SPRING 2017 volume 87 no. 1 Dear Sweet Briar Alumnae: s I anticipate my departure from Sweet Briar after the May 13 commencement, I have been asked what I will miss most when I leave. The answer is easy: I will miss the beautiful campus and the magnificent Sweet Briar House, but most of all I will miss the people of . AThe opportunity to learn to know our outstanding students and dedicated faculty and staff has been delightful. I have developed many friendships on campus. I shall always stand in awe at the courage, tenacity and shear grit of the students who returned to the college after the attempted closing and those who enrolled during the past two years knowing how frail we were. Parents trusted us despite the trauma already experienced by their daughters and lingering concerns as to whether we were strong enough to succeed. The faculty—those who remained, those who returned and those who joined us later—all demonstrated a sense of mission, not only to save Sweet Briar College but also to engage in the noble fight to save women’s education and, more broadly, liberal arts education. Yes, liberal arts education is on the line. Years ago it was the very definition of a college education. Today, confronted by a trend towards careerism and narrow job training, we must fight harder to make the case for liberal arts education. I have also benefited from members of the Sweet Briar College community who are not physically on campus—our extraordinary alumnae. During the last few weeks, as I signed letters soliciting or acknowledging gifts, met with alumnae at receptions or read personal notes from alumnae, I felt such a strong sense of friendship. I now recognize the names of many Sweet Briar Women who have become my friends. Whether you just joined the alumnae ranks after last year’s graduation or will be returning for your sixty-fifth reunion this year, I have loved learning to know you. I consider you my friends. I am truly appreciative of your support for our efforts during the past two years. Many of you have sent notes of encouragement or told me that you appreciated my efforts on behalf of the college. You even provided me good things to eat! Defying all odds, doing the impossible, the Women of Sweet Briar saved the college. Seeing your heroics, I had no hesitation to join you in this noble effort. There was never a time when I did not believe in the success of our mission, but I knew I would need your strong support. You did not let me down. You generously provided resources; you encouraged and advised us; you organized and supported alumnae events; and you assisted with the recruitment of new students. As an additional expression of your love for the college, you came to campus and weeded flower gardens, painted, and polished Like you, I fell in love with Sweet Briar. Like you, I am determined that she will endure in perpetuity. It gives me immense pleasure to think that I might have contributed a small part toward that goal. Please know that I shall never forget what you have done for your college and what you have done for me personally during my time as president. You embraced Cherrill and me as part of this special community and we are grateful. Without you the college could not have been saved, and without your continued generous support the college cannot endure. Naysayers will tell us—again—that it cannot be done but I know you will do it. You are Sweet Briar Women and for Sweet Briar Women the impossible is just another problem to solve.

Yours truly,

Phillip C. Stone President volume 87 no. 1 Contents SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE MAGAZINE POLICY Google Visit Highlights Engineers Week, The magazine aims to present interesting, College Connection 5 thought-provoking material. Publication of material does not indicate endorsement of The Right Leader, The Right Time 6 the author’s viewpoint by the magazine or College. The Sweet Briar College Magazine Introducing Meredith Woo 12 reserves the right to edit and, when necessary, Class Challenges 14 revise all material that it accepts for publica- tion. Contact us at any time. The Phillip C. Stone Legacy Challenge 16

MAGAZINE STAFF Making Sweet and Some Random Sounds Phyllis Watt Jordan, editor-in-chief —In a New Electroacoustic Studio 17 Clelie Steckel, assistant director of annual Sweet Briar Day 18 giving/Sweet Briar Fund Nancy Marion, lead designer Photo Finish 20 Cassie Foster, photographer Playing Out of Position 22 Jane Dure, editor Sweet Briar Women of the World 24 Contributors: Jennifer McManamay, Janika Carey, Florence Rowe Barnick, Myth Monnich Sweet Briar Breaks Ground on New Tennis Courts 34 Bayoud, Fran McClung Ferguson, Emily Quinn Alumnae Books 35 McDermott, and Nancy Mortensen Piper Reunion 2017 Inside back cover Contact information Office of Alumnae Relations and Development P.O. Box 1057 Sweet Briar, VA 24595 (800) 381-6131 Departments: On the Quad 2 Phillip C. Stone, President In Memoriam 36 FIND SWEET BRIAR ONLINE Class Notes 38 Planned Giving 80 sbc.edu

Students plant rose bushes to mark the beginning of Sweet Briar Forever month in March. Student Writers Expand Sweet Briar’s Literary Tradition on the In a room in Reid Pitt, a group of students the poet and essayist Natasha Oladukon, gathers once a week to revive and grow a who works at the Quarterly creative writing tradition at Sweet Briar. Review; the series features the work of Quad Last year, they brought back the college’s young writers in the area or Fellows at the News and Notes Around Campus Red Clay literary magazine. This year, Virginia Center for Creative Arts across they’re working on ways to engage the Route 29. A second young VCCA Fellow, Sweet Briar Named whole campus. That includes bringing journalist and fiction writer Lulu Mill- speakers to campus and hosting “Poetry er, joined the group in the spring. Both ‘Turnaround of the Year’ and Pie” sessions where students and facul- sessions drew robust audiences. In an honor that would surprise no one, ty read aloud their favorite poems and The students on the Red Clay staff have Sweet Briar was judged “Turnaround of enjoy pie from the beloved Woodruff’s Café. also redecorated the newly renovated the Year” for 2016 by Education Dive, a “We’ve extended our mission, spreading offices in Reed Pit, where they have a suite Web site focusing on higher education it to the wider community, so that even if of two rooms, including a satellite library news and analysis. they don’t submit for the magazine they location for back issues of literary mag- Sweet Briar offers “hope to small liberal can get involved,” says Ally Young, who azines and a large selection of journals arts across the country” because leads the Red Clay group. for reading and browsing. Karol Lawson, of its averted closure, the continued alum- Young is particularly excited about a set director of the College’s art collection and nae engagement, and strong fundraising of Wednesday evening writing work- galleries and the Sweet Briar Museum efforts—even if it may be “an extreme shops that use poetry to probe politics and visiting assistant professor in the arts best-case scenario,” Education Dive on campus. With tensions high after the management, helped the group select wrote. last fall’s election, students read several several pieces from the college’s decorative The college also received high marks in poems—including ’s “Still I arts collection for the walls, including the National Survey of Student Engage- Rise” and Walt Whitman’s “I Hear Amer- work by alumnae. ment, a survey used by more than 1,600 ica Singing” —and used them as writing The spring brought a joint reading with colleges and nationwide prompts to express their feelings. Further students from Lynchburg and Randolph to assess educational quality. Students sessions will help students deal with the colleges and a visit to the Virginia Arts of ranked Sweet Briar high for opportunities consequences of today’s politics. the Book Center for Charlottesville for a to interact and conduct research with “It’s a trying time emotionally,” says hands-on session with printmaker and faculty, as well as chances to participate Young, a senior from Brooklyn. “Writing book designer Josef Beery. That helped in campus leadership roles, internships is very therapeutic.” them prepare for the spring edition of and field experience. They also praised Red Clay, work that included gathering the supportive and inclusive campus In the fall, the group organized the first of submissions, assigning editing task and environment. its Browsing Room Reading Series with working out printing schedules.

The Virginia Museum of Natural History Environmental Science chose longtime Sweet Briar professor Linda Chair Recognized Fink to receive the Thomas Jefferson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Natural for Contributions Science Education. Fink, who is the McConnell Duberg Pro- fessor of Ecology and chair of the Environ- mental Sciences Department, was praised for her “illustrious career of over twenty-five years at Sweet Briar College, where she has dedicated her time inspiring her students with creative and original teaching perspec- tives that instill curiosity and appreciation for the natural world.” Fink was “delighted” to accept the honor. “As a field biologist at a Chang Turns on 3,250 rural acres, I have one of the best Research jobs in Virginia: to encourage young people to care about the natural world,” she said. “I into Book on spend rainy March nights counting sala- manders, and breezy September afternoons Central Asia catching monarch butterflies.”

2 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE From left: Emma Thom ’18, Ally Young ’17 and Maggy O’Donnell ’18

Professor Receives Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award For third time in four years, a Sweet Briar College professor has earned an Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. John Gregory Brown, the Julia Jackson Nichols Professor of English, is one of 12 recipients of a 2017 award given to faculty at Virginia’s private and public universities and colleges. Brown, a novelist who is director of creative writing, joins math professors Raina Robeva and Jim Kirkwood, se- lected in 2014 and 2016, respectively, as honorees. Brown said he is honored to be invited into their company, adding, “The nicest thing about this award is that it reaffirms Sweet Briar’s incredible devotion to mission.” Brown left Sweet Briar for a year after the threatened closure in 2015. He returned in the fall of 2016 with his wife, novelist Carrie Brown, and both are teaching writing.

parts of what is now Uzbekistan, Turkmeni- of the Silk Route by Chinese envoys. stan and Kazakhstan were chiefly horse-rid- Her research took years of cooperation ing nomads. with Russian and Kazakh colleagues, grants “They were actually growing wheat, barley from the National Science Foundation, the and millet, and in our region of Southeast- National Geographic Society, the Wen- ern Kazakhstan, they were actually living in ner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological sedentary settlements,” Chang says. Research, and the National Endowment for How does she know? Digs have found the Humanities. carbonized remains of the grains, as well as At least 10 Sweet Briar students worked on foundations for simple houses and evidence the digs and surveys from 1998 to 2015. of burial grounds reflecting nomadic sym- Conditions were challenging, Chang recalls, bols. Her excavations and further research with students living in tents, sifting through also revealed evidence of animal husbandry soil, navigating the occasional flood and and a nomadic system of hierarchy. experiencing a post-Soviet culture. After two decades of excavation and four Central Asia and southeastern Kazakhstan For her book, Chang brought together the years of writing, anthropology professor were along the Silk Road trade route. The physical evidence she found, along with the Claudia Chang is preparing to publish a ancient herders and farmers occupied the historic and ethnographic information on book on the Iron-Age denizens of central territory between the Persian Empire and nomadic societies such as the Mongols and Asia. Greek influence to west and the Chinese Kazakhs from the region. Chang’s book will Her book, Rethinking Prehistoric Central Dynasties to the east. Chang explores the be published in the fall by Routledge Press. Asia: Shepherds, Farmers, and Nomads, will period between 400 BC until the BC/AD di- question the myth that the people living in vide, at the beginning of the official opening

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 3 Second Time Around for Engineering Student

Samantha Jay Schwartz enjoyed her first time at Sweet Briar so much that she came Missy Ackerman ’87 Sally Old Kitchin ’76 Elizabeth “Keedie” Makanah Dunham back for seconds. After earning a business Grones Leonard ’76 Morriss ’66 management degree in 2013 and working for a few years, the native 4 Alumnae Tapped for Hall of Fame decided she wanted to finish an engineer- ing degree. Four alumnae have been named to Sweet Leonard ’76, a talented rider who spent 20 Schwartz, 26, began classes in the fall Briar’s Athletics and Riding Hall of Fame, years on the riding staff after graduating; of 2016 and expects to graduate again in honored for their achievement at Sweet and Makanah Dunham Morriss ’66, an 2018. In the meantime, she’s got an intern- Briar, their professional accomplishments avid rider who was a leader in the riding ship with BWXT in Lynchburg, which is and their ongoing support for the college. program as a student and has continued the leading supplier of nuclear components They are: Missy Ackerman ’87, a that leadership as an alumna. and fuel to the U.S. government. She hopes standout field hockey and player Their induction ceremony came amid to make a career in the defense industry. who went on to coach at Sweet Briar; Sally a busy weekend in early April that also So what’s it like coming back to cam- Old Kitchin ’76, a tennis player who has included the 90th Annual Horse Show, the pus? “I love being back, the energy is so consistently supported the college and lacrosse alumnae game, the Friends of Ath- positive right now,” Schwartz says. She athletics programs in the years since her letics golf outing, two home tennis matches, misses playing sports, so she volunteers as graduation; Elizabeth “Keedie” Grones and a home softball doubleheader. an assistant coach for the lacrosse team. She found the engineering department intact, despite the ups and downs of the Alumna Receives Lifetime Award as past two years. She had taken an engineer- ing class her first time at Sweet Briar to Equestrian Coach fulfill a lab requirement and found that she The Intercollegiate Horse Shows Asso- colleagues you’ve looked up to for years is liked it. This spring, she’s taking a mecha- ciation has announced that Sweet Briar overwhelming.” tronics, which involves designing systems alumna Margaret “Peggy” McElveen will As director of the equestrian program by integrating mechanical, electrical and become the 24th recipient of the IHSA at St. Andrews, McElveen oversees control systems engineering. Lifetime Achievement Award. McElveen, everything from coaching and re- Before returning to Sweet Briar, who graduated from the College in 1971, cruiting riders to looking at prospec- Schwartz took a few classes at the Univer- is director of equestrian studies at St. An- tive donation horses, according to the sity of Virginia. “I didn’t like the atmo- drews in Laurinburg, N.C. announcement. She also is a faculty sphere. It wasn’t a place where I would The honor, which the IHSA has award- member, teaching equine studies. succeed,” she says. “I like the smaller class ed since 1993 to “recognize the long- sizes. I like the ability to have one-on-one standing commitment of its college and time with my professors.” university coaches,” was presented during In September, Schwartz was awarded the 45th IHSA National Championships, the Alumna Daughter-Legacy Scholarship. May 4-7, at the Kentucky Horse Park in Her sister, Torrey, graduated in 2015. Lexington.

In making the announcement, the IHSA called McElveen “one of the most O popular equestrian team coaches in Inter- collegiate Horse Shows Association (IHSA) history.” She is being recognized for her service and contributions to college riding and the horse industry. For McElveen, the award is affirmation of a career in service to equestrian sports and horsemanship. “I was very surprised and just extremely grateful,” McElveen said of receiving the honor. “That kind of recognition from Brenda Schwartz

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On a day in late February, Sweet Briar’s software engineer, Antoine Picard, spoke Sweet Briar, Google is intent on bringing engineering community buzzed with activ- to about 250 people gathered from across more diversity to the engineering work- ity: In a classroom in Guion, high school central Virginia for the National Engineers . The company plans to provide a students created mechanical devices out of Week lecture. pipeline of internships and training for a random array of objects, part of a special “Be passionate about something,” Picard Sweet Briar students. program designed to introduce girls to told the audience. “It doesn’t matter what “We have been just delighted that they engineering concepts. At lunch in Prothro, topic you pick. You can find someone who see the value of a women’s liberal arts engineering majors talked with represen- is very passionate about it.” college that has an engineering program, tatives from Google about the future of The visit from Google representatives and they want us to be stronger,” President women in the field. And at a dinner in comes as the college is building a relation- Phillip C. Stone said. Othe Upchurch Field House, Google’s lead ship with the Silicon Valley company. Like

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 5 The Right Leader, The Right Time

n the day in June And alumnae are more engaged than ever, throughout Virginia and higher education 2015 when the not only contributing money but helping signaled to the world that reviving and court declared to recruit new students and network with retooling Sweet Briar College was not a Sweet Briar offi- graduates. fool’s errand but a legitimate and worthy cially saved, Phil- “I do not believe any other person could endeavor. We cannot undervalue that in lip C. Stone stood have guided us with the steady, loving our trek to put Sweet Briar back on track on the steps of the hand that Phil Stone openly stretched out and to make it better than ever before.” Bedford County to our community,” says Marcia Thom-Ka- Stone was no stranger to Sweet Briar Courthouse and made a bold statement: ley, an assistant music professor who when he was approached to lead the Col- O“We are not in this for just a year,” he told helped restart admissions in the year after lege out of the chaos from the attempted reporters. “I see this as a transition to the the closure attempt. “He got the boat back closure. As a retired president of - next 114 years of life at Sweet Briar, and in the water, calmed us down and assured water College, near Harrisonburg, he had I’m committed that our best years are still us that the ‘impossible was just another gotten to know Sweet Briar through its a h e a d .” problem to solve!’” leaders and athletic competitions. “I had Nearly two years later, as Stone prepares In May, Stone will turn over the keys a really good perception of Sweet Briar,” to step down as president, he leaves the to Sweet Briar House to the college’s 13th he recalls. “I thought it was an excellent campus well on its way toward achiev- president: Meredith Woo, a former Univer- school, which added to my shock at the ing that vision: Enrollment is increasing sity of Virginia dean with a firm commit- closing attempt.” steadily. Finances have stabilized, with the ment to liberal arts education. Woo will When he arrived on campus, he was latest audit showing the College with no work with faculty and board members to disappointed to find some signs of neglect, material weaknesses, no spending from develop the vision that will sustain the not only in the physical plant but also with the endowment and, for the first time in College in the decades ahead. But Stone’s the electronic systems needed to manage many years, a small surplus. Faculty and contribution will never be forgotten. administrative data. Programs and systems administrators are working to expand the “Phil Stone was the right leader for the were not fully used and very much out of curriculum with plans for a revived com- right time,” says Teresa Tomlinson ’87, date. “There had not been enough loving, puter science major awaiting reaccredita- chairman of the board of directors. “The attentive care to this college for a long tion by SACS and new master’s programs. fact that he is eminently respected time,” he says.

6 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 7 Sarah Clement ’75 Saving Sweet Briar, Inc. Chair, Alumnae Alliance Council Member I first met Phil outside the courthouse in Bedford on the morning the settlement keeping the college open was going to be entered into the record. I was standing on the sidewalk when I saw a distinguished, handsome gentleman ap- proach, and something told me this might be our new president. I asked if he was Phil Stone; he answered that he was. I embraced him in a big hug and told him that NOW no Stone had been left unturned. I thanked him from the bottom of my heart for his willingness to step in at this critical moment for Sweet Briar. I saw Marcia Thom-Kaley walking up just then, and introduced her to Phil. Marcia had her typical operatic reac- tion, wrapped her arms around him, screamed, and burst into tears. It was perfect. Phil took all this in stride and with a big smile. He shook hands with everyone, and I ushered him into the courthouse, knowing beyond doubt that we were in excellent hands.

Marcia Thom-Kaley Assistant Professor of Music One morning, I believe it was July 3, 2015, as I was driving on to campus to head into the Admissions Office, I noticed a gentleman in a suit with a briefcase. It was odd for about 10 seconds because I did not recognize him! Then, just as the story has been told, I slammed my car into park (with it still running), leapt out (with the door still open) and said, “You’re Phil Stone!” He kindly responded, “I think so!” Yes, I threw my arms around him and said, “WE ARE SO GLAD YOU ARE HERE—thank you!” The rest is history!

8 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE The professors who remained, howev- “If we can show er, stood ready to help him. “When the faculty executive committee comes in to that women’s introduce themselves, they bring me a list of the faculty members who are staying, education can the faculty members who are leaving who I might be able to call and turn around, be done in such adjuncts we can use to plug holes—what a gift,” he recalls. “They didn’t have a duty to a special way do that, but they loved their college, and they wanted me to be successful. I’ll always at Sweet Briar, be grateful for that.” Once the College had reopened on including some schedule, Stone set about the hard work of reassuring supporters and raising money. master’s programs In what was dubbed the “Rolling Stone” tour, the president crisscrossed the country just for women, in his trademark pink-and-green tie, attending alumnae gatherings, meeting I really think we with donors one-on-one, talking to philan- thropic backers. The work continues: Stone can create a niche. estimates he is on the road three days a week representing Sweet Briar and sharing It’s going to take the news of its renaissance. “If we can show that women’s education some time. It’s can be done in such a special way at Sweet Briar, including some master’s programs going to take some just for women, I really think we can create a niche,” he says. “It’s going to take some Pam DeWeese hard work. But it time. It’s going to take some hard work. Dean of Academics, Spanish professor gives us a vision But it gives us a vision to aspire to that I It had been a difficult spring and early think generates some passion and energy.” summer, to say the least, but on July to aspire to that I His vision, he tells anyone who will 23, I was in our new president’s office listen, is to make Sweet Briar the leading and Phil Stone was asking me to talk think generates women’s college in the nation. He believes about the person I had nominated to the ingredients are all here: a beautiful be dean. Sitting across from President some passion and campus, a certain cachet to its name, a Stone, I recognized immediately that strong curriculum and faculty, and an ac- the man in front of me knew all he energy.” complished, empowered corps of alumnae. needed to know to help us through the The best evidence of the alumnae strength, most difficult moment in the College’s he says, comes in the successful effort to history. He listened to me as I extolled rescue the college. the many virtues of my esteemed “No other women’s college, no other colleague and then looked at me and college can really have a story like that,” said, “He sounds wonderful, but I think he says. “It not only shows heroic effort you should do it.” When I recovered from the shock, at least I had the presence of mind to Molly Van Buren ’16 ask pertinent questions, and primary Field Hockey team member among them was when he needed President Stone is an amazing person and an answer. With over 2,000 e-mails cares so much about Sweet Briar. I remember sitting on his computer desktop, of him coming to practices and watching and course he said the sooner the better. talking to us, telling us we were doing great. That evening I let him know I was on He came to most if not all events on campus board. How can anyone say “no” and always had a friendly word. He would to Phil Stone? Anyone who has ever stop students just to say hi and ask how things worked with him would, I feel sure, were going. These moments made him even say the same things: he is an amazing more important to the Sweet Briar community, leader, mentor, decision maker and because he not only cared about the school human being. but the students as well. SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 9 Teresa Boylan Athletic Director I had taken a job at Hollins. . . . The soccer coach at Hollins came in and said, “Sweet Briar just called to sched- ule a game.” On July 12, I met with President Stone. A few minutes with the man, I was sold. Words of support of athletics and the importance of athletics on a college campus and the different type of education that student-athletes get on the playing field or in the pool with their coaches, with their teammates, the and success. It also really makes the case miss the campus. I’m in Sweet Briar House. leadership opportunities, the growth for Sweet Briar, because in order to do this I’ll miss the house and walking the dairy and camaraderie that you have on the you had to have passion, you had to have loop, just the atmosphere, the sense of the team, he felt was very worthwhile. That energy, you had to have commitment, you community. was really music to my ears, because I had to have skill. And you had to have “People have been so kind to me,” he had been here a long time and really leadership ability. It’s just an extraordinary adds. “I’ve stayed in alumnae homes, been hadn’t seen the support come from the case study in what Sweet Briar did in pre- to their luncheons and teas and receptions, president’s office down to athletics. paring women for life and leadership.” and I have been met with kindness and All that work might have fallen flat if politeness and enthusiasm.” not for Stone, says Sarah Clement ’75, who One of the most special moments, he chaired Saving Sweet Briar, Inc. and now says, came at the graduation ceremony for sits on the Alumnae Alliance Council. the Class of 2016. “All that we had miraculously accom- “I had probably a dozen parents come plished up to that time, culminating in the up to me, some of them tearful, and settlement installing critically needed new say, ‘Thank you for letting my daughter leadership, would have been for nothing graduate from Sweet Briar.’ That was without Phil’s courage, wisdom, enthusi- really touching. I told them, ‘You’re to be asm, insight and leadership,” she says. thanked. You trusted Sweet Briar when we As Stone prepares to step down after were at our most vulnerable, when we were graduation, he says he will miss the faculty on the cusp of losing. . . . What an extraor- when he leaves. He will miss the students, dinary investment.’ That is a memory that their traditions and their energy. “I’ll also will always stand out for me.” Pete Emerson

Teresa Tomlinson ’87 Chairman of the Board of Directors I have so many wonderful memories of Phil. One that perhaps no one else got to experience is when he told me that it was time to start to look for a new president for Sweet Briar. Phil is wildly popular and so adept at what he does that no one would have suggested a change in leadership. So, the fact that it came from Phil was really quite remarkable. He intui- tively knew we could get a good pool of candidates, and he selflessly knew it was the right time to make that switch. You just cannot say enough about that strength of leadership.

10 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Joan Dabney Clickner ’91 Daughter of Sweet Briar English Profes- sor Ross Dabney, mother of Like many who choose to attend Sweet Briar, Georgia Clickner fell in love on the driveway. “I just knew I had to go there,” she asserts. A few months after, the 8-year-old met President Stone on campus, leading her to make him the subject of her “famous person” essay for school. She later recopied the es- say, drawing pink roses all around the page, and sent it to Stone as a Christ- mas present. He immediately replied with an effusive, handwritten thank-you note, which of course to her felt like Phillip C. Stone getting personal mail from a rock star. President of Sweet Briar A year later, a Christmas card from At Christmas, after the students went across the way, reading a book on Stone arrived for Georgia. In it, he told home, and the faculty and staff were Greek history because that’s what Meta her the essay she sent him the previous about to finish for the holidays, I decided Glass would have enjoyed me doing. year was one of his treasures and that before I leave Sweet Briar, instead of And I put on my jacket, because I didn’t he wanted to thank her again. Truly just walking through those formal parlors think it was appropriate to be in Indiana’s touched by this, Georgia announced of Indiana Williams’ and having recep- presence without my jacket. I was the she was making him another Christmas tions, I’m going to be a resident of the only person in this 20-room house, but I present—two actually—a tiny clay fox parlors. wore my jacket. and a pop-up card featuring Stone as a fox in the President’s Office. She And so, I got my CD box out, and I got The point I want to make is there’s so received another prompt thank you and the CD Christmas record of the Sweet much to experience and to appreciate this note: “When you arrive at Sweet Briar choir, and I got down there with a here at Sweet Briar, and I was not going Briar as a student, show this to the bottle of Merlot, and the lights and the to get out of here without at least captur- president and tell her you are a friend decorations and the portrait of Indiana ing that moment for myself. of mine!” over one shoulder, looking at Daisy

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 11 Class Notes We all need to be rowing in the “same direction, especially in the critical years ahead.

chasing after good ideas, than good ideas chasing after money,” Meredith Woo wasn’t look- she relates. “Also, of course, fundraising must be a team sport ing for a job when Sweet Briar came calling. She was a tenured involving the faculty and their ideas.” professor at the University” of Virginia. While on leave, she was in A graduate of another small liberal arts college, Bowdoin in London directing on behalf of the Open Society Foundations an , Woo appreciates the value of the education Sweet Briar extensive global higher education effort, particularly in the Mid- provides. “Within a few years of graduation, the rates of em- dle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa. ployment between liberal arts graduates and others with ‘more “But the opportunity to lead Sweet Briar at this historical mo- marketable degrees’ will look the same,” she says. “A good liberal ment, and make a difference, was attractive,” says Woo, who will arts education provides students with relevant skills for employ- become the College’s 13th president on May 15. “Sweet Briar is ment—it teaches logic, critical thinking, effective expression, and an important women’s college and always occupied an interesting a host of other skills that are important in all walks of life.” niche in American higher education. That legacy is an important And as a mother, she enjoys engaging in the lives of students. basis on which to build Sweet Briar’s future.” “I am passionate about young people. I am endlessly curious Woo, a Korean-born, U.S.-educated academic, comes to Sweet about the way they think about themselves, their problems and Briar after years in higher education, including work at the Uni- prospects in life. I admire their openness to ideas and cultures versity of Michigan, Columbia and Northwestern. As a dean at and music—and their innocence.” Her son Ben recently graduated UVa, she led the university’s liberal arts college, which has 11,000 from Bowdoin. “I feel like connecting with young people keeps undergraduates, 1,600 graduate students, and 800 full-time faculty me connected to him,” Woo says. members. She doesn’t mention any specific plans for Sweet Briar, say- In her six years there, she restructured graduate programs, ing that should wait until she has her “feet on the campus.” Woo expanding on-line and international learning, and created a arrived in early April and plans to spend several weeks working multi-year financial plan that helped navigate the college through alongside outgoing president Phillip C. Stone as she gets to know sizeable state cuts. She also expanded fundraising: Before she faculty and students. arrived, her college was raising less than $10 million a year. In her After her six years at UVa, “I consider myself a Virginian, if not final year there, the total was $62.2 million. by birth then by choice,” Woo says. She has already scouted out For the past two years, she has sat on the other side of fund- her new home and likes what she sees. “I like to cook,” she says. “I raising, giving away money to universities in her work for Open was thrilled to note that Sweet Briar House has a Wolfe cooking Society Foundations. “So I know that there is far more money range. I will certainly make good use of it.”

12 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE “Fundraising must be a team sport involving the faculty and their ideas.”

13th President Meredith Woo “I am passionate about • Director, Higher Education Support Program for the Open Society Foundations, London young people. I am endlessly • Buckner W. Clay Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & curious about the way they Sciences, • Associate dean for social sciences, professor of political science, University think about themselves, of Michigan • Visiting scholar, Ministry of Finance, their problems and Tokyo • Assistant professor of political science, prospects in life. I admire Northwestern University • Visiting assistant professor, their openness to ideas and Columbia University • Ph.D. in political science, cultures and music— Columbia University (with distinction) • M.A. in international affairs, Columbia University and their innocence.” • B.A., Bowdoin College, Maine (magna cum laude

Woo is clear about what she sees as the key to the college’s Meredith Woo with her husband, Bruce Cumings, and son Ben. future: “We should be focused on academic distinction and stand ready to take the lead in important debates on issues of the day facing women. Greater global visibility and prestige should flow naturally from that. But we have a lot of hard work to do both to revive Sweet Briar and make it flourish.” She acknowledges the job won’t be easy. “It may be one of the toughest posts in American higher education,” she says. “We can all love and respect Sweet Briar and what it has always stood for, but we need to roll up our sleeves and get to work.” Alumnae are an essential part of that future, Woo believes. “The alumnae at Sweet Briar wrote an important chapter in American higher education. Instead of being passive bystanders, they grabbed the bull by the horns and rescued their college. One of the main reasons I took this job was the sterling example of some very capable women pitching in to reopen Sweet Briar.” She intends to work closely with them going forward. “I think of college presidency as a contact sport, so I will be visiting with as many alumnae as possible.” She also urges students, faculty and alumnae to reach out to her with ideas. “Please do not hesitate to tell me what I need to “…we have a lot of hard work know about Sweet Briar,” she says. “It may be a small college but it is not a simple one. Tell me also your aspirations for Sweet Briar. to do both to revive Sweet We all need to be rowing in the same direction, especially in the critical years ahead.” Briar and make it flourish.”

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 13 The Class Challenges are well underway! To promote the im- portance of giving to the Sweet Briar Fund each year, classes are Class once again competing against each other for the titles of highest participation and highest giving within each decade.

Like last year, all classes are competing for the decade awards and Challenges Reunion classes are competing for the five traditional awards, which were awarded in a near sweep in 2016:

2016 Reunion Class Awards The Nancy Dowd Burton ’46 Award for largest Annual Gift by a Reunion Class Who Class of 1966, celebrating their 50th Reunion

The Centennial Award for the largest gift to all funds for 5 years by a Reunion Class Will Class of 1966, celebrating their 50th Reunion

The Nancy Godwin Baldwin ’57 Award recognizing the class with the highest percentage of attendance at Reunion Win Class of 1966, celebrating their 50th Reunion

Reunion Participation Award for Classes Celebrating their 25th–50th Reunions in Class of 1966, celebrating their 50th Reunion

Reunion Participation Award for Classes Celebrating their 5th–20th Reunions 2017 Class of 1996, celebrating their 20th Reunion

While giving statistics will be announced at Reunion Convocation, classes have until ? June 30, 2017 to compete for these awards.

2016 Decade Participation Awards 1930s—Class of 1938 1940s—Class of 1944 4 1950s—Class of 1955 Classes each gave 1960s—Class of 1966 (highest among over $1,000,000 all classes and among Reunion classes) Class of 1960 1970s—Class of 1975 (highest among non-Reunion classes) Class of 1966 1980s—Class of 1986 Class of 1972 1990s—Class of 1993 Class of 1975 2000s—Class of 2006 2010s—Class of 2010

14 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Please find current giving statistics listed below. You can stay up to date on class giving statistics at sbc.edu/alumnae-development/class-giving-statistics/.

Class Total Giving Participation Rate Class Total Giving Participation Rate Class Total Giving Participation Rate Year in Fiscal Year Year in Fiscal Year Year in Fiscal Year 2017 2017 2017 1940 $3,175 7 1966 $367,989 24.3 1992 $19,115 17.7 1941 $1,050 4.5 1967 $95,981 41.6 1993 $33,876 20.1 1942 $52,350 7.8 1968 $340,720 27.9 1994 $6,942 11.6 1943 $25,045 9.7 1969 $6,250 9.1 1995 $11,207 16.1 1944 $11,208 28 1970 $126,019 22.8 1996 $71,480 14.5 1945 $750 14 1971 $32,315 17.4 1997 $13,140 18.4 1946 $62,875 13.8 1972 $477,874 20.8 1998 $19,715 22.1 1947 $1,855 14.3 1973 $32,440 23.3 1999 $15,130 18.9 1948 $9,327 20.9 1974 $92,231 22.2 2000 $7,580 14.3 1949 $62,329 25 1975 $368,299 24.3 2001 $18,149 16.6 1950 $55,656 22.2 1976 $64,346 21.8 2002 $9,611 11.6 1951 $18,666 37.8 1977 $219,960 16.2 2003 $14,714 17.5 1952 $32,670 36.6 1978 $226,050 23.4 2004 $10,220 11.6 1953 $22,316 32.4 1979 $137,819 15.9 2005 $15,215 13.4 1954 $31,945 30.9 1980 $47,200 17 2006 $14,634 17.6 1955 $75,700 31.7 1981 $179,829 15.3 2007 $12,075 9.3 1956 $24,470 21.3 1982 $449,122 18.9 2008 $5,080 11.8 1957 $628,386 31.5 1983 $174,819 21.9 2009 $4,090 15 1958 $147,349 26.5 1984 $61,083 17.4 2010 $9,898 10.4 1959 $47,089 25.2 1985 $53,651 15.4 2011 $5,484 11 1960 $534,827 39.4 1986 $31,552 22.6 2012 $6,261 10.2 1961 $308,816 23.2 1987 $50,115 15 2013 $776 8.6 1962 $332,283 26.3 1988 $29,428 15.7 2014 $4,598 8 1963 $351,709 29.7 1989 $15,640 11.1 2015 $926 7.1 1964 $680,909 34.4 1990 $24,093 13.3 2016 $2,238 20.1 1965 $53,833 24.4 1991 $12,454 24.2 Data reported on April 21, 2017.

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 15 The Phillip C. Stone Legacy Challenge for Sweet Briar College

s part of our efforts to return Sweet Briar to a position of financial strength, the ACollege set a goal to raise $20 million in unrestricted funds by June 30, 2017. These funds will allow Sweet Briar to support its students, faculty, and its culturally significant built and natural environment. Because this is the largest single-year fundraising goal in the College’s 116-year history, some skeptics might find it a daunting objective. If we learned nothing else from our recent history, we have proved that as a united community with a common goal, we can do anything we set out to accomplish. Our collective consciousness is focused like a laser on our $20 million goal. As of March 30, alumnae and friends of the College have already contributed more than $8.6 million in gifts and pledges. There is great excitement on campus and around the globe about the announcement of Dr. Meredith Woo as Sweet Briar’s 13th president. She will take the reins from President Phillip C. Stone on May 15, after President Stone presides over the graduation of the Class of 2017. Under President Stone’s leadership, Sweet Briar is now on sound financial footing, ready for the next chapter, and the College celebrates another a graduation that was not supposed to happen. Understanding that no challenge is too great for Sweet Briar women and supporters, we announced the Phillip C. Stone Legacy Challenge on March 30 to honor his extraordinary leadership. This challenge was established through the generosity of a small group of donors who each gave $250,000 and above to serve as a salute to President Stone for helping to rescue our college when we needed him most. This group of leadership donors has committed a total of $5 million in gifts and pledges to the Phillip C. Stone Legacy Challenge. These loyal alumnae and friends of the College challenge fellow supporters to raise another $5 million by June 30, 2017, when we will honor President Stone at Reunion. When we committed to save Sweet Briar, our alumnae and friends knew that the first W few years would require heavy lifting from everyone involved—we are still rebuilding enrollment and recovering the costs of the closing effort. Generous, even sacrificial, philanthropy is critical to restoring the financial strength of the College. The most enduring gift we can give President Stone as he departs Sweet Briar is our continued commitment to ensuring the College thrives in perpetuity.

We commit to this college, now and forever. We can ALL make a difference as to its future. raise $20 million We know we can count on you to help. You make the difference. by June 30, 2017 Support the Phillip C. Stone Legacy Challenge now by making a gift at sbc.edu/give. 16 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Making Sweet Music and Some Random Sounds—in A New Electroacoustic Studio

When Sweet Briar won a crowd—all without going to an part of the reason Harris was composing with acoustic contest to bring star sing- actual game. Another reflected hired in 2014—to reestablish instruments, and even if you er-songwriter Rachel Platten to the gist of a Spanish novel with strength in both composition want to write for piano or campus last spring, the College words, piano music, a xylo- and music technology. string , understanding got more than a concert with phone and beeping sounds. Harris says he had been and being able to work with the “Fight Song” singer. The Learning the technical skills planning to ask the Develop- the building blocks of sound contest came with a $10,000 needed for sound design in ment Office for help in raising changes the way you think Chegg David B. Goldberg video gaming, television or money for the equipment when about composing.” Music Grant. movies is one of the studio’s the grant came through. That Sweet Briar is also That has allowed the music practical applications, Harris Women may be underrepre- launching a computer science department to open an elec- says, as well as how to use pro- sented among , but program—pending approval troacoustic studio for music fessional recording software. there are many fine examples by the Southern Association of Wcomposition, complete with a Moreover, most music compo- students can look to, including Colleges and Schools Com- computer, microphones speak- sition today is done with the pioneers in the electroacoustic mission on Colleges—has ers and the latest software. aid of computers, he says. field such as Laurie Spiegel. Harris doubly excited. He can This spring, 11 honors stu- The studio also allows Sweet Harris also notes there’s a see himself and his students dents used the lab in Babcock Briar to expand its BLUR cur- tradition of using computers working with colleagues in the for a sound design class with riculum. BLUR, the Blue Ridge to synthesize audio to make computer science and engi- assistant professor of music Summer Institute for Young “art music” dating back to the neering programs. and Josh Harris. Artists, is a summer arts camp 1950s—though you might not “Once you turn sound or “Some of them used it to com- for high school students offer- immediately recognize it as anything into ones and zeros, pose music, but only a couple ing tracks in studio art, creative music. you can do anything with it,” of them are musicians,” Harris writing and now sound design “Sometimes it’s described as he says. “You can make a robot says. and composition. beeps and squawks. But it gets walk, you can make video, you One student’s midterm proj- This isn’t the College’s first you to think about sound in an can make sound, so there are a ect captured the soundscape use of and other abstract and essential way,” he lot of opportunities for cross- of a soccer game—the key technology in the music pro- says. disciplinary collaboration.” rattling in the ignition, the car gram, but it moves forward a “I think it makes you a starting, the cheers from the goal of the department—and better composer. Even if you’re

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 17 Fort Myers Triangle Sweet Briar Day Charlotte Roanoke

Milwaukee

18 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Paris

Cleveland

Sweet Briar Day Dallas–Ft. Worth

Philadelphia DC/Northern Va. Across the country—and as far away Charlottesville as Paris—two dozen alumnae clubs came together in January to mark Sweet Briar Day. They gathered in art museums, auction houses and living rooms. They drew graduates, parents, students and young women applying for admission as they celebrated the College’s revival.

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 19 photo finish Ellyn Narodowy ’20

Developing portfolios for a class with National Geographic photographer Medford Taylor, Sweet Briar students didn’t have to go far to find their subjects. Horses, sports teams, and everyday objects provided inspiration.

Samantha Galindo ’20

20 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Medford Taylor

Emily Jones ’19

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 21 Playing Out of Position Jessie Melrose was drawn to Sweet Briar Molly Van Buren was a senior in the for its riding program, but the athletic fall of 2015 ready to play her fourth year of department noticed something else in her field hockey. But the team had lost many background: a year of cross country in of its key players. So some softball and Brenda Schwartz high school. lacrosse players crossed over to play field So they recruited her for the cross hockey, and a couple of freshman players country team in the fall, then persuaded joined the team. her to play lacrosse in the spring. “The players who had previously been “I love sports,” says Jessie, a first-year on the team helped the new players learn student from Virginia Beach. “It keeps me the game,” Molly recalls. “Since everyone busy. It’s kind of a nice break from school- was athletically inclined, they picked up work. And it’s nice having another group the rules and movements pretty quickly, Jof people you can go to with problems.” and because the athletic department is so As Sweet Briar builds back its student supportive of each team, we had already body, student athletes are taking on more known all the people joining from other sports and more responsibility to ensure t e am s .” the College remains competitive whether The same thing happened when swim- on the playing field, on the tennis court, or ming season started. “We had one new in the pool. swimmer who hadn’t swam since she was “If it wasn’t their main sport, they were 11 years old,” Molly says. “She put in the probably playing out of position,” says Ath- time and effort to improve her strokes and letic Director Teresa Boylan. “To jump in work on her turns, and while she wasn’t and play on a team when you know you’re as comfortable in the water as the rest of Jessie Melrose down in roster numbers or to come into us she was there early every day to get a team where you’ve never played before, ready. The team welcomed her and we all that’s difficult. That’s a challenge.” helped her with things if she asked, and Boylan, who first came to Sweet Briar in she improved tremendously by the end of 2008, left after the closing was announced the year.” for a job at Hollins. But she returned in Alumnae also helped: attending games July 2015 when the College was saved. and providing treats and other support for “I started calling coaches back to see athletes. Tracy Stuart ’93 volunteered as an where they were,” she recalls. “I and a cou- assistant field hockey coach. ple of the other coaches called our teams, “The alumnae support was just off the student athletes, just bringing the band charts, nothing I’d ever seen before,” Boy- back together so to speak.” lan says. “The reconnection with alumnae When we talked to students we asked and faculty and staff was positive.” them to do more. “We’d tell them, ‘I know In the fall, Jessie Melrose estimates she you’re a lacrosse player, but we need you spent two hours a day, five days a week on to play a second sport. Can you consider cross country practice, as well as riding playing field hockey? Can you consider three times a week, for two hours each playing soccer?’ ” morning with the Intercollegiate Horse

22 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Elizabeth Phaup

Show Association team. Lacrosse practice Teresa Boylan fills up two hours, six days a week. “I’d never played lacrosse,” she says. “I think in terms of soccer when I’m playing lacrosse, but there are so many different rules.” Elizabeth Phaup, a junior transfer stu- dent from Amherst, also finds her soccer background helps her understand the basic rhythm of lacrosse. Still there were some differences. “I’m not used to setting up a play,” she says, explaining that the lacrosse players storm down the field, then rotate the ball among their teammates before shooting at the goal. Elizabeth, whose mother works in the College’s admissions office, says part of the Sweet Briar’s appeal was the chance to play sports. “I was never one of those amazing athletes,” she acknowledges. Boylan says she stresses that opportuni- ty to play when she recruits new students. She also tells them that women’s sports won’t be overshadowed at Sweet Briar, like they are on some co-ed campuses. “We are the main attraction,” she says. “We are the players, we are the cheerlead- ers of each sport. We don’t have to share our facilities with anyone.” Sports also become an invaluable part of the college experience for student athletes, says Molly, who is now living in England, pursuing a master’s in forensic science. “The teams become your , after hours of practice and bus rides and games,” she says. “I wouldn’t have changed my experiences for anything and both teams made my time at Sweet Briar even better than it already was.”

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 23 Sweet Briar Women of the

Some studied internationalWorld affairs and ventured abroad to launch their careers. Some went on a lark . . . and stayed for decades. And some came from abroad and now live overseas, bringing what they learned at Sweet Briar. Aix-en-Provence In this increasingly flat world, Sweet Briar’s connections extend across the globe.

“Well, Jill, it’s your life; it’s and you need people to buy it. Jill Steenhuis Ruffato ’80 is your decision,” he told me. Since 1985, I’ve kept up with an artist who has lived for 37 I could have easily just got- every person who bought my ten on the train to go to Paris paintings. I make sure they years in Aix-en-Provence in and on the plane to go home, know about my tours, my out of a sense of duty. But I had workshops, my books, my new France. Her work is part of the courage to ask. That deci- Web site. When I was getting the permanent collections of sion changed my life. [She and started, it was my Sweet Briar Serge are now married, living friends who helped me. Francie several museums, and she has in a rustic farmhouse outside Root ’80 set up a show in New of Aix.] York City. Myth Monnich sold more than 3,000 paintings. Bayoud ’80 helped me in Dallas. Nan Dabbs Loftin ’81 How Sweet Briar Why she decided to How she broke it to and Allison Roberts Greene ’81 prepared her: move overseas: I came her dad: On the day I was Sweet came up with the idea of using here for a summer art program supposed to leave, on August 9, Briar gave me the courage to my shows as fundraisers for at a school, The Marchutz 1980, I was already packed and do this. Back then, everybody Sweet Briar. That’s the School of Painting and Draw- my train was to leave at noon, was saying you have to have a I use now, fundraisers for ing, that teaches in the tradi- and my job was waiting for me back-up plan, you should work nonprofits. I rarely do gallery tion of Cézanne. I was only at Wheat First Securities, and first and make some money. shows. planning to go for six weeks, my family was waiting for me You don’t want to be a starving I see the difference with my that’s the big catch. But my in Atlanta. I’d said goodbye to artist. I went my own way. And women friends who are artists plans changed radically after Serge, thinking I would never I’ve been living uniquely on the and went to public universities. I got here, when destiny took see him again. At 11 a.m. I got income of my art since 1985. No one was standing behind hold. I already had a job lined the guts to call my father and them. No one was cheering up back home as a stockbroker. I told him, “Daddy, I just love them on. But I fell in love with paint- being here, and I’m learning so On the value ing and drawing—and with a much.” I asked to stay for the of Sweet Briar young man I met here. whole year. connections: There are two things you need to make your career work as an artist: You need quality work,

24 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 25 conserving the breed. It’s what Rebecca Dalley ’14 lives in inspired her stories, the people Buttermere in England’s Lake and the landscape. District, where she works at a What Sweet Briar hotel and spends a lot of time taught her: I majored with sheep and sheep dogs. in biology and chemistry. The plan has always been to the Bridge Hotel. Right now become a vet. In the States, I Why she moved I’m taking a month off to work worked at a vet’s office for over overseas: My parents are with the farmers here and help a year. So I have experience both British citizens, though with the lambing. I go out all with cats and dogs and horses, I went to high school in the day and look for sheep that are because I worked in the stables States. About the time I was having trouble. Sometimes, if at Sweet Briar. But I never graduating from Sweet Briar, it’s a difficult birth, you have to worked much with sheep and Buttermere. they decided to move to the put you hands in there and pull cattle. U.K. Lake District. I didn’t get into the first one out. They just get vet school, so I thought I could stuck without human interven- do that here. My parents and tion. What saving Sweet I have always moved around Briar taught her: It’s quite a bit, and it’s sort of in helped me because if you don’t my blood. I got to move to my The Beatrix Potter get there the first time, keep favorite vacation spot. connection: There trying. If you think your school are lots of sheep in But- is going to close, keep trying. termere. Herdwick sheep, If you don’t get into vet school, What she does in they’re famous. Beatrix Potter, keep trying. Buttermere: I work as a who wrote Peter Rabbit, was receptionist and in the bar of really well known for actually

Rebecca Dalley

26 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Harpreet Bedi ’93 is a lawyer, a hotel manager, a documentary producer among other things. The daughter of an Indian diplomat, she now lives in Singapore with her husband and four children. children. He flew around to How she found six countries. We listed all the Sweet Briar: My father things we wanted and all the was the Indian ambassador to things we didn’t, and Singapore at the time. John Davis won out. I quit my job at Cisco, was the American ambassador, and I was pregnant two weeks and he told my parents at a after we moved to Singapore. cocktail party that his son was at VMI, and that they must consider Sweet Briar for me. How she came When I heard it was all girls I to run HÔ tel wasn’t sure I wanted to go. But Vagabond: Life is not the I applied to Sweet Briar and way you plan it. I never ever other colleges. It was August, thought I’d be general manager and I still hadn’t heard back of one of our hotels. We have from any colleges. So I start- a very big real estate company ed calling. None of them had that I manage. My husband received my application. There bought hotels in several coun- was a postal strike in Poland, Harpreet Bedi and all the mail being sent to the was thrown away. Singapore So when I called Sweet Bri- ar, they were the sweetest, and they said they would still con- tries. He thought we should to them. What was great was to sider my application if I mailed have a hotel in Singapore that hear people being very liberal, it then. So we drove to West was a showcase for art and that very open minded. Cinema Berlin and mailed my appli- had an artist in residence who Libre has decided to distribute cation, and they accepted me. was accessible to the guests. I it in the U.S. Thanks to Trump, I stayed all four years, and my stepped into the role as manag- because of what’s going on in closest friends from the States er, reluctantly, to help out. Now the States, this movie seems to are, of course, my girlfriends I’m very proud to tell you that really be apt. from Sweet Briar. we are rated the No. 1 hotel in Singapore. What she owes to Why she moved to Sweet Briar: I just Singapore: I stayed in How she came to declared last week that I am the States for a while, I got produce the doc- a feminist, and I won’t apol- my law degree at Northeast- umentary “under ogize for that. It may be that ern University and worked as the turban”: When Sweet Briar is responsible. I counsel at Cisco Systems in my daughter was 9 years old, truly don’t know that I would California. While I was there, she asked me what it meant to be this confident as a woman my husband started a business. be Sikh. We didn’t know that if it weren’t for the amount of He was one of those dot.com much about our religion, so one-on-one attention I got at guys. He started People.com, we traveled for five years. We Sweet Briar. then it got bought out by filmed in more than just the Monster.com. We decided to eight countries we showed. We move when we wanted to have asked people what God means

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 27 Susannah Cooper

Amman, Jordan

Susannah Cooper ’95 joined How Sweet Briar the State Department in 1997 helped: I studied Interna- tional Affairs and Dr. Barbara and has worked and lived Perry and Dr. Jeff Key were instrumental in my career overseas 15 of the past 20 success. Dr. Perry supported years, mostly in the Middle my application for a Truman Scholarship, which funded my East (Jordan, Qatar, Saudi graduate studies, including a year at the American Universi- Arabia, Tunisia, United Arab ty in Cairo. Their support not Emirates)—and Jamaica. She only prepared me for a career with State but also helped me and her family are now in feel confident in my career Amman, Jordan, where she is choice. the economic counselor at the How she stays in U.S. embassy. touch: Social media helps a lot, but I wish I had more time in the U.S. to visit the campus How she got there: What surprised her and attend reunions. The alum- I wanted to work for the State most: How much it’s the nae community has become so Department since I was in same! U.S. products and much more connected over the high school. My husband and franchises are so popular. A past few years, and that’s been I studied Arabic and have Magnolia Bakery (the NY a great chance to catch up with worked mostly in the Middle cupcake company) franchise friends. East. Coming to Jordan was a just opened in Jordan. The lan- great opportunity to serve at guage, culture, customs, traffic, the crossroads of so many of and more are all different, but our foreign policy priorities: my kids can eat Cheerios wher- advancing Middle East peace, ever we live. defeating ISIS, promoting U.S. business opportunities, ex- panding people-to-people ties.

28 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Connie Kim ’12, Lee, A Joo Kim ’14 and Rani Jang ’15

Beijing

Amman, Jordan seeing each other as often as Nicole Jeamin Lee ’13 came to we used to, but we’ve expanded Nicole Jeamin Lee Sweet Briar from and our bubble into a global scale. When Jackie Montero ’13 had has just settled in Beijing with business trips in Seoul last fall, I had the pleasure of showing her husband. She works as a her around and indulging in part-time researcher and plans Korean BBQ at one of the finest restaurants in Gangnam. Hav- to start her own company. ing sisters around the world makes your friendships richer San Francisco, I urgently had and flavorful—literally! How she found to travel to Korea for personal Sweet Briar: One of my reasons. For two years, I lived dad’s friends who graduated in Seoul working as a full-time How she managed from the University of Vir- analyst for food marketing, her wedding: I wasn’t ginia encouraged me to visit. which involved frequent travel going to become a “bridezil- During my tour at Sweet Briar, to the U.S., Europe, and Asia la,” requesting friends from I remember finding myself networking with buyers and the States travel all the way to pleasantly surprised by the manufacturers. After my wed- Korea for just one day. I got opportunities to speak out, ask ding in December, I moved to my dream venue, Vogue-like questions, and engage with Beijing, where my husband has engagement pictures, and an professors and classmates in been working. elegantly tailor-made dress, but and out of classrooms. It was it seemed like a bridal shower exactly what I was looking for with my close friends wasn’t in a college campus. How she keeps up likely to happen. However, with Sweet Briar the day before my wedding friends: Honestly, I was ceremony, Connie Kim ’12, A Why she went back: alarmed by the idea of losing Joo Kim ’13 and Rani Jang ’15 After graduation, I packed touch with friends while trav- managed to fly in to throw me away to pursue a master’s de- eling and living overseas. But a quick, surprise bridal shower. gree at Northwestern Universi- I’ve come to a conclusion that ty. My initial career plans were the miles don’t make a differ- to move to San Francisco. But ence when they are your sisters only two weeks after moving to from college. We may not be

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 29 sional situations. Sweet Briar Lorie Teeter Lichtlen ’82, who taught me how to learn and has lived in Paris since 1983, is to ask questions. That broad liberal arts education has made a public relations executive for me very resilient. Burson-Marsteller. as a reporter for Women’s Wear On being an American in Paris: Why she moved Daily. That took me to Hunga- overseas: When I gradu- ry with Estée Lauder for three Euro Disney was eye-opening, ated in 1982, Reagan was pre- days, among other adventures. since French people saw it as sident and a huge recession was American cultural imperialism. on. Jobs were scarce. I went to I’m getting flak again since the New York and , How Euro Disney U.S. elections. Before, people and applied at different places. shaped her career: wondered how we could elect I had just graduated magna I decided to leave journalism an actor or a peanut farmer. cum laude, and employers only for PR, but it had to be for Now they wonder how Trump cared about how fast I could something interesting. So I could win when Hillary got Paris type! It made me think the went to work for Euro Disney. more votes. It makes for ani- working conditions might not For the grand opening, we mated cocktail party conversa- be great. And Paris, where I’d had 3,500 journalists on site tion. You find yourself repre- spent my junior year abroad, for four days; They came from senting your country, whether seemed a more livable place. literally all over the world. That you mean to or not. was a great experience, and Euro Disney was a great school Lorie Lichtlen Why she decided to for PR. stay: I didn’t actually decide to stay, but I have two children who are French citizens and a What Sweet Briar house in Normandy, so I guess taught her: My degree is I’m here to stay. in international affairs. I want- ed to be Secretary of State, so I could travel all over the world. What she does in Between journalism and PR, Paris: I just celebrated my work has taken me to a dozen 10th year at Burson-Marsteller, countries, including Hun- which is the 13th company I’ve gary, Turkey, and China. I’ve worked for since coming to been to Morocco three times, Paris. I arrived on April Fool’s twice to work on projects for Day 1983 for a six-month in- the King of Morocco. Before ternship at Newsweek; then got Burson-Marsteller, I worked in a job as a news assistant at the banking and luxury goods. I’ve Journal, and then been in lots of different profes-

30 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Rachel Bratlie and husband Chris Taylor

Rachel Bratlie ’99 is a how sweet briar psychiatrist who has lived helped: I spent my junior year of Sweet Briar studying at with her family for the past the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. It was one of the three years in Hamilton, best years of my life. Having New Zealand, just south of had this experience, I was open-minded to the idea of Auckland. going abroad again. Adjusting to life in New Zealand was certainly easier because of my Why she moved What surprised her: experience in Scotland. abroad: A number of On the good side, the work doctors who I trained with culture in New Zealand is very Hamilton, had worked temporarily in family friendly and I receive a Advice to Americans New Zealand New Zealand, and they all had generous amount of vacation moving abroad: If fantastic things to say about time each year—six weeks— you have the inclination and living and working there. My and unlimited sick leave, which the opportunity, go for it! I husband and I started thinking I can use for myself or my firmly believe that my family about it when I completed my children. On the not-so-good and I are better for it, in terms residency training in 2008 but side, most things here are very of our quality of life and in didn’t take the jump until 2014, expensive, as shipping to New viewing issues from a global after I had some work experi- Zealand from anywhere is not perspective. ence in the U.S. and after we’d so easy. had our first son.

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 31 Evangeline Taylor

Zagreb, Croatia

Managua, Nicaragua countries, especially those that after we arrived in Nicaragua, Evangeline Taylor ’00 is an do not have actual rule of law, Sandra Rappaccioli Padilla assistant cultural affairs officer how lucky I am to be an Amer- ’80 came over to meet us and ican, and to know what it is has introduced me to life here at the U.S. embassy in Managua, like to live in a free and wealthy in Managua. The Sweet Briar country that has numerous sisterhood has connected us all Nicaragua. Traveling with her opportunities. over the world. husband in the Foreign Service, she has lived in Azerbaijan, How she connects How Sweet Briar with Sweet Briar prepared her for Russia and Nicaragua in the overseas: While we lived the world: I studied bi- past seven years. in Azerbaijan, I visited three ology and minored in music in of my classmates who were college, but now I’m a cultural living in Germany—Amy Hess affairs officer. I started a new How she decided What she has Snawder, Susan Bobb and Kim career. That’s huge. I come from to live overseas: I learned: I’m surprised Harden Fella. In Russia, class- a background in doing lab re- always wanted a chance to live how much I could come to mate Kim Fella came to see us search and science. It’s scary at and work overseas. Learning love and appreciate a country and we “adopted” study abroad first, but you have to have that about the history of a country I’d never heard of in my youth, student Taneal Williams ’16 confidence. Sweet Briar gives and their customs, trying new Azerbaijan, or how intimidat- while she was in the prestigious you that confidence. foods, and meeting new peo- ing a city of 12 million people, Moscow Theater Art pro- ple. Life in the Foreign Service Moscow, could turn into some- gram. When visiting Hungary, means we will live all over the thing familiar and comfort- my husband and I met with world—who knows where our able. On the other hand, I am then-U.S. Ambassador Colleen next assignment will take us! reminded when I live in other Bradley Bell ’89. The day

32 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Slavica Olujić Klapčić ’95 lives in her native Croatia with her husband and their four sons. She and her husband run Katapult, a business focused on tourism, events and conferences in Zagreb.

How she found out How Sweet Briar about Sweet Briar: prepared her: It gave I spent my senior year in high me confidence and strength. school as an exchange student I believe there is no business in Houston, , living with challenge which is unsurpass- the best family in the world, able. On a more practical note, the Woodards! Liz Clegg it gave me a broad liberal arts Woodard is also an SBC alum, education; it taught me how to Class of ’72. She is married make a good presentation of to Donald Woodard, who is a the work I do, of the projects I W&L alumnus. I heard great create, of myself. It taught me stories about their college time to think, to informa- and decided to apply. tion, to always go forward.

What she liked best: Her advice for Slavica Olujic´ Klapcic˘ ´ The campus, the facilities, the international environment were really en- students: When you riching. But the best parts were come to foreign country, I the professors. They have my think it is always better to go to greatest respect and admiration a place where you can feel safe as intellectuals, as academics, and nurtured. A small com- as teachers, as people. The munity, which allows to you to professors were there for us, meet people, make real friends, they treated us like adults, like get to know the surrounding perceptive young women; they better and faster. Our freshman treated us with respect. They year, we complained about SBC believed in us; they gave us being a “bubble.” Later I real- confidence. ized that during all this time in a wonderful pink and green bubble, without knowing it, we What she does in were growing more indepen- Zagreb: I started a compa- dent, louder in saying what we ny for events and show produc- think, more confident, braver. tions in 2002. We are organiz- Isn’t that a great preparation for ing the biggest Christmas fair the outer world? in Zagreb called Advent in Zagreb, which is one of the top tourist events. We also organize corporate events and confer- ences for companies like IBM, American Express, SAP, and other local and international corporate clients.

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 33 Sweet Briar President Phil Stone, Sally Old Kitchin Sweet Briar breaks ground ’76, and the Vixen Tennis players and coaches celebrate the start of a on new tennis courts construction project to weet Briar College has broken ground on Association standards, says Teresa Boylan, head tennis redesign and replace the a renovation of its home tennis courts. The coach and the College’s athletic director—and the team’s home courts. College anticipates completing the project improvements send a message to prospective students. by the end of May—just in time for Reunion “We are an equal participant in the Old Dominion and summer tennis camps. Athletic Conference and Mid-Atlantic region for qual- SVice president and general counsel Nancyellen ity tennis,” Boylan said. “An updated facility shows that Keane ’78, who is managing the project, says existing the College is committed to a varsity tennis presence, courts are being “reconfigured and redesigned.” and to a year-round ‘grow-the-game’ facility that will The current layout consists of two sets of seven support learning and playing. courts, one immediately behind Williams Gym and “Tennis recruits will see that our wonderful school the other on a terrace below. The scope of the work is creating high-level opportunities for them to be suc- this spring calls for the upper courts to be rebuilt from cessful. You can be pre-med/pre-vet/engineering and scratch, Keane said, resulting in six new courts in place play high-level tennis on championship-quality courts of seven. here at Sweet Briar College.” The redesign will provide proper spacing of the Boylan admits it will be nice to host conference courts and an ample viewing area adjacent to Court 1 matches at home again, but she is also eagerly looking for Vixen Tennis home matches. forward to welcoming alumnae back for a fall tennis The construction also features an improved drain- round robin and social. age system, as well as new fencing, surface, subsurface “Now that construction is underway, I have put and nets. Crews are digging 9 inches into the ground these events on the books!” she said. to completely remove the old subsurface. The renovation is made possible through contribu- Steve Bailey, Sweet Briar’s physical plant director, tions from alumnae and other Sweet Briar supporters, says about 100 truckloads of the old asphalt have been including support from the Van der Meer family. removed from the courts. Grounds crews recycled the Van Der Meer is part of a 107-year history of crushed material to repair gravel roads elsewhere on tennis at Sweet Briar, having held adult summer camps campus. A 6-inch base of stone will underlie the two on campus since 1979.This renovation allows that top asphalt layers—a 2-inch base plus a 1-inch surface tradition—and the auxiliary revenue that comes with coat. it—to continue. Everything meets NCAA and Intercollegiate Tennis

34 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Books

Alumnae Compiling a summer reading list? Consider new releases by alumnae authors.

Molly Haskell ’61 state-owned lake and its islands Fleming Parker Rutledge ’59 he was sent to the Philippines Steven Spielberg: from commercial development, The Crucifixion: and listed as missing-in-action A Life in Films squatters, and erosion. Using Understanding the after a Japanese attack. Sally’s images from her personal Death of Jesus Christ book details her father and A veteran film critic and collection and from the Kelly Uncle Benny’s attempts to find author, Molly explores the full Adirondack Research Center, Noting a preference to and save Barton. The story is range of Spielberg’s works for Ellen has captured the essence preaching the Resurrection sourced from archives around the light they shine on the man of Apperson’s love for the lake as opposed to the Crucifixion the world, letters half-forgotten himself. Molly reveals how the and his impact on its preser- among contemporary pastors, in basements, interviews with storylines spanning Spiel- vation. Fleming confronts issues giving fellow shipmates and POW’s, berg’s oeuvre—from hits Close rise to this preference and and prescient correspondence Encounters of the Third Kind, Robin Cutler ’66 explores the importance of the and diary entries by the broth- E.T., and Schindler’s List to the Such Mad Fun: Crucifixion to having a true ers’ fiercely protective mother. lesser-known A.I. and Empire Ambition and Glamour in understanding of the Gospel. of the Sun—all spring from his Fleming is retired Episcopal Jane Ellen Lishnoff own life and experiences. Molly Hollywood’s Golden Age priest, lecturer, and teacher of Glasser ’66 is the author of five previous Robin’s biography of her moth- other preachers. In addition to In the Shadow of Paradise books, including her memoir, er, Jane Hall, tells the story sermon collections, her other Love and Other Infectious Dis- of a remarkable life—from books include The Battle for In her seventh collection of eases, and the recently reissued being orphaned in an Arizona Middle-earth: Tolkien’s Divine poetry, Jane opens with an epi- From Reverence to Rape: The mining town to Depression-era Design in The Lord of the Rings. graph by 13th-century Persian Treatment of Women in the New York debutante to Holly- Sunni Muslim poet Rumi: “The Movies. wood screenwriter—and brings Sally Mott Freeman ’76 wound is the place where light into high relief the ambitions The Jersey Brothers enters you.” Taking inspira- Ellen Apperson Brown ’72 of a talented woman versus tion from art, nature, even John Apperson’s societal expectations in the During WWII, Sally’s father the commonplace, she finds ran Roosevelt’s secret White Lake George age in which she lived. Robin, meaning and purpose in loss, a public historian, is also the House Map Room. Her Uncle disappointment and death: A Ellen grew up hearing stories author of A Soul on Trial: A Benny was the gunnery and scar “is the shorthand/of an about her great-uncle, pres- Marine Corps Mystery at the anti-aircraft officer on the important story” and a piece of ervationist and conservation Turn of the Twentieth Century. USS Enterprise, one of the sea glass is “softened/by memo- activist John Apperson. After only carriers to escape Pearl ry, beautiful/in its forgiveness.” discovering Lake George in the Harbor. Her Uncle Barton early 1900s, Apperson devot- seemed out of harm’s way in ed himself to protecting the the Navy Supply Corps, until

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 35 Shirley P. Reid Reid recalled that she worked In addition to the evolu- part time at the College in high tion of hairstyles, hemlines Sweet Briar mourns Shirley P. school. Her job was to go to and societal attitudes, Dewey Reid, namesake of the SGA’s students’ rooms to announce Decimal card catalogs gave way employee excellence award male visitors. to a computerized Library of The Sweet Briar community Reid, who became a Congress system, and Reid was was saddened to learn of the full-time employee the same part of the conversion. death of Shirley Pendleton year the U.S. Supreme Court “That was a job,” Reid said Reid, who passed away at Fair- ordered the desegregation of in 2005. “But you change along mont Crossing in Amherst on public schools in Brown v. with things.” Jan. 26, 2017. She was 79. Board of Education, saw mo- As part of her responsibili- Reid joined the Sweet Briar mentous changes during her ties, Reid supervised countless College staff in 1954 and re- tenure, both on campus and student employees—number- tired 57 years later in 2011. She off. She said then-head librari- ing in the dozens at any given began work as a housekeeper an Tyler Gemmell encouraged time—and was a friend, kindly in the Mary Helen Cochran her to broaden her skills to be advisor, and example to many. Library and trained to take on ready for progress that would Her dedication to the job was at once mentor and mother increasing responsibilities until bring opportunity—such as legendary and she was beloved to thousands over the years. she became the circulation becoming one of Sweet Briar’s by the generations of faculty, Looking at the accomplish- supervisor. first African-American super- staff and students who relied ments of her two daughters, The library wasn’t her first visors. on her expertise. Valerie and Yolanda, you can job at Sweet Briar, though. “She used to tell me things “She truly was the face of get an idea of the high stan- In 2005, on the occasion of would change,” said Reid, who the library for decades and stu- dards she set and the encour- the 50th anniversary of her would raise two daughters and dents loved her,” says Cochran’s agement and insistence on employment at Sweet Briar, watch both graduate from col- director John Jaffe, who is on education that she inculcated lege to lead successful careers. sabbatical this year. “She was in all her contacts.”

Alice Lancaster Buck ’44 Beloved former dean dies, but his big,

Alice L. Buck passed on Nov. Lancaster, Business Manager of booming laugh lingers in memory 16, 2016, at her retirement the College and member of the he Sweet Briar commu- of fairness, a kind supportive community in Ashburn, Va. Board of Directors and Board nity was also saddened nature, and a great sense of She died of complications of Overseers. Lancaster House, to learn of the death of humor with a big hearty laugh.” related to congestive heart now known as Hubbard House, George Henry Lenz, a Pam DeWeese, current failure. She was preceded in was built in 1937 and named in Tformer physics professor and dean of the faculty and vice death by her husband of 65 his honor. academic dean of the College. president for academic affairs, years, Pierpont Blair Buck She was the youngest of Lenz, 76, of La Jolla, Calif., echoed those sentiments. (Pete) in 2010. She is survived four sisters. She graduated died Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016, “George Lenz was an by her sister Carrington Pasco from Sweet Briar College in after a three-month battle with exceptional person,” DeWeese of Richmond, Va., her three 1944 and then married Buck cancer. said. “He had just become dean children, 10 grandchildren, and on Dec. 9, 1944. She obtained Lenz came to Sweet Briar when I arrived at Sweet Briar five great-grandchildren. a master’s in history from UVa. in 1971 from the University of and, soon thereafter, we were Alice Lancaster Buck was She worked for the Atomic En- Virginia, where he began his both involved in a complex the daughter of Dabney S. ergy Commission as a historian teaching career. He served the strategic planning process. I until her retirement in 1987. College until his retirement in was always impressed with Alice was a devoted wife 2004. He was named the Whit- his kindness, thoughtfulness and wonderful mother of three ney-Guion Professor of Physics around difficult issues, and children: Blair Dabney, Dor- in 1976 and served as academic good judgment. othea Dutcher, and Katherine dean from 1990 to 2001. A “He was an excellent mentor Lancaster. native of South Orange, N.J., he who became a valued friend received his Ph.D. in experi- over the years. It was heart- mental nuclear physics from breaking to hear the news of Rutgers University in New his illness and passing, but so Brunswick, N.J. many of us at Sweet Briar have A News & Advance obituary wonderful memories of him. I says “colleagues at Sweet Briar can still hear his laugh and see describe him as having a fine the twinkle in his eye. Rest in analytical mind, a strong sense peace, George.”

36 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Interim director Joe Malloy worked with Reid for 15 years and also knows what she brought to the library and the Sweet Briar community. In Memoriam “Shirley P. Reid was a delight to work If you wish to write to a member of of someone recently deceased, please contact with and I learned many things from her the Alumnae Office for name and address. about running a library,” Malloy said. “She will be sorely missed by me and many 1934 1945 Jean Croker McMillan others.” Betty Henigbaum Miles Frances Matton Luckett February 6, 2017 Her contributions did not go unnoticed. January 8, 2010 January 29, 2017 Lynn Morrissey Strike In 1997, the Student Government Asso- 1936 1946 September 26, 2016 ciation created the annual Shirley P. Reid Elizabeth Hoff Way Sperow Palmour Holmes McIntire 1955 Excellence in Service Award to recognize November 5, 2016 January 15, 2017 College staff members—and named her Elizabeth Owens Fletcher its first recipient. She also was recognized 1938 1947 January 9, 2017 in 2001 as a Centennial Award winner for Lucy Winston Works Anne Kleeman Sites 1957 November 7, 2016 December 10, 2016 having a significant impact on the College. Elaine Floyd Fisher Reid is survived by her daughters, 1939 1948 October 13, 2016 Valerie Reid Jackson and Yolanda Reid ’91; Patricia Balz Vincent Emily Loftis Peters two stepsons, Dock Reid III and Charles Frances Childress Lee November 4, 2016 January 24, 2017 Reid; three grandchildren, Richard, Angela January 11, 2017 and Terence Jackson; and a large extended 1940 McCall Henderson 1959 Adelaide Boze Glascock Revercomb family, including many current and former Sally Hale Riggs October 3, 2016 December 16, 2016 Sweet Briar employees. February 19, 2017 Georgia Herbert Hart Helen Elliott Sockwell Gertrude “Trudie” January 22, 2017 January 5, 2017 Jackson Smither 1941 1949 October 19, 2016 Lossie Taylor Noell Alice Trout Hagan 1960 February 5, 2017 February 12, 2017 Julia Jackson Nichols Professor of Judith Jenks Fraser-Pearse English John Gregory Brown even ded- 1942 1951 February 1, 2017 icated his novel “Audubon’s Watch” to Betty Walker D’Alton Helen Stanley Hollifield Lenz—whose laugh still reverberates in his 1962 December 15, 2016 January 8, 2017 memory, too. Mary Blair O’Leary “George was not merely admired by Alice Williams Inge Audrey Breitinger Post August 25, 2016 his colleagues here at Sweet Briar; he was December 16, 2016 December 9, 2016 1963 beloved,” Brown said. “He was as generous Virginia Wilkinson Swanson Ursula Reimer Van Anda Kathryn Spencer Pixley and kind as he was scholarly, and he had a November 28, 2016 October 6, 2016 January 20, 2017 great booming laugh I can still hear. Most of all, he was a gentleman, a devoted hus- 1943 1952 1967 band and father, and for three decades one Pauline Boswell Fosdick Nancy Messick Ray Kerry Weber Brown of the truly great presences at Sweet Briar.” March 31, 2014 November 27, 2016 October 24, 2016 Lenz is survived by Ellen, his wife of 55 Elizabeth Gawthrop Riely years, along with their son G. Ehrich Lenz, Caroline Miller McClintock Mary Cunningham Spencer Feb 23, 2017 J.D.; daughter-in-law Marybeth; grand- February 19, 2017 February 16, 2015 children Otto and Adele; daughter Kelly Mary Love Ferguson Sanders 1953 1978 Ann Lenz, M.D.; and son-in-law Nicholas October 28, 2016 Martha Black Jordan Eve Jackson London McCrory. October 24, 2013 January 12, 2017 Mary MacFarland West October 11, 2014 1954 1984 Betty Gene Orr Atkinson Elizabeth “Lili” Gillespie 1944 December 23, 2016 Billings Anastasia Sadowsky January 28, 2017 Anderson Page Anderson Hungerpiller January 22, 2017 December 5, 2016 1999 Katie Whitlock Summers Alice Lancaster Buck Nanci Hay Mahoney March 19, 2017 November 16, 2016 September 8, 2016

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 37 much contentment. All’s well down on Cara Jane Morningstar Spiller, the farm. Had to give up the sheep, in Oakland, Ky., says she’s doing pretty geese, cow and horse after my hus- well trying to cope with various hip Class Notes band Fritz passed away, but I still have problems and also to keep track of her scarcely imagine that long-ago world the dog, cat, chickens, 11 grandchil- four children, spread from without television, credit cards, fitted dren and four greats to chase after. to South Africa. She sends love to all. 1939 sheets, cell phones, commercial air Waller Berkeley Fergusson Rita Murray Gould in Del Ray Patricia Balz Vincent died peacefully travel, disposable diapers, antibiotics, writes that she is now widowed and liv- Beach, Fla., reports she is living in a November 14. She studied art history home air-conditioning, birth control ing in a retirement home in Richmond, “life-long care”, lovely apartment, had at Sweet Briar and later danced with pills, microwave ovens or the Internet. Va., with quite a few other alumnae. to give up tennis, but found some- Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. We danced to the music of Guy She applauds all current efforts to keep thing else called Pickle Ball. She has Serving in the Red Cross in India in Lombardo and Tommy Dorsey. We paid saving Sweet Briar! one granddaughter and three great WWII, she met her husband, Patrick, a nickel to ride NYC buses, mailed a Sally Bianchi Foster and husband grandchildren nearby who keep life a British officer in the Indian Army. first class letter for $0.03, a postcard Bob, now in an assisted living facility interesting. Settling in Durham, Patrick joined the for a penny and doled out $0.17 for a in New Jersey, both claim that “getting Ginny Page Love reports that she faculty at Duke, and Patricia became a gallon of gas. The average middle class old is tough stuff” but are “hanging in and her second husband have been in docent at the Duke Museum of Art and house cost $6,600, the average annual there.” Sal would love to hear from any Los Angeles, Calif., for 30 years, both volunteered for the American Dance wage was $2,285 and a new Buick and all who remember her VOX POP in good health, share 16 grandchildren Festival. cost $1,300. Show (!) or any of the other events she and 10 great grandchildren, all scat- This year marks the 70th anniver- so beautifully stage-managed. tered from Hawaii to Belgium. She says sary of the Class of 1947 graduation. Edie Brooke Robertson reports she thinks of SBC with fond nostalgia. 1947 We number 44, most of us with that she was widowed in 2014 and Anne Peyton Cooper says Linda McCoy Stewart middle-aged “children,” grandchildren moved to a retirement community in keeping in touch with old roommates, 18 Osprey Lane and great-grandchildren. Norfolk. Before that, much travel, family classmates and faculty means so Rumson, NJ 07760-1821 Mary Ames Booker ’82 submit- reunions, more grandchildren, etc. “I much for SBC’s solid foundation. Anne Happy 70th Anniversary, Class of ted on behalf of her aunt, Suzanne still keep in touch with Lola Steele enjoys her life at the Harbury Club in 1947! Fitzgerald VanHorne, who graduated Shepherd, Frances Martin Lindsey Pelham, NY, where she has a condo, It’s pre-dawn in mid-April with the with twin sister Catharine (Mary Ames’ and Dolly Clark Rasmussen. can and does make many short, easy whole world steeped in a cold, steady mother).) Sue is living at home and Cheers!” trips into the big city for art shows and drizzle. In the Monroe Freight yard we doing well. She had a fall late last year Ackie Easter Henderson writes: all sorts of cultural happenings. She huddle by the tracks … a gaggle of but recovered and returned home. She “Been living happily in Charlottesville gets together occasionally with Dottie tearful, shivering sophomores. Many continues to enjoy playing the piano! for 45 years. Three grandsons in Montague Cholnoky who lives nearby of us only in pajamas or nightshirts I’ve got a class roster if anyone Florida, Shanghai and Edinburgh. Still in . under buttoned up raincoats that wants an address or phone numbers getting around, but not quite as spry.” Betsy Sawyer Hodges and afford zero protection against chill, for classmates as we approach the B.G. Elmore Gilleland, now wid- husband Allen are in their own home rain and a kind of grief none of us had 70th anniversary of our graduation. owed, lives in her own home in Winter in Orlando, married 67 years, with five ever known before. We’re a hastily Park, Fla., still travels and keeps active children, 11 grandchildren, and 16 convened group—students, a few in the community with volunteer jobs. great grandchildren (with two more on faculty, local farmhands, country folk 1949 Over the phone, sounds just as strong the way!). Betsy says she still enjoys of all dimensions—joined in a single Preston H. Hill and vigorous as if the year were 1947. quilting when she isn’t trying to keep in purpose. We’ve come, quite sponta- 3910 South Hillcrest Dr (She has been a great help to me in touch with her huge family. neously, to pay respect to our late pres- , CO 80237-1110 connecting with classmates). Lola Steele Shepherd says, yes ident, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In the 303 7582428 Lucy Kreusler Carey writes she is present and accounted for in her gloom, the funeral train slowly passes, Preston Hodges Hill welcomed her from Catonsville, Md., where she has retirement community in Richmond. bearing his body from Warm Springs, first great-grandchild Enzo Dylan Hill in lives in a retirement community called She wanted to be near her daughters, Ga., to Washington, D.C. So solemn the January 2017 in Brooklyn, NY. Enzo’s Charlestown for 11 years. Retired from and also Waller Fergusson who was moment … no speeches, no bugles, father David Hill is med student due to social work, she finds herself always already there. She reports the recent no tossing of flowers … just the rain graduate in June. Another grandson is busy and never bored, takes classes, death of, and mid-February military and our silent farewell to the man who at University of Colorado Boulder. His and has recently taught one herself on services for, Dolly Clark Rasmus- for many of us, was the only president twin sister is studying music in Boston. Russian history. sen’s husband, John. Our sincere we had ever known. She’s glad SBC is thriving. Elsie Laudram Layton reports condolences to Dolly and her family. Our class of 1947 arrived as that she has stayed in touch with SBC Mary-Dame Stubbs Broad in freshmen just weeks after the D-Day folks in Houston but looks forward to Hampton, Va., lost her husband Doug in landings of World War II. Here and further-away news of classmates. The 2003 and has since been living alone there, occasional word of a father, 1950 Jo Gulick Grant College experience meant so much to in her own home, still without cane or brother, boyfriend (nary a husband for 20 Hews Lane her and she sends best wishes to all walker. She is pleased to report great no one is our class was married) came Lyme NH, 01768 who read this. happiness, in spite of bladder cancer, by much-delayed mail. For the most (603)795-2708 Bonnie Loyd Crane lives in a Hurricane Isabel and weeks without part little war news seeped in through house overlooking the sea in Magnolia, power. She rejoices in her life with her the boxwood hedges to darken our Unaccustomed as I am to anything Mass., (near Gloucester) loves it, wel- three grandchildren, one great-grand- bucolic lives. President Roosevelt’s “secretarial, I think its high time, after comes guests and others interested in child and another on the way. “Good to too-soon death—he was only 63— 17 years, there should be some news her collection of 19th century paintings have class notes once again”. dropped so abruptly into our youthful of us in the Alumnae Magazine. Just brought along when she moved her Carolyn Williams Feussner: is consciousness, was a rude awakening. as the college is being so wonderfully gallery up north from Wellesley. Bonnie living in a great retirement commu- Only days later came V-E Day and the revived, why not a similar revival of has three grandchildren! nity in Linwood, on the Jersey Shore, horrifying reports of the death camps the 1950 class. Notes? I, with little Anne McNeez Blanken writes after 42 years as a real estate broker. that had festered all unbeknownst knowledge of our life-happenings over from Lexington, Va., that she is quite She does a lot of travelling, spending to us, as we bemoaned our wartime so many years, now venture to cobble well, keeps busy with tennis(!), bridge time in Naples, Fla., in the winter, and deprivations: oleo instead of butter; together and submit what has been with Louise Moore, and a couple of summers on Lake Winnipesaukee, NH. rationed gas impeding weekend jaunts sent in so far: volunteer jobs. She is off to Italy in (Carol, please be sure to phone me to UVa for weekend frolics. “Bill” Bailey Fritzinger in April. (Always been hard to keep up next time you’re coming up here!) Today the college-bound can Weston. Vt.: Not much excitement, but with my old roomie!) Jo Gulick Grant writes “As for me,

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I still have my original husband Bill (63 old friends are doing. All the best. in the coastal mountains amid lots of and notes for the scrapbook, which she years now) and we’re still happy in our Julie Micou Eastwood: Good redwoods. We’ve been on the mailing again has offered to compile. ancient 1773 farmhouse in rural New news about SBC’s recovery under the list for years, and our visit this time co- Ann Whittingham Smith wrote Hampshire. Slowing down, of course, new, dedicated and successful presi- incided with picking of the olives, which that she would not be there, as did but keeping busy with church and dent. I’m well settled here at Westmont daughters Elizabeth and Becca did. We Binji (Harriet) Thayer Elder and Ja- library work and enjoying classes, and and with Libby and Rod very nearby. bought some a few weeks later, bottled nis Thomas Zeanah, who has severe cultural events at nearby Dartmouth It is a pleasant place to be with a new under the label “Olio Nuovo,” hoping arthritis. Janis recently was awarded College. I have done a lot of travel in group of friends. that there might be some of their olives the prestigious Outstanding Service the past few years, mostly overseas, MJ Eriksen Ertman: All of my in each bottle. (Wishful thinking.) Award from the Birmingham Chapter, but of late, feel we should start news concerns children: I had a lovely Mary Pease Fleming: Mary sent National Society of Arts and Letters. limiting that to the US and Canada. I Christmas with Susie, our daughter her inimitable Christmas card this year. Congratulations, Janis! keep up my Italian by meeting with a who lives nearby. A lovely Christmas I am not good at geometry, but when I’m afraid this is a little short this study group, plus another group for Eve and a Christmas Day with lots of there are five children who marry and time because I always rely so much on conversation. We have eight grandchil- cousins in Hingham, Mass. Since then, have more children who then have chil- Joanie’s Christmas cards for news. You dren and two great-granddaughters, Andy has been here for a few days dren (I’m at the grandchild level here guys will have to send it to me! all pretty far—except for our oldest (straightening out my accounts on the and don’t know if her great-grandchil- Seriously, if you can travel, make daughter, currently the principal of a computer). Anne came for a week, dren are old enough to have families), a serious effort to come to Reunion, local elementary school. and then Martha for my 87th (wow) the Christmas card with its happy June 2-4. Try to get a son or daughter Virginia Luscombe Rogers: I birthday on Feb. 2. I’d love to hear from photos may soon be in the Guinness or a grandchild to come with you. If just returned from a visiting Dotsy classmates on [email protected] Book of Records and circumnavigate you live near another alum, try to travel Wood Letts in Palm Beach, Fla. We Anne Sinsheimer: This is my the globe. They are an extremely together. We need to see one another have stayed in touch for years. My son, better-late-than-never Christmas note. handsome group. (PLF) one more time at Sweet Briar. You are Justin, lives in Middleburg, Va. I drove I still read with elementary school Ursula Reimer van Anda died all 21 and new graduates in my mind! to see him last fall and on to Charlot- children, play duplicate bridge (not Oct. 5, 2016, in Portola Valley, Calif. tesville and SBC with Anne Fiery Bryan well), go to a women’s gym (not my Her son and his family lived nearby. ’49. The campus looked beautiful. My favorite pastime, but it enables me to 1953 daughter Sarah works for Heritage continue enjoying life), walk dog, knit, Florence Pye Apy . Daughter Larkin lives and attend concerts. I am on the land- 1952 40 Riverside Ave., Apt. 6Y works in Hudson. I serve on the Board scape committee for our homeowner’s Jane Russo Sheehan Red Bank, NJ 07701 of a Historic Preservation Foundation. association. (I live in a planned unit Class Secretary [email protected] Heartfelt thanks to all who wrote development, aka PUD.) I am most 600 S. Main St. Thank you to those of you who or phoned this time. I will need your thankful that I can do what I do. I am Mansfield, Mass. 02048 help if these notes are to continue- and also fortunate that my oldest nephew responded to my plea for news. I 779-331-1562 corresponded with those of you for anyone wishing to contact another in and some of his family live here. [email protected] our class, please phone me (or the SBC Lynne McCullough Gush: I have whom I had email addresses. If you did Alum. Office) for complete address, just talked with Lynne, who is dealing Those of you whose emails I was able not hear from me and have computers, phone, or email.” with cancer. This means that she to contact have already heard about please send me your email address. cannot walk her marvelous Weimara- our Class President Joanne Hol- Otherwise please send news for the ner, Kenningston, to the bayou, that she brook Patton’s illness following her next issue to my home at the address doesn’t drive her new silver automobile successful hip-replacement surgery. above. 1951 Since I do not have current or any From Kirk Tucker Clarkson: Kirk Patty Lynus Ford around Houston, and that her number email addresses for quite a few of our and Jack have moved to a retirement Spring Lake Village of piano students is limited, but her class members. I will repeat what the community, Vicar’s Landing at Ponte 5555 Montgomery Dr., Apt. 23 spirit is irrepressible. (PLF) email said: A few days after returning Vedra Beach, to be near their children Santa Rosa, Cal. 95409-5597 Patty Lynas Ford: We appreciate home after her surgery, Joanie had and two grandsons. They welcomed [email protected] being at Spring Lake Village, a beautiful 26-acre campus bounded by the heart failure and problems, two great-granddaughters in 2016, Monna Simpson MacLellan: My Santa Rosa Creek on the north and a necessitating emergency room trips, one born in nearby Jacksonville, the work of almost 30 years with youth large lake and park on the other side hospitalizations, rehabs, and finally other in Costa Rica. A third grandson ministries at the Episcopal Church of Montgomery Drive on the south, in the insertion of a pacemaker. All this is in his final year at Darden Business Center in ended in 2008 Santa Rosa, Calif. There is a range of time in bed has greatly interfered with School at UVa. Kirk keeps in touch with when the staff office was moved to mountains to the north and a couple her mobility, so her recovery has been Polly Sloan Shoemaker and Jimmy Minnesota. Since then I have been of moderately high ones on the south understandably slow. Her goal is to and Betty Behlen Stone, all of whom teaching 4-year-olds at a nursery side. Minor medical issues can be make it to our 65th Reunion, but as are now in retirement communities. school located in the parish house of taken care of at the health center, with many of us, “it all depends …” I Ginger Timmons Ludwick and David my church. These energetic, enthu- which is such a convenience. We spoke to her at the end of January, and have moved from Los Angeles to Palm siastic children keep me limber and haven’t walked around the lake yet. she was beginning to be able to use a Desert, Calif., and Liz Ray Hessler hopeful. My husband of 61 years, It also connects, through a wooded walker and must do many exercises to has moved to a retirement home in George “Mac” MacLellan, died in June path, to another lake, where there are recover strength and balance. I know Charlotte, N.C. 2014 after two years of illness. His swans and more than enough geese. many would like to send her a card or a There is a theme here: Kay ashes rest on Nantucket Island, Mass., Both are surrounded by wooded hills. note at her home at 135 Asbury Street, Amsden and Mary Lou are very happy where he grew up and where we met In November, our Virginia daughter flew Topsfield, Mass. 01983 or joanne@ in their retirement community, Heritage at the summer theater soon after my to see us.We took her and our local greenmeadows.com. She tells me that Heights in Concord, N.H, where they SBC graduation. My daughter and her daughter on a drive up the coast to she had a call from Ann Hoagland have lived for 14 years. They highly family came to live with us more than spend two nights at the Little River Inn. Kelsey. I am sure that Joanie’s indomi- recommend it, and anyone interested 20 years ago, and I am so grateful The first day, we drove up to Mendoci- table spirit will carry her through this in relocating to that area is welcome to to have them share our home. Three no, a charming town with lots of tank difficult time. visit them. of my eight grandchildren are still houses and old New England type of Speaking of our reunion, so far I From Edie Norman Wombwell: students, two in their freshman year of architecture and a marvelous restau- believe Pauline Wells Bolton, Pat Edie had just returned home following college and the youngest a senior in rant, Cafe Beaujolais.The next day, Beach Thompson, Pat Layne Winks, knee-replacement surgery, which is high school. They all fill my life with joy. before driving home, we drove inland Betsy Wilder Cady, Joanie and I are not healing as fast the previous knee My eyesight is worsening, but I can still about 15 miles to visit Starcross, a trying to go, God willing! Please send surgery, which took place eight years read. I look forward to hearing how my non-affiliated religious community, set Pat Thompson any pictures, clippings, ago. (Age takes its toll.) While she is

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 39 Class Notes grateful for the services her retirement years, Arthur C. Jackson, died two picture. climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. When I admon- community provides to temporary med- years ago at the age of 96. He was Page Anderson Hungerpiller ished him about the current danger in ical patients, she is not entirely happy survived by Nancy, five children and also died last December in Savannah. that part of the world, he admonished with some aspects of group living. eight grandchildren. I learned via the She attended the Pape School and me back—It’s all your fault. And, I’m Fortunately, she has lots of family living Internet that Arthur won a bronze graduated from the National Cathedral afraid I did set that standard, though nearby. Good news—she is expecting medal in sharp shooting at the 1952 School in Washington, D.C. before I’m now paying the piper by losing a twin great-granddaughters in May. Olympics and shortly thereafter was attending Sweet Briar. She founded lobe of a lung and lots of my energy to From Betty Bentsen Winn: Betty recruited by the CIA, where he spent the Savannah Tree Foundation, which a foreign virus (pieces of that lobe are is still working and living at home in a very risky career until his retirement. successfully saved the 300-year-old in labs from Atlanta to Seattle trying to McAllen, Texas. She deals with the joys Their five children now live in Ohio, Candler Oak, as well as the oaks lining identify ). At least it wasn’t and responsibilities of home owner- Connecticut, Virginia, Oman and White Bluff Drive. Their organization cancer, as they first thought.” She ship and still finds time for bridge, Portugal. The three children and two has since planted and preserved many hopes all of us have done all we can to travel and grandchildren. Her daughter, grandchildren who live in the States thousands of trees that distinguish support our remarkable and still very Susan, lives in Middleburg, Va., and her had just returned from visiting the two Savannah’s charm and character. beautiful school. As I also hope. Bev son, Dan, in Durham, N.C. Two grand- families in Oman and Portugal. Nancy Page was also an active and dedicated wrote a cute remembrance of her first children, Will and Carrie, are lawyers, is currently at home in Canterbury, member of the Junior League, Trustees meeting of any SBC gal when she saw Will and his wife live near Betty, and N.J., with her two cats, Mister and Garden Club, and Colonial Dames of Vaughn Inge Morrissette and Lynn Carrie lives in San Diego, Calif. Betty is Missy. Our sympathy to Nancy and her America. Carlton McCaffree, all hatted and looking forward to our 65th reunion. family on the loss of Arthur. I so appreciate all those who re- gloved, in the Montgomery train station From Ginnie Hudson Toone: Carol Exnicios Tucker: Chugging sponded to my email plea for news for on their way to the College in the fall of Ginnie, by her own admission, has along down here in Tampa. It’s lovely this next issue of our magazine! 1950. Thanks to Bev’s husband, John, slowed down and doesn’t like it one bit. at this time of year but not so great in Sally Gammon Plummer reports for being kind enough to type all Bev’s A couple of months of physical therapy the summer. that she has been diagnosed with notes to me for her. didn’t help her back. Tennis and skiing Please keep the news coming and Parkinson’s and decided to sell her A nice Christmas letter from Jerry are activities of bygone days. Currently, remember our 65th reunion will take home of 31 years and move to the Driesbach Ludeke tells of 11 won- she is working sporadically on repairing place next year. 2018 will be here very active and engaged retirement derful days in Charlottesville with family a poor paint job (self-created) in her before we know it. community Claremont Park in Denver. that ended badly when she returned bedroom, which competes with just She did manage to go on several to a totally flooded house. In spite of sitting and reading. She continues to museum-sponsored birding trips last terrific work by Servicemaster, all the volunteer at the Carrollton Library and 1954 year: to the Florida Keys last February, floors and some lower walls had to be to socialize with friends. Bruce Watts Krucke to Magee Marsh in Ohio in May, and to replaced, and she slept on a camping From M.A. Mellon Root: M.A. 201 West 9th St. North, Unit 184 Klamath Falls, Wash., for two days in mattress, mostly out on the patio, for moved to a retirement community Summerville, SC 29483 September, then down the California four and a half months till it was all on Hilton Head Island, S.C., this past 843-879-3972 coast to Novato and a spectacular day fixed. Jerry offers this flood-prevention Thanksgiving. She is delighted to get [email protected] at Point Reyes. She and all her family : Inspect every toilet in your house. good food without the chore of cooking had a July vacation in Oregon, and they There is a flexible tube that leads from it herself. Her daughter, Francie Root It’s too sad, but I have to start out with were all together again at Christmas. the source of water up to the clean ’80, lives in New York City. Francie is a the loss of four more friends from At the end of December, she met Faith water tank. If it is attached to the tank classmate of Fran McClung Ferguson, our class. We extend our sympathies Croker Rahmer and her daughter, with a PLASTIC nut, CHANGE IT to daughter of Maggie Graves McClung and condolences to their families and Sally, who had spent the holidays in stainless one. The plastic ones are and David. M.A.’s daughter-in-law, friends. Breckenridge, Col., for lunch in Denver. known to crack and cause floods like Leslie Wright Root ’83, and son Randy Nancy Hay Mahoney died last Barbara Chase Webber writes hers. Happily, in June her whole family live in Dallas. September. Her services were in that she is still in the horse racing had a reunion in Costa Rica to enjoy From Maggie Graves McClung: Ridgefield, Conn. business and it’s still great fun. the marriage of Anna (Kevin and Amy’s Big News#1! Maggie and David’s Lynne Morrissey Strike died Margie Morris Powell says eldest) to Murilo from Brazil. second great-grandchild, a girl, Blair earlier the same month, but I have no that while she is still involved with Also in a Christmas letter, Caroline Harper Ferrintino, daughter of grand- details. the Maryland House and Garden Pil- “Kobo” Chobot Garner writes that daughter Julia McClung Ferrintino ’09, Betty Gene Orr Atkinson died grimage and raising funds for historic she and her daughter Laurie went was born in late January. Big News#2! just before Christmas in Memphis. preservation, she doesn’t get paid on another cruise, this one to the Granddaughter Carol Ferguson ’11 Here’s a bit from the paper on her to do it anymore. She and Phil keep Baltic Sea, where they visited seven graduated from Union Theological death: “A regal Southern belle with a busy with an old house and an old countries. They met an old friend in Seminary in May and accepted a call to warm, beautiful smile and a deep love garden perched on the side of a hill. Norway and had a wonderful tour of be the solo pastor at Crescent Springs for her family, friends, and Savior Jesus But her knees don’t let her play hockey St. Petersburg, too. Laurie still enjoys Kentucky Presbyterian Church, in a Christ, Betty loved researching family anymore. Their seven grandchildren are selling children’s books and toys, suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. In contrast history, reading, and studying scripture. scattered all over the country, with one with kayaking and camping for fun. to some of the above, the McClungs She was a Bible Study Fellowship lead- also in London. Kobo’s son, Gailor, is teaching history plan to stay in the house they built in er and a devoted member of Indepen- Bev Smith Bragg Jeans writes, and coaching lacrosse at Mt. Vernon 1960. dent Presbyterian Church, “I’m so far still being blessed. After all, Presbyterian School in Atlanta. Like From Katzy Bailey Nager: Katzy sorority, Daughters of the American I’ve had two wonderful husbands, both the rest of us, to Kobo, the idea of SBC is glad that SBC is back in business. Revolution, and The National Society of of whom have spoiled me rotten, and closing and the campus being divided She said, “Obviously, our fiercely loyal the Colonial Dames of America. Betty one of them still does. Together, we up into subdivisions or something is alumnae were underestimated.” And graduated from Ward-Belmont High have five children, 11 grandchildren unthinkable. added, “Hell hath no fury than a wom- School in Nashville, attended Sweet and two great-grands, all of whom How nice to hear again from Joan an scorned.” She is so right. She and Briar College in Virginia, and graduated carry on the family tradition of love of Oram Reid. They are still living in Lon- C.J. spend their winters in a little home from The University of Mississippi with travel, though that differs from one don, and her husband, Sir Bob, finally in Longboat Key, Fla., and still maintain honors.” Sissy Morris Long, Betty and his wife serving in Rwanda as retired Jan. 1. He had been almost their home in Lake Wylie, S.C., where Gene’s lifelong friend, saw her often, missionaries, and another, thanks to 20 years with an American company, they continue their reading program in as she lives in Trezevant Manor, where frequent-traveler and lodging Intercontinental Exchange, based in the local elementary school and enjoy Betty Gene was in the nursing facility. perks from his job, taking in four Marietta, Ga. They have bought a kayaking (Katzy) and sculling (C.J.). Sissy says Betty Gene was just waiting diverse adventures in a four-month retirement flat in St Andrews, Scotland, From Nancy Ord Jackson: Nancy for the arrival of her first great-grand- period—Portugal, the United Arab and hope to move there gradually. Joan reported that her husband of 58 1/2 child and died the day after seeing his Emirates, India and over to Africa to says health wise they are a bit doddery,

40 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes in their mid 80s, but life in London is Besides the nice note about Betty gy Hobbs Shaw, along with their living in Europe and the Middle East always busy and interesting. Gene, Sissy Morris Long mentioned daughters, celebrated Faith’s 80th for 15 years, she and Roman moved to Mary Hill Noble Caperton is that she and Bill spent Christmas on birthday some years ago in Oakland, Virginia, and Mitzi owned a travel agen- enjoying life with her Jack Russell the road visiting their children in New Calif. Faith also took part in Peggy’s cy in the 1990s. She is now happily Terrier in the Charlottesville retirement Jersey and in Atlanta, where at the memorial service in Garrison, Md., last associated with UFX Travel. She has community University Village. Like me, Christmas Eve service they sat next to May. Faith’s granddaughter graduates escorted or planned custom tours all water aerobics is one of her activi- Lamar Ellis Oglesby’s son and fam- from SBC this May; so they will make it over the world, including Tehran, India, ties. She sees Helen Smith Lewis ily. Later, at the airport, they ran into a family reunion with Faith’s daughters, Nepal, Russia, Jordan, Israel, Iran, and occasionally. Lamar and her whole family on their Sue Croker Fisher ’84 and Sally Croker more in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Big news from Mary Jane Roos way to Puerto Rico. Sissy also reports ’92, also. Faith sees “Bee” Pinnell South Pacific. Fenn—her daughter, Susan, who has that Anne White Connell and Anne Pritchard and “Maggie” Mohlman Phyllis Joyner, of course, is the multiple myeloma (incurable cancer of “Peaches” Davis Roane are thriving. Deglar from time to time. She and native Virginian who has been living in the bone marrow), is in complete re- A Christmas letter from Erlend Mary Jane Roos Fenn are always in New York City for many years. She says mission. She is still having chemo and “Lynn” Carlton McCaffree tells of touch since they both live in Williams- she prefers not to identify how many lots of meds after a stem cell transplant their busy life at Goodwin House in burg. years, keeping age a “blur.” I’d say that two years ago. Mary Jane will be going Alexandria. They are both deeply in- That brings me to Bill and me. We makes sense, because if we think too to California in April for the wedding of volved in GHA’s spiritual life, with Lynn are thriving in our retirement communi- much about our actual age, we may Susan’s daughter Dana. providing piano accompaniment for ty. Seems like there is too much to do. just sit in a rocking chair and stop mov- Another not heard from lately, Ruth many worship services and serving on He exercises and I do water aerobics. ing around! For years, Phyllis painted Sanders Smith enjoys attending the Health Services Committee, while He helps out the chaplain, and I’ve just and had shows and sold her paintings. Florida ’s Lifelong Mike acted as the chaplain’s assistant, been elected VP of the Resident Coun- Now, she paints and gives the paintings Learning Classes. She’ll be going north which became very time-consuming cil. We’re in different book clubs, his to benefit exhibits and auctions. She later in the spring for her granddaugh- when the chaplain was on his three- naturally being the more serious of the enjoys New York’s museums, concerts, ter’s graduation from Cornell and her month sabbatical during the summer. two. Our three sons are fine—no news and readings. This past winter, she grandson’s graduation from NYU dental The facility is adding new residences is good news—and our granddaughter went to Santa Monica to meet a school. She also keeps busy helping and a new health care center, just as loves her job with Epic Systems in friend from Seattle whose brother is a out through the Literacy Coalition, tu- we are here, and they are finding the Madison, Wis. screenwriter, so that party was fun. She toring first-graders in reading. Because construction very interesting. Lynn There will be another issue of also went to the Christmas party of the she speaks Spanish, she is the tutor for continues working at the Annandale the Alumnae Magazine in the Fall; so Knights of Lithuania. She adds that she children who are completely non-En- library as a volunteer and helped with please send me a catch-up note on welcomes all SBCers who come to the glish speaking. It really is difficult for two used-book sales during the year you and your family, especially if you city, writing that “it would be fun to see them because they hear only Spanish that netted over $100,000. They go haven’t seen your name in our class you.” Phyllis and I have been together at home. It has been fun and rewarding to their time share at Massanutten notes in a long time. We don’t want this several times since college and feel for Ruth because the kids are so happy resort in McGaheysville, Va., in April. article to be all obits! close to each other, I’d say. It was silly to have help. Their granddaughter Rachel is now an of me to put her last name wrong last Ann Collins Teachout and Bill experienced neonatal nurse and left time. celebrated their 60th anniversary by Charlottesville for a medical center in 1955 Phyllis Herndon Brissenden is renting a house on the California coast Charleston, S.C., trading winter snows Emily Hunter Slingluff a classmate I have not seen lately but and having all the family from East for the beach but then had to evacuate 1217 North Bay Shore Dr. now feel close to, because I called to and West coasts. There were 11 in all, for a hurricane! I hope Lynn and Mike Virginia Beach, Va. 23451 apologize for my using her name in and they celebrated Bill’s birthday and come see her and see us at the same [email protected] Class Notes when I meant Joyner! We New Year’s Eve, as well. Besides fun, time. There are six SBC grads at had such a good phone talk. She has it was total relaxation for Ann, as the Goodwin House. While writing these notes takes a lot lived her whole life in Springfield, Ill., daughters planned all the meals, which Peggy Jones Steuart called and of time and effort, it is a pleasure to since 15 months old, in the same fami- were then cooked by teams of two. Ann we talked for a long time. She has 15 make friends again with our wonderful ly home. After her parents died and she is proud of our alums for all they have grandchildren ranging in age from 6 classmates! Last time in the Class married Walter Brissenden, she and accomplished to rescue SBC—quite an to 30 years old, the latter has been Notes, I did make two mistakes though, Walter lived there until he died. Now astonishing effort, with much more to teaching teachers in Bahrain for four so shall correct now! she is still happy there, enjoying travel- be done, of course. years. They all go to the Steuarts’ First, Sweet Briar has been notified ing often to support operas in St. Louis, Shirley Poulson Broyles writes place in Jamaica at some time during that our classmate, Elizabeth Owens Santa Fe, , and New York! she and Norris are still traveling as the summer. Although still active in Fletcher died on Jan. 9. As her Mary Amanda McThenia Iodice, much as possible, although the level several garden clubs, the Historic obituary reads, she had been involved in Rochester Hills, Mich., writes that of activity has slowed a bit. They go Homes Committee and the Board of in numerous community activities and she and her husband are planning to the Greenbrier Clinic every April for the National Cathedral, Peggy has had worked in real estate in Wash- to move from their big house to an annual physicals and credit their doctor given up all the leadership positions ington, D.C., for more than 45 years, independent living place nearby for keeping them in good shape. They she held. She recently went to a dinner but her role as a mother gave her because her husband is not doing well. took Norris’s children and spouses with some alums and various SBC the most pleasure. She is survived by She said she hopes to attend the next from London to Barcelona in October dignitaries, including President Stone, four children and six grandchildren. A Michigan SBC celebratory meeting. and then went to the Caribbean for who was the principal speaker, and reception in her honor was held at the Manda has a married granddaughter, Christmas with Norris’s sister and Claire Dennison Griffith ’80, head of Chevy Chase Club on Jan. 21. Amanda, who got her master’s degree some friends. In March, they are going major gifts from the Alumnae Relations Mitzi Streit Halla and husband at the University of Virginia while her to New Orleans for a weekend and Development Office. Peggy raved Roman have two sons. I mistakenly husband was in medical school there; with Ken Burns, and in November will about President Stone as a speaker had written that they have a son and they are in Portsmouth, Va., this spring celebrate with all their children and and the way he explained everything a daughter. Son Kenneth lives near with plans to go back to the Northwest spouses a birthday of Shirley’s that that had happened. She said she them in McLean with his wife and three to a military hospital, as her husband ends in 5!! We can all relate to that! never met anyone more positive. Really children and is coordinator for Fairfax is in the Air Force. Manda has other She has nine grandchildren, seven phenomenal was how she described County Public Schools Online Campus. grandchildren in Rochester Hills, and all step-grandchildren, and six great- him. Peggy said she didn’t realize also Brian is in Chapel Hill, N.C., with his sound particularly smart. Well, offspring grands (all sons), with a seventh due how important the riding program was wife and five children and works at the of a Sweet Briar graduate, I add! She in March. Shirley and I see notes from in attracting new students. UNC Jaycee Burn Unit. Mitzi is a busy sees Fritz Merriman Naylor about each other on Facebook. Are any A nice card came from Faith girl, enjoying family and friends, serving twice a year and Didi Stoddard, too, others of you on Facebook? Rahmer Croker. She and Peg- as class president, and traveling. After about once a year.

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Anne Kilby Gilhuly has lived in Sterling, Va. She writes that all four law, Larry, both retired at the end of out of my head for a while!” for many years in Greenwich, Conn., daughters live nearby in Northern 2016 and live near Charlottesville. They Barbara Brown (Page) McFar- and has been teaching Greek history Virginia except for Lyn who is in plan to do a lot of traveling, including land has finally decided that she had and Greek literature for 20 years. She Atlanta. She adds that her daughter coming to Florida, which Bunny heartily done the world of divorce law all the teaches a fall course and a spring Carol is facing brain cancer with spirit applauds! good she could, so she retired last course through an adult and continuing and support from so many friends and Mary Ann McPherson Oliver year from the practice of law. She also education program in the school sys- family. I add mine to Carol, whom I do says that this is her first time ever moved to an over-55 golf community tem there. Before that, she taught En- not know but realize she is fortunate to writing because she is inspired by the and has been happily playing golf, glish at a school in Greenwich. Also she have a mother who we do know is kind saving of SBC and is delighted to find raising a new little Havanese puppy is traveling a lot. In January, she went and caring. her freshman roommate is alive and and just plain doing nothing. Living to Antarctica and said it was like para- Derrill Maybank Hagood and well! She is working on the history of nearby are her two daughters and two dise, the water so clear and sparkling, husband Ben are enjoying Charleston conjugal spirituality as a follow up on of four grandchildren, whom she sees beautiful! Also she has recently been to as always and also their country place, her theoretical book on that subject. frequently. She and her daughters love Iran because of her interest in ancient Lavington, near Charleston, and their Her husband is a retired professor doing Barre 3 and hiking, all adding up times. And she went to Cambodia and mountain house in High Hampton, N.C. from UC Berkeley. Her son is an to making her life good. to Vietnam. On one trip, she was with They have four sons, five grand- attorney, and her daughter a professor Joan Broman Wright has moved a daughter and on another was with sons, eight granddaughters, and one of French. She has two very artistic from Charlottesville to Coral Gables, her son. For 56 years, she was happily great-granddaughter. And almost all of grandchildren. She concludes by Fla., after the death of her husband, married to Bob, which she says is the them are in Charleston. Derrill is close saying, “That’s it in a nutshell!” Jim, to be near her daughter and her best thing she ever did. He died three to her cousin Mary Pope Maybank Lee Chang Crozier says her life family. She recently moved into a newly years ago. She has five children and 13 Hutson ’83, who left her big position in goes on happily and smoothly. She is renovated house. She had fun deco- grandchildren. What fun hearing from Washington, D.C. with the Land Trust active in many aspects of leadership rating her new abode for Christmas classmates who I have not kept up with Alliance to help with development at in her church. She still sings in the and sharing the holiday with daughter such as, in this case, Anne, whose life Sweet Briar. She works closely there choir and helps coordinate the music Elise, son-in-law Richard, son Jim and sounds extremely exciting and active with President Stone as Sweet Briar is program. She also enjoys playing the granddaughters Helen and Huntly. and productive, too. prospering! piano and reading good books. She Lottie Lipscomb Guttry was Sue Lawton Mobley is in Atlanta, Charlotte Taylor Miller writes knits for a group called “Knit Wits,” deeply saddened by the deaths of two as always, and connected with so that she does not have a cell phone or who knit shawls for comfort or joy of her dear SBC friends: Mariann many people and activities there, as email, but she sounds very happy! She according to the circumstance, as well Wilson Lyon and Virginia Self. “A always. For the past few years, she and husband Andy sold their Virginia as scarves, hats and socks for the sad thing about growing old has been a has been living at Canterbury Court on farm a year ago and are now living homeless. Her family of five is thriving: shrinking number of friends.” In 2016 Peachtree Road, which she describes quietly in a place in Leesburg. She has Two grands have university degrees, Lottie published Alligator Creek, a as a wonderful retirement home. She a son, Keene, who lives in Atlanta, and and two others are completing theirs. historical novel based on her Civil War has a daughter living nearby with a a daughter, Helen Hale, in Alameda, One is married. Her doctors say Lee “is ancestors. By donating 10 copies to grandchild attending Agnes Scott. Cal. She said she enjoys reading about one of the healthiest” patients! the SBC online auction, she raised over Her clear happy voice tells me she is her classmates and friends! Nancy Salisbury Spencer says $200 for SBC! Her happiest events enjoying life and knowing her, she is All well with me here in Virginia they are all doing fine and staying as concern her grandchildren, Mary helping others, too. She sees many Beach. I have been on more national engaged as possible in their favorite Shannon and Rob Guttry, who are both of our classmates, including Newell radio shows discussing the importance hobbies and organizations and of honor roll students. Rob has received a Bryan Tozzer and Camille Williams of “parentogethering,” the word I made course their children and 12 grandchil- large scholarship to Centenary College Yow, both in Atlanta. up, and how it helps the child as it dren. Nancy’s daughter, Betsy, and her in Shreveport, La. Grandson Dabney Newell Bryan Tozzer, in Atlanta lessens the number of unhappy people. husband, Bill Blue, live in Charlotte. She gave the Guttrys a new great-grand- forever, too, has a son and daughter We know that those who try to hurt shared their work in this excerpt from daughter, Khole Guttry, in October living there with their spouses and others, emotionally or physically, are, an editorial in : 2016—their third! children. Newell has four grandchildren sadly, almost always unhappy with life. “When most people encounter a prob- Caroline Robinson Ellerbe and one goes to Washington and Lee, Writing and speaking about parenting lem or injustice they grumble about it thinks that her life is too boring but but at this time is doing the Sweet Briar takes up a lot of my time, but I hope it and say someone ought to do some- says the fact that she is still here and Junior Year in France program, just is helping. As our Sweet Briar president thing. That is especially true if fixing it that she and Frank have been married like her grandmother Newell did years said to us when we were there, “When would require enormous effort. Then for 60 years is maybe a bit unusual. ago! It seems that many colleges are you educate a woman, you educate the there is Bill Blue. Blue and his wife, They have two sons, six grandchildren involved with that Sweet Briar Junior world.” Maybe that started me delving. Betsy, didn’t just grumble when they (all grown) and one great-grandson. Year in France program. I would add now that how a woman discovered an appalling lack of mental Frank and Caroline winter in Columbia, Bexie Faxon Knowles is still treats her child matters to the world. health services in the Charlotte region. S.C., and summer in Highlands, N.C. loving her condo in Naples, Fla., with Thank you, Sweet Briar, for getting They did something about it. They did Caroline plays golf and bridge and now its panoramic view of the Gulf. She all of us together. What a wonderful a lot about it, actually: they created The a little croquet, being very thankful for belongs to two books clubs and avails class we had at a wonderful college. HopeWay Foundation, raised $27 mil- good health. herself of a wide range of cultural lion, bought 13 acres in south Charlotte Ann Greer Adams expressed her events there. She has had a recent and established the only residential and shock at so soon being 82! Now in knee replacement but is getting back 1956 day treatment center for people with widowhood, she is blessed with three to the tennis courts! She says she has Mary Ann Hicklin Willingham mental illness in the Charlotte region.” attentive and responsible children. Two enjoyed playing tennis for 70 years, PO Box 728, Skyland, NC 28776 Learn more about the foundation at sons and their families live in Mobile making so many friends through the [email protected] HopeWayFoundation.org. near her. Her daughter, a Presbyterian game everywhere she has lived. A year Paula Purse Pointer notes that minister, lives in Cincinnati with her ago, she said she moved into a beauti- Thank you! Thank you, for all the news it is always fun to read news of class- husband, also a minister, and three ful retirement community with 300 feet you have sent! Let’s get right to it! mates! In addition to trying to be a gra- children. Her daughter is an in-house of gorgeous oceanfront in Scarborough, Bunny Burwell Nesbit writes cious octogenarian, she has developed chaplain at a hospice facility. Ann and Maine, and has made wonderful new from Sarasota, Fla., saying she is living her “sit down” hobby of making jewelry Carolyn Ross Pannell often swap and friends there, but she is not quite in one of the best retirement communi- in workshops in nursing homes. She compare books. Ann is busily involved ready to return there for Maine winters. ties in the country, Palmer Ranch. She says it is a lot of fun to see women who in her church, reading and playing the However, at some time, she does plan is able to do a lot of volunteer work, have no experience with beads create piano. About once a year Ann gives a to be there full-time. which keeps her happy and healthy. necklaces of their own design. “Fun for recital for friends in her home, amazed Anne Lyn Harrell Welsh is living Her daughter, Katherine, and son-in- me and fun for them! And it gets me that her guests actually enjoy the

42 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes performance of an 82-year-old! Ann’s years, Graham, died in 2013, and she Ottoway, Dee Robin, Jane Pinckney eight grandchildren are good kids and really misses him. She has two sons, DeButts, Jackie Ambler Cusick, bring her great joy! one daughter, eight grandchildren and 1957 Mary Landon Smith Brugh, Ninie Helen Turner Murphy wrote that three great-granddaughters. Her family Carol McMurtry Fowler Laing, Anne Ford Melton, Judith life changes little for them as they grow is spread from Owensboro, Ky., to 10 Woodstone Square Ruffin Anderson, and moi, your old together on their farm of many Colorado and Washington, D.C. Austin, Tex. 78703 keeper of the flame. There are many years on the lower Potomac. Ann, Karen Steinhardt Kirkbride was [email protected] more, and cross fingers, that will show their only child, lives in Richmond with delighted to have her daughter-in-law, In his famous song “Mrs. Robinson,” up. her family: granddaughter Grayson Britt, accompanying her to our 60th Paul Simon was looking for Joe Looking back over the years of (12), who attends St. Catherine’s, and Reunion! This gave Karen’s husband, DiMaggio; “where have you gone,” he writing notes we have lived through grandsons Blake (15), Hayes (9) and Dick, and their three sons (Steven, asked. I have the same question for the engagements, marriages, husbands, John (3), who all attend St. Christo- Kevin and Trevor) the opportunity to Fabulous Class of 1957, who led the children, while living now in the era pher’s. Taylor still practices law and, gather at Karen and Dick’s home in college in annual giving for umpteen of lost spouses, friends, classmates, although no longer in public service, Northern Virginia for a great visit on years until bested by the smarties of dementia; the age of walkers, bionic is frequently called upon to share his the same weekend. In July, Karen and 1964, who continue to rub it in. This parts, canes and hearing aids. Well, so environmental expertise via speeches. Dick visited Trevor, his wife, Sara, and was the class that Betsy Muhlenfeld, what. We are part of the no-surrender Helen stays busy as a lay Eucharist their children, Penelope and Silas, in now a member of our group, always generation, thanks, thanks, thanks. Our minister and serving on the altar guild New York City and again in December said if she could but “clone it,” would parents lived through the Depression; at her church. Her true joy is raising in Houston while visiting Sara’s family. have no difficulty fundraising. we lived through World War II, Korea, and showing lilies, of which she has Other family gatherings occurred on Okay, okay, this is a long and rea- the Cold War, Vietnam, Gulf War I, Gulf about sixty varieties. She also belongs birthdays or holidays or trips to the sonably contrived opening for the first War II. We were called the Silent Gen- to a Kayak group, loving that all the beach in Delaware. Class Notes I have written in several eration, but we had stability and knew “divas” are younger than she! Kitty Harrison writes that she years. And the plain fact is that I sent a nation united. Mary Koonz Gynn wrote from her has been busy gathering family letters, out at least 100 emails and received From the responses I did receive, farm in Indiana, having retired from pictures, accounts of ancestors, etc. disappointingly few replies. My genuine the focus is clearly on the future. I call farming two years ago. She is now do- on both sides of her family, a huge job hope, and plea, is that we have a better it the Grandparents Generation. We ing her own yard work and volunteering that she had intended to do for years. response and information forthcoming will not see several classmates whose to help others. Last summer, she took The highlight of the year for her was when the fundraisers call in the next grands take precedence over our 60th: a golfing trip to Scotland with some our 60th Reunion, where she saw her few months. Babs Falge Openshaw in Annapolis girlfriends and she still enjoys biking! freshman roommate, Jean Dowdy This is our 60th Reunion, and there has graduation obligations for college Her family numbers but eight—but Van Schilling, beautiful and charming are more of us alive than dead. This and law school. Carolyn Swift Flem- “the best, closest family ever!” as ever, who was accompanied to is great news! We will be the oldest ing, still in Omaha and I hope playing Betty Forbes Rayburn writes that Reunion by her delightful husband, class (at least that is the most current bridge with the Wizard, who noted “our she recently traveled to Rio de Janeiro Dutch. She and Jean had a telephone information I have) to be a living pres- days at Sweet Briar were truly special,” with her daughter, Lucy, and son-in- visit at Christmas time and promise to ence of history and continuity of Sweet is off to see a grand graduate from law, who teaches at UNC Charlotte and stay in touch! Briar on campus June 2 to 4. And Harvard with an MBA. has students in many foreign places. As for me, for the past 20 years currently, the fact IS that we are living Coming and high praises for grands Several years ago they took her to Por- I have lived in the home in western and striving and thriving as a four-year, are Cynnie, who still divides time tugal, where they stayed in old castles. that I grew up in and am single-sex, liberal arts college despite with her passel of grands between On her farm near Rome, Ga., she tries indeed blessed with much, including the shameful and baseless effort to Michigan and Florida, unless she is to keep the fish growing and to stay great health. I stay busy, having just eradicate Sweet Briar in March 2015. off in some foreign seaport, which ahead of the Pine Beetles. She belongs completed a three-year term on my Well, that was then, we are all would include both Ireland and Cuba; to a DAR chapter in Rome, has a nice church’s vestry, still have my gardens about now. We exist in both the present Nannette, in Madison, Va., who has book club and attends a church and (100+ roses) and have been able to and the future. Those who have not a passion for Italy, which she visits many of its functions. She also stays travel in 2016. Rose Montgomery been back since leaving, with or with- if not spending time with grands in in touch with Ann Stevens Allen via Johnston and three of her daughters out a diploma, will still recognize and D.C. or Connecticut, or in good works; the Internet. Her only granddaughter and one of my daughters and I traveled feel comfortable on the campus. Mind Classics and Renaissance scholar is engaged and lives in Dallas, Texas. to Portugal in November to learn about you, there are physical changes since Dee, scholar-in-residence at Newberry Her grandsons number three—one textiles, tiles, castles, etc. What fun! I we arrived in 1953: A chapel, new Library in Chicago, now publishing her is a computer whiz for Delta Airlines, spent a glorious Christmas time in Italy dorms, a new dining hall, a science 10th book, with four grands all in highly another in college and the third at the with my NYC daughter and her family. building, state-of-the-art gymnasium complex college degree programs. Air Force Academy. By the time you are reading this and theater building were built over the Sandra, who has three grandboys, Louisa Hunt Coker, shortly after you probably have received a fundrais- years; the Old Refectory is now Pannell including one exceptional lad at Yale, her husband, Mac, died in 2013, ing letter from the college. Last year and houses the art center; Academic is and one grandgirl, still prefers painting moved into an apartment at The Village we, the Class of 1956, had over 25 now called Benedict; there are students to fly- and keeps an exceptional at Woods Edge in Franklin, Va.—her percent participation! Cheers for feisty living in the so-called Green Village garden in Birmingham, Ala. “home town” for most of her married alumnae who said, “No, Sweet Briar where farm headquarters were once My nomination for the Peripatetic life—with many wonderful friends is NOT closing” and along with many located; and there is a fine equestrian One from 1957, is Charlotte Heuer there. She sees it as a great place to more of us, turned an enormous—and center up the road. Actually this is Watts of Yardley, Penn., Vermont, Fort be. Her son Bill lives in Spartanburg, some said impossible—. Thanks an excellent list of brick-and-mortar Lauderdale, trips about the country, S.C., son John is in Hendersonville, to every ’56-er who contributed! accomplishments for a college that has Pennsylvania one day, Villefranche N.C., and son Jim is in Atlanta, Ga. She Sweet Briar still needs your financial struggled historically with endowment the next with Vermont fallbacks, and has seven wonderful grandchildren. support. Can we exceed 26 percent and funding. oh, yes, California. She and husband I get to see Louisa from time to time in 2017? With your contribution we We Are Sweet Briar. I stole this Robert epitomize there is no such thing here in Asheville when she visits Mary can! Although I agreed that my name motto from The University of Texas. as being old. Charlotte continues her Ellen Sample Edmunds ’53. could be on that fundraising letter in Please do not sue me. generous giving to the college. Mary Alice Major Duncan lives in the absence of either a class president We have a core of class members Flo, she the funny one with a great Hopkinsville, Ky., and has been active or fundraiser, I am the volunteer class coming: Charlotte Heuer Watts, sense of humor, clearly has taken to in Homemakers Club for 53 years! secretary. I heartily endorse a contribu- class president, Nannette McBur- the southern modus vivendi after a She enjoys her bridge games twice tion from each of us! “Today, please? At ney Crowdus, Anne (Chips) Chao New Jersey upbringing, has some a month, loving being with friends as least soon?” Pai, Flo Barclay Winston, Sandra health woes but takes them in her often as possible. Her husband of 57 Stingly Simpson, Cynnie Wilson stride, is upbeat about life and has

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 43 Class Notes greatly supported the college. making the saddest part of writing Chips Chao Pai, who had 57 notes relaying word of classmates wonderful years with husband David, no longer with us. Ruth Ellen Green before his long battle with heart Calhoun in Natchez, Miss., wrote that disease ended last year, credits their Fran Childress Lee, Jacksonville, Fla., sons, their wives and grands with being died in January. Sally Groce of both the lifejacket that keeps her floating Houston and in Davidson, N.C. She is completing Victoria died in 2016, as did Mary her autobiography, dedicated to David. Stoll Cross of Princeton, I believe, and Together they are creating a scholar- Elaine Floyd Fisher, Flo Potter and ship, possibly completed, for Chinese Susan Ragland Abrahamson of Fla., students who attend Sweet Briar. died in 2015. Ninie Laing, retired SBC art prof, As a final word, I have long un- still lives up the road from the college, derstood that Paul Simon was writing stays exceptionally young with myriad about , but at Art interests including gardening, horses, Garfunkel’s request and realizing the dogs and travel. She relays that Judith meter between Roosevelt and Robinson Anderson, Winchester, Va., and Anne was equal, revised it for the great Mike Marshall and Pat Davis Sutker ’59 Ford Melton, poet and author in Nichols hit of the late 1960s. Lookout Mountain, Tenn., are coming to reunion, as is she. This is confirmed by Mary Landon Smith Brugh, who 1958 lives closer up the road to SBC, as Mrs. Jane Shipman Kuntz this will be staying at her house, 4015 Orchard View Pl which she is renovating, having cleverly Powell, OH 43065-7848 dodged back surgery. [email protected] Among those who just cannot get there, health not great, or other Cornelia Long Matson: After 10 conflicts areElaine Kimball Carleton, years at the Ritz Towers in Sarasota, Athens, Ga., who made it to the mini Fla., we bought a 1948 Spanish-y reunion held in June 2016, Anne house and guesthouse on Sarasota McGrath Lederer in Earlyville, Va., Bay. The renovation has taken a year who is conquering health problems out of our lives, but we love it and and McDaniel Wood in the broad water views. Got Christmas Morning Star by Penny Fisher Duncklee ’59 Montgomery, Ala., who has a McDaniel notes from Dana Dewey Woody and family reunion a week after ours and Sandra Elder Harper. Just went to questions whether she is up to back- NYC for two granddaughters’ debuts! to-back trips. Baba Conway Debecki, Their mother, Julia, now staging now of Nashville, Tenn., was on the line houses: www.Graysondevere.com. about making an appearance, but is Hope we get back to Paris before I supportive of the college. turn 81! The funniest response came from Marje Whitson Aude, in Phelps, N.Y., still laconic, playing card games, doing 1959 good works, reading and brooding on Ali Wood Thompson Shelley’s “Ozymandius” after the elec- 89 Pukolu Way tion and reporting that Fritz still plays Wailea, HI geezer basketball. She won’t make it 96753-7710 Rew Price Carne says here is a picture of family gathering last July. down for reunion, but is serene. Also [email protected] Jane Campbell Englert remains in Daughter Elinor on right (striped dress). I’m in front of her in black. Pennsylvania and has a son living with Thank you to everyone who wrote in! her who keeps her on her toes, and It is nice to hear what all you folks are new email: [email protected] children. Francis and his family live young, to boot. doing. Caroline Blake Whitney: My in Argentina on the family farm about I continue in Austin, appreciate Let’s hope we hear from some story continues to be a very helter 400 miles south of Buenos Aires. Alex, opportunity to again serve on the more of “y’all” next newsletter. Some skelter one even though I thought the number three, lives near Boston with SBC board, still spending summers in good pictures were sent in also, which I New Year would bring me a clean slate. two children. He works in finance and Maine, cooking school (where I do not) always appreciate. It seems as though all I thought I left his wife works at the Cervantes Insti- in Sicily this year, writing a good deal Passings: behind in 2016 is piling on in 2017. I tute at Harvard University. My daughter and living with the funniest Golden Evelyn Moore Horton died in April look after my mother (she is 102!), her Vanessa and her husband and family Retriever I have had among nine over 2015. caregivers and finances. I am also in of two, soon to be three, are about five the past 50 years. Dudley’s children Trudie Jackson Smither died in the charge of our family’s summer house, blocks away from me in Cambridge, are grown and married, and he is a fall of 2016. with all of its upkeep, summer renters Mass. great-grandfather three times over. My Notes: and family renters. None of the above Sally Beattie Sinkler: I see Betsy health is super, and I laugh a lot. We all Ginny Robinson Harris has new I mind doing, but it would be nice to Brawner Pittman and Ann Pegram should. I drink good wine. I read good addresses: 134 Williamsburg CT., have some real time to return to my Howington every Wednesday at our books and play complex head challeng- Highlands NC 28741—email: ginny- creative energies: porcelain painting, Atlanta SBC Living Room Learning Pro- ing games on the computer. All of the [email protected] writing, and environmental interests. gram where they offer some wonderful above are young keeping. Believe me. Barbie Lewis Weed has a new email At this stage in life, a bit of sets lecture series. Betsy and Ann both look We started with 177 of us in address: [email protected] in, as I am not 25 or 35 or 45, etc. hale and hearty. My daughter and I are September 1953 and added several Judy Nevins LeHardy has a new anymore. All four children are leading going on a Viking cruise. I have never classmates over the final three years. A email: [email protected] their own interesting lives: Andrew, the been on a river excursion and I’m really total of 34 from the original have died, Catherine Brownlee Smeltzer has a oldest lives in Atlanta and has three looking forward to it.

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Betsy Colwill Wiegers: I have but it didn’t register in my somewhat very little news to report which at our chaotic life that I didn’t hear back from age is good news. Have finally tired of her in 2015. So I just got notice from the snow and ice in Vail after 23 years her second husband, Bob Richert. She of winter there and am now in Palm was a devoted godmother to my third Beach, Fla., for a few months. Last fall son, Charlie. It feels terrible not to be in Di Doscher Spurdle, Jackie Hekma closer touch with friends. Stone and I had lunch in NYC. As usu- Susan Hight Rountree: The al, we laughed so much that we drove Rountrees are settling into our new everyone else out of the restaurant. place in Kings Mill, a golf community Laughter heals! outside of Williamsburg. We have had Pat Davis Sutker: All is sunny a busy winter so far starting out with and good here in Naples, Fla. The best decorating the Christmas tree at the move we ever made. Naples used to be Williamsburg Inn. Thirty years ago they a sleepy little town, but not anymore. In decided to put a tree in the lobby, and the past 15 years, we have a beautiful I was involved in designing ornaments cultural arts center in Artis-Naples, based on details found at the Inn many art museums, live theatres (fabrics, Georgian furniture details, Liz Lord’s family and more book groups than any one urn designs, etc.). We use the same person could attend, though that is ornaments each year, and several of my passion, and I am in four different my friends have been doing this from programs. the beginning. A few days after tree After a scary experience where my trimming, our statewide unit of the husband spent five days in a hospital Herb Society of America arrived. This in Sorrento, Italy, in June, flew back group comes here for a wonderful to Florida and had emergency lung Christmas themed luncheon every year. surgery in Tampa, all is well!!! But I am We also are involved with the big herb sorry to say our days of traveling out sale at Maymont House in Richmond in of the country are over. So, Califor- late April. nia here we come!! Exciting news I’m still making miniature for our 18-year-old granddaughter, furniture based on objects from the Rachel Cooper. She was accepted collection. Each early decision at Wake Forest in North mid-January we have a five-day study Carolina for the coming school year. program here with members of the She is so happy! So it seems the family Gay Hart Gaines and her entire family, 21 total, on New Year’s Eve at International Guild of Miniature Artisans that came from back in the 50s The Greenbrier hotel in W.V. (IGMA). We have five instructors and is moving its way South. One family each “student” selects one of the five is in Marietta, Ga., and the other in classes and makes a miniature of this Columbia, Md. object....amazing things are done in Penny Fisher Duncklee: I will be these few days! Summertime finds us doing an Open Studio two weekends in in New Hampshire at our place in North February and a driving trip to Wisconsin Sandwich (we love visitors!) Local quilt in late May and early June. I am glad I and knitting shops along with the New finally updated my website. Ed. Note: Hampshire League of Arts and Crafts check out Penny’s website (www.pen- shops are fun. Joe is a guide at an his- nydunklee.com)…I found it delightful. toric house up on the mountain outside This picture of hers is named Morning of Wolfeboro on Lake Winnipesaukee Star. Penny (my former roommate), is called Castle in the Clouds. It offers a coming out to visit us in March…..I beautiful view of the lake, wonderful haven’t seen her since we stopped by restaurant, and it’s a fascinating house in Colorado just about a month after with an interesting history. I’m sup- we were married and were moving to posed to spend my free time making California back in 1959. miniatures for Colonial Williamsburg, Meriwether Hagerty Rumrill: but it’s a great place to do puzzles and Sad news that Evelyn Moore Horton Fleming Parker Rutledge’s grandchildren—Dabney, 26, and Riley,19, read, too! We have a beautiful view died April 2015. I’ve been in touch, marched on Jan. 21. of the Sandwich Range Mountains. We stay through the October foliage season, happily avoiding the heat back in Virgina. As for family, children and grandchildren (five) are in Richmond, Va., and Jupiter, Fla. Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb: Lloyd and I continue to enjoy a full life at Westminster Canterbury Lynchburg. I’m currently serving as a resident representative to the Board. We are looking forward to spring visits to our children and grandchildren in North and South Carolina and New Mexico. Mary Blair Scott Valentine: We attended the white coat ceremony Nita Mixson Cox: No exciting or for our granddaughter, Mary Grace Bowers in nursing school at UVa. great information coming from south Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb Stukie and I are very proud of her entering this noble profession. Georgia. Have just been busy trying to

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devise something to save birds that are He will be 87 in early February, and crashing into our sunroom windows. we have had such a good life together The other problem is cleaning up after (almost 56 years!). Our daughters are the terrible storms and tornadoes that so good about coming to see him (and have been really persistent and dam- me!). Katie and Elizabeth live here in aging. Thankfully we just have a mess Charlotte with their families, and Mar- to clean up, are dealing with TV and garet lives in Arden, NC, with her family internet on and off, etc. We’re grateful just outside of Asheville...a couple of the worst of it didn’t take us out, but so hours away. We have a large number of sorry for the people who lost so much. Sweet Briar graduates, of all ages, here Granddaughter in Portland has been in Charlotte, and we all are hopeful buried in snow, plus a broken foot, plus that SBC will come roaring back in the shoulder surgery while trying to read years ahead!! My three girls graduated X-rays as a second year resident. Gosh, from Davidson, and so did our oldest sorry classmates! I promise to have granddaughter, who is now married. some good news next time. Wonder what we all would have done Liz Myerlink Lord: I am finally if there had been more colleges that contributing a family photo for the SBC were co-ed in our time. Nevertheless, magazine. This was taken last summer I loved SBC and all of our fabulous at Lake Tahoe and was our Christmas classmates!! Guess the next “big do” card in 2016. It is a rare moment when will be in 2019 !! Stay well...so we can we were all together…our daughter, all be together again!! son, their spouses and two grandsons. Susan Taylor Montague-Reese: Judy Nevins LeHardy: I enjoyed I have no news except I will be going reading all the class news in the latest to Vero Beach, Fla., for a few days the SBC magazine. I am sorry I didn’t get end of February. to add mine—we switched to gmail, Tabb Thornton Farinholt: and I never got the plea for news this Thanksgiving brought six grandchildren time. Please note our new email: ward- for our bonfire. Two are out of college: [email protected]. We celebrated Bart Farinholt lives in Denver, and our 60th wedding anniversary this year. Blair Farinholt lives in Boston. Stewart And another great-grandchild was Denious will finish Middlebury in May, At left, Granddad Blair Farinholt at our bonfire at Thanksgiving with born—our family is up to 30 members. Ida Farinholt and Sam Denious are at grandchildren, front row: Farinholts—Blair, Ida, and Bart. back row: Fleming Parker Rutledge: Our Bowdoin, while Jack Denious is in the Deniouses— Stewart, Jack, and Sam. grandchildren—Dabney, 26, and midst of his search. Riley,19, marched on Jan. 21. They Ali Wood Thompson: Time to get had to go to a family wedding in Florida my calendar out! Hmm, let’s see… so missed the NYC and D.C. marches, mid-September was our big hula com- but they joined the one in Jacksonville. petition over in Kona. That was a big Very proud of them! surprise because we took second place Ann Pegram Howington: It was among 20 other female groups…this so fun to see the Freshman show (it was the best we have ever done. In was awful) but all those names! Nos- the picture, I am the one on the end of talgia! How about a reunion in Atlanta the front row (no one told me to fold (without the show)? We had a Sweet my hands- so I stick out like a sore Briar Day but they had it SO far out of thumb, and they fix my hair “funny” the city (i.e., here) that we grownups with a false bun in the back!)…lovely did not try to go. The sun just came dark blue (stretchy) velvet dresses with out-what an improvement—hope all a bustle in the back which were comfy is well. to dance in. Rew Price Carne: I had a great After Kona, Travis & I took off for trip to South America and Antarctica East coast to visit family. Then it was a year ago. I also made some short off to Athens for about two weeks Ali Wood Thompson on front left with her hula group trips to Fort Worth (TCU graduation), to take a wonderful small boat trip Chicago for wedding shower and Win- through the Greek Isles with 20 other nipeg for hockey games. That was it. couples. It was so much fun visiting the COPD caught up with me. and smaller islands that the big ships can’t rehab since Nov. Getting better—long go into. One island had no cars….only journey. donkeys or foot power to get around. Ginny Robinson Harris: I am fine We returned to Windham, Maine, to and working on my daughter’s wedding visit our daughter for three beautiful in late September or early October. The days of FULL autumn colors—then grands (all three) are fine. The oldest is on home to Maui. January is totally looking ahead to college and likes UVA taken up with planning programs for but still has 2 years to go…just passed my Plunker’s band to play at the island early SATS easily. New email address nursing homes and the adult day care is [email protected] and new centers—Aloha mailing address: 134 Williamsburg Ct., Highlands NC 28741 Betsy Smith White: My Bill is not well and has round the clock nurses Travis and Ali Wood Thompson with friend Ho‘okipa who take care of him here at home.

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to all! My latest is that I’m taking my the move! I may have gotten out of an exciting trip to Barcelona and the first Uber to march in the Women’s the travel business too soon! McNair Priorat wine region of Spain. 1960 March for Social Justice (Naples/Ft. Currie Maxwell reports, “Like Sweet Ann Funkhouser Strite-Kurz Lura Coleman Wampler Myers) on the same day as the big Briar I have had a BIG year starting with and Bill enjoyed their American Cruise 1406 Thomas Road march in D.C. My two Greyhounds a family reunion in Montreat, NC, (near Line Mississippi River cruise so much Little Place Farm keep me pretty close to home, where Asheville) where my Currie grandpar- that they have signed up for another Wayne, PA 19087-1318 I am working on a life project of a ents built a summer house in 1907.” In on the Columbia River this fall. Ann [email protected] website I’m coding myself (unfortu- July McNair and Bob celebrated their has a new website, www.annstritekurz. Carol Barnard Ottenberg: I had a nately the aging process is not helping 50th anniversary and in October they com, showing her current projects and nice visit with classmate and neighbor to make me faster or smarter!) took an Oceania cruise from Barcelona commercial designs. Jane Headstream Yerkes as we Elizabeth Meade Howard: My to Rome with six other alumnae from Anne Carter Brothers wrote from watched the Christmas Ship arrive at book, Aging Famously: Follow Those SBC aboard. McNair’s two children Florida “where tennis and painting our neighborhood park. You Admire to Living Long and Well, and their families live in Bend, Ore. Her reign supreme” with the happy news Simon and I traveled in the east will be published this spring by Jef- 20-year-old granddaughter is studying that her youngest son, Cary, is being last summer—first to Vermont for a ferson Park Press. This will eventually for a BFA at Laguna Art & Design. married to Jessie Weiss on June 3 big (53) family reunion and then to be available on my website and from Although McNair is no longer our fund in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. That a national jigsaw puzzle meeting in Amazon. agent she sends a plea to “keep the special day was also Anne and John’s Salem, Mass., where I spoke about Gwen Speel Kaplan: For the energy and donations rolling in for this anniversary. a seniors’ wood puzzle group at our past five years we’ve have a spring great place!” Susan Enns Tully says she and retirement home, and finally to Canton, get-together in Richmond when Anne Chris Devol Wardlow’s son, Bill, Paul center most of their travel around N.Y., to visit friends at St. Lawrence Reinecke Clarke comes from Wilton, and his family also live in Bend—we family events. Her granddaughter University. And, for me, a Hudson River Conn., to visit me. The group has need to get the kids together! Her Perry got married last May, and two cruise while traveling to New Jersey for expanded to include Jane Ellis Cov- daughter, Dianna, mother of Anna Rich- other grandchildren are graduating my 60th high school reunion. ington, Patti Powell Pusey, Carolyn ards ’14, has recently been promoted and heading off to college in the fall. Judy Barnes Agnew: Our news King Ratcliffe, Ginger Newman to commander in the Commissioned Susan works at her gallery, painting for 2016 was the marriage of our Blanchard, Grace Suttle, Anita Per- Corp of the Public Health Service in whenever possible, facilitates their daughter, Laura. She waited 48 years rin Towell, Mary Ellen Dohs Acey Denver. Chris and Gary are spending home group and works through Crisis to find someone who met her criteria. It and Isabel Burch. the winter in Vero Beach, Fla., where Responder courses. Her take on life is was a fun and exciting event, and espe- Lura Coleman Wampler: We Chris recently had a reunion with “We are not always liking the fact that cially good to have all the children and enjoyed a family reunion last summer Betty Stanley Cates, and are looking we are getting older, but we’re always grandchildren here at the same time. in Greenville, S.C., to witness and forward to a Road Scholar trip in the thankful!” Amen! I enjoy all the newsletters about SBC. celebrate the marriage of our oldest Everglades in March. Meanwhile Betty Prue Gay Stuhr writes that she What an amazing story! daughter. Now we look forward to will be busy organizing the annual Dis- received three quarters from a friend to Jane Tatman Walker: In March, seeing Lucy Martin Gianino as she tinguished Professor Lecture Program celebrate SBC 63s joint 75th birthday Frank had successful heart valve re- stars in a mid-winter production of at Vero Beach Museum of Art featuring last year. She is feeling positive about placement and aorta bypass surgery. “Driving Miss Daisy” at the nearby a Sweet Briar professor on March 8. a new kind of physical therapy to help In June, we attended my 60th Abbot Bristol Riverside Theater. and the evening before Betty will host a deal with arthritis and the aftermath of Academy reunion in Andover, Mass., Sweet Briar cocktail party. many operations. Prue cracked me up and then visited Moab, , area parks Nancy Dixon Brown writes that with the following story: “Last week I with two teenage granddaughters. I 1962 she is enjoying “SBC Living Room was driving into our city following a van hosted a December lunch for 12 Indiana Perry Ellice Adam Learning,” studying life after World War that had an oval with VXN in it. Could Sweet Briar alums and two infants. Fun! 33 Pleasant Run Road II. She is looking forward to seeing lots this mean Vixen? Since I am not in a My Indiana Landmarks Board of Direc- Flemington, NJ 08822 of classmates at our Reunion in 2018! heavily populated SBC alumnae area I tors term ends this year, but I have en- [email protected] Margaret Millender Holmes is antic- drove closer. There was a Sweet Briar joyed seeing how historic preservation ipating Reunion as well. Unfortunately coat of arms on the window. I almost The big event is right around the can contribute greatly to community she says that Tom’s Parkinson’s is followed the van when it turned off the corner. Do make every effort to come economics. becoming more and more of a factor, road!” together on June 2-4 for our 55th Patti Powell Pusey: Thinking so they are sticking pretty close to Betty Stanley Cates was looking Reunion. We have much to celebrate so of all of you on our first Snow Day in home, but she wants to hear all about forward to welcoming another Sweet join us to share the joy...and memories. Richmond. President Stone is supposed everybody else’s travels! Read on! Briar professor in March as the speaker Thank you, Parry to be here tomorrow, but the weather Stevie Fontaine Keown and Mark in the Distinguished Professor Lecture Martha Baum Carlton: I’m living may not cooperate. I visited Ginger took an “amazing journey to India this Program at Vero Beach Museum of Art. permanently in Arcadia, Fla., now, Newman Blanchard in Amherst this fall. The contrasts there are what hit She planned to host a cocktail party the having sold summer home in Ringgold, past fall and also our beautiful campus. you most—tremendous growth, natural night before the lecture March 8. This GA. My son, Matthew Sikes and family She and Bob have a lovely home and beauty, beautiful agricultural areas and will be the 22nd consecutive year she moved to Tokyo in June 2016. His twin a very fruitful veggie garden. I enjoyed then crushing poverty.” has participated! 8-year-old son and daughter go to the a VMFA trip to the Hudson River Valley Cynthia Hubard Spangler and In this inauguration season my American School in Japan. Mary Han- recently and am planning a trip to Charles started 2016 in Australia old roomie, Lee Kucewicz Parham, nah and I cruised the Mediterranean Italy in the fall. Here’s to a happy and then spent the whole month of April and I have been reminiscing about from Barcelona to Rome in October healthy 2017 to all! touring Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, our adventures when we traveled to 2016. After trip with Mary, spent 10 Sue Styer Ericksen Cahill: I will Myanmar, India, Oman and the UAE. Washington for Kennedy’s inauguration days in Paris with dear friend from be skiing Park City and Deer Valley “We saw so many wonderful things while we were students. That was a Junior Year in France. with Bessie Bulkley Bradley (‘61) as that we’re still sorting it all out. I had memorable time! Everyone be sure to well as visiting son Tor and 5-year-old dreamed of doing this for many years, make your donation to the annual fund grandson Houston and 10-month-old and I wasn’t disappointed.” In July, they and be as generous as possible—we granddaughter Ava the first two weeks 1963 were in Glacier National Park on an have a lot of money to raise this year! of February . . . then will head to Allie Stemmons Simon annual retreat with Charles’s family. Sadly just at deadline we received Pawleys Island, S.C., for a few weeks 3701 Guadalajara Ct. Lynn Carol Blau and Jeffrey travel notice of the death of our classmate with husband Ed to golf . . . feeling very Irving, Texas 75062 from Connecticut to visit children and Kathryn Spencer Pixley on Jan. 20, fortunate, as many friends are sidelined [email protected] grandchildren in Nashville and Las 2017. We send our sincere sympathy from enjoying life due to health issues. 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Carolina, and will be in Cashiers again moved into an apartment attached to I called Jacqueline Stephenson this August/September. In April, we’re the end of our house and are helping Bennett and though she was busy 1965 off to Amsterdam preceding a Rhine their “aging parents” (lol) with the getting Bill to the airport, she invited Sally McCrady Hubbard river trip. heavier farm work. They also allow us us to come see her gardens—which 52 Sherwood Trail to travel, as they can take over care we did and she was sitting on the patio Sewanee, TN 3737502166 for the horses and dogs. I was down reading the newspaper. We met Bill and [email protected] 1967 at SBC last summer to help move one then were off to more sightseeing… Susan Strong McDonald: I am just in Gail Robins O’Quin of their horses into retirement....wow what fun to see her and her wonderful the process of putting up an exhibition 2651 Kleinert Ave have things changed...so beautiful. If home! “Summer found us in Michigan at the P.A.S.T.A. Gallery in St. Augus- Baton Rouge, LA 70806-6823 anyone sees this missive, ‘holla holla to still celebrating our 50 years together tine, Fla., of my botanical paintings. It [email protected] all’.” Doesn’t sound like much gets the with family and friends. In the fall Hoags down. Keep it up Sandi; we all we culminated our celebrations with occurred to me that this painting of an Greetings Classmates in the year of hope to see you in June! an amazing trip to Nova Scotia with early spring rose reminds me of Sweet our 50th!!! Our fearless president, Judi Stephanie Lucas Harrison Michigan friends. We played golf at Briar. So I am sending it along as a Bensen Stigle, has asked that I post claims she does not have a lot of news Cabot Cliffs and Cabot Links, which picture to share. an important message for all of us. but she’s quite busy. “I am juggling are two of Mike Kiser’s courses and Here goes: “Reunion Planning Time!! At work and my step-granddaughter’s they are simply fabulous. The vistas are our 45th reunion many of you offered home-schooling, babysitting, activity awe-inspiring and the golf is the best. to help rally the “Troops” for our BIG and social schedule. In other words I I really will declare that it is the best 50th. Those that offered are: Bensen have taken on a new role as personal golf trip I have ever taken and I would Stigle, Fite, Ewalt Coleman, Lyle assistant to an almost 9-year-old. In go back anytime I have the opportunity. Bullard Barber, Hickey Nelson, the process of taking care of her, I tried “Angus and Erin (son and daughter-in- Randolph Barr, Monroe Renger, her pogo stick (I used to be really good law) moved from Charlotte to Powhatan Barnhardt Chase, Blew Pierie, L at this) and fell. Other than a slightly in February, and we have really loved Smith Newcomb, Robins O’Quin, sore tail-bone and very wounded having them so close. Michael and Ali Sanders Thomas, Ford Kelley, Dal- pride, I am fine. Age may be just a continue to love Larchmont, NY with ton. If you are still interested please let number, but I discovered I am too old Eloise (5.5) and Reid (almost 2). They me know at [email protected]. Rosa acicularis for pogo-sticking. (Ed: I can certainly come home for Thanksgiving and stay It involves contacting 8-10 of your understand, having just gotten over in N.Y. for Christmas but we will see friends. I have almost 100 who need to broken ribs!) Both my sons and their them sometime in March and then they be contacted so please help if you can. families were with us for Christmas, come to Michigan—this year for two This will be a wonderful time to renew and it was precious to be around all weeks—so we do get our grandpar- 1966 friendships and memories. Bonnie the children’s excitement. After all the ent times. I stay in touch with lots of Penn Willets Fullerton Blew Pierie, myself and our men family time, I am starting the new year Classmates and though Mike thinks 124 Linden Ln have already made plans to head north in selfish mode—just started back I should give up and go grey, there is San Rafael, CA 94901-1342 from Florida.” Please do get in touch to yoga and ballet after a four-month no chance in hell that I am going to do [email protected] with Judi. We’ve got to start contacting break to take care of everyone else. My that until I cannot walk, play tennis, and and planning for our June 2–4 BIG Susan Sudduth Hiller new mode only started yesterday, so I golf.... Hoping everyone is considering ONE. And, guess what: We are being 4811 Garrison Rd am in enormous pain at the moment— two things: 1.Making a 50th reunion housed in the Florence Elston Inn on a Little Rock, AR 72223 the only muscles that do not hurt are gift to SBC.... (I love the plan below!!) first-come, first-served basis (age does [email protected] my finger muscles. As I said initial- 2. Coming to our 50th reunion which have its benefits) so don’t delay. Make ly—not much news.” (Yes, Stephanie, is June 2-4.” Please consider Carroll’s Jane Nelson those reservations now! Judi signs off we can tell what a boring life you lead! suggestions; we only have one 50th! 407-C North Hamilton St with, “I look so forward to seeing you Hope you manage to stay upright better One classmate really made a very Richmond, VA 23221-2026 all. From your Class Prez. Judi” than I do!) generous donation—$5,000, $100 per [email protected] I heard from Sandi Hoag Ippolito. Mary Gillespie Monroe has moved year. Clever and meaningful! You might Keenan Colton Kelsey As she explains, she’s “been dealing from 1826 Grove Avenue in the Fan want to think about a similar gift! 101 Hawthorne Ave with a ‘massive rotator cuff rupture’ of Richmond, Va., to a two-bedroom Marion MacRae’s fun news “is Larkspur, CA 94939-1305 (doctor’s words, not mine). I got tossed apartment just west of Carytown. She a cruise around the Seychelles soon [email protected] aside by a retreating horse and landed now has more flexibility to visit Alison’s by which time she will be out of her on the shoulder... one of the Evie Day Butler reports: In 2016, family in Charlotte and Anne’s family in cast (she was injured in a tennis game of babysitting for a fellow vixen’s herd Geoff and I celebrated 50 year of Baltimore. She’s looking forward to our which she supervised).” She is really while she recovered from a fractured marriage with a Baltic cruise, including 50th reunion (Ed: as are we all)! looking forward to Reunions in May! pelvis. Quick overview since SBC ... St. Petersburg and the Hermitage, reports: While she was “laid-up,” she had all married 49 years, husband in satellite Celia Randolph Barr a long-time dream of mine. We also “The Barr family enjoyed 2016 with her windows and doors replaced the communications and teaching at celebrated with a family Thanksgiving family, friends, a little travel and lots of first week of January. Fortunately, she’d George Washington University, stay-at- gathering in Destin, Fla. We went to fun. We started the year realizing that already had her trip in Nov. (2015); home mom to four. Elder daughter in Geoff’s 50th W&L reunion in May we were working on our 50th wedding housing industry, elder son is computer followed by the Lee Society meeting in anniversary, so, in true Barr form, graphic artist doing CG for movies and Williamsburg. We spent August in North we celebrated throughout the year. advertising, younger son at UPS and In March we went to Charleston, SC, youngest (my only horseback rider) with another couple also celebrating spent several years as professional 50 years of marital bliss and loved firefighter and medic, was diagnosed everything that Charleston has to offer: with MS, retired and got her nursing beauty, history, wonderful vistas, and of degree. (She is now working two course fabulous food and drinks. After part-time nursing jobs and pursuing three nights at the Wentworth Mansion, her masters in nursing with a minor in Mike and I went to Kiawah, where we teaching.) We live on 27 lovely acres visited with friends and golfed, biked, in Northern Virginia with six horses, walked and again just loved the area. three dogs and just recently our Geoffrey, Jr., William, Evie, Geof- Kiawah is my favorite of all of the Victoria Baker ’67 lecturing on youngest and her husband. 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Harriton House activities “menu.” He Service of Remembrance at Reunion. is also the owner and caretaker of one My colleague and friend, co-chaplain horse, two calves, two sheep, and five Matt Gaventa, has remained as the laying hens that live in the barn on the part-time chaplain for this academic Harriton Estate. Tim is working for the year, 2016-2017. May also marked my Kennedy Forum, based in Chicago. He retirement after 10 years as Episcopal lives near us in Bala Cynwyd, and he deacon and parish coordinator at completes much of his daily work at Ascension Church, Amherst, home of the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral the Daisy window and bell given by Health Foundation in Philadelphia. The Elijah Fletcher. Husband Bob has been Foundation often sends him to various a retired professor since 2010. Now we cities around the US to speak about can travel almost at a whim—we have parity. He is a key Member of Parity been to the beach twice, he has fished Track, a collaborative forum that works in Scotland, and together we went to to promote fairness for individuals who Turneff Flats off Belize for quite an atoll Our Atlanta crew is still having their mini-reunions and sent a picture. suffer from mental health issues and adventure in fishing and in (Front row, l-r:) Melissa Sanders Thomas and Kay Trogdon Hightower; addiction. I would love to join our class early December. We are both active in (Back row, l-r:) Susan Tucker, Mimi Harrison Vickers, Diane Mann for our 50th Reunion, but this is a de- a new grassroots and county-wide food Lankford and Flossie Collins Mobley. cision that I’m not prepared to make at ministry that since May has provided this time. Even if I am not physically at hot lunch at two different sites weekly SBC in June, I’ll be there in spirit! Much with a self-select food warehouse to she went to Morocco and last January school and sports and other activities love to all our classmates! PS: I lost all open sometime the end of March. We through the Panama Canal and up the because we live somewhat nearby for my hair months ago, but it has already continue to see our friends from SBC coast of Costa Rica. Otherwise she half of the year. In some ways, it has grown back to about shoulder length, and go to various events there. In fact, plays tennis three times a week and been like raising our own children a and it’s still brown!” We are all praying I found myself once again in the chap- goes to Bible Study. They are studying second time. As time continues its for you, Jill. Keep up the good work! I’d lain role at Founder’s Day. Lynchburg, the Book of John this year. Life is great march, we wonder what is next and like to trade in my gray hair, or at least to all our surprise, has developed quite (other than a little loss of hearing); she hope our society holds itself together drop the monthly dye job but I guess an art and theatre district along with is in great physical shape, too. That for them. Our son, Tom, has no children I’m blessed to be able to live with the some good restaurants. We continue statement is what we’d all like to be but lives near our home silver threads among the gold. to rejoice that we can be so involved able to say. Congratulations and get so we are twice fortunate. Victoria Baker has had a fasci- in our 16-year-old grandson’s life as that foot back in service! “Tim’s interest in rowing and my nating past year “of travel (Southeast he lives in Lynchburg. He and Bob Diane ‘Toots’ Dalton cannot at- interest in riding have endured, and Asia, southwestern U.S., visiting my attend many a UVA football game and tend the reunion this year but she does we are fortunate to be able to continue son in Holland and Spain), teaching an basketball game unless he has to work want to remind us about the scrapbook our involvement in these activities, occasional anthropology course, ball- or is involved in his high school theatre that is usually done for reunion years. though in evolving ways. We feel that room dancing and enjoying retirement productions; then I get to go to the She said if there are no other volun- if we accept our limits, we will have with wonderful partner Lee (together 6 games. His mother, our older daughter, teers, she will be glad to assemble it. a chance to continue to do what we years now), and doing what we can to is an SBC alumna and has worked in She also has all the past scrapbooks— love. No quitting! Class of 1967...it is support local causes, especially wom- social services. Our second daughter she took them so they would not get unbelievably our 50th reunion coming en’s rights and social solidarity. Will be has left social services to become misplaced. She has offered to send up. Looking out from my own eyes, I giving the ‘enrichment lectures’ on a a certified Bikram Yoga instructor in them to the college—or maybe to Kat see lots that seems the same. That is cruise to Hawaii this spring—so I’m Winston-Salem, NC. Yoga, pottery, and Barnhardt Chase—so they are there until I look in the mirror and say, ‘Who counting my blessings. Looking forward some drawing keep me flexible and for the reunion. She sends everyone is that?’ I remember my mother saying to our 50th reunion!” centered. We are so looking forward to best wishes for 2017. something similar back in the past Eleanor Crossley is entering her our 50th reunion to be with all of you Connie Quereau Graf had a de- century. So let’s keep looking out and 82nd year, and reports that she is again!” As are we all! lightful, heart-warming lunch visit with see what we can still do as persons “pretty healthy.” David, my fiancee, and Virginia Stanley Douglas left in Carroll Long recently after 44 years on this planet and in this country to I are still travelling a lot with the latest late January for four weeks in India of lost contact. “For anyone hesitant tend to what needs tending. At our age trip a transatlantic cruise to Lisbon, and Sri Lanka with girlfriends. “May of to attend our 50th reunion, I urge we can feel lucky if our faculties allow Madeira, Malaga, Gibraltar, ending 2016 Bill and I spent in Scotland in- you to come find your own wonderful us to still volunteer ourselves to our in Barcelona, where we stayed for a cluding a week at the Bishop’s Retreat reconnections.” neighbors, friends, and family as well week. We loved the city, especially House on Iona…positively magical. Jane Stephenson Wilson got as to various causes and activities that Gaudi’s fantastic architecture. On my I am looking forward to the reunion together in October with her roomie are close to our hearts. We may not be Fitbit we walked 15,000 steps most and can’t believe it is 50 years…Ellie Vicky Jones and also Judy Powell able to ‘change the world’, but we can days. Then on to David’s sisters in Spivey Decker and I are going to be Martin; they spent a wonderful still have a small impact on some of London and Abergavenny in Wales. roommates for the Reunion! Can’t wait weekend at Judy’s beautiful home in what is happening out there.” The oldest of my three children who to be back and see everyone….so D.C.. The group is looking forward to Jill Berguido Gill is doing well. “I were often on campus with me has just proud of my Sweet Briar heritage!” our reunion. have been cancer-free for almost two turned 60! Ouch! Kudus to the warrior Barbie Tillman Kelley sends a Bonnie Blew Pierie is happy years. The chemotherapy did a number women of SBC who made wonderful quick report: “We are all healthy and to report that her husband Tim will on my immune system, and I have not things happen last year.” I’d probably happy. Carlton and I are going to Cuba come with her to attend the 50th at yet reached 100 percent in that depart- be in the hospital if I walked 15,000 for nine days in April. My grandfather SBC. They look forward to seeing ment. I have to avoid people who have steps in a week! Way to go, Eleanor! invested heavily in Cuba in the 1930s the campus and especially the many ‘contractible’ diseases, such as the Kat Barnhardt Chase is “learning and went down there each year. He classmates who have made a place in common cold! I have not been tutoring that it may be true that retirement is was in Cuba in 1945, where he died their schedule to be there as well. For since my breast cancer was diagnosed busier than working. May 2016 was an shortly after I was born. So Cuba has her news: “Our daughter, Elizabeth, and in January 2015. Although I have had exciting month for me as co-chaplain always been on the ‘bucket list.’ I still son-in-law Tod have four daughters. requests for tutoring youngsters, I’m at our beloved college—witnessing volunteer every morning, try to stay in They are growing up too fast for us, not yet ready to do so. I hope to return the excitement of the graduating shape, and pretend I am not surprised the oldest being already 18. They have to my work later this year, maybe in class before my eyes and giving the when I look in the mirror. Looking for- been a big part of our lives from their the Fall. Bruce has continued to add invocation, and then serving with ward to our 50th!” There’s that mirror births and early baby-care through wonderful events for all ages to his others from the class of 1966 in the reference again!

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Pat Neithold Hertzberg is still Group. Glory has had some health working: Pat in portfolio management challenges, beginning with a right and Mike in consulting on import, knee replacement in February. She export business. She played golf with contracted a cellulitis staph infection; Mellie Hickey Nelson and Paul she had planned to have the left knee Nelson at the Colgate 50th last June. done midyear but has postponed the Now Pat, if you can go to Mike’s surgery until her recovery is further 50th, you’ve got to come to ours! She along. In spite of her knees, Glory reports, “Mike and I are living in Florida did not let grass grow under her feet. now for about seven months of the She took a few local bus tours which year. We still go back to Bethesda, Md., included a cruise on the Manasquan in the summer and fall where we see River in Pt. Pleasant, NJ, lunch and en- our son, Carter, daughter in law, Lisa, tertainment at Doolans in Spring Lake, and two grandchildren—Caroline (15) NJ, a Hudson River ‘Foliage Cruise’ and Graham (almost 14).” following lunch at Beekman Arms in Atlanta’s Sweet Briar 1967 gradu- Rhinebeck, NY, and a trip to Pennsyl- ates, friends of over one-half century, vania’s ‘Grand Canyon.’ She also went continued their tradition of gathering to Boltd Castle in the Thousand Islands Jennie Lyons Fogarty ’68 celebrating the 70th with her eight grandchil- to celebrate the holidays. Here’s their of the St. Lawrence River on the NY dren! news: Mimi Harrison Vickers raises award-winning dahlias and takes care of lambs, sheep and her farm, all the while doing beautiful arts and crafts in Union Point, Ga. Flossie Collins Mobley volunteers as a leading For- ward Arts Foundation member to raise funds for the visual arts, and travels the world with her husband Tommy. Diane Mann Lankford works on interior design projects in Atlanta and throughout the state, while enjoying having her two children and grandchil- side. She had the opportunity to visit dren in Atlanta near her and husband Lynn Lyle and her significant other, Frank. Kay Trogdon Hightower is a Jamie Sheridan. Those of us who live Mary Matheson ’68 Frances Kirven Morse and Pembroke leader in the Georgia Botanical Society in old houses can sympathize with ‘the on the beach at Hilton Herbert Kyle in Edgewood Park, Califor- and a major volunteer in Thomaston falling apart of everything.’ Her house Head. nia. historic and community organizations. is 103 years old and tried her patience She and Neil love to travel the world from September until Christmas, an and are off on a Panama Canal Cruise experience she hopes not to have to the dogs are their sisters; our family joined nearly weekly protests here in this winter. Melissa Sanders Thomas endure ever again (hopefully everything events include the entire crew, children D.C. Often there are three generations travels from Sea Island to Barcelona, has been repaired). and dogs! We did have a fabulous trip to of us.” Rome and European ports of call with Pamela Ford Kelley (pictured Capetown and Victoria Falls in Novem- Barbara Baur Dunlap: “As I write her husband Boyce, and has fun with above) had her 70th celebration with ber. Bill still prefers Kenya but this was this I am trying to outlast two little her son and grandchildren in Newnan a Woodstock party. Her husband my favorite African trip. We managed granddaughters who are spending the and daughter and her children in Brendan was a good sport but ended to make it through the holidays without night. Charlie and I celebrated 50 years Rome, GA. Susan Tucker loves her up looking more like Ozzie Osbourne. any major traumas so we feel blessed in of marriage, possibly because of divine work at Tucker & Associates PR, is At the moment they’re escaping that respect. He and I will both be at the intervention and it all started at SBC. on the Board of French organizations the winter cold in Key West, looking Reunion! See you there! I discovered at Charlie’s 50th UVa re- and National Museum of Women in forward to Linda Fite’s arrival. Pam’s union, that Blair Walker Lawrence’s the Arts and is an active Forward Arts fully retired but still misses working so husband and Charlie roomed together Foundation member. You can certainly she continues to volunteer on a board 1968 at The Hague before we were married. tell these are Sweet Briar women with or two and sporadically consults for Anne Kinsey Dinan Love SBC’s revival!” all their community involvement—way small businesses in Newport. Words 8 Peter Cooper Road Mary Matheson: “I enjoyed a to go girls, or should I say Ladies! of caution from a retiree: be careful or Apt 11-F wonderful Christmas season with three Glory McRae Bowen sent her you’ll find yourself busier than you ever New York, NY 10010-6711 generations of my North Carolina family usual fantastic Christmas letter. To were while employed and even wonder [email protected] and am looking forward to beach trips summarize, she had a lovely Christmas how you ever had time to work! with them in the spring. Hope to see with her two boys who are doing well; Bill and I are still here in Baton Many thanks to all who submitted everyone June 2018!” she’s still amazed that these grown-up Rouge with our two dogs, a seven-year- news. I hope everyone will read, enjoy, Suzanne Torgan Weston: “Since gorgeous people are her children! Her old adopted snoodle and a nine-month- remember our years at Sweet Briar, retiring (from scientific software son Derick is with the Millennium Chal- old standard poodle. We did get rid of and then make plans to attend our development and Steve from computer lenge Corp. in D.C.; for Christmas he the chickens, which I miss terribly (Bill 50th in 2018! applications to geology), we’ve traveled gave her a heavy publication in which has threatened me if I get anymore) Jennie Lyons Fogarty: “I’m at home and abroad on our BMW one of his documents was published but it was getting difficult for us to find probably one of the few in our class motorcycles. Steve makes some of (She did not admit that she did NOT chicken-sitters when we go out of town. still working full time. I still enjoy the best sawdust in Colorado, building read his treatise, but I’m sure it has a The puppy is about to do us in—nei- planning lectures, classes and trips for jewelry boxes and other items, while I place of honor in the bookshelf!) Her ther of us has a pair of shoes that has seniors at a nearby community center. keep busy with several organizations. son T.J. and she have had quality time not been chewed and she just cannot As most are in their 80s, it makes me Like everyone else, we were shocked together; her daughter Glory is a “chip make the connection between potty and feel young! No fancy trips, but I love by the March 2015 news, and we wish off the old block,” producing a theater outside—hopefully, maybe one day. Our our annual treks to Wyoming with Sweet Briar continued success.” festival and directing plays and projects grandson (14) and granddaughter (6)are grandkids. And since Inauguration Day, Emmy Savage: “I am just starting with the La Mama International Theatre three blocks away and are convinced I’ve pulled out my marching shoes and a stint in Nogales, Mexico, where I

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Jeannie Preston Jacobs

Frances Kirven Morse with grandkids on the San Francisco waterfront during a 5K Walk for Bay Area Food Banks at Thanksgiving (Bay Bridge in the background). Ann Biggs Jackson’s daughter Win, local champion adult jumper at Washington International horse show on her horse Mr. Pike.

Jeannie Preston Jacobs’s grandsons Quinn and Desmond

Anne Kinsey Dinan and grandchildren checking out the Ann Biggs Jackson’s daughter Cary, son-in-law Chris, and grandchil- Rockefeller Center Christmas dren Sophie and Dillon, all cyclocross racers. tree in Manhattan. Jeannie Preston Jacobs’s son Preston married Cindy Guo, Sept. 4, 2016.

Sara Granath getting ready for Steve and Suzanne Torgan Weston on Chief Joseph Highway in Pamela McConnell Post-Ferrante the theatre. Wyoming. and husband

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Susie Brush Croft and all her family at Pawley’s Island, S.C.

landscape design. Having worked with Hope. Best things are a great husband, Jeannie Preston Jacobs wrote immigrants most of my life, I have great two children and five grandchildren!” last October: “It has been almost a empathy for the asylum seekers com- Martha Bennett Pritchett Con- year since I lost Stephen and I’ve been ing to our country. I volunteer helping ner: “I had a wonderful 3-day visit in going through much grief here in Balti- them travel to their legal destinations. Sausalito with roommate Betsy Wolfe. more. My children are quite scattered: A great blessing: I have 10 grandkids! C.V. and I still enjoy living in Durham, Chris (anesthesiologist in ), Not many of you can probably say that. N.C. and selling real estate. Both of my Jenny (Ph.D. in anthropology with They are lots of fun.” daughters live in the area, and one is family and two boys in Berkeley) and Nancy Hickox Wright: “My news expecting my first grandchild in May. Preston (State Dept. in Frankfurt, just is about all of you!! I have had so much Sons are in Houston and Davidson, married, Sept. 4). Much cheered by the fun touching base with so many of N.C. I enjoy golf and volunteering at progress of Sweet Briar!” you! Oh, the interesting roads you have The Center for Child & Family Health Sara Granath: “Retired from the all traveled, from raising racehorses and at the 30-acre Durham Public University of Sodertorn, Stockholm, I to being the one to give the ‘Go’ for a Schools Hub Farm.” now teach criticism at the U of Gothen- Martha Bennett Pritchett Conner rocket launch! I know most of us are Ann Biggs Jackson: “I went burg, and write theatre reviews for the and Betsy Wolfe at Betsy’s now silver-haired, but you sound just grouse and woodcock shooting in Svenska Dagbladet. Will soon publish house in Sausalito, Calif. the same—seriously your voices and northern Minnesota in October, a a chapter about teaching writing in the laughter are very identifiable from 49 first. Really challenging hunting! University and am currently working for years ago!! Our 50th in June 2018!” Then GR and I traveled to England in a biographical lexicon about women. will be volunteer teaching for some Conover Hunt: “I am living on the mid-December. We took a side trip Every year, I go to theatre conferences months. It is ferociously cold here, with Chesapeake Bay in Hampton, engaged to Guernsey to see the remnants of around the world: 2016 in Stockholm; no heat in the buildings. I am looking in some cultural nonprofit fundraising WWII German fortifications. Totally 2017 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I truly enjoy forward to summer. Hoping my class- and writing. Thinking about the 50th fascinating, beautiful island! I am busy my international network of friends.” mates are well.” and would love to see old friends.” as always with garden club stuff and Frances Kirven Morse: “I am Christine Witcover Dean: “I’m Pamela McConnell Post-Fer- looking forward to horse racing in eagerly awaiting the start of blue bird finally a grandmother—he’s 2 now. I rante: “My professional life has been the spring. Daughter Win Lewis was mating season to start monitoring still ride my horse. And I’ve been retired focused on writing, mindfulness and local champion adult jumper at the 24 nest boxes in nearby Edgewood for 10 years! Really been a great healing. I worked with children and Washington International horse show Park. Nature soothes my soul in these time—that’s how I can ride so often! then had cancer: eight surgeries and on her horse Mr. Pike. She has a great chaotic times. John and I are planning Makes growing older fun. Now if only two rounds of radiation in the 1990s. job tutoring children athletes, which our next summer trip with our two my structure will hold together! I look Divorced, remarried, MFA, CAGS in allows her to follow the horse show grandkids. It will be hard to top the forward to seeing everyone next year at expressive therapies and new work for circuit and show a little bit herself. dude ranch trip last summer! Be on our BIG reunion!” those with cancer. Wrote Writing and Daughter Cary Cosper and her family the lookout for the debut of The Little Lisa Walker: “Almost two years Healing: A Mindful Guide for Cancer are cyclocross racers. Her son, my College That Could—a book I wrote ago, I semi-retired, meaning I let Survivors (Hatherleigh Press) and 25 grandson Dillon (10), went to the finals about saving Sweet Briar. It’s a cute go of my employees and now I only Women Who Survived Cancer: Notable again (in freezing Hartford, Conn., this takeoff of The Little Engine That Could. design and consult in horticulture and Women Share Inspiring Stories of year) in early January.” It is upbeat, positive, and will leave you

52 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes feeling very proud of our college! Anne who receives this Alumnae Magazine Arboretum and the SPCA. Her family is pursuing her sales with Rodan & Fields Kinsey Dinan is doing the illustrations. but did not receive an email from me three rescues: a dachshund, a schnau- Skin Care and raising four active boys. (See, that art history major is still requesting news, to please email or zer, and a pit bull. John and Kelly continue to work hard, relevant). Looking for help from anyone write me with your email and/or mailing Kay Giddens Glenday and Ian Kelly successfully selling her paintings who has knowledge of self-publishing. address at: [email protected] or Anne continue happily in Washington, D.C., in showings and on Etsy, and doing her Contact me or Anne.” Kinsey Dinan, 8 Peter Cooper Road, happily in touch with Nigel and Betsy decorative painting, and John opening Susie Brush Croft: “Laurie and I Apt. 11F, New York, NY 10010. Many, in Old Greenwich, Conn., and terrific another facet to his Accessibility Solu- are enjoying being in Richmond, Va., many thanks! grandson Connor (2½). They recently tions company, Lifetime Renovations. with our children and grandchildren took a dream trip on the Sea Cloud Almena’s mother lives independently, close by. Looking forward to next year’s with extra days in Antigua, enjoying “challenging every preconception of 50th class reunion. So excited Sweet 1969 wonderful beach time and a dinner ‘nonagenerianism.’ ” Briar is back on track!” Nancy Crawford Bent visit with Bill and Lucille McKee Liz Medaglia (Alexandria), enjoy- Melinda Brown Everett: “Married 5413 Highland Glen Rd. Clarkson. D.C.’s Colonial Dames has ing retirement and its flexibility, has vis- 24 years to second husband, Vincent Westwood, MA 02090 been a focus for Kay for a decade, ited Cuba and France and walked on El Klos—high school sweethearts who [email protected] especially towards preserving Sulgrave Camino de Santiago this year. In 2017, finally figured it out. I keep in touch Manor, England (the Washington she anticipates visiting England to mark with Phoebe Brunner Peacock in Bryan Alphin Bente (Landenberg, family’s ancestral home). A book club the 800th anniversary of the Charter D.C. My older son, Philip Everett, is Pa.) has been enjoying retirement provides fellowship for her kind of of the Forest, and to walk the Cornwall senior director for Food/Beverage at since 2015 after working for the same reading (biographies and other histories Coast. She enjoys ballroom dancing the Oxford, Maine, casino and hotel. company for 40 years, and she hopes of recent scholarship); and art history, with Joe, and works at fitness, outdoor Younger son Jeff is senior art director Paul will follow suit soon. Daughter exhibitions, and some research get puttering, and Italian lessons. Liz for the NIH and is a well-known D.C. Katharine is taking over management her attention, too. Fitness club (and continues involvement with the Cosmos gig poster artist. I am also a 27-year of the company Paul started and she PT) and Christ Church are centered Club in D.C. and with the American breast cancer survivor who loves and Nathan will be moving it to Denver. routines. “We manage what’s wrong, Bar Association Standing Committee reading, retirement, NYC museums and Bryan is busy with vestry and choir and celebrate what’s possible, is my on the Law Library of Congress, which Captiva Island.” at church and with hiking the many approach, right girls??!! Love hearing she chaired for six years. She serves Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp: “I local trails, but she also finds “being from old friends, and better still seeing on the ABA Standing Committee on the am a member of the ‘new’ Sweet Briar leisurely (lazy) and relaxed is fun.” She you in person for fun visits!” Federal Judiciary which conducts peer Board of Directors. It is an honor to be attended Reunion 2016 for Prof. John Cathy Hall Stopher (Louisville) evaluations of the President’s nominees a part of this history-making chapter McClenon’s memorial service and says, writes that daughter Marshall has for federal (lifetime) judgeships, and in the life of Sweet Briar College. On “there are so many good memories still identical twin boys (1). She had lunch then publishes its rating. With over 100 another front, I am still at the CD.C.. there. Whatever becomes of SBC, my in Boston with Nancy Crawford Bent vacancies, this committee anticipates For the past year I have been involved life was enriched by the experience and this fall and they had a lot of laughs. a lot of work! Friends who knew SBC’s with the Zika virus response. After the my life as a professional scientist was “She is just the same as when we were incoming president through academic Sweet Briar Board meeting Feb. 23-25, started there.” roommates.” [Ed.’s note: So is Cathy!] and Korean circles describe her to Liz I am headed to WHO in Geneva for a Martha Brewer says there’s She also enjoyed seeing Carolyn as “aggressive” and “smart”, noting Zika meeting. Life is good!” little new in Atlanta except worries Mapp Hewes in Florida recently. that her strengths in international aca- Helen Cato: “A year after gradu- about Trump appointees. “Sixties style Claudette Harloe Dalton (Char- demic circles make her an interesting ating, I went to London with a letter of protests are back in fashion.” The good lottesville) is still involved with the , choice. introduction that got me an interview news is that she and Anna got married the local and state medical societies, On January 1, Carol Moseley and then a job with a publisher. I then on 1/1/16 and are enjoying life togeth- national medical licensing board Tash (Winston-Salem) retired from went to Ottawa, worked at a local er, and Martha is still working. They issues, and physician assistant certi- husband Gary’s law firm where she radio station, then for a national news have been attending the wonderful fication, “all boring topics to anyone worked part-time as business manager network. Back to London to join the Atlanta Jewish Film Fest and they find outside medicine!” She leavens those and bookkeeper after Gary retired in start of the first legal independent U.K. parallels between the Holocaust and with periodic grandma duties with her 2015, having been his paralegal and radio station, LBC. As mother of three, today’s refugee crises. She concludes, grandson (9), volunteering with the bookkeeper since 2005 when Gary and stepmother to four, I have worked in “Hopefully my marriage will remain local board of aging, and teaching at another lawyer started the family law schools with children who have had legal, although I’m worried about that, the UVA Medical School. (Also repeat- firm. Gary has early stage Alzheimer’s, various learning challenges, physical too.” edly chasing a herd of deer out of her and Carol finds it best now for them disabilities and particularly children Erik and Peggy Davis Mo- azaleas.) Despite thoughts of clearing to be together as much as possible. In on the autism spectrum. I now live in lander have moved to Portland, Ore., out and selling, “this house has been August, 2016, she had her left knee Chichester, West Sussex, with my hus- motivated in part by the 110 inches of my lifeline for so many years that I replaced, and in February her right band and a rotating number of family snow that fell on their Massachusetts can’t seem to let it go. Besides, I need knee, after which she was anticipating and visitors. I look forward to catching driveway in 2015. Also, their daughter lots of space for mini-SBC reunions! Do taking long walks again and keeping up up on decades of your news.” and son-in-law live in Seattle, and their come and stay free only an hour from with their four grandkids. She is also Anne Kinsey Dinan: “Christmas son has followed them to Ore. Living the Patch...everyone is welcome.” hoping to meet up with roomies Sally and grandchildren—my favorite com- on the banks of the Columbia River, Having “traded” their vacation Boucher Megeath, Carolyn Jones bination. As always, we saved a day to immersed in the casual atmosphere house in Beaufort, S.C. for a house in Elstner, and Midge Yearley again this visit Macy’s Santa Claus, delight in the and extensive food culture, they work Young Harris, Ga., Brooks and Almena year. Carol feels blessed to have such Lord & Taylor windows, climb on the off the indulgence with golf, hiking, Hill Pettit (Tallahassee) celebrated caring friends and family. be-wreathed and be-ribboned Library working at vineyards, and enjoying Christmas 2016 there with family and Keithley Rose Miller says the Lions, ride Bryant Park’s carousel, Oregon’s fabulous Pinot Noir. On a trip plan to spend many future summers apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in and follow Rockefeller Center’s angels in 2016, they met 60 new Molander there, joined by their children and 10 her family. Daughter Tory is now work- down to its signature tree over cousins in Sweden and took part in grandchildren, all of whom live be- ing at Kemble Interiors (Palm Beach) Prometheus. Final stop is always the an all-women classic car road rally; tween D.C. and Florida. Coleman works with her, running the shop three days Christmas model train display in Grand then on to Norway where they cruised for the Wounded Warrior Project in D.C. a week (and raising baby Emma). Like Central Station. Highly recommended!” the fjords and attended Erik’s sister’s and wife Courtney has moved from many of us, Keithley is cutting back at ALSO, please note that Frances, wedding. Alaska, easily accessible for Capitol Hill to the Rubber Manufactur- work and has taken on a young partner Nancy and I are still fervently hoping them, is on the docket for 2017. ers Assoc. Son-in-law Brian (retired who interned in the New York office to find email addresses for fifty Giana dePaul, living in Dallas as Commander, USN) is working in and now runs her jobs for her, while “missing” classmates. To that end, I since 1973, is still marketing portrait Michelin’s management training pro- Keithley gets Emma every Wednesday. implore anyone in the Class of 1968 photography and supporting The gram in Greenville, S.C., and Rachel is “My wonderful brother Tanner, who

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 53 Class Notes many of you know because he begged and her husband have moved to a re- Nothing we can agree on has popped it down to the studs, moving walls, me to fix him up every weekend at tirement “village” and “LOVE IT! It’s like up since. Arrggghhhh! Instead of busting out ceilings, and having such SBC, now has retired to Palm Beach so being at SBC again! Beautiful campus, traveling, socializing, and exercising, I fun doing it all! Stuart still had time for life is great! Cathy Hall Stopher and I fabulous food, activities galore—and am becoming a certifiable curmudgeon travel though, taking a back roads hik- are dining next week!” classes too! I highly recommend this while obsessively scanning Zillow. ing trip to Ireland last summer with her Jean Rushin Brown (Wilton, to all. Don’t wait till you’re geezing and Adele is starting her private clinical youngest daughter. Her next trip will Conn.) and Jonathan are both enjoying can’t enjoy all that this kind of place LICSW practice in Los Angeles after be Israel, “so I’m pulling out my SBC long-distance grandparenthood with has to offer!” She is also 30 minutes years of working in psych hospitals and art history book from Miss Barton’s son Rob, daughter-in-law Julia Stroup closer to her daughter, son-in-law, and clinics. Charles is moving back from extraordinary class. Can’t wait to see a (Georgetown 2005), and granddaugh- grandkids in Baltimore.” Hong Kong after three years there with few of the things we studied!” ters Finley (2) and newborn Quinn Maria Ward Estefania (Chevy Sotheby’s. No job yet, but wife Siobhan AnnAdare Wood doesn’t need to in Denver. They feel blessed to have Chase) has been seeing “a great guy,” has a job at Phaidon Press in New travel, she already lives in Aspen. But frequent Face Time sessions with a retired Episcopal priest, for over five York City so there will be a paycheck! she traveled anyway, trekking in Nepal the Denverites to see the little girls’ years and went to Beaches, Jamaica I’ve stopped watching the news since and then adding a trip to Cuba. More development. with him and his son’s family (three 11/8/16. Please Google “Reichstag exciting than those trips, howev- Ginny Stanford Perdue (Nash- under 8) this summer. “First time being fire” if you don’t know what it was, and er—“This past year I was ecstatic to ville) writes that she and John are over embraced by the Cookie Monster make sure your passport is up-to-date. have my first grandchild, precious little halfway through the big downsize, for me!” Granddaughter Ava (8) and Our 50th Reunion is only two years Elise.” And somehow, in addition to all doing their children a huge favor her father Ray in Miami continue to away. It will be a great thing to have a this, she continues working in Aspen as by doing it now, while they still can. thrive and give much joy, spending big turnout from the Fat City Class! a real estate broker with Sotheby’s. They’ve moved into a high-rise condo their annual vacation together this Heather Tully Click bucked overlooking the grounds of a historic year in St. Thomas. The preschool for the usual trend by relocating north. plantation house. Still lots of room for homeless infants and toddlers where 1970 “After 32 very happy years in Georgia, their four grandchildren, ages 5-11, Maria volunteers has broken ground Kristin Herzog Richard and I have moved to a condo in who all live locally. Ginny keeps up at last for a second center, allowing 4028 Heatherstone Ct Alexandria, Va. The attraction was the with classmates, taking Mah Jongg them to help 100 additional children Fairfax, VA 22030-7444 relocation to the area of both our chil- lessons with Mary Nelson Wade and from the waiting list. Maria is chairing [email protected] dren and our new grand babies. It has buddying with Nancy Wendling Pea- the board’s committee overseeing the been wonderful to be within just a few cock at the Y. She recently had dinner expansion, so if you know of possible Hi Everyone, minutes of them. We also love the D.C. with Kay Hutton Barry whose mother capital funders, a plea: please put Well here we are, at 2017. Despite area and all it has to offer, including lives in their high-rise, and lunch with her in touch! With the caveat that she various replacement parts, we’ve made its proximity to Annapolis and Sweet Jan Sheets Jones who was in town knows not all of us would agree, Maria it to another year and, with luck, some Briar!” Also in Alexandria for now, babysitting for two of her granddaugh- wrote, “Bob and I went to the Women’s of us are still on our post-holiday diets. Mardane Rebentisch McLemore is ters, and she was planning to meet March and had great fun; a crowd of Travel seems to be the main theme visiting with her mom. J.P. Powell in Atlanta to “help” Haden millennials, moms, and grandmoms here in this batch of news. And best Candace Buker Chang writes Ridley Winborne cross over into like us. I marched for those of you in of all, many of us are traveling to see from the Boston area, “I keep in close her 70s. Then in June, Less Guthrie our Class who would have wanted our classmates. Others attended 50th contact with my SBC roommate, Jo Keller will come from San Diego for a to be there, and for those long-ago high school reunions, though I confess Shaw Lawson. We took up scuba nephew’s wedding and they will have women who started and nurtured SBC, I missed mine because I was traveling. diving together after turning 60, when a mini-reunion with her, Haden, and hoping our generation will be the last And the rest of us apparently moved. surfing turned out to be not as much the Nashville girls. “How very grateful I that hit glass ceilings and worked Vieve Minor Moeckel and Stuart fun as we had hoped. Since then we am for the friendships which were born without equal respect and pay.” Camblos took short trips to meet up have enjoyed three dive trips to Fiji, about 50 years ago at Sweet Briar.” (Martha’s in Atlantic Beach, N.C., to celebrate and an annual girls trip to St. John. Betsy West Dripps Veive’s husband’s 70th. I applaud his Terry Taylor Hamilton (Mountain Vineyard) loves island living, playing This year Jo and I went with friends to Brook, Ala.) is thrilled that our SBC is lots of golf and running on the beach daring gallantry, as when it comes to Hawaii to do a night dive with manta going strong!! She is still teaching ten- with her lab puppy. She plays in a approaching momentous birthdays, rays, an awesome experience!: Can- nis after 32 years (good SBC training!), teachers’ bowling league, has taken I timorously believe in letting friends dace’s daily life revolves around work while Duncan (retired for six years) up pickleball, swims a mile two times and family go first. Vieve lives in New and four grandchildren—two local and plays country club golf often and loves a week, and teaches environmental Bern, N.C., and Stuart is now back in two in St. John. So she makes frequent it! They travel a lot and have a French science at the Polly Hill Arboretum to Asheville, her home town where she trips to the Virgin Islands (not exactly a riverboat land/cruise trip scheduled for about 700 island elementary school recently purchased and totally reno- hardship). “I also see Laura Sickman August to celebrate Terry’s 70th! children. Just retired from 38 years of vated a “mid-century” ranch, taking Baksa who lives on Cape Cod, and Pamela Tipton Newton (New coaching varsity girls’ lacrosse, she Bern, N.C.) announced the birth of joined the Cape Cod Women’s golf grandson Elijah James Newton, born league so she gets to play lots of great March 5, 2016. “Totally enthralled!” golf courses on the Cape. Craig is the she wrote. master gardener, photographer, and Saint and Ann Tremain Lee (New- keeper of the lighthouses on Martha’s port News) are “training” to walk El Vineyard. All four kids are great, as Camino de Santiago in June, planning well as the seven grandkids. They had to walk about 10 miles a day. Ann is a wonderful 10 days in Eleuthera with taking a Spanish class so she can them this Christmas. Betsy would love talk to the people they meet en route to see anyone who is visiting Martha’s and finds it fun, although she keeps Vineyard, Mass. wanting to throw in some French since Peter and I (now retired) and the that’s a language she’s more familiar dogs (always were) are renting in a with! Their daughters are near and 55+ community near Boston, having far: California, Colorado, and Newport sold our house in August. Our offer News, and their granddaughters “are on an 18th-century house in western growing up way too quickly—15,13, Massachusetts was accepted, but 5.” Heather Tully Click ’70 and baby Heather Tully Click ’70 and baby then our seller had a change of heart Henry Washington AtLee Walker (Silver Springs, Md.) and pulled the house off the market.

54 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes whose daughter lives not far from me Austin to see their daughter and spent become a Stephen Leader. Before I close, do think about in Boston. Laura is still an amazing time with Annie Compton, who has I’ve loved the in person connec- Reunion this June. At our age, five artist, now focusing on creating mosaic moved to Austin. “Annie’s as wonderful tions at SBC with Ann Gateley, Kate years is just too long a wait to see each pools, stone structures and water as ever and painting up a storm. Check Schlech, our faithful Kris Herzog, other. It’s not “our year” but the college features. Check out her website: http:// out her website (anniecompton.com) to Katie McCardle Webb, Barbara is welcoming everyone and it’s a great www.laurabaksa.com.” I’ll second that get in touch!” Hastings Carne and Jonna Creaser opportunity to catch up with other from Candace, Laura’s work is magical! Moving up the west coast to Clarkson! classes and see progress on campus. Also in the Northeast, Put Mundy Portland, Denise Mullen continues as In addition to her Italy trip, Gateley And if you can’t make Reunion, I Ebinger writes that after 42 years in President of the Oregon College of Art came east to meet up with Kate can’t emphasize how much fun Sweet the energy field she decided to for- & Craft. Schlech at SBC for the Sweet Work Work Weeks is. Think one big week- mally retire in January from Brookings Nia Eldridge Eaton is still working Weeks this past summer. And then long party. So if you come bring wine. It though she will continue to be involved and headed out to Phoenix briefly for she’ll make up for anyone who won’t also helps the college enormously (our in energy affairs running a global a client kick-off. She also has “two be traveling by throwing in another big work, not sure about the wine). electricity roundtable in conjunction trips to Las Vegas for IBM conferences trip with Ira, this time to Germany in If you are interested in either event, with the Atlantic Council and the Edison coming up, with 20,000 of my closest April, in celebration of her birthday. She write to me and I’ll try to put people Electric Institute. “I also look forward to friends. It was such fun to meet up, at has sent photos of Ira and her at the in touch with each other. Or you can spending more time in Nantucket and my 50th high school re-union, with Lyn Women’s March in Albuquerque. always just contact the alum office. welcome classmates to visit.” Barr Hoyt, Fran Griffith Laserson Also marching for women, but in I’ll sign off echoing Nia’s “Joy to Betty Rau Santandrea is moving and Tricia Hodge Parks. High praise our nation’s capital, Kate Schlech all.” Yes, it’s a new year; let’s all make soon to get warm. “Our R and R in to so many of our classmates who gave gives us eye-witness on-the-ground it one of joy. Monterey, Carmel and Big Sur, after so generously of their time and money coverage. “First time marching since helping with grandkids, has come to to save Sweet Briar. Hoping to be able November 1969’s anti-war outing. an end. Back to reality in Corning, NY: to get down to reunion this spring. Joy Am pleased to report that this time, 1971 30 degrees and snow showers. We are to everyone.” unlike 1969, I did not get tear-gassed. Bev Van Zandt preparing for the Sante Fe, NM, closing Also travelling to the Southwest, A wonderful event—pleased to see 220 North Zapata Hwy on our new house, and continuing to Terri Eoff Walsh landed in Albu- multi-generations and lots of men No 11 try to sell our NY home.” querque and was trying to contact showing solidarity with the womenfolk. Laredo, TX 78043 More travel and another New York Ann Gateley. For once Gateley was Signs were phenomenal. Two faves—‘I [email protected] connection in Jane Richley Rafal’s not in two places at once, she was in can’t believe I’m STILL having to pro- report. “Marshall and I spend a lot Italy with Ira, celebrating their second test this s**t’ and another that simply Wendy Norton Brown is enjoying of our time in London, Hawaii (both wedding anniversary. I guess for one’s said ‘Free Melania’ both examples of her three precious grandchildren, age Maui and Kauai) and our long time wedding anniversary it is appropriate keeping one’s sense of humor. Think 5 and under, who live in town! She summers in Montauk, NY. We have lots to be only in that one place. Terri com- we ought to dust off and take another says, “we are so blessed! I LOVED of grandchildren all over the Northeast ments that the “Sweet Briar journey run at getting the ERA passed.” going back to Sweet Briar for our 45th that we also spend time with.” They has been incredible. I lived in Harrison- Jane Gott chimes in from the D.C. in June—we all agree that we want took three of them to CATS in New York burg, Va., for 42 years, and Phil Stone area, too, with, of course, more travel a huge turnout for our 50th! Please City at Christmas, but discovered it is was the most respected lawyer in town. plans. “I helped to organize my 50th consider coming back in 2021 and not really a kids show in today’s world. Small world.” The rest of us haven’t high school reunion this fall, and Ron renew friendships, catch up on all of “Probably too slow paced compared to known President Stone for quite that and I had a fabulous time talking to my our news, and rejuvenate yourselves Aladdin or other current shows.” long, but we fully concur. classmates. I was fortunate to take a on our magnificent campus! What an Beautiful photos of the fall harvest Deb Jones writes that she and five-day workshop from a well-known amazing story we all have!” under a wide blue sky, and then, later John, after a trip to Santa Fe, did master artist this fall. As a result I am Brooke Thomas Dold is still in ones of a blanket of winter snow on her manage to have dinner in Albuquerque experimenting more with my painting. Houston working for a small law firm Illinois farm, arrived from Mary Kelley. with Ann Gateley and Ira back in During these cold gray winter days, that specializes in municipal utility She reports that although there is November—“what fun!” Deb contin- I enjoy knitting crazy colored wool districts and water authorities, but always something needing attention on ues, “We put our Maine house on the socks for Ron and me in front of the she is planning for retirement. Brooke a farm she is keeping up with her line market in February, thinking we would fireplace.” They were planning a trip to attended both the 2015 and 2016 dancing and frequently visits museums have months to clean out, close it up sunny Kauai in March and after the trip Reunions and was delighted that there in the city, and friends in Tennessee. for Thanksgiving and then finish up in were planning to renew their ballroom was a 2016 Reunion! Go Vixens! Sticking with warm, Wallis Rae- the Spring. It was under contract within dancing lessons with the Arthur Murray Mimi Fahs has had a great mer, Jessica Holzer, Lorie Harris 6 weeks and then we had 6 weeks dance school. year. She says, “Working on the SBC Amass, Connie Haskell, Mary Jane to get out and find our new condo in And rounding out the contingent Board of Directors has been incredibly Brock, Katie McCardle Webb and Delaware.” here in D.C., where the local sport has fulfilling and challenging. It’s been an May Humphreys Fox congregated We’re trying to get more settled become trading sign slogans from The honor to work with such dedicated at Sunnylands, the Annenberg estate after our move to the Northern Neck of Women’s March, I just took down my faculty, administration, board members, in Rancho Mirage , Calif. Their photo Virginia last fall, Betty Glass Smith art show at the Arts Club of Washing- and alumnae.” In a demanding year, says it all. reports. Still have some projects and ton. The Club is housed in two lovely the timing worked well for a sabbatical Katie Harris writes from the sun renovations going before it will all historic townhouses and all paintings last spring: 2 1/2 months in Asheville. country, too: “Southern California’s be said and done, but truly enjoying look beautiful there. This was the first In between SBC meetings and work, alumna rep (Stephanie Pratt McKinney retirement, our new place and “rivah showing of my eight Saving Sweet Mimi got better at fiddling. Back home, ’91) has worked hard to bring alum country” living. Briar abstracts. The response was very Justice joined Mimi together in our vast terrain. I’ve only Deborah Ohler Bowman has positive, and of course I got to tell our and her band, the Mudflats (all were been able to attend two events, but also been racking up miles. “I’ve been story to many new people. After a quick thrilled!), on stage on July 4th. Mimi is each time, I’ve been impressed—and able to travel to Tahiti in January, and trip to Charlotte, NC, to see the fabu- looking forward to an exciting SBC year proud—to meet dynamic women from to Texas in July (who does that?) and lous Women in Abstract Expressionism ahead! the classes before and after ’70.” In to the Frank Lloyd Wright homes in show, I came home to the news that I Last year was a “tad unpleasant” mid-January, Marvin and she had a Pennsylvania with friends or family. My was one of 10 winners, out of 2,300, for Judy Brown Fletcher. In February, great visit in Tampa with Susan Lykes 50th high school reunion was magical in a national competition run by The in New York City for Westminster, she Mueller and her husband, John. “We because of the people there. We had Artist’s Magazine. So I’m now, briefly, fell on ice and had a serious con- cherish that friendship, as Marvin and I such a good time planning and recon- a little bit famous, in their March issue. cussion. She fell again in May and met at their 1975 wedding!,” she says. necting. The other super meaningful You can see the painting on my website dislocated an ankle and broke two Two weeks earlier, they traveled to event for me this year was training to http://kristinherzog.weebly.com. bones in her foot. After eye surgeries,

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Judy can now see her feet. The one closer to completing her dissertation. spending summers in Frisco, Colo., as well as taking time to go skiing bright week was the long-anticipated Their son is deployed to Bahrain until to escape the heat. Having worked during the winter and spring. They marriage in St. Petersburg of their son July. They will visit grandchildren in part-time for the last 15 years, Barb is are golfing together regularly and love Will to Janessa Cobb. Judy had fun South Carolina, then New York City to now a fully retired family physician. She traveling with friends to play at different meeting her family and seeing Will’s see a former student sing in Carnegie is doing a little traveling: in 2016, she golf resorts. They feel truly blessed. friends from college and graduate Hall! went birding in Belize and to Andalucia, They wish a joyful and healthy 2017 to school. Steve’s cardiac disease has Frances Barnes Kennamer Spain, with the Sierra Club. She met up each member of the class of ’72 and worsened, with additional restrictions became a grandmother on Sept. 26, with Betty Rau Santandrea ’70 in Santa their families! put on his activities. He is allowed to 2015. Catherine Barnes Hopson is, of Fe in March. Sarah von Rosenberg contin- fly, but not to drive long distances. At course, the most beautiful granddaugh- 2016 was a great year for Bev ues to live outside of Houston, Texas, least three months were spent nursing ter ever! Van Zandt—especially the Sweet with her husband Stan Smoote. They their dogs, Daphne and Dot, after Kathy Wilson Lamb and Rex Briar Reunion. She continues to love still work full-time in the psychology various complex operations for large are happily living in Lexington, Va. living in San Miguel de Allende. Her practice, doing a significant amount of growths that were benign. Their late Retirement has been great. They just daughter, Roberta, and her husband, work with law enforcement personnel. Deme now has great-grandchildren got back from a tour of the maritime Chris, came from New York City for On the weekends, they enjoy their six in the show rings in the South. Judy provinces of Canada. Last year, they did Christmas. To top it off, Mimi Fahs acres, although the unexpected hard continues to co-breed with a friend in a tour of the Canadian Rockies. They arrived in January, and they had a freeze this year wreaked havoc on their North Carolina. Judy’s mother turns love being grandparents and doing wonderful time catching up and playing citrus crop! Their kids and grandkids 99 in February; she lives at home and volunteer work in their community. tourist. Now Bev is anxiously awaiting are spread from Texas to Ohio to North teaches watercolor painting despite a Sally Uptegrove Lee retired her first grandchild, Evangeline, due in Carolina and are, for the most part, growing dementia. Judy has increased from teaching in 2012. Their daughter February. Beverly and Tom will certainly thriving, which is heartwarming. The her involvement at church, chairing the graduated from Trinity University in San be busy since Beverly will continue grandkids bring a great deal of joy— Stewardship campaign, helping rewrite Antonio and stayed, so they moved in medical school. Bev says, “Begin they’re high energy, but are great fun the constitution and bylaws, and joining to be with her and her family in San your plans NOW to attend our Reunion to be with. Sarah works 15 to 25 hours the pastoral search committee. She Antonio. Sally spent a year and a half 2021!” a week for Sweet Briar as co-chair of continues to sit on the Foundation renovating a 1920s house there. She the Alumnae Alliance, although that Board. loves being retired and has joined the work is expected to increase again for Carol Remington Fogelsong San Antonio Assistance League and the 1972 the spring admissions push. Sarah has had a wonderful year of travel and Trinity University Women’s Club. They C. Jill Johnson found it rewarding to reconnect with adventure in 2016, starting with now have two grandchildren, Liesl and 2012 Wolftrap Oaks Ct. classmates and near-classmates and 18 days around the bottom third of William. Vienna, VA 22182 to connect with alumnae across the South America, their son’s wedding Mim Washabaugh Meglan [email protected] nine decades of Sweet Briar women. in New Braunfels, Texas; Provo, Utah; recently moved from her mountain The joint determination to work togeth- a Florida beach getaway; reunion at aerie of the past 20 years to a beautiful Marion Walker has been practic- er to preserve SBC’s strong women’s SBC; Memphis, Tenn.; Dubuque, Iowa, neighborhood in downtown Frederick, ing law in Birmingham, Ala., for 40 liberal arts education has forged a twice; Santa Fe, N.M.; six to seven trips Md., close to friends. Mim is still play- years. She is Of Counsel with an L&E bond as alums address the opportuni- to Baltimore to visit her mother (Ann ing the organ and is now on the board boutique law firm. In June 2015, she ties and challenges for the future for Moore Remington’44); plus another of the Frederick Children’s Chorus. celebrated the 800th anniversary of our alma mater. She has appreciated trip to Baltimore for Thanksgiving; and Anne Wigglesworth Munoz and Magna Carta in London. Her SBC little the opportunity to serve Sweet Briar. Texas for Christmas. In the first quarter Milton celebrated their 40th anniver- sister, Nan Robinson Clarke ’73, was Martha Holland and husband of 2017, she will retire after 25-plus sary this year with trips to Mexico’s there! In Birmingham, she shares many Chris Iribe have decamped to Key West years at the Orange County Comptrol- Copper Canyon and France, AND fun hours with friends shooting skeet, for the past two winters. They have ler. Carol is keeping her bags packed, they will be grandparents to daughter playing golf, working on her house a very low-maintenance apartment with many more plans to travel, plus Maya’s and Adnan’s child in November. (new since Nov. 2015) and giving there: no snow to shovel, no grass ancestry searching/documenting and Their daughter Aliria is getting married dinner parties. Life is good and will be to cut, no leaves to rake. Otherwise, watercolor painting! in December, then they are off to great at Reunion! they split their time between D.C. and Kathy Pegues Garcia and her Portugal and Spain for Christmas and Betty Works Fuller continues to Virginia Beach. They went to Australia husband just returned from ten days New Year’s. enjoy her retirement in Corpus Christi, and New Zealand in spring 2016 and in Vienna, Austria. Their trip coincided Barb Wuehrmann has moved to Texas, where she serves as a supply had a great time touring. Two of their with their daughter’s courier trip for the Green Valley, Ariz., full time, no longer priest in small churches in the area. three children are married, but no National Gallery of Art. She is getting a snowbird from Michigan. She is Her mother, Lucy Robb Winston Works grandchildren yet. They are planning ’38, died Nov. 7 at the age of 100. She to move from their D.C. house to a was probably one of the oldest Sweet townhouse in Alexandria, Va. Again, low Briar alums. In going through her maintenance: Someone else will shovel mother’s papers, she has found photos the sidewalk, no grass, no yard at all! of the graduation of the Class of 1938! Martha enjoys lunch with Jill Johnson Carol Cody Herder and husband and Mary Heller, as often as they are Charlie are the proud new owners of an all in D.C. at the same time. Australian Terrier puppy. It’s even more On Jan. 15, 2017, DeDe Conley time-consuming than they remem- met with seven alumnae and one bered, but the good news is that Carol Junior Year in France student at a won- has no trouble completing her 10,000 derful Sweet Briar Day in Paris hosted steps every day. They are really enjoy- by Lorie Teeter Lichtlen ´82. All enjoyed ing their granddaughter who is almost connecting, and DeDe gave an update 1 year old. Charlie wants to retire from on SBC and answered questions. In commercial real estate in Houston but addition to DeDe and Lori, the event says that it is too interesting to com- drew Jennifer Campbell Koehl ’85, pletely retire right now. Although Carol Bryanna Colvin ’18—a current JYF is busy with several volunteer groups, Paris student, Taler Echols ’12, Chris- she is primarily volunteering with the tine Jaboula Hubac—French exchange DAR. They continue to love spending From Kathy Garcia Pegues ’71: “I’m taking watercolor lessons!” student ’86 -’87, Taylor-Kate Ryan ’10, four months in Colorado each summer, and Catherine Viette ’93.

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DeDe Conley and others at Paris Sweet Briar Day

May May Brian Gay, Debbie Wilson Hollings, Bev Horne Dommerich, Sade Dabbs Fryer, and Elizabeth Williams Bowman enjoy “Girls Just Got to Have Fun” on the Soque River, GA.

Christine Hubac, Taler Echols, Bryanna Colvin, DeDe Conley

Debbie Wilson Hollings, Elizabeth Williams Bowman, and Bev Horne Dommerich attired for fly fishing in GA.

Lorie Lichtlen, Jennifer Campbell, Taylor-Kate Ryan

Bev Horne Dommerich and husband John in Hanoi. Marion Walker ’72 and Nan Robinson Clarke ’73 in London, June 2015.

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Georgene Vairo sends a short, HR role last Dec. I am now a part- married in Long Beach, Calif., in May sweet note: “Still doing my best to time corporate coach, and I facilitate 2017; so we are busy, busy with the finish the job of Saving Sweet Briar!” employee development and provide HR delightful details that accompany these Beverly Horne Dommerich and consulting services. Life is good! joyous celebrations. I have also started her husband, John, spent three weeks Marion McKee Humphreys: the Master Gardener’s program locally. in January traveling to Japan, Vietnam, Hunter and I celebrated our 40th Planning to be at our 45th reunion in Cambodia and Thailand. It was a anniversary last Aug. and I wonder 2018 and hoping to make several side fabulous trip but it required some how that is possible. We are still busy trips from Va. to the Carolinas and Ga. ingenuity due to the drastic change of with work/life and the wonderful then. from Japan to Southeast addition of 6 grandkids ages 1-9. He Sandra Schwartz Tropper: Asia. They packed a “cold” suitcase for is still practicing law and teaching a The art appraisal business continues San Francisco and Tokyo, which they Real Estate Transactions course at the to grow, and I have been active in left at their hotel, and a “hot” suitcase U of M law school. I am teaching a appraisal organizations. I am now for their cycling tour of Southeast Asia. wonderful Chronological Bible Study on the Board of Governors of the They returned to Tokyo, picked up the and learning more than our group for American Society of Appraisers and “cold” suitcase and returned home sure! I continue to swim etc. and am chair the Personal Property Advisory three days later. Late in 2016, Bev and trying to include some yoga to stretch Council for The Appraisal Foundation classmates Debbie Wilson Hollings, it out! Loved seeing Jane McCutchen (the organization that sets standards May May Brian Gay, Sade Dabbs McFadden this past Oct. at my niece’s and qualifications for appraisers in the Fryer, and Elizabeth Williams Bow- wedding. She seems to be as busy and United States). Between those activities man spent a “Girls Just Got to Have wonderful as ever! and teaching valuation theory, I stay Fun” week at the Lake in Georgia. Laurie Norris Coccio: I am miss- very busy. ing my sister Lynn Norris Pfeiffer ’75, Molly Dunn Martin: William re- who passed away in July 2016. But tired from his law practice in 2016, and 1973 keeping in touch with her roommate, we enjoyed trips to China, Portugal and Eveleyn Carter Cowles Janet Sheppard Kelleher ’75, has been Maine. We’re fortunate that our two P.O. Box 278 a wonderful connection. Hearts and grands (almost 4 and 1) live nearby, Scottie O’Toole, Ed Goss Free Union, Va. 22940-0278 prayers to Janet. My husband and I are and we babysit a lot! I continue to enjoy [email protected] moving from one house to another in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., so if you want Anne Major Gibb: Ernie and I spent to come to the races in Aug., give me a wonderful Christmas in Philadelphia a call! Chris is still running a business with our son, his wife, our daughter in the Hudson Valley, so we travel there and grandchildren. I keep busy working each week. I also have had fun playing as a grant writer for a small town and mahjong with Sue Dern Plank and serving as president of my Rotary Club. hope for a visit from Ginger Wood- Glenys Dyer Church: I retired ward Gast in spring 2017. 6/30/16 from Northrop Grumman after Kristin Howell: In the past year or 34 years. The first several months were so I’ve traveled a lot, as I love it. Went spent getting the house back together on a photo workshop windjammer after remodeling the kitchen. Now I am cruise in the Grenadines, Dominica, enjoying spending my time doing things my usual Texas and Germany visits to that I like to do, like making cards and relatives, my Howell family reunions at scrapbooking. Wrightsville beach (we’re 50+ mem- Robin Harmon O’Neil: I started bers now), and I love to go camping an art school last year and am loving when I can, especially in Fla. I had a John Brenard, Diane Dale Reiling, Steven Reiling, Chuck Reiling, Erica painting again! My two partners are little heart blip in which I ended up with Reiling professional artists and instructors in 3 stents but glad to be feeling better! the school ... check out MSArt.org on Back in Key West now for a while the Web! and getting on the water as much as Renee Sterling: Had a wonderful possible. Also still with the same guy, a visit with Cary Davis King while on record for me! a business trip to New Orleans; can’t Susan Hancock Duke: It was 1 wait to get together with her and Linda degree in Franklin this a.m. I have no Lipscomb for a girls trip! Enjoyed memory of temps this low before, ever! time with Jill Steenhuis Ruffato ’80 I’m still working for Prime Media/ Cable during one of her annual art trips to TV and Digital Sales. Dallas. Lunched with Ann McKie Kling Christine Eng Leventhal: I teach ’74, Melanie Bowen Steglich ’78, science at Darien High School, as well Lisa Wray Longino ’78, Ellen Sellers as tutor and teach one fitness class McDowell ’77, Cissy Humphrey ’76 a week, take 3 ballet classes a week, and Tennessee Nielsen ’76. Jill brought volunteer, and love being a Mormor! her son, Sergio, along on this trip, and Peter is retired and stays active with I purchased a wonderful bronze that he Spanish class, Tai Chi, and fighting had created. Talent runs strongly and back against Parkinson’s disease. We freely through this family! have one grandson, Milo (3), whom we Scottie O’Toole: Lots of news in adore (Amy & Giovanni, Vt.). Nick has 2016 ... as you can see I got married moved back from Maui to Conn., and to Ed Goss in Sept. We met online in Jon lives and works in Denver. 2013 and built a house together in Diane Dale Reiling: Our son, Diane Dale Reiling, Steven Reiling, Lauren Gagnon Reiling, Chuck early 2016. We now live in Flowery Steven (32), got married in Seattle in Reiling Branch, Ga. I retired from my corporate July 2016 & daughter, Erica (28) will be

58 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes judging AKC dog shows and travel quite Jane Hutcherson Frierson, Robin My commitment to the University of or grandchildren to report, but our adult a bit doing that. Home is still Ala. Christian Ryan, Lee Wilkinson Virginia School of Medicine continues children are engaged in their various Mary Buxton: An eventful year ... Warren, Edie McRee Bowles and as a trustee and class representative. job endeavors and seem quite content My sweet mom passed away last Feb. Nancy Lea. Mary Bush Norwood Hoping all are well and happy. and productive. We were lucky to be there with her. I is running for Mayor of Atlanta. I invite Jane Hutcherson Frierson: I Mimi Hill Wilk: Thanks to Penelo- am mulling over and practicing retire- D.C. alumnae to stop by 600 block, H am retiring from MITRE Feb. 2 then pe Lagakos Constantinidi’s amazing ment. Continuing Education classes at St. (behind Union Station), for cup of joe celebrating with a week of skiing in family business, I had fun selling Stanford are helping me define a new at the family business, Wydown Coffee Lake Tahoe. Kastania Extra Virgin Olive Oil at the role as an involved citizen, particu- Bar, best scones in the District. Ask for Mary Combs: I am delighted to Plaza luncheon with daughter Liz! Greg larly in environmental advocacy. For Sophie Camp ’08. announce that Arthur Jackson “Jay” and I enjoyed seeing Emory Maxwell adventure, I hope to visit Jane Potts in Ellie Plowden Boyd: A great year Wheeler and I were married on the and husband Charles. We shared Charleston and the National Parks. for catching up with housemates and beach outside my condo in Naples- grandparent stories. Georgie turns 3 on Evelyn Carter Cowles: Life is getting down & dirty on campus at on-the-Gulf, Fla., on 12/12/16!!!!! We Groundhog Day. pretty much the same … riding, fishing Sweet Weeks. Pulled weeds and caught knew each other 20 years ago and Tricia Barnett Greenberg: I’m and painting. Reynolds is the president up with Liz Thomas Camp, Ruthie have not seen each other for the last thrilled to finally have two grandsons this year for the Am. Assoc. of Equine Willingham Lentz, Barb Ashton 17 years! We ran into each other again five weeks apart!! Brody, 10 months, is Practitioners; so we will get to do a Nicol, Lee Wilkinson Warren, Robin at Trump headquarters working for the in Atlanta with Patty and Drew; Phillip, little traveling for his “job.” I am actually Christian Ryan, and Mary Witt election, and our first date again was 9 months, is in Florence, S.C., with sitting on the beach in Grand Cayman Will. All pretty for the new students! on Election Day! Heather and Barnett. Phil and I still as I type, while he is in a meeting! Bennett Coleman won “Spring Vixen,” Jennifer Smith Hanes: Thank you split our time between Florence and Going back to SBC in March for a riding the oil painting I submitted for SBC’s for your faith, courage, dedication, and Charleston. I am busy with my antiques clinic and then hope to see as many as online auction. What would you like to determination to secure your future. business at Terrace Oaks in Charleston possible of you all in 2018! see your vixen doing this year? SBC’s brightest days are ahead! Our and on Instagram, Patrician Antiques. Mary Witt Will: I have officially college will adapt to a changing world Phil is retired and wants to travel as stepped down from work and am so with imagination and purpose. Tom much as possible. We leave for India 1974 enjoying free time. I’m spending much and I now live in Richmond, Va., closer next week. Nancy Mortensen Piper more time with family and friends (such to our children and six grandchildren! MaryLee Burch Doering: I’m still 219 S. Lee Street as our classmate Sandra Taylor). I’m Tom continues to practice law. I stay living in Folsom, Calif., near Sacramen- Alexandria Va. 22314 also volunteering at St. Mary’s Hospital active with grandparenting, community/ to. I tutor several students in French, [email protected] and as a broadcast reader for Virginia church activities, choir, handbells. I will writing, SAT and ACT prep and love it!! I Voice for the print-handicapped. always remain in love with SBC! Hello also am a member of the local Alliance Barb Ashton Nicol: Had a great to all my very wonderful classmates. Francaise and The French Class on time at a Sweet Week of Work in Susan Stephens Geyer: I can Sutter Street in San Francisco. My older August with Liz Thomas Camp, Ellie report that after 3 1/2 years of a home three adult children are married and Plowden Boyd, Robin Christian renovation project, we are moving back doing well. My boys live in upstate New Ryan, Ruthie Willingham Lentz and into our house in mid-February. I will York and my daughter Marissa near Lee Wilkerson Warren. Robert and host the Friends of Art board members Philadelphia. Deanna, who recently I are celebrating our 25th wedding here next fall for our meeting. I am turned 21, works at the local In-N-Out anniversary this year. My younger son, very excited that I will soon be seeing part time and attends classes for her Ben, was married in Mobile last March. Elizabeth Andrews Watts, Jane H. general education at a junior college My older son, Chris, lives Tuscaloosa. Frierson and Leslie Elbert Hill in Vir- nearby. She will enroll in UC Davis in Robert’s son lives in Atlanta and Corpus ginia in late April. Elizabeth has invited the fall. All is well with us. I did have a Christi, Texas. We enjoyed visiting our us to join her for the Eastern Shore minor cardiac issue a few weeks ago, two grandchildren, Grace and Parker, Barb Ashton Nicol & Robert with Garden tour. We still have no marriages which got me going to the gym daily!! in Atlanta. Parker and Grace (and Sassy) I feel great. Joining a new Lifetime Lee Wilkerson fitness center that will open in April. Warren: I retired Sarah Johnston Knoblauch: from Stop Hunger I just had a Sweet Briar Snow Flake Now in 2014 and Luncheon on January 15. We had 15 love retirement. ladies attend, including Chris Weiss After completing Pfeil’s dear mother! Pricilla Newton the two-year Living Carroll ’87, Alumnae Relations, came School program in from Sweet Briar and gave us an up- Albuquerque at the date on campus news. We had Chris Center of Action and Weiss Pfeil, Betsy Biggar Hellmuth Contemplation, I and me from our class. I am still en- kicked back and picked up watercolor joying riding my Polly Wolly Doodle and painting with similar zeal. I’m also showed her in some hunter classes a charter board member of an NGO at the beginning of December. My focused in Nicaragua and travel there watercolor art classes continue as well twice a year. During the school year, I as my commissions. I still can send volunteer at the elementary school and my Sweet Briar watercolor to anyone tutor non-English-speaking children. who wants to donate $120 to Sweet Life is good. Briar. I can send an archival print of my Liz Thomas Camp: Jack and painting for $30. I also have note cards I marked 40 years with travels in for $3/card. The painting is shown on China and Cuba. Reunioned at “Sweet my Facebook page. Weeks” on campus with Boxwood Kathleen Kilpatrick: I retired in Girls—Barb Ashton Nicol, Paula Ellie Plowden Boyd, Liz Thomas Camp, Barb Ashton Nicol, Mary Witt the fall from public service and am Hollingsworth, Ellie Plowden Boyd, Will, Liz Wilkerson Warren, Ruthie Willingham Lenz and Robin Christian enjoying giving more attention and Emory Furniss Maxwell, Mary Ryan at Sweet Work Weeks in August 2016. time to my several historic preservation Witt, Ruthie Willingham Lenz, and land conservation boards and

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 59 Class Notes commissions at the state, national and law school seems to be in Ian’s sights. forward to having a full house for a taught me “I can do hard things.” international level. Son Ian graduated It’s also lovely to ride more often and time. Sorry I missed Drea Peacock As for me, Nancy Mortensen from UVa in 2015 and is gainfully spend time on the farm—unplugged Bender, who was snowed in at the Piper, my husband and I have been employed in marketing while also and working hard to not be overcome Grove Park Inn down the road a couple spending a lot more time at our house serving as a 2nd Lieutenant in the by the news. weeks ago. in Rehoboth Beach, Del. My oldest Virginia Army National Guard. It’s lovely Wanda Cronic Howell: Lee Janie Reed Short: I recently made daughter, Kate, is living and working to no longer have tuition fees after 13 and I have added a third daughter a big move from U.S. Trust to a new in Berkeley, Calif., and loves it. My years of St. Christopher’s and then to our household: Destiny Howell. company—Waypoint Advisors, a small youngest daughter, Liz, is a Sophomore college; the breather won’t last long as She is a freshman at Griffin Christian private wealth management firm based at Elon University in N.C. She loves High School. She is playing on their in Virginia Beach—as Executive Vice the school and her sorority, Alpha Chi basketball team and sang a solo in President and Partner. Loving it!! Omega. I have been active with the the Christmas production. Nicole, our Jan Renne Steffen: I’m a widow D.C. Sweet Briar Alumnae Club, and we oldest, is a student at Kennesaw State living in Fallbrook, Calif. Moved here 11 had a very successful Sweet Briar Day University, and Jessica is a junior years ago after living in Orange County in January; we are planning a fundrais- at Furman University. It was a very for 30 some years, from the city living er with Talbots in the spring. interesting Christmas holiday with three to country living. I am currently working girls in the house. The five of us flew to in my jewelry business, JRS Designs. Chicago to see the play “Hamilton,” to I have 1 dog, Fabio, an 11 year old 1976 shop and go to the Field Museum and Lhasa Apso. I have my masters in Peggy Weimer Parrish the Chicago Art Institute. I stay busy Adult Long Distance Education. Being 862 Main St with the three dealerships in the Cronic president of ASG of San Diego takes up Danville, VA 24541-1808 Automotive Group and my work with a lot of time. I have a boyfriend. [email protected] three different area businesswomen’s Mary Landon Darden: I retired groups. I also help with recruitment for from serving as dean for a university Karen Adelson Strauss reported that Sweet Briar College in any way I can. center in San Antonio in 2015, and “2016 was quite the year for me. Trav- Colleen Dee Butterick; I’ve lived husband Bob and I moved back to elled to Israel and Minneapolis to wel- in Wisconsin, Florida and South Car- Waco, Texas, where I started a com- come my granddaughter and grandson olina, so it’s nice to feel like we have pany—Higher Education Innovation, into this world. Backpacked in Glacier finally settled here in Asheville, N.C., LLC—and Bob continues at Baylor as National Park with my nephew’s Boy where we have been for 13 years. Our a full professor. I work with universities Scout troop. Visited my daughter, who Jan Renne Steffen son and his family are returning from and schools to help build enrollment, is a biking and snow shoe/ski back the Navy in February, so we are looking programs and initiatives. Bob’s Black country guide, in Park City. I went to Gospel Music Restoration Project that Antarctica and Argentina for three he started at Baylor has just become a weeks over Christmas and New Years. part of the Smithsonian’s new Museum I gave my mom much love and support of African American History and Culture as her dementia progressed. We will in D.C. We both continue to write lose her before long, as her body is books, blogs and more and, in our time giving up the will to stay alive. For off, enjoy our grandchildren—Asa, anyone experiencing the hollowing Eilan, Rhett and Archer. out, the fading away of your loved one, Wendy Cherry: Thank you Sweet part of our strength and comfort can Briar family for giving me the liberal come from knowing that we are giving arts foundation for an abundant life: love, safety, and as much comfort as an internship with the Guggenheim possible on this horrendously long, last Museum, three years as a Peace Corps chapter.” volunteer (in a mud hut) in Zaire, an Cheryl Lux has been busy; here’s MSW, 10 years as a financial adviser her update. “Despite the freefall in pro- with The Ohio Company, 15 years as ducer cattle prices we have done okay. a financial adviser with Edward Jones. We continue to see increases in de- Wendy Cherry: Lover of ballroom Ookie Hayes Cooper and Meg The phenomenal female role models of mand for our breeding bulls, which we dancing seeks sweet partner! Shield Duke Dr. Stevens, Dr. Laing and Dean Sims anticipate to continue in 2017. Went to Hawaii in December to visit family, who grow organic tea at Kilauea. Went to National Western (Live) Stock Show in Denver with daughter Elizabeth; stayed with Sally Berriman and her husband Steven Brown, had a great time with them and sampled several of Denver’s fine cuisine spots, including Sally’s of course. Elizabeth is moving to Kansas City, Missouri, to take a job there. The rest of the three of us here at the ranch, my husband John and son Adam are all healthy and doing well.” Robin Heller writes that she is “happy to be in Detroit at this time with its exciting rejuvenation. It is hard to keep up with the new restaurants, new commercial/residential development, and cultural activities. After retiring (for Wedding of Ben and Jennifer Schiller the second time) from my position at an environmental health nonprofit, I

60 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes continue to be immersed in charitable to Bermuda to ride mopeds and see and serves as co-webmaster for one activities, mainly focused on children, the pink sands. November we cruised of their professional websites. Lee gardening, and historic preservation. to western Caribbean and I zip lined for is officially retired, and he and L-J 1977 I sit on several nonprofit boards as the first time. Who would have known keep track of eldercare issues with Sally Bonham Mohle, Class well as two local foundation boards. I’d be so adventurous in my youth? “ his Mother in Pittsburgh and hers in Secretary We continue to work on our historic Teesie Costello Howell enjoyed Florida, in addition to visiting family 5039 Lewisetta Drive home built in 1903-04—always a fun a delightful lunch with Elliott Graham in California—with side trips to Las Glen Allen, VA 23060 adventure that reminds us to enjoy the Schoenig and Peggy Weimer Vegas—and Louisiana. [email protected] journey as much as the end result. (It Parrish at Peggy’s Richmond home Andie Yellott wrote “I really don’t Linda Uihlein is planning on coming is on the National Register of Historic in January on the King have much to add to whatever it was I to reunion. She is developing an Places.) Our daughter is a grad student holiday. “We called it ‘Ladies Who wrote last time; my life is pretty much organic farm-to-table operation and at Loyola Chicago, so we travel to visit Lunch,’ but decided our next outing exactly the same as it’s been, with the needs sweat equity help with the her. Our son is back in the area, and would be ‘Ladies Who Drink.’ Some exception of a very real dread of what greenhouse—a great internship we enjoy having him closer.” things never change! Teesie’s daughter the future holds for America and the opportunity! Linda is still volunteering Sally Mott Freeman is “thrilled Susannah is getting married this spring world. Any of my personal news just weekly at the rescue squad. She has to report that my son Christopher in Greenville, S.C.” seems so trivial under the circumstanc- two Jack Russells now; polio pup is got engaged over Christmas to his Catherine Catlett Quinlan is still es, to be honest. Doing what I can daily learning search work. She says “come girlfriend, Kamis O’Farrell. Thoroughly living outside of Tampa, Fla., and work- to protest and resist.” visit my organic farm any time.” enjoying wedding planning conversa- ing from home for a legal publisher. Ann Kiley Crenshaw was so Debbie Koss McCarthy is tions, which are in full swing. No date She wrote: “I am so pleased that our sorry to have missed reunion. Her winding down toward retirement. She yet, but Christopher tells me it will be beloved Sweet Briar will continue to granddaughter Kiley (then 18 mos.) has stepped down as the executive after the launch of my book, The Jersey educate young women in the future. came from Dallas to stay with her while director of the Augustine Literacy Brothers, officially May 9 at Politics We should all be proud of those who her parents attended a wedding. Lisa Project and will spend 2017 focusing and Prose in D.C., but which kicks off participated in #SaveSweetBriar. The Nelson Robertson (Honey), Sally on replication chapters in 15 other a week before at the annual author power of our alumnae and strong Olds Kitchin (Saint) and Ann meet cities. She and David LOVE spending dinner in Richmond (May 4). Then off women should never be underesti- regularly to whine and wine. “Keep the time at their mountain house at Lake to Dallas and points west..... I hope to mated.” faith with SBC! Continue your generous Lure, playing with the “Adorables,” their catch up with some 76ers along the Lynn Kahler Rogerson is “thrilled support of time, talent and treasure. two grandchildren who live 2 1/2 hours way! “ to report that Olivia—now at Senior Hugs, Kevy (my granny name)” away in Charlotte. They are considering Susan Verbridge Paulson is still at Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Due to technical issues, updates moving there, but it won’t be easy to working as principal of an elemen- Va.—has accepted SBC’s invitation from Ann Stryker Busch were not leave after 38 years in the Triangle! tary school in Colorado Springs. Her to the freshman class of 2021! Viva la received. I know that part of her news Jean Romanske Zaniewski husband is officially retired, but works SBC! It took tremendous control not to included updates on grandchildren, remains happily retired from a long often as supply clergy. Their children lobby 24 hours a day to this desired so hope that she will be able to tell us career in federal law enforcement, and and grandchildren are all nearby in end, but happily she has come to the all about what›s going on in her world with husband Ken is enjoying late in Denver. decision on her own. The SBC Ad- in our next update. Thank you all who life parenting to three teenagers (“What Meg Shields Duke’s first grand missions Office did a tremendous job submitted; keep those cards and letters were we thinking?”). Jean is also baby arrived last Valentine’s Day -- with their admissions weekend—after coming! enjoying late in life athletic pursuits. Madeleine “Maddie” Marguerite Simp- the various presentations, I wanted to She completed a full Ironman triathlon son (Mary Beth Hamlin Shannon’s sign up again!! And I have more happy in 2013 and again in 2015; and now birthday buddy!) “I’m hoping that she’ll news—I am engaged and will be (worn out) spends tons of time with continue the Sweet Briar legacy, as her married in the summer. I enjoyed SBC mom and my daughter, Margo Duke Day with the Washington, D.C. chapter, Simpson, spent her junior semester and was delighted that four enthu- in France with SBC. We have another siastic members of the class of ’76 grandchild on the way this May, as were present—Sally Mott Freeman, Jamie Jr. and wife Jesse are expecting Nursat Aygen, Maureen O’Hearn their first. Yippee!” Slowinski and myself. ” Debbie Gahagan Hill is still Kari Shipley volunteers as a working as senior vice president of fundraiser for four local charities and consumer lending at a central Florida capital campaign for her church as well credit union and about to celebrate as serving on two boards and helping her 30-year anniversary She writes her youngest son start his environ- that she “was blessed with second mental nonprofit; this keeps her busy grandchild in August, the first girl in the all year round. Her husband retired in family in ages from my youngest son January, “so a new chapter in our lives Doug and his Columbian girlfriend; they has begun and we will spend summers named her Vanessa June after me and in Lake Toxaway, NC. Painting and my mom’s middle name. Two weeks swimming for fun and exercise Hosted ago once again I became a grandma SBC swim team at our home in Delray again to Dylan James, my eldest son’s Beach last night. Go Vixens!” second child. I also continue to manage Linda-Jean Smith Schneider re- as owner/property manager windy ports from lovely Bucks County, Penn., ghoul cottages on Lake Parker. Taking that she was sorry to miss last year’s full advantage of vacationing in the little reunion, but is constantly with our spare time I have. Staying in touch with Fabulous Vixens in spirit! Linda-Jean Linda Jean Smith Schneider, Jo Ella has been senior manager for Electronic Schneider Samp ’77, Wendy Brad- Research Services for more than five ford, and Elliott Graham Schoenig. years at the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Going to Key West next week to Bockius in Philadelphia. She traveled to celebrate Glenn’s 64th, at Latitudes on Chicago for the American Association Sunset Key, and at Spring break back of Law Librarians conference last July, Debbie McCarthy ’77 and family

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 61 Class Notes her younger daughter, her daughter’s dealing with “a lot more students and though separated by four years.” Paula Another classmate has joined the Welsh pony, and her own Hanoverian/ faculty (and hormones)” keeps her on enjoyed seeing Janet Rakoczy, as ranks of grandmother-hood! Mary TB hunter. her toes! Last summer and into the well as the sailing with Carey, Michelle, Page Stewart‘s daughter Ellie had not Carolyn Williams Seeling is fall was spent in a walking cast with a and Liz (with hubbies). Daughter Genny one, but two last June! How lucky! One enjoying family, friends, and work in broken , while sister Sophie Crysler did transfer to Randolph Macon for her of each! “They live all too far away, but the Philadelphia area. She plans are to Hart ’81 got a new pair of hips! The last two years. With Genny spending we’ve managed to spend some good retire soon and move to the Delaware two of them must have been a sight! her junior year in Salzburg, Austria, time with them.” Mary has also seen coast. Sophie is “absolutely doing great—out- Paula and son JP had the opportunity Catherine Slatinchek Prillman ’76 in Harriet Dinegar Milks moved with running me!” Cannie’s son, Blake, was to travel there to visit her, as well as Vero Beach, Fla. her family to Alaska for a “two-year in New Zealand working at Fox Glacier explore some of Austria and Germany. Katie Renaud Baldwin is about to adventure” that has lasted for 13 years. as a guide, and Cannie and Win went Randolph Macon’s 4-1-4 program become a grandmother again, as well! Their daughter is a ski instructor, and for a visit over Christmas break. Francie gave Genny the opportunity to accept a Daughter Amanda (an RN) and hubby their son is a sophomore at University is living and working in New York City, grant program in Cambodia, where she were expecting again in March with of Alaska. Harriet and husband Bill are chasing a young Viszla puppy when not taught English. (How many memories little second-grade-sister Addi very both assistant attorneys general for working at Trinity School. Cannie hopes does that 4-1-4 schedule bring up for excited! Daughter Emily is still in Cali- the state of Alaska; she is the attorney that the puppy (same dog breed of us?) Son John Patrick is engaged and fornia, but Katie says, “I am still trying for the state’s marijuana program. Clifford fame) won’t get quite that big! to be married in September at Loyola to get her to move closer to me!” Katie She has traveled to Colorado and Leigh Forrester McDonald has University (Baltimore) where the couple and Cary are still living on a farm in Oregon and worked closely with the gone into jewelry design, working with met. Luckily, Baltimore native Mary Oregon, where retired Cary never runs regulatory agency, licensing cultivation, gemstones, freshwater pearls and pre- Page Stewart was available to give out of things to do, and Katie looks production, testing, and retail marijuana cious metals, while enjoying their new Paula tips on locations for rehearsal forward to the day when she can retire, facilities. Harriet says “it’s fascinating life in the mountains of North Carolina. dinner spots! JP and Katie will live in again! After retiring a year ago, she and challenging work, and I’m proud Volunteering at the Haywood County Baltimore where JP is in finance, and was asked to return to fill in after the to be working in this cutting-edge Arts Council Gift Shop in Waynesville Katie is a speech pathologist. loss of a fellow teacher. Many students area. My kids are alternately amused, keeps her busy while she enjoys the One of our Globe-trotting class- had been Katie’s previously in a split horrified and proud. I’ll take it.” changing seasons. mates, Carolyn Ennis, reports in from Kindergarten/1st grade class, so it was The various Sweet Briar Day events Geneva, Switzerland, where she is now a natural fit with many former students. in January provided many an oppor- stationed with UNHCR after 4 years in But Katie remarked, “Second grade 1978 tunity to catch up and reconnect. One the DR Congo and 3 years in Iraq. Her has changed a lot from two years ago. Suzanne Stryker Ullrich such event gave Paula Brown Kelley daughters are grown up, working and There is not one curriculum that I had 820 Waverly Rd. and Michelle Youree Hostler the studying, which gives Carolyn time to the year before!” However, teaching Kennett Square, Penn. 19348 chance to meet in Alexandria at an old run 3 marathons as well as starting a just 2nd grade is much easier. ”I am [email protected] auction house owned by an SBC ’86 little archery. She also stays in touch spending a lot more time on Pinterest!” alum, where it “was a pleasure to talk with Ieke Osinga Scully and Jane Betsy Moore Conti and husband So, do we all feel a year older? Sixty with Nancy Mortensen Piper ’74, Sarah Hemenway Sullivan. Gene are enjoying life and work in is just a number! And we have already Clement ’74, Sally Mott Freeman ’76, Anne Doolittle is happy to downtown Raleigh, N.C., with daughter moved on! Our next hurdle? Our 40th!! and Phyllis Watt Jordan ’80, who were announce the birth of a granddaughter, Molly and son-in-law and grandson It won’t be that long before we are set also in attendance.” (Ed Note: A long Ellen Maddux Cotton (Maddy), to her Liam right around the corner, “which to take that major stroll down memory line for customs at Dulles for me meant daughter and son-in-law in Fairfax, Va. has been a BLAST!” (The rest of us lane. Be sure to put it on your calendar. a missed opportunity to see Michelle, She is the “beautiful, precious, new grandparents are envious!) Betsy and It would be great to all be together but a great dinner with Paula!) Last love of my life! That makes grandchild Gene also get to spend a lot of time again! (On the other hand . . . we never summer Paula, Jack and daughter #7.” Anne has been painting up a in Ashville, N.C., where they visit son need a ‘big’ excuse to get together! Genny had a great time catching up storm and had an art show in Decem- John Reiley, who is a chef at The Wick- Hint! Hint!) with Cecilia Garcia-Tuñon Lear and ber where she sold five paintings, as ed Weed! The BIG news for all of them There were a couple people whose Steve in Bangor, as well as touch- well as several sets of hound drawing is that after an eight-year courtship, notes didn’t make it into the last ing base with Cassandra Smith notecards. While Anne has enjoyed John finally proposed to Leigh! Other publication, so it’s only fair that I start Babbitt. What a “surprise to find out reconnecting with classmates on big news may just benefit all of us at out where we left off … that Cassandra’s husband was in Facebook, “I would love to see the real some point! Betsy and Gene recently Liz Williams has been busy the same USNA Company as Jack, faces at Reunion in the future!” purchased a 900-year-old stone traveling all around the country for work but finds time to spend on their newest sailboat and ride! Last July Liz and Chuck hosted Carey Johnson Fleming and David, Paula Brown Kelley and Jack, and Michelle Youree Hostler and Bobby for a fun weekend on the Chesapeake Bay out of Annapolis. David’s birthday was a great reason for all of them to get together! In August Mikie Gupton McKelway and Hank joined Liz and Chuck for sail- ing weekend as well. “It was a Sweet Briar summer!” A visit with Marybeth Lipinski Perez-Soto in Albuquerque, N.M., was highlighted by a greeting from a skunk on the front steps! “A welcome I won’t soon forget.” With all of the work travel, Liz was looking forward to a few months at home! Cannie Crysler Shafer has been Carolyn Ennis: Finishing a mara- Carolyn Ennis: Monitoring elections in Tikrit, Iraq (second from the left busy being a principal for both an thon in Istanbul! in blue vest) elementary AND a middle school; so

62 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes cottage in Tuscany, which has been the 40! My best to all of you.” Isn’t that the hosts photography groups! Road trip!?! in 17 years! You go for it, Jo! We’ll be source of frequent trips, adventures, truth, Carrie! So much talent out here! Cassandra Smith Babbitt has watching for them! and Italian lessons! “Class Reunion Lee Corrollo continues to teach left her job at University of Maine, and Elizabeth Jane Hemenway in Italy?” I think there might be a few chemistry (39 years!), doing some isn’t quite sure what she will do with Sullivan continues to support SBC in takers on that one! consulting on the side, and walk dogs, herself! Having more flexibility while every way she can! In February Jane There will be many weddings but decided to give up the riding helping out her mother in her late 80s gave her Daisy and Indie <3 NYC Tour coming up for our classmates in “because I do not do it often enough is important, as well as time to visit her to the SBC history students, organized 2017! There will be lots of ‘MOGs’ to stay in shape and at this age ‘once two little granddaughters, Eloise and by SBC’s Dr. Kate Chavigny. What fun and ‘MOBs’! Ann Key Lucas will test in a blue moon’ only makes me sore!” Clementine, who will be moving back to see the sights of New York that were the waters as MOG when middle son Instead, she keeps up with ballroom to North America from Hong Kong this the neighborhoods, parks and churches William marries “an adorable girl from dancing ‘’when I can get my hubby out summer! “Victoria, B.C., but still a lot the Williams family loved. “We forget Cleveland.” Fortunately all three sons there!” Lee’s son is working at Stanford closer!” Yes, Cassandra . . . Victoria that they were really sophisticated (oldest John and youngest Hunt) will University as the residential education is beautiful! Another goal? Starting people of their time, and that they loved be/are living in the St Louis area (“all program manager, including student up a small quilting business! (All you NYC as much as they loved Sweet Bri- gainfully employed!”), which makes affairs, and residential life, all keeping class quilters . . . Road trip to Maine, ar.” In January, Jane attended a wine Ann very happy! There are the requisite him busy! Working with students gives eventually!) tasting with Wendy Weiler ’71 in Grand three-hour coffee breaks about three Lee the opportunity to entice a few Katherine Powell Heller is Central Terminal featuring wines by times a year with Becky Mulvihill girls to consider SBC, but finds it a grateful to have both daughters living SBC’s own Leah Jorgensen ’96. “Le- McKenna, and Cathy Mellow Golter- tough sell to get California kids to go and working in Atlanta, so she can see ah’s wines are phenomenal, so I hope man is on speed-dial! Ann had recently East! Keep trying Lee! You never know! them regularly. Celebrating the “Big everyone will be able to order them and attended the simply wonderful wedding “. . . No reunions with classmates . . . 6-0” in Italy on a Uniworld River Cruise sample them for themselves!” In her of Dudie Hiemenez DiLeo’s daughter. sigh!” Okay, West Coast, take that as a was a highlight, one that Katherine spare time, Jane continues renovations Did you pick up any pointers, Ann? challenge! highly recommends! on the 1840s farmhouse in Eatonton, Deb Davison Klein had to trade Empty Nesters, Ieke Osinga Lots of news from Lauren Place Ga., heading there for a week every her MOB hat in for a MOG hat! Son Bo Scully and husband report, “Two kids Young! She was able to attend “the month. (The farmhouse belonged to a was getting married in March. Married OFF our payroll!” One is in Chicago best graduation,” celebrating Jean War of 1812 veteran who was a sur- daughter Whitney is in Atlanta, and Pe- working for Deloitte, while second son Beard Barden’s completion of a geon’s mate and then later went off to ter is in Washington State. A visit with is a physics-math teacher and crew 22-month-long intense program at the medical school in Philadelphia. He re- Mary Page Stewart, Kathy Jackson coach at The Hill School in Pottstown, Culinary Institute of America in Hyde turned to this farmhouse to practice as Howe, Cannie Crysler Shafer and Pa., near Philadelphia. Son #3 is at Park, N.Y., complete with an award a country doctor.) Eatonton calls itself Dru Springer Oswalt in Florida was the University of Denver, studying and in management! Jean actually got to ‘the briar patch’ as well, “so now I have a blast, and riding and the beach also skiing! Ieke spends lots of her time enjoy again the fun times of living “on two!” The area is rich with well-known keep her busy! volunteering with the local historical campus” during the week, returning authors … Joel Chandler Harris’s The Lisa Wray Longino had also been society and tagging along on her hus- home to Bob on the weekends! I’m sor- Song of the South, Alice Walker’s The busy planning daughter Fleming’s band’s volunteering with sustainable ry, do any of us remember having an Color Purple, and Flannery O’Conner all wedding to Matthew Huckin in May energy efforts. oriental rug in our dorm rooms? Well, came from this Lake District in Georgia. (“so excited for them both!”) and also Audrey Townsend reported that Jean did this time around! Creature (Hmmm … good place for a literary helped sister Bridget Wray Gardner she and husband Scott were on a comforts! All kidding aside, it was very getaway!) Daughter Elizabeth is a junior ’79 welcome her first grandchild last small island in the Bahamas having intense and KUDOS to you Jean! Now at Williams College, and son John is October: Joseph Duffie Ratterree IV! a wonderful time! After that she was . . . when will you lend your talents to deep into his own college search. ALL Congrats to all! Lisa also fills her time meeting up with classmates Emily the Wailes Center on campus? Back in the family are healthy and well! working for Sweet Briar and a few non- Dick McAlister, Michelle Tarride to Lauren: After being away from the Cathy Mellow Golterman is profits in Dallas, and feels it a “great Frazier, Missy Powell Adams and slopes for a number of years, Lauren still teaching pre-school and doing blessing to get to know so many more Helen Bauer Bruckman in Nassau and family now ski often at nearby Jay extended day care at a second school. extraordinary SBC women!” A recent for a long weekend! “I’m sure I’ll have Peak, where they all spent Christmas That’s how she gets her “grandchil- trip, “though a very sad occasion” lots of news after that!” with four feet of fresh snow. dren” practice! Daughter Catherine brought Betsy Ryan Glenn, Kathy A number of our class are involved A mini-reunion then took place in is teaching also, but nursery school, Jackson Howe and Tucker McGowin with Friends of the Arts Board, meeting early January on Cape Cod with best while Christen is getting her master’s in Slaughter ’79 together for the celebra- in various cities. Mary Page Stewart, friends Marianne Hutton Felch ’79, counseling, and Woody is interning at tion of life service for classmate Eve Kathy Jackson Howe and Barbara Jean Beard Barden, Nancy White Sindel, Sindel and Nobel law firm. “We Jackson London. “What a testament Behrens Peck always enjoy going ’79 (hostess with the most-est) and are all busy.” to courage and strength!” Eve will to those meetings so they can catch Suzanne Stryker Ullrich by speaker- Muffy Hamilton Parsons and indeed be missed. Her movies taken up! Barbara also enjoys her public art phone from Europe sharing in the fun Cindy McKay are carrying the SBC during our years at SBC will be but one consulting, particularly a recent instal- all weekend! Jean hadn’t come down banner in Columbus, Ohio, where they of her legacies! lation of part of a 10-year project along from her CIA-high yet,and treated all are working on the 2nd annual All-Ohio Carrie Ruda Clark is still in the Downtown Greenway in Greens- to three days of some newly learned Alumnae Luncheon this April. They member communications at the boro, Woven Works Park, inspired for culinary delights, capped off with some have also been attending college fairs American Bankers Association, where the area’s textile industry, all part of of the graduation champagne! Ah, in the Central Ohio area and alumnae she also spends her time managing the “Creative Placemaking” in her city! Veuve … Cliquot, that is! Lauren stays events with the Cleveland Alumnae director’s publication, but also takes Barbara also reflected on the fun times busy running The Greens, an inde- Club (two hours away!). Muffy also a lot of the photographs of meetings had in Florida with other ’78-ers while pendent retirement home in Hanover, has fun talking to our classmates and does copy editing for marketing at Mary Page Stewart’s in November, N.H. She learned recently that one of throughout the country, as we continue collateral. Son Andrew, 28, moved back and looks forward to other SBC ’78 her newest residents is SBC grad ‘Jo’ to meet our goal of reaching ALL class from North Carolina and was renting a mini-reunions to come! Family is all Joanne Grant ’50 from Lyme, N.H. Jo’s members! (Please send updated con- basement apartment while becoming fine, with hubby Jeff still with Interna- arrival now make three SBC graduates tact info to school or Suzanne.) Anne certified to train dogs for service in tional Textile Group, daughter Haley, 22, at The Greens, along with Lauren and Taylor Doolittle’s son and daughter- hospitals and for disabled patients. Son living in Charlotte and working at Bank Martha Davis Barnes ’48. The three of in-law have moved to Columbus, so John is now in Baltimore managing the of America in their finance training them are conspiring to host an Upper they all had lunch together in early fall. marketing for Terra’s Kitchen, an online programs. Valley SBC event this spring! Jo also Their oldest son, James, just started meal delivery service that he started It was great to hear from Claire volunteered to be her class secretary, a new job in Akron, Ohio, working for with some partners. Carrie ended her Vaughn, who has moved to San Anto- as four of her classmates had written the Cleveland Indians AA farm team, notes with “So glad that 60 is the new nio, Texas, where she has a ranch, and in, and there hadn’t been any notes and Spencer is working in Boston for

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Power Home Remodeling Company. wonderful. Thanks to all of you for your lege next year—he is hoping for MIT, and Stephen started his first year of Muffy, Elizabeth Perkinson “Perk” support!” Yale or University of Chicago. Meaghan pharmacy school at UT. So nice to have Simmons and I are (at the time of this Barbara Mendelssohn Price: is a sophomore, is into kickboxing and everyone back in Texas! writing) conspiring for a mini-Reunion Grateful for a healthy and happy family. got back into figure skating where she Fran McClung Ferguson has at Topsail, N.C. in May! I’m a Florida resident and in Washing- is jumping and spinning like a top! joined the Salem Museum & Histor- I’ve been lucky to be able to travel ton, D.C., as well. My husband and I Carolyn adds: “I am still a project man- ical Society in her hometown as its with Rick as he continues consulting travel as much as his work schedule ager at Wells Fargo and also try to stay executive director and is loving the job within DuPont. Sometimes it’s the allows. Just went to the Galapagos and involved in my wonderful Frederick, change. Her daughter, Carol Ferguson visas that prohibit it, though. Timing is June will be Paris and August Gstaad. Md., community as much as possible.” ’12, was ordained as a minister and everything! But the travel is great, and Anyone interested in doing girl travel We are officially old!Garrow is now the solo pastor of Crescent always allows me time to catch up with trips abroad??? I’m in touch with favor- Hudson Crowley writes that their first Springs Presbyterian Church in the classmates from SBC during layovers! ite French teacher, Mr Artinian, and I’m grandchild, Nora Garrow Hepner, was Ky.–Cincinnati suburbs. Fran’s niece A quick trip to the Alsace area and Co- still working on my French everyday. born to Elsa and Olivier Hepner on May Julia McClung ’09, one of the family’s logne, Germany, before a month-long As for now … there have been 18, 2016. Sadly, she lives in Brooklyn. fourth generation Sweet Briar grads, stint for Rick near Abu Dhabi meant the ups, and the downs, that we can’t Emily Quinn McDermott writes just had a sweet baby girl. We are a return flight through D.C. and an escape. Eve Jackson London lost that she and husband Ed are empty hoping that little Blair will be part of the overnight layover. Yummy dinner with her 22-year-long battle, all too soon on nesters. Faith started college in the SBC Class of 2039! Paula Brown Kelley was a great way the heels of Maria Rixey Gamper’s fall at Scripps out in Claremont, Calif., Phyllis Watt Jordan has started to re-enter reality! Earlier in the year I ended battle. Collectively we have lost while Elizabeth is finishing up her working for Georgetown University got to take another quick trip to catch children, parents, siblings, and other senior year at Denison. Elizabeth has a doing communications work for two up with Carey Johnson Fleming and family members. But the bottom line is job lined up for next year in Washing- think tanks: FutureEd, which deals with David. Fun times and giggles ensued! that we are all here for each other, and ton, D.C., where she will be working for the future of American education, and Again, I got to see Carey’s riding in we mustn’t forget that! Please continue a management consulting firm. Ed is the Center for Children and Family, action, and even got to test out the to be in touch with each other however still working full time, while Emily stays which works to ensure every child has Rodeo Core machine—talk about gig- you can, not just for Reunions but con- busy with her board work for a local health insurance. Needless to say, it’s gles! The Philadelphia Area SBC Club is tinuously. Don’t wait for ‘’someday!” arts center, her role in town govern- a busy time in Washington, D.C.. She growing, and the chance to see Mimi ment and her bridge classes. saw Myth Monnich Bayoud and Borst Quillman and many other SBC Betsy Thomas Rook did another Amy Campbell Lamphere recently alumnae is always a treat. Lunch with 1980 book signing for “Senator: 1876-1965 and made a new SBC friend, Patti Julie Pfautz Bodenstab is frequently Myth Monnich Bayoud The Life and Career of Elmer Thomas” Sagasti-Suppes ’93, at the Woman’s a great way to catch up, share stories 6269 Oram St, Apt 21 in November 2016 at the museum of March in January. and relax before taking a horticulture Dallas, Texas 75214-6225 the Great Plains in Lawton, Okla. She As for me, your class secretary, class at Longwood Gardens, where [email protected] may add another one for sometime in Myth Monnich Bayoud … my senior Julie works. Thank you, Miss Sprague! 2017 in Oklahoma City. Her website is in high school keeps me busy and I am “My Three Sons” are hither and yon— Karen Meredith Black is still working www.etrook.com. Her son Wiley (23) is the director of business development Alex and Kellie, nearby; Andrew, Esther as a real estate agent in Santa Fe still living in Vermont and majoring in in Dallas for W by Worth, which is fun! and Laurel (Sept. 1 last year) in Boston; and was honored to be named the business at the Community College of I spent a fabulously fun weekend last and Ned near Huntsville, Ala.—means Women’s Council of Realtors’ Member Vermont; Kirby (19) started Pasadena August in Vail with Diane Dilworth more travel! We never get enough of the Year in 2016. She writes: “We City College last fall and is now on the Gates and Mary Callahan Arnold. time with any of them, but fun when are traveling more. Robin and I took a men’s basketball roster! He’s majoring Being on the retail team for the Sweet we can spend time with them, and it month-long trip to South America (Chile in Kinesiology. Betsy adds: “I’m Briar Book Shop ensures that I get to always give more opportunities to see and Argentina) this past November. My auditioning for acting roles and taking go to Sweet Briar frequently and work SBC friends “en route”! Toni Christian 81-year-old father joined us for the 2nd an acting class to keep up those skills! with Sharon Watts Turner ’91 and Brown makes wonderful soups! I get half of the trip, which was a lot of fun.” I also got a commercial agent last fall. spend time with Claire Dennison to see Allison Egbert Brokaw period- Lisa Carangelo writes that she My retired husband, Roger, is doing Griffith and Mary Pope Maybank Hut- ically at the Colonial Dames meetings sees Cary Dollard on a regular basis. well, keeping busy with the house, the son ’83! While getting the Book Shop in Wilmington, Del., where she is very Jamila Champisi is working as an yard and everything else in between. ready for Christmas in October 2016, active! Infectious Disease physician at South He also tends to our Lynxpoint Siamese I was able to have lunch in Amherst From Mo Moffat came a pertinent San Francisco Kaiser Permanente. Her cat and 4 snakes. I loved getting to visit with Scott Michaels, a pal from W&L. I note. “I will never forget the heart- daughter started her freshman year with Kim Fuller in OKC last Spring got to see Phyllis Watt Jordan and warming notes, cards and prayers sent at UCLA this fall and her son is in the and hope to see her again sometime Mary Callahan Arnold in November my way from so many SBC classmates midst of the college application pro- soon. “ 2016 on a quick trip on the way home when I was recovering from the heart cess. She is so happy that Sweet Briar Susan Boline Thompson writes from NYC. In December 2016, son attack. I am doing very well now, with is thriving and wants anyone to email if that she is still teaching kindergarten. Charlie and I took a Mom/son trip to few restrictions and loving every day. they are in the area. Daughter Rebecca is teaching in D.C. to take in museums, Wizards and I highly recommend retirement. It is Nancy Rae Delach writes that she Dallas. John just started his first year Capitals games as well as lunch at the is remarried, living in Virginia and is of medical school at UT San Antonio, famous Tune Inn! We missed alum Kate very proud of those who helped Save Schlech ’70 at the Library of Congress Sweet Briar. that trip. We also got to see former SBC Martha Fruehauf writes from president Barbara Hill. I spent time ski- Charlottesville that she misses ing in Vail with Janel Hughes Wiles her Sweet Briar Board friends and and her husband, John, in February everyone SBC related. She is busy with 2017! I keep in touch with classmates family commitments, splitting her time Carolyn Birbick Thomason and Tish between Charlottesville and Florida to Longest Tyler. be with her parents. The upside is the beach! Martha is hoping to connect with some alums in Florida while she is there this winter. Time just keeps flying by, writes Carolyn Hallahan Salamon. Thomas Myth Bayoud, Mary Arnold, Barbara Mendelssohn Price is a senior in high school and off to col- Diane Gates

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superhard and doing a lot of business be grandparents! Their daughter traveling, so we do a lot of reconnect- Constance gave birth to a little boy, ing hiking, snowshoeing and watching Raphaël, just after Christmas, and they HGTV rehab shows!” are absolutely thrilled! Anne writes, Sue Richeson lives in Earlysville, “We have just sold our house in Biarritz Va., and works in Charlottesville for and are going to build a larger one for Teledyne-LeCroy, writing software for all our growing family! It’s Walter’s new Bluetooth test equipment. project and hopefully will keep him Sam Masters Durham writes, busy now that he is retired! I am still “Had a most wonderful time in tutoring English and enjoy it thoroughly. Richmond for my son Arch’s wed- Please come visit!” ding in October to Katie Branch! The Lori Faust Williams’s daughter, party was filled with HSC, SBC and Shelby, got married in October to Sewanee guests. All is well in Corpus Danny Westendorf. Shelby is a Christi. I am gearing up to be the teacher’s assistant at Sacred Heart event manager at the Texas State Academy in Winchester, Va. Her new Aquarium, which is getting ready to husband received his MA in English in open a 71,000-square-foot expansion. September and plans to teach as well. Luke & Ann Husted McGowan, Rob Durham, Katie & Arch Durham, Completed my Facility Management Kearsley Rand Waggoner and her Helen Master Durham ’81 & Buck Durham program this summer, which was a husband, Ed, attended their wedding. nice personal accomplishment.” Meanwhile, Lori’s son, Ted, left the at UW! Working with an artist’s estate Cathy Cook Leinert is still busy post office for a full-time maintenance here in D.C. and enjoying the sponta- saving Rottweilers and running her position at Sacred Heart. She writes, 1981 neity of an empty nest!” nonprofit dog rescue. “Both my kids in Catholic school all day Claire McDonnell Purnell Susan Clay Russell and Fred still She enjoyed a nice cruise to the long … life is good.” 155 Conduit St. live in Richmond, Va., where they just Bahamas with her parents in the fall. May Carter Barger has returned Annapolis, Md. 21401 finished a house renovation. Susan Cathy writes, “Just returned from NYC, to college. She is enrolled at Queens [email protected] writes, “Our children live in Denver, where I attended the Masters of Fox- University of Charlotte as an arts lead- Hello Classmates, NYC and Charleston. All nice places to hounds Annual Meeting and Ball held ership major and is loving every min- Harriet Harrison Leavell is living visit.” Susan sees Barrie Jeffrey Mc- at the Pierre. Had a fabulous time … ute. May says, “In addition, I am chair in Houston, Texas, and working as Dowell, Terrell Luck Harrigan and until I slipped and thought I broke my of a local committee challenged with the tax manager for an electronics Carol Searles Bohrer ’82 periodically. ankle! Luckily, only a very bad sprain, purchasing several major sculptures company. Playing in a tennis league is She also keeps in touch with Cammie so I should be in a riding boot for for a new $20 million YMCA! Daughter keeping her busy as well. Her husband, Bethea Mills, who just summited March! Counting down ’til spring!” Josie (21) graduates from SMU in Whitney, is still with Merrill Lynch and Kilimanjaro! Susan shared Cammie’s Martha Brouse writes, “Steve, May and son Ben (19) is a freshman hunting and fishing as often as he can. Facebook post: “We began summit day Vivian and I have had a crazy year with at High Point U. I still immensely enjoy She writes that their son, Walton, grad- around 5 am. It was the hardest thing I a lot of musical and horse involvement. volunteering on the SBC Friends of Art uated from Rhodes College and is an IT have ever done. Cannot prepare for the Vivian has been very busy with her and really enjoyed dining with President Consultant in Houston, while daughter altitude but with encouragement from horse, pony club, flute, band and choral Stone when we were in NYC!” Brooks has graduated from the Uni- all our guides and each other we did events. Steve is enjoying his new road Liz Winson Sweeney and Tom are versity of Georgia and is in commercial it. I am so proud of all 13 women and bike, and I am recuperating from doing healthy and happy in Pittsburgh. They real estate in Atlanta. Harriet adds, grateful I was a part of this.” the lead in the opera, The Medium, are headed to Roatan, an island about “Now that we aren’t traveling for UGA Susan Campbell is taking a along with numerous recitals and con- 40 miles north of Honduras, for their lacrosse games, we are skiing more gap year after 35 years in financial certs. I still teach voice at the University annual sun and diving holiday. often and thinking about retirement ... services. She writes, “It started with of Alabama in Huntsville and have a Sigrid Carlen Veasey is a Pro- soon!” rest (literally sleep), the holidays (which full private studio. We enjoy riding with fessor of Medicine at the University of Liz Seacord attended the 2017 united my entire family), riding and our hunt club and keeping up with the Pennsylvania and runs an NIH funded Women’s March in D.C. with Lelee catching up with friends. One more farm. It’s been a fulfilling year! I miss research lab examining lasting brain in- Frank , Stephanie Stitt month of being lazy (post-35 years of my SBC sisters!” jury from chronic short sleep. All three Fitzpatrick and Stephanie’s husband, being crazed), and in March, I will begin Carol Hays Hunley and Tom are of her boys are in college: Campbell Dirk. They enjoyed a fabulous Gals’ exploring what I want to do work wise. enjoying Charlotte. “It is January, and (22) at McGill, Carlen (22) is at Trinity Weekend at the Fitzpatrick home in An unexpected development is that I have daffodils blooming! Our second College and Wylie (20) is a freshman at Tacoma Park, Md. In NYC, Liz hosted Sarah (30) is living with me temporarily daughter just got engaged, and we Penn. She is getting used to the empty another large annual Robert Burns’ as she is between apartments. It’s are looking forward to planning our nest and writes, “Doug and I still live in Night celebration. She has hosted the nice to have the time together. It was a first wedding. Hope to see more of my Philadelphia but now fit our tiny home party at her NYC apartment for the tough decision but decided to forgo my former classmates in the Charlotte area better!” past 30 years and says that it is an Florida riding this year and stay on the this year.” Tiffin Hartman Fox and husband immeasurably rewarding experience. home front.” Carrie Maynard Nichols sends Trent are celebrating the birth of their Liz writes that the Women’s March was Molly Davis Garone’s studies news also from Charlotte. “It’s been 7 third grandchild, Annabella. She is the “the most wonderful and passionate at the Art Students League continue months since my double knee-replace- daughter of Tiffin’s oldest son, William four hours of my life, marching with with a pastel class on Saturdays. In ment surgery. It’s taken some time to Trent Fox. Little Annabella and her my beloved classmates and others. November and December, she helped get used to my titanium knees, but it parents live in Bavaria. Tiffin writes, Totally pumped by the fact that many her mother recover from a cardiac was totally worth it. I am pain free! I got “After our visit, Trent had a conference other SBC alums were also down there procedure. Molly is training for triath- a new job in November. I am the 5th in Garmisch, Germany, where the World on the Mall with us. Stephanie Stitt lons and her husband, John, is trying grade assistant teacher at an elemen- Cup was being held, and he invited me Fitzpatrick writes, “Dirk and I had a to get her interested in shooting clays! tary school in Charlotte. It’s me, seven to come along and go skiing.” great weekend with Liz Seacord and She has also resumed bridge classes, teachers, and 192 students. Needless John and I downsized last October Lelee Frank Hazard in Washington which she enjoys. Their son, Tom (22), to say, I’m very busy. Tommy and the and moved into an apartment in for the Women’s March. Solidarity and graduates from Bates in May, and boys are good. If anyone is passing Annapolis and we LOVE it. We had a activism in the year ahead! We have daughter Maddie (23) is very busy with through Charlotte, give me a call.” wonderful visit with our daughter Mary a senior now at UM and a freshman her career in the stationery business. Anne Grosvenor Evrard and (23) in Telluride, Colo., in January, and Molly says, “John, my hubby, is working husband, Walter, are so excited to we hope to visit again in the fall. Lizzie

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I celebrated my first year of sobriety on December 6. Very hard road, but I am truly proud that I made the first year without slipping. My Mom’s leukemia is stable, which is a miracle but she is also the longest living patient on her clinical trial from MD Anderson. She is thin and at almost 81 uses a walker due to a bad knee, but is praised by every doctor at MD Anderson for her resilience and fortitude. Makes me even more proud to be her daughter! Melissa and I celebrated our third year of marriage in October and God willing, we will celebrate many more. Rhoda Harris: My husband, Jim, and I have two sons, Carrick and Jarrod, in college, with another one, Quinton, looking at colleges now. The year has been busy with his cross country, fencing and lacrosse activities. One more year to go and then we will Fond memories—love you all Class of 1982! have that empty nest. Cannot wait to see classmates this June! (20) continues her studies at Fordham together eight alumnae from the class- Elizabeth Frenzel Casalini: Still Liz Hoskinson: Besides friends University in the Bronx. Both girls have es of 1972, 2018 and in between! See living in Indiana spending time with and looking after family, my days are been very supportive of the move. The you at the Reunion! family, working on my farm, Two Creek filled with, as they’ve been for years, upside of Lizzie being in NYC is that Mary Ames Booker: I spent the Hollow, teaching yoga and pilates to horses and the horse world. But there she thinks that our apartment is palatial fall of 2016 in a non- bearing private clients and dedicating time to is still time for gardening, book club, and does not miss the house where cast for a broken foot from a fall at SBC. I have enjoyed the many road and environmental work. I’ve been she grew up. work! I got to my job on the Battleship trips to SBC over the past two years involved with the USEA, co-chairing Thanks for writing everyone. NORTH CAROLINA except when Hur- and visiting classmates along the way! the Membership Committee and ricane Matthew brought flood waters Eli graduates from medical school & co-stewarding the dressage phase at to our parking lot and road. It was an Sophie graduates from nursing school the Millbrook (N.Y.) Horse Trials. adventure. I volunteered as your interim in May. Amen! Happy to have made Monika Kaiser: In 2016 I traveled 1982 to see my cousin’s family in Chile, Mary Ames Booker Class Secretary until June. It is so nice my last tuition payment! Liza, husband to hear from everyone and hope to see Ethan & three-year-old Harper Willow then took my mom to her 65th high 5104 Mako Drive school reunion in Cleveland where I Wilmington, N.C. 28409 you at Reunion. Please stay connected help with my farm. I love playing with with each other via email, Facebook, granddaughter Harper several days a met [classmate] Liz Kauffman. I ac- 910-619-8399 companied my mom home to Germany, [email protected] and SBC Banner. week creek stomping, splashing in rain Deborah Price Bowman: puddles and playing games! Thank you and checked off Machu Picchu, Peru, Angela Avarett: My youngest daugh- Daughter Kate (21) has switched to to all SBC ’82 classmates who have from my bucket list. Alexa is constantly ter married a Tennessee boy this past NYU this semester. Son Kessler (16) donated and dedicated their time to working at different theatres and Julius year and we were all there to celebrate! has started at White Mountain School SBC! is in his last semester for pre-med bio. (Her older sister, who lives in N.Y.C., in N.H., so I am an empty-nester 2-1/2 Martha Tisdale Cordell: David Richard is still with Pepsi and loving it. I and her brother, who lives in Bordeaux, years early. I am planning to get Rory and I are busy building a home on the still volunteer at the high school. France were there.) Thanks to the trained as a therapy dog and downsize Mississippi Gulf Coast in Pass Chris- Lizbeth Kauffman: Keith & I live amazing success of only 18 months my possessions for the eventual next tian, very near New Orleans. I hope all in Charleston S.C. Please, everyone into my “’lil skincare business” Rodan move. I am planning some interesting my SBC friends will come visit! I am get a timely 3-d mammogram (early & Fields, my husband and I will be trav- travel starting with Delray Beach in still associate dean at TU College of detection= treatable). I just had surgery eling to Spain & Morocco this year for February! Law, but have been increasingly active and am part way through radiation. two weeks!! I hope to see EVERYONE at Jean von Schrader Bryan: Peter in the Oklahoma Bar Foundation and Doing ok, but was a big surprise. I Reunion ’17! and I bought a home and 17 acres in with Tulsa Lawyers for Children. Both want classmates to take preventative Frances Mantho Belliveau: Amherst just a mile from SBC last year. Mary Louise (22) and Ryan (25) are at screenings seriously, even if (like me) Everything is great with the Belliveaus! We love the country life! I am in contact Tulane School of Law carrying on the you have no risk factors. Ned, 24, is in Charlotte. Michael, 22, with many of our classmates and can Cordell juris doctorate tradition. Catherine Adams Miller: I am will graduate in May from Virginia report on a few of our friends. Molly Alice Dixon: I still live in Richmond continuing to work at Riverside Behav- Military Institute and will commission Finney Grenn and daughter Grace are with a sweet black lab named Jackson. ioral Health Center as the Director of into the U.S. Army. Anna, 20, is a well in Alexandria, Va. Mary LaVigne He makes me laugh every day! It has Pharmacy/IS and have added Director junior at Randolph. She has joined the recently moved to Asheville, N.C., been the honor of my life to serve on of Safety and Quality to my job profile. National Guard and will do her training and Lisa Blake is well in Charleston, the Sweet Briar Board of Directors David’s dental practice is doing well. in the summer. I’m looking forward to S.C. Best wishes to recently married representing you and all our other won- Madeline is close to completing her Reunion!! Consuelo Michelle Martinez-Quat- derful alumnae. I know how very hard masters degree in education from Lorie Teeter Lichtlen: I just cele- trocchi. I had a nice chat with Lisa we have worked to save our beloved Mary Washington University. She loves brated 10 years with Burson-Marsteller Church who lives in Utah and is College, and am very optimistic about teaching elementary-school-age chil- Paris. Husband Dominique is still battling cancer. Her spirits are high and our future. Please contact me if you dren. Ali is completing her undergrad- practicing corporate law & his tennis hopes to attend reunion. Marie Engel have any issues that I can help with! uate studies in psychology at Belmont swing. Both kids are still living at home: Earnhart recently stopped by for a Polk Green: I am still in Dallas, University in Nashville, Tenn. Looking Nicholas (24) is in film school; Lauren fun visit! I am excited about our 35th working for Apple and loving every forward to seeing everyone at Reunion. (20) just switched from Chinese to reunion and really hope all can try to minute of it. This year looks to be a Patti​ Snodgrass Borda Mullins: Korean studies. I hosted the first Sweet attend. wonderful year and I hope for you, too. In August, after seven years as a re- Briar Day in Paris on Jan. 15, bringing porter with “The Frederick News-Post,”

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I began an exciting new job as public up his coursework toward a degree information coordinator for The City of in Business. And we are still ruled by Frederick, Maryland (www.cityoffreder- our two Jack Russells, Peyton (9) and ick.com). I am delighted with this new Cleo (3). position: distributing information across all media platforms, promoting the city, supervising the audio-visual depart- 1984 ment, developing written and broadcast Marian Roberts Wahlgren materials. At the same time, husband 1850 Jones Nursery Rd Earl is thriving in retirement after long Lexington, KY 40509-9740 service as an ordained Episcopal priest, [email protected] and my daughter Virginia is excelling as a high school sophomore, exploring all Holly Pflug Allport: Hello from sorts of career possibilities, soccer and Winter Park, Fla. I continue to love a busy social life. teaching babies how to swim. Pete’s Virginia Beverly Parker: We bank is still growing. We celebrate our 26th in a couple days. Peter is an app moved back to Atlanta and I am SBC ’83 Mini Reunion - Rick Laimbeer, Alice Cutting Laimbeer, Doug enjoying being back in my hometown, developer. He just launched NoteBear. Woolley, Anne Little Woolley, Lucy Chapman Millar, Stuart Small, Wylie Sarah is a junior in nursing school reconnecting with old friends from high Jameson Small, Ken Millar school and college. I’m working for at the University of Florida. Kate is a Harry Norman Realtors in Buckhead. freshman at the University of Louisville, After moves to Rochester, NY, Spar- were she was recruited to be coxswain. tanburg and Beaufort, SC, it’s nice to Julia is in 10th grade ... where does help others relocate and find the right the time go? Miss you all! home and neighborhood. We have three young men in college now and we are enjoying our empty nest! Come see us!!! 1985 Kit Johnson Parks: Hoping to Caperton Morton sell my rental development so I can 30 East 55th St semi-retire and travel more. I am also Kansas City, MO 64113 planning to start a Baby Boomer active [email protected] Kashmir & Ann Sterling Hart ’83 Barb Paulson Goodbarn ’83 and travel podcast. If any of you have great Barbara Tragakis Conner: hiking/biking/paddling travel stories, Leslie Malone Berger ’83 having fun during Sweet Work Weeks! Loving my work as director of college please contact me at counseling at Foxcroft School. Pub- [email protected] lished in the NACAC Admitted blog Sally Shapard Peek: With our United States! Libby Glenn Fisher: Still enjoying Jennifer Rae: Just want to share life in Northwest Florida, the only place (Campus Differences Matter) follow last child graduating college in May we up to my NACAC Journal article (Five will be true empty nesters! They will be that the best decision I ever made was in Florida that is still the south. Both choosing to attend Sweet Briar College. kids live & work in NYC, so we also First-Choice Colleges, Spring 2015). scattered—Irvine Calif., Birmingham, Spring travel will include campus visits Atlanta and N.Y.C., so we will have The fortitude and stamina that our enjoy getting to visit them in one place, wonderful SBC instills in each of us AND having them off the payroll! It and professional conferences. Looking great places to visit. We joke that our forward to seeing Suzanne Weaver dogs are our replacement children. The is priceless! Life is good. Love you all was great to see Elena Quevedo on dears especially Class of 1982! Look my last trip to NY and Suzy Ireland Zimmer during my southern colleges human ones tell us there is a little too swing in March. New Hampshire, much truth to that! Looking forward to forward to talking via phone with all of Dupree last fall while visiting home you. Yes, this is another decade. Social in Kentucky. Always a pleasure seeing Massachusetts travel in May. Looking seeing everyone in June! forward to spending several weeks on Maryce Ramsey: I’ve been media is not as good as a phone call. fellow SBC alums! Kudos. Ann Sterling Hart: Both of my Cape Cod this summer with the whole working in gender and international family! Visiting my favorite campus for development since Peace Corps days Gracie Tredwell Schild: My girls are grown and on their own with amazing son, Christoph, graduated fabulous boyfriends and good jobs! I Reunion in June!! in the Philippines. I have my M.P.H. Laura Fry: Went from dream job from Tulane in International Public from my alma mater, Santa Fe Prep, still run Dressage Horse Shows and in June and is now a freshman at show my mare. And, I have just begun (professor of nutrition at Le Cordon Health and currently a Gender Advisor Bleu) to dream job—director of recipe for a large humanitarian organization, Northern Arizona University, studying swimming in the dating pool! Nothing Information Systems Management. It like a new challenge! research and development for Mary’s based in our Bangkok office. I spend Market Cafe and Bakery. I couldn’t be a lot of time working on gender-based must run in the family because I’m a Leslie Malone Berger: I’m still database administrator and currently living in Roanoke, Va., and enjoying more excited. Exceptional staff and violence. I’m currently supporting the visionary owner!! Ministry of Higher Education in Afghani- taking a class at the community college my career as a speech language stan to roll out an Anti-Sexual Harass- to get some of the more techie infor- pathologist. Kevin and I are looking ment Policy in universities. I travel mation under my belt. Come see me in forward to a fall wedding for our there quite a bit. I’m also supporting my empty nest! son, Alex and his fiancé Elena!Barb the Ministry of Health in Indonesia to Paulson Goodbarn and I had a great develop a GBV clinical services protocol time volunteering at Sweet Weeks this and to introduce those services in 1983 summer. We had lots of laughs and had health facilities in Papua. I support Kathy Barrett Baker fun spending time with other alumnae! other programs in the region as well. 1451 Amber Lake Rd Wylie Jameson Small: Stuart and I My son, Sean Rich, will graduate from Manakin Sabot, VA 23103 have been traveling a lot this year to Roanoke College this May. He and I [email protected] Maine, England, Scotland, Bermuda, marched in the Women’s March in and Hilton Head Island. I’ve been Cary Cathcart Fagan D.C. in January. In late summer 2017, doing lot of running (I ran 519 miles 329 Kelford Ln I’ll probably move back to Virginia and in 2016!) to keep with my chocolate SBC Roomies Forever! Barbara Charlotte, NC 28270-2201 work in our D.C. office. It’s time to take intake as well as becoming addicted to Tragakis Conner and DeAnne [email protected] the fight for women’s rights back to the Mah Jonng. Our son Rudy is finishing Blanton

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DeAnne Blanton: I married Dick Higgins in September 2016. A month prior, my son went off to Emory & 1988 Henry College for his freshman year. Christine Diver Ans In January 2017, I invested in a good 16812 Falconridge Road pair of walking shoes, since it appears Lithia, Fla. 33547 my husband and I will be marching and [email protected] protesting for the foreseeable future. Lisa Thompson Barnes: Hi! Super Caperton Morton: May 2014, busy with my law practice, and I am Christopher S. Smith and I married participating in a local charity event, at Mount Hood B&B and I moved to Dancing with Vero’s Stars, to raise Kansas City, Mo., with my daughter. money for IRC Healthy Start Coalition January–May 2016, interned at NPR on May 13. Any and all donations from affiliate KCUR—great experience. my fellow Vixens are welcome at www. Elizabeth Belser Kistler: The December 2016, I graduated from the dancingwithverostars.com. Thanks for Kistler family is having a busy year. continuing ed program at the Center the shameless plug! We met up for My daughter Lauren is a junior at for Documentary Studies at Duke with dinner with Stacy Meadows Apter Auburn, playing lacrosse, preparing Laura Fry has a new dream job! audio production focus. I LOVE it! Still and her husband, Tom, on a recent trip to be an orientation leader this sum- enjoy writing, photography, and time to Atlanta. It was super seeing them! mer and taking a full load of classes! with family and friends. (Chris and I had Kelly Meredith Iacobelli: I have Sam is a senior at Spartanburg FUN at last two Reunions.) so much fun working on SBC Atlanta High School and is looking forward Lenetta Archard McCampbell: events! I am working at Coca-Cola in to this soccer season! He has been Recently left Amtrak after almost 14 channel strategy. I enjoy watching my accepted early at Clemson and years. Now, searching for the work daughter enjoy her freshman year of Auburn. I am busy with Sam’s senior that will define the final phase of my high school, gymnastics and youth year and a renovation of our place at career—very exciting to be following a group. John and I still live in Marietta Litchfield. new path. Spent an amazing week with with a very spoiled bulldog named five Vixens on St. Maarten, where we Cordelia. the Uganda Tourism Board to the Pearl dreamed of never returning home, but Stacey Vilar Csaplar: It has been did, and hung the Sweet Briar banner of Africa Tourism Expo (POATE). While a busy year. We visited SBC in March there, she is looking forward to a trek at the Gingerbread Cafe - thanks to to tour with my daughter. Arden will be Katie Hearn! Life is good. to see some of the last 750 mountain applying in September for the class of gorillas left on Earth. After POATE B. Zinn Morton (brother), F. 2022. We also moved to Salem, Mass. 2017, Amy, her husband and several Caperton Morton ’85 and Chris- over the summer. Always willing to friends will be celebrating a destination topher S. Smith. Photo taken by show folks around if you find your way 50th Birthday on Safari in Uganda. If Elijah C. Scott (son) to Salem in October. anyone is visiting South Korea, please Christine Diver Ans: Still in Tam- drop a line! pa, with a thriving real estate business Raquel Hickman Thiebes is at Keller Williams Realty. Son, Aleks, currently living Alexandria and working graduated Indiana University with mas- at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. ter’s in Russian/East European Studies Her Army husband, George, is due to in 2015, entered USMC, commissioned leave his Pentagon post as Deputy as 2nd lieutenant. Married in Septem- Director of Special Operations, and ber 2016 to Jessica, criminal attorney it looks like this summer they will be in North Carolina. Daughter, Amanda, headed back to Stuttgart, Germany, attending third year of University of for a few years. Their eldest, Alex, is Central Florida, International Affairs studying aerospace engineering at major, with Russian. She has been the University of Alabama and their accepted to the internship program at youngest, high-schooler Matt, has nar- Department of State for US Embassy, rowed his college choices to schools in Riga, Latvia in 2017. Colorado, Virginia and Alabama. Raquel Lisa Tennant: I’ve recently relocat- notes that she was the only ROTC ed to Austin, Texas, where I’m working scholarship student while we were at for a small oil and gas start-up. Kim Norman ’85, Katie Hearn ’85, Ann Gonya ’85, Karen Nickles ’86, SBC and would like to be more involved Christine Trauth ’85, Lenetta McCampbell ’85 with students interested in ROTC and the military. 1989 Abby Carter is living in Fred- Emmy Leung ericksburg with husband Eric. Their 7102 Wynnewood Court son, Alexander, just finished his first Richmond, Va. 23235-5619 year at Mary Washington University. [email protected] Abby is running a small horse-training Amy Jenkins Millican and husband business, and in the past couple of Jeff are now going on their third year years, she has written several articles living in South Korea. Her business, for “Practical Horseman.” The most Flyga Twiga, is doing well and was the recent will be published in Feb. 2017. sole partner for the Kenyan Embassy in Through SSB, she has gotten to know a Seoul for the 2016 Travel and Tourism couple other SBC gals nearby, including Shows in South Korea. She was invited Janette Rowe Cadwallender ’79 and by the Kenya Tourism Board to their has renewed ties with old SBC friends. Anne Maus, Martha Shorter Dougherty, DeAnne Blanton, Stacy Zackow- Magical Kenya Travel Expo in Oct. In September 2016, Courtney ski Lukanuski, Caperton Morton, Karla Kennedy Hicks, all ’85. 2016. For 2017, she’s been invited by Kneece Grimm accepted the position

68 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes of County Attorney for Clay County, Fla. Donna Meyer Hodgert has been in Lynchburg, Va., almost 25 years! 1992 For the past 10 she has been in and Amy Driscoll out of coaching and teaching. She 3848 Thalia Dr. was at (formerly Virginia Beach, Va. 23452 R-MWC) working part time as the head [email protected] swim coach. She then took a full-time Meg Moss Guegan: Still at the position at James River Day School Cato Institute in D.C. as director of in Lynchburg and worked in the 4th communications and loving it. My two grade for a few years before taking on future vixens and I live in Ashburn with the role of athletic director and middle our hilarious Great Dane Ellie. The SBC school PE teacher. In 2014, she heard Alumnae Alliance and amazing beau that the swim coach position was open make for a very full life! Hoping to at Sweet Briar. Long story short, Donna make it to Ecuador later this year. is back on campus! She always wanted to return to coaching and is now in her third year as head swim coach / aquatics director for the Vixens and is 1994 Liz Homoki Titus ’94 with husband Paul and daughters Zeda and Molly Morris Flasche also a lecturer in the PE Department. Elizabeth. 152 N. Remington Rd. Former teammate Squiffy Walker’s ’91 Bexley Ohio 43209 daughter was in her class this past fall. [email protected] The best part of the job is having the opportunity to be on the pool deck with Caitlin Sundby Russell her coach, Bonnie Kestner. Although 3978 Land O Lakes Dr. retired, Bonnie enjoys coming to help Atlanta, Ga. 30342 a few days a week. She continues to [email protected] share her knowledge with the team. Lorelei Bahret Mote has changed from full-time to part-time ultra-sonog- rapher so that she can be more avail- 1990 able to help her parents. Her children Jean Spillane Benning are growing like weeds and are both 1506 N. Bethlehem Pike doing very well in dance. “My daughter Lower Gwynedd, Penn. 19002 will compete at a few dance compe- [email protected] titions this spring. My son is following Shannon Hetcel Dykes: Jim and I are his sister’s dance lead by taking tap Philadelphia Alumnae Club gathering hosted by Alexandra Stewart still living in Florida and have enjoyed and hip hop classes. I enjoy catch- Manwarren ’94. the opportunity to travel more now that ing up with many of our classmates we are empty-nesters. Son Carter is through Facebook and working as an 19 and a sophomore in college, which Alumnae Admissions Representative at is really hard to believe. We celebrated a few horse shows and college fairs in our 20th wedding anniversary last Arizona.” March with an amazing trip to England Chandra Garcia is still teaching and Scotland and loved it so much that on the southside of Chicago, down the we went back for Christmas and New street from the Obamas’ house. She Year’s Eve. has third grade this year and says her class is lovely. Some of them are being featured on WGN to share what they are learning in PilotLight. Chandra and 1991 her wife are enjoying the kids and are Allene Doucette so proud of their Vixen, Eyerusalem 1501 E. Lloyd St. Coleman-Kitch ’20! Chandra writes: Penscacola, Fla. 32503 “I love keeping in touch with so many At Lia DeSimone Colbert’s (center) house in Md. with Liz Gilgan Bianco [email protected] ’94s through Facebook, and I am ’94, Allison Vollmer Douglass ’94, Heather Bayfield Weidle ’94, Corinne Gaillard ’94, Ashley Henderson Swigart ’94, and Amelia McDaniel ’94. Karen Holland Carlisle: Still working eagerly anticipating a reunion with at Chicos and living in Fort Myers, Fla. CeCelia Valentine ’95 and Nalini Mani My son is now 10 and very busy with ’93.” activities. Please look me up if you are Ashley Henderson Swigart says, ever in the area. “My son Preston (10) is in the 4th grade. We live in Raleigh, N.C. , and spend a lot time catching Pokémon these days! We had a great time catch- ing up with SBC friends Liz Gilgan Bianco, Heather Bayfield Weidle, Allison Vollmer Douglass, Corinne Gaillard, and Amelia McDaniel at Lia DeSimone Colbert’s house in May 2016, along with husbands and kids. Between the pool, farm animals Kim Szuszczewicz Snead ’94, Jodi Szuszczewicz McGee ’94, Dorothy and cocktails, fun was had by all!” Bailey ’94, and Christy Young McCain ’94 .... Cheers from Stone Tower Kim Bramley Estep wrote to say Winery!

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busy, and I am thankful to still be riding “I’m busy with family, kids and work. and teaching part time at Pegasus My children are plugging along in Therapeutic Riding Academy.” school, Liza’s in 3rd grade, and Porter Katherine Lindsey Auchter let began middle school in 5th grade. I just us know this: “I am doing well and published the 5th volume of The Scout enjoying my beautiful family in Ponte Guide, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill. Vedra Beach, Fla. My daughter Anna This is a local guidebook that features (16) is driving. Julia (14) had her first businesses and was originally started song (she sings and plays ) pro- in Charlottesville by two women. Follow duced and on iTunes. Son George (11) me on triangle.thescoutguide.com or just went from being a Cub Scout to a @TSGtriangle to see what I am up to Boy Scout. Two years ago, I got my real and learn more about this area! My job estate license. I am having tremendous keeps me busy meeting and producing success and just sold my 44th home. photo shoots with business owners I see Heather Bayfield Weidle often. and promoting their businesses. I also She’s been my inspiration to start a get up to Charlottesville (love seeing An awesome October day hiking the Billy Goat Trail in Carderock, Md. business and be my own success!” Beth Ike ’95) and Richmond with work. with Kimberly Szuszczewicz Snead ’94, Heather Roby ’94, Jodi Szuszc- Wendy Wall Nace is still living I love any excuse to visit with Kirsten zewicz McGee ’94, Dorothy Bailey ’94, Christy Young McCain ’94, and in Birmingham, Ala. She’s a licensed Osmundsen Boyd in Richmond. I Katherine Schupp Zringue ’94. professional counselor (LPC) and has enjoyed a mini reunion in Memphis last been working in private practice. She spring with several Vixens. We gathered and husband Randy will celebrate 20 to celebrate Ginger Marks Collier’s ’92 around the house. I’m still running years of marriage this summer! post as “Queen of the Memphi” for the Branig (since 1998), the loan place- Beth Anne Nelson says: “I’m an year with Maria Bergh Rodemacher ment business. I also run Convention elementary school teacher and en- ’93, Bonnie Insalaco Abrams ’93, and Nation, the portal for people to sign gaged to a wonderful guy named Larry Muffin Steers Farese ’93. It was a very up for conventions and conferences Bloom. I live on a beautiful horse farm beautiful event and I cherish catch- across the USA. We don’t make the in Chesterfield, Va. I have six kids, three ing up in person with fellow Sweet events; we list the events in a directory. of my own and three step-children. My Briar women. We’re all handling our I think we’re finally at a point where the oldest, Taylor, is a junior at Roanoke responsibilities in our own ways, with business model makes sense. We’d College and starts on their soccer the deep bond that we formed from love to hear from any students looking team. My son, Will, is a junior in high our years at Sweet Briar. I hope to get for an internship this summer. We need school and will commit this summer to a good dose of Ashley Celis Cavalier help with data collection and market- play lacrosse in college. My youngest ’93 in June when we visit Sea Island. I ing, social media and blog writing. As daughter, Riley, is in 8th grade and is am also thinking I need to pay a visit to for fun, I go on walks on our property an avid rider on the local jumper circuit. her fab dermatology office there! I also with our dogs. I’ve spent less time in I still keep close contact with Cindy hope to get to NYC to catch up with the race car because building a startup Rakow Readyhough ’96, my roommate dear Kim Clayton Cohen with her is so time-consuming. I travel a lot to and BFF from school.” twins (2) and daughter (5). People ask various conferences and conventions Kimberly Szuszczewicz Snead about SBC and I am so proud to say we across the country. But I meet a lot of wrote in: “My husband, John, and I saved it. They love hearing the happy great people and experience so many are still in Northern Virginia, where I ending. I know the work continues, but thoughtful keynotes. It’s a really cool am staying super busy as a baseball I do promote our beloved Sweet Briar Caitlin Sundby Russell ’94, Maria industry to be part of. Although in all of mom for Cole (14) and Grayson (12). at every turn I can.” Thacker Goethe ’02, and Nicole my travels, I’ve yet to run into a Sweet I’m working full-time and doing real Liz Homoki Titus still lives in File ’95 representing SBC at the Briar alumna! estate on the side (if you need help in Albuquerque, N.M., with husband Paul Atlanta National College Fair. Kelleigh Smith Sommer cele- the NoVa area, call me!) I love getting and daughters Zeda (10), who is in 5th brated her 20th wedding anniversary together with my SBC besties! Amazing grade and Elizabeth (8), who is in 4th with Richard in January 2017. They “Morgan is 16 and Ryleigh is 15. I’m weather in October allowed us to hike grade at ABQ School of Excellence. have been living in Bulverde, Texas, teaching Morgan how to drive a man- along the Potomac, then relax and Since leaving her position as a senior since 2003. Son Sam (16) is a junior in ual transmission now that she has her enjoy ourselves at the winery.” attorney at HHS in D.C. nearly 8 years high school. Sam plans to study music learner’s permit. Her favorite subject Nellie Kan Zamborsky is a stay- ago, Liz has been a stay-at-home mom in college and wants to become a high is Chinese, and she loves all things at-home mom of one and says she who volunteers for the girls’ school school band director. Kelleigh and makeup-related (keeping Kylie Jenner’s feels like a “glorified chauffeur” with a and for their church. The Homoki family are in the middle of scheduling cosmetics line in business!) She’ll be 5-year-old preschooler who missed the grandparents took the family on an college campus visits, and she can’t a counselor-in-training this summer cut-off date for kindergarten. So they amazing European vacation this past believe it. Kelleigh is a bookkeeper at Camp Chinqueka in Bantam, Conn. are focused on some extra bonding summer, 13 cities in 23 days! They are for a homebuilder four days a week Her aspirations? Maybe a degree from time before she starts kindergarten all thrilled with Sweet Briar’s continued and for a quilt shop one day a week. Sweet Briar … maybe a professional next year. Her husband has been success, and the girls can’t wait to join She says, “Quilting is my seriously tattoo artist. Only time will tell. Ryleigh “working crazy hours lately so we miss their SBC Classes of 2028 & 2029! obsessive hobby. So, working in the loves her social media. An avid fan of him.” Amelia McDaniel says: “I moved quilt shop tends to create negative Netflix and YouTube, she spends her Betsy Lanard Sullivan wrote to to Richmond in 2015. I am the Director cash flow. HA!” days studying and chatting with friends say: “We have a new addition to our of Children’s Ministries at St. Mary’s Alexandra Stewart Manwar- on Snapchat. She’s a percussionist in family: Kingston, our pig. I recently Episcopal. Wyly (15) is a freshmen and ren writes: “I hosted the SBC day in the band and isn’t crazy about being became a trunk keeper for Matilda Jed (11) is in the 5th grade. When not January 2017 for the Philly alumnae. I a freshman in high school. Scott is Jane Clothing. We traveled to Riviera serving as a taxi service for these two, love being able to get to know so many my rock. As a stay-at-home-dad, he Maya, Mexico and visited a monkey I ... oh, who am I kidding?! I’m just amazing ladies in our area. We are manages the entire household and sanctuary. My girls are now 12, 6, and basically running a taxi service. I love planning great events for the spring & the property like a champ. The girls’ 4. I am still playing piano and teaching catching up with our classmates when I summer, so keep an eye out for that! I activities keep him busy, but he hopes music.” can. And Eddie Flasche on Instagram is traveled to Scotland, England and Den- once Morgan can drive, he’ll have a Hopie Carter Avery let us know: the best thing to brighten anyone’s day!” little more time to do some projects mark this past summer. Work has been

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Liz Gilgan Bianco says all is well are Sweet Briar’s accomplishments up when we talk about SBC and our Kristina Pody Hibdon recently in Boston. Isabella is in the 2nd grade and, for Indie’s sake, I could stand to “comeback” story.” purchased a 100-year-old home. and Nicholas is in 3rd. They keep Liz be a little more ambitious. I knew I had She says she is “so excited to begin on her toes in the swimming pool and the hours in, I just had to relearn the decorating and enjoying the newly ski slopes. Last May, Liz met up with material. My sensei initially thought 1995 renovated Craftsman. My husband is a few classmates in Boyds, Md., at that it would take about a year but after Katie M. Schellhammer not as thrilled with all the work. I am Lia DeSimone Colbert’s house. Also six months, he declared me ready and 22914 Goldenrod Dr also now a board member for CASA. there was Amelia McDaniel, Ashley signed me up on the next testing cycle. Brambleton, Va. 20148-6967 This is a wonderful charity that works Henderson Swigart, Allison Vollmer Having a second-degree officially qual- [email protected] with children in foster care. I really ap- Douglass, Heather Bayfield Weidle, ifies me to teach, not that I would open preciated being named their volunteer and Corinne Gaillard. Liz says her a dojo so close to my own sensei, but Cynthia Harris is back in her home- of the year.” cheeks ached for weeks afterwards maybe someday. I am starting my third town/birthplace of Boise, Idaho, as of Anna Reilly reports “in the from all the laughing. That Sweet Briar semester of assistant instructing with July 4, 2015, after having lived and summer of 2016, I was selected for a laugh is the BEST! him (Bruce Witherell) in Women’s Self worked in different parts of Virginia temporary assignment in the Senate Katherine Cook writes: “I finally Defense, a PE class at the Massachu- (from August 2002 until July of 2015). to serve on the Joint Congressional sold my house in Orange, Va. Yay! I setts College of Liberal Arts.” She is an active force within the Boise Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies have downsized everything but the Elizabeth Thigpen Landry branch of the Social Security Admin- (JCCIC) as the Capitol Director. Not only animals. How could I live without their still lives in Pinehurst, N.C., with her istration as a senior case manager. was it an honor to be part of a bicam- antics to keep me entertained? I have husband, Aaron. Emma Gentry (16) is In May 2017, she will be traveling to eral and bipartisan team to help plan “taken rooms” in a lovely antebellum driving, and she drives sister Caroline Denver for month-long fun! “Holla-Holla the Inauguration, I had the opportunity plantation house in Madison County, (15) to school. Marshall (12) plays to all in the class of ’95! God Bless You to work alongside another SBC alum, which I share with my pets, the owner’s basketball. All three play tennis around All,” she says. Amy Elizabeth Burton, class of 1990.” pets, and the caretaker’s pets. There the state, which keeps the whole Katie McDill Stover says, “We’re are free-roaming geese, ducks and family very busy. Thanks to Snapchat, finally back in Alabama after my chickens and a goat who wanders Elizabeth is able to keep up daily husband retired from the military. I’ve around with his pig-buddy. It’s a situ- with Allison Vollmer Douglass and been a dog boarder for five years and 1997 have never been so happy! I was able Molly Cameron Dreux ation that would be considered pretty Courtney O’Dea Plaisted. 11601 Coachmans Carriage Place weird by most but then again, so would Rebecca Nelson has big news! “I to hang out with my best friend Kate Steptoe Fisher in Baltimore in May.» Glen Allen, Va. 23059 I, so it fits. I am still deciding where to got married in June and moved from [email protected] go from here. I thought I was supposed Pasadena, Calif., back to Dallas, Texas. Tricia Lynn is now happily to be a grown up by this point in my We’ve had a lot of life change in the divorced and working at Palm Beach Rebecca Miller Moats: So excited life, but I have realized that, no, middle last six months but I get to see Lesley State College as an associate professor about our 20-year reunion and can’t age is actually a great time to readjust Byers Bush pretty regularly. Holla holla of developmental education. She is in wait to reconnect!! My husband, Chip, your life path and start over. These and best wishes!” the process of buying a new house, and I are still in Warrenton, Va., on our days, when someone asks, “How are As for your class secretaries, and her rescue dog, Red, is very cattle farm enjoying our three boys— you?” I can say “I’m good.” And that’s a Molly Morris Flasche writes: excited about getting a pool in which Michael (8), Brent, (3) and Steven (9 lot to have going for you.” “Eddie is 2 1/2 and just started going to swim. She encourages visitors who months.) Our real estate company, Katie Blaik James writes: “I am to preschool two mornings a week. want to come see sunny West Palm Piedmont Fine Properties, moved enjoying being a real estate broker. I I’m the coordinator of Bexley Moms, Beach! locations and we’re right in the heart still keep my hand in law by helping our community moms’ group—my of Old Town Warrenton in The Mural a friend with his estate planning and co-chairs and I organize events for Building. So if you’re ever in Warrenton, probate practice. I stay involved in the about 75+ moms and their young kids. come visit. community and sit on several boards. I just completed my docent training Katie Clarkson Robertson: I’m John and I will celebrate 12 years of (again—I was in the docent class of still here in Winston-Salem, N.C. Mark marriage in June. Elizabeth (8) LOVES 1998 and had to stop giving tours and I are hitting the teenage years school. Conner (17) moved in with us because of work commitments) at the (heaven help me) with Chase (14, last fall and is a junior in high school. Columbus Museum of Art. I’ve been loves sports, outdoors) and Gracie (11, Jackson (15) is living in Arkansas with writing art history papers and potty loves riding). I’m still working away at his mother and we still see him often. training a toddler. My life is full.” Wells Fargo in technology (they still I am enjoying having a driver in the Caitlin Sundby Russell—“Scott don’t allow me to handle the money) family! We spent part of last summer in and I are still in Atlanta, Ga., and we and trying to keep the balance. Loved, Vail, Colo., with my mother and broth- will celebrate our 14th anniversary loved, loved having a mini-reunion in er’s family. This April, we are surprising this year. Our daughters Eva (11) and Tennessee with a few other ’97s in Elizabeth with a trip to Disney World. Julia (8) keep us busy with year-round November. We aren’t moving into “the Four other families we are close with swimming, singing in the choir at the Katie McDill Stover ’95 and Kate older alum group” are we?!?! will also be at Disney; so all the kids Cathedral of St. Philip, gymnastics, and Steptoe Fisher ’95 will have a double surprise. (None of us acting camps. I have a virtual private are telling our children until we leave practice as a dietitian nutritionist and for the airport!)” Hope they don’t read wellness coach. It is wonderful to get to class notes. help others achieve their health goals! Lenora Farrington-Sarrouf got I’ve been coordinating high school her second-degree black belt in August visits for SBC Georgia alumnae to meet 2016. The style is called “Uechi-Ryu”. with counselors and drop off infor- She says, “I got my black belt in 2001 mation about the college. It has been after about three years, which is tons of fun reconnecting with alumnae considered fast. After that, I slacked through this effort like Heather Colson off a lot and eventually dropped out Ewing ’90, Dianne Hayes Doss ’93, over health reasons. It was the SBC and Karen Hott ’91. We’ve been able crisis that got me thinking about going to reach out to about 90 Georgia high back. With all the polls and posts about schools so far. Representing SBC at alumnae accomplishments, I realized local college fairs has been rewarding, that as alumnae, our accomplishments too, seeing high school girls’ eyes light Katie Clarkson Robertson ’97 and family

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to take that over). The most exciting news is that she got engaged to Dennis 1998 Gartland on her birthday in November. Chantel Bartlett Plans are underway to get married this 7775 Tiverton Drive summer! Springfield, Va.22152-2021 Gretchen Gravley Tucker said [email protected] that she and her family are greatly Greetings one and all to the Class of enjoying life in Shelby, N.C. Gretchen is 1998! Reminder that our 20th reunion superbusy as associate vice presi- will be in one year—I hope that all of dent of Undergraduate Admissions at y’all have marked your calendars and Gardner-Webb University. She loves you’ve begun planning for a parta- serving a Christian institution! Gretchen aayyyy! even has a fellow Vixen, Yuliya Rigg ’13 Leslie Farinas gave birth to working with her at GWU! Scott works princess #2 in Ibiza, Spain, on Nov. at Facebook’s Data Center in nearby 25, 2016. Welcome to Lailah Lopez Forest City. Gretchen said that she so June, Anna ’98 & David Wade at Leslie Farinas ’98 and her family Farinas. Lily will turn 4 this March. enjoys seeing dear Sweet Briar friends the zoo—Dec. 2016 Dawn Everett Grobe shared that as often as possible! with the new year, came a new start! Anna Meres Wade shared that life She got a Fitbit to help keep her ac- has been a beautiful and amazing roller countable for moving more. The Grobe coaster these past few years. Anna family is working on preparing their old has 2 beautiful children (June is 2 1/2 house for a springtime renter (yes, they and David is 4 months) who make life moved last year). Four months into the complete. They bring endless happi- school year and Dawn is really enjoying ness, joy, and adventure into the world. her new role in Academic Support. Tony Anna and Patrick love seeing the world is getting back into theater, and Dawn through their eyes. Anna is working is planning to take a pottery class again as the assistant director in the Center this spring. The family is counting the for Health Education and Wellness at days to their yearly summer vacation at the University of Tenn., working with Star Island! distressed students. Isabel Jean-Pierre Myers also Joelle Jackson Doss said that all is well in middle Tenn. She is chasing Safiya Isabel Myers, daughter of Joelle Jackson Doss ’98 & baby welcomed a precious girl. Safiya Isabel Isabel Jean-Pierre Myers ’98 Jackson. Myers was born Jan. 1, 2016. She was around their 9-month-old, Jackson. six weeks early. Additionally, the family He has brought great joy to Joelle and moved back to D.C., where Isabel is Sherdrick! Joelle shared that she en- a Senior Policy Analyst with the U.S. joys keeping up with SBC news through Department of Labor. Isabel said that social media. Holla holla! while she will miss her Atlanta SBC Heather Thomas Armbruster sisters, she is very happy to be back in was on campus in October to train the the nation’s capital! ShopSweet students on the embroidery Cynthia Bumgardner Puckett machine they had bought. Heather confirmed what I already knew! She said that she can’t wait to see what shared: “It’s official: I am superwoman. products they will be offering us for I completed two graduate courses to sale! While on campus, she watched renew my teaching certification while Amy Leigh Campbell (’97) break two homeschooling five kids and ‘mom- bones in her hand in an unbelievably ming’ 24/7. The casualty—my love vicious game of dodgeball—OUCH. In Back row: Alison Hall ’97, Laura Russell ’11 life. Darrin will be the recipient of all December, the local alums had their Front row: Brandon Ayers-Agnew Clarke ’08, Heather Armbruster ’98, my attention for the next few months. first Christmas party. Julie Alissa Sharp ’11 Tiffany Moseley Myrick ’00, Elena Swick ’15 In the meantime, I am planning for our Catherine Zahrn reports that wife 20th Reunion in 2018! Special thanks Shannon Bazar Zahrn ’99 threw her an to see if that is where we might like to to Chantel for keeping us all together!” amazing SURPRISE 40th birthday party settle. On one stop in Cody, Kan., for (Thanks Cyn, can’t wait to see you next in November at a Texas Hill Country a Starbucks (truly, if you blink, you’ll year!) winery! Friends and family flew in for miss Cody), I, of course, had my Sweet Kelly Bowman Greenwood the special celebration, including Sarah Briar sweatshirt on. A young gal with shared that she spent her 40th Herndon Sydnor ’01 and SBC dance a toddler on her hip asked if I went to birthday paddle boarding in Kauai with professors, Ella and Mark Magruder. Sweet Briar. Turns out her aunt went her family! They spotted a number of Catherine and Shannon stay busy in to SBC and was, in fact, a member of humpback whales and watched a pod Austin teaching their three daughters the board that shall remain nameless. of spinner dolphins play around the that women’s rights are human rights My mom thought I was going to be not boat while sailing the N Pali coast. She and all people deserve respect. so kind to her when I found that out. sent out a special Aloha to her Sweet And finally, from me—Chantel Alas, I was my true self and said how I Briar ‘ohana! Bartlett. All is well on this end. I flew thought it must have been such a diffi- Congratulations to Bronwyn out to Seattle in early Oct. to help my cult time for her aunt. Turns out the gal Beard! Bronwyn shared that she mom finish the last few things of clean- was also from the Seattle area. Truly celebrated her 5th year as Human ing out the house that has been in our small world! We also made a stop in Resources Manager for Summit Racing family for 80 years. While a new chap- Leavenworth, Kan., to see where I was Equipment’s Ohio operations. She ter, it was extremely difficult leaving born. My mom had knee-replacement spent the past 6 months leading HR behind a piece of our family. We had so surgery just before Thanksgiving. At Chantel Bartlett ’98 driving functions for their new facility in Dallas, much fun driving across the country. the two-week post-op appointment, it across country Texas (and hopes to hire someone else We went by way of Colorado Springs was discovered that they had fractured

72 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes her femur while in surgery. So recovery has been agonizingly slower than anticipated. Yet she’s such a trooper and a rock star! We are now leaning toward staying in the D.C. area since I have a great job and opportunities. Lots of changes on the horizon! 1999 Lindsey Neef Kelly 13321 Windsong Way Carrollton, VA 23314 [email protected] Sarah Elkins Ince calls Concord, N.C., home and loves to open her Jill Triana ’99, Tara Hartnett ’99, Angela Walton Carpita ’99, Sarah Claire McPherson and Evelyn home to Sweet Briar sisters that may Dorminey ’99, Elizabeth Melvin Wells ’99, Megan Butt Glover ’99. Qual- Virginia Levinson, 18-month- be traveling to or through the Charlotte ity visit to D.C. included a special moment at the United States Navy old twin daughters of Sarah area. Son Asa is now 7 years old, he Memorial. Belanger Levinson ’01. and husband Keith are doing well. Sar- ah is seeking classmates to volunteer singing up a storm. If he turns out to be was surreal.” She will never forget it. McPherson and Evelyn Virginia, on Feb. for leadership roles in our class. Finish- a performer later in life, they won’t be Angela Rodriguez Newman 27, 2015, and is now a stay-at-home ing her third year as college counselor surprised. They are still living happily in reports that her new life in Winterset, mom. She loved seeing Sarah Hous- for Gray Stone Day School, the need for Hamilton, New Zealand, with a trip to Iowa, is AWESOME! This school year ton Kenning, Liz Parker, Christine college opportunities like Sweet Briar is the U.S. planned for May 2017. she started working as a substitute Rangel and Nicole Redwine at the paramount to Sarah. associate for the Winterset Public wedding of Anna Lundberg in July Constance Paris recently got School System and “it feels great to 2016. engaged to her boyfriend Joe Tortorel- 2000 help out in the classrooms.” Since Leah Solivan Busque and Kevin li. She is working for Verizon Corp and is Marilen Sarian Crump June 2016, she has been active with welcomed baby number two to their planning a Spring wedding with her two 212 Rock Creek Court the Winterset Art Center, a 58-year-old family last August. Ryan is now six daughters, Emily (11) and Isabelle (8). Yorktown, Va. 23693 local nonprofit. The center’s director months old, and Amelia (3) absolutely Lindsay Hicks Watrous is living [email protected] had stepped down and the center loves being a big sister. Leah enjoyed in Gilbert, Ariz., with husband Tim and was struggling to survive. Angela took some time off after assuming the her three kids. Andrew (8), Owen (7) Christine Bump was promoted to the lead and started seeking out new role of chairwoman of her company, and Quincy (4) keep her busy at home. Vice President of Strategy at Goldbug members for the Board of Directors TaskRabbit, and is taking a more active She will also begin teaching preschool Strategies LLC, a regulatory consulting as well as artists and volunteers. She role in helping other entrepreneurs in starting Fall 2017. firm for biotechnology companies. reports that the center is now growing the tech industry make their mark! She Tara Hartnett is currently living in In addition to developing regulatory like crazy, in a good way. As of January is on campus for board meetings every the White Mountains of New Hamp- strategies for personalized medicine 2017, Angela became the Executive few months and is very excited about shire with husband Rich raising their products, Christine now leads other Director. They just hosted their first the new computer science major, which son, Jack, and doing photography consultants and project teams. She and themed fundraiser, “The Mad Hatter’s is sure to be a big draw for students. consulting. She is ever grateful for the her husband continue to live in Alexan- Dinner Party,” and raised over $800. Julia Kientz Ambersley is still beautiful friendships of all her Vixen dria, Va., and celebrate nine years of Angela is looking forward to an exciting living in Southern Pines, N.C. She’s sisters, In the last year Angela Wal- marriage in 2017. 2017. Her husband is busy traveling teaching 4th- and 5th-grade language ton, Elizabeth Wells, Megan Glover, the Midwest for JD Byrider, and her arts at The O’Neal School. This year, Jill Triana, & Sarah Dorminey have children, Hannah and Crosby, are doing Gus (10) has been one of her 4th- been an amazing support system, 2001 wonderful in their new small town. An- grade students, and she’s loved having tears of laughter are the best. “Life is Meredith Eads gela still misses her Virginia friends and the opportunity to be his teacher. She a blessing of joy! Enjoy lovely ladies ~ 1905 Vandover Road family but loves her life in Winterset. also spent the past few months coach- Until we meet again!” Henrico, Va. 23229 Megan Thomas Rowe and her family ing varsity cheer for the winter sports Rachel Bratlie and husband Chris [email protected] visited the Newmans for the Iowa State season. Julia, Robbie, and Gus are saw their oldest son Zachary (5) off to Megan Thomas Rowe celebrated her Fair this past August, and they all getting settled into the home that they primary school this week. Rachel got 15-year anniversary working for the had tons of fun. Megan and Angela bought this past September. They’re all a bit teary-eyed but Zachary took it all Navy as a physicist. It’s been a great are planning another visit together in loving their new home and neighbor- in stride. Younger brother Jake (2) is career so far. 2016 was quite hectic for Winterset in March. hood. She reports that there’s always her family, while her husband, Matthew Jessica McCloskey is in the room for any Sweet Briar visitors! Rowe, ran for U.S. Congress in the First second year of her three-year doctoral Meredith Taylor Eads continues District in Virginia. It was a tremendous program in clinical psychology; she her work as a specialist in elementary experience. Their son, Thomas, started is hoping to specialize in forensic special education in Hanover County, preschool, Sylvie entered 1st grade, work. She is still living in England, just Va. Together with her husband, Micah and Madelyn entered 4th grade. Megan outside of London, with her little dog. (HSC ’96), she’s raising her feisty occasionally gets to visit Angela Jessica reports that there isn’t much 7-year-old daughter, and hopes to Rodriguez Newman in Iowa. She exciting going on for her—but these persuade her to go to SBC one day! also loves seeing all of the Richmond adventures and new studies in England Meredith decided to challenge herself alumnae (including Meredith Taylor sound wonderful! to become an “athlete” for the first Eads) who participate in club events in Christina Paolicchi reports that time, at age 37, and ran in the Walt RVA. Finally, Megan had one of the best everything is business as usual for her, Disney World inaugural Lumiere’s Two experiences of her life participating in but she wishes all of her SBC sisters Course Challenge in Nov. 2016. She the Women’s March in D.C. Women’s blessings. completed a 10k and a half marathon Constance Paris ’99, Isabelle, colleges from across the country gath- Sarah Belanger Levinson on back-to-back days. Meredith says Joe, and Emily ered prior to the march. “The entire day gave birth to twin daughters, Claire that it wasn’t pretty, and it wasn’t fast,

SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU 73 Class Notes but she’s extremely proud of this ac- between! We are enjoying our adven- arts, marketing, design, public relations complishment. She says that it’s been ture here in Cambodia and the year- and photography. She is absolutely great to connect with alumnae of all round summer weather. We celebrated thrilled for this new adventure! years through the RVA alumnae club, the new year at the beach in Myanmar Torrey Shallcross has joined the and she has enjoyed seeing so many of and look forward to some smaller trips Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA you at reunions for the past two years. in Cambodia in the next few months. as the Director of Development. Kathleen McNamara Brown: Sarah Kidd Burchett reports that Adam Leary and I were married on life is study, workout, repeat. She is fin- 2002 June 25, 2016, in the chapel at Sweet ishing up her clinical year and planning Brook Tucker Buck Briar College. The ceremony was to graduate her master’s in medical 4708 Carmel Vista Lane followed by a reception at the Wailes science in Aug. 2017. After passing the Center. Daughters Carolyn and Emma’s Kevin, Patrick, and Christie boards, Sarah will be a PA-C, and she Charlotte, N.C. 28226 Sears Thompson ’05 in Mexico [email protected] many activities keep us always on the cannot wait! She’s planning to move go, but we are loving life as a family of back to Richmond, so if anyone has Alicia McCartney: I moved to Phnom four. We reside in Falls Church, Va., and experienced and to take a stab at any contacts in dermatology, Sarah will Penh, Cambodia, in February 2015. I both work in Washington, D.C.. See you learning and speaking a new language! be looking for a job this year. teach English to Cambodian children at reunion in June! “Come visit me!” she writes. Denver Jackson announces that and adults, run a business with my Diane Lotz Warren reports 2016 she and boyfriend, Joe Gallant, got en- partner and try to learn a little Khmer in was a big year for! Mike, Amelia and gaged in front of the Lincoln Memorial 2003 she welcomed Sean Edwin into the on Jan. 13! Kristin Bergquist world on March 21. Amelia will be 2762 Hollywood Dr turning 3 in February. They currently Decatur, Ga. 30033 reside in North Kingstown, R.I. and plan 2007 [email protected]‬ to stay for awhile. Emily Nicole Olson Catherine Sobke Cole is into her 1119 SE O’Donnell Lane Danielle Ross Oberg ran her first half second year of practice at her own marathon in October and in November Port St Lucie, Fla. 34983 firm, The Law Office of Catherine Cole, [email protected] started working at Boehringer Ingle- P.A. in Wellington, Fla., specializing heim Pharmaceutical in Ridgefield, in equestrian law. Catherine recently Jessica Hopson is currently teaching Conn., as an associate with the HR purchased a new home on five acres 3rd grade in Baltimore City Public Direct team. in nearby Loxahatchee and plans to Schools and will be finishing her 2nd Carolyn Eney Miller and husband build a barn over the next year. She will master’s degree in special education in Matthew welcomed their second be taking lots of pictures on trail rides May. She plans to start in a new special daughter, Sloam McKee Miller, on through Tuscany in a few weeks, and education position in the fall. Alicia McCartney ’02 at Bayon 11/06/16; big sister Annabelle is will send one on her return. Temple, Angkor Wat in Siem thrilled. Hannah Silva left Boston-based Reap, Cambodia Allison Funkhauser visited Lisa startup Zipcar in 2014 to join Amazon, Renfrow in San Fransisco over New and has been managing marketing for Year’s. They toured San Francisco and the Locker/Pickup Point team since went wine tasting in Sonoma. Lisa is then. She lives in Seattle’s Queen Anne still traveling all over Central America neighborhood, and drinks an excessive for Fitbit and loving her job; she will amount of coffee. be visiting Anna Fines Herbert in Christie Sears Thompson has February. been busy as a stay-at-home-mom with a 2.5 year old, Patrick, while also balancing a business as a Marriage 2004 and Family Therapist with Trade Winds Ginny Wood Susi Therapy & Relationship Coaching in 7975 Dunstable Cir Wheat Ridge, Colo. In her free time, Orlando, Fla. 32817 she has been working on her first [email protected] children’s book, “The Princess Who Loved Trucks,” to be published this No class notes this time, but Ginny spring. Additionally, she and Kevin just Wood Susi looks forward to collecting Kathleen McNamara Brown ’02 celebrated their seventh anniversary in class notes in a few months. She would and Adam Leary Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Caitlin “Cat” Ashley Lizaragga love to hear from everyone about all Ashley Rogers LaGanga an- ’07 with her co-matrons of hon- “the amazing things they’ve been nounces that just before Christmas she or, Betty Skeen Gorinson ’07 and doing.” and Scott welcomed their first baby, Rosanna Hawkins Winner ’07 Zola “Zuzu” Elle LaGanga. “We’re all at home and doing well,” she reports. 2005 Lynsie Watkins Steele reports Lynsie Watkins Steele that a few short months after giving 2691 Free Union Rd. birth to her fourth beautiful boy, Teague Charlottesville, Va. 22901 Pippin, or “Pipp,” she has managed to [email protected] successfully launch a new startup: Vie Mindy Wolfrom is very excited to Meal Planning Services. She loves being report that she has accepted a position an entrepreneur and is thriving in Char- in Taipei, Taiwan, where she will be lottesville, where Lynsie has built quite a Maggie McNamara ’12 and Katie teaching Latin and Ancient Greek at the community of amazing and strong wom- en (just like SBC)! Her entire company Heidi Trude ’07 with Virginia McNamara Brown ’02 Taipei American School. She is excited Governor Terry McAuliffe (r.) for the new adventure: both to see a as of now is made up of women with part of the world she has never before professional backgrounds in the culinary

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Megan Meighan has spent the sales and growth. She has been able majority of her time in Panama over to travel to six continents, tour some the past year but still lives in Charlotte, amazing places, meet some incredible N.C. She recently joined a new people, and she is looking forward to company, Eye Care Leaders, as their continuing with her role in the future. North East Regional Sales Director and Heidi Trude was named the has enjoyed learning a new specialty, 2017 Region IV Teacher of the Year. In ophthalmology. She continues to enjoy October, Heidi and the other regional her (almost) daily yoga practice and is Teachers of the Year were honored always busy planning her next place at a ceremony in Richmond and had of travel. the chance to meet Governor Terry 2016 was a busy year for McAuliffe. Heidi has also been honored Kathleen Campanale! In the spring by both the Virginia Board of Education she traveled for four weeks on a solo and the Virginia General Assembly. service trip to Samana, Dominican She is a finalist for the EF Comparative Republic, where she volunteered in a Global Education Summit. If selected, local school for disabled children in the Heidi will have the opportunity to spend Lillian, Boone, Amanda Prine Bryant ’08, and Eric village. After returning in June, she be- two weeks in Finland and Italy learning gan her re-election campaign for State with other educators. Heidi has also Representative in Massachusetts. She returned to school. In January, she successfully won re-election on Nov. 8 started a program in Instructional Tech- and was sworn in for her second term nology with a in foreign in the 190th Massachusetts General language learning at the University of Court on Jan. 4. Fortunately, she was Colorado Boulder. still able to fit in some vacationing with her boyfriend, spending two weeks traveling in Belize and a week in Miami. 2008 Now, Kate looks forward to making her Mary Dance Berry way back down to Sweet Briar with 614 Lafayette Drive Stephanie Norris Hall for our 10-year Hillsborough, N.C. 27278 reunion in June! [email protected] Danielle Briggs-Hansen was happy to welcome her brother, Tyler, As per usual, the class of ’08 is staying home from serving as an Embassy Se- busy! curity Guard in Pakistan in December. Amanda Keener Wisz writes, “In She will be celebrating eight years at November, my husband and dog and I Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. made a big move from North Carolina in May. to Denver. I was welcomed by fellow Caroline Byrd Dozier and Blake and with twins Virginia and Luke (3) Caitlin “Cat” Ashley Lizaragga alumna and Colorado native Mallory and baby Annabelle. and her husband, Hector, were married Sherwood Engelstad ’09. I’m still work- ing as a freelance science journalist in June 2016. Betty Skeen Gorinson ter, and Eric is a Realtor. from Denver. In December, my graduate and Rosanna Hawkins Winner Alexandra DiFeliceantonio writes research was published in The Journal were co-matrons of honor. Rosanna’s that she is still working as a researcher of Immunology.” children, Avarose and Wade, served at Yale, but has moved cities. “My hus- Blake and Caroline Byrd Dozier, as the flower girl and the ring bearer. band and I just relocated to Manhattan. along with their 3-year-old twins, Luke Rosanna’s 3rd child, Henry, and Betty’s Moving over the new year was an ad- and Virginia, just welcomed baby num- daughter, Ingrid, were also present and venture, but I love our new neighbor- ber three into their family! Annabelle adorable, of course. In Sept., Cat and hood. Are there any fellow Vixens in the Blake Dozier was born on Nov. 8, 2016, Hector learned that they will soon be area?” weighing 8 lbs., 8 oz. starting their own family with a baby Laura Tanner Bowrey celebrated Ginny Moncure will take on a new boy due in May 2017! In October Cat son Tanner’s first birthday in February. job in 2017 working with ExecOnline. represented SBC at a college fair with Kristin Barnes was in attendance. She will be working alongside fellow Marshall (4), Patrick (2), and Emily Jones Dent ’12. She found it Laura and her family will be traveling to classmates Sarah McLemore and Reese (1) Rodriguez, children of energizing to spend time talking with N.J. and D.C. in June for the wedding of Hallie Watson. Mary Pat Jones ’08 and Isaac young college-bound women about her Lisa Ruffle (Laura, Kristin, and Meg- Isaac and Mary Pat Jones Ro- Rodriguez experiences at SBC, and it reminded gy O’Neal will be bridesmaids) and to driguez welcomed Patrick Robert Ro- her of how special our college experi- visit family and friends in the area. She’s driguez on Aug. 21, 2014, and on Oct. ence was and how she wouldn’t trade bummed to miss reunion, but hopes to 18, 2015, along came Reese Isabella nity leave, Lara will return to her job a day of it anywhere else. In late Sep- swing by SBC before heading home! Rodriguez. Their oldest son Marshall (4) as coordinator of network operations tember Cat’s younger brother was in a for the Virginia Community Healthcare serious car accident, which resulted in adores his little brother and sister. The family lives in Dallas, and both Isaac and Association. an extended hospital stay in the ICU. Katie Fish Lohr recently pur- It was a scary time for her family, but Mary Pat work for AT&T in technology 2009 Jenny Walkiewicz Dill chased a new house in Phoenix, Ariz. he’s on the mend and Cat appreciates operations. 13938 SW Crist Court She and husband Christoph are staying all the kind words and support from Amanda Prine Bryant and hus- Tigard, OR 97223 busy with house renovations and her Sweet Briar sisters. June 2017 band Eric (HSC ’06) welcomed their [email protected] running after their 16-month old son, will mark Cat’s 10-year anniversary second child, a boy, Easton Boone Bry- ant, “Boone,” on Oct. 8, 2016. Boone Juergen. She regrets being so bad at working for the WV Development Office Lara Salyer D’Antonio and her keeping in touch and hopes to catch up as an International Trade Represen- joins his big sister Lillian Louise (4). The husband Steven (HSC ’07) welcomed Bryants live in Lexington, Ky., where with more Vixens in 2017. tative. She has enjoyed a decade of their second child, Kathryn, on Jan. 4, Mary Susan Sinclair-Kuenning assisting small business exporters in Amanda is the director of development 2017. Their 18-month old son, William, for the Kentucky Equine Humane Cen- recently moved to Largo, Fla., where West Virginia with their international loves being a big brother. After mater- her husband, James Flanagan, is a

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long-time friend, and SBC sister, Alaina McKee got engaged to Krystal Ellis Harris ’08 as she married Mark Guerry on Feb. 4, 2016. They are the love of her life! She hopes everyone planning a fall wedding. The couple re- is doing great! sides in Roanoke, where they recently Bethany Melendy moved back to purchased their first home. America in August after living in Japan Melissa Ramos got engaged to for the past two years. She had been Nicholas Jacklin in Nov. 2016. They are teaching as part of a sister-city ex- planning their wedding for Aug. 2017 change program with Des Moines, Iowa and couldn’t be more excited! She also and Kofu, Yamanashi. Now, Bethany is started a new job with Inova Health; living in Omaha, Neb., and working for 2017 is going to be a big year! an amazing nonprofit, College Possible. Anna Rij was inducted into the She loves her work, and is looking for- Golden Key International Honor Society ward to working somewhere where she on Jan. 18, 2017 with a GPA of 4.0, can make a difference for students. for being in the top 5 percent of her Julia Patt was delighted to see graduate degree program: master’s of old Sweet Briar friends—and make science in education with a focus on new ones—at the Women’s March in agriculture and leadership. D.C.. Special thanks to Jessica Baker Mary Susan Sinclair-Kuenning Katie Fish Lohr ’09 with son and Megan Maloney ’08 for being ’09 performing in the Cyr wheel. Juergen (16 months) and hus- her protest buddies. Also, she sends band Christoph. 2011 a shout-out to the Sweet Briar Twitter Heather McTague crowd; Even if we didn’t see each 1065 Brennan Dr. other, it was great to be in the same Warminster, Penn. 18974-2124 city for this not-so-mini reunion and [email protected] inspiring day. I, Jenny Walkiewicz Dill, recently Emily Maycock Aniolowski and hus- purchased my first home with my band John welcomed their first child, a husband, Jonathan. We are quickly boy named Thomas James, on July 18, learning about all the joy, and trials 2016. “We are having a wonderful time that come with owning a home! We with our new baby!” are thankful to be living near family in Brittney Bolin and Garrett Casale Tigard, Ore., and look forward to raising got engaged Oct. 15, 2016, at Colonial out daughter here. As always, thank Williamsburg. Garrett is a first-year you for the class notes submissions, ear, nose, and throat resident at UVa can’t wait to hear from you again in hospital. Brittney is a behavior analyst the fall! at the Virginia Institute of Autism. They are excited to spend forever having adventures as husband and wife. Lara Salyer D’Antonio ’09 with Krystal Ellis Harris ’08 (left) and Annie Colpitts was selected as husband Steven and son William Meagan Bell ’09 (right) at the 2010 a member of Style Weekly’s 2016 (1.5). Lara & Steven welcomed wedding of Krystal Ellis Harris. Rosalie Morgan Top 40 Under 40 class for her work their daughter Kathryn on Jan. 42 North Whittlesey Avenue as co-founder and managing director 4, 2017. Wallingford, Conn. 06492 of TheatreLAB, a critically acclaimed [email protected]‬ theater company based in Richmond. first-year resident physician at Largo in 18th Wall’s anthology After Avalon. Jessica Pilgrim Bender: On Dec. Additionally, in October, she and The- Medical Center. Mary Susan recent- Jessica Baker writes the follow- 17, 2016, Jessica and William Bender atreLAB co-founder Deejay Gray were ly performed, and did production ing: It is a dark time for the rebellion. were married in Mobile, Ala. Jac- proud to accept the Theresa Pollak management, in “Spun” at Jacobs It’s so dark Jessica’s forced to use Star queline Davis Kuebbeler, Caitlin Award for Excellence in the Arts in the Pillow’s Inside/Out festival as part of Wars metaphors. First, she joined Julia Phillips and M Schutze ’11 made the category of theater. the first company to bring Cyr wheel to Patt to protest the dreaded National trip down to Alabama to celebrate! The Morgan Garrison started a new the Pillow! After living and performing Policy Institute, which hides its sinister wedding ceremony was held at Cathe- job in April and moved to Cleveland. in NYC for eight years, Mary Susan is white supremacy behind pretty clothes dral Basilica of Immaculate Conception Her new address is: 1278 W. 9th now teaching aerial arts, modern dance and a boring name. Then, they stood in Mobile. Street, Apt 437, Cleveland, Ohio technique, highland dance, and is the with the people of Standing Rock to Amelie Drake Smucker married 44113. director of Cyr wheel at Bbs Dance and protect water from the greed of the Tristan Smucker on Oct. 8, 2016. They Sarah Jennings Harper and her Circus Arts of Tampa Bay. She rep- Empire—the battle was won, but the celebrated with Ali McGill Davey, hubby were expecting a boy at the end resents Spinnovation in Florida, and is war continues. At last, A New Hope: Mary Rachel Taylor, and Allison of February! “We’re both very excited a professional Cyr wheel artist, dancer, they were joined by Megan Maloney Bailey (matron of honor). and cannot wait for our bundle of joy singer, actress and performer. She ’08 and millions of other women (and Allie Garrison Bridges started a to arrive!” and her husband, Jim, were married supporters of women) as a sea of pink new position with the CFA Institute as a Jessica Joiner received her on 07/13/13, her maid-of-honor was hats rose up to smash the patriarchy. special investigator of exam matters in master’s in science from Yale University long-time college roommate and best The pink hats have now returned October. She and Alaina McKee had a though still doesn’t have her Ph.D. yet friend, Lauren Andrews. home, strong in the knowledge that the mini reunion on Dec. 10 in Roanoke. =). And she got engaged! Elizabeth Zuckerman is in her Force is with them…. Ashley Carroll got a new job Cassidy Jones began a new job second year as associate producer at Meagan Bell has returned home at the Lynchburg Public Library. She in Jan. 2016 as a project administrator Passage Theatre Company in Trenton. to Lynchburg, Va., after a two-year stay is also working on her master’s in at BWXT in Lynchburg, where she Her first book, All About Ben Franklin, in Covington, Va., as a senior financial information and library science from has been employed since graduation. was published by Blue River Press as analyst for West Rock. She is back Rutgers University. She and Matt DeWitt got engaged on part of their new series of young-adult at Harris Corporation as a business Amanda Ryan Hudson had a their annual weekend getaway to the biographies. She also had stories pub- intelligence analyst in sales operations. beautiful baby girl, Sophie Rose Hud- Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C. lished in Timeless Tales Magazine and This fall she was able to stand beside son, on April 28, 2016. Kathryn (Kat) Alexander Mar-

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Amanda Ryan Hudson’s ’10 baby girl, Sophie Rose

Victoria Trudeau ’11 and Colbert Lucey HSC ’11 Cassidy Jones ’11 and Ashley Winters Marot ’11 on Ashley’s Claire Voss ’11 at Lanikai Beach, wedding day on Oct.1, 2016, in Hawaii Richmond, VA

Amelie Drake Smucker ’10

Kathryn (Kat) Alexander Mar- tinuzzi ’11 with Christopher Martinuzzi

Jessica Pilgrim Bender’s ’10 wedding Allie Garrison Bridges ’10 and Alaina McKee ’10

By the Cliffs of Moher’ Jocelyn Paint night fun with former SBC Stephens McDonald ’11 and roomies. Anna Rij ’10 and Leslie husband Brandon Wertz ’13

Matt DeWitt proposed to Cassidy Jones ’11 on their annual weekend getaway to The Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C.

Brittney Bolin ’11 and Garrett Thomas James Aniolowski, son Ashley Hinkle ’11, Victoria Ethan, Grayson, and Laura Casale celebrate their engage- of Emily Maycock Aniolowski Trudeau ’11, Megan Seeley Wheatley Russell ’11 ment ’11, age 6 months. Grasham ’11

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serves as the newly elected presi- Washington, D.C. through JUMP and dent of the Sweet Briar Metro Detroit Dance Academy. The Alumnae Club. choreography for this piece was started Claire Carwile Voss and husband back in the summer of 2016. Your Jon moved to Hawaii in 2015 with or- team certainly worked hard and earned ders from the Army. She left her career your title, Cortney! as a civilian GIS analyst with the Army Another award was recently earned to pursue her own online faith and by a swan: Emma Neave was chosen fitness business, The Prayerful Plank. as teacher of the year for John F. Ken- Laura Wheatley Russell moved nedy Middle School in Suffolk, Va. Keep to Auburn, Ala. with Ethan and their earning your roses, Emma! son Grayson in August ’16 and began To every swan in the class of working at the Auburn University 2012—both mentioned and not— Library. She is slated to obtain her keep spreading your wings and solving master’s in library and information the “impossible”! studies from the University of Alabama in August. And most excitingly, in March ’17, Laura and Ethan celebrated 2013 Sweet Briar sisters celebrating and representing! their 10th Anniversary, Grayson will Jackelinne R. Montero turn 3, and their future Vixen Henley 444 Water Lane will arrive, too! Tappahannock, VA 22560 [email protected] I’m still working at St. Margaret’s 2012 School, an all-girls’ day and board- Ebet Davey ing school, and have really been 1001 Jefferson St. enjoying it! I’m responsible for most Apt 402 of our international recruiting, and I’ve Lynchburg, Va. 24504 been to Mexico, Colombia, Panama, 2017 has already begun with a China, Hong Kong, and Korea this past bustle of activity and achievements year! Next, I’m off to Vietnam. I love for the class of 2012. We have many spreading the message of all-girls’ weddings both recent and coming soon. Laura Madeleine Mooza, who resides in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., and is employed by the PGA Tour in sponsor relations, is engaged to Graham Johnson Shurley. He also resides in Ponte Vedra Beach, is a graduate of the University of Georgia and is director of Cody Anders Gross ’13 and Jackie Montero ’13 and Adriana scouting and recruiting for Wasserman husband Lt. Seth Gross, outside Beckman ’82 at the Pre-Hispanic Media Group, LLC in its golf division. of the Infantry Chapel, Fort City of Teotihuacán in Mexico. They were to be married on March 4. Benning, Ga. Our best wishes to both of you, Laura! Another recent wedding was that tinuzzi married Christopher Martinuzzi ress and worked at a cooking store, of Mandy Helms Griffin and husband on Oct. 8, 2016, in Marshall, N.C., where she became quite knowledge- Antonio, which took place on July 16, and celebrated again with European able in kitchenware. Since May 2015, 2016. Three Sweet Briar sisters— Cortney Lewandowski ’12 family and friends on Dec. 18, 2016, she has been a consultant for American Happy Lathrop, Carolyn Hicks and in Tuscany, Italy. New address: 8305 Councils for International Education. In Molly Johns Van Den Busch— Paces Oaks Blvd., Apt. 424, October, she was hired as a night ESL served as her bridesmaids. Mandy Charlotte, N.C., 28213. Teacher for adults at The Albert School also passed her music therapy board Since graduating with an M.A. in in Elkins Park, Penn. certification and is now using that to public history in 2013, Mai McCarthy Lauren Shoff is currently working work in the mental health field. All the has come to call Houston home. She is as the director of interactive services at best to both of your accomplishments, a high school social studies and French Otto Design & Marketing, an ad agency Mandy! language teacher, and a lead editor in Norfolk. She is responsible for devel- In the world of academics and ca- at Shamrock Editing, LLC, which she oping client websites, executing digital reers, the swans are also co-founded with a JYF alumna. In early campaigns and spearheading social as a force. Emily Jones Dent has February, Mai married Jay Packard in a media strategy. In her spare time, Lau- enrolled to receive a master’s in edu- ceremony surrounded by much of her ren enjoys freelancing, volunteering for cational leadership and is still teaching Sweet Briar family. local animal rescues, and traveling. and coaching swimming in Charleston, Jocelyn Stephens McDonald Victoria Trudeau married her W.V. Just keep swimming, Emily! and Brandon were married at an college sweetheart, Colbert Lucey Stephanie Prato has accepted a intimate ceremony in Nenagh, County (HSC ’11), in Northern Michigan in job as head of children’s services at Tipperary, Ireland, on May 20, 2016. Sept. 2016. Sweet Briar alumnae in the Simsbury Public Library, prompting Their photographer was their dear attendance included Megan Seeley a move from Syracuse, N.Y. to West friend Stephen Dillon. Grosham, Ashley Hinkle, Jocelyn Hartford, Conn. She is very excited, and Heather Marianne McTague Stephens McDonald, Caroline King, we are excited with her! received her master’s degree in writing and Sarah Slutz ’14. Victoria and her The weekend of Jan. 13-15, Cort- studies from St. Joseph’s University in husband live in Ferndale, Mich., where ney Lewandowski and her tap group Graham Shurley and Laura 2013. Since then, she has been a wait- she works as a financial advisor and won best in studio at a competition in Mooza ’12

78 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE Class Notes and all-women’s education around 15 surrounded by family and friends father. We married on July 25, 2015, where we look forward to growing our the world—and meeting fellow Vixens at Fort Benning, Ga., in the Infantry in Lexington, Va., at House Mountain family. Currently, I work for the Depart- around the world! Chapel, where her parents were also Inn in front of 90 of our closest friends ment of Defense as a nuclear physical Elizabeth Hansbrough and her married. They immediately packed up and family. scientist. Everyday, I am so thankful to fiancé Jackson Riley (HSC ’14) have and moved to North Carolina, where Afterward, we enjoyed a wonderful able to put to use the laboratory and moved to Raleigh, N.C. They are getting they are stationed at Fort Bragg. Cody week at Smith Fork Ranch in Crawford, research skills I learned during my time married in Emerald Isle, N.C. this April. is currently a lieutenant in the North Co., horseback riding in the beautiful at Sweet Briar. Julie Dopheide started off 2017 Carolina National Guard at an aviation mountains, shooting skeet, fly-fishing, with a new position as an inside sales unit awaiting her next Army school, exploring the black canyons, and specialist at Zoetis Animal Health. She which will start in June. enjoying a rather peaceful couple’s 2015 is currently living in Garnet Valley, Penn. massage. After we returned from Lea Gray Molly Harper completed her our honeymoon, I received a phone 12460 Richards Ride master’s of fine arts in Shakespeare & 2014 call that my mother’s sister, Christine King George, Va. 22485 Performance at Mary Baldwin Univer- Angelina McCahey Deal, was fighting a liver disease. Aunt [email protected] sity. Her concentration was acting. She 312 2nd SE Christie was unable to attend our wed- is now West Coast living in Los Angeles ding; so my sister Skyped the wedding Allie Raifsnider: I got a new job ... Washington, D.C. 20003 and a puppy! In November, I accepted a and is working on an all-female pro- [email protected] through her iPad for Aunt Christie. A duction of “Julius Caesar.” month later, she passed away in an great administrative position with New Liz Koslow is graduating from Micheala Bryant Van Clief: Where assisted-living home in Bangor, Maine. Penn Financial, a nationwide, multi-bil- medical school in May and then she do I begin … July 6, 2014, I broke Two weeks later, Thomas and I spent lion dollar mortgage company based in is moving to Texas to begin a pediatric both of my ankles in a horse riding 48 hours next to a hospice bed in my Philadelphia, focusing on recruiting and residency program at the San Antonio accident that should have ended with grandmother’s home for my grand- human resources. During my first few Military Medical Center. a funeral. Since my accident, I was mother’s passing. days, I put my Sweet Briar education to Jessie Edington recently started a blessed with my wonderful—now— On July 25, 2016, I surprised use, as I was charged with the planning new position at Linder Global Events in husband Thomas (HSC). Thomas not Thomas with a small bag. Inside the of our office Christmas party that would Washington, D.C. and is now working only helped me through double ankle bag contained a pregnancy test that put any Boathouse party to shame with Alexandra Herrera ’11. surgery, but physical therapy as well. read, “Pregnant.” Thomas and I are (think the recently released movie of Jessica Murphy is currently a full- I met Thomas my freshman year of expecting our first child, a girl, in April. the same name)! time graduate student at Texas Wom- college. He proposed Jan. 24, 2014. I have high hopes that she will follow an’s University and works as an adjunct Our engagement ring was the first ring in my and her aunts’—Trisha Van Clief tap dance professor at the University of debuted during our senior year. We ’72, Ana-Elisa Bryant ’11, Rachael North Texas. In May, she will graduate moved into our new—to us—bought- Van Clief ’15—footsteps and join the and-paid-for house on six acres in Sweet Briar College Vixen legacy: I also Schuyler, Va. (40 minutes outside of have high hopes that she will become a Charlottesville), the first week of May wonderful rider and fox hunter like both 2015. Our home is inhabited by my of her folks. husband’s 10 American Fox Beagles Morgan Harris Brannan: A (that he hunts deer with), his dwarf lot has happened since graduating black lab, and my four goldfish. Thirty in 2014: I married my high school minutes away is my husband’s horse, sweetheart, Gregory, this past October Ruckus, which I basically have kid- at New Kent Winery. We just purchased napped—except for fox hunting sea- our very first home, in Norfolk, Va., Allie Raifsnider ’15, Taylor Eudy, son, when he shares Ruckus with his and their puppy Molly

Jackie Montero ’13 and Helen Compton-Harris ’80 recently met at a high school fair in Maryland! It’s always fun to meet new Vixens!

from TWU with her master of fine arts degree in Dance Choreography. This summer she will be traveling to Canada for the World Dance Alliance’s International Conference to present a Pecha Kucha of her MFA culminating project research on collaborative dance practices. Sarah Lindemann accepted the position of environmental permitting specialist with Apex Clean Energy in Charlottesville, Va., in September and has relocated to Charlottesville. Sarah also maintains a portrait photography business in her spare time. Micheala Bryant Van Clief and We’re married! Gregory Brannan, Cody Ann Anders Gross and Morgan Brannan husband Seth were married on Oct. Thomas

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