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Class Notes
Summer 2012
Meredith Vieira ’71 takes time during her reunion to snap some pictures with her Lincoln fans at Alumnae Weekend 2011. Pictured here with Kali Ridley ’13. Cover Photos: As part of the Senior Service Learning Trips, a group of seniors traveled to Montreal to work with Habitat for Humanity on a build-in and others to Delaware to tag horseshoe crabs as part of their annual migration. (See page 16 for more details about the Class of 2012 Service Learning projects.)
Photos and artwork by: Tori Allen ’12 Amy Barrett ’88 Robin Dunn Blossom Betsy Hunt Ronnie McFarland Diane Mota Glenn Osmundson Kaitlin Palmieri
Lincoln School does not discriminate in admission or access to, or participation in its programs and activities on the basis of disability, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, or national or ethnic origin. Nor does Lincoln School discriminate in employment on the basis of any of these categories. Any questions in this regard should be directed to the Head of School.
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Headlines
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College List 2012
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Campus News
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Faxon Farm Update
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Strong Showing by Lynx Teams this Year
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Grandparents and Special Friends Day
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The 2012 Dorothy Gifford Chair Award Faculty Professional Development Updates
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ICE Grants
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The 5th Anniversary of the Center for Peace, Equity & Justice through Service
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Across the Pond & Back Again: The Lincoln/Durham Exchange
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March of the Living
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Notes from the Field
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Light Up Lincoln 2012
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Welcome New Trustees and Alumnae Board Members
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Congratulations 2011 Alumnae Award Recipients!
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Alumnae Milestones
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Alumnae Weekend 2011
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Reunion & Alumnae Weekend 2012
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2012 Alumnae Award Recipients
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Class Notes
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In Memoriam: Nicole A. Makintosh ’20
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In Memoriam: Karen Cartin
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Beyond the Traditional Classroom Walls
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HEADLINES JuLIA RuSSELL EELLS, HEAD of ScHooL
Stepping Out and Stepping Forward he uncomfortable and the unfamiliar – most of us do not wake up in the morning thinking, “I hope they’ll be a part of my day today.” And yet, both are integral components of a good education and strong foundation for life. Embracing and working with that which is not clear-cut (problem solving, considering moral and ethical dilemmas, challenging assumptions, risk taking) is the best way to build the skills necessary to fully embrace, engage, and compete in the ever-changing realities of the 21st Century.
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Every day there are conversations at Lincoln about how we foster this in our students – from the very youngest on their Nursery “meanders,” to our senior art majors exploring new media in the studio. In our classrooms, our fourth graders are quizzing children across the country on facts about each other’s states via Skype; sixth graders are demonstrating algebraic solutions using iMovie, and sophomores are debating national immigration policy in their Ethical Citizenship class. Just as many of these lessons are learned beyond the confines of a daily schedule, a specific discipline, or a traditional classroom setting. One of my earliest memories at Lincoln was speaking with a group of junior and senior girls who were organizing a daylong symposium to coincide with the annual recognition of International Women’s Day. I was so impressed by their energy, passion and creativity that I asked a group of faculty and some Providence community members to come together and construct
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a model for what I called, at the time, “campaign headquarters” for this kind of work. I envisioned one umbrella connecting our work in diversity, advocacy, service and stewardship of our Quaker values that was accessible to everyone’s participation in both the work and in the dialog.
Their yearlong conversations concluded with the establishment of the Center for Peace, Equity and Justice through Service (CPEJ) in 2007. The committee authored a vision and mission statement and we secured and reorganized endowment funding thanks to a bequest from former Head of School, Mary Schaffner, and support from the Carol Mann ’67 Endowment Fund. (See timeline and articles on pp. 11) In 2008-09, the work of the Center was recognized and commended in both our NEASC (New England Association of Schools and Colleges) and the FCE (Friends Council on Education) decennial accreditation reports.
Community curriculum days, as we now call them, are full days in which classes are suspended and students and faculty come together in service and in dialog surrounding themes and issues that connect us to each other and to our communities. This year’s focus on and consideration of global issues coincides with the fifth anniversary of the founding of The Center. This spring, we added another community curriculum day for middle school students to consider the issues of human rights around the world through the lens of film and media. I swelled with pride and awe
when I participated in a session with our eighth graders led by Robyn Allen, formally of MIT and a recent speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative. Our students engaged in fast-paced informed reflection on issues of power and identity struggles, and how we can take the first steps in helping others secure basic human rights including access to health care, education, and peace.
The founding of the Center also informed our thinking as we shifted our traditional senior internship project into a project that, as of 2008, is required to be “in service to others.” This May, our seniors dedicated two weeks to service in Delaware, Montreal, Vermont, Washington, DC, Mystic, Connecticut, and local Rhode Island communities. They served in education, on behalf of women, with underserved children and adults with disabilities, and on behalf of the environment. The uncomfortable and unfamiliar was no stranger to these soon-to-be Lincoln graduates who made life-long bonds with special needs adults, navigated the public transportation in Montreal, tagged horseshoe crabs by the light of a full moon, and framed out a roof for an inner-city home. Indira Ghandi once said, “Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to
disturb something.” Whether it is engaging
in political or community action, crossing oceans to explore a new culture, or taking risks as we share divergent opinions and perspectives, learning at Lincoln continues to take these important steps forward.
The Class of 2012 will attend the following Colleges & Universities: Victoria Allen Connecticut College Fairfield University Sandanie Ambalangodage Danielle Benoit Dickinson College Lauren Benoit University of Rhode Island College of the Holy Cross Emily Burns Haley Carter Boston University Cecily Coia Worcester Polytechnic Institute Charlotte Cournoyer Skidmore College Pallavi Dasari University of Massachusetts, Amherst Gabriella diBattista Johns Hopkins University Francesca DiOrio Brandeis University Caitlyn Doerr University of Colorado, Boulder Alexa Faria Simmons College Alexandra Fasano Clarkson University Julia Ferragamo Deferring acceptance to the University of Vermont to pursue singing opportunities Kayla Gillespie Boston University Dakota Goldsmith Loyola University Chicago Charlotte Harrington Duke University Helen Hassan James Madison University Rebekah Heath Boston University Elizabeth Houle Clark University Lucinda Ashe Jackson Gap Year Margaret Leary Connecticut College Gabriella Levin Wagner College Hayley Lough Union College Ingrid Lundgren Barnard College Jenna Martinelli Hobart and William Smith Colleges Marina Martinez Swarthmore College Erin Murphy Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alexandra Nuñez University of Rhode Island Emma Osmundson Drew University Alesandra Paolino Syracuse University Alexandra Reardon Union College Katherine Ring St Andrews/William & Mary Joint Degree Programme Natasha Rosario Brown University Alexa Shola Lasell College Lisa Stern Grinnell College Jessica Stoukides Skidmore College Ellis Suchmann Purchase College Leah Tinberg Carnegie Mellon University Kirsti Toegemann Stonehill College Tess Van Schepen Dickinson College Tatum Wadensten Salve Regina College Hailey Walker Assumption College Marni Weiss American University Hannah Zawia University of Rhode Island Blanca Zelaya-Rincón Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Welcome Helen Burke Montague Director of College Counseling
Helen Burke Montague will be Lincoln’s next Director of College Counseling. Helen brings more than 20 years of college counseling experience to her role at Lincoln. From 1991-2008, Helen was the Director of College Counseling at Dana Hall School and in 2008, she moved to Rhode Island and joined the administration at Moses Brown School as the Associate Director of College Counseling. In addition to guiding juniors and seniors in the college process at Moses Brown, Helen directed the Freshman Studies program, supervised students on Senior Projects, and served as an academic advisor. Helen was a member of the Tufts University and Boston University admission offices and holds a BS from Wheelock College and an M.Ed. from Harvard. Helen has served on numerous admissions associations and boards and has been recognized by the New England Association of College Admission Counselors with the Harry R. Carroll Award (2009) and NEACAC Counselor of the Year (1996).
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Carnegie Mellon University Clarkson University University of Colorado at Boulder Duke University Grinnell College Lasell College Loyola University Chicago Purchase College- SUNY Swarthmore College Wagner College
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Campus News
At the Rhode Island Forensic League annual state championship tournament Kelsey Anderson ’13 finished as the Number 1, top-ranked debater in the entire state.
RI General Treasurer Gina Raimondo visited Lincoln as part of Green Power. She’s pictured here with teachers Cathy DiChiaro and Colleen Sweeney.
Never a Dull Moment... Below is a sampling of the 1,562 events that happened at Lincoln this year.
Congratulations to the following students who placed in the 4th Annual Juried Art Exhibit. Albina mathews ’14 won Best of Show, Natasha Rosario ’12 placed first in 3D and Hailey walker ’12 won the Gallery Committee Citation. Ayah badr ’14 took 1st place in Sculpture and Hailey walker ’12 took 2nd place in Oil Painting in SISAL (Small Independent Schools Art League). Also, the following students were accepted into the SISAL juried Art Show: Oil Painting: marina martinez, Erin murphy; Caran D’ache Crayon: Alexa Faria; Pastel: Natasha Rosario; Mixed Media: francesca matatese; Traditional Black and White Photography: Kelsey Anderson; Digital Black and White or Color: Alexa faria, Ellie Suchmann, Kelsey Anderson, Emily fitts, gabriella Levin, charlotte cournoyer; Manipulated Digital: Alexandra fasano, charlotte cournoyer.
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Juniors Emily fitts, Shayreen Izoli, Kali Ridley and Alexia williams participated in The Close Up: Civics and Law Program in DC on March 18-22. Close Up’s mission is to inform, inspire and empower young people to become active citizens in our democracy.
Congratulations to Alexandra Klufas ’12 who won first place in the Senior (Grades 9-12) Individual Exhibit category for her work on “Holodomar: Stalin’s Agricultural Reforms and Manufactured Famine in Ukraine” and charlotte whalen ’14 won second place in the Senior Research Paper category for her work on “Emily Wilding Davison: Revolutionary Suffragist” at The Rhode Island State History Day event at Providence College.
Twelve upper school students, visited Ximedica, a Providence-based bio-engineering company, as part of National Engineer’s Week. The girls participated in six interactive workshops during their day and were introduced to 20 engineers/designers (sixteen of whom were women).
On May 3, grades 4 and 5 ventured to NYC for the day. Stops included Battery Park, Ellis Island and Liberty Island.
On April 12 the entire grade 8 participated in a full-day workshop led by Raytheon engineers. The girls were treated to four hands-on engineering design workshops: Tower of Terror, Egg Catapult, CSI Lab, and Sonar Sound Lab.
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The Lower and Middle School celebrated the sun coming out and the end of the school year with a dance party on the front lawn. Above left: Grade 7 dance in T-shirts of the digestive system they designed for science class. Above right: Lower and Middle Schoolers enjoying the music.
welcome maureen Devlin! Lower School Director
This year in Kindergarten the students have been working hard writing books. On Friday, May 25 they presented their work to our community at the Rhode Island Festival of Children’s Books and Authors: Very Young Authors Edition. Books were available to purchase and have autographed for $1 after the presentations.
On Friday, June 1, the Lower School held it’s first Annual Variety Show. A spectacular extravaganza of singing, dancing, gymnastics, musical instruments and lots of fun!
Sandanie Ambalangodage ’12
Shakespeare in the City’s 4th production, Macbeth, brought record crowds to Lincoln on May 22 to watch a cast of nearly 200 Providence school children perform Shakespeare’s classic play. Several new schools joined the roster this year, bringing the total number of schools represented to 19.
received the Prudential Spirit of Community Award for her work raising money in both the United States and Sri Lanka to buy toys, towels, mosquito nets and lifesaving injections for young cancer patients at a hospital in Sri Lanka.
Maureen Devlin will join Lincoln in July 2012 as the Lower School Director. Maureen was recently the Associate Head of Rio Grande School (PK-6) in Santa Fe, NM. Before moving to New Mexico, she was a vice principal, math specialist, social studies curriculum coordinator, and a classroom teacher in the Brookline (MA) public schools. Maureen was also the Director of Program Achieve, a summer literacy program for grades 4-5, and she has been a classroom teacher in both independent and public elementary schools.
Maureen holds a BA from Pomona College, a M.Ed. with elementary certification from Lesley College, and another M.Ed. in Organizational Development with K-6 principal/ assistant principal certification from Endicott College.
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Lincoln School & Alumnae Look Forward to Faxon Farm: Phase III
onstruction continues at Faxon Farm this summer with the completion of the Carriage House renovation. When Lincoln athletes in Middle and Upper School return to campus in September, they will enjoy a new outdoor terrace and fireplace for community gatherings and much-needed restroom facilities.
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Maggie McNamara ’13, who runs the Athletic Fundraising Club, shares her enthusiasm for the project. “Along with a rigorous education I have been lucky enough to play three varsity sports at Lincoln. Many times the best part of my day has been going out to the farm and doing something I love with my closest friends.
“We love the new turf field, as it has enhanced our athletic careers significantly and made our competitors very jealous during our home games! The new tennis courts are cherished by our high school and middle school teams and the new grass turf field is a huge improvement as well. I can’t wait to go out to the Farm with my friends in September to use these new facilities and premier playing surfaces to prepare for, hopefully, multiple championship seasons!”
Lincoln alumnae will enjoy the new facilities, fields and courts at the Farm over Alumnae/Reunion Weekend 2012 on the morning of Saturday, October 13. Mari Marchionte Bianco ’97, Reunion Co-chair, is helping organize the family events and games at the Farm as part of reunion. She shares “In 2010, I returned to Faxon Farm for an alumnae field hockey game, which we played on the new turf field. It was exhilarating! I wish I could go back to high school simply to enjoy the athletic experience once again on this amazing field. Lincoln has taken great strides to improve and expand all aspects of the school. I’m thrilled that the Lincoln community is investing in the Farm for student athletes as well as alumnae trying to relive their glory day! I’m sure the new carriage house will be gorgeous, and we look forward to sharing in this historic moment over Reunion Weekend 2012!” If you are interested in learning more or getting involved in the Faxon Farm Campaign, please contact Adrienne Morris, Director of Development and Alumnae Relations, at 401-331-9696 ext. 3118 or via email at amorris@lincolnschool.org. Special naming opportunities are available.
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Lynx Teams this Year
ongratulations to the tennis team for
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becoming the RIIL Division I Champi-
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bringing home the South Eastern League of In-
dependent Schools Tournament Championship.
Two new banners will be proudly displayed in
wim capped off their season with an exciting appearance in the 2012 Providence Cup Meet. Lincoln recorded several personal best times for the season in this five-school tournament.
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The squash team had an outstanding season with a 7-3 win-loss record and gained a berth in the New England Prep School Class B Tournament held in Connecticut. This is the first time our squash team has qualified for this 16-team tournament.
Varsity basketball finished the season as the 2012 Southeastern New England Champions and was one of only 8 teams that qualified for the New England Prep School Class C Tournament. Losing in a closely contested semi-final game, the team ends the season with a 17-5 record.
Varsity lacrosse finished the season in second place in the SENE league losing a tightly contested game to Wheeler ( 8-7) in the finals. Seven players received SENE All-League honors. First team All-League honors went to Larson Bennett ’14, Maggie McNamara ’13, and Hannah Spalding ’13. Second team and honorable mention honors were given to Serena ’15, Natasha Rosario ’12, Emma Tesler ’13, and Ani Comella ’15.
Varsity crew had it’s best season to date. Three of our boats qualified for the New England Interscholastic Rowing Championship this spring with our first boat finishing in 6th place. Our second and fourth boats finished their season at the championships with a fourth and The marriage of Q and U took place in the fifth place finish, defeating Miss Porter’s and Choate in their final race of the season.
the Boss McLoughlin Gymnasium. The banners
were presented at the Athletic Award Cere-
mony on Friday, May 18. Award recipients were seniors Alexandra Nunez, who received the
Frances L. Chisholm Athletic Award; Hannah
Zawia, who received the Lynx Award; Erin
Murphy, who received the Alexis Allen Boss ’89 Athletic Award; Natasha Rosario, who received the Elizabeth Olney McLoughlin ’44 Athletic
Award; and Hayley Lough, who received the
Providence Journal Bulletin Honor Roll. Hayley Lough and Erin Murphy also received the
12-letter award. In the last 18 years, only 6 other athletes have received this award. Congratulations!
Kindergarten classroom on April 23, 2012
Congratulations to all teams on their success this year.
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Grandparents & Special Friends Day
n April 27, 2012, Lincoln opened its doors to more than 300 Lincoln grandparents and special friends who shared a morning ďŹ lled with classroom activities, the 2012 visual Arts Showcase, and a sampling of music, Shakespeare and a sing-a-long to wrap up the morning. our visitors came from all over the country to enjoy time with their grandchildren and special friends at Lincoln.
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Intelligence, Compassion & Creativity
Beatrice Swift receives The Dorothy Gifford Chair Award and gives back to the Lincoln community mong the many gifts that English Department Head Beatrice Swift — this year’s Dorothy W. Gifford Award for excellence in teaching recipient — has given to Lincoln was the fantastic performance of Sarah Kay and Philip Kaye in the Ebner, Elson, Hart Music Center on Tuesday, May 1. Founder of Project V.O.I.C.E. (Voice Outreach Into Creative Expression), spoken word poet extraordinaire Sarah Kay and her partner, Philip Kaye, provided the Lincoln students and faculty with an incredible performance of their unique poetry and prose. On leaving the Music Center, a colleague of Beatrice’s was heard to remark, “Isn’t it just like Beatrice to make her celebration into a gift for all of us?”
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Following the performance, the award ceremony was hosted by John Minahan, who reflected on Beatrice’s sixteen years at Lincoln. He noted that Beatrice possesses a “deeply humane sense of priorities” and “brings intelligence, compassion, creativity, genuine scholarship, high standards, and even a good, healthy, gently sardonic sense of humor to her role as teacher and head of the English Sarah Kay and Philip Kaye from Project V.O.I.C.E. Department.” We all know perform for Grades 8-12 as part of the Dorothy Beatrice to be humble, and yet Gifford Chair Award Ceremony. “Beatrice does what all great leaders do: she gets people to believe in themselves.” During challenging times, she is known for “using her natural gifts for building consensus and creating community.” John concluded by saying, “Our students couldn’t ask for a better role model, nor our peers ask for a better example of what it means to be a great teacher, a great colleague, a great soul.” Truer words were never spoken.
“Going on sixteen years now, Beatrice has brought intelligence, compassion, creativity, genuine scholarship, high standards, and even a good, healthy, gently sardonic sense of humor to her role as teacher and head of the English department... Beatrice gets it. She understands what Lincoln is all about: teaching people how to believe in themselves, how to see themselves as capable, compassionate individuals dedicated to high aims and humane values. Our students couldn’t ask for a better role model, nor our peers ask for a better example of what it means to be a great teacher, a great colleague, a great soul.”
- John Minahan
Faculty Professional Development The Lincoln faculty is always developing professionally. Here are some upcoming trips: Lower School teachers Alyssa Anderson and Liz ford will travel to Provence and Paris, France this July to attend a creativity workshop. paqui cadenas, Lower and Middle School Spanish will visit Puerto Rico and bring home material to enrich her curriculum. Middle School teacher martha Douglasosmundson will be attending the Iowa Summer Writing Festival for
a Writers’ Weekend in June. The focus of the workshop is ‘micro-fiction,’ or the 500-word story. Upper School history teacher Rich canedo is going to a “summer institute” in US History hosted by Bryn Mawr School. The sessions will provide ideas on teaching
methods, present new (or at least unfamiliar) materials and sources in US history. Summer 2012
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Betsy Hunt
(Technology Specialist and Lincoln Webmaster)
Betsy employed Web 2.0 tools— wikis, Voicethread, Skype and others — to involve students in digital tools and their use and place in a modern world. It also served as a model for other faculty members in their pursuit of greater creativity in the classroom and beyond. The goal of my ICE Grant was to create collaborative online projects working and sharing with other children in other places. In essence we “flattened” the classroom broadening our worlds, learning how to collaborate and share knowledge using web 2.0 tools. Our students are entering a world where they will be expected to collaborate remotely with people in other places; working on these age-appropriate online projects was a great introduction. In grades two and three we joined The Monster Project, which encouraged the development of reading and writing skills while integrating technology into the classroom.
Olivia Pallister ’17 works with Liv Yeaw ’17 in Matt Knippel’s classroom as Liv records a piece she has written for a musiclal she’s involved in out of school. ast summer brought the awarding of several ICE (Innovation, Creation, Exploration) Grants to Lincoln Faculty. These are $1,200 grants to support faculty in exploring and creating new programming—for the classroom and/or the broader school community. Faculty members were invited to submit one-page proposals outlining a project they would like to undertake. The proposals were aimed at innovative projects that are focused on our continued consideration for preparing our students for living and learning in the 21st century and/or connecting with the greater Providence community and beyond.
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The thirteen proposals submitted were carefully reviewed, discussed and evaluated by a panel. While all proposals were deemed to have merit, five were considered best to fulfill the criteria set forth in the grant goals description. Here are three of the success stories:
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Each student drew a detailed monster using KidPix. We then exchanged written descriptions with Mrs Litterest’s class at the Hillsboro Primary School in Hillsboro, Missouri. Her class also created monsters and wrote descriptions, which they sent to us. We then recreated the monsters without ever looking at the "real thing." During the project, students created, discussed, described, interpreted, analyzed, organized and assessed their monsters as well as the monsters of their peers.
Each year in grade Grade Four students learn about the United States. This year we connected with students all over the country and played “twenty questions” using our knowledge of the USA to figure out what state the other class was in. Is your state east of the Mississippi River? Does your state start with a vowel or a consonant? Is your state west of the Rocky Mountains? We connected with fourth grade classrooms in 12 different states. In Grade Five we joined a project called A Week in the Life, which was developed by the Flat Classroom Project. The aim of this project was to join elementary classrooms globally with a view to explore what life is like in each country through discussion, sharing, and a week of multimedia documentation. The students participating in the project were from RI, IL, NJ, NY, MI, MD, MA, China, Slovakia, Australia and Turkey. Students in our class were divided into 6 groups and each group participated with students from other schools. The teams shared in-
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“My monsters head is a circle and it is black. It does not have a nose. Its mouth has fangs with blood. Its hair is yellow and it has pink antennas with blue dots on top. Its body is yellow in the shape of a circle with a white dot in the middle of it. His hands are big and blue. His legs are shorter than its hands are they are green and red. He has long green fingernails. My monster has blood on his mouth.” “My monster is a dark blue pegasus with huge, glorious, hot pink wings. On its body it has 18 medium sized light purple spots , which do not appear on the head. It has a red mane, tail, and forelock. The mane and tail have a highlighting yellow vertical line that goes through it. The forelock has a horizontal line instead. It has 4 bright yellow hooves,1 on each foot. It has one eye with a white circle and a black dot. Its nose is a black dot and its mouth is black, small and smiling.”
formation, created a final project digitally that demonstrated what they learned about each other’s culture and country. The guiding questions for this project were: • What are the similarities and differences among children around the world and how can we connect through commonalities? • How does your geography impact your theme topic?
The six themes for the teams were: School, Leisure Activities, Housing & Transportation, Food & Celebrations, Language & Clothing and Environment.
In Grade 6 we worked with a class in Paraparaumu, Wellington, New Zealand. We created a wiki and the students were paired with partners to complete projects comparing their lives. The girls were fascinated by the similarities and differences in their lives, “not really that different!” “We all go to school, read and have homework. They live near the ocean too.” All of these projects were exciting for me as a teacher, I “attended” weekly meetings with the “A Week in the Life” teachers and learned about software and sharing ideas. Even though I was teaching the classes, I was also as much as a learner as the students. There were frustrations about working with people who are far away. We often heard “when are they going to post their work” or “I don’t understand this assignment” in the lab. In many cases I didn’t have the answers! I can’t wait to participate in these projects next year and perhaps take more leadership roles with my new colleagues all over the world!
The tinkering table opened with Flexeez, a fun, colorful, simple, rather addictive, building toy. Students linked the little plastic pieces together to make abstract designs and recognizable objects like ice-cream sundaes topped with cherries and penguins. Some students liked a following a diagram while others liked making it up as they went along. During break and study halls students clicked together K’Nex pieces, another tinkering table manipulative, to make ferris wheels circles, cars, and snowflakes. Over the course of the year there were some tinkering table regulars and other students who enjoyed one particular theme. Next year will bring new manipulatives as well as returning favorites.
Matt Knippel
(Middle and Upper School Music Teacher)
Matt created a sound studio for students of all ages to create digital sound content in a SOLE (Self Organized Learning Environment). In a world increasingly focused on audiovisual means of communication, this project developed technology skills and helped students learn to listen carefully and with discrimination to make editorial and meaningful judgments about sound creation and content.
The Music SOLE turned out to be a great tool to enhance current curriculum. Here are some highlights:
Two students used the recording studio to make recordings that supplemented their college admission packets. Two other students used the studio to make original music that was shared with their peers and met with great applause. Performing classes recorded their work to review their progress critically and make their music better. The Study of Music class used it as an educational tool to learn about the process of recording and the elements of electronic music. The cast of Li’l Abner used it to prerecord segments heard in the actual production. Lincoln Faculty recorded French pronunciation to put on their websites as an educational assistant for pronunciation of foreign language pieces. Lambrequins plan on making a recording of their work to take with them after they leave Lincoln as a record of their accomplishments. Until this year, there was no single place for recording and creating sound. The community had a wonderful opportunity to explore the possibilities of this learning space, but it is just a small part of a larger goal to explore and be creative with recording, music and sound.
Katy Wood
(Middle School Science Teacher)
Katy created a “tinkering table“ to encourage the free exploration that associates the real time, real world discovery of how objects work—the mechanics, engineering, design and functionality of everyday objects. This project served as a jumping off place for the STEM disciplines. Victoria Jenkins ’18 and Haley Gomes ’18 in Katy Wood’s classroom at the tinkering table.
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A Decade of Acceptance and Exploration by Kethu Manokaran ’14
This dedication also remains with us outside of Lincoln, where our beliefs are truly tested and often opposed.
n the late ’90s, a group of students began a club with the hope of ending stereotypes through cultural exploration and discussion. Now, more than twelve years later, that club, known as 2B1, is one of the largest student organizations at Lincoln. More than twenty girls come together to plan our annual Morgan Stone Day, a celebration of diversity and equity. The event first began as a 20-minute assembly in 1998 and has since grown into a full day of workshops and keynote speakers, all working towards a common goal or theme.
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During her time in Upper School, Morgan Stone ’00 was an essential part of the group of girls dedicated to planning each year’s celebration of diversity. After her passing in 2001, the name of the program was changed to Morgan Stone Day, in her memory.
We believe that acceptance and education is exactly what we need in order to become a community devoid of stereotypes. We remain dedicated to our mission, to end stereotypes by creating a place in which cultural diversity is explored, identified, understood, and celebrated. yEAR tHEmE: EQuIty
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This year’s theme was “The diversity of experiences in education, family, and coming-of-age in a global context,” and we feel as if we were truly able to achieve our goal of brining a “global perspective” to Lincoln. We had speakers from around the nation who discussed issues that are important to us in America, as well as some that do not necessarily apply here. Some of these topics included the Occupy Providence Movement, water scarcity, and disabilities in South America.
We also brought our mission back to Lincoln through student-led workshops. Through research and personal anecdotes, student leaders Kethural Manokaran ’14, Alexia Williams ’13 and Pallavi Dasari ’12 taught their peers and teachers about global issues that were close to their hearts: human trafficking and underage marriages.
Morgan Stone Day grows with each new year. We hope to incorporate more student-led discussions and additional presentations from world leaders into the day. In honor of the life and spirit of Morgan Stone ’00, we strive to make this a fun, lively, and inviting environment in which people of all ages and backgrounds are able to share their passion with others.
Welcome Sterling Clinton-Spellman ’02
Sterling Clinton-Spellman ’02 will join the Lincoln community in July as the new Director of the Center for Peace, Equity & Justice through Service. Sterling was recently a Project Director at Youth 4 Change Alliance, an alliance between four different youth organizations in Providence that works with young people from throughout Providence to build youth power so that youth can be true leaders in the community. Before that she was a special education teacher at the West Bronx Academy for the Future.
The Center was an important resource for the Class of 2012 whose members were active in organizing Morgan Stone ’00 Day, International Women’s Day, and many other service projects on campus and beyond. Lincoln is deeply grateful to the Class of 2012 for making its class gift to the Center, providing funds for a new table where students and faculty can meet and fuel new projects and opportunities for growth.
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Aaron Casey & Fungai Kanogoiwa
Aaron Casey and Fungai Kanogoiwa are consultants from Alterra Consulting hired for the 2011-12 school year to assist with the planning and organizing of International Women’s Day, Morgan Stone Day, the Middle School Human Rights Convention and the Senior Service Projects.
As part of Human Rights Day, Aaron and Grade 8 skype with a school in South Africa.
wHAt AttRActED you to woRK At LINcoLN?
We are attracted to Lincoln School’s commitment to service, reflection, and community action. And we admire the school’s eagerness to grow beyond time-tested ways of pursuing these commitments. From the start of our work with Lincoln School, we’ve been impressed with everyone’s eagerness to question traditional paradigms and methodologies, and to embrace new, alternative ways to make a difference. wHAt Do you SEE AS tHE StRENgtHS to A DAy-LoNg SympoSIum?
A day-long symposium can be transformative, if planned well and creatively. A symposium is strong when it challenges participants – adolescent girls, in Lincoln School’s case – to embrace a concept (“diversity” or “civil rights”), and to say “I get that,” or “Hey, I can do my small part to advance understanding.” We’re proud to have partnered with Lincoln School to bring about several symposia, where we’ve screened timely films and videos; held collaborative, student-led exercises; and invited young, accomplished role models to share their stories in plenary sessions and workshops. These events have been youth-centered and, we trust, have shown respect for the girls’ own ideas and
their natural eagerness to effect change. This, we believe, has made the symposia impactful.
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We’ve been impressed with the level of energy, commitment, and excitement that the girls have brought to this year’s various events.
Our most pleasant “surprise,” if you will, has been the chance to collaborate directly with the girls – to deliver a Morgan Stone Day with global relevance and to pull off a media festival of meaning and significance. In both cases, we saw girls stepping up well in advance of the event, eyes always on the ball, to invite guest speakers, ensure availability of space and technologies, and offer ideas and input around program substance.
For the festival that just ended, Meredith, Hannah, Georgia, Katie, and Izzy, 8th graders in Debbie Hanney’s History class, queried students, teachers, and others on what Human Rights means to each of them. The girls documented the responses on camera, and presented these at the conclusion of the festival under the headline, “What Can We Do?” How impressive!
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Making Connections by Kali Ridley ’13
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rade 8 held their first Human Rights Media Festival on Friday, May 4, and it was a lively event filled with discussion and big topics. During the morning, students Skyped with the Hendrik Verwoerd School in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Having studied South Africa in depth earlier in the year, they were excited to ask and answer questions with South African students. Later in the day, the students watched and discussed several provocative and inspiring movie clips, including scenes from Rabbit Proof Fence and Salute.
Robyn Allen, formally of MIT and a recent speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative University, lead students in fastpaced discussions around these films. Students engaged in intense dialogue around issues of power and identity struggles, standing up for what is right and considering many points of view.
Students then worked with Svetlana Kitto, a writer, teacher, and oral historian, on creating banners and artwork as a way to convey human rights messages. The Festival ended with a movie created by students Meredith Brown ’16 and Georgia Jones ’16.
During the weekend of April 21, nine Lincoln students, Victoria Agbelese ’13, Christine Agbelese ’14, Ibukun Olubowale ’14, Grace Olubowale ’14, Nashalia Ferrara ’13, Carla Maria Thillet ’13, Leticia Lopes ’13, Natasha Rosario ’12, and Kali Ridley ’13 and two faculty members attended the AISNE (Association of Independent Schools in New England) Students of Color Conference.
love attending the AISNE conference. This conference is a time in which I have a huge amount of fun, but also learn a lot about race and diversity in many different independent schools around New England. There are enthralling keynote speakers, beautiful dance and poetry performances, and wonderful workshops at the AISNE conference every year. Though there were a variety of different styles of workshops this year, the workshops mainly focus on the experiences of students of color in majority White schools, providing us with the tools to make one’s experience in these schools a little better.
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Both workshops I attended involved the experiences of Black girls and guys attending majority White independent schools. These workshops were personally very important to me because I fall exactly into this category. I got to meet wonderful and intelligent people who offered experiences and shared times of adversity while attending school. We then got to offer each other resolutions and ideas on how to overcome certain difficulties and surpass that adversity.
Though the conference is extremely short, I felt very connected to the students who also attended. I made friends very fast and loved having the opportunity to bond with people that I did not necessarily know extremely well, but since I shared such similar experiences, we instantly bonded. It is very beneficial to meet such great people and make such great connections.
I always end this conference feeling very empowered and strong. Through this conference, I have learned that I am not alone in the struggle of being a Black student in a majority White school. This conference enables me to put certain things in perspective and helps me to realize that though attending a school in which I am in the minority race can often be challenging, others face many more difficult challenges than I do in the world. Again, I LOVE going to AISNE and strongly recommend it to any student, especially minority students looking to have a ton fun and gain insight on the experiences of hundreds of minority, as well as majority, students from around New England.
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Women Achieving International Women’s Day
by Tess Van Schepen ’12
nternational Women’s Day has been recognized by the UN since the early 1900s. The purpose of the day is to inspire women and celebrate their achievements. On March 8, unique celebrations occur throughout the world. These events often include diverse groups of people joining together for a greater cause. The day has even been recognized as a holiday in many countries throughout the world.
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Lincoln’s celebration of the day began when (then Juniors) Eve Stutsman-Hubbell ’06 and Kathan Teepe ’06 started the International Women’s Day Committee at Lincoln in 2005. The club began planning a day of celebration in early March. Each year the committee chooses a theme to focus on. The theme allows for many different experiences to be shared through the lens of a particular issue. Themes in the past have been: Women in Activism, Transforming Dreams into Realities, and Voices: the Heard and the Unheard. Each of these themes allowed students to discuss issues that they may not have thought of before. The day has evolved to include workshops led by prominent women in our community and globally, panel discussions with people who have varying opinions on modern issues, a keynote speaker who gives remarks on the day’s theme, and an activity that gets students thinking about what they learned throughout the day and how it can relate to their lives. During workshops, speakers often share their experiences relating to the theme and then join the students in a discussion. Workshop leaders have included anyone from doctors to magazine editors, non-profit executives to artists.
The Carol E. Mann ’67 Fund
In 2003, Lincoln alumna, Carol E. Mann '67, gifted the Carol E. Mann '67 Endowment, to support faculty education on issues of diversity. The income from the Mann Fund provides professional development and training for faculty to improve and enhance their teaching in response to the growing diversity of the Lincoln community. These efforts are now an integral part of the Center for Peace Equity and Justice through Service. In the past several years, for example, the Mann Fund enabled Lincoln to bring
Tess with Bekah Heath ’12 and Erin Murphy ’12
Students often walk away from the day feeling more aware of what goes on in the world and how privileged we are to be attending a school like Lincoln.
I have been on the committee since my Sophomore year and have throughly enjoyed it. During both my Junior and Senior years I served in more of a leadership role while planning the day. Our committee has recently been comprised of a small group of dedicated and passionate girls who meet weekly to discuss our plans. We begin meeting in the fall and do not stop until every detail has been meticulously put in order. My favorite part of being on the committee has been meeting the women who come to celebrate the day with us. I have been honored to meet women who have dedicated their lives to making the world a more equitable place. Upon graduating from Lincoln, I think that my experience in planning this day will be one of the things I miss most. I am thankful to have collaborated with a group of girls who are all passionate about bringing to light issues that may not normally come up in classroom discussion.
special guests Seven Tejada, Valerie Tutson and Padma T. Venkatram, Lardycia Rashaun Manns for the annual Morgan Stone Day. In 2010 and 2011, the Fund enabled faculty to attend diversity conferences and workshops through AISNE and NAIS and the Quaker Youth Leadership Conference in 2010. The Lincoln community is deeply grateful to Carol Mann for her leadership commitment to this important fund.
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What Do Tagging Horseshoe Crabs and Re-building a House Have in Common? They’re part of Lincoln’s 2012 Senior Service Projects “one of the most amazing parts of the service trip was learning about the horseshoe crabs that are vital to the area of the Delaware bay, and participating in tagging them during the day at Slaughter beach (not a very inviting name!), then conducting a population census at high tide at 11:00 p.m. At first, during the tagging process, the girls were hesitant to touch these strange looking things, but after a bit of bonding time, they were affectionately scooping them off the beach, eager to tag them and place them back into the bay. Hayley Lough working in the lab at Ximedica as part of her senior service project.
he 2012 Senior Service Projects were completed during the weeks of May 21, 2012 and May 28, 2012. Each senior was given an opportunity to take action in service to others that involved ample, meaningful project work. They were encouraged to become keenly aware of their chosen project’s beneficial effect on human communities, locally and globally. Some students chose to remain locally in Providence, while others decided to explore group opportunities in two other locales – Montreal and the Delaware Bay. The projects all grappled with one or more of these critical policy themes: Basic Needs & Education; Artistic Expression; Environmental Renewal; Food Security; Housing & Homelessness; and Migration, Immigration & Refugees.
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Many of the projects drew a link between the local and the global. Students come to appreciate that the needs and challenges around homelessness, for instance, or environmental renewal, are just as great in Providence, Rhode Island as they are in East Africa, Canada, and across the globe.
At high tide on the New moon, thousands of the crabs come up to the edge of the shoreline to mate. In groups, beginning at various sections of the beach, we'd go through and drop a sqaure meter of pvc piping onto an area of mating horseshoe crabs, then quickly count and record the male-to-female ratio of crabs in that section, before the tide would sweep them back up and move them all around. In the dark, using only flashlights or headlamps, the crabs look like shiny piles of big rocks lining the shore. we learned about how these prehistoric creatures are a vital part of the food chain for the shorebirds who eat their eggs. their blue blood, which is extremely pure, is used in science for testing intravenous drugs for bacteria and infection. Also, their ground up shells contain substances that helps to regenerate cartilage after surgery. Scientists need to carefully monitor their population for all of these reasons, and track the amount of males and females that are reproducing.”
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Across the Pond and Back Again: The Lincoln-Durham Exchange by Caitie March ’15
hat a lovely, busy, fun, and social week we had while hosting our guests from Durham High School for girls. becky Stephenson stayed with us, and it was such a pleasure to get to know her, and see Lincoln through her eyes. I loved hearing from her how our girls interact with their classes and teachers, and her excitement in seeing the similarities of our schools, as well as the differences. (they are stricter about appearances; at Durham, students must keep their hair tied back or up until grade 10!) with busy days of being at school or touring brown, the State House, sight seeing in boston, Newport and more of Rhode Island, we packed in a social schedule in the evenings too, with dinners at local eateries, and some lovely home cooked dinners too. getting to know patricia and becky, as well as four other educators from Durham who have had the opportunity to visit us over the past three years, has provided a small glimpse into another culture’s traditions, styles and perspectives, as well as providing a delightful collection of vocal accents to delight my ears!
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Durham students and faculty visit Lincoln School in April 2012 pictured here with their hosts Robb Barnard and Ruth Marris-Macaulay and Head of School Julia Russell Eells.
or me, the exchange started with an email. One message, addressed to the Lincoln community about an exchange trip to Durham, England. Anyone interested had to submit a paragraph about her reasons for wanting to visit. So I did, and somehow, I got in. A couple days and plane rides later, we (Mrs. Palmieri, Mrs. Kelsey, Stephanie, Leah, Kali, Katie and I) arrived in London. One of the first things we noticed after emerging from the train station were the red telephone booths across the street. For most Americans, going inside an actual British telephone booth, all cute and crimson and… well, British, is an exciting opportunity. So naturally, we took a few photos. The rest of our time in London consisted of riding in actual British double-decker busses or traveling through the city on foot. Sightseeing, eating, shopping— everything was just fantastic.
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Eventually, we said ‘goodbye’ to the city and headed to Durham, where our English sister school was waiting. We were already in touch with our host families, and I couldn’t wait to meet Maddy, my hostess. Everyone was welcoming and very kind. Mostly, we went to school for half the day, then toured the town with two of Durham High’s wonderful teachers. Some of the best memories for me are walking down the enchanting cobblestone (yes, cobblestone) streets, and seeing the school musical. The girls performed Grease. The show was incredible,
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Stefanie Chorianopoulos ’11, Katie Holt ’14, Kali Ridley ’13, Leah Tinberg ’12 and Caitie March ’15 on their trip to Durham in March 2011.
and so were their American accents. I truly enjoyed getting to know Maddy. Spending time with her was so much fun. When we returned to the states, I was already thinking about when she would come and visit me so I could show her Lincoln — a world of kilts, enthusiastic students and inspiring teachers.
And she did come, last month. I felt like part of her family over in England, and here, she became an honorary March. When I asked the other girls that went to Durham and/or hosted a British guest about their thoughts on the exchange, they were full of positive comments. Kali talked about how she “thoroughly enjoyed her experience in Durham.” She loved spending time with Eleanor, her hostess and friend. The trip created new friendships for her, “not only with the English girls, but also with the Lincoln students who travelled with me.”
Emma, the Lincoln hostess for Alicia, said that, “hosting Alicia was a wonderful experience. She was so kind, cheery, and talkative!” Alicia claimed the trip was “a once in a lifetime experience. I couldn’t have met a better group of people who were all so welcoming!” It was an adventure I’ll never forget. To any student who’s thinking about applying next year, I say go for it! The young ladies of Durham High School for Girls are sweet, funny, and charming, and I had an amazing time.
I am very excited to know that I will have the opportunity to visit Durham next year with a group of our students, and experience the flip-side of our annual exchange. -Robb barnard performing Arts
goINg gLobAL “THE MARCH OF THE LIVING is an international, educational program that brings Jewish teens from all over the world to Poland on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, to march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the largest concentration camp complex built during World War II, and then to Israel to observe Yom HaZikaron, Israel Memorial Day, and Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel Independence Day. The goal of the March of the Living is for these young people to learn the lessons of the Holocaust and to lead the Jewish people into the future vowing Never Again.” (source: http://www.motl.org) Jewish teens marching to the Western Wall
“First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me,” is a poem by Martin Niemöller. I read this throughout my trip it is a reminder to continue or begin to help those who need it, or those who are being oppressed.
Bekah (center) with friends at the Western Wall in Jerusalem
n a Sunday afternoon, about four weeks ago, I found myself standing in JFK airport with sixty other Jewish teens all standing around me. I clutched my suitcase hoping it would bring me comfort, yet the intensity and the reality of where I was headed brought me no relief. I was going to Poland. I was going to visit concentration camps. I was going to where my family members had perished.
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The concentration camp of Birkenau (or Auschwitz 2)
ticipants of the March of the Living, the program I attended. I marched from Auschwitz to Birkenau, with liberators, survivors, young Jewish teens, and young Polish teens commemorating the survival of the Jewish people. Six million Jews were killed as part of the Holocaust. Now, Jewish people make up only 0.2% of the entire world’s population. All of the people that accompa-
The March of the Living by Bekah Heath ’12
When I landed in Poland I saw exactly what I had expected, rain. Rain drenched Warsaw, the capital of Poland, in a depressing haze that left me feeling disheartened. Although I wanted nice weather, I knew that the rain was a better fit for the places I was about to visit. On my very first day in Poland I visited the concentration camp called Majdanek. It is the concentration camp with the most remnants. Most of the barracks that the prisoners stayed in are still there, the crematorium is still there, and the ashes of the people are still there. As soon as I stepped out of the bus a certain smell permeated my senses, and it continued to get stronger the closer I got to the edge of the camp. There I stood, at the very back of the camp, in between the crematorium and the remains of the ashes of the people who died there. There I stood on green grass where the land sloped in such a way that small mountains formed. There I stood at the mass gravesite of 18,400 Jews. The slopes in the land were formed when on one day, 18,400 Jews were killed and buried in trenches in the ground. My week in Poland was horrifying. I visited Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Treblinka, three of the most terrifying concentration camps the Nazi rule ever created. I touched the barbed wire fences, I saw the train cars used to transport the prisoners, and I walked along the spot where millions of Jews said goodbye to their families forever. But, I did not do all of this by myself. I was accompanied by 11,000 par-
nied me on the March of the Living (all 11,000 of us), could have been killed in less than one day at Birkenau, where 20,000 people were killed and cremated per day. It is impossible to find the right vocabulary to use to describe what I have seen and what others have experienced, yet I would not change going for the world. On the second week of my trip I traveled to Israel, the place that the Jewish people believe is home. To us, Israel is a sanctuary, a haven, and a home. The Holocaust was not the first uprising against the Jewish people, but it may have been the most intense. The Jewish people needed a place that protected us from evil, a place that would ensure the survival of our religion and bring a sense of comfort to all those who were misplaced and mistreated during the events of World War II. Modern day Israel is surrounded with conflict and controversy, but Israel simply in its existence brings joy to the survivors of the Holocaust. In Israel, I was once again greeted by 8,000 Jewish teens as we marched to the Kotel, or the Western Wall. The Kotel is the holiest place for the Jewish people, and being there with so many other Jews was absolutely incredible. If there is one thing I learned from my trip it is to never forget, yet this cannot happen if genocide is still happening in the world. I have truly been changed forever and I am so grateful for the opportunity I was given. I will cherish my trip, cherish my family’s past, and cherish my future.
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Notes from the Field
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by Dr. Sue Cooke ’84
THE WORLD IS A MUCH MORE INTERCONNECTED PLACE NOW THAN WHEN I WAS A STUDENT AT LINCOLN IN THE 1980S.
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Receiving a high quality education is about much more than getting good grades in order to get into a good college...It’s about acquiring the belief that as young women, left: Sue giving a TV interview we the are2010 powerful agents during FIFA World Cup for change in a troubled world.
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back then, cable tv was new, no one had heard of the Internet, and mobile technology was limited to built-in car phones. International perspectives at Lincoln— where they existed—came from french and Spanish club trips to france and Spain, Lambrequin tours to England, articles we read in miss Roberts’ contemporary world Issues class, and AfS exchange students from Europe and Asia who seemed incredibly exotic. cNN hadn’t yet broadcast live from the front lines of a war (1991), and facebook (launched in 2004) hadn’t become a platform for popular uprising in the Arab world.
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“Lincoln helped plant that seed of responsibility in me: a sense of obligation to use the knowledge and resources at my disposal to understand and make a positive contribution to the world.”
Sue with Bafokeng colleagues at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. Dr. Sue cook, Lincoln ’84, received her bA from brown and her phD from yale. She has held academic appointments at yale, brown, and the university of pretoria. Her current title is Research and Knowledge management Executive, Royal bafokeng Nation (www.bafokeng.com). She is the author of numerous academic articles and the book Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives. She lives in Rustenburg, South Africa, with her husband charles and their two children.
Now I live in South Africa with my Rwandan husband whom I met in Cambodia and am in daily contact with friends and colleagues on five continents. I Skype, text, tweet, post, and chat every day, and effortlessly follow debates about post-genocide justice in Cambodia, preservation of Maori heritage in New Zealand, constitutional challenges in Senegal, and Rhode Island’s economy. Technology has made it easy to know about the world beyond our doorstep, but the challenge is still to live a meaningful life in the wider world… How do we go about doing that? I’ve spent more than half of the 23 years since I graduated from college living and working abroad, in Botswana, Cambodia, Ethiopia, and South Africa. I’ve worked in the fields of international development, human rights, and academic anthropology, and I’m currently the research director for the Royal Bafokeng Nation, a small traditional community in South Africa that uses income from platinum mines to address poverty, AIDS, lack of infrastructure, etc. I feel very fortunate to have traveled widely, to have experienced life from a wide range of perspectives, and to have worked on some of the world’s most serious problems.
Lincoln had a lot to do with setting me on a path of global citizenship where awareness and action are inextricably linked. Receiving a high quality education is about much more than getting good grades in order to get into a good college. It’s also about gaining exposure to all manner of diversity (geographic, ethnic, economic, religious, etc.). It’s about gaining the confidence to wonder, explore, and discover. It’s about developing the skills of critical inquiry, higher-order thinking, and compelling communication. It’s about acquiring the belief that as young women, we are powerful agents for change in a troubled world.
With those things as our foundation, we can go off to college hungry for the knowledge, perspectives, and experience that starts to shape our understanding of the true interconnectedness of things. I’m not referring to the instantaneous global connections available on Facebook, but rather the way in which trade policies in the US affect individual livelihoods in India. Or the way China’s appetite for industrial commodities affects the environment in Africa. The more you learn about how political, social, economic and environmental issues in one place have intended and unintended consequences in another place (or time), the clearer it becomes that those of us who’ve been given the tools of critical thinking and reflection need to participate in shaping decisions, guided by our values, our conscience, and our commitment to a better world.
Lincoln helped plant that seed of responsibility in me: a sense of obligation to use the knowledge and resources at my disposal to understand and make a positive contribution to the world. Rather than a burden, I’ve always seen this as a privilege. The more I’ve traveled and learned about other societies, other ways of life, the luckier I feel to be part of that wider world.
How each of us decides to act on the knowledge and awareness we acquire through schooling and experience is a personal thing. For some, climate change is the most compelling problem of our time, worthy of sustained and collective effort. For others, social and economic justice is the central issue to be tackled. Food safety, animal rights, gender inequality, marine pollution…the list is endless. In my own work, I’ve spent years studying and writing about genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Darfur, and more recently, trying to overcome the obstacles to reducing poverty in rural Africa. This has been humbling and rewarding work, always challenging me to question my own assumptions and consider the issues from different points of view. I’m proud to say I’ve been effective as a teacher, professor, policy advisor, and advocate. The biggest surprise, and the most enduring lesson for me personally, has been this: the many things we learned at Lincoln, and later on, are not designed to make us charming, well-informed, and interesting amongst our peers. They’re designed to empower us to participate in the global society, at the highest levels and on the thorniest issues. They’re supposed to equip us to identify and solve problems. The power to think and reflect is the power to act, and as global citizens, we underestimate our abilities and our influence at our own peril.
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LIgHt up LINcoLN
Lauren Motola-Davis and Lanette Budovsky
Carrie Gilroy and Colleen Murray Coggins ’79
Sandrine Dundas, Jennifer Wieting, Tracy CicconeDiTroia, and Chelsae Biggs
Middle and Upper School Director Peter Brooks
Mark and Joan Mathieu-Tate ’77
Lanette Budovsky and Dawn Blais
Deb Baum, Chip Riegel, and Matt Baum
above: Larry and Ellen Walsh right: Robert Ridley and Martha Boss Bennett ’85
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Nearly 250 Lincoln parents, alumnae, faculty and friends gathered at the providence Art club on April 21 for our school’s annual benefit to raise funds for student scholarships. the event co-chairs - bri gallo, brooke gallo, and beth thomas - shared, “your support strengthens our community and affords current Lincoln students the chance to continue to learn and grow.“
parent and alumnae support helped make the evening a success. thank you to everyone who donated their time, energy, and talents in support of a fantastic evening.
Event co-chairs Beth Thomas, Bri Gallo, and Brooke Gallo
Ian and Ting Barnard
Ann and John Williams
Ron deFeo placing the winning bid
Byron and Carina Monge
Angelo and Marlene Bellini and Gail and Steven Theriault
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DEvELopmENt & ALumNAE RELAtIoNS
Welcome New Trustees...
Kim Briggs Berry ’76
A proud parent of two Lincoln alums, Chelsea and Cameron (both members of the Class of 2009), Kim Briggs Berry has been actively involved at Lincoln over many years. In recognition of her loyalty and service to the school, she was the recipient of the 2010 Lincoln Alumnae Citation award. She has served on the Alumnae Association Board, the Strategic Planning, Legacy Gala, 125th Birthday Bash, and Alumnae Weekend Committees, as well as on the Parents Association. She currently serves as a member of the Planned Giving Advisory Council, given her legal background. Kim is a graduate of Bucknell University where she majored in Political Science and minored in Economics. She received her law degree from Pepperdine University and practiced law in California, Rhode Island and Massachusetts until retiring in 2003. Since 2007, she has been an Independent Consultant with Arbonne International, a health and wellness company. Kim and her husband, Rob, (along with their 2 daughters) live in East Greenwich, RI.
Heather Hahn Fowler ’87
Heather Hahn Fowler is a marketing consultant with more than 20 years of experience working on brand strategy, customer experience management, lead generation and communications programs with both early-stage and Fortune 500 companies. She has a particular interest in rapid-growth technology companies, marketing automation, process management and metrics and analytics. Some of the companies with whom she has worked include Hallmark, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, BEA Systems and salesforce.com. Heather’s interest in volunteering began during her time at Lincoln and continued through her college years and beyond. Currently, she is involved with a number of San Francisco Bay-Area non-profit organizations that focus on children’s education and welfare, land and water conservation and the arts. In addition, Heather served on the Lincoln School Alumnae Board during the past year. Heather graduated from Emory University with a BA in English and Political Science. A long-time resident of San Francisco, Heather resides there with her husband, Kelly, daughter, Ansley, and golden retriever, Hatch.
Maris Perlman ’05
Maris Perlman recently obtained her Master of Science degree in Public Health at Emory University. While studying at Emory, Maris completed internships with the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Methodist Hospital in Houston. Maris obtained her undergraduate degree in 2009 from Stanford University, where she majored in Human Biology and was a member
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of the school’s Division I women’s lacrosse team. She was named an International Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association Scholar Athlete and Regional All American in 2009. She also was named to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation All-Academic Team and the Stanford University Athletic Director’s Honor Role during her last three years. In her free time, Maris worked for the Health Trust, a non-profit which sponsors community health initiatives in the Silicon Valley area, and Metrolacrosse, a non-profit focused on addressing social and economic disparities in Boston through sports-based character education programs for teens. Maris and her fiancé, Jason Castro, currently reside in Houston, Texas, where she is eagerly awaiting the publication of a health policy textbook for which she authored the chapter on the UK healthcare system. She is actively involved with several local Houston non-profit organizations, including Texas Children’s Hospital, the Houston Area Women’s Center, and the Houston Astros Wives Organization.
The daughter of Ann and Alan Perlman, Maris’ participation on the Board continues her family’s long support of the school. Her mother, Ann, has just concluded her second term as a Trustee and her sisters, Sarah ’99 and Leah ’02, are also Lincoln graduates.
Kilah Walters ’95
Kilah Walters is the recipient of Lincoln’s 2011 Young Alumna Award, in recognition of her leadership, initiative and service to others in her career with the state of RI. She is proud to be returning to the school to join the Board of Trustees. Kilah holds a BA and M.Ed. from Providence College and is currently pursuing her doctorate in Education and Leadership from Johnson & Wales University.
A clinical therapist by trade, Kilah serves as the Gender Specific Probation Officer at the RI Department of Corrections. She is the first and only probation officer who specializes in gender specific counseling that focuses on empowering female ex-offenders as they transition back into the community through specialized education and outreach. Residents of Providence, Kilah and her fiancé, Dion Clinton, are proud parents of their 19-month-old son and are expecting a daughter this August.
Marisa Trant ’14, Student Representative
As Vice President of the Student Council, Marisa is excited to attend the Board Meetings next year as a student rep. She entered Lincoln in eighth grade and is currently on the soccer team as well as the crew team. Marisa is also involved in several clubs, including: Newspaper, Buddy Club, and Debate. From the town of Cumberland, RI she loves Lincoln and also plays the piano, runs, and snowboards in her spare time.
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...and Alumnae Board Members! Allison Gelfuso Butler ’96
Allison Gelfuso Butler ’96 is an educational psychologist and Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology at Bryant University. Allison teaches courses such as Child and Adolescent Development, Educational Psychology, Psychological Testing, and Introduction to Psychology. Her research focuses on learning and cognition in K-12 populations, higher education pedagogy, and educational policy. After graduating from Lincoln, Allison received her B.S. degree in Psychology and Elementary Education from the College of William and Mary and then taught fifth grade at St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Virginia. She earned her Master’s degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. in Developmental and Educational Psychology from Boston College.
Stephanie Chamberlain ’88
Stephanie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Quinnipiac University. She has over 15 years of experience in the Human Resources field, with a strong expertise in recruiting. Her industry experience includes Information Technology, Biotechnology, and Medical Device.
Since joining Ximedica, she has seen the company more than double in size and has been involved in hiring 90% of their current employees. As Director of HR, Stephanie is involved in strategic management, workforce planning and employment, HR development, compensation, quality, and safety. She also leads Ximedica’s STEM educational outreach for young women and drives female leadership and development within Ximedica. Stephanie has played a major role in faciltiating a successful multi-year partnership with Lincoln School to give students the opportunity to explore careers in engineering.
Alana Chloe Esposito ’03
Alana Chloe Esposito ’03 recently returned to New York after earning a master’s of International Affairs at Sciences Po in Paris, Alana Chloe Esposito works as a correspondent for MediaGlobal News, based in the United Nations, and contributes freelance to various publications including the International Herald Tribune. Her writing tends to focus on the intersection of art and politics/diplomacy/international development. She arrived at this juncture by interspersing her course of studies in international relations with stints working in her other field of interest, the arts. She worked for two years at a contemporary art museum in New York upon graduating from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and completed an internship at Christie’s Paris during graduate school. Fond of traveling, Alana relishes encounters with intriguing people and places.
Tamara Susan Nash ’75
Tamara Susan Nash ’75 is the Executive Director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA. Since 2006 she has lead programs that enhance, promote and expand the University’s connections with the City of Atlanta via service-learning, student leadership development, community outreach projects and programs. Since 2008 she has taught a First Year Seminar designed for college freshmen on leadership through service. Ms. Nash’s career includes nearly 25 years as a college and university administrator at Brown University, Marymount College of VA, American University and Spelman College. Prior to joining the Oglethorpe University President’s leadership team, she was Director, Community Affairs at Georgia-Pacific Corporation headquarters in Atlanta, responsible for corporate philanthropy and community relations for nearly a decade.
She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in French Literature and Language from Wellesley College and a Master of Education degree with a concentration in Higher Education Administration from Harvard University. In addition to being a Founding Trustee and Advisory Board member of the Atlanta Girls’ School, she serves as Vice Chair, Charles R. Drew Charter School Board of Directors; member, Atlanta Wellesley Club, Partnership Council, Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education, Leadership Atlanta Class of 2005, The King Center Salute to Greatness Awards Dinner Annual Program Planning Committee, 2011 and 2012 National Selection Committee, Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation, and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Atlanta.
Judith Rice Vandegriff ’50
Judy retired from the National Security Agency in 2000 and is currently an Adjunct Faculty member of the University of Maryland, University College (UMUC) History, Government, African Affairs Department. She teaches courses in American government, national security and terrorism using either of two venues: distance education (DE) or hybrid. The DE courses are online and draw from a worldwide student population. The hybrid courses are a combination of classroom and online and draw from the local student population.
Judy lives in Bethesda, MD, with her husband of 57 years and a Maine coon cat named Phoebe. She has 3 children and 4 grandchildren. Her hobbies are local politics, sports, and music. She is Past President of Montgomery County Commission for Women and a member of the Montgomery County (MD) Charter Review Commission. She enjoys playing USTA Super Senior tennis and singing in a local church choir where she relies on the chorus skills learned in her 4 years in the Lincoln Glee Club. Judy shares, “I look forward to being able to serve Lincoln School as a member of the Alumnae Board. I appreciate the gift of a Quaker education that Lincoln gave me. The focus on the skills of learning as a way for each person to realize their own inner light and to appreciate the values, beliefs and attitudes of others is a treasure.”
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Congratulations to the 2011 Lincoln School Alumnae Award Recipients! Alumnae Citation Award: Sherry Gardner Cameron ’61
The 2011 Alumnae Citation was awarded to Sherry Gardner Cameron, a member of the Class of 1961, which celebrated its 50th reunion in October 2011. Lifelong friendships are formed at Lincoln and as class scribe, Sherry has been instrumental in upholding the value of friendship and connection to Lincoln. The Alumnae Association is proud to recognize her extraordinary volunteerism on behalf of her class and the greater Lincoln community.
Distinguished Service Award: Patricia Sapinsley ’71
Patricia Sapinsley, a member of the Class of 1971, received the 2011 Distinguished Service Award in recognition of her outstanding career as an architect and financier to promote sustainable building design and energy. The Alumnae Association is proud to recognize her leadership dedication in this critical area of environmental stewardship.
Young Alumna Award: Kilah Walters ’95
Kilah Walters, a member of the Class of 1995, received the 2011 Young Alumna Award. A clinical therapist by training, Kilah serves as a Gender Specific Probation Officer at the RI Department of Corrections. She is the first and only probation officer who specializes in gender specific therapy that helps inmates and ex-offenders, especially women, transition back into the community through specialized education and outreach. The Alumnae Association is honored to recognize her selfless achievements and the positive impact she has had on the lives of these women and their families in Rhode Island. 25
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Milestones
In Memoriam 1930 1934 1934 1935 1937 1937 1938 1938 1939 1942 1944 1945 1946 1957 1958 1965 1973
Elizabeth Miller Richards Helen Gerber Bloom Margaret Bishop Story Eleanor Macomber Sinnicks Bettie Conlon Kepple Martha Field Steel (see memoriam on page 33) Priscilla Barley Bertha (BB) Freeman Davis (see memoriam on page 34) Peggy Bowen Munsterberg Norma Holden Hardy Nancy Baker Hemmerich Eleanor Clayton (see memoriam on page 36) Jane Thorndike Busing Valerie Darke Finlay Barbara Haynes Richmond Betty Scheffer Fingeret Pamela Carlson Bosworth
Edmund C. Bennett Former Board of Trustees member and past parent Karen Cartin (see memoriam on page 77) Staff member and past parent Vivian Fanning Former faculty Frances Sammartino Innis Former faculty Nicole A. Mackintosh ’20 (see memoriam on page 76) Student Deborah O. Wing Former faculty
Marriages
1995 1997 1999 1999 2001 2002 2002 2004 2004
Michelle deTarnowski to Mike Fiorillo Gaia Cornwall to Gerald Sarah Young to Timothy William Collins Courtney Crowell to Bas Solleveld Catherine Leslie Harnish to Andrew Denton LaMar Siobhan McCracken to John Meyer Sara Epps to Matt Donahue Lauren Hittinger to Jason Gum Erika Sogge to Kyle Schneider
Births
1995 To Terza Lima-Neves, a girl, Emma Ivone 1995 To Elisa Herbert, a girl, Skylar
Career Updates
1944 Phyllis Hoge has published her new collection of poetry, Hello House, a book celebrating the difficult art of housekeeping.
1945 Sophie (“Toody“) Burden Echeverria is working on her third book, The McCarthy Canyon Wild Bunch
1950 Audrey Forman Robbins received the Retail Jewelers Organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award
1952 Joy Totah Hilden traveled to Saudi Arabia in April to give a lecture tour
1953 Edith Grossman Pearlman won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her fourth book of short stories, Binocular Vision.
1962 Bobbie Brewster was a Founding Trustee of the World War I Memorial Foundation
1969 Gail Eastwood Stokes will have five of her novels reissued this year as ebooks
1972 Ann Burkhardt recently released her latest publication Ethics in Rehabilitation 1973 Polly Mott started a new public health job as Senior Regional Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean
1973 Liza Browne earned her Master of Science degree in Management with a concentration in Healthcare Administration
1979 Mary Borah Gorman joined Spencer Stuart, a global executive search firm
1980 Hallie Sammartino Di Schino earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and joined St. John’s University in New York as their Vice President for Marketing and Communications.
1982 Helena Buonanno Foulkes served on an Executive Task Force of business leaders for the Wall Street Journal’s Women in the Economy Conference.
1982 Tracey Reynolds Clarke earned her Master’s in Teaching at the elementary level
1982 Lee McEnany Caraher celebrates 10-year anniversary of business, Double Forte in San Francisco
1986 Dyanne Kaufman is Head of Lower School Literacy with Avenues: The Global School
1988 Carol Hetherington has opened her own acupuncture business in Wayland Square, Providence
1997 Jocelyn Walters is now a Senior Account Manager at Usable net in New York City
2004 Lauren Hittinger earned her MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology Summer 2012
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Alumnae and Reunion Weekend 2011
ver the weekend of October 14-15, 2011, more than 200 Lincoln alumnae returned to 301 Butler Avenue to celebrate reunion and enjoy the day at Lincoln School. Reunion classes ending in 1’s and 6’s, spanning seven decades from 1936-2006, came back to spend time catching up, visiting former teachers, enjoying time in the classroom, meeting with Lincoln students and learning about Lincoln today. The Alumnae Association recognized the achievements of three alumnae for their service to Lincoln, their communities and the world. Pat Sapinsley ’71 received the Distinguished Service Award; Sherry Gardner Cameron ’61 received the Alumnae Citation for service to Lincoln, and Kilah Walters ’95 received the Young Alumna Award (see page 25). Events on Friday included tours and classroom visits, a memorial Silent Meeting, the annual Alumnae Awards Luncheon, and book discussion led by Priscilla Leviten Warner ’71 about her new book, Learning to Breathe. Friday evening, classes enjoyed individual class dinners. On Saturday, coffee with Head of School Julia Eells at Faxon Farm, gave alumnae the opportunity to see the new fields and tennis courts at the Farm, and the Rhode Island Festival of Children’s Books and Authors made for a lively day on campus. The All-Class Alumnae Reception at Dwight House on Saturday evening included a special performance by the Lambrequins. Classes enjoyed reunion dinners and lunches on Saturday as well.
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Plans for Reunion 2012 (October 12-13, 2012) are well underway. If you are a graduate in a class ending in 2 or 7, please visit our website, www.lincolnschool.org, for reunion details and plan on joining us!
The Class of 1951 at the Grist Mill. The Class of 1991 at Pizzico. Back row: Africa Costa Williams, Sue Cashion Robinson, Jessica Ricci, Leah Schroder Fox, Melissa Carey Perrone, Tara Watts, Julia Westgate Lown, Stephanie Snow Rambler. Front row: Diane Gallagher, Nanette Loebenberg Fridman, Kassie Kimbriel Jolley, Shawna McKeen Lawton, Bernadine Mignacca Sadwin.
The Class of 1956 at the Grist Mill.
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Congratulations to Mary Sisson Barrett ’36, who celebrated her 75th reunion! Members of the Classes of ’32-’45
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The Classes of 1951 and 1991 both enjoyed class dinners at Pizzico in Providence.
The Class of 1961 celebrating its 50th Reunion. Back row: Nancy Hayes Golden, Sherry Gardner Cameron, Joan Ray, Patricia Robbins Bogash, Nancy Hill Joro, Linda Clave Front row: Martha Prescod Noonan, Kristin Mellen, Marilynn Fera Nereo, Liliane Fulconis Guiriec, and Lane Engles.
Bonnie Leonard Bennett, Amy Sauber Quinlan, Patricia Sapinsley, Meredith Vieira, Jane Palestine Jamieson, Christine Hunt, and Priscilla Leviten Warner from the Class of 1971.
Patricia Sapinsley ’71 and her mother Lila Sapinsley
Allison Gelfuso Butler, Catherine Shaghalian, and Leah Tovmasian Hill from the Class of 1996 celebrating their 15th reunion.
The Class of 1966 celebrates its 45th reunion at Pizzico. Summer 2012
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Lincoln legacies!
Stephanie Snow Rambler ’91, Susan Cashion Robinson ’01, Shawna Lawton ’91, and Africa Costa Williams ’91
Leah Schroder Fox ’91, Africa Costa Williams ’91, Sue Cashion Robinson ’91, Jessica Ricci ’91, Kassandra Kimbriel Jolley ’91, Stephanie Snow Rambler ’91, Julia Westgate Lown ’91, Shawna McKeen Lawton ’91 29
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Christine Downs ’06, Antonia Rutter ’06, Anna Ruth Coon ’06, and Caroline Canning ’06
Lambrequins singing at the Alumnae Reception at Dwight House.
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Anna Ruth Coon ’06 Judith Elson Patch ’81, Cynthia Wachs ’81, Melanie Lutz Anderson ’81, Margaret Hall Donabed ’81, Amy Knowles Chafee ’81, Kristin Brown Close ’81, and Liz Kinnane ’81
Nola Palombo ’06, Rachael Bloom ’06, Erika Lavoie ’06, and Gabi Sherba ’06 Nicole Gesmoni ’01, Kate Rezendes O’Hearn ’01, Amy Stewart ’01 and Charles Cofone, Director of Operational Affairs and Parent ’98 ’95
Learning to breathe, the new book by Priscilla Leviten Warner ’71
Hands on the freedom plow by Martha Prescod Noonan ’61
Shirley Palestine ’42 and Jane Palestine Jamieson ’71 Summer 2012
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Many thanks to the 2012 Reunion Committee who will be reaching out to you over the next few months to plan special class events and alumnae events for everyone to enjoy over Reunion and Alumnae Weekend.
friday, october 12, 2012 Alumnae Day at Lincoln 9 a.m.
10 a.m. 11 a.m.
Welcome Coffee and Registration
Memorial Silent Meeting
Presentations by Alumnae Award Recipients
School Tours and Classroom Visits
11:45 a.m.
Legacy Photo
Evening
RI Philharmonic Open Rehearsal organized by the Class of 1962 Individual Class Dinners (TBD)
12 noon
Alumnae Awards and Reunion Luncheon
Saturday, october 13, 2012 9 a.m. – 12 noon
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. 12 noon 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m.
Fun and Games at Faxon Farm Celebrate the Green and White at the newly renovated Faxon Farm! Family-friendly games, alumnae field hockey game and tennis round robin are among the activities planned. Refreshments will be served. Rhode Island Festival of Children’s Books & Authors Lincoln Campus at 301 Butler Avenue
Community Service Opportunities for Lincoln Alumnae
Individual Class Lunches for the Class of 1947 and 1952
Alumnae Tours of Lincoln School Conversation with Head of School, Julia Russell Eells
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Octobe r 12 & 13 2012
Rooms have been blocked at the following hotels for Lincoln. Reservations must be made by September 21, 2012, in order to secure the rate. Rooms are available at the discounted rate for one or two nights, October 12 and/ or 13, 2012.
Providence Marriott 1 Orms Street, Providence Lincoln School Alumnae Weekend 2012 Group Rate: $149 per night plus tax Free Parking Reservations can be made at 1.866-807-2171 http://www.marriott.com/hotels/hotel-information/travel/pvdri-providence-marriott-downtown/ Renaissance Providence 5 Avenue of the Arts, Providence Lincoln School Alumnae Weekend 2012 Group Rate: $159 per night plus tax Price does not include valet parking at $28 per day Reservations can be made by calling 1.866.630.0704 http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/pvdbrrenaissance-providence-hotel
All Alumnae Cocktail Reception hosted by Julia Russell Eells, Head of School
Individual Dinners for the Classes of 1962, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002 and 2007
Schedule as of June 2012. visit www.lincolnschool.org for reunion updates.
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Congratulations to the 2012 Alumnae Award Recipients please join the Alumnae Association and Lincoln community on friday, october 12 as we recognize the achievements and contributions of the following Lincoln Alumnae at the Annual Alumnae Awards Luncheon (12:00 – 2:00).
Alumnae Citation
Nancy Nahigian tavitian ’82
The Alumnae Citation Award is given to an alumna in recognition of continuous support and significant service to Lincoln School. It honors the alumna who has accepted responsibility in a variety of ways, demonstrated a loyalty to the school and a desire to perpetuate its commitment to excellence in all areas of education for young women.
Distinguished Service Award Diana Scott beattie ’52 Judy Lovering Kramer ’62 Helena buonanno foulkes ’82
The Distinguished Service Award recognizes an alumna whose life and accomplishments exemplify that inner light which the school has traditionally sought to foster. It honors an alumna whose contributions to the quality of life around her have made the world a finer, better place.
Young Alumnae Award casey brennan mcLaughlin ’95 Stefanie casinelli taylor ’97
The Young Alumna Award recognizes an alumna who, through her college experiences and/or post-college employment and/or volunteer efforts, has demonstrated leadership, initiative, and service in an exceptional way. This alumna personifies Lincoln’s mission of confidence, achievement, success, and a lifelong love of learning. For additional information about Alumnae/Reunion Weekend and our award recipients, please visit the alumnae pages on our website at www.lincolnschool.org or contact Adrienne Morris, Director of Development and Alumnae Relations, Lincoln School, 301 Butler Avenue, Providence, RI 02906, 401-331-9696 ext. 3118 or via email at amorris@lincolnschool.org.
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Alexis Allen boss ’89 memorial tennis open
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week of 10th faxon farm Ribbon cutting 20 providence Alumnae Networking Event
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Alumnae weekend 2012 RI festival of children’s books & Authors
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Lincoln foundation Luncheon boston Alumnae Networking Event
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Connecting Our Community Help us connect the Lincoln community!
We’re excited about all the great things happening at Lincoln, and we want to make sure all our alumnae know what we’re up to. We are planning new events across the country in addition to reunions at Lincoln, and we are hoping to connect alumnae to each other, to current students and to recent graduates.
by the end of 2012, we’re determined to connect with every Lincoln alumna, but we can’t do it without your help. 1. Please check that we have your preferred contact information: mailing address, email and phone.
2. Let us know if you’re willing to help your class scribe with this effort by reaching out to a few classmates. Please see a listing of “lost“ alumnae in your class and friends in other classes to help us reconnect with these lost alumnae. If you are interested in helping, please contact Adrienne Morris, Director of Development and Alumnae Relations, at 401-331-9696 ext. 3118 or amorris@lincolnschool.org.
We appreciate your help and look forward to hearing from you. Arlene Tate Schuler ’72 President, Alumnae Association
How to Stay connected:
1. When you move, change phone number, email or have a job move, please contact Naydine Rock ’76, Development and Alumnae Relations Associate, at 301 Butler Avenue, Providence, RI 02906, 401-331-9696 ext. 3126 or nrock@lincolnschool.org with your new information.
2. Visit our website, www.lincolnschool.org and the Online Alumnae Community to update your profile, share news that will appear in the Lincoln Magazine in Class Notes. 3. Reach out to your class scribe with news and updates.
4. Visit Lincoln School Alumnae on Facebook and join your class group to reconnect with classmates and share your news.
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MARTHA FIELD STEEL ’37 (1920–2011)
artha Field Steel, age 91, died December 6, 2011, in Hockessin, Delaware. She moved to Delaware in 1974 after marrying Edwin D. Steel Jr., a United States District Judge. She threw herself into a range of civic activities and quickly made many friends. Martha believed strongly in women’s rights, particularly health, joining the boards of Planned Parenthood, the Pro Choice Medical Fund, and Christiana Hospital. She also was active with the American Civil Liberties Union and the University of Delaware Music Department. Her interests extended to the Delaware Symphony and the Garden Club. She was a lifelong lover of the arts - she started piano as a young girl and played until late in life - and sang in choirs and chorales.
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Martha was an enthusiastic sailor and birder. No matter where she went, her binoculars were in hand. She traveled to Bhutan, Australia, Belize, Zimbabwe, The Seychelles, France, China, Papua New Guinea, Antarctica, Laos, India, Argentina, and the Galapagos Islands, among others. She sailed frequently with her brother Russell and friends in Maine, Scotland, the Caribbean, Long Island Sound, and the Pacific Northwest. She was the daughter of Russell and Flora Field of Barrington, Rhode Island. After attending Lincoln, she went on to Radcliffe College and later the Yale University School of Public Health. She married at the start of World War II and went with her husband to Disney, Oklahoma, where he supervised the construction of a hydroelectric plant. She had three sons and learned to garden, cook, bake, milk cows, and churn butter.
In the 1950s, she moved to Darien, Connecticut, with her second husband and they ran a social anthropology consulting business employing an early computer, the Interaction Chronograph. Later, after she earned a master’s degree in public health from Yale, she went to work for the Population Council in New York City as an epidemiologist, traveling the world to evaluate the Council’s family planning programs.
Her survivors are her sons, Donald, Richard, and Jerome Holway, and their spouses; her granddaughter, Isabelle; and a brother, Russell W. Field. Summer 2012
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Thank You!
To Lincoln School’s Class Scribes for all your hard work and dedication to keeping classmates connected to Lincoln!
BERTHA BETH (B.B.) FREEMAN DAVIS ’38
Former Faculty
vivian v. fanning, age 96, retired music teacher and an award winning professional pianist and organist, died June 12, 2012 at Elmhurst Extended Care in Providence. Vivian taught at Lincoln School from 1970 - 1985 and toured Europe with the Lambrequins, the school's prestigious vocal group. She was the recipient of the Dorothy Gifford Chair Award in 1985.
1932 u 80th Reunion
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margaret Hazen Allen barbara Dean baird Elizabeth carson gardner Elizabeth tillinghast Hazard Lois Landauer Eugenia white Lawrence Jean mealy mcLean Jane Nichols owens Ranola Sherman Scott winnifred moody Stein
Helen Stilson Hardin: I am doing very well as I approach 98. I’m still living in the 13 room, 130-year-old Victorian house, on an acre of ground, in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, where
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B.B. Freeman Davis was a leader while at Lincoln who served as President of Student Council during her senior year and participated in many other student com-
mittees during her Lincoln career. She remained active and generous to Lincoln
throughout her life. She was a devoted member of the Alumnae Association and
served as its President from 1956-60. She received the Alumna Citation in 1993 for her commitment to Lincoln School. She was also her class scribe, ensuring that news and
updates from her class were shared with our community. After graduating from
Lincoln School and Smith College, she was a lieutenant in the W.A.V.E.S. (US Naval
Reserve) during World War II, working as a cryptographer in Texas and Hawaii.
Following the war and her marriage in 1946, she taught nursery school for a time,
raised her children, and was an active volunteer for many non-profit organizations in
the Providence community. Reflecting on B.B., a fellow alumna shares “she put her Lincoln education to work for the community, and her presence will be missed.”
cLASS NotES we raised our two children, and where grandchildren and greats enjoy visiting. Although I claim to have given up overseas travel, and no one in the family knows this yet, but I am toying with the idea of celebrating my one hundredth anniversary in Switzerland, where my Swiss granddaughter hosted my 80th and 85th birthdays. There I hope to see once again three of the four “tutonic men“ (my granddaughter’s term for them) whom I love. The fourth I see regularly, now that he lives in this country and is an active member of our Quaker Meeting. This has been a fascinating century of time to have lived, and I have enjoyed a great deal of it.
My greetings to “the other Helen.“ Helen Hardin (one of “the three Stilson girls“)
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Sally ostrom cole Elizabeth cashman wagner marjorie Andrews waldo
1934
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catherine fales virginia Lucas Hughes Hope Larned wright
1935
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Jane palmer bodell Dorothy Smith zillmer william
1936
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mildred Latham
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1937 u 75th Reunion
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phyllis Lord bradley carol marsh Hancock mercedes madden Lewis mildred boyden oliver virginia barney Stevens marguerite bodell wheeler
We are saddened to report that martha field Steel passed away on December 6, 2011, in Hockessin, Delaware.
1938
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incoln’s Little School, home to more than 40 infants and toddlers, is one of the most highly-sought after daycare/early childhood programs in the City of Providence. The Little School building was named in memory of Lincoln alumna Mary Wilcox Nichols, a member of the Class of 1936 who passed away tragically at 10 years old of meningitis. She loved the outdoors and is still remembered fondly by her classmates. The Little School building was originally called the Beane Barn and purchased by Lincoln in 1929 from the wife of Walter S. Ballou. It was part of the Ballou family’s property that also included Dwight House, which Lincoln acquired in 1943.
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virginia Allen florence moss byrne Janet chafee cushman
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Jean bodell bailey barbara chace bowen
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cLASS NotES Roberta Jenks capek Nancy Jencks clayton barbara cary ferguson Ruth ogden girouard Elizabeth pirnie gruet maureen france masterson Jane Knowles meyer Ann phipps Row margery wicks white
peggy bowen munsterberg died peacefully in her home on Oct. 4th. She was 90. She is survived by her daughter, Marjorie Munsterberg, and three grandchildren. She was buried in the Bowen family plot in the Village Cemetery in Rehoboth, joining her husband and parents, across Rte 44 from Bowen Farm where she grew up - and now, of course, part of Lincoln’s Faxon Farm.
1940
class Scribe: frances makepeace gross 87 Don Avenue Rumford, RI 02916
please help us find your classmates: Josephine Andel Ita Askonas Ruth palmer blount Norma Hurwitz Kaplan marilyn Dushame passanisi Shirley Reeves
1941
class Scribe: patricia Slater carey po box 414 East orleans, mA 02643
please help us find your classmates:
virginia Smith Scott Louise Ashworth cummings Dorothy francis furber margaret Staples morrow Jeanne gilmore o’brien Dorothy Sears
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barbara bullock Klatt: Hi, I am pretty chipper. This year I have had one new knew, eye surgery, and breast surgery. This other knee was replaced 5 years ago. I walk about 2/3 mile every day. Basically, I take care of my house. I shoveled snow only one time this year. We never had a second snow storm. My family now consists of 5 grown children (the sixth is deceased), I had 12 grandchildren (one now deceased), so 11 grandchildren left. Also I have 5 great grandchildren – four in their 20s, 3 of them in the service, and 1 great granddaughter married a serviceman, who was just injured in Afghanistan (he will be OK but will be having a long recovery time). The 5th great-grandchild is now 3 ½ years old and doing well in pre-school. I have treasured my memories of days at Lincoln School. First and second grades, then later on 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th through grade 12. I loved chapel, the prayer and the hymns every day. It was a wonderful “kick off” to a long life, well lived and cherished. Love to all.
1942 u 70th Reunion
please contact the Alumnae office if you are interested in becoming the Scribe for this class. please help us find your classmates: constance Lamb brookes Dorothy mccarthy Loraine gartner Savran muriel Siener
1943
ELEANOR (LEE) ANGELL CLAYTON ’43
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leanor (Lee) Angell Clayton came to
Lincoln School in 7th grade and, in
her words, “loved it from the minute I
arrived.” Following her Lincoln graduation, Lee attended Colby College. In the
1950s, she moved to California and had a very successful career in finance and real
estate investment. As a student, she en-
joyed a love of mathematics and history
that she maintained throughout her life. She was active in the Financial Women’s Club in San Francisco and was one of the
first employees of Rosenberg Capital Management. In her yearbook, Lee was
known for “laughing at jokes that were
not funny” and had an optimistic, cheerful nature that continued to characterize
please contact the Alumnae office if you are interested in becoming the Scribe for this class.
her throughout the years. As an alumna,
betty buffington briggs phyllis gerber Shapiro margaret burke wilcox
ful to Lee for always keeping the Lincoln
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Lee attended and hosted Lincoln events
in San Francisco and was a loyal and gen-
erous supporter. Lincoln is deeply gratecommunity close to her heart.
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1945
class Scribe: Nancy bartlett wing Eastgate 1357 wampanoag trail, Apt. 135 Riverside, RI 02915
class Scribe: Ann cory Stevenson 945 oxford Avenue marina Del Ray, cA 90292 Email: annstevenson@verizon.net
Ellen parsons chamberlayne Elizabeth white gamba Helen talbot Sultzer Dorothy Simkin zahner
virginia Slater carnright
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phyllis Hoge has published her new collection of poetry, Hello House, a book celebrating the difficult art of housekeeping.
polly Amrein: I have just received notice of Phyllis Hoge’s latest book: Hello House Illustrated by Maxine Hong Kingston www.danielpublishing.com/bro/hoge.html. Phyllis is coming to the San Francisco Bay area soon for a reading and Nancy morrow Nee and phyllis barnhill thelen and I are looking forward to it! We are saddened to report that Nancy baker Hemmerich passed away on Tuesday, March 6, 2012, in New Hampshire. She is the sister of vivian baker treat ’42.
Nancy bartlett wing shared the news that former faculty member, Deborah (Debby) osburn wing passed away on May 6, 2012, after a successful career in teaching and as an advocate for women. Among her many accomplishments, she was the Dean of Women at Knox College in Illinois where she worked tirelessly until her retirement in 1980. In her role, she established the first Women’s Government, giving female students their first significant voice on campus.The annual Dean Deborah Wing Award is now given to a senior woman at the college whose academic and administrative achievements have advanced the status of women at Knox College.
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Sophie (“toody”) burden Echeverria writes, “The wild West is still wild. Seven grandchildren in various colleges, my two books amaze me by selling well through no effort of mine. When In Doubt Step On the Gas and Look Both Ways Before Breaking The Law are on Amazon. Home in Jackson Hole will host my 85th birthday in July. My kids have entered me in the 4th of July Parade in an antique VW, with my two dachshunds and however many great grandkids will fit in back. I must find a suitable chapeau! Meanwhile, my third book, The McCarthy Canyon Wild Bunch, is progressing. Keep well and have fun.”
marty Day Davidson reports that her second shoulder replacement last October has made her feel like a new person & hopes to return to golf again this summer. In the meantime participates in an aerobic swim class. Daughter & granddaughter visiting from Alaska. Granddaughter just finished 4 years teaching & working in Japan and is on her way to Chile to learn Spanish. Here’s a summary of Dar Riddle Kiehl’s Xmas letter. “As we keep getting older, thoughts of travel, exercising, gardening, & going to the beach are receding and we drift more towards visits from loved ones & excessive newspaper (3) reading. We consider ourselves fortunate to have a large family that provides us with interesting ups & downs. As 2011 winds down, we think of all of you often and wish you a Happy & Healthy 2012.”
mythie mccormick Hesse via email as follows, “Happy Spring. Best thing about spring is it brings son, Steve, from Japan for a short visit. We’ll go to Bar Harbor where he now has a house. His son, Kye, is coming here from Japan to live with my daughter Kim’s family in Hopkinton and do his senior year in high school there. His cousin, Tai, will be a sophomore. Tai’s sister, Kate, is finishing 2nd year at Northeastern. All the cousins will have a chance to bond. And I’m thrilled that all three grandkids will be within hugging distance. Am working hard to do exercises, stretching, yoga, stair climbing inside & walking outside. Makes me feel stronger & less prone to falling.’’ betty Dechiara capozzi writes, “Everything is going well. Ed continues to work as CEO of our company with son, Ned. I am still involved with non-profits planning fund raising events. We have four wonderful grandchildren.” Hazel fiske Lundgren is thrilled that her grandson, Ethan, has just been accepted at West Point and will be starting in July.
Was finally able to track down meg Hilles meiklejohn in their cottage at a retirement village in Brunswick, ME. “We are still NH residents. Plan to be in Randolph from mid-April to early November each year. We like this small Maine community. Brunswick is a wonderful college town, but much too full of tourists in the summer. We always plan to return to – life in the slow lane – in our NH mountains. Our middle son & his wife are Boston architects, and our youngest son is with the Conservation Fund in Alaska. Our grandson is a sophomore in high school & granddaughter is a sophomore at R.I. School of Design. She was an intern at Ralph Lauren last summer. We can hardly wait to find out what comes next.”
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cinnie Smith vartan and I had a chat recently. Cinnie still volunteers one afternoon weekly at the Asian Art Museum. She also continues to be very active in the library at her retirement home. Her son, Kirk, has now opened a second restaurant in Sunnyvale, with a garden patio and outside tables. He now employs a total of 30 people at the two locations.
Nunnie Atwater byers and I had a lovely chat this week. We talked about how much they love their “retirement” house in Little Compton; her stone & driftwood sculpture garden (which includes a birdbath) for all local birds & ground critters; and the fact that Randy is recovering from back surgery. She also thought Lincoln might be interested in knowing that her oldest sister, Danaris Sayre Atwater (AKA “Dicie”), age 92, passed away in January. She had been an art historian and guide in all the Newport mansions for the Newport Historical Preservation Historical Society up until five years ago.
Your scribe is still happily living in Marina del Rey, California. Also still volunteering 2 days weekly for the senior center in Santa Monica. Thanks to all 45ers who sent news and hope those of you still with us, will keep in touch even if it’s not just when I send the card. It’s always great to hear from you. Ann cory Stevenson: annstevenson@verizon.net
1946
class Scribe: Lydia Edes Jewell 2435 South gaffey Street San pedro, cA 90731 Email: windgramma@webtv.net
please help us find your classmates:
Anne Aylsworth mayo
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1947 u 65th Reunion
class Scribe: Ann Jenney tilson 355 Huckleberry Hill Road Avon, ct 06001 anntilson@aol.com
please help us find your classmates:
barbara bairnsfather Littlejohn Audrey branch Smith
Spring took us all by surprise this year, and I was late getting news into the office. My computer took a long rest, but now we are both moving around quite well, and I was able to contact a few of our classmates.
Dottie brier was first to reply. She writes that she took some glorious trips with Roads Scholar to Saratoga, Chicago, and American Deserts – Sonora, Mojave, and Death Valley. She also said she is still volunteering at the Red Cross and the American Museum of Natural History. She is looking forward to the Reunion in the fall. Joanne Eastwood tainsh wrote she has had a busy year. She has done a lot of volunteering at her church and the Providence Ronald McDonald House. She also wrote she had lunch with gloria, priscilla, Dottie, Judy and maybury in Providence last September and meets gloria about every month in Boston. Her youngest grandchild is graduating from Wake Forest in May and she is looking forward to that celebration. She hopes there is a good turnout for the reunion in October.
From the West Coast, cynnie Howe brett writes that her kitchen is absolutely beautiful and has caused lots of jealousy. Also her bank account is much depleted. “Had to redo my social life afterwards because I had my contractor for company for about 3 months. That way things were done the way I wanted
them to be. We also had a nice time. While visiting the downtown museum, I heard about junkets put on by the Seattle Parks Board for seniors. I signed on and have had lots of fun. We get to have input, which is great. Have seen plays, gone to concerts, and been to the spring tulip fields. Last month, they took us on a Mystery Tour that they refused to tell us about until we got there. It turned out to be the Rat City Roller Girls at Key Arena! Some shocked people left after intermission and missed the fun part when the big girls come out to play. We spunky North Seattle types had a great time cheering ourselves hoarse. We all agreed that, sadly, we had been denied that kind of roughneck behavior in our days.”
Nancy Noelte clouter and I had a good chat and rather wished we lived a bit closer. She is doing pretty well in her condo, has a bit of trouble walking so takes it slow and easy. She goes out to breakfast every day and the waitresses have gotten to know her and take good care of her. Her dog keeps her busy some days, and her son is around to help often. She will not be able to be with us in October, but I am sure we will be able to send pictures and labeled!
priscilla wright Lingham talked briefly and she said that she would try to be with us in October. She is doing very well and likes seeing Gloria once in a while. Priscilla has also given up night driving and feels stupid about it, as I do, but better than messing up a car or two.
Nancy Herr black leads her life in New Hampshire. She has tried to resign twice from Town Service and from a Board position at the church, but none of them would let her stop. She liked the open winter as wood was a bit easier to bring in for next winter. She is not sure if she would be able to make the reunion in
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October, but it sounded like fun and the years are moving so fast we should see each other more often.
maybury vial fraser said she did not have much news. She and the dog have to get out a couple of times a day, but wondered if she would do that without the dog. During our conversation she mentioned that she has had a hip replacement, and after a week she was walking without aid of a cane, and I call that big news. She is going to try to be at the Reunion.
gloria Aisenberg Sonnabend is now busy gardening and loves doing it. She was with her daughter and two granddaughters in Florida this winter for a while. She also mentioned that she sees Priscilla as often as possible. Gloria hopes to be at the Reunion.
Nancy Lundgren Ransohoff and I talked up a storm as usual. She is so busy, especially now with politics warming up. This will be an interesting year, but neither one of us are able to forecast November. Nancy spent most of the year in Los Angeles, but is back now and looks forward to October.
Judy freeman gross writes: My offer of beds and breakfast (6 beds available) for however many days around reunion time is still good. Diane Stott briggs is
Julie Paxton Barrow ’49 and Lucy Ann Geiga tuning the kettle drums in 3rd grade. hoping to host a lunch meeting at Laurelmead again. That was such a perfect setting last time. If you out-of-towners can hang out we could also have an evening meal or two here as well, with locals joining if possible. I lost my sister bb Davis ’38 this spring and my sister peggy ’42 a year ago. I miss them both. Luckily my health holds up in spite of all my sins. I am still escorting patients at Planned Parenthood 2 days a week. Lately, I have been bad about cheerleading for wind power but hope to get more active soon. Next year all 5 grandkids will be in college! Time flies!
Jackie Kerr Staples and I have seen quite a bit of each other this year. We were able to meet for lunch a couple of times during the year. And then Jackie decided to sell the house in Long Meadow, MA. That was fun as the house was pretty well filled with furniture. Needless to say, I offered to help with getting ready for the Estate Sale. It took about a week to get set up. My daughter, Jenney, came to help price and take care of all sales on the big day. Jackie’s son was issued a firm invitation to come from New Jersey and with a couple others we just about cleared the house. I was glad to be able to help and lend a hand. Jackie hopes to be with us in October.
I have been busy with Estate Sales, auctions and now the newest venture of bidding on Self Storage Units and clearing that out. It is a lot of work, but we have a good time and it is great to work with my daughter. We had some very bad storms in the fall, and the last one left many trees down all over and no power for most of the state. I was without power for 8 days, and it was not as much fun as camping. Jenney got power after 4 days, and it did not take long for me to take the dog and move in with her. We still have a lot of work to do around here. Two weddings coming up, one in the fall and one in the spring. Now if I can just keep the names straight I will have a good time.
May we all meet next October and enjoy ourselves.
1948
class Scribe: peg monroe Normann 59 Highland Avenue New Hartford, ct 06057
please help us find your classmates: Susan Kern Hankins Nancy van blarcom Jenkins Nancy Joslin Esther Shippee merrill
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Lee Loutit Tauck ’49 at her 80th birthday celebration.
Ann Lovenberg palmer: For much of the year, my life was of enforced quiet due to 2 different knee fractures – each incurred while hiking local trails that were hiding ice patches. Otherwise we did an extended camping trip to New Orleans to visit our eldest granddaughter and her husband who is at Tulane Medical.
peg monroe Normann: The Main Antique Bottle and Glass Museum officially opened its door on October 8, 2011, in the carriage house of the historic Robert Andrews Estate of Peg Normann. Peg’s mother, Margaret Monroe, donated Narramissic, the Peabody-Fitch farm, to the Bridgton Historical Society in 1986.
Kristin fletcher frazier: Talk about crazy! What about our current politics? I think the President will prevail. My sister, mary Alice fletcher chase ’42, died in February. Of the six children of grace Abbot fletcher ’15, I am the lone survivor.
1949
class Scribe: Julia paxton barrow 17 Annisquam Street worcester, mA 01602 Email: jpbarrow@verizon.net
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please help us find your classmates:
Joan cooper claire morpeth fede Eleanor cranshaw gibson Althea Kettelle greenwood cordelia Howe Judith greene Jewell barbara pilavin Joslin Jane Hubbard Keydel Joanna poor Noyes Ruth phinney Stevens
It has been such a pleasure to have contacted so many of you. Everyone seems to have survived the trauma of being eighty, with not many noticeable changes except for the greater need for afternoon naps. Ann Lundgren bliven is enjoying retirement after working for so many years. Her grandson recently got married.
Ann bainton Hall reported on her two granddaughters: Julie is married and living in Philadelphia and Lilly is working on her PhD at URI. Her great grandson has just become engaged. Sheila Horton Kennedy had to have more surgery on the leg she injured a while ago. She has eight grandchildren ranging in age from 28 down to 5, and one great grandchild.
Audrey Forman Robbins ’50 with her nephew, Roger Forman, in the Marathon booth at the RJO Show. Jane williams marsello no longer goes to Florida. She recently went on a trip to New York City to see Ground Zero and attend a service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Both very moving. Dorothy Stannard Nash reports she is totally addicted to Soduku.
marcia Irving pomon no longer travels much but manages to go to Florida for 3-4 weeks each winter. Nancy gifford Roach still goes to her farm in Woodstock, VT, where she can visit with her ten grandchildren. Her daughter is a professor of Botany in Charlottesville, VA.
carol waterman Sigg keeps in touch with many classmates by phone, which is very nice. She and Hans Peter still travel but mostly with professional groups now. She will be coming to New York in the spring.
Jean Ames Sturgis has recently joined the Unitarian Church where she is (of course) the auditor. She will be selling her summer cottage on Lake Willoughby, VT, after spending many happy vacations there.
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Leezie Loutit tauck is living in Florida, went to Antarctica last winter and had a huge 80th birthday party. She is a real matriarch!!
gretchen Elliott viall reports she is well, and enjoying walking her a dog a mile each day. grace goodrich ward is very involved with her local Special Olympics. She has three daughters and one grandson.
My news is pretty amazing, as I try to catch up with all the rest of you. My son, who is 47, was married last fall...at last! Am I too old to hope for a grandchild? In January my daughter took me on a three-week trip to Spain to see Roman ruins and Muslim architecture. A wonderful trip. I am glad I am still able to be such a tourist. Best wishes to all of you for a happy and healthy year ahead.
1950
class Scribe: barbara burton Donovan 12 manning Drive barrington, RI 02806 Email: barbdon123@gmail.com
please help us find your classmates: Anne Lapham broadley Janet Kennedy
Audrey forman Robbins of Marathon Company (a family business since 1897) received the Retail Jewelers Organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her leadership in the industry. She was praised for her ability to establish strong relationships with her customers, always displaying warmth, sincerity, and honesty. Today, she works full time with her nephews and is busy embracing the modernization of the business. “I am just hitting my stride,” she says. Congratulations, Audrey!
1951
class Scribe: Dede Kane cohen 85 Scrabbletown Road North Kingstown, RI 02852 (401) 294-6617 Email: dedekcohen@gmail.com
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grace cochran Appell mary mortimer-maddox Arias Ann Kervick Arnold Arlene Avakian Judith cooper marianne Kelley foley Denise Earle Lapham Nancy bradley peters penelope Haste Ramsdell Nancy pemberton Stokes Dear Lincoln ’51 Classmates,
Our 60th reunion took place this fall. In attendance were: Ruth Smith baker-battist, prudy barton bishop, virginia perkins carter, Dede Kane cohen, marty Sanford gendron, Judy walsh malcom, Lenore maine mott and Helen Sharp.
We had a small luncheon at the Grist Mill; where we joined by Julia Eells (Head) and Adrienne Morris, (Head of Development) of Lincoln. They gave us a wonderful briefing on the status of the School. Julia in particular was interested in finally meeting members of our class. If you haven’t yet met Julia and visited the School, let me encourage you to do so. It was just wonderful to be together again; and renew old friendships. On the news front:
Ruth made her first visit to Lincoln in 60 years. She and her husband have a grandchild at RISD, so they found an excuse to get to Rhode Island, from Chevy Chase, MD. We loved hearing about her work as a trial lawyer. Also Lew is a Chemist, who spent much of his career
in the nuclear field – and was a Professor of Chemistry in Nuclear Science and Engineering at Catholic University. At dinner he told us about many of his interesting experiences. He is also a wine connoisseur. We let him pick out our wine to make sure we had a good meal. It was great.
prudy has a great grandchild, in Rhode Island – so she and Mars can spoil the child. Is she the first of our group to achieve that status?
virginia went to India this past spring, with a group from Swarthmore. Happily her son Rob got a new job and moved from New Mexico to Virginia; closer to her Rhode Island home. I had lunch with mimi mallace freeman after the Reunion. We hadn’t seen each other for ages, and it was a great visit. She has done some travelling and takes courses in her spare time. That Lincoln background gave us all an eternal academic urge.
I talked with margaret Hardy goldstein. She lives in Chicago. Came to visit several years ago. Family obligations kept her from joining us this time.
Sally wilcox Jacobs was unable to come. Jules and I do try to visit them on Cape Cod when the weather is nice. They have a lovely home on the shore of Orleans. Some of you may remember it when we spent a day there during our Lincoln days. It was, of course, her parents’ home.
My life doesn’t seem to be exciting. Jules didn’t have any joint replacements this year. That is exciting, however! Visiting my kids in San Francisco a couple of times a year. Our seven kids and 13 grandchildren are spread out all over the country – CT, RI, CA, ME, NC, GA and WV. We do get to see our kids in Middletown, CT periodically. My son John is Summer 2012
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Betsy Streit Mulligan ’53 and her family. Head of a small private school (K – 8); keeping quite busy. My daughter Ann (in Peaks Island, ME) just published a children’s book entitled: The Story of Estrella. She is also working on another book. You can look up her book on the publisher’s web site: ravenspublishing.com.
marty shared with us her great success with a new book, written by her great aunt, Jessie Luther. She was remarkable for a woman in the early 1900’s. She was trained as an occupational therapist and volunteers to work with Dr. Wilfred Grenfell in Labrador. She taught the fishermen how to do wood carving to supplement their incomes during the off-season and taught the women weaving and rug hooking. She had written a manuscript of her adventures in the north that Marty and her uncle, Carleton Goff, tried for years to get published. Finally Marty met Ronald Rompkey, an author and professor from St. John’s, Newfoundland. He offered to edit and get her book published. Jessie’s book, Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission, is available from the McGuill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal. Of note is that Dr. Rompkey also wrote a biography of Sir Wilfred Grenfell; entitled Grenfell of 42
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Labrador; University of Toronto Press, Toronto. Nice going, Marty! We know how pleased you are with the book being published.
Judy is still doing Real Estate work in New York City; but spends a lot of time with her grandchildren.
Lenore and Peter Mott spent six weeks in California with children and grand-children. They said it was a great visit. Truly lucky to be able to have such a visit. I would like to end this letter with Helen Sharp’s note that I just received:
“It is always a joy to come home to see how beautiful and charming Providence really is. Our 60th reunion was especially meaningful and we renewed the connections of dear old friends. Ruthie Smith certainly had a very interesting law career – in the days when we were not encouraged to be career minded. We all looked pretty good, very much alive and happy that we are still The Lincoln Girls of 1951!! That says it all. Be well.
Dede and prudy
1952 u 60th Reunion class Scribe: Jane troppoli Lomas 8 white pine Road coventry, RI 02816 Email: jwlomas@verizon.net
please help us find your classmates: Diane pierce barton Jane Allan potter
congratulations to Diana Scott beattie who will be receiving the Distinguished Service Award at the Alumnae Awards and Reunion Luncheon on friday, october 12, 2012 at noon.
Diana Scott beattie: “I am still in Oman as last June the government decided to give us double the number of scholarships in our pre-medical and pharmacy programs. Our beginning class was thus 330 rather than the usual 150. As you can image we worked frantically to hire 10 additional English teachers as the first year here in the Middle East is intensive English plus math and IT. In addition we rented 8 trailers – 7 as classrooms holding 30 students plus one for offices for the additional teachers. We arranged long tables to increase the seating in the cafeteria and made an addition to
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the library with more computers for student use. So my services were absolutely required. Now we are building an additional 8 classrooms and are starting to recruit faculty to teach biology, chemistry and physics next year. Hopefully, once we are prepared for next year, I can arrange to come home and maybe retire. I sometimes wonder why I am working so hard at our age, but I am fortunately healthy and still energetic.” Linda branch Eggeman’s note reads: “No travels this winter, or any planned for the coming summer. I doubt I’ll make the 60th anniversary. I’m holding out for grandson’s graduation and family get together next spring in Virginia. Two small dogs and little in the way of boarding care, keeps me pretty well situated here.”
caroline (Kitty) Almy gerry: “Going to be in California October 12 & 13 – sorry can’t make 60th. Still very involved with Shelburne Museum. Have run Art Workshops for 11 years. This year from Sept 16-20th starting new course for people who have never painted before! Married for 56 years, 5 children, 9 grands ages 25 years – 9 years old. Interests are still painting, golf & horses. Traveled around the world 2 years ago. Some places you can’t visit now!!! Fragile world!”
Edie Grossman Pearlman congratulations to Lincoln alumna, Edith (Edie) grossman pearlman ’53 who received the 2012 National book critic circle prize in fiction for Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories (Lookout books), a collection of 34 chekhov-like short stories that was also nominated for the National book Award.
pearlman has published more than 250 works of short fiction and short non-fiction in national magazines, literary journals, anthologies, and online publications. Her work has appeared in best American Short Stories, the o. Henry prize collection, New Stories from the South, and the pushcart prize collection – best of the Small presses. Her short essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian Magazine, Preservation, Yankee Magazine and Ascent.
pearlman clearly had a talent and passion for writing early on. In the class of 1953 yearbook, it states that she will be remembered for “her prolific writing…extensive vocabulary… and excellent report cards.”
Jane troppoli Lomas: I did quite a bit of traveling this year, a cruise to Bermuda with an old friend and her retirement group, a trip to visit my daughter, Wendy, and her fiancé in Bellevue, WA, a week in FL with an old neighbor who had recently lost her husband and a week in MN puppysitting so my son and his wife could go to Germany and Austria. I am still doing volunteer work in between.
cynthia tourtellot Robertson: “Looking forward to the reunion!”
Judith murdough Rollinson: Judy reported on a Lincoln meeting in Vero Beach. “On Monday 3/12/12, Lincoln School alumnae in the Treasure Coast area of FL met with Head of School Julia Eells and Director of Development Adrienne Morris for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at the River Club in Vero Beach, courtesy of Linda breymeier
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georgia goddard Schneider: “I found your letter and thought I’d write for once. Went to Disney World with my family in the fall last year (2010) after my husband passed away. Went to Vieques in February and March this year (2011) and then to Seattle to see a niece and nephew in The Wizard of Oz. My memories of Lincoln are many as I was there for so long. I’ve been surprised to see the expansion – all the new buildings. Do you still house boarders on the 3rd floor? I remember happy music classes at (I think) Dwight Hall and softball in the field to the left of the main building. Living in MA I never frequented Providence and environs and missed all the changes. Do they still have leather cover knotted ropes hanging from the ceiling of the gym? It has been a long time.” (Note- Your scribe wrote to Georgia and gave her an update on her memories.)
Nancy blacher Shuster: “Nancy Shuster is still teaching in Naples, FL, and also in RI. She enjoys her classes with her senior life-long learners. She has 6 grandchildren and her three children all live in different locations, RI, FL and NY. If anyone wishes me to help them with their life story, that is what I teach. Feel free to contact me at: Nshu4@aol.com. Hope to hear from you.”
1953
class Scribe: Lee Newth Roberts 40 Howard Street portsmouth, NH 03801-4612 Email: lnr4@comcast.net
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Judy Johnson Joyce peterson Sally Shoop Shaw Hannah whitten
Jane gifford barrows: After 3 1/2 years struggling with Lyme Disease, going nowhere and doing practically nothing, I have decided to live a little in 2012. Expecting “miraculous” results from a new alternative treatment program started in February, I am optimistically planning a few adventures. In May, I will be in Turkey for 11 days with a close friend with whom I went to Greece in 2006. In early July, I will have the opportunity to go to Norway with my daughter-in-law for a visit with all her family there. After that, I hope to be able to attend the Wavus Camp 90th reunion at the end of July in Jefferson, Maine.
Lee Newth Roberts: 2012 finds us with three grandkids heading off to college in the fall. Our budding engineer, California grandson Rodney, will head off to The Colorado School of Mines, his first choice, while our Hotchkiss School granddaughter, Lancy, interested in writing, history and politics will be a freshman at Tufts University, also her first choice. Since the third, 18-year-old, JF, a bi-lingual student at Deerfield Academy, was deferred in his early decision choice; his plans for the fall are not yet confirmed. Our four other grandkids are all teen-agers with the exception of the youngest boy, who is 10 years old. In all, we have five boys and only two girls, enough to keep us on a merry-go-round when they all get together! Rod and I have had two week-long trips during the past year to NYC and will go again this March. We also have been to California for Rodney’s Eagle Scout Court of Honor last September, and will head west again for a surprise appearance at his
graduation in June. Luckily, we will make all three graduations as they are scheduled on different weekends. Rod stays busy as project manager for a young friend, owner of a high-end cabinetry company. Meanwhile, I am involved with the Portsmouth Atheneum, a political events discussion group, peace activism and a poetry reading group. Besides visits with Jane gifford barrows, Edie grossman pearlman and Jan Laing Hetterly, I’ve also had a chance to connect via email as well as to speak on the phone to several classmates which has been a real joy and lots of fun.
Janet Laing Hetterly: Just got back from, literally, sailing the Seven Seas (look ’em up, folks). I began in Manila, where I was born; I’d never been back, and actually tracked down the hospital of my origin! Then boarded a cruise ship and sailed down to Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. We had a great 4 days in the Outback and snorkeled the Great Barrier Reef. Then rejoined the ship, visiting ports along the coast to Sydney, where I had lunch with a high school pal of my brother’s before flying home…on my birthday! So I got to stay 76 for an extra day! ;-) Joy totah Hilden: Dear friends,
It has been a year and a half since my book, “Bedouin Weaving of Saudi Arabia and Its Neighbours,“ was published. It has been a lot of fun and work promoting it, with fewer book events the second year. It came out in paperback this year, and can be bought on Amazon.com or from the US distributor. Related news: some of our collection of Bedouin weavings was exhibited in downtown San Francisco, and there will be one or more exhibits in other venues in the future.
cLASS NotES I have gotten back to work on the biography of my father, Khalil Totah, which I had to abandon while getting “Bedouin Weaving” out. As I sit at my computer, I am surrounded by files and piles of paper, boxes of books, slides that need putting away. One of these days, I’ll need to do a giant cleanup! Our family is doing OK, husband is in good health. He still struggles with the after-effects of two big throat cancer surgeries several years back. I swim, sing and do all the things women do at home. We have a 20-year-old granddaughter living with us. My two daughters and their families live in Southern Calif., and we visit back and forth from time to time. My big news this year is a trip in April to Saudi Arabia with my granddaughter, guests of a few heritage organizations, to give a lecture tour. It will be a challenge, given my habits of swimming every day, getting regular naps and dealing with back pain. But it will be fun. Sorry I’m never able to attend reunions; it would be fun to see you. I enjoy the email posts. My website gives a lot of information: www.beduinweaving.com Joy totah Hilden (joy@beduinweaving.com)
betsy Streit mulligan: We have had a year of ups and downs. I am attaching a photo of our family at a memorial service for our son, Fred, who died of bladder cancer in March of 2011. Marvin and I have had several family reunions this year with our son, Jay, and daughter, Ann, their spouses and our 6 grandchildren. We are playing a lot of golf, enjoying yoga and Pilates classes, and I enjoy my volunteer work at a nature center here in Houston. My sister, frankie (’52), and I have a trip planned to FL to visit our brother in April of this year. Look forward to seeing classmates at our 60th reunion in 2013.
Edith grossman pearlman: Chester is mostly retired from psychiatry and is devoting himself to the viola da gamba. Jessica is picking up still more degrees, the current one a doctorate in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Charlie and wife Naomi live in our old house in Brookline (we’re in an apartment overlooking a lovely city park). He works for Johnson and Johnson in the Sales Division and she takes care of Joseph, 7, the light of our lives. As for me, my fourth collection of stories has garnered praise and prizes I am having fun with a sort-of literary stardom -- whose brightness will have faded by the time of the reunion; that’s how these things go. It’s been a pleasure to keep in touch with Lee Newth Roberts and Janet Laing Hatterly and meredith winters Kantor. Regards to all, Edie Jane chisholm Hofe: My husband died in February 2011 after a 5-year battle with Lewy Body Disease. I have relocated to Mystic, CT, to be closer to RI and 3 of my 4 children.
It is with great sadness that we let you know of two other classmates who have lost husbands. Nancy cornelius Allen lost her husband Robert, and mercedes Hutchinson Quevedo lost Walter, a Professor at Brown University. Our sympathies go out to our classmates and their families.
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class Scribe: Ann thorndike 204 university Avenue providence, RI 02906 Email: athorn@cox.net
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Dale tanner Hazlewood Audrey mcKendall Seth
Your classmates were saddened to learn from Jane wilson King of the passing of her daughter Alice in the fall of 2011 following an accident. Our love and
Painting by CeCe Parkman Parker ’57 of her dog, Katie. sympathy go to Jane and her family.
margery Harris Acciardo and Bob are enjoying Florida and looking forward to celebrating their 58th wedding anniversary - heartiest congratulations to them! They will be returning to R.I. in May, and Marge is looking forward to her semi-annual meeting for baseball and “save the world discussions” with Helen Sproul and Joyce whitaker Sparling.
charlotte barton Sornborger also keeps close class ties. Last fall Del Lloyd Drummey, faye Rogers baron and she met for lunch, and a few months ago she and Marty stopped at Jane and Bill King’s for breakfast on their way to visit their grandson in Georgia. Charlotte follows the Downton Abbey series and recommends the book Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle. The Castle has belonged to the Earls of Carnarvon for generations, and Charlotte noted that it was the 5th Earl who financed Howard Carter’s excavation which uncovered Tutankhamun’s tomb. By coincidence, Charlotte and Marty had just finished the 48 lecture “Teaching Company” series on the ancient Egyptian civilization, in which Carnarvon and Carter are prominently mentioned. Summer 2012
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Granddaughters of Kate Lee ’58.
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class Scribe: Dorothy bird price 570 mast Road plymouth, mA 02360 Email: dorothybprice@yahoo.com
please help us find your classmates: Linda barnes barnes Deborah Dunning micheline Lachal fields marcia gardiner gardiner goldie falk Kossow Antoinette Downing Kretzmann constance wilson
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class Scribe: Agnes Rickman Ashworth 1125 SE Alamanda Lane Stuart, fL 34996 Email: annbillashworth@bellsouth.net
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Jeanne Desrosiers Nelia goff Dunbar carole Kenworthy Elsbree Drusilla baker miller Arabella cleveland young
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Angela Dowling Munro ’59 and family in Ixtapa, Mexico
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class Scribes: Jane Arcaro Scola 11 bluff Road barrington, RI 02806 Email: jascola@cox.net
Elizabeth Horton Ingraham 5 Darby point mashpee, mA 02649-2297 Email: behome2@aol.com
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Susan buchanan christensen Deborah cory priscilla Allen Doel Karin Longva gail Eastburn Schultz
clarissa penny porter is showing an admirable model of “culling through old files, folders and memorabilia.” She came across the following suggesting it might resonate with many of us. Dear First Grade,
This is to tell you that Clarissa rested very well in my office. She made me think of a nice sleepy kitten or puppy. I am going to invite her to come in again tomorrow. I think I shall invite the very best rester on Tuesday to rest in my office on Wednesday. Who else is like a
sleepy kitten or puppy? I would like one here with me.
Miss Breed
“Was Miss B sly-like-a-fox or what? You know I was most certainly not “invited” because I was a good rester…….Au contraire!” Does this not bring back “rest-hour” stories? Remember wanting to rest under Mrs. Bell’s desk?
connie Almy mcgill writes, “In February (2011) we celebrated of 35th wedding anniversary in Charleston, SC. In June we sold our Airstream and Dodge Hemi and closed a chapter of 34 years of RVing. We treasure the close friendships we made along our travels. I continue to enjoy my bridge (party and duplicate), canasta clubs and continue to model for the local boutique. August 6th, the blended family met in Mt. Vernon to celebrate Darwin’s 80th birthday. A highlight of last year was the birth of my first great grandchild; Robert Mackendrick Tuttle was born to my granddaughter Katie and hubby, Derek. We have enjoyed excellent health and wish you all Love, Peace and Happiness” Last fall, vickie bachman williams, Susie Kenny, Jane Arcaro Scola and I met for
cLASS NotES our annual get-together at The Art Club. After much conversation, we all traveled to Riverside to call on mrs. g. What an amazing lady!! We had a great time sharing old stories and memories. Vickie also had a lovely visit with miss mcgrath. Vickie has more than usual trips from Boston to RI this year as her youngest granddaughter, Sterling Victoria, is a freshman at St. George’s School in Middletown. Vickie writes, “Who remembers our glee club joining St. George’s in singing Faure’s Requiem in their chapel?” More great memories!!
Last fall, Jody Smith blish ’55 and I had lunch with Jane Legsdin mcLeod at the Grist Mill. Jane was full of family news then and has written the following.
“Life is good, grand kids are growing up to become responsible people. I continue to be very involved through Church Mentoring MOPS (mother of pre-schoolers) a group of 48 moms. I also mentor a young woman who was released from prison 10 months ago and lives in a half-way house that is also sponsored by our church. I am considering going back to Leon, Nicaragua, helping the poorest of the poor develop micro-economic businesses that they
can build to support their families. At this time I am looking into recycled products that can be salvaged in dumps and made into salable items. I also take some enrichment classes at the Senior Center. Have a good circle of widows that go to plays, dinners, etc.”
betsy Horton Ingraham lost the “love of my life” last July after Ted fell breaking his back in three places. She is still living on the Cape but has the Mashpee condo on the market and will be moving back to Rumford when it sells. Betsy also travelled to visit friends of Ted’s in Hilton Head, SC, and then flew to Mesa, AZ, to spend time with sister connie (’63).
Jane Arcaro Scola: Bernard and I did not mind our mild winter spent in RI. In addition to holiday visits in November and December, 2011 from our son James and his wife, Jessica, who continue to live in San Francisco, we were able to welcome them to RI on additional trips several more times so far this year. Needless to say, we always enjoy having them with us. They continue to lead an active work and social life and spend much of their leisure time running, hiking, biking and traveling, much of the time with their beloved Labrador re-
Holly Cutts Billings ’59, her granddaughter May and her daughter Margaret.
triever, Max. I continue to volunteer for the Barrington Preservation Society as a Board and committee member. Currently, we are working on a House Tour scheduled for Sept. 15 of this year. The tour will highlight the Drownville section of Barrington, an area which was once farmland and then became a summer vacation destination. Today it is a wonderful mix of attractive old and new homes having marsh and water views and much historic charm. We would certainly welcome all members of the Lincoln School family to this event. beverly Steere comber: Bob and I have bought a winter home in Vero Beach, FL. We will be returning to Williamsburg in the summer. Meanwhile, I am having visits with Sylvia Rodgers, martha whitney, Suzie wilcox and Judy Rollinson. My brother and sister-in-law live nearby also.
cece parkman parker: Live a pretty quiet life with my dog and cat in a wonderful home here in Central Oregon. It is high desert on the other side of the mountain from all the rain; there is lots of sunshine, a little snow and just generally a great climate. Garden a lot and in the winter paint in acrylics.
Suzy Dimmitt-Norris ’59 with grandchildren and husband David.
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Randa Bishop’s coffee table book on San Antonio.
Susan Lynch Ruddy ’59
Suzy Dimmitt-Norris ’59 and Nancy Fales ’59
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class Scribe: Sue young murray 94 congdon Street providence, RI 02906 Email: symxmas40@gmail.com Sara tull bailey mary gordon ciri barbara olsen Haas carol bartlett mortimer Nancy ballard Seigel
Irma feinberg megiddo: OMG - Soon it will be five years since we “got together!” Let’s hope for a big turnout next year. Remember when 7th grade seemed eternal and now we wish we could stop the clock! All’s well with Ami and me. No changes in our lives lately. Just don’t know where the time goes.
Kate Lee: Big news for 2012 is my trip to Antarctica, in October. This trip will include a visit to South Georgia Island, to the gravesite of Sir Ernest Shackleton, one of my true heroes. Other news: grandchild Lina turns 18 this year! I’m attaching a photo taken this fall of Lina and her younger sister, Stella, when they visited from Sweden.
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class Scribe: Judith m. Austin 290 Kingstown way, unit 153 Duxbury, mA 02332-4641 Email: merryjudy41@gmail.com
marianne Donovan Shigetani
Emboldened by the success of our 50th Reunion yearbook, I have undertaken doing the one for my Mt. Holyoke 50th. It could be more than I can chew — over 200 people! I continue to see my darling granddaughter Allison weekly. She was 2 in June. I am also tutoring a 15-year-old who came to this country from China in October. What a different life she has lived — raised by grandparents, attended middle school living with her teacher, and now to America. Her parents are very wealthy and work in the fashion business non-stop. She has no religion and no real sense of family, but she is quite bright and sweet. Sort of like having a blank slate! Photo is of Holly cutts billings’ daughter, Margaret, with her daughter, May (12/26/10), who is the Billings’ youngest grandchild. “Sadly for us, she lives in CA, so we must travel to see her, and her
parents. Six grandchildren keep us busy (two boys are fairly close, in Tiverton). Otherwise, I sing in the Congregational Church choir, read and knit, and lately have done a heap of fruit tree pruning. Walking a lot with friends and my dog. I have not yet decided whether to lead another English Garden Tour in 2013. Best wishes to classmates.”
Randa bishop has been very busy with coffee table photo books. She had three projects between late August and March: Des Moines Visions, San Antonio Visions, and Fargo ND/Moorhead MN Visions. “I was glued to my computer day and night to mid-January. San Antonio had 180 of my photos, and I researched and collaborated the work with a colleague photographer from Seattle who had 115 photos.” Randa loves fall, winter, and spring as she gets to see a lot of their two grandchildren, Zoe, 6, and Teddy, 4. She continues to spend summers on the island of Patmos, Greece, — “more than idyllic!” Suzy Dimmitt-Rosprim had a visit from Nancy fales when she was in Grass Valley last fall. Suzy met Susan Lynch in San Francisco for the second year in late April during her stopover between Indonesia and Alaska. “She has about 24
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hours, and we go to the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley where we get refreshed at their luxurious spa, then have a non-stop talk over dinner. So great to be able to touch in, no matter how briefly.” This time they were to be joined by Ruthie phillips gulick, so it should have been quite a party!
David & Suzy went to see Garrison Keillor in Sacramento in March. “He is truly a national treasure and the Mark Twain of our time. All is well with me and my family — we feel so blessed!” Angela Dowling munro with her two sons, Jamie and Neil, and their wives, along with her five grandchildren, aged 14 to 18 months, celebrated her 70th birthday at Club Med in Ixtapa, Mexico for a week at Christmas.
carolyn Savoie o’Neil remains busy with her dogs. “I took two dogs to the Westminster Kennel Club Show in New York in February. My miniature wire-haired dachshund, Erte, won an Award of Merit as did my bearded collie, Olivia, who had only been out with a handler for six weeks. I had a new litter of miniature wire-haired Dachshunds in November. I am now busy placing seven puppies, Lots of work! But I love it.”
Susan Lynch Ruddy spent the winter in Indonesia again with daughter Lydia who has lived there for six years: “pretty nifty arrangement for an Alaskan, especially this winter when I hear from son
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class Scribe: Jacquelyn Savoie medina 13 Stryker Lane clinton, Ny 13323-1213 Email: jamedina@hamilton.edu
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Sean that we have had over 150 inches of snow. And Indonesia is endlessly fascinating: the culture is ancient and exotic, the people warm and welcoming, and the current issues and opportunities quite stunning. Have been fortunate to get to know Bali well (but never well enough) over the years and many visits. Spent several days traveling up rivers in remote corners of Kalimantan to see the intriguing and desperately threatened orangutans and am exploring Java where more than half of the 240 million Indonesians live. I have barely scratched the surface of this 17,000-island nation so am going to have to live another 71 years. In summer Susan will head to her summer house at Halibut Cove where I will be camp cook for my son and his crew on our oyster farm.” Susan was looking forward to her “pajama party in San Francisco” with Suzy and Ruthie.
Susan oakes Ackor Diana boswell gerona Smith Irwin
1961
class Scribe: Sheridan gardner cameron 9543 E cavalry Drive Scottsdale, Az 85262-1160 Email: thecamerons@prodigy.net
please help us find your classmates: marion tillinghast bolster Joan wilson Driscoll Joyce Smith forsythe bette wharton Ibasfalean
In October, 13 members of our class went to Lincoln for Reunion Weekend to celebrate our 50th Reunion. The day started out with a Silent Meeting, tours of the school and a luncheon (in the old gym). The highlight was the two hours we spent in the Dwight House living room talking about our days at Lincoln and catching up with each other’s lives. After that we had a lovely dinner at The Old Grist Mill. For many, it was the first
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Carolyn Hazard ’63
Bobbie Brewster ’62 (second from left) Chairing the Gala for the Washington Concert Opera. time that they had been back to Lincoln since graduation. We were especially happy to see Liliane, who traveled from France to join us. Many of us are looking forward to our 55th reunion and we hope more classmates will attend.
Several people worked very hard to make this day special. Nancy Hayes golden, Nancy Hill Joroff, and Nancy Seaman Doherty sent out emails and letters to notify classmates. marilyn fera Nereo arranged for the dinner. Nancy Hayes golden worked for months gathering and compiling the Reunion Yearbook. Thank you all for the hard work. (Hopefully you all received your copy. If not, please notify Lincoln’s Alumnae Office.)
Anne Elder mccormack has had a busy year. She joined us at our reunion. She helped connie worthington ’62 and Lincoln plan a mini- reunion at her Yacht Club in Northern California in December. There were 7 former students from different classes who attended. Anne and Hal drove to Salt Lake City and had a great time researching Hal’s family in the LDS Genealogy libraries. pamela Halewood morse also came to the reunion. Both she and Duane dealt with medical problems the last two
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Bobbie Brewster ’62 was a Founding Trustee of the WWI Memorial Foundation restoration project.
months of the year. Somehow she was able to fit in several trips to London to visit her grandchildren, sightsee and find wonderful book shops. She also managed to enjoy in a week on Ossebaw, a private island off the coast of Savannah, where she enjoyed amazing sunsets and wildlife.
Joan Ray enjoyed the reunion also. She writes that she is busy planning a trip to Scotland next year with some women from her church. She is also thinking of selling her home and moving to an apartment with no yard work. That will free her up to enjoy more time kayaking. Nancy Hayes golden and Al spent a month in February in Florida on Pine Island which is north of Sanibel. The first three days there the weather was freezing. Both on the way south and then on the way back up north they visited Nancy’s daughter and grandson in North Carolina and Nancy’s sister in Ocala.
patty Robbins bogash and Eddie stayed with Joan Ray when they came for the reunion. Patty stays very busy with her church, her garden and traveling. In June she taught Vacation Bible School. Both she and Eddie enjoy visiting religious shrines around the world.
Nancy Hill Joroff came to the reunion after just returning from her cabin in Colorado. She and Michael are thinking of downsizing and selling their home. They will probably stay in the Concord, Massachusetts, area. In March, Nancy went back to Ireland for her annual trip to visit friends. Also at the reunion were Kris mellen, Linda clave, Lane Engles, and martha prescod Noonan.
I really enjoyed going to Lincoln for the reunion. Three of us there started in Lincoln when we were three years old. It was interesting to learn about the courses and the opportunities available to students today. A lot has changed in 50 years. In March, Dave and I drove to Long Beach, California to go on a 4-day cruise to Catalina and Ensenada for Spring Break and a change of scenery.
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class Scribe: Nancy Robinson van tuyle 755 pinehurst Drive pasadena, cA 91106-4536 Email: ntuyle@sbcglobal.net
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please help us find your classmates: Diane pettet Altman cynthia gould birtwell Lesley mitchell cheney Joyce Hamm Sally Dybing Hardin Suzanne Hutchins Anna Lee burns Lutz Lucinda buehler Schweikert Elaine forte vendetti beth walker Deborah brooking wilder martha Albrecht williams
congratulations to Judy Lovering Kramer who will be receiving the Distinguished Service Award at the Alumnae Awards and Reunion Luncheon on friday, october 12, 2012 at noon.
Nancy Robinson van tuyle: In the fall of last year I traveled to Sedona, AZ, and spent a blissful week in a magnificent villa. Hiking throughout the various trails was the primary activity along with a Pink Jeep Tour. Following my winter vacation skiing in Deer Valley, Utah this year I had foot surgery. I had the same surgery on my other foot last year after ski season. So, I am finished and doing well. I am hoping we have a good turnout for our 50th class reunion. Let’s all make the effort! I am flying in from California, so don’t disappoint me. It is hard to believe that five years since our 45th have passed so quickly. Don’t forget to send news for our class. The years from ’58 – ’62 were wonderful years....great music too!
Linda mathes Jacobs: New grandchild Charles Peyton Wrenn (Charlie), son of Beth (Carson) Wrenn and husband John and sister of Allie Wrenn, age 4. Currently volunteering with a Friends of Library group, as well as Board Member
and Volunteer Coordinator of a group that provides a variety of services to residents of the rural island community where we live in SW Florida. connie worthington: Bo Henry Carley (age 6) lost his second front tooth on March 1. Come to reunion!
martine matzke climbed Kilimanjaro this past year.
bobbie brewster lives in Washington, DC. After graduating from Colby College, Bobbie received her Master’s Degree in French Architectural History. She lectured on French Architectural History at Georgetown University and at various museums. She also did graduate work at the Sorbonne, Ecole du Louvre, University of Madrid, and Oxford University. There is a reason she loves the international flavor of Washington. A realtor for over 20 years, Bobbie is with Washington Fine Properties in Washington and specializes in fine historic houses. She has sold five embassies and was elected Realtor of the Year. Bobbie has been involved for many years with the District’s cultural community. She is currently on the Executive Committee of the Washington Concert Opera as Chairman of the Development Committee. In this capacity, she has been the Chair of the annual fundraisers for 2008, 2009, 2010. She is also on the Women’s Committee of the Washington National Opera. Over the years, Bobbie has also spearheaded several preservation initiatives to catalyze restoration projects. She was a Founding Trustee of the World War I Memorial Foundation to restore the classical Doric temple on the National Mall. She is also on the Founders Committee of historic Mount Vernon. She is dedicated to enhancing the city’s aesthetic landscape.
1963
class Scribe: mary whitaker taber 8 maynard Street westborough, mA 01581-1817 Email: marytaber88@gmail.com
please help us find your classmates:
Susan pulver Abrams paula breymeier Judith votta capalbo Elizabeth Elder coxe Judith Roland craig Judith ferris Elaine mcHale peck Karla Silverman taudin
carolyn Hazard retired after 40 years in the public school world, serving as an assistant superintendant and consultant to districts. She reported she is enjoying my work on a local community service project, creating an electronic database for a private cemetery nearby. The project keeps me in touch with computers and digital photography, a longstanding interest. I look forward to our 50th reunion in 2013, but can’t believe it.
Louisa goff Hart: I have always opened the alumnae magazine with trepidation, and been depressed after reading class notes with all the news of Mediterranean cruises, glorious retirements, and wildly successful children. Accompanied by pictures of people who don’t seem to have aged quite as much as I have. Then I started thinking, Hey - maybe I could write my life up so that it sounds a little like theirs. I could leave out the part about the family vacation when I was crying on the beach because all of my children weren’t getting along perfectly. Or when my business tanked during the recession. Or the size ten clothes hanging in my closet that haven’t been touched in decades and could go
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who are my extended family here.“ So, not bad, not bad at all. Now if we could just stop focusing on ridiculous “social issues” and tackle the problems we are really facing as a country, I think things would be great.
bliss matteson sent that she retired as head of Collection Department at the Cambridge Public Library last year and has been enjoying her free time which manages to fill up quickly. Her sisters and she have a house in Charlestown, RI, where she spends much time, particularly in the summer. “Life is endlessly interesting and new doors open up. I hope everyone else is enjoying their lives also!”
A new performace installation choreographed by Liss Fain ’65. directly to a vintage resale shop. So here’s the good news. “My children are flourishing, one in Washington, one in San Francisco with a lovely wife and my two adorable grandchildren, and my oldest in Singapore. I visited the oldest in January and we had a wonderful time in Singapore and then flew up to Burma/Myanmar to visit the archeological sites in Bagan. (Now that Hillary has been to Burma, it’s OK to go.) Fabulous. My wanderlust seems to have spun completely out-of-control and I also visited San Miguel de Allende in December and leave for a week in St. Thomas tomorrow. In the meantime, I continue to work as a public relations consultant, with nice, interesting clients who provide me with good work to do, and enough income to keep my hair blond and my fingernails pink. And, after almost fifty years in Washington, I love my home city and the wonderful friends 52
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mary whitaker taber: Lots of news in my life this last year. My dad died 2 weeks after his 100th birthday in Jan ’11 a good and long life! My niece, Susanna, (Sally’s daughter) got engaged last spring to a wonderful guy and I am officiating at their wedding in Westport in June. Valentine’s week, my youngest, Emily, became engaged to another great guy with wedding plans for 2013. So the generations are visibly shifting here! Sadly, a consequence is that dad’s wonderful Westport house is on the market! Additionally, my counseling and retreat work continues to be very rewarding and I’m excited about my 45th reunion at Skidmore in June which I’m helping with. Next year, it’s about us - 50yrs! Yikes! Hope you’re all well. Warmly, Mary
1964
class Scribe: Deborah mcmillen po box 63 Eliot, mE 03903-0063
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celeste barrus cooper Elizabeth capuano falderbaum
Susan waring friedman Judith pulver goldman clair Stuart green paula Kapstein Elizabeth coe Latchis Joann Ladd westerling Kristen blue williams
1965
class Scribe: cynthia Savage muir 10 Hancock Street Newburyport, mA 01950-3113 Email: casmuir@gmail.com
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Rebecca clark butterfield mary pierce Eng Susan Leonard frost Abby gorham carol mccreery mary Hatch moore Susan Rappaport Eve Roberts
Liss fain: Choreographer Liss Fain announces the world premiere of The Water is Clear and Still, a new performance installation that combines the visceral energy of dance with the text of Jamaica Kincaid’s sharp-edged and beautiful short stories. Using the entire 60foot depth of the theater, the set and immersive sound environment surround the performers and the audience. The audience, moving at will inside the set and close to the performers, is an integral part of the piece. Non-narrative, highly physical and emotionally resonant, Liss Fain’s work fuses modern dance’s forceful energy with the kinetic precision of ballet.
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class Scribe: Deborah Devaney barton 306 Rumstick Road barrington, RI 02806-4935 Email: devaney@jedbarton.com
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Jean Dario-bacchiocchi georgiana white Johnson
1967 u 45th Reunion
please contact the Alumnae office if you are interested in becoming the Scribe for this class. please help us find your classmates:
Angelyn Arcaro frances cohen bongarten Deborah brayton Lee carpenter Abbie gattis griffin Elizabeth browning Jackson margaret Day thompson Katherine tower-Ludwig India Stevens trinley frances ballinger van Stelten
1968
class Scribe: Darla middlebrook 28 Arrowhead Road moose Jaw, Saskatchewan S6J 1b3 cANADA Email: auntdarla@sasktel.net
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marion Adriance Dorothy Harris beard genevieve bos Lydia poe cutter Karen gammino Dematos Lesley toth goodeve Jean Howes marianne miller Lynn Reynolds Rodes Nancy chase Ross
Abigail Smith Elizabeth macDougal Stevens Sara bonoff woodley
Linda Shires Knoepflmacher is still working in Manhattan—as Prof. and Chair of the English Dept. at Stern, Yeshiva Univ. Her husband Uli, now retired, continues lecturing and writing. Their son Alex will graduate from Princeton in June and will be entering the PhD program at Univ. California, Irvine in Cultural Anthropology. Stepchildren Julie and Paul are in public health and general medicine in N.Y. Stepson Daniel starts his MD residency at Cornell Weill this summer. Linda and Uli are looking forward to their annual visit to the Cape (yay, New England!) and to hosting the seven grandchildren in Princeton this summer.
Jane Hodge: Being retired, I am volunteering my time more and more. My dog and I do “pet therapy“ where we visit adults and children to brighten their lives and to put smiles on their faces. I am also an Alateen sponsor (12 step program for children who have been effected by someone’s drinking), and I help the East Coast Italian Greyhound Rescue place dogs with new owners. I have 4 dogs, myself, and still live in Cambridge near Harvard Univ. I’m looking forward to taking more European trips, and would welcome connecting with Lincoln alumnae who want to travel with me. cathy brown lives nearby, but I don’t keep in touch with anyone else from Lincoln. My email address is odessaig@comcast.net should anyone want to get in touch - something I welcome. Shirley merk blackall: Our son Fred is getting married this summer. Rick and I are looking forward to the great event. I have taken up sculling, which is lots of fun. We are planning to pick up my new
boat in Florida in March and then will attend rowing camp there. My sister Linda thinks we will race in a double together this fall. Maybe... Still having fun with my company where we continue to sell our dolls worldwide through our website and retailers at www.masterpiecedolls.com.
patricia Simon Schwandron: The latest with me is that I continue to work as Career Counselor Supervisor of The Actors Fund Work Program, www.actorsfund.org, where I’ve enjoyed working with thousands of entertainment industry professionals for the past 13 years. In addition, for the past 5 years I’ve been developing my sideline business as a personal trainer and group fitness instructor, working with people over 50. At the moment, I’m focusing on teaching Zumba Gold. So much fun! My kids are all thriving. Julia is an artist and teacher: www.juliaschwadron.com; Louis is a musician with his own band Sky White Tiger; and Hannah, a choreographer and dancer, is completing her PhD in Dance Studies at UC Riverside. My husband Terry continues to soldier on at The New York Times, while performing with several orchestral and jazz groups as a trombonist. My mother, now 89, lives independently across the street from us. I have a full life and feel lucky, lucky, lucky. Regards to all. Patch.
Darla middlebrook: Well, I am continuing to work at improving myself in my chosen second career as a Voice Over actor. My specialty is in the genre of audiobooks. So, far I’ve managed to narrate 3 biographies, a crime novel, a religious tome, a short story as part of a very noir crime anthology, and a portion of an elearning text (for a European market). I have also co-narrated two college level psychology text books. Just last night (March 4th), I was hired to narrate a book aimed at parents of children with
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Speech, Language and Hearing problems. Audiobook narration is time intensive, but not very lucrative. But, I didn’t get into this for the money. I love to read and I hope that I can bring enjoyment to those who for various reasons cannot. As part of this, I also provide one of the voices for the AIRS-LA podcasts (Google it for info). My podcasts are from CAT FANCY magazine. In addition, I frequently read to the residents of one of the local nursing homes. They really enjoy my sci-fi renditions and I enjoy performing for them. I also occasionally perform on stage and in films. Not doing as much of that as I used to because of problems with my hips, although I was recently cast as a victim in a local filming of a crime story.
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class Scribe: Karen wells 9851 Ninemile creek Road Juneau, AK 99801-7621 Email: taf@gci.net
please help us find your classmates:
philis bennett beatrice pujol breitner margaret ferris Ellen mayer fleischner Jane grosvenor Hand Adelaide bodell milhaupt martine motte candace pigott christine Sistare Susan waller
Thanks to those who responded to my plea for information and also thanks to those on Facebook. It’s fun to see your status updates flit by and be connected that way. If you are on FB and not connected to classmates, go to my page and see all our friends who are members. I heard from several classmates and some I have not heard from before which is very fun.
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patience Stoddard wrote, “Mud season has arrived and I am stuck home rather than risk being stuck in the mud trying to get to work. Winter has ended sooner than usual - a possible blessing except that it has put a premature end to sugaring season (yes we make maple syrup in our small sugaring shack). We live off a dirt road on 20 acres in the hills north of Keene NH. I am currently the Director of Pastoral Services (aka a clinical Chaplain) at NH’s one state psychiatric hospital. I love my work with the patients (not so much the ever lowering budget or bureaucracy). However as the drive is 55 miles each way, I spend 2 1/2 hours a day commuting which makes the days extra tiring and beginning to take a toll on my aging mind and body. My husband Jim is an Environmental Studies Professor at Antioch Univ., New England and an amazing do it yourself kind of guy. My daughter (21) waitressing in DC just got accepted into her first law school in Boston and we are thrilled she may be closer to home after 4 years in DC. My son (24), who also went to school and worked in DC on Capitol Hill, is home recovering from illnesses, some of which he got while working with orphans in Cameroon. Patience also mentioned that she and betsy giunta foley went on a cruise to Bermuda to celebrate 60! Just when I think life has settled down to a mostly comfortable pattern, something happens to tangle up the threads; yet we weave on.” Thanks, Patience, I know we all love knowing about your life in NH. Hope freeman Hudner wrote, “Mike and I are struggling business challenges as many ship owners have filed under Chapter 11 because of the downturn in the world economy and high gas prices. We have been stiffed by innumerable charters over the past 4 years, unfortunately. It is only getting worse at the
moment. But, having said that, all else in our lives seems to be well. Bay is at London School of Economics finishing up a 12 month master’s degree. She is also working part-time for London First Entrepreneurs and just turned 26. Rip would be 31 :(
As to getting older, I am enjoying the continued personal growth/evolution. (One of my favorite sayings has always been: ‘Experience is the mother of wisdom.’) I truly believe that at the end, we will each have to decide for ourselves how we have used this amazing ENERGY that we were given. It is how we deal with the hard times that tell the most about our character. On that note, I wish ALL of my Lincoln friends joyful, healthy, and focused energies.“
gail Eastwood Stokes wrote about some very exciting news for her, congrats, Gail. “I actually do have some news this time around. Five out of my seven novels written and published from 1994-2002 are going to be reissued this year as ebooks. I am excited, and hope to reach some new readers! My publisher (Berkley/Penguin) will be doing three of them and I am doing two of them myself as an experiment to see which works out better. Then the last two will be issued in 2013, and possibly new print editions then, as well. A PERILOUS JOURNEY, which was my first published book, comes out in May 2012 from Penguin Intermix, and its sequel, AN UNLIKELY HERO, comes out in July. Release dates for the other books when I know them, and other news, will be on my author FB fan page, GailEastwoodAuthor, and a new website at www.gaileastwoodauthor.com. I have books instead of grandkids, LOL — my two 20-something sons are not married and are both living at home with us right now, while still paying off student
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Helen Kirk ’70, Stephanie West ’70, Andrea Gilman Garr ’70, and Diane Corwin Seltzer ’70 Christmas shopping in Boston. loans from college, like many others their age. I am trying to work on some new stories but have very little time, juggling three other part-time jobs including PR for the Music Dept. at URI. I would love to stay in touch through a group FB page just for our class. I am still remembering our last reunion very fondly.” Thanks Gail, and so am I, that was a fun night.
Kim metz Allsup wrote, “I live on Cape Cod where I am a teacher at the Waldorf School of Cape Cod where we stay with the same group of children grades one through eight. This year I am in second grade and I am also the gardening teacher. I have recently completed a manuscript entitled A Gift of Wonder: School as It Could Be which is a memoir about my first six years in the classroom. I am now looking for an agent and a publisher for the book. My husband Geoff and I have two children and three granddaughters ages 1, 5 and 9.” Deb Davis gedney went with her kids and their boyfriends to Anna Maria
Stephanie West ’70, Diane Corwin Seltzer ’70, Helen Kirk ’70, and Andrea Gilman Garr ’70 having a ball in Little Compton. Island in the Gulf of Mexico for vacation this year. She writes that “we are now busy germinating seeds inside for our farm stand that we run every year from our house. I work in the operating room at Newport Hospital and teach yoga, Pilates, tai chi and I spin 8 times a week at various locations. I hike with one white and one black lab named Snow and Thunder every day and love every minute of it.“ Thanks, Deb, what a full life you have and nothing better than walking with your labs, the dog variety, that is!
Karen whipple fitzpatrick wrote that she enjoys reading about other’s from our class and decided to participate, Yeah! I am very glad to hear about your life, Karen. She writes, “Since I always enjoy reading everyone else’s news, this year I decided I should send mine in. I kind of like 60 — I can finally stop thinking about what I’ll be when I grow up! I’m still teaching, this decade its first grade, and still love it. I remarried last fall (my first husband, Tom, died very
suddenly in 2004) and my new husband, Paul, and I live on a hill in southern NH with two dogs, a cat, and a beautiful view of the Wapack mountain range. We hike there or somewhere else in NH nearly every weekend during the school year and more often in the summer. I have three children but no grandchildren yet; in the meantime, I’m enjoying sharing Paul’s three grandchildren. Thank you, taffy, for doing the class notes and hello to everyone!”
I just returned from a visit with friends in Portland, OR, and a retreat in the Bay area. I am still located in Juneau and think someday more sunshine would be nice. I love my part time counseling practice and taking daily walks with my little corgi, Luna. Life here is very, very good, loving friends and beauty that takes my breath away. I know from Facebook that Anne worrell o’Neil got a really cute Lab puppy. I hope all of you, all my Lincoln connections, are well and thriving. I can be contacted at taf@gci.net.
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Ann Burkhardt ’72
Bill and Liz Watkins ’73 exploring Dana Point, CA, March 2012.
Polly’s final project....Yummmm!
1970
class Scribe: Debra Jones D’Alessandro 71 washington Street mendon, mA 01756-1018 Email: djdmen@yahoo.com please help us find your classmates: Susan bowen brown Karen bolton conboy Sandra Spicer Donahue Roberta finegold Leslie Harned Janet Leonard Susan olmstead Kay Salomon Susan Sorrentino marilyn tobin
Helen Kirk: Christmas shopping in Boston, Helen Kirk ’70, Stephanie west ’70, Andrea gilman garr ’70 and Diane corwin Seltzer ’70 ended the day having cocktails at the Four Seasons!
1971
class Scribe: barbara (olie) Smith Lilley 4615 coopers Hawk Road Klamath falls, oR 97601-8664 Email: olie73@aol.com
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Polly Mott ’73 (Santa hat) and her co-workers the last few weeks of school. Polly Mott ’73 (left) at graduation.
please help us find your classmates:
Naomi chernick barnett Julia Kemp bechtel Nancy America bell Elisa List cigarran carolyn mcKenney Digioia Ann Holdredge cynthia cote Lefkowicz Suzanne mattis Lewis marjorie parsons Kathie Raleigh betty Davis Sharp beth Surdut Sherry Steuer wiener Kathryn Aicher wright
From olie: Hello from Oregon! I spent 10 days down in the Palm Desert area in March with 3 girlfriends. I think we ate our way across the desert...eating at all the restaurants that we don’t have in Oregon! Of course, we lay by the pool and got great tans also. My son in Houston, TX, now has another daughter named Elizabeth. April (now 4) is so proud to have little sis “Lizzie.” And my daughter Karin graduates from USC with her second Master’s Degree in Regulatory in May. She is so thrilled to be finally finished! I am going to help my sister recover from surgery in April and May. I will be babysitting her three grand-
daughters in the St. Louis area. Traveling again! Everyone please send in class notes. We really do want to hear from you! Thanks, Olie
Eileen fleder Kahn writes that her oldest child, Andrew, is the Operations Supervisor as well as a paramedic for a Boston based company called Global Rescue and loves his worldly travels rescuing patients from around the world. He has recently been in Beijing and Qatar. Her 2nd son, Steven, is an associate at JP Morgan in NYC. Her daughter, Laura, will be a Jr. at Emory University in Atlanta. Eileen’s husband, Stewart, is cutting his hours to part time so they can spend more golf time in Palm Beach during the winter! They were also able to travel to Israel with the kids during New Years.
I also heard from margot maull partridge. She is hoping to retire this summer and she and her husband, Bob, hope to take their sailboat out more this summer. Margot has been really busy taking care of her mom’s estate (she passed away last July), and helping her dad take care of his financial matters. When she gets a chance they go up to her parent’s house and are packing things up. Her son, John, is engaged and
cLASS NotES her daughter, Laurette, is still working in Manhattan. We talked on the phone for almost an hour, and it felt so good to hear her voice. Good luck with your future plans, Margot.
1972 u 40th Reunion
class Scribe: Ann burkhardt 132 Hope Street bristol, RI 02809-2048 Email: nebrighteyes@yahoo.com
please help us find your classmates:
cheryl Asquino Elizabeth celestino michele collias guiang marcia gustafson Susan colinan Kennedy Robin wilson
Ann burkhardt: My latest publication was recently released: Ethics in Rehabilitation (http://www.slackbooks.com/ethicsrehab). The book is coauthored with Barbara L. Kornblau JD, OTR, FAOTA, a pastpresident of the American Occupational Therapy Association and former Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in public policy. I continue to work clinically with older adults in Warren, RI, and have an adjunct teaching appointment at Temple University in the occupational therapy post professional clinical doctoral program (OTD). It is my pleasure to be the primary caregiver for my 87-year-old mother, Betty. We are happy to be living in Bristol by the side of the sea (bay) and to be remaining at home and in the community.
1973
class Scribe: Elizabeth Harrington watkins 511 tall oaks Drive Durham, Nc 27713-9358 Email: ehwatkins@mindspring.com
A Future Worthy of Your Investment planned giving at Lincoln
Many alumnae, parents and friends have included Lincoln in their estate plans to ensure that Lincoln can continue to provide an outstanding educational experience for generations of girls and young women. Today, nearly 100 alumnae, parents, trustees and friends of Lincoln School are members of the Lincoln Foundation, our Planned Giving Society. Recent bequests and planned gifts to Lincoln School have supported campus improvements including the new Music Center, the Faxon Farm Renovation, and the Dwight House restoration. In addition, these gifts have been added to Lincoln’s endowment for financial aid, faculty support, and outstanding academic program. The following are two simple ways to support Lincoln through a planned gift and become a member of the Lincoln Foundation.
mAKINg A bEQuESt to LINcoLN
Outright bequests in your will are the most straightforward way to leave a planned gift to Lincoln. Bequests to Lincoln are free of state and federal estate taxes because they will qualify your estate for a charitable deduction equal to the entire amount of the bequest. To make a bequest, you may want to consider the following sample bequest language:
“I give and bequeath the sum of $XX (or XX% of my residuary estate) to Lincoln School, a Rhode Island non-business corporation, located at 301 Butler Avenue, Providence, RI 02906.”
cHARItAbLE gIft ANNuIty
In this time of economic uncertainty, charitable gift annuities can provide you with a reliable annual income based on your age at the time of your gift. With a charitable gift annuity you can make a significant gift to Lincoln, receive a charitable deduction for a portion of your gift, and retain a stream of income among other benefits. Depending on your individual circumstances, gift annuity rates range from 5.3% to 7.4%.
Please contact Adrienne Morris, Director of Development and Alumnae Relations, at 401-331-9696 ext. 3118 or by email at amorris@lincolnschool.org to learn more about these or other planned giving options. If you have made a bequest to Lincoln or are considering a planned gift, please let us know so we can make you a member of the Lincoln School Foundation. Members are invited to attend an Annual Luncheon and are invited to Lincoln’s Annual Corporation meeting among other benefits.
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cLASS NotES please help us find your classmates: Karen Archer gabrielle barzaghi ceAnn boots carney Nancy Sarra forte bonnie Lennon Linda pierce Liston Lynne maiden margaret mcguire mccafferty mary Jane Lingard Roland Lisa Stein meredith Swan Andrea yelle Dear classmates,
It is so good to hear from you. Hope to hear from more of you as time goes by! Just send me an email with any news and/or photos or you can enter information through Lincoln’s alumnae portal on the school’s website. (While you are online, check out the video with Jane meissner Sharfstein under “Sharing the Journey.” Very nice.) In the meantime, plans are already afoot for our 40th class reunion October 2013! polly mott and Jane meissner Sharfstein are spearheading the planning process and have been sharing some great thoughts and ideas. Please email Polly at p.mott@verizon.net with any input and suggestions you may have.
Sadly, pamela carlson bosworth passed away on January 22, 2012. The following is from a write-up by O’Neill-Hayes Funeral Home (found online via a Google search):
pamela (pam) Ann bosworth, 57, of Middletown, RI passed away on January 22 of natural causes. Born in Providence, RI, she was the daughter of the late Robert H. and Elda M. (Bonetti) Carlson of Wakefield, Rhode Island. Pam grew up in Cumberland and later moved to Middletown in 1985. Pam attended
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Lincoln School graduating in 1973. While there, she served as President of the renowned singing group, the Lambrequins. She then attended the Newport Hospital School of Nursing and graduated with a specialty in Orthopedics in 1977. For over 30 years, Pam’s nursing career was a true success, and her caring and love for others will always be remembered. She leaves one daughter, Allison Bosworth of Washington, DC, one sister, Leslie Carlson of Gainesville, GA, one niece, Rebeccah Damon of Gainesville, GA, and one nephew, Matthew Peck of Gainesville, GA.
Our sincere sympathies to Pam’s family.
polly mott: Two years ago I created a great opportunity to take a sabbatical from my public health career to take a two-semester certificate program in professional cooking. Best decision I ever made (next to taking Spanish at Lincoln!) I woke up every morning thrilled to go to my 7 a.m. class. Mostly the other students were fresh out of high school with varying levels of excitement at being there. But those of us in our 40s and 50s were gung-ho. From May to December 2010 I learned knife cuts, mother sauces, food safety, smoking-curing-pickling, sausage-making and much more. My final project was duck terrine, smoked duck breast and foie gras on a chemise of chicken aspic. My final five weeks were in a real restaurant kitchen. I was genuinely sad when I graduated with my paper toque and diploma. In 2011 I resumed my public health life - job hunting and working as a consultant. In January 2012, I started my new job as Senior Regional Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean on a program focused on health policy. BUT I am never happier than when I am in the kitchen, chef knife in hand. The best thing about working again is that I can I
treat myself to a special meal at the restaurant of a chef I admire and not feel guilty. Next stop - New Orleans in April.
Liza browne: Liza sends news both sad and happy. “Emilie died on 6/13/10 (she was 26); Nick got married on 7/10/10; and my first grandchild is due on 4/3/12. I finished my Master of Science degree in Management with a concentration in Healthcare Administration in May 2011. I feel as if I have all the time in the world now, what with no more studying. Now I’m just getting ready for the grandson.” Liza works as a systems analyst with Northern Counties Health Care in St. Johnsbury, VT. Alicia trowbridge patterson: Lee, who lives in Dover, MA, writes, “I’m doing well. Katie is now 20 and a sophomore at Colorado College and loving it. Scott, my ‘baby,’ is 18 and a senior at Dover/ Sherborn High School. College decisions are beginning to roll in! I’m still subbing as the RN in the Dover/Sherborn school system, playing a lot of tennis and paddle tennis, and working on the upcoming Boston Flower Show. Next year we will be empty nesters and I need to recreate myself once again!!”
meg Hartman Nichols: I live in York Harbor, Maine, with my husband, David, one new puppy, Rollie, and have three grown children. My youngest, Albert, is a college junior studying engineering in Boston. Den, the middle, is in college in Washington, DC. He has been living in Shanghai and Beijing over the past few years and is hoping to return in some capacity with the job he hopes (and his parents hope!) he gets before graduating this May. And my daughter, Katherine, is in medical school in Boston. Can’t wait until everyone moves beyond the school continuum. I have been involved with the community college system on
cLASS NotES the foundation board level in Maine and that has kept me busy and happy. The continual economic and social woes in the state will always be a challenge. My background is in finance. Up until I had my second child I was a banker in NYC so I tend to focus on that end of things. I have a few ideas in my pocket for new endeavors, now that I have moved into that post-children leg of life. I hope to get moving on them before I am too old to remember what they are! Stephanie Jones Landvater: I am an orthopedic surgeon subspecializing in sports medicine and total knees and hips. I have been living in Vermont since 1988 and have two college-age boys, one pre-med at Cornell and the other pre-vet at CSU Fort Collins, and a husband who is not in medicine… I am sorry I have so lost touch with everyone over the years. It would be great to catch up at the alumnae gathering.
Elizabeth Harrington watkins: I live in Durham, NC, with my husband, Bill (we celebrate 25 years in April) and two dogs, Penny and Beetle. We had the pleasure of attending the wedding of Erika Sogge ’04 and Kyle Schneider last July in Mattapoisett, MA. Erika is my first cousin once-removed. Her grandmother, my aunt, Kathy pillsbury ’46 helped arrange this very special time for family and friends. Bill and I just returned from a week-long trip to Irvine and Laguna Beach, CA, to visit Bill’s son and family. My first view of the Pacific and its magnificent coastline! Look forward to hearing your news and being in touch with you as we plan our class reunion!
1974
class Scribe: Deborah giraud 718 2nd Avenue trinidad, cA 95570-9693 Email: mcfamily@suddenlink.net
please help us find your classmates:
Roberta wang Akerley tracey becken Ann barrengos broderick Susan peters brown Donna Sydlowski buffardi Laurie white Dugoni Leslie federer Laila Haddad Deborah Hallan Ann Lane Lisa Rosenholm Ann-toy Nash Shamblee
Deborah giraud: I am an alumna of Lincoln, class of 1974. I have often looked at the list of colleges over the years that Lincoln seniors are heading off to with mixed feelings. While proud of the impressive list of schools, usually there are none west of the Mississippi, sometimes only few out of New England. Moving to California at 18 to attend college was one of the exciting life experiences I have had. I would hope that some Lincoln students would try the great American west! There are so many fantastic Universities and colleges, in all kinds of beautiful settings. The opportunities I had in college started freshman year; hiking the Grand Canyon, staying with new friends in Los Alamos, NM, tromping around San Francisco on Thanksgiving break, and for classes we visited the desert, mountains and ocean side in my ecology classes, camping for three or four days at a time. There were classmates from all over the world and west, including Asian Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans. The exposure to the diversity of America was wonderful. I
drove coast to coast five times during my college years, and saw our country with different friends by my side, some from Providence who flew out to drive back with me; they still talk about it. Camping on Indian reservations, exploring caves, breaking down on the panhandle and being help by some fantastic people, the memories are fresh as I just read my diaries from those days! Lots of adventures, like having a summer job in Hawaii, connections I made in college. Now I live among the redwoods and although not a true Californian, am glad to be here on the Pacific Rim and call it home for 33 years. I visit family in RI once or twice a year. Come out west Lincolnites, you won’t regret it! There are airplanes coming and going every day, and you don’t have to settle here, tell your parents you will be back…..and explore! College is a great time to do that!
1975
class Scribe: patricia Read brissette 55 Lamson Road barrington, RI 02806-2619 Email: mthope1@aol.com
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carmen Aboy Rebecca Adae Lorraine bello Lynn Drummey Derr Lizanne Johnson Jane Schwartz Kramer Alexa mccloughan Audrey murphy Leslie pierce beverly Ransome Jean Riesman
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1976
class Scribe: Laura Sadovnikoff 110 post Road warwick, RI 02888-1610 Email: lsadov@brown.edu
please help us find your classmates: barbara bailey-garvin Noel bucci charlene De Luca Andrea gammino Robyn Hall Ingrid Holmberg Leslie mcclure Susan Armstrong Russell Jeanne Stallman
1977 u 35th Reunion class Scribe: Diana carney caty 745 Lebrun Road Amherst, Ny 14226-4215 Email: diana.caty17@gmail.com
please help us find your classmates:
Linda cosentino Di Santo priscilla freeman-gibbons carol Jane Higgins Joanne Kumekawa Alma Lancaster Lisa Sturdevant margolies Nadine Rhodes marsh cynthia Jessel orlando Karin pearce Susan potter Laurie cosimini Roderiques Sheila Sennott Karen Holmes Stevenson Ede micolonghi votta Nancy woodward
1978
class Scribe: cynthia Hyatt Shorris 10002 cloverdale place vienna, vA 22182-1353 Email: cshorr@earthlink.net
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wendelin mutch Arnold Elizabeth barksdale meredith goulding blatnik Joanna breen Sheila murphy buckley Ronna florio Stacey Alpert fraser Kathleen garrity marilyn collins gendron greta gustafson Jennifer considine mauran Sandra merrill maria Rothman Dru Stoddard gisele Sutherland martha tanenbaum
Angel Smith: My son Ethan is working for his dad as a machinist. My daughter Emily is in her second year of school at Colorado Christian University. She is majoring in Pre-Med and Business. My daughter Rachel is in 10th grade aspiring to be a writer. Her writing is excellent. Currently she is also quite the activist standing up for justice. My son Graham, now in eighth grade, is positioning himself to become an artist. He currently has a piece hanging at the Mystic Arts Center in a Youth Art Show. I’m working at Foxwoods in the Marketing department and freelancing. Two pieces have recently sold. We live in the middle of downtown Mystic - a real adventure for us. cindy Hyatt Shorris: We have a lot on our plate this year. We are renovating our summer house in RI, and we are moving our primary residence from Northern Virginia back to Massachusetts. We have been in Virginia for 8 years. Our son Tyler is graduating from high school, and should be hearing from the last few colleges today. Where he will be next year is still up in the air. Our 10th grader, Sam visited Moses Brown last week and loved it. She will likely at-
tend there next year. Our 3-year old Owen amazes us every day. Three has been a big year for him. He knows how to swim, dive, and ride a 2 wheeler (with no training wheels). He frequently corrects my driving. The other day he said, “Mommy, you are supposed to slow down at a yellow light, not speed up!” He brings joy to our lives every day!
I keep in touch with a lot of classmates through Facebook or in person. Allison barrall christopher and her daughter Lauren came for dinner last night. They live outside LA and were in Virginia visiting the University of Virginia as a possible college for next year. Allison also has a son Andrew who attends college in California.
Last summer, I had the pleasure of visiting Alix Krueger (class of ’79) on her dairy farm in upstate NY. Spoon Dairy is an amazing place, and Alix and her husband Rob work very hard every day. Their farm is one of the last surviving dairy farms in their area. Alix says, please eat Cabot cheese...made partially from their milk! I also saw Alix’s mom barbara Surprenant when I was there. She was my absolute all time favorite teacher at Lincoln. It was so great to see her! She lives about 45 minutes from the farm in Syracuse. I was driving through Westwood, MA, last week and went into a deli for a sandwich. I ran right into Carrie Trowbridge Law. It was hilarious. She looks happy and healthy, and still loves going to the beach whenever she can.
I also saw Sabina Dougherty last week. She works for the Bank of America, and keeps busy with her 3 great kids. Her oldest, PJ, has not decided what college he will attend next year, but dreams of becoming a dentist.
One more year until our next reunion ladies! Hope to see you all there! Please
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for anything with this role, but I enjoy making people smile. Some things haven’t changed since Lincoln. I invite anyone who is interested to play croquet with me in Central Park.
email me with any news cshorr@earthlink.net or friend me on Facebook!
1979
class Scribe: Liz glassie Doucette 7 touro park west Newport, RI 02840-3148 Email: lizgdoucette@gmail.com
please help us find your classmates: Nancy Jardine bolton megan bucci Kimberly Rousseau colt gretchen De wolf Soraya giha Judith Heller Susan Hurley Edda grollitsch Kropfi Sharon makokian Emily micolonghi Jane Nunes Robin Houston ostrander Kim Quearles Hilary Rao photina Ree Susan moffitt Ridder Katherine Saltmarsh Katherine Schaefer
Just a few notes this time, starting with the following from mary borah gorman:
Life is terrific - I left Dartmouth two years ago and joined Spencer Stuart, a global executive search firm where I work in the Education, Nonprofit and Government Practice. I have a pied à terre in the South End and my home in VT. I travel often to NYC, DC, and other places where my clients are. Love to see you in Boston some night. You ever game to pop up for dinner? Let me know. Oops, that last bit may have been intended for yours truly, but I figure Mary would be game to have dinner with any
Angelic Missaghian Shae, Nancy Spargo Barber, Linda Lecht and Emily Torgan Kheradi, class of 1979, all meet once a year somewhere to catch up. Over the holidays 2012 it was at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. of her old (as in 50-year-old) high school chums, so it seemed OK to include it. Then there was this from Sara Low:
I’m happy to report that the croquet season in Central Park opened yesterday (May 5, 2012). The New York Croquet Club celebrates its 45th year of playing in Central Park. As President of the NYCC, I have been holding my breath about each season’s opening for the last couple of years — since the Park decided that lawn sports (croquet and lawn bowling) no longer merited facilities in the park. The two clubs, esoteric and of little interest to many, waged a successful campaign against the city and have managed to keep our space. In both sports seniors compete successfully with Wall Street warriors and college players. It’s a grand sight. This winter I was honored by the United States Croquet Association as Club President of the Year. Amazingly, there are thousands of players registered with the USCA, most of whom play in clubs. The presentation was in West Palm Beach, giving me a great excuse to go to Florida. I haven’t solved any of the world’s problems or discovered a cure
Cool! Another invitation to get together with a high school chum! Speaking of which, check out the following from Emily torgan-Kheradi:
Nancy Spargo barber, Linda Lecht and Angelic missaghian Shea and I got together this year at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Last year, Nancy, maria Alteri Emmons and I celebrated our big 50 together. Julie pettigrew and I are both realtors in Coventry, and we see each other all the time. My daughter Tessa is graduating from URI with a double major and high honors. My son Zachary is graduating from high school and then will enlist in the military. My oldest son Saam graduated from NETECH and works at Senesco Marine. I am still with my high school sweetheart Bijan who is working as a consultant in Toronto, Canada.
Come to think of it, I’ve had a couple of get-togethers myself with classmates over the past year. At some point last summer (or was it fall?), Laura meiselman and I spent the better part of a day and evening walking and talking here in Newport. We did the entire Cliff Walk, then headed to Bannister’s Wharf for a lovely dinner and wine. I also saw Pam DiPiro at some point last summer; she and her family typically spend a week or two in Newport while her three kids go to sailing camp. Then in May 2012, I met up with Ellen Reeves at a rooftop bar in New York City. We, too, had a great chat. I’m not sure where the time goes,
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Catherine Sammartino ’82 and her family in Ephesus, Turkey.
Children of Sara Ramsbottom Peckham ’82 The class of ’81 celebrates its 30th reunion. but when any of us get together, it seems to disappear ... cheers!
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class Scribe: barbara picerne goldsmith 80 E Hill Drive cranston, RI 02920-3708 Email: ggoldiegirl@cox.net
please help us find your classmates: Elena Acciardo Elizabeth price Ayrassian Julie barrengos Amie brooks boothe tunsel Liberman cryan Amy mathieu Deck Susanne gerber francesca forti Hildreth Kim Norbeck Jennifer pratt magda Haddad Roitz beth Ruttenberg Karen Shepp paris colt Skerry Susan wood
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Hallie Sammartino Di Schino: In May, I was awarded my Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Boston College’s Lynch School of Education. Then in December, after 11 and 1/2 years as Managing Director of Marketing and Communications at Boston College, I left to join St. John’s University in New York as their Vice President for Marketing and Communications. My husband Dan and I are now living in Glen Cove, NY.
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class Scribe: margaret Hall Donabed 360 Nahatan Street westwood, mA 02090-2523 Email: mdonabed@verizon.net
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Kristen calcagni Josephine Reed cole cynthia murphy Dinnage Ellen murphy Elliott Lori Noviello Harper Karine maalouf Susan pedreira Sandra macDonald pelrine Stacie cumming porter Hannah Siener Stillman
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class Scribe: beth barton Rondeau 36 Salisbury Road barrington, RI 02806-1137 Email: abrondeau2@gmail.com
please help us find your classmates:
Joanne barker Deborah Epstein capotosto Amy cohan Susan Alpert cohn Susan Doane crowley Anna Drake Elisabeth Quill Duncan Isabel Emerson paola Emerson maria ferrante ferreira Jacqueline franks Janet meiselman christine Rieger Leah San Souci birgit Steinbeck
congratulations to Nancy Nahigian tavitian who will be receiving the Alumnae citation Award and Helena buonanno foulkes who will be receiving the Distinguished Service Award at the Alumnae Awards and Reunion Luncheon on friday, october 12, 2012 at noon.
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My Life as a Lincoln Athlete and Beyond By Martha Boss Bennett ’85
Mary Pat Denci ’82 and family Thank you to all who responded to my desperate plea for news. This scribe job is not as easy as I thought it would be!
I cannot believe that thirty years ago this June we were all decked out in our white dresses on the front lawn of Lincoln to graduate from high school. Hopefully most of you will be able to get back to RI for the big 30th Reunion this fall.
cassie Sammartino and Samina Arif are the co-chairs for our Thirtieth Reunion. They are planning a dinner for Saturday, October 13, 2012, during Lincoln’s Reunion Weekend. Please save the date in your calendars and make plans to reconnect with old friends. They will be contacting you this summer and again in the fall with further details. Keep an eye out for their emails!
tracey Reynolds clarke was the only one to respond to my first email for news. You rock! Tracey writes: I almost didn’t reply, but felt like I should since you are so good to do this. Nothing overly exciting...I am finishing my MAT program in May. It was a 1-year, intense immersion program that ran from last May to this May (all summer, yuck) but I graduate soon with a Master’s in Teaching at the elementary level. Kids are good. John the oldest is 24 and in law school. Dean, 21, is a junior in school in North Carolina at High Point studying digital media (did we have such a thing when we were in college in the dark ages??) Jay is 19 and a sophomore at URI (didn’t want to leave the state) majoring in education and is all about lacrosse. Chris is a senior and waiting on 8 more college decisions. Eliza is 12 and in 7th grade and a dedicated soccer girl. We hosted two exchange students (because why wouldn’t I need more than 5 kids in my house) over the last 3 years, one from Ecuador and one from Spain. Don is great, works in Providence as a wealth manager. I am still running every day and loving that part of my day. School is getting in the way of running and fun, but I’m almost done and love teaching so much. Cannot wait for summer, don’t want to
arrived at Lincoln in the fall of 1981 as a freshman, loving field hockey, enjoying basketball, and having little idea what to do with a lacrosse stick, but eager to learn. My sisters Robin, and eventually Allie, were taking the tennis world by the tail, but I truly preferred having a team at my back, as there was always someone there for you if you happened to make a mistake (or blame as the case may be). I loved playing Varsity field hockey with seniors who were wise and wonderful, juniors and sophomores who both played hard and kept things fun, and other freshman who were just happy to be part of it all. It was exciting, even if we did play on a postage stamp of a field that eventually became the spot for the Boss McLoughlin Gym.
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Imagine our joy, then, when the next year Faxon Farm happened. Full, beautiful grass fields, given to us by the generosity of parents and alums who believed in us, where we could play our hearts out. And we did. One thing I’d stress about Lincoln girls, past and present, is that they always give it their all, whether they have the best fields, courts and scoreboards (as they do now at Faxon), or are waiting for something great to happen, like locker rooms and training facilities (as they are waiting now!) Being at Lincoln can be a transformative experience for young women, in the classroom, on stage and on fields and courts. While teachers like Mr. Spoehr and Mrs. Peter were helping me grow as a confident student in the classroom, team captains like Nancy Nahigian Tavitian ’82 and coaches like Robin Kirkwood were making me a leader on the field. It was Lincoln that nurtured my talents as both a student and an athlete, allowing me to go on to Dartmouth where I got to travel to Ireland as a field hockey player and play all over the east coast as a lacrosse player.
When I watch the Lincoln girls of today out at the Farm, whether as a parent or a coach, I want nothing more than for them to have everything they need to develop a life-long love of athletics, with all the fun and benefits that can bring. I want them to thrive, be healthy, develop amazing friendships with coaches and teammates, have their sports talents grow and help them get into colleges of their choice. I hope someday some of them will play in an NCAA championship, be an Olympian, start a youth league in a far off place, be the new face of Nike, or just plain enjoy their years as high school athletes. Regardless of what the girls choose to become, Faxon Farm is the place where these dreams get their start. Parents and alumnae who came before us gave us Faxon Farm so that Lincoln girls could have the best while they strive to be the best. I’d like to think that now it’s our turn to help finish the work they started in 1982. Go Lynx!
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Sara Ramsbottom peckham writes: 30 YEARS!!!!! It is not possible ….. well, we are still happy living in North Palm Beach. We still come to Westport for the month of July — although sports are starting to get in the way of that. We still head out west to ski once or twice a year and I am still 25. My three children are all relatively happy and healthy — heading to 9th grade, 7th grade and 5th grade (they must be someone else’s) — we do get to see a few of you from Lincoln here in Florida every once in awhile – but now that we are “getting to that age“ maybe more of you will come down for retirement. I am truly hoping to make it to this reunion. Enough time has passed!!! Xo Sara
Lee mcEnany caraher wrote in for the first time!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Way to go Lee! Lee writes: My company Double Forte is getting ready to celebrate 10 years in business –go eat some Clif Bars, drink water out of a CamelBak bottle, snack on some Mission tortillas and drink some Peet’s coffee will ya’? In a case of small-world it is — Tricia Denci, mary-pat’s daughter, is about to finish her first year at Double Forte. What started as a remote internship to fill school requirement turned into a job 3,000 miles from home! My kids Michael (14) and Liam (11) are moving to big next phases – Michael was just accepted at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan as an organ major for high school – not sure where his passion for the organ came from and boarding school was not in our plan, but off he goes in the fall. At least he’ll not be constantly asked to play on football and
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basketball teams there – at 6’4” he’s been explaining why the organ and riding horses take precedence over sports where he’d clearly be the biggest guy on the field. Besides work, I have overcommitted to a few boards that keep me out of trouble– KQED (San Francisco public television and radio stations), The Marine Mammal Center (marine mammal hospital covering 600 miles of coastal waterways), and St. Paul’s Choir School (which of course is the smallest organization but takes the most time). My husband Pete (now 15 years married) keeps it all together – I’m chief bacon officer, he’s chief home officer. He’s getting ready for annual pilgrimage to Wisconsin lakes where he and the kids spend the whole summer with my Dad (playing golf, day camp etc.) while I go back and forth from San Francisco.
mackie Ramsden feeney writes: Hello classmates. All is holding steady up on the North Shore of Massachusetts. I still write copy, Dan still ships freight, and our daughters are working their way through 7th (Jesse) and 9th (Tyler) grades. Now that I have a high schooler, we have a whole new appreciation for cars with good gas mileage (which we do not have). The transportation requirements double (or do they triple?) from middle school to high school. It’s simply amazing! The Pentucket girls basketball team won the states (D3) and all I can say is, “thank goodness for the commuter rail and the fan buses.” I guess I have finally learned to let go. Jesse will have it very easy in a few years. As for our 30th, I am sorry to say that the Feeneys have a commitment in October, so I am hopeful that there may be an attempt to gather this summer. Until then, my best to you all. Contact info: mackiefeeney@comcast.net (and Facebook).
cassie Sammartino berg writes: The Berg family is experiencing great change. Our oldest son, Lucas, will be leaving for college in the fall (he hasn’t yet chosen where he’d most like to go, but must do so very soon). Our middle son, Adam, will be off to college the following year. So, the youngest - Nicolas will be stuck alone in the house with his parents for four full years. I am glad, because I’m not at all ready to be an “empty nester.” He’s glad because his big brothers love to torment him. Andy and I continue to work together at the law practice we formed eleven years ago, Sammartino & Berg LLP. His office is at the opposite corner of our suite, so it all works out pretty well. I wish I had an album full of all the meaningful looks I’ve gotten over the years when I tell people I work with my spouse. I took up snowshoeing last winter, and am disappointed that recent weather gave me no opportunity to get out there with my new gear. If anyone wants to try it out when we next get snow, please let me know, as I would enjoy the company. I would like to remind all of you that if my class notes ever seem a bit off color, and/or make fantastic references to how wonderful my husband Andy is, be certain I am NOT the writer. (Remember when Andy assumed my role and “ghost wrote” glowingly about himself, and only about himself, for our 20th? And most of you believed it was me - even my own mother.) I am really excited about our 30th reunion, and hope to see many of my Lincoln School classmates this October. I’m attaching a photo from Ephesus, Turkey, July 2011. My brothers and sisters, all of our kids, and my parents went on a Mediterranean cruise to celebrate my parents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary. It was the highlight of our year. Cassie
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“What Wage Gap?!?!“ one Alumna’s fight for Equality By Stephanie Chamberlin ’88
magine that you have a twin brother. The two of you are alike in every way. You even decide to attend the same college and to pursue the same major – let’s say, Accounting. After graduation, you’re both thrilled when he lands his first job at a public accounting firm, earning an annual salary of $45,000. Instead of starting a job right away, you have decided to travel for 6 months. Upon your return, you get serious about looking for a job. Unfortunately, it’s now November, a notoriously difficult time of the year to find employment. You’ve gone on several interviews and while everyone provides positive feedback, no offers are forthcoming.
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Panic sets in, your parents are pressuring you, your student loan payments are due, and you’re contemplating a waitressing job to earn some spending money. Just before Christmas, a public accounting firm you met earlier in the month calls with an employment offer. Your breath catches and you’re flooded with relief as you wait to hear the starting salary, but your stomach plummets when you hear $35,550. For a moment, you think about negotiating, but decide you shouldn’t push your luck because you really need this job. Quickly you recover as you justify the reasons for the pay differential between you and your brother. You tell yourself, it’s not prime hiring season, the firm is smaller than your brother’s employer, the economy has dipped since spring, and anyway, what’s $9,450?
This scenario assumes that you are a female college graduate of any race. If you were to assume that you are a Hispanic female college graduate, the salaries would be $45,000 for your male twin and $28,800 for you. If you are an African American female college graduate, the differential widens to $45,000 for your brother and $23,400 for you. The wage gap in Rhode Island is 21 cents – nationally, it is 23 cents – down from 44 cents in 1963 when the Equal Pay Act was passed. That accounts for a minimum gap in lifetime earnings of $1.2 million for college graduates!
Young women are not the only ones impacted. Recent research on the motherhood penalty suggests that mothers are offered $11,000 less in starting salaries, raises, and bonuses. The wage gap is highest for those with doctorates and professional degrees. It starts within one year of college graduation, after which time women earn 20 cents less than a man and continues to where the gap is largest, when women are in what should be their prime earning years of 45 to 65 years of age. Faced with the prospect of not seeing wage equality achieved for another 40 years, I was thrilled to hear about a project designed to address this issue. “Vision 2020 is a national initiative developed by the Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership at Drexel University College of Medicine to make equality a national priority through shared leadership among women and men.”
Hayley Lough ’12 with Stephanie Chamberlain ’88 at Ximedica.
(http://drexel.edu/vision2020/). Their goal is to move the US to equality by 2020, the centennial celebration of the 19th Amendment.
Rhode Island has two delegates, Marcia Cone, Executive Director of The Women’s Fund (www.wfri.org) and Susan Colantuono, CEO and Founder of Leading Women (www.leadingwomen.biz). Together with a team of nearly 50 local businesswomen, they’ve set goals relative to economic participation, women’s health and safety, and political participation.
As an HR professional, I work with the subcommittee focused on economic participation. We are researching and establishing baselines around wage equity audits, diverse slate requirements in recruiting and succession planning, and numbers of women in C-suite positions and on corporate boards in Rhode Island. We are also investigating ways to increase access to capital for female entrepreneurs. The women’s health and safety subcommittee is working to secure the family planning waiver to ensure access to family planning services.
The goal in the area of political participation is to increase the numbers of women appointed to cabinet, commission and board positions in state government. This segment is run in collaboration with the Women’s Fund’s RI-GAP project. Women represented 15% in 2010, increased to 30% in 2011, and have a goal to be at 50% by 2014.
As a student at Lincoln, I remember our Ethics class held in Miss Boerner’s living room. We engaged in lively debates on societal and community problems and inequities. We were challenged to come up with creative solutions and plans to tackle these injustices. It is with this same spirit and Lincoln School zest that I approach the Vision 2020 initiative. There are programs underway in all 50 states – I encourage you to learn more and to volunteer in your home state! http://drexel.edu/vision2020/
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Helena buonanno foulkes was listed in May 7th’s Wall Street Journal as being on a Wall Street Journal Executive Task Force on Women. In the article by Sue Shellenbarger – entitled “The XX Factor: What’s Holding Women Back?” – Helena, an executive vice president of CVS Caremark Corp., talks about the work-life balance and is attributed with saying that “true flexibility in managing work time should be allowed to all employees, male and female, parents and non-parents [as] this would encourage more open talk and mutual support. Women also should share hope and encouragement, says Ms. Foulkes, a mother of four. Early in her career, ‘I really wish someone had told me that 10 years later, the work would be lots more interesting,’ she says. She encourages young managers ’to think ahead to the next five to 10 years, because when you’re in the battle zone of that period, you don’t often appreciate the value of sticking to it.’” mary pat welch Denci writes: Let me begin to say that I have been very blessed. I married and started a family right out of college and I am sure I raised a lot of eye brows, and 25 years later I am still raising eyebrows! Mike and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary last August. Our oldest, Michael, married his high school sweet heart, Katie, last May and will graduate from Vanderbilt Law School this Spring with a
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job offer from a firm in New York City. Tricia graduated from DePaul University last June and is working with a wonderful PR firm in San Francisco. Matthew graduated from East Greenwich High School last June and attends St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD. Daniel will be a senior this Fall at East Greenwich High School and is making plans for college. As my nest empties, I am singing much more. I have a leading role in Boito’s Mefistofele with Taconic Opera in NY this Fall. Plus I have my Lincoln friends to enjoy my life with me! Very blessed indeed!
I just had lunch this week with Stacie Davitt murray (haven’t seen her in a year) and we caught up on work, kids and life. She has a great job at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in marketing and loves it and yet still finds the time to follow the sporting pursuits of her three boys.
Only thing new on my home front, is that Ali (19) headed off to Syracuse last fall and now I am living in a house of testosterone and I do not know how you mothers of boys do it. Honestly! Ali may have driven me insane while she lived at home but now that she is away at school (loving it – studying retail management – she always did love to shop, so I should not be surprised), there is nobody to tone down the raw energy that
Jody Craybas Lucatello ’90 and family boys have. Ben (15) gave up the soccer, basketball and baseball of his youth and now plays squash and golf as a BHS sophomore – and he will get his license this summer – argh!! Nick (12) misses his big sister (despite plotting a takeover of her bedroom), hugs me spontaneously (which I love) and runs on high from dusk to dawn (loves soccer, basketball, wrestling and baseball – and hates reading, oh well.) I am not sure what my fall schedule looks like, but I hope to see you all at the 30th reunion in October. Have a great summer!
Your faithful scribe, beth barton Rondeau (abrondeau2@gmail.com)
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class Scribe: pamela Reeves 2936 brandywine Street Nw washington, Dc 20008-2138 Email: pamelareeves@hotmail.com
please help us find your classmates: Judith zexter Sarah brownell Kristin clifford gail miller falk Sarah Jose Kathleen Kamionek meghan mccabe Lee Ann pipkin Jane Royal Ihoko yokota
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Finding Art in the Unexpected Lincoln alumna Jessica Ricci ’91 encourages students to do what they love
he Lincoln community welcomed alumna and entrepreneur Jessica Ricci ’91 through its red doors on Thursday, March 8, as a part of the school’s celebration of International Women’s Day. Working with leading women in the community, Lincoln students organized a day of workshops and presentations focused on the theme of voices—how the voices of women can be systematically silenced, and how we can work to ensure they are heard. Jessica, a jewelry designer, writer, world traveler, and humanitarian, led workshops with students in Upper School, encouraging the girls to find their own voices and to make themselves heard through their work.
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“Find out what you love and do it,” Jessica advised the girls. “You never know what you are capable of creating.“ Jessica used her own career as an example of how doing what you love can lead you down unexpected—but incredibly rewarding—paths in life. A Lincoln lifer, Jessica graduated in 1991 and went on to Holy Cross College. While there, she developed her love of writing and eventually went on to earn a Masters in Journalism from NYU. But her passion for travel and volunteerism also called to her; she spent four years living in Italy, writing and teaching English.
It was during her time in Europe that Jessica discovered her passion for flea markets, and she spent countless hours scouring the stalls for hidden treasures. “I love the idea of looking at something not just for what it is, but for what it was and what it could be,” she explained to the students. Jessica was especially inspired by the old prayer cards depicting Catholic saints, and she began to hunt down the cards as well as the stories behind them. “All
the vendors knew me by name, and I’m sure they wondered why an American woman was so interested in old prayer cards.” But Jessica saw something in the cards that no one else could see. Through her research, she began to imagine a way to reinvent the cards as jewelry. “It was about rebirth,” Jessica says. “Something old being rediscovered through a modern perspective.” And so Jessica’s philosophy as a designer was born; she travels the globe in search of objects that she recreates in the form of jewelry, breathing new life into them. She has traveled to Paris where she found 200-year-old lace, to Tanzania where she discovered spearheads from the Masai tribe, to Tibet where she searched for ancient keys. At her studio back home in Rhode Island, she uses the ancient process of lost wax casting to remake her found objects into jewelry, creating pieces that are stunning not only for the way they have been repurposed, but for the intriguing stories behind them. “I see it as a way to join my love for markets, for writing, and for jewelry all in one.” Through her work, Jessica found a way to conjoin yet another of her passions—humanitarianism. Wherever she travels, she volunteers. “It’s a jumping off point—a way to really discover a new country and build a body of resources.” She has taught English in Katmandu, worked in an orphanage in the mountains of Nepal, and volunteered in schools in Tanzania. Jessica talked to the girls about the importance of volunteer and charity work, both on a local and a global level. “I do whatever I can to give back.”
Jessica focused the second portion of her presentation on the girls’ aspirations, asking them, “What do you like? What are you good at?” The girls shared their thoughts in pairs at first, and then with the larger group. Brainstorming together, the group came up with ways to translate their passions into careers. The list included jobs such as food critic, photojournalist, chemist, and yoga instructor. Jessica encouraged the girls’ entrepreneurial spirit, saying, “If you start with a good product and find a niche in the market, you will succeed. Don’t listen to people who try to tell you you can’t—ignore them.” Jessica also stressed the importance of having someone in your life to encourage you to follow your dreams. For Jessica, support came from her cousin as well as her friends. “Lincoln taught me to focus on friendship first. It’s where I find the support I need and how I keep my priorities in line.” Jessica also attributes Lincoln for teaching her to thinking deeply and intellectually. “My friends and I were a heady group. My time at Lincoln made me a more contemplative person and taught me to view things with more depth of perspective.” It is clear that Jessica has applied these lessons to her work as a designer and a writer, constantly searching for new and unexpected ways to transform the overlooked objects of the world into art that can be seen, worn, and heard. To learn more about Jessica, her work, and her adorable dog Aggie, please visit www.jessicariccijewelry.com.
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Elisa Hebert ’95 with her wife and daughter.
1984
please contact the Alumnae office if you are interested in becoming the Scribe for this class. please help us find your classmates: Allison botelho morgan brill Jennifer Keigwin cook marisa DiIorio Heidi Douglass Laurie King Lenfesty michelle marcus whitney Rogers Sherri procaccini Santilli Elisa Scola Alyson yashar
1985
please contact the Alumnae office if you are interested in becoming the scribe for this class.
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veronique bardach Angela Healey barta meg curtis Nancy Hills-parente Rachel Howard Karene cox Reardon Katherine Rossi
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1986
class Scribe: Inga Sullivan Russell 76 orchard valley Drive cranston, RI 02921-2596 Email: i.russell@cox.net
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Kathryn Kuehl Aronhalt marie cavanagh Elizabeth Davis caterina guggiari Risa Levovsky Emily michalik Linda monteiro Deborah munson cristina Llamas Rabayda Kelley Schuler Lynne waring
Dyanne Kaufman writes, “I finally have some new news! I am still living in NYC with my son, Coleman (7). However, after 15 years working in the NYC public schools, I have accepted a position as Head of Lower School Literacy with Avenues: The Global School. It’s a brand new private school (K-12) opening in Sept. in Chelsea. The school will offer a bilingual education with a global perspective. They plan to open 20 more campuses in other world cities within the next 10 years. Coleman will be enter-
Twins Linda and Sally, daughters of Mary Smith Pena ’95. ing as a second grader. I am very excited about this opportunity for both of us. Please contact me if you want to learn more about the school, have tips on how to learn Mandarin in one summer, or advise me on what not to do as a faculty parent.”
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class Scribe: Heather Hahn fowler 3701 Sacramento Street #114 San francisco, cA 94118-1705 Email: hahnhm@gmail.com
please help us find your classmates:
vanessa benway Aguiar Jennifer carson carroll Eileen cheng Rachel clark Alexandra cross barbara Kasden Jennifer Newstead patricia mcJennett Scott Jody buonanno Shue
Joanne wilkinson: I am on the medical school faculty at Boston University and live near Boston with my husband and 4year-old daughter Maggie. We visit RI frequently and are in touch with several classmates. I competed in the World Indoor Rowing Championships this winter and was 17th in my age group.
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one who is curious about acupuncture or might like to try a treatment. Hoping this finds you all happy and healthy.
1989
class Scribe: maribeth colton 2301 bransley place Duluth, gA 30097-4337 Email: maribeth.colton@gmail.com
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Wedding of Michelle deTarnowski ’95 to Mike Fiorillo.
1988
class Scribe: cara millard cromwell 649 Hope Street bristol, RI 02809-1955 Email: cara.cromwell@cox.net
please help us find your classmates: Jenness Austin Robyn pandozzi Azzarone Natalie barclay Julie faltum Jean Dipiro goldstone Rebecca Knowles Jill Lynch Karen olsen tammy Hopgood pratt Julie-Ann Eady Rao Elisabeth blount white
carol Hetherington: Greetings everyone! This year has been a very busy and productive one for me. After four years of schooling, and several years working for someone else, I have opened up my own acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine practice called Blue Heron Acupuncture. My office is right on Wayland Avenue - just down the street from Lincoln. I would love to hear from any-
brigitte chevalier Alixandra Dario gifford Lana Hodgkinson Kaethe Hoehling carrie Klein virginia Ransom Noel Lavallee taylor Leila zaki
Reisha brown: Greetings from Naples, FL. Enjoying the sunshine and practicing as a pediatrician in town. Looking forward to hearing more about Lincoln at the Alumnae lunch in March.
1990
please contact the Alumnae office if you are interested in becoming the scribe for this class. please help us find your classmates:
Sarah bennett Allison tonia conforti marilyn cross melissa cumming Susan Eady Shanna Horner Saskia Janssens melanie Kirkpatrick Amy Koterbay Jonna mollicone Keeba Nicholson Laurie Russo Ilrid Seed Rebecca Smith Sharon Smith
claudia terranova Ingrid Nuissl vincent Lori wiechers
Amy wilkening fogelman: I have been loving getting back to work and have been busier than ever. As of February of 2011, I have been working as Marketing Director of Black Box Studios, a theater group in Teaneck, NJ. In addition, I am continuing as a Script Analyst and screenwriter for Zev Guber Productions in Montclair, NJ, assisting in developing and writing a number of projects.
Caught up with Nanette fridman ’91 when she was in the Bergen County area a few months ago. Also, recently saw caroline Lenher ’91 at a theater event in NYC. The family is great and also keeping me on my toes. I can’t believe we will have one in middle school next year. Shoshana is now 11, Naomi is 9, Ariella is 6 and Tamar is 4. It’s great to read everyone’s updates and see pictures on Facebook.
Jody craybas Lucatello: All well with the Lucatello family. Sofia is 5 and Valentino will be 2 in September. A busy summer and autumn ahead for me at work with great catering contracts, a new restaurant opening and the Olympics! Renato will take the kids to the states in the summer to visit and work on our house in Virginia while I stay in London. We are getting over to see his family in Venice, I will be cheering on the guys in Monaco at the Grand Prix and I will get to see Jill as well in June, so lots to look forward too. Feel free to come and visit anytime! ox
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Julian, son of Austin Ripley ’97
Gaia Cornwall ’97 and her sister Faith ’00 at Gaia’s wedding
1991
please contact the Alumnae office if you are interested in becoming the scribe for this class. please help us find your classmates: Nashwa Ali Naiomi cameron Nikki Sedgwick Johnston felicia Lopes mercedes mcAndrew Kristen forte montgomery Kristen Russo oddi Nicole Lamoriello toro phany tum molly moran walsh tara watts
1992 u 20th Reunion
class Scribe: Leah palmisciano cooke 41 Sargent Avenue providence, RI 02906-3415 Email: leahcooke@hotmail.com
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please help us find your classmates:
Abigail Hopkins christine Johnston Jennifer Kilberg Jessica pickman mcglynn Azizeh Nuriddin Jane Roberts Julia carroll venegas Rachel Shabica wade minnieolar wilson
1993
class Scribe: Hyla Kaplan Rosenberg 1723 wallace Street Apt 102 philadelphia, pA 19130-7017 Email: hkaplan@fragomen.com
please help us find your classmates:
Esther Alonso Elisabeth Ashley Elizabeth brennan Alexandra fain Elisabeth field Lucinda Holmes Delara Kheradi Lungen geema Shetty
Courtney Crowell at her wedding to Bas Solleveld
1994
class Scribe: Elizabeth turnbull o’Neill 29 Sunset terrace west Hartford, ct 06107-2737 Email: elizabeth.o’neill@thehartford.com
please help us find your classmates: Leigh cerame Lee mills Jocelyn chabot mozak Joanne oh Danielle Smith
1995
class Scribe: Sara Daniel Shaylor 405 main Street Apt 2p New york, Ny 10044-0343 Email: sarashaylor@gmail.com
please help us find your classmates:
gina best olesya chumakova Erin Devine terza Lima-Neves Amalia ortiz Duangrudee techa-Intrawong
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School Spirit Still Strong By Caroline Canning ’06
wasn’t sure how I would feel about attending my fiveyear reunion – would I feel old and disconnected from a place I spent the greater part of seven years? Would my classmates and I fall back into the same easy, comfortable rhythm that we enjoyed while at Lincoln after five years apart? Or would it feel like I hadn’t missed a beat, like I had been simply absent for a period of time and now had returned to reassume the days of my middle and upper school years?
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Lincoln alumnae at the wedding of Sarah Young Collins ’99: Megan Murray Craigen ’93, Paula Murray MacNamara ’80, Sarah, Leticia Buonanno Burman ’00, Stephanie Kapos Todd ’96, Holly Wilson Babij ’98, Debbie Wilson ’72, Suzanne Young Murray ’58, (Front row) Maggie McNamara ’13 and Katie Coggins ’16.
My first alumnae weekend had components of all of these emotions. While not everything was exactly how we had left it five and a half years ago, the spirit of the school still stands out as the most striking and appealing component to Lincoln. I realized that although we are not a part of the student body anymore, we are certainly still connected to the school in a way that the passage of five, twenty-five, or fifty years will never tarnish.
Over the course of my weekend, I was able to reach out and talk with classmates that I had not seen or spoke to in five years. Conversation flowed as though we had spoken the week before as I learned more about what my classmates were up to at this point in their lives. I was also able to spend time with the faculty and was happy to learn how the student-teacher relationship changes after graduation into something less formal and more into friendship. I am confident that the relationships with my classmates and my teachers will remain strong until the next time we see each other, whether that be next month or in another five years.
Sarah Young Collins ’99 and Timothy William Collins at their Providence wedding.
For a school that has given me so many opportunities, I feel that it is important for me to stay connected to Lincoln in as many ways as I possibly can. I simply would not be the person I am today without this school and for that, I owe the school my steadfast support. Without Lincoln, I would also be without a great core group of friends, without a strong academic base of knowledge, and without the fabled Lincoln community in which I feel very much at home. Thank you to everyone who was able to make it to alumnae weekend! I hope everyone enjoyed her time at Lincoln as much as I did. See everyone in five years (or maybe sooner)!
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congratulations to casey brennan mcLaughlin who will be receiving the young Alumna Award at the Alumnae Awards and Reunion Luncheon on friday, october 12, 2012 at noon.
Two new babies to report from our class in 2011! terza Lima-Neves welcomed Ema Ivone on June 27 and Elisa Hebert welcomed Skylar Morgan on December 19! Terza is a political science professor at John C Smith University in Charlotte, NC. Elisa and her partner, Megan, reside in Colorado in a home they designed just outside of Denver. Elisa works for Embolden, an online communications group focused on community foundations and nonprofits, as the Director of Project Management. They’re based in Pawtucket, so she’s in RI a couple of times a year. All the new parents are thrilled with the little ones and looking forward to sleeping in 2012!
Congratulations to michelle detarnowsky on her marriage to Mike Fiorillo on March 17, 2012 in Pensacola, Florida. Michelle writes that it was a small affair with close family and friends including fellow Lincoln classmate Leah gootkind. Michelle is a landscape architect in the Boston area and also teaches a graduate course at Boston Architectural College as well as serving as a guest critic at RISD. miriam Ryvicker is in Brooklyn, New York, still working for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. She recently received a 5-year grant from the National Institute on Aging to focus on the disparities in primary care access for older adults in New York City. Miriam keeps herself occupied with 2-year-old Reyna as well as salsa lessons!
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a homebuyer in Bay Village, Boston, although currently is in Saudi Arabia teaching a course in clinical research methods with other Harvard faculty. The busy traveler is also planning a trip to Brazil in the fall.
casey brennan mcLaughlin and her spouse Shannon live in Foxboro, MA with twins Grace and Grant (15 months). They are lead plaintiffs in a current lawsuit against the federal government challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, seeking equal recognition, benefits and family support in the Armed Forces for all.
mary Smith pena is busy chasing her trio, son Billy (4) and twins Linda and Sally (18 months) in Lowell, Massachusetts. Mary is a stay-at-home mom for now, gearing up for a home expansion this summer. She hopes to return to graduate school once her clan is a little older.
As for me, I am still on faculty at NYU Medical School, working as a breast radiologist and spend my free time chasing my 3-year-old son, Jack. Life is busy but good.
1996
please contact the Alumnae office if you are interested in becoming the scribe for this class.
please help us find your classmates:
Kalina brabeck Elisabeth bryan Rhonda cybart corley christina Jackson Annique Lennon mary-Kathryn mcKenna paula pliakas Shannon Seifert whitney white
Elisabeth Hessler cavangh: I am working part time as a Family Office Manager
and spending the rest of my time with my amazing son, Tucker, nearly 2. I plan to get to the beach in RI this summer and I hope to see many Lincoln alums while there. Sending my best to all!
1997u 15th Reunion
class Scribe: Sarah Hull 422 butternut Street Nw Apt 206 washington, Dc 20012-1948 Email: sj.hull79@gmail.com
congratulations to Stefanie casinelli taylor ’97 who will be receiving the young Alumna Award at the Alumnae Awards and Reunion Luncheon on friday, october 12, 2012 at noon.
2012 is already in full swing and our 15 year class reunion is just around the corner and mari and I are on the committee putting together the plans for this milestone reunion. We look forward to seeing you all in October! When and how did it become 15 years?
By October, Mari will also have another little one in tow, she is pregnant with baby #3 (a girl this time) and due around July 16th.
Jocelyn walters made a trial run of various alumnae events this past October when she visited Lincoln School from New York City to see her sister, Kilah (Class of 1995) receive the young alumna award. As of June, Jocelyn will have been in NYC for two years and continues to love it. After 6 years at Forrester Research, she recently took on a new role at a company called Usablenet, in the mobile commerce technology space. While not working, Jocelyn is currently training for the 40-mile, 5-boro bike tour and looking forward to spending her summer traveling and spending time with her two adorable nephews, Eli and Caden.
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For her summer, cathy weiner bunin is making plans to enjoy the CA weather to its fullest and also possibly make a visit to RI. Her son Max is now 15 months old. Heading northward in CA, Austin Ripley recently celebrated her son’s first birthday on April 1. Outside of the attention given Julian, Austin is teaching grades 14 Spanish in Pasadena, CA, and loving the sunshine. And in final milestones, gaia cornwall and her husband Gerald are coming up on their first wedding anniversary! Her sister faith (Class of 2000) served as Maid of Honor in their wedding, which was featured in the ProJo.
Keep those notes coming and look forward to seeing many of you in October!
1998
class Scribe: Amelia cofone po box 1084 pocasset, mA 02559-1084 Email: amelia.cofone@gmail.com
please help us find your classmates:
Nina Arieta Abigail barrett bloom Jill palumbo caitlin bottomley poland Nadia Quintero Samara Rainey francesca Silva charlotte thorensen Holly wilson
1999
class Scribe: Sarah young collins 250 1st Avenue unit 226 charlestown, mA 02129-4403 Email: sylax21@yahoo.com
please help us find your classmates:
gioia brosco Sandra fisler Amylynne frankel
Irene garcia Andrea Larkin Ramesh Radparvar
courtney crowell and Bas Solleveld were married October 2, 2010 in Little Compton, RI. As of January 1st Courtney & Bas will be moving to Houston, TX where Bas (a Vice President at Atlantic Trust Co.) has recently been relocated.
Sarah young collins: I recently married Timothy William Collins September 24th, 2011, in Providence, RI, at the First Unitarian Church and reception was at the Hope Club.
2000
class Scribe: Leticia buonanno burman 192 Douglas Drive Saunderstown, RI 02874-1951 Email: leticia.burman@gmail.com
class Scribe: bronwyn Roberts 28 Richter Street providence, RI 02908-4304 Email: bronwynarr@gmail.com
please help us find your classmates:
faith cornwall
2001
class Scribe: Nicole Lucca griffis 1335 wampanoag trail, Apt 205 Riverside, RI 02915-1021 Email: nlgriffis@gmail.com
class Scribe: christina Apostal 52 crosswynds Drive Saunderstown, RI 02874-2406 Email: chrisapo@aol.com
please help us find your classmates:
Sarah bell Alexandra bolotow Johara boukabous tiffany compton Sarah Higgins
genevive mathers Lisa mcgill Kendra pariseault Jainaba Sarr
catherine Leslie Harnish, Esq., was married on 7/27/11 to Andrew Denton LaMar (UVM 2006) in Walt Disney World. Cate and Andrew are currently living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
2002 u 10th Reunion
class Scribe: claudia crowell 133 Endicott Street Apt 2R boston, mA 02113-1632 Email: claudiacrowell@gmail.com
please help us find your classmates:
Julia clark Lauren coppola Alice Dickinson
Sydney Simmering: Sydney Simmering happily resides in Los Angeles, California. She works in the financial industry at DoubleLine Capital, an investment management firm, which she loves. Her specific focus within the firm is client services and communications. Sydney keeps in touch regularly with other Lincoln Alumnae and most recently had the privilege of being Maid of Honor to fellow 2002 alum Siobhan meyer (formally McCracken). She has three gorgeous nieces whom she overwhelmingly adores. Although Sydney has no plans to move back, she thinks fondly of Rhode Island and visits the East Coast as often as she can.
claudia crowell: Claudia is currently living in the North End of Boston, working for a private equity firm, Thomas H. Lee Partners, LP. She has recently started her own French macaron business, C. Crowell Fine Confections, and had the honor of sharing her business experiences with Lincoln’s Personal Finance class in January, and donating the Summer 2012
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dessert for this year’s Light Up Lincoln fundraiser. Working with Kristen bianco to plan the 10 Year Reunion for the Class of 2012, Claudia is excited to reconnect with her classmates.
Kristen bianco: Kristen is currently living in Boston and working at Fidelity Investments as a Financial Analyst. Kristen has been working hard to prepare for the Class of 2012 10-Year Reunion and looks forward to seeing everyone in the fall.
zareen Sayeed: Zareen moved to New York after graduating from Bentley University in May 2006. Since then she’s been pursuing her career in marketing and currently works as a senior manager in media planning at G2 USA, a fully integrated advertising agency.
Kate Schneider is currently living in Seattle, and recently completed her Masters in Public Administration with a focus on International Agricultural and Rural Development at the University of Washington. After spending last summer as a research assistant on a study in rural Ethiopia, Kate is now working as a research analyst in agricultural development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Sara Epps Donahue: Sara is currently puruing her MBA from the Kelley School of Business. Married Matt Donahue in July 2011 in Newport, RI, and is living in Ogden, UT.
2003
class Scribe: christina Saldivar Email: seductive_eyes6685@yahoo.com
please help us find your classmates:
cleo Andersen-tarnell Julia bembenek Sarah Lefebvre Justine waterfield Rodriguez cristina Saldivar
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2006
class Scribe: Lauren Hittinger 326 thames Avenue warwick, RI 02886-2910 Email: lhittinger@gmail.com
class Scribe: Alexis mancini 10 Seabonnet Drive Narragansett, RI 02882-1916 Email: Alexis_mancini@brown.edu
please help us find your classmates:
Eden piacitelli Natalie Renema Lindsey Saez Nickole walker
class Scribe: briana Simonian 28 S Eagle Nest Drive Lincoln, RI 02865-3731 Email: briana.simonian@gmail.com
brandy beyer Ani Kazarian Krysta martin Karla pineda
Lauren Hittinger: I graduated in 2010 from Rochester Institute of Technology with my MBA. Since April 2011, I have been working at The Arts Center of the Capital Region, an arts nonprofit, as their Communications and Special Events Manager. In September 2011, I married my husband Jason Gum. I was happy to celebrate with a number of my Lincoln classmates, who still remain my close friends. Erika Sogge was married to Kyle Schneider last July in Mattapoisett, MA.
2005
class Scribe: catharine Schoettle 4 university Avenue providence, RI 02906-4122 Email: catharine.Schoettle@trincoll.edu
please help us find your classmates:
Amanda baillargeon chuyen Huynh gianna Silveira mahliyo tulakova
please help us find your classmates:
Amy Ritter has been studying nursing at URI and will be getting her B.S. in nursing at the end of next year (2012). Meanwhile, she has also been studying Massage Therapy at CCRI and has finished her Associate’s Degree there as of the end of the winter semester. She celebrated her graduation from that program at a “pinning” ceremony in January 2012 and will then take the exam to become licensed as a Certified Massage Therapist at the next time the exam is offered. We’re very proud of her ability to pursue two degrees at the same time!
2007 u 5th Reunion
class Scribe: christine Lydon 30 freedom trail Norfolk, mA 02056-1662 Email: christinealydon@gmail.com
class Scribe: vanessa conti 192 Shaw Avenue cranston, RI 02905-3833 Email: conti795@duq.edu
please help us find your classmates: Sema Kazarian
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2008
class Scribe: Anna Sophia De brito 44 webb Street pawtucket, RI 02860-3640
2010
class Scribe: giovanna Debarros 331 west Avenue pawtucket, RI 02860-5051
class Scribe: brie Haseotes 430 Hickory Road North Attleboro, mA 02760-4419
class Scribe: melia Lamb 104 benevolent Street providence, RI 02906-3152
Nilses vera Lindsay winkler
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please help us find your classmates: Jamie Sweeney: I was just inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu, the official honor society of Jesuit Universities. The top 15% of the class is invited to apply, and from those 4% are selected as members. I also plan to further my education and earn my MBA.
please help us find your classmates:
2011
class Scribe: olivia Davis wilson 15 Newman Road pawtucket, RI
Naree Lee: I’ve been studying biochemistry/chem and will graduate the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2012. I’m planning to go back to South Korea and apply med schools there.
2009
class Scribe: Lauren cournoyer 65 mathewson Road barrington, RI 02806-4430
class Scribe: vanessa gomez 17 crescent Street providence, RI 02907-3222 Email: vanessagomez188@gmail.com
please help us find your classmates:
Stephanie Leblanc
Randie white graduated from Boston College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a minor in Hispanic Studies. She hopes to be accepted into a Master’s program to receive a MS in medical sciences before eventually pursuing med school.
Ruthie Bodell ’09 chaperones the Lincoln senior service trip to Delaware in May 2012.
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NICOLE A. MACKINTOSH ’20 ♥ March 27, 2002 – August 30, 2011
t is with great sadness that we note the passing of Nicole A. Mackintosh on August 30, 2011, after a courageous 19-month battle with Diffused Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a rare form of brain stem cancer. She is survived by her adoring parents Lisa and John Mackintosh, and her devoted sister Renée, invaluable member of Lincoln School’s Class of 2016.
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Nicole came to Lincoln School as a First Grader who transitioned to her new class and school absolutely seamlessly. Quick to make friends, eager to help anyone in need, motivated to learn anything and everything, willing to take risks, she immersed herself in the Lincoln community from the day she arrived. With a strong sense of right and wrong, she was always ready to voice her opinion in response to an unfairness that may have occurred. Even while fighting valiantly and exhaustively in her own battle against the great injustice of DIPG, Nicole remained determined to help others to whom life had also been unfair. Saddened by the knowledge that there were people who were not certain of when their next good meal might be, Nicole asked her parents if they could pay her for doing small jobs in and around the house so that she, in turn, could buy groceries for those in need. Her generosity of spirit never wavered; it only grew.
Throughout her three years at Lincoln School. Nicole always had an eye for detail and a knack for storytelling. Whether in art class recreating a delightful image of a little hippopotamus or reporting thoughtfully and animatedly on her most recent trip with her family, Nicole on her first day of first grade at Lincoln. Nicole made us all feel like we were right there with her. She had that wonderful way of making every person in the room feel like the most important. When proudly narrating one of her many photo albums, she would turn the page, pause to allow her eyes to stop on each one of her classmates to let them know it was they to whom she was addressing her narrative, and begin again. Nicole could capture her audience’s attention with an energetic flair, and then hold on to it with a calm and magnetic ease.
Nicole lived a life full of love, happiness, family and friends. As her third grade teacher wrote, “Her peers have many wonderful things to say about Nicole: how nice she is to everyone, how funny she is, and how much fun to be around. Nicole should be very proud of her achievements.” In response to all the challenges that came her way, Nicole stood up to them with her unwavering determination, incomparable courage, and an unflappable grace that comes from a soul filled with the purity of innocence and the wisdom of experience. Lincoln School is a better place for having had Nicole for the brief time that we did. She is sorely missed. In honor of Nicole, Lincoln has established the Nicole A. Mackintosh ’20 Scholarship. Thanks to generous gifts from Lincoln families, the scholarship will support a lower school student.
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KAREN CARTIN April 18, 1957 – January 27, 2012
his past year Lincoln lost Karen Cartin, one of its dearest members. Karen was a person who served Lincoln in many ways over the course of her employment, but always with the same energy, caring, involvement, and joie de vivre.
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She first came to Lincoln in 1992 as an associate in the Development & Alumnae Relations Office where she soon made her first lasting mark and endeared herself to alumna, both young and old. With the coming of Joan Countryman as Head of School, Karen was soon tapped to move to the position of Administrative Assistant to the Head of School, which position she kept until her first treatments of breast cancer began and she was forced to take time out from her job. While she was physically away from Lincoln for many months, Lincoln was always on her mind and everyone at Lincoln carried her in our minds and hearts.
When Karen’s first round of treatment was finished and she recovered, back she came with her style and good humor to work at Lincoln once again. The work of the Head’s Office was quite demanding so she filled in as a kingpin receptionist because she knew so well, even after her absence, who and where everything was and was able to steer students, families, faculty, staff and administrators in the right direction at all times.
But it became quite clear in a short time that there were places where Karen’s skills could be put to more advantageous use as she recovered more and more. She began to split her time between the Front Desk and the Development Office where she began and still kept her contacts with past families and alumnae. Eventually she moved back to the Development Office full-time until she was once again forced to excuse herself from work because of a recurrence of her cancer. Below are a few short excerpts from the moving eulogy that faculty member and close friend, John Minahan gave at her service. …We at Lincoln School are truly thankful to be among those touched by Karen’s joy and compassion. It’s a measure of how thankful we are that so many at Lincoln did so much for her in her final months; just naming them all would take hours...But ultimately it’s impossible to measure all that she meant to us…Whatever you were to Lincoln School—student, teacher, administrator, parent, staff, visitor—you were everything to her. She had time for you; she had a smile for you; she often had a delightfully barbed observation for you; she always had love for Lincoln and for you.
Though Karen was not granted a full span of life, the life she was granted was as full as any life can be…we all will remember, always, this deeper truth: that Karen will forever be the sister, the mother, the grandmother, the friend that all of us will always have.
A devoted Red Sox fan, Karen submitted an essay on how, during her treatment at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, she always requested a room facing Fenway and that it brought her peace. Her essay was selected, and she represented Rhode Island at RI Day at Fenway. Here she is throwing out the first pitch in July 2011. “On my first day of day care for my first born
son, Will, I walked from the Little School to the red doors of Lincoln crying the entire way. Apparently, Karen had been watching me out the window of her office and when I opened the doors to enter the building, she was there with her arms outstretched and gave me a big, big hug from one mother to another. It was a simple Karen gesture that she probably didn't think twice about, but which helped me get through that very hard first day of separation.” - Debbie Hanney, Middle School Teacher “Everyone knew that Karen’s favorite color was
purple. She came as a special reader to the Oak Room [nursery] every year. What book did she read? Harold and the Purple Crayon, of course. What did she wear on this visit? Purple sweater, purple shirt, purple pants, purple socks, purple shoes! What did she bring us? Purple crayons and paper!” - Christine Boulay, Oak Room Teacher Summer 2012
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Beyond the Traditional Classroom Walls INgRID LuNDgREN ’12 Studied abroad in France
what were some of the first things you noticed that were different from Lincoln?
“At School Year Abroad, the learning environment was entirely different. Initially, this was the biggest shock for me. Our school building was a house, set in the residential part of the city of Rennes, France. However, the lessons were not confined to the classroom, as they extended beyond into the colorful city. It was our responsibility as
foreign students to take advantage of this outer learning and to truly apply our education to real life situations. I had to push myself to become more familiar with the foreign language, which I achieved by constantly speaking with my French host family, reading novels and watching French film. As I immerself myself into the culture, Rennes in turn transformed into my second home.”
KAtHERINE RINg ’12 Studied abroad in Argentina
what’s one thing you learned at Lincoln that helped you while you were there?
“While in Argentina, I found that I always tried to put my best foot forward and view every experience with a positive outlook. Culture shock and managing in a country that is so very different from the United States was just as much frustrating as it was rewarding, however I found that I was able to tackle every situation with an open mind. I am realizing that much of this attitude can be attributed to my time at Lincoln. With my teachers as role models, I have learned that keeping a positive mind allows for patience and dedication, traits that I lived by in Argentina. The diligence and optimism that I try to practice in school also served to lessen the language and culture barrier during my time abroad.”
ALI pAoLINo ’12 Studied abroad in Australia
what did you miss about Lincoln while you were there? what do you miss about Australia now that you’re back?
“While I was in Melbourne, my school was in an area that would not be considered the most progressive. The students did not want to go to school and the teachers did not want to teach. This atmosphere made me miss Lincoln teachers’ dedication to their jobs and students’ motivation to learn.
Now that I’m home, I miss Australia every day. My friends, the family I lived with and just the country as a whole are the reasons I plan to move back there to live for a portion of my life. You walk down the street and everyone has a huge smile on their faces, creating an environment from which I could never see anyone wanting to be removed.”
SHERRy HE ’13 Exchange student from China
HELEN HASSAN ’12 Studied abroad in Nepal
what’s the biggest difference between going to school in china and going to school in the united States?
“I love my old school in China, the huge campus and large population gave me more chances to know different people. Here at Lincoln, I can choose my own classes. I enjoy learning more because Lincoln is less intense. I think about my future, college, and becoming more independent. I feel that Lincoln is more of a community, people connect to each other tightly. I love Lincoln and my friends here.”
what expectations did you have that did/didn’t come true?
“One of the biggest expectations of a study abroad program, especially one to a developing country like Nepal, is that you will return a changed person. This was an expectation that I had when I left for Nepal. However, after being in Nepal for a few weeks, I realized that this expectation would not come true without some effort on my part. Its easy if you think about the saying ‘Nothing worth having comes easily.’ The actual travel itself didn’t change me at all as a person, which is what I expected. However, the knowledge and experience I took away from the travel did have an affect on my character and my life here at home.”
Izzy AcKERmAN ’16 Studied abroad in Bali
what did you learn in bali that you brought back to Lincoln?
“Before I traveled to Bali, I had little to no knowledge on environmental sustainability. I don’t think I even knew what sustainability meant, let alone what its importance was. However, since then I have gained an immense amount of knowledge on what exactly it means ‘to be green.’ It may not be something you want to learn about, because unfortunately there is no fairytale ending. Global Warming, plastic waste, fossil fuels, endangered species and the over consumption and demand for items that we humans are willing to destroying habitats, homes, forests and lives for, soon seemed much more important to me.
At the Green School in Bali, Indonesia, I took the standard classes Math, English and Science but instead of taking a language I took a class called Green Studies. In this class, I learned about the benefits of and how to build with bamboo. We also spent some time working with local rice planters learning about the life cycle of rice, as well as planting some rice in our school’s rice fields.
Even though I learned a great deal of information outside of school, such as Balinese culture, language, religion and cuisine, I did indeed take away a lot of passion and knowledge from Green School. I am incredibly grateful for my experience, because now I feel much less ignorant about what I can do to make a difference that will not only affect today, but hopefully for many years to come.
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