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W W W.HOOD.EDU 39 tion sometime in fall 2010. Let’s hope many people will want something new for their coffee tables! I am both excited and terriﬁed!” Sally Fairfax has just entered that blessed state of retirement after 30 years of teaching at the Univ. of California, Berkeley, where she was Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy in the School of Natural Resources. Prior to Berkeley Sally worked for the forest service and she appeared as one of the expert commentators in the 2007 forest service centennial ﬁlm “The Greatest Good.” Her publications include numerous articles on the complexities of managing and conserving natural resources and the books “Buying Nature,” “Conservation Trusts,” “State Trust Lands” and the classic text “Forest and Range Policy.” Additionally she served as the Title IX coordinator on campus and as associate dean of instruction and student affairs, and received numerous awards for teaching, mentoring and service to students historically underserved by the university. All these kudos for Sally’s good work are on the Internet. She didn’t brag on herself when I contacted her by e-mail in early June; just reported her recent retirement and that she was writing from Frankfurt on her way to St. Petersburg, then on to her godson’s wedding in Krakow— a ﬁne way to make the transition from one life stage to the next. And ﬁnally, Nancy McAdams Baggett’s latest cookbook came to my attention because I happened to be at my mother’s house one weekend in late May and her TV happened to be on that Sunday morning tuned to a Baltimore station. There was Nancy making a knead-free bread recipe on the cooking segment. “Kneadlessly Simple: Fabulous, Fuss-Free, No-Knead Breads,” out in February of this year, joins Nancy’s other exhaustively researched and beautifully presented baking guides (“All-American Dessert Book,” “All-American Cookie Book” and “Dream Desserts”) that have won her great respect among food writers and bakers. Nancy’s kneadless technique “… calls for minimal ingredients, often mixed in one bowl with one spoon, eliminating all the mess of traditional bread recipes and it can be used to produce a wide variety of breads, from whole wheat boules and English mufﬁn loaves to raisin bread and caraway beer bread. With this innovative new method anyone who can read, measure and stir can now make delicious, ﬁne-textured yeast bread at home.” According to Nancy’s blog she appears regularly on NPR, where I’ll expect to hear her one of these days now that the digital revolution has cut me off from TV reception and made me radio-dependent again. I expect to be going to half-time work at the start of July and as soon as possible eliminate myself altogether from the daily grind. I can’t wait! 1966 Participation: 37.41% Total Class Dollars: $41,511 Dianne Beebe Barske 5851 Barry Ave. Anchorage, AK 99507 (907) 346-3167 (907) 346-1791 (fax) dielbarske@alaska.com I am the proud owner of a copy of “Facebook for Dummies.” I have much to learn. But I see the value in attempting! I reconnected with Pat Chapple Wright H ’90 through Facebook and that made my face smile. It’s so much fun when a long-lost friend shows up on Facebook asking you to conﬁrm the friendship! Last Christmas Pat was off to Helsinki with husband Jukka. A later Facebook post had her traveling to Madgascar (where she continues her lemur research) and then to St. Thomas. The Virgin Islands draws Pat since daughter Amanda lives there, where she works for the Department of Marine Biology and husband Miguel Poston is captain of a tourism ship. Pat’s grandchildren Arianna and Issan are ages 5 and 2, respectively. She reports, “They are good kids.” Happy news is the prospect of a meeting for Pat here in Alaska in the foreseeable future, making a reunion a possibility! My Hood roommate Barbara Cubberly Smith sends word of her retirement from teaching in June 2008. “It has been great, with more time for gardening and grandchildren,” she said. Barb’s daughter Lauren has three children, including a newborn; stepson Matt recently had a baby girl; and husband Ron’s son is expecting a daughter in August. “It has been a proliﬁc year,” says Barb. Barb frequently e-mails grandbaby photos, which I love getting. Ron is still work- ing but takes time off to visit all these babies and ride his Harley. Barb lost her mother to Alzheimer’s in October 2007. We send our sympathy, Barb. Another Hood roommate, Jane Dearstyne Veeder, sent word of her two daughters. Kirstin has returned to teaching Spanish in a bilingual program and Katrina is a corporate librarian. Jane’s husband Chuck is enjoying his retirement and some freelance writing while Jane is still doing accounting work but “very much looking forward to retirement.” It is wonderful to keep in touch with Eva Redvall ’67 who was an exchange student from Sweden while we were at Hood. Last December she moved to a new home, “a much more practical apartment with a small balcony facing a lovely garden, buses around the corner and low-price market within limping distance.” She explains the limping. “It’s the result of an inﬂammation of the Achilles tendon, which my doctor happily informed me usually takes m-o-n-t-h-s to heal.” Eva retired in January, more or less, since she plans to now choose her writing assignments. “After 38½ years of full-time employment I am really looking forward to feeding a pigeon or two.” A celebration is in order. Hood big sis Gayle Reed Carroll won ﬁrst place in a poetry contest last March, the Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred. The award announcement explains that the contest entries represented all seven continents and 1,300 entries were received. Woohoo to Gayle! The biography included on the award reads, “Gayle has taught art at the junior high, high school and college levels. Her poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, The Comstock Review, City Paper, Black River Review and Voice from the Attic.” This is one proud little sis. Harriet Rudman Weiner joins those sharing word of retirement and grandchildren. Husband Alan retired six years ago after working for 32 years as an audit manager in the Ofﬁce of Legislative Audits for the Maryland General Assembly. Harriet retired three years ago after 20 years in the securities industry. “As I believe many of you know, yes, retirement is all it was supposed to be,” said Harriet. Alan and Harriet have two sons. Jay and his wife Deb are both physicians, with two little children— Ben, 3, and Maya, 1. Andy is an attorney and he and his wife Emily have small sons—Ryan, 4, and Jake, 1. Both families live nearby. Har- New Ofﬁcers Appointed to Alumnae and Alumni of Hood College Three alumnae have been named as executive board members of the Alumnae and Alumni Association of Hood College. Leigh Moomaw McBride ’81 is president; Lynn Marzulli White ’81 is vice president; and Tiffany Still ’05 is secretary-parliamentarian. Five additional committee chairs will be appointed to the newly restructured organization. For more information, contact the ofﬁce of alumnae and alumni relations at (301) 696-3900 or alumofﬁce@hood.edu McBride ’81 White ’81 Still ’05

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