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1965

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Priscilla Soffer Hoffnung received a gold medal in the Head of the Charles Regatta in October in the Grand Master Double! She enjoys grandson Isaac.

Gloria Chan Pong stopped working in 2001. She received a master’s degree in counseling in 2006 from the University of Newcastle. Her resolution for 2008 is to provide counseling for teenage mainland immigrants from China.

Carole Walters Maeder and fiancé Zack traveled to South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. They observed lots of game, ate barbecued impala and ostrich and enjoyed local beer, witnessed costumed singing and dancing at each wilderness camp, and embarked on a walking and bouncy-elephant safari. Traveling between national parks via small planes, the couple also took sunset river cruises, a dugout canoe ride, and a helicopter ride over Victoria Falls.

Judi Sambrook Bunker and Roger still live in Hartford, CT. Both are doing advocacy for parents of special-needs kids; yoga, hiking, skiing, and traveling; volunteer work with programs for refugees and teen moms; and lots of baby-sitting for nine grandkids. They see Lynne Farrington Allen at UConn’s women’s basketball games and an annual reunion dinner in Sturbridge with Lynne, Lynn Quellmalz Johnson, Gretchen Maull, and Ginny Maiden Kellson.

Nancy Koechel Widman lives in Hoboken, NJ, close to daughter Stacy and her 2-year-old twins. Son Joseph lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife. Nancy still works for IBM, and her husband is a math teacher.

Joan Sobo Kadin and husband Tom sold their NYC apartment and moved to an old farmhouse in Spencertown, NY, which they previously used only for weekends during the last 15 years. Joan still has a consulting business in home-furnishings trademark and copyright licensing, with emphasis on high-end tabletop giftware and wall coverings. Tom does executive recruiting for Kenzer Corp.

Pamela Miller Ritchie is a retired physical therapist in South Orleans, MA (on Cape Cod). She and husband Hank enjoy grandchildren Joey and Laura. She keeps active playing tennis, is on the board of her local library support group, and helps her husband with yardwork.

Susan McNaughton Thompson of Hyattsville, MD, is a retired support scientist with the US Department of Agriculture.

Judy Testa made her annual trip to Italy in the fall, spending almost three months there.
Cheryl Gemberling Kozloff, with residences in Pennsylvania and Florida, keeps busy with travel, golf, and visiting family in Portland, OR.

Penny O’Connell teaches precolonial American history, Renaissance art history, and a course on Martin Luther to adult students at the Southbury Public Library in Woodbury, CT. Joy Grady Simpkins ’53 is one of her devoted students and says, “Penny is so good at what she does.”
Sue Steele Isbell and Bob spent their first Christmas in Nashville, TN, with two daughters and their families, including seven grandchildren.

Lynne Frost Deutch welcomed her first grandchild, a boy named Avery, in December. Life in Los Angeles with husband Irwin and four children living nearby is “beautiful,” she says.

I spoke at a disability and workers’ compensation conference in Chicago in November and also presented information about the decision-making process at the US Department of Labor in processing psychiatric claims. I also lunched with Ann Shrope Byrne at her residence in Sykesville, MD. And I spent the week following Christmas at Disney World with my five grandchildren and their parents, husband Harvey, and my sister Carol Weisberg ’69, who organized the trip in celebration of her birthday.