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Her children are a godsend to her. Al<br />
Hanley McDermott still lives in her<br />
family home on Long Island, near her<br />
children. They keep her young and<br />
help ease the loss of her dear husband,<br />
John. ¶ Eleanor Melville Kilbourn has<br />
recently downsized to a townhouse,<br />
still in Bountiful, UT. Her husband<br />
died suddenly right after they moved<br />
there, leaving her with 5 young children.<br />
They all helped their mother so<br />
she could return to work as a social<br />
worker when the youngest went to<br />
school. Lois Morrison Steffensen still<br />
lives in her home of 40 years, located<br />
in Vienna, VA. Her husband, a West<br />
Point graduate, also died suddenly<br />
at the age of 53, leaving her with 4<br />
young children. She volunteers at a<br />
nearby hospital and is active with<br />
her West Point friends. Margie Sellers<br />
Fitzpatrick enjoyed our 60th Reunion.<br />
She still lives in Toledo, OH, but<br />
visits her sister on the Cape annually.<br />
While there she gets together<br />
with Nancy Natoli Fay, Ann McGrath<br />
Cullinan, Pat Cauley Ross, and yours<br />
truly. Margie’s daughter, Amy O’Neil,<br />
was honored to receive a Governor’s<br />
Award for Outstanding Women in<br />
New Mexico because of her work as a<br />
court-appointed special advocate for<br />
children. Margie was able to travel<br />
to New Mexico to attend the award<br />
ceremony. Congratulations to all! ¶<br />
Pat Foley Granahan was also saddened<br />
by the death of Pat Molloy and<br />
attended the funeral along with Mary<br />
Breslin, Kaye Barron Cox, and Rosemary<br />
McAuliffe. As usual several ’49ers<br />
enjoyed the Cape Cod luncheon at<br />
Coonamessett Inn in Falmouth, MA,<br />
in July. Charlotte Malone Corcoran<br />
and her daughter were scheduled to<br />
attend but were unable to at the last<br />
minute, as Charlotte suffered a fall.<br />
She has moved to Middlebrook Farms<br />
at Trumbull, CN, and is most appreciative<br />
of all the love and prayers she<br />
has received in the past few months. ¶<br />
I heard that Cay Foley Hines and Lois<br />
McQueeney Moulton had a grand time<br />
on the Cape Cod Canal Cruise in July.<br />
Lois’s granddaughter is still modeling<br />
as she continues her studies at<br />
Northeastern U. Also on the Cape this<br />
past summer a group of alums enjoyed<br />
Hairspray at the Dennis Playhouse. It<br />
was a wonderful performance: lively<br />
music, great cast and sets, and lots of<br />
laughs. I met a niece of Dottie Lewis<br />
Rose’s when we all gathered after the<br />
show, Rose Mary Lewis Irwin ’79. She<br />
said Dottie is widowed and has lost 2<br />
sons, is still in Topsfield, MA, and is<br />
busy as ever. ¶ Does any of the above<br />
inspire you to tell us something about<br />
yourself? I hope so. Don’t be shy. You<br />
know where to reach me. I hope to see<br />
many of you at our annual fall luncheon<br />
and/or at the Memorial Liturgy<br />
in Nov. Till then, good luck and good<br />
health to you and yours!<br />
1950<br />
✒ Mary Neylon, 69 Viola Street, Lowell,<br />
MA 01851-4922, mdneylon@verizon.net<br />
✒ Anne Swiston O’Hara, 55 Lexington<br />
Avenue, Magnolia, MA 01930-3949<br />
✒ Jacqueline Chocquette Picard, 70<br />
Hadde Avenue, Cumberland, RI 02864,<br />
Littlecho7@gmail.com¶ It is with<br />
sadness that we report the passing<br />
of three of our classmates: S. Dorothy<br />
Burke, CSJ, Barbara McDonald Walsh,<br />
and Ann McCarthy Lynn. We extend<br />
our sympathy and prayers to their<br />
families as well as to Doris Toohey<br />
McCue, who lost her husband, Jack,<br />
recently; to Mary Towne Baggett,<br />
whose husband, Jim, died in July<br />
2009; and Amy Chin Guen on the<br />
death of her sister Helen Chin Len in<br />
June. Many may remember Helen,<br />
who attended <strong>Regis</strong> for a while. May<br />
they all rest in peace with the Lord.<br />
¶ Our 60th Reunion on the weekend<br />
of May 21–23, 2010, passed ever<br />
so quickly, but our bonds of friendship<br />
have grown over the years. The<br />
weather was cooperative, just perfect.<br />
For people who haven’t been back on<br />
campus for several years, the change<br />
is most notable—many more buildings,<br />
lush green playing fields, and<br />
male students. It was summertime,<br />
but there were students on campus<br />
taking summer courses, notably in<br />
nursing. The students we encountered<br />
were as friendly as students were in<br />
our day. In our student days the foyer<br />
was sacrosanct, but no longer. It is<br />
used for a variety of events. In fact,<br />
our luncheon was held there. Golf<br />
carts were available for transportation<br />
on the hilly campus. Despite the<br />
many changes, one constant remains:<br />
the warm, friendly spirit. ¶ Seventeen<br />
of our classmates gathered for the<br />
Reunion: Mary Casey Acton, Marie<br />
Dillon Canane, Gerry Mullin Cornes,<br />
Beth Finn Deschenes, Dreda Kallaher<br />
George, Mary Buckley Glennon, Theresa<br />
LeBlanc Gray, Amy Chin Guen, Helen<br />
Konopacka Jennings, Helen Harty<br />
Keough, Nancy Gaynor McGuire, Mary<br />
Daily Neylon, Barbara Tyrrell Nugent,<br />
Alfreda Swiston O’Hara, Alice Boyce<br />
Smith, Cay Nolan Sokol, and Virginia<br />
Looney Weamer. We had a lot of fun<br />
reliving our student days, looking at<br />
pictures, and just reminiscing. We<br />
recalled our friends who have left this<br />
world and whom we miss. (I could<br />
not but hope that there was a class<br />
of ’50 Reunion going on in Heaven as<br />
we celebrated in Weston, MA.) Marie<br />
Canane came the greatest distance—<br />
California. Gerry Mullin Cornes drove<br />
up from Baltimore, MD, at 2 a.m.,<br />
picked up Nancy Gaynor McGuire in<br />
CT, and arrived at <strong>Regis</strong> at noon in<br />
time for the Golden Tower Luncheon.<br />
I call that a heroic effort. Gerry loves<br />
to drive and regaled us with stories<br />
of her trips with grandchildren and<br />
dogs. ¶ We heard from Dottie Higgins<br />
Conroy, who had planned to attend<br />
but was sidelined at the last minute<br />
with a very bad cold. Celia McCarthy<br />
Cleary was recovering from a broken<br />
hip, and both Barbara Shea Vines and<br />
Mary Kilcoyne Choquette were unable<br />
to join us because of illness but<br />
wished to be remembered to everyone.<br />
Claire McNamara Connell is having<br />
problems with her eyes and couldn’t<br />
make the trip. Lois Vachon Ward is<br />
in assisted living and sends her best.<br />
Anne Stingel Bolton, always a faithful<br />
attendee, missed Reunion because<br />
of back problems. Jackie Choquette<br />
Picard worked hard on the Reunion<br />
planning but was unable to attend<br />
because of a previously planned family<br />
event. We really missed all of you<br />
who were unable to join us and hope<br />
to see you at the next get-together. ¶<br />
Cay Nolan Sokol, our class president,<br />
conducted our class meeting, and<br />
we felt she has done such a good job<br />
that we asked her to continue. Alice<br />
Boyce Smith presented an impressive<br />
treasurer’s report and would welcome<br />
any math major to audit it. She also<br />
agreed to continue. Many thanks for<br />
all your hard work, Cay and Alice. ¶<br />
We received a lovely note from Celia<br />
Tseng Teng from Long Beach, CA; she<br />
sends her love and best wishes. Her<br />
husband has died, and she now lives<br />
alone but entertains her 3 children, 9<br />
grandchildren, and 1 great-grandchild<br />
often. She loves gardening and is<br />
mastering the computer. Alfreda<br />
talked with Margaret Coppinger<br />
Murphy from Naples, FL; her husband<br />
is not well. They have 7 children and<br />
5 grandchildren. Alfreda discovered<br />
that Margaret had worked summers<br />
in a hotel in Magnolia where Alfreda<br />
now lives. ¶ Alfreda flew to San<br />
Francisco in Aug. to attend the wedding<br />
of her granddaughter. She spent<br />
the rest of the time traveling the coast<br />
sightseeing with her family. ¶ Alice<br />
Boyce Smith’s oldest granddaughter,<br />
Lyndsay Mills McNiff, was married<br />
July 22 in a beautiful ceremony in<br />
CT. Lyndsay is the oldest daughter<br />
of Alice’s oldest daughter and had all<br />
nine of Alice’s beautiful granddaughters<br />
in the wedding. A few weeks later<br />
Alice had a pacemaker inserted in<br />
her heart; this came as a complete<br />
surprise and fortunately she is feeling<br />
well again. ¶ My (Mary) oldest granddaughter,<br />
who graduated Holy Cross<br />
in 2006, has left a promising business<br />
career in Chicago to enroll in graduate<br />
school at U of Pennsylvania. She<br />
is in a master’s program to prepare to<br />
teach history to inner-city high school<br />
students. She has 4 grandparents<br />
who were educators, so it was not a<br />
complete surprise that she decided<br />
on that field. And 3 of us taught high<br />
school. Another granddaughter, a<br />
2008 UMass–Amherst grad, received<br />
class notes<br />
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