Spring 2011 - Baldwin School

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I can still waltz! My activities revolve
around a group of political activists of
which I am president. I’m also on the
condo board, a new thing for me after
owning two houses for quite a while
each. Kids are fine, grandchildren ditto.
Dog, 5yr old female standard poodle,
especially energetic. Nothing in her life
that a 5-mile run each morning wouldn’t
cure. Hope you and Dick are still sailing
on the bounding main. I am not only
alive and kicking, says GWYNNE KIM-
BELL SCHULTZ, but I realized last year
that there are some things I had better
do now, or they might never happen. So,
in July, my youngest daughter and I went
to Ireland. It was great fun - she did all
the driving and we just fell in love with
the country. Then, in November, I joined
a group of people from my sister’s church
and went to Israel - something I had
long wanted to do. It was a fabulous trip.
Next June, I plan to take 3 grandsons
(ages 12 and 13) on a cruise to Bermuda.
I am having a great time! And planning
on our 60th in 2012. My son moved to
Seattle where he is working for Amazon,
says PAT BACHMANN HOLLOWAY. I
am looking forward to visiting him later
this month. I spoke to LUCY THEIS
BERMAN yesterday. She was in a border
our junior year and did not return because
her mother was terminally ill. She
lives in Florida and has two granddaughters
who live nearby. My son gave me
a Kindle for Christmas. I love it. I wish
we had some of this technology when
we were in school. ELLIE SHOCKLEY
GORDON says Bob and I now live
in Palm Beach and spend summers in
Middletown RI where our daughter
and her family live. One of my college
roommates is here now and tomorrow
we fly to St. Croix where another
roomie lives for our annual girlfriends’
reunion lasting a week. We’ve been doing
this for many years and it is so much
fun. My grandchildren are attending
Shipley, in 9th and 7th grades. They take
boys now and these are one of each so
they can be there together. My niece has
just become the hockey coach at Baldwin,
starting next fall! She is a superb
athlete and coaches many travel teams
and women at an Olympic training site
so Baldwin will be in good hands! Hello
to everyone. JANE VANDER VEER
says she is a museum docent in art...Still
making my “open minded figures” for
the garden. Sending love to you. SUE
CORLETTE CRILLEY says there’s not
much news here. I went to Vail with an
old friend (my husband died 2 yrs ago,
hers 1 yr ago) in January and never skied!
It’s an endless saga of mishaps, but I’m
very glad to be home – in spite of the
weather and my power being out for 28
hrs last week. Not a good year so far. It’s
bound to improve! I hope you get more
interesting/exciting news than mine to
put in the Echoes. Also, hope you’re
all doing well. Definitely still kicking,
& moving snow, as is everybody else.
Best regards to all, BARBE BALLARD
BREYLINGER. PATTI VAN DOREN
DUNN says we are buried under multiple
feet of snow, but of course the ski
resorts are ecstatic, and the plows up here
do such a fantastic job that one can always
get around. Just for a radical change
of scene, Jack and I leave at the end of
the month for a two-week safari in Tanzania,
led by a friend of ours, a paleoanthropologist
with the Harvard Museum
of Natural History. This is a childhood
dream of Jack’s--I’m less enthused at the
prospect but have faith that the experience
will be fabulous, as all attest! All
our Chicago-based chicks are well, and
take us in periodically for visits. We love
the city but it’s too flat! And we love to
get back to our mountains! Best to all
52ers. DEEDEE DIETZ LITTLEFIELD
thanks you all for writing me back so
quickly. I’m really looking forward to
our 60th, although I cannot believe that
is about to happen. I don’t remember
getting older, do you? I wish we had this
electronic technology when we were
in Baldwin too, Pat. What a kick the
iPad is. I can even play scrabble with my
friend in Texas, read books, email and a
variety of other fun things. The learning
curve was steep changing from PC’s to
Apple and I am really glad I did. We no
longer have a sail boat, but we do have
a lobstering type boat in Maine, a Duffy
& Duffy 26’. We are there for 4 mo and
really love the island. (Vinalhaven) Dick
is on the Medical Center Board and that
keeps him off the streets, so to speak. We
are searching for a new Doc for the island.
I have a Sewing Studio next to our
Members of the Class of 1954 met for lunch last fall at La Fortuna Restaurant in Bethel, CT
(L to R: Ginny Sellers Shaw, Susan Duncan Dana, Trina Twyeffort Greene and Susan Cole
Eyre-Schlesinger).
little house, set high on a hill overlooking
the working harbor. There I gaze at
the harbor and make slipcovers, pillows,
day bed covers and you name it for the
island people. I meet many people that
way and I just love it. See ya in 2012!
1953
Jean Lafferty Kittelson
1swirl@gmail.com
850-859-9921
1365 Blue Pond Lane
Ponce DeLeon, FL 32455
CLAIRE SANFORD PERRAULT
writes, “Made annual visit to sister in
England late Sept (before the snows?).
Royal Academy and Dulwich Museums
in London, later the Fitzwilliam Museum
and soaring Kings College Chapel
in Cambridge, and in between read
stories to gr-nephews and gr-nieces in
Norfolk. Lovely time just made up for
airline/travel hassles and delays…” E.
REED KENWORTHEY BILZ writes,
“Exchanged visits with sister PAM
KENWORTHEY HARER ’51 in
Seattle, attended Vegan Festival with two
of my three vegan daughters, Caribbean
cruise and trips to CA to visit kids and
grands.” DEE HEASLEY VANDYKE
’53 writes, “Still entering juried shows –
and getting accepted. Making miniature
books – writing poems and putting them
in books – good fun!”
1954
Trina Twyeffort Greene
pangurban@hvi.net
1224 Old Ford Rd.
New Paltz, NY 12561-2616
Mary Edgerton Sloat
mesloat1@yahoo.com
PO Box 424
Lancaster, NH 03584
Ginny Sellers Shaw
ginnyshaw@comcast.net
SNOW. Well, what else did you expect
our winter news mostly to be about?
After celebrating Bruce’s 80th birthday in
Drake Bay, Costa Rica, MARY EDGER-
TON SLOAT and Bruce went again to
Aspen where she teaches skiing at peak
time for Skico, the Aspen Ski Company;
and also in the local school program: her
group includes 5 children from 4 to 6
yrs old. GINNY SELLERS SHAW, who
has only just emerged above the Connecticut
snowdrifts, writes: “Ginny and
David have offered their 24+” of snow
and mild slope to Edgy and her students,
but have had no response. Shoreline
Connecticut has not been celebrated for
its skiing in the past, but Global Warming
has changed everything.” Ginny, SUSAN
DUNCAN DANA, SUSAN COLE
EYRE & TRINA TWYEFFORT
GREENE had to bend to two blizzards
before finally meeting for a luncheon
date in Connecticut. CAROLYN
MATHESON HIRSCH, however, seems
to be in my camp (ed.) about winter.
She happily writes: “Lots of snow and ice
here. The town built its toboggan slide,
now that the ice is 12+” thick, by lining
up large blocks of ice to form a track
going down a road and some distance
out on the lake. They then groove the
ice so the toboggans won’t fall off, and
bring out 19th century wood toboggans
which hold 6 – 9 people, who shove off
and whoosh down the hill up to 30 miles
an hour!” C’s grands must have loved this
when they visited over Christmas and
New Years’. She and John are planning
a trip to Texas in Feb or March. Trina
wishes she could use that slide! And
wonders if Carolyn has ever chopped