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staying with son, John Rice, and his family in upstate NY, while we wait for a small apartment at Riverwoods in Exeter, NH. I am blessed with good health, and I am very glad to be able to see several of our 10 grandchildren from time to time. Since selling our home, I have kept busy with gardening, photography, watercolor painting, and quilting. El iz abeth Ja n eway Gol d
A frustrating year with a few highs and lows. I’m waiting for cancer treatment after a long journey to diagnosis. On a cheerier note, eldest grandchild started university. Other grands doing well, two in Sweden with my pediatrician daughter, and two here. Biggest Canadian news: turfing our dictatorial ultra right wing Prime Minister. Feel I can breathe again. While Nirvana remains elusive, the world very troubled, at least I’m again living in a democracy. Continue to be a rabble rouser, mostly from the sidelines. If the pen is mightier than the sword, there’s hope. My heart remains in Vermont.
Class of 1958 On August 25, 2015, five members of the Class of 1958 enjoyed each other’s company at a Maine alumnae luncheon co-hosted by Susannah White ’58 and Lee Thorndike Sprague ’58 at Susannah’s home in Yarmouth. (l-r): Lee Thorndike Sprague ’58, Pam Smith Henrikson ’58, Susannah White ’58, Penny Greeley Elwell ’58 and Nina Harrison Scribner ’58.
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Spent Thanksgiving in Boston.
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For a future remembrance of Ellen Endicott Forbes ’27, legendary Winsor teacher and mentor from 1955 to her untimely death in 1967, I am requesting that former students email memories, copies of letters, anecdotes and photographs to me at Mhills@uri.edu or send to me, Mathilda Hills, 283 Sweet Allen Farm Road, Wakefield, RI 02879. Thank you!
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Real Kids Real Food after-school programs in public housing and inner-city schools and our adult program, “Eat to Thrive—10 Weeks to Lifelong Healthy Habits and Healthy Living,” to be offered again beginning Tuesdays, January 26 March 29, 2016. For details, see www.optimumhealthsolution.org. The adult program tuition pays for the kids programs.
Anne Hotchkiss Wheeler and Joanne Ripley Spencer ’52 sharing Winsor memories.
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After John’s death last year, 2015 brought the sale of our home in Croydon, NH, and much downsizing of possessions. Brookie (10 year old Labrador) and I are currently
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I love helping kids and adults become healthy through our
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I had an unexpected operation, open heart surgery, when a regular CT scan showed a tumor in my heart. Thank goodness it was benign but had to come out. I had the operation at Massachusets General Hospital and since I did not have heart disease and was healthy going into the operation, recovered pretty quickly. I have just finished my yearlong training course to be a docent at the Walters Art Museum. We are about to have our qualifying tours and then join the group of regular docents. I am looking forward to this new adventure. Still enjoying my horse, too.
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old daughter who is enthralled with princesses.
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Loving retirement and have given in to the total self-indulgence of travel to places that before have been beyond my time limits. This year’s new adventures were Iceland and Morocco. I will soon be ready to settle down to doing something to better the world, however.
1961 Ju l ia Tobey
For some 20 years (not full time) I have been editing an enormous memoir by my stepfather, Admiral John L. McCrea. Recently, I received an offer to publish a portion of the memoir relating to WWII, when John spent a year at the White House as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s naval aide and served as the first commanding officer of the battleship USS Iowa. John was a gifted raconteur, and his tales of his unusual assignments for the president, his relationship with FDR, Winston Churchill and other luminaries, and his approach to transforming a new ship full of raw recruits into a fighting entity are remarkable.
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I work 2.5 days a week as a physician in a community clinic serving the indigent. This is rewarding because patients really appreciate the care they receive but also disconcerting because the care they receive is second-class. This experience inspires me to stay active in PNHP, an organization that advocates for single payer health insurance. I am also busy refinishing furniture bought in thrift stores and destined for my new second home in Santa Barbara. I enjoy time spent with family—my spouse and two sons— one of whom has a cute four-year-
O l iv ia Holme s
First year of retirement highlights include sailing in the Mediterranean with friends, skiing in Colorado and Utah with family, time with great nieces in Canada, New York, San Francisco, and Duxbury, gardening and lots of singing. The fall brought successful cataract surgery; what an awesome gift to be able to see the glory of the world again. Being able to host a family Thanksgiving is just the most recent blessing in this wonder-filled year.
1963 Le s ley M e r r i ma n Lyma n
Spent the summer working as a tour guide for a premier local company. An hour is spent on a trail by the Mendenhall Glacier and more than two hours is spent out on the water whale watching. Nature guides double as Coast Guard certified and crew on the small boats. It’s a great way to spend the summer! Had a lovely break from subbing this fall with our annual trip back east to visit family. An important part of that trip has become meeting with Helaine Weisberg Delphin ’63 and Sophia Gergely ’63. Jon and I met them for a wonderful lunch near Amherst.
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Missed alumnae weekend last May as I was in England, and soon to join classmate Georgina Ropes ’64 on a tour of English Gardens after visiting several friends. We did get to the luncheon this fall, and I admit I am now a convert to the new building. Such fun seeing my pal on the old Chestnut Hill bus, Ruth Chute Knapp ’60. She was in Class V when I was in Class I. While I spent my
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