Five Wellesley Freshmen and a Jo's Remarkable Story

This photo is from Webb House at Wellesley College in 1946. The five freshmen are Harriet Cramton, wife of Roger Cramton, Mollie Kramer Hughes, wife of 'Turk' Hughes, Nicole De Messiere, Joanna Rogers Macy, and Mitzi Shfrin. Mollie's music brought us together. She is playing a guitar in the photo. Forever friends, Nicole and Joanna, were high honor students. "Jo" was head of the Chapel and dismayed the Bible department. When she turned to Buddhism (an excellent choice), where she was a renowned scholar giving workshops the world over. She hiked into and out of Tibet on her own. Has visited with the Dali Loma. With the Peace Corps in India, she and her husband Fran helped establish a community for the Tibetans fleeing from the Chinese.
I remember going to her Buddhist temple in Washington, DC, and enjoying it very much, except there was too much incense. Then, a few years later, I went skiing with her son at a resort in New Hampshire. We arrive to three inches of freezing rain on December 31st. No worries, we were staying with a Russian friend of Jo's who had a cabin in the woods with an outdoor sauna. We started drinking vodka at 4pm and had the best New Year's Eve party ever. We danced all night. We took nude sauna baths and slid on the ice naked. What a way to bring in the New Year. The next day, we slept.