Onyx Anneau Spring 2021

It is so good to be in touch with you again! A big thank you to Mary Jo Hughey Matheny for her close to 30 years of service to our class. Joan Lewis Ingram is still able to live alone in her condo in Terre Haute. She manages to drive and does her own errands. A letter from one of Christene “Chris” Harries Ladesich’s sons let me know Chris is in a nursing facility following a stroke in March 2020. She is recovering nicely. Anne Stack Connell is grateful to be free of arthritis but is dealing with Macular Degeneration. She still plays bridge and lives with one of her daughters and enjoys her two married grandchildren. She sends love to all the ladies who have reached 90. She has problems with her sight but does get out to play bridge. Jane Sullivan Baylor has stayed close to SMWC and was hoping to attend our 70th Reunion, but she hasn’t been in the best health. Daughter Elizabeth and her husband Ted have given Jane three grandchildren. Angela “Angel” Crowley Kenny has not stopped moving! She is involved with the Legion of Mary and visiting the homebound. After 50 years, she stopped playing the organ for church, but keeping in touch with 19 grandchildren and 35 great grandchildren is time consuming enough! Angel does her own cooking and enjoys it. She is looking forward to Reunion and hoping we are all allowed ‘out’ by then. Julia Rooney Ladne r has been confined to home following hip surgery and a recent fall. Her daughters are looking after her at home during her recuperation. I also contacted several gals who started with us but didn’t graduate with us. Catherine “Cathy” Pert Foley lives in Colorado and is doing well. She has four children and five grandchildren. She has fond memories of SMWC. Gloriann “Gloria” Naumcheff Long is good. She goes to mass weekly, reads, works in the yard, walks and travels. She lives in Michigan. Molly Keane Houlihan lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has ten children, and was married for 64 years. She lives alone in a home her and her husband built. She does not drive, but has family meeting her needs. Her health is good, and she has kept in touch with Gloriann Naumcheff Long and Kathleen “Kathy” Kelly Collins . Rosemarie “Rory” Roney Eckman was able to contact Mary Jo Hughey Matheny . She is in a retirement home and is wheelchair bound. They had a lengthy chat. I am still independent but had to stop volunteering at Birthright when we closed due to the pandemic. I try to ignore my arthritis, and I am reading a lot since the pandemic has forced me to stay in mostly. To stay sane, I have been baking quite a bit; my neighbors have been lucky recipients. We will get updates regarding our C L A S S N O T E S ’51 Mary Hoynes Duhigg 2365 Manchester Ln Avon, OH 44011-1670 mchduhigg@att.net

Reunion, which is currently scheduled for May 21- 23. I hope that we will be able to get together. ’52 Rita Burke Gannon 5440 Fox Hollow Dr Boca Raton, FL 33486-8637 jazgannon@yahoo.com In less than a week Rita Burke Gannon ’52 will have her second vaccine shot. She hopes to travel abroad once restrictions allow. Her second term on the board of her homeowner association keeps her very busy. Her parish does a YouTube mass every week for those who cannot attend and it has been comforting to have this close communication. Dennise Keeshan Lafferre ’52 recently retired from being a travel agent. It has been many years of helping her clients successfully enjoying their trips on land and on the seas, cruising. With the pandemic, she is home, waiting for the all clear. She hopes her class of 1952 are healthy and enjoying their families. There are always nice surprises in this job. I had a surprise call from Patricia “Pat” Carbon Etling from Terre Haute. Pat had 10 children, several of whom went to The Woods, and even had weddings in the college church. She has 32 grandchildren, with multiple scientists, doctors and lawyers. On 4th of July, Pat said she had two NFL quarterbacks at the family gathering. Dolores “Dee” Eisenbeil Humm is a faithful responder who like so many spoke of praying for our country. In her area of California, they also prayed for rain. Dee met with Sarah “Sally” McCoy Harrington and husband Jim in New Jersey last year. She also ran into Gay Wasas Ducharme in San Francisco. Gay Wasas Ducharme normally leads city tours and is busy at the Art Museum. She phoned with an update on how COVID has altered her activities in those areas. Carol Nolan, SP is retired and back at SMW. Sister lost her younger sister, Nancy Nolan, SP, ’59 on Dec. 20. She was General Superior from 1986 to 1996. Older sister L ucille “Lucy” Nolan, SP, ’64 lives in Maryvale next to the College and they are hoping the vaccination schedule allows them to get together for St. Patrick’s Day. Sister Carol also reported the College is doing wonderfully. Our Canadian resident classmate, Lois Guertin Doherty , is in about the same boat as those of us “South of the Border.” Lois has dual citizenship and could vote in the U.S. from Canada as I understood. She misses seeing her young grandchildren and enjoys reading to them online. Arlene O’Rourke Hamm was able to do a little traveling this year, spending Thanksgiving in Knoxville, Tennessee and planning for Christmas in Atlanta (virus permitting). Oh for the day when we don’t have to add that! The family celebrated two ’54 Jane Antrobus 5135 Tarrytown Dr Memphis, TN 38117-2125 JANTROBUS3@aol.com

weddings and one great grandchild in 2020. Lucille “Lou” Restifo McGrath lost her husband two years ago. Lou is well and living alone. She has five children and four grandchildren. If she is snowed in another five days, she may find all kinds of things. This is the first time a Memphis, Tennessee snow reminds her of SMW. ’57 Martha Jacob, OSU 128 N Peterson Ave Apt 6 Louisville, KY 40206-3103 (502) 338-3331 mjacob@ursulineslou.org First, I must confess, I failed to ask you for your news in order to meet the Feb. 15 deadline for these Class Notes! Thus, I am writing this on Feb. 14 to meet the deadline. I have managed to talk with some of you and here is what I know. Prayers to the family of Teresa “Dippy” Messina Rogers , who died on Jan. 30, 2021. We extend sympathy and prayers also to Patricia “Peachy” McDonald King on the death of her husband, Paul, in July 2020 and to Julia Rice King on the death of her husband, Marty, in August 2020. Both Pat and Julie are coping. Pat says she only sees her kids and Julie says her large family, including a son in Hong Kong, ‘visit’ by Zoom about once per month. She still works three mornings per week at her parish. Marilyn Marschall Antonik is living in Wilmette, Illinois, in a condo overlooking Lake Michigan. She and Mary Hayes Garvin have strict instructions to stay home while their children meet every need. Marilyn enjoys lectures, book discussions and some classes, plus contacts with family and friends through the internet. Mary’s son lives with her in the family home in Wheaton, Illinois. Rosalie McGlynn continues to live in her family home in Chicago. Her needs are met by her faithful cousins. Alice Geary Sgroi seems to be doing OK in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Camille Grafe Rust retired in March 2020 as a massage and body works therapist. Her ukulele group is still functioning. Peggy Curl Doak and her husband permanently closed their B&B in Rock Island, Illinois, in December 2020. The pandemic and then the winter weather helped them decide it was time to do so! Gertrude “Trudy” Knecht Mazzarella’s life is slower since tours of Christ Cathedral in Orange, California, were suspended in March 2020. She directed the volunteers who gave the tours, as well as showing visitors around. When tours will be resumed is not known, but the Cathedral is now open for services with a 25% attendance. She reports her two sons who live nearby are taking good care of her. Mary “Bonnie” Carroll Kilroy has two complaints – COVID-19 has canceled the outdoor group activities offered at the senior care facility she calls home, and the tornadoes/storms in the New Orleans area in fall 2020 were quite frightening. She is thankful these were not near where she is living. Carol Baker Cardenas lives in Magnolia, Texas. When I spoke with her on Feb. 13 she said people of Magnolia cannot cope with the cold,

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