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Cynthia Taft Lathrop

Judy Helmick Settle had a wonderful Christmas week in Colorado with all but two family members. She made it back home to the California desert just before another big snowstorm hit Denver. She hopes to make it to our 65th reunion in June.

Jean Brickwood Slocum loves life in Boothbay, ME. Active in church and garden club, she drives
to Connecticut to see her son on occasion. Of her six grandchildren, two are married.

Floranna Chayes Lathrop got out of the house every day for bridge or the gym well into the winter, despite the subzero temperatures in Alaska. She enjoyed Christmas with her two great-grandsons.

Phyllis Cote McCarty loves her house in Worthington, MA, and was grateful for the near-absence of snow this past winter.

In Maine last July Helen Kindergan Higgins enjoyed the family’s first reunion with all 19 of the clan (from California).

Marion Jones Averitt lives in an apartment complex in Washington State, not far from her son’s home. She has happy memories of Skidmore days and many friends there.

Lois Clark McCoy, still involved full-time with the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue, is the mother of seven biological children and five adopted children. She and a daughter spent a week sailing on a 129-foot brigantine, racing one another. Lois helped haul the lines and had “quite an experience” sleeping on bunks aboard ship. She spent Christmas with one of her adopted sons, who has a farm at the foot of California’s Mount Shasta.

Judy Partridge Baird lives in Tofino, British Columbia, now a popular tourist destination rather than the “sleepy little village” it was when she and her husband moved there. They enjoy walks, tai chi, book clubs, choir, and ping pong. They stay informed about politics and the state of the world, despite the latter being “somewhat depressing.”

I do hope that many of you can attend our 65th reunion in June!