[Oxford63] Fwd: Courtney Donnell

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Lovely

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 10:52 AM <oxford63 at mailman.cyber-community.com>
wrote:

> Thank you for sharing.
>
> Susan Powell Snow
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> From: oxford63 <oxford63 at mailman.cyber-community.com>
> To: Oxford School Class <Oxford63 at cyber-community.com>
> Sent: Fri, Oct 6, 2017 10:42 am
> Subject: [Oxford63] Fwd: Courtney Donnell
>
> This was written by an old friend of mine from West Hartford: Karin
> Rosenthal. She is a well known fine art photographer (
> http://www.krosenthal.com/photography.html) *
>
> Karin wrote this for an obit being put together by a Wellesley classmate
> and whenever I see that, I will send it on (I contributed a story about the
> scholarship we set up for her)
>
> Rena
>
> *it was Karin's mother- also a photographer-who my mother hired to do the
> family photos that accompanied each birth announcement as my siblings were
> born
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> Courtney was my first friend ever.  I could not have chosen better.
> Inherently true, kind, intelligent and gracious, Courtney was the perfect
> best friend.  We met when we were 5 and in kindergarten and were great
> friends all through elementary school.  My first overnight away from home
> was at her house.  Our friendship renewed when we were both at Wellesley
> and then grew again many years after graduation when I heard her lecture at
> the Metropolitan Museum.  She was as lovely and fine a human being as one
> could imagine, beautiful inside and out.  Everyone I know remembers her
> that way, but as an early childhood friend I got a rare perspective on a
> more mischievous side of her.  I remember with a smile some of our
> naughtier rite of passage exploits, pouring over the National Geographic
> magazines in the basement of my house, and the code words we assigned to
> stand for body parts, so we could share private laughs when certain
> ordinary words were spoken in class.  I will always cherish Courtney in my
> memory.
>
> Here’s the photo I took of Courtney at 6 (in 1951) with my brand new box
> camera, possibly the very first photograph I ever took.  She’s standing
> with our first-grade teacher and elementary school principal at Beach Park
> School.
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