College Reunion

December 12, 2003. My 35th college reunion appeared on the horizon in the form of an e-mail from Terry. She is the one who rounds us up.

Eleven young women showed up at Dewey House, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, as freshmen in the fall of 1966. There were two Nancys, two Susans, and two C/Kathys. At the end of the year, one of the C/Kathys (the one with a "K") dropped out, and one of the Nancys went back to California, transferring into the UC system. That left nine. Clarinda got married and moved off campus to live with her husband. Ellen moved to the co-op house. Seven of us lived at Dewey all four years and graduated together.

We were the friends of a lifetime, but we have all gone our separate, busy ways. Our first reunion, the 25th in 1995, was pure time travel. I have some pictures, though for the most part, those fine sunny days of May, 1995, like the fine days of 1966-70, escaped the camera. We didn't seem to have cameras when we were in college, and I somehow ruined a whole roll of the pictures I took in 1995.

From the good old days, I have only this lovely picture below of Lynn on her graduation day. That would have been in 1969. Lynn transferred into Smith as a sophomore when the rest of us started as freshmen. We consider her one of us. Then I have a picture of my roommate Susan and one of me. Both pix were taken in Susan's and my room in Dewey in 1970, on graduation day.