Prospect Hill School. It was all so very long ago, but why does it feel like yesterday?” Indeed, I suspect, for all of us. I have been scrivener to our class for more years than I care to (or can) remember. I am delighted to, at long last, be the recipient of information like Rennie/Henry’s which not only makes my task easier but more significantly provides information which adds to our collective memories of our Hopkins experience and adds a dimension to our lives beyond and after Forest Road. I encourage more from each of us. Write. It means something to all of us. Pax . 1959 DAY AND PHS Alumnae interested in serving as correspondents for the Class of 1959 DAY or PHS may contact Donna Vinci at classnotes@hopkins.edu. 1960 HGS
Andrew and family; and to Maine for Christmas with son Tom and family. Ann continues to play tennis three times a week! We are a busy class! Ursula Goodenough phs in Martha’s Vineyard reports that the second edition of her fine book, The Sacred Depths of Nature , is on the cusp of publication by Oxford University Press, to great acclaim by environmental leader Bill McKibben and Robin Wall Kimmerer ( Braiding Sweetgrass ) among many other luminaries. Here are two websites to explore and order the book: http:// sacreddepthsofnature.com, where photos of Ursula through the years are under the “About Author” tab at the top. And https://global.oup.com/academic/ product/the-sacred-depths-of-nature- 9780197662069?q=goodenough&lang= en&cc=us, where one can pre-order. On the West Coast, Catherine Higgs Milton day is nearing the finish line for publication of her book on creating AmeriCorps: The Untold Story . She is also singing with the Stanford Chorus, most recently performing the Brahms Requiem . Speaking of music, Ursula has just returned from a trip to Colorado, where her son Thomas Heuser conducted performances of the Mozart Requiem . I have just had a Harvard University Choir reunion weekend that included a performance of the Mozart Requiem as well! Mary Louise “Weesie” Long phs in Stamford, Connecticut, continues with her painting and was recently honored to have a work included in a show at the Stamford Mayor’s Gallery. In Northern California, Phyllis Crossley Mervine phs is paring down her life in order to concentrate on “living in the moment.” She has resigned from her leadership role with the Lyme Disease organization LymeDisease.org that she founded, and is deeply into ceramics. In a recent Zoom, she showed us samples of her creativity: lovely mugs and a dish with leaf impressions on them, plus a gleaming irridescent fish she made with a sophisticated copper glaze. Beautiful items! She is relishing spending time— and cooking doughnuts—with her grandchildren! Jane Preston Rose phs in Ohio is happy and healthy and volunteering with the League of Women Voters and the local parks district. She has also been honored by Hiram College’s
Garfield Society in recognition of her 25 years of teaching there and deanship of the Weekend College and Office of Graduate Studies. Anne Goodwin Draper phs got to Martha’s Vineyard this year for a girls’ weekend, but neither Ursula nor I managed to join in the fun beyond seeing photos of frolicking swimmers. Busy lives! This is a year of transitions. Most of us have entered our 80s. In Framingham, Massachusetts, Roberta “Bobbie” Garson Leis phs has resigned her long-held role as Executive Director of the New England Association of Drug Court Professionals. She is still working through the trauma and grief of her husband’s death in a horrible hit and run incident on the Cape more than a year ago. In Southern California, Dierdre Hanssen day is in the process of selling her parents’ home, her mother having died at the age of 101. Dierdre says she is also paring down her life. Dierdre also reports that we have lost two classmates: Dorothy Harrison Seton day in October of 2019, and Diane Woodward Dolan day in January of 2019. Mary Ellen “MEF” Fulton Effernen day continues to coach and supervise for caregivers of people with severe disabilities. She is also involved with a great group we might all know: Grandmothers for Action. MEF also has been writing postcards for political support in critical congressional races. And she has been traveling—most recently to Iceland. Ruth Osterweis Selig phs is working on truly retiring from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. I visited her in September and she walked me through the back office cubicles, where research is conducted, and where she is finishing up a file finder to accompany her own work, which is headed for the archives, so future researchers can follow on and use her work. She is the editor of Anthropology Explored: the Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes , which in 2002 won the Smithonian’s “Excellence in Public Education” award. Ruth also took me to the African American History Museum, where, with her Smithsonian pass, we were able to bypass the line. And we made a stop at Dumbarton Oaks to see the gardens that Beatrix Farrand designed. I, Tricia Swift , continue to enjoy my return to New England. My grands are fledging, I am a student again myself, and I continue my musical life, primarily through supporting
Alumni interested in serving as correspondents for the Class of 1960 HGS may contact Donna Vinci at classnotes@hopkins.edu. 1960 DAY AND PHS Tricia Swift TSwift@grubbco.com tswift@lasell.edu Greetings, all! As we prepare for
Thanksgiving, we are reminded of all we have to give thanks for. Carole Pfisterer phs and Peter Hart ’57 hgs are ensconced in a temporary apartment, their own having been flooded, but thankfully not destroyed, by Hurricane Ian. Their condo is two miles from Sanibel Island in Florida, which was decimated. They have survived, but Carole describes the storm surge as frightening and the energy of the winds as horrendous. They lost rugs and a couch, but most important, family mementos. Now they wait for repairs to be made and their pre-Ian lives to be restored. Carole has celebrated her 80th, as many of us have this year. Her children and spouses all came to cheer her. More 80th birthdays: Ann Hummel Hoag phs had a surprise celebration with her sons and spouses. Ann and Denny have been traveling far and wide: to Montana to see Ann’s brother, David; to Atlanta for Thanksgiving with son
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