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1960

Gail Bendix Jaffe
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Sandra Blair Ohanian and Jack enjoyed a good year of health and travel. In May they had two weeks of sunny weather in Ireland. In July they toured the coast of Maine, staying in B&Bs. September was spent in Venice and taking a cruise along the Croatian coast. They also visited family in Colorado.

Sandy Schaefer Shultz spent five months last year in Honduras and returned there in January, continuing her 10-year involvement with Operation Footprint: The Steps to a New Life, an organization that provides teams of medical and surgical personnel to help correct clubfoot in children. A founding member of Operation Footprint, Sandy first recognized the need for these services while working in Honduras as a Peace Corps volunteer.

Anne Hubbard Murray is a first-time grandmother to Elliott, born in December to daughter Sonja Murray ’90.

Jeanne Braddon Lewellyn says it’s “great fun” to have longtime friends Judy Harmon Miller and husband Roland as next-door neighbors in a triplex condo. They enjoy lots of shared meals and hikes on the beach with their new “built-in playmates!”

In Maryland Elie McConihe Cain has been involved in producing community theater with the Potomac Theater Company, approaching its 20th anniversary. Their production of Nunsense received the Ruby Griffith annual award at the British Embassy last fall—“pretty exciting for a small volunteer group,” says Elie. Daughter Suki and her husband moved from New Hampshire to West Virginia to be closer to Elie and husband Ted. Son Stuart and his family also moved closer, to Charlotte, NC. A third son, Tony, lives in Potomac, MD, and Ted’s family is also nearby in Maryland, making the holidays very joyous.

Connie Taylor Patterson loves this stage in her life, she says. She has 12 grandchildren ages 1 to 16, and feels lucky to see them often, both at her vacation home in Wisconsin and in Chicago.
Connie had a three-week trip in Japan; she and her husband also spent a couple of months in Vero Beach, FL.

Ellen VanDusen Guthrie is a self-described “Habitat for Humanity junkie.” She traveled to Guatemala in January to help build five houses. She planned to attend America Starts Here, the Kate Ericson and Mel Zeigler exhibition traveling from Skidmore’s Tang Museum, which was showcased in Cincinnati, OH, in January.

Last March Peggy Hiller Harris and husband Stan went to the Caribbean, in May to Holland and Belgium, and in July to China and Mongolia with sister Lynn and her husband, David. Two days a week Peggy plays “Bubbe,” which she loves; she also volunteers as a docent for her synagogue and at the modern-art museum in Savannah, GA.

Nancy Coxon Olson’s son Dave and daughter-in-law Wendy welcomed twin boys Baker and Dylan in April. Nancy has been back and forth to Vancouver, WA, from Phoenixville, PA, to check in on her grandsons. The Christmas holidays were in Boston with daughter Kari, husband Frank, their daughters Sarah and Catie, and Nancy’s 96-year-old mother.

Becky Martin Watson is president of the Williamstown (MA) Historical Society. She is helping renovate parts of an 1830s church and inventorying over 2,000 items housed in an old building (to read more about this project, click here.) Becky, a seventh-generation Williamstown resident, says she decided “it’s time to learn more about this place.”

Jane Christie MacVicar enjoyed an early Christmas present with her daughter, husband, and twin 6-year-old granddaughters by taking everyone to Disney. Another daughter, Jill, who works for Nike and lives in the Netherlands, visited in Florida this winter with her three daughters. Jane also planned to rendezvous with roommate Ruth Crist Cawein and husband Charlie in Florida. Jane and husband John were anxious to head south to escape the cold of New Jersey.

News from Barby Morse Townsend was about Marty Miller Spencer’s visit to Savannah in March. She stayed with Sue Parker Prior ’61 for a few nights and with her for another few. They had a “great time sightseeing,” followed by a lunch with Lydia Wyman Pope in Hilton Head. “It was fun just getting caught up. Together with husbands and a prep-school friend of Marty’s, the groups enjoyed dinner at a restaurant overlooking the river. As you can imagine, there was never a moment of silence!” Barby was impressed with Marty’s knowledge of new-age electronics: Marty had downloaded her iPod with audio books to pass the time while traveling.