Class Notes - Barnard Class of 1962

Class Notes, Spring 2024

Remembering Roz Gordon

Many beautiful notes honoring the memory of Rosalind Marshak Gordon have been sent since her tragic death this past spring.

From Ruth Nemzoff "I was privileged to havewonderful conversations with her the last years of her life. She was a star at Barnard academically and a star in life". Ruth spoke of the Zoom 80th
birthday party where Roz's colleagues sung her praises "as a mentor, a feminist and a doer."

Bette Kerr wrote of visiting Roz in the hospital,"transcending distress and pain (her) warm spirit prevailed. The qualities that made (her) a fine leader, advocate, person and friend continued to shine.

Marcia Weller wrote" always there to do the job which she did efficiently, honestly and gracefully."

Linda Futterman wrote "Roz was a wonderful and loyalfriend. She was happy for your happiness and empathic for your troubles. She was honest, unassuming although she was an incredibly accomplished woman. She had a very successful career as an attorney as well as a full family life.
Fiercely devoted to Barnard and gave of herself selflessly".

Ruth Stein wrote " Roz was a devoted mother and friend,a wonderful hostess and excellent lawyer and prided herself in her political activism and dedicated to causes she thought important. Another
source of particular satisfaction was her involvement with Barnard and our
class. We are now left with a void that cannot be filled."
Dorothy Falarski noted, "After many years we connectedvirtually via the Barnard '62 class meetings where her humor, graciousness and focus were so evident".
Rosalind Folman noted, "She befriended me in our firstweek at Barnard, a time when I felt totally lost and alone. Roz then invited me to her home and shared her family with me - not once but many times. More
recently we connected after 40 years. She continued to call every month and I
was once again able to enjoy her warmth and caring."
Linda Cahill writes, "She was the energetic one.We canall take a little of her bravery for ourselves". Her life was truly a gift to all she encountered. The family plans a memorial in NY in
October and in Florida next Spring.
Updates from our Class

Naomi Patz writes: “We celebrate our granddaughter, Sadie Reynolds, ournewest Barnard graduate! Her sister, Dahlia, is class of 2026. Their mom, Aviva Patz, graduated in 1992.

Janice Lieberman writes: “I have slowed the pace of my life this year. I still am seeing patients, supervising and teaching. Recently, I spoke on female desire at Adelphi. I am preparing some papers on “whatever happened to romance?” I travel mostly to see my children and four growing grandsons. I am looking forward to my vacation in Sag Harbor this summer; a book and a beach
chair!”

Carol Prins will be in Santa Fe all summer—her big news is that hergranddaughter got into Michigan!
Ruth Nemzoff writes: “Still trying to combine work and family. With 11grandchildren, it’s fabulously hectic. I baby sat for three weeks for my six and eight year-old, and spent a week touring Boston with my 10-year-old. Still writing my monthly column, but have fewer professional appearances. Enjoying friends!”

Carole Kantor writes: After eight and a half years, I have just put down my redpencil as editor of the Dudgeon Monroe Hornblower newsletter, a quarterly print publication that serves a community of 1650 homes and businesses adjacent to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. This role helped me to both learn about and become a part of the new community my husband and I moved to in 2014. In another facet of building our new community, I continue as the volunteer chair of congregational education for our synagogue. Both roles present the challenges and pleasures of working as a volunteer with both volunteers and professional staff.
Class Notes - Fall/Winter - 2023-24

We are sorry to report the death of our classmate, Penelope White Kilburn, on August 20, 2023. An obituary has been posted on this website in the section In Memoriam.

Roxanne Fischer, Janice Lieberman, Karen Wilkin and Vivian Ebersman attended a Memorial for Barbara Kallman Weinberg on October 24, 2023, at the Union Club in New York. Several friends and esteemed colleagues from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where Barbara was Curator of the American Wing , gave moving eulogies detailing her significant accomplishments as scholar, writer, lecturer, and mentor. Her sister, Amy Epstein B’67, gave the last remembrance and emphasized Barbara’s love of Barnard, its influence on her life and her generosity by endowing the Weinberg Scholarship fund.

Daniel J. Socolow, husband of our late classmate, Susan Migden Socolow, wrote that “we met 57 years ago in a doctor's office in Asuncion Paraquay. I asked her to marry me an hour after I met her (we were still in the office) and we were married a few days later in Buenos Aires, Argentina. That she went to Barnard, as did my mother and many others in the family, was a hugely important part of my decision, but her beauty and sense of purpose really said it all. “

Nancy Paige wrote from Maryland, “It's been a long time. I retired from my second career on April 1 after 22 years as an administrative law judge for the state of Maryland. Previously I had been in practice with a private law firm for 30 years. Thank you, Professor Morrison, for encouraging me to go to law school! I thought it was time to start chapter 3, but I am still working on what that may be. I have four grandchildren, two in Westchester, NY, and two in Philadelphia. The eldest is a sophomore at Penn. Where has the time gone! I live in Baltimore and I have regretted not attending our sixtieth reunion, after reading the list of attendees - I thought I would not see anyone I knew! Hopefully, there will be another chance.

Sally Hess and her instructor Darius Mosteika won First Place in the Senior 4 Division, American Smooth Style at the biggest Ballroom Dance Competition in the country on November 16!!! Congratulations! See Sally's story titled National Champion!, published in the online magazine Persimmon Tree.

Rhoda Narins writes that she is still working although she has cut down her hours, and she is still going to meetings and lecturing. She gave the prestigious Vic Narurkar, MD, Innovations in Aesthetic Dermatology Plenary Lecture at the ASDS (American Society of Dermatologic Surgery) this November. The lecture provided a thought-provoking look at the parallels in the history of tumescent liposuction and the use of fillers and toxins with the history of ASDS, along with an overview of the aesthetic evolution to the present-day state using new developments in the 21st century to improve patient outcomes. She is excited that her oldest granddaughter, who graduated from Barnard, married a wonderful guy in September and is getting her MBA at Wharton.

Susan Eustis reports that she is extremely happy with a couple of grandchildren in the home, her daughter, and her husband as well. She is still running her company WinterGreen Research with an international reach. They do market studies on technology, medical equipment, robots, AI, and youth sports. There are a couple of new initiatives: 1. We are working with Dr.John Livingstone MD. Harvard Medical School. See Susan's piece on Socialism vs. Capitalism HERE .

Alice Alekman writes from Florida, that life is pretty good these days. Her older daughter Shelli (B '84), who lives in Israel, is back to work after her office reopened - it had been shut down due to Covid. Her son & twin daughters are in Tel Aviv. Youngest daughter Hila, nearly 16, is the family scholar, a STEM student extraordinaire.

Linda Futterman reports that the philosophy she and her husband espouse at this point is: Travel while you can! She and her husband spent the better part of two weeks in Italy, one of their favorite destinations, in early September, and were blessed with beautiful weather, unlike the brutal heat in Europe throughout the summer. We spent several wonderful days in Siena, in Tuscany, and then moved on to Perugia, (my favorite) in Umbria for a few days, and made some side trips to Assisi, Pisa and Lucca. All of these places are called “hill towns,” not only because they are built into the hills but because they ARE hills, and were quite challenging physically, though definitely worth seeing. We ended our trip with a visit to Marcia (Dackman) and John Davis, in Leamington Spa, UK, and it was wonderful to see them, as it always is. Marcia and Linda picked up our conversation as if we had seen each other the day before.

Ruth Nemzoff writes that she is fortunate to be working, giving lectures, though not at the frantic pace of the past. She was recently asked to do two podcasts based on her books. She talked about her first book, Don’t Bite Your Tongue:How to Foster Rewarding Relationships With Your Adult Children on Denise Gilwa’s Bite Your Tongue podcast. She also appeared on NPR's Life Kit to give advice from her second book, Don’t Roll Your Eyes: Making Your In-Laws into Family.

Your class Correspondents carried the ’62 Flag at Convocation last October. Photo on the home page of this website, barnard62.net

Rita Gabler Rover is happy to report that she won several awards at the Annual Long Island Chrysanthemum Society Show, including Best Bloom in Show and Best Three Bloom Entry in Show. She is now a co-chair of the National Chrysanthemum Society Judges Schools and Credentials Committee which involves distributing and grading exams for candidates. Rita continues to work part-time in her private practice providing medical nutrition therapy, now virtually with Zoom.
This 10 inch-diameter bloom was named Louisiana by the English breeder because he loves New Orleans jazz. It got Best Single Bloom Entry in Show at the Long Island Chrysanthemum Society annual show this fall.

Below is Rita's entry which earned Best Three Bloom Entry in Show.
Class Notes - Summer 2023

Ruth Nemzoff writes that she is fortunate to be working, giving lectures, though not at the frantic pace of the past. She was recently asked to do two podcasts based on her books. She talked about her first book, Don’t Bite Your Tongue:How to Foster Rewarding Relationships With Your Adult Children on Denise Gilwa’s Bite Your Tongue podcast.

You can view Ruth's conversation with Tashira and Margo on their podcast series Together Seeking Change and Thriving at this YouTube link.

Or listen to that program as an Apple podcast at this link.

She also appeared on NPR's Life Kit to give advice from her second book, Don’t Roll Your Eyes: Making Your In-Laws into Family.

On the social side, she had two fabulous reunions with classmates Marsha Wittenberg Lewin and Roz Marshack Gordon.

Susan Hahn Eustis reports from Burlington, MA, that her company, WinterGreen Research, has a new voting system design and is looking for funding. She leads the GBA
Government Blockchain Association voting working group where they are developing standards for next-generation voting. She writes market research studies on Youth Sports, Medical Oxygen pMo, chronic fatigue, Hospital-at-Home, and AI CHATgpt. She is happy and healthy, swimming daily at the Lifetime in Burlington. Susan plays with her grandchildren every day and enjoys her children.

Dorothy Lukas Friedlander who is living in LA, is volunteering at The Museum of Tolerance and supporting The Los Angeles Guild for Reproductive Health. Daughter Liz, was named by Variety Magazine in 2021, as one of the hundred most impactful women in Hollywood.

Janice Lieberman has beenkeeping busy since our 60th Reunion: seeing patients, teaching and supervising, doing a bit of writing. No more books: she needs precious time to spend with her children, grandchildren and dear friends. She is involved in several committees having to do with women’s issues, abortion in particular. Post-COVID she is doing a bit more travel: she was in Cancun over the Christmas holidays with her family. New York offers new things to do: art, music, theater, restaurants and she enjoys all of them.

Helen Geiger Rabin reflects that with the end (sort of) of the pandemic, some of the activities she spent more time on than usual while confined largely to home for three years — specifically, piano practice and remote lessons; and Russian language studies, on her own and recently conversation practice with a teacher in St. Petersburg — may suffer. But that’s fine: better to see friends and family more!

Sally Hess shares that on February 24th, she and her instructor/partner Darius Mosteika, won first place in the New York Dance Festival in the Senior Division, American Smooth
Style of Competitive Ballroom Dance. Her essay Horses and Zebras was published in Winter 2023 in this issue of Midwest Zen .

Last, a pitch to those of you who have not yet participated in the monthly structured Class of ’62 Open
House discussions on zoom to which all are invited. Look for your invitation and a link coming from the Barnard Alumnae Office.
CLASS NOTES - SPRING 2023

Jane Henkel Chretien
Here is my update since graduation. Briefly, 4 years at New Jersey College of Medicine, then Bellevue/Cornell Internal Medicine residency, then MPH at Harvard, followed by Infectious Disease fellowship at Georgetown. I was employed by Georgetown for decades. In 2001 a colleague and I started a private practice in Bethesda, which was successful until COVID. We stayed open but patients didn't want to come in. For financial reasons we closed end of 2022. I'm not quite ready to retire so I'm volunteering part time with a poverty medical clinic.

At the end of residency I met Paul Chretien, an oncology surgeon at NIH. We were married from 1970 until his death in 2017. Older son Jean-Paul, MD, PhD, is a Navy physician. Daughter in law Kathy Chang Chretien, MD, is a hospital physician at Johns Hopkins. Three wonderful grandchildren are 17,15 and 11. Younger son Yves, MD, PhD, is a radiologist at Kaiser. I'm blessed that they all live nearby.

My health was good until 2021 - then I needed complex oral surgery, removal of a kidney, and mastectomy for breast cancer. I finally recovered and exercise regularly. I joined a running group that does a weekly 5K race. But my energy is not that of even 10 years ago!

Dorothy Moskowitz Falarski
I was surprised to learn that Tompkins Square Records in San Francisco intends to release two of my recent works. “Under an Endless Sky” comes out in March 2023. It was written with two experimental Italian artists via Internet. “Rising to Eternity” is my electronic tribute to the WEBB Telescope. It’s scheduled for release on Christmas Day, to coincide with the anniversary of the launch. When I retired from brass teaching, I had planned on somehow performing again in small clubs. Plans suddenly changed. I became ill and then COVID hit. During the isolation, I picked up digital skills that enable easy exchange with musicians from all over the world from my tiny home studio. I’ve since completed a CD with a Cincinnati writer and a double album with a Swedish artist. Stay tuned. I recovered from the illness, but bad knees and reduced driving confidence make me aware of my physical limits nowadays. You might say that I’m making lemonade from the lemons. The family is thriving, my husband and I are relatively healthy for our age. My two daughters are happily married and all of us remain close. Sometimes I exercise.

Carol Rederer Achtman
60+ years to summarize; whew!

In and out of college for several years before graduating from CCNY. Soon thereafter decided to go to medical school, graduating from N Y Medical College (Flower Fifth Avenue that was) in 1978. Psych residency, then practicing psychiatry until retirement in 2018, major focus on trauma survivors.

Lived in Dobbs Ferry until move to Palo Alto in 1988, 551 Hilbar Lane, with husband Paul Armel, m. 1981. Children are Ellen Achtman and Susan Achtman. Grandchildren Annie Bower (2003) and Remi Bower (2006).

Carol Crystle cello9flute@hotmail.com
I was a history major in college and still retain my interest in the subject. A book review in the WSJ inspired me to read "Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad" by Andrew Diemer. To my amazement I discovered that in the past 20 years dozens of scholarly books have been written about an aspect of Black history that is never discussed: the lives of free Blacks in the antebellum North. They functioned as communities: they built churches for themselves, schools for their children, and benevolent societies to help each other. They published newspapers, were active in the Underground Railroad and the abolition movement, and at various times and places they voted. I recommend a book I am now reading: "The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War" by Van Gosse for those who are interested in an introduction to this neglected area of our history.

Sally Hess
Dancing continues: next Competition: the NY Dance Festival, 2/24 (Hilton Hotel Ballroom).
Writing continues: most recent essay on practice at 80 and beyond to appear in Midwest Zen.

Linda Futterman
On Jan. 22, Stanley and I returned from a little over a week in Mexico City. We hadn’t been there in 58 years, our first trip having taken place in the summer two years after we were married. At that time, we traveled all over Mexico in our Nash Rambler, with “Mexico on $5 a Day” our guidebook. This was a very different trip. We traveled comfortably by plane on a direct flight of about 4 1/2 hours, and stayed only in Mexico City. We discovered that it is a great winter destination. The altitude is over 7000 feet, and the weather is perfect—cool mornings, then by 11 or 12 warming up to over 70 degrees, sunny and dry.
The city has a multitude of things to do. One of the highlights was the Templo Mayor, in the heart of the city, an excavation sight that was completed in the 1970s, exposing an Aztec community and temple in excellent condition. The other was a new Anthropological Museum, with six different indoor areas each featuring individual Mexican civilizations, centered around a beautiful sculptured outdoor atrium, and including a lovely restaurant for lunch. The city is much more developed, the food is delicious and the people are lovely.

Judy Terry Smith
My husband, retired geologist Jim Smith, and I still live in the Arlington, VA condo we moved into 20 years ago when we relocated from Palo Alto, CA to the Washington, DC area. I am a research associate in Paleobiology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, going to the office two or three days a week with no set hours. I identify, write up and process the Tertiary [ca. 15 - 4 million year old] marine mollusks I collected during field work in Baja California, Mexico. The plan is to donate the specimens, maps and field notes to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California where they will be easily accessible to west coast paleontologists in the U.S and Mexico.

Other activities include visits to a family home near children and grandchildren in northeastern Pennsylvania and serious genealogical research on seven generations of family photographs, diaries and papers. I also enjoy attending ballets at the Kennedy Center with a friend and classmate from Stanford's summer geology class of 60 years ago, and it is especially interesting to attend Class of 62 zoom meetings and learn what classmates are doing. Thank you to the organizers for making these programs happen.

Suzanne Cherney
The COVID pandemic interrupted my choir singing for a few years. Now that my partner Peter and I are once again living in Geneva (Switzerland), I'm overjoyed to rejoin my old choir - now preparing Haydn's Nelson Mass for an end-April concert.

I'm enjoying being just a 5-minute drive from my Geneva-born daughter and family (four grandkids). Saturday night babysitting, Sunday morning pancakes, celebrations of Thanksgiving, Passover, etc. are a delight.

I'm continuing to use my old professional skills (medical/science writing) to help my son-in-law with grant applications for his new tech start-up. It's comforting to know I'm still able to do so at age 81!

Carol Prins
Not too much news- my grandson is a freshman at Dartmouth where I hope sometime, he will be able to meet our past president Sian Beilock! He says Dartmouth is “Epic “

John and I went to our wonderful Santa Fe for Winter holidays - cold but a great change in scene! Still busy with Goodman Theatre & Museum of Contemporary Art & other arts organizations.

I have a trainer three times a week -keeping moderately busy- challenging at this time in my life!

My other four grandchildren, all girls, are so hugely busy. Two are in LA & little ones at Francis Parker school.

I feel very blessed! [Carol Prins 312-882-6760 (cell)]

Joan Kretchmer
Working at Lyric, teaching piano, walking, trying to avoid COVID, watching as much comedy as possible as an antidote to our "challenging" world. Grateful for good health and thrilled with a new grandson, Lionel Truth Thomson, now six months old and already a reader as you can see in the photo attached.

Leila R. Kern
My news for Class Notes is that I am delighted to report that in addition to my daughter, Sasha Cohen O’Connell, having graduated from Barnard in 1994, my granddaughter, Maya Cohen O’Connell, has now been admitted to the Barnard class of 2027!

Rani Carson
Rani Carson had a show of her paintings in September 2022 in the Prince Street Gallery in NYC. There were paintings about his "Ascension" in the show.
It should be on my website http://www.rastafari-inspiration.com
Class Notes - Winter 2022/3

Nancy Davis-Imhof writes that she still lives in her big house on 6 acres of beautiful land outside Charlottesville, VA. Two grandsons live with her; one attends William and Mary and the other is at St John’s Annapolis. Recently she retired from the chorus and board of the Oratorio Society of Virginia. Standing for the concerts became painful but she is still able to run the C’ville 10 Miler annually.
She and Alison Gibbs Swanberg have traveled together to Antarctica and Costa Rica.

Helen Ligor Milone reports from Calgary that she is still happily married for 63 years and living in the same house for the last 44 with no plans to downsize. She is happy to be living in Canada rather than the divided and increasingly violent USA.

Suzanne Koppelman Polmar and her husband, Stephen, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary by hosting a dinner at a small winery-owned hotel near their home in Italy. They also visited to Denmark for a week. She had just finished reading “River Kings -The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads” by Cat Jarman, and the National Museum of Denmark’s fabulous exhibit presenting the latest knowledge about the Vikings and how they lived, and elegant examples of their art was their first stop. She urges others to attend if the exhibit travels. Back in Connecticut she continues her volunteer work with the Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants (CIRI) setting up apartments for newly arrived refugee families

Sara Ginsberg Marks and Martha Liptzin Hauptman report that they are doing well. Sara, after a total knee replacement last March, is happy to be getting around Manhattan for theatre and museums again. She enjoys living in Manhattan close to her children and grandchildren. When Martha visited Sara in November in addition to remembering good times together and traipsing around the city (slowly), they got to see a noon performance of wonderful Bossa Nova music in a nightclub setting, a cabaret event Sara greatly enjoys. This was Martha’s first trip since before Covid - a whirlwind week in New York. Having lived in NY for many years, she was surprised that she no longer felt like a New Yorker. Martha says that the city was hard on an 81 year old’s body. Her life in Chapel Hill, North Carolina for more than a decade has been much less stressful. However, it was a treat to get together with Barnard classmates, Sara, as well as Sandra Friedman Snyder and Ellen Shertzer Goldberg.

Linda Schwartz Kline advised that this pat summer The Weathervane Theatre in Whitfield, NH, did a splendid production of the musical "A Class Act" for which she wrote the book. After her husband, Sam Joffe, passed away she started “downsizing” to a smaller apartment and splits her time between NYC and Watermill, LI.

We are pleased to report that on November 4, 2022, our own Sally Hess became the Fred Astaire National Ballroom Champion in the Open Gold American Smooth Style (waltz, tango, foxtrot, Viennese waltz) in the Senior 65+ Division with her instructor Darius Mosteika, at the Fred Astaire 75th Anniversary Ballroom Dance Competition in Orlando, Florida.

PHOTO CREDIT: LaHari Photography.
Dancers (and Fred Astaire Nationals Champions): Sally Hess and Darius Mosteika

Your class correspondents are always happy to hear from you. Write them at:
Rosalind Marshack Gordon ** Rosalindgordon62@gmail.com
Sara Ginsberg Marks ** Sgmarks324@gmail.com
Webmaster, Carole Kaplowitz Kantor ** cjkkantor@gmail.com
Class Notes - Fall 2022
A first dispatch from our new class correspondents, Roz Gordon and Sara Marks

As your new class correspondents, we appreciate all the news we received for our first column, and we hope more classmates will write with news in the future. First, for those of you who do not read our class website, barnard62.net regularly, our classmate, Naomi Patz and her husband, Norman, have written and produced a prize-winning play that was screened on PBS on August 16 and August 21. Fortunately, Carole Kantor was able to announce the screening on our wonderful website - barnard62.net — which we hope you all are reading — in advance. We will provide more detailed information in another issue.

Joan Kretchmer reports news of the birth of her grandson, Lionel Truth Thomson, son of her son, Elliot and his wife, Ruth. She also reported the 25th Anniversary of the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, which she founded. As part of the celebration, the Society is commissioning a new work for flute and piano by Matt Herskowitz, to be premiered by their board member Robert Langevin, Principal Flute of the New York Philharmonic, in March 2023. Do plan to attend.

Susan Yemin wrote that she spent two wonderful weeks at Chautauqua, the educational and cultural utopia in upstate NY, on a Road Scholar program this summer. She says that the grounds are beautiful and she was impressed by some excellent speakers, including Jon Meacham and Nadia Murad, the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Susan relocated to be near one of her sons in Philadelphia and his family after her husband died nearly 5 years ago. She lives in a senior retirement community in independent living where she has met many interesting and educated residents. And she loves Philadelphia.

Finally, we are sad to report the death of Roz Gordon’s husband of almost 61 years, David H. Gordon, MD, in July. It is difficult to put the time of grief into words in this column. To find life irretrievably changed is something so many of our classmates have experienced and it is comforting to have received so much love and support from many classmates and friends. A copy of David’s obituary is posted below.

Your correspondents:
Rosalind M. Gordon
rosalindgordon62@gmail.com

Sara Marks
sgmarks324@gmail.com
Sad News
Roz Gordon is grieving the loss of her husband, David Gordon, MD, whom many of us have met over the years. The following obituary appeared in the New York Times on August 7, 2022

Dr. David Howard Gordon passed away on July 15 in his sleep in Westchester County, NY at 81 years of age. Born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Queens, he graduated from Princeton University in 1961 and earned his M.D. at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 1966. He was a full professor for 29 years and served as Acting Chairman of the Radiology Department at Downstate Medical Center and then as Professor of Radiology at the Jacobi Medical Center for 15 years. Dr. Gordon was also a sports enthusiast who had a lifelong commitment to squash and tennis. He also lived with an unparalleled passion and intensity, which included his love for his many miniature schnauzers and cats, and was especially devoted to his star ball playing schnauzer and famous television star, Mr. Max. He was also known for his generosity, which he bestowed upon family members and friends throughout his life, always willing to give his expert medical opinion. He is survived by Rosalind, his childhood sweetheart and wife of almost 61 years; his daughter, Padma, and sons Eric and Jeffrey; three grandchildren, Eden, Shea, and Meera Gordon; and his sister, Joan Riegel. He is greatly missed by his family and friends.
Class Notes - Summer 2022

FAREWELL FROM SUSIE PRINGLE

This is my final offering to the class and I want to thank you all for your kind words about my three terms as Class Correspondent. I have enjoyed this opportunity to be in touch with so many of you and to share in your lives.
Roz Gordon and Sara Marks will take over my job and I know that they will do a terrific job. I wish them well.
I have reached out for reunion notes from many classmates and will share their comments below.

Please read the many comments about the reunion on the page 60th Reunion Activities.

I have also received some personal news from Rusty Miller, Carol Prins Marcia Weller and Sally Hess.

SALLY HESS performed at a recent annual Showcase at the Fred Astaire West Side Dance Studio (72 St.). Sally and her partner Darius Mosteika did a two-minute dance to the Moonlight Sonata.

MARCIA WELLER spoke with Sally Hess about ballroom dancing and decided to give it a try. Marcia has taken several lessons and is enjoying them.

CAROL PRINS
We are spending the summer in our Santa Fe house and happy to report everything is well at this moment. I went to a lot of Barnard small reunions previously but had a conflict with the zoom time of the class reunion we are 2 hours earlier than East Coast!

We have five grandchildren all coming for my birthday in mid August! They are 18,16,14 in LA and little ones 6 and 7 year olds in Chicago! Busy with our friends & “culture glut summer” -Opera, Chamber Music, museums, etc!

RUSTY MILLER RICH
Sorry that I’ll miss our 60th reunion. I always go but I am hesitant to fly, will be unable to stay on campus, and will be attending my niece’s postponed wedding celebration in Ohio. I now have eight grandchildren, ranging in age from 16 to 5 months. Alex surprised us with a Christmas boy, her 5th child and she works full time as COO for a film product placement and integration company in Burbank. Susie, sorry to miss seeing you and Judy and all our classmates, hoping that Covid will be a distant memory by the 65^th.

60TH REUNION RECONNECTS CLASSMATES

Maruta and Helen

We are delighted that through our 60th reunion activities, Maruta Lietins Ray and Helen Geiger Rabin met in person this August for the first time in sixty years! The rendezvous took place in Norwich, Vermont, at the King Arthur Flour emporium. The sign in the photo fits Helen perfectly. She and her husband Jules, known as the legendary bakers of Vermont (see NPR article: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/08/20/341372257/legendary-vermont-bakers-may-stop-selling-beloved-sourdough-bread ) know King Arthur’s well, for they baked their sourdough breads with this flour. Maruta, by comparison, is a “recreational” baker, who bakes treats for family and friends. Both are so grateful to our class mini reunions throughout the year that made this meeting possible!
Class Notes - Spring 2022

Rabbi Norman Patz and his wife Naomi Steinlight Patz spend several months each winter in Puerto Rico where Norman serves a Reform congregation. Naomi’s letter from December to family and friends gives an excellent picture of life in this area.

"I’ve been trying to get to this pretty much since we arrived in San Juan on November 30^th. At this point, I don’t remember at least half of what I thought I’d write, which is probably just as well. So …

Puerto Rico has one of the highest vaccination rates in the greater US. At the airport in San Juan, once we had collected our (massive amont of) luggage, we were directed by hazmat-garbed personnel to an area where we had to show our Covid-19 inoculation cards and fill out a fairly lengthy form about where we would be staying, the duration and purpose of our visit, etc. Apparently, we could have preregistered online but didn’t know in advance. Bottom line, we were very impressed with the thoroughness of the precautions. Masks are required – and worn – in all buildings and most Puerto Ricans seem to wear them outdoors as well. Although virtually no one is masked on the beach that may just be because everyone out there is a tourist or an invincible under-30. And we really aren’t into tourist season yet at all.

Our apartment, on Ashford Avenue, is on the sixth floor directly across from the entrance to the Robinson School, a private high school. We can see the temperature-taking machine that scans each student before they are allowed to enter the building complex. After the arrival period (I haven’t watched carefully enough to determine the parameters), the gate is locked. (I also don’t know where late arrivals go to enter.)

That being said, many members of the congregation have not been vaccinated, at least one for a valid health-related reason and virtually all of the others because they are anti-vaxxers, many of them lifelong. Temple Beth Shalom policy is that only people who have been vaccinated (and show proof) are allowed into the building, and all of them (us) must be masked. The only exceptions are for the rabbi and cantorial soloist, and that only while they are conducting the service. There is now talk of requiring the third – and maybe even a fourth – vaccination for entry to public places. . . . . . . . ."

See the continuation of Naomi's richly detailed full letter here.

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We are saddened to announce the death of Forrest Latiner, beloved husband of Marsha Wittenberg Lewin Latiner. If you noticed the light dimmed, it’s because Forrest Latiner died on January 28, 2022 after gracing us on this earth for 90 years. He is survived by his wife, Marsha Lewin, his children, Rosalind Latiner (Ronald) Raby, Steven (Bobbi) Latiner, and David Lewin (Jessica Louie), and his granddaughter, Sarina Raby; his brother, Marshall (Myra) Latiner and brother-in-law, Jerry (Marlene) Lipin; his step grandson Rob (Victoria) and step-great granddaughter Larkin McGrath. He was predeceased by his first wife, Ann Lipin Latiner, in 1998.

Forrest graduated from Hamilton High school in 1948, from UCLA undergraduate Phi Beta Kappa in 1952, and Magna Cum Laude from UCLA Law School in 1955. He served in the US Army in Germany 1955-57, and returned to Los Angeles where he spent 31 years in the Los Angeles Public Defender’s office. He then continued to practice criminal defense law with his best friend, Howard Beckler, totaling over 50 years in the field. He said it was always easier to work at something you loved, as his enthusiasm demonstrated.

Forrest was a man of infinite wisdom, gifted with compassion and humor, who advocated justice for all. Always ready with a story or joke, he was generous in spirit and conviction. On the tennis or basketball court, or on the ski slope, he demonstrated good sportsmanship and fellowship. He epitomized all that is good about humanity.

He loved, he was dearly loved, and he will be missed more than words can express. Marsha and Forrest were married on July 1, 2001. It was a marriage made in heaven.
2031-2022 Forrest Latiner
Class Notes - Winter 2021-22

Barbara Goldberg Applebaum writes:
In the 15 years since I retired - and last posted on class notes - I’m happy to report that my life has been fuller than ever, and, at 81, I am aware of how precious each day is. It is enriched by our three children and their spouses. Our son Daniel is Chief of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospital where he is Professor of Radiology; Deborah ’93 is a speech and language pathologist for the Montgomery County School District in Rockville, Maryland; and Laura (MA Columbia Teachers College ’01) is a high school music teacher in Rockland County, New York. We have nine beautiful grandchildren who keep us on our toes and constantly amaze. My three oldest grandchildren are in college. Deborah’s daughter Talia Mitre is a junior at American University and her sister Mira just began her freshman year at UC San Diego. Daniel’s son Nathan is a sophomore at Vanderbilt University. My husband David and I recently celebrated 56 years of marriage. We are privileged to remain active in our fields, even after formal retirement from full-time work. David teaches and mentors graduate dental students in periodontics at the Eastman Institute of Oral Health at the University of Rochester and is a part-time consultant in periodontics at the Veterans’ Administration.

The Applebaum Family

I continue to be enriched by my work with survivors and their families as I oversee and update the Rochester Holocaust Survivors Archive. It contains biographies, videotaped testimonies and family photographs of local survivors taken over the course of 35 years when I was Director of the Rochester Federation’s Holocaust Center and later when I worked with the Spielberg SHOAH Foundation's in its international videotaping project. The Archive is available on the internet and includes the testimony of Maya Rosenfeld Brown. whom I met when she located to Rochester and began sharing her story with student groups. Barbara Lovenheim has also recently relocated to Rochester because of health issues.The book she and I co-authored, Perilous Journeys: Personal Stories of German and Austrian Jews Who Escaped the Nazis, has become the basis of a play commissioned by CenterStage of the Rochester Jewish Community Center as a theatre piece, called The Survivor. It is performed for adults and student groups. Teaching about the Holocaust is mandated in NY State. My third book, Lost Childhood, A Memoir by Henry Silberstern, is in its second printing.

The pandemic cut short our travel plans but not before we visited Prague, Budapest, Paris and Provence. I accompanied a group of students and faculty from Hobart and William Smith and Nazareth College, where I was an adjunct professor. on their March of Remembrance and Hope, a bi-annual trip to Germany and Poland.

Thanks to Zoom, I have been able to continue my book group and Yiddish classes as well as my weekly Women’s Torah Study Class led by Athene Shiffman Goldstein ’63. Hinda Rotenberg Miller ’61 is also a member. I am delighted that we will be
having mini-reunions as we celebrate our 60th reunion year. Kudos to those who have envisioned this project.

Rani Carson

Rani was living in Brooklyn when she visited Jamaica in 1986 and met two Rastamen who acquainted her with the Rastafari culture with its deep reverence for nature and the
natural way of life, and their practice of peace and love, righteousness and justice. She visited Jamaica frequently after that, was inspired by the Rasta people, and they became the subjects of her paintings.

In 1996, Rani purchased some land on the north coast of Jamaica and some years later built a studio there. She has had three one person shows in Jamaica and participated in many biennial exhibitions in the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston. Now that she is retired from teaching, she splits her time between painting in her studio in Jamaica and her studio in Riverhead, Long Island.

In 2022 Rani will exhibit her paintings at the Prince St. Gallery, 547 West 27th Street in New York City. Feel free to send your email to Rani at ranicarsonart@gmail.com to join her mailing list.

Jah Love, Marcus Garvey Celebration

Sister Lizzie 7

Hera 4

Joan Thomson Kretschmer writes:
I continue to work, writing, teaching, and serving as Artistic Director of the Lyric Chamber Music Society of NY which I founded. We will soon celebrate our 25th Anniversary. From the outset of the pandemic, we at Lyric shifted to offering free on-line video concerts, reaching new audiences on our You-Tube channel each month during the season. I also hosted live Zooms with Conductor Cesare Civetta, presenting programs on Casals, Mendelssohn, and Toscanini. In short, we were able to engage new audiences from afar as well as the "usual suspects" in NYC. Now that the new season has begun, we are going HYBRID, a new term for us all, with live concerts as well as streamed. We opened with a marvelous recital by Robert Langevin, Principal Flute of the NY Philharmonic.

The links below will treat you to the interview Joan did with him. It is in three parts and includes some playing segments as well as some fascinating discussion of music. The entirety is 1 hour and 20 minutes which I enjoyed very much. The other voice that you hear during the interview is that of Antonio Carlos Gomez Asiqueria, the musician and tape editor who created the interview. I hope you will find it of interest. (SCP)

https://youtu.be/EAH3Pb2FFXU
https://youtu.be/5QRw8DHlbEc
https://youtu.be/oytd3K19yLc

(cut and paste these URLs into your internet browser)

Hoping you can join us however possible for you for upcoming events: www.lyricny.org
I continue to feel lucky daily, to be alive and well, to have my family alive and well, and am still surprised by the age numerically that we have reached. Yet another book is being published soon, my THANKSGIVING TALE.

Joan Kretschmer and Robert Langevin

MIriam Ehrlich Contributes to Jewish History

We recently had word of the death of Miriam Erlich on September 27, 2021. You will find her obituary in the In Memoriam section of this website. Miriam was very involved in the world of Yiddish and participated in an oral history interview with the Yiddish Book Center in 2019. Here is a link to the interview:

https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/oral-histories/interviews/woh-fi-0001275/miriam-mimi-erlich-2019 .
Class Notes - Fall 2021

Dorothy Lucas Friedlander writes “After living in Mill Valley (Marin Co) for 27 years, Bob and I returned to Los Angeles to be with our family-- 2 kids, spouses and 7 grandkids. From viewing deer and Redwoods, we now see the towers of Century City. However, during the last year from hell, I appreciated being able to ‘view’ and then later visit family. Our kids turned into our parents! I started swimming daily, which surprised me because I couldn’t really swim before. Traffic in LA diminished and people took to their bikes.
My daughter and son, who both work in television, worked through the pandemic and became well versed in COVID protocols. Their kids (14-5) attended school on Zoom, and are now back in school part time. Kindergarten on Zoom?
Before the pandemic, I started volunteering at The Museum of Tolerance and for the Westside Democrats. This last year has lifted a veil on America and I’m seeing an America I never knew.”
Joan Lewis Kretschmer announces the publication of her new Yona adventure—an exciting event! It is available on Amazon already and will be elsewhere very soon. You can see the covers on the Website—Barnard62.net. Joan continues her Lyric concerts through the fall and winter seasons.
Judy Terry Smith reports on a Class Luncheon in New York City. Eight classmates met for lunch at an outside enclosure of the Pomodoro Restaurant at 71^st St. and Columbus Avenue on August 17--Marsha Stecker Weller, Sara Ginsberg Marks, Vivian Levy Ebersman, Linda Schwartz Kline, Karen Charal Gross, Naomi Steinlight Patz, and yours truly (visiting NYC for two weeks). After lunch several of the women went to Linda Kline’s nearby apartment for an afterparty. There was some discussion about our upcoming Reunion—please remember to send your email address to Debbie Bersin Rubin (drubin6141@gmail.com) to insure participation in reunion events.
See Judy’s luncheon notes and pictures below.

Thanks to everyone who sent in news. Stay safe and well.
With love,
Susie

CLASS OF 1962 NEW YORK LUNCHEON AUGUST 17

The Ladies Who Lunch. Photo by Karen Gross.
Linda, Naomi, Sara, Marcia, Vivian, Susie, and Judy

A group of New York City classmates plus out of town visitors Susie Levenson Pringle (Rio Verde, AZ) and Judy Terry Smith (Arlington, VA) met in August for a small, in-person lunch at an outdoor restaurant in Manhattan. We talked about what everyone was doing, how we were navigating the Covid pandemic and our hopes for future in-person get-togethers. As you might expect there was no shortage of conversation.

Karen Charal Gross had endured repairs on a flooded apartment for three months, looks forward to resuming travels (to date she's been to 102 countries!) and enjoys husband Meyer's classical clarinet concerts.

Sara Ginsberg Marks has spent most of the summer in East Hampton with family, including grandchildren 16-year old Lucy and 13-year old Miles; she looks forward to in-person visits with friends and returning to theater, museums and Cabaret music at Lincoln Center.

Vivian Levy Ebersman is an art historian who has recently retired from a 22 year career as the director of Art Expertise at a global art insurance company. In addition to part time consulting and lecturing, she enjoys time spent with her two children and five grandchildren. She and her partner take advantage of the social and cultural life in New York City.

Linda Schwartz Kline
spoke about writing "A Class Act" with Lonny Price; it played in New York and Washington, DC, and will be revived on 42nd Street in New York in February. She talked about her life in theater with deceased partner Ed Kleban (Columbia '59), composer/lyricist of "A Chorus Line," and shared this video: longfellowfilms/review/455312096/0d4d8bf311. She invited the lunch group for coffee and dessert at her and husband Sam Joffe's nearby apartment, where she has a magnificent hat collection.

Naomi Steinlight Patz and her husband Rabbi Norman Patz live in New Jersey, where they turned a play from 1944 written in the Terezin Ghetto, "The Last Cyclist," into a documentary film to be shown at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC [see www. The Last Cyclist.com]. From Chanukah to Purim they go to Puerto Rico, where Norman serves as rabbi to a small reform congregation. Naomi has also edited essays, translated from Hebrew ("The Third Cry" by Yaakov Cahan) and written books, one-act plays and a cantata called "A Word to the Wise" with music by Cantor Stephen Richards. They have two daughters and four granddaughters.

Marcia Stecker Weller really is the class anchor in New York City, getting us together and making reminder fund raising calls for Barnard. She and her husband Herb enjoy their combined 5 children and 10 grandchildren, and their dachsund-chihuahua, Shari (named for our dog-loving classmate Shari Gruhn Thompson, who helped her acquire a pet and who moves between the city and eastern Long Island). Many years ago Marcia co-founded the '62 book group with classmate Nancy Schmiderer.

Judy Smith and her husband Jim Smith split their time between a family home in northeastern PA and a condo in Arlington, VA, where she is trying to finish her last two fossil papers but hampered by Covid closing the Natural History Museum in DC to research associates. She ponders how best to preserve and publish extensive genealogy photographs and records and keep up with children and grandchildren in Pennsylvania and Atlanta, GA.

Susie Pringle and her husband John recently took their first Covid auto trip—2200 miles. The first stop was a Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City Utah, marking the 60^th Anniversary of the Festival and our 15^th visit. We missed Christmas/Chanukah last December in Colorado with John’s sister Susan, her partner ME and John’s brother Bill so we happily celebrated the holidays in July and it was wonderful. We next spent a few days in Albuquerque visiting some great museums and taking the obligatory hot air balloon ride (her second but John’s maiden voyage). On the way home we stopped La Posada in Winslow, AZ. This hotel was built by Mary Colter who worked closely with Harvey (of Harvey Girls fame) on several of the beautiful buildings in Grand Canyon. The Railroad tracks come right up to the hotel—that was how the guest used to arrive. Posada was getting old and tired and an extremely wealthy man and his artist wife restored it. If you are ever in the area, do make a stop; stay over and enjoy the fine restaurant and the hotel which is magnificent.

Susie continues her golf, bridge and mah jonng, runs a community book club and is our Class Correspondent for her third term. John enjoys hunting and fishing and joins Susie for golf and bridge. The Rio Verde management team has done an excellent job staying on top of the Covid situation.

Susie will retire as class columnist after next year’s reunion. Susie and Alice (Finkelstein) Alekman have kept us up to date for a combined 30 years!

Roz Marshack Gordon winters in Florida and summers in Westchester, New York, near where Deborah Bersin Rubin also lives. Neither was able to join us this time. We all look forward to our 60th reunion next year and hope it can be in person in New York.
CLASS NOTES - SUMMER 2021

Linda Roth Futterman sent the following basket of good news about her family. Enjoy!
“By this coming Monday, all of our immediate family will be vaccinated— us, all our kids and spouses, and all the grandchildren. We have begun to have visits with meals indoors and even hugs!
This has been an important week--opening the vaccines to 12-15 year olds, and permitting folks who are vaccinated to dispense with mask wearing. I hope younger children will be able to get the vaccine before September—the educational losses especially for poor children have been tragic. The one thing remaining is to convince the vaccine-hesitants to get vaccinated.
This weekend our third grandchild, Ashley, is graduating from Berkeley. The second, Catherine, is completing her first year of veterinary school, and her older brother Cole is moving to Cleveland (finally—he’s been working remotely for a year) to work in the front office of the Cleveland Indians. I know the name of the team is not P.C. but they don’t have a new one yet.
I have been working with patients remotely this year and hope to get back to the office in September.
At age 80 Stanley has pronounced himself retired from the practice of law.
We are planning a trip to California in August, with stops in Lake Tahoe, Mendocino and San Francisco. My dream was to go to Apuglia in Italy this Spring, but that was not meant to be. International travel will have to wait for us.
Our son David is starting a new job as Deputy General Counsel for Wells Fargo. Danny is a show runner for a TV series called Rust which is filming in Pittsburgh (with an epidemiologist on the set!). Matthew in his role as a sportswriter for the Times was in Australia for the Tennis Open in Melbourne this winter. He will be covering the Paris Open at the end of May, Wimbledon in July and the Tokyo Olympics in August if they take place.
Hope to see you at Reunion next year, hopefully not remotely.

I did mention turning 80 in my solicitation letter and have received a number of responses about this milestone. Several classmates resonated to a NY Times article by Jane Brody about turning 80. This science writer has written for the Times since 1976—another milestone. Classmates who touted the article include: Michele Chaussabel—"I read the article, and I greatly admire Jane’s enthusiasm and her régime of work and exercise, but right now I’m sitting on my porch, in my comfy chair, looking at the trees, and thinking about nothing at all. There’s more than one way to turn 80”; Karen Charal Gross; Barbara Kallman Weinberg: “I'm sending this useful link to this week's pertinent NYT column by Jane Brody (coincidentally, my high school classmate and friend);” Shari Gruhn Thompson; Maya Rosenfeld Brown. You will find a link to Jane Brody’s article on the Inspirations page on this website and directly at
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/well/family/jane-brody-birthday.html(Barnard62.net).

With love,
Susie
Class Notes - Spring 2021

Deborah Bersin Rubin writes “Here's my news. The two big items are the fact that I retired from my job at the end of 2020 and that I am in an adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah, program - about a dozen women and one man. The big day after two years of participation is May 1. I got my MBA at 40, my CPA at 60 and now this at 80!
I see Linda Persily on the Zoom Torah study class most Saturday mornings as we are members of the same congregation.

Family is fine. Edward's son Nathan graduated from engineering at Oregon State and is working near Portland. His daughter Aliza is a senior in high school. She is very artistic: painting, ceramics and now a little jewelry. Anne's twin boys went back to their colleges today after their breaks since Thanksgiving. Lucas is at Hobart and Jack is at Tulane.

I look forward to seeing you all at Reunion! It’s just around the corner.”

Marsha Lewin Latiner wrote about life during the pandemic. “Same old, same old. Trying to get through this pandemic safely at our age in a city like LA is a challenge that we’re trying to meet successfully. No travel, of course, no eating in restaurants, and no physical contact. Zooming daily is a lifesaver. Stay safe is the new mantra. Hugging stuffed animals rather than people. Sigh.”

Penny White Kilburn, until recently a great neighbor and friend, sent news about moving back East. “After 25 years of living in the desert west aka Scottsdale, AZ we decided to move back East to be nearer our daughters Nell and Nancy. We found an independent living facility in Chevy Chase near Nell’s home. Our apartment is a spacious two-bedroom unit created by the previous tenant out of two one-bedroom apartments.
It has been a wrench to leave our many friends in Scottsdale. This was eased considerably by spending the first few months at The Farm (a family home in upstate NY). We gathered there once again for our annual July 4th reunion week which this year featured celebrating Penny’s 80th birthday with a lavish outdoor brunch including fabulous quiches and an even more fabulous cake, all prepared by Nell and Nancy. To top off the day in style, we watched the movie premiere of the original cast performance of “Hamilton” projected on a huge screen set up outdoors. We had a ball! “

Our grandchildren continue as a source of good news to distract us from the world news. Our oldest grandson, Jack, graduated (virtually, see picture) from the University of Chicago and is now attending U. of Michigan Law School. Griffin is a junior at Middlebury; Dorothy is a Princeton sophomore; Julian is a junior at UC Berkeley; Nellie started at U. of Vermont (actually on campus!!!) last fall.

Living in an apartment residence where the average age of the other residents is 90 is different from life in a mixed age community. However, Ed has found a few bridge players to play with on-line and Penny has joined an exercise class or two as well as a book club, all virtual for the time being. The pleasure of Nell’s multiple visits each week and her help with doctors and electronics. Sunday afternoons with the Shapiros remind us of why we made the move east. We are trying to be patient and hoping that many of the less satisfactory elements of our residence will improve when the Covid-19 pandemic is over or under control.

After the past year Happy New Year takes on a whole new depth of meaning. We hope that 2020 is way better than 2020!”

We are saddened to announce the death of Barbara Greifer Kane on December 30. Barbara’s son Alex shared this information with us. Susie Levenson Pringle attended the virtual funeral along with Martha Hauptmann, Sara Ginsberg Marks, and Ellen Shertzer Goldberg. It was a beautiful service. Barbara’s obituary is on the In Memoriam page. Remembrances may be put on the website as well.

Class Notes, Spring 2024

Remembering Roz Gordon

Many beautiful notes honoring the memory of Rosalind Marshak Gordon have been sent since her tragic death this past spring.

From Ruth Nemzoff "I was privileged to havewonderful conversations with her the last years of her life. She was a star at Barnard academically and a star in life". Ruth spoke of the Zoom 80thbirthday party where Roz's colleagues sung her praises "as a mentor, a feminist and a doer."

Bette Kerr wrote of visiting Roz in the hospital,"transcending distress and pain (her) warm spirit prevailed. The qualities that made (her) a fine leader, advocate, person and friend continued to shine.

Marcia Weller wrote" always there to do the job which she did efficiently, honestly and gracefully."

Dorothy Falarski noted, "After many years we connectedvirtually via the Barnard '62 class meetings where her humor, graciousness and focus were so evident".

Linda Cahill writes, "She was the energetic one.We canall take a little of her bravery for ourselves". Her life was truly a gift to all she encountered. The family plans a memorial in NY inOctober and in Florida next Spring.

Updates from our Class

Naomi Patz writes: “We celebrate our granddaughter, Sadie Reynolds, ournewest Barnard graduate! Her sister, Dahlia, is class of 2026. Their mom, Aviva Patz, graduated in 1992.

Carol Prins will be in Santa Fe all summer—her big news is that hergranddaughter got into Michigan!

Class Notes - Fall/Winter - 2023-24

We are sorry to report the death of our classmate, Penelope White Kilburn, on August 20, 2023. An obituary has been posted on this website in the section In Memoriam.

Sally Hess and her instructor Darius Mosteika won First Place in the Senior 4 Division, American Smooth Style at the biggest Ballroom Dance Competition in the country on November 16!!! Congratulations! See Sally's story titled National Champion!, published in the online magazine Persimmon Tree.

Your class Correspondents carried the ’62 Flag at Convocation last October. Photo on the home page of this website, barnard62.net

This 10 inch-diameter bloom was named Louisiana by the English breeder because he loves New Orleans jazz. It got Best Single Bloom Entry in Show at the Long Island Chrysanthemum Society annual show this fall.

Class Notes - Summer 2023

You can view Ruth's conversation with Tashira and Margo on their podcast series Together Seeking Change and Thriving at this YouTube link.

Or listen to that program as an Apple podcast at this link.

She also appeared on NPR's Life Kit to give advice from her second book, Don’t Roll Your Eyes: Mak­ing Your In-Laws into Family.

On the social side, she had two fabulous reunions with classmates Marsha Wittenberg Lewin and Roz Marshack Gordon.

Dorothy Lukas Friedlander who is living in LA, is volunteering at The Museum of Tolerance and supporting The Los Angeles Guild for Reproductive Health. Daughter Liz, was named by Variety Magazine in 2021, as one of the hundred most impactful women in Hollywood.

Sally Hess shares that on February 24th, she and her instructor/partner Darius Mosteika, won first place in the New York Dance Festival in the Senior Division, American SmoothStyle of Competitive Ballroom Dance. Her essay Horses and Zebras was published in Winter 2023 in this issue of Midwest Zen.

Last, a pitch to those of you who have not yet participated in the monthly structured Class of ’62 OpenHouse discussions on zoom to which all are invited. Look for your invitation and a link coming from the Barnard Alumnae Office.

CLASS NOTES - SPRING 2023

Jane Henkel Chretien

Sally HessDancing continues: next Competition: the NY Dance Festival, 2/24 (Hilton Hotel Ballroom).Writing continues: most recent essay on practice at 80 and beyond to appear in Midwest Zen.

I'm enjoying being just a 5-minute drive from my Geneva-born daughter and family (four grandkids). Saturday night babysitting, Sunday morning pancakes, celebrations of Thanksgiving, Passover, etc. are a delight.

I'm continuing to use my old professional skills (medical/science writing) to help my son-in-law with grant applications for his new tech start-up. It's comforting to know I'm still able to do so at age 81!Carol Prins

Class Notes - Winter 2022/3

Your class correspondents are always happy to hear from you. Write them at:

Rosalind Marshack Gordon ** Rosalindgordon62@gmail.comSara Ginsberg Marks ** Sgmarks324@gmail.com

Webmaster, Carole Kaplowitz Kantor ** cjkkantor@gmail.com

Class Notes - Fall 2022

A first dispatch from our new class correspondents, Roz Gordon and Sara Marks

Sad News

Roz Gordon is grieving the loss of her husband, David Gordon, MD, whom many of us have met over the years. The following obituary appeared in the New York Times on August 7, 2022

Class Notes - Summer 2022

We have five grandchildren all coming for my birthday in mid August! They are 18,16,14 in LA and little ones 6 and 7 year olds in Chicago! Busy with our friends & “culture glut summer” -Opera, Chamber Music, museums, etc!

60TH REUNION RECONNECTS CLASSMATES

Maruta and Helen

Class Notes - Spring 2022

2031-2022 Forrest Latiner

Class Notes - Winter 2021-22

Barbara Goldberg Applebaum writes:

Thanks to Zoom, I have been able to continue my book group and Yiddish classes as well as my weekly Women’s Torah Study Class led by Athene Shiffman Goldstein ’63. Hinda Rotenberg Miller ’61 is also a member. I am delighted that we will be

having mini-reunions as we celebrate our 60th reunion year. Kudos to those who have envisioned this project.

Rani Carson

Rani was living in Brooklyn when she visited Jamaica in 1986 and met two Rastamen who acquainted her with the Rastafari culture with its deep reverence for nature and the

natural way of life, and their practice of peace and love, righteousness and justice. She visited Jamaica frequently after that, was inspired by the Rasta people, and they became the subjects of her paintings.

In 2022 Rani will exhibit her paintings at the Prince St. Gallery, 547 West 27th Street in New York City. Feel free to send your email to Rani at ranicarsonart@gmail.com to join her mailing list.

Jah Love, Marcus Garvey Celebration

Sister Lizzie 7

Hera 4

Joan Thomson Kretschmer writes:

https://youtu.be/EAH3Pb2FFXU

https://youtu.be/5QRw8DHlbEc

https://youtu.be/oytd3K19yLc

(cut and paste these URLs into your internet browser)

Joan Kretschmer and Robert Langevin

MIriam Ehrlich Contributes to Jewish History

https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/oral-histories/interviews/woh-fi-0001275/miriam-mimi-erlich-2019.

Class Notes - Fall 2021

My daughter and son, who both work in television, worked through the pandemic and became well versed in COVID protocols. Their kids (14-5) attended school on Zoom, and are now back in school part time. Kindergarten on Zoom?

Before the pandemic, I started volunteering at The Museum of Tolerance and for the Westside Democrats. This last year has lifted a veil on America and I’m seeing an America I never knew.”

Joan Lewis Kretschmer announces the publication of her new Yona adventure—an exciting event! It is available on Amazon already and will be elsewhere very soon. You can see the covers on the Website—Barnard62.net. Joan continues her Lyric concerts through the fall and winter seasons.

See Judy’s luncheon notes and pictures below.

Thanks to everyone who sent in news. Stay safe and well.

With love,

Susie

CLASS OF 1962 NEW YORK LUNCHEON AUGUST 17

The Ladies Who Lunch. Photo by Karen Gross.

Linda, Naomi, Sara, Marcia, Vivian, Susie, and Judy

Karen Charal Gross had endured repairs on a flooded apartment for three months, looks forward to resuming travels (to date she's been to 102 countries!) and enjoys husband Meyer's classical clarinet concerts.

Sara Ginsberg Marks has spent most of the summer in East Hampton with family, including grandchildren 16-year old Lucy and 13-year old Miles; she looks forward to in-person visits with friends and returning to theater, museums and Cabaret music at Lincoln Center.

Linda Schwartz Kline

From Ruth Nemzoff "I was privileged to havewonderful conversations with her the last years of her life. She was a star at Barnard academically and a star in life". Ruth spoke of the Zoom 80th
birthday party where Roz's colleagues sung her praises "as a mentor, a feminist and a doer."

Linda Cahill writes, "She was the energetic one.We canall take a little of her bravery for ourselves". Her life was truly a gift to all she encountered. The family plans a memorial in NY in
October and in Florida next Spring.

She also appeared on NPR's Life Kit to give advice from her second book, Don’t Roll Your Eyes: Making Your In-Laws into Family.

Last, a pitch to those of you who have not yet participated in the monthly structured Class of ’62 Open
House discussions on zoom to which all are invited. Look for your invitation and a link coming from the Barnard Alumnae Office.

Sally Hess
Dancing continues: next Competition: the NY Dance Festival, 2/24 (Hilton Hotel Ballroom).
Writing continues: most recent essay on practice at 80 and beyond to appear in Midwest Zen.

I'm continuing to use my old professional skills (medical/science writing) to help my son-in-law with grant applications for his new tech start-up. It's comforting to know I'm still able to do so at age 81!

Carol Prins

Rosalind Marshack Gordon Rosalindgordon62@gmail.com
Sara Ginsberg Marks Sgmarks324@gmail.com

*Webmaster, Carole Kaplowitz Kantor ** cjkkantor@gmail.com*

https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/oral-histories/interviews/woh-fi-0001275/miriam-mimi-erlich-2019 .