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JYF ALUMNIin MAGAZINE Paris

1948–2018 70TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

NUMBER 45 DECEMBER 2018 FROM THE DIRECTOR

The Millennials and Generation Z are the generations I have known over the last 14 years working with Sweet Briar College JYF in Paris. I’m often asked if the students have changed and if the program has changed as a result. Students are still attracted to JYF because our program allows them to discover French culture and studies through a real immersion in French. That core value has not changed in 70 years, and it remains the strongest element in our identity. We are facing headwinds in the trend toward very short stays and programs entirely in English, but we are determined to maintain our standards and are working on new means of communicating our strengths and the benefits of full immersion and rigorous French university study for the generations to come. The great difference is that today’s students are more connected than ever; they live on and through social media. Because they come with their laptops and telephones, long gone are the days of collect calls home once a week. Of course there are good and bad sides to this universal connectivity, but on the whole students suffer less from homesickness and have a much easier time getting around and becoming involved. We may miss the little books of street maps organized by arrondissement and the Pariscope, but Generation Z has a fabulous wealth of information at its fingertips. Most of our students do not major in French literature or Art History but they still take courses in French at the Sorbonne, in French Literature, Art History, and Philosophy. But American students, for the most part, now have other priorities : International relations, Busi- ness and Economy are among the most in demand, but also sciences, psychology , sociology. All these subjects are taught at the University Paris Diderot and are widely represented among the students’ majors. Then you find another group of students who in spite of their majors decide to explore the theater and cinema departments of the University of Paris III, as well as the communication and European studies departments. Our in-house courses are still very attractive and the history of Paris through its architecture, which allows them to visit new sites every week, the art history class that takes place at the Louvre every Wednesday night, or the theater class which takes them to see plays in many great theaters such as the Comedie Française, are always highly praised. If this vigorous academic approach is intimidating, Generation Z is not letting it show! In the end, the vast majority pass their classes with excellent results, and if the first exams in class (also known as DST, or devoir sur table) are excrutiating, in the end they will be proud to have done it the way the French do. Another way to learn that French method is through our internship program which continues to attract students and represents a doorway to working in a francophone environment. When students are not attending classes, they are doing what they have done for the last seven decades: strolling along the streets of Paris, travelling throughout Europe during week- ends and vacation. The difference today is that they fly everywhere instead of taking night trains and often book their various trips before arriving in France, another advantage of universal connectivity. And of course we can follow them, as their family and friends can, through the pictures that they put on their Instagram. As the great majority of you remember so well, living with a French family is also part of our immersion, and many students remain in contact with their host family and visit them when they come back to France. Families today have adapted to a new generation too and have learned how to prepare vegan diners. This year alone seven students from just 2016-2017 are working in Paris or other towns where they teach English in high schools through the TAPIF program, others are doing a Master at the Sorbonne. And now, they do not have to sign a pledge to speak French…it comes to them naturally. As we celebrate JYF’s 70th anniversary in Spring 2019, we are honored that Emile Langlois and Margaret Scouten, beloved former directors remembered fondly by so many of you, will attend the grand event we are planning on April 5, 2019, at Reid Hall in Paris. We hope you will join us !

Marie Grée Director Sweet Briar College JYF in Paris

B JYF ALUMNI MAGAZINE in Paris contents Letter from the JYF Director inside front cover

Letters from former JYF Directors 2

Invitation to SBC JYF 70th anniversary celebration in Paris 4

Paris lecture series 4

Interview with Professor Delia Mellado 5

Mots d’ Étudiants – “La Vie en France” 6 Excerpts from JYF students posts on Le Blog

70 years of JYF 9

JYF in Paris: A family legacy 10

Reunion News: ON THE COVER: JYF students in the Sweet Briar College JYF 1968-69 participants celebrate streets of Paris accompanied by Professor their 50-year reunion in New York City and Paris 13 Guillaume Peigné for the course Paris Palimpseste: Histoire de Paris à travers son Planning a reunion for the JYF class of 1979-80 15 architecture. PHOTO BY REID MCLAUGHLIN 2017-2018 Honor Roll 16

Investing in the Junior Year in France program for a new generation 17

Alumni Stories 18 JYF in Paris NUMBER 45 DECEMBER 2018 Class Notes 29 Researched and edited by Marie Grée Keep in touch with JYF 48 Juliette Monet Amy Ostroth In Memoriam Inside back cover Deirdre Conley, SBC ‘71 Content submitted by JYF alumni and current students Special thank you to Sweet Briar College Alumnae Relations and Development and Sweet Briar College Communica- tions for their assistance. Designed by Nancy Marion

1 s Sweet Briar College gets ready to celebrate the restricted to two days a week. Funnily enough, since French 70th anniversary of its Junior Year in France program, families were often unable to take in an extra mouth to feed, AI realize that I have been involved with the program in 1948-49, 19 women were housed at Reid Hall, which in one quality or another for nearly 50 of those 70 years. It means that the rooms where today’s students may attend started in 1969 when, having joined the French department some classes were dormitory rooms for the first group of at Mount Holyoke, I participated in the selection of the students. students allowed to go on the Sweet Briar program (the The program has gone through many changes: a pre- better ones, the others being directed towards programs session in Tours (although students were always eager to judged easier or not as good!) Later, I was the resident move to Paris as quickly as possible), moves from Reid Hall director in Paris, in 1975-76, 1982-83 and 2000-2001. to the Alliance Française and back to Reid Hall, excursions From 1984 to 2000 I was what the French called directeur to Normandy, Burgundy or other places, internships, a général and since 2001 I am director emeritus. A very long semester program, cooperation with more universities, etc. association indeed! and all this while France went through many crises, first the Talking with alumnae and alumni from the early classes Cold War, then the Algerian War, the 1968 événements, has always been one of my greatest pleasures. During my terrorism, and a dollar which always seemed too weak! years in Virginia I particularly enjoyed meeting Mary Morris I am glad that this 70th anniversary will be celebrated Gamble Booth at various functions. (read more about in Paris and hope to be able to travel and see some of the Mary on pg. 9) She belongs to the first group of students alumnae and alumni and the former colleagues whom I have courageous enough to go and spend the year 1948-49 in met over the years. Paris. Through her and other alumni of the early years of the program, I realized how much we owed to them. They Emile Langlois arrived in a Paris where there were still food restrictions, Director, Emeritus of Sweet Briar College Junior Year in where coal and therefore heating was scant and hot water France, 1984 – 2000 THANK YOU Over the past 70 years: • To our partner colleges and universities for sending your students to France with JYF

• To the JYF Advisory Committee for your guidance and feedback

• To JYF Alumni for contributing your experiences and reflections and your support to JYF

• To JYF directors, resident directors, assistant directors and staff for making it all happen

2 y tenure as Director of the was sitting in a small office in an annex of the Institut de Touraine on Sweet Briar College Junior Tuesday afternoon chatting with students about course offerings in MYear in France for 14 years IParis. This was a frustrating task because, even into the second week of (July, 2000- July, 2014) was the most September, the French universities had not released specific information memorable and fulfilling challenge about classes that would be starting in early to mid-October. Ninety-seven of my 32-year career at Sweet Briar students had arrived in Tours the previous week for our preliminary session College. before beginning their academic year in Paris. Not only was it an honor and a So it was during an afternoon break that a student came by to tell me that privilege to have succeeded the there had been a terrible accident in New York: a plane had crashed into inimitable Dr. Emile Langlois (1984- one of the towers of the World Trade Center. I walked upstairs to the media 2000) but also to have been given the center in time to see a second plane hit the tower and it started to become opportunity to work closely with so clear that this was more than an accident. I watched with horror along with a many knowledgeable and dedicated couple of dozen students, teachers and colleagues as new reports came in colleagues in the French departments about other planes. I called my wife in Paris where she had stayed with our and study abroad offices from over 35 two kids while I was in Tours and I found comfort in her voice and those of my universities and colleges nationwide. children. I will always cherish the relationships The next day we had a group meeting in the theater of the Institut and and deep friendships with my invited students from other smaller programs to attend. The students were exemplary JYF staff (Sue Fauber understandably anxious; some of them had parents or other relatives who and Pat Wydner) in Virginia, the worked in the WTC or at the Pentagon and had not yet been able to contact outstanding and hardworking resident them. The director of the Institut had already put additional security measures directors and assistant directors, JYF in place and the French government had launched the Vigipirate protocols. professors and JYF staff in Paris and We felt safe in our provincial town but with a heightened awareness of our the hundreds of students who spent surroundings. the year or semester abroad with To say that this put a special edge on the year would be an SBCJYF in Tours and in Paris or Nice. understatement. Students in some programs decided to return to the A special mention must go to the USA; all 97 of our students stayed. Once back in Paris, there were intense legendary Mme Carol Denis, assistant conversations with the homestay families, with faculty and staff at the director to several resident directors Alliance Française and among the students concerning news coverage and in Paris who nurtured, advised and international response. A junior year abroad is always life altering, but 2001- helped so many students from (1978- 2002 was infused with dramatic events that forced reflection and made 1979; 1981-2002) and was named by International understanding seem more important than ever before. students as “mother of the program.” As interim program director a few years ago when Sweet Briar College Sadly, she passed away after a was facing threat of closure, I had the opportunity to speak with many former courageous battle with cancer on program participants from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. They had wonderful Aug. 8, 2006. stories to share about their own year abroad and how it affected their lives JYF is fortunate to continue the and their life choices in subsequent years. I know from my own experience on JYF program under the excellent a junior year abroad in France what a profound effect such an experience has leadership of Director Marie Grée on our understanding of the world. in Paris along with Lucy Hervier, Study abroad has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Close and Laura Nunes da Costa. Their to 60 percent of study abroad these days is short-term programs—eight daily interaction with students is the weeks or fewer—often with faculty from the home institutions and often all in strength of the program at Reid Hall. English. I know that short-term programs can be interesting and worthwhile, As the oldest intercollegiate but the total immersion in another culture and in another language for nine or coeducational study abroad program ten months is enriching in ways that one continues to discover and reconsider in Paris, we are now celebrating 70 over a lifetime. years of providing college students I was a member of the Sweet Briar Junior Year in France Advisory with “the most formative time of their Committee for 10 years before becoming the academic director in Paris and life” (as stated in a lot alumni letters). I remained a member for another 12 years after returning to Washington We hope that many of you will be and Lee. I have regularly sent our Washington and Lee students on the JYF able to return to Paris and join us for program and they all come back telling me that, after meeting students from the 70th Anniversary Celebration at other American programs in Paris, they think the Sweet Briar JYF is the best— Reid Hall on April 5, 2019 to share the home stays, the academic support, the excursions. Sweet Briar JYF is one memories of your experiences in Paris. of a few high-quality programs that continue to provide an opportunity for Looking forward to seeing you total immersion in France at a time when intercultural understanding seems soon! more important than ever.

Amitiés, John Lambeth Margaret Scouten, Ph.D Academic Director in Paris, 2001-2003 JYF Director Emerita Interim Program Director 2015-2016

3 Sweet Briar College JYF in Paris Cordially invites you to our 70TH ANNIVERSARY COCKTAIL Friday, April 5, 2019 5:30 p.m.

at Reid Hall, 4, rue de Chevreuse 75006 Paris

RSVP by Friday, February 15 [email protected] (434) 381-6109 or 01-45-48-79-30

PARIS LECTURE SERIES Did you know? university communities—notably the students of JYF and University of Paris Columbia Global Centers in as well as alumni of these institutions. Paris at Reid Hall, where JYF’s office is located, hosts well over 2018 LECTURES 100 events per year: concerts, October 2018—Panel discussion on readings, lectures, performanc- Immigration in France Today: Sol- es, conferences. All events idarity and Rejection with Raphaël organized by the Paris Center ach year, JYF in Paris presents Krafft, journalist and writer, author of “Passeur;” Guillaume Le Blanc, philos- are free and open to the public lectures for students, alumni of unless otherwise indicated. To the program and host families. opher and author of “La fin de l’hos- E pitalité;” and Olivier Adam, writer and learn more about upcoming The Phoebe Bradt Lectureship and events, visit https://globalcen- the Patricia G. Nichols Lectureship author of “A l’abri de rien” and co- are possible thanks to the generosity screen writer of the film “Welcome” ters.columbia.edu/content/par- of the Bradt Family Fund. The fund is about migrants at Calais is-events part of the JYF endowment and sup- March 2018—Panel discussion on To learn more about upcoming ports multi-disciplinary lectures and “Women’s free speech: from #metoo events and to receive invitations, receptions in France with contempo- to #balancetonporc” with Marcela please sign up for the mailing list rary French thought leaders. These Iacub, legal historian; Vincent Toléda- at: activities, offered during the academic no, journalist and lawyer; and Azadeh globalcenters.columbia.edu/ year, are intended to advance mutual Kian, professor of sociology understanding among members of paris.

4 How long have you worked for JYF and what do you Interview teach? I have been working for JYF for many, many years… When I started with teaching our beautiful French language for JYF, my current students were not DELIA born! What do you enjoy most about teaching American study MELLADO abroad students? All the students who come to JYF are very interested in discovering French culture, and most of them already love it. This is why they are a very MEMORIES OF MME MELLADO: exceptional audience. For them, French language is obviously a means to achieve their goal, to enter French life and to belong, as much as possible, to Mme Delia Mellado’s quote: Paris. What teacher could ask for more? “Vous avez vingt ans et vous êtes à Paris - vous avez de la chance!” She What challenges do you experience teaching American was right! study abroad students? Pramita Kuruvilla, 1997-1998, USC First, I want to surprise them! They come to Paris to live a new experience and I want to surprise them by giving them something different from what Mme Mellado’s grammar class they already learned, something maybe not better but different. strongly influenced my thinking My concern is the language and only the language. I want to show them about being a language teacher. It that even if they have a good—and sometimes very good—level in French, was a new and good perspective on they still have a lot of things to learn. I try to give them as much as I can language learning techniques. during our three hours a week together. At the end of each class, I ask myself Jamie Olken Pokharel, Fall 2003, what my students have learned during this hour and a half spent together. Wheaton College Another challenge for me is not to forget anyone. Sometimes, students in the same group don’t need the same things and I have to adapt my teaching I especially loved taking classes until I can see a smile on every face! at JYF offices with Madame Mellado. She was a fantastic teacher How do you see your role? and I really loved her enthusiasm for My role is a fantastic one! My role is to lead them to master our beautiful the language. but very difficult language! I want them to feel comfortable and not to fear

Samantha Galvan, Spring 2005 their professors’ reaction. The more they feel comfortable, the easier it gets. What impact do you think you have on students? Every time Mme Mellado called That’s a difficult question. Learning a language requires rigor, but in us princes and princesses. spite of that rigor that can be sometimes difficult but leads to efficiency, I Katelyn French, 2014 hope that I do transmit to my students my passion for French and foreign languages in general, because learning a new language is like opening your Mme. Mellado’s interactive (and mind to different people. always comedic) French grammar course!

Megan Johnston, Spring 2015,

Sweet Briar College

Professor Mellado has taught Sweet Briar’s Expression écrite and Grammaire et syntaxe avancées since 1990. She and her course are among the most memorable for many JYF alumni through the years.

5 Mots d’Étudiants—“La Vie en France” Excerpts from JYF student posts on Le Blog See more of the JYF Blog at jyf.blog.sbc.edu

Mal habillée Les robes. Les blouses. Les vestes. L’Orchestration du dîner Keyla Carvalho Les chaussures. Les chaussettes. Marissa Gamache Northwestern University Les sandales. Et les Parisiens qui les Wheaton College Je quitte l’aéroport. C’est mon portent, un sourire sur leurs visages, Quelque chose que je ne suis pas premier jour ici, la première fois des cheveux impeccables, des voix certaine de comprendre, mais qui que je viens à Paris, et la première bourdonnant une langue que je peux à est très important, est la façon de impression que j’ai est de n’être… peine comprendre, ce sont eux. (…)Ce dîner. (…) Le dîner est une production pas assez bien habillée. (…)Dans n’est pas comme si je ne m’y attendais complètement orchestrée. D’abord, les trains, dans les rues, dans les pas : Paris est l’une des capitales de la mettre la table est comme l’activation situations les plus banales possibles, mode, après tout. Je peux sentir mon d’une bombe, chaque chose à sa tout le monde semble extrêmement sens du style s’améliorer à mesure que place et pas de place pour l’erreur. à la mode, et je n’ai jamais été aussi j’essaie de nouvelles combinaisons. L’assiette au centre, la fourchette sur consciente de moi-même et de mes Mais je ne peux toujours pas la gauche, le couteau sur la droite, le vêtements froissés. (…)quelques jours comprendre… comment même les verre au-dessus—j’ai cru que ce ne plus tard, quand je quitte la classe bébés peuvent-ils s’habiller mieux que serait pas trop difficile. Comme pour à la recherche de mon déjeuner, je moi ??? la plupart de mes hypothèses depuis les vois. Les jupes. Les pantalons. mon arrivée, j’avais tort. En plus de Ce qui m’a surprise à Paris, une BD d’Elizabeth Gentile Elizabeth Gentile Brandeis University

6 devoir être posée sur la gauche, la l’architecture monumentale deviendra Frères d’armes fourchette doit reposer à l’envers. En insipide comme le sont pour moi Jack Gaugin-Rosenthal plus de devoir être posé sur la droite, les gratte-ciel, et où l’hiver rendra Washington & Lee University le couteau doit faire face à l’assiette. les jardins sombres et sans fleurs ? Le troupeau s’apprêtait à se En plus de devoir rester au-dessus, Comme si je ne pouvais pas croire précipiter vers les rails, les plus le verre doit être centré et au-dessus à ce que je vois, j’attends que cette rapides bafouant ceux qui traînaient, de la cuillère qui est aussi posée à façade idyllique de Paris vole en les laissant seuls à faire face aux l’envers. Le pain ne doit pas être dans éclats, ce grand rêve magique qui, tourniquets. C’était une véritable l’assiette, mais sur la table, à gauche je le crains, cache la totalité de cette guerre contre une opposition de l’assiette. La première fois que j’ai ville. L’idéalisation présente toujours mystérieuse—une guerre où tous mis la table, je tenais cette « bombe des dangers. Elle me fait oublier ce semblaient être seuls. Une guerre », une main agrippée aux cuillères, que je remarque dans et sous les apparemment sans aucune alliance, l’autre main agrippée aux serviettes, rues—comme les bras de l’homme aucun camarade. Une ambiance me demandant si elle exploserait à la infirme qui traîne son corps à travers interminable, un instant perpétuel première erreur. Heureusement, ma le métro pour obtenir un peu d’argent de « chacun pour soi ». En réponse mère d’accueil m’a sauvée. et survivre, ou les yeux bleu clair, à l’arrivée sonore de l’objectif à saisissants, de la femme assise sur le atteindre qui, d’un coup, apparaissait Découvrir Paris au-delà trottoir devant laquelle je passe chaque dans le tunnel, la foule se mobilisa des images jour en allant à mes cours. Il y a, bien instantanément, envahissant, à la Isabella Ko sûr, toujours un spectre de la beauté et vitesse d’un éclair, la plateforme du Northwestern University du mal ; cependant, comment peut-on RER B direction Nord, vers Denfert (…) Arrivera-t-il un moment où garder ces deux côtés pour connaître Rochereau—d’après l’environnement, les lumières clignotantes de la Tour la réalité, ou plutôt les réalités ? on aurait dit l’enfer même—vers mon Eiffel ne m’enthousiasmeront plus, où premier cours à Paris. En plus, j’avais

Marissa Gamache and Eugenie Perez at the American Cemetery in Normandy

7 déjà 10 minutes de retard. Dégainant petits cafés dans chaque rue. C’est la ma carte Navigo (…) avec une rapidité capacité à surprendre, à présenter tout qui se révéla inefficace en raison de le monde avec de nouvelles histoires et mon impatience et de ma naïveté, nouveaux souvenirs—une expérience [je faisais face] au tourniquet [qui] inoubliable. (…) J’ai hâte d’être demain ne succomba pas à mon audace et dans cette grande ville. demeura plutôt barbare et résistant. Désespéré et confus, je commençai Se doucher dans une à paniquer. Le train s’était arrêté baignoire brusquement et était prêt à accueillir Maja McCabe le troupeau qui avait réussi à battre Connectituct College les diaboliques inventions humaines. Quand je suis arrivée chez elle, ma Seul à être vaincu, je regardai au loin et mère d’accueil m’a montré la maison. acceptai ma défaite. En levant les yeux, David McElrath & Isabella Ko J’ai remarqué que les toilettes étaient je vis que l’inconnu (…) avait remarqué au rez-de-chaussée et la salle de bain ma galère. Il tenait la porte pour moi La vraie magie de Paris au premier étage. C’était un peu et m’apprit avec un geste comment David McElrath étrange pour moi, mais d’accord. Je dépasser l’imposition des machines. Hampden Sydney comprends que les deux salles soient Je le regardai avec étonnement et Je pensais, autrefois, que j’étais le séparées, deux personnes peuvent les reconnaissance ; un véritable guerrier fils des grandes villes. Que j’aurais pu utiliser en même temps. À condition chargé d’honneur. Même si j’étais trouver le cœur de la ville vivante et qu’il y ait des toilettes et une douche, seul à lutter contre une force étrange marcher seul dans les rues sombres je suis d’accord ! et insurmontable, j’avais, même et mystérieuses. Mais j’ai senti que Enfin, j’étais prête à prendre une pour un instant qui serait bientôt j’avais peur. Ce n’est pas que ces douche. Ma mère d’accueil m’a dit « épuisé, rencontré un camarade. Je choses soient nouvelles pour moi— est-ce que tu sais comment utiliser la me souviendrai toujours de mon frère au contraire ! Je me souviens du douche ? » et j’ai répondu « bien sûr d’armes. mode de vie dans les grandes villes. ! » J’ai vite découvert pourquoi elle C’est exactement cet environnement a posé cette question. Devant moi, qui m’a formé dans mon enfance. une douche que je n’ai jamais vue. Il Mais Paris est différente des autres y a une baignoire et un pommeau de grandes villes. Moi, qui ai déjà vu de douche. Je suis restée là quelques nombreuses villes, je suis constamment minutes en pensant à la façon de surpris par le mélange unique de m’approcher de la douche. Dois-je cultures, traditions, et histoires qui me lever ou m’asseoir ? Est-ce que est présent ici. Ici, les lumières et je remplis la baignoire d’eau ? Plus les ombres dansent ensemble dans important encore, comment puis-je la nuit. Chaque jour apporte de prendre une douche sans mettre de nouvelles aventures inattendues qui l’eau sur le sol ? sont les bienvenues. Laissez-moi vous Après, peut-être, la plus longue expliquer. Imaginez un souk parisien. douche de ma vie, j’ai regardé autour C’est le matin, mon premier matin de moi. Il y avait beaucoup d’eau sur le à Paris. Le ciel est gris, le vent froid, mur et beaucoup sur le sol. Ok, j’ai un épicé par les odeurs et vibrant des voix peu échoué. des peuples de douzaines de pays. J’ai nettoyé et pensé aux difficultés La force du décalage horaire afflue qui m’attendaient. Je veux juste une dans ma tête en vagues énormes, se douche normale ! déplaçant d’avant en arrière. Mais Mais, deux semaines plus tard, je chaque fois que je pense que la vague peux dire avec joie qu’il y a moins m’entraîne (vers quoi, je ne sais pas), je d’eau sur le sol tous les soirs et que trouve un autre spectacle, un souvenir j’apprends à prendre une douche à des temps anciens. Je suis là avec moitié assise et à moitié debout ! des amis de ma famille d’accueil, qui me présente à plusieurs personnes différentes dans le souk, avec qui j’ai des conversations sur beaucoup de sujets, limité par ma seule imagination. (…) C’est ça, je pense, la vraie magie de Paris. Ce n’est pas du tout les musées, les monuments, ou les

8 70 Years of JYF n 1948, the United Nations was Mary remembers how young and still in its early days and in Decem- idealistic they all were—young stu- ber of that year, the organization dents hoping to stop war. Speaking Iadopted the Universal Declaration of in 2013, she said she was not as san- Human Rights, acknowledging a need guine as she had been in 1948, but for better understanding among the went on: “I still think international peoples of the world. What better study and international relations and time for Sweet Briar’s JYF program to friendships are all to the good. So get started? (N.B.: The program first that’s why I think it’s important for as got its start at the University of Dela- many people as can to get the expe- ware in 1923, but was interrupted by rience.” World War II and came to Sweet Briar That’s a notion shared by many at College in 1948.) Sweet Briar. A 1974 issue of the Sweet Mary Morris Gamble Booth, a Briar Alumnae Magazine noted that member of the Sweet Briar Class of the JYF program had “opened wide 1950, was part of this first Junior Year a window on the world; it provided a in France group—and one of five from means whereby education can help Sweet Briar to spend the 1948-49 year the United States fulfill its mission in in Paris. In the wake of World War II, international affairs. In the words of the country was still reeling. Food was President Harold B. Whiteman Jr., it rationed and electricity was turned off has proved to be ‘one of the College’s two days a week. Mary remembers greatest assets. In certain parts of the her fingers growing numb around her globe … Sweet Briar is its Junior Year pencils because of the cold. Even so, in France.’” it was an experience she would carry The program has had no less im- with her. pact on the students, like Mary, who Asked what surprised her most told us: “We, the more than 7,000 about Paris, her answer is the River fortunate students who attended and Seine. A St. Louis native, Mary’s notion now are celebrating the 70th anniver- of a river was formed by the mighty sary of the Sweet Briar Junior Year in Mississippi, one of the largest rivers in France, know that we will always have the world. Young Mary, before her trip Paris.” to France had been excited to see the Seine, which she had heard so much about. Imagine her surprise when she got to Paris and realized that the mythos of the Seine was larger than its physical size. That wasn’t the only surprise, of course. Sometimes the peculiarities of language were surprising too. Once, she came into voice class and told the instructor, “J’ ai une grenouille dans la gorge,” intending to say that she had a “frog in her throat.” That particular English idiom didn’t translate well and her teacher was completely shocked. Another such example: Sometimes the American students would eat too much of the wonderful French food, and when offered more, would respond with “too full!” in French. The problem is that in French, that phrase translates to “I’m pregnant!” Imag- ine the shocked faces of their French friends and colleagues!

9 JYF in Paris: A Family Legacy

weet Briar’s Junior Year in we had a stove in our room. There “I think that before people go to a France program—these days was no heating in the bathroom. The non-English-speaking country, they known as JYF in Paris—is toilet was down the hall and there should have a good command of the America’s longest-running was newspaper for toilet paper.” That language and then be perfecting it,” Scoeducational study-abroad program was quite the change for Doris, who, she said. in Paris. Study-abroad experiences although having grown up in modest In the early 80s, Doris’s son, Mat- are some of the most meaningful a circumstances, was used to things be- thew, then a French major at Williams student can have, so it is perhaps no ing less primitive. But the Latin Quar- College, chose the JYF program on surprise that some JYF attendees are ter location was great and the family his mother’s recommendation. Like his not the first members of their family to was interesting and after just one year, mother, he lived with a family, though participate. Doris’s French was fluent, which she unlike his mother, the family didn’t The Kadish family is one example. attributes to conversations with her live in Paris, but rather in a suburb: The Kadish family tradition of host family. Asnières-sure-Seine. That family was studying in France actually began with More than just perfecting her his second host family, as the first was Doris Kadish’s father, a Russian who French, the experience helped shape not a good fit for young Matt. But studied in France when he was young. a more mature Doris. One of her Skid- Mme. Denis, the JYF coordinator was Doris thought it was a wonderful thing more professors had encouraged her caring and arranged for him to move that he’d studied in France. Though not to attend the program because he to an especially warm family, one Matt her mother was fearful of her daughter didn’t think she was ready. Thankfully, said she kept in reserve in the event spending a year in France, her father she didn’t listen to him. She said, “I someone had a bad experience. At won the argument and in 1959, a went from being this, you know, baby- that time, Asnières was a 10-minute young Doris—majoring in French at ish little hick to being a sophisticated Skidmore College in New York—spent person and then I went on to live in a year in Paris, launching a legacy that New York City. It completely trans- would see both her son, Matt, and formed me in terms of maturity level.” granddaughter, Melissa, attend the She would come home and marry JYF program. and have children, as women often Doris arrived in a country still suffer- did then. “At the time, at schools like ing the effects of World War II. “I think Skidmore, women did not have career it’s probably hard for younger people paths; the term didn’t even exist,” to realize what it was like after the sec- she said. “They were finishing schools ond world war and how tough things and many times women walked out were in Europe in terms of physical the door and got married that very conditions and mental attitudes,” summer. That’s what I did.” But even- Doris told us. “I think that the French tually, she would go on to get a Ph.D. were hurting. They had lived through in French, which led her to a 40-year very horrible times.” career as a French professor. Doris remembers her granddaugh- She feels strongly about study- ter, Melissa, being in Paris last year abroad programs and still believes and sending pictures of herself eating that Sweet Briar’s is the best, but she crêpes or ice cream. Doris’s experi- has little use for what she calls “study- ence was more stark. “We didn’t have abroad tourism,” where students go heating. [My host] would give us a to a foreign country for cultural experi- bucket of coal every morning and ences without knowing the language.

10 JYF in Paris: A Family Legacy

day in that book.” that are good for you, it wasn’t always He also remembers fondly a French fun. Remembering that Christmas—his girlfriend with whom he enjoyed ex- first away from his family—he said ploring France—and getting lost. they were down in Bordeaux staying The pair traveled all over the country in a cheap hotel. “I found a small plas- in her car and Matt became part of tic trash can that was green, turned her family. Like his mother, Matt was it upside down and put a balloon on devoted to perfecting his French so top. That was the ornament,” he said. he “went native” and didn’t talk much “We put our presents underneath. we to other Americans during that year. opened them at 12:01 in the morn- While he didn’t become a French Pro- ing.” It was pushing beyond the lone- fessor like his mother, he ended up liness that allowed him to learn and going into law and, he says, “it’s just grow. train ride from the Gare Saint-Lazare like another language.” Flash forward to 2017. Matt’s in Paris. “I made it a project to write a In the days before the internet, he daughter, Melissa, a French and poem each way for three months and only got one or two phone calls the Psychology major at the College of it became a book of just my poetry entire year and airmail letters were Wooster, was looking for her own sketches,” he said. In fact, that train expensive, so there were only a few study-abroad experience. She’d ride is one of Matt’s favorite memo- of those. Despite the challenge of looked at several French-speaking ries. “I made use of that time and it isolation, Matt said the loneliness was places—like Morocco and Senegal— became something I still have to this good for him, but, like a lot of things but Sweet Briar’s program allowed

11 students to study and directly enroll at what was in the other direction. “So I if there are two different words, they local universities, which was the kind got on the train and said, ‘Let’s figure mean different things and there’s no of experience Melissa was looking out where this goes.’” She doesn’t way to learn them until you learn them for. Oddly, Melissa didn’t realize until remember where she got off, but she because it’s all about context.” After after she’d started the application does remember getting out, wander- graduation, Melissa hopes to continue process that it was the same program ing around and grabbing a bite to eat. exploring and learning the complex- her father and grandmother had at- Like many JYF students, Melissa ities of language as a teaching assis- tended. “They always referred to it as improved her fluency in French a lot tant in France or elsewhere. the Sweet Briar program and it was from living with her host mom. “It The whole family acknowledges advertised to my college primarily as was a little bit like living with a French that you get out of the program what Junior Year in France. I didn’t get the professor who’s going to call you out you put in. All three talked about get- name Sweet Briar in conjunction with on your language all the time,” she ting out and experiencing the country. it until partway through the applica- laughed. And her host mom wasn’t The Sweet Briar program, Melissa tion process,” she said. But once she the only person who corrected her added, was great about taking stu- did know, their glowing reviews of French, she said. She made an effort dents on field trips to locations such the program made her try a little bit to befriend some French students in as Versailles and Normandy. “Sweet harder. her classes at the university. “I found Briar will get you there and does an Melissa spent the Fall 2017 semes- my French wasn’t perfect. I made a amazing job of giving you a strong ter living right in Paris—for her, the lot of mistakes and I had to correct foundation. But you have to use it,” 17th district—and like her father, she myself, but as long as I was trying, she said. ended up at the Gare Saint-Lazare people were really accommodating. The other thing all three agree on? most days, taking a Metro train there Some of them pointed out my errors That the JYF experience builds confi- before boarding another train to class. and I would say, ‘Thank you so much. I dence and gives students perspective “I really enjoyed the Metro,” she was working on that.’” But sometimes, on the world. “You learn about your- said. “Because no matter where I was fluency in a language is about more self and you build self-reliance and in Paris, I could get to pretty much than just grammar. “I had a lot of trou- confidence,” Matt said. “You learn anywhere else in an hour or less. It ble in Paris understanding the sub- how to communicate differently on a was amazing.” Also like her dad, she text of what my peers were saying,” new level.” didn’t mind getting a little bit lost. Her Melissa told us. “A lot of it relied on normal stop was the second to last social knowledge and general people one on the train, and she wondered skills. One thing I’ve learned is that

12 1968-69 FIFTY YEARS AGO REUNION NEWS Sweet Briar College JYF 1968-1969 Participants Celebrate their 50-Year Reunion in New York City and Paris

Two years after first calling attention to this approaching, momentous anniversary, the Committees to Celebrate Junior Year Abroad in Paris (members listed at the end of this report) held two celebrations in September and October this year. On Sept. 29, 2018, at the picturesque Upper East Side bistro Orsay, 24 former classmates, accompanied by spouses and friends, assembled. While many of us had pictures associated with our email addresses, others did not and we had no idea how the years had changed each of us. Name tags were critical. As people climbed the winding staircase to our private dining room, we were mostly stumped as to the identities of our guests, but exhiler- ated as people announced themselves. cles, trains, and by hitchhiking thrilled they watched the series of familiar The evening began with a lot of us. Junior Year was also a time to get pictures and struggled to remember hugging and heartfelt welcomes. Dan to know the support and challenges others in photos when our memories Gorrell created a stellar program in- of living with families of all kinds. The failed us. Our esteemed former assis- cluding pictures submitted by both laughter and tearful reminiscences tant director, Madame Guéron, spoke those who attended and those who carried us through to the next morn- clearly from her perspective about the could not be there. The photos were ing, where we continued sharing our challenges she experienced in work- arranged by Dan to chronicle the memories over a sumptuous brunch in ing with some families and achieving events and relationships among the the home of our gracious and hospita- harmonious placements. We gained students from our voyage on the QE1 ble friends Kathryn Bush Kimball and new respect for her role as she de- to the events closing the momentous her spouse Andrew. scribed situations of which most of year. A cleverly-devised interactive, On Oct. 11, 2018 at Reid Hall a us were blissfully unaware. To further multiple-choice game about high- group of 12 classmates accompanied engage our friends, dinner had been lights of that year brought individuals by their spouses, children and friends arranged at La Petite Chaise, named together in teams vying for points. held a reception for the current stu- the oldest restaurant in Paris, on rue The evening ended with poignant ac- dents in the Sweet Briar program. de Grenelle. We walked and “ubered” counts of the impact of that year. Bon- Locating ourselves in the green room, over just in time before the heavens nie Halpern, Diane Donaghey Jumet a classroom, with an elegant spread of opened up. The pouring rain was a and Dan led the evening’s celebration. fruit, cheese and delectable pastries, lovely counterpoint to our French on- We agreed that the year was a turn- Eric Allemano led the program while ion soup and chocolate desserts. ing point for all of us, but in different we offered everyone a set of photos On behalf of all those who par- ways. Attendees reported feeling free of our 1968-69 year. Attendees shout- ticipated in planning, emailing, and from a variety of constraints and ste- ed out the names of our friends as attending these events, I believe I reotypes. Tales of travels across West- they were recognized and laughed can say we learned several important ern Europe and beyond on motorcy- about our clothes and demeanor, as things.

13 Diane (Donaghey) Jumet were built on the classes we took together or mutual love of art, music, food, and travel. We will continue to stay in touch with our friends and now Tours group have contacts all across country. First, looking back at our expec- to visit our home families and enjoy We thank the administrators who tations and plans as young students, many areas of the country. made our junior year a success, and we had no sense of what lay ahead. We left the reunion feeling closer remember leaders who have left us, It is astonishing how this year proved than we ever could have imagined, the friends who have passed away, a jumping off point for successful in part because we realized that we and the many, many wonderful junior and celebrated careers and accom- shared an era that was unique to us: year participants for making this re- plishments, such as university and Sartre, Ionesco and Beckett were still union the wonderful event it was. high school faculty, writers, theater alive and writing, the revolution of With gratitude we want to acknowl- actors and designers, business lead- May ‘68, with its “manifestations” and edge the help of the current staff in ers, painters, researchers, lawyers, school closings, continued into the the SBC offices in Paris and Virginia. judges, historians etc. These life-long fall, and springtime brought the po- Submitted by Meredith Ludwig for the accomplishments did not necessarily litical demise of President de Gaulle. reunion committees: turn on our knowledge of the French Returning home, we were met with Reunion in New York: Daniel Gorrell, language, but rather on the desire the moon landing, anti-Viet Nam war Bonnie Halpern, Diane Donaghey Ju- to learn other cultures, the quality of demonstrations, and later Kent State met, Meredith Ludwig, Cheryl Mann, open-mindedness, and a hunger for and unrest at many of our respective Rob Levy, Kathryn Bush Kimball adventure. educational institutions. Second, some of us returned af- We feel so fortunate that we were Reunion in Paris: Eric Allemano, Mer- ter college and lived in France, with able to live out our lives, reach this edith Ludwig, Lynn Wallisch several marrying French citizens and milestone and celebrate with others. For information about the photos or maintaining life-long ties through Our class was large and we did not contacts with classmates please con- marriage and children. Since 1968-69, know each and every person in the tact Daniel Gorrell at danielgorrell@ France has called us back and many of program. Various groups of students gmail.com or Eric Allemano, eric.alle- us have traveled back numerous times hung out together. Often relationships [email protected].

Sweet Briar folks (L-R): Jane Gott, Hannah Baird Hunter, Mrs. Pannell (SBC president), Mme. Guéron (assistant to the Steve Fleck, Alan Bass, George Dunkel, Jim Lobe Professor-in-Charge), Ruth Stokes

14 1979–80

Haig Nargesian, Lynn Ellen Haskett Queen, Sam Howell Cathy Cosentini Bonczek and Elizabeth Jensen,

Planning continues for JYF class of 1979-80 reunion Working off of an alumni list provided by SBC-JYF, we called, emailed and tracked down as many former classmates as we could find to get together. We decided to do a trial run reunion in anticipation of our 40th year anniversary next year. On Oct. 6, 2018, a small group of 1979-80 JYF alumni gathered in New York City to reminisce and reacquaint. We first went to the Met to see the Delacroix exhibit and then later at the Café Loup for dinner. Scott Daube and Gary Gilmore Planning our 1979–80 th Anniversary 40We are hoping to plan another fête next year to celebrate our 40th anniversary! Please contact us on our Facebook Group site: sbc-jyf ’79-’80 Reunion, or contact the Sweet Briar JYF office to be directed to one of us. [email protected] or (434) 381-6109.

Looking forward to hearing from you. A bientôt! —Jane Bell, Cathy Cosentini Bonczek, Charlotte Smith Bourhis, Elizabeth Jensen and Lynn Ellen Haskett Queen 15 2017–2018 Honor Roll Junior Year in France

Junior Year in Paris Program Dorothy Senghas Lakner, ‘71-72 Mr. and Mrs. Victor Ackermann, ‘70-71 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Lautar, ‘07-08 The Ackermann Foundation Karin Lindgren Julie O’Neil Arnheim ‘59-60 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce H. MacLeod, ‘65-66 Victoria J. Baker ‘65-66 Ms. Delia E. Martinez, ‘73-74 Ashton Barfield ‘62-63 Audrey Michelle Messer, ‘97-98 Kathryn M. Broderick Helene Mewborn, ‘55-56 Benita B. Campbell, 57-58 Kelly Schmitt Molique ‘92-93 Martha Baum Carlton ‘60-61 Carter Heyward Morris ‘71-72 Mr. and Mrs. Joe Carroll, ‘69-70 Pamela Tipton Newton ‘67-68 Macauley Carter, Jr., ‘61-62 Norfolk Southern Foundation Janna McLarty Chandler ‘94-95 Mr. and Mrs. Noland D. Pace, Jr. Paula B. Cook, ‘68-69 Estate of Patricia C. Powers *, ‘50-51 Maria Corpora, ‘70-71 Mary Beirne Rewcastle, ‘91-92 Vincent J. Doddy, ‘73-74 Mr. and Mrs. Eric A. Rothfeld, ‘71-72 Richard Dolen, ‘54-55 Marshall Metcalf Seymour ‘62-63 Constance and John Ecklund, ‘58-59 Britt K. Sheinbaum Mr. Hassan El-Amin, ‘68-69 Martha L. Simpson, ‘75-76 Melony Joe Ellinger Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Steele, Jr., ‘65-66 David Ellis, ‘75-76 Patricia C. Stewart, ‘48-49 Ms. Ruth Ferree T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving - The George W. and Ruth R. Baxter Fund, Emily Pace ‘01-02 Janet M. Fishman, ‘68-69 Angela H. Toussaint, ‘84-85 Cynthia Livingstone Gilbert ‘61-62 Kathleen E. Troy, ‘84-85 Robert M. Gill, ‘69-70 Christine Devol Wardlow ‘61-62 Anne Lee Gravely ‘60-61 Wendy C. Weiler Margaret C. Hager, ‘61-62 Nan Tull Wezniak, ‘57-58 Mr. Joseph David Olson Halaas, ‘01-02 Jennifer Solveig Wistrand, ‘98-99 Kelly E. Hall ‘93-94 Daphne Johnson Hanrahan, ‘76-77 Rhoda J. Harris M. G. Ferre Scholarship for Junior Year in France Edith Dobyns Gilson, ‘56-57 Victoria Chappell Harvey ‘04-05 Gilson Investments, Inc. Mary Jane Higgins, ‘62-63 Samuel Howell Arthur F. Humphrey III, ‘75-76 Matthew Scholarship Fund for Junior Year in France Mary Ann Gosser, ‘78-79 Michelle Francesca Johnson Jay, ‘08-09 Cassandra Streett Hamrick ‘64-65 American Express Company PAC Match Trust--Michelle Jay Megan Kaitlyn Johnston, Spring ‘14 Allison Thomas Kunze, ‘73-74 *DECEASED Peter M. Labombarde, ‘74-75

16 Investing In The Junior Year In France Program For A New Generation

A Unique and Timeless Legacy Since 1948, the Sweet Briar College Junior Year in France Program has been the signature, immersive language and cultural experience in Paris for qualified students from American colleges and universities. In partnership with renowned Paris universities, JYF offers a high-quality academic program tailored to individual language goals, while exploring the many facets of French life and culture for a semester or a full academic year. Across seven decades, the program has hosted nearly 7,300 students from over 280 colleges and universities throughout the United States, helping students achieve French language fluency and advanced intercultural skills to prepare for leadership and success in a global workplace. During the current academic year, JYF hosts 41 students from 20 U.S. institutions studying in Paris universities, Sweet Briar Center and the American Busi- ness School of Paris. Supporting JYF’s Future Now, in celebration of JYF’s historic 70th anniversary, we invite the support of our program alumni as we continue to refine and grow JYF in step with the needs and aspirations of a new generation. At a time when linguistic and intercultural skills and bridge building are more needed than ever, the JYF program has a big role to play. Your support will help us give more students from diverse backgrounds and with diverse life and career goals the opportunity to step beyond the day-to-day campus experience and into an environment that challenges assumptions, builds empathy and awareness, and expands their horizons.

Make your gift to JYF today by visiting www.sbc.edu/jyf/ways-to-give

BUILDING LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY AND INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING WITH YOUR SUPPORT, JYF WILL: • Expand outreach, diversify recruitment and communicate with new student audiences to make the program more accessible than ever before; • Invest in new dimensions and program offerings that respond to student needs in a changing world; • Offer a best-of-class experience to all participating students, coordinated and supported by a committed staff that is passionate about the potential of the program to build French language and intercultural competency; and • Underwrite JYF alumni activities, from an annual magazine and special events to direct engage- ment and networking with program alumni around the world.

17 Alumni Stories

My Pilgrimage to Chartres The Pentecôte holiday of May 1951, was a very long weekend and I had no place to go. I decided to join the Catholic Student Group on their pilgrimage to Chartres cathedral. There was a minimal cost and I loved the poetry of Charles Péguy; la BEAUCE etc. The subject was: La hié- rarchie de l’église. I told the person in charge that I was NOT Catholic. They were most welcoming. We met at a train station; took the train for a short distance and began to walk….chanting,”je vous salue, Marie….mère de Dieu; Le bon Dieu est avec vous…Vous êtes bénie entre toutes les femmes,….etc.” Ev- Rebecca (Loose) Valette on the Mauritania Rebecca and Jean-Paul in Tours in 1957 ery five or six kilomètres we sat in a semicircle; a young priest-in-training would write each other postcards to would present a question to me like: My life trajectory Little did I know when I boarded set up dates! I was not until May that I “Vous croyez “a priori” qu’il y a un the RMS Mauritania in New York on was able to give him a definitive “yes” Dieu”…..and I said, “Je crois que oui” the morning of Sept. 5, 1957, that my to his proposal. We each finished our and he went on to all that follows……. life was about to take a new turn. I final year of studies, he at HEC and We slept in barns and the Catholic had grown up in Boulder, Colo., which I at Mount Holyoke, and then were students arose very early for mass. in the 1950s was a small university married in Paris in August 1959. We approached the cathedral most town, and at sixteen had enrolled as a French had been my weakest sub- “poetically”…..as the wind blew the freshman at Mount Holyoke College in ject in college. I had originally been a wheat stalks toward the asymmetric Massachusetts, which was even more chemistry major, but had switched to towers of Chartres. rural. Now, at eighteen, I would soon medieval history to be eligible for a I cherish my memory of “my pil- be landing in France! junior-year scholarship to France. On grimage to Chartres” and I returned During my first week in Tours, a lo- my return to Mt. Holyoke as a senior, years later to hear Malcolm Miller ex- cal student by the name of Jean-Paul I declared a French major wanting to pound on the stained glass windows. Valette spotted me in a café with my better appreciate my future husband’s In 1984 I visited our daughter in JYF roommate Barbara Zeitlin (CCNY) language and culture. Jerusalem and we walked La Via Do- and the older siblings of the Rouxel Summer 1959 was still the Alge- lorosa during Holy Week. At the third family with whom we were housed. rian War and Jean-Paul would be station, a group of French Pilgrims The next day he looked up Dominique drafted for that bloody conflict unless began to chant:”Je vous salue Ma- Rouxel, a former classmate of his, and he obtained another educational de- rie…..” and I joined in…. arranged for us to be formally intro- ferment. We, therefore, enrolled as Sandy (Adler) Leibowitz, 1950-51 duced. For him, it was “love at first graduate students at the University Wells College sight” and on our second date, he of Colorado, he in economics and I proposed! I hesitated… in French. Jean-Paul earned his Ph.D. Jean-Paul was a second-year stu- in 1962 and, although we had two dent at HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes children, he was called back to France Commerciales) which at the time was for his military service. I spent the year in Paris, rue Malesherbes. During the 1962-1963 alone with a baby and a academic year, Barbara and I rented toddler in Tampa teaching at the Uni- an apartment in Bures-sur-Yvette on versity of South Florida and finishing the Ligne de Sceaux (a 25-minute my Ph.D. dissertation. train ride from Luxembourg and the In 1963-1964, our family was re- Sorbonne where we took courses). united in Paris. Then, in fall 1964 we In those days of no telephone and moved to the Boston area, where I obviously no texting, Jean-Paul and I taught first at Wellesley College, and

18 A Lasting Gift of Professor Maurice Sérullaz of the École du Louvre JYF ’59-’60 “Colorful” and “Luminous” Memories: The eyes of Sweet Briar’s JYF 1959- Recently, in thinking about M. 60 group of 90 eager students were Sérullaz and how much I have related opened wide to beauty and culture what I gleaned from that single class unknown to many of us, that of a cul- to all aspects of my intellectual en- ture many centuries our senior which deavors and pleasures, I located his our young country could not provide amazing biography and realized how us. For me, it may have been even truly special a treat we had enjoyed. more mind-blowing, as Paris was cos- Sharing that with some others from mopolitan as compared to my Knox- the ’59-‘60 JYF group, they too ex- ville, and it was more than I could pro- pressed fond recollections of him and cess at the time. My life was forever of the class. For all of us, it was a sem- positively impacted, and I still reflect inal experience. And most of us have on the how, the why, the who…. his 1959 book. I was neither brave Rebecca and Jean-Paul Valette, Sedona, AZ, Among those individuals who enough nor a good enough student October 2017 shared my admiration then, as now, to ask him to sign my copy! was Maurice Sérullaz, curator at the Maurice Sérullaz (1914-1997) was a then at Boston College. In 1970, Jean- Louvre and the professor who taught talented painter and expert on Dela- Paul left the business world, and we “Histoire de la peinture française du croix and impressionism. He was the embarked on a successful joint career XIXe et du début du XXe siècle” a first director of Paris’ National Eugène writing French textbooks for both special class for JYF students at École Delacroix Museum, chief curator of secondary school (French for Mastery, du Louvre, from November when we drawings at the Musée du Louvre and, Discovering French) and college (Con- arrived from Tours through mid-July. during WWII, he played an import- tacts). We arrived just after his book, “Les ant part, alongside Jacques Jaujard, We have three children and eight Peintres Impressionnistes” was pub- in safeguarding French national art grandchildren (ages 15-37), all of lished by Tisné on Oct.19, 1959. treasures. He was professor of art at whom are dual national citizens and In addition to our regular class ses- École du Louvre and in charge of the speak French. Had it not been for my sions, which courses given there. He was also pro- Junior Year in France, my life trajec- commenced fessor of history and French civilization tory would certainly have been much in the gal- at the Sorbonne, a respected art critic, different! Thank you, Sweet Briar! lery hung officer of the Legion of Honor, com- Grand merci! with huge mander of the National Order of Merit paintings by and commander of arts and letters. Rebecca (Loose) Valette, JYF 1957-1958 Mount Holyoke College David and in He is the author of numerous books a darkened and articles, primarily on Delacroix, classroom and organized various exhibitions, watching including the centenary of Delacroix slides of exhibition in 1963. He also was a works not script consultant on the film, The Rest- held by the Louvre while he lectured, less Eye: Eugène Delacroix (1980). I M. Sérullaz volunteered to lead us think he would have been shocked through the Louvre on Saturday to find himself on IMDB with movie mornings to introduce us to paintings stars! Born Jan. 19, 1914 in Paris, M. and styles that came before the 19th Sérullaz passed away in 1997 in Corsi- century. I believe he realized that he ca at age 83. was teaching a level 300 class whereas Juliette (Julie O’Neil) Arnheim many of us had not had 101! The ma- Sweet Briar College jority showed up on Saturday mornings, and he began our extra instruction with works beginning in the 13th century painted on wood.

19 Memories of Maurice Sérullaz— I recall the early morning routine of “Life Lessons” shivering outside the basement ser- We remember some of our teach- vice entrance to the Louvre a couple ers, not so much for specific bits of times a week, waiting to be admit- of information we learned in their ted to climb the staff stairs to access class but for principles we find useful our meetings with Professor Sérullaz in throughout our life. Monsieur Sérullaz the museum galleries before the Lou- is one of those teachers I have never vre opened to the public. forgotten. His intimacy with the paintings was One morning, we came upon some a revelation, a permission, an obliga- students who had set up their easels tion. His insights were transformative in front of one of the paintings. Each for me and opened windows in my was painting a reproduction of the mind. Here is one example that is masterpiece hanging before them. on-going. Looking at a Cezanne still When I asked M. Sérullaz who they life he said: were, he explained that these were “Ce n’est pas une nature morte. art students who were learning to C’est, comme vous dites en an- paint by a time-honored tradition the M. Sérullaz’ treasured inscription to Joe Carroll glais, un “steel lyyyfe.” French believe is the key to success in in his book And he went on to develop our any field: The first step is to learn from understanding of the pulsating in- the best. French art students were re- this energetic man, getting as close ter-relationships of forms, colors, lines, quired to copy a great work of art us- as possible to him, as he revealed the volumes of mass and air, “la vie des ing similar oils, mixtures (such as char- secrets of each impressionist work. formes,”if you will. coal) and brushes. “Only by learning There was a hierarchy in the group, I got it. I get it still. It was a lasting from a master can one strike out on with the more interested students gift. his own with his own style and tech- standing closer to Professor Sérullaz, and those who were perhaps dehy- Alan Weinstein nique.…Then, If you wish to become Princeton University a Jackson Pollock and throw buckets drated or with sore feet, falling toward the back until they recovered. of paint on a canvas and call it art, M. Sérullaz’ course changed the During one afternoon slide session, you are free to express yourself as you direction of my life, and led me from which I remember well, the projector like,” he said unenthusiastically. When teaching French literature to being a worker, dressed in his blue lab coat, we visited the Musée d’Art Moderne painter for the past 20 years. mistakenly placed a slide upside the last week of school to familiarize www.wendyst.com. I, too, have a copy down. A penetrating Non came rapid- ourselves with contemporary art, one of his book on French impressionists, ly from our professor. This was quickly of my classmates pointed to an ab- which he personally inscribed. followed by the slide upright but now stract painting and asked M. Sérullaz JYF alums may be interested to reversed right-to-left, again followed what he personally thought of it. With know that the Sérullaz name is still by the same Non. The following trials Gallic disdain he replied, “It is nothing appearing in the New York art world. (I don’t remember how many) resulted more than beautiful wallpaper.” In conjunction with the Delacroix ex- in another, and another mal-position, I unwittingly applied this wisdom hibition, now at the Met, his widow, again with a jarring Non following on my final exam. M. Sérullaz asked Arlette Sérullaz, has edited a catalog each. I tried to see if the worker was in me to critique Van Gogh’s l’Église for a current show of his works at the tears, but it was too dark. Finally, the d’Auvers-sur-Oise. Nervously searching Jill Newhouse Gallery in NYC. Here slide somehow was placed correctly, for an answer I remembered that two is a link to a video made by Mme. the session continued, and we were all of his favorite descriptive words were Sérullaz https://www.youtube.com/ certainly awake by this time. luminosité and juxtaposition. I began my watch?v=JqdDDxNHUCs. Her 114- Did we realize how lucky we were critique with “cette peinture a une certaine page catalog is on the web at https:// to be taking his course? Over our year luminosité” followed by “la juxtaposition jngpublications.cld.bz/Delacroix-2018. des divers éléments est vraiment remar- abroad, I woke to a world of remark- quable.” I still remember his smile. He able artistic sensibility, having seen Heather (Holiber) Gerson Brandeis University knew that I had learned from the best. many of its finest examples, which were presented in great depth by a Joe Carroll I have vivid recollections of our University of Virginia generous and highly accomplished scholar. I treasure the gift from Mau- group trooping around the Louvre rice Sérullaz to me, and to many of and Jeu de Paume with our brilliant, I still see him impeccably dressed, handsome, remarkable teacher. While with ramrod posture, and brisk move- us, that our appreciation and insight might be able to grow over the years. so many memories vanish from elderly ments. Guiding his plodding battalion cluttered brains, those of art history of JYFs, he seemed to me to exude James (Jay) Lee and appreciation with M. Sérullaz re- Yale University a degree of pride as he took charge main clear and present. M. Sérullaz’ of our group each time. We followed

20 erudition and love of Delacroix helped truly meager at the start of the year... to come. He was a master of leading me to “see” these works. His teaching the weekday gallery visits were always us to these discoveries. is a guide almost every time I experi- a highlight in each week! I remember with dread the oral ence painting and sculpture, enriching Thank you! I’ll always recall exam which was to be our final. Mem- a lifetime pursuit. his.....»le rouge qui fait chanter le orize the book: name of work, location Wendy (Soltz) St. Wecker gris.» and date. The entire book! And by Simmons College Carolyn (Coggin) Holmes, the way, go to St. Sulpice and check Wake Forest University out Héliodore chassé du Temple by I went to France wanting to be an Delacroix. I decided it was that paint- art major, but my college wanted me The course that Professor Sérullaz ing I would have to identify. My room- to wait before going overseas. So I gave was not only the best that I took mate, Debbie Noble, and I went to St. went as a psychology major and took during my junior year abroad but it Sulpice and studied the mural, what M. Sérullaz’s course. Upon my return, changed my cultural life forever. I we could see of it in the smokey re- I switched to French, got an MAT in learned so much about composition, cesses of the chapel near the ceiling. French and incorporated French paint- style, color, brush strokes, context, I have no idea what would have hap- ing into literature courses I taught. history and more that to this day I’m pened to me had he not shown that In the last 12 years (i.e.in retire- at ease in art museums and typically particular slide. ment) I’ve been a docent at the choose not to listen to the audio re- It was, I like to think, his passion National Gallery of Art in DC. I some- cordings at exhibits. and his “eye” which informed my times find myself still quoting him, I remember his disdain for modern teaching and my interest in art. In e.g. for Cezanne: “Quand la couleur painters—Matisse was merely decora- 1976, my husband and I started to est à sa richesse, la forme est à sa tive; a work by Picasso was just paint assemble a small collection of prints plénitude.” thrown on a canvas. And I remember using his Christmas bonus. It was I recall his oral exam…. When I was the oral exams in a large room when great fun to go to auctions, make calls asked who painted the Yellow Christ our names were called and we had to to the experts, could something be (Gauguin), I had no clue. I thought at identify names of painting and painter salvaged, etc. The prints included ev- that time that it was meaningless to on the slides he showed and provide erything from Motherwell to Morandi. make us know dates of Monet’s series dates and other details. One guy, un- Those which remain continue to bring or when Delacroix went to Morocco, prepared or intimidated, broke into joy! all of which are useful to me now. tears. Bless you, Monsieur Sérullaz, wherever you are! Naomi (Katz) Kulakow Doris (Young) Kadish Wheaton College Skidmore College Margaret Moore Henry (Read more about Doris Kadish on pg. 10) Mount Holyoke College M. Sérullaz’ art history class at the Jeu de Paume and the Louvre was the Prof. Serullaz’ course was a life This great blossoming of Serullaz highlight of my academic year 1959- changing event. He turned me on to lore on the internet is a tribute not 1960 with JYF. So many of the memo- art! Every tableau we viewed, if it had only to him but to the fine taste of the ries we are sharing bring back his witty even just one spot of sunlight, it was ‘59-60 Sweet Briar Junior Year group. observations as we listened in front of a précurseur de l’impressionisme. I Well done! each painting. I recall one comment can remember him pointing out le Joyce Carleton, JYF Assistant Director he made when explaining a thickly frémissement des feuilles and la palpi- 1962-64 green “steeel life” painting he did not tation des eaux. What an experience! Wilson College admire. «C’est un plat d’épinards!» God rest his soul in peace. Did he know then that the Jeu de Charlie Adams Paume paintings would be moved? Tufts University Our hours spent there learning with him are palpable and precious. When If you could identify one course I walked through those halls many which emerged as most important, years later, the feelings I had were of exciting and influential in your aca- him, our dear professor. demic life, it would probably be that Linda (Wilson) Laurence of Maurice Sérullaz. Week after week, Wheaton College we stood before some enormous canvas, showing perhaps the terrible M. Sérullaz opened a world of art carnage of war. Some one of us had which has enriched my entire life....for to talk about what we saw. Often it which I applaud both him and was the juxtaposition of color creating SBCJYF. form only at a distance. These colors Although I was terrified at each that not only animated the canvas also written test....my language skills were predicted the period of impressionism

21 An academic highlight Madame for her steadfast attachment An academic highlight of my JYF to the rules of behavior of the nobil- year was Histoire de la Musique with ity, notwithstanding her precarious M. Norbert Dufourque. finances. Madame arranged for the Norbert Dufourcq, professor of servant to keep house for Lloyd in music, organist and author, was born Paris, while I departed with the family in 1904 and died in 1990 at the age for Picardy. Her “chateau” was a large of 86. Students attending his Sweet manor house built about 1900 and Briar JYF class l’Histoire de la Musique never restored after the German occu- pation. The Germans had ripped out in 1959-60 were treated to a presen- JYF phase, the JYF year itself, and the the central heating; small wood stoves tation of remarkable erudition, clarity post-JYF phase. JYF, in other words, in most rooms supplied some warmth. and warmth. Professor Dufourcq’s was the gateway to the rest of my life. At bedtime, we were expected to let lectures were primarily focused on the During the break in May between the initial fire burn out and to add as Baroque Period (Bach-Corelli) but his the end of classes and the start of many blankets as needed. range extended both before and after final exams in Paris, I got to England Madame’s unmarried sister man- that time. He would illustrate samples for the first time. Having heard of the aged her nearby farm, which provided of various pieces with records or by picturesque southwest corner of the us with fresh butter, eggs and vege- playing on a small organ placed in country, I hitchhiked from London to tables. In the afternoon or evening, front of the classroom. This outstand- Saint Ives, Cornwall, and there I met we often dined at one of her relatives ing class gave all of us the keys to my wife-to-be, Johanna. Though we in Picardy. I invariably had to defend insightful and effective listening and only spent three days together, we President Roosevelt and his decision personally enabled me to enjoy a life- wrote letters for the next nine months at the Yalta Conference not to chal- time of music appreciation. until I asked her in a February 1970 lenge Stalin’s take over and occu- David Freund JYF 1959-60 letter to marry me. When I opened pation of Eastern Europe. Although Yale University her letter of reply sent to me in care of Madame and her relatives seemed to the American embassy in Dacca, East like me, they shared the underlying Pakistan (now Bangladesh), my eyes For my housing anti-Americanism of the French nobil- saw only the word “yes”, and the rest ity, who tended to detest democracy accommodation in Paris... is history. and communism in equal measure. I was assigned to the Marquise The timing of her letter coincided My willingness to ask questions and de Boissard along with another stu- with a letter from my mother inform- engage in conversation nevertheless dent, Lloyd Cymrot, from Dartmouth. ing me that my draft board realized made a good impression. Madame was separated from her I had quit college and reclassified On occasion, I attended Sweet Bri- husband, and she lived with her two me as 1-A, yet I had received a draft ar’s course on contemporary French youngest sons in a large apartment birthday lottery number that would politics, taught by a young, tall French on the Avenue de Ségur, a prestigious never be called, on the condition that th bureaucrat, always dressed in black. address in the 7 arrondissement. The I showed up for my draft physical. My I recall that on one occasion, he pre- apartment looked as if it had not been options for getting a physical were to dicted the greatest problem the West painted since World War II, and it was continue traveling east toward a US would face in the future would be obvious that Madame took in Sweet military base in Thailand or to return Briar students because she badly its relationship with disaffected citi- needed the money. Nevertheless, zens from the developing world and Madame did her best to maintain the the resulting conflict of civilizations. manners of the French nobility, with (think Osama bin Laden!) I much later her servant girl announcing before realized that the young teacher was each meal that Madame la Marquise Jacques Chirac, who was to become est servie. Lloyd and I each had large prime minister and then president of bedrooms, while her two sons, 19 France. If I had been wiser, I would and 14, shared a smaller bedroom. have attended his class more often. For breakfast, we were served freshly John Impert, JYF 1961-1962 baked bread, while her sons had to Yale University finish whatever was left over from the day before. “The gateway to the rest of Within a short time of our arrival in Paris, the week-long French holiday my life” of Toussaint occurred, and Madame I look back upon JYF as an incredi- prepared to set out with her sons for ble odyssey, a voyage of discovery of their country home in Picardy, about the world and of myself, a transforma- a two-hour drive from Paris. I admired tive experience. In retrospect, I realize that I view my life in terms of the pre- 22 JYF Alumna presented to Europe/Germany to a military base there. Johan- na was in the latter direction, so over the next two the French Medal of Honor months I proceeded overland through India and On Dec. 12, 2012, Elizabeth Glassman JYF 1969-70 and SBC then retraced my journey back to Europe, stopped ’71, was presented the French Medal of Honor as an Officier de at the base in Germany, retrieved my belongings at l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Henri Loyrette, president and my host’s apartment in Paris, and continued onward director of the Musée du Louvre. This honor is bestowed by the to England, arriving at 2 o’clock in the morning to French government in recognition of “eminent artists and writ- knock on the door and ask the sleepy girl who an- ers, and people who have contributed significantly to furthering swered, “Did you mean it? Will you marry me?” We the arts in France and throughout the world.” Elizabeth is the have been married now for 48 years. President and CEO of the Terra Foundation based in the USA and Paris and was recognized for her work promoting American Daniel Selove 1968/69 University of Virginia art and cultural exchange between the USA and France. For Glassman, it is work that began even before her junior year. Going to live in Paris as a student with SBC-JYF was a Happiness is dream come true. And certainly, the city, the program and my Happiness is directing a native of Bordeaux from fellow SBCJYF colleagues did not disappoint. I relished in the Notre Dame to the Arc de Triomphe. Happiness is sense of living daily truly in another cultural milieu, of under- sharing his language. And happiness is, I believe, standing the small yet important differences that are revealed in the capacity to understand him at least a little better choices about life, family, work. Deb Visser (SBCJYF ’69-70) and than your compatriot, the American tourist. Happi- I explored ideas about new urban planning in a class at the Sor- ness is the feeling of wind in your hair—whether on bonne. The theater class was the perfect opportunity to under- the way up M. Eiffel’s celebrated “tour” or on the stand Paris post-May ’68. And at the Ecole du Louvre, I made Autoroute du Sud on a weekend hitch “home” to many true friends in Delacroix, Ingres and others.” Tours to see “your family” there. Happiness is riding Having studied international relations helps in the path she in the middle of a truck cab, next to the driver who ultimately followed. After Sweet Briar, she earned a master’s in stopped not for you but for your traveling compan- art history from the University of New Mexico and an M.B.A. ion, the girl now huddled in the corner. And yes, from the University of St. Thomas, Houston. Her accomplish- happiness is that cold Paris rain. ments include establishing the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, By Robert M. Gill, JYF 69-70 of which she is president emerita. Washington and Lee “From living and learning in Paris, I understand how to lis- Exerpt of “Of Bike Disasters, Happiness, And France” first ten and hear the points of view. At the Terra Foundation, we published in The Ring-Tum Phi, Washington & Lee Univer- ground ourselves in the core belief that art has the power to sity, October 21, 1970 both distinguish cultures and unite them. Our mission to share American art with audiences across the globe comes to life in our work in France and around the globe, where we work to A JYF encounter with photographer inspire a meaningful cross-cultural dialogue on American art Henri Cartier-Bresson and culture.” My Junior Year Abroad studying at L’Institut des “I think this is really about Sweet Briar’s Junior Year in France Sciences Politiques, L’Université de Paris, Paris, program and how an international experience has grown into a France, was the most fantastic year of my life, such a lifelong passion.” politically exciting time, Vietnam, the after shocks of the May ‘68 student and labor protests, the French former colonies becoming independent in the news- papers and studied in class, an exciting time to be in Paris, to sit in cafés, talk world politics, we learned so much that we didn’t get in US news reports, it opened up so many new thoughts and ideas. With my major in International Relations I took classes at Sciences Po, we learned a lot about the former French colonies, I took a course that dug deep, with written exams in French, an oral exam in French, Science Po an amazing experience. Since it was just after the 1968 protests, Vincennes was often closed, not where we were, but our Professor was escorted to class every day by the gendarmes.... Elizabeth Glassman, Liz is photographed at her Officier de l’Ordre des It was also the time of the 1970 Cambodian inva- president and CEO of Arts et des Lettres Medal presentation ceremony sion. There were huge anti-war protests in Washing- the Terra Foundation. at the Hotel Talleyrand in Paris with Henri Loyrette, PHOTO BY NATHAN WEBER. President and Director of the Louvre Museum on ton, DC, so several of us had a sympathetic protest the left and Ambassador Charles Rivkin, US Ambas- outside the US embassy, tried to make our voices sador to France at the time, on the right. PHOTO BY heard and we were promptly arrested.... Sargent NATHAN WEBER. 23 Shriver was the ambassador at the show Cartier-Bresson’s own work all time, he got us out of jail so quickly, the time, in addition to solo exhibi- we were not even booked. At Sweet tions of the work of other photogra- Briar I learned to be a rabble-rouser. phers and enable them to offer edu- Every woman there was respected and cational programs. The grand opening taught to have strong opinions. show on Nov. 6, 2018 will be his wife’s French colonial history was the work, photographer Martine Franck. most enlightening class I took, but my http://www.henricartierbresson.org/ favorites were the classes at the Sweet en/ Briar Center on Blvd Raspail. At the Center, French teachers came in just for us, it was all in French. We studied “L’Humble Artichaut” One remembers back in the the history of music and theatre and day, that at Sweet Briar in Paris’s went to plays and discussed them. We then-headquarters at Reid Hall, 4 rue saw Beckett plays, very avant-garde, de Chevreuse, it was not only the naked actors on stage.....In music program’s “Siege Social,” and class- class, we learned the European origins room space for among other things, of our own western music. Really, real- M. Simon’s popular French theater ly a wonderful year. course, but also the open garden site I chose to do JYF as a family tra- of a small and suprisingly well-run dition, something that was always on little restaurant café, which one could my mind, as I was “kind of tracking use from time to time, by saving up my father, he had done it, back then meal coupons for more than the usual when it was run by the University of lunchtime fare of fresh-baguette-sand- Delaware.” I think of JYF as a Gold wich-jambon-à-la-moutarde-Dijon- Star on my CV, a conversation piece, naise. adds to your attractiveness as a candi- And a moderately-aged dame or date, broadens your mind so much it two, in freshly starched pinafores, is going to contribute to any field you would take both your prix fixe lunch go into. tickets, and your order for whatever I had the “experience of a life- was being offered that day, and serve time” with one of the most famous it to you. photographers of the 20th Century, In any event, that’s how I was first Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004). introduced to “L’Humble Artichaut”. My host family was the brother of the I had never seen one before, and as well-known Henri Cartier-Bresson. I captured it well. It was a radical time, I was raised on a farm on the Rhode remember Henri as incredibly kind. we all wanted to be “California girls.” Island coastline, I was fairly familiar I was assigned to his brother’s fam- I was longing for the radical hippie life with whatever truck garden fare there ily. Getting his brother’s family as a that Henri had filmed. I became such was offered for sale at our own sum- host family was just the luck of the a fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson after mer vegetable stand. draw. His brother was not an artist, that and I have gone to every exhibit I There I was, in our little inner Paris he was in business. He and Henri did can find. French garden, and seated at Reid not see each other very often but he Marianne “Mimi” Fahs, JYF 69-70 Hall’s inner sanctum bistrot, and the came over one time with his beautiful Sweet Briar College pinafored “serveuse,” appeared, car- wife who worked for Vogue (Martine rying a....strange, pointy bit of dark- Franck) when I was there. My host Henry Cartier-Bresson pioneered the ish-green on a plate, with the most family was all a twitter that he was genre of “street photography.” He interesting but bizarre leaves, some- coming, I knew it was a big deal. viewed photography as capturing a thing like a horned lizard’s, or perhaps Watching a film by Hemoutardnri decisive moment in time. He founded a Tejas Armadillo’s armor. And I let my Cartier-Bresson on California hippies Magnum photos in 1947 with another imagination run free. “Et alors, qu’est and surfers in 69-70 - with Henri him- famous photographer Robert Capa ce que c’est ça?” self, his wife, and his brother’s family, and photographed the streets of Par- “C’est un artichaut, Monsieur. Vous in his brother’s home, my Parisian fam- is, India, China, Spain and more, as en voulez?” ily residence, wow! Henri wanted my well as many portraits of personalities And so I ordered one, splurging a impressions of it. Is it really like this? like Truman Capote. He has inspired bit with my remaining lunch tickets for I was not from California, I grew up generations of photographers. The the month. And in time, it arrived on in Michigan, I was born in Brazil, my Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson has a plate by itself, with a small pot of father was in the foreign service. Cal- just moved to the Marais, 79 rue des vinaigrette. ifornia was a place I had always want- Archives, Paris 75003, larger quarters, So, I was to take-use this pot of ed to go to. I told Henri, yes, he had which will allow the foundation to

24 fresh-made and traditional vinaigrette, to which I was also used, and could also make, thanks to our propriétaire Françoise’s dinnertime tutelage, and use it somehow, to consume this horny-spiny-boiled-green-vegetable. (…) And since that time, the northern coast of la Bretagne has been habitu- ated to raising this curious vegetable of such formidable armament. (…) And as it turned out, my table part- ners included a certain American lady from the XVI eme who had learned to visit us on occasion, from her studies there some years back, and as it also turned out, she was especially skilled in dealing with this exotic vegetable. And so she became for me, my “Ma- dame de Pompadour Salon Instruc- tress,” in the practiced art of Artichaut left to right: Carole [can’t remember surname; from the Isle of Jersey]; Anne de la Garenne my consumption. host [lovely person]; Christian LeVillain [French & yes that is really his name]; Moi; I cannot remember this lovely woman’s name [French] At first a leaf is peeled back, and one dips it into the vinaigrette, and Vosges Mountains and the towns tastes the stem end of it by turning it of Colmar and Nancy. We took the upside-down, and by using one’s front Metro to an eastern terminus. From bottom teeth to remove...the soft part there, we started walking with hopeful of the flower from its fibrous & horny thumbs outstretched. It is no exag- outer stem. And just enough vinai- geration to say the gray skies of No- grette to make the marriage of flavors vember delivered rainfall in epic pro- effective, but not to overpower the portions. Sodden to the core, these olive-green “compote” which comes two bedraggled students found a gas off the leaves. station where we took advantage of a And so at Reid Hall, did I come to bit of shelter in the entry of the shop. be introduced to that delightful and From there, we could scan the holiday peculiar “tea ceremony” which is Arti- makers briskly filling their vehicles to Moi in front of our French cruise ship that took chaut consumption. avoid becoming soaked. us from the Normandy Beaches through the “Ça donne un goût favorable, il me By some miracle—in every sense British Isles of the word—a courageous young semble.” Or so I thought then. garments and hang them on our family with a small child took pity on And continue to believe now. (…) bunks. us and invited us to travel with them Barry Browning, JYF ‘71-72 The next morning, not long after to the Vosges. By evening, we arrived Bowdoin College daybreak, girls ranging in age from at a decidedly post-war collection of about 12 to 17, popped out of their buildings made more severe by the bunks, threw off their night clothes How I spent the Toussaint waning light and glowering sky. We and started splashing themselves were informed that this was a monas- holiday with my roommate. liberally with water from a long tery run by Marianist monks. The main My year in Tours and Paris with JYF trough that served as a sink. I shrank building housed a refectory—a long (1976-1977) gave me the experience back into my sleeping bag trying open room devoid of decoration and and confidence to live, work and trav- to preserve the meagre warmth I so it seemed heat. el abroad the rest of my life. I wish I had achieved. The girls dressed and We were welcomed by one of the could remember every moment and moved off towards the refectory for brothers and were told we could share every detail, but perhaps memory is breakfast. I emerged tentatively and the meals and lodging as the other kind to us in that way. However, what “tested the water” in the trough. It guests. Like the rest of the place, the I do remember is with me every day was like rubbing icicles on the skin, so meal—soup and bread most likely— and often inspires me to get up, get cold, it stung. Fully clothed, I patted was basic, but welcoming. There were out and keep exploring. myself, with a small amount of water, three dormitories: one for females, I remember—with some astonish- toweled dry to restore some circula- one for males and one for families. ment—the autumn holiday of Tous- tion, and headed to breakfast. When we retired to our dormitory, it saint. My roommate, Linda Weiner After breakfast, Linda and I hiked was with relief that we could unfurl (Bryn Mawr College), and I hitchhiked up the mountain which was more of East from Paris. Our goals were the our damp bedrolls, peel of our soaked 25 a grassy hillside dotted with woods. many others. But some of my great- the intellectual and emotional devel- It could have been Mont Blanc. We est memories are of the support and opment that occurred while overseas were so happy to have made it to the encouragement I received from Mme. via an independent research study Vosges safely, in the company of kind Carol Denis, directrice adjointe. I’ve during my senior year of college. With welcoming people. I still remember been fortunate to have had several the guidance of Prof. Sadler in the reaching the top of that mountain; at mentors throughout my life, and Carol psychology department, I was able that moment, anything was possible. was one. An only child like me, she to assess students through a pre/post I have always thought of those understood me well. She came to research study and learn how students healthy young girls, glowing with en- be a rock for me during a year often changed intellectually and emotionally ergy and high spirits splashing frigid marked by self-doubt, worry, and yes, after their time abroad. water all over themselves oblivious some homesickness. After I gradu- This opportunity was the beginning to the lack of comfort or convenience ated from Georgetown, I spent two of my interest in college student de- of their surroundings. I can almost years working in London and Carol velopment which lead me to earn my hear their bubbling laughter as they graciously hosted me for a weekend master of education in college student set off to a Spartan breakfast on their in Paris. She even accompanied me to affairs administration at the University minimalist holiday. The next day, I too dinner with the de Lambertye family of Georgia. Over the last twenty years, baptized myself with the freezing wa- and endured the raucousness à table I have worked with international stu- ter. In the spirit of those girls I vowed that many JYF alumnae who lived with dent life, housing, admissions, career to dive in to each new experience and them will remember! Her death from development, and graduate student live deeply each moment that pre- cancer, much too soon, saddens me advising. For the last four years, I have sented itself. to this day. been working as a retention counselor The kindness of all those I met on Maureen (Brennan) Gershanik, with the Pathway to the Baccalau- my Toussaint adventure has remained JYF 90-91 reate program at Northern Virginia with me. Like a true companion, it is Georgetown University Community College, and for fifteen there when I need that inspiration to years, I have taught SDV 100: College keep going. This is one of so many Success Skills. In each role, I have moments, some miniscule, some ut- The impact of study worked with students to determine terly unexpected like this one, that abroad their academic and career paths and made JYF the gateway to everything When I studied abroad in 1995-96, helped connect them with resources else. I had no idea how this experience to support and motivate them along Susan (Coulson) Burghes, JYF 76-77 would shape the rest of my life. I re- their journey. I know that I would not Mount Holyoke College member how excited I was when I have realized my ability and desire first learned that I was accepted into to help students achieve their goals A debt of gratitude to JYF, but how apprehensive I was once without the experience of studying Mme Denis the day arrived to leave. I was very abroad and having the support and My year in Paris was one of the afraid that my French skills were well encouragement of professionals like most important, character-defining below the level needed to succeed Carol Denis. I am truly grateful to JYF periods of my life. As I am sure many in my classes in Paris and that I was for the opportunity to study in Paris JYF alumni can attest, much of the going to fail all of my classes. With with such an amazing program and learning and personal growth I expe- my mom’s encouragement, I realized am thankful that the JYF experience rienced that year occurred outside the that I needed to believe in myself and continues to be available to students classroom. Even the smallest details of take advantage of this amazing op- today. daily life, like taking the Métro or the portunity. She also helped me realize Kerry Coleman-Proksch, JYF 95-96 bus, living chez de Lambertye, and that JYF provided lots of support to Sweet Briar College navigating Sciences-Po and the Sor- helps its students succeed, especial- bonne required an immense amount ly its Paris-based associate director, of courage and fortitude that I didn’t Carol Denis. She was truly supportive The supermarket I participated in the Sweet Briar know I had! The year was one of in- and motivating during my entire nine College Junior Year in France program ternational tension, brought on by the months abroad, and her role shaped in the spring of my sophomore year, U.S. invasion of Kuwait and the fear of my decision to join the ranks of stu- 2009 before continuing my junior year terrorist reprisals against Americans dent affairs professionals to support abroad in Scotland. I was young and abroad. This prompted some univer- and motivate students through their thought I spoke French after twelve sities to somewhat hastily call and college education. years of study, but just my first day in recommend that we return home! For- After returning from Paris, I real- Paris taught me that was an incredibly tunately, we did not heed that advice. ized how much more independent, naive assumption. The first full day I have fond memories of so many self-confident and globally aware I I was in Paris, on a gloomy January friends that year, including Marilyn had become in comparison to the morning, I got “stuck” in a super- Washington (where are you?), Joe person I was before studying abroad. market. (Though as you know there Willey, Jen Collet, my dear friend and This new awareness led to my interest actually aren’t supermarkets in down- roommate Becca Rubin Meurer, and in gaining a better understanding of 26 town Paris.) It was a grocery store, ever hoped for. I have no doubt that brimming with post-work shoppers; a all these experiences, inspired by my turnstile entry and an incredibly long time with Sweet Briar in Paris, will help check-out line. I went in, perused, me achieve my professional goals. and decided I didn’t want anything. I Next year, I am hoping to start a mas- circled the store a few times before I ter degree on European public policy realized there wasn’t an easy exit for (in Paris, of course!). Sending my hugs me, a puffy-jacketed, puffy-bodied to everyone at Sweet Briar in Paris—I American. I went to back to the pro- always look back at my days as a stu- duce area and (even now I distinctly dent and would not trade them for remember!) studied how I might get anything else! out through the entry. It was no use. I Marta Martinez, JYF Fall 2016 resigned myself and asked a lady how Connecticut College to leave without buying anything. Her grin was so... Parisian! She clucked When I studied abroad with JYF I and told me to buy some fruits and took classes in microbiology at Paris vegetables. I don’t remember how spent in this town of the Val de Loire Diderot. Now, after graduating from I escaped her, but I do remember set the bar high for what was to follow Kenyon College with a degree in bi- almost crying in relief when I found two weeks later in Paris. I had had ology, I am back in Paris for the year a single can of Coca-Cola on a shelf. an amazing time in Tours and to my as an assistant teacher as a part of Sixty centimes. I grabbed it and joined surprise, the three months that I spent the TAPIF program. I currently teach the ridiculously long, sluggish line. in Paris with Sweet Briar went just as at two middle schools in Noisy-le- When I emerged after paying my 60 well if not better! I was assigned to a Grand and love it! This experience centimes bail I sat on a bench in a French host family that I had dinner has caused me to think more seriously nearby square and savored that soda with most nights and that gave me about a career in teaching. I still see like I had never before. I learned so valuable lessons and impressions on my friends that I made in JYF and much in the hour (I assume) I had modern-day French culture. Beyond there are even a few of them living in been trapped. I learned that I need to the host family experience, my classes Paris this year, working as either au observe before rushing in to things. both at Sweet Briar in Reid Hall and at pairs or as a part of the TAPIF pro- That I need to be bold and ask for La Sorbonne allowed me to truly im- gram, including my current roommate help when needed. That irony is a prove my French and understanding Matt Berry. I’m still trying to decide if I part of life. My JYF experience taught of the French educational system. By will go back to the United States after me so, so much that I cannot justify taking two classes at a local university, this year or if I will try to stay in Paris. in a few words. Perhaps the most I met plenty of French and other Eu- Can’t wait to see where I end up, but prescient, though, is something our ropean students that made my experi- I definitely owe my current situation grammar professor would say before ence unforgettable. to my study abroad semester with JYF each and every class and that my stint Inspired by this wonderful time, where I increased my French language in the marché really encapsulated: “la I decided to go back to Paris the proficiency, made lifelong friends, and vie est belle.” summer after my junior year to intern prepared myself for a life abroad. at a local association working with Mary “Mai” McCarthy, JYF spring 2009 Austin Smith, JYF spring 2017 Sweet Briar College refugees. I used my summer experi- Kenyon College ence at such association to then write an independent study at my college Bonjour! My name is Matt Berry from Paris, encore in the United States my senior year, I was lucky to study abroad with Redding, Conn. I was lucky enough which was a wonderful way to finish Sweet Briar College in Paris during the to join the Sweet Briar program in the my studies. fall of 2016. I am not lying when I say spring of 2017. The experience was Upon graduation, I did not doubt that I would not be where I am today more than I could have expected. This twice to move back to Paris and follow had it not been for my abroad expe- program really allows one to grow in my dreams to continue my immer- rience! I remember the orientation their French capabilities. Although I sive experience in the French capital. period in the beautiful town of Tours was in a new country, I had a strong Hence, I am now working as an au very well. From the very beginning support system, starting from my host pair for a French family while doing of our abroad programme, we were family, the program heads, and all the my service civique at another French assigned local host families (even in professors at Sweet Briar. I formed association. This time I dedicate my Tours during orientation) that wel- many strong friendships that I am still time to a French association that comed us into their arms and gave close to today. As of right now, I am provides professional guidance and us our very first impression of French living in Paris and working as a lan- workshops to low-income students in culture and society. As of today, I am guage assistant for the Teaching Assis- Paris. I am speaking French 24/7 and still in touch with my mère d’accueil, tant Program in France (TAPIF) . From learning much more than I could have Evelyne. The summer days that we my year alone, six of us are back living

27 in competition. Round after round, after the president of the university called my name, I nervously inched to the podium, gave a nifty little speech about whatever had been asked, and I actually didn’t get eliminated. In groups of three, I witnessed my friends and classmates walk off the stage, as I, of all people, entered the final round. After finishing my final discourse for the night, I found myself speechless. I had studied French for two and a half years, only wishing to share meaningful stories and conversations with native speakers. Sudden- ly, not only was I recognized for my ability to do just that, but the judges prized my performance above nearly every other competitor, all of whom were actually French. It is strange to think back to my transition from surviving to flourish- ing in a foreign city. This experience was ridden with terror and confusion in isolating points that had never The five in this photo are students from 2017 Le Concours d’Eloquence seemed so incomprehensibly chal- and they are all in Paris this fall. Just a few months ago, by a stroke lenging—from purchasing a stamp of chance, I found myself in second at the post office to navigating a place in the concours d’éloquence, a snow-covered Saint-Denis with a bro- in Paris (and three others in France) university-wide public speaking con- ken cellphone. And yet, participating either with TAPIF, graduate school, or test organized by Université Sorbonne in the Concours d’éloquence at Par- au pair as an . I believe this is a strong Nouvelle Paris 3 in April 2018. Nearly is-III showed me that my semester testament to how amazing and sup- all of my coursework had been in the abroad was more than just a series of portive Sweet Briar’s program is. theater and cinema departments at belabored successes, but an endless The teaching assistant program Paris-III, so most of my friends were map of beautiful, comical, emotional, in France offers you the opportunity performers who worshipped the arts. and vulnerable crossroads, many of to work in France for seven months, One day, my best friend, a girl named which were shared with real friends teaching English to French students of Fanny from the Jura, asked me to from across the world. For all that, I all ages. Each year, over 1,200 Ameri- join her in this competition, and so I may only be grateful. can citizens and permanent residents dropped everything and went along teach in public schools across all re- Kevin Medansky, JYF Spring 2018 with her. Haverford College gions of metropolitan France and in The event structure was simple the overseas departments of France enough: The top nine students would such as French Guiana, Guadeloupe, all appear on stage together, lined Martinique and Réunion. The Ameri- up one next to another, for a sud- can cohort is part of the larger Assis- den-death contest. Each participant tants de langue en France program, would receive a prompt and immedi- which recruits 4,500 young educators ately deliver a two-minute speech on from 60 countries to teach 15 lan- the topic. Following each round, the guages annually in France. The Assis- judges eliminated up to three partici- tants de langue en France program pants, until the top three were left for is managed by the CIEP, the Centre the championship round: Under the International d’Études Pédagogiques. same guidelines, the time for each Matt Berry JYF spring 2017 speech was raised to eight minutes. Lafayette College Soon enough, I stood on stage next to eight French university students

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four grandchildren. My son Mary Ann (Rorison) Caws 1950-51 Christopher Winks majored in Bryn Mawr College Harriet (Farber) Friedlander French at UC Berkeley and is I am a Distinguished Pro- Mount Holyoke College now chair of the department fessor Emerita and Resident My roommate Caryl (Kol- of comparative literature at Professor of the English, Com- bert) Pines Currry is still my Queens College, CUNY, with parative Literature and French best friend and living with a a special interest in Caribbean Ph.D. and have taught in the sometimes difficult French literature (both French and Bryn Mawr Summer School in family taught us both tolerance Spanish). My granddaughter Avignon and have done many and understanding! Carmen Altes (Brandeis Uni- anthologies of poetry with New versity) participated in the JYF Frederick (Ted) Hecht Directions, one coming out program in the fall of 2014. So Dartmouth College called “Milk Bowl of Feathers: Mary and Fritz Staehelin The Science Laboratory at my love of France and French essential surrealist writing”. culture is passed on to suc- our local public elementary Jonathan Donald holiday (Christmas, Easter) and ceeding generations. school, (where I am currently Yale University every prolonged week-end in teaching elementary school I have just written and pub- Switzerland (we conversed in science after being a Physician, 1953-54 lished two novels whose geog- French—all our love letters are biomedical researcher, writer, raphy and travels there to are in French). At the beginning teacher) has recently been Sue (Lawton) Mobley based to some degree on my of my senior year in Wellesley, Sweet Briar College named the “Hecht Science Lab own work, traveling in the US, I had to go up on the stage Two years ago I took my with appreciation to Drs. Ted Mexico, Europe, Pacific Islands, at a meeting of the Alliance daughter, son-in-law and two and Barbara Hecht for the end- South East Asia, Japan, India Française and tell a bit about teenage granddaughters to less hours of love, labor and and all parts of Africa, espe- my year in Paris. A friend of Paris—great fun and fabulous learning that have gone into cially Egypt. The first is “Sour mine told me that two of my food! creating an exceptional science Mash, the Long Time Ago French professors were sitting lab at Desert Sun Academy. Bert Shapiro Adventures of an American” behind her, and she heard Yale University one of them say, ”Tiens, c’est Sandy (Adler) Leibowitz which is the story of a simple bizarre, Mlle. James vient de Wells College I am delighted, as we all and slightly foolish rustic Amer- passer une année à Paris, et I went to Yale Grad school are, that Sweet Briar has been ican whose travels take him elle parle français avec un ac- and became a French teacher. able to maintain and improve across America, to Hawaii, the cent suisse.“ I continue to teach French the program all these years. I Yukon, Mexico and then on to conversation to senior Franco- have been happily and grate- Europe, Egypt, around Africa Margot (Meier) Viscusi philes. fully retired since 1991. I am to the Indian Ocean and finally Northwestern University fortunate to still be married the East Indies. The second is I’ve just returned from a Patricia (Reed) Perry to my first wife since 1959, “Traveler in an Ancient Land” week in France, where I was Mount Holyoke College feel well enough and have the which is the story of Giovanni struck once again by what I moved to a life care com- means to travel and pursue my Belzoni, the first European to a cultivated and civilized munity near Boston 11 years cultural and linguistic interests explore Egypt following Napo- country it is. My son Gregory ago which gives me plenty of as I please. leon’s invasion of the country Viscusi has lived and worked time for skiing, biking, muse- in 1799. in Paris for many years, where ums and trips to Paris (my 29th Stephen (Pat) Zappala he covers French politics for last year). Harvard University JoAnn McNatt I share my Florida home Furman University Bloomberg News; he now Patricia (Layne) Winks with my daughter Annabelle, We have kept a round robin has dual citizenship and my Sweet Briar College her husband, and my grandson letter going for 63 years. 14-year-old grand-daughter I can report that fellow Domenic. was born there. I no longer alumna Ann Whittingham Mariette “Mimi” (Schwarz) officially work (e.g., no pay Smith has kept up with her Reed checks come my way) but I’m French and maintained her 1954-55 Middlebury College still serving on a handful of love of France through the Alli- I have stayed in touch with boards of cultural organiza- Darlene (Nelson) Alonzo and his ance Française. Pauline Wells Middlebury College Charlie Montgomery tions. Any JYF alums interested lovely wife Mary Lou. Bolton and her sister Jay (Jo- Six of us have kept a round in poetry who are visiting New sephine (Wells) Rodgers, JYF robin letter going all these Mary (James) Staehelin York should stop in at Poets ‘51-52) have returned to Paris years. Emilie Patton Deluca, Wellesley College House (poetshouse.org) in several times, most recently in Nancy Moses Gilliam, Kay I have been living in Swit- beautiful Battery Park City in 2016. I too have made numer- Inganells Kezer (originator of zerland married to my Swiss lower Manhattan. If I happen ous visits to Paris, the last time the letters), JoAnn McNatt, husband for 62 years. We met to be there I’ll be delighted to in April 2018. A particularly Beverly Oyler Shivers and I in a youth hostel in Tours in welcome you and show you happy trip was the one I made are all still healthy. I’m still in France in 1952, just before I around. with my dear partner Henry in touch with Joceline Raymond entered Wellesley. So to make 2012. Noel, owner daughter of our a long story short, that’s why I As for myself, I’ve retired home in Paris, and Ann Fox, an majored in French (in order to 1955-56 from three professions: high English student there. spend my junior year abroad) Joanne (Coyle) Dauphin school teacher, attorney, and instead of English literature or Wellesley College mental health counselor. I history of art. During my junior I met my French husband take pride in four children and year in France, I spent every through a Sciences Po alumni 29 CLASS NOTES trip to Budapest. I have been late Henry Geldzahler, whose around Languedoc in Septem- visits to France. It works! a permanent resident in Paris career as an art curator is ber. It helps to get away. Rebecca (Loose) Valette since 1963. legendary. I return to France JoAnne (Valentine) Simson Mount Holyoke College almost yearly, had a first family Ada Helene Mewborn Kalamazoo College Our three children all speak Duke University there for more than 20 years, After retiring from the French and our eight grand- I have had numerous re- have old friends in Paris, Medical University of South children all attended bilingual unions with roommates from and still, je me débrouille en Carolina, I have been traveling, schools. Granddaughter Esmé SBC-JYF, and their husbands, français, le mot juste coming teaching, and writing—often Valette (Middlebury ‘16) is just first to minden français qu’ en Ann Reath Schapiro and Elli about travels. I just turned back from a year teaching En- anglais. Ray Flynn over the years. And eighty, and don’t travel so glish in Paris. for three of those, well, but I’m still writing. A Julie Bayer Mary Ann (Frese) Witt Markham as well. We have 1956-57 major current activity (besides Wellesley College met in Boston, Cary, Atlanta, friends and family) is writing. I I retired in 2007, but contin- Sunapee, Hillsborough Beach, Jacqueline (Tabachnick ) have written two books about Guéron ued to give seminars on Mod- Paris and NYC. living and traveling overseas, ern French Theater in Avignon University of Pennsylvania and have two more in the English Showalter I am still in Paris. in July until 2014. Yale University works. My website is: http://

I am still working on the Thomas Simons javsimson.com/; Amazon page: correspondence of Françoise Yale University https://www.amazon.com/-/e/ 1958-59 Since my last report in 2015, B00BH3326S de Graffigny, helping with the Anne Marie (Dattelbaum) I continue to do odd jobs online publication of additions Bedford and corrections to the fifteen around Harvard’s Davis Cen- Mount Holyoke College print volumes, and preparing a ter for Russian and Eurasian 1957-58 After many years of not table of her passive correspon- Studies, and wife Peggy and I Edward Bloomberg speaking a word of French, I dence. continue to travel: in 2016 we Yale University am happily in a French club in spent six weeks in Paris (where Would love to hear from NH and trying to retrieve my Simon Stertzer we found Jacquie Guéron in ‘57-58 people. fluency. What fun! I have pre- Union College fine shape) and a week (our Sylvia (Kowitt) Crosbie sented in two classes, show- The JYF Class of 1955-56 first) in Provence; in 2017 we was a remarkable group of Bryn Mawr College ing pictures of Paris and La led a Harvard alumni tour from After working for the Israel Provence, bringing back great creative students and faculty Prague around southwest Ger- who came together in Paris Ministry for Foreign Affairs I memories. man towns and waterways (in- taught high school in Eilat, 10 years after World War II. cluding a hop onshore at Stras- Carole Karp The Director that year was Israel. Returning to the U.S., I University of Michigan bourg); and this year we’ve got my doctorate from Colum- Professor Georges May from done 2+ weeks with the great I got a PhD in French and Yale University, whose guid- bia University. I published a Comparative Literature and temples of Southeast India, well-received study of French/ ance, intellect and charm set and led another Harvard group taught French in several col- an educational standard that Israel relations and taught at leges. Now I give tours in inspired all of us. I returned to Iona College, Plymouth State Washington DC for French tour New York, in 1956, where I was College in New Hampshire groups. graduated from NYU’s School and Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. After nearly Robert C. Larsen of Medicine 4 years later. I Trinity College went on in cardiology, to do 17 years as an administrator with the City of Los Angeles, I I have not been in com- the first coronary angioplasty munication with anyone from in America, in 1978. Abbreviat- retired from a senior position with the Los Angeles Police that year, to my sadness. In an ing the long story, the past 25 absolute glut of nostalgia, I am years of my career were spent Department in 2003 and now live in the San Fernando Valley. wondering what happened to as Professor of Medicine at my two Paris roommates, and Stanford University’s School of I have two sons, one grandson, a very large dog, and a if they are even still in this life Medicine, in Stanford CA. I am and where they might be liv- now Emeritus, but still active as snobbish cat. My main interest ing. One was Tony Shalit and Board Chairman of BioCardia is painting in watercolors and the other was Roger Gerdes. Inc, a California entity running pastel (my website is www. sylviakcrosbie.com ). I traveled with him and two trials to treat heart failure with others in his little green Re- stem cells injected directly into Sarah (Hanson) Manno nault to Italy at Christmastime. the heart muscle. My room- Mount Holyoke College And the two of us took off for mate from Tours and Paris was Enjoying primarily a career Scandinavia at the end of the Dr. Phillip Frost, whose career in dance, I augmented my in- school year and visited my in Medicine and in business come with teaching French at family in Oslo, finally taking the has been one of the most ex- the H.S. and university level. ferry from Bergen to Newcastle traordinary, productive success Also I have spoken French with in the UK. And then I boarded stories in American medicine. my 3 grandchildren once or the Mauritania again and came Our group in ‘55 was re- twice a week since their birth. on home. plete with talent, but none The eldest, now 22, became The JYF experience more extraordinary than the Mr. Simons and his wife visited fluent after a couple of brief France in 2016. changed my life. I spent my 30 career years as a high school in friendly competition with Doris (Young) Kadish John Impert French teacher and currently Jean Vilar of the TNP for ‘best Skidmore College Yale University own a home in the village of theater in Paris’ in our day. I retired in 2011 after 40 My book, Painters of the Roussillon in the Vaucluse in Our JYF group “reuned” in years of teaching French at the Northwest: Impressionism to Provence, where I will be in Charleston, SC, in June 2015 university level. Modernism, 1900-1930 was residence for 3 months this and spent 2 1/2 fun days eating, published in 2018 by the Uni- summer. drinking, touring and mostly 1960-61 versity of Oklahoma Press. It talking. Most of us have been Carolyn (Nygren) Curran Martha (Baum) Carlton is the first book ever written Brown University back to France over the years Sweet Briar College on early artists from the Pacific The JYF experience was and all felt JYF was a huge During my years as a practic- Northwest, and it represents definitely a life defining one for positive influence in our lives. ing attorney in NE GA, I helped the culmination of my trans- me and was probably respon- I began reconnecting with the many immigrants from SE Asia formation from international sible for my choice of career language and the country only who had come to that part of lawyer to art historian. The as a potter. It must have influ- after my husband died in 2014 GA. They often spoke French, foundation for my career as an enced my family in some way, and I began taking French class- so I could help them in their international lawyer began in as my oldest son had his junior es at College of Charleston. adjustments to life in the US. Paris with JYF. I subsequently year in France and is now a Joe Carroll I am in the process of spent a dozen years in Paris professor of French literature University of Virginia becoming a court interpreter and Brussels practicing interna- at Wesleyan University.“ See My present wife and I were in both French and Spanish tional transactions and invest- Carolyn’s website: https://www. married in Paris in 1990 by in the state of Florida. I am ment law. During that time, I cncpottery.com the vice mayor and we have required to participate in met my wife, Annick Geelhand returned to vacation in France several workshops, pass oral de Merxem, a Belgian national. and written exams in both almost every year since. Two Ann (Winget) La Porta 1959-60 years ago we held a reunion languages, participate as an Denison University Juliette (Julie O’Neil) Arn- in Charleston, SC hosted by aide until I am fully certified. I I’m a semi-retired lawyer heim Julie Arnheim. Last year we am very excited about it. and Foreign Service spouse. Sweet Briar College met in Louisville, KY, hosted by I have kept up with my dear Our most exciting posting was French friend whom I met I try to keep up with the ‘59- the late Gene Jaegers. Dave Mongolia where my husband while in Paris. We have shared ‘60 group but fall short most Freund has been coordinating was Ambassador and where I of the time! I did meet up with the reunions. We are looking in emails the current events of used my French with a group both of our countries. David Freund (Yale) and his forward to future gatherings. of French nuns who were reha- wife, Betsy, in Paris this June. David J. Freund Bettye (Thomas) Chambers bilitating a hospital. We dined across the street Sweet Briar College Yale University David Rosenbloom from Theatre de l’Odéon, I have kept up with my spo- We had a splendid 50th Princeton University where Jean Louis Barrault was ken French and my wife and I reunion in spring 2011, thanks A few years back we cel- have returned to France five to David Rosenbloom’s orga- ebrated the 50th anniversary times in recent years. We stay nizing talents. Already looking of our marvelous year in Paris. in a hotel close to Metro Notre forward to the 60th in 2021. I would like to know whether Dame des Champs and The Barbara Roush there are other members in our Paris #68 bus route from Blvd. Mount Holyoke College group who would be interest- Raspail to the 9th Arrondisse- I am now a great-grand- ed in organizing for our 60th. ment is still running! I remain in mother of Nova Ray Woods, It’s not that far away! touch with a few members of born Apr. 2, 2017! I became a Judith Shapiro our group. We compare travel French teacher and, after mar- Brandeis University notes. rying and having two children, I am just taking my second returned to France with my shot at retirement—this time husband for what we thought from being President of the would be just a year. I have Teagle Foundation, which been here for almost 50 years makes grants in support of now. I switched to conveying liberal arts teaching and learn- my love of English literature to ing. My predecessor in this students at the Lycée Interna- position, Rich Morrill, was also tional de St. Germain-en-Laye. a predecessor in the Sweet Briar JYF program. Our conversations always involve a certain 1961-62 amount of French. My first Margaret (Chase) Hager shot at retirement was after 14 Wheaton College years as president of Barnard I continually read French, College, and I think I may do seek out French speaking better this time. I will remain friends here in Richmond, VA. active with many non-profit My closest ties are with my boards (Reacting to the Past, roommate Suzanne “Terney” Scholars at Risk, Association of Julie (O’Neil) Arnheim David Freund (Sutter) Augur. American Colleges and Univer-

31 CLASS NOTES sities, University of the People). tives on the US. Highlights getting a licence in Paris, in learning specialist in the same during JYF: The most mem- “philo.” My son, a professional school. Our son is a rancher Christine (Devol) Wardlow Sweet Briar College orable was seeing Jean Paul musician, spent a semester in and raises alpacas in Bend, Enjoying retired life, chil- Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir Paris while he was in college. Oregon. I share visits with the dren, grand-children and a in their favorite left bank cafe. In addition, I frequently trav- children and grandchildren of great granddaughter. A fair I am professor of health policy el to France because, on my my host family in Tours. amount of travel, cruises, Road and management at the UCLA wife’s side, I have in-laws, in- Scholar trips, etc. Winters in Jonathan and Karin Fielding cluding two wonderful nieces, Florida and summers in Colora- School of Public Health. who are French. In sum, I’ve 1964-65 stayed connected with France do. The best of both worlds! Anne (Litle) Poulet Jean (Campbell) Barquin Sweet Briar College and the French language ever Sweet Briar College In graduate school I ma- since my Sweet Briar year. Hard Even after all of these years, 1962-63 jored in French art and sculp- to imagine what my life would I still feel that somehow Paris have been like if I hadn’t had is “my” city. I frequently return John Hailman ture. I married a Frenchman. Millsaps College My entire career was spent that year. and have promised to take my oldest granddaughter to Paris I am still in touch with my in museums first as a curator, John “Tex” Kidd in two years when she is eight. old roommate Franck Hotch- then as a director. I am director University of Virginia I am still in close touch with kiss (Yale University) and old emerita of The Frick Collection, Working hard practicing Paris friends, now famous edi- New York, NY. medicine for 40 years never Rebecca MacFayden whom I tor and author Dorothy Kalins. distracted me from remem- met on the Mauretania going Leslie (Raissman) Wellbaum My daughter Lydia Hailman bering the life I had in France. to France. We roomed to- Mount Holyoke College gether in Paris and have been King followed in my footsteps Married, widowed, three I can communicate with my 3 years in France. And now patients in fluent French, and close friends ever since. We stepdaughters, one son, six have made quite a few trips teaching college French full- adult step-grandchildren, one Spanish, and have learned time at Mississippi State Uni- some Italian and German. I back together. She has used step great-grandson; I spent 20 her French more than I have versity. years teaching (Became French follow events in Le Figaro, especially the recent election. because she lives in NY and Frank Hotchkiss teacher, spoke fluently for many When I go back to France as worked for Europe By Car for Yale University years, though not any more), I almost 50 years! I also became I am currently marketing spent 20+ years as judicial ap- a tourist my wife says I revert reacquainted with Cynthia my novel, “Playing With Fire,” pellate attorney, retired. back to the same hand gestic- Caldwell when I moved to a romantic story about a New ulations and facial expressions typical of the French. Guess I’ll DC and found that she lived York advertising executive who quite nearby. Sadly, she died inadvertently falls in love with a 1963-64 be an inveterate old Franco- phile forever. of cancer quite a few years much younger woman. Alice “Rolly” (Fork) Grover ago. Another JYF class mate At the same time I’m run- Wheaton College Marieluise (Mimi Vogt) Macht with whom I was very close was ning for mayor here in Santa I’m planning a trip with my Sweet Briar College Joanna Sabalauskas. She died Barbara. sister to fulfill a couple of our I have been to Paris several very young in 1984. bucket list items: to cross the times since my year of living Viaduc Millau and visit Le Puy there. I always look up my Stephen Giddings en Velay, after which a river old address, 25 Rue Quentin Wesleyan University. cruise up the Rhône from Avi- Bauchart, where I lived for a I retired in 2005 after 26 gnon to Lyon. Can’t wait! year, chez Madame Rivière, years with USAID and continue I chose Wheaton because and I always go to the Sor- to do part time consulting in it would allow me to spend bonne, where I spent so many international development. my junior year in France in a happy hours. My three children are all over French family. Perhaps the best the world: Kenya, Japan and Linda (Noel) Naftalin Kuwait. thing, though, was meeting my Randolph-Macon Woman’s

husband when he was on leave College Bonnie (Hetzel) Jaffe visiting fellow JYF member, Charlie and I have been University of Maine Peter McRobbie. married for 37 years and live Thankfully, I remain in touch with my roommate and good Ray Hilliard at a lovely place called Black- University of Maryland berry Farm in East Tennessee. friend, Laurie (Wax) Klein- . I’m friends with Richard I taught French at University berg Morrill, who was in a slightly of Hawaii for several years George McDaniel Jonathan Fielding earlier group. In the 1990s and later in Washington DC Sewanee: University of the was the president of the Uni- at Georgetown Day School South Jonathan Fielding versity of Richmond, where I where I met Charlie. We have After 25 years, I have now Williams College was Professor of English for three children and three grand- retired as executive director of The JYF program got me forty years before retiring two children (8, 5 and 10 months). Drayton Hall, a historic site of out of my comfort zone and years ago. My wife was for 40 My oldest daughter lives in the National Trust for Historic exposed me to a different years a professor of French at Switzerland and speaks flu- Preservation in Charleston, culture, with different politi- Randolph-Macon College. Our ent French, as she is a Dean SC. My interest in environmen- cal views, assumptions about daughter, also now an aca- of Girls in a French speaking tal conservation and historic study and work, and perspec- demic, spent two years in Paris boarding school. Her sister is a preservation was sparked in

32 no small measure by my year Joan (Edelman) Spero changed considerably since I career as a professor in African in France. This experience University of Wisconsin am no longer a professor but and American Universities and changed the course of my life, During my year in Paris, I rather a university administra- work with UNICEF, USAID, the inspiring me to “teach history wrote long letters to my family tor and have been president IFC, and others. I have lived for through museums” rather than every other day describing of Western New England over 20 years in Africa, mostly just through books. in detail what I was seeing, University now for 22 years, I in Nigeria, where I continue to For the last two years, I experiencing, thinking. My still enjoy visits to France and do research in my retirement. have been volunteering in the father saved those letters and speaking French whenever I (P.S. for an article on my legacy aftermath of the tragic mur- the postcards and put them in can. donation to the Smithsonian ders at Mother Emanuel AME Libraries for African Art, please three leather notebooks. For Karen (Lewis) Foley Church in Charleston to facili- some reason, I had not read Wells College see the 2017 annual report at tate healing and have worked those notebooks until a few Dan and I retired and https://library.si.edu/annual-re- with the church to preserve years ago. Reading them re- moved from Maine to Charlot- ports.) thousands of objects, banners, minded me of a year that was tesville, Virginia, in the fall of Gail (Roth) Meister quilts, letters, poems, paint- intellectually and personally 2015, the 50th anniversary of Mount Holyoke College ings, sculpture, and more left challenging, yet a joyous year my departure for JYF. We love For several years after step- in front of the church or sent of discovery of the French, living near our daughters and ping back five years ago from by mail by people from around the great wide world, and of granddaughters and the cultur- full-time employment with an the world, including France. I myself. al life here. The effects of last education nonprofit, I took on have also given and will give summer’s terrible violence have a series of projects related to presentations at national con- not worn off here, and I’m get- professional learning commu- ferences, urging museums to 1965-66 ting a serious lesson in history nities and coaching with the get engaged now with their Bonnie (Bushong) Jones and politics. Center for Effective School communities and to try and Denison University and Practices at Rutgers University. build cross-cultural under- Hilde (Sorgen) Heaton Robert Mead Jones Jr. I now serve as the learning standing and tolerance. Russell Sage College Yale University lead for Writers Matter’s In- I would like to get in touch I remember the time I spent We met on the Junior Year terfaith Initiative at La Salle with my friends from JYF. with the Chéron Le Clerc family in France in 1965-66. Our life at La Grouette. I would love to University, which links middle (Jonathan) Peter Monroe and our art are described on hear from descendants of the schoolers in Catholic, Jew- Wesleyan University our website: www.jonesartstu- family with whom I stayed. ish, and Muslim day schools At 73, I hiked all of last dios.com . We spend 7 months through writing exchanges and October west from Geneva to each year at our home in Vero Nancy (Gilman) Jokelson face-to-face encounters. I love Le-Puy-en-Velay as a pilgrim on Beach, FL and 5 months each University of Pennsylvania engaging in this important the Via Gebennensis. https:// year at our place in La Jolla My second grandson en- work--and doing it on a flexi- www.americanpilgrims.org/ CA. tered the University of Pennsyl- ble schedule! As a volunteer, assets/newsletter/archived/ vania Sept 2018. I chair the planning group for John Lyons la_concha_1712.pdf. peer-to-peer learning for old- Brown University Adele (Laslie) Kellman er adults at my synagogue in Paul Schwartz I am still happily teaching Sweet Briar College Philadelphia. I also co-edit Harvard University, resident French at the University of Our daughter Allison had an all-volunteer monthly director, 1978-79 Virginia, where I arrived 31 her first child (our first grand- publication--eight newsprint I’ve been retired as college years ago. During my junior child) last year in Andorra pages with photos and ads-- professor and dean since 2008. year, I certainly did not foresee where she lives with her British that focuses exclusively on my I’m sad to report that our class- becoming a specialist of 17th husband. We spend winters small NJ borough across the mate and my wife of 40 years century literature--something in Osprey, Florida (30 minutes south of Sarasota on the West river from Philadelphia (be- Lucy (McCallum) Schwartz, that I found intensely boring at cause no other paper does). died in 2009. In retirement I the time. But my latest book Coast). A new chapter in our My husband, Gregg Meister, have been writing, acting and has just appeared, Tragedy lives! We spend summers in and I enjoy our travels. Some- traveling. I’m living in Brooklyn and the Return of the Dead, Great Barrington, MA where times it’s to visit our daughter, and Blairsville PA with my new and I am now wrapping up the we have been going for over a neuroscientist in Seattle. In life partner Jill. editing of The Oxford Hand- 15 years. Our son, Simon, Paris we usually rent short-term book of the Baroque. Every works for a French company apartments and take public year brings new excitement to which has been sending him to transportation to tour the learning about this aspect of Paris to work. All this reminds grand sights as well as to poke France and to sharing it with me of JYF days, and shows around ordinary neighbor- students. My year in France what a global economy we hoods. Though Gregg doesn’t with Sweet Briar was certainly live in. speak French, it is he who the very best part of my under- Deirdre LaPin always insists on a stop in Paris graduate education. The mem- Agnes Scott College wherever else we go in Europe. ories from that time are among I have recently met anoth- How is it that Paris gets more my happiest and most vivid. er JYF Alum who Pat Cascio beautiful each time? serves with me on the Board Anthony Caprio Wesleyan University of the DC Area Phi Beta Kappa Dottie Peacock Southern Methodist University While my close involve- Association. JYF sparked my love affair with Africa and a My interest and passion for George McDaniel ment with things French has

33 CLASS NOTES travel having been reinforced French culture as a life-time and took a photo of me in front and professor. I received an by my junior year abroad, I avocation. The French friends of the building where I lived in M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in joined Pan American Airways with whom I stay in touch are Paris in 1965-66 at 22 rue do French and Romance Philolo- in their marketing department a treasured part of my life. Tocqueville. Karen Foley was gy from Columbia University in Houston, Texas, and later My mother and I traveled to my roommate. with a minor in Comparative moved to British Airways (then France together 26 times and Literature. I am Phyllis Taylor BOAC). Later we moved to those times are among my 1966-67 Professor of French Studies Cortez, Colorado, and I went most wonderful memories. Julie Seibels Northup and Director of the Ph.D. Pro- to work for Crow Canyon Ar- Sweet Briar College and gram in Comparative Literature chaeological Center, a private at Louisiana State University. Fred Northup not-for-profit archaeological Sewanee, The University of the In August 2017 I will become research and education cen- South Chair of the Department of ter. I was the director of their JYF’s 70th anniversary year French Studies at Louisiana cultural travel programs, most is also our 50th wedding an- State University. Awards in- of which took place in the niversary year, and we plan clude: Chevalier in l’Ordre American Southwest, but also to go to France in October to des Arts et Lettres and also to foreign countries. Kate celebrate where it all began. Chevalier in the Order of Les Weingarten and her husband We will no doubt be visiting Palmes Académiques. My 2007 Seymour accompanied me and the Institut de la Touraine, Le Peintre comme modèle: other participants on many of Reid Hall, and Sciences Po, Du Surréalisme à l’Extrême the trips. will spend time with Fred’s contemporanin, Presses uni- Although I retired five years former host who now lives in versitaires du Septentrion, ago, I still live in Cortez, Co, the Vendée, and hope to see 2007 was awarded le Prix De- and I also continue to travel brousse-Gas-Forestier by the Sophie McKenzie Belouet, quite frequently. My son and Académie des Beaux-Arts (In- Joanne Dauphin, Harriet Riv- his wife and two daughters live stitut de France) and the Mod- ière, and perhaps other JYF Kate Grimes Weingarten with an hour away in Durango, Col- folks, as we will be staying at ern Language Association Aldo Dottie Peacock orado. I have already instilled the American Cathedral, where and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for my interest in foreign travel, Fred was Canon in the ‘70s the Outstanding Critical Study particularly France, in my in French and Francophone Kate Grimes Weingarten (when I even worked briefly granddaughter Tessa, now sev- Denison University for JYF). We stopped by Ro- Literature of 2007 (awarded en years old. I have promised It was not until 1995 that wayton earlier this summer to 2008). her we will visit Paris together my roommate from JYF, Dottie see David Earle, Fred’s Paris Ann Webster when she is 10. Peacock, proposed returning roommate, and enjoyed remi- Sweet Briar College to Paris after 30 years. Dottie niscing with Penny Whiteside I return to Paris every fall for is the only connection I have and Merritt Blakeslee at about six weeks in November with JYF, but what a great Fred’s and their 50th Sewanee and December. The older I am, connection! Life-long great reunion. As may be obvious, the more I love France. If any- friends and travelers, we have we are now retired, Julie from one would like to get in touch laughed, cried, toasted, and lawyering except pro bono and with me in Paris at that time, travelled, travelled, travelled: Fred from active leadership of please email me at aaweb- Egypt, Oman, Myanmar, Tur- Athletes for a Better World. [email protected]. key, Africa, to name some. We Our year in France remains the Pennington (“Penny”) Wh- went to Paris this fall for two most significant of our lives. iteside Susan Tucker with with Isabelle weeks and took a photo in Julie is particularly pleased and Bruno Vassor and a friend Car- Sewanee: University of the front of the house we lived in SBC retained or regained con- South olyn Vigtel who was on the Hollins in 1965-66 at 204 Blvd Raspail. trol of the program, as in her Aboard Program), taken when I currently serve as the Would love to make contact view the Hollins approach was, the Vassors visited Atlanta. Susan Director of Sponsored Interna- lived with their family in Tours and with fellow members of the at least back in the day, vastly tional Programs in the Office of has stayed in close touch through class of 1965—1966. inferior! the Vice President for Research all these years, visiting in France Cathy (Trost) Wiggins Adelaide Russo and as the Director of Global and in Atlanta. University of Alaska Sweet Briar College Health Operations for the I returned to Paris last year I became a literary scholar School of Medicine at the Uni- versity of Alabama at Birming- Susan Tucker ham (UAB) in Birmingham, AL. Sweet Briar College From my Board of Direc- tors service in the Blerancourt 1967-68 Museum of French-American Laurence Ach Cooperation, the French-Amer- Trinity College ican Chamber of Commerce of Enjoying life, good health, which I was President and the long marriage, children & French Heritage Society which grandchildren—still working, I have chaired, I have contin- traveling extensively. ued my love of France and Cathy (Trost) Wiggins Julie and Fred Northup 34 Jeff Bauer Herb Wigder Colorado College Trinity College After devoting 48 years to Recently retired from Emer- strategic and economic anal- gency Medicine. My wife and ysis of health care and having I live in the Chicago suburbs. turned 70, I’m still energetic Spend several weeks each year and ready for some other line hiking and skiing Colorado. of work (not retirement)--hope- Studying French again. Plan to fully turning my hobby of visit France in 2019. conceptual art (acrylic paintings) into a second career. I’m 1968-69 also learning to play a new Eric Allemano musical instrument, the bass Kenyon College viola da gamba, with the in- Upon completing SBC JYF, I tent of being able to perform was faced with the ugly proba- French baroque literature for bility of being shipped to Viet- the instrument (e.g., Marin nam to drop napalm on villag- Marais) in public. During this ers or shoot at the Viet Cong. Judy (Lee) Moeckel and Clair (Henderson) Leighton in Paris, 1967 transitional year, I’ll be writing What eventually saved me was a 25th anniversary edition of going into the Peace Corps to Not What the Doctor Ordered, teach English as a foreign lan- my book that has probably guage in a secondary school had the most impact over the in Agadez, a historic caravan years. My wife and I would crossroads in Niger, West Afri- really like to spend much more ca. I got the assignment thanks time in France, more than the to my proficiency in French, 2 weeks a year that has been the language of instruction in our norm, but the international Niger. My four-year stint in Ni- political situation is a deter- ger was the start of a career of rent. If things settle down, I’m working and consulting on ed- thinking seriously about writing ucation issues in Africa, mainly a book about how French wine in French-speaking countries. ends up on American tables. It I moved (back) to France in would require a lot of research 2002 to work at a UNESCO in- in France... stitute of educational planning The 1967 group on the Queen Mary in Paris. I eventually resumed Linda (Koerber) Boyd University of Maryland international consulting and Recovering lawyer. Now or- Carolyn (Foster) Durham Judith (Lee) Moeckel found a home in an old stone dained in the Episcopal church. Wellesley College Colby College house in a village in the Sarthe, (much more joyful). Hope that I went on to get a Ph.D, and Clair (Henderson) Leigh- in western France, where I still we have a reunion sometime?? spent 38 years as a professor ton and I were in Paris in 2014; live. In 2013 I hosted a reunion of French. During that time, I was singing with the Hartford of friends from the SBC JYF Bruce Croushore with year-long sabbaticals (CT) Chorale. We can’t wait to class of 1968-69: Dan Gorrell Franklin and Marshall College and summers. I, no doubt, go back! and his wife Lois, David Ad- I tell classmates at F&M (in spent the equivalent of some ams, Cheryl Mann and Bonnie Lancaster, PA) that my best William W. (Rusty) Park 12 years in France, usually in Halpern. year in college was my Junior Yale University Paris. I have lifetime friends in JYF led me to international I helped to coordinate the Year in France. A hopeless France. 50th anniversary in Paris of the Francophile ever since, I joke business law and cross-border Teresa (Frost) Graedon arbitration. Have remained in of the SBJYF class of 1968-69 with my wife of 40 years, Mi- we just celebrated with kind Bryn Mawr College touch with Linda (Morrison) chele Hilmes, that I‘ll happily assistance from JYF at Reid Still enjoying a great career Zug. Would be delighted to vacation with her anywhere, Hall and other alumni(ae) of so long as it‘s in France. When in public radio and writing hear more from others. newspaper columns, though our group. she suggests going to Great Darlene Pierro Britain or Scandinavia, I ask “is the web has overtaken other Sweet Briar College Robert Bruegmann it close to France?“ media to a large extent. I am Now retired, from indepen- Principia College Our daughter Amanda fol- delighted to have a grandson dent schools, the last 16 years After a career teaching art lowed in her dad‘s footsteps who will soon be a year old. In as Head of School. I taught history, architecture and urban and spent her Junior Year in our 70s, my husband and I are French for years, planned and planning at the University of France, with the Vassar bunch, thinking about what a good executed four trips to France Illinois and other institutions. met her husband in Paris and retirement might encompass. for students. Anyone in the I technically retired in 2010 speaks French with him when JYF gave me confidence to Washington, DC area should although I’m doing most of the they don‘t want our grandson to tackle a different language; give a call or email. Best to things I did before I retired. know what they‘re saying. That‘ll my graduate research was in everyone. I was in France last year and work only a few more years. Oaxaca, Mexico, where life was stopped by where I lived in conducted in Spanish. Tours on rue Buffon and in Par-

35 CLASS NOTES is on rue d’Assas. Glad to be in group. Although there’s been the SW Gulf Coast of Florida. I with over 30 years’ experience touch with other JYF alums. some updating of the build- practice psychotherapy in both in health policy and public ing, the surroundings seemed States when I am there. I trav- health. I hold joint appoint- Paula (Roberts) Cook Bryn Mawr College very familiar. The nice thing eled to Paris for the reunion ments in the City University We split our time between about changes in Paris is that, and then two more weeks of New York as Professor of Virginia (winter) and Maine while they can be significant through the Aquitaine and Economics with the doctoral (summer). over time, they are largely Languedoc. I am going to buy faculty of the Graduate Cen- incremental. Neighborhoods an old farmhouse in Oullain- ter, and as Professor of Health Mildred (Littleton) Garroway I frequented in ‘60s and ‘70s ville south of Paris and sell out Policy and Management with Sweet Briar College and (the Latin Quarter, the neigh- of Florida. I have grieved my the School of Public Health Michael Garroway borhood in the 10e where I twin Malinda for 30 years and and Health Policy. I have also Bowdoin College lived with Irene Hannebicque, hope to find her spirit there. been on the Sweet Briar Col- Millie and I have been mar- the boulevards around Louis I have a legacy and heritage lege Board of Directors since ried since 1971. We raised our XIV’s two gates, and even a in France. My love of art and 2015 and in August 2018 was children in the US and moved couple of restaurants and cafes culture came from those days named Secretary. I patronized) seem much the in Paris and I will be research- to Europe in 2001. After 10 Robert Gill years in England and we are same. Areas that have changed ing my genealogy with the Washington and Lee University now retired in the Dordogne dramatically since 1968--the Huguenots. Though I get to France (and Halles, Beaubourg, the Marais, region of France. We spend Daniel Danny Selove Quebec) less often in retire- our time visiting or hosting our St. Denis, la Defense, etc.--now University of Virginia ment, I had three days in Tahiti, four grandchildren and enjoy- seem to be familiar parts of the I attended the 50th year Moorea, and Bora Bora this ing living in France! We would landscape. It’s always a plea- alumni reunion in NYC this past winter as part of an extended be delighted to catch up with sure to return. September! cruise on the Cunard Queen our JYF classmates and wel- Deborah Rood Spencer Elizabeth. I spent a good part come you to visit. Lynn Wallisch Wheaton College, MA Mount Holyoke College of my time there speaking Jane Gott Sharing a photo of the four Recently retired from a French, which gave me great Sweet Briar College American girls at the Verleys’ career in academic research joy. My wife and I are both I went on to do grad work apartment: Lucy Lombardy, (social sciences). I Play violin, professors emeritus at Radford in French Literature. I am living Sweet Briar College, Nancy cello and recorder with several University. Our son, who mi- in the Washington, DC metro Hearst, Connecticut College, community groups, take class- nored in French at Dickinson area with my husband Ron Myra Schechtman, Case es at the university, and travel and studied at Laval (Quebec) Tant, retired and concentrating Western Reserve, and me. (see whenever I can. Don’t use my and Toulouse, is currently a on watercolor painting. below) French much, alas, but am still Major in the Army. He and his wife have two young sons (four Nancy (Nes) Knowlton Margery Runyan a francophile. and two). Vassar College Goucher College I retired from practicing After 25 years working for Fritz Hoffecker architecture a few years ago. I the State of New Jersey and 1969-70 Princeton University have become a Master Natu- retiring, I relocated to the Anstiss (Bowser) Agnew I’ve retired from the intel ralist and volunteer in a nearby Rocky Mountains of Durango, Goucher College world and now spend my time Park. I also volunteer at a local CO and built the fung shui and I revisit Paris every year and doing some “ethical hacking” Food Pantry. My husband, straw bale dream house. I also stay at a small hotel across and playing drums in a rock David, and I enjoy working at have a home on Pine Island on from the apt where Lynne and roll band. My daughter improving our garden. We also (Loucks) Buchen and I lived now lives in Paris, and I had travel quite a bit, especially to with our family. I have two a great visit over there last Chicago to visit our son Nick, adult children (31 and 34) who spring. My son just got mar- and to visit my family in New also love to travel to Paris with ried, which made me feel a lit- Mexico. In the past few years me. tle old (accurately...). He never fell for France as he’s spent his we have had wonderful trips to Marianne Mimi Fahs Italy, Spain and England and Sweet Briar College time in China. Recently spent look forward to more adven- I am looking forward to my a great week in Paris, where I tures! I have returned to Paris JYF 50th anniversary coming walked all over, went to some several times, most recently up in 2020 and am wondering of my old haunts, and over-in- with my husband and son. I who is organizing it and where dulged in pastry and strong have also just become part of will it be held? I keep up with coffee. a French conversation group her QE2 roommate, California Edward Wren Hudgins in the hopes of improving my girl, Linda Boverman who has Washington and Lee University now rusty French! had a career in speech therapy I lived two additional years David Longfellow and saw her last Easter. I also in Europe, maintain French University of Virginia keep up with another 1969-70 friendships to this day and Back in Paris for a couple JYF friend, Emily Ennis Fowler visit about every three years. of weeks last September, my (Wheaton College] and was to Leigh (Edens) Hudgins and wife and I stopped by Reid see her in Santa Fe, New Mexi- I are both retired and travel a Hall to hear a chamber music D Spencer-Rene and Annette co this November. lot these days. While at home, recital by a friend’s early music Verley at their dining table I am a health economist she plays the fiddle in a Celtic

36 group and the violin (same in- consulting travelling extensive- love the light and language my life, the love of travel, and strument) in an orchestra, and I ly and doing some short-term and food!Just returned from a my sensual imagination. I travel study birds and mushrooms. assignments in Egypt, Bahrain wonderful river cruise in Bor- several times a year to Europe and Greece. I was in both deaux with and to Montana and places Barbara Kelly Christine Stover Mount Holyoke College World Trade Center bombings, Romero, my roommate in west. in 1993 and in 2001. Tours, and her husband John I am enjoying retirement R. William Heckel with husband David Miller at I was happily married for 21 and some other friends. Hard Bowdoin College our lakefront house in Northern years but my husband died of to believe Christine and I have After working as a translator New Jersey. In May 2015 I was cancer in 2001.I met a “signifi- been friends for 48 years! Had for the United Nations for 31 diagnosed with Acute Myeloid cant other” on a busiess trip in a fabulous time at wine tast- years, I retired in Geneva, my Leukemia (AML) and had a St Petersburg, Russia. I lived in ings and enjoying the beautiful last posting. Actually, I live in stem cell transplant in August NYC for 40 years and now live countryside. France, on the south shore of 2015. The recovery is long, in Salisbury CT and Jupiter FL Lake Geneva (or lac Léman, since one’s immune system is and continue to spend a fair as we call it), about 15 miles essentially destroyed and then amount of time in NYC. I have 1971-72 outside the city of Calvin. Since rebuilt by the transplant, but been a Trustee with the New Melinda (Williams) Davis retirement I have been quite I’m happy to report that I am York Theatre Worshop and Sweet Briar College active musically, conducting beating the odds and am al- today for the Sharon Land Trust After about a 40-year hiatus two choirs (one in France, one most feeling back to normal! and do other volunteer work. had lunch with Celi Rehberg in Switzerland) and singing as a I have two sisters, two step McGurk about a year ago. soloist and performing in mu- Eric Ordway children, three grandchildren She lives not at all far from sical theater. My most recent Princeton University and nieces and nephews with me. I stay in regular touch with Inspired by the internation- (maybe final?) performance whom I am close and I enjoy Dorothy Senghas Lakner alism and multiculturalism that was this spring, as Emile de my partner’s (Ron) family. I love and Cary Davis King. After the junior year abroad program Becque in “South Pacific”; I playing tennis and golf, spend- retiring and being widowed was thrilled when I discovered promoted and instilled in its ing time with friends and family I moved back to Richmond, participants—and led me to afterwards that the theater and generally enjoying life. VA (my home town) in 2012. I ushers were all convinced I was be a part of JFY in Paris in the also still am in touch with one Marilyn (Boyd) Silar French! I am currently awaiting first place—I continue to do of the daughters in my French international arbitration work Sweet Briar College the imminent birth of my first Retired & loving it in Na- family, Sophie Dont. My beau grandchild, which means that I as an attorney at a large law and I had dinner with her and firm, representing foreign gov- ples, FL will undoubtedly be spending her husband in St. Jean de Luz much more time Stateside. Of ernments and private entities about 18 months ago. Hoping our group I see Amy Lerner in a variety of disputes, as well we’ll have a JYF Reunion in 1970-71 Comolli and her husband as international human rights France soon, while we all are Kate (Cooper) Leupin César whenever they come to work for the United Nations still mobile enough to make it! and various other non-profit Randolph Macon Woman’s visit family in France. I also see international and domestic or- College Amy (Lerner) Comolli Patrice Scarvalone and Daniel ganizations. Contrary to certain I pursued graduate study Mills College de Leiris (my Paris roommate) trends in our country, I believe in French at Cal Berkeley, be- I still have close ties to somewhat regularly as well strongly that our lives and the came a French professor, and friends from that year....espe- (I used to see Patrice all the human condition in general married a Swiss national whom cially Bill Heckel. Spent time time when she, too, lived in are not only enhanced by but I met through my graduate with him at his beautiful home Geneva!). Any classmates plan- dependent upon increased studies. Our family has always in France, just outside of Ge- ning to visit the Alps, please and more intensive interaction spoken French at home. neva during my visit to France feel free to give a shout—we (Epinal) last year to visit fam- always love to see folks from between and among persons Jan (Woodward) Fox of different races, religions and Radcliffe College ily. I married someone I met home! during my year in France and nationalities. Indeed, for me, When it appeared that I Blanchette (Chappell) Maier it is only through such contact was going to turn 60 whether then worked for over 25 years Sweet Briar College that we as human beings can I wanted to or not, it became for a French company in the Hello to all my fellow JYF grow and make our world a clear that the only thing that US, using my language skills. friends. better place. I am confident would make it better was do- Elizabeth Dunkel John Schneider that many of those who were ing it in a bistro in Paris. So George Washington University University of Wisconsin with me in Paris in 1969-1970 there we were: good friends, Greetings from Merida, After retiring as a foreign share these same feelings, and my son and his girlfriend, and Mexico where I have lived for service officer with the U.S. I welcome an opportunity to my roommate from JYF with the past 25 years. I’m a writer foreign aid program in 2004, see as many of you as possible me in a bistro with a waiter and my latest e-book is on I moved to a working farm in once again. with a long apron helping me Amazon: “How to live like a northern Maryland near the celebrate one of life’s great millionaire on a retirement Patricia Rowell Pennsylvania border. We raise Drew University transitions -- the way it should budget.” I have a blog: www. heritage breeds of animals Following college I moved be. campliza.com and I’m working including Guernsey milk cows, on a new novel, a cookbook to NYC to join Chase Manhat- April (Nelson) McKay Merino sheep for fleece, a tan Bank and worked in inter- Colby College and a memoir. Memories of mountain goat named Proust, national banking with Chase I have returned to Paris or JYF inform my life always; it’s and a variety chickens, geese and American Express and France almost every year. I just what sparked the journey of and peacocks. I also raise and

37 CLASS NOTES show Ibizan Hounds, with my Carol (Lunder) Rubinstein sisters” right from the begin- beloved Pussycat Doll winning Goucher College 1974-75 ning. I want to thank both of an Award of Merit at the West- I spent 35 years teaching Carole Grunberg them, albeit far too late, for minster Kennel Club show. high school French at Forsyth Vassar College their lovely leadership. I have Country Day School in Lew- It is wonderful to be in oc- stayed in contact with my isville, NC, leading student casional contact with one of French family to this day. I saw 1972-73 groups to France and hosting my SBC JYF roommates, Claire them several years ago when I Ellie (Plowden) Boyd French exchange students. I Colbert Mills. It is profoundly was last in Paris (unfortunately Sweet Briar College have retired to Baltimore, MD sad that we no longer have my Madame passed away two Enjoyed sharing memories with my husband Malcolm who another of our roommates with years ago at age 92). of SBCJYF with us, Emory Furniss retired from private practice Jane (Bambi) Bachman Jody Clarke Walter Maxwell, Ruthie Willingham as a psychologist. French has Wulf, as she passed away last Denison University Lentz, and Lee Wilkinson always been a part of my daily year from pancreatic cancer. Over the years I have Warren, and hearing about life both personally and profes- She and I remained very close returned to Paris and other Liz Thomas Camp’s trip this sionally. We are enjoying life after being roommates chez areas of France for vacations year to follow in the footsteps and spending time with friends Mme Rivière, and traveled (multiple times with Cynthia of her dad who landed on the and family, especially our four many times back to France and (Steele) Verme and still love beaches on DDay +3. We may grandchildren. Life has been Paris over the past 40 years. I being on French soil. I have a need to plan a mini-reunion in good to us. recommend the tribute from stepdaughter who shares my France. Who’s in?? Sports Illustrated, where she passion for France and the had an amazing career. In ad- Patrice (Clark) Cole French language and who has University of Arizona 1973-74 dition to her years with SI, she also spent time studying and I was ordained as a Deacon Philippe de Lapérouse was also an associate editor of living in Paris. in the Episcopal Church in the Trinity College Time Magazine. She is survived Diocese of Arizona in June Still in the saddle working by her husband of 38 years, 2018. and traveling across the globe Steve Wulf, and 4 wonderful 1975-76 children. as a Global Food and Agri- Marion McCord Joan (Lippert) Indig business Consultant. Have not Mount Holyoke College Peter Labombarde Denison University been in contact with fellow JYF Colby College Living the good life on the Whatever happened to our alumni for some time. second reunion? I’m here to Our children seem to coast of Maine. have inherited our love of help. Vincent Doddy Scot Oliver Villanova University languages. Katherine works Guilford College Janet (Cohen) Kautz I retired from MACK Trucks on economic development in University of Cincinnati I completed an M.A. in Inc. after 38 years in the Inter- French West Africa, Evan is an architecture at the University I’m happy to say I’ve re- national Marketing Division. Arabic Linguist in the Marine mained in touch with my room- of Idaho a few years back and My career with MACK afforded Corps, and Jocelyn has lived have been working since 2013 mate Diane (Linn) Conroy & me the opportunity to travel in Cambodia and speaks fluent as the director of Idaho Smart attended our 25 year reunion to 70 countries including a few Khmer. Now that they are all in NYC in ‘98. Would enjoy Growth, a statewide nonprofit business trips to Paris & Lyon. independent, Irene and I look organization helping people hearing from any in our group, My French & Spanish language forward to more travel. We just especially if you’re traveling to build stronger, healthier com- skills acquired during my Ju- returned from Bulgaria and munities. I love it out here! Austin!” nior Year in France with Sweet Romania, and are headed to Emma (Ward) Morris Briar were put to good use in South Africa this winter. Deborah (Cook) Routt Emory University this job. I am currently work- Mount Holyoke William Marquess Explored Valle Sagrado and Teaching entrepreneurship ing on a part time basis with Duke University at the University of TN at Medical Educational Teaching Machu Picchu with my hus- I’ve just retired, moved to band, Will, and my Paris room- Chattanooga (well, the word is Associates instructing & pre- an apartment in downtown French!). I still use my French paring medical students for mate, Donna Taylor Bower, in Burlington, VT and given February 2017. Son, Schuyler almost daily with French clients their exams. up my car. I walk to every- and French friends. Weston, married in Rochester Peter Goetz thing--the market, the Y, the NY on Aug. 18, 2018. Daugh- Yale University library, the bus. It’s not Paris, ter, Lindsay, will explore Tokyo, I’m teaching middle school but this routine reminds of our Hiroshima and Kyoto, Japan in the San Francisco Bay Area. year there. That’s a good thing. in November, 2018. Expect to I remained a Europhile with I listen to France Culture in the relocate from northern Virginia a global perspective, and 10 evening, and I thank the gods to Colorado in 2019. SBCJYF years later I moved to Italy, that I had that JYF experience. Classmate visitors welcome! staying for 12 years. Deborah (Mutch) Olander Martha Simpson Emily (Crom) Lyons Sweet Briar College Mount Holyoke Kenyon College I was so sad to learn from After 40 wonderful years of We spend summers now in Carole Grundberg of Bambi teaching French, Spanish, and Darien, CT, and winter in Boni- Bachman’s passing. When I English as a second language ta Springs, FL. Happy to hear think of the entire Junior Year at all grade levels and in both from friends in either location. experience, I realize that Car- public and private sectors, I am Janet (Cohen) Kautz ole and Bambi were our “spirit retiring.

38 French speaking, reading and daughter’s eyes would pop out Olivia did a great exchange 1976-77 writing skills for these 40 years when we pulled up at Cham- with a wonderful French family Susan (Coulson ) Burghes since JYF 1976–77. It is a hobby bord). that included sailing lessons off Mount Holyoke College of mine and now traveling with I’ve been looking for Cath- the coast of Brittany. I have nothing but the my husband and family in Paris, , 1977–1978 erine Crosbie Hope Freeland fondest memories of my JYF France, Switzerland and I am from Mount Holyoke for years. Northwestern University in Tours and Paris. I married completely comfortable. Most Michael Wise I am happily retired. My a British subject, moved to people do not know that I am Georgetown University husband (also retired) and I London immediately following an American! How nice! Junior In 2012, I cofounded New enjoy traveling. Before retiring our wedding in 1982!! After a Year in France was the best ed- Vessel Press, a New York-based in 2014, I worked in the area few years we moved to Toron- ucation I had in my life! Perhaps publishing house devoted to of training and development to and had our first son. After there could be another great translated literature and nar- for many years. Then I went a few more years we moved Reunion in Paris soon?” rative nonfiction. We publish back to school so that I could to Columbus, Ohio where my Marnell (Bukovac) Stover books from around the world— become a speech-language husband is a professor in 3 Denison University take a look at www.newvessel- pathologist. I worked primarily departments at Ohio State Uni- My daughter, Mary Claude press.com—but I’m particularly with children. versity. This is also where I did Brunelli (Williams College) did proud of our French titles, my PhD in Molecular Genetics. Emily (Mann) Leichter JYF in Spring 2011, has her including “The Madeleine Proj- Brown University We had our second son in Co- MA in French (Columbia) and is ect” by Clara Beaudoux, “The lumbus. Columbus is a surpris- While I live in NYC, I con- now getting her PhD at CUNY. Eye” by Philippe Costamagna, tinue to travel to Europe for ingly international city in large I received an MA in French “The 6:41 to Paris” by Jean- part due to the gigantic uni- work, particularly to London, literature, taught French, stud- Philippe Blondel and “Guys Madrid and Paris. My time in versity, but also due to a very ied wines, travel often. I am Like Me” by Dominique Fabre. broad, healthy economy. I re- Paris created an unquenchable still in contact and visit with the wanderlust that has taken me turn to France every few years. daughter and grandson of my 1978-79 I am struck with how ‘open’ the all over the world through the host family Mme Varangot. Melissa (Helms) Buckner decades: from India, Nepal, French are faced with the huge Vanderbilt University diversity of cultures in their Hong Kong pre-turnover, and cities. Their attitude towards 1977-78 I reside in Atlanta and have re- China to Vietnam, Thailand Americans has evolved enor- tired from the communications and Cambodia. I have met so Pamela (Davenport) DaSilva and affordable housing indus- many kind and brilliant people mously and made visits very Mount Holyoke College copacetic. I am generally very tries. Continue to do pro bono and wonder if I would be so I have traveled back to work for non-profits serving the open and accepting had it not at home in France. IF someone France many times and it is my from my year or wishing some community. Enjoy international been for my JYF experience. home away from home. I feel travel, tennis, friends, family, information/advice on living Gretchen Reimel-Moussa as comfortable walking the and books. abroad would like to contact streets of Paris or shopping in Northwestern University me, please do so. a market in Bonnieux as I do in Melissa (Shakleton) Dann It’s hard for me to imagine Denison College Cecilia (Garcia-Tunon) Lear my own neighborhood. that it has been 40 years since Sweet Briar College I am still in touch with Lisa I first came to France as part Cheri (Harris ) Lofland (Hopkins) Wheeler, Marga- of the JYF program with Sweet After spending the vast Sweet Briar College ret (Fullerton) Peyrard and Briar College. It is now 10 majority of my life in the Wash- I loved Europe from the Janel (Hughes) Wiles; two of years since my husband, my ington, DC area, Steven and I time I arrived and, although it got tired of living our lives in the three live in France. Lisa daughter and I have settled in took a few years after gradua- and her wonderful daughter a village near Montpellier, in traffic and made a rather sub- tion, ended up living and work- stantial ‘quality of life’ move Isabelle and husband Mark the south of France. We live in ing here since—now 17 years were in DC in June for a wed- the old section of the village to Maine. We have lived in and counting! Bangor for 12 years now, and ding down the street from where the neighbors are ex- actually realized our objective Laura (Simpson) Loveland our house in Chevy Chase, tremely open and welcoming. to actually BE parents----with a University of North Dakota MD. I was thrilled to recently My husband and I often joke vengeance. Our son, Fred (now I am extremely comfortable celebrate the graduation from how it takes 30 minutes to walk 25), is doing extremely well, in France. Had a French for- George Washington Univer- our trash bag out to the dump- studying and also pursuing his eign exchange student here sity of one of Janel’s four (of ster 30 meters away, because passion for Mixed Martial Arts when oldest daughter was in five!) kids. I live in Washington, we’re sure to run into a neigh- (causing his mother an accel- 6th grade. Only parent who DC with a husband who has bor and then spend a while erated loss of hair----and what- spoke French. I fearlessly went grown to love amazing chees- chatting. You may wonder how ever is left is quite a bit saltier back to visit Paris during the es (thankfully very accessible we managed to find such a than it is peppery!). He has a Gulf War in 1991, brought my now vs. in the 1980s when it great little village. Actually, we very healthy winning record daughters on a Uniworld Par- seemed all we could get was really weren’t all that smart, we and earlier this month, just won is-Beaches of Normandy river Brie and Camembert at our were lucky. We wanted to live his first Championship Title in cruise 2008 (brought them to local Safeway!). We have four in a stone house—once again the Bantamweight category. the JYF Office; elevator was kids (ages 19-26), three of those romantic ideas about out so we hiked 7 flights so whom are ardent Francophiles. living in a postcard pretty me- Barbara (Mendelssohn) Price they could see it; took them on Our oldest daughter Isabel dieval village -- but there really Sweet Briar College a private day trip to the Châ- taught in Amiens through the weren’t many stone houses I have kept up with my teaux of the Loire—thought my TAPIF program. Our daughter on the market. So when our

39 CLASS NOTES real estate agent showed us grandchildren and now live Exeter Academy in June and our house, we put in an offer in the Basque Country. I met is planning a gap year before without knowing much about my husband-to-be and came going off to U. Chicago. She is the village, other than Mont- back to France the day after off WWOOF’ing (working on pellier was close by, which was graduating from Sweet Briar to an organic farm) in Spain this important since the city has a marry him and have lived here summer and has asked me to reputation of being dynamic ever since. I have just finished help her find a way to get to and on the upswing. writing my first novel about my Paris next winter/spring so she Ten years later, I am so year in France on the SBC Pro- can learn French intensively grateful to live in France. Yes, gram and am going to publish while possibly also living with we have our problems here, it soon! a family where she could be of and people definitely disagree use, tutoring English, prepping Samuel Howell how to address them. But Kenyon College for SATs, providing after-care. I France has many systems in I live and work in Manhat- couldn’t resist turning my news place to help protect and sup- tan as a teacher. I have been into an “advice welcomed” port people on every level— married for five years to my blurb, as everyone reading this economically, educationally, life partner Carlos Fernandes probably remembers when medically, socially, physically. I from Portugal. I return to they were trying to figure out am at ease in this country and France almost yearly, mostly the best way to get themselves am very happy to call it my to Deauville where I went to to Paris! home. high school and to Manosque Ann (Connolly) Simpson in Provence where I often see Cathy (Cosentini ) Bonczek Sweet Briar College family friends. Although far 1980-81 Not speaking a lot of French countries. In addition to my more mature than in 1979, I James Magruder these days---have a 28 year old SBC degrees, I have a Diploma still have a taste for mischief. Cornell University daughter who lives in South from Institut des Sciences Poli- I live in Baltimore with my Elizabeth Jensen partner of twenty years, Steve Boston and teaches 6th grade tiques and from Université de Northwestern University social studies. I am selling toys Paris VII in Paris, France. I split Bolton. We have three grand- I joined NPR in 2015, as sons on the West Coast, whom in Newburyport and playing my time between Europe and their Ombudsman/Public Edi- gobs of tennis on teams in NH. NYC. we adore and spoil. I teach, tor, after a career in newspaper depending on my schedule, Caroline Smith Cathy (Cosentini ) Bonczek reporting. The last year has dramaturgy at Swarthmore Bryn Mawr College Cornell University been a fascinating one repre- College, and adaptation at the Still enjoy visiting France After living in New York and senting public radio listeners Yale School of Drama, where fairly often (most years), but Boston for several years, I am and addressing questions of I received my doctorate back spend more time in Lyon than once again living in CT. I re- journalism ethics. in the day. This past spring, Paris—it’s a great city too! main in close contact with Jane Brian Mitchell I taught “How French Is It?, Patricia “Tish” (Longest) Tyler Bell, Elizabeth Jensen, Char- Harvard University a gallop through the French Sweet Briar College lotte Smith, Peter D’Amario, I have been living in Mon- dramatic canon from 1300- I regularly vacation in along with Lynn Ellen Queen, treal, Canada. I practice in 1900,” at the Drama School. I France twice a year. and Scott Daube. The years commercial litigation for my have published three works of since Sweet Briar have been own law firm Mitchell Gattuso fiction and I am currently repre- Barbara (Laskey) Weinreich full, with marriage, career, trav- sented on Broadway with Head Brown University which is a boutique law firm of el and children (two sons, both Over Heels, a musical mash-up After 30 years of practicing 20 lawyers in downtown Mon- adopted from South Korea). I of the song catalogue of the architecture in New York City, I treal. look forward to a reunion for Go-Go’s and Sir Philip Sidney’s am now teaching Interior De- Sarah (Heureuse) Rindsberg our 40th—shall we plan on Arcadia. I co-wrote the book, sign at Pratt Institute and the Mount Holyoke Paris? and my work is in blank verse. NY School of Interior Design. J’apprécie l’effort de plu- Check it out: www.headover- My husband, also an architect Peter D’Amario sieurs membres de notre classe heelsthemusical.com. who I met in Graduate School Brown University d’organiser des retrouvailles. I made wonderful friends in at Columbia, and I live in We moved to London in Je donne des cours particu- Paris with whom I’m still in con- Morningside Heights in New 1992, and settled there. My liers. C’est passionnant ! Ma tact-- , York. three children are now 25, 23 fille a suivi mes pas. Elle faisait Julia Reidhead Carolyn , , and 19 and all live in the UK. partie du groupe JYF en 2013. Cook Sheri Marshak Carla My daughter Caroline spent Zackson, Kathy Moore, and her Junior Year in France with Abbey Westervelt Paulette Flahavin. 1979-80 Princeton University Elaine Louise Arozarena Mount Holyoke’s program in Montpelier. I remain close I recently “retired” from a Sweet Briar College long career as Director of Cor- friends with Charlotte Smith, 1981-82 I am an International Ad- porate & Foundation Relations visor and founding partner of Jane Bell, Cathy (Cosentini) Karen Brinkman at Cornell and am taking a bit Brown University Global Strategic Advise Ser- Bonczek and Elizabeth Jen- of a break before I embark on I continue to maintain close vices and the sister company sen. the next chapter. Emily, the friendships with Parisian friends “Global Human Capital Solu- Anne (Grosvenor) Evrard older of my two daughters and visit Paris often. My time tions”. I married a Spaniard, Sweet Briar College just graduated from Phillips is divided between the Wash- has lived in more than seven I have six children, two

40 Eileen (McGill) Fox 1983-84 Wellesley College Irma Alvarez I’m happy to report that Wellesley College my daughter, Madeleine Fox Just visited my son who is (University of Southern Cali- an English Teaching Assistant fornia) was the third member in a Lycée outside Paris. Loved of our family to attend JYF in being back and reconnecting; Paris. My sister (Maura McGill renewed gratitude for the op- Mudd, Mount Holyoke Col- portunity. My daughter is at lege) and I, both JYF alums. NYU and I always see Andrea William Lawrence when I visit. I got this link Levy Duke University through ; I have Jill Abelson I am a professor of political not seen Jill in over two de- science and international affairs cades, but we have stayed in at George Washington Univer- touch; not so with my Rue de Karen Brinkman sity and at various U.S. govern- Siam roommate . ington, DC metro area and the Jacie Carter ment training facilities where I’m not on any social media Blue Ridge mountains of west- I teach African and Middle Tina, Rachel and Pamela in Tours platforms but would love to ern North Carolina. Friends are Eastern politics, security, and in ‘83 and Austin ‘17 hear from her and any Paris welcome! Reach me at kb@ culture. I speak, read, and write litical candidates and Fortune ‘83-’84 classmates via email. karenbrinkmann.com. French nearly every day and 500 countries. Went freelance Bien à vous, Irma. Amy Linda (Boyce) Osaki use it both professionally and and consulted for the Nation-

Sweet Briar College Paul Arpaia socially, including living a total al Democratic Institute in 10 Celebrating over 22 years Washington and Lee University of twelve years in francophone countries in Africa, spearhead- of leading art tours and moun- Still living the dream, even if countries and visiting them ing focus groups with citizens tain hiking trips to France, and I wound up doing Italian histo- frequently. I also frequently on issues of democracy and beyond for my companies Art ry rather than French history for comment in French on African governance. Two years ago, Tours by Amy, and Mountain a profession as a College Pro- and Middle Eastern affairs in went back to graduate school Hiking Holidays. Am so very fessor. I try to get to France as francophone media, especially for a master’s degree in mental grateful to be self-employed often as possible (but never as in France, Morocco, Algeria, health counseling and am now sharing my passion for art, much as I’d like). Vive JYF! and Tunisia, I lived one year in working in child welfare in New history, architecture and for Rebekah (Torges) Cotton France and thirteen years in Af- York City. hiking, with others. “Merci Mount Holyoke College rica and the Middle East in the Tina (Pack) McLane mille fois!” https://arttoursby- After my junior year abroad, three decades following my Randolph Macon University JYF experience. I won a dis- amy.com I spent the summer in Paris I reunited with Barbara working as an au pair for a tinguished alumni award from Elena Quevedo Weber two years ago in Paris family who owned a chateau Duke University and the Fenn and it was an amazing trip. We Sweet Briar College School’s 2018 Distinguished I still maintain contact with in Normandy. Oh là là. I also were able to visit our French enjoyed vacations to France Alumni Award. I live with my “mom” Simone Hilling. I also a handful of friends primarily family in Bethesda MD where through Facebook. and then another year in included one with Barb’s hus- Rouen with my family in 2014- my son studies French at Walt band and my daughter. Bar- 15. This time I was in beautiful Whitman high school and as bara is amazing and has lived 1982-83 Rouen with my husband and a middle schooler created an in Paris since we graduated two daughters. (My husband, animated short film in French from college. In October, I Matthew Kadish about a terrible restaurant ex- Williams College a high school teacher at Shak- reunited with Pamela Pate and er Heights, participated in a perience. in Austin My daughter Melissa Rachel Stenn Paley teacher exchange.) to attend the Texas Book Fair. I Kadish did JYF in Fall semes- Andrea Levy ter 2017 (following both me, We were there during the Wellesley College hope to see Julia Yongue this Charlie Hebdo attack and were After graduating from year as well. She’s in Baltimore and my mother Doris (Young) deeply moved by the resilience Wellesley, received a master’s at Johns Hopkins on sabbatical Kadish before me). and fortitude of the French degree from Georgetown from her teaching position at Nancy Nagel people. We are working on University’s School of Foreign Hosei University in Japan! Brown University plans for another lengthy trip Service. Worked for the US Lourdes Melgar I am in San Carlos, CA—in there, but meanwhile we are Department of Commerce as the SF Bay Area. I am married Mount Holyoke College enjoying visits from our many a Presidential Management I live in Mexico City and and have two teenage sons, new French friends. Thanks Intern (PMI). Was accepted one of whom is about to go off work as an Energy Scholar and to my recent trip and my im- into the Japan Exchange and Consultant. to college. I work for the local proved French, I’ve also gotten Teaching (JET) Program and Food Bank after several years to proofread some French text- spent 1.5 years in Japan. Re- James Ruff working in City government. books. My regular job is free- turned to New York and began University of Southern Califor- I’d love to hear from other folks lance copyediting in English, a career in public opinion nia from my year. so this is a really fun change of research. Conducted primary I have been teaching Music/ pace. research (e.g., focus groups Voice at Vassar College for and surveys) on behalf of po- nine years while continuing to do concert work. I have fo-

41 CLASS NOTES cused on the Scottish Gaelic ney College (yes, it is still all about my fellow classmates as I can because I feel like it’s a language, Gaelic Song and male) for twelve years before I and where life has taken you. second homeland. early Gaelic wire harp since moved to Tennessee to teach Kara Nielsen 2005, and have been present- at Middle Tennessee State Uni- Northwestern University ing concerts of early Gaelic versity. The year in Paris with My Junior Year Abroad 1987-88 repertoire for voice and harp. Sweet Briar Junior Year Abroad launched a life-long love of Tracey (Thomas) Jones You can find out more at my started a lifetime love affair for France and deep appreciation Sweet Briar College website: www.jamesrufftenor- me and I get to enjoy it every for culture in general and food I met my husband while in harper.com. day, work and play. Luckily my culture specifically. I became a France and became a French husband is an artist and a big teacher. I married Jonathan Barbara (Weber) Boustani pastry chef, culinary education Northwestern University Francophile, too, and we are administrator and earned a Jones from Manchester, En- Thirty-plus years since our brainwashing our two children master’s degree in Gastrono- gland and we will celebrate year abroad, and I’ve never daily (daughter 13, son 10). my (Boston University) which our 27th anniversary this year. We met while attending Saint once regretted the decision to Catherine (McNease) Stevens included research in France on make my home here in Paris, Sweet Briar College French culinary pedagogy for Michaels Anglican Church, 5 after graduating from North- Life on the farm in Southern a final thesis. That work led to Rue d’Aguesseau during my western. And I can’t believe Virginia is about to change: a career as a food trend ana- Junior Year in Paris. We have I’ve been able to make my our 18 year old son Henry has lyst, or trendologist, at a San two sons: Nathaniel, who is a professional dreams come true enrolled at Duke Kushan (Chi- Francisco-based new product junior at Episcopal High School in France as well: on stage in na). He leaves in August for development firm. I base my of Jacksonville and will be in musicals, then films and I now three years in Kunshan and his study of food trends in culture Honors French III next year and have a very rewarding career “Junior Year Abroad” at Duke and broadly explore the world Brennan, who is a 7th grader directing and acting for anima- University in Durham. We are of chefs, restaurants, supermar- at Harvest Community School, tion and video games (Arthur so glad he has this opportunity. kets, eating and dining to gain where we do a combination of and the Minimoys, Valerian, insights into food trend adop- homeschooling and traditional Karen Samuels Rabbids Invasion, Code Ly- tion. I continue to travel the school. I used to teach high University of Virginia school French and ESL classes oko... to name a few). I’m so I went to France for the first world to learn (and eat) and grateful to the Sweet Briar JYF credit my immersion in France but currently teach elementary time since 1992 last year, this art at my younger son’s school. program to have helped me time with one of my children. as the kickoff for this passion. find and follow my dream. Jonathan and I enjoyed help- Just a short week in Paris, with ing with a missions team and a side trip to Normandy, but it 1986-87 month and yea Jonathan and was glorious, and remarkably, I enjoyed helping with a mis- 1984-85 Tracy (Smith) Camenisch after all this time, a great deal sions team in Montpelier but Jesse Dizard Bates College of my French returned to me. It have not been back to France Brandeis University was very hard to leave so soon! Was an amazing year in I recently accepted the po- Paris—now working at Ernst in many years. sition of resident director for Angela (Heffernan) Toussaint & Young and consulting in the CA State University sys- Wheaton College, MA several different areas and 1988-89 tem’s study abroad program in I currently working on a four- languages. Jeremy Deutsch France. I will be based in Aix- year Master’s In French program Brandeis University Beatrice Desper en-Provence beginning in July at Middlebury College. I recently joined the nation- Bryn Mawr College al law firm of Anderson Kill as 2019. I was inspired to apply By chance, I met my hus- for the job in the first place be- the new chair of the Corporate 1985-86 band in Paris and ended up liv- and Securities Department, cause of Mme. Denis’ example ing here. I’m still in Boulogne, Thomas Albrecht headquartered in NYC. when I was on my JYF year. teaching a little and volunteer- Brown University Lyall Harris Donna (Prommas) Duchow I study & teach French lit- ing a lot. Sweet Briar College Northwestern University erature & film & philosophy to Gloria Erickson I am a painter, writer, book Living in San Diego, CA. this day. Although I have only Mills College College professor, teaching artist: www.lyallharris.com. I returned to Paris a few times I always remember my moved back to Europe (Italy) English and French. Still a life- since my JYF year, I still feel at time during the Junior Year in long francophile. for most of the 90s and again home when I am there. I think France with much fondness, throughout my adult life. Joan E. (McRae) Kleinlein of my year in Paris as having and hold particularly fond Agnes Scott College been one of the most mean- memories of Monsieur Joseph, Douglas Heyler Believe it or not, I have ingful and beautiful times in Madame Denis and my dear University of Michigan I still have fond memo- become a French professor at my life. friend Roberta Austin. I am Middle Tennessee State Uni- currently retired and participat- ries of our year and the fun John Bagan activities we did. I still speak versity. After returning home Northwestern University ing in a service/study program from Paris I couldn’t wait to get at Land of Medicine Buddha in French when I get the chance My daughter is saying she and have been back to France back to Paris. I went back with wants to follow our footsteps Soquel, California. Middlebury College to earn a a few times since 1988. I try and do JYF! Alice Rudebusch to speak French whenever Masters degree in French. Still Northwestern University Keith Myer possible. I got mistaken for a not enough—more school for I have continued to study me! After earning my PhD at University of Virginia Belgian in Paris! Quite a com- Look forward to reading French formally and informally pliment. Living in the Chicago UVa, I taught at Hampden-Syd- and return to France as often

42 Suburbs working for a Beer daughter is going to Italy with starting high school and my and Wine company. My daugh- Rotary as for her junior year of son is starting middle school. 1992-93 ter is a junior in college. I enjoy high school! (She wanted to go I’ve used my French teaching Sara (Noble) Carter attending shows and concerts to France but she’s a vegetar- at universities and for travel to Mount Holyoke in Chicago and traveling when ian and Rotary wouldn’t place France and Quebec. Ages ago, I went on to teach French, possible. vegetarians in France, which it seems, I also got an MA in am fluent to this day and am we know is crazy but c’est la French/Linguistics. I now help currently with my husband vie.) In preparation, we hosted my kids with foreign languag- and children in Paris where we 1989-90 a Rotary high school exchange es. Hard to believe! I’d love to spent time with my SBC JYF Anna Bardone-Cone student last semester. He was reconnect with my friends in host family! Williams College from Tours!! We couldn’t be- JYF! Josh Gibson I’ve been fortunate to be lieve it. Kismet! Williams College back to Paris several times, Catherine (Gornto) Freeman Sara, Amelia (nearly 9), including being able to share Sweet Briar College 1991-92 and I are still living happily in it with family. Visits always in- I’ve lived in New Orleans for Sophie (Rigolot) Adamson the Adams Morgan neighbor- volve a ton of walking around, the past 24 years with my hus- Catholic University of America hood of DC. My mom lives a stroll by where I lived in band Peter (W&L ‘89) and have I will always be grateful to two floors down from us. I the 7eme with the fabulous three children—Charlotte (19), JYF for my experience. I am work for the DC Council, do- Monique Lefèvre, time in the David (18) and Lawrence (18). still very close with my Parisian ing communications (follow@ Jardin Luxembourg, and plenty A few years ago, my daughter host family from our program. councilofdc) and odd history Berthillon. Not much oppor- and I vacationed in Paris to- After my graduate degree (in projects. Paris remains a be- tunity to speak French these gether and it was such a joy to French literature), I moved loved part of our lives...we days, but when there’s the op- watch her experience the city back to Paris and lived right were last there in December portunity, I take advantage! for the first time. She’s now near them, in fact. I worked in 2017 and plan on returning in Paris, got married there, and Raheleh Folkerts minoring in French so I have a July 2019. SBCJYF year made Wheaton College feeling she’ll be back and per- we had our first child there, me love living abroad so much, I just recently moved back haps on the JYF program! too. My host sister, Marie, is I ended up spending three to Texas after being in Colo- my son’s godmother, and I am additional years in Paris: on a Kevin Kiger rado for 10 years. I have been her son’s god mother. Also, her fellowship teaching English at Case Western Reserve Univer- daughter is now 20 years old, working in the renewable ener- sity the Lycée Henri IV (1994-1995), gy industry for over ten years. and she just came to North on a research fellowship at I have been married to the Carolina last year to live with love of my life for five years in the Ecole Normale Supérieure our family for 4 months. I am (1998-1999), and conducting July. He is a native Frenchman, currently a French professor who is also now an American. research (2007-2008). I contin- at Elon University, and I am ue to vacation there every year Being able to speak French always raving about the im- and having had the experienc- or two. My wife and I wanted portance of study abroad (of to live abroad as a couple, es living in France has allowed course)!!! me to communicate and share so I got a job as a researcher with his family in ways that I Erica (Smith) Anderson and we spent 13 months in don’t believe would have been Northwestern University Paris, re-discovering the city possible had I not spent my ju- Married to my wonderful as a couple not on vacation, nior year in France with Sweet husband Matthew and we but living our daily lives. Most Briar College. I’m currently in enjoy raising our twins who importantly, I am still in close the process of submitting my turned 5 years old September contact with Iris deMonicault, application to become a natu- 11, 2018! my host mother from my SB- CJYF year. We always make ralized French citizen—I could Mason (Smith ) Custard never have imagined such a Washington & Lee University multiple visits to her home in Boulogne whenever we are in Stephanie (Maselli) Herlory wonderful thing. The pleasure of the French Elmira College language does not evade! Paris, and it remains a warm Maureen (Brennan) Gershanik I’m so glad to say that I still Even in Dallas, Texas, I have and welcome place for food Georgetown University and conversation. She is one have several close friendships I I am a partner at Fishman made friends thanks to a made during my time in Paris. shared love of the French lan- of the dearest people in the Haygood, L.L.P. in my home- world to me. Some students were with SBC town of New Orleans focusing guage. I continue to dream and others on the Georgetown on corporation, securities and that my children will one day Kelly (Schmitt) Molique University program. Its very mergers and acquisitions law. I enjoy French. My oldest child Sweet Briar College special to me to call these peo- owe so much of my success to FINALLY took French this past Living in Scottsdale, AZ with ple my friends after so many my JYF year! year in the middle school. My my husband, Mark, and our years! husband, Allen, continues to children, Elizabeth (14) and Erik Kristin (Liljegren) Maurice work in the oil and gas busi- (12). Elizabeth just started high Sweet Briar College ness and I continue to revel in school and is a competitive 1990-91 The Navy has brought our being a mother to our three swimmer. Erik is in 7th grade Chapin Cimino family to a lot of different wonderful children: Isabella and plays flag football, soccer Denison University cities, but we are now near (13), William (11), and Franklin and runs track. Mark has his 27 years after my JYF, my Seattle and loving the Pacific (7). own law firm and is a litigator. Northwest. My daughter is just

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I’m a political fundraiser, main- worked with study-abroad and Young, then got an MBA from ly for candidates and causes international students for most the University of Michigan, in AZ. We are planning a big of my career. I am currently then moved to San Francisco. Europe trip for summer 2019 teaching college courses for I’m on my fourth enterprise and would love to see anybody the US Navy, and just got back software startup, with one that may be there as well. from a stint aboard the USS selling for $500M and another Oak Hill. We sailed across the for $1.9B, in roles that have Elizabeth (Schubert) Mortier Northwestern University Atlantic, to the Black and Red allowed me to travel the world I am now a French citizen Seas, and had great port visits and visit Paris frequently. My (dual nationality)—I spent in Batumi, Georgia and Aqaba, wife Teresa is a speech ther- 20 years on and off living in Jordan. I went to Paris last year apist (Jocelyn Ziemian and France, and am married to a with my boyfriend Roy. We Wabe Yurek came to the French man, with French chil- spent four hours at the Eiffel wedding!) and our 4-year old dren. I speak French on a daily Tower! (He’s an engineer--com- daughter is of course named... basis (and am getting good pletely fascinated by the ar- Madeleine. I would be happy use out of my French degree). chitecture.) Hope everyone is to host a West Coast recep- well!. tion, or to meet up at SBC, I am currently living in Quebec (from left) Mona Boulos, Mary so LET’S GET THE 25TH RE- City, with my husband, and Voulgaris, Dawn Vujevic and Kira Maryanna (Phillips) Koehring three kids. After 20 years in (Lefko) Weinand Mount Holyoke College UNION PLANNING GOING !!! France, and a year sabbatical tates in the US and other prop- I am happily married with Jocelyn Ziemian sailing, we wanted to return erty related issues in France, three children. As my husband Wellesley College to North America to be closer similar to a notaire. is a foreign service officer, I can’t believe it’s been a to my family. Quebec City is we country hop every few quarter of a century since my a good compromise of living years. We have just moved JYF classmates and I embarked in North America, in French, 1993-94 from Egypt and are currently on our year of adventure in with a slightly European feel. I Harumi Furuya living in Jordan My passion is France. Recently, I returned to currently work as a Global HR Harvard University teaching English as a foreign Paris for the first time in many Business Partner for an R&D My sisters and I (all Juilliard language to adults, and I am years. Friends had told me the team, in a telecommunications graduates) perform solo, duo, busy with my newly-launched city had changed due to the company, EXFO, Inc., which and trios on violin, piano, and business “English for the Job.” globalizing economy—that was founded in Quebec City. there were Starbucks and cello. Two Parisian residents, Dan Newmark Subways everywhere, and Caitlin (Sundby) Russell actress Olivia de Havilland and College of William & Mary Sweet Briar College former President Jacques Chi- After JYF I spent a few years U.S.-style retail stores in place I’m living in Atlanta, GA with rac, have been very supportive in Manhattan as a manage- of the petits commerces that my husband and two daugh- of our music. Our website is ment consultant with Ernst & helped give Paris its flavor. I ters (10 and 13). I have my http://www.FuruyaSisters.com. despaired that Paris had lost own private practice as a dieti- We also teach lessons in violin, what made it unique and tian-nutritionist. In the summer piano, cello, and music theory would have the homogenized of 2016, my mom and I took by Skype worldwide. I am also feel that more and more inter- my oldest daughter to Paris for an independent scholar (Har- nationally oriented cities do. 2 weeks—we had an amazing vard: AB in History and PhD in How relieved I was to find that time and I am thankful we got Government) and tutor various not the case: despite some to share this beautiful city with academic subjects, including changes, Paris is still Paris. her. I can’t believe my JYF time test prep for SAT, ACT, GRE, I admit my shock, however, was over 25 years ago! Tout le etc. If anyone is interested upon alighting from the RER monde me manque! for any lessons and tutoring, from Roissy and beholding a please contact me at furuya@ Bruegger’s Bagels in the Gare Rebecca Sims post.harvard.edu. Children du Nord. Northwestern University My JYF experience has I live in Chicago with my nowadays are very smart and promising, and gives me a enriched my life in countless husband Randy and 2 kids, ways. Thanks to my French Hope (10) and Blake (7). I re- great joy to teach and see them grow. We have a great language skills, I have lived cently started my own research and worked in the Republic of consulting business called Sur- future finally. I am still in touch with my fellow JYF alumnus Congo, taught French in grad vey by Design. (www.survey- school, and worked at the bydesign.com). Julie Wang, who is raising a great family. French Embassy in Washing- Laura (Herpers) Zeman ton, DC. Some of my dearest

Boston College Kelly Hall friends are French. I live in I am an international estate Sweet Briar College Washington, DC, and work in planning attorney in Seattle, Bonjour JYFers! I later went wildlife conservation policy. Washington working with to the UK for my MA and then French nationals on their estate taught in London while earning planning, on inheritance issues my Ph.D. I have been traveling within France and for French ever since--even worked in nationals inheriting from es- Antarctica! Professionally I have Kelly Hall

44 fessor of Accounting at Salem Education at Columbia Teach- Tamara (Bentley) Caudill 1996-97 State University. ers College. Today, I write Transylvania University curriculum for an education Charlotte (Ludwig) Baldassari Pramita Kuruvilla I received my PhD in French Mount Holyoke College University of Southern Califor- company based in Lebanon Studies from Tulane University My little family of 5 moved nia and frequently stop in Paris in 2017. I am a tenure-track to England last year! This move Got married last year with after trips to Beirut. Paris feels Assistant Professor of French to England marks my 3rd stint like home. Although my French at Jacksonville University (Flori- fellow JYF Alumnae Maggie living abroad. My husband is rusty, visiting the city still da). Though I have a doctorate Jarmolowski and Rose Barre- transferred to global for Jaguar ignites a sense of wonder that in French, people cannot be- to in attendance. Land Rover and we will be here I can’t seem to capture any- lieve that I have “only” spent a for at least the next 3 years. Kat (Kathleen) Newell where else. semester in France; and I attri- We have 9 & 7 year-old boys University of Southern Califor- bute my mastery largely to the nia Elizabeth (Fisher) Richards and a 6 year-old girl who are Rice University structure of the program, which all looking forward to our big We moved to Manhattan encouraged me to get out and Beach—now having two kids, After graduation, I spent adventure. Check out my Face- 15 years in DC working in experience France firsthand. book profile to follow along. we were looking for a better school district. Both of our kids software/eCommerce, got a 2001-02 Chantel Bartlett practice French at home (we Masters from Georgetown in Sweet Briar College Communication, Culture, & Joseph Halaas all have an American accent, Denison University My JYF time is still to this but we try...) I continue to go Technology, and started a fam- day one of the most important ily with my husband, Ian. A few I taught French and English to France at least once every abroad for a while, now work- experiences of my life! Paris few years and have a great years ago, we re-located to still remains like home to me. the Atlanta area and settled in ing in the field of international time remembering my year education. I try to keep in touch with my in France...and making new Decatur, GA a few blocks from host family. Sadly, I’ve lost memories! Agnes Scott College. Reminds Benjamin Sayagh touch with all non-SBC friends. me of my ASC friends from JYF Wheaton College

I work in Washington DC for a Agnes (Milewski) Savich when I pass by! I now work for I recently visited Paris with large trade association. I will Northwestern University Marriott International, try to my family and it was great to be welcoming a little addition I live in Austin, TX since keep one step ahead of our rediscover the city. A lot has to my family in 2019. 2004 with my husband, daugh- 9- and 5-year-old boys, and changed, but the Grands and ter, son, four cats, and a dog. bust out my French whenever Matthew Dunne Petit Palais renovations were In addition to working in the possible. finished and looked beautiful. Emory University College of Liberal Arts at UT I am an international lawyer They were under constant Austin, which I love, I own construction during our year with the U.S. Department of Huge Wonder (a baby onesie Defense. 1999-2000 abroad and I never got around business on Etsy), and occa- Victoria (Walsh) Cooper to visiting them. Candice (Broughton) Maillard sionally drive for Uber & Lyft on Denison University Kelly (Omohundro) Yardley Sweet Briar College the side. I’m also a poet, with Married with two kids (6 and Georgetown University Another Fall is upon us, with over 200 short poems pub- 4) and a scuba instructor in my I reside in Alexandria, VA, two suddenly-grown boys now lished in journals and contests, spare time. training to play football for in addition to my book, The with my husband, where we their Middle School and High Watcher: Poems, available on Natasha (Nickodem) Stevens both enjoy taking advantage School teams. The simplicity Amazon. The cover features an Sweet Briar College, of the rich cultural diversity of Elementary school endures image I took during JYF while My husband Matt and I of the Washington, DC area. as our daughter enters Second studying photography at the welcomed daughter Marietta In my spare time, I am a do- Grade and lets her adult teeth Speos Institute! Many poems Louise in April 2016. cent at a local decorative arts grow in. I will be working part- within were also written during museum, and I play in several time this year while Richard that year. I’m a member of the tennis leagues. This summer, continues to lead his class of Haiku Society of America, and 2000-01 we embarked on an adventure cycle fanatics into better health last year I attended my first Jean Beaman to Bourgogne and Provence, and stronger minds. Southern Haiku North America confer- Northwestern University where I enjoyed communi- California life is bright and ence, where I won first place I am currently a sociology cating with the locals in the busy. For the amount of miles in the conference-wide poetry professor at Purdue University French language skills I honed that I drive each week, it’s contest. I also play the oboe who conducts research on race with Sweet Briar in 2001-2. I good I like my car. in local ensembles such as the and immigration in France. I re- also reconnected with my host Austin Cinematic Symphony. cently published my first book, family, who graciously hosted Citizen Outsider: Children of us for some celebratory wine. North African Immigrants in 1997-98 1998-99 France. My junior year abroad in Paris sparked my interest in Zlatinka (Gougoumanova) Abigail Karels 2002-03 identity, difference, and race in Blaber Mount Holyoke College Ellie (Laird) Allen Mount Holyoke That year was instrumental France (and how they compare Haverford College My daughter, Elena Lilia, in my career and life. After to these phenomena in the I’m excited to be returning was born in January 2017. I college, I taught in Japan with U.S.), which I’ve since pursued to the classroom after a year of re-specialized into accountancy the JET Program. I later did throughout my career. maternity leave. I will be teach- and am now an Assistant Pro- my Master’s in International ing French after several years

45 CLASS NOTES working with ESOL students. Kutner). Several of our class- I love practicing my French mates came to our wedding whenever I have the opportu- 2004-05 Sandra (Read-Brown) Begley Haverford College (Rebeka Fortess, Beth Laux nity... which is now quite often Wafa Amayreh For the past six years, I’ve Hatcher, Kelly Vance Klocek, with our French au pair. In Mount Holyoke College been living in New York City Elisabeth Grover Waltz). Me- many ways I think I matured I am currently an active duty and teaching high school En- lissa was offered a tenure-track and really “grew up” during clinical psychology resident glish in the South Bronx. My position in the Ancient Studies my time in France with JYF. I in the US Air Force stationed husband and I have two boys, department at the University developed a sense of indepen- at Wright-Patterson Air Force one three years old and one of Maryland, Baltimore Coun- dence and a deep confidence Base. I will finish my PhD in psy- six months old. While I don’t ty (UMBC), and I accepted a in myself. chology in the summer of 2019. position at the Bullis School in get the opportunity to speak Julia Grawemeyer Samantha (Voelker) Galvan French very often, I still enjoy Potomac, MD. We have been Denison University Trinity College corresponding with my host back to France a number of I teach French and En- I am working on a doctoral family en français. times, both on vacation and glish to Speakers of Other degree in marketing at the Uni- for work. In 2017, I worked on Languages at universities in versity of Texas at San Antonio. Danielle (Farve) Cabral the “Conspiracy of Goodness” Whittier College central Ohio and at Grandview I recently got married on Feb- exhibit at the Kupferberg Heights and teache creative ruary 3, 2018 to a wonderful I have been teaching French Holocaust Center in Bayside, at the public high school level writing at the Kenyon young guy, Manuel Galvan. We got New York, for which I was sent writers workshop. In July 2018, married in Cancun, Mexico at a and was selected to serve as to Le Chambon-sur-Lignon to a focus group panelist for the my first full book-length trans- beautiful resort. research the rescue of Jews by lation appeared at Schaffner World Languages Framework Protestants in the area during Victoria (Chappell) Harvey for California Public Schools, Press: “Save the Planet”, a Sweet Briar College the Holocaust. The exhibit runs biography about an Amazoni- Kindergarten Through Grade through early 2019. Since graduating I have Twelve (WL Framework), to an indigenous leader saving lived overseas with my hus- help develop updated stan- the rainforest. This fall, I lead band, but we just returned to dards statewide. I look forward 2003-04 a panel discussion with other the USA. Our home is now San to bringing group of my stu- translators about Strategies for Antonio, TX after great times in Sarah Allison Translating Traumatic Content dents to Paris every December Northwestern University Japan and England. and feel so proud to share my at the American Literary Trans- I am an attorney practicing lators Association conference. JYF experiences with them civil litigation. My husband inspire them to broaden their My translations have included David, and our two children, paperback French erotica, world view at such a young Amelia (3) and John (2), recent- age, just as we did! academic writing, fiction and ly moved to Northern Virginia. non-fiction. Since returning and Christopher Goetz Mariel Hilarie Ashton from Paris, I have claimed Cait-

(Pollock) Goetz Williams College lin Kelley and Tegra Nuess Northwestern University I’m finishing my dissertation (same year) as travel co-con- (Spring) (on the Ronettes, the Shan- spirators and confidantes. We live in Chevy Chase, gri-Las, and other girl groups Gratia (Trahan) Lee Maryland with our two sons who I’m arguing were actually Denison University Teddy (4) and Julien (6 rock ‘n’ roll pioneers) at CUNY I just attended the wedding months). Mariel is an attorney Miriam Kochman Graduate Center and getting of with fellow alums for the Brady Center to Prevent Erin Carr ready to embark on the aca- and Gun Violence, and Chris is an Jeannie Kwok Emma Miriam Kochman demic job market. . They remain some economist for the U.S. Depart- Hennessey Brandeis University Anne (Grabowski) Moore of my closest friends. ment of Commerce. We have The semester that I spent in just returned from spending Amherst College Erandi (Lopez) Reiland France helped ignite my inter- two months in France during I live in Needham, MA, University of Southern California est in international affairs and the summer, visiting family with my husband, Dave, and 2 I haven’t been back to world travel. After graduating members in the Paris region, children, Max (6) and Molly (3). France in some years but I look from college in 2007, I spent as well as exploring other areas We recently welcomed Clar- forward to my next visit. 2 years working for a social such as Normandy, the Roussil- isse into our family, an au pair science research company, and lon, and elsewhere. We hope from Dunkirk, France. We are then left and spent the next to instill our love of the French hoping to instill some French two years in southwestern Chi- language and culture in our language and culture into our na (one year teaching English, children. Teddy is beginning kids!! This June we had a mini one year in a full-time Manda- his second year of preschool in JYF reunion at Erin Carr’s rin program). I then returned a French immersion program wedding to Suzanne Shrekgast to the US and pursued an MA -- looking forward to the Sweet in CT. It was so nice to spend at the Johns Hopkins School of Briar class of 2035! time and catch-up with Emma Advanced International Studies Hennessey, Jeannie Kwok, (SAIS). I now work as a USAID

Paul Kutner Gratia Trahan, and of course government contractor in Georgetown University the beautiful bride Erin!!! Jeannie Kwok (red dress), Emma Washington, DC where I help In 2016, I married my JYF I continue to cherish the Hennessey (middle), and Gratia governments and businesses classmate, (Rice Melissa Bailey French language and culture. Lee at the wedding of Erin Carr. finance water and sanitation University, now Melissa Bailey 46 projects overseas. I am exciting French language and pilot- to Nice! I spent a semester in ed that part of my work takes 2007-08 ing an upper-level conversation Nice and a semester in Paris! place in Senegal, so I get to Katherine (Dayton) Danko and composition class for our use French from time to time! The College of Wooster consortium. My husband, Marcel, and I (Spring) 2011-12 Lisa Shames were married in 2015, and our I contacted my host family The College of Wooster Emily Brown son was born in June of this last time I was in Paris and they I live in London and work in Haverford College (Spring) year. Marcel is half-French so had me and my husband over Museum Education. I returned from Peace Corps we look forward to introducing for dinner- it was great to visit service in Lesotho (I wasn’t sent baby Hugo to France when he them again, and my husband Erica (Camp) Torphy to a francophone country... is a little older! It would be fun said it was his favorite thing he Agnes Scott College (Spring tant pis!) after two and a half to have a reunion some time. did in Europe! 2008) years. Next step for me is law I got married in New Zea- school at the University of Vir- Shanthi Ramesh Kacita DeVaney land in March 2016. I live just ginia. Missing Paris! Sweet Briar College Washington and Lee outside of Los Angeles. I am finally finishing my After completing my un- Bryn Dunbar medical training and com- dergraduate degree I returned Williams College pleted a fellowship in family to Paris to complete a M.A. 2008-09 Currently living in New planning from the University of in French with Middlebury York City and started a Master Abigail Fine North Carolina in Chapel Hill College. I then attended law University of Miami of Public Health degree at in 2017. My husband, Chris, school in Washington D.C. and It was one of the best years Columbia University Mailman and I will move to Richmond, Paris, graduating in 2015 with of my life (definitely the best School of Public Health in Fall VA where I will be the Medical a joint JD/Masters I/Masters year of my twenties). I made 2018. Director for the Virginia League II degree from American Uni- life-long friends, and felt fluent Samuel Gant for Planned Parenthood. versity, Washington College in French by the end of the Haverford College of Law and Université Paris X Lucy Saxon year. I lived every single day I’ve been working as an Haverford College Nanterre. I currently practice at with so much happiness and economic development con- Bonjour mes amis! Tim and Ropes & Gray in Boston, MA. excitement of what was around sultant in Francophone African I had a baby girl, Alice in 2017. Victoria Howard me. I recently went back to countries for the last five years. My son Quincy is four. I work Bates College Paris for my 30th birthday It was great to reconnect with at my hometown Public Li- I am currently living and and went to all of my favorite Alum Chris Leung at our 5 brary and have been teaching working in Philadelphia, with places that I visited through- year Haverford reunion! French before school at a local my retired racing greyhound, out my year abroad. I saw my elementary school. Chowder. I hope to make it host family, and it felt as if no back to Paris soon! I consider time had passed. I retraced my 2012-13 myself so lucky to have had my steps, and made new ones. I Meaghan Hogan 2005-06 experience with JYF, as it has live in Austin, Texas and work Sweet Briar College Maggie (Saylor) Patrick made me much more eager to in the Architecture and Design Hello all! I am currently Sweet Briar College (Fall) expand my horizons through field. living in Washington, DC and I’m living in Northfield, MN, travel. I travel a decent bit for interning at the American Bat- Taylor Ryan where I work as the director work, mainly to London and Sweet Briar College tlefield Trust downtown. I was of the annual fund at Carleton Amsterdam, and my time in I have recently completed able to travel to Paris College. I like working at a Paris really prepared me for my master’s in luxury marin January and passed by college because I get to stay in this- I feel that I’m more inde- keting from a school in Paris many of the old haunts fre- touch with the French depart- pendent and curious on my called EIML, and I have lived in quented by our group and ment—I do French table when travels because of my time in France since JYF (minus senior took a stroll down rue de I can, and am able to see lots France. It has also encouraged year, of course!). Fleurus! My love for French cul- of movies and read books in me to go on international trips ture and language is still strong French. I was able to go back for pleasure- I was in Costa and I look forward to attending to France for two weeks this Rica in May and it was energiz- 2009-10 events at the French Embassy past April with my husband, ing to go somewhere so cultur- here in Washington throughout Craig Labatte who had never been before. ally different! It reminded me Rice University the year. We stayed in an apartment of how I felt when I first landed I married Sophie VAUCHER, just blocks away from where in Paris. Working as a Market- I found my French bride much I’d lived. It was so great to be ing Communications Manager. closer to home, in Houston 2013-14 back! Alisha Laventure Texas of all places. We go back Beatrice Herrmann Washington & Lee University yearly to the Jura where she Rice University (Spring) Got married in 2017! gets to show off my American I was able to greatly im- 2006-07 accent to her family friends. prove my academic French, Viktorija Gecyte Sarah (Hall) Lehtinen allowing me to have the con- Lafayette College Sweet Briar College (Fall fidence to apply for Fulbright Regularly performing in 2007) 2010-11 and complete my Masters at Parisian jazz clubs: viktorijage- I recently got married to ENS Paris Saclay in Microbiolo- Jo (Tudisco) Guntert cyte.com/shows fellow French speaker, Simon, gy! (All in French :) ) and moved to Charlottesville, Sweet Briar College VA. I’m eager to now be teach- I was in the first group to go

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Ainslee Robson My big news for the year is The College of Wooster (Fall) that I got married! For our hon- 2017-18 I am working as an Account eymoon we are planning on Melissa Kadish Executive at an Advertising going to Paris. I’m excited to College of Wooster (Fall) Agency in Addis Ababa, Ethi- get to show my spouse all the I’m working on my senior opia. places I fell in love with during thesis right now on code my time at JYF in Paris. switching in language from Dossé-Via Trenou-Wells a psychological and social University of Southern Califor- Sarah Haas cultural perspective. After nia Colgate University (Fall) graduation with any luck I’ll be Graduated from Teachers I graduated from North- a teaching assistant in France College, Columbia University western University’s Medill or another French-speaking in Spring 2017 with a Master’s School of Journalism, earning country. in English Education. Now a master’s degree in Journal- ism, in June 2016. I am work- living in NYC with my husband Arienna Groves and Valentin (her Royce and daughter Nova ing as an Account Coordinator French boyfriend) at her Sweet Michelle, growing a lifestyle at Isabelli Media Relations in Briar graduation business with a focus on astrol- Chicago. langue” at Sorbonne Université ogy consulting. —Faculté des lettres. My time My family and I are planning spent in Paris with the JYF pro- on moving back to Paris within 2016-17 gram absolutely was the most the next 2-3 years! Arienna Groves Sweet Briar College influential experience leading I graduated in Spring 2018 to that decision. JYF helped 2014-15 and am now enrolled in a MA me prepare for a future life in France. Katelyn French program focusing on “Trait- College of Wooster ement automatique de la

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48 do in five, his creative and In Memoriam analytical energies would have taken five lifetimes to exhaust. He will be dearly missed by 1955-56 his many friends and long-re- William Calin membered in academia for his Yale University brilliant contributions to French William (‘Bill’) Compaine and Medieval Studies. Calin, retired Graduate Re- search Professor in French Jane Rather Thiébaud Literature at the University of Sweet Briar College Florida, passed away on May Jane Rather Thiebaud, a 20, 2018 at Lake City Medical former resident of Winter Har- Center. He was 82. Bill was bor and Orono, passed away born on April 4, 1936, in New- on Sunday, April 29, 2018, ington, Connecticut, the only after a brief stay at the Ray 1959-60 JYF classmates might have child of Isadore (‘Jack’) Calin to share of her mother. “My Hickey Hospice House in Van- Marjorie (Patros)Silverman and Nettie Compaine, original- couver, Washington. She was Northwestern University mother talked so often of her ly from Romania and Russia. 82 and had been in declining We remember Marjorie year in France—the friends He completed his un- health. Silverman, the first woman she made and the love she dergraduate degree at Yale She graduated in 1953 and first American to serve as found and her exploration of College (1957) and received from Manhasset High School president of the Paris-based the language. For all those his Ph.D. from Yale University in Manhasset, N.Y., where she Les Clefs d’Or International, a years after—mixed in with (1960). He taught at Dart- played Dorothy in the school concierge organization in more her native Ohio accent of mouth, Stanford, the University production of The Wizard of than 50 countries, who died of “winda” and “stoore,”was of Oregon, and, since 1988, Oz. In 1957, she graduated cancer on Oct. 14, 2018. Sil- the French pronunciation of the University of Florida. He from Sweet Briar College in verman graduated from North- “buffet” and “Nicole.”She was a visiting professor at ac- Sweet Briar, Va. She spent her western University in 1961 with was a trailblazer in the con- ademic institutions in North junior year in Paris, an experi- a bachelor’s in French, having cierge profession, certainly America and Europe. ence that strongly influenced spent her junior year abroad her success can be traced Bill studied in Paris during her life. In 1958 she was a at the Sorbonne in Paris. She back to that junior year, what a his junior year in college. He guide in the American Pavilion worked for the Westin Hotels life-changing experience you fell in love with French Roman- at the Brussels World’s Fair, and the Hotel Intercontinental all had... “ Maria https://www. esque and Gothic architecture. and later she worked at several Hotel in Chicago. She also chicagotribune.com/news/ Standing in front of Chartres international organizations. taught at the International ct-marjorie-silverman-obitu- Cathedral, as the sun was During her years in Geneva she Concierge Institute in Montreal ary-met-20151105-story.html setting on the old stones, he worked in community event and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., as wrote that he had found his organizing and the movement well as conducting seminars for calling: to study the litera- for social change. She founded concierge professionals in Bra- ture and culture of medieval and edited Information and zil, Mexico, Singapore, China, France. From then on, in his Contacts, a journal that sought Jamaica, Poland and Anguilla. teaching and writing alike, he to orient foreign visitors to She held every office in Les communicated both his knowl- Swiss and French culture. Clefs d’Or USA, and after the edge and his love of the rich She married Rene-Blaise completion of her presidency contributions that France has Thiebaud, a Swiss lawyer, in in 1990 she was invited to made to world culture. 1961. He died in 1967. A sec- be an adviser to the board of Even to the end of his life, ond marriage to Jean-Claude directors, a position she held Bill was busy planning his next Ivar Petterson, a Swiss artisan until August 2007. She was the lecture and his next book. His and activist, ended in divorce. first director of the Zone of the retirement from the University She married Luc Guimond, an Americas, from 1990 to 1998, of Florida became effective agronomist from Quebec, in and was president of Les Clefs only five days before his death. 1997. d’Or International from 1998 His steadfast determination Her parents and a brother, to 2000. Recently she was to overcome his medical chal- James B. Rather III, prede- honored by Les Clefs d’Or USA lenges, together with his joie ceased her. In addition to Mr. with a lifetime achievement de vivre will leave a lasting Guimond, she is survived by award. She will be missed. impression on his caretakers. a brother, John Townsend Her daughter Maria Silver- While he published more in Rather, and six nieces and man marjoriesilverman@mac. one lifetime than many could nephews. com welcomes any memories Sweet Briar College Non-Profit JYF in Paris U.S. Postage P. O. Box 1075 PAID Sweet Briar, VA 24595 Permit No.312 Harrisonburg, VA

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