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1953

I am sorry there were no ’53 class notes in the last issue of Scope, but as class president Carol Claflin Kurtz says, “If you don’t let me know what you are doing, I can’t write about it.”

Natalie Jones Neri has attended Skidmore’s Summer Exploration program twice (though she missed last August’s session), bringing one of her daughters each time. They have enjoyed dynamic classes, concerts, horse races, and a vibrant campus filled with many programs for all ages. Til hopes classmates consider taking advantage of this opportunity.

Patricia Seymour Forstrom boarded a riverboat cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam in October and promptly ran into Ginny Stevenson Kingsley ’55 and husband George.

Grace Ackerknecht Harrigan enjoyed a visit with Mary Lyman Heist and Mary Lyon Holton, who stopped at the Dataw Island, SC, house as they were on their way to Florida. She expected to catch up with Judy McEndy Lynch when she and Cliff visited their children in Schenectady. They also checked out Vail, CO, where a daughter, a radiation oncologist, directs a cancer center.

Besides doing a good bit of babysitting this summer, Carol Claflin Kurtz and husband Al went to a wedding of a grandnephew of Claf’s in Louisville, KY. Louise Berke Wulff, who also attended the engagement party last year, was there too, as the bride was Petey’s niece. Claf and Petey had time to catch up at the rehearsal and the reception. Claf also attended a reception for President and Marie Glotzbach on the Cape, in Osterville, MA. She said our class was well represented with Jackie Bailey Martin and Don, Judy Axford McCoy and Richard, Ann Houston Conover and Roger, and Barbara Holden Moulton and Roger.

At her annual cookout reunion Barbara Feder Mindel caught up with Gabrielle Fuchs and Gerda Fuchs Rypins while visiting her son and family in San Bruno, CA. On a previous visit to Arizona, she was able to connect with Linda Brafman Berke ’61, for whom she babysat as a teenager. Aside from whirling around the country, Barb teaches a noncredit course at a local community college and a private course around her dining-room table; and last spring she was asked to teach a group of developmentally challenged teens at a nearby private boarding school. She delights in having been able to get some time for her own writing and took an Honorable Mention in a Hudson Valley magazine poetry contest.

Betty Hill Johnson has a summer home in Maine, not far from me. She recently returned to her winter house in Maryland to celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary. When in Maryland, she works for the National Cancer Institute.

Carol Wacker passed away in 2004, but the college was not notified until recently. I remember her as a rather quiet gal, probably perfect as the elementary-school teacher she had been.

My summer was spent on my island on the Maine coast with lots of family spending time at the cottage.