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1968

Jeanne Shipp Waldinger
Jwaldinger@skidmore.alumni.edu

After 24 years, Nancy Vanderbilt Abood retired from her position as assistant to the president at the Community College of Rhode Island.

Dale Dickinson DeMambro and clan celebrated daughter Jennifer’s graduation from Union College in June.

Susan Herr Hopwood reports that she hosted a “sleepover” for classmates Margaret Rogers Hinrichs and Susie Hirsch Schwartz, although they were too busy catching up to do much sleeping! Mugs lives in the far western suburbs of Milwaukee and is retired from her long partnership in a women’s retail shop. Susie joined the group by train from her apartment in Chicago; she still is active in publishing, with her own business, Surrey Books (www.surreybooks.com). She and husband Charlie had recently returned from a six-week tour of India. Susie brought videos and scrapbooks documenting long-forgotten class events, such as the counter-art show, birthdays, and Mugs’s wedding shower. Susan is a part-time academic librarian and enjoys gardening and volunteer work. She occasionally sees Kathe Manegold Biersach, who is Mugs’s neighbor and occasional golf companion. Susan invites anyone in the vinicity to visit this Midwest contingent of ’68ers.

Rin Babson’s 10-year-old Bernese mountain dog succumbed to canine lymphoma; the family is hoping to get another “Bernie” soon. Rin has finally found a tennis partner after years of not playing. “He is 81 and recovering from a fractured pelvis. He piles up three plastic crates and has the top one filled with at least 50 to 70 balls. First he hits volleys, never running for any. Then he throws balls across the net to me, and I serve first to the right and then to the left. Finally he serves 20 minutes’ worth of net serves, and by the end of an hour and a half, both of us have had a great workout! It gives me great hope for the future that I might be lucky enough to hit balls in my 80s.”