When she is not writing, Hannah enjoys hiking and swimming, cooking and baking, as well as embarking on other adventures with her two daughters, Alice (12) and Kathryn (15) who is a member of the Class of 2022 at Miss Hall’s. She is presently at work on a memoir.

 

Edie Stetson Yovu '67 is a Craniosacral Therapist, Educator, and Spiritual Adventurer.

Edie Yovu has a passion for learning, discovery, and truth. With an interest in transformational educational models since college, she was a co-founder (1983) and board member of the Green Mountain Waldorf School, and later, as a member of their special education team developed a creative and collaborative approach to working with children with special needs. Edie has had a craniosacral practice since 1992.

Nancy Ault is the new Miss Hall's Board President. Nancy is a past board member and board President of the CLC YMCA in Damariscotta, where she has taught women’s self-defense and karate for the YMCA and community organizations for several years. Additionally, she served several years as a board member and clerk of the Y Alliance Board serving all the Y’s in Maine. Nancy has a fifth-degree black belt in karate.

 

Ellen’s keen sense of discipline, determination, and delightfully different perspective led her career down many groundbreaking paths. Her appointment in 1989 to be the first woman Judge to sit on the Superior Court bench in the state of Vermont was soon followed by the honor of serving as President of the Vermont Bar Association (1991-92). As an Adjunct Professor at Vermont Law School, Ellen established the curriculum for the teaching of Family Law (1986-88) and has been a pioneer in launching the Family Court system in the state of Vermont.

 

Beginning with a four-year commitment as a law clerk to Vermont Superior Court Judges in 1975, Ellen was admitted to the Vermont Bar and to Federal Practice in 1979. Following this, and while she maintained a private practice, Ellen also served three terms as elected Probate Judge, chaired the committee which wrote the Rules of Probate Procedure (1985-89), and was Commissioner of the Governor’s Commission on Women (1982-85). She is currently serving on the Advisory Committee to the Supreme Court regarding Vermont Rules of Family Court Procedures and is a member of the National Association of Women Judges.

 

In 1961, after receiving New York University’s Founder’s Day Award, an honor bestowed on the highest academic performers in the graduating class, Ellen married the Reverend William S. Maloney and began

family life in the Bronx, New York. Here she used her multiplicity of talents to further compelling social, political, and educational causes. During this time, she also earned a Master’s Degree in Education and History, taught in the New York City school system, and was the founder and Executive Director of The Bronx River School.

 

Sarah Hitchcock Yerkes '36 - Sculptor/Poet

A graduate of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (and an MHS Alumna), Sarah Yerkes had had decades-long careers: first as a landscape architect using brick and stone; then as a sculptor creating abstract works in wood and steel, and in her later years, papier-mache.

At 101, Yerkes recently published her first book of poetry.

 

 

Marian Phelps Pawlick ’44 of Lake Bluff, Illinois, the 2019 MHS Distinguished Alumna Award honoree, upholds the ideals that Miss Hall's School represents, and has exhibited outstanding achievement, contributing to her community and to her field. Marian’s cousin Olivia Dunaway ’43 preceded her at MHS by one year and her daughter Kathy Greeley graduated from MHS in 1977. Marian is a past Alumnae Council member and a member of the MHS Every Year Club, giving every year for at least the last 40 years.

Professionally, she was a travel writer and her “beat” was scuba during the 1970s. She is a major art collector and philanthropist, deeply involved in the visual arts, music, and environmental organizations. She has served on the boards of the Shedd Aquarium, Art Institute of Chicago, the Ravinia Festival, and Vassar College, her other alma mater, where she is now an Emeritus Trustee. She is a founding member of the Deer Path Art League. In 2018, she was named a Local Legend by the History Center Lake Forest-Lake Bluff.

From her 2014 Class Note: “I was privileged to be at the 900th year celebration of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris one weekend, and then another weekend on the West Coast to witness the release of rehabilitated seal pups into the ocean. Life is good, full, and joyful. Miss Hall's gave me the basic three R's to send me to college and then onto a rich life."

Kathleen (Katie) Sagarin is a published scientist and Ph.D. Candidate in Biology at Wesleyan University. Her initial Ph.D. work was on characterizing the development of the little-studied posterior hypaxial muscle, whose mode of development appears to be intermediate between axial and appendicular. She is currently exploring muscle morphogenesis and patterning. She is primarily interested in how understanding development informs our view of evolution.

As an undergraduate student, Katie assisted paleontological and developmental research in Dr. Larsson's lab at McGill University. Katie received her Master of Science degree from John Carroll University in 2016, where she studied cranial ossification heterochrony among amniotes with a focus on turtles.

Yiyan has been an educator for over twenty years. She has been active in Chinese language, culture, and art education and programming throughout her career with museums and institutions, and currently holds a consulting position at Newton Country Day School in Newton, Massachusetts.

Additionally, Yiyan has been a long-term real estate broker at Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage for fifteen years. She also has a deep commitment to her Chinese heritage. Yiyan travels frequently, and she has been connecting with MHS international families and alumnae continuously.

Yiyan was the first Miss Hall’s School student from mainland China. She has a B.A. in Fine Arts from St. Anselm College. In her spare time, she supports traditional arts and crafts. She also has a passion for Nantucket basketry weaving.