1952
RUDY BLITZER (HARTT) of Brooklyn, N.Y., had taught orchestral music for 31 years when he retired from the New York City school system in 1987. He is still an active member of the Senior Concert Orchestra of New York, which performs in Carnegie Hall, and the Kingsboro College Orchestra, and he has free-lanced as violist throughout the New York City area. He formerly was a member of the Richmond Quartet in residence at Wagner College, Staten Island, and of the Long Island Philharmonic.
JOHN JUST ELLIS (ART, MEd '56) of Farmington, Conn., writes that his oil painting "Rockforms" has won a prize in the National Arts Program exhibition in September. His work has been accepted for exhibition at the Pump House Gallery in Hartford for the 2000 season, and he continues to be a member/ exhibitor at the Gallery on the Green in Canton, Conn.
1953
JOAN FRANCKUM ANDREWS (HCW) of Portland, Ore., has retired from nursing. She is studying music composition and has composed two pieces that have been sung by choruses. She reports that she has 17 grandchildren. Her three daughters live nearby, and her son is an associate professor of English in Iowa.
BEVERLY RICHMOND FAWCETT (HCW) of New Bern, N.C., writes that when she moved from Connecticut to New Bern six years ago, it was to escape the cold winters -- now she dodges hurricanes! She did three tours with the Mercy ship "Caribbean," a total of 10 months over three summers, on PR tours in the United States as a volunteer in the pantry/dining room, serving 150 crew members a day. She also has been a volunteer secretary for 13 years at Holy Trinity School, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1954
LOIS B. MAGLIETTO (HILLYER) of Rotonda West, Fla., has lived in Florida for 15 years, where, as a veteran, she is active in both the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. She writes of her family that her daughter Lyn also lives in Florida, that her son Bill lives in Hartford, but that her husband, Tony, died in 1990. In Florida, she often meets people from Connecticut.
1958
RUTH Y. RADIN (HCW) of Center Valley, Pa., is the author of 10 books. Her latest is titled Escape to the Forest: Based on a True Story of the Holocaust, published by HarperCollins Children's Books. She writes that in the past two years, she has gone back to writing music and is studying with Paul Salerni at Lehigh University. She is currently working on a musical setting for some of her poems for piano, percussion, sax, and tenor solo with female mini chorus. She is also composing a string quartet.
