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1963

Deborah Frankel Reese
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Dina Schoenthal Butcher has been human-rights director and deputy commissioner at the North Dakota Labor Department; executive director of the division of community services, where she was responsible for numerous state-federal programs; and director of intergovernmental assistance in the State Office of Management and Budget. Dina’s career also included directing several state agricultural trade associations, where she was instrumental in exposing bad practices in the dog-food industry. More recently, she sat on the commission that selected the design for the North Dakota quarter.

Meg Reitman Jacobs, owner of MRJ Design Group Inc. in Cedar Knolls, NJ, specializes in fine residential interiors as well as corporate offices and commercial lobbies. Between 1995 and 2000, the New Jersey chapter of the American Society of Interior Design honored Meg with four awards for excellence in residential design (see www.njasid.org). Her work has been featured in New Jersey Monthly, Garden State Home & Garden, The Record, The Star Ledger, and Elegance by Design.

After 18 years on the faculty at Lewis & Clark College, Carol Witherall retired as of June; she plans to participate in the college’s special events and conferences. She can be reached at cwitherell@earthlink.net.

Take a look at CC Crosby Bookout’s Web site, www.ccspottery.com. CC, a master potter for many years, creates her stoneware in a large studio in the potato barn behind her North Fork home in Riverhead, NY. And you should look at Laura Young’s new still-life paintings at the Hudson River Gallery in Iowa (www.hudsonrivergallery.com). Also, X-Rays: Cut and Painted, an exhibit of Lois Goglia’s acrylic monoprints and collages on X-ray grounds, was on display at the McDonough Gallery at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT, this fall.

I have an idea to get a Web site up and running to feature all of the visual-arts endeavors of our classmates (Gallery ’63), but we need someone who is creative in another way to create it for us! Left brain, right brain? Who can help?

Shirley Fleming Woodward has a new grandson, Maximillian, who was born in February to parents Julie and Matt. He joins brother Quenton, 3.

Ruth Livingston Gottlieb helps out with her twin grandchildren at least once or twice a week. In June she and Larry returned from a Mediterranean cruise, which they enjoyed enormously and probably needed after babysitting the twins and the two older kids as well! Ruth saw Louise Siegel Musser in April. Ruth and Larry were in Del Mar, CA, and Louise came over from her second home in LaJolla for the brief visit, just before returning to New Jersey for the summer.

Betsey Burstein Schneider spent time in New Jersey in April, helping out with her third grandchild, Kelsey. She had dinner with Faith Modell Mofsowitz (her roommate for four years) and Jane Meehan, both of whom live in the Garden State. They did a lot of reminiscing over a four-hour dinner—“a very satisfying evening.”

Evelyn Nutman Siegel and friend Jerry attended Elizabeth Flescher Palay’s wedding to Ed Feige in Madison, WI, in June. A simple ceremony witnessed by 70 guests was held outdoors at the groom’s home, although tornado warnings caused a switch to an indoor reception. Evelyn reports, “All went well. The luncheon was elegant, the toasts eloquent and heartfelt, and the bridal couple radiant.”

Sabre (Lynda Sable) Gilmartin bought an investment apartment in Malaysia in May. With properties in England and in New York, she is fast becoming an international landlord as well as an artisan.

I had an insane spring and early summer, mounting a large two-person art exhibit; managing the PR and installation of two group exhibits; chairing my eighth-grade 50th reunion at Essex Fells School in New Jersey (we missed class member Bonnie Bell Potter, who could not come); welcoming grandbaby number three; getting in the gardens and keeping up with the weeds; as well as dealing with various health issues, including a frightening reoccurrence of a pulmonary embolism over July 4th weekend. I was ready for some quality time with family and old friends visiting here in Vermont this summer and some quiet time in my studio and on our deck overlooking the pond and the New Hampshire mountains.