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1949

Edith Armend Holtermann
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Leah Cunningham Wood is happy to be living in Willow Brooke Court in Boca Raton, FL, a facility run by Adult Retirement Communities Inc. Husband Chuck is in the skilled nursing center there. Leah walks or takes a trolley, bus, or limo to see him twice a day. Leah also visits Lee Horsefall Philcrantz, another Willow Brooke resident. Leah enjoyed hearing Skidmore’s Bandersnatchers sing at a Boca Raton Skidmore club event in March.

Beverly Bernhardt Jarrett sold her big house and moved into a one-floor condo in Massapequa Park, NY. She could hardly believe the stuff she thought was so important to her kids that they didn’t even want. Beverly’s two grandchildren will start college this fall, with five others to follow soon.

Margery Buehler Hall English agrees that downsizing is the way to go. She is enjoying her nine great-grandchildren but traveling less this year due to the cost of gasoline.

Kay Christie Shaw has been gallery-sitting in her co-op in Scituate Harbor, MA. She has nine grandchildren, three of whom are in college.

Self-proclaimed “tennis nut” Claire Schreiber Pittman and her husband attended the final Davis Cup matches in Portland, OR, where they witnessed the US defeat of the Russian team. They were also in Winston-Salem for the semifinals against France.

Betsy Bell Condron lost her husband, Joe, in April. Thankfully, she is busier than ever, heading up a 72-member bicentennial group to celebrate and preserve a northeast Pennsylvania historic treasure, the Forty-Fort Meeting House.

Fifteen members of Ann Lilley Smith’s family pulled off a perfect surprise 80th-birthday party for her. Ann, who was in the hospital for minor repairs—cataract and carpal tunnel—recently returned from a southern Caribbean cruise with daughters and granddaughters. She looks forward to Reunion.

I enjoyed an eight-day, Skidmore-sponsored trip to Killarney and Dublin, Ireland, hosted by Professor of Management and Business Jim Kennelly, an expert on the Irish economy who has family in Kerry. Jean Adams Shaw ’52 and her husband, Ralph, were fellow travelers. The oldest alumna on the trip, I roomed with a 23-year-old from South Carolina! Closer to home, my vegetable garden is doing fine. I serve as a waitress for the Women’s Auxiliary of Historic Richmond Town in their volunteer-run restaurant. I am also in charge of getting out a Harris alumni book for my high school and a journal for my church, which celebrates its 300th anniversary in November.