Christine Lucerne “Lucy” Vaughters ’74

Christine Lucerne “Lucy” Vaughters ’74 from Edmonds, Washington, drowned in a swimming accident on January 18 while vacationing in Mexico. Lucy transferred to Dartmouth from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She graduated from the College summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a major in English. She earned a master’s in teaching at Cornell University and remained in Ithaca, New York, where she became a much-loved junior high school English teacher. Lucy’s interests turned to health and healing, and in 1984 she earned her B.S. in physician assistant sciences from Hahnemann University, now the Drexel University College of Medicine, in Philadelphia. During this time Lucy met her future husband, John Hanratty. They moved to Ithaca, where Lucy worked as a physician assistant before shifting her primary focus to homeopathy. Lucy practiced homeopathy in Ithaca until 1997, when her family relocated to Edmonds. Lucy was board-certified in classical homeopathy and served on the board of the Council on Homeopathic Certification. She taught preventive healthcare and homeopathy classes to college students and community groups until her death. She founded and directed the Seattle School of Homeopathy, the state’s only licensed school exclusively devoted to homeopathy. Lucy loved to garden, swim, practice yoga, cook healthy meals, spend time with her family, and sing and play music. Lucy is survived by John, brother Ray; daughter Kore and her husband, Matt; son Nicholas; and two young granddaughters.