E-NEWSLETTER JUNE 2025

Neither 50-degree weather nor intermittent rain could dash the enthusiasm of the 54 red-cheeked octogenarians of the Class of 1960 gathering to celebrate their 65th reunion on Memorial Day weekend.  

Ready to March: l. to r. Margie Myers Arons-Barron, Liz Parsons Karet, Judy Morang Lasca, Joan Brownstein Leibovich, Margot Topkins Tutun, Nancy Dessoff Colodny, student go-to helpmate Audrey, Anne Flynt Solley

By the time the skies cleared on Sunday morning for the Alumnae Parade, we proceeded up College Road to Alumnae Hall through throngs of, ahem, enthusiastic younger alums cheering us on.  In the previous two days, we had reveled in seeing friends in person, often for the first time in ten years thanks to the Covid cancellation of our 60th reunion. We marveled at the new science center and attended faculty lectures. We were thrilled by Professor Amy Banzaert’s report on the progress of her Engineering Studies program WeLab, supported by our Class of 1960 Legacy Fund.  We reflected on our memoirs as Phoebe Kazdin Schnitzer moderated the thoughtful discussion.   We viewed Linda Gottlieb’s movie Dirty Dancing and were entertained by her backstory of the making of the film,  now in the Library of Congress as part of our national film heritage. We had heard  earlier directly from President Paula Johnson about the expansive opportunities enjoyed by Wellesley students today and the headwinds faced by institutions of higher education in the current environment. And we thoroughly enjoyed the panel that included our own In Ho Lee reflecting on the impact of Wellesley on her life.   

This fabulous weekend was orchestrated by Nancy Dessoff Colodny & Margot Topkins Tutun, our Reunion Chairs who thought of everything  - red roses as our centerpieces and 1960 Red mugs for a morning latte!  Thank you Nancy and Margot!

Mostly, we remembered and embraced what our Wellesley education has meant to us, and the confidence it has given us as we moved through our blessedly long lives.

For those who haven’t yet contributed, there’s still time before the June 30th deadline to support the College directly or through our special Class of 1960 Legacy Fund, which helps the WeLab by providing amazing new technical devices!

We have a big Thank You to Vicki Fay and Patsy Fogarty for leading us as Co-Presidents for the past five years, as we, Margie Arons-Barron and Andrea Dupree, begin our term as Co-Presidents of 1960! 
 

Patsy and Vicki

Margie and Andrea

We promise to stay in touch with you regularly. 

                      1960 Wellesley Rah….. 1-9-6-0 Wellesley…..

Margie and Andrea

E-NEWSLETTER MARCH 2025
 

Greetings Dear Classmates!

It’s March, heading for May, and the news is all about our 65th reunion, May 23-25.  Our reunion chairs and their committee have been working hard. Please read their report with care and please register for reunion now. We will be there and we want to see you.

--Patsy and Vicki
 

Dear 1960 classmates:

“Who’d have ever dreamed we could possibly be back here together again?”*

But we will be on the weekend of May 23 25th and “we are jumping for joy.”* Hope you’re already making travel plans 'cause we’re making plans for a really bang up time. We’ll be staying at air conditioned, fully equipped Babson Conference Center and squired back and forth via vans to our beautiful campus. You’ll be getting notices for registration so make sure your information with the college – email address etc. is up-to-date – and 

Of vital importance make sure to update your college email for registration in order to access the registration. You will need your WELLESLEY username and password. Should you need help with the two-factor authentication, recovering or resetting your password, please, visit our support page. If you have not set up two-factor authentication, please contact the college’s technical help desk at 781–283–7777 from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Eastern time Monday through Friday.

We’ll see you soon, sending fond wishes, your reunion cochairs

--Margot and Nancy
*From the lyrics of Junior show
 

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR WELLESLEY 65TH REUNION (May 23-25)
 

Note: You may check in either on Campus or at Babson Conference Center

Friday May 23

1:00 Reunion Officially Begins
2:00-5:00 Faculty Lectures; Campus Tours; Open Houses at New Science Center, Conservatory, and other venues
5:00-8:00 Class Social  Hour– includes dinner at Babson
8:00-9:00 Step Singing
8:00- Nora Ephron Film Screening on campus
9:00 Fireworks and Ice Cream on campus

Saturday May 24

7:00-9:00 Breakfast (Babson Residents Only)
9:30-10:30 Class Meeting (to incl. Memorial Service, Bus to campus)
11:00 College Update Pres. Paula Johnson in Ballroom)
12:30 Lunch (Campus)
2:00-4:00 Class Programs (in planning stage)
Also Faculty Lectures and tours on campus
3:00-8:00 Nora Ephron Film Screening (campus)
6:00-10:00 Class Social Hours-Dinner at Babson and entertainment

Sunday May 25

7:00-9:00 Breakfast (Babson)
9:15-9:45 Chapel (Multifaith)
9:45-10:15 Reception
9:00-10:00 Jewish Alum bagel breakfast
10:15 Parade Set Up
10:30 Parade
11:30 Lunch
2:00 Reunion Ends
 

“It’s a scoop!”  With determination and endless patience, the Reunion  Committee has succeeded in booking a very special showing of a very special movie,* Dirty Dancing, with an insiders’ introduction and commentary by producer Linda Gottlieb ’60. At Babson Conference Center—all classmates welcome.

*One of the films selected for the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2024 due to their cultural, historic, or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage.

 

RECORD BOOK

The Class of 1960 Record Book 2025 is complete and at the printers. A free copy will be mailed to each member of our class for whom the college has a mailing address. If you do not receive the book during March, please email one of us immediately. Otherwise, enjoy!

Marilyn-  hughmari@gmail.com
Vicki - vfay1960@mac.com
 

CLASS GIFT

 (  Your donation, of any size, helps Wellesley thrive. 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.  (Donations received by May 15, 2025, are credited to our Reunion Class Gift.)
 

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; Treasurer Judy Lasca; Wellesley Fund Representatives Missy Moore and Mari Wright, Reunion Co-chairs Margot Tutun and Nancy Colodny;  Record Book Marilyn Nissenson and Vicki Fay

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