Last summer I had hoped to spend 2 weeks in Nantucket starting July 1. Cataracts, hearing, and creeping arthritis are the main concerns! I’m not complaining–just stating the facts. We spend time in the winter in Palm Desert where my sister and Smith roommate, Ann Loeb and her husband, Jim, who live in the east, also have a home.įrom Dinny Stevens Wolff: Last winter saw me trying to dodge the ambushing health problems, due to old age, I guess. Life is good, somewhat slower with time to smell the roses and grow tomatoes!!! The grandchildren, all 10 of them, are on their way, with 8 out of college and in the work force. Dick and I are both well, keeping busy as we want and enjoying life and one another. It is a rare occasion when we can get everyone together at the same time and place. Marcia Flaster Volpert writes: My husband and I will celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary in June with our extended family - all 19 of us. Myers FL for the past 13 years after living for 14 years on Hilton Head Island SC…lots of singing with award-winning Spirit of the Gulf(Sweet Adeline Barbershop Chorus…International Competitors scoring in the top 10)…play golf, bridge, and bocce…Volunteer at Gollisano Children’s Hospital and New Horizons after-school programs…am very thankful for good health. Kay Hindle Poten writes: Widow for 5+ years…have lived in Ft. Pajarito Press LLC has several other authors we are publishing as we focus on WWII and books that relate to Los Alamos history.
I’m still working on my the revision of my book Silent Voices of WWII and have been a publisher for a year. The NM Smith Club had a great reception for her. Steeper’s book is Gatekeeper to Los Alamos. When her book was published by the Historical Society, she came to Santa Fe and Los Alamos for book signings, etc.
We talked for several hours as I had sent newspaper clippings to Smith in 1963 when Dorothy retired and the archives had kept them. When Nancy Steeper was doing research at the Neilson Library, the archivist suggested she call me. How Nancy came to write this biography is a fascinating story. After her retirement from Smith, she wrote about Dorothy McKibbin, a Smithie who was so important to the Manhattan Project during WWII. Nancy Steeper retired as the Director of the Smith Alumnae Association and has moved to Los Alamos, NM. Recently Nancy saw Nancy Cook Steeper ’59 who was guest speaker for Legacy Members of the Los Alamos Historical Society at the famous Hans Bethe House, owned by the Society. Fortunately, Helen Heron Heinrich has volunteered to be class co-secretary. She too had an accident, being rear-ended at a stop light. Ellie Briggs who was going to be co-secretary has had to resign because of family responsibilities. They had serious injuries but survived and hopefully with rest and rehabilitation, they will regain their health. In early July, our new class secretary, Nancy Reynolds Bartlit, her husband, and their daughter were in a bad car accident en route to a wedding. Nancy Avery Pressler and Ann Weldon Perce met while Nancy was visiting her sister-in-law Lyn Donaldson ’60 in Chicago recently.
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