Daisy and the Girl Scouts by Fern G. Brown

I didn’t retire until seven years ago and so have pursued an active life since graduating. Happy 65th, wish we could have been there.” Contact Bill at (303) 471-4053 Ilchmann writes: “It is hard to believe that we graduated from Brown 65 years ago and will celebrate that occasion with a reunion in May. I would love to hear from any and all Brunonians as we endure COVID-19.

A stern believer, she and Realtor husband Michael house seven in their beautiful home. Daughter Marjorie is into the animal thing as well, heading up the Intermountain Rescue and Humane Society. Both grands are busy-eldest is a USMC captain and the other is with a veterinary group where she works rehabbing horses and other animals and is pursuing her doctorate. I wrote a monthly column on birds for a magazine for 10 years and wrote and published three novels and one compendium titled Back Then, on my life in the simple times of the 30s and 40s, which was published in February. I had to give up my carving of songbirds after 30-some years-no studio here. I especially enjoy a group, The Play Readers, where actors read from scripts of plays and musicals to audiences of 50 or more each month. We have chosen the former with committee work, trips, and activities with friends and our daughter, a half-hour away. I am forever grateful for my Brown experience.”īill Hinckley writes: “Sue and I are both happy with our new digs at Vi at Highlands Ranch, Colorado my spouse of 65 years is in a lovely cottage and I am in an apartment in assisted living, a wonderful retirement facility, where one is assured of continuing care at all levels and can be busy or not. Sorry that we missed our 65th reunion with so many ever-true memories. We have nine grandchildren, four in college. An original founder of the Chattertocks, I returned to Brown on the 50th anniversary of the successful a capella group’s milestone and spoke of the campus sensation they created.

Miss Rudd of the physical education department would have been proud to see me running 12 marathons with a PR of 4:49 at age 60. Always athletic, I combined volunteerism at the Barnert Temple of Franklin Lakes, N.J., where I am a lifetime trustee, and long-distance running training. This is when I returned to my love of travel as a serious endeavor.

After raising four wonderful humans, occupational therapy no longer held my interest as a career. In the summer of 1954 I lived with a family in Calais, France and made a lasting friendship with the Baras family and a huge connection to travel. “This happened because of Alice Emmert Ward’s speech in Chapel about the Experiment in International Living. Bennie is winding down her 40-year old practice of being a travel advisor specializing in small ship cruising. Ken is a retired psychologist and WWII veteran. Benita Saievetz Herman writes that she and her husband, Ken, married 62 years, are still in the family homestead in Wyckoff, N.J.

Daisy and the Girl Scouts by Fern G. Brown