Jane Wolf Frances learned from the college last spring about its SHIPS program, which matches undergraduates with alumnae working on qualifying projects for summer internships. The students get professional experience and mentoring from the alumnae with whom they collaborate, and bring their
own perspectives and skills to the alumnae's work.
Jane worked with a rising sophomore who helped her assemble a book in three formats (e-book, soft cover, and audio with Jane's cloned voice reading the text of How to Successfully Navigate Your Parenting Our Parents (POP) Journey of Love: POP Plans, POP Quizzes, POP Music. This is a kind of "work-think" book expanding on Jane's earlier work. She says that she loved mentoring such an enthusiastic helper; the intern reported that her weekly Zoom mentoring meetings with Jane were the best part for her.
Ellen Dubois's new book Elizbeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life is available to preorder on March 2, 2026. She wrote it after publishing Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote (Simon & Schuster). Ellen has retired from UCLA; "In addition to writing, I am president of my small, beloved west Los Angeles congregation, Ahavat Torah."
Class president Judy Harte heard from Sandra Kulli that she and Jane Wolf Frances attended a presentation and book signing by Kathy Knapp Eldon at an L.A. area bookstore, where she introduced her new book Boundless, a Roadmap to a Limitless Future. I then learned more about the book from Kathy herself, who described it as "a collection of whimsical rhyming stories, thoughts, and inspirations from my 'Noisy Spirits'."
Kathy wrote the book during the five months that she was evacuated from her home following the devastating L.A. fires. Unlike most others in their area of the Pacific Coast Highway, she and her husband were lucky that neither their home nor the Creative Visions Foundation Center in Malibu that Kathy founded were destroyed. “Miracles happen!” Kathy writes. “Now we are welcoming all those impacted by the fires to use our center to re-envision the future of our community.”
Lindsey Miller Lerman recently retired from the Nebraska Supreme Court, where she had been an esteemed judge for 33 years and the first woman ever appointed. A festive retirement party was held by the court in her honor, and some of our classmates attended virtually via the live stream link we
received.
I'm sad to say I received two classmate death notices this fall. One for Susan Bradley Cote, who died in Bloomington, IN, described her career as Bursar at the UI Bloomington and her love of reading and time on the water, saying “She was known for her passion, integrity, and wisdom among her peers [and] her kindness and warmth amongst her family and friends.”
https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/obituaries/psbn1244599
Janet Bacastow, who died in November, was “a trailblazer in finance and education” who had an extensive career in companies in NY, London, and Moscow before returning to academia at the London School of Economics. She loved world travel and was an enthusiastic hiker.
https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/obituaries/pnys1336293
Judy Siskind
Magazine Correspondent, Class of 1968
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