Fall 2012 Issue - Colby-Sawyer College

1963
Donna Dederick Ward
4350 Queen Elizabeth Way
Naples, FL 34119
(800) 935-2440
hungrytrout@comcast.net
1964
Kathy Conathon Reardon
1040 General Lafayette
Boulevard
West Chester, PA 19382
(610) 738-4982
kathyr1230@aol.com
Editor’s Note: Welcome
and thank you to Kathy
Conathon Reardon,
who has volunteered to
serve as the new class of
1964 correspondent.
I, Kathy Conathon
Reardon, am pleased to
serve as the new correspondent
for our class.
Please be sure to send me
your news! Katherine “Kay”
Gilkeson Hughes and
Brian live close to my son
Tiger and his family near
Denver. Kay’s son Scott
lives a couple of miles
from Jack and me in West
Chester, PA. We haven’t
been able to get together
in CO yet, but we did have
dinner with Kay and Brian
in PA. I hear from Ann
Franklin Ewig and Hedy
Ruth Gunther quite often.
We are looking forward
to our 50th, and hope to
get Pam Materne Shirley
to leave HI and join us.
Pam found out that Linda
Ware Bragg died about 2
years ago. My husband,
Jack, has recovered from
bladder cancer, and plans
to retire in July. Nancy
Woodring Hansen writes,
“On May 14, we became
great-grandparents to Julia
Josephine Richmond. It is
great that they live only 1
1/2 miles from our home,
so I go to visit almost
every day. We are looking
forward to a family reunion
at the Cape this summer
with the whole family
there. My granddaughter
Laura will be a senior in
high school next year and
I am hoping she is going
to look at Colby-Sawyer.”
Alice Lawton Lehmann
is enjoying her 2 grandsons,
ages 4 and 2, who
live close by. She and Bill
continue to be semi-retired,
keeping a small
portion of their business
development company
active. Alice is still active,
running, swimming and
biking, and was looking
forward to summer vacation
time at their cabin
on Sebago Lake in ME.
1965
Chris Murray McKee
518 Burpee Hill Road
New London, NH 03257
(603) 763-2761
ctmckee@tds.net
Ann Hodgkinson Low
retired a year ago from
several community volunteer
boards. She and Cal
now spend time in Dataw
Island, SC, in the spring
and fall, where they enjoy
golf and their friends.
Their son, Curtis H Low
’97, is married and living
outside Boulder, and son
Don and his wife and 2
grandsons are in Napa.
They’re looking ahead to
their 50th Reunion. Pam
Dodd and her husband,
Tom Connellan, live in
Orlando, FL. She has 2
sons, one stepdaughter
and 7 grandkids between
infant and age 11. The
kids live in the NY and
Chicago areas and Austin,
TX. Pam’s mother, Peggy
Van Duser Hurlbut ’40,
lives in Palm City, FL and
is doing very well at 91.
Pam writes, “I’ve been an
Internet marketer for the
past 7 years. My current
site is on Lyme disease,
which both my husband
and I have. I also do social
marketing for one son,
a NYC executive coach
with his 1st book due out
next year on taking smart
risks.” Leslie Seymour
Wears and Ken have had 2
sad losses in the last year:
Leslie’s dear mom a few
days after Christmas at
age 92, and her husband’s
sister in Apr., just before
her 72nd birthday. Their
son Grey and his girlfriend
Angie Simpson still live
in North Hollywood, CA,
where he’s a freelance animator.
In Aug., Leslie’s son
Ty moved from living near
them in OH to the Phoenix
area, where he owns a pool
service business. They
love to travel: Leslie writes,
“Ken and I have been to
weddings in NY, DC, WV
and MI in the last year and
to visit family in CT, CA
and AZ.” She shares the
care and fun of horses with
her neighbor in their connected
pastures and volunteers
weekly at a reading
service for the blind and a
therapeutic riding program
for children. Leslie is in
touch with Linda Marshall
Dygert, who lives in Afton,
NY. Penny Griffith Dix
and Dennis are still in
Avon, and Dennis is still
working while Penny has
been retired for 7 years.
“I’m very involved in
museum volunteer work
as well as enjoying my
family: 3 married children
and 7 grandchildren,” she
writes. She was about to
leave for Nags Head, NC,
for 7 days where all 15 of
them would be together
at a rented house on the
ocean. Penny and Dennis
take one trip abroad each
year; this year they planned
to go to St Petersburg,
Russia and Norway, sailing
the Baltic on a 4-masted
clipper ship. Sue Hewson
Wise has another new
granddaughter, Sasha
Mehlem, who was born in
Oct. 2011 in Denver! Tina
Biggs Ferraro spent the
winter in Stuart, FL, and
got together with Georgie
Sawyer Hutton, who lives
in Vero Beach. Georgie
is quite the golfer and
played in her Club
Championship. Besides
all the CSC Board activities
Tina is involved
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