Mini-reunions provide a great way for affinity groups in our class to stay connected with each other between College reunions. As you renew friendships with fellow classmates through shared connections of geographic location, academic majors, college dorms and more, please take a photo and share your get-together via our Class website. Whether the mini-reunion is lunch with one classmate or touring a gallery with twenty, it would be great to hear about it. Please email a brief description of your get together and photo to Susan Clark Iverson, our class Mini-Reunion Chair.
To include news in the MHC QuarterlyClass Notes, you may contact Eloise Prescott Killeffer, our class secretary/scribe.
Four classmates: Holly Vincent Bean, Donna Machcinski Petersen, Carol Foy Graham and Holly Hannah Lewis enjoyed a weekend together in Chicago. They visited the Art Institute, the Chicago Botanical Garden and attended a Tchaikovsky concert at Ravina. There were lots of great meals and wonderful conversations.
L-R: Holly Bean, Donna Petersen, Holly Lewis, Carol Graham
Chris Anderson Salmon, Betsy Newcomb Beth and Susan Clark Iverson met for lunch in Washington on May 31st to celebrate our 56th MHC Reunion. Chris and Betsy were in DC to visit family. The weather was spectacular, and Susan selected a restaurant in Washington’s West End neighborhood that had outdoor seating.
Chris, Betsy and Susan
Holly Hannah Lewis with Sally Davis Yeatman on the Santa Monica pier over spring break.
Five classmates attended the Mount Holyoke Club of Hartford's annual Mary Lyon's Birthday Tea, held this year on March 2 at an alumna's home in Glastonbury. No Deacon Porter's Hat, but lots of tempting sandwiches and desserts! (From left) Jean Baker Williams, Eileen Sypher, Carolyn Dorais, Marnie Johnston Clark, Mobby Brown Larson.
Six of us, Connie Cushman, Nancy Huttemeyer Davis, Judy O’Connor Hayes, Mobby Brown Larson, Linda Graham McElroy, and Laurie Trees Rodgers, gathered for three fun-filled days in New York City, our first mini-reunion since our 55th. With snowy Central Park as a backdrop, we visited two museums. We enjoyed laughter and conversation, highlighted by the “gracious” tea we prepared ourselves, all of us wearing our MHC scarves.
L-R: Linda, Nancy, Laurie, Connie, Judy, Mobby.
January 19, 2024. Photo courtesy of Dwight Rodgers.
Holly Hannah Lewis (right) with her granddaughter Anahita and Francie Fernald (left) at Francie’s winter home in Fernandina Beach at Christmas.
Gayle Gunderson Richardson, Sue Graham Simpson, Joy Camp, Pam Daviau Joseph, and Linda Torlai Stauffer met for lunch with an ocean view in Hyannis, MA on October 5, 2023 to reminisce about our fantastic 55th MHC reunion. All 5 grew up in South Hadley and were on the Reunion Planning Team.
Kendra Gaines enjoyed a recent visit with the now retired Dr Wendy Hagen Bauer, Class of 1971, in Washington State. Kendra added, “As of August, I'll be getting together with Leslie Luxemburg from our class. Just had a nice lunch with Gay Miller here in Tucson, also from our class. I love these ongoing MHC contacts! The photo of Wendy, Dr. Eldon Braun (retired Professor of Physiology from University of Arizona and my committed partner), and yours truly was taken on the Hood Canal near Union, WA.”
All best,
Kendra Gaines (not yet retired—19 years teaching online!) July 14, 2023
Left to right: Wendy, Eldon, Kendra
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