She had a 30-year career as an organizational consultant, helping executive leaders in the academic, business and non-profit sectors build strong teams. denise wingate materre re-ceived a doctorate in leadership for educational equity from the University of Colorado Denver in May ’18. In 2019, she adds, “Our scheduled travels will wind down, and we will have to start thinking about what a less peripatetic retirement, probably still in Seattle, might look like.” You can follow Chris-tina’s travels on her blog,. “It has been a good place to practice Spanish, do a little teaching, live comfortably and enjoy being somewhere different,” Christina says. They chose Uruguay because it is a stable, developed country Christina and Doug both speak Spanish and it was easy to get a visa. ’17 from teaching English as a second language, christina purdy and her husband, Doug Mecham, spent a year living in Montevideo, Uru-guay. While there, she also had a joyous time seeing Oren’s parents: son Trent and his wife, Carolyn. Last December, Linda made her third trip to China, this time for a seven-week stay in Shenzhen to meet her new grandson, Oren, born in June ’18. After working as a graphic designer for 25 years and serving as man-aging partner in the marketing com-munications firm Packard Judd Kaye, Linda happily returned to her roots as a painter in 2009. linda roberge packard lives and works in Bangor, ME. Bar-bara’s books are available at major book retailers and on Amazon. How can that be? We aren’t that old! barbara keiler, who writes under the pen name Judith Arnold and is the author of more than 100 books, had two releases in 2018: Kick the Bucket, part of her Lainie Lovett mystery series, and Rescue Me, part of her Magic Jukebox romance series. Now we need to think about planning for our 50th.

Stay in touch! Sec., Laura (Lolly) Olena Mixter, 1974 By the time you read this, we will have celebrated our 45th Reunion.

As the owner of two bionic knees myself, I can relate. Margaret’s educational trajectory took her to the Netherlands as well, prior to undergoing a partial knee replacement. She has been a student-teacher evaluator for the state of Connecticut’s Alternate Route to Certification, a public school teacher certification program for highly motivated adults who wish to enter the profession, and the program in which she received her own teaching certification at the age of 45. Deborah writes, “Out of the baroque orchestra of seven players, three of us were Smithies!” her hand in the area of teacher education. Smith Alumnae Quarterly Summer 2019: Page-66ĪLUMNAE LIVES UPDATE From left, Deborah Fox ’77 (with a theorbo, a kind of baroque bass lute), Jennifer Morsches ’90 (with a baroque cello) and Marika Fischer Hoyt ’84 (with a baroque viola) play in the same orchestra for the Milwaukee-based Florentine Opera Company’s March ’19 production of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea.

The Magic Jukebox by Judith Arnold