Fall Luncheon 2015

Please send photos!!

Laura Siracusano and Pook Siprin Bellini Reunite in South Carolina

Laura Siracusano Dudek (Class of 1969), and her husband, Tom, visited with my husband, Phil, and me following their very WET trip to the Outer Banks.  It was a fabulous reunion for these two old roomies!

- Pook Siprin Bellini

Fall Luncheon 2014

This year's luncheon, which celebrated our 85th anniversary, was held at beautiful Mohonk Mountain House on October 18th.  If you attended, please send photos!  Be sure to include names of those in the photos.

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We had a wonderful time at our sorority luncheon and our 50th celebration dinner at New Paltz!
- Jean Valentine Ward

Sorority roommates 50 years ago on Theta's porch (Lillian Wright Patton, Flo Anton Snider, Jean Valentine Ward, Barbara Wright Passmore) and then again- same place but 50 years later...

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Roseanne DiDio Johnston, Joanne Fiori-Powell, Roseanne Senatore Adams

Roseanne Senatore Adams, Pat McKeown Withers, Bobbi burns Murray

Linda Spiro Landers, Marie Sabia Martin

Rosemary D'Alberto Prock, Roseanne Senatore Adams, Rosalie Meunier Pahel

Liza Kosel, Maryanne DeGennaro Herzog

Joanne Fiore-Powell, Carol Zimel Cohen

Jean Valentine Ward, Barbara Wright Passmore, Florence Anton Snider, Lillian Wright Patton, Tom Patton

Louise Dietz, Shirley Gordineer Townsend, Frances Freer Monahan

Judy Juracka, Bobbi Burns Murray, Pat McKeown Withers

Wanda Smith Terwilliger, Elsa Thompson, B.J. Bozzone Fenton

Petrina Tantillo Tersillo, Maureen Galloway Johnson, Linda Spiro 

Landers, Maria Sabia Martin

Sandra Longfield, Virginia Stadtfeld Esser, Petrina Tantillo Tersillo

Maureen Galloway Johnson, Petrina Tantillo Tersillo

 

 

 

Rose Marie Strippoli, Leslie Drojak

Deborah Aimis Solomon, Josephine Cilmi Dayger

Carol Zimel Cohen, Ruth Gerson Solomon

Barbara Wright Passmore, Jean Valentine Ward

Leslie Drojak with plaque honoring founding sisters of Theta

1969 Video on Ulster County

Thanks to Naomi Rubin for sharing this video!

 Click on the link below...

Ulster County, New York: "County of Contrasts" circa 1969 IBM

Here are some photos lifted from the video...

Kathy O'Connell Nelson

Bob and I did a Danube River cruise from Budapest to Nuremburg. They have ones that go from Budapest to Amsterdam or the other way around. We went from Budapest to Bratislava, Vienna, Salzburg, the Wassau Valley Bavaria....it was great. The second cruise we took was a Christmas markets cruise from Nuremburg to Amsterdam. We spent three days in Munich first. It was terrific too, except that the water was too high from lots of rain and the ship was not allowed to sail. It didn't even get to Nuremburg. We became honorary citizens of Wurzberg Germany and were bussed to all the other cities and towns. The longest bus rides were from Wurzberg to Cologne and the next day from Cologne to Amsterdam. In Amsterdam we got on a canal boat and actuaLly sailed though the maze of canals! Voila! A ship that really moved! However, New Years Eve was spectacular! Europe really does it up with fireworks like you've never seen before. We stood on the top deck where you could see fireworks 360* while the ships crew also set off fireworks from the dock. It was so much fun.

 

One of our next forays will be a tour for Berlin, Auschwitz, Warsaw, and other Eastern European places.  Bob taught AP European History for over thirty years and delights in seeing some of the places he taught about, such as the Uffitzi museum and statue of David in Florence, Avignon in France, the Tower of London, the Berlin Wall ( he has seen it. I have not), etc. But, we have seen a lot. Love traveling and learning and meeting other people and discovering we all have more in common than we have differences.

 

We start our National Parks tour in Yellowstone although we have already been there. From there we head into the Tetons and to Utah, Zion, Bryce and work our way into Colorado and the Grand Canyon where we will take a Colorado River trip at night after a cowboy BBQ, and we end up in Las Vegas for one night. Can't wait. It's two weeks. We want to take road trip to Asheville, NC and the Smokies. We have been to Acadia, and the one in Colorado northwest of Denver, although the name escapes me now. I've been to the Tetons twice. The first time was in 1996 when my brother, who lived in Idaho Falls, dropped dead and we couldn't bury him til Memorial Day weekend was over.  So my nephew took us exploring.

 

In Nov. it's two weeks in Hawaii with stops at either end in San Diego!  Spending the children's inheritance!!!!

 

We are very happy. We should have gotten together in New Paltz when we had the chance, but we let it go by. Ah well. At least we have now. Been married five years already and in our house eight years! My, time does fly.

 

~Kathy O'Connell Nelson

Condolences to Gail Pieper Brice '60

Heartfelt condolences to Gail on the passing of her husband, James Brice, who died October 12, 2013 in Laurel, Montana from Parkinson's Disease.

Message from Maryann Corrado Risi '70

A friend just returned from the Swim Team's 50th anniversary reunion and thought I'd like to see Theta house today. I thought I'd share it with you... 

 

 Theta House circa 1969

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theta House 2013 (note the tree is missing)

Maryann Corrado Risi  '70

Message from Marg(e) Bufton Bandre '58

The luncheon invitation ---which I must regretfully decline again---arrived here yesterday along with the “Founding of Gamma Chapter of Theta Phi which was filled with facts I either never heard before or have forgotten in the 55 years since I was an active member.

 

The last time I drove through New Paltz I was saddened to see that our house is no longer ours. I have so many memories of that house and the girls who lived there.  I  was also completely lost when I tried to find my way around the campus! The campus I knew is long gone and todays students might laugh at what we thought was quite adequate. (It was good to see Women’s Hall gone. It was not adequate!)

 

I appreciate the time you and others spend to keep the Theta Phi BlogSpot up and running. My class of 1958 started a chain letter which never even got all the way around.  Because I moved away, I quickly lost touch with many good friends.  I deeply regret not being able to get to our 50th reunion---New Paltz is a long way from Kansas City!

 

So, thanks for keeping me in touch with Theta Phi, and for bringing back some memories.

 

Margaret (Marge Bufton) Bandre ‘58

Luncheon 2012 Photo

Submitted by Rosanne Senatore Adams

 

Back row-- Roe, Judy, Senny, Patty

Seated--Rosalie, Ellen

 

 

We had a great time and then went into town for some drinks.  Just like the good old days!!

 

See you at the next one.

 

Yours in Theta,

Senny

2012 Luncheon Photo

Thanks to Pat Withers for sharing this photo of Rosemary D'Alberto Prock and Judy Juracka Caruso.