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1955

Christine Harper Hovis
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It’s been increasingly difficult to get responses, so I have a proposition. Since our 60th reunion is next year, let’s recall interesting or outrageous events and favorite professors at MWC for future class notes. I’m saving one Charlotte Fisher Klapproth sent that everyone probably will remember.

Betsy Blackwell Fowler wishes happy 80th birthdays to all. Of course, those in their 90s are old, not us. Betsy’s husband, Jim, has dementia and is in assisted living. They have dinner together, and he still welcomes her when she visits. Betsy said former roommate Josephine Jane Worthington Williams Phillips Van Hook passed away in January.

Charlotte Fisher Klapproth and Chris cruised up the East Coast, starting in Boston, sailed around to Quebec, and took a train to Montreal before flying home. They visited shops where they’d taken their children when they were small.

Sally Hanger Moravitz’s husband, Fran, bought a seat in her honor in Klein Theatre, and they attended a reception given by President Hurley. Sally and Fran gave up long-distance traveling but joined a March Road Scholar program, attending performances, visiting restaurants, touring backstage at Peabody and Center Stage theaters, and meeting performers. They visited Crisfield, Maryland, and traveled to Smith and Tangier islands to eat seafood and talk with the watermen.

Joan Kleinknecht recovered from a 10-day hospital stay and planned a trip to Seattle to visit the nephew she raised from 18 months. He’s a Citadel graduate and Seattle Police Department captain with a wife and three daughters. The oldest models, and all play sports.

Life on the Main Line is good for Pat Seitz Hartel. She’s in the Great Valley chapter of DAR and in real estate with Coldwell Banker Preferred in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Son Austin, head of University of Oklahoma’s modern dance department, took his family to Brazil for the World Cup. Son Paul, an L.A. film editor, traveled to Wales for a documentary. Pat and husband Art volunteer with Delaware Riverkeeper and took the grandchildren and some of their parents on a Caribbean cruise last year.

Ginny Marco Hancock and some others sent a story about Willard freshman year that I’m saving for a future article. Ginny and Mike are contemplating downsizing and moving to Vermont. Son Greg and his family are in Vermont. Daughter Rebecca of Michigan was planning a September wedding.

One of Anne Lou Rohrbach Culwell’s great-granddaughters married in June. One planned an August wedding, and her brother plans one in May. A great-granddaughter had her second son in May, and a great-grandson and his wife expected a baby in December. The whole family now numbers more than 40. Anne Lou returned to Pennsylvania for a June mini-reunion with cousins and planned to attend the October balloon festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

My hip healed, and I’m back to work and saying exactly what’s on my mind, a definite perk of old age. Take care, all of you, and dredge up those old memories.