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1957

Joan Page Hayes
joanhayes@verizon.net

It was a chore to move from her home of 34 years in Simsbury, CT, but Jane Tiemer Croft loves her condo. She has performed in the chorus of the Simsbury Light Opera Company for 30 years and is working on their spring production of Pirates of Penzance.

Barbara Donadio Doyle and Bill have been enjoying trips out of NYC and a special trip to Massachusetts General Hospital, where they were presented with their first grandson. Once in Massachusetts, they traveled on to favorite spots in Maine, Cape Cod, and Martha’s Vineyard.
In January Dottie Dodd O’Meara hosted Jane Croft, Marg O’Meara Storrs, Betty Hartz Hewitt, and Sheila Josefsberg Kasten for lunch at her home.

Ada Vapnek Ciniglio and Paul are doing a major renovation to a co-op around the corner from their home of more than 20 years and are looking forward to making the move. Ada is celebrating the 10th anniversary of their company High 5 Tickets to the Arts. To date, they have sold 100,000 tickets to teens. She is excited about the arrival of their first grandchild. Paul and Ada treasure their time at their Sag Harbor house. She has enjoyed getting together with Bitz Hewitt and Marge Storrs during their New York adventures.

Thea Woodfin Reinhart claims that 2005 was her best year ever. Daughter Thea Rae was married in September in Palos Verdes Estates, CA. Her son and his wife had their first baby, a girl, making Thea a grandmother for the fourth time. Thea is still a private-practice forensic psychologist, specializing in child custody cases and expert testimony regarding children. She and husband Frank are enrolled in a beginner Spanish class.

Sara Sprague Monick and Bruce’s daughter Jennifer had a son in August. Bunny’s son Daniel is a photographer in Los Angeles. Bunny herself is still designing art and serving as guide for Living Tours—which began as culinary experiences but have evolved over the last 20 years into small group cultural experiences. Upcoming tours will be to Portugal, Italy, and southern India; let her know if you’d like to join her. Sara continues to study French and represents a French language-immersion homestay program. For the past four years the Monicks have treated themselves to April in Paris as a reward for enduring the winters in Minnesota.

Sue Kopf Mueller and Chuck’s daughter Kim moved to Florida. The entire family enjoyed Christmas on the beach at daughter Leslie’s place.

In November Hope Thompson Kerr traveled to China, Tibet, and Hong Kong.

Dotty Wakeman Mattoon and Jo Leach Lewis went to Eastern Europe in the fall. Beginning in Prague and Budapest, they headed down the Danube to the Black Sea and ended up in Transylvania. In Croatia they visited a town that was bombed by the Serbs. At the next stop, in Serbia, they were told the other side of the war story. At home Dotty is into tennis and making jewelry while still repairing the damages done to her home by Hurricane Charlie in 2004.

Sad news has come to us that Bev Everest Shaw’s husband, Charlie, passed away in January. In December Charlotte Megill Hix’s husband, Jonathan, also passed on. Our love and sympathy go to both classmates.