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34 HOOD MAGAZINE | WINTER 2010 to wait that long. Tarun has been very busy since June with her mother’s failing health. Her mother went into the nursing home just after her 97th birthday Aug. 31. Sailing has been Tarun’s saving grace. She went to Florida in November to be with Martha Shortiss Allen in celebrating her husband, Terry’s, life. Tarun said that he was such a wonderful person and friend, as reflected in the outpouring of love from his children’s families and friends. Dale Russell Rains and her husband Lee celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this summer with her children and grandchildren in Naples, Fla. One daughter lives in Minnesota, another in Maine. One son lives in Annapolis and her other son, who is autistic, lives with Dale and her husband. Dale said it is rare that they are all together at once and it is one of life’s blessings when they are. Dale also enjoyed a day at the Baltimore Museum of Art with Midge Guild Simmons this summer. Gail Mulliken Painter has recovered from last winter’s bout with mononucleosis and said she is back to her “old mode of doing too much”—lots of travel, choir and Rotary. She enjoyed a cruise from New York to Quebec City and then traveled by train to Montreal. Next summer she is taking a group on a river boat from Strasbourg to Prague. Gail’s daughter Cheryl and family came from Australia to Mukilteo, Wash., for Christmas. Jane Atmore Brown traveled to New Jersey this summer for cataract surgery (successful) and to visit with old friends. On the way home she stopped in Baltimore to see Jeannette Phelps. Life in Florida includes the usual—volunteering, theater, bridge, swimming and good friends. Lorraine Ball Chase, accompanied by her husband Steve bravely attended our reunion in June, traveling by medical transport, confined to stretcher and wheelchair. Lori died August 15 at home and without pain, with Steve at her bedside. During the last six years of her life Lori waged a valiant struggle against brain cancer, going through surgery, chemotherapy and radiation with her characteristically sunny nature and optimistic attitude. Lori was always a committed supporter of Hood and attended every fifth-year reunion. From the mid-1980s until her retirement in 2001, Lori worked for the Ithaca City School District as a teaching assistant in the district’s English as a Second Language (ESL) Program. She was highly valued by students and colleagues as a gifted and dedicated teacher. Lori enjoyed gardening, sewing, knitting, reading, traveling, crossword puzzles, swimming, hiking and cross-country skiing. In addition to Steve, Lori is survived by her four children and six grandchildren. Marcia Bird-Werntz welcomed her first great-grandchild Sept. 22, six weeks early but doing well. Catherine Brooke Buckingham and Ronnie celebrated 50 years of marriage with a dinner party of 32 family members. Catherine often sees her sister-in-law Judy Berry Brooke ’56, as Judy and her husband spend winters in Florida. The Buckinghams’ son manages a Ford dealership, and has a daughter at the Univ. of South Carolina and a son who plays center on the varsity football team. The Buckinghams’ daughter works for charitable organizations, having spent 10 years with Mercy Ships. Catherine hopes to make our 55th or 60th reunion. She loves to tell people she went to Hood “where Hood girls are good girls.” Mary Ann Guild Simmons looks wonderful after her illness and treatment. She and Bill hosted a fabulous barbeque in their daughter and son-in-law’s “party barn” for the Class of 1959 Friday evening of Reunion Weekend. (Mary Ann told us this was her “coming-out party,” celebrating her total remission from cancer.) Mary Ann also made all the arrangements for our Saturday evening dinner at Dutch’s Daughter. The flowers she provided for Friday evening were recycled for Saturday’s dinner, as well as for Sunday morning’s chapel service. Midge’s efforts truly contributed to our reunion’s success. Gayle Hamilton Blakeslee and Natalie Starr spent Thanksgiving in Wisconsin this year, then Christmas in Montana. Carole Jones Rogers drove herself to the ER on the way home from the Ohio statehouse Thursday, Sept. 10 and underwent an emergency appendectomy within hours. All went well but her discharge was delayed because her heart rate and blood pressure accelerated, so she had to stay another day to bring all back into normal range and rhythm. Carole said the experience was a good reminder of the importance of friends helping out in time of need “and of course, most of all, my son Bobby, a great caretaker.” Carole spent Thanksgiving with her family at their cabin at Seven Springs, Pa. Debbie Jones Appel wrote, “I thought of you all at our 50th reunion as I was spending the last days with my almost-100-year-old dad. Each day is a special blessing and I am thankful that I could share that time with my dad.” Debbie’s father died June 16. Marcia King Wilke and her husband Norm visited his sister and her husband in Portland, Ore., in August; both his sister and her husband died shortly thereafter. Marcia is back to teaching piano with a small studio of eight students. She continues to practice the piano and organ, and is occasionally asked to play at church. On one weekend this summer, the Wilkes entertained five grandchildren and their mothers. They were expecting one daughter and her three children for Thanksgiving. Ann Matlack Loose’s sons Brad and John are both well and happy with families in California. I searched for Ann’s sons online after reunion, when we remembered her and wondered about them. John said that his 12-year-old daughter Annie resembles her grandmother. Ann’s husband John died in 2005. Kuulei Mobley Green participated in the reunion chapel service by giving a moving account of her spiritual journey. Beth O’Malley, the McHenry Dean of the Chapel, complemented Kuulei’s talk by describing the spiritual atmosphere at Hood today. Judy Moreland Granger wrote, “The reunion was just terrific, the College looked beautiful and it was grand to see so many of our classmates were able to be there.” Judy and Bob celebrated their 50th anniversary with friends and family June 9 just after the reunion. Their family gave them a trip back to Nantucket, the scene of their honeymoon. They had a wonderful time there after Labor Day, also visiting Judy’s cousin Ethel Kintigh Spence ’62, in Salem, Mass. Bob recently had a hip replacement and is scheduled for another one in January. Jo Peper Milnor regrets missing our reunion but was preparing for a trip to Africa. Beginning in South Africa, she traveled on a tented safari adventure through the national preserves of Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, seeing many animals and meeting a lot of wonderful people. Before this trip, Jo cruised in March to Aruba, Bonaire, into and out of the Panama Canal, and then on to Costa Rica. Jo planned to tour Chile, Argentina and Brazil in November. Next spring, she will sail on a symphony-benefit cruise from Fort Lauderdale through the eastern Caribbean. At home in South Carolina, Jo is active in a plantation archaeology group, feeds the homeless at a local mission and raises funds for the symphony orchestra. Recently the Long Bay Symphony Guild awarded Jo the Women Who Make a Difference award for her volunteer work in the Grand Strand Community. Jo is planning a trip to Australia next and, if anyone wants to make that journey, she is looking for a roommate. J.P. Phelps has recovered from cataract surgery and is happy to have much better vision. She has lost 70 pounds and is walking everywhere in Baltimore, especially to the Charles Theatre to see independent films, and opera and ballet productions. J.P. has talked with Sandy Ebersole Wantz, Diana d’Elseaux Lowell and Joan Kirkpatrick, who is adjusting to retirement from the Girl Scouts. J. P. also alerted me to Debbie Jones Appel’s father’s death notice in The Baltimore Sun in July. She wonders if anybody is in touch with Margy Sabater del Toro. Rachel Ravey Johnson and her husband Carl went canoeing in Canada in early fall. Rachel accomplished her “first but not last” skydive in Maine. The Johnsons had a horrific scare when daughter Beth was falsely diagnosed with a malignancy. Carl has won several blue ribbons for his paintings, and Rachel has lost about 30 pounds and feels good. Myra Silberstein Goldgeier visited her son Jim and family in California last summer while he was on a fellowship at Stanford. Hope Truesdell Thomson and Don celebrated their 50th anniversary in December. In June they went on a camping trip to the Gaspe Peninsula, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Carolynne Veazey Lathrop recommends the beautiful new reissues of the Betsy-Tacy books with the original charming illustrations. She suggests re-reading them for the sake of nostalgia or just for the sake of enjoying thoroughly wholesome, positive books without sentimentality for young people. She suggests sharing these books with granddaughters and letting her know what you think. Suzanne Walling Seeman’s daughter, Alexis Lucas ’81, wrote that her mother died March 26, 2009, after a short bout with breast cancer. Alexis thanked the College for sending Suzanne the “Class of 1893 Club” certificate, saying that she would have been very proud to have received it. Alexis said that her mother did not graduate from Hood. She left college to marry and start her family but was so fond of her Hood experience that she convinced her daughter to attend. Suzanne’s sister, Meredith Walling Anderson ’62 (deceased), was also an alumna. Pat Wever Knoll missed our reunion because of her husband’s health but loved seeing all the pictures and hearing the glowing reports. Pat has reconnected with Starr Culver Weihe through the class e-mail network. While helping Ron recover from his heart attack, Pat was diagnosed with breast cancer and had surgery, followed by six weeks of daily radiation. She is grateful for all the support fr

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