AADC Class Notes Fall 2018
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law, an avenue not readily available in NYC during WWII, she met her trip she and her pet dachshund, AADC Class Notes to women at the time. She would husband Victor, with whom she had Max, took in the summer of 2016, Fall 2018 love to hear from classmates or sister six children. Alice was widowed at traveling to the country of Malawi in alumnae. the age of 40, was devoted to caring southeastern Africa. Ruth, who says The following Class Notes were published in the for her family and later retired as a she has attended as many Reunions Fall 2018 AADC Magazine for Alumnae and ’39 sales associate. She is survived by as possible over the years, shares, “At Friends. This PDF contains the content, including five of her children and their partners, the age of 91, I started a new career! the pages numbers from the magazine which was AADC mailed to donors. Class Notes submitted to the [email protected] nine grandchildren and two great- I find writing children’s books in verse Associate Alumnae of Douglass College by class grandchildren. is fun. Two more of my books are in secretaries by our June 30 deadline are published Mark your calendars! We celebrate the process of being published later here. The AADC relies on class secretaries for the this year: Max Visits Santa Claus, to accuracy of the information. We reserve the right our 80th this year at Alumnae Reunion ’44 to edit Class Notes. Class Notes deadlines are Weekend, May 31 to June 2, 2019. AADC be published by Dorrance Publishers, December 15 and June 30 each year. [email protected] and The Duck Who Loved a Gooose ’40 (yes with three Os), to be published by ’38 AADC We celebrate our 75th this year at Xlibris.” Evelyn Ecke Outcalt [email protected] Alumnae Reunion Weekend, May 31 Elderwood of Uihlein to June 2, 2019. ’49 185 Old Military Road ’41 Condolences: Winifred Rose Musumeci Cipriano Room 358 Ada Glasser Bloom Bunnekamp Hagarty passed on 345 Wyoming Avenue Lake Placid, NY 12946 AADC July 4, 2018. She earned a degree in Millburn, NJ 07041 [email protected] psychology and was a public school Our Class marked its 80th Reunion at librarian for some 20 years in East We celebrate our 70th this year at Lyme, CT. She also enjoyed painting Alumnae Reunion Weekend, May 31 Alumnae Reunion Weekend in April. ’42 Congratulations to our longtime Class scenes from her travels. She was to June 2, 2019. AADC Secretary, Evelyn Ecke Outcalt, predeceased by her husband of 61 Condolences: Longtime Class [email protected] years, Robert, as well as a son. She is Secretary Astrid B. Kromayer survived by her son, daughter-in-law, a passed away on February 19, Congratulations to Victoria granddaughter, nieces and nephews. 2018, reported her husband, Peter. Dabrowski Schmidt on the Astrid almost never missed a publication of her latest book, ’45 Vanguard Reunion Luncheon and she “Victoria’s 95 Secrets To a Happy, celebrated most of her milestone Healthy, Long Life.” Her other Angie Maruca Fenton 1719 West Main Street Reunions. Traveling from her home books include, “Finding Solitary in Pennsylvania, she was often Contentment,” “Remembering the Unit 107 Millville, NJ 08332 accompanied by her husband, whom Loved One You Lost,” and a novel, she met during her sophomore year “Triumph in Exile.” of high school. She attended NJC on Victoria is the benefactor of the ’46 who celebrates her 100th birthday in Mary Digirolamo Casella a full scholarship, then went to Brown annual Victoria Dabrowski Schmidt ‘42 University as a teaching assistant September. Evelyn was a commuter Workplace & Professional Development 423 North Woodland Street “Bee” at NJC who became the first Englewood, NJ 07631 and earned a Master’s degree in Symposium attended by Douglass Spanish language and literature in member of her family to graduate alumnae who benefit from its speakers [email protected] college. Her daughter, Peggy Outcalt, 1951. She became an adjunct Spanish and workshops. professor at Lehigh University in recalls that tuition was provided by her ’47 great grandmother, a domestic worker 1951, where she was one of the first ’43 AADC female instructors. Astrid later earned during the era of the Great Depression. Beatrice Neidorf Beck [email protected] Evelyn treasured her college days and a doctorate at Rutgers University in 420 Harrison Avenue 1978. After raising two daughters, the intellectual opportunities it brought. Highland Park, NJ 08904 ’48 She studied history, English and then she returned to teaching Spanish at Susan Hunn Emerson Moravian Academy and continued focused on journalism, studies that We celebrated our 75th Reunion in [email protected] would come back to her tenfold. “Evie” her career at Moravian College until April at Alumnae Reunion Weekend she retired in 1992, but not before moved to Saranac Lake in 1959 with in April. her husband and family, where she receiving the Lindback Foundation began working at The Adirondack Award for Distinguished Teaching. Daily Enterprise, the daily paper for Although Astrid went to NJC as the region. The seeds of working at a French major, Professor Marina a community newspaper had been Romero Serrano, her first Spanish sewn many years earlier, when she professor, introduced her to Spanish did a stint with the New Jersey Press language and culture, inspiring her to Association during her NJC days. She become a Spanish major. During her eventually became editor-in-chief. career, she inspired many devoted It was a job she loved. She notes Spanish teachers. The daughter of one of the highlights of being at the immigrants, she grew up as a native Italian speaker, which contributed to helm of the paper during the 1980 Alumnae Reunion Weekend 2018 XIII Olympic Winter Games at Lake Class of 1943 • 75th Reunion Alumnae Reunion Weekend 2018 her enthusiastic support for bilingual Class of 1948 • 70th Reunion Placid was witnessing the “Miracle Anita Hahn Wolfson education. In addition to her husband, Betty Reeve Inglis, left, and Marie Di she is survived by two daughters on Ice” upset victory by the United Francesco Leppert. States men’s ice hockey team over the and sons-in-law, a sister-in-law and Condolences: Alice Ruhl Antaki brother-in-law and a nephew. Soviet Union, who were predicted to passed away on June 22, 2018, Congratulations to Ruth Jackson advance. The US team went on to win in California, where she resided. Hutchinson Calkins on the the Gold Medal. Evie says, given the She was born in Brooklyn and after recent publication of her first book, opportunity, she would have studied graduation and a short period working Max Goes to Africa, inspired by a 8 AADC MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNAE & FRIENDS • DouglassAlumnae on ’50 accounting department of General Park Elementary in Edison, NJ, from Fifty Society. Special recognition was Eleanor Kandler Rodda Motors in NYC; she also volunteered which she retired in 1991. given to a member of the class of 194 Butternut Road at the local library and was active Ann Thompson Hayden of 1943! We enjoyed being together and Shavertown, PA 18708 in the garden club and her church. Marshfield, MA, died May 16, 2018. reminiscing. [email protected] She and her late husband had three She is survived by three daughters, At Saturday’s Reunion Convocation, sons who survive her, as well as four a son, seven grandchildren and Lillian Kunz Anderson and I marched ’51 grandchildren. three great grandchildren. A second in the parade of classes down the aisle Betty Bohsen Haupin Zena Weinstein Lerman, son and her husband predeceased in Voorhees Chapel. We presented our 32 Ellwood Road a sociology major, died on May her. Ann was the children’s librarian class gift of $100,000 to the AADC, East Brunswick, NJ 08901 23, 2017. She went on to earn a at the Ventress Memorial Library which represents all gifts in the five [email protected] Master’s degree in gerontology in Marshfield for 24 years. After years since our 60th reunion. and music therapy at George retirement, she was a librarian at Unfortunately, the recent deaths of Washington University. She lived in the a Montessori School. Ann loved to Barbara Murray Gordon and Nancy ‘52 Washington, DC, area until retirement, travel, loved the arts and volunteered Reuter Bona have left our class Carol Witte De Long then moved to Oxford, MD, for almost as an organizer of tours around without a Vice President and Treasurer. 213 W. Columbia Street 20 years before moving to Durham, southern New England for the Joan Blume also resigned recently as Falls Church, VA 22046 NC. Zena, a social worker, is survived Marshfield Senior Center. Secretary. Any member of the class of [email protected] by her husband Arnold, a daughter and 1953 who would like to assume any of two granddaughters. these positions, please let me know. We start with some news, not much, ‘53 Laura Bogert Hollingshead, an June Rosener Wessel but I’m happy for what I have and art major, died May 27, 2017. Laura always open to more (hint, hint). 539 Mountain Avenue, Apt 801 ’54 lived in various job-related big city New Providence, NJ 07974 Helen Hatala Joanne Goldberg Yatvin and areas before retiring in Easton, MD. husband Milton attended an event in [email protected] Class President Wherever she lived, Laura continued [email protected] the spring sponsored by Mazamas, a her art work, using watercolors, oil nonprofit mountaineering education On a bright sunny day in April, 14 of paints and pastels interchangeably. us gathered in Neilson Dining Hall to We celebrate our 65th Reunion this organization in Portland, OR, where She and her husband became long- their son Bruce was awarded the Terry celebrate our 65th Reunion at the year at Alumnae Reunion Weekend, distance bicyclists in the United States Vanguard Luncheon.