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REGIS TODAY
of them; it’s hard to believe she has
been gone for 10 years. ¶ A few other
classmates shared their 60th celebrations
with us. John and Kristin Jones
Rulison, who both turn 60 this year,
planned to travel to Italy in Sept.
Last Mar., Fairlie Dalton lived out her
fantasy to have dinner in Paris on her
60th birthday. During their celebratory
trip to London, she and husband
Fran took the Euro star train through
the Chunnel to Paris to have her official
birthday dinner in Montmartre.
Fran jokes that Fairlie’s first “senior
discount” was for the Chunnel to
Paris. Fairlie continues to work at
the Northeast Housing Court as the
Fairlie Dalton’s ’72
first “senior discount”
was for the
Chunnel to Paris.
First Assistant Clerk-Magistrate.
Kathy Duggan Kattany and I celebrated
our Aug. birthdays with
“surprise” parties given by family and
friends. The “girls” from Domitilla
second floor front converged at Mary
Basler Baxter’s lovely Cape Elizabeth,
ME, home in June to celebrate
their collective 60th birthdays. In
attendance were Mary Baxter, Leslie
Hyland Bennett, Rita Kennedy Burke,
Jane Thompson Doyle, Kathy Markt
Haddad, Maureen O’Malley Kelly, Mary
Anne Thompson Razook, and Mary Lou
Randall. The festivities included their
own version of karaoke, a lobster
bake, a walking and shopping tour of
Portland, a flaming birthday cake, a
Yankee swap, and nonstop laughter
and reminiscing! They also did a
photo shoot designed to match their
group graduation photo—both of
which can be seen on our Facebook
page. Sounds like it was a fun weekend,
ladies! ¶ Sharon McDede Kolor is
expecting her 6th grandchild, a girl,
in mid Dec. courtesy of her daughter
Bonnie. The proud grandparents will
make the trip to NJ in Jan. to meet
her. That is, if Sharon can still walk!
She and Rich plan to go to Peru to
see Machu Picchu over Christmas.
They apparently don’t sit still for
long, having traveled to the Czech
Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary last
summer. It was a trip that Sharon
says was awesome and finally made
all those things she learned in history
come to life. ¶ Linda Godoy has
surfaced! She remarried 2 years ago
and lives in upstate NY, where she
works in sales and marketing for a
regional health care system selling
retirement community independent
and assisted living apartments. She
was eagerly anticipating celebrating
the Sept. marriage of her oldest
daughter, Leigh, and looking forward
to 4 days of friends and family
gathering in Saratoga Springs for the
joyous occasion. Leigh and husband
Keith will reside in Palo Alto, CA,
where Leigh is a District Manager
for Health Point Pharmaceutical Co.
Linda’s youngest daughter lives in
Boston and works in HR for Raytheon
Defense Systems. ¶ Susan Dowd
Stone has sold her home in
NJ to live more full-time in
her upstate NY retirement
home. She will maintain a
small apartment in Tenafly
while she continues working
for a few years. ¶ Since
losing her mother and a
brother several years ago,
Kathy Ryan Niermeyer has
been bitten by the bug—
the genealogy bug! Last
summer, she made her 3rd
trip to Canada to research
family history, meet distant
cousins, and visit the farm
once owned by her great-grandfather
after he immigrated to Canada from
Ireland in the 1800’s. Anyone who
has done any genealogy knows how
emotional it can be to stand on the
same ground as family that came
before us. Her research continues,
but life went back to reality in Sept.
with the start of a new job teaching
French at Whittier Voc. Tech in
her hometown of Haverhill. Kathy’s
husband and sons are all doing
well. Scott graduated from Western
New England College, bought a
house in Suffield, CT, and is doing
inside sales at a company in nearby
Windsor. Greg will be finishing his
degree in Political Science at UMass
Amherst in Dec. and Matt works
as an engineering technician with
his dad at a company in Billerica.
¶ Maria Zodda married John Millar,
her long time partner, on May 22 on
Nantucket. She is also announcing
the engagement of her son, Ethan
Griffin, to Bridgette Hynes. They
reside on Nantucket. Ethan works for
Chip Webster Assoc. and is a licensed
architect for the state of MA, having
recently passed all his examinations
for this distinction. Bridgette works
for the Nantucket Artists Association.
The couple is planning on a winter
wedding. ¶ That’s it for this report.
My thanks to all who sent news. I
look forward to hearing from more of
you. And, for the final time this year:
Happy 60th everyone! Be well!
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✒ Dr. Patricia A. D’Amore, 50
Jane Road, Newton, MA 02459,
pattidamore@gmail.com ✒ Paula Smith
Horton, 11729 Derbyshire Drive
Tampa, FL 33626-2640 ¶ Catherine
Erik-Soussi writes that the afternoon
of our graduation day in ’73 found
her on a flight to Italy, where she
reconnected with her Syrian beau in
Florence, where she had spent her
junior year. They were married in
1975, lived 16 years between Calgary
and Montreal, Canada; Dallas, TX;
and back in her hometown of West
Hartford, CT. They have 3 boys and
2 girls, ages 16–30, and are the proud
grandparents of granddaughter Aya
and grandson Elias. Their children
are in the worlds of finance and science
and work in CT, AZ, Toronto, and
MN. Since 1991, she has been faculty
and primarily a college administrator
in CT at Manchester Community,
Central CT State U, Saint Joseph
College, Wesleyan U, and currently
Mitchell College, where her husband
is a faculty member. She loves her
work and feels she has been blessed
with a wonderful family and charmed
life. She hopes to read more about her
friends of old. ¶ Nancy Doherty Kaplan
has checked in. She reports that she
has been teaching in Manhattan the
past 9 years as the Dean of Discipline
for a middle school and commuting
to the Cape, where her husband,
David, lives. She says it “keeps the
relationship fresh!” They have two
sons, Casey, who is 29 and lives in
Burlington, VT, and Daniel, 2 years
younger and getting his master’s at
the U of Washington in Seattle. ¶
Pamela Sampson Manozzi contributes
that she is employed part time as
a case manager for the Natick Service
Council, having finished her MSW in
2007 at Salem State School of Social
Work. She has 2 grandchildren in
Natick: Brandon, age 5, and Molly,
age 2, who are wonderfully vibrant
and who keep her very busy. ¶ Jane
M. LaBarbera celebrated 35 years of
marriage to Stephen Murphy, whom
she was dating at Regis. They have
3 children between the ages of 25
and 28: Philip, Andrew, and Sarah.
Jane says she is very fortunate
in that her job is challenging and
always interesting, which fits her
personality. She is managing both the
Association of American Law Schools
and an International Association of
law schools in Washington, DC, and is
fortunate that she is never bored with
her personal life or in her career.