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1949
Edith Armend Holtermann
holterglas@aol.com
Lois Smith Klauder has swapped her oceanfront home for a bright new apartment at the Forest adult community in Durham, NC. Her daughter works at nearby Duke University. A grandson is on the basketball coaching staff, and another attends business school there. Lois is very happy in her new life. She passed through Saratoga Springs on her way to visit another son in Lake George in August.
Betsy Bell Condron joined a group of us for a reunion-planning weekend at Skidmore in July. We got a lot accomplished and had fun. Betsy has worked at Wilkes University for 20 years.
Joan Hull is happy to read news from classmates.
Joanne Whiting Lenci traveled to India for three weeks last January. She enjoyed experiencing the culture and people and visiting the Taj Mahal. In April she flew to Italy for a 10-day tour of Rome, Venice, Como, and Florence.
Phoebe Fox Liss loves taking classes for seniors at a nearby university in Endicott, NY, and attending the opera and symphony concerts. She is looking forward to our 60th.
Audrey Platt Jacobson and hubby Jerry are off on another trip to Italy and Turkey this winter.
Leah Cunningham Wood spent her first summer in Florida since moving there in 1981 from Brigantine, NJ. Her children are using the Woods’ house in Brigantine after the couple moved into a community life-care facility in Boca Raton. Leah drops in on Lee Horsfall Pihlcrantz, who is also in an independent-living community with some good friends from Brooklyn, Albany, and Schenectady.
Jane Robertson Kalisch also made the move to an independent-living setup, with husband Bob; they have been at Falcons Landing in Potomac Falls, VA, for four years. Bob volunteers at the Scenic Fair and is an engineering and camera consultant for a local TV channel. Jane teaches English to the Spanish-speaking employees. Her advice: “Work hard, party every evening, and sleep well.”
Elaine Straka Silverman and husband Bob made a visit to Normandy to view the D-Day invasion beaches and the American cemetery. Bob was stationed there after the invasion. They also took in Monet’s garden and Van Gogh country.
Adelaide Hodgman Marx had a wonderful trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Baltic region in June and says the food on the French ship was incredible. The rest of the summer was spent at her log cabin on a lake in the Berkshires, serving as cook and washer to friends and family. Addie is now busy running after her two Labradors.
Claire Zimmerman Macfarlane sold her beach house on Lake Erie a year ago and moved to New Hampshire. She has been enjoying her two daughters and six grandchildren in Concord and Boston.
Jane Ballin Hughes was excited about going to Churchill, Manitoba, in November to join a Natural Habitat Adventures tour and see polar bears in the tundra before global warming takes over.
Suzanne Storms Johnson’s children live in Delaware, Maryland, New Hampshire, and one town over from Franklin, MA, where Suzanne resides. She and Joan Tupper, who lives in Arizona, are planning a reunion later this year. Sue has three great-grandchildren and spends summers playing golf and winters playing bridge.
Joyce Watkins Bates and husband Herm live in Hillside, a continuing-care and retirement community on 57 acres of winding paths and cottages in McMinnville, OR. The couple’s three-bedroom cottage affords them two baths, spacious living and dining rooms, and a studio. Most of the residents are educators at two nearby colleges. Their family members visit often. Joyce is organizing a fundraiser for a soup kitchen at a local church that serves 200 meals three times a week. She and Herm, who haven’t yet sold their house in La Conner, WA, have a few health issues which are “under control.”
Nursing major Alice Stevenson Calvert would like to contact other nursing grads. You can reach her at Calvert45@aol.com. Alice spent the wet New Hampshire summer trying to grow a garden and froze its fruits for the winter.
I had an interesting summer. My son Neil was bitten by his own dog, which
resulted in a broken thumb, 10 days in the hospital, and eight weeks of IVs. My son Dean had a six-way bypass; I had him here to cleanse his wounds and put on his stockings. I celebrated my 80th birthday at Woodlock Pines in Staten Island, where I hosted the family of four (both boys attended, with their wounds). On the way home, I crashed my car into a tree on a wet road near my house. The airbags did
a job on me, but I recovered and ended up with a new Subaru Forester. My garden did well this year, and I can “veg out” this winter.
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