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1963

Deborah Frankel Reese
bybynj@aol.com

A heartfelt apology is due to Deborah Ketchum Lambert, who was erroneously referred to as Deborah Ketchum Acton in the summer issue. Deborah Lambert suggested that Deborah Acton Tollefson, who lives in Sonoita, AZ, would appreciate a correction also. (This Debbie’s face is red. So sorry, other Debbies!)

Carol Brush Nicholson is semi-retired. A PRN for Haven Hospice of North Central Florida, she enjoys taking off for cooler climes in her RV during the summer. This past summer she and her husband took their fifth wheel (34 feet with two sides) to the Sylva, NC, area and enjoyed “a relatively cool and gorgeous mountain experience.” While there, the Nicholsons were visited by Judy Cohen Lutz ’62 and husband Myron over Labor Day. Judy, who had her hip replaced in June, was able to hike up a very steep, woodsy trail without difficulty. Carol is in the process of getting certified as an intrapersonal imagery practitioner. She hopes to develop a private practice that
could be portable.

Judy Hestwood Feagin and her husband love living in Maine, where they get a constant stream
of visitors. Judy’s children are all doing well, and she is delighted with their grandchildren,
who have “clearly already mapped career tracks for themselves. The 6-year-old is going to be a professional diva (we’re not sure of what), the 3-year-old is either going to be a criminal mastermind or the first president of the universe, and we think the 1-year-old wishes to reproduce the career of Don Juan and/or Casanova.”

Shirley Fleming Woodward’s daughter Sarah was married in September. The Woodwards’ older daughter, Julie, was the matron of honor, and her husband and two sons, ages 2 and 4, were in attendance. The newlyweds live in Torrance, CA, where Sarah runs her own interior decorating business and husband Greg is a plumbing contractor.

Dorothy Skripak Penner’s husband, Vern, has retired from his position as deputy commandant of the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy. The Penners now live in Annapolis, MD, and love it. They have a 28-foot sailboat docked at one of three community piers just five minutes from their home. Besides playing in and coordinating tennis leagues as a volunteer, Dorothy is a certified tennis official for local, national, and professional tournaments. Dorothy’s daughter lives in London, and their son moved from California to NYC to Boston in the space of seven months to accommodate two job changes.

Jane Finneman Hochman and husband keep an apartment in London and were planning to be there over the holidays.

Class fund co-chair Jane Hochman and husband Jack joined class agent Susan Blum Loukedis and husband Gus at Skidmore’s Celebration Weekend in October. The Hochmans brought along their 2-year-old granddaughter, whose parents, both university professors, were away at conferences. Jane is lecturing to promote her recently released book, auditing an interesting course at Princeton on the history of science, and continuing her consulting job for the Hilton Early Head Start Program. She travels to Los Angeles about every eight weeks to visit her 15-month-old grandson and his parents. To celebrate her 65th birthday, Jane and Jack took all four daughters, three spouses, and four grandchildren to a resort in Puerto Rico for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Joyce DiBona and husband Bob hosted a family cruise to the Caribbean to celebrate Bob’s 75th (and Joyce’s 65th) last Christmas. It marked the first time their kids (and eight grandchildren)
had been together for a while, since the family is scattered in Buenos Aires; Eugene, OR; St. Augustine, FL; and Hingham, MA. In October Joyce took a week off to play golf and go exploring in western Massachusetts.

Linda Cohen Lubell’s son Peter launched a new Web site (lostandpound.com) that is devoted to tracking both lost and found animals. Linda encourages classmates to send the site address to anyone who might be interested.

Louise Siegel Musser went to Botswana for three weeks in May. On this, her third trip to Africa
and first to southern Africa, she witnessed three lionesses kill a buffalo. The rest of her summer was taken up with friends, gardening, and golf. In November she left for her home in La Jolla, CA, where she will stay through April.

I have been reading about Judy Pettingell in the local papers. A teacher with whom Judy used to work was brutally assaulted while hiking in Scotland early this summer and remains in a coma.
To offset the bills for transporting her home and the ongoing medical costs, etc., Judy organized
an art auction, and the response was so overwhelming the papers did a huge article on it.

Laura Young travels to Montclair, NJ, to see her sons, Kevin and Tim, and their four little boys—two aged 4 and two a year old. During the semester break at the University of Iowa, where she teaches, Laura had success marketing still-life paintings to a decorator through the David Kline Gallery in Birmingham, MI.

Sabre (Lynda Sable) Gilmartin has a new Web site for her jewelry business: sabregilmartin.com. She lives in Stourbridge, England, the traditional home of glassmaking. She studied jewelry
making in New York and glassmaking at the International Glass Centre in England and the School of Jewelry in Birmingham. She finds unusual semiprecious stones from all over the world to create unique pieces of jewelry.

Lucretia (aka Chrissie Fueller) Robbins’s work was included in the Small Works Show at the Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia in December. Son Bo and family live near other son Michael
and family in Connecticut.

My art career keeps me busy—I had shows this fall at a nongallery venue and at Pegasus Gallery
in Quechee, VT, and have two solos in March: Dartmouth Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (Lebanon, NH) and July Woodsum Gallery (Warner, NH). I was also featured artist at the Chaffee Gallery in Rutland, VT, in December. Still, selling art in this area is difficult. Besides spending
lots of time in the studio, I get down to New York and Connecticut often for visits to my four young grandchildren. John plans to retire full-time in February, freeing us up for more travel, but I would not go away for long while my mom is still living. She is nearing 95 and lives in an assisted-living venue 20 minutes from me.