Hood Magazine Summer 2008

W W W.HOOD.EDU there with her six children. Genie and Bill try to get to Boca Raton every winter to visit them and they come to Colorado in the summers. Genie writes: “We now have three granddaughters and one grandson graduated from high school. Our eldest granddaughter received her degree from the Univ. of Colorado in December and is married to an army infantry sergeant. They will be leaving for Germany next week. Our second eldest granddaughter is ﬁnishing her sophomore year at Dickinson College and the third is ﬁnishing her freshman year at Shippensburg. Our grandson graduates this week from West Boca Raton High School and will start at Palm Beach Community College. The rest of our 16 grandkids are in various levels of elementary and high school except for the little guy mentioned above.” Genie and Bill still volunteer for Christian Peacemaker Teams but have not traveled to the Middle East for a couple of years after having worked there several months a year for ﬁve years. They do lectures, programs and community organizing in Colorado (and anywhere else they are asked to go) around the Palestinian-Israeli conﬂict. Other than a few aches and pains, brought on by aging, Merry Jo Sorensen Harris is enjoying life and feeling very fortunate. She is still a museum Educator, a new title that means nothing new. She also does a lot of freelancing, much of it with Elderhostel. All of this keeps her busy and continually learning. Merry Jo’s oldest grandchild is a junior in college and the youngest is in kindergarten. There are three in between, and Merry Jo states that all of them are quite different. This summer Merry Jo will be doing some traveling. She writes: “We haven’t decided just what we’ll do but, there will be some art museums included.” After teaching for more than 20 years in a men’s correctional facility, Flip Pickles Haworth ﬁnally retired in 2000. Since then, she has found time to ski (both downhill and cross-country), snowshoe, hike, mountain climb, bicycle and swim. If that is not enough, Flip participates in sacred circle dancing and yoga classes. Flip is also treasurer of the Northeast Kingdom Classical Series, a small group of volunteers that bring internationally known chamber musicians to her rural area. Flip’s son Garth and his wife live in San Carlos, Calif. They have two children, Bennett and Lila. Her daughter Chava lives in Easthampton, Mass. She and her husband have a daughter Emerson and are expecting another baby. Flip writes: “Grandchildren are a joy!” Marge Heller Hill would like everyone who was not at the reunion to know that she has a booklet containing Hood songs such as “The Hood March,” “She Was Such a Sweet Girl When She Came to Hood,” and many more. Also, there is a CD containing the top ten songs during our Hood years, including, “Wake Up Little Suzie,” “Sh-boom”, and “Rock Around the Clock.” It is available at no cost except $5 for shipping and handling. You can e-mail Marge at margehill_2000@yahoo.com. In February, Marge and Jim visited Nancy Tres- sel Brown and Roger at their gorgeous home in Bonita Springs, Fla. All four rode in their 1959 Triumph (almost like the one they had “back then”) to see Alice Riddle Metry who lives a few blocks away. A real tight squeeze! Also, Marge hopes to see Joanie Gill Wright and George at the Browns’ in Pittsburgh this summer. Mimi Spaulding Keyser writes that last year was rough, with multiple hospital visits that prevented attending the 50th Reunion. Although Mimi missed seeing old friends at the reunion, She and Bill do enjoy seeing Dot Hofstader Lewis and her husband Irv at least once a year. Later in the year to celebrate their 50th anniversary, Mimi and Bill took their four families with 12 grandchildren for a week south of Cancun, Mexico. Both Mimi and Bill still volunteer at the local hospital weekly and are active in their church. Currently, they are downsizing for a move to Oak Crest Retirement community. During the very long winter in the Midwest, Carol Harkness Kilrea managed to escape to Puerto Rico in late March with four “gal pals” where they rejoiced in the warm sun only to return to more snow but with a better attitude! Carol’s two oldest grandchildren (out of 14) are ﬁnishing their ﬁrst year of college: Patrick is at Indiana Univ. and Katie is at Miami Univ. of Ohio. Next year two more go: Sean to Indiana Univ. and Keegan to Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison. Both boys are in the Kelley School of Business. Carol writes: “I am having more fun being part of all this and confess to being a “wannabe” college student!!! Sweet memories!!” In August Carol will be joining Sue Truby Peterson and her husband Carl on a 16-day trip to Alaska. This has been on her wish list for some time and she is very excited. In September, the Hood/Massachusetts General group will be celebrating their 50th anniversary in Boston and Carol plans to make quite a time of it!! She regrets missing the 50th anniversary at Hood but had just been discharged from the hospital and could not ﬂy. Thanks to Cathy Goss Newhouser and Sue Truby Peterson, Carol received all the information. Sue Truby Peterson and her husband Carl stay in touch with several ’57 Hoodlums: Bettie Brown Wastler accompanied them to the reunion and Carol Harkness Kilrea and Cathy Goss Newhouser and husband Nelson have visited them at their summer home in Maine. In turn, Sue and Carl visited Carol at her home in Indiana in August last year. Carol lives about an hour from Chicago where all three went on a grand architectural river trip. Sue reports that the children are busy. Laura is an E.R. doctor in Newton-Wellesley Hospital. She has an 8-yearold son. Mark, an architect, lives in Pasadena, Calif., and has two daughters. For those classmates who saw Molly Smith Sperandio at the 50th class reunion wearing a sling on her right arm for a torn shoulder rotator cuff, she ﬁnally had surgery on July 13 and is on the mend from the fall she took on a Massachusetts icy road in April 2007. She was to have surgery June 8 when she returned from the reunion, but came up with arterial ﬁbrillation and surgery was delayed until her heart was under control. The fall and continuing travel to Pennsylvania, China and Maryland through May and June took its toll; three muscles had to be reattached using a bovine graft to put her shoulder back in order. A two-week trip to Spain with her daughter-in-law Jenny, grandson Ryan, 13, and granddaughter Elli, 11, ended the old year and began the new year. Her purse was stolen in the Metro in Madrid, but otherwise it was a great trip. Molly writes: “I was certainly more attentive when I went to Italy for a 16-day tour of the length of the boot. I need to start categorizing the thousands of pictures I have taken during these last two trips. We certainly do live in a young country and the excessiveness we take for granted is magniﬁed by visiting these old countries.” Nancy Paul Stimson writes that all is well in Hingham, Mass., even though she had just returned from a Red Sox game and they had lost. Nancy has been a widow for six years and now has a “special friend” with whom she spent ﬁve weeks in Florida this winter. Nancy writes that: “He is very special, and takes good care of me.” Nancy was sorry to miss the reunion but her grandson was graduating from Tabor Academy and her daughter would have had a ﬁt if she had missed it, as she is the only surviving grandparent. Nancy is playing bridge again and plays duplicate bridge several times a week, although when the weather is nice she would rather be at the beach. She is still president of her condo association and is involved with Rotary and her church as well. She is also doing oral histories for the historical society, and ﬁnds it fascinating to learn how things were in her town more than 75 years ago. Marilyn Garis Kellow 151 N. University Drive, #108 West Bend, WI 53095-2937 (262) 334-5782 maggiehood@hnet.net Our condolences to Barbara Fritchey Zimmer whose husband Peter died March 5, 2005; to Elizabeth Eaton Evans whose husband Richard died Jan. 28, 2007; to Joan Clark Mills whose husband Ronald died March 15, 2007; and to Julie Dill Williams whose husband Thomas died Oct. 30, 2007. Our sympathy also to the families of Sarah Pocock Felio who died Dec. 12, 2007; and Leslie Bunce who died Dec. 9, 2007, in Brooklyn, Maine. It was so nice to hear from Heather Herndon. Her ﬁrst husband passed away and she has been married to Robin Bates for 22 years. Heather has two daughters, one son and seven grandchildren. Robin has four grandchildren … so they are kept busy. She will not be at our 50th reunion but would enjoy hearing from old friends. Barbara Windsor married Wayne Bien 4½ years ago. Wayne has relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis, but they look forward to being at http://WWW.HOOD.EDU

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