50th Reunion

June 10-12, 2005 ~ 50th Reunion

Dear Classmates,

The final figures for our Reunion Year, 2004-05 are now available. The College was slower than usual this year in posting the results because of the Campaign's end.

Our dollar amount was $2,444,974.

During the final weeks of June we raised our Reunion rate of 76% to a new class record of 77.2%.

Also during that time we went from 141 Durants to 145. What a way to break a record!

I do have some disappointing news: Our five year Reunion Gift is now $18,528,407, which is indeed an incredible new record for our class and one which will probably stand for some time. The additional $2 million announced at Reunion will be paid during the next Reunion cycle, so the good news is that we have a significant sum of money toward our 55th Reunion Gift!

You have made the past five years memorable ones for me. I know you will be just as supportive and encouraging to Persis Gearing McCarley as she works towards our 55th.

My best to each of you, for you are "the best."

Pat Boyle Sternberg

Annual Giving Rep

If you want to see how we did it, click here for the Past History.

THE WAY WE WERE
1955, Eliot House
freshman year

"Great Reunion.  Found this in my archives on returning home.  Saw many of my Eliot House friends and Tower Court friends.
Thanks to all for helping to make Reunion terrific."

Ann Hirsch Sklarin '55

(Thank you for the photo!)

HATS AND MORE HATS, BRIMMING WITH THE YELLOW ROSE

Carol Popky Hausman, Judy Shill Ablow and Anita Blumstein Brody -- all enjoying the Alum Parade. (Photo courtesy of Anita Brody)

Do you have photos from Reunion that you'd like to see on this web page? Just email them as JPG attachments to franjan2@dakotacom.net

This unknown recorder of the Alumnae Parade was captured on film by Mark Beran.

"55 GET ON YOUR TOES! SHOUT FOR THE YELLOW AND FOR THE ROSE!"
Ann Merrifield Hoopes, Sally Stowell Kreitler, Mary Breck Lyon, Pat Boyle Sternberg, Marilyn Chu Chou, Jean Haffenreffer Baker. Successful Class Officers for the past five years, Reunion chairs and classmates are ready to march in the Sunday parade. (Photo by Mark Beran)

Yellow Rose

PARADE VIGNETTES by Robert Baker

OUTGOING OFFICERS ON THE MARCH

Treasurer Ann Merrifield Hoopes, President Sally Stowell Kreitler, Secretary Mary Breck Lyon, Annual Giving Representative Pat Boyle Sternberg, Reunion CoChair Marilyn Chu Chou, V-P Jean Haffenreffer Baker. Destination: Alumnae Hall and the 125th Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association. (Photo by Ron Cox)

SYRENA STACKPOLE AWARD GOES TO NANCY FOSHAY BRAITMAYER	Award originated in 1982 by the Wellesley College Alumnae Association
"Syrena Stackpole '09 attended 63 Reunions, a record that may never be broken. The annual award in her name recognizes exceptional commitment to Wellesley College." (From the WCAA , web site http://www.wellesley.edu)

Jack and Nancy Braitmayer's photo taken just after Nancy received the Serena Stackpole award for outstanding service to Wellesley at the Alumnae Association Annual Meeting. (Photo by Betsy Silvis Kunkle)

FOR PHOTOS BY JACK BRAITMAYER, CLICK HERE

REUNION COCHAIRS Marilyn "Choo Choo" Chou and Lura Allen Mountford savor some well-deserved ice cream after the Alumnae Association's record-breaking announcements of class achievement. (Photo by Betsy Silvis Kunkle)

Ruth Howe

FRIENDSHIP, a classic virtue for the Class of '55, recorded outside Tower Court. (Helen) Kelly Dillon, Ruth-Arlene Wood Howe, Frankie (Frances) Shipp Urban, Barbara Black Beran, and Marilin Chu Chou in front. (Photo by Marl Beran)

Betsy Silvis Kunkle, Marion Ruef Bicks, Joan Brodshaug, Barbara McKenna Dickinson (Photo by Ron Cox)

Our class includes several published authors. BARBARA McKENNA DICKINSON has written A Rebellious House and Small House, Large World. Her article, "Flashbacks to My Past," appeared in her Roanoke hometown paper, prior to our Reunion. To readrpre-Reunion thoughts, just click.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE REUNION PHOTOS

NEWLY ELECTED CLASS OFFICERS, 2005-2010

President                                        Nancy Mueller Holtzapple

Vice-President                               Gail Hicks Watson

Secretary                                        Sally Bate Lowry

Treasurer                                        Jean Swift Phinney

Annual Giving Representative        Persis Gearing McCarley

FROM THE WEST COAST: Incoming Vice-President, Gail Hicks Watson (at left), and President, Nancy Mueller Holtzapple. (Photos by Ron Cox)

Anne Hazzard, Gail Watson, Jack McCarley, Persis Gearing McCarley

TWO HAPPY CLASSMATES ~ on the right is Louise Scher Hertz.

FOR MORE PHOTOS BY GAIL WATSON, click here

ALL-REUNION PANEL ON CHANGING LIVES ~ Allison Stacey Cowles '55 represented the decade of the 50's.
You can READ WHAT ALLISON SAID: JUST CLICK

(Photo by Lura Allen Mountford)

Diana Messenger Renner, Barbie Cole Ford,
Midge Myers Miller, and Patty Kopf Colagiuri

Kim and Margie Hall Pengel with Vivian  Hathaway Crouse and Craig.  (Photo by Patty Kopf Colagiuri)

Marion Rueff Bicks, Joan Broadshaug Bernstein
and Eve Williams Noonan. (Photo by Betsy Silvis Kunkel)

(Right photo) Marion Wolpert Kahn, Barbara Black Beran, Dottie Haughey Bradt and Tanya Bruskin White. (Photo by Mark Beran)

Diana Messenger Renner and Bobbie Hassan Caldwell
(Photos by Patty Kopf  Colagiuri)

Barbie Cole Ford and her daughter Jocelyn

TO CONTINUE on another Reunion page, click here

Michiko Hosomi Asano, Linda Goetz Holmes, Margie Smith Mahaney 
(over Linda's  shoulder) and friends.  (Photo by Patty Kopf Colagiuri)
THE HOOP ROLLING CONTEST: Lura Allen Mountford won it! She's wearing the Blue Boa badge of office for 2005 Reunion Cochair. (Photo by Betsy Silvis Kunkle)

Click here for POST-REUNION DETAILS with links to Alumnae Association

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Photo by Fran Heineman Janssen