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for American troops. On a visit to Belgium
six years ago the Canfields met Don’s e-mail
partner on the night of the birth of the doctor’s
second son, who was given Don’s name.
In May of this year, the doctor and his family
spent five days visiting Helen and Don in
Bethlehem. Though language was a problem,
I’ll bet communication was not.
Kitty Nies Geiger is very busy with her
volunteer work at Lehigh Valley Hospital in
the gift shop. She also helps at one of her
church services each week.
I know Jean and Ruth will not be at the
Reunion, but I hope some classmates who
didn’t write this time are going to be there.
See you in May!
From the Alumni House:
Peg Loveless Browne moved back to
New Jersey after living in Devon, Pa., for
41 years. She currently resides in a Quaker
continual care community in Medford, N.J.,
where she has her own apartment. It is a
lovely community in a beautiful wooded area
and located close to town and stores. She
currently tutors foreign students at a local
community college and is involved in a news
discussion program. She has been traveling
a lot lately, primarily to watch her granddaughter
play field hockey at the University
of Iowa. She even went to Chile last fall to
watch her granddaughter play on the U.S.
Team in the World Cup championships. It is
very enjoyable for her to watch these games
because she played in high school and at
Moravian, watched her three daughters play,
and refereed for 25 years! She misses the
college contacts and visits hockey games
provided her.
1946
Ada Zellner Flower; 834 Hilltop Road; Oyster Bay,
NY 11771
Ileen Whitehead Birnbuam; 4167 Green Pond
Road; Bethlehem, PA 18020
From Ada:
Dotty Wilmer Schlottman spent the
summer keeping house and garden “in reasonable
order” while Al went to Priest Lake,
Idaho, to do lookout tower duty.
Marie Holt Nash suffers from severe osteoarthritis.
She’s had one knee replaced and
is considering when to have the other knee
replaced. She is surrounded by children and
grandchildren who are most helpful. She’s
proud to have two great-grandchildren. She
says, “Bless them all!”
Frank and I made a brief visit to Moravian
recently. We learned that Phyllis Clark’s
piano and music library have arrived there
and will be used in the Music Department.
(Phyllis’s death was reported in the last
magazine.)
We also learned that the College has
employed a part-time archivist who would
welcome memorabilia concerning our time
at Moravian. Original materials such as
photographs, scrapbooks, albums, diaries,
journals, small artifacts, and school publications
such as yearbooks and catalogs are
encouraged. Examples of coursework such as
essays and art/sketches are also valuable.
If you are interested in contributing to
the archives call the archivist, Jan Ballard,
at 610 861-1594 or e-mail jballard@moravian.edu.
1945
Jane Smith Ebelhare; 805 Buckeye Street; Ft. Collins,
CO 80524; jebelhare@aol.com
From Jane:
Eleanor Beidelman Kline and her
daughter went to Charlottesville, Va., last
summer where they enjoyed the beautiful
scenery and toured the James Madison
homestead. The spent a wonderful visit with
Eleanor’s sister while there, and the timing
was most fortunate. When they returned
home, they received the sad news that
Eleanor’s sister had passed away shortly after
they had left. Eleanor still goes to water
aerobics three times a week. She continues
her civic duties, having just completed the
“yard of the month” selections, with the
judging of the Christmas decorations in her
subdivision in the near future.
Dorothy Stump Lied is improving her
skills in the game of mahjong, which originated
as a Chinese gambling game. Dottie
first heard of it in the movie Driving Miss
Daisy. Then her daughter-in-law, who had
learned to play it from a neighbor, taught
Dottie and a friend of hers. Now Dottie and
her friend play just for fun, or at least that’s
what she says. Dottie still keeps busy painting,
knitting, and making peanut butter cups,
which are big sellers at the local bazaar. She
also does a lot of reading, and especially
enjoys novels about the Amish, a people she
very much admires.
Jackie Stout McGiffert spent three
weeks in September in the East attending
reunions with a friend, but she was back in
Missoula, Mont., in mid-October when she
wrote to me. She will be leaving for Florida
in January.
Janet Moyer Paulus‘s daughter and
older son have settled in comfortably in
what Janet calls their basement, the “Hyatt
Regency.” They have been staying there
while construction is completed on Janet’s
daughter’s town house, which has been
promised for early December. Also, the
younger son was to visit for Thanksgiving. It
sounds like great fun. Janet’s husband, Dick,
was to undergo cataract surgery in October,
which hopefully will bring improvement to
his vision. Janet “imposed on a hornets’ nest
in August and felt their revengeful sting.”
She has recuperated, but now is “armed with
an EpiPen,” an automatic injector of epinephrine.
Florence Fritts and Jackie Bauder
joined Janet for lunch last summer, and they
had their usual happy reunion. They will try
to make it again before getting snowed in for
the winter.
Lois Moser Harke reports the Marguardt
Village, the complex where she lives in Watertown,
Wis., has opened a hospice unit. Of
course they need a lot of volunteers, so Lois
is helping with clerical/office work. She says
that she “has folded lots of paper” lately.
I got a short e-mail from Beryl Harrison
saying that “everything is status quo” and
that she is fine and healthy.
Jackie Haas Bauder sent a great e-mail.
She mentioned the luncheon in September
with Florence and Warren Fritts and Janet
and Dick Paulus at the Minsi Trail Inn, where
they caught up with everyone’s news. Florence
still has a daughter living in Easton, so
when they come to the area, they have a nice
place to stay. Jackie said that Florence had
just had surgery for a deviated septum but
was still going on as usual. Jackie attended
her 65th high school reunion in September,
and there were sixty people at the luncheon.
Lillian Stefko Schaedler and some of her
friends were instrumental in organizing
the luncheon. Jackie says that the age of
the group was showing “in the number of
walkers and canes present.” Jackie stays in
touch with Doreen Coburn Walters. Doreen
and her husband, Don, live in Sarasota, Fla.
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They missed the high school reunion because
they had planned to visit a son in Cedarburg,
Wisconsin. Two other sons and a grandson
joined them for a “great family mini-reunion.”
Jackie and Betty Wachstetter Griffis went
to the Muhlenburg Festival and plan some
other activities. She says that Betty is now a
“proud great-grandmother.” Jackie was leaving
on October 24 on a trip to Washington,
D.C., to accompany a friend whose daughter
is at American University. She was anxious
to see the Indian Museum again and hoped
to see the newly-reopened National Portrait
Gallery and the new Smithsonian American
Art Museum. As she says, “naturally my children
and grandchildren are part of it too.”
Then the following week, there was a family
get-together in Pottstown, Pa., where her
granddaughter, Amy, was to be married.
Gloria Gately Chipman and husband,
Frank, enjoyed the cruise which they took
last July around the British Isles. They went
to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness, Dublin,
Belfast, Wales, and Western Britain. Then
when they returned, their oldest daughter,
Ann, was married on the beach at Atlantic
Beach, N.C. They were leaving on October 28
for Florida to take a seven-day Caribbean
cruise. One of their stops will be at Grand
Turk and Caicos, which is a new port to
them. On their return, they will visit their
youngest daughter in Deerfield Beach, Fla.,
before driving home.
In August, Alice Joyce Yeager’s husband,
Bob, was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
He is facing a series of radiation treatments
followed by seed implants, which has been
shown to be an effective treatment with good
results. Alice and Bob are very optimistic.
They visited their daughter, Robin, and her
husband in Tennessee in July. Robin came to
visit them in Florida this summer also and
while there, impressed everyone at Alice and
Bob’s church with her marvelous singing
voice. Alice battles chronic fatigue immune
dysfunction but keeps going. She and Bob
have tickets for the West Coast Symphony
concerts, and the plays at their Little Theater
have been great. They also enjoy the local
restaurants.
Andy and I leave on November 9 for our
annual trek to Wellington, Fla. We should get
back home about the second week in April
after an even busier schedule than ever. I
will send you our home address and phone
numbers after we get there.
1943
Margaret L. Albright; 129 N. 11th St.; Allentown,
PA 18102
June Bright Reese; 801 N. Wahneta St., Apt 203;
Allentown, PA 18109; bjreese@webtv.net
From June:
Members of the baccalaureate and
secretarial classes recently met for lunch at
Moravian Village. Betty Adams Roach and
Betty Karte deserve a big “thank you” for arranging
the meeting. After a delicious lunch
in the Village dining room, we visited Betty
Karte in her lovely apartment.
Betty Roach is still tutoring, and she and
her husband, Jack, enjoy playing bridge. Marian
Carty Durkee spent ten days vacationing
with her daughter and family at the Outer
Banks. Janet Williams Sander and her husband
spend a lot of time in Long Beach Island
with friends. They have four grandchildren,
one of whom, Amanda Seyfried, has been in
several movies, including Mean Girls. She is
also currently in <strong>Big</strong> Love on Home Box.
Peggy Mason Marcks spent her 14th
season working at Yellowstone Park. She
drove there and back alone, stopping on the
trip home to visit her son and grandson.
Betty Karte recently had a surprise visit
from Grace and Lee Schuchardt, who were
in the area to see relatives. Mary Lou Patton
“Pat” Phillips joined us for lunch. She and
husband Jim are still in their big house.
Sadly we report the passing of Marie
Fehr Goodyear’s husband, Jack. In addition
to his wife, he is survived by two daughters,
twelve grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
He was predeceased by a daughter.
We extend our deepest sympathy to his
family.
Let us hear what is happening in your life.
1942
Reunion May 18-19, 2007
Mary Kuehl Concevitch; 1036 Center St.; Bethlehem,
PA 18018
From Mary:
A note from Avis Gordon states that
she sold her home in Bethlehem and moved
to Moravian House II on Main Street. She’s
close to downtown and especially the
Moravian Book Shop. From her window
she watched the Moravian Mile parade on
Alumni Weekend 2006, from one campus to
the other. She hopes to see us in 2007 for our
reunion.
Two letters from Peggy Lutz Gray are so
full of activities that it’s a miracle she had
time to write. After months of writing and
rehearsals they presented “Longwood Radio
Hour II”—Peggy wrote the commercials
(one was to the tune of Chiquita Banana’s
theme song). Her new computer arrived,
so now she’ll be busier than ever! Another
classmate, Ruth Schantz Fortino, and her
husband, Pat, have moved to an apartment
at Moravian Village in town. Remember
2007—our 65th!
1941
Ruth Hemmerly Kelly; Moravian Village; 526
Wood St.; Apt. 104; Bethlehem, PA 18018
From Ruth:
A nice note from Dottie Ritter Comegys
brings us up to date on her activities—involvement
with health problems of relatives
and leaving Moravian Hall Square and
moving back to Main Street in September.
She was in Durnstein, Austria, and learned
of Zinzendorf’s connection with the area
of Wachau (Wachovia), where his ancestral
home was located. Dottie suffered the loss of
her daughter two years ago and we extend
our sympathy to her and her family.
Ruth Overfield Fidorack and Mike
continue their travels back to Tahiti and they
are now planning a cruise around South
America.
In September there was a huge reunion
of former students of Fountain Hill High
School held at Lehigh University’s Stabler
Auditorium. There were only two members
of the class of 1937 there: Leona Quinn and
I, both members of Moravian College for
Women’s freshman class that year.
I am enjoying life at Moravian Village,
involved in puppet shows, of which we did
four this week for kindergarten and first
graders at Donegal School. It was the notorious
Three Little Pigs and the Wolf, a very
intellectually stimulating production, just
off Broadway (South Side of Bethlehem).
Beyond that I did some traveling, a
cruise of the Mediterranean a year ago, and
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