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Dorothy Roman Guenther
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Class president Mary Badger Jessup has happy memories of Reunion and wishes you all had been there. She reports that thanks to Barbara Conlon Bulger’s daughter, Anne, “we did some sightseeing and visited the racetrack and the battlefield (a national park) and drove through Saratoga, a thriving city.”

Marie Louise Flinker Putney announces the September birth of her newest grandchild. She says it is a joy to have him and his brother, age 3, nearby, so she and her husband can enjoy them. Marie’s oldest grandchild is a college freshman. After several surgeries Marie is now able to see without having to wear glasses for the first time in years.

Gen Gerard Conroy and her husband are renting for a year in San Diego while their new residence at White Sands (a beachfront La Jolla retirement community) is being completed.
Cilla Huntington Silliman’s husband, Bob, died in November 2002 (not 2003, as implied in the last issue of Scope), after suffering a stroke in January of the same year. Very active until then, he was director of the Windsor (CT) Historical Society and helped construct the society’s new facility.

Dottie Keith Todd left her Nantucket, MA, residence in October to return home to Medina, OH, after making a brief stop in Tenafly, NJ, to celebrate Halloween with her ten-year-old grandchild.

While touring Serbia, Romania, and Montenegro for a month last year, Mary Mecklin Jenkins and her husband stayed at the Dracula Hotel, high in the Carpathian Mountains. They enjoyed dinner in the house where the Count—an authentic national hero, despite his rather grisly habit of impaling his enemies—was born. They also visited Belgrade, where signs of US bombing are still very visible, and enjoyed the “truly gorgeous” mountains and coastline of Montenegro.

Despite the ravages of Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne, Doris Merz Wyckoff still thinks Florida is a great place to live. She was sorry to have missed our 60th reunion, which coincided with a granddaughter’s wedding in Springlake, NJ. She enjoyed a great visit from Dick and Patsy Wander Royer earlier in the year.

In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Jane Pearce Lowe and husband Bob have weathered their fourth hurricane and are thankful the damage wasn’t worse. The Lowes are active in their church. Son Jim and his wife run an art gallery in Saratoga Springs, NY, and recently bought a cottage on Galway Lake where they disappear now and then to get a little R & R.

Dottie Keith Todd spent the fall scalloping in Nantucket, MA. She was up at 4 a.m. for low tide. She estimates it takes a good hour and a half to capture half a bushel of the bivalves and another four hours to clean them. All that work yields about two cups of scallops, which she freezes for family and friends in Ohio.