Class Notes

With the weather back east and less frequent travel stories, our entry is abbreviated this time. Our travels now are mostly to see medical professionals. I find I need help shoring up various body parts. I’m beginning to commiserate with our ’96 van, which still runs but demands frequent attention.

Polly Stoddard Heim and Ken sold their Tucson, Ariz., home last April, becoming year-round Idaho residents. Their house in McCall, where they’ve spent the past 11 summers, provided a break while they prepared the Lewiston house. Daughter Lynne is nearby, and son Rob is 500 miles west in the Seattle area. They looked forward to Thanksgiving in California.

Last July Sally Hanger Moravitz attended a Sacred Dance Guild festival in Holland, Mich. She and Fran lost power during Sandy and were thankful for their fireplace. They headed for their cottage on the bay, since power was restored there first. Sally was thankful son Brian was no longer on the Fairfax search-and-rescue team, which pulled lots of extra hours. Last September Sally and Fran took a Viking cruise on the Danube and were signed up for a sailing trip to snorkel in the Spice Islands.

Charlotte Fisher Klapproth’s husband, Chris, has had health issues and two recent surgeries for diverticulitis and was recuperating. The day Charlotte and Chris celebrated their 56th anniversary, a lightning bolt entered their home’s crawlspace and burned the insulation off the gas line. Thankfully, they’d returned from dinner. Chris used the fire extinguisher; Charlotte called 911.

Kathleen Clarkson Barlow and her husband moved from Peterborough to Jaffrey, N.H., five years ago. They joined a historical society, attend art shows, and enjoy music in the area. Kathleen began a crochet group and makes prayer shawls for a church to give to the ill. She reads, plays piano, and has a new cat named Sophy, inspired by The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer. She and her husband explore New England. Kathleen’s sister, Laura Clarkson Hendrick ’57, died in September. Kathleen spent three weeks with her when she was feeling well, playing piano, shopping, eating out, and talking about childhood, college days, and married life.

Barbara Trites Peterson of Murrells Inlet on South Carolina’s northern coast attended a summer gathering of 3,000 Presbyterian women at the Gaylord hotel in Orlando. She gardens and is still with her church’s Stephen Ministry in Myrtle Beach. Virginia Marco Hancock of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is glad the election is over and hopes decision-makers come together for the good of our country.

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