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soon. All active 'at-ers have been alerted asto our reunion date.News comes in slowly, but surely, andwhat fun it is to hear from WMC classmates.For classmate of the year, "Kitty" Britting/wmWellinger is our nominee. Kittymade the 1966-67 edition of Who's Who ofAmerican \Vomen. Kitty is librarian of theCharles Barrett School, Alexandria, Virginia,and is a member of many civic and professionaldubs. She and her husband, Karl,who works for the U. S. Post Office, liresoon to celebrate their 33rt! wedding anniversary.Margaret Hoffman Rich(!rdson hasa son in Georgia Tech and a daughter atAmerican U. "Toots" keeps busy doing volunteerwork at Carroll County Hospital.Col. Ralph Mark Reed and his wife completeda 3,OOO-miletrip through the Scandinaviancountries last summer. Mark willmiss this reunion but will be back in theU. S. A. in 1967. Clnrence Knox has hisown vacuum cleaner and sewing machinebusiness in Hagerstown. Congratulations toCatherine Downing on the many offices sheholds in historical organizations. A few ofthese are: President of Milford HistoricalSOCiety; Vice-President, General NationalSociety of D.A.R. and National President ofNational SOciety Daughters of ColonialWars, and us such plans to do much travelingthrough U. S. A. this year.Catherine "Sophie" Lynch Bass gave apre-reunion luncheon in January at her homein Baltimore. Kitty Tull Feelemyer {recuperatingfrom weddings of her son anddaughter}; Hmma Hecht soon off to Floridafor the rest of the winter; Helen Myer,\·SI(lckhollse, who teaches French in BaltimoreCounty, has a son at Yale and anotherat Washington and Lee; Rldh Davis Darby,who teaches 7th grade English at Gaithersburg,and has a SOil in eollege at Midland,Michigan, and I were there. "Sophie" andher husband, Sam, are spending March inCalifornia and Hawaii. Walter Reichenbecherrunsthe Dixie Motel near the Mason-Dixon Line at Addison, Pennsylvania(skiers please take notice), Walt has fourdaughters. If we can tempt him from savingall his vacation for deer-hunting, maybehe'll be able to attend a future reunionThaddeus Klep(!c;:; ("KJeppie") teaches atWoodbury High School, New Jersey, is directorof local adult evening school, and isa past president of the local Kiwanis Club.He has a son and daughter (twins) and fourfine grandchildren.The rest of you who are savtng that 4cpostcard I sent you, please put it to use.Remember, what is new to you is newsfor mel See you all in June1934Mrs. Edward B. Dexter (Lillian Frey)3726 Loc:hearn DriveBaltimore, Maryland 21207It might take a year or more for some ofyou to send me work about yourselves; butby being patient, I usually get a little newsnow and thenBen and Sarah (Fadeley) Stevens havemoved from Silver Spring, Maryland, to 513Beach Park Boulevard, Venice, Florida.E. J. "Pat" Mahoney, after 22 yearscoaching Navy plebe basketball teams, retiredfrom the sports picture this past June.He stepped down, he said, due to increasingresponsibilities in the Academy's departmentof English, history, and government,where he serves as a full professorOur class has lost two who were dear tous: John A. Sneicher {january 1, 1965),and Victor S. Palmer (July 1, 1965).Mary (H{/ig) Hartgor writes from 1212Mesilla Road, Lns Cruces, New Mexico, thatshe is very busy with Woman's Club, PanAmerican Club, and A.A.V.W. activities.Her five children all like different things,and that keeps her bu~)' tQQ. jerry likesfun; Crace, her work at N.M.S.U.; Tommy,swimming; ElSie, oil painting; and Emily,the violin. Mary was sorry she didn't makeour last reunion, but she said that she reallyenjoyed the Newsletter "From '34 to '64."Here's a special item for Martha. (Harrison)Ramsey: I rccefved a note from a MrsDoris Blake Benson (211 Kemble Road,Baltimore 18), who was in high school withyou, Martha, and she requested that you beasked to contact her. She has thought ofyou so often.Probably some of you didn't know thatwhen Alumni Hall got new curtains, ourclass had the WMC seal from the old curtainframed and presented to Esther Smith.\Vords from her thank_you note read in part:"It was so appropriate and very thoughtfulof your class to do this since the studentsof your class were the first ones to use thecurtain. The seal enclosed thirty yearsof my life-nearly two hundred productions!Plays are the most ephemeral of all the arts.They are born, live, and then vanish intothin air leaving behind them only a misty("Onl:,'legatiOll of memories. I SUpposeproducingplays cernes nearest to the myth ofSisyphus. You push upward toward the peakonly to see the rock vanish and appear againat the foot of the mountain. And so it hasbeen for thirty years-no wonder I lovehaVing a piece of that old green curtain asa tangible object on which to hang myremembrances.··Probably some of you don't know that Ilim no longer teaching at Clen Burnie HighSchool. I left there nbout a year ago toaccept a position as Supervisor of Instrue,tion with the Anne Arundel County Boardof Education. I am currently assigned toAndover High School in Linthicum, wherethe principal, LeRoy Carter, lr., ·48, is alsoa WMC graduate.Recently I received across my desk acircular from the Parker Publishing Companyadvertising a new book on school publicationsand bearing a picture of the author-our own Rubert Holder! Bob has taughtfor the past 26 years at Amherst Junior andSenior High Schools, Snyder, New York.Those of you who haven't written meabout yourselves (lind that"s most of you!),please gd your news in.pagethirty-tu;o