SPRING/SUMMER 2008 CLASS OF 1938 relatively good health…. June Boyle Ahmuty was unsuccessful in my attempts. Please, News Agent: Needed has enjoyed the ski slopes with Ya-Fu ….Our please send any changes of address to the condolences go to Agatha Mankovich Alumni Office. If you are in contact with any - Rose Gleason Matejczyk received the Beresky on the death of her husband. Aggie one that I did not reach, please send news of Alliance College Distinguished Service Award still maintains the family home in Erie and is those classmates to the Alumni Office as on October 6, 2007. Now 91 years old, she in daily contact with her two sons, although well….I, Martha Whelan Murphy, have been spends her summers in Cambridge Springs, they are miles away in different states…. Rita blessed with quite good health. Very recently PA and her winters in North Royalton and Los Marron Wagner has left the Rockvillle area I underwent extensive oral surgery but look Angeles, CA. Rose attended a great Seton Hill and lives with her daughter and family in forward to a full recovery. I have just accept - gathering at the home of Michele Moore Chicago Heights. It is reported that Rita is still ed an invitation to serve on the recently th Ridge in Erie. Her next reunion will be her 70 ! able to travel quite extensively and recently formed Advisory Committee to the She invites the Class of 1938 to commiserate. spent several weeks in Hawaii…. Mary Paul Department of Social Work at Youngstown Zang also still maintains her home and enjoys State University. My family keeps close tabs CLASS OF 1939 playing Mahjong. Mary highly recommends on me so 1393 is still a very busy spot on News Agent: Needed that bridge players should try this new fad in Virginia Trail. I have fourteen grandchildren Margaret Cawley Wolcott and husband Floyd the world of card games…. Virginia Skapik and three great grandchildren. Two of my recently celebrated their 63 rd wedding Gross reports that she has not been granddaughters will spend the winter semes - anniversary. They are residents of Eldred, PA. well…. Marcella Lipowicz Rosinski is fully ter abroad – one in England and one in In Memoriam retired from her law practice and recently France. I continue to do some volunteer work Sister Isabelle Jorden ‘42 CLASS OF 1940 gave up her law license. Fortunately she is and remain active in Garden Club groups and still able to drive and has four daughters who in my own backyard. Bridge is still one of my ister Isabelle Jorden ’42 , former News Agent: Mary Coll Chambers , (702) 870- live near her in the Hamburg, New York favorite pastimes, even on the computer SAssistant Dean of Students and 2731, 2178 Duneville St, Las Vegas, NV 89146- area…. Margaret Muscente Colavita reports which is quite challenging. Could I still be a Coordinator of Health and Counseling at 3142. that she has been quite well until recently social butterfly? One very sad note: my Seton Hill, died at Caritas Christi on Annette Gian-Franceschi Shifflett , who is liv - when breathing problems have caused her to youngest son, a husband and father of three Thanksgiving, November 22, 2007. ing in San Antonio, recently enjoyed a trip to go to therapy and now a cardiologist…. very small children, was diagnosed with lym - Preceded in death by her parents, Quebec. Elaine Schiller Voegele maintains many of phoma last June and has just completed his Thomas J. and Mary (Higginbottom) the activities that kept her busy before her last radiation following an even lengthier Jorden, four brothers and a sister, she is CLASS OF 1941 husband Al died earlier this year. Although series of chemo. Let us all, Class of 1941, pray survived by nieces and nephews. News Agent: Martha Whelan Murphy, Elaine doesn’t drive and her eyesight is fail - for each other and for our respective families. ing, she plays bridge, and attends the Helen Sister entered the Sisters of Charity [email protected] , (330) 759-1865, 1393 from St. Anthony Parish, Bridgeport, OH. Virginia Trl, Youngstown, OH 44505-1642. Hayden charity group and the Serra Club. CLASS OF 1942 Unfortunately, another of Elaine’s daughters She earned a Bachelor’s degree in psy - The Class of 1941 is really declaring its News Agent: Rosemary Kaltenbach Denial, has been stricken with cancer, as has her chology, her nursing diploma as a regis - seniority....Most members to whom I have (814) 866-3633, 2323 Edinboro Rd, Erie, PA granddaughter. Our prayers are with you, tered nurse from Pittsburgh Hospital spoken in preparation for this report speak 16509-3476. Elaine…. Mary Avis Williams Britton has School of Nursing, a Master’s degree in about age and how our lives have changed in moved from Sarasota to Freedom Village, a It is with deep sadness that we report the recent years…. Barb Dowling Beaudry is a counseling and guidance from condo community in Bradenton. She loves the deaths of six members of the Class of 1942 “late onset” diabetic and so has necessarily Duquesne University, and certification life style that the area has provided for her – within a short period of time last fall. cut back on gardening activity. She no longer as a nurse practitioner. Her career no more concerns about property upkeep, Margaret Trew Sahady died on September ‘reads’ e-mail but still enjoys playing dupli - including teaching in the Greensburg just total enjoyment of the world with its 16, 2007, Sister Mary Maher, on September cate bridge and visiting with her sons…. Rita and Pittsburgh diocesan schools and numerous activities and many opportunities 21, Jessie MacDonald Dillon, on October 18, Flick Hose lives in Santa Paula, CA with a to socialize with wonderful people. She is Mary Elizabeth Moran Carroll, on October 29, nursing at the Pittsburgh Hospital, daughter and her family. Rita said that she known as the Merry Widow in her communi - Martha Welty Vazquez , on November 4, and Rosalia Foundling Home and Maternity had never attended any Seton Hill functions ty. We knew her as Mary Avis but she is now Sister Isabelle Jorden died on November 22, Hospital, and the Jeannette District since graduation until this summer when she MARIS. She walks rapidly, still drives, and 2007. May they rest in God’s peace…. Peg Memorial Hospital prior to her years at met with members of a San Diego regional takes NO medicine. Early in their marriage, Holway Yeager spent Christmas in Canton, Seton Hill. Her final assignment before group. She thoroughly enjoyed the experi - Maris, her husband, and their four children GA with her daughter Marie while daughter she retired in 1999 was to manage the ence and was especially happy to meet some lived for ten years in South America where Margarette traveled to California to be with faculty representatives. Rita served with the Gilbert Straub Plaza, a senior citizen she learned to speak fluent Spanish. Back her daughters. Red Cross oversees during World War II. retirement complex in South Grensburg. home she used that skill to teach the Spanish After receiving her Master’s she taught public May her gentle soul rest in peace. language on a volunteer basis. She remains CLASS OF 1943 health in Oakland. All of her children have very active in the arts and music and volun - News Agents: Jean Meagher Ulitz, college educations. She still drives, does vol - teers in those areas. Maris’ husband died six - [email protected] , (603) 323-8630, 17 unteer work, and, along with her family, rais - farmhouse five years ago and moved into a teen years ago and her sister, Kay, Class of Old Mill Rd, Tamworth, NH 03886; Mary Wurtz es and trains dogs – mostly labs and retriev - one story home in Strongsville, (13318 1943, died a year ago. Kay was Martha McBride, (412) 242-6698, 901 Savannah Ave, ers. Boasting her 90 years, Rita has fifteen Olympus Way) OH 44149 – a good move for Whelan Murphy’s little sister…. Eileen Walsh Pittsburgh, PA 15221-3447. grandchildren who help make hers a very her recent knee replacement. Isabelle also Holaday has four children, two grandchildren, busy life…. Mary Kay Kalman Griglak’s hus - I thank those classmates who responded to had a breast lumpectomy and advises all and two great grandchildren. She and her band is being treated for a heart condition so my request for news and ask those of you women to have an annual mammogram for husband, who live in Kalamazoo, MI have their plans for Florida are on hold this year. who were unable to correspond at this time that was how her cancer was discovered. retired from teaching at the college level. Mary Kay was gracious enough to help me to please write to me at your convenience. Jon and Isabelle have seven grandchildren. They will miss wintering in Florida this year with contacts for this column. Thanks a mil - Just a few sentences or paragraphs would They still winter in Sarasota where Isabelle because Eileen’s husband is not well….And lion, Mary Kay, for your time and good will. be terrific. Thank you all, Jean. continues to teach a nutrition class for so my story ends, unfinished! I have tried to She contacted Edith Henry Dolence and Ya- Isabelle Beattie Anderson was my first women who are trying to lose weight…. Toni reach just about everyone in our Class of ’41. Fu Lee Gow who are both still active and in correspondent. She and Jon sold their Ditta Sawich (one of my roommates) had a If you did not hear from me, it is because I second knee replacement.