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1953

Betty Howe Shannon and husband Jack were on a two-week tour in Egypt in November. Betty admits to not being a history buff and being nervous about security; but it was a place she’d always wanted to visit, and it turned out to be a great trip. She was fascinated by 5,000-year-old ruins in such good condition. They spent five days on the Nile on a small vessel. While they were gone their youngest daughter had a baby; that brings the Shannons’ total grandkids to five—four in North Carolina and one in Maine.

Carol Claflin Kurtz sent news of Francine Lampher Compton: In March Patsy and her husband were in St. Moritz, Switzerland, with 14 of their skiing pals. Since they didn’t break any legs they continued on to a friend’s castle in Germany, and spent some time in France. Patsy sent a postcard of the castle, which she’d painted in 1994.

Bobbie Fee Dickason was still cleaning up from Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma in south Florida this spring. Pat Gove Williams and husband Craig hosted Bobbie and her husband for four extra days until their power was restored after Katrina; but Wilma knocked it out again for 11 days. The Dickasons enjoyed a week in Deer Isle, ME, with family. Sandy Greene Taylor lives nearby but was on the West Coast during the Dickasons’ visit.

For Carol Bradford Kirby and her husband, this is “grandchild graduation year”: one from
Duke, one from St. Paul’s, NH, and one from Fessenden, MA. They hoped to get to them all and are thankful that “we’re well beyond the application/tuition/job-hunt merry-go-round—just proud grandparents.”

Two classmates died in December: June Palmer Conant and Carolyn Jonker Harris. I spoke with Carolyn’s husband, who said she’d been misdiagnosed and her illness was a drawn-out process. The class sends sympathy to Carolyn’s and June’s surviving family members.