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Gail Bendix Jaffe
gbjaffe@msn.com

Sue Penney Lindenbaum and husband Alfred enjoyed a three-week safari in Kenya and Tanzania this past fall. Sue reports it was “the trip of a lifetime,” in spite of the dust and potholes. The couple observed 42 different animal species and hundreds of multicolored and magnificent birds. “For it not to be a dream, I would have to live in Kenya for three to six months,” she notes.

While in Africa, Sue ran into Ann Cibula, who was herding goats across the Serengeti’s Nogoro Goro. She was dressed in the traditional red sari of the Masai tribe and wearing beaded jewelry on her ears, neck, and ankles. Ann, who has been living with the nomadic tribe for a few years now, hopes to make it back to our next reunion.

Becky Martin Watson invites classmates to experience the vintage auto show at the Tunbridge (VT) Fair held each September. She suggests, “Bring your antique car and spend the weekend!”

Judy Harmon Miller and Roland moved to Martha’s Vineyard last September. Judy says, “Thanks to Jeanne Braddon Lewellyn and her husband, Bruce, we are in a wonderful condominium complex, a 20-minute walk to the beach and Tashmoo Pond.” The two couples live next door to one another. Although she grew up in New Jersey, Judy has always felt at home on Cape Cod, where she spent many summers.

Karuna Wyatt Kress lives in Vermont, where she does “multidimensional coaching” and works at a local retreat center. She also does research on several Shaker communities in the area.

After a 35-year career, Thea Kharasch Flaum sold her independent television production company. She is now heading up a new nonprofit, the Hill Foundation, to help the families of people who are suddenly disabled “cope effectively, resiliently, and creatively with the changes in their lives.” E-mail tflaum@theaflaum.com for more info on the Hill Foundation.

Thea wrote of Pat Cooper Frome, whose death was noted in the last Scope: “Pat was one of the bravest people I have known. She went into writing and editing after graduation, got married, and while raising her two daughters decided to go to law school. Still in school and in the midst of a divorce, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Undeterred, she passed the bar exam and went to work as an attorney for an MS support organization. All her life, Pat’s soft, blond prettiness and casual style belied her inner strength. She had real courage—and as the years went on and her illness grew worse, she needed to draw upon it over and over again. In her eulogy, daughter Amy said of her mom, ‘Until her very last day, she went out in the world and never gave up. My mother is my hero.’ She is mine as well.”

Alan and I welcomed our sixth grandchild in April. The third child of son Michael and his wife, he is our fourth grandson. We made two extended visits to Portland, OR, to visit. In August Alan and I returned to Germany, visiting and traveling with a German couple we met 17 years ago, at the time of the fall of the Wall and reunification. Seeing the remarkable changes, particularly in Berlin, was quite incredible.