Summer 2010 - Simmons College

classnotesvisit often, but are so happy tobe living in the southwest. Seeyou-all in 2013.” | From GerryMorenski P’87: “Just had a totalknee replacement, and am nowan advocate of replacementparts! It works just great. I amalso working one day a week —social work for a senior center. Iam also now the vice-presidentof the American WWII OrphansNetwork (www.awon.org) whichis a national organization forthose who lost fathers in WWII.At present, I am up to my earsin organizing and leading agroup of orphans and familiesto the American Cemetery &Memorial in Margraten, Hollandto attend the 65th MemorialDay ceremonies there. Inaddition, I am overseeing twoother orphan groups traveling toBelgium for Memorial Day: onetraveling to the Henri-ChapelleAmerican Cemetery and oneto The Ardennes AmericanCemetery.” | My co- secretaryRoz Loiter sounds happy andbusy in Florida for the winter.She and Barney have a granddaughterliving near their homein Maryland and they see herfrequently and keep up with heron Skype when in Florida. Roztalks to Leslie Jackowitz Ramlerwho lives in the Florida Keysin the winter. All’s fine fromwhat I hear. | As for my news,I’ve finally really retired frommy practice as a geriatric socialworker when I became as “geriatric”as my clients. I’ve beendoing volunteer work and amon the Board of a senior housingcomplex, I also enjoy activitieswith friends and family andI’ve been travelling with andwithout my half retired husbandBob. We’re still in Berkeley, CA,but spend part of every summerin Williamstown, Mass. We arenow grandparents of a wonderfullittle girl who lives in Boulder,CO with our oldest son andhis wife. Our other two childrenare in Berkeley and Brooklyn.Everyone is just fine.1964Karen Chaiken Kavet69 Lincoln RoadWayland, MA 01778kkavet@comcast.net1965Marjorie Levine Lappen12037 Great Elm DrivePotomac, MD 20854-1227malappen@aol.comMarjorie Levine Lappen hasenjoyed receiving your notesand speaking with many ofyou while Reunion plans werebeing made. “I am still a parttime case manager, ecstaticgrandmother, and a worldwidetraveler.” | Ardith Miller writesshe has retired after 28 years asa school social worker in Connecticut,and is involved in thearts, writing, gardening, and takingclasses as well as spendingtime with her grandchildren. |Marsha Rosenfeld KirshenbaumP’94 is becoming president ofthe Simmons Alumnae Asso-emeri-tiesupdates on emeriti faculty and staffThe annual Simmons/AAUP luncheon tookplace in mid-May. In addition to the retirees,several “emerities-to-be” attended. TheBoard of Trustees voted emeriti status to 15members of the undergraduate and graduatefaculties this year. President Helen Drinan’75LS, ’78SM spoke to the group, and PeterBowers (Chemistry) did one of his amusingmonologues.Three members of the retirees groupparticipated in Reunion in June — Dr. carolFrazier Love ’60 (Nursing) and SusanParker Bloom ’60, ’81GS (Children’s Literature)with the 50-year Class of 1960, and AnnDavis Goodrum ’70 (Student Employment)with the 40-year Class of 1970.elaine Hagopian (Sociology) took part ina lecture and discussion on “Syria: Pivotal orPariah State” at the Middle Eastern Forum,sponsored by the Center for Middle EasternStudies at Harvard University.In honor of Bob oppenheim’s retirementfrom the Department of Art and Music, hisformer colleague Alicia Faxon ’98HD (Artand Music) donated nine works by womenartists to the Simmons College art collection.Mark Solomon recently was granted aW.E.B. Du Bois Institute Resident Fellowshipat Harvard to write a “political autobiography,”that is a combination memoir andnarrative of working for racial equality inthe 1940s and 1950s.When Lynda Beltz (Communications)arrived at Simmons in 1978, trustee carmenAponte Baez ’79, ’03HD was a risingsenior and “a delight,” according to Lynda.Carmen kept in touch after graduation andwould come back to the College to do guestlectures. After Carmen went to work forOmnicom, she and Lynda arranged forSimmons students to go to New York fora day at the company. This year was thetenth anniversary of Simmons at OmnicomDay, and Lynda and Carmen celebratedby attending a New York Simmons Clubgathering at the off-Broadway hit, “Love,Loss, and What I Wore,” written by Ileneedelstein Beckerman ’57.Peggy Loeb ’62 (Public Information) waslucky enough to be there too. She invitedseveral of her New York friends to havedinner prior to the performance — the livelygroup included Pat collins ’63, Virginiacaillouette Gibbs ’63, elinor Lipman ’72,’00HD, trustee Jo-Ann Robotti ’75 and herhusband Joseph Messing, olivia cohencutler’75, ’00HD and Victoria nicholasDonovan ’81.22 simmons alumnet.simmons.edu