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1969

Elizabeth Mckinley Loomis
lizyloo@comcast.net

In April Hattie Motley Cleveland sang soprano in two world-premiere concerts, featuring a 40-piece orchestra, performed by the Aspen Choral Society. In addition to performing, Hattie was responsible for programs, posters, advertising, and arrangements at the Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, CO. “It was a great success and a lot of fun,” she says.

Joyce Parks Pitchlynn sends greetings from Oklahoma, where daughter Hilary just graduated from high school and was a finalist for a Covenant Scholarship to Hope College. While her contemporaries are becoming grandparents, Joyce and her husband are starting over as parents. “Life is full of surprises,” she says, adding that son Walker, 4, is “an exuberant little linebacker.”

Running the computer lab and doing tech troubleshooting for her elementary school keeps Phyllis Muenz Stolls busy. She and husband Dave did the Mt. Everest base-camp trek in Nepal with son Doug and his then-fiancée. “Made it all the way to 17,600 feet, conquering all the suspension bridges and yaks en route,” she says. “The Himalayas are spectacular.” They went home by way of Kathmandu and Abu Dhabi and Dubai. February took them to the Philippines for their son’s beach wedding on Boracay Island. They spent a month in the Philippines, “a nation of smiles.”

Maxine Isaacs is in her 11th year teaching at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. One of her classes focuses on the 2004 presidential campaign and election. Son Alfred heads off to Stanford this fall.

Barbara Cornish Fountain and husband Ken celebrated the marriage of son Russ last May, outdoors on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Barbara Levi Lankalis was a guest at a reception for the newlyweds in Virginia. Ken is now a retired air traffic controller, and Barbara is taking a break from teaching French.

Joan Bardagjy Dargery was named first chief operating officer and executive VP at Unilever Bestfoods and General Foods. An accomplished executive with more than 20 years of management experience at Bestfoods, Joan is also an author of Humanscale 1-2-3, a book published by the MIT Press that is widely used by architects and industrial designers.

Kristie Ley is curator for two historic homes managed by the Mary Baker Eddy Library and recently became a first-time homeowner of a 700-square-foot “mini-house” in Winchester, MA. “The garage with a remote-control door was the feature that sold me,” she quips.

Kristine Ford Herrick was asked to write on behalf of former Skidmore art professor Robert Reed, who was nominated for the College Art Association’s Distinguished Teaching of Art Award. Kristine was Reed’s teaching assistant during the summer of 1967. Ann Forshay Breaznell ’70, who earned an MFA at Yale in the early ’70s, worked with Reed there. The classmates met at a faculty search convention held in Seattle, WA, in February. They were delighted to be on hand for the celebration of Reed’s honor.

In Massachusetts Joan Raphael has relocated from Boston to Westport; she moved in with her significant other, Philip, a childhood friend with whom she reconnected two years ago. Temporarily retired, she is substitute teaching but looking for a new career. She and Philip spent time with freshman roommate Elizabeth Olson Gerahty and her family in Chicago this spring.

Gretchen Dorn Anderson finds long-distance grandparenting “a challenge, but better than I could have imagined.”

Edith Pieper Bidwell is a biology teacher in the international baccalaureate program at Pensacola High School in Florida. Over the past few years she has found a “renewed passion” for riding and has been learning dressage. “I know my former roommate, Laurie MacDonald Clark, would get a kick out of that!” she notes.

Susan McNeily Craig’s oldest daughter, Taylor, was married last summer. Susan enjoyed catching up with her godmother, Lee Shevenell, at the wedding. The Craigs are finally empty-nesters.

Phyllis Stone Roy’s daughter Rachel spent last summer interning at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts, and graduated from Smith College with a degree in theater. Phyllis has enjoyed attending many of Rachel’s productions and queries, “Anyone need a lighting designer?”

Diana Dyer Watson’s daughter Allison graduated early from Duke, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, and will enter McKinsey this fall. Son Tyler is a college-bound high-school senior. Husband Andy continues to enjoy his work at Russell Reynolds in NYC.

Susan Conroy Williams and husband Tim have two married daughters. Both women and their husbands are college professors. Their youngest daughter graduated from college last year and works in Washington, DC. Susan recently completed a DPT and continues to work as a physical therapist and at a local foundation.