Fall 2012 Issue - Colby-Sawyer College

Suzanne “Zan” Reber
Merriman had a bout with
breast cancer, discovered
just before Thanksgiving,
but all is well now. Her
grandson Aaron is headed
for Penn next year and
her daughter Lexi is at
Brentwood College School
on Vancouver Island, with
one year left. Her husband,
Paul, just finished doing a
PBS series on investment
and is working on e-books
on the same topic. They
planned to spend the summer
on Bainbridge Island,
and Seattle, WA, but will
return to San Miguel de
Allende in central Mexico
in Sept. Dorcas Sheldon
Adkins has retired from
the WA Area Bicyclist
Association and she and
partner Pat Munoz now
have 5 grandchildren
between them. Cheryl May
Zellers keeps busy since
her grandchildren either
play softball or hardball
or are on a swim team.
Her oldest grandchild is
Zachary, 16, and Zac’s
brother Nicholas, 4, is the
youngest grandchild. Both
of her daughters live in the
same town as Cheryl and
hubby Michael—Jersey
Shore, PA. The whole family
planned to vacation this
Sept. at the Outer Banks
in NC. Michael is going
to retire in about a year,
and she retired officially
last year, after working 8
years for the Funky Freezer
neighborhood ice cream
truck that her youngest
daughter and her husband
own. They have a new pit
90 Colby-Sawyer College Magazine
mix dog, Daisy. Cheryl and
Michael won’t be coming
to the Reunion because of
their Outer Banks vacation
but she wishes she could
be there! Frances “Francie”
King in Marblehead, MA,
took a communications
gig at Boston U in development
last fall because she
couldn’t resist the “lure
of another big fundraising
campaign.” She says
there’s a lot of creativity on
the young team. Francie
is still keeping up with her
personal history business,
www.HistoryKeep.com, is
finishing up 3 books, and
hoped to take on another
one this summer. The
word “retirement” will be
in her vocabulary, too, one
of these days. Whitney
McKendree Moore says
2011 was a rough year for
husband Barry medically,
but thankfully, all is well.
Their son Ned is majoring
in Classics at Bard College
and has one year left.
By the time this column
appears in print Whitney
and Barry will be retired
and on Medicare! She’s
stayed in touch with Ann
Blackman ’66 and highly
recommends Ann’s books,
especially the recent one
about Julia Taft. Whitney
also stays in touch with
Wendy Weinstein Fish, her
former roomie in Boston.
Whit’s had 2 articles and
one book published in the
last year: one article in
Cruising World Magazine
and another in Points East
Magazine; and a book
through Westbow Press
called Whit’s End: the
Biography of Breakdown
(which is available at
Amazon). Prudence
Hostetter enjoyed another
nice winter at her farm in
Wellington, FL, and was
able to ride every day. Her
son is 15 and driving the
car, and doing well in both
the driving and in being a
9th grader. Prudence has
been doing a lot of walking
and using her camera to
snap the birds and animals
around the farm. Allison
Hosford and Roger are
still in northern NJ on a
very small-scale farm, and
are doing well. She’s been
water coloring for the past
7 or 8 years. Allison and
Roger are giving day-long
workshops on farming
on a small scale. They
have a website, www.
twopond.com, for anyone
interested in seeing
what their farm is like.
Elizabeth “Beth” Holloran
Bourguignon is still
working at the Needham
Children’s Center, and
they were looking forward
to Red Sox games and
going to ME. She took
an online course at the
local community college
and found the computer
lingo challenging. Lynne
Farrington Miller is retired,
and she and her husband,
Neil, live in a 55+ golfing
community in North Ft.
Myers, FL. They each have
their own golf cart and play
golf as often as possible!
As for me, I’m probably
going to be retired by the
time this goes to press.
Teaching has been a
challenge these past 2
years. Husband Bobby and
I are hoping to move to
the Raleigh/Durham, NC,
area as soon as our house
sells to be near children
and grandchildren. We’re
basically healthy, despite
the fact that we’re both
on Medicare! We’re not
actively searching for
another dog (our beloved
Golden Retriever, Maggie,
had to be put down in
late Sept. 2011), but we’ll
be open to anything.
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Class Correspondent
Needed
Heidi Gray Niblack and
John are still dividing their
retirement time between
Palm Beach, FL; Lyme, CT;
and NYC. They had a great
trip to Hong Kong and
Angkor Wat, Cambodia,
last Nov., and they’re planning
a trip to Portland, OR,
and Vancouver this fall.
JoAnn Franke Overfield
says it was fun to see
many of Becky Irving’s ’42
MT former students at
the CSC luncheon in her
honor. JoAnn had a chance
to visit with 2 classmates,
Georganne Hoffman
Berry and Meredith
Worthley Motyka. Like her,
Georganne strayed from
med. tech, but Meredith
is still doing med. tech-
related work. Susan Austin
Kraeger is enjoying life