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1958

Shirle Jankowich
sjank@optonline.net

Susanne Hecht Goldstein married longtime friend Sumner Yaffee, enlarging her family from two single sons to eight offspring and two grandchildren. They spend time traveling in California and Colorado. She is still passionate about art and creativity.

Sid Wright Coursen, Barbara Osborn Vulkoff, and Barbara’s husband, Van, visited the Canadian Rockies and Mount Rushmore. The Vulkoffs returned to Tucson, AZ, while the Coursens flew home via Denver, CO.

Barbara Miller VanVliet continues to fix her home in Short Hills, NY. She has three daughters. Susan and husband Mike have two children whom they home-school; Lyndsey and husband Jack have three children, also home-schooled; Heidi and husband Jack live in Malden, MA, where Heidi started a dog accessory business called 4 Pretty Paws. Barbara is a volunteer at her church and the Rolling Hills Garden Club. She has a part-time job testing products at the Sensory Spectrum.

Gardening, doting on grandchildren, and living in the country suits retiree Fran Garrett Crew and husband Pete, who still works as a NYS appellate division judge.

Barbara Drucker Smith just published Prose From the Old Century to the New. She has been giving hard-hat tours of the Monitor Center, which opens in March 2007 at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, VA. At the Yoder barn, her celebration of Hanukkah from WWII is one of the reenactments.

Elsa Daspins Suisman’s Jewtopia continues to run at NYC’s Westside Theater. She and husband Michael moved to West Hartford, CT.

Retired from book publishing, Carol Smith Ankerson is busy with grandchildren. In February and March she was in Tibet with her son.

Marilynn Corbet Sutton, retired from hospital nursing, enjoys her grandchildren, helps city children with English, and is a hospital volunteer. She teaches some classes, travels, and continues to knit and do needlework.

A Maine B&B keeps Gretchen Koehring Smith and husband Prentice busy, but they spend several months in the Bahamas starting in January.

Lenore Blitz Lerner and husband Max love retirement. They’ve been to Berlin and Barcelona, and are now off to Rio to soak up the culture.

Patricia Mosher Pirnie and husband Bruce live in a golf community in South Carolina, across the river from Augusta, GA. This spring they are taking granddaughter Samantha to the UK, where they lived for six years.

Barbara Ford Ostrander is visiting Jackie Bush Collopy and husband Bruce on the way to Florida. Throughout May, Barbara will have a one-woman show of her watercolor shore scenes at the William Ris Galleries in Stone Harbor, NJ. She has been selling her prints in galleries and gifts stores in New Jersey and Philadelphia for several years. You can visit her Web site at www.Bostrander.com.