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University of
Fall/Winter 2021
Class Notes
SPECIAL EDITIONDear Mary Washington Alumni, Class Notes
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and the benches along Campus Walk are again occupied by students catching up with
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friends. Virginia and Willard Hall renovation projects are complete; both now have
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modern amenities while prominently displaying elements of their history. The Monroe
Fountain has been refurbished and begs for passersby to sit, take a break, and enjoy
the fall weather. Soon, we will reopen Seacobeck Hall as the home of the College of No Class Agent
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While we have many things to celebrate, we also face the lingering effects of the
pandemic. Higher costs for products, supply chain issues, and limited resources 1941
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Marjorie Storms Reddoch called to say
she’s in assisted living in Tarpon Springs,
Many of you have enjoyed receiving the University of Mary Washington Magazine Florida, and remembers her Mary
over the years. The magazine has shared alumni and faculty accomplishments, Washington days fondly. She recalled
happenings on campus, and updates from classmates. Unfortunately, production and getting an A in a mural class for painting
mailing costs continue to increase at a time when University funds are stretched thin, the New Jersey state seal in Monroe
Hall, and she also remembered hallmate
forcing us to make difficult decisions regarding the future of the magazine. Hildy Parks Cohen, who had roles on
Broadway and in TV and movies but
To preserve resources, we are suspending production of the magazine. This decision passed away in 2004. Marjorie married
did not come lightly, but we feel it is necessary. Should circumstances change, we will a Marine she met during her Mary
reevaluate the possibility of an alumni publication. Washington years, and she and Ruskin
Reddoch had 73 years together before
A key element of the UMW Magazine has been Class Notes. More than 70 class his death in 2018 at age 99. He was a
agents representing eight decades of Mary Washington graduates graciously take the teacher and coach, and she ran an art
school for 30 years. Marjorie has three
time to solicit, collect, and compile updates to include in the magazine. We realize the daughters, 12 grandchildren, and 18
importance of these updates in keeping classmates connected with one another, and great-grandchildren.
we pledge to find an effective way to publish and deliver Class Notes going forward.
Ruth Smith Stanley passed away June
In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this fall/winter 2021 edition of Class Notes. 26, 2021. At Mary Washington, Ruth
majored in business and worked for
I wish you a safe and happy holiday season. the radio station. She married the Rev.
Samuel A. Stanley Jr. and enjoyed the
duties of a pastor’s wife from 1946
to 1990, including playing the organ,
singing in the choir, participating in
Mark Thaden ’02
Executive Director of Alumni Relationswomen’s groups, and hosting open
houses and Christmas parties for 1950 Suzanne Branner Kessler recently
returned from a lovely visit to Cary
congregations. She is survived by Marcy Weatherly Morris and Charlotte, North Carolina, and
children, grandchildren, and great- classnotes@umw.edu Charleston, South Carolina. The trip was
grandchildren including alumnae It has certainly been an interesting year, enhanced by the driver, her son, in an
Deb Stanley Leap ’72 and Deb’s but we continue to figure things out as eye-catching Porsche.
daughter Amy Leap Miller ’12. we go. In August, Juney Morris and I, Church is an important part of life for
Marcy Weatherly Morris, celebrated our Katherine Wells Ball of Tullahoma,
71st wedding anniversary by sharing
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Tennessee. One son lives nearby, and the
Mission BBQ long-distance with family other has moved to Atlanta.
Patricia Mathewson Spring and friends. We saw one of our great-
granddaughters off to Embry-Riddle Phyllis “Butch” Farmer Shaffer lives at
classnotes@umw.edu a Lutheran retirement community in
Aeronautical University in Daytona,
Florida. Two of our great-grandsons Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. She has
1947 attend Mary Washington. Another a lovely view of the lake, enjoys trips to
great-granddaughter is considering Charleston, and was looking forward to a
Betty Moore Drewry Bamman attending our alma mater next year. birthday celebration at the Isle of Palms.
classnotes@umw.edu It truly warms our hearts to see each Claire Sindlinger DeGroot tends her
of them find their place in this world, beautiful gardens without the help of
wherever that may be. We hope you and
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husband Ward, who took a tumble and
yours are doing well. Would love to hear fractured some ribs. She misses her
No Class Agent from you. Please share your news. summer New Jersey trips.
classnotes@umw.edu A call to Barbara Campbell at her
Charlotte Dean Smith Hill was sorry to
read in the spring/summer issue of this
1951 retirement home in Asheville, North
Carolina, revealed a pleasant surprise.
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magazine that Lois Saunier Hornsby had classnotes@umw.edu received a master’s degree at the
passed away. Charlotte remembered that
University of Virginia and taught in both
Lois was an inspirational class president
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Lynchburg and Amherst, Virginia. The
and, later, a leader in her community of surprise came when she asked the name
Williamsburg, Virginia. of my retirement place in Richmond, and
Rita Morgan Stone
rita.stone7@aol.com I learned that Barbara’s sister and her
1949 Maxine Haley Hazelgrove had the most
spectacular 90th birthday celebration.
husband live here at Lakewood. Dick and
Jane Boaz are among my favorite friends.
No Class Agent A happy birthday wish appeared on the Shirley King Buchanan was recuperating
classnotes@umw.edu theater marquee in Ashland, Virginia, from a hospital stay for a leg circulatory
Anne McCaskill Libis and husband and she received 90-plus birthday cards! problem, but fortunately has a daughter
Claude live in the retirement community Now that’s significant recognition. and son-in-law next door. She maintains
her reputation as a master gardener and
of Glen Meadows, near Towson, Ann Staylor Johnson of Suffolk, Virginia, master naturalist.
Maryland. They were happy to resume has lived in the same house since 1963. A
dining with fellow residents starting July son nearby and a daughter in Chesapeake Susan Hutcheson Jurgens is recovering
4, 2021, after vaccinations allowed for stay connected. She retired from a career from a knee replacement that did not
loosening of pandemic-related gathering in education and is now active in her go as well as she had hoped. She enjoys
restrictions. She noted that residents still church. But the impressive news is that listening to cassettes of the delightful
wear masks when they shop or socialize Ann mows her own lawn, a four-hour piano performances of a classmate of
outside of the community. job that she smartly spreads throughout ours, the late Louise Sakakini Summs.
the week. Gwen Amory Cumming was temporarily
Anne was excited that Fran Houston Layton
Patricia Moran Machelor of Tucson, living at Spring Arbor in Williamsburg,
moved into the apartment next door.
Arizona, enjoys living next door to a son, Virginia, recuperating from a hospital
Both remembered 1947, when they lived stay. She eagerly anticipated a move to
one of her seven children. We spoke only
next door to each other in Virginia Hall. the Chesapeake, where she will be with
briefly because she needed to return to a
Fran’s sister, Janet, also moved to Glen cribbage game she was winning. many of her Hampton friends.
Meadows.
Phyllis Webb Pegram and her husband Maryanne Heatwole Cox enjoys family,
Anne wrote, “Fran and Janet call me had just celebrated a special 65th bridge, cooking, and her many crafts.
‘Miami,’ which was my nickname at wedding anniversary and BIG birthdays. She was looking forward to our 70th
MWC. I played the trombone when I She has an active life enhanced by Reunion in 2022.
came to college and played in the band children and grands who live near her in Ginny Orkney Philbrick had some happy
and dance band under Mr. Faulkner. Bassett, Virginia. family news. After pandemic-related
Mrs. Faulkner chaperoned us when the postponements, her granddaughter was
Marie “Weege” Attianese Harlow enjoys
dance band traveled. We had to have life at a nice retirement community in getting married. This is the William &
a nickname to put on our dance band Bridgeport, Connecticut. She enjoys Mary granddaughter with a master’s
stands.” bridge, book clubs, and five grandchildren. degree in history and museum studies
Anne mentioned that Fran’s husband, from the University of Delaware.
Carolyn Arrington Smith celebrated
Roland, had been a classmate of Anne’s a birthday in July. She enjoys living in Selma Friedman Fink was spending two
husband, Claude, and the couples were Charlottesville, Virginia, and having a weeks with Road Scholar and friends
close friends. Roland passed away in 2009. sister nearby. at beautiful Chatauqua, near Buffalo.
UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON CLASS NOTES FALL/WINTER 2021 1Selma’s sculpture studio opened again Both class agents, Nancy Root Skinner and lived in Ohio and California. They
after 13 months, and she will resume and Mary Ann Dorsey Judy, have had have two sons and a grandson in Vermont
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work in September. bad falls and were recovering slowly. I, and a daughter in Michigan.
Mary Ann, hope to get to Nantucket
Anne Hart Martin lives in Dwight, Sally Watson Castle and her cat live
Illinois. She misses her trips to the city for to meet our new great-granddaughter,
in a villa apartment at a Gladwyne,
the Chicago Symphony, the Art Institute, Thea, who is visiting from Germany
with her mother. Pennsylvania, retirement community. Her
the Lyric Opera, and favorite restaurants. son lives in California, a daughter is in
Her saving grace is to be in the woods, to Marcia Craddock Frank keeps in touch Sun Valley, Idaho, and another daughter
have a computer with a subscription to with Laura “Ellie” Hathaway Deane, lives in Sally’s house. Eight grandchildren
MHz for foreign mysteries (especially the who lives in Alabama. Sadly, Marcia liven up her life.
French ones), and to have a friend who lost her husband in 2020, two days after
supplies her with new books. A son in his 92nd birthday. He had been at home Had a great time talking with
New Zealand and another at the medical in hospice care after many falls. He Ann Harding Lorick down in
center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was able to welcome their first great- Morristown, Tennessee. (The late
provide interesting pandemic views. grandson and first great-granddaughter. Buttons Petro Molitor came from
Joyce Long Moore had just returned Marcia volunteered at the Audubon Zoo there, and I had the good fortune of
from a joyous week at Smith Mountain in Louisiana for 38 years, working with spending two weeks there with the
Lake with daughter and family – four orangutans. She got her vaccine but said Petro family before summer school one
generations ages 6 to 91. Joyce has stayed there were very few cases in her area of year. Mr. Petro took us to Cherokee and
home, attended Zoom church services, Louisiana. Gatlinburg, and we had a wonderful
and enjoyed genealogy research. Barbara “Bobbie” Scott Trenis time. Catherine Dick Ray ’56 also came
is thrilled that daughter Catherine from there.) Ann has three children, and
Mary Lou Finney Boyd is selling her her daughter has a catering service and
home and moving to Arnold, Maryland, Trenis Allis ’75 is a published author
and illustrator. Cathy’s children’s keeps her well-fed. Six grandchildren and
to join her daughter and son-in-law, who five greats live mostly around Morristown,
have a new home with a mother-in-law book, Leopold & Martha, follows
the adventures of a pair of Colorado with one in Connecticut. Ann’s husband
suite. Sounds like a smart move for all was in the newspaper business, and Ann
concerned. woodpeckers as they nest and rear their
offspring. wrote a cookbook. After owning a liquor
As I have noted before, one of the store, they retired.
bonuses of moving to Richmond I had a great chat with Ralette King
from Alexandria was seeing more of
my Mary Washington roommate
1955 Shinneman down in Longview, Texas,
not too far from where my son lives in
Betty Montgomery Handy. Betty and Roberta Linn Miller
toromiller@embarqmail.com Alba, Texas. She entered MWC in ’51,
I, Rita Morgan Stone, developed a plan
then transferred to Southern Methodist,
when visiting was not advised during It is July again as I write this, and after graduated in elementary education, and
the pandemic. Occasionally around 5 some very hot days we are having a cool taught school for three years. She and
or 6 o’clock, we had a happy hour. We spell. The beautiful phlox are blooming her husband of 60 years have a daughter,
prepared our cocktails, and Ma Bell and my perky cardinal has brought three two sons, six grandchildren, and four
connected us for a virtual visit. females to eat breakfast. I believe that greats. They have a girl and two boys,
Sad news came from Jennifer Kilgour Nix ’80, they are this year’s crop of kids. Ralphie six grandchildren, and four greats. She
telling of the loss of her mother, Betty the springer spaniel will be 2 next week, and her husband have been married 60
Litton Kilgour. Betty, Jennifer, and I and he keeps busy chasing squirrels and years. They live about 60 miles from
were all three English majors and had chipmunks. Shreveport, where my good friend and
careers in education. sophomore roommate Barbara Dean
I have had many delightful conversations
I recently had the pleasure of listening with classmates and have met lots of Smith Kronenberg lives.
online to President Paino as he delivered new friends who were members of the Patricia Seitz Hartel of Wayne,
his opening school address to faculty and class at one time. I called many but with Pennsylvania, graduated from the
staff. It was a speech of gratitude for their no results since people are not sure they University of North Carolina at Chapel
hard work and dedication during the past want to answer the phone. Hill after her time at MWC. She worked
school year. for TV Guide for several years, then had
I received an email from Betsy Land Johnson,
A fact that may be of interest to alums is who spent her senior year in Charlottesville a job at the Finnish embassy. She has
that total gifts and pledges amounted to at the U.Va. hospital and earned a degree three boys and a girl. The children are
$8,243,399, surpassing expectations. living in Atlanta, Los Angeles, one near
in medical technology. She has spent
Patricia, and one in Oklahoma, teaching
many years working in that field, retiring
at the University of Oklahoma.
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many times and then returning part time.
She has always enjoyed her job, which Before I forget it, I want to mention
Betsy Dickinson Surles made it less like work. Living in Green that I, Roberta Linn Miller, will be a
surles@infionline.net Bay, Wisconsin, for the past 49 years great-grandmother in January of 2022.
has made her a Packers fan. She has four My grandson, Alan, visits me each
children and eight grandchildren. Wednesday, and we talk about our week.
1954 On to Poughkeepsie, New York, and
He turned 30 on July 5 and learned about
the baby. We were to find out Sept. 4 at a
Mary Ann Dorsey Judy Virginia Marco Hancock, who spent two
family party whether a daughter or son
ack915@gmail.com years at MWC before graduating from
was expected.
U.Va. with a bachelor’s degree in nursing.
Nancy Root Skinner She worked in public health and with In my mail were two letters, one filled
nan1367@comcast.net children with disabilities, then married with joy and one sad.
2 UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON CLASS NOTES FALL/WINTER 2021One from Ann Dunaway Criswell Washington. “We were married for 62 I hope you will write me and tell me
thanked me for encouraging her in years and did everything together. I what you are thinking and doing. Please
the story about her mother and the flu taught second grade for 30 years. Jackie be in touch!
epidemic of 1918 (the closing story in was a biology teacher, vice principal,
the last issue of the Mary Washington and minister. For 30 years, from March
Magazine). until September, we were involved in
the ministry in Colorado. We also had
1960
The other letter was from our good Karen Larsen Nelson
friend Ann Strickler Doumas, telling me time to backpack and climb Colorado’s karenlarsennelson60@gmail.com
that Sally Hanger Moravitz had passed beautiful mountains together.”
away. I always think of her as Sally Fan. The Class of 1960 has gotten very active
Their daughter, Leslie, lives in Austin, after being released from lockdown for
She requested that any donations in her Texas, six hours from Inga. Leslie’s two
memory go to the Friends of Theatre at COVID-19.
children live in Houston. Inga is in good
Mary Washington. It was just in the last health, walks an hour each day, reads, Janet Hook Foley had a pacemaker put in
issue of the magazine that I reported that quilts, and is active in her church. She and is back to driving and running three
she had been honored by the Smithsonian. wrote “I have fond memories of my years miles a day. She is in the local historical
Lee, the daughter of Jean Brumback and friends at MWC.” society and the women’s club. She wrote
Hickman, returned my call that I had a newspaper column for 20 years until
Mary Massey is grateful to have survived the paper went digital.
made to Reno, to tell me Jean had passed the pandemic shutdown and amazed to
away in March. Jean was my roommate Anne Butler Hyde’s husband of 60 years,
learn how resilient most of us are. “We
in the home-management house and Thomas Hyde, passed away in December.
had to be creative, determined, patient,
my maid of honor when Tom and I got She is fortunate to have family and
and positive,” she wrote. She has lived
married. She was originally from Luray, friends around her.
Virginia. She was a good friend. at a retirement community in Silver
Spring, Maryland, since November Coleman McPherson Chambliss was
If you prefer not to talk to by phone, send 2019. Her community has taken care of moving to a retirement community and
an email with your news, or a letter. I residents with meals delivered to their was glad she wouldn’t be alone anymore.
would appreciate hearing from you. doors, an abundance of TV and print
entertainment, online classes, and more. Sandy Poole and Barb relocated from
Maryland to Indiana when Barb received
1956 Mary’s small dog is almost 14 and has
arthritis, but Mary takes her for swim
a call from a liberal Episcopal church
that flies the rainbow flag.
Ann Chilton Power and laser therapy, and they walk on
anncpower1@gmail.com her community’s campus and in nearby Gaye Roberts Olsen had a mild case of
parks. COVID-19, which left her on inhalers.
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She still got the vaccine. She’s able to ride
I have stayed in continual touch with two around the grounds of her facility and
of my roommates, Sandra Quarles Cockrell stay in contact with friends and family.
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and Nikki Forchas Alexiou. Five years
classnotes@umw.edu Terry Eagles Dow tries to walk a couple
ago my pooch, Fabio, and I took a three-
month road trip from Tucson, Arizona, of miles a day. During the lockdown
1958 and I spent deliriously delightful, joy-
filled time with both Sandra and Nikki.
she Zoomed with friends and taught
herself how to crochet, cross-stitch, and
Susannah Godlove needlepoint. She explores new recipes
sgodlove5465@gmail.com Nikki lives in South Florida. Her using Oregon’s fresh produce.
husband, Lou, was living at the time, and
the three of us had a marvelous, laugh- In October 2020, Nancy Carruthers
1959 filled few days together. Lou passed
away three years ago. Nikki is healthy
Meeker lost her husband of 60 years
after a brief illness. She still loves Estero,
beth@beth-cole.com and active, and we have long phone Florida, but was thinking about moving
conversations. near her daughter and son in southern
Whenever I received the alumnae
news, I hustled to the “1959” section California so she wouldn’t be alone.
Sandy lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.
where Eddie – Edna Gooch Trudeau – On that trip, I met her daughter and Jody Campbell Close, who recently
connected me so ably to those significant beautiful granddaughter. Sandy and retired as co-class agent, is having her
years that I spent in Fredericksburg with I visited the Dali Museum, had meals home restored after water pipes in the
all of you readers. For 62 years, Eddie together, schmoozed in her gorgeous floor broke. She has escaped COVID in
shared the good, the bad, the ugly, and backyard that has her obviously loving all its various forms so far, is vaccinated,
the beautiful of the people and the school attention, and reminisced. Sandy was a and is champing at the bit to travel to
that meant so much to me. So, when I drama major in college and carried that exotic climes. She is still very involved her
read that she was retiring from this, I into an outstanding teaching career, genealogy research.
knew that I wanted to thank her. which I know inspired hundreds of kids Penny Engle Burkhardt gives a big
I also knew that I wanted our class to have at just the right time. shoutout to Jody for all the time and
a representative so I, Beth Shochat Cole, I retired in 2004 as president and CEO effort she spent helping Penny research
volunteered to do the job. Thank you, of the National Women’s Business her family tree. Penny traveled to College
Eddie, and hello to you readers. Center. I learned to relax through a Station, Texas, to see her granddaughter
Inga Kuun Barrett wrote that she is 83 renewed interest in yoga training. I receive a diploma from Texas A&M. A
and lives alone in a senior apartment became a certified yoga teacher six years week later, family including 5-year-old
since she lost husband Jackie Barrett ago, and now I teach one or two yoga twins came to visit. With the help of her
to COVID on Jan. 30. Inga met Jackie classes a week over Zoom. Who would husband, Penny managed to get down on
– her Marine – one summer at Mary have thought? the floor to play with them!
UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON CLASS NOTES FALL/WINTER 2021 3Jane Denslow McCrohan did Zoom yoga would have been our 60th reunion, and Graham Walker Burns now has five
classes but went back to the gym to try hopefully we can celebrate together in of her seven children living near her in
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a live class. After one in-person class 2022. Chattanooga. She still works as a Realtor
she decided she was safer doing them at but finds it challenging because the
As many of you know, Renee sold her
home. inventory is low. She welcomes visitors.
house in Los Angeles and purchased one
Judy Davidson Creasy was planning a in Palm Desert, California. It’s in a gated After being cooped up at home in San
trip to Mammoth Lakes, California, to community, Sun City, with clubhouses, Diego and playing bridge online for a
visit her son and his family and finally restaurants, gyms and trainers, and many year, Janie Riles went to Fort Lauderdale,
exchange hugs and kisses. social gatherings. She has friends there Florida, in March. She visited her brother
who were with her in the city attorney’s in Greenwich, Connecticut, and spent a
Pat Garvin Dyke and John are pushing week in Exuma, Bahamas, with a San
office, and friends nearby in Rancho
around walkers and carrying on her Diego friend.
Mirage and Cathedral Cove. She rescued a
small eBay business.
Shih Tzu mix – 6 years old, small, and fat! Dee Doran Cairns and Doug live in
Gail Mooney Grobe loved her birthday Montgomery, Alabama, and were sad
Our beloved previous class agent,
card reminding her that she was turning that their dog died. They celebrated the
Connie Booth Logothetis, wrote that
83. end of COVID isolation with their shots
she’s been dealing with health issues
Bonnie Davis Hall traveled to New Jersey and has started dialysis. The pandemic and a river cruise on the Mississippi.
to visit Rose Bennett Gilbert, whom she also restricted her activity. She wrote, Polly Updegraff Champ let us know
had not seen since the 50th reunion. “My back and right hip are still painful, of the loss of her husband of 53 years,
Darrell and I, Karen Larsen Nelson, but I think I still have my mind!” She’s Daniel P. Champ, on May 21. He was
took the little trailer to Las Vegas to read, watched TV, done PT, taken short 95. Daniel’s daughter, Theresa, and
visit our daughter’s family, celebrate walks, and enjoyed lots of naps. Her Polly were by his side. Polly wrote that
the first birthday of our youngest beloved dog, Fiona, died at age 17 in Dan had faced health issues and that his
great-granddaughter, and see the other June 2020, just before Connie went into quality of life had declined. His sister,
five greats, three granddaughters, and the hospital. Angela, also helped Dan and supported
daughter. I was in PT in April and May Polly and Theresa through Dan’s last
Connie added that she had enjoyed being
and again in August to finish the session. weeks. Polly is also recovering from a
one of the class agents since graduation
heart blockage and stent placement. She
I took summer off, commuted to our and thanked Renee and Lynne for taking
was attending a cardiac rehab program.
trailer in the mountains each week, and over her group. And my response to
Polly wrote, “Needless to say I’m
returned to help with our three weekend Connie: We all love you, and you are a
physically and emotionally exhausted.”
church services at assisted living very tough act to follow!
facilities. Marcy Pitkin took a two-week train trip
Debbie Finney Wylie has been busy from Philadelphia to Chicago, then to
Bayla Goldberg Manis has also been in with her local food pantry. She traveled Portland, Oregon, and finally to Santa
PT, relearning to walk distances. to Georgia for a granddaughter’s Barbara.
Janet Garriss Lewis had been in PT graduation from the University of
Georgia and to Missouri for another Clara Sue Durden Ashley wrote that
and was continuing her home exercise
granddaughter’s graduation from Central husband Clarence is in declining health
program.
Missouri University. She missed two and can’t be home alone anymore. But
Sally Brown VanDuyne flew to Vermont other grandchildren’s college graduations she had good news, too. Grandson Zach
in April for a visit with her son. She last year. has completed his ROTC program,
planned to go the Jersey shore this graduated from college, and joined the
summer and to take a trip with a friend Bev Carlson Shea has one grandson at Army. Grandson Preston is in college
in September. Duke and two others finishing eighth and and doing Marine ROTC training. A
sixth grades. All survived the dreaded great-nephew graduated from the Naval
Natalie Robins Lehmann-Haupt recently COVID and are well. Academy and is in the Marines. And
visited with family in California and grandson Palmer was valedictorian of his
helped her soon-to-be daughter-in-law Jerri Barden Perkins wrote: “I am
planning a 150-plus-mile biking tour in high school class at the Naval Air Station
pick out her dream dress. in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Palmer, his
Loire Valley France the end of June. Had
Lucy Wu Wang and Jimmy, who have a anyone asked pre-pandemic, I would not parents, and two brothers visited Clara
winter home in Palm Springs, California, Sue and Clarence in June as Palmer was
have considered such a challenge as I am
spent the summer and fall of 2020 there on his way to Swab Summer at the Coast
not a biker! … Training for this trip has
also. They finally were able to return to Guard Academy. Clara Sue enjoyed a
pressed me to do more than I would have
Shanghai last December, and in March June party for son Andrew, who retired
thought possible. Without the support
they celebrated their 60th anniversary. from the Army Reserve after 20 years.
of my son, Jack, and friends I would not Sons Chris, Park, and Dennis also
have made the journey.”
1961 Lloyd Tilton Backstrom and Art have
attended.
Carolyn Spell Robertson wrote: “I have
Renee Levinson Laurents (A-L) gone several times to their escape in to let you know how we in Florida lived
arjle@aol.com Hertford, North Carolina, on the out the pandemic. God has been so
Perquimans River. Lloyd decided to gracious to let us live in the panhandle of
Lynne Williams Neave (M-Z) become a gardener, and her pansies did Florida with the governor Ron DeSantis
lyneave@aol.com so well they looked like bushes. They who did not promote fear but hope and
For this issue, I, Lynne Williams Neave, planned trips to San Miguel de Allende in openness. We have been swamped with
am on my own, as Renee Levinson Laurents January 2022 and the St. Lawrence River tourists wanting to breathe the free air
had a lot on her platter, to say the least! in September 2022. “It is good to see the of Florida. Jim and I send our love and
I hope I’ll do OK, as we haven’t had gears moving again, and we know it is prayers in Christ for all as we age in the
so many responses in years. This year the same for all of us,” she wrote. decades ahead.”
4 UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON CLASS NOTES FALL/WINTER 2021Linda Giles Poole sent the following I, Susan, hope to hear from more
message: “I haven’t received my
MW magazine yet but my sister,
1963 classmates for our next issue of 1964
Class Notes. Please write and tell us how
Patricia Giles Hinds ’69, has, and she Linkey Booth Green you are doing, what you are doing, and
called to tell me I’m apparently dead. She linkeyg@embarqmail.com share your bucket list of roads not taken
saw an ‘in memoriam’ with my name, on which you hope to journey.
Linda Giles Poole ’61, attached. I’m
happy to report I’m alive and well here in 1964
Houston and have recently come out of
COVID hibernation to take two lovely
Susan Rowe Bunting
susan.bunting@gmail.com
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trips, to California and Cozumel. So, you No Class Agent
know the famous Mark Twain quote about This summer has been like no other in classnotes@umw.edu
his death notice!” It was a most forgivable New Hampshire. It rained so much that
Margaret Cobourn Robinson shared
mistake, as MWC had a number of Pooles, the water level on Lake Winnipesaukee
sad news of the death of Barbara Anne
one of whom did pass away! was level with the top of our dock. Every
Hagemann Hester on July 29. “She was
time a boat would go by, waves would
Eleanore Saunders Sunderland lives on her wash over the dock and float the chairs my suitemate, a roommate following
own in her home among the oak trees and and flower boxes to the opposite side. In college, and a dear friend for lo these
azalea bushes. Daughter Jane visits each between rainy days, it was hot and humid many years,” Margaret wrote.
weekend, and Eleanore’s son comes once a – often in the 90-degree range – unheard Jeffrey S. Nilsson let us know of the loss of
month. Daughter Jude lives in Milan and of in N.H. Reminded me of summer his wife, Susan Mantz Nilsson, on July 16.
dealt with many COVID restrictions but weather in Fredericksburg in the early
was able to visit for three weeks. ’60s. I appreciate New England winters
A couple of classmates did not respond and the cold, dry air. One can always
throw on another jacket, another pair of
1966
directly, but Lloyd Tilton Backstrom Katharine Rogers Lavery
shared some info: Pat Scott Peck has warm socks, or a blanket or two at night.
Without air conditioning, it’s difficult to hlavery1@cox.net
moved from San Antonio to Washington,
D.C., where she owns a house. Her son get away from intense heat and humidity, Barbara Bishop Mann represented
lives nearby. Pepper Jacobs Germer doesn’t and we aren’t used to it in N.H. our class by signing a beam for the
do emails anymore – only text messages! construction of the new Seacobeck
I, Susan Rowe Bunting, looked forward to
College of Education. Her fondest
spending a few days in late summer with
memory of Seacobeck, our dining hall,
1962 former MWC roommates Ann Carney
of Carversville, Pennsylvania, and
was the white tablecloths on all the tables
and the peanut butter and jelly containers
Kathleen Sprenkle Lisagor Suzanne Meyer Moore ’65, who lives on
as centerpieces! She also recalled our
klisagor@yahoo.com Cape Cod. In 1961-1962 we shared a
standing outside the closed doors at
room in the Randolph and Mason tunnel.
When Sue Grandy Farrar retired as dinnertime, singing while we waited to
We’ve stayed in touch through sporadic be admitted.
head of the Montgomery County,
Virginia, history museum, the Roanoke emails and texts, but Suzanne and I
figured it had been at least 40 years since Bobbi, Carolyn Eldred, and Jana Privette
Times ran a feature story about her. In
we saw each other. Usry donned caps and gowns and walked
her 12 years as executive director of
with the faculty at this year’s UMW
the Montgomery Museum of Art and Margaret “Peggy” Mitchell Bliss of graduation. Bobbi is urging us all to mark
History, Sue raised funds for building Farmington, Connecticut, and husband our calendars for our UMW reunion
maintenance, established community Charlie, married 57 years, have three
partnerships, recruited corporate weekend, June 2-5, 2022.
children and seven grandchildren – all
sponsors, and boosted the organization’s brilliant! Peggy retired from Hartford Sally Souder received a kind note from
arts offerings. The newspaper article said Hospital as an audiovisual media Jennifer Bendery ’96 praising Sally for
Sue started as a volunteer after she moved specialist. being an “amazing high school civics
to Christiansburg in 2007 to be near a teacher and a big reason I went to Mary
daughter, and two years later was asked Patti Jones Schacht lost her dear husband, Washington.” Sally reported that Florida
to become executive director. Richard Schacht, on April 6, 2021, after was open again and the weather was
a six-month battle with cancer. “Richard great, but she was dining out only if
Diana Copple Smith enjoys life in
was the quintessential midwestern outdoor space was available.
Wilmington, North Carolina. Hurricane
gentleman, huge University of Michigan
season is from June through November, Annette Maddra Horner continues
but most recently Tropical Storm Elsa fan, first person to market and name
Pringles potato chip snacks when working to expand her garden, adding more
passed without much damage. Diana native plants. She and her husband were
participates in a poetry group, a book for P&G, and most of all, a generous soul
who made it a life practice to pay forward working with an architect and builder to
club, a women’s support group, and construct a first-floor addition to their
several activities at church via Zoom. and help those less fortunate,” Patti wrote.
Richmond home. In May, they attended
Diana’s daughter and her husband have a Patti and Richard both lost their spouses a family funeral and a family wedding,
son whom she sees when she can. over 25 years ago and met on a blind masked at both, and later began attending
date. They were involved for 20-plus in-person church services. Day trips, short
Diana said roommate M. Noel Sipple years in The House DC, a safe house for overnight trips, a beach getaway, and
enjoys her home in a retirement youths in Washington. late-summer trips to the mountains in
community in Springfield, Virginia. Virginia and North Carolina were back
Diana is also in contact with Patti fondly remembers MWC professors
on schedule, plus a university travel group
Julia Shumaker Bailess in Bristol, including the late Boyd Graves, Kurt
journey to Greece in 2022.
Virginia, and occasionally she still Leidecker, and Cornelia Oliver. “Grateful
hears Barbara Kline Feldman doing for what MWC has contributed to the Anne Powell Young kept medical
the news on NPR. tapestry of my life.” appointments and restricted activities
UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON CLASS NOTES FALL/WINTER 2021 5last winter but managed to keep in touch admissions at West Chester Friends daughter and brother in the fall to watch
with several classmates. She reported that School in Pennsylvania. The school granddaughter Maddy play volleyball at
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John and Mary Parsons Black had visited opened under super-strict guidelines The Citadel.
Annette Horner and her husband in with outdoor classes in big tents in all
Mary Kathryn Rowell Horner and
Richmond in March and had lunch at the kinds of weather. Barbi’s office is her
husband Charlie spent the winter in Fort
Museum of Fine Arts. Mary and John sold living room; her millennial daughter
Myers, Florida, enjoying sunshine and
their farm in Natural Bridge, Virginia. It also has always worked from home, even
golf. They returned to their condo in
had been in the family since 1890. before smartphones! Barbi connects via
Northern Virginia from June to October.
FaceTime with her 4-year-old grandson
Anne also contacted Don and
in Switzerland. Four other grands live Kathy Goddard Moss and husband
Kitty Downs Gregg, who had recovered
nearby and celebrated vaccinations with Tom stayed well all through lockdown
from COVID and were able to spend
big hugs. Barbi’s garden and “annoying and had vaccinations delivered to their
four nights in New Port Beach when it
Fitbit” keep her exercising. door in the spring. They resumed group
was safe.
activities and cautious outings with
Terry Caruthers, Kitty’s roommate and Lee Enos Kelley lives in a retirement
fellow residents and their California
longtime friend, recovered from knee community in Bethesda, Maryland,
family. They particularly enjoyed being
replacement and COVID, then flew to with her son and his wife nearby.
able to watch their grandsons’ baseball
Chicago to visit her daughter while the Granddaughter Quinn arrived in July
games again.
antibodies were strong. Terry and the 2020 and tremendously brightened their
Mooresville, North Carolina, Golden year of isolation. Lee and two high school TaB and Pam Kearney Patrick finally
Girls Club were able to have their first friends traveled to Key West, Florida, returned to their Cape May, New Jersey,
post-COVID meeting in May. in June and had a wonderful time but home after a year in quarantine. Pam
realized it would have been much smarter dropped off seven of her magnificent
Anne had a long talk with weatherwise to go in February. Lee watercolor paintings at Cape May’s
Julie Bondurant Freeman, who was endowed a UMW scholarship in the SOMA Gallery for the summer/fall
enjoying her retirement from being name of our Class of 1966. It is set up to season and enjoyed their first dinner out
a docent for 25 years at Middleton provide emergency funds for students in in a year. Pam filled the winter months
Place, an Ashby River Plantation near danger of having to drop out of college, with digital conversations with Barbara
Charleston, South Carolina. Julie and and Lee invites us to join her in making Bishop Mann and Lee Enos Kelley.
her husband, both avid travelers through the scholarship fund grow.
Europe and Canada, squeezed in a trip Pam also kept in touch with Carol
to Egypt before COVID struck. During COVID, Kay Boyd Dahl’s Bingley Wiley, an accomplished, prolific
volunteer activities at the Norfolk public watercolor artist who exhibits her
Anne’s best buddy, Betty Birckhead Vickers, broadcasting station and hospital came paintings in galleries near Waldoboro,
and husband Copley planned a Vickers to a halt. She has adapted to doing online Maine, and has sold quite a few of them.
family reunion for June. Betty retired meetings with her book club, choir, Carol was a summer guest artist at the
from her position as financial director of church groups, and other organizations. Pemaquid Art Gallery at the Lighthouse.
Magi-Quest, her son’s public attraction She and her husband spend a lot of time Carol also happily became a great-
in Pigeon Forge, Kentucky, and was with their 6-year-old grandson. grandmother this past year.
getting involved in daughter Margaret’s
huge garden, which was becoming quite Joan Cuccias Patton had her kitchen Diana Hamilton Cowell spent much of
a family affair. Even little granddaughter remodeled during lockdown. She the winter keeping medical appointments
Evie was learning gardening. Anne and Harry took their annual trip to and writing short stories and poems.
was planning a summer visit back to Bradenton, Florida, figuring they could One poem, Hope Is a Season, expresses
Kentucky to see Betty again. socially distance there just as well as in nature experiences, losses, and miracles.
Virginia. They rented a small house with Diana hosted her sister from Atlanta
At our 50th reunion Anne and Betty had in April. In May she resumed her
become close with Nancy Decker Denslow. a pool, played a lot of golf, and cooked
all their meals. When Joan’s brother volunteer work with the Bethany Beach
Nancy is still teaching and doing research Fire Company Auxiliary and fish-
in Gainesville, Florida, most recently on retired as president of Ingalls Shipyard in
counting with the Inland Bays program
how Roundup affects the immune systems Pascagoula, Mississippi, Joan attended
on the Assawoman Bay. Her team
of manatees. the christening of his last ship, the Higbee
conducts regular surveys of fish and
DDG 123 – an amazing experience! Joan
Anne learned that Caroline Stone Ruppar crabs, measuring and identifying each
planned to keep the family tradition of one and returning it to the bay. They
had planned a fantastic summer African attending their big summer reunion in
safari trip with the grandchildren but had also record data of water temperature,
Newport Beach, California, and possibly salinity, oxygen saturation, tide height,
to postpone it due to COVID restrictions. a short Outer Banks getaway later.
Caroline wrote that she, Anne, and three wind direction, and weather conditions,
of their James Monroe High School Pat Lewars Pace took advantage of the working twice monthly from March to
friends worked to install a granite bench hot real estate market and moved to the October. Other teams participate in the
memorial for a classmate who had lost independent living section of Covenant Indian River Bay area, also part of the
all three of his sons. During COVID Woods in Mechanicsville, Virginia. She University of Delaware research program.
Caroline and Allan volunteered at the loves the activities, the freedom from Judy Wells Clark reported that she was
local food bank set up in their church perpetual yardwork, and the security of alive and kicking during the pandemic but
fellowship hall. Instead of the African continuing care when she needs it. Pat and the only kicking she did was on the organ
trip, Caroline and Allan mapped out a Linda Glynn Hutchinson look forward pedals! Judy still teaches piano and works as
three-week, 5,000-mile driving tour of to their 2022 trip to the Oberammergau a church musician and freelance pianist.
the U.S., stopping to celebrate family passion play, rescheduled from 2020.
Katie Green wrote from Houston that she
events and visit elderly relatives. Betsy Chappelear Tryon, still adjusting also was alive and kicking, vaccinated,
Barbara Barriga Rowe was beyond busy to her new hip, postponed travel plans and walking nearly three miles four to
working from home as the director of to come east. She hoped to join her five days a week. Her son and family
6 UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON CLASS NOTES FALL/WINTER 2021live in Sydney, Australia, and Katie was Evelyn “Evie” Rowe, Marianne’s roomie
eager to visit, especially to see little Ester
Winn, 4.
1968 in the Maison Française, has retired
from her law practice and lives in D.C.
Meg Livingston Asensio
I, Katharine Rogers Lavery, managed She is returning to church services and
meglala46@gmail.com
an Outer Banks summer vacation, organ playing – while trying to finish
postponed from last year, with the Long Donna Sheehan Gladis sent in several reading all of Proust. Now there’s a
Island branch of the family. A a few notes about classmates: goal!
other family members vacationed nearby Dodo Fisher Roberts moved into her Nancy Yeager Allard and husband were
during the second week. I continued condo just two months before the happy to be traveling again, including
tutoring high school math courses all pandemic hit and loves living downtown. a cruise to Iceland. She enjoys church,
winter via FaceTime, with a college She walks the dog for at least a mile twice exercising, playing bridge, and time with
calculus student added in the fall. a day and sees lots of friends. Daughter her grandson. She’s a member of UMW’s
Church services were virtual all winter, Cady moved nearby from New York City, Mother of All Book Clubs.
with prerecorded music, but became so Dodo sees both girls regularly. One
in-person in June. I added a mask to the Cynthia Lowdermilk lives in Clarksville,
of the gifts of being a senior is that most Virginia, and was eager to get PT for her
bell of my cornet and resumed playing of her friends were fully vaccinated by
with the choir. hip so she could ditch that walker. She’s
February, so they were able to have small in contact with her old friend Charlie
As venues open up, Clara Middleton Leigh ’63 dinners together. Dodo planned to spend Bradshaw, a Fredericksburg fixture for
and I were eager to resume attending the summer in Nantucket and to do more some of our class.
Arena Stage productions in Washington, far-flung travel in 2022.
D.C. The Lavery clan lost two elder The very energetic Sharon Dobie was
members this past year but gained four Jill Robinson Burkert thought she thrilled to have her son back from his
great-grandchildren, for whom I knitted would finally retire from the University deployment in Afghanistan. She had
layettes. I encourage all of you to plan to of Alaska, but due to COVID and been volunteering at a vaccine site in
attend our class reunion in June 2022. budget cutbacks, she continued as an Seattle and tutoring via Zoom. She
adjunct. She wrote: “I think it is coming planned to go fishing in Sitka, Alaska.
Sadly, our class lost Ginny Sumner Ax in to an end and, like many others, I am
April. hoping to actually go somewhere. I am Cheryl Ulmer shared that during
currently living in Bend, Oregon, trying lockdown, MWC classmates from the
classes of 1968, ’69, and ’70, gathered
1967 to find a way to dispose of a house I
have owned for many years (of course
monthly via Zoom. Beverley Clare Coates,
Judy Farrell Bechtold, Jan Desmond
Mary Beth Bush Dore COVID decided I would stay longer than
mbeth1945@gmail.com Melluzzo, Carol Greenwood Trejo,
I thought). I have been reading some
Loretta Horgan Nagle, Tanya Belt
Patsy Monahan Holden is happily interesting biographies, including Mary
Nickson, Doralece Lipoli Dullaghan,
vaccinated and works one day a week Ball Washington: The Untold Story of
Kirsten Mackey Fleisher, Anne Howell
as a licensed professional counselor. George Washington’s Mother by Craig Wood, and Darlene Greenhalgh Hines
She plays cards several days a week, Shirley.” Jill volunteers in a local shelter were able to catch up, comfort, and
volunteers at church, reads, and enjoys for unhoused people, which reminds her chuckle while learning new things about
puzzles. She and Mike, her husband of of her good fortune. one another, even after 50 years of
53 years, see their grandchild quarterly. Pam Tompkins Huggins wrote: “I spent friendship.
Yvonne Milspaw’s husband is doing well the first months of the pandemic walking Our deepest condolences to CeCe Smith
after a heart attack, but they had to give around staring outside my windows Riffer and husband Bill on the loss of
up their travels. She’s working on local like it was a snow day, waiting for the son Cory, who passed away at age 50
arrangements for the annual meeting pandemic to melt.” She wrote COVID last March. He is survived by his former
of the American Folklore Society. She poetry and compiled a playlist of ’60s wife and four beautiful children. CeCe
does yoga. and ’70s songs. She’s archiving it so her and Bill traveled to Alaska to visit son
As regent of her chapter of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren David and family (including 11-year-
Virginia Daughters of the Revolution, will have a glimpse of what their GaGa old twin granddaughters), enjoying
Florence Reese cleaned headstones in was thinking and feeling during the some glamping. David’s twin brother,
First Landing State Park. She went to pandemic. She’s grateful to be fully Steve, and family live in D.C., with one
Boston, where she and a DAR friend vaccinated. granddaughter on track to graduate from
cleaned nine headstones of Florence’s William & Mary in 2022 and another
ancestors, some of whom fought in the joining the Louisville Ballet Company.
Revolutionary War. 1969 Jeanine Zavrel Fearns spent last
Virginia Blackwell Rigsby had just Anne Hoskot Kreutzer summer zipping from West Virginia
returned from visiting parks in South annekreutzer@hotmail.com mountains to Chicago to a lighthouse
Africa and was planning another trip to keeper’s cottage stay in Lubec, Maine,
Normandy, France. Marianne deBlois Zentz where she traveled with artist daughter
MdeBZ@verizon.net Erin Fearns. Jeanine looked forward
I, Mary Beth Bush Dore, go to PT three
times a week. I walk with a walker and As we emerge from lockdowns and to a get-together with MWC roomies
have started driving on neighborhood limitations, we – Anne Hoskot Kreutzer Anne Witham Kilpatrick, Toni Turner
roads. Baby steps. My husband and I and Marianne deBlois Zentz – hope Bruseth, and Suzy Bender Winterble at
celebrated our 54th anniversary. Who you’re being cautious and careful so you Suzy’s home in South Carolina.
would have thought it? can join us at our next mini reunion, Lynn “Lacey” Pierce Brown replied to
Edgar Shawen was sorry to report the which should happen before our my bit of français with her own reply
passing of his wife, Jeannette Thorpe regularly scheduled 55th. Thanks to all en español – showing that our MWC
Shawen, on June 9. who took a minute to check in! education endures! So does her lifetime
UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON CLASS NOTES FALL/WINTER 2021 7friendship with Laura Lee Johnson Karp, granddaughter’s work with a BBC Christie Wineholt Warman spent time
who, after losing her husband, has feature on Colgate Palmolive’s recyclable in Angel Fire, New Mexico, with a
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decided to move across the country to toothpaste tube – something that makes beer-drinking bear that refused to wear
settle in Elon, N.C. Next door in Willard so much sense! our MWC beanie, so there’s no picture,
in ’65, and next door in Elon in ’21. Carolyn Day O’Leary is the mother-in- darn it! Christie helped Linda Shull after
Serendipitous! law of the host of the PBS travel show a surgery.
With the great line that “life in our 70s Samantha Brown’s Places to Love.
Very cool! Carolyn’s son, Kevin, and Barbara Burton Micou does social work
is nowhere near as exciting as life was with Chesterfield County, Virginia,
IN the ’70s,” Kathleen “Nina” Shepherd wife Samantha are parents of Carolyn’s
twin 7-year-old grandchildren. Kevin homeless students, and she volunteers
and husband Max are healthy, happy,
produces the show, and he and the twins with Master Gardeners. She and Chip
and vaccinated in South Carolina.
often travel with Samantha. enjoy family time at their cottage on the
Having survived two costly hurricanes Rappahannock River, and she fills in gaps
in Louisiana, Carolyn Bauer LeJeune Nancy Stephenson Leeper and husband
with fun visits to bestie Linda Shull in
Bob have lived in Texas for 45 years.
and husband happily celebrated their North Carolina. Betty Wade Miles Perry
Their sons live in Austin and Houston.
50th anniversary in August. Carolyn met up with Barbara for lunch in
Nancy retired as a speech and language
has been dealing with myasthenia gravis pathologist and now volunteers in Richmond, while taking care of
for a few years now but is muddling the gardens of the Lady Bird Johnson grandchildren. We hope all went well
through. Wildflower Center. She keeps in touch with BW’s shoulder surgery in August.
While enjoying the peace and quiet with old roomies Jean Whittington Mason Karen Kilgore Ralston has two nature-
with her cats, dog, and backyard and Carolyn Day O’Leary. oriented homes – with dolphins in
deer in Augusta County, Virginia, Leslie Fanning Atkinson became a Melbourne Beach, Florida, and with
Sarah Carrington Hannah Petras is Zoom expert to keep up with friends moose in Blue River, Colorado. Each
also continuing her lifetime teaching and clubs this past year. She and her home is near one of their children.
career with a Latin class assignment at husband had a delayed celebration Karen has had Parkinson’s disease for
a nearby high school – she can’t quite of their 50th with a fun family trip many years but feels blessed that her
retire! She is proud that daughter Sera to Jamaica. This fall she and Donna meds are working.
Petras has a photography business in Bredahl Jones-Searle ’70 and their
Charlottesville. husbands planned to cruise the great Patti Boise Kemp loves having her
rivers of Europe. granddaughter with her, spending time
Perky pink-haired Barbara Black surfing at North Myrtle Beach. Patti
is happy to be getting back, albeit Also returning to traveling mode is
Linda Marett Disosway, who was hopes many classmates will return for
cautiously, to card and mahjong groups. 2022 reunion weekend for our “in-
We send our condolences on the loss of hoping to do a Canadian Rockies train
trip this fall – hope it happened! Linda between” get-together!
her former husband, Bob Long, with
whom she had stayed very close. relocated from Georgia to Fort Worth, And now some news from us, Anne
Texas, and is happily close to her oldest Hoskot Kreutzer and Marianne deBlois
Iris Harrell and wife Ann have daughter and four grands.
Zentz.
purchased a second house in Oregon
Another Maison Française-mate,
as a backup in case Santa Rosa fires Betty Jo Shoemaker Polk, lives in From Anne: Tom and I were grateful
mess up their California dreamin’. Iris Hilton Head, South Carolina, and to enjoy 2021 summer visits with our
is working to help their community deals with MS. three East Coast sons and families.
“harden” for fires. They’re very involved The last time we were with our entire
in Santa Rosa’s active senior community Mike and Martha Wilbourne Cummings
family of 20 was in June 2019, our 50th
and Rainbow Club – groups known for celebrated their 50th anniversary by
anniversary, when we spent a week near
getting things done. Their fall travel was spending a week in Sandbridge, Virginia,
in a beachfront house big enough to son Andy and family in San Diego.
to include trips to Virginia and North
hold their four children, their spouses, From Marianne: We enjoyed much
Carolina to see friends and Iris’ family.
and nine grandchildren. Martha’s senior more COVID freedom in Sarasota,
After Christmas, they plan to visit Palm
year suitemates Marianne deBlois Zentz, where I played tennis and enjoyed
Springs, California, and Ann’s family. Anne Hoskot Kreutzer, and Barbie the outdoors. I spent a week in Big
Donna Cannon Julian planned to return to Hopta Reid were happy to send in video Bear Lake, California, with family to
the traveling game with a cruise to Croatia. clips for the anniversary celebration.
celebrate my daughter’s 40th birthday. I
Donna and Gene still enjoy the winter Sadly, Barbie lost her husband, George looked forward to the arrival of another
season in Naples, Florida. They were B. Reid on Aug. 24. We send our sincere granddaughter in September.
planning to see Judy Mansfield Muller in condolences.
late summer in Telluride, Colorado.
Carol Abell Brauninger may be our only
Donna had lunch with some other
MWC grads – Betsy Crews Neilson,
classmate with a favorite hotel room
in Palm Beach over the Intracoastal
1970
Carolyn Day O’Leary, and youngster Waterway. Cool! Carol lives in D.C. and Anne Summervold LeDoux
Nancy Richardson Kenyon ’71 – in rents to Georgetown grad students and ledouxanne@yahoo.com
Lewes, Delaware, where she also visited interns from the German and French
embassies.
with Barbie Crickenberger Hall. The
Halls live in D.C. but try to visit their Linda Gattis Shull spent most of the 1971
Victorian home in Lewes about twice a summer in Pinehurst, North Carolina, Karen Laino Giannuzzi ’71
month. cheering at her grandsons’ golf kapitankL11@yahoo.com
Pennsylvanian Betsy Crews Neilson tournaments – no big purses won, but Class of ’71, you rock! What a great
is very proud of her daughter and lots of fun despite the brutal heat. Zoom reunion we had in May! Hope
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