Reunion Notes
Rosemary Dorr of Clinton Twp. went to
work after graduation as a foster care/
adoption worker for St. Vincent de Paul
child care agency in Detroit. Five years
later she followed her second interest,
writing, and began a journalism career
that included 13 years with a publishing
company and 26 years with The Detroit
News. At the News, she first wrote the
Experience Column, then a consumer
problems column, and, beginning in
1987, the weekly “A Child is Waiting”
column. “Once again, I was visiting foster
homes, interviewing children, working
with agencies, all for the purpose of
finding adoptive families for hard-to-place
children.” Although she retired from her
full-time job in ‘92, she still writes “A
Child is Waiting” each week. Never
involved in athletics as a student,
Rosemary discovered sailing, skiing,
mountain climbing and horseback riding
after graduation. “And ‘chronologically
gifted’ though I am, I still downhill ski (in
eight years I can ski free at Alta!). I still
climb mountains, but not as high. And I
still ride my favorite horse each week,
with fond Siena memories of horseback
riding with Father Dorsey.” Church and
volunteer work, travel, theatre, friendships and family activities “this and more
have filled my time and heart.”
Marie Berthiaume Frappier and her
husband, Bob, a general practitioner,
retired to Las Vegas, NV, after “35 good
years” in Clio and Flint. They return to
Michigan each year, spending summers on
Marquette Island in the Upper Peninsula.
Their three children live in Michigan,
Ohio and Las Vegas, with a total of nine
grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Marie had bypass surgery in ‘85 “but for
the most part it has been a very fulfilling,
satisfying life. Fun, too!”
Estela Cintron Kuptzin of New London,
CT, first taught home economics in
Puerto Rico, then moved with her
husband, Albert, to New York City,
where she substitute taught and worked
as a translator in the Empire State
Building. In 1953, they moved to
Connecticut where Albert worked as a
nuclear designer for Electric Boat. After
her sons were in school, she returned to
education, teaching 4th grade for 21 years
until she retired following Albert’s stroke.
“Even though I missed the classroom, I
never for a moment regretted having to
quit my job and stay home with my
husband for the last two years of his life.
I’m now doing substitute work two or
three days a week. It keeps me busy and
active.” She enjoys visiting her two sons
and three grandchildren and traveling. “In
February, I’m looking forward to a trip to
Israel and I can’t wait to walk through the
land of Jesus.”
Mary Conway Stonehill Mullins (a
three-year member of the Class of ‘48
who graduated in 1954) of Eastpointe has
had “a wonderful, sad, wonderful life.”
Upon her first husband’s death in ’65, she
became a single mother of four girls, ages
5-9. Four years later, she married Stanley
Mullins who had five sons and a daughter
of his own. Then came daughter
Catherine, named after St. Catherine of
Siena. The 11 children (and 13 grands)
now live in Michigan, Illinois, Tennessee,
Alabama and Canada. Through the years,
Mary has been very active in the church,
helping to organize Citizens for Decency
through Law, an anti-pornography
group; working as a Eucharistic Minister
and Lector; joining the Divine Mercy
Group, and making a Cursillo retreat. She
also has visited Rome, Lourdes, Lisieux,
and Knock, Ireland.
Frances Bock Nowakowski and her
husband, Al, live in Avoca “on the same
farm that provided a warm home to 10
children, 23 exchange students, in-laws,
and many friends. Our 40 acres presented
lots of gardening, recreating, camping,
celebrating, 4-H and church work.”
Frances taught school for more than 20
years, beginning when she was asked to
help with an overloaded class at a
Catholic elementary school. Later, she
taught high school mathematics in the
Listening at the reunion lunch: Marie
Berthiaume Frappier ‘48.
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public schools. She also was a 4-H leader
and a regent in her Daughters of Isabella
church organization. Today, she and Al
“spend summers in a house full of people.
Winters find us in Florida, enjoying the
sunshine and another extend