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Carolyn Brown Straker
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As noted in my class newsletter, Pat O’Rourke Murrell is alive and well and living in New Orleans (despite the erroneous information in the last issue of Scope!).

Sue Finkelstein Pucker went biking in the vineyards of Bordeaux this fall and has been making biweekly trips to Montreal to care for her 102-year-old mother. Her volunteer work includes supporting a Boston public high school for the performing and visual arts and helping to found a middle school for girls in Rwanda. Sue also continues to help run the art gallery she and her husband founded in Boston; it has a new focus on fine arts pottery. She says some of her grandchildren are now taller than she is, despite the fact that she takes Fosamax and has not shrunk that much! 

Anne Henszey Pyle (ahhp@comcast.net) sends greetings from Medina, WA. She and husband Ken were honored when the Henry M. Jackson Foundation established a professorship in American foreign policy in their names at the University of Washington in Seattle. Ken has taught Asian history there since 1965 and is a former head of its School of International Studies.

Onnie Dye Morgan and Bob have a new e-mail address: bobandonnie@teleplex.net.

In Osprey, FL, Ellen Draper Carey wrote fondly of her March get-together with freshman-year roommate Cynthia Richards Meyer and husband Bill. Sadly, though, Ellen further reported that Cynthia died in September of an “inoperable esophageal tumor.” The class extends our sympathy to Bill and the entire family.

After 41 years in their home, Sheila DeNadal Salvo and husband Jim are downsizing to a condo in Fall River, MA. They are in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, for the winter and would love to hear from anyone traveling that way (they are inthe phone book).

I had the pleasure of attending a luncheon in Saratoga with our scholarship students (who are benefiting from our 45th-reunion donations) and was joined by Bev Sanders Payne (class president), Sheila DeNadal Salvo (FOP chair), and Sue Clark Jorgensen (fund chair). The students are a very impressive group, already giving a lot back to the community. Also, it was a real treat for me to be a guest in Sue’s home—the best bed and breakfast ever! She and I had dinner with Henry and Eleanore Galant, who look wonderful.