Summer 2010 - Simmons College

classnotes1954Georgette L. Sampson ’73GS8 Bedford StreetLexington, MA 02420-4408Joan P. Audette has been writingfour children’s books andhopes to publish soon. Shehas moved to California to benear her children. She wants tohear from you! Her address is:1130 4th Street, Apt. 306, SantaRosa, CA 95404, 707-527-5954.| Edith (Edie) Lloyd Clark ison the move also. She and herhusband Al now live in Hendersonvill,North Carolina, andthey enjoy the western mountainsthere. | Thekla (Tucky)Talis Wolfson was really sorryto have missed Reunion. Tuckycontinues to enjoy selling realestate, despite the bad market.She and her husband visit theirmany grandchildren and theyenjoyed their 50th weddinganniversary. Tucky continues tolove the opera and symphony.| Lorraine P. Fraser continuesto enjoy the many volunteerjobs as she teaches sewing toseniors, works as a tax preperationvolunteer for AAPR, andcontinues as a tutor/assistantatCape Cod Community College.WOW! | Florence Coslowloves the freedom of retirement.During the past 12 yeras shehas been tutoring in a Bostonelementary school. She belongsto a local book club and continuesto take lifelong learningcourses. Florence is working onfamily genealogy and has takenup beading. In between she isloving world travel. | Janet GardinerFisk enjoys her retirementcommunity and keeps very busywith social activities such asbridge. She lost her husband in2005. Janet enjoyed a visit withLorraine Fraser and LemoynePalmer Thatcher at Lorraine’sbeautiful home in Barnstablerecently. Jan also enjoyed seeingHazel C. Connor at her lovelyhome in Harwichport. She lovesher visits to Cape Cod and itsmarvelous surf. | Ann RobbinsSteinberg and her husbandJohn have sold their buildingbusiness, although still involvedin it part time. They spent threesummer months at their cottagerecently in Maine and loved it. |Florence A. Wilson is enjoyingtravel with trips to Seattle andOrlando. She enjoyed the CanadianRockies by train. | Your secretaryhad “The Most ImprovedStudent” award named for herat Lahey Clinic’s English as aWorking Language School thisyear. She writes family historiesin her spare time and enjoysher Chinese granddaughterThea who is almost six now andhas just lost her first tooth! |COMMUNICATE!1955Barbara L. Keough ’83GS25 Great Rock RoadSherborn, MA 01770-1609Nancy Reid Whitman190 Nahant RoadNahant, MA 01908nrwhitman@mediaone.netPatricia Chisholm Wallace72 North Mill Street, Apt. 4Holliston, MA 01746-1022pwallace10@verizon.netCarol Quinn Gruber is very happilyretired from her positionas a portfolio manager with amoney management firm. Shewas widowed at 42 and marriedBob Gruber three years later.She and Bob live right in Manhattanand have a beach houseon Fire Island. Carol said, “Bobhas given me much pleasure forthe last 30 years.” They travelextensively. Her daughter livesin Manhattan and her son livesin CT. She has three grandsonsage 12, 10 and 6 and spendsas much time as possible withthem. She is a Docent for theAmerican Folk Art Museumand teaches a class there. Herstudents are college bound fromTalent Unlimited, a public performingarts school in NYC andthey receive Visual Arts Creditsfor the class. She says helloto everyone and a special hugand kiss for “Meaney.” | Severalclassmates have grandchildrengraduating in June 2010. Wewill miss them on reunionweekend. | Irene GreenbergSchneiderman is driving withher daughter to Georgia andJackie Racicot Grandpre andher husband will be travellingto Alaska. | In February theGold Coast Simmons Club metat the Phillips Point Club inWest Palm Beach, FL. Therewere six classmates includingBetsey Cohen Hoffman, JackieWray Buck ’60SW, Jackie PellTuttle, Froso Metalides Delianides,Gloria Sloat Stolman,and Helene Rosen Schwalberg.The group of six brought fiveguests — quite a gatheringfor the 1955ers. Six classmatesmade it the largest number ofone class in attendance at theevent. | Sandy Ferreira Smithhas been and is still very ill. Sheis now in a Boston hospital.Jackie Pell Tuttle keeps in touchwith Sandy’s husband Rogerwho says her recovery has beenextremely slow. Sandy needsmore cards and more prayers.Mail cards to Sandy Smith at27 Court Street, Concord, NH03301-4345. Roger then takesthe cards to the hospital. | JudyCadigan Pace is keeping busy inFlorida and keeps in close touchwith classmates Barbara BickelhauptCarter, Elizabeth Marchant,and Melissa Walker Wolfe. |Barbara Weaver McCorison andher husband have a new sailboatthat arrived in February. Theboat they owned for a few yearswas destroyed by fire this pastyear. Happy Sailing Barbara!| Beverly Leavitt Olans movedinto a condo. She had a pacemakerput in recently and hasto have shoulder replacementsoon. We wish her well. | We areall glad Shirley Trull Hardy isdoing so well after both her backsurgeries. She and her husbandRay are off to their time-sharein FL for three weeks. Enjoy thesun…| Barbara Meaney Keoughis still teaching at MassBayCommunity College in Framingham,MA. She went on anAudubon birding trip to Ecuadorand criss-crossed the equatorin the Andes and in the jungle.Last fall she took an Elderhosteltrip to Bar Harbor, Maine whereshe enjoyed the view from thetop of Mt. Cadillac. However,her best trips are the ones tothe Sherborn Library with hergranddaughter, Sophie. | One ofJackie Pell Tuttle’s former studentsKathleen King (Jackie hadher in grades five through eight)has become an internationalfavorite. She started Tate’s BakeShop featuring large roundchocolate chip cookies on herDad’s farm stand in Southampton,NY to help pay for college.She wrote in a cook book shegave to Jackie....”Thanks forthe wonderful roots you gaveme that helped me go this far.”She was on the food channellast week with the BarefootContessa’s Ina Garten whogot her start in Easthampton,Long Island. Jackie said, “Sheis always proud of her studentsand happy they have gone on tolong successful careers in thefields she gave them a start in.”The writer of this column canvouch for Tate’s cookies. Theynow include many varieties.They are the best, taste justlike my mom’s! | Pat Chisholm18 simmons alumnet.simmons.edu