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1953

I received a letter and several photos from Rose Marie Janzen, who went back to Holland after Skidmore and then emigrated to France. She has kept in touch with Doris Schueller Baum and Nancy Dalton Rogal ’52. Nancy sent Rose Marie a holiday greeting that pictured a reproduction
of one of Nancy’s paintings. The photos Rose Marie sent included ones of herself playing a harpsichord, enjoying a glass of wine with a breadstick held as a cigar, and playing a flute in
a pastoral setting—and one of a rose from her garden. Rose Marie set up and administers the
Jean-Henri Barraqué Foundation. French composer Barraqué died in 1973 at the age of 45; his work is now available in the US and quite well known. Rose Marie was a friend of Barraqué’s parents.

Tillie Jones Neri was all excited at Christmas because she heard that a Nevada granddaughter had been accepted at Skidmore. The girl lived with Til in Connecticut last summer and worked for an aunt who has a store in Mystic. Til is proud that her granddaughter will continue a Skidmore legacy that started with Til’s mother, Edith Loomis Jones ’21. Til and husband Gene celebrated her 75th birthday with a fabulous trip to Italy, her first time abroad.

Last February Pat Gove Williams and husband Craig took their daughter-in-law and granddaughter to the Virgin Islands. They luxuriated on the beaches, which they think are the best in the world. Their hotel had a gorgeous pool, so swimming was a large part of their itinerary. This past summer Pat was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, but recent reports show remission has been achieved. She and Craig hope to get to Bermuda this spring with friends.

I received an e-mail from Ann Trainer Williams who, despite a hip replacement two years ago, still plays tennis three times a week. She gave me encouragement that my own broken hip would soon heal.

Sylvia Shaw Brandhorst sent the sad news of the death of her husband, Dick,in October after 10 months of declining health due to esophageal cancer and non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The couple was back in Concord, MA, “which mitigated the loss, with friends and family near.” We send the family our deepest sympathy.

As reported in the In Memoriam section of the winter Scope, Lois Clarkson Vanderminden died in October after a short illness. I still have a photo of six of us who lived on the third floor of Grove;
we all enjoyed climbing out on the adjacent flat roof to sunbathe.