Summer 2010 - Simmons College

classnotesHawkins? A happy connection,thanks to the Simmons tote bag.| Margaret Wilson Meaden’sson writes that Peg has movedto a new nursing facility, TheHallmark, near Houston, TX.She is doing well and very muchinterested in current sportingevents and news. | There hasbeen another change of ClassAgents: Marjorie Bell Lindseyand Cricket West Laun are nowour two Agents and you willhear from one of them whenyou make a contribution toSimmons or our Class of 1946Scholarship. | We send oursympathy to the family of ElaineMegley Judge, who passed awayon February 10, 2010, in Pocasset,MA. She was a registereddietician and consultant to nursinghomes, nutrition educator,and lecturer. Her other interestswere chair caning, needlepointand the Red Sox. | Janice LiverpoolHale ’77LS will never be a“retired” librarian. When she andher husband moved to seniorliving at Newbury Court inConcord, MA, she classified andcatalogued the book collectioninto a library, with the catalogon computer and a printed copyfor the library. She writes thatthe collection has “only” 1000books but is growing steadily.Her professional life was seniorassistant librarian at MiddlesexCommunity College in Bedford,MA. Before that, she started theGuilderland Free Public Libraryin a storefront in Westmere, asuburb of Albany. It was aftercoming back to Massachusettsthat she earned her Master’sDegree in Library Science atSimmons in 1977. For the past24 years, Jan has been Editor ofHobby Greenhouse, the illustratedquarterly publication onindoor gardening. | If you enjoyhearing about your classmates,write me a note about what youare doing because the rest of usare interested too. My email ispat.hanks@verizon.net andI’m still at 6 Wildon Road,Wellesley MA 02482-7115,781-237-3622. Next year will beour 65th Reunion Year!1947Barbara Burke Garlick43 Whitehall StreetDedham, MA 02026-2227Barbgarl43@aol.com1948Jane Washburn Parker1210 Evergreen AvenuePlainfield, NJ 07060-2618parkerjg@comcast.netOur president, Elizabeth (Betty)Adams Laub looks forward to aJuly European tour to includethe Passion Play in Oberamergau,a once every ten years event.She’ll be around to celebrateher first great grandchild’s firstbirthday in May, Caden Philippi,son of Betty’s daughter Nancy. |Ann Gilbert Miranian has hungup her travel shoes and with Art,moved into a retirement communityin Chester, VA. | Jean(Van) Vanicek Babcock is makingplans for our mini reunion,the first Saturday in Octoberat the College. Mark the dateand join us to see what is newat Simmons. | Jean Mahoney(MJ) Whelan enjoys life in herretirement community whereshe is close to her five granddaughters.| Virginia NowellKlein, our treasurer, has hadsome health problems whichlimit her out and about activities.| Lorelle (Lorrie) LundebergSchiewetz spent Christmas inColorado with daughter Dianeand family, then went on a4-day cruise to Cabo San Lucasto celebrate her niece’s 50thbirthday. Back with Diane forSave the DateLIVE WEBCAST WITHPRESIDENT HELEN G. DRINAN ’75LS,’78SM“State of the College”Tuesday, December 7, 2010Register at alumnet.simmons.eduMay and June, she walked the10K Bolder Boulder and a fewdays later the 5K Heart Walk. InOctober she shared a Simmonsmini reunion in Scarborough,ME with her roommate MargeryGarland Nickerson, and LoisFogg Jackson and Mildred L.Stevens at their retirement community,Piper Shores. Thanksgivingwas celebrated with sonKen, wife Kim and family inSeattle. Christmas found Lorriein Sacramento with daughterand family. She visited her sisterand brother-in-law in Floridawhere her brother and sister-inlawjoined them from Connecticut.Lorrie does get around! |Roberta Prescott Hanson andBob were downsizing aroundChristmas and waiting for theirnew one floor patio home to befinished. | Winifred (Freddie)McCalmont Carlson and Bobclaim though they have healthproblems they are not so badas to “keep us from swimming,walking and golfing.” | Dr. PaulR. Bjorklund, husband of ourlate classmate Virginia JohnsonBjorklund sent pictures of histwo small grandchildren Erikand Annika. He was practicingdentistry as he showed themhow to carve the face on theirpumpkin. | It is with sorrow thatI inform you of the death of ourclassmate Ena Noyes Phipps onJanuary 29, 2010 after a shortbattle with pancreatic cancer.She had moved into a retirementcommunity in Virginia tobe near her daughter. We extendour sympathy to her family. |Please drop me a line especiallythose of you who can email me.(See email address at top.) Folkstell me our news is the firstthing they look for when theSimmons magazine arrives.1949Emily Macy Salaun101 Tower AvenueNeedham, MA 02494-1911esalaun@juno.comSpace star to be, Barbara JaffeeFey, Greenwood Village, CO,has signed up as passenger583 on “Galactic,” a space craftbeing built in New Mexico byRichard Branson, Chairman,Virgin Atlantic Airways. “Duringthe flight into outer space,we will be weightless for fifteenminutes and see the curvatureof our planet Earth from space.A dream come true.” | ClareCarolan Powell, Beverly, Mass.,wintered in Florida with MurielFerris, a permanent Floridian.While there, they both had anopportunity to meet our CollegePresident, Helen Drinan, at theSimmons Club of SouthwestFlorida. | Nancy HoaglandPowderly, Jackson, NJ, still playstennis but struggles with golfand plans on moving to Virginiato be close to her family. | Twonew addresses include HelenSuprenant Jefts, now at 17 OldPost Road, Lake George, NY,12845, and Mary Jane Buxton,now at 4840 Thunderbird Dr.,Apt 287, Boulder, CO, 80303.| Magdalene (Maggie) LouvisConstan, Milton, Mass., winteredin this year’s chilly Florida,summer 2010 15