E-NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2024

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Presidents' Letter
 

Early Fall Greetings, Dear Classmates!

As our 65th Reunion (gasp!) draws closer, your Class Officers have also been focusing on one of the many events that will take place while we are together at Wellesley: the election of the Class Officers who will serve for the five-year term
following Reunion.

We set up a stellar Nominating Committee comprised of former Class Presidents Marilyn Claster Nissenson, Junia Gratiot Hedberg, Missy Rives Moore, and Margot Topkins Tutun. And they have come up with a superlative slate of candidates to lead us into the far distant future.

--Patsy & Vicki

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SLATE FOR WELLESLEY CLASS OFFICERS

2025-2030

CO-PRESIDENTS
Margie Myers Arons-Barron
Andrea Kundsin Dupree

CO-VICE-PRESIDENTS
Becky Whittlesey Brace
Barb McAdam Muller

CO-SECRETARIES
Liz Kahlo Cabot
Dianne Horgan James

CO-TREASURERS

Judy Morang Lasca
Barb Jetter Schowen

WELLESLEY FUND REPRESENTATIVES
Missy Rives Moore
Mari Wright

Our Reunion will include a brief Class Meeting at which we will vote to elect class officers

PRELIMINARY UPDATE re: 65th REUNION

Dear Classmates

We are excited to send you preliminary information regarding our 65th reunion that will be over Memorial Day weekend May.... 2025.

As you may be already aware, ongoing campus construction and renovations have limited the number of residence halls and on campus rooms available to alumnae for Reunion weekend. As a result our class (and others) will have their
lodging and class headquarters at the nearby Babson Executive Conference Center in Wellesley, MA. Breakfasts and dinners will be at that location as well.

We were initially disappointed not to be able to stay on campus but when we heard that all rooms have AC and private ensuite bathrooms, we were mollified. There will be buses shuttling back and forth to campus all day and vans available on campus to access our class hospitality suite and other sites.

Wellesley will be holding a block of rooms at Babson but Do Not book anything until the Alumnae Office notifies you that the rooms are available.

We will follow up with more information as plans unfold.

Reunion Chairs
--Nancy Colodny & Margot Tutun

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RECORD BOOK 2025

🧑🏻‍ 🎄🧑🏻‍ 🎄Yes, Virginia, there will be a Record Book this year. It will include contact information for our classmates—please confirm that Wellesley has your latest addresses and phone numbers—In Memoriam, and much more. We are anxious to include as many photos of us at college as we can. Please send a digital copy of your own favorites to vfay1960@mac.com; include an informative caption if possible.

--Marilyn Nissenson & Vicki Fay

BEQUESTS AND DONATIONS

Bequests to Wellesley are a vote of confidence in the College and a source of future financial stability. If you have included Wellesley in your estate plans, thank you. If you have not, please consider doing so before Reunion 2025. For more information, please email Mari Wright, mariwri38@gmail.com. or contact the Office of Gift Planning at 781-283-
2235 or giftplanning@wellesley.edu.

💰 Your donation, of any size, made by next May 16th, helps Wellesley thrive and builds our class reunion gift. And remember when making your gift to Wellesley, you can always direct that some or all should go to The Class of 1960 Legacy Fund. *

In 2010 when Junia Gratiot Hedberg was winding up her term as class president, she established a Class Fund to support international outreach from Wellesley. Incoming president Missy Rives Moore, who had recently retired from managing a college endowment fund, suggested that we expand Junia's idea into a Class of 1960 Endowed Fund. Other officers of 1960 (including Junia who, as past-president, often met with them) agreed.

* Our Class Legacy Fund Explained. At Wellesley a named fund can be managed within the overall endowment if it is valued at a certain minimum -- at that time, $100,000. We decided to start raising the money, though at the time it seemed like a daunting figure. By our next Reunion in 2015 our class had enthusiastically reached the required amount. Next step was to choose how our fund's income would be spent. The College offered us several choices, programs we could help to sponsor. In 2013 a vibrant new project, the WE Lab, had launched. Amy Banzaart came from MIT to develop a class introducing engineering principles applied with a liberal arts overview and an international outreach component.

Dr. Banzaart's class has been profoundly successful at Wellesley. She has been lauded for her skill at incorporating engineering into the curriculum and for her excellence as a teacher and mentor. The Class of 1960 has been instrumental in supporting the WE Lab from its early years.

--MARI WRIGHT. Wellesley Fund
Representative for 1960

1960 Class Officers 2020-2025:

Presidents Patsy Fogarty and Vicki Fay; Vice Presidents Peggy Cohn
and Liz Karet; Secretaries Margie Arons-Barron and Junia Hedberg; ReunionTreasurer Judy Lasca; Wellesley Fund Representatives Missy Moore and Mari Wright, Reunion Co-chairs Margot Tutun and Nancy Colodny