Class Notes

Dear classmates, as your agent for class news I would like to reiterate that the University will be sending out the call for class news, but that you should send your news to me at vallen1303@aol.com. The University will give you a deadline as to when to send your news in to me.

Our news this autumn is short, but I hope sweet. I’ve been in contact with two classmates who are regularly on Facebook, Patti Jones Schacht and Ilona Dulaski. It is so great to keep in touch with them. Patti and her husband, Richard, recently celebrated their 18th anniversary and between them have 17 grandchildren and five children.

lona Dulaski had a great evening this past fall at the National Academy of Sciences where she and other actors presented a reading of “Moving Bodies” by Arthur Giron. In November, she attended an event for the Maryland Film Industry Coalition at the Baltimore Museum of Industry. A trip to Venice (where they seemed to have glorious, dry weather at the time Ilona was there) was a highlight of a very busy fall.

arrival of Lewis Witt, Sally and Sam’s newest grandson. His older brother, Henry, looks very proud to be a “big brother.” Both children are adorable.

Melinda Watterson Thiesing and her husband John were married in the fall of 2012 and live in Miami, Ohio. Both were widowed and grew up in Miami, where Melinda was friends with John’s mother and sister. If you’d like to contact her, I have her address; just send me an email. For security reasons, we don’t like to put addresses of correspondents into our public newsletter. Melinda wonders if anyone can help her find her freshman and sophomore roommates: Francine Zuzzolo Taylor and Martha Jean Moore Townsend.

I am still working at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Connecticut–my 23rd year there now! Two years ago, they made me an honorary alumna. This past summer, I again led a tour of Paris and Burgundy for faculty and staff. The travelers visited the places in Paris and Joigny, Burgundy, where our Sacred Heart schools were founded as well as the charming town of Joigny, where the foundress of our religious order was born.

I think our newsletter is up and running again: just remember to send your news to me. It is much easier for the University to send out the request for news, but I am the writer, so send it in. Your classmates love to read your news.

Susan Orebaugh Nicholson celebrated her 20th year of syndication for her food column, “7-Day Menu Planner,” which runs in newspapers and online sites. Also, she and Bronnie Jones Polk celebrated 50 years of being registered dietitian nutritionists (RDN) in 2015. Both were Foods and Nutrition majors (in the Home Economics Department, which has since been closed). Bronnie completed her dietetic internship at Mass General Hospital in Boston and Susan headed southwest to the Virginia Hospital in Houston, Texas. Susan’s travels took her to Colombia in South America in April, and Normandy and Paris in October this year.

Let’s hope, please, for a peaceful 2016. 2015 was a difficult one for our world.