Celebrated Gardner Speaks To Fellow St Margaret Alumnae  

Newtown resident Sydney Webber Eddison, a 1950 graduate of St Margaret-McTernan in Waterbury, was recently the featured speaker for a gardening lecture for the school’s alumnae. Ms Eddison, a prolific writer and well-known gardener, presented, “The Rainbow Contained — Experimenting with Color in Containers.” Ms Eddison has also been featured in magazines and on television. She received the Connecticut Horticultural Society’s Gustav A.L. Melquist Award in 2002.

Alumnae on the guest list included George Ann Good Bardenheier ‘63, Nancy H. Camp ‘49, Jacqueline Chase Cassidy ‘43, Heston Clapp ‘67, Janet Vail Day ‘57, Marjorie Lewis Good ‘37, Martha Somers Henderson ‘62, Susan Hessel ‘59, Anne Abbott Hobson ‘57, Ann Hinman Lilley ‘47, Anne Lawlor Madden ‘43, Penny Heaven Mahar ‘57, Ellen O’Neil McCormick ‘63, N. Terry Munger ‘46, Brenda Shatas Naviaux ‘57, Ally Adams O’Connor ‘61, Rosalie Russell Renfrew ‘57, Dorothy M. Reymond ‘42, Judith Kellogg Rowley ‘53, Mrs. Sheree Ruck, Susan Walzer Shiffres ‘65, Margaret D. Smith ‘69, Barbara Cummings Stacks ‘63, Gloria Weyand Standard ‘42, Faith Kazanijian Steward ‘60, Holly Moeckel Taylor ‘61, Thyrza Whittemore ‘69, and Mary Chittenden Zonino ‘43.