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the pulteney st. SURVEY To submit news: • The preferred option is to submit directly to your class correspondent, whose contact information is printed beneath your college/class heading on the following pages. If possible, please use e-mail. • If your class or the name of your correspondent is absent, send news to Classnotes Editor, Alumni House, classnotes Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. 14456-3397. Or e-mail us at [email protected] or weeden@ chief was a tall motherly woman from (I am certain that I did not know this as a hws.edu. Class correspondents WS ’33 and earlier Vermont, who was able to make popovers Hobart undergraduate.) for all of us one weekend morning. That are needed for the Classes of Lib Eaton White, 160 Jay Street, Geneva, is some accomplishment. By the next year WS’35, WS’37, H’41, H’42, H’45, N.Y. 14456-3212 we were already eating excellent food in WS’46, WS’47, H’47, WS ’49, WS’51, WS’52, H’55, WS’58, H’79. Not a word from anybody, but I’m still the dining room of the new Comstock H ’36, ’37, and ’38 hanging on - even went to a family wed- House, waited on by hired young women Interested? Contact Kathy Killius ding. Harry ’70 and Amy did the driving in uniforms and white aprons. Bill Scan- Norman H. Ludlow, Jr., 1121 Clinton Avenue Regan ’82 or Jared Weeden ’91 at to Cape Cod. The groom was my bother, dling was not yet a student at Hobart. S, Rochester, N.Y. 14620 (315) 781-3700. Pat Eaton’s ’37 grandson. We got to see Gordon VanHooft ’38 writes: “It’s that the vows and ring ceremony; and we soon time of the year that seems to come met up with Steve, Karen, and Sophie. I H ’35 and earlier around faster as we get older. As I ap- Deadlines also had a chance to visit with old friends proach my 92nd birthday, I am feeling the John and Marjorie Hovorka, who came to Carl B. Taylor, 773 Augusta Avenue, Morgan- Submit news when it occurs. Don't town, W.Va. 26501-6271 best that I have in some time. But, that Geneva in 1963 and bought my mother’s came after an extended period of fluid wait until an issue of The Pulteney St. house shortly after she died. John came Word came recently that left me, so far as retention. After I lost 15 pounds, I came Survey arrives. from MIT to take over the Physics Depart- I know, perhaps the only survivor in the back to normal. Both Karen and Dick do ment after Haussman’s death. class of 1935. A recent letter from Mar- get here for visits to check up on me. All is jorie Kohankie Earl ’35 stated that her well with them, and we all keep in touch husband, William “Bill” E. Earl ’35, left with Anita’s sister, Millicent, who still lives family home in Lodi, N.Y. She is the author WS ’34 this world on June 17 after a brief illness. in her home. During the year here there of “History of Lodi Point,” and “Silas He and I made up one-half of the total is variety of activities to keep us as busy Halsey, Lodi Pioneer,” articles in Life in the Dr. Ethel Cermak Tompkins, 603 Windrush class enrollments in Prof. Woodman’s Latin as we want to be. Different movies are Finger Lakes magazine and numerous other Bay Drive, Tarpon Springs, Fla. 34680; classes 1, 2, 3, and 4. (Bob Loew ’35 was scheduled, many in our auditorium and freelance works. She is active in DAR, [email protected] one of the others.) Bill went from Hobart others on our TV. Some excellent musical Historical Society and Twentieth Century to the Law School at U. of Buffalo. During and other performances are scheduled Club. Janice Humphrey Wildman has a I have been slow at sending in news lately, busy life in Louisville, Ky. in a retirement but there is some. I thought I lost Lucile his lifetime, in addition to heading up a law along with speakers on many topics. I firm, he served as District Attorney for participate in an excellent public affairs center. Her son, Spencer, lives nearby, and Holtby Harford, but in June came a letter they have dinner every Monday. Sarah explaining that in 2006, Lucile left her Niagara Co. for 12 years. He was within a discussion group once a month. I still write month of his 94th birthday. articles for the local newspaper, but it (Sally) Jenkins Salo keeps the library home of 21 years in Englewood, Fla., to book sale successful in San Lorenzo, try an assisted living center in Venice. She Making use of excellent health until becomes more and more difficult to type; very recently, I continued to both practice my hands are quite crippled. Next June, Calif. Helen Hodge Hofer and her sister found that she didn’t really like to have her Mildred Hodge have apartments in Pen- life managed by others and was fortunately and teach my “retirement hobby” of if all goes well, Dick plans to drive me to “Seat Weaving.” I estimate that over some Hobart for my 70th reunion, and Karen field after ten years of spending winters able to go back to her own home. She left in Florida. Sally Visscher Starrett has her computer in the assisted living center 20 years of teaching classes in the local will go to Middlebury on the same dates th lived in Clearwater, Fla., for 37 years. She for others to use. She is still in a wheel- Community Adult Evening School, I have for her 40 . The second recipient of the taught more than 200 young adults the Van Hooft Endowed Scholarship is in her is active in the Episcopal Church, travels chair and is doing well, reading, knitting, frequently to visit family in N.J., Va., and visiting and occasionally playing a hand of craft of re-seating chairs and stools: caning, second year at William Smith. The first rush, and splints—my secondary “legacy” recipient is now a research assistant at the Maine. She has nine grandchildren and five bridge. She has enjoyed visits from Pres. great grandchildren. Her advice is “always Gearan and others from the Colleges. I following my 17 years on the Faculty at U. of R. Medical Center and taking gradu- West Virginia University as a family and ate courses. Karen has been on the staff look on the bright side.” Margaret only wish I could go as far as Englewood to (Peggy) Makeel Palmer lives with her visit her myself. Lucile is one of the tough rural sociologist. Declining health brought at Arizona State University for the past this to an end a few months ago. Having 20 years and is now executive editor of daughter, Susan, and family in Locke. She ones. keeps busy with household tasks and Ethel Seeber Hill was feted by her received no word about any others of my the Bilingual Press that she has been with th classmates for some three years, it is pos- for about 30 years. Dick continues as part visiting with grandchildren. Helen Scobell family on her 95 birthday this year. I was Rose died at 90 in 2005. She retired at 89 invited but couldn’t go. Ethel has lived in sible that I may be the lone survivor from owner of a Sales Engineering firm. He and the Class of ’35 at Hobart. Chris divide time between a home in Sha- from Scobell Chemicals, sold the company. an assisted living home since her husband News is from her daughter, Wendy Rose. died. Her vision has failed like many of us. Two historical thoughts: (1) “co-ed” ron, Mass. and a cottage on Cape Cod.” classes at the Colleges didn’t become a Elizabeth (Betty) Redcleft Kann ’35 is Her children are close by and very atten- at the Episcopal Retirement Home in Cin- tive, taking her on vacations to the Jersey regular practice until the late 1930’s. (2) William Smith, a bachelor Geneva nursery- cinnati. She enjoys books on tape, many shore. WS ’36 friends and activities in her home-like My story recently is medical visits and man whose money was largely responsible for establishing William Smith College, was Alta E. Boyer, 8679 Mill Street, Lodi, N.Y. living. Mildred Myer Leary ’35 lives with three surgeries on my husband, Victor, her husband, Maurice, on Cayuga Lake in now 94. I’m still going strong after a quick in communication for many years with the 14860 “ladies from Seneca Falls,” including Eliza- Romulus, N.Y. radical mastectomy. I am healing rapidly, enough to go to a live concert to hear beth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. A Centennial survey of class members the elegant Dame Kiri Tekanawa. I am Surely he must have been well aware of produced the following news. Several are also strong. Perhaps our strength has the achievement of Elizabeth Blackwell, residing at home; some are in assisted care something to do with our meals at William first woman physician and graduate of the centers. Only a few have kept in touch Smith. In our freshman year, we ate in the “Geneva Medical Academy,” for whom with college friends over the years. Alta basement of Williams Hall. The kitchen one of the dorms up on the Hill in named. Boyer is the fifth generation to live in her 26 / the pulteney st.