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1944

Dorothy Roman Guenther
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Dottie Keith Todd closed her Nantucket home with the help of her son and then spent a few weeks with her daughter in Tenafly, NJ. She enjoyed taking an “enlightening” cruise on the Danube, visiting Serbia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Dottie returned home to Media, OH, in November.

Dottie Burgess Everett is still “perking along” at Kendal in Ithaca, NY. She lost her husband, Herb, to Parkinson’s disease three years ago. Happily, her daughter and family live nearby, and a granddaughter at Oberlin College is a frequent visitor. Dottie’s son and his family live in Oregon.

Libby Cone Gardner had a busy summer hosting grandchildren, nieces, and nephews: “Lots of fun and lots of work,” she says. She held two successful art shows last summer, featuring mostly monotypes. In September she and six friends put on their annual watercolor show.

Last year Phyllis Emmerich Blair held her seventh (since 1971) solo art show at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens in West Palm Beach, FL.

Catherine Rothery Schilling has lived in a Quaker retirement community near Kennett Square, PA, for four years. She enjoys concerts and other activities provided there and is still involved in choral singing and playing chamber music. She also visits her children and travels occasionally.

Last May Elizabeth Plumley Scofield enjoyed a small-ship cruise from Seattle to British Columbia with a friend, also widowed. The ship made stops in Vancouver and Victoria. “The spring flowers were fabulous,” she reports.

Marion Whiting Brandon has moved into the Wellington in West Chester, PA.

Ilse Senn Epprecht and Bea Schwarcz Edwards frequently meet in the British West Indies, where they both have second homes. While there they wear their Skidmore rings, “reminisce, and sing to Skidmore.”

Mary Badger Jessup continues singing in a choir and teaching piano. She invites classmates to visit her in Blue Hill, ME.

Ginny Gray McNear’s 53-year-old son graduated Phi Kapa Phi and magna cum laude from the accelerated nursing program at Minnesota State University at Mankato in December. He passed his boards and promptly moved to Oklahoma. Ginny’s two oldest granddaughters are working on master’s degrees, while the youngest is a college freshman in Tucson, AZ. Ginny stays busy volunteering.

Jean Poskanzer Rudnick was greatly saddened by the loss of close friend Vinny Corona Dick, who succumbed to cancer last January. Jean was touched when three of Vinny’s seven sons stopped by her Cape Cod home this past summer for a visit while participating in the Pan Mass Bike Race, a cancer research fundraiser, in memory of their mother. (Another of Vinny’s sons, a physician, recently purchased a home on North Broadway in Saratoga Springs.) Jean remembers her sophomore-year dormmate Vinny as “a tiny girl who was very special—everybody loved her.” (It was Jean who Ginny Gooch Puzak called to confirm the identities of the two women in the spring Scope’s “Who, What, When” photograph: Vinny and roommate Jo Eggers Winston.) Among Jean’s many fond memories of Vinny is the time they decided to have some fun during junior-year tryouts for May Queen. As a spoof on the requirement that the candidates parade before an assembly of students, Jean and a few others “dressed Vinny up and had her walk around with a bouquet of carrots—we had everyone laughing.”

Bobbie Douglas Macmillan shared sad news that husband Wally, who had been battling Alzheimer’s disease, died in August. Bobbie was grateful that Wally didn’t suffer and knew who she was in his final moments. “We had a very sweet parting.” Bobbie visited her sister Priscilla Douglas Polkinghorn ’31 in California this fall. “She’s 97 and going strong, bless her.”