Fall 2012 Issue - Colby-Sawyer College

Aug. and has qualified
for world championships
in Irish dancing. She has
competed in Kilarny and
is all over the US. Teddy
is 10 and is active in cub
scouts, tennis and golf.
Audrey’s older son, Peter,
is divorced and lives in
Boulder, CO. He has
2 beautiful daughters,
who are 10 and 8, and he
shares equal time with
them. They are both great
little soccer players and
do a lot of hiking and
camping with their Dad.
Audrey would love to
see any of you who are
in the area or passing
through. Judy Morrison
Gentry recently enjoyed
an amazing 3-week trip
“Down the Danube,”
which continued with a
special visit to the home
of new friends in Munich,
and relatives in Chicago.
She visited Prague (Czech
Republic), then Linz
(Austria), Durnstein,
Wachau Valley, Vienna, and
on to Bratislava (Slovakia),
Budapest (Hungary),
Munich (Germany), and
charming little villages
between the high points.
“I have great photos and
delightful memories,”
she said. I, Jill Booth
Macdonnel, continue to
photograph homeless and
poor people for consciousness
raising and
fundraising. I’m on a park
board, hoping to make a
conservancy like Central
Park has done in NYC.
Any ideas? Write your
experiences, strengths
and hopes—what’s
meaningful in your lives?
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Cynthia Grindrod
van der Wyk
Huntington Harbour
Bay Club
4167 Warner Ave., #105
Huntington Beach,
CA 92649
(714) 330-4190
cindyinhb@hotmail.com
In the last month, I
received news from 2
alumnae; their stories are
included here. Please let
me hear from all of you.
Judy Cameron Barwood,
who graduated with a full
degree in 2009, keeps
busy since Wendell died a
year ago. She enjoys time
with her 6 grandchildren
(3 in VT and 3 in KY),
and spends some time in
Tucson, AZ, at their 2nd
home at SaddleBrooke.
She also enjoys genealogy
research, quilting, riding,
golf, paddle tennis and
Curves. Charlotte Winchell
Johansen and Kai have 3
daughters. After the girls
graduated from college,
Lockheed offered Kai a
job in Yorkshire, England,
and they stayed 13 years.
While there, they traveled
to Rome, Russia, China,
Africa and other places.
The girls gave them 8
grandchildren: 2 daughters
are in the Bay Area near
Charlotte and Kai, and one
lives in McCall, ID. The
Debbie Bray Mitchell ’79
and her aunt Nancy Wiesner
Conkling ’58 at the 4th
annual alumni event hosted
by Debbie and her husband,
Bill, at their Hanover,
N.H., home.
Johansens are golfers,
and bought a home on the
5th hole of the golf course
where they spend a couple
of months in the summer.
A few words about me,
Cindy Grindrod van der
Wyk: I’m still employed by
Pageantry World, my flag
company for 31 years. The
flag business has suffered
just like every business
here lately, so I’ve created
some new ideas for getting
business. I also formed a
“woman owned” corporation
called WIP (Women
in Power), Inc. with my
daughter and granddaughter.
Our 1st product is
www.straightshooterusa.
com, an invention by my
son-in-law (our corporate
engineer). I still drive my
hot chili-pepper-red Saturn
Sky convertible. Doesn’t go
as fast as our old Corvette
did in its prime, but guys
still want me to race and
then they laugh when they
see who is behind the
wheel: One hot Mama!
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Jane Bruns Lenher
10438 East Watford Way
Sun Lakes, AZ 85248
(480) 883-1096
asburyjane@aol.com
Marsha Halpin Johnson
Post Office Box 265
Elkins, NH 03233
(603) 626-4506
marnamhj@gmail.com
Norma Penney became a
resident at the Lighthouse
Nursing Care Center and
Rehab in Revere, MA, due
to an inability to walk. She
enjoys concerts, arts and
crafts, pokeno and card
games. Last summer a
group went to see West
Side Story in Boston.
In Oct. they went to the
Dennisport Yacht Club for
dinner and entertainment,
and to the Boston Pops for
a holiday concert. Bruce
and I, Marsha Halpin
Johnson, have had a good
but busy year. We went
on trips to Turkey and
Morocco, spent Christmas
in Grand Cayman with
children and grandchildren
and went on a cross-country
trip last fall to see
some of the U.S. and
visit our son. I continue
my involvement with the
Friendship Family program
at Colby-Sawyer, placing
100 international students
with local families
who provide friendship,
facilitate cultural exchange,
bridge a connection to
the local community and
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