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Gettysburg, and finally spending
2 full days in Washington, DC.
All expenses paid through this
grant! When I get back, Bobby
and I will go back up to the
NC Mountains, near Boone,
where we’ll enjoy the summer
hiking and relaxing on the
back deck.
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1968
Class Correspondent Needed
Please send your news to the
Office of Alumni Relations
and Annual Giving
541 Main Street
New London, NH 03257
e-mail: alumni@colby-sawyer.edu
1969
Debi Adams Johnston
3727 Moorland Drive
Charlotte, NC 28226-1120
(704) 542-6244
e-mail: navypub@aol.com
I heard from my old Shepherd
friend, Kate Sandford Morgan,
and we realized that all these
years our summer schedules
were very similar, and had me
driving by her summer home
year after year delivering my
kids to summer camp. Linda
Cutts Bowen writes from Leslie,
Susan McGarvey Roper ’69 and
Deedee McNeil Stroope ’69.
MI, that the only people she
had kept in touch with after
graduation were Jan McLean
Weir and Marion “YuYe”
Fernandes-Baxter, but she’s
lost track of them and wants
to reconnect! After receiving
her BA from Olivet College in
MI, Linda married and began
teaching elementary music in
Leslie public schools. After 15
years she became a 3rd grade
teacher, where she remained
until her retirement in 2008.
Sadly, her husband, Arnie, passed
away in 2009 following 3 years
of brain cancer. Linda is active in
her church, playing piano and
directing the choir. Occasionally
she accompanies local school
choirs for concerts and festivals,
but her newest adventure has
been 4 grandchildren, all under
5 years of age. Three live near
Chicago, where she travels every
couple of months to keep up
with them. The 4th lives closer to
Detroit and she sees her weekly.
Linda says it’s hard to believe her
children are 28, 31, and nearly
35. She owns her parents’ home
in VT, where she travels once or
twice a year, but has not been
back to New London for about
40 years. Cal Hancock, whose
business, Hancock Gourmet
Lobster Company, was featured
in Colby-Sawyer Alumni Magazine
a few years back, is still living in
Cundy’s Harbor, ME, with her
husband, Jack Rosberg, and her
2 golden retrievers. Although
they have lived there since 1999,
they built a new house about a
year ago. They have 2 daughters
who both live in Brooklyn, NY,
with their husbands and she
also has twin grandchildren
(boy and girl) who are about
to turn 2. Her business is in its
11th year. They offer lobster and
seafood specialties for mail order
via their catalog and website
www.hancockgourmetlobster.
com. Their products recently
won a lobster mac & cheese
Throwdown with Bobby Flay on
the Food Network. Cal appeared
on QVC this spring. Elizabeth
“Liz” Mulligan Jaques is one
of the lucky ones to retire. Her
youngest daughter has recently
given birth to her 1st grandchild.
She is enjoying reconnecting
with the game of bridge. Susan
McGarvey Roper still lives in
Marblehead, MA, where she
grew up. Her husband taught in
Marblehead schools for years,
so there was no reason to leave!
Both their families live there,
as well. Susan sees Dory Latta
Lynch occasionally; she is also
still in Marblehead. Susan is
also still very close friends with
Deborah “Deedee” McNeil
Stroope, who’s lived in Dallas,
TX, since 1978. They get together
at least 3 times a year. Susan has
been working in the trade show
industry for the past 21 years
and has been traveling around
the country with her work. After
her kids were born she was an
at-home mom for 12 years. She
went back to school during that
time to get her BS in education,
but never taught. She has 2
grandchildren. Unfortunately
she doesn’t see retirement in
sight! Over the years she has
seen Janie Forsberg Berriman,
Debbie Standard Cook and
Terri Reynolds McKeon, but
has lost touch with them. Terri
Reynolds McKeon writes that
her husband is semi-retired
but continues to consult. They
have 2 granddaughters, 8 and 4,
who live in IN and they try to
see them as much as possible.
Their children live in Boulder,
CO; West Lafayette, IN; and
Minneapolis, where Terri lives.
Terri connected with Darsie
Putnam Townsend when she
was in Boulder. Terri is president
of Assistance League this year.
She’s looking forward to more
free time next year so she can
travel. Kate Sandford Morgan
is still married to her Dartmouth
sweetheart, Harry Morgan. Harry
is a geriatric psychiatrist and
Kate is a social worker; they are
both “nowhere near retirement,
although it would be nice to slow
down.” They have 2 children.
Todd, a special education teacher
in a therapeutic day school, and
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his wife, also a social worker,
are the parents of Hannah, a
1-year-old. Their daughter Becky
recently received her Ph.D.
in psychobiology from UC
Davis. As for me, Debi Adams
Johnston, my family remains
far-flung. Oldest son, Lt.CDR Ian,
has just finished back-to-back
deployments in the Far East and
Bahrain. After a short stint at the
Naval War College in Newport,
RI, he is back in Naples, Italy, for
another tour there. His family
has been living in Taormina,
Sicily, while he was deployed. My
2 grandsons, Ferdinando, 6, and
Federico Simone, 4, are bilingual
and we love web-camming with
them. Second son, LDCR Garth,
is on loan to the Canadian
Navy to set up their submarine
service in Victoria, BC. My
youngest grandson, Devon, 3,
was beginning to think I lived
in a box. Charlotte and Brianna
are loving school in Victoria
and have already mastered
sailing at the ages of 7 and 5.
Daughter Emily is still a director
at the oldest auction house in
the world in London. She has
set up a fashion blog (www.
fashionfoiegras.com) that keeps
her busy. My youngest son, Alec,
has left the Navy and is working
with Capstone Turbine in Los
Angeles. Fred and I are thinking
retirement in the next few years;
meanwhile, I continue to spend
some of my summer in NH
and ME, and we are looking at
properties in Beaufort, SC, for our
snowbird getaway. If you want to
reconnect with one of your old
friends from CJC, please e-mail
me to get their address or contact
the Alumni Office. And last but
not least, send me some news for
our next magazine!
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