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CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Chapel service at CA this past June2007. It was a very moving event, especiallybecause there were beautiful reminiscencesabout members of our ownand nearby classes, who had died wellbefore their time, in the preceding year.Mary Buxton, Nancy HornblowerRice, Anne Nicholas Atlamazoglou,and Ann Fritts Syring’s sister DebbieFritts Stavrou ’68 were among thoseremembered. I know that we all missthese special women — and grieve, withtheir families, at their loss.1965Class Secretaries: Cornelia KennedyAtkins, cornelia_atkins@comcast.net;Tracy Barker Greenwood, tgreenwood@verizon.netCornelia Kennedy Atkins has marked25 years teaching at Beauvoir School inWashington, DC. Although no plans toretire are on the horizon, she and Larrycompleted a renovation/building projecton family property in Chatham, MA withhopes of living there full-time in thefuture. A first trip to Spain (Costa delSol) was a highlight of 2007. WendyArnold writes: “I had two trips to Africain 2007 to continue my trainings inHIV/AIDS prevention through peer education.Some fun news is that I returnedto CA in April to speak to students in anassembly. I recommended that theyparallel my passion and venture to workin challenging international countries, asI have done. One person really canmake a difference, and this is so evidentwith so many classmates from ’65.”Kathy Travers Bittner writes: “Sadly, Ilost my Dad, William O. Travers, Jr., onOctober 27, 2006. As some of you mayremember, he was a longtime teacher atFenn School. I am still teaching specialed students at the middle-school level inJefferson, ME. My son Adam is living inLos Angeles and works for PicturehouseFilms, a subsidiary of New Line Cinema.I keep in touch with Hattie MotleyCleveland and we see each other everysummer when she visits Maine. Hopeto see some of you at our 45th reunionin a few years.” “The past year hasbeen one of transition for me, and forour family,” says Hilary BaldwinBrown. “Two of our grown daughterswere married: Miller’s youngest, Shana,to Daniel Holden, in Hawaii where theylive and she teaches at the university;my youngest, Robin, to Ken Forsberg,in a simple and lovely Quaker ceremonyin Washington, DC where they live, bothworking on the Hill. Our first grandsonwas born, Dashiell Miller Holden, muchto the delight of his two cousins,Ruby and Pearl, who live in Ogden, UT.Jasmine is living and working inProvidence, RI as a clinical MSW at56Rhode Island Hospital. I decided, reluctantly,to close my private practice as aclinical MSW psychotherapist after 17years due to a benign, but compellingmedical condition, post-polio syndrome.Though I have a host of other creativepursuits to devote more time to, I missthe work I have so loved doing, in varioussettings, for the past 30 years. Myhusband Miller is still in robust healthand teaching courses in the philosophyof medical ethics and philosophy of artat Trinity College in Hartford. I still turnto Wendy Arnold when I need a goodfriend to talk to, as I did all during oursix years in Chapel and assembly, wherewe were always seated alphabeticallynext to each other. Some things justnever change.” Hattie MotleyCleveland was in her third year as presidentof the board of directors (and seventhyear on the board) for the AspenChoral Society, running all aspects ofthis small nonprofit organization togetherwith the music director. Hattie sings (stilla soprano) and produces concerts fortwo seasons, Christmas and spring. Sheresigned her position after the springconcerts because “I met someone inthe spring of 2006 (after being a widowfor six years) and now have a wonderfulman in my life, Elliot Branson, a retiredattorney, professor of philosophy, andaeronautical engineer, with whom I wantto travel, ski, and play. We will travel toSpain for my niece Lindsey’s wedding(the daughter of my late sister BeeMotley Livermore ’63) in July. I visitedwith Kathy Travers Bittner in Maine lastsummer and often rendezvous withGinny Redpath in Concord when visitingmy sister Susan Motley Hansen’69, who lives in Carlisle.” After 30years in the UN system at the WorldTourism Organization in Madrid, RozDeming is close to retirement and willfinally have more time to devote toother pursuits, such as environmentalwork. “For the last five years I havebeen travelling back and forth to Wash -ington, DC, frequently to help with thecare of my father, who died on March20, 2007 at age 98. He had a long andinteresting life and was a wonderfulfather, grandfather, and great-grandfather.Right until his death he was fullyengaged in life and was looking forwardto voting for Hillary Clinton and seeing awoman in the White House. I shall stayin Madrid after retirement, but willspend more time at the family summercottage in Michigan and with family andfriends in the U.S., and maybe evenmake a reunion at Concord!” TracyBarker Greenwood’s year was “filledwith four generations of family, fromgrandchildren to my mother, who turned90. I still work in an elementary schoollibrary and spend weekends and summersin Westport.” Amy Handy wrotefrom Huntington, VT that she is a psychologist/psychotherapistat a regionalmental health agency, helps out her parents,has four wonderful grandchildren,and still maintains her interests in art,music, the outdoors, and the friends andfamily that come with these pursuits.Katharine Weld Harding has a newpassion. She and her Cavadoodle puppyare being trained to be Pet Partners withthe Delta Society so they can “makehappy visits” to children or anyone inhospitals, nursing homes, etc. She isalso serving on a countywide board thatawards grants for the Oregon CulturalTrust. Louisa Thomas Hargrave had aterrific year: making wine for RichardLeakey and his family at their Nairobivineyard, judging wines in California andVerona, writing her now syndicated winecolumn, and making two barrels ofMerlot with her kids on Long Island. Shealso had a delightful time this summerat the wedding of Nina NitzeMoriarty’s daughter Heidi, where shesaw Becky Sherrill More, DianaDennison Smith ’64, Sandra Cuneo’66, Molly Ackerly, Kitty Fisk Ames,and also Kedzie Penfield’s lovely daughters.Congratulations to Susie Hortonon her great profile in the CA wintermagazine as a practitioner of ancientChinese medicine, healing, and acupuncture.Louisa Chevalier Matthew is stillteaching art history at Union College andis “engaged in interesting research onartists’ pigments and the commerce inartists’ materials during the Renais -sance, especially in Venice.” Also, feelfree to contact her regarding anyprospective Union College students!Joanie Weidlein Mudge wrote fromher new home in Lexington, KY whereshe is “enjoying getting to know a beautifulpart of the country, which I amtrying to see through the lens of an oilpainter . . . I have also joined a women’scommittee that works on fundraisersfor the University of Kentucky ArtMuseum.” Suki Davis Pandey wrote awonderful “nutshell version” of herself:“Married to Bob Farwell for 30 years;living in Pasadena; one daughter; twograndsons, Xander and Foster, namedafter my brother who died six years ago.I’m vice president of commercial operationsat NuGEN Technologies, whichmakes and sells a novel amplificationsystem for nucleic acids (RNA/DNA),most typically used to generate c-DNAfrom total RNA for differential geneexpression analysis on microarrays . . .I reverted to my childhood about fiveyears ago and started riding hunters andjumpers again. After 30 years, it was arude awakening. I now own and obsessover two horses . . . both splendid fellowsthat keep me in a constant state ofsoreness and decrepitude.” KedziePenfield is still teaching actors aboutmovement and is also a movement psychotherapistin Edinburgh. She is notthinking about retirement at the momentand is in good health, in part due to two“wonderfully successful” hip operations!Kedzie and her two daughters,Kate, 17, and Jane, 21, will be inManhattan for 10 days in July. FromSidney Walker comes the news that“daughter Sara Walker ’97 marriedSanjir Shah, and we hosted a three-day,five-part fete at our summer house inBuzzards Bay. The storm and wind godsparted just in time to offer sun and agolden evening, with a sunken gardenand a magical tent for 150 lit withJapanese lanterns. Saris everywhere.”Neen Miller Ransom had a good year inDenver “trying to keep up with her 11grandchildren” and traveling as much aspossible. Suzanne Samson’s “life hasbeen meandering on happily — somethingthat would have sounded boring acouple of decades ago, but now feelsgood.” She has found that “taking upyoga at 60 is something my body doesn’tquite understand yet.” “It’s been ayear of events,” says Emilie SissonOsborn: “My mother, Barbara Sisson,died (a trustee at CA in the 70s); myson got married, and I turned 60. I havesurvived, but I certainly feel older.” FayLampert Shutzer wrote, “I love myvisits to Concord, because as much asthings have changed in my life and atschool, it is still essentially the sameplace we loved in the sixties . . . I havetaken a year off from my private practicein psychology to paint full-time, and Isublet studio space that comes completewith rats and termites, for a genuineartist’s experience.” Our hearts goout to Joanie Pierce Uraneck and herson Chris, whose husband and fatherDoug died in October from ALS (LouGehrig’s disease). In his obituary, Dougwas described as a “generous, creative,joyful soul with an extraordinary breadthof interests.” Our deepest sympathyalso to Page Hurley Shugrue on thedeath of her daughter Molly, age 26, inJanuary. We extend our sympathy aswell to Kate Douglas Torrey, whosemother died last year. However, Katealso wrote that “2007 brought two trulywonderful and memorable events: ourson’s wedding and the inauguration ofDrewdie Gilpin Faust ’64. I’ll savoreach of those memories for quite sometime, full of overflowing joy and hopeand pride, and the promise of greatthings to come.” Margot Willett loves“being 60 and feeling 45 (generally).”She had a great, long-overdue catchupwith Suze Sherer Osnos last year andkeeps up with Concord news throughher sister, Sandra Willett Jackson ’61,who is on the CA Board of Trustees.Margot is hoping to travel to Nepal withdaughter Liza in the fall to work in a