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1955

Mardi Duggan Drebing
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Diane D’Arienzo Pascal spent a joyous holiday vacation at Mont Tremblant in Quebec, Canada, with children and grandchildren.

Patti Sherman Jones’s son Bill Mallia is playing Christian beach music up and down the East Coast. Ten percent of his gross goes to the Bible League, which provides bibles to people all over the world.

Last year was big for Mert Smith Ingholt, who celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary in Bluffton, NC, and her 75th birthday in Bedford Springs, PA. Although Mert lives in Arizona, most of her family and friends live on the East Coast.

Ginny Stevenson Kingsley made her second trip to Israel in October. Thirty people from her church, accompanied by the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem and the Middle East, spent 10 days there. It was “a dream come true” for Ginny, who hopes to return. She and Bud had lunch with Peter and Nancy Barrett Eadie a month earlier; they meet at least once a year.

Carol Stewart Schneidewind and Gil celebrated their 50th anniversary with a Caribbean cruise in January 2008. In April they moved into a new condo just a few miles from their old house. Carol says her mother, who turned 99 recently, is still “the kind, sweet person she has always been.” The Schneidewinds’ children and grandson Brady, 2, visited them on Christmas Day.

Suzanne Alling Pulling, who’s moved from Michigan to Tennessee, reported the sad news that she lost her husband of 53 years, Ben, last July. The class extends its sympathies to Sue. Son Michael and his wife, Carmela, live in Kalamazoo with their two sons and a daughter, all in college now. Middle son David lives with Sue in Mt. Julie. Youngest son Ted lives in Evansville, IN, with three children, ages 8, 7, and 5. Sue has become “addicted” to quilting, now that she has retired.

I celebrated my 75th birthday in the Adirondacks with the Onondaga Ski Club annual campout in August. I was honored with a cake, candles, and a skit reminiscent of the Chippendales—pretty good, since they were all about my age.