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1962

Emily Jansen Kane
captgfk@aol.com

Your Reunion committee (Sue Corbet Thomas, Mollie Klee Heron, Sara Lee Schupf, Polly Skogsberg Kisiel, and I) held a conference call to brainstorm activities for our 45th, May 31–June 3. Make sure you save the date—not only to see “old” classmates but to enjoy the provocative programs. Also, you can be a part of producing the big plans for our 50th.

New York City was the scene of several mini-reunions for ’62ers. Brenda Baekey Mihan attended
a high-school get-together at Sue Corbet Thomas’s apartment. Glenda Arentzen hosted a luncheon at her studio for Linda Blanquart Smith, Bobbie Mann Bigham, Brenda Mihan, and Lynn Pringle Anastos.

Elizabeth Pugh Grout wrote to set the record straight: in the 1960 column in the fall issue of Scope, she was incorrectly referred to as an Olympic skating judge. Liz, who graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania, had judged skating at a sectional level prior to moving to Colorado, where her husband was a skating coach. While there, she taught skating, which precluded her from being eligible to judge. The couple now lives in West Chester, PA, where Liz is an HR manager for a bank. She is once again involved in judging and enjoys keeping up with the skating scene. She is in touch with Susy Burke Austin, who lives in England and recently vacationed in Holland with former classmate Ann Posey. Liz and Susy are both enthusiastic grandmothers.

Barbara McGrew Jenkel, husband Paul, and their dog Sky were photographed at a New York benefit for Children’s Village that was published in a recent issue of Westchester magazine.

Traveling in style onboard the QE2, Brenda Mihan took her first trip across the pond and spent
a week in London.

Molly Klee Heron took 15 family members on a weeklong trip to Scotland to celebrate her 65th birthday. Festivities included riding bikes, fishing, and a performance of the famous Edinburgh Military Tattoo, which features the country’s finest pipe and drum regiments. Mollie also
journeyed to China last year. She has downsized houses in Lexington, KY, but still spends summers in Maine.

Judy Martin Clements attended a Pelham (NY) Golf Club member-guest tournament this past fall. She is back at work as an interior decorator with a firm in Stamford, CT.

I visited Connie Sullivan Vallee in Medford, OR, and we had a lovely day at nearby Crater Lake National Park. Connie is also over the top about her granddaughter Rose.

Caroline Gygax Wirth retired as an outreach worker in the town of Bethlehem, NY, after nearly 20 years. She says the transition has been an easy one, with the first five weeks spent flying around the country visiting 10 grandchildren (the most recent born in May). Among Caroline’s other life-altering events are the acquisition of a tomato-red convertible and a Greater Swiss Mountain puppy. “The car is fantastic and makes me feel younger. The puppy is a kid and makes me feel as old as I am. I am optimistic it will all work out. Please wish us luck.”

An October reunion in Maine was in the works for Joan Deely Henderson, Jackie Buxbaum Cross, and Ellen Cross Cika, along with their spouses.

In August Lynn Garrett Myer and husband George took a five-day trip to Oregon and Washington with their three granddaughters (ages 7, 9, and 11) and a 14-year-old New York cousin. The kids proved to be real troupers, braving a 24-hour Amtrak ride as well as a drive to Mt. St. Helens. The family enjoyed a zoo in Tacoma, an Oregon beach, and some historic Lewis and Clark sites. Lynn and George traveled to Dublin, Ireland, for a Friendship Force International meeting in October.

We send condolences to Sue Snyder McDowell, whose husband, Alan, passed away in October.

As for me, George and I spent the summer in Pelham, NY, where Susie Otto Spicer attended our eldest daughter’s June wedding. Sue had a great first year of retirement in Vermont, and to top it off, she’s a new grandmother.