RE Log - Fall 2023

60 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2023 Class Notes 1971 Class Ambassador: Debi Yohn (drdebiyohn@me.com) Susan Litowitz , see In Loving Memory 1972 Class Ambassadors: Leslie Wakefield Buchanan (Tkdlb52@aol.com ), Sarah Miller (sjm2go@gmail.com ), Stephanie Charouhis Schmidt (ehc147@bellsouth.net ), Karen Peterson Throckmorton (kpthrock@aol.com ) Stephanie Charouhis Schmidt , see Everglades 1963 1973 Class Ambassador: Bonnie Kassal Maisel (NurseBB55@gmail.com ) Bonnie Maisel , see Everglades 1963 From Jody Paskow Gold , “Enjoying the best club ever – grandparenthood! Maya is 3 and Nora is 1. I am Nana and Barry is Papa. They belong to our daughter, Amy, and son-in-law, Alex. Our son, David, does not have kids at this time.” throughout the two states. Before overseeing operations at Compass, she was COO of San Francisco-based Pacific Union International, which grew into the fifth largest real estate firm in the nation with sales topping $14 billion in 2017. Brent led the merger between Compass and Pacific Union in 2018 and remained on as COO of Compass California. One of the reasons Brent chose Berkshire and Hathaway was because of its reputation as a woman-owned company. 1970 Class Ambassadors: Gail Beckham (gailbeckham@gmail.com ), Melinda Cowen (melinda@cowendesign.com) Gail Beckham, Melinda Cowen, Nancy Davis, Betty Wiseheart Joyce, Darryl Larson, Gay Neiditch, Cree Scudder, Deborah Wright , see Everglades 1963 Members of the Everglades Class of 1970 celebrated their “50+3” reunion in April and gathered for dinner at the Bayshore Club in Coconut Grove. L-R: Melinda Cowen, Nancy Davis, Alice Church, Betty Wiseheart Joyce, Janie Miller Karestes, Deborah Wright, Gail Beckham, Paula Weintraub Saltzman and Cree McDougal Scudder From Dot Matheson , “My husband and I recently moved to Charlotte, N.C. It is a bittersweet change for me, having spent my entire life until now in Miami. However, it is a welcome change for which I was very ready.” 1974 REUNION APRIL 2024 Class Ambassador: Georgia Penn Noble (gpn56@comcast.net ) Jackie Elias Skaf, see Everglades 1963 Georgia Penn Noble and Carlos Noble enjoyed touring Japan this past April 1975 Class Ambassador: Kate Sullivan Lindseth (katelindseth@gmail.com) The Everglades Steering Committee, with Chair Roxi Vadia Morgenstern at the helm, worked with RE’s Women Empowerment Club in the spring to share some history of the Everglades School for Girls with the RE community. The steer- ing committee held a virtual meeting with the club’s students (see photo below) and assisted them with information for their March assembly. Members of the steering committee include Gail Beckham ’70, Mary Beth Norton Durant ’69, Darrow Dutcher Hodges ’63, Nina Hopkins ’66, Karen Flannery James ’72, Kaki Swenson Kahan ’61, Beth Kaiser ’76, Kate Sullivan Lindseth ’75, Bebe Ferrell McClain ’62, Georgia Penn Noble ’74, Judy Golden Powers ’62, Carol Ann Norton Rogers ’65, Lisa Shaw ’77, Laurinda Spear ’68 and Debbie Turner ’76. Students from RE’s Women Empowerment Club met via Zoom with alumnae of the Everglades Steering Committee Students of the Women Empowerment Club modeled Everglades uniforms and jackets at a spring assembly. See photo next page.