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1938

Jeanne Battey Thomson

Elinor Anderberg’s severe osteoporosis keeps her homebound. However, she does manage telephone visits with Caroline Bliss Cushman.

Betty Baker Spohr visited a friend at Sweetwood, a retirement home in Williamstown, MA. While she was there, she had drinks, dinner, and a nice chat with Ginger Daniels Wall (another resident), who was getting ready to host a wedding at her place.

The class extends sympathy to Elizabeth Owens Cantline on the death of her husband, Peter, after 65 years of marriage. Elizabeth lives in a retirement center in Goshen, NY, where she plays piano for entertainment; she also plays in the adjacent nursing home.

Betty Hale Hale’s daughter traveled to Illinois for her 30th high-school reunion and stayed for a week. She and Betty then went to California on the Zephyr train (complete with bedrooms) for two days of sightseeing. Notes Betty, “It was a relaxing, fun trip that I have always wanted to take.”

In Texas Helen Hall Clark enjoys visiting her son, and especially her great-granddaughter—they swim together in the grandparents’ pool. At home in Buffalo, Helen likes to sit on her porch in the summer, enjoy her flowers, and take life easy.

Harriet Johnson Merrick is still knitting but is lately more interested in watercolor painting. She visited Mary Fuller Dillman in Manchester, VT. She sends best wishes from all the Merricks.

After 60 years of marriage and many trips to South America and the Caribbean islands, Louise Leroy Shartzer has finally settled down in an assisted-living residence in Saratoga Springs, NY. “Sure is different!” says Tody.

Charlotte Maxson Moore represented Skidmore at the memorial celebration for Betty Jones Stern ’39, whom she had known from childhood.

In July my daughter in North Carolina phoned. My granddaughter and great-granddaughter were visiting her from California, and we bemoaned the fact that we had not arranged for me to join them. Thirty minutes later she phoned back with an airline schedule, and I flew out the next day!