GSLIS Edition - Simmons College

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a trip to Hong Kong, Shanghai,
Beijing, Tokyo, Vladivostock,
Russia, Alaska, and Vancouver.
Jean has visited Monhegan, ME,
and her hometown of Portsmouth,
NH. | Margaret Claire
Carolan Powell, Beverly, MA,
“tripped” to Greece and is a
Floridian snowbird in St. Petersburg
in the same condo building
as Muriel Ferris. They toured
and gambled away the winter. |
Mary Jane Buxton Goodrich and
her husband George, Cincinnati,
OH, have retired from
work and travel, after 17 years of
being Maine summer residents.
| Patricia Yelle Ryan, Minneapolis,
MN has taken off to France
and Ireland. | The second book
of Sen Sahir Silan, Antayla,
Turkey, Self Exhile — My Letters
to Bibi, was published by an
international women’s group
called Soroptimist. | Elaine Caulfield
Brosseau, Sonoma, CA,
is looking forward to our 60th
Reunion the weekend of May
30, 2009. | Blanche Dodge Day
writes, “It has been a rough time
for me as my husband, Wendell,
injured himself and died May
11, 2007.” | Helen Suprenant
Jefts, Lake George, NY, and her
husband Charles closed their
real estate office after 50 years
of business. “It will take the
rest of our natural lives to clean
out the records, furniture, and
junk.” | Mildred Feldman Levitt
writes, “After teaching Hebrew
at Congregation Mishkan Tefila
for 42 years, I am resigning. My
granddaughter Aviva Schwartz
’07 graduated from Simmons
magna cum laude. My other
granddaughter Arielle broke the
tradition of Simmons and is a
freshman at Brandeis. I enjoy
the Cape in the summer.” | Emily
Macy Salaun, Needham, MA,
celebrated her 80th birthday
with family, fun, food, flowers,
and a crowd of starry balloons. |
Robert Slocum writes, “Completed
New York State in Fiction
(1751–1999). Have completed 20
years of retirement from Cornell
University Libraries. Trying to
stay busy — caretaking my wife
who is recovering from bladder
cancer. Still volunteering at
Dryden Kitchen Cupboard and
supporting the bicentennial of
the 1st Presbyterian Church of
Dryden, 1808–2008.”
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Carolyn Millinger Holland
32 Dartmouth Street
Beverly, MA 01915-1633
cm.holland@verizon.net
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Virginia Willon Clark
4519 Baybrook Drive
Pensacola, FL 32514
ginlee@cox.net
Virginia reports: I had a wonderful
trip last summer with
daughter Meredith, to Nova
Scotia and Newfoundland. Being
raised in a family where our
second home was our sailboat
“Scampi” she had always wanted
to see the Bay of Fundy. | Betty
Gaffey Stone’s granddaughter,
Brittany Stone, is a member of
the freshman class of 2011, and
loves Simmons. | Still hoping to
get news from all of you as our
Class notes can only be as good
as the Class makes them.
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Ann David Young
126 Berwick Place
Norwood, MA 02062-1915
drocey@comcast.net
Ann reports: Our spring mini
reunion/luncheon at the Colonial
Inn in Concord, MA, was a
great success with 25 in attendance.
| We missed Class Agent
Sylvia Hershfield Bloom who
is recovering from surgery. We
wish her a complete recovery.
| Patricia Whittemore Hunter
and husband John moved
from Wellesley to Brookhaven,
a retirement community in
Lexington, MA. | Evelyn Mayo
Finneran, Doris Comick Kellett,
and Ann David Young met for
lunch at the Wayside Inn in
Sudbury, MA. | Elane Goren
Jacobs’s husband Mel celebrated
his 80th birthday with family
and friends in Naples, FL. They
play tennis and bridge. Elane
volunteers at the Naples Museum
of Art. | Lillian Anderson
Rowe is recovering from a hip
fracture. | Joanne Patterson
Porter and husband Bob spent
several days in December on
Barbados. Their youngest son
John is off to Shanghai for three
years as a litigation lawyer. |
Maryrose Condon is tutoring in
an after-school program through
the Salvation Army. | Constance
Walker Haddleton attended a
surprise 50th wedding anniversary
celebration for Bessie Zotos
Tsokanis and her husband Peter.
| Another 50th anniversary
was celebrated by Devvy Vogt
Mosley and husband Everett on
a cruise with family along the
St. Lawrence Seaway. | Edna
Cohen Landesman is enjoying
her latest of nine grandchildren,
Sadie, born in September of
’07. | Evelyn Green Litman is
living in Florida year round. In
addition to her four children
and five grandchildren, she
welcomed her first great grandchild
in October ’07. | Geraldine
Jamiolkowski Elion’s grandson
Nathan graduated from Penn
State. | Eleanor Bayer Stanske
enjoyed three Elder Hostel trips
in 2007: New Zealand, Oregon
and a Navaho Reservation at
Canyon de Chelly. | Janet Bloom
Schlein and husband Herb took
a riverboat trip from Moscow to
St. Petersburg. | Our sympathy
goes to Lucy Hopkins Buckley
who lost her longtime companion
Edwin Jepsen. | Milly
Thompson Colahan reports how
much she enjoyed our 55th class
Reunion. | Nadia Ehrlich Finkelstein
spent Thanksgiving week
on a Carribean cruise with her
family. | Ann David Young and
husband Bob met with Mimi
Bonner Hocknell and husband
Ted in the fall and enjoyed
brunch in Baltimore. Ann and
Bob helped daughter Jeannette
Le Chevallier ’79 celebrate her
50th birthday in California in
October. | Gerness Rosenfeld
Alpert lives in Boynton Beach,
FL, and enjoys a summer home
in Bay Shore, Long Island. Gerness
retired from her career as a
special education teacher. She is
president of L’Chaim Hadassah
at Coral Lakes, FL. | The Class’s
sympathy goes to the families
of Marilyn Roach Parsons,
Joyce Appel Hayward, Louise
Holleran Drenan, and Carolyn
Goodell Kanter who recently
passed away.
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Dorothy Halloran Fowerbaugh
6733 South Bend Drive
Fort Wayne, IN 46804-6267
pauldotty1@netzero.com
Dotty reports: Class attendees at
our 55th Reunion weekend were:
Class President Ellie Doane
Quirk ’57HS, Vice President
and Reunion Chair Ellen Budge
Stumpf, Nancy Billings Bursaw,
Doris Livingston Doull, Jody
DeRoma Dow, Betsey Pool
Erickson-Brown, Mal Bellini
Fall, June Leonard Goodman,
Beverly Elliott Hadley, Mickie
Metz Halaburt, Babsy Cofman
Krichmar, Mary Lou Sperry
Kruse, Mary Lou Kenney Logan,
Miriam Kagan Margoshes, Miki
Spiegel Marnoy, Nancy Tucker
McLaughlin, Ethel Elbein Milas,
Barbara Warren Reed, Arlene
Oldberg Rome, Sue Snell Solomon,
Phyllis Powers Taylor, Sara
Bedini Weaver and Secretary
Dotty Halloran Fowerbaugh.
| At Reunion time, 135 class
members (66.5%) had given
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