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46 SPRING 2017 CLASS N O T E S S P R I N G 2 0 1 7 Who meant everything to you at TCNJ, part II Our Winter 2017 Up Front column yielded so many great responses that we're running more in this issue. Tara, Megan, and Marianne Inset: 2016: Abigail Gass, Jack Miller, and Joanna Donatiello Megan Baglivio Miller '06 and Marianne Keane Gass '06 Megan, Marianne, and I shared our first college meal together at Eickhoff. We spent countless nights talking until the sun came up, laughing until we cried, and crying until we laughed again. After graduating, we gushed to each other about new loves, stood by each other's sides as we married them, and now get to share the amazing experience of being moms together. I don't know what I would do without these girls! —TARA CICCONE DONATIELLO '06 Eileen Weiss-Wesley '83 and Lisa Diamante Petrino '84 My two roommates and I used to sit in our Wolfe dorm room and, later in our apartment, laugh about what we thought would happen in our post-TSC (yes, TSC — it was 1979) lives. We have shared four marriages, two divorces, seven children, and so far, two grandchildren; the deaths of parents and other loved ones; and getting older ourselves. We purchased a brick for Alumni Grove that reads "True Friends" to honor what we mean to each other. Thank you, TSC! —COLLEEN BOYLE EHRET '83, MOTHER OF CLAIRE EHRET '20 Shannon Paster McGuire '04 I met Shannon in 2003 — we were both community advisors — and I knew instantly that she could turn any situation into a positive one. In 2008, she suffered a traumatic brain injury in a horrendous car accident that left her unable to work. Still, Shannon took her upbeat self and persevered through years of TBI rehabilitation. She found love, married, and had two children. When her son was recently diagnosed with epilepsy, she and her husband Bryan even turned this into an opportunity to raise awareness of the disease. I am proud to call Shannon a friend and true hero. —HILA BERGER '04 Shannon and Hila Linda Dunn Gallup, Kathie Wilk Lloyd '62, Pat Felter Luttinen '62, the late Carol Pazin '62, and Janet Tampier Pecci '62 The six of us met the first week of freshman year in September 1958, which makes our friendship nearly six decades long. Our time together is limited and precious, so we try to gather every September. We don't look a lot like we did in 1958, but underneath we have changed very little. And our friendship is even more important now than it was then. —JUDY BRAUND CAIN '62 Carol, Judy, Linda, Pat, Janet, and Kathie Eileen, Colleen, and Lisa

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