Sally Rial Phelps Selected to Chair our 50th Reunion    

From Sally:

The 50^th Reunion is fast approaching.  Please start making plans to come to Wellesley in June 2012, and encourage your roommates, old friends, and classmates you have come to know since Graduation, to come, too.  For the veteran Reunion attendees, you know how great reconnecting is.  We all need to encourage those who have never come back, or have not done so lately.  The 50th should be a great way to share our lives, hopes and dreams.  We want to Celebrate ‘62!!!

Theme Ideas

As your new 50^th Reunion Chair, I am collecting 50th reunion theme and activities ideas, and would very much like to hear from you.  What activities would be important to you?  What would you like to work on?

Some panel ideas are: “Conquering the Aging Process” or "No Place for Hate"... What do you think of those ideas?  What would you like to add?  How would you like to participate? 

How about an actual art exhibit in Jewett?  Would you like to enter something?  Would you like to be part of the organizing committee?

How We'll Communicate   

Another idea is to have a Class listserv so we can communicate with each other easily.  The Class of 1958 has one called the Sister List and they love it. Who among us would like one?

Volunteers Are Coming Forth Already and More Needed

We are hoping to reassemble the Singing Groups to serenade us.  Please identify yourselves and your Group and your willingness to perform for us.

And the Class Dinner and Sunday Brunch?  Any Volunteers?

The best way to contact me is email, sallyphelps@aol.com.  My cell phone is 646 361 6559.  My mailing address is 599 North Avenue, Wakefield, MA 01880.  Send all your ideas now so we understand your interests. 

Thank you in advance for your help.

Sally Rial Phelps

Mini-reunions held across the country this spring and summer

Reported by Martha Reardon Bewick

New York City:  Very nice gathering of about 25 classmates at the Harvard Club in NYC.  Classmates there whom I hadn't seen in years included Jane Gillespie Grimes, now the head of the US Tennis Association, Melissa Travis Mohlman, and Natalie Siegel Hurwitz, among others.  We enjoyed a glass of wine, dinner, a roundtable of self-introductions, and, afterwards, a roundtable of post dinner drinks and jollity in the wood-lined ground floor pub/lounge.  Great fun!                                                                                   

Mary Lou Welsh Baskett was there in one of her amazing wearables (which she doesn't describe as fashion but as a philosophy, or a vision), and is in New York for a week of Asian Art and Antiques.  Linda Clark Waterman was there from VA/Texas/NY, and very interesting.  She's now on the Board of Madeira. 

                                                   Anne Ruhoff Turtle, Karen Capriles Hodes, Angie Forbes Freeze, Mary Lou Welsh Baskett, and Jennifer Carden Rogers

The Class officers were all there.... Peggy Rhoades, Marcia Townley, Anne Turtle, Lucy Kirk, and Ellie Friedman.  Also attending were Penny Ireland Low, Harriet Mandel Moser, Sue Stokes Ellis, Jennifer Rogers Carden, Barbara Schlesinger Paul, Angie Forbes Freeze.

 Marcia Kinnear Townley, Harriet Handel Moser, Barbara Schlesinger Paul          Jane Gillespie Grimes

    Angie Forbes-Freeze                                                      Signe Clutz Hammer, Ros Press Avigad, Peggy Mahaney Rhoades

  Linda Clark Waterman                                                               Melissa Travis Mohlman and Gillian Coxhead McManus

Cincinnati:

There was a mini-reunion for July 27 in Cincinnati, organized by Mary Lou Baskett, and including a trip on the river, as well as an afternoon matinee of La Traviata.  Sounds like fun!  From Leila Daw's report, it was terrific.

                                                                Standing:  Laurel Lunt Prussing, 2 non-classmates, Katie Holle, and Pat Celeste Hoffman                                              Seated:  Denny Tytus Young, Karen Capriles Hodges, and Mary Lou's sister, Barbara     

Report from Leila McConnell Daw:

The mini-reunion in Cincinnati hosted by Mary Lou Baskett was a fabulous experience.  This was the first Wellesley reunion of any kind I'd ever attended, and it was great to see and recognize classmates I hadn't seen for 46 years.  If there were ever a Hostess with the Mostest, Mary Lou is it!  Rather than wax on about how great everything was (in her fascinating 1840 home and gallery with 21st century architectural/sculptural updates), I'll just list all the          Carol "Willy" Williams Gould, Mary Lou Welsh Baskett,  and Laurel Lunt Prussing  things she planned and did for us.  That will speak volumes....(article ends with)  I can't believe any other reunion could ever be or have been as good as this one!

Top (L-R) Mary Lou Welsh Baskett, hostess, Laurel Lunt Prussing, Pat Celeste Hoffman, Leila McConnell Daw, Judy Wurstner Fister, Judy Perlman     Seated (L-R) Katie Holle, Denny  Tytus Young, , Karen Capriles Hodges and Carol Williams Gould                           

                            Artwork by Leila McConnell Daw at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati                                             Laurel Lunt Prussing , Katie Holle, and Karen Capriles Hodges            

Washington, DC:                                                                                                                            

In honor of Martha Reardon Bewick's visit to Washington during cherry blossom time, Peggy Mahaney Rhoades opened her beautiful home to a small group of classmates.  Peggy is planning a full-scale mini-reunion again in mid-April of 2009.  Start planning now, if you can be in Washington, to join us.  There is hardly anything more heavenly than cherry blossoms in full bloom, and there is no place in Washington with a more splendid display than in Peggy's neighborhood, Kenwood.

Front Row: Sue Ellen Parrott, Cappie Crystal Morgan, and Carmel Clay Thompson       Back Row:  Hostess Peggy Mahaney Rhoades, Martha Reardon Bewick, Arlene Palmer Bruhn, and Joanne Couch Cogar