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1952

Doris Harbach Patten
DPatten3@cfl.rr.com

Joan Pohlman O’Rourke flew to Orlando to visit her granddaughter in Boca Raton. While here in Orlando, she and I met Marion Bolton Northrup for a luncheon, gab fest, and all-round fun. Marion works part-time for Disney and uses the money for trips. She has been to 52 countries, most recently Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. A master gardener, Joan helped me plant a large bird-of-paradise plant. Mulching was a team effort—she couldn’t tote the bags, while I could; I couldn’t bend down to spread the mulch, but she excelled at it. Many laughs were heard from the garden. At night we happily cheered for the US Olympic teams. Living three miles from an international airport allows friends to visit easily.

Sandra Buhai Barz was honored in Toronto last November. An important figure in the Inuit art community for 30 years, she is best known for her research on Inuit prints. Her workbooks, published by her company, Arts and Culture of the North, are an invaluable record of 8,000 Inuit prints dating from 1959 to the present. Sandra traveled extensively in the Canadian Arctic, interviewing Inuit people to include their voices in her research. In 2003 she donated her working research collection to the Library of the National Gallery of Canada.

Internationally recognized art jeweler Arline Fisch has painted the interior of her San Diego, CA, home in her favorite colors: purple and red. She’s lived in her urban bungalow, built in 1913 as a “honeymoon cottage” in the Mission Hills neighborhood, since 1966.

Jane Davis McGourty enjoyed a three-week cruise to South America this past spring. She sailed from Santiago, Chile, around Cape Horn, and after stops in Buenos Aires and Uruguay, finished up in Rio de Janeiro. She says, “We were blessed with beautiful weather and calm seas. It was a great adventure.”

Cynthia Margetts Robinson, in Mendham, NJ, has three grandchildren living nearby; two of them enjoy playing golf with their grandparents. Long retired from teaching and her flower business, Cynthia still volunteers at Frelinghuysen Arboretum and her church; she’s also involved in helping undocumented workers in Morristown and with Hurricane Katrina
relief efforts.

Barbara Neustaedter Scheer took the whole family to South Africa on the Queen Mary II for husband Hamilton’s 80th birthday. The Scheers had visited South Africa in 2002 for their 50th anniversary. Other recent travel destinations include Berlin, Paris, and Italy—the latter with grandson Malcolm.

Joanne Sage Ceraso and her husband enjoy life as “country bumpkins” in northern Vermont. They enjoy having the family get together there, and also get away occasionally.
While accompanying her women’s club to Bucks County, PA, Betty Tullis Hagen decided to play hooky for the day and touch base with C.C. Corigan Conway, who lives just across the river in Stockton, NJ. They spent the afternoon on C.C.’s back deck, “yacking away” and looking at the yearbook and family pictures. They were joined by C.C.’s husband, Bill, who Betty says hasn’t changed a bit except for having white hair.

Peggy McConnell Hinrichs’s husband, John, suffered a brain injury this spring as a result of an accident. He underwent successful surgery and is recuperating well.