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4_ kDbn We Want You to Know This is one of a series of information sheets that explain some of the many steps being taken in the cleanup of the former Henry Wood's Sons paint factory site on the Wellesley College campus. In this update, we want you to know about our efforts to determine possible risks to the environment in the site area. This update has been prepared by Wellesley College.
An Ecological Risk Assessment of the Former Henry Wood's Sons Paint Factory Site at Wellesley College Our efforts to monitor, test and clean up contamination on the site are subject to the Massachusetts Contingency Plan (MCP), which is administered by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). In Phase Si- II of the MCP, the College undertook a Comprehensive Site Investigation, to determine the nature and extent of .. .. - ozai!~ metal contamination resulting from the former factory's operations. GO- Using information derived from our extensive testing of soils, sediments, groundwater and surface water in the area, the College developed a Comprehensive Human Health Risk Assessment, which is explained in a separate update. The College also undertook an Ecological Risk Assessment, to identify and address potential risks to the environment in Lake Waban, Paintshop Pond, the uplands and the wetlands.
The Risk Assessment Process An Ecological Risk Assessment is a process that evaluates the likelihood that adverse ecological effects may aa2i1flsO~Pe~p occur, or are occurring, as a result of exposure to one or more stressors. These stressors may be chemical, physical or biological. This Ecological Risk Assessment used an approach that involved visual observations, field sampling, toxicity testing and chemical and-statistical analysis. What We lEvaluated r We evaluated risks, based on possible harmful effects to ,Fish and Wildlife Species, Habitat, and the Ecosystem. Wildlife Species include the birds Habitat is the area where wildlife and Ecosystem refers to the relationship that either live or feed in the uplands, plant species'live and reproduce, and and interdependency among wetlands, Lake Waban and Paintshop includes the uplands;.wetlands, Lake interacting species (animals, plants, Pond; mammals such as chipmunks, Waban and Paintshop Pond. physical environment in GOW~I1JrnUa~§i~W~U etc.) and the voles and red foxes that live or which they exist. This includes the food feed in the uplands and wetlands; chain, where animals eat fish that have , I amphibians such as frogs that live- eaten plants, which have accumulated and feed in the wetlands and the fish metal contamination. The ecosystem and clams of -Lake Waban and- N. / includes all areas of the uplands, Paintshop Pond. ' ..Awetlands Lake Waban and Paintshop Pond.
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At Lake Waban we evaluated the following: In the wetlands we evaluated: The ability of warm water fish species, typically found in similar The presence and condition of vegetation typical of recreational ponds in New England, to live and reproduce. similar wetlands environments. The protection of wildlife species (e.g. waterfowl, including birds The ability of wildlife, typical of similar wetlands environrnents, to such as ducks and heron) that may use the Lake as a habitat. live and reproduce. - The presence of endangered and threatened species. The maintenance of wetlands and wetlands functions. (such as the protection of drinking water and groundwater, flood At Paintshop Pond we evaluated the same criteria as for Lake prevention, pollution and storm damage control, protection of Waban. fisheries and wildlife). In the uplands we evaluated: The presence of endangered and threatened species. The presence and condition of vegetation (e.g., trees and shrubs), typical of other forested areas, that border on lakes and ponds. The ability of local wildlife, typical of these areas, to live and reproduce. The presence of endangered and threatened species.
Resulfts of the IEcologica Risk Assessment I>- I.'-, ~ in Lake Waihan Fish The numbers and types of fish found are comparable to those found in similar bodies of water. The fishire accumulating metals in their systems at levels above those found in fish living in similar bodies of water. Some fish are growing more slowlyThere has also been a reduction in the numbers of amphipods, one source of prey for fish. Wildlife Food chain modeling predicted potential risks (non-lethal effects) for birds and mammals that feed on the -oots of aquatic plants. No risks were identified for other birds and mammals using the Lake as a food source (i.e. eating aquatic plant leaves and stems, or clams) or as a habitat.
Surface Water The surface water of the Lake exceeds Ambient Water Quality /f Criteria for lead and other metals at a few locations. M ~mm 3 m In Paintshop Pond Fish & Wildlife There appear to be low or negligible risks to fish and wildlife using the Pond as a food source or habitat. Surface Water Some surface water exceeds Ambient Water Quality Criteria.
In the Uplands Wildlife Bird and mammal populations appear similar to those of other New England areas, with the possible exception of fewer chipmunks than expected inside the fenced area. Earthworms are accumulating metals. Food chain modeling predicts risks to wildlife that eat plants and earthworms at the former paint factory location. There is low potential risk predicted for other species (such as a red fox) that eat small mammals. Plant Life Evidence of the effects of contamination is seen in wooded areas of the uplands, immediately south of Paintshop Pond (in the area of former paint factory). Vegetation there is stressed and thinner than expected. Plants in the uplands are accumulating metals. En the Wetlands Wildlife Bird and mammal populations appear similar to those of other New England wetlands. There are far fewer frogs present than expected. Earthworms are accumulating metals. Plant Life The types, numbers and conditions of plants and other vegetation are similar to other New England wetlands. Plants are accumulating metals. Water Some metal concentrations are elevated above Ambient Water Quality Criteria. Wetlands Functions With the exception of flood control, wetlands functions have been compromised, due to the presence of contaminants.
There are no known endangered species in Lake Waban, Paintshop Pond, the uplands or the wetlands.
This is one in a series of information sheets designed to answer some of the questions that you and your neighbors. may have, regarding the former paint factory site and the cleanup process. We recognize that keeping an open dialogue with you is an essential part of our commitment to safeguarding human health, the environment and community well-being.
If you would like more information, please contact: Mr. Barry Monahan Mr. Steven Johnson Assistant Vice President for Administration Massachusetts Department.of Environmental Protection - Wellesley College 205 Lowell Street 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 . Wilmington, MA 01887 (781) 283-2386 (978) 661-7710 (0 = 0 o So o
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Published fall, hazardous Paintshop Pond site and recreated an ecosystem. winter, spring, and summer by the Wellesley College Alumnae Association. Editorial and Business Office: Alumnae Wellesley's Quest to Be Centered Association, Wellesley College, 106 23 by Peter Fergusson. Where is the center of this far-flung Central St., Wellesley, MA 02481-8203. Telephone 781-283-2341. Fax 781-283- and beautiful campus? In seeking a site for a new 3638. Periodicals postage paid at Boston, Mass. Postmaster: Send Form 3579 to building project, the College came face-to-face with this Wellesley magazine, r4 Wellesley College, ff' .' I generations-old question. 106 Central St., Wdllesley, MA 02481-8203. Wellesley Policy: 2003 Alumnae Achievement Awards One of the objectives of Wellesley, in the best College tradition, is to present interest Barbara Loomis Jackson '50 L ing, thought-provoking material, even 30 though it may be controversial. Publication Reforming Education, One Administrator at a Time of material does not necessarly indicate endorsement of the author's viewpoint by by Noreen O'Donnell '77 the magazine, the Alumnae Association, or Wellesley College. Niramol Bulakul Suriyasat '54 Wellesky magazine reserves the right to edit 33 and, when necessary, revise all material that Beyond Business as Usual it accepts for publication. Unsolicited by Jennifer E. Garrett '98 photographs will be published at the dis- cretion of the editor. 3 6 Hillary Rodham Clinton '69 KEEP WELLESLEY UP-TO-DATE! The Alumnae Office has a voice mail- The Making of a Washington Insider box to be used by alumnae for updating by Gail Russell Chaddock '72 their computer records. The number is 1-800-339-5233. Messages from this mailbox will be retrieved daily. When you call, you will be F..A.R.T directed to give your current name, your M E N T S name when you were at Wellesley, and your class year You may report changes in 2 Letters to the Editor your mailing address, employment, or graduate study. Please specify which infor- mation you are updating, and leave a tele- 4 From the President by Diana Chapman Walsh '66 phone number where you can be reached, 5 Window on Wellesley by Alice M. Hummer, You can also update your information on- line when you visit the Alumnae Association Jennifer E. Garrett '98, Jennifer M. Flint, and Liz J. Ruark web site at www.wellesley.edu/Alumi/. 13 Ex Libris Jean Mulvey Friedmann '49, editor DIRECT LINE PHONE NUMBERS College Switchboard 781-283-1000 39 Sed Ministrare Alumnae Office 781-283-2331 Magazine Office 781-283-2341 42 Class Notes Admission Office 781-283-2270 Center for Work and 77 In Memoriam-Elisabeth Kaiser Davis '32 Service 781-283-2352 Resources Office 781-283-2217 Internet Address http://www.wellesley 88 End Note-Through a Glass Darkly, in Timbuktu .edu/Alum/ by Barbara W Carlson '50 COVERAND INSIDEFRONT COVER PHOTOGRAPHSBY MICHAELLTcH Wellesley Spring 2003 1 Tatum's book comes with dis- Wellesley LER cussion questions and is an excel- lent starting place for provocative tj eT tq R and sensitive discussions of race, diversity, and identity. I highly rec- Published quarterly by the Wellesley College ommend it for all of us. Alumnae Association, an autonomous Pamm McNeil Farley '82 corporate body, independent of the College. Wellesley welcomes short letters (a incorrectly. Segregation is the Huntington Station, N.Y The Association is dedicated to connecting maximum length of 300 words is inability to congregate together. alumnae to the College and to each other. ideal) relating to articles or items The only one stopping the congre- As a member of the senior class at WCAA Board of Directors: that have appearedin recent issues of gation is the woman in the mirror. Wellesley in 1953-54, 1 find the magazine. Send your remarks When she sees groups congregated, President Walsh's article on diver- President Wellesley magazine, are they just racially or ethnically sity ("From the President," winter Christine Grimstad Franklin '61 to the Editor, 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA similar? Or does she also see '03) a tad too mea culpa for my First Vice President 02481-8203, or e-mail comments beyond the obvious and notice liking. While there may not have Laura Daignault Gates '72 when all the jocks sit together, or been many women of color to [email protected]. all the wealthy sit together, or all among my classmates, they were Second Vice President Letters may be edited, and the the partyers sit together? Is it outstanding individuals whose dis- Kristen Lewis Denzinger '81 editorreserves the right to conclude Wellesley's fault her daughter tinguished lives have served as role Treasurer/Secreta,y discussions of a particular topic didn't make friends as an extra in models for those who followed. Ellen Genat Hoffman '68 on the "Letters" page. the filming of Mona Lisa Smile, The fact that there weren't as Program Chairs: when white women had an exclu- many ethnicities represented on Diversity at Academic Programs sive opportunity to participate? campus then had nothing to do Suzanne Moranian Bolles '74 Wellesley I sincerely hope that Ro- with the College's acceptance policy I found it sad that Harriet Lewis binson's daughter becomes more or any form of discrimination. It Alumnae Admissions Representatives Robinson's daughter ("Letters," comfortable at Wellesley around was due to a lack of opportunity Judy Ann Chen '83 winter '03) is so uncomfortable those who don't look like her or at lower levels of education, which Career and Service with the diversity at Wellesley that share similar upbringings and limited the number of minority Karen L Gentleman '77 she's thinking about transferring. experiences. It's an important part applicants who met Wellesley's Alumnae/Student Communications But it's even sadder that both of the college experience, If she high standards. Khadi A. Wurie '95 mother and daughter's discomfort continues at Wellesley, she has the I feel a strong sense of resent- comes only because they are unfa- to discover that even ment that Wellesley in the '50s is 1) Annual Giving opportunity miliar with their inability to exer- referred to as a "destructive era of Joanne "Judy" Strakosch '79 the Wellesley students who may cise their white privilege over the look alike (by sharing racial, the past," and a "disorienting,, Clubs daughter's minority roommate ethnic, or cultural backgrounds) experience." True, there were no Rieben '58 Constance Follett and friends-young women who are still vastly diverse and anything separate student unions, no "eth- Class Officers and Reunion took part in a bridge program but stereotypical. nic bonding" orientations in those Penny Wiedenman Vigilante '80 designed for students whose par- I highly recommend that days. Classmates of color were Communications ents may not have attended any both mother and daughter read simply accepted as "one of us." Karen Grigsby Bates '73 college, let alone Wellesley. These Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting This integration, it seems to me, two white women from Maine Together in the Cafeteria? And was far more meaningful than a Member at Large seem to mistakenly believe that Other ConversationsAbout Race, "diversity" of cliques. Marilyn Twomey Smith '70 sharing a cultural, racial, or ethnic by Beverly Tatum. The current As for the feeling of "increas- Ex officiis: background or sexual orientation president of Spelman College, ing discomfort" and "emotional Jessica Shlasko CF/DS '98, Betsy Wood makes for "microwave" or lasting Tatum writes, "If I have not been shock" expressed by some minor- Knapp '64, Alice M. Hummer friendships. exposed to positive images of mar- ity students while the movie was Alumnae Trustees: Wellesley did not show poor ginalized groups, am I seeking being filmed on campus, this mod- Lia Gelin Poorvu '56, Isabel Johnston judgment in holding "cultural them out, expanding my own ern tendency to "suffer" from Stewart '61, Lynn Sherr '63, Alecia open houses" the first night of ori- knowledge base for myself and my slights endured by others is akin to DeCoudreaux '76, Marisa Van Saanen '01 entation. Robinson's daughter children? Am I acknowledging the demand that reparations for Alumnae Association Senior Staff: showed poor judgment in sitting and examining my own preju- slavery be given to those who have in her dorm room sulking instead dices, my own rigid categoriza- never been enslaved. As far as Executive Director of attending any of the open houses, tions of others, thereby minimiz- I'm concerned, it's a guilt trip that Jessica Shlasko CFDS '98 but that would require that she ing the adverse impact they might carries no weight and isn't going Directorof Classes and Reunion take some initiative to become a have on my interactions with anywhere. Amy O'Toole guest in unfamiliar territory. At the those I have categorized? Unless Fifty years ago, Wellesley stu- Director of Clubs least, Robinson can't hold we engage in these and other dents didn't need to be "Erin Susan Lohin Wellesley responsible for her conscious acts of reflection and Brockovitched" into awareness by daughter's inability to exercise reeducation, we easily repeat the the likes of Julia Roberts. We had Directorof Special Programs social graces by introducing herself process with our children. We teach plenty of astute, involved, and sen- Thaddeus Thompson to the other students in her dorm what we are taught. The unexam- sitive mentors on our faculty. We Directorof Travel and Regional Programs and dining hall (especially the ined prejudices of the parents are may have been more naive in some Cy Britt other "miserable and friendless" passed on to the children. It is not ways than today's students, but we Alumnae InforrnationSystems Manager whites, if she can find any). our fault, but it is our responsibility were not blind to what was hap- Michelle Gillett '95 Robinson uses the term segregation to interrupt this cycle." pening in the world. Nor were we 2 Welesley Spring 2003 all a bunch of "twirling pastels" Having been a talent agent for 24 from families of privilege. years, I did a deal for my friend Lily Wellesley's current women of Lodge 'S1 to be etiquette consul- color should not be "shaken" by tant on the movie Mona Lisa Smile, the reality of the past. They should set at Wellesley in 1953. Lily had accept it with the satisfying knowl- been etiquette consultant for edge that things have changed and Martin Scorsese's Age of Innocence that they will be a proud and and James Mangold's Kate & inclusive part of a better future. Leopold. 5 Doris Schaffer O'Brien '54 I read the script and asked Lily Vandenberg Village, Calif. if anyone at Wellesley had read it. Lily said it was being rewritten. We Reel Life were both concerned with the con- teacher talent. As a newcomer to of paper in order to join the military I am writing in response to the tent. The script pictured Wellesley Texas, I walked past signs urging or enter job-training or apprentice- "From the President" piece in the girls of 1953 as only being students to "Beat the TAAS!" and ships programs, the very students winter '03 issue of Wellesley. interested in getting the "right" invitations to pre-test "pep rallies" for whom the test is most difficult, President Walsh writes about hav- man. I graduated from Wellesley in or post-test pizza parties. As an since it is based on standards from a ing Revolution Studios' Mona Lisa 1949 and remember Mildred economist, reading the school- college-preparatory curriculum. In Smile shot on campus last year, and McAfee's return to Wellesley as district ratings based on test scores, the name of "high stakes" and how it was not only a "jarring president after being head of the it seemed that the entire battery of preparation for the "global econo- experience" but was likely to cause WAVES during World War II. tests could be replaced by one my," we now have a system in "misperceptions . . . [about] The atmosphere when I question-"What is the median which aspiring mechanics and sol- Wellesley's diversity," and other arrived at Wellesley as a freshman family income of this district?"- diers cannot get a job because they horrific possibilities. was very serious. We felt we were without losing any predictive value. couldn't pass a physics exam. As a film-production and cos- being educated to be independent Kim's objection to the test, Because Kim also fits the pro- tume designer in Los Angeles, I am thinkers. There were no home- however, was as a citizen. Here in file of a student who typically does embarrassed at the stink Wellesley economics classes offered. The town Texas, the test results not only very well on such tests, her refusal seems to have made about this film. of Wellesley was dry All of the above prove, but perpetuate, a system in to take this one also became the Mona Lisa Smile, as far as I know, were problems in the script I read. which the inequities of school fund- subject of a great deal of curiosity is not a documentary about The magazine rushed to show ing among districts were so egre- and confusion. She's not a minority; Wellesley in the 1950s. It's a movie pictures of the auditions, but where gious that they were once found to her primary language is English; written by Lawrence Konner and was the story? amount to a violation of the US she doesn't have learning disabilities; Mark Rosenthal, who are referred I can only hope the script Constitution's equal-protection she isn't from an inner-city to somewhat snidely in the piece, as problems were addressed and that clause. School districts that perform school; her parents are well- though male writers well versed in the movie does well. I have great well on the test-even if they have educated and affluent; and her research techniques couldn't pos respect for Mike Newell, the direc- done nothing to produce these school is well-equipped. As a sibly know anything about what tor, who incidentally is from resuls-are rewarded. School dis- straight-A student she could, as her takes place at a women's college. England-far from "Hollywood." tricts that have the audacity, or just principal said, "obviously ace this For the members of the Jinny Grover Raymond '49 the plain bad luck, to operate in thing to the max." So why would Wellesley community who are Santa Monica, Calif. cities with more challenging student she care enough about it to go on uneducated about the filmmaking populations and fewer resources record against it, at the expense of process, please let me set the record Scoring the Tests are punished, frequently threatened her high-school diploma? straight. Choices are made in I read your article on standardized with closures and voucher replace- Her response- "A person does screenwriting and filmmaking that testing with particular interest ments. And guess who can afford not have to be personally affited by reflect marketing and demographic ("What's at Stake in 'High-Stakes' the better test-prep materials? an injustice in order to have the needs dictated by the studio, the Testing," winter '03). My 15-year- Guess which students are most authority, or the obligation, to say that producers, the principals' agents, old daughter, Kim, recently likely to get enriching, meaningful it's wrong. Just beause Fm allowed to and numerous other entities. A announced her decision to boycott educational experiences in addition ride in the front of the bus doesn't film is never a pure reflection of the Texas Assessment of Know- to test prep and skill drill? mean that I ought to be doing that" its subject. Didn't anybody see ledge and Skills (TAKS), the state- As a student, Kim sees the We will be parents of a Texas Titanic, for crying out loud? Stop mandated standardized test (for- "high stakes" aspect of the testing high-school dropout. And we could complaining and be grateful for merly the Texas Assessment of structure in action. For college- not be more proud. the free press come Oscar time! Academic Skills, TAAS). Because bound students like Kim, the "high Cathy Potts Marciniak '83 Andrea Finn '94 we live in the state where President stakes" are really "no stakes." No San Antonio, Texas Pasadena,Calif. Bush's high-stakes standardized- worthwhile institution of higher testing programs were first learning is going to refuse to accept Thanks for the special issue on edu- initiated, her decision, and an otherwise deserving student cation. I was interested in the com- my husband's and my sup- who has not taken a standardized mentary about "high-stakes" testing port of it, became the subject test. At my behest, she checked; by members of Wellesley's education of some national attention. there's no place on the Wellesley or department. As Professor Barbara As a parent, I thought Stanford applications for her TAKS Beatty notes, I have been a strong the test, and my daughter's test score. However, for students proponent of academic standards school's emphasis on it, who are not college-bound, the and high-quality tests. The members were simply a waste of stakes can be excessive. These are of the department apparently are instructional resources and the students who rely on that piece Continued on page 76 Wetestey spring 200-1 3 FERoR ESsIDE NT So often these days, I'm reminded of the exceptional degree to which the work of Wellesley is the work of the world. senior came by during my office hours the day before breaks of being human. But they are more than up to the task. -this column was due and told me a story that crystal- "The only world we've ever known," this 23-year-old said to lized for me some of what I wish each of you could me, "has been blue sky. And now it's gray. Just when the time has experience firsthand about the new Wellesley and its connec- come for us to learn how to fly." I grimaced. She smiled. "It's gray, tions to the Wellesley you knew well. It also underscored what but it's still hopeful, because people care. People are concerned I love about the work that I have the privilege to be doing here. about the future, and they are finding one another." It's a small story, as the meaningful ones so often are, if only we She was talking about the worldwide peace movement, but can sit still enough to feel their call. also about Wellesley and a "big change" she said she had wit- She was on her way to Washington, D.C., for an interview nessed over her four years. Having grown up in Korea and stud- later that day. She has been studying development economics ied in the States for seven years before arriving on campus as a and also spent last summer in South Africa at a conflict- first-year student, she had been struck initially by the wide range resolution project, with support from one of our many newly of experiences and perspectives students were bringing to campus, endowed internship opportunities, funded and yet the extent to which this rich reser- through the Wellesley Campaign. Her voir of knowledge and insight remained summer experience was made possible isolated, individual, personal. (as PBS would say) through the generosity But now it's different, she said, credit- of alumnae like you. ing the proliferation of international I first heard about this student's inter- internships, study-abroad programs, faculty- est in development economics in a sophis- led Wintersession courses overseas, service and the Tanner and Ruhlman ticated presentation she made last October, initiatives, I at the second annual Tanner Conference. conferences for having created a new I She was on a panel with three other stu- culture on campus in which students' dents who had worked on micro-lending individual experiences and commitments in India, in Bangladesh, and at a US policy around the globe have been transformed institute. Visiting alumnae from the World into "a shared discourse about world Bank attended that session and, deeply affairs." And she wanted me to hear her impressed by the quality of the work, ideas about how we can reach out more invited this senior to Washington to discuss powerfully to Africa as that continent her future. That afternoon in my office, she approaches a crisis point. and I mused together with mutual pleasure, This student's sense that we have "Ah, the Wellesley network. . . ," so pleased to see this exciting come a long way and have more to do echoed the conclusions pre- opportunity opening for her. sented to me in late October by an Alumnae Advisory Forum on My door is open during my office hours to anyone who Wellesley's Global Education Initiative; this group of 13 distin- wants a word with the president. Students come for a whole vari- guished alumnae reviewed our progress in global education and ety of reasons, and not infrequently with specific requests. But offered strategic counsel. Their report was both affirming and sometimes, as I'm listening patiently for the request to drop, like challenging, as was my encounter with the senior. the dime in an old-fashioned pay phone, I slowly realize that the So often these days, I'm reminded of the exceptional visit is something entirely different. These are the ones (often degree to which the work of Wellesley-especially now-is seniors) who simply want me to know what Wellesley has done the work of the world. As we struggle on campus to thrash for them, what they have done for Wellesley, or both (the two are out our many differences-with intelligence, honesty, often intertwined). Sometimes they want me to know, too, how integrity, and compassion-we are, I believe, sowing seeds Wellesley could do even more for those who will follow. I cher- of peace as the world is at war. So much of what we are ish these conversations. doing here is aiming toward peaceful ends, standing for val- This senior and I got to talking about how the world ues of learning and reconciliation, attending to relation- looks to her generation at this portentous moment in history, ships, speaking from the heart, hearing each other out. As a question much on my mind of late. I've been worried, sad- we do this work, I hope, we are shaping a holding environ- dened. really, by the big challenges suddenly strewn in the ment for the possibility of peace, even as the skies are gray paths of the "baby-on-board" kids we baby-boomer parents with the clouds of war. naively thought we could insulate from the risks and heart- Diana Chapman Walsh '66 4 Wellesley spring 2003 A NOTEBOOK OF NEWS AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE CAMPUS BY AEICE M. HUMMER, JENNIFER F. GARRETT '98, JENNIFER M. FLINT, AND LIZ J. RUARK ESLEY The war in Iraq has touched the Wellesley community in many ways. Three weeks into the hostilities, Wellesley magazine asked four students how their lives and activities had changed as a result. V 0E W 5- FT H EM Home Front ADONA EL-MURR '03 my friends-regardless of where they are-who are protesting the BRUMMANA, LEBANON war and the repercussions they may face. I do not know how to comfort my Iraqi friend when she tells me her home in Baghdad An international-relationsmajor, has been bombed and that she has not been able to reach her fam- El-Murr has family in Lebanon ily. I do not know what to say to my American friends who are and friends from countries all so conflicted about the "you arc either with us or against us" dis- over the Middle East. course that has hindered open discussion. As an internationalstudent in the US, how did the start Has the atmosphere at Wellesley changed since the start of the war make you feel? of the war? The opportunities I have had since coming here-the freedoms, Both students and faculty have been organizing event after event, education, and values I have been exposed to-are ones I could not giving different views about what it means for America to be at find anywhere in the world. They need to be used and protected. war. The war has sparked more collaboration among the differ- The start of the war has made me feel an urgent need for educa- ent parts of the Wellesley community and is fostering critical but tion and discussion about events in the world and for active par- safe debate. ticipation from everyone in the Wellesley community. But as a non- US citizen, I am uneasy engaging in this myself. I feel unprotected in Have you felt supported here? the US with the new visa rules, tracking systems, and the PATRIOT The International Student Office has been phenomenal in the Act, and especially unsafe in this regard as an Arab student. support, safe environment, and information it has provided. Both faculty and staff have been engaged, understanding, and Has it raised concerns about your family and friends supportive towards me and my views, even if they disagree with at home? me. Wellesley has been my home for the past four years, and I am concerned about my family, especially my father, who fre the people here have been my family. That our community has quendy travels in West Asia. My family has agreed that it's better pulled together now is what will stand out in my mind when I for them not to attend my graduation in May. I am concerned for look back on my time here, Wellesley spring 2003 5 ESLEY AMY GIULIANO BRITTON '03 members who have truly reached out to me these past few weeks. FORT BRAGG, N.C. On "Support Our Troops Day," a student left a box of chocolates and a card outside of my door to let me know that she was think- Britton's husband, Devon, is a second lieutenant ing of Devon and me. One of the organizations of which I am a with the US Army, currently serving in the member is working on a care-package fund-raising campaign. I Middle East. They were married on Dec. 28, have started putting my efforts into activities such as these. 2002, at West Point. Their wedding, originally scheduled to take place after Amy's graduation, was moved up when they learned Devon might be deployed. ~LAURAHARLINGEN, PEKIA TEXAS'04 How has your life changed since the beginning of the war? religion major, Pena is active in Peaceful I have been deliberately staying busy these past few weeks to keep Justice (an antiwar organization created after my mind off the war. It can be very trying for me to watch cover- Sept. L1,2001, to address alternativesto war), age of the conflict in Iraq. Not having cable at Wellesley has been Mezca, and the Radical Student Union. both a blessing and a curse. The military community has a very strong support system What has been the response of the groups you are through programs such as the Family Readiness Group and the involved in since the war began? Military Wives Board online. Such support communities have Peaceful Justice has been extremely active since the Bush admin- been a great comfort to me. istration made clear the likelihood of war against Iraq. Before the war started, we organized a bus that took 50 students to New How often are you in touch with your husband? York for the Feb. 15 global protest. We also voiced our concern During the past month, I have received several phone calls from Devon. that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton '69 supported the war by These phone conversations reassure me that my husband is healthy demonstrating outside the Alumnae Achievement Awards ceremony. and unharmed. Devon does not have access to e-mail, so I must write Since the start of the war, Peaceful Justice has organized a group him letters the "old-fashioned" way. I usually write him every day. of about 100 Wellesley students, faculty, and staff to attend a These past two weeks [since the war started] have definitely become protest in Boston. In our Fast for Peace campaign, over 30 students, more difficult because I stopped hearing from Devon altogether faculty, and staff fast every Wednesday. The money that would Has the atmosphereat Wellesley changedsince the startofthe war? have been used for food that day is being donated to the Red The atmosphere at Wellesley has definitely intensified since the Cross. In addition, an antiwar resolution was taken to the student beginning of the war. Although most members of the community- body and passed. We are also planning a teach-in about Iraq. regardless of their political beliefs-support our troops, there are How has the start of the war left you feeling? a few who have made antimilitary comments. I truly believe in the Once the bombing began, I felt as though all my previous activism cause for which Devon is fighting, and I know that he is a good had been in vain. However, I realized that two things are impor- man. It frustrates me to listen to people discuss the military in a tant in being politically active: 1) It is imperative that those in negative light. However, there have been many students and faculty office hear the dissent of the American people. I am obligated, as a citizen of this democratic society, to voice my opposition to this war; 2) The process that I embark upon when protesting is a part of my personal journey. It helps develop my mind and soul to be able to try to understand why the world is the way it is. Has the atmosphere at Wellesley changed since the war began? Wellesley now has a diverse, vocal group of people speaking out against the wan This, however, has also left a number of people 'C ~PLjrC-*'~~-- Overheard Online The following are snippets from discussions on the College's computer bulletins: >276± What's in a Name? Killk URGENT: If your name is SARAH. An Elizabeth Chechack (sp?), pronounced chee- (those in support of the war) feeling as though they are in the minority. The conservatives on chack, just called me at 5:10-ish by accident campus have successfully voiced their support of the war, but they often feel ill-received. There and said that she was not going to be able to also remains a large group of people who remain silent because they are unsure whether they make it tonight because of the snow. I hope you get this in time! Ami are for or against the war. All of these factions leave the campus feeling somewhat divided, but I think that during times of war, lines are drawn and people take stances. In previous There are about 90 Sara/Sarahs at Wellesley. years, Wellesley has promoted a "why can't we all just get along" political climate which often That was a popular name in the early '80s. .. . Kris stifled debate. Today, this climate has changed. TELL me about it Scout, who adopted "Scout" for that very reason NANCY BROTHERS '04 Hey now, it's a nic,e name. Sara M, RICHMOND, VA. Brothers is a cadet in the Air Force ROTC program at MIT Of course it's a nice name. But even the spelling is a problem, because (especially as an h-less Sara) you have to specify h or no h. What is your current involvement in ROTC? Sara G. I spend six hours a week in classes of some sort: three hours of classroom Ah yes, the h-thing. Are we h-less Saras really in the minority? Everyone presumes time, an hour of physical training, and two hours of Leadership the h. My mom gave me an ordinary name on purpose to Laboratory, which is when the whole wing [unit] gets together It can be anything from counteract the effect of my surname. ("Yes, I practicing our marching to having a Congressional Medal of Honor winner come speak. I do know how to spell my name correctly." probably spend another two hours or so a week polishing my shoes, answering e-mails, "No, it is not a typo." "Yes, I realize it has no vowels in it.") Sara Mrsny planning, etc. I also eat with the Wellesley cadet I mentor at least once a week and work out on my own. Sometimes it seems like a great deal of work, but I get a nice stipend. ROTC is Speaking of distinctive names, my parents let my big brother and sister name me. What a a bit like a campus job in that respect. brilliant idea that was. They originally wanted to name me Cherry Cola. Their second choice Has your ROTC training changed since the start of the war? was Wendy (after the Peter Pan character). "I No. We got an e-mail reminding us to be alert, stay safe, and be polite to any protesters can fly, I can fly, I can fly. ... " Wendy we might encounter, but that was it. I have a friend whose sisters are much older, and their parents are from India so the As an ROTC student, how has the start of the war made you feel? older girls have Indian names. But the sisters were I support the war, although not unconditionally. War is never a good thing. Mainly allowed to name the youngest one, my friend, I feel worried, for a great many reasons. I would like to see this over as cleanly and and they named her Annie, because she was as quickly as possible. born the same year the movie came out. I guess that's what happens when 10-year-olds get to Has the atmosphere at Wellesley changed since war began? name kids. Rosalie I think that the war has been debated on campus for so long, the actual start of the war [Then there's] the name Hao, like "How"-as didn't seem to change much. I've talked to a number of people about the war People see in "Hao, how are you doing?" (followed by laughter for cleverness). Since I was old enough me in uniform, and they're curious to know what I think. I have never had anyone react to understand English, I've heard that! My best in a hostile fashion. My mentee, the other Air Force cadet on campus, is much shorter friends nicknamed me "Who" to get over the than I am, and I think she is sometimes treated with less respect because of it. But not to stigma of "How." Hao a serious degree. Hey, at least you don't get, "Oh, so were you born in June?" I have no idea why every person Have you felt supported here? is hardwired to ask this question when I intro- Yes. While people on this campus sometimes make what I consider extremely duce myself, but it can get really annoying. And uninformed remarks about the military and conservatives in general, I have never no, I was not born in June. June encountered hostility. And my friends and classmates-the students I interact with on a Did the right Sara finally get her message? Amy personal level-are certainly supportive. Yup. Thanks! Sarah-with-an-h Welleley Spring 2003 7 UnV' IEES LEY The Professor, The President, And the Senator THE MOMENT SHE SLIPPED IN THE DOOR teaching in the political-science department. the possibility of war in Iraq and Clinton's behind the organ console, Houghton Chapel "Alan Schechter is a superb classroom Senate vote last October to authorize the was suddenly alight with flashes teacher.... He has made the study of politics president to use force ("that was the most from every direction: Students, fac- so alive for generations of students," difficult vote and decision I have ever ulty, and even the VIPs down front Clinton said. "He is a provocateur and a faced," she said); the war against terrorism all wanted a shot of Wellesley's great motivator. ... He is through and and civil liberties; affirmative action and first and only US senator. through a teacher and will remain so until the challenge to the University of Hillary Rodham Clinton '69 his last breath." During her student days, Michigan's admissions policies; and the settled into a chair, greeted Clinton said, he challenged her to think state of the US economy. The discussion, '- President Diana Chapman differently, to take the political beliefs she which was followed by a question-and- Walsh '66 ("1 love calling any- inherited from her family and transform answer session with the audience, ended one Madame President," she them into her own. "Forty-one years is an with a ringing endorsement of Wellesley and deadpanned), and then began extraordinary legacy," she said. women's colleges, when a professor asked talking about her longtime men- A discussion of the events that were Clinton why liberal-arts colleges need to sur- Schechter tor and friend, Professor Alan unfolding in the world that day, Feb. 21, vive today. "It's easy to think Wellesley is not and Clinton Schechter. She had come to seemed a fitting way to honor Schechter's the real world," Clinton said. "But there is honor Schechter, who is retiring legacy. Clinton, Schechter, and Walsh spent no better preparation for the real world. The C this semester after 41 years the next 45 minutes in a political discussion: memory of this place keeps you going. .CONSTUTO WERTHEIMER TO SPEAK AT 125TH COMMENCEMENT WO RLDW D0E "GRFAT CHOICE, OZONE CLASS." That was a chemistry professor's reaction to the announcement that Linda Cozby Wertheimer '65, senior correspondent for National Public Radio, will deliver the commence- ment address for the class of 2003. (A science student had to remind nonchemists that the IMAGINE IF WELLESLEY'S LECTURES WERE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, availabletoyou symbol for ozone is Os, but whenever the urge struck, with the best seats in the house always waiting. Thanks to enthusiasm for the choice was undiminished.) a partnership with Boston-based public broadcaster WGBH, they are: Wellesley has Come May 30, seniors teamed up with the WGBH Forum Network, a web site offering free webcasts of and their families under the big white tent on Severance lectures from Boston's leading cultural and educational institutions, to foster lifelong Green will hear a voice learning-and to make the College's wealth of resources more readily available to familiar to anyone who has tuned into NPR's All Things Consideredsince 1989. alumnae and the general public. Wertheimer hosted the afternoon news program for - - Man A Hi W- 1lII A'dit f 13 years and helped build the program's audience to Netvw ork p i o e that fu to record levels. public information, estimates that four to She has been with NPR since 1971, almost six events-a selection of both faculty and visiting lectures-will be accessible since its inception. Wertheimer served both as on the web site each year. Visitors can browse offerings by subject or hosting NPR's congressional correspondent and as its political correspondent. In 1976, she was the organization, and a few clicks later, either watch or listen to the main event. It's first woman to anchor network coverage of a free, on demand, and easy to navigate. presidential nomination convention and of a presidential election night. She was also the first The program's origins date back to 1836, when philanthropist John Lowell, Jr.. left person to broadcast live from inside the US Senate a bequest to create free public lectures for Boston citizens, according to Eli Ingraham '80, chamber. Her live coverage of the Senate Panama the director of the Network Forum. WGBH's radio and television programming grew Canal Treaty debates won her a special Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award. out of that mission; the Forum Network (http-//www.wgbh.org/forum) launches that Wertheimer is the author of Listening to tradition into the internet age. Other partners offering lectures on the site include America: Twenty-five Years in the Life of a Nation as Heard on National Public Radio. Boston's Museum of Science, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the New She was honored with Wellesley's Alumnae England Aquarium, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Achievement Award in 1985. Exiles, Builders, and Visionaries: Celebrating 125 Years of Hispanic Culture at Wellesley "Wellesley College has been distinctive both as Contemporary Spanish writers such a safe haven for Spanish exiles and as an insti- as Rosa Montero and Javier Marias tution that has historically brought to the US have also added to the collective his- some of the most distinguished intellectuals tory of the department and the that Spain has produced," Assistant Professor College. On the occasion of the 125th anniver- book features essays by current and former Carlos Ramos says. sary of the College, the department assembled professors of the Spanish department, as well Since the early days of the College, the its history, collecting works from and about the as poems by Guillhn and an essay by Davis Spanish department has been home to such luminaries of the department into Wellesley, Museum architect Rafael Moneo. Pictured luminaries as poets Pedro Salinas and Jorge Unscathed Memory: A Celebration of 125 here are Ramos, Montero, Gasc6n-Vera, and Guill6n, who taught at Wellesley during their Years of Hispanic Culture. Edited by Mohini Schaffrath '92, at the presentation of exile from Spain after the Civil War. Professors Ramos and Elena Gasc6n-Vera, the the book in Madrid last summer Welesley Spring 21(-1 3 A ly Q; 1 ( Br a-vi[n-g1WA--ei-'-4 -Li-k ,e -C.-o-n c-Fet-- "IT'S SO SCARY," Stephanie Judge '06 says. "Ten feet is Dives fall into five categories: forward, backward, higher than you would think." But the first time she was reverse, inward, and twisting. Forward and backward dives up that high, she jumped anyway-and she intends to both require diving away from the board, facing either for- keep jumping up, jumping off, and diving into the ward or backward. Reverse dives start out like a forward waiting waters below. C A dive, but the divers rotate toward the board, while inward Judge is one of three divers on the College's swimming dives start with the divers facing away from the water but and diving team who fly off the springboard week after also rotating toward the board. The twisting category week. Because few high schools have diving programs, the includes any forward, backward, reverse, or inward dives team faces the challenge of recruiting newcomers to the that also incorporate a twist while in the air Divers also sport and training them in the ways of the dive. The diving include various moves in their dives, such as the pike (body team this year is comprised entirely of novices. A bent at the waist) or somersaults. There are one- and three- "I saw a poster in the Science Center that said, 'Try meter springboard dives, as well as the 10-meter platform. diving,' and I said, 'OK,' Judge says. Gymnasts and Wellesley competes only in the springboard events. dancers in particular are encouraged to try diving because "The hardest thing is trying something new ... the techniques are alike, says diving coach Lisa McCandless. especially off the three meter," Arapoglou says. Because "The tumbling that gymnasts do, and the spatial awareness so much of learning a new dive is trial and error, divers they have is very similar to diving," she says. can easily miss an element of a new dive and hit the But how do you train someone to jump off a spring- water hard (what the divers refer to as "smacking" board, somersault in the air and then dive into the pool? "I because of the sound a body makes hitting the water). learned step by step, day by day," Lia Arapoglou'06 says. At "For that split second, water feels like concrete," Judge first McCandless just told them to jump, CourtneyJacobs '06 says. After a particularly hard smack earlier this season, says, but then they learned the techniques behind the she had bruises stretching from her ankle to her hip. approach, the hurdle, the takeoff, the dive, and finally, entry. "It's a very tough sport, so you really have to be The approach is four steps moving into the hurdle, when "you mentally tough," McCandless says. "A sense of fearlessness bring your leg up, while bringing your arms up at the same and detennination is key," she adds, "because after a few hits time, and you press down on the board and it bounces you like that, it's very easy to say, 'Forget it,' and walk away." up," Jacobs says. The team focuses training on the abdominal The first time Judge jumped off the board, she muscles and the legs because "strong abs are key to a lot of thought she was falling forever. "It was so scary because control in the air," McCandless says, and they need to target you look down, and it looks so far," she says. "But now "the right muscles in their legs for a good press off the board." it's not quite as scary." 117 I.) C 0 A R THE BASKETBALL TEAM itfatl t9 THE FENCING TEAM es2ydintnIm2D -~ 9 C" THE SQUASH TEAM esingissadis THE SWIMMING AND DIVING TEAM 0 4 OkIL Jr A, ZrZZ n FACULTY Fo Faculty and Staff Evil Molecule or Miracle Drug? in the News Paul Reisberg's Holistic Approach to Chemistry Joanne Berger-Sweeney '79, associate professor of biology, was elected a PAuL REISBERG, assistant professor of chem- on-campus sabbatical at the Knapp Multi- fellow in the International Behavioral istry, has an eye-twinkling, Falstaffian look media and Technology Center. Neuroscience Society for her contribu- that often makes him seem like he's on the As a Knapp Fellow, Reisberg was part of a tions to research in the field. verge of laughing. Or that maybe he's about program that sponsors "a faculty member, from Patricia Berman, professor of art, presented to say something unexpected, something that Wellesley or from another institution, for a the second John L. Loeb lecture at the will make his listener stop and think about the semester of work as an adjunct member of the American-Scandanavian Foundation in New York. Her lecture's title was world in a slightly different way. For example, Knapp Center staff," the center's web site "Scandinavian Landscape Painting and Its consider the fact that "there are chemicals explains. Reisberg spent his semester exploring Hidden Histories." She also presented a lec- that make us happy or make us distressed. the possibilities of integrating multimedia tech- ture at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los What does that say about happiness? There nology into chemistry instruction. The fruits of Angeles to launch her new book, James are chemicals that can make reality look dif- his labor are on view on the center's site, at Ensor: Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889. ferent. What does that say about reality? ... http://www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/Knapp/ Charles Bu of the mathematics department Societies approach this fact in very different home.html. The projects run the gamut from hosted a delegation of Chinese writers ways. What does that say about the society?" a compilation of film clips that illustrate vari- at Wellesley in October 2001. One of Reisberg asks all of these questions in ous chemical principles to a program that them, Wang Bingeng, recently published a book called Lake Waban, My Love that "Understanding Drugs," a course that looks aims to "bridge the gap between equation and contains articles about his US tour and 25 at both legal and illegal concept when dealing pictures of the College. Bu contributed drugs from the perspec- with questions of pH," eight photographs. tive of biochemistry, work that only a chemistry Elena Gasc6n-Vera of the Spanish depart- including the ways they student could love-but ment presented a research seminar about are discovered, devel- she'd love it a lot. Almost gender at the Master Course in Public oped, and tested. It's a as much as Reisberg loved Policies, Cultural Studies, and Society, at the Universidade Estadual do popular course, with the Knapp Fellowship Ceari in Fortaleza, Brazil. Her lecture was titled about 30 students experience: "It was like I "The Vengeance of Feminism: Matricide enrolled this semester. had a magic lantern: I Women in Recent Spanish Narrative." "Drugs connect with express a desire, and Carol Ann Paul of the biology department nearly every other sub- suddenly someone gives received an Educator Award from Faculty ject," Reisberg says. But me a piece of software for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN, a "most knowledge about or trains me," he says subgroup of the Society for Neuroscience) drugs comes with a bias. enthusiastically. This for her work as editor and contributing ... Chemistry allows a semester, he's planning author of Discovering Neurons: The Experimental Basis of Neuroscience. The neutral stance. When to take the results of at Educator Award is given to a FUN mem- you look at a molecule, you can't tell if it's an least one of the projects into his ber in recognition of significant efforts to evil molecule or a miracle drug. It's just this "Understanding Drugs" course, with a promote neuroscience education and structure, and it has effects." After Reisberg's guest lecture by Gary Johnson, the gover- research at the undergraduate level. students understand the chemistry, they move nor of New Mexicd, via videoconference. The Boston Globe named Triple Helix, the on to those philosophical questions about Students may appreciate these techno- piano trio in residence at Wellesley, happiness, reality, and society. logical bells and whistles, but it's Reisberg's Musicians of the Year for 2002. "Triple Reisberg's holistic view of the science philosophy lessons that seem to make the Helix is our choice for Musicians of the Year because this superb piano trio ... combines professor's place in a liberal-arts education is greatest impact. "The class has definitely scholarship, experience, and improvisatory a popular one these days: "The sciences aren't lived up to my expectations," says Yuri abandon in equal measure," wrote Richard separate from the humanities," he says. Cartier '05. "Professor Reisberg integrates Dyer of the Globe. Cellist Rhonda Rider and "Philosophy would benefit from having sci- basic chemistry with the more political pianist Lois Shapiro teach in Wellesley's ence in it, and vice versa." Clearly, he encour- aspects of both legal and illegal drugs, music department. Violinist Bayla Keyes is on the faculty at Boston University. ages his students to walk that walk in his own showing the students how, in many cases, class, and he's helped to swing the entire legal lines are drawn between two drugs The Wellesley board of trustees awarded chemistry department in that direction, as [that are] extremely similar in structure," tenure to the following faculty members: well-with their blessing. The department she continues. "I would definitely recommend Tom Burke, political science; Megan Kerr, mathematics; Yoon Sun Lee, English; Kim benefited dramatically from Reisberg's this course to nonscience majors and [other] McLeod, astronomy; Julia Miwa, chem- interdepartmental work during the 2001-02 students wishing to learn the truth about the istry; James Petterson, French; and Carlos academic year, part of which he spent in an substances helping and hurting us." Ramos, Spanish. wellesley spring z003 maggoES LE£Y AIN'T FOR VALENTINE "I'VE NEVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. before," Akiva Kahn '03 says. And it's "Violence still touches our lives," likely the audience has never seen Kahn says. "We need to be prepared for anything like this before, either. that, and we need to know that it hap- A LISTING OF LECTURES, Kahn is preparing herself to per- pens and to be able to educate others EVENTS, AND PROGRAMS form in The Vagina Monologues, a play about it." Wellesley first produced the presented at Wellesley-on and around show in 1999, but it did not reappear Valentine's Day. She is dressed all in until 2002, when Dani Norris '02 and C O&A AR black, as is everyone else in the cast. Andrea Maginot '03 resurrected it. The There are accents of red breaking up production has become an official orga- the monochrome-a barrette here, a nization on campus and hopes to keep NOW through June 8 Fazal Sheikh. A Camel boa there, a pair of red suspenders the Monologues a yearly event. for the Son, Ramadan Moon, the Victor Weeps. complete with a red bow tie. Yards of "It's a remarkable, heartbreaking, Three series of photographs portraying refugee com- red tulle are slowly cascading down the liberating, revealing, hilarious, poignant munities from Somalia and Afghanistan. The Davis stage. It is performer black backdrop on the Jewett piece," assistant director and Museum, For more information, call 781-283-2051. the night before the Liz Mandeville '04 says. Ensler spent NOW through June 5 The Space Between: Artists show goes up, and years interviewing women around the Engaging Race and Syncretism, an exhibit featuring the excitement-and world about their vaginas; their stories artists from across the African diaspora illustrating nerves-are palpable. make up the monologues. "The mes- Museum. For more The show was sage of the Monologues, I think, is that their heritages. The Davis performed by a group the vagina is a fantastic thing and not information, call 781-283-2051. NOW through of 36 Wellesley taboo at all," Mandeville says. June 5 Bridging the Border: Shared Themes in women (35 students In addition to raising awareness Mexican and US Art, 1900-1950. The Davis Museum. and one staff mem- about violence against women, the per- For more information, call 781-283-2051. ber), as part of a formers say they also found delivering MAY M Baccalaureate Concert. 8 P.M., Houghton worldwide V-Day cele- pieces like "If Your Vagina Got Dressed, Memorial Chapel. For more information, call 781-283- bration. V-Day began What Would ItWear?" and "My Vagina 2176. 3 Commencement exercises. 10:30 A.M., on Valentine's Day Was My Village" empowering. in 1998 as an out- "It's about finding yourself in your Severance Green tent. Speaker: Linda Cozby growth of Eve Ensler's own space," Simran Thadani '05 says. Wertheimer '65. For more information, call 781-283-3583. Eleanor Koh '03 play, The Vagina which She performed "My Short Skirt," J U N E 1 through July 11. Session I of summer school. Monologues and works to end violence she says is "about discovering the For more information, call 781-283-2200. 1 "The against women and girls. The V-Day power of my lower calves and the Complexity of Connection: Power, Practice, and Action!" organization has a separate college magic of my inner thighs.... It's kind of Advanced session from the Jean Baker Miller Training campaign that gives colleges and uni- assertive-stating my freedom and my versities the rights to present benefit frustration with people who are trying Institute. For more information, call 781-283-3007. productions of the play. According to to look up your skirt or get into it." JULY fl through August 8. Session II of summer vday.org, 647 colleges and universities Thadani first encountered the school. For more information, call 781-283-2200. participated in the 2003 campaign. The play during her orientation week as a proceeds from these productions go to first year-someone told her to read it NOVEMBER 5 The Tanner Conference. A venue for local charities that work to stop vio- because "it will take you 45 minutes students and alumnae to reflect critically upon and share lence against women. Wellesley's pro- and it will change your life." She their off-campus experiences with others in the college duction raised approximatley $5,000 for pauses. "And it did." community. For more information, call 781-283-2254. 12 Wellesley spring 2003 REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY WELLESLEY AUTHORS, EDITEDBY cLIBRIS JEANMULVEY FRIEDMANN '49 The following books have been received Betty Vadner Haas '45-La Famille Claudia Mills '76-Alex Ryan, Stop That, in the magazine office: Vadenay: A Genealogical Journey From Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York France to Quibec to the United States, Margaret Cobey Black '44-Hawaii Newbury Street Press, Boston Diane Silvers Ravitch '60-The Language Scandal, Island Heritage Press, Waipahu, Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict Hawaii Margaret Hill Hodges '55-The Boy Who What Students Learn, Knopf, New York Drew Cats, Holiday House, New York Karen Warwick and Amy Boyd '01-A Cafd Dorothy Buenger Richardson '53-Secure Conversation With Karen and Amy on Nancy Harmon Jenkins '59-The the Shadow: An HistoricalNovel, Mellen Economics and Politics, 1(t) Work(s), Inc., Essential Mediterranean: A Culinary Poetry Press, Lewiston, N.Y. Denton, Texas Exploration,HarperCollins, New York Sue Sandidge '69-Tell Joshua: The Wars Marian Fox Burros '54-Cooking for Laura Smietanka Jensen '77-Patriots, of the Judges, Xlibris, Philadelphia Comfort: More Than 100 Wonderful Recipes Settlers, and the Origins of American That Are as Satisfying to Cook as They Are to Social Policy, Cambridge University Jeffrey A. McNeely and Sara J. Scherr Eat, Simon & Schuster, New York Press, New York '75-Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity, Amy Middendorf Givler '80-Hope in the Maria Kefalas '89-Working-Class Island Press, Washington, D.C. Face of Cancer: A Survival Guide for the Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, Journey You Did Not Choose, Harvest and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood, Susan Dubinsky Terris '59-Fire Is House Publishers, Eugene, Ore. University of California Press, Berkeley, Favorable to the Dreamer, Arctos Press, Calif. Sausalito, Calif. Phyllis Harmon Greene '41-Shedding Years: The Chance to Grow Younger As We Lisa Kleypas '86-Worth Any Price, Avon Madeline Tiger '56-Birds of Sorrow and Get Older, Villard, New York Books, New York Joy, Marsh Hawk Press, New York Marjorie Glicksman Grene '31, et al, edi- Trisha Meili '82-i Am the Central Park Jane E. Vennard '62-Embracing the tors-The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene, Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility, World: Praying for Justice and Peace, Open Court Books, Chicago Scribner, New York Jossey-Bass, San Francisco Paula Penn-Nabrit '76 Black youths' encounters with it have Morning by Morning: MORNING resulted too often in destroyed aspira- by How We Home-Schooled tions and failure." Paula Penn-Nabrit's Our African-American Sons MORNING earnest memoir describes how she and her to the Ivy League husband tried to keep three sons from Villard, New York being scarred and crushed by such alien- ation. 285 pages, $24.95 Why she did it will be hauntingly familiar to many readers and illuminating to others. In Young, Black, and Male in America: Before Wellesley, Penn-Nabrit gradu- An Endangered Species, Jewelle Taylor ated from an exclusive day school in Gibbs proffered: "The educational system Ohio. Her husband, a Dartmouth gradu- presents a fundamental paradox for ate, came from three generations of Blacks. It continues to be held up . .. as African-American achievers, including a the institution [for] upward mobility, yet PAULA PENN-NABRIT president of Howard University. The Wellesley Spring 2003 I 13 Nabrits made a life-changing response to so there would be no "others" in the boys' what they believed to be a racist edict to experience. Flowing through their lives is a expel their sons from a privileged boys deep commitment to faith and family. prep school. They decided to home- Sunday School and church are weekly school their 11-year-old twins and 9-year- commandments followed by dinner with old son as "a reaction to something some three generations. For the Nabrits, God white people did to us." and faith are always in the details. Penn-Nabrit knew this educational Penn-Nabrit, an exquisitely self- course was not what most black middle- confident person, reveals her self-doubts and class parents would have considered. She course corrections along the untested journey. knew her parents and family would vocif- She forthrightly admits that her sons never erously object. (They did.) She knew her liked the home-schooling process. friends and colleagues would believe the So how did it all turn out? Those who decision ill-advised. (They did.) And she have an interest in measuring their experi- knew her children would probably be ences against other people's lives might be deeply angered by having to go to school intrigued at the turn of events. All of us at home. (They were.) Nevertheless, she who read the story will wait with keen and her husband developed a curriculum, anticipation for the boys' version of Mom of Europe's rigid social hierarchies for redesigned their basement, and perse- and Dad's turn at the blackboard. the concept that "all men are created vered. The twins were accepted at Shirlee Taylor Haizlip '59 equal," Martin examines each of those Princeton and their brother at Amherst. (Haizlip writes about race, class, and five words, arguing that the phrase "was Penn-Nabrit offers a heartfelt yet family matters. The author of The never intended to carry the vague mean- Socratic rumination on what it means to Sweeter the Juice, her new book, Finding ing we assign to it. Every word of it has be educated. She and her husband wanted Grace, will be published later this year.) been under fierce contention throughout a "classic" education for their sons- American history. The definitions we including arts, humanities, science, math- agree to superimpose on it [continually ematics, geography, current events and need] to be revised, because we keep politics, economics, and French. Their Judith Perlman Martin '59 reinterpreting the principle on which it is goal was a "holistic balance" and a striving Star-Spangled Manners: based. Thus, it is the perfect instruction for wisdom, excellence, and understanding. from the front office to a creative people In Which Miss Manners Threaded throughout the book are her assigned to write their own etiquette Defends American Etiquette observations of what it means to be scripts: noble, vague, and flexible." black and what strategies blacks employ (For a Change) Beyond the Founders, Martin has to maintain their sanity and safety in a W.W. Norton, New York assembled an eclectic cast of superstars to country that does not always have their 319 pages, $24.95 present the complex history of American interests at heart. manners, morals, and traditions: Twain, Although the parents did some teach- In her latest chef d'oeuvre, Star-Spangled Tocqueville, Anthony and Fanny ing, the bulk was done by male African- Manners, Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Trollope, Machiavelli, Lord Chesterfield, American college professors and Ph.D. Manners, remains the master chef, con- Emerson, Cotton Mather, Dickens, candidates. Their rationale was that "a cocting verbal delights seasoned more Bonaparte, Little Lord Fauntleroy, healthy black man is the best person to with spice than sugar as she traces the Odysseus, the Vanderbilts, Harriet teach a black boy how to become a Revolutionary (and revolutionary) origin, Beecher Stowe, Fanny Kemble, Dolley healthy black man." character, evolution-and rampant devo- Madison, Edith Wilson, Jacqueline Cable television was eliminated. The lution-of basic American etiquette. A Kennedy, Horatio Alger, Jr., Cinderella, boys read the New York Times' "Week in cautionary note to readers familiar with and Oscar Wilde, to name only a few. Review" to select topics for daily discus- her earlier books: This volume, though In these days of road rage and cell- sion. Though not fans of competitive written in her customary irreverent phones-in-church, a fresh look at how sports, the Nabrits encouraged their sons style-with acerbic asides, caustic com- and why melting-pot Americans treat and to enroll in recreation programs through- ments, pithy put-downs-is a profoundly mistreat one another, and how we might out their city, believing those would result learned work, literally a mind-stretcher. assuage the mayhem, is indeed welcome, in friendships across socio-economic lines, Starting with the Founders' rejection Martin suggests, "The first great task-on 14 Wellesley Spring 2003 "I the agenda is to acknowledge a standard- communities, I determined to do whatever I ized national etiquette that is firmly could to change that," Rosemary Cox says. enough fixed to allow people to learn and Why did these women choose practice it. . . ." She offers common-sense Harvard? The professors, with their PINSTRIPES suggestions for solving old and new prob- probing questioning, turned them into lems endemic to our etiquette, which "is quick-thinking, self-possessed lawyers. rich with paradoxical aims. We want lib- One day, Hope was called on in every class. erty and order, liberty and equality, equal- In Torts, it was a "harmful touching" case, ity and special respect, openness and pri- "for which, in 1961, remedies were much vacy, spontaneity and tradition, continu- less available. [Professor Jaffe pushed me to ity and change. And why not?" find] some line beyond which an employ- Martin concludes with (contra- er's conduct would constitute a 'tort' Shakespearean) advice for our entertainment- against his female secretary. .. . When he obsessed society: "People who mistake fondled her as she was taking dictation? the stage for the world have botched or When he suggested that they have dinner? neglected an even more fascinating and When he said that unless she went to bed certainly nobler task: that of studying the with him she was fired? . . . I finally sug- Socratic question of how they, and how us dropped out, and most of us married." gested the secretary should 'waive the tort we all, should best live our lives. The Brief portraits of the women confirm and sue in assumpsit,' essentially acknowl- quest could continue to be, as it was in that they even surpassed expectations. edging that, since the law of torts didn't the past, one of America's greatest contri- Hope, a litigator and top partner at Paul, seem to supply a remedy, she could rest her butions to the world." And why not? Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, was the case on an implied contract of employ- Nancy Steffens Seaman '48 first woman elected a fellow of Harvard ment, which was breached by the boss's (Seaman, matriarch of a typical College (its governing board). Judith W actions. The class loved it and Professor American family, is a battle-scarred Rogers is an associate judge on the US Jaffe did, too. .. . I'd made it through veteran of myriad etiquette wars.) Court of Appeals for the District of without buckling." Columbia, and Patricia Scott Schroeder Even Harvard law degrees did not made her mark as an eight-term congress- easily get the women interviews at the woman from Colorado. Barbara Margulis major law firms. But the government wel- Judith Richards Hope '61 balanced family and career and became a comed them, and public service allowed Pinstripes & Pearls: senior corporate partner at Shaw, many to excel. They could draw on a The Women of the Harvard Law Pittman, Potts. network of friendships with classmates, School Class of '64 Who Forged Why did these women choose the both the women and the outstanding men law? Their fathers and mothers (or grand- in their class-Stephen an Old-Girl Network and Paved Breyer, Paul parents) served as role models and Dodyk, and Eric Fox. the Way for Future Generations encouraged independence in their daugh- Pinstripes& Pearls gives an excellent Scribner, New York ters. Schroeder's father taught her to fly at bird's-eye view of Harvard Law School in 294 pages, $26.00 the age of 15 and to be independent. the early 1960s and the women in the Hope's father said that he "would move class of 1964. But except for the author In 1961, Harvard Law School admitted 20 heaven and earth to see [that his daughter] and her immediate circle, it is a collection women. Three years later, 15 of those had every opportunity to become a distin- of bare-bones, factual descriptions that women graduated as part of the 513- guished, distinctive, free human being read like excerpts from Who's Who. It strong class of 1964. Judith Richards with the kind of attention that most men whets the appetite for a tell-all autobiog- Hope writes that Harvard "handpicked" seemed then to get just as their natural raphy or a more complete portrayal of these applicants not only for "our out- inheritance." two or three classmates that will expand standing academic records, but because ... Most of these women chose the law on the "Bumps in the Road" and how we had the grit and stamina to run the because they believed in justice and com- they overcame them, gauntlet at Harvard Law School and to stay munity service. "When I ... realized that Genevieve Lam Fraiman '49 the course in the legal profession after we women were oppressed, that African- (Fraiman,Columbia Law School '52, graduated. . . . Contrary to many predic- Americans were oppressed, that Jews was a partner in Lord Day & Lord, tions ... not one of us gave up, not one of couldn't buy property or live in certain Barrett Smith in New York.) Wellesley Spring 2003 1s I/ Ili M*Mtgk tdi &Imtkw 4"w v1m aww" w mAntsw Pum sodmft tw magnet aWMqa e lt 4110 *Wde4 9-. L es- Aft, "'~ "' t -. V AT 0. TAT U .44. an& r ip *1- M- - r -- ighteen forty-eight was a_-_--_ U - bainer year for the Henry Wood's - Sorrs Corpany: It opened its new -K -fatuuy on die baiks of Wellese ak e Waban and begab churnTig out a7Tain5ow-- ' of pigments-reds, greens, yeITow, --impa - - and- whites. I T-~ ht* JVCI . LLkUUi .11--.oUf1 iE nxt S! (IidUeS me conpany would become the largest of- its. kind-in-New England, podcing a s i fiich as six nni-tons a paint pigments WeflCSlCyr Spring 2003 17 In the Durants' Day (Continued from previous page) each day. With that kind of production came waste-as much a, By 1903, dangerous levels of lead were detectable in the 100 lb. a day-which was disposed of on site: in the soil anc lake. In a letter to Wellesley's resident physician, Dr. nearby bodies of water, such as the lake, brook, and pond Emilie Jones Barker, Pauline Durant cites a report from Operations continued on the property until 1926, when Henr, the board of health and makes clear her concerns about Wood's Sons filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors for good. the health of the College's "girls. sometime after, intending to preserve the -~ razed the buildings open space around the lake and prevent further development on the site. No one could have predicted it at the time, hut the price Dear Dr. BarkerDerD. akr fHelh Jn ,1903. tag for preserving that space would ultimately climb to almost $36,000,000 (see box on page 22). [From] The State Board of Health, une 2 ead in decades-long reclamation effort, the site is trans- "The wastes from the factory contau te Today, after a acres of uplands, wetlands, pond, brooks, and solution, the quantity being so great during the last formed. Nearly 40 Soils that previ- summer that the water in all partsa thIe lake was foundbee have been excavated, treated, and redesigned. levels of heavy metals, inuding lead to contain lead in such quantities that this water would be ously contained dangerous and arsenic, have been ver inurousfodrnkng;an a cnoniderable quantity trivalent chromium, hexavalent chromium, drinking; and Star in eyissuedverin Urousfor a new lease on life. Clean wetlands promise a fresh of lead was also founplace where contamination levels were once so high tat frogs and the ecosystem-could not survive you see of course you must not allow any ice put in salamandera significant part of youIn the uplands, where 60 percent of the land contained traces of your pitchers of water or mikthtti.ateo edi paint pigment, plants and trees are now taking root in clean soil. The reportThegoesgos epor ononto to tell that this wastei beore of themlead isand a have put it bef great loss to the factory; they expect they will try to stop it, or say they Will. eaposn In the mean time, our girls must not be lead poisoned AS ANYONE Wo WALKED THE PATH AROUND THE LAKE before the by our carelessness m use of ice. The ice can be used for the area was stunning. The red we are not in the reclamation project began can attest, in autumn. Fish every needfulk purpose.urpse.evry eedul Att orour hu~shouse Wemaples and golden cattails painted a brilliant scene the lake's waters, warbers danced through the woods, and habit of placing ice in water or milk. filled With love ducks, foxes, and even a snapping turtle could be spotted- So why Your obliged friend, disrupt the peace and dismantle a good chunk of the endowment in Pauline Durant the process? In two words: no choice. The Massachusetts Contingency Plan (MCP), administered Protection the Massachusetts Department of Environmental adby hazardous- (DEP), regulates the assessment and cleanup of p g pd tby 18 Wt Spring 2003 waste sites in the Commonwealth. "We were obligated to follow you could find high levels of contamination," says the process, which ultimately led to our complete knowledge of Monahan. "We had to treat much more [soil] than we what's on the site," says Barry Monahan, assistant vice president thought." Twice as much, in fact: Instead of the estimated of administrative and community affairs. Cleanup became the 17,000 cubic yards, the College treated 35,000 cubic yards College's duty, "not because we had done anything, but because of soil and sediment. we owned the land, and there was no other responsible party." The contamination was also much worse than predicted. The solution that was ultimately agreed upon called for the It had been anticipated that one chemical treatment would sta- excavation of all contaminated soils and sediments from the bilize the most hazardous compounds. Instead, as many as uplands, wetlands, and the pond. The materials, some of which seven treatments were required for some of the soils. "So we required treatment, were to be consolidated on a clean barrier did it all," says Monahan. "Everything was tested and above the water table and sealed with a synthetic barrier, to pre- approved. If it wasn't approved, it was sent back to be treated vent water from entering and leaching into the groundwater. as many times as necessary." The cap, with four athletic fields built on top, would ensure Another surprise came quite late in the process, when, in that neither humans nor wildlife would come in contact with the a search for clean fill, some very serious contamination was contaminated materials. This was to be, as Monahan points out, found under a parking lot along Route 135. With no room for the "forever solution." the material under the cap, the material was shipped to a hazardous-waste landfill in New Hampshire-one of the more Combating Contamination costly methods of remediation. AFTER DECADES OF ARDUoUs INVESTIGATING and careful negotiating, the actual cleanup work was supposed to take a little over a Wetlands Replacement year. With more than 4,000 drillings, samplings, and excava- THE REBUILDING OF THE WETLANDs-a delicate ecosystem- tions, "we had already investigated the site, we thought, required the most careful consideration. The aim was to recre- extremely thoroughly," says Monahan. "And yet, it turned ate what was there, which was a "fairly complex arrangement out there was still a lot that we didn't know." Take the extent of several different plant communities," says Lisa Standley, a of the contamination, for starters: When preliminary drilling former botany and ecology professor at Wellesley and currently in one spot turned up no contaminants, the team concluded the chief environmental scientist at VHB, the consulting firm that the area was clean. "But we learned that one foot away, that designed the new wetlands. A F- !J. ' r-~ 19 From Then to Now: Wetland communities vary widely: from marshes and forested swamps to shrub swamps. Each variety requires very specific conditions. The elevations and hydrology (the depth and duration of flooding) determine what plants will survive, what habitats the wetland will provide, and what function the area will serve in the overall ecology. "Once you set up the grading [or elevation], that allows you to develop the right kind of hydrology for each of the kinds of plant communities you want. You can then design a planting plan that will get you the right kind of plant community," says Standley. "We have built-in insurance because Paintshop Pond and Lake Waban outlet at dams. If it's too wet or not wet enough, we can fix it." Along the edge of the lake and the pond, Standley's team designed a deepwater marsh, which includes various plants that are adapted to growing in permanently flooded conditions. At some lower elevations, a wet meadow or marsh community, which "will be at least very wet, if not permanently flooded," will be dominated by grasses like cattails. The next elevation up is a shrub swamp, with highbush blueberries and swamp azaleas. Those who recall the area's red brilliance in autumn take note: "The majority of the area we've designed to end up as forested wetlands, dominated by red maples, which is what was there before," says Standley. The path around the lake (right)features an elevated boardwalk through the recreated K wetlands-providinga chance to observe the new vegetation up close. At far right, a dam regulates water levels in the pond. Far left: in May 200, cleanup of the Paintshop Pond site hadjust begun. By January 2002 (at left), the trees had been cleared, and the capped sediments that form the foundation of the soccer field were in place. An Eye on Phosphorus nutrient trap: Plants and peat absorbed much of the phosphorus AS FAR AS LAKLS ARE CONCERNED, a little phosphorus goes a into their roots, preventing the nutrients from reaching the long way. A nutrient essential for plant growth, phosphorus lake. Lisa Standley thinks the new design improves upon the is a "trigger nutrient," meaning even a small increase can original: "Paintshop Pond is now deeper than it used to be, change the ecology of a lake by accelerating the growth of which will let it filter out sediments better. Also, the pond as it plankton, algae, and aquatic weeds. If phosphorus levels spike, used to be (preconstruction) had very steep sides with no wet- algal blooms can reduce the water's transparency, decrease lands. We've added a wetland along the edge of the pond, so oxygen in the water column, kill fish, and create both pond we've increased the pollutant-filtering ability of the pond scum and an unpleasant swampy smell. tremendously." Associate Professor Marianne Moore and her biology stu- Moore hopes that will prove successful. "By deepening that dents have been monitoring phosphorus levels in Lake Waban, as pond, they may increase the water-retention time of the pond," well as the water's transparency, algal biomass, turbidity, conduc- she says. In other words, there may be adequate time for the tivity, dissolved oxygen, and pH levels. Their aim is to see if those phosphorus to sink out of the water column before the water parameters change in response to the remediation effort. "We flows into the lake. "But during storm events or during the have baseline data that we collected in the early 1990s, and we winter snowmelt, that pond is likely to flush through rather have data that we collected right before the remediation effort rapidly," she says. "The new wetlands, once mature, may help as began," says Moore. "Now we're following up every month." well to remove phosphorus," she says, but since the roots are not Moore and her students determined that 97 percent of yet well developed, "removal of nutrients will be minimal in these the phosphorus entering Lake Waban does so through Waban first couple of years until that wetlands gets established." Brook, a stream that flows from Morse's Pond on the other Time will tell whether the wetlands will do what they side of Route 135 and through the wetlands surrounding should. In the meanwhile, Moore and her students continue Paintshop Pond. In the past, those wetlands acted as a to take monthly measures of the lake's properties, thanks to Student athletes are proud of their new facilities. Area residentsget to enjoy the benefits, as well, with the reopening of the path around --- the lake (below). The Project Ut rn so a grant from the College. As of February, none of the parameters had shown significant change. "I suspect, however, if we are going to see a response, it would come in early spring, with the spring snowmelt, or after," says Moore. I off5Green Acres IN THIS DECADES-LONG SAGA, one bit of good fortune stands above all others. Prior to the remediation, Wellesley had the fewest athletic fields of all Division III schools. The original wetlands, though adjacent to the College's athletic facilities, could never be developed because of environmental protections, but that changed once the DEP mandated remediation. The most contaminated wetlands were filled in and used as the base for the new athletic fields, while other wetland areas were restored and new ones created. Now the College has some of the best fields in the division, says Athletics Director Louise O'Neal, and more wetlands than it started with. (For every acre of wetland that was destroyed, 1.3 acres were created.) "We've been able to improve the quality of the athletic fields, but also open up more space for recreation, both for organized student groups and leisure-time use for the whole community," says O'Neal. The new facilities-including a softball diamond, a track surrounding a hockeyllacrosse field made with artificial turf, a soccer field, and recreation field-allow greater flexibility of use. In the spring, teams can get out- side and play on the turf several weeks sooner, without risk to the terrain; PE classes can take greater advantage; and the general community is already marveling at the area's beauty. Given a very bad hand of cards, "we got something very positive out of the whole thing," says Patrick Willoughby, assistant director of the physical plant. O'Neal hopes to have a softball coach hired within a year or so, though a track team may take longer to develop because of equipment expenses. In the meantime, the soccer, lacrosse, and field-hockey teams will have the run of the place. Last fall, the field-hockey team didn't lose a game on their new turf. O'Neal says the team is very proud of their new terrain: "They get a lot of satisfaction from seeing their opponents in awe of what they have there,' she says. "They're going to try to never be defeated on that field." Jennifer McFarland Flint is an associate editor of Wellesley magazine. JI Two YEARS AGO, Wellesley ran headlong into a qw-stion that had dogged earlier generations almost since the founding of the College: Where is the center of this far-flung and beautiful campus? The question was focused by the need to choose a site S for the new campus center, Wel,-le and debate broke out from all sides. Should the pro- posed building be placed in 1D 0 the geographical center? By Peter Fergusson Or avoid impinging on it? Just how far should one have to walk to get a hamburger, buy a book, or participate in one of Wellesley's 177 student organizations? In the end, a location behind Tower begins (with completion scheduled for late Court was favored. Although distant from 2004), it is interesting to place a historical the east campus (the area near the New context around the new work. Recent I Dorms), it was deemed closer to the main discoveries in the College Archives cast fresh dormitory groupings and offered better road light on the efforts of earlier generations The tension between who struggled with the same problem. access and parking than a site near the cur- centering and rent Schneider Center. It also provided adja- The tension between centering and cency to other centers such as the Keohane dispersal arose within a few years of dispersal arose Sports Center and the Davis Museum and Wellesley's opening in 1875. At the start, Cultural Center, as well as to performance every part of the institution cohered in one within a few years space in Alumnae Hall. In choosing this site building, College Hall. As more classes of Wellesley's for the Wang Campus Center (named for joined the 314 women who made up the donors Lulu Chow Wang '66 and her hus- first class, new buildings were needed. Their opening in 1875. band, Tony Wang), the College may have placement was complicated by the decision solved a problem that generations have of the founders, Henry Fowle Durant and struggled with: finding a "center" in a campus his wife, Pauline, to establish their new college designed to be dispersed. As construction in a 300-acre park-like campus ranged over wellesley spring 2003 23 Science Center Galen Stone Tower Tower Court Fig.,1 (Left) A rendered view of Alumae 0 0 Valley, the newly renamed area behind Tower Court - Lake House that will be the site of . 4e the Wang Campus Center. Fig. 2 (Below) Eliza Newkirk Alumnae Hal made this copy of Pond and Pond's proposal lbr the -- HEAlumnae Valley Student-Alumnae Building. The newly finished Lake House appears to the right, and the channel fbr a canoe turnaround from Lake Waban runs diagonally across the foreground. MICHAELVAN VALKENBURGHASSOCIATES a series of freely shaped hills and discrete mined to expand the student body and to understood. A long report in 1911 detailed valleys. As buildings came to be placed on the build the endowment through gifts (many the pressures on students resulting from the hills' escarpments, leaving the valley sides coming from her own pocket). But student distances between residences and classrooms tree-shrouded and the floors grassed or expansion meant more buildings-dornito- and described the "constant rushing around" meadowed, wide distances separated one Ties, science buildings, classrooms-and these that had become part of student life. building complex from another. would take time and money to construct. For One way of reducing the sense of frag- A systematic approach to Wellesley's donritories, the College resorted to rentals of mentation was to build a center where students planning was instituted around 1900 by a new residences in the town of Wellesley (not until could gather. By 1911, the College Building president, Caroline Hazard. Within weeks of the 1950s would the entire student body of Committee had identified a location for thi, the taking office in 1899, she ordered the demoli- 2,000 women be housed within the campus). 18-acre valley behind Tower Court (fig. 1, tion of the large boathouse on Green Beach Thus a commute was added to the College's Alumnae Valley). The program for what was to (between the present-day Tower Court dormi- already large terrain. The problem was well be known as the Student-Alumnae Building tories and the library), constructed at consid- erable expense by the cash strapped College just a few years earlier. "The lake shore is our most beautiful possession," she decreed, and "no building which would endanger its beauty can be placed upon it" With the shore bound- aries building-free, the College turned its attention toward the park. In 1902, Hazard solicited plans for its future development from Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., realizing that growth had become a condition of Wellesley's survival. With a student body hovering around 800 and an endowment standing at an infinitesimal $7,000, the College teetered on the brink of financial ruin. To ensure more income, Hazard deter- 24 Wellesley Spring 2003 Fig-3 Eliza Newkirk's copy of Pond and Pond's alternate proposal for the Student- Alumnae Building. The newly finished Lake House (right, corner) establishes X5 tthe general location for their proposed design. WELLESLEYCOLEGE ARCHIVES called for a recreation space, theater, student- 4 government offices, and an area for the formal Ida Noyes Hall (i915) at the University of Chicago was luncheons at alumnae reunions. The choice of designed by Coolidge and Carison, the firm that later won wa deate.ofthe commission for Wellesley's Tower Court complex. architect was debated. JuliusarchtecJuiusScheinimt Schweinfusrth of Boston, whose Hazard Quad dormitories (1904-19) were under construction, wanted the commission. Instead, it went to a Chicago firm, Pond and Pond. The conunittee self-consciously determined to break the College's connection with Boston architects, part of a broadening of horizons visible in other parts of the institution, and, in turning to Chicago, it acknowledged that city's preeminence in architecture. Pond and Pond enjoyed a wide practice in the early 20th century. Particularly admired were their build- ings for the Chicago Telephone Company (established in 1877), whose many exchanges employed thousands of skilled women switch- board operators in novel, humane, and sen- - - sitively planned workplace environments. The location of Pond and Pond's archive is unknown, but a number of copies of their designs for Wellesley's Student-Alumnae Building have recently surfaced. The copies were made by Eliza Newkirk 1900, a member of the Building Committee. She was the pro- tegee of Wellesley's new president, Ellen Pendleton 1886, who had assumed office in 1911 following Hazard's resignation due to ill health. Newkirk taught architecture in the art department and was herself an accomplished architect, one of the earliest women architects in the Northeast. Pond and Pond proposed to locate their building at the Lake Waban entrance to the valley, adjacent to Lake House (1913), the just-finished building for the maids who served College Hall. Two designs reveal the architects' uncertainty about how to relate future of the College's buildings and landscape. The plans for the Student-Alumnae their building to Wellesley's topography. In Just to replace College Hall, the Trustees now Building were far enough advanced for costs to fig. 2 (page 24), they favor a location on the valley faced the daunting task of providing no fewer be estimated at $410,000, of which only floor and offer a heavily massed building than seven new buildings. $160,000 was in hand. In location and style, detailed in a subdued arts-and-crafts Gothic The College solicited designs for the dif- Day and Klauder's design amounts to a critique with the theater placed over the recreation ferent buildings from four major firms in the of Pond and Pond's earlier scheme (and gives a space. An alternate design (fig. 3, page 25) immediate post fire years. Pond and Pond's clue to the Building Committee's unhappiness shows them considering a hillside location. standing as one of the four had begun to erode, with their ideas). The building was to lie Abandoning the bulk of their other proposal, however. Relations frayed, in part due to con- adjacent to Tower Court and be integrated with they break the building into several distinct flicts of personality, in part to the firm's stylistic laboratory buildings to the east. The smaller parts set at different angles and have them preference. By 1916, Pond and Pond's services students' recreation hall lay on a higher eleva- cascade down the hillside to terminate in a were terminated in a far-from-amicable tion above the theater, with tenracing descend- pennant-topped boathouse. They tuck the manner. Two years earlier, Coolidge and ing the hillside where Shakespeare now is (the I '-K:; I -'A A 4 ?_A . & A road from Lake House behind the boathouse Carlson, the University of Chicago's architects, into a covered archway. The varied parts are had been given the commission for Tower (Above) In 1915, Day and Klauder made a presentation drawing for shown with Gothic details, including traceried Court, and in 1915, the prolific Philadelphia their proposal for a complex that windows and crenellations. firm of Day and Klauder, after fierce debate, was to contain the Student- Both designs resemble Pond and Pond's had been hired for the classroom, laboratory, Alumnae Building and laboratories. Chicago buildings, such as the City Club (1911), and administration buildings needed to replace (The latter were eventually built in which today is the John Marshall Law School, those in College Hall. 1936 as Pendleton in the Academic and the buildings of their contemporaries, such Despite the setback represented by the Quad.) The left end would have stood on the present-day location as Ida Noyes Hall (1915), designed by Coolidge fire, the trustees kept the Student-Alumnae of Shakespeare House, the right end and Carlson for the University of Chicago (fig. Building as a priority. It was included in Day where Jewett Arts Center now is. 4, page 25). It should be pointed out that Gothic and Klauder's program, and it appears (fig. 5) had not been used as a style at Wellesley, as the left termination of a strikingly composed although by 1911, it was gaining popularity for string of buildings proposed for the long hill- universities in the Midwest, as well as on the side of Severance Green (with one end where Fig. 6 East Coast, notably at Princeton and Yale. Shakespeare House is, and the other where (Right) Cram and Ferguson's Despite these associations, the College purposes are known Jewett Arts Center is). The Student-Alumnae Building dragged its feet on a decision. Meanwhile, from the labels appended in the hand of (1922-23)-in an early 1930s much more pressing events intervened. On Caroline Hazard, the retired president whose photograph-is today known March 17, 1914, fire destroyed the mammoth health had revived on leaving office and who as Alumnae Hall. College Hall. This calamity reset the entire had returned to serve as a trustee in 1912. 26 Wellesley Spring 2003 Welesley Spring 2003 27 The Wang Campus Center Building in 1922 to yet a fifth fint, Boston Although the building functioned effectively as a hall, it only briefly filled its role as a student and Ferguson. is designed to attract all arcitectsReturning Cram to the valley behind Tower recreation center. That function yielded first to members of the community, Court, the firm chose a west-facing site in the the new Recreation Building constructed in 1938 area where the valley turns toward Lake next to Mary Hemenway Gymnasium (replaced reaching out to them in an Waban, more or less opposite that proposed by by the Keohane Sports Center) and then in 1968 to the Schneider Center (the renovated Music architecture whose language Pond and Pond (fig. 6,page 27). To disguise the building's considerable bulk, they cleverly Building or Billings Hall). Reflecting the change, is intentionally multifacing developed iton two levels and ledged it into the the Student Alumnae Building's name got short- ened to Alumnae Hall. Shifts in student social life and multidirectional, hillside. The lower level lay on an artificial ter- race built out of excavated fill from the con- particularly after World War II underlie the centripetal and centrifugal, struction of Founders and contained a space for development; the vogue for formal dances had receptions, ballroom dancing, and lessened, as had the appeal of the large staged aclass a beconasmch s areunion lunches. Above it rose the 1,500-seat event For the latter, smaller seemed better, a role filled in 1958 with theJewett Arts Center's 350- magnet. auditorium. The pavilions flanking the eastern entrance contained a tearoom, student-govern- seat auditorium. Reflecting the overall decline ______-ment offices, and a library/lounge for first- was the degradation of the surrounding land- year students who had not yet had the oppor- scape. A flawed decision to use the valley to trinity to apply for membership to the soci- satisfy the progressive clamor for increased park- architects proposed moving Shakespeare to dies. A further feature, on a yet lower terrace, ing saw its entire floor engulfed by 350 parking Tupelo Road to join the other society houses). provided an outdoor theater for plays, particu- spaces by 1990 (compared to a mere 50 spaces Day and Klauder's design displayed a more larly the popular Greek and Latin plays, during World War II). In a crowning indignity, vigorous Gothic aesthetic, complete with clus- althoughWaldng'Cms 13 Cnerayears would bulevtecevrl elapse before the the valley came to be known as Service Iot. tered pinnacles, ascending gables, and traceried College could afford to build it Restoration of one of Wellesley's most perpendicular windows. For the building's style, Cram and beautiful valleys is now under way. An imagi- Day and Klauder's scheme fell victim to Ferguson unexpectedly abandoned theft mar- native and ambitious landscape scheme budget realities the following year. To conserve quee Gothic in favor of a bland Jacobean- designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh money, the College dropped the entire Colonial amalgam. The decision is best Associates restores to the community a central sequence of buildings facing Severance Green explained as a self-effacing gesture of transition component of its landscape heritage. To be and concentrated instead on a complex to the directed toward the nearby Hazard Quad- named Alumnae Valley, it recognizes many east- Founders, Green, and Pendleton. The rangle with its Tudor-Elizabethan vocabulary. years of vision directed toward this part of the need for the center remained paramount Complementing the new building, the valley campus. Similarly, the new Wang Campus nonetheless. After Founders was built in 1917, fronting it was developed as a meadow area, Center (fig. 7), designed by Atlanta architects but before Green was started in 1929, the complete with a running trac and a canoe Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, will provide a trustees awarded the Student-Alumnae turnaround from an inlet from Lake Waban. range of functions adjusted to current College culture. The building is designed to attract all Fi. Wand Pon (fg 6, pae)ton I members of the community, reaching out to them in an architecture whose language is intentionally multifacing and multidirectional, centripetal and centrifugal, a beacon as much as a magnet. At the same time, the same firm's 600-car Davis parking facility (half-below ground, half-above) in the Alumnae Hall parking lot will address the perennial parking needs-using, in turn, a model of centered- ness rather than fragmentation. Peter Fergusson is the Theodora and Stanley Feldberg Professor of Art. He is also author, together withJames O'Gorman and John Rhodes, of The Landscape and Architecture of Wellesley College. 28 Wellesley Spring 2003 A LUMNA E AC HIE VEMENT A W A R D S These awards are presented annually by the Alumnae Association to graduates "of distinction who through their achievements have brought honor to themselves and to Wellesley College." The 2003 recipients are: BARBARA LOOMIS JACKSON '50 NIRAMOL BULAKUL SURIYASAT '54 HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON '69 Photographsby Richard Howard Wenesley Spring 2003 (29 BARBARA LOOMIS JACKSON '50 REFORMING EDUCATION ONE ADMINISTRATOR AT A TIME By Noreen O'Donnell '77 T 18, Barbara Loomis Jackson '50 stepped aboard a train "You have to recognize opportunities and be prepared to take them and be in Detroit for an overnight journey to a college she had never encouraged to take them," Jackson says. "I think Wellesley does give you a sense that seen. She does not remember who suggested she apply to Wellesley College, you can do a whole lot of things. Everything you experience there gives you this feeling." perhaps a guidance counselor who thought she might do well at a selective Eastern college. Her friends would attend the University of Michigan or other JACKSON'S OFFICE AT FORDHAM, A bright schools close to home; she chose the unknown and for the next two years would 11th-floor room just south of Lincoln Center, offers glimpses into the fullness of be the only black student in her class. If Jackson has little recollection of how she her life and career. There is her family, with prized places for the photographs of her two heard of Wellesley, she does recall her response: "I said, 'Well, why not?"' granddaughters, 11-year-old Tommie and 3-year-old Michaela. A poster of Africa Those words could well be a motto Baltimore-where she developed and hangs behind her desk, a memento of a for a woman who seems never to have taught in doctoral programs in education surprise trip to South Africa given to her for hesitated to grasp an opportunity, a motto administration. She has urged other women her 70th birthday by the students and for a life traveled along unexpected paths to move into the ranks of school adminis- faculty whose sun-faded names surround leading to a full professorship at Fordham trators and positions of authority. the map of the continent. In a corner, University's Graduate School of Education Jackson's career has in many ways been framed Christmas cards from Hampton in Manhattan, where she is the chair of the groundbreaking, says Susan McGee Bailey '63, University in Hampton, Va.-where Division of Administration, Policy, and the executive director of the Wellesley Jackson served on the board of trustees- Urban Education. Centers for Women, with whom Jackson showcase such African-American paintings Baptism and William Jackson has used her success to try to worked on the 1992 report How Schools as John Biggers' ensure that others, in the black community Shortchange Girls for the American Johnson's Going to Church. particularly, have the same chances she had. Association of University Women. "When you Now 74, Jackson plans to step down as She has worked in Boston's Roxbury neigh- look at the number of women in full [professor- chair of her division at the end of this borhood, where she helped to make educa- ships] of education in the era when she first semester, though not to retire. "I'm going to tion more available to poor families, and at came to that role, [there were} very few," do something else besides push papers and historically black institutions-Atlanta Bailey says. "When you look at the number of write reports," she says. University and Morgan State University in women of color in those roles, even fewer." She hopes to delve into the growing 30 Wellesley Spring 2003 'We all know that education-particularly for people who haven't had many opportunities- is the only way out of quagmires and whatnot. N I think those of us who stay in the field have N \~'~ Q&, to keep fighting.' -Barbara Loomis Jackson '50 AC achievement gap between white and black asks. "If I had my druthers that's what I'd "It was a fascinating experience, to go students, black males especially-to like to really see now." into a place that you've never seen," she understand why some of the children of Jackson herself grew up in a middle- says. "I didn't know anybody else at all. The the baby boomers, with the advantages of class family in Detroit, and although her girls were really quite friendly-a little the civil-rights movement and educated high school was integrated, she says, her curious I guess. I never sensed any prejudice, parents, are not doing as well as they social life was not. Wellesley was her door- nothing overt. Let me put it that way. should be. way into that part of white society where Probably because of the way I looked. I Segregated schools, despite all of their the important decisions were made, she didn't hit them over the head. I didn't have shortcomings, did give their students a sure says. In turn, she has written, she was the cornrows or whatever." sense of themselves, she says. "Is there any only black person who was not a maid or a Jackson's father, an alumnus of the way to capture what segregated schools did porter that many of her classmates had met, University of Michigan, was a lawyer, and for building the self-esteem in kids ... and she offered them a window into the she majored in political science, intending land put it) into an integrated setting?" she home life of families like hers. to follow him into the profession. But it was Wellesley Spring 2003 31 the beginning of the 1950s, and though her turned her toward another challenge. "You Hall, the superintendent of the Atlanta parents were thrilled she had gone to need to go to Harvard," she remembers the public schools, says Jackson is determined Wellesley, her mother had other plans for Englewood superintendent, Mark Shedd, that women not be excluded from jobs her now. telling her. "That's where they prepare because of a lack of academic preparation. "My mother, in those subtle ways, had administrators." "Truth be told, I'm not sure I would have said, 'You're going to get married, aren't Once again, Jackson found herself a completed the doctorate had she not you?"' Jackson says. Soon after graduation, pioneer. She was the only woman in her served as my mentor," Hall says. "She was she did. program at the Harvard University relentless in making sure that you finished. "I would say that 90 percent of my Graduate School of Education, older "She was really inspirational because you class got married within a year or two after than her colleagues, and one of three recognized if she could do it in her time, her college," she said. "We were the stay-at- black students. By then her children were generation, then clearly there was no excuse home mother types, [and] not apologetic teenagers, and her marriage was coming for other women, and other women of color, about it, either." to an end. not attempting to do it," Hall says. In a chapter she authored for a 1999 book called Sacred Dreams: Women and the Superintendency, Jackson wrote that women 'You have to recognize opportunities and be prepared to take made up only 10 to 12 percent of the country's superintendents, and of those only 30 were them and be encouraged to take them. I think Wellesley does African-Americans. Jackson whose own book, Balancing Act: The Political Role of the give you a sense that you can do a whole lot of things. Urban School Superintendent, was published in 1995-views the current pressures on Everything you experience there gives you this feeling.' education through the same lens she has used throughout her career: Will there be society? -Barbara Loomis Jackson '50 opportunities for all of For that reason, she opposes the legal challenge to affirmative action at the University of Michigan and its law school. Jackson and her husband, Bill, moved to Twenty years after graduating from The university is not using quotas, she argues; Englewood, N.J., and had two children: Wellesley, she received her doctorate in nor is it opening doors for ill-prepared Caroline, now teaching theater and African- educational administration and that same students. "What annoys me most is for several American studies at Oberlin College in Ohio, year, became Wellesley's first African- centuries they took race into account in a and William, an accountant in Detroit. She American trustee. negative way very actively, and they don't remained at home through their early years, Her first jobs directly affected black seem to see or remember that race was a and then, as it happened, Englewood became communities: in Roxbury, where she estab- barrier to end all barriers," Jackson says. one of the first northern suburbs of New York lished a bilingual street academy and other "How are we ever going to even it out if you to be accused of segregation. When the dis- educational components of the federal Boston ignore it altogether?" the recent trict received a Ford Foundation grant to Model City program; at the National Urban And she worries that and make changes, Jackson was put in charge. League in Washington, D.C.; and at Atlanta emphasis on educational standards Her credentials in the field were limited to University and Morgan State University. achievement tests will crowd out other benefits of courses in elementary education at a New In 1987, Jackson moved to Fordham as lessons learned-about the Jersey teachers' college and part-time work as a full professor. Those who have studied small classes, for example, or starting a music teacher, but with an imaginative with her say that students are drawn to the schooling early. Standards must come with superintendent behind her, Jackson was free university by her reputation. flexibility and chances to learn; schools of to explore a host of innovations from Noreen Hosier, now an assistant pro- education must advocate more forcefully team teaching to pre-kindergarten. "We fessor of education at Medgar Evers College for what has been successful, she says. tried-and this was back in the early in Brooklyn, N.Y., recalls her former advi- "We all know that education particu- '60s-every education reform going at sor's dedication. Jackson once invited her larly for people who haven't had many oppor- that time," she says. over and insisted on correcting a chapter of tunities-is the only way out of quagmires The experience settled her on a career Hosier's dissertation though Jackson was at and whatnot," she says. "I think those of us in education. She was completing a mas- home because she was ill. "I was pushing who stay in the field have to keep fighting." ter's degree at Columbia University's myself, but I could only push myself because Teachers College and was planning to con- she was there supporting me," says Hosier. Noreen O'Donnell '77 is a reporter for tinue there until she got some advice that Another former student, Beverly the Journal News in White Plains, N.Y 32 Wellesley Spring 2003 NIRAMOL BULAKUL SURIYASAT '54 BUSINESSByBenEYOND AS U SUAL By Jennifer E. Garrett '98 " I HEY have traveled to Wellesley to accept an award on their mother's behalf-three quiet, gracious women from Thailand: Kalayarat Suriyasat '8 1, Kobkarn Suriyasat Wattanavrangkul '83, and Kanit Suriyasat Muangkrachang '88. They are the daughters of a thanpuying, and I am unsure of the appropriate protocol. I have been told that the tide is the highest given by the crown of Thailand and is somewhat equivalent to "grande dame." Their mother is Thanpuying Niramol Bulakul Suriyasat '54, a two-term senator in the Thai parlia- ment and former chair of Toshiba in Thailand, a 20-firm conglomerate that earns more than 20 billion baht ($465 million) a year. They are here because she could not be; I ask them how they remember their chemistry at Wellesley and earning a master's Thanpuying Niramol died of leukemia on mother, and Wartanavrangkul answers first, degree in food technology from MIT She April 5, 2002, shortly after she learned that she hesitantly: "For me, what really stands out began her career as a lecturer at Kasetsart would receive the Alumnae Achievement about her [is that] . .. she was a capable University in Thailand, but quickly moved on Award. Part of her legacy is seated in front of woman. But there are also many capable people to a position at Shell of Thailand, where she me. "She has already carried the torch to one around. Her uniqueness was that she was not became the first woman in Thailand to rise to level," Wattanavrangkul says. "It is our duty to only capable, but she was also a good person." a management-level position. 'At Shell, there carry on." Kalayarat Suriyasat is the vice presi- In fact, Thanpuying Niramol was told were difficulties at first," Thanpuying Niramol dent of Thai Toshiba Lighting; Kobkarn she was too good to succeed in the ruthless told Asia 21 magazine in 1998. "There I Wattanavrangkul is vice president of Toshiba business world-~she was too honest. "But she was-a woman, only in my 40s, Western- Thailand; and Kanit Muangkrachang is vice decided to be herself, respect herself, and to educated, thrust into an environment still president of Thai Toshiba Electric Industries. prove that good people can succeed in every- basically very conservative, very male -oriented." Their brother, Kanok, is the assistant to the thing," Wattanavrangkul says. After starting as a chemist, Thanpuying vice president of Toshiba Thailand and Born in 1932, Thanpuying Niramol was Niramol accepted a demotion to work in assistant to the managing director of Bangkadi the fifth of eight children born to Ma and human resources because she felt she could Industrial Park, another venture of the Boonkrong Bulakul. She was educated in make a greater contribution. "I learned many Suriyasats and Toshiba. Hong Kong and the US, majoring in things at Shell, one of the most important Wellesley Spring 2003 33 '[Our mother] tried to ingrain the honor system into us the day we were born. If you don't have the honor system in your business, you can't succeed.' being that the heart of any company is in its she insisted. She insisted. "They had to resign, Kobkarn Suryasat Wattanavrangkul '83 (seated), people," she told the Bangkok Post in 1996. [and] she started a better team. Younger and Kalayarat Suriyasat '81 (standing,left), and Her business career began in earnest in more modem," Wattanavrangkul says. Kanit Suriyasat Muangkrachang'88. 1965, when she left Shell to run Thai Electric When Thai Electric joined forces with with her husband, Kom Suriyasat. An engineer, Japanese and male-dominated Toshiba, there relationship between Thailand and Japan to Kom ran the production side of the business, was culture shock all around. "She was not Thanpuying Niramol's integrity and work ethic. while Thanpuying Niramol handled manage- accepted in the beginning at all. She was a lady, She placed a great importance on the honor sys- ment. But "she didn't know anything about coming from a small country. No one listened tem she leamed at Wellesley, Kalayarat Suriyasat marketing management," Wattanavrangkul to her, but she continued to be herself... and says. "She tried to ingrain the honor system says. "She bought a book, and.., she learned criticize the company if the company did some- into us the day we were born," she says. "Ifyou by herself. If [there was something] she didn't thing not prope;" Wattanavrangkul says. Self- don't have the honor system in your business, know, she would call [another business person}. characterized as "outspoken and straight- you can't succeed." Wiattanavrangkul agrees: She was not ashamed to ask for help." But forward," Thanpuying Niramol brought "Integrity. That iswhy we gain respect from our neither was she afraid to voice her own opinions something new to Toshiba. "In a society like Japanese friends." Thanpuying Niramol served and try new things. In her new position, mine where women are still supposed to take a as president of the Thai-Japanese Association Thanpuying Niramol saw ways to improve the backseat, being appointed to head Toshiba from 1996 to 2001. "She was selected because company-creating separate sales and market- Thailand is something I am very proud of," she she was the one who could reach between the ing departments, for instance. The sales said in the Asia 21 magazine profile. Thai and the Japanese," Wattanavrangkul says. managers resisted and threatened to resign if Her daughters credit today's strong Her work earned her the "Order of the Sacred 34 Weilesley Spring 2003 Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon" from think she was an iron lady," Wattanavrangkul best in people," Wattanavrangkul says. the government of Japan in 1996. says. "But she was very soft," Kalayarat Suriyasat Thanpuying Niramol used her own The honor was one of many given to says. "She loved people," Wattanavrangkul adds. education-and her capacity to leam-through- Thanpuying Niramol. In addition to being hon- Her concern for others was integral to who out her life. When an obstacle blocked her path, ored with the tide of thanpuying, she was an she was, her daughters stress. In addition to her she would learn her way around it. To her mother, appointed senator for two terms, during which active business careei Thanpuying Niramol Wattanavrangkul says, "everything was possible. she helped guide the country through the eco- chaired numerous boards, from the Foun- Impossible was not in her vocabulary." nomic crisis of the late '90s. She was also named dation for International Human Resource Thanpuying Niramol admitted as much in an Business Woman of the Year in 1987-an award Development to the Special Olympics of interview with Epession magazine: "I'm the type given by the Federation of Business and Thailand. She and her husband formed the of person who never gives up." She believed you Professional Womerns Associations of Thailand, Bring Good Things to Life Foundation, which could do anything with an education and honoring the depth and breadth of her work. supports the arts. "She said that everyone is determination-even hold back a flood. (At the height of her career, Thanpuying born with a mission-to serve others," One of Thanpuying Niramol's favorite Niramol was chairperson of Toshiba Thailand Wattanavrangkul says. Thanpuying Niramol memories, oddly enough, was of a heavy flood and Thai Toshiba Lighting, deputy chairperson carried that philosophy with her in every step of that deluged Thailand in 1995. The waters of Thai Toshiba Electric Industries and Thai her life-from family, to business, to volunteering threatened an industrial park the Suriyasats Toshiba Fluorescent Lamp, managing director "Ialways ask myself," she told Asia 21, "'What is had developed to help bring foreign investors of Bangkadi Industrial Park, chairman and the meaning of success?' To me, it means being into Thailand. The land had already been director of Jasmine International Public Co., able to contribute to society... And in the con- sold to various companies, so Thanpuying and director of Mitkom Development and Thai text of Thailand today, that means creating Niramol technically had no responsibilities to Electric Industries.) She was also named jobs for the people, helping the poor" the park. She decided to fight the flood any- Industrial Woman of the Year, World Class Education was one issue particularly close to way. "She believed that if the flood [affected] Executive, Outstanding Woman (In the Field of her heart, and she pursued it her whole life. "She all those companies, it would affect Thailand Business), and one of 50 Leading Women never stopped leaming," Muangkrachang says. and would diminish the confidence foreign Entrepreneurs of the World-by organizations "Education moulds a person," Thanpuying investors [had in the country]," as diverse as Wbdbusimess magazine and the Niramol once said in an interview. "Education is Wanranavrangkul says. "She spent all of her Thai National Commission of Women's Affairs. not the end. It influences you and prepares you in energy fighting the flood. She didn't know Thanpuying Niramol's success came at a so far as it tells you where and how to seek infor- how to. There was no book, so she learned price. "She worked all the time," Wattanavrangkul says. "Seven days a week," Kalayarat Suriyasat adds. While working full-time running several companies, Thanpuying Niramol also raised a 'I always ask myself, "What is the meaning of success?" family of four Muangkrachang recalls the story of her mother riding on a truck to deliver goods To me, it means being able to contribute to society.... while she was very pregnant. Family vacations were sometimes canceled-business called- And in the context of Thailand today, that means but "whenever one of us was sick, she would be there, by the bedside. I think she knew how to creatingjobs for the people, helping the poor.' manage time," Wattanavrangkul says. Time management was crucial for a -Thanpuying Niramol Bulakul Suriyasat '54 woman who appeared to do it all. In her "spare time," Thanpuying Niramol wrote poetry. She completed over 300 poems, ranging from trib- mation." In addition to implementing training herself. She studied sandbags, water levels, utes to the royal family of Thailand to reflec- and tuion-assistance progiams at her own coripa- many things." In the end, the park was saved. tive works on Buddhism or family. "She would nies, she helped 'Tailand's Thammasat University That accomplishment represented how [write] when she was inspired by something," to establish a competitive engineering program Thanpuying Niramol wanted to be remembered: Wattanavrangkul says. One of her favorite in order to train more highly skilled workers. "Her using a mobile phone, standing on the sand- memories of her mother is of a bicycling trip in She served as the director of the national bags," is the image used for a memorial statue northern Thailand. "It was sunset, and she Board of Education for several years, and she located in the very park she worked to save, says said, 'Stop here,' [because] she would like to helped to found the Toshiba Foundation, WattanavrangkuL "She wanted to be remembered enjoy the sunset with the mountain, and she which gives scholarships to engineering not as a beautiful lady, but for her work [and] her wrote a poem." Her poetry expressed the softer students every year, as well as four scholar- sense of social responsibility. No one asked her to sidd of a formidable businesswoman who ships to every province of Thailand for do it. [She felt] you should know on your own." required her own children to call her students to attend various universities. She Jennifer E. Garrett '98 is an associate "Thinpuying" at the office. "On one side, people "believed education is the means to bring out the editor at Wellesley magazine. I Wellesley Spring 2003 35 HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON '69 THE MAKING OF A WASHINGTON NS ADER By Gail Russell Chaddock '72 ENATOR Hillary Rodham Clinton '69 is one of the most visible hope they can be as strong in their own lives. Former British Prime Minister Margaret women in the world-yet tough to get in to see, even to talk Thatcher once described her years in public life as living in "the heat of the fire and the Wellesley College. about her Achievement Award from teeth of the wind." It's a view Clinton, as first After weeks of calls to and fro with her vigilant Senate staff, I happened lady, had good reason to share. But when we finally do settle down to to meet her walking into an obscure elevator at the back of the Russell talking about her life, it's not the wind and the fire she wants to talk about. (Stay tuned for Senate Office Building. "Hi, what are you doing these days?" she said. (It's her memoirs, in progress, though.) It's how she began asking questions-and finding a few the kind of thing people in public life often say when they meet people they answers-at Wellesley. "Iam so grateful to Wellesley, because it was barely know, but few ever look as if they care to hear the response. She did.) exactly the right place for me to be at a time of "Trying to talk to you," I said, explaining the assignment for Wellesley. transition in my own life, and a time of transition in the life of women and our country," she says. She laughed. By the next floor, the interview was on. There was a joke circulating around Wellesley in those days that hints at the scope of So, what to talk about? There may be York. And it's an indication of something that that transition for women. Ifts supposed to be more written about Clinton than most other doesn't show up on her resum6 or in the contro- advice given to members of a Wellesley graduat- women today. Anyone with a pulse knows versy around it: her capacity to inspire other ing class: (1) Marry well. (2) Oudive your hus- something about her-or thinks they do: The women. band. (3) Leave his money to Wellesley. Students 1992 campaign, the White House years, the "She's a very big role model in my life. I at the time laughed, but it wasn't entirely funny. run for the Senate, and beyond, Some even hope she is the first woman president. .. . She's When Clinton first came to Wellesley, stu- know she had a life before the 42nd president of so resilient," says Heather, after getting a pic- dents still referred to the place, without irony, as the United States, as a top lawyer and advocate ture with Clinton. a girls' school. The cakes at high tea were baked for women's and children's rights. "She shows how strong a woman can be, fresh. Tree Day was celebrated in long gowns. Then, the elevator door opened. On the even when she doesn't always have a man Students signed out to leave campus, and men other side, Pam and Heather, high-school standing behind her," says Pam. were allowed in the dorms only a few hours a interns from Oregon, nearly dropped their It turns out that these young interns don't day, on Sundays. And the iron wall of required point-and-shoot cameras in their excitement at know much about Clinton's lifework or her courses still included biblical studies. seeing her Such encounters happen a lot to the accomplishments. What they admire isher spirit, But the fight to recruit more minority stu- former first lady, now junior senator from New especially how she handled adversity. They dents and faculty was also under way, and 36 Wellesley Spring 2003 'I am so grateful to Wellesley, because it was exactly the right place for me to be at a time of transition in my own life, and a time of transitionin the life of women and our country. /L Clinton helped push it. As an elected student experience in any environment other than my Clinton says she almost left Wellesley after representative, she also helped crack the system rather small circle of family and friends, but I the first month because she didn't think she was of parietals, dress codes, and all- consuming dis- bad a lot of questions about my life and what I smart enough to make it, hut her mother urged tribution requirements. Vietnam War protests wanted to do with it." her to stick it out. The mix of students, the filled Houghton Chapel down the aisles and out The idea of going East to college came from attention of the faculty, the succession of events the door. Critical numbers of students started two young teachers at her high school. They "lob- outside campus-especially the civil-rights taking law boards. There were more choices for bied hard" for their respective colleges, Smith and movement, the assassination of Martin Luther women, and a lively expectation that Wellesley Wellesley. "I had never heard of an Eastern King, Jr., and the Vietnam War-rattled her women would make good use of them. women's school... . I didn't know anyone from political views. So did participation in the Until coming to Wellesley, Clinton had the Ivy League. I never visited Wellesley until I political debates in the Stone-Davis dining room, never ventured much beyond Park Ridge, a showed up there," she says. (The idea of Radcliffe which often continued long after the dinner hour heavily Republican suburb just northwest of came up, but her father nixed the idea: "Too "Wellesley was a nurturing, [yet] challeng- Chicago. "It was a very homogenous ethnic and many beatniks," he said.) In the end, she opted ing environment for young women like myself racial community," she says. "I had very little for Wellesley "because of the lake." who didrt even know what questions to ask," Wellesley Spring 2003 37 Clinton says. "I spent a lot of time talking with "He wanted me to be sure I was choosing to "Iwas immersed in the legal theory and my friends and reading about what was going leave behind the Republican Party in an informed precedent, and believed that the process on in the larger world." She both challenged way," she says. "I was really upset with him, but it headed up by Congressman [Peter] Rodino and the College, on issues such as internal gover- turned out to be a terrific opportunity." John Doar, who was the director was caied out nance and rules, and was challenged by it. She The chairman of the House Republican in a very professional and totally nonpolitical especially valued the friendships established on Conference in those days was Rep. Gerald Ford. manner, in full compliance with the Constitution. campus and ongoing since. Another member of that conference, Rep. That gave me quite a perspective on what was to A former "Goldwater Girl," she was elected Charles Goodell of New York, asked her to go come later," she says-her only reference to the president of the campus Republican club, but to the 1968 Republican convention with House vote to impeach President William gave it up after her freshman year: "I decided I him to help Nelson Rockefeller become the Jefferson Clinton in December 1998. wasn't a Republican anymore and, as a matter of Republican nominee. Whatever doubts she She touches lightly on the controversies of conscience, resigned." Betsy Griffith '69, now may have had about abandoning her GOP her years as first lady: "The symbolic role of the head of the Madeira School near Washington, roots were laid to rest at that convention, which first lady is invested with enormous meaning D.C., and a lifelong friend, took over the job. nominated Richard Nixon instead. from what people project on it. Having been an Clinton also values her strong ties to the fac- Clinton doesn't mention her celebrated advocate or activist, I'm sure I didn't fit the ulty. She recalls the late Alona Evans, chairman of senior-year commencement speech, a from-the- image that many people had. When I partici- the political-science department-a formidable hips rebuttal to the main address by GOP Sen. pated actively in the work of the administra- woman who towered over her international law Edward Brooke, which she said was "pro forum" tion-which I saw not only as an opportunity, classes and, whenever possible, her colleagues. "If and skirted the issues of the day. Her speech was but as an obligation to support the policies and aspirations that my husband had brought to the presidency-I'm sure that was also troubling to some people," she says. 'Wellesley's motto, [Non Ministrari sed Ministrare], should But the decision to fully engage in the work of the administration is consistent with be emblazoned above the door of any public building, because how she has tackled every opportunity or chal- lenge: head on and 100 percent. it's not that something is supposed to be done to us and for us, "We learned at Wellesley that we should be as well prepared as we can to make our way in It's what we're supposed to do for others.' life-and to deal with whatever life sends up," if we're in public life. Clinton says. "Education from cradle to grave is -Hllary Rodham Clinton '69 the best insurance policy we can possibly have for the rapidly changing world we are in today." As a US senator, she has a chance to work you did something she considered good, it was like delivered without notes. Even at the time, many on every issue that has ever inspired her, includ- the heavens opened up. She was very demanding, who heard it couldn't recall what she had said, ing and especially health care. "The work is and you really had to stretch yourself," Clinton but recalled vividly the shock of hearing one of overwhelming. I had no idea of the intensity of says. (Evans once described Clinton as the best their own directly challenge a US senator. the days from early morning until late at night," student assistant she ever had.) At Yale Law School and, later, as a profes- she says. She clearly loves the work and has There was also Phil Phibbs, another mem- sor of law at the University of Arkansas, Clinton made quiet inroads with some of the crustiest of ber of the political-science department who helped define the new field of child-advocacy GOP colleagues on Capitol Hill-to the sur- later became acting president of the College for law. In her first job as a staff lawyer with the prise of many observers. a few months. (During his tenure, lightning Childrens Defense Fund, she studied why so "The importance of building relationships struck the Galen Stone Tower, a point he often many children were not in school. "We took among colleagues, or trying to create coalitions recalled with a chuckle. He would go on to be census data and compared it to school enroll- behind the issues that you are championing, president of the University of Puget Sound.) ment data and found gaps," she says. After going was not something I ever had much insight Clinton loved his "interesting" teaching meth- door to door they found that many children into until I was elected and started serving in ods, which involved a lot of role playing. "He with disabilities were not in school. "That study the Senate," she says. would assign you to be a world leader, and you contributed to the Individuals with Disabilities She adds: "Wellesley's motto, [Non would immerse yourself," she says. Act," she says, which comes up for renewal in Minitrari sed Ministrase], should be emblazoned Most of all, she valued political scientist the US Congress this year. above the door of any public building, because Alan Schechter-a "terrific part of my political Clinton left that job in January 1974 to it's not that something is supposed to be done to development" and another lifelong friend. He work for the House Judiciary Committee's us and for us, if we're in public life. it's what directed her senior thesis on community-action impeachment inquiry for President Nixon. She we're supposed to do for others." programs to fight poverty. He also chose her for was assigned to work on the procedural rules for Pam and Heather: Take note. the Wellesley internship program in Washington, impeachment, which hadn't been attempted Gail Russell Chaddock '72 is congressional assigned to the House Republican Conference. against a US president since 1868. conespondent for the Christian Science Monitor. 38 Wellesley Spring 2003 NEWS FROM THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION 4FNRE CLUBS CONNECTAON CALLING ALL RECORDERS The Alumnae Association supports more Proving that a club can create activities for just CHANGING COURSE about any interest group, the Rochester Wellesley tban 125 clubs and alumnae groups The Hartford Wellesley Club Club sponsors "recorder jams" periodically. The invited Folly Patterson '85, around the world, some large and orga- jams got started when "I recruited Ruth Freeman associate director for alumnae nized, others small and informal. "Clubs '62 in the supermarket parking lot," Sarah Snell career programming at Singal '68 says. "We were talking about it at a Connection" is a feature that runs twice a Wellesley's Center for Work and book-group meeting and surprisingly, a number year, with news of various events and Service, to conduct a workshop of people expressed an interest." Their first "jam" titled "Life in Transition: Career, activities. Alumnae who would like more was last fall. "We have soprano, alto, and tenor Family, and Love." About 20 [recorders], and .. . play any kind of music: information about organizing events like participants enjoyed the hands- medieval, Renaissance, Christmas carols, these should call the WCAA clubs office on session, which allowed them Hanukkah songs, folk music, etc." at 781-283-2330. to develop action plans for the particular life transitions they were facing. THE LUNCH BUNCH "I'd like to say that [the Arts & SCELEBRATING THE YEAR Letters group] has always OF THE RAM existed, since it was functioning vhen I first moved to this area in A party for the Chinese New Year is a New York Wellesley the 1950s," says Jane Watkins Bahr '47 of Mountain View, Calif. Club tradition that was revived A subgroup of the West Bay this year by popular demand Wellesley Club, Arts & Letters after a several-year hiatus. gets together for a brown-bag About 40 alumnae and friends lunch and a program at a mem- gathered at the Chemists' Club ber's house once a month. Bahr for an Asian buffet on Feb. 6. says they are "a self-propelled The meeting room was fes- group who get together to hear tooned with traditional New about interesting travels, AN EYE ON LATIN-AMERICAN ART Year decorations, and the group played traditional thought-provoking books, new The Fri ends of Art annual art tour was in games. "Everyone had a great careers, and from time to time town, o JoAnne Chester Bander '65 and time," says Kavitha Nair '99. visit museums in the area." other members of the Miami Wellesley Club saw an opportunity for a joint event. She SUNDAY BRUNCH-SIMPLY DIVINE hosted a cocktail party for the 60-some tour Did your alumnae group spon- participants and 35 club members. The The Greek gods-and classics professor Mary Rosenthal sor an interesting or innovative locals then stayed for a slide lecture on con- Lefkowitz '57-dropped by the Harbour Club in Charleston, event? Send the details to temporary Latin-American art delivered by S.C., for Sunday brunch with the South Carolina and Coastal Clubs Connection, Wellesley Carol Damian, chair of the art-history Georgia club. Forty-five alumnae and guests listened as magazine, 106 Central St., department at Florida International Lefkowitz lectured on "The Greek Gods in Action" and gave Wellesley, MA 02481-8203. University. an update on happenings at the College. Wellesley spring 2003 39 LATINA ALUMNAE GATHER FOR HISTORic REUNION } LOOKING BACK ON THE FIRST-EVER REUNION A LALUY~tNDAR U N DA R of Latina alumnae at Wellesley, Mared -Alicea-Westort, the College's advisor to 'I Latina students, remembers the The Alumnae Association announces the following moment when she realized the program events for 2003 and 2004. Unless otherwise noted, events was a success. Nearly 30 alumnae, 37 take place at the College. For more information, students, and 13 faculty and staff had call the turned up for the weekend in March, Alumnae Office at 781-283-2331. and she was circulating to make sure everyone was having a good time. JUNE "Have I had anything to drink today?" she overheard one attendee say. 1-6 Summer Symposium, "Lives in the Balance: "No," answered her friend. Individuals in a World at War, 1937-1945," a global yet "I'm so happy," the alum said, "as though I've been drinking. I'm in such personal look at world events during those years. Suzanne a good mood." Moranian Bolles '74, WCAA chair of academic programs; That comment made Alicea-Westort realize that one of the goals for the Andrew Shennan, professor of history, faculty chair. weekend had been met. "It was For more information, contact Thaddeus Thompson at about time that the Latina com- 781-283-2392 or [email protected]. munity came together," she says. 5-6 WCAA board of directors meeting "There was a lot of bond building 6-8 Reunion for classes ending in 3s and 8s with alumnae and students and 15-22 Wellesley Education Expedition to Alaska with faculty. It surpassed my expecta- tions both in attendance and in Brendon Reay of the classics department. For more informa- the dynamic of the event." tion, contact Cy Britt at 781-283-2338 or cbrittClwellesley.edu. The two-day program pro- AUGUST vided many opportunities for 1-3 Wellesley Education Expedition, "Horti-Cultured: participants to connect. Panel A Gardener's Weekend," a long weekend of exploring land- discussions included "The History scape design and sustainable horticulture. On the Wellesley of Latina Students," "Life After campus. For more information, contact Thaddeus Thompson Wellesley," and "Multidimensional at 781-283-2392 or [email protected]. Mentoring." Wellesley trustee 17-28 Wellesley Education Expedition, "lonian and Regina Montoya '75 (above) Adriatic Sea," with Mary Rosenthal Iefkowitz '57 of the classics gave the key note address on department. For more information on this and other "Issues Facing Latinas in the 21st trips, contact Cy Britt at 781-283-2338 or [email protected]. Century." Afterward, Montoya com- SEPTEMBER mented on the historic nature of 6-7 Day to Make a Difference. Wellesley's fourth the gathering. "The students annual worldwide community-service event. painstakingly assembled a histori- OCTOBER cal timeline tracing the birth of 6 Deadline for the Mary Elvira Stevens Traveling Mezcla (which occurred during the time I was at Wellesley), and it Fellowships. For applications, contact Ellie Viens Perkins '65 reminded me that a few people can leave a legacy," she says. "My experiences at the Center for Work and Service at 781-283-3525. at Wellesley were very different from [those of] the current students, 15-19 Class of 1951 mini-reunion in Toronto, Canada. particularly with respect to technology. Yet Iwas struck by the similarities- For more information, contact Sonja Novak Koerner '51 at adjusting to a completely new environment; supportive professors and administrators; learning to adapt to a different climate; and the excitement 416-483-8706 or [email protected]. of meeting some fabulously bright and interesting students/colleagues. 19-23 Wellesley Education Expedition, "Hudson River 0 "Everyone who attended vowed to come back in five years," Montoya Valley: Art, Architecture, and Landscapes" with Rebecca 0 says. "I plan to be one of them!" Bedell '80 of the art department. 24-26 Alumnae Leadership Council MkI UM& -Ad 'a S I2 0 0I1 JANUARY 18-29 Wellesley Education Expedition, "Landscapes and Legacies of Cuba" with Lois Wasserspring of the political-science department. FEBRUARY 5-12 Wellesley Education Expedition, "Mexican Art at the Crossroads: Mexico City and Puebla," with James Oles of the art department. An Evolving Alumnae Association THE WELLEsLEY COLLEGE ALUMNAE AssOCIATION After nearly 40 years of service to the College, Wellesley alum- WILL BE HELD ON nae came together in 1916 to incorporate as a formal association that would "extend the helpful association of student life, and SU N DAY, J U NE 8, 20 03, maintain such relations to the College as will aid in her upbuild- AT 1 1:30 A .M. IN T HE E VE RA NCE GR EEN T ENT. ing' and strengthening. Through the years, the Wellesley College Alumnae Association has maintained its purpose: to con- nedt alumnae to the College and to each other. As the decades This revised slate will be voted on at the annual meeting of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association on June 8. have passed, the programs and activities of the Association have changed, reflecting changes in the lives of women and in the Candidates for Office in the Alumnae Association (2003-2006) College itself. Of necessity, the structure of the Association's gov- President Chair of Academic Programs erning board has also evolved and its bylaws have been revised Ellen Goldberg Luger '83 Barbara Finley '80 numerous times. Minneapolis Claremont, Calif. In 2001, the Alumnae Association board of directors began Treasurer Chair of Annual Giving the formal process of reviewing how it operates in the context of Carol Ann Brogna Hayes '66 Bunny Winter '70 the mission of the Association. The result of its deliberations is a Boston Atlanta proposed restructuring-outlined in newly drafted bylaws. Thse bylaws provide for a more strategic role for the board and opportunities for greater alumnae involvement and leadership as 4. any former student in the Continuing Education/Davis Scholar pro- gram who has matriculated; at-large members. They also reflect current thinking in "best 5. any member of the former Mary 1emenway Alumnae Association. practices" for nonprofit boards. b. Associate, which consists of: 'The bylaws that follow will be brought to the Alumnae 1. any former student who was not a candidate for a degree, who was enrolled for at least one term, and who requests enrollment; Association for a vote at the annual meeting on June 8, during 2. any former student in the Continuing Education/Davis Scholar pro- reunion 2003. Their publication in this issue is in accordance gram who has not matriculated, but who completed three courses before with our current bylaws, which require notice to "each member leaving the program and who requests enrollment. with the call to the meeting." c. Honorary, which consists of any person nominated by the Board of Directors of the Association (herein referred to as the "Board") and elected Christine Grimstad Franklin '61 by a three-quarters vote of the active members present at an annual meeting President, Wellesley College Alumnae Association of the Association. SECTION 2. Rights and privileges. a. Only active members may vote and be deemed "members" of the Association for purposes of Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 180. BYLAWS b. Only active members may serve as Officers, Directors, and Alumnae Trustees. WELLESLEY COLLEGE SECTION 3. Removal. ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION A majority of the Board present at any meeting of the Board at which there is a quorum present may remove an individual as a member of the ARICLE [-NAME Association for just cause and thereupon such individual shall cease to be a The name of this corporation will be the Wellesley College Alumnae member hereunder. Association (herein referred to as the "Association"). ARTICLE IV-BOARD OF DIRECTORS ARTICLE 11-PURPOSE SECTION 1. Composition and term of office. SECTION 1. Historic purpose. The purpose of the Association will be "to a. The administration and general management of the Association will be extend the helpful association of student life, and maintain such relations to vested in a Board of no fewer than twelve (12) and no more than twenty-six the'College as will aid in her upbuilding and strengthening, to the end that (26) voting Directors. The president shall serve as a voting Director a officio. her;usefulness may continually increase." (From Certificate of Incorporation, b. Except as set forth in Article IV, Section 1(c) below, after the 2003 June 12, 1916.) annual meeting of the Association, Directors shall be elected to and serve SECTION 2. Mission. The Association will further the interests of Wellesley terms of two (2) years and no individual may serve more than two (2) full College and its alumnae by connecting alumnae to Wellesley College and to terms as a Director other than by reason of serving ex officio as the pres- each other. The Association will serve as a lifelong resource to alumnae and ident of the Association. will encourage alumnae to contribute to the continued excellence of c. Immediately following the 2003 annual meeting of the Association, the Wellesley College. Board then in office shall divide itself into three classes: the Class of 2004, the Class of 2005, and the Class of 2006. The term of office of each ARTICLE Ill-MEMBERSHIP Director in a Class of Directors shall end in the year of such Class. SECTION 1. Classes of members. The Association will have the following d. Directors, other than Directors-at-large, shall be elected at the annual classes of members: meeting of the Association or the special meetings, if any, called in lieu a. Active, which consists of: thereof. Up to two (2) Directors-at-large may be appointed by the president 1. any graduate of Wellesley College; to serve terms as determined by the president but for no longer than the 2. any former student who was a candidate for a Wellesley College degree term of the president. for at least one term and whose class has graduated; e. Except when the Board is in executive session, the Executive Director, 3. any former student who was a candidate for a Wellesley College degree the editor of Wellesley, the alumnae magazine, and the chair of the and who left under honorable circumstances before completing one term, National Development and Outreach Council will be ex officio members whose class has graduated, and who requests enrollment; (Continued on page 81) Wellesley Spring 2003 41 K E E P I N T O U C H ! YOUR CLA55MATES WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. PLEASESEND NEWSTO YOUR CLASSSECRETARY BEFORE AUG. 15, NOV. 15, FEB. 15, AND APRIL15 OF EACHYEAR. OTUTES HILDA CROSBYSTANDISH "Davis is as spry and witty as a newbom hare, even THE McAULEY, B509 though she was born when Theodore Roosevelt ic8 /o ALUMNAE MAGAZINE OFFICE 275 STEELERD. was president." Libby remarked, "I'm amazed I've WEST HARTFORD, CT 06117-2716 made it this far Mostly because I really feel as Anne Schwartz sent news of the good as 1 ever did." The secret to her success? UN I passing of her grandmother, Irma Greetings classmates! "Positive thinking and well-balanced meals." am_ Friedlaender Schwartz, on Jan. 26. The unnae Office has informed me that 18 Congratulations on a century well-lived, Libby. She was 106. Anne writes, "She of us are so ll alive, though I imagine quite a few are was very proud of being a Wellesley graduate handicapp ed in one way or another. Our most OFFICE and wrote to her grandchildren MAGAZINE about her days vigorous ember at the last reunion was Elizabeth C/o ALUMNAE with the Mandolin Society and going to tea Paschal. She has macular degeneration, which 6V dances on Saturday afternoons at the Copley makes trav e difficult. Plaza." Irma outlived her husband and two we ave lost Mildred Parker Burnham, who sons; she is survived by five grandchildren and wintered in Sanibel, Fla., and returned to her beloved We must sadly note the death of Constance Gilbert six great-grandchildren. home in aine for the summer In clearing out her Greenman on Jan. 20. Her daughter, Elizabeth [" Maine hon e, her daughter found a stack of snap- Greenman '59, wrote: "Mother deeply loved c/ ALUMNAE MAGAZINE OFFICE shots taken during Wellesley days and was good Wellesley and, when we were kids, took us to Tree enough toa end me a dozen or so. Mildred and I lived Days and to enjoy the campus. I grew up believing 122 inthe samne small house on Washington Street. In that 'college' was synonymous with Wellesley, and I those days, before more dormitories were built on never seriously considered another choice." Campus, at I freshman lived in the village. I well Constance was a teacher for many years and served Sadly, we must note the passing of class lumi- remenber bbicycling back to the village on dark frigid as a trustee for the Shepherd Knapp School in nary Ruth Dean on Feb. 3. She was 100 years days after a 4:40 P.M. gym class at Mary Hemenway! Boylston, Mass., and as a director of the Children's old. Ruth was an emerita professor of French Mildred li ed near Boston, so we were often taken to Friend Society of Worcester Mass. She is survived at Mount Holyoke; she taught there from her home or the weekend. Did those home-cooked by a sister, her four children, five grandchildren, and 1934 until her retirement. Anglo-Norman meals ever aste good. We lived in old Stone Hall the seven great-grandchildren. Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, follon ears, except my senior year when I was We also note the passing of Marian Brown on Ruth's lifework, was published in 2001 and chosen to ve in the village as a senior advisor. Nov. 4, 2002. Marian was a dedicated member of won the Chav6e prize from the Acadimie des Sally Mock Sinks '48 wrote to say that her the Marshfield (Mass.) Conservation Committee. Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. She will be greatly mothe, Feances Marshall Mock, celebrated her She is survived by several nieces and nephews. missed. Our thoughts are with her family and 100th birthday on March 22 in Delray Beach, Fla., Our thoughts are with the family and friends friends. where Fran ces lives in a retirement community. Sally of these departed classmates. and her two sisters planned the luncheon celebra- 2 c/o ALUMNAE MAGAZINE OFFICE tion and mily reunion for 25 to 30 family mem- HELEN STRAUSSAARON f3 Flr.app y 100th, Frances! 8 50 GRIFFINS ISLAND RD. IZ2 As foir me, I am still fine and love living here WELLFLEET, MA 02667-7132 friends and with more activities than I width many Hard to belive it's been 80 years c dvantage of. The last week in June, we R EUNION since jON we left the shores of Lake have our I 5th family reunion at a family camp on How delightful to learn that the Waban, but our 80th reunion is Little Sebago Lake, some 12 miles west of Portland, College will be our host for our 75th in June, so it must be true! Muriel Maine. M y younger daughter, Susan Standish reunion in June. As this is being Crewe Ainley called to let us know that she Brown62, and I have reservations to go to Ireland written in cold, snowy March, June in sunny would not be able to attend reunion, but she on an e -day tour this summer. Wellesley sounds so lovely! Hopefully, some of our I sends her greetings to everyone. She is still Keep well everybody, and write me. 30-something remaining classmates will be able to teaching, singing, and playing the organ at the accept this invitation. retirement community where she lives. If any- c/o ALUMNAE MAGAZINE OFFICE Our former class president, Mary Hamilton one does make it back to campus for our 80th, Winder, died on Aug. 22, 2002. We join in remem- please write in and tell us all about it. bering her work for us with affectionate gratitude and We must sadly note the passing of send our sincere condolences to all of her family. Winifred Van Horsen Anderson on May 24, Two of the younger generation, Judith Mayer 2002. Her son said Wini drove until she was Libby Maxtin Davis celebrated her 1 00th birth- Barnet '51 and Lori Falk Vanderschmidt '51 helped 98 years old. She was 100 when she died. Our day last N ov. 11. The Middletown [Conn.} Press me celebrate my 95th birthday with my four thoughts are with her family and friends, covered siie auspicious occasion and wrote, generations at a happy luncheon in January. 42 1Weliesley Spring 2003 Wellesley as some of the happiest of her life. She Great Philosopher treasured her memories of those times and her many friends," Nancy says. Barbara Schmuck Hall Count philosopher Marjorie Glicksman died on Dec. 13, 2002. Please see the "Memorials" Grene '31 among the likes of JeanPaul Fox section for a tribute from her son, John. Alene Sartre, Bertrand Russell, and Paul Weiss. Uhry died on Oct. 16, 2002. Alene was a lifelong supporter of the arts and helped the Atlanta Marjorie, a professor at Virginia Tech, is Symphony Orchestra and Atlanta's High Museum the subject of The Philosophy of of Art to grow and flourish. Mabel Kirkbride Marjorie Grene, the Patterson died on Jan. 18. "Her great sense of latest addition to the humor, pixyish personality, and the twinkle in her I Library of Living eye enlivened the Camden Health Care Center and D: A. Anderson Inn {in Maine], where she spent the last Philosophers series. her memorial in a Maine news- years of her life," The first woman in paper notes. Sarah Smith died on Nov. 4, 2002. Sarah worked at the Historical Society of the series, Marjorie Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for 25 years. "has come to have a Our thoughts are with the families and friends daunting reputation of these classmates. Carolyn Bartel Lyon '28 was given the pictured as a philosopher who framed reproduction of the Wellesley seal by her LoulsE CoNwAy BELDEN can disarm or slay an opponent with a son because she was an alumnae trust ee from 1958 162 KENDAL DR. to 1965. Carolyn is trying to discern the origins of single phrase or question," series editor KENNETT SQUARE,PA 19348-2332 this .reproduction. If you have any information, Randall Auxier wrote in the preface to please contact the magazine. E-MAIL: 1931NOTESOALUM.WELLESLEY.EDU 131 Marjorie's volume. In June, we who are left from myformer Cape Such a nice letter came from Isabella Lukens Cod League of Women Voters board, who have cel- Higginson! She lives in a "luxurious" apartment in ebrated birthdays together these ma ny years, will Park Place, in Denver, and gets rides to volunteer Not long after Ellen Kelly wrote us a good card f~te Barbara Smith Fales '24 on her I0lst here. jobs twice a week and to church on Sundays. She last year, she died in November in Delray Beach, Fla. Let us see your pictures an d hear your had eight members of her family with her for You remember what an athlete she was. Beryl Even news in June! Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. One of her Bove died in Hightstown, NJ., also last November nephews took her to his cabin and to see a niece in She worked in New York for North German Lloyd South Dakota last summer. List fall, a niece from for many years and was always an active member or HARRIET CREIGHTON Montana came with her twins, and Isabella cooked officer of the Wellesley club. Recently she was a 865 CENTRAL AvE., APT. F301 dinner for them-an undertaking, she says, chairman of several committees and a member of the NEEDHAM, MA 02492-1340 21 9 although she has done it before. She can still see to singing group at the Meadow Lakes retirement com- read, but her memory is poor so she keeps calendars munity. Two children, five grandchildren, and two Jeanette Scott Thurber sent in two lovely photos of and lists. Dear Isabella, you are not alone. great-grandchildren survive her a birdbath made from pieces from the old A computer-printed letter came in February Six grands and seven greats survive Beatrice Farnsworth Art Museum. The basin is supported by from Vermont. Our old friend Marjorie Siskey Price Brenner, who died on Aug. 13, 2002, accord- stones from the building. A lovely tribute to a piece signed herself "Peg," which was a shock. A batch of ing to the Boston Globe. After Wellesley, Bea got a of Wellesley history. Thanks, Scottie! breaks broke up her last three years: right hip in degree from the Simmons College of Social Work. during healing, a collar- Ruth Wasby Feldman died on Jan. 11, in West , Harriet Creighton reports that Leslie Hudson 1999, left hip in 2000, and, Meyer celebrated her 95th birthday on Feb. 19. bone with many bruises. She adds, "At a later date, Newton, Mass. No further information on Ruth Congratulations, Leslie. Harriet was off to celebrate l found myself in a cast from foot to knee. . .. I has reached me. with Marion Eddy Wheeler '24 on the occasion of couldn't stand up or walk. I fell again, and since And because these notes have approached their her 100th birthday in March and so could only send then the other foot is doubly crippled. It took away word limit, another secton of Betty Hoe bio will have in a few quick notes. my sense of taste and smell and affected my sight to wait until the next. It's your turn to send your news. Harriet adds that Ethel Grimmer Spindell lost and hearing and messed up my memory." her husband, Robert, recently. Our thoughts go out SISKEY!!! Our revered head of College Judiciary! PEARLKoSBY Russo to Ethel at this difficult time. We must also sadly She is in a large well-equipped health center across 37 PERsHING RD., APT. 2 note the passing of Mary Madison Miller on from a hospital. Address: Eden Park, 187 Oak JAMAICA PLAIN, MA 02130-2015 Jan. 10. She is survived by her husband of 70 Grove Ave., Brattleboro, VT 05301. 12 years, Robert; three daughters; three grandsons; and eight great-grandchildren. We send condolences to As I write these class notes, I can look out my win- herlfamuly and friends. dow and see my three tall lilac bushes, which had been completely covered by snow for most of been suffering from c/o ALUMNAE MAGAZINE OFFICE February. Some of us have cabin fever, afraid to walk on the snow and ice. We repeat the lines of the poet Shelley: "0 Windl If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" Sadly, the College learned of the death of I3 Davis on March 16. A dedicated Cyithia Walker, former acting secretary for 1930 and Elisabeth Kaiser dadghter of the late Mary Slade Walker, wrote to alumna, Lb served several terms as our class presi- express her sadness at the loss of Ginny Barton dent and as a trustee of the College. She also Wallace, who died on Sept. 9, 2002. Cynthia writes, endowed the Continuing Education program, which was renamed the Davis Scholar program in "Gtnny was a mentor to me, as she became a lawyer Peg Brown Reid '30, Dorothy Rich Higbie '38, her honor. Please see page 77 for a tribute. in te days before there were many women lawyers." Barbara Bywater Creed '66, Tish Newman Busselle , Sadly, we must report the loss of several other '68, Jane Herron Ward '56, and Jack Reid gathered Right after reunion in 2002, Elaine Cole was clasmates, as well. Nancy Reller '65 reports the in Burlingame, Calif., to welcome a new rector to one of two volunteers at the Vision Rehabilitation death of her mother, Marjorie Stone Reller, on Nov. St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The former rector Center of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in 13,'2002. "She always spoke of her college years at referred to this bunch as "the Wellesley Mafia." Boston. Elaine was cited for having single-handedly Wellesley Spring 2003 ( 43 completed survey calls to hundreds of new patients, my partner suddenly asked how old I was. I said I to the nominees. They will take office after reunion. encouraging them to return for follow-up care. Elaine didn't discuss age. If I told you and hit a super shot, Reunion now seems almost imminent. It is not and her fellow volunteers were called an inspiration you'd say, "You're remarkable for your age." If I too early to get your mind fixed in the right direc- to the entire vision-rehabilitation team. The class dubbed, you'd have thought, "Poor thing she can't tion and start to make plans. How will you get to sends its warm congratulations to Elaine, who has help it She just turned 80!' So now that I'm 90,1 don't Wellesley? Will someone come with you? Are you been a volunteer there for five years. fool anyone and don't want to." Due to a diverticular having any mini-reunions in your area? A 70th is a Ruth Bialosky Harris wrote last fall that her condition requiing extreme care in diet and lifestyle, big one and not to be missed, if at all possible. social life seemed to revolve around the gyr-no Dottie gave up golf. But she drives to church, bridge, Canes, walkers, and wheelchairs welcome-and doubt for therapy to repair a broken hip. Despite it and her 40-year-old book club. She plays the piano don't forget, we will be the ones who ride in style in all, Ruth was able to go to Lake Tahoe to attend her for nursing homes and lives alone in her home on a the alumnae parade. grandson's wedding. To Ruth, we say, "Mazel tov!" tributary of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Fla. Virginia Rice Ireland writes that, every year Marorie Levy Smith wrote that Canterbury Ruth Whitcher Boyd finally retired after 27 for the past six or seven, she has written a play that Court, her retirement community, was having a dis- years volunteering at her school, 25 miles away, a nearby senior learning center produces. This year's play of her photography. Marjorie and her late hus- four full days a week. "My failing eyes forced me to play focuses on an event in the life of Lorenzo de' band went to a photography school in South retire. The staff gave me an absolutely fantastic Medici in l5thcentury Florence. Ginny has to use Woodstock, Vt., for over 20 years. There, Marjorie party, and I was named one of two Kaslo Citizens a cane or walker because of broken bones. A had her own dark room. There is so much undis- of the Year." Kaslo is in British Columbia, Canada. computer makes it easy for her to write, and closed talent among our classmates. Ruth lives alone in the log house her husband and there clearly is nothing broken about her spirit. Because Alice Rigby Chace and I were in the sons built nearly 50 years ago. "I have 12 grands New addresses: Marjorie Burdsall Hides, c/o same French class in our senior year, I sent her an and 10 great-grands!" Financial Decs., P.O. Box 785, Bluffton, SC 29910- article from the New York Times on the restoration Great to hear from Sybil Gilmore Healy. Long 0785; Elisabeth Gray Fowler, Apt. 215,50 Ledge Rd., of Marie Antoinette's theater at Versailles. Alice time, no hear, Sybil! "I've been living in this house in Darien, CT 06820-4442; Anne Jackson Armstrong, wrote back that she collects clippings and books on Babylon, N.Y, for over 50 years. My sister Ruth is RR 4, Box 6230, Gardiner,ME 04345-9102. the French queens, including La Reine Blanche and here with me. My daughter, Sybil Healy Anna Roberts Naughton died on July 27, Eleanor d'Aquitaine. Was that serendipity or not? Pagnamenta '63, went to London in an exchange 2002, in Boulder, Colo. She was a music student at It was good to hear from Jane Stare Stevenson, program from Wellesley. There she met her husband Wellesley and later at Yale, and was also, for 19 years, who, with her husband, is still living in Walsenburg, and never came back except to visit. My two English a first- and sixth-grade teacher in New Jersey. Sarah Colo. Although she is no longer as active in com- grandchildren went to the U of Edinburgh... Lawton Mansfield died on Dec. 14,2002, in Lincoln, munity affairs as she used to be, she keeps an eye on I still volunteer at a local hospital, work I can do at Mass. She was talented in a variety of handicrafts. the children's summer arts workshops that she initi- home.... If my daughter goes to her 40th reunion, What are you doing these days? Please write ated many years ago and that are still in operation. I may try to get to our 70th!" me or e-mail me at [email protected]. Flizabeth "Ejay" Smith called Alice to chat Nella Richardson Tennesen, who lives in an about Wellesley and other matters. Ejay obviously "assisted-living retirement manor" in Lancaster, c/o ALUMNAE MAGAZINE OFFIcE reads a great deal because she is up to date on cur- Calif., transferred from Wellesley to UCLA after two rent events and analyses of political history after years. Our motto rubbed off on her though: She knits World War IL Because she could not attend our slippers for bedridden people in retirement homes 70th reunion, Ejay sent a check to our class treasury. and relaxes playing bridge and doing crossword What a thoughtful act. puzzles. "Ikeep busy to keep my brain in action." We received a letter from Carol Cook Dilworth, who Although Serena Neel Sutton no longer trav- Sister Jane Patricia Freeland, who looks informed us of the death of Tacey Hadtstaff Gihon. els alone, she did visit members of her family on the forward to attending reunion, keeps busy with her Tacey died on Oct. 30, 2002, shortly after suffering a West Coast in the company of her son. Serena still literary translations of the history of the church. "I stroke. Tacey had recently given up her Florida resi- lives in her own home in Leawood, Kan., with help have spent time in the English libraries and was this deno and was living with her daughter in Monroe, Ga. several times a week. She lamented that it was a past September given the run of the Bodleian She is survived by her daughter and two grandsons. great blow when she had to give up driving. She is Library in Oxford University" she writes. She lives Frannie Doremus Mirtlefehldt also sent word not alone in that regard. in Amherst, Mass. about Tacey, "our warm and wonderful classmate." Sadly, I now report the deaths of several class- Alice Collins Hamm wants to add her "two- Frannie writes, "Tacey's life was exciting, having mates (notices for some reach me late): Hilda cents worth about faculty members whom I remem- worked in London during WWII years, then in Bumpus, Dec. 11, 2002; Rowe Greenwood Ward, ber well: Bessie Manwaring [from] freshman English China, where she met Canadian husband Charles Aug. 22, 2001; Mildred Harris Hillson, Dec. 30, composition, who completely shattered my confi- Gihon. On to Sumatra, where Susan was born. 2002; Marion Karr Phillips, Feb. 2, 2002; Mary dence in [my] creative-writing skills. ... However, for Thereafter they managed resorts around the world, Meyer Cheney, Oct. 13, 2001; Margaret Notman many a long year I wrote for a career-as a reporter mostly in the Caribbean. Betty was a born hostess, Nelson, Feb. 4, 2003; Elizabeth Prior Denis, Dec. 7, for Fortune; a speechwriter for Bernard Baruch, an wonderful gourmet cook, well read, expert bridge 2002; and Linda Schreiber Braidwood, Jan. 15. The author of two books for the League of Women Voters player, and such a dear friend to many of us." class sends its heartfelt condolences to their families of the US; and a science writer for the National Fran says of herself that she feels "most fortu- and friends. Cancer Institute (NIH) press office. ... Miss Steiner, nate to be part of a program at beautiful Fairview an Austrian teacher of German 101, whose 'Butte, MARY ATKINSON MITCHELL setzen Sie sich,' at the beginning of each class still 12 BuDD DR. rings in my ears. Miss Austin-Zoology 101- NEWTowN, CT 06470-1604 who unintentionally convinced me that science and I were not meant for each other." Helen Wallac is still proving the wis- What other faculty names do you remember dom of our choice of her as a recipient and how and why? Please take time to write and tell of the Alumnae Achievement Award us. We want to know about them. in 1982. She writes, "During the past three years,I have been engaged with President Diana GWYNETH KAHN BARGER [Chapman] Walsh'66 in (discussing support forl edu- 235 WALKER ST.,ArT. 141 cation, training, research, and service in public 14 LENox, MA 01240-2746 health/maternal and child health at Wellesley." The E-MAIL:[email protected] College is tremendously excited by Helen's interest in supporting such a program. We are very proud of her Anna Hale Bowditch is our nominating chairman, Ruth Collin Stong '35 and Cynthia Stong '60 trav- We're still turning 90! For Dottie Oswald Smith, and by the time this reaches you, the new class- eled across the North Atlantic on the famed Queen it was just another birthday. "Playing golf 10 years ago, officer slate may already be known. Congratulations Elizabeth 2 ocean lner in November 2002. 44 Wellesley spring 2003 going to Lillian Taylor Appleyard, who has 13. Pleasant living in retirement communities is attested to by Betsy Anderson Daniel in Colorado, where she feels relieved of mundane tasks and weather worries. I Sarasota, Fla., Matilda Bicknell Fontaine volunteers at the health center Jane Burgess Grant is active in peace activities and continues to play the organ at church. Vrginia Catharine Mueller still models for the Cokesbury Spring Fashion Show (she has six great-grandchildren, too!). %rginia Childs Street lives in a "top of the line" residence and enjoys Last fall, physics professors Judy Brown and Phyllis painting and golfing with a "nice widower." Christine Susana Baranano '77, Adene Palmer Bruhn '62, Fleming contributed a plaque in honor of the late Engelke Goddard has life-care apartments east and Laura Rivas Caparroso '89, and Fran Forsdick Janet Brown Guernsey '35 and her contributions to west: Connecticut for the summer months and Brooks '36 enjoyed the annual fall picnic of the the Science Center and the physics department. Washington state for winter Sylvia Bieber Greenberg Washington Wellesley Club. Village in Downers Grove, l., called PEP (program still enjoys fun, friends, and intellectual pursuits in extremely lucky. Mary Holt Hastings was president to extend productivity), where helpful aging activities Rye, N.Y Helen Thurston Condict and Clint are of the residents' association at the retirement home are emphasized .. some daily exercise to visiting pro- happy to be in retirement in New Hampshire, and where she lives and still goes to Boston Symphony grams, Meals on Wheels, Brain Power (playing think- Mary Mulroy Keenan is at Mars Hill Campus near programs. Five years ago, Charlotte Stern Conner ing games), library, et al." She and her friends delight Asheville, N.C. Her happiest 2002 experience was her moved from her Connecticut home to an apartment in chuckling over all of our "senior moments." annual visit to her erstwhile roommate Pauline in Raleigh, N.C., to be near her daughter. Last year Nancy Morris reports the death of her mother, Gunsser Belmont in Paonia, Colo. Sadly, Pauline she spent two weeks in Provence, France. Alice Ayers Morris, on Dec. 19, 2002. Before her died on March 15. Jane Weissinger Skinner wrote, "My right side death, Alice reflected on her memories of several of Polly Magruder Buttrick gets around her was paralyzed by a TIA stroke in December 2000. her Wellesley "Sneaker" friends, who had shared assisted-living facility with a walker; Barbara Cassidy Superior medical care and therapy restored my inde- their experiences via a round-robin letter that contin- Kuzdzol, still at home with her three cats, uses her pendence except walking. I prefer a wheelchair to a ued until a few years ago. Alice had kept in touch walker to get to senior programs and her Catholic brace and walker." Bless you, Jane. Mary Redman with Maggie Wade Riehl, who lives in Lexington, Women's Club. Polly Lewinsohn Shay reads, writes, Hindliffe is thrilled to be a great-grandmother and Mass., and Mike Carmichael Emerson, who "intro- plays bridge, and waits for spring-flower gardening plays bridge frequently at her retirement community duced Alice to many of the haunts of the Ayers ances- and walks around a lake "filled with honking geese." in Hilton Head Island, S.C. Last summer, she spent tors in New Hampshire." Nancy adds, "In the last Ellen Garber Burton, now in Skaneateles, N.Y., looks a month at a family house on the coast of Maine years of Alice's life, the memories of times spent forward to word of her classmates. and visited her 94-year-old sister, Sally. together at Wellesley and over the years provided her Our most far-flung correspondent, Miye Dottie Fagg Green's husband, Ellis, died last with'much happiness and satisfaction." Hirooka, recovering from surgery, hobbles to her social December. Her four sons, all doing well, enrich Christina Page Diebold '60, president of the engagements and continues to volunteer for the schol- her life. We send loving sympathy to her and her Easten Maine Wellesley Club, highlighted the arship program of the College Women's Association of family, and also to Betsey Weston Rice, whose accopiplishments of Catherine Epstein Cutler, who Japan. Anne Jennings Knish is convalescing from husband, Joseph, died on Aug. 5, 2001. died on Feb. 5. She was remembered in her memo- surgery for a devastating intestinal trauma and looks After open-heart surgery in October2001, Helen rial as "a tireless advocate for family and child ser- forward to our 70th reunion. Amen to that, dear Anne! England Solomon was afraid to fly to Boston for vices, mental-health-care reform, and education in Mary Lee Brooks, who fted at the beach for reunion but was with us in spirit. She's now fine and eastern Maine." Catherine served on numerous her July birthday, gleefully describes a family wed- has six grandchildren and two great-grands. boards and was president of Family and Child ding, where-except for the great-grands--no one Having lost her husband and son, Helen Servihes of Bangor, Maine, as well as founding pres- was wearing a bathing suit, all in formal attire. Celia Prime Drummond spends a lot of time maintaining ident of the Eastern Maine Guidance Center Stein Cullman plans a July wedding for her grand- her home, as well as gardening, playing bridge, and , Our deepest condolences to the families and son and "a beautiful woman we all love" at her lunching with friends. friends of these classmates. summer home on Waloon Lake in Ohio. Natalie Mary Ellen Weer Hicks' short autobiography, Mayer Litman and spouse celebrated their 66th Awakening, raised over $4,000 for the Hospice of BUNNY LIDMAN LEWIs anniversary with a second cruise of the Antarctic San Luis Obispo County. A charming room was 165 EAsT 72ND Si., APT. 7A and Christmas in Seattle with their children and named for her son, Stephen. She thanks those who NEW YORK, NY 10021-4340 new great-grandchildren. helped by purchasing the book and would be 16E-MAIL: [email protected] Ro O'Reilly Lippincott spent a wonderful thrilled to print more, given enough requests. "I Christmas at her Cape Cod home with daughter have been so comforted by the letters that have Sara Lippincott '59 from Pasadena, Calif. Barney come back to me." Sadly, I must report the following deaths: Virginia Steinberg Berkenfield moved to Daytona, Fla., near Sadly, I report the deaths of the following Page, Martin, on Jan. 31, 2001; Jane Fraser Mack, daughter Pat. Joy Bernstein Newfield-Gerson now classmates: A. Dorothy Burke Hayes, Emily on Feb. 19, 2002; Jane Klieves Sauder, on Aug. 27, lives in Laguna Woods, Calif., and hopes classmates Dykeman Stone, Marion Martin Ketchum, Elinor 2002; both Mary Fitzpatrick and Ottilie Stoehr close by will contact her (949-829-8700). Dorothy Clark Shafer, Elma Van Nest Sowerwine, Doris Neuss on Nov. 10, 2002; Dorothy Floyd "Biddy" Bidwell Pilkington and daughter Barbara Mead Gates, and Alice Burton Lentz. We send Magnuson, on Dec. 28, 2002; Mary Raymond, on came to Jeanne Sincoff Theodore's home for a heartfelt sympathy to their families. Mary Frayer Jan. 16; Marjorie Rahiann Odell, on Jan. 26; and lovely lunch last fall, at which I also was present. Allen said that Alice was a creative person with Fran'Forsdick Brooks, on Feb. 18. Condolences to Thank you, dear friends, for all the encour- many talents. their families. agement and goodwill you sent me with your blue Recent changes of address: Freda Clayman -Class sympathy is also expressed to Virginia cards. And please keep the news coming. Shapiro, P.O. Box 246, Ahon, OK 74331-0246; Kurti Ebinger, whose husband died last November, Marion Brown, co Debra Watson, P.O. Box 414, and to Martha Seymour Grossi, who lost her hus- MARGARET STRASMERLANE Narbeth, PA 19072-0414; Jean Fraser Donaldson, band last December. 30 WitsHIRE RD. 5285 S. Park Ave., Hamburg, NY 14075-1520; 'But life itself is celebrated by the news of MADIsoN, CT 06443-3350 Margaret Mowry Gunmere, 123 Station Hill Rd., great grandchildren, sent by Carol Sleicher *37E-MAIL: [email protected] Barrytown, NY 12507-5007; Elizabeth Voorhees Bellows, Nancy Mellor Wickenden, Jane Kirkendall, 7727 E. Valley View Rd., Scottsdale, AZ Burgess Grant, Betsy Handy Hankinson, Betty Duff Shute is in her seventh year of ballroom 85250-6537. Virginia King Tillson, Betty Simmons Cookson, dancing at the Colony Club in New York- Special thanks to Nancy Jane Martin Barnes and 'Natalie Mayer Litman-with the Oscar excellent instructor, glorious dancing. She feels for keeping in touch with many classmates. She is Wellesley Spring 2003 45 happy in Kansas City, Mo., surrounded by loving article to reunion (though Elizabeth is not coming), Dodie, who has had her own share of health prob- friends and neighbors. She recendy spoke with Fran and you can read for yourself about the "long red lems and loss, we send our sympathy and affection. McGarry Ogg, who lives in Hendersonville, N.C., flannel underwear" and other Victorian delights. A welcome update from Lucetta Sharp and summers in Maine. Fran's correct telephone And also about Miss Cannon's distinguished career Alderfer reports Midge Gilbert Evans is in good number is 828492-3274. Jane Barber Ward enjoys in astronomy. health and enjoying her daughters living nearby. seeing Fran at the church to which they both belong. Marybelle Finger Carde was enthusiastic The always ebullient BJ. Oliver Barton, despite Jane spends winters in Florida. Nancy Jane called about some courses she is taking, which are offered some physical limitations-all "non-life-threatening Laura Toll Carkeer, who went to Wellesley just one by Johns Hopkins but available locally. Primarily ailments"-entered a contest for the messiest place, year and was active president of the Kansas City for senior citizens, they cover such subjects as opera, with a prize to be awarded from an organizing Wellesley club. Laura sent two daughters to Wellesley. art appreciation, and current events. She especially company and can't understand why she didn't win. Those whose news isn't included here will see enjoyed one feature: no homework! Marybelle was She says she can't see but can still "thread a needle." it in my next column. It's wonderful to hear from so about to leave for Florida to visit her daughter, dri- Certa included some address changes, noting many of you. ving the whole way by herself. She's braver than I that in March, Patricia Harvey Kennedy moved to am! She would be seeing Mary Cameron Marshall, a retirement commuriry-The Meadows at Glacier 8 NANCY WHITON STILES who stays in the same Florida town. Hills, 4001 Green Hills Dr., Apt. 310, Ann Arbor, 200 STETSONAVE., APT. 414 Rebecca Turner Williams died on Nov. 23, MI 48105. Come this fall, Louise Oftedal Fernbach AUBURN, ME 04210-6449 2002; Hilda Swett Creelman passed away onJan. 21, will retire to 250 Pantops Mountain Rd., Apt. E-MAIL'[email protected] and Gene White Gilbert died on Jan. 22. A tribute 5221, Charlottesville, VA 22901. to Gene can be found in the "Memorials" section. There are yet other changes reported by the REUNIWON June 6-8! Our 65th reunion! The College, beginning with a more complete address WIN message from Harriet "Bunny" for Ginny Bell Grant and Fred: 865 Central Ave., MARY McLAUGHLIN PALM Harrison Merry, class president, Apt. G211, Needham, MA 02492-1350; phone: is, 3180 BARBERRYLN. "I'll be there. Will you?" And, our reunion chair- 781-449-4741. Consie Brown Page, Falmouth SACRAMENTO, CA 95864-5018 man, Harriet Chamberlain Wilson, is working with House at Oceanview, 32 Blueberry Ln., Falmouth, her committee to make this our best ever. Even I39 ME 04105-2807. Priscilla Davis Barnard, 10 though most of us are not as active as we were in An early note from Nancy Noble Coykcendall Longwood Dr., Apt. 554, Westwood, MA 02090- years past, we'll still have plenty to talk about, such brought stimulating news. "I am ... in fine health 1148; phone: 781-407-0784. Marjorie Fehse Porto, as our symptoms. ... fortunate in having good genes. ... Weights and 430 Schooleys Mountain Rd., Apt. 10, Many changes of address to report, the trend machines twice a week help, also dogs help." An Hackettstown, NJ 07840-4040. Ibbets Glines seeming to be more and more to retirement homes. exhibit of her paintings was scheduled for March at Knapp, P.O. Box 274, Ardsley on Hudson, NY Alice Atkinson Morash, our vice president, though the Virginia Lynch Gallery in Tiverton, R.l. Her 10503-0274. Florence Hinckley Wassmer, 12604 once bogged down with putting together this year's e-mail address is [email protected]. Orchard Brook Ter., Potomac, MD 20854-2326. edition of In One Ear,is now settled comfortably at And a trove of news-followed by a delightful Jane McKinley Crane, Friendship Village of Tempe, her new address: 3211 Fellowship Rd., Basking phone call from Anne Paulsen Scheibner-bright- 2645 East Southern Ave., Apt. A-373, Tempe, AZ Ridge, NJ 07920. ened a January morning. Courtesy of Jenny Dunn 85282; phone: 480-831-3492. Ginny Plumb White, Other new addresses include: Edith Davis Lassen '41, Anne received copies of the Sarasota, 114 Clover Meadow Dr., Burr Ridge, IL 60521. Siegel, Apt. 12A, 639 West End Ave., New York, Fla., newspaper reports of the honors accorded Edith Ridley Lippincott, 700 Port St., Apt. 318, NY 10025; Suzanne Dawson Haser, 24 Bell Hill Leila Small Gompertz and her late husband, Easton, MD 21601-8155. Priscilla Young La Brake, Rd., Lyme, CT 06371; Adele Lhlbach Getman, Michael, for their years of philanthropy and active 12820 Waterford Cir., Apt. 205, Fort Myers, FL Apt. A26, 20 Meadow Lakes, Hightstown, NJ community service. Leila is one of the initial orga- 33919-8012. 08520; Evelyn Robinson Parish, 2007 S. Xenia nizers of the Community Foundation of Sarasota, Keep the Roll Gill up to date-and keep in Way, Denver, CO 80231; Ruth Trevaskis Wanda, which channels philanthropic donations to non- touch, please!! Apt. 2,2226 Taft Ci:, Winchester, VA 22601; Ellen profit organizations. Between 1982 and 2001, the Willard Langdell, 150 Edgewood Ave., Methuen, foundation's annual distributions grew from MARGARET GILKEY RICHARDS MA 01844; and Mary Young, Apt. 406, 10 Soule $300,000 to more than $5 million. She has served P.O, Box 1187 St., So. Portland, ME 04106. as the board president of the American Red Cross WESTERLY, RI 02891-0904 Cay Hascall Kinney has a new great-grand- and twice as president of the Women's Legal E-MAIL1 [email protected] On Nov. 6, 2002, Leila I40 daughter, Lana, born in January, three months pre- Fund's board of directors. mature. Although she weighed less than 2 lb. at was named Philanthropist of the Year by the I begin as your interim class secretary with the birth (!), she seems to have escaped the problems Southwest Florida chapter of the Association of sad news that Beb Gregory Czerny resigned that beset many preemies and is thriving. She must Fundraising Professionals; a building at the because of ill health. She is a hard act to follow! stay in the hospital until she reaches 5 lb. Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center was We will miss her and send her heartfelt wishes for Kay Campbell Barieau, who received her named the Gompertz Building, after Leila and a good recovery. M.EA., taught at the California College of Arts and Michael. Midge Jones Whitehead's husband of 61 Crafts for nine years. She says she enjoys being 86 The energetic Pussy Parkhurst Sherman and years, Jim, died last December Our sympathies go and still keeps busy with her painting. She has been husband Ted drove (pre-blizzards!) from out to Midge and her entire family. a professional artist all her life. Providence, R.I., to Cambridge, Mass., to attend a On a happier note, Jane Strahan Stanton spent Meg Gehiring Fish had no personal news but friend's concert. Anne shared the good news of the winter in Orinda, Calif., close to her two daugh- was concerned about the drought in central Helen Thompson Matthews' progress recuperating ters, several grandsons, and a baby girl born last California. She says that little snow on the moun- after difficult heart surgery at Massachusetts October. In the summer, Jane hopes to be back as tains means less water in rivers in the spring, and General Hospital. artistic director of the Ivoryton Playhouse in scarcity of water is worrisome in this agricultural Pussy's note brought the sad news of the death Connecticut, where a group of '40ers sees her area, which is so heavily dependent on irrigation. of Dodie Voss Casselman-Grissom's husband, shows. Elizabeth Lobeck Smith, whom we have not Donald, from a sudden heart attack. To the gallant Mary Dooley Bragg is also rejoicing in a new heard from for many years, sent an article that she granddaughter, the daughter of her son in wrote in college. She was an astronomy major and Brookline, Mass. HAVE You CLICKED ON CLASS E-NOTEs? was invited to meet Annie Jump Cannon 1884, Mary Duff Glowa and husband Bill had other who was one of the early woman astronomers. WANT TO FIND OUT WHAT YOUR FRIENDSHAVE BEENUP reasons to celebrate. Last Dec. 8, 41 friends and Miss Cannon told about life at Wellesley in the TO BETWEENISSUES OF WELLESLEY? family members gathered in Fort Myer, Va., to cele- 1880s, when the rules and customs were much CHECK OUT THE CLAss E-NOTES PAGEAT brate their 65th wedding anniversary and Duffy's different from those even in our day, and a world HTrP://wW.WELLELEY.EDu/ALUM/COMMUNIThY birthday. Grace Person Hayes reported it was a away from college life today. I intend to bring the delightful occasion. 46 Wellesley Spring 2003 From the West Coast: Mim Hayes Miller and health and mobility when you get out!" Anne in from Knoxville, Tenn., to take me along on a Jean Katt Balzerit report that Nexhmie Zaimi con- Lineberger Macdonald teaches oldsters to master road trip through New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and tinues to be troubled with macrodegeneration but is the computer in classes at the senior center in Colorado. The highlight was a flight direcly over comfortable at a retirement community in Santa Greenwich, Conn. the Grand Canyon in a small plane. Standing near Barbara, Calif., where Mim visits from time to time. Grace Gehron Golden cherishes her memories the edge of anything high turns my knees to jelly, but 'This winter, Lucile Fessenden Dandelet had of Wellesley, which she was obliged to leave junior the flight was just fine. several falls, but recovered well and is now settled year because of rheumatic fever. "But the friend- Sally Sells Bryan spent a week in Paris in with good caregivers in her home in San ships made with the 'girls' who are still in my March. She helped chaperone the Shaker Heights Anselmo, Calif. Jean and Mim visit her with a thoughts I treasure always. And I would truly love (Ohio) High School Choir: The choir's 58 children picnic lunch. to hear from any and all of you!" she writes. sang in Notre Dame. In Seattle, Janet Davidson Rosenberg and Florida visitors Betty Beckwith Dickey, Anne I talked to Kay Sickels Hayes, whose daughter Andrea Brown Williams are active in their retire- Blackmar TenBrook, and Glo Hine Gamble all saw from sunny California had been visiting her in ment community and enthusiastic about the '40 Kay Kennedy Barney in Boca Grande. Kay had trips snow-packed Maine. connection. The same goes for Jean Kelley to college commencements for two grandchildren Nancy Wiltbank Spaeth missed our 60th, as DeLorenzo and Betsey Staples Halbrooks, who scheduled for spring, plus a 60th reunion at she and Ned were on their way to Maine for six enjoy being together at North Hill Retirement Bowdoin for her husband, Bill. weeks. They stopped on the way to visit Kay. Community in Needham, Mass. Instead of going to Florida, Helen Hale Dodge I had Christmas notes from Frances Bates , Ditto for me! In the summer, I stay at our fam- was spending her first winter up north in 30 years. Wells and Nancy Bull Busby. Both are still active; ily home in Westerly, R.I. There I see Jean Katt She stayed put at home in Clayton, N.Y.: "Cozy although heavy traffic in her once-uiet area has Balzerit, who flies in from San Francisco to stay for house, beautiful river, now frozen and dotted with made Frannie quit driving. Nancy is still filling June. Hope Barnefield Snyder visits me from North the fishing shacks. Near family, two wonderful orders for her ceramics-especially personalized Andover, Mass.; and I have a long-standing date for kittens make for 24-hour delight, good friends, Christmas tree ornaments. lunch in Providence with Mary Dooley Bragg, enough church and community activity." I am indeed fortunate to have good health. Helene Kazanjian Sargeant, and Peggy Sands Bets Holden Albright and her husband are still I play golf and bridge and am very active in O'Brien. In winter, I have an apartment in a senior in Vermont on the family farm. "Peter works part- voter service for the League of Women Voters comi-nunity in Syracuse, N.Y There I have enjoyed time running a young-adult after-school program at and my church. reneving friendships with Ginny Hofheins Foss our library. I do volunteer work and write a lot," she Waful and Elizabeth Feldmcier Brereton. Ginny and says. "We have nine grandchildren and one great- MARGARET HARRis SWATEK husband Don frequently visit family on Cape Cod grandson. We plan to open a self-catering apart- 577 SPRING LAKE DR. and in Atlanta. In January, Ginny, Don, and I had ment in our house for Vermont vacations!" SLNTREE, FL 32940-1957 the extraordinary privilege of attending a reading by "Time has caught up with me," is the word I43 E-MAIL:[email protected] Joyce Hackett '83 from her best-selling novel, from Edwina Hirsch Reisfeld. "Ihave slowed down Disturbanceof the Inner Ear. to a creep. But I am still going! I am on the waiting By the time you receive your spring , Betty Brereton is a longtime resident of the list for an apartment in a nice retirement home. For copy of Wellesley magazine, many Syracuse area. She volunteers as a transcriber of Braille, all the pleasures of my own home I must relinquish, L of you will be gussied up and ready but her abiding interest is the Erie Canal Museum in I will receive great release from responsibility. There to descend on the Wellesley campus for our long- Chitrenango, where she has served as fund-raiser, are still good times to enjoy. Greetings to all my fel- anticipated 60th reunion. Early summer is an espe- board member, and docent. Come to see the museum low '41ers!" cially beautiful time of year there, even with the and take a trip on the canal with Betty to learn about Our sympathy to Coxie Green Hair, whose occasional aberrant shower Given our comfort- the realities of travel in the mid-1 9th century husband, Sam, died last fall. But, she writes, "with able accumulation of years, there is no need to Last fall, Olive Crowell Beverly hosted '40ers four great daughters (one Wellesley), six fascinating struggle into that form-fitting dress you once could at het home in Woods Hole, Mass. Present were grandchildren, and a great-gran' coming, life keeps wear, or glue on those false eyelashes. We can just Charlotte Damiron Smith, Harriet Whitten renewing itself. Betty Newman Wilds, Jinny Horn be ourselves. McGillivray, and Ruth Harwood. Grace Person Chilcote, Winkle Smith Livengood, and I are nak- Age, for many of the class of '43, seems to be Hayes and Joan Miller Sparrow'42 joined them for ing plans to meet a few other '41ers in Charleston no deterrent to garnering honors. Geraldine lunch one day. Olive continues to be active in the for the Spoleto Arts Festival there. It's wonderfl- McKinley Garvin, president of the Delaware branch World Federalist organization and, over the past I highly recommend it." of the English-Speaking Union of the United States, few years, has been on a round-the-world cruise and Sadly I must report five deaths: We have lost received a National Award of Merit at the 2002 visited Singapore, Hong Kong, and China. Marty Bieler Wysor, Nancy Bordon Mellman, annual meeting in Houston. The Wilmington, Del., I close with a request to each of you: Please Barbara Manning Owen, Elizabeth Burk Punshon, branch of the American Association of University send news. My deadlines are March 1, May 1, Sept. and Elizabeth Collier. A special word about Marty, Women named a scholarship in Geraldine's honor. 1, and Dec. 1. my friend since freshman year in Dower: Marty was She is also an elder and serves on the finance com- Phi Beta Kappa at Wellesley, earned her medical mittee of the Westminster Presbyterian Church. Jo SoNOMo degree at Case Western, and practiced as a pediatri- She's also a whiz at bridge: At a recent tournament, 40 CLua RD. cian while she raised four children of her own. She she became a Bronze Life Master UPPERMoNTcLAR, NJ 07043-2504 was devoted to her family and to her profession, The U of Missouri, Kansas City, Alumni E-MAIL: [email protected] and she loved to sing and to laugh. Association, in naming their "Portraits of Success," recognized Beth Kulakofsky Smith for her commit- Con;ramnlations to peppy Phyllis Harmon Greene ANN HAMILTON JAMES ment to improving the quality of life for individuals whose new book, Shedding Years: Growing Older, 2010 DEVON ST. and families by serving numerous communities and Feelikg Younger, was published in February. Her COLoRADo SPRINGS,CO 80909-1618 organizations. She serves as a UMKC trustee and is previous book, It Must Have Been Moonglow, an E-MAIL:[email protected] cofounder of the Judaic studies program. account of the first year of widowhood, is being 142 "Civility Marks Senate Race" was the head- reissued in paperback with an afterword including From Wellesley comes the sad news of the death of line in Rhode Island's Newport Daily News in correspondence from readers. Phyllis gives much of our classmate, Jane Wolfe Hoffman, on Nov. 13, October 2002. It was reporting the race between the credit for her success to "that wonderful 2002. I have no details. June Nesbitt Gibbs, 80, and a 20-year-old college Welldsley English department 1937-1941." The rest of this column will be about student, Michael Forte, Jr June was finishing her iPeggy Walbridge Hutchins, recovering from Mungerites for the simple reason that Pve heard ninth term in the Rhode Island State Senate. I called unexpected surgery last December, was looking for- from no one else. Please send news!!!! I'm sure we'd June to deternine the outcome-she won! ward, to skiing in March with members of her fam- all like to hear from you. The news does NOT have For many years, Elizabeth McClure Bennett ily. She says, "Let me tell you, there is nothing like to be earth-shaking!!! was silent about her World War II contributions. 11 days in the hospitil to make you appreciate good Last November, my son Art and his wife flew But at a 2002 Veterans Day observance in Wellesley Spring 2003 47 Betty Aufsesser Sonnebom wrote of having lunch recently with Robby, her daughter, and a granddaughter (Wellesley '02) near Albany. Betty added that her four children, all spouses, and 11 grandchildren were all together last Thanksgiving. Helen Torbert Coulson was nominated by CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate for chil- dren) for the NFLUBroncos Quarterback Award for ~.'t- Community Volunteer of the Year. At a luncheon for the 10 finalists, Tor's name was called. She was ~Lt7 presented with a Bronco helmet autographed by Brian Griese, and CASA received $11,000. She later attended her 8-year-old grandson's "show and tell" with her helmet. What a special grandmother! We continue to celebrate 80th birthdays. Last November, Pete Pavitt Palmer's four sons, their wives, and 14 grandchildren celebrated Thanksgiving and Pete's 80th in Wayne, NJ. I was They love Paris in the winter: Nadia Marculescu Intrepid travelers Alice Sze Wang'45 and Lee Herz taken to France by my three daughters and daughter- Lacoste '44 hosted Anne Noland Winslow '44 at Swent '45 took a tour of the UK. to Paris with her Paris home in January. in-law to celebrate my 80th. I went Elizabeth and Terri, Priscilla came in from Chicago, records and have participated actively in the life of Buchanan, Ind., she disclosed to her audience how and we caught up with Sally, who was on a business the College. Those who graduated are doing gradu- she and others spent the war years attempting to trip, in Lyon. I visited Nadia Marculescu Lacoste in ate work and plan to return to their countries. We break Japanese codes. The team they were on Paris for four days. She is the hostess with the are proud of all these women and are glad to have decoded a transmission that included the revelations mostest! My visit fell between the arrival of the helped make possible their years at Wellesley. of a Japanese ambassador who had just taken a tour junior-year students going on to Aix and the Paris Joyce Gulick Nelson writes that she and her of the German guin placements at Normandy. Their Wellesley Club winter meeting, after which husband moved into a life-care community near success was notably helpful to Gen. Dwight Nadia was off to Monaco for a Princess Grace their former home in Ridgefield, Conn., so that they Eisenhower, who used the information in his plans Irish Library affair. Margaret Cobey Black sent can continue with the church and other community for the D-Day invasion. Nadia a copy of her new book, Hawaii Scandal, activities. Three daughters live within 90 miles of In February, the Vero Beach Wellesley Club a true story Cobey has researched from newspaper them; the other is in Tennessee. Joyce has seven had a meeting that included a slide show and talk by files. Visit http://www.islandheritage.com for grandchildren and a successful new knee. Chris Thomas Evans '55 about the Dutch painter, more information. A jolly picture (above) of Lee Herz Swent and Johannes Vermeer. Gert Perkins Go~dshalk, Betty Chubbie Abrams McKey expected to see Alice Sze Wang was taken in the English countryside Gorman Parmentier, and Margaret Harris Swatek Jeanne Haselton Rich, Kay Leonard Rosenquest, during a trip last summer Lee went to China later shared a table at the luncheon following the lecture. Connie Judkins Bowman, and Bea Lotz Donnelly to see the Three Gorges before the Yangtze rises All three plan to be at our reunion. while she was in Marco Island, Fla., in March. behind the great dam. With great regret, we have heard of the death If I don't hear news from you, I may have to Very sad news comes from two classmates of Lois Jund on Nov. 19, 2002, in Sitka, Alaska. revert to dirty limericks! Please write or e-mail who have lost family members. Connie Campbell Lois, a former deputy commissioner of the Alaska [email protected] before Aug. 15. Sprague's daughter died suddenly from a pul- of 50. "She was gentle Department of Health and Social Services, received monary embolism at the age toward all," Connie writes, "gallant, brilliant, but numerous honors throughout her years in Alaska. HARRIET BROWN BALDWIN always kind and caring. I'm proud to have had such Among them were three Extra-Meritorious Service 80 LYME RD., No. 309 a daughter." Marge Bailey Follansbee sends news of Awards from the state Department of Health and a HANOVER, NH 03755-1232 the horrifying death of a grandson, a policeman, Meritorious Service Award by the Alaska PubLic E-MAIL:[email protected] Health Association. I45e who was shot and killed in the line of duty by a man Looking forward to our reunion. 1-9-4-3 In these days when peace seems so remote, it may who had no connection with him or the California 'Wellesley, rah! 1-9-4-3 Wellesley! cheer us to remember the Class of 1945 Memorial town where the catastrophe occurred. He leaves his Peace Scholarship. We set it up at our 50th reunion wife; a 19-month-old son; and his mother, Laurie the Follansbee Mobilio '66. Marge writes that ANNE NOtAND WIN5LOW in 1995 with our $250,000 reunion gift to support and the strong bond of ALLANDALE 5T., No, 405 College, plus $40,000 from our Memorial Lectures community 4444 been a great JAMAlCA PLAIN,MA 02130-3457 on Peace. We added $15,000 from our class caring from fellow police have comfort. We send our love to Connie and Marge E-MAIL: [email protected] treasury at our 55th reunion in 2000. Individual I contributions, interest payments, and good portfolio and their families in these tragic losses. The class has lost three more members: Judy Navas management by the College yielded total capital We at Kendal at Hanover are delighted to see Lund '60 sent the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard- (book value) of $365,958 in February. Scholarship Betsy Barber Sanderson come and go with her ten- Tmes article about Adelaide Carter Gardner, who payments have been made from income each year nis racket a year after her automobile accident. She died unexpectedly on Dec. 3, 2002. It was standing since 1995-96 to foreign students who come to continues physical therapy to reduce tingling and room only at her service. As children's librarian at Wellesley with "a demonstrated commitment to pain in her hands and an arm. She and Sandy went the Wareham Library she had endeared herself to peace." Tuition, fees, room, and board at Wellesley to Japan last summer, then hosted a 50th-wedding- many cildren and their parents, and a memorial in 2002-03 are about $35,000. anniversary party attended by all 17 Sandersons. was held there to honor her life of world travel and Our scholarship funds have gone to five stu- community involvement. Bibs Demnarest Smith dents from five countries since 1995-96. The first MARIANMCCU15TON COUCH wrote of the mnemonal service for Janet Brown recipient was from Kenya; we helped her after her 4050-A HUNTINGREENLN. Edeleanu, who died on Nov. 20, 2002. News of freshman year. Our funds were divided between WINSTON-ALEM, NC 27106-4395 Verna Irwin Marceau's death on Jan. 3, in Kingston, two students from 1998 to 2000, one from Trinidad 146 E-MAIL: [email protected] Ontario, came from her only child, Rob, of Chelsea, and the other from Russia; we helped them for their Quebec. The class sends sympathy to their families junior and senior years. Two sophomores received Herewith is news that overfilled my mailbox from and also to Robby Meagher Kane, whose husband, our funds in 2000-01: one from Romania and the the last class notes, plus some more recent informa- Paul, died last December; and to Margo Galloway other from Turkey. Their scholarships continued tion on travels and moves. Some of us are celebrat- Lafferty, whose son-in-law, Mitchell Klein, also died through their senior year, 2002-03. ing 50th wedding anniversaries: Virginia "Jinks" of cancer in December All these students have outstanding academic Rogers Holton and Lin hosted their family at Club 48 | Wellesley Spring 2003 Med in the Dominican Republic in January; science, one who won a workshop with the greatly involved in the Stop the War Coalition. Barbara Grahn Garretson and Ev had a party last National Youth Theater and a med-student grand- Yvonne de Potter Scott's daughter, Joanna, Octdber that included their Wellesley bridesmaids, son who spent four months in Africa. Emily Hobart recently published her sixth book, Tourmaline. Nan Curran Sanford and Jane Redding Winter. Lee Hall's grandchildren visit the family farm in Barbara Grimiwade Meservey says that her great- Whitney Butterworth and Jack celebrated their Wisconsin-no TV, no computers. I hope that niece is a fourth-generation Grimwade at Wellesley. 58th' last August, and Jane Moore Collins and they'll remember that peaceful place. Barbara Barton Lindsey sold her home in Florida David celebrated their 60th in March. Cheers for Patricia Ray Saunders says, "Wellesley taught and moved back to Maine. Beverly Brott Yaros sold long and happy marriages! us a lot but they did not teach us to say no." She is her house in North Carolina and moved to Florida. Grandchildren of all ages abound. Pattie happy in a second marriage, paints and exhibits her Our travelers continue to roam. Pattie Smith Smith Davies has a new grandson "at this late work, travels, and does volunteer work. Carol Davies has been to Peru, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, date." Sally Ramsey Crosby welcomed her 13th Southworth Murphy is still living in the center of and Oxford. Nancy Dodson Shelton had a good grandchild; Nancy Ipsen Tenney has a granddaugh- Springfield, Mass., where she attended hearings trip to Paris and Venice, though the pickpockets got ter Who is a freshman at Columbia and another protesting a bar and the expansion of a strip bar. her. Carol Lobman Hart took a South American who'is almost 2 years old. Ro Farkas Myerson has Mary Sleator Temperley misses her international cruise; Lyn Bullock Voorhies plans a trip to Costa a 4-year-old, plus two in college. Nan Dodson scholars since she retired from the U of Illinois, but Rica; and Patricia Black Smyth "finally saw Angkor Shelton has a 1-year-old grandson. Amy Myerson she continues singing in oratorios and chamber Wat, climbed the Great Wall, saluted the terra-cotta Munson-Barkshire has a granddaughter studying music. Amy Myerson Munson-Barkshire is treasurer generals of Xi'an, inspected the Yangtze gorges and for a year in Barcelona, one studying environmental of the Women's Institute in Bath, England, and is dam, and ate snake." Jean Stadeker Schwier stuck JEAN PREBLE STRITTER '45 Around the World ... In 80 Years WrH SIX CONINENTS ALREADY UNDER HER BELT, there was just one One former student, Som Paneru, remembers Preb showing his more to go. So Preb, as Jean Preble Stritter '45 is known to friends, eighth-grade class a picture of American astronauts. The next day, marked her 79th birthday last December in Antarctica. What does one Som was waiting outside her hut. The 12-year-old sighed to her, "Oh, do for six weeks on a Russian icebreaker at the far reaches of the Madam. I'm just the son of a poor hill farmer. Nepal can't do any- world? Each day was packed with activities: hiking glaciers, whale and thing. America can do anything. America can put a man on the bird watching, and listening to lectures by geologists, historians, and moon." Preb turned back to him and said, with characteristic forth- the world's best penguin guy. "We were so busy," Preb sighs. On her rightness: "You're a lucky boy. Your father lets you come to school, birthday, the ship's crew had a cake ready, but it had to wait: Preb was and you've got a very good school. You work hard .. . and you can on the move, hopping into a helicopter for some aerial exploration. do anything." Preb's travels have sent her crisscrossing the globe, from Canada "She changed the direction of my life," Som recalls. He and Preb to Australia, Morocco, Turkey, Slovenia, Kenya, China, and Egypt, to exchanged letters for years, and he says her guidance helped him per- name just a few destinations. Travel in severe with his studies. When he dropped Europe is "sort of ho-hum," she says. "I out of university because of financial con- don't want to go where everyone else goes." straints and the need to care for five younger She eschews tours and guides except when siblings, Preb encouraged him to return to n'ecessary (a kayak trip in Alaska, for school and offered to provide him the $40 a instance). She plans minimally, totes the month to complete his studies. Today, Som is Lonely Planet-the shoestring travel guide- the director of the Nepalese Youth book favored by the young and shaggy-and Opportunity Foundation and is currently stays in budget hostels to minimize expenses. pursuing a master's in international chil- Although travel is now a way of life for dren's development. Preb, she started relatively late. Her Age certainly doesn't stop Preb from hav- Wellesley class came in with Pearl Harbor ing adventures-indeed, sometimes it works and left with the bomb, leaving little oppor- to her advantage. She recalls a trip four years tunity for wanderlust. Preb majored in chem- ago, when she and George, her "travel istry and worked as a chemical engineer for buddy"-an equally independent woman in a year, then turned her attention to her fam- her 70s-were crossing the Chinese border to ily of four children. When they were grown, Vietnam. George did not have a valid visa, she got her master's in education and taught and the Vietnamese soldier at the checkpoint high-school math and computer science. was stalwart about not letting them across. I Her globetrotting began after her husband But Preb protested. "What am I supposed passed away in 1976, when she headed to to do? Leave my sister here?" she cried. At Banff, Canada, and became a ski bum. From that, the soldier crumpled, and with the there, it was nine months in New Zealand and help of a small $10 bribe, they were over trekking in the Everest region. At age 57, she the border to Vietnam. Preb says her age joined the Peace Corps and went to Nepal, probably helped. After all, who could bear which she calls a "life-changing experience." She spent more than two years to strand two grandmotherly figures at a lonely border checkpoint? teaching math to junior-high students in a remote mountain village in central Preb and George are talking about "some crazy river trips" Nepal and another six months developing math curriculum with the help of in the near future. For now, she's at home in Vermont, organiz- a Wellesley fellowship. Despite the students' extreme poverty and the school's ing photographs (the hobby has flourished with her travels, and piiitive conditions, the school maintained high academic standards and she exhibits her work regularly), and getting ready for more had an excellent headmaster. Preb made a cozy life in a tin-roof house made adventures. of brick and mud mortar, which students dubbed "Madam's House." Amy Yee '96 Wetlesley Spring 2003 ' received a check for our annual share of the income from the Class Life Membership Fund; the College investment portfolio seems quite healthy. The Alumnae Association advised us to spend our class money on reunions. Johnnie, Nancy MacKinnon London, Elvia Samuelson Fambam, and Doris Engels Schmidt had one at Liverpool U's pub in San Francisco. Please let us know about your get-togethers. Nancy Mueller Barnhart and Ann Arenberg Gips were the only ones from '47 at the local Wellesley club's annual dinner in Princeton, NJ. Ginny Carlin Terrel reports that Florida in January was so cold she ordered an electric blanket! She still reads to first graders in Melbourne. Ellen Watson Eager was awarded the Charlie Andy Sanford Schmertz '47 and Peg Cogswell Horsky Plaque by Washington's Council for Court Alice Warner Jones '49 and her college roommate, '47 attended a Nov. 14, 2002, benefit for Excellence, for "lengthy and productive labor on Betsy Scherer Altman '49, enjoyed Alaska with Andrea's Fund for ALS, a new foundation Alice's daughters, Kristin Jones Berman '73 and behalf of community education, jury moderniza- organized by Andy and her three daughters. Elizabeth Jones Crafford '85. tion, and other activities of the Council." to the US and drove to the West Coast to visit Congratulations! Glo Miller Davis in Portland, Monteith DeGroat died on Feb. 19, in Geneseo, N.Y family. Ore., writes, "the back bedroom is available, and Nancy was with us only for freshman year, The College reported the death of two class- Wistaria House retains its hospitable charm. Y'all lived in Eliot, and roomed with Barb Loucks Berger. mates: Mardette Edwards Perkins in May 2002 and come!" Her daughter, Kirk Simoneaux, who sent the obitu- Sarah Binford Avery in December 2002. Mardette's Jini Raad still teaches piano students, publishes ary, wrote that Nancy cherished her Wellesley con- poetry and papers were given to Yale's Beinecke occasionally, but no longer performs. Jean Kerby nection and the friendships made because of it. To Library. We send our sympathy to both families. Boland, who spent freshman year at Wellesley, was Kirk, her brother Edwin, and Nancy's three grand- interviewed by the Greenwich Times on the subject children, we offer our deepest sympathy. EuzAEni JONEsFucHs of "seniority." She says the most important thing to Betty, whom we remember as a superb swim- 147 E. PAMELARD. do after making a mistake is "pick yourself up and mer and agile sailor, had a prolonged bout with ARcADIA, CA 91006-4168 move on." Alzheimer's disease. She leaves Frank, her husband of - E-MAIL: [email protected] Condolences to Janice Foster Gibson, whose 55 years, and her daughter Nancy, whose remem- husband died the day after Christmas. Barbara Bell brance of her mother is in the "Memorials" section. What a feast of news! Lee Briggs Hollister's two McMullin sadly reported that Beryl Cosgrove Gates Jann Gochner Packard read of Toni oldest daughters got married in 2002. Lee went died on Feb. 12, and Jane Miller Bartlett tells us that DeGroat's death in her morning paper. She writes to Naples, Fla., in April and Phyllis Strickland Carol Glesmann died last November. that Toni, whose husband George died in 1984, visited. "I always love to read about our class- Thanks to all for contributions. Keep the news moved from Rochester, N.Y., to live with her mates," she says. flowing either by e-mail or regular mail (my address daughter, Gretchen, in Geneseo five years ago Adrienne Kaster Eiseman, a seni-retired travel is at top of this entry). You may just see your name after suffering a stroke. We send our condolences consultant, has taken up bridge. She still travels and in print! to her family. rode the American Orient Express from DC to Los More very sad news: Bettie Morris Magee's Angeles, stopping along the way. Ann Hartman DoRoTHY Morr BRITTINGHAM second son, Benjamin Rush Magee, 47, died of can- spent five days in and around mainland China and 664 TIMBER LANE cer in New York City on Feb. 16. Rusty was an Hong Kong. Priscilla Richmond Randall was in one NASHVILLE, TN 37215-1120 accomplished composer and lyricist for theater, tele- of Myrt Atkinson Everett and Bob's Cuba groups in E-MAIL: [email protected], and film, as well as a beloved comedian. In January, as was Dolf Schnaufer. Myrt is in touch 2000, Rusty received a "Coming Up Taller" 148REUNION with Sue Kemp Bartlett, who is quilting and study- With deep regret, we note the humanitarian award from then first lady Hillary 11 2 ing family genealogy. Myrt and Bob are spending deaths of three classmates. Nancy Rodham Clinton '69 at the White House for his less time in Cuba this year in favor of visiting McLaughlin Eley died on June work at the 52nd St. Project, a theater company in Naples, Fla., seeing Harriet Wald Schley and Shirley 11, 2002, at home in Mandeville, La. Betty Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, where professionals do Babineau Rogers, passing through DC and Weis Wilcox died in a nursing home in theater outreach with local children. Carol Ochs, hopefully seeing Peggy Goodwillie Laurent. In con- Wayland, Mass., on Dec. 26, 2002; and Jean Susan Peiper Phillips' daughter, who worked with clusion, yes, Myrt, I did find "three for bridge." Rusty on the project, also won an award. Our Mary Lib Hurff Aladj dodged two snow hearts go out to Bettie and to Rusty's wife, actress storms while driving in Pennsylvania and then flew Alison Fraser; to his son Nathaniel; and to his two to Austin, Texas, on Valentine's Day, just before the younger brothers. big storm. Ann Terry Barclay was in Guatemala A year after the collapse of the economy in with Heifer International, which gives animals and Argentina, a letter from Elena McGrath Feeney and education, instead of money or food, to those in Alfredo in Buenos Aires describes the scene there. need. Julie Emerson Smith gets the prize for the She writes that, because of both devaluation and the most distant e-mail: She responded from huge rise in the cost of living, savings and incomes Melbourne, Australia. This miraculous electronic were cut back drastically overnight and without age! She and Bob spent a night at the zoo, then were warning. Unemployment increased alarmingly, off to Kangaroo Island for three days. sending large numbers of the once self-supporting President Sue Morse Allen attended the into poverty. Jobs, food, and hope shriveled. She Wellesley Friends of Art meeting at the Los Angeles blames the mess on corruption in government, polit- County Museum of Art and had a guided tour of a ical leaders of total incompetence, and greed. Her major Islamic art collection that Mia Chandler hope for the return of honesty to government is in Frost, a trustee of the museum, donated. Mia talked the younger generation whom she feels, if given the about how her travels in the Middle East inspired Amy Pollock '91 and Aileen Margolis Kassen chance, could restore Argentina to peace and pros- her interest in Islamic art. '48 embarked on the "Journey of Odysseus," a perity. On the positive side, as for her own life, she Class Treasurer Johnnie Watkins Bahr tour through the Mediterranean. says that she and Alfredo revel in their grand- 50 | Wellesley Spring 2003 children, who are close by, and that they are grate- tributes, the university's Women's Society renamed ful foe the birth last September of their 18th grand, its generous scholarships, as well as a new butterfly a healhy boy. garden, for Ibby. And the newest entry in the youngest grand- Faithful correspondent Betty Broback Bagger child contest: Owen Michael Nicoloff Griffin, the recalls Betsy Wheeler Bursch, who died in 1999. first child of Peg McInerney Nicoloff's daughter, Betsy and Dudley Bursch had helped to create a Martha. partnership between their Presbyterian Church in An interesting article from the Boston Globe Charlotte, NC., and the Emaus Bible School in the on diversity at liberal-arts colleges cites Wellesley's village of Akil in Yucatan. A chapel there is now succes at attaining a goal that is "often more talked named for Betsy. about than achieved." Presently, in the freshman The footloose '50ers included Helen Thomas and sophomore classes, 40 percent of the American Marchman, who joined a group last fall "hitting the students are Asian, Native American, African high spots" in China, cruising the Yangtze and vis- American, or Hispanic, according to the article. iting Tibet, the panda sanctuary in Chengdu, Hong Quite a change from the old days. Carpe diem. Kong, and Vietnam, "which was interesting and beautiful, and oh! the heavenly food." Tomi in Costa Rica. ACTNG SEcRETARY recently took off for two weeks NORINE CASEY Judy Waxman Miller and granddaughter Former '50 Cazenove dormmates (from bottom 34 BARTLETT AvE. Anna traveled to Machu Picchu and the Galipagos. left) Ann Strong Garrett, Eleanor Stewart Judy hopes to see Antarctica if she can find another ARLINGTON, MA 02476-6418 Mazzone. Nan Lavis Wilson, Anne Foley Heisler, grandchild to go with her, as "Walter's knees aren't Mary Jo Van Hoesen Hossfeld, Nancy McDowell good for climbing into zodiacs. Neither are Our sincere sympathy is sent to Betsy Ancker- Baldwin, Jane Donaldson Snow, and Dorothy too on, whose son, Paul, died on Jan. 8. Walker Baker gathered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, mine, but I had Anna to get behind me and push." pDoris Welch Driscoll's granddaughter will be last September. On the eve of her February departure for applying to Wellesley. Barbs Sutton-Woilak writes India, Joanne Wentz Stephenson wrote that her Copenhagen, and Oslo. After 26 years on the board fromiBuenos Aires that she'd be happy to have January trip to Ethiopia with Bobbie Carson and of Chelsea Groton Bank, she reached mandatory '49er1 visit her. Tyler Robinson Stuart retumed to Ann Terry Barclay '47 was "fabulous, beautiful retirement age. Sally drives four visually impaired New' Zealand last February and headed to country, outstanding bird-watching, and would people around, so she is on the road five days out of Barbados this February. She has seen Judy Wolpert require more than this column to describe." seven. Congratulations, Marge. Henderson and Cinnie Smith Vartan. Jane Everhart Rand and Milton drove 3,200 Davie Seager Nycum had fun with her family adventure cruise in miles to Florida and back in January to see family. ,Pat Taylor Gentry took an in Provence, France, last June, then in Denver the South Pacific entitled "In the Wake of the Jane is currently enrolled in a "memory class" about for Thanksgiving. Eleanor Evans Feldmann spent Bounty" (of Captain Bligh fame), a marvelous trip! writing for your children's children, which requires Christmas in Yakima with son Bill and. family, also Jean Tilton Wilkinson is fine now, after a battle with a five-minute weekly autobiographical piece. Alex joined by Jim and his wife from Seattle: Maaret uterine cancer involving a hysterectomy and radia- MacNutt Usher joined last year and was "far and Mize Mathis still skis and hikes and says her down- tion. She recommends that we pay close attention to away the best writer," but her Autoharp career kept hill biking has been the envy of students. Summer bodily irregularities and follow up quickly with our her from continuing. was excellent in Maine, where she has t6 conserve doctdrs. Nancy Frederick Sweet and Phil moved Patty Van Rensselaer Wilson and Frank are water and watch the well. Elaine Roseneyer Cullen into a retirement home and spent the winter in their "well and keeping occupied. We have a mini-motor hopes to see many '49ers at Wellesley's Summer new home in Palm Beach, Fla. Nancy also has a home, a mobile 'granny unit,' and park in our chil- Symposium. beautiful new granddaughter. dren's yards to play with the grandkids, But with Sherry Wakelee Smith sent a fantastic Marilyn Pearson King lsbrandtsen celebrated four to six weeks on the road, it cuts down on some Christmas poem. Here are a few lines: "There may her wedding anniversary and birthday with a volunteering." be no answers to what life's about/ But the search- Eurorail trip from Zurich to Copenhagen. The family of Diane Gruhler Grettenberger ing adds meaning to counter the doubti May you Highlights included balloon flights over the Swiss continues to expand exponentially by birth and find that your journey is filled with delight/ With the Alps, La Traviatain the Vienna Opera House, sight- adoption, including children from overseas, with 18 time to enjoy all that makes your life right." seeing, and a concert in Old Prague. grandchildren to date. Diane, a great correspondent, Please keep your news coming. I'm off to Johnny McCouch Bell is pleased to have son keeps active in her church, in the Meridian volunteer on the Navajo reservation. This will be my David living near her home in Concord, Mass. She Historical Village, and with her series of outdoor fourth year there, and I have made many friends. and Gordon spent Thanksgiving in Lexington, Ky., folk concerts, plus banjo and piano. with grandchildren. She also went to Fargo, N.C., A "Spring Counterpoint" concert in for the wedding of Meg Luther (the late Mary JOAN SAYWARD FRANKLIN Manhattan on March 3 included Betty Bell Friou's Bishbp Luther's daughter, who joined us at our last 311 WEsT 75TH ST. composition, "Songs of Here and Forever." reunion). 350 NEw YoRK, NY 10023-1606 Sadly, our dear friend Mary Lou Woldenberg Betty Arundell Stallings, who kindly sent me E-MAIL: [email protected] Schwartau died suddenly on Feb. 16 in Florida. Our all her '49 Christmas cards, retired from her job as sympathy to her family. Really great news! Polly Pearse Gates and Howard manpgement analyst at HUD. She is planning trips Fuller were married on Jan. 22. Howard's wife, to Scandinavia, Holland, and Belgium. Pat Ruppert Annette George Fuller, died in 1997, but he and CLAIREWALTER VEATER Nelsbn and her daughter took a wonderful trip to Polly were longtime friends. Recently they visited 10453 SW 114TH ST. the Arctic on their "faithful little converted Finnish back and forth between Asheville, N.C., and MiAmi, FL 33176-4035 ferry" 151 E-MAIL: [email protected] Claremont, Calif., and just decided "it was meant to I Marie Meigs Shaffer and Guy moved into a be." They will live in California. new! life-care community in Annapolis, Md. This Many thanks to all of you who responded to the More good news: The new governor of necessitated a drive to Denver to deliver antiques to postcard in the December newsletter. If you don't Vermont is Jim Douglas; his mother; Cora Holley a son, since "downsizing" was necessary. Jeanne find your news here, look for it in the next column. Douglas, is very proud of him. Eleven Douglas fam- Minbr Walton is interested in having a mini-reunion A number of '51ers have recently experi- ily members attended his inauguration. in h r area before our 55th in 2004. enced changes. Marjorie "Muggs" Stock sold her On Feb. 17, lbby Gray Danforth and Bill i Sally Hodgman Bosworth continues volun- wonderful Inn at Honey Run as of Jan. 1 this yea; received the Jane and Whimey Harris St. Louis teering in schools, where the students read to her "to the very best person I could find." Never idle, Community Service Award (named for Jane Freund dog 'under a program called "Reading Fur Fun." she is looking into turning her parents' house into Harris '41) for their untiring work for Washington Marjorie Platt Moore had a delightful cruise to a retreat center for authors, composers, and U and their hometown at large. Among many other Estonia, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, liberal-arts professors. Wellesley Spring 20013 5 Loved Ones, came out in February. She's delighted with her cataract operation. She can see without glasses! On a sad note, Nancy Faust Bailey died on Nov. 12, 2002, of complications from pneumo- nia. (See "Memorials" for a tribute.) Judy Mayer Barnet's husband, Bob, died fairly sud- denly last October of rampant but undetected cancer. Judy has her Bamstable, Mass., home on the market and a sunny condo in next-door Yarmouth already lined up. Our sincere condo- lences to both families. The reopening of the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art brought together '51 classmates Carlyn NANcY LIBERMANRATUFF Ring, Peggy Liberman Osher, and Betty 319 Soum 31sT AVE. Christensen Wallerstein in October 2002. Peggy HATnEsauR, MS 39401-7220 has been a volunteer at the museum for 40 years. 152 E-MAIL: [email protected] '53ers (back) Diane Benson Reed, Ray McLean Elisabeth Stevens Schleussner left Baltimore Spring has arrived in South Mississippi, but the Gordon, Cynthia Rivkin Remick, (front) Barbara after 24 years for a lovely new lakeside home in rebirth of nature is offset with sadness over the loss Flood, and Rosemarie Deluca Hann met for a Sarasota, Fla., with a studio where she can do etch- of two more class members. Jane Anderson Wood mini-reunion in the Philadelphia area last year. ings and a big office for writing books. She spent last died on Dec. 10, 2002, and Eleanor Baird Milford Thanksgiving with Claire Anderson Hunter and died on Jan. 12, 2003. We shall miss them and "Wellesley husbands" are also a source of husband Ralph. Iris Frampton Muggenthaler express our sympathies to their families and friends. pride for our class. Harry Dewey, Jane Kenah moved to Hillsborough, N.C., to escape the cold, Peggy Guckes Krementz and her husband, Dewey's husband, received the Isaiah Thomas only to suffer a five-day power outage with condi- Dick, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Award in Worcester, Mass., for being "a guardian of tions far worse than those in New Hampshire! with Pat Smith Flock and Sue Curtis Robinson on a the past still actively engaged in the present and ... Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg also dinner cruise on the Hudson-how romantic!! I an able guide into the future of this community." moved-from Birmingham, Ala., to Alexandria, was amazed by the busy, yet seemingly relaxed life Congratulations also to Jane for her support of Va. Barbara and her husband gave some 2,000 Joellen Abbott Bennet leads with her traveling, Harry! books to their university library and have gardening, and large family. The Susan R. Knafel Polycystic Kidney shipped papers to archives and libraries around I know we are all concerned that Joan Eder Disease Center of the Rogosin Institute in New the country. Both Iris and Barbara will be closer Moffett has been ill and has had to give up her job York, named for the late Susan Rappaport Knafel, to their children. Barbara Spang Bliss and Bruce as our vice president. We wish her a speedy recov- is providing extensive care for patients with poly- are delighted that they can actually walk to the ery! She told me she is very appreciative for all the cystic kidney disease and is headed by skilled pro- plaza from their new retirement complex in cards and letters she has received. fessionals needed for all phases of care, from inpa- Santa Fe, N.M., where they have relocated. Joan Congratulations to Phyllis Shapiro Sewell on tient facilities to research for cures. Snook Tnnm is enjoying retirement in Door her designation as a Great Living Cincinnatian! Her Thanks to each of you for sending news of County, Wis., "the Cape Cod of the Midwest." brilliant career earned her this outstanding award. yourself and/or other classmates. I devour every- Jan MacMahon Aldrich also retired last year We are also proud of the recognition Marion Osher thing you send. Thought for the day (from one of after many satisfying years as a tutor in the Sandier received as the "longest-running female my adult literacy students): Mean what you say, but Lexington, Mass., public-school system. She chief executive of a major corporation in America" don't be mean when you say it. hopes to travel here and abroad. (Golden West Financial). You really cannot stop a Among recent travelers, we have Nancy Wellesley woman. ALiCE HAUGHTON RicE Appel Baler and Bob, who went barging in Edith Barton Sheerin wrote of her and her 115 BEVERLYPL. Burgundy, France, last fall; they enjoyed sam- husband's many visits to see their daughter 3 GREENSRoRo, NC 27403-1052 pling the great wines and cheeses. Phyllis Reed in several countries in Africa and the exciting and E-MAIL: [email protected] Kaliman and Ron traveled to New Zealand unusual sights there. Lois Liebeskind Levine recently REUNION with MIT alums, flying from place to place in a visited a friend in Hong Kong and plans a trip to aIQMW Are you ready for our big 50th DC-3! She returned home to two total knee Italy with her whole family to celebrate their 50th XI) reunion on June 6-9? Our weekend replacements. After a painful recuperation, she wedding anniversary. And Malcolm Walton Kelly L has been carefully and lovingly went to Anchorage, Alaska, for Christmas with took her granddaughter McKenna to Spain and planned and offers maximum opportunity to share son Jim and family. Bettie Lu Cox Lancaster Sicily to spend time with Mal's daughter Connor 50 years of experience with one another. Tower was thrilled by her trip to the Galapagos last Court will be our venue, with a special hangout fall. She also attended a Partners of the lounge for male guests. Wellesley will provide out- Americas meeting in Quito, Ecuador, and standing lectures-14 on Friday, 10 on Saturday- wished for more time to see that beautiful coun- and tours, as well as abundant transportation try. Nancy Milne McIntosh and Bob spent 12 around the campus (you can get anywhere without days in Japan last September, traveling mostly walking, if you prefer) and port-a-potties by the tent by train. Then they flew to Shanghai for the on Severance Green! Reunion co-chairs Judy 1,500-mile trip upstream on the Yangtze. They Johnson Goetz and Lynn Paschen McConnell and were awed both by the immense new dam under their committees have thought of everything. construction and by the fantastic gorges. For those who prefer discussions with con- Eugenia "Fi" Warren Herbert planned to visit temporaries to faculty lectures, informal discussion India with Ellie Rubinstein Weld and some oth- groups of topics germane to us will be formed. (Call ers to do research on "garden imperialism" in Ann Sturtevant Ormsby at 206-368-8100 with February. Fi recently published Twilight on the ideas for topics.) Zambesi, a look at late colonialism on the upper Peggy Guckes Krementz '52 (center) and Dick cele- Among the highlights just for us: one morning Zambesi River. brated their 50th wedding anniversary with a din- with designated breakfast tables for freshman-dorm Mary Mueller Boenke reports that the sec- ner cruise on the Hudson River in June 2002. Along reunions; an ecumenical service in the chapel to ond edition of her book, Trans Forming for the ride were classmates Pat Smith Flock and remember our 72 deceased classmates; a Sunday Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Sue Curtis Robinson. afternoon bus trip to the Kennedy Library; 52 Wellesley spring 2003 step-singing; and Sunday-evening dinner as guests of President Diana Chapman Walsh '66 at the Collee Club. Another major attraction will be the '53 Creativity Show in the living room of Tower Court. Important note: If you know of any gentlemen who are widowers of our deceased class- mates, please invite them to come to the memorial service on Saturday, June 7, from 4 to 4:45 P.M. in the Houghton Chapel. I wonder if anyone in our class has more than 13 grandchildren! That's the last count for Marianne Hamilton Durgin, who not only has plentiful progeny but has become an ancestral Genealogical research has led her to expert, as well. Danna Andrews Foote '51 and Barbara Lang Brown '55 each hosted two Russian visitors in their write her family histories and those of families on New London, N.H., homes. A delegation of 10 Russian bankers came to New Hampshire last June Cheleague Island, Maine, her summer (ancestral) to learn about American banking. home, She and Frank live in Belmont, Mass., but winter in Florida since she retired from the Wellesley Jersey She and her Bichon, Henry, provided com- taught at Skidmore, these students were articulate, and always prepared." College Library, where she worked for many years. fort to survivors and families of victims of Sept. 11, insightful, enthusiastic, Hildegard Hemmerich 'Lois Kiefer Trowbridge studied Italian her 2001. They have visited a family-assistance center, And another from Wilson: "Both Charles and I retired in 1998 and are seniqr year and has been an Italophile ever since. as well as the Children's Hospital of New Jersey at comfortably setled into a more relaxed life. Charles Recently, she went to Sicily, where the lemons the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center were the size of soccer balls, and where Mount Barbara Peterson Ruhhnan made a generous is president of our local historical society, working I volunteer at the local senior Etna was obligingly erupting. The flight over the gift to the Laurel School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, on preservation issues. bubbling crater with crimson lava coursing down for an outdoor-education curriculum on the school's center, helping people navigate the complexities of into the world of adult snow-clad mountains was awesome, she said. recently opened 140-acre site, known as the Medicare. Also have delved children's litera- Lois: worked as a real-estate broker in Indiana Fairmount campus-a place of woodland, water reading after 30 years immersed in ture. We enjoy the many cultural opportunities in until her retirement. way, and natural habitat. The program will teach aged when you go to : I regret to report to you the death of Betty girls about land management, stewardship, and Boston. You know you have Hurlbut Compton, who passed away last leadership, wonderful objectives to encourage. The the BSO on Friday afternoons!" December. On behalf of the class, we offer announcement from Laurel School cited Barbara's Margot Long Brauchli and husband resp'ectful sympathies to her family and loved splendid contribution in support of the development Christopher have taken some pretty amazing Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Elbrus, Ben ones. See "Memorials" for a tribute. of Wellesley's interdisciplinary studies. We are so treks, including Nevis, Tibet, and Norway. Margot manages several As Judy and Lynn said, we need all of you to grateful for your devotion to your personal educa- sings with the come to reunion, we hope mostof you will come, and tional institutions, Barbara! rental properties that they own, still and the Boulder we can't wait to see those of you who do. Td then! Make a note of these changes in the address of Colorado Symphony Chorus Kitty Coffield Courtney. She feels the alumnae office Bach Festival Chorus, and is currently on the has not quite managed to write it correctly. It is: 503 board of trustees of the Ridge Music Center, which PAMELA BALL WEBSTER Tinderbox Rd., Tinderbox, Tasmania, Australia runs a summer camp for youngsters ages 10-20, 2599 Louis RD. 7054. Wouldn't it be great if Kitty made it to near Estes Park. PALo ALTO, CA 94303-3610 reunion? Write her a note of encouragement! Adriana Eller Williams writes: "This has been E-MAIL: [email protected] As I figure it, at least 54 '54ers are deep into a very busy year for me. It is wonderful to be work- success at this stage of my life. My We hope your minds are firily fixed on the dates plans for our reunion year. I hope you are working ing with such Inner Life: June 4-7,2004. Our big 50th. Donna's recent card on your own plans for attending. There are great latest book, Luis Barragan: An is piominently displayed on our refrigerator. And I things in the works! Recollections, a memoir, was presented at Stanford Barragan hope it is on yours. and in Mexico City at the Casa/Museo celebration. It was I Our class has suffered many losses in the past MARY BRECKLYON during the architect's centennial Ministry for Culture and Arts few'months. On Nov. 16, 2002, Grace Vogel 380 G:BBs AVE. such a success that the F5 NEwPORT, RI 02840-3327 in Mexico is bringing out a Spanish edition this Aid'orth died in Santa Fe, N.M. Her husband, Ed, now completing a monograph on wrote most appreciatively of their life together and E-MAIL: [email protected] spring. I am enclosed a stunning tribute from the Chicago Miguel Covarrubias in Bali for a French publisher Tribne from Nov. 27,2002, which you may want In honor of our 70th birthdays (plus or minus a and two books of photographs taken by to atcess from their online edition. year or two), you will be receiving a class directory Covarrubias which will be released in time for the I Mary Wood died on Dec. 9, 2002. She had later this year If you haven't already done so, please centennial in 2004." beeA seriously ill with Parkinson's disease for several send pertinent addresses, numbers, e-mails, etc., to Just heard from Carol Collins Gillham with our reunion, but first they have yea's. A number of classmates attended the service Jean 1affenreffer Baker at [email protected]. Or her offer of help for through his 50th at for her, with Bev Simpson and Joan Lloyd Jones fax to 203-656-0566, or mail to 14 Nolen Ln., to get husband Nicholas Harvard next year. He retired from Duke after 34 participating. Also present were Margie Helm Van Darien, CT 06820. now working on a new book. They Meer; Betty Baker Leete, who attended school in We are deeply saddened by the death of years and is Louisville, Ky., with Mary; Toni Antoine Malouf Barbara Smart Letts' husband, Roger, of have moved to Fearrington Village, in Pirtsboro, the Marcia Adams Roehr Jane Sessions Steigerwald; melanoma. Roger spent 35 years with Lederle N.C., but Carol continues to work half-days at Chris Card Patton; and Charlotte Beebe Heartt. Laboratories and the last five years before retire- Ackland Art Museum. Joan Eaton Wilsons husband, Bill, died late last ment teaching at the business school at Fairleigh November after many difficult years as a stroke victim. Dickinson U. Besides Barbara, he is survived by LYNNFREYDBERG WARsHow The class sends loving greetings to the families and three children. 7 GRACE SQUARE,AP. 12B fri of these dassmates and to Joan and her childe. An e-mail from Charlotte Margolis NEw Yorix, NY 10028-8001 i We recently learned that Betsey Bradley Goodman: "What do teachers do once they retire? E-MAIL:[email protected] more! I retired from Skidmore's English 156 Urschel is now the vice president of university Teach some affairs for the Harvard Alumni Association. department in 2001. This fall, I returned to the Nancy Gordon Mahl and husband Ek had a festive Congratulations, Betsey! classroom, the sanctuary of a local church, to teach 2002. Two of their children were married: Susan to short story to more than 70 Matt Naclerio, and John to Melinda Zaitz. In June, Phyllis Markel Goldman recently volunteered a course on the modern with Bright and Beautiful Therapy Dogs in New senior citizens. Unlike many of the undergraduates I Nancy and Ek packed up their VW camper and Wellesey Spring 2003 5 Services and is a trustee of suing interest for Peggy Williams Doole and her the Presbyterian Synod of husband, Bill. Peggy is a docent at the National the Northeast. Her hus- Gallery of Art, looking forward to the new Museum ':4X band, a lawyer, is also of the American Indian on the mall in Washington, retired. D.C. Meanwhile Bill keeps the web updated with Jane Kentnor Dean the progress of the new Air and Space Museum at and Toni Holland Liebman Dulles International Airport, scheduled to open on began brainstorming with Dec. 15. class members about-can Cora Howson Pillsbury reports an excellent you believe it!-ur 50th year businesswise (congratulations, given our pre- reunion. Their goal is to sent economy!), because a lot of good clients attract as many participants needed aerial photographs. "Fortunately, I didn't as possible, so they are have to make the decisions about staying with film requesting early input from and a darkroom or going completely digital-I just all of you. Please send any fly the plane," she says. suggestions or comments Mona Campbell Munson announces the birth by posted mail or e-mail to of her seventh and eighth grandchildren, twin boys [email protected] born last October. She and Dave have been in their '56 dormmates from Munger gathered for a mini-reu muon last summer at or [email protected]. That house for 42 years. Mona has added the job of Squam Lake, N.H. Attending were (back) Kay Wood McCrillis, Eleanor Burritt way they can incorporate precinct election judge to her other church and McNichols; (middle) Dot Paulonis Zenie, Val Brown Stauffer, Pam Denny your ideas and make the community-board work. Blackford, Gene Skewis Moll, Nancy Selin Hudson; (fron,t) Anne Soecol Segal, Ethel Larrabee, Anne Sinnott Moore, Gizella Parrish Cal lender, Joanna Smith reunion more welcoming to Arlene Herman Berrol and Betsey Brown Hunt Ann Rogers Bell, and Janet Patton Gardiner (not pictured). you. They will be in Santa Steeger enjoy singing weekly in New York City with Fe, N.M., in October for the Collegiate Chorale. Their next concert features headed along the California and Oregon coasts to more brainstorming, as well. Also, please send them Licitra, Guleghina, and Pliska: "What a treat to sing Alaska, where they spent several weeks camping, any changes of address and e-mail in the next two with Metropolitan Opera stars." Arlene says she hiking, and enjoying the wildlife. years, so no one will be missed along the way. hopes, with a little luck, to be commuting from Another honor for Carol Suplicki, who in I, too, hope to hear from more of you. All Providence to New York every Monday for the next December 2002 received the Arizona Library news is welcome. 20 years! Association's Individual Friend of the Library Ruth Banovitz Suth reports a wonderful Award. A retired librarian, Carol cataloged the SALLYSWAYM JENNINGS Harvard alumni cruise from Athens to Venice via Copper Queen Library's Special Historical 1186 RNER RD. the Adriatic with Mady Green Kalb and Marvin. Collection of 782 books, as well as 347 more that SELKIRK,NY 12158-1600 And Linda-Lee Reiss Freeman's Christmas picture 7 the library kept in storage. They are now housed in E-MAIL: 195 [email protected] shows glorious full-color proof of her trip with hus- special display cases. i57 band Dave to Greece, "from a happy viewpoint" on From the Wellesley Clapp Library, Sally First, some class business: Save the date- the east coast of the Peloponnese. Blumberg Linden writes, "Since Jan. 2, the renova- May 22-24, 2004-for yet another super mini- Please keep sending those green cards with tion of the main floor of Clapp Library has been in reunion. The venue will be Philadelphia/Wilmington, your news, noting my correct zip code, 12158. high gear It's my last project as a Wellesley employee Del.: museums/historylgardens/affordable/fun. (I'll retire in June). I knew it would be fun, but this Plan to be there. MARY ANN HAYWARD finale has exceeded my expectations. My job since The class extends its sympathy to Barbara 110 COLERIDGEAVE. 1996 has been to coordinate renovations, working Brandenberg Kaze, who lost her husband, Irv, to a PALo ALTo, CA 94301-3519 with clientele, colleagues in Information Services, sudden heart attack last June, just after he completed E-MAIL: [email protected] architects, construction personnel, and others. The his weekly radio show. Barbara writes that they quality of the team has contributed enormously to were married for 17 wonderful years, during RNION At least two women in our class are job satisfaction, but Clapp is a building with 'good which time he took her to Los Angeles, where she ams leaders in nonprofit organizations: bones,' and so working within the existing structure became a program officer for the Weingart Barbie Neal Sandford and Judy is very gratifying. Changes add functionality and Foundation, and added another son to her family Storey Edgar Barbie is president of the Kentucky beauty while honoring the classic features everyone of two sons and a daughter. Their seven grand- Opera Board of Trustees and is working to insure remembers. I have mixed feelings about hanging up children-in California, Kansas, Maryland, and the continuing high quality of opera production and my hard hat and leaving an extraordinarily positive Lithuania-keep her hopping. commitment to education in this very challenging work environment, but mostly I'm looking forward q Joyce Carlson-Leavitt wrote from economic environment. Twenty two years ago, to the next phase of life." Albuquerque, N.M., to say she Although she describes herself as a "non- was off to southern Chile with activist," Sally Bell Chambedin, feeling she had to dear friends after a study tour act in this political climate, joined the Rochester, last September to Andalusia, N.Y., branch of the Raging Grannies last October reviving an old interest in and in January, when they marched to protest the Spanish history, art, culture, and war in Iraq. The Grannies is an international orga- literature. Joyce continues to nization of peace-minded women, 45 and older, teach and is singing in two who write humorous and provocative lyrics to choruses. familiar songs and make their point by singing. Nell Fisher Grim is in the 8 fI~ *iAi&jt-c; I regret having to report the deaths of two of midst of moving her house "a our classmates: Elaine Love Weiland and Irene short par four" to another field Davenport Kruse. Irene's daughter has written a she owns in Perkasie, Pa. She -t -.4*.. Ztp rt.-a memorial piece, which appears on our web site. found time for a golf trip to Our condolences to their families. Barbados in January, plus a trip Deepest sympathy also to Jane Kentnor Dean, to China and Tibet in late When Hollywood needed to know more about Wellesley in the '50s for whose husband, George, died in January. March. "Needless to add, my the film Mona Usa Smile, they went straight to the source.'57ers Barbara Im happy to report the February marriage of life is not dull! (No computer- Zidell Sedlin, Francine Berth Myles, production manager Pamela Thur, Margaret Simon Scott and Stephen Michelman. I'm a proud dinosaur)" director Mike Newell, Barbara Broback Weigel, Gloria Barnes Harper, and Margaret retired as president of Mortgage Advisory Museum work is a con- production designer Jane Musky met over lunch in New York City last fall. 54 Wellesley Spring 2003 Judy founded the Marin Education Fund in Marin, A Leader for Women Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Studies in 1993 Calif..The fund "provides scholarship assistance to for The Jews of Spain and won honors from sev- many; many students who otherwise would not The Association for Faculty Women of eral foundations for her oral-history research on have the means to continue their education. In most Washington State University honored the Jews of Bukhara and the Jews in Muslim cases,' these students are the first in their families to lands. Susan Hodge Armitage '59 with the 2002 attend college and are going to schools from Lesley Bruce writes that she would welcome California to Boston." Samuel H. Smith Leadership Award. The any classmates to visit her in Hana, Maui. Betsy Sue Bliss Alden writes from Burlington, Vt., award is given to an Barker Quitkin is heading back to the Bahamas that she and husband Peter became grandparents aboard her sailboat for the fourth season. She association member for th'e sixth time last spring and that travel revolves spent two months this year in Washington, D.C., around visiting their three children and grandkids. who has a strong caring for a first grandchild, Samuel Aleksandar She also sees or talks with Liz Lyon Webb each year record of leadership in Quitkin. Nan Tull Wezniak wrote to inform me that when' Liz and her husband go to Stowe. Jill advancing the role of Richardson Britton lives in Weaverville, N.C., and is Frank celebrated his 70th birthday last summer the rhother of four sons: "two married but no women on campus, or (not his 75th, as I mistakenly reported). Sorry, babies." She is still working part time in drug in leadership at the Frank. None of us need any additional years research. community, state, or added on! I received a letter from Erika Szalay, who was Sarah MacCracken Donnelly and Rheta national level in other one >f 12 young women who came to Wellesley Haas Page are our reunion co-chairs. They have from: Hungary in 1957 and lived in Dower with organizations. Susan is the Claudius 0. and already formed a large committee of classmates Mrs. Cotton as housemother. Erika is trying to Mary Johnson Distinguished Professor of and are busy with exciting plans for June 2004. locate one particular woman, probably in our class, It is not too soon to start encouraging your class- History at WSU and served as the first direc- whose parents, along with this classmate, befriended mates to attend. Erika. She sent me a photo of herself with this tor of the women's studies program there. My mailbox is empty. Please keep us all up family. Wellesley has kindly posted the photo on our to date on your activities. Isn't this the first page class e-notes web site. I urge you to log on and look you turn to in your magazine? at the photo to see if you recognize the individuals. Schnitzer Lewis, from Portland, Ore., is spending Erikd can be reached in New York City at 52 F. time in the desert and has visited with Marty. CHRISTINE"TINA" BRUcE ASTLEY 97th' St., New York, NY 10029, or by phone at Congratulations to Laura Ingham on her recent 16 CHALMERs RD. 212-410-1964. To view the class e-notes, go to marriage in Seattle to Roy Lundgren. They enjoyed WORCEsTER, MA 01602-4209 http://www.welesley.edu/Alum/Conunuity/. their honeymoon in Bali and are now dividing their M60 E-MAIL: [email protected] June 6-8, 2003: our 45th reunion. You time between houses in Seattle; Orcas Island, Wash.; Alice Freeman Wofford writes that six Wellesley have received the information and registration and Bainbridge Island, Wash. the alumnae, four from our class, met in gorgeous forms from the Alumnae Association. Both Myrna Seidband Watkins, after retiring weather in Naples, Fla., for lunch and giggles. Lucia generic Wellesley offerings and the special events from her marketing job, found the perfect job on for 1958 are ready to roll, waiting only for your Wehle Nemer is nowhere near retiring, keeping the internet. She is teaching Latin at cole arrivhl and participation. Of special note are the husy with music and business. She has been singing Bilingue de Boston, a.k.a. the French-American in the same temple for 35 years and also belongs to small- and large-group discussions Friday night International School. She is also using her mar- a chorus. Lucia serves on the board and writes their being organized by Mary Ellen Walsh, before keting skills in the school's development office. the newsletter. She is also a travel agent and recently which Sue Margulies Sheehan will summarize Myrna was a Latin major and lived in the Tower took on a new job with Travel Service Network as results of our 1958 questionnaire; the class Court French center. She hopes to polish her dinner on Saturday night, organized with inimitable an independent agent. Her son, Daniel, is in his French in France this summer. third and final year of acupuncture school, and her skills by Janet Chacran Jasperse and her committee; An article in the West Hartford newspaper with daughter, Jessica Nemer '90, is the mother of Lucia's and, fter the dinner, the reprise of Royal Flush tells about a lecture given by Jane Satlow Gerber by 3-year-old grandson. origiyal cast and many talented extras, directed at the U of Hartford's Maurice Greenberg Center Molly Cameron recently retired after working Leslie Meyer Holmes and Paula Prial Folksman. for Judaic Studies. Jane is a professor of history as a children's librarian for 38 years. She graduated I With great sadness I report the death of one and director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies Thomson Peters, on from the U of Michigan after two years at Wellesley, of dur classmates, Cindy at the City U of New York. She won the National Jan. 5 in Boston. You will find a tribute to Cindy, where she became close friends with Margaret written by Betsy Campbell Clinch, in the Studier, who also left at that time. Margaret has a "Memorials" section of this magazine. Last doctorate in nutrition from Harvard and edits a December, Erin Harrington Van Speybroeck's scholarly journal at the divinity school. Molly also husband, Leon, passed away after a brief illness. has a master's in library science from UNC, Chapel We lend our deepest condolences to Erin and her Hill, where she now lives. family, and to Jim Peters and his. Ann Chapman Churchill has been very involved with the Waldorf School on Long Island, JEANNE HARPERLITTLE where she is currently teaching preschool and 31% BEACON BAY keeping up the garden. Ann and husband Jerry, NEWPORT BEAcH, CA 92660-7219 who is a biology professor at Adelphi U, have trav- E-MAIL: [email protected] eled to tropical forests in places like northern 7.4, Australia and New Zealand to study the flora. Carol Brook died at home in New Milford, Recently Aim invited Mary Stimpson Rivkin to Conn., on Nov. 29, 2002, after a long battle speak to the preschool. Mary is passionate about with lung cancer. Carol was an editor and giving children access to outdoor spaces and librarian. Our sympathy is with her mother improving schoolyards, She has published a book, and sisrer. The Great Outdoors: Restoring Children's Rights Marty Eikenmeyer Cunningham married to Play Outside. Mary is coordinator of early James Owens on Jan. 28, in a ceremony in Las childhood teaching at the U of Maryland, Veg4s attended by two close friends. They are liv- Baltimore. ing in Indian Wells, Calif. Anne Duvall Harris Cathie Bieser Black '59 and Anne Duvall Harris Barbara Barnett Grey recently attended a and Ben visited Marry and James after playing in '59 traveled to the Cape of Good Hope in meeting of the Ethical Humanist Society, where a golf tournament in the desert. And Carol September 2002. Abby Bogin Kenigsberg gave "an incredible talk Wellesley spring 2003 55 Hopkins in its master of liberal arts and noncredit EducationalExemplar programs. Judith Richards Hope is pleased that her dad The Joe Allen Exemplar Award was is healthy and strong at nearly 98. Daughter given to Cynthia Kersten Doran '61 at Miranda and her husband, Andrew, moved to Scarborough, Maine. Judy's book, Pinstripes and the Western Regional Meeting of the Pearls,about the 14 women who attended Harvard TT4 College Board. The Law School with her in the class of '64 was pub- award honors out- fished in January and scheduled for a second print- ing just one month later. (See review, page 15.) standing professional Nan Overholser Keohane has informed the achievement and board of trustees at Duke that she will be leaving the 4 significant contribu- presidency there in June 2004. Although Nan has V) tions on the behalf treasured the opportunities as an administrator for 23 years at Wellesley and Duke, she says she has of students. Cynthia, Cynthia Stong '60 reconnected with Patricia Curtiss missed classroom interaction and research. currently the direc- Hassakis '58 in Seattle last August. Meredith Baldwin Weddle has been busy B- tor of college coun- writing book reviews and giving "book talks" on about media control of information and the her book, Walking in the Way of Peace: Pacism in seling at the Oregon Episcopal School upcoming Senate bill to force access for political the Seventeenth Century. Two new grandsons, in Portland, has worked for 40 years candidates.. She was articulate, passionate, and Caleb Trueblood and Cadence Price, are vying for in education, both as a teacher and as informative," and only a little embarrassed when her attention. a counselor. Barb played her in to her Dr. Mulkey song from Sadly, Carlys Bowden Belmont's daughter, Call It Red. Beth, notified the College that her mother passed away on May 14,2002. Our condolences to Carlys' DEBORAHWALKER MicHELSEN family and friends. We also share our sympathy followed by a gourmet luncheon in a yurt. 1 GoRDON PL. with Syd Starr; for the sudden death of her husband, Family and friends spent a week in Colorado VERONA, NJ 07044-5109 Joseph Morris, on Jan. 27. celebrating the event. E-MAIL: 1961 [email protected] If you did not receive an e-mail from me in In an interview, Theo Kalikow, president of February, then I do not have your current address. U of Maine at Farmington, told reporters that she Helen Tyson Muller and Kathy Kitch Hagerman Please update your address information at the enjoys the students, change, challenges, and the attended a lecture by ar historian Jeanette Favrot College (800-339-5233). town. Now she is building an education center Peterson at the College of Santa Fe about the paint- that will reflect her concern for the environment ing of the Virgin of Guadeloupe. This painting was ANNE STEELEHUMMEL and will be as "green" as possible. An art center attributed to an image imposed miraculously on the PO Box 748 is on the horizon, but she is mindful that she cloak of Juan Diego, when the Virgin appeared SoNorTA, AZ 85637-0748 shouldn't stay too long. "No, really-presidents before him near Mexico City in 1539. Jeanette, who 162 E-MAIC [email protected] do have a shelf life." has studied the Virgin for over a decade, showed Elizabeth Hendry Vercoc is in Tennessee at that images of the Virgin were present centuries I am just back from a birding adventure in Austin Peay State U, where she was awarded the Acuff before the Mexican image appeared. Japan, where Ron and I had hardly a care in Chair of Excellence. She is coaching, writing a new Naomi Reed Kline recently published a book the world except whether or not we would work for flute, and teaching composition students. entitled Maps of Medieval Thought: The Hereford freeze in Hokkaido, where we watched the Laurie Wilson is professor emerita at NYU's "Mappamundi"and an educational CD-ROM, A beautiful Japanese cranes cavort. Now reality Graduate Art Therapy Program. Her book, Alberto Wheel of Memory: The Hereford "Mappamundi." is a deadline. Giacometti Myth, Magic, and the Man, will be Both works are based on art-historical approaches Toni Hess Gal, Marcia Kinnear Townley, and published by Yale University Press in July. She is a to a medieval map. Ellie Holcombe Friedman met in New York in clinical associate professor of psychiatry at NYU After over 30 years of practicing law in private January to attend Non Ephron's play, Imaginary Medical School and has a private practice. firms, Samayla Dodek Deutch decided to establish Friends. Ellie reported, "It was very funny and Carol Williams Brown took computer classes her own real-estate law practice in NYC. Her entertaining." An article in last December's Elie at Chubb Institute to refresh her computer skills. youngest son, Zachary, an anesthesiologist, was discusses Nora's Broadway debut, and she talks Her daughter is studying at George Washington U married in the Wellesley chapel on Sept. 7, 2002, to openly about the challenges of women writers. and did research in Kenya over the summer. Anie Gonthier, a gastroenterologist. A reception "What can I say, we're all hopelessly shallow Bifie Dahl was an honored guest at the followed at the College Club. human beings. I had kids. I started writing screen- White House: Laura Bush decided on a bird theme Andrea Eaton retired a year ago as an econ- plays to make money," she says. On March 8, the for the White House Christmas tree and Biffie's omist with the Montgomery County, Md., gov- Writers Guild of America presented Nora with a lifelike birds were among the chosen. The lun- ernment. She enjoys being active in state and local lifetime achievement award. cheon reception with Mrs. Bush was lavish, and the Democratic politics. She is also editor of the Liz Olson Brown, Lyn Virden Lawyer, Sue Christmas decorations throughout the first floor of monthly County Democraticnewsletter, a volunteer Connard Chenoweth, and Liz Brenner Younggren the White House spectacular Biffie said her "visit EMT with the Rockville Volunteer Fire had a mini-reunion in San Diego, Calif. They with Bush was an experience of a lifetime." Department, and serves on the Maryland visited the beach and the zoo, but really they ate and Commission on Judicial Disabilities. Her six talked and enjoyed being together again after 40 MADGE GOMEz GINN grandchildren live in California and New Jersey. years. 1000 VERNoN AVE. Virginia Green Highstone is recovering well Angie Forbes-Freeze writes that the Munger 3 WINNETKA, IL 60093-1455 from back surgery in January. group (Nancy Bourgerie Meo's best friends) are E-MAIL:[email protected] Kathleen Bingham Strob and her husband of gathering at the retreat Nancy and her husband REI6 30 years are publishing Rug News, a trade publica- built on the Chesapeake "neck" in Virginia in June. UinNlolNationally recognized psychothera- tion, and an internet newsletter, Exporter formerly It will keep Nancy's memory alive and her husband pist Martha Baldwin Beveridge has a paper publication. in the "Wellesley loop." Angie and her husband, shared her expertise for over two Nancy Norris-Kniffin's recent marriage to George, relaxed in Puerto Vallarta last October decades via radio, television, private practice, and Hazen Kniffin, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Sandy Asensio Koppen's son, Michael, got now the internet. Martha, a licensed clinical social Baltimore, brought with it four children and five married at Tennessee Pass in Leadville, Colo., last worker, has appeared on Donahue, Geraldo, and grandchildren. She continues to teach at Johns August. It was an outdoor ceremony in the forest, Sally Jesse Raphael, among other television 56 Wellesley spring 2003 prograIms. She has also hosted her own weekly chairperson of the Rhode Island Board of weekend TV spons producer for ABC, while her radio therapy program; her bimonthly Change Governors of Higher Education after nearly five daughter Kelly is in the radiology department at of [leart Journal is available at years of extremely hard work. Her confidence in Evanston Hospital, living in Chicago. Son Tom is at http-Jlywwiovetips.com. Martha created and hosts current leadership and her positive outlook for the the U of Redlands in California. Cathy Ince Stevens Love Tps, a daily nationally syndicated radio feature state's three institutions helped her make the welcomed a new grandson on Dec. 4,2002. offering suggestions on creating and sustaining rela- decision to retire from the chairmanship. Nancy Bissell Goldcamp retired from tionships. The most recent of her three books is Both Cate Thranow Porter and Nancy Hale Washington, D.C., and 24 years with the CIA to the Loving Your Partner Without Losing Yourself Hoyt write of the fun of traveling distances in various intense beauty of Sierra Vista in southeastern Marth got into this field through her work as a vol- directions to visit their children. Cate, who lives in Arizona. Church activities, a community-wide pro- unteer with the Junior League of Oklahoma City. New Jersey, has a daughter in San Francisco and a gram that provides transportation and other ser- She feels that overcoming her life experiences with son in London. Nancy, who lives in Lake Wales, Fla., vices to the elderly, and the promise of ESL tutoring breast cancer and divorce, plus building nurturing has children spread from the East Coast to Sydney, are keeping her busy there. relationships with her daughters and grandchildren, Australia. She was delighted when Kathy Howe Marjorie Simons Federbush says that the high- are her most significant personal accomplishments. Strehle and Glenn visited last winter Anne Jones light of 2001 was attending the Advanced Sally Trenkamp Dowling resigned as McHugh's son, David, is working in Baltimore as the Management Program at Harvard Business School. POLLY COOPER '63 A Designing Woman POLLY COOPER '63 LIVES IN A WOODED CANYON IN CENTRAL canyon where the couple's house and offices were located, destroying CALIFORNIA where "it's hotter than blazes in the summer," when the mer- everything. The upside-if one can be found among the lost history of cury climbs as high as 110 degrees. An architect specializing in sustainable a life's work-was the chance to rebuild a consummately sustainable and passive solar designs, Polly insists that, actually, the hottest summer of structure. "We wanted to design a building that spoke to all the things her niemory was spent in Boston. "I was in graduate school, living in a we've been teaching and doing for our clients over the years," says Polly. third-floor apartment with no cross-ventilation," she recalls. "That may Among the charred remains of their home and office, Polly and Ken have been the moment when climatic design entered my consciousness." found a set of benches made of straw bales that survived the fire, unlike any But it would take time before Polly would act on the inclination. A of the tile, stucco, or metal structures in the canyon. "That got our atten- music-history major, she decided to get a M.Ed. at Harvard in 1964 and tion," she says. As it happens, straw-bale walls, finished with concrete stucco teach!elementary school. Eventually, she says, "I decided this wasn't some- on both sides, have a fire rating twice what state regulations require. They thing I wanted to do for the rest of my life." So she pursued a master's in also insulate very well, she explains, providing ideal conditions for passive architecture at UC, Berkeley, in part because solar design: "You want to absorb the warmth the p ogram was designed for individuals with r in the daytime, when you have sun, and keep it undergraduate degrees in other fields. "I in there for the night when it gets cooler " It was bumbled into it," she says. "I didn't even know decided: straw-bale walls for the new house. what a T-square was." But the field evidently By milling the trees that were killed by the suited her, because Polly stayed on to earn her fire, Polly and Ken acquired 22,000 board-feet third master's degree, this one in landscape of lumber-structural materials for their new architecture. house and offices that were as local as they get, Since 1976, Polly and her husband, Ken another important element of sustainable Haggard, have been running San Luis design. Also in keeping with the environmental Sustainabiliry Group, an architecture firm tenets of sustainable design, the new buildings focusing on sustainable design. Theirs is not the make efficient use of daylight (as the main franchise or speculative architecture that has source for both light and heat), fresh air for dominated since the 1950-60s, in which a ventilation, and nontoxic materials. Polly and building is "designed once and then plopped Ken produce 100 percent of their electricity around, no matter what the conditions," or (mostly from the sun), and 95 percent of their "built for profit then rented, bought, and lived heating and cooling comes from passive in by other people." means. "We're a bit in the religious-fanatic cat- Rather, Polly and Ken's designs reflect a egory in our own house," she admits. cultdral shift, where long-term considerations The resulting buildings are prototypes of (such as the availability of natural resources, the design elements that Polly and Ken offer the impact on future generations, and land- Polly Cooper at her hutme; and a sustainablestraw- their clients, which can be quite usefuh When scape regeneration) receive full attention. A bale school that she anzdKen designed (below). couples are interested in building a residence, more holistic approach, sustainable design she says, "usually one is big on bales and the requires a "more intimate knowledge of the sit- other is not so sure. This helps, either to scare uation in which you're designing-the eco- them away entirely or convince them thor- nonic or social or environmental issues of each oughly." On the downside, frequent house site,' and seeing these issues "not as threats to tours can be a bit of a burden. "We're eager to youe design freedom, but opportunities," she get more public buildings out there so people says. "Our approach complicates things, but in can have easy access," she says. And that seems a good way: It allows you to look at the light a reasonable expectation, given the industry's pattdmns on the site, the noise levels, the views, explosive growth. "The general public is realiz- the architectural contexts, and find solutions ing that the days of cheap oil and nonpolluting that are more sympathetic." resources are gone," Polly says. In 1994, an arson fire ripped through the Jennifer McFarlandFlint Wellestey spning 2003 57 On May 5,2002, Trudy Bove Parton and her Lynn Goelet Feld and her husband, Arnold, moved husband, Charlie, were honored by New Jersey's out of New York City to a house they bought and Monmouth U for their dedication and commitment remodeled in North Salem, N.Y. "Do not miss to the school and community. She continues to be Manhattan at all (much to our surprise)," writes very involved in financial planning, running, civic Lynn. "Love waking up to beautiful vistas and the activities, and her grandchild. Sally Waddell soothing quiet. Go into the city once or twice a Goshorn, who is living in Ann Arbor, Mich., quali- month and can't wait to get back to the country. fled for the 2003 Boston Marathon. Yeah, Sally! Spending lots of time with our six grandchildren, After two years in the Pacific Northwest, Lois especially the three boys in Armonk." Talbot Flaherty moved back to Boston. While in The Felds have also been traveling. "Went to Seattle, she worked as a part-time editor of South Africa and Botswana for the month of Adolescent Psychiatry,an annual hardcover serial, October and visited six different game reserves after which is the official publication of the American spending five days in Cape Town. Africa is a life- Society for Adolescent Psychiatry. She is now doing '65 classmates Barbara Bamford Lynyak, Nancy Weber, Betty altering experience that should not be missed." In various things with other professional organiza- Falsey, Carolyn Kott Washburne, and Penelope Bingham were fresh off the ferry from early March, however, they were waiting for spring, tions, writing and speaking, as well as planning to Wisconsin when Beth Waterman snapped this "as we haven't seen the grass since Thanksgiving." do some volunteer teaching and consulting. She is shot. The group was heading to Beth's family Joan Shalek Nyman is looking forward to enjoying living in the city and walking everywhere. cottage in Michigan for a mini-reunion last June. next fall's "one-person show of all the drawings in my 'Before the Holocaust' series. Right now I'm in Sad news now in many of our stories: JANIE PARKERRESNICK Liz the process of developing the educational compo- 96 DRiFrwooD LN. Shera Haeussler's husband, Fred, had a stroke in nents to go along with the show." Joan has been January, and they struggle with i6 , TRUMBULL, CT 06611-1861 his rehabilitation. taking classes at the DeCordova Museum School in E-MAIL: 1964NoTESOALUM.wELLEY.EDU Valerie Raymond Hart succumbed to metasta- Lincoln, Mass., where her drawings have been sized lung cancer last Nov. 1. Our sympathies to selected for two different juried shows. She and her Pictures of Emmy Hall Ehrlich's two grandchildren, both families. husband, Phil, "just celebrated our 35th anniver- Susan Hallas Reinharts first grandson, and Cindy Angela Pozzi Foote's business is covering sto- sary, which leaves me amazed that we've been Prout Janke's whole brood came to me. Cindy started ries-literally. She's a freelance book designer for together that many years and grateful we have!" a position at the new City Museum of Washington, trade publishers and university presses and, she says, Ann Hurst Hamington is enjoying her two D.C. An added note to her picture: "My life is a "continues to feel very lucky that I love what I do." granddaughters, Emma Grace and Lillian Hope, soap opera." Funny, mine is too. Last August, Cokie Boggs Roberts closed a who live only three hours away. Retired after a All our lives are stories. Libby Franck, how chapter in her life. Two years ago, she decided not decade of financial planning and still living in ever, has a double life: hers and the lives of the to renew her contract as co-anchor of ABC's This Charleston, S.C., Ann is "back to putting most women she portrays as a storyteller. Week. Her Libby, whose career, she told Vogue, has been a very of my energy into family, the church, and a few mother was a storyteller, has honed this inheri- important part of her life. "I've loved it," she said, volunteer jobs." tance with advanced degrees and studies in classical "but it is not who I am." Who she is now is a Sadly, Penelope Lesser Smith '70 wrote to say mythology and Arthurian legends. She performs woman who wants to spend more time with her far- that her sister, Jeremie Lesser Olsen, died in an auto- for children, families, and adults, bringing to life flung grandchildren in Los Angeles and London. mobile accident on March 8. "She was healthy, myths, Celtic legends, and cultural material from Choosing to leave her job at the pinnacle of her vital, and involved," Penelope writes. A memorial places as far-flung as Hawaii and Russia. But career is just part of her story. tribute will appear in a future issue. Our deepest strong-minded, adventurous women are her condolences to Jeri's family and friends. passion. Her web site reads, "Libby's stories . . . JEAN CRICHToN Please keep the news coming in by e-mail, celebrate the triumph of the human spirit through 173 SUMMIT AVE. phone, or letter. As for the web site and the e-mail courage, wit, tenacity, and trickery." The Women SUMMIT, NJ 07901-2901 list: Have faith, we're working on them. of the Sea series, now on CD, features feisty hero- 56E-MAIL: [email protected] ines: two female scoundrels aboard a pirate ship Bo THORNENiLE5 in Jamaica in 1721, and a young woman convict To live in the city or leave it? That's a question 51 EAsT90m Sr. sent to Australia's penal colony in 1789. Visit her two classmates, Marnie King Henretig and Lynn NEwYoRK, NY 10128-1205 web site (http://www.libbyfranck.com), e-mail Goelet Feld, faced recently. They came to oppo- E-MAIL [email protected] her ([email protected]), or call her at 508-879-0361. In site conclusions. 16 addition to performing, Libby manages the Marnic and her husband, Fred, moved out of Early this year, I received a letter from Sallie Outspoken Word, a twice-monthly series of story- their suburban home in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., and into Follansbee Dunning '69, sister of Laurie Follansbee telling and poetry the heart of Philadelphia, at the Center for Arts in Natick, where they bought a small Mobilio, with the tragic news that Laurie's 3l-year- Mass. house a block away from Sara Wheeler Forster and old son, David, was killed on Nov. 19, 2002. A An exhibit of Prilla Smith Bracken's paintings Sara's husband, Dieter Mamie and Sara roomed policeman in the rural community of Red Bluff, hung at the National Academy of Sciences in together freshman year at Wellesley. Calif., David was shot in the back of the head by a Washington, D.C., for three "Fred and months last year. "She Ialways thought of ourselves as city young man, Sallie writes, "to protest corporate is a landscape painter with a purpose," people," wrote the says Marnie, "and in 2000, when our son greed and the police state we live in." After bragging New York Tines. "She is interested in realistic Jeff graduated from high school and our older son, about his crime on the internet, the shooter was depiction and in using materials and techniques to Jon, graduated from college, we felt it was ridicu- caught in New Hampshire. David worked hard to bring out her ecological message." See Prilla's work lous to have a big house. Sara and I have remained inspire kids in his community to lead meaningful at the Mark Gallery in Cambridge, Mass., from good friends, but it was a coincidence that we'll be lives. As Sallie writes: "David's death became a May 10 to June 20. living so close." symbol of the risks police [officers] throughout our Look for e-notes on Wellesley's Alumnae Marnie, a social worker with Support Center country take every day to keep us safe." Our hearts Association web site-an opportunity to ask ques- for Child Advocates, can now walk to work, as can go out to Laurie and her family, including David's dons, offer information, and share our stories. Kerin her husband, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital. wife and 2-year-old son, and Laurie and Sallie's Dietrich Fenster posted a message, saying that after "I love the city," says Marnie. "There's so much to mother, Margery Bailey Follansbee '45. about 10 years of living in Cambridge, Mass., she do." During the spring, the Henretigs' older son, Susanne Wilson Brisach writes, "Ive just bought a vacation house on Norman's Woe, the fic- Jon, was in his first year of teaching art in the received a visit from my grandson, Andrew tional site of the "Wreck of the Hesperus," on the Philadelphia public schools, while younger son Jeff Howson. This was the first time that Andrew has North Shore. Contrary to its name, the view there is studied in Chile for his semester abroad from been exposed to many outsiders. Bom in May so beautiful that she's considering a permanent Columbia. 2001, he was diagnosed at 7 weeks with move. Meanwhile, apartment dwellers for 35 years, myelomonocytic leukemia. Last November, he 58 Wellesley Spring 2003 wonderful memorial servics." 'solve' human problems? Why does my 93-year-old One was in Albu-querque, mom have to try to make something of a life that is N.M., where Mary lives; the so diminished post-hip fracture? Why don't we all other was in ins Alamos, make art, music, and dance instead of driving to the where George worked as mall in our gas-guzzling SUVs?" No doubt some- a world-recognized expert one (besides Una) has a few answers; if so, e-mail me. on the effects of ionizing I'm finding your memories of a Wellesley radiation. Mary plans to stay education fascinating; keep them coming. (Other busy working with the stuff, too, naturally.) Wellesley Book Award pro- gram, playing cello in a local B.. PEARcE community orchestra, and 1804 HoBBs RD. participating in church GREENsBoRo, NC 27410-3926 activities. She is also looking E-MAIt: [email protected] forward to the upcoming '66ers Larol Dib Furer, Elaine Abbott French, Barbara Elden Scavullo, Jennie marriage of her daughter. 168REUNIORED ALERT: JUNE 6-8, OUR Gerard Linda Wyatt Gruber, Marylou Bondon Dodge, Carol Ann Brogna MemnIOes:Judi lanpr 35TH REUNION! Hayes, Barbara Bywater Creed, and Frances Green gathered to celebrate the eos:uimpr wedding of Linda's daughter, Lindsay, in Ross, Calif., last July. Green frequently finds her- Anne Rhode Youngstrom's self talking about two first grandchild, Jackson Stevenson Stanton, was received a bone-marrow transplant from an unre- Wellesley courses. "Most significant," she says, born recently. Anne writes, "I find that grandmother- lated 54-year-old man, who matched Andrew per- "was Mr Jander's music-survey course for majors, hood has brought great reflection and a renewal of fectly. Recently, Andrew and his parents met this in which we analyzed perhaps a dozen pieces of my longtime belief that there is nothing more wonderful man, who actually lives outside Boston! music. . .. It was as though the receptors for that important than being involved in the life of chil- Andrew is a true miracle. The doctor at Sloan- kind of information were just sitting in my brain dren." Anne is enjoying life in the Tampa-St. Pete Kettering Cancer Center told us that, in 20 years, waiting to he stimulated... . My world was forever area. She moved to Florida four years ago, after 25 she had seen only two cases of this leukemia in enlarged. What made me eligible to take that course years in Washington state. infants. Our family established the Andrew was Miss Barry's Music Theory 101. It was sheer In 2001, Carolyn Wilson Newmark spent 10 Howson Fund at the Marrow Foundation, to pro- hell, and I will never forget the final exam.... I got weeks in northern Italy via a travel and research vide mbney to register donors, not just for Andrew, a D that last semester-but I knew that I had grant from the Renaissance Society of America. but als6 so that others might find a donor. I am cur- worked to the limit of my ability, so there were no That same year saw publication of her book, rently Lyig to get as many colleges as possible to regrets. And best of all, that hell was the doorway to St. Joseph in Italian Renaissance Society and Art: run marrow registration drives. Please encourage the paradise of Mr. Jander's music-history course." New Directions and Interpretations. In 2002, her anyone under the age of 60 to register!" Canmie Plunmer East learned to adore youngest child, Diana, graduated from St. John's Rosemary "Rosie" Metrailer e-mailed the fol- history from Mrs. Franeois and Mr. Cox. Like school and then went on to Columbia. Middle lowing; "I've followed my dreams of living again in many of us, Cammie continues to value the Bible daughter Serena is at Carleton, and the oldest, the conntry! My partner, Tina, and I moved full- course and thinks it was a mistake for Wellesley Georgina Newmark '00, is in Houston at the U of time t6 our cabin (now a house) outside Nevada to abandon it. If she had been smarter back then, Texas School of Public Health and is very active in City on Feb. 15, 2002. We have heavily wooded 10 Cammie says, she would have taken the art-history the Houston Wellesley club. acres in the Sierra Foothills, in the 'Gold Country' survey and the sophomore music-appreciation Lynne Williams Bair reports that she and her north of Sacramento, where I used to have a law course, "but I guess that's a lot to ask of an 18- husband sold their house in Alexandria, Va., and office. I now use a couple of different office spaces, year-old." moved for good to their country house in the Blue as needed, to meet with new clients. Otherwise, I Matters Hymeneak Not doubt you were Ridge mountains. Life in Nelson County is a wel- operate strictly by phone, fax, and e-mail from my struck by how many contributors to our last record come relief from the high-tension level in the DC home office. I do no litigation anymore, just media- book announced marriages, remarriages, and new area. Lynne is enjoying the scenery and the wildlife, tion iq the areas I used to litigate. I'm winding romantic enterprises of various sorts. It just doesn't including "our neighbors the deer, hawks, wood- down, pretty much just doing what interests me. It's stop. Widowed since 1971, Cammie reports that peckers, bears, and a bobcat." Lynne and her hus- wonde'rful to have reached this stage of life." last fall she became Cammie Cowan, having married band supplement this bucolic life with pursuits in A holiday card from Margret Carde invited the man with whom she has shared her "heart and nearby Charlottesville, where they have taken me to check out the web site of the gallery that home" since 1974. And, although this magazine, courses at the U of Virginia and attend lectures at handleIs her paintings in Santa Fe, N.M., where she fearing to tempt the gods, does not permit the the Miller Center for Public Affairs. lives and works. I encourage you to do like- announcement of engagements, I am allowed to Anne Ralston Ronai also reports a major wise: http://www.munsongallery.com. Click on say-naming no names-that more weddings are in move. After 20 years of living in London, Anne and MargrIer's name, and you'll see six of her luminous the offing. Details to follow, as soon as knots are land- and skyscapes, all suffused with the glow of safely tied. When I told our hypothetical classmate a lamilent sun. Una Parfait about these marital developments, she sat After 24 years with USAID-most recently as right down to dash off a 25-stanza epithalamion (one a tearls leader-Lee Dennison Roussel and her stanza longer than Spenser's, with other improve- writertranslator husband, Andre, decided to retum ments as well); she's posted it on both her web sites, to New England, "to be closer to our two daugh- along with the secrets of her own ecstatically happy ters," Le writes. Lee and Andre purchased a house marriage. (You can access the poem for free; there's a AN on the Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, where nominal charge, of course, for the secrets.) Lee w6rks as a consultant. And ... Dawn Kramer notes that her "accomplishment list" seems to be getting "a bit dusty lately," or else "maybe it's just not that inter- Gr rTER rimG tSMER 90 RIVEtslDE DR., APT. 14B esting anymore to list one's 'achievements.' (Visit ci I4~Eu5AB her web sire at hrrp://www.dancecollective.org to see 16 117 NEw YoK NY I0024-5322 E-MAl: [email protected] if you notice any dust.) Meanwhile, Dawn contin- ues to be plagued by the same big questions she At the annual Washington Wellesley Club News:' Mary Wesselman Voelz's husband, George, wrestled with as a sophomore: "Why is there such picnic last fall, former and current club died at the end of January after a long battle with widespread injustice in the world? Why is the rich- presidents Sue Ellen Parrott Sisk '62, Karen prostate cancer, first diagnosed in 1987. Mary has poor gap widening daily in our country? Why does Williamson '69, and Louise Pfender Taylor '68 found support from her family, church, and "two religion seem to foment such hatred? How can war presided over the festivities. Wellesley Spring 2003 59 husband Bill decided it was time to return to the US. when Nell was 3 and living in China. "Nell is now In 2000, Anne retired from her job at Gartmore in kindergarten and doing very well." Earlier in the running index funds. The Ronais spent the next two fall of 2002, during a Dcmocratic gubernatorial years designing and then building a house in Crested campaign event, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Butte, Colo., population 2,500. Anne left London "read to 30 children at a school in Boston's for good in the fall of 2002, stopping in Boston en South End." route to Crested Butte. While in Boston, Anne visited From Pam McLucas 3yers, a Christmas note with Susan Myers, Chris Church Friedberg, Nancy said that her father died hi December 2002. "He Shaver, Diane Hawk Schmalensee, Jan had rather an amazingly f 1182 years, and we are Heckenkamp Logan, Chari LaRue Isaacs, and remembering all that we shared, with gratitude and Beverly Chatham Crofoot. Anne has settled in and love." The class sends our sTnpathy to Pam and her is considering what to do next with her life. She family. Other family nevs from Pam included notes that there are lots of volunteer opportunities daughter Katie's graduatirn from Smith summa in a small town, and she is also considering taking a cum laude, with both the math prize and the prize geology course to learn more about the amazing for best scholar-athlete (ha, ing rowed crew for her scenery in which she now lives. last two years). Pam's v rk with the Covenant Kathy Knapp Eldon and daughter Amy have Network of Presbyterians "continues to be chal- launched a new PBS series, Global Tribe, hosted by lenging and rewarding." F un's husband, Jeff, has On Dec. 5, 2002, Susan Ferris Wyderko '80, Amy. Amy travels to remote corners of the world been working on maintaining the membership of Cynthia Aaron Glassman '67, and Henrietta searching for unsung heroes who are seeking solu- the Museum of Asian Art n San Francisco, which Holsman Fore '70 brought a touch of the fem- tions to the challenges they face. The first episode has been closed all year, avamng its reopening in inine to the Caucus Room restaurant in aired in January and took Amy to Manila, to coral new and larger quarters! Washington, D.C. reefs off the islands of Palawan, and to the Banaue On my part, I am eal :r to share my younger rice terraces. Other episodes will air later, each son Brad's graduation frorr Princeton in June, and "We think it's the future of health care," featuring a different set of countries and a different his walk through the Print eton arch that leads to Bethany says. Her three sons, ages 21 to 26, all set of visionaries. his "wide wide world." I :ave you with requests have attended former women's colleges-Vassar for your news and with the prayer that our lives and Sarah Lawrence-a point of great pride for BUNNYFURNE SIMMONS continue to be blessed wi.h hope and embraced Bethany. 4898 CLARENDONDR. with peace. Two classmates report from Silicon Valley. SAN JosE,CA 95129-4313 Writes Kathy Schall Jarvis: "Pitts and I are still in 9 E-MAIL 1 [email protected] NANcY PAPPAS OETcALF Palo Alto, on our own again with both children 80 WooDiow iT. off at school. Daughter Verity is a freshman at In Denise Levertov's poem, "A Woman Alone," the WEsT HARTFOR , CT 06107-2729 the U of Denver, where she has finally experi- woman "has fears, but nor about loneliness; fears E-MAIL: 1970Nc [email protected] enced snow and read Dostoevsky. We just paid about how to deal with the aging/ of her body- I70 the final tuition bill at Yale, where our son Ben is how to deal/ with photographs and the mirror. She It was a lucky day for i'ittsburgh when Meg a senior. A physics major and veteran volunteer feels/ so much younger and more beautiful/ than she Duplain Cheever decided to make it her home in the New Haven schools, Ben will spend two looks." And so it seems for us, given the energy of in the 1970s. For nearly 20 years, she served as years with Teach for America and expects to be our classmates, busy in our lives, enjoying our soli- general counsel at WQED, during its heyday as teaching science in an Atlanta high school this tude and companionship. a producer of such na:ional PBS series as fall. I still have the best library job in Silicon Nonnie Gilbert, Sallie Follansbee Dunning, WonderWorks and the National Geographic Valley at the Palo Alto Research Center, formerly and Gale Lyon-Rosenberger attended Wellesley's specials. She also served as the prize-winning known as Xerox PARC.... We do manage a trip second annual Tanner Conference last fall: a one- publisher of Pittsburgh A agazine for six years. back East each summer for a multigeneration day event with student panels and presentations Meanwhile, she and her li usband, George, were family vacation on Cape Cod that includes all my that "explore the relationship between the liberal- also bringing up their th ee children. In 1997, sisters: one Yalie plus Vicki Schall Escalera '74 arts classroom and student participation in an Meg left WQED to ound and run the and Laura Schall Gouillart '75." increasingly diverse and interdependent world." Pittsburgh Parks Conserv mcy, a nonprofit that Marcia Howe Adams writes: "Last year Nonnie mentions that the Class of 1969 Social helps the city preserve an I improve its network brought two major changes in my life. After 22 Services Stipend has increased considerably over the of 19th-century parks. IN/:g and her staff have years as in-house counsel at Hewlett-Packard, I last years, and we were able to award two stipends raised millions of dollars in donations, signed accepted the enhanced early-retirement offer and for summer 2002. The work that the recipients of up thousands of membe -s, and run an over- left at the end of June 2002, My youngest, Emily, these stipends have been able to pursue is incredible. whelming array of progr ims, including restor- left for college last fall. She is at Dartmouth, where Nonnie wet Corrina Sayers '03, who worked on a ing park structures and la idmarks and training our other daughter, Natalie, is a senior. It is won- suicide-prevention hotline in Boston as our stipend teachers to use the parks is teaching tools. The derful to find time is no longer an enemy. I joined recipient in 2001; Sara Daniels '05, who used her list of her board membersaips and other volun- the West Bay Wellesley book club, which I'd 2002 stipend to bring a soccer program to inner-city teer affiliations would u e up the rest of the always wanted to do. I can exercise, read, see Milwaukee schoolchildren; and Yelena Biberman space in this column! friends, and travel easily, which was not true while '04, who designed and ran a college-prep program Bethany Montgomery Hays reports from I was working. We went to Spain in the summer, that involved encouraging at-risk students in her little house in the we >ds outside Portland, New England in the fall, and Maui in December. Albany, N.Y., to consider a college education. Maine, where she move 1 13 years ago after My mother is 90, and I visit her in Southern According to Nonnie, they "would make Ius] proud divorcing and uprooting herself from her busy California regularly." to sponsor their efforts." ob-gyn practice in Houst 'n to, as her web site - From Eva Murphy, a quick note: "I trust that says, "follow her heart toward complementary ANN SurPHIN HAFER fellow C-Span junkies saw Betsy Griffith last June and holistic medicine." A year ago, she and a 3805 Nolr HARRisONST. on their televised series on women in American group of like-minded p:actitioners achieved AnuNoroN, VA 22207-1872 politics. I joined many others in Washington, D.C., their dream and opened True North Health E-MAiL: [email protected] on Jan. 22, for the March for Life. At least two 171 Center, a full-service clinic specializing in Wellesley students were there, too, members of the functional medicine. As Bethany explains it, Several classmates ran for office last November. campus Wellesley Alliance for Life." functional medicine treat i each patient as an Wilma Chen Chan, elected to the California state Barbara Baker, living in Cambridge, Mass., individual with uniquely nterconnected physi- assembly in 2000, won a second term. Asian works as a senior sales associate for Coldwell cal, biochemical, and sp ritual characteristics, Week reported that she "has pressed legislation Banker DeWolfe and adopted Nell Fuhang in 1999, rather than as a collection of disease symptoms. to promote affordable housing, study whether to 60 Wellesley Spring 2003 CHERYLPoPE HANDEL Publishing CFO 6545 GREENVALEY CIRCLE,An. 203 72 CULVERCrrY CA 90230-8092 In January, Gracia Mangano Martore '73 E-MAJl 1972NoTEsALuM.WEuESLEY.EDU became the chief financial officer of I Gannett, the nation's Shelley Duckstein Fischel raised more than $500,000, working with Elinor Levin Scholl '51 to largest publisher of raise funds to endow Hillel. In January, Shelley newspapers. She is returned to campus to teach a module of the first woman to Management Basics for the Center for Work and Service. Interacting with students and alumnae from hold the title. Gracia different classes and being back on campus greatly started with the com- improved a bleak winter Shelley is still at Home pany in 1985 as an Box Office (after almost 24 years) and married to and psychiatrist/psychoanalyst Bob Fischel. Son Joe (a assistant treasurer junior at Wesleyan) is at the U of Melbourne this was the company's term. Daughter Eliana, 14, is dancing her way senior vice president of finance and through the eighth grade. '71ers' Mary Mottershead, Glenda Starr treasurer at the time of her promotion. Fishman, Ann O'Regan Keary, Susan Irving, Wendy Ader Edwards left Syracuse for the Big and Susanna Stevens Hamme gathered for Apple to become the clinical director of palliative brunch last August at Ann's home in medicine at St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Washington, D.C. Village (the "community hospital" for the Village artwork (including cast glass and mixed media) at and a major teaching affiliate of New York Medical the AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H., tax junk foods and exempt Holocaust survivors College). She is developing curricula and teaching last September and October. Sadly, her husband from paying income tax on reparations. [She] medical students and residents about end-of-life wrote to the College to say that she passed away wrote k new law to encourage counties to build care. Husband Tom is directing the bioengineering shortly after, on Nov. 24, 2002. Our deepest con- school partnerships by donating surplus comput- division of the Kessler Rehabilitation Institute in dolences to her family and friends. ers to chools." West Orange, N.J. Wendy is hoping to connect with In Hallowell, Maine, Diana Scully won a any alums in this new locale. YVONNE MIMs EVANs third three-year term on the school board. She Robin Straus is still a literary agent (her busi- 7900 SUNNYVALE LN. holds a master's degree in social work from the ness is celebrating its 20th year) and having great CHARLOTTE, NC 28210-6767 U of Michigan. "For the past 13 years, I have success with The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, a MAILl:1 973NoTE5 AUM.WEuLL.sEY.EDu been a self-employed consultant doing business charming mystery set in Botswana, and a Today RE U N IN Susan Roone as Vaptage Point, a name borrowed from a show book-of-the-month selection. Client Andrew Goodwin writes: Robert Frost poem." Diana has also been the Hacker has a new book called Mismatch: The "Life is good, though busy. The past part-time executive director of the Maine Indian Growing Gulf Between Women and Men, which two years were rough, as I dealt with TrihalLState Commission. Recent trips included Wellesley alumnae may find of interest. Robin's hus- first one parent dying and then the other both in those Io West Virginia, points West, China, and band, Joe Kanon, is working on his fourth novel; his their 90s.... I miss them terribly and found that the Mardi Gras in New Orleans with Julie Jackson. last, The Good German, was optioned by Warner Christmas season was really hard. Not having any Julie and her husband, Mark Wessman, have a Bros., with George Clooney starring and Steven parents made me feel like an orphan, and I felt as son, Kirk, and a daughter, Julia, who is a sopho- Soderbergh directing. Son David graduated in May though I'd lost all my traditions. . . . On the other more at Brown. from Washington U, St. Louis, and is looking for a side, however, I do appreciate having more time for In the nation's capital, Michele Tingling- job in public health. Michael, 18, is a freshman at my family and myself when I'm not dealing with Clemmons ran for the city council at-large seat. Oberlin. lawyers and trying to get their estates setded.... The Washington Post published a long list of Nan Roberts and her son, Brent Godfrey, are Does anyone out there relate to this? I'm sure there her activities, including PTA member, union living the single-parent/single-child life for a month, are others of you who are going through the same shop steward, newsletter editor, and co-founder as husband Mike Godfrey goes to Antarctica, ful- thing. Both my husband, Peter, and I are science of th'e George Washington Carver Tenants filling a lifelong dream to see the world of Sir Ernest teachers at Kent School. My 15-year-old son, Hunt, Association, and board member and past secre- Shackleton. The California budget crisis and other ... attends Kent as a day student. At least three of tary of the Capital Area Food Bank. Now a con- ancillary downturns all present great opportunities us are now on the same schedule! John is in seventh sultant, Michele took graduate courses at the to raise charitable funds for CSU Long Beach. grade at the local public school." City College of New York and the U of the Nina Macdonald's daughter, Taylor Wright, Julie Kaufman corrected a Palo Alto Weekly District of Columbia. The Common was accepted early decision at Kenyon College, a reporter who wrote an article titled "Wellesley Denoninator, an online publication, reported small liberal-arts college in Gambier, Ohio. Women's College." Julie's letter to the editor said, in that Michele is "the parent or step-parent of Ellen Maycock is spending a second glorious eight 'children, two of whom are still attending year in Paris, working on the manuscript Sally Goes D.C. public schools." Her objectives included to France, about her mother's junior year in France "restoration of an all-elected school board" and set- in 1938-39. The prewar tensions described in her ting up a system to "measure citizen satisfaction mother's letters are eerily similar to today's political with government operations." Michele was fourth turmoil. Participating in the Wellesley Club of in a field of nine, outspent by as much as 100 to one. France has affirmed Ellen's belief that attending "It wAs a most exhilarating and educational experi- Wellesley creates a lifetime connection with interest- ence. ! . .I fully plan to run again." ing and intelligent women. Son Alex, a junior at in January, Margi Reeve started a new job as Oberlin College who is studying in London this comrunications director at Otis College of Art and semester, comes over for periodic visits. Daughter Desigp in Los Angeles. Her work includes "every- Hilary, a junior in high school, lived in Paris last year thing from fine arts to toy design, as well as fashion and plans to return for the summer Next fall, Ellen and digital media." will return to teaching mathematics at DePauw U, Cynthia Chiennault hosted the Gainesville, Fla., where she has been named a University Professor Louise Egbert Treitman '74 and Muriel alumrae club's September tea for area high-school She hopes to continue dividing her time between Greenebaum Jorgensen '73 sang in the students entering Wellesley; and Ann O'Regan Keary Indiana and Paris. International Zimriyah choral festival in Israel on hosted a brunch last August (see photo above). Jeanne "Kira" Fournier had a show of her Oct. 31, 2002. Wellesley Spring 2003 61 University President & Barrel for four years is chief administrative President and CEO officer before her most rectat appointment. Prior to Kay McEver Norton '73 became the that, she worked at Amoco Corporation for nine Joan Wallace-Benjamin '75 was appointed president of the University of years. After leaving Wellesh y,she received a master's Northern president and CEO of the Home for Little from the U of Chicago. Sc mds as though Marsha Colorado in July 2002. She is the first has broken the glass ceiling) Wanderers. The Home is a private non- woman to hold the Andrea Kramer of l terion, Pa., is preparing profit child and family- position. Kay first girls to break the glass ceiling. She was reelected first service agency and is vice president of Girl Scouts of Southeastern came to the university one of the oldest Pennsylvania's board of di:ectors. In her day job, as a member of the she is the principal of the Liw Offices of Andrea R. child-welfare agen- board of trustees in Kramer cies in the nation. If you haven't alrercly done so, think of 1995. In 1998, she was Joan will be what you would like to co ntribute to our paper- heading selected as vice presi- less record book. Consider these questions: How up a staff of 1,000 dent and university did you spend your 50th birthday? How have employees who help - counsel; she was then you dealt with hot flashes? Are you a member of to provide services to the "sandwich generation '" If, so, how named secretary to the board of trustees are you handling it? Describe at rast three of the balls more than 10,000 children and families and vice president of university affairs. you are currently jugglingj What is your secret? each year. Joan previously served as the Kay practiced law for 22 years before Where were you and wl at were you doing at president and CEO of the Urban League 8:45 A.M EST on Sept. 11, 2001? assuming the university's presidency. of Massachusetts. We will have much to talk about in June. See you then. T part, "While Wellesley College has always been a ToyA HORN Hov/ARD Sweden, and one from France. It was magical! college for women ... the correct name is and has 526 D EAST321.o ST. Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Inc., has a new always been Wellesley College." You tell them, CHIcAGo, IL 60(16 executive director, Virginia "Genny" Price. Over the Julie! 47 past 25 years, Genny has held almost every job at 1 E-MAIL: [email protected] Susan Remnier Ryzewic is a contributing Bridge. Her expertise in working with runaway and author to the new book Wealthy & Wise: Secrets Sadly, Lynda Brugge's mot] er notified the College homeless youth is a well-known resource for other About Money The book shares practical advice and that Lynda died of cancer on Feb. 1, 2002. Our agencies. She has testified on the needs of at-risk real-life examples of money's opportunities and condolences to her family arid friends. youth before committees of both houses of the US risks. Each chapter is written by an expert in their On a brighter note, Yvonne Lyles moved Congress and for presidential commissions. In field. Susan's chapter is titled "Clearing the cross-country from Oregor to Maryland, arriving 1998, Genny attended the Harvard Kennedy Emotional Hurdles: How to Turn Wealth's just in time for the worst w nter in Maryland's his- School's program for mid-career professionals and Conflicts Into Opportunities." Proceeds and royal- tory. Yvonne has a new jo with Kaiser HMO in received her M.P.A. To unwind, Genny takes an ties from the book will be donated to the National internal medicine and is still adjusting to the cultural annual vacation to Jackson Hole, Wyo., and enjoys Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, which differences between the Pat fic Northwest and the scuba diving and horseback riding. Genny has a sig- teaches entrepreneurship to low-income teenagers. East Coast The move puts h.r closer to her daughter, nificant other with whom she enjoys a long-term Marsha Williams was named executive vice who is studying at Pratt. Bu the real reason for the relationship. president and chief financial officer of Equity Office upheaval is to be with bo) friend Arnold "Rahn" Honorary class member Mrs. G. Scott Properties Trust last summer Marsha was at Crate Bruhn, a clinical psycholog it. Rahn was Yvonne's Gillespie, affectionately known as "Mrs. G," died high-school English teacher They stayed in touch last December. In her honor, our class has estab- over the years and visited w ien he went to Oregon lished a memorial fund with the Wellesley Students' Communications to see his mom. Aid Society to be used for emergency loans to stu- Ambassador Sarah Blair Smith recontly moved from Red dents. Contact a class officer or the class web site for Bank to Neptune, NJ. It w is a big move; Sarah is more information. Janice Obuchowski '73 was appointed now living independently afi r an amicable divorce. She's only 10 minutes from the ocean, which pro- BETHHINcHLIFFE by President George W. Bush as the US vides a place to walk or r ieditate. Although she 24 BoULDERBRoOK RD. representative to the 2003 World enjoys her job as manager fc ; Sickles Market, a spe- WELLEsLEY,MA 02481-1144 cialty foods and garden cen r, Sarah's career is her Radiocommunication Conference, for OR daughters. She's very proud of how they've turned i7~ which she will carry JAMIESABINo out. The oldest, Lacey, has overcome many chal- 54 WEsTERN AvE. the rank of ambas- lenges stemming from a n alignant brain tumor CAMBRIDGE,MA 02139-3751 sador. The conference diagnosed while in grade sc tool. Lacey and family E-MAiu [email protected] survived the ordeal, but she takes place June 9 sas had lingering med- ical and physical problems, I acey will soon be grad- Writng from a snowy and bitterly cold Wellesley, through July 4 and uating from Lafayette Coll ge. Sarah's youngest, we're desperately looking forward to spring! will "consider specific Laney, a senior at St. Andrew's in Delaware, is (Remember how beautiful the campus always is, radiocommunication strongly considering Wellesl.:y. The family's motto with the daffodils and rhododendron .... ) is: "Don't waste the gifts i ou have because you Joan Darby's husband took a position with matters while ensuring don't know how long you'll -ave them." the World Intellectual Property Organization, a UN rational, equitable, Pamela Papas, who resi-les in California, didn't entity, so the family will be in Geneva for the next efficient, and economical use of the plan on spending her 50th, last July, in Houston. three years. She writes, "I spent the fall in intensive But a junior-high-school reu'ion was planned there French Classes and now expect to look for work. radio-frequency spectrum." Janice is around that time. What ma le it so special is that My son John, 15, and my daughter Anne, 11, are currently the president of Freedom Pamela grew up in Carcas, Venezuela, and both loving the intemational school. My son Peter, Technologies. attended an American school there until age 14. 18, is getting a taste of independence, as he stayed About 60 people showed :uip, flying in from all behind in Washington, D.C., to complete his final over the US, some from Venezuela, one from year of high school." 62 Wellesley spring 2003 Making Fortune's List and deputy director of ABCD Head Start. Top Businesswoman At the Venetian resort in Las Vegas, with Judith Gubala Boynton '76 was chosen Denise McGregor Armbrister and Carolyn Smiley- Elisabeth Hair DeMarse '76 was invited as one of the 50 most powerful interna- Robertson '76 in attendance, Pat Mell marned to join the Committee of 200, the con- Michael Steven Ragland, a doctor practicing in Fort federation of the world's foremost tional businesswomen by Fortune Scott, Kan. magazine. Judith is the chief financial Rachel Ritchie writes, "I am 50 and single and businesswomen. Elisabeth is the president officer of Royal unemployed and have no health insurance and am and CEO of Bankrate, interested to know if anyone else is in a similar Dutch/Shell Group, Inc., a public internet predicament. You can also mention the one-room the world's eighth apartment and the $800 car. Wellesley can stop company that pow- largest company. sending requests for money." ers Bankrate.com, a In 2001, Carolyn Kirschner Dufurrena and Based in Britain, she financial-advice site. "I her mother-in-law, Linda Dufurrena, published a am thrilled and grat- oversees every invest- book, Fifty Miles from Home: Riding the Long ment and spending Circle on a Nevada Family Ranch, which cele- ified to have been proposal for the com- brates the richness and reality of the multigener- asked to become ational ranch family. After graduate school, a member of this pany and is a vocal Carolyn moved to Nevada as a uranium participant at meetings of Shell's geologist for Exxon Minerals, then married important leadership organization," she committee of managing directors, rancher Tim Dufurrena. At first, the change was says. "I look forward to helping C200 guide difficult "because I had always had my own ac'cording to Fortune. Judith is the careers of the next generation of female separate career," but Carolyn says she started ranked 16th on the list. finding her identity through her writing. In time, corporate executives and entrepreneurs." ' I her published articles made her a voice for ranch ~~1 A families. The book, which took the women eight A letter from Nancy Simons appeared in years to create, combines Carolyn's poignant, Department for the next two years. This follows Newsweek, responding to the magazine's com- evocative essays with Linda's photographs of the two years at the US embassy in Moscow. Pamela ment that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton '69 stark beauty of the land they share and love. calls her new posting a "rough-and-ready outpost has "'reverted to the Wellesley coed she once of one of the world's most fascinating and impor- was." Nancy wrote, "If, as the article asserts, the tant countries." SANDRAPEDDIE Senator has advanced her career by shrewdly Sasha Norkin is a professor at BU, teaching 11 LoNGAcRE DR. exploiting the insecurities and immaturities of cer- broadcast and multimedia journalism to graduate HUrNNGTON, NY 11743-3923 tain senior male colleagues, why is it she who is students. In addition, she works as a consultant for OR portrayed as reverting to near adolescence? Palm Inc., maker of the world's most popular hand- 176 NORINA MosKowrrz SFEIR Morebver, as the Senator and thousands of other held devices, as director of online marketing and 5 Humr RD. Wellelley College alumnae can attest, the College business development. Daughters Taylor, 16, and SoME1R, NJ 08873-1715 was founded as a women's institution and has Kim, 13, keep her busy; and in the Time that's left E-MAIL:[email protected] remaiped so throughout its 127-year history. As over, Sasha manages to play tennis in a working such, it has educated a host of competent women, Mississippi Governor Ronnie Musgrove has named women's league. inclu4ing Senator Clinton and former Secretary of Thelma Woods Brittain the interim executive director Rebecca Harrington is executive director of State Madeleine [Korbel] Albright ['591, but has of the state's Department of Human Resources, the Leadership Institute, a national membership yet tolgraduate a single 'coed."' overseeing all federal and state programs for organization for senior health-care executives from Joan Wallace-Benjamin is the new CEO families, children, and the elderly. Lauded for her large provider systems. Becky cofounded the insti- and president of the Home for Little Wanderers in rapport with state lawmakers, Thelma said she felt tute, which is based in San Francisco, in 1992. She Bostoh. (See profile on previous page.) Previously, humbled by the promotion. She would love to hear has been able to tailor her hours so she has the flex- she ws president and CEO of the Urban League from Brenda King and Deidra Coleman. ibility she needs for her son, who is 13, and two of Massachusetts for 11 years; director of opera- Susan Beegel Tiffiey and husband Wes have daughters, who are 12 and 9. When she's not helping tions for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston; moved from Nantucket Island to Phippsburg, senior hospital executives throughout the country Maine. Susan is editor-in-chief of the Hemingway Review a scholarly journal co-published by the University of Idaho Press and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Susan does a lot of teaching, lecturing, and publishing in Hemingway studies and the field of 19th- and 20th- century Amencan literature in general. They found it wrenching to leave Nanucket after Wes' retirement as direc- tor of the UMass Field Station, but they both love coastal Maine. In her spare time, Susan trains therapy dogs. She takes them to nursing homes and adult day- care centers and says ifs wonderful to see a patient confined to a wheelchair and unable to talk smile like a child on Christmas morning when her dog Sumqier in Maine was the setting for a '75 mini- reunion last June, when dassmates (back) Judy approaches. Susan would love to hear A fall dinner at the Manhattan home of Elisabeth Hair DeMarse Phillips Robertson, Hilary- Bassett Wendy Collins from classmate Huntley Miller. '76 brought together classmates (back) Linda Ury Greenberg, Perdue; (front) Wendy Krum, Georgia Murphy Pamela Spraden has moved to Norma Moskowitz Sfeir, Sandra Peddie, Donna Stein, Geri Nicoll; Johnson, and Anne Snyder Hershbell enjoyed Vladivostok, Russia, to take up her duties (front) Patricia Bonis Turen, Cindy Luby, Camille Cozzone Rankin, Boothbay Harbor. as consul general there for the US State Donna Malin, and Elisabeth. Wetestey Sprng 2003 K63 plan strategy, she's able to attend things like teacher corporate existence was tasier than anticipated. conferences. Melissa is looking for a good finance professional; if Suzanne Davis, an assistant professor of piano you know a reliable one aking new customers, at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, has a new please contact her directly. jazz piano compact disc out called Hymn to Also looking for input is Helen Kriz Marshall, Freedom. If you ever want to catch her performing, web-site editor for http://iww.wbbm78O.com. If she appears regularly at Boston's Four Seasons Hotel. you are involved in web-site work, please contact Anna Spitz works at the Steward Observatory her at hkmarshallgmindspring.com. at the U of Arizona, focusing on the business angle Susan Leonard Repetti and Suki Kleihans of astronomy, like getting astronomy projects com- Flanagan and their respective families got together pleted and observatories built. At home, daughters in New Hampshire over de Martin Luther King, Rachel, 10, and Sarah Abei, 5, keep her running to Jr., holiday. With the overa >undance of snow, the vanous activities. children managed to extrica e themselves from elec- Please keep us posted on what's going on in tronic activities and actually enjoyed skating and your lives. Wellesley women never cease to astound! skiing. Suki has a new CD f her harp music. Claiming to feel like she lives in Lake Diane Baldwin '79, Frances Phillips EVA MotVANYo Wobegon, Mary Van An burg marvels at her Decker '80, and Cynthia Stong '60 gathered at Fran's home for a 2815 IRIANGTON DR. teenage children who ace athletic, musical, 7/ Florida Keys Christmas celebration. 7 PEARLANo, TX 77584-9127 good-looking, and have good grades. Mary and her [email protected] husband are still debating whence they came! senior vice president/loan officer of Camden In closing, Carole and I are on our way to (Maine) National Bank to market manager. In Calling all fans of our dear classmate and friend, California, where we will run the Napa Valley her new position, Jayne will be responsible for Yolette Garcia, who is on dialysis and (no sur- Marathon. The race is an ap etizer for our old-time management of the Belfast, Bucksport, and prise) still working at KERA, the public-radio favorite, the Boston Marathon, which we will run Union branches. Congratulations, Jayne. and television station in Dallas. She needs a kidney on Patriot's Day. Donna Divaric, we'll see you at The most recent book by Eleanor Pearson from a donor with 0 positive or negative blood, mile 22! DeLorme CE/DS '78, Josdphine: Napolion's as well as additional resources. This incredible Incomparable Empress, has been receiving rave Wellesley woman has given so much of herself to ANDY HEssENBtUCH MILLAGE reviews (see the winter issue of this magazine). She us and so many others-to lend a hand, please 1711 ELDRIDG AVE. has given lectures on it in New York, Chicago, and visit the web site created for Yolette BELLINGHAM, 'wfA 98225-2804 at Harvard; Eleanor has graciously agreed to pre- (http://www.kidneyfamilies.com) or call Judy E-MAIL: [email protected] sent a similar lecture at reunion. We look forward to Colenback Savage '79 at 401-751-7430. hearing her REUNION speak. Hot off the press: a birth notice from Sharon 89M 0 "America th. Beautiful" was writ- Jane Marum Roush, a Fairfax County Circuit Spaight, announcing the arrival of daughter Allison, ten in 1893 1 VKatharine Lee Bates judge since 1993, is presiding over the capital- born in 1996 (come on now, you all get busy too)! 1880 while o.s a trip to Pike's Peak, murder trial of Lee Boyd Malvo, the 17-year-old Sharon and husband Larry also have a son, Brian, Colo. Although many pro; osed melodies for the accused of the Washington, D.C., sniper shootings 10. Sharon is a 15-year veteran at Johnson & poem, it wasn't until 185 5 that Sam Ward, a last fall. A graduate of the U of Virginia law school, Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development. church organist from Newark, N.J., composed Jane's precedent-setting rulings have attracted She recently renewed ties with KC Lenahan Peddns the musical piece that we < low today. Ironically, national recognition. Although she has a reputation and is keen on hearing from Flory Papageorge the poet and composer nev.:r met. How's that for as a tough sentencing judge, Jane also is applauded Denhard (as are we all!). trivia? for being thorough, well-prepared, and fair. We Sally Larson Kleinman writes that her Jessyl Bradford, who i working hard on our wish her well on such a high-profile case. economic-consulting job was terminated. She is in reunion committee, sent in a brief update on many By the time this is in print, reunion will be her second year of a leadership-training course of our fellow classmates. Sadie Burton-Goss and her right around the comer What percentage of our through Hadassah and just back from a nine-day husband, Don Alexander widcomed a little one into incoming freshman class actually graduated? What trip to Israel "What an amazing country, an amazing their brood: Don Alexan let Loretta Hopkins percentage typically comes back for reunion? With people," she says. On Sally's immediate agenda is a Davenport's daughter, Leigh Andrea, is a freshman this being our 25th reunion, I hope that all of us can college search, which she is undertaking with her at Spelman College; husba'id Michael and sons make it back. See you on June 6! 17-year-old daughter Sally's other daughter, 13, is Matthew and Michael re= n at home so Loretta soon to have a bat mitzvah and will partake in won't be too lonely. Stephaiy Farr, with an M.D. TAMAA SUsAN NAsH an academic-enrichment program at Wellesley. from Temple U, is looking for work in the health- 444 KENSINGTONPARc DR. Also college bound is Susan Kaneb Peckitt's care field in the DC area. Tiscy Smith Brooks and AvoNDALE ESTATES,GA 30002-1774 son, Charlie, who seems intent on breaking his family continue to live in Hmpton, Va.; daughter E-MAIL 1979NoTESOALUM.WEUsLEY.EDU mother's heart by going far away. Not content to Milan is 5. i79 sit idle while the world writhes, Susan, Charlie, Maureen Footer recent! v joined the NYC inte- Spring greetings to you, Wellesley '79ers! Our 25th and younger son Steve took to the streets of rior design firm of Lorie R. Jones and Associates, reunion is only 13 months away, and I haven't Washington, D.C., to participate in several anti- Inc. Specializing in 18th-cenitury French interior heard from all of you. Many thanks to those brave war demonstrations. architecture and furniture, h.r recent projects have sisters who have shared their stories in print with Congratulations are due to Laura Smietanka included many exclusive ho, Lesin the greater New thousands of other Wellesley women and friends. Jensen whose book, Patriots, Settlers, and the York area and have been eatured in House & Two more of our classmates have stepped forward Origins of American Social Policy is to he published Garden, Town & Country and the New York so that our class-notes section will not be blank: this month. Laura is an assistant professor in the Times. Just think how wond :rful our dorm rooms Cynthia Adams Lun has returned to the political-science department at UMass. would have looked had we :ommissioned her 25 US after 22 years in England. She is divorced February finds Annie Spader Byerly rising to years ago! with two children and three dogs. Cynthia's new mothering, daughtering, and professional chal- Jayne Crosby Giles ha! been promoted from daughter is a junior premed student at Penn lenges. With a teenage daughter, a lonely mother in State, and her son is a 10th-grade student at poor health, and she herself facing unemployment, HAVE You CLICKED ON CLASs E-NoTES? Winchester Thurston in Carnegie, Pa. Cynthia is Annie did what every good challenged individual WANT TO FIND OUT WHAT YOU FRIENDSHAVE BEENUP "looking for work and feeling very much alien in would do-she agreed to lead a Girl Scout troop! TO BETWEENISSUES 0 WELLESLEY? my own country." If there are any Wellesley Melissa Weiksnar survived her first year of women CHECKOUT THE CiAsi E -NOTEs PAGEAT who can help her become acclimated, teaching math at an all-girls Catholic high school. her e-mail address is [email protected]. HTTP://www.WELLELEY.EDU AtUMI/CoMMUNITY. The transition to teaching after 25 years of Welcome back, Cynthia! 64 Wellesley Spring 2003 Paula Andrews Bowers-Hotvedt CE/DS'79 party favor Finally, in anticipation of the big is a weaver whose work has been accepted in reunion in 2005, please email Liz Ginsburg at national and international exhibitions. In the past [email protected] for information on organiz- two years, Paula has had work shown at the ing a mini-reunion in 2004 for '80ers in your area. Muset m of Art and Design in Atlanta; the Handweavers Guild of America International CAROLYNWwNEY BossERMAN Biennial Fashion Show in Vancouver, Canada; 1396 N. CLARIDGEWAY the Art Center in Palos Verdes, Calif.; and sev- CARMEL,IN 46032-4309 eral smaller exhibitions. Paula resides in E-MAU [email protected] Charlotte, Tern., and her e-mail address is 1 paula. ervanderbilt.edu. Cnngratulations, Paula! Hopefully by the time you receive this issue, That's all for now. Keep that information rspring bulbs will be poking through the soil (or flowing in this direction, Wellesley '79ers. What snow!), and the blizzards of this past winter will you'reldoing with your life personally and profes be a distant memory. Internet photos of snowfall sionally could help and inspire a fellow classmate in Boston brought back fond memories of the and other Wellesley women. I look forward to hear- blizzard of '78, when cafeteria trays served as ing froim you. Peace to you and your loved ones. sleds and the dorms were dishing out Spam by While visiting Louisville, Ky., last September, the end of the week. Katrina Gwinn '82 (right) ran into Martha We have an author in our midst! Last fail, Amy J.MARKoWITZ Terstegge Rivers '42 and Caroline Keller Lynch '55, 527 30TH ST. the Brattleboro IVt.] Reformer reported that two key players in Katrina's decision to go to Wellesley. SAN FRANCISCO,CA 94131-2201 Jessie Haas would be appearing at a Bellows E-MAIL:[email protected] Falls, Vt., bookstore for a reading, discussion, and book signing. Jessie is described as a political LUDMILA HALEPALASIN Elisabeth Villaume, the controller of Feeley & activist, lifelong Vermonter, and of course, a 690 FORTWAsHwmiooN Aw., APr 5M Driscoll, P.C., a Boston-based CPA and consulting graduate of Wellesley College! Her newest novel, f182rm(I NEw YoRK, NY 10040-3750 firm, has been appointed the president of the Shaper, follows more than a dozen titles for chil- E-MAl 1982NoTEQ5ALum.WEu5LEY.EDU Institute of Management Accountants, Boston dren and older readers. Her titles for children Chapt r, which has over 600 members. include Sugaring, No Foal Yet, Mowing, and Our class is doing some great things! On the politi- Maura Smith, vice president of development Hurry! Among a popular series of young novels cal front, Martha Dean is the Republican candidate and esternal affairs for the Women's Union, played about Lily and her mare, titles include Beware for attomey general in Connecticut. If you're in an integral role in the Union's 19th annual Amelia and Stogie; Be Well, Beware; A Blue for Connecticut and want to help her campaign, give Earhart Award Luncheon, raising over $360,000 to Beware; and Beware the Mare. Her titles for her a call. Renee Ridzon left the CDC and joined the benefit the Union's programs, including supportive older readers include Unbroken, My Parents' Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Duffey Asher is housing for battered women, job training, mentor- Story, Westminster West, Uncle Daney's Way, living in Athens with her husband, working on the ing, and advocacy for economic self-sufficiency. and Fire! organizing committee for the 2004 Olympics there. This year's honoree was Ruth J. Simmons, president Clare Urion McCully, executive director of Lisa Argrette Ahmad started her own gold jewelry of Brqwn and the first African-American woman to the Newton Schools Foundation, received the business; Alison Barnes is now representing another head in Ivy League school. National Philanthropy Day Award last artist named Victor lvanov, who is a world-class Tundi Agardy continues her lifelong love and December from the Massachusetts chapter of the hand-cutter of diamonds and precious stones; and comnitment to the world's oceans as a marine biol- Association of Funding Professionals. Her work Jennifer Jenkins Stewart has a new book coming ogist, consulting with governments (Canada, as a development professional is marked by the outr this fall called Think of It as an Adventure. Indonesia, Algeria, and Italy) to create protected highest levels of performance, both on behalf of Laura Dike-Miller reports that Kathy marine areas. She says that having three children the foundation and in service to the larger com- Mawhinney Anderson is now teaching in South only strengthens her resolve. munity. During Clare's tenure in Newton, annual Natick, Mass., and Ingrid Desilvestre, after spend- Our great admiration and congratulations go giving increased from $79,000, when she arrived ing the last four years in Spain as a NASA represen- to Jeni Phillips Nagode, who got her Ph.D. in neu- in 1997, to $250,000 in 2002. Her "competence tative, is now looking to relocate back to the US. rosciehce in February from the U of Minnesota, as a fund-raising professional" has also been Anne Vaughan McGuire is still working in the geo- having made the decision 10 years ago to embark proven by the increase in NSF endowments from science division at the U of Houston but is working on the long road through medical school and a doc- $400,000 to $1,200,000 over the same period. on starting a business breeding and training golden torate, program. Many outstanding reaching and learning projects retrievers. Stephanie Martin continues to excel in Susan Odencrantz, of South Portland, in Newton's schools have been made possible by her role as an attorney for the federal government in Maine, ran a well-organized but unfortunately this funding. DC and has been promoted again. unsuJ cessful write-in campaign for a seat in the Within two years of joining the Newton Martha Smith, along with many of us this Main' House of Representatives, after the origi- Schools Foundation, Clare had put her network- year, is waiting for spring to get back into the garden. nal c ndidate withdrew. ing and mentoring skills to work to create the She's a librarian at Elmira College and is doing her Andrea Hill Lohneiss is the executive direc- Massachusetts Education Foundation Association, first big conference presentation. Ellen Shadur is in tor ot the Community Development Agency in which now serves 40 active member communities Los Angeles working as an attorney. She recently Riverhead, N.Y. Since 1988, she has successfully from throughout the commonwealth. In the face married, became a mother to a little girl, and is received and administered grants to develop of recent severe budget reductions for education, working bard to balance her new family and work. everything from affordable housing to an aquar- education foundations are a unique and rapidly Jamie Russell Steinemann left the computer field ium. She's married to Bob (the same one from developing force in funding for public education and is now working for a historic theater and is feel- Welesley days) and has three girls: Heather, in and driving innovation and creativity in ing a tremendous sense of reward and fulfillment 12th'grade; Kristen, in 10th grade; and Sara, in Massachusetts. Congratulations, Clare, for a well- with the change. sixth'rade. deserved award! On a personal note, Clare reports On the travel and event front, Minka Gilson ,Although it is hard to believe, our 25th that her son is graduating from high school this vanBeuzekom attended the Nobel Prize awards in Reunion Planning Committee is already being spring, and her daughter will start driving this Sweden. Alexandra Hahn moved back to NYC formed. If you would he willing to serve in a job, big summer. from London and would love to get in touch with or sniall, at our 25th in 2005, please contact Liz In the next issue I would love to report on some local alumnae and reconnect. In an amazing Rowe Wilder at [email protected] and classmates serving in the armed forces, or those coincidence, Sallie Ballantine Bailey realized that she let her know your job preference, your geographic sending loved ones away to serve our country. My and Harshbeena Sahney Zaveri work for the same locatibo, and friends you might like to work with. next deadline is Sept. 1. Please send news, and enjoy company; Sallie is now planning a reunion in India We're thinking about red duct tape as our class the spring! on her next business trip. Wefesley Spring 2003 65 Honored Artist and then to New York in 2'04. Julia participated in a Miami show called Unexpected Selections, which Haydea Victoria Suescum '83 was invited received a good review frorai the Miami Herald.She to participate in the 50th Biennale is working hard on sculptu:e and video and teach- ing. Julia saw Caitlin McHugh in New York over Internazionale d'Arte-Venezia by the Christmas. Istituto Italo Latino Carola Haas has beer having fun with a baby Americano. The show in the house. Her daughter ist turned 1. Carola has spent 1 0 years on the runs from June 15 faculty of the wildlife program at Virginia Tech. She enjo) ; the work, but budget through November 2. cuts and general lack of put lic support for learning Three of Vicky's oil have made things challenglng. She enjoyed seeing classmates Kathy Watkins paintings will be in Virginia last summer and Mari Myer in Atlanta Ihst August. featured; the works Katherine Hutt Scott says that she and hus- "celebrate the human band Kevin had their first chdid, Lauren Eleanor, on Celebrating 40 fabulous years, '84 classmates inclination to pre- Oct. 31, 2001. Last fall they moved from Deborah Brody, Stacy Miller, Alison Curran Washington, D.C., to a house in Bethesda, Md. sume." She is currently Hashimoto, and Rhonda Gilbert gathered in Las Katherine continues to write for Gannett News Vegas on Oct. 5, 2002. a member of the adjunct faculty at San Service. Antonio College in San Antonio, Texas. Lauren Bonfield, aloi g with husband Steve noted. "Sometimes I think you have to just enjoy the Keyes and daughter Natalie, just moved to present and stop worrying about its effect on the L ,, Columbus, Ohio, from New York City. Katie future." She ran into Karen Doeblin Whetzle and Ballou, husband Kevin McCarthy, and son Bobby daughters in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., and moved to Woodstock, Vt. viary Luders Norris is remarked, "It was one of those 'wow!' moments. I Lots of reminders from the class that if you still in Guilford, Conn., v ith husband Kendrick hadn't seen her since we graduated and she still travel anywhere on the planet, check to see if a class- Norris, stepchildren, step grandchildren, and a looks the same-I find it hard to believe she's a mate is there! We seem to have lots of opportunities Great Dane named Grateful. Sara Nelson also lives mother now." to reconnect with classmates, no matter where you in the Guilford area. She's a I artner in an architecture Mani Ardalan Farhadi and family bought a go. For example, Sherry Labine Donovan was pass- firm. Mary also stays in toucb with Victoria Hayes in house in San Jose, Calif., where son Rodd is in sec- ing through Milan and had a great time with New York City, Victoria MacDonald in Tallahassee, ond grade, son Ryon in day care, and husband Madeleine Johnson Saravalle. They had lunch, and Fla., and Jane Flynn Tanisl idou in Athens. Shervin at Cisco. Mani works four days a week as Madeleine gave her lots of good inside info and Mary isn't the only cla smate with step-grand- an architect at the Steinberg Group. Turning 40 shopping tips that made that trip even more special. children. I have 5-year-old Emma! My husband spurred her to join a gym "for women only, in true Also, Madeleine is starting a creative-writing Gary and I went to Los An ;eles in January to visit Wellesley tradition!" Linda Beers is teaching strings group-get in touch if you want to join. Anyone Gary's daughter and her family, including Emma. I in the Simsbury, Conn., public schools. Barbara wanting to help organize or help in any way with had a great time in L.A., but I missed seeing Andrea Mather Cobb is teaching 17th-century English the 25th reunion, please contact Liz Bradt. Parra, because she was in N -w York defending her literature at Murray State U in Kentucky, having To subscribe to the monthly class e-newsletter, doctoral thesis. She told m. later that she passed. finished her Ph.D. in April 2001. Catherine Wilson Purple Prose, please send your e-mail address to Congratulations! Gillespie was recommended for a Fulbright in Ludmila Hale Palasin. Bahrain, but events in the Middle East make her trip ELLENSCORDATO unlikely. She also gave birth to Grafton William JANE HARRIs ASH 225 E.36T ST.,/'r. 6N Gillespie on Valentine's Day. 1205 REED RD. NEw YoRK, NY 1 016-3624 Sarah Lets-Smith is off active duty, back from DARTMOUTH, MA 02747-1569 i8,4E-MAIL1984NOTEI OALUM.WELLE5LEY.EDU Qatar, and home in Mesa, Ariz. Denise Benou Stires E-MAIL:1 983NOfEsOALUM.WELLELEY.EDU was named a "Woman to Watch" by AdAge.com. Ellen Berdy Greenberg, our reunion chair, had a She's executive vice president of global marketing Grace Toh wrote in with her "once huge, wonderful 40th-birthday party in spring and investor services at Nasdaq, where she's been every 10 years" update: Her hus- 2002. Anyone interested ir helping her with our since April 2001; previously she helped launch the band of 19 years (have we really huge, wonderful 20th reunion should get in touch DLJ Direct (now Harrisdirect) online brokerage. been out of Wellesley that long?) is Philip Wu, a with her at [email protected]. MaryAnn Gucciardi traveled from Hong Kong to naval architect/engineer Grace says she is blessed Melissa Bogen, an em rgency medical techni- the US in January. for skiing at Big Sky, Mont., and with three boys and a boy dog-Alex, 14; Victor, cian since 2000, has been president of the busy to visit sister Jeanne Gucciardi Emanuel'91 after the 10; Christopher, 8; and Prince (the dog), 4-born Chester, N.Y., Volunteer Aibulance Corp for the birth of her baby girl. Graciela Eleta Cacho is still on Alex's 10th birthday. Grace is still working, now past two years and also runs Bogen Editorial busy and loving it at the Hispanic unit of Procter & with Bank of America Private Bank. In her spare Services, her thriving medical-editing business. In Gamble, flying to Los Angeles, Miami, New York, time, she serves on the board of Friends of National late fall 2002, she joineo Nicole Sasson and and Chicago for events like the celebrity-studded Zoo, works for the local Financial Planning Deborah Rosenthal in the Dominican Republic, "Prerios L Nuestro" party in South Beach. She's Association chapter, and volunteers for the noii- where Nicki hosted friends celebrating their 40th in touch with Giannina Antola in Holland and nating committee of the Wellesley College Alumnae birthdays at her time share ir La Romana. I ran into Carla Ormsbee in New York, and would love to Association. There is little time for hobbies, but she Nicki, Deborah (who opene.l her own law practice hear from more '84s. tries to squeeze in wushu (martial arts) with Alex in Manhattan and Great Ni: k, specializing in cor- and is taking up piano again. Speaking of the nom- porate, real-estate, and trus: and estate law), and OLGA DANIELLE RIZK inating committee, Ellen Goldberg Luger has been Anna Bulkot, among othe s, at the New York 1815 JFK BLVD., AP. 624 nominated to be the next president of the Wellesley Wellesley Club holiday parr. An impromptu and 158PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103-1703 College Alumnae Association. Her term begins at hilarious Chinese dinner fo'lowed, reminding me E-MAIL:[email protected] reunion. that many Wellesley alum: ae are just friends I Julia Kunin sends news: Her work will be in haven't met yet. Anna lost her job at American Greetings from Philadelphia. As is usual this time an exhibition called The Triennial of Express in the economic aft, nath of Sept. 11 but of year, I haven't heard from many of you. For Contemporary Art and Design, opening June 18 was hired back-with a pro notion. Summer 2002 those of you who did share news, my thanks. If in Frankfurt, Germany, at the Museum of Applied found her in the Hamptons working on her tan. you're reading this and haven't submitted news Art and Design. The show will travel to Chicago "Had the best tan lines sirce the mid-80s," she this year yet, please look above to my e-mail 66 Wellesley Spring 2003 .A Eaith-Science Educator be traveling to Australia this summer to teach a Top Finance Executive I course entitled "Health Care and Human Rights." "Earth science is a giant puzzle," Speaking of Australia, I also communicated Pamela Geller '87 was named one of "40 with Patricia Akopiantz, who has been living in Chritine Kimball McLelland '86 says. Under 40" finance executives by Sydney for the past eight years with Aussie husband Andl she's helping students and and fellow FIBS grad Justin Punch. Patty and Justin Treasury & Risk Management magazine. other teachers put the pieces have two very active children, Alexandra, 3, and The magazine calls these executives together as the 2002-03 Geological Tom, 2. After a varied career in retail, fashion, and 'the young guns that consulting, Patty is now a non-executive director Society of America's Wall Street and while still doing some consulting. She invites anyone Subaru Distinguished who is passing through to give her a call. executive recruiters Earth Science Educator Sarah Dyar Gordon still lives in Chicago and expect one day to be Christine was selected enjoys it. Having spent many years traveling around with husband Ned while raising two children, she's among the next crop to act as "an educa- now been settled for two years, which seems like a of captains of indus- tor in residence [at long time. Sarah enjoys volunteering at her school try." Parela is the GSA], providing insight and is on the executive board of the Mothers Trust assistant treasurer at Foundation, a local group devoted to giving aid to and practical wisdom 1 - I underprivileged kids referred to them by social ser- Delphi Corp., a $27 gleaned from real vices agencies. Among others in her area, Sarah billion automotive supplier. She started class oom experience." In her new role, stays connected with Brigid Kennedy '86, Tracy at the company in 1997 as an assistant Saras '86, and Suzy Lebold. she is expanding web-based resources finance director. Hope to hear from you soon! Keep in touch! for earth-science teachers, as well as creating new and innovative lesson plans. LAuRA ZrNN FROMM Christine teaches at Englewood High 25 KNoLLwooD RD. Globalization and the Citizens Trade Campaign, V6 SHORTHiu.s, NJ 07078-2821 winning the major congressional fast track trade School in Englewood, Colo. E-MAIL: [email protected] vote, killing the pernicious MAI, the Seattle WTO Ministerial, several books, a marriage, a divorce, By the time you read this, I hope we are deep into buying and restoring an old DC row house) that it spring. Hot or cold, it has been a season of seemed like too much to catch up. Even took the address and write to me with your updates! change: new babies, new houses, new jobs, and traditional picture of all of the Wellesley women at The class sends its deepest condolences to the new marriages. the wedding, but never got around to sending it, family of Donna Jamison, our class president, who Brigitte Leopold Frankel and Craig welcomed although I did save that photo when I threw out the passed away on March 5, after a three-year battle Leslie Sophia on Oct. 6, 2002. She joins older husband!" with colon cancer. Her husband, Michael, says the brother Eric, 2. Brigitte is on leave from A.T. Beverly Sobehnan and Stuart have been family is handling the loss well. "We have a strong Kearney, where she is a management consultant. "happily-if unconventionally-married since support group consisting of family and friends," he Shelley Hartman and Marcos Caro welcomed August 2000. 1 reused my dress from my first wed- wnites. Miguel on Oct. 24,2002. He joins sister Sophia, 3 V2. ding, but this time wore it hiked up in front with I received a note from Mary Teresa Giancoli, Shelley returned to work as a managing director in gold lam6 hot pants under it. I encouraged the who is a photo editor and photographer She and investment banking at Goldman Sachs in March. guests to wear their old bridesmaid dresses, and husba'nd Cristian Pena live in Queens, N.Y. Cofleen Shine and Marcus Luepke welcomed many of them took me up on it, including most of Recently, Mary Teresa presented a show in Queens Chiara Sophie on Dec. 2, 2002. The family lives in the men." After 18 years in the software business, Theater in the Park, called Pan, Tortillas y la Familia Munich, Germany. Laurie Steiner and Nuri wel- Beverly is retiring. "I'm planning to do a lot of from New York to Puebla. Mary Teresa also had a comed Gabriel on Feb. 19. Catherine Campbell's yoga, catch up on projects around the house, and solo show called Mexican Lives, Mexican Rituals, daughter, Nora, was born in June 2002. Catherine do a bit of traveling while I figure out what my with 70 prints at the University Autonoma runs the Parkway Speakeasy Theater with her next move is." Metropolitana in Mexico City. She is planning to husband, Kyle. contitiue her work in Mexico on this project Goldman Sachs awarded Sally Saltzbart BEmsYDAY ScHMITr throuh the New York Foundation for the Arts Minier the firm's Citizenship and Diversity Award 961 PLEAsANT HiLL RD. Fiscal| Sponsorship Program. Mary Teresa's work for her efforts in recruiting, mentoring, and estab- REDWOOD Cry, CA 94061-1130 has been traveling around the country: from lishing the women's network 8 7 in her division. E-MAIL:[email protected] Buffalo, N.Y., to the Carlsbad Museum in Lori Dreischmeier renovated her townhouse New Mexico. Some work is found on a web in Santa Monica, Calif., and held a housewarming After Sept. 11, 2001, Kimberly Dozier went to site curated by fellow Wellesley alum Sharla party attended by Susan Komisaruk and Laurie Pakistan and Afghanistan, looking for bin Laden on Bailey '73: http://www.biddingtons.com/content Steiner. Lori has lived in LA. since 1990. She bone-jarring mountain roads, while living in mud /creativegiancoli.html. worked as a digital artist in visual effects for five huts. Upon return to London, she left CBS Radio Maria E. Recalde has some exciting news on years and as a project manager at an event-branding London to open a Mideast bureau in Jerusalem for the career and family fronts: Last fall, she joined the company. She is now looking for an L.A.-based CBS's New York affiliate, Channel 2. She will make New Hampshire firm of Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & management, marketing, or sales position with a occasional appearances on the network. Kimberly Green', P.A., as a shareholder and director in charge jewelry/cosmeticl fashion company. Over the new won a third American Women in Radio and of opening the Boston office. Maria practices in the year, Lori visited Joanna Golden, her husband Television award for her Afghan coverage. areas pf intellectual property, e-commerce, general Doug, and their children: Sloane, 6; Tavish, 5; Lisa Bogan had twin boys, Stephen and corporate and complex business litigation. On the Javey, 3; and Breton, 1,in Coral Gables, Fla. Joanna Benjamin, on April 4, 2002, and moved to home front, Maria has a toddler, Robert, who was is a parmer in a commercial real-estate firm. Ridgefield, Conn., last July. While the first few bom in June 2001 and who makes sure that Maria Lori Wallach is director of Public Citizen's months with the boys were exhausting, things are keeps her priorities straight! Global Trade Watch in Washington, D.C. She apol- becoming more manageable. She is neither practic- Sharona Hoffman lives in Cleveland and ogizes for not writing sooner: "So much had hap- ing law nor creating art at the moment but hopes to works as an assistant professor of law at Case pened (working for a congressman, ABC News, do both again someday. Western Reserve. Among other honors, Sharon has Harvard Law School, hooking up with Ralph Anne Driscoll St. Peter's 2-year-old daughter, received an honorary appointment as a senior fel- Nader, founding a new division at Public Citizen, Claire, has a charming little brother, William, who low in the U of Melbourne's faculty of law and will helping to create the International Forum on was born on June 11, 2002. Anne continues to 'Wellesley Spring 2003 ) 67 work as a senior partner at Fleishman-Hillard, in had a baby girl, Josephine R, bin, on Aug. 6, 2002. Schattinger Buchan, and Jill Dalby Ellison met in the biotechnology/healthcare practice. She says After years of wor at the Smithsonian Antigua for a week of swimming, snorkeling, golf, being a nursing mother and trying to find an appro- Institution Sadder Gallery Chee-Yun Lilian Kwon croquet, and tubing. Caroline, Sarah, and Lisa also priate place to "pump" in an airport between flights gave birth to her daughter, soyoung, in November rode "the big banana" while Jill watched. is quite stress-producing! 1994. She has been living in eoul for the past seven Leah Porter and husband Curt had a daugh- Jennifer Svahn and husband Jeff welcomed their years, teaching at Korean rniversities for the past ter, Madeleine, on Nov. 5, 2002. Leah is leading a second son, Benjamin Karl Nicastro, on June 21, three. Chee-Yun serves as pi isident of the Wellesley marketing team at Avery-Dennison in Los Angeles. 2002. Big brother Jack is 23 months his senior They club in Seoul. Inspired by their experiences at reunion, are busy with continued renovation of their town- Peggy Dooley e-mailetd from Paris, where she Nina Kaufman and Miriam Gosnell Murphy house in Brooklyn Heights, NY, and Jennifer contin- was spending a couple of ra nths and met up with reached out to class of '87 alums in all of New ues to be busy with her vascular-surgery practice. Anissa Bouziane, who is traveling between France, York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, to hold a Liz Morefield Schoepke had Rhys Erik, on Morocco, and the States while working on a book. "mini-shindig" on Oct. 27, 2002. Hosted in Sept. 13, 2002 (a Friday). He joins brother Justin, Katharine Mitchell wote from Cary, N.C., Miriam's breathtaking new Manhattan apart- 2'b. Liz is giving up independent management/envi- that she and Michael Sca etta were married at ment, the gathering also featured Sarajane Brittis, ronmental consulting until both kids can nap at the Kiawah Island, S.C., on Jul) 5, 2002. She is work- Lisa Schineller, and Virginia Bennett. same time but she is loving the "time out" from a pro- ing at Progress Energy in telecommunications. Thanks again for all of the great news. Please fessional life. Liz wrote that Beth Rothiman Zucker Sarah Barnes, Caroline Carey, Lisa keep it coming! STEPHANIE HULL '88 Where Single-Sex Education-andFifth Graders-Count FiFTH GRADERS HAVE A WAY OF MAKING THEMSELVES HEARD. Just ask College in 1992. But she had "administrative desires-a way of doing Stephanie Hull'88, who recently received a sheaf of letters from a group a good thing on a broader scale" and won a position as Dartmouth's of young New Yorkers. What they had on their minds, she says, came assistant dean of the college. through loud and clear: At Mount Holyoke, Stephanie manages relations with the institu- Their cafeteria serves pretty good food, but it can get so crowded tion's board of trustees and is involved in crisis management. She has that they can't find seats. Their school halls are so noisy. They even told also been crucial in developing and implementing Mount Holyoke's her it was OK that she isn't a New Yorker-she'll fit in with them any- strategic plans. It's a role that focuses on the "operational future of the way. But most of all, Stephanie says, these fifth-graders wanted to make college," she says. sure she understood one thing: "We love this place. It's not broken, so But Stephanie has also had to act as an advocate for single-sex edu- don't feel compelled to fix it." cation and to be "invested in the successful future of women's colleges." "This place" is the Brearley School, a venerable 118-year-old inde- She explains: "The liberal arts are challenged today. People [try to] pendent girls' school in Manhattan. Stephanie understand their meaning or value in terms of takes over as the 14th head of school there in the dollar. It's a niche market already, and July, leaving a career in higher education. She women's colleges are just one booth in a bou- laughs as she tells of the exuberance of the let- tique market. But they have something won- ters and speaks excitedly about the girls she I,derful. ( They can be life-changing for the right encountered while visiting the school. person. ... We need to empower students to "They were fabulous-together, orga- talk about it constructively: What do nized, intelligent," Stephanie says. "I could [women's college graduates} have that others feel the excitement about learning as I walked don't?" through the halls. There was a sense of cama- Stephanie's answer to that question raderie, and they seemed so excited to be comes from her experience at Wellesley. "I learning together. I knew I wanted that job as internalized certain assumptions about what soon as I walked in." women can do. I didn't have to struggle or A cold call from a search firm led her to fight. It was a foregone conclusion that an apply for the Brearley post. Assistant to the intelligent woman could succeed if she president, secretary of the college, and adjunct worked hard." assistant professor of French at Mount Fifteen years out of Wellesley, Stephanie Holyoke College since 1998, Stephanie says speaks with the air of someone who has suc- she had been thinking about next steps, "for ceeded. She is scholarly, elegantly articulate, example, what it would be like to be head of and hip-all at the same time. She can shift a school. Would I be seen as having any cred- fluently from a discussion of academic priori- ibility?" She had even considered creating a charter school, but "as I ties to MTV and pop culture. In graduate school, she once wrote a talked to [the search firm] about the school, it seemed clearer and clear- paper comparing Petrarchan poetics to hip-hop music-and found a er that this [might be my chance.]" receptive ear in her professor. Fashion theory and images of women in The school, for its part, was looking for "an intellectual with a pas- music videos fascinate her as much as 18th-century French novels. sionate commitment to women's education and to maintaining This mixture-as well as her "personal integrity and charisma"- Brearley's great tradition of educational excellence." But they also caught Brearley's attention. And the appointment of a relative outsider sought someone with extensive administrative experience to handle the has garnered praise from the press. "It is incidental, but also encourag- intricacies of management, fund-raising, and strategic planning. ing, that Ms. Hull is Brearley's first African-American headmistress," Stephanie had the goods. After earning a Ph.D. at Harvard in wrote the New York Observer. "As she sharpens students' minds, she romance languages and literature and writing a dissertation on cinematic will likely broaden them as well. It's not surprising that Brearley may be representations of 18th-century French literature, she landed a tenure- the finest school in the country." track position teaching French and women's studies at Dartmouth It's enough to make a group of Brearley fifth graders cheer. 68 Wellesley Spring 2003 DONNA M. ANDERSON 2427 101ST AVE., NE challenging but ultimately rewarding, especially as January 2002 to director. As the COO of LAKE STEVENS,WA 98258-8470 she is living close to family and friends once again. Controllers IT, she is responsible for the financial Elizabeth Hoyt has been health of a 400-person division with an annual bud- SEMAIL:[email protected] hired as a part-time church administrator for the Vineyard Church of get of $90 million. She enjoys her work and finds REUNI c Hi, all! To start, I have a msage from Hopkinton, Mass. the environment stimulating and rewarding. Dana Rudolph, our reunion chair I's Lisa Martinez Wobnart was named a partner Jenny Crooks Odlum writes, "After more hard to believe, but our 15th reunion in the firm of Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch LLP, than 10 years in Vermont, George's (MIT '87, will beiJune 6-8! Please join your classmates for a fun- where she is responsible for managing all phases of Wellesley coed '87) career forced a relocation to filled wekend to reconnect, reaffirm, and rejoic. The complex commercial litigation. Lisa currently Dutchess County, N.Y. I left two major volunteer last da to register with the College is May 23. Go to resides in Randolph, N.J. positions in Vermont, including the helm of the http://www.wellesely.edu/Alurn/Reunion. Hope to Moira Shanahan, a gynecologic surgeon, is a Vermont Wellesley Club. I swear that it was much see yoh there! key member of the women's healthcare team at harder to 'give notice' for both of these jobs than Barbara Caliendo Wiese lives in San Diego Central Maine Medical Center in Lwiston, Maine. any paid position I have ever left. George, with Lier husband, Erik, and their six (yes, six!) Moira attended Dartmouth College Medical School Chapman (3), and I got into our new home in children. Last August, son Reagan joined sisters and did her residency at Women and Infants Red Hook, N.Y., a week before Thanksgiving and Jessica, 10; Mary, 6; Kaidyn, 4; Laura, 18 months; Hospital of Rhode Island. had exactly two weeks to settle in before our second and biother Jared, 8. Barbara would love to hear Finally, Kathryn Deputat CF/DS '88 is child, Molly Elizabeth, was bom. She arnived quickly, from dumnae in the area, as well as anyone passing employed as a "teacher and clarity consultant." She in a big snowstorm on Dec. 5,2002. Thanks to our throuh Southern California. facilitates authentic expression in life and writing, a AWD car with great snow tires, at least we made it e Ann Anderson McCall and her husband, career that has nourished her for the past 13 years. to the hospital! Seems like every year we hope it will Duke) had a baby girl, April Lizette, on Sept. 14, Thanks to everyone who sent in news. be a calm one. Perhaps 2003 is finally time." 2002.iLee Ann is already preparing her husband for Kris Kelly writes, "I love my 30s! I don't know if other women in our class are experiencing the the fa&t that April will attend Wellesley-assuming, KARKA JAMESRASBERRY same feelings, but I finally feel like I have an inter- of codrse, that she wants to! 120 NORTHIBENDDR., Apr. K esting career, plus a relationship with my spouse that Lisa Sargeant bought a two-bedroom cape in CHARLcTrE, NC 28262-2439 in sustains me. We never manage to have milk in the Framigham, Mass., after 12 years of renting OR 898 house, but I guess something has to give and having Somerville. She is enjoying the challenges of LEAHCHIAVAco SHULDINER a stocked pantry is something I gave up on long ago. owning a house but wishes Wellesley had offered 9 JEREMYHIL. RD. Bay evening classes in plumbing and carpentry! Pamela Salerno PELHAM,NH 03076-2108 I love being a member of the West study group. We are a group of ladies from our 20s and hbr parmer, Stephanie, also joined the ranks of E-MAIL: [email protected] Framingham homeowners and bought their first to 80s who get together on a monthly basis to dis- home. Robin Johnston married Adam Bridgeman Tweedy cuss a selected book. They make me feel like I can Catherine Christensen married J. Arjun on Nov. 4, 2002, in Santa Fe, N.M. Robin is a tackle any difficult situation." Prabhu on June 1, 2002. Catherine worked as a senior associate at Isaacson Miller Inc., an executive software engineer at IBM for several years and is search firm in Boston. CHRIsTINE R. PIERCE now fursuing a career in teaching and coaching. Jeannie Park completed her M.P.I.A. at 9 (J 8107 PALM ST. She also volunteers for the Special Olympics. She UC, San Diego in June 2003. She has two LEMON GROVE, CA 91945-3029 lives ih Palo Alto, Calif. daughters, ages 4 and 2. E-MAIL:[email protected] usan Weed, her husband, Alexis, and their Rebecca Warren is now a senior project two Idaughters, Kathleen and Emily, reside in manager in the technology group at Gerty Images. Tara Woods married Mike Stout in July 1992. They Brussels. In the last year, Susan was promoted and "It's a great company, and I can walk to work! had their first son, Jordan, in December 1998, and led the acquisition of some significant audit man- (Can't beat that for a commute.)" their second, Phoenix, in April 2001. Tara lived in dates I for PricewaterhouseCoopers. She plans to Kim Ohkagawa McIntyre left the corpo- Somerville, Mass., from graduation until last June, attend reunion in June. rate world after 10 years as a sports-marketing when they picked up and moved to San Jose, Calif. In 2001, Rebecca Rogers left her private legal specialist and moved from Dallas to Cape Cod After enjoying visiting major sites across the coun- practile and joined the staff of Self-Help, one of the in March 1999. She and her husband started a try, they finally arrived in San Jose, after two weeks nation's leading community-development financial bed and breakfast called Chapoquoit Inn and of driving separate cars. Promptly, Mike found a job institutions, based in Durham, N.C. She is a have a 3-year-old boy named Brennan. (See in Southern California; he is commuting back and commercial-loan officer working primarily with http://www.chapoquoit.com.) forth while they try to buy a home near Rancho nonprofit and human-service organizations in low- Alex Montenegro Loria joined CSFB full time Palos Verdes. Tara is at home full time with the chil- income and rural communities. She finds the change in 1999 as a vice president and was promoted in dren and is actively writing. She has completed two _T 77- V Leah 1Chiavacci '89 and Chris Shuldiner were married on Oct. 13, 2002, in Wellesleyites living in Brussels gathered at the home of Drue Neel Glauber '90 Boston. Celebrating with the couple were friends (back) George Odium, last July. Attending were (back) Anna Ferrard-Zeiders '91, Anne Ferrard-Zeiders Michelle Pierce '91, Martina Arndt '91, Sarah Bridges Sheldon '97, Peggy '90, Marjorie Schmelzer Chenu '68, Mimi Armstrong '62, Keira Holland '94, O'connell '90, Joanne Attridge '89, Kris Jacobsen '89; (front)Jennifer Crooks Donatella Soria (Slater Fellow'74), Lucy Webster '79; (front) Carolyn Osterwalder Odlun '89, Kris Bogen '89, and Pamela Miller '89. Collignon '98, Rebecca Weaver '94, Deanne Shearer 75, Drue, and Susan Weed '88. Wellesley Spring 2003 K69 would 'Forty Under 40' love to hear from ot ier classmates traveling and relocated to Hong Kong to join Shanghai Tang or living in Hong Kong, as director of business development. Sophia Shaw Siskel '91 was named one Joyce Anagnos arrar,,;ed a very enjoyable Stephanie Geller wed William Pyne (U of of "Forty Under 40" by Crain's Chicago Davis Museum tour of Wcmen Who Ruled. Ten Rhode Island '89) on Oct. 12, 2002, on the big class of '90ers attended on Nov. Business. The list highlights 40 rising 23, 2002. island of Hawaii, with Anne Blood (living in Annette Kim recently accepted a professor Medford, Mass.) as maid-of-honor. Stephanie has a stars in the Chicago business world who position at MIT in urban planning. She started master's from Harvard's Graduate School of are under the age of teaching in January. Education and works at Health Care, a grant pro- 40. Sophia is the gram based at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island. ALESsANDRANicrA ROsE At their post-honeymoon party, Stephanie director of exhibi- celebrated 109 APPLEBYDR with Anne, Emily Meyer Bowles, and Jessica tions and education BEDFORD,NY 10506-1341 Nemer '90. While in Los Angeles on business, at the Field Museum [19'I E-MAIL:[email protected] Stephanie saw Kate Bedard Kraus and Laura Gammill in Chicago. She has Marahrens, whose son, Kai, was bom on Kate Bedard Kraus grad nted from the U of Dec. 31, 2002. Kai is tall like his mother, already 26 degrees in art history Chicago Law School, clerked for Judge Easterbrook inches at 8 weeks! from Wellesley and of the Seventh Circuit, and n oved to Los Angeles to Wellesley-in-Aix-ers Lauren Leeman, Chitra be a tax lawyer. On Sept. the University of 2, .002, she and husband Satyaprasad Mills, Nicole Wolf, Christine Per, a physicist at UCLA, we comed daughter Stella Nuwayser, and Elizabeth Croll convened in January Chicago, as well as an M.B.A. from Margaret. to rehash cherished memories of Aix and life since, Northwestern's Kellogg School of Robin Sparkman an I husband Howard Chitra is getting recertified to teach French. Lauren Management. Understanding art as well Robbins had Charlotte Spariman Robbins on Oct. works at a law office. Nicole is in marketing at 18, 2002, three weeks e irher than expected. Boston's Gentle Giant Moving Company. Christine as commerce has helped Sophia manage Charlotte is thriving! The, live in Manhattan, is a senior editor at a dot-com endeavor, and a staff of 100 and an annual budget of where Robin is editor-in-chie: of CorporateCounsel Elizabeth is searching for her next career move. $10 million. magazine. Chitra's daughter Jaya accompanied the group- Pia Norman Thompso tand husband Jim had Wellesley class of 2025? a wonderful Thanksgiving 'ith the birth of their Cheers! son, Soren Frederik, on Nov. 24,2002. screenplays and is working on a third. Tara hopes Alice Bradley writes " had me a baby! (We JEsssCACHMuRA KILEY the move to the Los Angeles area will connect her had us a baby ... husband 'cott Rosann did have PO Box 427 more with the writing world. something to do with this.) I lenry Jacob was born MooDUs, CT 06469-0427 Jeanette Chan married Stephen Fung in Hong on Oct. 7, 2002. It was a fast: delivery (almost gave 192 E-MAIL: [email protected] Kong in May 1999. They now live in the Forest birth on the West Side High- vay), but life has been Heights section of NYC. far less dramatic since. I'm ta Wenesley Spring 2003 71 son, Nathaniel Elliott Coo>er, on Dec. 16, 2002. reports Tynn Avery is also writing creatively (for fun) I hope that this spring ssue finds you enjoying and technically (for a living). Tyrin is writing user your bliss and thinking about what the next 30 manuals for a software company outside Boston; IT years will hold for all of us.... managers the world over sing her praises when they urge their clients to RTM (read the manual). DAPHNEMATAI NE As I write this, reservist Marian Leonardo is in 400 E.85m ST,Aer. 5D Fort Bragg, NC., awaiting further instructions from NEw YoRr, NY 10028-6321 her commander-in-chief. (In March, we learned that E-MAIL: [email protected] Marian was deployed with psy-ops forces. We wish 196 her a safe and speedy return.) Girlfriends! It's been a heinois winter, but spring has And on a final, somber note, we all raised to be in the air someplace, doesn't it? How did I a glass last night to Kate Aquila, who was in a manage to miss global wariing? very serious accident while skiing in February, Before we get into am thing else, a note from She suffered a severe spinal injury and faces a the Department of Correct ns and Clarifications: long and difficult recovery period. Kate had On Sept. 21, 2002, Christina Lo '95 married "Last summer, I wrote in th.at while I was pregnant just finished the first year of the M.B.A. pro- Jarrad Techico in Arlington, Va. Attending the with my daughter, Diva, I was living out my Keith gram at U of Chicago, along with good friends event were (back) Nancy Payson O'Brien '59, Richards fantasies by continaing to play rock guitar Laura Jun and Cheryl Cortez, who will keep her Jennifer Yan '95, Benay Bubar '95, Ivy Tsui '97, in small nightclubs around New York City," says spirits up while she recuperates at Chicago's Odyll Santos '92, Jean Kim '96; (front) Peggy Shani Evans. In the hard-rocking sense, Shani is Hospital for Rehabilitation. More than ever, Chen Lau '95, the bride, Judy Sang '97, and absolutely on par with Keith, but in the smoking Kate needs to Sasha Weleber '95. hear from you, '96ers. So drop and drinking department, not a chance-despite her a line through the "thoughts for Kate" link at local magazines and will be teaching a course at a what my joke in theLst colum aseemed to imply. Shaim http:/gsbwww.uchicago.edu/student/gb/kateaqila. writer's workshop. writes, "Just to clarify: We a re drug-free vegetarians hmil. Since spring is a time for renewal, let's all Eve Diamond wrote from San Francisco: She who rock hard at any chanci: and love our (brilliant pitch in and demonstrate what a powerful enjoyed a ride on the dot-com roller coaster, then and gorgeous) daughter de ply, fiercely, and con- community of women we are. quit her job and traveled solo throughout Indonesia sciously." Don't miss the picture of Shani, partner Be well, classmates. Support all your sisters and Southeastern Australia. Now she is back in the Brandy Stanfill, and their swi t daughter Diva below. this spring, and for crying out loud, tell me about it! US, working at one of the oldest and largest non- Hannah Vogler's annual Mardi Gras bash profit AIDS programs at UCSE She is the program was held in frosty NYC in March. Madame ADRIENNEMURPHY SPELKER manager for the education unit and has found the Secretary knocked back a few hurricanes with 4 WALco-rr ST. work very challenging and equally rewarding. rising star Joy Styles, who's about to make her NArTcKMA 01760-5833 Of course, our friends continue to walk down small-screen debut on La' & Order: Criminal E-MAIL: [email protected] the aisle! Jennifer Rogers, who is a business news Intent. You'll all be thrilled to hear she's not por i97 reporter and producer for CNNfn, married Robert traying a murder victim: Su;eet-faced Joy plays a Greetings, Wellesley class of 1997! 1 hope this mes- Carlock (Harvard), a writer for Friends, in San kindhearted nurse with five lines! When not taping sage finds you all happy and healthy, wherever you Francisco on New Year's Eve. TV shows in New York, joy is revolutionizing may be. . Christina Lo married Jarrad Techico last Nashville, where she hopes to become the nation's I received word from Jenny Bowen that she September in the Washington, D.C., area with many first black country star. It's a >out time, no? gave birth to a baby girl named Maggie on July 25, Wellesley friends in attendance (see photo above). Fellow thespian Laura Allen can be seen now 2002. Congratulations, Jenny! Ayami Nakao and Patrick Pelata are happy and again in TV commercia s (don't knock it--the Katherine Swan wrote to say that she grad- to announce the birth of their identical-twin money's green). But Laura's biggest news is her star uated from Georgetown Law School in daughters, Zoe Ai and Chloe Arni. They were turn-filmed right beneath the good old Galen December 2002 and returned to Colorado to born on May 4, 2002, at St. Luke's Hospital in Stone Tower-alongsideJulir Roberts in Mona Lisa take the bar exam in February. In spring 2003, Tokyo. Christen Cupples and her husband, Smile. It opens this fall at a r iultiplex near you! I'm she is starting a judicial clerkship with the Mark, are happy to announce the birth of their sure all my fellow art-histonr majors will flock to Honorable Wiley Daniel, a federal judge for the support Laura, and to snicke; at the thought of Julia District of Columbia. Roberts lecturing in Jewett alongside women as I received word that Zoe Robbins married awe-inspiringly smart as Pat Berman. Or Margaret Keith Tenney (U of Denver) in Sedgwick, Maine, on Carroll. Or Alice Friedman. ihould I go on? Sept. 7, 2002. Joy Hilgendorf and Hun Ohm Other revelers at Hannh's fiesta included Cori (Amherst) married in March 2002 in New York. Gabbard, who's finishing up an M.FA. in creative Joy is working as an editor for WH. Freeman, a col- writing (a lot like Madame S.cretary's job when she lege text publisher in New York. doesn't hear from you) at Cit U of New York. She's Also celebrating nuptials is Carissa Pilar also brushing up her Sophoc as and teaching under- Gonzalez Leventis Cox, who was married in a civil graduate literature courses, which she loves. Cori ceremony on Jan. 5 and plans to have a wedding t Carey Meyers '95 married Stephen Kane on Aug. 31, 2002, at her parents' home in Washington, Conn. The celebration was attended by (back) Ava Lena Waldman '95, Tonya Langford '95, Caroline Bookhout '94, Carey Kim Heckscher Decker '94, Sarah Merkel'93, Amy Amold'94, Aimee Delevett '95; (front) Michelle Park '94, Katie Fletcher '95. Before: In August 2002, Well sley friends Brandy Stanfill '96, Jassmine Braxton '97, Sherice Cole '95, Joy Styles Barbara Mensch '76, Caroline Wells '95, and Sasha '96, Shani Evans '96, and Mona Ramos '95 gathered for Brandy and Shani's baby shower. And after: Shani Weleber '95. and Brandy show off Diva St anfill-Evans, bom in September 2002. 72 Weliesley Spring 2003 -I Vayram Nyadroh. Shana graduated three years ago with a master's in public policy from the U of Chicago. She is currently working for Deloitte & Touche's public-sector consulting group. Susan Morrison was married in November 2002 to Peter Singer (Princeton '97). In attendance were fellow classmates Susan Archambault, Catherine Cho, Karen Duncan, and Nathalie Marchand Kerezsi. Despite being a busy newlywed, Sue has been instrumental in helping the class executive board create and launch its new class page (available soon through the Wellesley alumnae web site). On a personal note, I graduated with an M.B.A. from the Olin School of Management at Babson in May. I was also recently promoted to Aisa Aiyer '98 and Karen Young '97 visited Machu senior business analyst at the Harvard Business Picchu together in July 2002. Review. Now that I am finished with school, I am planning to take cooking courses and some Home September to visit Shannon, Meredith, and Alice Karen'Young '97 married Aaron Belenberg in Depot classes. I'm looking forward to having my Marwick, who was in town from Seattle; the fol- Charleston, S.C., on Sept. 1, 2002. Celebrating life back! lowing month Alice and Jamie Lin '99 visited with the couple were Jill Young Burnett, Dana Please keep the updates coming! Joanna in New Mexico. Joanna is Captaris Mishoe, Caroline Langsdorf '98, Asha Clayton- MediaLing's sole software/web trainer and she's Niedeiman '98, Caroline Wright '98, Samantha CHRISTINEHRUL also developing her programming skills with hopes Dohery '98, Christina Bresani '98, Samantha AFr. 2 of moving into a field-engineering group. Cescau '98, Aisa Aiyer '98, Carilyn Sparks'97, and 1622 MAssAcHUsETrs AvE., Jennifer Clarkson and Tripp Killin were mar- Stephenie Turgeon. CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138 198 E-MAit [email protected] ried in her parents' garden on a rainy autumn day. ceremny in Charleston, S.C., in May. Attendants included matron of honor Renee Rt Rebecca Newcomb Homan received her N ION Greetings! I received only a few Sobelman Fittler, who traveled all the way from Ph.D. Iin biology from Tufts on Dec. 5, 2002. yC updates this time around, but each Sydney, Australia, and bridesmaids Adriana Alba Rebecca is currently living in Charlottesville, Va., was packed with interesting news. and Barbara Chin. Among the guests were Suzanna with her husband, Daniel, and son Nathaniel. Liany Arroyo recently accepted a position at the Gill, Jane Goodman Sweet '46, and Jane Busteed The Boothbay [Maine] Register reports that National Council of La Raza (NCLR) in Atlanta, Farnham '34. Tripp and Jennifer took a three-day Emily: Colbunn Thompson recently received a Ga., as project coordinator She was previously a driving tour of New England, during which they National Semiconductor "Internet Innovator public-health educator for the Cobb County Board stayed at the Wellesley Inn and walked around Lake Award." Emily is currently teaching fourth grade at of Health. NCLR decided to open an office in Waban, before heading hack to New Mexico. A Wiscasset Primary School in Maine. The award rec- Atlanta to address the needs of the emerging Latino three-week European honeymoon is planned for ognzes Emily's work with her class in creating "The community in the Southeast, and the position gives this September. They're currently living in Invention Connection," a project for which each Liany the opportunity to combine her interests in Albuquerque, N.M., with new Australian Shepherd student designed and built an invention that was research and advocacy. adoprees Bondi and Cook. then displayed on his/her own web site with photos, After several years in San Francisco working Christy Smith has moved back to the Boston diagrams, log excerpts, and videos. for telecom company Captaris MediaLing, Joanna area from Rochester, N.Y., and is now working Lisa Chau recently began graduate work at La Forte moved to Albuquerque, N.M., to be closer with filmmaker Ellen Grossman on a documen- Dartniouth. Lisa also recently finished working to her family and raise her daughter Wellesley alums tary on sustainable farming practices. She is also with author Barbara D'Amato on the novel White Shannon Tubbs, Meredith Fenton, and Tabitha working at Harvard's Graduate School of Male IInfant, which was published last year and Lundberg were all at the hospital in San Francisco to Education, studying language acquisition by includes Lisa within its list of acknowledgements. welcome Bella Carmen into the world on Nov. 7, school-age children from Spanish-speaking homes. Our class vice president, Shana 2001. New mom Joanna writes, "It is amazing to In Rochester, Christy worked for a program that Whitehead, wrote to say that she was married watch a child grow from a lovely, sleepy little sweet helped resettle Cuban refugees. in Cliicago in July 2002 to Charlie Parekh pea into an active, exploring, problem-solving, affec- Please remember to check out the Alumnae (Col ate). In attendance were classmates tionate person!" Joanna also bought a house and Association's web site, where you can post photos Kathl een Sewall, Katherine Swan, Elisabeth has been playing soccer in a women's league, deco- and updates of all kinds for all Wellesley alums to Osbor Chase, Sandy Chang, Catherine Cho, rating, gardening, and enjoying life in Albuquerque. view-so far it looks like our class has made the best Renuka Vajrakarur, Abigail Pelham, and Joanna and Bella returned to San Francisco last use of the site, so keep it up! I 01 On Jude 15, 2002, Karen Lyter '98 married Benjamin Hidalgo (MIT '97) inthe It was a June wedding for Jennifer Yeung '98 and Minh Dao. Friends Christine Hrul groonms hometown of Thomson, Ill. VWllesley dassrnates celebrating with the '98, Karen Lyter Hidalgo '98, Anne Keller '99, Alison U Chung '73, Susie Cha '98, Ada coupletnduded Jennifer Yeung Dao, Christine Hrul, Ada Lu, and Jennifer Hsieh. Uu'98, and Suzanne Haydon '00 traveled to Chicago to celebrate with the couple. Wellesley Sprinq 2003 -13 World Cup. They now reside in Santa Barbara, Calif. Molly Ray von Mitscike Collande was mar- ried on Sept. 28, 2002, in Nashville, Tenn. Many Wellesley alumnae were in attendance to help cele- brate. Molly is now living in Germany and working as a communications manager for Microsoft GmbH. (See photo below.) Kathryn Pollino and Yoshihisa Kenneth Amano were married in Wellesley last summer Kathryn is now working a; a business analyst at '99 classmates Kim Bigelow, Danielle Corke, Fidelity Investments, and the couple resides in Dawn Meehan, Jennifer Grigoraitis, Mary Arlington, Mass. (See photo below.) Wellesley friends Diana Perry '99, Sarah Joblin Campbell, and Diana Perry gathered in Mystic, In other wedding news, Jennifer Grigoraitis '99, Dawn Meehan '99, Jen Grigoraitis '99, Conn., for Jennifer's wedding to Bill Kreamer on was married to William Kr amer on Oct. 5, 2002, Diba Daneshrad '98, and Kim Bigelow '99 met Oct. 5, 2002. in Mystic Seaport, Conn. (See photo at left.) Jen is in Boston for brunch last summer. now living in Boston and werking as a development ERIKA WIu.Acv coordinator for the Office of the Massachusetts 2000. This time around, congratulations are in order 1801 BALDWIN AVE. Attorney General. for several of our classmates! ANN ARBOR, MI 48104-4486 Also in Boston is Catalina Saenz, who was fea- The Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association E--MAtL:[email protected] tured in an article in the Anerican School Board honored Rebecca Warren with the Eleanor E Horvitz Journal in November 2002. The article discussed Award for her paper on the revitalized Newport Hello '99ers! I hope this latest installment of class Catalina's work as a si :h-grade mathematics Jewish community in 1902. Currently, Rebecca notes finds you well. A small note: By the time you teacher at Roxbury Prep, a 155-student charter teaches middle school in Roxbury, Mass., and is get this issue, we will be approximately one year school in Boston, with many students coming from completing a master's in teaching at Tufts. away from our five-year reunion. I hope that you all disadvantaged backgrounds The sixth graders in Elizabeth Eisenhardt was accepted at are gearing up because it promises to be a very fun the school have done extrt rely well, earning the Dartmouth Medical School, where she is in her sec- event. Now, on to the news. . .. highest scores of any predor inantly black school in ond semester. Elizabeth spent the last two years I was able to catch up with Kavitha Nair dur- Boston on the state's mathematics assessment, and working for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates ing her visit to Ann Arbor, Mich., to see Bonnie the fourth-highest score in d e city overall. in Boston. Since leaving Wellesley, Elizabeth has also Lipton. Joyce Tong also joined us for drinks, and we Last, but not least, Susan Yun Lee has joined participated in the Northeast AIDS ride and trav- all had an excellent time catching up on the "old" the environmental law dep :rtment of Fulbright & eled to Peru to hike the Inca trail to Machu Picchu. Wellesley days and marveling at how quickly our Jaworki LLP in Los Angeles. Susan is an associate in Evelyn Bricklin married Robert Marsh (MIT five-year reunion is approaching. Kavitha is the office and will focus on tigation matters. '98) on July 27, 2002, in Philadelphia. (See picture currently living in Connecticut and working in New That's all for this tin ,. Keep sending those on page 75.) From her description of the event, it is York City, although she travels extensively as a updates in! I look forward t hearing from you. clear that "there was a pretty big Wellesley contin- consultant for Deloitte & Touche. Bonnie is here at gent" at the wedding: Bridesmaids included the U of Michigan School of Public Health (with BERNADETTELYJ cH Elizabeth David, Rachael Lerner, Kristy Young '01, me) and Joyce is at Michigan's law school. 3508 COLFAX / VE.S., No. 203 Jessica Dunsmore '01, and Elizabeth Elder-Groebe On May 26, 2002, Gina Vickery married MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55408-4055 '01. Wellesley friends in attendance included Zara Clayton-Niederman in a beautiful ceremony E-MAIL:2000No [email protected] Stephanie Lueckel, Amanda Scaer, Marisa in El Dorado, Ariz. Many Wellesley women were in rO Buchanan '01, Marissa Reibstein '01, Brooke attendance, including Haidee Lee, Karma Comella, I hope that by the time these notes are printed, I will Rogers '01, Catherine Kwon '01, Jodi Mika Desiree "Desi" Bliss, Kara Detwiller, Anna Ford, have thawed out here in M- neapolis and those of Miller '01, Sarah Beam '02, and Emma Page'02. The and Kate Supnik '05. After the wedding, the couple you on the East Coast will ive dug yourselves out couple has since moved to Boston, where Evie trans- went on an extended honeymoon to Memphis, from under the snow. As alvays, there continues to ferred to the second-year class at Tufts Medical Tenn.; Kauai, Hawaii; and Chejudo, Korea, for the be exciting news to report os behalf of the class of School. She is happy to be back in Boston and is vj Kathryn Pollino '99 married Ken Amano on Aug. 31, 2002. Attending Molly Ray '99 and Constantin von Mitschke Collande traveled from Munich to the celebration were (back) Dawn Meehan '99, Johanna Daugherty get maried in her hometown of Nashville, Tenn., on Sept. 28, 2002. Attending '00, Kristina Lund '99; (middle) Kim Bigelow '99, Wallis Wilkinson '01, the event were Wellesley friends Marielle Yohe '99, Megan Lederer '99, Ann Christina Lord, Stacey Schamber '99, the bride, Susannah Eastlake- Hintzm in '99, Nina Davis '99, Laura Stirk '99, Laura Dart '99, Amy Beltz Stimac Wade '99, Helena Hwang '01; (front) Kathryn Kingsland '99, Jess '99, H. lki Spidle '99, Nicole Kucine '99, Margaret Clemens '00, Sheila Brown '99, and Emily Hoffman '00. Ravendiran '00, and Lila Kanner '99. 74 Wellesley Spring 2003 Ann Kim '00 wed Andrew Moon on Aug. 3, 2002, in New Jersey. Surrounding Judith Scott '00 married Kyle Clayton (Harvard '00) on Aug. 24, 2002, in the couple were bridesmaids Anice Kim, Gina Hahn '00, Bora Lee '00, Michelle Indianapolis. Celebrating with the couple were the aunt of the bride Judith Scott Oh '99, and Elizabeth Kim '00. 71, Sarah Miller '00, Syma Mirza '00, Becky Warren '00, and Emily Colt '02. looking forward to starting rotations in the fall. ERIKAL. REiELD the photo of Peace Corps volunteers Bronwen Deborah Jakubowski married Christopher 82 PEARsoN AvE., Apr. 1 Bromberger, Cristi Carlstead, and Hilary Heuler Russ (Wentworth Institute '01) on Sept. 28, 2002. SoMERVUE, MA 02144-2200 below. Cristi and Hilary both teach math in Guinea, The couple lives in Boston, where Deborah works E-MAIL:[email protected] while Bronwen is a health volunteer in Senegal full time at Brigham and Women's Hospital while That's all for this issue, but keep the news coming! also pursuing a master's degree in biology at ri1Those green forms we sent you are still trickling in. Your classmates love hearing from you. Northeastern. Carrie Loughlin and Meg Scheffler Laura Thornton is pursuing a master's degree in both attended the wedding, and Deborah reports architectural history at the U of Virginia. She enjoys ALEXANDRADUNNE-BRYANT that both are "doing great in their first year at their this program much more than architectural design, 347 WINNOW CT. respective medical schools." the field in which she started. Rachel Mann is work- V)2 SUNBURY,OH 43074 Finally, Christianne Klein sent an update ing as a rabbi's assistant at Congregation Kehillath E-MAIL:2002N0TEsALUM.wELLESLEY.EDU from Salt Lake City. You may have seen Israel in Brookline, Mass. Christianne as a panelist on the show Politically Los Angeles finds Anna "Mickey" Rios Ah, spring: that most wonderful time of year I hope Incorrect with Bill Maher. She appeared twice in working as a research and marketing analyst for these class notes bring spring flowers and warm 2001: first alongside Kevin Nealon, Michelle UNIVISION, Spanish-language television. Last weather, unless you have had flowers and warm Phillips, and Jay McGraw, and then with Alec November, Nelly Haghighats experience with Enron weather all year, in which case, send some up north Baldwin, Frank Bruni, and Michael McKean. was featured in the FinancalTnes. According to the for the rest of us! After graduating from Wellesley, Christianne article, Nelly has now returned to Massachusetts. Abigail Moncrieff is currently in Geneva, went to work for an NBC affiliate in Northern Nearly a year has passed since the wedding of Switzerland, on a Fulbright fellowship and notes California as their main evening anchor. In July Sarah Land and Eric Werner (Wesleyan '00), but I that she's spending most of her free time skiing in 2002, she moved to Salt Lake City, where she is am still pleased to wish them much happiness in the Alps. "I've applied to law schools to start in the now the weekend anchor and reporter for the their new life together Lauren Faria '03, Marie fall of 2003 and have been accepted to Georgetown, CBS-owned and operated station KUTV. Giancarlo, and Morgan Russell were among the Texas, Northwestern, and Chicago," she says. "I'm Although our column is full nearly every bridesmaids at the June 15 ceremony on Nantucket. still waiting to hear from Yale, Stanford, Columbia, quarter, there are still hundreds of you out there Sarah is a candidate for a master's degree in English and Berkeley. If you're at all affiliated with any of whom I have not heard from! Please continue to education from Teacher's College of Columbia, those schools and have any advice for me, drop me send in news about yourself and your friends to and Eric is studying industrial design, and is a reviewer a line!" Speaking of Berkeley law school, lily Blue help us all keep up with each other. for X-Box magazine. The Werners currently live in mentioned that she started there last fall. Larchmont, N.Y. On Oct. 5, 2002, Margaret "Megan" Brisch married Christopher Hanna- ford in Burlington, Mass. In attendance were Kate Philla, Jaime Vander Velde, Lisa McReynolds '00, Kate Benson Musler, Mary Donegan, and Elizah McLaughlin '97. Megan is a research associate for Fidelity Investments. Best wishes to the couple. Please join me in con- grarularing Ann Sanders Marshburn '02 and her hus- band, Tom. On Oct. 26, 2002, they welcomed Grace into Evelyn Bricklin '00 married Robert Marsh on July 27, 2002 in Philadelphia Elizabeth Marshburn Attending the event were: (back) Marissa Reibstein '01, Elizabeth David '00, the world. Ann predicts that Stephanie Lueckel '00, Amanda Scaer '00, the bride, Kristy Young 01 Jessica their baby daughter is "a Dunsmore '01, Brooke Rogers '01, Catherine Kwon '01, Sarah Beam '02. future Wellesley woman for 2001 classmates Cristi Carlstead, Hilary Heuler, and (front) Rachael Lerner '00, Elizabeth Elder-Groebe '01, Jodi Mika Miller '01, sure!" Bronwen Bromberger met for Christmas 2002 Emma Page '02, and Marisa Buchanan '01. Finally, take a look at in St. Louis, Senegal. Wetlesley sorin 20o3 s hit our class hard. I've received many queries several smaller exhibitions. from young alums asking for advice on finding From Portland, Maine, Rosamond Cook jobs and internships. While I can't print those Becker writes that although she considers herself requests, I'd like to direct young and experienced retired, she works part time as a resident advisor in alumnae to the job-opportunities message board a half-way house for chemically dependent women. in the online alumnae community found at She is also an ombudsman for a local nursing home http://www.wellesleyedu/Alim. and volunteers in political activities. Another reminder about our classscrapbook: I Dahna Chandler ('95) reports that her son, a hope you1l send me clipping: and information about high-school senioi has returned from boarding school your achievements-persorna, professional, or other- to live with her And although Dahna has relaunched wise. I look forward to hearir about them. Please also her business, Epifany Communications Group, she note my new address at the rip of this column; home- says that being a mom isstill her favorite job. ownership is only slightly less scary than graduation! Denise Fort ('91) sends greetings from Wellesley women Gagan Khera '98, Maggie Please send me all the iews and greetings fit to Virginia, where she and her husband share a Rivage-Seul '02, Edna Novak '02, and Jodie print and to scrapbook! house with their senior-citizen cat, Zipper. Denise Michalski '02 found each other while working at is a financial advisor with American Express and the Teach for America Summer Institute in CLARE SHAw encourages her clients to focus on what's finan- Houston. 29 FORESTSr. cially sound for them. She takes advantage of her last In the issue, I mentioned some of the numer- MEDHELD, MA 02052-3301 proximity to Washington, D.C., by visiting the ous '02ers at Yale. E, Well, Annette Lienau will be start- E-MAJLCEDSN [email protected] Smithsonian and the many galleries in the area. She ing a comparative-literature doctoral program there is vice president of fund-raising for the Washington this fall. Annette has been in Paris since graduation, A warm note of appreciation to those of you who Wellesley club and is active on the admissions taking courses with a teaching fellowship. She's plan- sent in your news on the porcards included in your committee interviewing prospective students. ning to study Indonesian, Arabic, and Francophone birthday cards. Whether you're writing from Despite a modified radical mastectomy, literatures and looks forward to hearing from other Wellesley or from Wellingtrn, we are delighted to followed by chemo and radiation therapy, Jan Wellesley women in New Haven. She also notes that hear from you. Please keep up! Lewis Eckert ('85) states that, overall, life is she would love to hear from classmates. Paula Andrews Bowers-Hotvedt ('79) is good. Jan would be willing to talk with anyone Elizabeth Blue is working at Insurance Auto working as a weaver and, in the past two years, has facing a similar prospect, to offer coping tech- Auction in North Carolina, where she was offered had work shown at the Museum of Art and niques, or just shed light on what to expect. a permanent position as a customer-service repre- Design in Atlanta, the Hi dweavers Guild of We extend our heartfelt condolences to Bev sentative and title clerk after one month of tempo- America's international h ennial fashion show Murphy ('93), who lost her beloved husband, Bill, rary employment there. in Vancouver, Canada, aad the Palos Verdes last November. Sympathy, too, to the family of Ruth It appears that the depressed economy has Art Center in California. b he has also shown in Moynihan ('89), who died on Oct. 11, 2002. Letters Continued from page 3 concerned about the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System doing; encourages them to work harder toward a concrete goal; focuses (MCAS) and the federal "No Child Left Behind" legislation (NCLB). r.,sources where they are needed; and signals to legislatures whether their Allow me to say a few words on behalf of both programs. iavestments in education are making a difference. Testing enjoys strong bipartisan support. President Bill Clinton pro- Diane Silvers Ravitch '60 posed a voluntary national test of reading and mathematics, which did not Brooklyn, N. Y pass, and President George W Bush advocated the NCLB program, which L eatty responds: did. Both were concerned about the low performance of American high- 1 hanks for your comments on our interview. We both agree that the stakes school students on international assessments and the poor preparation of are high, and they've gotten higher As of March 2003, 90 percent of seniors many young people for postsecondary education and the modem workplace. ii'Massachusetts have passed the MCAS, up from 68 percent when they The NCLB law, endorsed by large majorities of both parties, requires t ok it two years ago. An impressive achievement, indeed. But look at who states to test children in reading and math in grades three through eight and d dn't pass-almost a quarter of African-American students, about a third to disaggregate the results for demographic groups. To qualify for federal of Hispanics, a third of students with special needs, and large numbers of funds, states and school districts are expected to improve performance for su-idents from lower-income backgrounds-just the students who will most all groups. This pressure has already encouraged many districts to devote n -ed a diploma to get a job. Now the really hard work begins, to get the additional resources to minority students and low-income students, the very n ediest, most "at-risk" students over this academic hurdle. students who are often "left behind." This will require more effort and more funding, at a time when state MCAS is the best state testing program in the nation. It consists of chal- b idgets are imploding because of the plunge in revenues from capital-gains lenging math problems and questions about literature. (MCAS includes taxes. Most school districts, especially poorer districts that are more depen- better selections of literature than any current state or national test.) I d,nt on state aid, will be forced to fire teachers and increase class size. This reviewed the Massachusetts testing system as a member of an independent nay jeopardize the hard-earned gains the standards movement has helped audit team. In order to graduate, students have five chances to pass the c mte, just when we're starting to see some of the benefits. MCAS test in mathematics and in English, beginning in the 10th grade. And while there is broad-based support for state-level accountability Teachers in a suburban Boston high school told the audit team that most of masures, the bipartisan coalition behind the No Child Left Behind Act has their pupils passed on the first try, and the school targeted extra time and boken down over funding. Additional federal monies that were promised may resources on those who did not pass. With each administration of the test, not be there, because of the economy, tax cuts, homeland security, and the cost the number of nonpassers gets smaller, and the staff "focuses like a laser" to o. the war in Iraq. This will leave states with large, unfunded mandates, to, make sure that each and every one of them learns to solve math problems, ai aong other things, administer the additional testing required by NCLB. to read prose with comprehension, and to write essay answers. So now, more than ever the involvement of Wellesley students and Because of MCAS, the high-school diploma in Massachusetts repre- albims is needed in education at all levels, to help see us through the hard sents a solid achievement. Better still, the graduates are well prepared for col- tie ris that lie ahead. lege and for good technical jobs. Testing is not an end in itself; it triggers BarbaraBeatty other reforms by providing timely information, it tells students how they are Associate Professor of Education 76 Wellesley Spring 2003 MEMORIAM Elisabeth Kaiser Davis '32 1910-2003 WELLEsLEY is FORTUNATE to have so many the well-being of others at the forefront in alumnae who are exceptionally devoted to ways that revealed her generous spirit. the College. Few, however, exceed the ded- One memory of her involvement with the ication, interest, and continuing commit- board speaks clearly about how deeply she ment to Wellesley that Elisabeth "Lib" cared for the College, how closely she paid Kaiser Davis '32 exhibited over a span attention to detail, and how sensitive she of more than 70 years. She supported was to people. When Diana Chapman the College magnificently with her time, Walsh '66 was elected Wellesley's 12th her energy and intellect, her enthusiasm, president and was preparing to move into and her financial resources. the president's house, Lib was involved in Lib, who died on March 16, the redecoration and renovation of the served with great distinction on the residence. She was there almost every day, Wellesley College Board of Trustees watching over the progress with the from 1991 to 2001, when she was named interior designers and contractors. a trustee emerita. She contributed to When the house was finally finished, the work of a great number of trustee Diana and her husband, Chris, settled into committees, but her most intense interest their new life and new home. A week or so was with the Student Life Committee. after they moved in, the board met, and She cared deeply about the student we all were invited to the president's house experience at Wellesley. to take a look at the renovation. The living In 1989, at the time of the launching of the College's Campaign for room looked beautiful with new rugs, couches, and wood floor. But $150 Million, President Nannerl Overholser Keohane '61 sent Lib a Lib whispered to one of us that everything looked great, except that specific request regarding her participation in the campaign. Lib sent Diana hadn't yet made it her home. It needed photos and plants and back a very simple and straightforward response stating that she and her personal items that reflected Diana and Chris. She didn't want to say husband, Stanton, felt Wellesley's "needs were too important" and that that directly to Diana, but we got the word through. Diana was their gift would be double the size of the request! The Davises donated delighted to give that room a personal feeling, and Lib's comment $10 million to Wellesley through the educational foundation they had gave her permission to make the president's house her home. founded. At that time, it was the largest single gift in Wellesley's history When Lib was in her last term on the board, she was strug- and the largest ever received by a Seven Sisters college. gling to hear the conversation around the table at the board meet- Lib and Stan designated the use of their gift "where [it] would ings. She wasn't the only trustee who was having difficulty hear- make the most difference," most notably financial aid for continuing- ing the discussion, as the boardroom was large and the table was education students, restoration of the campus landscape, expansion of far flung. It was Lib, though, who suggested that we speak with the Science Center, and improvements to residence halls. microphones to facilitate everyone's ability to participate. Many In appreciation of her tremendous support of Wellesley's trustees expressed their gratitude for her suggestion. We continue continuing-education students, particularly in the areas of financial that tradition today. Lib always said what was on her mind, but aid and housing, the College named the program the Elisabeth Kaiser she always said it with sensitivity and caring. She found a way to Davis Degree Program in 1991. There are more than 750 alumnae make things happen quietly and often behind the scenes. who have graduated from the Continuing Education/Davis Scholar Lib's family was very important to her. She and her husband program at Wellesley since it began in 1971. had two daughters and a son, Peter. Lib was particularly thrilled Lib's interest and commitment to the College continued that she was able to share her deep affection for Wellesley with throughout her lifetime. She was also an active and consistent vol- her two daughters, Anne Davis Peterson '58 and Joan Davis unteer for the class of 1932, serving twice as class president. Her Wheeler '59. first five-year term began immediately following her graduation It was a great privilege for both of us to serve as chair of the and her second led up to her 60th reunion in 1992. Lib also served board of trustees at Wellesley during parts of Lib's service as a twice as chair of her class reunion and many times on the reunion trustee. She was a very special alumna who will be deeply missed. committee. In recognition of her loyal service to the College and to She will be remembered fondly in many ways, particularly through her class, the Wellesley College Alumnae Association awarded her the Davis Scholar program that she did so much to strengthen. its Serena Stackpole Award in 1997. Luella Gross Goldberg '58 Lib was a particularly thoughtful person, consistently placing Gail Heitler Kapper '65 Wellesley sprino2003 T "iEMORIAM I C_ 1918 Inma Friedlaender Schwartz Jan. 26,2003 1938 Edith Elliott Moore May 1, 2002 Irma Friedlaendcr Schwartz '18 died on Hilda Swett Creelman 1922 Ruth Dean Feb. 3,2003 Jan.21, 2003 Jan. 26, at the age of 106. Rebecca Turner Williams Nov. 23, 2002 A native of Columbus, Ga., she had 1924 Dorothy Dewing Battey April 27,2002 Gene White Gilbert Jan.22, 2003 lived in Milwaukee since her marriage to Gladys Fisher Graham March 23,2002 1939 Mary Bircher Schlager Feb.13,2003 Abraham Schwartz in 1923. Her Wellesley 1926 Constance Gilbert Greenman Jan. 20,2003 1940 Beth Bryson Powell Jan. 3,2003 education fostered a lifelong passion for Virginia M. Lewis Jan. 16,2003 learning 1927 Vivian Gummo Jan. 10, 2003 and especially for great books. Jean Runyon Holinger Dec. 13, 2002 1941 Martha Bieler Wysor Dec. 19,2002 Her remembrances from college days Nancy Bordon Mellmaa Dec. 20,2002 included Saturday trips to Boston for foot- 1928 Nancy Faulkner March 10,2002 M. Elizabeth Burk Pun hon Dec. 16,2002 ball games, the theater, and tea dances at M. Helen Peregrine Taylor Dec. 26,2002 Elizabeth Collier Dec. 30,2002 the Copley Plaza, as well as Monday- 1929 Grace Fearey Rathbone Dec. 26,2002 1942 Grace Homer Hagenbi ch Jan. 8, 2003 evening practices for the Mandolin Club. Mary Madison Miller Jan. 10, 2003 Jane Wolfe Hoffman Nov. 13,2002 Much to her chagrin, none of her Susan Shepherd Sweezy Oct. 14, 2002 1944 Adelaide Carter Gardnr Dec. 3,2002 three granddaughters attended Wellesley. Verna Irwin Marceau Jan. 3,2003 Irma was preceded in death by her husband 1930 Mabel Kirkbride Patterson Jan. 18,2003 1946 Sarah Binford Avery Dec. 17,2002 and two sons, all Barbara Schmuck Hall Dec. 13, 2002 physicians. Carol Wilson Hemandi z June 8,2001 Sarah Smith Nov. 4,2002 Anne Schwartz Marjorie Stone Reller Nov. 13, 2002 1947 Beryl Cosgrove Gates Feb.12,2003 M. Carolyn Glesmann Nov. 9,2002 Barbara Schmuck Hall '30 passed away on 1931 Betty Barrett Dillon March 22, 2002 M.L. Goodhue Cross May 26,2002 Dec. 13, 2002. She left us peacefully, with Frances Shennan Bond Feb.23,2003 Adele Rogerson Wynne Jan.29, 2003 the quiet dignity and grace that character- Ruth Wasby Feldman Jan. 11, 2003 1948 Nancy McLaughlin Eler June 11, 2002 ized her life. 1932 Hilda Bumpus Dec. 11, 2002 Jean Monteith DeGroa Feb. 19,2003 A quintessential Wellesley girl, she Mildred Harris Hillson Dec. 30,2002 Barbara Schaefer Dec. 26, 2002 shared her wit, her sense of humor, her Elisabeth Kaiser Davis March 16,2003 Elizabeth Weis Wilcox Dec. 26, 2002 concern for others, and her love of life Margaret Notman Nelson Feb. 4, 2003 1950 Mary Louise Woldenbe g Schwartau with all she met. She volunteered her time Elizabeth Prior Denis Dec. 7,2002 Feb. 16,2003 and talents tirelessly to the communities in Madeleine Rouse Whitcomb Jan. 17,2003 1951 Nancy Faust Bailey Nov. 12,2002 which she lived. Barbara's example defines Linda Schreiber Braidwood Jan. 15,2003 1952 Jane Anderson Wood Dec. 10, 2002 a standard that will be carried on by her Eleanor Baird Kristense.i 1933 Helen Seaton Preston Feb. 7,2003 Jan. 12,2003 son and daughter-in-law, her grandson and Marcia Braman Grosve sor Oct.21, 2002 his wife, and a great-granddaughter. 1934 Sarah Lawton Mansfield Dec. 14,2002 1953 Elizabeth Hurlbut Con nton Dec. 9,2002 John Hall Mildred Maher Morgan Feb.21,2003 1954 Grace Vogel Aldworth Nov. 16,2002 1935 Alice Ayers Morris Dec. 19,2002 Mary Lee Wood Dec. 9,2002 Mildred Harris Hillson '32 died on Dec. Eunice Barzynski Draper Jan.17,2003 1956 Irene Davenport Kruse Jan. 29,2003 30, 2002. She is survived by Henry, her Catherine Epstein Cutler Feb. 5,2003 R. Elaine Love Weiland Dec. 18, 2002 husband of 67 years; daughters Louise Tacey Hackstaff Gihon Oct. 30,2002 1957 Joan Leibo Greene June 1,2002 Hillson Werlin '61 and Jean Hillson Ellis Dorothy Virginia Rose Glidden March 1, 2003 1958 Nancy LongneckerHulbby Feb. 18,2003 '65; and three grandchildren. 1936 Dorothy Floyd Magnuson Dec.28, 2002 1959 Carol Brook Nov. 29,2002 Following graduation, Mildred Frances Forsdick Brooks Feb. 18,2003 1960 Judith Jekel Cienfuegos Oct. 22, 2002 taught English for many years in New Jane Fraser Mack Feb. 19, 2002 1963 Elizabeth Strachan Keer an Oct. 15,2002 York City and was active in community Pauline Belmont and cultural affairs, Gunsser March 15, 2003 1964 Valerie Raymond Hart Nov. 1,2002 both in Brooklyn and Marjorie Rahmann Odell Jan. 26, 2003 later in Connecticut. Mildred remem- 1965 Jeremie Lesser Olsen March 8,2003 Mary Raymond Jan. 16,2003 bered her Wellesley years fondly; her 1972 Jeanne Fournier Nov.24,2002 Ottilie Stoehr Neuss Nov. 10, 2002 studies there were instrumental in devel- 1974 Marion Willard Bell Nov. 10, 2002 Lynda Brugge Feb. 1, 2002 oping a lifelong love of art and music. She 1985 Donna Jamison March 5,2003 1937 A. Dorothy Burke Hayes Dec. 2,2002 was active in both the Brooklyn and GS Eleanor Lombard Nelsr Alice Burton Lentz March 17,2002 a Aug. 9,2002 Connecticut Wellesley clubs and especially Elinor Clark Shafer Dec. 12,2002 HP Katharine Howe Malon, Jan. 8,2002 enjoyed her Wellesley reunions, including Marion Martin Ketchum Dec. 6, 2002 MA Jessie June Burroway July 5, 2002 her 65th in 1997. Doris Mead Gates Dec. 23, 2002 Concetta Oliva Brucaro July 5, 2002 Jean Hillson Ellis '65 78 Wellesley Spring 2003 Alice Ayers Morris '35 passed away quietly, mother and remained active in community In 1975, Lucile, as consultant to at Friendship Village South Hills in affairs. She gave her family the same intel- Senator Kennedy's antitrust subcommittee, Pittsburgh, on Dec. 19, 2002. lectual commitment that her work and helped craft legislation that eventually freed What I remember most about my political concerns received. the airline and trucking industries of federal mother is her deep faith, her continued inter- Long a passionate advocate for control-a stunning reversal of regulatory est and curiosity in the world around her, her peace, Peggie was an early opponent of policy. Gentle, gracious Lucile Keyes was a belief in the goodness of people, and her the Vietnam war and a founder of the lioness in battle. Legenda had it right. strong desire for others to succeed. I have "Beyond War" initiative in New Sherley Heidenberg Koteen '40 learned from others how my quiet, unas- England. Full of zest for life, Peggy suming mother touched so many lives in trekked in the Himalayas, attended a Lois Jund '43 died on Nov. 19, 2002, in such meaningful ways. I thank Wellesley for royal wedding in Nepal, dodged hippos Sitka, Alaska, her home since her retire- its role in shaping and nurturing the early in Africa, and remained an intrepid sailor ment in 1988. character of this fine and unique woman. well into her 80s. Lois was a true "Wellesley daughter," Nancy Morris She is survived by her husband of 67 guided to minister by the ministrareof our years, three children, including Susan college motto. Her honors were many and Dorothy Virginia Rose Glidden '35 died on Odell Hand of Wellesley's Information her life was rich with friends, fun, hobbies, March 1. Systems/Library staff, and seven grandchil- travel, and her religious faith. To no avail, My dear mother was a lively and intel- dren, including Samantha Hand '89 and she once said, "I must constantly guard ligent woman who cared deeply about all Lindsley Hand Rice '93. against getting over-committed." living things. By nature, she was highly Susan Odell Hand Always sending an entry for our intuitive, compassionate, and disciplined. reunion record books, she sent an entry for Virginia's wide-ranging interests in educa- Gene White Gilbert '38 died on Jan. 22. our 60th-reunion record book in October tion, culture, and foreign affairs enor- She was a native of Matawan, N.J., 2002! More about Lois at reunion and mously enriched the lives of those who and after Wellesley (where for some reason afterwards, in class notes. benefited from her cultivation of ideas, we always called her Moe), she taught Eadie Bell Morales '43 knowledge, and opinion. Ever modest in high-school French and English in assessing her personal accomplishments, Matawan, Gene and her husband, John, Elizabeth Weis Wilcox '48 passed away on she nevertheless rejoiced in the accom- moved to California and lived there until Dec. 26, 2002, after a long illness. Betty plishments of others. Although one would John's death in 1979. For the rest of her and her husband, Frank, resided in never consider Mother a religious person life, she lived in Newport, N.H., where she Framingham, Mass., until 1981, when by any common standard-nothing about was active in the Congregational Church they moved to Wayland, Mass. her was common!-she held a highly and the Soo Nipi Quilters Guild. She loved Betty was active in the Wellesley spiritual view of life and her place in the New England and living near her three College Alumnae Association. She was universe. Our family adored her. daughters. Gene also had four grandchil- devoted to encouraging young women to Nanette Glidden Ryerson dren and two great-grandchildren. And- apply to Wellesley. She was an avid golfer, really important-she had a wonderful skier, and an accomplished sailor, spending Dorothy Floyd Magnuson '36 died on Dec. sense of humor. summer months sailing in Newport, R.I. 28, 2002, after an extended illness. Dorothy Nancy Whiton Stiles '38 Betty's love for the outdoors and gardening always spoke of Wellesley with pride; she will be remembered by family and friends. made many lasting friendships there. Lucile Sheppard Keyes '40 passed away on She is survived by her husband, Frank, She was a strong helpmate to her hus- Oct. 10, 2002. and daughter, Nancy. Her son, James, band, Paul, until his death in 1994. The After graduation, Lucile married her predeceased her in 1987. well-loved mother of five, Dorothy Wellesley beau, Arthur Keyes, then contin- Nancy Wilcox Dickerman instilled in her children a lifelong love of ued her studies at Harvard, earning a doc- learning and tolerance. She taught Sunday torate in economics. In the following years, Nancy Halverson Schless '50 died peace- school and served as president of the she became an influential voice in support fully on Nov. 6, 2002. Falmouth, Mass., Garden Club and the of deregulation of the airline industry. For After receiving a B.A. in art history at West Falmouth Library Association. After decades, Lucile's seminal writings and Wellesley and a M.A. and Ph.D. at the Paul retired from medical practice, they books helped keep the issue alive. University of Pennsylvania, Nancy taught moved to Franconia, N.H., where Dorothy for several years. She then embarked on an volunteered at the local hospital, library, illustrious career as an architectural HOW TO SUBMIT A MEMORiAL historian, and garden club. specializing in Anglo-American neoclassi- In addition to her children, she is WeorsLEY WELCOMESMEMORIALS TO ALUMNAE WRITTEN cism. Two children survive her, as does her survived by five grandchildren. BY FRIENDSOR FAMILY MEMBERS.PLEASE CONTACT THE husband, Dr. Guy Lacy Schless, who wrote Erik Magnuson APPROPRIATECLASS SECRETARYANDIOR THE MAGAZINE recently, "I was the lucky guy who sat next STAFFBEFORE WRITING OR 5UBMITTiNGA MEMORIAL. to Nancy on a flight to Paris in 1951. We Marjorie Rahmann Odell '36 died MEMORIALSIN WELLESLEYMAGAZINE ARE UMITEDTO were engaged on our very first date." He suddenly on Jan. 26. 100 WORDS.WELLESLEY DOESNOT ACCEPTEULOGIES OR became the enthusiastic photographer on A creative activist and professional PREVIOUSLYPUBUSHED OBITUARIES FOR ADAPTATION. ALL many of Nancy's professional assignments. woman in the 1930s, Peggy then became a SUBMISSIONSWILL BEACKNOWLEDGED AND MAY BEEDITED. Joan Sayward Franklin '50 Weltesley Spring 2003 T9 MEMORIALS Nancy Faust Bailey '51 passed away on count. She enjoyed hearing my account Elaine lived with laughter, love, faith, Nov. 12, 2002. She is survived by three of our 50th reunion. hope, and joy. She will be missed by her children: Alison Bailey Kaar '80, Andrew Diane Moore Dyar '52 three daughters and seven grandchildren, Bailey, and Jonathan Bailey. and by her brother and his family. Nancy, otherwise known as Foost, Marcia Braman Grosvenor '52 died on Liz Weiland was a special friend. She was maid of Oct. 21, 2002. honor in my first wedding. In turn, I had It was 1952. About to marry Cynthia Thomson Peters '58 died on the honor of being her matron of honor Alexander Graham Bell Grosvenor, a Jan. 5, after a mercifully brief battle with when she married Les Bailey. We kept in graduate of the US Naval Academy, cancer. touch over the years and visited many Marcia had a mysterious little book, The Even just before surgery, Cindy made times. Navy Wife. She studied it religiously: others laugh. President of the Athletic Nancy will be remembered most for "Wear Gloves; Leave Calling Cards; Etc." Association, she won adult golf tourna- her sense of humor, intelligence, and wit. Even after Alex died in 1978, Marcia ments at 14. Perhaps that athletic ability Her performance as the Venetian Blind in remained involved in Annapolis sailing helped her juggle her devotion to family, our junior show was a comic delight. She and racing life, winnin , many awards for profession, community- service, church, will be greatly missed. her contributions. and her many friends. She attended com- Joan Snook Timm 'S1 Not too long ago, Marcia showed me munion every Wednesday before catching the cemetery where Alex is buried. She the train to Boston to her job of 25 years Jane Anderson Wood '52 died on Dec. 10, was proud of the fac: that, because of at the Federal Reserve Bank. 2002. space, she would be the last wife buried Cindy had character. Her often ner- At her memorial service, family and there. And she is. Sh - was the perfect vous exterior belied a keen mind and friends repeated the word "bubbly" in Navy Wife. immense reserves of strength and courage. describing her warm and outgoing per- Gail Pa iterson Hunter '52 She was a wonderful mother, loyal to sonality. These same characteristics friends, accepted everyone-and her immediately endeared her to her class- Elizabeth Hurlbut Co apton '53 died of enthusiasm was infectious. We miss her. mates and fellow "Elmsites" upon her respiratory failure on Dec. 9, 2002, in Betsy Campbell Clinch '58 arrival at Wellesley. Haddonfield, N.J. Jane earned a master of arts in Betty lived in Shafer, majored in teaching and later, after working for an chemistry, then wernt to work for Mom an m ammaa c .ci-09mms executive-search firm, formed her own Polaroid. After marriage to Edwin company. She loved sailing, tennis, and Compton, they mover, to Haddonfield, writing poetry. N.J., and operated a la .ndmark restaurant: For decades, Jane was an active Compton's Log Cabin famous for crab oirtde*um0!"*rarIrrim member and supporter of AA. She loved cakes, which was opened in 1934 by Ed's Wellesley and fortunately was able to grandfather. Betty ran :ts office for more attend our 50th reunion. than 25 years, until i closed in 1995. She is survived by her husband, three Since then, she had served as the office children, and five grandchildren. manager for a real-estate company. She Jane Kenab Dewey '52 and Ed had a son, a daughter, and three INQUIRY grandchildren. Her hu band of 46 years, CHILDREN'S BOOKS NEEDED Eleanor Baird Kristensen '52 died on Ed said, "She was just . fine, proud lady." Some time ago, teacher Danielle Hall '00 Jan. 12. requested used children's books for Smith During our freshman year in Elaine Love Weiland '56 passed away Lake Elementary School in Smith Lake, Homestead, Ellie and I became good at home on Dec. 11, 2002, after a N.M. The school is still desperately in need friends. She was an unassuming, comfort- courageous battle with cancer. of books for its library and classrooms able person with a quiet sense of humor. She Elaine was an extr iordinary contrib- and was also extremely pretty and looked exactly, utor to her communitr. Throughout her to distribute as attendance awards to their I thought, like Snow White. She was life, she organized event to bring together students. Please send books to Smith Lake appalled to learn that I did not know The neighbors, church menbers, and friends. Elementary School, 1299 New Mexico State Wind in the Willows, her favorite childhood In 1975, she founded :he San Francisco Highway 371, Smith Lake, NM, 87365- book, and proceeded to read it to me. Pension Corporation, and, in recent 0070, Attn: Pat Hansen, Book Project When Ellie married Arthur Milford, I years, her talent as L. botanical artist Coordinator. Books for older children will was maid of honor and later, godmother helped raise money f Dr the Piedmont be forwarded to the middle and upper to their daughter Cynthia. Later, Ellie Community Church and the Cancer schools. married Hilmar Kristensen, a Danish League. An avid gardener and golfer, 80 Wellesley Spring 2003 BYLAWS WELLESLEY COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION (Continued from page 41) of the Board with privileges of the floor but without the right or power to Such resignation is effective upon receipt unless it is specified to be effec- vote or to be counted for purposes of determining if a quorum is present. tive at some later time. The Board may remove any officer at any time, of SECTION 2. Powers and duties. with or without cause, by the affirmative vote of eighty percent (80%) a. The business and property of the Association shall be managed by the the voting Directors present at a meeting of the Board. Board which may exercise all of the powers of the Association which are d. Qualification for Office. Any person who has served at least one full not expressly reserved to the members by law, the Articles of term on the Board may be elected to be president. An interim president Organization, or these Bylaws. may be elected president. No person other than a then-current Director b. The Governance Committee of the Board will fill any vacancy occur- who has served at least one year as a Director may be elected to be its trea- ring during the course of a year in an office (other than the president) or surer/secretary. of the chair of a standing committee until the expiration of the term of the office in which the vacancy exists. ARTICLE VI-COMMITTEES c. The Board will appoint an Executive Director of the Association and an SECTION 1. Standing committees. The Board shall have the following editor of Wellesley, the alumnae magazine, in accordance with Article XI. standing committees which shall have such membership and chairs, and be d. The Board will establish procedures for the Association and may from elected in such manner, and for such terms, as are determined by the Board. time to time amend the same. a. Governance Committee. The Governance Committee will be responsi- SECTION 3. Meetings. ble for governance planning, management of board development cycle, a. The Board will hold at least three regular meetings a year at stated times and board orientation and evaluation. The Governance Committee will at its discretion. develop annually committee assignments for approval by the Board in b. Special meetings may be called by the president or the consultation with the Executive Director, president, committee leadership, treasurer/secretary upon written request of any two Directors filed with and individual board members. The Governance Committee will have the president or the treasurer/secretary. two sub-committees: a Nominating Sub-committee and an Alumnae c. Written notice of each meeting will be given in writing or by electronic Trustee Nominating Sub-committee. The Alumnae Trustee Nominating mail not less than ten (10) days in advance, but such notice may be waived Sub-committee will be chaired by the immediate past president of the by a Director's written assent. Association and the current president will be a member. d. At any meeting of the Board, forty percent (40%) of the voting b. Finance Committee. The Finance Committee will be responsible for Directors then in office will constitute a quorum for the transaction of financial oversight of the Association including preparation of an annual business, and a majority of the voting Directors present at any meeting budget and review and oversight of the annual audit of the Association. shall decide any matter. c. Program Oversight Committee. The Program Oversight Committee will SECTION 4. Resignation and removal. monitor effectiveness of the programs of the Association and identify new Any Director may resign by delivering a written resignation to the president initiatives to advance the strategic objectives of the Association. The or the treasurer/secretary. Such resignation is effective upon receipt unless it Program Oversight Committee will have an Annual Giving Sub-commit- is specified to be effective at some later time. Any Director may be removed tee, an Alumnae Admissions Sub-committee, and such additional sub- from office, with or without cause, by the affirmative vote of eighty percent committees as the Program Oversight Committee may establish from time (80%) of the voting Directors present at a meeting of the Board. to time. d. The Strategy Committee. The Strategy Committee will periodically ARTICLE V-OFFICERS review the strategic objectives of the Association. SECTION 1. Duties of officers. e. Executive Support Committee. The Executive Support Committee will a. President. The president will be the chief executive officer of the be responsible for the ongoing support and evaluation of the Executive Association. The president will preside at the annual meeting of the Director of the Association. Association and will be chair of the Board. The president will be a mem- f. External Relations Committee. The External Relations Committee will ber, ex officio and without vote, of all Board committees. The president be responsible for developing strategies to support and extend the profile will be a member, ex officio and with vote, of the Board of Trustees of of the Association and overseeing communications programs, including Wellesley College in accordance with its bylaws. The president shall have oversight of Wellesley, the alumnae magazine. such other powers and duties as are usually incident to that office and as SECTION 2. Special committees, task forces, and councils. The Board may may be vested in that office by these Bylaws or by the Board. appoint special committees, task forces, and councils, designating their b. Treasurer/Secretary. The treasurer/secretary shall, subject to the direc- chairs, purposes, powers, and terms of office, such as an Executive tion and control of the Board, supervise the financial affairs of the Committee, advisory board, or other special committee. Association. The treasurer/secretary shall give such notices of meetings of members and Directors as are required by these Bylaws and shall cause to ARTICLE V-CLUBS AND CLASSES be kept a record of all the meetings of members and Directors. In the SECTION 1. Clubs and Classes. Any group of alumnae designated by a geo- absence of the treasurer/secretary from any meeting of members or graphic region that meets the criteria as set forth by the Board may be regis- Directors, a temporary or acting treasurer/secretary designated by the per- tered as a Wellesley Club ("Club"). The group of alumnae designated by a son presiding at the meeting shall perform the duties of the treasurer/sec- year of graduation from Wellesley College that meets the criteria as set forth retary. The treasurer/secretary shall have such other powers and duties as by the Board may be registered as a Wellesley Alumnae Class ("Class"). are usually incident to that office and as may be vested in that office by SECTION 2. Reports; requirements. Each Club or Class shall file with the these Bylaws or as the Board may designate for such office from time to Executive Director of the Association such reports as the Board may require time. The treasurer/secretary shall be the Clerk of the Association and from time to Time. In addition each Club shall conduct its affairs and enter shall be the Chair of the Finance Committee. into such agreements with the Association as the Association may from time SECTION 2. Election; Term; Vacancies. to time require. a. Election. Officers of the Association shall be elected at the annual meeting SECTION 3. Charter documents. Club or Class charter documents shall be of the Association or the special meetings, if any, called in lieu thereof. maintained in such form and contain such terms and provisions as are spec- b. Term and Vacancies. The president shall serve a term of three (3) years ified by the Board as to maintain compliance with law, qualification as an and no individual may serve two (2) terms as president. If elected after one association under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, (]) term as a Director, the president may not be re-elected to serve as amended, and other Board requirements. another term as a Director. Upon a vacancy in the office of the president, SECTION 4. Dues. To remain a Wellesley Club, each Club shall send the Chair of the Program Oversight Committee shall serve as Acting annually to the treasurer/secretary of the Association such dues as are deter- President unless and until the vacancy is filled by the Board. The term of mined from time to time by the Board. the interim president shall be specified by the Board, not to exceed the term of the departed president. Vacancies in any other office shall be filled ARTICLE VIll-MEETINGS OF MEMBERS by the Board. All officers other than the president shall serve a term of one SECTION 1. Annual meeting. The annual meeting of the members of the (1) year unless otherwise designated by the Board. Association will be held in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in either May or June, c. Resignation and Removal. Any officer may resign by delivering a writ- the date, hour, and place to be determined by the Board. Notice of the date, ten resignation to the president or treasurer/secretary of the Association. hour, and place of the meeting will be sent to all members of the Association Wellesley Spring 2003 81 not later than 30 days before the day appointed for the meeting. SECTION 3. Vacancies and reports. SECTION 2. Special meetings. Special meetings of the members of the In the event of any vacancy in office of an Alumnae Trustee, the Board will Association may be called at the discretion of the Board. Notice of special appoint an active member of the Association to complete the unexpired term meetings, together with a statement of the business to be transacted, will be of the former Alumnae Trustee. Any vacancy in office of the three-year term sent to each member not less than two weeks before the date set. Alumnae Trustee will be filled by one of her classmates in accordance with SECTION 3. Quorum. At any meeting of the members of the Association, three the nomination and election procedures specified by the Board. hundred (300) active members present and voting will constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the affirmative vote by voice or otherwise of a ARTICLE XI-EXECUTTVE STAFF majority of the active members present at the meeting shall decide any matter. SECTION 1. Executive Director. SECTION 4. Records. The minutes of the annual meeting and of any spe- a. The Executive Director will be responsible for the management and admin, cial meetings of the Association will be maintained on file in the Alumnae istration of the Association. The Executive Director shall also have such other Office and in the College archives. duties and responsibilities as are delegated to the Executive Director by the SECTION 5. Notice. Notice of any meeting of the members of the Board or its committees and as are required by Wellesley College. Association shall be sent in such manner as is approved by the treasurer/sec- b. The Executive Director will be appointed by the Board in consultation retary of the Association. with the president of Wellesley College. The term of office, compensation, and tenure of the Executive Director will be established by the Board and ARTICLE IX-NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS OF DIRECTORS, shall be consistent with the policies of Wellesley College. OFFICERS, AND ALUMNAE TRUSTEES c. The Executive Director shall be permitted to attend all meetings of the a. General. Persons nominated in the manner set forth in this Article IX standing committees of the Board except when they are in executive session. may be elected to be Directors, Officers, and Alumnae Trustees. SECTION 2. Editor of Wellesley, the alumnae magazine. b. Nominations of Directors and Officers by committee. Each year, in a. The editor will be responsible for producing four issues of Wellesley, the accordance with the procedures approved by the Board, the Nominating alumnae magazine, each year. In consultation with the president, the edi- Sub-committee of the Governance Committee, in coordination with the tor will work with the External Relations Committee; keep the Board Governance Committee and the Board, will develop for review and informed regarding the proposed contents of the magazine; and consult approval by the Board, a slate of the nominees for election to be Directors with the Board on formulating matters of policy. (the "Director Nominees"), and, if any are to be elected that year, a slate b. The editor will be appointed by the Board. The term of office, com- of nominees for election to be Officers (the "Officer Nominees"). The pensation, and tenure of the editor will be established by the Board and slate of Director Nominees and Officer Nominees will then be submitted shall be consistent with the policies of Wellesley College. to the Board for its approval and, if approved by the Board, will be pre- sented to the active members of the Association at the next annual meet- ARTICLE XII-GENERAL ing of the members or special meeting in lieu thereof. In the event a slate SECTION 1. Finances. of Director Nominees or Officer Nominees is not approved by the Board, a. Fiscal year. The fiscal year of the Association will begin on July 1 the process shall be repeated until a final slate is approved by the Board. and end on June 30. c. Nominations of Alumnae Trustees by committee. At the appropriate b. Bonding. The treasurer/secretary and all officers and agents handling times, in accordance with the procedures approved by the Board, the Association funds may be bonded in amounts designated by the Board. Alumnae Trustee Nominating Sub-committee of the Governance c. Audit. The books of the Association will be examined and certified Committee, in coordination with the Governance Committee and the annually by an auditor appointed by the Board. Board, will develop for review and approval by the Board an Alumnae d. Signatures. All checks, other obligations of the Association, stock Trustee candidate for election (the "Alumnae Trustee Nominee" and, transfers, and other documents relating to finance, etc., will be signed together with the Director Nominees, the "Nominees"). The Alumnae in the name of the Association by the president or such officers or by Trustee Nominee will then be submitted to the Board for its approval and, such agent or agents of the Association as the Board will by resolution if approved by the Board and the Board of Trustees of Wellesley College, determine. will be presented to the active members of the Association at the next SECTION 2. Seal. The corporate seal of the Association will be the orig- annual meeting of the members or special meeting in lieu thereof. In the inal College seal with "Alumnarum Collegii Wellesleiani Sigillum 1880" event an Alumnae Trustee Nominee is not approved by the Board or the in the outer circumference. Board of Trustees of Wellesley College, the process shall be repeated until SECTION 3. Resident agent. Unless the treasurer/secretary is a resident a final nominee is approved by the Board and the Board of Trustees of of Massachusetts, there will be a resident agent of the Association who Wellesley College. will be a resident of Massachusetts. Unless otherwise voted by the Board, d. Nominations from the Membership. In the event that a member shall the Executive Director will act as resident agent of the Association. submit to the treasurer/secretary of the Association, prior to sixty (60) SECTION 4. Corporate records. The original or attested copies of the days before an annual meeting of the members, a petition (i) nominating articles of organization and Bylaws, records of all meetings of the incor- that individual to be elected to be a Director or an Alumnae Trustee of the porators, members, and Board of Directors, and the list of members, Association, (ii) signed by at least one percent (1%) of the then active which will contain the record address of each member, will be kept at the members of the Association including members from at least three (3) dif- principal office of the Association in Wellesley, Mass. ferent geographic Wellesley Clubs registered with the Association and, in the case of an Alumnae Trustee nominee, such nominee is approved by the ARTICLE XIII-SPONSORS, BENEFACTORS, CONTRIBUTORS, AND Board of Trustees of Wellesley College, then such individual's name shall FRIENDS OF THE CORPORATION be included as a nominee for election by the Association along with the The Directors may from time to time designate certain persons or groups of Nominees approved by the Board. persons as sponsors, benefactors, contributors, or friends of the corporation or such other title as they deem appropriate. Such persons will serve in an ARTICLE X-ALUMNAE TRUSTEES honorary capacity and, in such capacity, will have no right to notice of or to SECTION 1. Definition of Alumnae Trustees. Alumnae representatives vote at any meeting, and will not be considered for purposes of establishing elected by the active members of the Association at the annual meeting of the a quorum. They will have no other rights or responsibilities, except as the members of the Association, and approved by the Board of Trustees of Directors will from time to time designate. Wellesley College, may serve on the Board of Trustees of Wellesley College in accordance with its bylaws and will be known as the Alumnae Trustees. ARTICLE XIV-AMENDMENTS SECTION 2. Number and term of Alumnae Trustees. These Bylaws may be amended by a majority vote of the active members of a. There will be five Alumnae Trustees, four of whom will serve for six- the Association present and voting at any annual meeting of the Association, year terms. provided notice of the proposed amendment has been sent to each member b. In addition, one Alumnae Trustee shall be chosen every third year from with the call to the meeting. the then Senior Class at Wellesley College. Upon her graduation, such Alumnae Trustee will serve for a three-year term. The Alumnae Trustee ARTICLE XV-INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS Nominating Sub-committee of the Governance Committee will establish The Association shall, to the extent legally permissible, indemnify each the procedures for the nomination and election of the three-year term person who may serve or who has served at any time as an uncompen- Alumnae Trustee. sated Director, president, vice president, treasurer, assistant treasurer, 82 Wellesley Spring 2003 clerk, assistant clerk, or officer of the Association or who at the request (i) the payment has been approved or ratified (1) by a majority vote of the Association may serve or at any time has served as a fiduciary or of a quorum of either (a) the members of the Association who are not at are not at trustee of an employee benefit plan of the Association (collectively, that time parties to the proceeding or (b) the Directors who "Indemnified Officers" or individually, "Indemnified Officer"), against that time parties to the proceeding or (2) by a majority vote of a com- to the all expenses and liabilities, including, without limitation, counsel fees, mittee of two or more Directors who are not at that time parties full Board (in which judgments, fines, excise taxes, penalties, and settlement payments, rea- proceeding and are selected for this purpose by the sonably incurred by or imposed upon such Indemnified Officer in con- selection Directors who are parties may participate); or nection with any threatened, pending, or completed action, suit or pro- (ii) the action is taken in reliance upon the opinion of independent ceeding whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative (a "pro- legal counsel (who may be counsel to the corporation) appointed for the ceeding") in which an Indemnified Officer may become involved by rea- purpose by vote of the Directors in the manner specified in clauses (1) or by a son of serving or having served in such capacity (other than a proceed- (2) of subparagraph (i) or, if that manner is not possible, appointed ing voluntarily initiated by such Indemnified Officer unless the proceed- majority of the Board; or the stan- ing was authorized by a majority of the full Board); provided that no (iii) the Directors have otherwise acted in accordance with indemnification shall be provided for any such Indemnified Officer with dard of conduct applied to Directors under Chapter 180 of the respect to any matter as to which the Indemnified Officer shall have been Massachusetts General Laws, as amended; or finally adjudicated in any proceeding not to have acted in good faith in (iv) a court having jurisdiction shall have approved the payment. the reasonable belief that such Indemnified Officer's action was in the The indemnification provided hereunder shall inure to the benefit Officer best interests of the Association or, to the extent that such matter relates of the heirs, executors, and administrators of any Indemnified to service with respect to an employee benefit plan, in the best interests entitled to indemnification hereunder. of the participants or beneficiaries of such employee benefit plan; and The right of indemnification under this Article shall be in addition be enti- further provided that any compromise or settlement payment shall be to and not exclusive of all other rights to which any person may approved by the Association in the same manner as provided below for tled. Nothing contained in this Article shall affect any rights to indemni- the authorization of indemnification. fication to which Association employees, agents, Directors, officers, and Such indemnification may, to the extent authorized by the Board of other persons may be entitled by contract or otherwise under law. the Association, include payment by the Association of expenses incurred No amendment or repeal of the provisions of this Article which in defending a civil or criminal action or proceeding in advance of the adversely affects the right of an Indemnified Officer under this Article final disposition of such action or proceeding, upon receipt of an under- shall apply with respect to such Indemnified Officer's acts or omissions taking by the person indemnified to repay such payment if such that occurred at any time prior to such amendment or repeal, unless such Indemnified Officer shall be not entitled to indemnification under this amendment or repeal was voted for by or was made with the written paragraph, which undertaking may be accepted without regard to the consent of such Indemnified Officer. financial ability of such Indemnified Officer to make repayment. The payment of any indemnification or advance shall be conclu- ARTICLE XVI -PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE sively deemed authorized by the Association under this Article, and each Except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws, Roberts Rules of Order, the Director and officer of the Association approving such payment shall be Revised may govern the procedure of all meetings of the Association, wholly protected, if: Board, and all committees. I 1 THE ALUMNAE TRUSTEES OF TAU ZETA EPSILON A GIFT THAT ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT TZE HOUSE 15 AVAILABLE CAN BE OPENED TO RENT FOR WEDDINGS AND OTHER PRIVATE FUNCTIONS AGAIN AND AGAIN gift with Books, the 3Y WELLESLEY COLLEGE ALUMNAE, FACULTY, AND STAFF. For each $100 to Honor Library will place a bookplate bearing the name of the person you are honoring, as well FOR MORE INFORMATION, as your name, in a newly purchased book. Choose one offour designs and make PLEASE CONTACT: your bookplate gift online at http://www.wellesley.edu/Library KATHY ACERBO BACHMANN '89 /Friends/honorwithbooks.html or request information from ALUMNAE HOUSE MANAGER Friends of the Library. 617-776-0981 Margaret Clapp Library [email protected] 106 Central Street - Weilesley, MA 02481-8203 781-283-2872 Wellesley Spring 2003 83 The Wellesley Campaign Report 2001-2002 TR WELLESLEYCAMPAFCN REPCIRT20012002 The following additions and changes have been made to The Wellesley Campaign Report 2001 2002 4WkH"M 1 OttlbofrDO\*ni* ON~00 o IMLI| 84 Wellesley Spring 2003 Spotlight on Alumnae Services Online Career Services: The Alumnae Career Advisory Network Now available online, the Alumnae Career Advisory Network information our alumnae have listed within it, so we need your help (ACAN) is a database of over 20,000 US and internationally based to make it as strong as possible. You can do your part by updating your alumnae who have volunteered to share career information and record within the online community and indicating your willingness advice with students and other alumnae. You can search byjob title, to be a career advisor. Every alumna is an irreplaceable resource. geographic location, or employer. ACAN is one of the best For comprehensive career-development resources, please remem- resources available to alumnae for gaining basic information about ber that the Center for Work and Service (CWS) is available to you a specific career field: what it entails, where it is going, how one throughout your lifetime. Whether you are seeking a new career might break into it. This alumnae network can also provide direction or networking assistance, re-entering the workforce, con- geographical information about what industries are hot where or sidering graduate school, or just working through life's transitions, general information one might need to know if relocating. Please the CWS is here is help. Resources available include on-campus or note that the network is not for direct solicitation of employment, telephone career-counseling appointments, an extensive resource housing, or internship opportunities, but rather for advice and library on the fourth floor of Green Hall, and a comprehensive web direction for your career exploration or job search. site at http://www.wellesley.edu/CWS. To schedule an appoint- The Alumnae Career Advisory Network is only as effective as the ment, or for more information, please call 781-283-2352. Your Online Community Directory offAlumnae E-mail Addresses Class E-notes Career Services Message Boards Job Search Alum Yellow Pages The Wellesley College Alumnae Association online community addition, you can look for alumnae offering services to other offers an easy way to connect with Wellesley friends, classmates, alums in the Yellow Pages directory ofgoods and services and post and other alumnae around the world. Registered members of the jobs and resumis in the career-services area. Topic-oriented mes- community can set up a permanent @alum.wellesley.edu e-mail sage boards provide a venue for announcements address, look up alumnae in the directory by name, class, location, and discussion around classes, clubs, or special or occupation, and establish a directory of personal contacts. In interests, ranging from apartments to sports. alumnae httnpplwwwwellesleyoedualum WellesIeyI WELLESLEY COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Wetlesley Spring 2003 85 Office for Resources A A' A, I *~-';j 7$ U t / jw I xx -4 / f THE WORLD IS CONS [ANTLY EVOLVING. AND THANKS TO YOU, SO IS WELLESLEY. Today, Wellesley students share the same commitment to learning as those from past generations. Thanks to Annual Giving, the College is able to meel the demands of a changing world, allowing our students to take full advantage of new technologr and learn in innovative ways. Please demonstrate your support for Wellesley by contributing to Annual Giving. Every dollar given to Annual Giving is a dollar given to the Wellesley Campai:n. To find out more about the Wellesley Campaign, or to make a donation online, log on to our new web ite at http:lwww.wellesley.edu/Resources. Or ifyou wish, you can donate by check or credit card by calling 1-800-358-3543. THE wELLESLEY CAMPAIGN ANNUAL GIVING ~JL eleseypng2003 Office for Resources IN THER-E ARE the yearbook, -was the well-trained and dashing chorus of heavy dragoons. These military men in their bright red and white uniforms contributed much to the success DIVERSITIES of the operetta." During her junior year, Florence also served as treasurer of Barnswallows. On Oct. 20, 1928, Florence was officially "initiated" OF GIFTS, as a member of the Shakespeare Society and later became an officer. Open to juniors and seniors at that time, the society's meetings that particular year were BUT THE devoted to examining different aspects of Shakespeare's tragedies and historical plays, in preparation for the spring 1929 production of Antony and Cleopatra.It was SAME SPIRIT.... the society's first performance of that play. Florence graduated in 1930, and spent the follow- ing year studying personnel management and merchan- dizing at the Prince School of Simmons College. She sub- AS A PRELUDE TO HER 55TH REUNION, Florence Sawyer sequently held several secretarial positions at Harvard, Williams '30 wrote in her record-book entry that she and eventually moved to the MIT Radiation Lab to had recently made a significant change in her life. "My work in personnel. In 1938, she married Shepard big news is that in January of this year we [she and Williams, president of a printing and engraving her husband, Shepard] moved to Needham, company, and a World War I veteran. Mass., to North Hill, a living-care retire- "Retiring" from employment in 1946, ment home, and are anticipating a differ- A Florence frequently attended the theater ent lifestyle after these many years in first and symphony, studied piano, enrolled in my family's and then our house in courses at the Boston Museum of Fine Waban, [Mass.]," she said. At North Arts, and did volunteer work. She was Hill, and throughout her life, Florence also an expert gardener and avid golfer. made a deep and lasting impression on (She was a member of Wellesley's golf those she knew. team during her senior year). When Florence-known to her Over the years at North Hill, friends as "Floss"-moved to North Florence became well known and Hill, she did not move too far afield from admired by both her fellow Wellesley where she had spent the first 77 years of her alumnae and the larger community. She life. She was born on Jan. 2, 1908, and grew planted what was regarded by friends as the up in Waban, attending the Dana Hall School in most beautiful garden at North Hill, one skillfully Wellesley and then Newton High School in nearby designed with perennials to keep flowers always in Newtonville. She came to Wellesley College in the fall bloom. Florence also drove a large, blonde-colored of 1926, taking during her first year the required Cadillac, which often occasioned the affectionate remark: "Hygiene and Physical Education" courses, as well as "long, blonde, and beautiful, just like its owner." An English composition, English literature, botany, math- accomplished-indeed revered-bridge player, Florence's ematics, and French. Florence pursued a major in words are still quoted at North Hill bridge tables. English, showing a particular interest in writing. In Florence also had the chance to travel during her "Narrative Writing," "Short Themes," and "Free residence at North Hill. At the age of 83, she took her Writing," she had the chance to explore, through study first trip to New York City with several Wellesley of various writers and intensive practice, a broad array friends, where they spent Christmas together. She also of writing styles. Other courses she pursued as part of traveled to Florida for a visit with friend and fellow '26. Mary's friends r her major included classes on Milton and Shakespeare, North Hill resident, Mary Sime West on the history of the English language, and on the adored Florence, and the visit turned out to be a memo- PLANNED theory and history of literary criticism. rable one in every way. JIGIVING Florence's interest in language and literature was Florence passed away in October 2001. She contin- FOR BEQUEST INFORMATION reflected, too, in her activities beyond the classroom. She ues to be deeply missed by her many friends. Florence's PLEASEGET IN TOUCH WITH joined both the Barnswallows and the Shakespeare thoughtful nature and affection for Wellesley prompted PETERV.K. DOYLE, Society, participating not only in the dramatic produc- her to make an extraordinary bequest to the College, a Wellesley stu- DIRECTOROf PLANNEDGNIN G, tions but also taking a hand in administration. In March bequest that will provide financial aid for of her OFFICEFOR REsoURCES, 1928, Florence played a dragoon in a production of dents in perpetuity. She recognized the significance WELLESLEY COLLEGE Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, mounted by the Wellesley education and wanted to help prepare the way the future. 106 CENTRAL ST., Barnswallows. The dragoons were a memorable high- for the talented Wellesley women of Susan Martin-Joy WELLESLEY, MA 02481; light of this performance, as the 1929 Legenda testifies: Office for Resources 800-253-8916. "One of the best features of the performance," observes Wellesley spring 2003 87 eTT Throug._ h-- i0 Thn0ua s~s_ nark-Ds anTM U~ TIMBUKTU. REMOTE, UNATTAINABLE, Treasures concealed behind walls. the end of the earth. Faces concealed behind turbans. The And something more. To me, fas- reality is hard to find here, because this cinated by the idea and the sound of is not a still, preserved archaeological Timbuktu, the word was like a drum- site. Here, the Tuaregs look as they did beat-TIM-BUK-TU. Not a drum when the first Europeans arrived here in roll, but a drum's pulsing beats, the early 1800s. The people worship, sombe; foreboding as thunder and foreheads on the floor, in mosques, just lightning, primitive. as they did after Islam spread to West And then I was in Tnbuktu, still Africa from the East. The manuscripts feeling the primitive drumbeat-even as are proof of the glory years: In the 15th the rhythms of the present tugged at me. and 16th centuries, when Timbuktu The bread in Tinbuktu has sand was a center of trade and wealth and in it, gritty on your teeth. It's good Koranic studies, when word spread to French bread, baked in outdoor mud Europe of a city of gold roofs. ovens. At dawn, the glowing embers in Tmbuktu never had gold roofs. an oven are the brightest color you see, But, for a time, it was a golden city ... and the sunrise is just a smudge of red and then, through conquest and sand, it above the horizon. Everything is veiled declined. Today civilizations interlock, by sand, even the sun. and mystery, of another sort, remains. The present is insistent-in little After leaving Timbuktu, I spoke children who take your hand and ask, to a man I will call Abdoulaye, a "Qa va? Ca va?" They have nothing, Tuareg anthropologist. The north of and they smile if you give them an V0C( S0Mali, he said, "is very far, and not easy empty plastic water bottle. To them, it's to access." He worries that extremist a toy. The older boys try to sell jewelry '- fundamentalist Muslims who endorse or T-shirts for money to buy pencils and paper for school. The streets terrorism would find it easy to reach the north of Mali, and start are dense with sand that drifts like snow. Archaeologists are trying to schools, indoctrinate people, without being noticed. preserve the antiquities and stem the tides of sand, possibly with a Mali is a tolerant country and a democracy. Most of its people greenbelt of trees, although hope is thin. are Muslims, but the Islam of Mali is laissez-faire, co-existing The city lies at the edge of the Sahara, a few miles from the Niger with animism. Women rarely wear veils, and often they jauntily River, in Mali, a landlocked country in Northwest Africa. And like much bare one shoulder-although Abdoulaye told me he is seeing of Mali, it's a place of amazing treasures and terrible want-and it has a more girls in veils. There are those who scoff at the idea that fun- disquieting seeing-through-a-glass-darkly quality. I kept wondering: What damentalism could grow here. But Abdoulaye said solemnly, is real? Is the past more real than the present? The covertness of Tunbuktu "Jamais dire jamais. " Never say never. He is concerned that the turned my thoughts upside down; there is concealment everywhere. US will fail to see the stream, the aquifer, of fundamentalism in The city itself is isolated. Most travelers come here by plane, in sub-Saharan Africa, and will fail to understand the political need order to avoid Tuareg bandits, who hold up road travelers and take their for increased aid-for books, clean 4x4 vehicles. As we flew over the Sahel, the "shore" of the Sahara, we water, roads, health clinics. looked down on vast stretches of barren land. And then in Timbuktu, There are wonders here, and we rode camels out from the city and were abruptly in an infinity of want, and concerns, and back in my dunes. Off in the hazy distance, I saw a yurt, a Tuareg home. Western world, the Tin-buk-tu drum- Tuaregs are the nomads who traditionally traveled in camel cara- beat has the sound of an alarm. vans across the blazing Sahara, trading salt from the North and gold Timbuktu is a real city, near the Niger, from the South. They wea; as in times past, indigo-dyed robes and tur- in Mali, where the sand stings your C bans, which they wrap around their faces for protection from the fierce face when the harmattan blows, and sand-filled wind called the harnattan.All you see are their eyes. the children have no toys, and you The 14th-century Djingareiber Mosque-built by Kankan Moussa, can't see the sun rise. And where, who, on a hajj to Mecca, took so much gold to Cairo that the value of maybe, maybe, hate is being sown, j v7 gold was devalued for a decade-shows a mud wall to the street. But seed by seed. We need to hear the inside, the light and shadow between massive columns are as dramatic as sounds of this ancient city. There are in a Caravaggio painting. Several streets away, in a private home, we no faraway cities any more. looked at priceless illuminated manuscripts, reminders of Tinbuktu's Barbara W Carlson 'S0 Middle Age Islamic scholars. There are hundreds or thousands of these is a freelance writer a manuscripts, many in private houses, many simply stacked in cabinets. based in Branford, Conn.7 88 Wellesley Spring 2003 It was the "handlers" we were worried about. On assignment to photograph the winners of the 2003 Achievement Awards for Wellesley the magazine's art director, my assistant, and I were prepared. We had a concept for the photographs and a space reserved at the College Club, where we set up a makeshift photo studio. And we had three award winners- Barbara Loomis Jackson '50, Niramol Bulakul Suriyasat '54 (represented by her family), and Hilary Rodham Clinton '69. The first two shoots went off without a hitch that after- noon. Then we had a three-hour wait for the final winner. Would Senator Clinton's handlers give us access? Around 6 P.M., crisp-looking guys with wires coming out of their ears started to appear. One came into our studio and asked what we were doing. He was satisfied with our answers but insisted that we close the drapes across the picture windows. We asked what he had in the bright yellow bag he was carrying. "You don't want to know," he replied. We settled in for more anxious waiting. Daniel Day Howard it was. When Clinton came in, she looked Just before the Achievement Awards reception was at me and without missing a beat said, "Nice to meet you, scheduled to start, one of Clinton's aides appeared. She was Daniel Day. Thanks for taking time out from acting to do these gracious and assured us that the senator would be available. photographs." And she laughed. We were off and running. The "handler" fears were put to rest. And at the promised She could not have been more professional or gracious. She hour, Clinton did arrive. made an effort to connect with every person in the room. She While we were waiting, we had been issued name tags. adjusted her pose. She recollected sliding down snow-covered I inscribed mine, "Daniel Day Howard." It was a long- Severance Hill on lunch trays. She laughed at my jokes. She was and say, "I'm Richard radiant and had clearly been having a good time all day. Soon she 4 standing joke. When I meet people S C Howard," nine out of 10 respond, "Nice to meet you, headed off to the next event, but not without taking time for 4 Ron." I always say I would be happier if even 30 percent pictures with the support- and waitstaff working the reception. would reply, "Nice to meet you, Daniel Day." So, for this day, Richard Howard, photographer 3- -I Y...... - ~{ ov~ ~ ~eto - rhccI~I.ldIi~t4rI~i~~iI~.I(~lI &cI *V -A 07 94 4 -