Class Notes

C O N C O R D A C A D E M Y M A G A Z I N E S P R I N G 2 0 1 0Deborah Hyde Baldwin just wanted tosay “how wonderful our get-togetherwas.” She was referring to the ultimatebirthday party held at SophroniaCamp’s in June. Liz Bullitt has decidedto retire in 2011 so she can do somethingother than neurosurgery and medicallyrelated computer science projects—“more specifically, exotic worldtravel.” Getting a jump start on thattravel, last summer she went to Ladakh,India, where she explored Tibetan Buddhismand where her oldest son, now inmedical school, ran a marathon at 12,000feet. One of the high points of MargoCutler’s last year was the two-weekwhale watching/photography trip shetook in the Sea of Cortez. She also visitedYellowstone and Maui. Lucy Dilworthis happily enjoying raisingheritage turkeys, Muscovy ducks, andToulouse geese, as well as tending thesmall woodlands property and gardenshe and her husband own in southernOregon. Beverly Nelson Elder continuesher building projects in Peru,recently adding a kitchen to a bedroomlevel in order to accommodate visitorswho take Spanish lessons from her. Shealso uses her Spanish to interpret for thevolunteer American and Canadian doctors,who treat the local residents foreverything from dental problems to cleftpalate and other deformities by means ofplastic reconstructive surgery. LilaGreene and her daughter spent a monthin Mali, where they learned traditionaldances and drumming. She recomthemnow, ages 9 months to 8 years).She, too, is hoping to come to reunion tosee old friends. Katharine Weld Hardingvaliantly typed her news with onehand due to a shoulder injury. Her role asa pet partner, visiting with her cavadoodleat the hospital and a retirementhome, is the best volunteer work shehas ever done. She finds the work relativelysimple, but very powerful andrewarding. Louisa Thomas Hargrave’sCenter for Wine, Food, and Culture wascut from the New York State Universitybudget last year, so she is officiallyunemployed, but continues to write awine column for four newspapers, doesconsulting, attends wine conferences,and, in general, cannot complain. Shelooks forward to seeing many friends atreunion. Susanna Horton has beenstudying alchemy— part of her practicein Chinese Medicine—with the aim ofdeveloping new treatments for fertilityand health that are effective, natural, andsafe. Susie has seen Wendy Arnold.Annebet Everett Muceus is semiretiredfrom the OB department at thelocal hospital, but is still teaching childbirtheducation and lactation. This pastyear, she started teaching watercolor andacrylic painting at Great Basin College,had good snow for skiing at Lake Tahoe,and had a son graduate from Cal-Poly.Husband Ed had gold specimens at theFebruary Tucson Gem and Mineral show,and dogs, cats, and mules keep themcompany. Joan Weidlein Mudge’snews from Kentucky is that she and Tedwill be returning to Baltimore in June.Joanie is still very active at the Universityof Kentucky Art Museum and paints atleast two to three days a week. She hassold some paintings (joanmudge.com).Trixie Oakley lives in Cambridge, worksat the Container Store, and makes pottery.She is also still volunteering withagencies that provide housing and servicesfor folks with developmental disabilities.Trixie’s partner, John Everdell, is afurniture maker; her son Alex, who is disabled,lives in a group home in Clinton,MA, and her daughter Stephanie andhusband have a small architectural firm,FiveDot Design/Build, in Seattle. “Life is,all in all, pretty great.” Susie ShererOsnos spends about half of her timeworking as a consultant to human rightsorganizations and the foundations thatsupport them. The rest of the time she isin the middle of a family sandwich inConnecticut that goes from her 86-yearoldmother to her youngest grandchild,Mae Dickinson Sanford, 2, who arrivedfrom Beijing in July to join brothers Ben,5, and Peter, 4, and their parents, Susie’sFor more Class Notes, go toconcordalum.org.52daughter Katherine and husband Colin.Susie’s son Evan still lives in China,where he is a New Yorker staff writer.Her husband Peter continues his work atPublicAffairs, his publishing company.Sue Davis Pandey had a “head-down”year in 2009 with both hips replaced andno riding for three months. However hercompany, NuGEN Technologies, did welland is still profitable. Her two horses,Bodhi and Wolfie, dominate their lives,eat up all their vacation funds, andalways need something. Daughter Doeand her family live an hour south, andSuki sees them often. Jeanine MillerRansom’s 12th grandchild was born inJanuary! She has seven from Don’sthree kids and five from her two boys.She still volunteers at her local coopbookstore—38 years—and has movedinto a condo. Where are all the grandchildrengoing to fit? Ginny Redpath ishealthy and has a life filled with family,friends, her two black labs, singing, andsports. Her children are all married andshe has a wonderful man in her lifethese days. She’s looking forward to seeingus all at reunion. Fay LampertShutzer’s family news is the marriage ofher son Jamie, 31, with all kids andgrandchildren in attendance. Fay hasloved her time on the CA Board ofTrustees and getting involved with theschool. She met with Betty MugarEveillard and Suze Sherer Osnos for a“pre-reunion” get-together and hopes tohave lots of classmates at our reunion sothat we can all really catch up. As shesays, “many things have changed overthe years, but the essence of ConcordAcademy has remained the same.” KateDouglas Torrey and husband Allenbecame grandparents last fall. BabyJames is thriving and living in NewHaven, kind of far from Chapel Hill. Kateand Allen continue to work hard in thenewspaper and book publishing business,more and more of a challenge, butthey still enjoy what they do (most days);they bicycle and ski for fun. Joan PierceUraneck is still teaching (part-time), sailing,and hoping to climb Mt. Kilimanjarothis summer. Joanie hopes to come toreunion, primarily for the memorial service,as her sister Edie Pierce Murphy’62 died this year. Jill Peabody Uris skiswith Hattie Motley Branson at Snowmass,where she is an instructor. Shespends the off season on MustangIsland near Corpus Christi, TX, golfingand fishing, and then is back in Aspen inthe summer, where she and her husbandrun a landscaping business. She hopesto make the trip to Concord in June.Margot Willett writes that her family iswell and she is running a youth developmentnonprofit with no plans for retirement.She had back surgery in February,which should have her pain-free andactive when she gets to reunion.1966Class Secretary: Sally Crimmins Thorne,thorne_iowa@msn.comLasell Jaretzki Bartlett and Robert arehappy to be moving to the new farmthey’ve been building for four years. It’sclose enough to where they lived beforeso that their activities continueunchanged. Lasell loves working at HighHorses Therapeutic Riding Program asan instructor, program developer, andvolunteer trainer. This past year shestarted at a local community mentalhealth agency. Having spent the last twoyears recovering from a shoulder injury,Lasell has resumed practicing Aikido,which she integrates into her horseactivities. Leslie Davidson spent mostof her six-month sabbatical in London. Atthe end of the summer she joined amemoir-writing workshop and upgradedher sailing skills by becoming certified inbasic keelboat and coast cruising. NewYear’s Eve was spent in Sao Paolo withher two daughters, Alexis and Elizabeth.Holly DeBlois continues to work on herPhD in computer science at UMassBoston. She also has a TA positionteaching programming in java. Her nextgoal, circa 2012: a full-time job. SusanBradlee Grant and husband Pat are ingood health. She spends a day a weekwith her daughter Gillian and her 8-month-old granddaughter Molly, a joyfultime. They enjoy skiing at Sunday River,ME, making New England winter bearable.In 2008, Susan Morse Hodgsonretired from working for the state asNew Jersey’s child advocate andreturned to the real world of pediatrics.Now she works at Newark Beth IsraelHospital on the general pediatric teachingstaff and is also medical director ofthe Newark Regional Diagnostic andTreatment Center. She is involved, on astate and national level, with the AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics. Her two children,Emily and Michael, and theirspouses are doing well. Looking towardthe future, she and John are rebuildingtheir family house in the White Mountainsof NH. Susan Kidder is workingwith three clinics in West Marin thatwant to shift their practice modelstoward integrative/functional medicineand still be able to bill insurers for theirservices. They serve a heterogeneouspopulation from the very wealthy to farmworkers—the first time she has workedon a business model for integrative clinicsthat was not just focused on delivering“rich people’s medicine.” PixieLoomis is “happily ensconced in northernVermont.” She is running a nonprofitthat provides adult education, literacy,and work-readiness education throughoutthe state. Having been in the nonprofitarena all her life, she saysretirement is not an option and wouldlike to chat with anyone who has ideason finding interesting, paying work forthose of us over 60. All three of her childrenhave finished college and seem tobe enjoying their lives. Vicky GimbelLubin received her MBA in May. Sadly,her brother Nick died in November. BethGill Morris writes, “not much newshere . . . no weddings, no babies, nonew job, no retirement . . . pretty boring.”Brina Peck continues to teach ESLmethods and applied linguistics at CalState, Northridge, while husband Gaj isworking on spacecraft design at NASA.Their daughter Emma is studying anthropologyin Bristol, UK, and their two dogs,Eliza and Bruno, are moving more slowly,but are still happy. I, Sally CrimminsThorne, continue to spend time travelingbetween New York City and Castle Rock,CO, visiting my four grandchildren; theyoungest, Megan, was born last June.We had lots of visitors this winter, bothfamily and friends from the cold climes.We are blessed.1967Class Secretary: Muche Desloovere,muche498@aol.com