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spend time away from my lovely but at times isolated home in the Flint Hills of Kansas. The biggest draw of D.C. are my three young grandkids. The Metro is hugely helpful. For 40 years I’ve been living on a dirt road, with few cars on the routes I travel. I get very nervous taking on D.C. traffic! I’ve only been here a week. Going anywhere leaves me with yet another experience of all different kinds of people and languages. As for a short bio, I had 20 rewarding years as a psych nurse. Am blessed with three loving, entertaining sons. I should probably include a picture of the area where I live. I am a nature lover. The landscape of where I’ve been living feels like a big part of who I am. Look forward to our 50th! Lucia Cies
PO Box 6967 Santa Fe, NM 87502-6967
50 years of Winsor connections: The fall of ’66 I got my dorm assignment at Radcliffe one week before the term began (the closer you lived to Cambridge, the longer it took to be assigned a room!) So who was my lucky roommate? Alayne Stephenson Parson ’65! Got my Harvard degree, worked during the fall of ’70 at the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky, then headed west to San Francisco. By then Louise Sunderland ’66 was at Stanford Law; we had a visit or two before I got immersed in med school and then residency at UCSF. Looking for a flat near San Francisco general, I met my life partner (and now spouse!) Diane Erwin. Despite our outrageously different backgrounds, we’ve been together 40 years, had a thriving medical practice, found our mutual calling (providing abortion services), and became expatriates without leaving the USA by settling in New Mexico. Had many Winsor visitors here, including a year with Anne Wilson ’66 in Santa Fe while her house was being renovated. Also Nancy Adams Roth ’66, who came to Taos to ski, and finally 16 classmates for our 2008 “Class of ’66
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on Route 66” reunion. Can’t wait for Boston in May! B a r ba r a F i t c h C obb
417 Eisenhower Drive Louisville, CO 80027-1153
I spent a year in Paris after graduation, then Radcliffe and a year at Harvard Education School. I spent two years teaching at Atlantic College in Wales, in a beautiful castle on the sea! I married my step-cousin, Loren Cobb, in 1975. We lived in a log cabin on a farm in New Hampshire for three years, then moved to Tampa briefly for his post-doc, ending up in Charleston, S.C. for nearly ten years. We adopted our son, Calvin, in 1982. I started a life in the theater there and was an actor for the next 25 years. After a year in England on sabbatical, we moved out to Corrales, New Mexico - and a happy decade next door to my in-laws. I worked in a book store briefly, and then started a new career in editing. We spent the next six years in Carbondale, Colorado, and then moved down to the Boulder area, where we have been since 2003. We love it here. Currently I edit books and journals for academic presses, commuting through Internet. I don’t like aging, but hope there will be grandchildren someday. I have very fond memories of Winsor! A n n e C h a n n i n g L amb
Crofthead Cottage, Ruthven Huntly, Aberdeenshire SCOTLAND AB54 4SQ
Half a century since we graduated? Amazing! My fifty years have been packed with action with stretches of beautiful idleness. As a kid at Winsor, I had an ambition to go away and I did, so that’s something. My husband, John, and I are both still living (more amazing!) and retired and rediscovering our love of boats. He began his working life as a blacksmith, became an IT analyst and is now an inspired worker in wood. Just as well, considering the state of some of these boats. We plan to stay afloat awhile longer.
Julia Livingston
67 Montgomery Street Cambridge, MA 02140-2434
I’m still working as a partner at the Boston law firm where I’ve been since 1989 - Goulston & Storrs. I still enjoy the people and the work, and I have no definite plan to retire. On the other hand, I really like my house in Edgartown, and I’m starting to think that, eventually, I will retire, sell my Cambridge house, and try living on the Vineyard more or less full time. Would I enjoy winter on Martha’s Vineyard? I think I might like it a lot! On the family front, not much has changed. I still have four interesting and fun grandchildren. All four play hockey and Ella also does synchronized swimming. All of us went to Maui (where my father lived as a child) last June to swim with green sea turtles, ride the waves, sleep in a cabin in the Haleakala crater, hike to the Waimoku waterfall, and generally recreate family trips from years gone by. It was probably my last time hiking at 10,000 feet. I left my hiking boots at a Goodwill collection box in Kihei! Debo r a h F i el d M cG r at h
Post Office Box 412 Grantham, NH 03753
Post graduation attended ColbySawyer and Wheaton Colleges with a major in Psychology but most intent as an elite athlete to continue on to make the United States National Field Hockey and Reserve National Lacrosse Teams. Several coaching jobs followed: Pingree School, Germantown Friends and George School in Philadelphia and ultimately Brown and Harvard Universities. Also taught skiing in Breckenridge and Vail, Colorado in the off season. Moved into administration at Wheaton College and finally ColbySawyer where I recently retired after 27 years of service. Married and divorced (unfortunately) but most proud of my son Corey McGrath who is in Idaho in the ski business. Enjoy giving back to the community and since retirement have shepherded raising thousands for
breast cancer, families facing cancer, and children in need of food in our area (New Hampshire) through golf tournaments. And in the process my golf has gotten much better too!!!
them often. We have taken European cruises that include a stop in London to see John and Heather. Other activities include walking, painting, book club, church, and beginning piano. Na n cy A d am s Ro t h
7 Highland Avenue Cohasset, MA 02025-1864
Debi Field McGrath ’66 with her son, Corey McGrath. N i n a P r at t
151 University Avenue Providence, RI 02906
Most of my life in the fifty years since Winsor is (thank heavens) unprintable. The remainder is too boring to bother with. K r i s t i n a C u n n i n g h am Ro g e r s
749 Santa Rosita Solana Beach, CA 92075-1550
After leaving Winsor, I went to Univeristy of Pennsalvania, where I started out a Physics major, but finally majored in Natural Science, so I could graduate in three years and marry Wayne Rogers of Tampa. Wayne joined the Navy to avoid the draft, but served 27 years, retiring as a Captain. We lived in Hawaii, Memphis, California, and Virginia and settled in San Diego. In 1975, I got an MS in EECS from Berkeley. I specialized in Computer Security and worked for DoD contractors. I retired in 2013. Since retiring, my focus has been family. We have three married children. Alan married Michelle and had Finn and Kendall, Beth married Idriss and had Leo, and John married Heather. The grandchildren live in California, so I try to see
In June I will retire after 40 years in education, most recently at the Braintree Public Schools. Teaching reading and basic literacy skills to dyslexic students, enabling all to access our school curriculum and build a positive future, has been my passion. For over a decade I also taught the “Orton Gillingham” Teacher Training course, the basic effective method for teaching dyslexic students, through Massachusets General Hospital and Orton Gillingham Associates. I continue my involvement in Cohasset town government, and look forward to exploring new ventures in the next few years. Denny and I have enjoyed long distance inn to inn hiking in Europe every summer, along with sailing, visiting our family summer home in Scituate, and snorkeling in the Caribbean. My sons, Henry, Johnny and Sam live and work in the Boston area and we get together frequently for family events and dinners. My mother still lives alone in our home in Dover. My family has been my greatest joy over these past years. C y n t h i a S h elme r d i n e
24 McKeen Street Brunswick, ME 04011
After Winsor I followed up an early love of the ancient world and became a professor of Classics. I taught for over 30 years at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in early Greek history and archaeology. In 2008 I retired from Texas, and moved to Brunswick, Maine in 2011 with my partner Kate Bracher, a retired Astronomy professor from Whitman College. It’s great to be back in New England again. I still do
research, and work on an excavation in Greece for a month every summer. Bowdoin College is right down the street, and they have asked me to do some adjunct teaching, which I much enjoy. So I guess I am semi-retired! This gives me time for various volunteer activities, and also for recreation. I enjoy agility training with my golden retriever. Callie is 12, but still active and she loves to compete. Kate and I get together with friends weekly to play Renaissance and Baroque music on recorders. We also take advantage of local concerts, and get down to Boston sometimes, too. Anne Wilson
322 28th Street San Francisco, CA 94131-2309
I’ve become elderly. There’ve been offbrand diseases; facial surgeries for skin cancer (I blame New England); a paralyzed vocal cord and the partial loss of my voice; scary falls and episodes of vertigo. All in all, though, I look and feel pretty good for 110. I worked as an RN for not-long-enough and have pursued interests in textiles and basketry. Politically and environmentally, I have no optimism whatsoever about the future of our country or of the world—not a grain. I have ex’es of both sexes but no currents. As usual, the Buddhists are right: The future is unknown, and so is the past. In 2010 a woman fell out of the sky into our lives, saying she believed she had the same mother we do. She was right. It turns out that our parents had a baby early in their relationship, gave her up for adoption, and, apparently, never told a soul. I’m so grateful she found us! Her appearance answers long-standing questions about our family. I think we were profoundly affected by “the presence of an unknown absence.” I love our class and will be very happy to see everyone.
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