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1949

Edith Armend Holtermann
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Dorothy Schaap Adler and husband Herb returned from several months in Florida in March. They have four granddaughters, ages 13 to 24.

Leah Cunningham Wood’s husband was hospitalized after choking on beef steak at a party. He is still unable to speak and is getting speech, occupational, and physical therapy. Her 15-year-old grandson will be in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, with his Penn Charter swim team for a mile-long ocean swim this spring.

Still living in her own home, Helen Buch Thorpe served as a hostess on house tours this summer and saw Lois Smith Klauder and her daughter. Lois’s husband died in June. Bucky went to Colorado for Christmas to see her son and two grandchildren. Her grandchildren range in age from 12 to 25.

Bette Detrick Williams has six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She exhibited her work at 12 art shows last spring. She had a portion of her nose removed due to cancer, followed by plastic surgery a few weeks later; the results were wonderful, she says. Last fall, she had critical spinal stenosis after a bad fall.

Joan Hull’s family gathered in Marin County for husband Dale’s 90th birthday. In June the clan met in Stinson Beach for a family reunion. Joan then cruised for three months and liked it better than her winter trips to Mexico.

Joan Fredericks Whetstone and Stan sailed with a Williams College alumni group to visit gardens of the Caribbean. In the spring they went to Washington, DC, to see the WWII memorial and traipse around Bethesda, MD. They traveled west by car, visiting family in Denver, CO; daughter Sally has a position at the School of Mines in Golden, and daughter Karen and husband Dave are finishing careers with the public schools. Joan and Stan enjoyed two Elderhostels, featuring concerts at the Aspen Music Festival and a tour of New Mexico’s Zuni country. Joan is back at her Florida activities, swimming and taking violin lessons.

Marylou Woodruff Street had gall-bladder surgery in January 2007. Bud Street still maintains his house in Lincoln, MA. They went to Florida in February and stayed on Amelia Island in March. Marylou attended her nephew’s wedding in Cooperstown, NY, where she also took in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Grandson Jason just came back from India and is working with Infosys in Boston. Marylou celebrated her 80th birthday this year with a lovely luncheon and enjoyed a Daytona “golf school” Elderhostel.

Nancy Hare Dunn keeps busy with her family. She went to Super Bowl 2007 and celebrated the Colts’ victory. She also celebrated her 80th birthday in Yellowstone with her family. She goes to Naples, FL, in the winter.

Marge Fee Neff’s grandchildren have all graduated from high school. One granddaughter attends Oklahoma University, and one is in the Navy ROTC. Husband Charlie has sold his business but is still active there part-time. Marge plans to slow down next year in her business, a medical-claims firm that she owns in partnership with daughter Debbie, who has five children in college this year.

Mary Ann Bailey Schulze and Lou are in a retirement village in Spartenburg, SC.

Lee Horsfall Pihlcrantz has a studio and gives art lessons in Boca Raton, FL, near where Leah Cunningham Wood and husband Charles live.

We send our sympathy to Maddie Flood Peel, whose husband, Bill, died in October.

I have come back from two Elderhostels, one on Christmas in Mystic, CT, on the way back from my grandson’s birthday in Sharon, MA. From there I went to another in Boston in December before hosting 20 family members for Christmas dinner. Only the California five and a granddaughter and her two girls were missing. I’m heading to California for two more Elderhostels: Art6 in Pasadena and the music of George Gershwin in Ventura.