Carol Hearst Brott

I will be having lunch with Ginny Apuzzo at P & G's in a couple of weeks. I'm sure we'll be looking up at the House on the Hill with lots of memories to share.

Enjoy the annual luncheon and remember me to those from '63.

Carol Hearst Brott

Roni Cojac Mintz

Hi, I graduated in 1965 and married Alan 2 weeks after graduation. We celebrated our 50th with a mini wedding given by our children and my 101 year old father. This past summer we continued the celebration when we took the family on an  Alaskan cruise.

In 2017 I will celebrate 35 years working at  Children's Healthcare Of Atlanta. After teaching "well" children it has been quite a journey  working with hospitalized children. They are truly an example of courage and strength.

Happy Holidays to all.
RONI ( Cojac ) MINTZ

Midge Dube

To all my Email Friends --- thank you so much for the prayers, cards and phone messages that made my reverse colon surgery on September 23,2016 such a wonderful success.... As many of you know from my daughter Stacey's postings, I came home from the Saratoga Hospital on Friday Sept. 30 and will be getting the 38 plus staples out of the stomach incision this coming Friday, Oct 7.... Still gathering my strengthen and trying to do more walking in the house and eventually outside once I am permitted to do so....Can't believe what an emotional year this has been...I am blessed to even be alive from the original septic poisoning and physical damage that it did to my colon and stomach...God has been good to me, thanks to all of your prayers..... Looking forward to a healthy year to come.... I will especially miss my College Sorority Theta Phi reunion is Oct 16 but plan on being there next year...Have fun Thetas and know I will be thinking of all of you...I am looking forward to rejoining my social groups and especially swimming exercise classes at the YMCA....thanks again for all your prayers and support, I am truly blessed.....love to all my friends & family, Midge

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I got another envelope back today. The sister's name is Gloria Peck Shackelton.

- Janice Oehler 

Please be sure to notify Janice of any address changes!!
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Thanks!

Theta Luncheon 2016

October 15, 2016

12:00-2:30

GARVAN's 

215 Huguenot Street

New Paltz

$22

Checks payable to:  

Theta Phi Alumnae

(Deadline is October 3rd) 

Mail to:  

Leslie Drojak

104 Quail Drive

Kingston, NY 12401

Buffet:  Salad, bread and butter, shrimp scampi, chicken piccata, vegetables

Dessert, coffee tea, soda

Nina Friedman Lazar

Thanks to Nina Friedman Lazar for sending in the 1966 Circle Song for our Theta Songbook! 

New Paltz Reunion

There are big plans for Reunion Weekend up at the college.  For my year – ’66 – this is our 50^th .  It would be great to get lots of Thetas there.  I go every 5 years, and I’m usually the only Theta there.  This year those who said that they may come are: Ceil Bosico, Alice Edwards, Linda Lewis, Eleanor Antonucci and Trish Hillis.

I’m hoping that if more of the sisters see this info, there will be greater interest in re-connecting  on campus.  If anyone wants to be in touch, other than just through the Reunion website, you can post my email address:  Ninanons@optonline.net

- Nina Lazar 

You may contact the Alumni Relations Office about pre-registration, accommodations,questions, etc. at 1-845-257-3230 -Penny Drabick, or go online to: www.newpaltz.edu/alumni/reunion

New Paltz on Princeton Review's Best Regional Colleges List

Thanks to Joan Kisver for sharing on Facebook...
Source:  New Paltz News

https://sites.newpaltz.edu/news/2016/08/princeton-review-ranks-suny-new-paltz-on-best-regional-colleges-list/

Thoughts Are With Midge Dube As She Prepares for Surgery

For members of my family and friends who may not be aware of my medical problems this year I am sending this out today to update all of you about my upcoming Colostomy surgery, and asking each of you to pray that it will be successful.

 

In the beginning of February I was extremely sick and thought I had the flu...my daughter Stacey finally brought me to the Doctors who immediately sent us to the Saratoga Hospital, I don't remember much of it because my stomach was filled with septic poisoning, my colon had rupture and for the first couple of days or so, they didn't think I would make it....On the third day a surgeon on duty performed emergency surgery and removed a large part of my colon and fitted me with a connecting stoma for a colostomy bag.  I was in ICU for two weeks and in the Hospital until March - then home with visiting nurses for the next few months. Living with the colostomy bag and an open wound in my incision has limited my movements since I need to be constantly taking care of these problems.  I went to see the surgeon yesterday since I have regained much of my health, to see if I could be a candidate for a reverse colostomy.

 

He is scheduling one for Monday September 19, and says because it is a major operations there is a small chance that it may not work, and I will need a colostomy bag for the rest of my life, but Stacey thinks he has to say that because of law suits and I need to be positive.  So please Pray that everything will go well and I can return to a more active life and be able do the fun things I used to do. If you can keep me in your prayers I am sure everything will work out for the best...

 

I was hoping that I could attend the reunion this year but since this will be a major operation the recovery cam 6 to 8 weeks long, so I think I need to aim for next year, God willing everything goes well.  

 

Love, Midge

Laura Siracusano Dudek

Here are two great articles about Laura and Tom's journey to Germany so Tom could meet the men who donated stem cells that helped to save Tom's life.  It's an amazing story with a very happy ending!
May 2016 Article
June 2016 Article






 
  





In September 2015, Laura and Tom joined Laura's sister, Louise, and her husband, Mark, for the annual "Light the Night" walk for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  Louise and Mark have been walking in Tom's honor since 2011.