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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Jane Holden Huerta
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Thanks to all who sent me news. It would help if all of you would send me (jane.huerta@usa.net) your correct e-mail addresses and the e-mail addresses of any of our classmates with whom you correspond. It would also be great if you could add or correct your e-mail addresses in the alumni directory. . . . Jane Wiggin Sullivan is still teaching part time at Georgia Perimeter College, helping young writers make it through their first year of college. She is also a certified massage therapist (for chiropractors as well as for herself) and a naturopath. Her children--Paul Wilbur, teaching Spanish in N.Y.C., and Allan Jr. in the food business in northern Virginia--both are doing fine. Her old cat, Winston Churchill, guards her well. . . . Maren Stoll Fischer lives in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. She injured her right shoulder playing tennis and was to have physical therapy to get back to playing without the necessity of surgery. Her three children all live out west so she makes frequent trips to Colorado, Washington and Utah. . . . Molly "Mary" Lynn Watt continues to offer programs of songs and letters of the Spanish Civil War with her husband, Dan Lynn Watt. The program is made up of excerpts from letters her husband's mother, Ruth Rosenthal Watt, exchanged with his dad, George Watt, while he was in the Lincoln Battalion of the International Brigade. The program for the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston on November 16 and the one at the Center for Arts in Natick on February 28 both sold out and received standing ovations. . . . June Chacran Chatterjee (junec006@aol.com) will lead a group to Cuba June 20-28. The trip, sponsored by Contra Costa College in San Pablo, Calif., offers an opportunity for people to come to their own conclusions about the current situation in Cuba. The group travels legally with an educational license from the U.S. government and is open to anyone interested in learning more about Cuba. Contact June for further information. . . . Peter Henderson and Jane, his roommate of 43 years, have retired, she as school librarian, he as college professor (after his first retirement from the USAF). Jane is working part time as a secretary for their church's college student development program, and Pete is an adjunct in the business department of a Christian college in Montgomery, Ala. They still live in Auburn, Ala. In between their part-time activity they are either on their sailboat in the Gulf out of Apalachicola, Fla., or they are in Nashville or Orlando spoiling their grandkids. Every other summer they make it up to the Maine coast for some serious charter sailing. . . . Steve Curley says his great friend, Pete Cavari '61, is responding positively after a little setback he had last fall and is working hard to get back to 100 percent. Pete is motivated to return to the Northeast from his Ft. Lauderdale retreat for his 11th season at the Red Auerbach Basketball School, where he and Steve share a dorm room for the week of working with kids and arguing with each other. Steve says that if Pete is as big a pain this summer, he knows that Pete is all the way back. . . . Eunice Bucholz Spooner helped to organize a successful write-in campaign to get an excellent school board member elected for Sidney, Maine. Her youngest son just became engaged to be married this summer at their camp on Messalonskee Lake and will have an outdoor reception at Eunie's house. His bride-to-be is from Newfoundland. Eunie is planning to go on a seven-day Alaskan cruise with five other people in July and August. She said that Ralph Nelson should have lots of news since he and his wife recently returned from Antarctica. . . . Bette and Dick Peterson still live in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and spend summers on Cape Cod. Daughter Wendy recently graduated from the University of Michigan Graduate School of Public Policy and is living and working in Cambridge, Mass. Dick, who recently started an insurance company with two others, is also finishing up an M.S. program in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and is now writing a thesis on the Irish peace process. Dick is looking forward to slowing down but not retiring; he's still active as trustee of Eisenhower Fellowships and of two corporate boards. He talks with Dick Schmaltz '62 and Steve Bartow from time to time and with Phil Behr, who started at Colby and transferred to Dennison after freshman year. Dick just returned from a visit and safari in South Africa. . . . Andy Sheldon finished his lame duck semester at the University of Montana, where he's taught biology, especially aquatic ecology, since 1969 (previous jobs were in California and Washington, D.C.). Along the way he's had four off-campus sabbatical years, including an especially neat one in tropical Australia. A couple of administrative hitches broke the rhythm, but he's kept on with research and publication in stream ecology. Andy and Linda have now been married 12 years, but their collective four offspring have none of their own. For the last two years, Linda has been program manager of a new Big Brothers Big Sisters office in the Bitterroot Valley where they live. They are building for retirement in a tiny Old Florida-ish hamlet due south of Tallahassee. They've both got professional options but are not locking in to anything until they get used to being free agents, though tropical travel and research look promising. Hope we can convince Andy to come to our reunion in 2005. . . . Frederick C. Moffatt, a professor of art history who specializes in the art of the United States at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, has been awarded a Lindsay Young Distinguished Professorship.
Jane Holden Huerta
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Diane Scrafton Ferreira
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In response to the question "What is the best thing for you about retirement?" your class correspondent received two responses, both of which indicate that retirement is more a change of venue than work stoppage. With the realization that many classmates remain gainfully employed and are, in fact, pre-retirement, I hope the following comments illustrate our continuing diverse choices. Regina Foley Haviland ("Reggie" to many of us) wrote an e-mail during the President's Day blizzard to say she retired from 25 years of teaching public school French three years ago, thinking that was "it" for her academic career. She and Carole Pope subsequently took a celebratory trip to France, after which she secured a part-time position at Avon Old Farms School. Regina now teaches honors French to junior and senior boys at this private school near her home in Connecticut. An added bonus for the location: seeing her grandchildren, because her daughter and son-in-law live at Avon Old Farms School as faculty/staff. Regina added that she and her husband, Gerry, now have four grandchildren living close to them and two adult children in the Boston and Pittsburgh areas, with two more close by in Connecticut. Also, Regina and Gerry were in Bonita Springs, Fla., in January when she had the pleasure of meeting author Horace Landry '49. During the snowstorm, she was reading one of his autographed mysteries set in Maine. . . . Henry "Hank" Sheldon is in his third year of retirement from United Airlines and says he's "not sure how my pension will fare if United doesn't make it out of bankruptcy, so retirement may be a short but sweet interlude between careers." His oldest daughter, who this year completed her junior year at DePaul University, plans to attend law school after graduation. His youngest son will attend Purdue in the fall. And he adds, "My wife, Elise, and I are celebrating our soon-to-be empty nest by putting our house on the market and a down payment on a town house." They see Bob Hartman '60 and his wife, Sue, regularly as neighbors in Glen Ellyn, Ill. . . . Your class correspondent continues to teach English classes at the University of Hawaii (filling in for faculty on leave) and is currently lead trainer for Weight Watchers East Side of Hawaii Island, with three weekly classes, including an "at work" group at North Hawaii Community Hospital, a vanguard wellness center. In early March I began work on a prison project (titled "Poetry Can Free Our Souls") at Kulani Correctional Facility with six faculty and community leaders. This isn't retirement, just alternate job activity! Add animal care on the ranch and I'd have to say I left the condo to go to acreage! . . . Now, what are you doing? Please keep those cards, letters and e-mails coming. . . . Here's a question for our next issue: What is your favorite place in the world/travel destination? Aloha!
--Diane Scrafton Ferreira
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Karen Forslund Falb
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Can't wait till next year when I have more time for digging up class news. I am in the last stretch of papers and presentations for earning a certificate in history of landscape design in the landscape studies program of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. One project is a cultural landscape report on the grounds of the oldest house in Cambridge, which has some interesting landscape preservation history. All will be over, I hope, by the time of our reunion. . . . Some good and lengthy news from Dan Traister. He enjoyed being a short-term fellow at the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh last mid-May and June, studying the reception of the 19th-century Scottish writer John Galt (friend and contemporary of Sir Walter Scott). As a librarian and teacher of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana, he has since been lecturing on Galt. Dan and Barbara (Howard '65) enjoyed their stay in Edinburgh, doing research partly at the University of Edinburgh library and largely at the National Library of Scotland. They took long weekend trips to a number of places in the Scottish Borders as well as to Stratford-upon-Avon and to Kendal and the Lake District in England. Back in Scotland they visited Aberdeen, Inverness, Plocton, Fort Augustus and the western and northern Highlands (traveling with Barbara's sister when she was a visiting lecturer at the University of Aberdeen). All this and a trip to Florence and Siena in early May was a wonderful birthday present to Dan "for managing to reach 60." This year has continued to be good as Dan has been a fellow of the Penn Humanities Forum, its members this year chosen for mutual interest in and projects on the general area of the history of books and printing. Their son Aaron married Karel McComas of Texas and UT-Austin on July 13, and they are living near the Traisters in Philadelphia.
--Karen Forslund Falb
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CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Sara Shaw Rhoades
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Apologies for the short column. I broke my elbow and am challenged, particularly typing. . . . Nancy Saylor Kimball called. She's involved in the International Center in Worcester, Mass. Groups of 10 foreigners come for a month to study small U.S. business methods--free markets, quality control, that sort of thing--which she finds very interesting. They currently have two Russians living with them who find Americans' penchant for sharing and cooperating refreshing. . . . Bob Mangion moved to my town about five years ago, and we finally got together this week. He's enjoying retirement in small-town New England. . . . Bob Drewes writes: "Robbie (Gilson '65) and I moved in 2001 to the Dallas, Texas, area, where I am president of a company that modifies almost any kind of airplane to do almost anything. About 75 percent of the business is in the U.S. Currently my largest customer overseas is in Australia, where I have a production facility. Robbie and I just returned from there. Our children are married, and we have seven grandchildren. This year our son, a physician, is relocating to Dallas to undergo three years of training in a surgical subspecialty. He will live near us with his wife and four children. We look forward to that greatly."
--Sara Shaw Rhoades
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