Eliza’s Mother. Anita Packard Montgomery ‘47 was instrumental in building Westover into the school it is today. Her legacy will live on for quite some time. Eliza was my earliest supporter in my plans to participate in the Susan G. Komen 60 mile walk for breast cancer, as she did the same walk just about a year ago. It was an amazing experience and one that inspired Eliza and a close friend to hike the Camino de Santiago Trail in Spain this past Sept. Eliza writes that her children are both well. Peter is in SF working for a social media company called Toolshed and also reading admissions applications for Stanford.

Eliza’s daughter Kat has taken some time to figure out what path she wants to head down in life and is heading to college while continuing to work PT. Leilani Crane and her husband, Jim have joined the empty nester club. Welcome! Their youngest, Annaliese, has headed off to college. It takes a bit of getting used to but as far as I am concerned it is an exciting time for any couple! Leilani loves her work as a staff psychologist in the counseling center at UPenn, as well as her PT private practice. Congratulations to Leilani on her first ever published article in the June edition of feminist psychology journal Women and Therapy. Leilani is co-chair of the Multicultural Concerns Committee of the American Psychological Association.

Marianne Barbino Dubuque says that nothing is really new with her family. Everyone is finished with college and gainfully employed! Marianne continues to enjoy her legal work on utility infrastructure projects. Marianne was rocking some great boots while we were all in ME! Also in ME with us was Lauren Caldwell. Lauren is hoping to get her shop into Etsy over the next few months. Her studio will be called Old Block Point Design. Lauren was rocking a pretty snazzy teal wig while we were goofing around on Saturday evening in ME and seeing some spectacular fireworks that Lauren and Steve brought with them. Mihae Lee was also in ME and looks fantastic. She was so excited to tell us that she is going to be a grandma again. Her daughter is due with her 2nd child. Cathy Bushkoff Collins won the prize for travelling the furthest to our reunion in ME. She came all the way from her home in UT. Cathy and her family were all over the USA this past year it seems.

Her girls, Meghan and Jen, are well and Rip continues his work at Alta. Kristin Hartley Leithiser looks ravishing and healthy! Kristin continues her teaching at Hamden Academy and got some travelling in to FL and a visit with Leilani.

News from a few of our NY-ers: Susan Dubin Nahley writes that even with some health issues, she, Stephen, and Charlotte (13) have been enjoying some great travels.

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1976 Continued Susan has been dealing with endocrine disease and now has added Epstein Bar syndrome, which has made life tough, as she is always exhausted. They drove all the way to MN to the state fair to check off a few of Susan’s bucket list items. The butter heads at the state fair were right up there. They also trekked to Bermuda and back to Iceland to view the aurora borealis. Anne Edmondson Kerr is now the Sales Manager at her real estate office, Piping Rock Associates. She and her husband Coe have bought a place in Lebanon, NH, where Coe is working at Morgan Stanley. Anne’s girls, Chauncey and Samantha, are both living and working in NYC. Tishie Koyen writes that she has been very busy with her work. She assists a woman in CT, who sadly passed away recently, who had various projects going on in the area. One in particular is a riding/arts program for children with dyslexia, which Tishie was being groomed to take over. Deirdre Sullivan and Ed just celebrated their 3rd anniversary and have also joined the empty nest club as Deirdre’s youngest, Owen, has headed off to UConn Honors C. and Ed’s daughter, Emily, is at LaSalle. Deirdre says that her dog is too lonely at home so he goes to visit Diane Blackey Sullivan’s pooch for some therapeutic playtime. Deirdre and I had a great yap session while travelling to PA for Mr. Stewart’s memorial service. Deirdre has been an extraordinary friend to Candy White Sweeney, who is battling ovarian cancer. Walks in the park, lots of lunches, and touristy bus trips through NYC have been a few of the memorable moments. Candy continues her journey back to good health and is extremely grateful for the love and support of her family and friends. We all send our love and whatever good karma and prayers we have that this battle will be won very soon! Candy continues teaching FT and volunteering at WO. Candy’s daughter, Keelin, is at UVA and loving it as she begins her sophomore year.

As for the Dwyer clan, it has been a very busy year as well.

My siblings and I have sold the family home in Hingham after being on the market for over a year! This was a huge relief for us all. Paul and I travelled to Italy in April and road tripped to San Antonio, TX in August. Our youngest, Grace, just graduated from Quinnipiac U. and is working for City Year in SA for the 2013/14 school year. She loves it but boy is it hot!

Grad school next. Meaghan continues to live and work in ME and Patrick and Laura are in RI. We adopted a new member to the family in March. If you are on Facebook then you have met Harley. Harley is a very large 3 yr. old lab/hound mix from KY. We adore him but he has needed some training to learn how to get along with other dogs. I need the training too! We are looking forward to fun times in ME this winter.

Thanks everyone for staying in touch! As I mentioned, our 40th is in 2016 and don’t forget those donations to the annual fund. Lots of love to all.

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Eleanor Bissell Wilson 1209 Summer Sweet Lane Mount Airy, MD 21771 shotsiew@yahoo.com Diana Cox Heslop lives in Bermuda with her husband and daughter. Diana acquired her BA in History and Sociology before starting her approximate 30-year career in the banking and investment management world. The highlight during that time was in Green and Ethical Fund Management.

Alongside her career, Diana gained her M.Ed. and acquired her real estate license. She has helped with various local charities and continues actively with the SPCA. Davina Tucker Dickinson relocated from Bermuda to CT with her company (XL) in Jan. ‘13. After a housing “crisis” which left her without a rental home in Weston, she found a suitable (appropriate for Ashley’s needs) home in Easton and moved in March ’13.

Both Tyler and Ashley have settled into life there beautifully and Davina honestly feels as though they have lived there for years! At the time of this writing, the only downside is her husband, Robbie, remains in Bermuda working for Arch Insurance, but as soon as the stars line up he’ll be in CT. Her office is in Stamford; the Merritt/95 traffic is frustrating to no end but one always has to have a little give and take, so knowing how great her kids are doing, she can put up with the daily traffic! Unfortunately Davina’s dad passed away in May ’13.

Some of our classmates have become empty nesters this year. Lori Bellini Cannistra and Tony are now “emptynesters”! Anthony is in his 3rd year at Tufts and Stephanie is in her first semester at Northeastern in Boston, but is spending that first semester in Greece! Stephanie is having a great time. Andrea Manzi Frank, Julie Zucker Chapleau, and Lori have renewed their plan to try to meet for lunch at a midway point for all of them every 6 mos. They are due Oct. ‘13 so they need to get a date! Lori exchanges emails periodically with Teddy Burr Zeleznik, and it’s always great to hear what she is up to. Tibbie Uhl and Step are also “emptynesters” sooner than they expected. Their oldest daughter Emily graduated from Skidmore in May ‘13 with a major in Classics and a minor in Math. She immediately landed a teaching job at Westminster in Simsbury, CT. With any luck Tibbie will get to spend more quality time with Jeanne-Mary Parisot Bell, who lives in town and who’s younger son is a sr. at Westminster. Emily is teaching math, coaching field hockey and lacrosse, and serving as a dorm parent. She’s blissfully happy teaching a smart, engaged group of high-schoolers, and her first “apartment” is pretty sweet...Katherine is a soph. at Wheaton, planning a double major in Economics and Women’s Studies; Tibbie loves that combination! Alex has started boarding as a sixth grader at Cardigan Mountain School in NH. He loves it and they look forward to watching many hockey games. Tibbie is now off the Board of Governors, having completed a six-year stint. It was a great experience to re-connect with the Westover of today.

1978 Continued Susu Cook Scott says fall is the time of year when she misses Westover the most. It is lovely there in England but not quite as great as autumn in New England. Her family had a terrific summer, with three weeks in the USA. While they were in Sewickley, Susu was so happy to see Blythe Burgan Davis ‘80. They also spent some time in ME and Martha’s Vineyard. Susu’s daughters (now 5 and 7 years old) even began picking up an American accent! While in ME she read the Westover book. It’s a good book and she was fascinated to learn so much more about Jennie LaMonte Johnson’s aunt, Helen LaMonte.

Debra James Case and Lester are well. Lester is staying busy with work. Debra is busy getting ready for the tax season. They are saving up to visit England in 2 years. She and Lester have fun traveling the states when they can, now that the kids are all grown and on their own. Emily Renz Barron and Walter are well. They went to Cape Cod in Oct. ‘13, which was their first long travel since ’08.

Teddy Burr Zeleznik is 1 of 14 Diplomatic Couriers based in DC. She’s been spending a lot of time flying to East Asia and Europe as well as a few trips to Iraq, Helsinki, and other places in between. Life continues to race by, but she’s had a few quick trips up to CT to see family members. Over the summer, Teddy did see Mary Munson, who was planning to take a sabbatical in Puerto Rico for a while. Teddy expects to be assigned for another 3-year tour in Frankfurt next summer, but she’ll definitely make it back to CT and Westover before then. Somehow, with fewer of our teachers at Westover (apart from Ann Pollina, of course, who is doing great things for Westover!), it’s not quite the same to visit, though she always likes to wander through the corridors, listening to the excited students and soaking in the wonderful ambience. “Hello to all former classmates, and let’s continue to think young and stay well.” Amen to that, Teddy!

Cece Worley Campbell still lives in beautiful Weston, CT with her husband Scott and their two daughters, Jane and Kate. Jane is doing the dreaded commute to NYC and saving to go for her MFA in film. Kate is a sr. at Conn. C. Their oldest, Susannah, is happily married and living in Brooklyn with her hubby and 2 beautiful daughters.

Cece just returned from a Board of Governors meeting at Westover where she met with the freshman class (they are an amazingly diverse and poised group of young women).

She had dinner with Ann Pollina and some of the faculty and administrators and heard much about the exciting things happening at Westover. Anyone who hasn’t been to or heard about Westover lately, she encourages you to check it out. The girls are doing things that are truly astounding and the school is offering great programs to meet the needs of today’s young women. In addition to the BOG, Cece is currently president of the local chapter

of an organization called P.E.O., which is a philanthropic educational organization that offers opportunities to help young women around the world to afford higher education. She is also chief dog walker of their four-yearold lab, Cooper. Don’t let her talents fool you – Cece is also the head gardener and executive canning guru! She always has something yummy going on in her house. Sara Rogers is also living in Weston, CT. Carla Skinner Malstrom has gained enough seniority to fly the overseas routes so she is taking full advantage of the new opportunities. It only took 14 years as a flight attendant with American Airlines. She is adding new cities and countries to her list of “places visited” on a monthly basis. She sends us wonderful pictures on Facebook of where she is. Since March, she has been to more than twelve countries! Sometimes she only spends 1 hour in the country so she doesn’t actually consider she’s visited it. For the rest, she gets 18-34 hours in the destination city before flying back to NYC. Carla does miss seeing some of her Westover friends around the US now that she is flying internationally. Guess she’ll have to come to the next reunion! She continues to have a great time keeping up with family and friends through the Internet, especially on Facebook! Carla loves how it is helping reconnect many Westover alumnae and she is happy to be among those who are now in touch with classmates.

As for me, Shotsie Bissell Wilson, I try to keep you all in touch. Like Carla, I love seeing and hearing what you all are up to via Facebook. So here is what I can tell about those who did not send me notes: Julie Zucker Chapleau just launched her new business called Best Fit Body with her daughter Ellen. They both look amazing and are dedicated to the pursuit of health in all aspects. Ellen comes up with amazing recipes so check out their website. Christine Gamble Brooks has spent time visiting with her mom and sister Daphne. She also attended Burning Man. Victoria Blewer always is posting amazing photographs.

Mary Ellen Bedell Andrzejewski is busy with work and her grandkids. Lucy Thackara Kennedy says hello.

I just passed my 13 year mark with General Mills. I am still playing volleyball and have completed 3 half-marathons.

Steve and I are empty nesters as we just lost our beloved dog, Sydney, after 18 years in June ’13. Most of us did not make it back for our 35th so let’s plan on a gala for our 40th in 2018!

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Sarah Seamans 258 High Road Newbury, MA 01951 sbseamans@comcast.net Thank you to those who sent in news. It is hard to believe that our 35th reunion is approaching! I look forward to seeing many of you in May ’14.

Nancy Hoft writes from FL that she enjoys kayaking, hot yoga, frequent beach walks, work, family, friends, and road trips as often as she can get away with. She won’t be able to join us in May ’14 for reunion, but maybe for our 40th!

D.J. Lewis-D’Agostino shared that she and her husband celebrated 28 years in Aug ’13 . “Thinking about another big trip for our 30th but don’t know how to top the Outer Yawsawa Islands (we might go back).” D.J. and her husband are spending more time at their Naples, FL home and hope to split time between New England and FL in the future. Her work at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals continues to be very busy and the last few years’ focus has been on diabetes, which is becoming a major health issue in the world. D.J. looks forward to seeing everyone at our reunion.

From ME, I heard from Ann Cluett Kaplan – who is officially an empty nester as of spring ’13 when her daughter Lisa graduated from Colby C. She writes, “ Both kids are off and working and almost self-supporting.” During summer ʼ13 Ann had rotator cuff surgery, which has kept her from playing tennis. She still has her photo business and celebrated 21 years of soccer and football photos for the Cape Elizabeth town rec. program in fall ’13. Also fall ’13 brought 30 years of wedded bliss for Ann and Doug. Ann asks if any Westover classmates are in the DC area, as her daughter moved there in fall ’13. Ann also invited anyone who is in the Portland, ME area to visit as “There is always hot water on the stove ready to pop in a lobster or two for anyone who is looking to hang out. “ Karen Hall also wrote from ME that all is well with her and her dental practice.

Karen is looking forward to our upcoming reunion.

Elizabeth Spencer has returned to VT after her 3-year adventure in NYC. Elizabeth has joined Middlebury C. as Senior Philanthropic Advisor. She splits her time between Middlebury, VT and Norwich, VT. Elizabeth has encountered quite a few quizzical looks when she explains that she grew up in Middlebury, CT! It was great to hear from classmate Katharine Cromwell Giovanni. She wrote that after a long battle with stagethree breast cancer, she has survived and thrived.

Katharine is a motivational speaker and is writing a book about her experience that will be available early ’14. You can follow her blog at www.Katharinegiovanni.com.

Jodi Summit writes from MN that she hopes to come east for our reunion in May ’14, but it is the busiest time for the small town weekly paper that she and her husband run. Their son is a jr. in college majoring in biology with a focus on evolutionary bio and soil science. Jodi’s big news is that she is the School Board Chair and founding board member of a new grade 7-12 public charter high school that opened in her small town in fall ’13. She writes, “We currently have 67 students, which is right where we hoped to be in our first year. The school (www.vermilioncountry. com) focuses on project-based, hands-on learning. It has been an adventure, with plenty of ups and downs. Our school district closed our local high school two years ago and has been sending our kids about 30 miles away to another rural school. We now are able to offer a worldclass education right in our little town of 500. Our school is located in a former manufacturing facility that is owned by our city. Our city borrowed $400k to renovate the building, but we still had a lot of interior renovation work to complete ourselves, including constructing 68 student desks built from scratch!”

As for myself, I continue to work at the Amesbury Library where I lead the monthly evening book group. I have become more active with the American Cancer Society Relay for Life as a committee member for the Amesbury Relay, which is in its 12th year. I enjoy my visits to northern VT to visit my daughter at Johnson State C. In the fall of ’13, we had a great trek to Val-David, Canada, which is north of Montreal. I am enjoying my time as a Westover Governor.

It has been so rewarding to promote our wonderful school.

I enjoy visiting my niece Courtney Bliss ’14 when I am on campus. During fall ’13 visit to Westover, I was able to have lunch with Caroline Barhydt Francis, which was great.

Caroline was looking forward to her son Jamie’s marriage in late fall ’13.

Put May 16-18, 2014 on your calendars for our 35th reunion!

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Judith Herzog Wilson PO Box 86 Mendenhall, PA 19357 muddyruts.farm@verizon.net Sandra Nichols Nash 88 Concord Street Carlisle, MA 01741 sandy@cliffjump.com Victoria Buckhall Silsby PO Box 875 Dorset, VT 05251 victoria@thecollborative.us

1980 Continued Gabrielle Gerstein Kalis writes, “My life is good, and pretty much the same. Still married to the same good guy, still working with female inmates in the Massachusetts prisons, still baking weekly to make sure my jeans remain tight.

I’m now an ‘empty nester,’ with my youngest successfully completing her first semester at TCU in Ft. Worth, and my oldest at Tulane Law School in New Orleans. Luckily, they’re both located in fun – and usually warm! – areas to visit. I’m happy to have seen Sara Howard, Joyce Skerik Perrella, Joline Thompson Douglas, and Su McCarthy DeSimone in the past year. Su and I have plans to go out and visit Carol Goldburg this spring; anyone want to join us?”

Sarah Knowles Dent reports, “I am just completing my third year in the Development Office at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, MA, a school very similar to Westover though with a very large day population. My eldest daughter Sally is dealing with the trials and tribulations of junior year here and my middle daughter, Caroline, is applying for entry to 9th grade in the fall. Alex, my littlest, is in 5th grade in Holliston where we live. My husband Dan is running Dent Communications from a home office and working with some very cool and innovative clients. Hope all of my pals are doing well. I think of you all often and wonder what escapades you are up to.”

1981

Sonja Lindgren 615 Georges Lane Ardmore, PA 19003 sblindgren@msn.com Elizabeth Hausman Lycke writes that she is doing really well.

She still lives in Montauk, on the very tip of Long Island. Liz and her husband John run a property management company.

Their son Jack just turned 16 and is a jr. at the Ross School.

He is about to get his learner’s permit and is starting the college search…all good things, but bittersweet because he is Liz’s one and only. She thinks about Westover often and always fondly: “Great memories.” Sally Handy has been happily living in Boulder, CO for the past five years. Her kids, Shepard and Livy, are 12 and 15, and last year she connected with Anne Benedict Hedlund because their sons were on the same baseball team. Anne saw Shep’s name on the roster and asked him if his mom was Sally. She is happy she kept her maiden name and gave it to her kids.

years ago! Second, Michael Manshel and Maya Hazen’s wedding in April was a significant event for the RobertsHazen family. Michael’s father was the U.S. ambassador to Denmark under the Carter Administration, and Michael and Maya live near my sister Mallery and her husband in Beverly Hills, CA.”

Blair Brickman Stuart reports that so much is going on in the life of the Stuarts it is amazing. When she wrote in Sept., she was about to chair a two-day event for the Parents League, which is a not-for-profit organization in NYC – a power house as far as private schools are concerned – and was looking forward to going out for drinks at the end of the first day with Laura Nash Volovski ’83. Over the summer Blair, her husband, and three-year old-twins (who made a cameo at the 30th reunion, as those of us who were there fondly recall) had a party at her mom’s house in Greenwich and had some Westover alumnae in attendance: Becky Chase Hughes, Wendy Stout ’80, and Blythe Burgan Davis ‘80.

Blair’s husband is about to launch a line of sophisticated chocolate milk called Kicking Mule: “It will be made with dark chocolate, 1% milk, and the lowest sugar content on the market! Go Preston!” Blair is also chairing an auction for her girls’ nursery school, the theme being The Great Gatsby, so she is rereading that in preparation for “the decor team and all the other good things that go with it...

Like what to wear!”

Jody Bates Bliss is the proud mother of a Westover sr., Courtney James Bliss ’14. Courtney’s time at Westover has flown by, but she is loving it and has made some great friends, among them Andie Dahl ‘14, daughter of Christine Muldowney Dahl ’82. Jody’s son, Will, is a soph. at Millbrook School, so Jody and Dan are adjusting to an empty nest… the next chapter in life. Jody continues as Head of the Middle School at Indian Mountain, where Dan is a fifthgrade teacher, dorm parent, and coach. They recently were honored for 20 years at the school. Meg McClellan and her husband were in the final weeks of finishing their house – a much-anticipated three-year construction project – when she checked in early in the fall and were looking forward to moving in. Their son Chris is 7 and “as exuberant as ever.”

Jody and Meg got together for dinner in July, and Meg writes that it was great to catch up; it feels as though no time had passed since they had last seen each other.

Amanda Roberts writes: “Two events mark 2012-2013 for me. Last fall my parents and I traveled to London, Istanbul, Ephesus, and Naples. I attended Sunday services with others from all over the world in Ephesus and bought a hand made Turkish carpet. Our travels reminded me of traveling to Europe with Beth, Mandy, and Emmy many

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1981 Continued Jeanne Anderson Christie is still living in the WV mountains with husband Michael (recently obsessed with sailing), sons Jacob (sports hound) and Samuel (the engineer), and her mother. Jeanne’s father passed away in July. She enjoys visits from her adopted niece and her baby girl, whom she refers to as “fashionista” and “fashionista-in-training”.

Jeanne has four dogs and a few sheep. She manages their painting business and rentals and is busy homeschooling one of her sons and being a daughter to her mother. She hopes to see her classmates sometime in the near future.

Heidi Luquer has started working for Global Grassroots, a non-profit that works with disenfranchised women by supporting them in their creation of self-directed, longterm social ventures. It engages teams of women who have survived trauma and encourages them to build their own ventures and rebuild their communities. Heidi has scaled down her life so that she doesn’t need as much and can do more. She gets to see Anne Downey once in awhile and is always grateful that she’s not too far away.

Virginia Jewiss is still enjoying her vagabond life, spending half the year in CT, the other half in Rome, with as much extra travel as she can fit in. Ginny had a fabulous holiday in Sri Lanka last year and is looking forward to exploring more this winter before heading back to Yale for the spring.

She taught yoga to rowers in VT this summer, the ideal meeting of two of her passions, and she hopes to find more time for yoga in the midst of teaching and translating.

She gets to see Bruce Coffin and his wife Maria, and occasionally Tom Hungerford and his wife Tilde, in New Haven. She is always amazed at how well and warmly they remember everyone. She adds her warmth to theirs, wishing us all serenity and joy.

Anne Roberts is back in touch with Linda Cook Maloney.

Anne says that life is fine and quiet in IN. She is back into occupational nursing. It is a whole change from the nursing home and she is enjoying the experience. She says that life is very different working days versus second shift. Anne wonders if anyone has heard from Candee lately and sends very best wishes to all. Linda reports that her daughter Lauren (16) is attending a boarding school in NC and doing great. “Not sure I like being on this end of the boarding school stick but am getting adjusted to just having the dog to keep me company. Poor dog.” She is still running the family owned self-storage business, which she has been involved with for 21 years. She recently brought her brother on board and is enjoying spending time with him. Her upcoming excitement includes a special trip given to her by her mother for Linda’s 50th birthday: “London and Paris! I will be taking Lauren with me...been looking forward to this for a long time. It makes turning 50 just a little bit better! As for hobbies, I still bowl once a week, dabble at the guitar and piano, and am getting more involved with my church. My mother lives two doors

away, so we spend lots of time together, playing cards, fixing meals for each other, and talking...lots of talking!”

Amanda Thacher Soares commutes to BU from Providence on a nearly daily basis. The hour-plus train ride gives her time to respond to class notes requests, catch up on email, and master Bubble Wars on her iPhone. She had a surprise birthday – “# of years shall be left unnamed but why bother?” -- party in May. Meg Thayer and Martha Beretta Mainiero were there for the fun. Amanda and Rafael’s daughter Olivia is at Cazenovia C. in the equine management program: “She is a freshman, so far, so good!” Their son Asher loves his BMX bike and has the scars and scabs to prove it. At his point, his mother can’t wait for wrestling season to begin. They all had to say good-bye to a beloved cat this summer. To stave off the emptiness, they decided to take the plunge and adopt a dog: “Bella the dachshund/golden/beagle mix came to live with us in October. What am I thinking?”

Many of us turned 50 this past year and found it worthy of comment. Meg Thayer writes, “I find myself reflecting even more upon the wisdom and inspiration ‘Cogitare, Agere, Esse’ reveals. Joining with Martha Beretta Mainiero for Amanda Thacher Soares’s 50th in Newport was a spring highlight. Maybe in 2014 I’ll figure out how to integrate Facebook into my life and will be able to witness more of what is important to each of us. In DC my friendship with Martha Bacon Martin ‘65 nurtures my connection to Westover and draws me in to support the Inspiring Women Campaign for Westover efforts in the final year of the initiative.” Meg makes a plug (smiley face included) for the campaign, asking us to please respond as favorably as we can to outreach efforts.

For Ana Hauser Burtnett, turning 50 meant putting out to the universe that she would like an adventure. And so it was that her husband said that he was ready for a new position in the conservation arena, and that the next position was in VT. So, they have moved to Montpelier, VT. In a span of eight weeks they sold their house, threw out, gave away and sold about 3,000 square foot of stuff, and moved into a 1,400 square foot cute bungalow. She says that she is about to be without a position in health care for the first time in twenty years and hopes that the hiatus is brief! She has taken up mountain biking and still plans on doing a Nordic ski race and dusting off her fiddle and taking lessons again. She and her family are all well.

She sees Anne Downey now and again. They meet midway between their towns! Ana loves seeing everyone’s lives through FB. (Take note, Meg Thayer!), hopes everyone is well, and signs her note “Peace, Ana.”

I have to say, I’ve found the new decade to be energizing.

I figured I had a good excuse for a splurge and took a celebratory trip to Tulum, Mexico, with a college friend. We were so busy snorkeling the limestone caves, biking to the Mayan ruins, and dining on ceviche in fantastic restaurants with tables set in the sand that we never actually lay on the beach. So I’ll have to go back, of course, to fit in some beach time. In anticipation of having one child off to college next year and also to invigorate my professional life, I took on a second job at the School of Social Policy and Practice at UPenn. As a liaison between the school, 20 students, and the agencies where the students are doing their practicums, I get to return to my social work roots, driving around the various Phila. neighborhoods and collaborating with other social workers.

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Linda Wright Velanovich writes, “My family moved from MI to FL in ’11. I am busy with my two teenagers, 16 and 13.

I am helping with my daughter’s high school crew team (Plant High School Rowing Assoc. board member) and my son’s social engagements and schoolwork. Otherwise, I am enjoying tons of tennis and the beautiful FL sunshine.

The move from MI was a good one for our family, but we still maintain friendships and visit many family in MI as well as spending as much time as we can in our northern MI second home.”

1994

Tricia Carlson 97 Radnore Avenue Naugatuck, CT 06770 tacarlson0315@gmail.com

Johanna Cox 1805 Limerick Lane Columbia, MO 65203

As we approach our 20th reunion (yes, I did say 20th!!), it was great to hear from all of you. Lauri Schulman lives in Edgewater, NJ, which is just outside of NYC. After producing for CONCACAF (a division of FIFA – the World Cup), she started her own production company, Morgyn Blaire, which produces films, television music, and live events all over the world and also provides entertainment marketing services. Lauri is always in touch with Victoria Campbell, who just graduated from SVA with her masters in social documentary filmmaking. Lauri says that Tori was at the top of her class, and her thesis film is an incredible portrait of her experiences in Haiti after the earthquake.

Lauri visited with Kim Walbridge while in Austin, TX. Kim and her wife Lauren just had their second child. Lauri met their first daughter, Hailey, and says that she is a joyful and beautiful girl! She could not thank Kim enough for her offer of hospitality during the Hurricane Sandy blackout because Lauri was a refugee in TX for almost a month. During that time, Lauri stayed with Candice Tisdale Russell, who works at the U of TX and has two adorable boys, Lennon and Sullivan.

Aya Tsuchimochi-Cruz writes that her sister Lenge Tsuchimochi Mowry ’95 has triplet boys who are turning a year old. Aya’s daughter, 5-year-old Isabella, is a great big cousin and loves having three cousins at once! Aya says that she will be here for reunion. Katie Witry and her husband Todd celebrated ten years of togetherness with a trip to Ireland for two weeks, which was “an absolute delight”. Their daughter Lucy Cate recently turned 2 and started at a local all-girls school, which reminds Katie of Westover. Westover took some of the girls from Lucy Cate’s school for a few months after Hurricane Katrina. Katie feels lucky that they have had a weak hurricane season and was looking forward to fall in NOLA because of all the festivals.

Katie’s real estate business has grown to 5 employees, and she is adjusting to the growth and management of a small, women-owned business. If anyone visits NOLA, please message her. She and her family will also be at reunion in May ’14.

Lynne Johanson’s baby boy Daryl “Rocco” Catucci was born 8/20/13, 11 days overdue. She says he was “8lbs. 2oz. of pure joy” and she loves being a mom. “He’s a great baby – easier to care for than my Doberman.” Lynne also had the pleasure of being in the wedding of Jennifer Jankowski ’95 in Sept. ’13. Jennifer has been her long-time friend and was Lynne’s successor as AA Head at Westover. Lynne is also very excited for reunion. Allison Perry Sullivan enjoys life in Simsbury, CT with husband Tim and kids, William (6) and Maeve (4). They do lots of bike riding now that the kids are free of training wheels and spent the summer swimming at Tower Ridge Swim Club. Erin Sadler Wantoch sent a brief email that she lives in Milwaukee, WI. Tricia Carlson has worked at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury, CT for the past five years and was promoted to Quality Management Analyst in June ‘13. While her new position has definitely been hard work, it allowed her to quit her second job. She loves being home at night with her family. Tricia’s husband Chris also received a promotion to the position of Production Control and IT Manager at Blakeslee Prestress, Inc. in Branford, CT where he has worked for 19 years. Tricia’s daughter Ally is a soph. and loves school at Holy Cross High School in Waterbury, CT, where she is very involved with the theater and choir programs. Tricia and Ally travelled to Las Vegas in July ’13 to celebrate their uncle’s 75th birthday. It was Ally’s first time on an airplane, and they had a blast.

They were able to personally meet Penn and Teller, as well as Chumlee from Pawn Stars. In Aug. ’13, Jennifer Kelly and her fiancé Fergus came from Ireland for a visit.

Fergus proposed to Jen in NYC during their time here. It was wonderful to see them as always, and everyone had a lot of laughs celebrating Chris’s birthday at a German restaurant – “Ticky tocky, ticky tocky, oy oy oy!” I hope I will see you all at reunion in May!

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1996

Kelley Agnew Medvigy 6145 Regent Park Rd Catonsville, MD 21228 kmedvigy@gmail.com Martha Woods Yancey 3512 Sitio Baya Carlsbad, CA 92009 marthayancey@gmail.com Hello, classmates! We hope this update finds you well. It has been so great to hear from you and see what you are all up to!

Katia Allexi writes: “I have just started my new job as Senior Project Manager for the Strategy Department at Rewe in Oct. Rewe is one of Germany’s most important grocers. I am still living in Cologne, planning my wedding for next year with my fiance Rocco, who is Italian.”

Aly Schneider Kirk ‘97 organized a get together in June at her house with Tessa White, Anne Bell, Lauren Collins Cline, and Mollie Jurewicz. Lauren says, “We had way too much cheese and lots of Tessa’s fabulous culinary wonders. It’s amazing that we still look the same but are more charming after all these years! Must be why Aly’s husband wasn’t scared off.”

Lauren also mentioned that she has had a slight career change and left television to become a spokesperson for a major utility project. The job means more steady hours and holidays off for the first time in her adult life! Most of all, it means being home more for her son Sebastian, who turned one in August.

Tessa White has been busy visiting many Westover friends.

In addition to the reunion at Aly’s house, Tessa visited Katie Ryan ‘97 in St. Paul, MN in Aug. They celebrated her birthday by canoeing around a few Minneapolis Lakes, picnicking at the Minnehaha Falls and cooking a lot of great food. Most recently Tessa and Heidi Bosek Dunavant went to Catamount Aerial Adventure Park in Hillsdale, NY to do aerial obstacle courses and zip lining.

Gina Nelson Samson writes, “Overall it has been another normal year. Over the summer we rescued our first family dog. Jax keeps us busy and Brody loves his new buddy. After training all summer, a couple of weeks ago a friend and I ran our first half marathon.” Way to go Gina!

Ann Clark Priftis and Jon Gilmore welcomed the arrival of son Harlan Cash Gilmore, born April 3rd. Harlan made his Westover debut at 6 weeks for the Board of Governor’s May meeting! Ann stepped down as Executive Director of Defy Ventures and is running her art consulting business, Clark Priftis Art, full time.

Kelly Agnew Medvigy writes: “Ann and I recently made it back to campus for our Fall Board of Governors meeting where I was the newbie and she continues serving as President. I

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am looking forward to all of the new opportunities being a governor will bring, most importantly my trips back north to visit campus and family in CT.” Morgan Barry lives in Prospect, CT and works for North Shore Computers and Web Design doing Search Engine Optimization and Marketing. She gets together with Christina Biello Cosmos and Claudia Biello ’93, as well as Candace Achenbach and Candy’s sister frequently.

Candace Achenbach is beginning her ninth year at the Siemon Company as a Global Product Manager for copper telecommunications cable. Additionally, she recently launched two companies with family members – an outdoor living company and a paving company. She writes, “If you are in need of an outdoor kitchen, patio, stonework, or a new driveway, check us out at www.acheninc.com and tell them you know the President!” She has been busy travelling and running. She became an aunt twice with two new baby nephews, Jameson and Joey, who were both born in 2013.

She writes that they “have kept us all very busy with their cuteness!” Candy says that she frequently sees Christina Biello Cosmos, Morgan Barry, Wendy Leavenworth Halpert ’93, and Claudia Biello ‘93. She writes, “they all keep me laughing, and I don’t know what I would do without them!”

Christina Biello Cosmos is in her third year working as a pediatric anesthesiologist at Hartford Anesthesiology Associates. Besides her sisters Marisa Biello Shaker ’92 and Claudia Biello ’93, she writes that she frequently sees Candace Achenbach and Morgan Barry and is still grateful to Candy for all of her support as a bridesmaid in her wedding in Aug. ‘12. “She kept me sane! Thank you, Candy!”

Tomo Nakanishi Kubo gave birth to her son, Subaru, on Oct. 7, 2013 in Nara, Japan. She writes, “every day is an exciting learning experience for us!” Alicia Fraser has completed all but her dissertation for her PhD in Global Gender Studies at the U of Buffalo. She is working on her dissertation on HIV-positive women coming together against all odds and stepping out of traditional social contexts to organize and create community health centers for HIV testing and treatment and food distribution to those living with HIV and AIDS orphans in remote areas in Sub-Saharan Africa. She writes, “I am thrilled to be back in the water, swimming every day, overcoming obstacles, and learning to manage life after a long, ongoing battle with chronic illness.” She recently attended a baby shower for the daughter of Jamie Mitchell ’99 and meets up occasionally with Penny Covill.

Martha Woods Yancey recently launched Blue Balloon Books, LLC and is due out with her first children’s book, Tanner’s Manners, in June 2014. She recently stepped down as the Appellate Division Attorney at Genex Services, Inc. to focus on Blue Balloon Books, LLC and to volunteer for the CA Innocence Project. In her spare time, her 3-year-old son Jackson keeps her busy!

1996 Continued Elizabeth McCormick recently travelled to Ireland with her husband, Bruce. She writes, “We had an incredible trip and can’t wait to go back!” Elizabeth contemplated getting a job in Ireland pouring pints, but, nevertheless, returned to NYC where she and Bruce moved into a new place in Brooklyn.

It is with heavy heart that we announce the death of our classmate Cortney Rice. Cortney passed away on August 30, 2013. We know you will join us in remembering Cortney as a star athlete on the field hockey and lacrosse fields as well as a caring and devoted classmate and friend. Information for those wishing to donate in Cortney’s honor will be forthcoming.

1997

Katie Marages Schank 1650 Harvard St. NW, #629 Washington, DC 20009 katieschank@gmail.com

Elise Desjardins Stanford 244 N Serenity Hill Circle Chapel Hill, NC 27516 edesjar@gmail.com

Helen Phillips Trementozzi 52 Grassland Street Lexington, MA 02421 hallytremontozzi@gmail.com Hello class of ’97! After a brief class notes hiatus, we’re back in action! Thank you to everyone who wrote back with news.

It’s always great to hear about our class’s accomplishments, adventures, and growing families. If you missed the chance to send in news for this edition of class notes, we hope we’ll hear from you next time. Here is the news I received, in no particular order: Amanda Verdery Young is excited to report that she and Tyler Young were married on June 8, 2013 in Sisters, OR. Mita Paramita writes that she is a co-founder of BrightFront Group, a society and technology boutique consultancy in Santa Monica, CA. Their most recent work includes developing the complete Standard Operating Procedures for a network of Big Data Innovation Labs, founded by the UN Secretary General’s Office. Mita is also delighted to share that she has recently received U.S. citizenship and can’t wait to start traveling with her new passport!

Michelle Brooks Parrish writes from Toronto where she lives with her husband, Michael, and their 3-year-old son, Corbin (plus two cats and an elderly bulldog). After working in the museum design field for over 5 years, Michelle has transferred jobs and now works in the signage, way finding, and environmental graphic design field. She says, “Work is busy, and it is a daily challenge to balance career with motherhood! All is worth it though, coming home to my beloved guys each night.”

Sara Chetkin Saelens is awaiting the official publication of her book, The Healing Curve: A Catalyst of Consciousness, on March 19th. Her son Adrian is 15 months and climbs on absolutely everything! Although the move in date is still a ways off, she and her husband are building a new house and are very excited to move. This winter they will visit friends and family in Europe during a month-and-a-half long trip. Sara reports, “All in all, we’re very happy and having lots of fun!”

Tyler Emerson-Dorsch and her husband and business partner, Brook Dorsch, changed the name of their contemporary art gallery from Dorsch Gallery to Emerson Dorsch in 2013.

Coinciding with the name change, the gallery reopened after an ambitious renovation. Tyler reports a long list of wonderful accomplishments in the art field. She contributed an essay to the exhibition catalog for POUR, an exhibition of abstract paintings at FL Atlantic U. Also in association with POUR, she presented at a symposium at FAU and moderated a symposium in NY in May 2013. Tyler also published an interview with artists Jenny Brillhart and Carolyn Salas in the SITE 95 journal and received a Tigertail Productions Access Grant in 2012. Somehow, amidst all of her other work, Tyler and her husband have also found time to plant a new garden with native FL growth at their home in Miami Shores. The newly diverse garden will attract birds and butterflies and, once established, will require far less water and maintenance than the typical lawn. Her two daughters enjoy helping to tend to it!

Savita Ostendorf is the very happy mama of two boys. Eno was born at home in March ‘13. During naps and after Savita gets her little guys to bed at night, she’s been getting on the computer to do some freelance design work…”Only fun projects though.”

Elise Desjardins Stanford also expanded her family this year with the birth of her second daughter Catherine Ann (Kate) Stanford in July ‘13.

Cécile Pemberton welcomed son Kori Alexander Thomas in April ‘13. Kori tipped the scales at 7lbs flat.

Grace Eunhye Kim Lee lives in MA where she works at the Child Support Enforcement Div. of the Dept. of Revenue. She and her husband, who have been married for about 7 years, have twin girls who will turn 5 next Jan. Jackie Dias Dansereau and her husband Marc, who have been together since high school, live in Wilbraham, MA and are happily raising their four daughters, Malyna (9), Siena (8), Zoe (6), and Kyla (4). They are expecting their fifth child in May. Jackie says, “I’ve always wanted a big family. Luckily, Marc is an amazing Dad and felt the same.” She’s been a stay at home mom since welcoming their first daughter and reports, “life has been good to us.”

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Alessandra Love Simons and her husband, Adam, enjoy living in Oakland, CA with their two children, Sydney and Charlie, who was born in Sept. ‘12, and their St. Bernard, Chester. Alessandra sees Lauren Martinkovic Mullins and her daughter sometimes, but she says, “not often enough.” Alessandra also writes, “If anyone is ever in the area, they should let us know as we’d love to see them!”

Lauren Martinkovic Mullins reports that she and her husband, Travis, “not only survived their first year of parenthood, but loved it!” Daughter Ada turned 1 in Sept. Lauren reports Ada “is walking, chasing the dog, learning lots of words, and has brought so many smiles, laughs, and love to the family.” They are planning Ada’s first trip to CT this Nov. and are excited to spend time with family – including Kristin Martinkovic White ’91 – and to celebrate Thanksgiving. They also have plans to spend time with Michele Gemino Egan, Katie Marages Schank, Hally Phillips Trementozzi, and Kristen Magiera Roberts.

When the whole gang gets together, there will be a total of 10 kids!

Four of those children belong to Michele Gemino Egan and her husband Matt, who welcomed son Colin in Feb. ‘13.

Michele reports that he is “the fourth and final addition to the Egan clan!” Their family moved to a new home in June, which is no small feat with four kids under the age of six.

Hally Phillips Trementozzi writes, “Hi everyone! Hope all are doing well and dominating the mid-30s (how did that happen?).” She also reports, “Our two young kids (Lucas, 1 and Clara, 3), keep my husband Jon and I busy, but they are such fun little personalities that we love every minute of it (well, almost).” They enjoy being back in the Boston area where Hally works in Business Development at a pharmaceutical company while Jon is working to start up an economic analysis department at a global architecture/ urban-planning firm. She and Krisi are both in the Boston area and try to see each other as often as they can. Hally is looking forward to getting together with the Egan, Mullins, Roberts, and Schank families over Thanksgiving and having a chance to meet some of the new babies.

I am also looking forward to the mini-reunion over Thanksgiving. Once the holidays are over, our family will pack up and leave DC in January for a big move to Athens, GA where my husband Jesse will start a faculty position at U of GA. I’ll be working on finishing my dissertation, which (fingers crossed!) should be completed by this time next year. I’ve had the opportunity to design and teach my own urban history course this semester at GWU, and I love being in the classroom! I find it so challenging and energizing. While our work keeps us both busy, nothing keeps us busier than raising our 20 month-old daughter, Alice. This active and spunky little girl keeps us on our toes! This coming year will be busy, but it will also be an adventure filled with lots of new and exciting things.

Hope that everyone is well and look forward to hearing from even more of you next time!

2003

Danielle Stewart Knope 210 Fellsview Terrace #211 Stoneham, MA 02180 danielle.k.stewart@gmail.com Karimah Gottschalck 241 Taaffe Place Brooklyn, NY 11205 karimah2@hottschalck.com I, Danielle Stewart Knope, was married to Zach Knope in Portsmouth, RI in Sept. ’12, and was lucky enough to have some of my wonderful Westover friends there to celebrate.

I had a wonderful time at our 10-year reunion in May – what a great turn out for the class of ‘03!

Ellie Magin is living in Chicago, IL and working as a line cook at The Chicago Diner, a vegetarian restaurant. Jessica Garassino Vargas had a wonderful time as a bridesmaid in Adriana Tin’s wedding in Sept. ’13, and was able to catch up with Elise Drew Leon then as well.

Jessica Haggerty is still living in S. Boston, MA and graduated with an MSF/MBA from Northeastern U. in May ’13. Julia Isenberg is currently pursuing an MS in Fundraising Management at Columbia U. She saw Sara Chaudhri in NYC recently in Fall ’13 after class, and also ran into Tasia Jones in Oct. ’13 at the Southington Apple Festival in CT. Alissa Ryan Kelley loves her new HR job at a Stamford tech research company. She and husband Aaron live in Hamden, not far from Bruce Coffin, and enjoy fun visits from Chris Sweeney and Tom Hungerford. She attended Keely Davies’s Key Largo wedding, which was “out of this world!” Sarah Welinsky embarks on her final year of grad school. She volunteers as team capt. of evacuators to assist her NOLA townsmen out of the city in a state of emergency.

That said, she prays for a quiet end to hurricane season.

She and boyfriend Charlie loved reunion, and now he definitely understands her better! Mia Psorn spent a whole year in Paris while working for her Masters in Economic Law. A week after reunion, she married Samuel Levine, with Nicole Dilport Blanchard, Elizabeth Pollina, Lauren Robinson, and Katie Szanto in attendance. They all were a huge help with preparations, too! Mia also visited Lauren and boyfriend Andrew in Seattle. She anticipates her last semester at Georgetown Law before joining the “real world”.

Alex Rathbone stays busy with her business, the Fox Valley Grappling Club, which teaches Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai kickboxing, kids’ martial arts, and fitness.

2003 Continued She, her fiancé, and his daughter Grace moved with the business to a new location in Appleton, WI. Alex travels to compete in jiu-jitsu often, such as the Pan-Am and World Championships, and won gold at the IBJJF Chicago International Summer Open. Colette Opsahl Fennessy enjoyed seeing all the WO girls at reunion, although can’t believe that we’re now all so old! She happily kicked off her summer by marrying her spouse Sarah this June 29th in Stamford. Colette is an engineer at UTC Aerospace Systems and welcomes any interested WO interns.

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Catherine Campbell 14 Narrow Brook Road Weston, CT 06883 ccampbe3@concoll.edu Hard to imagine that only four years ago we were all sitting on the senior steps in Red Hall! Since then the class of 2010 has done so much! Here’s a bit about what we’ve been up to: Sara Arno has been working hard up at Middlebury C. in VT. This summer she was able to take a break and celebrate her birthday with family and friends in NYC. Part of the celebrations included a dinner at the restaurant Daniel with lots of Westover grads, including Grace Buckles, Sarah and Hope Boyer, Daryan Johnson, Allie Dinielli, Claire Murphy, Olivia Bates, Emily Ganem, Caroline Sanford, Carolyn Jay, Annaliese Snodgrass, Molly Hubbard ‘09, Hilary Zeiss ‘09, Krysten Peck ‘11, Christine Callahan ‘09, and Bridget Hinz ‘09.

Grace Buckles has also been at school in Vermont, and the University of Vermont in Burlington, where she works for the Alumni Association as the Director of Senior Activities while she studies Religion. She recently completed a semester abroad in Cardiff, Wales.

was triple his birth weight and remained on track with other babies ever since! We were all so thrilled for Jordan and her fiancee Jeff! So excited to meet little Mason in the future!

Maybe at alumni weekend?!

On a more solemn note, and as much of the Westover Community has already learned, our class sadly lost our first member this year. Meghan Beebe was tragically taken from us at the end of December, and her loss will always be felt by our class, and by all that knew her. It is truly the most difficult task to try to sum up the type of person Meg was, and the type of grief we feel by her loss. She was a beautiful, smart, and kind soul; the type of person one aspires to be. She was the best and brightest of people, so bright, in fact, that her light still shines even in death. Her overwhelming optimism, empathy, and passion for living consumes all those who ever had the pleasure of knowing her. Rich Beebe, her father, charged our class with living life the fullest, just as Meghan always had, and for he and Meghan both, we will continue to live and laugh and love. We will keep her light burning bright, for as Mr. Beebe had expressed during his Eulogy, “Meghan Lives.”

What is wonderful and comforting, amidst such a dark and dreadful event that was Meg’s death, is the powerful reminder of our bonds to one another. A favorite photo of our class’ Senior Graduation Circle was passed around during the days following Meg’s death, and one classmate was apt to point out when looking at it that within a circle, the loss of one tie is certainly felt by all those that remain, but losing that tie forces the remaining members closer together, making the circle unfortunately smaller, but even tighter. Despite the sad circumstances, our Class thanks Meg, for once again bringing us together, and for reminding us of the everlasting power of our sisterhood. We miss you Meg, and we love you, but we will always have you near and dear to our hearts. We will hear you in the music, our dear sister, until we meet again.

Morgan Winston also experienced a “life-changing” semester abroad in Australia, and since her return has been hard at work at Occidental University, researching and studying for the GREs. She’s hoping to go to graduate school in the Fall for marine biology!

Sarah Buck has been competing in triathlons! It’s no wonder that on the morning of Sept. 27th she ate frosted flakes for breakfast - the breakfast of champions. Both Tori Stratton and Kate Campbell plan to visit her out in Denver this fall.

Lastly, and perhaps most excitingly, Jordan Willis and Jeffery McKee’s welcomed a beautiful baby boy, Mason James McKee, on April 26, 2013! Although he was born six weeks early and spent two week in the NICU, by four months old he

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Passages Weddings

Jennifer Jankowski ’95 to Louis Persico September 14, 2013 Jamie Mitchell ’99 to Jonathan Weisman October 10, 2013 Becky Gregory ’00 to David Friedman August 31, 2013 Lillian Thompson ’00 to Ian Craig August 17, 2013 Lindsey Spinella Gifts Coordinator to John Donato, Jr. September 6, 2013

Births

Dawn Arthur Guarriello ’93 Hailey Michelle Guarriello July 12, 2013

Passages Jessica Sieller Hines ’97 Jayden David Hines September 22, 2013 Jennifer Briller Esty ’95 Evan Oliver Esty August 15, 2013 Nicole Schude Kehoskie ’95 Eli Andrew Kehoskie August 17, 2013 Dana Demange Rooney ’98 Vivienne Rooney June 25, 2013 Jamie Mitchell ’99 Abigail Eleanor Weisman August 8, 2013 Marissa Famiglietti Apland ’00 Luca John Apland July 9, 2013 Nikki Sieller Warnek ’00 Carver John Warnek July 27, 2013 Makenzi Hurtado ’02 Izel Hurtado John August 16, 2013 Kim Griswold Guman ’04 Sophie Marina Guman October 28, 2013

In Memoriam

Lynne Johanson ’94 Daryl Rocco Catucci August 20, 2013 Sarah Breidert ’95 Oskar Johann Breidert February 3, 2014 Stacie Cass ’95 Carter Sessoms November 1, 2013 Ledlie Mosch Pastor ’95 Adeline Boyd Pastor October 3, 2013 Tomo Nakanishi Kubo ’96 Subaru Kubo October 7, 2013

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Jeanne Hook Baetjer ’40 September 11, 2013 Patricia Ford Smith ’41 September 12, 2013 Patricia Smith Goodyear ’42 June 27, 2013 Dorothy “Dee” Tremaine Hildt ’45 January 3, 2014 Clare Southerland Bailey ’46 July 16, 2013 Helen Tearse Dobson ’47 February 5, 2014 Joan MacColl Brennan ’48 June 29, 2013 Elsie Large Butterworth ’51 January 15, 2014 Edwina Louisa Munson ’51 September 14, 2013 Ruth Place Carr ’52 October 15, 2012 Deborah Schust Harding ’55 August 27, 2013 M. Dale MacDonald Jensen ’57 December 11, 2013 Jacqueline Kerr ’65 January 25, 2014 Anja Hagemeier Benz ’93 February 22, 2013

Melinda Burbank was Chair of Westover’s Science Department & a science instructor from 1981 to 2011.

Melinda passed away October 1, 2013. She was also a Westover parent, Class of 2004.

Gifts in memory of Melinda will be designated to the Burbank-Rathbone Memorial Summer Science Fund. This fund was established to provide financial support to a rising sophomore or junior who wishes to attend a summer program focused on science.

The intention of this fund is to deepen appreciation of the sciences and increase the odds of the student entering a science profession.

Meghan Kyla Tateo Beebe ’10 Gifts in memory of Meghan will be designated to the Community Service Trip Fund in Memory of Eileen Tateo-Beebe (P’10) and Meghan Beebe ’10.

This fund was established to continue the tradition of the Appalachia community service trip each summer as well as strengthen the custom of community service within the Westover community.

Gifts to Westover School can be made on our safe, secure website at www. westoverschool.org/giving.

Questions or concerns? Please contact Lauren Castagnola, Director of Annual Fund, at 203.577.4657 or at LCastagnola@westoverschool.org.

C. Kevin Landry 1944 – 2013 A wise and generous supporter of Westover, Christopher Kevin Landry died on August 1, 2013 surrounded by his family and loving wife, alumna G. Barrie Hogan Landry ’62.

A graduate of Harvard, he earned his M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1968 and joined the venture capital firm TA Associates, where he was later named managing partner and CEO in 1983.

After 45 years of service Kevin retired in 2013.

Ann Schwarz Grange ’32 January 7, 2014

Alissa Smego Bigelow ’93 October 2013

Mary Payson Greene Hartdegen ’35 December 4, 2013

Cortney Danielle Rice ’96 August 30, 2013

Nancy Logan Von Klemperer ’35 September 12, 2013

Meghan Kyla Tateo Beebe ’10 December 28, 2013

Yvonne Sichel Passmore ’35 June 19, 2010

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At Westover, Kevin and Barrie generously supported scholarship funds and the Invest in Girls Program, among other initiatives. In 2009, they led the Landry Challenge, a $3.5 million fundraising initiative, in celebration of the Centennial for the Inspiring Women Campaign. It marked the largest challenge gift in Westover’s history, joining together and inspiring the Westover community to surpass the goal by $1 million. Kevin believed in the “transformative power of education” and his commitment to Westover helped to instill great confidence in the future of our school.

Margaret Pardee Hughes ’36 2005

Melinda Burbank (P’04) Chair of Science Department & Science Instructor, 1981-2011 October 1, 2013

Ann Pollina remembers Kevin as a “passionate leader and wise philanthropist. His enthusiasm for encouraging Westover to think big was instrumental in pushing the Inspiring Women Campaign to new heights. Kevin was a true philanthropic partner with his wife, Barrie, and together they have made an enormous impact on Westover’s educational success and our ability to create generations of women leaders”.

Lois Fuller Hebard ’37 November 22, 2013

He leaves behind a legacy of philanthropic support to institutions that were significant to him and Barrie. Together, they have been benefactors to Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Middlesex, UNICEF and Maranyundo Initiative.

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Welcome to Our New Trustees Divya Singh, M.D. ’83

Domenick Calabrese (P’14)

Divya, an orthopedic and hand surgeon with The Polyclinic in Seattle, Washington, values the educational opportunities available to her and her sister, Devika Singh ’90, at Westover.

“I have always been passionate about education, especially for those who may lack the access or the means,” Divya said. “Westover opened many doors for me, and I hope to help continue that valuable educational opportunity for a new generation of women.”

A West, Divya was a Proctor, Co-Editor of the Coagess yearbook, and a dancer while at the School. After Westover, she attended Columbia, where she received a B.A. in English and an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature.

She then attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine for her medical degree. Divya is a member of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, and Divya has been recognized as the recipient of a number of professional awards. She has had a number of articles and research published in professional journals and made presentations at medical conferences.

As a volunteer, Divya has been active in both the Seattle community, where she resides, and has participated in medical missions in Rwanda, South Africa, and Myanmar.

William Donovan (P’11,’16) Marketing & Communications Office Publications Staff Kristin Martinkovic White ’91 Director of Marketing & Communications

Elizabeth McErlean Assistant Director of Marketing & Communications Richard J. Beebe (P’10) Director of Publications Staff Writer & Editor The Westover Magazine is a publication of the Marketing & Communications Office in conjunction with the Alumnae & Development Office.

Magazine Design & Layout: Mia Ferrara Pelosi ’95, miapelosi.com Additional photography by Caleb Portfolio Please direct comments, corrections, and suggestions to Kristin White, Director of Marketing and Communications, at kwhite@westoverschool.org

We extend our sincere apologies to the following donors whose gifts were received by Westover but whose names did not appear correctly in the 2013 Annual Report.

Gifts in Honor of Louisa Jones Palmer ’54: Cynthia Burdick Patterson ’60 Nancy Aordkian Pelaez ’86 Susan L. DeSimone ’80 (P’11, ’12, ’16) Catherine Baird Smith ’58 Elizabeth Gilbert ’77 Richard and Lisa Fitts (P’11) Sara Belcher Wardell ’60 Gifts to the Annual Fund: Gretchen Rogers Colby ’65 Elizabeth and Peter Barhydt (P’17) Stephen and Lisa Scott (P’13)

Westover School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, or national or ethnic origin in administrations of its admissions, financial assistance, educational or other school policies. Every Westover student is admitted to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally 24 accorded or made available to students at the School.

Bill brings to the Board of Trustees both extensive experience and expertise in the investment field combined with a knowledge of the School that comes with years of being a Westover parent.

“As a parent of a recent Westover graduate and a current sophomore,” Bill said, “I appreciate the quality and lasting value of a Westover education. By serving as a Trustee, I look forward to helping the School prosper and continue fulfilling its worthy mission.” Bill and his wife, Lisa, are the parents of Anne Donovan ’11, now a junior at Tufts University, and Claire, a member of the Class of 2016. The family resides in Brewster, New York.

Since 2011, Bill has served as President of the United States Steel and Carnegie Pension Fund. In 1994, he joined United States Steel and Carnegie Pension Fund as an investment analyst. Before being named President, he served as Vice President – Investments since 2000.

A member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the American Bar Association, Bill also serves as an advisor for the Investment Management Program at Duquesne University and as a Trustee of the Steelworkers Pension Trust. He chairs the Adelphikos 100 Year Reunion Committee for Grove City College. Bill holds a B.A. in Accounting from Grove City College and a law degree from Duquesne University School of Law.

As the Co-President of the Westover Parents’ Council, Dom will serve as its representative on the Board of Trustees for the 2013-2014 year. Dom and his wife, Dawn, are the parents of two daughters, Paige – a member of the Class of 2014 – and Ava. The family resides in Watertown, Connecticut.

Dom serves as Vice President and General Counsel for Gemini Healthcare, LLC, and as a Judge of Probate for Connecticut’s Region 22 Probate District. He holds a B.S. in Allied Health and Medical Technology from the University of Connecticut, an M.B.A. in Marketing from the University of New Haven, and a law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law. In addition to his volunteer work for Westover, Dom is a member of the Board of Directors of Holy Cross High School in Waterbury, a member of the Pastoral Council of the Church of Our Lady of Loreto in Waterbury, and is a Past President of the Rotary Club of MiddleburySouthbury-Woodbury.

Susan Clark ’71 Susan brings to the Board of Trustees decades of executive experience with a diverse range of businesses on an international level.

“Westover admits girls from all around the world and, just a few years later, graduates outstanding young women,” Susan said. “This is an impressive accomplishment, happening as it does year after year after year. I am pleased to become more involved with Westover to help make sure the School’s good work will continue.”

As Managing Director, The Economist Digital, Susan is responsible for the global digital business of The Economist, including readership and advertising across all digital platforms. Her responsibilities encompass marketing, sales, technology, design, and product development. Susan also serves as Group Marketing Director, with global responsibility for The Economist brand, including advertising and public relations.

Prior to taking on these responsibilities in 2012, Susan was Managing Director, Continental Europe, Middle East, and Africa for more than four years. In this role, Susan was responsible for the regional business results of The Economist, Economist Conferences and Intelligent Life as well as the company’s global treasury and risk management business Eurofinance, and European Voice, the group’s newspaper in Brussels.

Susan has an M.A. in East Asian Studies – Anthropology and a B.A. in East Asian Studies – Art History from Yale University. Susan and her husband, Richard Rosenbloom, reside in Redding, Connecticut. She is a board member of Highstead Arboretum in Redding.

Thank You from Francene Young ’71, to Our Retiring Trustees As Westover welcomes new members to the Board of Trustees, we wish to acknowledge the contributions of time, talent, and treasure to the benefit of the Westover community offered by two members of the Board of Trustees – Laura Wallace Houghton ’89 and Matthew Meehan (P’11) – during their years of service before stepping down last fall. Matt will continue to serve as a member of the Board’s Investment Committee. In addition we want to thank Lee Dierdorff (P’13) who, as co-president of the Parents’ Council, offered valuable service as a Trustee during the past year.

Francene Young ’71, President of the Board of Trustees

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—Farahnaz ’14, shown above at left —Farahnaz ’14, shown above at left

You can make a difference in the lives of Westover students, like Farahnaz, and the teachers who inspire One themGirl to make a Changing the World, at a Time difference in the world. Now is the time Farahnaz offers direct connection to invest inatheir future. to a country where women risk their lives to learn, awakening in her Westover

Give now—only 3 more months. classmates and teachers a new understanding of the value Every Annual Fund gift, no matter amount, is essential of their education and the power itthe has to change lives. to achieving our Annual Fund goal of $1,575,000 by June 30, 2014.

Westover’s global outreach makes a tangible difference—

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form a diverse learning community that strengthens each Use the enclosed envelope or give online at westoverschool.org/annualfund. girl’s connection to the global community and broadens her sense of possibilities and responsibilities.

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