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Katharine Baum Wolpe
917.771.9846
kwolpe@gmail.com Marty Kaiser Canner
410.314.9440
plcanner39@gmail.com

Constance Ann Coleman Alexander still enjoys her position as Director of Music at Messiah Lutheran Church.  She planned a trip to Bethany Beach in July 2019 with her family and a trip to Aruba in September 2019 with her brother, Bill. Lynne Linzey Barnes and husband, John, have lived in Western Springs, IL for 57 years.  They spend winters near Sarasota, FL where Lynne visits with Mary Jane Evans Hahn and Nancy van der Walde.  Last year they were joined by Mary Drewal Regan. Nancy Brown Braudrick is going on a cruise which will include Alaska and Victoria, Canada.  Nancy’s whole family will also be going as a celebration of her daughter-in-law’s fortieth birthday. Sally Bennett Edwards is still working and playing tennis.  To celebrate her eightieth birthday, she bought herself a 2016 Mercedes sports car. She will be taking 21 family members for a week’s vacation in Manchester, VT, and then she will spend the rest of summer 2019 on Cape Cod. Judy Arenson Friedman planned to spend July and August of 2019 in Maine and Massachusetts and return to Boca Raton, FL in October.  One granddaughter has graduated from college and another is working at a Native American reservation in Montana. Anne Bierstein Grenfell has returned to teaching and works with ill children. She and Mary Anne Fleetwood are trying to reunite the Kindred Spirits group.

Brenda Sheaffer Hillard and her husband, Ray, moved to an apartment in a retirement community in Lititz,PA in March 2019. Jeanne Duncan Jehl attended the Hood Commencement in May 2019 at the invitation of Brielle Rozmus ’19, student body president.  Jeanne was impressed by the fact that there were as many Master’s degree candidates as Bachelor’s degree candidates. Hilda Koontz has been giving presentations on PTSD.  She is scheduled to give one in St. Louis in September 2019 and one in Springfield, IL in April 2020.  She is planning to vacation in Colorado in the fall of 2019. Christine Steere Lamb has moved from Maine to Chevy Chase, MD to be near her son, Bob, and her daughter, Katie, who live in Gaithersburg, MD. Kit Compton Long is living in San Luis Obispo, CA and loves it.  She and John have been married for 58 years, and she is now his full-time caregiver.  Their two sons live near San Francisco and are very supportive of her care giving role. Janet Spaulding Nunn and husband, Jack, took a two week cruise in the fjords of Norway in June 2019.  Since the trip would be above the Arctic Circle, they hoped to see polar bears. Dorothy Willis Rainwater and husband, Roger, are well.  She enjoys swimming and kayaking in the Gulf of Mexico, which is close to their home.  Their youngest son is a paramedic, and continues his mother’s heritage as a health professional. In the effort to contact classmates for news for this column, we learned that Sally Sue Saylor passed away on July 12, 2018.  We send our condolences to Sally Sue’s family. Barbara Hufham Wells and husband, Richard, continue to enjoy living in Moscow, ID.  Every Saturday, from May to October, the local farmers’ market provides them with fresh organic fruits and vegetables, plus the opportunity to see and talk with their friends and neighbors. Katharine Baum Wolpe saw two art shows in NYC in Spring, 2019.  She remains active with her church and in Democratic politics, and enjoys attending dance performances and off-Broadway theater with her companion, Philip.  She had a visit with Anita Ranoldo Miner in NYC in April 2019. Beth Lee Zehnder’s husband, Chuck, had two strokes in April 2019 and at the end of May, the Lord took him home to be with Him.  Beth is comforted knowing Chuck is at peace.  She is blessed with great support from her family. We send our condolences to Beth and her family. Sandy Doty Zeitler lives in Tomball, TX near Houston and still communicates with Hood friends. Carol Handwerk Ziegler is busy with church-related activities.  She is also doing needlepoint again.  She is currently working on a three-dimensional English village. Shirley Garrett Haley said she had no news, but asked me, Marty Kaiser Canner, how I was adjusting to Charlestown.  I would say we are adjusting well. In May 2019 we visited a friend of ours who lives in a retirement community in Mechanicsburg, PA.  During our visit, our friend mentioned a fellow resident who was a friend of hers.  We later met that friend, Mary Louise Huebl Moran.  Lou and I enjoyed seeing one another again so unexpectedly.