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28 HOOD MAGAZINE | WINTER 2010 Giving Participation: 32.14% · Total Class Dollars: $14,775 V. Jean Wheatley Hilchuk 180 Landover Place, Apt. 374 Longwood, FL 32750 (407) 767-6863 jhilchuk@aol.com Our condolences to the families of Roberta Maxwell Gilﬁllan who died May 30, 2009, in Lake Worth, Fla.; Helen Eisenhower Mueser who died Oct. 9, 2009, in Albany, N.Y.; and Elizabeth Bogue Obertreis who died Aug. 5, 2009. Our sympathy to Mildred Easterbrook Patzig whose husband Walter died Oct. 19, 2008. We were represented at our 65th reunion in June with ﬁve of our classmates present. They were: Sandy Vonderheide Rhoderick, Eleanor Messerly Harner M.A. ’78, Beulah Munshower Sommer, Virginia Gambrill Hendrickson and Janet Coblentz Cover—all of whom live in Maryland. I (Jean Wheatley Hilchuk) have been in touch with several other classmates. I talked with Bev Langhorne Kirill who lives in Jacksonville near her daughter. She still spends her summers in Maine away from the Florida heat. Mim Fowler Orth had sad news to report as her daughter Mary Lynn died this year of cancer. Fortunately her son lives nearby and is quite a help. Mary Lou Chorley Touart and her husband are in a retirement center. They have three daughters, one son and ﬁve granddaughters ranging in age from 12 to 24. Mary Lou is the editor of the paper in the retirement center. She reports that her roommate Margie Muth Alibasah is not well. She keeps in touch with her through e-mail. Anne Schwab Dulabahn reports visiting her brother in Maryland. Dottie Ford Krieger’s husband Bill reports that she is doing well. He has become chief house husband and does the cooking, cleaning, etc. They held a memorial walk in Dottie’s honor for Alzheimer’s. Last May while I was in Daytona Beach I had lunch with Mary Ann Eddington Horsey. She is doing much better than in previous years. Both of us are wending our way with walkers these days. Giving Participation: 28.57% · Total Class Dollars: $26,775 Georgia Dyer Burnett 7101 Bay Front Drive, Apt. 225 Annapolis, MD 21403 (410) 216-6645 lbkbk4@earthlink.net 65th Reunion June 4-6 Our condolences to the families of Anne Lyria Welch Bird who died June 21, 2009, in Columbia, Mo.; Charlotte Eck Hannan who died Sept. 2, 2009, in Wyomissing, Pa.; and Jean Truss Smith who died July 30, 2009, in Berlin, Md. Our sympathy to Carolyn Brown Aldridge whose husband George died Nov. 13, 2009; and Muriel Duklauer Gantz whose husband John died Nov. 1, 2009. died March 19, 2009, in Casper, Wyo. Our sympathy to Mary Ratzburg Blackman whose aunt Miriam Beery Seltzer ’33 died Feb. 16, 2009; and to Sarah Thomas Allnutt whose sister Anne Thomas Smith ’41 died March 12, 2009. A welcome call from Barbara Pace Henry reveals that she has moved to an assisted living facility where she feels “at home, having worked at a similar institution doing occupational therapy.” Her kids are close by, she says. This we ﬁnd almost always ﬁgures prominently in the decision to go into any type of retirement community. Barbie’s new address is 12350 Bass Lake, Chardon, Ohio 44024. Another Hood alum who sent us an e-mail after reading the summer 2008 edition of Class News and Notes (sorry to take so long in reporting this small world item) is Angela Schmuck Bond ’96. Angela majored in interior design at Hood. She wrote to tell me that she was “the lead designer for selecting the ﬁnishes, furniture, fabrics and window treatment throughout the whole community building” at Ashby Ponds, an Erickson Community where Howie and I (Jane Seymour Wilson H’71) have been living since last September. Angela did a great job! She also had very nice things to say about other Erickson communities. Our experience here moves us to agree. A check on Nancy Andrews Hastings, who continues to turn a deaf ear to attempts to interest her in communal living, reveals that she has broken “the other hip.” Classmates will perhaps remember that she broke a hip on her way to our 50th reunion. She recovered from that one. This time, determined to resume all her normal activities, including driving her car, she “does everything they (the physical therapists) tell her to do and then some.” A recent stroke has given Nancy another opportunity to “downsize” into a retirement community. She’s still holding out. When we last spoke with Sara Robinson Bitler she was working on a date on which all of her children and numerous grandchildren could come together to celebrate the 60th anniversary of her marriage to Glenn. Notice of the death of Esther Finck Weisslitz April 10, reported by her daughter Margaret Jackson, prompted a request for some of the details of Esther’s life. She lived in New York City and worked for the NYC Department of Welfare, where she met her husband. The newlyweds moved to Boxford, Mass., and had three children, one of whom became a doctor, another a pharmacist and the third a computer software developer. While raising her children, Esther began writing poetry and became a widely published poet under the name E.F. Weisslitz. After losing her husband and a daughter in the early ’80s, Esther made many cross-country trips and enjoyed time in Maine with her children and grandchildren until her death from lung cancer. She was able to remain in her apartment in an independent senior living complex in Boxford with the help of hospice care. Giving Participation: 31.65% · Total Class Dollars: $12,665 Catharine Smith Dunn 1410 Stokes Park Road Bethlehem, PA 18017 (610) 691-5653 kittysmithdunn@yahoo.com Giving Participation: 27.66% · Total Class Dollars: $13,025 Jane Seymour Wilson H’71 21075 Cardinal Pond Terrace HS202 Ashburn, VA 20147 (703) 724-1467 jw101224@gmail.com Our condolences to the families of Leila Moran who died Feb. 9, 2009; and Mildred Sloan Milliken who It is good to hear from those who responded to my request for news. Maybe once we hit the 80s there isn’t as much news but thanks to those who did respond. Our condolences to Marguerite Pease Emery whose sister Martha Pease Gamble ’42 died Aug. 27, 2009, in Bowling Green, Ohio. Our sympathy to the families of Lee “Fleet” Toombs Heinmets who died April 8, 2009; and Louise Swartz Maxwell who died Oct. 30, 2009, in Middletown, Pa. Lois Burrough Garman is living in the assisted living unit of the Continuing Care Retirement Community and is doing OK. She knows everyone by name but can’t remember what happened yesterday. She has difﬁculty walking and falls frequently but no broken bones, fortunately. Traveling is too difﬁcult to come to reunions but she says “hi” to all. Audrey Callaway Asbury spent four weeks recovering from a tainted ﬂu shot. She enjoys lunching with the Hoodies in Frederick monthly. Louray Forney Huang wrote that she keeps in touch with Ruth Aspen Bidwell who lives in a retirement community in Williamsburg. Ruth’s husband John has a travel business. Louray looked great when we saw her at the reunion in June. Liz Geiser has ﬁnally moved out of New York City! She now lives at 114 Moorings Park Drive, #A605, Naples, FL 34105. She still goes back to Denver to teach two publishing courses every summer. You can’t keep a good Hood gal down or retired! Harriet Green Scott is recovering from a knee replacement but is still going strong! Lorraine Ihlefeldt Bulba says her travel days are over due to Joe’s illness but they still keep in touch with grandchildren in Florida, Maine and Washington. Lorraine Kersey Moore’s biggest event of the summer was their family trip (12 out of 18 family members) to Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vt. In October they went to Connecticut to see old friends. They are having a hard time ﬁnding a couple to play tennis with. Any takers?! Marty Knouse Schaeffer lives in New Oxford and was spending the day with Joy Derr M.A. ’93, C’03, director of development communications at Hood, when my message arrived. Joy reports that Hood is doing well, having a healthy enrollment and favorable outlook. Marty is busy examining, preserving and organizing church archives. Phyllis Peak Sullivan and husband are doing well. They attended an Elderhostel in Black Mountain, N.C., visiting the Cherokees, Great Smoky Mountains Railroad and the Biltmore Residence. In November they go to their timeshare in Kill Devil Hills, visiting the Pea Island Refuge where they see the snow geese. In February they will head to Sanibel Island! Busy travelers! Mary Lib Reeder Tiller and Dick stay close to home. She and Dick are in fairly good health but are content to let son Richard and family visit them. Renie Quynn Collmus is another traveler. She ﬂew to Paris with daughter Betsy where they met her other daughter Cathy. They visited the Channel Islands, the Normandy Beaches and took a boat ride down the Seine to Paris. She and son Dan are going to Germany in December for two weeks. She was probably the only member of our class to attend the dedication of the new athletic ﬁeld and complex at Hood. Renie, Phyl Peak Sullivan’s husband and I (Kitty Smith Dunn) share the trials and tribulations of dealing with macular degeneration. We discuss our shots and vision (or lack of it) when we get together at a reunion! Mel Weir Peter was heading back to Naples, Fla., until next summer. She had cataracts removed and now can see without glasses! She looks forward to seeing Elizabeth “Jonesie” Jones Hesse in Naples. Sounds like a mini-reunion with them and Liz! Mel has been in touch with Lois Glatthar Mapes who lives with a caretaker. Her memory is very poor. Mel’s one grandson graduated from Ohio Univ., which she attended, and her oldest granddaughter had her fourth baby, bringing the count of her great-grandchildren to eight! Is that a record for our class? Another grandson Tom IV, is living in Jordan, working for Global News Service. Look for his byline in articles on Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. As for your reporter, I keep busy with singing, ringing bells, visiting in a hospital, doing Medicare Part D counseling during November and December, doing t

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