Sweet Briar Magazine 2010

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DEAR ALUMNAE AND FRIENDS:
S
ince my first days on campus, And an hour flew by while I listened to
I’ve heard many stories: an accomplished woman from the Class
stories of academic discovery of 1950 tell her story. Born in Poland
and scholarly collaboration, and educated in Russia, she came to
stories of longstanding traditions, stories Sweet Briar when her father arrived here
of epic athletic achievement, stories of to teach languages. She now teaches
more than a century of remarkable Russian and Polish at a community
women — in short, the stories that college near her home and volunteers as
make Sweet Briar unique. a translator for recent immigrants.
Hanging on the wall in her apartment
As alumnae, you know that the story was a commendation for her service
just begins here — on the quad and in helping to trace and document the
the dell and in Guion and the arts barn, families of Holocaust victims.
at the riding center and in Prothro, out
at the Boathouse and late nights in the ree alumnae at three different stages
residence halls. e story of each Sweet of life, challenging themselves daily to
Briar woman continues through many learn, compete, serve and grow. All are
more chapters after she graduates. part of the larger story of Sweet Briar,
and all are proud of the Sweet Briar
It is impressive to talk with alumnae and chapter in their lives.
hear of the lives Sweet Briar women
forge for themselves after graduation. You’ll notice this issue of the Sweet Briar
Recently, I made a quick trip and spent College Magazine has a new look and
time with several alumnae. tells of far-flung places — the Amazon,
Cambodia, France. It dives into the
One very recent alumna was just ocean to study coral off the Virgin
heading off to the Courtauld Institute in Islands and steps into the classroom
London for graduate school. She said with Dr. Durham’s “Anthropology of
that the National Gallery, where she’s Globalization.” We’ll be sharing more
employed in the sculpture department, stories like these in future issues —
will be holding her position open for stories of alumnae, students and faculty
her while she’s away. who share meaningful, and often rare,
experiences.
Another alumna, who graduated in the
1980s, practices real estate law. A I hope it inspires you to reflect on, and
member of Sweet Briar’s Athletics Hall perhaps even to share, your own Sweet
of Fame, she now plays in a senior Briar stories.
women’s lacrosse league and has served
as chair of the board of the Quaker Sincerely,
school she attended as a child. She’s a
dedicated Sweet Briar volunteer too, of
course.
Jo Ellen Parker, President
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Contents
Sweet Briar Magazine | Fall 2010
Features
10 Boren Scholar:
Sophomore earns junior year in
Vietnam through perseverance
12 Diving for Clues:

Researchers investigate potential
underwater crime scenes in Virgin Islands
12
20 The U.S.-Japan Alliance:
Alumna’s analysis calls for action
Departments 24 Better Schools, Brighter Smiles:

Cambodia’s kids benefit from
alumna’s work with nonprofit
President’s Note
2 On the Quad
News and notes around campus
Sweet Briar welcomes the Class of 2014
iPads in the classroom
Four students, four unforgettable internships
And more…
16 Faculty News
Tracy Hamilton walks the roads of royal women
Rob Alexander photographs wildlife in the Amazon
John Casteen’s new poetry
And more...
26 Featured Course
Anthropology 238
28 Athletics 20
Athletes take advantage of the liberal arts
30 Giving
32 Alumnae News
Highlights from Reunion Weekend 2010
35 Perspective
Puschart Prize nominee CM Burroughs ’04 talks poetry
36 Class Notes
37 Dianna Rankin ’66
38 Mary Witt ’74
41 CM Burroughs ’04
24
On the Cover: Lindsay Eneguess ’11 dives off the coast of
St. John Island. Read the full story on page 12.
Photo by Craig Downs.
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Homecoming Weekend 2010
Sweet Briar celebrated its annual
Homecoming Weekend, Sept. 24 and
25. Over 1,000 people gathered for
Founders’ Day convocation and the
walk to Monument Hill, sports
tournaments, the Cardboard Boat
Regatta, picnics, fireworks, the
Saturday evening dinner dance and
more. For the full story in pictures,
view the Homecoming image gallery at
www.sbc.edu.
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THE COLLEGE RECENTLY
FORMALIzED A PARTNERSHIP
with Endstation eatre Company,
which performs the Blue Ridge
Summer eatre Festival each year on
Sweet Briar’s grounds. Beginning with
the 2011 summer season, the College
will expand its support of the festival,
providing housing, rehearsal space,
use of equipment, and some
administrative support to make the
festival possible. e College hopes to
use this partnership to develop
student internships and new
educational programs.
is past summer, Endstation’s
BRSTF season included performances
of “e Complete Wrks of Wllm
Shkspr (Abridged)” by the Reduced
Shakespeare Company, “Alice in
Wonderland” adapted by Madge
Miller and Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”
Sweet Briar Co-Sponsors the

Blue Ridge Summer
Theatre Festival
Each year at least one play is set
outdoors in a location that
complements and enhances the
dramatic experience of the story. e
2008 performance of “Romeo and
Juliet” made use of the College’s
buildings and balconies. In 2009, “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream” set the
dell aglow near Guion Science Center,
and this year, “Hamlet” was
performed behind one of the dairy
barns with spectators lounging on the
hillside.
is innovative company strives
to unite both play and place.
Endstation’s performance of “Hamlet”
was set in 1864 during the height of
the Civil War, using the paint-
chipped barn, the hills studded with
hay bales and even the passing clouds
to conjure the world of the play for its
viewers.

Sweet Briar in Nice
SWEET BRIAR JuNIOR YEAR
IN FRANCE, the oldest co-
educational intercollegiate study
abroad program in Paris, has
expanded to include a partnership
with the university of Nice Sophia
Antipolis in Nice, France.
Students were enrolled in the
program beginning in August 2010.
e Nice program is based on JYF’s
successful Paris model, which was
established in 1948.
Sign Dedication
During Homecoming Weekend, descendants
of James and Lavinia Fletcher attended the
dedication of a new interpretive sign at the
slave graveyard on campus. e record of
Lavinia’s enslavement on the antebellum
Sweet Briar Plantation was discovered by
research anthropologist Lynn Rainville.
Lynn delivered the keynote address on
Founders’ Day, honoring the contributions of
enslaved and freed African-Americans whose
labor enabled the founding of the College.

S
WEET BRIAR PROMISES TO HELP EVERY INTERESTED
STuDENT find an internship sometime during her college career that
best suits her goals and needs. Many students participated in internships
and study opportunities this past summer. Here are four examples.
A SuMMER HAzE HuNG her work, whether it was the

OVER THE NATION’S grunt labor of tape filing or the
CAPITAL as Bianca Ktenas ’12 more rewarding work of
reported to her first day as an conducting pre-interviews, going
intern at Fox News to help out on assignment or filming a
produce “America’s News HQ.” news package.
e security checkpoint at the She says, “hands down,” the
building almost made her late, most valuable experience was
but a nicely dressed gentleman, going on a shoot with Heidi
as she puts it, helped her wind Noonan. “We covered the Boy
through the red tape. In the Scout Jamboree Parade to mark
elevator, Bianca commented, their 100th anniversary,” she
“at’s a good looking Hermes says. “I was able to see a news
tie,” as the ding indicated she crew at work and even got to do
had reached the right floor. Ten a couple off-camera interviews
minutes later Bianca saw him on- while receiving invaluable
air, his image (and tie) multiplied pointers from Heidi.”
by the many monitors around As an economics major and
the room. He was the security a communications minor, Bianca
expert for the news show. hopes to combine the two
Her first day experience avenues after she graduates.
allowed Bianca to dive right into
Corey Latta ’11 IS MAJORING IN THEATER with a minor

in voice and French horn performance. She spent nine weeks inside
the stories of “Where the Wild ings Are” and “Angelina Ballerina”
with groups of children ages 4 to16 as her cast.
As a “teaching artist” at the Lexington Children’s eatre, Corey
incorporated art projects, games and performance to enliven the
setting each week so her cast of budding actors and actresses would
feel the world of the theater.
“It was an intense experience, but a good one,” she says. “I
learned a lot about myself, and it was a safe space in which I could
learn from my mistakes and also receive feedback, advice and any
other kind of help.”
is summer experience offered a good staging ground, since
Corey’s aspirations are to continue similar work after she graduates.
And she didn’t close the case on her French horn either. is
summer afforded her the opportunity to play in the orchestra for a
local theater’s main stage production.

BEL CANTO MEANS BEAuTIFuL
SINGING, and for Sarah Schofield ’11 it was the
pursuit of her summer experience — studying bel
canto opera in Italy. It’s a style first used in the
19th century for an opera that combined powerful
and effortless legato of range and a poetic subject
matter. e idea of contextualizing Italian culture
with the music Sarah performs made the trip worth
her while. “e vocal pieces came much more
naturally being in the place of their original
language,” she says. “I was surrounded by teachers,
coaches and students — all talented and all with
the common goal: bel canto opera. I have never
been in an atmosphere that rivaled this one, and I
was surprised by everyone’s willingness to help and
their level of passion for their art.”
No doubt that her four semesters of Italian
and her major study of music at Sweet Briar
immersed her in the language and culture of Italy
well before her study abroad experience. “My
training and classes in Italy were almost a direct
parallel with those here on campus,” she says.
Sarah plans to continue the music track and
pursue graduate studies in musical performance
next year.
FOuNDED IN 1954, THE HuMANE SOCIETY OF

THE uNITED STATES, “seeks a humane and sustainable
world for all animals — a world that will also benefit
people.” at’s the PR statement, and one that Morgan
Harman ’11 learned the ins and outs of while working in
the public relations office of the HSuS as an intern this
summer.
In researching internships, Morgan was chosen from a
list of 200 to work at the Smithsonian. She also received an
offer for a paid position at a law office in Virginia. She
turned them both down to go to the HSuS.
She spent the summer combing news articles and
compiling clips for the public relations staff to review. She
also proofed press releases and worked closely with senior
executives.
A highlight of her time was writing a 750 word essay
that, “showed why an ‘umbrella’ group like the HSuS was
needed,” she says. “It’s now being featured on the student
outreach page on the HSuS website.” Morgan is the editor
of the Sweet Briar newspaper and an anthropology major
with a minor in English/creative writing. Her goal is to
work in the news industry.

Teaching Model Pilot Gets
High-tech Lift
eBonnie “ty” SHreve ’14 STARTED

CARRYING HER APPLE IPAD everywhere she
went — even to Wal-Mart — as soon as it arrived
in the mail.
Ty received the iPad this summer from Sweet
Briar, free, but with strings attached. She is one of
30 students in two sections of English 104 who
agreed to experiment with the device to examine On-Campus
ways to incorporate it into their learning. Before
they even arrived on campus, the students
Research
CHryStaL CoLLinS ’10 AND professor of
completed creative projects related to reading
environmental studies David Orvos used the
assignments.
environmental sciences lab’s atomic absorption
Fifteen faculty members are conducting a
spectrometer to test about 70 samples of human
similar experiment using iPads for teaching. ese
breast milk for mercury. ey used cold-vapor
were paid for by a Mellon Foundation grant that
hydride analysis to measure levels of the metal.
provides discretionary funds for new presidents to
e samples were collected from women in
support initiatives important to them. Both
Belize in response to concerns about
groups will share what they learn as part of a
environmental contaminants. Collins, of Lusby,
strategic effort to ensure that Sweet Briar is
Md., graduated summa-cum laude with a B.A.
providing a digitally sophisticated education to all
in archaeology and minors in anthropology and
students.
environmental science.
“Of course, what is meaningful in this pilot is
not the iPads themselves,” says President Jo Ellen
Parker. “ey are simply one opportunity to
examine the ways in which digital tools can — or
cannot — enhance pedagogy. In other words, this
pilot project is about teaching, not about a
device.”
Ty, a multi-instrument musician and biology
major who is eyeing the pre-vet program, has
found the highlighting feature a bit tricky to use
but doesn’t mind the e-reader. Annotating is fast
and easy, she says. She likes the way it organizes
her notes by page number — almost like a table of
contents — and how easy it is find a notation or
passage in the text by searching. And unlike a
laptop, the iPad is always ready to go.

2014
Arrives
is fall Sweet Briar welcomed
the Class of 2014, a group of
young women who traveled to
campus from 30 different states,
the u.S. Virgin Islands, China,
Singapore and the
united Kingdom.
16
students have
alumnae relatives
99
students took at least one
AP course in high school
197
total students
179
first-time college students
18
transfer students
57
students were riders before
attending Sweet Briar
3.44
was the average
high school GPA
F E A T U R E
Goal-driven
Sophomore Lands
$20,000 Trip to
Vietnam
By Jennifer McManamay
SHE MADE A PERSuASIVE ARGuMENT TO THAT

EFFECT, winning a prestigious $20,000 Boren Scholarship
from the National Security Education Program to study there
during the 2010-2011 academic year.
Amanda-Cristina “Cris” Gonzalez Cris is learning the Vietnamese and Khmer languages,
culture, national politics and international affairs at Vietnam
looked at Vietnam and National university, while living with a Vietnamese family.
During her stay, she also will study in Cambodia for a
saw a nation on the rise. month.
Boren Scholarships are funded by the government to
encourage study of geographic areas, languages and fields that
are critical to u.S. interests. Recipients must complete a one-
year service obligation, which means Cris will be guaranteed
a job after college in a national security-related post.
e service obligation made the opportunity attractive
to Cris, a government major and law and society minor, who
is planning a career with the FBI or CIA. She will have three
years to complete her service obligation, and may choose to
pursue graduate studies.

FEATURE STORY
Cris’ research on study abroad destinations particularly government instructor and pre-law
led her to believe Vietnam is an up-and-coming advisor Larry Janow. He was a reliable ear to
economic and cultural power, poised to become whom she turned often for encouragement.
the next Japan or China. As its importance to He also wrote a letter of recommendation,
u.S. interests grows, people who know its which he said was easy to do. “One thing about
languages and culture will be in demand, she Cris is she’s pretty driven,” Larry says. “She had
reasoned. a plan. She wanted internships, she wanted a
“By the time Vietnam is a major player I year abroad, various things to comingle with her
will be ahead of the game,” she says. traditional education. … e Boren zeroed in
She used that argument in her essay for on and gave her the opportunity to do just what
application, a rigorous, months-long process. she wanted to do.”
National Security Education Program grant e granddaughter of a Marine, Cris was in
applications require an on-campus review board the Navy Junior ROTC at Pike High School in
to ensure the undergraduate makes a compelling Indianapolis, and has contemplated military
case for how her study abroad plan advances service. She is adventurous and despite being
national interests, meets her own career goals dubbed “too Americanized” by her cousins on
and why she will be successful in the program. extended visits to Mexico, her ability to fit in
“e NSEP Boren grant is really there became a plus in her quest for the
VIeTNam
specialized,” says Tiffany Cummings, Sweet scholarship.
Briar’s director of international studies. “You Her mother, on the other hand, deluged her
truly have to have an interest in national security with articles pointing out the perils an American Capital
Hanoi
to succeed. It was clear from Cris’ application might face in Southeast Asia. And Flora Largest city
that this is her intended career direction. She Gonzalez’s persistence is a force to reckon with. Ho Chi minh City
worked very hard on her application, submitting During Cris’ college search, Flora was taken Official language(s)
Vietnamese
numerous drafts first to me and then to the with Sweet Briar’s mission statement. She kept Government
NSEP on-campus committee. I’m really proud slipping the College’s pink admissions envelope Socialist republic
Area
of her.” into the pile to be considered even as her
128,527 sq mi
She also notes that to her knowledge, the daughter set it aside. As Cris was about to Population
Boren award is the largest external grant an SBC commit to Seton Hall her mother said, “Are you 2009 census
85,846,997
student has received to study abroad. sure?” e pink envelope appeared once again. GDP (PPP)
“[e review board] tested my limits,” Cris Her mother’s powers of persuasion 2009 estimate
says. “Let’s just say it was tough love. It was notwithstanding, Cris was ready for Vietnam $256.584 billion
Per capita$2,942
tough love big time. I had to demonstrate that I and she knew her parents were behind her. Drives on the right
was very knowledgeable of the country and that “ey believe in me enough to let me go,” she
I knew what I was getting myself into.” says.
She had support from her professors,

Diving for Clues
Researchers use forensic science
to explain dying coral reefs
By Jennifer McManamay

C O V E R S T O R Y
a sure sign that a reef is

thriving is the sound of “A HEALTHY REEF IS REALLY LOuD. It’s
deafening under water,” says Lindsay eneguess ’11.
Depending on the number and variety of species,
fish eating the coral. sea creatures noshing on the corals’ hard exoskeleton
can sound like crunching on chalk or eating Grape
Nuts without the milk.
Corals are animals. ey secrete calcium
carbonate, forming an exoskeleton, which builds the
reef that creates an ecosystem for more than 25 percent
of Earth’s marine species. But coral reefs cover less than
1 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces, so it’s
important to know why so many are dying.
Hawksnest Bay, part of the Virgin Islands National
Park on the island of St. John, is one of the places
where reefs are in trouble. Lindsay, an environmental
sciences and studio art major from Peterborough,
N.H., spent a week there in June investigating why. She
worked as an intern to collect sediment samples with
coral reef expert Craig Downs, along with two scientists
from the u.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration. Lindsay’s mother also accompanied
them.
Craig is a Virginia-based forensic scientist who
investigates the causes of environmental damage to
habitats around the world. In 2009 Professor Dave
Orvos invited him to join Sweet Briar’s faculty as a
research professor in the environmental studies
program, a collaboration that offers additional
internships and field experience to Sweet Briar
students. e relationship benefits Craig as well.
“One of the reasons I’m at Sweet Briar is to help
introduce students into the field,” he says. “ere is a
need for environmental forensic investigators by
various federal, state and territorial agencies. And there
are very few people out there that do this.”
But he also notes that while he and his colleagues
make up a relatively small community, many of them
are women and he regards Sweet Briar as natural
training ground.

In Hawksnest Bay, Lindsay and Craig were working with the up the collection procedures.
National Park Service. Later in the summer, they went to the e last item is important because it establishes a chain of
Florida Keys and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they collected custody to ensure the integrity of the specimens. Many coral
coral, sediment and algae samples for a u.S. NOAA-led project. species are federally protected and if illegal activity is causing their
Because the u.S. Navy restricts access to Guantanamo Bay, it destruction, the samples could be used for criminal prosecution. At
is home to some of the world’s most pristine coral reefs. at St. John, Lindsay collected terrestrial soil samples from the
makes it an ideal reference site for what healthy reefs should look surrounding watershed as well as sediment from the bay floor.
and sound like. Lindsay was lucky to be able to dive there and After so much preparation, Lindsay was happy to finally make
joined the relatively few civilians allowed access to parts of the a dive. “I got to see lots of wildlife,” she says. “Seeing everything
island and the naval base where they lodged and ate. I’ve seen on National Geographic was really cool.”
It was fortunate for the entire team that the weather e underwater forensic work quickly became a favorite part
cooperated enough for her to dive, Craig says. ey were short- of the project. “It’s made me think about what I want to do after
handed and needed her help as an extra field technician, but school,” she says.
conditions in Guantanamo are often too dangerous for novice Dave also has noticed a change in his student from her early
divers. years at Sweet Briar. She is an athlete who has received all-
Lindsay certified in scuba diving last spring to prepare for her conference honors in field hockey and a double major in studio art.
internship. She’d also worked in the lab alongside Dave Orvos for a “Lindsay wasn’t all that interested in science,” Dave says. “Now
year learning to run toxicity assays. With Dave and Craig, she she’s thinking about it. If she’ll be a scientist, who knows?”
mapped the land and sea transects they wanted to investigate at St. Lindsay says it was obvious where reefs are healthy and where
John, researched potential sources of pollution in the bay and set they are not. e telltale quiet and scarcity of fish were especially

COVER STORY
noticeable around mooring buoys where small craft and sail boats it doubly exciting when Craig spotted a 9-foot bull shark
tie up in the bay. One of the team’s hypotheses is that anti-fouling swimming within 15 feet of his intern. He motioned to ascend and
marine paint is leaching heavy metals into the water. they were done diving for the day.
Meant to keep the hulls of watercraft free of algae, barnacles Craig was cautious because the bay was slightly cloudy from a
and the like, the paint is among the “most toxic substances you can recent rain, which occurs in marine waters fed by gullies or
find,” Craig says. “It kills everything — bacteria, plants, streams. Experienced divers usually avoid such conditions in waters
invertebrates.” known for really scary sharks, such as tigers and makos, he says.
During the fall semester Dave and Lindsay are testing the “e turbidity and ‘flavor’ of the water drives sharks to be
sediment for pollutants, but duplicate samples also were sent to a aggressive. is bully was circling us and throwing its head back
commercial lab. If toxicity is present, the assays should distinguish and forth in an agitated manner. I’ve wrestled small bullies out of
between paint compounds and contaminants coming from other sea turtle nets by hand, in the water on snorkel, and never an issue.
sources. A lumber yard and landfill within the bay’s watershed also But this bully really looked like it was dangerous.”
are suspects in the investigation. ey returned in a boat and chased the shark away the next
Lindsay and Craig made eight dives, including in areas of the day. Craig couldn’t help but notice it was towing two 3-foot
bay that catch drainage from the surrounding jungle. ey usually remoras, a fish that hitches rides on other animals, traveling for free
waded from the surf out to depths of 25 to 30 feet — which made and sometimes snacking on their leftovers.

F A C U L T Y
A Royal Journey
Tracy’s research suggests there is
more to be learned about gender as it
relates to the rule of land
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART HISTORY lady’s name, heritage, interests and care of the land thus
tracy Chapman Hamilton has always been fascinated became known to all travelers, from peasants to
with maps, and, being a medievalist, old maps are her pilgrims, along the routes of her foundations.
specialty. is past summer, Tracy traced the footsteps Tracy’s research suggests there is more to be learned
of medieval royalty, visiting regions of France where about gender as it relates to the rule of land — where
several queens and countesses built important governing women may have seen their role as
landmarks, uncovering new facets of their culture and connectors of lands and cultures, men viewed their role
history. as keepers of borders and boundaries. is is all part of
Tracy set out for Paris, Burgundy and Picardy with a larger study, where Tracy has and will continue to
the hypothesis that royal women in the 13th and 14th explore how these women were able to increase their
centuries often became patrons of certain stopping own power through these foundations.
points along roads that connected their birthplace to Tracy became interested in the history of women in
their place of marriage and adulthood. ey would graduate school and never ceases to find new, intriguing
enrich such places, called foundations, with hospitals, avenues for exploration. “ere are all kinds of back
schools, gifts to local monasteries, libraries and other doors to discovering the history of women,” she says.
amenities. Such beneficence showed visitors along these “And because of these new methods of finding them,
well-traveled routes evidence of a connected heritage of we’re getting an entire other version of history, not just
place, a link or bond between the homelands of these about women, but about men and class, and in the
women and their lands of rule in France. e royal process enriching our understanding of the whole past.”

A Lens on Wildlife
Wildlife economist
Rob Alexander
pursues photography
roB aLexanDer’S PASSION FOR WILDLIFE ECONOMICS
goes hand in hand with his talent for photography. roughout his career
as a professor of environmental studies, Rob has traveled to China,
Africa, Australia and New zealand to investigate the economic factors
Rob and his wife Sheila traipsing through the jungle.
that play a role in the decline of endangered species. On his trips, he
never forgets to bring his camera along.
Rob’s research goal is to find ways that both humans and wildlife can
benefit from one another. One of his research projects involves the
African wild dog, an endangered species whose habitat is being lost to
ranching, farming and development. Although protected by law, the wild
dog is considered a pest by many landowners in South Africa, where it is
often shot as a danger to livestock. Rob looked at ways for these people to
benefit from the dogs. Wild dog tourism was one financially viable idea,
and today, at least one landowner is now selling wild dog tours.
As Rob strives to help people re-envision their relationship with the
wildlife and resources around them, he’s also providing inspiration
through an interest that has blossomed into full-fledged talent. Rob has
Tarantula inside a palm tree near the Amazon Research been taking photos on his travels for more than 25 years, rising before his
Center lodge in Peru. research team to get the best shots at daybreak. Recently, he and his wife
Sheila took a trip along the banks of the Amazon. ey stayed at a lodge
in Peru owned by an American biologist, which served as a home base for
daily excursions. Here are a few of his latest photographs from the
Amazon.
A squirrel monkey running along a
To see more photos and learn more about wildlife economics,
narrow vine above the Tahuayo River, Peru.
visit Rob’s website: www.wildearthnet.org.
F A C U L T Y N E W S
Rob Granger
F A C U L T Y N E W S
LINuS BOOKS RECENTLY RELEASED TWO TExTBOOKS by
professor of chemistry Rob Granger, entitled “Chemistry: A Decidedly Pre-
Organic Approach” and “Chemistry: An Introduction to Advanced Topics.”
e set is designed for an emerging curricular trend in college chemistry,
which splits the general chemistry curriculum in two with organic chemistry
sandwiched in between. e first volume prepares students for success in
organic chemistry, while the second, taught after the organic sequence, acts
as a foundation for advanced topics.
“We switched to teaching the one-two-one sequence in the fall of 2006,”
Rob says, “but there wasn’t a book on the market that fit our style. I began
by trying to modify an existing textbook, and eventually wrote my own.
Students will be using the two-volume set this fall.”
At Sweet Briar, Rob not only enjoys teaching, but is dedicated to his
research on improving cancer drugs. He’s working with a selective cancer
fighting drug, enhancing its ability to preserve healthy cells as it attacks
harmful ones. He’s also designing a catalyst that mimics photosynthesis; in
essence, he’s working toward designing electrochemical cells that can recycle
air, similarly to trees and plants.
Rob has been at Sweet Briar since 1999 and has been published most
notably in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the Journal of
Inorganic Chemistry, the Journal of undergraduate Chemistry Research and
the Virginia Journal of Science.
John Casteen
IN SPRING 2011, THE uNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS will release “For the
Mountain Laurel,” a collection of poems by visiting assistant professor John Casteen. Poems
from the manuscript have appeared in the Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah and other
literary magazines.
“My poems tend to start in the outside world and then to move inward,” John says. “I’m
interested in the associative moves that link abstract thought, which is private, to the
outside world, which is public: history, culture, religion, economics and art. I write less
and less about family and work, more and more about recovery and perseverance. I
like people who are resilient and resourceful, and I want to write poems that
emulate those qualities.”
Over the past several years, John has found a home at Sweet Briar, a
place of natural beauty filled with a supportive group of people where he
can teach and write. He says people’s openness has been a tremendous
gift.
Of writing, John says, “What I enjoy most is the feeling of preparing
to do justice to the creative impulse, and the occasional confidence
that I’ve done it well. When I find out from other people that they
find pleasure in the poems, that’s pretty much the best. Writers
ought to please themselves first and foremost, but they
can’t do it in a vacuum. e point is other people.”
Celeste Delgado-Librero
THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF Jaume Roig’s “e
Mirror” will be released this fall by the Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, featuring Sweet Briar’s Junior Year in Spain
director, Celeste Delgado-Librero, as translator. “e Mirror,” a
canonical work of Catalan literature, is a 15th-century narrative poem
originally written in the Valencian dialect. e text is extremely
challenging, even for native Catalan speakers. Its 16,247 pentasyllabic
lines integrate many European and Eastern traditions and motifs
including Mariology and the Bible, misogyny, the sermon, the dream
and more.
“Transcribing and translating ‘e Mirror,’ and writing the
introduction and notes was an exhilarating and exasperating
undertaking,” Celeste says. “I learned a great deal about all kinds of
topics: medicine, law, religion, history, science, agriculture, languages,
even fishing! Not being a native speaker of either the original or the
target language — my native tongue is Spanish — the translation
process was quite challenging.”
But Celeste considers herself, as she puts it, an old-fashioned
philologist, a lover and lifetime learner of all languages. She has been
affiliated with Sweet Briar since 1990, first as an exchange student and
now as a Spanish professor and director of JYS.
Stephen R. Wassell
STEVE WASSELL, PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICAL
SCIENCES, celebrates the release of “e Mathematical
Works of Leon Battista Alberti,” which he edited with two
other scholars, Kim Williams and Lionel March.
e book delves into four mathematical treatises of Leon
Battista Alberti (1404 to 1472), whose prolific and more widely
known contributions to architecture, art and literature earned
him a place in history. Steve’s book provides new English
translations of Alberti’s works, along with expert commentaries,
making the content accessible for all levels of interest.
Steve’s previous book, published in 2006, “Andrea
Palladio: Villa Cornaro in Piombino Dese” surveyed one of
Palladio’s most famous and influential architectural works and
included 14 fold-out architectural drawings.
e connections between art, architecture and
mathematics have intrigued Steve since he began his
professional career.
“e aim of my research into the relationships between
architecture and mathematics is to explore the mathematics of
beauty and to extol the beauty of mathematics,” Steve says.

F E A T U R E
e u.S.-Japan Alliance
An Alumna’s Perspective on Security in the Asian Pacific
By Colleen Murray

In 1960, the United States and Japan
signed a revised Treaty of Mutual
Cooperation and Security pledging both
countries to resist armed attack on
territories under Japanese administration.
2010 MARKS THE 50TH in East Asia, an area in which nuclear,

ANNIVERSARY of the treaty, an ballistic and armed forces threats have been
opportune time for both nations to take a anything but stable. However, Carolyn
hard look at the accord in light of political suggests that Tokyo take greater
and economic developments in East Asia responsibility for regional and international
since its signing. e treaty positioned security. She believes Japan must begin this
Japan as the linchpin for security in the process at home by removing political
region, but it’s no longer clear the constraints that hamper its ability to craft a J a Pa N
agreement fulfills this vision. Carolyn genuine national security policy.
Leddy ’98 spent the past year in Tokyo “If u.S. naval vessels were engaged in Capital
researching this critical and delicate balance training operations in international waters Tokyo
of power as a Council on Foreign off the coast of Japan and came under Largest city
Tokyo
Relations/Hitachi Ltd. research fellow. attack from North Korea, Japan could not Official language(s)
Carolyn focused on the impact of u.S. come to the aid of the u.S.,” she wrote None
extended deterrence — America’s recently in the Wall Street Journal. “A Government
Constitutional monarchy
commitment to use all means of military similar constitutional interpretation also Area
power, including nuclear weapons, to prohibits Japan from acting to intercept a 145,925 sq mi
protect Japan from an adversary — on North Korean ballistic missile headed for Population
2010 estimate
Japan’s defense posture. Her analysis the u.S.” Carolyn says it’s been a bumpy 127,420,000
examines how the rise of Chinese military year for the u.S.-Japan alliance, and she GDP (PPP)
capabilities and the nuclear and ballistic hopes that she has contributed to the 2009 estimate
$4.267 trillion
threat posed by North Korea influence dialogue on the future role of international Per capita$33,478
Japanese strategic thinking. In her view, security between the two countries in a Drives on the left
Japan lacks a coherent national security constructive way.
policy reflecting the present-day strategic Carolyn’s strong interest in
reality. international politics grew from her junior FEATURE STORY
When the treaty was signed, it was year abroad in the Czech Republic. An
understood that Japan would not assist any internship at the u.S. Embassy in Prague
u. S. territories should the occasion arise, gave her an opportunity to see firsthand the
because its constitution forbids waging war ups and downs of implementing a
overseas. e treaty has allowed the u.S. to democratic system. Carolyn pursued her
provide an international security presence interests in graduate school at Columbia

FEATURE STORY
university, where she earned a master’s degree in internal policy skirmishes and disagreements in
international affairs with a concentration in every administration. You know from the outset
international security policy. She began her career that you can’t win every policy battle. But North
at the State Department, working on Korea policy was different because the dramatic
nonproliferation and disarmament initiatives in change in the policy direction seemed to me to
Eastern Europe and Central Asia. is experience be a betrayal of the nonproliferation and
led her to a new position with the Senate Foreign counter-proliferation goals the administration
Relations Committee. had advocated since the beginning. I am proud
In 2003, she rejoined the State Department of my service in the Bush administration and
as a political appointee in the Bush believe we achieved a number of important
administration, working on a variety of policy victories in the nonproliferation and
nonproliferation and counter-proliferation issues counter-proliferation area on behalf of u.S.
from biological weapons to Libyan disarmament national security. But I believe to this day that
activities. In 2006, Carolyn made the move to the reversal of course on North Korea policy was
the White House as director for counter- a mistake.”
proliferation strategy on the staff of the National After disagreeing with the talks and policy
Security Council. A year into the position, she negotiations in North Korea, she resigned from
traveled to North Korea as a member of the u.S. the Bush administration. “I am a type A
delegation surveying and negotiating the personality, and I have always planned and
disablement of the Yongbyon nuclear facility, a carefully considered my career progression, but at
trip that marked a turning point in her career. the end of 2007, I left without a plan,” she says.
“After I returned from North Korea it was Carolyn had accepted an assignment for a
apparent to me that the appearance of progress small think tank when an unexpected illness put
was a higher priority than actual progress toward her career on hold. While recovering from heart
disarmament itself, and that my views were no surgery, she began searching for something that
longer welcome,” Carolyn says. “ere are always would reignite her passion for foreign policy.

“A friend sent me an e-mail about the many respects, Japan is becoming a more inward-
fellowship and I said ‘why not?’ I had been looking society rather than a global society.
searching for a sign that would refocus my life after Immigration is an extremely sensitive issue here.
my health crisis,” she says. Japan also still continues to try to overcome its
After an extensive application and interview colonial past in Asia, including with Korea and
process, Carolyn was awarded the fellowship. China.”
Sponsored by Hitachi Ltd., a large, Japanese In the numerous articles that Carolyn has
technology-based corporation with a global published over the last year in the Wall Street
presence, and the Council on Foreign Relations, the Journal, the Daily Yomiuri and other publications,
post is designed for mid-career professionals who she urges the Japanese not to become complacent
may assist in establishing new links and maintaining about taking initiative for their own defense, to take
ties between the u.S. and Japan. a stronger look at the changing world around them,
e u.S. defense umbrella includes the large and make decisions that will strengthen their own
conventional force presence of nearly 47,000 troops foothold as peacekeepers in East Asia.
stationed in Japan, strategic commitments in the Carolyn is realistic about the u.S-Japan
region and commitment of extended deterrence alliance. She believes it can endure another 50 years
guaranteed by u.S. nuclear forces. Time and events if the country adapts to face 21st-century threats to
have strained this arrangement. Aside from its own security, including its constitutional
economic problems and potential threats from constraints on warfare. “But this is no easy task.
China and North Korea, many Japanese are Japan faces significant domestic political constraints
unhappy with the number of u.S. troops stationed which render it difficult to view foreign policy as
on their soil. Two incidents related to the Futenma playing a prominent role in Japanese politics in the
airbase, home to about 4,000 troops, contributed to coming years,” she says.
the unrest. e first was the abduction and rape of a One constraint is the economic slump the
12-year-old Okinawan girl by three u.S. servicemen country has struggled to overcome for two decades.
in 1995. In 2004 a helicopter crashed into Okinawa It was made worse by the 2008 banking crisis and
International university, elevating already the worldwide recession that followed.
heightened concerns about public safety near the
urban base. After nearly 15 years of negotiation, an
agreement was struck in 2006 to relocate the base, Moreover, most Japanese remain
only to fall apart four years later.
unaware of the strategic value
u.S. forces stationed in Japan have long been a
controversial and complex issue. While the majority of U.S. forces in Japan for
of the Japanese public supports the presence of u.S. security and stability.
forces in Japan for maintaining security, the people
of Okinawa remain less sanguine about u.S. forces
in their backyard. Moreover, most Japanese remain “As a result, no matter how hard the u.S.
unaware of the strategic value of u.S. forces in government pushes Japan to do more in the security
Japan for security and stability in East Asia. area, it is likely to see the same minimal level of
“It’s a very challenging time for Japan,” Carolyn effort from Japan,” Carolyn says. “And the tension
says. “Japan is witnessing its economy being over Futenma may only represent the beginning of
surpassed by China. To top it off, Japan is facing a turbulent times in the coming years. us, it may be
massive fiscal deficit. Japan has one of the world’s necessary for the u.S. to look toward other security
oldest populations, combined with one of the lowest relationships in the Asia-Pacific, including Korea,
birth rates in the world. e pension system is Australia and even India, to assume more
under severe stress, and it is expected to get worse in responsibility for security in the region as China’s
the coming years. ere are simply not enough military rise continues and the instability of the
workers to support the graying population. And in Korean Peninsula persists.”

F E A T U R E
Better Schools,
Brighter Smiles By Colleen Murray
Alumna’s work helps Cambodian

children build better futures
LIVING IN SINGAPORE WITH HER and visits Cambodia several times each year. As
HuSBAND AND TWO BOYS, Paige Shiller chief operating officer, she handles all of the
okun ’88 works for an organization that fundraising and administration of the
changes children’s lives with books and foundation. Her work assists CFC in covering
toothpaste. Caring for Cambodia is a nonprofit the cost of teachers’ salaries, libraries, school
devoted to the education of nearly 5,600 supplies, food and more. e children no
children in the Siem Reap province of longer have to pay for anything to attend
Cambodia. As an employee of CFC, Paige sees school.
positive change happening there all the time, a “We will take any child in the district who
welcome reward for the CFC team that has wants to come to school,” Paige says.
helped to build the organization from the e organization has eight schools, ranging
inspiring vision of one Texan woman. from preschool, the first in Cambodia, to high
Seven years ago, Jamie Amelio of Texas school. It uses a professional teaching
visited the Cambodian temples of Angkor Wat, curriculum that is internationally recognized,
where children stood begging outside the but remains distinctly Cambodian.
temple walls. When she asked one of them why “Our schools are run by paid professionals,
they wanted money, the child replied: to go to all of whom are Cambodian,” Paige says. “We
school. have more than one hundred employees
When Jamie questioned villagers, she ranging from security guards to cooks to
found that teachers are paid a tiny stipend and teachers to librarians. We feel it is very
some not at all. e children and their families important for the staff to be Cambodian in
were supplementing teachers’ salaries. order for the program to remain sustainable
Investigating further, she discovered other basic and replicable.”
needs: books, shoes, hygiene instruction, CFC had two goals for its teachers when it
proper nutrition and more. In the schools, began its own training program: First, that they
children were crammed 10 to 15 to a desk in learned to teach a modern, effective
shoddy structures infested with insects and curriculum, and second, that the curriculum
birds. they taught preserved the Cambodian spirit
After that trip, Jamie soon founded Caring and culture. e organization recruited a group
for Cambodia, which not only provides a of practicing international teachers to volunteer
strong Cambodian education for the students, as consultants. e group visited the schools,
but helps them to live healthier lives. In some discussed best practices in teaching and created
cases, it has saved them. modules to educate the teachers on these
Since 2006, Paige Okun has held one of practices.
two paid non-teaching positions at CFC. She e consultants had the national
CamboDIa
works remotely from her home in Singapore curriculum translated from the official
Capital Phnom Penh Largest city Phnom Penh Official language Khmer Government Constitutional monarchy Area 69,898 sq mi
Population 2010 estimate 14,805,000 GDP (PPP) 2009 estimate $28.092 billion Per capita $2,084 Currency riel (KHr)

language, Khmer, to English, and found it to be an excellent holistic approach to learning and development.
teaching guide. e problem was that Cambodian teachers “We provide everything these children need to go to
simply hadn’t been taught how to use it well enough. e school,” Paige says, including uniforms, a nutritious
consultants trained many of the CFC teachers to use the breakfast, books, backpacks, flip-flops, bicycles and even
Cambodian curriculum more effectively, and added English toothbrushes.
as a second language and computer skills. ey also Because dental problems are a main cause of disease in
identified and trained promising Cambodians to mentor third-world countries, Paige helped CFC start a program
their peers in the new techniques. called Bright Smiles, Bright Futures. e program provides
“We are hoping it will eventually always be Cambodians toothbrushes and paste for all of the children at the schools,
teaching Cambodians,” Paige says. where after breakfast, they brush their teeth.
e curriculum and teaching success of CFC has been “In the last three years, we haven’t had a single child
recognized by the Cambodian government, which recently die,” Paige says. “Before the program, we were losing ten to
invited the organization’s superintendent to speak at fifteen kids each year.”
educational conferences. Paige says that CFC has had an impact on the lives of
“e government has now turned to us to ask how they her own children, too.
can be involved,” Paige says. “We’re looking at making a “I visit Cambodia at least four times each year for about
huge change in how the whole country handles its education a week. On one of those trips, I take my kids. I’ve been able
system.” to show [them] a side of the world where there’s such great
But the program does even more than provide the need and such great hope. For us as a family, it’s been
educational tools that the students need. CFC believes in a incredible.”
ray
By Colleen Mur
FEATURED COURSE

HEN MANY OF uS THINK OF
W GLOBALIzATION, we think of the West

overwhelming the rest of the world, of chain
stores and monopolies driving out the local fare,
and the steady trickle of American jobs lost to
overseas manufacturers. But Professor Debbie Durham’s fall
course “Anthropology of Globalization” seeks a wider view
and asks students to look at the complex ways that
globalization occurs and affects our decisions. She guides
students through a dizzying array of ideas and scenarios that
show how globalization is being produced in industries,
communities and families around the world.
Debbie says that when anthropologists look at
globalization, they focus on the individual: How do
individuals solve problems in an environment now impacted are distributed among family members.”
by a global economy and mindset? How do they react to At the same time, such organizations have also helped to
shifts in economy, culture and family life? How do they empower children, and in some cases, given them the ability
handle the new opportunities presented to them? And, most to start their own programs of social change under limited
of all, why are their decisions important? adult supervision. zimbabwe, Debbie notes, experimented
To generate discussions of these questions, the class with a Children’s Parliament that reported to the
explores how McDonald’s isn’t just exporting American government, and has a child-led African Movement of
culture. Debbie notes that Spain, not the united States, was Working Children and Youth.
one of the first places you could use a credit card at a Although globalization is often thought of as the
McDonald’s; that in China, locals appreciate McDonald’s movement of western ideas and commodities, the course
because it treats all customers equally; that in Korea people explores aspects of non-western influence as well. In countries
see McDonald’s food as suitable for snack-time only; and that around the world, Latin American telenovelas, Bollywood
in some American McDonald’s you now can eat samosas and and Hong Kong kung fu films are popular, while American
black beans that first appeared on menus overseas. Hollywood films hold little interest. e Islamic fashion
McDonald’s is doing a lot more than what many Americans industry is another global movement that reaches from Asia
see as imposing on other cultures — while introducing into many parts of the world, including Great Britain and the
American practices and items, it’s also borrowing and u.S. as well as Niger and Indonesia.
inventing others abroad, in response to people’s ways of “We live in a world where how we live our lives can have
living, and occasionally bringing them to the united States. an impact on women in Sri Lanka, children in Africa and
“When asked for an example of globalization, people local restaurants in Belize,” says Debbie. “Everything is
often think first of McDonald’s,” Debbie says. “But connected. And an awareness of globalization is important
anthropologists are interested in the complex way for anyone working in any field today from banking to health
McDonald’s becomes part of different people’s projects.” care. ese are things to be aware of that will make you think
e global impact of non-governmental agencies, creatively and should help you act responsibly, but also to see
especially western humanitarian organizations in Africa, opportunities and work with them.”
makes up another part of the course. A professor at Sweet Briar since 1993, Debbie Durham
“In zimbabwe, the individual effects that these has co-edited two books, “Generations and Globalization:
organizations have are very complicated and surprising,” Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy” and
Debbie says. “Child-saving charities can cause family tensions “Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of
and weaken the child’s ability to call upon support from a Children and Youth.” Much of her research on youth has
wide variety of people that typically would have been taken place in communities of Botswana; however, she is now
responsible. ey also undermine the way goods and wealth undertaking a study of aging in Turkey.
Recommended Reading:
Arjun Appadurai, “Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization” | Sidney Mintz, “Sweetness and Power: The Place of
Sugar in Modern History” | Aihwa Ong, “Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality” | Richard Wilk, “Home Cooking
in the Global Village” | Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, eds., “Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in
the New Economy” | Colleen Ballerino Cohen, Richard Wilk and Beverly Stoeltje, eds., “Beauty Queens on the Global Stage”

ATHLETICS
VIxEN HITTER
Leads by Example
CaSSiDy JoneS ’11 DRAWS A loans when she graduates. Wanting to positives out of negatives,” otherwise
LOT OF INSPIRATION from her stay close to home, the Rustburg, Va., known as “no pain, no gain.”
parents and older sister. native found what she was looking “Being places on time, putting
“I have always been taught and for at Sweet Briar: A small school motivation and hard work into
shown how hard work is the only where she could pursue interests in everything to help influence those
thing that will get you somewhere “designing and building things” and with less experience, being someone
and in the end it will pay off,” she play volleyball. people can rely on to always give one
says. While working toward her hundred and ten percent and get the
Cassidy lives by those values, Bachelor of Science in engineering, job done when it needs to be; being a
working since she was 16 to pay her Cassidy has been a leader on the leader on the court and off and
way through college — and facing Vixen volleyball team for four years having others look up to you really
playing middle and outside hitter. On makes you evaluate yourself and focus
the court she is consistently among on being a better person for you and
the top performers on both offense them,” she says.
and defense. Competing in the tough Cassidy ran track at Rustburg
Division III Old Dominion Athletic High School and has been an
Conference, Cassidy was an assistant coach for the high jumpers
honorable mention for the first and since graduating. Now she enjoys
second All-ODAC teams in 2008. being the one helping the younger
Sports have always been a part of girls make positive choices and strive
Cassidy’s life and she feels it has to be their best.
helped shape who she is. She began “What they don’t know is they
playing volleyball at age 11. Her are helping me too, because I have to
coaches have taught her many life be accountable to them so they have
lessons, especially accountability, she something to look up to.”
says. Another is “trying to find the
SaMantHa BriteLL ’11 DIDN’T PLAY SOCCER AT ALL her junior

year at Sweet Briar. She was under doctors’ orders to rest until she could have
surgery to repair problems in both hips. e pain had begun in high school and
progressed until it threatened permanent injury.
FROM SIDELINE TO She hated not playing and spent the season on the bench filling with angry
Field resentment when a teammate fussed about playing in the rain or that a blister
hindered her play. One day the frustration brought her to tears.
“I was being completely selfish and unhelpful to the team, and looking
back at that, I’m ashamed of myself,” Sam says. So she made a choice. “If I
couldn’t play, then I could at least aid those who could.”
e next day she threw herself into her duties as team manager, filling
water bottles, taking stats, supporting players and staying near the coach to
learn from his direction.
During that time, she says, “I was constantly reminded that soccer is not
just a game that you play, but a position that you live; you constantly switch
between defending yourself from things that will take away from you mentally
and moving forward to a goal.”
Her goal was to play again and on Aug. 19, 2010, Sam put on her

BuSY SCHEDuLE,
Diverse Interests
herself with grace in both her commitments keep her focused,
victory and defeat. especially during hockey season. “I often
At Sweet Briar Alex is a find that I have more free time in season
midfielder on the Vixens field because it dictates that the schedule of my
hockey team. She has been day be carefully planned,” she says.
named to the Old Dominion “Another advantage to having multiple
Athletic Conference All- interests is that I can never claim boredom.
Academic team the past two When I get tired of reading about the rise
years. She also is an Honors of the Roman Empire, I go and hang out
Scholar and this year’s recipient with my horse. When I’m sick of smelling
of the Betty Bean Black and J.A. like a barn, I dress up and sing opera in the
Moore scholarships. chapel and when I’m ready to compete
She is combining her again I head out to the field.”
major with minors in music and at doesn’t mean Alex doesn’t
biology. Each plays to her varied sometimes think about homing in on one
aLex St. Pierre PICKED uP A interests: e classics because she loves the thing. Before entering vet school, she’s
HOCKEY STICK for the first time in high ancient Greek and Roman cultures and considering dedicating a year with her
school because her mother made her choose grasps the intrinsic value of the major’s horse, Aidan, on the three-day eventing
a team sport. until then, all she wanted to encompassing nature; music because she training circuit.
do was ride horses. loves to sing and “wanted a better “I have never had the opportunity
Now the junior classical languages understanding of music on the whole — given my other commitments,” she says. “It
major from South Hamilton, Mass., both its theory and practice”; and biology would be a fantastic opportunity to see how
considers it one of her mother’s best because she’s also completing pre-vet far I could go and how well we can perform
parenting decisions. Sports, she says, have requirements. when I work single-mindedly towards one
given her confidence and skill in Rather than competing against one goal — a very unusual circumstance for a
competition and the ability to handle another, she finds the pace and variety of Sweet Briar woman!”
“shinnies” and “boots” for the first time since midway through her
sophomore season. “I’ve hit some bumps in the road this season due to
the healing process, but I know that I can push my way through it, and
that it’s all about being in the right defensive position,” she says.
Coach Kevin Fabulich saw the growth in Sam, an outside right
back defender from Shady Side, Md. And she’s helped him position the
team for the future. “She is much more team focused, on and off the
field,” he says. “Last year she acted as my recruiting assistant and was
instrumental in bringing in the biggest and best recruiting class SBC
soccer has had.”
While sidelined from the sport she’s loved since third grade, life
went on for Sam, who won this year’s Rebecca Tomlinson Lindblom
Award for excellence in philosophy and religion. She is double majoring
in both disciplines. Since she was a little girl she’s asked questions about
faith, free will versus determinism, and “why people bicker over
religions when they have the same idea about God.”
She is thinking about pursuing a doctorate in religion with a focus
on Christianity and interfaith dialogue. She wants to have that
conversation “whether or not everyone else wants to,” she says.

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the story begins, where a student blossoms.
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to lead, the mentor who set you on your professional path,
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ALUMNAE NEWS
HAPPY RETuRNS
THIRTY-EIGHT MEMBERS OF
Reunion Weekend 2010
THE CLASS OF 1960 attended
THREE HuNDRED TWO ALuMNAE RETuRNED TO CAMPuS for
their 50th reunion with unmatched
the celebration of Reunion 2010. During the wellness-themed weekend,
enthusiasm. On Saturday, they were
President Jo ellen Parker joined alumnae for an intense Nia workout, Fannie
recognized with the Nancy Dowd
Zollicoffer Mallonee ’80 led a yoga class and the Fitness and Athletics Center
Burton Award, having contributed
was open for racquetball, tennis, swimming, jogging and more. Other offerings
the largest unrestricted Annual Fund
included an art exhibition by Jill Steenhuis ’80, a book club with writer-in-
gift during the reunion year. ey
residence Carrie Brown, an introduction to Facebook with Professor Lisa
also received the Centennial Award,
Johnston and more.
recognizing the class with the largest
At the Reunion Celebration Luncheon, elvira McMillan tate ’65 was
total giving to all funds of the College
recognized as the 2010 Outstanding Alumna, having served as a leader for the
since their previous reunion
Atlanta Alumnae Club, a faithful attendee of alumnae events, a member of the
celebration. With the highest
board of directors and a tremendous supporter of the College’s initiatives in
participation in Annual Fund giving
many areas. Awards were given to recognize several classes, in particular the
among classes celebrating their 25th
Class of 1960, celebrating its 50th reunion.
through 50th reunions, 1960 received
Perhaps one of the most notable events, one that doesn’t occur each year,
the Participation Award as well.
was the ring game, played by the class of 1985 at their 25th reunion celebration
dinner announcing Heidi Belofsky turk’s recent engagement to Dr. George
Everly Jr. As twilight settled over the lake, a cheer went up from the boathouse
deck when Heidi seized her ring.
View the Reunion 2010 story in photos at

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THE CLASS OF 1985 celebrated its
25th reunion with a welcome dinner at
the Boathouse. Twenty-three
members of the class attended.
THE CLASS OF 1980 set a new record for

the largest unrestricted gift to the Annual
Fund at a 30th reunion. The class is
recognized on the Reunion Giving
Recognition Plaque in the Prothro Student
Commons.
ON SATURDAY EVENING, alumnae danced

to the music of the Jangling Reinharts.
PATTI POWELL PUSEY, Reunion

Giving co-chair, accepts the
Centennial Award for the Class of
1960 at Saturday’s celebration
luncheon.

REUNION WEEKEND
THE CLASS OF 1990 won the

Participation Award, recognizing the
class with the largest percent
participation in the Annual Fund
among classes celebrating their 5th
through 20th reunions.
PRESIDENT JO ELLEN PARKER stands

with the 2010 Outstanding Alumna
Award winner, Elvira McMillan Tate ’65,
and president of the Alumnae
Association, Jennifer Crossland ’86.
MEMBERS OF THE CLASS

OF 2005 attended reunion
dressed for the occasion.
Reunion 2010 Class Giving Accomplishments

Class Year Reunion Class 5-Year Total
Gift ($) Participation (%) Giving ($)
1960 266,292 78 744,895
1965 101,286 71 484,622
1970 36,087 56 265,784
1975 71,595 64 159,345
1980 100,341 63 397,766
1985 21,027 36 67,362
1990 16,727 36 38,447
1995 11,958 28 36,915
2000 15,975 29 38,145
2005 4,177 19 17,254
Reunion 2010 Post-fiftieth

Class Giving Accomplishments
Class Year Reunion 5-Year Lifetime
Gift ($) Giving Total ($) Giving Total ($)
1945 16,533 3,688,479 10,701,533
1950 15,398 129,051 4,343,032
HEIDI BELOFSKY TURK ’85 slips on her
1955 14,114 358,524 1,661,023
engagement ring after a celebratory
round of the ring game on Friday night.

e Private Work of Poetry
By CM Burroughs ’04
My public life includes a variety of podiums, microphones and audiences — both in the
performance of my poetry and in front of my creative writing students at the university of
Pittsburgh. When I escape that public realm, I go home to the private work of poetry.
DEAR INCuBATOR,
At six months gestation, I am a fabrication born far too soon. My body, a stone in a steaming
basket.
I remember you.
— [Figureless]
— A black kaleidoscope. Turn. Turn. e dangerous loom of the loom of you. Patterns pressing P E R S P E C T I V E
upon — me inside. Nothing luminous as my mother’s womb. is second attempt at formation; a turn.
e nurse slides her wedding band past my hand, beyond my elbow and over my shoulder. I am
1lb. 12oz. and already feminine. Knowing nothing of it. I am trying to be clear —
I was first fascinated then afraid of the shapes’ rise from your darkness. And their growth
toward me. I wailed under their weight. My eyes were shuttered by lids. My skin was
translucent; anyone could see me working.
How can I ask you from inside the poem — what senses did I have so early… So unformed.
I was tangled in tubes (that kept my heart pumping; that kept my lungs from collapsing; food
to the body; oxygen to the brain.)
You are everything and nothing.
A surrogate. A packaging of half-made sensory detail; a past.
I have scars on my belly in shapes of fish… Where sensors tore thin skin. What a tragedy to
be powerless. And yet, I controlled the choreography of everyone around me (the check of
vitals; arms through the arm ports; my parents’ speech; also, there were surgeons.)
I am trying to tell you something important. About after they opened you and took me out.
I was infected. Could command nothing of my legs. For years.
e surgeons, thin blades shining into nothing. Imagine the cuts — blood spread along the lip of
each, spilling as my skin parts. Someone bringing cotton to catch it.
Is it your fault? I don’t know. I was in a state, I’ve explained. I don’t know what you let in…
Perhaps. Do you know lovers ask about these scars. Touch these raised scars.
So much has happened. I’m black. I have a dead sister. I love you, but, and believe this,
I mostly want to talk.
“Dear Incubator” is the first poem in my manuscript, “e Vital System,” and the poem from
which my poetic obsessions unfold. I wrote the poem because there seemed something missing
from the mythology of my manuscript — a catalyst, a story that provided a reason for all the
manuscript’s other stories. Immediately, I knew I needed to investigate my beginning — the
incubator — the character that appears in my imagination as both captor and creator.
I was born weighing 1 pound 12 ounces, three months premature, then thrust into an other womb.
(I stress other in order to denote the incubator’s foreignness.) For this poem, imagery was my first
tool/nag/reflex. e image that began my first draft was “a stone in a steaming basket,” and it
possessed texture, activity and tension. Most important, it was a metaphor that provided a tonal
anchor for the poem, and gave me a means of thinking about the body and birth. From that image
forward, I experienced the rather normal impulse to evoke the stories I’d been told of my birth.
However, it is within that instinct that my personal aesthetic comes to stage. As an
experimental poet, I resist conventional “story.” What matters more is the brevity of language,
disruption of regular syntax, cinematic imagery, and my particular obsession with exposing tension.
Because my own story was interrupted — by an untimely birth (oh, I love that phrase) — I had to
allow the poem’s story to experience interruption, as well. e incubator, that artificial workshop for
my body, had to be shown, but it also had to be dissected and opened into the wedding ring being
pushed over my shoulder, shapes of fish imprinted into my skin, scars that lovers would touch. In
other words, I needed to explore the narratives of my birth moment, but that exploration had to
open a doorway to the stories’ larger significance — the experience of suffering and the absolute
necessity to examine and discuss suffering.
Over a long pack of hours, and a few revisions thereafter, the poem came to be what it is
now. A mythology, a doorway in. “Dear Incubator” was published by Runes literary journal in 2007
and nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2008.
Of all the gracious experiences that have ever happened to me — discovering poetry,
becoming a poet, falling in love — I have valued them most because they were surprises. Buried
somewhere in my system and sparking, but surprises nonetheless. I could not have imagined this life
when I arrived at Sweet Briar in 2000. I wouldn’t have wanted to know it then ... I might even have
been afraid in the face of all this freedom.

N O T E S 1935 burial on Monument Hill in the
Columbarium. What a beautiful set-
to me a most rewarding job. The
love of SBC and each other is alive
and volunteers at the Salvation
Army. She lost brother Alvah Chap-
ting it was. and strong. 60 remain in our class man last yr. He and wife Betty built
Juliet Halliburton Davis Bless Bobbie Engh Croft and and 16 have e-mail addresses. I 2 fantastic centers and started
4100 Well Spring Dr., No. 2305 Edie Brainerd Walter who stay in tried to reach all of you. If any cards Community Partnership for the
Greensboro, NC 27410 touch. Bobbie sent a wonderful pic- come late, we’ll save for the next is- Homeless in Miami, which is going
ture of her with her sister, Jean sue. nation-wide. Betty continues their
Engh Lyncan’s children (’41). She’s Julie Mills Jacobsen, Washing- work.
1938 still gorgeous, has the figure of a ton, D.C., Mary Haskins King, Lile Tucker Bell, Richmond, VA is
teenager, and reports that she’s ad- Greensboro, N.C. and Anne Dick- doing well at 88. She’s been at
Frances Bailey Brooke justing to a new life without Cross- son Waldrop, Salem, VA, attended Westminster-Canterbury Retirement
405 Jackson Ave. well. Edie stays busy with 2 book our 65th Reunion in May. Julia’s old Comm. in Richmond for 3 yrs. She
clubs, bridge and taking care of friend, Clark McCartney, drove her has her health and uses a cane
C L A S S
Lexington, VA 24450
house and yard. She made a com- down and back and made sure that only for stability. She has 3 daugh-
ment with which all of us can relate, the 3 got to everything in one piece. ters and their families plus friends
1942 more and more of our friends aren’t They adopted him into the class of in Richmond. Her activities are:
able to get around. Sad, but true, ’45; and they elected me Class book club, movies, meals and so-
Ann Morrison Reams
but how blessed we are that we’re Secretary with help from Julia and ciability; also 4 great-grand kids.
771 Bon Air Circle
still hanging in there, alive and kick- Mary Haskins. Dickie was unani- Leila Barnes Cheatham, Griffin,
Lynchburg, VA 24503
ing. mously elected Class President. GA, said, “Doesn’t everyone need
[email protected]
While you are reading this, take They hope to return for our 70th help? Therapists are bothersome,
out pen and paper and send me a and encourage all of us to join. taking up time. She knows better
Wonderful things continue to
note! All of us want to hear from They met our new President, Jo than to climb mountains with
happen at SBC. President Parker
you! Love always to all. Ellen Parker, and agreed that we switchbacks. She’s resisting protec-
has created a blog where she posts
have a winner with a vision. They tion from the cradle to the grave as
something each week. Sometimes
it’s about a particular student, a
faculty member or an interesting bit
1944 announced Peggy Jones Wyllie and
late husband Jesse Wyllie have
her mother did until 98, but says
better not brag too soon. She rat-
of news. Visit Alice Lancaster Buck given $3 million to SBC as an en- tles around in her 1896 4-floor an-
21085 Cardinal Pond Ter., Apt. 106 dowment in support of the engi- cestral home.
blog.president.sbc.edu. You’ll find it
Ashburn, VA 20147 neering program, which the Coll. Betty “Zu” Zulick Reuter,
fascinating.
[email protected] named for her. It’s the 1st named Towanda, PA, writes at 87, life is a
Last week, we took our folding
academic program in the Coll.’s his- bit slower. She had a hip replace-
chairs, a cooler and nibbles, and
tory. (Check out the summer 2010 ment this yr., can’t do her daily 1.5
went to see summer theater per-
formance of “Hamlet” at Sweet
1945 issue, Alumnae Magazine). Julie’s mi. walk yet. She enjoys bridge,
electric scooter got stuck in wet grandchildren and 2 great-grands;
Briar. Some people went early and Dale Sayler Morgan grass, but security rescued her. She they also play for singing at a
took a picnic. The show was held at 486A Beaulieu Ave. asks that we all get our acts to- skilled nursing unit. She ends with
the old dairy barn. It was a grand Savannah, GA 31406 gether; bring your walkers, canes, “We’re both happy!”
scene as the sun went down and [email protected] scooters, wheelchairs or whatever Ellen Gray Wilson, Spokane, WA,
night came on. The play itself was
and plan to return in ’15. We might and husband try to walk a mi. a
beautifully done, the lead being Julia Mills Jacobsen even have a mini reunion sooner. day, half in AM and half in PM.
played by a young man from Buck-
4416 Edmunds St., NW Mary Haskins King had a great They’re in good health and enjoy
nell U.
Washington, DC 20007 time and plans to return for our family, children and grand kids.
Our dear friend, Barbara Frek-
[email protected] 70th! The campus was as beautiful They volunteer in efforts to keep
ing, died last year in Greenwich, CT.
as ever. The choir, made of return- friends moving, as in walking to and
Another sadness was the death of
Bunny Barnett Brown ’49, who did Mary Haskins King ing alumnae for their particular yr., in the park.
501 Kimberly Dr. sounded professional. They were Edie Page Gill Breakell,
such an excellent job as editor of
Greensboro, NC 27408 the oldest ones there and were Roanoke, VA, writes that 11th
our Alumnae Magazine in the late
treated with kid gloves. She grandchild arrived in Mar. and the
’80s. Her husband, Walter, was
I, Dale, have been overcome couldn’t imagine how they’d have oldest is being married in Sept.
chairman of our board for a time.
and overjoyed by your responses. gotten along without Julie’s friend. Missed Reunion because a trip to
They chose SBC as their final rest-
Helping Julie, who has written our On returning home, she had hip sur- Hilton Head conflicted. She gave up
ing place, so I attended last month.
news for many yrs., has delegated gery, planned but put off until after piano, golf and tennis, but can play
The service was in the Chapel with
Reunion. She got along initially, but bridge, travel and enjoy family. She
then developed a clot in her leg. A went to the Garden Club of Vir-
piece got loose and went to her ginia’s Daffodil Show at SBC in
Classmates Want to Hear from You! lung, which put her back in the hos- Apr.; it was beautiful.
To submit notes, send your news to the secretary listed. If your class doesn’t pital in CCU for 5 days. What a fi- Jane Clarke Morrow, Louisville,
asco; but she’s recovering. KY, said one of her best memories
have a secretary, send news to Colleen Murray, magazine editor, at Cappy Price Bass and Bruce are was visiting Frances Matton Luck-
[email protected] or PO Box 1056, Sweet Briar, VA 24595. e magazine is still in their house after 45 yrs. She ett at SBC in the spring ’45 when
also happy to accept high quality, digital or print images depicting your class’ no longer plants her vegetable gar- World War II ended. They blew the
den, but picks an abundance of veg- steam whistle in the laundry to let
mini reunions, weddings and new arrivals. etables for their table. She has a all know. Such excitement! She’s
Secretaries may submit notes for every issue of the magazine and will need to great-grandson. When she visits her lived in her house for 56 yrs., with a
daughter in Baltimore she sees Lo- huge collection of treasures, “stuff”
receive your news before the following deadlines: vah Wilcox Gearhart in assisted liv- to anyone else. She works on throw-
ing. She lost her husband some ing things away, but hard to do. She
Spring ’11 Magazine: February 1, 2011 time ago. Talking to her made me uses a cane. She cherishes her 1
forget the time elapsed since our yr. at SBC.
Fall ’11 Magazine: August 1, 2011 last meeting. Hedy Edwards Davenport, Look-
Wyline Chapman Sayler and hus- out Mountain, TN, is well and
band Henry (my brother) still live in healthy at 87, grateful to be busy.
update your e-mail and home addresses with the alumnae office St. Petersburg; 2 sons live in St. She was headed to Spoleto so
([email protected] or 434-381-6131) to be sure you are receiving all of your Pete, another across the state and missed Reunion. She returned from
secretary’s correspondences. Class secretaries are volunteers elected by their class one in Atlanta; they get together of- Aspen, CO, and its music festival, a
ten. She has 4 great-grandchildren welcome relief from the heat. She
and are responsible for the accuracy of the notes.
and 2 more due in Sept. She retired sees Hilda Hude Chapin and Sarah
her tennis racquet last spring. Temple Moore often. In Aug., she’s
Finally, mark your calendars for Reunion Weekend 2011, May 20 – 22, Henry, almost blind, never misses taking 45 of her family to the Broad-
celebrating class years ending in a one or a six. biking each wk with his group at the moor in CO Springs for a family get-
gym. She delivers Meals on Wheels together.

winter destroyed all the trees on 22
acres of her land, but happy news was
Dianna Yaeger Rankin ’66 the wedding of her 2nd grandson. CLASS NOTES
Directs Riding at The Madeira School Nancy-Ellen Feazell Kent, Hilton
Head Island, SC, spends her time be-
By Colleen Murray tween Hilton Head and Marietta, GA. sincerely for your response. You’ve
She’s planning a big Christmas with 4 brought me joy. Keep in touch and may
Dianna Yaeger Rankin seemed destined to new stockings for 4 new arrivals! those not heard from please send news
become a great rider, having spent her childhood Betty Gray, Willoughby, OH, still has for our spring issue. My best wishes
on a thoroughbred horse farm in Maryland, with all of her joints and all of her own teeth. and love to all of you.
an uncanny knack for the saddle. As a child, she Living in a retirement community keeps
rode with the Green Spring Valley Pony Club, her moving. She’s given up driving and
which prepared her for the kind of riding environ- travelling. 1946
ment she found at Sweet Briar — a program with Mary Kathryn Frye Hemphill, Hickory Mary Vandeventer Saunders
many opportunities to show and sharpen her NC, says she “has been there and done 955 Harpersville Rd.
skills. While earning her degree in English with that” — knee and hip replacements — Newport News, VA 23601
minors in both French and history, she rode with and was blessed with caregivers and
the College’s show team. Now, after many na- children. She can no longer do physi-
tional and international successes in the saddle, cally what she’d like. She’s spending 1947
Dianna has accepted the position of director of the summer at her home at Grandfather
equestrian programs at The Madeira School in Lodge and Country Club, Linville, NC. Linda McKoy Stewart
McLean, Va. The girls’ boarding school has gradu- Amanda Parsley Worth, Raleigh, NC, 18 Osprey Lane
ated such famous women as Katherine Graham, said that reading my card and writing Rumson, NJ 07760
Frances Sternhagen and Alice Rivlin. one was pretty much of a triumph. She [email protected]
After graduating from Sweet Briar in 1966, Di- still knits, walks, cooks and reads, but
anna earned her master’s in teaching from Goucher College and went on to man-
age international equestrian centers in Maryland, Florida and Wisconsin. She
more slowly. Her 3 children live there
and they and their children are com-
1949
also worked as assistant professor of equestrian studies at Stephen’s College in puter literate. She says it’s all “Greek” Catherine Cox Reynolds
Columbia, Mo. to her! George is in the building busi- 20 Loeffler Rd. T-408
In the showing realm, Dianna has ridden both hunters and dressage. She has ness; Margaret is a nurse at Wake Re- Bloomfield, CT 06002
trained, ridden and shown jumpers who won at the Washington D.C. International hab; and Amanda works with professors [email protected]
and the Pennsylvania National Horse Show and shows on the Florida circuit. She at NC.
has been on the United States Equestrian Team in Dressage for two World Cups Mary Herbert Taylor, Columbia, SC, Caroline Casey McGehee Lindemann
and one World Championship and was on the gold-medal winning U.S. team at wrote that she and husband Edmund Brandt married Paul Edwin Brandt on
the North American Championships. In 1987, Dianna took home the USET grand are lucky beyond measure. He still plays 5/11/10. Her marriage was far too
prix championship and was honored with the title of Team Master. tennis every day at 94. She’s still keep- short since Mr. Brandt died on
On the home front, Dianna is the mother of five children and grandmother of ing house, although it may be the house 6/30/10. However, Carolyn says the
five grandchildren. She met her husband, Tom, while studying at Sweet Briar and keeping her. They walk 2 mi. every picture was taken on the happiest day
enjoys biking, hiking and writing children’s books. She and Tom have just moved morning and stay interested in many of her life, so here it is. Perhaps the les-
to the 376-acre campus of The Madeira School overlooking the Potomac River. things. One recent project has been a son for all of us should be to seize the
Working with three of her greatest passions — riding, horses and teaching — stream and wetlands restoration that day no matter how short.
Dianna looks forward to a fantastic first year at Madeira. turned out well and received lots of no- Margaret Towers Talman, Libby True-
tice. They’re concerned about the envi- heart Harris and Kitty Hart Belew par-
ronment, and its many aspects. They’ve ticipated in Mr. Brandt’s funeral service
worked particularly on land banks and at Westminster Canterbury in Richmond
Mary Symes Anderson, Woody friends and the comings and goings of easements. where a large number of alumnae re-
Creek, CO, says she lives too far for children, grandchildren and great-grand- Frances Matton Luckett, Louisville, side. It must’ve been a great comfort to
SBC news, but keeps in touch with Zu children. Her “Golden Oldies” group, KY, is in a new nursing home in Caroline to have old friends with her at
Zulick, Alice Gearhart Stinson and Sat. lunch and gossip, includes Hilda Louisville, since having a major stroke a very sad time. I’m sure the rest of us
Diddy Gaylord Thompson, her college Chapin and Hedy Edwards Davenport. 10 yrs. ago. She’s been in therapy extend our deepest sympathy.
roommates. She and her family are all She’s still involved in the art world and since, but can’t travel. She may not see Kitty Hart Belew says Bunny Bar-
happy and well. has an interested buyer now and then to SBC again, but she has her happy mem- nett Brown’s memorial service in the
Jean Ridler Fahrenbach, South keep the “Home Fires” burning. She ories. SBC Chapel was very nice. She and
Burlington, VT, is still travelling around thinks often of the “old school days”! I’ve already told you about myself. Al- Margaret Towers Talman journeyed to
the world, but will soon be finished with She and I had a visit 8 yrs. ago for her though 86, I’m still moving as fast as I SBC from Richmond for the service and
her “bucket list.” This past spring she youngest son’s wedding to a beautiful can. I have been widowed for 8 yrs. 2 the interment in the columbarium on
went to Israel and in the fall will go to Savannah young lady. knees and a hip replacement keep me Monument Hill. Alice Trout Hagan,
Japan. It’s been a hot summer in VT, 2009 was sad and difficult for Sadie from gardening, but haven’t deterred me Bunny’s first cousin, also attended as
but she enjoys boat rides on Lake Gwin Blackburn, Houston, TX, who lost from other activities such as garden did Carolyn Cannady Evans, Flip Eustis
Champlain with daughter Ann and hus- daughter Catherine in Jul. and her hus- club; Colonial Dames; local, state and Weiner and Judy Easley Mak. Libby
band. She can keep an eye on the boat band of 63 yrs. in Aug. Her 2 sons and national politics. I may not always be Trueheart Harris couldn’t attend be-
as it’s moored in front of her condo. their families have been wonderful tow- heard, but I’m vocal. I read, both fiction cause as she wrote to me, she’s just
Daughter Mary and husband have a new ers of strength. She remains semi-ac- and non-fiction; love to needlepoint; play not that mobile. She zips through the
boat for her to try out when visiting in tive in her community. Sadie Gwinn was bridge; attend church; keep up with hallways at Westminster Canterbury on
Aug. Son Rob and family, granddaughter President of The Garden Club of Amer- events at our Art Museum, special pro- her motor chair, however, and manages
Sierra (7) will visit in Aug. Her other ica in 1989 to 1991 and I had the grams at theaters, and attend other to attend grandchildren’s nearby gradua-
granddaughter, Christina (22) finished pleasure of seeing her many times in noteworthy events. I hope that is the se- tions.
her degree at VA Commonwealth U. in NY and other GCA meetings, as well as cret to keeping the mind from becoming Now we’ll shift to new beginnings.
Richmond. Jean attends exercise GCA Flower Shows in other cities. She’s rusty. I still drive, very carefully. I’m Larry Lawrence Simmons started a new
classes 3 times a wk. If any classmates another outstanding GCA lady. blessed with friends who fill my social business called Lawrence Lines, a po-
visit VT, please get in touch. She’d love Margaret Swann Norris, Nashville, life. My 2 sons, Philip and Henry, and etry on-demand service for people who
to see you. TN, retired 12 yrs. ago. She’s unable to their families (wives and 4 grandchil- need clever jingles for celebrations such
Joyce Virginia Livermore Foust, Ann travel because her husband (90) isn’t dren) live in Savannah. Daughter Diane as weddings, birthdays, promotions,
Arbor, MI, wrote that husband Fred died well. She has 6 grandchildren ages 30 and husband Dick Viall live in Sewickley, christenings, bar mitzvahs etc. You can
in Nov., after 63 great yrs. together. She to 6 yrs. PA. They each have 3 children; all are look up her company on the internet at
moved to an apt. across the street, Virginia Osborn McNabb’s daughter, married and are scattered over the www.lawrencelines.com and get a taste
near 2 of her children and many friends. Lisa Adkins, wrote that her mother has globe. Diane and Dick are both retired of her clever lyrics.
Sarah Temple Moore, Lookout Moun- Alzheimers in the last stage, but she’s from the travel business. They spend Mary Fran Brown Ballard journeyed
tain, TN, is enjoying life at 87. She does happy. She still lives in her home with their winters, Nov. to Apr., in Patagonia, to Ann Arbor, MI, for her grandson’s
what she can and not what she can’t. 24-hr. care. Argentina, to escape the snow and graduation from the U. and heard Presi-
She moves a little slower, watches her Amanda E. Hamblett White, Madis- sleet. You’ve been so appreciative of my dent Obama deliver the graduation ad-
step, but still drives and has fun with onville, KY, said that an ice storm last contact, but, believe me, I thank you dress in the football stadium.

There are many other grandchildren Susan Taylor Hubbard: I’m looking
graduating from assorted colleges forward to our 60th! My big news is
these days including those of Caroline that I have a new bicycle! A Schwinn, no
Mary Witt ’74
Casey Brandt and Preston Hodges Hill. less! Sets High Goals as President
Sally Melcher Jarvis returned to St. Sue Lockley Glad: It looks like we
Andrew’s, Scotland, in Jun. for her will make it to OR this summer. We look By Colleen Murray
granddaughter’s graduation. Ten family forward to a quiet summer except for
members attended. Sally spent her jun- the wk of Aug 1-7, which is the date for Twenty years ago, a graduate of the Uni-
ior year at St. Andrew’s. There, she met the family (and dogs!) to be there. I versity of Virginia School of Medicine met
her husband, John Jarvis, who died in hope to get back to playing golf and Mary Witt ’74 and saw her potential for lead-
11/09 after a long distinguished career even tennis while Ned hopes to make ership and her talent for reaching out to oth-
as headmaster of schools in Philadel- progress with walking. ers. Dr. David Strider became a mentor for
phia and Lancaster, PA. John would be Jean Graham “Randie” Randolph” Mary, encouraging her involvement on UVa’s
happy to know that his granddaughter, Bruns: I had a second knee replace- Medical Alumni Association Board. Because
Emily Gerbner, spent all 4 yrs. at St. An- ment 6/24/10 and doing well, perhaps of that friendship and Mary’s dedication to
drew’s. The ceremony was full of pomp better than last time. Thank goodness I the board’s goals, she was recently named
and color and she enjoyed sharing only have 2 knees! Or is it 4, or 2 origi- the first woman president of the alumni
happy memories with the other grand- nal and 2 fake?! I plan another winter in board, whose medical school is ranked 25th
children who attended. Beth Jansma’s Seagrove, FL, at my son’s townhouse in the nation.
daughter, Bibi Dutry, also came to the beginning in early Dec. That was very Mary’s term as president spans from April
celebrations before setting off to climb pleasant last winter, with daughter Mary 2010 through the academic year, for which
Ben Nevis. just down the road and lots of in-laws she has high hopes.
Sue Corning Mann and Hank spent nearby. How the beach will be remains “There are three goals of the association,
their summer vacation on Block Island. to be seen. It’s between Panama and my personal goal of the three is scholar-
Betsy Brown Bayer is on Martha’s Vine- City and Fort Walton, just east of the lit- ships,” Mary says. “Last year, $800,000 in
yard. Ann Henderson Bannard and tle tarted-up new Victorian development scholarship funds were given to students, and I want to focus on that.”
Yorke sought relief from the Tucson heat called Seaside. Throughout the year, Mary will lead the association’s mission to increase
in NM. Carolyn Sample Abshire: Hard to be- fundraising for these scholarships, grow participation in the board’s activi-
Phil and I will be gathering our chil- lieve we’re 60 next yr.! Our news is ties, and work with students and medical school faculty.
dren and grandchildren at Squam Lake, much the same: David working as Presi- Mary’s career in medicine began at Sweet Briar, where she majored in psy-
NH, for a week in Aug., where we’ll re- dent of the Center for the Study of the chology and worked at a camp during the summer for children with medical
new acquaintance and spirits. It’s get- Presidency & Congress (CSPC) in Wash- needs. After graduation, she went directly to medical school at UVa and be-
ting more difficult to gather the group as ington. We’re still in our Old Town, came a pediatric endocrinologist. She worked in a private practice before
grandchildren grow older and more inde- Alexandria home. Gardening, volunteer- later taking a position with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Richmond,
pendent. ing and walking our almost 14 yr. old Va. As a case management medical director, Mary helps others through the
When you read this, summer will be Cairn, Sophie, endlessly and trying to difficulties of managing healthcare.
long gone, but you can reflect on lan- stay fit, endlessly. Happily, 2 of our 5 “In private practice, you don’t have as much time as you’d like with the pa-
guid warm days and enjoy whatever it is children are nearby; the others in FL and tients,” Mary says. “I didn’t like having to churn out numbers. In Richmond, I
you’re doing. At our advanced age, we WA, so lots of planning for visits and had the opportunity to find other ways to use my profession. What’s been
should be living life to the fullest. joint travels. Nancy Pesek Rasen- nice is that we all knew healthcare was evolving. I always enjoyed working
berger and I get together often. Best with my fellow physicians toward healthcare change, and Blue Cross gave me
1951 wishes to everyone.
Lynne McCullough Gush: Business is
the opportunity to do that.”
Beyond scholarships, the alumni association educates medical students
Patty Lynas Ford somewhat slow due to summer dol- on finances, private practice and financial giving. It also hosts functions that
2165 W. Dry Creek Rd. drums and uncertainty in the off-shore strengthen relationships between graduates.
Healdsburg, CA 95448 oil patch where many of my patrons are “What I love most is the opportunity to develop friendships with others
[email protected] involved. In Feb., I acquired a staph in- whom I wouldn’t have known otherwise, with graduates of all ages and from
fection in the left leg, misdiagnosed for all over the country,” Mary says.
Thanks to you all for your messages. I 3 wks. It was a minor accident at the Mary also has served as president of the SBC Richmond Alumnae Club
heard, sadly, that Diane Richmond Dog Park. Fired that doctor, found an- and on her Reunion Gifts Committee. She cherishes the friends she made at
Simpson died on 6/29/10. I sent the other, had antibiotic IV, etc. and was Sweet Briar as a student, living in Reid Hall and the Boxwood Inn, and the
information to the class by e-mail and back at ballet class in Apr. What next? memory of the Sweet Tones caroling through the halls at Christmastime.
U.S. mail and hope everyone was noti- Kensington Weimaraner is lovely and
fied. charming on all occasions. Piano playing
Mona Simpson Beard: I had an ele- is going well, as is the garden despite painted as well as other hand-crafted ance was a surprise.
gant luncheon with Jo Ellen Parker and our freeze, but then the weather is al- decorative features. Both baby and in- Joanne Holbrook Patton earns top
7 others. SBC is fortunate to have a ways quite mad. strument are lovable, in different ways! honors as most diligent correspondent.
leader of such capability and insight. I’m Kae Fretz: I live in VT with my 2nd Tristan coos in his way and the harpsi- I’m especially grateful for all the news
well, but busy! I’m trying to maintain my husband in a retirement community. It’s chord makes gentle music. We’re look- she has passed along to me. I’ve al-
former friends and volunteer and make a pleasant place, but it’s filled with old ing forward to seeing the paintings from ways relied on the advice
new friends and participate here in this people! We’re well but a bit forgetful. I the Musée d’Orsay in San Francisco to ask the busiest person when you
fine community across town. celebrated my big 80 in Jun. by renting soon. We’ve enjoyed our various fruit want something done. She never disap-
MJ Eriksen Ertman: I’ve put 5/20- an apt. on the Jersey shore near home crops this summer and watched the points! Joanne hosted her annual picnic
22/11 on the calendar, and hope to at- and was joined there by assorted kids gray fox make its unwelcome visits to at Green Meadow Farms in July. Presi-
tend the Reunion. Can you believe it’s and grandkids — gorgeous weather, the raspberries. Please remember to dent Jo Ellen Parker and VP for Develop-
60 yrs.? My news is about family gradu- great swimming. Perfect. I cherish my mark your calendars for 5/20-22/11 for ment Heidi McCrory were among the at-
ations. Three granddaughters have grad- year at SBC. our festive 60th! tendees, as well as our
uated this spring: Kit from GWU, Thalia Julie Micou Eastwood: My daughter classmates Grace Wallace Brown, Pat
from h. s. in MD, and Hannah from h. s.
in WA. Kit is going to China for 2 yrs.
Libby and I, after visiting my brother and
his family in NJ, had a pleasant drive
1952 Beach Thompson and Calvin, Martha
Legge Katz and Bill, and Edith Marsh
with the Peace Corps; Thalia to USC; down the Shenandoah Parkway to Warm Patricia Layne Winks Fonda. Joannie has scheduled a trip to
and Hannah to Grinnell. Gardner and I Springs for several days with Jean Gra- 312 Arguello Blvd., Apt. 3 KY in Aug. to visit the Patton Museum
enjoy life at Brookhaven. This morning ham “Randie” Randolph Bruns ending San Francisco, CA 94118 for the last ever reunion of her father-in-
we heard a talk by E. O. Wilson (fellow with a wonderful dinner concert at [email protected] law’s WWII Armored Division. She’ll stay
resident) about his novel, “Anthill.” I’ve the Garth Newell Music Center. The at reunion headquarters in Louisville,
been practicing tonight for a recital by camera club keeps me busy with Gallery Our class is still thriving as many of us and has a lunch date with Louise Kelly
the residents here, a few pianists and 2 shows here in Rossmoor. Dick and I en- mark our 80th birthdays. Pat Beach Anderson. After being a widow for 7
flutists. My clarinet-playing neighbor, joy swimming, reading and watching the Thompson celebrated a 2-day affair or- yrs., Louise married again about 3
Ren, is hiding out in VT, but maybe we’ll world go by from our patio. chestrated by her children. Pat admitted yrs. ago. Not all the weddings I get to
play next yr. or for a chapel service. It Patty Lynas Ford: We have 2 new ad- she too was involved in advance prepa- report are those of our children and
was fun to practice my Schubert inven- ditions to our family: our new great- ration, as there were about a dozen grandchildren! In Sept., Joanne is going
tion and more fun to play through a few grandson, Tristan, in Leesburg, VA, and family members staying overnight. But to the Netherlands, where Dutch
Bach inventions from yrs. past (not to our other daughter’s gorgeous new harp- a sumptuous dinner at the Westchester Utopia, an exhibit of Impressionist-era
perform in public). sichord, the sound board of which she Dinner Theater preceding the perform- artists who painted in Holland in the

late 1880s, will include the work of Now, go back to the top of this colby macular degeneration, all is well in
Joanne’s grandmother, Anna Stanley. umn, check my e-mail and home ad- Hilton Head. Speaking of Maggie, she
Another world traveler is Florence dresses, and write a note to bring me and Dave will have welcomed their 1st CLASS NOTES
Fitch Patton, who has held many lead- up to date, so that we can all enjoy your great-grandchild by the time you read
ership positions with the DAR, and is news. this. Congratulations!
now the DAR National Chairman of Units I received sad news from Eleanor whose mother is deceased, up to CT to
Overseas, which oversees 24 chapters
in 12 countries. Florence will be travel- 1953 Johnson Ashby. Eleanor’s husband, Gar-
nett, died in May. She reports that “he
visit their aunts, uncles and cousins.
It was nice to hear from Joan Oram
ing to chapters from Australia to Spain. Florence Pye Apy was doing very well with the chemo. In Reid in England. Bob still works and she
Early this year I went to Africa, specifi- 67 Rivers Edge Dr. fact he was on a 6-wk. vacation from it still does various volunteer things. As
cally, Morocco. I’m not a safari type — I Little Silver, NJ 07739 when, on the 10th, he became violently the historian for the Benjamin Franklin
prefer urban amenities! My admiration 732-747-4155 ill and was gone at dawn on the 14th house, Joan meets many Americans
for the country’s beauty was diminished [email protected] (one day after our 56th wedding an- among the tourists. Two of their sons
by the sight of so many men sitting in niv.)”. Friends and family have been very live in Australia, so they visit every yr.
cafes wearing jeans and trainers, while They say “no news is good news,” but supportive. She is fortunate that their The 3rd son lives nearby and has 3
the women performed arduous tasks that defeats the purpose of this column. daughter, Stuart, lives “just down the sons also, one of whom loves playing
despite being wrapped up from head to I’m therefore grateful to those of you street.” Eleanor is gradually putting her golf with his granddad. Joan continues
toe. who have responded to my requests to life back on track. In June, she attended to enjoy her books, research, theatre,
As long as we are able, we stay ac- hear what you are doing. grandson Max’s graduation from the Taft concerts and all the other events of
tive. Ann Whittingham Smith plays bad- Patti Tighe Walden is returning from School in CT. He plans to resume his London. She’s even growing tomatoes
minton, bridge, and the piano (after a Las Vegas, NV, to reside in Hightstown, studies at St. Lawrence U. Another and herbs on the balcony of their apt.!
30-year hiatus). Janis Thomas NJ, near her childhood home in Prince- grandson, Harrison, graduated this year They still have their house out in Oxford,
Zeanah supports the arts in a volunteer ton, NJ. Prior to her move, however, her and is following his sisters to the U. of but they stay in London more.
capacity, after years of working in univer- daughter, Emily, underwent successful North FL. Eleanor’s traditional get-to- Mary Anne Bowns Bell and Dan
sity media relations and publications. surgery for cardiac ablation. Liz, another gether to watch the 4th of July fireworks don’t travel much anymore, but they’re
Sally Gearhart, who maintains a busy daughter, is a psychiatric nurse practi- will go on as usual. Nancy McDonald fortunate to live in a place that offers
schedule of music, exercise, and com- tioner on the Big Island in HA, where will be among the attendees. A week Broadway shows, opera, lectures given
munity involvement, reminds us to ask she runs a school for addictions coun- later Eleanor and her daughter, Baba, by famous people to do with politics, au-
Netflix for a rental copy of the 1977 doc- selors. Patti and family are moving east who lives in CT, plan to drive north thors of books, broadcasters and more!
umentary Word Is Out, which featured a by plane and truck. Most, but not all, of through the Hudson River Valley. She says John’s Island is a wonderful
vibrant 40-ish Sally speaking for gay and the pets will come by truck. As she sug- On a happier, personal, note: Chet club with good food, good friends, won-
lesbian rights. 30 years later, Sally can gested, her narration was reminiscent and I welcomed our 9th grandchild, 5th derful service, weekly movies, dinners,
take pride in having helped to initiate of the Beverly Hillbillies. Lest you won- grandson, on 6/14. Jackson George Apy and sing alongs, full moon parties, wine
enormous changes. der, Patti opted for the plane. She hears weighed 9 lbs, 12 oz. and was 22 in. tastings, etc. Sounds like a great place
Admittedly, we're moving around less from Caroline Miller Ewing and Mary long. It appears that he and his 2 older to live! They entertained the new presi-
nimbly. Trudy Kelly Morron wrote, “In a Littlejohn Belser that all is well with sisters (3 and 5) will take after their dent of SBC too. After the outstanding
way, I planned for growing old. I talked them. Edie Norman Wombwell and 5’10” mother. Our son, Dean, flew east lecture at the museum, about 25 SBC
to myself, was disorganized (relatively George visited Patti on their way to visit from LA with the 2 girls to attend his couples came back to their house for
speaking), and otherwise displayed their sons in CA. Edie and George divide 20th Princeton reunion. We flew back drinks before going out to dinner.
aged symptoms at an early age and their time between Vail, CO, where with them to meet “Jack.” The score is Ruthie Frye Deaton and Hugo spent
drew attention to my bad habits by an- they’re involved in the summer music now even, with each son having 3 chil- the last part of Jul. and early Aug. in
nouncing that since I was already doing festival, and Louisville, KY, Edie’s child- dren. We don’t expect any tie-breakers. Duck, NC, at the beach with their whole
it, they couldn’t blame it on old age. hood home. Edie and George marked In the next issues of class notes we family — all 21 of them. Daughter
These symptoms did not include weight their 50th wedding anniv. at the May will be permitted to include photos of re- Sarah has a house there, and they rent
gain or creaky knees, however.” Some graduation of their oldest granddaugh- cent “mini-reunions, weddings, and one next door too to hold all of them.
of us are faring less well. Mary Bailey ter, Allie, from Rhodes Coll. (formerly births,” etc. So get out your digital cam- Their “outstanding progeny” are David
Izard, Edith Marsh Fonda and Anne Southwestern U.) in Memphis. A history eras and send me some pictures (with who is vascular surgeon and is chief of
Garst Strickland are failing. Linda major, Allie managed to find a job in captions, of course). No delivery room Endovascular Georgetown, that is when
Brackett is in rehab following a D.C. in 3 days! A family celebration of snapshots please. he’s not circling the globe representing
stroke. Nancy Hamel Clark has, I hope, the anniv. was planned for later in the 2 manufacturers of surgical devices for
fully recovered from back surgery. Some
of us who are holding up relatively well,
month and a Mediterranean cruise in
Sept. for just Edie and George.
1954 aortic aneurysms. He and Lorraine live
in Annapolis, MD, where she is a breast
including Pauline Wells Bolton and Katzy Bailey Nager and C.J. still play Bruce Watts Krucke cancer surgeon. They have 2 of Ruthie
Nancy herself, are caretakers of ailing tennis several times a week with oppo- 7352 Toogoodoo Rd. and Hugo’s 11 grandchildren. Then
spouses. nents who are “aging as we are” (for Yonges Island, SC 29449 there are the identical twins. Sarah and
In my last message to you all I prom- which she is “grateful”). Early mornings [email protected] Regg live in Old Greenwich, CT. They
ised to report the accomplishments of are frequently spent kayaking (Katzy) have 4 children (9 to 19). Barbara and
children and grandchildren. Pat Beach and sculling (C.J.) The 4th of July was The class sends sympathies and condo- Mark live in Winston-Salem, NC. They
Thompson’s son Alexis (46) is to be spent entertaining 75 friends to watch lences to the family and friends of Bar- have 2 boys (4 and 10). Barbara works
married in fall for the 1st time, and her the fireworks from their home. She at- bara Wilson Danielle, about whom I for IBM at her home office. Beth just
daughter Jennifer, at 47, just finished tributes their sudden popularity to the have no details. And Anne Sheffield moved from Iowa City to Cincinnati, OH,
her law studies. Anne Hoagland good view they offer from across the Hale, who died suddenly at the end of with husband Derek and their 3 boys
Kelsey has children and grandchildren lake. More notably they have also May of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. (12, 10, and 6). Only 2 girls in the group
all over the continent: a granddaughter started a book distribution program in Dilly was nice enough to send me of grandchildren.
at Dartmouth, and sons at Belmont Hill their local elementary school, which she Anne’s obituary from the Americus, GA,
School in Wellesley, MA, 3 others in describes as an “inner city school in the paper. What an accomplished woman Ruthie keeps up with Ann Collins Tea-
Avon, CT, and her husband’s daughter country.” She and C.J. spend many Anne was! Her contributions to historical chout as they compare recent foot sur-
and grandson in Boulder, CO. Now Anne evenings reviewing large quantities of preservation are renowned, as was the geries. Ruthie thinks Ann’s went better.
gets to stay in her own homes in FL and children’s books, which they order from family’s generosity. Ann also recently had a knee replace-
CT, and let the 4 families visit her. Leila Scholastic Press. Three times a year Dallas “Dilly” Johnson Jones is well ment too. But that hasn’t interfered
Booth Morris’s grandson was to be mar- students can each select their own new and likes her new house in the Carlyle much with their travels, which included
ried in NC this summer. Elizabeth, book, which, as Katzy and C.J. suspect, community where she’s near old FL and the Panama Canal, Yosemite
daughter of Catherine Kinnear Train, is may be the “only books some of them friends. Early in the year, Dilly and her twice, Lake Tahoe, the CA coast, and
the 3rd generation Navy rear admiral in have at home.” Certainly this is a note- daughter Louise hosted a lunch for the Cabo San Lucas. They’ve enjoyed sev-
the family — indeed, the 4th generation worthy project which should be encour- Atlanta alumnae to meet the new presi- eral family gatherings too. Their grand-
rear admiral, counting Catherine’s aged. dent, with whom they were very im- children are also big travelers with one
grandfather, a Marine rear I phoned our prez M. A. Mellon Root. pressed. In spite of terrible weather, doing an internship in Zimbabwe, an-
admiral. Benita Phinizy Johnson’s son Her daughter, Francie, and Maggie they had a great turnout of nearly 60 other a semester abroad in South
William is teaching at Duke, and her son Graves McClung and Dave’s daughter, people, including Anne Sheffield Hale Africa, and now in Japan, Korea, and In-
Stewart lives in Durham, so all her chil- Fran, attended their SBC Class of ’80 and Shirley Poulson Broyles from our donesia on mission trips. Ann and Bill
dren are now nearby. My daughter Cathy reunion together. M.A. sees Jackie class. are active in their church. Small world:
returned to school a few years ago for a Lowe Young frequently, as both are resi- Mary Jane Roos Fenn is enjoying the Ann’s granddaughter Elizabeth took
master’s in social work and now works dents of Hilton Head Island, SC. Except summer in Williamsburg. Her next trip courses in the music dept. of Wheaton
in hospice care. for the fact that M.A. is impeded slightly will be taking her twin granddaughters, Coll. where my husband’s brother-in-law

teaches. Ann’s granddaughter Wendy at- which turned out to be more compli- Here’s some of what they heard which reconnecting. She and Raleigh had at-
tends Wheaton. Wendy participates in cated than anticipated. We went with we hope will have you at SBC in May en- tended our 45th, and as “a one year
Wheaton’s HNGR program, a 6-mo. friends on a river cruise in Eastern Eu- joying it all! wonder” felt very much included. Says
cross cultural experience, during her rope in Apr. It was a terrific trip from Bu- Barbara Darnell Clinton enjoyed see- that is the SB spirit and is so glad to be
senior yr. It’s a wonderful opportunity dapest to Bucharest with Grand Circle, ing people she hadn’t seen in 50 yrs., part of it. She encourages anyone and
for young people to be exposed to other whose ships and service are superb. thought the skit was fabulous and everyone to come to the 55th and says
cultures and worlds so different from But our trip was literally dampened by pleased with the changes at SB, but so we’re a heck of a lot of fun and very
our own. Ann feels it will, without ques- rain nearly every day, so the trips glad the College still had its young. She’s looking forward to seeing
tion, shape their lives. ashore weren’t as spectacular as they “look.” Jane Street Steele loved seeing everyone at #55! Catherine Lotterhos
Nancy Maury Miller sent news of her might have been. We were struck by so many classmates! A highlight for her Mills says everything was just fabulous
oldest grandson’s wedding on Tybee Is- how the countries still haven’t fully re- was our class “performance” and the and so much fun. She enthusiastically
land, GA, overlooking the beach and covered from communism. Again this talents that made it possible. She re- endorses the 55th as the perfect en-
ocean. The couple lives in WV. Nancy is yr., we met my sister (Virginia ’44) at members that everyone was glad to be core for the 50th! Some of Nancy St.
in her 8th yr. of writing a weekly column, North Topsail Island, NC, for a wk. in there to see each other and recall our Claire Talley’s words at convocation
“On the Menu,” for the Palm Beach Jun. We’ve been doing this for years. experience at SB. Nancy Howe Enten- quickly brought us back to 1956: “Be-
Daily News. Her main hobby is collecting It’s a nice opportunity for our grand- mann remembers good visits with good fore the pill, before equal pay for equal
dolls and doll accessories. One of her daughter, Lauren, to get to know her friends and having fun singing on the work, before something like now or an
favorite, recent craft projects was reno- cousins from CA too. Lauren just re- stage just like our Senior Show. She’s era … ideas that were as ridiculous
vating an early 20th century doll house turned from her 2nd yr. on a mission trip looking forward to seeing those from then as a real man on the moon ... be-
from the inside out, including replacing to Nicaragua, which she loved. Her dad, near and far at our 55th! Frances Shan- fore your father glowed with pride if you
shingles and windows; removing and ap- Carl, continues to enjoy his retirement nonhouse Clardy loved seeing old spoke of graduate school, medical
plying wallpaper; installing a staircase; and doing various things from computer friends and receiving a College update. school or law school; before you ever
making and putting in place white lace work to carpentry for friends and friends Our conversation with Bette Forbes Ray- heard the four-letter words some chil-
curtains, a lace canopy and skirt for a of friends — his card reads Carl Can Do burn was brief, but she says she’ll be dren use today on the playground … the
crib, rugs and other accessories. Be- It. Kurt, the middle one, who is a profes- there in May! Louisa Hunt Coker has unmarried were old maids at 23 and
sides painting the doll house inside and sional Huntsman has moved to a new happy memories of seeing old friends pitiable at 30 and most fathers given
out (with trim), she created an outdoor Hunt near Knoxville, the Tennessee Val- and especially reuniting with the group the choice would rather have had an
landscape from various materials, a ley Hounds. John, the youngest, is tun- she traveled to Europe with after her MRS than an AB for his SBC tuition.”
piece of plywood forms the base of the ing pianos and doing back up for bands junior yr. She loved singing a song from Although our world is light years away
lawn. The house sits on a table with a all over the east coast, occasionally the Virgins of Menace at the convoca- from our time at Sweet Briar, the friend-
swivel attachment, so the doll house ro- working with some big names. tion, enjoyed walking the grounds and ships, fun and great memories are irre-
tates in a circle. She says it will always You know you’re sorry you didn’t an- seeing that SB is as lovely as placeable. We’re counting on you to be
be a “work in progress,” which adds to swer my email now, aren’t you? Please ever. Nancy Salisbury Spencer thought there May 20-22, 2011! Our 55th Re-
the fun. Nancy has photos of the house email or write for the spring issue! that the 50th was special and enjoyed union promises more fun filled happy
she’d be happy to send to anyone with connecting with old friends and catching times. See you there!
an interest. It’s hard for Nancy to travel
1955 up on their lives. She notes that sadly
since she has 3 cats. But she’s happy
and content to still be living in her Kathryn Beard
we’ve lost some dear friends and class-
mates since then, which makes getting
1957
house on a small lake in a retirement 1074 Zanzibar Ln. together again more meaningful. Kitty Carol McMurtry Fowler
community in Boynton Beach, FL, get- Minneapolis, MN 55447 Harrison says the 50th was special in 10 Woodstone Sq.
ting together often with family and [email protected] every way, and that although she at- Austin, TX 78703
friends. tended SB only 1 yr., it was such a [email protected]
Shirley Poulson Broyles went to AK 1956 memorable experience in her life. She’s
with Norris’s children celebrating what
they called a 50-80 party last yr. In fall Meridith Smythe Grider
bringing Sudie Shelton Moseley, plans
already made, and hopefully Corky
1958
’09, they also did an Athens to Dubai 1307 Killiney Pl. Lauter Murray with her to the 55th! She Jane Shipman Kuntz
trip. They do their traveling in between Louisville, KY 40207 has floods of wonderful memories of 4015 Orchard View Pl., No. 1
graduations and marriages of grandchil- [email protected] the girls who were at SB the yr. she was Powell, OH 43065
dren, with a trip to Budapest, Prague there and is ashamed of herself for not [email protected]
and London coming next. Shirley Martha Anne Clay Nichols coming back more often. She loved our
also sees Merrill Underwood Bar-
ringer and Paul in Charlottesville and
3928 Old Brownsboro Rd.
Louisville, KY 40207
skit and the tee shirts we wore while lis-
tening to Nancy St. Claire Talley’s won-
1959
Hilton Head. [email protected] derful words spoken on behalf of us at Ali Wood Thompson
Caroline “Kobo” Chobot Garner convocation as the introduction for our 89 Pukolu Way
wrote that last yr. was not good for her We begin with a sad note: Ann Hod- singing “A Career A Career” from our Wailea, HI 96753
husband Thom, who had several prob- gin Williams died in mid-Jul. from lung Senior Show. Ann Greer Adams remem- 808-874-8028
lems after some small strokes and a di- cancer. We who live in Louisville miss bers with giggles the ridiculous practice [email protected]
agnosis of early Alzheimer’s and Parkin- her. for our convocation musical perform-
son’s. A shunt was put in to help with Joan Broman Wright and Mary Ann ance for which Ruth Philips Hollowell so I asked everyone to write just 1 or 2
pressure on his brain and it has im- Hicklin Willingham, your Class Co-Presi- valiantly directed us. She also fondly re- sentences about a pursuit
proved his balance and walking. He had dents, have been conversing about our members staying in Randolph again and that you’re engaged in, which gives you
cataracts removed from both eyes. She upcoming 55th Reunion and remember- having the smell of Boxwoods waft a great deal of satisfaction.
called it the year of the doctor. They like ing our 50th with happy thoughts. It was through the windows, sitting in the din- Caroline Blake Whitney: Designing
they’re home in Alexian Village in Signal truly a wonderful time. Wonderful that ing hall enjoying long conversations with with nature. I cannot resist the beauty
Mountain, TN. Daughter Laurie is doing 40 of us were there, that we hadn’t old friends and Jane Slack Sigloh’s of the earth, plants and all her crea-
part-time marketing and promotional changed much and were still readily rec- (our Clergy person) part in the Chapel tures. Garden design and maintenance
work for retail stores while her husband ognizable, that friendships were happily Service. Helen Turner Murphy, who ac- is coupled with love of other outdoor ac-
Bruce manages the Atlanta office of renewed, that those we hadn’t known companied Tayloe, was amazed that he tivities for relaxation. Writing and paint-
Transwestern Commercial Real Estate. well 50 yrs. ago are now new friends knew almost everyone! (When in the ing porcelain both express these same
Their children, Parker (18) and Caroline and that we’re eager to return for the Navy, Tayloe often came to SB to see passions.
(12) are both in Holy Innocents Episco- 55th, hoping that those who were not Helen, spending many weekday hrs. in Joanne Bossert Thompson: I volun-
pal School. Kobo’s son Gailor was there will be this time! Mark your calen- Commons chatting with whoever was teer in my church thrift shop once a
called up to active duty to assist the dars NOW for May 20-22, 2011! Don’t there.) Helen remembers vividly the con- week and also volunteer for Hospice.
mobilization of the local National Guard take it from us that the 50th was fabu- vocation and our silly skit. She adored Patsy Buckley O’Brian: I’m still in-
unit to go to Iraq, but he’ll not go. He’s lous. Let some of those who attended the opportunity for long conversations volved with horses. I ride and drive al-
a major and is the rear detachment convince you that if you can possibly be with old friends at the leisurely break- most daily and compete with a pair of
commander. The deployment was to be at the 55th, you will not want to be any- fasts. Karen Steinhardt Kirkbride and small ponies. I don’t jump anymore, but
a year, so he may already be back as where else in the universe! Joan and Dick plan to attend the upcoming re- ride dressage on my horse.
ROTC recruiter at Liberty U. Their chil- Mary Ann attempted to communicate union. They want us to ask them about Martha Burnet Carlisle: I’ve had
dren are Thomas IV (12) and Clara (9). with everyone who was at the 50th to the progress in their writing projects… Parkinson’s Disease for 10 yrs. and
All four of the Garner grandchildren went hear what they remembered as being Could the antics of our 50th be literary have spent hours exercising, research-
to summer camps near Kobo. especially outstanding. Apologies if they inspiration? Nancy Ettinger Minor just ing , and otherwise putting my body,
My yr. started with shoulder surgery, didn’t succeed in getting your memoir. loved returning to SB for our 50th and mind, and spirit in the best possible

the Argentine tango, very different and
more challenging than the tango, which
CM Burroughs ’04 isn’t hard to fake. CLASS NOTES
Pushcart Prize Nominee Harriet Henderson Stubblefield:
While being temporarily “sidelined” with
By Colleen Murray polymyalgia rheumatica, I’ve had next 12 mos., but it’s a tedious slog. I
good results with my Canon camera love reading and sorting our 19th and
CM Burroughs ’04 came to Sweet Briar in and long lens at horse shows where our 20th century family letters, and I’ve
2000 with a talent for poetry, nurtured granddaughter is jumping. I’m an enthu- made some trips to VA to locate their
throughout her childhood in Atlanta. At Sweet siastic beginner at Ikebana. houses and churches.
Briar, she found encouragement and inspira- Jane Jamison Messer: Am in MI for 6 Ann Pegram Howington: I do mostly
tion in the natural beauty of the place and the wks. and planning a slumber Eeyore lil bitty stuff, the best sounding is as
people in it. party for my 6 granddaughters with fun Garden Club of America horticulture
“… the space and the people of that and games. judge. You get invited to a show to judge
space — Carrie and John Brown, Marcia Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb: I enjoy with nice people, most of whom know a
Robertson, Cheryl Mares, Karl Tamburr, volunteering with young children, first at lot more than I, and get nicely fed and
Eleanor Salotto, Constance Merritt, Jennifer Miriam’s House day care, a rehabilita- watered.
Brice and Reetika Vazirani. They all had a tion center for homeless women and Cay Ramey Weimer: My passions
hand in supporting my growth into myself,” their children, and now at the preschool are keeping up with family and friends
CM says. “I believe they knew the fullness of at the Presbyterian Home and Family and doing primitive art, the wonderful
what I would become before I. Some of them Services. Richmond Sweet Briar Book Club, im-
have passed on, but they are no less with me Jini Jones Vail: My passion for the proving my bridge skills and knitting
than the others that are still engaged with the past 5 yrs. is my book, a military his- prayer shawls for our church prayer
world.” tory, or some call it a biography: shawl ministry.
After Sweet Briar, CM earned her Master of Fine Arts at the University of “Rochambeau, Washington’s Ideal Lieu- Debbie Von Reischbach Swan: I’m
Pittsburgh, where she now teaches creative writing and continues to write po- tenant, A French General’s Role in the still racing my 21’ sailboat, love it. I
etry. American Revolution.” It will be pub- teach ladies sailing, am on the race
“The topics that I obsess upon are the female body, emotional and physi- lished in fall 2010. Also, my new email committee of our yacht club and on the
cal vulnerabilities and relationships between the self and others,” CM says. address is: [email protected]. committee for the lobster race this sum-
“Currently, I’m writing away from the poems of my manuscript, ‘The Vital Sys- Isa Mary Lowe Zieglar: As I slowly mer between Stonington, CT and Booth-
tem,’ which in part investigated the external body, and attempting to explore retire from 4 boards (2 in San Fran- bay Harbor, ME.
the internal female body — its strivings, failings and variety of operations.” cisco, 1 in Orinda, 1 regional), I’m find- Ginny Robinson Harris: It’s a great
Since she left Sweet Briar, CM’s poems have earned wide recognition. In ing pleasure in maintaining an old joy to me to spend much time in our
2008, her poem “Dear Incubator” (see pg. 35) was nominated for a Pushcart house and garden, old body, and an old new, state of the arts, art center. Hav-
Prize. In 2009, CM was a finalist for the Gift of Freedom Award, sponsored by husband. It’s a wonderful stage. ing been involved with the arts for-
A Room of Her Own, a foundation supporting women artists and writers. Her Virginia MacKethan Kitchin: I’ve ever, and being a designer for interiors
poetry has been published in the journals Callaloo, jubilat, Ploughshares, been a docent at the Chrysler Museum and exteriors, it’s a joy to spend so
VOLT, Bat City Review and Sou’wester. CM gives frequent readings in the city for over 30 yrs., off and on since the much time in that space.
of Pittsburgh and has published a chapbook, “I, I, I.” 60s. Was also a docent in Roanoke Mary Blair Scott Valentine: My pas-
(Fine Arts Center), Charlottesville (Bayly sion besides my family is tennis. I play
Visit her website at www.cmburroughs.com. of UVa ), Westchester County, NY (Neu- every morning at 6:00 a.m. with 3 men
berger of SUNY Purchase ) and NYC average age 88. They’ve brought such
(Guggenhiem). joy to my life. Also, the SBC ’59 Book
Kathleen Mather Koestler: I volun- Club is a passion.
teer as a nurse at HealthServe in Polly Space Dunn: I’m working to im-
condition to keep the demons of dis- and find it very satisfying.
Greensboro, a clinic for the uninsured. I prove my golf and my painting, and love
ease at bay. I’m passionate about fam- Deborah Dunning: I’ve replaced re-
help with vaccine clinics and referral being there for my 2 girls and 3 grand-
ily — being involved in the lives of tirement with re-engagement and am
work. children, very rewarding.
young folks who will lead us one day is having a great adventure helping manu-
Vicki Meeks Blair-Smith: I spend Susan Taylor Montague: I took my
compelling. facturers develop products that support
much of my time in my self-appointed daughter, her husband and grandchil-
Ann Bush Dunlap: I’ve taken up fid- human health and quality of life.
role as family genealogist. In sleuthing dren to Nantucket for a week in Jul. I’ll
dle and love the music and the charac- Alice Cary Farmer Brown: I serve on
the more difficult branches of the tree, be off on a SBC trip to Italy in Oct.
ters who play it. Never knew there were the board of The Winterthur Museum in
each teeny twig found becomes a monu- Tabb Thornton Farinholt: We enjoy
so many kinds — old time, bluegrass, Wilmington, DE, as chairman of the Gar-
mental victory. following the events of our 6 grandchil-
Celtic, jazz and all kinds of hybrids. den Committee. Our mission is to con-
Nita Mixson Cox: I volunteer with dren, all of whom are 3-season athletes
Pat Chandler Burns: For 7 yrs. I’ve tinue to restore and to maintain Henry
Hospice and find it gives me balance of one sort or another.
been a CASA (Court Appointed Special Francis du Pont’s glorious gardens as
and a sense of how precious life is. Af- Kathy Tyler Sheldon: We’ve had a
Advocate) for the Juvenile Court. We’re his abiding passion was horticulture,
terwards, I come home to the humming- busy summer with visitors and grand-
assigned a child or children who are in and it is mine as well.
birds in my garden. children and are off to celebrate my sis-
foster care and make sure they’re well Penny Fisher Duncklee: John and I
Evelyn Moore Rickert: After 4 yrs. ter’s 70th birthday in Tuscany where
cared for and don’t “fall through the continue to laugh our way through life,
without my husband Ham Horton, I’ve she has rented a villa for family and
cracks.” The volunteer position requires while he writes wonderful philosophical
found another wonderful man to spend friends.
30 hrs. of training; we report to the ju- historical novels and I learn about paint-
the rest of my life with! I’m now Evelyn Judy Welton Sargent: Although my
venile court judge. ing watercolor pictures and do photogra-
Moore Horton Rickert, Mrs. Robert home in Wilmington hasn’t sold, I’ve de-
Betsy Colwill Wiegers: In May, we phy.
Dale Rickert, same address: 760 West- cided to establish my residency in TX.
had a mini-reunion of 4 classmates in Pat Frawley Gates: I take great
over Ave, W-S, NC 27104, ehortonrick- I’ve leased a small 2 bedroom apt. in
NYC — Claire Devener, me, Jackie pleasure in tending my reunion Sweet
[email protected]. Austin near my children and precious
Hekma Stone and Alice Cary Farmer Briar rose. It’s flourishing on the East-
Jane “Puss” Moore Banks: I’ve been grandson, John Paul. New address: 800
Brown. We had so many tales to tell ern Shore of MD. Between watering and
employed in the family business, now W 38th Street, #3104; Austin, TX
and laughs to share that we drove every singing the school song to it, we’re both
called assisted living, now my business, 78705. Phone # 512-524-0534.
other patron out of the restaurant! surviving the draught and a very sad
for 58 yrs. including h. s. summers. Anne Wimbish Kasanin: I lead back-
Mary Harrison “Cookie” Cooke time in my life.
I’m currently in the process of making a stage tours of the San Francisco Opera
Carle: I own a condo in Haverford. My Gay Hart Gaines: My passion is
seamless transition to 2 of my children, House and meet people from all over
contact info is: 264 W. Montgomery Av- Mount Vernon, George Washington’s
1, the nurse directs the nursing program the world.
enue, #305, Haverford, PA 19041. home. I represent FL on the board and
and my son takes care of the business Ali Wood Thompson: For the past 15
Phone and e-mail am excited that we’re finally building a
side. yrs. I’ve been the band leader of a
([email protected]) are the same. presidential library for our 1st and great-
Judy Nevins LeHardy: I started taking Hawaiian band which plays each month
Tricia Coxe Ware: To escape the est president. I’m chairing the Capital
piano lessons again 3 yrs. ago after at nursing homes, a geriatric hospital
triple digit heat wave in Richmond I’ve Campaign; we plan to raise $100 mil-
nearly 50 yrs. I enjoy practicing (that is and several Adult Day Care Centers. Our
stayed inside cleaning out drawers and lion. It will be the most important library
a switch!), but will never play as well as 16 member band (who are the average
closets. Exhilarating! built in the 21st Century and possibly
4 of our grandchildren. age of 76) sing, play our ukuleles and
Pat Davis Sutker: I’m taking writing the most historically important building.
Fleming Parker Rutledge: I hope to dance the hula to entertain the elderly.
classes with the intention of completing Meriwether Hagerty Rumrill: I dance
finish my magnum opus within the It does cheer them up!
a book of memoirs for my grandchildren as much as possible and am learning

1960 around. It’ll be hot and wet, but wild and
interesting. Zambia is our next love after 1961 Calla lilies graced the altar as they did
50 yrs. ago. The finale was a midday
Carol Barnard Ottenberg Kenya. We had an NYC house party of Elizabeth Hutchins Sharland dinner at the Oglethorpe Club, where
1420 41st Ave. East old friends from Columbia, SC. Ellen 1724 Aberdeen Cir. “Mimi gave the perfect toast.” Mimi and
Seattle WA 98112 Pringle Read was with us, and Elizabeth Crofton, MD 21114 Peter continue to work part time; Peter
Meade Howard joined us for drinks and [email protected] as an assistant to the Dean of St. Pe-
Many thanks to all who responded to my dinner when we could get her. We also ter’s Episcopal Cathedral, and Mimi as
request for news. First, sad news. We saw Molly Haskell ’61 there. We were at Mary Denny Scott Wray sees lots of a senior judge on the FL trial court
send our deepest sympathy and heart- her apt. by chance on the very night she her family, both in Richmond and NY; bench. Their greatest joy is time with
felt condolences to Mickey Oliveri Svo- received the Guggenheim Award for her Mystic, CT; and Fishers Island in Block their 3 sons: Peter and his wife with 2
boda and her family on the loss of next book. A very happy occasion. We Island Sound. Larry and Celia Williams children in Atlanta; Lucas, his wife and
Mickey’s husband, Joe, who died in July. went to CO in July, having reached our Dunn visited her on the island, and she 2 daughters in St. Petersburg; and
We are, indeed, continuing our jour- limit with the heat, humidity, politics and sees Emily FitzHugh and Molly Haskell youngest son Mills in Savannah with his
ney separately and together after our BP in New Orleans. The ‘spill’ is still on in NY. She’s also seen Mimi Gibbs wife and son.
glorious 50th reunion, a weekend of re- our minds, as are the images of dam- Piper. Also in Richmond, Susie Prichard Last fall, Lou Chapman Hoffman vis-
connecting, rediscovering and learning age to people, livelihood, animals and Pace “keeps movin’ along,” caring for ited Miss Em Whaley Whipple in
— with a lot of laughter and catch-up wetlands. We’d love to see any of you.” wheelchair-bound George, 4 children Charleston. They hadn’t seen each
conversations. Patricia Russell Howard Jane Headstream Yerkes (Seattle WA): and 6 grands. She enjoys “simple pleas- other since SBC. Miss Em gave Lou a
(Toronto, ON); “I had a wonderful time “Patti Powell Pusey and I went to Hong ures like a ride in the country with her tour of houses and gardens, the high-
at our reunion and was thrilled that we Kong last Feb. We’re both married to daughter Margaret.” Judy Harris Cutting light of which was her son’s artwork in
had such a large turn-out. After 40 yrs. members of Princeton’s “Great Class of and Tom celebrated their 51st anniv. in his studio. She and Dody Prevost Rags-
as a Professor of English, I took up 1958,” all of whom were invited to visit Richmond. Tom grew up in Fort Smith, dale in Raleigh keep up by phone. Janna
painting full time, watercolors and draw- another classmate, Sir Gordon Wu, in where they live a few months of the yr. Staley Fitzgerald and husband Hans
ings.” Patricia’s art may be viewed at Hong Kong. A week touring Hong Kong for “a western twist.” That also brings Tiefel of the Coll. of William and Mary
her web site: Lee Cullum (Dallas, TX): and environs was most fascinating! Last them closer to Dallas, where their enjoy Williamsburg and gardening.
“I’m on a plane, ready to fly home from spring, Leonard and I had a visit with daughter and her triplets (10) reside. In Janna visits her mother (103), living
London and preparing to interview Al Nancy Corson Gibbes and then went on Feb., Judy and Tom drove to NY and got solo in a Charlottesville condo. Last
Carey, the CEO of Frito Lay, mainly by to Mulberry, a beautiful plantation near snowed in (with the rest of the Middle May, she and Hans visited in Martha’s
sampling a lot of potato chips. Boone Camden, SC. Former SBC president Eliz- Atlantic). “Saw 6 shows, ate well and Vineyard and on the way back saw col-
Pickens is next on the program I host abeth Muhlenfeld wrote a wonderful and made daily visits to the bank.” Last lege friends, including Anne Worboys
for the PBS affiliate in my part of the learned book about former resident summer they enjoyed fun and culture in Buske, whose daughter Dana had
world. He’s high on natural gas.” Debo- Mary Chesnut. Come visit any time in Chautauqua, NY. Judy ends, “We do en- moved her close to her home in Arling-
rah Lyon (Jamestown CA): “Sorry I Seattle.” courage each other with our tales.” ton, MA and Holly Chaikowski Davis in
couldn’t make it to the reunion, but with Carolyn King Ratcliffe (White Stone, Marjorie Ann “Deeda” Hill Bradford Lebanon, PA. She hears from Lucy Giles
a trip to visit my granddaughter and, VA): “We took a trip to Egypt with our and Reed celebrated their 50th anniv. Richey busy with grandchildren and
later this year, a trip to Greece, I was family (11 of us) last summer, in cele- last Jun. with family, friends and locals dogs. “The most beautiful child ever is,
pretty tripped out. Life in the foothills of bration of our 50th wedding anniv. It — “a wonderful time for us. Though of course” Hunter Staley Fitzgerald, who
the Sierras is good, quiet.” Barbara was hot, but the international news was roommate Faith Bullis Mace couldn’t joined the rest of her family at the
Beam Denison (Bethesda MD): “Busy about the heat on the U.S. East Coast, make it, but after exchanging e-mails beach in Jun.
summer with visits from children and which was hotter than Egypt! Also, and pictures, it’s “great getting back to- Some of us mentioned our projects.
grandchildren and visits to them as well. daughter Cathy and granddaughter Car- gether.” In ’59 and’60 Reed was sta- Judy Greer Schulz has restoration proj-
They threw a lovely 50th anniv. party for olyn were treated to a wonderful back- tioned with the Army in Worms; they ects: at Thomas Jefferson’s retreat,
us in CA. George still lobbying, me still stage tour of the Broadway show, Lion thought a 4-mo. honeymoon in Germany Poplar Forest; then an 1840s vintage
framing, both golfing (trying) and travel- King, by Lucy Martin Gianino’s daugh- on Uncle Sam would be nice. Reed’s house in Bedford, serving as a Parish
ing. Sorry to have missed reunion.” ter, Antonia.” Lucy (NYC) explains fur- Colonel changed their plans for a NY House for the Lutheran Church Steve is
Sue Styer Ericksen Cahill (Reading ther: “Antonia’s currently the production wedding; their parents, her sister and helping to establish there; and lately, a
PA): “I took up golf 3 yrs. ago. After stage manager. She loves it! Disney “what family could get away” joined girls’ school Konnarack, which her
many lessons from the club pro and my loves her as well and sends her out to some parental friends and Reed’s army grandfather helped found in the moun-
husband, and playing 3 times a wk., 9 do promo work for the show before a buddies for the wedding. The required tains of Southwestern VA in the Depres-
mos. a yr., I’m beginning to play fairly road production goes to a city. Her hus- civil ceremony in the Worms court- sion. She helps with Lynchburg’s 5-year-
well. After all the years of horse show band Joel Hoestra’s show, “Rock of house, the mayor presiding, and the old opera company and has her piano
ribbons and trophies, I’ve now brought Ages,” is also playing on Broadway. All post chaplain conducted the beautiful students. They visit their “delightful
home a golf trophy! I’m so glad I went to 80s rock music. Great cast, cute story church ceremony in the chapel. They en- grandchildren,” in Rye, just north of
reunion and reunited with my old class- and Joel is on stage as the lead gui- joyed 4 mos. in Germany before return- NYC, and in Providence, RI. When living
mates — I will long cherish those week- tarist for the rock band. I’m sure Anto- ing stateside. in her creekside cottage near the
end moments!” Winkie Wimbish Chal- nia and Joel would be happy to give Stevie Barutio Welch will celebrate Chesapeake, Margaret Gwathmey sup-
fant (Ponte Vedra Beach FL): “Although I backstage tours if they’re there.” Anita her 50th anniv. in Sept. “Our son and ports the “dynamic” West Riverkeeper.
was unable to attend our 50th reunion, Perrin Grymes (Richmond, VA): “It was his wife treated us to a trip in Apr. to LA She volunteers, mostly testing the water
surely the next best thing was reading wonderful to be with so many accom- as an early anniv. gift. We watched the for why the critters have so much trou-
Lura’s reunion booklet containing re- plished and energetic women at re- Santa Anna Derby and the Pacific again. ble thriving. The local umbrella civic as-
sponses from so many of us. It was a union. The best part was reconnecting Our oldest grandson is in his 3rd year of sociation has found that finding a
delight to be updated. Ed and I would with old friends that I hadn’t seen in med. School and our youngest grand- dorque to be secretary is harder than
love to see you all as you travel in the years, especially Mary Anne Claiborne daughter is starting middle school. Find finding a vice president, so Bette
vicinity of Ponte Vedra.” The reunion Johnston and Robin Ould Rentsch.” all 5 of them fascinating. We’re still Hutchins Sharland, between Bowie and
booklet, initiated and assembled by Jane Ellis Covington (Richmond, VA) horse racing fans with trips to Lexing- Annapolis, is back taking minutes. In
Class Secretary (now retired) Lura Cole- and Isabel Ware Burch (Williamsburg, ton, Louisville and Tampa where the staring down a bad birthday last Jan.
man Wampler (Wayne PA), contains re- VA), new class co-presidents: “Having ponies love running. Celia Williams and early Feb., she realized that older
flections by 51 of us. It’s a wonder to said to ourselves that the 50th might be found me on facebook, and I hope we women should identify the men who
read. Lura may have copies available. our last reunion, we are eating our can keep up. Would love to hear from need an extra Valentine, buy, sign “your
To order one ($6), contact her at Anne words — big time! It was so great being others.” secret admirer,” and drive to a Post Of-
Rienecke Clarke (Wilton CT) also back on that gorgeous campus and re- Mimi Lucas Fleming and Peter cele- fice 50 mi. away, hopefully in the next
spends time in FL, in Venice. “I do enjoy connecting with old friends that we ask brated their 50th in Jun. in Savannah, state, before mailing them. The “Red
going there a few times a year, espe- you to mark your virtual calendars now with family and members of their wed- Rock News” ran a feature of Laura Con-
cially in the winter. for May 2015. No excuses — tempus ding party, including bridesmaids Lou way Nason out in Sedona, AZ. Laura
Teddy Hill and Liz Few (New Orleans fugit!” Chapman Hoffman with Don, and Celia runs The French Group, who meet
LA): “We’re still spending a couple of Williams Dunn with Larry. All enjoyed a Thursdays to speak and keep French a
weeks in Kenya each year with the little picnic at Celia’s country home, and Sat. part of their lives. She and Jack enjoy
conservancy in the Mar we are involved dinner at their son’s home, the Savan- regular visits from friends “back east”
with. This year we’re also going to Zam- nah project for the television show, and their 2 sons, one outside Philadel-
bia in the wet (Emerald sounds better) “This Old House.” Sun. began with wor- phia, and the other in Olympia, WA. Her
season when the bird migration is full ship in St. John’s Episcopal Church, family love hiking in the red rocks. Laura
blown and there are hardly any tourists where Mimi and Peter were married. and Jack enjoyed a visit to San Diego

with his Dartmouth classmates and get Connecting with our classmates in Kathy stays busy on The TN Gorge Land
back to Penn almost every autumn. Europe is always special. From Den- Trust, 2 book clubs, 2 garden clubs and
Susan Cone Scott moved into “a mark, Harriet Reese Jensen is busy with traveling. In Oct. her husband got a CLASS NOTES
lovely condo” despite all that snow last ‘senior nanny duty’ as her daughter is moose hunting permit for when they’re
winter. Like many, she says “Best trips divorced, working full time, and living in Eagle Lake, ME; she’s wondering
are visits to 1 child in New Orleans and nearby with 3 small children. In May she what they’re going to do with a 1500 lb 1780 house I took down in Chesterfield
1 in Austin.” Penny Stanton Meyer and some Danish friends visited moose! County, board by board, brick by brick.
spent last winter back on MD’s Eastern Moscow and took a river cruise up the Sue Jones Cansler and Chuck took 2 Trying to get LEED certification and im-
Shore, shoveling more snow than did Volga and through a couple of lakes to of their grandchildren (twins, 10) on a 2- prove the farm surrounding it. I have 5
Vermonters, and has now moved to be St Petersburg. She never expected that wk. trip from Charleston, SC, to Wash- granchildren; the oldest at Woodberry
near family and old friends. Her 38 won- she would find herself standing on the ington, D.C., and had fun seeing some Forest, his sister at Chatham Hall.” She
derful yrs. raising kids and teaching in Red Square or touring a section of the familiar sights through new eyes! She also adds that the great blizzard slowed
the countryside are special memories. Kremlin. In Aug. she plans to spend 10 stays busy with the Coastal Symphony them down a bit, but that she had “a
Son David and family are in Carbondale, days in Provence before school starts of GA. This fall they’re going on a great winter teaching skiing at Winter-
where he teaches at CO Rocky Mountain and senior nanny has to gear up! From Mediterranean cruise that includes green.” (It’s in VA.) As for me, Ginny de-
School. Susannah and family live near Germany Nerissa vom Baur Roehrs Egypt, Israel, Greece and Turkey. Betsy Buys, I may join the working world for a
Tampa, where she teaches. Penny says wrote not only about her music but Parker McColl and Jim love being grand- short spell.
both are great for a visit. She planned about her Siamese cats! Last fall a local parents; they see 2 granddaughters,
to be just back from Costa Rica now. radio station programmed some of her Frances (21 mos.) and Lucy (3 mos.) of-
Many enjoy travel. Alicia Laing Salis- songs for a half hour over 2 wks. and ten. Betsy still plays tennis and has 1965
bury and John escaped a “really cold played 2 of her Christmas carols during found some people to play with when Sally McCrady Hubbard
snowy KS winter in Palm Desert, CA. Advent. She recently wrote a song (cho- they’re in Blowing Rock, NC, during the 52 Sherwood Trail
and a hot, humid summer by spending rus and full orchestra) for her old summer. Ann Knickerbocker McCulloch Sewanee TN 37375-2166
the season” at their place in Grand school, at the request of the departing has a full life in Houston with 7 grand- [email protected]
Lake, CO. They’ve just returned from an headmistress, for the installation of the children as well as many Iraqi, Afghan
excursion through the German, Italian, new headmistress in late Sept. which and Iranian refugees to whom she Please, please, send your new email
Austrian and Swiss Alps and saw the Nerissa will attend. She says that the teaches English and serves as an Amer- addresses to Bonnie Seitz at Sweet
passion play in Oberammergau, and school is “all fired up” about it and that ican grandmother. Briar ([email protected]) and to me, since I
have traveled in South America in the the music director thinks it’s going to be Anne Carter Brothers and family don’t request class news by mail!
past 2 yrs. “terrific.” were headed for the Gulf Coast in Jul. The 45th reunion was a happy visit
Stateside Betty Stanly Cates was (will she survive 5 granddaughters un- with classmates and a positive introduc-
1962 surprised to see Barbara Rockefeller
Bartlett, Mary Lou Morton Seilheimer
der 1 roof?) Anne says she’s overcom-
mitted herself for the fall with a one-
tion to the new president, Jo Ellen
Parker. Laura Haskell Phinizy handed
Parry Ellice Adam and Charlie, and Betty Noland Caravati woman show, a school show and over the class presidency to Brenda
33 Pleasant Run Road at a successful SB event in Vero Beach Christmas commissions, but plans to Muhlinghaus Barger, and I was rein-
Flemington, NJ 08822 in Feb. Jo Ellen Parker attended and take it easy in 2011 to enjoy her 70th stated as secretary. To add a focus to
charmed everyone. The distinguished yr.! Sallie Yon Williams has been busy our class notes, we decided to try send-
With many thanks to Allison Moore professor lecture was given by John traveling to see children, grandchildren ing a question with the request for news
Garrott, here are our tidbits. Allison and Morrisey — this “whale of a man” gave and surrogate children. She volunteers — what are your memories of the day
Tom still live in Memphis. They have 10 “a whale of a lecture” on whales. Betty at the local hospital and helps with John Kennedy was shot.
grandchildren. The oldest 2 granddaugh- managed a brief visit with Lea Osborne school cookbook projects. She sees Vicky Thoma Barrette retired in
ters are at Vanderbilt and UVA. Allison Angell and Jack in Vero Beach last win- Barbara Yokum Miller, who looks great, spring ’08 after 36 yrs. with Baystate
works part time as a psychologist, spe- ter. Lu Gardner Mannion and Ed spent a whenever they come to Sandbridge, VA, Health in western MA, to relocate to
cializing in eating disorders and night with her on their way back to TN from the Washington area. Portsmouth, NH, and travel. In 6/09
women’s issues. She and Tom spend after a Panama Canal cruise. They es- By the time you read this Betsey she and Gene moved to their Tidewatch
time in Vero Beach in winter. Allison had caped a snowstorm while they were Beale should have recovered from a condo near the ocean, and the city and
a great visit with Douglas Dockery away. fractured right fibula which is keeping skiing. After only a few mos. to enjoy
Thomas at her gorgeous home in CT From the mountains Allie Stemmons her housebound; we enjoy marathon NH, Gene died in 1/10. Friends visiting
this summer. Simon’s news centers around retire- phone calls every week. Portsmouth are welcome to visit (603-
ment — completely for Heinz and par- 373-0059). Vicky went to China
tially for her since her travel business
1963 has dwindled to a few die-hard clients
1964
with Nancy MacMeekin in Mar. and vis-
ited relatives in Austin ,TX, Seattle, WA,
who don’t keep her too busy. They spent
Jane Goodridge the summer at their CO home “because
and Manitoulin Island on Lake Huron in
31-C Archdale Street Ginny deBuys Ontario. She plans a trip with Nancy to
TX is too hot!” They’ve worked out about H16 Shirley Lane AK and is going to Egypt in Oct.
Charleston, SC 29401
a 50/50 split between the 2 places. Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 Melinda Chapman remembers stand-
[email protected]
The dog and cat go back and forth with [email protected] ing in front of her dresser on the
them and the kids visit both. Oldest 3rd floor of Carson when someone ran
Many thanks to those who responded
daughter Karen is building a house near It’s wonderful to hear from class- down the hall screaming the news from
to my news request! For those who
them in Snowmass Village. Lisa Wood mates any time. Grace Mary Oates Dallas. Her 1st thought was that our
don’t have email, please send your
Hancock and Pete spent a week with heard from fellow Texan Margaret Gas- country was under attack; everyone was
news to me for the next issue as soon
them and they went to a marvelous con- ton Clayton. She went to SMU and did so nervous about the Bay of Pigs. She
as possible.
cert with Joshua Bell. Allie and Heinz graduate work in English and psych else- went with a group to the chapel to pray
Chris Devol Wardlow’s granddaugh-
will take a Mediterranean cruise this where. “I’ve been married for 46 yrs. to and stayed until they heard Kennedy
ter Anna Devol Richards will be attend-
fall. a lawyer, philosopher and rancher. We was dead. Melinda’s response to
ing Sweet Briar in fall. Is the 1st grand-
Karen Gill Meyer and Jim had a great have 2 children: Christopher who lives Kennedy’s death was compounded by
daughter from ’63 to attend SBC? Chris
trip to Kiawah, SC, this spring; they also nearby and is married with 2 daughters, her zany philosophy teacher, Dr. Crowe,
and Anna’s mother Dianna plan to at-
attended the Master’s and U.S. Open. and Catherine (36) married with 2 who took the class on a field trip to
tend Parents Weekend in Oct.
They’re still working together at Morgan daughters living in AL. I breed and show Lynchburg to see “Dr. Strangelove: How
Cynthia Livingstone Gibert continues
Stanley Smith Barney with no plans to Cavalier King Charles Spaniels and en- I Learned to Love the Bomb.” Exciting
as an infectious disease physician at
retire and commute to Coronado every joy church and community work.” Carol family news: son David and wife
the VA Medical Center in Washington,
weekend. Karen enjoys her stint on the EckmanTaylor and David are fine as are Melinda and their 4 children (17, 14, 13
D.C., and is a professor of medicine at
SB board in these challenging times. her granddaughter (9) and her mother and 10) will live in Germany for the next
George Washington U. Both of her chil-
Nikki Griess Deupree has a 4th who live with them. “I work very much 3 yrs. David works for a German drug
dren are physicians: son Chris and his
grandchild (2nd grandson) thanks to her full time with a small law firm I helped company and this is a step up the lad-
wife have 3 children, one of them —
son and daughter-in-law. Wanting to start 5 yrs. ago. David runs the house der. Melinda plans to visit them; the
Sophia (10) — loves anything to do with
downsize, they put their house on the and several acres of vegetables when children will be attending an interna-
horses; her daughter Jennifer is at the
market, but don’t know where they’ll go he isn’t motorcycling all over the U.S. tional school in Frankfort.
U. of KY in Lexington so Cynthia visits
next! They have a condo in FL so they and abroad. My specialties are taxes Elizabeth Sutton Healy retired from
the Bluegrass State every few mos. She
won’t be out on the street if the house and American Girl dolls.” Dona Van Ars- Park School in Boston, and she and Jay
had lunch with Valerie Elbrick Hanlon in
sells quickly. Kathy Caldwell Patten is dale Jones got an update from Frances have given up their Beacon Hill condo to
summer and spoke with Cheri Fitzger-
expecting a new grandchild in Aug. Lee-Vandell. “I’m still reconstructing the become country mice. This puts them in
ald Burchard recently.

Charlemont, as always, and in Dublin, study. Daughter Laura’s family moved Price Quill who died last summer, Katie Pritchett Mitchell is retired
NH, much of the summer. Jay was con- into their new, larger home in D.C. 2010. Herb and I keep up with Jim Quill from residential real estate after 30 yrs.
cerned that she’d be bored in retire- across from Lafayette Park. Grandsons who tells us that the local Garden Club Now is time for she and Jim to concen-
ment, but her lists of things to do, both Wesley and Stewart visited Laura and and Presbyterian Church have made trate on 8 grandchildren and her 3 chil-
house projects and fun projects, will Stewart in Augusta. lovely tributes to Sharon. Peppie and dren. She enjoyed a visit with Mar-
long outlast her! Jay still has his lumber Milbrey Sebring Raney was in the li- Tom have moved to McLean, VA, as Pep- querite McKee Moss and heard from
operation in western MA, plus he was brary stacks that Fri. afternoon. She pie has accepted the position, Director Carey Judy Weathers who is an emerg-
appointed a year ago by USDA to be came out for a break and saw Miss of Equestrian Programs at The Madeira ing artist and enjoys her new hobby and
state director for rural development in Muncy running down the corridor, tears School. all her grandchildren.
MA, CT and RI. Son Eben is in Philly, streaming down her face, calling out the This year begins Meredith Aldrich’s Marcia Pace Lindstrom’s husband
working on a master’s in education, news. Mibs was overwhelmed by the 34th yr. with Childrens Hours’ Primary retired as rector of St. Thomas Episco-
hoping to teach and coach. Daughter news and by the fact that Miss Muncy School. She’s looking forward to sum- pal Church in Apr. and they moved to
Elizabeth is a vet tech in CO, where they was crying. She was stunned and un- mer and the renewal it will bring after an Franklin, NC. Marcia has found a book
love to visit. able to study. encounter with lung cancer. She has club, duplicate bridge and a good hair
Scribbie Heuston celebrates our own Sally Rasco Thomas was attending been undergoing treatment at Dana Far- stylist so all is well.
Elvira Macmillan Tate being honored as the U. of Madrid when Kennedy was ber in Boston. She welcomes visitors While some classmates are facing
Outstanding Alumna of the Year! She shot, and may have heard the news who might find themselves near new adventures as they retire, others
also encourages classmates to become sooner than friends in VA did, because Geneva, NY, or Martha’s Vineyard, MA. are passionate about their current work.
members of the Boxwood Circle — that she had a friend whose husband was Her email is moodleahws.edu. Martha Madden Swanson and David
would make her daughter-in-law, chair- stationed at the American airbase. Sally A destination also to keep in mind is will make a return trip to Kenya to cele-
woman Kimberley Euston ’92, very went to her friend’s apt. while Kennedy Sweet Briar College for our 45th reunion brate the grand opening of the new
happy. Scribbie volunteers and lives in was still en-route to the hospital to lis- May 20-22, 2011. I’m glad that Sharon buildings for the school they support —
Jacksonville. ten to the Armed Forces network bul- Quill and I took the time to attend our a high school for students who have
Sally McCrady Hubbard was in a his- letins. She attended a memorial service 40th. It turned out to be Sharon’s last been orphaned by Aids.
tory of opera class at Tulane on at the American Embassy. Other news reunion. We never know what tomorrow Lee MacKubin Miller is busy working
11/22/63; the professor dismissed the from Sally is that HI is part of her terri- brings our way. Missy Spruance Talbot with the homeless and mentally im-
class, unable to speak. She went to her tory, and she’s going there with her old- writes that 5 yrs. have passed since paired. She loves being a grandmother
husband’s side of the campus, stunned est granddaughter during the Honolulu she had her 2005 stroke. She reminds of 2.
and afraid and found him unable to Heart Walk. all of us that “God is good.” Barbara Dublin Van Cleve is an
speak or to hear. He who was consid- After reunion, Laura Phinizy wrote Many of you love staying connected emergency room chaplain for our hospi-
ered a dangerous liberal by his family President Parker an interesting ques- with SBC friends. I feel blessed to have tal system in Greensboro, NC, but has
and an arch-conservative by his gradu- tion: “To whom are you marketing SBC Penn Willets Mullin close by; we enjoy time for long trips to Scotland and Ire-
ate school peers — how could he grieve now? Where are you finding girls who fun times together during the yr. Hope to land and trips with family to celebrate
this event? She couldn’t talk with him want to come? What drives them to look see Robin Cutler as she has a daughter daughters’ educational decrees.
about it. It shattered her illusions that at an all-girls’ college?” Jo Ellen’s an- and 2 grandsons who live in San Fran- Cherry Brown Peters is still a busi-
the USA was somehow different from swer is of interest to us all: “These cisco and also Tia Campbell McMillan ness analyst with Suntrust Bank. She
other countries; that we had immunity days, most students tell us they choose who has 2 children and 5 grandchildren sings in the church choir and serves on
from guerilla warfare, from assassina- Sweet Briar because of specific pro- here also. Hopefully, Nancy Schmitt a volunteer board.
tion. As for current news, Sally’s 10 grams we offer. That is, they come be- Bishop and Keenan Colton Kelsey can Vicki Chainsky Verity is president of
mos. as office manager for the Sewa- cause of the strength of the business join us as they too are in the Bay Area. the local hospice and serves on the
nee Summer Music Festival ended on a program, or creative writing, or engineer- This yr., Herb and I visited Makanah board of the SC Coastal Conservation
high note (sorry!). The mo.-long program ing, or the equestrian program, or any of Dunham Morriss and Bob at their farm League.
was successful: 145 talented young stu- our other outstanding offerings. Most of in Forest, VA. They have beautiful prop- Judy Wilson Grant is still involved
dents attended, the faculty was happy, them are not specifically looking for a erty outside Lynchburg for themselves with the Denver Debutante Ball, the Gar-
audiences were up, donations were up, women’s college. It’s only after they and their horses. While we were there, den Club of Denver, the CO Cattlemen’s
concerts were incredible, and the festi- study here for a while that they recog- Kit Baker Syndor from up the road Agricultural Land Trust and the board of
val ended well into the black (after years nize all the advantages of single-sex ed- stopped by. She is very proud to be a directors for Sweet Briar. They’re enjoy-
in the red). ucation. Many students also tell us that grandmother. Betty Booker Morriss ing their 1st grandchild.
Nancy MacMeekin and Vicky did a they choose Sweet Briar because of the says Makanah is up to a gazillion activi- Jane Ellen Glasser’s 2nd book,
whirlwind trip to China on a Chamber of beauty of the land. A typical comment is ties. Betty gets to see Makanah and “Light Persists,” won the Tampa Review
Commerce tour, seeing pearls, jade, ‘I pulled in the gates and felt this was Bob a lot as Betty’s husband Dabney is Prize for Poetry and her book, “On the
silks and visiting Beijing, Xi’an (the ter- the place I wanted to be.’ Bob’s brother. Betty herself is very ac- Corner of Yesterday,” was just released
racotta warriors) and Shanghai. It was “So our typical student these days tive writing Boomer-related articles, from Pudding House Publications. De-
sleeting and snowing the day they went has chosen Sweet Briar because of its managing a rental property, and serving spite all her writing, she still has time to
to the Great Wall, which added magic to strong academic reputation overall and as her family-o-origin matriarch. enjoy her 3 grandchildren.
the sight of the wall snaking along the the presence of some particular pro- Sally Kalber Fiedler and Jay saw Another writer is Sally Van Winkle
mountain ridges. Nancy remembers be- gram that interests her. She is also gen- Jane Taylor Ryan and Jack this yr. Sally Campbell who has a new book, “Saving
ing in Classical Civilization class in the erally someone who appreciates the has a grandson (7) and wishes his fam- Kentucky, Greening the Bluegrass,”
auditorium when Abby Mason Browne beauty of the land and may be athletic ily lived closer than OR. She and Jay coming out in Oct. It has been a 7-yr.
burst in and announced “The presi- or ‘outdoorsy.’ She is clearly willing to loved being at SBC recently, and they project. (See
dent’s been shot!” Before she under- attend a women’s college, but she has were impressed with the architecture media.savingkentucky.com)
stood, Nancy’s 1st thought was “Who considered both single sex and coed op- and natural beauty of the campus and Jody Nolan Old and Randy opened a
would shoot President Pannell?” tions, and generally made her choice both the past and current presidents. consultation practice in Vero Beach, FL,
Mary K. Lee McDonald remembers based on academic programs and stu- Penn Willets Mullin and her SBC for wellness through nutrition and herbal
seeing an emotional side of her classi- dent experience.” roommates Jane Nelson, Keenan medicine (intuneherbalists.com). Jody
cal civilization professor that day. She Colton Kelsey and Susan Dodson Hiller lives close to Marilyn Garabrant Morris
had thought him an ancient stoic Greek look forward to their yearly reunions. and enjoys golf with Debbie Haslam
who never showed emotion. Mary K. is
still working hard in real estate; hus-
1966 Penn and George enjoy a life busy with
grandchildren, backpacking and fly-fish-
Peniston who returned from Africa and
was delighted to see the Big Five on Sa-
band John is busy with HO model trains, Randi Miles Long ing. Penn enjoys her teaching and tutor- fari.
Boy Scouts, shooting sports and golf. 19 Hidden Valley Road ing creative writing in nearby schools. Other travelers include Jean Camp-
Their granddaughter (4) is in Richmond; Lafayette, CA 94549 Suzy Mosley Helms and Nelson look bell Barquin who recently had fun trips
their grandson (6 wks.) is moving to [email protected] forward to another summer at Chau- to Spain, France and Italy. They expect
Penn State where both parents have tauqua and expect to see Marcy Fisher, their 1st grandchild in Nov.
teaching positions. Inveterate traveler, Sad news first. Molly Thrombly Bai- Harriette Horsey Sturges and Penny Ellie Gilmore Massie loves their
Mary K.’s been or is going to China, AZ, ley died on 5/14/10 due to a freak Steketee Sidor. move to Plymouth, MA, where they play
Hatteras, Sugar Mountain, NC, in Au- drowning accident. She’s survived by This was also a yr. of change for golf, tennis and bridge and enjoy visits
gust (where she hopes to connect her husband, John, 2 children, and 3 some of us. Andrea Pearson Penning- from children who live nearby. Ellie sings
with Alice Mighell Ficken again), NY, grandchildren. John Bailey’s address is ton will retire from her 28-yr. job as in various groups.
and Santa Fe in the winter. 1213 E. Shelby St. No. l6 in Seattle, WA Court Referee at Strickland Youth Cen- Tia Campbell McMillan also moved
Laura Haskell Phinizy remembers 98102. ter. She and Al are looking forward to a to a new house in Sheperdstown, WV,
11/22 as overcast. She didn’t know Dianna “Peppie” Yaeger Rankin cross-country driving trip as their 1st ad- overlooking the Potomac River. She’s
how to feel, act or react; so tried to writes that she dearly misses Sharon venture. learning how to fly fish.

Sidney Turner says this was an or self-pity for nearly 2 yrs., refusing to
amazing yr. in the Baltimore/Washington give up hope. Tom’s devotion and deter-
area with over 80 in. of snow. They find mination probably added a year to her CLASS NOTES
life gets more difficult in entertaining as [life], allowing her to meet a couple new
one must consider diabetes, high blood grandchildren.” In summer ’09, Nancy
pressure, Crohn’s disease etc. when Wendling Peacock and Susan decided
planning meal. As for Herb and I, our it was time to say goodbye and flew to Recently Deceased
lives too are filled with travel, birding, IL, where they had “a wonderful couple
church and family and grandchildren ac- days recalling and even making great Louise Miller Mann ’23 Oct. 21, 1997
tivities, even though they’re in NC. The memories.” Win and Tom took Sue and
most fulfilling thing though, is tutoring Nanner on a behind-the-scenes tour of
Mary Holt Rosenberger ’27 Nov.7, 2005
2nd graders in inner city Oakland once a Davenport, IA’s Figge Art Museum (Win Elinore Gibbs Brueckner ’28 May 11, 1993
week. The things these children experi- in a wheelchair but still game). Win and Josephine Halsey Day ’28 Oct. 10, 2009
ence in their out of school lives over- Tom were involved in its creation and,
Barbara Lewis Howard ’29 March 22, 1995
whelm us. as chairman of the board, Tom was in-
Hope to see you May 20-22, 2011 strumental in bringing Jackson Pollock’s Sara Buckley Garcelon ’30 May 1, 1976
for our 45th reunion. If you haven’t most famous drip painting and 22 other Mary Earle Kaminer ’30 Sept. 14, 2009
given me your email address, please do modern masterpieces to The Figge from Eleanor Wright Conway ’32 June 18, 2010
so as it makes this job so much easier. the U. of IA. “Nanner was able to fly out
Please title your email “SBC,” give both for the funeral. In Win’s honor, all the
Mary Garver Gaines ’33 March 31, 2010
your maiden and married name and use women wore crazy patterned and Helen Murray Ruschp ’34 Aug. 2, 2009
our email, [email protected]. brightly colored stockings or socks. It Jane Lawder ’35 Feb. 6, 2009
was Win’s fashion trademark; she al-
Janice Wiley Adams ’36 July 21, 2010
1967 ways had the legs to carry them off. The
men followed suit with wild ties and Mary Blythe Cunningham ’36 June 6, 2010
Diane Dalton vests. Win would have loved that Mary Carney Hart ’37 Aug. 29, 1993
1014 N Astor St., Apt. 43 touch.” Margaret Sandidge Mason-Miller ’37 Feb. 7, 2010
Milwaukee, WI 53202 I was shocked to hear in Jun. that
Keithley Rose Miller’s (Palm Beach, FL)
Barbara Derr Chenoweth ’38 March 10, 2009
[email protected]
husband Dwight died suddenly while Isabelle Franke DeGraaf ’38 Aug. 25, 2010
they were vacationing in the Dominican Mary Brown-Serman Kirby ’38 Sept. 1, 2010
1968 Republic. I’m sure you all join me in
Anne “Nancy” Old Mercer ’38 June 20, 2010
sending our deepest sympathy to Keith-
Lynne Gardner Detmer ley and the Rose-Miller families. Elizabeth Bowley Phillips ’38 May 15, 2004
125 Wareham’s Point
Martha Brewer (NoLa) had a chal- Hylah Coley Ebling ’39 June 21, 2010
Williamsburg, VA 23185
lenging year, breaking her wrist in Betty Bartelt Croasdale ’41 July 28, 2010
[email protected]
11/09 and undergoing several surger-
ies to repair it, successfully. Then her
Elizabeth Colley Shelton ’41 Aug. 2, 2010
spouse, Susan Landry, was diagnosed Cynthia Abbott Dougherty ’42 March 29, 2010
1969 with cancer. As of Aug., Martha and Su-
san are meeting the treatments (not
Jeanne Sawyer Stanwood ’42 May 17, 2010
Nancy Crawford Bent Gloria Peniston Poole ’43 July 30, 2010
surprisingly) with stamina and style.
14 Dopping Brook Rd. MA misses her, but Ronde Kneip Elizabeth Hall Schwartz ’43 July 20, 2003
Sherborn, MA 01770 Bradley (Brooklyn, NY) has moved to Constance Budlong Myrick ’44 May 20, 2010
[email protected] take a new job at Wylie publishing, for Louise Hesson Shelburne ’44 Aug. 4, 2010
whom she has worked in college text-
I have sad news to report. First, Win book sales for yrs. She appears to be
Alma Hall Peckham ’45 Aug. 19, 2010
Waterman Gildehaus (Moline, IL) died in reveling in Big City life, e.g. walks in B’- Julia Bristow ’46 May 18, 2010
11/09 of a rare cancer diagnosed 2 yrs. lyn Heights and suppers at a nearby Frances Ulmer Conley ’47 July 19, 2010
earlier, after Win and Tom returned from Ethiopian restaurant.
a family wedding in India. Susan Scan-
Alexandra Marcoglou Tully ’47 Aug. 16, 2009
I met Ridgely Fuller (Waltham, MA)
lan wrote: “Win fought without complaint and Helen Willingham Meadors (Rabun Maddin Lupton McCallie ’48 Sept. 4, 2010
Helen McKemie Riddle ’48 Sept. 3, 2010
Mary “Anne” Bryant ’49 Aug. 2, 2010
Anne Sheffield Hale ’54 Elizabeth Hutchens McCaleb ’50 July 11, 2010
Diane Richmond Simpson ’51 June 29, 2010
Anne Forster Dooley ’52 Feb. 19, 2009
Anne Sheffield Hale ’54 died Sunday,
Anne Sheffield Hale ’54 May 30, 2010
May 30, 2010, while with her family in
Nancy Clapp Cudlip ’55 July 16, 2010
Alabama. Anne’s husband, Bradley,
Eloise Marshall Cutchin ’59 May 11, 2010
served on the College’s board of direc-
Joann Derrickson Slights ’59 Aug. 28, 2010
tors from 1992 to 2000. Anne and
Judith Haskell Brewer ’61 May 4, 2010
Bradley have been philanthropic lead-
Anne Worboys Buske ’61 Sept. 9, 2010
ers at the College and were key donors
Rosalie Owings Grant ’61 June 27, 2010
to Our Campaign For Her World. Anne
Mary Trombly Bailey ’66 May 14, 2010
was a member of the Silver Rose Soci-
Gale Hull Whetzel ’71 May 8, 2010
ety and the Indiana Fletcher Williams
Hazel Wright Hilsman ’73 Aug. 30, 2010
Associates. In 1969, she instigated
Christine Carr Dykstra ’76 Jan. 30, 2010
and was the first chair of Sweet Briar
Alison Mitchell ’79 April 29, 2010
Living Room Learning in Atlanta. She
Susan Neary ’85 Feb. 17, 2009
also served as the Atlanta Club presi-
dent and was on her Reunion Gifts
If you wish to write to a member of the family of someone
Committee in 2004 for her 50th reunion. In 2008, The Geor-
recently deceased, please contact the Alumnae Office for
gia Trust for Historic Preservation honored Anne with the
name and address at [email protected] or (434) 381-6131.
Chairman’s Award, which recognizes individuals for a lifetime
of dedication to the cause of historic preservation.

Gap, GA) for dinner in Jun. as Helen was dune gardens in Beaufort, NC, produces with Becky Bottomley Meeker and hus- General Corporation where she’ll focus
on her way to Nantucket for the wedding a new monthly contra dance and leads a band David. Kathy Jones Youell’s 1st on employment law and litigation man-
of Bill and Lucile McKee Clarkson’s creative writing workshop. grandchild, Madeline Elizabeth, was agement. Kristi Bettendorf’s daughter
daughter. I wish someone would email Patsy Wheeler Maddox has retired born in 3/29/10 to daughter-in-law Lau- Liz Swartz is in grad school at GW in
me about how lovely the wedding was… from teaching and hopes to travel more ren, a pediatric MD. John and “KJ” had D.C. Kristi’s son was about to finish his
Jan Sheets Jones (Hartford, CT) and and spend time with their 3 grandsons just returned from a 2-wk cruise of the training as a drone pilot with the Air
Jimmy will be staying put until 2015 (granddaughter arriving in Oct.) British Isles. Margaret Schiltges Force and scheduled to wed AF Lt.
since he has re-upped for 5 more yrs. Jill Lowry Weimer wrote “Hallelujah!” Schultheiss still lives in Erlangen, Ger- Laura McAlister and set up housekeep-
as Pres. of Trinity Coll. Jennifer, Derek at seeing the last of her 4 daughters many, with husband Gerhard. Their ing in NM. Barbara Wuehrmann cele-
and baby Kellan are in Atlanta. Justin, married at Highland, NC, in Aug. Also in daughters are grown and gone. Chris- brated 26 yrs. of marriage to Jim Palaz-
Lori, Emma and baby Caroline are in NC is Robbin Richardson, who says tine will start student teaching in zolo. Barbara’s “smart and
Franklin, TN. Jason and Ellen are in “Life is lovely.” She’s single in Raleigh, Nuremberg and house breaking a new hard-working” stepsons live in Orlando
C’ville. Liz Medaglia and Peggy Davis working real estate with her son, playing Lab puppy. Sandra, in Belton TX, mar- (an OB-GYN) and Silicon Valley, CA,
Molander came to Jason and Ellen’s with grandkids, painting and wintering in ried Jason Miller and had a daughter (president of Zoll Circulation). They’ve
wedding, were well and still working, but Puerto Vallarta. Margaret Highsmith 12/26/09. She’s having another baby given Barbara and Jim 2 granddaughters
Jan hasn’t heard from them lately. Like Dickson (NC) was appointed to the in 3/11. Diana Zeidel and husband Jon in FL and a grandson and granddaughter
all of us still blessed with parents, Jan state Senate to fill an unexpired term af- Seymour are also new grandparents to in CA. As a family physician, Barb finds
busily juggles the roles of wife, mother, ter serving almost 8 yrs. in the state adopted Vietnamese daughter Ruth (3) part-time work where she and Jim split
g’mother (“The Best!”) and daughter. House and has been campaigning hard (Annapolis, MD), Nora (8) and Cooper time between Green Valley, AZ, and Pier-
And work. Jan does consulting, from to retain the seat. (5), who live in Manhattan. The clan son, MI, and enjoys time in both loca-
fundraising to math curriculum evalua- Wendy Norton Brown married off her gathered in spring ’10 at Diana and tions for hiking, birding, photography
tion to teacher training, parent work- older son David last Oct. to Scottie Jon’s home in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, and travel. Sherrill Marks Byrd’s son
shops and some classroom visitation. Howard. Barb Gracey Backer and Kathy and Jon is fully recovered from being hit Hudson graduated in 5/09 from the U.
She is spared “empty-nest” syndrome Wilson Lamb attended as did Rene by a car in Washington, D.C. They stay of the South where son Nelson gradu-
by having 2K+ students around her 9 Roark Bowditch and Rosemary Dun- busy with leadership consulting, volun- ated in ’03. Both have put careers on
mos. a yr. Jan returned to SBC for the away Trible, who (small world!) are teer work, travel and tennis (Jon) or Mah hold to update the Byrd’s 5th generation
inauguration of Pres. Parker. “A dear great friends of the bride’s mother. Jong (Diana). Diana sees Mimi Dixon family farm with new technology and
friend of ours … she’s an outstanding Liz Mumford enjoys being single frequently and the two also get together equipment. Husband Hugh Hunter is try-
academic and administrator who truly again (no more Wilson, she notes) and with Marilyn Kolb and CarolineTuttle ing to retire while assisting their sons in
understands the challenges of women’s in Aug. was trying to stay cool on a hot Murray. implementing the new plans. The couple
colleges.” Cape Cod, painting all the time and Wendy Weiss Smith and Gil fell in spent the summer at the Monteagle
Your class secretary sits in her base- lamenting weak sales. Liz’s son Sam love with Morocco, where they visited Sunday School Assembly, one of the old-
ment, where it’s cooler this Aug. day, graduated in spring ’10 and came home last spring and will be heading to St. est and one of the few left in the U.S.
and asks you to note that the next dead- for the summer to operate a gentle- John, USVI in early winter. They’ve cele- Patricia Fuller works as an out-patient
line for news will be Feb. 1. man’s 30” Regulator and go fishing. Ali- brated their 34th anniv. I (Lynne Manov psychotherapist specializing in group
son Jones’s artistic medium is photog- Sprinsky) am adjusting to life as a and couple’s therapy. She must have
1970 raphy (www.alisonjonesphoto.com) and

her subject is Africa, where she’s work-
widow, but keep busy with my continuing
renovations to my 150-y.o. farm house
learned a thing or two, for she and hus-
band Lee DeSorgher celebrated 35 yrs.
Stuart Davenport Simrill ing hard with www.nowater-nolife.org to and my new horse, a wonderful “ma- of marriage and “the launching of 2 kids
4945 Dupont Ave. S combat the construction of a highway ture” Prix St. Georg Dutch-bred gelding who make us laugh more often than
Minneapolis, MN 55419 through the Serengeti that will adversely who serves as Schoolmaster to my BAL- tear out our hair.” Pat and Lee are in-
[email protected] affect wildlife migration patterns. Alisa IMO students. This summer I visited my volved in local politics on opposite sides
Yust Rowe’s work on the board of the stepdaughter in TN and son in Cincin- of the spectrum, and volunteer with the
Art Guild of Rural Texas bringing the nati, and participated in several dres- local food pantry, soup kitchen and
1971 arts to children has been rewarding. Al- sage clinics in NY and VA. An enticing emergency reserve corps, as well as
isa was also part of a group from Hous- trip to France awaits next spring, but I’ll serving as a library trustee (Pat) and en-
Lynne Manov Sprinsky ton that visited SBC in 9/09 to dedicate be home in time for Reunion! Susan joying bowling (Lee) and the abundance
2218 Rt 87 Hwy
a new building which houses the “Hous- “Sioux” Greenwald has enjoyed theater of arts in their area. Pat says she is a
Montoursville PA 17754
ton Bistro,” built with funds raised in evenings and other NYC cultural activi- nature addict and skis before work
[email protected]
part by SBC alumnae in that city. Anne ties, and with Roberta “Robi” Randolph when it snows, and walks, canoes,
Wiglesworth Muñoz continues to work visited Mim Washabaugh Meglin, where kayaks or bikes the rest of the year.
I’m on my own for these notes, but
on her batik and will be teaching that Mim hosted them for a tour of Frederick, Katie Horan works as a financial ad-
there may be some of you who didn’t
medium through U. UT’s continuing edu- MD. Sioux suggests (with tongue in visor and portfolio manager when she’s
yet get the news that my co-secretary,
cation program this fall. Daughter Maya cheek, I’m sure!) we abbreviate these not competing the English cocker
Gale Hull Whetzel, passed away
started her 2nd yr. of residency in pedi- class notes by using the younger folks’ spaniels she breeds for agility competi-
5/8/10 from complications following a
atrics and daughter Aliria is earning her text message language. Louise tions. One of her cockers is at the top
stroke. While she was still in stable con-
master’s in Nursing Education while Dempsey McKean and Ted are retired of the sport (#3 English Cocker), so
dition, Frances Barnes Kennamer and
working full time. Anne and Milton have and divide time between NY and La Mal- they do a lot of travelling, including to
Martha Roton Terry visited her. They
been doing a lot of traveling: to Phoenix baie, Quebec, with a few trips south Long Beach, CA, for the AKC Invita-
say she was “very much the Gale we all
to see their daughters, LA, KY to see now and then. tional. “It’s so rewarding to still be com-
remember.” They told stories of their
Anne’s father (96), and Japan to cele- Martha Stewart Crosland’s son petitive in a physically demanding sport
SBCs and beyond, laughed, hugged and
brate Anne’s 60th. Deborah Chasen Stewart graduated magna cum laude at this age!” Katie writes. “There are
had “an incredibly uplifting time.” The 2
Wyatt is painting almost full time now, and Order of the Coif from W-L law wonderful people involved in the sport
had brought along a CD of “Acapella
having some success with juried shows school. He’ll be clerking for an 11th Cir- and it keeps us all young.”
Gold,” a Sweet Tones album recorded
in NYC and San Francisco. She wrote cuit judge in Jacksonville, FL, next yr. Barbara Brand’s husband Mike has
when Gale was part of the group, and
from Aix in the south of France, where Mimi Fahs’ son Craig and she survived had numerous surgeries for squamous
they sang along to the album while hold-
she’d gone to paint and run into a heat college apps and Craig is now a fresh- cell carcinoma, and has required radia-
ing Gale’s hand. Gale’s husband Gene
wave. She’s also doing the final edit on man at Middlebury Coll., “a campus al- tion and chemotherapy. His recovery
said she listened to it over and over af-
a book. “Husband still tolerating me. most as beautiful as SBC.” Mimi herself has been long and difficult. Barbara
ter they left. Frances added some per-
Kids gone off,” she concludes. is still “professoring” and involved in credits Mike’s great attitude and the
sonal news about daughter Helen’s mar-
Rhoda Allen Brooks is now a grand- building a new School or Public Health staff and facility of Penn State Hershey
riage to John Hopson, a sales rep for
mother, courtesy of son John’s little boy at Hunter Coll. in NYC. She invites any- Medical Center. She promises to be
Stryker Orthopedics. Helen is a speech
Jack. John’s family live in Minneapolis, one visiting the Big Apple for a drink at there for our 40th!
pathologist; the couple live in Nashville,
as does Rhoda’s sister Adaline ’68. her loft in the West Village. Linda Whit- Pam Henery Arey writes from Sev-
TN. Frances still plays golf several times
Adaline’s daughter (Rhoda’s niece) was low Knight and Dick’s younger daugh- erna Park, MD, that she’s still working
a week and works part time with the
to marry this summer and Rhoda was ter, Elizabeth, is a lawyer with the Dallas as a preschool director and 3s teacher.
School of Public Health at the U. AL at
looking forward to being there with twin office of a big litigation and insurance Husband Pat and 4 adult children are
Birmingham.
sister Ruth Allen Darlington. Kathy Wil- defense firm, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran well; son John married last fall.
Susan “Susu” Schmidt, Ph.D. works
son Lamb’s 2 grandbabies (21 and 28 & Arnold, and is engaged to Rishi Linda Krensky and Louise Jackson
as a developmental editor, coaching au-
mos.) are a joy. Retirement in Lexington, Gupta, a patent lawyer in Dallas; the both checked in with me after I sent
thors how to “polish to publish.” Her
VA, continues to be wonderful. She wedding will be 9/19 in ME. Older word of Gale’s death, but didn’t include
website is www.susanschmidt.net. She
mentions spending the night after daughter Katherine Layhew changed any news! Linda inquired about her SBC
also collects rain water for her sand
Wendy Norton Brown’s son’s wedding jobs to be with the Law Dept. of Dollar roomie, Susan Muller, who seems to

have disappeared from view. Anyone Annual Riordan Family Reunion. They MayMay Bryan Gay had wedding #3
know where she is? Louise’s note only were about 40 strong this yr. and took in Jun. for youngest daughter Margaret
said that things have been “topsy-turvy” up 3 houses! Kitty and husband also en- — a Gay affair! Had wedding #2 in ’08 CLASS NOTES
at her end. We hope things aren’t too joyed a Spring Transatlantic Cruise stop- and all the out of town guests stayed at
dire for either of you, dear classmates, ping at W. European sites from Azores SBC and the rehearsal dinner was at
and look forward to hearing more defini- to England. But the biggest news is that the Boathouse — so fun! All daughters rest of the yr. giving talks on pollution in
tive news next time. Kitty is leaving retirement after 5 ½ yrs. are married and happy, and daughter #2 local schools and business meetings.
Speaking of which, a number of to reenter the aging field again after 15 Lucy is expecting baby #2 in Aug.! It’s a When she resigned to go into the Peace
classmates don’t have valid e-mail or yrs. experience, opting for much less boy! Corps, they actually offered her a begin-
snail mail addresses on file. If any of management and more front line en- Marcia Wittenbrook writes that she ning engineer position with education if
you are in touch with a classmate, gagement w/seniors. She’ll be activity and I are practically twins, with birth- she would stay, but the Peace Corps
please ask them to be sure their con- supervisor at The Virginian Retirement days a day apart. In the middle of a ca- beckoned. She left for Tunisia and lots
tact info is updated. We’d hate to have Home in Fairfax, VA. Youngest son is off reer transition, she broke her ankle vol- of adventures! Another good anecdote
them miss out on our 40th! See you all to Albany Medical School next month af- unteering at a church function, so that is that she got a final review before
there! ter a shift from business and is follow- limited her for a few mos. since she leaving and got Outstanding on all ex-
ing his call. Eldest son is very success- couldn’t put weight on her foot or drive. cept “dress” because there was a dress
ful w/ consulting firm specializing in Hope she’ll be better soon! code that women could only wear pants
1972 operational support of financial institu-
tions. Following the 10 grandchildren
Kathy Keys Graham Bill helped son
David and daughter-in-law Ruth Ann
if they wore a “jacket to cover the hips.”
DeDe wore pants without a jacket al-
Jill Johnson and large stepfamily is a delight. move out of their Auburn U. apt. to a most every day. She also bought some
2012 Wolftrap Oaks Ct For Marion Walker, being in condo in downtown Chattanooga. In very high stacked heel sandals, which
Vienna, VA 22182 Barcelona when Spain won the World Aug. David defended his master’s the- made her about 6’3’’ and “looked
[email protected] Cup was great fun, as was sailing the sis in civil engineering with a specialty down” on most of the guys to complete
Mediterranean Sea. She rented a car in geotechnical engineering. He started the effect. Just her way of pushing the
Thanks to those who joined the and drove to Dordogne, France, which is work with a geotechnical company in glass ceiling!
Sweet Briar Class of ’72 group on Face- beautiful. Marion fears she’s losing the Chattanooga the day after Labor Day. Charla Reynolds writes “Happy
book. Go forth and post! Pictures and race for favorite great aunt with little Ruth Ann spent time in Avignon, France, 60”and says that it’s really not that
comments are welcome by all. Remem- Mary Knox to her sister because of work getting her last 3 credit hours towards a bad. She’s been here since Jan. with no
ber, I’m the admin, so only our class — schedule changes are in order. Life master’s in French Education. She had ill effects. Her husband keeps getting
members are admitted. If you haven’t is good with great friends and family, a scholarship from the French govern- younger and has done a few tri-ath-
joined, please do! books, gardening, sailing and golf. ment to work along side students from elons. Charla tries to bike a lot and
Lee Essrig writes she has a new job Kathy Upchurch Takvorian has been 40 different countries at an interna- even did Bike Virginia this yr., over 100
in Tampa, FL. Hey, Lee, details please! fortunate to get to know SBC president, tional theatre festival in Avignon. Kathy mi. in 2 days! Charla is starting with
Vivian Finlay and husband Clyde Jo Ellen Parker. “She’s brilliant, en- writes her life is way more mundane. Continuum Home Care as a leased
Boyer moved from Wasilla, AK, (50 mi. gaged and totally techno-savvy, having She’s still working part time for a little speech pathologist from Culpeper. It’s
north of Anchorage) to Homer, (250 mi. had an outstanding pre-Sweet Briar ca- gift shop that she loves, and she and loads of new stuff to learn, and she
south of Anchorage) near the ocean. Her reer leading a consortium dedicated Bill split time between their house in hopes her old brain is up to the com-
husband retired, and they’ve always largely to interfacing technologic ad- Birmingham and their lake house near puter training. Technology over the past
wanted to spend more time in Homer. vances w/ higher education, specifically the Coosa River. She’s also in 2 book 10 yrs. is amazing in the area of health
Vivian plans to look for part-time psy- small private colleges. Her blog has in- clubs and enjoys gardening. care and electronic medical records.
chotherapy work and/or teaching at the troduced aspects of SBC that many of The Good News is the economy and Husband Tom and Charla just returned
local campus of the U. of AK. They us had no clue about — who knew that wine sales are improving and Tropical from a fun 10 days in MN where their
travel often, both for Rotary Interna- an outstanding theatre group spends Storm Bonnie did no damage, writes youngest son and his wife just moved.
tional service work and to see family (7 the summer at Sweet Briar? (Check out DeDe Conley. No big trips planned this She’s doing her residency in ER and in-
children, 22 grandchildren, and soon to her blog: yr. as friends and family are visiting ternal medicine and so will be in the
be 4 great-grandchildren!) and just to http://blog.president.sbc.edu.) Dr. from France. It’s fun to show them twin cities area for the next 5 yrs.
travel. In Oct., Vivian will be returning to Parker is already taking SBC in new di- around Miami even in the big heat. William has a job with an engineering
India, where she grew up, to meet up rections, while at the same time re- Happy Birthday to all the class of ’72 as firm so is also gainfully employed. Older
with her twin sister from Ireland for their sponding to the challenges that face all we face our big birthday this yr. She son Keith lives in Richmond employed
60th birthday. (Vivian’s twin sister was private colleges today. We’re lucky to suggests we should have a “surviving as a banker with BB&T. They feel
at Duke when Vivian was at SBC, prior have her!” 60” poetry contest! blessed.
to transferring to UNC in junior year.) Kathy works full-time as clinical chief DeDe is on email a lot, Twitter, No babies, no reunions, writes Bev
Then Vivian and Clyde will be touring of rheumatology at UMass Medical Linkedin, Salesforce.com and a couple Horne Dommerich. Son John graduated
South Africa with a Rotary friendship School (or is it full and a half?) She’s of web sites her company has already. A from Stetson U. Coll. of Law in May and
group. led the design and implementation of a good story about why she can keep up his father, an alumnus, got to hand him
After 35 yrs. in the classroom, Susan new center (with a lot of help) and over- with emails — her dad made her take the diploma! John, pere, and Bev went
Desmet Bostic retired from teaching. seen about 13,000 patient visits per yr. typing classes one summer saying “You to France the following week for a week
She plans to move on to something (her own plus those of 11 other rheuma- can always get a job!” not knowing that in Paris, 2 days at the French Open, and
else, but isn’t sure what yet. She’s tologists). She teaches students, resi- with the computer revolution, being able then a bike trip through Normandy &
open to suggestions. dents and rheumatology fellows, a weird to type 80 words a min. would be a real Brittany. The real beauty about the trip
In winter ’10, Jeannette Pillsbury be- way to “ease into retirement.” Kathy’s plus. Only once, just after coll., did she was that they “ate like pigs,”croissants
came tenured and promoted to associ- still married to the same man, lives in have to type for her salary. Dede broke daily, desserts, cheeses, drank numer-
ate professor. In Jun., she was ordained the same house in Concord (come visit), her arm the last day of SBC, falling off ous bottles of wine, and they gained
to the transitional deaconate in the and has the same 3 children who are of Goodyear, a horse who had been ill ZERO weight! (Stinkers!)
Episcopal Church. Jeannette expects to wonderful, but unfortunately grown and and given too many oats (truly!) He ran Judge Jane Powell Gray made it
be ordained a priest in Dec. She’ll con- not around too much any more. Hus- away with her in the ring filled with lots through big 6-0 last Nov. and has cele-
tinue as a professor at Luther Coll. and band Tak and Kathy have enjoyed 2 trips of scared first-yr. riders, whom she tried brated all yr. long! Son Matthew got mar-
be on a team of volunteer priests at her to Africa in the past 4 summers and to avoid, leading Goodyear in smaller ried last 7/11 to Lauren Bailey and they
church in Decorah, Iowa. could see volunteering there in some and smaller circles. But, she didn’t stay had a magical weekend at Atlantic
After 25 yrs. in healthcare adminis- medical capacity in the future. She con- in the saddle for the last circle and sat Beach — perfect weather. They cele-
tration Patricia Reardon Riggins en- tinues to be baffled by how anyone can in the sawdust for 3 hrs. with a broken brated their 1st anniv. and are happy as
tered the Seminary of the Southwest in conquer the game of golf, but loves it. right humerus until the local Lynchburg ever. The best part is they live in
Austin, TX. She was ordained as an Kathy sees Margaret Hayes Brunstad hospital ambulance could find the barn! Raleigh and Jane gets to see them of-
Episcopal priest in 1/10 and is currently and Susan Snodgrass Wynne often, gen- So, with a broken arm, she couldn’t go ten. Husband Frank survived another
serving as the Interim Vicar at Church of erally at weddings (there have been into the Peace Corps as planned right legislative session and is still hard at
Reconciliation in Corpus Christi, TX. many over the past few years — their away. After 6 mos. of healing, she got a work in his law firm. As for Jane’s cam-
Husband Mike is an engineer and works children, not hers!) and on Margaret’s job with the FL Dept. of Pollution Control paign news, she finished a close 2nd
for Sandia National Laboratory in Albu- case trips to Birmingham. They remain in Ft. Lauderdale as a secretary. Way (less than 1% behind) in the May pri-
querque, NM and teaches at Texas close friends. Eileen Gebrian Barberich before computers, she still had to use mary and is on the ballot in Nov. for a
Lutheran U. Daughter Gloria and hus- around the corner; she’s hopeful that correction tape for errors! But she didn’t seat on the NC Court of Appeals. She’d
band live in Rio Rancho, NM. they’ll connect more next year, though type for long since the engineers didn’t love all SBCers who either live in NC or
Kitty Howell Riordan enjoyed the they bump into each other from time to like giving community talks on pollution, have family and friends who live here to
Bethany Beach, DE, beach trip for the time. and DeDe volunteered. She spent the support her! To get more info, please

visit her website: tive in democratic politics and gay rights traveled to Egypt last fall, and will be go- loves what he does. Emily and Katherine
www.judgejanegray.com. She got a issues. My partner of 7 yrs. is JoAnn ing to Russia and Prague at the end of are both nearby, living and working in
lovely email of encouragement from Keller, wonderful person. She has 2 8/10. She’ll also be spending a wk. in Chicago: Emily works at Opportunity In-
Marty Neill Boney. No big trips this yr. wonderful children from a marriage. Lexington, KY, in early Oct. with room- ternational as a Marketing Specialist
other than a long weekend in NYC after “My folks have passed way. I had the mates Cynde Manning Chatham, Nancy (taking care of their blogs, web pres-
the primary. Her sister, Judy ’69, met Disneyland ticket for parents. They were Haight and Robin Singleton Cloyd. They ence, etc.) and Katherine is an Account
them and along with Frank’s brother and top drawer! Lind, my sister worked for plan to see the World Equestrian Executive at Golin Harris Public Rela-
his partner, who live in Brooklyn. They Sweet Briar from ’71 to ’73. She was Games, the Louisville Slugger factory tions.
had a great time eating their way killed in a car and no doubt a bourbon distillery! Bev is Ellen Harrison Saunders and Whitney
through the city. She gained back all the accident in ’97. I’ll miss her forever!” “traveling to Houston more often to help are still in Suffolk, VA. Harrison (27) is a
weight she’d lost during the primary, but the parents age as gracefully as possi- landscape architect in the D.C. area,
it was well worth it! Jane’s nephew is
getting married in Oct. in Williamsburg, 1975 ble, which isn’t always easy as I’m sure
many of you know!”
Mary-Carson (24) will enter William and
Mary School of Law in a few wks. and
so that will be a quick trip home to cele- Johna Pierce Stephens Coni Crocker Betzendahl was busy Grace (18) will be a freshman at Sewa-
brate the big event. Next May, Jane will 1703 Beards Creek Court in 2009 planning the wedding of their nee in TN. Ellen says they’re not ready
cruise the Mediterranean with friends. Davidsonville, MD 21035 eldest, Lindsay, to Marc Apfelbaum. In to be empty nesters! She loves seeing
Anne Garrett Norloff and husband fall, post-wedding, Coni went to their Betsy Brooks Jones and Kathy Rose
Chris live in Falls Church, VA, where place in VT for 3 mos. of riding and fox- Rawls often and will miss working with
Anne is an attorney representing
Sarah Clement hunting, whipping-in for North Country Catherine Cranston Whitham on a Gar-
5028 Domain Place
abused kids. She can’t wait to retire! Hounds. Richard came up when he den Club of VA committee. Catherine re-
Alexandria, VA 22311
Son Evan married Vera from Russia and could from the boat. Winter 2010 was cently was the 1st recipient of the Presi-
[email protected]
he’s in IT in D.C. Daughter Alison and spent skiing and snowmobiling in VT dent’s Award, from the GCV. She was
Mike have baby Ivy who just turned 2. and new-boat-shopping in FL. In Jun., instrumental in working to establish a
Bet Bashinsky Wise and Doug
Alison owns a “green” diaper service in they bought a 54’ boat and brought it up development program for the GCV.
moved to MT from TN 2 yrs. ago. Bet
Charlotte NC. Daughter Morgan married via ocean and intercoastal waterway to Mary Henningsen Collins had a mini-
says, “It's been interesting learning the
Stuart and is an attorney in Portland, Cape May, where it is now. Summer reunion in NY with Rose Anne Toppin
seasons after being southerners our en-
OR. Adopted foster daughters: Fallon is 2010 was been spent fishing the Cranz— said she looks great. Their old-
tire lives; hearty souls in these parts.
a deputy sheriff in Alexandria and Hale canyons off NJ coast for tuna and mar- est daughter just finished graduate
The best Christmas gift ever from my
is a nurse at Arlington Hospital. And, lin and having both their daughters and school in forensic psychology and 2 oth-
husband has been a dual control elec-
Anne writes she has far too many par- significant others on the boat too. ers are still in coll. at GW in D.C. Mary
tric mattress pad!” Son Case lives in
rots! Richard still does his import export of writes, “We’re hoping they all get jobs
Chattanooga and visited them for the
Tina Hall Baugher met up for cock- rare gases, and Coni dabbles in water- and liberate their parents!”
1st time this summer. He had bad
tails and dinner with Karen Medford, color and graphic design for her favorite Carol Leslie St. John was sorry to
health and started a new job so Bet’s
Mary Heller, Dale Shelly Graham, Janet customers. They’re in the process of miss Reunion. She threw her back out
traveled to see him. Although she
Nelson Gibson, Eileen Gebrian and moi selling their PA home, looking for land to the day before and couldn’t do the car
claims she’s not too sure how much
at our annual Jun. mini Reunion at build on as they don’t spend much time ride. She’s 2 yrs. out from breast can-
longer she’s going to pursue “this jump-
Karen’s lovely Rehoboth Beach, DE, there between VT and Cape May. Coni cer, doing well. Although she went the
ing game,” Bet was preparing for horse
house. The next day, we all had cock- hopes all are well. traditional methods of treatment with
trials as she wrote in. In ’09, Bet and
tails at Tina’s equally lovely beach Mary Dubuque Desloge and Chris surgeries, chemo and radiation, Carol
Doug saw Gail Ann Zarwell Winkler and
house. Cocktails are so good at this are in St. Louis, where Mary sells real swears it’s her alternative therapies
family on a cross country drives.
age. And, so is the gossip! estate at Janet McAfee Inc., a locally that are keeping her feeling so great:
Sarah Clement is an administrative
And, as always, please send any owned agency in St. Louis. On the side reiki, acupuncture, yoga and a new diet
judge for the Fed government in Alexan-
email address changes! If you aren’t she sells at a shoe boutique for a and nutrition plan. She never lets a day
dria, VA, often biking to work! She
getting my rare emails, I do not have friend’s daughter where she tries “not go by without being incredibly grateful to
misses her mom, Martha Mansfield
your email address. Again, not that I’m to get into too much trouble.” Their 3 be here. She wrote “A note to all of my
Clement SBC ’48, who was her house-
a rabid social media fan, but do check sons are in town, each in different SBC friends: ALWAYS ask for a written
mate for 16 yrs. until she died in 3/09.
in, look, laugh, and contribute whatever fields: sales, law and marketing. Mary report after your mammogram, and DO
Sarah has 2 dogs, 6 nieces and
to the Facebook Group, Sweet Briar hopes all are well. self-breast exams no matter what the
nephews, no kids, no husband and no
Class ’72. Big Thanks to all. Linda Frazier-Snelling lives in West AMA said last yr.!” Carol’s still doing in-
regrets! Sarah says, “Lots of my co-
Seattle with husband Michael. She terior design and the family’s well:
horts at my agency are around my age
1973 and looking to retire in the next 3-5 yrs.,
moved there over a yr. ago to help
daughter Catherine with 3 of her grand-
Bryan (29) graduated from NYU Stern
with his MBA this spring, lives in NYC
but I’ll likely be working until I’m a ripe
Evelyn Carter Cowles old 70 and coming in here with a bad
children: Joaquin (3), Sequoia (9) and and works as director of finance at Ad-
PO Box 278 Dahlia (12). She resigned from the Safe Media in NY; Kevin (26) works in
temper and a cane (that’s what I
Free Union, VA 22940 biotech world last Dec. and works part- Equity Sales and Trading at Credit Su-
threaten our support staff with, any-
[email protected] time in Shoreline, north of Seattle. Son isse in San Francisco; Harry (22) gradu-
way)!” Maureen Hynes ’74 visited, stay-
Chris lives near Los Angeles with his ated W&L last yr., lives in NY and works
ing with Sarah instead of a hotel during
wife and 2 children: Dylan (3) and at Media 6. Tommy’s company has
1974 a conference in D.C. and they laughed
like the old days. Sarah hopes all are
Emma (8 mos.) Moving to Seattle from weathered the economic times and is
San Diego was a change, and it meant doing well. They spent the summer at
Rosalind Ray Spell well and healthy.
not seeing her other grandchildren as the beach, and Bryan and Harry trained
2710 Orchard Knob SE Catherine Cranston Whitham missed
much as before, but Linda at least down every weekend along with friends.
Atlanta, GA 30339 being at Reunion, but her mother’s 80th
stayed on the West Coast. She enjoyed They see Kevin whenever they can but
[email protected] birthday took precedence. Catherine is
returning to SBC for the 35th reunion think they’ve lost him to CA and can’t
busy with volunteer responsibilities
and seeing all who attended from our blame him!
Meredith Thompson Sullivan “that don’t take the summer off!” She
class, some notably pictured on her Denise Montgomery thought Reunion
PO Box 1283 visited her daughter and her husband in
Facebook page, which included room- was great, even though there were only
Livingston, MT 59047 MT, hiking in Glacier National Park and
mate Ellen Harrison Saunders. During about 21 from ’75 and 2 husbands!
[email protected] “hoping to keep up with the 30-some-
that same weekend, Linda’s sister grad- Denise spent a wk. with Gerry in May
things and their dogs!”
uated from Mary Baldwin Coll. at age and a wk. with Jeanne mostly on Cape
Michele “Mitch” Dore writes: “I’m a Bev Crispin Heffernan still enjoys UT
40, after already pursuing another ca- Cod in Jun. She saw Edward Gorey’s
metalsmith in Prescott Valley, AZ. You after 15 yrs.! Husband Jim is eligible for
reer, getting married and having 2 boys! house and went to her 1st drive-in
can get my bio from the past 30 yrs. retirement, but not ready, still likes be-
It was a memorable weekend! movie in 34 yrs., seeing a double fea-
from the web at doremetalsmith.com. ing a judge. Bev can retire (she’s Envi-
Melissa Greenwood Riemer is acting ture of “Marmaduke” and “Date Night:
Also I have another website, artin- ronmental Group Chief, Bureau of Recla-
steadily, loves it. She became an en- with Tina Fey. Denise finished the book
urnest.com, for my new custom pet urn mation in Provo) in 2 yrs. and thinks she
semble member of Steep Theatre in she’s been writing for 4 yrs.; it should
business. I’ve spent the last 5 yrs. do- just will and go play! Son Jimmy (29),
Chicago several yrs. ago and that takes be available next spring from Scarecrow
ing R@D to help develop the process I’ll works for Fed Ex in Sandy, UT; Chris
up a lot of time. When she’s not acting Press, but she doesn’t expect to sell a
use to make the urns. (24) is at the U. of UT, getting his de-
there or at another theater, she says, lot of copies unless you either teach
“I moved to Phoenix in ’84 from MI, gree in history and also works for Enter-
“I’m up to my nose in the regular world drama, run a theater company, or are a
where I was in grad. school, and I prise Rent-A-Car. Bev has 2 horses, still
volunteering, helping my parents who reference librarian, since it is the 8th
moved to Prescott Valley in ’05 to get trail rides and foxhunts, a bit of golfing
live near us, travelling when we can.” edition of an index to the contents of
away from the increasing heat. Very ac- in summer and skiing in winter. They
Jeff is still with BovisLendlease and anthologies of plays, as well as an index

to playwrights by country, ethnic group, wk. at Massanutten and a w.k in AZ. All making the house a home, along with
gender and LGBT status. Her health is 3 children married in the last 3 yrs. and landscaping and hardscaping. In be-
good now; unfortunately, her father was are well. In addition to Macro, Inc., Ed tween, they’ve made several trips to FL, CLASS NOTES
diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and has started a new company called Pal- Las Vegas, and Jamaica. Daughter Adri-
is showing signs of macular degenera- metto Aeronautic Corp. Janet says he’ll enne (25) and beau, Christopher (26),
tion. Denise says she’s lucky he’s mar- be launching rockets before long! And, have their wedding planned for Lynn rejoined the SBC Friends of Art
ried to a strong and capable woman in although she’s had several short sto- 9/10/10, so Gwynne and Bill plan a trip Board. Daughter Olivia adores 6th grade
her mid-60s who loves him. ries published, she’s still perfecting her to Puerto Rico in late Sept. Gwynne sad at National Cathedral School. At Christ-
Lynn Norris Pfeiffer is finishing her Southern novel, The Chest Beneath to have missed the 35th, but her mas Lynn skied with Norris Judd Ferge-
1st yr. as full time organist/choir direc- God's Beard. She spends much of her niece’s wedding was in NYC at that son and family in Crested Butte, CO.
tor at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in time volunteering. She noted, “I’ve been time! She’s still with Tricorp as an Oper- This summer Olivia and Lynn will visit
Belleview, FL. At 55 last yr., she finally blessed with 10 cancer-free yrs. since ations Specialist/Member Account Spe- Africa. Lynn enjoys getting together in
realized her lifelong dream and still my breast cancer diagnosis, so life is cialist and Bill is still busy with his ap- Washington with Maureen O’Hern
loves it. Husband John is fine; their 2 good and I enjoy every min.” praisal business. Slowinski and Sally Crickenburger
sons are “hanging in there” during Ginny Shipe Cameron raved about Dorsey Tillett Northrup missed re- Brady.
these hard times. Reunion! First, a mini reunion in C’ville union because her daughter graduated Kari Shipley’s (Delray Beach, FL) chil-
Johna Pierce Stephens stays busy in (See Anne Shipe entry) — they enjoyed coll. Dorsey ended a 10-yr. run in real dren have all graduated from coll. and
“retirement” with volunteer activities a great dinner and breakfast celebra- estate in ’08 and is painting and travel- have jobs. “I’m busy raising money for 4
(mostly environmental), equine sports tion, courtesy of Anne’s mom, who took ing, camera in hand. She rafted down charities, chairing several fundraisers
and elder care. Her Dad (93) still lives such good care of the gang in coll. Then CO with the kids in ’08, biked from and serving on boards and as a deacon
on the farm with Bettie (82). Tom’s on to SB, minus Heather and the Bruge to Amsterdam in ’09, and is hav- at our church. I also paint, play golf and
Mom (82) still lives on her huntbox in Vonetes sisters, who couldn’t make it. ing “a yr. of boring stories in ’10” but is travel.” Kari hopes to get back to her va-
Casanova. Johna helps wherever she They stayed in the new townhouses, heading to Australia and New Zealand cation home in Lake Toxaway, NC, this
can whenever she’s needed. She right down from Anne Cogswell Burris, and back to the Netherlands in 2011 to summer to fly fish and hike with her
burped out of retirement briefly last Nov. Wendy Wise Routh, Chris Hoefer Mey- bike through the tulips. husband and dog.
(as a favor to a friend) to conduct a me- ers and Ann Wesley Ramsey. Ginny Bonnie Walton Mayberry retired 5 Tricia Cassidy O’Callahan threw a
dia tour for explorer and broadcaster said, “We had a blast! It felt like we yrs. ago, having taught 1st grade at Elon surprise party with several other alum-
Piers Gibbon as part of a National Geo- never left SBC!” Ginny’s son Andrew Elem. Right after being diagnosed with nae for Janet Grainger who was getting
graphic Channel series, but tries not to and wife Lauren are expecting their 1st Alzheimer’s, her mother broke her hip, re-married. The party was at Tricia’s
take things too seriously. Daughter child in Jan.; she can’t wait to be a and Bonnie helped care for her until she house in Rye, NY, and Janet was so sur-
Rachael studied at the Sorbonne in grandmother for the 2nd time. Ginny passed away. Daughter Megan and hus- prised when the girls from Charlotte and
Paris under Bryn Mawr’s junior study hopes all are well, look her up on Face- band Judson adopted 2 babies (now 3). Atlanta jumped out from behind the cur-
abroad program and in Oct., Johna and book! They are 2 ½ mos. apart and seem like tains! Janet married Tim Bryse and lives
Tom spent 10 lovely days in Paris with Sarah “Sally” Smith Freeman en- twins! Bonnie keeps them 3 days a wk., in Rye, as does Kate Kelly Smith. Janet
her for their wedding anniv.! Rachael in- thused, “I’ve made many trips to and loves being Nannie and being retired; has 7 new step-children in addition to
terned at a sustainable asset manage- from SBC in the last yr. and I can report Jerry still works at Areva in Lynchburg. her 4. All are grown. Tricia is still prose-
ment firm in Philly for the summer, the campus is even lovelier than I re- Carroll Waters Summerour writes, cuting, this time on an organized crime
learning lots about sustainable invest- membered it so many yrs. ago.” Oldest “Life is great here in Lake Toxaway, commission. Trisha’s husband Harold,
ing, conducting outreach and event plan- daughter Sarah Elizabeth Freeman NC!” Daughter Kaki got married in Jun.; to whom she has been married for 10
ning; she returns for her senior yr. at started at SBC in ’09 and younger Toby did the ceremony and there wasn’t yrs., is nearly retired. Trisha’s son Timo-
BMC this fall. Tom is still in institutional daughter Catherine C. begins this yr. A a dry eye in the house! Their son and thy Higgins graduated from the
investing and sponsoring drag racing pink and green flag forever blows in the daughter-in-law are expecting their 2nd Lawrenceville School and Holy Cross
cars (2). They travel to races across the wind outside the Freeman front door! In grandchild in Aug. and works for Wells Fargo Securities in
country; Johna trail rides her horse and 8/09, Sally, her husband Missy Nesbitt Voigt only went to NYC. Trisha remarked that “[i]t was
looks forward to cool weather and fox- and Sarah went to a fantastic “new stu- SBC for one yr. (1971-1972), but writes: great to be with SBC friends; it felt like
hunting, hikes with the family dog, and dent” party at Ann Kiley Crenshaw’s “I’ve spent quite a bit of time there they had never left each other!”
is venturing into wildlife photography. (’76) home in VB. Her family was so since, in 2003, our oldest son, John, Marshá Taylor Horton is Regional
Celia Robertson Queen has 2 new warm to all of the new girls and her started dating a girl who was a student Chair of Clinical Studies for Wilmington
grandsons, Henry and Wade, both of home is spectacular! An elegant iron at SBC (Virginia-Anne Fowler ’04). We at- U. in DE, while busily parenting Sam
whom are healthy and loud! They plan to dog (with pearls on) greeted the guests tended her graduation, and lo and be- (10) and Jasmine “Jazz” (7). They visit
visit Pawleys Island in 9/10, but their as they arrived. Sally would love to hear hold, they married at SB this past spring Richmond often, seeing Auntie Sandra
most favorite spot to relax is at their from anyone from SBC at esqfree- on 4/17. We couldn’t have asked for a Taylor ’74. Last yr., Marshá and the kids
place in western NC near Highlands, [email protected]. more lovely and unique place for a wed- had a mini reunion with Keedie Grones
where they can escape the heat in Co- Barbie Tafel Thomas is an exterior ding. While we were there, I kept asking Leonard and kids, Cole and Belle. “My
lumbia. Celia took her mother, Mary Bar- designer, loves her work! With her own myself why in the world I ever trans- kids had big fun driving a scooter, milk-
rett Robertson ’48 of Augusta, to Edisto business, she has the flexibility to play ferred. I loved Vanderbilt, but there’s no ing cows and archery. A highlight was a
Beach to visit Celia’s brother and family tennis on several competitive teams prettier campus anywhere!” Missy and trip to the VA Safari Park, complete with
for a weekend, a lovely time. and have fun in between jobs. Barbie di- family have been in Nashville since ’82. a camel grabbing a bag of food right out
Anne Ross Shipe and Jim are still in vorced (3 yrs. ago after 30 yrs. of mar- Her husband practices health care law, of the car window!” Marshá recently ac-
C’ville and still working! One son turned riage) and just when she was getting her and she’s busy keeping up with their 3 cepted an invitation to rejoin the SBC
26 on 7/11 and lives in C’ville, working feet back, she was diagnosed with (now 4) children, one working in Boul- Board of Directors in fall.
for UVa’s Investment Foundation as an breast cancer. Last Jul., she had a dou- der, CO, one teaching for the Peace Kelsey Griffo Grice is in VA Beach,
investment analyst. Anne had an ab- ble mastectomy, followed by chemo and Corps in China and the newlyweds mov- playing way too much tennis, going to
solute blast at the 35th, beginning with radiation. She just had reconstructive ing to Nashville. Missy says she looks school and trying to figure out what to
a “mini-reunion” the night before with surgery this past Jul., the day after win- “forward to class news. It always sur- do next! Kelsey has spent a lot of time
Elaine Altice Saman and husband ning the state USTA tennis tournament! prises me how many people I remember traveling the East Coast. Daughter
Saman, Betsey Clay Rizo, Sandra and Barbie’s children are all boat captains in when I read the alumnae news!” McKenzie graduated in May from the U.
Maria Vonetes, Ginny Shipe Cameron, different capacities: Grant (32) is a of Miami (theatre and business law).
Heather McLeod Gale and then onto Coast Guard officer and spent last yr. in
SBC after breakfast. She met up with a Bahrain as the CO of one of the large 1976 McKenzie is in her 2nd yr. as a Miami
Dolphins Cheerleader and also works at
lot of the classmates, caught up on cutters. He was married in June in D.C. Ann Kiley Crenshaw Nordstrom in Merrick Park. Son Parker
everything and vowed to stay in closer (why Barbie missed reunion) and is now 1216 Cedar Point Drive is in his 3rd yr. at High Point U. in NC,
touch through Facebook, e-mail, etc. the CO of a ship off the coast of NC. Virginia Beach, VA 23451 and social chair of Lambda Chi. Hus-
Anne says, “Hopefully for the 40th, we’ll Clay (30) is a private boat captain for an [email protected] band Chuck is busy with his yacht bro-
have even more attend. Hope all are 80’ sailboat based out of Ft. Laud- [email protected] kerage. Even though Kelsey lives at the
well.” erdale. Daughter Lee (28) and her fi- beach she escapes to the Jersey shore
Janet Shepperd Kelleher missed re- ancé are the directors of J-World Sailing Plan ahead girls! Our 35th reunion is whenever possible. She just got back
union as her aunt, whom she had been School in San Diego, where they teach around the corner! from Long Beach Island visiting Bruce
caring for, had just died and Janet was and race; they planned to be married in Lynn Kahler Rogerson directs Art Fisher (UVA, Theta Delt ’75) and family,
“in a blue funk for a while.” She worked Louisville in Sept. Services International and develops in- and plan to go to Stone Harbor in Sep-
through that, however, while vacationing Gwynne Taggart Barter-Martin and ternational museum exhibitions, cur- tember.
this summer for 2 wks. at Hilton Head Bill purchased a 2800-square-ft. new rently with shows of kimono, Victorian Marilyn Mare Moran works for a
Island, 2 wks. at the Chesapeake Bay, a construction in 7/07, and have been painting and Fernando Botero traveling. multi-practice law firm as director of

client relations, writing press releases, great time! She is going back out west ton, is headed to ECU in fall, interested Jim and MB to a weekend at VA Beach
quarterly newsletters and website con- (WY/MT) to ranch to ride/hike, etc. & in occupational therapy. Sadly, Trish’s last summer. Sally Mott Randolph
tent; planning seminars and events; and then down to Grand Teton Park to Jack- Dad passed away this May. He had came through Chicago and they took
overseeing all marketing and client serv- son Hole (been going 20 yrs. now). Ka- urged her to attend SBC and he was pictures at “The Bean” and had lunch in
ices. Son Chris starts high school this rina’s job was eliminated after 29 yrs. right: great education, great friendships, Millennium Park. Sally, husband John,
yr. and loves videography and photogra- with Pfizer. She’s starting a temp job at and great foundation to build on. Tom Jim and MB attended Cathy Slatin-
phy. He is taking a semester elective in Cephalon, in their compliance dept. for and Trish completed renovations on shek’s marriage celebration last sum-
digital photography. Mare still loves their couple mos. their home on Gwynn Island on the mer (to Bill Prillaman) in the Northern
house in Larchmont, NY, which is about Becky Burt’s adventures in jewelry Chesapeake Bay, great weekend get- Neck. Bill is an architect and designed
8 blocks from the harbor. are bearing fruit. In addition to showing away and possible retirement home at the home he and Slats have moved to,
Kay Ellisor Hopkins’s middle child, her pieces monthly at the Mid-City Art some point. Trish caught up with truly beautiful. Bill teaches tennis on
daughter Beth married in 5/09 in Hous- Market in New Orleans, she’s been ju- Melanie Holland Rice, Sally Old Kitchin the side. Sally and John hosted a pre-
ton — a joyous occasion. Tennessee ried in as a member of the Louisiana and Ann Kiley Crenshaw at the wedding wedding reception attended by Paula
Nielsen and Cissy Humphrey attended, Craft Guild. This group takes only the of Melanie’s daughter — a beautiful Brum ’77, Sally Mott Freeman, Megan
as did an aunt and 2 cousins who at- best craftspeople from the southeast wedding and she loved the picture of Morgan, Meg Shields Duke, Caroline
tended SBC. Her youngest, John, com- part of the U.S. Becky was waitlisted as the SBC grads. Not bad for ’76 grads! Bickel McLoughlin, Becky Dane ’77,
pleted a 5-yr. program at Texas A&M in an artist for Jazz Fest, but couldn’t par- Virginia Spangler Polley says Frank Mary Beth Hamlin, Peggy Weimer Par-
5/10 and earned a bachelor’s degree in ticipate due to her stepfather (92) hav- graduated from Georgetown, looking for rish, Maggie Shriver ’77, Ookie Hays
accounting and master’s in finance. He ing emergency intestinal surgery. Becky a job in D.C. The family visited Greece Cooper and Margot Mahoney Budin.
has completed the CPA exam and will displayed at the Renaissance Fine Art as a graduation present. David and Gina “Meg and I had to sing the toast we de-
work for Ernst & Young in Dallas. Her Festival in Ridgeland, MS, in May, and started a new business. David has been livered at the event!” MB still works part
oldest, Sarah, works for an advertising teaches weekly metalsmithing classes in the carpet industry for 50 yrs., and time for family businesses in NC and SC
agency in Dallas. Kay’s daughters are in New Orleans at NOLA Art and Craft, they’ve started their own carpet manu- and has added trips to as many east
A&M grads also. Kay has been with part of the New Orleans Conservation facturing co. Her custom cremation urn coast spots as possible. MB will be at
Neiman Marcus 22 yrs. Tennessee, Guild. Finally, she was selected as one business is chugging along. Gina is put- Homecoming in Sept. Unfortunately
Cissy, Beth Bates Locke and Kay get to- of 6 artists to be featured in “Louisiana ting her new MBA degree to use. She she’ll have to miss our 35th reunion
gether on a regular basis. Beth’s daugh- Artists: Profiles on Canvas,” a short still is involved in riding and showing (this will be the 1st time) since it’s the
ter, Becky, is a first-yr. at U. of North TX. film produced by the Louisiana Public American Saddlebred horses. She uses same weekend as her daughter’s coll.
Kay says Kathy Whichard Poston has a Broadcasting as part of their annual Facebook to reconnect with classmates graduation.
granddaughter and is expecting a 2nd fundraising Art and Travel auction. and hopes more join. Gina looks for- Cynde Seiler Eister’s city had the
grandchild (daughter Kayce’s children). Kate Kelly Smith looks forward to reward to reunion. pleasure of hosting the making of the
Kathy’s son, McLean, was engaged. Kay union. Niece Olivia Smith is entering the Cissy Humphrey sees Beth Bates movie “Baseball Dreams.” She played
wants to attend the next reunion. It’s fresh-yr. class and Kate looks forward to Locke, Tennessee Nielsen and Kay El- an extra and enjoyed working on an ac-
been 20 yrs. since she has made it to many visits to SBC. Daughter Isabel lisor Hopkins for Girls Night Out every 8 tual film set. She enjoyed the wedding
SBC; she’d love to see everyone. graduated from Gettysburg Coll. and will wks. She hears from Candi Casey in of son Ronald and bride Meghan in Oct.
Robin Rodgers Heller’s youngest, be going to graduate school in nutrition Chicago via email. Youngest daughter, Laura, moved to
Elizabeth, is at Alma Coll. (small liberal and public policy at Tufts U. in Boston. Mary Beth Hamlin Finke’s daughter NYC to take a position with the NY
arts coll. in MI) making her family empty We’re thrilled. Kate hopes all of our Caroline graduates from Mount Holyoke Times. Ron and I celebrated 30 yrs. of
nesters. Her son is studying business class is into decorating as we become Coll. in 5/11 with a degree in astro- marriage in Jun. and have planned a trip
and her daughter plans to study psychol- empty nesters. I’m in my 4th yr. as the physics and French and completed a se- to Israel and Jordan in fall.
ogy. Husband Bill took Lizzie on a busi- VP/Publisher of House Beautiful and mester in Paris with SBC’s JYF program. Ann Kiley Crenshaw hosted the cele-
ness trip to TX and they visited with you can now get your decorating inspira- So although she didn’t opt to attend bration sending our local students back
Cissy Humphrey. Robin chatted by tion from many formats: the magazine, SBC, MB feels she can consider her to Vixen land. Sally Old Kitchin enter-
Skype and Cissy assured me that she the website housebeautiful.com, the daughter an alumna! Son Hollis will be a tained our new president, Jo Ellen
used discretion in describing our coll. mobile mhousebeutiful.com and with junior boarder at Episcopal H. S., mak- Parker, at her home. It was wonderful to
antics to our coll.-bound daughter! Robin the June issue on the iPad. Kate enjoys ing her an empty nester. She’s been catch up with alumnae of all classes, in-
is busy running LocalMotionGreen, an seeing lots of friends, including Treacy dating my old friend from coll. Days, Jim cluding Sally’s own Maria Kitchin ’04.
environmental health nonprofit, and do- Markey Shaw, Janet Thompson Burn, Shannon, who lives in Richmond. Sally had a lovely dinner party for Cathy
ing lots of volunteer work with Junior Tricia Cassidy O’Callahan, Laura Lee Friends may remember him since he Slatinshek and Bill, who live in the
League, garden clubs, clinic for disabled Bost and Katy Cochran. was “down the road” a fair bit in those Northern Neck of VA. Sally encourages
youth and sitting on various nonprofit Debbie Mutch Olander finished her days! Peggy Weimer Parrish and MB you to come to Homecoming and Re-
boards. The 1st round of renovations on Ph.D. in musicology at FL State and took our kids to Loire and Paris on vaca- union!
their 100+-yr.-old home is almost com- moved to Ponte Vedra Beach. Debbie tion last summer, and Meg Shields I’m (Ann Kiley Crenshaw) happy that
plete. It’s now listed on the National has had a challenging yr., but she’s for- Duke and MB still get together to ski at both of my boys will be at UVA next yr.
Register of Historic Places and received tunate to have family nearby for part of her home in Vail annually. MB and her Gordon will finish his 4th yr. in the Com-
an historic plaque from our local histori- the yr. Debbie was terribly saddened to daughter met Meg’s daughter Margo merce School and Clarke Jr. will return
cal society. She has ample guest ac- hear of Karl Tamburr’s passing and re- while she was living in NYC. Margot Ma- to attend Darden. Gordon spent the
commodations for classmates visiting calls that she and Peggy Weimer were honey Budin and David gave a brunch summer in NYC working in investment
the Detroit area. Just give Robin a call his 1st thesis students at SBC. on 7/4/10. Carrington Brown Wise has banking. Clarke and I intend not to miss
or email. Debbie Massie Thurman’s 2nd visited her quite often in Chicago the UVA home games this season! I stay
Meg Shields Duke hasn’t seen many daughter, Natalie, was wed in Lynch- past few yrs. while she has been taking busy with my law practice and volunteer
SBC classmates this yr., although she burg, VA on 5/22 to 1st Lt. James teaching courses. Carrington even work. Look forward to seeing you all at
has visited with 3 surrogates. Meg’s Fowler, USA. Step-daughter Jessica is brought her daughter Annie (SBC) to Reunion!
family got to meet and host for dinner marrying 7/3/10 in Baltimore, which stay one time. Carrington, Margaret Mil-
Kate Kelly Smith’s daughter Isabel, who completes the trio. Daughter Jenni set ner Mallory and MB have been invited
was a houseguest of daughter Caro- the pace in ’08, and ‘twas at their wed- by Lochrane Coleman Smith to visit
line’s oldest childhood friend. Meg took ding that Jesse met her husband-to-be. Loch and Mel in Birmingham this fall. 1977
everybody out for a graduation celebra- Russ and Debbie are empty nesters (3 Margaret and Bart came to Chicago last Sally Bonham Mohle
tion dinner. (Isabel: Gettysburg ’10; Car- cats and a dog), making trips to SBC fall and we had a ball seeing Jersey 5039 Lewisetta Drive
oline: Colby ’10.) Darling girl, no sur- campus to swim, play tennis and walk Boys, then running into the stars of the Glen Allen, VA 23060
prise there! Meg visited with SBC the trails. Life is good. She’s always cast on the street! Lisa Nelson Robert- [email protected]
surrogates, including longtime SBC writing something and looking forward son and MB ran into one another at a
alumnae board rep from Denver; Jane to his retirement from publishing soon. UVA football game. MB had a great time Please send an email address updates
Borden ’68, who moved to W. Hartford; Trish Talbott Reed had a busy sum- a yr. ago making a swing through Dallas, to me (address above!) If you’re on
and SBC current big board member from mer. Oldest daughter Meghan com- San Antonio and Houston where she Facebook, we have a group! Also some
Denver Judy Grant ’66. Hoping for more pleted her 1st yr. as a 4th grade saw our TX classmates, Dede Ryan Ale, of your news below may have been ed-
’76 visits in 2010/11. Mary Beth Ham- teacher. She’s getting married 7/24, so Cissy Humphrey, Beth Bates Locke, ited due to the word limit.
lin Finke and Meg have planned to re- Trish is busy with that. Daughter Ashley Tennessee Neilsen and Kay Elisor Hop- Debbie Koss McCarthy: Our news is
unite at SBC’s Homecoming to help graduated from UMW in May and plans kins. MB’s been in touch with Cora Sny- the birth of our 1st grandchild, Anna
plan reunion. Meg and Mary Beth would to be assistant coach for coll. basket- der ’77 in Charlottesville. Joella Schnei- Grace Ramey to our daughter Courtney
absolutely adore for others to join them! ball and go to graduate school. Wrightly der Samp ’77 and husband Rich invited and John in Atlanta. Alex is in NYC so
Karina Schless went to coll. yr. attends East TN, is suffering through Peggy, Elliott Graham Schoenig and both of our offspring are in fun places to
abroad reunion (’75) to Rome in May, a summer school. Her youngest, Carring- husband Jerry, Alix Colley Wilson, and visit.

Angela Scully: Serving as exec. dir. 4th in the Int’l competition in Dayton, 5/10 with a degree in Business Fi-
of the Darlington Arts Center in Garnet OH this spring. Daughter Mallory (15) is nance. Cooper will be an intern for 2
Valley, PA. Still painting. Almost empty finishing 9th grade on the FL Virtual yrs. before he joins her husband Jim, as CLASS NOTES
nesters as the 2nd of our 2 children is School. She takes her classes online a team mate at Morgan Stanley, Smith
graduating from coll. Planning to travel with frequent contact with her teachers Barney. As for Anne ... she continues to
with my sister Eileen ’78 to Hong Kong via phone or email. She has her paint: equine, yachting and pet art and, will appear in the 2010 issue of Journal
where she’ll give a paper on “madness learner’s permit, so Dan and I have got- also has several elderly, private patients of New Jersey Poets. Look for his poem
and psychopathology of global free ten a few more gray hairs lately! We’re who she takes care of during the day. “Blood Room” in the Journal of Medical
trade.” looking forward to our 1st full family va- Visit her new website, www.annewad- Humanities. The 2 of them have works
Cathy Goodhart Henson: I’m looking cation in over 4 yrs. We’re headed to dell.com. And I, Sally Bonham Mohle, appearing in antiTHESIS: A Graduate
forward to traveling with SBC to Italy in Key West! Heather aged out of Drum gained 2 great-nephews in the past yr.! Student Journal of Criticism, Theory,
10/10. 2 of my daughters married W&L Corps last yr., having reached 21. She and Creative Writing (Australia).
men: Susie married Taylor Marshall in was a color guard member of Bluecoats
8/08. They live and practice law in Little of Canton, OH for 3 yrs. and Phantom 1978 Paula Brown Kelley is sending old-
est, JP, off to Loyola U. in Baltimore,
Rock. Catherine married Alex Curlet in Regiment, Rosemont, IL for one yr. We Suzanne Stryker Ullrich while Genny will be a sophomore in h. s.
6/10. My youngest child, Laura, is in went to Indianapolis last Aug. to watch 820 Waverly Rd. For her 80th birthday, Paula and her
the Peace Corps in Mozambique. the Drum Corps International finals in Kennett Square, PA 19348 mother went to paint NYC red. Paula is
Becky Mayer Gutierrez: Life is great, the new Indianapolis Colts stadium. I [email protected] busy with a women’s club, along with
3 healthy, happy sons and 3 healthy, welcome contact from SBCers in Central the Youree ladies (Michelle Youree
happy grandsons. Teaching 5th grade, FL, or from anyone visiting the Cindy “Whitless” Whitley Auman Hostler, Valerie and their mother). Paula
will spend a week on the beach with Tampa/Clearwater/St. Petersburg area. and Dave finished their 10-yr. 1903 and Liz Williams got together when a
family in ME this summer and hope to I’m 20 min. from Clearwater Beach! farmhouse renovation. She’s now with a mutual friend was releasing a new wine!
visit my son stationed in Heidelberg, Lola Brock Meakin: Life is good in Philadelphia-based environmental firm. (Sounds like a great place to have a re-
Germany next summer. England this yr. Last yr., I had a stroke Sadly, both she and Dave lost parents a union, perhaps?) Commercial real es-
Ellen Sellers McDowell: Oldest child as a result of an injury. Somehow I few yrs. ago. tate has been flat, but Paula is busy de-
Emily is finished a master’s in Geology twisted my neck, had a tear inside an Katie Renaud Baldwin is in OR after signing a website (kcreco.com). Navy
from U. of TX and moved to Houston to artery and then 7-10 days later (the day many yrs. in AK and is still subbing and football games fill their weekends.
start a job. Ginny graduated from TCU after returning from skiing) the symp- waiting for a teaching position. Katie Deb Davison Klein was in PA for son
and works in Dallas. Mary Susan is go- toms occurred. Good news is that the says Martha Miller’s daughter is now Peter’s graduation, while Bo (26) is
ing to be a junior at TCU and youngest only “symptom” I have left is fat! So af- attending SBC. I guess she bought nearby in CA working at his dad’s com-
child Kate is headed to Samford U. in ter 3 mos. sick leave and then cutting something at the bookstore. “It made pany. Whitney (23) was in NYC working
Birmingham, AL, this fall. I hope to see down to 2 days a wk., I decided to give me smile to hear the voice of a ‘Virginia’ for In Style Magazine, but is now in At-
Lochrane Coleman Smith ’76 and Eve up work for a while. I’m busier than person again! Lots of memories.” lanta.” Peter (18) is participating in a
Jackson London ’78 when I go to drop ever. Got a new puppy, 2 dogs are more Lee Corollo Boyes celebrated 2 yrs. program in Equador for a semester. Deb
Kate off in Aug. Kate and I went on a than twice the amount of work, double of good health and had a son married in still rides jumpers, loves CA, but looks
church trip to England. Rex still travels trouble! Been travelling a lot, Miami at June! She enjoyed being involved in the forward to travels, HI and VA in fall.
between Dallas and AL for business. Christmas, Miami again in Mar. to help CA wedding, even though she wasn’t the Cecilia Garcia-Tunon Lear had tons
This summer, we visited the beach in my mother post hip replacement, skiing mother of the bride! She is teaching at to report, highlights being a great senior
Destin, FL, which were beautiful, con- in Apr., Norfolk in May with the dogs Sonoma State U. in the Dept. of Educa- yr. (wrestling, football, track, musicals
trary to news reports. (and Jeremy), Jun. was northern France, tion, preparing science teacher creden- and dramas) for son Fred before he
Vivian Yamaguchi Cohn: I continue to Jul. in Greece for 11 days and Aug., NY, tial candidates, while continuing her takes off for Western New England Coll.
serve on the SB Visiting Committee for to visit my son Edward (21)! My other consulting on an educational assess- in Springfield, MA. Ceci has taken out a
Riding, and enjoy returning to campus son James (23) works in insurance in ment program (FACETS) and Clean Air business license for contracted techni-
for meetings. Toni Bredin Massie is on Norwich and has decided to move to Challenge. cal writing for an Atlanta based com-
this committee too, always good to see London. I’m pleased to have 1 son Cathy ‘Mellow’ Golterman’s twins pany, as well as some government con-
her. I ride regularly. 9/09 I nearby!! Jeremy and I are well, enjoying Catherine and Christen will be sopho- tracts in both Canada and the U.S. She
attended SBC Homecoming during which the empty nest now. mores at Westminster Coll. in Fulton, and Steve realized that the move to ME,
our new president, Jo Ellen Parker, was Martha Crowe Jones: Still working at MO. Woody will be a senior in h. s. The while having many up-sides also came
inaugurated, a new fitness facility dedi- family business (Sally Bell’s Kitchen) family will take a cruise when he gradu- with some down-sides… “heating a big,
cated (it‘s amazing!) and SBC lacrosse Scott and son Caleb won bid with city of ates. old clunker of a house, which we love
coach, the late Jennifer Crispin and for- Richmond and opened 2nd location at When Catherine Taylor Moore’s par- anyway, and being far away from our
mer SBC director of riding, Paul Byrd Park. We’re lucky to have a review ents moved out of ther house of 51 yrs., nearest and dearest from BM (Before
Cronin, were inducted into the SBC Ath- in NY Times, mentions in GQ, Gardens she found a lantern made by her “little Maine!) We have tons of room, and love
letic Hall of Fame. I wrote and gave and Guns and a small spot on Bobby sister” Cindy Little. “Who would’ve to have visitors!”
the introduction Flay’s show. Had a great visit with thought that it could survive the test of Audrey Townsend spent 3 wks. in
for Paul’s induction. Last summer, Meg Cheryl Lennon Gibson and plan to meet time?” Last Sept. Catherine traveled to France, got daughter Betsy ready to
Wiederseim Richards ’78, hosted Mag- with Cheryl and Joan Pietrucha when Sea Island to visit Betsy Glenn who head off to Occidental U. in CA and vis-
gie Shriver, Libby White Drbal, JoJo time allows. On occasion I see Marty hosted her, Liz Dalrymple, Eve London ited Helen Bruckman, Liz Bowden,
Scott Busey, Keedie Grones Leonard Branch Alexander at the shop. My and Lisa Wray Longino for a mini-re- Emily McCalister and Michelle Frazier
’76, Addy Eshbach Donnelly ’78, Mimi daughter. Sarah Natalie is a rising junior union. Son Lee is at Camp Casey in S. in Las Vegas last May. A trip to Balti-
Borst Quillman ’78 and Mary Goodwin at James Madison. Korea with the Army. “We’re thankful for more also meant a fun visit with Missy
Gamper ’78 and me at Saranac Lake Roxane Clement: Went to Bele Chere Skype; it helps us keep in touch in re- Powell Adams.
in the Adirondacks for a mini-reunion. (Asheville street festival) with Gregor mote locations.” 8th grader Ainsley en- Holly McGlothlin bought her 1st
Stuart and I celebrated our 27th anniv. Lee ’00 and Amanda Diamond Ring ’98; joys dance, volleyball, music, horseback home after a yr.-long search and has a
9/09. Clayton (23) completed his serv- a good time was had by all! riding and volunteering. guest room waiting in the San Francisco
ice with the Marine Corps and returned Ebet Little Stevens: Lizzie and hus- Donna J. G. Mihalik Lee and Dennis area! (40 min. away and walking dis-
home after 2 tours to Iraq. He works in band, Derek, had a baby boy 3/10. have each been writing poetry with pub- tance to BART.) Sadly, her mother (97)
downtown Chicago. Clifford (21) will be Anne is getting married 8/10, and Rob lications in various literary magazines. passed away after a 2nd hip surgery.
a senior at Vanderbilt and spent last will be a freshman at Davidson Her works can be found in Existere — Remarking on dinner with Cannie
spring semester in Tokyo, then traveled Col. Bob continues to teach, and I Journal of Arts and Literature (Canada), Crysler Shafer, Holly said, “I can’t be-
through Thailand, Vietnam and Indone- moved my consulting business out of Vallum: Contemporary Poetry (Canada), lieve it took 32 yrs. to get her out here!”
sia. We have 2 teenagers at home, the house and into an office — hoping Jacket Magazine and Journal of the Cannie Crysler Shafer is head of
twins, Charlie and Will (16); they‘ll be h. that things will continue to grow. Arts, and Atenea: A bilingual journal of lower school at Germantown Academy in
S. juniors. Anne Patrice Rubel met Antonia the humanities and social issues on Ft. Washington, PA, a school celebrating
Carla Kinney Reiniger: Older daugh- Dupont Bredin in HI for a wk.-long vaca- time and temporality (Puerto Rico). “My its 250th anniv. She loves being back
ter Heather (22) graduated Cum Laude tion — a great, adventurous time on the poem ‘Ode to Fungi-filled Face Cream’ with lower school students. Daughter
from the U. of FL 5/1/10, with a B.S. in Big Island. She met Toni’s daughters, appears in the anthology Decomposi- Francie graduated from Northeastern U.
psychology. She works at the Clearwater Sophie and Jackie, who are both charm- tion: Fungi-Inspired Poems (Lost Horse last May and has an internship in NYC.
Marine Aquarium. Heather is also a ing. She plans to join Toni in Nantucket Press, 2010): http://www.losthorse- Blake is at Bates Coll., attending Yun-
Color Guard instructor for Colonial H.S. 10/10 for some more fun with her best press.org/books/decomposition.html.” nan Nationalities U. in Kungming, China,
in Orlando and is helping teach. She friend forever. Anne’s 1st born son, Anyone who loves mushrooms may en- in fall. “One of the best experiences
was a member of the Northeast Inde- James “Cooper” Waddell III was gradu- joy this one! Look for her pen-name (last yr.) was the Blizzard of 2010 in Bal-
pendent Winter Guard, which finished ated from Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo donna j. gelagotis lee. Dennis’s work timore.” Being snowed in with Mary

Page Stewart and the SBC gang was
“hysterical…Lisa Wray Longino shovel- 1979 Daughter Holly will graduate h. s. in
6/11. Son Will is an h. s. sophomore. I
and 6 mos. between Palm Beach and the
Bahamas. Graham Maxwell Russell,
ing out while in a mink coat. I haven’t Mary “Robbie” McBride saw Betsy Burns Utterback in Feb. in
Betsy Byrne Utterback, Nancy Webb
laughed that hard in a long time!” FL, wonderful to reconnect with my for-
Sallie Sexton McKenney reported
Bingham mer roomie! We missed Laura Evans by Corkery ’81, Virginia Donald Latham ’81
7624 Coors Blvd. SW and Caroline Hawk Sparrow ’81 have vis-
that husband, Bob, passed away last a day or 2, but managed to find Julie
Albuquerque, NM 87121 ited. I’d love to have any alumnae come
June at 56. They’d been together since Muchmore Cooney by phone.
[email protected]
’81. She had a rough time, but is keep- Annette Teng: Left my job as engi- and visit. I’m making fantastic red wine,
ing herself busy while the shock wears neer in silicon valley to be caregiver to 95% sangiovese, 5% merlot and hope to
Connor Kelly: My mother planned a
off. Deepest condolences from all of us, elderly mother. I’m in Sydney, Australia. have it on the market in ’11.
cruise on the Baltic for her 80th birth-
Sallie. If there are any alumnae in Sydney,
day! We went from Copenhagen to Robin Behm: Happy & well in San
Toni Brown is president of the Real please contact me
Estate Association in Lexington. Daugh-
Stockholm. I got to spend a day
[email protected]. My daughter Diego with Wendy and a wonderful circle
with Karen Reis and her husband in of friends here. Busy with partnerships in
ter Claibourne was married last yr., (SBC ’08) and son (16) are independent
Copenhagen. I hadn’t been there in at real estate, wine, and some ventures in
which afterwards, Toni promptly went to enough not to starve with me gone.
least 15 yrs. so that was special. I
the beach in Litchfield, SC, to sleep for Cheri Harris Lofland: I passed my 20- early stages. Made it East this past
spent my birthday in the Hermitage. I
3 days! Younger daughter Finley moved yr. milestone in Europe — the 1st 4 in spring to visit family in MD, h. s. reunion,
still dance, practice dance/movement
to GA. Toni and Jim traveled to Costa Switzerland and the last 16 in London. I and attend a beautiful P-town wedding
therapy and teach yoga in a woman’s
Rica with Turks and Caicos as the next was transferred to Switzerland and then
gym. I’m also a La Leche League Leader on the Cape. Out on Facebook, see you
target. Robin Jones Eddy is always attended London Business School for a
around Lexington so they see each
and a midwifery standards consumer re-
MSc in Management in 1994-95, going there!
viewer. My 2 dance colleagues and I re- Vivian Hamlett McEntire: I’m a physi-
other often. from there to a series of communica-
ceived a grant for a contemporary dance cian employed as a Hospitalist in Mont-
Meg Richards Wiederseim, Mary tions roles at Reckitt & Colman (now
performance next yr. If anyone is ever in
Goodwin Gamper, Maria Rixey Gamper Reckitt Benckiser), Marks & Spencer gomery, AL. Married 26 yrs. to LeRoy
New Zealand, let us know.
and Mimi Borst Quillman got together and Lend Lease before spending 3 yrs. McEntire, mother of 2 college age daugh-
Piper Allan Severns: Graduated law
to reminisce about a trip to Upper consulting in Dubai. Now back in London ters (at Sewanee) and one son (15).
school in ’85 and moved to Orlando. I
Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, NY, full-time, I’ve started my own strategic
practiced commercial real estate law,
after Meg had recently returned from communications consulting business,
married Keith in ’97, became a stay-at-
Big Horn, WY, visiting relatives. Maria optimistically hoping that the “end is
had been to France to pick up daughter
home mom in ’01 with Annabel. Started
working as a part-time 1st grade
nigh” for the financial crisis. 1980
Catherine and Mary had been bottling Jane Hubbard Sams: Lives in Oakton, Phyllis Watt Wilson
teacher’s aide 2 yrs. ago and got my
too many gallons of honey from her VA. Husband Lloyd travels and his pri- 3939 Livingston St NW
teacher’s certificate. Annabel is enter-
bees! Mimi was heading out to Moose, vate equity business is holding tight, Washington, DC 20015
ing the 4th grade this fall. She’s active
WY, in Sept. while her husband was go- working hard. Henry (24) moved home [email protected]
in ballet, piano, lacrosse and soccer.
ing elk hunting. This past spring she and is completing a degree and job
We travel to the Abacos in the Bahamas
caught up with Alden Corrigan and Car- searching. James (20) sophomore @ Mi-
oline McKissick Young at the Devon
and our mountain home in NC often.
ami of OH. My father (90) thinks he’s Fran McClung Ferguson
We’re all active in church. Dad passed 1917 Maylin Dr
Horse Show, as well as Libby White Dr- Labraune James, and said that “he has
away last yr. and mom is in assisted liv- Salem, VA 24153
bal ’77. more hair on his butt, than on his head.”
ing in Orlando. [email protected]
Julie Pfautz Bodenstab spent 2 wks. His dementia is always entertaining ... I
Ashley Wilson Brook: Looking at col-
on Cape Cod, where she caught up with
leges with daughter Mary Grayson (17). have something to look forward to in my Cliff Notes version: everybody either
Lauren McMannis Huyett ’79 and Bill
(vacationing in Falmouth, MA). After 20+
Son (14)loves Boy Scouts. I retired from old age. Connected with “wonderful” had a great time at Reunion, or was
being a preschool teacher of 2s after 11 Nancy Hatch and Francis Biggers in At- sorry to miss it. Lots of gratitude for
yrs., lunch together meant so much. Her
yrs. Would love to keep up with more lanta in Jun. with Ann Yauger ’78 and friendships, renewed or new, and the
eldest, Phillip, is engaged; a 6/11 wed-
alumnae. Where are some of you? Mar- support of SBC alumnae in person or
ding is planned. Son Peter works in RI. Libby Freeman.
ried 20 yrs. no pets, just chauffeuring via Facebook. No matter what, one of us
Suzanne Stryker Ullrich: My father Becky Trulove Symons: Don is still in
the kids. Wish that I had attended the has already been there, done that, and
died last Dec. (Mom still in FL), but then banking. Sally graduated from UNC-
last reunion. glad to share the T-shirt!
in Mar. Alex (29) got married in Jamaica.
Beth Bogdan Tetrault: I see Amy Chapel Hill in May with a major in English Reunion 2010: We had a blast! The
Alex (and Kellie) and Andrew (27) are
working in the Phila. area. We see them
Smith often. We both live in the Rich- and a minor in Creative Writing. Elizabeth Class of ’80 came back in force with 42
mond, VA, area about an hour away is a junior at UNC and is on a NOLS trip members in attendance (to read their
occasionally (but never enough), and
from each other. I’d love to hear from in the Wind River Range in WY. Anne will names, contact the Alumnae Office for a
Ned (22) is a Jr/Sr at Penn State after a
Pete, Kate, Brandy and Aimee. list, [email protected]). If you weren’t
40 day bike trek last summer through be a senior. My nest is emptying, I’m ad-
Anne Garrity Nelson: I’m about to be- there, we missed you! Please email or
the Rockies and out to the OR coast. justing. I’m busy for about a mo. in fall
come an “empty nester” as the last of find one of us on Facebook… and plan
I’m working towards a Med, but also and spring with the Furniture Market in
my 3 kids leaves home. Emily is at Penn to be back at the Briar in 2015!
have a new job, working for an insur-
State this fall. My eldest is in IA working High Point, which I enjoy. After 25 yrs. of practicing law and 8
ance company. The changes in educa-
tion are all interesting, especially the
on the governor’s campaign and my mid- Holly Perkins Meyers: I still practice yrs. of “stomping grapes,” Karen Black
dle son will be a junior at Mary Washing- law with husband Charlie in Lufkin, TX. 3 Meredith and Robin moved from NY
online format! Seeing Carey Johnson
ton. sons are Carter, a senior at the U. of TX; back to Santa Fe, NM. Now she’s a real
Fleming and Lauren Place Young in NY
Lynn Westine: Daughters Nicole and estate agent with Prudential and having
and VT were 2 of my stops during my Sterling, a freshman at Ole Miss; and
Jen got engaged to the 2 best guys on a lot of fun. While in NY, they owned
‘auto-trek.’ Miller, a junior in h. s.
earth. Weddings: Nicole and AJ, fall ’11; Broadfields Wine Cellars, a winery on
So, another year has passed, and Karen Ries: I live in Denmark, north of
Jen and Eric, 6/11. Business is good. Long Island, which they sold a few yrs.
many of us have had celebrations and
We’re down the home stretch on ship- Copenhagen, with husband Søren and ago.
challenges, setbacks and advance-
ments and losses. But in the end, we
ping and launching one of our space- son Christian (16). He’s happy and Susan Boline Thompson (TX) sur-
craft. In Nov., NASA will launch ‘Glory,’ healthy, but at 6’4”, it can sometimes vived breast cancer, divorce and going
still have our connection to Sweet Briar.
which will: help us understand some of feel a bit intimidating telling him to be back to school at SMU full time to get
I didn’t hear from as many classmates
the uncertainties with natural and an- certified to teach, all simultaneously.
this time around, but hope this corre- home before midnight! We met up with
thropogenic aerosols; and, also con- She credits Myth Monnich Bayoud for
spondence finds you well and content. Connor Kelly and her 2 charming sons,
tinue recording the solar irradiance … being her SBC blessing, organizing
P.S. Apologies to anyone who didn’t Patrick and Teague, in Copenhagen, 7/10.
both are important in understanding the meals for her during that difficult time.
get to contribute. If you didn’t receive a
earth’s energy (im)balance. The other It was wonderful, especially to see Con- She now teaches 1st grade to minority,
pink postcard this past summer, please
contact the Alumnae Office (call or do it
mission is getting out of design phase. nor after 14 yrs. disadvantaged students. Susan’s boys
In 2012, we’ll launch a mission that will Day Pritchartt Dodson is an empty- are seniors in h. s. (Myth’s son attends
online), or me, to update your informa-
continue looking for and understanding nester, but aging parents provide some- the same school.) Her daughter is a jun-
tion. I did receive a number of un-deliv-
black holes. ior at Tulane.
erable cards back in the mail. Also, one to care for. Anybody else know that
Sally Ann Sells Bensur: Left Mellon ( Amy Campbell Lamphere looks for-
email me for the notes, complete with tune? I live in Arlington, VA, and manage
BNYMellon) in’09 after 30 yrs. Most of ward to the insanity of her daughter
quotes. a faith-based foundation; also serve as
my time is spent with family and catch- Sarah’s senior yr. in h. s. Son Jake is a
ing up on projects. Bill is an investment minister for children and families at a lo- junior at Nebraska Wesleyan. She spent
consultant for public funds, endow- cal church. a weekend this summer at dance
ments and corporate pension funds. Lauren Evans: I live 6 mos. in Umbria teacher’s camp in Boulder, prepping to

teach a modern dance class for teens Carson loves her job handling all the fi- dent.” Holla, Louise, and Thank You for
this fall in addition to her usual batch of nancials for 8 Jason’s Delis spread the fabulous party you threw for our
wiggly 4 to 7 yr. olds. from TX to OK, AR and MN. She didn’t class at Reunion! CLASS NOTES
After 3 yrs. in Atlanta, Ellen Clement tell us that Parents Magazine named Ja- Betsy Thomas Rook arrived at Re-
Mouri and Richard moved back to VA in son’s Deli one of the 10 Best Restau- union with her new book, My Grand-
’09, living “in the sticks” of Rixeyville rants in America (7/09)! She and Ed mother Was From Wales, which can be nie (19) to SBC where she’ll be a fresh-
with room for all the dogs and horses. traveled to Paris and Greece in ’09. ordered from www.mgwfw.com or any of man. While Vickie was in line register-
Sadly, her mother, Martha Mansfield Missy Gentry Witherow lives in Char- a zillion places where you buy books. ing, she was told Naomi Weyand
Clement ’48, passed away in ’09 and lottesville, but spends a lot of time on Her sons play basketball; one is an h. s. Smith had already checked in with her
was interned on Monument Hill in Jun. campus as associate dir. of annual giv- junior and the other in 7th grade. Her daughter, Briggs, husband Scott and
Louise Swiecki Zingaro hosted a recep- ing. She loved having us back on cam- husband (a retired actor) and his 5 son Harrison. The girls are on the same
tion for the family afterward. Ellen’s pus for Reunion. With both girls in h.s., snakes keep the household lively. They floor of Glass.
daughter Sarah Mouri ’06 is in her 4th Missy and Lee “find ourselves in a funny vacationed last summer in the Sierras Lynn Croft Reeves and Jack are still
yr. of vet school and doing externships place — looking at colleges and finding and in OK. living in Hanover, VA. “We have 2 active
all over the USA and Canada. Cameron boys on our doorstep!” Phyllis Watt Jordan moved from jour- teens, Henry and Savannah. I spend my
graduated from JMU seeking to pursue Pam Koehler Elmets (CA) reports all nalism to public relations, a step that free time playing tennis and I’m on the
a music opportunity in FL. Ellen loves is well. Her twins, Lauren and Andrew, those in journalism call “going to the Vestry of my church.”
her job helping train young horses. She are college juniors, and daughter Caro- dark side.” But since she now has a Mary Kate Ferguson lives in Balti-
has 3 Dobermans and is obsessed with line started h. s. in fall. Pam had fun large window overlooking trees and more and is “having a quiet summer
dog training, attending dog shows 2 catching up with Charlotte Gay Gerhardt pretty scenery, it doesn’t seem that working, swimming (with Michael
weekends a month. in May in Williamsburg when she visited dark. Plus, her clients are all nonprofits Phelps) and playing tennis. After the
While taking a swim with Old Spice her dad. and foundations working to improve pub- heartbreaking loss of my corgi, Paco, in
Guy in the Finger Lakes region near Leslie Ludwick Bires enjoyed Re- lic schools, end poverty, etc., which spring, I’ve been longing for another
Austin, Megan Coffield Lyon discovered union and “feeling a little nostalgic for doesn’t seem that dark either. She en- dog, searching for another puppy. I’ll va-
the waters that lap at the roots of the the marvelous, too-short life of an un- joyed seeing old friends at reunion and cation in the mountains this fall. I see
picante salsa bushes growing along the dergrad in that beautiful place.” She brought her children, Miranda (13) and Eve Devine, Brendy Reiter Hantzes,
shore take on a decidedly pink tint, cre- claims the “dubious honor” of having Jake (11), along with husband Brian so Claire McDonnell Purnell, Amy Mar-
ating freshwater pearls of a remarkably the youngest kids of anybody in our they could hear all the wild stories first- shall Lewis and Kearsley Rand Walsh
rosy hue. By selling the movie rights to class: Colin (7) and Alexander (10). She hand. regularly. What’s most exciting is plan-
her latest NY Times best-selling novel, started a new job as the San Francisco 3 yrs. ago, Kim Wood Fuller and ning our 30th reunion with Claire and
Megan was able to purchase half the Symphony’s Director of Corporate Giving Bryan started Therametics, a biophar- Brendy! Hope to see everyone there!”
state of Texas and bring her pearls to in fall 2010. maceutical company that develops topi- Harriet Bielitsky Anderson
market. Look for luscious strands this After bouncing between 6 jobs in 8 cal dermatological products to address visited with Julie Brooke Davis and hus-
fall in the SBC book store, available in a yrs., Fran McClung Ferguson has various skin problems and skin aging. band Tommy, their 2 beautiful
host of shades, from the pale blush landed at the transportation museum in Not that any of us have aging skin, but teenagers, Brooke and Susan, and
Faintly Fletcher, to the warm jewel-tones Roanoke, loves it. Son Robert is a sen- Kim brought samples to Reunion that Hope Keating for a weekend this past
of Early Morning Dew, to the full-on ior at Lenoir-Rhyne and daughter Carol we all appreciated. Please send her any spring. Julie and Hope look fantastic
flamingo pink of Dazzling Daisy. is a junior at SBC, just a year behind comments and suggestions! They es- and it was so much fun to hang out with
Ann Connolly Simpson is having fun Ann Vandersyde Malbon’s daughter Nell caped the hot OK summer with trips to such wonderful friends. Harriet writes
too, celebrating 20 yrs. at The Dragon’s ’11. ME and HI and spent Thanksgiving at “Can’t wait to see everyone at reunion!”
Nest toy store and “playing tennis like Catherine Mills Houlahan lives in their timeshare in Puerto Vallarta, Mex- Boo Major writes, “I’m divorced and
mad!” Her daughter Hannah is a senior Newport News, VA, with her 3 children ico. relieved that that chapter of my life is
at CT Coll., and Ann and hubby Charlie (16, 14 and 9), 2 cats, a guinea pig and Our class had a great coll. experi- closed. I’m back in my house with son
visited her in Italy when she did her fall 5 fish. She works part-time as a course ence, and we give back! At Reunion, we Mac (10). Mac is going into the 5th
semester abroad last yr. Charlie has a administrator and the only staff for a enjoyed the fabulous new fitness and grade and loves baseball, football, hunt-
daughter at Springfield Coll. and another start-up, non-profit university specializ- athletic center that our class worked so ing and fishing. We have spent a couple
in h. s., with the little guy (10) in 5th ing in 2-day courses. She’s interested in hard to support. We also set a new of weekends at Lisa Kean’s (’80) moun-
grade. They live in Merrimac, MA. Ann networking! record for giving in the 30th reunion tain house in Asheville — enjoyed
saw True Dow Datilio in NH and Phyllis Sandra Rappaccioli Padilla missed year: $100,341! Thanks to everyone in watching bears and other scenery.
Watt Jordan and Day Pritchart Dodson Reunion, but for a good reason: her eld- our class who made a gift toward schol- We’ve hired a new assistant eques-
’79 in D.C. about a month before Re- est son Max Carlos was graduating from arships, faculty salaries, and more. trian coach with SBC ties. Carol Gwin
union. VA Tech in building construction and has Holla us! taught riding at SBC in the 90s; we’re
Dianne Delledera moved back to VA a job in Huntsville, AL. Jorge is at SMU, happy to have her on staff. The Eques-
after living in France and Finland. 2 of graduates in ’11. Youngest 3 are in trian Team at the U. of SC continues to
her boys are in coll., one is in h. s., and
the girls are in middle school and grade
school in Managua. Husband Max works
on their farm, growing coffee and rais-
1981 do well. We finished 3rd at the varsity
equestrian national championships.”
school. She hopes everyone will come ing cattle. Sandra works part time and Claire McDonnell Purnell Quinne Fokes was a guest lecturer
to Homecoming at SBC this fall! keeps the welcome mat out for the rest Four Thompson Street for the art and design departments at
Claire Dennison Griffith is involved in of us. Annapolis, MD 21401 Christopher Newport U. in Newport
Direct Hits Education, a SAT prep busi- Francie Root is looking forward to a [email protected] News, VA. She stayed in Williamsburg,
ness. She notes: “if students aren’t safari to Kenya and Tanzania in Dec. VA and had dinner with Sophie Crysler
your own, they actually listen to what While her children were otherwise occu- Naomi Weyand Smith’s daughter, Hart and husband. They had a wonder-
you say and think you are at least some- pied, Georgia Schley Ritchie headed to Briggs, will attend SBC this fall and live ful time and discovered that they’re all
what intelligent.” Look for the 3rd edi- Peru to hike the Inca Trail to Machu Pic- in Naomi’s old dorm. “We’re looking for- cat lovers. Sophie is the head of devel-
tion of the Direct Hits vocabulary book chu! Her son Addison (17) was in Swe- ward to orientation and parents’ week- opment for the Colonial Williamsburg
on Amazon. Younger son Charlie is an h. den staying with family friends, and her end and will be staying at the Elston Foundation. Quinne enjoys her work as
s. senior and is searching for the right girls India (15) and Tallulah (11) were at Inn. We’ve been impressed with SB’s a creative director, with many projects
coll. Camp Green Cove in Tuxedo, NC. Her 2 admissions office! Roberta Perillo ’80 including an identity makeover and web-
Lisa Faulkner O’Hara works in health- dogs, 2 cats, 2 tortoises and guinea pig came to visit in Nantucket, MA, this site for a law firm. She writes, “I’m
care advertising. She and her husband stayed home. summer. Spent the summer in Nan- painting, doing yoga and riding a big
attend daughter Evan’s swim meets (lo- Jill Steenhuis Ruffato enjoyed sum- tucket working via my laptop. The only pony named Rossmor. Geordie (partner)
cal) and get to their son Bud’s club mer at home with her boys. She spent problem is that I miss my husband! Son is general foreman for a solar company
lacrosse games (not local) from time to her days riding or painting out in the Harrison, a senior at Presbyterian Coll., start up, that was also a client.”
time. Bud is a sophomore at Boston fields or in her studio. In fall, she held is going to Italy for the fall semester and Molly Davis Garone lives in Franklin
Coll. and Evan is an h. s. sophomore. shows in Dallas, Houston, Austin, and has applied to law school. I had to have Lakes, NJ, with husband John. They cel-
Lisa takes beginner yoga now, after lov- Oklahoma City. She and husband Serge, my ankle replaced due to an old college ebrated their 25th anniv. in Apr. Daugh-
ing Fannie Zollicoffer Mallonee’s intro- a sculptor, did a joint show at the 600- injury; and then had to have more sur- ter Maddie (20) will be a junior at St.
ductory class at Reunion, and hopes yr.-old Chateau in Bouc Bel Air in Sept. gery on my ankle in May. I’m sure that Lawrence U. and son Thomas is a soph-
that “some day I’ll be able to do her Louise Swiecki Zingaro has been I’ll be hosting SBC admissions functions omore in h. s. Molly is “staying busy
Bikram yoga class without having to call promoted to vice president and chief of in Atlanta this yr., so I look forward to with training for triathlons, golfing, pad-
911.” staff at SBC! She assumed the leader- seeing alumnae! dle tennis and ... studying pastel por-
Carson Freemon Meinen (TX) got ship of the strategic planning process, Vickie Archer and husband Tad Im- traiture for the last few yrs. with the
daughter Caroline graduated from A&M the media and marketing group, and brie, along with sons James (17) and hope of taking commissions and having
in May and son Burk married in Jun. “other duties as assigned by the presi- Addison (15) took Vickie’s daughter An- my own studio this fall.”

Liz Seacord and husband Adam are
travelling through Switzerland and Ger- 1982 Mexico, as well as to SBC to see niece
Lauren Miller graduate along with
for the summer. Daughter Ali will be 16,
but not quite ready to drive yet. Cathy
many “hoping to see lots of modern Consuelo Michelle Martinez Priscilla Ream McPheeter’s daughter will travel to Boston for a short weekend
art!” Liz and family will go to Long Lake, 7007 N. Tripp Avenue Heather. visit for a family wedding and
NY, during Aug. Lincolnwood, Illinois 60712 Monika Kaiser Neheim writes from reunion. They’ll also start looking at col-
K Ellen Hagan sent sad news. Her fa- [email protected] the Loire valley in France, the family is leges for Madeline.
ther, Forrest L. Hagan, died on 7/5 at visiting husband Richard’s relatives, While I was in New Delhi and Mum-
the age of 83. If you would like to get in Molly Finney Grenn (Alexandria, VA) then travel to Germany to visit her fam- bai, India (for work), Jean Von Schrader
touch with K, her address is PO Box visited Jean Von Shrader Bryan and ily. Daughter Alexa (20) will start her jun- Bryan, Nancy Daugherty Davidson, Bri-
346, Commerce, GA 30529. Lynn Martin while they were en route to ior yr. at The Frost School of Music, U. anna Boswell Brown, Marie Engel Earn-
Tracy Drake Hamilton is living in their h. s. reunion at St. Margaret’s. of Miami, while son Julius (15) will be a hart, Lele Frenzel Casalini, Molly
Pompano Beach, FL, and writes, “I’ve Lynn is a holistic healer and Jean excels sophomore in h. s. Monika continues to Finney Johnson and Leslie Hertz Fire-
retired from teaching due to effects as a sales executive at Virginia Peanut be a stage mom as Julius’ acting career stone were celebrating at the JW Mar-
from the radiation I had.” Tracy’s volun- Company. Molly’s daughter Gracie at- flourishes. As in the past, Monika volun- riott resort in San Antonio, TX, to honor
teer work keeps her busy. So does tended her 1st overnight vacation bible teered in the German dept. 3 times a Jane R. Dure’s recent graduation from
keeping up with 2 teenagers, stepchil- camp. Husband Mike is working towards wk. Unfortunately foreign language St. Mary’s Law School in May. I did
dren, and grandchildren, Lauren (4) and his Ph. D. The family will vacation at the classes fell victim to budget cuts, with manage to sneak a gin (Bombay) and
Aiden (1). Tracy looks forward to Re- beach for a week this summer. no classes next yr. Richard enjoys his tonic at the Oberoi Hotel bar toasting
union. Rosemary Hardy thoroughly enjoyed global position with Pepsi, though Jane on her most recent and very im-
Anne Grosvenor Evrard writes from the summer break from work at the changes could come any day. pressive, accomplishment.
France, “Things are always busy over Shawnee Mission Schools where she is In the interests of honesty and news
here, especially with our antiques and a behavior specialist. Summer trips in- worthiness, Gracie Tredwell Schild
art gallery doing well. We’re in the midst
of preparing for a fair in Biarritz, where
cluded a visit to NC, as well as a relax-
ing retreat in Nantucket with family in-
asked that I also write “bad” news, too,
as she and husband Georg decided to
1983
we’ll be exhibiting our entire shop for 5 cluding time with her nephew (6 mos.). split. They will stay together in the Cary Cathcart Fagan
days. Art deco, Chinese and African an- Rosemary celebrated her 50th birthday house for another yr. until son Christoph 329 Kelford Lane
tiques and artisanal works as well as with a surprise party. She takes water (12), finishes 8th grade, then she and Charlotte, NC 28270
contemporary art! The children are fine. aerobics a few times a week. The Christoph will move to the States, prob- [email protected]
The 2 oldest are working women, middle youngest in the class by about 20 yrs., ably back to home town of Santa
2 in masters programs, number 5 in she enjoys the exercise and socializing. Fe. Gracie writes starting over at 50 and I want to share an adventure with all of
dramatic art, and the ‘baby’ just gradu- Heather Pirnie Albert and family are trying to find a job won’t be easy, but ex- you. On the drive back to Charlotte after
ated from h. s.!” Anne would love to see enjoying a lifestyle change in Nashville plains “better happy and broke than liv- our mini reunion with Deirdre Platt at
alumnae travelling in France... after NYC. Daughter Samantha spent a ing in a gilded cage.” By the time of our SBC in Apr. (wonderful to meet her and
Allison Roberts Greene is looking for- semester in Spain and will be a junior 2012 reunion, she hopes to be settled family), husband Chris and I decided to
ward to seeing everyone at Reunion this fall at U. of the South, Sewanee in after 17 yrs. as an ex-pat. visit Natural Bridge. I never went while
next yr. Mackenzie is headed to school with a double major in economics and This fall, Alice Dixon enters the at SBC. We get to the main tourist build-
in PA in fall. The family has enjoyed Spanish. Older sister Rebecca enjoys a world of academia as a biology teacher ing and they want $18 per adult to walk
some wonderful vacations this yr., and career is a paralegal in Atlanta. Industri- and thanks Dr. Simpson for inspiring down 128 stairs then get bused to see
Allison is planning a trip to Tanzania for ous as always, Heather is developing a her! Alice visited Miss Garner, professor a big rock. We bought a souvenir mag-
a safari next summer. She is still in- tax service business for an insurance of religion emerita, last spring on her net and left. Determined to do some-
volved with Walk On Equine Assisted Ac- company. The economy hasn’t helped, 90th birthday. “She’s exactly the same, thing fun, we pulled off at a local vine-
tivities non-for-profit program. but this has certainly not deterred very sweet and sharp as a tack!” If yard. As we drove west into the Blue
Sharon Resener Miller and husband Heather. Husband Mike teaches 7th and you’d like to write her, contact the alum- Ridge, we never saw another grape road
Toby, son Bailey and 3 Jack Russell ter- 8th grade history. The family managed nae office. sign and I swear the further into the
riers live in Orlando, FL. Sharon writes, to take a Caribbean cruise, followed by Brianna Boswell Brown and husband mountains we drove our GPS started
“Bailey (17) is starting his senior yr. in a week in New Orleans. Heather plans Randy will celebrate their 25th anniv. playing Dueling Banjoes! We turned
h. s. and is busy evaluating colleges; to travel to Orlando on business later in with a trip to France. Spectators at Tour around. Heading back to civilization, we
way harder now than it was in our day!” the summer. De France, they’ll then drive to Provence came to a small town — can’t even find
Mary Hedley Sipe is a nurse practi- Empty nesters, Carol Searles Bohrer to visit Jill Steenhuis ’81. Proud owners its name on the geology.com map). We
tioner in Richmond, VA. Hedley writes, and husband will be busy traveling be- of several of Jill’s paintings portraying saw a sign: Civil War Reenactment To-
“Daughter Edie is a sophomore in h. s. I tween Greensboro, their river retreat in the Provence countryside, they look for- day. We were captivated! A vendor near
see Holly Silsand Ulrich often and had a Tappahannock and Lexington. Son Price ward to seeing it firsthand. the tented camp ground said the battle
visit with Wendi Wood Macaffee and graduated from Woodberry Forest Nancy Howell has lived in Houston was “just down the road a click.” We
Bobin Bryant.” School and will attend W&L U. in fall. for 15 yrs. Her daughter is a sophomore drove the click, paid the $3 each and
Sandra Meade Turturro and husband Daughter Emily is a sophomore boarder in coll. and she and her husband look walked to the roped-off part the field. I
Michael hope to be at Reunion. “We live at St. Margaret’s School in Tappahan- forward to celebrating their 20th anniv. thought reenactments were only in
in Pinehurst, NC, love life. Our kids are nock. Carol looks forward to returning to next Mar.! Nancy was happy to recon- movies — real cannons, horses,
all grown and it’s only us and our 2 yel- former SBC stomping grounds. nect with alumnae on Facebook. Active swords, etc. A man in full Confederate
low labs, Leo and Lily. I’m going into my Marie Engel Earnhart and daughter in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachro- general attire was standing in the back
30th yr. teaching and still going strong. Mary Whitney will enjoy a vacation to nism) and puts her history degree to of a pick-up truck narrating the battle on
Any SBC golfers who end up in our neck Spain this summer before Mary Whitney use. loud speakers. Women in period
of the woods, please call!” begins her freshman yr. at SBC, where Patricia Whelan Schenck and family dresses cheered on their fighting hus-
John and I have been in Annapolis, she’ll play soccer. Son Chandler is in celebrated eldest daughter Lillian’s, and bands. A man next to me said this was
MD, for 20 yrs. Daughter Mary (16) is a 11th grade and equally athletic as his my goddaughter, graduation from U. of an annual event. When they had asked
junior and Lizzie (13) is in 8th grade. sister. CA, Berkley. Accepted to the “Teaching him to participate, he replied, “at age
Both girls love field hockey. Mary is a Lucie Stephens Holland celebrated For America” program, Lillian will teach 62 if I do participate I want to die first.”
goalie and looks like a transformer all her 50th birthday in Paris with son middle school mathematics in the New I asked if they really played dead. He
dressed up in her gear. I was in Pitts- Carter (14). She works part time at The Orleans area. Younger brother Gus will said eventually they’ll get tired and start
burgh for a wedding and got to see Liz Potomack Company auction gallery in be a junior yr. at AZ State U. going for a falling down. Priceless! We stayed until
Winson Sweeney, which makes visiting Alexandria, while husband Steve, a degree in education, while daughter He- several died. It was obvious that we 2
my hometown more fun. White House correspondent for Reuters, len will be a sophomore at Loyola U. in Yankees were in the minority. Thank
Mary Kate Ferguson and Brendy Re- is covering his 4th president. Lucie Chicago. Twins Marion and George will goodness we have NC license plates!
iter Hantzes and I are working on Re- would be happy to extend special serv- be seniors at Sandia H. S. in Albu- We also noticed Foamhenge, another
union, May 20-22, 2011. If you’d like to ice in helping any of our classmates querque and have mother Tricia as their tourist attraction we plan to visit. Yes,
be on the committee, please contact managing their parents’ belongings Spanish professor. Bobby is the medical Stonehenge made of Styrofoam. What a
one of us. Also, if you’re on Facebook, while they downsize from a larger to a dir. of the Dept. of Orthopedics at the U. riot! Definitely worth a 3 ½ hr. drive this
please join the Sweet Briar College smaller home at the auction gallery. of NM. We enjoyed getting together with fall. Here we go …
Class of 1981 30th Reunion group. I’m Deborah Price Bowman continues both he and Patricia while they were in Alicia Nygaard Formagus and family
not FB savvy, but Brendy is. Thanks her “full-time job” tennis as well as pur- Chicago for a medical conference. enjoyed summer in Dallas. Son William
again for writing and put our 30th on suing a part-time (non-athletic) position. Cathy Miller and family moved 3.8 was at USMC Officer Training School in
your calendar in pen! Daughter Katie starts h. s. in fall while mi. to a house on the water with a Quantico, VA, and graduated in Aug. Son
son Kessler is in 4th grade. Deborah en- swimming pool. Daughter Madeline (17) Thomas transferred to Texas A&M this
joyed a family trip to Cabo San Lucas, works at husband David’s dental office fall.

Ann Sterling Hart is working lots of she’d appreciate advice on where to with kids; they love every moment!
dressage horse shows. Daughter start or good websites to use. Email her Rexanne Baker earned her Healing CLASS NOTES
Stephanie (22) graduated last spring at [email protected]. She and hus- Touch Certification and in Aug. attended
and got her 1st job as a travel agent. Ali band Eric celebrated their 24th wedding the Healing Touch International Conven-
(19) is back at U. of FL as a sophomore. anniv. and son Zack (16) finished at tion in Denver. She’s looking for a place The 25th reunion was a lot of fun,
Ann’s mother (70) is riding her baby Leadership Academy in St. Petersburg to set up practice besides her living especially the boat house party for our
horse (5) and is doing really well with last summer. Both Eric and Zack are room. Her son is attending GA Tech. class on Fri. night and the announce-
her. certified rifle instructors and Zack is fol- Sarah Babcock still lives in Rich- ment by El Warner during convocation
Deirdre Platt and family had a won- lowing in his dad’s footsteps, on his mond, VA, and works as Chief of Educa- that ’85 raised $14,397,325 with 93%
derful holiday in the USA last spring, 1st way to qualifying for “Distinguished Ex- tion & Training at the Richmond SPCA, participation! Okay, it was a joke, but it
to SBC to see daughter Tanya’s play Do- pert” status in small bore shooting. very busy and happy. Sarah teaches lots got an uproarious laugh.
lores Veintimilla, the Ecuadorian poet. Mandy finds any excuse to travel. She of classes; does trick demonstrations 62 of our classmates are active on
Deirdre and I caught up on each other’s did the KY Derby in May and hopes to with her 5 wonderful dogs and helps Facebook, so I encourage all of you to
lives a bit more directly than via inter- go to Costa Rica next yr. Still a “space people with pet behavior issues. Sarah get with the times and have your
net! While at SBC, they stayed with Dr. geek,” Mandy flew her face into space wrote that all of this is a big change teenagers set you up on an account so
Claudia Chang and husband Perry. Her (electronically) on the space shuttle from her yrs. with IBM! In her rare free you can read breaking news about what
brother and one of his daughters came STS-133 in Nov. NASA has a program time, she’s fixing up the old farm she your classmates are baking for dessert,
from NY and joined them. Then they for “civies” to upload their electronic im- bought a few yrs. back, and competing see timely pictures of pet turtles, and
traveled to D.C. They did the museums age to be flown into space. Mandy in agility, gardening and doing photogra- find out who has the longest “Friends”
and the zoo. Deirdre was shocked at the rented a condo across from the phy. Sarah would love to hear from SBC list. I, for one, have 197 friends, which
probably quite toxic air in supermarkets Kennedy Space Center to watch the friends during the yr. ahead — and can feeds my inclusion needs on a daily ba-
due to the use of fragrant chemicals in launch. be found easily either via her blog sis. Here’s a sampling of news for the
cleaning or in the detergents. It’s also a Mary Pope Hutson participated in www.sarahsfarmreport.blogspot.com or printed word lovers among us.
problem in Ecuador, but Deirdre thought the National Women’s Grasscourt Ten- on Facebook. Martha Boxley Creasy lives in
U.S. consumers would’ve said no to per- nis Tournament in Jul. where she and Sarah Sutton Brophy had a great wk. Roanoke, VA, with husband Grimes. Old-
fumed food. Unfortunately the family her partner took 4th (44-55 doubles). In staying with Sarah Babcock. While est son Grimes Jr. is a freshman at the
couldn’t go to Tanya’s graduation. She Aug., she headed to Mobile for a meet- there, Parker Brophy (16) helped Sarah U. of AL. Mead is 16, and Claiborne is
graduated Magna C Laude; she outdid ing to bring all land trusts together on Babcock’s staff at the Critter Camp at in middle school. Martha is determined
her mother! the Gulf Coast to create a unified plan the Richmond SPCA. The Brophys love to make the 30th reunion, because she
Ellen Claire Gillespie Dreyer’s daugh- on Gulf Coast Restoration. MP was hop- living on the Eastern shore of MD and heard about how much fun she missed
ter, Gilly, is a freshman at Sewanee. ing to see Melissa Cope Morissette. not the least because Sarah is now at the 25th!
EC’s other children are a junior in h. s. Over Labor Day she saw Virginia Claus closer to lots of special people and Laura Morrissette Clark is good in
and an 8th grader. Buyck at the U.S. Open! places including SBC where she is on Mobile: “we’re staying away from the
Katherine Robinson Davey and hus- Pam Weekes moved to a spacious the advisory board for Tusculum. oil!” Laura works for Brownell Travel, en-
band Drew are empty nesters. 2010 apt. in Harlem that makes her feel like Tracey Gatewood moved back to joys the research, especially the travel-
was a big year for them: 25th wedding she’s somehow cheating NYC, but very Tuscaloosa, AL, having a great time re- ing! Son Lee graduated from the U. of
anniv., Drew turned 50, a h. s. and coll. grateful. Virginia Carabelli ’82 visited connecting with old friends and family. AL, 5/09. He works for Region’s Bank.
graduation and a family trip to Africa! Pam last spring and she hears from Jen- This past yr., Tracey has spoken with Son Tee is a senior at AL. He hopes to
Son Marshall was headed to Chapel Hill nifer Rotman ’84 every once and a several alumnae, Joan McGettigan (who attend his 2nd Championship game next
as a freshman, Ebet is a junior at SBC while. Pam’s bakery is doing well. What moved with her 2 daughters to start a Jan.! Roll Tide! Laura was sorry to miss
and loves it, and oldest daughter, LK, is started as a simple project took up new job in Boca Raton, FL), Lochrane reunion (as I, Ellen, am sure many of
in France doing graduate work in Aix en most of last yr. They want to get a new Coleman Smith ’76, Penny Parker Hart- you were) It’s hard to believe we’ve
Provence. They look forward to visiting shop and company headquarters built in line ’84 (Birmingham friends) and Ellen been out 25 yrs!
LK. Katherine loved seeing Anne Little Harlem (Fredrick Douglas Ave and 117th Howard Attar. Julie Shields Hickman Thompson
Woolley at their 30th h. s. reunion and St), lots of red tape. Last spring they Wylie Jameson Small and family had keeps up with Heidi Turk and Patsy
was planning a trip to VA in Oct. for Par- had a new Food Network segment where a summer full of travel. In Jun., she and Kraeger. She has 5 children: David,
ents’ Weekend and to check out all the Rocco Dispirito picked their chocolate husband Stuart spent a wk. in Bermuda Blake, Gavin, Sarah and Preston: 1703
new buildings on campus. chip cookie on “The Best Thing I Ever for their 20th anniv. Stuart, Rudy (16) Bushrod Road, Alexandria, VA 22308.
Kathy Barrett Baker, Lea Sparks Ate — Chocolate Edition.” In Feb., they and Wylie joined Stuart’s family in VT in El Warner serves on the City Council
Bennett, Ann Goldman and Anne Little participated in Rachel Ray’s Burger Jul. for a family reunion. Rudy headed to of her hometown of Easton, PA. My, I
Woolley met up at The Boar’s Head Inn Bash at the Food Network’s South the Jersey Shore and the Adirondacks bet those meetings turned entertaining
in Charlottesville, VA, for cocktails and Beach Wine and Food Festival to benefit with friends in Aug. Wylie had fun get- when El joined their ranks. She was also
dinner last summer. Kathy wrote it was FL International U. School of Hospitality ting Rudy ready for his road trip. She’s elected President of our Class at the
“so much fun like we had all seen each and Tourism Management. They got hoping to finish the sequel to The Great 25th reunion and will be leading the
other yesterday!” Now that people can snowed in (blizzard in NYC) and enjoyed Prune Caper (available on Amazon for movement to have all of you back for
email photos and easily make color a luxurious day of doing nothing. In May, only $9.98!) She enjoys doing volunteer our 30th, wearing Lanz of Salzburg flan-
copies of old photos, Kathy asks that Pam participated in a Wellness in the work and keeping up with alumnae on nel nightgowns with baseball caps and
we all email or snail mail color copies of Schools event to help raise money and Facebook. Nice job ladies! Wylie…re- pearls. El is a freelance marketing and
wedding photos, baby photos, children’s awareness in order to improve nutrition ally… using our treasured notes to PR professional, and is devoted to
Prom photos, vacations, etc. for the and fitness in NYC public schools. In shamelessly plug your book on Amazon, Brody, her faithful Brittany.
class scrapbook. Send to Sept., they helped Bravo promote the tisk, tisk, tisk. LOL. Jeannie Guthans’ family of boys is
[email protected]. launch of their new show “Top Chef — well. Richard is a junior at Ole Miss,
Kim Howell Franklin enjoyed summer Just Desserts” and in Oct., they were
while her daughter was off to camp for part of Martha Stewart’s Cookies and 1984 Christopher is in 11th grade and
Michael is in 8th. Daddy Richard is well,
6 wks. She called it “Summer Enrich- Milk event at the Food Network’s NYC Debbie Jones practicing law in Mobile, and Jeannie
ment,” as she started taking guitar les- Wine & Food Festival benefiting Food- 4416 Bromley Ln. spends time painting. She and Richard
sons and pilates classes. They vaca- banknyc.org and Shareourstrength Richmond, VA 23221 celebrated 23 yrs. of marital bliss last
tioned in Spain and Italy in Aug. Travel (strength.org), an organization to end [email protected] Aug! Loved seeing everyone at Reunion.
got off to a bumpy start: 1 delayed flight childhood hunger. Pam continues to DeAnne Blanton moved to a new
and a missed connection. She made the practice yoga and swim 2-3 times a wk. home in Arlington, VA. Her son is in 7th
best of it by eating a ton of pizza, frozen
custard, a cupcake and a couple of
as she has for the last 20 yrs. at Colum-
bia U. with a triathlete team. Pam en-
1985 grade and is as tall as DeAnne! Another
25th reunionite, DeAnne loved being
beers. Kim received a promotion to an joys reading everyone’s updates on Ellen Reed Carver back. She and I took the hayride around
associate at Booz Allen Hamilton last Facebook! 1315 Bolling Avenue campus together!
summer, really exciting (even though it’s Polly Parker McClure said they had Norfolk, VA 23508 Cheryl Fortin Young lives in Hilton
more work). a great summer in Cleveland. Her 757-536-0850 Head, SC, and just celebrated her 25th
Leslie Malone Berger is very excited daughter, a sophomore in h. s., is soon [email protected] wedding anniv. She was the 1st to have
that son Alex is a freshman at W&L, to be a driver. Their son is in 5th grade; a ring game in our class at SBC, right?
Class of 2014! Leslie wrote “where did he keeps them young. He plays football, The details are sketchy, but some- Oldest son Tate is in his 2nd yr. at W &
the time go?!” basketball and tennis. Polly and hus- how I ended up as your illustrious class L and lives in the Phi Kappa Psi house.
Mandy Beauchemin Frohn traveled band enjoy going to his games. Polly secretary, until you all come back for (Flashbacks?) Son Tim is in 10th grade
to Niagara Falls in Aug. for ancestral re- still works at Allstate Insurance Co. the 30th reunion and vote somebody in the International Baccalaureate pro-
search. If any of you have done this, training new agents. Life is a busy life else into this job. gram at Socastee H. S. Kayla, her baby,

will graduate 8th grade from St. Andrew Knoxville, as a senior. Daughter Cam- Missy Duggins Green was busy this more flexibility. She also spent the sum-
Catholic School in the spring. The whole eran still dances and serves as co-cap- summer with swim team, golf, softball mer teaching her firstborn how to drive.
family is active in sports and Cheryl is tain of her h. s. dance team, as well as and camps. The Greens spent a few “It’s now a certainty that I’ll have more
sporting her 1985 figure and is singing a company member at her dance studio. days at Big Cedar Lodge before school. grey hair at Reunion! I do hope all of you
with the Carolina Master Chorale. She was so excited when she discov- Miles started 6th grade (middle sch.) will join me in the effort to make the
As for me, I’m back to being Ellen ered she could major in dance in coll.! and Nancy, 5th. Missy continues to take 25th extra special. Your gift to the coll.
Reed Carver. The cards dealt me a Charade is still with CSC, working as a on PTO assignments and will also be co- is the best way to start! See you all in
huge life-line in 6-yr.-old, Sophia Rose. deputy program manager, supporting leading Club 121, an on-campus, stu- May!”
She was our Mascot at reunion. I thank DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office, a po- dent-led ministry. “Can’t wait until Elizabeth Lindsey and Ken still live in
God every day for her and laugh at all sition she took on in late ’09. At the 5/11!!” Nashville, TN, with their 2 basset
her antics. Baba Fountain and Louellen end of ’10, she’ll become the program Sally Engleby Farrell and family are hounds and were fortunate to not be af-
Brooks Meyer (sisters-in-law!) are her manager. Charade and Lisa Redd To- still living in Bedford, NY, 16 yrs. in the fected by the May flood. The recession
TX godmothers. After10 yrs. with Nor- liver talk often and had lunch together same house! Three boys, Tommy (17), hasn’t been kind to freelance editors,
folk Public Schools, I’ve started a new in Jun. “See you at Reunion!” Henry (12) and Jack (12), love the but on the upside she’s had more time
adventure called the Career and Univer- Ann Bruce Faircloth Porter and fam- neighborhood and their dad is happy as on her hands to do things such as finish
sity Success Program. It’s for h. s. grad- ily still enjoy living in Auburn, AL. Hus- they’re mirroring his childhood. Tommy, half-done projects, paint rooms, expand
uates who are on the “CUSP” of inde- band Billy is a district manager for U.S. h. s. senior, became an Eagle Scout and the garden, care for her mother, take
pendence, but need guidance Foods and Ann Bruce is with Keystone a Lieutenant in the Jr. Fire Corps in the part in dog rescue transports, etc. She
overcoming learning disabilities or so- Bank. Daughter Brucie (13) plays soccer Vol. Bedford Fire Dept. They’re search- still enjoys her ballet and figure skating
cioeconomic barriers. for a travel team so the Porter family is ing colleges that specialize in meteorol- workouts, and continues her hospice
Everyone, be well and be merry and busy on weekends with games. Brucie ogy. The twins are in middle school. All visits with the older basset to provide
stop in to visit me in Norfolk, where the also writes a column for the local news- 3 boys ski race at a mountain close by. pet therapy.
wine is always chilled! paper entitled “The Tween Philosopher.” Husband Chris and son Tommy coach, April Adelson Marshall is still recruit-
Maybe SBC is in her future, when faced as well. Sally is studying for her M.A. in ing and consulting on different project
with what color to select for the bands religion with a concentration in youth for- assignments. Daughter Lily started coll.
1986 on her braces she picked pink and
green!
mation. She completed her 2nd summer
at VA Theological Seminary this yr. One
in fall at Savannah College of Art & De-
sign; and April looks forward to visiting
Mary Jo Biscardi Brown Vicki Wolf Rosenfield is president of more summer to go! While in VA this and playing in Savannah. Son Hayden is
29 Willowgreene Drive the Parents Association and on the summer, Sally attended an SBC mini-re- an h. s. junior. Back in Jun., many alum-
Churchville, PA 18966 board of trustees at The Gilman School union. Great fun seeing some faces she nae had a great evening together at the
[email protected] in Baltimore. Son Will (14), a 9th grader hadn’t seen in 20 yrs! Classmate Betsy Sequoia in Wash., D.C. She hopes the
at The Gilman School, is a tournament Nott was attending a conference at EHS D.C. Metro/Balt/Tri State Reunion will
I love being secretary for this outstand- golfer. One of his classmates is CJ Roe- right next door! Betsy and Sally had din- be an annual event! “Looking forward to
ing class, and thank you all for your con- buck, the son of Lee Carroll Roebuck ner with Beth Ann Trapold in Alexandria. SBC Homecoming and best of all, our
tributions to our notes. Sounds like ’87, who Vicki sees often. Daughter Sally continues to teach pre-K at a won- 25th!”
many of you will attend Reunion, which Emily (15) attends the McDonogh derful little Nursery School in New Dayna Avery Hulme’s daughter
is wonderful news! As we count down to School. She’s an excellent musician, Canaan, CT. Teaching pre-kindergarten- Courtney is looking at either SMU or
our 25th (May 20-22, 2011), your class playing the guitar and drums. Vicki is ers provides her with much humor and TCU to attend and dance in fall ’11.
officers (Lynn Mather Charette, Beth very involved with KIPP Baltimore, a delight. Daughter Alexandra is in 7th grade at
Ann Trapold Newton, Liz Gallagher Jef- charter school program that operates a Karen Gonya Nickles claims she’s a Harpeth Hall School in Nashville.
frey and I) will be working hard to plan a middle school and an elementary school boring 46-yr.-old: “Same job, same hus- Betsy Nott Hall and Roger celebrate
memorable event. We endeavor to have in one of the most impoverished areas band, same kids (I’ve tried to trade their 20th wedding anniv. in 2/11 and
a record number return to “the patch,” of Baltimore. “The kids are amazing. them in, believe me.)” She’s still playing 20 yrs. living in LA. 2009/10 was her
as well as meet our class’s giving goal. Our middle school children arrive with soccer, reading a lot, and “wondering 15th yr. at Brentwood School and 3rd
If you haven’t been back in a number of the lowest test scores in the state and why I can’t lose weight as I munch on year as Dean of Students and Service
yrs., this is the time to make the trip. leave with the highest. We see them all pizza and mashed potatoes...” Karen is Learning Coordinator of the Middle Divi-
Contact your friends and make a date the way through college and make a looking forward to Reunion. “Thinking sion. In addition to a great job, she
for 5/11! In other reunion news, it was huge difference in the lives of many our hairstyles might be slightly different spends her days cheering on either son
so nice to visit with several old friends kids.” Vicki and husband Stuart took a than in ’86!” Griffin (13) or daughter Caroline (10) on
at the D.C. Metro/Balt./Tri State Re- short trip to Newport, RI, and a family Paula Veale and Dan spent their a playing field or the stage. This yr., she
union in Jun. Thanks to April Adelson trip to Martha’s Vineyard this past sum- summer working in hot NYC, but headed and Roger reconnected vacationed in
Marshall, Linda DeVogt and Christina mer. “We used to be much more mobile to the NH coast on most weekends. ME. Betsy hopes to see you all at Re-
Savage Lytle ’88 for putting it together. before we inherited Flash when my mom Paula’s son Iain (6) broke his arm in Jul. union!
If you’ve moved or changed your e-mail passed away last summer,” reports She’s been told this a rite of passage, Lisa Leigh Ringler Bennett and Bob
address, please contact me with your Vicki. Flash is a Cavalier King Charles just not one that she wanted him to go were in full farming mode all spring and
updated info. Spaniel (13) and is truly part of the through. summer — 100 acres of tillable land on
Jesse White is still a school psychol- Rosenfield family. Vicki loves to follow Things are going well in Roanoke for their 260 acre farm in Malvern, PA.
ogist, “trying to find more creative ways alumnae on Facebook and is sorry she Linda DeVogt. She celebrated her 20th Lisa’s daughter, Sydney, started h. s.
to connect with kids and help them sur- doesn’t have more time to keep up. If yr. with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue and already feels she knows way more
vive, and perhaps even enjoy their days you’re ever in Baltimore, contact Vicki at Shield and is a Sr. Account Manager in than mom! And most importantly, Lisa
at school!” She had a wonderful time [email protected]. National Account Sales. She and Robert is continually amazed by the SBC ties
visiting with Gail Glifort in NC and meet- Maureen Mahoney Deppman relaxed celebrated their 1st wedding anniv. and that bind! “Can’t wait for Reunion”!
ing Gail’s son. Jesse misses all of her at their cabin in VT over the summer survived a complete household renova-
SBC friends and hopes to see them at and enjoyed the summer off with her tion. On 7/1, Linda returned to the SBC
Reunion! children Lydia (7) and Jack (10). Mau- Alumnae Board as nominating chair.
Anne Toxey earned her Ph.D. in ar- reen and husband Benj celebrated their She encourages all who are interested 1987
chitectural history at the U. of CA at 13th anniv. in Jul. She contends it’s a in serving in any volunteer capacity for Jean Guergai
Berkeley 4 yrs. ago. She and husband far cry from her parent’s 50th anniv., SBC to submit their names to the Alum- 3641 Elderberry Pl.
Patrick McMillan moved to a historic which they’ll celebrate with a family trip nae Office. “It was great to see so many Fairfax, VA 22033
family home in downtown San Antonio, at Thanksgiving! In fall, Maureen will re- classmates in D.C. this spring; I’m look- [email protected]
TX. She juggles an academic career with sume teaching at a local VT h. s. and ing forward to seeing even more at our
the museum exhibit design firm that the driving the kids to all their activities. 25th!”
2 of them direct. They spend a mo. or 2
every yr. in Paris, France, where they
“Looking forward to Reunion!”
Sandy Bernard Wyllie and Kevin cele-
In summer, Beth Ann Trapold New-
ton’s husband was recalled for several
1988
met and began their lives and business brated their 20th wedding anniv. this yr. mos. as a Coast Guard Reservist to Maia Free Jalenak
together 20 yrs. ago. Anne says she They keep busy with their 3 children, work on the BP oil spill. “Being a ‘single 605 Camelia Ave.
misses her SBC pals, would love to be Cameron (13), Heather (11), Jimmy (4), mom’ is even harder than I ever imag- Baton Rouge, LA 70806
in touch, and hopes to link up with any- as well as their jobs. Sandi is still with ined. Kudos to all of you who do it so [email protected]
one in central TX. Fannie Mae (23 yrs.) and Kevin teaches well every day!” In addition, Beth Ann
Charade Bolling Estes girls keep her architecture at Catholic U. Sandy en- left her position as dir. of development Kelly Meredith Iacobelli is thoroughly
busy! Summer 2010 Chelsea (21) in- joyed a visit from Anne Merriman Duffy at Oakcrest School and works for a pub- enjoying the alumnae board. She went
terned at CSC in the business develop- and family in spring. She also looks for- lisher in D.C. Completely different work, to Reunion in May and saw Debbie Lee
ment office and returned to U. of TN, ward to Reunion. but she can work from home and has ’90, Karen Malmquest Laakso ’90 and

Lea Harvey ’90. Dughter Kathleen (8) Denise Landau Blind: “Life in NJ Chris Carriere Zazulak had lots of
proudly proclaims she’s a member of is busy, but I love it! I still can’t believe fun at Reunion and coll. touring with my
the Class of ’24. Kelly hopes to see my kids are 12 and 15! We lived oldest son. “I’m headed back to VA with CLASS NOTES
classmates at Homecoming and notes, through a home addition, which gave my 2 youngest boys to see D.C. while
“it’s renewing to see the current stu- daughter Chelsea and I our dream walk- my oldest is doing a lacrosse camp at
dents on campus, cheer for the sports in closets! She deserved it, having been the Naval Academy. My 2nd and 3rd Tracey Thomas Jones says “FL sum-
teams and laugh during the cardboard an absolute trooper, living through 6 sons will be at Fort AP Hill for the Boy mers are a lot like northern winters as
boat regatta at the lake.” mos. in a back brace. As a competitive Scout Jamboree. While I’m there, I’m we end up being sequestered inside to
Tracy Tigerman Shannon, Brookneal, gymnast, she stress fractured her L5 getting together with Joie Tankard, avoid the extreme weather (sweltering
VA: “I still teach, but have vertebra in her back. It was tough for Squiffy Walker Christopher, Meg Caulk heat and the ensuing storms). We’re
gotten switched from 3rd to 1st grade, her to start middle school in such a con- Stephens and Chris Anne Spehar. Our still living in our little Cape Cod on the
which means that I won’t be teaching dition — then she got braces on her family will have 3 graduations this yr. My north side of Jacksonville, and recently
my daughter in 3rd grade (blessing!) teeth to match!” Son Tyler was the oldest is graduating from high school. renovated. Jonathan is close to sitting
Son Ryan will be taking driver’s ed. in freshman varsity catcher for his h. s. My 3rd one is graduating from elemen- for his exam to become a licensed men-
fall, stay off the road!” baseball team. They won the league ti- tary school. My 5th one is graduating tal health counselor and continues to be
Susan Detweiler is returning to tle, and he was named to the 2nd from kindergarten.” resource counselor for our church. We’ll
Antarctica after having taken last winter team All League. This yr. he’ll focus on Amy Kathleen Donnelly Tobik and celebrate our 20th anniv. this Sept. We
off to care for a friend injured in an acci- baseball and bowling, and get his driv- Steve have spent the past 12 yrs. living hope to visit Jonathan’s family in Eng-
dent. That winter she taught Nordic skiing permit. Husband Fred is an avid fish- in Winter Springs, FL. Amy is the Fea- land next spring. Oldest son Nathaniel
ing and led interpretive backcountry erman and golfer. They plan to tures Writer for the Seminole Chronicle (10) is an avid swimmer and reader. We
tours in the Tetons. This fall she’ll be a celebrate their 20th anniv. this yr. with a newspaper and Moms Like Me maga- both love Harry Potter. He came within 1
field instructor again for the U.S. Antarc- romantic getaway. Denise competed in zine. She’s been the Girl Scout leader second of qualifying for Junior Olympics,
tic Program and will return to the States her 1st biathlon. She was thrilled to par- for daughters, Katie (14) and Emily (11), so we’re hoping he can make the cuts
in time for her Nordic Center job again. ticipate in the event, which raised nearly since they were in kindergarten and this winter. Brennan (5) starts Kinder-
She enjoyed a road trip last spring $50,000.00 for Breast Cancer aware- serves on several school committees garten this fall, enjoys competing in
climbing and visiting friends in the ness. and local boards. Steve retired as a meets much more than the weekly prac-
desert southwest and CO. Laura Schumacher Kasprzak lives in Naval Commander and continues to tices. This will be the 1st yr. I won’t be
Mary Halliday Shaw says twins Ramsey, NJ, and entertains me with travel around the world with his work for assisting at my boys’ school and can
Jack and Mike are heading off to coll. in sightings of the cast from “The Real Siemens. They celebrated their 19th an- just be Mom! We’ll continue home-
Aug. She and husband Brad still have Housewives of NJ” in her area. She niv. in Jul. schooling 2 days a week, doing year-
Kevin at home (9th grade). A highlight of doesn’t watch the show, but knows I’m Beth Pesiri Solomita has 3 children: round swim and considering soccer too.
the yr. was seeing Beth Bennett Haga, hooked. She saw Dina at a local water- Grace (6), Jack (4) and Ava (2). “We With both boys in school, I’m looking
Paige Apple Montinaro, Kate Cole Hite, ing hole and saw the whole crew last yr. also have Rudy (4), a chocolate lab. We forward to having a little time to my-
Whitney Bolt Lewis, Kathryn Ingham at a restaurant. Her oldest son, Jack, live in Stamford; I continue to work at a self.”
Reese and Maia Free Jalenak in New starts h. s. this fall; Kenny, 7th grade; large preschool doing social work and Anne Richardson Lackey says,
Orleans last Jan. for a mini reunion. and Ellie, 3rd grade. Laura is planning admissions. Sorry to miss this Reunion. “Mark and I have been growing our real
Heather Gregory Skeens lives in to enroll in a master’s program in social I’m on Facebook and have re-connected estate firms. Stepson Andrew graduated
Raleigh, NC, where she is assistant dir. work. with several alumnae.” from GA Southern and is going back to
for children’s services at Cumberland Kristen Petersen Randolph: “life in Amy Burton is busy during summer school to join ROTC and further his edu-
County Dept. of Social Services in Fayet- Virginia Beach is busy with 3 boys: tending her perennial gardens and day cation. Stepdaughter Jessica goes to
teville. She and husband, Ed (H-SC ’86) Ranny (14), Christian (10) and Peyton dreaming during the winter. UGA and hopes to graduate next yr. I’ve
have 2 children. Daughter Mckinsey is a (8). They’re into sports, mostly lacrosse LuAnne Hunt is still working for the enjoyed reconnecting with other alum-
sophomore at SBC and son Taylor is a and basketball. I sell real estate part City of Lynchburg in communications nae on Facebook. If you’re ever in At-
junior in h. s. time and do personal training part time. and marketing: however, she also lanta, please let me know.”
Melinda Sher: “I’m back in school for My passion is with health and fitness started a part-time photography busi- Julie Brooks Nyquist says, “it was
a 2nd degree. This time in environmen- (guess it all started with the dairy route ness, which she hopes to make full great to see our classmates the cam-
tal ecology and biology from UNC, runs with Mehla Oglesby de Ville de time in 3 yrs. “Google my name to pus at our 20-year reunion. I brought
Asheville. I love being in school again, Goyet at SBC). I talk to Jeanne Mexic, check out my web and photo sites. My husband Stephen and son Andrew (8
but hate the math prereqs! I bought a Nici Pechman and Laura Kasprzak of- son Chris is a bank manager for BB&T mo.) for their 1st trip to SBC. I’m still
house in Asheville, my new official ten; we hope to plan a mini reunion.” in Southern Pines, NC, and daughter working full time as the grants manager
home. I hope to find rewarding work sav- Kristen and Ran celebrated their 20th Candice is an advocate for the National for the John S. and James L. Knight
ing the environment and hugging trees!” anniv. this summer with a trip to Palm Tourism Association in Washington D.C. Foundation in Miami. I’m also finishing
Jeanne Rovics Mexic e-mailed her Beach. Husband Larry works for Clorox in my M.B.A.
news from the beach in NC where she My son Jack will be a senior in h.s. Amherst. Larry and I have helped plant Sallie McIlheran Wunner writes, “I
and Kristen Petersen Randolph were this year. Daughter Nina will be attend- a new church in Amherst Co. called Oa- keep up with a few from the class, but
spending time together while their sons ing middle school at the same school sis. It meets at the local h. s. and is since I’ve lived in Germany for many
attended surfing camp. Jeanne travels that my son goes to — having them at growing weekly! Between church and yrs., it’s always hard to keep up with
to amazing places with her job for the same school for a yr. will be nice. traveling to see kids and grandkids, everyone. Unfortunately I couldn’t
Hilton. She traveled to China noting, we’re always on the go, but it’s so nice make it to Reunion in May as I’m
“Shanghai was my favorite city.” She
also writes that one of her new clients 1989 to live next door to SBC (the new gym is
great)!
preparing for 2 larger art exhibitions
(one in Dallas and one in Vienna, Aus-
is SBC grad. Kelsey Larus ’98. Jeanne, Miss Emmy S. Leung Louise Bouldin Carter and Brian and tria) this fall. I send all my greetings and
husband Scott and son Blake (12) trav- 7102 Wynnewood Ct. 4 kids, Virginia (7), Brian Jr. (6), Jack (3) best wishes to everyone who attended.
eled to a wedding in New Zealand and Richmond, VA 23235 and Lewis (1), still live in Huntsville. I I’ll surely make it to the next one!”
fell in love with the country. They took [email protected] play tennis between driving and chasing Rachel Renzy writes, “it was nice to
an amazing whitewater rafting trip there [email protected] kids. I’m working part-time for a decora- bring daughter Rose (11) with me to Re-
and went diving at the Great Barrier tor. Brian Jr. loves playing with Chase union and show her what a special
Reef in Australia. Berkey, Amanda Chase Priddy’s son. place SBC is! Perhaps she is a future
Kathryn Ingham Reese had a fun 1990 Amy Kroeger says “thanks to all who SB girl! I loved being back on campus,
summer including poolside visits with made the effort to return for reunion. It reconnecting with classmates and reliv-
Leslie Corrado Stillwagon and Katie
Kelly Wood Erickson was awesome to catch up with every- ing our experiences there! A walk
104 S. Winterberry Ct.
Keogh Widener. Kathryn loves her job one, especially those who we haven’t around the Dairy Route, a late night trip
Smithfield, VA 23430
teaching middle school English at Tower seen in the past. I recommend everyone to Daisy’s grave and, yes, we even had
[email protected]
Hill School. Daughters Landon (10) and try to make our 25th. This returning to security come and kick us out of the
Elliot (8) are doing great, and “I had to campus and acting totally sophomoric is boathouse … late, late night! Ahhhh,
Glad I got back to SBC for Reunion in
quit coaching this yr. so I could be their so therapeutic! If anyone is passing the memories! I can’t wait to go back in
May — great to see old friends. I’m still
full-time taxi driver. Depending on the through St. Louis, please look me up. 5 more years and do it all again!
teaching 1st grade and working my 2nd
time of yr., I’m running Elliot to gymnas- I’m here for 2 more yrs.”
job as chauffer and activities coordina-
tics and soccer, and Landon to and Gladden Adam Falivene and Phil are
tor for Jack (12) and Sophie (10). I hope
lacrosse and field hockey. They both still in NJ. “We’re busy with Ellie (11)
everyone is well and I look forward to
play basketball and sing in the church who enjoys tennis and James (9) putting
hearing from more of you for the next is-
choir (okay, I force them to go to choir, I miles on the car with ice hockey. Sorry
sue!
admit it).” we missed reunion.

1991 Nags Head. We look forward to next
summer’s beach wk. with Jen Kemper
Jennifer Crispen, a small pink and green
ribbon with her initials pinned to me.
at our children’s elementary school. I
welcome any advice you all have as I’m
Victoria Campo Byrd Wallis, Stephanie Berger and Chris Shelby Staples writes, “I was a Turn- sure many of you have done this job in
2800 NE 22nd St. Coleman (HSC). I’m looking forward to ing Point student and my life is in the your children’s schools! It’s hard to be-
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305 SBC Homecoming Weekend in Sept. as slowing down phase now. Am a retired lieve that we’ll celebrate our 20th re-
[email protected] a great opportunity to see fellow riding nursing home administrator, volunteer in union in 5/11! Can you believe it’s been
friends and welcome new members onto feral cat rescue and horse rescue. In my 20 yrs?! Please make plans to be there
Allene “Allie” Doucette moved back the Visiting Riding Committee. A 2nd spare time I read. Wishing all of you the and join us for what is sure to be a fun
to Pensacola, FL, spending 6 days on visit for Reunion, and I look forward to best. weekend of laughter and memories!
the road following husband and son (3) seeing classmates I’ve haven’t seen in Suzanne Petrie Liscouski writes,
in a large Penske truck with dog Briscoe a while. Blessings to all.” “Son Bobby (2) is growing like a weed
Kathryn Johnson Glass writes, “I’m and is a hilarious chatter box. Bob and
for company. They’re enjoying homeown-
ership again, but not the heat. Allie still in solo family practice in Mayfield, I are enjoying our farm in Leesburg, VA. I 1992
looks forward to Reunion. It looks like KY, and am the medical dir. for Medical just bought a horse (4) to train, after my Tricia Pheil Johnson
Billy will be able to join her, as well as Spa 7 in Paducah, KY. I have 4 daugh- show horse tragically broke her leg. 10359 Church Hill Rd.
Alastair. Technically Alastair was at the ters and 2 sons — I have kids in h. s., Carey Bates, Kathryn Hagist Yunk and I Myersville, MD 21773
last Reunion, in her growing belly. Much middle school, elementary school and got together for our annual girls week- [email protected]
better view this time. preschool and one (20 mos.) still at end — always a great time. I can’t wait
Joan Dabney Clickner and family are home! How’s that for busy? Husband to go to the D.C. United Soccer game
well, still in Charlottesville for the time John (HSC ’90) completed his Ph. D. at with Kimberley McGraw Euston ’92 and 1993
being. Ian (9) and Georgia (3) are awe- Ole Miss last yr. We’ve re-entered the son (my godson) Alex! Looking forward
job market and are exploring career to seeing everyone at Reunion!
Stacey McClain
some friends. Bobby’s acupuncture 2219 Belote Pl.
practice is doing well, and Joan has choices. We’re looking forward to a Tammy O’Malley Fein writes, “We
Jacksonville, FL 32207
been editing a novel for a local writer. change. I’m hoping for a mini-reunion moved last yr. to a larger house in
[email protected]
Karen Hott: Our 20th Reunion is in with Gwen Glew and Edie Rue ’89 next Jupiter, FL, not far from our old house.
spring, and I’ve created a Facebook summer in CA since I’ll miss the 20th in Right after we moved, I became preg-
page for our class. At our 15th we won May. I’m sorry to miss all of you! E-mail
me at [email protected].”
nant with my 3rd child. I gave birth to
Zachary Elias on 4/6/10. He joined his
1994
the Participation Award, let’s see if we
can do it again! Plan on attending Re- Carey Bates spent the last year big brothers, Ben (10) and Ethan (9). Molly Morris
working for eTRADE and teaching 1st-yr. I’m still a psychotherapist in private 1411 S 6th St.
union 2011. I still organize events for
writing at the U. of Hartford. She spent practice. Husband Larry is a copywriter Columbus, OH 43207
the alumnae club in Atlanta and we had
a long weekend in ME with Amber Vel- for a financial publication. Things are go- [email protected]
a wonderful turnout in Jan. for SB Day
despite the snow, yes snow. We have a lenga, Anne, and Jill Fahy. All is well ing well, just very busy. Love to hear
Back-to-School event this very evening
— great group of students! The design
with family of 8 nieces and nephews.
Tara Gilder writes, “It’s difficult to
from fellow alumnae!
Cathy Goslau, now known as Tavi
1995
industry is well, and I’m thankful for in- know where to start. I finished my B.A. Rainold, writes, “In 2010 AJ had hernia Beverley Stone Dale
credible projects and happy clients. I re- at Pine Manor in Boston, where I would surgery, Mardi Gras in New Orleans was 2006 Ashcrest Ct.
cently won an ASID Award for a historic meet up with SBC big sis Christine crazy, and my horse Almond Joy has Richmond, VA 23238
project in Inman Park, which will be fea- Hostelly ’89. In Atlanta, I would run into taken most championships available! [email protected]
tured on the Georgia Trust for Historic Heather Coleson ’90. I then went on to CO is wonderful and my family just blos-
grad. school at Royal Holloway, U. of soms every day. I decided to be a men-
Preservation Ramble (tour) in Sept. Two
projects were published this yr., one of London, where I got an M.A. in History tor for a young girl who is wonderful. 1996
which was for a SBC alumna. Charlotte, of Art, and an M.B.A. in International Nice to have some female companion- Mrs. Amy Daugherty Michel
my pug, and I spend as many weekends Management. I work for KBC Bank in ship. I’m still doing property manage-
8185 E. Smooth Sumac Lane
as possible in Abingdon, VA, with London and my own business, Beautiful ment part time and a full time mommy
Tucson, AZ 85710
boyfriend Pete Percival — a nice es- Effects permanent cosmetics, which I’m to Trix and AJ! I got my hunting license
[email protected]
cape. So much inspiration for gourmet fitting around my day job. I look back on this yr. and almost got my 1st turkey!”
cooking is found at the local farmers’ my time at SB fondly, and over the years Dawn Monahan Nelson writes,
Greetings friends! By the time you
market and organic farms. And for me, I have stayed in touch with Judie Currie “Looking forward to Reunion. Enjoyed 2
read this, Reunion will be about 6 mos.
antique finds have made their way into a ’92, Toi Reynolds ’92, and Heather family weddings in Jun., spending time
away, and I can’t wait to see each of
few Atlanta homes. Hope to see y’all on Cross ’92, but have lost touch with too at the beach. Can’t believe we have a
you and your families!
Facebook and at Reunion next yr! Holla many Sweet Briar Chums. I’m always rising freshman and 5th grader.
Abby Phillips Hinga and Sean were
Holla! happy to see anyone who comes to Lon- Signee Hoffman writes, “love being
thrilled to welcome 1st child James
Megan Read Lindberg writes, “Eric don, feel free to get in touch: tarag- mom of Piper Anne (4), busy with my
Phillips Hinga on 2/5 at 9 lbs., 22 in.
and I are busy and happy with 3 children [email protected] practice and husband Curt keeps me
He’s an incredibly easy baby who loves
Sutter (13), Tessa (11) and Logan (7). Mamie Farmer Farley writes, “we’ve hopping. My life is a 3 ring circus. Hope
to sleep, making them happy! James
We work hard tending our horses, chick- been busy with swim team and camp, to be at Reunion.
was lucky enough to be welcomed to the
ens and dogs, but are enjoying every as- headed to the beach in Aug.! Matthew Katherine Cooper Hoffman writes,
world by Janeen Sharma and Laura
pect of “ranching”! Our goal of living and I have planned a getaway for Oct. “this summer I worked at my old camp,
Powell Gatling, at the hospital.
sustainably is almost met. We would Miller (11) in 5th grade, Harry (9), 3rd Camp Alleghany (co-founded by an SBC
Sarah Dennis Roberts and family are
love any SB visitors.” grade, and Joanie (6) is in 1st grade. professor, Mr. Worthington), while my
well. Sarah continues to work for Inas-
Kathryn Hagist Yunk writes that she, Laura Rose Martin writes, “Chris and daughter attended 1st term. On the 1st
much Foundation 3 days a wk., which is
Carey Bates and Suzanne Petrie Lis- I are still in Dothan, AL. I’ve been work- day, I ran into Margaret McClellan
a perfect balance with all of Jackson’s
couski had a mini-reunion and spa re- ing as a tutor at one of the poorest ele- Driscoll ’92 and Cynthia Chilton Bar-
(7) and Owen’s (1) many
treat while visiting Suzanne at her farm, mentary schools for 2 yrs. Chris is an rett, both dropping off their daughters
activities. Sarah and Hayden look for-
Memorial Day weekend. “From all the instructor at Farley Nuclear Plant. We’ll for the session! Then went down to
ward to taking the boys on a long trip to
laughter and fun times shared, you’d celebrate our 20th anniv. in Mar.! Both Nashville visiting some of Willy’s family.
CA this fall to visit family and go to Dis-
never know that nearly 20 yrs. has gone boys (Kyle, 15, Nathan, 13) are active I’m in ME working on my business plan
neyland/Legoland.
by since graduation. What fun to have Boy Scouts and on track to make Eagle for my new company. Cross your fingers!
Jessica Gindlespger Hubbell spent
friends that span a lifetime!” in the next yr. Elizabeth (10) started rid- As for me, Vickie Campo Byrd, I’m
an amazing week at camp with Janie
Lorraine Haire Greer “had a great ing, loves it! She’s telling people she’s writing this from the beach in Nags
Bradley Flowers and daughter Mary
year starting back as a school director. I going to SBC for coll.! We’ve gotten in- Head, NC, where my husband’s family
Katherine, and Rachel Boyd Belmonte
love working in a Christian environment volved with Dock Diving with our 2 dogs, has a reunion every 3 yrs. Garnett and I
and her 2 kids Will and Emma. The chil-
and our school is experiencing wonder- Jolly and Magic. I’ve enjoyed getting in stay busy with our 3 children, Garnett
dren had a wonderful time playing in the
ful growth. Son Alex also attends and contact with classmates on Facebook! (10), Ellie (7) and Caroline (5). Son Gar-
mud, jumping off cliffs and riding their
my hours are flexible. I’ve also been Can’t wait to see everyone at Reunion! nett loves playing golf, swimming and
bikes to the candy store. My children,
working on my state certifications and Jennifer Gregg writes, “Getting mar- basketball and loves the Blue Angels.
Jackson (6) and Brady (3) miss their
considering various programs to pursue ried in 8/10 to my partner Tawnya. I still Ellie is going into 2nd grade and loves
friends and hope to see them before
my Ph. D. in education, i.e. Curriculum do a lot of cycling, primarily multi-day ballet, sewing and playing soccer. Caro-
next summer.
and Instruction or Christian Education. fundraising rides. In the past 3 yrs., I’ve line wants to do everything her older
Heather Baskett and Layla moved to
We’ve enjoyed time with family in NH raised over $15,000 for the Dana Far- brother and sister do, tries hard to keep
D.C., where she works at the National
and celebrated Tom’s father’s 80th ber Cancer Institute. For the ’09 Pan up. This will be a busy year for us as I
Zoo training elephants. They live in Ar-
birthday with the entire Greer clan in Mass Challenge, I road in memory of have taken on the job of PTA President
lington with their 3 dogs and 2 cats.

Heather has reunited with Rebecca
Carle ’93 and Penelope Spain ’98. 1998 to no longer have naps! Judah will have
another yr. at preschool to study bugs CLASS NOTES
Lisa Aumiller Anderson started a mo- Chantel Bartlett and come home with shoes filled with
bile vet service last Apr. “Dr. Lisa’s Mo- 7775 Tiverton Dr. sand. Lisa Williams is still in London
bile Vet Service” has been so success- Springfield, VA 22152 and doing creative projects for BBC, in-
ing technology products and services to
ful, she’s looking to add another vet by [email protected] cluding assisting with ideas for comedy
federal, state, local government and
fall! and entertainment shows. Wrote her
small to mid-size business. Kim went to
Susan Whitehead Froehlich com- 1st comedy TV series. Life is good! No
pleted an 18-wk. co-manager training
Cynthia Bumgardner Puckett interest yet in settling down. She
visit Noelle Milbury in FL this Jun., it
7123 High St. was great to catch up after many yrs.
program with the Kroger Company. She misses SBC and says that it was an
Floyds Knobs, IN 47119 Kim is very busy with work, her role as
graduated in Jul., and was placed as a amazing experience and learned so
[email protected] chair of the Pequot Lakes School Board,
co-manager in a Lynchburg Kroger. She much. Erin Wortley Valliere still works
and her 3 children.
passed the pharmacy test to become a Fire Support for the Marine Corps. Her
Cady, Cynthia and I (the 3 Cs) all hope Devon Vasconcellos Bijansky and
CPhT. Caden (3) and Lilah (1) are well. daughter celebrated her First Holy Com-
that everyone is doing very well. Keep in husband Steve finished a year-long
April Collins Potterfield and family munion in May. Erikka Sund Neal (with
mind that our 15th reunion is just 2 process of tearing down an old house
are on an amazing adventure! She got son Sam), Joanne Hopkins and Page
summers away. and designing and building a new super-
tenure and a promotion at Westminster, Darney were there to celebrate. Joanne,
Anne-Claire Wackenhut was married green home in Austin, where they hope
but resigned to move to Shekou, China Erin and a colleague relayed an Olympic
7/16 at a small civil ceremony in to stay.
in Jun. and they’re having a blast. Rus- distance triathlon in Jul. They came in
France. She and Scott Allen Kasten Rachel Bratlie and husband Chris
sell’s job prompted the move. April is 1st for the mix-gender relay. Anne Smith
were joined by family and a few friends, are doing well in northern CA. They
studying Mandarin, immersing the kids Culver keeps in touch with Andrea
including Bénédicte Valentin Lamonthe spent a 2-wk. dream vacation in north-
in it, too. Sheets McCarney; they live down the
’00. They were off to honeymoon in ern Italy in May — a fantastic time.
Imogen Slade Rex and Chip wel- road from one another. Anne’s oldest is
Barcelona. AC’s sister, Sophie ’02 wel- Andrea Capano and husband Roder-
comed Connor Autrey on 4/8. Big sister 10, 2nd is 8 and youngest is 5 and in
comed 2nd child Easton Brooks on 6/7. ick will welcome a new baby in 1/11.
Isabelle (2) is a great help! The Rex kindergarten. Ann hopes to work full-
Leslie Fariñas Padrón graduated med- Alexander (4) is excited to have a little
family also began a great new adven- time when school begins. She thinks
ical school at U. of Zaragoza, Spain, sister/brother! Andrea is entering her
ture, relocating to Portland, OR in Jul. she’ll teach at the school her children
7/12/10. She and her husband plan to 10th yr. of teaching and also works as a
Leah Jorgensen lives in Portland, OR, attend. Astrid Liverman got married to
stay in Europe. They look forward to science consultant in ME.
and celebrated the 1st anniv. of her Taylor Streetman. Nuptials were
starting a family soon. Hobby Holmes Sara Catherine Clyburn Corbett has
business this summer as a marketing 5/28/10 at SBC. Congrats! Heather
Cole was joined by Gannon Hunt, Mary moved to NOVA from Pittsburgh and is
and communication consultant for the Smith finished school and works full-
Friberg and Jenny Brundage Turner for director of admissions at The Auburn
northwest wine industry (clients include time as a diet tech for a group of dieti-
a fun all-girls-ski-weekend in Apsen, CO, School in Herndon. She and husband
WillaKenzie Estate, ArborBrook Vine- tians in Chattanooga, TN. They special-
over the President’s Day weekend. TC Courtney are glad to be back in VA and
yards, Le Cadeau Vineyard, Pravia ize in enteral nutrition (tube feeding) for
Weiseman Kennedy gave birth to Van are looking forward to getting involved
Wines & Events, Best of Oregon Food & patients once they’ve been discharged
Garrett in Nov. ’09. It took 3 kids to fi- with the SBC and HSC alumni chapters
Wine Festival). She’s also a freelance home. In her spare time, Heather works
nally have one look like TC! He had a in the D.C. region.
writer covering food, wine and gluten- on needlepoint projects and has a new
difficult labor — the cord prolapsed and Jennifer Crutcher lives in Dallas with
free living (she has celiac disease, an sport, boxing! Amazing stress reliever
cut off his oxygen. The doctors did an darling cat Bean and working as a
autoimmune disorder affected by the in- and confidence booster! Melissa Coffey
experimental treatment, all is well! TC beauty and fashion freelance writer, all
gestion of gluten). Leah enrolled in the married Tommy Gay on 6/12 in the
went to the wedding of Nikki Johnson the while fussing over her unfinished
winemaking degree program at the Rose Garden at Oak Ridge Estate in Nel-
’96 in Oct. ’09. Other Vixens in atten- novel. She’s been dating JD Norris (Bay-
Northwest Viticulture Center in Jan., af- son County. Bridesmaids were: Jennifer
dance were Kelly Knappenberger-Foit lor ’06, SMU ’08) for a yr.
ter working her 1st harvest last fall at Anderson, Rhonda Tyree and Heather
’96 and Laura McGlammery-Million ’96. Natasha White Gamboa is living in
Anne Amie Vineyards. This summer Plank ’96. Melissa is the director of
In 2/10, TC and Marnie Tokaruk-Bates the San Francisco Bay area with hus-
she’s doing cellar work at Shea Wine alumnae relations at SBC. Visit her at
caught up in Richmond. A visit to Seat- band Juan and 2 sons, Sebastian (2 ½)
Cellars, where she’ll work harvest in the Boxwood Alumnae House if you’re ever
tle in Apr. for a wk. gave TC & Kelly ’96 and Lucas (4 mos.). She retired from
fall. Leah met up with Imogen Slade Rex in the area! Chantel Bartlett continues
a chance to catch up. TC and Janine teaching tennis full time over a yr. ago,
and her family in Portland in Jul., during working with exchange students, but not
Paris-Schofield ’97 keep in touch. Ja- but continues to teach a couple hrs.
their visit to find a new home for their for long! After an upcoming business
nine is expecting her 4th child. Work is each wk. She loves being a stay-at-
relocation. Leah’s excited to have an- trip to Thailand in 9/10, she’ll give her
going well, 5 yrs. at SunTrust Bank. The home mom and is amazed by how
other alumna girl nearby! notice. Then on to bigger things! Her lat-
Kennedy family moved to the suburbs of quickly kids grow up.
Sarah Chaffee Paris and Jonathan est passions are health and Zumba.
Atlanta. Darelle Pfeiffer made a partner Brandi Whitley Hilder started a new
welcomed Charles William on 7/9. Bella She’ll become certified to teach this
in Ocean County Foot and Ankle Surgical job and moved in May, so it’s been a
(7) and Stevie (3) are excited about fall. Cady Thomas is having a busy sum-
Associates, Ocean County Diagnostics busy summer. She’s now a senior clini-
their new brother! mer with the end of a successful legisla-
and Bey Lea Ambulatory Surgical Center cal research manger with Array Bio-
As for me, Amy Daugherty Michel, tive session completed. She saw Susan
(that’s a mouthful!) Daughter Morgan is pharma, leading several clinical trials for
life is excellent! Owen (6 mos.) has fully Barney in May and will see Serena
2. Tim is still lobstering and blackfish- cancer drugs. She, Tom, and Amelia
recovered from the life-threatening ill- Putegnat and Tara Putegnat ’00 in Aug.
ing. Darelle and Kindle Samuel Barkus, moved from Chapel Hill to Durham and
ness he contracted at 11 days old, and Kim Izquierdo was in D.C. for a busi-
joined by her “gorgeous” husband and 2 love having more space and a big back
is healthy, strong and adorable. Xander ness trip and was able to catch up with
boys, had a quick visit while Kindle was yard.
has grown into a handsome little man, Joanne Hopkins and Chantel Bartlett.
in Baltimore in May. Stephanie Belk Sarah Elkins Ince gave birth to her
sweet and charming when he’s not busy
Loter and her husband welcomed Ben- 1st (and only) child Asa David Ince on
being 3. Both boys had a wonderful
time when their Auntie Paige Vaught
jamin Thomas into their family, 5/16. 1999 12/8/09. Asa was born at 4:17 a.m.,
weighing 7lbs 7oz and 21 in. It was a
Big sister Abilene is enjoying helping out
Campion visited us last Apr. And now Ms. Lindsey Neef Kelly
with diapers, toys and pacifiers. trial for mom who dealt with HELLP Syn-
that Imo is closer, we hope to get to- 15012 Ashby Way East
Stephanie and Cady Thomas had lunch drome and went through an emergency
gether before Reunion. Sam and I are Carrollton, VA 23314
recently. She still works for Novartis Ani- c-section, but all are happy and healthy
busy, but well, and are looking forward [email protected]
mal Health in Greensboro, commuting now. Asa is sporting a full head of hair,
to Reunion. I hope our class has an-
75 mi. daily. Kristy Winstead Anderson huge blue eyes, and 2 razor sharp
other amazing turnout. Please bring your Natasha Alam will marry Brian Ash
also added to their family. Katelyn Eliza- teeth. Sarah still resides outside of
families; I’ve heard from so many of you on 8/7/10 in Ithaca, NY. The couple
beth was born 6/18. Big brothers Justin Charlotte, NC, with husband Keith. In
that you can’t wait to see not only each moved from NYC to Chicago in Novem-
and Christopher are so excited. Despite Jun., Sarah enjoyed the annual beach
other, but all of the spouses and chil- ber with their bulldog and cat, all are
the harsh winter, the Anderson family is wk. to the Outer Banks, where she
dren, too! loving it. She’s currently the SVP of Op-
settled into OH and Kristy’s practice is caught up with SBC Lacrosse Coach
going well. Tiffany Whitmire Graham erations at Physicians Interactive. Hillary London and SBC Athletic Dept.
and husband Bart have one son, Caleb Kelley Dize Anderson celebrated her facilities manager Jean Hazelwood.
1997 (5). Tiffany celebrated 7 yrs. in real es- 10-yr. wedding anniv. with h. s./college
sweetheart Adam Anderson and is thor-
Lindsey Neef Kelly is looking forward
to a new adventure as she leaves her
tate and opened a Keller Williams Realty
Kerri Rawlings Burtner office in Columbus, GA. A huge under- oughly enjoying the life of a stay-at-home position of 3 yrs. to begin work at the
601 N Rosina Ave. taking, but worth it! Candice Broughton mom with her daughters, Costen (5) and firm of Shapiro and Burson in Virginia
Somerset, PA 15501 Maillard is expecting a new addition to Holland (3). Beach, where she’ll continue to practice
[email protected] their family in 2/11. Oldest son Everest Kim Bolz-Andolshek started a new foreclosure and title law. She’s writing a
begins 1st grade in Sept. He’s excited job at Ideal System Solutions, Inc. sell- public blog at

http://highheeledmom.com. Come visit Jackie Hauslein Kruchten with son (15 mos.), her “whirling dervish,” keeps Ariana enjoys visiting Amanda Campbell
to read about life as a working mom of named Caleb born 6/10. Katie will be their lives interesting. Evangeline and Wright and family in Austin, TX, when
3 girls under four yrs. old. attending Carol Skirloff’s upcoming mar- Eric are moving to Baku, Azerbaijan with she can. Ariana completed her 2nd
Sarah Kingsley is working at the riage to Pierce Starr of New Orleans on the Dept. of State for 2 yrs. Evangeline marathon on behalf of the Leukemia
Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce 11/26/10. They’re going to the Mal- will switch gears from being a scientist and Lymphoma Society, and purchased
running their Young Professionals Pro- dives for their honeymoon. Amanda to a new job as a community liaison offi- a 2nd home in New Orleans, LA, as she
gram. She often sings the National An- Atkinson has double the blessings with cer at the embassy, planning holiday prepares for retirement. Ariana boycotts
them for mayors and the Tides baseball twins Arlo Christopher Atkinson and Gus parties, day trips and welcoming new ar- Facebook and is publically loathed by
team and plans on dancing in Virginia Edwin Atkinson born on 7/11/10. Laura rivals. Melissa Fauber Carter is in her only animate companion, the feline
Opera’s Rigalatto in fall. Cole (4) is look- Wessells Waisner took a break from Amherst County with husband Jack (H- Kit-Mo.
ing forward to soccer. teaching to be with daughter Emily SC ’00), Clara (4) and Aubrie (19 mos.). Phill and Erin Packard Harrison are
Valerie Roche Kite had a big and Grace, born 5/13/10. Josie Beets She’s moving to a new school in the fall pleased to welcome baby boy Xavier to
busy yr: Moving to NE for her husband’s loves her work as she balances life with to teach 2nd grade. Sarah Lester their family. Xavier was born 7/12/10.
new collegiate coaching job, welcoming Sonia (4 mos.) Josie and Sean are in ru- passed her comps exam for her Mas- Erin and X are doing well. Erin and Phill
baby #2, Shealyn Marianna, in Dec. and ral LA where she represents children in ters of Education in school counseling. are excited to have him meet all his new
launching a new mother’s resource child abuse and protection cases. Kristy Mandy Rice is making a career change friends at Reunion next yr. Erin will be
blog: Village of Moms (http://thevillage- Chatham is awaiting the arrival of her and is on track to become a nurse in going back to teaching part time next
ofmoms.com). son in Nov. with husband Brian. Their 8/11. Elizabeth Rice Kinnaman is a 1st fall.
Meghan Pollard Leypoldt is expect- new home is scheduled for completion grade teacher and still loving life as wife Sarah Kenning writes, “Husband
ing a baby boy 9/30/10 to join daughter in Oct. In Sept., she plans on a mini-re- and mommy to Ashlyn (10), Kolby (8), Tyler will finish his residency in 6/11
Piper! Life continues to be full of activity union with Elizabeth Hamshaw Mitchell, Austin (6), Brenton (4), and Katelyn (2). and we’ll move to Philadelphia for a yr.
and happiness with being a mom and Lindsey Custer, Melanie Naquin May- Brandy Cash Watts and her husband for him to complete his fellowship. Life
work, and she’s looking forward to a berry ’01, and Amy Whitney Rippey ’01 Les celebrated 6 yrs. of marriage and in Albany has been great, but I’m look-
visit with Sarah Kingsley over the sum- where they’ll visit Kristy’s condo in Sara- she is beginning her 11th year of teaching forward to our move. This past yr.
mer as well. sota, FL. Lindsey enjoyed catching up ing in Nelson Co. She attended Torrie with son Jackson has been wonderful.
Heather McLeod’s full-time job con- with Sarah Cunningham on their drive to Camden’s wedding in Jun. Lacey Banis I’m amazed by him every day! I still work
tinues to be mom. Baby Hazel will turn SBC for reunion. Other reunion atten- will marry Kelly Vorrasi in CT on 01/11 as a speech language pathologist, but
one this fall, a week after son Eamon dees included Nicole Lamm who is gain- and Jen Crutcher ’99 will be attending. have cut my hours to part time. I’ve had
turns 3. ing new certifications for fitness instruc- Lacey has a new job as editor at All You the pleasure of visiting with Meghan
Emily Sartor Patterson and husband tion in the D.C. area; Amanda magazine, which is published by Time, Stawasz Frier, Katie Wood Rae and
Brad welcomed Tyler (12 pounds!) to Ankerman, Alison Stockdale and hus- Inc. and Kelly works as a production co- their families over the summer. I’m look-
the world on 7/19/10. Big Sister Claire band Adam Newcomer, Christine Bump ordinator at the History Channel. Mon- ing forward to Reunion, hope to see
(22 mos.) is enjoying her new role and and her hubby Elias Papasavvas ica Signoretti is a Ph. D. candidate in everyone there!”
“helping” take care of her baby brother. rounded off the D.C./NOVA gang and classics at Johns Hopkins and enjoyed Despite a couple of setbacks, Chris-
After maternity leave, Emily will return to had a great time. Also present were: catching up with Evangeline. Lina tine Rangel has been enjoying NYC. She
working part time at Duke Medical Cen- Evangeline Easterly Taylor and husband Haielul sees Sophia Kassim Ghorbani continues doing business development
ter, where she is a therapist for families Eric, Brian and Kristen Lawlor Steege, ’97 often and saw Andrea, Tamara and and government outreach liaison work in
who have cancer. Tara Putegnat, Gregor Lee, Chad and Shweta ’01 when they visited the NOVA construction management. She recently
Betsy Wilbun Ranson is making the Kimberly Harden Fella, Josie, baby So- area and Chhavi Sharma and her family joined the Board of Directors at The
most of summer with daughter Lexi (18 nia and Sean, Katie Cesarz, Amanda every once in a while. Dina Orbison is Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals, a
mos.) She has also volunteered to Elizabeth Baker, Sarah Lester, Melissa working as a zoo keeper at the Santa nonprofit working to erase adoptable pet
teach summer school at Appomattox Bellan, and myself with my daughter Sa- Ana Zoo in Anaheim, CA. She visited euthanasia by ’15. She saw Kassie
County H. S., where she’s taught for 8 hara (6) and Mason (4). I have been Lindsay Perkins and Elizabeth Keating Brown ’02, Jackie Devine Clayborn ’03,
yrs. She’s chairperson for the Special busy getting our new house in Yorktown, Michaels in ME. Jessica Livingston her sisters Victoria ’04 and Jane ’06,
Ed. Dept. and currently co-teaches VA ready where I’ll be teaching ballroom writes that she’s active growing Chris Murphy ’06, and Joanna Wood ’06
geometry, algebra and English. Betsy dance and taking photographs out of lacrosse in AZ. She’ll be running her 1st in NYC, and hangs out with Alicia Gor-
and J.D. will celebrate their 9th wedding the home studio. Nicole will visit end of big tournament in AZ in 3/11. Jessica man ’06 often. She competed in several
anniv. in Sept. Aug., and we’ll be hanging out at York- ran into Vinca Swanson ’94. She plans water polo competitions in Canada and
Katie Leeming Sparkman is still liv- town Beach where I had the honor of on visiting family in Canada this mo. the Eastern U.S. representing Team
ing in CT and loving the summer by the taking photos of Lindsey Brooker Becky Stephenson is traveling in Scot- New York Aquatics, including one in
beach after the long winter. She’s ex- Brooks and her 2 boys: James Emerson land, Janice Anne D. Troesch is living in D.C., which gave her a chance to see Al-
pecting her 3rd child in Sept. She hasn’t (4) and David Epps (1). Lindsey is active Switzerland, Virginia Gilbert Smith is on ison Funkhouser ’03, Casey Perlow ’02,
seen any fellow vixens in way too long with Relay for Life and church. Wendy a camping trip in Cape Cod, MA, with Whitney Bryant ’02 and Misa Sarmento
and hopes to change that after the baby Bramlett Jolly is in Leesburg, VA, with her family, Sarah Beazley Ogden took a ’02. She’s now on a break from water
arrives. daughters Clara (3) and Megan (9 mos.) beach trip to Ocracoke, NC, and Laurie polo to repair hip joint cartilage tears,
Lindsay Hicks Watrous is living in where she is now running the Compen- Evans Lamb had some fun at Hooker the first surgery of which Sarah Be-
Phoenix with husband Tim, and sons sation and HRIS Dept. for NEW Cus- Falls in Dupon State Forest in NC with langer Levinson came up to NYC to play
Drew (2) and Owen (6 mos.) The boys tomer Service Companies. Recently, her family. nurse! Now healing, she can’t wait to
keep her busy at home and are the Germaine Gottshe Wilson and daughter get back to competing in fall. She trav-
loves of her life. Addie (1) visited Wendy; their girls had
fun together at the pool. Anne Ryan 2001 elled to London and Switzerland on va-
cation with sister Jane ’06. P.S., she’s
2000 Craig and family is unpacking and enjoy-

ing their new home in Stephens City, VA.
Amanda Campbell Wright
19304 Anna Kate Ct.
looking for a new job anywhere in the
world, so give her a holla if you know of
Marilen Jordas Sarian Her Abbey turned 4 in May and Anne is Pflugerville, TX 78660 anything interesting!
760 Kings Ridge Dr. working as assistant dir. of a private [email protected] Mariana Souza lives in Rio and is
Newport News, VA 23608 preschool. Cara Millar Bean and Scott [email protected] soon moving to her new home with hus-
[email protected] are enjoying their newly remodeled band Humberto and Beatriz (1). She’s a
home along with their teenage daugh- Can’t wait to see everyone in May! You senior lawyer at Veirano Advogados in
Congrats 2000 for celebrating our 10th ters, 2 dogs, 3 cats and a pond of fish. all have been a busy lot! Rio.
yr. as alumnae! I hope this finds you Big moves are in store for Amy Hess Ariana Wolynec-Werner is sleeping in Kim Schmidt Miscavage and hus-
well… Snawder and Jared, who is leaving Mel- North Bethesda, MD, while living in the band, Brian welcomed their 1st baby,
There are so many blessings for our bourne, Australia, and heading to cube farm that makes up the headquar- Maxwell Alexander, 12/26/09. After
gals and many that have become proud Schweinfurt, Germany. She hopes to ters of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Se- spending 3 mos. on bed rest, they were
mommies! Kimberly Leach Burge gave visit Kim Harden Fella who moved to curity. After completing the Presidential thrilled to have a healthy, full-term baby
birth to Sarah Margaret on 7/8/10 and Stuttgart on 6/1/10. Kim’s husband Management Fellows Program, she was boy! Between caring for Max and work-
loves parenthood with husband Chris- works with the Special Ops Side of EU- promoted to executive officer and acting ing as a human resources advisor for
tian. Katie Wright Thomas welcomed COM and Kim resigned as a school deputy director for strategy, plans and Tyco Electronics, there’s barely any time
her 2nd son Michael Elliot on 8/09 and counselor in Macon to be a substitute policy in the Office of Intelligence and to relax, but she managed to sneak a
her oldest son, Spence Jr. will be 4 this teacher there with the DOD schools. Su- Analysis. Her 16 children, 8 each of visit in with Nia Fonow Ravenstahl and
year. She continues to devote her time san Bobb will soon follow the move to tomato and cucumber plants, grown daughter Cassidy this summer. Kim,
to volunteer organizations, competing in Germany in fall where she’ll settle into a completely indoors and polinated manu- Brian and Max are looking forward to
equestrian circuits and writing news arti- research position at the U. in Goettin- ally, are producing countless edible seeing everyone at Reunion!
cles in local publications. She saw gen in their psych. dept. Son Benjamin grandchildren, just the kind she likes. Lori Kovatch Long: “Things are busy

in KY. The farm and my job at Kentucky since she was pregnant with her 1st their 3rd child on 12/13/10, a boy.
BioProcessing leave me little time for child. Jennifer and Dave took a baby- Daughters Emma and Cora are super ex-
other things. On a sad note we lost our moon trip to CA in Feb., spent 1 night cited to have a little brother! She cher- CLASS NOTES
Great Dane, Merlin (4) in Apr. He was with Amanda Davis Stevens in Sacra- ishes her time at home with her chil-
my 1st dog; I miss him dearly. We did mento while on their way to San Fran- dren. Tamara is also in the process of
get 2 knew puppies to fill the empti- cisco. Amanda and Jennifer were able to selling their house and moving up to in le Marais (4th arrondissement). This
ness, a boxer and a German shepherd, compare baby bumps, which made the Northern VA, where Dennis started a summer she’s spending the weekends
Duncan and Murphy, respectively. trip fun! Jennifer and her husband wel- new job with Deloitte. She’s excited traveling (Brussels, London, Amster-
They’re full of joy (and trouble). I keep in comed daughter Taylor Grace Catano on about the move and being closer to dam, Geneva, Prague, Budapest and
touch with Lauren Kaplan Slobin, Alison 5/20/10. She came 2 wks. early at 5 more alumnae! Emily Johnston does Spain). Alicia is enjoying Paris, learning
Brown Breene, Christy Holterman lbs., 11 oz and 20.5 in. Jennifer’s labor fashion writing for Hello! magazine and French, shopping at neighborhood mar-
Ziegler and Hillary Herlehy regularly. and delivery were wonderful and Taylor Fashion Foie Gras, which has been writ- kets and picnics on the Seine. They’re
Christy, Ali, Hillary and I got together Grace is growing like a weed! Jennifer is ten up by Vogue UK and Vogue Japan as planning on living in Paris until the fall
last Christmas for a dinner in Brooklyn! also fortunate to work part time after the new must view for fashion news: ’11. La vie est belle! Maria Thacker is
We hope to meet up again this yr. in maternity leave so she can spend more www.fashionfoiegras.com . Emily is di- still in Altanta, GA, and started her own
Dallas for the birth of Lauren’s baby. time with Taylor. Mary Tassone Dunlevy rector of public relations for the auction event planning company called Maria
Hope the class of 2001 is doing well, and husband Dale welcomed 1st child house, Spink, in London. She bought a Thacker Events,
can’t believe it’s been 10 yrs.” Ariana Elaine on 4/2/10, 6 lbs., 4oz. flat there with her boyfriend; they plan to http://www.mariathacker.com. She
Elizabeth Haberle Davis and hus- On 2/13/10, Mary’s parents threw her buy a house on the coast of CA so threw a great 30th birthday party in
band James expect their 2nd child (boy!) a baby shower attended by Kathy everyone will have to visit! Nada Bas- which Denise McDonald Gentry, Kelly
in late 10/10. Wyatt Nelson Davis, her Fowler, Rachel Roth Allred, and Amy anti Golden and husband Jay had son Monical, Brook Buck, Lori Nilan, Sonya
1st, was born in 7/08. She’s still prac- Waller ’04. Rachel Roth Allred was also Harrison Fleet Golden on 6/23/10. She Truman, and Ashley Johnson McGee ’03
ticing law with James in Mt. Sterling, KY, expecting and her 1st baby was born and Jay are beyond thrilled! Katherine were in attendance. She also went to
and enjoying small town life. She was less than 24 hrs. before Ariana. Rachel Moncure Stuart and husband Harrison Bermuda and Yellowstone. If you need
so glad to see Hunter McOwen Byrd and Toby’s little girl Cristina Brianne moved to Orange, VA, where he ac- her for events, she’s your woman!
and Nikki Gilkison La Rue in 7/10 when was born on 4/1/10 (no fooling). She’s cepted a job at Woodberry Forest as dir. Sonya Truman is fixing up her new
they came to visit. the only one in the house without a Mar. of alumni affairs. Son Teddy will be 2 house. She took a trip to Costa Rica
Nia Fonow Ravenstahl and husband birthday. Rachel is enjoying being a and in late Sept., and they’ll be welcom- this summer, a fantastic time. She
Matt welcomed 3rd child Cassidy Ellen mom and can’t believe how much pink ing another baby! They’re waiting to find came to Maria Thacker’s birthday and
by adoption this past Sept. Nia finished and green clothing her daughter has (fu- out the sex. Serena Basten is getting is enjoying Atlanta. Lori Smith Nilan is
her teaching contract for the yr. and will ture SBC girl?) She’s still teaching in married to Louey Kachinsky on her training for her 2nd marathon in Nov.
be taking a yr. of leave to be with Cass. Prince Georges County, MD, however dad’s farm in Amherst, VA, on 9/12/10. She’s been training in the Richmond,
The family followed Matt to Durham U. this fall she’ll be teaching 2nd grade at She lives in the San Francisco Bay area VA, heat! She loves hanging out with her
in the UK as he worked on his Ed. D. Greenbelt Elementary in Greenbelt, MD. and works for Kaiser Oakland as an ER 2 Cavalier King Charles Spaniels,
this summer, giving Nia a chance to Rachel is excited about this transfer — nurse. Serena and Louey have Rot- Phoebe and Bridget. Lori and Andrew
catch up with Jessica McClosky in New- a shorter commute and more family tweiler puppy Yara Bear keeping them went on their annual family trip to ME in
castle. It was like no time had passed! time. She’s looking into pursuing her busy. Casey Perlow is getting married Aug. In Oct. she’ll go on a rafting/hiking
Nia enjoyed meeting Max Miscavage Master’s in Education. Katie Gjeldum on 9/4/10 at Valhalla Vineyards in trip with Kelly Monical, Denise Gentry,
this yr. as she visited with Kim Schmidt Fraser and husband Jim moved to Mar- Roanoke, VA. Sarah Levinson ’01, Whit- Ashley Johnston McGee ’03, Maria
Miscavage before leaving for the sum- tinsburg, WV. 2nd child Peter was born ney Bryant, and Misa Sarmento are in Thacker, Sonya Truman, and Brook
mer. The Ravenstahl’s can’t wait to see 5/26/10. Angie Withers Dawson the bridal party. Misa Sarmento has Buck to celebrate her 30th birthday. As
everyone at Reunion! wanted to announce that 2nd child Ash- traveled this yr. to exciting places includ- for me, Brook Tucker Buck, RN, gradu-
Jana Putnam Sayler and husband ley Elizabeth Dawson was born on ing Cambodia, Laos, Borneo, other ar- ated in May from nursing school with a
Erik celebrated their 3rd anniv. in Jul. 1/29/10. She’s growing fast to keep up eas of South East Asia, Prague and Slo- BSN and thankfully passed the ex-
She’s expecting their firstborn mid-Jan. with big sister Casey. Katie McNamara vakia. She sees Whitney Bryant, Casey tremely difficult nursing licensing exam!
and is looking forward to hosting her Brown and daughter Carolyn Joy (2) en- Perlow, Allison Funkhouser ’03, and On 8/9/10, I’ll begin working 12-hr.
family for Christmas in Tallahassee. joyed a beach trip to Emerald Isle, NC, Sarah Bellanger Levinson ’01 often. It days on an Orthopedic Trauma unit at
Rami Achterberg Heers and Jesse with family. Katie is enjoying teaching was surprising and fantastic to see her Carolina’s Medical Center, Charlotte’s
will welcome their 2nd baby boy at the Carolyn to swim and ride. She switched at the Charlottesville Half Marathon in largest and public hospital. Since there
end of Sept. Amy Tabb and husband careers to work in the IT industry as a May, when she was supposed to be in isn’t a nursing shortage in NC, I was
Dave welcomed baby boy Jesse on government contractor and moved to Ar- London! Whitney Bryant started her thrilled to actually get a job; Trey is
4/27/2010. The new parents are hav- lington, VA, in Apr. to be closer to her own web based company, www.whitney- thrilled to finally have 2 incomes! I did
ing lots of fun with the little guy. Leah work location. Visitors welcome! Emily bryantart.com, specializing in custom my first 8K in Charlottesville, VA, with
Brooks Waldrip and husband Adam wel- Yerby loves her new job with The paintings and photography. Christi Rose the help of Ashley Johnston McGee ’03
comed 2nd child Sabrina Ann Waldrip on Greater Boston Food Bank! So reward- Hart lives in Richmond with Jason and in May, which Maria Thacker and Kelly
3/8/10. Lucy Brooks Thomas ’00 and ing. She and partner Gretchen are hav- daughter Kendall (3) and will welcome Monical also finished. Lori Nilan and
baby Norah visited their new niece and ing a great summer with their full house baby #2 in Dec.! She has traveled a lot Misa Sarmento finished the half
cousin. Leah is excited to introduce of four 4-leggers! Lindsey Keller Sullivan this summer and visited Sonya Truman marathon, while Denise McDonald Gen-
Sabrina to SBC. is pregnant and due 10/ 7/10. and Maria Thacker in Atlanta, GA. In try cheered us on. I’m trying to do my
Christina Kingsley Link is also pregnant Richmond, Christi also saw Samm Grist 1st half marathon in Dec. Our chocolate
2002 and 3 days behind Lindsey, due on
10/10/10. Lindsey says it was not a
’03 and Tamara Young Metzflied.
Meghan Gregory graduated in Aug. with
lab Beaufort continues to be the cutest
dumb dog and reached the 100lb mark
Lori Smith Nilan pregnancy pact just a very blessed coin- her M.B.A. She’s enjoying her new at a 1 ½ ! I’m excited about having my
14600 Windjammer Dr cidence! Lindsey is still busy working at nephew and patiently awaiting her life back and actually having time to do
Midlothian, VA 23112 her theatre as their equity stage man- mom’s new shop to open in Raleigh, things again! Good Luck to all of our
[email protected] ager in Denver, CO. All is well and NC, called Upper Crust Pie and Bakery new moms and moms-to-be, and see
happy. Arney Walker moved from Arling- Shop. Denise McDonald Gentry went to you again in spring!
ton to the Eastern Market section of Atlanta to celebrate Maria Thacker’s
Margaret Brooks Buck Capitol Hill. She is a full time wedding 30th birthday and had a great time see-
4436 Yoruk Forest Ln
Charlotte, NC 28211
planner with Pineapple Productions in ing all of the girls again! She got a job 2003
NW D.C. and is running her own calligra- with Hoover & Strong Inc. in Richmond, Courtney Arnott Silverthorn
[email protected]
phy business. Sophie Wackenhut Szy- VA, which she enjoys. She and husband 501 Palmtree Dr. No. 4
manski and family still live in Al Ain, Temple stay busy taking care of their 3 Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Hi Class of 2002! We hope you’re well.
United Arab Emirates until mid-2011. dogs. In Apr., Susan Seitz Jackson and [email protected]
Some of you need a new email address,
Their 2nd child, Easton Brooks, was family sold their Madison Heights home
so please email one of us or the Alum-
born on 6/6/10. Becky Lewis Dowdy and bought a cute cottage in sunny Jane McKenzie Davis finished the
nae Office (the @sbc.edu’s don’t work
still lives in Germany with husband Joe Charleston, SC. Susan is searching for renovations on her 1870s VA farmhouse
anymore)! For those of you who aren’t
and Weimeraner Dorian (5). She contin- gainful employment and hosting lots of 12/09 and is ready for guests! She
avid writers, hopefully we’ll hear from
ues to teach middle school science and yard sales to downsize to their new loves her job as an HR Business Part-
you next time?! Here’s the scoop: Jen-
ran her 2nd marathon in Orlando, FL, in digs. All are trying to take up surfing, inner at Martha Jefferson Hospital and re-
nifer Taylor Catano continues to live
1/10. Becky and Joe are expecting their cluding Ben (3 ½) and Sam (1 ½), who ceived her M.B.A. in ’07 and her SPHR
and work in Houston, TX, with husband
1st baby in Mar! Tamara Young Metz- absolutely love the beach! Alicia Mc- in ’09. Jane wanted to thank all of her
Dave. The last yr. has been exciting
field and husband Dennis are expecting Cartney moved to Paris in Jun. They live SBC friends who’ve been so supportive

during the last 4 yrs. since the death of Puerto Escondido, Mexico in Jul. Stacey sis on Post Conflict Development soon. tients. In her spare time, Katharina con-
her husband, Jackson. moved back to Lewisburg, WV into a Mary Morris Park and husband tinues her journey as a cat lady; still
Carolyn Eney Miller married Matthew new, larger house and is excited about Robert had Colin Patrick on 1/19/10. loves rock climbing. This yr., she
Miller on 5/29/10 on Seabrook Island, her 2nd yr. of medical school! Colin joins Ethan (4) and Davis (2). Mary climbed in WV, NC and KY. While in KY,
SC. Serving as bridesmaids were Meg Jozanne Summerville spent a month is still working as dir. of children and she saw Sabrina Via Scott ’03.
Foley, Sara Kemper, Allison Albanis gallivanting in South Africa for the 2010 youth at First Presbyterian Church in Brentz Basten East had an awesome
Strohmeyer, and Sara Miller ’02. Blair World Cup! An incredible experience of Bluefield, WV, and working on her mas- time at Reunion and looks forward to
Baigent was a reader. Other SBC new places, people and animals! She’s ter’s at Union Presbyterian Seminary in the next one. She and husband Matt are
guests included Emma Kate happy to be back in D.C. to enjoy the Richmond. Mary saw Autum Matysek- expecting their 2nd child in the begin-
Payne, Natasha Ungerer and Eliza summer events and prepare for her next Snyder Fish, son Xavier and husband ning of Jan.
Chenault Hamnett ’02. It was a wonder- holiday in fall. She’s in the midst of an Jeremiah on 7/31 in Waynesboro for Courtney Kiel was engaged to Ben
ful weekend and a mini reunion for all of M.B.A. program at the U. of MD and still lunch. LeBlanc during the summer. She’ll be
them! working for the U.S. Navy. Nicole Basbanes unexpectedly re- getting married this spring!
Courtney Yerdon Gleason started a Tasha Purcell relocated from Las Ve- ceived an opportunity to work as a Pri- Krystal Dean Tucker completed her
graduate program at UNC-Charlotte and gas, NV, to Jackson Hole, WY, in 5/10 mary School Librarian at Fay School in M. Ed. (7/09) in educational leadership
will graduate next summer. She saw to take a position with the Teton Sci- Southborough, MA (her old middle from Longwood U. She’s been employed
Samira Hossain ’05 in D.C. and at her ence Schools, loves it! She’s exploring school, no less) for the 2010/11 school by Appomattox County Public Schools
wedding in Mexico earlier this summer. one of the most beautiful places in the yr., creating a new library for Pre-K to for the past 5 yrs. as a 5th grade lan-
She continues to visit with Lindsay country (almost as beautiful at Sweet Kindergarten students. She’ll be trading guage arts teacher. Krystal will be tak-
Kinyon Ashton and Lara Hansen. She’s Briar, VA!) She plans to complete her in her 3 jobs in Washington, D.C., as a ing a yr. off, as she and her husband,
looking forward to attending Homecom- 1st century ride in Aug! In 1/10, Tasha medical librarian, music archivist and a Blake, plan to welcome their 1st child,
ing with Lindsay, Danielle Ross Oberg, flew in from Vegas to meet up personal assistant to Linda Reynolds Wyatt Blake Tucker, in Aug. Krystal and
and me this fall! with Maria Kitchin and Laura Pearson in Stern ’66. While they’re sad not to work Blake reside in Keysville, VA, with
Nahliah Webber received her M.A. in Charlottesville, VA. together anymore, they’ll remain lifelong Weimaraner Cooper. Krystal keeps in
sociology and education from Teachers Camille Simmons is enjoying sum- friends and plan to keep in touch. touch with Laura Brockman Bryan,
Coll. at Columbia U., and is a dir. of mer break from teaching Spanish in Katie Niemeier, and Lyndsay Welsh
youth programs for Phipps Community Bermuda and had a wonderful time trav- Chamblin.
Development Corp., a Manhattan non- eling to D.C. and VA to catch up
profit. She had a mini reunion with with Hailey Hermosa, Khadine Fisher, 2005 Casey Poore Flippin is teaching 6th
grade Science and History at Nottoway
Kaneia Mayo and Christina Burroughs and Caville Stanbury ’06 this summer. Mindy Katherine Wolfrom Intermediate School. She’s also teach-
’04 in 07/10. Schyler Ellis Burke, husband Peter 105 State St., Apt 1 ing dance at a local studio. She and
Michaela Krohn graduated Magna and son John Richard welcomed 2nd Newburyport, MA 01950 husband Dustin are still living in Amelia
Cum Laude from Life Chiropractic Coll. child Victoria Katherine Burke on [email protected] County and have a new addition to her
West on 06/05/10 and is now a Dr. of 3/16/10 at 7lbs, 5 oz and 18 ¾ in. Pe- family: beautiful daughter, Emory Aline
Chiropractic. She’ll be moving to AK in ter was promoted with Halliburton and Mindy Wolfrom returned to SBC in Flippin, was born 6/5/09.
8/10 to practice; until then, she’s been chosen to move back to WV from TX. May and saw several alumnae at Re- Nell Champoux is in her 5th yr. of
hanging out with Emma Kate in the Bay Kerry Keins Mutschelknaus and Joe union 2010. She completed her 1st yr. Ph.D. work in the Dept. of Religion at
Area. welcomed 1st son Connor Joseph on of teaching Latin and an honors philoso- Syracuse U. and is writing her disserta-
Christine Aline Nail had 2nd child 7/17/10. He weighed 9lbs, 13oz. Con- phy course at a public h. s. in Haverhill, tion on medieval monastic magic. She
Jaxson Daniel Beisker on 2/3/10. nor Joseph is the grandson of Kristi MA. She sees Michelle Badger ’06 and loved seeing everyone at Reunion and
Rachel Howell Smith had 1st son Dun- Karpinski Mutschelklnaus ’77. Kerry, others at the Alumnae Club of Boston’s had fun catching up with Denva Jackson
can McAuley Smith on 07/07/09. Joe and Connor live in Arlington, VA, with gatherings. over the summer in Boston.
Amanda Carpenter Page lives in 2 black labs. Amanda Watts and James Moffett Ashley Forehand will be married to
Bedford County, VA with her husband Ashleigh Kresslein saw Virginia are engaged to be married on 4/9/11 Jeff Oakley on 9/25/10.
and son (20 mos.) She works for the lo- Fowler Voigt at her wedding on 4/17 at in IL! Amanda still works for the federal Katie Parnell Robinson and husband
cal dept. of social services as a foster SBC where she was a bridesmaid. Other government as a forensic document ex- Donald (HSC ’02) welcomed their 1st
care worker. She and her husband have SBC bridesmaids were Erin Keck Walsh aminer, loves her job. She and Jimmy re- child Elizabeth-Anne Donald Robinson
been married for 2 yrs. and are hoping ’03 and Karen Dennehy Godsey ’05. side in Arlington, VA, and will start the on 5/26/10. She was 8lbs, 3.6 oz and
to add another child to their family very Ashleigh is engaged and living in house-hunting adventure soon. 21.75 in. She’s growing like a weed and
soon, as well as moving into their new Charleston, SC, with her fiance, 2 labs Denva Jackson completed her teach- they love every minute! Katie also en-
house. and cat. ing position at the MATCH charter h. s. joyed seeing Megen Blaesing ’07 and
I, Courtney Arnott Silverthorn, at- Breanne Leibering moved to Rich- in Boston, and she’ll be attending Har- her sister Kirsten Blaesing ’11 in all the
tended a mini reunion dinner in D.C. on mond in 7/10 to accept a teaching posi- vard U. (7/10) to begin a Ph.D. program fun showers and parties for Megen’s
6/26/10. Although I was the only repre- tion at Cosby High School in Midlothian, in art history. upcoming nuptials! Katie is riding and
sentative from the Class of ’03, I had a VA. She’ll be living with Virginia Everett Christie Sears Thompson was mar- looking forward to showing this yr!
blast hanging out with Katie Marie ’07 and teaching 10th grade and is ex- ried to Kevin Thompson (HSC ’07) on Sarah Kidd Burchett is living in Rich-
Vaughan ’06. I also completed my 1st cited to spend time with her SBC friends 11/7/09 in SB’s chapel, reception at mond and starts a new job as a medical
sprint triathlon on 6/20/10, and am in Richmond, like Kelli Bergmann the Conference Center. She’s lived and aesthetician at Renew Dermatology on
training for my 2nd on 9/19/10. I too Thomasson. worked in Denver since ’06. She works 7/26. She’s super-excited about it,
am looking forward to Homecoming with Kelli Bergmann Thomasson relo- at Regis U. in the Academic Resources since she’s meeting one of her profes-
Courtney, Danielle and Lindsay in 9/10! cated with her husband to Hanover Co., Dept., loves it! She started classes in sional goals of working in a medical set-
VA, where they reside in the home her Jan. to earn her M.A. in marriage and ting. She has a wonderful roommate
2004 husband grew up in. In addition to the

move, Kelli has landed a new job as an
family therapy through Regis. It’ll take a
few yrs. (she’s set to graduate in 1/14),
and one cat to share the house
with. She still rides for fun. Other than
Virginia Wood Susi online instructor for h. s. AP courses but then she’ll be on the path towards that, she’s just trying to survive being
7975 Dunstable Cir. and is excited to work from home. her career as a professional therapist. single and in the dating pool again!
Orlando, FL 32817 Elissa Davis joined the circus. And by She’s enjoying married life and living in Casey Fleming and husband John-
[email protected] circus, I mean the Florida Public School CO. Michael had a baby boy, Charlie William
[email protected] System as a teacher. Jan Jennings Need and husband are Fleming, on 5/6/10. They’re living in
In Jul., Sarah Ruff and Kirkland expecting their 1st child. Cedarburg, WI.
Leah Philhower was promoted and is Wohlrab had lunch in Boston. Later that Miranda Zirbel Dobbins was married
taking over the Victoria’s Secret in mo., Sarah travelled with Sue on 5/15/10 to Jim Dobbins in a small
Knouse ’05 to TX for Sue to start her
Greenville, SC. She moved to Taylors,
SC in Jul. M.A.
backyard wedding at her home on Wad-
malaw Island, SC. Blair Cooper ’05 was
2006
Stacey Maddox finished her 1st yr. Jennifer Burton is living in Memphis, an attendant. She’s working as a travel Victoria Chappell Harvey
of medical school at the West Virginia TN, working on her M.F.A. at U. of Mem- agent for AAA, loving it. PSC 76 Box 7851
School of Osteopathic Medicine and phis. She’s expecting a boy, “Pace,” Although Katharina Fritzler didn’t APO, AP 96319-0057
was awarded a MOSS scholarship for due in 9/10. make it to reunion, she caught up with [email protected]
out-of-state students. She spent the Sarah Elizabeth Bohn is serving the Mindy Wolfrom in May. Katharina has a
summer at her home in Scottsville, VA, Kyrgyz Republic as a U.S. Peace Corps new job working with Alzheimer’s pa- Michelle Badger says, “I hope you’ve
resting and studying for boards. She NGO development volunteer. She is also tients as a recreational specialist. She marked your calendar for our upcoming
and husband Rodney Hammack cele- a master’s candidate at the School for loves it and has already received sev- 5-yr. Reunion, May 20-22. Michelle
brated their 6th wedding anniv. in International Training- Graduate Insti- eral marriage proposals from the pa- Badger, Sara Coffey, and Kathy Wilson
tute. Sarah hopes to complete her the-

are chairing our Reunion Giving commit- dear friend Allison Martell Heath’s wed- and Finance as an assistant, to working
tee and are working with 12 other mem- ding. While there, she saw Lea Pyne, primarily in finance. I’m taking classes
bers of our class to make sure that we Kassie Caola ’07, Charlotte Speilman to supplement my on the job training. I CLASS NOTES
break the records. Don’t forget to par- ’05 and Becky Teachey ’07. She also had never envisioned myself working in
ticipate in the Annual Fund this yr. The had a wonderful time seeing her sister- finance, but I enjoy it! That’s one great
committee looks forward to calling our in-law Suzy Harvey Hodge! thing that SB taught me — to learn and Laura Schaefer says, “Loving Port-
classmates and hopefully reconnecting Elaine C. Mathews married J. Brooks succeed at new things!” land and will be finishing up my yr. of
with many of you at our Reunion.” Honeycutt III on 6/26 at SBC’s Chapel. Rosanna Hawkins Winner says, “Rob service with AmeriCorps soon. I made a
Michelle graduated in May from Suffolk They live in Chesterfield, VA. and I are still living in Mt. Jackson, VA. trip back to D.C. to visit Angelica Shea
U. with a MPA/MSPS and started work- Allison Martell married longtime We’re finishing our living room since ’06, Margaret Loebe ’06, and Rachel
ing on a Campaign in Cape Cod. Let’s beau Michael Heath on 4/17 at Daniel we’ve finished our nursery! Avarose Reynolds. I met up with Emma Meador
hope for a win in Nov! She’s excited for Stowe Botanical Gardens in Charlotte, Mackenzie Winner should be making her ’09, Julia Patt ’09, Jessica Baker ’09
the opportunity. She hopes everyone is NC. She was surrounded by her best appearance sometime in early Nov. and Liz Zuckerman ’09 with Rachel for a
doing well and cannot wait to see every- friends, amazing women: Lea Pyne, We’re so excited. Hope everyone is do- mini-sister class reunion. Devon and I
one at Reunion. Becky Teachey ’07, Victoria Chappell ing well!” are enjoying time with our new rescue
Nicki Brandt spent last summer re- Harvey, Charlotte Speilman ’05 and Kim Wadelton is doing an architec- dog, Dexter, and I’m crossing my fingers
searching resident killer whales in the Kassie Caola ’07. ture internship in Indonesia and is that the upcoming job search goes
San Juan Islands of WA; then traveled Lea Pyne has enjoyed another yr. in about to head out on a long backpack- well!”
down the coast to work with the Mon- the D.C./MD area. She is happily en- ing trip across Asia. Upon her return Kim Battad works at Noteworthy Mu-
terey Bay Aquarium doing sea otter re- gaged to longtime boyfriend and other she says “I’ll be continuing my studies sic School as a keyboard teacher. She
search. Julie Drake lived nearby in San half Michael Klumb. They hope to marry at GA Tech, working on 2 M.A.s, in archi- says, “I’m excited to teach a new par-
Jose, CA, so the 2 met up whenever in Sept. ’11, most likely on a beach. tecture and in city and regional plan- ent/child class where the parents and
possible, including a road trip where Lea accepted a civilian position with the ning.” their preschoolers learn together. The
they saw Claire Carson ’08 in Portland, U.S. Navy, loves her job with Team Sub- Morgan Roach lives in D.C. and kids make me laugh, and they love
OR. Julie is working for a private school, marine in the Acquisition field. She con- works at The Heritage Foundation as a learning the music.” Kim’s best friend
loves it! Julie also has the most tinues to cycle with the Oxen Hill Cycling research assistant for foreign policy got married this summer and Kim was
adorable niece and nephew on the Club and to train for triathlons. studies. Morgan became a contributor the maid of honor. “A small, beautiful
planet! And since late Jan., Nicki has Nicole Traylor received her teaching to The London School of Economics’ ceremony, and I sang ‘A Moment like
been working with the School for Field license and post-baccalaureate in Edu- British Politics blog and is a participant This’ as their 1st dance. I got to record
Studies in Baja CA Sur, Mexico, re- cation (biology) and is starting her 3rd in the U.S. State Dept.’s Young it in a studio and everything! It was sur-
searching marine mammals and sea tur- yr. as a h. s. biology teacher. Next yr., Turkey/Young America exchange pro- real,” she says. In Aug. Kim will be re-
tles, filling a post that Samantha Clark she’ll be moving to WA with Amy St. gram. When she’s not working, Morgan turning to her childhood church camp,
’08 vacated (moving on to save sea tur- John and enrolling in the U. of WA for is travelling and preparing for a half this time as a counselor and arts and
tles on the East Coast). While stateside, her Ph.D. program in biology. marathon in Sept. crafts leader, and says, “I’m excited to
she caught up with Melissa Massy and Jenn Wiley married Jamie Schmidt Heidi Trude teaches French at Sky- have some fun. I’m also planning to
Mallory Sherwood ’09 (soon to be Mrs. on 7/31/10 in Las Vegas, NV, with clos- line H. S. in Front Royal, VA. In May, she move at the end of the summer, but will
Englestad) on a trip through Denver, CO. est friends and family, and her favorite appeared in the school production of still be in the Bay area. If any alumnae
Melissa will be starting a graduate pro- SBC girls Abby Adams, Lindsey Cline “The Sound of Music” and spent most are coming this way, let me know so we
gram in sociology in CO this fall. Other and Joanna Meade. of summer traveling around VA and PA can catch up! Take care, everyone!”
random road trips have brought her to Gemma Bourgeau married Philip Hel- visiting with friends and relatives. In Sarah Kindschuh is working her 2nd
the doorsteps of Liz Eager Marvel ’05 bling in Aug. ’09 in Lynchburg. They Aug., Heidi will be taking a group of 40 yr. as a biological science technician at
and Rebecca Penny ’08. At a visit to were expecting a baby girl in Aug ’10 students abroad to visit Ireland, Wales, the Valles Caldera National Preserve in
SBC she saw Kimberly Gibson ’05 (soon Colleen Karaffa Murray saw Cara England and France for 2 wks. NM. She writes, “I do a lot of monitor-
to be Mrs. David McDonald), Grace Cherry, Nicki Brandt, Melissa Massey Renee Tanner in Amherst, MA, ing: working on a turkey ecology study,
Farnsworth Loughhead ’04, Natalie Bat- and Kerri Faust at SBC the day before started her own business: Tasteful an elk calf mortality study, long-term
man Barton ’08 and Laura Staman. Haley Graham Bouvatte’s wedding at Treasures by Renee. She writes, “I am a vegetation monitoring, fish monitoring,
Also during visits back to VA, she’s Memorial Chapel this summer. Great to Romance Enhancement Specialist. I of- the list goes on. I’m keeping busy run-
loved catching up with Dr. Cara Cherry, see old friends! Colleen is expecting fer in home parties in which women can ning around the mountains of beautiful
who graduated this yr. from VT’s Doctor 2nd baby girl Scarlett on 11/14/10, touch, taste and feel a variety of fabu- northern NM, but missing my SBC ami-
of Veterinary Medicine program and and is so excited for Rosie to have a lous products all meant to enhance gas!”
looks amazing in her white doctor coat. sister! their love lives. I also offer virtual par- Eleanor O’Connor is finishing her
Nicki is looking forward to catching up ties for those who aren’t in the New time at the U. Coll. of London and will
with Kerri Faust, who has been in Co-
lumbia doing missionary work since 2007 England area. I can be reached at
[email protected].”
be returning to the U.S.A. in Sept. with
her M.A. in publishing. She has loved
2008, during a visit later this yr. Emily Nicole Olson Ferrell Lyles Smith wrote in saying her time in the U.K., but is excited to re-
Cara Cherry graduated from VA-MD 382 E. Scripps Road “I’m writing you all from Afghanistan, turn home.
Regional Coll. of Veterinary Medicine in Lake Orion, MI 48360 where I’ll be for the next yr. with my job.
May and can officially be referred to as [email protected] If there are any SBC girls out here, let
Dr. Cherry (though she’d prefer Cara). me know! Andrew and I got married over
She accepted a position as a Veterinary It was fantastic to hear from all of you; Memorial Day weekend this May, and 2008
Medical Officer with the U.S. Dept. of thanks for sending news. I love hearing honeymooned in beautiful Virgin Gorda, Kathryn Mills
Agriculture’s Animal Care Division and is about all the awesome things that you’ll British Virgin Islands. It was wonderful 4310 Bromley Ln.
moving to Amarillo, TX. Let the adven- are doing. having SBC girls Lynnsey Brown, Katie Richmond, VA 23221
tures begin! I still teach musical theatre in MI. Vaughan ’06, and Amanda Ankerman [email protected]
After 3 ½ yrs. in Fort Campbell, KY, The kids and I survived our 1st recital in ’00 with us in Bar Harbor, ME, at the
Jennifer Jones Collins and husband Jun.; it went really well. I’ll be teaching a wedding. I miss everyone, especially
Thomas Collins have moved to Heidel- camp at the studio in Aug. and then clean VA air (pretty dusty and smelly 2009
berg, Germany! Although they have only start teaching weekly classes in Sept. I here). It makes me miss midnight Pro-
been in Germany for several mos., thro break-ins for Moose Tracks ice Julia McClung
was also asked to freelance with the h.
they’ve already explored Belgium and cream. I can’t wait to see you ladies at 5111 Block House Ct., Apt. 728
s. theatre productions. I’m happy to be
will be heading down to Switzerland very Reunion in 2012!” Charlotte, NC 28277
working in my field. I took my brother
soon. Jennifer was sad to leave her job Natalie Pye writes, “I’ve been getting [email protected]
back to SVU in Buena Vista for his sen-
and friends behind in America, but she’s ior yr. and was able to visit SBC, or “the great hands-on experience working at a
adjusting to the European lifestyle. She
invites everyone to come visit!
mother ship” as my dad has dubbed it, law firm in Atlanta. This Aug., I’ll be
heading back to D.C. to start my 2nd yr.
2010
briefly. I walked around the new gym/ac-
Victoria Chappell Harvey is loving tivities center, it’s awesome! It was a of law school at A.U. Wash. Coll. of Law. Alaina McKee
life in Japan! This summer has been fun hot day and it made me grateful that we I’m on the Mock Trial Honor Society 5939 W. Friendly Ave., Apt. 44K
with cultural festivals happening all over never had classes in Jul. I definitely team and am looking forward to compet- Greensboro, NC 27410
the country. She hopes that some of her miss it though, and all of you! ing this yr. I’ve been enjoying the whole [email protected]
SBC friends can come for a visit. Also, Danielle Briggs-Hansen still works at law school experience much more than
this past spring Victoria made a short Systems Planning and Analysis. She any sane person should! I hope to see
trip back to the States where she had writes, “Since starting with the com- some SBC ladies this yr. at Homecom-
the honor of being a bridesmaid in her pany, I went from working in both HR ing!”

❷ ❸
❶ mary Haskins King, anne Dickson
Waldrop and Julia mills Jacobsen
celebrated their 65th reunion in may
2010. Julia was accompanied by her
friend, Clarke mcCartney.
❷ Four alumnae from the class of
1959 met in NYC for a mini reunion.
left to right: Claire Devener, betsy
Colwill Wiegers, Jackie Hekma
Stone and alice Cary Farmer brown.
❸ betsy Duke Seaman ’59, Tabb
❶ Thornton Farinholt ’59, molly Haskell
Sarris ’61, Cay ramey Weimer ’59,
Isabel Ware burch ’60 and Tricia
Coxe Ware ’59 attended molly
Haskell’s lecture on her
book “Frankly, my Dear.”
❹ members of the Class of 1955
gathered in louisville, Ky., in late
June. left to right: Kathleen Peebles
ballou, Camille Williams Yow, Jane
Feltus Welch, Pam Compton Ware
and betty byrne Gill Ware.
❺ Caroline Casey mcGehee
lindemann brandt ’49 and Paul
❹ ❺ edwin brandt were married on
5/11/10.
❻ Fourteen members of the class of
’49 gathered for their 60th reunion in
5/09. Standing left to right: Dot
rouse-bottom, alice Trout Hagan,
Pat brown boyer, Katie Cox
reynolds, Caroline Casey brandt,
larry lawrence Simmons, Flip eustis
Weiner and Preston Hodges Hill.
Seated left to right: Judy easley
mack, Debby Carroll Conery, Carolyn
Cannady evans, Goode Geer
Diraddo, Kitty Hart belew and mary
Fran brown ballard.
➐ Ferrell lyles ’07 married andrew
Smith in bar Harbor, maine, on
memorial Day weekend 2010. Photo
Credit: © Gjergj Ndoja, Volaj
Photography, llC
➐ ❽ Caden & lilah Froehlich, July
2010, children of Susan Whitehead
Froehlich ’96.
❻ ❾ Christie Sears Thompson ’05
married Kevin Thompson on
11/7/09. The wedding at SbC’s
memorial Chapel included several
alumnae guests including, left to
right: Jen Woodson morton ’05,
Kelsey Holzman ’05, Kathryn Davis
’05, Kristen bergquist ’06, Chasity
Clarke miller ’04, Sarah Parson
breeden ’05, rosanna Hawkins
Winner ’07, lindsey Nash Hill ’05
and ashley ruffead ’05. Tiffany
mcCabe Carr ’04, Jenni Stanley
Thompson ’03 and Jessica Taylor ’06
also attended. Photo Credit: © J.
Clinedinst Photography
❽ ❾ ❿ Cathy Goslau ’91, known as Tavi
rainold, with her horse, Copper
Penny.
① Several alumnae met for a mini
reunion in the adirondacks. left to
right: elizabeth “meg” richards
Wiederseim ’78, adelaide “addy”
eshbach Donnelly ’78, Vivian
Yamaguchi Cohn ’77, elizabeth
“libby” White Drbal ’77, elizabeth
“Keedie” Grones leonard ’76,
maggie Shriver ’77 and Sarah
“JoJo” Scott busey ’77. Not
pictured are mary Goodwin Gamper
’78 and meredith “mimi” borst
Quillman ’78, who also attended the
reunion.
① ❿
❶ ❷
❶ Several 1976 alumnae met at the
home of Tricia Cassidy o’Callahan to
throw a surprise party for Janet
Grainger, who was getting married.
left to right: maureen ryan (not an
alumna), Janet Grainger, Sue ellen
Hood mitchell, laura lee bost, Kate
Kelly Smith, Tricia Cassidy
o’Callahan, Treacy markey Shaw and
Katy mickell Corcoran.
❷ From left to right: elizabeth massy,
Nicole brandt ’06, mallory Sherwood
’09 and melissa massy ’06 with one
of the original Waffle brothers in
Denver, Co, at Waffle brothers.
❸ alumnae gathered at the home of
buff barkley ramsey ’96 the evening
before classmate Katie Campbell
brumley’s funeral. Standing from left
to right: Wynn Cole burr ’96, Carson ❸ ❹
Scheppe Hobby ’95, meredith
Williams melmed ’95, maren Howard
leggett ’95, monica Paul Dennis ’96,
amelia Dudman atwill ’96, lee Foley
Dolan ’96, Jeni brundage Turner ’97,
elizabeth Hunter Ferguson ’97 and
Jesse Durham Strauss ’96. Kneeling
from left to right: Janna mcClarty
Chandler ’96, Jessica John Ponce
’95, Jessica Crowley Hershey ’96,
buff barkley ramsey ’96, Kathryn
black Watson ’97 and Courtney
burke Harper ’97.
❹ 1965 classmates Vicky Thoma
barrette and Nancy macmeekin at
the Great Wall of China, march 2010.
❺ Vivian Finlay ’72 and husband
Clyde boyer at Halibut Cove in
Homer, alaska.
❺ ❻
❻ Jennifer Gregg ’91 completes the
185-mile Pan mass bike Challenge.
➐ Several alumnae from the Class of
1988 met for a mini reunion in New
orleans. Seated, left to right are:
Paige apple montinaro, mary
Halliday Shaw, bennett Haga and
Whitney bolt lewis. Standing: maia
Free Jalenak, Kate Cole Hite and
Kathryn Ingham reese.
❽ 2002 alumnae ran together in the
Charlottesville, Va., marathon in may.
From left to right: misa Sarmento, ➐
Kelly monical Jones, maria Thacker,
ashely mcGee ’03, lori Smith Nilan, ❽
Denise mcDonald Gentry, and brook
Tucker buck.
❾ 1983 classmates anne little
Woolley, ann Goldmann uloth, lea
Sparks bennett and Katherine
barrett baker met for a mini reunion
at the boar’s Head Inn in
Charlottesville, Va.
❿ allison martell ’06 married
michael Heath on 4/17/10. Sweet
briar attendants from left to right:
becky Teachey ’07, Charlotte
Speilman ’05, lea Pyne ’06 and
Victoria Chappell Harvey ’06.
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As Plans unfold …
ank you for sharing … in the president’s “conversation circles.”
ank you for responding … to our recent e-mail alumnae survey.
ank you for writing … on the strategic planning blog at http://strategicplan.blog.sbc.edu.
ank you for dreaming with us.

e strategic planning process is more than halfway completed.
We began work last January on defining competitive advantages,
expanding who we serve, becoming more digitally sophisticated
and defining a sustainable size. As discussions continue and our
plans develop, we invite your ongoing insight into the process
and the end results.

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What are some of the stories shared by alumni in the letters?

What are some of the stories shared by alumni in the letters?

What is the magazine aiming to present to readers?

What is the magazine aiming to present to readers?

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DEAR ALUMNAE AND FRIENDS:

SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE MAGAZINE POLICY EDITORIAL BOARD Contact information

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Departments 24 Better Schools, Brighter Smiles:

Sweet Briar celebrated its annual

Homecoming Weekend, Sept. 24 and

25. Over 1,000 people gathered for

Founders’ Day convocation and the

walk to Monument Hill, sports

tournaments, the Cardboard Boat

Regatta, picnics, fireworks, the

Saturday evening dinner dance and

more. For the full story in pictures,

view the Homecoming image gallery at

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Sweet Briar Co-Sponsors the

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A SuMMER HAzE HuNG her work, whether it was the

Corey Latta ’11 IS MAJORING IN THEATER with a minor

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FOuNDED IN 1954, THE HuMANE SOCIETY OF

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eBonnie “ty” SHreve ’14 STARTED

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SHE MADE A PERSuASIVE ARGuMENT TO THAT

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a sure sign that a reef is

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2010 MARKS THE 50TH in East Asia, an area in which nuclear,

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Alumna’s work helps Cambodian

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W GLOBALIzATION, we think of the West

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SaMantHa BriteLL ’11 DIDN’T PLAY SOCCER AT ALL her junior

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But it’s only the beginning. You graduate,

And your ongoing story represents the Sweet Briar ideal:

Giving to the Annual Fund is a great way to be part

That’s how much your gift helps Sweet Briar

Add your story—www.sbc.edu/story

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View the Reunion 2010 story in photos at