Sucker for stories about older alums

At Smith I worked for the Alumnae Association, which included being a student representative at a table during volunteer dinners and luncheons. Basically, chat with the old ladies while they ate and talk about life on campus now. Most students tended to gravitate towards the younger alumnae class tables, but I always sought out the oldest classes in attendance. It took only one lunch experience to find out that not only did these wonderful ladies have interesting stories and worldly insight, they were by far the most fun ladies in the room*! So when I saw this news bit come through my email I just had to post it.

Tugboat Lucy gives lessons in boating, fear

HAINES -- For the 400-mile trip down the Inside Passage from Haines to Ketchikan in a 32-foot well-used Nordic tug, my captain wore canvas Carhartt work pants, a T-shirt with "Uff'Da" printed on the front (that's Norwegian for "darn it" and "oh well"), a porkpie hat and a pair of suede sneakers.

She has two pair in case one gets wet, because she doesn't like to wear rubber boots.

"She" is 82-year-old Lucy Harrell. We are heading south to pick up her friend Pat, 78, for their summer ladies-only "ancient mariner" cruise around Prince of Wales Island.

Although she dresses like a hired handyman, Lucy has manners befitting a 1946 graduate of Smith College in Massachusetts.
Read the rest here.

Happy Monday All!
Tiffany

** one of many examples to prove this is
the class of 1933 asked if i would please buy them some whiskey. when i said i was not yet 21, they began to discus whether sending me with a note or calling pretending to be my grandmother would get me past the clerk