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1955
Mardi Duggan Drebing
mardifly@aol.com
Ellie Boughner Axford has been traveling around the country—including Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Massachusetts, and the Carolinas—visiting children and playing with grandkids. Tracy Guthrie attended one of Ellie’s family weddings in Charlotte, NC, having not missed an Axford wedding yet. Ellie is the community-service representative for Home Instead Senior Care, a home-care company. She sees Nancy Wind Ross, who looks great. Ellie congratulates the class for exceeding our Annual Fund goal.
Ronnie Brody Raab and Ed headed off to Harbin, China, in August under the auspices of ORBIS, a nonprofit organization that fights blindness in developing countries. They summered at Deer Island, ME. Ronnie’s exhibit Earl Pardon: Palette Maestro will be at Skidmore’s Schick Art Gallery from November 7 through December 14. The collection will travel to the Newark Museum in June 2009.
In May the family of Sue Hamilton MacCachran feted her with a 75th birthday party, at which her daughter and son-in-law serenaded her with a composition sung to the tune of “Oh My Darling, Clementine.” B. A. Kalteux Callanan and John were on hand to help celebrate.
Joan Kennison Shaw and Gerry visited with Nancy Barrett Eadie and Peter in April. Nancy had a kitchen she decorated featured in the spring issue of New Old House. Gerry and Joan appeared on the cover of the fall-winter issue of Retire in Georgia, a big surprise to them! They have been in Beaufort, SC, for almost three years now.
In March Mert Smith Ingholt and Harry celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Bluffton, SC, with Harry’s Yale classmates and Marion Conrad Capparelli. Fifteen family members arrived to help celebrate, including the Ingholts’ son and daughter and spouses. Mert missed having Sue Hamilton Macachran, Terry Schmitt Soukup, and the late Helen “Ricky” Haas there. Ricky had been the soloist at Mert’s wedding.
Sue Warren Campbell spent 10 days in Chicago and went to a TOPS (Take off Pounds Sensibly) convention. She visited Syracuse in August and enjoyed an Elderhostel in Albuquerque and Las Vegas in September.
The class extends its sympathy to the family of Lois Denerstein Marantz, who died in May, after a long illness, with husband Hirsh and children by her side. Both Connie Swedlin Sultan and Ellie Boughner Axford wrote in to inform me of Lois’s passing. Lois was Connie’s Skidmore roommate.
We also extend condolences to Ruth Miller Kwartin, whose husband, Saul, died at the age of 80 in March, and to Terry Schmitt Soukup, whose husband of 47 years, Stan, died in January. The Soukups met at the Colonial, having been introduced by Mert Smith Ingholt and Hank Snow, a friend of Mert’s. Stan and Hank were both stationed at the Saratoga base. Terry and Stan had two daughters and a granddaughter.
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