Spring 2011 - Baldwin School

“If we did that in VT, our kids would be
home most of the winter.” Ginny reports
that thanks to the neurologists at Johns
Hopkins she is wearing an amazing electronic
device that steadies her and helps
her walk. “Out with the cane! Oh, freedom!”
MARCIA SODEN KOLA and
Vaino are happily living and working in
their studios on the coast of Maine. They
have worked for the last nine years with
their Island Peace & Justice group and
have kept vigil for peace every Monday
afternoon. A large garden, which they are
working with others, provides fresh, clean
vegetables for their Island Pantry. Keeping
fit is a priority but is not as easy as it used
to be! After reading Marcia’s email SU-
ZANNE SELBY GRENAGER reported
that she has done peace work through
a women’s peace meditation group but
is now doing that work through books
about her journey to inner peace, where
she is convinced that world peace has to
start. Pilates and taking walks whenever
she can are keeping her fit. Last summer
JEAN JONES LUMPKIN, her husband,
and five other couples traveled to Alaska
in their RV’s and covered 11,000 miles
in total. They learned a lot about AK and
western Canada and marveled at how
people survived in such a harsh climate.
They are spending two months in FL
this winter. CAROLYN LAZAR’s trip
to Europe after reunion was great except
that she was “stuck” in Paris by the
volcano in Iceland and in London by the
British Airways strike. She made it back
for the arrival of grandson Nicolas in LA
and spent six wks helping out. She now
has four grandchildren, two boys and two
girls. TOPSY WARD has purchased a
vacation chalet that she had been eyeing
for three yrs in Bryson City NC. It is a
retreat from the summer heat in FL and
a perfect place to enjoy the fall colors. In
addition to her horse boarding business
she has leased some acreage as pasture for
two cows, Daisy and Mamie, owned by
a local rancher. Both cows are pregnant,
so there will be some “drama” in March.
BETSY MCINTYRE DOEPKEN
escaped to St. Maarten for a few weeks
in Jan. In Feb she and her daughter
will chair the Silent Auction for IWIN
(Indiana Women In Need, which helps
women who are undergoing treatment
for breast cancer). It will be combined
with a Pink Pajama Party at a Marriott
where the women will have free spa
care all night. In March she and Tony are
taking the whole family to Hawaii for
his 70th. Then this summer it is on to
Alaska, where their son lives, to complete
work on a church they are helping to
build there. NANCY MORRIS GROSS
reports that her seven grandchildren and
their parents produce 17 birthday events.
She says she did not thank her mother
enough! Her MS is progressing, but she is
able to walk around the house and thanks
to medication she can climb stairs. Having
two daughters in town is a big help
to her. MARY OEHRLE FRENCH
wrote that she has been working with
Maria Berger’s 4th grade class at Baldwin.
A friend of Mary’s in Pakistan is trying to
refurbish a girls’ school that was severely
damaged during the floods last summer.
The 4th graders have written letters of
support to the girls in Pakistan who were
amazed that girls in a “hostile” country
would reach out to them. This brought
Mary to comment on our Global Fund
for Girls. With a pledged amount over
five years of $110,070 the School has
already received $58,614. We are over half
way there! Once it is “Paid in Full” Mary
will set up a committee of our classmates
“to be sure it’s used well.” Received an
email from SALLY MADISON MA-
CON DIXON. She attended Baldwin
2nd through 6th grades. If you would like
to contact her let me know. She has fond
memories of Baldwin and her classmates.
NANCY MARTIN SAUNDERS
writes, “Our son, Sloan, is engaged and
plans to get married in May. His fiancé
will be graduating from medical school
that same weekend.”
1961
Your class is currently in need of a
class secy. If you would like to fill this
role, please contact Kaitlin Devine at
kdevine@baldwinschool.org. Until then
please send all news for the Echoes to the
Alum Off.
1962
Ellen Kunnes Knapp
Ellenk149@verizon.net
149 Driftwood Dr.
Bayville, NJ 08721
MARIAN RUGGLES WENCK writes,
“Playing lots of tennis, on four teams!”
1963
Mary Morris Evans
Squam-lake@comcast.net
2309 SW 1st Avenue
Apt. 1441
Portland, OR 97201-5040
LIESA HESS HELFER writes “My 5
granddaughters and one grandson are
a joy. I only wish they lived closer, so I
could see more of them. My greatest involvement
this year was the organization
of and preparations for a community
Christmas carol sing-along evening
event at my church. My computer and
the internet proved invaluable in the
creating of a songbook. We’ve come
a long way, since those late ‘60s days,
when I worked at Stanford Research
Institute for Doug Englebart, the inventor
of the mouse! I would find ‘bugs’ in
his text-editing program and he would
re-write the software repairs. It was truly
‘trial and error’.” MARY MORRIS
EVANS writes “My husband and I are
looking forward to retirement in early
March but we have no major plans for
anything special. I continue to recover
from a recurrence of ovarian cancer
found last march. I have lovely gray curls
at this time. I know that there are some
other members of our class that are also
coping with cancer.” DEBORAH BEN-
JAMIN writes, “Following two full knee
replacements one year ago, I am happily
back on the tennis courts.”
1964
Your class is currently in need of a
class secy. If you would like to fill this
role, please contact Kaitlin Devine at
kdevine@baldwinschool.org. Until then,
please send all news for the Echoes to
the Alum Off.
1965
Tatjana van der Horst Schwendinger
tatjana.schwendinger@eeoc.gov
15 Arundel
St. Louis, MO 63105-2308
1966
Sally Shaw Stevens
teachersroom2@aol.com
News flash from the class of ’66! We’ve
come along way since ’66 and our
career paths have been varied and many.
JOAN HERRE ERWIN writes that
she retired from the North Carolina
Attorney General’s Office, taught law at
Campbell Law School and now lives in
the country with her husband, assorted
animals and mother-in-law. NANCY
NORTHRUP BLACK reports that she
is currently the VP for Data Governance
Quality & Process at Citibank in
NYC to which she commutes from NJ.
Hubby Allen meanwhile works at BASF
only 2.5 miles from home. BETTY
NEWBURGER KORNITZER started
out practicing law and after 23 years
decided to go to seminary and now as
the Rev. Betty Kornitzer has her own
Unitarian congregation in Peace Dale,
RI. She and her husband now have four
children and nine grandchildren. BET-
SEY BARRETT apologizes that she
will not be able to attend the reunion as
son Trip is graduating from grad school
in Michigan that weekend. Congrats to
Betsy and Trip! HENRIETTA HOLS-
MAN FORE is now on the public
board of a biopharmaceutical company
in the D.C. area. Dave and I recently
down sized to a spacious yet cozy condo
after many years in our home. We are
enjoying (especially this year) having
someone else plow the driveway and
walkway and making new friends. Our
younger daughter and her family live
nearby and I love being a grandmother
to the 2 boys and 2 girls. Our oldest
just got married last July 3rd and lives
in Bowie, Maryland while teaching 3rd
grade in Washington, D.C. I am currently
teaching a third grade special education
collaborative class in a nearby town and
loving every minute of it. Hope to see
you all soon at the reunion. Please send
updated e-mail addresses to the Echoes
office or me so that we can stay in
touch. KAREN LEE RUFFEL writes in,
“Have a great 45th reunion! Nice letter,
Stephie! Say ‘hello’ to everyone for me.
Thank you!”
1967
Sally Albyn Younker
196 Wilson Dr.
Worthington, OH 43085
M. MERRILL PARRISH STRANGE
writes, “There was a small Baldwin
School reunion in Boston Sept 14 and
15, at retrospective of my aunt, Fay
Martin Chandler’s (mother of MIMI
CHANDLER WATT ’66) 50 years of
art work at the Cyclorama. Attending
that I know about were myself,
QUITA DAVIS PALMER, KAREN
FOX, HOLLY SIEGLE DARZEN,
NINA CHANDLER MURRAY ’38,
ANNETTE POLAN ’63, CAROLINE
DAVIS JANOVER ’64, MIMI CHAN-
DLER WATT ’66, LAURA PARRISH
HEYWARD ’68, CAROL PARRISH-
CLARK ’69. The art show was great,
too.” PIXIE GRIEB KLEMIC writes,
“We are enjoying our new granddaughter,
Elizabeth, born to our son
Jeremy and wife Monica, Nov 26, 2010.”
MARGARET CORBIT writes, “Recently
lunched with BARB CHAFFEE
at Aiello’s Ristorante in Owego, NY, and
toured the renovations of the ‘Barn’.”
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