{"id":4820,"date":"2021-08-28T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2022-06-07T22:05:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T02:05:44","slug":"2021-new-hampshire-mini-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/2021-new-hampshire-mini-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 New Hampshire Mini-Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Barb (Freeman Douglass), 8\/24\/21<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Judy Marshall Kennedy hosted seven classmates plus one ’83 and one brave husband for our mini reunion on August 19.  The pouring rain meant a move from our usual outdoor coffee shop, and we thoroughly enjoyed sitting around her dining room table. Dottie Smith Mann, Dee deFerranti Abrahamse with her husband, Barbara Freeman Douglass, Marian Strong Moore, Bobbi Childs Sampson, Liz Hottel  Barrett, Sallie Crittendon with her daughter Lisa Class of ’83, and Judy all joined in updates, laughs, and good conversation. We were delighted when Liz and Dottie led us in the singing of the special grace from our MHC days.  There were memories of Professor Durfee in math class and of baby music; discussion of obnoxious fund raising tactics; refreshing insights from Dee and Lisa.  Dee commented that California has greatly changed for the better since they first lived there, and more diverse demographics have brought this about.  Lisa’s perspective from today’s workplace was that young people are demanding more benefits such as paternity leave and time off instead of putting up with a culture that expects 80 hour weeks. It was fun to talk about accents and whether”collar” and “caller”  sound alike. It was also fascinating to learn about past years of Judy and Dan’s  publishing businesses and move from Boston to North Conway NH..<\/span><\/p>\n

This tradition of meeting the third Thursday in August has been going on for 11 years.  We missed Carol Sweeny Benson, Diana Diggin and Elsa Anderson van Bergen, who have been frequent members of the group. All classmates are welcome, so think about being in the beautiful White Mountains of NH next August!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Left to right:  Bobbi, Dee, Dottie, Barb, Liz, Marian, Judy, Sallie<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Barb (Freeman Douglass), 8\/24\/21 Judy Marshall Kennedy hosted seven classmates plus one ’83 and one brave husband for our mini reunion on August 19.  The pouring rain meant a move from our usual outdoor coffee shop, and we thoroughly … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mini-reunions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}