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Vice President of Advancement
Kristina G. Schaefer
Vice President of Marketing
Cheryl E. Howard ’71
Editor
Emily Devaprasad ’09GS
Editorial Assistant
Bryn Adler ’11
Writers and Contributors
Ivette Argueta ’11SM
Rebecca Brown ’09
Julie Choquette
Robert Dunn
Jennifer Nelson Handt ’98
Allyson Irish ’04GS
Elyse Pipitone ’07SW
Kalimah Knight ’09GS
Hilary Shepard
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SIMMONS magazine
Celebrates 100 Years
Since its first issue in 1910, the magazine has covered Simmons events
and milestones throughout the last
century. Read about the evolution of
this publication, insights from past
editors, and a photographic timeline
of the magazine’s history.
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President’s Letter/ 2
News/ 3
Dean’s Message/ 5
Faculty Focus/ 6
Campaign Giving/ 10
Alumnae/i Achievements/ 12
Class Notes/ 13
Emerities/ 22
Obituaries/ 28
Voices
Thank you to Donna Webber
and Jason Wood ’01LS, ’11GS
in the Simmons College Archives
for providing all issues of the
Simmons magazine for use in
this Centennial edition.
contents
Photography
John Gillooly
The Simmons Mission
SIMMONS: where academic
and real-world experience prepares
undergraduate women and graduate students for rewarding lives and
career success.
ON THE COVER: A retrospective
glimpse at Simmons magazine
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Chair
president’s letter
Lauren J. Brisky ’73
Vice Chair
Amy E. White ’81
Clerk of the Board of Trustees
Regina M. Pisa
Members
Carmen A. Baez ’79, ’03HD
Robert E. Branson
Deborah C. Brittain ’74SW
Jane Buyers-Russo ’81
Jennifer Kelly Choi ’87
Dwight Crane
Helen G. Drinan ’75LS, ’78SM
Joyce Elden ’80
Atsuko Toko Fish
Eileen M. Friars ’72
Jill A. Greenthal ’78
Hello, everyone.
Hope Hirsch ’67
Anne C. Hodsdon ’75, ’77GS
John W. Humphrey
Stephen P. Jonas P’05
Kathleen Morrissey LaPoint ’84
Judith Samdperil Mann ’83
Stephen P. McCandless
Jacqueline C. Morby ’78SM
Susan Ollila ’66
Carol Waller Pope ’74
Christian Pope-Campbell ’91
Lucia Luce Quinn ’75
Faith M. Richardson ’84
Jo-Ann Robotti ’75
Emily Scott Pottruck ’78
Carole Seigel ’80SM
Toby Tattlebaum Sloane ’60
Paula A. Sneed ’69
Winston Tabb ’72LS
Janet Trafton Tobin ’67
Andrea Waldstein ’60SW
board of trustees
Ngina Lythcott ’67, ’04HD
Roslyn Watson ’71
Alumnae/i Volunteer Leadership
Executive Board
President
Marsha Kirshenbum ’65
Graduate School of Library and
Information Science Alumni Association
President
Ken Peterson ’98LS
School of Management
Alumnae Association
President
Anne Denna ’05SM
School of Social Work
Alumni Council
President
Nancy Poorvu ’79SW
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This issue of the SIMMONS magazine
celebrates an important milestone for
Simmons — 100 years of continuous
publication of our alumnae/i magazine. Though some elements have
changed over time, the magazine continues to be one of the main ways we
share with you the important news and
interesting projects happening here.
This fall I have focused particularly on
our founder, John Simmons, and on
our College’s traditions, because they
give me tremendous insight into who
we are as an institution.
In September, I went to locate the
grave of John Simmons at the Mount
Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. Even
though I am a lifelong resident of
the Greater Boston area, I had never
visited Mount Auburn before. I found
the grave and was quite overcome by
the sense of history there — the grave
is marked with the words “Founder
of Simmons College.” Mount Auburn
has a fascinating history; it was the
first American cemetery built in the
tradition of landscape cemeteries, and
it also is a National Historic Landmark.
It is truly a beautiful, serene place with
many lovely streets and walking paths.
As I stood there and reflected on our
College’s past, I also thought about
Simmons’s future and the new traditions that have recently emerged.
We started the academic year with a
new tradition — our first All-College
Convocation. We’ve held an undergraduate Honors Convocation for
many years, but this year’s event was
significant because we held it on the
main academic campus on our beautiful grassy quad, and we created two
special ceremonies. The first ceremony
welcomed the entire College back
for the start of the academic year; the
second ceremony focused on our undergraduate students and featured the
“pinning” of first-year students by seniors, and recognized seniors inducted
into the honors society, Academy.
In October, we celebrated John Simmons’s birthday on Founder’s Day. A
thoroughly Simmons event, the day included “step singing” by the Simmons
College Choir, a video of Simmons history, and a brief talk about the history
and relevance of John Simmons today.
While we’ve celebrated these traditions for years, I have become increasingly interested in highlighting them
in a more strategic fashion. Why? I am
not a historian, but I believe the more
we know about the past, the better able
we are to make good decisions for the
future. And the more we know about
our founder and our founding vision,
the better able we will be to focus our
energies and resources on those things
that will continue to strengthen our
mission.
We have a wonderful heritage.
Helen G. Drinan ’75LS, ’78SM
President
news
Former Diplomat Named New Warburg Chair
of International Relations
Simmons has named Catharin
Dalpino, former U.S. deputy assistant
secretary of state for democracy,
human rights, and labor, as the College’s new Joan M. and James P. Warburg Chair of International Relations.
Dalpino served as deputy assistant
secretary for democracy, serving from
1993 to 1997. Prior to that, she was a
policy analyst at The World Bank, and
for 10 years was a career officer with
the Asia Foundation — a non-profit,
peace-building organization. She was
the Foundation’s resident representative in Thailand and re-opened country
programs in Laos and Cambodia.
After leaving the State Department,
Dalpino was a fellow at the Brookings
Institution, where she wrote on U.S.
democracy promotion and U.S. policy
toward Asia, and taught at Georgetown
University, Johns Hopkins School of
Advanced International Studies, and
George Washington University. For the
past five years, she has been a visiting
associate professor at Georgetown and
director of its Thai studies program.
Dalpino is the author of three books on
U.S. policy toward Asia, is a frequent
Convocation Theme Emphasizes
Commitment to Excellence
media commentator, and has regularly
testified before Congress on issues
related to U.S. policy in Asia.
Dalpino holds master’s degrees in
international relations and comparative linguistics from San Francisco
State University, and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College in government
and literature.
The Warburg Chair was created in
the 1980s by Simmons alumna and
Emerita Trustee Joan Melber Warburg
’45 and her husband James to educate
the Simmons community about international affairs. Previous Warburg
Chair Thomas Hull was the former
U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone.
During his three-year tenure at Simmons, Hull focused his teaching and
lectures on national and international
peace building and democracy. n
Website Welcomes
New Blog
Simmons’s new and (greatly) improved
blog, 300 The Fenway, is a collegewide blog covering news, events, and
cool stories happening throughout the
Simmons community. The blog is designed for new or prospective students,
alumnae/i, faculty, and staff. n
Visit the blog at http://www.simmons.
edu/blogs/300thefenway/
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›When first published, The Simmons
Quarterly cost $.10 per copy or
$.35 for a one-year subscription;
it had increased to $1 for a one-year
subscription by 1944. Now it is free
to all alumnae/i.
Stephanie Haskell, Kaitlin Faticoni, Amanda Gross, Gabrielle Rossetti, Antigone Smith, and
Megan Melillo of the class of 2011 celebrate the start of their senior year after Convocation.
The 98th Simmons Convocation — the College’s annual celebration of academic excellence
— was held September 1, and marked the beginning of the 2010-2011 academic year.
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Simmons Receives Recognition in National Rankings
Simmons has been
named a “Best College”
among several national
ranking groups.
U.S.News & World
Report ranked Simmons
in its 2011 edition of “America’s Best
Colleges.” Simmons was in the top
tier of schools in its category of Best
Universities — Master’s North Region.
Simmons also was named by Forbes.
com as one of “America’s Best
Colleges” in 2010 and featured in
The Princeton Review’s 2011 Best 373
Colleges guidebook. In addition, the
School of Management was ranked
among the nation’s top 25 graduate
entrepreneurial programs by Entrepre‑
neur magazine and The Princeton
Review, and was ranked as the top
MBA program in the U.S. with the
“greatest opportunity for women.”
U.S.News & World Report often is
cited as the premier college ranking
publication. The 2011 rankings include
data on more than 1,400 accredited
four-year schools, comparing them
by several indicators of excellence,
including peer assessment, graduation
and retention rates, faculty resources,
student selectivity, financial resources,
and alumni giving.
In the Forbes.com ranking, Simmons was recognized among a select
group of more than 600 colleges,
representing 15 percent of the nearly
4,000 colleges in the U.S.
In its summary of Simmons’s
undergraduate women’s college, The
Princeton Review’s Best 373 Colleges
guidebook quoted Simmons students
as saying that they get “a lot of opportunity to work closely with faculty
and [to] interact with local Boston
communities,” as well as praising the
College’s “excellent facilities, including
an amazing library and the large career
resource department.” The SOM was
one of only two MBA programs in New
England on Entrepreneur magazine’s
entrepreneurial program list and the
ranking’s only program designed specifically for women entrepreneurs.
Additionally, The Princeton Review’s
Best 300 Business Schools 2011 edition
ranked the SOM as the top MBA
program in the U.S. with the “greatest
opportunity for women.” n
Student Organizations Recognized for Excellence
Two student-run organizations
recently received international and
national awards.
The Department of Communications’s student-run CommTracks
magazine was named a Gold Medalist
by the Columbia Scholastic Press
Association, which is affiliated with
the Graduate School of Journalism
at Columbia University. CommTracks
is produced in Studio 5 — a studentrun professional communications
agency within the department — and
profiles the department’s students and
their work.
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›In the late 1960s and early 1970s,
each issue of The Review was
uniquely designed in a variety
of shapes and sizes — from a
clamshell-shaped black and white
design to an issue in 14 separate
parts — reflecting the experimental
nature of those decades.
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The magazine also earned additional All-Columbian Honors for special
merit in its content and design. AllColumbian Honors are only awarded
when a publication has achieved the
95th percentile or higher in one or
more of the three categories of judging: organization, content, and design.
The School of Management’s
student-led Net Impact chapter
recently was named a “gold chapter”
for being among the most outstanding chapters in the international Net
Impact network. Of the more than
250 volunteer chapters of Net Impact
located throughout the world, only
seven percent of chapters attained
gold status; the SOM chapter is one of
only 16 business school chapters to be
recognized with this honor.
Net Impact is an international nonprofit organization that works to help
individuals use the power of business
to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world.
The goal of the Simmons Net Impact chapter is to promote responsible
business and to advance social, environmental and economic sustainability
practices and teachings at the SOM. n
President Drinan Appointed to Distinguished
Judicial Advisory Board
President Helen Drinan ’75LS, ’78SM
has been appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Management Advisory Board — a highly distinguished advisory group to the Justices
of the Supreme Judicial Court and the
Chief Justice for Administration and
Management on all matters of judicial
reform in the Commonwealth.
The advisory board consists of a
designee from the Attorney General’s
office, the executive director of the Massachusetts Office of Victim Assistance,
and other members with specific areas
of expertise appointed by the Supreme
Judicial Court. Constituents of the
advisory board are required to have
significant experience in public administration, business administration, and
information technology, and include
lawyers, business leaders, lecturers,
and those who have previously held
governmental positions. President Drinan, who has an extensive background
in business and is a respected leader
in the Boston health care industry, will
serve a three-year term. n
dean’s message
The Deans Discuss the Impact
of a 100-Year Milestone
With the magazine turning 100-years old this year, the deans consider what 100 years means to the
Simmons community. All of the deans had the opportunity to review the first eight-page issue of the
magazine — formerly called The Simmons Quarterly — published in June 1910. Here, they share their
insights as they visit the past and look to the future of Simmons.
“The cover of the first Simmons magazine (1910) showcases a famous New England writer who epitomizes what
a Simmons education could mean in 1910, and what it still means today. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) was
born and brought up in South Berwick, Maine, and she commuted by boat or horse and buggy to Boston to participate in the literary salon of her dear friend Annie Fields, a famous Boston figure and the wife of Atlantic Monthly
editor James T. Fields. Jewett wrote stories and novels about strong women characters like Almira Todd, the local
healer in The Country of the Pointed Firs, or Nan Prince, a woman doctor and the hero of A Country Doctor. Like
Simmons College educators and the SIMMONS magazine in the early years and today, she championed
pioneering women in careers that were novel for the times.”
— laurie crumpacker
“The Graduate School of Library and Information Science opened with Simmons College in 1902. Thus it was with
great interest that I read the inaugural issue of The Simmons Quarterly which was published in June 1910. What
struck me is how close to the College’s values we have remained. Articles discuss scholarship, student engagement, and ‘productive power’ in the community, or what we would today describe as social justice. Under ‘Publications,’ an article that GSLIS Professor Mary Esther Robbins wrote for Public Libraries is included. One hundred
years later, Public Libraries is still a valued journal in our field. A centennial is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate
the enduring strengths of Simmons. Viva la Voice!”
— Michele V. Cloonan
“The SHS programs — nursing, nutrition, and physical therapy have — long been considered cutting-edge
programs and were some of the first programs at Simmons 100 years ago. In the past, the departments of
household economics, public health nursing, and physical therapy were developed in partnerships with the community to meet significant local and national challenges in health care. Today, our programs continue to
be collaborative, innovative, and respected nationally for the educational preparation of expert clinicians,
researchers, leaders, and scholars.”
— judy beal
“While reading the very first Simmons magazine, I was struck by an educational approach that combined theory
and application in order to prepare women for independent livelihoods. Today, that educational approach remains
a hallmark of a Simmons education. In 1910, Simmons women were studying, typing, and bookkeeping; today
they study organizational management, finance, marketing, and strategy. Back then, graduates were “breaking
the glass ceiling” by becoming office assistants. Today, Simmons women are still breaking glass, but the “ceilings”
are now at the top levels of all types of organizations. While the career opportunities for Simmons graduates have
expanded in ways that not even John Simmons could have imagined, the relevance of our mission and our College
remains as fresh today as it did in 1910. Happy birthday SIMMONS magazine!”
Laurie Crumpacker ’63
INTERIM Dean, college
of arts and sciences
michele v. cloonan
Dean, graduate
school of library and
information science
judy beal
INTERIM Dean, School
of Health Sciences
deboraH marlino
INTERIM Dean, school of
management
— Deborah marlino
“The knowledge base for clinical social work practice continues to evolve. We know that the theories and interventions our students learn while they are with us will, at some point, be supplanted by new ways of thinking and
doing. A Simmons SSW education stays relevant over time because our focus is on teaching students how to be
careful, critical consumers and producers of new research, new theories, and new models of practice.”
— Stefan Krug
stefan krug ’80SW
Dean, School of
Social work
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faculty focus
notable achievements by simmons faculty
jill avery
teresa fung
johnnie hamiltonmason
nancie herbold
Vaughn sills
Associate Communications Professor Judith Aronson recently
published a book entitled Likeness‑
es, for which Aronson took all of
the photos and did all of the book
design. The book features photos
of notable artists and writers such
as Seamus Heaney and Norman
Mailer, and includes portraits and
commentary. The National Portrait
Gallery in London recently hung
the Likenesses cover photo as the
“Photo of the Month.” Additionally, photos from Aronson’s book
are currently on display at Christ
Church in Oxford, England.
SOM Assistant Professor Jill
Avery’s journal article “The Underdog Effect: The Marketing of
Disadvantage and Determination
through Brand Biography” was
recently published online by the
Journal of Consumer Research and
is forthcoming in print. The study
was picked up by numerous media
outlets, including the Associated
Press, the Boston Globe, the Wash‑
ington Examiner, and the Huffing‑
ton Post. Additionally, Avery’s coauthored article titled “Capitalizing
on the Underdog Brand Effect” was
published in the November issue
of the Harvard Business Review.
Judy Beal, interim SHS dean
and chair of the nursing program,
has received a National League for
Nursing Nursing Education Grant
to study the development of clinical
scholars. Beal will use the twoyear grant to interview a national
sample of nursing deans to see
what best practices and future best
practices are, and how they could
be used to develop baccalaureate
nursing students into scholars.
GSLIS Associate Professor
Gerald Benoit was a guest editor
for a special edition on information
and communication for the French
journal Études de Communication.
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The book Public Health Nutri‑
tion, 3rd edition, edited by SHS
Associate Professor Sari Edelstein
has recently been endorsed by the
American Public Health Association. The association will promote
the book in their publications and
meetings, and the book will carry
the association’s logo on the cover.
Associate Professor of Nutrition Teresa Fung’s study on low
carbohydrate diets and mortality
was published in the September
issue of Annals of Internal Medi‑
cine. This highly regarded journal accepts only 7 percent of its
submissions. Fung was quoted in
numerous media outlets regarding
the study, including the New York
Times, USA Today, and WebMD. In
August, Fung received the annual
Excellence in Research Award for
the Oncology Nutrition Dietetics
Practice Group of the American
Dietetic Association.
In July, SSW Professor Johnnie
Hamilton-Mason was appointed
the Polly Dixon Faculty Research
Fellow for the 2010–2011 academic
year. Hamilton-Mason will use
the funding for her research on
women displaced from their
homes after Hurricane Katrina.
Nutrition Department Chair and
Professor Nancie Herbold and Dr.
Elizabeth Scott, assistant professor
of biology and co-director of the
Center for Hygiene and Health in
Home and Community, recently
had their manuscript “An In-Home
Video Study and Questionnaire
Survey of Food Preparation, Kitchen Sanitation, and Hand Washing
Practices” published in the Journal
of Environmental Health.
A study co-authored by Associate
Provost and Psychology Professor Gerry Koocher was published
in the July 22 issue of the journal
Nature. The study of “irresponsible
science” was funded by the National Institutes of Health. Koocher
was a featured guest on National
Public Radio’s “Science Friday”
and quoted in the Boston Globe.
Teresa Nelson, Elizabeth J.
McCandless Entrepreneurship
Chair and director of the SOM
entrepreneurship program, was a
guest on a September broadcast of
New England Cable News (NECN)
during a segment about women
entrepreneurs and how the Simmons Entrepreneurship Program
is tailored specifically to women.
Associate Professor of Art and
Music Vaughn Sills and English
Professor Lowry Pei recently
published their book Places for the
Spirit: Traditional African American
Gardens, which features photos
from Sills and an introduction
by Pei.
The National Science Foundation awarded a collaborative grant
of $390,000 to Associate Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and
Computer Science Nanette Veilleux, along with Stefanie ShattuckHufnagel from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Jon
Barnes from Boston University.
The grant provides funding for the
project “Collaborative Research:
Integrating shape, scaling, and
alignment in a global approach to
F0 events in intonation systems.”
The project will examine subtle
meaning differences behind the
use of intonation, or pitch, in human speech. Veilleux also received
a $200,000 grant to renew her
work on the project “Connection,
Community, and Engagement in
STEM Education.”
SIMMONS
magazine celebrates
100 years
Readers of this magazine enjoy each issue as a way of reconnecting with the people and events of
the College. But they may not realize that the magazine is a tradition that dates back nearly as far as
the College itself. This year, the SIMMONS magazine — originally named The Simmons Quarterly,
and then The Simmons Review — celebrates 100 years of continuous publication.
Each issue, preserved in the College Archives, provides a snapshot
communications students, who designed, wrote, and edited the
of Simmons’s rich history. Since its first issue in June 1910, the
entire magazine as a required course. Provocative articles and
magazine has covered Simmons milestones, from the opening of
innovative designs earned the magazine more than 160 honors
the East Wing of the Main College Building in 1929, to the School
during these decades, including the coveted Sibley Award from
of Management’s move to its new home on the main campus in
the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
2009. The magazine’s student and faculty founders viewed it as
a vehicle for better communication at the young college.
“Since The Review’s inception, it has provided — and continues
The one constant through 10 decades of change? Class Notes,
the mainstay of the magazine since its first issue. In spite of new
ways of staying connected through social media such as Facebook
to provide — an authoritative voice and shared perspective on
and Twitter, many believe these published updates on profes-
activities and priorities of the ever-changing College,” said Jason
sional and personal achievements of alumnae/i will sustain the
Wood ’01LS, ’11GS, associate archivist and records manager.
magazine’s readership long into the future.
The magazine — like the College — has evolved quite a bit
“Class Notes are the heart of the magazine — they’re the
during the past 10 decades. The longest serving-editor, Professor
first thing that alumnae/i flip to when they open the latest issue,”
Dorothy Williams, led the magazine from 1947–1977. During
said former editor Peggy Loeb ’62. “They keep the Simmons
this time, the magazine thrived as a publishing laboratory for
connection alive.”
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1947
The magazine is re-launched
as The Simmons Review and
overseen by Professor Dorothy
Williams ’41. It is the only
all-college magazine designed,
written, and edited by students.
1918
1910
First issue of The Simmons
College Review is published as a
monthly magazine, absorbing
both The Simmons Quarterly
and Persimmons, the undergraduate magazine..
1955
The Simmons Review is judged
best college magazine in New
England, and second place in
the nation, by the American
Alumni Council.
First issue of The Simmons
Quarterly is published to
promote a “unity of feeling”
among alumnae.
1912
1939
1964
Simmons
students
celebrate the
opening of
Fenway Park.
World War II
begins.
The Civil
Rights Act
outlaws racial
segregation
in the United
States.
1926
The Review launches its first
Poetry Prize, receiving an overwhelming response of studentsubmitted poems; Lois E. Piper
’28 is the first winner.
Insights from past editors
Past and present editors share their perspectives and memorable moments of working on the Simmons magazine
We turned the focus of the magazine back to Simmons — what
students and alumnae were doing, and how to highlight them in a
positive way — and we liked to run articles by faculty, students, and
alumnae. I was at Reunion the year before last, and a woman came
up to me and said, “I just want to tell you what a huge difference you
made in my life when you published a piece I wrote as a freshman.”
There were lots of fun things, like that, that I was able to do as editor.
— Peggy Loeb ’62
Editor from 1979–1992
The magazine is very important to the College because it is the
most recognizable form of communication between Simmons and
its alumnae/i. The magazine has existed over all these years as a
way for the College to communicate news and interesting stories
about members of its community to one of the College’s most
important constituentcies.
— Christian Pope Campbell ’91
Editor from 1995–1996
Member, Simmons Board of Trustees
The most memorable story (for me) was “Expanding Common Ground
on Combating Domestic Violence,” the cover story in the winter 1998
issue. Interviewing the professors in the School of Social Work who
were educating their students about this serious social issue, reading
the heartbreaking messages on the Clothesline Project’s t-shirts,
and trying to decide which shirts to run on the cover were all very
emotional experiences. The positive responses to the article were
very rewarding.
— Patricia M. Walsh ’01
Editor from 1996–1998
In the Spring 2000 Centennial issue (which celebrated the College’s
100th anniversary), we featured 10 former and current faculty. I was
inspired by their depth of knowledge, and touched by their love for
Simmons and the students lucky enough to find a seat in one of their
classes. Henry Halko, professor of history emeritus, chuckled as he described one of his more dramatic methods to me when I interviewed
him for the story. “Sometimes in a lecture I would spontaneously
jump on a desk and become an 18th century evangelist talking to God.
I certainly held my audience!” Priceless.
— Harriet Petrocelli
Editor from 1998–2000
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1976
Issue titled “New Tensions
in Women” examines the
competing pressures of work
and family life created by the
women’s movement.
1977
1987
2006
The magazine, boldly
experimental in design, wins
the coveted Robert Sibley Magazine Award by the Council for
Advancement and Support of
Education. This is The Review’s
160th honor, more than any
other alumnae/i magazine.
News article celebrates Beatley
Library’s first 25 years.
The Simmons Review is officially
renamed the SIMMONS
magazine with full color
throughout, and an expanded
Class Notes section.
1981
1999
2010
Sandra Day
O’Connor
sworn in
as the first
woman
Justice of the
U.S. Supreme
Court.
The Review captures the
celebration of the College’s
centennial.
The SIMMONS magazine
celebrates its 100th anniversary!
1983
Magazine conducts survey of
former Simmons News editors
in the article “Meet the Press.”
1979
1969
Responsibility for The Simmons
Review is moved from the Department of Communications
to Simmons’s Office of Public
Information.
Apollo 11
carries American astronauts
on the first
human mission
to the moon.
The SIMMONS magazine is the most widely recognized and widely
read publication produced by the College. It’s an extremely important
outreach tool for alumnae/i and has become an increasingly important marketing tool for prospective students and parents.
— Allyson Irish ’04GS
Editor from 2000–2010
Many of our readers say that the SIMMONS magazine evokes feelings
of pride, awe, nostalgia, and connectedness — comments like these
are the highest compliment and honor for us. The magazine serves the
very important purpose of providing alumnae/i, friends, and prospective students with the collective opportunity to “visit” Simmons from
wherever they are in the country — or the world.
— Emily Devaprasad ’09GS
Editor, 2010
“It continues to be an excellent
magazine, perhaps one of the best
of its kind in the nation.”
— Frances Zion Goldberg ’59
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campaign giving
Simmons Bucks National Philanthropy Trends:
Annual Giving Up
Due to an amazing showing of support
from alumnae/i, family, and friends,
Simmons bucked a broad-reaching
national trend and saw gifts to The
Simmons Fund grow in fiscal year
2010. The Simmons Fund increased
5% over fiscal year 2009, to reach
a total of more than $2.9 million —
surpassing Advancement’s goal for the
year and solidifying the success of the
Making Education Work Campaign’s
launch.
According to the Index of Higher
Education Fundraising Performance,
giving to annual funds decreased 11%
across the nation from fiscal year 2009
— making the year’s growth in The
Simmons Fund even more striking.
“This is an impressive vote of confidence in the College from alumnae/i
and friends,” said Advancement Vice
President Kristina G. Schaefer. “Many
thanks to everyone who played a role in
making that possible.”
“Compared with decreasing
national trends, the 5% growth
in giving to The Simmons Fund
was striking.”
— Kristina G. Schaefer,
Vice President of Advancement
Annual fund support is critical to the
operation of Simmons, providing
immediate support for areas that need
it most — from scholarships and
faculty research, to classroom supplies.
The Simmons Fund is the foundation
for all philanthropy to the College.
The $2.9 million is also a crucial
part of the success of the Campaign.
As of October 5, 2010, the Simmons
community is more than $34.3 million
towards the $85 million goal in support
of the Campaign’s primary objectives:
increased financial aid for students,
Family Honors Recent Grad with Gift of Art
Boston art community leaders James and Audrey Foster (left and right) recently donated
three sculptures in honor of their niece, Stephanie L. Davis ’10. Sentinels, 1999 by artist
Leslie Wilcox, grace three trees in the Academic Quad. Says Audrey, “We are thrilled
that the sculptures have a new home at an excellent school like Simmons, and can be
enjoyed by many!”
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and new investments in the School’s
academic programs.
“We’re making excellent progress
towards our Campaign goal,” said
Schaefer. “It’s classic Simmons that
our community of donors would rally
around this cause and achieve success
— despite what is happening in the rest
of the country.” n
Support the
simmons fund now!
give to the
campaign
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Why She Gives:
Anna Cottrell ’04
As a double major —
philosophy and studio
art — and a two-year
soccer player, Anna
Cottrell ’04 had a rich
and varied experience
at Simmons. “As I see it,” said Anna,
“giving back is one way we alumnae/i and
staff can enable today’s students
to have the kind of experience I had.”
Over the years, she’s designated her
gifts for The Simmons Fund and
Friends of Simmons Athletics.
She continues to give back to the
school in another capacity: as assistant
registrar, Anna is responsible for the
scheduling and classroom assignments
for all Simmons courses.
For more profiles, and to “Tell Your
Story,” visit alumnet.simmons.edu/
netcommunity/tellyourstory. n
campaign giving
Honoring a Mentor: Sandra Yaffie Weinstein ’60
Creates Scholarship in Memory of Professor John Timm
“The support was wonderful and I
was very appreciative,” she said. “By
helping a student, as I was helped, I
hope she goes on to have a great career
and is able, in turn, to help others in
the future.”
Weinstein lives in San Antonio, Texas.
She and her husband Martin have three
children and four grandchildren. n
GSLIS Receives
$138,000 Grant to Build
Digital Archives Lab
Sandra Yaffie Weinstein ’60 and husband Martin Weinstein at Sandra’s 50th Reunion in May
Professor John A. Timm, 1959
At a time when few women were in the
sciences, Sandra Yaffie Weinstein ’60
trail-blazed an impressive multi-decade
career in chemistry. Weinstein’s career
was catalyzed by her relationship with
Chemistry Professor Emeritus John
Timm, who inspired Weinstein to
pursue chemistry. “He was my mentor,”
said Weinstein. “Because of Professor
Timm, I became a chemistry major. He
was an excellent teacher and a source of
great support.”
In honor of her mentor, Weinstein
recently established the Sandra Yaffie
Weinstein ’60 Endowed Scholarship
in Memory of Professor John A. Timm
with a $100,000 commitment. Priority
is given to potential recipients who are
chemistry majors. She timed the gift
to coincide with her 50th Reunion.
“It was a big event,” she said, “and I
wanted to do something for Simmons.
I attribute the success I enjoyed in my
career and in my life to my parents,
my family, Professor Timm, and to
my Simmons education.”
After graduating from Simmons,
Weinstein received her Ph.D. in
organic chemistry from Brandeis
University, where she stayed on to
conduct post-doctoral research. Her
career culminated in a two-decade
professorship at the University of
Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio. For her work in the school’s
biochemistry department, Weinstein
received the University of Texas
Presidential Award for Teaching.
Weinstein knows the value of
scholarships first-hand: during her
time at Brandeis, she received many
grants and fellowships that helped
her through the Ph.D. program.
Due to its reputation as a leader in
archives and preservation — it is
ranked in the top ten U.S. archives and
preservation management programs by
U.S.News & World Report — GSLIS has
received a $138,000 grant from the
National Historic Publications and
Records Commission (NHPRC) to
build an archives and preservation
digital laboratory.
“We are thrilled,” said GSLIS Dean
Michèle Cloonan. “Not only will the
grant afford our students the best
possible education in archives and
preservation, but it also positions GSLIS
as the lead innovator in the field.”
Paired with funding from the
Institute of Museum and Library
Services, the NHPRC grant will enable
GSLIS to provide graduate students,
educators, and researchers the
opportunity to learn, instruct, and
experiment with a range of digital
archival and preservation procedures
— from record creation through
preservation and delivery.
The grant will also fund production
of learning prototypes. Specialists from
Yale and Tufts will work in conjunction
with GSLIS faculty, and the curriculum
will be evaluated at New York University and the University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee. n
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alumnae/i achievements
accomplished graduate and undergraduate alumnae/i and authors
GRECIA ALVAREZ
teresa Hooper Peterson
MAUREEN H. SULLIVAN
Grecia Álvarez ’10LS received a
Fulbright Award to teach English to
adult students at a Moroccan university. Álvarez began her work in
September as part of the Fulbright
English Teaching Assistantships
(ETA) Program. The ETA Program
is an element of the Fulbright U.S.
Student Program that places U.S.
students in schools or universities overseas to improve foreign
students’ English language abilities
and knowledge of the U.S.
Lee Byrd ’04’s thriller novel
Breath Work (iUniverse, Inc.,
2009) follows a small-town chief
of police as he attempts to solve the
murder of two women therapists,
ultimately leading him into the
“alarming” world of alternative psychological practices. Byrd examines
New Age psychology by drawing on
her own experiences with relatives
and friends who experimented
with and joined cults.
In Real Life with Celiac Disease:
Troubleshooting and Thriving
Gluten Free (AGA Press, 2010),
co-authored by Melinda Dennis
’00HS, more than 50 leading
experts from around the world examine the intricacies of living with
and treating celiac disease. The
book covers diet facts, health risks,
food label laws, supplements, and
maximizing nutritional health.
DeDe Lahman ’93, co-owner of
the New York City breakfast hotspot Clinton St. Baking Company,
recently released a cookbook of
more than 100 recipes from the
restaurant’s menu. The book, titled
Clinton St. Baking Company Cook‑
book: Breakfast, Brunch, & Beyond
from New York’s Favorite Neighbor‑
hood Restaurant (Little, Brown and
Company, 2010), includes cooking
and baking techniques and fullpage photographs to inspire the
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at-home chef. The Clinton St. Baking Company has been featured in
Time Out New York, Lonely Planet
Magazine, and New York Magazine.
Connie Lawn ’66 has released
an updated version of her political autobiography, You Wake Me
Each Morning (iUniverse, Inc.,
2010), which chronicles her life as
the longest-serving independent
White House correspondent. She
documents her struggles and
adventures as a one-woman news
bureau, including being one of the
last journalists to interview Robert
Kennedy and covering the invasion
of Czechoslovakia.
Theresa Hooper Peterson ’85 has
been named one of the Top 25 Influential Black Women in Business
by The Network Journal, a monthly
magazine covering news about
black professionals and small business leaders. Peterson is manager
of external affairs and technology
programs and director of government relations at General Electric
(GE). Based in Washington, D.C.,
Peterson has worked at GE since
2004, where she started a mentoring program for black technology
specialists at the company.
The American Society for Microbiology’s 2010 Roche Diagnostics
Alice C. Evans Award was recently
given to Dr. Sara Weinstein Rothman ’65 for her contributions
toward the participation and advancement of women in microbiology. Rothman is the associate science director for research review at
the Walter Reed Army Institute of
Research. Rothman is a founding
member of the Washington Chapter of the Association of Women
in Science and has served as chair
of the Committee on the Status of
Woman in Microbiology.
Penelope Rundle ’74, ’75GS has
published Last Caravan: Touring
Afghanistan During the 1978 Revolu‑
tion (Gray Dog Press, 2010), a
book based on the journal she kept
while touring Afghanistan during
the April revolution. Her journal
covers the conditions and political
landscape of the country, as well as
the people and culture of the time,
and is accompanied by over 70
photographs.
In her novel Trail Magic: Lost
in Crawford Notch (Romagnoli
Publications, 2008), Maureen H.
Sullivan ’82LS tells the story of the
family of a diplomat who moves to
New Hampshire after the death of
their mother, to run a campground
near the famous Appalachian Trail.
The book is the bronze medal
winner of the 2009 Moonbeam
Award, the bronze medal winner
of the 2009 IPPY Book Award, and
the gold medal winner of the 2010
Mom’s Choice Award.
Robbie Christler Tourse ’71SW
and Barbara Hauser ’64SW
recently won top honors from
the National Association of Social
Workers (NASW) Massachusetts
Chapter. Tourse, a current lecturer
at the SSW, received the 2010
NASW Lifetime Achievement
Award, which honors the career
contributions and achievements
of an NASW member. Hauser
received the 2010 NASW Award
for Greatest Contribution to Social
Work Practice. She is the only
social worker serving on the
Massachusetts Bar Association
Governor’s Commission on the
Unmet Needs of Children.
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1931
REUNION ’11
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Florence Aliber Lipsky
Langdon Place
136A Arch Street Apartment 230
Keene, NH 03431-2186
1932
Dorrance Chase Deston of
Lancaster, CA turned 100 on
September 13, 2010 and classmate Elizabeth Gilbert Finlay of
Pebble Beach, CA turned 101 on
Sept 16. Dorrance was an indoor
tennis champion in 1933.
1935
Helen Katzen
615 Heath Street, Unit 305
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-2146
1938
Dorothy Mays Ives writes, “I
was thrilled to attend the
graduation of my granddaughter,
Elizabeth Dingman ’10LS, from
the Simmons library school on
May 14, 72 years after I did! The
Bank of America Pavilion was
certainly different than Sym-
phony Hall, but so is everything
in Boston today. No longer is
the Customs House Tower the
tallest building; trolley fares
10 cents; and Simmons tuition
$350.00! Simmons is still a
wonderful place for an education and I applaud the present
graduates.”
1939
Marjorie Duggan Murphy
302 Brooksby Village Drive
Unit 607
Peabody, MA 01960-8562
Martha J. Fay’s nephew, Steve
Fay, writes, “My 93-year-old aunt,
Martha, passed away recently.
Our family requested that in
lieu of flowers, gifts be made
to the Class of 1939 Endowed
Scholarship Fund.”
1942
Dorothy Siegfried Silhavy
357 Grant Hill Road
Tolland, CT 06084-3830
[email protected]
1944
Joan Keating Lowney
1202 Greendale Avenue
Apartment 119
Needham, MA 02492-4612
1945
Bernice Diamond Levinson
22 Hawthorne Village
Concord, MA 01742
From Jackie Colby ’75LS: Alice
Whittaker Latimer is well and
keeping busy taking courses in
the lifelong learning institute
at Furman University. She still
enjoys traveling and this past
year cruised to Europe and
Alaska and went to Colorado
and Texas. | Esther Sherburne
Bickford and her husband are
in “reasonably good health” and
are planning a move to a brand
new independent living facility.
| June Whitfield Hill reported
that she enjoyed a week in her
timeshare on Sanibel Island
last fall, after not having been
there for the last five years. Her
daughter Nancy and son Dave
and their spouses were able to
be with her. | Things are fine
here in Prospect Harbor, Maine,
says Louise Hendrickson Shipman. | Eleanor Meisel Howard
still lives in Albuquerque but
isn’t traveling much any more.
Ellie continues to think about
moving back East some day. |
Except for occasional trips to
Seattle to visit immediate family,
Blanche Erlandson Campbell
isn’t doing much traveling any
more either. She feels fortunate
that one of her daughters and
son-in-law live near her. Blanche
keeps in touch with Connie
Ramsdell Blair. | On a sad note,
Jean Greenhalgh Neil died last
January. Her husband Bill had
died the previous fall.
1946
REUNION ’11
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Priscilla Hanks ’73LS
6 Wildon Road
Wellesley, MA 02482 7115
[email protected]
Pat reports: Barbara Swaebe has
become a trustee of Heatherwood, a senior condo ownership
community in Yarmouthport,
Cape Cod. With delight she
has discovered Sylvia Perlman
Stearns living at Heatherwood.
| Ruth Rados Horgan had a
surprise phone call on her 85th
birthday from former home ec.
classmate Charlotte Fantony
Milani, whom she hadn’t seen
since their days as dietetic
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interns. Ruth is a judge for the
national “Profiles in Courage”
contest for high school students.
Her reward for reading and
evaluating all those essays is an
invitation to the annual awards
ceremony at the JFK Library in
Boston. | Olive Bridge Bruce
has moved from her 200-yearold home in Burlington, Mass.
to Edgewood, a retirement
community in North Andover.
She says she is enjoying all the
activities there and is busy going
over the family archives brought
from the old house. Records
from her father’s career as an
architect and art work from her
aunt’s collection are all waiting
for Ollie’s attention. | We extend
our sympathy to Margaret
“Cricket” West Laun, whose
husband Louis passed away on
May 21. After his business career
in textiles, he was a deputy
administrator in the Small
Business Administration and an
assistant secretary of commerce
in Washington, D.C. He and
Cricket have three daughters
and five grandchildren. | I am
sorry to report that Norma Carlson Mellor passed away in April.
She had been living in Holden,
Mass. Betty Albee Robinson
attended the service. | I am also
sorry to report the sad news that
our Class president, Barbara
Smith Gordon, passed away on
March 22. She had worked in
the nutritional testing laboratory
at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston,
before her retirement and had
been active in the South Shore
Simmons Club for many years.
This had been her second time
serving as president of the Class
of 1946 and she was looking
forward to our 65th Reunion
in 2011.
1947
Barbara Burke Garlick
43 Whitehall Street
Dedham, MA 02026-2227
[email protected]
Barbara reports: Lisa Rubin
Saretzky of Pompano Beach,
Florida has written that her husband (#2) passed away in 2008
just before he hit his 100th
birthday. Lisa sold her New York
house and is now living in a
South Florida apartment. She
has three married children and
seven grandchildren who call
and visit frequently. She is busy
as a volunteer arts and crafts
teacher with six-year-olds once a
week, and leads a very satisfying 85-year-old life! Lisa writes,
“Simmons has done a lot for me
to give me that ‘I’ve done well’
feeling.” She would like to hear
from others in the Class of 1947.
Keeping her company is Dr. Bob,
her friendly cat. | Mary Jane
Thomas Sawyer of Needham
recently spent time recovering
from hip surgery and is home
and doing well. She continues
with her golfing. However,
her group has lots of fun and
does not keep score. She also
continues volunteering with
Meals on Wheels packing meals
at the local hospital. Mary Jane’s
granddaughter graduated from
Dana Hall and is moving on to
Dartmouth College. She plans
on visiting her son in Virginia
during the Fourth where she
has two grandchildren named
George and Martha. | Thelma
Santoro Lumpkin of Bethany,
CT, has some good ideas what
our classmates could submit
for inclusion in this column. 1.
Write about a fond, funny, or
“naughty” incident that happened during our Simmons
days. 2. Tell about something
interesting you’ve seen or done
in the past year. 3. Friendships
made and continued through
the years. 4. Remind us of
special events that occurred
during our Simmons days or at
our many class reunions. Teddy
and I hope this will help you all
keep our space in the magazine
fun to look forward to reading.
I know everyone turns to the
Class of 1947 column first when
the magazine comes!!! | Audrey
Livingston Hickey of Walpole
had a visit with Barbara Potts
Smith in June 2009, as well as
a visit with Ginny Graham Gill
’69. Ginny and Audrey were
friends since they were very
little and started at Simmons at
the same time; however, Ginny
had to leave in her junior year
and returned later to get her
business degree. Audrey would
like to remind all that the 65th
Reunion will be coming up
in 2012 and suggestions are
welcome any time. | Betty Jones
Ranger of Swampscott has had
to give up driving. However,
she keeps busy with her love of
reading and keeping track of her
grown children and grandchildren. Jenney graduated from
William and Mary College and
then went on for her doctorate
in physical therapy. Melanie
is attending Bridgewater State
College, Mark is a junior at
Salem State College, and Drew
graduated from Virginia Tech
in 2009. One of Betty’s fondest
memories: “While at Simmons a group of us walked
down Brookline Ave. during a
severe snow storm. What fun!”
| Martha Cummings of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, passed away
on December 28, 2009. Martha
was in the home economics
school. After graduation she
became a product manager for
a large commercial cooking
equipment manufacturer and
became the first woman in that
industry. Martha retired early
and was faithful to both Simmons and the Class of 1947. She
was president of the class from
1964–70 and treasurer from
1982–97 and reunion co-chair
in 1983 and 1987. She moved to
Florida in 1998 where she could
enjoy her golfing. A memorial
service was held in Woburn,
where she grew up, in January. | Mary Hartnett Drummey
of Norwood died at home on
January 14. Mary was a devoted
mother of 8 and grandmother
of 16, and great-grandmother to
one. Mary graduated from the
school of nursing and worked
at first as emergency room
nurse and then as head nurse
of the pediatric unit at Norwood
Hospital. She was a loving and
generous person to all and
always with a quick smile and
story to tell. Since retirement, a
group of us nurses were able to
go out to lunch and think back
on our days at Simmons as well
as the time we had at various
hospitals in the Boston area.
Members of the Class of 1983 celebrate birthdays.
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classnotes
1948
Mildred Feldman Levitt ’49
holds a pillow that reads, “It’s
hard to be humble when
you’re from Simmons.”
Jane Washburn Parker
1210 Evergreen Avenue
Plainfield, NJ 07060-2618
[email protected]
1949
Emily Macy Salaun
101 Tower Avenue
Needham, MA 02494-1911
[email protected]
Retiring from retirement is the
theme for us octogenarians,
according to Elizabeth “Chris”
Klein Matthys of Mashpee.
Besides book clubs, community
activism, and recuperation from
leg surgery, she coordinated
a ninetieth birthday party for
her husband, Lee, unofficial
class photographer. | Jane Bond
Seamans and husband, Dave,
formerly of Allentown, PA, have
moved to Exeter, NH, to be
closer to their families. Her new
address is River Woods, 7 Riverwood Drive, Apt. 218, Exeter, NH
03883. | Mildred Feldman Levitt
writes, “After 42 years of teaching Hebrew and Judaic studies
at Congregation Mishkan Tefila
in Chestnut Hill, I retired. I now
occupy myself mainly with my
lovely family: my children Kenneth, a biologist with the U.S.
Core of Engineers, Sheryl Levitt
Schwartz ’78, a Hebrew teacher
and professional soprano, and
David, a certified industrial hygienist. My beloved husband, Al,
died in 2000. My five grandchildren are Aviva Schwartz ’07 who
is getting her Master’s degree in
health communications at Tufts
Medical and Emerson College (a
joint program), Arielle Schwartz,
a senior at Brandeis University
majoring in political science,
Rachel Levitt, a sophomore at
the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, Jeremy Levitt, a sophomore at Chevy Chase High
School, and Aaron, a kinder-
gartener in Chevy Chase. I am
a member of many clubs and
organizations and really do not
know where the time goes, especially the years. I was greatly
humbled by the honor recently
bestowed upon me and my girls
at our 60th Reunion. I love the
beautiful pillow the Class of
’49 gave me as a gift for having
three generations of Simmons
alum. I read the words every
day: “It’s hard to be humble
when you’re from Simmons.” |
Sympathies are extended to the
Silan family on the death of Sen
Sahir Silan, Antalya, Turkey. |
Condolences are also extended
to Barbara Clark Elam ’93LS
and her husband, Judge Harry
Elam, Esq., of Buzzard’s Bay on
the death of their son, Keith of
New York, known as The
Rapper, Guru of Gang Starr.
1950
Dorothy Rose Nord
30 Prospect Street
Essex, CT 06426-1021
[email protected]
Dorothy reports: Nine members
of our class showed up for our
60th reunion dinner and meeting: Carolyn Millinger Holland,
who will serve as president; Pat
Powers Morrison, who will be
vice president and organize our
65th reunion; Marian Tidmansen Karlberg; Alice Richardson Wilson; Janice Stremlau
MacKesson; Alice Seelinger,
who has been our vice president
and was in charge of reunion,
Carol Peterson Woodworth,
Nancy Jenkins MacDonald, our
retiring president, and myself.
Marian Karlberg, Alice Wilson,
and Pat Morrison volunteered
to contact class members in the
fall to get news and encourage
giving to our College. Many
thanks to Alice Seelinger, Carolyn Holland, Nancy McDonald
and to Elaine Goldman Ash,
who has been our class agent,
for the services they have
performed so well for our class.
| In response to my plea, some
of the attendees gave me notes
for the column: Carolyn Holland, who is a widow, has five
daughters, seven grandchildren,
and one great grandchild. She
is involved in church work and
the League of Women Voters.
She came to the reunion with
Alice Seelinger and remarked,
“It was so good to see people.” |
Janice MacKesson wrote that
she has an ideal husband, who
is an Eagle Scout and has a
great sense of humor. She has
a son and three daughters, one
of whom drove her to reunion.
Janice is enjoying her retirement. She also mentioned that
Christie Whitehill Valluzzi had
passed away, after living near
her daughter for some years.
Jan and Christie often took
trips to Europe together. | Alice
Wilson and husband, Dwight,
have retired to East Orleans on
Cape Cod. Between them, they
have four children and nine
grandchildren, who all come to
the Cape in the summer, “making for exciting times.” They
still love to travel and are plan-
ning a trip to Spain. | Virginia
Bown White writes, “Fred and I
continue to spend our summers
on Norway Lake in Maine and
enjoy our condo in Exeter, NH
in the winter. We manage to
keep very busy with church
activities, rotary, and our three
New England families.” | Please
email or write to me with news
of your lives for our column.
I look forward to hearing
from you.
1951
REUNION ’11
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Virginia Willon Clark
4519 Baybrook Drive
Pensacola, FL 32514
[email protected]
1952
Ann David Young
126 Berwick Place
Norwood, MA 02062‑1915
[email protected]
Ann reports: The Newton Marriott Hotel was the setting for our
spring mini reunion luncheon
on May 6, 2010, at the site of
the former Norumbega Park
where many of us danced at the
famous Totem Pole ballroom to
the music of the big band era.
Twenty-one classmates enjoyed
the lunch. Our guest Jan Taylor
’07GS from the alumnae/i office
covered several topics of interest.
| Paula McGinley Mathews now
has two great grandsons and a
very active family. She is currently using her Prince School
training while working in a
thrift shop and volunteers to be
a gopher for friends that can no
longer drive. | Dorothea Hesse
Doar writes that she and roommate Jane Echlin Kammerer
celebrated their 80th birthdays
with a two-week river cruise
from Bucharest to Vienna on
the Danube in June 2010. They
visited six countries with stops
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in towns along the way. Among
the highlights: the Romanian
Parliament building — second
largest building in the world
after the Pentagon; ancient
Roman ruins; the dramatic Iron
Gates gorge; the seven bridges
of Budapest; and an evening
of Strauss in Vienna. A truly
memorable event was seeing
former 241 Kent housemate
Elaine Scott Landesmann P’91,
who lives in Vienna with her
husband Hans. | Your secretary
enjoyed a summerlong visit
from her daughter Deanna and
grandson Barrett from Phoenix,
AZ. Her daughter Jeannette Le
Chevallier ’79 from California
joined the Young family for an
80th birthday luncheon and
celebration for Ann and her
husband, Bob. | Our fall mini
reunion is planned for October
6, 2010 at the popular Concord
Inn in Concord, Mass. We are
looking forward to our 60th
reunion which will be held in
2012. | Please send class notes
to Ann Young, 126 Berwick
Place, Norwood, MA 02062,
781-762-3272, or email drocey@
comcast.net.
1953
Dorothy Halloran Fowerbaugh
6733 South Bend Drive
Fort Wayne, IN 46804 6267
[email protected]
1954
Georgette Sampson ’73GS
8 Bedford Street
Lexington, MA 02420 4408
1955
Barbara L. Keough ’83GS
25 Great Rock Road
Sherborn, MA 01770-1609
[email protected]
Patricia Chisholm Wallace
72 North Mill Street, Apt. 4
Holliston, MA 01746-1022
[email protected]
Nancy Reid Whitman
190 Nahant Road
Nahant, MA 01908
[email protected]
Nancy reports: Our very successful reunion was enjoyed by 24
classmates and spouses. We enjoyed Alumnae College classes,
tours of the rejuvenated campus,
trolley tours, cocktail parties,
and dinner outside on the
restored back oval. Simmons
Night at the Pops was a great
tribute to Duke Ellington. Our
Class was housed in Evans Hall
and we spent hours chatting
about families, travel, health,
and talking about all of you who
were not with us! Our final Saturday night dinner was in the
College Faculty Dining Room
with the decorations and theme
organized by Terri Ofshay Pollack, Jackie Pell Tuttle, and their
committee. | Class Agent Rita
Taddonio Walsh wants to congratulate the 112 class members
who sent a gift to Simmons for
the 2009–10 fiscal year. Your
gifts helped us break the previous reunion record we had to
achieve 74% class participation
this time for our 55th reunion!
It is very thoughtful of you to be
such loyal and generous alums
for Simmons. We are on a winning spree, thanks to you, and I
hope you will continue to help
out and make this a tradition as
Class President Jackie Pell Tuttle
has wished. Thanks ever so
much. | I hope you have all received your copy of our Class of
1955 Directory of our surviving
152 members. The Directory was
a very generous gift from Ruth
Reed Cretella ’88GS. Please
use it to contact and keep track
of your classmates. | Reunion
pictures and snapshots of our
banquet were taken by the son
of Froso Metalides Delianides
who is a very talented professional photographer. If you
would like to view them contact
Froso. | Class dues for the next
five years are now due. Please
make your check for $50 payable to Simmons Class of 1955
and send to Shirley Trull Hardy,
65 Stafford Road, Lowell, MA
01852. Your dues are used for
our Class treasury and are not
a donation to the College. | Our
wonderful reunion weekend
was made even more exciting by
President Helen Drinan ’75LS,
’78SM’s very encouraging report
to the alumnae on the state
of the College. We are all very
Simmons Loses Two Greats: Honorary Trustee
Beryl Hardacker Bunker ’40, ’01HD and Trustee
Emerita Sarah “Sally” Molloy Crane ’56, ’04HD
Honorary Trustee Beryl
Hardacker Bunker ’40, ’01HD
passed away on August 24, 2010
in the Sherrill House, Boston.
Mrs. Bunker pioneered a 31-year
career in investments at John
Hancock, first as a statistical
clerk and ultimately rising to
senior vice president — one
of the first three female vice
presidents at the firm. In retirement, she launched a second
career as a volunteer and philanthropist working to promote the
empowerment of women.
At Simmons, Bunker over
the years served as a trustee,
corporator, chair of the College’s
Centennial celebration, president
and vice president of the Alumnae Association, Reunion fund
chair, and treasurer and 50th
Reunion fund chair for the Class
of 1940. She was a longtime
supporter of The Simmons Fund,
planned giving, and scholarship
support.
Memorial gifts may be made
to the Beryl Hardacker Bunker
Award for Continuing Education
at Simmons College.
Trustee Emerita Sarah “Sally”
Malloy Crane ’56, ’04HD, passed
away August 1, 2010. A self-
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Beryl Hardacker Bunker ’40’01HD
described professional volunteer,
Ms. Crane worked tirelessly on
behalf of dozens of organizations
in social services and education.
Crane served as a trustee of
Simmons for 20 years. During her tenure she chaired the
student affairs and advancement
committees, and the successful
$65-million Imagine Campaign.
Crane’s philanthropic support for
Sarah Malloy Crane ’56, ’04HD
Simmons included gifts to The
Simmons Fund, the Sports for
Simmons and Pride campaigns,
and the new library. During the
Imagine Campaign, she and
her family created the Sarah
Molloy Crane Endowed Scholarship Fund.
Memorial gifts may be made
to the Sarah Molloy Crane ’56
Scholarship Fund at Simmons
College.
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fortunate to have such a capable,
dynamic woman guiding our
alma mater. | At reunion, we
were reminded of our classmate
Kafy Downey who died tragically many years ago. We were
informed that Worchester State
College awards annually a short
fiction award in her honor. So
nice to see Kafy remembered. |
Jackie Wray Buck ’60SW is back
in New London, NH, working
diligently on a biography of her
late husband Dudley Buck, who
was a professor at MIT in the
early days of computer research.
| Please note on your calendars
that our fall mini reunion will
be held at the Newton, Mass.
Marriott Hotel on Saturday, October 15. Keep tuned for details.
1956
REUNION ’11
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Dorothy Bruce Willis
24 Bradford Lane
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
[email protected]
Dot reports: A group of nurses
had a mini reunion in June.
Liz Wilson Jewel traveled from
California to Massachusetts for
a family reunion. She then went
to Hillsboro, NH to visit with
Gail Townsend Johnson and Dot
Neville Starkweather. The group
then went on to spend time
with Corinne Hord Yetman in
Topsfield, Mass. Lots of fun and
reminiscing. | Ann Washburn
Samuels and Dot Bruce Willis
discovered that they had total
knee replacements on the same
day in April. This is really Simmons togetherness. | Harriet
Olstein Mendelsohn’s husband
Allan passed away in 2007. Harriet lives in Manhattan where
she frequents a gym three days
a week and takes advantage of
many of the events that NYC
has to offer. | Mo Moore Marsh
is a docent at Castle in the
Clouds in Moultonboro, NH.
This is a Lake Region Conser-
vation Trust overlooking Lake
Winnipesaukee. In September
she traveled to Switzerland,
Germany and Austria. While
in Germany she attended
the famous Passion Play in
Oberammergau. Mo would
love to hear from classmates at
[email protected].
| Norma Bornstein Rooks for
many years has been a docent
at The Peabody Essex Museum
in Peabody, Mass. where she
also works in research. Norma
feels so fortunate to have her
children and seven grandchildren living in the Swampscott,
Mass. area. The grandchildren
really keep her busy. Each year
all 14 vacation together. This
year they all went to a resort in
Phippsburg, ME.
1957
Claire Austin Anderson
15 Juniper Lane
Madison, CT 06443-3326
[email protected]
1958
Dianne Kofman Chirls
3 Robinhood Drive
Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046
[email protected]
Phyllis Fishman Decker graciously hosted a group of classmates who spend the winter in
south Florida at her beautiful
home and country club in Palm
Beach Gardens. Those of us
who caught up with each other
were Maxine Ascher Goldberg,
Marcia Blazer Greenberg, Dandy
Rosenfeld Dickerman, Joyce Golan Derrow and Dianne Kofman
Chirls. While we were together
at Phyllis’ home, Joyce Derrow
mentioned she and husband,
Alfred, celebrated their 50th
anniversary this year as did your
secretary, Dianne Chirls, and
husband, Allen. I don’t know
about the rest of you, but we all
think that’s not only a milestone
Members of the Class of 1958 gather
at the Cape Cod home of Lee Stargardter Feinstein ’58.
but an accomplishment! | Class
president Louise Razin Brown
attended the scholarship brunch
at Simmons with Sylvia Bossman Tolman. Several scholarship recipients spoke about how
scholarships made a difference
in their lives. Louise also joined
other ’58 classmates at Reunion
Weekend in June which had
the largest attendance ever.
President Drinan’s State of the
College address included facts
on how the administration is
working hard to make Simmons
more effective and competitive
by investigating why students
go elsewhere, reducing debt and
overhead and increasing endowment. Attending with Louise
were Florence Pressman, Sylvia
Tolman, Lee Stargardter Feinstein, Sandy Dickerman, Phyllis
Brown Cohen, Valerie Abdou
Wyckoff, Cookie Lalli Genua
and Clotilde Chaves Zannetos. |
I made a plea for news last time
but didn’t hear from anyone,
except, of course, our always
reliable president. Just in case
my email gets deleted again, it
is [email protected].
1959
Joan Halpert
1 Wayland Avenue,
Unit 307 South
Providence, RI 02906-4558
[email protected]
Joan Egeris ’58, Arlean Sussman
Levine-Gilbert ’58, Sandy Holland
Siegel ’58, and Ann Silk Gaton ’58
gather in California.
1960
Elaine Gilboard Goralnick
13200 Pacific Promenade
Apartment 322
Playa Vista, CA 90094-2153
[email protected]
Ann Devine Gross
4881 La Belle Terre Boulevard
Pensacola, FL 32504-7859
[email protected]
Harriet Gorfinkle Diamond
417 Atlantic Avenue
Marblehead, MA 01945-2738
[email protected]
Barbara Zlotnick Sanders
P.O. Box 41
220 Brook Valley Road
Towaco, NJ 07082-0041
[email protected]
Elaine Gilboard Goralnick reports: I’m back in L.A. and still
on a high from our Fabulous
50th Reunion Weekend. What a
thrill to see so many classmates.
From check in at Arnold Hall to
the Half Century Club Brunch
on Sunday with President Helen
Drinan ’75LS, ’78SM, there was
something for everyone. The
Awards Luncheon was one of
the highlights of the weekend.
Our Class was welcomed into
the Half Century Club and
celebrated with a daisy chain
parade with all participants
proudly wearing their decorated hats. We won five of the
seven reunion awards which
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classnotes
included the highest reunion
attendance and the largest dollar
contribution, which resulted
from contributions from 54%
of our classmates. Following
the luncheon, our class meeting
resulted in the election of the
following officers for the next
five year term: President Gail
Teuten Noyes; Vice President
Clare Rosoff Holland; Secretary
Harriet Gorfinkle Diamond;
Treasurer Lois Malatsky Liss;
Agents Anne Stevens Blomstrom, Ellen Daly Higgins, and
Natalie Beemus McGill; and
News Secretaries Ann Devine
Gross, Barbara ZlotnickSanders, and Elaine Gilboard
Goralnick. | Phyllis Bretholtz, as
always, did not disappoint. She
was our “official” photographer
and captured all the events of
the weekend. | Jean Schaier
Tupper put together a fabulous
booklet of all the questionnaires
that were returned. It was great
catching up on everyone’s lives.
| Ruth “Dixie” Arthur Jeffries
was unable to attend reunion
but wanted to let us know that
Sara Butler Potter, Nursing, died
January 28, 2010 in St. Petersburg, FL. Dixie is now living
across Lake Ponchatrain from
New Orleans but had previously lived in New Orleans for
30 years. She has been retired
from nursing since 1992. | What
could be better than attending
the Pops with Rich and Clare
Holland. They are so proud of
their daughter, Dr. Julie Holland who has just had her book,
Weekends at Bellevue, published.
| For all those who were unable
to attend our 50th, plan to be at
the 55th!
1961
REUNION ’11
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Judith Lissack Henkewick
450 Claremont Avenue
Westmount, QC H3Y 2N2
[email protected]
Judith Lissack Henkewick
reports: With our 50th Reunion
coming up (June 3–5, 2011)
all class members are invited
as guests of the College for
their special anniversary year
(incoming members of the Half
Century Club)! That allows class
members on-campus accommodations for room and board for
reunion weekend. Our Reunion
committee will be contacting
us with details — however your
assistance would be appreciated
to locate contacts for the following classmates: Carol Rosenfeld
Cohen, Jeanne Ernst, Linda
Bloom Finkelstein, June Harrigan, Priscilla Goman Kershlis,
Shirley Panchy, Judith Lober,
Kay Bissell Reynolds, Adele Rice
Richman, Ann Lufkin Samiljan,
Naomi Alperen Seid-Cronkite,
Gladysann Rahiser and
Elizabeth Donovan Yim. | Our
condolences go out to Barbara
Suher Baun on the death of
her husband Jens in May. She
writes: “We were married for
almost 48 years. Those of you
who have visited me in Hørsholm, Denmark and had the
privilege of meeting him will
know how terribly I shall miss
him. | Keeping in touch is Bobbi
Lubarsky Levin reporting: I
moved from Long Island, NY
to West Palm Beach, Fla. nine
years and quickly adapted to
both the tropical temperatures
and slower life style. The unusually long, cold Florida winter
of 2010 was nicely warmed up
by visits with Shirley Scholnick
Harris ’80SW and Irma Kass
Resnic, both of whom spent
the winter in the Palm Beach
area. We were surprised by a
visit from Carol Schlafman
Woolf ’83SM and Claire Rubin
who drove across the state from
Naples for lunch one afternoon.
Except for a few gray hairs and
a few minor wrinkles, everyone
looks terrific and it was fun to
reminisce about old professors,
old friends, and the many hours
spent in the commuter cafete-
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ria. | Looking forward to seeing
everyone at our reunion in June
2011. To those who have not
attended Reunion in the past,
think about this BIG ONE for
June 3–5, 2011! Keep the dates
open!!!
1962
Myrna Abbott Kasser
214 Thirteenth Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030-4435
[email protected]
Myrna reports: Classmates:
Keep this in mind! In 2012, two
short years away, we celebrate
our 50th reunion... Looking
toward the future, I’d like to
encourage all of you to plan on
attending. | Gail Trust wrote,
“Having attended many reunions
over the years, I’ve found that
sharing our life changes, renewing friendships and reconnecting with classmates has been
very rewarding. Hoping to see
you all at our 50th!” Gail also
said, “Living in a tourist area
and seeing all the t-shirts proclaiming ‘Life is good’ prompts
me to write. For me and my
family, life is good and I hope
the same applies to all of you.
Attaining the age of 70 (for most
of us, this year) is astonishing
to me. A very Happy Birthday to
all of you and to those younger
kiddos, an anticipated Happy
Birthday.” | Gail Trust, Bobbi
Zimmerman Perlmutter and
Joan Conlin Reilly had lunch
at Lord’s Seafood Restaurant in
Maine recently. It was a joint
birthday celebration! Bobbi
had dinner with Peggy Forman
Shapiro and her husband Steve
around the same time, and it
was Peggy’s birthday too. Joyful
celebration of your birth to everyone! | Debby Hurwitz Magen,
Terry Weinberger Binder and
Alvah Mendelsohn Parker got
together in NYC in December
of ’09 for a mini mini reunion.
Debby lives in Jerusalem and
came with her daughter and
Debby Hurwitz Magen, Terry
Weinberger Binder, and Alvah
Mendelsohn Parker of the Class
of 1962 meet in New York City.
her daughter’s four children so
the children could become U.S.
citizens. Debby and her daughter, of course, are already U.S.
citizens. | Helen Wertheimer
Hubler wrote that she and
Linda Jaffee Ilan had a weekend together in the Berkshires,
visiting Tanglewood, the Clark
Museum, and Edith Wharton’s
home. “It was a great treat and a
celebration of 50 years of friendship.” Helen said she finds that
now in her “old age” she’s very
busy with painting and drawing portrait commissions, and
having a wonderful time doing
them. | Grethel Camps Fisher
was able to visit the “new” Simmons campus with her roommate, Kathy Benjamin, who now
lives in the Boston area. Grethel
was “more than impressed with
the new facilities. I’m sure they
are conducive to learning and
are a source of pride to the Simmons community.” | Clara Bond
and Diane Torto Malin came to
visit me, Myrna Abbott Kasser,
in Hoboken in the early spring.
They industriously went to museums, galleries and the theater.
I provided a bed and some food.
We were all able to have dinner
one night with Clara’s niece,
who lives in Manhattan. We had
wonderful discussions of books
newly read, movies seen, and
politicians loved and reviled. |
Don’t forget to check out our class
website: www.ClassOf62.org!
classnotes
1963
1966
Barbara Paresky Budnitz
734 The Alameda
Berkeley, CA 94707-1931
[email protected]
Rose Bryant Woodard
181 North Street
Hingham, MA 02043-1871
[email protected]
Roslyn Ossen Loiter
5105 Wellinghall Way
Columbia, MD 21044-1330
[email protected]
1967
Joyce Ambrose Greif writes,
“Can you believe it....I’m heading to NYC this weekend to
stay with friends from my high
school class of 1959! We all got
reacquainted from the 50th
reunion last June. Who says you
can’t go home again? NOT ME!!
My husband and I were in New
York City in January and enjoyed
seeing Judy Freedman Bassin
and her husband Gene. She was
such a dear friend at school but
we lost touch for awhile and
then reconnected to our delight!
She is an architect with a NYC
firm and lives in Brooklyn. We
really enjoyed spending time
together. I’m a realtor with
Coldwell Banker and Bob just
became Emeritus from Tufts
Univ. where he taught (and still
teaches one class) for 41 years.
Our kids are in Tampa, FL and
Valencia, CA. TOO FAR from
Lexington, Mass.
1964
Karen Chaiken Kavet
69 Lincoln Road
Wayland, MA 01778
[email protected]
1965
Marjorie Levine Lappen
12037 Great Elm Drive
Potomac, MD 20854-1227
[email protected]
REUNION ’11
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Marcia Lees Smith
4 Merriam Avenue
Shrewsbury, MA 01545-2358
[email protected]
Sandy Leif Garrett writes: It is
with deep sadness that I report
the passing of our classmate,
Ronnie Rubin Nadler, on May
17, 2010, who lost her three year
battle with lung cancer. Ronnie received her MS in Biology Education from Columbia
Teachers College and taught
science in Oceanside, CA and
Holt, MI. Ronnie lived for many
years in Michigan, where her
husband Ken was a professor
of Plant Physiology at Michigan
State University. Ronnie more
recently worked in the Upward
Bound program at MSU. She
was an extraordinarily talented
designer of needlework, and
created tapestries for her synagogue. She was a special friend
who during our days at Simmons always had time to listen
and gently advise. In addition to
her husband, Ronnie is survived
by her two children, Samuel and
Jessica, 16 week old grandson,
Alexander, mother Lillian, and
sister Linda. Friends and family
have established The Ronnie
Nadler Fund, Cong. Kehillat
Israel, 2014 Forest Rd, Lansing,
MI 48910 to endow a regular
workshop on Jewish Arts and
Crafts as a living memorial to
her. | Lynne Laurans Levinson
writes: Our youngest son, Matt,
was married to his college
sweetheart, Katharine Taylor,
on August 1, 2009 in Boston.
Kate is a third year resident at
Children’s Hospital there. They
will move to Philadelphia in
July so she can start a three year
fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology. Matt hopes to start his
own business. Our oldest son,
Drew, was married to Stephanie
Hartlieb on May 1, 2010 in Las
Vegas. Stephanie is a manager
at Wynn Resorts and Drew is
a master mixologist and runs
the beverage program for Wirtz
Beverage in Las Vegas. Judy Cohen Stern, Judy Chused Siegel
and Karen Hook Giesecke ’71,
all Simmons friends, attended
both weddings. Dan and I both
had “parts” replaced during the
past two years. Replacing parts
has slowed down our traveling but we did manage a trip
to Greece and Jordan last fall
in between surgeries. We still
split time between Aspen, CO
and Scottsdale, AZ. After the
last reunion I reconnected with
Ellen Brody Bornstein and we
have had a lot of fun together
when we are both in AZ. We are
still sponsoring a young pianist
from Odessa, Ukraine. She is 17
and just finished her freshman
year at Johns Hopkins Peabody
Conservatory in Baltimore, MD.
She got a 3.8 GPA and we are
very proud of her. | Hope all is
well with you and your family.
Looking forward to our next
reunion.”
1968
Pamela Street Walton
Post Office Box 33
Spofford, NH 03462-0033
[email protected]
This is a period of change for
many of us as we begin the
retirement process. By the time
this column reaches print my
husband Ken and I will have
moved from New Jersey to our
retirement home in New Hampshire….let the transition begin.
Check out my new mailing
and email addresses. Any mini
reunion pictures from recent
gatherings? Would love to have
Gail Trust, Bobbi Zimmerman Perlmutter, and Joan Conlin Reilly of the Class
of 1962 celebrate birthdays in Maine.
a few for the next column. |
Monica Heilbrunn Ruthizer
sent me a synopsis of the past
42 years. Thank you Monica!
Her first step after graduation
was graduate school, then 15
years as a secondary teacher and
then as a supervisor. In 1976
she married her husband Jeff
and they have two sons Josh and
Alex. Josh followed his father to
Lafayette College and Columbia
Law School. He is a practicing
lawyer in NY and just heard
that the Supreme Court in a
unanimous vote upheld a brief
he co-authored! Alex attended
the University of Michigan
which meant Big Ten Football!
He now works in private equity
and is in an MBA program at
NYU. Somewhere along the line
Monica became a writer and
wrote four books, one of which
she published and submitted
to the SIMMONS magazine
as an author offering. Of the
years since Simmons, Monica
wrote: “If we carried away our
education and our friends, to be
a part of our lives forever, then
we accomplished what we set
out to do in 1964.” Her two best
friends are still Adrien Joseph
Ellenberg and Melody Favish.
In 2009 she and Jeff moved
from White Plains, NY to Delray
Beach, FL. She would like to
hear from any classmates living
in her area; her email is [email protected]. Adjustment
to retirement living began with
a cruise to the Black Sea, Turkey,
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Save the Date
live webcast with president
helen g. drinan ’75ls, ’78sm
“State of the College”
Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 7:00 pm
Register at alumnet.simmons.edu
Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and
Russia….and where to this year?
| From across the seas I heard
from Felda Deena Pisetsky Yron.
She is a very happy mother. I
viewed videos of the wedding
of her son… a day she thought
would never arrive. She said it
was not at all a standard Israeli
or Jewish wedding, but lots of
fun. After the wedding they
traveled around the country for
a week with the relatives and
friends from abroad…. from the
Wailing Wall to Makhtesh Ramone, to a picnic on a goat farm,
from the Negev to the Galil. |
Our “Southern Belle” Debbie
Dunlap Wells emailed from
Atlanta where she has lived for
40 years. When she was 40 and
the mother of three daughters
she went to Seminary Presbyterian and then found herself at
Emory Hospital as a chaplain.
From there she was asked to
start a ministry in a Continuous
Care Retirement Community
(Presbyterian Village) where
she has been for 16+ years. Her
oldest daughter Heather (39) is
an interior decorator in Atlanta
and her work appeared most
recently in Better Homes and
Gardens. Her middle daughter
Amy (35) lives in Seattle where
she is a trauma counselor/psychologist. Youngest daughter
Ashley (29) is a real estate lawyer in Columbia SC….and there
are seven grandchildren to be
adored! Debbie hopes to catch
up with everyone at our 45th reunion in 2013. | Andrea Ehudin
Watson and her husband Bill
divide their time between Den-
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fun facts
›When The Simmons Review
was launched in 1947,
issues were sold for $1 by
students at a booth in the
Front Hall of the Main
College Building.
ver, CO and Taos, NM. Their
son William and fiancée Adelina
live in Manhattan, and their son
Graham, wife Sara, and new
baby, Hunter, live in Richmond,
VA. Andrea’s show, Braided
Lives: A Collaboration Between
Artists and Poets, has traveled
to Denver, San Francisco, and
Berkeley. Her book, with coauthor M. Garner, Collecting Life:
Poets on Objects Known and Imag‑
ined, is forthcoming from Iris
Press. | Ruth Jacobi Swedlow
and her husband David have
been happily retired for quite
a few years. David first retired
from practicing medicine in the
1980’s, and then from a medical
start up in the 1990’s. Ruth
retired from a social work career,
and now plays a lot of tennis,
some golf and both are very active in their community. Life is
good in California! She has two
interesting children who have
found their own life paths. Her
oldest son was a high school
dropout, a hippie in a commune, then an Orthodox Jewish
rabbi, and is now an established
lawyer in Seattle with five kids!
Her youngest son was a Phi
Beta Kappa Ivy League graduate, rugby player and fraternity
president who is now living in
Hollywood and working as a
TV producer (Extreme Makeover
Home Edition). Go figure! As
a “baby boomer” she is also
representing the “sandwich
generation” as she has moved
her mother out to California to
live in an independent living
retirement home near her. In
June Ruth flew to Seattle with
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her 86-year-old mother to watch
her grandson graduate from
high school. She was definitely
feeling like a sandwich with
her mother on one side, and a
bunch of her grandkids on the
other! She hopes more of our
classmates send in information
about their lives. Contact her
at [email protected].
|Linda Earle Roscoe continues
to work as the head of access
services at the Sherrill Library
at the Episcopal Divinity
School and Lesley University in
Cambridge. Her library is in a
consortium with Simmons, so
she has some professional contacts there. Most of the time she
enjoys the responsibilities, but
she confesses to being jealous
of anyone about to retire! She’d
much rather spend time with
her new granddaughter. She
and husband Art are lucky to
live near both of their daughters. Their older daughter is the
mother of a three year old girl
and a baby girl. Her younger
daughter was married at the end
of August, so they had a family
filled celebratory summer! Several years ago they purchased a
small cottage off the Cabot Trail
in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Art was born and grew up near
there, so enjoys renewing old
friendships. When not at work
or with family, she belongs to
a book group of seven years’
standing, is active in the local
Presbyterian Church, and is
serving on the board of the community food pantry. She wishes
everyone well. | And until next
time, I too wish you well. Email
me all the news that is fit to
print and requests for contacting long lost friends…and do
send Simmons some money!
1969
Dolores D’Angelo ’72GS
6409 Fallen Oak Court
Bethesda, MD 20817-3249
[email protected]
1970
Martha Katz Hyman
4 Longbow Court
Newport News, VA 23608-1922
[email protected]
Martha reports: What a wonderful weekend we had for
Reunion! It was fantastic to
see so many classmates, some
of whom had not been back to
campus since graduation, and to
catch up with everyone. Friday
afternoon there were a variety of
things to do: many of us went
on the tour of Fenway Park,
while others took the trolley tour
of Boston. That evening we enjoyed a delicious cookout dinner
outside, surrounded by the new
buildings for the management,
library and information science,
and social work schools, as
well as the Park Science Center,
followed by a great Simmons
Night at Pops. Saturday morning some chose to attend the
lectures that had been set up for
us, while others (your secretary
included), decided to go off on
their own. I went to the Museum of Fine Arts to see an exhibit
on ancient Egypt that I’d read
about, while others spent time
with friends and family, or took
the chance to see Boston again.
Saturday noon was the all-class
luncheon, where we welcomed
the 50th Reunion class, carrying their daisy chain. We all
got back together on Saturday
evening for a delicious dinner at
the beautiful new Kotzen Meeting Center, expertly planned by
Peggie Ferrick Thorsen, and we
had fun looking through the
class book compiled by class
agent Leslie Dykeman and president Cookie Levinson. The fact
that we were able to absorb a lot
of the cost of the meal and the
class book was a result of Sadia
Dennis Sawyer’s stewardship of
our treasury — thank you! | It
was wonderful to be in Boston
again: although I’ve now lived
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in Virginia longer than I ever
lived in Massachusetts, I will
never stop being a Bay Stater,
and Boston will always be my
home! | I hope that those who
haven’t sent me news in a long
time will now be inspired to
do so. You can do so by email
([email protected] ) or
regular mail (4 Longbow Ct.,
Newport News, VA 23608), and
I will put it into my next class
notes message. Thanks to all of
you for your support!
1971
REUNION ’11
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Michaela Kaminski Hancock
8603 Grimsby Court
Potomac, MD 20854
[email protected]
1972
Linda Gilmore Monahan
66 Janis Road
Westfield, MA 01085-4017
[email protected]
1973
Deborah Lerner Duane
29 Maple Terrace
Millburn, NJ 07041-2018
[email protected]
Deborah Lerner Duane reports:
Please send me your email
address so we can get started
on our quasi-oral more like
emailed history that we want to
produce for our (here it comes)
40th reunion in 2013. | Jeanne
O’Leary leads the Safety Team
for the assistant secretary for
transportation policy at the
Department of Transportation,
Washington, DC. She writes, “I
want to encourage all Simmons
alumnae, their families and
their friends to put down their
cellphones and STOP TEXTING
when driving.” | Harriet Lipman
Gottesman and husband Dick
are grandparents to Olive, born
09/09/09 to their daughter
Sharon and son in law Jon in
Philadelphia. Daughter Rachel
has finished her service with the
Peace Corps in the Dominican
Republic, and will enroll at the
Smith School for Social Work.
Harriet plans to continue teaching for two more years before
retiring. | Eileen Ogintz, considered the leading family travel
expert in the United States, has
a newly relaunched website for
her “Taking the Kids” franchise,
www.takingthekids.com. Check
it out for all the children and
grandchildren in your lives.
Eileen’s two most recent books
are The Kid’s Guide: NYC, and
The Kid’s Guide: Cruising Alaska
(Globe Pequot Press). | Cornelia
Mitchell, living in Los Angeles
for 22 years, has been working
in digital media internet and
entertainment. Cory has her
MBA from Harvard, and writes
that she welcomes all ideas as
she is “seeking a permanent
job opportunity, either as a
senior marketer or senior
business development executive.” Cory’s email address is
[email protected]. |
Joyce Greenberg launched Coburn Greenberg Partners (www.
coburngreenberg.com) in late
2009, an investment banking
firm providing advisory services
to the corporate middle market
($25M to $1B) that focuses on
mergers, acquisitions, corporate
divestitures and raising private
capital. CGP is “quite active with
companies in the consumer,
healthcare and financial services
markets.” Joyce and husband
Steve Deutsch have been married for 18 years and have a
daughter Lena. | Linda Siperstein Adler took the summer
off to relax and regroup before
“finding my next gig, post Adobe,
where I worked as a project
manager for ten years.” Summer travel included London and
Edinburgh, as well as helping
her daughter move to Atlanta. |
Former Class President Lesley
Levine writes (and asks us to
“hum theme song here”), “My
eldest son Adam has finished
his third year in a political
science Ph.D. program at the
University of Chicago, where
his academic focus is international relations/security issues.
Twins Ethan and Mark graduated in June 2010 from Horace
Mann High School. Ethan is
now a freshman at Northwestern, having been one of only
92 students accepted into its
theater program, and Mark is
at Swarthmore, considering
a career in medicine/medical
research.” | Diana J. Kelly, a vice
president at Maloney Properties,
Inc., Wellesley since 1982, has
served as president of the Affordable Housing Management
Training Foundation since 1990,
overseeing the distribution of
more than $120,000 in training
grants to property managers
and other staff of affordable
housing communities throughout the United States. Maloney
Properties manages more
than 9000 affordable housing
units in New England. | Nancy
LaMorte Tillson is treasurer at
Eagle Ridge Investment Management Company, Westport,
CT. Her daughter Alexandra
lives in Manhattan, and as
of late June was on her way
to Bali to surf and practice
yoga. Daughter Jordan has
three children under the age
of six — Jackson, Molly and
Mason. “I love my job, but being
a grandmother is the nicest
part of my life!” Nancy writes. |
Karen Birch has formed a new
business in Essex, healthfulOM (www.healthfulom.com),
offering Ayurvedic bodywork
and lifestyle/diet consultation.
“A client’s initial consultation
determines her/his basic and
unique constitution, and allows
me to understand where she
is out of balance. From there,
I recommend dietary and
lifestyle adjustments that will
bring her back to balance. For
the bodywork, I use oils made
in India into which nearly 100
herbs are cooked, and follow
many of the treatments with a
steam.” | Anne Resnic Dinner became a certified dental
assistant recently. “I loved the
learning, and got my aging
and remaining brain cells fired
up. Yes, I was the oldest in my
class of 20-somethings and one
other older student, but held my
own, asked the most questions,
challenged the answers to some
test questions and frequently
thought of my Simmons classroom days and library nights.
I can now understand the
language and lab procedures,
instruments and techniques of
my daughter, now in her second
year at USC School of Dentistry.”
| Arlene Kelfer Miller writes, “In
May of 2010 I published my first
book, The Best Little Grammar
Book Ever! 101 Ways to Impress
With Your Writing and Speaking.
I am now enjoying the task of
marketing the book! I am still
teaching 7th grade English but
hoping to develop the book
into a business of teaching
grammar/writing workshops to
corporations and other groups.
I have already begun by doing
some workshops at local colleges. My kids are doing great.
Jake is finishing up his final
year at San Jose State studying
film. Shelley is in Japan touring
with Disney on Ice.”
What’s your
Simmons story?
tell it at:
alumnet.simmons.edu/net
community/tellyourstory
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1975
Anita Zetlan Redner
38 Clearwater Road
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3743
[email protected]
Ellen Porter Assante writes, “I
was able to attend our 35th reunion and had a wonderful time
reconnecting with classmates
and faculty. We were/are a great
group of talented individuals.
My daughter is about to start her
senior year in high school and
will be in Boston next week for
interviews with college basketball coaches. I’d love to have her
attend Simmons if she decides
to leave Maine for college. Marc
and Philip are now 22. Marc is
about to enter law enforcement
and Philip has just been hired
as a firefighter. Marc and Ashley
will be parents in late Feb. 2011.
This will be our first grandchild and the first for Ashley’s
parents, too. I love my job in
consultation liaison psychiatry
at Maine Medical Center. My
husband, Stephen, is employed
at Maine Med. as a systems software specialist. I spend as much
of my ‘free’ time as possible
with my horses and with other
equine addicted friends. I hope
to see even more classmates at
the next reunion!”
1976
REUNION ’11
munities.” She expects to be
awarded the Ph.D. in December
2010.
1977
Bobbi Magidoff Thompson P’11
870 Galloway Street
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
[email protected]
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Maureen Gavin Reyling
20 Bonair Avenue
Bedford, MA 01730-1502
[email protected]
Nancy Brown Carroll Pawlyshyn ’76GS has recently been
promoted to chief assessment
officer at Mercy College, Dobbs
Ferry, NY. Previously she was
associate provost at the college.
She has also recently attained
doctoral candidacy in the PhD.
program in Professional Studies
in Higher Education at Capella
University. Her dissertation
research is “Engaging and
Empowering Faculty Leaders
through Faculty Learning Com-
1980
Michelle Mitchell
6343 Saint Timothy’s Lane
Centreville, VA 20121
[email protected]
Susan Barrett
44 Greenhurst Road
West Hartford, CT 06107-3418
[email protected]
1978
Judith Blacher Berger
P.O. Box 1956
Andover, MA 01810-0033
[email protected]
1979
Debra Randall Casey
8 Seipet Street
Carver, MA 02330-1712
[email protected]
1981
REUNION ’11
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Heidi Bennett
47 Brewster Drive
Warwick, RI 02889-2203
[email protected]
Janice Young writes, “That
was a great update from Heidi
Bennett. I am especially interested in Heidi’s capstone project: A New Model for Nursing
Home Care. After many years
as a corporate sales manager for
Marriott, Starwood and Salem
Waterfront Hotels I finally gave
emeri-ties
updates on emeriti faculty and staff
Velda Goldberg (Physics) is now dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences/School of Business Administration at Saint Peter’s College
in Jersey City, NJ. She has a new apartment
there on the water, with views of Wall Street,
the Empire State Building and the Statue of
Liberty. “I do miss my wonderful colleagues
at Simmons, but it is nice to have a new
challenge,” she says.
Everyone has regular routines, but Donald
Thomas (Psychology) reports an interesting one: “We now live two blocks from the
Coastal Trail along Monterey Bay and walk
over to the Monterey Bay Aquarium most
days to visit the sea otters, usually seeing
some of their relatives in the ocean along the
way.” Don met Diane, his wife of three years,
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in Santa Fe at a docents training class at the
Indian Arts Research Center of the School
for Advanced Research. While house sitting
last March for friends in Monterey, CA, Don
and Diane decided to buy a house there.
Shortly after retiring, Raquel Halty
(Foreign Languages and Literatures) wrote,
“At the moment I am getting my bearings and
enjoying every minute although I miss my
colleagues and students.” Exercise, catching
up on projects and organizing family papers
were on her to-do list, along with Italian
lessons and volunteer work. She was looking
forward to a trip to “La Belle France” at the
end of September.
Once they sell their condo in Lincoln, MA,
Kathleen Dunn (Education) and Richard
Lyman (History) look forward to becoming
full-time residents of Sweden, ME, where
they recently completed a building project
— a two-car garage topped with a library.
Katie continues with her Simmons alumnae
project, while Dick is involved with local
history in Sweden. At the end of the summer,
they were planning a four-day biking trip on
Martha’s Vineyard with a group of bikers.
Material for this column was submitted
by Peggy Loebe ’62, director of the emeriti
project. Please send news items to her at
[email protected].
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in to the persistent suggestions
of my son, Evan Cross, that I
join him working for Aflac. So
now, I am back in Boston at our
lofty office, working alongside
my son who is also my district
sales coordinator. Being in a
position to assist people in protecting themselves financially
prior to becoming sick or injured makes me feel as though
I am finally “giving back.” My
Scottish husband, Noel, now
a freelance journalist, was formerly the editor of the Sunday
Mail in Glasgow. He and I enjoy
living in Marblehead “by the sea”
with our loving furry family of
two cats, Duncan and Flora, and
our Springer Spaniel, Dougal!
(They think they are people,
good thing they can’t read). Noel
and I travel as often as we can
afford to, especially to Scotland
to see family and grandchildren,
and have been to India, Nepal,
and many European cities, with
many more on our must see
list. I was a commuting mom
of a three year old when I began
studying at Simmons and am
very proud to say I graduated
from such a fine school. Life
is good.”
1982
Darcy DeMarco
10525 Bambola Place
Las Vegas, NV 89135-2556
[email protected]
Sharon Stahl Wexler writes, “I
completed my Ph.D. in Nursing
in 2007 and have joined Pace
University Lienhard School of
Nursing as an assistant professor. | Deborah Morse Ringen
received a Master of Science in
Nursing and Health Ministry
from Azusa Pacific University,
Azusa, California. Deborah is
a member of Sigma Theta Tau,
and Alpha Chi national honor
societies. Deborah is a volunteer Faith Community Nurse in
Ventura, California and plans
to promote the practice of Faith
Community Nursing in Ventura
County. She has been married
to Alan Ringen for 26 years and
is the mother of three sons.
1983
Gisela Bauerle
94 Franklin Street
Watertown, MA 02472-4022
[email protected]
Dr. Maura Daly Iversen was appointed chair of the Department
of Physical Therapy at Northeastern University in September 2009. She is maintaining
her research appointment as
assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School,
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
in the division of rheumatology, immunology and allergy
where she teaches biostatistics
and epidemiology classes and
is engaged in the rheumatology fellows training program.
Maura was awarded a National
Institutes of Health (NIH) grant
on April 1 to examine Personalized Counseling Strategies
to Address Physical Activity
in Patients with Rheumatoid
Arthritis. She is presently completing an NIH grant designed
to assess the impact of motivational interviewing on osteoporosis medication adherence and
fracture risk reduction. Maura
is also an honorary professor of
health sciences at the University of Southern Denmark,
Odense, Denmark and serves
on the medical advisory board
for the Foundation for Physical
Therapy Research in Denmark.
| Elizabeth Brady Eash is living
in Mountain House, California. She has been in California
for several years after moving
to Miami, FL, New Orleans,
LA, Bossier City, LA and San
Ramon, CA. “I have started a
local Friends of the Mountain
House Library Group of which
I am president. I received a
second degree in teaching and
taught 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade for
a number of years. I have really
enjoyed my time traveling and
was lucky enough to go to Ireland with my whole family a few
years ago. I spend a lot of time
working out and trying new
exercise classes. I love to bike
and walk. I teach Sunday school
to 4th graders and I am enjoying it. I love living in Northern
California and I especially enjoy
living in Mountain House. It is
a beautiful town with gorgeous
wetlands, trees, rabbits and lots
of small animals. Life is very
good and I am very grateful for
all that I have. I hope others
from the Class of ’83 are happy
and well. Take care.” | Laura
Thompson received Le Cadre
d’Or 2010 laureate for her book
of poems Mosaic of Love in the
world poetry category, in Paris,
France. For more information,
please visit their Web site: www.
cadredor.org.
1984
Sandra Metheny Santanello
6 Supreme Court
Swampscott, MA 1907-2172
[email protected]
Congratulations to Cindy Smith
’86GS who has been appointed
as department chair for general education at New England
Institute of Art. Cindy began
her NEIA career in 2004 as an
adjunct professor teaching a
wide range of courses including Freshman Seminar, English,
Professional Writing, and Documentary Films. In 2006 she
took on the additional responsibility of the online advocate position. In 2009 Cindy became
an assistant professor of Media
Studies and Social Sciences. She
also brings an extensive background in video production and
media services.
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fun facts
›Early issues of The Simmons
Review included a “Simmons
Family Album” section — a
list and photos of new Simmons students with mothers
and sisters who had graduated before them.
1985
Carolyn Shilling Gill
29 Central Street
Andover, MA 01810
[email protected]
1986
REUNION ’11
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Lynnea Mulligan Brinkerhoff
110 Newtown Turnpike
Westport, CT 06880-1012
[email protected]
1987
Sarah Cooper
17 Debra Drive
Dayton, NJ 08810
[email protected]
1988
Theresa Flanders
3905 Decatur Avenue
Kensington, MD 20895-1532
[email protected]
1989
Helen Pettit
806 Essex Road
Wilmington, DE 19807-2932
[email protected]
Jean MacFarland
183 Codman Road
Norwood, MA 02062-3910
[email protected]
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1990
Heather Ciccarelli ’92GS
5 Sunny Crest Road
York, ME 03909-5701
[email protected]
1991
REUNION ’11
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Erin Duffy Wilson
198 Liberty Street
Braintree, MA 02184 6028
[email protected]
Erin writes, “After 18 years, Val
Parven Michaels, Alison Ousey
Cantone, Maria Mestre and Tahira Malik reunited at Mohegan
Sun in Connecticut. Val has
been married to Ed Michaels
for 16 years. They reside in
West Hartford, CT with their
three children, Victoria, R.J.,
and Deanna. Maria is currently
working at Volvo Powertrain in
Hagerstown, MD. She moved
to Hagerstown from Miami
five years ago and enjoys the
small town charm. Alison lives
in Brookfield, CT, with her
husband Joe and daughters Ava
and Sophia, who are three and
two respectively. After working
for 15 years as both an editor
and writer in NYC and Danbury,
CT, she has enjoyed being a
stay at home mom since Ava’s
birth in 2006. Tahira resides in
Amesbury, MA. She is a volunteer for The American Cancer
Society. The ACS programs she
has been involved with include:
Reach to Recovery, Look Good
Feel Better, and the Relay for
Life. She is also volunteering at
the Sophia Gordon Cancer Center at Lahey Clinic in Burlington
MA. She is a Cancer Resource
Volunteer and visits with newly
diagnosed patients on their
first day of treatment, offering
information on free American
Cancer Society programs and
services.
Valerie Parven Michaels ’91 and Tavira
Malik ’91 reunite at Mohegan Sun.
1992
Karen Gordon Lieberman
8 Draco Drive
Randolph, NJ 07869-2703
[email protected]
Lynne Civitello Marullo
3 Gordon Avenue
Enfield, CT 06082
[email protected]
1993
Leah Goldman Lesser
237 Orchard Street
Belmont, MA 02478-2350
[email protected]
Lisa M. Baillargeon and husband Carmine Iacuone welcomed their third son in March.
Stefan joins big brothers Silvio
and Sebastian. While on the
“mommy track,” Lisa founded
Twist Jewelry Design — www.
twistjewelrydesign.com — designing and handcrafting semi
precious jewelry. Past events
have included a “girls’ night in”
shopping event hosted by Kristi
Winer Feinzig ’94, the Newport
Flower Show, and Shop, Eat,
Laugh, which was attended by
Lisa Rowe McLaughlin. Now
accepting bookings for fall/holiday. Contact [email protected]
for more information. | Lauralea
Lumsden-Curavoo writes, “My
husband, Ed, and I just celebrated our son’s first birthday!
Ryder Gray Curavoo was born
on June 6, 2009. We built our
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Alison Ousey Cantone ’91 and
Maria Mestre ’91 at the Mohegan
Sun mini reunion.
home in Monkton, VT. I have
been teaching kindergarten
for 9 years at Bridport Central
School in Bridport, VT. I earned
my master’s in educational
leadership in 2008. | In June
2010, Worldwide ERC®, a professional association concerned
with domestic and international
employee mobility, is pleased
to announced that Jill Cohen
Heineck was one of 201 globally
who earned the Certified Relocation Professional designation
after successfully completing
the CRP exam. In tandem, Jill is
proud to announce the launch
of her consulting firm, Focus
Relocation LLC, that specializes
in corporate relocation planning
and strategy solutions.
1994
Laurel Egan Kenny ’98GS, ’02SM
51 Old Main Street
Post Office Box 44
Marshfield Hills, MA 02051-0044
[email protected]
1995
Mitone Mendezona Griffiths
P.O. Box 371103
Montara, CA 94037-1103
[email protected]
Angela Glebus McCourt was
happy to celebrate in July 2010
the first birthday of her twin
boys, Finnean and Casey McCourt in San Diego, California
Alumnae from the Class of 1993
gather in June.
| Mitone Mendezona Griffiths
and her husband Phil Griffiths
celebrated their 10th wedding
anniversary on July 7, 2010.
They live in Montara, California
with their 2 daughters, Mia (7)
and Ayla (4).
1996
REUNION ’11
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Trelane Clark Suazo ’97GS
36 Gartland Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130-3321
[email protected]
Holly Ruth Charbonnier and her
husband Paul welcomed their
first child, Lily Grace, into the
world in June 2010. They live
in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn
with their two Boston Terriers,
Cosmo and Koko.
1997
Katie Butler Thornell
4 Greenleaf Drive
Beverly, MA 01915-1538
[email protected]
Kiersten Crawford writes, “My
daughter Sasha Grace Brennan
was born on July 1, 2009. I am
married to Chris Brennan and
we are living in Cumberland, RI.
I am a certified nurse midwife
practicing full scope women’s
health care for the last ten
years, delivering well over 500
babies! Would love to hear from
classmates! Kierstencrawford@
yahoo.com. | Patricia Leen Healy
’03HS and her husband Paul
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proudly announce the birth of
their son, Brian Matthew on July
1, 2010. They live in Shrewsbury,
MA. Tricia continues to practice
as a physical therapist at U Mass
Medical Center in Worcester.
She is a central district assembly
representative for the American
Physical Therapy Association.
1998
Shauna Laprel LaSpina and
her husband Mark welcomed
daughter Michaela Grace on
June 24 in Newburyport. She
joins sister Julia, 2.
2000
Tenisha Ramsay
27 Court Street
Stamford, CT 06902-2302
[email protected]
Manorack de Kok Somviengxay
18 Myrtle Street
Medford, MA 02155-4120
[email protected]
2001
REUNION ’11
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Lindsey Tobor
140 South Van Ness Avenue
Unit 401
San Francisco, CA 94103-2584
[email protected]
Melissa A. Gibbons writes, “Our
daughter Claire Elsbeth Gibbons was born on December 6,
2009.” | Angela Drewniak Janz
and husband Brian celebrated
the birth of their first child on
April 2, 2010. Andrew Stephen
William Janz was born at 9:22
p.m. at the Ohio State University Medical Center. He weighed
6lbs 12oz and was 20.5inches
long! He is the first grandson
on Angela’s side and the 5th
grandson on Brian’s side. | Eleanor J. Glazewski writes, “On
September 9, 2009 I married
Roy Edwards in Bermuda. Many
of my Simmons classmates
will probably remember Roy,
whom I was dating while going
to school there. We’ve been
together almost 13 years now!
| Crystal Hill Nanavati ’04GS
along with her husband Ravi
and their 18-month-old daughter
Elanor, moved to Singapore this
past April. “While we miss our
friends and family, we’re excited
to start this new chapter in our
lives.”
2002
Julieanna Sacchetti
2110 North Ocean Boulevard
Apartment 1005
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305-1949
[email protected]
Margaret Knowles Podhouser
writes, “I completed my Master’s in Literacy Education from
the University of Southern
Maine and also have a new
job as a weekly columnist for
both the Portland and Conway
Daily Sun.”
2004
Chanelle Peters
26 Arnold Drive
Bloomfield, CT 06002
[email protected]
Elizabeth Dube ’05GS
55 Atwood Street
Wellesley, MA 02482
[email protected]
Danielle Hirsch writes, “I
obtained my MPH in 2005 and
MD this May from St. George’s
University and will be completing my residency training in Pediatric medicine with Michigan
State University at Kalamazoo
(MSU/KCMS).”
2005
Zahra Kanji Ishikawa
9 Haven Terrace
Dover, MA 02030-2133
[email protected]
Lindsey Varney recently relocated to New Orleans, LA to pursue
her MBA at Tulane University.
| Rachel Anderson Hughes
’10SM has taken a position as
Senior Consultant/ Manager,
CRM Strategy with Ogilvy and
Mather in NYC. Rachel and her
husband John, with their puggle
Sophie and two cats will be relocating to the Upper West Side in
Manhattan at the end of August
to embark on a new chapter in
their lives together.
2006
REUNION ’11
JUNE 3–JUNE 5
Leslie Doerr ’07GS
295 Main Street Apartment 28
Reading, MA 01867‑3654
[email protected]
Elaine Bailey was married
on March 20, 2010 to Gregor
Cadman and toasted with
bridesmaids/Simmons alumnae
Ashley Provencher and Malyka
Ianni on the Simmons steps! |
Hillary Dearborn writes, “On
June 26, 2009, Victoria Hoover
married Matthew Hanson at the
Indian Pond Country Club in
Kingston, MA.”
2007
Jessica White
80 Strathmore Road, Apt 8
Brighton, MA 02135-7108
[email protected]
2008
Wei Wong ’10SM
40 Kings Way Unit 605B
Waltham, MA 02451-9010
[email protected]
Justine Pattantyus, sponsored
by the Hollis Brookline (NH)
Rotary Club, has been selected
as a 2011–12 Ambassadorial
Scholar. In preparation for her
year abroad, Justine is currently
planning travel and language
Molly Dwyer ’10 (right) participates
in the NASDAQ closing ceremony
in Times Square.
study in Eastern Europe. Her
countries of choice for a year
of masters-level study and
representing Rotary and the
United States as an Ambassador
of Goodwill are Israel, Ireland,
South Africa and New Zealand.
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary
International will determine Justine’s destination. She hopes to
pursue an advanced program of
study and service projects that
incorporate peace and conflict
resolution.
2009
Ashley Haight
29 Cummings Road, Apt. 3
Brighton, MA 02135
[email protected]
2010
Andrea Voccio
55 Murray Street
Providence, RI 02909
[email protected]
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fun facts
›Notable alumnae who have
contributed to the magazine
include Gwen Ifill ’77,
Elinor Lipman ’72, and
Denise Di Novi ’72.
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GSLIS:
GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF LIBRARY AND
INFORMATION SCIENCE
The Hidden History of Essex Law
School, 2010 (available on Amazon.com) was written by Edward
J. Bander ’56LS, law librarian
Emeritus, Suffolk University,
who retired in 1990. “The novel
is about a law librarian who is
asked to write a centennial history of the law school and decides
to write two histories: the one
the Dean asked him to write and
the real one. All the law schools
in the novel are fictional. The
novel is indexed so readers can
go to: Faculty Meetings, Women,
Judges, Legal Education, Fourth
Tier Law Schools and many oth-
er headings. During my retirement, I have also written, with
my daughter, Lida, two plays
which have been performed
locally: The Lottery, and The Test.
I am now working on a play
about people in assisted living.”
| Sylvia McDowell ’57LS was
named a 2010 Unsung Heroine
by the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women on
May 19. McDowell passed away
in March. | Congratulations to
Molly Raphael ’69LS who has
been elected president of the
American Library Association
for 2011–12. | Marilyn Geller
’78LS is the collection management librarian at the Lesley
University Library. | Judith A.
Di Leo ’80LS is academic advisor for the Center for English
Language and Orientation
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Programs at Boston University.
| Betty Edwards ’80LS is now
senior research analyst at the
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
in Cambridge, Mass. | Lee Sullivan ’81LS is now the head of
collection services at the Sherrill
Library at Lesley University. |
Dianne Gareri-Hathaway ’88LS
has been named director of the
Goffstown Public Library in
Goffstown, NH. | Ruth Bridges
’90LS is the firm-wide manager of library and research
services at Schiff Harding, LLP
in Chicago. | Isabel Quintana
’91LS is now the interim head
of technical services and senior
cataloger of Tozzer Library,
Harvard College Library. | Anara
Guard ’93LS has published a
collection of short stories with
Waltham‑based Back Pages Publishing. The Sound of One Body
is her first book, and the first
fiction title to be issued by Back
Pages, which is associated with
the independent bookstore of
the same name. Contact Anara
through www.anaraguard.com. |
Congratulations to Valerie Diggs
’96LS, the president-elect of
Massachusetts School Library
Association, 2010–11. | Garret
Eastman ’97LS is now the science reference librarian at the
Cabot Science Library, Harvard
College Library. | Karen Adler
Abramson ’99LS is the associate
director for archives and special
collections at Brandeis University. | Beth Willoughby ’99LS
is entering her fifth year as the
media specialist at Red Bank
Middle School. She is excited
to be going to training this
summer for Project Lead the
Way where she will learn how to
teach students about engineering and create an interest in the
field. In prior years, Beth has
taught robotics at Build It, an
engineering-based course from
Stevens University in Hoboken, NJ. | Melinda Kent ’01LS
has been named manager of
research services at the Harvard
Law School Library. | Jennifer
Inglis ’03LS has been named
the new director of libraries for
the town of Dartmouth, Mass. |
Jason Pannone ’03LS recently
had his first publication, “Building Digital Libraries: The Role of
Social (Open Source) Software,”
co‑authored with Drs. Kshema
Prakash and K. Santi Swarup,
published in Developing Sustain‑
able Digital Libraries: Socio‑Tech‑
nical Perspectives, pp. 90–107
(IGI Global Publications, 2010).
| Congratulations to Bethan
Stewart ’04LS, who was named
one of Library Journal’s 2010
Movers and Shakers. | Annie
Jo Cain ’05LS has been named
web developer at the Harvard
Law School Library. | Beginning
September, Anne-Marie Taylor
’06LS, will be the circulation
and student services assistant at
the Harvard Law School Library.
| Laura Morris ’07LS is now
the project processing archivist at the University Archives,
Harvard University Library. |
Cindy Fisher ’08LS, is a firstyear experience librarian at the
University of Texas, Austin. She
helps new students transition
into college. | Jennifer Alvino
Leo ’08LS has been elected
vice‑president/president-elect of
New England Library Association. | Jeane Trovato ’08LS is the
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new middle school librarian at
The American School in England in Thorpe, Surrey, England.
| Marguerite B. Avery ’09LS is
the senior acquisitions editor
at the MIT Press. | Douglas
Cooper ’09LS is now the library
assistant at the Chemistry
and Chemical Biology Library,
Harvard College Library. | Aaron
Rubenstein ’09LS is the digital
project manager at the W.E.B
Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. |
George P. Taoultsides ’09LS has
been named research librarian
and student services coordinator
of Harvard Law School.
SHS:
SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCE
Melissa Vasconcelos ’08SW
writes, “Working as a utilization review clinician for Beacon
Health Strategies in Providence,
RI. Just built our first home
and getting married next
September!”
CAS:
COLLEGE OF ARTS
AND SCIENCES
Joanna Kelley C. Chunn ’90GS,
principal and founder of Kelley
Chunn & Associates (KCA), is
featured in We Found Excellence,
a book by Michael Kaye. The
book tells of her 35-year career
in communications and her
journey beginning and growing
her own consultancy 19 years
ago. Using cause-related or social marketing, KCA is a bridge
to urban markets, focusing on
health disparities, tourism and
culture, education, and community and economic revitalization.
Previously, The KCA team won
national recognition from the
Clinton/Gore Administration
for the obesity prevention
campaign “Sisters Together:
Move More, Eat Better.” In
2008, readers of Women’s Busi‑
ness magazine named Kelley
Chunn & Associates one of the
top-ten public relations practices
in the Greater Boston region.
Chunn is a member of the
Affirmative Market Program
Business Advisory Board for
Massachusetts. KCA is certified through the State Office of
Women and Minority Business
Assistance and the Greater
New England Minority Supplier
Development Council.
Former SHS Dean and current Associate Provost Gerry Koocher in Singapore
with Kirsten Poile Cronan ’03SW (left) and Annabelle Seow ’10, ’12HS.
SOM:
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Joanna Whitney Owen
Schmergel ’05SM married Greg
Schmergel on May 5 at the Bran
Church in the Transylvania
region of Romania. Joanna has
worked for five years as a product manager at Raytheon, and is
also a veteran of the U.S. Army
82nd Airborne Paratroopers.
The couple lives in Waban.
Laura Jacobson ’97, ’98GS with Education Professor Jane Hardin at the National
Council for Exceptional Children’s Conference in Nashville, Tenn.
What’s your
Simmons story?
tell it at:
alumnet.simmons.edu/net
community/tellyourstory
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obituaries
OBITUARIES
From April 1, 2001 through July 31, 2010, the Office of Advancement
Services received notification that the following alumnae/i and faculty
are deceased.
1955
1969
Sandra Ferreira Smith
Frederick Jones
Business
November 7, 2009
May 9, 2010
1970
1957
William Kastanotis
Helen Mitchell Baum
May 17, 2010
Retail Management
1973
October 11, 2009
Joanna Walsh
Emerita Faculty
Leslie Thorud Yancey
1942
Richard Carpenter
Nursing
Edna Lieberman Cohen
Judith Hansis Davies
August 20, 2008
Business
January 14, 2010
1939
Library and Information
Science
May 17, 2010
Art and Music
1981
Garland Junior
College
Martha Fay
1947
June 3, 2010
Sally Sherburne Finn
July 28, 2009
Undergraduate
College
1923
Frances Baxter Pilsbury
Nutrition
April 11, 2010
Social Work
Lillian Goldstein Isaacman
Business
June 9, 2010
Dorothy Blotner Pease
Business
March 18, 2010
1940
Eleanor Butler Perry
May 6, 2010
Shirley Ackerman Dolgin
Business
March 24, 2009
Marion Schulman
Library and Information
Science
June 9, 2010
1966
Cheryl Dunston Allison
English
August 28, 2009
1968
Ada Ernest Getman
May 2, 2010
Elementary Education
1945
October 1, 2009
Elizabeth Nock Ingraham
1977
Retail Management
Emunah Faith
Greenberg Hasin
November 20, 2009
1929
Library and Information
Science
Erna Wimpfheimer Adler
February 15, 2010
Martha Cummings
Business
Catherine Hubbard Rogerson
August 16, 2009
Nursing
Katherine Walker Mongeon
June 25, 2010
1984
Robert Lambert
April 2, 2010
School of
Health Sciences
1954
Janet Lichtenstein Vassian
Nursing
May 7, 2009
July 25, 2010
School of Social
Work
Home Economics
1993
1935
Home Economics
December 28, 2009
Barbara Jordan
Dorothy Howerton
1930
July 26, 2010
1948
Public and Social Policy
March 26, 2010
Dorothy Dennen Trepp
Elisabeth Peabody
Szadokierski
Barbara Jopling Bielecki
March 6, 2010
1948
Gwyneth Griffin Bohr
Library and Information
Science
May 8, 2010
May 7, 2010
Graduate
School of
Library and
Information
Science
Ena Noyes Phipps
1934
Science
Marjorie Arlington Anderson
January 29, 2010
December 28, 2009
Library and Information
Science
June 14, 2010
1932
Dorothy Dodge Simmons
Home Economics
April 10, 2010
1934
January 7, 2010
Elizabeth Roos Donley
Home Economics
April 3, 2010
Jeanne Gautier Earle
Home Economics
1947
English
Charlotte Wolf Hirshberg
Home Economics
Ruth Jacobs Farwell
August 11, 2006
1950
1950
Business
Marjorie Hamilton Falls
Gladys Sutherland Davidson
Bendix Peterson
June 28, 2010
Home Economics
Business
January 4, 2010
1935
April 3, 2010
June 19, 2010
1951
Phyllis Forsyth Jones
Mary Shea Goldkamp
Joan Ripley Morrison
Arthur Pethybridge
Business
Home Economics
Home Economics
October 17, 2009
February 14, 2010
December 22, 2009
April 7, 2010
1953
1941
1951
Concetta Procopio
Cassie Grant
Evelyn Van Leuvan
June 15, 2010
Library and Information
Science
Business
Nursing
Thomas Quirk
March 26, 2010
November 14, 2007
November 29, 2009
January 30, 2009
Isabel Charpentier Knowles
1954
1954
Home Economics
Nancy Shulze Lamb
Kenneth Roberts
Helen Nye
April 24, 2010
Special
December 23, 2009
English
Shirley Goldberg Thorner
March 29, 2010
March 7, 2010
1967
Business
Marjorie Mitchell Perrine
1938
April 18, 2010
Communications
Ernestine Halyburton
MacDonald
February 2, 2010
February 19, 2009
1936
Janice Blinder Liberman
1937
Bernice Bloomfield Kesslen
Business
April 9, 2009
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July 1, 2009
1956
Kay Elbaum Glasser
June 21, 2010
1959
Mary Saltman Fogel
March 27, 2010
voices: amanda gross ’11, simmons voice editor
H om eto w n:
Portland, Maine
I f she coul d in ter v ie w an y one :
“Nelson Mandela would probably
top my list — to hear his story firsthand would be incredible.”
favorit e p art a bou t bein g a
s i m mon s s t ud en t: “Knowing my
professors, being able to say hello
and chat with them in the hallways,
and feeling a sense of community
among students, faculty, and staff.”
“I would
love to start a career in newspaper
or magazine journalism, but I’m
also looking into graduate schools
for journalism. As for location,
wherever the wind (or a job)
takes me.”
p lan s a f t er s i m mon s :
As editor-in-chief of the student newspaper the Simmons Voice, Amanda Gross ’11 understands she is a part of a Simmons legacy. After all, the first Simmons student-run newspaper was published in 1923.
“I think it’s fascinating to look through historical publications at Simmons because it
makes me feel like I’m part of something bigger than just my classes, my friends, and my
professors,” Gross said. “I realize I’m not just a college student, but part of a legacy of empowered women.”
When Gross graduates in May, she will be another editor in the history of the Voice. Gross
said she is extremely proud of all of the work she and her staff do, and she hopes the community enjoys the newspaper and continues to read it long after she leaves Simmons.
Gross chose to attend Simmons for the strong sense of community she felt from the
moment she first visited the campus. With an interest in writing, Gross decided to major in
communications and began working on the Voice her sophomore year.
“Whoever named the newspaper the Voice was right on, because that’s what we are, the
voice for the students on campus. Not only does the newspaper give students a chance to
get informed about what’s going on, but also it gives them a chance to use their own voice
and start dialogues. The newspaper is important for the whole community because those
conversations include faculty, staff, and administrators, and allows us to start talking and
communicating about topics that wouldn’t necessarily come to the surface on their own.”
As editor-in-chief, Gross keeps the staff organized and assists them with their specific
pages. She also writes for the newspaper each week and assists with the final read-through
before it’s sent to the publisher.
Although her position as editor-in-chief requires her to stay in the newsroom until 2 a.m.
some weeks, Gross said, “When you feel that passionate about something, it’s only natural
that you want it to be the best it can be.”
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