Thursday, June 7, 2007
Hilles Penthouse

The meeting was called to order by Lucia Stein Hatch, class president who welcomed all classmates in attendance. She noted that more than 90 of our class mates attended reunion. She especially thanked Ann Eldridge and Emily Romney who with the assistance of Beaty Young Blain, Nancy Dersofi, Airlie Cameron Lennon, Francine Schear Linde, Deborah Pickman Clifford, Laura Pincus Bernard and Ursula Reidy Turano organized this reunion. Mary Jane Benton Sherwig put together the class report book. She thanked the class gift committee consisting of three chairs: Fran Byers Schloss, Mari DeCosta Terman and Sheila Tobias as well as their committee consisting of Ann Eldridge, Lucia Hatch, Lee Ginsberg Herbst and Ursula Turano. They have been meeting for the past 18 months with recent weekly telephone calls.

Class Gift. Fran Schloss announced that the class gift was $567,000 with money still coming in. This was the largest 50th year class gift thus far. Sixty-five percent of the class participated and gifts received up until June 30, 2007 will be counted. Sheila Tobias said the alumnae office staff members were invaluable in their assistance and she thanked Ann Kamensky and Diane Mercer. It was announced that $1.6 million has been given to the Schlesinger Library over the past 4 years as class gifts and that this year one of the Harvard graduates gave his only gift to the Schlesinger Library.

Lucia Hatch continued with her welcoming remarks and noted that Emily Romney conducted five sopranos and eight altos from our class participating in the choir for the joint 50th Reunion Harvard-Radcliffe Thanksgiving and Memorial Service on June 6th. The Reverend Mary Bunton Adebonojo also participated in the service. Lucia also announced that Judy Moscow Heimann received an honorary Phi Beta Kappa during this commencement week.

Apple Tree Awards were awarded by Kate Moynihan of the Radcliffe Institute. She explained these awards are given based on nominations from the class and start after the 50th reunion. They represent long-standing dedicated service to the class of 1957. The ten receiving these awards were Ann Eldridge, Susannah Alden French, Lucia Hatch, Airlie Cameron Lennon, Emily Romney, Fran Schloss, Mary Jane Benton Sherwig, Maria Terman, Sheila Tobias and Ursula Turano.

Minutes from the last meeting in 2002 were summarized and approved as read.

Treasurer's report was given by Susannah French and showed that $4075 were received as dues, and $1780 for the current reunion book. The expenses for this reunion have not been paid but it is expected that the class will still be solvent after payment.

The nominating committee report was presented by Mari Terman and consisted of Lucia Stein Hatch for president, Susannah Alden French for treasurer and Airlie Cameron Lennon for secretary. There were no other nominations and the slate was approved by acclamation.

Website continuation was discussed by Sheila Tobias, who created the site for the class following the 2002 reunion. The website can be used for class notes, links, travel news, photographs, bulletin board. It must be kept in mind that this is not a secure site. It was suggested and approved by acclamation to continue the website as is.

Class survey results were presented by Airlie Cameron Lennon.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:30 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Airlie Cameron Lennon, Class Secretary

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