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Miriam Blechman Grimes
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Phoebe Darling Harper teaches a tai chi class once a week in her home, and exhibits her watercolors in local art galleries and fairs. Daughter Jeanne recently earned her real estate license in Maui. Son Tom has moved from performing stunts to coordinating them, now that he has turned 43 and his chiropractor is tired of putting him back together. Phoebe’s other son, Will, is busy with construction in California after the fires.

In Hanover, NH, Frances Schermerhorn Sherley is active with the garden club and the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth. She plays tennis with a cousin of Chris Powell and college trustee Susan Kettering Williamson ’59, so “Skidmore is never far away.” She travels back to Albany periodically to visit friends.

Betty Simpson Ellard has made adjustments in her home to make life easier, including installing a hand-held shower and a laundry room on the first floor.

Betty Bryan Rosenbaum and husband moved to a new apartment, where she was delighted to find plenty of room to garden. With just $30 worth of nursery plants, she’s created an eye-popping landscape. Another project involves archiving and labeling family photos and other memorabilia.

Patricia Gibson Beetle spent a week in Cuba with MADRE, a women’s human-rights organization. The group toured a center for autistic and disabled children and a center for mentally challenged children and adults.

Forrest Eggleston sent more information about his wife, Bobbie Blair Eggleston, whose death was noted in the last issue. The couple served together as medical missionaries, spending more than three decades at the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, India. “During these happy years, Barbara did a wide variety of jobs at the sanatorium,” writes Forrest. “She learned to give simple anesthesia (including to her own son), served as nursing superintendent, and home-schooled her children. She ran the guest house, was in charge of the publicity department, typed medical papers and theses for students, and for 11 years managed St. Thomas School, an English medium school that grew from 300 to 1,100 students. She also served as secretary of the Punjab board of higher education for the Church of North India. In addition, she ran an open home with hundreds of young doctors coming and going. She greeted everyone with her ever-present smile…and was loved by all.”

My late husband Paul and I have many fond memories of the Egglestons, as fellow Americans living in India during the 1960s. Paul was then New York Times Asian bureau chief. I attended Bobbie’s memorial service. Forrest continues to volunteer for Medical Benevolence Fund, raising money for small mission hospitals overseas.