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Wink reports that she had a wonderful time with our honorary classmate Sonya Stephens and her son, Oscar, after his graduation from Williams. They came down to the Cape for a little R & R before heading back to Paris. 

Oscar managed to graduate Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude so brains seem to run in the family. He is a delight and also inherited Sonya’s wonderful personality and gift for gab. We had lunch with Ellie (Eleanor Graham Claus) and talked non-stop for three days.

Barbara Gates (Gatsey) Johnson told us she had a wonderful 90th and her whole crew arrived to help celebrate. She said "Hard to believe I’m ninety! Every part of men is out of warranty but I’m doing just fine. Very lucky!"
JULY 2023
August 2023
Cynthia Wilmot Phipps lives in Topsham, ME in her own home in a community development called the Highlands. Although she has just had cataract surgery and has new hearing aids she is "going strong." She does some gardening, is working up to walking 2 miles a day and her latest interest is birding. She has traveled to L.A. to visit her daughter and to Alexandria, VA with her grandson to visit her son. On both trips she birded with them. And recently she acquired a bird song app on her phone and is learning to identify birds by sound. Who says we are too old to learn new things?! 

The Society of St. Anna The Prophet (SSAP), a dispersed order of Episcopal Women, has accepted Elizabeth " Win" Pettus Losa as a provisional. At the first community zoom meeting Win attended, the founder of the order, Nan Baxter, said to her, "We have a new president." And that was how Win learned that Anna Nan is also a MHC graduate. This order espouses three vows: Simplicity, Creativity and Balance. Win writes, "These vows guide us as we pursue godly aging and support our Sisters and others in our final vocation and in recognizing the gift of years. The order requires continued activity in my own parish, All Saints of the North Shore, so I must work to achieve a Balance between the activities of the two groups. And developing Creativity is necessary to keep my vows. I feel I am growing in new directions."  

Later Win added this news. "After a week in a most serene coma, John died on July 2, the half year of wedding anniversary. We were wed 54 1/2 years. I am relieved for both of us. His ashes will be interned in Manhattan at Trinity's Riverside Cemetery." 

Betty Sturtevant Gardner sounds very contented with life. Following MHC graduation she married and moved to Carlisle, PA where her husband was connected with a carpet company. They raised 3 girls, two of whom are still living. One is a pediatric oncologist and the other a gastroenterologist. Betty originally did some substitute teaching but when she tired of teenage students she shifted to being a church educator at her Presbyterian church. 

In 1986 her husband retired and then life got really interesting. They bought a sailboat, went to Annapolis Sailing School, set up residence in MD and sailed to FL annually. They also traveled all over the world. Her husband died in 2012.

  Later Betty went to Ireland with a Presbyterian church group where she met and fell in love, married and moved to a cottage in a retirement community in Carlisle, PA. As her husband aged he was moved to a personal care unit and he died in 2020. Betty has remained in the cottage.

  She enjoys her book club and a writing group and is looking forward to one of her daughters moving to Carlisle soon. She was proud to report that her mother was an MHC graduate in 1923 and that both of her daughters were MHC grads, 1979 and 1981. Her roommate was Judy Clarke Johanson with whom she keeps in contact. 




Andre Watts, who recently died, played, as a young pianist, at the Philadelphia Academy of Music.  Ruth Harberg Dubois was a member of the Philadelphia MHC Scholarship Committee then and remembered, when she read Mr.Watts obituary, that some of the proceeds from that concert benefited MHC. She also recalled that Mr.Watts was a charming young man whom everyone was delighted to meet and listen to.
Lots of news from Hanne Bruun Raabyemagle who writes: "As one of the surely youngest of ‘55 I celebrated my 88th birthday in glorious summer weather in May with a family supper picnic in the deer park just north of Copenhagen ending off with champagne and strawberry tarts in my lovely new apartment. I decided more than a year ago, that after the death in October 2019 of my beloved Jens, husband of 61 years, our old home was too large and too much for me to stay in.

 First I looked a long time for a nice ‘old age’ place to live, preferably in my old ‘hood’. This materialized in December 2021, so the old home was put up for sale in Jan. 2022. Alas the Ukraine invasion and all the financial troubles ensuing in Europe made a large old house (built by my parents-in-law in 1934) in a very large old garden quite difficult to sell. I had the new apartment from Mar. 2022, so having two expensive properties together for more than a year was quite economically draining. However, I had time to downsize, distribute (or get rid of) most of my collections of antiques, paintings, sculptures and books, redecorate the new apartment and finally move in Nov. 2022 with my 6-year old poodle Molly Malou. 

 The old house was finally sold Mar. 2023 and to just the right people: a young couple with two small daughters and a fine sense for the special charms of the old family house. They are now spending millions on renovations, but preserving its charm! I am extremely happy in my new place. Life is easy. I still drive my old Citroen, I swim every morning at 7 in the sea and Molly and I meet a group of lovely dogs and their owners in the local park after breakfast for a chat and play. During the winter I play bridge at tournament level twice a week besides attending aerobics in a heated indoor pool. 

 Professionally I still have my art and architecture curiosity and appetite and am actually preparing a scientific article on some wonderful Danish paintings from 1722, until now not known by the public. My last major book was published in 2019 about Nicolai Abildgaard, a famous Danish artist of the late 18th C and his works in architecture and interior design. I have also finally started writing my memoirs of my childhood in England from 1938 until 1946, so during World War II. Our two daughters are living quite close by, Tine (62) a beloved teacher of English and German, Eva (59) in a superior position in the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

  My son-in-law is a well-known chef who has also started producing spirits: rum, prune aquavit, and grappa, while also helping the Danish government to establish and run a chef’s school and restaurant in Marrakesh, Morocco. The four grandchildren have left home and are all studying in Copenhagen. No great-grandchildren yet. So you see, life is being kind to me and mine, apart from these inevitable changes: poorer eyesight and hearing, a bit of arthritis and other minor, but irritating health problems. If anybody of ‘55 that remembers me should happen to be in Copenhagen, please feel free to contact me. My mobile is +45 42362610, my e-mail: hjraa@mail.tele.dk."





My visit to the UK May 27 – June 15 2023
By Sylvia Johnson Lucas

I decided that I must get back to Scotland again to see friends, family, revisit where I used to live, See the changes in the University of Glasgow where I worked and did research in the Physiology department and tour some of the Highlands of Scotland. Thanks to my newly retired son, Craig, who offered to come with me and be my driver I did it all!!

We flew from Boston to London Heathrow and visited Ian’s sister-in-law and the two nieces. We stayed in a lovely little pub in Chalfont St. Peter and could walk to their house. Then it was off to Scotland. We took the train up to Glasgow and we happened to be seated with a couple from NYC who had traveled all over the world but had never been to Scotland! He was an architect and she was an administrator and the conversation was non-stop.

Thanks to the computer I had found a little hotel at the end of the street where I had lived, so we were able to walk to the University, the flat where Anne (Orvis) and I rented ‘digs’ and the flat that Jim and I rented when we were married and he was finishing medical school. Using the unique 100 year old underground we visited “The Tenement House”, went to see the big changes down town and visited an old friend for afternoon tea. The Scottish National Trust runs the Tenement house, so Craig could see a smaller version of where His Dad and I lived. 

You may remember that in June 1955 Anne and I took off for Europe and decided not to return home, but to go to Glasgow. We stayed with my Aunt, went to the Dean of the Medical School and arranged to join the second year class (private students-no credit). In Scotland, as in many countries, Medical School starts after high school and is six years. We then rented ‘digs’ with an older single lady, ie we had a bedroom and sitting room and shared the kitchen and bathroom. In those days there was no central heating, so we had to learn how to light and maintain a coal fire. In 1963 Anne and I had been on the Cramer trip and after that we went to Scotland to join my Mom and Dad who were visiting for their 25th anniversary, so my Aunt knew us both. She was a great help.

After Glasgow we picked up our rental car and drove to Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre to visit my cousin, who is being taken care of by her daughter. Once again we stayed in a pub a short walk from their beautiful home overlooking Campbeltown Loch. Then it was to the top of the Mull to get the ferry to Lochranza on the isle of Arran then a short drive down to Brodick for the ferry to Ardrossan on the mainland in Lanarkshire. 

We visited a young cousin of Ian’s that we used to see when they lived near Ian’s brother in Chalfont St. Peter. Years ago they moved back to Scotland with their four children to Stair, South Lanarkshire. They fixed up a beautiful old manor house on 3 acres in a small village. There were 8 bedrooms and 4 Full baths on the second floor. We did not stay in a pub! They took us to Dumfries House that Prince Charles took an interest in and raised a huge amount of money to restore the house and gardens. It was magnificent.

Our visiting over we drove north to the Highlands and the Road to Applecross that is said to be the steepest and most dangerous road in Scotland. Go to Applecross, Scotland on YouTube to see videos of it. We were going to stay in a small village first but the weather was so perfect that many headed for the highlands and every place we tried was fully booked. We kept going and ended up at the Applecross Inn that was fully booked, but we did have a very good dinner there. The owner was able to get a room in a B&B for us. The B&B could take 14 and we got the last room available. Luck was with us! 

Leaving Applecross we left by the same road because we wanted to go to Inverewe Gardens near Poolewe. If you ever go to the Highlands and the west coast of Scotland these gardens are a must. The west coast is so near the Gulf Stream that there are Palm Trees. 

Heading back towards Glasgow we drove through the most beautiful scenery along Loch Glascarnock and found the Aultguist Inn ‘in the middle of nowhere’ – not near any town. They had a room available and were nearly finished restoring the very large Inn. At dinner the menu was very different, one side was traditional British the other was Transylvanian. The Bartender, MatreD, etc who checked us in had a different accent that we were trying to place. When he came to take our order I asked if the chef was Romanian – Yes, and so was he. Needless to say we ordered from the Transylvanian side. It was delicious and perfectly seasoned.

We decided to continue to our hotel at Glasgow Airport and booked another two days there. Craig had noticed a sign for the Falkirk Wheel on our way and wanted to see it, because he had read so much about it. That was our day trip the next day. Once again go to the Falkirk Wheel, Scotland on YouTube. It is an amazing feat of engineering.

Our last day in Scotland we went to the coast to Largs, one of the towns where Jim and I would like to go in the summer. We then drove up the coast and back to the airport to return the car and prepare for our flight to London the next day. 

Next day we checked out for our noon flight AND due to cancellations, overbooking and who knows what we could not get to London and all the hotels at the airport were now fully booked, SO for the first time we had to spend the night in the airport- we had been given a flight for 6:30am. At 3am we saw on the board that that flight had been cancelled. 5am we saw them start opening up the BA desk, so we went there before they even turned on the light. It was the same woman who had given us the 6:30am flight. At first there was nothing available, we persisted, when she finally realized we had spent the night in the airport she spent quite awhile on the computer and finally asked if we could fly at 8:30am -YES, Please!! When we got on the plane we were in first class and there were empty seats!! At Heathrow there was a shortage of baggage handlers, so it was an hour before the bags came off the plane. We finally got to our hotel a day late at 11:45am and we had arranged to meet old friends at a restaurant that was an hour away at 2pm. We had time to wash and change and thanks to Uber, we got there at 2pm! It was hard to stay awake, but we did. We were meeting children of Jim’s special friends, so Craig knew them. One couple took the train from Chichester for the day and the other came by bicycle from Soho where he was directing a movie. He said bicycle was the best way to get around London. We had a wonderful visit and it was well worth the struggle to get there.

Our flight back to Boston early the next morning was on time, landed 45 minutes early, our driver was waiting for us and we were back home in Connecticut by 2:25. 

Every day we were in the UK it was sunny and 70’s and 80’s. and since it was June there was sunshine about 18 hours a day. It was a very good trip in many ways. Another experience we had you can look up on YouTube. We had to leave the day of the event, but we did see the area and the car. “Aston Martin speed trial Campbeltown Scotland” on YouTube.

Addendum: For those who do not know and are confused when I mention Jim and Ian.
In 1955-56 Anne Orvis and I shared a cadaver in the Anatomy Lab with Jim Wilson and Ian Lucas was at the next table. They did not know each other, but they had both started medical school then left. Jim sold Life Insurance in the Highlands and Ian joined the Army and ended up as an artillery officer in Korea. They both decided to go back to Medical School. Jim and I were married in July 1957. Ian left medical school again, went to Canada and he and Anne were married December of 1957. Ian then earned a Business degree from the U. of Western Ontario and worked in Montreal. Jim and I went to New Britain, CT in 1961 where Jim did another residency and then went into a small group practice. We all remained friends and would get together for skiing in the winter and the CT shore in the summer. Unfortunately, Anne died in 1982 and Jim in 1986. Ian and I remained friends and would get together once a year. We married in 1993. Ian died at Christmas time 2020.





September 2023
Polly Laszlo Brody writes that her big event this summer was the wedding of Daniel Chen, my eldest grandson, to Sarah Manning. The venue was in VT, on the weekend of August 11-12. Personal vows were exchanged in front of a floral-decorated arbor. My younger grandson, Peter, was the officiant. His sister Maya, cousin to Daniel, created the bridal cake. I read a wedding blessing poem, which Daniel and Sarah had asked me to write for them. My daughter Deborah, Daniel's mom, had created 300 pot-sticker dumplings for the pre-nuptial hors-d'oeuvres. The weather held fair for both days, despite an earlier foreboding forecast! Joy and love glowed throughout this festival celebrating our dear marrying pair.
​Newshound Joan Haskell Vicinus invited her family and friends from Toledo and from her retirement community, RiverWoods in Exeter, NH, to a clambake in York ME, to celebrate her 90th birthday. Her son set up a video of Joan in her younger years and Joan's daughter-in-law and her sister, Anne Haskell Knight '59 went overboard with all the decorations. A friend organized a group of singers who belted out a parody to the Erie Canal. Joan says that she had been working on plans for this marvelous affair for at least the last 6 months. "I felt as if I had been planning a wedding."

Judy Clarke Johanson had a merry 90th at her daughter's house with about 22 friends and family. Judy still lives in her beloved home on Casco Bay, ME. She walks frequently by the shore, plays bridge 2 or 3 times a week and enjoys her granddaughters and great granddaughters. "So things are pretty good for an older person!" says Judy.

Sallie Barr Palmer celebrated her 90th at a Spanish restaurant with 12 people, including her youngest son and his wife all the way from the UK and a long-time friend from Wales. She received enough chocolate to open a shop and a tablet. Sallie is not sure what she will do with the tablet ("My heart sank") but her stepson is going to teach her how to use it and she hopes to be competent by her next birthday. "By the time I'm up to speed on it , they'll come out with a new model."

Anne Wildman Braun celebrated her birthday with her daughter Jeanne and family except for grandson Adrian who was in St Andrews, Scotland, at the time,  

Barbara Mulvehill Gray and husband are happy and doing well in their continuing care residential community. They have 11 grandchildren. The 5th, a girl, was married in August in Framingham, MA. Both bride and groom went to Amherst and he is now at MIT getting a PhD in Physics. Barbara and husband still visit their beautiful summer home on Lake Waramaug, CT where all of their family gather now and then.,

Mary (Miz) Comey Grant is now comfortably settled at Stonehill in Andover, MA. When she originally moved out of her home this is where she went for a "temporary stay" until her family and she found just the right CCRC community which took quite a while . During that wait, Miz developed a nice group of friends and liked the place. Nevertheless, they did find the "right place",  and she moved.
 However that new place did not turn out to be "right " so the end result of all the moving was that she returned to the original place and is happy there. The whole process was unsettling and took several months.

New phone number and address: 978/475-7451. Stonehill, 141 Elm Street #223, Andover, MA 01810




October 2023
Judith Schwartz Dunford's eldest grandchild, Thomas Dunford, is making rather a splash all over the place, from Japan to Canada, as a solo lutenist, in duets with his fiancee, the mezzo Lea DesAndre, and with his band of "ancient" musicians, Jupiter. Luckily, his tours occasionally include New York City, where Judith lives and she heard him and Lea at Carnegie Hall in November. Judith adds, "Any of my classmates who remember that, despite singing in the MHC chorus, I never learned to read music and are therefore understandably dubious about my claims of relatedness to any lutenist, can check You Tube."

Sue Eckert Smith spent her 90th birthday in Washington, D.C. enjoying the beautiful weather and walking all over the city. One highlight was a small bus tour of the monuments all lit up at night. It was very special and a great way to celebrate a big birthday.

I, scribe Sue Nutter Keller, spent a week in London with my 2 sons and daughter-in-law. We all especially enjoyed an audible tour of the Houses of Parliament, (I'm always struck by the fact that everything is SO OLD), a great exhibit of portraits by Franz Hals at the National Gallery and "As You Like It" at the Globe Theatre. I was well taken care of by all and felt so lucky to have gone.

Gay DeLong Goodhart wrote a highlight of my summer was a 10 day trip to Vermont to visit the intensive language program in which I learned Russian. I lived in campus housing and ate in the campus cafeteria and spoke Russian. A highlight was the presence of teachers/friends who were able to come from Russia and teach for the summer in spite of our international difficulties. I started studying Russian at age 60. Both of my parents had Alzheimer’s, and I was scared (s—tl—s). I figured that if I could learn Russian, I didn’t have Alzheimer’s. They said that now, at age 90, I speak Russian better than I did 7 years ago. Anyway, it’s fun. And I had a great time. Meanwhile, I await winter in Minneapolis.

Sylvia Johnson Lucas came up to the Cape to visit her daughter and saw both Wink and Ellie Graham Claus for a catch-up which was great fun. There is nothing like seeing old, old friends!




NOVEMBER 2023
Sue Nutter Keller
Juli Shea Towell is President of the Residents’ Association at Winchester Gardens in West Orange, NJ, until March of 2024. She’s enjoyed the job, but says that it’s time to stop. Juli is starting to do some fun and creative patchwork and quilting. And she is attending a weekly course on Bible study, Church history and theology which she enjoys for the conversations on the spiritual journey.
DECEMBER 2023

Mollie Torras is in a senior facility in Tinton, NJ. She loves her new home and said that she has no need for anything.

Wendy Loye Hall  has also moved to a senior facility, this one in the Meridian at Lake San Marcos, CA. She advises any of us who are thinking of moving into one of these facilities to make sure that several meal choices are available each day. Obviously Wendy is not happy with the cuisine at her facility and does not mind speaking up!

Mollie Hibbard and her husband Bill Byrne are living in Aspired Living of Westmont in Westmont, IL. Again, the food there could be better but otherwise the facility is enjoyable and they are happy.

Sandy Fiedler Allen lives in La Grange, IL during the warm weather and on Marco Island, FL during the winter. She plays golf and swims regularly in both places.

Lois Gaeta-Baker is writing her memoirs, "Red Mountain Sunset", which she plans to self -publish in the foreseeable future. The first copy will be kept in a small shack at the permaculture cemetery, Wildwood, jn Amherst, MA, where Myra Mullins Baker and her husband, David Baker, are interred. After Myra's death Lois married David and Lois will join Myra and David when her time comes.
Lois shared this insightful comment on aging. "It's an odd time for all of us who are either anticipating becoming 90 or just 90 or a year past 90. Pending a myriad of variables and forces, we are pondering how we are supposed to respond to various things, age-adjusted. Or at least I am."

Here is a little retro contemplation from Elizabeth (Libby) Bergamini Lucas about a couple of classmates we have lost.  Jane Sanborn Ergood's mother was an opera singer from Baltimore who sang internationally."  CA St. John Gebhardt was touring the Life Magazine editorial floor in 1955. As she passed an editor he said, "I don't care what that girl can do but hire her." Many of us remember CA, very beautiful with her natural silver blond hair. 

Dee Lamb Barstow reports that she spent the summer in NH as usual. Her big birthday was celebrated at a wonderful gathering of 45 extended family members at Kendall Farm in MA. It was the perfect venue for such a variety of ages, as it had something for everyone, from bumper boats to zip line to golf driving range. Her sons and daughters-in-law decorated the tent beautifully, and the meal was topped off by a wonderful homemade cake and the Farm’s famous ice cream. Dee was also feted at several smaller gatherings hosted by NH friends.

 Sidney Mautner Reed celebrated her 91st birthday with her daughter and grand daughter and they had a grand time together. Sidney lives at Kenwood, a retirement home in Minniapolis, MN, and had a visit from classmate Marlene Strum Zeiler who was attending the wedding of her grandson nearby.  

Elizabeth (Win) Pettus Losa took her novice vows in the Society of St. Anna the Prophet in Atlanta, GA. SSAP is an Episcopal religious order of women over 50 who live a vowed life serving Christ beyond parish boundaries in elder care, pastoral outreach, worship, and service. Because it is a dispersed community Win will not be moving to GA.

 Jan Curtis Green is the coauthor of "The Breeding Birds of Minnesota", a comprehensive,detailed, illustrated history of Minnesota's breeding birds, the first published in nearly a century. Coauthor Jan adds that she is not just about birds. She and her husband John, moved from the house they had built in an adjacent township to Duluth, MN, to Ecumen Lakeshore, a congregate living facility on the shore of Lake Superior. Their apartment is right on the shore and has a 180 degree view of the Lake. Their 2 daughters have husbands and good careers and they have 5 grandchildren scattered across the US. With 2 family homes back in the east, both managed as trusts, John and Jan still say that they are from New England although they have lived in MN since 1958.

Pam Moody Harkins has worked as a bagger for 2 years at her local market and still loves her job. The cashiers are wonderful and help with the bagging when necessary; the supervisors are lovely, and she gets hugged at least 3 times every week when she starts her job. Schmoozing with customers makes the 31/2 hours go fast. Pam also completed a 5K race in April 2023 and is now in training for one this year. Go Pam!







February 2024


Seven MHC graduates live in Riverwood, a CCRC in NH.  Pam Moody Harkins decided that a MHC luncheon would be a good idea and she enlisted Joan Haskell Vicinus to organize the group. In addition to the 2 1955’ers Anne Haskell Knight, Joan’s sister, class of 1959, will attend, as well as 4 others.

Marlene Strum Zeiler has shared this great report about her life from 1951 to the present. "In 1951 I started my freshman year at MHC. That was the beginning of a long love affair. In 1954 I started my senior year at Pearsons. In November my fiancee, Mike, received his orders to report to the airfield in California for the start of his 2 year service obligation. I sadly left my “life” at MHC and was off to California where we were to live for the next two years. I graduated from Stanford, but my heart will always be at Holyoke.

We came to NYC, both of us working in the city. Mike eventually started his PhD studies at the New School as I proceeded to have a baby and then another! Mike got a job in the psychology department of Wellesley College. It felt right for me, as we moved on to the campus. Mike started as an experimental psychologist, as I proceeded to have another baby. This was a blissful start to an interesting life. I joined a psychology class who worked with Mike on his grant demonstrating behavioral techniques in teaching with severely impaired women who had been housed at the Fernald School for many years. We were at Wellesley for 5 great years.

We moved on to the psychology department at the University of Iowa. It was interesting to live in a college town. The town and the university and friends became our whole lives. It was wonderful. I worked at Goodwill teaching reading to adults who had not come out of school with reading skills. This was quite rewarding. We also had another baby!  

Our last stop, academically, was Emory University . Mike stayed there for the rest of his 46 year career. I worked for the State of Georgia as a senior psychologist at two hospitals, first with children, and then adults. This was such a fulfilling job. Both hospitals were operated on the behavior techniques. Then came the midlife crisis. The hospitals were trying to empty and put people in the community and I knew I was ready to move on. It was almost “the light bulb” effect when I thought of a book shop. Mike and I scouted Atlanta and I found a small empty store near Emory. Tall Tales Book Shop just celebrated its 46th year. I sold it when I was 80 and it was 35! I moved twice and enlarged it. But it is still a small neighborhood shop. Since it was just me and not some large corporation, I always had to be careful about buying. I tried to have the inventory reflect deep love of great literature and everyday life. This is where the fabulous education I had at MHC comes into the story. I feel that my education at Holyoke was a bedrock for me. I didn’t know how much my years there influenced me until later. Looking back, I know how much it meant for me."

Karen Zehner Lucas graduated from MHC in the nursing program so she was officially awarded her degree in 1956 but she is definitely a member of the Class of ‘55. Karen lives at Tysons Corner in VA as does her daughter. She spends a lot of time in several of her cottages at Scientists Cliffs in the Chesapeake Bay area. Her son is there also. Even though she was recovering from a broken fibula, Karen was in the garden beginning spring planting. She is upbeat and full of energy.

Joanne Thomas Pope and her husband live in Seattle, WA. She is in good health and has 2 60-year-old children and 2 grandchildren living nearby. 

Joan Stauffer Sowers and her husband, Geoff, live in Cornwall Manor, a CCRC in Cornwall, PA. Their family was among the founders of Cornwall Manor. The Sowers moved to Cornwall 19 years ago from Lebanon, NH, where Geoff owned a printing business. Ten years ago they moved from a house to an apartment. They no longer travel, but remain active in their church and help in the community library, which is located upstairs in their building. Their daughter lives nearby, and their son in Columbus, OH. They have 8 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.

Dee Barstow Lamb and Pam Moody Harkins have joined Willie Willenbock Leonard and Ann “Tommy” Tomlinson Edmundson as Newshounds.








April 2024