60 - 69
1960’s
Lucille McLoughlin Hornby ’60 splits her time between NJ & MA since her and her sister have kept their late mother’s house. Lucille has two engagements in the family, her Reuters-correspondent-based-in-Beijing daughter Lucy to a fellow Princetonian & a faculty member of Peking U., Eric Peng, & Lucille’s son, Rob, to Laura Fasano. Both of them are staff at Macarter Theater in Princeton.
Susan E. Kennedy ’61 retired from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, in August and is now headed to a condo in Chattanooga, TN, where she has siblings, nephews and friends.
Catherine “Cappy” Flynn Devlin ’62 is celebrating her 35th Anniversary of her travel company, Cappy Devlin International. Cappy graduated from Manhattanville, and majored in Economics and was Editor of the newspaper.
Rita Cleary ’63 is presently trying to have rights reverted for her three Lewis and Clark novels, River Walk, Charbonneau's Gold and Calling the Wind. Lately, she has been writing short stories and has even sold one to Amazon.com/shorts (Hunting Hog) and a Kensington anthology called The Law of the Gun. Her story is entitled The Wanted Man. Rita and her husband, John, also have been juggling plans for their daughter Sharon's wedding in Zurich, Switzerland. Their son Mark just started Nursing School in San Jose, California, and their son Jim lives with them because he has muscular dystrophy and cannot walk.
Elisabeth Nichols Lella ’63 started the year off with her mother, Marienne Werthman Nichols, dying at the age of 97 after a life that was useful and wonderful until the very end. In May, Elisabeth visited Corinne Cortesi Derry, her roommate for four years at Manhattanville. She said “She had a wonderful visit.” Currently Elisabeth is still working as family lawyer mostly in the area of Children's Law, judging in Small Claims Court, and mediating in both family and civil matters in London and Toronto.
Suzanne Gehan Willard ’63 and her husband Mel are totally settled into their recent move to Tucson. She is working for Raytheon Corp because she “couldn't bear the thought of retirement yet.”
Gwen Hoeffel ’64 is member of the Society of the Sacred Heart and still lives in Japan, and is the minister in the Catholic Diocese of the city of Nagoya. “Many foreign migrant workers from South America, Africa, China, and the Philippines go to Japan to do the dirty, dangerous and difficult work that the Japanese avoid these days” she says. Gwen and her Church members try to reach out to these people who face so many problems and challenges in life in a foreign country and culture. Gwen continues to be happy and challenged as she accompanies women and children in particular.
Patricia McCaffrey ’64 is now Sister Lucia Treanor, F. S. E., and is a Franciscan Sister of the Eucharist in Lowell, Michigan - just outside of Grand Rapids, living on a 230 acre working farm with a large center, that offers music education, music therapy, art programs, a pre-school, senior citizen activities, and a retreat program. The center has just added two new yurts to the retreat experience and can accommodate individual or group retreats.
Carol Francis ’64 retired from the fashion industry three years ago to move to Rome with her husband, Roger Elton. They now spend about 6 months a year there learning the language, culture, history, food, wine, and pleasures of living in the country. When not in Italy, they divide their time between New York, Reno, and wherever else in the world they can go. This year they spent May in Madagascar and are going to Israel in October. Carol’s sons are grown and independent, Daniel is a medical device engineer and Adam is in medical school, finishing a dual degree program in medicine and business.
Nancy Valenti Cullen-Mingrone BA ’64 and MAT ’76 retired from teaching a few years ago and is now a volunteer for a dog rescue group. Nancy married Al Mingrone two years ago and they live happily, in Mamaroneck, with their 4 dogs and 5 cats. Nancy has two granddaughters, Mika and Kana, and is enjoying her retirement.
Mary Wilson Williams ’64 says she is “still grateful to Manhattanville for the fine education it gave her, her whole life has been enriched by it.” These days, she is a happy grandmother, living in the depths of the Green Mountains. Traveling is a passion she satisfies by working as an educational specialist for the Accrediting Commission for Career Schools and Colleges of Technology. They send her all over the country to visit many different types of schools and meet wonderful people. The Vermont Women’s Fund is Mary’s other project. It is a grant-making foundation that helps women become financially self-sufficient, and live safe and healthy lives.
Tina Sloan McPherson ’65 is still acting on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light (celebrated 25 years this year playing "Lillian Raines"). She and her husband go to Florida on weekends in the winter but still love living in the middle of NYC. Their son is working for the think tank RAND and heading for Harvard Business School and all in all, she is very busy writing a book and one woman play which will hopefully go around the country so she can visit all her Manhattanville friends in their home towns.
Sister Paula Toner, RSCJ, ’65 continues to serve on the Provincial Team of the Religious of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis and on the Board of Trustees of Convent of the Sacred Heart, 91st. Street. She was delighted to see Charlotte Murphy Lovekin at a Sacred Heart schools meeting in Bellevue, WA, last April. However, on a sad note Sister Toner and many of her classmates assembled in New York on June 20 for Jane Maggin's funeral. From roommates to fellow trustees, Jane and Sister Toner served together on the 91st Street Board for the past 5 years. Sister Toner said “We are going to miss her greatly!”
Donerine Echternach Weiss ’65 is a Senior Real Estate Associate with Coldwell Banker Chicora in Myrtle Beach, SC for nine years. Donerine and her husband Bob enjoy golf and travel. Recently they travelled to Alaska, and they now have planned a trip to Hawaii for the spring of 2009. She visited campus last fall when she returned for a 45th High School reunion in Westchester.
Susan Ackley Cabell ’66 is an Episcopal priest and the Rector of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Her daughter, Hannah, is performing this fall on Broadway in a musical called "A Man for All Seasons." She got help in Latin pronunciation from her brother, Andy, who just graduated with a double major in Classics and History from Skidmore College. He's looking to go to graduate school to pursue an interest in the Byzantine period. Susan’s husband, Will Cabell, is teaching in a small private school nearby and continues his acting.
Mamie Ballard Crockett, Ph. D. MAT ’66 attended Manhattanville following the Harlem riot. Recruiters from Manhattanville found her at a predominately black college and enticed her to attend a predominately white college to help integrate the first graduate class there. Known for its history of excellence, this pioneer graduate class had some of the best professors in academia. Cases in point, the dean of our program was Dr. Bruce Joyce, expert in teacher education and in creating interventions for struggling learners. Mamie currently holds a Ph.D. in Literacy Instruction for Struggling Readers, she is married to Walter L. Crockett, Ph D, and the happy couple has four children.
Marietta Nilson ’66 has been a real estate agent in Cape Cod for the last 28 years. Her daughter, Margaret, is her new business partner and neighbor. Marietta is also very involved in the local Unitarian Universalist (UU) faith community. Her two current spiritual projects are knitting prayer shawls and partner church work with a UU congregation in Transylvania. Marietta says she “loves how the internet helps us connect, whether it’s with old friends or new.” Marietta remembers reading E.M. Forester with Prof. O’Hare: “Only connect,” the frontispiece to “Passage to India.” I didn’t understand what that meant then, but I do now.
Barbra Bowe, RSCJ ’67 currently resides in Lima, Peru where she has been a delegate from the US to her General Chapter. The Chapter has just elected Kathleen Conan, M'ville Class of 1968 and currently the Provincial of the US Province, as the new Superior General for the next 8 years. Kathy succeeds Clare Pratt (Superior General 2000-2008) who is also an Manhattanville alumna.
Sigourney Woods Cheek ’67 published her first book this year about living life to the fullest while dealing with cancer. She has been touring the country for the last 6 months, and while in recovery she created a contact list, starting with 18 friends. By the end of 6 months of treatment, her list grew to 160 people. Her book is called Patient Siggy, Hope and Healing in Cyberspace.
Thalia Chang Lyn ’67 currently lives in Jamaica, and has been married for 41 years to Capt. Michael Lyn of Air Jamaica. They have 2 wonderful sons - Michael (Ft. Lauderdale), married to Denise Dubuque - both RISD graduates - and Emmy award winning Craig (London), and 2 absolutely fabulous grandchildren. They have developed a successful Jamaican "quick casual" chain of restaurants across Jamaica, now at 15, plus 1 in Barbados (at the airport). Thalia is also the Honorary Consul General for Thailand in Jamaica and a Justice of the Peace.
Katharin Reilly Brink ’68 and her husband relocated to Stuart, Florida almost three years ago. Until recently she was working was a consultant on higher education software implementations. Katharin and her husband have four grandchildren (plus one on the way) from a blended family of six grown children – they are in VT and NY. Katharin says that she has “been blessed with wonderful family and friends.”
Sister Kathleen Conan ‘68, provincial superior of the Society of the Sacred Heart, United States Province, was elected superior general of the international Society of the Sacred Heart in Lima, Peru. In her new role, Sister Conan will oversee the communities and work of her religious order in 44 countries on six continents from the Society’s international headquarters in Rome. Sister Conan succeeds Sister Clare Pratt, also from the United States, and becomes the second superior general from the U.S. in the Society’s 208-year history. She will serve a term of eight years beginning this fall. Sister Conan, a native of DeWitt, N.Y., has been provincial of the U.S. Province for the past three years following years of work in the formation program for new members of the congregation, both in the United States and for five years in Rome. She is fluent in French and Spanish. Prior to working in formation and provincial leadership, Sister Conan served as a teacher and administrator in Sacred Heart schools in New York, Michigan and Connecticut.
Since her corporate law dept position was relocated in 2006, Barbara Ann McGuire Cook ’68 works and lives in Atlanta, GA where she has taken museum memberships and found hiking trails for weekends. Her husband David and their older son Peter live in Stuyvesant Town Apt. in NYC while Peter pursues acting and directing plays. When she comes north on weekends it usually is to her country house in Warren, CT.
This past June, Ann Montana Donohue Dooley ’68 retired from teaching mathematics in the Northport- East Northport School District. She had taught there for 30 years and now she plans to relax for a while.
Hon. Anne C. Dranginis ’69 retired from the Connecticut Appellate Court in February, 2006 and joined the firm, Rome McGuigan PC in Hartford, CT. As a Retired Judge, Anne concentrates on appellate issues, trial strategy, mediation and arbitration. Anne has been married to her long time companion and friend, Bill Jacobs in June of 2007. Her daughter, Charlotte, has graduated from college (Smith College 2006) and Sarah is in her last year (Colorado State).
Updated by JB - 10/9/08