Last week, the Newton Clinic said farewell to two of its longest-serving nurses, Marcia Rorabaugh and Joan Rusk. After 32 and 24 years of service to the clinic, respectively, Rorabaugh and Rusk shared laughs and memories at a retirement breakfast Thursday morning, Nov. 15.

For Rorabaugh, leaving Newton Clinic has been bittersweet.

“Yesterday was kind of hard,” she said during an interview following the breakfast. “Somebody said it would just be like a vacation at first. It’s just like, it’s over. It is a change. You say you’re ready, and I was ready, but it’ll be different.”