Summer 2007 - Hood College

Summer 2007Hood Magazine 31ago and plans to go to Prague this year for theAdvent season. Mary Ann recently saw GingerGudebrod Smith and Maggie CederholmBonito at a 50th high school reunion on LongIsland. Daughter Beth and family live nearby andson David is in Afghanistan training local policeforces. Gail Meredith Enright has retired fromselling real estate and is no less busy, thanks tothree very special granddaughters and their familiesnearby (including daughter MeredithMcQuoid-Greason ’85). She writes and edits theDavidsonville Civic Assoc. newsletter and herchurch newsletter, and sings in the choir. She washeaded to Costa Rica for two weeks in Marchand then to Maine in the summer. Gail sees RidaDawson Aycock and Phyllis HornerRichardson. Barbara Olsh spent several monthsin the hospital last spring and summer with apersistent lung infection but is now feeling welland busy working on photography, remodelingher bedroom and den, and working with her twodogs on advanced training. Barb works forCommon Ground on the Hill, a roots music, visualarts, dance and literary arts organization, and iscurrently creating the catalogue of summer classes.She is hoping to see a good crowd at themini-reunion this year. Ellen Perry Croll and Stucontinue to be glad they made the move toTucson in 1996. It sounds like they have traveledthe West, and keep busy with volunteer activities,extensive genealogy work, extended family andsome health issues. They had “tough duty” forsix weeks cat-sitting for friends on Oahu! Thereare about 40 alumni in the greater Tucson area:last year Ellen helped organize a luncheon thatDr. Volpe attended. Their grandchildren, ages 7and 5, love to visit and explore the flora of thearea! Kathy Frutchey Christian continues towork part time in the Methodist College library.Bob will retire from the N.C. Methodist ChurchConference this June, and from full-time teachingin May 2008. Son Peter lives in Charlotte anddaughter, Esther, Matthew, and grandchildrenDavid (7) and Rachel (4) live within visiting distance.Bob and Kathy enjoy hosting internationalstudents and mini vacations at the beach withthe grandchildren. Ruth Dworschak Jensenretired after 18 years as director of a child carecenter and is now pursuing other activities! Shehas traveled to Alaska, California and Austria, andto the British Isles with her roomie MaryVirnstein Yuhas ’62. She is now planning a tripto Italy and Greece. She is active in her church, aleader in the Stephen Ministry program and regularlyvisits at a senior’s residential facility. Shesees Mary Virnstein Yuhas and Kathy MillerZeiders. Lucy Simmons Clagett and Tom sawwhere part of Harry Potter was filmed (and tookpictures for the grandchildren!) and found thestreets in Glasgow where Lucy’s grandmothergrew up; all this and beautiful scenery on a tripto Scotland. They have enjoyed several trips onthe Delta Queen and have now traveled theMississippi from New Orleans to Minneapolis!Lucy hopes to see classmates at the reunion inJune. I, Sally Jo Bruch Sherrill, have retired twiceand am working again (very part time) in aMinuteclinic in Annapolis. I enjoy friends andfamily, church and gardening, and am veryinvolved in a mission project of the BaltimorePresbytery in Guatemala. We have 200 childrenon scholarship in the local schools there, plus ahealth clinic, stove project and support for thelocal villages on our twice yearly visits there. It isa poor country, though a beautiful land withwonderful people. I always feel that I get muchmore than I give! Hood roommate Diane DickeySherer and Bob, as well as Diane’s mother Lil areliving at Ginger Cove, each in their own condo. Itis good to have them back in Annapolis. Theyboth sing in the church choir and the AnnapolisChorale, and Bob gives guided tours of downtownAnnapolis in colonial dress. Lil is still quiteactive at 96. Our condolences to Peggy WaiteWhitehead, whose husband Edmund diedJune 16, 2006. Betsy Bennett Wiegand andMaryann Whitehead Scherzo, class fundagents, are pleased to report that, as of the endof May, Hood has received contributions from88 of our classmates totaling $96,380! Thirteenof these were new contributors and their contributionswere met with an additional gift of$100 each!1961Suzanne Brown Wellcome321 Stafford Ave.Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA 92007(760) 753-8026swellcome@cox.netEdie Feiss Anderson is catching up after manyyears of being out of touch. Edie married GerryAnderson in 1959 and finished her degree atHarvard. Both she and Gerry have doctorates—his in astronautics and aeronautics, hers in libraryscience. After retirement from the Air Force, theylived in San Diego where they raised their children—Glenn(in Germany) and Anne (mother ofthree and in Atlanta). They moved to Molokai 20years ago. Following Gerry’s second retirementthey owned and published the island’s weeklynewspaper for almost 15 years. Gerry successfullyfought non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and has had aremarkable recovery. Their daughter is dealingwith breast cancer and, with the help of DonnaRobinson Counsil, she too is making a goodrecovery. Travel is at the top of their retirementlist and they are now off for an around-the-worldadventure. Janet Spaulding Nunn just returnedfrom Germany where she and her husband wentto meet their first grandchild, a little girl, born inFebruary in Leipzig. Janet now knows why grandmotherscarry all those pictures in their pursesand brag a lot! Jan Dobbs Pedersen writes thatsince the first time they converged on Rehoboth,the group has written poetry and prose aboutexperiences at Hood and beyond. Now they arepreparing to “publish” and are looking forwardto sharing it with everyone at the class reunion.Jeanne Duncan Jehl and Joe just returned from atrip to Spain that included their daughter, herhusband and two grandsons, aged 6 and 4.Seeing Spain with the little boys included playingsoccer in the plaza in front of the Palacio inMadrid and learning about armor for knights,horses and even dogs! Joyce FreedmanDiamondstone has not retired and has beendirector of early childhood education atPittsburgh Theological Seminary for almost 23years. The oldest of her four grandsons will graduateand go to the Univ. of Delaware. All the othersare teenagers and very involved in school andsports. Joyce says she has loved working on her50th high school reunion. She still keeps in touchwith Margo Friedman Friedman ’62. KatharineBaum Wolpe was elected president of the VillageIndependent Democrats, a Greenwich Villageclub celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.They are working on new voting machines forNew York State, public campaign financing, localdevelopment and housing, opposing the war inIraq, and working for the impeachment ofPresident Bush. She does child care at St. Mark’sChurch in-the-Bowery and coordinates the children’sHalloween party and Easter egg hunt. Inher “spare time” she enjoys New York’s live musicscene and the great cinema choices availablenearby. Paige Wisotzki will be retiring from theCollege of Charleston this year and visitedKatharine in early March. They had a minireunionwith classmate Sue Kaehrle from WestHartford, Conn. She and Paige also had a minireunionby phone with their big sister NancyFletcher Artlett ’59, currently in Australia, andwith Fletch’s sister, Sally Fletcher Murray ’60 inVirginia. Mary Beth Snyder Hall retired from herjob as a high school library assistant at her almamater, Bald Eagle Area, in December 2005. Sheworked for the school district for 32 years andhasn’t taken up anything new but loves not gettingup early in the morning and reading often.Mary Beth, too, is coordinating her 50th yearhigh school reunion. They have a son, Col.Nicholas Hall, in the Marine Corps in Keller,Texas; he has four daughters, ages 18, 14,12 and 10. Their younger son Patrick lives inStafford, Va., and works at Quantico. He retiredas a major from the Marine Corps last year.Sandy Murphy Schmidt has spent the yeartraveling with a cruise along the Danube toBucharest and Budapest. She and Bob then spenta week in Vienna enjoying the music and art.Sadly Sandy lost her sister after a 15-year strugglewith Alzheimer’s. Vivi Bruckel Harvey writesfrom Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she leadseducational field study trips to Mexico andGuatemala in between commutes to Ohio.Vivi says she thinks about retirement but it isalways three years away! Our condolences tothe family of Wanda Hoffman Summers, whodied Feb. 3, 2007, in Frederick; and to SarahAnderson Caswell, whose husband Gordondied March 28, 1999.1962Linda MacDonough Morrow240 Lions Hill Road, Apt. E401State College, PA 16803-1881(814) 237-5858LMorrow@psu.eduAnn Louise Pursell Hammond recently marrieda man she dated while a sophomore at Hood;she has moved from Florida to New Jersey. After26 years Joan Angotti moved—to the condonext door, 1,000 sq. ft. larger. “Most peopledownsize in retirement,” she said, “but not me.”Gail Dawson Clarke is back in southern Fla. after21 years in the North Carolina mountains andin Seattle. She is a full-time probation and caseworkerfor juveniles in Sarasota and Bradenton,Fla. Martha Atkinson Meadows retired for thesecond time from the Frederick County PublicSchools, where she taught high school math,became an assistant principal, and was the