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Sallie Cross Kingham ’61 and familygames. I still spend quite a bit of timewith my mother, who is 93. Mark andLiz live on the Cape and work at WoodsHole — we are so grateful they livenearby. Mark spent three weeks lastsummer in Greenland checking on thedepth of the ice. Grandson Alex is talkingup a storm and so much fun to bewith. Bob and I had a great trip to theSouthwest coast of Ireland last June: awalking tour of Kerry, Dingle, andKillarney with another couple and a wonderfulIrish guide.” Betsy FenollosaBoege is very involved in local adultlearning programs associated withColby-Sawyer College. “I lost my positionas sewer commissioner last spring(the commission was disbanded at TownMeeting) and, strange to say, I was disappointed.It was a fascinating politicalexperience, especially dealing with thestate of New Hampshire after an unfortunatespill into Lake Sunapee in 2004.I’m enjoying the wonderful clean air, lackof traffic, and recreational opportunitiesof this region — doing some hospice volunteeringand serving on the President’sAdvisory Council at Colby-Sawyer. Lastfall Sheldon and I returned to some ofour earlier haunts in Asia — Bali andJapan, with a side trip to Vietnam. Wecouldn’t find our house, let alone theneighborhood in Tokyo, but no wonderafter 35-plus years.” Judy CarpenterClark reports: “Sincerest thanks to allwho sent news! It is great to hear whateveryone is doing. I am still running theannual fund at Lawrence Academy. Wego down to Vero Beach as much as wecan. It’s amazing how rejuvenating evena long weekend can be!” Ingrid vonDattan Detweiler writes: “Doug and Icelebrate our 40th anniversary June 15.We are enjoying our grandchildren verymuch; Carson is 6 and Alexa 3. Theylove visiting Oma and Opa (German forgrandmother and grandfather), and welove having them. Travels took us toNova Scotia, Prince Edward Island,Yosemite and Grand Canyon nationalparks, and California, where we visitedfamily and friends. In July, Gale Hurd,Peggy Williamson Merrill, and I attendedthe memorial celebration for TinaKaufman Thompson in Stowe, VT.Peggy hosted us at her home in Wood -stock, so it was a nice get-together forthe three of us.” Deborah MetcalfDresser “just saw the Glee Club picturein the latest alumnae/i magazine andrecognized quite a few familiar faces,which is in itself quite remarkable. (Wasthat picture really taken in 1958?) I keepthinking I haven’t changed much inlooks — oh, another case of denial. Well,I’m happy to be almost 65, my health isgood, and I continue to love working.I’ve been the rector of St. George’sChurch in Newburgh for 11-plus yearsnow. Although all four daughters areliving elsewhere, Bob and I hardly thinkof our home as an empty nest, whatwith dogs and parishioners coming andgoing. My Suzanna, with husbandRaphael, is in Tanzania, doing medicaltrials for her doctorate in public health.Margaret is in Chicago working as adesigner for Kmart. I’ve been doing afair amount of traveling, some of it forwork. I returned to Palestine in April, myfourth study visit. Later in June, Bob andI will be visiting Suzanna in Africa. Theelection keeps us all jumping — it’s sucha good thing that the country is so politicallyengaged.” Jane MacDougalEldredge is “still practicing law — landuse and family law. I no longer do anygeneral civil litigation. My wonderfulhusband Charlie is still the Hall Professorof American Art at the University ofKansas, where he loves his teaching,research, and writing. I belong to aSmith/Mt. Holyoke book club thatincludes women from 28 to 74 years oldand is a lot of fun. Happily, our two children,one daughter-in-law, and twograndchildren all seem to be at happyand productive places in their lives. Weare in the middle of the country andwould enjoy seeing any classmate whois driving through.” Judith PhelpsFelton continues “with artistic endeavorsand has fallen in love with workingwith fabric. John is studying to becomethe new (70-year-old) Ezio Pinza and isdoing very well. Our children are nowmiddle-aged (yikes!) and doing well professionallyand personally. Rebecca isteaching troubled kids in Vermont andFred is an award-winning corporate chef.We have one perfect 9-year-old granddaughter!My mother, Edith Phelps, continuesto decline, which is very sad forher and her family.” “It has been themost exciting year for me,” says DinnyForbes. “I met my match, at last, onlinelast winter. I’m madly in love with aman named Pan Vera, who moved toVermont from Seattle to live with melast June. Pan teaches non-violent communication(Marshall Rosenberg), theancient arts of Tantra, and builds commercialWeb sites. My new Web site isgetting more fabulous all the time,check it out: georginaforbesart.com.”Jill Harken Hall writes that “SandraWillett Jackson helped organize a CAbook group — including Anne GaudTinker ’63, Amy Dunbar ’74, and LucyMcFadden ’70 — so I see Sandra regularly,which is fun. Among my passionsare our three grandchildren. Our sonAlden has two — Khuan-Yu, 5, andJosephine, 3, and our other son Taddyhas one — Penelope, 2. They are totallywonderful. I started a design consultingbusiness, Planning Works, to help busyhomeowners organize and streamlinetheir house renovation/construction projects.Besides house projects, I coordinatedthe refurbishment of a library in aDC public elementary school. I am havinglots of fun with this work, and itgives me flexibility to see children andgrandchildren, travel with Ridge, and dovolunteer work — at a DC public charterschool and for Obama, whom I trulyhope is our next president.” (See page19.) From Chrissy Griffith Heyworth: “Iam retiring from teaching and coachingat Greenwich Country Day School inJune. My jobs at GCDS for 16 yearshave been awesome and varied, butwhile I’m still in good health, I want totry doing some writing, traveling abroad,taking Spanish and calligraphy courses,and being with Jim and our grandchildren(three boys and a girl in Seattle andNYC). So the exciting process of reinventionbegins. We have already bookedour first trip to China in October, so theearly fall will be busy with reading andcramming in some useful Mandarinphrases; maybe I won’t miss the classroomand kids too much.” Katie MotleyHinckley writes that “2007 was a scaryhealth year for me, but I’m pretty muchover the fright of suddenly losing halfthe sight in my left eye through somekind of unexplained damage to theretina. I was on a horrid high dose ofsteroids all summer, which made melook even more froggish than usual, butwhich brought back half of the lost sightso was probably worth it. I can live withthe three-quarters left just fine. Danretired at the end of February. We wentto Ethiopia to visit my daughter, AnnePfitzer ’85, her husband, Emil Parker,and my two under-3 grandsons, Andréand Theo. Anne is running a nonprofitinternational health organization affiliatedwith Johns Hopkins University. Sixty-fiveEthiopians work for her, training nursesand midwives to give better care tomothers and small children. Ethiopia isan unusual place. It’s the seat of theAfrican Union, with a modern shiny airportand flights to every African capital.Many people speak some English, andare welcoming to visitors. . . . We spentthe whole summer in Small Point, MEwhere my son, Marc Pfitzer ’87, and hisfamily join us for part of the summer.Marc and Anke’s three children do twothirdsof their year’s growing in theweeks that they are there. It is reallyquite extraordinary what Maine air andlobster seem to do! In October, wejoined two of my cousins in Turkey for aweek’s cruise on the Lycian coast . . .Hope that we all work hard to put amore responsible government in placenext year.” Sandra Willett Jacksonloves “serving as a CA trustee withsuch a committed, smart group of directors.I’m thrilled to see the school gettingeven stronger in academicexcellence, creative arts, and athleticswith a unique relevance to today’s globalchallenges. Neal has retired (we say“rewired”) from NPR and we are havinga ball completing our farmhouse on aneastern Maryland creek. My internationalpractice is slowing down to make roomfor volunteering for Hillary Clinton, whichhas brought me in closer touch withother Hillary activists and with Obamasupporters Lynn Adler and Jill HarkenHall.” (See page 20.) Hester ParkerJeswald says: “It’s a good thing Iretired! Joe spent June–September inthe ICU with an illness resulting from amisdiagnosed perforated bowel. It was a51WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008