Purpose of our new website

Our website is designed to add fun to our class communications between now and our 50th reunion.  In case you are having trouble putting names to faces and vice versa, the website offers a reintroduction to some of your classmates.  In addition, there will be artwork and photographs by our classmates, sound clips of their music and, of course, Smitty's wonderful bears serving as our class mascots.

You are encouraged to use this website to refresh your memories of our classmates and to  communicate with one another.  The treasure we found in our classmates during college is still there to be tapped.

New in this update: 

Featured Classmates   If you've been wondering whatever happened to BJ Diener, Carmel Clay Thompson, Mary Althouse Eikel, or Helen Strieder, this is your chance to find out.  I hope all of you will be willing to share current photos and stories of yourselves when asked. 

Artwork    This time our featured artist is Leila McConnell Daw, who has received significant recognition in the art world.  We can be very proud of her. 

Photography   Our featured photographer is Virginia Greer Bonesteel, who shoots Wellesley with poetic vision. 

Music     For the first time, we are featuring a musician, Ellen Cantarow, our talented keyboard artist.  Listen to a sound clip from one of the CD's Ellen has produced.

Events   There's a first letter from Sally Rial Phelps, our newly appointed Chair of 50th Reunion, .  In addition, there are photos and rave reviews of some recent mini-reunions.  If you attended the mini-reunions in Washington DC, New York City, or Cincinnati, you may see photos of yourself.  

Memorials   We have lost one more member of our class, Gayle Ford Whittenberg. In addition, a final memorial service for Annie "Smitty" Smith was held at her beloved lakeside home, which has been donated appropriately for use as an art center.

Contacts   This update features photos of our officers now and then.  They are a genuinely nice group of people, who work hard to support our class.  You'll find that taking advantage of opportunities to work with them is a pleasure.  See if you can recognize them.

To find email addresses for these classmates of any others, you can look either in your most recent Wellesley Record Book of go online www.wellesley.edu/alum, login using your password, and click on "Directory."  There you can look-up those individual classmates who have kept the Alumnae Office posted.  Just a reminder.  Please be diligent about updating the alumnae office when you change your email address. 

Notice of Future Updates

We will notify you by class e-newsletters when further updates have been made.   

Wellesley College does not have any responsibility for the contents or design of its class websites.  Your class webmaster is solely responsible and will make every effort to respect copyright laws and privacy issues.  Please feel free to contribute to the our website.  Comments, updated contact information, and memorial articles may be sent by email to your current webmaster, joanne.cogar@verizon.net.  Most recent update 9/8/2008.