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1962

Lynn Garrett Meyer
lgarrettmeyer@earthlink.net

In Vero Beach, FL, last April Terry Tiffany Sullivan, Sissy Beadel Danforth, Sherrie Tatham Davidson, and Sue Corbet Thomas gathered for early-morning coffee on the beach. Sue notes that Inez Zagoreos Scribner will be hosting an alumni event with President Glotzbach in her home in Princeton, NJ.

Felicia Axelrod—director of the Dysautonomia Treatment and Evaluation Center at NYU’s Medical Center, where she has spent 35 years helping children afflicted with this disorder—is being honored with the Felicia B. Axelrod Professorship for Dysautonomia Treatment and Research.

In August Nancy Reiling Bushnell had a visit with Mollie Klee Heron in Maine. They spent an afternoon at the Haystack School of Crafts on Deer Isle, where Nancy reports “our own prize jeweler, Glenda Arentzen, was in attendance.” Nancy and husband Vic also enjoyed a two-week visit to Denver, CO, with daughter Heather and family, and spent time with son Ed and his wife in Driggs, ID.

Sara Lee Lubin Schupf (also UWW ’94) sits on Skidmore’s board of trustees, along with Polly Skogsberg Kisiel and chair Sue Corbet Thomas. Sara reports that “Sue is truly doing us proud.” Sara enjoyed a fabulous weekend in Kiawah, SC, celebrating husband Axel’s 70th birthday with the entire family, including 22 grandchildren (16 of Sara’s and six of Axel’s), Sara’s four children and their spouses, Axel’s three children and their spouses, Axel’s sister and her daughter, and Axel’s mother. “For me as an only child, it was truly amazing to watch all the grandchildren on the beach—definitely a time to remember.” Sara continues to advocate for women and girls in science and science education; she encourages classmates to visit www.iwaswondering.com, to preview a series of biographies that she helped get published.

Twila Fleckten Wolfe writes, “My life was going along splendidly with wonderful visits to Florida and Arizona with my daughters and families, three glorious weeks in Portugal, skiing in Montana, team tennis, selling real estate…and then everything came to a screeching halt. On August 31 our precious daughter, Schoeni ’94, a dentist in Austin, TX, died. Since then a trip to Tuscany and a bike/barge excursion in Holland have helped, but it’s going to be a slow process, and nothing will ever be quite the same again. I’m grateful for family and friends.” The class extends condolences to Twila and her family.

Emily Jansen Kane is back in Tequesta, FL, after spending four months in her old home town of Pelham, NY. She and husband George arrived “just in time to greet Wilma, the last of this season’s nonstop parade of hurricanes.” In Pelham they saw old friends, including Bill and Judy Martin Clements and Sue Otto Spicer, who retired after 32 years as a Pelham school nurse and is braving winter in Vermont before making final retirement plans. Beside trips to NYC for a cultural fix, Emily’s most exciting adventure was a trip with her church choir to England, where they sang Evensong at Chichester Cathedral for a week in August. The choir capped their stay by performing the Eucharist at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor.

My husband, George, and I spent six weeks in Japan. August was spent in Kyoto, where he worked and I enjoyed an exciting and historic place. Our daughter visited us, as did a friend from California with her 12-year-old son, so we all did lots of exploring, including the World Expo in Nagoya. We had wonderful reunions with Japanese friends from years past. We also got a ride on a commercial fishing boat, where, as the nets were pulled in full of wriggling fish, one was snagged by a crew member and quickly prepared for the freshest sashimi we’ve ever had.