Fall 2017 volume 87 no. 2

Meredith Jung-En Woo the College’s 13th president Dear Alumnae and Friends:

utumn at Sweet Briar is nothing less than spectacular. The early morning view from Sweet Briar House, looking south across campus toward the Blue Ridge Mountains, is of a gentle mist hugging the mountain range. It is October, and the temperatures Aare beginning to dip, even as humidity remains unusually high.

We can thank the trees for the “blue” in Blue Ridge—they release isoprene that deepens the hue. As shades of yellow, orange, and red begin to emerge, I am reminded that there is both a science and an art in the turning of the leaves, a combination of environmental science, biology, chemistry, physics, human psychology, and visual arts. This cycle in nature drives internal reflection. It is a temporal landmark of change and in particular new beginnings.

This fall, the College embarked on its own set of changes and new beginnings. As you know, in September the College announced that our faculty are designing a new core curriculum focused on leadership and three centers of excellence dedicated to addressing contemporary problems in our increasingly complex global society. We recognize that much like the art and science of the autumnal season, the liberal arts must be increasingly interdisciplinary, collaborative, and interdependent. With your support, Sweet Briar will continue to produce women of consequence, as the College has done for over a century, by preparing students for a world that is now more diverse, global, and with power and influence more decentralized and multitudinous—a world that needs more Sweet Briar alumnae.

Very sincerely yours,

Meredith Woo President volume 87 no. 2 Contents New Branding 2 SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE MAGAZINE POLICY The magazine aims to present interesting, Back to School Events 3 thought-provoking material. Publication of material does not indicate endorsement France Awards the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor to of the author’s viewpoint by the magazine Claude Becker Wasserstein ’82 4 or College. The Sweet Briar College Mag- azine reserves the right to edit and, when Sweet Work Weeks 8 necessary, revise all material that it accepts for publication. Contact us at any time. Meet Our New Students 12

MAGAZINE STAFF Fletcher Oak Lives on in Academic Mace 13 Phyllis Watt Jordan, editor Meredith Woo: Envisioning the Path Forward 14 Jane Dure, editor The Plan: Academic Repositioning and Tuition Reset 18 Clelie Steckel, director of annual giving/ Sweet Briar Fund, managing editor Living with Art Initiative 19 Nancy Marion, lead designer With a Scholarship and Her Upcoming Autobiography, Cassie Foster, photographer anna Chao Pai Pays It Forward 20 Contributors: Jennifer McManamay, Janika Carey, Sarah Clement, Amy Campbell Stewardship of Campus Lands Lamphere, Fran McClung Ferguson, Lorie Teeter Lichtlen, Ethel Ogden Burwell, Translates to Student Learning 22 Patty Snodgrass Borda Mullins, Eleanor Honors Summer Research 2017 24 O’Connor, and Amy Leigh Campbell Thank You for Being a Friend 26 Contact information Office of Alumnae Relations Curating the Senate: Through the Eyes of an Art Historian 28 and Development P.O. Box 1057 Sweet Briar, VA 24595 Capturing the White House in a Souvenir Spoon 30 (800) 381-6131 Going, Going, Gone for SBC! 31 Meredith Woo, President Talbots Joins the Cause 31 FIND SWEET BRIAR ONLINE Women of Consequence 32

sbc.edu Departments: On the Quad 6 In Memoriam 35 Class Notes 38

At Reunion, from left: Elizabeth Kistler ’88, Christina Lytle ’88, Lezlie Pinto ’87, Kristen Lowrey ’87, Heather Buerger ’88, Jill Stryker ’87, Pam Barkley ’87 Find your At Sweet Briar College, you’ll uncover everything that makes FIERCE. you amazing — and own it in ways you never thought possible.

Meet our students at sbc.edu/fierce

This fall, A contemporary blue now complements Sweet Briar’s pink and green colors, Sweet Briar launched while high-impact photography and “Find your FIERCE,” compelling messages announce to a new marketing the world: We educate women who campaign and fresh are smart, confident, unafraid to take on big challenges, and who lead look, to update our lives of consequence in their homes, unique brand. communities and in the world.

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n October, Claude Becker Wasser- young Parisienne at Sweet Briar, as a for- on those skills. She spent 10 years at CBS stein ’82 received the Chevalier of the eign correspondent and producer for CBS News, notably covering the Iran-Iraq war Legion of Honor, one of France’s highest News, and as the wife of one of the most from Dubai and the conflict in Northern awards, at a ceremony at the French well known bankers in the world. Claude Ireland from Belfast, before moving to IEmbassy in New York. continues to rely on them now, as a mom New York as a producer for the program Pinning the insignia, French Ambas- looking at college options for the children “48 Hours.” There, she covered societal sador to the United States Gérard Araud in her care and as an angel investor looking issues, including poverty and gun control, said, “A thoroughly global citizen, Claude for ways to make the world a better place. and won an Emmy Award for a segment Wasserstein has demonstrated a strong With an American mother and a on healthcare. commitment to international and Fran- French father, Claude was raised in a cozy What else did she get from her expe- co-American relations and has consistently Paris suburb and the French school sys- rience at Sweet Briar? She lists, rapid fire: served as a bridge between our two cul- tem. She arrived at Sweet Briar to connect deep friendships, analytical capabilities, tures. We are extremely pleased to recog- with her American roots. Her mother had and an appreciation for art in all forms. nize her outstanding achievements, which heard about the College from a women’s “My art history teachers at Sweet Briar have been profoundly charitable and have association in Paris, where it was known were more demanding than those for my served to foster dialogue between France for its academic excellence and Junior Year master’s studies at the École du Louvre or and the United States.” in France program. The college’s small size Sorbonne,” she says. “They taught me to The ambassador highlighted organi- and rural location provided a safe setting analyze works from multiple perspectives, zations for which Claude has been an for a young woman to start discovering the to try to understand the influences, the active fundraiser—the Met International world. context and the artists’ objectives. That Council, WNET Channel Thirteen, The At Sweet Briar, Claude majored in art approach served me as a journalist and Brick Church Summer Steps Program, the history, minored in math, and learned to continues to serve me as an investor.” King Hussein Cancer Center in Amman, live with classmates from the Middle East Claude’s company, Fine Day Ventures, Jordan, and the American Hospital in Paris and South America, as well as from Europe focuses on disruptive technologies with Foundation, among others. He also noted and across the U.S. “Sweet Briar was very potential for positive social impact. To that she has spearheaded many of her own diverse and cosmopolitan for a small wom- date, it has stakes in 50 startup compa- initiatives aimed at enhancing various en’s college,” she notes. “It’s a place where nies, in fintech, medtech, energy and communities. interesting people come together.” aerospace—“sectors with the potential to “Both the U.S. and France are pro- She adds, “Coming from Paris, I had to reshape the world,” as Claude puts it. foundly lucky to have someone like you adjust to a different culture and learn how Like most alumnae, Claude realized who is so devoted to supporting charitable to navigate among people with different how important Sweet Briar was to her efforts in the community,” Araud said. backgrounds and perspectives. It broad- when she heard about the planned closure. Indeed, speak with Claude for any ened my own perspective and made me “I thought, ‘This can’t happen!’ Sweet Briar length of time and the words you’ll hear interested in the wider world.” is such a great college and more relevant most are “analysis,” “engagement,” and She also learned to ask questions than ever today, when women are still “impact.” These are her hallmarks, her and express her thoughts—something fighting to be treated equally. It’s a place approach to life, her strategy in business. not encouraged in French schools—and where your voice counts and you can help They are qualities she cultivated as a subsequently built an international career shape the future.”

Sweet Briar is such a great college “and more relevant than ever today, when women are still fighting to be treated equally. It’s a place where your voice counts and you can help shape the future.

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE” | SBC.EDU 5 Quon the ad News and Notes Around Campus

New Computer Science Program Receives Accreditation The Southern Association of Colleges able to accomplish that as well. I am science majors include engineering de- and Schools Commission on Colleges happy to say that we are all set.” sign, which features some Arduino pro- (SACSCOC)—the regional accrediting The College began working early gramming and a team-based approach body for higher education institutions in 2016 with Harvey Mudd College—a to problem solving, as well as calculus in the South—has notified Sweet Briar’s leader in STEM education among and statistics. Majors will complete a administration that the new Computer liberal arts colleges—and Silicon Valley two-semester capstone project in their Science program has been approved. companies to develop a focused senior year. The approval means the computer curriculum that will provide Sweet Briar Although the computer science science degree is included in the scope graduates with a competitive edge in major requires 47 credits, students of the College’s current accreditation. the workplace. Computer science ma- will have the opportunity to take a The computer science major will jors will take two semesters of Python, broad array of liberal arts courses, complement Sweet Briar’s strong one semester of Java and one semes- the hallmark of a Sweet Briar College science, technology, engineering ter using C/C++ and Linux. Sweet Briar education. “Employers need skilled and mathematics offerings, includ- continues to explore collaborative op- programmers who can also write well, ing the B.S. in engineering science. portunities with Google, and in Febru- communicate their ideas coherently, SACSCOC’s approval comes on the ary, hosted a National Engineers Week and think about the larger issues for heels of a successful search for a full- dinner with a presentation by one of their company and society,” said Was- time computer science professor, says the company’s lead software engineers. sell. “This is a lean and mean major. mathematics professor Steve Wassell, Electives include the use of Swift, Our students and eventual employers who spearheaded the program’s de- the new and upcoming language want practical coursework. Practical is velopment. He never doubted accred- developed at Apple, as well as R. the program we are building—because itation, but finding a highly qualified Upper-level electives include computer job growth in this field is strong and candidate proved challenging in the security, computer vision and data sci- only getting stronger.” current job market, he says. “We were ence. First-year courses for computer

Joshua Harris Scores Indie Film years after graduation—whether it’s ten Joshua Harris, an assistant professor years or thirty—we may be stuck with of music at Sweet Briar and director the same issues we had before cross- of the College’s Sound Art Production ing that stage at Commencement,” and Analysis Studio, created the score according to the festival’s synopsis. for a film shown at the 2017 Indy Film Harris created all of the sound for Fest in Indianapolis. The movie was the film’s music using computer soft- written and directed by Henry John- ware. Sweet Briar guitar instructor Eric ston, a friend and former colleague, Hollandsworth contributed the only who asked Harris to consider writing recorded sound. Out of the film’s 95 the music for the new movie. minutes, there are 11 different musical In “King Rat,” a graduating college cues, totaling 25 minutes and 36 sec- senior befriends his commencement onds of original music. speaker, an alumnus of the school, A composer for more than 20 years, in his last few days on campus. The Harris says his music has been heavily movie “examines the possibility that influenced by the studio techniques

6 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Sweet Briar Joins the National Collegiate Equestrian Association Sweet Briar College has joined the National Collegiate Equestrian Asso- ciation (NCEA), becoming the NCEA’s first Division III member to participate in regular season competition and be eligible for the post-season. The College’s director of riding, Mimi Wroten ’93, says membership in the NCEA fits with Sweet Briar’s tradi- tional foundation while creating more opportunities for riders at the highest competitive level in college sports. It potentially clears the way to ride for national NCEA titles—and maybe one day, NCAA championships. The format is head-to-head, with two riders showing against each other on randomly drawn horses. Wroten will act as the head coach for the team. Sweet Briar is also a member of the unlike traditional equitation classes, cially as the first Division III school.” Old Dominion Athletic Conference, where groups of riders are compared The NCEA is equally happy to bring the Intercollegiate Horse Shows As- to one another,” Wroten said. “NCEA a quality team into its fold, says Haley sociation and the American National meets will not only test our riders, but Schoolfield, president of the associ- Riding Commission, and participates will give them another team experi- ation. “[We are] thrilled to welcome in other U.S. Hunter Jumper Asso- ence.” Sweet Briar College to the head-to- ciation-affiliated shows throughout Joining the NCEA is a logical step, head format of collegiate competi- the year. Wroten says there’s a big says Sweet Briar’s president, Mere- tion,” Schoolfield said. “SBC has a difference between showing as an dith Woo, but it reflects the College’s rich history in the collegiate equestri- individual and as a team, so adding spirit, too. “We have a long history of an world, and we are excited to begin USHJA-affiliated team competitions at competitive riding, attracting women competing with them this year.” the collegiate level to the riding pro- from around the country who want For the schedule of NCEA and oth- gram’s schedule is of great benefit to simultaneously an excellent education er riding events, go to http://sbc.edu/ students. And the NCEA format adds and the chance to compete as eques- riding/calendar-of-events/ or follow another dimension. trians at the highest level,” Woo said. Sweet Briar Riding on Facebook. “Two riders being judged against “Joining the ranks of the NCEA is a each other on the same mount is point of pride for Sweet Briar—espe-

of electroacoustic composers. It’s also music,” he said at the time. biggest instruction to me was that he how a lot of the soundtracks for mov- Harris, a North Carolina native who didn’t want the music to tell the audi- ies, TV and video gaming are made holds degrees from Appalachian State ence how to feel. That surprised me at today. University, Brigham Young and the first, because I had always thought that That’s why, when a $10,000 grant University of North Texas, has had his was a film composer’s job.” from Chegg became available to the works performed all over the U.S. and The more Harris thought about it, College’s music department in 2016, in South Korea. He has been com- the more his friend’s direction made Harris pitched the idea of using the missioned by the Barlow Endowment sense. money for the Sound Art Production for Music Composition and the Nova “Audiences don’t have to be told and Analysis Studio. He saw it as a way Ensemble at UNT. His recordings are how to feel. The best art just tells its to get young women excited about available on the SEAMUS label. story, and the audience feels what composition using computers. He’d never thought about scoring resonates with their own experiences,” “This studio is going to be a way a film, though—until Johnston asked he says. “I think that’s exactly what in for a lot of students who might not him. this film does, and I’m thrilled to have have thought of music composition “I watched the movie and loved it, played a small role in that.” before—especially if they’re thinking suddenly feeling excited about doing about it in terms of writing classical something new,” he recalls. “Henry’s SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 7 Randy Cash, Buildings and Grounds

Francoise Wackenhut, Parent ’98, ’02, ’08

John Pegues, Parent ’00

Ellen Reed Carver ’85 and Sally Old Kitchin ’76

Mary Whitney Earnhart ’14

M. C. Elmore Harrell ’64 and Martha “Tuck” Mattern Harvey ’64 Sarah Preston Clement ’75

8 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Right, standing: Barbara Hastings Carne ’69, Jonna Creaser Clarkson ’70, Ann Gateley ’70, Debbie Ohler Bowman ’70, Molly Woltz Carrison ’70; seated: Jane Rush Davenport ’70 and Kate Schlech ’70. The Class of 1970 had the most participants at Sweet Work Weeks with nine classmates.

Kathy Garcia Pegues ‘71, Sweet Work Weeks coordinator

Jill Gavitt ’97

Katie McCardell Webb ’70 (in tree) and Ann Gateley ’70, Sweet Work Weeks grounds supervisor

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 9 Ellis Carroll ’20

Kim Dickey Melcher ’90 and Nicole Balding Roca

Lynne Manov Echols ’71

10 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Ellis Carroll ’20 Linda Uihlein ’77 Kate Schlech ’70

Ann Tedards ’70 and Brendy Reiter Hantzes ’81

Sweet Work Weeks painting supervisors, Alexa Schriempf ’97 and Vikki Schroeder ’87

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 11 Meet Our New Students

Sweet Briar College welcomed 95 new students this fall including first- years and transfers.

The Class of 2021 is strong in academics as well as diversity, represented by: 22 states* and 1 country** 24% self-identified as minority 18% first-generation college students 15% legacies 31% student-athletes 33% qualified for Honors Program

*top states: Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania **China 12 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Fletcher Oak Lives on in Academic Mace It happened around 10 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2005. For Sustainability; and Creativity, Design and the Arts. Meet Our New Students members of the Sweet Briar College community, it The shaft is enclosed by five flutes along the sides, was the passing of a dear friend. As the news quickly representing the four undergraduate classes and the spread, people came to pay their respects. graduate degree program. The five upper rings sur- The Fletcher Oak—still in full summer foliage and rounding the student body represent growth in writ- festooned with clusters of green acorns—had fallen. ing, speaking, critical thinking, proficiency in areas of Since 1906, students, faculty and staff had passed study, and acquired life skills and attributes, including beneath the massive canopy, taking comfort from leadership, confidence, resilience and adaptability. its imposing presence. In 1991, Mary Oliver, then The engraved collar between the shaft and the up- the College’s Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence, per section commemorates the inauguration of Pres- wrote a poem about it: “There is a tree here so beau- ident Woo and honors the alumnae of the College. tiful it even has a name. …” The ball at top of the shaft represents the board, The red oak, named for the College’s founding faculty and staff, who have significant influence on family, stood on the northwest corner of Fletcher students in their academic journey, and holds medal- Hall. It was at least 200 years old, and even on its lions with the seal of Sweet Briar College. last day, sprawled across a rain-drenched Sweet Briar Just above it are two rings representing the Drive, its grandeur and magnitude were on display. College and the alumnae, which are joined The jumbled branches dwarfed the workers who together always. The pointed finial at the top scrambled over them with chainsaws and trimmers to points to Sweet Briar’s future. The clear it from the road. finished piece is 44 inches, with a Some of the harvested wood of the beloved tree 5-inch medallion at the top. It remains, tucked away in a barn on campus. From was made with care befitting these remnants comes the Fletcher Oak’s latest Tom Boley’s reverence for contribution—and perhaps its most significant—to the wood and the story be- the Sweet Briar story: a ceremonial mace handcrafted hind it. “The Sweet Briar by woodturner Tom Boley. The elaborate piece was mace is No. 51 for me,” used for the first time at the inauguration of Presi- said Boley, who lives and dent Meredith Jung-En Woo on Sept. 22, 2017. works near Manhattan, The Sweet Briar College Mace is a gift from a Kan. “While for me it is group of unnamed donors to celebrate the investi- a business, I also think ture of the College’s 13th president. It is marked with it is really special making the following inscription: something like this for col- leges and universities, which Crafted with wood from the Fletcher Oak should last well over a hundred First used at the Inauguration of years.” President Meredith Jung-En Woo The alumna who commissioned the mace explained to him what September 22, 2017 the tree had meant to the Given in honor of the Alumnae of the college, campus community. “I have who kept the Faith had a couple schools ask to incorporate a piece of a An academic mace is a symbol of an institution’s campus tree in their mace authority to confer a degree. It traces its history to and it has worked well,” the medieval battle mace, a weapon of war and, he said. “It is quite a again, representative of authority. A king’s or queen’s responsibility, as you scepter is similarly a symbol of authority. know. Using wood from Each element of the Sweet Briar Mace represents the Fletcher Oak has something significant to the College. Starting at made this one pretty the bottom, the small ball at the tip of the tailpiece special.” represents Sweet Briar’s origin; the widening of the tailpiece represents its ongoing growth. The large ring ascending from the base reflects the core curric- ulum of a liberal arts education centered on students, on learning, on thinking and on doing. Three rings below the shaft represent the Col- lege’s newly created “centers of excellence” that make up the curriculum: Engineering, Science and Technology in Society; Human and Environmental

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 13 Meredith Envisioning the Path Forward Wweet Briar’s path oo:has never been There is no denying she has come to the She and her team helped to provide these easy. Its creation was contested College at a vulnerable juncture. Sweet women with an education at an interna- by relatives of Indiana Fletcher Briar has experienced difficult times in its tional women’s college in Chittagong, Ban- Williams who opposed her will history, requiring tough leaders. Woo must gladesh. Other improbable tasks included Sestablishing the women’s college. It began now be one of them. supporting the Belarus University-in Exile, with just enough wealth to fulfill the To come to Sweet Briar, she left two jobs now situated in Vilnius, Lithuania, and founder’s vision and give us Ralph Adams she describes as “the best in the world.” helping relocate the students and faculty Cram’s architecture, which is lovely but She was on leave from a tenured faculty from a university in the Russian-occupied was extremely costly. position at the University of Virginia—af- Donetsk to a safer part of Ukraine. Filling the iconic new buildings with ter stepping down as dean of the College Woo is a prolific scholar and an expert students and faculty—which had to be done and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences in in East Asian politics and international quickly—was left to Mary K. Benedict, the 2014— during which time, she was direct- political economy. She cut her teeth as an College’s first president, using what little ing the global higher education program administrator at the University of Michi- remained. She did, led by her own convic- for the Open Society Foundations. gan, where she was a chaired professor in tion that the board’s charge for a first-rate From her two offices, in London and political science, then a divisional dean in liberal arts college was the right one. It was Budapest, she oversaw one of the world’s charge of the social sciences—arguably the not the last time a Sweet Briar leader would largest operations for supporting higher crown jewel of a university she considers have to improvise without compromising education around the globe, especially in exceptionally well run and one of the finest on the quality, nor the last time one would the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Southeast in the nation. take measure of the times and do what was Asia and Central Asia. With her team, she “Because it is a premier research necessary. focused on delivering higher education to university with good governance—dem- On Sept. 6, 2017, new College president vulnerable populations. That took her to ocratic, transparent, mission-driven, big Meredith Jung-En Woo rolled out a plan refugee camps and shantytowns in Jordan, thinking—it is also a feeder for the nation’s to reimagine not just Sweet Briar but the Turkey and Lebanon that housed people university leaders,” she says. whole of the liberal arts. The announce- who had fled their homes in Syria. It wasn’t long before UVa tapped her as ment did what she had hoped: It garnered Woo’s group helped create an “under- dean of the College and Graduate School national headlines and positioned Sweet ground railroad” for the Rohingya women of Arts & Sciences, where she spent six Briar as, quite possibly, an innovator in in Myanmar. The Rohingyas carry the years making large-scale changes and higher education. unfortunate distinction of being one of the raising financial resources to supplement Woo is Sweet Briar’s 13th president. most persecuted minorities in the world. dwindling state funds.

14 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE She didn’t want to know how big Sweet Briar should be or what programs to cut to be “sustainable.” She asked, instead, what needs to be done to make Sweet Briar education ? President Woo with delegates representing women’s colleges at her inauguration excellent and relevant

Because of her time at UVa, Woo knew vote to shut the school down. Woo says. of Sweet Briar. She knew its academic rep- She began planning changes even be- By mid-July, the task force created by utation, that it had a not-insubstantial en- fore she arrived full-time on May 15, 2017. the president delivered recommendations dowment, and that it had one of the most Within days of her arrival, she convened to replace general education requirements beautiful campuses in the nation. She was a faculty-led task force that included staff, with a core curriculum focused on wom- also deeply involved with higher educa- students and alumnae to consider sweep- en’s leadership through project-oriented tion in developing and advanced societies ing changes to Sweet Briar’s academic learning. It also recommended replacing around the world. She has grappled with curriculum, calendar and organizational academic departments with three inter- the questions of education for women, structure. Her charge was to take Sweet disciplinary and interdependent centers who often outnumber men in colleges and Briar’s “givens”—small size, single-sex, of excellence where faculty and student universities but remain underrepresented rural campus, proximate resources and collaboration flows unimpeded by ad- in positions of power. programs of distinction—and devise a ministrative constructs. To accommodate She raised these points in her inaugu- new liberal arts model for women lead- these changes, the academic calendar will ration speech, concluding: “Women’s col- ers that is affordable, excellent, relevant add two three-week short terms dedi- leges are a good idea—it is one whose time to the times we live in and identifiable as cated to experiential learning to the two has come, and not gone. Around the world, something Sweet Briar does better than 12-week sessions. That will allow students people look to the United States—and anyone else. to start internships early, or take short, excellent small women’s colleges like Sweet “The obstacles and issues in the way intense courses in areas of interest. Majors Briar—to meaningfully provide the kind of of women becoming leaders and staying continue to be offered within the centers of education that allows women to find their as leaders are legion,” Woo says. “It’s very excellence, which include engineering and place in the sun.” complex. It’s social, it’s economic, it’s STEM, human and environmental sustain- So, her background—and her convic- political, it’s psychological, it’s cultural. So ability, and the arts. tion that Sweet Briar represents a solution we want to be sure that we educate women Woo said the three centers are drawn to an ongoing problem in the world— who are strong enough, smart enough, from Sweet Briar’s strengths. “We have brought her to this place. But it wasn’t just savvy enough to deal with these myriad one of the only two accredited engineering that. “I admire resilient people,” she said challenges that lie in the way of them programs among women’s colleges. It’s a during an interview. “I admire people with becoming and staying leaders.” given,” she said. “We will build on it. We moxie, who routinely beat odds. And at She didn’t want to know how big Sweet have thirty-two hundred acres of labora- Sweet Briar, I am surrounded by them.” Briar should be or what programs to cut to tory for sustainability. It’s a given. We will be “sustainable.” She asked, instead, what build on it. And then we have the VCCA n July 2, 2015, Woo’s prede- needs to be done to make Sweet Briar edu- [Virginia Center for the Creative Arts] cessor, Phillip C. Stone, took cation excellent and relevant? She believes across the street. It’s a given. We’ll build on over an institution that had all once you figure that out, you can begin this relationship and make Sweet Briar a but closed. He brought it back thinking about the “critical mass” of facul- destination for young people.” Oby restructuring debt and balancing the ty needed in a department and of students At the same time, Woo led the charge to books, by reviving key programs, and by in a class. There is no “magic number,” she revise the business model for private high- making sure the school could deliver the would say when asked how many students er education by making the College’s pric- full liberal arts experience. Sweet Briar needs. It’s not your size, it’s ing simple and transparent, while curbing But Stone and Woo both knew Sweet what you do with it, her philosophy goes. the alarming escalation in discount rates. Briar needed a new course to overcome the “When you’re small, you don’t wear When the curricular and tuition “resets” conditions that led to the previous board’s clothes that are made for a big person,” were announced in September, compre-

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 15 underway to select and frame some 350 works of original art from the College’s collection to hang in students’ rooms. She believes that great and original works of art will have a transformative impact on the way students see the world.

oo was born in Seoul, South Korea, and educated there until age 14, when her father took a diplomat- Wic post in Japan. She attended an interna- tional high school in Tokyo and went on to study history and English literature at Bowdoin College, graduating magna cum laude in 1980. She earned master’s degrees in international affairs and Latin American studies and a Ph.D. in political science at President Woo with son Ben and husband Bruce Cumings Columbia University. Woo became a U.S. citizen during her 12 years teaching at Northwestern—where she says she would have been happy to stay had Michigan not called. She’s also taught at Colgate University and Columbia University. In addition to writing or editing seven books, she served on President Bill Clin- ton’s Presidential Commission on U.S.-Pa- cific Trade and Investment Policy in 1996 and has consulted for several international organizations. She was also the executive producer of an award-winning documen- tary—“Koryo Saram—The Unreliable People.” The film grew from her research of 200,000 Soviet-Koreans who were Alumnae at the inauguration deported from Vladivostok, in the Soviet Far East, to Central Asia—Kazakhstan, hensive costs for 2018-2019 were set at Uzbeskistan and Tajikistan—during the a 10-year low: $34,000, down 32 percent height of Stalin’s Great Terror. from this year’s sticker price of $50,055. When she’s not working, Woo enjoys The comprehensive costs at Sweet Briar driving to take her mind off things, and will be about the same for in-state students reading. She reads widely, but these days at the University of Virginia. The idea is a collection of poems by the Portuguese to make it clear to American families that poet Fernando Pessoa’s work is by her bed excellent private education is a viable alter- because “even I can actually finish a poem native to public institutions. or two before falling asleep.” She also likes While all that was taking place, Woo cooking, but only if she has “friends to roamed campus, going into residence halls cook for.” She says she often fed the entire and offices, often unannounced, absorbing political science department at Northwest- what needed to be done. Unpretentious ern, numbering more than 50 faculty. and plain-spoken, she would simply show “I suppose that’s more people than the up at someone’s door if she needed infor- entire regular ladder faculty at Sweet Briar. mation. In May, she determined that the I look forward to entertaining students, President Woo dormitories needed to be cleaned up and staff and faculty at Sweet Briar House.” and Mary Pope M. refurbished. By summer’s end, money was Hutson ‘83, VP for Her son Ben Cumings is a Charlottes- raised to replace the flooring in several res- ville High School alumnus and a recent Alumnae Relations idence halls, and more than 170 alumnae, and Development, graduate of Bowdoin College. He lives in faculty and staff had volunteered to paint get in on the Chicago, where he performs in improv painting during more than 220 rooms, parlors and hallways theaters. Woo’s husband, Bruce Cum- Sweet Work Weeks. in four dormitories. Another initiative was ings, is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift

16 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Alumnae representing nine decades of classes participated in the inauguration procession behind students bearing banners commemorating each decade.

Professor Linda Fink, who carried the ceremonial mace at the inauguration, with her sister, Rachel Fink

Distinguished Service Professor in History official in charge of creating and imple- at the University of Chicago—as well as an menting industrial policy. avid sports fan and car buff. “I was fascinated by the way people, “I think one of the reasons he wanted to much like my own father, took a daunting come to Sweet Briar is that his antique cars and even bleak situation after the Korean were being reworked, of all places, in Lynch- War and mapped out a future, step by step, burg,” Woo says with a laugh. “He is very in a succession of multiyear indicative plan- fond of the area, and he loves Sweet Briar.” ning,” she says, noting South Korea went Woo’s older son, Ian Cumings, was a from ruins to being one of the wealthiest rising senior at the University of Chicago countries in the world in half a century. when he was killed in an automobile acci- “I once asked my dad, ‘What is eco- dent seven years ago. He was majoring in nomic development?’ and he said, ‘It’s a German language and literature, admired deeply creative process where you look at by his professors and classmates alike for problems and then you ask yourself, ‘How his wit, warmth and acumen. Woo has do you do end-runs around obstacles to difficulty talking about Ian but shares that get to where you need to?’ ’ And I think he was “a gifted person, with a strong sense that really influenced me and that’s often- of justice. times how I look at life and problems.” “It used to outrage him to see people Is that why she came to Sweet Briar? treated unfairly. He was also very funny in “I suppose. You know, where other peo- a gentle, understated way,” she says. “After ple give up, I see possibilities, that’s true.” [he died] I suppose I became far more There’s a suggestion, though, that this interested in young people—their interests, ability is a luxury most people don’t have. fears, needs, aspirations. I am at Prothro Coming from an exceptionally cosmopol- every day, sometimes for breakfast too. I itan family, living and traveling through- like eavesdropping on their conversation; out the world, she has been exposed to I like to check out what they are wearing, experiences, cultures and relationships that what their T-shirts say. They also tell me allow her to see possibilities where others what I need to know to run the College— may not. they are my best informants.” “I think that I have something to offer because I have had interesting experiences. s long as she knows what to do, It’s been a rich life, and if there’s something Woo says she doesn’t worry I can do to be useful, that’s great.” about things. And the path Woo joins the pantheon of practical forward is a matter of thinking visionaries whose leadership has carried Athrough the problem. Sweet Briar before—women like Benedict, “I never thought for a moment that I Connie Guion, Meta Glass and countless would fail, or that Sweet Briar would fail. alumnae. It’s not nuclear science. I mean, you worry Leaders with gumption, grit and, most if you don’t know what to do, but we know of all, a sure sense of what to do next. what needs to be done,” she says. Woo owes this pragmatic optimism to her father and others like him: people who turn adversity into something unexpected- ly interesting. In Korea, her father was an

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 17 THE PLAN Academic Repositioning and Tuition Reset

On Sept. 6, 2017, Sweet Briar announced two major • The creation of three interdisciplinary “centers strategic initiatives. of excellence” dedicated to solving contemporary problems in place of traditional academic departments, The first focuses ourliberal arts curriculum on the theme of women’s leadership capable of meeting today’s while maintaining majors that are critical to liberal challenges, while also looking ahead. Recognizing that learning the liberal arts must be increasingly interdisciplinary and • A flexible 3-12-12-3-weekacademic calendar that oriented toward problem-solving, these innovations go maximizes experiential learning opportunities into effect in fall 2018: The second initiative revises our tuition model to make • A new core curriculum with a focus on women’s the true cost of tuition, room and board transparent to leadership students and their families.

The New Curriculum Sweet Briar’s existing strengths, both its Tuition Plan Features Our faculty are designing an innovative resources and programs of distinction. liberal arts curriculum that builds on Sweet „„ Reducing the tuition discounts while „„ Engineering, Science and Briar’s unique strengths in the sciences, arts providing merit and need-based scholar- Technology in Society: This center and humanities. ships so as to make the cost of atten- builds on being home to one of only two dance affordable. Transparency improves The Leadership Core ABET-accredited engineering programs access to a broader pool of applicants. The core curriculum takes the place of gen- among women’s colleges in the U.S. eral education requirements. The leadership „„ A new comprehensive price of $34,000 „„ Human and Environmental core is a set of required courses designed for two full semesters, which includes: Sustainability: This center capitaliz- to prepare women to be effective leaders es on one of our greatest assets—our • Tuition and fees—$21,000 for today’s society. Courses from across the campus and its vast nature preserves that • Room—$7,000 three “centers of excellence” develop the serve as a laboratory. skills and habits of the mind that are the • Board—$6,000 hallmarks of liberal arts excellence. Through „„ Creativity, Design and the Arts: „„ A 32 percent reduction from equivalent them, Sweet Briar women learn to speak This center takes advantage of the natural costs in 2017–2018, which resets tuition and write compellingly; to make ethical de- synergy with the Virginia Center for the to a level from over a decade ago cisions; to be adept at logic and reasoning; Creative Arts, one of the nation’s largest and to be able to synthesize information, artist colonies, located just across U.S. 29. „„ Makes costs competitive with selective take action with confidence and manage Academic Calendar public universities for Virginia residents projects and complex situations. and much more affordable for out-of- The new 3-12-12-3-week academic calendar Components of the leadership core may state students—i.e., a private school incorporates two short terms dedicated to include a first-year research experience, liberal arts education at public university experiential learning opportunities such as ethics of leadership, financial literacy, rhet- pricing oric and communication, and a capstone research, internships and study abroad. requirement. Every undergraduate student will be „„ Continued scholarships and need-based eligible for up to $2,000 to fund these expe- financial aid reduce tuition even further. Centers of Excellence riences. More than 200 scholarships currently Beginning with the 2018–2019 academ- Summer courses also will be added to offered will remain available for eligible ic year, three centers of excellence will allow students opportunities to complete a students. replace current academic departments and bachelor’s degree in three years. divisions. Majors will be offered within the The three-week short terms may be centers, and study will be more intense, used for intensive courses taught by guest hands-on, collaborative and interdisciplin- instructors who bring practical lessons from ary—the building blocks of the career and their everyday jobs. Such guests may be pol- life skills the liberal arts are known for: crit- icymakers and legislators, working artists ical thinking, written and verbal communi- from the VCCA or accomplished alumnae. cation, ethics and awareness, and adaptabil- These are opportunities for lifelong connec- ity. These centers are designed around tions and mentorships.

18 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Students choose art for their dorm rooms from a selection of newly framed pieces from the College’s art collection.

Living with Art Initiative weet Briar’s Living With go much further. Pharis recently came home the “Imaginary Prisons.” Art Initiative aims for “I want visual art to be a after a day of combing the “It is powerful,” Pharis said educational depth while major part of the Sweet Briar collection, feeling exhausted but of the latter. “It would take the enhancing living and experience for each student,” curiously happy. She puzzled right student to like that piece, Sworking spaces with vibrancy, Woo wrote in her letter. “I over her mood, she said, until but I think students will like it.” color and beauty. believe a more proactive display the reason dawned on her. All of the art will be selected, Shortly after President Mere- and use of artworks in all resi- “Looking at the art just kind framed and installed in student dith Woo arrived at Sweet Briar, dence halls—in your rooms and of puts you in a better place. I rooms by the end of the fall she devised an unusual plan: in the parlors—will add depth hope it will be a good experience semester. Seniors will receive hang art everywhere, including to your education outside of the for students and I hope they will theirs first, then juniors, soph- in students’ residential rooms. classroom. research their piece. I do believe omores and first-years. Pharis This fall, the Living With Art “Art collections in a col- that being around art changes said they are taking care to use Initiative was announced in a legiate setting should be in you—that it can be fulfilling.” UV-filtering plexiglass and safe- letter to students explaining service of learning, whether in Beyond the pleasure of ty hangers to protect the art. that they would be able select classrooms, in galleries, or as looking through the collection, About 350 additional works a framed work of art for their we plan to do, in the halls and Pharis likes imagining the kind from Sweet Briar’s decorative rooms through a lottery. rooms of residence buildings.” of student who would enjoy a collection also are being hung “You—and every student— Beyond enhancing the liber- certain piece. in the residence hall parlors, will have the opportunity to al arts curriculum, Woo believes “I might think a music Prothro dining rooms and other have your own private exhibi- the “vibrancy and color” that student would like this or a public spaces. Many of these are tion space,” she wrote in August. the art will infuse throughout [medieval and Renaissance by contemporary professional Woo’s goal is to display more campus is a way to both “lift our studies] student would like to artists, faculty members and of the thousands of objects in spirits” and fulfill our mission. have a certain medieval print. Sweet Briar students. the Sweet Briar College Art Laura Pharis will attest We have some really old prints Pharis says she is glad to see Gallery’s permanent collection. to both. Pharis, a studio art in the collection.” art from both collections going The collection is an integral professor and multimedia artist, Although the process is still up around campus, especially part of the teaching curriculum. is helping with the enormous ongoing, Pharis says some Peter after what had been in public Works are shown in Pannell task of selecting, cataloging and Milton prints are among the spaces was removed in 2015. Gallery each semester, and art framing about 350 pieces. It’s selections by living artists. She “I’m a visual artist. If you ask history students routinely use it painstaking work to safeguard also picked a work by Giovanni me if I would rather my work to curate museum and gallery both the provenance and the Battista Piranesi, an 18th-cen- be in a drawer or on the wall, exhibitions. condition of the art. Registrarial tury Italian known for his I’m going to say the wall every Some pieces are also exhibit- assistant Nancy McDearmon is etchings of Rome. The work is time,” she said. “So I’m excited ed in administrative buildings, providing guidance on museum from a series of 16 prints known about the project. I think it’s an but Woo saw an opportunity to practices and procedures. as the “Carceri d’invenzione” or audacious plan.”

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 19 With a Scholarship and Her Upcoming Autobiography, Anna Chao Pai Pays It Forward

hen Anna Chao their ancestors played in history, as well as released Chiang, feeling that he was the “Chips” Pai sat down her own path from immigrant to college only person who could unite China, and to write her autobiog- professor and researcher. And she hopes flew with him to his headquarters to keep raphy, she had a lot of the book will bring her observations about another general from shooting down the material to work with. Chinese and American cultures to readers plane. The Young Marshal ended up in WAfter all, her grandfather was a warlord and improve understanding and tolerance house arrest that lasted even after Chiang who controlled all of Manchuria in the on the part of both peoples. had lost power and died. Pai’s husband, 1920s and was assassinated by the Japa- Her uncle, Zhang Xueliang, better David, also had connections to the Chi- nese, who wanted control of the region. known as “the Young Marshal,” was a Chi- nese conflict: His father, National Revolu- Her uncle became a historic figure in Chi- nese warlord who controlled Manchuria tionary Army general Bai Chongxi, fought na who once staged a coup against Chiang in the 1930s. He and his Manchurian army both the Japanese and Chinese Commu- Kai-shek and paid for it with an extraordi- joined Chiang Kai-shek. But to his dismay, nists and is respected as the most brilliant nary 50 years of house arrest. Chiang ordered him to use his army in military mind—whom Chiang unfortu- But several chapters of her forthcoming the fight against the Chinese Communists nately ignored. book, “From Manchurian Princess to the rather than the Japanese in Manchu- American Dream,” focus on Pai’s time at ria. When his army left Manchuria, the hips Pai’s family lived in Sweet Briar and the impact the College Japanese flooded in, seizing control and China until she was 3. Once has had on her life as a noted geneticist. committing atrocities against the Chinese in the United States, her A 1957 graduate, she recently endowed residents. Zhang wanted to use his army to family moved frequently: a scholarship named for her and her late fight the Japanese, but Chiang would not She attended 12 different husband in hopes of supporting other let him, worrying about the Communist Cschools before she reached college. In place Chinese or other Asian students who want movement. after place, she and her brothers were the to attend the College. Eventually the Young Marshal, together only Chinese students in the classroom. “Sweet Briar did a lot for me. I’m just with another general, engineered a coup to “Moving from one school to another, being paying them back,” Pai says. convince Chiang Kai-shek to stop fighting the new kid on the block, it was terror She began her book project as a memoir the Chinese Communists and join them each first day of school,” she recalls. “They she could leave behind “for my very Amer- in fighting the Japanese, who had begun treated us like aliens because there were so ican children and grandchildren.” She to advance into the rest of China. Once few Chinese in the U.S. at that time.” wanted to make sure they knew the role he obtained Chiang’s agreement, Zhang When it came to college, she chose

20 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Sweet Briar because the College gave her and a course in what she believed was a From pai’s book, a scholarship and the promise of a job on vitally important subject for the general “From Manchurian Princess campus as a student waitress. When she public. After retirement she wrote a sci- first arrived, she filled out a form ask- ence fiction novel, “Choices,” about genetic to the American Dream” ing if she had ever had a nickname. She engineering, published in 2009 under the At the end of my senior year, I knew remembered a high school classmate who pseudonym A. C. White. Her autobiogra- I would be devastated to have to teased her about her love of potato chips. phy should be published in the next few leave my first home in the United Pai wrote “Chips” on the form. And that months, perhaps early next year. States. And I would leave my sister has been her nickname with classmates Throughout the years, she stayed students at Sweet Briar. Shortly after ever since. At Sweet Briar, she made the connected to Sweet Briar, serving on the dean’s list and played varsity sports. More Board of Directors from 1984 to 1992 and graduation, I wrote an essay about important, she found a place where she helping to develop the honors program. how much I was affected by gradu- could belong. “Just in that freshman year, She was named a Distinguished Alum- ation. This is what I wrote near the I felt that I was accepted as a person,” she na and inducted into the Athletics Hall end of the essay: says. “I was voted in a class officer, and was of Fame. Her class remains one of the “The hood has been placed an officer every year. It made me feel some most tight-knit in a tight-knit alumnae around my shoulder and my tassel is self-confidence where I had none. Being at base. They draw a big crowd at five-year Sweet Briar was the best thing that could reunions and keep in touch throughout the on the left side of the mortarboard. have happened to me.” year. “It’s been sort of a seamless journey We stand now, and they are playing Carol McMurtry Fowler, a classmate, with our class,” Fowler says. the recessional. The back row of remembers how Chips quickly became a When the board voted to close the seniors—now graduates—begins leader of what was an extraordinary class. College in 2015, it was no surprise that Pai to file out. I see it is almost time “Chips Chao is probably one of the most and her classmates joined the fight to save for us to leave. I turn to June to tell outstanding leaders I have run across in their alma mater. all my 80-plus years,” she says. “We were “I listened to the so-called conference her I would not say goodbye, and a very unique group of young women in call and was really dissatisfied with any- yet knowing it is goodbye to one of the 50s. We have very smart girls. We had thing that was said,” Pai recalls. She began my best-loved friends, I must leave a number of girls who were very talented hearing from alumnae and faculty who abruptly, for the sadness comes. . . . athletically. We had serious scholars. Chips discounted the administration’s arguments. And now the time has come, was all of these.” She wrote a long post on Facebook that the very hard time that we have Beyond the friends she made, Pai questioned the logic of shutting down the forged bonds with her professors, includ- College, one of the first older alumnae to shuddered at and put off in our ing Jane Belcher, who taught biology. “Miss speak out so publicly against the decision. minds for months saying, ‘Won’t it Belcher saw something in me and told “I was told that the letter I posted was be terrible?’ And it is. I shall long me about a laboratory training program effective and gave the young alumnae remember my well-loved and loving in Maine,” she says. “I learned for the first inspiration.” friends as my companions at work time what real scientific research was.” Now that Sweet Briar is back on its feet and play, revolutionizing all philos- After graduation, she earned a master’s and recruiting from schools in China, Pai degree in embryology from Bryn Mawr is hoping her scholarship will help attract ophy and religion, or dancing like College and a Ph.D. in developmental students. idiots in the refec before we served genetics from the Sue Golding Graduate “Sweet Briar to me would be an ideal the dinner-dance of a big weekend, Division of Albert Einstein College of place for Chinese students, since I know sharing sad and happy news and Medicine in New York. She spent nearly something about how they are raised. The moods. three decades as a professor and research- safety of the College, the fact that there’s But I shall remember them as I er at Montclair State University in New no sexism here, and the strength of the Jersey. She wrote a genetics textbook, science and technology area of our curric- see them now, too, on the day of “Foundations of Genetics: A Science for ulum are just ideal for Chinese women.” our departure for different worlds. I Society,” in 1974 for non-science majors shall remember them returning and sharing my unhappiness. We are un- able to say anything—we could not Pai delivers the greetings from even if we were not choking and the alumnae at President Woo’s crying—as we had resolved not to inauguration. do. We can only look hard at each other, silently asking that we not be forgotten, putting everything we feel in this look. Look my eyes, hold them my heart—hold, hold, hold.”

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 21 Stewardship of Campus Lands Translates to Student Learning Grants fund five sustainability interns to focus on the community garden, alternative fuels and carbon budgets, and an invasive water plant.

his summer, five Sweet Briar shared plots of flowers and herbs. The stu- on built on the 2016 Honors Summer students worked around campus dents took responsibility for a number of Research project of Katie Ferguson ’17, as sustainability interns, concen- plots that were not in current use. All told, who spent eight weeks studying Hydrilla trating on three projects: growing they intended to plant about 4,000 square verticillata, an invasive water plant that in- Tproduce in the community garden; feet—one-tenth of an acre—with bell pep- habits Sweet Briar’s Lower Lake. Ferguson, focusing on carbon budgets, forests and al- pers, tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers then an instructor with the Sweet Briar ternative fuels; and monitoring an invasive and ornamental sunflowers for summer Outdoor Program, became interested in water plant. The internships were funded harvest. The fall crops were selected in col- studying hydrilla after noticing its impact by a half-million-dollar grant from the Ju- laboration with the sustainability director on recreational activities, such as canoeing. dith Haskell Brewer Fund of The Commu- at Parkhurst Dining, which provides food Around the same time, the College was nity Foundation Serving Richmond and service at Sweet Briar. introducing sterile grass carp to the lake, in Central Virginia, which supports Sweet “We will figure out what vegetables the hope the fish would help to control the Briar’s environmental programs, and a to grow that would be the highest yield hydrilla. federal grant from the U.S. Department of to sell and produce,” said intern Chelsea To determine whether the carp were Agriculture. McKinney ’18. McKinney, who lives in doing their job, Ferguson, a biology major According to Dorys McConnell Duberg Lynchburg, is familiar with farming. Her and chemistry minor on the pre-vet track, Professor of Ecology Linda Fink, who grandparents raise cattle, corn and grapes spent the summer developing standard supervised the interns, each intern focused in Danville, and she has cultivated her own methods to map the distribution and on one project, designed to fit each intern’s garden. Her interest was further piqued by density of the hydrilla. She developed three interests, knowledge and abilities, for part a sustainable agriculture course she took different methods, including aerial drone of each week and contributed to other last spring at Sweet Briar. “Having my foot photography and a sampler she invented projects. in the door with the sustainable agriculture using a five-gallon bucket. This summer, The students involved in the program class, I wanted to see our work in that class the sustainability interns continued Fer- were Shannon Skeffington ’19, a dou- come together,” McKinney said of the in- guson’s work, using two of her methods to ble major in environmental studies and ternship, “selling food to [dining services] determine what effect the carp are having international affairs; environmental studies and bringing more people to the commu- on the invasive plant. major Chelsea McKinney ’18; and rising nity garden, because it’s beautiful.” The third project the interns worked on sophomores Valeria Gofigan-Ramirez, The second project students worked involved alternative fuel sources, name- Blake Newton and Brianna Garcia—all ly loblolly pines and switchgrass, both of whom are leaning toward majoring in of which grow on campus. In 2014, the biology. “This is a prime example College converted about 300 acres of its In the community garden, the interns hayfields to switchgrass, which is harvested grew produce that will eventually find its of students being and sold to a company that converts it into way onto plates at Prothro, the College’s involved in federally an environmentally friendly heat source. dining hall. “The ultimate goal is learning funded research that The warm-season grasses take a few to produce healthy, local food and market years to mature, and last year’s harvest was it to our dining services,” Fink said. “One helps inform questions the first to produce revenue, Fink said. “It’s of the things we have to work out is our of environmental looking good now. It’s growing up pretty business plan, to see how students will sell w e l l .” stuff back to campus. We are also aiming sustainability and Tom O’Halloran, a former Sweet Briar to install a hoop house to expand our pro- biofuels research, which environmental studies professor who now duction and extend our growing season.” is really cutting edge on is a research faculty member at Clemson The community garden members, most University, is leading the project. Scientists of whom are Sweet Briar faculty, staff and the national and at Virginia Tech also are collaborating retirees, tend individual plots and maintain global scale.” with Sweet Briar. One thing the interns

22 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Clemson University research technician Jim LeMoine, Professor Linda Fink, and the interns examine a phone app used to record data from field instruments. looked at is the “different services the between the land—forest versus switch- that’s tossed around”—is what attracted pine trees and the switchgrass are provid- grass—and the atmosphere,” adding, “This her to the internship. “I want to know how ing the environment,” O’Halloran said. helps understand how weather and climate energy ties into sustainability,” Skeffington “Both are potentially biofuel—pine can be affect how well these systems grow and said. ground up into pellets and burned—but function, but also in turn, how the land O’Halloran says the fact that Sweet holistically, which one is a better biofuel? affects the climate.” Briar students are doing this kind of We’re looking at, how do these two things This summer, O’Halloran said the research, funded by a federal grant, is a interact with climate, specifically? They’re interns used a soil respiration sensor—“a “big deal,” but also something that aligns both supposed to be good for the climate. pretty fancy gadget,” he added—to “mea- with the College’s commitment to finding Which one is the most good?” sure how much carbon dioxide is coming educational uses for its 3,250-acre campus. There are two land-atmosphere research out of the soil” in both areas. “We want “The College has always looked for ways stations—called LARS, for short—on to understand the total amount of carbon to use the land, because that’s one of its campus. O’Halloran and some of his Sweet dioxide that each ecosystem takes out of unique assets,” he said. “They’ve utilized Briar students established the first one the atmosphere. We’re trying to figure out that resource, and now that resource is in 2014 in a pine forest. He collaborated what the carbon footprint is of each of translating into student learning. This with colleagues at Virginia Tech in 2016 to these ecosystems.” is a prime example of students being erect a second smaller research tower in Shannon Skeffington ’17 came to involved in federally funded research that one of the switchgrass fields. An array of Sweet Briar after two years of community helps inform questions of environmental equipment affixed to the towers monitors college and more than four years in the sustainability and biofuels research, which biosphere-atmosphere interaction in the U.S. Marine Corps, including a tour in is really cutting edge on the national and two environments. O’Halloran defined this Afghanistan. An interest in sustainabili- global scale.” as the “cycling of water, carbon and energy ty—“actual sustainability, not just the word

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 23 Honors Summer Research 2017 Pursuing independent projects ranging from analyzing the effects of NAFTA on Mexico’s corn producers to designing and building a robot to fabricate polymer thin films, eight students earned fellowships to participate in the Honors Summer Research Program.

ination of surviving coroner’s records for the city and surrounding county. Chanel Friedrich ’19 (advised by J. Key, Government, and L. White/M. Micheledes, Economics) “The Effects of NAFTA on Mexico’s Corn Producers: A Political Economic Analysis” This research analyzes the comparative advantages and disadvantages of the Unit- ed States and Mexico in corn production and investigates how these advantages and/ or disadvantages in each country affect one another’s corn production. Research was conducted through two vehicles, a literature review and a data analysis on economic indicators over the 45-year time period from 1971 to 2016. Professor Jessica Salvatore with Chanel Friedrich Jessie Meager ’18 (advised by K. Morse-Jones, Art History) April Boyd ’18 designed and tested interventions to help “Japonisme and Its Role in (advised by J. Key, Government, and L. White, impede and combat the effects of stereo- Indiana Williams’s life” Economics) type threat. The majority of interventions “Interventions for Healthy Eating focus on the individual and often place no (See “West Meets East,” next page) through Farm-to-School Programs: importance on staying connected to a val- A Behavioral Economics Approach ued—if negatively stereotyped—ingroup. to Identifying Effective Strategies” This research reports on the beginning Rylee Runyon (left) and Clara Rogers Interventions that promote healthy phases of a meta-analysis of stereotype behaviors can combat the problem of threat interventions, in which interven- childhood obesity in the United States. tions are categorized by whether or not Farm-to-school (F2S) programs may be they required distancing from the ingroup, successful at addressing this public health in preparation to compare the effectiveness problem while improving local economies. of these two types. The research will advance applications of behavioral economics to F2S programs Anna Davis ’20 and will result in a recommendation for (advised by L. Laufenberg, History, with help behavioral economic techniques that can from A. Lilly, English) increase the effectiveness of F2S programs. “Dead of a Death Other than Their Rightful Death: The Roles and Rolls DaZané Cole ’20 of Medieval English Coroners” (advised by J. Salvatore, Psychology) In medieval England, the duty of re- “Exploring Recent Stereotype cording an unnatural death fell to the local Threat Interventions: The Start of a coroner. With the help of a jury of twelve Meta-Analysis” local men, he would inquire into the cause Stereotype threat is an experience that of death and take legal action if necessary. negatively affects the performance of This research presents findings concern- members of negatively stereotyped groups ing the nature of “unrightful” deaths in (Steele, 1997). Many researchers have 14th-century Oxford, based on an exam-

24 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Erica Orr ’18 (advised by A. Yousef, Chemistry) “Optimizing a Multi-Step Synthesis” This project sought to develop a novel, multi-step synthesis experiment that will serve as a capstone experience for undergraduate students who take second semester organic chemistry at Sweet Briar. The experiment exposes students to the concept of green chemistry, which stresses the use of biologically benign reagents Professor Kimberly Morse-Jones and Jessie Meager and the minimization of hazardous waste products. West Meets East The following two students worked as Seeking a better understanding of Japan’s wanted to do,” she said. “The Japonisme a team, jointly advised by K. Leake and H. role in how we see art today, Jessica Meager artifacts stood out to me immediately. I Yochum, Engineering: ’18 focused on Indiana Fletcher Williams’s was fascinated by the story behind these collection of Japanese artifacts for her Hon- perfectly ordinary artifacts: it’s this story of Rylee Runyon ’20 ors Summer Research project. imperialism and East versus West, and these “Design and Build a Low-Cost “I have a list of the artifacts that we have, radical changes in art at the time. And also, Automated System to Fabricate which I have to keep in mind: I’m not only at its heart, is this more personal story of a Polymer Thin Films” studying the broad art historical move- lonely woman whose daughter died young. Clara Rogers ’20 ment, I’m also trying to see how much we These Japonisme items were something like know about our specific artifacts,” Meager a fad, so I was interested in why Indiana “Assessing a Low-Cost Automated explained one summer day at Sweet Briar’s Fletcher Williams would keep them after System to Fabricate Polymer Thin museum. “This archaeological side is more her daughter died, if they only served as a Films” complicated, because we don’t have much reminder of a happy day at the fair years Ionic self-assembly is a thin film fab- in the way of records. So, I’m reading as earlier.” rication technique in which a substrate much as I can and taking copious amounts Most of the items, said Meager, were is submerged into charged solutions. of notes.” likely purchased by the Williams family at To streamline the fabrication of these It’s a good thing Meager had eight weeks the 1876 Centennial Exposition or soon thin films, an inexpensive microcontrol- this summer to focus on nothing else. after. Meager wanted to understand the ler-based robot was designed and built. “I love working in the Honors Summer fad of Japonisme among wealthy Ameri- To assess the performance of the robot, Research Program because I can just sit can families of the 1870s. The artifacts in robot-dipped slides were compared to down and extensively research one topic Sweet Briar’s collection, she said, will help hand-dipped slides. that I’m interested in,” she said. “I also set her connect the local history with that of a my own schedule, so I can wake up when I wider societal trend. “Indiana’s artifacts can want to and work when I’m most focused.” provide us with a case study of the influence Rylee Runyon (left) and Clara Rogers During the academic year, however, of Japanese decorative arts in 19th-century Meager embraces the opportunity to delve America,” she said. into various subjects. It’s another perk But she’s also interested in something offered by the Honors Program. else. “More broadly, I hope to get a better “I took an honors class on the history understanding of Japan’s role in how we of marriage, of all things; I’ve taken one see art today,” said the Chesterfield native. on the role of biology in fiction, despite “Japan was only opened up to trade in the knowing very little about science/biology; 1850s; I’m looking at objects that were prob- and just this past semester, I took one on ably bought in the 1870s. So, this period is the art of comic books, when the only ex- really a beginning, in which Japan is strug- posure to the world of comics I’ve ever had gling to become a major player on the world is through Japanese manga. The Honors stage, and they used exported art and do- Program always has a selection of interest- mestic goods to establish themselves. And ing classes!” the West is immediately obsessed with this Meager’s intellectual curiosity led novel style of art that is being introduced to her to declare a minor in medieval and the public for the first time; consumers, art- Renaissance studies. It also lured her to the ists, art dealers, museum curators, fashion- museum, where she came up with the idea able wives—everyone became obsessed with for her project. this new Eastern way of looking at art. “I had been thinking of doing summer “I want to know more about this story.” honors research, but didn’t know what I

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 25 Thank You for Being a Friend If you have a passion for the College’s art collection or for beyond the campus borders. They serve as ambassadors furthering the mission of the Mary Helen Cochran Library by fundraising and “friendraising,” providing additional or the success of the athletics teams or the riding program, support to programs that are key to Sweet Briar’s mission. consider joining one of the Affinity Groups. Donations to any of the Friends groups are considered The members of the Affinity Groups, aka “Friends of,” are restricted gifts, meaning that the gift can only be used visionary leaders who act as stewards of particular areas of by that particular program, whether it is for the arts, the the College, providing funding that stretches tight bud- library, athletics, or riding. gets and championing the individual programs within and

Friends of Art Friends of Athletics The Friends of Art is the lon- the acquisition, preservation The mission of the Friends ceremony in the spring of 2017. gest-standing Affinity Group and presentation of the visual of Athletics is to sustain and Katie Hearn ’85, long-time at Sweet Briar, having been arts at the College, the Friends promote the College’s commit- member of the Friends of formed in 1937. According to of Art funds an annual writing ment to intercollegiate athletics Athletics, says, “I love sup- its mission statement, “The prize for currently enrolled by funding enhancements to porting Sweet Briar’s athletics Friends of Art of Sweet Briar Sweet Briar students to recog- the varsity teams, including programs. Some of my favorite College actively supports the nize excellence in academic team travel, the annual Athletic college experiences happened acquisition, preservation and and creative writing about or Awards Banquet, uniforms, on the lacrosse field, and I presentation of the visual arts inspired by works in the per- equipment not covered in support Sweet Briar’s teams be- in service to education at the manent collection and a similar the budget, and communica- cause I want current and future College and in the broader prize recognizing excellence in tions to build enthusiasm and athletes to have opportunities community. The Friends of Art studio art work that references increase attendance at students’ for similar experiences.” recognizes both the benefits in some manner works in the games and other communi- A signature event of the and joys that knowledge of the permanent collection. ty-building efforts. Friends of Athletics is the an- The Friends of Art also Friends of Athletics nual Sweet Briar Classic, a golf offers two stipends to support members have supported tournament held at the Poplar currently enrolled Sweet Briar team training trips, provided Grove Golf Club and benefiting students in summer intern- funding for unbudgeted needs, the Friends of Athletics. Mark ships; one in a museum, and and most recently sponsored your calendars now and plan one for an apprenticeship at a the College’s Athletics and to play on Saturday April 14, creative visual arts organization Riding Hall of Fame induction 2018! such as an atelier, retreat, or studio. Nan Dabbs Loftin ’81, pres- ident of the Friends of Art, is “delighted to say that the visual arts are alive and well at Sweet Briar, and that the Friends of Art continue to work hard arts can bring to one’s life. It to ensure that the College’s advocates study of the arts to 80-year-old art collection is develop understanding of the carefully nurtured.” present and historical world The Friends of Art also and to foster a disposition to annually publishes “Visions,” a think critically and creatively.” magazine highlighting the arts In addition to supporting at Sweet Briar.

2017 Hall of Fame inductees

26 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Thank You for Being a Friend All of the Friends groups are open to anyone so you can join the Friends of Art whether you took Joe Monk’s ceramics class or not. The minimum membership level for each group is $25, and you can join any of the groups (or all of them!) by using this link: sbc.edu/alumnae-development/affinity-groups/ or you can just follow the activities of the groups by joining these Facebook pages: Friends of Art/Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar College Cochran Library, Sweet Briar Athletics, and Sweet Briar Riding.

Friends of the Library Friends of Riding The Friends of the Library was lege. Its recent renovation in The newest of the Friends to connect, raise awareness, created in the spring of 2014 has increased the demand groups is the Friends of Riding, recruit students, fundraise, 1966 through the efforts of for our library facilities like formed in the past two years by and rally around Sweet Briar’s then-president of the Col- never before. It’s wonderful a group of former riders who renowned riding program. Be- lege Anne Gary Pannell. The to see so many members of wondered why it didn’t already ing a rider at Sweet Briar was a Friends of the Library seek to the campus community take exist. Good question! unique experience and one that encourage an understanding advantage of the opportunities Just like the other Friends holds many special memories of the needs of the Mary Helen that this building provides,” groups, the Friends of Riding for all involved. We hope that Cochran Library, as well as said interim director of the provides both financial and the creation of the Friends of its available services, and to library Joe Malloy. other support to the riding Riding group will provide a fun attract resources through gifts Friends of the Library mem- program, augmenting the place to connect for everyone or bequests that may include bers receive: budget with funding for special who loves Sweet Briar riding.” • Borrowing privileges (if you clinics, team costs, and other The Friends of Riding also don’t already have them) special needs of the program. helps in organizing on-campus that apply to all circulating Ellen Ober Pitera ’93, co- riding events, attends off-cam- library collections chair of the Friends of Riding, pus competitions to support says that “the leaders of the the student riders, assists in • Personal reference services Friends of Riding are excited recruiting, and communicates from dedicated, knowledge- to offer a platform for riders regularly with alumnae riders. able librarians • In-house use of the Special Collections, including W.H. Auden, T. E. Lawrence, George Meredith, Virginia Woolf, and the Sweet Briar College Archives • Invitations to the fall and spring Friends of Li- monetary donations, books, brary meetings (the spring manuscripts, or other appro- meeting includes a catered priate materials. Through the dinner and lecture) efforts of the Friends of the Li- brary, the Mary Helen Cochran • Subscription to the “Library Library’s collection is constant- Gazette,” which includes ly evolving and meeting the news of the members’ var- needs of its faculty, students, ious activities and achieve- and wider community. ments and recent acquisi- “The Mary Helen Cochran tions (purchased collection Library is the gem of the Col- materials) of the library. Emily Schlosberg ’19 on AATE, Summer 2017

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 27 U .S. Sena t e

“There is no such thing as a typical day,” she says. “One day I might be asked to ac- quire artwork. I might be asked to produce a video. I might be asked to write a book. I might be asked to post something on the website. I might be asked to interpret a portion of the Capitol. I might be asked to give a tour to a celebrity or historian. I might be detailed to the inaugural commit- tee. You just never know what is around the corner, and that’s what has made this so exciting.” Amy Burton and She walks from the Patent Corridor Henry Clay in the U.S. Senate, in situ, with the Franklin and Fulton murals to U.S. Capitol a nearby stairwell featuring an oversized painting of Kentucky senator and orator Henry Clay. She counts the painting as one of her chief acquisitions. A decade ago, a relative of the artist, Phineas Staunton, Curating the Senate: contacted the Senate curator’s office for help in identifying the other senators in the portrait. Through the Eyes Burton flew up to New York, where the painting was housed at the Le Roy Histor- of an Art Historian ical Society. She was both delighted and dismayed by what she found. Here was a rare painting of Clay in the Old Senate my Elizabeth Burton ’90 sits steam engine line,” Burton explains. “And Chamber, complete with the historic desks on a historic wooden bench look, you can see the steam engine. You still in use. Famous for his stirring speech- in one of the nation’s most can see that billowing steam or smoke es, Clay was pictured in a classic orator’s historic buildings and ges- coming out of the stack to pronounce its pose and surrounded by some of the tures toward the murals that power, that there is a ship that’s able to leading statesmen of the mid-19th century, Adecorate the corridor. Benjamin Franklin, power upstream.” among them William Seward, Daniel Web- who was the first postmaster general, hov- Burton brings an art historian’s eye to ster, Sam Houston, and General Winfield ers over the room in the U.S. Capitol that the Capitol as one of 10 staff members Scott. “Most portraits of Henry Clay are a once managed the Post Office. Robert Ful- in the Curator of the Senate’s office. For bit more idealized and polished,” Burton ton, inventor of the steam engine, sits atop the past 16 years, her work has involved says. “This one shows a care-worn face the room that once handled patent law. managing and interpreting the artwork, with wrinkles. The artist had seen Henry “He’s pointing to the Hudson River, sculpture and historic chambers on the C l ay.” which was the scene of the successful Senate side of the building. But the painting was in terrible condi-

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tion, with tears and holes. “It ment for a Spanish class that t e t e looked as if Corn Flakes had taught her one of the most in- been rubbed on the canvas valuable lessons. The class was because every piece of paint asked to translate part of the was flaking,” she recalls. The text of “Don Quixote.” “At the historical society, which had time I thought, ‘Well, that’s odd been trying to find a home for because people have already the painting, agreed to donate translated “Don Quixote.”’ But it to the Senate, which restored when we went to the original it. Burton recalls the day the and studied it ourselves, there restored painting was hung. “As were words that could have they walked the canvas through been interpreted in a different the Capitol, all of a sudden, way. And that taught me such we all got chills. We heard the a lesson, because people have most mellifluous tinkling. The looked at this artwork for 150 art handlers must have grazed years, but we’re able to look at a crystal chandelier, but none it anew, afresh.” of us saw them do it. It was as Burton had that opportunity though, we all knew, it was the in the Senate after a resto- ghost of Henry Clay and his ration project that began in Burton examining Henry Clay The newly discovered source beautiful voice.” 1996 brought back the original in the U.S. Senate, during of inspiration for Brumidi’s As an art history major, Bur- colors and images that Italian restoration landscape medallions: Con- ton revels in her good fortune artist Constantino Brumidi had gress’ Pacific Railroad Report at finding such fulfilling work painted in the 1850s and 1860s. in her field. “Sweet Briar is here When Burton first arrived in could see not just images of War, Congress had sent a with me every single day,” she the Capitol, the walls were a American heroes but also the survey team down to explore says. She recalls one professor sallow, olive brown. The details birds, fruits and other sym- the land along the Mexican who gave her the foundation in of murals were obscured. In bols decorating the walls. She border. The Smithsonian sent interpreting art, one who really some places, lesser artists had puzzled for years over one set naturalists and artists along brought out the soul in the painted over the images. “It of iridescent blue birds below with them. They returned with artwork, others who piqued her looked cartoonish,” she says. the image of a Revolutionary images of the flora and fauna curiosity. But it was an assign- After the restoration, she War hero. Burton was able they encountered there, all to identify the birds as mot- included in a bound report. Burton in the elaborately decorated Brumidi Corridors decorated mots, native to Central and Brumidi had mined that report ca 1857-59 South America. (She took to decorate the Senate space. an ornithology class at Sweet Burton made a similar dis- Briar.) But she didn’t know covery in the Senate reception how Brumidi, an artist trained room, which features murals in Italy, knew anything about of scenic landscapes, rush- motmots. Her research led her ing rivers and snow-capped to a 1850s report to Congress. mountains. Clearly the artist After the Mexican-American hadn’t visited these locales. Archit e ct o f th Ca pit ol

One of Brumidi’s motmots, right, and his inspiration from a report to Congress, left.

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 29 Where did the images come from? She found her answer in the 12-volume Pacific Railroad Capturing the Report. In the early 1850s, Congress had commissioned teams to survey four possible White House routes for a transcontinental railway. Again, naturalists in a Souvenir Spoon and artists accompanied the surveyors. And the paintings in t started with a single spoon showing the im- the reception room came from age of the White House. Rebecca Yerkes Rog- the reports generated. “These ers ’52 was spending a lot of time at antique are the kinds of things as an art shows in her role as acquisitions chairman for historian I get to do,” Burton Ia historic house in St. Augustine, Florida. says. “Someone said, ‘Amy, She bought the White House spoon for her- you’re an art detective,’ and self, then found another one and bought that that’s kind of how I feel, that I too. Before long, Rogers had a collection of 26 get to be an art detective.” antique spoons depicting the White House and Burton darts around the other monuments around Washington. Earlier hallways, going through a this year, Rogers donated her collection to the door that reads Closed to All White House Historical Association. Tours and into a tiny elevator “It would seem to be a universal truth that every that barely fits two people. traveler who finds a notable site to visit will also She makes her way to the Old discover a place nearby where souvenirs may Senate Chamber, where centu- be purchased,” Rogers wrote in the summer ry-old furniture and artwork edition of White House History magazine, which still sit. Her office is responsible features her spoon collection. for maintaining the histor- Echoing a trend in Europe, the late 19th-cen- ic spot, which ranges from tury spoons were created as souvenirs of trips interpreting the furnishings to to Washington, D.C. Some commemorate making sure there’s no gum on presidential inaugurations with images of such the carpet. Tour groups come presidents as Grover Cleveland and William in and out, marveling over the McKinley. Others reflect monuments around Washington: the U.S. Capitol, The Washington Rembrandt Peale painting of Monument, the State, War and Navy Building George Washington or the spot and the Post Office headquarters. where one senator beat another senseless with a cane. She ac- “The extravagant popularity of souvenir spoons coincides with the exuberant growth and trans- knowledges the Capitol is not formation of the capital city of Washington from a typical museum. “An older a small, not overly impressive town, into a city building like this certainly has filled with beautiful buildings, monuments and its challenges, in that, there’s no elegant mansions,” Rogers wrote. “Washington direct route from here to there, was becoming a capital well able to compete and that we aren’t a museum. with its international peers.” Photographs courtesy of White House History Our furniture, the historic Rogers was a drama major at Sweet Briar and a desks are used every day in the member of Paints ’n’ Patches. “It was a wonder- The spoons were just a side interest she de- Senate, in the chamber. These ful major,” she says, “because it encompasses veloped. Forged by some of the leading silver are our historic benches used so many things.” She went on to receive her companies at the time, the souvenirs sold for by visitors every single day.” master’s in speech and drama from Catholic $1.25 to $4.50 in the period from the 1890s to And she acknowledges that University. Afterward, she returned to her native the 1920s. Rogers recalls spending $40 to $50 her job is not typical for one of Jacksonville, Fla., where she married and raised per spoon while she was collecting. “There were America’s most political build- three sons. “I spent a lot of time working for a number of spoons of the Washington area, ings. She is here to interpret free,” she recalls. but I did not buy anything that did not have the White House on them.” art, not politics. “Every day has One of those volunteer positions was working been something enriching and with the National Society of the Colonial Dames After her husband’s death this past July, she new,” she says, “and you still of America as acquisitions chairman for the started downsizing her home. The White House see things—you still see things, Ximenez-Fatio House home in St. Augustine. Historical Association was pleased to accept her at least one thing, every week The home was an early boarding house for donation, calling it a “remarkable collection of upscale tourists, who came to Florida for the silver spoons, which not only depict the White that you hadn’t noticed before, winter in the early 1800s. In restoring the house, House but also commemorate the city’s archi- even when you’ve been here all she was on the lookout for antiques from that tectural superlatives and such historic events as this time.” period. presidential inaugurations.”

30 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Going, Going, Gone for SBC! rom telling alumnae for other non-profit organi- shipping from seller to bidder the dulcimer pages she could and friends of Sweet zations so “I think Kathryn after the auction closes. find on Facebook and promoted Briar “Happy birth- thought I’d be good at it.” Items for bid have run the the auction and the Amburgey day!” on Facebook, to To say that Valentine is good gamut. One of the most popular dulcimer there. One of Jethro joining the Alumnae at online auctions would be items was a watercolor of the Amburgey’s cousins was deter- FAlliance Council as interim an understatement. In its first Bell Tower. Sweet Briar mem- mined to get the dulcimer back co-chair of the Clubs working year, the auction raised almost orabilia tends to be popular as in the family. A bidding war be- group, to representing Sweet $50,000 for Sweet Briar, and well, such as a cow tag from the gan, and by the time the auction Briar at college fairs around in the 2017 fiscal year, it raised Sweet Briar Dairy. However, one closed at Reunion, Amburgey’s the southeastern United States, $38,400. A low-cost venture, the of the most interesting items in family won the dulcimer for it’s no surprise that Norma auction requires only Valen- 2017 was the dulcimer donated $1,870! Valentine ’93 also successfully tine’s time and a small fee for by John Morgan, father of Susan Valentine called Morgan and ran two online auctions in 2016 software. And she gives plenty Morgan ’94. asked him to sit down before and 2017 for the benefit of the of her time. Morgan said that he’d donate she told him the good news. College and is already preparing Valentine promotes the the instrument, which was “God bless you and God bless for a third. auction on Facebook, asking an antique Jethro Amburgey Sweet Briar!” he responded. Valentine, a real estate bro- alumnae and friends of the Col- dulcimer, only if it would go for Amburgey’s cousin continues to ker specializing in equestrian lege to donate items to put up $350 or more in the auction. send Valentine updates on the properties in Wellington, Fla., for bid. She also manages all of Valentine was determined to dulcimer. says she had been “hounding” the behind-the-scenes processes meet Morgan’s condition, and Have an item for the 2018 Kathryn Yunk ’91 to give her for the auction operations, put- she got creative on Facebook to online auction? Contact something to do for Sweet Briar ting in descriptions and photos do so. After researching what a Norma Valentine ’93 at in 2016. She organizes auctions of each item and arranging the dulcimer was, she joined all of [email protected].

Talbots Joins the Cause

When Talbots district manager that the fundraiser could be ex- osity, self-awareness, how to Polly Crawford ’93 was given ecuted on an even larger scale. be bold and how dig deep the opportunity in 2016 to host Within a few weeks, 28 stores, stay with her. She spends her Photographs courtesy of White House History a “Fashionable Fundraiser,” from New York to Texas, were time networking, interviewing, she knew exactly which cause ready to host parties, and on hiring, developing leaders she could easily get behind May 4, the stores raised more and empowering a team of and raise funds for: Sweet than $6,700. mostly women to be their Briar. Thanks to the help of “The big success was put- greatest selves. “Both Talbots Nancy Mortensen Piper ’74 ting Sweet Briar on the minds and Sweet Briar have legacies and Brendy Reiter Hantzes ’81, of a broader audience,” Polly worth believing in and fight- Brendy Reiter Hantzes ’81 (l.) the 2016 fundraiser was a great explained. “There’s something ing for. Talbots’ CEO Lizanne Suzanne Petrie Liscouski ’91 success, raising $1,000 for really important about making Kindler says, ‘Yes, we are in Sweet Briar. “We were thrilled the effort to connect, and who business, but we have a higher with not only the money knows how many seeds we calling. When we make women Talbots has been tremendously raised, but with the enthu- planted for future Sweet Briar feel confident, they have the rewarding for our alumnae. siasm and energy that was students?” power to change the world.’” Seeing all the photos of our exchanged among everyone For Polly, Sweet Briar has Sweet Briar calls it creating alumnae and club leaders in who attended,” said Polly. “We impacted her life and career women of consequence. stores working together to pro- knew that in our own way we over the almost 25 years since Mary Pope M. Hutson ’83, mote Sweet Briar was truly in- were contributing to a cause she received her psychology vice president for Alumnae spirational. We are so grateful worth fighting for.” degree from the College. The Relations and Development, to everyone who participated, In 2017, Brendy suggested lessons in leadership, curi- agrees. “The relationship with and especially to Polly.”

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 31 Women of Consequence: Sweet Briar College—Yesterday,Today, and Tomorrow

weet Briar College was founded with a vision to provide young women an education at a time when the mere idea of women educating women at the college level was innovative. Across more than a century, thanks to the fierce Scommitment of our alumnae and the dedication of its faculty and staff to the College and its students, Sweet Briar remains an innova- tive, 21st-century leader in women’s education. Sweet Briar students can be engineers and athletes, while simul- taneously taking on campus leadership roles. Our students epito- mize what it means to be women of consequence and proficiency, regardless of their chosen endeavors. The Vision for Sweet Briar’s Future In fact, Sweet Briar students conduct research with faculty In 2017, the College recruited a new president with a bold vision at more than three times the rate of students at other colleges, for its future: President Meredith Jung-En Woo, an experienced and with 80 percent tackling original research. Our students are also global leader, instructor and administrator in higher education. broad-minded and enterprising, with 40 percent studying abroad “It is a privilege to have the opportunity to work with a college so and 80 percent completing at least one professional internship beloved,” said President Woo. “Educating women is like educating before graduation. generations. Around the world, I have seen the demand for superior But Sweet Briar women don’t stop there. women’s education and the demand for the graduates of those insti- Six months after graduation, 90 percent of students are em- tutions. Here at Sweet Briar, we have a real opportunity to recast the ployed or in graduate school. And not only are these women significance of single-sex higher education in today’s world, and I’m successful in their own lives, they return in force to mentor current excited to be a part of that effort.” Sweet Briar students, help them find internships or jobs, and offer We will realize the brilliant future of the College by undertaking career advice at a ratio of 15 alumnae to every 1 student—because key major initiatives. Sweet Briar women, of every generation, are committed to each other and our community. „„ A new core curriculum will prepare Sweet Briar students to This fall, Sweet Briar recruited 95 new members to its campus be leaders in society. Focused on cultivating the skills and habits community. With 81 first-year students and 14 transfers, on-cam- of the mind that are the hallmarks of the liberal arts, our “leader- pus enrollment is about 300. They come from 23 states, 16 percent ship core” will position students to speak and write compellingly, are minorities, 19 percent are first-generation college students, 14 to make ethical decisions, to be adept at logic and reasoning and percent are Sweet Briar legacy students, 31 percent are student-ath- to manage complexity and take action with confidence. letes and 36 percent have an interest in riding. „ At Sweet Briar, young women discover their capabilities, are giv- „ Three centers of excellence will take the place of current en the tools to achieve their goals and learn how to push themselves academic departments: Engineering, Science and Technology in to go beyond and fulfill their potential. Society; Human and Environmental Sustainability; and Cre- Sweet Briar’s women of consequence have done it all … and ativity, Design, and the Arts. Majors will align with the centers, we’re not finished yet. and study will become more intense, hands-on, collaborative, interdisciplinary, and focused on the challenges of our time.

„„A 3-12-12-3-week academic calendar will incorporate short terms dedicated to experiential learning opportunities, such as research, internships and study abroad. Every student will be eligible for up to $2,000 to fund these experiences. Also, Sweet Briar will offer summer courses, which will allow students to complete a bachelor’s degree in three years.

„„A tuition reset will lower the costs of tuition, fees, room and board to $34,000: $21,000 for tuition and fees and $13,000 for room and board. This marks a 32 percent reduction from 2017–18, makes a Sweet Briar education competitive with state institutions, and opens the door to more qualified students than ever before. More than 200 merit and need-based scholarships remain available.

32 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE What’s Next for Sweet Briar By December 15, 2017, the leaders of the centers of excellence, the dean of the College and the academic repositioning commit- tee will finalize the courses and programs of study within Sweet Briar’s revised curriculum. And these bold plans will create new opportunities to attract students. In support of enrollment, we have been deploying the Col- lege’s strongest recruiters, including parents, students, faculty and alumnae, working together with staff to build a pipeline for prospective students who are at the earliest stages of the college search process. Our approach will be relationship-based, stra- tegic, intentional, results-driven and highly personal for each prospective student. New strategies combine online outreach, in-person cultivation of relationships with high schools by staff and 200-plus Alumnae Ambassadors, and early targeting of high school sophomores and juniors to build relationships that facili- A Formula for Success: Sweet Briar Fund tate the selection of Sweet Briar as their college of choice. and Investments for the Future Based on recent data trends in states that yield the highest To support these important strides toward Sweet Briar’s new numbers of students for Sweet Briar, the United States has been vision and to strengthen operations for the 2017–18 academic year, divided into geographic centers for prioritization. The highest approximately $13 million, roughly half of the College’s annual priority is Virginia. Maryland; Washington, D.C.; North Carolina; budget, must come from the generous contributions of individuals Georgia; Florida; Texas; California; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; and institutions who believe in that vision. Investors in Sweet Briar’s New York; Tennessee and South Carolina make up the second- future—alumnae, friends, and other supporters—recognize that tier priority list, followed by key states in New England and the communities, businesses, government, the nonprofit sector, and Midwest. society overall benefit from the presence and leadership of women The College has also identified individual and institutional tar- who embody the College’s values, drive, and awareness—women gets on which to focus recruiting efforts. These include guidance who embrace their fierce. counselors, heads of schools, top-ranked public schools, private Toward this $13 million goal, the College seeks support through schools, the Yellow Ribbon Program and STEM feeder schools. the Sweet Briar Fund both for Sweet Briar today and for laying Sweet Briar will use existing events such as Back to School Days the foundations of opportunity that will carry the College across (a tactic activated this summer) and Sweet Briar Days as opportu- generations to come. nities for prospective students to meet Admissions Ambassadors Your support for the Sweet Briar Fund will ensure that today’s and volunteers in recruiting leadership roles. students have a campus experience that reflects the best Sweet Briar has to offer—a robust curriculum, talented instructors, a lively calendar of events, an experience attentive to the whole student, and a campus environment in which excellence can thrive. Your support will also provide venture capital for what’s next, offering critical resources to Sweet Briar’s leadership and faculty as they translate the College’s new strategic vision into a roadmap to future success. At this time, perhaps more than ever, the College needs the ability to articulate detailed plans for the development of its three new Centers and Leadership Core Curriculum, as well as develop new experiential learning opportunities underpinning the revised college calendar. Lastly, in this time of change, the College needs flexibility to explore and test new ideas to ensure Sweet Briar’s next chapter resonates fully with the aspirations of a new generation, while remaining anchored in the legacy of Sweet Briar’s women of consequence.

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 33 A Time for Focused Financial Stewardship and Discipline With each year, Sweet Briar takes important steps toward long- term sustainability, bringing revenue and expenses into balance with the scale and aspirations of the institution. In fall 2017, departments across the College took steps to consolidate expenses and align operations to a student body of just over 300, anticipat- ing that future expenses will track with enrollment growth. With these disciplined steps, the board of directors confidently approved a budget of $26 million for the year, with revenue from contri- butions, grants, auxiliary sources, investments, and enrollment How You Can Help totaling $24 million, combined with anticipated receipt of funds The continuing support of alumnae and friends, in concert with the from prior-year pledges and other new gifts. Understanding that academic and admissions strategic initiatives described above, are increased enrollment is essential to both fiscal strength and mission the foundation of Sweet Briar’s future success. advancement, for 2017–18 and beyond, Sweet Briar aims to reach a tuition-to-contributions ratio more typical of a private liberal arts 1. People who know Sweet Briar can describe the benefits it college. provides far better than a brochure can. You can help the The graphs below depict 2017–18 expense categories and reve- College by sending an email, making a phone call or writing nue sources. a note to young women of high school age or to your friends who may know a potential member of the Class of 2022 or FY 2018 Budget: $26 million beyond. Word of mouth is the easiest, most economical and 3% 2% most effective way to help recruit new students to Sweet 17% Briar. 18% 16% 3% 2. Make your best gift to the Sweet Briar Fund today. You can make a gift online at sbc.edu/give or use the envelope enclosed 52% in this issue of the Alumnae Magazine. 14% 3. Ask your classmates and your friends to support Sweet 38% 27% 10% Briar’s future, both through recruiting students and making a

re v en u es Ex penses financial gift to the College. You can make a difference to Sweet Briar. Net Tuition and Fees total payroll & benefits Together, we can accomplish amazing things. New Gifts and Grants total department budgetS Prior pledge receipts interest The pieces are in place: The new, endowment spending total operations/ visionary leadership of President allocation maintenance plant Meredith Woo, who is support- Auxiliary enterprises contingency ed by a fully engaged, highly other sources qualified Board of Directors; a bold, revised curriculum geared You Make the Difference to the needs of women of this As alumnae and friends of Sweet Briar well know, the success of generation and those that follow; the College is the result not only of the admission of new students a stellar faculty committed to but also of donations from alumnae, parents, and friends of the ensuring the success of their College. Over the past two and a half years, the College has raised students; an innovative finan- an unprecedented $44.6 million from individuals, corporations cial model that places a Sweet and foundations. Many of these dollars have been used to address Briar education within reach of the costs associated with the attempt to close the College and fund more middle-class families; and other operational needs. a results-driven, vertically inte- These funds have primarily been designated to the Sweet Briar grated plan to recruit students Fund, which supports: using our best ambassadors—all undergirded by the engagement „„ Current students, through scholarships based on merit and financial need; and financial support of you, our dedicated alumnae and friends. „„ Academic programs and faculty, which draw prospective It’s an unprecedented com- students to the College; bination that will propel Sweet „„ Sweet Briar’s natural and built environment, a cornerstone Briar forward. of students’ campus experience and much of their academic curriculum. Will you join us in helping to realize this vision? If so, make a gift today at For the 2017–2018 academic year, the College’s financial goal is sbc.edu/give or by calling (800) 381-6131. $13 million in support of the Sweet Briar Fund.

34 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Patsy was honored with the Distinguished Alumna Award in 2008. In her acceptance speech, she recalled having to “buy a raincoat to cover my Bermuda shorts,” adding that they were “just so racy.” Patsy also said Sweet Briar helped her “find the self-confidence to succeed.” She was a well-respected member of the alumnae com- munity as evidenced by the following sentiments expressed by alumnae who knew her.

Patsy Ticer ’55 at a July 2015 Saving Sweet Briar, Inc., event at Top of the “One of my first jobs in journalism was covering Town in Washington, D.C. the Alexandria City Council, and one of the Council Photograph by Robin Templeton members back then was Patsy Ticer, before she was mayor or state senator. It didn’t take long to establish Patricia S. “Patsy” Ticer ’55 that we were both Sweet Briar grads, and I liked her for that. I also admired the way she did her work. She By Bridget Reed Morawski the expense of taxpayers. was gracious and empathetic to the people who came Patricia S. “Patsy” Ticer, a liberal Mrs. Ticer was elected to the to speak before the City Council, but she was steely Democrat who served as the first state Senate in 1995, unseating and penetrating when it came to addressing policy elected female mayor of Alexan- moderate Republican Robert L. and budget issues. There were some who mistook her dria, Va., and later spent four terms Calhoun in a district that includ- Southern charm for softness. They didn’t make that in the Virginia state Senate cham- ed parts of Arlington and Fairfax mistake twice.” pioning health, social services and counties as well as Alexandria. She — Phyllis Watt Jordan ’80 environmental concerns, died Aug. supported Chesapeake Bay cleanup 7 at a hospital in Alexandria. She efforts and chaired the Senate’s Ag- “Patsy was just awesome. She was that perfect com- was 82. riculture, Conservation and Natural bination—a strong, confident woman who was also The cause was complications Resources Committee. vibrant and feminine. She built a rewarding career and from a fall, said a daughter, Marga- She did not seek reelection to a cherished her family. She could run with the big boys, ret Janowsky. fifth term in 2011. but did it her own way. Many sought out her advice Mrs. Ticer, who was the wife of “She could have had a very com- and endorsements and listened carefully to her take on a former Alexandria City Council fortable life but chose the messy things. She understood that listening was important. member, John “Jack” Ticer, was world of politics,” Moran said. “She She was always interested in what was going on with a neighborhood activist, hospital was always able to be a political her family, friends, residents of our city, and with her volunteer and real estate agent leader without really treating any- beloved Sweet Briar. I remember us first connecting before she moved into electoral one badly nor compromising her at reunions and other alumnae events, since we were politics. She served three terms integrity.” both in Alexandria/D.C. After I moved to Alexandria, on the City Council in the Patricia Keyser Smith was born we ran into each other more often. When Sweet Briar 1980s, making early childhood in Washington on Jan. 6, 1935, and was threatened, she was very interested to know what development, education and grew up in Alexandria. She gradu- was happening, and we talked about the whole situation affordable housing her priorities. ated in 1951 from George Washing- as we rode together to and from alumnae ‘Save’ events. She was regarded as a consensus ton High School and in 1955 from I am lucky to be able to say that Patsy was my friend. builder—“power,” she once said, “is Sweet Briar College, an all-women’s She was a wonderful role model for all of us. Though being able to get things done with- college in Virginia, with a bache- I dearly wish she were still here, I’m grateful for her out having to raise your voice.” She lor’s degree in political science. friendship and will treasure the memories of the time was serving as vice mayor under In 1956, she married Jack Ticer. we spent together.” James P. Moran Jr. when he won She became a block captain in civic —Christina Savage Lytle ’88. a seat in Congress in 1990. Mrs. associations, participated in several Ticer ran to succeed him as mayor, PTAs and local charitable and civic “Patsy was a member of my church and a mutual friend beating Republican Ann Stone, a groups, and helped form the Alex- introduced us and we sat together at a church potluck. marketing and political consultant. andria Commission for the Arts. She was lovely and gracious and we talked about SBC A year into the job, she with- She said her husband urged her to and I offered to give her a ride to the next alumnae stood pressure by then-Virginia run for the council in 1982. He died event. I didn’t find out until later that she was the Gov. L. Douglas Wilder (D) and in 2007. former mayor of Alexandria. She was quite humble and Washington Redskins owner Jack Besides Janowsky, of Alexandria, never mentioned it. A pretty big deal for a woman of her Kent Cooke to build a new stadi- survivors include three other chil- generation. Sadly, I never got a chance to give her a ride um for the team in Alexandria’s dren, John T. Ticer Jr. of Vienna, as her health was failing, and she passed away before we Potomac Yard. Some Alexandrians Va., Catherine Ticer of San Jose and could carpool. She was well loved by all the members of were against the proposal, chief- Virginia Baechler of Alexandria; our church and everyone in Alexandria.” ly because of parking and traffic and five grandchildren. —Kearsley Rand Waggoner ’81 concerns. Others said it was a [Reprinted with permission from the giveaway to the sports franchise at Washington Post] SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 35 1934 Mason Daniel Barrett February 3, 2017

1940 Hortense Powell Cooper September 18, 2017 Marjorie Peggs Perry September 27, 2008 1941 Phyllis Carr Beinhorn May 14, 2017 Charlotte Davenport Tuttle September 18, 2017 Emily Peyton Higgins May 18, 2017 Jane Loveland Byerts April 16, 2017 1942 Elizabeth “Betty” Blackmer Childs February 8, 2017 Hildegarde “Judy” Rose Dahl Preston R. “Doc” Brown with Paul Cronin and Mimi Wroten ’93 October 3, 2017 Elizabeth “Elsie” Diggs Orr Preston R. “Doc” Brown He was born August 13, 1941, and at- May 4, 2017 tended Lynchburg Public Schools. He was Preston R. Brown, affectionately known 1943 as “Doc,” suddenly departed from this life preceded in death by two sons, Preston Lucy Kiker Jones on September 27, 2017, at his residence. He “Chip” Brown and Victor Brown; a broth- February 28, 2017 was the son of the late Nathan and Adlean er, Douglas Brown and two sisters, Marie Marjorie “Shug” Shugart Short Brown. Preston is remembered by the Johnson and Robin Brown. August 13, 2017 He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Sweet Briar community as an outstanding 1944 horseman. Barbara Brown of Amherst; his daugh- Mary Jane Brock “As a student and a colleague, my being ters, Tracey Brown of Amherst, and Dana June 6, 2017 able to see his smiling face in the stables was (Randy) Brown-Hall of Madison Heights; Florence Loveland Swanbeck a blessing. He taught us how Horsemanship his sons, Stacey (Fredia) Brown of Madi- April 16, 2017 involved being compassionate with the son Heights, and Shawn (Maribel) Brown Janet Staples Munt horses, having the knowledge needed to of Sterling, Va.; a daughter-in-law, Lucy July 19, 2017 care for top performance horses and paying Brown of Keller, Texas; 13 grandchildren; Nancy Eagles O’Bannon September 14, 2017 attention to details. Every horse person I eight great-grandchildren; an aunt, Mary meet will forever be compared to the high Johnson of Amherst; three brothers, Na- Hazel Fellner Tuttle September 12, 2017 standards Preston demonstrated daily. I am than (Francis) Brown of Fayetteville, N.C., very thankful to have known Preston and William (Theresa) Brown of Gainesville, 1945 pray for peace for his family and friends,” Va., and Thomas (Rose) Brown of Ap- Esther Cunningham Shay October 2, 2017 says director of the riding program Mimi pomattox; four sisters, Bertha Jackson of Lynchburg, Eleanor Brown of Lynchburg, Amanda Parsley Worth Wroten ’93. June 24, 2017 Tracy Walters Fox ’96 says, “He had a Patricia (Otis) Shippy of Georgia and Mary way about him that just drew you in. I’ll (Brodie) Lytes of Philadelphia, Penn.; 1946 devoted brother-in-law, Carson Warrick; a Jessie Strickland Elcock never forget the hat he would wear and the June 28, 2017 cigar that he always had in his mouth. He devoted cousin, Bob Brown; three devoted friends, Paul Cronin, Margaret Simpson Jane Richardson Vieth was so gifted with both horses and people. I April 10, 2017 always looked forward to seeing him at the and Keedie (Kyle) Leonard and a host barn. He will be missed. RIP Preston!” of nieces, nephews, other relatives and 1947 friends. Margaret “Peggy” Robertson Christian Preston retired in 2001. August 12, 2017 Anne Lile Bowden March 22, 2017 Virginia Illges Norman October 13, 2017 1948 Judith Perkins Llewellyn June 21, 2017

36 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE in memoriam Sally Smith Williams Margaret “Tutti” Cuthbert 1967 July 30, 2017 Broaddus Penelope Titter Symes Avery Draughon Helm October 9, 2017 November 6, 2015 Date Unknown Caroline Mueller 1956 Martha Rowan Hyder Mary Thornton Oppenhimer October 29, 2016 August 17, 2017 April 30, 2017 Elizabeth Gawthrop Riely February 23, 2017 Anne McCaffrey McBrian 1957 September 2, 2017 Virginia Marks Paget 1968 April 26, 2017 Suzanne Torgan Weston 1949 Mimi Semmes Dann Joan Lawson Kuhns October 12, 2017 July 29, 2017 July 16, 2017 Helen Goodman Benjamin Sarah “Sally” Melcher Jarvis Eva Villaran Chesneau February 16, 1996 September 15, 2017 August 31, 2017 Mary “Polly” Townes Cecile Dickson Banner July 6, 2017 1950 October 9, 2017 Carolyn Taylor 1970 September 14, 2017 Virginia “Ginny” Klise Kidd 1958 Dianne Chase Monroe August 14, 2017 1951 May 22, 2017 Lynne McCullough Gush 1971 May 1, 2017 Mary Ely Seals Susan Crandall Carol Rolston Toulmin April 20, 2017 December 23, 2015 May 1, 2017 1959 1972 Ann Red Barstow Sally Martin Kohrs Cynthia Conklin February 6, 2012 June 16, 2017 August 20, 2017 Cynthia Wyman Richardson Elisabeth Chambers Burgess Jennifer Linsley Alphin March 13, 2017 June 11, 2017 September 20, 2017 Sally Hale Riggs 1952 1975 Elizabeth Stamp February 19, 2017 Mary Morrissett Martin March 24, 2017 March 27, 2017 1960 Catharine Kinnear Train Judy Barnes Agnew 1977 June 3, 2017 September 17, 2017 Tracy Thompson Bodkin Frances “Fay” Pratt Gray Judith Hunter McCann October 20, 2016 April 3, 2017 March 31, 2016 1981 Ann Smith Bretscher 1953 Laine Vaughan Richardson Cooper Jane Westbrook September 14, 2017 May 5, 2017 May 9, 2017 1961 Audrey Kaune Restani-Smith Nancy McGinnis Whitehead Eleanor Boothe Smith July 4, 2017 July 20, 2017 September 8, 2017 Karen Holda September 28, 2017 Betty Thomas Rahv 1962 April 15, 2017 Mig Garrity Sturr 1983 January 10, 2017 1954 Amanda Beauchemin Laura-Nancy “Lanni” Garner de Heather Edgar Carter April 21, 2017 Langavant April 24, 2015 August 23, 2017 1984 Jane Bryan Brockenbrough Kathryn Marion May 2, 2017 1955 August 30, 2017 Elaine Pendexter Hare 1963 October 9, 2015 1987 Joan Newhall Anne Hales Wanamaker Martha Hedeman Buckingham March 2, 2017 February 14, 2017 July 2, 2017 1964 1988 Susan Downs Bill Anne Pruitt Everett December 22, 2001 Jeanne “Michele” Smith June 10, 2017 July 2, 2017 Patricia “Patsy” Smith Ticer Susan “Sue” Corwin Gary August 7, 2017 June 21, 2017 1991 Mary Scott “Scottie” Patience “Pat” Richeson June 23, 2017 Daugherty 1965 January 5, 2016 Julie Bearden Adams May 14, 2017 1999 Emily “Emmy” Coxe Winburn Kathryn “Katie” Whitlock August 22, 2017 Margaret “Tutti” Cuthbert Summers Broaddus March 19, 2017 Emily Thompson Gable October 19, 2017 April 11, 2017 2006 Ann Taylor Tenser 1966 Marguerite “Marge” Massie June 15, 2017 Carolyn Billingsley Smither Stiemly June 4, 2017 May 8, 2017

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 37 an Episcopal priest after 30 years in Karen is pursuing jazz piano at Berklee banking, is the priest at her home in Boston, a first-time separation for church, St. Stephen’s in Richmond. The the two of them. Her oldest grandchild, Class Notes Miniature Book Society honored her David Hill, graduated from St. George’s grands. In the fall of 2016, she visited for “outstanding contributions to the University Medical School after two Ireland and hopes to travel again. world of the miniature book,” and she years in Grenada and two in New 1949 Ruth Garrett Preucel is leaving has given her personal collection to the York City. Preston got to meet her first Carolyn Evans Pennsylvania to move to Sante Fe, University of Virginia, where 15,000 great-grandchild, Enzo Dylan Hill, and 21045 Cardinal Pond Ter. N.M., to live in an apartment in her titles are housed. Caroline attended the see that family depart for an Emer- Apt 119 daughter’s home. With her great health weddings of two granddaughters and gency Medicine internship in Chicago. Ashburn, VA 20147-6124 (she weighs 95 lbs.!), she’s planning spent much of her summer at her river While in New York, she visited the very 703-729-1133 to live to be 100! Ruth has worked cottage. moving 9/11 Memorial and then went [email protected] at Harper’s Bazaar magazine, but is Katie Cox Reynolds and husband on to Nantucket with Gene and Joan For fourteen years, Ann-Barrett looking forward to gardening. Phil, now 90, celebrated 60 years of Hill, who summer there. Preston’s Holmes Bryan has lived independent- Margaret Lawrence “Larry” marriage. They took their family to daughter, Margaret Hill Hilton, has one ly in her own home in a continuing Simmons in Midland, Texas, reports Ireland last summer. Recently, Katie child who is in his third year at Chapel care community in Fellowship Village, that, outside of hearing problems, she fell and fractured her pelvic bone, Hill Law School. Basking Ridge, N.J. Her husband, Bob, is in fine health. She has retired from necessitating time in the health unit died two years ago. She still drives and Trinity Day School, where she was at her retirement residence and then enjoys the village and her daughter, headmistress. She volunteers at the recovering in their apartment. They who lives 30 minutes away. She has a school, delivers Meals on Wheels, and are hoping to take a postponed trip to 1951 granddaughter in Chapel Hill with two Patty Lynas Ford reads to a class at her church. She Montana to see a grandson in October. 5555 Montgomery Drive, #23 great-grands: a girl and a boy. has just finished an endowment fund Katie enjoys golf and choral singing. Elizabeth “Trip” Corddry is Santa Rosa, CA 95409 drive for her church’s chapel and will June Eager Finney resides in [email protected] feeling great! At age 89 she lives do a similar fund drive for the Midland a wonderful retirement facility in the independently in her apartment in New This has been a busy and happy Festival Ballet. Her children and two Baltimore area. Ongoing physical summer for Patty Lynas Ford. York City and has a little help once a redheaded grandchildren are scattered problems keep her in the Health Unit, week. She is very busy writing a novel! August 15 was Dick’s birthday and over the East and South. Her youngest but she is in great spirits. She is return- their 64th wedding anniversary. Their Patricia Brown Boyer is retired daughter has two children in graduate ing to her artwork, now watercolor, as in Winter Park, Fla., and playing daughter and her husband and Patty’s school at the University of Georgia, and she had given her pastels to a talented great-grandson flew out from Virginia bridge. Although she is not travel- she was able to travel to Georgia for granddaughter. Her daughter, who ing, Pat would like all classmates’ for the celebration. They stayed with a granddaughter’s college graduation. teaches special ed, stops in most days, Patty’s local daughter and her husband: addresses. She is very proud of her A daughter and stepdaughter in New and her two sons come often. June great-grandson! “It was lovely to be all together, an York City are having great success with has eight grandchildren and several all-too rare experience.” Their life at Alice Dahm Crane was excited their careers! Larry usually spends great-grandchildren. about seeing the eclipse of 2017! Spring Lake Village (in a lovely area Thanksgiving with her brother and his Marilyn Hopkins Bamborough of Santa Rosa) continues to be happy, She manages her vertigo using a family, who live in their parents’ family continues to live on the shores of Lake walker. Without children nearby, she busy and enriching. home in Ohio. Michigan in Macatawa, a small resort Sue Lockley Glad left her house reads a lot and uses books on tape Margaret “Peggy” Cromwell community (about 100 families) that to supplement her poor eyesight. She in smoky Oregon at Black Butte Ranch Taliaferro says she is fine other than dates from the early 1900s. Marilyn following a Level One evacuation also stays happily in touch with Libby that she can’t seem to remember and her late husband retired there, Trueheart Harris. notice, and came home to Bend, where anyone’s name! She and June Finney and she is one of the few yearlong resi- the smoke was almost as dense but Unable to evacuate, Frances Pope stay in touch, but June’s health issues dents. Her sons live in Grand Rapids, Evans e-mailed her news in the midst a full evacuation was never declared. have been interfering, and Peggy some 45 minutes away. Marilyn walks They have been evacuated three times of Hurricane Harvey from her home in doesn’t drive anymore. Peggy rode to the lake and dunes each day and Houston, Texas! She keeps busy with over the 20 years they have owned to Sweet Briar with Judy Waxter’s continues her volunteer work. She that house and still love it. They are her oil and timber companies, and daughter Susan for the yearly Julia B. keeps in touch with her roommate, maintaining her antebellum home built enjoying life at Touchmark (resort re- Waxter Environmental Forum. Peggy’s Mary Fran Brown Ballard, who, tirement!). Sue spends Saturday nights in 1833. She is also a great-grand- four children, six grandchildren, and with husband Don, has moved to a mother. watching grandson Justen (20) play one 2-1/2 year old great-grand- retirement community in Austin, Texas, professional soccer on TV or computer Being in a “chair,” Nancy Franz daughter had a family reunion in early to be near a child. Davies considers herself “house- and wishing she understood the game August. She is proud of Sweet Briar’s Sally Melcher Jarvis is in better. Justen plays for Real Salt Lake, bound” in her home in Enid, Okla. Her SBC freshman class! independent living in a retirement family, with four great-granddaugh- the U.S. teams for his age group, and Joan McCarthy Whiteman no community in Lancaster, Pa. John in Japan, South Korea, and other parts ters, lives nearby, and she has many longer plays golf, but does play a lot of died, but Sally continues volunteer widowed friends who visit and share of the world. Other grandchildren have duplicate bridge. Her daughter and son activities, delivering meals to the all finished college and are exploring books with her. both live near her in Northfield. Her two homeless, tutoring at a school, and Carolyn Cannady Evans lives their new worlds, but so far, no wed- grandsons and two granddaughters joining her scattered family at their two dings or great-grandchildren. independently in her apartment in a re- are also in the North-Midwest. The cabins in the Poconos each summer. tirement community near Ashburn, Va. Jane Moorefield has moved to granddaughter in Ann Arbor is She has eight grandchildren and five Still Hopes, her local Episcopal retire- Her health would be better if she got expecting Joan’s first great-grandchild great-grandchildren. 7-8 hours sleep, but she has no seri- ment home! She has a lovely apart- in September. All are busy and love to In spite of ongoing orthopedic ment and there are loads of activities; ous problems and walks her dog every visit their grandmother! problems and a bout of shingles, day. She is busy playing bridge, Wii so she plans to be very happy. The class of 1949’s four ladies in Preston Hodges Hill has had a busy With her son and his family in bowling, making pottery, and writing for Richmond, Va., all reside in West- year. She continues living in her home a quarterly magazine in her community. Orlando, Joan Warren Davis kept an minster Canterbury. Caroline Casey of 55 years in Denver, but made trips eye on Irma’s path, but all was well. She also works with the Fellowship and Brandt sent word that a highlight was to Florida in March with daughter Congregational Care committees at her She says, “My government professors the 90th birthday of Kitty Hart Belew. Margaret, and to the graduation of would be beside themselves with all church. Two daughters live nearby in Margaret Towers Talman and Libby 18-year-old twins Michael and Karen Great Falls, Va., two more in Raleigh, the political going-ons!” She says the Trueheart Harris are in the Health Martinson in Ojai, Calif. Michael is now changes at Sweet Briar are interesting N.C., and a son in Baltimore. She has Care Unit. Caroline’s happy news is enrolled at the University of Colorado at ten grandchildren and five great- and very innovative. that her son Stephen McGehee, now Boulder in aerospace engineering, and Lynne McCullough Gush passed

38 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes away recently but at least did not Stage 284 performance included Josie ipate in community musicals, including have to suffer the flooding in Houston. Sibold and niece, Pat Beach Thomp- Sweet Adelines. She is survived by 10 Her home was in harm’s way of the 1952 son and husband Calvin, Nancy Mor- grandchildren and seven great-grand- hurricane. She had been diagnosed Pat Layne Winks row Lovell, Jane Russo Sheehan, children. with lung cancer last fall. Lynne is 312 Arguello Blvd., Apt. 3 and Betsy Wilder Cady. Did you catch Jane Lou Westbrook died on May remembered for her love of literature, San Francisco, CA 94118 the wonderful picture of them in the 9 in Bennington, Vt. She never married music, and dogs. 415-221-6779 August Briar Wire? I’m sure all went but is survived by her older siblings, I have been thinking about Lynne [email protected] home humming the tunes, which are Jack and Janet, as well as seven niec- since her death. For her, the timing Our 65th reunion enabled us to still happily familiar to our ears. es and nephews, 14 great-nieces and was right and she didn’t have to deal reconnect with old friends, admire the David Link, son of Joan Crouse nephews, and one great-great-grand- with the ghastly destruction of so much beautiful campus, and celebrate Sweet Link, reports that Joan has moved niece. She spent many years as resi- of Houston. I remember that she met Briar’s remarkable rebirth, made pos- to an independent facility in Plano, dent caretaker to her parents, during her English husband at one of the sible by the unwavering commitment Texas, near David and his sister. Helen which time she enjoyed many trips with annual New Year’s Eve parties given of loyal alumnae, students, and staff. Graves Stahmann sent greetings her father, an antiques dealer. After by her mother. He died several years Our class was represented by Joanne from her home in Australia. Nancy graduation from Sweet Briar College, ago. For those of you familiar with Holbrook Patton, Jane Russo Hamel Clark’s daughter Ann retired Jane began her professional career British customs, he was an OBE, an Sheehan, Nancy Hamel Clark, as superintendent of the Char- at the Sterling-Winthrop Research Insti- honor awarded for his increasing the Nancy Morrow Lovell, Betsy Wilder lotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., schools. tute. Following the sale of the company commercial trade between Houston Cady, Laura Radford Goley, Kitchie Nancy introduced her at a farewell by Kodak to Sanoti Aventis, a French (with its port) and the U.K. The last Roseberry Tolleson, and me. It was conference, where both mother and pharmaceutical company, in the early name “Gush” rhymes with “Bush.” Last a particular pleasure to meet family daughter garnered a well-deserved 90’s, she began working for Rensselaer fall, Lynne wrote to say that she had and friends of classmates. Nancy standing ovation. (Suggestion; Google Polytechnic Institute, from which her been diagnosed with lung cancer. “I Hamel Clark came with daughter “Ann Clark” to read a terrific interview father and brother graduated. She was never met a cigarette that I didn’t like.” Ann. Jane Russo Sheehan came with she gave the Charlotte Observer.) a community activist. She was a lifelong Cancer appeared in her brain in the daughters Diana and Carolyn, as well It’s a relief to be able to report member of the Rensselaer County spring. At first she was hospitalized as granddaughter Julie. Joanne Hol- that Pauline Wells Bolton sustained Historical Society, co-sponsor of the (which she did not like), and then she brook Patton was accompanied by no loss or injury from Houston’s Rensselaer Garden Club, was an avid came home, continuing to be under her sister Marnie. Joanne never ceases horrendous storm and flood—she weaver and knitter, and as a rug hooker hospice care. One of her care-giv- to amaze me. Never once has she lives on the sixth floor of a high-rise founded the Happy Hookers Club. She ers was a wonderful person, Dean, taken advantage of her serious illness apartment there. Her grandson, Pres- lived a very fulfilled life. A debilitating who had been with the family for 40 to excuse herself from her obligations ton, a high school senior, was engaged stroke in 2002 forced her to move from years. She was the one that I first talk- as our class president. Instead, she in relief work. the 18th century farmhouse she had ed with. I talked to Lynne briefly while exceeds all obligations! Before Reunion I look forward to resuming contact been lovingly restoring since 1979 to she was still hospitalized and then she tried to reach every member of with you in the years to come. Surely assisted living facilities in Bennington, Vt. began home phone communications our class by mail or telephone. Illness, many of you wonder—Whatever Jack and Kirk Tucker Clarkson through Dean or one of the other hos- distance, and previous commitment became of? Please ask Joanne or me have moved to an apartment in Vicar’s pice helpers. The phone was held up played significant roles in the absence how to get in touch with friends you Landing retirement community in Ponte to Lynne’s ear so that she could hear of many we had hoped to see. Benita miss hearing from. And please, please, Vedra Beach, which is 12 miles north me. Once in a while, I referred to some Phinizy Johnson was in Durham, NC, send us news of yourselves. It’s a joy to of their present condo; they plan to mutual experience or said something for the wedding of her granddaughter. realize that despite our recalcitrant body keep the condo as a guest house. The else, after which Dean said that there Pauline Wells Bolton, sister Jo, parts and senior moments, we’re as new address is 1000 Vicar’s Landing were tears in her eyes. We had had a and their daughters were together young in spirit as we were 65 years ago. Way, #E206, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL long correspondence (via the U.S. Post- elsewhere—in an apartment on the Ile 32082. They live near their children al Service, as she did not have e-mail). St. Louis in Paris. and two married grandsons; a third (I don’t know if any of you has read “An Regrettably, more and more news grandson just graduated from Darden comes of the loss of dear friends 1953 Invisible Friendship” by Joyce Grenfell Florence Pye Apy Business School and has moved to (I think), about two women who shared and family. Cathleen Kinnear New Orleans. Kirk and Jack’s grand- Train passed away in June. She is 40 Riverside Ave., Apt. 6Y many ideas and interests, who decided Red Bank, NJ 07701 daughter and her husband, parents that they would not meet but continue survived by her husband of 67 years, of a little girl, live in Pavones, Costa Admiral Harry Train II, four daugh- [email protected] the correspondence until one of them I am sorry to report the loss of two Rica, where they run a surfing B and died.) I still have all of Lynne’s letters, ters and four grandchildren. Katie B, Rancho Cannatello. Kirk had left Babcock Mountcastle lost her of our classmates. Nancy McGinnis which are a joy to read. Her energy and Whitehead died on March 1, 2016 at knee replacement in early August and willingness to be so involved in the lo- dear husband, Ken, after 66 years of was in the rehab unit at Vicar’s as she marriage. John Gray sent word that his Glenbridge Health and Rehab, Boone, cal musical scene kept her busy as she N.C. Adopted at birth by Dr. and Mrs. wrote. Fortunately, she is doing well had many piano students, both children wife of nearly 50 years, Frances Pratt and presumably back on her feet when Gray, passed away in April. Ngoc Linh Russell McGinnis, she was raised in and adults, and the occasional recitals, Cleveland, Ohio. She was born with a you read this. and did her walks with Kensington (her Nguyen, the former husband of Lillian Three notes from our President (Thu) Pham Nguyen, passed away in congenital heart defect, and at the age Weimaraner) along the bayou. I felt of 14 she became the 65th person Virginia Hudson Toone: #1. Ginnie very fortunate to have been a member April as well. He had an amazing life: was fortunate enough to be in the path captive of the Viet Minh, cabinet mem- to have open-heart surgery. This was of her “hospice team” and a couple of one of many surgeries. Nancy lived a of the recent eclipse and attracted the hospice helpers called me after she ber in South Vietnam, and after the war, seven members of her stepfamily from service to the Vietnamese community much longer and fuller life than most had died to thank me for my participa- thought possible. She had three sons New Hampshire to view it with her in tion. (For years, Dick has been involved in the United States. Missouri—a wonderful, but exhausting Our senior play, “Resting on Our by her first husband, William Piccard, with hospice care, so it was something a daughter by her second husband, visit. The rain that day cleared a minute that was not unfamiliar.) I was not a Laurels,” written by Joanne Holbrook or two into the event and remained Patton, Keir Henley Donaldson, Schuyler Haskell, and was predeceased close friend of hers at Sweet Briar, by both husbands as well as her third clear during the remaining hours of but her friendship in these later years Mollie McCurdy Taylor, and Josie the eclipse. #2. A quote from Ginnie: Sibold, has enjoyed several successful husband, Thomas Whitehead IV. During meant a great deal to us both and we these years she was a den mother for “There is a senior exercise class at enjoyed our literary connection, love of revivals, most recently at Stage 284 in the Y once a week and I qualify as the South Hamilton, Mass., and then at the the Boy Scouts, was Girl Scout cookie music and dogs, and found enjoyment chairman, and headed up the school oldest there. The leader wears one of in our correspondence. Clara Rose Playhouse in Patchogue, the cute little outfits and I feel that I N.Y. The appreciative audience at the carnival for the PTA. Her study of piano, voice, and opera enabled her to partic- could do better if I could wear one of

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 39 Class Notes those cute little outfits, but they don’t tra accompanying a huge choir made Prince Edward Island. Other trips in- comes to visit. She is in good health come in my size.” (Obviously Ginnie up of men and women from Dayton’s cluded a week with the family at Camp and still doing Garden Club and other has retained her sense of humor.) #3. 81 African American churches. She Mather near Yosemite, and with friends organizations but taking it easy, she She reports that she got a phone call also visited the Noah’s Ark replica in to see the amazing orange bloom at says. After Hurricane Harvey, I checked from Harriette Hodges Andrews and Kentucky and the Creation Museum in the Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve. on her and she is all right! Jay Wells Rodgers who met some- Cincinnati. Her longtime good friend Mary Hill Noble Caperton went to a Elise Wachenfeld de Papp, who where in the Carolinas while visiting from church is her driving companion. reception to meet President Woo and we all surely remember as a beauti- respective children. During Hurricane Jeanne also spent a nice week at a heard her speak about the new cur- ful rider at Sweet Briar, recently has Harvey, Ginnie phoned Jay and Tom lake in northern Ohio. Jeanne does riculum, which Mary Hill (and I) thinks become a poster person for the U.S. at their home in Houston. Fortunately, see Ellie Matchneer Vorys, and I will be a very good thing. Mary Hill Dressage Foundation that encour- they live on the 9th floor of a retirement see occasional bits from them both on recommends that everyone, while you ages older people to ride and join by community that was not affected by Facebook. still are able, go see Sweet Briar, “still becoming Centurions. Elise became flooding or loss of power. Jeanne mentioned that her one of the most beautiful spots in the a member several years ago when From Dale Hutter Harris: Dale charitable gifts now go to her church. world.” Regarding Sweet Briar’s new she became eligible because the and Ted are enjoying their retirement I’m sure that’s the case with many. I Fierce campaign, she says she’s not so combined age of Elise and her horse community in Durham, N.C. Barbara would like to encourage your sending a very fierce anymore, but I bet she is. was 100! Her horse was 20 years Blair, who taught chemistry at the little something to Sweet Briar College, Mary Jane Roos Fenn writes that old! She can be proud of her many College, also resides there. Although literally $5.00 or $10.00, because the her daughter Susan is still in complete professional years as a doctor and the Harris’s traveling days are limited, number of alumnae who give is nearly remission and Susan’s daughter Dana also of her riding prowess. She has they try their best to keep up with their as important as what they give. Our was married in April in California. Mary also been involved with Osher Lifelong children’s activities. The children live class is among those with a high Jane, Susan, and Dana spent a fun Learning Institutions, where she has in Virginia, England, Hawaii and North participation, but we could be tops! week in Bermuda in August, where taught the Pathology of Cancer and Carolina; their six grandchildren range Shirley Poulson Broyles and I they enjoyed snorkeling, sailing, and other courses. Elise’s children are in age from 5 to 27. message on Facebook too. They took using a Boston Whaler. Anne, an endocrinologist in Bryn Mawr, A note of praise: our class did very a big trip to Europe with the whole As I write this, we are just getting Pa., and associate vice president of well in the percentage of class mem- family to celebrate Norris’ birthday. over Hurricane Irma, which wasn’t so Merck; John, an electrical engineer in bers responding to the recent college Sorry that I seem to have deleted the bad here. We are just west of Charles- Chappaqua N.Y.; and Erika, a veteri- fund drives. Keep up the good work. details. Shirley sent a nice picture ton, S.C., where the flooding was very narian in Dedham, Mass. Jeannette Hope to see you at our 65th in June. with Merrill Underwood Barrin- bad. Mary Jane spoke to Maggie Kennedy Hancock is enjoying life in ger and Kirkland Tucker Clarkson, ’53. Mohlman Degler, who lives in Naples, Birmingham with her husband, Jimmie, Caroline “Kobo” Chobot Gar- Fla., where it was much worse. Maggie a retired federal judge. They have a 1954 ner and her daughter Laurie took a said she is okay, but never wants to go daughter who lives in Montgomery, Bruce Watts Krucke 10-day cruise to Alaska in May. They through another hurricane again. Ala., with her husband and three 201 West 9th St. North Unit 184 are now members of the 30% Club, children, and two sons who both are Summerville, SC 29483 made up of tourists who get to see lawyers living in Birmingham, each with [email protected] Mt. Denali, which is usually clouded 1955 their wives and three children. Jeanette I learned a bit too late for the pre- over. She’s decided she prefers our Emily Hunter Slingluff seems so kindly involved in Birming- vious issue about the passing of Jean southeast weather. Me too, except 1217 North Bay Shore Drive ham life, with various organizations, Croker McMillan, last February. Jean when hurricanes come. Like Jeanne, Virginia Beach, VA 23451 helping people. Some years ago, she was living in Summit, N.J. We send Kobo uses a walker for balance. Hard 757.428.6167 helped start Pre School Partners, to condolences to her daughter, four to believe we turn 85 this year! Last [email protected] help youngsters who were not learning grandchildren, and sister-in-law Faith summer the whole family went to Hello all wonderful classmates. much before going to Kindergarten. A Rahmer Croker. her granddaughter’s wedding in Costa Here are the names of those requirement for attending this learning Jeanne Stoddart Barends sent a Rica, where son Kevin works at the who have died this year … with group was that each child bring along nice long note earlier this year. She is embassy. Kevin’s other daughter lives sadness: Emily Thompson Ga- to the weekly programs the main per- living in a retirement home now but still in Arlington and is the mother of Kobo’s ble in April, Ann Taylor Tenser in son who takes care of him or her. The drives to nearby places, especially her first two great-grandsons. Scott, Kobo’s June, Marty Hedeman Bucking- organization has grown so much that beloved church, where she has been younger son, and family live in San ham in July, Pat Smith Ticer in it is now recognized as one of the best active since 1971. Some of her travels Francisco. His eldest son is at Seattle August, and Emmy Coxe Winburn in preschools in the country. Jeannette this year have been to Dayton to see University and the middle son is at August. We are so appreciative of the the National Air Force Museum and to Stanford University. The youngest son is friendships we had with them. hear the Dayton Philharmonic Orches- still in high school. There will be a fami- We are so appreciative of those ly reunion with them in San Francisco that we still have now. at Thanksgiving, which will include the Catherine Cage Bruns is living Stanford-Notre Dame football game. in the same house in Houston where Jerry Driesbach Ludeke, who she has been for over 20 years. She still runs the archives at Bakersfield has a son who lives in Minneapolis but College, had several trips this year. The first was a Road Scholar trip called the Heart of the Civil Rights Movement, which included Atlanta, Selma, and Montgomery. She said, “We went to all the places we heard about at the time and heard from many people who experienced the joys and mostly Husband, son, and grandson of the horrors of those days. There were Jeanette Kennedy Hancock ’55. On amazing encounters … remarkable April 13, 2017, all three generations people who survived and thrived and Merrill Underwood Barringer ’54, were acolytes at St. Luke’s Church forgave, but didn’t forget.” The second Shirley Poulson Broyles ’54, Kirk- in Birmingham. (L-R) James trip was to the Canadian Maritimes, land Tucker Clarkson Hancock III, the Rev. Rich Web- including Newfoundland, and she Elise Wachenfeld de Papp ’55, ster, James Hancock, Jr., James thought of Anne of Green Gables on Centurion Ride Hancock, Sr.

40 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes sounds so mature and happy. She sent for a trip in the mountains, in the matter, including those of wonderful Penny, my roommate came out to visit me a photo of her husband, son, and Catskills. As always, she was so inter- Sweet Briar College. me on Maui in March] The biggest grandson, who were all acolytes at a ested in other classmates, too. fun event of my year was to visit you. church service the same Sunday! What Anne Williams Manchester, still After I returned from Maui, I drove up a grand picture of three handsome living in Cohasset, Mass., sounds as 1959 and back to La Crosse, Wis., to take a generations it is. happy as ever. She and Eli are begin- Ali Wood Thompson watercolor painting workshop. Mostly Betty Byrne Gill Ware writes ning to boat a bit less but enjoying life, 89 Pukolu Way I went just to see the scenery. It was that she and Hudnall have had a busy and they have both daughters and their Wailea, HI 96753-7710 beautiful driving across Kansas and spring and summer. There was young families living close by. Three of their 808-874-8028 Iowa. I did a painting when I got home. Hudnall’s wedding in Middleburg in grandchildren will be in college this [email protected] I called it Kansas Green Sea. May, then Memorial Day weekend at fall. They will be at Williams, Wesleyan, Dear 59ers, Gay Hart Gaines I am excited Smith Mountain Lake, then Wrightsville and Dartmouth. It was a treat for me It is always such a pleasure to hear to tell you that I am a great-grand- Beach with her family in June, then to spend some time with Anne and Eli from all of you. There were many of you mother, as of April 2, when our first Ware’s Wharf with Hudnall’s family several years ago at High Hampton Inn that I missed hearing from, but next granddaughter had a baby boy! We over Fourth of July weekend, then a trip in the mountains of North Carolina. time, in the Spring, don’t forget to write took 13 children and grands to Italy, to Charlottesville with “girls” who have Sandy Rhodes Berglund phoned in so we can all be in touch with each a truly fabulous trip. We started out lived in Roanoke, and then another from Stuart, Fla., where she lives after other. It really is important! in divine Venice and after four days, trip to Roanoke and Smith Mountain living many years in Roanoke when she As I write this, we are right in the boarded a Silver Seas ship the Silver Lake another time. She plays duplicate was first married and where she said middle of the storm, Irma. We have Spirit and made many fascinating stops bridge once a week, works out three she enjoyed seeing our classmate Bet- eight classmates living in various in Italy, Croatia, Greece, Sicily, and then times a week, does yard work, and ty Byrne Gill Ware and also Betty places in Florida and one classmate ended up with four days in Belissima plays some golf, too. She sees Peggy Byrne’s now-deceased older sister living in Houston. I pray that they all will Rome. It was a mind-expanding trip West Valentine, but misses our class- Edith Page Gill Breakell ’45. Sandy said be safe! for nine grandchildren and our grown mate, Betty Sanford Molster. I plan she is not well, but we talked about children, and Stanley and I adored it to see Betty Byrne in a few weeks. It is Sweet Briar and she said that she has Passings: too! Am planning another Founders always such a treat to be with her. two daughters who also graduated Sally Hale Riggs—February 2017 Series at The Four Arts in Palm Beach Ethel Green Banta is still doing from Sweet Briar, Sigrid Carlen Veasy Elisabeth (Liz) Chambers during 2018 and have a great line up a little bit of bed and breakfast in her ’81 and Elise Carlen Robison ’84. That Burgess—June 2017 of historians to speak. Anyone can wonderful old Natchez house, which might be a record for one of our Sally Martin Kohrs—June 2017 see this year’s series on C-Span 3 has lovely “cottages” where several classmates! called the Founders and Us. The David of us stayed several years ago and Newell Bryan Tozzer, in Atlanta, Notes: McCullough lecture was one of his loved it! She says that she sees or as always, sounds wonderful. She Pat Davis Sutker has a new email greatest ever. Try to get it and I know talks with her sister, Ruth Ellen Green sees a lot of Sue Lawton Mobley, address: [email protected] you will enjoy it. At the end of the Calhoun ’57 every day. Ruth Ellen also as usual, too. Newell’s son is married Ann Turnbull Lowry has a new morning he sang, “Hey good lookin’. is in a wonderful house in Natchez. to Sue’s cousin. Both Newell’s son email: [email protected] What you got cooking ...” to me! What Ethel’s children are in Seattle, Wash., and daughter live nearby, and her four Jane (Puss) Moore Banks has a fun it was. in Northampton, Mass., and two in grandchildren—one of whom is only new email: [email protected]. Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb I Richmond with six grandchildren there 14—are all being educated at South- Val Stoddard Loring has moved. was especially distressed to hear about in Richmond, too! Also, Ethel said she ern schools! They are at the University Contact me for her new address. Liz Chambers Burgess’s death. I recently saw Jane Feltus Welch and of Georgia and Washington and Lee Mary Harrison Cooke (Cookie) Car- remember well all the hours we spent her “wonderful” son Jimmy, when University, and one is a graduate of le Does anyone know the whereabouts together working on the SB News. It’s they came from Louisville for a family Agnes Scott College. Always a close of Cookie with address, email and hard for me to believe how long ago wedding in Natchez. friend, Newell was wonderful when phone number? Please let me know. that was. Lloyd and I are more and Phyllis Joyner is moving around my daughter and her husband and Betsy Duke Seaman Not much more aware of how important it is to be as usual in New York City and beyond. young children lived in Atlanta for a news here, but we still have our SBC grateful for every moment we have. We In August, she went on a five-day few years. What a treat it was for me ’59 Second Tuesday Book Group: have just returned from a 10-day retreat in Pennsylvania that she said to reconnect a lot with Newell, Sue, Tricia Ware, Mary Blair Valentine, cruise from Montreal to Boston. It was was enriching and educational. And and Camille then! Tabb Farinholt, Cay Weimer, Sorrel interesting and fun—and not too stren- then, almost immediately was leaving Camille Williams Yow has re- McElroy, Mary Ballou Williams, and uous. We continue to enjoy family visits, cently moved from her gracious house me. We would welcome visits from most recently to attend our grandson on West Andrews Drive in Atlanta to a any ’59ers who might come this way, Burke’s high school graduation. grand condo nearby. She says she en- especially anyone who might teach Please extend my thanks to all joys the “beautiful new lifestyle—love us to hula! Am so happy to read good of our classmates who continue to the elevators and fabulous service and news from Dr. Woo. She is certainly support Sweet Briar financially and in looking out at a gorgeous church.” She impressive. many other ways. said one of her three grandsons is Alice Cary Farmer Brown Best Virginia Mackethan Kitchin Liz being married soon in a pasture in wishes to all of you who are turning 80 Burgess died at Harbour’s Edge in Alabama! All sounds nice and Southern this year. We are fortunate! I celebrated Norfolk. Although never a smoker, she and happy! my birthday in March on the Irrawaddy found out six years ago she had lung I, Emily Hunter Slingluff, am River in Myanmar on a lovely small cancer and not much longer to live. So, enjoying life at Virginia Beach, taking boat with some British friends. This she beat the odds by surviving not six it a little bit easy occasionally, going was quite an adventure for Lee and months, but six years. I will miss her. to Charlottesville a lot, swimming in me! On the home front, I really enjoy I knew her all my life, since we were the ocean, and being on radio shows seeing Gay Hart Gaines in Florida. babies and our parents were friends. The son of Emily Slinghuff ’55, Dr. and giving talks about parenting. I was She is our “baby,” she says. Lunch Just got back from my third annual Craig Slinghuff, a surgeon, cancer even on a sort of political debate, an in New York with roommate Jackie trip to Cincinnati, where I visited son researcher and professor at UVa, hour-long show out of New York, dis- Heckma and Betsy Wiegers and Di Cameron and his family and went to was tapped to give remarks to cussing why some people choose to be Spurdle is always long and hilari- the eight days of the Western and UVa’s first-years about the im- protestors. I say that almost everything ous! We are all wishing good luck to Southern Open Tennis tournament. portance of the university’s honor goes back to the formative years of life, President Meredith Woo and sending Heaven. code. which are called formative because gratitude for coming to Sweet Briar. Judy Nevins LeHardy We are still they are formative, but all influences Penny Fisher Duncklee [Ed. Note: on the Northern Neck of Virginia—do-

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 41 Class Notes ing some sailing and lots of traveling. Lima in March. So, this was for those May and June. We did hit a rock in our in Laos, has been invited to join John I enjoy my local Music Study Club and who couldn’t make it to Peru. Another sailboat (actually I hit the rock), and I Kerry’s new graduate program at Yale any concerts or operas we can get to. niece getting married Dec. in Dallas. went flying forward, cracking two ribs focusing on international problems. We will probably be out of here in five Barbara Sampson Borsch My but am now mostly mended; so we are Her son, Elliot, just graduated from years or so—maybe moving to Kiawah news is sad. My husband, Fred, died in hoping to get out again in Septem- Colgate. Karen’s son, Hill, is a senior Island, S.C. Two of our granddaughters April from complications of myelodys- ber. Other than that, no news except at Harvey Mudd in California, and her made us very proud this year. Sally’s plastic. A form of leukemia. Love to grateful to be alive and well, as well as daughter, Margot, is a sophomore at daughter Charlotte graduated Phi you all. two old people can be with many, many Eckerd College in Florida. Come to Beta Kappa from UVa with a degree in Mary Blair Scott Valentine visits of family and friends. think of it, all that adventure makes anthropology, and Annie LeHardy, our Thankfully, Stukie is recovering from Ali Wood Thompson This is the looking at birds, feeding squirrels and champion runner from Roanoke and a coronary surgery, quintuple bypass. He year of everyone’s 80th birthday and reading good books sounds pretty UNC ’15 grad, started working in the is at the seventh month at this writing. each one of us will have different ex- good. White House as a press assistant! She Ann Smith Heist After a delightful periences. Mine happened in June—a Rhett Ball Thagard: Enjoying long recently went to Poland and Paris with cruise ending up in Le Havre, John and Maui Sunset Cruise out in Ma’alaea walks in California with my daughter the president. Her picture has been in I spent a month driving through rural Bay. My sister came from N.H. with her and granddaughter. My new knee some papers, and we have often spot- France, staying at Relais & Chateaux three children and their children. My works well! ted her on TV at press conferences. Her whenever there was one in the area. daughter, Lynne, flew in from Maine Gail Hayman Wilson: We’ve brother, Barrett, an army captain Chunneled back to England for a few and my son, Tarn, flew in from Texas. talked about a change for several (West Point ’12 and also a champion more days before taking the Queen And of course, there had to be some years, and finally we did it; we decided runner), commands a dive company Mary back to NYC. Fortunately, our hula dancing to CDs with five of my to downsize and move closer to one at Ft. Eustis. Daughter Sally and family daughter lives in Connecticut; so she hula mates. It was one of those perfect of our children (in either the Boston live in Crozet, near Charlottesville. She can pick us up on returns like this. Hav- sunsets with calm seas, good food, fun or Northern Virginia areas). Climate teaches French at Alliance Francaise in ing a fabulously supportive and clever entertainment and wonderful friends! A and housing choices led to choosing Charlottesville and also on the Internet. husband has enabled me to travel like few months earlier, we ventured to Virginia. We sold our big old house in We are lucky that so many of our family that in spite of being on oxygen for 20 Panama and then to San Miguel de Binghamton—we had lived there for live in Virginia. Happy 80th everyone! years. Enjoying four grandchildren, to Allende in Mexico to visit friends. My 47 years—got rid of mountains of Ward gave me a lovely birthday party whom we have introduced cruising, doctor says keep traveling as much “stuff,” and moved to a new condo in in June at Ft. Myer, Va., with lots our has been grand. Recently thought we as you can while you are healthy. So, Ashburn, Va., in May. We are just a family, many St. Agnes classmates, and should move north, but my old home- in October we are off to Africa again couple of miles from our daughter’s West Point ’56 couples attending. stead beach house would be hard to (fifth trip)—just can’t get enough of family. That’s a sufficient distance to Fleming Parker Rutledge leave. Never get this view again. Now, those wonderful animals! It is like foster separate lives but close enough Another book deadline looms. Barbara however, we are praying for no hurri- eating popcorn! to see our 15-month-old grandson of- Sampson’s husband, Fred, died. He canes as we have been extremely lucky ten. We enjoy frequent visits to or from was a good man. It might be fun to find over the years. I’ve been intending to our Boston family (including 5- and out what everyone is doing for their look up Sally Mayfield in Ft. Myers 1960 7-year-old grandchildren). The adjust- 80th birthday. My husband, Dick, and when we take a trip to west Florida. Lura Coleman Wampler ment to such a significant change has daughters Heyward and Elizabeth are The days go awfully fast, it seems, and 1406 Thomas Rd Little Place Farm been remarkably easy. going to London, Canterbury, and Win- accomplishments are few. John stays Wayne, PA 19087-1318 Gail Lloyd: I have retired from chester for 10 days in Sept. Will send on the forefront of anything electronic. [email protected] my position of 27 years as executive photos after the fact! Betsy Smith It is a great hobby. Hope that any of our Gwen Speel Kaplan: Anne director of a private foundation that White’s family gathered in Brevard, Florida SBC sisters will call and come Clarke comes down from Connecticutt. was involved with many city and N.C., for the eclipse, which was on the by when they find themselves on I-95 to visit me in Richmond every May. international facets and which had a very day of her 79th! I hope a lot of heading north. We’ve gotten a group of classmates collection of 18th and 19th century you saw Mary Blair’s wonderful meme Judy Sorley Chalmers-Simp- together for lunch at the Virginia prints, now given to Yale. Since the “Get Off My Lawn” overlaid on a photo son I have no news—except that my Museum of Fine Arts for five of the past foundation closed, I have been catching of the Rotunda, just after the tiki torch English grandchildren come to visit six years! See the photo. up on personal matters and with my KKK march. I went out and bought me often (everyone wants to see The Anita Perrin Towell: [Referring to organizations. This summer, being in some tiki torches for our back garden Lion King; so I think they should put the same mini reunion in Richmond] the city has been enjoyable, attending because I heard that their business my name on one of the seats!!)— I always look forward to being with the ballet and visiting with friends. was off, through no fault of their own. I and I’m going to visit my triplets in everyone and I enjoy our lively conver- Jane Tatman Walker: Frank and guess my big news is that I have joined Atlanta—actually in Ware Neck, Va., in sations. We certainly do not look like I just returned from our family trip to Twitter and have 1700+ “followers” so mid-August. We rent a darling cottage we graduated 57 years ago!! California. We had all of our 16 chil- far, mostly young (very young) pastors! very close to Tabb—such a bonus. Barbara Murphy Hale: The big dren, grandchildren and a granddaugh- Ann Pegram Howington My old- Tabb Thornton Farinholt We event this past year was having all the ter-in-law. Fun time in San Francisco, est child, Jack Lyle, died last Christmas spent a month at MD Anderson in children here to celebrate Phil’s 90th Yosemite and Monterey Bay. We have season; so the merry went away.... Houston. While there, we were glori- birthday at Thanksgiving, including our enjoyed our Hoosier summer otherwise Nina Hopkin’s sweet daughter Mary ously cared for by our daughter’s SBC first great-grandchild. We are looking and look forward to a Florida winter. lives next door here and is giving Nina roommate Harriet McNair Alexander forward to having the Department of Mickey Oliveri Svoboda: My a birthday party soon. My beautiful ’86, daughter of Becky Towill ’60. At Fish and Wildlife plant 25 acres of wild- daughter and I just returned from a daughter Martha Lyle is doing one for the end of it, my sister Mimi ’56 died; flowers on the farm, a project to create wonderful UVa Lifetime Learning trip me too, and I can’t remember who we so it has been a tender time. I had a pollinator pathway from Delaware to France with 2 professors from UVa’s invited—or, accidentally, didn’t. a wonderful lunch with Tricia Coxe Bay down the Eastern Shore. architecture school. We followed Thom- Rew Price Carne I moved out of Ware and Betsy Duke Seaman to Teddy Hill and Liz Penfield: as Jefferson’s footsteps as we visited my place by the beach into a retire- celebrate my 80th birthday. Grandchil- We weren’t able to do much this the buildings and gardens that inspired ment community two weeks ago. Not dren scattered all over now; they are year, but grandchildren made up for him and even had dinner at Le Proco- the only ’59er to do this—stress! So I in NYC, Boston, Ithaca, N.Y., Madrid, it while we enjoyed a long summer in pe, a restaurant that was open during lie on the couch and watch my daugh- Charlottesville, and Philadelphia, but Colorado looking at birds, chipmunks that era. We spent most of July at our ter unpack boxes. Don’t know how we’ll all be together here for the and feeding squirrels. Daughter Louise house on Figure 8 Island in N.C. I have much longer I can get away with this Thanksgiving weekend. took a monsoon trek in Nepal with also been in Savannah many weeks as division of duties. Other stuff—wed- Kathy Tyler Sheldon We have had granddaughters Julia and Sophie. my son moved there last year to begin ding reception in Chicago for my niece a lovely summer here in Newfoundland Julia is spending a year in Nepal on a his first year at Mercer medical school. and Guillermo. They were married in with many, many fabulous icebergs in Fulbright. Sophie, back from an NGO Linda Sims Newmark: With my

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(L to r): Gwen Speel Kaplan, Betty Forsyth Harris, Mickey Oliveri Svoboda, Grace Suttle, Anita Perrin Towell, Anne Reinecke Clarke, Patti Powell Pusey and Ginger Newman Blanchard granddaughter a rising sophomore at Well,” was published in September SBC, I enjoyed three campus visits her by Jefferson Park Press. The book freshman year. Saw three wonderful includes my journey after my father’s plays (Mary Grace had parts in all) death, inspired by the examples of and loved seeing our campus alive some 30 intrepid and instructive role Lura Coleman Wampler and Lucy and well. Was in Atlanta for Talbot’s models—Walter Cronkite, Gordon Martin Gianino and their shared SBC benefit day.Ann Lemmon and I Parks, Hal Holbrook, Carol Channing, grandchildren, Coleman and Adelle enjoyed shopping at the Phipps Plaza Richard Wilbur and Stanley Kunitz. Wampler store, where we ran into Teresa Tomlin- Nina Newton Farriss: Happy for son’s (’87) mother. the great revival! God bless! lum who is still active in a PBS series Sandy Schuhmacher Law- Barbara Beam Denison: Still that she created. I still travel to Mexico rence: My life is easy and delightful here in the same Bethesda, Md., house as often as I can justify it; working on a living here in Southlake, Texas, near where we settled in ’66—George still book project serves as my excuse. my daughter Sharon and her family. My active as a self-employed lobbyist and Carol Barnard Ottenberg: dear hubby has dementia, a challenge, consultant working with Japanese Summers in Maine, the rest of the year but we’re making it day by day. I’ll nuclear issues on Capitol Hill and I with in Seattle, with the occasional winter never forget my two years at SBC and painting, golfing, charity committees week at a Tucson ranch. That’s the way love every bit of news from you. and working out to keep the tired old the world turns for us Ottenbergs. Becky Towell McNair: Who bones in some kind of shape—actually, Isabel Burch: I have six grandsons could not be proud of the financial “bones” is a misnomer as many have and one granddaughter whose name is contribution from our Class of ’60? now been replaced with titanium! Chil- Isabel. My grandchildren range in age Congratulations to us! Have so enjoyed dren and grandchildren all in California from 7 to 21, and I thoroughly enjoy photos and reports of 1960 mini re- though oldest spent summer here being with them whenever it happens. unions around the country. Keeping in with us while interning. Autumn travel My younger son, Charlie Hall, is the touch is heartwarming. On our trek to to Portugal and occasional travels to drummer in an Indie Rock Band called of interviews with business leaders Virginia last spring we enjoyed seeing California to visit family—altogether, the War on Drugs. They are about to that I host on the PBS affiliate here Susan Hendricks Slayman, Carolyn life is good. release their new album and start with rebroadcast on the NPR station. I King Ratcliffe, Patti Powell Pusey Ginger Newman Blanchard: We touring in this county and abroad. I am contribute occasional columns to the and Ginger Newman Blanchard. bought a house in Amherst last year, going to Portland, Maine, for the start Dallas Morning News and also do some Emailing with A Massie Hill keeps me spending half of the year here and of the tour and will also go to Charlotte writing for a couple of arts magazines. updated on classmates I love to see half in Vero Beach, Fla.; we still have with my sister-in-law, Patricia Coxe Lucy Martin Gianino: I am still also. If all goes well, our family plans to Kenmore farm right around the corner. Ware ’59, to hear the concert there in real estate in NYC, I do some acting join the masses at Machu Picchu this I’ve been playing a lot of golf, weeding with her daughter Mary Ware Gibson when called and am very active with Christmas. Altitude pills ordered! and keeping up with our family that is ’83, who lives in Charlotte. my church, St. Bart’s. I was on the Katie Mendelson McDonald: spread out. We enjoyed visiting with Gale Young Walker: Warm greet- committee to find a new minister, who HOLA! Here in Madrid for a month or Patti Pusey and seeing Carolyn ings from Vancouver, Canada, to my is now fully established. Jack and so, enjoying our old home, and lots of Ratcliff and Clyde, who gave us a boat sister classmates of 1960. Here is a I spent the summer on Fire Island, old friends, loads of art exhibitions, food tour with Becky McNair and Bill and speed-bio: after graduating, I taught in where we have had constant visitors, and wine! I am a member of Amer- Susie Slayman and Kelson. We have NYC for 14 years, I met and married a mostly our three children and their chil- ican Women’s Club since 1967 and met Meredith Woo and her husband; Yorkshire physicist and moved to dren, who now number six. Both Lura held book club meeting last week. A matter of fact, they came for dinner, Canada. David and I have a daughter and I are thrilled with our class giving SURPRISE when Ginny Carpenter ’67, a which was fun. Elizabeth. I taught on a part-time basis total of $606,691, representing 42.4% member whom I had met once before, Nancy Corson Gibbes: I had a at University of British Columbia, super- participation for the fiscal year ending said she had been back to Sweet Briar nice visit with Heidi Wood Hud- vising student teachers. I travel about in June 2017. Bravo to all who pitched for her 50th Reunion! We have become dleston in early July at my place on often, delightfully crossing paths, from in!!! And, yes, my hair is still purple! new friends, shared many memories the coast of South Carolina. Later that time to time, with classmates Norris Lura Coleman Wampler: I am about our happy times on campus, and month, Martha Boyd McFadden (who Smith, Kadri Niider, Grace Suttle happy to say Fred and I also visited look forward to seeing her on my next was in our freshman class) and I took with whom I e-correspond regularly, Jack and Lucy for a wonderful week- visit. Returning to West Palm Beach, a trip on the mail ship, The Hurtigruten, plus Elizabeth Howard—enriching end on Fire Island in August. Back in Fla.—anyone who can brave summer taking in the fjords of Norway—great connections, thank you SBC. These June, we enjoyed meeting President heat in Florida and visits the Sunshine trip, delicious food and beautiful days I have a new assignment: ex- Meredith Woo at a reception at the State, please give me a call! scenery. plaining U.S. political paradoxes to my Devon Horse Show here in Pennsylva- Elizabeth Meade Howard: My Maline Gilbert McCalla: I do see neighbors. Now there’s a challenge! nia. She is extremely impressive and new book, “Aging Famously: Follow Maydelle Foster Fason all the time Lee Cullum: Most of my time at spoke enthusiastically about some of Those You Admire to Living Long and and keep in close touch with Lee Cul- the moment I spend on “CEO,” a series her visions for SBC. We’re hanging in

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 43 Class Notes at our little farm and have no plans to move into a retirement community! 1961 Bette Hutchins Sharland 1724 Aberdeen Circle Crofton, MD 21114-1628 [email protected] Julie O’Neil Arnheim 41 Pitt Street Charleston, SC 29401 [email protected] Janie Arensberg Thompson volunteers for the Carnegie Museum Despite a neck fracture, acquired in September 2016 Marion Lucas Fleming at the “Antiques Roadshow” of Art, the Carnegie Science Center by falling off a ladder, the show went on: The home of in Orlando with a Boulle clock that had been a deco- and her alma mater, the Winchester Julie O’Neil Arnheim continues on the Charleston, S.C., ration in her grandfather Arthur Lucas’s Fox Theater Thurston School. Now that husband Preservation Society tours. Formerly the Plymouth Con- in Atlanta. When the theater was remodeled, it was Harry is retired, they can travel, enjoy gregational Church, a black church built in 1870, it was given to her grandmother. As an English copy from their children and grandchildren and renovated and converted into a home by the Arnheims in 1880 of the more-antique French ones, it is only take occasional jaunts to New York 1998 following years of neglect after the church outgrew valued at $6,000 to $8,000. It strikes as though it is for theater and museum exhibits. Of it in 1950 and its subsequent tenant, the Association for worth millions! course, the Pittsburgh sports teams the Blind, moved to larger quarters. always rate enthusiastic cheers. Mary Denny Scott Wray asks mountain home. Suzanne sends best belong to the same chapter. Also in if any of us will be in N.Y.C. the first wishes to her many classmates facing Sweden, her eldest daughter, Helena weekend in December, as some were the same “reality checks!” Cloie Syquia Skarne, was 2016’s Miss last year. She declares, “Growin’ old Penny Stanton Meyer works Green Universe Sweden, and president ain’t for sissies.” Due to arthritis, one part-time at a garden center on Mary- of the student council at the University of her partial knees has been replaced land’s Eastern Shore and volunteers in of Stockholm. Before graduating from with a total one. She used to love to a first-grade classroom. In August, she Andover, her eldest grandson won a travel, but now “I love my house even visited son David and watched grand- scholarship for two years’ study in more, and treasure every day at home daughter Cassidy “hike up 14,000 Germany. Now stateside, he’s at the and the chance to be with family, footers” in Colorado. In September, she University of Chicago. Having had friends, and, sometimes, even alone.” visited Ireland. “Life is Good.” “many” joint replacements, she’s She looks forward to Molly Haskell’s Last summer, Lou Chapman known as “the bionic woman” out in visit to the Women’s Club, where Molly Hoffman saw Stuart Bohannan the Grand Canyon State. will discuss her new book on Steven Evans in North Carolina and Celia From New York, Molly Haskell Spielberg. Happy with her three sons Williams Dunn in Georgia. writes that her latest book, “Ste- and daughter-in-law, as well as three In June, Sheila Haskell Smith ven Spielberg: A Life in Films,” was grandsons and three granddaugh- and Lynn moved into a condo, bringing published by Yale University Press in ters—three ending boarding school memories of all the happy times in their January. Molly is on the lecture circuit and three in college—and each one home in the same beloved northeast now; and we, her classmates, will Julie O’Neil Arnheim and Martha inspires her. She urges, “Please, all, be Ohio neighborhood. Sheila adds, “We spend careful moments with her “lively, Ann Chandler Romoser healthy.” were so ready” to make their annual deeply informed” (NY Times) volume. Also in Richmond, Susie Prichard fall trip to New England in September. Nancy Coppedge Lynn and cool, rainy summer in Cashiers. I have Pace says, “Hi to all my SBC class- Linda Macarthur Hollis and Bob Jerry spend three and a half months mates! Those were some of the best enjoy their home near Asheville, N.C., in Maine every summer. “We are on a kept up with Sweet Briar through my years of my life! Great memories!” where they both golf, Linda paints delightful spot, right on the water— goddaughter, Mary Pope Hutson ’83. Now, in Midlothian, Va., she’s enjoying and works in clay, and Bob sings. In Mere Point, just 25 minutes out from We are very proud of all that has been accomplished at the school. We’ve friends and family and proud of her September, they visited New England, Brunswick. Nearby is Rue Wallace six grandchildren. One granddaugh- calling on their son and daughter-in- Judd, who summers at East Boothbay. had good visits with Celia Williams ter, a graduate of Virginia Tech, is in law and friends in Connecticut, then on “We try to meet up several times for Dunn, Stuart Bohannan Evans, the grad school at William and Mary, and to their timeshare at the Trapp Family lunch. She is as lovely as ever! This Storey twins and Louise Chapman another has graduated from VMI. Susie Lodge and friends in Vermont. Another past December I was visiting N.Y.C. Hoffman. Great connecting with old monitors her investment properties stop was at the Continuing Care and had a mini-reunion with several friends!” when not playing tennis, volunteering Retirement Community, where Bob’s classmates—Bee, Rue, Catherine, Julie O’Neil Arnheim resumed or reading. older brother and his wife reside, a visit Mary Denny, Jeanie and Celia, her interest in French and took Suzanne Seaman Berry was se- with their nearby niece and nephew plus others I know I must be omitting. a College of Charleston summer riously injured in a three-vehicle colli- and on to Boston to call on a former Great fun! I keep busy playing mahjong internship class in Paris from mid-May sion the day before Thanksgiving 2015. roommate from her N.Y.C. days. Near once a week, reading, and just taking to mid-July, where she worked as a Hip surgery followed in September the Hartford airport, they spent time care of Jerry and myself. Winter well, translator for a French non-governmen- 2016, a knee replacement last August, with two granddaughters, one a high everyone!” tal organization. She translated survey responses written by rural Afghans in and “they think the other knee will need school English teacher and the other a Margaret Wadman Cafasso re- to be done. They are not sure I will ever senior at Vassar. cently moved from Long Island, N.Y., to English into French and translated for be able to walk unaided.” She and Fritz An Arizona resident for 16 years, Delray Beach, Fla. She and Bisou, her Afghan speakers at conferences. The latter drove her to purchase hearing had already decided to sell their house Susan Robinson Syquia has joined Chihuahua, escape the hot summers and move to Westminster Canterbury in the Society of Mayflower Descendants, by renting—until mid-October—in the aids, as “one needs to hear well in Charlottesville. Fritz has some memory as have her younger daughter and Berkshires near Tanglewood. order to translate well.” Last year, she issues; so, despite missing their house, her daughter, the latter two being From North Carolina, Scottie organized a successful reunion of her they know “it was time” to leave their residents of Durjsholm, Sweden; all Small Johnson notes, “It has been a ’59-’60 Junior Year in France group

44 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes in Charleston and maintains their blog grandchildren often and are grateful all nightly from Charlottesville our senior Betty Stanly Cates heard from and Facebook presence. are thriving.” year to court the love of his life, then Susan Alexander that she stayed high Martha Ann Chandler Romoser From New Hampshire, Bee living in Dew with roommate Maria.” and dry and did not even lose power, but and husband Bill visited with Julie Newman Thayer tells us that, after Laura is singing at the Taizé ecumen- many of her friends have lost everything. O’Neil Arnheim in Charleston, S.C., 54 years of marriage, she placed Brad ical prayer service on Mondays at the In August Betty attended the 100th on a Thanksgiving get-away visiting in “the experienced, gentle hands” at a beautiful Chapel of the Holy Cross in anniversary of Skyland Camp in Clyde, Southern friends, leaving their own Continuing Care Retirement Community Sedona. N.C., where she spent 13 summers. horses but connecting with Charles- in Hanover. They’ve taken an apartment Bette Hutchins Sharland Her cousin is now owner of the camp. ton’s counterparts for an open carriage nearby, so she can visit daily. Bee attended her high school class reunion Betty reports that Helen Murchison Lane ride and history tour of the old city. was joyfully present at the September in Charleston, mostly to visit with her ’46, was also a Skylander and was in Both Faith Bullis Mace and Julie have inauguration of Sweet Briar’s new co-secretary, Julie, over a long dinner. attendance at the reunion. Speaking of visited their mini-ranch in the Blue president, Meredith Woo, who will After all the rains that her neighbor- reunions, Betty plans to be at our 55th Ridge Mountains. bring Sweet Briar into the twenty-first hood, like many in the country, received in June 2018 and urges everyone to Julie informs us that Kay Prothro century.” last summer, Bette is thankful her come too! Nancy Dixon Brown intends Yeager received the 2015 Woodrow Sue Aborn Cunningham is in house hasn’t slid down the hill onto the to be there and is looking forward B. Seals Laity Award, from the Perkins assisted living in Cape Cod Senior flood plain below it. to seeing classmates and meeting School of Theology at Southern Meth- Residences in Bourne, Mass. Julie vis- President Woo. odist University, honoring her many ited her on Jan. 22, 2015, just before Julia Fort Lowe and Bob moved contributions there. She notes that Kay, a great blizzard snowed the area in; 1962 to Nashville in 2013 and are happily a chemistry major at SBC, supports hu- together they visited Martha’s Vineyard, Parry Ellice Adam situated there. About a year and a half manities and social science programs where Sue had lived for many years. 33 Pleasant Run Rd. ago, Julia had a stroke but says she in broad-based philanthropic efforts Maria Garnett Hood believes Hemington, NJ 08822 is doing pretty well with therapy three championing education. Her current that staying affiliated with Camp (908)-782-3754 times a week. She uses a walker and activities include chairing Yellowstone Greenbrier is keeping Bob and her [email protected] can “get out and about and do pleasant Forever, the merged entity of the young. “After the flood of 2016 that The biggest news event was our things” and is hoping to attend Yellowstone Association and the Yellow- devastated Greenbrier County, W.Va., 55th reunion! It was a wonderful Reunion. Laura Lee Brown and Steve stone Park Foundation, which she had even the lovely Greenbrier Hotel, we weekend buzzing with enthusiasm had an “amazing time with Ginger chaired, and serving as one of three had a perfectly beautiful summer this about our school’s revitalization under Cates Mitchell and Mitch, visiting mentors for the Air Force Civic Leaders year! Although last year we had yet the outstanding guidance of President their farm and sharing agrarian proj- Group. Kay’s lifetime of community to begin camp when the flood hit, we Meredith Woo. ects and advice.” Laura Lee says their leadership and service, e.g. as mayor were entirely set up and had our staff Classmates in attendance were vegetable garden and orchard continue of Wichita Falls, Texas, from 1996 to of counselors there in training for the to supply their hotel restaurant in Martha Baum Carlton, Ginger 2000, is rare indeed. She is the mother season. A faulty state gauge left us Louisville. They opened their seventh Borah Meislahn, Laura Connerat of two daughters and has four grand- somewhat unprepared, but all we had Lawton, Mary Hannah, Brooke hotel in Nashville in May and continue children—all in college. The oldest, to do for safety was to walk out of our Hamilton Mackinnon, Ann Carter to travel nationally and internationally a graduate of University of Michigan, gate and up the hill to a beautifully Lee Gravely, Fran Oliver Palmer, to buy art for their hotels. is a second-year graduate student at equipped shelter, which took care of Jocelyn Palmer Connors, Kim Nerissa vom Baur Roehrs writes University of Georgia playing the tuba. the staff for a few days as we dug out Patmore Cool, Betsy Pearson Grif- from Germany that she visits a different A granddaughter is in her first year in preparation for the ’16 session of fin, Mary Jane Shroder Hubbard, European city every year sponsored of a master’s in public policy at Ohio camp. An incredible staff, businesses Barbara Sublett Guthery, Bettye by the Leipzig Art Museum—most State University; she graduated from that rushed such things as making new Thomas Chambers, Mina Walker recently Istanbul, London and Lisbon— Southwestern University in Georgetown, tents and delivering new mattresses, Wood, and yours truly. and was looking forward to Barcelona Texas, last spring—Southwestern and lovely campers made everything The inspiring, positive outlook was this fall, but her husband fell and broke being the oldest university in Texas. A run well, and we were among the evident in every corner. Please join in his leg; so they had to cancel. Nerissa grandson is a senior at Texas A&M ma- lucky ones in the county. Restrictions celebrating the fantastic future of our stays in touch with Cathy Detmar joring in mechanical engineering, and on some water sports was our only alma mater. Nicholls in Somerset, England—they her youngest grandson is a freshman drawback for the first session.” Fall visited last year. Cathy recently had at the University of Michigan majoring finds Maria back one the eastern shore knee surgery. in fiber arts. of Virginia on their small farm, now Harriet Reese Jensen has been Since the near closure of Sweet almost entirely wooded. She volunteers 1963 on the move. In July she, her daughter Allie Stemmons Simon Briar two years ago, Lynchburg resident at a new local hospital and at the and two teenaged granddaughters 3701 Guadalajara Ct. Judy Greer Schulz recounts “most of schools. “I still miss teaching after visited family and friends on the East Irving, TX 75062 my volunteer energy has been focused twelve years of retirement, but I enjoy Coast. In August she and two friends [email protected] on whatever I can do to help there.” tutoring to keep my hand in what was enjoyed opera evenings in the old Ro- Sadly, I must start with the news Last year she taught as an adjunct a fantastic career. We have fourteen man Arena in Verona—they saw/heard of the death of our classmate, Joan piano teacher, played a piano recital grandchildren, including the steps; “Aida” and “Nabucco.” Shortly, she is Newhall, on March 2, 2017. We in the Gager series, participated in the are in the same couples book club for going to the Greek island of Simi. Har- extend our sympathy to her family. Sweet Work Weeks of campus cleanup, 44 years; and feel very lucky to be able riet says that will be her final trip of the Hurricane Harvey is on everybody’s planned to attend the inauguration of to have winters in the country on the year but “at our age one can’t afford to mind—almost every one of you I Meredith Woo, and now looks forward eastern shore of Virginia and summers wait too long.” heard from expressed sympathy for to the new initiatives for the College. in West Virginia.” Pricilla Langley Pay’s sister lives Texas and wanted to know how badly She keeps up with Mary Denny, A week spent with Knoxville friends in Houston so she is carefully watching I had been impacted. Thanks for your Celia, and Jane Garst Lewis, as at Camp Greenbrier’s House Parties that situation. Her granddaughters are concern, but being in the Dallas area, well as many Lynchburg alumnae. after-camp session reacquainted Julie grown—one is a geologist working for we only got a lot of rain and a lot of She adds, “Steve and I enjoy the 44th and Maria and together they phoned a U.S. oil company, one a geophysi- evacuees from the south. Others were year in our Lynchburg home and our Laura Conway Nason in Arizona. cist, one a sailmaker about to join the not so lucky. Marta Sweet Colangelo many local activities and friends. Cecily Julie reports the sad news that Jack, merchant Navy, and the last is starting wrote on Aug. 31, “Currently flooded is teaching law at Boston University, Laura’s husband of 55 years, passed university to study astrophysics! out of my house, but safe and dry with where her son is a freshman. Garth has away last May, after a long struggle Impressive group! Her grandsons are friends and grateful to have the warm his own financial consulting business with spinal stenosis. Julie adds, “We still in school. support of family and friends and flood in Rye, N.Y., and a son at SMU. Though all remember seeing Jack’s gray Mer- Lynn Carol Blau is having a insurance!” not close in distance, we visit the five cedes 190SL convertible arrive almost milestone year—one daughter just

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 45 Class Notes had her 50th birthday, Lynn turned completely closed down her barn “after this summer has been back and forth It made me particularly appreciative the big 75, and her mom will be 100 50 years of (happy) chores,” which is to Sweet Briar for board meetings while of news from Cherry Brown Peters: in November! Lynn and Jeffrey visit quite a big change in her life— doesn’t we prepare for the roll-out of curric- “I am busy, but not climbing mountains daughter Alex and family in Nashville, miss the winter chores though. ulum revisions and tuition reset—ex- or accomplishing great things! I am, where Alex has an exhibition of her Prue Gay Stuhr and Ed took citing, innovative and long overdue however, VERY excited for my darling latest art work in a gallery, and plan to their annual trip to the Williamstown, changes at our college. And after a niece, Heather Mathews. Heather is a visit daughter Elizabeth and her family, Mass., Theatre Festival—one play they dogless year, we have become the film editor in L.A., and her most recent who are moving to Vancouver, B.C., for saw was “Actually,” which deals with proud owners of Sophie, an 8-year-old work, a documentary, won the Social a year while Elizabeth opens the Parc sexual consent vs. sexual abuse on Golden Retriever who is quite possibly Justice Film of the Year Award from the Vancouver Hotel and restaurants. college campuses and is scheduled for the sweetest dog on the planet! Life Southern Poverty Law Center, among Cynthia Hubard Spangler and off-Broadway. Prue says it would be is good. Everyone please support the other awards. It was shown on MTV Charles have combined travel and a fine play to be presented on college annual fund and make your plans to in October, and it has been shown at family—they joined her son and family campuses. In August they had family attend Reunion. Best to all - Allie numerous film festivals around the on a trip to London and Edinburgh, birthday celebrations with two of Ed’s country. I’m happy here in Richmond, then visited his daughter and family daughters and five grandchildren—a and I’m also really proud of Sweet in Stockholm and Oslo. Recently they junior in college, senior in high school 1966 Briar!” were at their cabin on Lake McDonald and one in 8th grade, plus 11-year old Keenan Kelsey I am writing this in 106* weather, in Montana when they were evacuated twin boys. They continue to be involved 101 Hawthorne Avenue and no air conditioning—who says because of a nearby forest fire. Fortu- with the annual dog show for the Larkspur, CA 94939-1305 there is no global warming complicat- nately the cabins are safe. regional Dalmatian Club and while they [email protected] ing our weather patterns? McNair Currie Maxwell and Bob lost their 13-year-old Dalmatian, Cole, No one on the West Coast knows Many of us had travel in our news, spent September in Wrightsville, N.C., they still have 7-year-old Ticket. what Chautauqua, N.Y., is—but most with health and family as runner-ups: where they rented a house and invited Cynthia Livingstone Gibert con- of you will know! In August, myself Jane Utley Strickler wrote: “Had a friends and family. Then they attended tinues to work at the Veterans Affairs and SBC roommates Susan Sudduth great summer traveling from Atlanta the Highland Games in Laurinburg, Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Hiller, Jane Nelson, and Penn Wil- to Highlands, N.C., Lake Burton, N.C., an area full of Scottish descen- This past summer she visited a girls’ lets Fullerton joined Marcy Fisher and Santa Fe & Taos New Mexico. dants where different clans will show school in Kenema, Sierra Leone, which as guests of Suzy Mosley Helm and Playing tennis, going to ballet classes their wares. McNair has had two ban- is supported in part by her church. Nelson. It was a grand reunion. Others and working part-time for St. Philips ners made for “McNair” and “Currie.” Cynthia says there are few all-girls that Suzy hosted during the summer bookstore. Daughter Kathryn is a Katharine Blackford Collins re- schools in Sierra Leone and visiting the include Makanah Dunham Morriss, pediatrician with 4 children in Augusta. cently completed a four-day backpack- girls in their classrooms reminded her and Betty Booker Morriss. One night My oldest granddaughter is a freshman ing trip in the Wind River Mountains, of the benefits of an all-girls school. at dinner, I asked Suzy, “Do you collect at Georgia Tech. Daughter Leigh, a where she and John ventured for many Jane Yardley Amos is having fun anything?” “People.” she answered. chemical engineer, has a good job with years. She was encouraged by family with her fledgling one-woman cottage And so she does, as an active partic- DHL and lives close by.” and friends to take it up again and industry: “Jane’s Animals.” Check it ipant in Chautauqua’s embracing and Martha Madden Swanson: I had says the amazing light-weight gear out on Facebook or Instagram. She’s cultured lake community and an active my second knee replaced, so spent on the market and freeze-dried food also walking daily, doing water aerobics host and friend for many people. We much of this spring dealing with that have enabled her to trim her load to 25 and learning “shape singing.” Huh? had a wonderful time. And Nelson is with lots of time at physical therapy. I pounds. She trekked in Peru last fall for Explanation please, Jane! still a honey! recovered in time for us to take a North five days, going as high as 16,600 ft. Jane Goodrich heard Presi- For me, it was the final trip of a Cape cruise up the coast of Norway Katharine lives mostly in Seattle with dent Woo speak in Richmond and very busy summer, starting with SBC all the way to the northernmost piece her younger son and two grandsons thought everyone there was favorably reunion in May, then France (Burgun- of land in Europe. The scenery was (10 and 7) and spends some winter impressed with her and her message. dy) on a cathedral pilgrimage, July amazing the whole trip with lots of fjord months with her older son and another Lee Kucewicz Parham sent as her 4 in Tahoe, Hawaii with 11-year-old cruising. Last fall we spent two weeks grandson in La Manzanilla, Jalisco, contribution to these notes “No one grandson to explore the active volcano, in Italy visiting friends in the very north Mexico. She also has her Wyoming can top your bear story!” So here goes. then Mexico for my daughter’s 40th and then in southern Tuscany. We home, which fell into the “total dark- Heinz and I (Allie Stemmons Simon) birthday, and finally N.Y. Back in March, followed that up with a week in London ness” zone during the recent eclipse, spent the summer at our home in I realized that I’d been telling myself, with our daughter, taking in an NFL and she had a full house for that Snowmass Village, Col., almost 9,000 “I won’t be able to go here or there; I game while we were there. We’ll be special experience. Too late for our last ft. up in the mountains. Keitt Mathe- won’t ever see this; I can’t do this.” My back in London this year for Christmas. class notes, Betsy Parker McColl told son Wood and Frank came to visit for world had gotten very small. I needed Otherwise, we go to the theater and of a visit from Katharine last November a few days and were sitting downstairs perspective, I needed to change the sporting events and classes taught by during which they went to Greenville reading early one morning when a narrative, so that inevitable age and retired Georgetown faculty. Happy to be to visit Penny Pamplin Reeves, who large black bear came strolling across body breakdowns don’t define me. All reasonably healthy and mobile. lives in an Alzheimer’s home. Betsy our patio right outside the windows the travel helped! Mary Anne Calhoun Farmer (aka said, “We were not totally sure she where they were! They both grabbed I am also politically active, having “Coon”): This year went by so fast! knew who we were, but she joined us phones and iPads and took pictures. been one of thousands at the Women’s Or, are we just getting older??! We in the chorus of “Build Me a Cabin in This bear, or one of his relatives, has March in D.C. Jane Nelson and Randi did manage to get our whole family the Corner of Glory Land” and that was apparently adopted our street because Miles Long were also there. Jane together (16 of us now!), at Tybee enough. She is being well taken care of everyone has seen him/her and he writes, “Quite a momentous—and Island, Ga. It was happy chaos, and, by a staff that loves her.” has returned to us several times and perhaps historical—day. WOW as to oh, the childhood joys of time at the Pat Calkins Wilder says, “I torn down a number of choke-cherry how many there! It was great being beach! Tom and I also managed a don’t know about the rest of you, but trees and service berry bushes in our with Randi - and joined by Melissa and relaxing, long weekend in beautiful I am quite stunned to find that I have yard. It’s one of the joys of living in granddaughters.” (She also did a few Bermuda. We were there right before reached the elevated age of 75! The the mountains when the bears are days of Sweet Work Weeks on the SBC America’s Cup Challenge and were number does not seem to have any getting ready to hibernate. Keitt and campus and was thoroughly pleased able to watch some of the teams prac- connection to me at all!” Pat is still Frank went on to visit daughter Helen but thoroughly exhausted!) Jane is ticing their sailing. But I guess the trip traveling and photographing on her in Denver and son Gordon in Kansas involved with some challenging work we looked forward to was a river cruise own “in places which are becoming City, where they witnessed the eclipse. with the Vestry at St. Paul’s Episcopal up the Hudson River Valley in October: a little more dodgy, both the general Grandson Graham has just started in Richmond. She hosted a large bi-an- our 50th anniversary!! It has been a areas and the specific back streets,” college and his brother Kenton is a nual family reunion at her family home good year, with newest grandson Henry but is loving every minute of it. She has freshman in high school. My only travel in Culpeper, and it was wonderful! Fisher Breaux turning ONE. But it’s

46 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes amazing how problems or crises pop have always wished I had been able I feel pulled towards being near my at duplicate bridge tournaments and up—as soon as you solve one, another to graduate with our class. Never have grandkids too, as much as possible. Do will be on a Baltic Sea cruise with our comes along—so my quote is I.A.S.: I known such smart, kind, creative any of you experience this same “pull”? husbands in September. We think there It’s Always Something! Excited for SBC and spirited women! Remember that I was not prepared for the tsunami of will be bridge on board!” and the new president. Kemble White was my boyfriend at feelings they evoke. I enjoy still keeping Randi Miles Long: I finally got to- Abby Patterson Shultis: A W&L when I was 18 and 19. Second my hand in with teaching creative writ- gether—on Shutterfly, in two volumes wonderful week in Seattle with my marriage is delicious for both of us, 17 ing part-time in the local school and in with 450 pictures and lots of text—my grandkids went by too fast. I stay busy years. I will make another gift to SBC. my home. It is such rewarding work. Swedish family history, including a with horse activities and lawn and Hooray for Philip Stone. Did we ever Keenan and I have vowed to set up a mountain of research on the emigration garden work when I am home. I plan think he could outdo even himself. two-person “Writer’s Support Group” movement from Sweden. The docents to go to Raleigh soon for a reception Sally Kalber Fiedler: Hope every- this fall to keep us going with our own at the Family History Center at the for President Woo. I did drive through one enjoyed Reunion as much as we writing projects. Stay tuned-ha! Each nearby Mormon Temple campus were the SBC campus on my way back did! SBC is thriving and the future looks time I read of the exciting things going so helpful as I made my way through from seeing family and friends in N.J. bright! We did another cross-country on at Sweet Briar, I am filled with pride. so many of the parish books online. earlier this summer. It was wonderful, drive in June for our grandson Alex’s And I am also more deeply aware of I was motivated to do this project of course! graduation from middle school, in how important it is for us not to falter that I have put off for years as a very Natalie Roberts Funk: We’ve Portland, Ore. Drove nearly 8,000 miles in our support of the school. With Mer- good friend developed early-onset been busy traveling, mostly to Wil- and visited five National Parks as well. edith Woo taking up the helm this fall, Alzheimer’s. A trip to Sweden this June liamsburg and the Tidewater area of We feel so blessed. Hope the year I feel so much confidence in the future with husband Herb, my sister Becki and Virginia. Last year we cruised through ahead is a happy, healthy one for all! of our beloved college. Sending love my nephew, enabled us to meet over the Panama Canal and just returned Kit Snydor is traveling, though not to all of you and can’t wait to catch up 75 relatives (about 45 new relatives). from a cruise from Boston to Montreal by her choice. She writes: Big change with you in the magazine!” Other news: Jane Nelson and I went via Nova Scotia. The thing I liked least for us, moving after 43 years on the Eleanor Griggs Diemar echoes together to the Women’s March in about this past year is losing my moth- mountainside—to Lynchburg, Va. Sad, feelings we share about SBC: “I was Washington in January. Being part of er to congestive heart failure. The good but time. very impressed with our President’s an Interfaith group now has meant so thing is we were able to spend her Susan Sudduth Hiller writes recent letter. It all sounds very positive, much to me. And I am looking forward next-to-last week with her, watching about three F-words: Family: I was able fingers crossed.” She continues, “We to catching up with Penn Mullin ships off the Virginia Beach coast. She to spend last Christmas with daughter have five children. The boys (four of Fullerton after a busy summer. really loved that—and sending me Penn and family in New York City; them) are married and have given us Harriette Horsey Sturges to the Internet to find out which ship then we all joined husband Chuck for 11 grandchildren! Oldest is 15 and just included a response about favorite it was. We also welcomed two new skiing at Snowmass. Penn and her two got her driving permit! Our youngest is books: “Life continues to be fascinating great-grandnieces and are expecting were with us in Little Rock in July for one and she just started walking! They and challenging. Milestones include another in a couple of months. Both almost a week of swimming, shopping, are all scattered and live in Florida, our granddaughter getting her learner’s Jeff and I are fairly active in our church horseback riding, dining, etc. How I Colorado, New Jersey, D.C, and St. permit and a younger sister turning and are keeping busy with family. We do love those people!!! The annual Louis. If anyone is still in St. Louis, my 70. One sister is still in her sixties. A now have three grandchildren in Hiller reunion took place in Gatlinburg. family there would love to meet you! refugee family with 11 children our college and one graduating high school The results of the horrible forest fire I work pretty much full-time doing a church helped in the 70’s are becom- next year. were still evident in spots. I will have variety of things that I love at our local ing grandparents. I am the matriarch of Kathleen Sheahan Reid: Kemble my usual Thanksgiving trip to New library. Bob has Parkinson’s, which is the family now. Sound familiar to any- and I live in Santa Barbara, Calif., Hampshire to be with my brother and challenging. I keep up with and see one? Books I love: ‘Anything’ by Louise to this day. He is practicing law still, his family. Our precious Cardigan Corgi, occasionally my roommate Evie Day Penny, who writes mysteries based in and I do the frequent development Finian, is now more than 16 years old Butler. Gracie Butler and I live very Canada. Her chief character, Armand consulting for universities and private and unable to walk. However, as my near each other, and our husbands Gamache, is a great role model of how schools, especially in capital campaign grandson says, he is still a “sprighty” went to Princeton together—we keep one should live. Her prose is beautiful planning. We travel across the world boy. Faith: I made a major decision to talking about getting together. Maybe as well. The Right Reverend Steven enjoying Maui with family most, and join St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church this year! Charleston, a bishop in the Episcopal enjoy the benefit of three adult children last spring; how thrilled I was that Penny Steketee Gooch has church, wrote a short but fascinating and five grandchildren. Our Houston SBC roomie Jane Nelson came for somehow been omitted from our news non-fiction, ‘The Four Vision Quests of family just underwent the fury of my confirmation!! I lump into the updates, and that has been our loss. Jesus.’ If you are interested in Native Harvey. They say that they are down “faith” topic the work that I do as a lay We had a gap in publication, but for American Culture and perhaps seeing to a loaf of bread. We suffer for them chaplain, hospice volunteer and grief whatever part I had, I am so sorry. the ministry of Jesus through a differ- and know that they are strong. My son, counselor. Friends: The annual room- She too has been coping with her ent lens, this is worth reading. Enjoy.” Jim, went to the Cornell School of Hotel mates reunion was at Chautauqua this husband’s health, as he is dying of Thanks to all who responded, and Restaurant Management and is a year, and has already been described. lung and bone cancer. She writes: “I blessings to each of our class. And smart and fair manager in a large L.A. A number of other friends, both here in continue to support SBC. I hope Wick thanks to Gracie Butler Johnson for hotel with restaurants. We dine there a Little Rock and in other locations, are Nalle is ok what with Hurricane Harvey. being our class fund agent. She con- lot and for free. We nearly saw Gracie so very important to me, as well. So … I send my prayers to Houston.” fesses to being the person who always Butler on a recent visit here, but I one word: blessed. Marcia Pace Lindstrom wrote: “It says yes; so her plate is often over-full was to have surgery on my kidneys, Penn Willets Fullerton also was special for me to be one of three (sound familiar to anyone?) But she which were damaged, so we’ll hope emphasizes family: “It’s been a great classmates at Reunion 2017 in June. continues to inspire us to continue to for another visit. I keep up with Cindy year, full of many blessings: grandkids, There I was, a transfer after two years, give, for the SBC story is extraordinary Paugh, Di Simrell, late Shelley Turn- reunions with friends, time to spend in with Keenan, our class representative, and its future is bright. er’s family, Peg Minnick, and where my rose garden, fly fishing adventures, and Gracie Butler Johnson, our fund are Tolly Greer, Vicki Chainski, Nan- and good health to enjoy all of these. agent. After being inspired with Saving cy Conkle and Sheila Mahoney? Lin Chautauqua was a perfect venue for a Sweet Briar and attending our 50th Campbell stabilized me through mini-reunion, with a tantalizing array of Reunion in 2016, I was compelled to seizures before the kidneys faltered speakers and concerts to choose from go back to celebrate Phillip Stone and and I am grateful. I can see all of your each day to enjoy together. We feel meet our new president. It was won- faces now, and feel that we were the lucky it’s worked out for us 4 to meet derful to be on our gorgeous campus best quality class Sweet Briar ever had, somewhere every year! I think that my with perfect weather. Exciting times are or have—Ph.D. in history just this year mantra might be: Seize the Day! There ahead for our beloved college. Jeannie at age 72! Welcome new president. I are so many things I want to do. Yet Jackson Exum and I love meeting

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Maui; if anyone out there has a contact our drive through the Cascades and of the reunion particulars: “We had a they will share, I’d appreciate it!” Our other NW national parks. We’ll stop in wonderful reunion and surely missed 1967 prayers are with you, Susan. My son Bellingham, Wash., to visit our friend those that could not attend. There Gail Robins O’Quin has been in Houston working claims for and my former FAA manager before we were 54 of us ’67ers there plus 10 2651 Kleinert Ave State Farm; his reports of the devasta- start south into Oregon then Northern family members, special friends and Baton Rouge, LA 70806-6823 tion are terrible. California to visit friends of my traveling husbands. What a turnout!! We even [email protected] Dolly Caballero Garcia sent re- companion, Genia. Next stop will be won an award for largest attendance What a wonderful 50th we had in gards to everyone. She could not come Santa Barbara to visit yet another for the 50th ever and were the biggest June! The Class of 1967 really shined. to the reunion because four of her FAA friend plus the Reagan and Nixon % of givers to the college fund. Gail We won the attendance award with grandchildren graduated around that libraries. We’ll swing southeast into and I were very proud to accept these the most alumnae attending Reunion time. How wonderful! I’m just hopeful Death Valley as we begin our trip home, awards for the class (and not have to as well as the award for the highest my last will get out of kindergarten! with a stop in Houston to visit 2 more store and polish them). Reunion started percentage of classmates giving. Well Sandi Hoag Ippolito “cannot friends before the final 3-day push to Friday night with a Memorial Service to done, ladies (I did have to laugh—the believe that it is 50 years … time has Virginia by August 24.” Wow! I’m worn honor our former classmates to be fol- class was presented with a large silver flown! I was only part of the class for out reading! lowed with a weekend full of wonderful bowl for each of the awards. Judi one year, but I still feel the tug. I was Lang Lloveras came to Reunion meals, much chatting and catching up Bensen Stigle and I accepted the back for a moment, this past spring. I with her daughter, Lucia Gomez Sher- and very interesting alumnae colleges awards. I noticed a funny expression on brought funds from a quilt raffle that I man, who flew to Dulles International on campus. Bonnie Blew Pierie Judi’s face; she was concerned about had held, and I accompanied a good Airport from her home in SW Florida, even went to the barn to enjoy rides. where she would put the bowls as well friend, Katrina Bills, to pick up a picked Lang up and drove them both to We cheered her on! My dear friend as keep them polished! Fortunately, the horse to carry into retirement. I won’t SBC for the class party on Friday night Ross was totally enchanted by the awards stay at the College!) be able to be there for the reunion but and the Saturday breakfast. The family campus and the special ladies of the Carol Randolph Barr sent I’d LOVE to hear all the happenings are all big-time soccer players and had class. We thank Maria Wiglesworth comments prior to the reunion: “What a and I’d love to hear from anyone who play-offs on Sunday; so they were un- Hemmings and Janie Willingham great group ... so I looked at the picture remembers a red head, Sandi Hoag, able to make the gala Saturday night. I McNabb and Toots Dalton for of the Class of 1966 in the latest pub- from our first year.” enjoyed visiting Lang and Lucia—who, their pictures to come and beautiful lication from SBC—the honor roll of We had another one-year-er, btw, is darling—Lang and I giggled scrapbook. We were off for a two-week donors—and I could only identify about Susan Soriero Galbreath—“I was about some of our train trips from New cruise of the Rhine and then home five of them. Even got the year book only at Sweet Briar for a year, but my Orleans to SBC. to await for the ‘snowbirds’ return to out and still didn’t recognize many husband and I are planning to attend. Norvell Jones reports that Florida. Hugs to all!!” We all hope you of them, and I knew and was friends I went back for our 25th, but haven’t Reunion was Grand—as we all know! had minimal damage from Irma! with a bunch of them. Think we have seen the campus since then. I am “I had a perfect time and loved seeing Peggy Patterson Pittman was changed that much too ...? probably really looking forward to the weekend! everyone and am so very glad that I “so sorry to miss the 50th, but had a ... but if I don’t look in the mirror, I am Sweet Briar does get into one’s blood!” went and especially that Sweet Briar mini-Reunion in San Francisco with still the 23-year-old we all are, right?” Bonnie Mary Jackson had is still on the map. AMEN! Love and Judith Haskell McCarthy and Anne Most definitely—and I partied at already planned to host her girl cousins cheers to everyone!” Kern Uher, with Margaret Williams Reunion like I was 20—hope nobody on our reunion weekend so could not Bill and I had a wonderful time vis- Hurt on the phone. We had five days took pictures! get away. Lynn Gullett Strazzini iting with Virginia Stanley Douglas. of sheer fun ... sightseeing, eating, Susan Sumners Alloway also celebrated Beach Week XXIX rather She so enjoyed our time together—as laughing, and talking, talking, talking sent news before Reunion. She made than come to the reunion. I do believe did we. Afterward, she went to visit (can you imagine!). I am now settled in sure she correctly used a semi-colon. this written report might excuse her: her sister in Roanoke for some chilling the East Bay, ‘retired’ as an Episcopal Her first paper for Miss Sarah Ramage “Another girlfriend from my FAA work time. It poured down rain, which was priest after 28 years.” came back with 13! semi-colon errors, days and I (we call ourselves the fine following the gorgeous weather we Jane Stephenson Wilson reports, the same error, committed 13 times! Biennial Girls) take a 30-day USA road had for our weekend. Great that she “The reunion was fabulous. It was Such fun to remember Miss Ramage’s trip together every other year. We have got the chilling time because the family wonderful to see so many classmates. teaching—what an impression she driven as many as 9,000 miles on one went on a Scotland family trip with All looked beautiful, and so did the made on all of us freshmen! Susan is 33-day trip. Our primary destinations National Geographic in mid-June. “We campus.” I’ll have to say we do look a widow, mother of Nick, grandmother are national parks, national historic had so much fun … canoeing Loch pretty good for 72-year-olds! of River, retired Presbyterian minister, sites, and presidential libraries, but we Tay, kayaking with seals in the Sea of Maria Wiglesworth Hemmings painter and watcher of Gulf coast do stumble onto other fun stops like Arisaig, and hiking Glen Nevis. We all was a mainstay during the reunion, shorebirds. Susan also sent an update: the Corvette Museum and ski resorts rode the Harry Potter Train with kids in always ready to take on another task! “Night before last, Harvey, a category in the off season! We began doing this costume! Our group was such fun and She is “finally taking a drawing class four hurricane, made landfall at my in 2009. This summer will be our fifth we have all made great new friends. at the Silvermine art guild and loves it!! home, Rockport, Texas. Now a tropical trip. We are headed from my home One family from Dallas is joining us for And after 2.5 years of just working per storm, it has stalled over land and is in Charlottesville to Devil’s Tower in Thanksgiving in Sacramento. Truly a diem, I just may be adjusting to the ‘R’ dumping torrential rains. The resulting SE Wyoming, then on to Missoula, blessed summer!” word. Time for more classes! Mean- floods will almost certainly enter my Mont., to pick up another friend for Judi Stigle fills us in on some while I continue to work per diem and home (if they have not already done so), which is six feet above sea level on the Gulf of Mexico. I expect to lose everything. The good news is that in December I am moving to Maui, and now do not face the agonizing work of deciding which Navajo pots and rugs, which antiques, which artwork to sell, store, or ship. [What a positive outlook!] I imagine this disaster has touched many of our Sweet Briar sisters. I am very blessed, with family in Austin, and with resources. Many are Virginia Stanley Douglas and Anne Kern Uher and Judith Haskell not so fortunate, and I grieve with and family McCarthy (front), Peggy Patterson for them. P.S. I don’t know anyone in Lynn Gullett Strazzini Pittman (back)

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departure for 21 years in Holland in during heart bypass surgery—all when to visit the alma mater for the first ’67), Lang Lloveras (who came to my they were in the midst of downsizing time in 50 years and to find an instant wedding in Holland in ’67, and whom from 40 years of living in their large connection even to classmates I had I had not seen since then), and Lynn home near Boston. Otherwise, our never known well. Also to revive and Lyle, with whom I have fond spring oldest granddaughter is heading off embrace the awkward, embryonic me break memories. It’s still a blessing to to college, at Oregon State U, as far that walked those beautiful surround- be able to travel and explore the world, away as thinkable because she wants ings all that time ago, slogging slowly teach an occasional anthropology something very different. Our 2nd toward adulthood. The fire and focus of course, ballroom dance, and enjoy granddaughter is turning 16 tomorrow, the presenters at the reunion renewed retirement with my dance partner / thus starting on the road to driving my interest in Sweet Briar, as I am life partner Lee. Will be lecturing on a herself. That will be good since without sure it did for many others (hence this Peggy Handly Fitzgerald and Dick, cruise to Cuba at the end of September the oldest helping out, their mother first-ever contribution to Class Notes!). and Martha Meehan Elgar and Tom if the hurricane season allows.” (our daughter Elizabeth) will be going Hard on the heels of the reunion came Lynn Lyle agrees that our reunion crazy due to the fact that there are a rare visit from my conservationist was special. “Yes, the 50th was a blast! also twin 13-year-old granddaughters son, Daniel, flying in from his home in we are traveling while we can still walk It started early for me when Ginny bring up the rear in the family. I am Cambodia to see friends and family ... and hike and ski ...” Way to go, girl! Carpenter Delgado flew from Madrid getting in a little riding as Elizabeth in New York and Shelter Island. My Eleanor Marie Crossley has to Raleigh-Durham airport. We had a has a horse, which is especially fun husband, George, and I spent the exciting news: “David Rees (a good wonderful visit for several days before because we spend time “in the barn” rest of the summer helping him with Welshman) and I are getting married heading up to the reunion. We were together around the riding times. We’ll the paperwork to obtain non-profit Sept. 23 in our local Methodist Church, roommates senior year and hadn’t be here in Massachusetts getting our status for his organization, Fauna in and all our children, grandchildren, and seen each other since 1970, when bearings before heading south in late Focus—very exciting for us all. Since God willing, his sisters from the U.K. I visited her and Rafael and Kabu in October for our Venice, Fla., residence. we are both retired, we have the luxury will be here. It will be such fun all being Madrid. We had a lot to catch up on. At We are looking forward to seeing Judy together. My last wedding, to my late the reunion it was great to spend some Bensen Stigle down there, as she has husband, was decades ago; so I feel time with dear friends Glory McRae been busy traveling overseas rather lucky that at this age, I will still be able Bowen, Vicky Baker and Lee, than making her usual visit to her sister to make my vows standing up. We are Maria Wiglesworth Hemmings, and in Nantucket. Hope you are doing well planning a honeymoon trip to India in Stephanie Ewalt Coleman and Ron, and not affected by this storm season! the month of February. Will try to send and others. This is been a very good Our Venice area got some flooding, wedding pictures later.” Blessings to year for Jamie and me. We continue to but I believe our home is ok. Harvey you and David! split our time between his home near was one bad dude, and our hearts go Peggy Handly Fitzgerald and the St. Lawrence River in upstate New out to all the people coping with the Dick joined Martha Meehan Elgar York and my home in Raleigh. Luckily, aftermath [of Harvey and Irma].” and Tom in Marietta, Ga., to celebrate we have the same perspective on Priscilla Blackstock Kurz “was their 50th wedding anniversary June current affairs. After the election we thrilled to see so many classmates at 24, 2017. Congratulations! were energized to resist, especially in our 50th Reunion! So wonderful to hear Barbara Tillman Kelley also the area of the environment. We belong President Woo speak on two occasions thinks “we had a wonderful reunion - I to a Sunday school class called Care and see the great work of the Alumnae wish every member of our class could of Creation, and I joined an Indivisible Alliance. In August Rick and I cruised Jacquelin Stephenson Bennett and have been there. I think we all looked group. The most fun has been organiz- on the Danube, then spent extra time in her family on their sailboat great - after all, 70 is the new 50! No ing a small, informal interfaith lobbying Budapest and Prague. We came back news really. We have been traveling a group that met with environmental staff through Boston, went to Jacob’s Pillow lot as always and I continue to enjoy of both our U.S. senators to push for and visited relatives before returning to my volunteer work. Just waiting for the legislation that would mitigate climate St. Louis and our two terrific grand- of being masters of our own time, with awful summer weather to go away so I change. Sorry to go on about all this, sons.” the exception of that awful gym!” can get back outside to my garden.” but it has become my life’s passion. Carroll Randolph Barr “thor- Stephanie Ewalt Coleman Victoria J. Baker: “Lee and I It will be exciting to watch SBC under oughly enjoyed our 50th Reunion and hopes everyone avoided any fallout had a wonderful cruise to Hawaii last Woo’s promising leadership. I’m hoping agrees that it just couldn’t be that we from Harvey! “Ron & I are going to spring. But even more enjoyable was to see everyone back at our 55th and are in our seventies and that it has hunker down soon with supplies & oil reconnecting with old friends at our toasting the College’s great success.” been 50 years since we graduated lamps while awaiting Irma & perhaps a 50th SBC reunion and seeing how our Bonnie Blew Pierie claims, “It from SBC. We were most impressed tropical storm to follow! Ron so enjoyed alma mater is flourishing with new seems like we were just together, so with our new president, Dr. Meredith meeting our classmates! Now he un- energy and ideas. It was a joy to rem- I expect everyone thinks their news Woo, but sad to see President Stone derstands our deep feeling for SBC!!!” inisce with Ginny Carpenter (whose is known. But for Tim and me, it has depart. I feel sure that he will remain It does seem as though every summer mom had put me up in N.Y. before my been a summer of helping my brother near and dear to SBC. We need to con- that I do Notes, we have a hurricane— and his wife after he had a stroke tinue to support our college and make coincidence? sure that we do our part to help sustain Marion MacRae updates us on this wonderful institution. Personally, her life since SBC: George Washington we spent the summer in Michigan and Law School; Harvard Business School, loved being in the climate of cool nights Program for Management Develop- and warm days—not the hot and hu- ment (1979); Bank of American Trust mid summer that Virginia offered. The Dept., San Francisco; Cadwalader, only change in our lives is that Angus Wickersham & Taft, Washington, D.C. and Erin adopted a precious Beagle?? Retirement: Tennis three to four times puppy, and we now have a grandpuppy, a week, Bible Class, substitute teacher who is precious.” Congratulations! (I was not a success), volunteer for Victoria S. Jones writes, “I am Alexandria History Museum, board so glad I attended our reunion with member of Alexandria History Museum, my wonderful classmates Judy volunteer for Alexandria Antique Show, Powell Martin and roommate Jane gardening—I have a miniature par Lynn Lyle and Victoria Baker Lang Lloveras and Victoria Baker Stephenson Wilson. It was cathartic terre in my townhouse backyard, grass

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 49 Class Notes paths and 6 different perennials.Travel right? The cat’s name is GARY, by the agency dedicated our local homeless band Doug. The big news with us this to Turkey, Africa, Morocco, Seychelle way—named by my Brooklyn grand- shelter to David Jackson O’Quin, Bill’s year is that we moved to Lynchburg at Islands and Egypt next spring! Here’s a sons, who found the cat on the street. I son who died in prison from not getting the end of May to be near our daughter busy retiree! do love that name. After Reunion, I flew proper treatment for his schizophrenia. and her family. We have eight grand- Katharine C. Barnhardt Chase down to Memphis to visit my sister; (It just happened that the 6th would children that range in age from 5 to 21. says, “Seeing so many classmates in then ALL of my sisters and I drove over have been his 46th birthday—there On July 2 we celebrated our 50th anni- June at our 50th really made my sum- to Heber Springs, Ark., to spend a few are no such things as coincidences!) versary! We had a belated celebration mer! I recognized how being together days on that big lake/reservoir. We We’re hoping to raise awareness of on the Outer Banks of North Carolina was a part of healing for me from the were joined by two sister-husbands, the needs of those with mental illness, with our children and grandchildren. recent past events. Our energy and plus three cousins—one from Baton drug and alcohol problems. Currently We have vacationed there for over 50 creativity are still so apparent! Our Rouge, one from Shreveport, the third there is no local facility to house these years. Hope to see many classmates at beloved college is now poised for the from some little town in Mississippi individuals; we’re doing our best to the 50th Reunion next June! Thank you 21st century and, indeed, has taken with a most unusual (probably Native change that situation. If anyone is in to Nancy, Frances, Anne, and Ann for off under new leadership with exciting American in origin) name that I can’t the Baton Rouge or New Orleans area, your work in planning this event! announcements about innovations remember. Such a good time. Then please let us know. We love company Suzanne Torgan Weston: Our in the curricula and academic year! there was the annual family week in and have car, will travel! Thanks to ev- big news involves our grandson, Reid, August and September have been full Bethany Beach, Del., where we now eryone for such great support for SBC. who was married last December to with a trip to the Scottish Highlands have to rent two houses to contain all It was exciting being on campus and a lovely young lady who is a perfect and to Iona—thin places, for sure. Our the grandchildren (again, joined by a knowing that our class did our share to match. Reid then left in August, on his only grandchild is a high school senior couple of my sisters). I planned a trip keep our alma mater open! 30th birthday, for Budapest, Hungary, in Lynchburg, Va. After two summer to London Oct. 7-14, along with Pam for a competitive year-long immersion experiences with Camp Up with People, Ford Kelley and Joanne Tumolo Bario program in Hungarian. Danielle plans he has been accepted in the cast for ’68 (graduated from GW) and partner, 1968 to join him in January. We are so proud Up With People, starting July 2018, to plus the Memphis sis—but Pam had to Anne Kinsey Dinan of him. dance, sing, and lift up our common bag it, then, like four days ago, Joanne 8 Peter Cooper Rd Apt 11-F Kate Buster: I obviously am still human connections, no matter the and her semi-husband had to cancel New York, NY 10010-6711 hiking at 71 and loving it. I lived in cultures or places. It is my honor and because of a health crisis and a family [email protected] Silverton, Colo., in the San Juan moun- joy to have been asked to participate as tragedy. SO ... my sister and I have As always, many thanks to every- tains for the month of July. I moved chaplain for various parts of the Found- been asking EVERYBODY we know (and one who submitted news and photos. to Snowmass, Colo., near Aspen, for ers’ Day and Inauguration festivities. care to spend time with) if they wanna After you all read, enjoy, remember, and three weeks in August, doing some Please return soon to SBC—don’t wait join us in London that week. Because wax nostalgic about your Sweet Briar hiking, guiding and volunteering for the for the 55th!” we now have all sorts of extra space years, please contact your roommates White River National Forest. I love to Page Munroe Renger says, in the big (sleeps 8) house we rented. and your best buddies and make plans talk to visitors at the famous Maroon “The reunion was just fabulous and I Want to go??? Ah, it’ll be fine, right? to attend our 50th next June! Bells, answering questions and writing loved seeing some classmates I have I’ll report on THAT trip in our next class Betsy Wolfe: I acted as interim di- reports. Following my birding interests, not seen since 1967—i.e., Jane notes!” rector and acting chief of the University I traveled to Costa Rica this past Stephenson, to name one. We had Toni Naren Gates has excitement of California San Francisco Division of February and hope to go to Ecuador in fun reminiscing about Latin classes. in her family! “A few days ago my Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry late October. Tropical birding has me The campus looked great and I am so daughter delivered huge news! She’s at San Francisco General Hospital hooked. I also hope to spend a month impressed with our new president. I 42 years old, on her second marriage, until September 2015 (following the or two in Green Valley, Ariz., again this feel we are in good hands at the mo- her husband is 60, her only child, a unanticipated death of a colleague winter, where birding and hiking can ment. Lindsay Smith Newsom and I son, is 12, and she announced she and friend who held that position) and be done easily year-round. I base out always enjoy our time together during is pregnant! So that’s my news! It’s retired from my position as director of of Grand Junction, Colo., where I love reunion time. We stay in touch and do a game changer. We will all excitedly clinical training there Jan. 1, 2017. I to hike in the Colorado National Monu- get together usually at least once a await March 5, 2018, when a new little loved working there and was also fa- ment and visit nearby Moab, Utah. year. And then there’s my fun visit with life will enrich our entire families on tigued and therefore relieved when our Barbara Baur Dunlap: I have Judi Stigle whom I hardly even knew both sides.” Just in time for our spring national search found an excellent new loved visiting SBC the past two Junes during my 4 years at SBC!!! As for my news! division director, and now there is a and showing some grandchildren days after the reunion, I spent 3 weeks O’Quin’s news: Bill and I got back search to fill my training director posi- our beautiful campus. We have 13 at the beach over the week of the 4th from the reunion and immediately took tion. My husband, Ed, is struggling with grandkids; so taking them on trips of July and another 2 weeks ending on off for a 3-week trip to the Swedish Alzheimer’s disease, so that is where and showing them new places keeps Labor Day. It was simply glorious and Fjords—fabulous! I was just about my responsibilities are focused now. us busy. During the school year, I co-fa- now I am sweating this darn lady (or traveled out, but we had to go on the Having a visit with Martha Bennett cilitate a group of about 40 friends in shall I call her a bitch)—Irma!!! Please family trip to Galveston Beach (that Pritchett Conner was a real treat, as a weekly Bible study. Charlie and I just keep your fingers crossed a miracle might have been our swan song after we haven’t seen or communicated with celebrated our 51st wedding anniver- will happen and she’ll disappear from Mr. Harvey paid Texas a visit!). We’ve each other for years. sary and look forward to seeing many the face of this earth!!!! (Not to be!) Did adopted a cat—to which I’m highly Amy Thompson McCandless: I of you next year at our reunion. It was watch the eclipse in the ocean off the allergic—but the dog and cat adore retired as graduate dean and professor such a blessing to reconnect with Sally coast of Georgetown, S.C., which was each other and both insist on sleeping of history at the College of Charleston Paradise, my freshman roommate, on awesome. Although it did not get totally in the bed with us. My ex-husband, in July 2016 and have been enjoying the top floor of Randolph, but I missed dark, it looked like dusk and the light- John, died in August; his death has the extra time to travel and work on out on Vicky Pitts, Ashley Jones, house light and buoy lights all came on. been hard on the children—no matter history projects. Steve and I have Marilyn Givens, Susie Grinberg, The fish started swimming backwards how old, you’re just not ready for these visited family and friends and attended other top-floor Randolph buddies, when and . . . well, maybe I’m fudging on that events. Everyone is doing fine now, I conferences in Tennessee, Florida, I did some phoning for SBC. I am also statement!” hope. Bill and I made it to Cashiers, Mississippi, Arkansas, California still able to care for my mom in her Here’s Linda Fite’s typical report: N.C., for the eclipse and although it and Oklahoma and took a wonderful 96th year in St. Louis on a monthly “There’s nothing much to report since was cloudy, we did experience total vacation to Alaska in July. Son Colin basis. Sending along a picture of our the reunion—that’s the situation. I darkness for a couple of minutes (may- lives and works in Charleston, and son tribe which numbers 24! Donna Tank- mean, like, I got a replacement cat for be the fish swam backwards, but it was Alastair in South Lake Tahoe. ersley, Susie Somerville—where are the one that got run over when I was in too dark to tell)! We had quite a cele- Brenda Darden Kincaid: I have you? Love to all in our marvelous class! Paris, but that’s not really ‘news’ that bration on the Sept. 6. Bill and I do a lot been retired for five years, and I have Sophie MacKenzie Belouet: Life my dear classmates give a hoot about, of work with Volunteers of America; the enjoyed the chance to travel with hus- is good! We spend our time between

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Brenda Darden Kincaid and hus- band Doug visiting New York City Anne Kinsey Dinan, Nancy Hickox Wright, Frances Kirven Morse, Ann Biggs Jackson kicking up their heels at Reunion 2017! Just wait til next year . . .

Blair Walker Lawrence’s husband, Bob, with their granddaughters, Pembroke Herbert Kyle and Sally “Birdie” and Josie Lawrence Watkins, forever friends!

Kate Buster in the Ice Lakes Basin, San Juan Mountains, Colo., July Nancy Hickox Wright and Libby 2017 Harvey Fitzgerald exploring St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, with the mermaids—May 2017

Barbara Baur Dunlap and Charlie with their five children, spouses and 12 of 13 grandchildren Amy Thompson McCandless and Frances Kirven Morse and Pem- Steve Wilson broke Herbert Kyle modeling Degas Hats in San Francisco—great look!

Bonnie Pitman with granddaughter Frannie

Anne Kinsey Dinan still shameless- Frances Kirven Morse on ly advertising the new SBC book Ann Biggs Jackson, Frances Kirven Morse, and Nancy Hickox Wright at Monument Hill, June 2017 with Frances Kirven Morse! Reunion 2017!

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 51 Class Notes our apartment in Sceaux, near Paris, so much fun when Sally Lawrence this, if you haven’t! They describe her with the Potomac Valley Watercolor- our house in Cancale on the northern Watkins’ husband, Jim, daughter as a “rock star,” adding, “And the fact ists. Ron was diagnosed with early coast of Brittany, and our apartment in Emily, and son-in-law Kirk visited us on that someone of Woo’s stature in global Parkinson’s disease in April. He is Portsmouth, Va. We hosted Hallie Darby Nantucket the week after Labor Day! academic circles agreed to take on responding well to physical therapy and Smith ’67 and family in June and are Anne Kinsey Dinan: Now that the job speaks just as loudly about the medication. Life is good.” looking forward to hosting Adaline Bonnie Pitman has two darling future of Sweet Briar.” Another new grandchild, Charlie, Allen Shinkle and Brad. I just missed grandchildren in Manhattan, I get Double wow! arrived for Kim Mitchell Bethea. She seeing Penny Oliver Hawkins. Please to spend museum and lunch and/or Now, for us, Class of ’70. Well writes they have also been enjoying let me know if you come to France! See children and lunch days with her every Candace Buker Chang summed it up their new golfing hobby in the Wiscon- you at Reunion! few months. This has been so much best with, “It’s been quite an eventful sin summer. “In the fall, we are headed Frances Kirven Morse: The past fun over the past couple of years and spring/summer ...” She finished with to the village of Pennecamp, one of The several months, I have been electroni- a wonderful reminder of the lifelong “for me.” But after reading all our Villages, Fla. And, yes, we did it again; cally tethered to Anne Kinsey Dinan, friendships developed at SBC! As you notes, I think most of us would sign on we adopted Bear, a chocolate lab writing our wonderful book! Thanks have surely read by now, Frances to “for all of us.” If you are reading this puppy, who is buddy to our full-grown for your support. Traveled with John to Kirven Morse and I spent most of in the magazine, then at least we hav- lab, Izze. I am still teaching information Portland, Ore., for the Chamber Music January through June and then some, en’t been blown up yet. So that is good. technology students online part-time Northwest Summer Festival, which writing, rewriting, illustrating, rewriting, However, by the time you get your mail, and volunteering with Izze (therapy featured music by women composers. and finally publishing (hurray!) our new we may be annexed by Russia. Though dog trained) in assisted living/memory Had a fun 24 hours with Pembroke book: “The Little College That Could: perhaps we already are, and there is support homes. Hope to see some of Herbert Kyle and Bill (in California, The Story of Saving Sweet Briar.” We just enough fake news out there that you on our trek south from Wisconsin visiting their granddaughter Nell), ex- also had an absolutely wonderful time we don’t know it? In any event, change to the Villages. Cheers!” ploring the Golden Gate Bridge and the at Reunion 2017 with Nancy Hickox is everywhere, and I have to say it’s “It’s pretty special to be with these Presidio in San Francisco. We traveled Wright and Ann Biggs Jackson. All I getting a bit daunting, though probably little ones whenever I can,” Betsy An- back East for a grand two weeks with can say to all of you is come on down, all older people start to feel this way. derson reports of her two grandkids. “I our granddaughters (Ella, 13, and Xylia, up, or over—Reunion 2018 is ours! I’m just kind of new at being old; so I am still in Charlotte, but travel to Atlan- 10), starting in Boston with some fun Can’t wait to see you all! don’t know for sure. ta and New York to see my children and U.S. history and then up to Vermont for And again, please note that Fran- But I digress. Back to Candace: “It’s grandchildren. I am happy that Sweet a grandparent-grandchild Road Scholar ces Kirven Morse, Nancy Hickox been quite an eventful spring/summer Briar is thriving. The new president will summer theater workshop. Expect to Wright, and I are still working to find for me—starting in May, when, within visit Charlotte in September so I look see our resulting film “Vermont Saga” contact information for many “missing” the space of three weeks, I sold my forward to meeting her.” at Sundance! classmates. To that end, I repeat my re- house, got diagnosed with metastatic Cruising on Facebook, I found Conover Hunt: After a career of quest that anyone in the Class of 1968 breast cancer, totaled my car, and Heather Tully Click also enjoying her writing nonfiction—with footnotes—I who receives this Alumnae Magazine moved. I’ve had better months. The kids and grands while watching a sun- have taken the plunge with a historical but did not receive an email from me house selling and moving was a good set on Cuttyhunk Island, Mass. “Had mystery novel called “The Constitu- requesting news, please email or write thing. I didn’t move far, pretty much a very special week on this unique tion Murders.” Both major heroines to me with your email and/or mailing around the corner to the apartment in and lovely island, accessible only by are strong, brainy, rich Sweet Briar address at: [email protected] or Anne my daughter’s two-family house. My passenger ferry or private boat.” graduates! Look for it in soft cover from Kinsey Dinan, 8 Peter Cooper Road, grandchildren (ages 2 and 4) now visit Meanwhile, Bonnie Palmer Amazon in October, and on Kindle. See Apt. 11F, New York, NY 10010. daily, bringing much joy to my life, and McCloskey has been making up for you at the Reunion! giving their parents a little welcome those of us who forgot to reproduce Suzanne Little: Thankful to have respite. Everybody wins! My other two with a whopping seven grandchildren. made it through Harvey high and dry, 1969 grandchildren (3 and 7) live in the “I am very involved as a grandmother. but heartbreaking to see the devas- Nancy Crawford Bent Virgin Islands—so visiting family and It’s a career, and we love it!” She and tation. 96 E. Taylor Hill Road going to the beach are just always Tom have two sons and two daughters, Libby Harvey Fitzgerald: Prayers Montague Center, MA 01351 good. I am looking forward to retiring ages 42 to 33. “We base out of San that the coastal islands and mermaids [email protected] at the end of December. Meanwhile, it Francisco, Belvedere specifically, and survive the storms. And, yes, planning As some of you may notice, Peter is a challenge to keep working while Aspen (full-time for 35 years) and Cabo to be at SBC for our 50th next year and I have finally, after a year of looking pursuing a pretty aggressive course of (the private Fazio golf club Queren- .... Class of ’68 needs to make lots of in three counties, moved into an 18th treatment. On the plus side, all this got cia). Three of our children and their noise! century house a few towns north of me an extra visit from old roommate families live in San Francisco, and one Nancy Hickox Wright: Have Amherst, Mass. I bet all of you have Jo Shaw Lawson, who flew up from daughter’s family is in Aspen. Tom survived Irma, even though I sheltered your own news to report. So please Memphis. I also see Laura Sickman loves working, and I am very active on with a Hollins grad in Atlanta! Frances do for the next Alumnae Magazine, so Baksa, who lives on Cape Cod. Her the Aspen Institute board. I still ride our Kirven Morse and I attended Presi- we can catch up with each other well daughter is currently in China doing horses in the mountains and play golf. dent Woo’s inauguration. Meredith Woo before our 50th reunion in 2019. legal work; so now Laura stays with me All is well with us.” is just amazing! when she comes to Boston, and I’ll see Bonnie continues, “Right now, Tom Blair Walker Lawrence: I’m her in October when I go to the Cape.” and I are on an Alaska cruise ship. Our unbelieving but so excited about our Candace also has surgery scheduled 46th anniversary is next Monday, and 50th reunion, coming up next June, 1970 for October, so please send her all your we have decided to celebrate it all the Kristin Herzog and keeping my fingers crossed that healing thoughts. time from now on. Why not! Grateful 550 Teryl Road #7 we will have great attendance. Our And speaking of grandchildren, we are all healthy and love life. Look Naples, FL 34112 being there is especially sweet because Barbara Offutt Mathieson hit the forward to hearing from any other [email protected] of the “late unpleasantness!” I don’t jackpot this year with twins. She visited Sweet Briar classmates. Especially if Hi, Everyone! have any exciting news to share, but the D.C. Metro area in July to see Jane any of you frequent San Francisco and Wow! Before we get started, there life is good. Bob and I have two grown Gott, who sent us a wonderful photo of Cabo, we would love to know.” is something important for you to check sons and two granddaughters almost Barbara and the little ones. Jane writes, Sally Adamson Taylor says they out. I’ve been as excited as everyone 5 and 7, who live in Annapolis. Bob “Ron and I have been remodeling all are “bouncing between San Francisco to welcome President Meredith Woo, has two more years before he will have summer to make our house safer for and Powhatan, Va., trying to save an but a few things had gone over my practiced law 50 years, at which time aging in place. We spent March on old family property there. Got a good head until last night, when I stumbled he promises to retire. Please come Kauai and plan to go back next March chunk of time in Paris this spring. I see upon a short article in the Lynchburg next June! to celebrate my 70th birthday. I am Christy Love and Katie McCardell News and Advance. You need to read Pembroke Herbert Kyle: We had involved as usual in watercolor painting Webb and May Humphreys Fox.

52 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes 1970 So grateful to be alive and kicking!” Webb McCardell, Frances Gravely, While others have been buzzing Connie Haskell, Lorie Harris around, Mary Kelley, ever cheer- Amass, Fran Griffith Laserson, ful, has had to stay put after a foot and Pat Sweeney Koufman, as they accident. But she is recovering well all gathered in Barbados in May for a and gingerly getting back in the action weeklong celebration of Mary Jane as travel to see friends in Tennessee Hipp Brock’s milestone birthday! Wal- beckons. lis says, “Eight of us have been carpe Also healing, Deb Jones says, dieming together since our 50th “No great trips or visits with SBC- year! This trip, we swam in the sea, ers. Shoulder surgery in January kept did downward dog, shopped, walked, me out of trouble, and then we got talked, and giggled a lot, all while stuck in an elevator and the pulling living in style in a beautiful villa on the on both arms to get out of it was a Caribbean. Thank you, MJ, for bringing set-back for recovery. OSHER Lifelong our dear SBC friends together for Learning classes start next week; so such a memorable reunion and for our there go the carefree days of summer.” continued 50 years of friendship!” And of course, is But wait! Wallis also seems to be Ann Gateley, Having too much fun in Barbados. Front row, from left: Katie McCardell still on her bike. “I’m traveling a bunch working undercover. Get this: I spotted Webb, May H. Fox, and Connie Haskell. Standing: Jane Trombley (not with my sweetie. Cycled in Croatia, her on Facebook, despite the pink wig!! SBC), Jessica Holzer, Jeffrey Zeller (not SBC), Pat S. Kaufman, Wallis Germany and Holland. This summer disguise in the Fenway Park pit, at a W. Raemer, Lorie H. Amass, Mary Jane H. Brock, Fran G. Laserson, and was mainly three weeks at Sweet Briar Lady Gaga concert. Don’t tell anyone. Frances Gravely Work Weeks, followed by a cycling And last, but not least, some more and hiking trip to Colorado. All is well.” of our classmates have this year She and Kate Schlech are regulars seemingly found themselves in a place at Sweet Work Weeks, which is a just right. After having retired and code name SBC gives to the most fun moved to the Northern Neck of Virginia summer campus party ever, in an effort last fall, Betty Glass Smith and Bill to keep the crowds down. It’s a great are gradually completing renovations way to help the College, meet other and getting settled in: “Love retired life classes and just hang out every night and the beautiful location we now live at impromptu wine downs. in. Since this is where Bill is from, there Jonna Creaser Clarkson, a little are lots of family and local friends close north of SBC in Shipman, has found by to catch up with and enjoy. Hope to joy, too, in another way of helping, with do some exploring by boat around the her mission work. “We are reminded Chesapeake Bay and Tidewater in the of what is truly important in life by the near future.” gracious people of our youth mission Betty Rau Santandrea and Bob Ann Gateley, left, and Ann Barbara Offutt Mathieson with twin in El Salvador. Dubi, our mission are having a glorious time in Sante Fe, Tedards at Sweet Work Weeks grands representative in [El Salvador] and her frequenting the Sante Fe Opera and this summer daughter, Abi, stayed with us in May. just settling into their new digs. “In July, They experienced many ‘firsts’: first monsoons, which provide a good part travel anywhere, first flight, first sight of the 10 inches of rain we get each of Virginia beauty in spring, homes with year, arrived in New Mexico. We’ve more than one room, indoor water, watched storm clouds pass by, leaving flush toilets, showers, indoor kitchen, electric stove. Relationships are what is most important to them.” And back at SBC, Frances Schafer, Debrah Denemark, Sandy Hamilton Bentley, with her husband, Bob, represented the Class of 1970 at Reunion in June. Frances says, “Deb- rah and I thought the campus looked much better than it had for our 45th reunion in 2015. We all are hopeful that Meredith Woo will be successful in Class of ’70 at Sweet Work Weeks. Standing, from left: Barbara Hast- recruiting students. ings, Jonna Creaser Clarkson, Ann Gateley, Debbie Ohler Bowman and “I had a meeting in Las Vegas in Molly Woltz. Sitting, from left: Jane Rush Davenport and Kate Schlech June, so my son, William, joined me from Bozeman, Mont., and we visited the north rim of the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon and Zion. I just returned from a wonderful visit with Sandy and Bob in their lovely home, near Chapel Hill, N.C. In August, I headed west, again with William, to visit North and South Dakota, my last two states, and to see the total eclipse.” Katie McCardell Webb, left, and Wallis Wickham Raemer was Ann Gateley on campus, pretend- also on the move, along with Jessica ing there are no cases of wine Jane Gott, left, and Barbara Offutt Holzer, May Humphries Fox, Katie hidden under that mulch Mathieson in Washington, D.C.

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 53 Class Notes but a few drops at a time. Today, returned from Kanuga—an Episcopal active in the hiking club and does yoga however, it hit with full force. A lot of Conference Center in Hendersonville, twice a week with her “Yoga Chick” people collect runoff from their roofs 1971 N.C. It was a fun reunion of cousins, friends. In Oct. Barbara is going to N.J. with rain barrels—ours (of course) are Mary Frances Oakey Aiken all her children and their spouses, and to attend her 50th high school reunion being delivered tomorrow.” Fortunately, jmaiken4@me. com grandson Jack (almost 2). Many of from Chatham Township HS. “I can’t Betty remembered that they had some Anne Milbank Mell the cousins also attended Sweet Briar, believe we are all that old!” five-gallon buckets in the garage. “We [email protected] including Connie Haskell ’70, Judith H. Marguerite Smith Willis sent donned our foul-weather sailing gear Beverly Van Zandt McCarthy ’61, Sally H. Richardson ’67, greetings from Florence (home), and ran bucket brigades to thirsty [email protected] and Laura H. Phinizy ’65. All three of Columbia (office), and Travelers Rest trees for a couple of hours until we had Marilyn Boyd Silar is happily her children were married within the (get-a-way), S.C. She is still practicing enough. Local tomatoes from heirloom retired and has been loving living in last year so it has been busy! Mere- antitrust law with Nexsen Pruet. Having to Cherokee have come in and are at Naples, Fla., for the past four years. dith Mill, Becky Randolph Boyers, ended her term as president of the SC the local farmers’ market. A wonderful Lendon Gray is loving both Jeanie Mann, and Kari Andersen Women Lawyers Association, she will day in Santa Fe ended with tomatoes traveling throughout the U.S. and giving Shipley attended at least one of the soon be starting her term as president bread, cheese, and margaritas on the dressage clinics for younger riders. She events. She is scaling back charity and of the Litigation Counsel of America. In portal.” has found another goal, which is to fix club organizations but still works. Her her “spare” time, her husband, Frank, And me? I’m stumbling crazily up her home in Bedford, N.Y., which children live nearby, and she considers and her three Labs, Cotton, Bella and through the wildest, most event-filled, has proved to be challenging since she Jack a huge joy! She is looking forward Mr. Bojangles, keep her “amused.” 10-month total life makeover ever. is never at home! to our 50th SBC Reunion. Marguerite sends “Cheers to all.” If you have not yet downsized, just Amanda Megargee Sutton’s Pamela Henery Arey wrote that Roseanne Woodroof participat- a word of advice: Take anyone who adopted Corgi, Henry, is a wonderful she is enjoying her first year of retire- ed in Sweet Work Weeks from Aug mentions that word and have them pup! Amanda has taken yoga with ment. She has taken short weekend 4 - 8 and enjoyed the interaction with shot. My Virginia house sold in three Anne Wiglesworth’s sister and is trips, completed deferred maintenance multiple SBC classes. She first worked days, and all my stuff was suddenly in involved at church—even went on a on her home in Severna Park, Md. painting Carson and then in the library. storage. Luckily, I managed to grab the mission trip to Ariz. with Peter Daniel’s (do squirrels eat your houses, too?), She wrote, “Every now and then I cats from the movers’ clutches before son. Small world! Her life has certainly attended her 50th high school reunion got lost in a book I was supposed to they shut the van door. I raced down to changed since she came North! Aman- in Farmington, Conn., and has begun be processing, but I felt good about Naples, Fla., to find a home there, and da did a Sweet Work Week of service participating and volunteering at the making a contribution.” Roseanne also yikes! Have ended up with new con- last summer and loved every minute local senior center! enjoyed meeting President Woo at a struction. So, the girls and I are cooling of it, especially spending time with the Mary Frances Oakey Aiken still dinner at the Boat House. our heels and paws in a lovely rented other women and men who love our spends half the year in Naples, Fla., condo, which, thanks to monsoons, has college. Amanda urges everyone to and half in Richmond, Va., with hus- become waterfront property, bringing try to come if you haven’t. We need to band John. She is enjoying the newest work hard for our 50th; it will be here 1972 a parade of gorgeous herons and addition to the family—grandson Hugh Jill Johnson egrets, flocks of ibis, and fat ducks to much sooner than we think! Henry Snyder (Hank) born last Feb. Anne Milbank Mell has loved her [email protected] our window every day. KoKo and I are That makes seven grandchildren and MarySue Morrison Thomas entranced. first year of retirement, especially since lots of joyful activity when everyone it’s given her time to enjoy a few new [email protected] Meanwhile, I got a spiffy new mini- gets together. She is active in two Class email: van, so I can paint big, and have found grandchildren. The entire family spent a Episcopal churches and loves knitting week in N.H. in August, enjoying beau- [email protected] a gallery. But, oh, wait! This is embar- newborn hats for local hospitals. We are sorry to report that we have rassing. I have no art. It’s all in storage. tiful weather and great fun! As these Bev Van Zandt spent the month notes go to print, she is packing her lost two classmates recently. Ditto for clothes, desk, cat food, files, of Aug. caring for her first grandchild, Cindy Conklin (Cynthia Dickerson shoes, mouthwash and paints—which bag for a two-week trip to Scotland. Evangeline, in Houston, and then Wendy Norton Brown’s passion, Conklin) of Sharon, Conn., passed away has kept me busy buying lots of stuff flew to NYC to be with her younger on Aug. 20, 2017. Cindy was with us I already own. In case you missed it: which is to spend time with her three daughter and her husband. In NYC she precious grandchildren, has worked out freshman year and then transferred to Downsizing does NOT work. visited with Anne Holler and Mimi University of New Hampshire. She was My fourth day here, I was heading well! Since Mother’s Day her 6-year-old Fahs. Bev’s family in Houston escaped grandson, two granddaughters (2 and very accomplished in her nursing field somewhere, when my GPS lady up flooding, and when she returns there, and community. The Northwest Con- and croaked on the spot, leaving me 4) and their parents have been living she will help with the Hurricane Harvey with Wendy and Lee while their house necticut Community Foundation is the totally stranded, with no idea how to cleanup. charity she requested to support. You get home. Desperately trying to buy a is getting new floors. Wendy loved Barbara Wuehrmann wrote from going back to Sweet Briar for our 45th may also wish to remember Cindy at map, I was met by clerks in 13 stores Frisco, Col., where she now spends Sweet Briar through our ’72 Memorial who stared blankly. Maaaz? ... Mats? and is encouraging classmates to put her summers. She spends the rest of the 50th on their calendars now! Scholarship Fund. Here is a link to Cin- Maks? In Target, they sent me to the her time in Green Valley, Ariz., hiking dy’s obituary: http://www.kennyfuneral- greeting cards. I didn’t think to look in Michela English retired from her in the mountains, birding, and making full-time position heading Fight For homes.com/obituaries.html a museum. Just felt very old. I’ll move new friendships. In Green Valley she is Jennifer Linsley Alphin of into my new home in mid-September, Children at the end of last year but is where I can unpack at my leisure. Or still busy with a number of nonprofit not. Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and corporate boards. She splits her just awarded me another art residency time between D.C. and Gwynn’s Island, for the month of October. So, by the Va., on the Chesapeake Bay. She wel- time you read this, I’ll be back on comed her first grandchild this summer campus. Unless we get blown up. in Dallas to daughter Eleanore and In parting, Jonna sends us all a son-in-law Breck. They all visited in Va. much-needed “Blessings!” Bring on this summer, and Martha Holland ’72 2018. and Charlene Sturbitts ’72 were there as honorary “aunts.” Son Will is a chef in Brisbane, Australia—very far away but a fun place to visit. Barbie Gracey Backer and husband Ron had a wonderful trip to Iceland this summer and have recently Anne Wiglesworth Muñoz says Hi! and sent a photo of her latest batik

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Susan Snodgrass Wynne ’72 and her husband, Dubby, with their six grandchildren in Virginia Beach

Lexington, Va., passed away at the can believe we graduated from Sweet University of Virginia Hospital on Sept. Briar more than 45 years ago! She 20, 2017. Jennifer was very supportive continues in her “day job” as an asso- Friday Night Celebration at Reunion

of Sweet Briar College and had been ciate professor of education at Luther 1972 with as recently as June for part of our College, where she also is charged 45th reunion. The family suggested with working with the faculty to ensure donations to the Rockbridge Area Relief the education department is both state Association (RARA). You may also wish (Iowa) and nationally (CAEP) accredited. to remember Jennifer at Sweet Briar She will retire to Amherst/Sweet Briar through our ’72 Memorial Scholarship in less than two years and in the mean- Fund. Here is a link to Jennifer’s obitu- while has to be content with supporting ary: http://www.thenews-gazette.com/ Sweet Briar mostly from a distance. taxonomy/term/11 MarySue Morrison Thomas also Jane Powell Gray reports that raves about being on campus for our she and Frank have enjoyed trips to the 45th Reunion in June. She encourages Ore. wine country and the Canadian everyone to make plans for yearly Rockies this summer. They have N.Y. on events and especially for our 50th Meeting President Meredith Woo at a special Friday Night Dinner at the agenda for fall. They also sold their Reunion in 2022. (Did she actually say, Reunion beach home in Emerald Isle and are “2022”?!) It’s never too early to start building a sound-front home in nearby making plans and setting that special Painting the Boathouse Indian Beach. “We’re crazy, I know, date aside. She also hoped all who before Reunion: DeDe but look forward to the sunset views!” could did attend the Inauguration of our Conley, Cynthia Heye Grandson Hunter started kindergarten new President Meredith Woo in Sept. Hopkins, and Dottie in Aug., while little brother, Reid, enjoys It seems that “Happy Days Are Here Courington his nursery school. Again!” Dale Shelly Graham and James DeDe Conley is in Miami, having are still in St. Louis and report that it dodged the big bullet with Hurricane was a great place to view the eclipse Irma in Sept.—electricity back after since they were right in its path. two days, but the Internet was out for There was true darkness with some several days. SBC grads in Fla. and stars and with night bugs chirping, Texas are reportedly fine. DeDe was in and then birds tweeting as it finished. full-swing during Sweet Work Weeks in There’s another going over St. Louis Aug. assisting in amazing, professional in seven years; so they said to mark work on campus, making painted your calendars and plan to come visit. dorms sparkle and having fun with Dale reports Fielding (30) and Lily (27) everyone! DeDe remarks that it was both have wonderful significant others; like a long multiclass Reunion! She had so they are hoping for marriages and a great lunch with Marty Neill Boney grandchildren someday soon, but in the in Wilmington, N.C., on her way home. meantime they are content to dote on DeDe is truly enjoying good press on their granddogs. Speaking of marriage, the positive changes at SBC! Dale and James celebrated their 45th Georgene Vairo continues to anniversary in Aug. Seems like only spend most of her time working with yesterday we all played the Ring Game the SBC Board and President Woo. She with Dale’s engagement ring! served on President Woo’s Advisory Jeannette Pillsbury conveys she Committee, which helped formulate is happy to have the opportunity to be the new curricular repositioning and in touch with so many in our class. She tuition reset that she is confident will loved being at our 45th Reunion—who ensure that Sweet Briar leads the way Engineering students at Reunion! Marion Walker and Martha Holland

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 55 Class Notes in reinventing the liberal arts in the Peggy will also be joining the Parents 21st century. Council in support of these initiatives Mary Pat Varn Moore is sorry and recruitment. to have missed Reunion this year but greatly enjoys communicating with long-time SBC friends—and definitely 1973 plans to be there for our 50th!! She Evelyn Carter Cowles and husband Paul decided recently (as PO Box 278 empty nesters) to downsize and build Free Union, VA 22940 a new home in Tallahassee, Fla. The [email protected] home they have lived in for nearly 25 Renee Sterling Busy with work, years sold after only ONE day on the participating in an Economic Forum market. Because the new house will this week and just celebrated the not be completed until mid-Oct., they 25th anniversary of establishing my are temporarily leasing a condo in a practice with Morgan Stanley. Went high rise in downtown Tallahassee, to the premiere viewing for D’Andra just one block from Mary Pat’s office. Simmons Lock ’91; she is the newest Although they are grateful for their cast member on “Real Housewives of temporary “adventure” as urban dwell- Dallas” on Bravo. Fun! ers, they are very ready to settle in to Kathy Pretzfelder Steele My their new home soon! They continue husband, Dave, and I are enjoying Weezie Blakeslee Gilpin and family to enjoy being grandparents to Adalyn our retirement in Lake County, (8), Arabella (5), and Anne Katherine Fla. We watch our two darling (2), who all live in close proximity to granddaughters frequently and spend MeMaw and Poppa’s house. What our “free” time working on community fun it is, Mary Pat reports, to have all committees, traveling, volunteering, these granddaughters after raising two playing pickleball, golf, and bocce, sons!! What a joy they are!! or swimming. Recent travels include It has been a long time coming, trips to Utah and Hilton Head, Amelia, but Ellen Apperson Brown finally Sanibel/Captiva, and Hutchinson has had a chance to do some public Islands. I hope to make it to our 45th speaking this past summer, promoting reunion in 2018! her new book (“John Apperson’s Lake Robin Harmon O’Neill I’m in George,” by Arcadia Publishing) in mu- Richmond with my niece. She’s just seums and book stores all around New had her first baby! York’s North Country. After working Lois Means Duchene I and my on a biography of her great-uncle for husband of 28 years, Al Duchene, dozens of years, she is jumping at the are happily retired and thinking about chance to publish a book featuring his doing some traveling. I have lived amazing documentary photographs in Charleston, S.C., for about 40 and now hopes this project will reach years and sometimes cross paths Robin O’Neill Scottie O’Toole and husband Ed a wide audience. She has been invited with Jane McFaddin Bryan. She Goss to speak at the Friends of the Library handled my sister’s divorce. It was meeting in Oct. and hopes to speak to great to have someone I know handle students interested in environmental the nasty situation so well. history to tell them how a few ordinary Debbie Pollock Arce I’m still happily people became leaders and activists living in a suburb of Portland, Ore., and saved the most beautiful lake in and working at my CFO consulting the world. For those who cannot come practice, but slowly winding it down to campus to hear her talk, she has so I have more time for travel and launched a new website, a digital ar- grandchildren. My daughter, Cory and chive featuring letters and photographs her husband, Jeff, live an hour south from the Apperson archives, at www. and have two children—Eva (3) and adirondackactivism.com. Will (1). My oldest son, Ross, lives Peggy Hoy McFadden and hus- about 90 miles away and manages a band John are both now retired. Now Farm to Table restaurant in Eugene. My they get to turn their attention to youngest son, Reed, is a Navy ensign actively developing income-producing based in Corpus Christi, Texas, where activities on the open areas of their he is in advanced flight training and Renee Sterling (2nd from r.) with D’Andra Simmons Lock ’91 (r.) tree farm. This is in anticipation of the expects to earn his wings later this return of daughter Fiona (’12) from year. He will be flying the military New Orleans in a couple of years to live version of 737s and will move to who lives only a few hours from Laurie’s daughter at her lake house in and work on the farm. John and Peggy Jacksonville, Fla., for training in that Jacksonville, so I’m looking forward to Saratoga Springs, N.Y. We had such attended a presentation by Meredith aircraft in Nov. or Dec. He made it seeing her more frequently too! I would fun visiting and even posted pictures Woo of the strategic initiatives and cur- safely through Hurricane Harvey, as he love to see any classmates who make on the SBC website. We thought we riculum restructuring being implement- evacuated to the west; Corpus Christi it to the Pacific Northwest. When Kathy looked pretty good for senior citizens! ed at Sweet Briar. President Woo is thankfully was spared the worst of came for a visit in 2015, we met up I’m still more than old-fashioned but traveling to various areas of the country the storm. My thoughts are with all with Mary Danford for lunch. Good am hoping one day to break through to to present this information in person. If who live in Houston and New Orleans times! the 21st century! she comes to your area, don’t miss the as they endure the difficulties of this Ginger Woodward Gast In June I Anita McVey O’Connor I continue opportunity to hear her speak and ask monumental storm. I stay in close spent a lovely weekend with Sue Dern to work at a senior center but dream her any questions you have. John and touch with Kathy Pretzfelder Steele, Plank and Laurie Norris Coccio and of retiring, preferably as a snow bird,

56 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes between Pa., where most of my others have done, and I want to do a Susan Bundy I have now celebrat- Camp, Liz’s granddaughter, registered family resides, and Fla., where winters road trip of my own; so I am schem- ed 12 years of marriage with Andre. for the SBC Class of ’30. Class portrait are wonderful! My husband enjoys ing on it now. If you want a spot in I, Evelyn Carter Cowles, have artist, Ellie Plowden Boyd, memorial- semi-retirement. When I finally do my convertible heading off on Route had a very busy year traveling with izing cherubic faces for posterity. Harri- retire, I hope to help SBC during the 29, let me know. I’m heading out to Reynolds in his one-year position as son Whiteman, Edie McRee Bowles’s Sweet Work Weeks; it seems like a Lexington, Greenville, Charleston and president of the AAEP (national equine grandson, beats tiny toes thru Brooklyn, great way to give back to my beloved maybe Savannah. Also, please check veterinarian organization). Went to shadowing Big & Carey Bradshaw. school. your Facebook for 1973 friends and Grand Cayman, Spain, Saratoga, N.Y., “Nanny” Lea Houghton on a first- Kathleen Cochran Schutze Steve direct them to “SBC Class of 1973” on and now we are off to England and name basis with pilots on Albuquer- and I are enjoying our retirement on Facebook to get connected! Not too then Mexico. Great fun but looking for- que-Dallas flight path (“Coffee, tea the Barnett Reservoir near Jackson, soon to be planning for our 45th! ward to staying home more next year. or cheese straws?”) to cuddle “Little Miss. Our daughter, Emily ’11, has Jane Potts I’m still working Still fishing, painting, hiking and riding. Miss Charlotte Rose.” Emory Furniss moved in with us, and we appreciate part-time and traveling while I still I hope to see a lot of you at our 45th! Maxwell in Atlanta, as I write, awaiting the help she provides. Both of our sons feel like it! Went to Provence, France, Le Petit Enfant Harris (Christy Maxwell are married: Taylor lives in Little Rock, in May for two weeks with a friend ’03 and Jeff). “Nervous Nellie” calls to Ark., and Walker in Fredericksburg, Va. from Charleston. Pascale Boulard 1974 Dr. Mary Witt Will for pediatric advice, No grandchildren yet, but life is pretty Dutilleul took the train down from Nancy Mortensen Piper making all of us wonder, “How did our simple and we are enjoying the ease of Paris and spent two days with us. She 28 Newbold Sq own kids ever reach maturity?” “Aunt travel that precedes the advent of little looks great and we had a wonderful Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971-1875 Ruthie” Willingham Lentz feted ones. I’m so proud of our alma mater! visit with her. Spent one day at the Pont [email protected] Stewart Ryan’s summer marriage, with Linda Lipscomb Where are the du Gard, which was really interesting. Wendy Cherry says, “Thank you, his mother, Robin Christian Ryan, of years going? I am still in Dallas and Going to Croatia and Slovenia for Sweet Briar family, for giving me the Boston. Stewart’s Christian grand- working (gasp!) as a consultant for arts two weeks with Melinda Williams liberal arts foundation for an abundant father, of Richmond, served as SBC organizations. I try to find time to travel Davis the last two weeks of Sept. Hope life: an internship with the Guggenheim member of the board of trustees in our as much as possible and have started to see everyone next June for our Museum, three years as a Peace Corps era. Paula Hollingsworth Thomas to work down the bucket list and just 45th Reunion. Have made plans to be volunteer (in a mud hut) in Zaire, an squeezing in “Nanny-hours” between returned from viewing the eclipse in there with Betsy Perry and Deborah MSW, 10 years as a financial advisor exotic Viking cruises with Preacher totality. Through volunteering on the Ziegler Hopkins. with The Ohio Company, 15 years a Steve in retirement. On top of all that, board of Friends of Art, I have been to Weezie Blakeslee Gilpin Bob financial advisor with Edward Jones.” Mary Bush Norwood, aka “Bush,” to the campus a couple of times and am and I moved to Martha’s Vineyard The phenomenal female role models of us, is in the run for Mayor of Atlanta. so encouraged to see students and the in June 2016, fulfilling a long-time Dr. Stevens, Dr. Laing, and Dean Sims Liz says, “As we used to say in my campus beginning to thrive. dream. I am loving being here year- taught her “I can do hard things.” Ole Neck of the Woods, C H I C A G O, Betsie Meric Gambel With my round and have a part-time job at our Jan Renne Steffen is enjoying “Vote Early and Vote OFTEN.” PR firm, Gambel Communications, I wonderful local library along with vol- living in the country. Fallbrook is a Bonnie Chronowski Bro- have launched The New Orleans 100, unteering at the thrift store in Vineyard small community, and to meet more phy announces that she and her an e-newsletter, in partnership with Haven and frequent trips to our Y. Bob townsfolk, she joined the Chamber of husband welcomed their first the local CBS station. An affiliate of is still working as an independent Commerce. Jan was featured in the grandchild, Connor Brophy Persutti, on The 100 Companies, The New Orleans college counselor and is off-Island local newspaper for her jewelry. Jan’s Nov. 10, right after she returned from 100 contains 100-word stories and more than either of us would like. We jewelry can be seen on her web- a pilgrimage to Poland and the Czech 100-second videos. Visit theneworle- had all three children, two of their site: www.jrsdesigns.com. Currently Republic, and enjoyed introducing him ans100.com. I enjoy my beach house spouses, and all six grandchildren here she is president of the San Diego to Nantucket in August! She is looking in Pass Christian, Miss., and I have twin in early June, a reunion only slightly chapter of the American Sewing Guild. forward to her 10th year facilitating a grandsons in Philadelphia and a grand- marred by an intestinal bug that had no Jan sewed most of her clothes in bible study in her parish. She sends daughter and grandson in Greenville, mercy. Alexa is in Leesburg, Va., with college and continues to sew. She is love to all her classmates. S.C. I am totally loving life, not missing Elizabeth (4 1/2), and Daniel (1). Blake, also dating a neighbor “who helps me MaryLee Burch Doering reports a beat . . . am very blessed. who teaches at Tulane, has Bear (5), around the house.” According to Jan, that she and Dean bought a new-build Charlotte Ann Evans Not retired and Bommer (3). Christopher is still in “I don’t think I can change a battery in home and downsized in Folsom, Calif., yet! Currently working full-time pro- Sydney with Tillie (6) and Lucy (3 1/2). the smoke detector without him. Life as near Sacramento, where they have viding medical care in the N.C. prison The family photo is clearly not staged a senior (and playing the widow card) been living the past 12 years. She system at maximum, medium and min- with everyone in their finest, but that has its benefits.” enjoyed a fabulous vacation in Maui imum security male facilities . . . not is no surprise. I am loving semi-retire- Tracy James has been on this past winter. MaryLee is making what this English major anticipated as ment and our beautiful Island. an eclectic journey through the her usual trips to Rochester, N.Y., to a career! Still happily married, my wife Scottie O’Toole After being single arts—now completing the 36th year see her family and granddaughter (3). is Katherine E. Klett now (used to be all of my life, I married Ed Goss Sept of a law practice that started with the Loving her French class at the local Larry); so same spouse, new name and 2016. Ed and I built a new home Colorado Attorney General’s Office Alliance Française. She tutors 15 gender! Still in Yadkinville, N.C., visitors in Flowery Branch, Ga. He has four and now enjoying freedoms of being students in private sessions each week, always welcome! And love being “The grown/married children and will soon a solo practitioner. Mediation services which keeps her young and busy, and Doctor,” just want a T.A.R.D.I.S. !!! have eight grandchildren. I’ve inherited comprise an increasing portion of her spends some hours every week at the Glenys Dyer Church I retired a terrific family. Life is good! work. Her husband of 44 years and two local Starbucks and Panera Bread, June 30, 2016, after 34 years with Susan Plank Dern Spending time adult sons are doing well. In August a where she often gets free coffee since Northrop Grumman. I spent the rest in Fla. with Elena’s family as her hus- five-day point-to-point horseback ride she is a teacher. She would love to of 2016 trying to get the house back band travels quite a bit; she works full across southwest Scotland offered make it to Sweet Briar before our big together after our kitchen renovation. time, plus has a 2- and a 5-yr-old. We phenomenal scenery and quick runs on 50th. Not sure that will happen, but she This year I am able to spend more time babysat in Nov. 2016 when she attend- sandy beaches. Tracy said SBC’ers are will be at Sweet Briar for our 50th, God on things that I enjoy, like scrapbooking ed a high school friend’s wedding in always welcome. Holler when you’re in willing!! Love to everyone in the Class and making cards. Moscow, then spent Thanksgiving week the Denver area. of 1974! Diane Dale Reiling Our two in Cairo. I also have been traveling: Liz Thomas Camp reports that Debbie Bigum Debbie and Randy children are both married now, and I drove to Ore. and back last summer the Boxwood girls welcomed The are enjoying retirement. They spilt their was delighted to see our happy photos for a niece’s wedding and saw Diane Grands in 2017! Plans in the works for time between Destin, Fla., and Boone, in the last Alumnae Magazine! I am and Chuck. Went kayaking in Maine “Redneck Riviera The Next Generation N.C., homes. “Our sweet granddaugh- focused on Reunion June 1−3, 2018. I in Aug., celebrating our 40th wedding 2018.” Ashton Cole Schiller is grand- ters, Natalie and Alexandria, provide us love the pre- and post-Reunions that anniversary. son to Barb Ashton Nicol. “Foxy” Mae lots of laughter and love. Our daughter

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Bonnie Chronowski Brophy and Betsy Hellmuth’s Five Little Lob- Liz Camp & Emory—Save SBC sign Barb Ashton Nicol holding Ashton Helen Travis stahs sent by Ellie P. hangs over my back Cole Schiller, Labor Day Weekend door in Handy Crossroads, GA 2017

Paula Hollingsworth, Barb Ashton, and Liz at Mobile Bay near Ft. Morgan, AL, Spring 2017

Seated L to R: Ellie P., Liz, Barb A & Mary W. Floor L to R: Lee Wilkinson Warren, Ruthie W. Lentz, Robin C.

Pam Graham, Sue Castle Rolewick, and Debbie Hooker Sauers at Sue’s house on Lake Geneva in July

MaryLee Doering and daughter, Deanna, Carmel, July 2017

Nancy Baggett Howell ’92, Liz Thomas Camp ’74, and Lee McEachern Liz Camp and Barb Ashton Nicol at Tracy James Collins ’94 Christmas 2016

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Lindsay and her husband, Dan, will be dio on their way to Maine, where Ted’s wedding of Hook’s son, Graham, in Oc- moving to Norfolk, Va., this fall. Court- family has been returning for seven tober 2016. They all had pre-wedding ney, the youngest, is in Atlanta. We are generations. This year Ann Smith and cocktails with Bonnie Brophy. Another touring Massachusetts, Maine and New Betsy just missed each other on Rt. 1 was at Pam’s lovely home in Palm City, Hampshire this September.” in Maine—each summer they try to Fla., in January. Fortunately, Pam’s Vicki Bates’s big news is that find a mutual week where we might home was spared from Hurricane Irma. she and her husband retired in May meet up along the coast of Maine if The next was in July at Sue’s house on and have moved to sunny Oceanside, they’re lucky. Lake Geneva in Wisconsin but without Calif. Their house is about four miles In Cleveland, Sarah Johnston Drea and Maureen Hynes Brouse, from the ocean, and on a clear day, Knoblauch has been hosting the local who usually go too, but couldn’t make they can see it in the distance. She can alumnae from all decades to keep it this year. The Sweet Briar five call see beautiful sunsets from their deck. them all informed with all that has themselves the unofficial Sweet Bread. Before heading west, they drove from revived at Sweet Briar. She appreciates This group gets together at Sue’s every Florida up to Sweet Briart to see the all those that help keep us informed on July and have for the past few years. campus and some of her childhood various pages on Facebook. Sue graciously extends an invitation to friends, including professors Glenn and Elizabeth Andrews Watts reports anyone else in our class to join them. Gil Van Treese. a highlight of her year was a visit with There is plenty of room and tons of fun. Bonnie Chronowski Brophy and Leslie Elbert Hill has been Jane Hutchinson Frierson, Susan Barb Ashton Nicol writes it has grandson blessed to travel several times this Stephens Geyer, and Leslie Elbert been a busy couple of weeks. Her year with wonderful girlfriends. Hill. “They came to our house on biggest news is that her grandson, Joining Susan Stephens Geyer and the Eastern Shore of Virginia in April, Ashton Cole, was born September 1 in Jane Hutchinson Frierson, Leslie and we enjoyed time together while Mobile, Ala., to Ben and Jenn Schiller. visited Elizabeth Watts and Bobby on attending two of the annual Garden She and Robert had just returned from the Eastern Shore and enjoyed their Club of Virginia tours. Bobby and I two weeks in England, Ireland and beautiful waterside home and the Nor- are still enjoying retirement and plan Scotland. They took a cruise around folk Garden Tour. Later, she was able to to take a two-day sailing class in Great Britain and had a wonderful time. see the Grand Canyon with five other Annapolis on our 40th anniversary. This Robert’s son, Sage, got engaged in “first-timers.” Perhaps loveliest of all summer we had fun with our children June and then to test the relationship, are the grandkid-snuggling trips to N.C. and grandchildren. Betsy, David and they rode out Hurricane Harvey in Finally, girls! Fortunately, her grandson their daughters, Laney (5) and Grace Corpus Christi. Luckily, they had only Liz & Emory on Lake Martin, AL lives only six miles away :) (3), live in Atlanta. Rob and Alden, and minor wind damage. Other two sons Betsy Bigger Hellmuth and Ted their sons, Chip (8) and Pete (6), spent are doing well and grandchildren in just welcomed their fifth grandchild! In last year in Princeton while Rob was Atlanta are great! July, little Charlie joined Ruby (7) and in a master’s program. Now they are Helen Travis works at The LiRo Cole (5) in Beacon, N.Y., where her awaiting news about Rob’s next Navy Group (now six years)—www.liro.com. oldest daughter, Katie, and husband assignment. She travels to Beirut, Lebanon, to see David Martin live. Betsy and Ted love Chris Weiss Pfeil and her mother, her sister, who cares for her brother- living in the Hudson Valley area. David Betty Weiss, enjoyed dinner in August in-law with late-stage Alzheimer’s. A commutes to N.Y.C., where he is a with Mary Scales Lawson ’70, and her book was just published by her uncle locations manager for films and TV husband, Jeff (W&L ’68), talking all about the homestead farm, an 1810 shows. Son TJ and his wife, Lily, travel about Sweet Briar! Mary is a Greenville, “Jones” property and in the family a lot from home base in Santa Monica, S.C., friend of her sister, Wendy Weiss since 1909. “I manage the place primarily filming promotional work for Smith ’71, and they were meeting alone now. Will celebrate my 65th the ROLI website in London, helping for the first time while she and her birthday—better than the alternative, them launch their amazing electronic husband were visiting Cleveland. as they say.” computerized keypads, now available Mimi Hill Wilk announces Susan Stephens Geyer and Mark at Apple Stores. The digital equipment they have #2 Grandson News. just returned from a three-week trip to Debbie and Pam was used in concert in the film “La La Her daughter-in-law Heather and son Australia and New Zealand. It was their Land.” Betsy’s youngest, Kimberly, is Beau (Kenneth Walter Wilk, Jr.) had first time to visit both countries, and currently way high up on the 89th floor Mimi’s second grandson, Heath, on they had a remarkable time and soaked of the Willis Tower, in Chicago. Over the August 12. Brother Georgie (3) is over in the beauty and learned about the rainbows, she claims. She can barely the top with his new baby brother. Mimi cultures. Last April, Leslie Hill, Jane see cars below. She is devoted to her sends thanks to Penelope Lagag- Frierson and Susan joined Elizabeth efforts raising funds and awareness for kos Constantinidi’s amazing family Watts and Bobby at their home on corporate social responsibility with the business of KEVOO from Greece; she the eastern shore of Virginia for a won- law firm Sayfarth Shaw. Her husband, had fun selling Kastania Extra Virgin derful visit and garden tours in Norfolk. Jack McClain, is a photographer Olive Oil at the Plaza luncheon with Susan moved back into her home after producing videos for weddings as well daughter Liz! Mimi and Greg enjoyed a long remodeling process, and she Maureen, Sue, and Pam as for corporations. They have two little seeing Emory Maxwell and Charles, plans to host the Sweet Briar Friends girls Evie (4) and Graysie (1) and a big and they shared grandparent stories. of Art Board when they meet in Dallas lovable dog, and live near Oak Park, Ill. Georgie turned 3 on Groundhog Day!! in November. As usual, they had family Ted is still traveling often as an Go Greek for EVOO! Mimi sends hugs, gatherings in Colorado at Christmas investment advisor for Boyd Watterson love and warm wishes from Arizona. and in July. Her dad passed away on in Cleveland. Needless to say they Mary Bush Norwood is running July 30, which has been a sad element are traveling often, trying to keep up again for mayor of Atlanta. By all for her this year. with the grandkids as much as they reports, she is the front-runner. She will Tricia Barnett Greenberg reports can, driving usually with her springer be a great mayor. that all is well in Florence and spaniel, Buddy, who is always by Sue Castle Rolewick had some Charleston, S.C. Tricia is loving having Betsy’s side. minireunions this year with Debbie two grandsons from two children, 16 This summer Betsy loved stopping Hooker Sauers, Pamela Cogghill and 17 months old. She is still doing Liz Camp’s granddaughter, Mae by Southbury, Conn., to visit Ellie Graham and Drea Peacock Bender. her antiques business, on Instagram Camp, Class of 2030 Plowden Boyd and finally see her stu- One reunion was at the New Jersey as Patrician Antiques, and is amazed at

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 59 Class Notes the power of the Internet for sales. She new reinvention we have been waiting is excited that Rossie Ray Spell will to see. I can’t wait to be a part of join her in Charleston in about a Sweet Briar’s future. I joined 160 oth- year!! Tricia has been traveling and is ers at Sweet Work Weeks in August to so thankful to be an SBC graduate! paint singles and quads in Manson and Paula Hollingsworth Thom- Carson. It was as much fun as hard as and Steve are still in Lewisburg, work, and I enjoyed meeting alumnae Tenn. Steve retired this year, and they from a huge range of class years and are enjoying their free time. They have hanging out with new friends I’ve met two granddaughters that they love online and now in person since we all spending time with. came out of the woodwork during The And, I, Nancy Mortensen Piper, Troubles of 2015. Reunion is fun, but had trips to New York City, North Sweet Work Weeks is like a super-re- Carolina, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, union across all classes that lasts for and Sweet Briar for President Woo’s three weeks! Our class should organize Inauguration and the leadership train- to come as a group next summer. ing weekend. My older daughter, Kate, There is gardening, sewing and office is living and working in Berkeley, Calif. work for anyone who can’t paint! My youngest daughter, Liz, is a junior Bet Bashinsky Wise Got to check Betsy Burdge Murphy shared a mini-reunion with Anne Cogswell Burris, at Elon University in North Carolina. off several bucket list items this year. Wendy Wise Routh, Ann Wesley Ramsey and Beth Montgomery She will be in London for the spring Was able to fly to Cuba for three nights semester, and I am looking forward to with friends to old Havana—an amaz- visiting her while she is there. Liz had ing journey back in time. The city is lessons with Karl Keurner (Keurner be stress. And I rode through Hurricane an internship in N.Y.C. this summer, decaying from lack of maintenance for farm, Andrew Wyeth, Helga paintings). Irma in my home, with my cat, Dusty, and it was fun to spend some time the past 50 years but still beautiful. The We still have a boat in Cape May, N.J. and fortunately sustained no damage there with her. Thanks to all of you who people of Cuba are energized, friendly, Toured Iceland for a week, and then beyond small tree branches and sent me news and photos. and welcoming. Got to hike to Sperry I stayed for a week trek on Icelandic other debris in my yard. Still, these Chalet in Glacier National Park before it horses with a loose herd of fifty. Adren- events are turning me toward the idea burned in the Sprague Ridge Fire. I also aline rush! Surreal countryside! Still of retiring a year early. I’ve started checked off another bucket list item have my horse, but like us all, getting downsizing my possessions with an 1975 by day-hiking up to Shangri La above older. Stay happy and healthy, all! eye toward moving to my desired new Anne Cogswell Burris Cecelia Robertson Queen Mike hometown of Staunton, Va., and looking 1437 Headquarters Plantation Dr Iceberg Lake. My best to all friends in Texas and Florida. Harvey and Irma will and I are going to Houston for our at possible places to live there. Johns Island, SC 29455-3120 nephew George’s wedding in Octo- Randy Anderson Trainor Still [email protected] not win! CeCe Clark Melesco David and I ber. Don’t know what we’ll find there, working in the interior design industry Karen Bewick Susan and I still but God bless the people in Texas! Irma and still loving it. Tom and I went to are renovating the farm. This fall we are enjoying his retirement and spent the entire summer at our home on affected us here in parts of South Car- Martha’s Vineyard for five days in June. hope to finish a guest house that was olina somewhat, but nothing anywhere I had a broken toe, and he had had a blacksmith shop/horse run in. In the Smith Mt. Lake. We usually have some of the kids here on weekends along near like she did in Florida. God bless his knee replaced a month before. We process we will finish updating the those in Florida also. My hometown looked like a couple of old fa—s walk- main house kitchen. Then we move to with their four-legged children. Of our five children, two are married, one is of Augusta, Ga., experienced much ing down the beach, but it was just the master bath. I have retired from damage too. I’m volunteering to help what we needed. Visited our son and teaching 12th-grade English and am divorced and the other two are in great relationships. Two are in the Roanoke raise $$ for Harvey and Irma victims, his family in Castine, Maine, where excited to restart my residential real and then we’re heading to our house in they live. Our 3 1/2-year-old grand- estate career in suburbia Virginia. Sha- area, one in Charlottesville, one in NOVA and one in Charleston. Life is good. Cashiers, N.C., to survey the damage, daughter is so much fun! Daughter ron Mangus ’74 has been out several if any, there. My thoughts are with all Cary is still living on her boat and is times to help us harvest honey from Janis Csicsek Dodge Still working as a member of the executive of you who were affected by these now director of finance at the Newport, our hives. Sarah Clement, Ellen Mouri storms. R.I., Marriott. It’s a good thing her ’80, Ellen’s husband, and I drove to see management team at a bank. I love it, but retirement is just around the corner. Denise Montgomery I think it has house is mobile! She just had to motor President Woo speak in Charlottesville been a couple of years since I have down the coast from Boston to New- about her new vision for SBC. Very Recently was honored as a Community Bank Hero. Our children are all over— submitted to class notes; so this goes port! Tom is loving retired life, though exciting! If you’re coming to the D.C. back at least to spring 2015. I made he is now VP at our local golf club. I’m area, please come visit! Baltimore, Philadelphia, Kansas City and Australia—but all arrive at our “Maine” three trips back to SBC to attend the still teaching skiing at Cannon. I get to Mary Dubuque Desloge I love Friends of the Library meetings in the ski for free once I turn 65. Maybe I’ll hearing about the 75’ers! Two of my cabin throughout the year. Also enjoying eight grandchildren and spending time spring and fall of 2015, as well as my stop teaching then. Looking forward to three sons are married, and William 40th class reunion. our next reunion. and Holly had a future SBC’er in April raising funds for a rare disease. I have many Sweet Briar grads in hometown of I’ve had some good trips with Beverley Crispin Heffernan I re- (Halsey René Desloge). I invited my friends for both business and pleasure: tired from Federal government service 92-year-old mother to live with me, and Wenham/Hamilton, Mass. Betsy Burdge Murphy I don’t a library conference at The Stanley in April 2016, and don’t know how I now wondering if I can keep up with Hotel, in Estes Park, Colo., where ever had time to go to the office! In her! I think she might have to give up really have much personal news other than my health issues, which is as Stephen King had the nightmare that addition to volunteering for Sweet Briar, the car (what dents?!) so I can Uber !? resulted in “The Shining”; American I am state treasurer of Back Country Best to all!! boring as all git out. I spent a wonderful mini-reunion weekend in April at Chris Library Association conferences in Horsemen of Utah, an officer in my new Sarah Clement I’m still working Boston and Chicago; two house parties sport of archery on horseback, a board for the Federal government as an Hoefer Myers’s family beach house on Isle of Palms, outside of Charleston, at Sea View, the house that provided member of Les Amis du Vin Utah, and a administrative judge but looking to the exteriors of Collinwood on the TV volunteer theater manager at Sundance retire in 2019 when I—and most of the S.C. Wonderful memories were made with Chris, Anne Cogswell Burris, show “Dark Shadows”; and going to Film Festival, though I think that I am rest of us—turn 66 and are eligible for San Francisco for this past Fourth of retired from that now! Still one husband full Social Security! Can you believe we Wendy Wise Routh, Ann Wesley Ramsey and Beth Montgomery. July weekend. and two sons; all doing well, as are are in our 60’s? I recently heard our Within the last few months I was the two horses and two dogs. Jim and impressive new President Woo speak Coni Crocker Betzendahl Exciting year. Another grandson born hospitalized with what I thought was a I have traveled to India and Cuba in of the new vision and plan for Sweet heart attack and which turned out to the past year and headed to Ireland in Briar and was thrilled. This is the bold, to our eldest daughter! Taking painting

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October. In September I got together first-floor Meta Glass reunion including Tillett Northrup for pushing us to Italy to check off more on my bucket with roommates Cynde Manning Ann Wesley Ramsey, Elizabeth continue the efforts. Hope we will all list—Eze, Cap St. Jean Ferrat, Amalfi Chatham, Robin Singleton Cloyd, Montgomery, Betsy Burdge Mur- connect again for a reunion. The last Coast, Umbria and Capri. Organized an and Nancy Haight for a fun visit in phy, Anne Cogswell Burris and our one was a blast! arts fundraiser for the American Cancer Cape May, N.J. hostess Chris Hoefer Myers, who had Ella McPherson Magruder Mark Society. Was on Conan twice as Justice Ann South Malick Hey, youz guys! lost her husband earlier this year. Patty and I are still teaching dance at SBC, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and filmed “Do Hello from the city of champions! Mark Tucker O’Desky and Gray Thomas and our students are phenomenal. You Want To See a Dead Body?”—as and I have had significant porch time Payne had to cancel last minute due (Thanks, alumnae, for saving the school a homeless woman—I’m such a versa- as he continues to recover from open- to family emergencies and were sorely for these focused and amazing girls!!!) tile actress! LOL heart surgery. I have been continuing missed. Lexie is working at the The The “impossible being just another Louisa Dixon I live in my my Weight Watchers journey. It works if Broadway League and thrilled me by problem to solve,” as future SBC grads, hometown, Staunton, Va., with my you work it! I have been participating in asking me to be her date for the To- they will do us proud. Have loved 99-year-old mother, whose memory sheep-to-shawl contests while honing ny’s!!!! Fabulous weekend! JohnCarlos seeing all our former students, peers, and energy are better than mine! I am my spinning skills. Nothing to report is going from the TriBeCa Film Festival friends and supporters of Sweet Bri- still coordinating French-American on Kacer and Mary Frances. I’m just to the U.S. Open to Fashion Week in ar—too many to name here, but hugs exchanges with people in Virginia trying to stay out of their way as they N.Y.C.; so everyone is busy and happy. to all—return these past two years and Franche-Comté, especially those find their ways in life! Hence the mad His foundation JC for JD (JohnCarlos since the closing attempt. On the home in sister cities Charlottesville and spinner!!! for Juvenile Diabetes) had another front, our daughter, Mia, was married Besançon. I had fun catching up with Catherine Cranston Whitham successful FUNRAISER to fund the cure last summer, and we love our jazz mu- classmate Kathy Osbourne Spirtes Happily, I stay in regular touch with because “a cure is forever.™” sician/composer son-in-law Chris. They this month when Kathy came through SBC/JYF roommate Terry Starke Carlos and I retreat to Florida No- live in Keswick, and Mia supplies us Staunton with her dog, Cream Puff, Tosh as well as SBC roommates Libby vember 1 for golf and warm weather. with organic veggies on occasion. She and I regularly sees classmates Terry Whitley Fulton and Randy Anderson So all is great here; thanking God for is still with the Jefferson Foundation, at Starke Tosh and Sarah Dowdey, Trainor. Took a great walking trip our blessings! Monticello. Our son, Conan, continues who both live in Richmond. Because I along the Dorset Coast of England last Marsha Decker Powers So to teach high school government in couldn’t get away this winter to clear September and a Mediterranean trip grateful that we made it through Hurri- Farmville and loves the challenge. No out her Besançon loft apartment when this past winter. This stage of life brings cane Irma here on Ponte Vedra Beach, grandchildren yet, but we do have a my French landlady decided to sell it, lots of volunteer work plus good “tend- Fla.! I am still working and am the CEO grand-puppy named Freya. We love our Terry was kind enough (crazy enough?) ing to,” with my mother (87) and two of Tenet Healthcare’s Coastal Division. two adorable cats and our dog, Gracie; to spend a week there, sorting, grandchildren nearby. Whit retires this Absolutely love what I do. I am also on we adopted them from the Charlottes- organizing, dispersing, disposing and year from practicing law for forty years. the board of trustees at the University ville-Albemarle SPCA, all on the same bringing some things back to Virginia in I am thankful each day for energy and of Florida and chair the UF Audit and day. That was a very interesting drive a superbly efficient manner. good health. Compliance Committee. I certainly back home! Shari Mendelson Gallery From Anne Ross Shipe Not much in understand the challenges the SBC Cathie Grier Kelly I am enjoying the hills of West Virginia I have been Charlottesville that no one doesn’t al- Board faces! Just returned from a trip teaching at St. Martin’s Episcopal busy with my vacation rental guest- ready know about from the news. I am to Machu Picchu and the Galapagos. School in Atlanta. This is my fourth year house, Just Far Enough Getaway—lots still working, Jim retired and I may next This fall, we are off to Iceland to see as a Kindergarten assistant. At that of guests means lots of laundry and December (2018). Biggest news is that the Northern Lights. I see Bobbie Hauck age, our children are still very sweet, cleaning. Also shearing Christmas trees my son, Ross, and his wife, Rachel, Gribble ’76 a couple times a year and can do a lot and are fun to be with. I for the retail business with our sons gave us Levon Welford Shipe on Dec. had mini-reunion at her daughter Ka- like the faculty members too. I needed in Alexandria, Va., Almost Heavenly 29, 2016, and mother passed him in tie’s wedding in June. Hope everyone is something constructive to do outside of Christmas Trees LLC (hope to see some the night, passing away on Dec. 30, in good health. the house. My husband, Bill, continues SBC folks stop by our lot at Landmark 2016 (one floor apart the hospital). We Linda Lucas Steele Retirement to work in finance in banking. We had Mall). When others laughingly post “just know she stayed around to see him as has been a wonderful adventure with a fabulous cruise through Scandinavia 15 weeks ’til Christmas” on Facebook, she was 97. Miss the SBC days of old time for home, family, friends, muse- last summer through the W&L Traveler it has a different meaning for us). Got with all of you. Hugs to all. ums, books, boxwood, trees, gardens... Program—always so well planned in a little bit of artwork (seems so long Carroll Waters Summerour travel. Heading to Spain tomorrow to with such nice travel companions. ago I was a studio art major at SBC) at Added grandchild #6 on February help daughter move from Madrid to This was our third trip with W&L; we Common Ground on the Hill, an annual 8—William Michael Reynolds. Now Valladolid. Both sons live in Virginia: the highly recommend its programs. In music and arts camp our family has we have four in New Orleans and elder is a big-time cattle rancher with October we will celebrate our 30th been involved in for the past 23 years. two in Knoxville. They keep me busy his father and the younger works for anniversary. We are going to N.Y.C. Dorsey Tillett Northrup I’m vol- babysitting. We had a successful a successful Richmond economic re- for a weekend and will have a bigger unteering overtime these days—Park- season at Toby’s Summer Chapel in search firm. They surprised Roger and trip later. Our oldest son, Thomas (24), ersburg Art Center—doing guess the Cashiers-Highlands area—average me with an awesome 40th anniversary lives in Charlotte and works as an auto what??? Fundraising! Painting some. attendance was 225, with 390 the celebration. mechanic. Our younger son, Stuart (18) Frank (mostly retired) and I went on a Sunday before the eclipse. Things are Mary Henningsen Collins All is is a freshman at College of Charleston man’s dream trip (Cleveland Indians, great here at Lake Toxaway, N.C.! well with us in Stamford, Conn. We (what a fun place to visit). Like Dorsey, two games—I made him stop at Cynde Manning Chatham I had a have become grandparents to Austin, I started working out with a personal Niagara for one night, Saratoga, N.Y., fun roommates reunion with Beverley born in Texas, to my oldest, Mayde, trainer about four years ago and three days of horses running around Crispin Heffernan, Nancy Haight, in October 2016. Wonderful, but they have remained faithful to my workout in a circle—Cooperstown, N.Y., two and Robin Singleton Cloyd at Cape are far away at the moment! Other routine. My workout includes cardio days Baseball Hall of Fame . . . drove May, N.J. Great weather in between two daughters doing well, and my and strength training; it makes a world many miles . . . actually fun!). Taking Harvey and Irma. All well with us! mom—Mayde Ludington Henningsen of difference in how I feel. seven-day ride on Queen Mary 2 from Terry Starke Tosh I went to ’48, turned 90 last year and is still Elizabeth “Beth”/“Liz” Mont- N.Y.C. to South Hampton in October. Staunton with Sarah Dowdey to cel- celebrating SBC success. I saw Carol gomery I had a fabulous time at Chris (Three formal nights . . . Anyone have ebrate the birthday of Louisa Dixon’s St. John for a quick lunch some time Hoeffer Myers’s beautiful ocean-front any gowns I can borrow??? $661 mom, Doris, who turned 99 in July! ago, and she looks her usual stunning house on Isle of Palms with Cogs, per person!!! Swimming back!) Start- Wendy Wise Routh Our house in self. I see my cousins Leslie Ludington Wendy Routh, Ann Ramsey, and ed Weight Watchers Jan. 28 with Florida survived Irma surprisingly well, Ordendorf ’73 and Felice Ludington Betsy Burdge Murphy. Cogs orga- a buddy . . . stuck with it . . . I’ve and we are repairing what damage ’76 often, and we all are thrilled at the nized a tour day in Charleston, and our gained only 138 lbs. since birth!! I there was, for the season. I had a positive direction the College is headed conversations were reminiscent, funny have dropped 21 pounds and 15 fabulous time at Isle of Palms with in. Thanks to class president Dorsey and spiritual. 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SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 61 Class Notes suit if you are feeling like a slug! Sec- ond son just married lovely gal from Nova Scotia—wedding was in Halifax, 1976 cool location! Oldest son married, Peggy Weimer Parrish in Houston, with my one grandchild, 862 Main Street Max (3). Maggie is a tour guide in the Danville, VA 24541 Grand Canyon, but moving to Asheville, [email protected] N.C., soon. Anybody have kids there? Marsha Taylor Horton’s son Working hard for our Art Center, serving started college this fall and daughter on the board, and loving it! Noticed I started high school. Last fall she was am getting older: knee replaced 2014, the keynote speaker at an interna- have lots of boo-boo’s in joints, but tional conference on early childhood nothing serious . . . still think I’m young education held in Seoul, Korea. It was until I pass a mirror. Frank is fine, tak- an awesome experience, especially ing lots of buddy trips. That’s all, folks! spending time in a recently created Anne Cogswell Burris I lost my enterprise zone that 10 years ago mother in November 2016, at the was nothing but sea and sand! She young age of 92. She was the last and her husband, Bobby, traveled to of Lon’s and my parents. Oldest son, California for a business trip, where Scott, moved back (from LA) to the she reconnected with a friend from Daughter Olivia, Lynn Rogerson, new husband Steve, and Lynn’s father, Don Charleston area in September 2016 graduate school and dined on some of with wife Harriet and son Thomas (4). that wonderfully fresh San Francisco Daughter Carrie and Sam welcomed seafood! Yum! baby Ben Little in May 2017, a week Meg Shields Duke writes that her after Lon and I returned from 12 daughter Margo (JYF ’05) has a amazing days in Israel and Jordan bouncing toddler named Maddie and (one check off bucket list!!). We spent is looking forward to welcoming a new some time in July with son Will and his Vixen to the family when her nephew wife, Katie, and daughter, Birdie (1), Benjy Duke marries Clarkie Woods before heading to a wedding in Deer ’12 in Virginia Beach Oct. 28. “While Valley, Utah. Now, while in the middle there I plan to have dinner with Lisa of renovations to our house, Will, Katie Nelson Robertson, Sally Old Kitchin and Birdie have moved in with us until and Ann Kiley Crenshaw.” Her son, Kate Kelly Smith and Treacy Mar- Tricia Cassidy O’Callaghan, Treacy they find a place of their own. The Jamie, and wife Jesse welcomed baby key Shaw Markey Shaw, and Sally Mott 200-mile outskirts of Irma welcomed girl Heidi (Von) Duke into the world on Freeman them on their second day with two May 18. Her youngest, Caroline, re- feet of tidal surge in our driveway and cently became engaged to Wake Forest garage/basement. Unfortunately, we grad Tyler Ashley, with a Vail wedding had to cancel/postpone the 9th Ben planned for July. Burris Memorial Golf Tournament and Amy Troxell Stein Fucini lost BBQ because of Irma, and we hope to 35 pounds on Weight Watchers from reschedule before the end of the year. January to May. She and her husband, I enjoyed a mini-reunion in April Peter, took a 17-day cruise in May to with Wendy Wise Routh, Ann several northern European capitals as Wesley Ramsey, Betsy Burdge well as cruised in their yacht for 66 Murphy, Beth Montgomery and our days from June to August, thankfully host Chris Hoefer Myers. Needless returning home prior to Hurricane Irma, to say there was much laughter and starting in Punta Gorda, Fla., through lots of memories. Lon is still loving his Lake Okeechobee, to the East Coast, position as a financial advisor at Wells Cocoa, St. Augustine, St. Simons Lola Brock Meakin ’77, Jennie Bates Hamby, Tennessee Nielsen Fargo Advisors. I am entering my 10th Island, Beaufort, Charleston, Pawleys year as the bookkeeper for a small Island, Myrtle Beach, to name a few. law firm in Charleston. When I think “Peter is the Captain & I am the Ad- her first employee. Since she can work about retiring, I ask myself, “Why quit miral.” They just joined the Isles Yacht from the road, she and Ron venture a job that allows you to work when and Club in September and are looking from Maryland three to four months where you want as long as the job gets forward to enjoying its groups (bridge each year, camping in their VW pop-top done?” I am playing golf (if that’s what and water aerobics, woot woot!) plus van, visiting the nooks and crannies you call I do) when weather cooperates the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New in this amazing country, hiking and and am enjoying playing bridge. I MUST Year’s festivities. playing golf. be turning into a 60+ person!! Most of Karina Halverson Schless just Gail Ann Zarwell Winkler and all, I am loving having all three of my returned from Red Rock Ranch in Kelly, husband John enjoyed a wonderful trip grandchildren in the same area. Wyo. She had a great time ... good to the U.K. in June for her daughter Many thanks to Dorsey for her as- friends, horses, views (near Jackson Laura’s graduation with a master’s sistance in getting class notes together Hole and the Tetons). degree from the Royal Welsh College as my procrastination did not include Susan Ray Karlson and of Music and Drama in Cardiff, Wales. delayed house renovations, son and husband Ron are celebrating their Son William was able to go, so they family moving in and a hurricane near 40th anniversary this year and feel very enjoyed two weeks of castles, hand- the deadline. My hopes are to be much fortunate that they have a couple of pulled ale and general adventure. more vigilant with the next class report. charming grandboys. She reported that Not to be outdone, in August William And most of all, thanks to you who partial retirement is fabulous and her announced his engagement to very little Medicare insurance business has special Bridget, and plans a wedding in have given me something to submit Susan Ray Karlson fishing in expanded to the point she had to hire Neenah next year. this time!! Homer, Alaska

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Kelsey Kanady Grice had a great this summer; Olivia was maid of honor, In addition to seeing Norma and dry Oregon! When she wrote in, she year at work with her family yacht and other SBC alumnae celebrating Teesie at Sally’s book launch, I had was surrounded by fires, safe but with brokerage. She reported that while they included Maureen O’Hearn Slow- a wonderful dinner with Mary Beth “just lots of smoke, and I am going worked harder than ever, they played inski, Janet Whitehurst Binder ’75 Hamlin Shannon and husband Jim crazy staying indoors!” Painting the hard too! Since her son Parker has and Wendy Weiler Chappell ’70. Lynn in August, and I visit Elliott Graham whole downstairs was going to be joined the business, she has been able then headed off to South Africa for her Schoenig in Charlottesville as much her next indoor project! Katie retired, to take time off for great vacations, honeymoon. She continues to run her as I can since she has YET to come AGAIN, after being called back to including rafting the Grand Canyon the non-profit organization and has taken to visit me in Danville. I am in my fifth teach second grade. Now she will be first week of August. Daughter up sailing with her husband. year of teaching accounting and law able to spend more time with at least McKenzie is back at the beach plan- Susan Verbridge Paulson is still at John Tyler Community College in one of her daughters, who is nearby. ning for med school. Kelsey attended in Colorado Springs and celebrating Richmond, and travel to my second Granddaughter Addi (third grade) and SBC Reunion weekend this past spring. her last year as an elementary school home in Danville whenever possible as newest granddaughter Annabelle will Ann Kiley Crenshaw is so proud principal before “really” retiring in June. it is my happy place. be holding her attention now. (Katie of all of our alumnae who have not Connie Radford Butler is sent a picture, and when she says given up the fight to save our College, celebrating her 29th year of teaching her newest is a “doll” she means it! and attended President Woo’s inaugu- preschool and is just waiting to have 1978 Envision Thumbelina dolls from your ration in September. She is thrilled to a child of a former student! Her son Suzanne Stryker Ullrich past. That is what Annabelle looks like. announce the arrival of Carlisle Sullivan and his wife moved back to Louisville 820 Waverly Rd Seriously!) Katie’s other daughter is a Crenshaw, baby sister of Kiley Davis last summer; he is an ER doctor and Kennett Square, PA 19348 marketing manager for Cypress Groves Crenshaw. they are expecting their first baby in [email protected] Cheese. (Will you be bringing some of Tricia Cassidy O’Callaghan October. This new one will join her Well, there are more of us becom- that “really good!” cheese to Reunion, and fellow classmates Sally Mott daughter’s two boys in the town where ing grandparents these days, but sadly Katie?) Katie and hubby are still living Freeman, Treacy Markey Shaw, and she lives, and she considers herself there have also been some loved ones on their farm . . . just cows, chickens Kate Kelly Smith went to Nantucket SO lucky to have everyone so close! “I lost! That “Circle of Life” continues! and another farmer growing mint on for a few days. They stayed at her had a wonderful visit with Terry Starke First, a run down of all of the current their land. There have been lots of ren- home and sailed, drank, ate, chatted Tosh ’75 this summer, both here and in and new grandmothers! ovations, inside and outside. “Getting went to the beach, hiked and thor- Richmond.” Anne Taylor Quarles Doolittle used to retirement will be interesting oughly enjoyed being with each other. Andie Yellott and husband Ben welcomed granddaughter Maddy on and fun, I hope!” All of her family is Her son, Timothy Higgings, got married still work full-time for JHU/CTY in the Nov. 7, along with Maddy’s parents in doing great, including 95-year-old dad, last fall on Nantucket to another Holy Distance Online Writing Programs. Fairfax, Va. Between being a dutiful and amazing mom at 93. Cross grad, Liz Conner, and they are She had to retire her horse this spring, grandmother and riding (Anne is Becky Mulvihill McKenna happily settled in NYC: he at Goldman which in her own words means, “I’m no currently horseless, but is looking for a was expecting her first grandchild Sachs and she at Corcoran Real Estate. fun at all to live with.” Son Andrew is “super chill hunter” to take out with her “any day”! “I am beyond excited to Trica is still a government attorney in working hard to “make it” in the music hunt club this year!), Anne continues be a grandmother!” Second daughter Westchester County, and she is now a world; he had a successful U.S. tour in to paint, selling one painting a month Maggie and her husband, Joey, were candidate for her LLM (Master of Laws) June, then a VERY successful tour in through Instagram! She has also been “expecting” and living in Minneapolis, in environmental law. England in July. Son Benet is a Level 1 volunteering as a crisis counselor since where Maggie was doing sustain- Melanie Coyne Cody still lives in Cicerone (he’s a beer nerd!) and study- June and is loving it. Husband Bob’s able community development for a Winnetka, Ill., works at Y&R Brands and ing for Level 2. Her two coonhounds, son recently moved to Columbus, non-profit. Older daughter Katie has travels to Green Lake, Wis., on summer Brosif and Caper, continue to spread Ohio, allowing for great visits with finished her family medical residency weekends. She had a great hiking love and joy as therapy dogs. She is Muffy Hamilton Parsons and Cindy program in Portland, Ore., and recently trip in New Zealand in January and her 88-year-old mom’s caretaker, with McKay. started working at a family clinic sailed in May in the BVI with friends. all that entails. She maintains contact Deb Davison Klein has a new providing rural, underserved family Her daughter Sarah got engaged with Ann Works Balderston, and granddaughter, Brooke Weidner, born medicine in Hood River, Ore., doing and daughter Caitlin received a big she thoroughly enjoyed Sally Mott Aug. 15 to youngest son Peter and his the work she always dreamed of! Third promotion to VP group strategy director Freeman’s “most excellent” book. fiancé. Oldest son Bo got married in daughter Erin works as a clinical social at Digitas Chicago. Jennie Bateson Hamby: We have Laguna Beach this past March, and worker, doing group work with teens Tennessee Nielsen couldn’t say a small house in Charlottesville since Deb was also able to visit daughter who are dealing with trauma. While on no to Reunion 2017 “when I heard our son, daughter-in-law and year-old Whitney and her husband, Alex, in a trip to Paris for her 29th birthday, her that Lola Brock Meakin ’77 would be (in December) grandson live there. We Atlanta in July. Nothing like crisscross- boyfriend popped the question! Indeed, there!” She loved visiting with Jennie go about three times a year. Lou can ing the country! wonderful transitions for all three! Bateson Hamby in Charlottesville and do his legal work remotely. My roomie, Julie Pfautz Bodenstab has also Becky continues as a psychotherapist seeing her adorable new grandson. Tennessee Nielsen, came to C’ville become a grandmother … again! Son working with marriage and family Larkin Barnett is opening her from Dallas to go to the 40th reunion Phillip and Sarah welcomed Eleanor therapy. Still loving what she does, own Pilates state-of-the-art equipment of Class of ’77. One highlight was (Ella) on Sept. 8 so that Sam (3) can Becky feels “lucky, and so happy, to studio called “Pilates with Larkin” in seeing Lola Brock Meakin ’77, who now be a “big brother”! Son Peter and see our kids growing and doing what Liberty Lake, Wash.! She is writing is just the same! Also, MB Hamlin, Chelsea are expecting their first child they love to do!” articles for Thrive Global; her first Lynn Kahler, Janet Myers ’77, Jean (a girl!) on Thanksgiving Day! Both boys Cassandra Smith Babbitt took article was with Dr. Bernie Siegel and Romanske ’77 and many others! and their growing families live in New a major leap of faith last January! She an upcoming article is with Robert Norma Neblett Roadcap, Teesie England; so Julie has decided to retire quit her job at the University of Maine Andrews, the Olympic training coach Costello Howell, and Peggy Weimer in November after many years in the to start her own business, Fiddlehead for medaling gymnasts. Parrish thoroughly enjoyed having education department at Longwood Quiltworks (on Facebook and online)! Lynn Kahler Rogerson had a lunch with Sally Mott Freeman at Gardens. She and Mark will be moving “And thanks to the great SBC network, busy year. She celebrated daughter the Women’s Club in Richmond for to Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H., where I’ve made a start!” From personal Olivia’s high school graduation and the launch of her fabulous book, “The they both look forward to sharing year- experience, that long-arm quilting accompanied her to multiple SBC Jersey Brothers.” Teesie also had the round activities with all of their family. machine is impressive and Cassandra’s activities—to the fabulous SBC pleasure of having dinner with Sally Julie and I were able to take a class work is amazing. I think Perk would Summer Riding Clinic, prospective Old Kitchin and Lisa Nelson Rob- together at Longwood earlier this year, agree! In May, Cassandra made the students weekend, Sweet Work Weeks, ertson and husband Tim in Virginia which was great fun. I will be so sad very long drive from home in northern then had the joy of delivering her in Beach this summer. Congrats to Sally when she leaves Chester County, Pa., Maine to Topsail Beach, N.C., to meet August as a proud member of the Kitchin and Keedie Grones Leonard as will she! 14 others classmates. “I joined the class of ’21. Lynn was also married on well-deserved SBC alum awards. Katie Renaud Baldwin is in very most awesome group of ’78ers on

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Topsail Island for a brilliant weekend. It was a wonderful chance to reconnect, remember and update each other on our lives!” Cassandra’s two grand- daughters have moved back to North America from Hong Kong, now living in Victoria, B.C. “Hey, at least we are on the same continent now! It’s nice that they always pick fun places for me to visit!” That’s it for all who wrote in about grandchildren! I know for a fact that there are more of you out there. (If I could insert a “wink, wink,” I would!) Why didn’t I hear from you? Mary Gearhart and her son, ’78ers and other alumnae at the wedding of Lisa Wray Longino’s daughter Fleming (l to r): Claire Dennison Grif- Cobi (17), had recently returned from fith ’80, Ellen Sellers McDowell ’77, Lisa Wray Longino, Barbara Wray Heath ’81, Bridget Wray Gardner ’79, Betsy another wonderful summer at Raquette Ryan Glenn, Mary Page Stewart, and Barbara Behrens Peck Lake, N.Y., where Mary has worked almost every summer since ’75. Her current title is director of waterfront and minister of culture (“a bit like professor emeritus”). Cobi, who worked at the RL Supply Company over the summer, has now entered his senior year at Digital Harbor High School in Baltimore. Mary continues her work with the Community Play Project, which entails “daily adventures with two to five year olds!” Mary also continues to take wonderful photographs during her walks around Baltimore. I expect there Suzanne Stryker Ullrich, Cas- will be a wonderful book someday. sandra Smith Babbitt, Cecilia Catherine Moore’s son, Lee, Garcia-Tuñon Lear graduated from the Walker College of Katherine Powell Heller, husband John, both daughters and spouse and Business at Appalachian State Universi- boyfriend on a “trip of a lifetime”—a wonderful African safari ty and has begun the master’s program in accounting there as well. Daughter Aynsley is currently a junior at Furman majoring in political science. News also in from Cathy Mellow Golterman! Cathy is still teaching pre- school, and baby and dog sitting. (Can the dogs be attached to the strollers?) Her twin daughters are both pursuing careers in education as well. Catherine teaches Kindergarten, and Christen is Mary Goodwin Gamper, Mimi Borst finishing her master’s in counseling/ Quilman and Mary Page Stewart education at Webster University. Son at a cancer walk in Baltimore in September honoring Maria Rixey Woody has started at Cooley Law Suzanne Stryker Ullrich, Lauren Place Young, Lauren’s daughter Brittany, Gamper, who passed away a cou- School in Tampa. Hubby Chris still Marianne Hutton Felch ’79 involved with the manufacturing of ple years ago shoelaces. There will always be some of us School in Pottstown, Pa. The third is at ly in summer! Roses are still blooming, Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical in the throes of renovation! Cindy University of Denver for his junior year. the cork has been harvested as have Writing (CV2), “Hair issue.” Raccoon Whitley Auman writes that “renovation No weddings, no grandchildren. We the tomatoes, and it’s now time for Prints appears in the tenth anniversary projects still abound around our old notice . . . is this generation slow in this wine making! We’re all waiting for the issue (“Out of Time”) of Whitefish farmhouse after nearly two decades!” dept.?” Husband Mark retired from the Feast of St. Martin and the National Review. Sounds like you’ve been pretty She admits that rotator cuff surgery insurance business but stays busy in Lusitano Horse Fair.” prolific, Donna! in July did slow her down a bit. Jean real estate building a “net-zero” energy Donna J. Gelaglotis Mihalik Mary Page Stewart sent in news Beard Barden came through for an home(s) while he and Ieke continue re- Lee has had a number of her poems that daughter Ellie and her family lived overnighter on her way north from storing a historic property in Simsbury, published! Congratulations to her! through Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Florida last March … “Lots of Fun”! Conn. “Life is good!” “Cloud” and “After Letting the Horses just as she was awaiting news of Whitley was looking forward to a trip to Jaime Murray lives in Portugal Out” appear in the chapbook “The Irma’s path! “Hoping that our Florida the Outer Banks, N.C., “with friends and while pursuing its fascinating history Lost Sparrow” (Lost Sparrow Press, house survives this one! We are feeling countless dogs . . . a welcome break!” and traditions. “I’ve been riding a lot 2017). Poems “America,” “1984,” very lucky and are keeping those Ieke Osinga Scully is still busy and am in love with the Lusitano hors- and “Cameras” appear in Proteus: A directly affected in our prayers, as I’m volunteering at her local historical soci- es!” Jamie’s springer spaniel, Merlin, Journal of Ideas (issue: “Privacy and sure everyone else is.” It was a crazy ety, having fun organizing house tours. and she swam a lot this past summer. Freedom in the Digital Age”) online. time for many! Her two sons “launched into working “He’s a great trainer! We’ve also been “Lover” appears in Forage (issue: “Po- Lots of news from Anne Stelle! members of society … one in Chicago, walking a lot early in the morning as etry of Nature”) online. “Hot Breath” She is still a hospital chaplin and has one teaching and coaching at The Hill the temperatures here reach 100° dai- appears in Contemporary Verse 2: The been busy. The Rehabilitation Institute

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Wray Heath ’81 and husband Tad). What a lovely and fun event that must have been! Lisa continues to enjoy working with the Alumnae Relations and Development office at school and admits that “it has been wonderful to meet so many extraordinary Sweet Briar women from all ages and stages who have stepped up and supported SBC!” She too is surprised it will be our 40th next year! Cathy Finley Önder was heard from while she was on a wonderful bicycle trip in France during the sum- mer. “We rented a fantastic house in Chinon, France. It has beautiful views and is walking distance to town. It’s especially fun because (children) Sean and Kelly are with us!” Perhaps all of our classmates who have European experience can help us plan a class trip over there? Jeanette Mehl is happy to be in The Fab Fifteen at Topsail Beach, N.C. (l. to r.): Cindy McKay, Lynn Spilman Williams (in back of) Muffy Hamilton contact with so many classmates via Parsons in pink, Toni Christian Brown, Ann Yauger, Cassandra Smith Babbitt in corner, with Jane Hemenway Facebook. It is good to know about Sullivan (white visor). Standing (l. to r.): Betsy Moore Conti, Anne Taylor Quarles Doolittle, Barbara Mendelssohn everyone and what they are doing. Price, with Elizabeth Perkinson Simmons seated in front of them. Along the rail (l. to r.): Wendy Igleheart Walker, Jeanette spends many months in San Suzanne Stryker Ullrich, Carey Johnson Fleming, and Lauren Place Young Diego, where her daughter lives and works multiple jobs. “I help her with her dog, cleaning the apartment, making of Chicago had been building a new Thanks to ALL who are volunteering Katherine and John’s daughter, Laura YouTube videos for her social media facility 2½ times larger, changing its your time to the school, as well as Flynn, and her husband bought their accounts (like a secretary) and as a name to The Shirley Ryan Ability Lab. serving on the staff!” I’ll second that! first house in Atlanta. “Lots of work but personal assistant with her wardrobe, After moving in last March, they have Kathy Jackson Howe keeps busy great to have them in town” . . . and costumes, thank-you notes, arts and steadily been increasing their inpatient helping her mother and always looks close! crafts projects and whatnot.” Life is population as well as the staff. Anne forward to getting to High Hampton/ Jane Hemenway Sullivan has busy, and like all SBC grads, she is a needed to have one of her shoulders Cashiers, N.C., as often as possible, been bopping around, most recently great “multi-tasker”! replaced in June, and luckily she had mostly just weekends. “Lots of W&L taking son John over to the University It took a lot of planning, but some a wonderful daughter-in-law-to-be folks have purchased homes up there; of Saint Andrews in Scotland, where were able to pull off a mini-reunion this there to help her for the first week, and so we re-hash old Virginia stories and he will be a “Fresher.” Jane calls it past May in Topsail Beach, N.C., many son Will came the second week. (Will gatherings quite often!” Kathy and “magical” and “will now add to my thanks due to Elizabeth Perkinson and Chloe will be getting married next still-working hubby Root have a family selling/talking points as an Alumnae “Perk” Simmons! Her family cottage spring.) The second shoulder will be policy of seeing their children and Admissions Ambassador that St. on the beach, along with a cousin’s done next spring, and Anne mentioned two grandchildren every two to three Andrews is definitely the place to go for cottage two doors down made for quite that coming to Reunion will be hinged months. “It’s fun to find the cheap tick- Jr. Yr. Abroad!” Daughter Elizabeth (21) the place to catch up, eat a few good (no pun intended) on how well her PT ets, the upgraded seats and common is in her senior year at Williams Col- meals, have a few good drinks, and goes. (Fingers crossed that it will go ground with our three children located lege. With both kids off to school, there generally just “veg and relax”! Thank well!) in Shreveport, La., and Park City, Utah!” may be time to continue restoration of goodness there was no one in the “Son Will continues to be chal- She also asks, “Would anyone be their 1840 farmhouse in Georgia, at house between us that weekend! Lots lenged in his position at the White interested in some sort of educational/ least when she isn’t visiting campus. of laughs ensued! We all arrived by House. He was hired under the old unique class winter weekend in Janu- Jane went to a Friends of Art meeting planes and cars, with pick-ups at both administration, and he feels a bit ary? Call it SBC Alum Winter Term for this past summer at SBC, where she of the local airports! (I think Cassandra frustrated by the new one. He is in the the class of ’78?” Hmmmm, we may met Dr. Woo. “She is fabulous and I deserves the award for driving the Office of Management and Budget need to work on that! Fun! can’t wait to see her again in N.Y.C.!” A farthest!) In attendance were Perk and, among other things, was in Katherine Powell Heller has had “blast” was had in May at a mini-re- Simmons, Cindy McKay, Lynn charge of the international portfolio a full year. In January she lost her dad, union. “Can’t wait for our real one.” Spilman Williams, Wendy Igle- for countries where religion entered “the last of the generation before us.” (40th?? Hard to believe!) “Jay is well, heart Walker, Anne Taylor Quarles into the equation (Will has a degree Always a sad time. This, on the heels I am well—both of us are now cancer Doolittle, Ann Yauger, Betsy Moore from a divinity school as well as one in of her unmarried uncle passing away free!” Hurray! Conti, Lauren Place Young, Cassan- public policy). With a mom having gone the previous year, left Katherine and Lisa Wray Longino and George dra Smith Babbitt, Toni Christian to Sweet Briar, he is a real advocate her brother to settle both estates. She celebrated the wedding of their Brown, Jane Hemenway Sullivan, for women’s education and had the struggles with the thought of selling the daughter Fleming to Matthew Huckin in Barbara Mendelssohn Price, Carey privilege of putting the funding together house she grew up in in Halifax, Va., Dallas (May 20) with many Sweet Briar Johnson Fleming, my cohort Muffy for Michelle Obama’s international so will keep it for now. A happier event friends in attendance (Ellen Sellers Hamilton Parsons and myself. What a education program for girls. Like many took Katherine, husband John, both McDowell ’77 and husband Rex, Betsy time we had! other programs, it has been chal- daughters, a spouse and a boyfriend Ryan Glenn, Barbara Behrens While most of the time was spent lenged, and he finds this disappointing. on a “trip of a lifetime”—a wonderful Peck and husband Jeff, Mary Page at the cottages, there was time for a lit- This week he moved to taking over the African safari. John and Katherine Stewart and husband Bob, Maria tle shopping therapy, as well as a Pirate global healthcare portfolio, and he is stayed for a few extra days to explore Rixey Gamper’s husband Dickie, Cruise along the Intracoastal Waterway! excited about the change.” Anne said Namibia. John’s 60th was celebrated sister Bridget Wray Gardner ’79 and There were many who wished to attend in closing, “It looks like we have a really in Hilton Head with friends including husband Jim, Claire Dennison Griffith but had conflicts that same weekend fabulous new president at Sweet Briar! Carey Johnson Fleming and David. ’80 and husband Luther, sister Barbara (see Lisa’s and Katherine’s notes). As

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 65 Class Notes people had to leave, they were each But life moves on.” Ann is fortunate to I have a lovely Holsteiner cross mare oldest is a boy and then three little “sent off” by those remaining waving have all three boys living nearby in St that I have brought along myself, and girls (2 mo. to 3.5 yrs.). Our married as they left! (Yes, there were some Louis: John (28) is in commercial real she gives me so much pleasure every children live in Brooklyn, N.Y., Yardley, strange looks by a few passers-by!) estate; Hunt (24), who is between jobs day. Lawrence (38 years strong) and I Pa., and Los Angeles. All are happy, The fun didn’t end! I ended up taking and thinking of moving to Chicago, still have Prospect Hill Farm, and I love healthy and doing well. We are very Lauren to the airport in Richmond on and William (26), who got married on having my horse at home, although proud parents. Jim continues his crazy my way north but was only able to get Oct. 7. After that she says her fall gets the work and upkeep are daunting. travel schedule, and I hope to resume a half hour away before the call came busy! “I leave for a biking trip through Lawrence has been employed at Fisher my interior design business in S.C. We that Lauren’s flight had been canceled! Normandy, France. It was a trip planned and Phillips law firm in Atlanta since just returned from a fabulous vacation Back I went! We both then went to pick long ago with my sister and her he graduated from the University of in Big Sky, Mont., with Sally Ann up my new Siamese kitten (Thai) before husband and my absolute best friend Georgia School of Law in 1983. I stay Bensur and Bill. I played in a “Play racing back to my house in Pennsyl- and her husband; so in the true spirit of in contact with my old roommate Pru- for Pink” golf event with Nancy Webb vania, where Cassandra was waiting! life, we will be pedaling on! We have a dence Saunders Pitcock. Facebook Corkery ’81 at Kittansett in July ... we Both spent the night (oh, what a night!) lot to look forward to, and for that I am has been an amazing tool for finding had so much fun. before heading toward Boston the next grateful. Love and hugs to all.” and getting to know the amazing wom- Beth Tetrault Had lunch with day. The stories could go on and on! And with that, I will close. We do en of Sweet Briar. I am still amazed Aimee Kass in Charlottesville as she We all left the beach saying, “We need have a lot to look forward to! Hoping how it helped us save our college. I was heading back north after Sweet to do this more often,” and “Why do to see LOTS of you at Reunion! Fondly, know the job of securing Sweet Briar’s Work Weeks. we just have one reunion every five Suzanne. future is never finished, but feel good Mary South Gaab This is our years?” But the best line I heard? “I re- about our present leadership. sixth move seven years! We are now in ally didn’t know some of these people Nancy White Life is good. John DeLand, Fla., and are looking forward when I was at school. I feel like I have 1979 and I are keeping busy with my shop, to winters without the cold weather a whole bunch of new best friends!” Mary Bingham The Flower Bar, in Larchmont, N.Y. Now and the only white is the sand on the THAT is what it was all about! May 1583 Pinhurst Dr that we’ve grown to a certain size, I can beach! We now have two granddogs. there be many more “mini-reunions”! Pittsburgh, PA 15241-3201 actually take a vacation (first one since As much as we love the four-legged Where to next? [email protected] our honeymoon in 2008). We went grands ... looking forward to the two- While in Maine for a vacation Ashley Wilson Brook I spend a to Mexico and to Puerto Rico to visit legged grand. For now living vicariously (ironically with Audrey Townsend lot of time with my mother, who is 88 friends this year. We also won a trip on through Bridget Wray Gardner’s Bertram’s cousin Collis and his wife), and still going strong but slower. Mary the Rocky Mountaineer, a “luxury” train adorable grandson Joe!!! I was able to sneak down to Bangor to Grayson, UNC ’15 grad, is in the Ger- ride through the Canadian Rockies. We Susan A. Cruess We had fun have lunch with Cecilia Garcia-Tuñon man studies Ph.D. program at Prince- had a great time combining it with trips to Phoenix and Kansas City in Lear and Cassandra Smith Babbitt! ton. Sterrett is 21 and attending Wake a visit to my sister at her summer February. Unfortunately, travel became A beautiful day to sit outside and catch Tech. I met Day Pritchard for lunch in home in Montana. I’ve also had the more difficult since I couldn’t walk or up. Cassandra was nice enough to run the spring at Durham; and took a trip opportunity to do more racing and won stand for more than five minutes due a quilt through her long-arm for me, to Pawleys Island with Mary South in the Ideal 18 class at Larchmont to my orthopedic issues—back and which we stopped by to pick up on our Gabb, Bridget Wray Gardner, Mary Race Week. We are planning to charter knee. Tough getting old—maybe my way south later that week. The coffee Cowell Sharpe, and Kathy Pittman a boat and cruise from Marion, Mass., time playing basketball and tennis at was a nice way to start the long trip Moore. David and I are both well. to Boston, Gloucester, Scituate, and SBC started the wear. So the rest of south. The timing was right to meet up Aimee B. Kass During the past Provincetown and back to Marion. my year has been focused on surgery with Marianne Hutton Felch ’79 and year, I practiced law, taught at Paterson As far as my part for Sweet Briar, I and rehab. In mid-April, I had back Lauren Place Young on Nantucket for charter schools, attended Sweet Briar’s was able to go to one college fair and surgery to fix a vertebra. The surgery a couple of nights. It was too short as Reunion, and worked my ass off during had an appointment with the counsel- was successful, and it’s great to be always, but we made it to the beach, Sweet Weeks. In my spare time, I’m ors at my old high school. I think devel- able to stand up straight and walk were able to spend time with both working on a book. oping relationships with the secondary longer distances again. Now my only Lauren’s daughter Brittany, who was Lauren MacMannis Huyett We schools is the way to go. I also worked limitation on distance is my knee. So working on Nantucket, and Marianne’s built a house in Concord, Mass., that with Robbie and Caroline White to try next up—knee-replacement surgery daughter Sarah and her family, and had though new, looks old. It will be in the to get our giving stats up. We are so on September 1! Soon I’ll be a bionic some wonderful meals together, before magazine New England Living this fall grateful to all who gave and encourage woman! The dogs will certainly be saying our good-byes at the docks. and is depicted in the new PBS series everyone to make a contribution—no happy since I’m not allowed to walk The road was calling to both of us … “Little Women” as Laurie’s house! matter how small. Every dollar counts! them alone right now! Weighing 83 Lauren was heading to Hanover, N.H., Still have only one married out of Clara Jackman Garbett I am still and 70 pounds, they still pull too much while Rick and I were headed back to the five kids so far, but all are produc- living in Glen Allen, Va., with husband for my continued back recovery. Leigh Pennsylvania. tive and happy—two girls in Manhat- Stuart, two horses, goats, and an continues as president of Tidal Energy, At the time of this writing, I was tan, two boys in Boston and one son adorable corgi. I applaud my children’s the energy marketing group for En- getting ready to head down to Lexing- (and daughter-in-law) in Pittsburgh in adventurous spirit. Megan is in Hawaii bridge, and thinks he’ll retire in a few ton to meet with Toni, Muffy, Lynn, and residency at UPMC. Our youngest did but will return in January and plans to more years. We’re hoping to get more Cindy to do some pre-reunion planning set design for the movie “The Big Sick,” do the AT and then start real life. Stuart travel in next year. (be on the lookout in the mail!), before which is out in theaters now. Lauren is in Idaho working as a wildlife ranger The boys are doing well. Jim (31) heading over to campus for President Huyett Interiors is still going really well, bordering the Tetons for the summer got engaged in March. He and Kate Woo’s Inauguration, and to meet up and I am having fun being on several and usually does a ski resort for winter have been together for five years with Becky Dane Evans, Sue Griste local boards with design capacity being so he can snowboard. This summer I and bought a house in Toronto this Russell, Anne Taylor Quarles used! Bill is still at McKinsey and hiked the Lake District in England and year. She’s a great addition to the Doolittle and Lisa Wray Longino! Company and also on many boards, Yellowstone. I continue to teach family, and we’re looking forward to Looking forward to dinner together, or including two at UVa; so we get to kindergarten in Henrico County. I have his wedding over Labor Day weekend at least a glass or mug of something! Charlottesville a ton! kept up with Pam Ramsdell Mitchell, 2018. Andrew (28) finished his second As many of us know some of our Karen McGoldrick I have my who is in Maine. We are both teaching undergraduate degree, in computer classmates were recently hit with a fifth book out this fall, a non-fiction kindergarten; so we share ideas and information systems, and is hoping rash of sad events. Our hearts go out to dressage book that ties into my novels. fun stories. to work as an analyst in a corporate them. Ann Key Lucas wrote in about It is part memoir, but mostly “notes” Betsy Utterback Jim and I are in IT department, perhaps focusing on the loss of her husband, Jim, late in gleaned from all my years of riding and Wilton, Conn., and building a house internet security. August as the result of cardiac arrest. study of riding, including at Sweet Briar. (completion in January) in Bluffton, Robbie McBride Bingham I have “He was grand in, oh, so many ways. I also have other ideas in the works. S.C. 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Quinn on Aug. 22. They live in Acton. school vouchers and the new federal Her son, Alex, and his wife, Emily, live education law. She’s still involved with nearby in Littleton. Both children went the Alumnae Alliance and is excited to the University of Massachusetts. about Sweet Briar’s new direction. Louise Wright Erwin My two Husband Brian is still doing maritime daughters, Alison and Emily, are now law. Daughter Miranda is in her junior both in college. Alison just started year at Emerson College and son Jake her musical journey at Susquehanna is doing a gap year after finishing high University, where in the small world school. Phyllis saw Emily Quinn Mc- category, Jonathan Green is president. Dermott when she came to move her He used to be at Sweet Briar. Emily is daughter to D.C. for her first job. a senior studying political science at Amy Campbell Lamphere tells Rutgers, where she swam for several us that she got back to campus for years and is now coaching at a local graduation and to send off her adopted club, which she loves. My oldest son, Vixen of two years. “It was bittersweet Janie Clark Morrison, Nancy Hatch Schwartzmiller, Jane Hubbard Sams, Alex, is married and working in the saying good-bye to President Stone.” and Louise Mueller Cook at Kiawah Island Philadelphia area. As for me, I was She was looking forward to meeting working for a brokerage firm, then the our new president, Meredith Woo, at YMCA. I am semi-retired and spend my her Inauguration in September. “I am time with my husband, Mark. We live in still busy dancing Nia and shaping up Philadelphia and we have a summer- America with Ruby Ribbon.” She trav- house in Gloucester. Mark is in IT and eled to Hawaii, the Black Hills, Florida loves his Gloucester getaway and is the Keys, California Coast, and Arizona/ family historian. TCP Open Course. Her children are in Chicago and D.C. Carolyn Hallahan Salamon has 1980 taken a management position with Myth Monnich Bayoud Leidos, a mainframe computer compa- 6269 Oram St Apt 21 ny that keeps Medicare and Medicaid Dallas, TX 75214-6225 going. Thomas is a freshman at Hamp- [email protected] den-Sydney, and Meghan is a junior in Mary Callahan Arnold writes that high school. She sends love to all. Sandra Rappacioli Padilla writes Louise Wright Erwin, Robbie McBride Bingham and Karen Alex Bender she and hubby Chip (W&L grad) visited their daughter, Catherine (a senior at to us from Managua! Her youngest son, Colgate), who was spending spring of Felipe, is a junior and Sandra is hoping in 2011. Went to Reunion this year to Baton Rouge for the event. I don’t to visit him for Parent’s Weekend next and ran into my first-ever boss. His post on Facebook, but I watch, and her junior year in Wales. They traveled to cities in Switzerland and France and year. Violeta just graduated from SCAD wife is an SBC grad. Had a great time follow my good friend Mikki Farley and is taking some time off at home. catching up with him. Went to Work Canning’s adventures with a farm- then went to London. Mary stays busy volunteering for the National Cathe- Sandra Lucia works in Sarasota and Weeks with Elizabeth McMartin. Had event barn in Kentucky . Jorge and Max Carlos are in Nicara- a great time. Have seen a lot of Ann Margaret Hixon Griffith The dral. The new love of Mary’s life is her yellow lab, Sophie. She was in Vail last gua. Max is still working at the coffee South Malick ’74; we lunch regularly. writing of this update comes at quite a farm. Sandra is working part-time in My son William is working and going to historic time. Harvey has just passed August with Diane Dilworth Gates and Myth Monnich Bayoud. the family business and has taken up school and loves Pittsburgh. Samuel, Houston and is on the way to other golf. Evangeline Taylor ’00 moved to my oldest, is a senior at University of states. More destruction is on the Lisa Heisterkamp Davis writes that she is enjoying her psychotherapy Nicaragua this summer; her husband New Mexico and will graduate with a way. For those of you who still do not works for the American Embassy. B.A. in philosophy and a B.S. in math. believe in climate change—our ranch and counseling business. She rented an office that is a quick walk from her Florence Rowe Barnick tells us Went to visit Louise Wright Erwin is on the Brazos River and has been that the twins returned to Landmark and her husband, Mark, in Massachu- flooded three times this past year. The home! “Josh and I are proud of our children—Augusta (27) finished her College in January. They each landed setts, where Karen Alex Bender met previous flood year was almost 25 internships with Hasbro in Rhode us. Great mini-reunion. years ago! On another note, I became a graduate degree in social work at Bos- ton College, and Dashiell (25) started Island. Her youngest son has launched Deborah Gibbs I’m still married grandmother on Nov. 14, 2016. Amelia an IT business named Rappahannock to Vance, living in Baton Rouge, La., Brooks Szoradi was born in Aspen, law school at Boston College. We are keeping up with travel, reading, church, IT in Fredericksburg. Richard and practicing law, and traveling some to Colo. I was lucky enough to be able to Florence are well and dealing with get out of our humid summers. Our spend much of the winter in Colorado family and friends!” Ginny Farris Hoffman is still elder-care. daughter Elisa lives in New Orleans enjoying my new role in life. I just Tish Longest Tyler is still at and is a math specialist for National cannot wait to throw her on a horse! working for the Soil & Water Conser- vation District. Her daughters live in St. Virginia’s office of the Attorney General. Heritage Academy; son Parker is in the Please visit my website, Margaret She enjoyed seeing Carolyn Birbick film business working as an assistant Griffith Fine Art at margaretgriffithartist. Thomas and made it through Hurricane producer (or in any other capacity com when you have a chance. Irma, but had Maria barreling down on available!) in various productions and Karen Alex Bender has retired the island as of this writing. Ginny and also living in New Orleans. I do get from a career of retail management 10 of our classmates are going to St. to Virginia regularly, now, since my and running her own company, Jo Thomas in February to celebrate 60th youngest daughter, Martha, married a Karen, LLC. She and Ed, her husband birthdays, 38 years after our gradua- young man from Richmond, where they of 35 years, recently sold their house tion, which is a testimony to SBC! reside. They had our first grandchild in in Acton, Mass., and moved to Lowell, Mary Jo Giambatista gave up her April 2017! Sumner Dalrymple, daugh- Mass. They are currently doing reno- flight attendant job on private planes to ter of Liz Day ’78, was in Martha’s vations, and they also have a house in take a break and manage a great local wedding, and Liz and Chris attended. Vermont, where they ski and snowshoe. Italian restaurant! Sarah Daniels, daughter of Sally Davis Karen has just become a grandmother. Phyllis Watt Jordan is enjoying Daniels ’82, was also in the wedding, Her daughter, Catie, and Catie’s her work at Georgetown University, and Sally and Mark Daniels also came husband, Garrett Moynihan, had baby where she works with two think tanks. She recently wrote briefs on private Janel Wiles and Myth Bayoud

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Thomason for a weekend in August. the SF Bay Area; I’d love to see you! New School in New York City and has time in more than ​30 years, I am Tish will be traveling to Paris in October Currently working on capstone project been modeling part-time. Good genes. enjoying a much more relaxed and for a much-needed vacation. for master’s in human computer inter- Lee Watson Lombardy:​ Hunkered flexible daily schedule. As of May 2017, Leslie Williams Summers has action (HCI), painting a series around down in her Florida office on a Sep- I am fully retired from being a behavior been busy caring for her mother and grand prix jumpers, and seeking a role tember night, Lee wrote: “I’m writing to specialist in the public schools and, preparing new students for Country in user research (a form of applied re- you from the City of Orlando Operations thus far, really taking advantage of the Day. She is picking up their foster dog search). Will see my mother and sister Center as we are getting slammed freedom retirement allows me. Life is that they rescued during Hurricane in Atlanta over Thanksgiving. Sending by Hurricane Irma! I enjoyed seeing definitely good!! Harvey. Leslie wants to be able to get love and support to those affected by classmates at Reunion! Husband War- Jean von Schrader Bryan: Love together with old Sweet Briar friends recent storms and floods. ren, daughter Georgia and I enjoyed a living in Amherst! Reunion was a blast! this year! Anne Grosvenor Evrard: Walter quick getaway to Oregon and Northern Had Dorinda Davis Trick and Fred, Janel Hughes Wiles reports and I have moved ... AGAIN! Now we California in late July. Thanks to Robin and Gay Kenney Browne stay with that she and John are on a cruise to are in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a small Platt Wetherbee for telling us about us. There is always something going on Hawaii for John’s 60th! They are both fishing village very near the Spanish Crater Lake National Park; it was my at SBC! Pool was finished in early June, still practicing law at their firm, Wiles border, in the Basque Country. It is go- favorite part of the trip. and we have been enjoying it thorough- & Wiles. ing to be a great project to keep Wal- Gracie Schild: I finally finished ly! I’m a class fund agent now; so I’ll And your class secretary has a ter busy for a while with renovations, my kitchen remodel—just in time for be calling you all. So proud of what we freshman, Charlie, at the University while I enjoy having long visits from Christoph to leave again for college! raised for our 35th. Can’t wait for our of Missouri. He is majoring in sports our children—and grandchildren! Yes, I’m quite proud that I built the whole 40th! Love to all! broadcast journalism. Charlie is on we are grandparents! Constance had thing myself (though a contractor Gay Kenney Browne: I am writing the Mizzou radio, KMOU, doing the a baby boy last December, and Helene installed the cabinet boxes), and if any- a book on environmental health— play-by-play for football games and is expecting in November this year! one needs help with an Ikea kitchen, should be released in first quarter of the women’s soccer team. I spent a Brendy Reiter Hantzes: No big I’m your gal. My new boss is not some- 2019. My middle child just graduated weekend in Atlanta playing golf with news from me. I was playing a lot of one I can work with, so I’m looking for from Cate and is taking a gap year Janel Wiles in August. We were also tennis until July, when I developed a a change. It was fabulous to see so traveling and working on a political able to sneak out to Vail for a weekend blood clot in my leg. I’m getting better many classmates at Reunion—now campaign. My husband and I have of skiing last February! I see Mary and didn’t let that stop me from at- let’s get some of you out here in Santa separated after 25 years. He is looking Callahan Arnold whenever I am in tending Sweet Work Weeks in August. Fe for visits! forward to playing more golf, and I am D.C. and also see Carolyn Thomason Monika Kaiser: ​Lots of travel for reevaluating my long-term residency. and Tish Tyler. me this year. First, Germany, to visit my It is an amicable split, with our age Please stay in touch and let us 1982 mom; then Cleveland, ​Ohio, with my difference being the leading reason. My know how you are! Everyone who has Patti ​Snodgrass ​Borda Mullins mom; then D.C​. to catch up with Reem next book will probably be the “happy been affected by the hurricanes is in 15 Tenth Avenue Saifi​ ’85; then the best Reunion so far. divorce.” My daughter continues to be our thoughts. Brunswick, MD 21716 I enjoyed not only catching up with my a show jumper, which keeps us travel- p​[email protected] classmates but meeting all those alum- ing most weekends. In between writing Lynda Leigh Leibel: Based in New nae that I met online during our SBC and watching riding, I am working on 1981 York City and commute to S-Vyasa rescue phase. Next, a 10-​​day trip to revamping my company, Greenopia. I Claire McDonnell Purnell University in Bangalore, India, where India​, because my husband will spend ​ couldn’t be happier, although I’m not Five Park Place Apt 408 I’m completing graduate work in Indian two​ months working there. Cheers! sure I could be much busier! ​ Annapolis, MD 21401 philosophy & Sanskrit. Jennifer Rae: Attending our class Katharine “Kit” Parks: ​Starting [email protected] Working on my dissertation, “East- reunion in June was such a special Active Travel Adventures podcast May Carter Barger: I’ve returned ern Meditative Practices and Their time with our SBC sisters, profes- (curates adventure travel for fit folks to school, studying arts leadership at Effect on Cancer,” at New York-Pres- sors and staff. Watching everyone over 50). Have my rental development Queens University, Charlotte, with goal byterian/Columbia University Medical interacting was a joy as always. When of purchasing public art for institu- Center, where I work with oncologists spending time with my sister in Maine, tions. In July I spent a week in Chica- to design evidence-based mind-body I got to know Bowdoin College, located go with Allison Greene, Nan Loftin protocols for cancer patients undergo- in Brunswick, where President Woo did and Jane Terry. We saw “Hamilton” ing active treatment. Special interest in her undergrad. So honored she is our (unbelievable!) and just caught up. women’s sexual health following breast new president. Daughter Josie just graduated from and gynecologic cancer treatments. Polk​ Green: Not a whole lot of SMU and son Ben is a sophomore at Created a fashion-focused social news from me. Living in Dallas and High Point University. Love serving on enterprise, Vixens and Gypsies (yep—a driving back ​​and forth to Amarillo to the SBC Friends of Art board! nod to SBC!) to teach women in India take care of my mom and dad. Trying Quinn Fokes: Greetings to you all, sustainable skills to break the cycle to get a job in Amarillo and make it and please let me know if you’re in of poverty. V&G was named a finalist easier on my life. My wife and dogs will in InStyle magazine’s Independent be in Dallas, but you have to do what Handbag Designer of the Year Awards you gotta do! We have only one set of 2011—Most Socially Responsible parents! [Polk’s mom died shortly be- Category. fore the magazine went to press. Much Deborah Bowman: ​I enjoyed love to you, Polk, from all of us.] seeing Aimee Nelson Smith in Catherine​ Adams Miller: David Maryland on my way to pick up my son and I are doing well. We just moved Kessler from his high school summer our youngest daughter, Ali, to Nashville, program in communications at Ameri- where she will be starting her graduate can University. I was off to Boulder and studies to become a licensed profes- Fort Collins in September on the way to sional counselor (LPC). Madeline is living my cousin’s Montana wedding, and in in Richmond, completed her master’s October traveled to San Francisco and in education, and just started her first Marin for the wedding of niece Lauren job teaching kindergarten. My mom just Miller ’10. Meanwhile, Kessler is a turned 91 and is in good health. Life is Quinn Fokes’ “Rindo” junior at White Mountain School in New good, and we feel very blessed. Lynda Leigh Leibel in India Hampshire, and Kate is a senior at The R​osemary Hardy: ​For the first

68 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes on the market, and when it sells, plan you, Alicia! is considering grad school in textile Lucy Chapman Millar and to go walkabout and explore the world Ann Sterling Hart continues design. Her son, Sebastian (21), exited husband Ken have been busy moving for a few years. working in her life’s passion, organizing the special needs school system, and houses this past 18 months. They (sort M​ary Ames Booker: I can’t say dressage shows and showing her now is in a private program for young of) downsized in Atlanta, moving to a I have any real big news for everyone. mare, Kashmir. She did her first CDI adults like him, learning vocation- neighboring county for lower property We are very grateful Hurricane Irma this past year! She’s upgrading her al skills, along with yoga, music, taxes! Also, they found a lovely place in bypassed the southeastern coast of Dressage Tech Delegate license computer science and lots of exercise. Bluffton, S.C., which will ultimately be North Carolina. I pray for all who are through the USEF and also working Elena’s biggest news is that she left the a retirement spot. Lucy had a fabulous affected by Harvey and Irma. I’ve com- as the executive director at Equestria NYC Ballet in April and is now the SVP time at the Virginia Gold Cup this past pleted some fun, new projects at work Horse Park at White Fences in Loxa- of Advancement for the New Jewish April with Wylie Jameson Small, (Battleship North Carolina) recently and hatchee, Fla. (near Wellington). Ann is Home in Manhattan! They hired her Anne Little Woolley, and Alice Cut- share photos on Facebook. I enjoy fol- superexcited about this project. The to raise $40M for a totally innovative ting Laimbeer (and their spouses)!!! lowing postings on our class Facebook property encompasses 35 to 40 hamlet capital campaign building a new model Alice and husband Rick were extremely page and appreciate everyone’s efforts barns and an extensive covered arena for elder care. This revolutionary model generous to host the event. Lucy is for SBC. complex with 6 to 8 outdoor arenas. It of care Elena plans to replicate in the looking forward to seeing everyone at Patti Snodgrass Mullins: I’ve is geared for multiple disciplines (dres- future for young adults with autism. Reunion next spring. Back at ya, sister! just begun the second year as public sage, hunter/jumper and cross-coun- She continues to augment her educa- Mason Bennett Rummel wrote information coordinator for The City of try). The build out should be ready for tion with travel far and wide, recently that her youngest daughter has Frederick, Maryland, second-largest the 2018-2019 show season! Ann Russia, India, the Benelux, and Turkey. enrolled as a Turning Point student city in the state, a thriving business/ writes that her daughters are amazing, Elena loved the two mini-reunions at SBC. She’s studying sociology and biomedical, arts, food destination. working and living on their own with with classmates, one in NYC for the has about two years to complete her Communications work, project man- their boyfriends. Ann says she doesn’t ballet and the other in Asheville, N.C., degree. She lives on Faculty Row agement, marketing, production and have a special man in her life, yet, but hosted by Eleanor Bibb. Still going with other students in their mid-20s. opportunities for growth in my position she is finally happy! You go, girl! to a lot of artsy things, Elena has now Mason’s middle daughter, Annie, is in suit me perfectly. My daughter, a schol- Deirdre Platt wrote that she sends taken to sculling in the East River in an Nashville, and son Bennett is in NYC, arly, soccer-playing junior at Brunswick her hugs to any of our classmates who eight-person shell. (Is there anything married but no children yet. Husband High School, said she liked last year’s were affected by hurricanes Harvey you won’t try, Elena?) Rick is busy as ever with his medical social studies teacher, who we learned and Irma. Deirdre has temporarily Gigi Harsh Mossburg and hus- equipment company and another start- is a Sweet Briar graduate: Patricia relocated her family from their home band Mark still live in Edgewater, Md. up in the cancer diagnostics business. Brown (year unknown). Meanwhile, of 12 years on the coast of Ecuador (near Annapolis). Life is crazy raising If Mason wasn’t amazing enough to throughout the year, I’ve been living due to the earthquake in April 2016. two teenage sons! Tyler, the oldest, be named CEO of the James Graham vicariously through husband Earl’s first So, 30 years since she first went to will be graduating with a degree in Brown Foundation, where she’s been year of retirement (an Episcopal priest), Loja with the Peace Corps, Deirdre, her business from Ferrum College in Virgin- for 29 years, she has also been in- as he sails his 32-foot Bristol on the husband and three youngest children ia this December. Tyler is the first one volved with SBC the past couple years. Chesapeake, among other adventures. are enjoying all the capital city has to ever in Mark’s family to go to college! When our hero, Mary Pope Hutson, offer: arts, music, literature, education Tyler assured Gigi that he will walk transitioned off the board to become and culture in general. Her daughter across the stage with his classmates the VP of Alumnae Relations and Devel- 1983 May (20) is studying biology at Loja’s at the graduation ceremony in May opment, Mason took her place on the Cary Cathcart Fagan UTPL University. Deirdre keeps busy ’18. Gigi’s youngest son, Garrett, just board! Mason says she marvels at the 329 Kelford Lane talking on environmental and health transferred to Salisbury University in leadership, the board and the students Charlotte, NC 28270 issues on several radio stations and Maryland. Gigi wrote that she misses who are actively revitalizing SBC, and [email protected] also advises biology-ecology SIT stu- her dear SBC friends and wants us to positioning it to be a leader in women’s Hello, Ladies, I’m happily back! dents in a private nature reserve, which know that we are in her heart. Silly girl, education in the U.S.!! After the craziness of saving SBC in has spectacled bears and other fun you’re always in my heart, my Asses Pamela Weekes slipped me a ’15, and the confusion around the species to study! Her family returned comrade “May She Fart.” note just before the deadline to write reorganization in ’16, I’m afraid I got to their coastal home in Puerto Lopez Grayson Harris Lane is still in that she has never been more proud to distracted from my duties. Chris and this summer for a two-month vacation, Menlo Park, Calif., and enjoying an be an SBC graduate than the past year! I have been in Charlotte for 13 years, feasting on fresh fish daily. The time empty nest with husband David. Her Pam continues to be our class culinary yikes! As I sit here in my lovely T-shirt there allowed Deirdre to do necessary daughter, Virginia, is a senior at U.S.C. queen; she opened her fourth Levian that reads “Boiled Peanuts … Baby habitat management in their overgrown majoring in biomedical engineering. Bakery location earlier this summer af- Food for Rednecks,” I realize that I still forest garden. Maybe someday she Son Robert is a sophomore at Duke ter a long delay. Needless to say, Pam haven’t totally acclimated to the South. will share with us some pictures of her studying mechanical engineering. has had an extremely busy summer/ I suppose you have to be regional to tropical paradise! Grayson believes they clearly got year. She sends a big Thank You to get the peanuts joke. Forever a Corn- Diana Duffy Waterman shared their math/science smarts from everyone from SBC who stops in to visit husker, married to a Bills fan, rooting fantastic news—she’s cancer free!! David! Grayson keeps busy tutoring the store when in N.Y.C. Pam loves it! for the Panthers, and cheering on the Diagnosed with breast cancer in ’15, elementary school students in reading Diamondbacks, I must be multi-region- she spent ’16 going through chemo, and art. She also organizes events for al, multi-twang, multi-polar or maybe surgeries (double mastectomy and Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center. If anyone 1984 multi-partisan. Is that even possible? reconstruction), and radiation. Through gets out to the SF Bay area, our pretty Marian Wahlgren Anyway, here we go … all of this, Diana managed to complete friend Grayson says look her up! 1850 Jones Nursery Rd Alicia Nygaard Formagus and her term as chairman of the Mary- Libby Glenn Fisher is “semi-re- Lexington, KY 40509-9740 Nace are now proud grandparents of land Republican Party and is running tired” still living in N.W. Florida. Libby [email protected] a healthy, happy baby boy. They are unopposed to be the next president of is loving her second career in real After a rewarding career in busy with their younger son, Thomas the Maryland Federation of Republican estate. Her children are both college Environmental Health with the Virginia McNutt, who is running for the Texas Women. Her kids turned 28 and 30 graduates, and she’s thrilled to have Department of Health, Elaine Godsey State Legislature. Their son William this year, which makes Diana believe them “off the payroll.” Both children Freim switched careers and will was in charge of small boat rescues she’s old. Nonsense, girlfriend. You’re live and work in N.Y.C.; so Libby and retire after 16 years with Riverside during Operation Hurricane Harvey, unstoppable!! You are 50-something Charlie enjoy visiting them. Libby writes Health System as activities director. resulting in 1,312 rescues! They were and fabulous. Hey, aren’t we all! they have plenty of room for visitors Her daughter, Jennifer, teaches sixth greatly relieved when they learned that Elena Quevedo’s daughter Olivia if any SBC gals are vacationing in the grade science and just completed her our classmate Adriana Garza Reed graduated from RISD last year, and Seaside/Seagrove/Rosemary Beach master’s. Her son, Robb, is pursuing was safe. We all share that feeling with after living a year in New Orleans, she area. his master’s at Northwestern. Elaine

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for the trial. She urges anyone with elderly parents to keep a close eye on their finances and any home health care worker, even if it seems intrusive. Ava Spanier was recently the assistant director of Neil Simon’s “Chapter Two” at the Arizona Theatre Company, directed by the marvelous Marsha Mason. The play opened to rave reviews in Tucson and Phoenix! Ava is becoming a fixture in the Arizona theater scene at both ATC and the Phoenix Theatre. Bella Viguerie Gsell is celebrating surviving another huge storm; first Keli Colby Katrina and now Harvey! But they are safe and sound. Bella is grateful for the L-R Jesse White, Mary Beth Miller Orson, Anne Toxey, Karen Harcum Levy and Michael are celebrating 24 years many SBC friends who were in touch together and enjoying camping and and sends a big thank you to all! In their six grandchildren. Elaine’s other calmer times they are spending time in passion is creating original arts and both Colorado and Texas, and visit their crafts. three children who are away at school. Louise Jones Geddes and Jim Bella sends love to all! are enjoying their empty nest. Their Catherine McNease Stevens youngest child, Lucia, is at Tulane, and writes that summer highlights for the they hope she’ll graduate in 2020. Stevens family included traveling to Giles (Washington & Lee ’16) is in D.C. Kansas for son Henry to compete in working for United Bank. Charlie (Wof- the U.S. Track & Field National Junior ford ’15) works for Georgia-Pacific in Olympics outdoor track championships Atlanta. Louise has loved reconnecting and a great visit with Burke Morrow with Sweet Briar friends and is so and Burke’s dear mother in Carey, thrilled that the college continues to N.C. Catherine adds, “As we head into L-R Mrs. Morrow, Burke Morrow, gain strength. Henry’s senior year of high school, Catherine McNease Stevens Keli Colby has joined the law we are both excited and wistful. It has firm of Ballard Spahr in its Washing- happened too fast!” ton, D.C., office. She is a real estate Elizabeth Lindsey is living in Clockwise from bottom left: Jenny attorney and works on major real Beech Grove, Ind., still working on Jahos Chaladoff, Julia Andrews estate projects and transactions both settling into her new city and finding Milstead, Lee Malley Lowe, Tracy as in-house and outside counsel in the new friends (any SBC Indy alumnae Gilmore, Kira Flores Ector, Christina D.C. metropolitan area and nationally. who’d like to meet her for lunch?). Babcock Elizabeth says she wishes she could say her life has been “full of adventure 1986 and excitement, but it’s really been Alis “Piper” Van Doorn quite unremarkable this past year. 1896 Park Drive Sometimes, though, unremarkable isn’t Columbus, GA 31906 a bad thing.” [email protected] Piper says, “Amen to that!” Alis “Piper” Van Doorn has Jesse White is entering her sev- had a somewhat eventful year thus enth year as a school psychologist at L-R Jem Bailey-Orchard (W & L far. In April, Richard flew over from Barre City School in Vermont. She loves ’18), Robyn Bailey-Orchard, Tatt L-R Robyn Bailey-Orchard and Kim England and Piper and Sophie enjoyed the challenge, because the reward is Orchard a blissful week with him in Neptune the smile of a child, and there is noth- Houtman (’87) Beach, Fla. They spent a fun afternoon ing better than that! Jesse loved being catching up with Rushton Haskell back at SBC two years in a row (2015, Callahan. Piper is thrilled to finally be 2016) and says it felt strange not to a published author, with seven short be back this year. She is thrilled at our stories published in an international college’s progress and excited for the anthology! She is also trying to plan a future, noting the very special bond we “Girls Get Away” week with Star Hollis have at Sweet Briar. Waldron, Ingrid Weirick Squires Julia Andrews Milstead is still and Lee Grzybowski Sakowicz. On plugging along as a TV reporter for the a sadder note, Piper has spent the past NBC affiliate in Raleigh, N.C. The job seven months dealing with the fallout keeps her on her toes as does son Will (emotional, financial, legal) resulting (9)! In August Julia got to enjoy her from her mother’s trusted caregiver annual “mini-reunion” with some of stealing an insane amount of money her SBC favorites: Kira Flores Ector, from her mother’s accounts over a Christina Babcock, Lee Malley year and a half, as well as most of her Lowe, Tracy Gilmore and Jenny jewelry. Piper is working closely with Jahos Chaladoff. And they are all still the D.A. on trial prep and keeping her as fierce as ever! beautiful, intelligent and independent Karen Harcum Levy writes that life is continuing on an even keel. All 93-year-old mama healthy and ready Leigh Ann White and Karen Harcum Levy painting Grammer 320

70 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes three of her kids are great, living and lawyers! They are excited and proud. doing what they want to be doing. Susan sends love to all ’86ers! Karen is loving the whole empty-nest- Terry Cerrina Davis is happy and ing thing. She feels blessed that their excited for the future of SBC! Her sum- business sustains them through an mer flew by too quickly as always, but ever-challenging market. Having her she is greatly enjoying her SBC “Step garden on the local Garden Tour was a Sisters” weekly Fitbit walking challeng- highlight this spring. Karen says Sweet es! Beth Ann Trapold Newton, Kar- Work Weeks was amazing—everyone en Gonya Nickles, Lee Grzybowski should go! Sakowicz, Sally Engleby Farrell, Karen Gonya Nickles is beginning Carolyn Hepperle Richardson, her 31st year of teaching special edu- Julianne Burkhardt ’87 and Terry have cation, all at the same school. She and been keeping each other motivated and Lance are beginning to make serious in motion! Holla, Holla! retirement plans and have been looking Valerie Winborne just finished for the perfect spot near the beach in co-hosting the National Dance Society Kathy Bryan Sanders’ Family Vacation 2017 in Isla Mujeres Mexico South Carolina or North Carolina. Karen Conference closing performance. The has had it with the Maryland winters, NDS is the organization that awarded which is why she escapes every Valerie the National Master Dance January to St. Maarten with some of Educator of the Year 2016! Her family her favorite Vixens! Both her kids are is great and all is well. finished with college; so life is good. Mary Beth Miller Orson is still living in Scottsdale, Ariz., with her 1987 husband, Carl, and children, Caroline Kristen Kreassig Carter (a freshman at Barrett Honors College 4589 Church Point Pl at ASU) and Eric (a freshman in high Virginia Beach, VA 23455-4364 school). Mary Beth is a legal consul- [email protected] tant. She, her husband and his brother have entered the wonderful world of Ellen Smith Arabian horse breeding and will be 1360 Northview Avenue NE Junie Speight Myers’s daugh- 30th Reunion—Heidi Schultz Figler, showing their weaning filly, Kashmira, Atlanta, GA 30306 ter Annie, between Stella and Professor Ronald Horwege, Ellen Smith at the Arabian National Breeders finals [email protected] Sophie in Scottsdale at the end of September. Deborah Brennan Leslie is about Mary Beth is the president of the SBC to embark on the beginning of emp- Arizona alumnae club and enjoys ty-nest syndrome with her daughter seeing other Vixens, including Ava attending college, but thankfully close Spanier, an up-and-coming Phoenix enough for weekend visits. She still theater director! has six years until her youngest leaves. Nancy Buckey Rothacker is Deborah moved to Orange County, trying to absorb the shock of her twins Calif., last year and is enjoying the starting high school. Husband Jack area, one of the easiest acclimations to will turn 50 in May, and they will cel- date in their relocation journey. Another ebrate their 20th anniversary the day positive this year was reconnecting after! Nancy is kept busy by running with some friends from Sweet Briar on the youth lacrosse in Dublin, Ohio. Facebook. There are more than 180 girls in the Kathy Bryan Sanders and her program, and Nancy coaches the select family live in Charleston, S.C., and teams. Her fifth-sixth grade team won LOVE it! They are officially empty 30th Reunion—Kathy Fons Barkley, Heidi Schulz Figler, Teresa Pike Tom- all their tournaments this season and nesters. Josh (27) lives in Chicago linson, Kristen Kreassig Carter, Kristen Whitney Lowrey, Vikki Schroeder, are considered the best in the state! and works for AON, Emily (24) lives in Julianne Burkhardt, Lezlie Varisco Pinto, Pam Ythier Barkley, Jill O’Ree Robyn Bailey-Orchard writes Charleston and works for Nordstrom, Stryker, Priscilla Newton Carroll that she is content to have “stillness” Tommy (21) is a junior at the College in her life. She is still teaching eighth of Charleston. Kathy and John (W&L grade English, still coaching forensics, ’86) will celebrate their 30th wedding still advising the newspaper and still anniversary next year! She is currently directing plays. Robyn loved visiting the co-director at an early childhood Kim Houtman ’87 in Healdsburg, Calif., education center, and wishes all her this summer. Robyn’s older son will be classmates the best! going to culinary school next fall and Mary York Oates Robison says her younger son will be graduating in life in Charlotte is great, and she loves May from Washington and Lee; so she working alongside Sweet Briar grads is taking advantage of SBC visits this Mare Ware Gibson ’83 and Ginger Tripp year. Robyn loves the growing SBC McAdams ’05 at Charlotte Latin. She connections on Facebook. sends special thanks to Christina Hoy Susan Mann Levy and Geoff are ’93 for all her hard work invigorating enjoying his “semi” retirement and the Charlotte SBC club! spending time in the mountains near Laura Moore Wheless lives in Brevard, N.C. Their daughter, Preston, Houston, Texas, with her husband, Bob, 30th Reunion—Front row, Lezlie Varisco Pinto, Kristen Whitney Lowrey, will finish at Wake Forest this year and 13-year-old daughter, Hannah. Jill O’Ree Stryker, Pam Ythier Barkley, Julianne Burkhardt; second row, with a major in physics. Where did She works in fundraising as grant Heidi Schultz Figler, Vikki Schroeder, Kathy Fons Barkley, Teresa Pike that come from?—the offspring of two writer and development director at the Tomlinson, Kristen Kreassig Carter; back row, Priscilla Carroll, Ellen Smith

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Hope and Healing Center & Institute, a Tiny Kitchen is going well. Leslie is looking forward to seeing fellow Vixens faith-based mental health resource for currently compiling food pics and com- at alumnae events in D.C./Northern greater Houston. Otherwise, she’s play- ing up with 52 weeks of meals and tips Virginia and at Reunion! “Traveling ing golf with her husband or watching to send to a publisher. Lastly, husband Vixens, do let me know if you’re in the her daughter play lacrosse. William Patrick has been accepted D.C. area! I’d love to get together!” Teresa Pike Tomlinson is still in into the WTC Health Program due to Grace Quirk Thompson says, Columbus, Ga., serving as mayor, and melanoma. Thank God. “Hello from Kansas City! Still consid- also continues to serve as the proud After spending a fun weekend ering myself a Houstonian though; chair of the Sweet Briar College Board at Reunion with Jill O’Ree Stryker, my heart breaks for the people of my of Directors. Teresa and her husband, Kristen Whitney Lowrey, Lezlie hometown.” Grace’s family was spared Trip, love being able to travel to Sweet Varisco Pinto, Elizabeth Belser Kistler [Harvey’s flooding], but so many of their Briar regularly. She says, “It is a joy to ’88, Christina Savage Lytle ’88, and friends lost everything they had. Their work with such great stakeholders in Heather Shettle Buerger ’88, Pam girls have grown and flown: Caroline ’87 at Sweet Work Weeks 2017 rebuilding Sweet Briar College!” Ythier Barkley and Jill returned to graduated from the University of Texas Mary Sue Cate Mays has had a Sweet Briar in August during Sweet in May, and Georgia is finishing her great year. She and Larry celebrated Weeks. Pam had a great time on senior year at Wake Forest. Grace and their 30th wedding anniversary. Her campus with Vikki Schroeder and husband Jeff have more travel time oldest, Andy, celebrated his wedding fellow alumnae Alexa Schriempf ’97, with their empty nest. When home, she and first job anniversary. Jenny, her Kate Schlech ’70, and Ann Gateley continues to handle the marketing for youngest, is a junior at Simpson ’70. Pam is excited about Sweet Work Jeff’s orthodontic practice. Through College studying elementary education. Weeks 2018! social media, she keeps in touch with Mary Sue is still at ISU, but is changing Junie Speight Myers is ending so many Sweet Briar friends. “So great her specialty from beef genetics to her second year of being an empty to see everyone and their precious dairy genetics. She says, “Maybe it nester as her youngest, Annie, enjoys families!” was predestined. I remember cussing her sophomore year in a southern In the spring of 2017, Alex Ritter those dairy cows while living in Dew, Florida university! She continues to love quit her job as an attorney advisor for wondering why they couldn’t sleep in a her job as a psychotherapist in private the Social Security Administration and Laura Moore Wheless and daugh- little later.” practice, recently receiving certification joined her husband, Rab McClure, ter Hannah (13) at 2016 family visited Sweet Briar for to share the work of Brené Brown. and their four cats in Doha, Qatar. He reunion in New Orleans Ellen Smith Reunion in June (first time back in 20 accepted a position as the director of years!). She says, “It was wonderful to graduate studies at VCU-Q. Alex says, visit with classmates, meet President 1988 “Living in Qatar has been an exciting Woo and experience the energy and Christine Diver Ans and interesting experience. The expat enthusiasm on campus.” She is still in 16812 Falconridge Rd community is warm and inviting.” The Atlanta and enjoys a lot of opportunities Lithia, FL 33547-5823 weather is extremely hot, but she hears to travel for work and fun. [email protected] it’s amazing in the winter, mid to low Life is good for Lee Carroll Best wishes from Christina Sav- 70’s. The city is teaming with new Roebuck. She has a sophomore age Lytle ’88! She and JD have been infrastructure projects, including a light at Davidson College and a senior at adjusting to life with a college sopho- rail system and soccer stadiums for Vanderbilt. She keeps busy traveling to more and a high school junior! Since the 2022 World Cup. Alex spends her her daughter’s Davidson field hockey their daughters’ interests are very time sewing, baking, gardening—“Yes, games, doing some part-time work, different, she has now visited about plants do grow here!”—and assisting volunteering, and playing golf. She 22 schools and will fit in a few more Rab with art/design projects. In May, says, “It was great being at Sweet Briar this year. Last year, Tina enjoyed using they spent two weeks in Holland doing in April for the alumnae lacrosse game. some of this collegiate expertise as a a felting workshop. That trip will be I truly appreciate everything our fellow Sweet Briar Alumnae Admissions Rep- replicated in October with Rab’s stu- classmates and alumnae are doing to resentative, helping to recruit students dents and faculty. After that trip, they keep Sweet Briar alive and kicking!” at three college fairs and two horse look forward to a Viking River Cruise 30th Reunion—Kristen Kreassig Kristen Kreassig Carter and shows. She says, “It’s always great to along the Rhine and a week in Prague Carter Dave are still living in beautiful Virginia interact with students (other than my over Christmas/New Year’s. Beach and invite everyone to come vis- own) to see what they’re looking for Brooke Rinehart Dunn officially it! Scotty is a senior; so they are busy in a college and to help them in their began empty-nesting, as her son start- visiting college/university campuses. search. I enjoy encouraging them to ed at Christopher Newport University Much of their social time is spent consider SBC, or any women’s college this fall and will be playing lacrosse supporting him as he plays varsity frankly, when they weren’t considering (like mother, like son). Her daughter is volleyball, basketball, and lacrosse. it previously.” a senior at James Madison University. She is in a new position as CEO of Chil- It has been awesome to be able “I must say it is awfully quiet around dren’s Harbor, a United Way certified to see roommate Heather Shettle the house!” She is still in Charlottesville non-profit early care and education Buerger a few times this year in D.C., and is still doing the bookkeeping for agency—very fulfilling work! Baltimore, and for Reunion. They had their landscaping business. She even In June, Page Franson celebrated tons of fun meeting up with Tina’s started to play a little golf. working at MEDITECH for 30 years. Her roommate Elizabeth Belser Kistler, Denise Landau-Blind just re- softball team won the Dennis Women’s Jill O’Ree Stryker ’87, Kristen Whitney turned from dropping daughter Chelsea Softball League for the second year in Lowrey ’87, Lezlie Varisco Pinto ’87 at University of Tennessee-Knoxville a row, and her hockey team won the and Pam Ythier Barkley ’87 for Reunion for her sophomore year, and visiting Cape Cod Women’s Hockey League for and the celebration for President Stone. with Julie Martin Collins!! Since her the second year in a row. They enjoyed spending time together daughter goes to school in Tennessee, 30th reunion –– Kristen Kreassig Leslie McRae Ferguson is happy on campus, and meeting President she gets to spend time with her Sweet Carter and Taz pre-ride to report that her younger son, Kelly, Woo was an added bonus! Another Briar roomie at least once a year! She married his partner, Marcelo, in Miami. fun surprise was having Kears- says that it’s always so fun, and their Her older son is getting married Sep- ley Rand Waggoner ’81 and her hus- husbands think they are roomies too. tember 22 to a wonderful girl. Fergie’s band, Ed, relocate to Alexandria! Tina is It just worked out that they were in the

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From left: Elizabeth Kistler ’88, Christina Lytle ’88, Lezlie Pinto ’87, Kristen Heather and Christina in Baltimore Heather, Christina and Elizabeth at Lowrey ’87, Heather Buerger ’88, Jill Stryker ’87, Pam Barkley ’87 in June the Boathouse during Reunion path of totality for the eclipse as well. also stays in touch with Pawla Tweedy marked her fourth anniversary at Woo! She heard rave reviews about her Her son, Tyler, graduated from Fairfield ’90 and Elizabeth Lindsey ’86. All are Edelman, the world’s largest PR con- when she was at UVa. University in Connecticut in May and doing fine. sultancy, where she oversees the brand Maia Free Jalenak and husband is attending Rutgers Grad School for Paige Apple Okun and her family marketing practice for the New York Jay (H-SC ’87) are enjoying being his master’s in accounting. His job with have been in Singapore for 14 years. office. She says it’s never a dull mo- empty nesters in Baton Rouge. Son Price Waterhouse starts in July 2018. She recently started a consultancy ment, which she finds both awesome Jack has begun his second year of They are very proud! She also traveled aimed at providing high-quality mar- and exhausting (and contributes to the medical school at LSU in New Orleans to Belize and the British Virgin Islands keting communications services priced grey hairs multiplying at an alarming and daughter Nina is a freshman at this year, and looks forward to going within reach for start-ups, small rate amidst her “blonde” tresses). She LSU in Baton Rouge. Maia and Jay back to Costa Rica for the New Year— businesses, and NGOs. Paige and her and her husband, Max, celebrated their are planning to travel to California and luckily her kids still like vacationing business partner seem to have found 16th wedding anniversary this fall, and Hawaii in the coming months. Maia with them! a niche in the market and have been their son, Terry, just started his first writes that she had a fun mini-reunion Susanna Broaddus Hickman incredibly busy for the past six months. year of high school. He is also officially with Kristen Petersen Randolph, just returned from Annapolis, Md., vis- Paige and family traveled back to the taller than both of them. They still live Nici Fraley Pechman and Jeanne iting her son, Hunter, who is in his first United States this summer and visited in North Jersey, just across the Hudson Rovics Dees earlier this year in Boca year at the Naval Academy. He survived California, where she got to catch up River from New York City, and enjoy Raton, Fla. She hopes to attend our the summer and is thrilled to be at his with Soja Gruhl Duporque on beau- escaping to their place in the Catskills 30th reunion in 2018. dream college. She is very proud of tiful Coronado Island, where Soja lives, whenever they can (“The place is being Brenda Payne enjoyed doing him! Susanna’s daughter, Campbell, and then on to Virginia, where she overrun by hordes of be-whiskered Sweet Work Weeks with other alumnae is a sophomore in high school and caught up with Christina Savage Ly- Brooklyn hipsters, but that’s another at Sweet Briar. She is getting ready to manages to keep the house lively, tle and Christina Tellalian Mulvhill. story”). She loves keeping up with her enjoy a trip to Ireland, her first trip ever even with her brother gone, with her Bennett started his junior year and is Sweet Briar sisters on Facebook, if not across the ocean. She writes that life is busy social life and field hockey career. thinking about going to university in the in person. She sends virtual hugs to the good and her granddaughter is starting Susanna is in her 24th year practicing U.S., so she suspects they will be back Class of ’88 ... a holla holla! Kindergarten this year. Brenda wants law at Geddy, Harris, Franck & Hickman in the U.S. a lot more in the next few Laura Ferrazzano says that it has to wish her fellow alumnae the best of in Williamsburg, Va. She and her years. As always, if anyone is traveling been a busy year of transitions. She health, love and happiness. husband, Phil (H-S ’88), Campbell, and in Southeast Asia, give her a shout … still works in solar development, but Lisa Thompson Barnes gives a golden retriever, Rudy, live nearby and she would love to connect. her former company went bankrupt big shout out to her Sweet Briar friends welcome any visitors. Tracy Tigerman Shannon writes in 2016 and she found herself on the for their support as she participated Wendy Hastings and her that she is in her 28th year of teaching cusp of losing her job at any moment. in a local charity event to raise money husband, Yefri, celebrated their 11th elementary school and loves it more Her division made it through and was for Healthy Start Coalition—the event anniversary and still live in Eagles than when she first started. Her daugh- bought by Mitsui & Co; they are now was Dancing with Vero Stars. She is Mere, Penn. They had a wonderful visit ter, Kaitlyn, is 15 and her son, Ryan, called Forefront Power. She now works superexcited to say that she was the from Anne Merriman Duffy ’86 and is 22. She finds life is always full of from home full-time, which she finds grand champion and proud owner of her amazing son William and explored wonder, either at home with her family, to be empowering, and her dogs love an awesome Mirror Ball Trophy!!! All some of our county’s most beautiful or in the classroom with a bunch of it the most! She is spending a good bit else is great with husband Trevon and nature. Wendy is in her fifth term serv- kids ranging from six to nine. of time traveling to Aiken, S.C., to visit Yorkie Macintosh. They are recovering ing as Sullivan County Coroner. Cheryl-Lynn Horowitz Matheny her 94-year-old grandmother and is from the impact of Hurricane Irma, but Cecilia Moore and her sister, and family are in Houston and made grateful to have a flexible job that al- grateful—they feel like they dodged a Margaret, participated in a day of it through Hurricane Harvey alive and lows her to do so. She can’t believe our huge bullet in their community. Sweet Work Weeks in August. They well! Son Tyler is a freshman at Murray 30th reunion is next year and is looking Susan Detweiler continues to had a wonderful time meeting alumnae State University in Kentucky. Mom forward to seeing everyone! chug away at prerequisites toward from the various years and generations and dad are adjusting to being empty Stacey Sickels Locke is delighted applying for a master’s in occupa- as they worked to paint dorm rooms in nesters!! to be back at the University of Maryland tional therapy. Over the summer, she Carson and the Carson Lobby. Cecilia Caroline Corum decided a few after a stint at the University of Virginia, completed her 15th season guiding planned to attend President Woo’s years ago to make a change to a living in Charlottesville. Her travels, climbers in the Tetons. Recently, she inauguration and is looking forward to nursing career. If all goes well, she will fortunately, take her to San Francisco, also did field risk management work on our class’s own reunion in June 2018. graduate from her program in May where her oldest son, Kent, just got a glacier in Alaska for a NASA project She is still teaching at University of 2018. Between full-time school and his dream job doing social media for related to a landing craft they plan Dayton. She taught at Xavier in New full-time work, she is a recluse, which a start-up. Her youngest son will be a to send to Jupiter’s moon Europa in Orleans this past summer and visits her “is getting old.” She keeps in touch freshman at Principia College. She had about 5 years (science support work mom in Danville as often as possible. with Cecilia Moore, and Beth Stook- a chance to see Lea Harvey in Virginia similar to what she did for 10 Antarctic Cecilia is in regular contact with Rapti ey Sargent, who is in Loudon County and, while living in Charlottesville, seasons before returning to school). de Silva, Praka Punniamoorty Sahi, and doing well. Caroline loves seeing connected with Beth Ike and Eliza- Down the road, she plans to work as a Beth Stookey Sargent, Caroline classmates’ posts on Facebook. beth Groves Aycock. She planned contract/traveling OT between guiding Corum, and Lee Ann Conard. She Stephanie Wilt Smirnov just to attend the installation of President work and personal trips with her

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 73 Class Notes partner, Ned. one gold, four silver and two bronze Kate Cole Hite reports that her medals. Jennifer has been the Chair of son Chase is a senior at the University the Jacksonville Sweet Briar Alumnae of Dayton. Mackenzie is a freshman in Group for the past year and enjoys the Barrett Honors College at Arizona seeing Courtney Kneece Grimm ’89 State University. Cole is a freshman in frequently at North Florida swim meets. high school. She is running her own Additionally, Jennifer has been working business as a consultant with Rodan + with Sweet Briar College’s swim coach Fields. Tucker is awesome. Donna Meyer Hodgert ’89 to recruit Mary Halliday Shaw retired competitive swimmers from Florida in 2016 after 16 years of teaching. for the Sweet Briar Swim Team, with Her husband, Brad, retired in April the goal of beating Washington & Lee 2015 from The Home Depot. They at the ODAC championships. Jennifer are enjoying retirement, traveling and and her family also really enjoy fleeing watching their twins’ band, The Head, hurricanes in Florida (Matthew and tour across the United States and, in Irma) so she can travel to Atlanta to November, go to the United Kingdom. spend time with Kelly Iacobelli and Her youngest son and wife just sent her family!! their two-year-old son off to preschool Kelly Meredith Iacobelli is doing two days a week. Mary and Brad have category strategy work at Coca-Cola. Mini-reunion in Old Towne Alexandria (back, l. to r.): Nikki Kosits ’89, Les- so much fun babysitting their grandson Her daughter, Kathleen, is now a high lie Lemish ’89, Raquel Thiebes ’89; (front) Abigail Carter ’89 (l.), Jennifer and watching him grow into a little school sophomore who enjoys her Byrd ’89 man. She does get to spend time with church youth group, gymnastics and her Sweet Briar girls once a year for working on her Girl Scout Gold Award a reunion. They include Katie Keogh project. Kelly and John celebrated their Weidner, Beth Bennet Haga, Kate 25th wedding anniversary in Mexico in Cole Hite, Whitney Bolt Lewis, June. Kelly, John and Kathleen live in Kathryn Ingham Reese, Paige Ap- Marietta, Ga., with their well-pampered ple Montinaro. “We all have so much English bulldog, Cordelia (Professor fun together and pick up right where Tamburr would be pleased with the nod we left off.” to “King Lear”). Whitney Bolt Lewis is getting And sadly, Michele Smith lost her married in late September and there battle with cancer on July 2 holding will be a posse of Sweet Briar ladies her mom’s hand. Michele was a proud there. She is also renovating a house, member of the Class of 1988 and has two teenage boys, and is running a loved Sweet Briar and the many friends veterinary hospital ... “Life is great!!” she met there. Her service was on Katie Keogh Weidner lost her fa- July 14 at the Episcopal Church of the ther back in January and thanks all her Ascension in Seattle. In lieu of flowers, friends who were so supportive during Michele requested donations be made his long illness. She has two children to Sweet Briar. who graduated from Penn State and a third who is now a freshman there. Her nest is empty, and she is doing some fundraising for Sweet Briar and 1989 Heather Daly Jones ’92, Lisa Claypool Stevenson ’89, Gina Pollock Davis Emmy Leung ’89, and Kimberly Willock Pardiwala ’89 continuing her addiction to tennis (and 7102 Wynnewood Court paddle tennis in the winter). Richmond, VA 23235-5619 Dawn Czaplicki Hutchinson and [email protected] the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. her husband, Mike, have lived in Fort Camelia Washington Gunn and She also continues to write articles Walton Beach for the past 25 years. family moved to Ramstein, Germany, in for Practical Horseman. Husband Eric 1990 Jean Spillane Benning Her daughter is in the pre-doctorate July after her husband was transferred. is still working for USAID, and son 1120 Walnut Farm Rd program for occupational therapy at They are living in Ramstein-Miesen- Alexander is in his second year at Mary Lower Gwynedd, PA 19002 the University of Florida. This year is bach, just outside the base. Her son Washington University. [email protected] her 17th year serving as a Children’s attends the DOD school on base, and Raquel Hickman Thiebes and Thanks to all who contributed. Minister, as well as tutoring and Camelia is looking for a position with husband George will be headed back We hope to receive more for the next interpreting for the Spanish-speaking the DODEA school system. to Stuttgart, Germany, for their fourth magazine. children in the local schools. They are Whitney Bay Shuck and husband Army move there. Alex is at the Uni- Kelleigh Klym Friesen: My hus- also deeply involved in missions in Quin have been in Indianapolis, Ind., for versity of Alabama studying aerospace, band and I are owners and operators Z’Orange, Haiti, and take several trips 10 years. Whitney has been with Maritz and Matt just started at Colorado State of our community paediatric clinic and there each year. for 23 years and has been a web University in nature sciences. farm in Millarville, Alberta. Loving what Jennifer Crawley Lewis has producer for the past 17 years. Quin is A couple of mini-reunions were we do; so think of it as a pleasure not moved with her family to Jacksonville, an engineer at Rolls-Royce Aerospace. held earlier in the summer. Nikki Kos- a chore (except in the brutal Canadian Fla., for her daughter, Diana, to attend They just completed a woodworking its, Abby Carter, Raquel Hickman winter). I had a riding accident this past The Bolles School. Her daughter shop for Quin and a glass studio for Thiebes, Jennifer Byrd, and Leslie spring—now just rebuilding strength is a junior and toured Sweet Briar Whitney! Lemish met up for a day in Old Towne and confidence. Ava starts fourth grade last summer. Diana is a competitive Abby Carter is living in Freder- Alexandria. Gina Pollock Davis, Lisa and hopes to be a Vixen someday. Yay! swimmer; so they spend most of icksburg, Va., and continues to teach Claypool Stevenson, Kimberly I stay in touch most frequently with their time traveling to swim meets in riding and pursue her own equestrian Willock Pardiwala, and Heather Daly Tracey Thomas Jones. In summer Florida and Chile. As legal permanent interests. For her 50th birthday gift Jones ’92, celebrated their birthdays 2016, I dined with alumna Wendy residents of Chile, Diana can swim in to herself, she spent a weekend in on Cape Cod. White while visiting for the Calgary Chilean Nationals; she swam in her August in Charlottesville riding for Stampede. We met at the 2012 riding first Chilean Nationals in June and won Arthur Kottus, the former head rider at

74 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes reunion. Looking forward to 2020, or Glenn. I now work as a seller of an- makes for a superfun weekend girls widespread damage to the island and maybe sooner for a return to campus!! tiques and collectibles from home and trip. As my fiftieth birthday approaches the loss of services. We wish her well.] Rosanna Jones-Thurman: tend to my gardens and 22 chickens. in December, I have been working on Chris Carriere Zazulak: Scott I am still in my practice, Thurman Planning on naming the farm Vixen five special trips. Sure would love for and I celebrated our 25th anniversary Psychological LLC, and have offices in Hollow. Had a great time at Sweet one of them to include some Vixens. It in May. We are still in New Orleans, Nebraska and Iowa. My husband is my Work Weeks and made some awesome was so much fun going to Reunion with raising our five boys. John will graduate office manager after leaving the fitness new friends. Feeling blessed to be everyone. from law school in May 2018. Robert industry. Our oldest son, John (27), is back in Sweet Briar Country! And just Chery Bishop Gilman: Our will be in Germany for the fall semester, on his own and working. Derek (21) celebrated eight-year anniversary with oldest daughter, Jenna, finished her studying at Freie Universitat. David is a senior at William Jewell College my husband, Greg! Adventure in Missions trip visiting 11 is a sophomore at LSU hoping this is majoring in biology and playing Division Tracey Thomas Jones: While last countries in 11 months in 2016. Thank the year they beat ’Bama. Stephen is II baseball. He has been accepted to summer we were so fortunate to return you to all who supported her in prayer a junior in high school, and Philip is the Cleveland Clinic and will go on to to England to visit family in Manches- and financially! Our oldest son, Luke, finishing up his last year of elementary chiropractic school in the fall of 2018. ter and friends in London, this year was married in December 2016 in Bal- school. Nichollis (18) just graduated from we opted for a more low-key Florida timore, Md., to his college sweetheart. Amy Elizabeth Burton: The Joint Creighton Preparatory High School and stay-cation. We enjoyed Cumberland They are now the grad assistant la- Congressional Committee on Inaugural is a national award winning artist and Island, Itchetucknee Springs and the crosse coaches for the Wheeling Jesuit Ceremonies detailed me to help coor- is hoping to get to NYC. Any alumnae new Volcano Bay at Universal Studios. University men’s and women’s lacrosse dinate the 58th Presidential Inaugural with connections to art and NYC or My husband, Jonathan, recently teams. Our son JEB is living in Annap- Ceremonies at the U.S. Capitol. I was other residencies please contact me! resigned from his full-time position as a olis and working. Levi is now a senior privileged to work closely with the fab- We aren’t quite empty nesters yet! We mental health counselor at Florida State year in high school currently playing ulous Anna Reilly ’95. I keep in touch are trying to travel some short trips prison to have more flexibility and be football and contemplating his future. with Suzanne Szak Sohur and Mary around the Midwest and see my mom able to spend more quality time with our Chaela is a freshman in high school, Ellen Naff Philpott. Over the years, in Orange County, Calif., and Danny’s boys; he will be focusing on rebuilding running cross-country and competing I’ve lost touch with Janine Irwin family in Redding, Calif., and my dad his private practice as a counselor. Our in Irish dance. We are enjoying the and Taki Kinoshita, but would really in Maine and Florida. Anyone passing eldest son is a junior at Episcopal School slower pace of life in Kansas City and enjoy hearing from them. I continue through Omaha give me a shout! of Jacksonville and a year-round swim- the ease to see friends and family all researching, writing, and lecturing for Julie Brooks Nyquist: My son mer. We hope to visit several Virginia over the country. Recently we spent a the U.S. Senate Curator’s Office. Andrew (8) is in second grade. We colleges this year! My youngest is a few days on the front range of Colorado Amy Donnelly Tobik: I am the have two puppies—a black lab named seventh-grader and is looking forward to visiting Beth Babbitt Bowen and her editor-in-chief of Autism Parenting Lilly (10 months) and a golden retriever playing on his middle school basketball family. My home-birth midwifery prac- Magazine and live in Fort Mill, S.C., named Logan (10 weeks). My husband, team again. I have continued to teach tice is quite busy, and I love serving all with my husband, Steve, and we have Stephen, and I continue to work on elementary art (Jr. K through 5th) and the moms, babies and their families. So two daughters attending Clemson projects around our house. This year am just loving it! I also homeschool my glad Sweet Briar is saved! University. I have really enjoyed recon- we’re working on the back yard and youngest two days a week, but this will Stacy Gilmore Hanling: We are necting with fellow SBC alumnae at the basement. To keep in shape in probably be our last year doing so. We still living in Mount Pleasant, S.C., a Charlotte events. the past year I’ve completed three love keeping in touch with many SBC suburb of Charleston. My daughter, Brandi Beck: I’m still working as a sprint triathlons, a half marathon and alumnae on Facebook. Haylee, graduated from Clemson clinical psychologist in private practice several 10Ks and 15Ks. This summer Louise Bouldin Carter: Our oldest University this past May with a degree in New York City and enjoying life with we hosted a team of French cyclists for (Virginia—wonder where I got that in animal veterinary sciences. She my partner, Andy, and our daughter, two weeks while they competed in the name!) is a freshman this year and gets started Virginia Tech this August and is Dasha (12). I had a wonderful breakfast Intelligentsia Cup series in the Chicago her learner’s permit to drive this week. working on a master’s degree in dairy with Charlotte Cantrell Doran when area. She plays the flute in the school band science. I’m having a hard time coming she was in the city at the beginning of Amy Kroeger: I spend a lot of time and swims with the local year-round to the realization I have a daughter that the summer. Love to all Vixens! with Marissa, the daughter of a friend club. Our three younger boys are busy has graduated college. Weren’t we just Charna Manning Falls: I’m a of mine who passed away from cancer. with sports—cross-country, soccer, recent grads too? My son is 10 and wife to a wonderful loving husband I happily claim Marissa as mine now. I swim, football and so on—whatever just started the fourth grade. He keeps and mom of two sons, one a junior in spend much of my free time gallivant- is in season. They are all excellent us busy with his various activities. Over college and one a senior in high school. ing about with her, or we veg with Hulu, students as well. My husband has the past four years, we have become Much of my time is dedicated to watching ID. Our excursions have led been with his orthopedic practice since die-hard Clemson football fans. We are volunteerism with the Susan G. Komen us to visit Joie Tankard, Dolly Garcia 2002 here in Huntsville. He coaches season ticket holders. If you ever find Foundation. I am a speaker and fund- De Simonet, and Jean Benning; the littlest Carter in football. Patience yourself at a Clemson football game, be raiser for the Komen organization and and she eagerly expresses that she is of Job. I see a little of Amanda Priddy sure to look for me. We can always add a 14-year breast cancer survivor. I’m always up for more. I also get to see Berkey. We have a boy the same age. a little Pink and Green to the tailgate! also active in my church and will be the Meg Caulk and Ann Malone when And she and I have been to some con- Beth Jinks: My mom and I are guest speaker for the upcoming United I travel back East to see my mom. certs together. I saw Jill Straughan six years out from our breast cancer, Methodist Women’s Day. My hobbies Always a much needed energy boost! Carter here last fall when her daughter and we feel very blessed every day! include travel, cooking and community I am still working in emergency med- came for a volleyball tournament (her I encourage everyone to get their mam- outreach. Our favorite family vacation icine on the Tohono O’odham Indian daughter was awesome, and I think mograms! I still live in Tennessee with was to South Africa. Holla! Holla! Reservation—political hotbed for “the her team won the whole thing!). I husband Derrick and our cat, Crowley! LuAnn Hunt: I’m a grandmother to wall.” My patient population remains have been working part-time, off and Look forward to the 30th reunion! four great kids! My son, Chris, and his the sweetest population in the country on, since our oldest was born, as an Dolly Garcia: Doing great down wife, Megan, have Halle (13) and Josh to work with, and it’s a lot of fun to be interior decorator and home stager. I here in sunny Puerto Rico. Miguel (11). My daughter, Candice, and her out there. took over the business last May and turned 21 this past week. He is a husband, Dan, have Olivia (6) and Elyse Kim Dickey Melcher: A year and not really part-time anymore! Many senior at Marquette University. Dolly is (3). Larry and I will celebrate 42 years a half ago, I left D.C., sold my condo, long hours, but it is a tremendous 18 and a freshman, also at Marquette. of marriage in December—when I was and left my job at Neiman Marcus to amount of fun even if it does interfere Mari is in ninth grade. Mikey and I at SBC, we had been married 10 years. buy a mini-farm in Central Virginia, with my tennis. I picked up tennis after are taking a trip to Napa this coming I still work for the City of Lynchburg 45 minutes from campus. Went to the third baby was born and have September. Holla Holla to everyone. in communications and marketing, see the Violent Femmes with Kristen enjoyed playing very much. I and my [Editor’s note: Dolly submitted her class now going on 27 years. In my “spare” Hofheimer last summer and recently old lady teams have even won our local note before Hurricane Maria struck time I have a part-time professional caught up with Jenny Chambers league and competed at “State.” This Puerto Rico. She is dealing with the photography business, which is truly

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 75 Class Notes my passion. I’m looking forward to graduation. She and Jim are about a few great days on the way with Dana backpacking in New Zealand for spring retirement from the City (July 2020 is to celebrate their 22nd anniversary Varnado Campbell ’93 and her family. break. the goal) and will plan to continue my (congrats!) and Carter is in his junior Chuck and I are looking forward to Jane Rabadi and her partner photography business more than just year of college. Thanksgiving in Florida with the family relocated from Anchorage down to part-time. Whenever I can, I take my Molly Phemister and her daugh- and a trip to Mexico in January 2018 to Santa Monica—polar opposites! She clients to SBC for their photoshoots. ter, Daxlin, are living it up (and eating see The Avett Brothers at the Beach. is in the process of setting up a small You just can’t beat the natural beauty well!) at Molly’s new gig as the coor- Have a great fall, and Caitlin design studio, Studio Rabadi, where of Sweet Briar! dinator for the first public food forest Sundby Russell and I will catch up she works primarily with individuals Ann Beatty Malone: I just took a in Nebraska. The pair swung through with you all this winter! and nonprofits, designs print-based new position as the market devel- Virginia in July and ran into Elizabeth products, and makes art. She has been opment manager for the northeast Groves Aycock ’96, Courtney Burkey fortunate to travel to some far-away, for Johnson & Johnson Vision. I am ’01, Pamela Fine Auble ’98 and Megan 1995 cool places; most recent was Moscow still living in Alexandria, Va., with my Fletcher Parry ’96 on that trip. Katie Maxwell Schellhammer and Helsinki—traveling makes life a daughter, Alexandra, who is a freshman Vinca Swanson is living in 22914 Goldenrod Dr grand adventure! She wishes everyone in high school, and my husband, Bill. Portland, Ore., with her girlfriend, Lisa, Brambleton, VA 20148-6967 health, happiness, and love. My parents have now moved in with and her cat, Tyrone. They travel all [email protected] Sarah Clifford Weaver is heading us. I spent time with Jean Spillane over Oregon and try to get out of the Kelly Hall visited Jennifer Parker into her 11th year teaching art at Benning at the beach this summer for country at least once a year if they Raudenbush, Karen Giorgetti, and Osbourn High School, and seventh a week. haven’t funneled their resources into Cari Miller James this summer up year as department chair of the Fine As for myself, I just changed home projects. She gets to Los Angeles in Pennsylvania, where she said they & Performing Arts. Her program has careers after 20 years, now working for to visit with Jane Rabadi ’95, and she had a great time in the pool and at grown to 10 full-time teachers, winning Salesforce.com in the Higher Education mountain bikes with Melissa Broderick an amusement park. Kelly also went an Enterprise Grammy Award and division as a solutions engineer. I Eaton ’96 when she goes to Bend, Ore. to Spain, France, and the U.K. She too many student art show ribbons to have two girls now in high school and She has built stuff, painted murals, highly recommends the Peak District count. She has been married to Bob one daughter in middle school. My paddle-boarded, climbed stuff and still and Glencoe! Kelly went to SBC in since 1995. Her oldest son is a senior husband and I are still in the suburbs of wishes she rode horses more often. September for the memorial service for in high school and her youngest is a Philadelphia, and I keep in touch with She’s working for a marketing agency Anne Grimm (wife of retired Prof. Ken sophomore. Where does time go? Ann, Dolly, Jill Armstrong Tracy and as a web-coder—she still can’t figure Grimm). Cynthia Harris says, “HOLLA Amy Kroeger. Please feel free to send out how she’s doing that since she’s no Tricia Lynn is now an associate HOLLA and much love to my fellow updates at any time to 1990SweetBri- good at math. professor at Palm Beach State College Vixens from the Class of ’95, from [email protected]. Liz Gilgan has entered the field and enjoying her new home, complete Boise, Idaho! On Saturday, Oct. 21, of paper shredding—she purchased with private pool. Guests are always 2017, I will be turning 45-Years-Young, a company this spring that shreds accepted. When she is not working on scary to think about/ponder. HA! For my 1993 and also recycles electronics. Her kids her house, she is traveling. She went birthday, I plan to travel to Las Vegas, Class Secretary: NONE LISTED aren’t as excited as she is (one of their Norma Bulls Valentine: Still in friends’ dad is the mayor), but she’s real estate. Happy to go to Reunion and happy to own forklifts and trucks. Kids see classmates Dianne Doss Hayes, Nicholas (9) loves science and sports Katherine Polevitzky, and Debra and Isabella (8) just had a laser-tag Elkins. Dianne and her son, Dan, birthday party. She spent time a few stayed with me this summer for a few months ago with Amelia McDaniel, days as they were looking at colleges. Ashley Henderson Swigart, Corinne Tracy Imse Thomson visited our farm Gaillard and Lia DeSimone Colbert. in S.C. looking for horses in April. She She writes that she “laughed so hard fell in love with my donkey, Eeyore. her cheeks hurt and she peed in her I’m still splitting time between our pants 500 times.” (Sounds about right.) homes in S.C., Portsmouth, N.H., and Katherine Cook writes that she is Wellington, Fla. happier than ever to be single. She sold her house and adopted an off-the-track Thoroughbred instead. She’s enjoying the life of a “crazy cat lady” and has 1994 converted the deli drawer of her refrig- Molly Morris Flasche erator to a chocolate drawer. Now she’s 152 N Remington Rd considering witchcraft. Bexley, OH 43209 Cynthia Harris ’95, with her pride-and-joy trike, Ms. Big Blue Betsy Lanard McCafferty’s girls [email protected] are in grades 7, 2, and Pre-K this year, Caitlin Sundby Russell and they adopted a pig named Kings- 6275 Old Hickory Pt ton. This past year they visited Disney Atlanta, GA 30328 and Akumal, Mexico, where they got to [email protected] play with monkeys and lemurs. Hello and Holla Holla to all ... not As for me (Molly Morris Flasche), too many notes submitted for this issue Eddie just started preschool a block of the alumnae magazine since we had away from home; so Indie (our Golden- a lot in the last one, but there are a doodle) and I are enjoying the silence a few. I’ll get things started: few times a week. I’m an active docent Shannon Hetcel Dykes writes at the Columbus Museum of Art, giving that she and Jim are still in Florida, tours a few times a month and partici- and she’s still working in the schools, pating in book clubs and study groups. although not as a teacher anymore. I’m also really happy that the Columbus She’s the coordinator of her school’s alumnae club has become active drop-out program, ensuring that again. Chuck, Eddie and I vacationed Jane Rabadi ’95 and Lida Anne Elliott Sarah Clifford Weaver ’95 at-risk juniors and seniors make it to in Hilton Head this summer and spent ’95 catching up in Denver

76 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes where I will be staying for two weeks’ braved blizzard conditions in Virginia dation as a senior program manager. time, and then it is off to New Orleans Beach, Va., for the wedding festivities! I’m thrilled to keep doing work I believe for a month, through Thanksgiving AND Right after the wedding, Laura and in and helping to protect our public 1997 Black Friday/its weekend. Life is GOOD. Jim moved to Hawaii, where Jim is a lands. I did this while launching James Melanie Vracas God Bless!” commander in the Navy! We can’t wait into second grade and Maeve into her 6641 Wakefield Dr No 608 Katie Maxwell Schellhammer, to visit! The Dolan family is great: Henry first year of preschool. It has been a Alexandria, VA 22307 after being home with the kids for 14 is in ninth grade, Mattie is in seventh, whirlwind! [email protected] years, is easing back into the working and Fred is in third. Anne Collins: After 20-plus years Alicia Allen: I recently relocated to world by doing some substitute teach- Laura Lechler Hornef: Lots of of experience in the market research Honolulu for the master’s in education ing in the local elementary schools. She exciting changes in 2017!! In January, industry on the technology and agency in teaching program at the University and Heather Aspinwall Chiles still I married Jim in Virginia Beach, Va. side with many Fortune 500 compa- of Hawaii. meet regularly for lunch and shopping, I was lucky to have my Sweet Briar nies, Anne co-founded a new company, Nessim Al-Yafi: The weekend of and she lunched with Anna Reilly at roommates Lee Foley Dolan, Mary Panel Consulting Group (PCG), and is July 22nd, I was able to visit Frank, the beautiful Salamander Resort, where Copeland Stockton and Natalie already supporting several customers. Mary and the rest of the Ludwig family! they visited horses and talked about Brown Adee by my side as brides- PCG just debuted a newly redesigned I was invited to attend their son Jona- Sweet Briar. She also Facetimed with maids. Also in attendance were, website, panelconsulting.com. Anne than’s wedding, and it was wonderful! Christy Patten Hundertpfund, who Jesse Durham Strauss and Janeen is working with potential investors I have kept in touch with the Ludwig lives in England with her husband and Sharma. Immediately following the and is also working on PCG’s sister family, over the years, through Christ- daughter. wedding, we moved to Pearl Harbor, company—a social sharing site that is mas cards and the occasional phone So great to hear from everyone! If Hawaii, for Jim’s job with the Navy. currently in stealth mode. call. Also, the family was so sweet to you have not been receiving email Abigail Phillips Hinga: After Robin Bettger Fishburne: We invite me to various graduations and updates from Katie, please make sure nine years with the Bell Policy Center, I have thoroughly enjoyed our move weddings through the years. It took me SBC has your correct email. Hugs to all joined the Western Conservation Foun- to Charleston, S.C. I have opened a two years, but I was finally able to see and happy holidays! Charleston branch of the Wondra- everyone! What a wonderful reunion! cek Realty Group that I worked for Alicia King Anderson: After six in Greenville for over six years. My years at WebMD, I am now head of husband has expanded his new drone SEO at Hipcamp, a sharing-economy 1996 photography business. Our lives seem startup dedicated to getting people to Eileen MacMurtrie Zuckerman camp outside and enjoy nature while 42 Rose Ln busier and busier every year with son Parker (5) and daughter Gibbs (12). also helping landowners keep their Glen Mills, PA 19342 spaces undeveloped. I’m also flying to [email protected] Check out www.selling-Charleston. com. California every month for grad school. Happy Fall, Y’all!! I hope everyone I started my mythological studies M.A./ had a wonderful summer and is en- Sarah Reidy Ferguson: I cele- brated my 20-year anniversary of living Ph.D. program at Pacifica in Septem- joying the fall. As always, it was great ber. Brett and I had a blast at Reunion, to hear from so many classmates with in Atlanta in August. I recently bought an original shot-gun-style bungalow and it was great to hang out with so their news, updates and milestones. many friends! Please continue to keep in touch via in the Inman Park neighborhood. I continue to write my lifestyle blog, Katrina Balding Bills: We loved Facebook, email, text or whichever coming back for our 20th reunion and communication platform suits you! Duchess Fare, and freelance for interior design magazines. I’m superexcited look forward to being on campus a lot Lee Foley Dolan: 2017 started off as niece Katie Balding enters SBC’s with a huge celebration as Laura about participating in the Sweet Briar Alumnae Alliance with social media. gate this fall! I serve as on-campus Lechler married Jim Hornef on Jan- events chair for Friends of Riding and uary 7! Mary Copeland Stockton, Hoping to catch up with friends at President Woo’s Inauguration. am an Admissions Ambassador as well. Natalie Brown Adee, Jesse Durham Last spring we celebrated the 30th Strauss, Janeen Sharma and I Anne Collins Kelly Collins Lear: Things are good in Hudson, Ohio! I do a lot of vol- birthday of my horse, Fella (who also unteer work at my children’s schools. attended SBC), and Paul Cronin came! Evelyn is 12, Teddy is 10, and Penelope Please feel free to visit if you are ever is 7. Aaron and I were married 15 years out our way! Whether we’re in the barn, ago this September, on campus! the brewery, or MK, we would love to Monica Paul Dennis: The Dennis see ya! clan is still in Michigan; so if anybody Courtney Totushek Brown: Two is traveling this way, feel free to give a years ago we moved three miles down shout! Our daughter, Carson, graduated the street to a new house in McLean, from high school in June, and we were Va. We are still living through settling so lucky to have Abbie McCammon in and renovations. My boys are now 8 Jeremiah ’98 and her twin daughters, and 10, and we are busy with school. Baker and Mallorie, with us to cele- They are into music, writing comics, brate. Carson is at Wellesley College acting and video games. I have been playing field hockey and lacrosse. Our keeping busy at my job at Fun Bot Lab, boys, Wyatt and Lloyd, are both in a LEGO robotics and media camp, and high school (a junior and a freshman). serving as Chesterbrook Elementary’s It’s hard to believe that I have a child PTA president. in college, but it is so wonderful at Gina Miller Brown: Our three the same time! I stepped down from boys keep us busy! Mason (10, 5th coaching so Matt and I can travel to grade), Garett (7, 2nd grade) and Boston to see Carson play, which is Austin (4, preschool). Mason started awesome. I am lucky to spend so much travel soccer this year, and Austin tried time with “my guys!” soccer for the first time this spring. During winter, the boys enjoy being From left: Lee Foley Dolan, Natalie Brown Adee, Laura Lechler Hornef, on a club wrestling team. We were Janeen Sharma, Jesse Durham Strauss, and Mary Copeland Stockton also able to enjoy skiing as a family. with groom Jim

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Dave, Katy, Scott (14) and Anna Ramsey (11) Gilliam

Our 20th Reunion

Richard, Madison (6), Jennifer, Montgomery (3), and Morgan (8) Lynes Annette Dusenbury, Katie Clarkson Robertson, Alison Hall, Katy Seder Karon, Amy Campbell, Melanie Chriscoe Peters, Kerri Rawlings Burtner and Jessica Hiveley

Kathryn and Casey McMahon at Tryon Interna- Stephen Karon, Max Karon, Evan Elwell and Ed- Anne-Claire Wackenhut Kasten ’98 with tional Equestrian Center ward Elwell Jacques and Genevieve, and Tanya Ketchum Young ’97 with Talley and Lilly

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We took the boys to Gore Mountain vacation and at our 20th Reunion! Puerto Rico with my three kids. I train Katie Clarkson Robertson: All in the Adirondack’s in February. This Lisa DuCharme Elwell: Two horses and give classes in dressage is well here in Winston-Salem. I can’t summer Mason had his first experience things to share: Spent a few days with and jumping. All three of my children believe I have a son who is officially a with sleep-away camp at Camp Cory fellow classmate Katherine Seder ride as well. Lilian made the Puerto high school student! I loved attending on one of the Finger Lakes. We also Karon’s family in Newton, Mass., in Rican National show jumping team and Reunion and seeing everyone. It seems enjoyed some time at our cottage on August and had a great time! Our four placed in Guatemala recently. Linden is like yesterday all that mattered was be- Great Cranberry Island in Maine. I keep little boys had fun, and Katy and I had a leading the 1.0 meter class this year. ing in Prothro at 5 p.m. I want to share busy as the rental manager. Check out chance to catch up. It was the best! We [Editor’s note: Tyler submitted her my new personal motto with all of my our new website www.cranmerhouse. also recently moved into a new house class note before Hurricane Maria SBC sisters: Recruit, recruit, recruit! com. We love it anytime we can get in London! Please let me know if you struck Puerto Rico. Her home and farm Sara Schmalz: I am living in there!! We also went to Sandbridge in are ever visiting London! sustained serious damage. We wish Portland, Maine, with my husband and Virginia for a week, another favorite Katy McCartney Gilliam: Dave her well.] sweet terrier. I moved to Maine about spot. This fall I will continue on the and I have lived in Chapel Hill, N.C., Jennifer Swisher Lynes: I am 17 years ago for a master’s in social preschool board; I have stepped down for 11 years with our two children, now working full-time as assistant work program and now work as a from the chair position and will work Anna Ramsey (11) and Scott (14). medical director of Big Bend Hospice in program manager at Maine Behavioral on fundraising. I also help the school Over the years, I’ve focused my energy Tallahassee, Fla. I am loving it, but still Healthcare. Maine is a wonderful place PTSA. I was so sad not to make it back on fundraising. I have organized 5Ks, trying to balance work, family and self. to live, especially in the summer! I hope for Reunion, but I love keeping up with and other fundraising events, for UNC Our three girls are doing great and are to attend a reunion event at some point you all on Facebook!! If you ever have Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer excited to start school. The older two in the future. It would be so wonderful a reason to be near Rochester please Center, specifically in Breast Cancer attended Reunion with me, and we all to see SBC classmates again! come visit. and Pediatric Oncology. This January, had a wonderful time. Overall, it was Alexa Schriempf: Hi, everyone! I Amy Leigh Campbell: All our I switched gears and now work in a great summer. We look forward to spent three amazing weeks as a Sweet classmates have been so kind to me communications and marketing for the participating in Sweet Work Weeks next Work Weeks volunteer and cannot and diligent about supporting me these Southern Village Marketing Association. summer. express how much fun it was partici- past two years while I was teaching at Alison Hall: It was great seeing Kathryn Cunningham McMa- pating! I encourage everyone to try and Sweet Briar. I am 1,000% grateful for so many at Reunion and living it up hon: New home! New Job! Same hus- make at least one day next year. It is every bit of it. So I will just say that I again on Reid 2nd Floor. I still work band! Casey and I purchased our first good for the College but also fulfilling loved our 20th Reunion—being back for the City of Auburn and continue to home together, in Rutherfordton, N.C., as an alumna! In other news, I moved in Reid was an absolute highlight. I lost volunteer with our local United Way in May. We are completely remodeling out of Pennsylvania and am now my grandfather shortly after Reunion and Special Olympics. I was able to the entire home and spending all our living in my hometown of Alexandria, and am currently taking care of my spend quality time with Kerri Burtner, free time between Lowe’s and home Va. Back home I often connect with grandmother. This means I am living in Melanie Peters, Katie Robertson, projects. I was hired by the Tryon Sweet Briar alumnae Melanie Vracas, Lynchburg, which allows me to be on Katherine Karon, Jessica Hive- International Equestrian Center as their Carolyn Leddy ’98, Emily Pegues ’00 campus frequently. I’m enjoying staying ley, Annette Dusenbury and Amy director of community engagement in and Kate Schlech ’70. And look forward connected to the students I taught and Campbell last November when we July. It is a dream job! There is a lot of to meeting up with new Alexandria volunteering as an alumna. Love to managed to cross the finish line at the preparation before we host the World Vixen friends made during Sweet Work all—my ’97 pride runs deep :) Chickamauga Battlefield 5K. Equestrian Games in 2018. Weeks (alumnae I wouldn’t have met Ann MacDonald Carter: July Kate Hall: Enjoying working hard, Becky Moats Miller: I LOVED if it weren’t for these three magical was a big month for our little family: playing hard, traveling spending time seeing my ’97 Vixens at our 20-year weeks): Lelee Frank Hazard ’81, Sarah Michael (W&L ’98) and I celebrated our with family. I regularly talk to Melanie reunion and wish more of you were Clement ’75 and Lynn Rogerson ’76. 17th wedding anniversary; our soon- Vracas and Lisa Hoffman Mc- there to celebrate. As for me, my most Lisa Tedder Baker: I’m currently to-be first-grader son, Stewart, turned George. Looking forward to taking my important job is being mom to Michael relaunching my marketing strategy 6 1/2 and proudly gave up the training daughter, Grace, on a college tour to (9), Brent (3) and Baby Steven (1). My business, adding coaching for entre- wheels on his bike; and I completed a SBC this fall! husband, Chip, and I continue to grow preneurs. I have been spending my free meaningful servant leadership journey Jessica Hiveley: I’m still living in our real estate business in Warrenton; time volunteering and am working to and term as board of directors chair the Twin Cities, working at Travelers, so if you’re ever driving through, stop start a nonprofit to end homelessness. and president of the Junior League of and playing soccer. I recently began in and visit!! My two children (son, 5, and daughter, Lancaster, Pa. We are moving a little volunteering with a local program Catherine Osuna Neis: We 9) and I live in Atlanta. This past Janu- bit south within Lancaster County, from where I’m partnered with an elemen- have had another busy summer! Our ary, I summited Kilimanjaro and plan to Lititz, Pa., this fall. We look forward to tary school student to work on the family took a Disney cruise, and it was climb all seven summits, starting with that transition and all the adventures it student’s literacy skills twice a week, great having all of us in one place. My Kosciuszko! will bring. Stewart is absolutely thrilled and it has been a lot of fun. I’ve also children (Daniel and Penelope) keep Melanie Vracas: It was wonderful because we’ll be much closer to been taking some great vacations, fo- us busy between all of their activities! seeing all my classmates (and others) Strasburg Railroad! Our focus remains cusing on my goal of visiting 50 states But I wouldn’t have it any other way. at our 20th Reunion. This summer has on our faith, our family and health and before I turn 50 (only 6 left!), and I’ve I was sad to miss Reunion and look slipped by, and I have been too busy as much live music and laughter as been trying to see as many national forward to catching up with all of my adulting to do much traveling. My fian- possible. I am so grateful for the Class parks as I can during my travels. As classmates soon. cé and I have taken a few trips, here of 1997, and so intensely PROUD of always, if you’re ever in Minnesota, Kerri Rawlings Burtner: A and there, to see friends and attend big all alumnae, faculty and staff, parents, please look me up; everyone is always year ago I began a new career as celebrations. students and friends who have relent- welcome to stay with me! a freelance writer, and I have no Jennifer Wagner: It has been an lessly worked to keep Sweet Briar’s Katherine Johnston: I now have regrets. It has been a great move for exciting year for my family. I deployed torch burning bright. Long live SBC! two kids, Annie (8) and Ben (4), and am my life-work balance. From research to Afghanistan in October 2016 for Annette Dusenbury: I continue to living near Bethlehem, Pa. Last year I and article writing, to blogs and social six months with the Army. There I work as a team lead physical therapist left my job at SRI International after 17 media posts—please keep me in mind served as a legal advisor to the Afghan at UVA-Healthsouth. Loving my town years, and I’m now working in a flexible if you know someone in need of writing Criminal Court in Parwan, an Afghan of Charlottesville, Va. My free time is and fun job as a senior research fellow services. Chris and I keep busy with court responsible for the criminal trials often spent in the outdoors, especially for the Global Wellness Institute. My Abby (14) and Eli (13). I’m extremely of Afghanistan’s high-level terrorists. on a mountain bike. I began racing last family has vacationed with Jill Butch- jealous of my daughter, who will be I returned home in late April. The year for a local team and also enjoy er in Hilton Head for the past couple traveling to Australia next summer with deployment was amazing. I learned volunteering with the junior teams. Two years, and we love seeing her and her school. I know she’ll fall in love with a lot. I missed my husband and four of the highlights this year consisted of family frequently! it just as I did during my JYA while at kids—Mary Kate, Caroline, Jacob and seeing my Sweet Briar sisters both on Amy Tyler Louthan: I am living in SBC. Sending my love to all of you! Joseph—quite a bit, but everyone sur-

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 79 Class Notes vived. I am now assigned to the Pen- live in Potomac, Md., with their blended tagon. My family is celebrated being family of four kids. together this summer, and we planned Scarlett Swain shared the a trip to Bald Head Island, N.C., in late superexciting news that she welcomed August. I love reading the news about a new baby girl on July 25. Her name Sweet Briar. I hope to make it down to is Emma Katherine, “Emma Kate.” We the Briar Patch in the fall. get the joy of meeting Emma Kate at Kathryn Black Watson: I’m so Reunion! thankful for Facebook and the ability to Britt Sheinbaum married Henry keep up with friends who are scattered! (Hank) Carter in Wrightsville Beach, Allen and I celebrated our 20-year N.C., in May. Scarlett Swain, Astrid anniversary in June, we watched our Liverman, Carolyn Leddy, and oldest graduate high school during our Isabel Jean-Pierre Myers were all in 20th class reunion, and just recently attendance to cheer the happy couple took her to the University of Alabama, on and of course to sing “Holla! Holla!” where she is enrolled in their honors at the reception. A few weeks later, college program (ROLL TIDE!)! I’m still Britt got to celebrate again on a girls teaching PreK and love it! Life is good trip to Banner Elk, N.C., with Isabel, Anne-Claire Wackenhut Kasten and family with newest addition, Félix and even better without my uterus! Ha! Joelle Jackson Doss, Gretchen Just wanted to see if you were paying Gravley Tucker, Kelli Scott Uttley, attention! and Mamie Jackson Williams ’99. Tanya Ketchum Young: My family Finally, Britt got to cuddle Scarlett’s and I moved back to north Georgia in beautiful new baby girl (Class of ’35, the spring after spending 15 months here she comes!). WOW, Britt, lots of in the border town of Laredo, Texas. It exciting news to share! It’s going to be was a great experience, and we had such a blast catching up with everyone made many dear friends. In July, the next year at Reunion. children and I were able to see Anne- This has been quite a year for Claire Wackenhut Kasten ’98 and her Isabel Jean-Pierre Myers, who lives lovely family while they were visiting in the Washington, D.C., area with her parents in the Atlanta area. She her husband and daughter Safiya (1). had just had sweet baby #3 named “It was so amazing to attend Britt’s Félix. In early August we also welcomed wedding and then see the girls on a our third child, a baby boy. Sisters Tal- ‘glamping’ girl’s trip. It was so much ley (5) and Lilly (2) are over the moon fun to see and be with such amazing having baby brother Koch here. There’s women at our luxurious cabin.” never a dull moment in this house! Another girls trip was organized when Kelly Bowman Greenwood Susan Barney, Cady Thomas, Bronwyn Beard Gartland, Katie Martin, Tonya and Dana Bordvick Poleski met up Grudier Montgomery, Lindsay Culp, and Linda May Scherr ’87 1998 at the beach in Emerald Isle, N.C., this Chantel Bartlett summer for some fun in the sun with 7775 Tiverton Dr Kelly’s daughter Helen (9), sister, aunt, Springfield, VA 22152-2021 cousins, husbands, and all Helen’s [email protected] second cousins. They had a lot of fun Greetings class of 1998! I hope eating popcorn shrimp, playing Explod- that everyone has marked June 1-3, ing Kittens (card game) and arguing 2018, down on their calendars. over who had the accent, California or My gosh, ladies, where has the North Carolina??! time gone?! I feel like we graduated Bronwyn Beard got married to only a short time ago and yet in seven Dennis Gartland (Youngstown State and months we will be celebrating our 20th Texas A&M) on July 8. Bronwyn is still Reunion. in HR for Summit Racing Equipment Cynthia Bumgardner Puckett and was making frequent trips to Dallas and family are doing great in their to open a new facility there in October. family circus. However, Cynthia shared The Gartlands will live in Chagrin Falls, that she has had an emotional summer Ohio. Bronwyn celebrated her wedding and has forgotten who she is! If you with fellow ’98’ers: Susan Barney, remember, please contact her immedi- Cady Thomas, Katie Martin, Tonya Isabel Jean-Pierre Myers, Astrid ately. She is desperate to regain some Grudier Montgomery, Lindsay Culp Liverman, Britt Sheinbaum, Scar- perspective. Adulting is hard. She will and Linda May Scherr ’87. lett Swain, and Carolyn Leddy be at our 20th Reunion and encourag- Heather Thomas Armbruster es everyone to attend! volunteered at her third Sweet Work Mia Whang Spiker Johnson Weeks this summer. The work that was shared that she was at SBC for two put in is astounding. HAT made a set years before transferring to NYU. She, of curtains and can’t wait to see them like all of us, is so glad the school has when Grammer parlor is redone. Some overcome such adversity. She was people spent three weeks painting and pressure washing. Anne-Claire’s Anna Meres Wade’s children, recently elected to the board of direc- June and David tors of the Prevent Cancer Foundation. parents were graciously there once She continues her work as an attorney again (after sending three daughters to at Covington & Burling in D.C. Mia mar- SBC, they work with us). If you ever get ried Martin Johnson last May, and they a chance to do Sweet Weeks, DO! You

80 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes live in the dorm and eat in the dining be reaching out to get some assistance hall. You get to work with alumnae from in the coming weeks. Please reach all eras and make some good friends. out and help if you can. The 20-year You will work hard, but it’s the cheap- reunion will be here before you know it! est vacation you will ever take. HAT Thank you for the opportunity to serve started referring to it as a mission trip as your class president for the past to explain to others why this week is so nine years. It was truly and honor and a important and means so much to her. privilege. Holla Holla!” Anne-Claire Wackenhut Kasten Thanks, Cady, for your dedication shared the superduper exciting news to our class! So on that note, I am that their family welcomed Félix asking for support to help me lead our Emmanuel Scott on June 16. Although class over the next eight months until he arrived a few days ahead of his due Reunion. I need someone to help me date, he still managed to weigh in at with Class Notes and planning Reunion. a healthy 9 lb. 9.5 ozs., measuring 22 Feel free to contact me through email inches. Older siblings Jacques (6) and or Facebook. Erin East ’00, Kris Harris ’99, Josie Beets ’00, at Sweet Work Weeks Geneviève (3) dote on him sweetly. While in Atlanta in July, they were able to connect with Tanya Ketchum Young ’97 and her two daughters. 1999 Diana Jordan Avery is the Lindsey Neef Kelly sponsorship coordinator for Richmond 13321 Windsong Way Synchro!, a synchronized skating team Carrollton, VA 23314 that Diana’s daughter is involved with. [email protected] She is busy trying to find local busi- Sarah Elkins Ince and family are nesses to support the skaters. Meredith settling into their new home in Con- (7th grade) enjoyed her first ice-skating cord, N.C. Asa began second grade in sleep-away camp this summer and is August and attended Founders’ Day now an acolyte at their church. Aaron with Mom. Angel Lindberg ’21, one of (3rd grade) moved up from recreational Sarah’s students, moved onto campus gymnastics to the developmental team, this fall, and Sarah is working on as well as playing soccer and taking a recruiting a new group of girls for the goalie clinic this fall—trying to do it all Class of 2022. this fall! Jennifer Schmidt Major gradu- Chad & Kim Fella ’00 at Angkor Emily Pegues ’00 examining the Anna Meres Wade’s son, David, ated with honors from the University Wat temple in Cambodia tomb of the Black Prince, Canter- celebrated his first birthday in October. at Buffalo’s accelerated bachelor of bury Cathedral Anna said that he has been such a joy science in nursing program in May. and that his smile and laugh can warm She is beginning her career as a RN any heart! June, his big sister, is now ald Reagan. Kim divides time between in outpatient dialysis. This summer Yokosuka and our home in Macon, Ga. 3 and is filled with so much spirit and she and her family spent a wonderful love. Anna still works at the University Japan has been great for travel—we week in the Outer Banks with sisters visited Hong Kong & Bali in December of Tennessee and loves every minute of Abby Schmidt Anzalone ’00 and Kim it. Life has been a true blessing! 2016, Cambodia in March 2017, and Schmidt Miscavage ’01 and their Singapore in June 2017. We also saw Laura Fitton Pieper shared families. that it’s hard to believe that her little the snow monkeys and Matsumoto 28-weeker preemie started kindergar- Castle in Nagano prefecture in Japan ten this fall! Laura continues her hard last January. work of being a stay-at-home mom 2000 Marilen Sarian Crump for now. She’s hoping to make it to 212 Rock Creek Court Reunion! Yorktown, VA 23693 2002 I continue to work for the National Kathleen McNamara Brown [email protected] Association of Home Builders; I cele- Josie Beets and husband Sean 2115 Natahoa Court Elizabeth Davis Baker: This has brated five years in May. My mom and I Zehtab at the United Through Falls Church, Va. 22043 been a tough year for our family. We have taken on the adventure of building Reading Tribute to Military Fami- [email protected] lost my dad to lung cancer on Dec. 12. a house. We will be about five blocks lies in May 2017 Aja Grosvenor Stephens is I’m so lucky that my SBC sisters were away from my brother and sister-in- excited to be the Class of 2002 there to support me during his illness : I’m in my final law. I greatly look forward to seeing Emily Pegues co-president with Amy Mullen. She and death. I’m eternally grateful for Ph.D. year at the Courtauld while everyone. was sad to miss Reunion but had the their friendship! Brian and I celebrated continuing to work in the sculpture Please find below a note from Cady good excuse of a new job! She is now our 13th anniversary and I will begin department at the National Gallery of Thomas copied/pasted since these are living the dream as manager of events my 16th year at Johnston Community Art. As part of my research, I conducted her very own words: “Class of 1998, it and CLE for the Federal Bar Council. College. Come visit me in N.C., Vixens. the first-ever technical examinations of is with a heavy heart that I must resign She and her family enjoyed a busy I miss you all! two medieval tombs: Mary of Burgundy from my position as class president pri- summer, and son Jace will be entering Josie Beets: Erin East and I partic- (Bruges), and Edward the Black Prince or to the end of my term. As we are all Kindergarten in September. ipated in Sweet Work Weeks in August, (Canterbury Cathedral), for which the aware, life can give us many ups and Amy Mullen is enjoying life in painting dorms and landscaping. I was BBC filmed and interviewed my team downs, twists and turns, and as well Arlington, Va., with her husband, Luke, appointed to the Board of Trustees of and me. Professor Laing (’57) was kept educated, dedicated, hardworking and and son, Bruno. She works at Gensler United Through Reading, a national updated from the road! motivated women, always a full plate. as a technical designer. Amy is also an organization dedicated to uniting U.S. : Chad and Thus, I am turning over the reigns to Kimberly Harden Fella illustrator; her second children’s board military families who face physical I are currently stationed in Yokosuka, Chantel. She has done a wonderful job book is out now with Duopress and separation by facilitating the bonding Japan. Chad is the Assistant Reactor as our class secretary and will no doubt Workman Publishing. She is currently experience of reading aloud together. Officer on the aircraft carrier USS Ron- be an amazing class president. She will working on a third book, due out in

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Brook Tucker Buck ’02, Maria Thacker Goethe ’02, and Lori Smith Nilan ’02, and Kelly Monical Goossens ’02 Mary Tassone Dunlevy ’02 cruising enjoyed a visit at the home of Ashley Johnson McGee ’03 with husband Dale in the Bahamas

Maria Thacker Goethe and proud daddy Patrick greeted Cecilia Maria Goethe (“Cece”) on Feb. 1, 2017, at 6:18 p.m. Cecilia weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces and was 20 inches long. Maria and Patrick are thrilled to have their rainbow baby. Brook Tucker Buck is now working in the operating room as an orthopedic nurse. After six years on the floor, it was time for a change! She enjoys watching son James grow and explore daily! He is such a goof Maria Thacker Goethe ’02 with Katie McNamara Brown ’02 ball! She’s looking forward to a calmer husband Patrick and daughter enjoying Reunion Weekend with fall season filled with weddings and Cecilia Maria, “Cece” daughter Carolyn birthday parties! Dr. Nicole McDaniel-Carder Sta- and completing her class notes in one 11th anniversary in August. Rachel mant and her husband welcomed their sentence! will be celebrating her third year as an daughter, Juliette Jean, into the world Arney Walker is living on Capitol Origami Owl Independent Designer in on Dec. 5, 2016. Nicole is still teaching Hill in Washington, D.C., where she October and was recently promoted to at Agnes Scott College, where she has Melissa Cates ’02 with husband owns her own wedding planning and senior designer. She is excited to be received tenure and is now associate Alex Bonesteel and son Delling calligraphy company, Arney Walker volunteering with daughter Cristina’s professor of English. Studio. Girl Scout troop as cookie manager. Lindsay Keller Sullivan lives spring 2018. She is excited to be the Melissa Cates lives on Whidbey After many years of museum work, in Highlands Ranch, Colo., with her Class of 2002 co-president and hopes Island, just north of Seattle, Wash., Heather Christensen Smith and her husband and two boys, Easton (7) and everyone is enjoying her SBC 2002 and is a financial advisor for Edward sister Alice decided to launch Wazi Asher (2). She busies herself with de- Instagram feed! Jones. Melissa and her husband, Alex Shoes. Purchasing Wazi Shoes not only sign jobs for theaters and has started a Katie McNamara Brown is still Bonesteel, have a three-year-old son, provides steady employment to the new business as a LuLaRoe consultant, working in Washington, D.C., and living Delling. Melissa still enjoys riding; Tanzanians who produce the shoes, which she really loves! If you ever in Falls Church, Va., with her husband her current mount is a Thoroughbred a percentage of the profits go to The find yourself in Colorado, her door is and daughters. After several years named Touchdown Sherman—Go Sea- Gretta Foundation to fund nursing and ALWAYS open for visitors. away from riding, she is happily back hawks! Melissa is the current president midwifery scholarships in East Africa. Ashley Trantham’s vocal band, in the saddle again! She enjoyed a of the Whidbey Westside Rotary Club Nurses make up 80 to 90 percent of Catch 22, released their first EP and recent visit to catch up with Tia Trout and in the midst of planning a trip to the medical workforce in East Africa, continues to perform in North Carolina. Perez and had a lovely time at the Guatemala to work on an equestri- and through this program, Wazi can She became engaged on New Year’s SBC Alumnae Club of D.C.’s Back to an-themed peace project. fund nursing and midwifery scholar- Eve and will be married in April 2018. School Gathering hosted by Karen Wil- Dr. Regan Blackwood recently ships. “Wazi” means “open” in Swahili, In June Mary Tassone Dunlevy liams-Wickre ’84. Katie enjoyed seeing purchased the Clifton-Centreville and Heather celebrates Wazi open traveled with her daughters, Ariana (7) friends during Reunion Weekend and is Veterinary Practice in July 2017, and it shoes, as well as the open road, open and Lorien (3), to Cincinnati, Ohio, to glad to have the opportunity to serve as is keeping her quite busy! Regan really heart, and open mind! visit family and meet Fiona, the baby Class of 2002 secretary. enjoyed reconnecting at Reunion with Kelly Monical Goossens, Brook hippo, at the Cincinnati Zoo! In July, When she’s not working her nine- classmates. She enjoyed a full summer Tucker Buck, Maria Thacker Mary and husband Dale dropped the to-five or the art scene in Charlottes- of fun with her husband and her young Goethe, and Lori Smith Nilan girls off at their grandmother’s house, ville, Va., Joanna Mullen is enjoying son, Will. enjoyed a visit at the home of Ashley then drove down to Charleston, S.C., to the single life, hanging with her peeps, Rachel Roth Allred just began Johnson McGee ’03 in Lake Wylie, board a cruise to the Bahamas! Mary’s going to concerts, seeing “Wonder her 12th year teaching in Prince S.C., this past spring. It was their first brother was married on the cruise and Woman” three times, surviving a few Georges County, Md.! This is her fourth girls’ trip with all of their children, and afterward they all traveled together to comic book conventions, talking to year teaching fifth-grade math and it was extremely fun! Denise McDon- Freeport and Nassau. Now that they her nephew daily, refusing to watch science in Hyattsville. She and her ald Gentry was not able to join but are back from the pristine beaches, “Murdoch Mysteries” with her mom, husband, Toby, just celebrated their was greatly missed. Mary, Dale, and the children are getting

82 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes ready to buckle down for another frigid Pennsylvania winter. Alicia Markham Morris is living in Cary, N.C., where she is a teacher at Cary Academy (CA). Alicia credits her studies at Sweet Briar College for her love of African history, which she shares with her world history students at CA. She has been awarded two Ful- bright-Hays study abroad trips to Africa with other educators, one to Tanzania in 2011 and one to Morocco in 2015. She is traveling less frequently these days, as she is busy with her two- Mercury, moon, sun by Jenny Weitz year-old daughter, Alice Elizabeth, her husband, David, whom she met during her freshman year at SBC, and their two dogs. During the past two years, Alicia has been thrilled to connect with other Vixens, like Jill Triana ’99 and Cady Thomas ’98, in the Triangle alumnae club. This past summer Kathy Fowler was diagnosed with uterine cancer. She From left, Michelle Badger ’06, Catherine Cox Hamilton ’08, Stephanie underwent surgery on Aug. 23 and had O’Sullivan Fitzpatrick ’04, Sarah Ruff Gibson ’04, Jozanne Summerville a complete hysterectomy. According ’04, Suzanne Knouse McReynolds ’05, and Emilie Malone ’04. to her GYN-ONC, she has an excellent prognosis with only a 2 to 4 percent chance of recurrence! Kathy has on April 1, 2017. Carrie Cann ’05 was started her 16th year of teaching Latin Dylan (4) and Sarah (2) Weitz a bridesmaid. We also moved from at Fauquier High in Warrenton, Va. She 2004 Maryland to Augusta, Ga., in April as and her wife, Amy Waller ’04, spent Ginny Wood Susi well. Next April (2018), we are expect- a fun week exploring Philadelphia, 7975 Dunstable Cir ing our first child. Apparently April is a Pa., this summer! Kathy also assisted QEP is a five-year plan required for Orlando, FL 32817 lucky month for us!” Katie McNamara Brown’s sister on Southern Association of Colleges and Schyler Ellis Burke and husband Tiffany McCabe Carr gave birth her wedding day, giving her a rose as Schools (SACS) accreditation that Peter will welcome a fifth baby, a girl, to her third baby boy, Michael, in June. part of the ceremony—very apropos, focuses on enhancing student learning. due in November. They are still living in David (8), and Charlie (2), have been isn’t it? Jenny Neureuther Weitz traveled Edmond, Okla. excellent big brothers. The family Jaime Henna lives in Charlottes- with her family to volunteer at the Caitlin Webber Mazzucca and moved to a new city in August for ville, Va. She has worked for Reality Lowell Observatory in Madras, Ore., to husband Tim welcomed baby Enzo on husband Joseph’s job promotion to Check Systems for six years, contrib- view the total eclipse. It was amazing April 22, 2016. Caitlin still works as a special agent with the Virginia State uting to on-air graphics packages for and she can’t wait to do it again in political analyst in Washington, D.C., for Police. Following Labor Day weekend, clients like CBS, MLB Network, NBC, 2024! She started her new role as Bloomberg LP and travels frequently Tiffany started her 14th year teaching NFL Network, and Univision. In the past director of the honors program at for her job. Caitlin and family live in music at two elementary schools in year, Jaime traveled to New York, Los Paradise Valley Community College Arlington, Va. Southampton County, Va. Angeles, Washington D.C., Colorado, in Phoenix, Ariz., in addition to her Lisa Moore Walton and her hus- Breanne Leibering Wyman is still and Connecticut. Since moving back to astronomy professor duties. She also band moved from Nashville, Tenn., to living outside of Leesburg, Va., with her Virginia in 2014, she has learned to tap completed rehab and has been sober Chestertown, Md., this past spring. Lisa husband and two boys, Toby (4) and dance, drive stick-shift, and box. for six months! is teaching high school science at Sawyer(1). She is expecting a baby girl Jessica Shannon completed a Wye River Upper School. She is also in December. long board certification process as a working towards her Master of Science Sarah Ruff Gibson and husband 2003 hospital chaplain (BCC) with the Asso- in educational studies at Johns Hopkins John got married in May in Bos- Courtney Arnott Silverthorn ciation of Professional Chaplains, and University. ton. Michelle Badger ’06, Suzanne 1105 Norris Ct SW she absolutely loves being a pediatric Stacey Maddox celebrated her Knouse McReynolds ’05, Catherine Leesburg, VA 20175 chaplain at Texas Children’s Hospital graduation from her internal medicine Cox Hamilton ’08, Jozanne Summer- [email protected] The Woodlands. She has two Boston residency with Elizabeth Killiam ’08 in ville, Emilie Malone, and Stephanie terriers, and her boyfriend has two June. She has accepted a position as O’Sullivan Fitzpatrick were there Kristin Farris Bergquist a hospitalist at Alaska Native Medical 2762 Hollywood Dr beagles. They continue to have all sorts to help celebrate. Sarah and John still of hiking and camping adventures, Center in Anchorage, starting in Janu- reside in Oakland, Maine, with John’s Decatur, GA 30033 ary. Stacey is excited about joining the [email protected] and they can’t wait until hiking season three children: Campbell (18), Rianne starts in Texas. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (16) and Jack (13). Claire Affleck just celebrated and working for an underserved popu- 10 years of owning and operating her I caught up with Kathleen Hern- Adrienne Arnold Ciccarello lives don at her new home in Roanoke, Va., lation. She and her husband, John, are in Charlotte, N.C., with husband Philip own stable, Claire Affleck Training! Her building a house in Anchorage and are stable is in the Finger Lakes region then spent two fantastic Sweet Work and daughters Penelope and Adeline. Weeks at Sweet Briar, made tons of looking forward to moving back to the She has worked for Charlotte-Meck of Central New York, and she offers Last Frontier and seeing Russia from boarding, training, lessons, camps and new friends, and got Anne Lombardi Schools for 10 years and is currently a ’01 back on campus for the first time their backyard. They took their daugh- multi-classroom leader and instruction- showing. The barn colors are pink and ters Beatrice (2 1/2) and Zinnia (1) green, of course! since graduation! al coach. Adrienne and her family love to Disney World in September before visiting family in Virginia and making Julia Schmitz was selected to be leaving the lower 48. director of the quality enhancement quick stops at Sweet Briar to show her Kelly Gibbons Schell wrote, “I girls the beautiful campus. plan (QEP) at Piedmont College. The married Walter Schell in Easton, Md.,

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Ginny Wood Susi took her hus- After about 2 ½ years of living and band and two kids on a summer road teaching in Florida, I, Emily Olson, left trip to their house in Maine. On the the Sunshine State and moved to Texas way, they stopped in Washington, D.C., in July. I wanted to be closer to more and NOVA to do some sightseeing, and of my family and a good job opened they had dinner with Bre Leibering in Fort Stockton, the same little town Wyman and her husband and two where my parents live, so I now I teach boys. The kids were all instant friends. and direct theater at Fort Stockton Ginny loves her new house and cele- High School. I was sad to miss our brated her second full weekend there 10th Reunion, but I am looking forward by suffering through hurricane Irma. to planning visits to some of my SBC She would like to thank Sarah Ruff friends during this next year. Gibson for taking care of class notes while Ginny’s ability to communicate was hampered. 2008 Mary Dance Berry 614 Lafayette Drive 2005 Hillsborough, NC 27278 Lynsie Watkins Steele Heidi Trude at the Googleplex [email protected] 2691 Free Union Rd Ginny Moncure got married Charlottesville, VA 22901 our first home. Would love visitors or if hosting a recent Back-to-School event. to Allen Jamerson this past June in [email protected] any other Vixens are in Texas, maybe This past spring, she was able to visit a Richmond, Va. Classmates Sarah is living Slavica Klapcic Olujic meeting up for fun day-trips. Also, just unique high school in rural Oregon and McLemore, Caroline Byrd Dozier, in Zagreb, Croatia, and running an started a new job with the Department share the positive experience of a wom- and Kate Skafidas Daskalakis were event agency, Katapult promocija. She of Labor to assist military members en’s college education with students bridesmaids. is raising four sons: Santo (12), Toma transitioning to the civilian job market. considering their futures. She says, “It Dr. Amanda Wisz Keener writes, (10), Gabrijel (10) and Lav (5). was inspiring to hear their dreams and “This November marks one year in our rewarding to be able to dispel a lot of new home, Denver, Colo. I took some time off work as a freelance science myths and stereotypes!” With Kimberly writer this year to adjust to life as a 2007 Battad coordinating, Laura helped rep- Emily Nicole Olson mom to our little boy, Jonathan, who 2006 1106 N. Rio Street resent SBC at a college fair at the end Victoria Chappell Harvey was born in mid-February. In March, Fort Stockton, TX 79735 of October. “And because I didn’t get to 8618 Waldon Heights a piece I wrote last year for Nova Next [email protected] see Maggie Saylor Patrick at Reunion San Antonio, TX 78254 and I miss her, I’m taking little Maisie was a runner up for the American As- [email protected] sociation for Cancer Research’s June L. Heidi Trude is currently in her 10th out to visit her in Northfield, Minn., in a : Just a reminder Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism.” Michelle Badger year teaching French at Skyline High few weeks!” to everyone in our class that SBC has Dr. Rebecca Penny Humphrey School. She was recognized as the Da- Maggie Saylor Patrick: “Martin a variety of ways to be involved. You and husband Austen are getting settled vid C. Cox Foreign Language Teacher and I seem to have settled down a bit can go to a college fair as an Admis- in their new home in Grand Rapids, of the Year for Virginia on October 7 at since we bought our house in 2015. sions Ambassador (big thank you to Mich., where she is an assistant the FLAVA conference. Heidi had a Same jobs, no new degrees, etc. I was and professor of biology at a small liberal Laura Ann Humphrey Toussaint busy summer traveling and attending very happy to visit with Natalie Pye in , who are current arts college. They’re also excited to be Maureen McGuire conferences in Virginia, New York, and New York and Rachel Reynolds Bax- regional chairs), host an event, go to an expecting a baby Humphrey in early California. The highlight was going to tresser in D.C. in the past year, and event, tell a student about SBC, share April 2018! the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. Laura Schaefer is coming to visit this stories about our school online, or join Katie Tipton Wilson writes, “In Heidi also started working part-time for fall. Reunion in June was a blast! Our a working group of the Alumnae Alli- June my husband, Brad (VMI ’07), and the Google for Education team in May. home is always open and we’d love to ance. Also, don’t forget to make your I moved from Columbus, Ga., to Bir- She loves working on the Curriculum see you if you’re in Minnesota!” best gift. Thank you for all that each of mingham, Ala., so that I could accept a Alignment Project. She enjoyed getting you do for SBC! to see everyone at Reunion! Charis Lease-Trevathan Chase: Megan Meighan has been busy Since my last update, we have added a this year with travels to Australia, new family member. Wesley Scott was skydiving, scuba diving and most born April 21, 2015, and is (mostly) recently getting engaged and moving adored by his big sister, Verity. Our to Panama, Central America, to begin family has also moved! We’ve been in wedding planning. She is enjoying Hamilton, N.J., since November 2015, horseback riding regularly with her and I am working at Princeton Behav- sister (Brianna Meighan de Hanna ’05), ioral Health as a primary therapist. I’m and spending time with her nephews primarily working with adolescents now that they live down the road from in our DBT program and absolutely each other. She also has been enjoying loving it. boating, fishing and traveling with her : Since graduation Sneha Sharma fiancé. She is excited about what the and leaving the U.S. in 2007, I am rest of the year has in store. celebrating 10 years in London. This Laura Jane Schaefer is enjoying is also another special year for me as I the same great job with OHSU’s West welcomed my baby boy this past June. Campus with its newest sustainability As for me, Victoria Chappell milestone of being a recipient of the 2017 has been quite a year Harvey, county’s Green Business Award! She already! It has been fun re-acclimating was sad not to be able to make it to Sarah McLemore ’08, Caroline Byrd Dozier ’08, Kate Skafidas Daskalakis to life in the U.S. after life overseas. Reunion, but has stayed active with ’08, Squiffy Walker Christopher ’91, Wizzie Christopher ’20, Ginny Mon- We are now in San Antonio and bought the Alumnae Alliance in Portland, even cure Jamerson, Gregor Lee Pickral ’00, Blythe Lloyd ’07

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4th/5th grade math teaching position. We are excited to be in this new city and hope to meet some local Vixens and Keydets soon!” 2009 Jenny Walkiewicz Dill 13938 SW Crist Court Tigard, OR 97223 [email protected] Lauren Schwartz Lazaro started a new job in September at Louisiana State University as assistant professor of agronomy and weed science in the School of Plant, Environmental, & Soil From left to right: Liz Riedel ’10, Anna Fure ’08, Hampton Lamb Boyko ’10, Anne Porter Pulliam ’09, Preston Sciences. #geauxtigers. She and her Wright ’10, Blair Sutton ‘09, Charlotte Gay Gerhardt ’80, Alexis Parker Van Selow ’09, Kory Garvis ’11, Shannon husband moved from Arkansas to Ba- Schalestock ’09, Hallsey Brandt ’16, Courtney LeBlanc ’09, Ashley-Lauren Whitacre ’09, Micaela Weiss ’09 ton Rouge, La. They are expecting their first child, a daughter, in December. Laura Cromwell was able to return for Reunion this year and visit campus for the first time in four years. She was able to visit with Kim Shrad- er Butterfield, Paige Cantfil, Kaelyn Leake, Megan Behrle, Meredith Newman, and Rebecca Girten while on campus. She also got to meet up with Lauren Guyer Thomas and Rebecca Adams in Charlottesville. In August she had a delightful, spur-of- the-moment visit with Helen Bradshaw ’10, who visited Denver, Colo., for the first time. Laura has been working on a children’s book that will be illustrated by classmate Mallory Sherwood Engelstad! Mallory Sherwood Engelstad Alexis Parker ’09 married Tyler Van Erin Coppersmith Atkin ’09 with Mallory Sherwood Engelstad ’09 gave birth to her first child on Feb. Selow on June 17, 2017, at Sweet her husband, Thomas, and their (left) with her son Theodore (Ted- 1! Theodore (Teddy) Norman is an Briar College sons, Nolan (1 mo.) and Declan (2) dy) Norman Engelstad and Helen absolute joy! When not changing Bradshaw ’10 diapers and making baby food, Mallory continues to work on her small business, Poco Post. In addition to free- lance illustration work, she is working on getting her children’s book about gentrification, “Geri & Gentri,” pub- lished! This summer she was thrilled to witness the marriage of Nicole Brandt Turner ’06, as well as visit with Helen Bradshaw ’10! Mallory and husband Jeffrey, still call Denver, Colo., home. They would love to see any Vixens who pass through! Theodore (Teddy) Norman Engel- Julianne Taline Hazarian, daughter Caroline Chappell Hazarian stad, son of Mallory Sherwood of Caroline Chappell Hazarian ’09 welcomed her daughter, Julianne Taline Engelstad ’09, was born February and grand-daughter of Wendy Wei- Hazarian, into the world on June 12 1, 2017 ler ’71, was born June 12, 2017 at 6:28 a.m. with her husband, Steve, and their son, Dylan. Julianne weighed 6 lbs., 14.8 ozs. and was 20.25”; she is also the granddaughter of Wendy Weiler ’71, making her a possible third-generation SBC woman. They are tickled pink to be a family of four! Katie Bird Lischick and husband Caroline Chappell Hazarian ’09 Peter recently purchased their first with daughter Julianne, son Dylan, home in the Annapolis, Md., area. This and husband Steve spring, Katie started a new position as public relations account executive Shannon Schalestock ’09 got en- Lauren Stephens Andrews ’09 at The Cyphers Agency, an integrated gaged to Matthew Friedman (HSC teaching her self-contained autism marketing firm in Annapolis. She is ’04) in September class during this past summer loving the Annapolis lifestyle and looks

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Allie Garrison Bridges and husband Melissa Ramos married Nicholas Jacklin on August 26, 2017, at The Willard InterContinental Hotel in Wash- Kevin announce the birth of their ington, D.C. Wedding guests included (top row): Lindsey Davis, Sara Buttine Parsatoon ’11, Meagan Oliphant daughter, Karmen Sylvia, on Au- Herman ’11, Huma Manati ’11, bridesmaid Sarah Schofield Wright ’11, Brittney Bolin ’11, Natasha Weiss Huff gust 19, 2017. Baby and family are ’11, Melissa Diehl ’09, bridesmaid Virginia Edahl Molan, Megan Seeley Grasham ’11, Kate Gorman McClung ’11; all doing well. (bottom row) Nicholas & Melissa Jacklin, Hilary Bowie ’12, and bridesmaid Laura McKenna. Alison Lyons ’81 also attended.

forward to catching up with other are planning a June 2018 wedding and 1065 Brennan Dr Jennifer Wolf ’07 and fellow mountain Vixens in the area! cannot wait to begin celebrating with Warminster, PA 18974-2124 biking friend Annette Dusenbury ’97. Alexis Parker married Tyler Van their SBC/H-SC families! [email protected] Neil works at Wintergreen Resort and Selow (H-SC) at Sweet Briar College Sarah Jennings Harper and her Laura teaches Special Education for In August 2016 Doreen McVeigh on June 17. In attendance were fellow moved to be with her husband, Ken, husband announce a new family mem- Charlottesville City Schools. vixens Liz Riedel ’10, Anna Fure ’08, in Canterbury. There she is a biology ber! Lincoln Richard was born in early Laura Wheatley Russell moved Hampton Lamb Boyko ’10, Anne teacher and riding supervisor at the March and is thriving, exploring, and to Auburn, Ala., with husband Ethan Porter Pulliam, Preston Wright ’10, Senior King’s School, one of England’s enjoying his new world to the fullest! and their son, Grayson, in Aug. 2016 Blair Sutton, Charlotte Gay Gerhardt oldest and most prestigious boarding Katherine “Mariah” Hoelz, and began working at the Auburn ’80, Kory Garvis ’11, Shannon Scha- schools, which dates back to 597 A.D. married Benjamin Bradfield Hurt University Library. In March Laura and lestock, Hallsey Brandt ’16, Courtney It has also been great to see Vixens (originally of Charlottesville) in August Ethan celebrated their 10th anniver- LeBlanc, Ashley-Lauren Whitacre, in the U.K., including Lauren Guyer at her family’s home on Cape Cod, sary, and Grayson turned 3. They also and Micaela Weiss. Alexis is in her Thomas and Marcia Thom Kaley. Their Mass. Ashley Winters Marot and welcomed daughter Henley! In Aug. seventh year living and working in home is always open to the Sweet Briar Jocelyn Stephens McDonald were 2017 Laura received her Master of Charlottesville teaching high school family! both bridesmaids. Ben and Mariah live Library and Information Studies from studio art at St. Anne’s-Belfield School. Erin Coppersmith Aitken and in N.Y.C. the University of Alabama and began Rebecca Olander Christian and her husband, Thomas, welcomed their Mai McCarthy writes: “As I write her new job as technical and public husband Will welcomed their first child, second son, Nolan Kevin, on August this my city is underwater, but I am services librarian at LaGrange College. James Brahaney Christian on August 31. Their son Declan, who will be 3 in very fortunate that my husband and I Melaina Macone accepted the 15. Rebecca also earned her degree in December, is enjoying his role as the are not affected by the Houston floods position of director of operations for nursing and is officially an R.N.! It has big brother. as much as others are. By the time you been a year of celebration! read this the city should have dried out I, Jenny Walkiewicz Dill, am Ginny Lightfoot Gordon complet- putting all my time-management skills I a little, but I bet we’re still hurting. If ed her M.A. in social entrepreneurship learned at Sweet Briar to excellent use! you can, check on us and see what you from Carson-Newman University in I am home with our daughter Alexa can do to help, even now. June. She is staying busy being a wife (17 months) and watch three puppies Kennedy Munro is ecstatic to to Derek and a stay-at-home mom to during the week. I also went back announce her engagement to James Kirk, who celebrated his first birthday to work for Portland General Electric (Jim) Pilcher. The couple became on Aug. 22. part-time from home. The best part of engaged at Jim’s family’s summer Lauren Stephens Andrews and my busy schedule is getting to sit down retreat in Sunapee, N.H., this past July. her husband recently purchased a 15- and write class notes twice a year! I Shortly thereafter, Kennedy moved to acre farm in Spotsylvania, Va. They are love hearing from my fellow ’09 Vixens, Philadelphia and began her 1L year at excited to have their show horses with keep the wonderful submissions Temple University’s James E. Beasley them as they are part of the family! coming ladies. School of Law. They are blessed with a son, Jayden Sara Buttine Parasatoon shared (6), and daughter Kaela (2). This fall that after attending the wedding of Lauren is starting her teaching career Melissa Ramos ’10 in September, as a special education teacher (autism) 2010 she and Brittney Bolin explored the in Spotsylvania County Public Schools. Rosalie Morgan Louis monuments in Washington, D.C. Shannon Schalestock is living 403 Whitney Ave Apt 5 Laura Wolf married Neil Richard- in the beautiful Fan part of Richmond New Haven, CT 06511 son (of Richmond, Va.) on July 10, in and is about to celebrate four years at [email protected] a mountaintop ceremony on the Blue tech company Snagajob as a project Ridge Parkway. They celebrated with manager. She is also thrilled to share friends and family at Bold Rock Cidery Sara Buttine Parsatoon ’11 and that she got engaged in September to 2011 in Nelson County, where the couple re- Brittney Bolin ’11 in front of the Matthew Friedman (H-SC ’04)! They Heather Marianne McTague sides. In attendance were Laura’s sister Washington Monument

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Jim Pilcher and Kennedy Munro ’11 Ethan and Laura Russell ’11 with their children, Grayson and Henley Lincoln Harper looking sharp for the ladies!

Melaina Macone ’11 Annette Dusenbury ’97, Laura Wolf Richardson ’11 and Jennifer Wolf ’07 Maggie Balderston ’11 (l.) and Ebie Baker ’11

the Anheuser-Busch Hawaii distribution centers. She moved to Hawaii in May and is based in Oahu. She oversees five facilities across four islands. Ebie Baker accepted a position at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Va., in March, which has given her the opportunity to combine her love of research and museums with her passion for international mission work. She spent her summer vacation time visiting Maggie Balderston in Graham and Laura Shurley ’12 Jackson Hole, Wyo. at East Lake Golf Club

Mr. and Mrs. Neil Richardson at Twenty Minute Cliff Overlook on 2012 the Blue Ridge Parkway Carol Ferguson 1720 Highland Pk Apt 2 Fort Wright, KY 41011 [email protected] Lydia Marsh Mindling writes, “Sweet Briar roommates always find a way to reunite!” She met up with Caro- line Heltzel Overstreet in Heidelberg, Germany, during a recent European excursion. Laura Mooza and Graham Shurley (UGA Undergraduate Class of 2008, UGA Masters Class of 2009) were mar- ried March 4, 2017, in Atlanta, Ga. The service was held at Dunwoody United Methodist Church and the reception at East Lake Golf Club. The bridal party included Lauck Harris, Jenness Katherine “Mariah” Hoelz ’11 and Gough ’13 and Jenny Young ’11 along Benjamin Bradfield Hurt with her sisters and close friends. The couple currently resides in Ponte Vedra Tim Mindling, Caroline Heltzel Overstreet Emily Jones Dent ’12 Beach, Fla. ’12, Lydia Marsh Mindling ’12

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Kellner Pruett graduated from The This fall I am off to recruit in Vietnam, Over the summer, Julia Green re- education teacher at Forest Elementary Brody School of Medicine at ECU this Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and Mexico. I’ve located to the Bellingham, Wash., area School. May and is currently doing her Family also been spending a lot of time at the to accept a position as a tribal auditor Also walking down the aisle: Kait- Medicine residency at Vidant Medical barn with Woogie, my OTTB. for Moss Adams. She has purchased lin Eckenberger married Matthew Center in Greenville, N.C. Emily Jones Julie Moorhead is enjoying her her first home.Yuliya Rigg began Stephens (H-SC ’13) at Sweet Briar Dent and her husband have packed it new job as legislative assistant for a new job as an assistant director of College on September 9. up and moved to Melbourne, Fla (Em- Rep. Sam Graves in the U.S. House admissions at Converse College and Brianna Belter is living in Balti- ily’s favorite shoes are flip flops, how of Representatives. She recently got resides in Spartanburg, S.C. She is more, Md., and is working at St. Timo- fitting)! She has attended a number of engaged to her boyfriend of five years, also engaged and busy planning her thy’s School as the associate director college fairs to represent Sweet Briar in Jack (H-SC ’12), and they will be get- wedding! of riding. She works with Jenny Mix West Virginia and is excited to continue ting married in June 2018 in Leesburg, Emily Sickelbaugh is the assis- ’15 and Matt Payne (former SBC riding recruiting from her new home town. Va. She currently lives in Arlington, Va., tant food and beverage manager at the instructor and coach). Jennifer Gray Emily misses her JBG the most! with her fiancé and her dachshund, Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort. graduated with a Master of Science in Marley. Dani Humphrey Daniels is currently Library and Information Science and Kate Macklin recently moved to working as a court reporter for the recently started working as a research 2013 Salt Lake City, where she is pursuing a Social Security Administration in South librarian for the Palm Beach County Jackie R. Montero master’s degree in Parks, Recreation, Jersey. If any fellow Vixens live nearby, Library System. 444 Water Lane and Tourism at the University of Utah hit her up! Thank you for your notes! I can’t Tappahannock, Va. 22560 and is also working as a graduate Alyssa Berkeley married William believe that next year will be our [email protected] assistant in the University Outdoor Logan Doneghue on July 7, and five-year reunion. I can’t wait to see Hi ladies! I hope everyone is doing Adventures Program. Sarah Fletcher became official Step-Mom (Missa) to everyone back at Sweet Briar! well. I’m still on the Rappahannock has gotten a position as housekeeping Williams Silas Doneghue. They also River at St. Margaret’s School, working manager at Kitty Hawk Rentals, Beach bought a house this year! She will be as an assistant director of admission. Realty and Construction. continuing her career as a special

Jacqueline Comola ’13, Lauren Morgan ’13, Daron Drumheller, Alyssa Yuliya Rigg ’13 and her fiancé, Jack Devine (H-SC ’12) proposing Doneghue ’13, Catherine Ramos ’13, Ember Fulson, Noelle Ames ’13, and Nathan Daniel Joseph Cormier to Julie Moorhead ’13 in front of Casey Knott ’13 the Washington Monument

Katie Roddey, Jessie Edington ’13, Kaitlin Eckenberger ’13, Margaret Johnson ’13

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Reunion 2018 June 1-3, 2018

All alumnae from all classes (and their families!) are welcome, and we will honor those classes ending in a “3” or “8.” Please mark your calendar now! Go to sbc.edu/reunion for more information.