During a Russian assault on Hungary in the late 1950s, the family of Dr. Catherine Takacs Witkop, fled just in the nick of time.
Fast forward to the late 1960s, her parents settled in Torrington CT where Catherine was reared. She was a star of the Nutmeg Ballet Company and I remember being wowed by here back then along with many other amazingly talented dancers who I got to spend one summer with (getting my one triple pirouette down but not on pointe like she and others could do in amazing performances as well!) She went off to Yale then got her medical degree from Columbia University.
