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HOOD MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2008 for medical technology. Scottie Provan Tobi paying off after ﬁve years of work.” She is now attempting to get a county grant for just returned from a trip to Vermont where landscaping the cul de sac trafﬁc roundabout they stayed at the Trapp Lodge (May). They took a trip around South America on a Royal near her Silver Spring, Md., house. She walks Caribbean ship with friends from Bolivia. She ﬁve miles every day and feels great! Nancy is home for the summer before a trip on a Lowe Larsen lives in York, Pa., and said she riverboat from Budapest to Amsterdam. Hope sold her ﬁrst and only house last summer and Haimowitz Seitchik went to the School of moved into “half-a-house” of her sister’s last Interior Design in New York and has been a August. After going through house renovadesigner until her retirement. She traveled tions she is in the process of establishing her to Australia and New Zealand, and was then garden. “Lots of work but hopefully worth going to Egypt. She has six grandchildren the effort when the perennials take over.” and enjoys her retirement. As for me, Portia She plans to be involved in the presidential Whitaker Shumaker, our biggest event was election. Meadowood at Worcester, a life care the marriage of my daughter Elaine on March community of 400 residents situated on 131 29. All 10 of their children—ﬁve each, ages 7 acres near Philadelphia, is the new home of to 26—participated in the ceremony. Johnny Ada Deforest. She sold her townhouse in one and I enjoyed a trip to Spain in February and day just before Christmas. She’s enjoying a March. We are cutting down 30 percent of one bedroom, den apartment with a garden our avocado trees to comply with a mandaand patio. She is only steps away from a tory 30 percent reduction in agricultural community building housing a dining room, water. No cutbacks for residential. Does this coffee shop, two libraries, swimming pool sound like they have their priorities right? and health center. Since her extensive spinal Barbara Heaps Rudolph writes: For this surgery in 2004, walking has been difﬁcult. Hence the move to retirement living. Travelissue I used the Internet to contact everyone ing has been limited to a one-week Elderhoswith an e-mail address. If any of you with tel in Washington, D.C. Scottie Provan Tobi such an address did not hear from me it was says all is well in Bayport. They are looking probably returned as not deliverable. Please forward to summer and her relatives arriving send the corrected address to me or to the from Scotland. She has plans to take them to College. Responses were nearly immediate the beach and into NY for shows and a confrom those who answered. First to reply was cert. They plan a riverboat trip on the Danube Barbara Briggs-Letson from California who and Rhine rivers in October, starting in Buchaspent January in India, which she describes rest and ending in Amsterdam. Next year they as a country of “bright light, fable and plan to visit Egypt, Turkey and spend some energy” with fabulous food. They were on a time with Robbie’s family in Germany. They two-week adventure with Gandhi’s grandson, will celebrate their 50th in June 2009. Louise Arun Gandhi, who took them to places Schaffner Fratto reports that she traveled a important in the Mahatma’s life and work. bit after our reunion. Several Elderhostel While wandering two weeks in Rajastan she trips, “… the most fun being a trip to the celebrated her 74th birthday on a sand dune Grand Canyon in fall 2005.” In July 2006 watching camel races 60 km from the Pak she cruised to Alaska with one of her Village border. She says the other big thing in her life roomies. In October she and Nancy Jo is a contest for high school students called “What About Peace?” Go to the Web site www. Cassebaum Crandall enjoyed a Mediterranean cruise. She says that the last few air whataboutpeace.org to see the thoughts travel experiences were so horrendous that of the young people. Shirley Weber Freed she decided to stay put until they get it right. celebrated daughter Debbie’s 50th birthday The skies aren’t so friendly anymore. Theater at Trump’s Taj Mahal in Atlantic City last Auand concert subscriptions keep her happy and gust. Thanksgiving found her in San Francisco she stays busy with her children, seven grandwith son Dave and family. Granddaughter children and church activities. Jinny Parker Jessica is at Montgomery College. They are Domhoff and Victor will celebrate their 50th “…still happy in their Maryland Leisure World anniversary in September. Their whole family condo.” She is working part time at Curves for went to Costa Rica for the 20th anniversary Women in Silver Spring. A visit to Hood this of their oldest child and spouse. She reports, spring gave Jim and Nancy Borden Hoy an unfamiliar glimpse of the campus with groups “We all zip-lined through the rain forest. Try doing that at 74 years of age!” As for the of men in residence and enjoying sports. The Rudolphs, this year at 74 we climbed the Hoys are active in their local Adult Learning Acropolis in Athens to view the ancient glories Program teaching 8-week classes in Local of Greece. It was part of the Crystal Serenity’s Architecture and History of Medicine. They cruise into the Eastern Mediterranean and are looking forward to an annual trip to Stratthe Black Sea. Ports of call included Ephesus, ford, Canada, in May and a week on a river the Ukraine, Russia and Istanbul. We enjoyed barge on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers in the symphony in Odessa, Baltimore’s sister June. The grandchildren are growing fast with city. Lee and I walk two miles and I do cardiac two graduating from college and two in preﬁtness twice a week at the local hospital. Lee school. Nancy’s sister, Betty Borden Dunn ’56, is still writing and has another manuscript also lives in Marietta, Ohio, and is an active with his agent who is looking for a publisher. quilter. Evie Kauffeld Fox sounds busy with We still go back and forth between our grandchildren and landscaping. She reports, “Shade gardening in our forest seems to be homes in Bel Air and Ocean City, Md., and stay connected with our children and eight grandchildren, who love the beach. Next to family, gardening is my passion: just have to watch the allergies. Ginny Turnbull Hecklinger 114 Rhoderick Circle Middletown, MD 21769 (301) 371-6536 Our condolences to the family of Carol Conklin Chirinos who died Feb. 8, 2008, in Jacksonville, Fla. Joanne Adickes Walker 15 Elizabeth Parkway Eatontown, NJ 07724 jawalker8@comcast.net Many thanks to all who responded to my snail and e-mail requests. It was great to hear from you. In January Albert and I went on a 10-day cruise to the Caribbean. What a joy it is to leave from Bayonne. We left the same day that all three Queens (Victoria, Mary and Elizabeth) were in New York harbor. Last month we went to the beautiful city of Asheville, N.C. We supplemented our day trips with good food such as fried chicken and biscuits at the Tupelo Honey Café and barbeque at 12 Bones. We will spend the summer catching up with house and garden chores and going to the beach. Not bad! Montana is a wonderful place to live! So states Phyllis Travis Bowles, who visited there after leaving Hood and decided to stay. Happily, her two sons, two grandchildren, and a one-month-old granddaughter are living near her. During her career, Phyllis ran a retail store and is currently working in a thriving real estate market. Phyllis is a recent breast cancer survivor, a period she calls “a bump in the road.” She would love to hear from her fellow classmates. Her address is 30 Bear Creek Road, Cameron, MT; and her e-mail is pbatfm@yahoo.com. Genie Smith Durland and Bill are ﬁnally totally retired (at least they think they are). Genie is on the board of directors of the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission and Bill is chair of the local chapter of the ACLU. The two organizations pretty much sum up their social passions. They spend a lot of time traveling from home (Colorado Springs) to Denver and Boulder because their youngest daughter Julia and her family live in Boulder and their youngest son Christian lives in Denver. His son, born December 2006, has Down Syndrome so Genie and Bill have been learning about the condition. The baby is, just as all the literature says, the most special, precious, unique little creature imaginable. Chris’s wife comes from a large Mexican-American family all living in Denver so the baby gets tons of attention and stimulation. Genie’s second daughter Fadwah is a certiﬁed nurse-midwife and, after failing to get satisfactory employment in Colorado, took a job in Boca Raton, Fla., and moved

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