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1949

Edith Armend Holtermann
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Edie Neimark exhibited at a well-attended art show at the South Brunswick, NJ, senior center earlier this year. A retired professor of psychology, she also gives presentations at the Princeton senior center on “How Thinking Goes Astray,” an introduction to cognitive disorders, which she has researched for many years.

Nancy Hosking Junkins and hubby survived the snowy winter in Maine. They traveled to Scotland and England to do genealogy research and attend a family
reunion. Happily, Alan is good at driving on the left side of the road.

Adelaide Hodgman Marx enjoyed a great trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Scandinavian fjords last June. She can’t wait until next June for our 60th reunion.

Eleanor Rao Witthoefft is enjoying her retirement in Sarasota, FL, where she volunteers on the Lido Beach pavilion and Sarasota traffic teams. She appeared on local television as an advocate for the redesign of city’s Bay Front Park. Eleanor also helped spearhead an effort to force the city to clean the stained roof of the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. She and Art are “on vacation 365 days a year.”

Edith Celley is still working on the restoration of her high school, a historic building. She was saddened to hear that Dorothy Jost Keshian died in January after a long battle with Alzheimer’s.

Tina Morse Pincus is looking for suggestions for our 60th, which will be May 28–31, 2009. She encourages classmates with ideas to e-mail her at kpmp@earthlink.net. She and husband Mickey took an Elderhostel trip to Cambodia and Vietnam. They saw the magnificent Ankor Wat, cruised the Mekong River on a small boat, and learned much history and culture with the very friendly people there.

Joan Taylor Brandenburg’s oldest grandson graduated from MIT and is working for Google. Joan attended two college and two high-school graduations in June. She travels a lot to visit her children and nine grandchildren and plays golf three times a week at her Vero Beach, FL, home course. Daughter Wendy threw a surprise party for Joan’s 80th birthday.

Elizabeth Wersen Schlossberg’s granddaughter has been accepted at Northwestern University, where she will study performing arts.

Cary Bruner Dean, who lives in a full-service retirement community in Carlsbad, CA, is busy with her 10 grandchildren. She spent time at family showers and a granddaughter’s wedding last year. This year she helped celebrate another granddaughter’s completion of her third year of veterinary school at Ohio State. A grandson is preparing for a semester in Italy with Texas Tech. Cary helped plan a Bruner family reunion last summer that drew relatives from Ohio, Colorado, and North Carolina.

Anne Whitaker Richie volunteers in a skilled-nursing facility two days a week. She gets much satisfaction doing things for the patients that the nursing staff is unable to do. Last year she traveled to South America and will head off to China and Russia this year. She can be contacted at dhrichie@aol.com.

Carolyn Cain Willen finally sold her Bonita Bay, FL, condo after 18 years and now lives full-time in her Cape Cod (MA) home. No longer caring for a sick husband, she enjoys climbing high, rough terrain and walking three miles a day. She took a fascinating barge trip in the south of France. Candy, Betsy Bell Condron, and Mary Mitchell Durland attended an alumni regional club luncheon at Port Royal Beach Club in Naples this past winter, which featured the Bandersnatchers,
a men’s a cappella group from Skidmore. Despite some osteoporosis, Candy is in good health.

Libby Williams Ivins, who transferred to the University of Pennsylvania our sophomore year, retired after a 38-year career teaching and coaching field hockey, softball, lacrosse, and basketball on the high school and collegiate level. She led 25 collegiate teams to victory. Libby was assistant coach for the US Women’s Field Hockey team from 1980 to 1985 and has coached in England, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, and South Africa, and for Canada’s World Cup play. Libby wants to see the “new” Skidmore.

Audrey Platt Jacobson took a fun trip to Rome and Vienna and plans to keep on traveling.

Alice Giese Clark is delighted that her two daughters, two sons, and nine grandchildren keep in touch with her constantly. She is still living in the Bronx and enjoying NYC.

Phoebe Fox Liss is happily retired in Endicott, NY, near her children and grandchildren. She is living “the lazy life,” enjoying concerts, senior classes at Binghamton University, walking, and watching Oprah. In California, while visiting her brother in Los Angeles and her sister in La Jolla, she treated herself to a wonderful first-class flight for the first time.

In Indianapolis, IN, Phyllis Dye Turner received an award from the Art Education Association of Indiana in November. She is chair of the docent program at the Swope Museum in Terre Haute. She recently celebrated her 80th birthday with all four children and five grandchildren. She and husband Ned still have their two golden retrievers.

In addition to serving as treasurer and running our big alumni dinner at my high school and a dinner for the ECW Bridge Club, I was recently appointed warden in the church vestry. I also volunteer two days a month as a waitress at M. Bennett Café, run by our Women’s Auxiliary of Historic Richmond Town. I was honored as a benefactor of the International Children’s Service Foundation in March, along with NFL stars David Tyree, Ray McElroy, and Guy Earle. In April I opened up the beach house. Daughter Dawn moved from Sharon, MA, to Princeton, NJ, last July, making the drive to visit shorter. I enjoyed two Elderhostels in California, focused on art and music.