After leaving our graduating class I didn't see Ruth again until our 50th reunion in Sea Cliff in 2011, although I had interviewed her earlier for the school and community history (Look Back and Cheer). I said then in her profile, "Was she ever the 'timid, tall and gawky" teenager she once thought herself? Underlying her physical and quiet personal grace (the way many saw her then and see her now) "Ruthie" has always been invisibly rugged. . . . "I had to be a fighter. I had two brothers." That training stood her in good stead when she confronted a local bully who enjoyed teasing and picking on other kids. 'In 6th grade at St. Boniface I decked _________ _________ __________." [I leave his name out since he went on to serve honorably in the US Navy and is a gentle man who loves his family and his pets.] In our interview Ruth said her children were the "best magic in life that has ever happened to me, and they continue to velvetize my life." I suspect her children might say something similar of Ruth, and in that she lives on.

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