Ann McCormick Scott
Class President
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Heel. Sit. Stay. Front. And those are the commands
I’ve learned. Quinn persistently reminds us young and old must learn life skills. Our job is to keep her safe. Quinn’s is to make us laugh. In our larger lives,
safety and optimism present useful goals.
However our resident gerontologist, Mel Walsh, would
have us stretch those goals: “What’s On Your Life List?”
she asks (read
Mel's article), with possible responses: see
Tuscany; get a good music system; make love in some
weird place of your choice.
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But Mel – her shingle honorably hung – fundamentally
prescribes: “I say take the knowledge of what we love and want,
put it down on paper, and use those lists to guide the rest of our lives. It’s putting long-term
thinking into action so our time won’t run out before our dreams.”
While you work on that cosmic list, start with less exalted but useful and appreciated tasks
you can perform for your classmates and college:
- Write and send a month’s worth of birthday cards to classmates.
You will receive cards, addressed envelopes, and stamps.
You provide the personal greeting and mail on time. More or less. Volunteer with
annmccscott@alum.wellesley.edu.
- Keep us all informed by dropping a note for “58 in Wellesley Magazine to
Ruth Harold Zollinger (RuthHZollinger@comcast.net). Have you stopped being
surprised at how far we must thumb back to find our magazine site?
- Think mini-reunion: convene a local, area, or regional of ‘58s – lunch,
a concert, an historic walking tour? Make it posh or make it a service-to-others
opportunity. And let Mary Edwards know what you are doing; she loves photographs
(propperson@alum.Wellesley.edu).
- Think macro-reunion: tune into burgeoning plans for ’58 in Paris.
Let Mary (above) know you are thinking about it; she can direct you
to a blog site that connects those who have put that on a Life List.
- Think Real Reunion: it’s not the 50th, it’s the 55th.
How would you make it special? What events would entice you to attend?
What job would you take on to make it work? I’d like to hear from you (above).
- Keep in touch. Join ‘58’s internet discussion
group. Sister List discussion recently suggests
receiving the regular email not the weekly “Digest.”
The daily mail is clearer and, ahem, easier to
delete. Ask Susan Klee
(skleeberk@aol.com) to sign you up.
- Start that Life List.
Fond greetings to everyone,
Ann McCormick Scott, ’58 Class President
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