Timeline for Nancy Chalmers Hardenbergh, aka Nancy Collis Hardenbergh, See http://www.hardenbergh.org/people/nch for Memorial web page. aka NCH. Prepared on the occasion of her 80th birthday with an eye toward marking each year, and not perhaps exact accuracy. * - date approximate, ** date within 5 years, *** not true. 1920 26OCT - Nancy Chalmers born 1921 _____ - lived in Scarsdale Rectory 1922 _____ - sister Ruth born 1923 _____ - sister Kathleen born 1924 _____ - shared bedroom with Terry, Nancy's half was chaotic. 1925 _____ - Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln has freed the slaves - Terry 1926 _____ - Miss Fleming's School in the old school house and yard. 1927 _____ - attended Junior Sports good at "broad jump" and high jump. * 1928 _____ - Edgewood school and then Fox Meadow School * 1929 _____ - Virginia Smith Sunday School teacher "NCH has most common sense" 1930 _____ - ran away with friend until the 5:00 whistle blew * 1931 _____ - walking on Rectory ridgepole Grandma would avert eyes.* 1932 _____ - playing socer with the boys who don't care where they kick * 1933 _____ - unisex marble champion of the three elementary schools 1934 _____ - design chosen for the cover a PTA booklet - started getting A's 1935 _____ - going to movies Evelyn Gottschalk (choir?) & Gertrude Burk* 1936 __SEP - start basketball at Scarsdale high school. 1937 _____ - dated John Parker who had a motorcycle. (Mason@Groton) 1938 __MAY - Graduate from Wykam Rise (attended on basketball scholarship 1939 _____ - Runner up in Ladies Doubles (tennis) with Robin 1940 _____ - Planned to spend a year of design school in France, but... 1941 _____ - Graduate from Parson's School of Design, the to FLA 1942 _____ - started year in Florida, ended in the glider factory. 1943 _____ - at glider (piano) factory for a year, should have a Magnum 1944 14FEB - married to Collis Morgan Hardenbergh 1944 5DEC - First child, Chalmers Morgan Hardenbergh born. 1945 _____ - Worked with CMH as butler and maid for Aunt Theresa & Uncle Cecil in Shaftsberry Vermont. 1946 9MAY Nancy Nichols 1947 _____ Build Hardly Lakes house (Bank: "too far from Mpls") 1948 20MAY Mary Lee 1949 _____ polio 1950 1MAY Andrew Collis 1951 _____ Interior Decorator for H&H * 1952 7DEC Helen Reid Hardenbergh 1953 _____ starts working for PTA - for 14 years, most as Program Chair.* 1954 _____ television 1955 _____ 1956 3DEC - Jan Charles Hardenbergh 1957 _____ - golf, lunc, swin, golf, shop, make dinner, play bridge 1958 _____ - Take the road thru Canada on the annual trip to Quogue, LI. 1959 _____ - made Anniversary album for Gramps and Granny. 1960 _____ - switch to QBC from Quantuck (*) 1961 _____ - Paddle Tennis court, first PT tourny west of Mississippi.* 1962 20OCT rip father, Rev. Alan Reid Chalmers (16MAY1886, Princton '08) 1963 _____ finishes tax course (**), "run Democratic machine in Plymouth" 1963 _____ started parapetetics (**) 1964 _____ around this time, wins QFC ladies handicap golf tournament. 1965 6420_____ plays and loses in finals of NWPPTA with Dad 1966 _____ accumulates bridge Master Points (**) 1967 _____ Invites Minneapolis to capture the flag, who's who all come.* 1968 _____ Trip to Planks in Wyoming with Collis & walking in snowstorm.* 1969 _____ Watches Mary Lee and Jan leave for Woodstock; Andrew meets up. 1970 _____ meet Reid & Mary Lee in Italy, museum gaurds on strike. 1974 _____ rip sister Terry 1978 _____ rip cmh3 1979 _____ trip to Italy with Janet Simmons, language camp in Vermont (*) 1980 __JAN First Grandchild Forrester H. Cole 1980 19JUN rip mother, Ruth Nash (b. 26JUL1894), newspaper editor. 1981 _____ Take Jan and Gail to the Ritz in Boston 1982 _____ spent a month in Sienna studying art (*) 1983 _ JAN Second Grandchild Sage H. Cole 1983 _____ Sees a son and a daughter get married. 1984 _____ Treats Family to dinner in a Lochauber's private room (*) 1985 _____ Third Grandchild Cornelis Morgan H. (C5) 1986 _____ Start having Tea with Joanne Von Blon and Sage Cowles. (**) 1987 _____ Twins win World Series, behind home plate for 7th game. 1988 _____ Fourth grandchild - Cadence Aniela H. 1989 _____ Fifth grandchild - Cyrus C Morgan Hardenbergh (C6). 1990 _____ Annual visits to Grapefruit and then Cactus leagues. (*) 1991 _____ Twins win world series for the second time. 1992 _____ Kids send mom to World Series. 1993 _____ Sixth grandchild Chloe (pix) 1994 _____ Helps sponsor Marilee's Bridge Dance (**) 1995 _____ Caddied for Tiger Woods when he won Wimbledon (***) 1996 _____ Carribean World Series with Andrew &... in Santa Domingo 1997 _____ Sells 26 acres to Plymouth for open space at steep discount. 1998 _____ move to Riverview Tower from Wayzata 1999 _____ Avoided Quogue altogether. 2000 _____ Celebrate 80th birthday party. (new computer and DSL) 2001 _____ suffers through a humiliating Viking loss to the Giants. (+ coach wears Bush shirt. end of fandom ) 2002 2003 August - last visit to Wyndwold (house in Quiogue ) 2003 Boxing Day, Sara starts as one of Mom's caretakers 2004 2005 2006.06.24+/- Mom takes us out to Nicolette Island Inn for celebration of Marylee's One River Mississippi 2007 Boxing Day, R.I.P Nancy Chalmer Hardenbergh "You mean you dragged me over here just to meet Nancy Chalmers?" This is actually about Robin, so she says: got perfume instead of football for Xmas from Granpa - started to cry, so they dug under tree to get football. "chose not to study or do homework" - School too crowded, mornings off, fooling around at Crane's farm, NCH would look at the sun and say "it's time to go" Nancy was fun to visit in Minnesota - Kathleen. (**) Hurricane of '38, don't bend down to touch anything or we will shoot you. Miss Fleming "I'm four and a half, but I'm almost five" Your missing sock is under the right side of your bureau. A round of golf in the moring, swim and lunch at the beach, a second round of golf, then shop for the family, cook for the family, bridge after dinner and then continue working on "The Bridge Game" making fun of the H'bergh/Nichols/Dethier overachievers. If we dabble some water in our eyes we'll stay awake. traded dishwashing for doing KCN's math homework with KCN * started to take piano lessons with Arthur Lloyd, stopped * - stop that terrible noise - "I'm having a lesson" 15-OCT-2000, jch, with help from nch, Robin, kcn, cmh4, nnh, mlh, ach*, and Reid!