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1955

Mardi Duggan Drebing
mardifly@aol.com

Adrea Gelb Seligsohn is president of the United Nations Fund for Women in Becket, MA, and development chair for new chapters of the US Committee for UNIFEM in Washington, DC. A psychotherapist and intake counselor at the Jewish Family Service in Sarasota, FL, she is also founder and president of Lakewood Ranch Women for Project Heart (for homeless children).

Pat Knight Spencer is making quilts for disadvantaged children through a new quilting group she joined. She also makes altar linens for church. Her biggest news is the arrival of her 11th grandchild; he is one of eight grandsons and three granddaughters who live in Darien and Fairfield, CT, and Garden City, NY. Pat visits with Jackie Welsh Barr, Patti Price Keiser, Tillie Ruby Coulter, Nancy Morrison, and Nitsi Kahle Johnston—all of whom are not far from her in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She heard from several classmates after Reunion about the little bags she, Patti, and Charlotte Hardy Besse sent up.

Sue Pynn Beamish sent words of appreciation for our most excellent 50th reunion, saying, “It was so good to pick up easily from where we left off all those years ago.” She is spending a month in Portugal with daughter Lisa Beamish Carvalho e. Silva ’80 and her family, which includes husband Duarte, son Tomas, 18, and daughter Monica, 15.

In Charlotte, NC, Sue Singiser White is president of the symphony guild and on the symphony’s board of directors. She also presides at the Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Auxiliary and is a member of her church’s women’s auxiliary.

Patty Walton Osmond works with libraries and hospices. At the hospice, she has cataloged the library books and organized a house-tour benefit. A board member of the Friends of Tuftanboro Free Library, she handles publicity. She is also active in the organization Access to Ideas, which helps to open and stock libraries in rural areas of Russia. The children’s books in those areas date back to the communist era. For details, visit www.accesstoideas.org.

Robin Tacey Smith ’82 wrote with sad news that her mother, Barbara Clark Tacey, died at home, surrounded by her family. We remember Robin, whom we affectionately referred to as “little Clark,” as a talented classical pianist and chemist.