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HOOD MAGAZINE

SUMMER 2010

husband Chan and I live. I also serve on the arts committee and am still involved in Lexington, Mass., activities. Chan keeps the greenhouse green. Son Doug is still a successful contractor; daughter Katie is a costume designer for children’s theaters in D.C.; and graphic designer daughter Ellen is taking off into a new career as a chef. I have five granddaughters—an artist, a cultural anthropologist, two would-be actresses and a budding gymnast—who keep us intrigued.” Betty Black Newport is still maintaining her own home but does have help with the garden. She is planning a trip to California to see her son and daughter-in-law in September. I talked with Bev Langhorne Kirill and she will not be going to Maine this summer. I learned from Mim Fowler Orth that Bev has given a large sum of money to further a program that involves training young boys and men who have had problems. It turns their lives around and makes good citizens of these fellows. Mim Orth is still working for Meals On Wheels and doing work for her church. Ethel Libbey Page is living in a retirement center. She is in charge of the book review club. She is quite lucky to be near her children; she has 10 grandsons. Flo Brooke Miller is now living in an assisted living place in Oklahoma near her son Eric. Dot Ford Krieger and husband Bill are still in their home. Bill takes care of Dottie. They do have help that comes in each week. Old age is not for sissies. I had my right knee replaced June 25. I have already had two artificial hips on that side. Our condolences to the families of Anna Meyer Knoll who died April 8, 2010, in Wernersville, Pa.; and Shirley Conner Hardinge who died May 18, 2010, in Hagerstown, Md.

Whitey Rightmire are new residents. We discussed my four children, nine grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren, and her large progeny, as well as our days at Hood and her participation in our wedding in 1946 as a bridesmaid. I enjoy good health, and Al has fully recovered from his stroke in 2004 and his recent hospitalization for an infection. We celebrated his 90th birthday last year and look forward to many more good years here.” Eleanor Gambrill Bowers: “My winter life in Florida is about over. We returned to Frederick in the middle of May for the summer. Here we golf, walk and socialize. When we are in Frederick, I tend the garden (mainly herbs) in one of my son’s restaurants; and visit with five children, nine grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren. Life is good to us, as we and ours enjoy good health. Pete and I also spend a lot of time remembering good friends and good times. Love to you and our classmates.” Mary-Louise Hartman Sherk: “Delighted to hear from you, Jane. I remember walking across campus with Sara “Robbie” Robinson Bitler, who was president of the Y that year. She told me the Japanese-Americans were being imprisoned by the government in California. A friend where I live (Cornwall Manor) was a teacher in one of the camps. What have any of us done to make this a better world?”

Hood College Alumni exeCutive BoArd 2009-2011 President Leigh Moomaw McBride ’81 Mechanicsburg, Pa. viCe President Lynn Marzulli White ’81 Germantown, Md. seCretAry-PArliAmentAriAn Tiffany Still ’05, M.A. ’07, C’08 Wyncote, Pa. Admission CHAir Elizabeth Thompson ’08 Germantown, Md. grAduAte sCHool outreACH CHAir Tammie Nicodemus Kincaid ’88, B.A. ’91, M.S. ’97 Myersville, Md. Alumni rePresentAtive CHAir Rebecca Fishack ’03 Smithsburg, Md. student ACtivities CHAir Derrick Harrigan ’07 Frederick Community And CAreer develoPment CHAir Stacey L. Collins ’89 Frederick ring sCHolArsHiP And legACy ring CHAir Anita Juliano ’80 Poolesville, Md. For information on the alumni executive board, contact the office of alumni relations at (301) 696-3900 or alumoffice@hood.edu

1947
Giving Participation: 45.57% · Total Class Dollars: $16,317

1945
Giving Participation: 36.51% · Total Class Dollars: $34,650

Catharine Smith Dunn 1410 Stokes Park Road Bethlehem, PA 18017 (610) 691-5653 kittysmithdunn@yahoo.com As I (Catharine Smith Dunn) look over previous columns, I realize fewer classmates are responding. Maybe we are all slowing down but there are still some really active people. Elizabeth Geiser is enjoying slowing down in the winter months in Naples, Fla., but in June she went back to the Univ. of Denver to teach a course on publishing to master’s degree students in creative writing. Marty Knouse Schaeffer says she has no news but she is working on the archives of her UCC church in Hanover, Pa., and discovered that our President Stahr was the pastor there from 1927-1930. Renie Quynn Collmus had a great time at reunion. Only one member of our big sister class attended—Fran Delaplaine Randall ’45, H’06—but Renie’s granddaughter, Rachel Collmus Ellick ’05, B.A. ’06 celebrated her 5th reunion and, celebrating her 50th reunion was Gretchen Beckhelm ’60! She was about five when we were there! Renie has been frustrated with her eyes and ears but is thankful she can see and hear what she can. I empathize with the eye problem. One of these days I may have to hang up this job as class reporter. Mary Lib Reeder Tiller and Dick are still enjoying being the “grandparents” to all their young neighbors. They stay close to home but she is still gardening. Mel Weir Peter is back in Ohio for the summer but her winters are spent in Florida where she sees Elizabeth “Jonesie” Jones Hesse and, this April, saw Liz Geiser at a Hood luncheon. Phyllis Peak Sullivan says she does not have a lot of news but she and Sully still go to Florida in the winter; spend the spring going to grandchildren’s softball games, planting a garden and golfing; and in August their family will go to the Outer Banks for a week. And she still sings in the church choir! Joan Stanton Fitting has retired from the newspaper but keeps busy with the Solebury Township Historical Society. She’s on the board and is the librarian, doing much the same thing she did with the newspaper. They live in a one-room school house where Don attended school and was taught by his mother. She traveled to her daughters’ in Maryland and Virginia, and also to Big Cedar Lodge in Missouri with

Georgia Dyer Burnett 7101 Bay Front Drive, Apt. 225 Annapolis, MD 21403 (410) 216-6645 lbkbk4@earthlink.net Our condolences to the families of Janet Hunt Perkins who died March 6, 2009; and Norma Jane Gressitt Danzer who died Dec. 19, 2009.

1946
Giving Participation: 42.55% · Total Class Dollars: $16,120

Jane Seymour Wilson H’71 21065 Cardinal Pond Terrace HS202 Ashburn, VA 20147 (703) 724-1467 jw101224@gmail.com Our condolences to the family of V. Ann Brandenburg Walsh who died Jan. 6, 2010. Only four classmates responded to my request for news this time. Here’s what they had to say. Mary Umbarger Corddry: “I still live alone in my home in the country. A bee keeper has several dozen hives here so I enjoy that activity. For a month in January and February this year, I traveled and hiked in Australia and New Zealand with a group called Outdoors Adventure Travel—beautifully timed, by chance, to miss the two historic snowstorms here. I enjoy outdoor activity, and hike and kayak with two groups—one senior and another led by my daughter. I am planting a vegetable garden and discover at this stage in life that the two courses at Hood that have most enriched my life were probably considered snap courses—music and art appreciation.” Jane Evans Best: “We had a delightful meeting with Kitty Smith Dunn ’47 last month here at Willow Valley Manor North, where Al and I have been residents for the last 16 years and where her sister Barbara, and her husband

her son and family. She saw Maddy Aldrin Crowell recently when Maddy came to Pennsylvania. They had lunch together. As for your reporter, I am writing this from my daughter’s home in Alexandria, Va., where I am enjoying a week’s visit. In March I visited my sister and husband who recently moved into Willow Valley Retirement Center in Lancaster, Pa., and had a nice visit with Jane Evans Best ’46 who has lived there with her husband for 16 years! It was so nice to reconnect and catch up on kids and activities. My fall-winterspring activities continue but things really slow down in the summer. Renie reminds us all of our next reunion in two years, so we should line up children or grandchildren as chauffeurs (if we can’t still drive).

1948
Giving Participation: 36.26% · Total Class Dollars: $11,970

Elizabeth Benchoff Page 603 South Main St. Woodstock, VA 22664 (540) 459-2213 Our condolences to the families of Louise Friedrich McCorkindale who died March 25, 2010, in Chatham,

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