In Memoriam We offer the deepest condolences to the family and friends of the following members of our extended school community. To read more, please visit www.countryschool.net/milestones. You may also submit a notice on the website or contact Director of Alumni Affairs Holly Donaldson Casella ’04 directly at hcasella@countryschool.net or (203) 801-5687.
Alumni
Juliet “Judy” Delafield Fiske Harding ’39,
Eleanor “Nell” Lloyd Helm ’43,
focused on providing relief to abused
91, died May 12,
instrumental in starting a women’s tennis
93, died Dec. 12,
2020, in Hanover,
program at the Weston High School. The
2018, in Seattle.
NH. Following
family later moved to Philadelphia where
Country School,
Nell was an assistant first grade teacher
Country School,
she attended
at the Germantown Friends School,
she attended
Choate Rosemary
and later volunteered as a hospice case
Following
women and children. She also was
The Chapin School in Manhattan and
Hall. Subsequent studies at the Child
worker for the Wissahickon Hospice,
Vassar College. She is predeceased by
Education Foundation and as a volun-
one of the first hospice care programs in
her husband of 70 years, John McMillan
teer with the Frontier Nursing Service in
the Philadelphia area. Additionally, she
Harding. Together, they had seven chil-
Kentucky, where she acted as a courier
worked as an RN at Foulkeways, a retire-
dren and attended St. Therese Parish for
assisting midwives and caring for their
ment community in Gwynedd, PA, where
43 years. In the community, Judy used
horses, led her to enter the Children’s
her mother lived.
her considerable energy as a passionate
Hospital School of Nursing, graduating
Summers were spent at her grandpar-
humanitarian and social justice advocate.
as an RN in 1951.
ents’ summer place on Lake Chocorua,
She visited senior centers, advocated for
In 1952, she married Bill Helm ’38 and
and in 2003 she and Bill moved there
the poor, and engaged in political discus-
continued to practice nursing, including
year-round before retiring to Kendal
sions and volunteered at church. Along
specializing in respiratory care during
at Hanover.
with three others, Judy formed a local
the polio epidemic of the 1950s. As a
She is survived by husband Bill;
chapter of the Panel of American Women
resident of Weston, MA, where she raised
daughter Pam; sons Peter, David and
and shared experiences of growing up in
her family, she served as a board member
Lloyd, six grandchildren and two great-
their respective religions with organiza-
of the Weston Visiting Nurse Association
grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the
tions and schools. Condolences, photos,
and as a founding board member of
family asks that donations be made in
or stories may be sent to Judy’s family at
the Parents’ and Children’s Services in
Nell’s memory to the Chocorua Lake
RIPJudyHarding@gmail.com.
Boston, at that time, a landmark program
Conservancy: www.chocorualake.org.
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