A clinician, public speaker, workshop coordinator, and consultant to various hospitals and agencies, Anita Spencer MA ’81 was especially proud of her 1996 book Crisis of Spirit: Our Desperate Search for Integrity. She led a grief support group, and was involved in the Tyngtown Club in Wilton and the GoldLEAF senior college in Farmington. Among her many hobbies, she had a special love for birds and spent many hours in her backyard bird-watching and tending her garden. Anita died Nov. 19, 2022.