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SUMMER 2012 2 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU Sweet Briar Women in Force in D.C. Front row, from left: Kristin Chapdelaine ’08 (Edelman Public Relations), Michela English ’71 (Fight for Children), Samira Hossain (International Monetary Fund), Megan Behrle ’09 (Strategic Insight Ltd.), Phoebe Brunner Peacock ’68 (Library of Congress), Emily Pegues ’00 (National Gallery of Art), Yolanda Davis Saunders ’96 (Strategic Analysis Inc.), Debra Elkins ’93 (Department of Homeland Security), Jee Park Pae ’02 (Urban Alliance). Back row, from left: Jesse K. Martin ’02 (Troutman Sanders LLP), Angela Grisby Roberts ’03 (Advanced Resources Technologies), Lauren Byrne ’04 (Center for Naval Analyses), Liz Medaglia ’69 (Office of Administration, Executive Office of the President), Alison Stockdale ’00 (Department of the Interior), Susan Scanlan ’69 (NCWO, WREI), Phyllis Watt Wilson ’80 (The Hatcher Group), Marian Spivey-Estrada ’01 (American Red Cross), Margaret Moss Guegan ’92 (National Rifle Association), Carolyn Leddy ’98 (U.S. Senator Jon Kyl), Wendy White ’74 (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP), Ariana Wolynec-Werner ’01 (senior policy officer), Jane Hutcherson Frierson ’74 (MITRE), Erin Kingston Betro ’87 (Naval Criminal Investigative Service)

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 2 Contents Sweet Briar Magazine | Summer 2012

Features 1 15-16 17-18 19-22 23-26 27-32 First Year Bat Epidemic Sweet Briar Women Professor Marches Teaching Art Follow-Up For those who like dark in Force in D.C. to His Own Beat Ashley Winters ’11 (M.A.T. As promised, we places and clambering Few places are as strong in Militarism is one of John ’12) and Kimberly Gibson- checked in periodically between rocks, caves are alumnae numbers as Ashbrook's lifelong McDonald ’05 (M.Ed. ’08) with the four students exciting already. But if Washington, D.C. Just interests and it has fueled we pro"led last fall to there’s one thing that three hours north of his passion for history. see how their "rst year can up their wow-factor, campus, the nation’s at Sweet Briar went. it’s bats. capital boasts a staggering 951 alumnae.

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7-14 33-35 36 37-64 On the Quad Q&A with the President Giving Back Alumnae Focus Faculty spotlights, exploring President Parker explains the Sue and Lee Piepho found a lot Class notes, 2011 spotlights, engineering, sustainable farming, strategy behind recent program to love at Sweet Briar. !eir commencement and more Osinga goodbyes reductions in relation to generous gift will help to preserve sustainable excellence. all of the things that have come to mean so much to them. DEAR FRIENDS:

he rituals of Commencement Taken all together, the articles in this and Reunion that close each issue illustrate the many ways Sweet Briar is academic year are wonderfully making tangible progress on the goals of the satisfying. In the span of just a Plan for Sustainable Excellence while few days we celebrate "rst the continuing to support student and faculty Tyoung women who have earned the roses achievement. Whether the focus is on our they will proudly bear throughout their “Landscape for Learning” — featured in the lives, and then the alumnae whose life pieces on Joel Salatin’s lecture, rider Greer stories exemplify the enduring value of a Gordon and the late dairyman Jan Osinga Sweet Briar education. — or on “Expanding Whom We Serve” by In this issue of the magazine — as in reaching out to high school students every issue — you’ll "nd pro"les of Sweet interested in engineering and to middle Briar women doing remarkable things. school runners, or on using “digitally We’re especially proud to present this year’s sophisticated” tools such as Facebook to alumnae award winners, Distinguished reach out to Sweet Briar’s friends across the Alumna !eresa Pike Tomlinson ’87 and globe, or on increasing enrollment and Outstanding Alumnae Diane Dalton ’67 adjusting instructional sta$ng to achieve a and Nancy Hudler Keu#el ’62. sustainable student-faculty ratio, Sweet Briar You’ll also "nd an interview in which I is moving forward. Meanwhile, from "rst- address some frequently asked questions year students to faculty authors, the vital about the curriculum changes Sweet Briar and exciting intellectual community on has recently announced. (At sbc.edu there is campus continues to work its magic. a companion video of the interview on At Reunion I summarized all this and which the article is based, if you’re more in my “State of the Campus” update. interested in more detail.) Sweet Briar is !at presentation was livestreamed, and taking responsible and thoughtful steps to immediately afterwards I received several ensure the long-term sustainability of the emails from alumnae who had enjoyed academic excellence that has meant so much participating virtually. You can "nd the full to all readers of this magazine. !at has presentation at sbc.edu/live, in case you’d required that we make some di$cult like to learn more. decisions. I am extraordinarily proud of the Now, here on campus, we begin the way Sweet Briar has responded to this joyful process of preparing to welcome a challenge: collegially, thoughtfully, frankly, new generation of students to the campus. I and with an eye always to the experience of hope that all of you will be enjoying an our students. equally productive, refreshing and peaceful summer.

Jo Ellen Parker

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Contact information Office of Media, Marketing and Communications PO Box 1056, Sweet Briar, VA 24595 (434) 381-6262 sbc.edu/magazine [email protected] 5 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU "I have been able to participate in multiple organizations, including the Student Government Association, Riding Council, the Sweet Tones and the Traditions Committee. Through these, I was able to secure leadership positions, learn how to organize groups and events, learn how to work with group financials, and also run elections, tests and even events, all for the entire campus. I also have my own horse in the stable here and I have participated on two of the riding teams offered at Sweet Briar. I was able to meet women at all different levels and in all different facets of riding. I have learned about horse care, and the program has taught me to be an independent, competent horsewoman. I absolutely love having my horse so close to me and knowing he is in the capable hands of the riding staff and instructors."

–Greer Gordon '12, a double major in psychology and English/creative writing

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 6 Empowering Elementary and Middle School Girls

IN MAY, SWEET BRIAR PARTNERED again with Girls on the Run to bring 300 regional elementary and middle school girls to campus. “Sweet Briar and Girls on the Run share some core values — values about empowerment and achievement for girls and women,” says President Parker. “It’s moving to watch the runners cross the "nish line to the cheers of the crowd. Holla holla, Girls on the Run.”

A Fringe Landscape IN FEBRUARY, SWEET BRIAR’S ART COMMUNITY celebrated its third biannual Fringe Festival. Centered on the College’s “landscape for learning,” the festival featured several outdoor events, as well as a number of music and dance performances, a puppet show and stand-up comedy. Highlights included Sweet Briar’s first concert musical, “Baby,” and a poetry reading set against the backdrop of the exhibit “This Green Earth” in Pannell Gallery.

7 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU Local Rocker Îë#$s S%& B'( W)* LYNCHBURG MUSICIAN JEFF CARL VISITED campus just in time for Valentine’s Day. A buzzing crowd of students and off-campus guests gathered for the WNRS student radio-sponsored concert in Pizza with Parker Prothro. To advertise for his show, Jeff released his IN FEBRUARY, NEW TRANSFER STUDENTS gathered at Sweet Briar House for the annual “Pizza own version of “Sweet Briar Woman” on YouTube. with Parker” event. !ey spent the evening chatting with President Parker about their "rst few weeks at Sweet Briar.

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 8 REMEMBERING DAIRYMAN Jan Ype Osinga

IN LAST ISSUE’S “YOU WENT TO SWEET BRIAR IF. … ” ONE THEME repeated again and again: fond recollections of cows, fresh milk and yogurt. As a community, we mourn the loss of the man who helped make those memories possible. Jan Ype Osinga passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, at the age of 85.

by Jennifer McManamay

9 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU “Mr. O was bigger than life, he !e yogurt is now part of Sweet owned the room when he walked in,” Briar lore. Jan is remembered for it, but says Nancy Herr, who grew up on Dairy not more than for his tenor voice and Road with the Osinga children. “He was exuberant singing. He was a member of always happy to see you, always asked the Amherst Presbyterian Church Choir, about people. He was extremely blunt, but people heard him sing everywhere, but that was his upbringing. I can still especially in the dairy barns where the hear him saying, ‘Vell, Nancy …’ ” acoustics were good. Jan arrived at Sweet Briar in 1953 College grounds superintendent with his wife, Douwina, to work as a and fellow choir member Donna Meeks dairy herdsman. !ey left "ve years later, says he loved to tell of the time he but returned in 1961 and Jan resumed sucked in a bee while practicing “O Osinga's daughter at the dairy in the 1970s running the dairy. In 1965, he became Holy Night” on a tractor in the "elds. the Sweet Briar Farm manager until his “!at was his signature song. He retirement in 1990. He continued used to pack the house for the running the dairy part time until it Christmas Eve candlelight service.” Producers Cooperative Association and closed in 1994. Jan was a storyteller and natural his membership at church and in the Jan loved his work, the land and his entertainer, who even acted in College Ruritan Club. herd. He was a consummate dairyman plays. He led local school children on He always spoke his mind, and the and revered the life of a farmer. It’s what "eld trips to the dairy. passing of the farm and dairy saddened drew him to the U.S. from the “Dad used to joke with the children him. Jan the farmer simply wanted the Netherlands, where he was born in the and ask them if they knew how milk land to be used. town of Woudsend in 1927. After came from a cow, and he would pump Near the end of his memoir, he serving in the Dutch army, he graduated the tail like a water pump, and then say writes, “… it is encouraging to see how from Rykslandbouw Agricultural that another cow was capable of little by little the academic world is College and attended the agricultural producing chocolate milk,” Nelly recalls. coming to the rescue of the remnants of exchange program at Purdue University. He gave his own children the Farm.” He pursued his passion at Sweet con"dence in themselves, Ieke says, In the next sentence, he worries Briar. In 2007 he released a small remembering a day he told her to drive about a fast-spreading weed called memoir called Sweet Briar Dairy 1953- the tractor home from Girl Scouts. “My Johnson grass, which, no longer 1994: !e Best Years of My Life. dad never told me I couldn’t do contained by grazing, threatens to get a Although appreciative of Sweet Briar for something because I was a girl or a “foothold on the beautiful campus.” his 40 years working the farm and dairy, woman, not that day nor into the Dutch Driving around campus, he writes, he writes that the day in 1994 when the Yoghurt days. He would put so much “old and former barns are still a silent dairy herd was auctioned was one of the trust into us that you had no choice but witness of the past, part of the Sweet saddest of his life. to live up to it.” Briar Farm History, while the open It was a full life. He and Douwina But Nelly says he was like that with "elds, once planted in hay, corn and — the farm bookkeeper, secretary and everyone. “He took every person as an small grain will remain a constant sometimes "eld worker — raised three individual, and recognized that not reminder of the past.” children, Nelly Martha Branson, Ieke everyone was given the same It is no wonder that stories about Marie Scully and John Harold Osinga. opportunities in life. Although working Jan and the dairy quickly caught A daughter, Henrietta Irene, died at the with folks who barely had an elementary President Jo Ellen Parker’s ear when she age of 3. school education, and I do mean no arrived in 2009. She came to know Jan Nelly ’75 and Ieke ’78 both education beyond the second or fourth and Douwina. graduated from Sweet Briar, while John grades, he recognized their ability to “From the moment I arrived I was earned his degree in dairy science from think, and respected them for it.” curious to meet him,” Jo Ellen says. Virginia Tech. It was Ieke’s idea to Jan became an American citizen “Every time someone spoke to me of Jan expand Jan’s yogurt hobby into Dutch and proudly %ew the %ag in front of his Osinga, they did so with a big and Yoghurt Inc., a company supplying Dairy Road home. He was active in the a#ectionate grin. Once I had the chance about 100 college dining services, Amherst community and served his to know him myself, I could certainly grocers and health food stores. Jan was profession tirelessly as a member of see why. I have rarely met anyone so already making the delicacy for campus numerous local, state and regional farm vividly full of life. Jan Osinga loved the and local customers from cultures he’d and dairy associations. He was especially land and the College he served with brought from the Netherlands years proud of his 25 years on the board of such distinction, and Sweet Briar is a before. the Maryland & Virginia Milk better place for it.” I

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 10 Would You, Could You, Eat ‘Green’ Eggs?

11 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU LOCAL FOOD ADVOCATE AND OWNER OF Polyface Farm Joel Salatin visited Sweet Briar in January to talk about his book “Folks, !is Ain’t Normal.” He also cooked for students, faculty and guests in the E.B. Room kitchen before his evening lecture. Armed with organic eggs from his farm in Swoope, Va., and a handful of Campbell County goat cheese, he was there to illustrate his point: It’s not that di$cult to return to a more historically normal way of eating. Food doesn’t have to be loaded with unpronounceable additives and transported 1,500 miles from farm to fork, he says. Joel accompanied his buttery omelets with raw milk (it was legal) and pure “cold-squeezed” apple juice from a Shenandoah Valley farm. Associate professor of environmental studies Rebecca Ambers brought in homemade breads, artisanal cheeses, and chili made with local meats and vegetables from her own garden. Bonnie Kestner, associate professor of physical education, and Rebecca co-sponsored Joel’s visit. Bonnie covers his “beyond-organic” farming philosophy in her class “Nutritional Challenges of the 21st Century.” 5 Sweet Briar Wins Five CASE Awards

SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE RECENTLY “Sweet Briar College’s received five CASE awards for several recruitment materials are fun, clean of its publications. CASE, the Council and crisp,” the judges said, adding for Advancement and Support of that the “message of a women’s Education, honored the College with academic and creative college comes an Award of Excellence for its feature through consistently.” and news writing. Sweet Briar also was CASE’s North American districts named a Grand Award Winner in four offer awards programs to recognize categories: total programs outstanding programs and individuals. (publications programs), magazines Virginia is part of the Southeast (alumni magazines), audiovisual District III, which also includes communications (films and Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, videotapes) and printed publications Mississippi, North Carolina, South (student recruitment). Carolina and Tennessee.

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 12 FOR THE Academic Granger Record SONIA OLIVERA, ASSISTANT professor of modern languages and literatures, was invited by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars to serve on the U.S. Fulbright Regional Committee, an honor bestowed to only four representatives of the Southern Cone. Chang Research by Claudia Chang, professor of anthropology, is featured in the exhibition “Nomads and Networks: !e Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan” at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. Displaying artifacts from burial mounds in the Altai Mountains of eastern Kazakhstan. More information can be found at isaw.nyu.edu Rob Granger, professor of chemistry, Olivera will publish a modernized textbook on chemical instrumentation through Oxford University Press. !e book also contains chapters by Hank Yochum, Jill Granger and Karl Sienerth (Elon University). Keith Adams, adjunct professor of anthropology, is traveling to western Turkey this summer to serve as the project photographer for the Central Lydian Adams Archaeological Survey. Professor of mathematical sciences Jim Kirkwood recently published his book Mathematical Physics with Partial Di"erential Equations (Academic Press).

Kirkwood

13 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU “What Happens FOR THE Academic If I Do This…?”

TWENTY&FIVE SIXTH&GRADE GIRLS FROM NELSON MIDDLE Record School in Lovingston came to Sweet Briar in February for the "rst “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.” !e event was part of National Engineering Week (Feb. 19-25). While Sweet Briar has hosted high school girls before, this marks the "rst time 11- and 12-year-olds were invited to put their engineering skills to the test. “Many of them are scared of science because they think it’s a boy thing,” says Vickie Mays, math teacher at Nelson Middle School. And yet, she says, the girls had been excited about this day. “I actually have a lot of boys that were upset that they couldn’t come.” !e event focused on building an audio speaker. !e girls were each given small plastic containers that held a speaker kit. !e kit contained all the necessary elements for building a simple speaker: one plastic cup, one Styrofoam cup, one piece of sandpaper, one small square magnet, one speaker jack, insulated wire and two rubber bands. It also came with detailed instructions and pictures. In addition, the engineering department provided a variety of miscellaneous items students could use in the process, such as colorful paper plates, cupcake holders and wire whisks. “We want to encourage them to be creative,” says Hank Yochum, director of the Margaret Jones Wyllie ’45 Engineering Program. “We want them to say, ‘What happens if I do this … ?’ ” !roughout the two-hour session, Hank and assistant engineering professor Bethany Brinkman, as well as student assistants Kate Fanta ’15 and Kelsey Barta ’15, roamed from table to table to help the girls build their kits, and to explain how electromagnetism works.

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 14 FIRST&YEAR FOLLOW

As promised, we+- checked in periodically -with .the four students we profiled last fall to see how their first year at Sweet Briar went. Megan, Rosie, Rani and Sixtine reported more ups than downs over the past two semesters, and each looks forward 1 with excitement to an even busier and more fulfilling sophomore year.

Rosalie Purvis homeschooled, Megan Kelly Montgomery City, Mo. Cascade Senior High School, Everett, Wash. ROSIE’S YEAR WENT pretty much according to MEGAN RECENTLY MADE HER plan — a good plan being double major in German and essential when you’re training to international a#airs o$cial. She also be an Olympic athlete. She remains took a directed-study Korean determined to pursue her degree in engineering, language course with Professor John loves the classes, and has been working for Professor Goulde, which she sees as a good "t Hank Yochum in his optics lab to gain experience. for her plans to pursue education and Next year she hopes to earn credit for the work. refugee work. Megan applied for In November Rosie competed in the Modern several scholarships to study abroad in Pentathlon Junior World Championships in Korea next year, and when we last spoke was Buenos Aires, Argentina, then went to Colorado waiting to hear about them. over the winter break for a Modern Pentathlon She’s stayed busy lifeguarding for the Vixens and World Cup quali"er. She made the cut, and the Amherst County High School swim team, but competed for the Cup in Charlotte, N.C., in found time to help start up the Sweet Potters, a Harry March. Potter club that hosts the occasional quidditch match. Although the World Cup was a qualifying She is the vice president of the Environmental Club event for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, and, when we spoke to her, was running for that o$ce Rosie’s sights are set on Rio de Janeiro in 2016. with the German Club. If she’s not in Korea next year, “I had personal bests in all of my events, she will live in Randolph on the Eco Hall. which was very exciting,” she says. “!is is the Megan says it took a while, but managing best I have done in an international competition schoolwork, "nding a social life, even adjusting to a yet. I was able to see where I stand compared to roommate, all fell into place. After the "rst semester, she the best athletes in the world — which means made a conscious e#ort to attend events on campus and numerous Olympians. My training is de"nitely make friends. on the right track.” “With these new friendships I am actually really Modern pentathlon includes events in busy socially. So between friends, events and homework fencing, swimming, riding, and combined I am actually working now to make ‘me’ time.” running and pistol shooting.

15 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU Sixtine Abrial Princess Anne High School for International Baccalaureate diploma, Virginia Beach, Va. EunYong “Rani” Jang Pyeongtaek International SIXTINE EXCELLED ACADEMICALLY DURING Christian School, South Korea her "rst two semesters and she has a particularly busy summer ahead of her. First, it’s o# to NATO RANI VIEWED HER FIRST YEAR AS AN headquarters in Brussels, where she has lined up an exploration, an opportunity to discover new internship to work with professional international interests and passions. “I want to see what I am conference interpreters. It is her ambition to be an truly passionate about and what I am truly good at,” interpreter, and this is her chance to try her hand at it. she told us. In June, she heads to England for the Virginia !is thoughtful approach was part of her Program at Oxford. decision to attend a liberal arts college and she Pursuing her love of languages, Sixtine declared her appreciates the supportive environment she has major in German in the spring, while considering a found at Sweet Briar. second and possibly third major in French and history. “I am positively shocked by the faculty and the “I’m going to talk to the interpreters at NATO and see administrative sta#’s e#orts to help students with all what they recommend,” she says. their best,” Rani says. “After listening to some of my Socially, she says there’s a lot to do. “It’s just a friends’ experiences who went to big state matter of not worrying about homework for a few universities, I am glad I chose Sweet Briar.” hours.” Rani quickly developed a circle of friends — As for the absence of men on campus, “it gave me last fall we dropped in on a dinner party jamming the opportunity to focus on my academics, get used to to “K-pop” music and sampling her authentic college life and take time to settle in,” she says. Korean cooking. She is her class treasurer, but And there are the weekend trips to the Virginia otherwise hasn’t joined any clubs, so she is looking Military Institute, she points out. “Problem solved!” forward to being more involved in the College’s co- Sixtine applied for transfer to the University of St. curricular life next year. Andrews in Scotland because her parents are moving !is summer, Rani has a job as a translator and back to France from Virginia Beach this summer. She English tutor. She's also taking courses at Korea's learned in March that she doesn’t have to go. Yonsei University. !ey include economics — a “I’ll not be transferring to St. Andrews, which favorite subject, she says — and a music class on K- means I’ll be staying at Sweet Briar College, which I am pop. "Right now Korean pop is ... setting a new really, really, really happy about, actually!” music trend called the Korean Wave in Asia and furthermore in the USA and European countries ... I am really excited to take those classes."

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 16 CAVERS FACE TO FACE WITH Bat Epidemic For those who like dark places and clambering between rocks, caves are exciting already.

17 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU BUT IF THERE’S ONE THING THAT CAN UP The fungus enters their system and interferes their wow-factor, it’s bats. Recently, Sweet Briar with hibernation, usually leading to the animal’s students saw both during a spelunking trip to death. Island Ford Cave in Covington. Director of The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports outdoor programs Tasha Purcell and instructors that the disease was first documented at four Jordanne Ryan ‘12 and Victoria Litos ‘13 led the sites in eastern New York in the winter of 2006 excursion. They joined up with Sweet Briar’s and 2007. Since then, WNS has spread rapidly naturalist-in-residence, Mike Hayslett, and bat to multiple sites throughout the Northeast, educator Bonnie Miles, who was recently affecting 19 U.S. states and five Canadian recognized for her work by Bat Conservation provinces. Nineteen species of bats have been International in the winter issue of BATS infected with the disease, and more than six magazine. million bats have died from it so far. The Tyvek-clad spelunkers discovered 21 of “That equates to between seven hundred the small creatures and noticed that one was and thirteen hundred metric tons of insects not

eaten each summer,” Bonnie says, alluding to the ecological consequences of the disease. While WNS wasn’t the focus of the caving trip, it was a poignant illustration to students who had talked about the disease before, but clearly sick with white-nose syndrome, named never experienced it first-hand. I for the white fungus evident on the muzzles and wings of affected bats. To prevent the spread of WNS, the BCI decontamination protocol requires cavers to wear disposable coveralls. White-nose syndrome is the first disease known to target a hibernating animal, Bonnie says.

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 18 19 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU Sweet Briar Women in Force in D.C. Sweet Briar women across the country know what it means to be part of a special network. Ask any alumna, from Palmetto, Fla., to Battle Ground, Wash., and she’ll tell you that Sweet Briar College is more than just a community. It’s family. Yet, few places are as strong in numbers and as tightly knit as Washington, D.C. Just three hours north of campus, the nation’s capital boasts a staggering 951 alumnae.

by Janika Carey and Jennifer McManamay

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 20 THIS SPRING, WE TRAVELED TO neighborhoods. And they all say it started “Sweet Briar gave me breathing room the heart of D.C. to talk to some of these right here, at Sweet Briar. to build lifelong friendships, to establish accomplished Sweet Briar women about But what, we asked in a series of priorities and to grow in grace and grit.” their remarkable careers, and about the questions, is so special about Sweet Briar? Almost 30 years later, Yolanda Lynn unique ties that connect each and every one Many cited “the network,” the connection Davis Saunders ’96 felt it too, although her of them. We spoke with lawmakers, that helped them get started in their careers science career took a far di#erent track in women’s rights activists, journalists, CEO’s, or that they can rely on for support. !ey government service. Today she is one of scientists and national security advisors. talked about professors who enlightened numerous alumnae who support the For some, life has been full of and classmates who inspired. And they Department of Homeland Security. surprises, with career paths unfolding into spoke of the all-important all-women “I am one of only a few women to uncharted territories. Others never advantage. work in the area of chemical/biological waivered from long-held dreams. !eir “!ose four years at Sweet Briar were defense and it is quite obvious when I travel jobs, politics and backgrounds are as the most empowering of my life,” says abroad or attend meetings,” Yolanda says. diverse as their liberal arts education. Yet all Susan Scanlan ’69, one of the most “Very few people look like me in this career of them are making a di#erence in the in%uential alumnae we spoke to. Susan is "eld, and I’m perfectly "ne with that, world, whether they’re shaping policy, chair of the National Council of Women’s because Sweet Briar has taught me to be teaching the next generation, defending the Organizations and president of the comfortable in my own skin and to excel country or improving their own Women’s Research & Education Institute. wherever I go.” I

Samira Hossain ’05: Yolanda Lynn Davis Susan Scanlan ’69: Jesse K. Martin ’02: Senior Accounting Saunders ’96: Chair, National Council Associate, Troutman Assistant, Advisory Scientist, of Women’s Sanders LLP International Strategic Analysis Inc. Organizations (NCWO); Monetary Fund (IMF) President, Women’s “Sweet Briar “Attending a women’s Research and Education provided countless “In the waiting room college gave me the Institute (WREI) opportunities. I [in the place of my opportunity to learn who completed two first job] I met three I was as a person, “Skills I honed at Sweet majors, participated other applicants, all including how important Briar that I didn’t realize in two varsity sports, male from Ivy League it is for women to be in would be important — studied in Seville, schools, and I was leadership positions and presenting myself with Spain, for a semester the only one with a assert their authority in confidence, being and participated in liberal arts order to break through comfortable with public [the] Washington background. … My the glass ceiling, speaking, learning to be Semester at American liberal arts education specifically in the areas of inclusive, writing thank- University in the made me feel I could science and government. you letters, following up District. [Now,] I look apply what I learned Very few people look like on every opportunity out for the health and to any job. … The me in this career field, that presents itself, welfare of other small school and I’m perfectly fine taking a risk — turned women in all aspects environment and with that because Sweet out to be key in of my life. My hope is small classes helped Briar has taught me to be distinguishing myself to generate me become a better comfortable in my own from the competition for opportunities so that team player, skin and to excel jobs or honors or choice they are positioned to something significant wherever I go.” assignments.” fulfill their potential if in any job.” they choose to embrace it.”

21 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU Michela English ’71: Angela Grisby Alison Stockdale ’00: Lauren Byrne ’04: Jee Park Pae ’02: President and CEO, Roberts ’03: Drug Program Associate Research Chief Development Fight For Children Policy Analyst, Manager, Department Analyst, CNA Officer, Urban Alliance Advanced Resources of the Interior “I attended Sweet Technologies “Going to a women’s “Our ability to change Briar in a period of “Now that I am college allowed me to the world comes from turmoil (amid “I change the world twelve years out of form lifelong where we started — protests against the each and every day by college, nothing friendships with our education and Vietnam War, civil actively engaging in Sweet Briar women incredibly strong, experience at Sweet rights, integration of my community, do surprises me intelligent and lovely Briar is life-changing, Southern schools, adapting to the ever- anymore. ... My women. In a male- so in turn, when we etc.) and left filled present social and reaction now when I dominated industry, have this unique with social reform economic changes and read or hear the strength of experience to zeal — wanting to transforming the world something amazing character and constantly challenge make the world a by my active from an alumna is, education I received ourselves, our better place. Being participation. These ‘Yup, that sounds serves me well every worldview changes. To at a small, supportive are the core values about right.’” day.” me, success in the women’s college like that Sweet Briar taught professional sense is Sweet Briar really me; to be a leader of when we are good allowed me to tomorrow.” stewards of our gifts, develop leadership and we cultivate our skills and build my gifts to ensure that our self-confidence.” communities are flourishing. I know that in my circles of Sweet Briar friends, each person is working towards that goal.”

Carolyn Leddy ’98: Phoebe Brunner Debra Elkins, ’93: Kristin Chapdelaine ’08: National Security Peacock ’68: Section Chief (Risk Account Supervisor, Advisor to U.S. Sen. Jon Classics Specialist, Assessments and Edelman Public Relations Kyl, Republican whip Library of Congress Analysis), Office of Risk (retired in 2011) Management and “It is reassuring to know “I treasure, and carry Analysis, Department that you will be a part of with me each day, the “I know that I can of Homeland Security the SBC community for close relationships and always find a contact life.” the ‘dare to be through Sweet “If I’m not working on different’ mentality that Briar for virtually any $10 billion problems I nurtured at Sweet need. The network is every day, we’re not Briar. It definitely broad in scope, tackling big enough nurtured my fierce geographically and problems in Homeland independence and professionally.” security.” confidence to speak my mind.”

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JOHN ASHBROOK TURNS MILDLY sheepish describing his latest book. Still in progress, it focuses on the European Union expansion into Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

by Jennifer McManamay

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 24 “!is project critically — and scathingly — analyzes the EU’s In conversation, colleagues and students say John loves to stir philosophy and actions concerning expansion into this formerly the pot. “I think he does this because he is interested in seeing how communist region,” John says. “It also critiques the elitist and urban people will react, even more so how far people will go in response,” nature of integration.” says !eron McLeod ’09, a former student who today regards him as He is not apologetic, but acutely aware of the reaction he will a good friend. stir. “My conclusions will be provocative and controversial to say the Around the faculty lunch table he “talks trash” to be funny, says least,” he says. biologist Janet Steven. But as someone who sits left of center He’s a bit gun-shy about how his views are received among his politically, she appreciates that his opinions are fact-based and colleagues. While he’ll be the "rst to admit you can’t trust logical. stereotypes, let’s just say former presidential candidate Rick “History was never my best subject, but if I had had John as a Santorum wouldn’t pick John out of a crowd as an intellectual snob. professor I might have thought otherwise. I really like hearing his Indeed, Professor Gerry Berg considered him the diversity perspective on current or historical events because he explains the candidate when the history department hired him as a visiting political and social factors that helped cause them.” assistant professor in 2005. Once past "rst impressions, John seems to have a warming “He’s a modern Europe historian who, unlike most modern e#ect on people even when they disagree with him. !at was Europe historians at a small school, specializes in Eastern Europe, !eron’s experience. and that’s out of the mainstream,” Gerry says. “I think, like most people who "rst meet him, I was surprised “Along those same lines, he has a unique background for by his demeanor, personality and appearance,” she says. “However it someone in academe. I think he is the only faculty member at Sweet did not take long for me to know that I would like him immensely.” Briar who is a lifetime member of the [National Ri%e Association]. When it comes to persona, the only thing professorial about He has a point of view that isn’t representative of mainstream him is his spectacles. Trouser suspenders are dapper on some, but on academe. !at is a product of an independent critical mind and John they really are there to hold his pants up. His wife hates them. that’s ultimately what we look for.” He favors a camou%age jacket in cold weather. His gun collection John is unabashedly hard right, politically, economically and numbers around 30 pistols, shotguns and ri%es, including an AK-47. socially. !at is, he believes in small government except in national His wife doesn’t like those, either. defense and policing, mostly hands-o# foreign policy, minimally In 1991, at 13, she spent several months in a basement during regulated economic policy, individual responsibility, and welfare only Croatia’s war for independence from Yugoslavia. Her family escaped in the form a fair tax system. on a train running at night with its lights o#. Ten years later she met On religion, he is a “secularist who defends the right to believe.” John in the capital, Zagreb, while he was "nishing his doctoral And guns? “Everyone, everywhere for any reason should be dissertation as a Fulbright fellow. packing a "rearm.” Ironically, he turned down a teaching Fulbright in Croatia for

25 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU spring 2012. !e move isn’t good for a career in academia, he “Initially I came into the project with a very positive opinion of admits, but he did it for his wife and son. the EU as a primarily economic union,” he says. “However, since I !e books on his o$ce shelves share space with portions of his began my research in 2008, the evidence suggests that the EU is an other two collections, model and toy military vehicles and military elitist-urbanite project, directed primarily by the more powerful and headwear — real helmets and hats from numerous countries larger member states to promote a failed European culture, identity, spanning more than 100 years of war. social system and mixed economy. I know this sounds like a rant. Militarism is one of John’s lifelong interests and it has fueled his But I think all of it is true. And much of the evidence supports it.” passion for history. It would be natural, by now, to wonder how John’s persona He speaks, often loudly, with the Southern Appalachian dialect translates in the classroom, especially since history is one of Sweet of Lebanon, the small coal-mining town in far Southwest Virginia Briar’s most popular majors. He claims he stole his style from a where he grew up. Raised by his mother after his parents split, his professor at Radford who “was crude, rude, outspoken, tough as father’s family was nonetheless an in%uence on him. nails” and “got results from his students.” “My dad’s family was redneck, but I never saw that word as Cristina Keating, a sophomore from Northern Virginia, agrees particularly negative,” he says. “!ey were not really cultured, I with some of that. guess. My grandfather had been, in his younger years, a “He’s a really good teacher, but he’s not an easy teacher,” semiprofessional thief, a moonshiner, a "ghter, and all his friends she says. were like that. I grew up in that circle. It was actually, even though I While he is openly opinionated, “he’s even-handed in the was from a broken home, it was pretty enjoyable to be around classroom, and that’s one of the reasons I like him,” Cristina says. those folks.” She describes his courses as interactive and entertaining. He While he appreciated the plainspoken people and their hard- doesn’t distance himself from students, but keeps a “disciplined living ways, he wasn’t about to follow his father into the coal mines. classroom.” And he’s always helpful. He wanted to be a helicopter gunner, but it was 1987 and the “I’m a terrible writer and I’m a history major … ,” she says, Army didn’t need gunners with less than perfect eyesight. So, he her words trailing o#. “He really is always available, and that’s not [a went to college. cliché].” He enrolled at Radford University where, by his junior year, he First-year Rachel Byrd, a Spanish and international a#airs suspected he wanted to pursue graduate studies in European history, major from Mathews, Va., took “Soviet Russia and Beyond” with particularly Germany. John because her advisor suggested she take something she’d enjoy. “I had that perception that the German people were sort of !e small, discussion-style course was a completely new but militaristic and that appealed to me, since I’ve always had an interest welcome learning environment for the recent high school grad. in militarism and war,” he says. “But that was just a stereotype that Rachel responded to his “unconstrained and gregarious” nature. graduate school soon taught me was something that was not “I do like Dr. Ashbrook as a person because, although he can necessarily true.” be loud and, well, crazy — it’s Ashbrook, though, most people know John "rst visited Croatia in 1995 to witness what he thought this — he was pretty funny and gave us his opinions honestly, which would be the “last European war of my lifetime,” he says. I respect, and taught us without changing the facts to suit what he From the start, he felt a kinship with the Croats and Serbs. believed.” “!e hard drinking, hard "ghting, easy laughter, and importance of Assistant professor of international a#airs Spencer Bakich is not local and regional identities and history as well as the ubiquitous so inclined as John to engage in partisan analysis. Nonetheless, he is patriotism reminded me of rural Appalachia,” he says. unequivocal in his defense of his colleague’s scholarship and By then he was at Michigan State working on his master’s in classroom presence. !e two published a paper together in 2010 and European history. He later went to the University of Florida for his team-taught a course on World War I contrasting the disciplinary Ph.D. to specialize in modern Eastern European history. approaches of historians versus political scientists to answer critical His research eventually focused on how and why Croatian questions about the con%ict. politicians and elites manipulated identity di#erences between “When it comes to his work, he’s willing to let the chips fall regionalists and nationalists — which manifest as urban versus rural where they may,” Spencer says. cultures and values — in the debate to join the European Union. Further, he says John’s commitment to the intellectual life of His doctoral dissertation led to his "rst book, “Buying and Selling the College is evidenced by the quality and quantity of his own the Istrian Goat: Istrian Regionalism, Croatian Nationalism and EU research and by how much he obviously cares about the work others Enlargement,” published in 2008. are doing. Seeing how the rural-urban divide emerged in the research, “It would be easy to caricature John, but it wouldn’t be accurate John undertook his current book to examine whether it would or fair,” Spencer says. “!e guy’s complex and he’s really good. It’s apply to a larger political organization, such as the European Union his sophistication that makes this place better.” Others must agree. as a whole. John made tenure this year. I

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AWITH THE PRESIDENT

President Parker explains the strategy behind recent program reductions in relation to sustainable excellence.

Sweet Briar has historically been proud of its very low the size of our annual operating budget. So, the 10-to-1 ratio student-faculty ratio. Why is it so important to reach grew out of analysis of the "nancial characteristics of a healthy, 10-to-1 now? sustainable institution and is one of several targets that the plan identi"es. !e current student-faculty ratio is about 6-to-1. Most of the colleges that we compare ourselves to, both for quality and for It’s important to remember that a student-faculty ratio has two the kind of liberal arts program that we want to maintain, have components: one is the size of the faculty and one is the size of student-faculty ratios of between 10-to-1 and 14-to-1. the student body. Even as we make modest reductions to the size of the faculty, we need to make aggressive increases to the At 10-to-1, Sweet Briar will still be among the very smallest size of the student body, because we certainly can’t achieve our and most personal campuses in America, o#ering a strong target student-faculty ratio only through reductions. We need liberal arts program, but it will be able to operate in a more to combine modest reductions with enrollment growth. "nancially sustainable way. Do you think having a larger ratio will enhance the When we created the strategic plan, the Plan for Sustainable quality of education at Sweet Briar? Excellence, one of the study groups was called “Sustainable Size and Ratios.” !at study group worked with the director of I’m sure it will. A slightly larger student body will enrich the institutional research to understand institutional characteristics academic experience of the College because it will bring more that would promote "nancial sustainability for the College. perspectives, backgrounds and intellectual energy into Sweet !ose characteristics included things like the relationship Briar’s classrooms. At 10-to-1 we can still be very small and will between the annual budget and the size of the endowment, work very closely together while bene"tting from more student-faculty ratio, the proportion and structure of debt, wonderful students and their perspectives, experiences, sta#-faculty ratios, and so on. With the leadership of that study backgrounds, questions and talents. group, the administration worked to describe some of the "nancial characteristics of a healthy and sustainable institution. How many faculty positions will be eliminated to reach the 10-to-1 goal? So, for example, we saw that we need to reach the enrollment goal of 750 to 800 students. Along with that, we saw we need Two years from now Sweet Briar will have the equivalent of 11 to be at about a 10-to-1 student-faculty ratio. We saw that we fewer full-time faculty positions than at the start of the 2011- need to have an endowment that is approximately three times 12 academic year.

33 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU Which departments are likely to be affected the most by If the financial situation improves, will any of these faculty reductions? reductions be reconsidered?

!e biggest impact of the plan will be on German, which will no No. !ese reductions are not an emergency response to a particular longer be o#ered as a major. Students who are currently in the budget cycle. !ey’re changes designed to move Sweet Briar toward pipeline for the German major, those who’ve already declared that an academic program that’s more sustainable and that will allow major, will be able to complete their programs. But no future the faculty to move forward with curriculum review and students will be able to declare a German major. Another program potentially curriculum renewal as called for in the strategic plan. being discontinued is the minor in law and society. Eliminating faculty and programs reduces options for Some other programs will be consolidated or combined. Major prospective students. Will this impact enrollment, and programs will continue to be o#ered, but they may be grouped how will Sweet Briar address that problem? together in new con"gurations. So, for example, the archaeology and anthropology majors will be combined into a single major. With careful advising and customized work plans, the vast majority !e two government and international a#airs majors will also be of applicants will "nd that they can get everything they’re looking combined. In order to focus on our vibrant and growing for at Sweet Briar. engineering sciences major, we will no longer be o#ering a major track in engineering management: however, engineering sciences Obviously, there may be one or two students speci"cally students can take courses in management and entrepreneurship seeking a German major who choose to go elsewhere. But for the through the business program if that is their area of interest. vast majority of students a wide range of attractive options will still exist. Why German versus another program? One of the strengths of the Sweet Briar curriculum has always been !e dean and the faculty Academic Planning Committee did very the ability to customize a student’s program. We have the self- careful research into current and historical enrollments, interest designed major and a number of ways to combine major, minor trends among prospective students, and curricula at peer and certi"cate programs to produce the course of study that’s going institutions. As a result of that study it became apparent that to help each student advance toward her goals. Virtually all of the German was a program that Sweet Briar would have di$culty subjects we currently teach are going to remain available. !ey may sustaining. !e strategic decision was to eliminate the German simply be available at di#erent levels or in di#erent combinations major, consolidate language o#erings around French and Spanish or be o#ered every other year instead of every year. (because of the signature Junior Year programs in France and Spain) and actively pursue ways to o#er instruction in other Are you concerned that reducing the number of languages through new technologies and collaboration with other academic programs weakens the “liberal arts” identity of colleges. the College?

When will we see the first reductions go into effect? People don’t think about it this way, but originally the liberal arts tradition started with seven "elds of study. Just seven. !e !is will vary in each case. Some reductions will be the result of currently dominant curricular structure that emphasizes a wide retirements, some will be the result of adjunct faculty contracts number of highly specialized departmental majors is actually more that are not renewed, and some will be determined by the timing characteristic, historically, of a research university than of a of student completions. !e "rst changes will be in place next year traditional liberal arts college. In pruning back some of Sweet but the process will continue throughout the next two years as, in Briar’s o#erings to achieve a more streamlined curriculum, you each case, we look at student needs and the speci"c personnel could argue that we’re actually moving a bit closer to our roots as a issues involved. liberal arts college.

Given that these reductions are being phased in, will we What were those seven subjects? see immediate financial benefits to the College? !ey’re known as the “trivium” and the “quadrivium.” !e !e "nancial bene"ts will be fully in place in two years. Some trivium includes grammar, rhetoric and logic. !e quadrivium bene"ts will be felt in the budget a year from now. includes music, astronomy, geometry and arithmetic. Together, these were the studies considered to be fundamental to all human knowledge and a “liberal” education — that is, an education that frees the mind from the constraints of the immediate and practical.

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 34 But what about the modern notion of the liberal arts, for electives, and at comparative data of what’s commonly which generally includes literature, languages, available at similar colleges. philosophy and so forth? What other actions have been taken or considered to !e modern notion of a liberal arts education emphasizes the put the College on more sustainable financial footing ability of a student to move among and between disciplines before deciding to reduce academic programs? representing various areas of human knowledge, developing skills in critical thinking, reasoning, analysis and expression In the last three years, Sweet Briar has reduced non-instructional fundamental to all. Curriculum is central to this vision of the sta# by about 20 percent. We’ve been very aggressive in liberal arts, but so is a pedagogy that develops active and synthetic combining administrative departments and reviewing all sta# learning, strong advising and a coherent general education positions in order to make sure that, on the administrative side, program. !e modern de"nition of a liberal arts college is best we’re being as frugal and as responsible as possible. We’ve realized by making sure that students experience academic rigor reviewed everything from purchasing to utilities usage; we’ve in a number of disciplines as they move through the curriculum, re"nanced our debt to lower debt service costs; we’ve examined being taught by faculty members who insist on active the budget annually from top to bottom to make sure that we engagement, critical thinking and creative problem-solving no "nd every possible way of ensuring that resources are being matter what subject they teach. Which is exactly what we do so directed to the academic program and not to administrative beautifully at Sweet Briar. overhead or infrastructure. As we approach the question of sta# reduction, we’re looking to increase e$ciency of operation, to increase collaboration across units. You’ve said that students will be allowed to finish their programs. Could you be more specific about how that is We have retained and indeed increased our commitment to a going to be accomplished? strong "nancial aid program because we know that families depend on "nancial aid and that keeping Sweet Briar a#ordable is !is will depend on each individual student, where she is in her central to our mission. We are deeply grateful to those alumnae progress and what she needs to accomplish. For example, a who have supported "nancial aid with their philanthropy over the student who’s advanced in German and only needs one more years, and I am always reminding alumnae of how essential semester to complete the major may be able to take that here on support for "nancial aid is to the intellectual health of the College campus. Another student may complete her German studies and the achievements of our students. through study abroad, or she may be able to take a course at a neighboring institution as part of our regional exchange. If needed, we may be able to acquire tutoring or other services to Is there a point where you would say that, regardless of help students meet their goals. With careful timing and how many students we have, there are certain core thoughtful advising, it will be possible to be sure that every functions that need to be met, and further streamlining student will have the support she needs. doesn’t make sense?

What criteria did the Academic Planning Committee use !ere are core functions on every campus that need to be to frame its recommendations to the dean? ful"lled, whether you have one student or 10,000 students. Obviously, you can’t cut sta# to the point where those functions !e role of the Academic Planning Committee was to provide are jeopardized. But it is essential to always seek the most cost- perspective, advice and analysis to the dean as various curricular e#ective possible way to ful"ll those functions. We look at how options were considered. new technologies enable more e$cient work processes, we look at inter-institutional collaboration, we look at outsourcing (as for !ey were looking at not only the major and minor programs but example with the dining program); we are always examining the also at the way departments contribute to general education way those core functions are provided to make sure they are as requirements, the pattern of students who enroll in those "elds cost-e#ective as possible. I

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35 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU GIVING BACK Makes Sense.

WHEN SUE AND LEE PIEPHO TALK ABOUT SWEET Briar College, they always come back to one thing: love. For its landscape and treasured spaces. For the sciences and the liberal arts. Love for the community. Having lived on campus for more than 40 years, their roots at Sweet Briar run deep.

“We’ve kind of grown up with the place,” says Sue, who taught chemistry from the early 1970s until 2007. “It’s been like a big family. You really get to know a lot of people pretty darn well.”

Lee, English professor from 1969 until 2005, agrees:

“Since it’s such a small liberal arts college, you get to know people outside your discipline. It’s a very open community. We’ve always liked that.”

Between the two of them, the Piephos’ academic interests span the entire spectrum of a liberal arts curriculum, from the sciences to the humanities. They’ve also been able to venture outside of their specialties — something they both say would not have been possible at a large university. While teaching, Sue pursued her interest in quantum mechanics, and Lee continues to do research in Latin culture and literature.

“The College gives you an incredible amount of freedom to define both what you teach and your research,” Sue says. “We’ve seen Sweet Briar really Lee Piepho, Ph.D., Sara Shallenberg Brown Professor of English make a difference in people’s lives.” emeritus and Susan Piepho, Ph.D., professor of chemistry emerita have been a vital part of Sweet Briar’s community for more than 40 years. Now, they’ve decided to make a difference in the life of Sweet Briar. Their generous endowment of $1.5 million will help to preserve all of the things “The College gives you an they love about the College: its expansive gardens and lakes, its library, its interdisciplinary science incredible amount of freedom programs and international scholarships. You can shape lives at Sweet Briar College through to define both what you teach a bequest or other type of planned gift. To learn how you can make a difference today, please and your research” contact us at [email protected] or (888) 846-5722.

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 36 One Challenge at a Time Lacrosse Magazine Features Sweet Briar Grad

BEFORE COMING TO SWEET BRIAR IN THE LATE 1990s, Jessica Livingston ’00 hadn’t planned on playing lacrosse at all — much less becoming an All-American player and ending up on the cover of Lacrosse Magazine. Yet that’s exactly what happened. Maybe, the magazine speculates in its January issue, it is because “she can’t resist a challenge.”

CLASS NOTES When Jessica moved to Scottsdale, Ariz., in 2002, lacrosse wasn’t exactly a thriving sport there. To help get the game o# the ground, Jessica took over as head coach of the Chaparral Varsity Girls Lacrosse Club that year. “!ere was a need. It worked out well,” she said in an interview with the magazine. Under her guidance, the club has won two state championships. But Jessica’s focus didn’t remain on high school sports alone. In 2004, she founded AZ Girls Lacrosse, a league for girls in grades K-9. Since then, lacrosse in Arizona has grown dramatically. “It had "ve girls when it began,” Jessica says. “I’ve had about a thousand girls go through my program now.” She also started the state’s only post-collegiate program, Arizona Storm. While a knee injury last March stopped her from playing on the team, her coaching career is just getting started. In 2010, US Lacrosse honored Jessica with the Excellence in Growing the Game award. To her, it’s not just an award. It’s a whole new challenge.

with a Thanksgiving letter. She is made the move. Our class presi- with Carolyn Cannady Evans ’49. 1938 well and looks forward to spending dent, Louise Smith Barry’s new ad- We’ve enjoyed going to SBC func- Frances Bailey Brooke time in Ariz. in winter. I love hearing dress is: 242 Peconic Landing, tions together. 405 Jackson Ave. from Ann Hauslein Potterfield and 1500 Brecknock Rd., Greenport, Anita Lippitt Clay sent a delightful Lexington, VA 24450 Tom at Christmas, and from Betty NY 11944. The other is Catherine article about the “Savanna Cra- Blackmer Childs and Mackall, and “Tee” Tift Porter now at 3747 bettes,” which she and two other other SBC friends, including the Peachtree Rd. NE, Apt. 1215, At- friends started more than 21 years 1942 children of my roommate, Grace lanta, GA 30319. Betty Williams ago. The article explains that Bugg Muller Thym. I celebrated my Gookin and Richard arranged a “they’re part musical group, part Ann Morrison Reams 91st birthday in Jan. while visiting wonderful class mini-reunion in novelty act, part social group.” They 771 Bon Air Circle my good friend at her home at Boca Richmond last Oct. Peggy Gordon play for birthdays, parties, nursing Lynchburg, VA 24503 Brande. Sadly we’ve lost class- Seiler and Bob were there as well homes, grand openings, gradua- [email protected] mates Jessamine Boyce Bowles as Louise Barry, Mariam Shanley tions and now have a standing gig Morris in Greensboro, Ginny Thayer Jacobs, Jean Blanton Stein, at the Whistle Stop restaurant in I hope that some of you will attend Boothby, and Nancy Golbarth Carlisle Morrisett Branch and my- downtown Savannah. Anita, the ma- our grand 70th Reunion this spring. Glaser in Richmond. Do send news self. We were privileged to have triarch of the group, plays the ac- The College will arrange accommo- or bring it with you at Reunion. Betsy Muhlenfield and her husband cordion and is referred to as “The dations for you, and I will be among Larry join us for dinner at the Jeffer- General” by her bandmates, partly those eagerly waiting to welcome son Hotel. in reference to her role with the you. I had a most wonderful visit 1944 Peggy Seiler and Bob are planning group as well as to her World War II last fall on SBC campus with Edie a trip to Savannah to attend the service in army aviation. Congratu- Brainard Walter and her daughter Alice Lancaster Buck 100th anniversary of the founding lations, Anita! Anne and husband Mike. They hap- 21085 Cardinal Pond Ter., Apt. 106 of the Girl Scouts by Peggy’s aunt, It’s always hard to report the loss pened to choose Families Weekend Ashburn, VA 20147 Juliette Gordon Low. My daughter, of more of our wonderful class- at SBC, so we had a glorious time. I [email protected] Dorsie Buck Harrison ’73, and I (Al- mates. Martha “Marty” Falk had such a good letter from Eloise ice Buck) had a great trip to San Vallery died on 1/7/12 and Anne English Davies’ daughter, Meredith Alice Lancaster Buck: We’re all Francisco last May for the wedding Guthrie Yokana on 1/4/12. We are Hadaway, reporting that Eloise is in gaining in years, but hopefully gain- of her daughter Kristin. Life is great grateful for having known them. good condition other than losing her ing in grace too. Many of us have here at Ashby Ponds in northern eyesight. I always look forward to transitioned to retirement communi- Va., and I’ve become good friends hearing from Bobbie Engh Croft ties, but two more have recently

37 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU on Fla.’s Redneck Riviera. Home in mid- that time, I faithfully wrote to my mother 1945 March to enjoy springtime in the moun- in Claremont (east of Los Angeles) on More classnotes online Dale Sayler Morgan tains of Va. Yellowstone stationery. I returned home sbc.edu/magazine 486A Beaulieu Ave. Susan Taylor Hubbard: We had a gather- in late Aug. Fast forward to 2003 to ing on Sweet Briar Day here in Norfolk, columns in the San Francisco Chronicle Savannah, GA 31406 Joanne Holbrook Patton attended the [email protected] which was successful. I was the only written by a naturalist living in Yellow- member from ’51, but had a number of stone. I wrote to him about the article Jan. SBC brunch in her area, where she friends from other classes. There were and told him of my summer in 1948. I saw Betsy Wilder Cady and Jane Russo Julie Mills Jacobsen many prospective students and their sent him copies of the letters to my Sheehan. Betsy is off to Spain in May, 4416 Edmunds St. NW parents, as well as current students. mother. He was delighted to read about but Jane, I hope, will join us at Reunion. Washington, DC 20007 Anne Sinsheimer: It was such fun being how the park had changed and about Recently, Joanne had lunch in N.Y.C. [email protected] with you and Dick at Reunion. In Sept., I my experiences. He asked for copies for with Sue Bassewitz Mentzinger and went to Ireland, which is beautiful. the archives. Dick and I went to Yellow- Ginger Dreyfus Karren. Ginger, happily Mary Haskins King Sue Lockley Glad: I’m settling into my stone for a week in July 2005. By then, remarried, runs a bed and breakfast 501 Kimberly Dr. new quarters in Bend, Ore., and learn- Jerry and his wife had moved to Wash., service in N.Y. Greensboro, NC 27408 ing to be a widow, which isn’t easy as but he kindly introduced us to people Harriet “Binji” Thayer Elder still sees many of you know. Taking Tai Chi, doing there. Now, fast forward to Jan. 2012. I clients, exercises, hikes and goes danc- a lot of walking along the Deschutes received a letter from the Yellowstone ing each week. She also reported: “My 1946 River. Archivist asking me for the originals. I house was flooded in the Nashville Mary Vandeventer Saunders Carolyn Sample Abshire: Sorry to learn sent them off by Certified Mail, and now flood and had to be gutted with most all belongings ruined. Besides the trauma, 955 Harpersville Rd. of Anna Leslie Coolidge Richardson’s I am awaiting the contract to sign. I what stands out in my mind is the Newport News, VA 23601 death. She was a grand, thoughtful and have been told that these letters are upbeat roommate, and we were to- treasures to be included in their collec- amazing number of people who have gether in Reed and Carson. It still tion as there is nothing like them, as far come from as far away as N.Y. to help 1947 seems amazing that once a month (I as content and revelations of employ- all of us. With so much negativity in the world it has been so great to see how Linda McKoy Stewart think) she would load her harp on the ees’ life. train and travel to Washington, D.C., for many wonderful compassionate people 18 Osprey Ln. lessons with Sylvia Meyers, the princi- there are.” Rumson, NJ 07760 pal harpist with the National Symphony. 1952 I think that’s a good note to end on, [email protected] Then at Junior year she transferred to Patricia Layne Winks along with the hope that I will see many SMU where she met and married Shelby 312 Arguello Blvd., Apt. 3 of you in May. 1949 Lee Richardson. I was in her wedding in San Francisco, CA 94118 Helena and visited her in Texas in the [email protected] Catherine C. Reynolds 50’s. Life’s changes: Last summer we 20 Loeffler Rd.T408 sold our house of 42 years and moved The holidays brought many greetings, 1953 Bloomfield, Ct. 06002 to the Episcopal Retirement Home, but sad reminders that some of you—or Florence Pye Apy [email protected] Goodwin House, here in Alexandria your spouses—have health issues that 67 Rivers Edge Dr. (same phone number). Our address is prevent your coming to our 60th reunion Little Silver, NJ 07739 4800 Fillmore Ave., Apt. 458, Alexan- in May. With her customary enthusiasm [email protected] 1951 dria, VA. 22311. and diligence, Joanne Holbrook Patton Patty Lynas Ford Lynne McCullough Gush: Recently, I is leading the rally to come to Reunion. Kay Amsden continues her committee 2165 West Dry Creek Road survived 5 performances of Piazzolla Marty Legge Katz and Bill will not be work, is taking writing courses and vol- Healdsburg, CA 95448 and Gershwin in Dec. I well remember joining us at Reunion. Benita Phinizy unteers wherever she feels needed. I [email protected] Anna Leslie Coolidge Richardson who Johnson received special urging from was happy to hear that Mary Lou’s post- periodically loaded her harp in a taxi Nancy Hamel Clark to make the trip. I’d cancer CT scans showed no new malig- Mary Pease Fleming: Holiday greetings and took off somewhere for a lesson. I love to see my dear roommate again. nancies. Both are enthusiastic about came from some alumnae. Barbara Birt shudder with anxiety when moving my Mary Lois Miller Carroll wrote that their living arrangement. Dow and Bill were heading to their win- harp from one room to another. since husband High has been having Nan Locke Rosa’s big 8-0 is coming up ter nest in Vero Beach, Fla., on 1/2/12. Margaret Fitzsimmons Jones: Bob and I health problems they’re considering re- as well as her wedding anniversary. Jean Duerson Bade writes from live in a retirement community 2 miles locating closer to their children. Ginger Timmons Ludwick wrote from Louisville that she’s doing aerobic from our old house. Just had our 23rd After Peggy Nelson Harding lost her Palm Desert, Calif., where she and swimming 6 days a week and still en- anniversary at 82 and 83. Together we husband Nort, she became ill, but David participated in a Social Golf Tour- joys her house and canine friend Buddy. have 8 children and 20 grandchildren, hopes for a brighter 2012. Unfortu- ney. She and David have a thespian Joan Davis Warren and Eugenia Ellis all close by. nately a partial commemoration of the grandson in Calif. as do Chet and I. Gin- Mason seem to be doing OK. Not the Angie Vaughan: Bob and I continue in life of Susanna Crist Lee was lost in the ger is getting a head start on plans to case with Ann Sheldon Campbell who our chosen paths—daily he goes down process of reprinting my last Class attend our 60th Reunion. So listen up! lives here at Westminster-Canterbury to his studio in the basement, and I go Notes. As I wrote then, I wish I had kept The reunion dates have been changed with her husband, Bill. Ann recently to my office near the kitchen. He cre- up with Susanna over the years. Her to May 31-June 2. broke her foot and is slowly healing. ates art and I do small business ac- obituary reflects a rich, rewarding life. Sug Cantey Patton is well and enjoying Rives and I had a joyous holiday with counting and taxes. Our 5 children She is survived by her husband of 60 day-to-day living, especially during foot- some of our children, starting at seem to be in “good places” at this years, 2 daughters and 4 grandchildren. ball season. Thanksgiving! My granddaughter is get- time, and we have 7 grandsons. More recently, Edith Marsh Fonda Anne Joyce Wyman sent a photo col- ting married in June. Patty Lynas Ford: To backtrack, in the passed away in Dec. 2011. Edie left be- lage of some of the places she and Jean Randolph Bruns: I lived next to summer of 1948 when I arrived home in hind 3 children, 7 grandchildren and 2 Joseph have been with no notes. I can Anna Leslie Coolidge Richardson fresh- Calif. after my first year at SBC, my great-grandchildren. Susanna and Edie, identify the Parthenon. I suspect the man year and well remember the logis- mother made arrangements for me to we miss you. camel is either from Egypt or Jordan. tics of her to-ing and fro-ing between go to Yellowstone Park (with friends) to Grace Wallace Brown and daughter They are also shown with their daughter Texas and college with a harp. This has sell salads in the cafeteria at West Catherine celebrated the 60th anniver- Anneke, their very tall son-in-law and been almost too eventful a year: my 2 Thumb. West Thumb was the smallest sary of her Junior Year in France by re- two handsome grandsons—the men all Thai-American granddaughters gradu- and least developed tourist site in the turning to France. In Nov., she joined in jackets and ties. ated from U. Fla. and from Stuart Hall in park. Our cabins had wood floors, wood her daughters for a getaway trip to the At lunch with Jeanne Duff and Patti Staunton, Va. My Thai step-grandson frames on the sides and wooden sup- mountains. Tighe Walden, I learned that Mary Lit- was naturalized as a U.S. citizen and ports for the canvas roof. There was a Jackie Razook Chamandy wrote that tlejohn Belser had become a great- married a woman from Argentina. One faucet outside that the bears fancied, she is as active as ever in real estate: grandmother. Patti had also heard from American grandson, Marine veteran of and I don’t remember where the toilets “I do my best to conceal my advanced Carol Exnicios Tucker, who is alive and Afghanistan and Iraq and now a nurse, and showers were, but certainly not age! Experience is a good marketing de- well in Fla. After spending their lives in will make me a great-grandmother in next door! We had a wood stove, which vice, but 32 years is a bit more experi- Va., Ted and Dale Hutter Harris have March. My Thai daughter-in-law died of had to be lit at 5:30 a.m. At 7800 ft, ence than one needs in one’s resume!” moved to Durham, N.C. liver cancer in May in Thailand, where it the nights were not balmy. We had to be Nancy Morrow Lovell has been creating I received word from Sallie Gayle is endemic from exposure to Hepatitis at the cafeteria at 6:30 a.m., eat and digital scrapbooks for friends to com- Beck’s daughter Gayle that Sallie died B. My daughter’s daughter, a N.Y. prepare for the Dudes (tourists) to come memorate celebratory occasions. on 11/20/12 in Merida, Mexico, where lawyer, is taking off for South Africa and to breakfast. We were on duty for 3 (Come to Reunion, Nancy, and bring she and Doug spent the last years of projects there. I’m once again wintering meals a day, 1 day off a week. During your camera!) She has also traveled to their lives. Her ashes were mixed with Las Vegas and Fla.

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 38 Doug’s and spread at a nearby Mayan Please send me an email with what high school. They live 30 min. from us, Drive Birmingham, AL 35213. Surprising ruin. you’re doing. I see Shirley Poulson so we see them often. About 2 years to have 2 grands in college and one It’s not too soon to mark our 2013 Re- Broyles on Facebook sometimes. Is ago, Brian and his family moved to heading there next year and then more union dates on your calendar. anyone else on there? It’s a great way Chapel Hill. With less than a 5 hour to come! to keep up. drive, we visit them frequently, too. Honey Addington Passano: (Baltimore, 1954 Amanda McThenia Iodice: (Rochester Md.) We moved from Lanvale Street into Hills, Mich.) I volunteer as a writer and a handsome retirement edifice. Our new Bruce Watts Krucke 1955 layout person for the local senior news- address and phone: 1055 West Joppa 7352 Toogoodoo Rd. Emily Hunter Slingluff paper, “Vintage View.” Don is teaching Road, Apt.727, Towson, MD 21204. Yonges Island, SC 1217 North Bay Shore Dr. French. Our grandson (12) qualified for Bexie faxon Knowles: (Naples, Fla.) We 29449[email protected] Virginia Beach, VA 23451 the International karate tournament in will be lunching with Betty Byrne and [email protected] Cadiz, Spain, last fall. I’m hoping to run Hudnall soon in Fla. We may see Jane Caroline “Kobo” Chobot Garner and away to Cleveland for a brief visit with Feltus Welch when she comes to Tom celebrated their 50th anniversary. Emmy Coxe Winburne: (Savannah, Ga.) Fritz Merriman Naylor if weather per- Naples. I’m busy doing various things at They still live at Alexian Village in Chat- mits. church, teaching ESL, and playing ten- tanooga, but Tom is in the health unit Taking a sculpting class, French classes and pilates. Going to Paris with daugh- Elise Wachenfeld Depapp: (Pittsford, nis. We continue to enjoy endless sum- due to his Parkinson’s. Kobo’s son, N.Y.) I keep busy with my horse and mer—Fla. in the winter, Maine in the now Lt. Col. Gailor Garner, is back from ter Emily and granddaughter Emily Wood in April. dog, and with “Senior Ed.” at the OS- summer. his 4th tour in Iraq and lives in Lynch- HER Institute. Taking 2 courses right Mary Boyd Murray Trussell: (Columbus, burg. He and Tara have 2 youngsters Jane Feltus Welch: (Louisville, Ky.) I visit N.Y.C. regularly to see friends and now, one on Ancient Rome. I’m also in- Ga.) George and I are doing well, spend- too, Thomas and Clara. Kobo also has volved with the Hearing Loss Assoc. of ing a lot of time at the condo in Panama grandchildren Parker and Caroline. shows. My present gentleman caller is a Louisvillian. In Jan., we went to Costa America. My children are in Philadel- City Beach. We had 2 wonderful trips to Sally Gammon Plummer took several phia, Boston, and Dallas. I had a won- the Bahamas last year with friends from trips with her birding group—South Fla., Rica with Camille Williams Yow and her friends from Atlanta where we ziplined derful trip to Ireland this past fall with Winterpark. I’m enjoying a ministry to Palm Springs, N.M. and Bosque del Erika, my veterinary daughter. I keep in the homeless at our Prayer Breakfast at Apache. Sally volunteers weekly with the in a rain forest (terrifying!). We also went to Aruba where we snorkeled (I got touch with Ruth Campbell VanDerpoel, Trinity Episcopal Church. natural history museum. Nancy and who lives in N.J. Meta Space Moore: (Charleston, S.C.) George bicycled over 5000 miles in sea sick.) When I acted my age—lying on the beach reading and floating Ruth Campbell Vanderpoel: (Morris- Three children: Margaret, husband and 2011. town, N.J.) I love the townhouse where I 2 children; Susan, husband and 6 chil- Hattie Hughes Stone and Dick went to around in the Caribbean—I had a glori- ous time. We’re going to Naples, Fla., in moved in early 1998. Am not playing dren; and my son lives here with wife Jerusalem, sailing on the Sea of tennis anymore, but have taken up wa- and 3 children. I’m very involved in the Galilee, Capernaum, Tiberius, Nazareth, Feb. Camille Williams Yow: (Atlanta, Ga.) In ter exercise at the local YMCA. Stephen Ministry and the Garden Club, and Bethlehem with a church group. In Anne Kilby Gilhuly: (Cos Cob, Conn.) My sports, and travelling each year to dif- Oct., they spent 3 weeks in Portugal. Jan., Jane Feltus Welch and I were part of a house party to Las Catalinas in hospital in Africa, Edna’s Maternity Hos- ferent parts of the world. Their son Rick developed an automobile pital in Somaliland, is thriving. They’ve Catherine Cage Bruns: (Houston, Tex.) I control system for the Los Angeles Air- Costa Rica. I volunteer with the Atlanta Symphony and The Forward Arts Foun- brought down the maternity mortality had a fainting accident in June and am port. Hattie’s daughter Kath is at the rate by 70 percent. I can’t do it all my- left with left hand nerve damage. My Church Center for the UN. Hattie’s son dation, which runs 3 businesses and contributes money to the visual arts. self anymore, so I’m letting go of the sister, Chaille, died in 2010 leaving me Jim installed solar and geothermal sys- bookkeeping and correspondence. I still as the oldest in the family. She was my tems in his home. Her other son Chris Betty Sanford Molster: (Richmond, Va.) Chuck and I are still happy in Rich- give courses for Greenwich Continuing best friend and confidant, so it has fell while climbing, resulting in a Ed on Greek history and literature and a been hard to adjust. My son is in Minn. cracked vertebra and damaged ankle, mond—our 59th anniversary coming up soon. Our 4 children, spouses and 14 couple of lectures a year on Shake- I long for the peacefulness and good but is recovering. speare. Bob is still practicing law full times and friends of Sweet Briar. Jerry Dreisbach Ludeke went to her grandchildren are a great blessing. The grandchildren are ages 5 to 26. time. We have visited our children and Betty Byrne Ware: (Richmond, Va.) Hud- granddaughter’s wedding in Costa Rica grandchildren, and most recently, Rome. nall and I are in Naples for 3 months among others. Her son Kevin and his Bar Plamp Hunt: (Santa Rosa, Calif.) We think moving to Varenna in Santa Next up: Dalmatia in May. and will see Jane Feltus Welch when wife are doing State Dept. training in Kay Robers McHaney: (Victoria, Texas) she visits Naples in Feb. and Bexie Korea. Jerry still is active in a number Rosa, Calif., was the smartest move we’ve ever made. George is still work- I’m still involved with our family daily Faxon Knowles, who lives here most of of things: Pioneer Day in Paso Robles, newspaper. I do love to travel and Jim the year. Also we see Jane Slack Sigloh Camp Mather, the Dan Reid Memorial ing, here and there around Sonoma County, either on Sundays only or, these and I enjoyed a great trip to South Africa ’56 and Mary Mead Utt who is Helen Bagpipe Competition, church work, and last year. When here in Victoria, it’s not Mac’s niece. Mary was at Sweet Briar directing the Bakersfield College last few years, being the “Interim Priest- in-Charge” of churches. dull since 3 of our 4 children live here for just a semester. Archives. As if that weren’t enough, she and 9 of our 12 grandchildren are here. Retta Jelks Vance: (Bristol, Tenn.) Allen also went to Ireland for 10 days and Lydia Plamp Mower: (St. Louis, Mo.) Since I’ve recovered from my surgery a Fourth child with his family of 3 children and I have moved back to Bristol from then a month in South Africa with a lives in Austin. Savannah to be near family. We have a friend she hadn’t seen in 50 years. year ago, I’ve been traveling again—off to Santa Rosa (Calif.) for a week with Didi Stoddard: (Carlisle, Mass.) I’m daughter here with her husband and 2 Jean “Sissy” Morris Long has published headed to the warmth of Turks and teenage boys, and daughter nearby in a book, Finding Kate. It’s the story of Bar and George. Visited son George and his wife Betsy in Atlanta. My daughter, Caicos with my partner, daughter, son- Kingsport, Tenn., with husband and her grandmother leaving Va. and coming in-law and their son (2 ½) whom we call daughter, and one daughter in Charlotte to Ark. to teach school in the late 18th Lauren and her family moved to Virginia Beach. I’m still in my own house. My His Majesty Sir Tyler. We took them last with husband and daughter. We saw century. Amazon has only 15 copies year to St. John and had a wonderful Dede and her family this summer and left! good friend Gene Smith is in a lovely re- tirement home. I plan to visit family in time. will see her next month on a trip to Sa- I got a nice note from Cynthia Sinclair Petsy Cautier Mezey: (Carol Gables, vannah. So sad. Had a nice phone visit Rutherford’s husband Bill. He’s been London in June. Georgia Knoblock Smith: (Tequesta, Fla.) Cliff had multiple surgeries follow- with Meta recently. caring for Cindy who has had ing a 2nd knee replacement, so no Dede Harrison Austin: (Savannah, Ga.) Alzheimer’s disease since 2002, but Fla.) Phil and I keep busy with church, reading, golf, and bridge. We live full more big travel. We do go to northwest- As many know, in May, Dede and Larry she’ll be going to live in a nice nursing ern N.C. for the summer months and were driving from their house in Savan- home soon. Very sad. time on the east coast of Fla., and look forward to children’s and grands’ visits. that’s a great break from the Fla. heat. nah to their house in the N.C. moun- Ann Thomas Donohoe and Tom have We’re active with 13 grandchildren scat- tains when a van went through a stop been besieged with workmen repairing Our 2nd grandson will be married in May, and there will be a grand family re- tered around the country, most of whom sign and ran into their car. Dede’s the damage caused by a huge old tree get here at least once a year. spinal cord was broken and she is para- falling on the house at Thanksgiving. union. Mitzi Streit Halla: (Vienna, Va.) Roman Phyllis Herndon Brissenden: (Spring- lyzed and in a wheelchair. Her story and I don’t think I told you that I went to field, Ill.) I have a Westie and a Cairn, photos are on caringbridge.org. I know China on a Sweet Briar sponsored trip is now retired while I continue with my travel clients. Last fall I enjoyed my both rescue dogs. Have had hip prob- we all send special love to her, a dear in Oct. It was fabulous! This year has lems, so am not doing my bird watching Sweet Briar friend. started out well with me visiting an old 14th trip to Australia and my 6th trip to New Zealand. Our sons Kenneth (48) trips, but still listen to opera and travel. Ethel Green Banta: (Natchez, Miss.) friend in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico for a I garden and cook and do volunteer Ethel lives in a very old historic house, week in Feb. We’re about to take a Brian (46), their wives, and 8 children joined us last Aug. for our family week work with our nature center, symphony, Hope Farm, in Natchez. It’s a bed and short trip with some old Yokohama High and historical society. breakfast. Some of us stayed there a School friends of mine to Atlanta, Mo- from Prague to Vienna. During our Prague days, we enjoyed visits with 3 Jeannette Kennedy Hancock: (Birming- few years ago and loved seeing Ethel, bile, and Pensacola. Then we have a ham, Ala.) Jimmie and I have just sold all of Natchez, and staying in Ethel’s river boat trip from Hamburg to Prague generations of Roman’s Czech cousins, ages 1 to 60. Kenneth continues as So- our home and are moving to a condo. wonderful old 4 poster beds! in the summer. Won’t you tell me about Our new address is 118 Club Village Emily Hunter Slingluff: (Virginia Beach, your trips too? cial Studies Chair at his Alexandria, Va.,

39 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU Va.) I still live on Linkhorn Bay. Son is at Westview Cemetery. They have a daugh- She is active in her church, served on the UVa as surgeon and cancer re- ter who graduated from SBC and 2 many community boards and enjoys More classnotes online searcher and is married; and daughter, other children. All are married and there travel. sbc.edu/magazine her husband, and 2 of their daughters are 6 grandchildren. Karen Steinhardt Kirkbride is married live 16 houses from me. I travel around Barbara Darnall Clinton is married to to Dick, retired from the Dept. of De- pretty much, and also write and play Daniel, a retired civil engineer. They en- fense. She has a master’s degree in none of our classmates pass through bridge and see many friends. “We’re the joy traveling and spending time with philosophy from Georgetown U. and re- Cambridge, Mass. for one reason or an- tops, We’re the greatest!” (For all read- their 2 children and 5 grandchildren. ceived from Harvard U. a degree in The other? Cannot anybody dare to answer ing this who are not class of ’55, that Her primary interest outside of her fam- Senior Officials for National Security a standing invitation to stay for a brief was our class song and we just might ily is singing in her church choir and in a Program. She served as the U.S. Inter- sojourn? I’m a bisected person as far really think it!) semi-professional musical chorus. national Representative for Data Repre- as where I want to be: went home to Ar- Louisa Hunt Coker and Mac live in a re- sentation, also for the American Na- gentina to visit our farm and friends. It tirement community, but she remains tional Standards Institute. She has 3 was glorious, but I love North America, 1956 very active in her garden club, bridge sons and a new granddaughter. She is a east coast also. Mary Harrison Cooke “Cookie” Carle: Frances Shannonhouse club and book club. She has 3 children real estate referral specialist and an as- and 7 grandchildren. piring novelist. Rehabbing my left knee replacement— Clardy Leona Chang Crozier and husband Al Janet Monroe Marshall lives in very slow. Taking trip to South Africa, 1700 Queens Rd. W live in Novato, Calif., where he is with Clarksville, Md. She is a hospital/edu- March 17 until after Easter…Daughter Charlotte, NC 28207 the Chevron Corporation. They cele- cation administrator. She has a degree Rebecca (SBC ’93) in D.C., working for [email protected] brated 50 years of marriage in 2009. in sociology from Albright U. and also an anti-tobacco foundation and doing a They have 3 children and 5 grandchil- studied at Temple and U. of Md. Her massage certification training. Still Nancy Salisbury Spencer dren. She received a master’s degree husband, Henry, is a retired auto dealer hope to get to Dalmatian Coast, Portu- 2580 Club Park Rd. from Cornell U. Leona is very active in and they enjoy working on their farm. gal, Spain and Tibet-Bhutan-Nepal…oy Winston-Salem, NC 27104 her church. She has 3 children and 2 grandchildren. vey! [email protected] Mary Alice Major Duncan received a When the class of ’56 was asked what Alice Cary Farmer Brown: We’re visiting B.S. degree with honors from Purdue U. they enjoyed most about their Sweet India for 3 weeks. I know I will faint First, some sad news. Nancy St. Clair She is married to William Graham Dun- Briar years, it was the life-long friend- when I see the Taj Mahal, a longtime Talley died in Dec. 2011. Nancy was can, a retired farmer and aviation busi- ships they made, small classes with dream. I want to wish HAPPY BIRTHDAY one of our outstanding Richmond stu- ness owner. She is an extremely active stimulating professors, and the pleas- to those of us who are turning 75 this dents. She is survived by her 4 sons, member of the Presbyterian Church, ure they received living on the beautiful year. Aren’t we fortunate to be alive! their wives and children. Louise Barry having served as deacon, elder, Clerk of campus. We want to close by thanking Penny Fisher Dunklee: All John’s and Bennett Gibbs died in Jan. 2012. She Session, and Moderator of Presbyterian Mary Ann Hicklin Willingham and Joan my parts work pretty well. We laugh a is survived by her husband, son, daugh- Women. The Duncans have 3 children Broman Wright for their outstanding lot and I clean house hardly ever. Love ter, and several grandchildren. Anne and 4 grandchildren. service as our class presidents and and laughs. Coleman Hooper Stavrolakes died in Ellen “Brucie” Bordley Gibbs spent 32 Meredith Smythe Grider and “Macie” Susan Hight Rountree: I decided to “re- Aug. 2011. She was the widow of a fel- years running the lower school office at Clay Nichols for their diligent service as tire” from teaching my annual study pro- low writer, Aristedes Stavrolakes. Her Bryn Mawr School and is now retired. our class secretaries. New officers are gram for miniaturists at Colonial daughter, Rena, would like to hear from Meredith Smythe Grider has been a president, Karen Steinhardt Kirkbride, Williamsburg. This spring will be busy anyone who remembers her mother and widow for 11 years, but has a small gift and class secretaries, Nancy Salisbury getting ready for Garden Week in Va., could share stories with her. Contact shop in Mich. that keeps her busy for Spencer and Frances Shannonhouse and we also have the annual meeting Rena at [email protected]. We the 6 months she spends there. She Clardy. for the Garden Club of Va. here. Joe and send our condolences to the families of has 3 daughters and 4 grandchildren. I are once again going up to N.H. May- these classmates. Lottie Lou Lipscomb Guttry lives in Oct. to a place we have up there. We ex- Nancie Howe Entenmann Roberts has Longview Texas, a college instructor at 1957 tend the invitation to anyone who’s in the area! recently sent the following message: Kilgore College, the U. of Texas at Tyler, Carol McMurtry Fowler “Jim Roberts and I were married at St. Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb: The high- and the owner/director of Sylvan Learn- 10 Woodstone Sq. Mark’s Episcopal Church, where my light of 2011 for the Lipscombs was a ing Center. She received a master’s Austin, TX 78703 grandfather was the First Senior War- gathering of our entire family at our from Stephen Austin State U., and an [email protected] den, thus involving building and the mis- Ed. D—Texas A&M. She and John, a re- Bath County cabin in June for an early sion of this Gothic Perpendicular tired dentist, returned from Egypt 4 celebration of Lloyd’s 75th birthday. Church. The architect was Cram, same days before the protests started. She 1958 With the family spread from Santa Fe, as SBC!” has survived 3 bouts of cancer. She N.M. to Greenville, S.C. to Greensboro, Our class celebrated its 55th Reunion has 3 children, 8 grandchildren, and 2 Jane Shipman Kuntz N.C. and Lynchburg, the opportunities 4015 Orchard View Pl., No. 1 in May 2011. The following gathered for great-grandchildren. to be together are all too rare. Lloyd and Powell, OH 43065 all or part of the weekend: Frances Mary Katherine Koonz Gynn lives in I continue to enjoy life at Westminster [email protected] Shannonhouse Clardy, Louisa Hunt Fort Wayne, Ind. She received a B.S. Canterbury. If any of you are returning to Coker and Mac, Lou Galleher Coldwell, from Purdue U., is a widow and a campus for special events, please let Nancie Howe Entenmann Roberts, farmer. She has 2 children and 3 grand- 1959 me know. It would be wonderful to see Kitty Harrison, Iris Potteiger Hinchman, children. “Still farming my own fields you. Rose Montgomery Johston, Karen with my own equipment—Love it!” Ali Wood Thompson Jini Jones Vail: The last 6 months have Steinhardt Kirkbride and Dick, Helen Katherine “Kitty” Harrison lives in 89 Pukolu Way been a rush for me with the fine recep- Turner Murphy and Tayloe, Mimi Thorn- Chapel Hill where she retired as the Wailea, HI 96753 tion of my book: “Rochambeau, Wash- ton Oppenhimer, Ann Train Ross and UNC-CH women’s tennis coach. She re- [email protected] ington’s Ideal Lieutenant.” The Sweet John, Jane Slack Sigloh, Nancy Salis- ceived a B.A. and M.A. from the U. of Briar Book Shop will be carrying it in a bury Spencer and Jim, Jane Street Texas at Austin. She has worked on her Many thanks to those who wrote in. I’d few days. In my wildest dreams, I never Steele and Henry, Mary Ann Hicklin doctorate in classics at UNC-CH. She love to hear from more of you the next even thought I would have a book of my Willingham, and Joan Broman Wright enjoys walking, traveling, and clubs like time for news. own in those hallowed halls. and Jim. the Colonial Dames and the University Passings: Caroline Green, 2011. Mary Virginia MacKethan Kitchin: I’m sure We missed all of you, but appreciated Women’s Club. Picton “Pic” or “Pickie” Payne Hester, others have written you about Pickie the answers from the questionnaires Denny Dolan Henkel received a B.A. 1/9/12, and Alvin Ziegler, husband of Payne Hestor’s funeral at St. Stephens you sent in. This edition of the notes from the U. of Denver. Denny and her Isa Mary Lowe Ziegler, Feb. 2011. Episcopal Church in Richmond, where will include information for about half of husband, Steve, were co-owners of the Erna Arnold Westwig: Not a lot of news there were a host of classmates.The our classmates, and the remaining half Campbell Co. and live on Mercer Island from Corning, N.Y. We’re just back from other sad death is of Isa Mary Lowe will be published in the next edition. in Seattle. “Steve has been the love of a ski weekend with the whole family. In Ziegler’s husband, Alvin. It was quite Ann Greer Adams, now a widow, lives in my life of over 55 years.” They have 4 mid-Feb. we’ll head for warmer climates sudden, and the funeral was Feb. 9. Mobile, Ala. She married her high children and 6 grandchildren. until April. Then we can put our sailboat They have been living these many years school sweetheart, enjoys bridge, volun- Rose Montgomery Johnston lives in in the water on Cayuga Lake. After that in Orinda, Calif., and their 3 children all teering at the High Museum, and was Memphis, Tenn. She has a private prac- I’ll look forward to the annual gathering live in the area. president of the Junior League of At- tice as a psychotherapist and received of the intrepid 6-some of Jini, Sandy, Ginny Marchant Noyes: I celebrated lanta. Ann enjoys her 8 grandchildren. her Ph.D. from the U. of Memphis. Her Mary, Polly, Sarah Jane and myself. We Christmas in Berlin with all my kids, and Laura Hailey Bowen graduated from husband, Tom, an attorney, died in have had a reunion of us Sweet Briar leave next week for India where I’ll view Emory U. after 2 years at Sweet Briar. 2006 after 50 years of marriage. Rose gals faithfully for almost 20 years now! Rajasthan palaces and gardens (a sub- She is married to Charles, President of has 4 daughters and 13 grandchildren. Caroline Blake Whitney: First of all, do ject on which I have lectured widely).

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41 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU Colby Stinnette with mother MJ Stinnette ‘16

Sally Lauck Harris and aunt Grayson Harris Lane ’83

Heather Bradley and sister Amanda Bradley Spivey ‘09

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 42 Will be in Hong Kong (where we lived our book group; we were all pulling for Kaufman ’03 and Jan Jennings Need the corner from me for years. Travel con- and worked and to which I have not re- her through the horrendous treatments. ’05, both young mothers. They came to sists of 3 or 4 months in Venice, Fla., at turned since Tom died) to and fro...I’ll I continue to be grateful for our health my Dec. 2010 Indianapolis area alum- my place there, and monthly visits to throw kisses over Hawaii! and avidly follow the activities of our 6 nae luncheon. Frank and I moved last Long Island to see my daughter’s family Nita Mixon Cox: Jim and I are retired, grandchildren. fall to a new home. Address: 343 Mill- (3 grandsons, 2 dogs, 1 cat and 1 hus- having taught about 29 years each at Kathy Tyler Sheldon: I was to receive ridge Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46290. band!) the U. of Louisiana. Moved to Georgia to once again a Christmas parcel from the New phone number: 317-564-4470. Nancy Corson Gibbes (Columbia, S.C.): take care of my parents, and now are ’59 Book Club in Richmond. They sent Rebecca Towill McNair (Charlotte, Had a marvelous trip with my art mu- engaged in volunteer work and “grand- one last year with many small goodies N.C.): Daughter Harriet reported on her seum curator to Rome and Florence. children watching.” I was saddened to and it certainly made my bleak, cold wonderful 25th SBC Reunion. With 7 Had a great, if brief, visit with Teddy and learn of the death of my dear friend Jan. The beautiful gold butterfly sent by granddaughters, I’m hoping we can con- Liz in New Orleans in Feb., and in July Ruthie Weaver and her husband McRae Pickie Payne reminds me each day of tinue the trend. I keep in touch with headed out to see Jane Yerkes in Seat- Williams. her. classmates, most recently Susan Hen- tle for a week’s playtime. Meanwhile, I Marcia Payne Grant: New email ad- Dede Ulf Mayer: Six years ago I moved dricks Slayman and Jean Morris still play tennis and follow art shows all dress: [email protected]. to Richmond, Va. and am so thankful Stevenson, both of whom still travel a over town. Ann Pegram Howington: My Char- that I did. My 2 sons and their wives lot. Susan was off to Europe. Jean was Jane Milholland Yerkes (Seattle Wash.): lottesville bookseller son Byron Harris is and my 4 grandchildren all live here, as fulfilling her responsibility on a Texas We are taking Nancy Gibbes to Mazama closing down Splintered Light, his theol- well as wonderful friends, especially the jury among other ventures. (a country retreat in eastern Wash.) for ogy book emporium. I see that Betsy SBC Book Club members (Tricia Ware, Melinda Moore Sweet Held (Sharon, a few days—thought it would be fun for Brawner Pittman is signed up for Living Mary Blair Valentine, Betsy Seaman, Conn.): My main contact for the class of her to see the REAL west. Room Learning this year (19th-century Cay Weimer, Tabb Farinholt, Sorrel ’60 is Katie Mendelson McDonald. Elizabeth Meade Howard (Char- French fiction), goody! McElroy, and Mary Ballou Williams.) Both of us left school in 1958, me to lottesville, Va.): Just back from a week Cay Ramey Wiemer: All of the class of We all miss Pickie. Two weeks ago I in- marry the wrong man from UVa Law at Chautauqua and will fly to Ireland ’59 Sweet Briar Book Club were dis- advertently sat next to Betsy Muhlenfeld School (corrected many years later with with a friend in fall. Pleased to have a tressed by the death of Mary Picton at a lecture and was so surprised. She Dr. Right), and she to go back to her recent essay in Virginia Living on the Payne Hester on Jan. 9 after a brave is also a Richmond resident. N.Y. roots, flourish and marry Jack. I am quandaries of divesting family ‘stuff.’” struggle with colon cancer. She leaves a Judy Welton Sargent: All is well in retired from a 30-year law practice in Ann Weingart Teig (Oslo, Norway): I am spot that cannot be filled. Betsy Colwill Austin. My grandson (4) and I are taking N.Y.C. Involved in affordable housing, well and active, enough to invite my Weigers and her husband George, Vir- a weekly music class at the Austin land trust work and 24/7 with my hus- grandson (15) to N.Y.C. for a week—I ginia MacKethan Kitchen, Courtney School of Music. It’s so much fun to band. wore him out! We spend summers at Gibson Pelley and her husband Herb, have him to myself for part of the day. Ginger Newman Blanchard (Green Vil- our cabin by the Oslofjord. Susan Taylor were among the many peo- In Nov., I was in N.Y.C. for a week and lage, N.J.): I’m in charge of a regional Lucy Martin Gianino (New York, N.Y.): ple there for her memorial service and had a wonderful evening with Di meeting for the National Society of Colo- Our daughter and grandchildren spend to support each other. Doscher Spurdle. My hopes for 2012: a nial Dames this fall. Bob and I had a the summer with us while her husband, Debbie Von Reischach Snyder: Don and great job for daughter Susan, good nice visit with Dotsie Woods and her son of Lura Coleman Wampler, travels I were in Boothbay from the beginning of health for all, and the sale of my home husband at a Dames meeting in back and forth on weekends. Lura and June thru Oct. 1 with lots of sailing and in Wilmington. Natchez, Miss. husband Fred were just here for a 3-day golf. We were married in Maine, July 2. Ali Wood Thompson: Travis has taken Patricia Russell Howard (Toronto, On- visit. Our son, an actor, is about to Don’s grandson (19) was his Best Man up the ukulele, so we spend 2 nights a tario) continues her new full-time career leave for LA for 10 weeks to do a new and my granddaughter (12) was my week at 2 different ukulele functions. of painting. You may view her work on adaptation of The Trojan Women. I’m Maid of Honor. We went back to It’s whale watching season and my first her website, www.patriciahoward.ca. still busy with acting and keeping my Williamsburg for 2 months, with a trip to cousin from Maine is staying here for 3 Lura Coleman Wampler (Wayne, Pa.): hand in Real Estate for Corcoran Group. Boston for Thanksgiving and then to weeks. My life is a mix of tending gardens and Carol Barnard Ottenberg (Seattle, N.Y.C. A beautiful Christmas in Williams- P.S. Keep me abreast of all address, horses, participating in church and gar- Wash.): I’m about to head north to Lake burg with Don’s family, and the day after phone, and email changes…remember, den club activities, and playing with our Superior and Isle Royale on a National Christmas to Boston for 3 days to ice if you want me to resend you the ad- 7 grandchildren. I’m currently a Garden Parks Conservation Assn. tour, learning skate at the Boston Common and to dress list, just drop me an email: travis- Club of America horticulture judge, and about the fur trade, Ojibwe native cul- help my grandchildren (4, 6, and 7) on [email protected]. also apprenticing as a photography ture, and moose/wolf wildlife studies. the baby ski slope. Now have 12 grand- judge. The Adirondacks and Maine, permanent children between us. Carolyn Gough Harding (Sterling, Va.): summer haunts, should seem tame af- Mary Blair Scott Valentine: There are 1960 We took a trip to Scandinavia this June, ter all that. no children here to take care of me in Carol Barnard Ottenberg visiting Copenhagen, Norway and Swe- old age. I guess I’ll go to them. Kiawah 1420 41st Ave. E den. I continue to sub in the Fairfax, Va. 1961 Island would be nice and Delray Beach Seattle, WA 98112 Adult English as a Second Language and Charlotte, N.C. [email protected] program. Our 2 grandchildren provide us Elizabeth Hutchins Sharland Polly Space Dunn: Going skiing in Feb. unlimited fun. 1724 Aberdeen Cr. (Vail). I hope to see Betsy Weigers in Anita Perrin Grymes (Richmond, Va.): I Ann Crowell Lemmon (Sandy Springs, Crofton, MD 21114 Vail. was married in Dec. to Richard Towell, a Georgia): We have just returned from [email protected] Susan Taylor Montague: Pic Payne Hes- former colleague at Collegiate where we the beach at Isle of Palms, S.C., where ter died Jan. 9. You might not remember taught. We enjoy traveling, visiting mu- Phyz and I celebrated our 50th wedding 1962 her because she got married after fresh- seums, hiking and kayaking. anniversary with our 2 children, their man year, but she did attend some Jane Ellis Covington (Richmond, Va.): spouses, and 5 grandchildren. Parry Ellice Adam class reunions. Sweet Briar was well I’m reeling from the success of a Pi- Liz Few Penfield (Carbondale, Colo.): 33 Pleasant Run Rd. represented at her funeral. I went, casso exhibit at the Va. Museum! Red Teddy and I seem to be traveling a good Flemington, NJ 08822 Courtney Pelley went, Betsy Colwill Dog and I are spending much time at deal, yo-yoing between New Orleans and 908-782-3754 Wiegers flew in from N.Y.C., Virginia the newly-purchased farm between Rich- Carbondale, with a month in Kenya, a [email protected] MacKethan, Tabb Farinholt, Betsy Sea- mond and Charlottesville. couple of trips to N.Y., some time at the man, Mary Blair Valentine, Sorell Isabel Ware Burch (Williamsburg, Va.): I beach (Edisto, S.C.) and various short 1963 MacElroy, Cay Weimer, Tricia Coxe finished my job as Head of the Rector hops to places nearby like Santa Fe. Ware, Mary Ballou Williams and Dede Search Committee at Bruton Parish We’ve seen Ellen Pringle Read, Betty Jane Goodridge Ulf Mayor all attended the service. The Church. In May, 7 members of our Forsythe Harris, Elizabeth Meade 31-C Archdale St. service was lovely, and it was great see- class, Teddy Hill, Grace Suttle, Jane Howard, Grace Suttle, Anita Towell, Charleston, SC 29401 ing everyone despite the sad occasion. Covington, Anita Towell, Margot Saur Jane Covington, Isabel Burch, Margo [email protected] Tabb Thornton Farinholt: The only news Meyer, Liz Few Penfield, and I gathered Meyer, and Nancy Gibbes. We’re plan- Valerie is in the U.S. in summer and I have is about the death of our class- at Water View, a family house on the ning to get together in the fall with Paris in winter and rents her apt. She mate, with us only freshman year, Mary Rappahannock River. Jane and I are Grace, Betty, Kadri Niider and Norris has an apt. in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Pickton “Pickie” Payne; she came to thinking about our 55th Reunion and Smith in N.Y. near her youngest son and twin grand- prefer “Pic.” She left to marry Pat Hes- want everyone to be there!” Anne Rienecke Clarke (Wilton, Conn.): children Lulu and Burke (5). ter with whom she had 3 children and Jane Tatman Walker (Indianapolis, Ind.): Last May, I visited Gwen Speel Kaplan Tish Skinner Dace has been doing a lot went on to get her doctorate in psychol- We have a very small number of alum- in Richmond, Va. We had lunch with of traveling: 9 weeks in Europe in fall ogy; she had developed a respected nae here. My recent contacts have been Patti Powell Pusey and Grace Suttle. I 2010; 5 weeks on her own roaming practice in Richmond. She was a part of with 2 young alumnae, Kelly Hughes see Gwen regularly; she lived around China in spring 2011; and 2 weeks in

43 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU Egypt in fall 2011 on a tour which Margaret Millender Holmes moved to More classnotes online turned out to be just her and a guide be- Vt. 3 years ago to share the grand- 1964 cause Americans are avoiding Egypt. daugthers’ love of horses. After 45 Virginia “Ginny” deBuys sbc.edu/magazine During these trips she worked on her years without riding a friend calls her a H16 Shirley Ln. new book “Martin Sherman: Skipping “born again” rider. She is looking for- Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 Over Quicksand,” which was published ward to our 50th Reunion not only as an [email protected] Rosamond Sample Brown-Banks re- in Jan. She calls the Caribbean Island opportunity to reconnect with all of you, ports that she and husband David con- Bonaire home. but another chance to see the beautiful Nancy Lynah Hood has produced a tinue in good health splitting their time Sallie Yon Williams spent Feb. in Istan- SB campus from horseback. book, “Fisher Row and the Watery Mar- between Dallas and Fayetteville, Ark. A bul, Turkey, where her son Courtney and In neighboring Mass., Prue Gay Stuhr gins of Oxford Through Time” using old special treat last year was being in his wife Nazli live with her grandsons now has 2 Dalmatians with the addition and new photos to tell the story of the Charleston, S.C., and having lunch with Sedik and Emyr. Son Whit is well-settled of puppy “Ticket.” Prue has become area where she lives. Her travels are nu- her roommate Kathleen Stevenson in N.Y. with his new wife and grand- more active in the regional Dalmatian merous! Nancy completed the Hong Trail Turner and her husband Bill. Last April, daughter Allegra (9). Sallie spends a lot Club, enjoying photographing various path, 50k across Hong Kong Island and she was in D.C. and had lunch with of time with her grandchildren, but still club events and working on her writing looks forward to more trails next year. Grace Mary Oates. She gave her tips on manages to volunteer at the beach hos- skills for Dalmatian publications. Ed and Mary Duer Colen has had a happy year. Rome that she used in June with her pital. Prue enjoy an annual trip to Joe’s daughter was married last sum- step-granddaughter. She and David took In July, Keitt Matheson Wood and Frank Williamstown (Mass.) Theatre. She and mer. Daughters Jennifer and Ambler a 3-week trip to Spain in Sept. She’s joined Anne Carter Brothers and John Ed attend various events to watch their each gave birth to their 3rd child. She taking her sons and daughter-in-law to for a trip through the Canadian Rockies, 5 grandchildren perform and participate now has 8 grandchildren. She spends Costa Rica in April. She’ll pass the big then went to Turkey in Oct. and explored in their school activities. more and more time at the farm, al- 7-0 deep in the rainforest. Istanbul and areas associated with St. Ann Knickerbocker McCulloch has 7 though Gladwyne will continue to be our Sharon Van Cleve Cipriano: “I’m still Paul and the early Christians. Closer to grandchildren in Houston who are busy primary address. working as a jewelry designer, and my home she terms Denver and Kansas with sports. She’s able to get a horse- Svarna Wendy Wilkins enjoys 2 homes, husband and I have lived in Tubac, Ariz., City constants as they visit children and back ride in too. one in N.H. and one in Calif. She still for the past 5 years. It’s a lovely place grandchildren. Lucy Otis Anderson and David are goes to Berkeley, Calif., often and sees to live; however, it’s hot in the summer Lucetta Gardner Mannion and Ed took a grandparents to Anderson Graham Cook Carrie Peyton Walker. It’s wonderful to so we divide time between Tubac and Caribbean cruise in Jan. and stopped in (1). be best friends with her former SBC Cuenca, Ecuador. Cuenca is safe, eco- Vero Beach for a visit with Betty Stanly Rinda King deBeck wrote that she is roommate! nomical, culturally diverse and stun- Cates on their way home where they are still teaching history at UNC-Greensboro Ashton Barfield has scaled down my ningly beautiful.” involved with Meals on Wheels and the and enjoying life including her 6 grand- volunteer activities (Roosevelt Island Nancy Hall Green: “Holcombe and I are Williamson County (Tenn.) Election children. politics) to free up time for redoing her in St. Barth for 5 weeks. Like many of Board. Mary Lou Morton Seilheimer and apt., but is still the copyeditor-plus of a us, I will pass the big 70 here on the is- Mary Ann Utterback Burritt keeps busy Charles are also enjoying grandchildren biweekly newspaper. land and will try not to attach too much minding grandchildren and doing volun- who live in Charlottesville; Charles and Dottie Norris Schipper: “I visited with significance to this event. We spend a teer work with the International Order of his wife Nora have Henry (3) and Caroline Keller Theus and husband Jim lot of time in N.Y. where we have a new the King’s Daughters at the city and Parthie (2). Anne and her husband Josh this summer in Cashiers, N.C. Harriet granddaughter born to Frank and Molly state levels. In Feb. she left for Ecuador live in Geneva, Switzerland, have Julian and Charlie Shaffer also visited during Green on 11/11/11, an auspicious and the Galapagos Islands for 2 weeks. (5) and Louisa (3). She and Charlie have that time. I’m dancing about 6 hrs a date I’m told. Our other son, Holcombe, In Feb., Ginger Cates Mitchell and Ed an annual travel schedule: N.Y. in Jan. week with my partner Roy who is a na- and his wife Monica also live in N.Y. and spent 3 weeks in India, which in spite of for antiques; Fla. in Feb. to see her tional ballroom champion. He and I were have 2 girls (6 and 3). We have a new the humongous amount of people, brother and sister; New England in Aug.; contestants in Dancing with the Carolina house in France outside of St. Remy in poverty, and pollution was quite an and Geneva in fall. Stars for a local fundraiser along with a little Provençal town called St. Etienne amazing experience! Lynn Carol Blau and Jeffrey still live in 18 other couples. Many thanks to the du Gres. Would love to welcome any In June 2010, Harriet Reese Jensen West Hartford, Conn., and enjoy their classmates who supported us! Roy and SBC friends when it’s finished. You can had a visit in DK from Nerissa Vom Baur apt. in N.Y.C. Lynn is active on the I started a Teen Ballroom Dance Pro- gather that we spend little time in At- Rohrs and her husband Heinrich who board of the New Britain Museum of gram, which is free to all Greenville lanta. When there however, I try to catch were touring Scandinavia. In July she American Art and the Hartford Art Teens. The idea was based on the true up with SB friends Jane Wheeler, Susan took her granddaughter (15) to Beaver School. Like many of us they like to visit story of a successful program in the Croft, and Harriet Shaffer. We visited Dam, Wis., to visit friends for 5 days. parents, children, and grandchildren. N.Y.C. inner schools. I’m working with Emily ’65 and Zach Smith in Charlotte Then she flew to Boston and visited her Lynn’s mother is in Delray Beach, Fla., my photography when I have time. A and while there I was able to visit and Reese cousins in Martha’s Vineyard. In and her children and grandchildren are month ago, when Newt was in reminisce with Caroline Tate.” Dec. she celebrated her birthday with in Nashville and Las Vegas. Greenville, I was his local photogra- Joan Moore Biddle: “Nick and I traveled her children and looked forward to a trip Jean Meyer Aloe wrote an update: She pher.” to India and Nepal for 2 weeks in early to the Virgin Islands. had 2 back surgeries Jan. ’09; received Penny Writer Theis: “We’re now up to 6 Nov. While in Nepal we took a flight to Barby Rockefeller Bartlett (Fla.) and M.A. in Creative Writing (poetry) May grandkids (2 from each of our 3 chil- see the Himalayas up close. We’ve the John are healthy and hoping to catch up ’09; elected to Pen Women in Letters dren). They live in Charlotte, Chicago ongoing pleasure of visiting our daugh- with Betty Stanly Cates. They visited Sept. ’10; retired April ’11 to move with and upstate N.Y. We’re enjoying life in ter, Barbara, Peter, and our 2 grandchil- Gini Joachim Wade Baldwin last spring Ed to Arlington, Va., to be near one of our condo in the Cleveland area. It’s dren, Emmet and Ellie, either here in in Calif. and traveled to Venice and their daughters and her family. They large enough to hold all the kids and Temecula or at their home in Redondo Croatia in June. They have 6 grandchil- have 3 grandsons and 1 granddaughter. grandkids when they have a chance to Beach nearby.” dren, 5 boys and 1 girl! Karen Gill Meyer and Jim continue to visit. Stu and I are looking forward to Marsh Metcalf Seymour is now living in Ann Clute Obenshain is still in Ky. and work as they love their clients. They celebrating our 70th birthdays with a Calif. where she and Jack are enjoying in the midst of renovating a 35-year-old have a great partner, which allows them Viking River Cruise trip in the fall with the sparkling light (sun), the scent of house. She spent Christmas in Belgium to travel and spend long weekends in stops at Versailles, Normandy Beaches, roses, lavender and rosemary and the with both daughters; Liza still lives in Colo. during the summer. Karen is the Paris, etc.” call of the coyote. They went with The Louisville and Meg in Paris. Ann had din- Chair of the Investment Committee on JoAnn Soderquist Kramer retired at the Friends of the Freer and Sackler Gal- ner with Judy Kay Alspaugh Harrison. the SB Board. end of Sept. and says she’s figuring out leries on a curator-led trip to Korea. Lee Kucewicz Parham keeps busy as As for me, I’ve done a little wandering what to do when she grows up. “I took a As I (Ginny) go to press, I’ve just re- Regent of her local DAR and chairman during the past year. I took a cruise river cruise of The Netherlands and Bel- ceived the sad news that Sheila Carroll of a state committee. She’d like to hear from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso in Jan. gium this spring with Vesta Lee Gordon Cooprider has died from a fall caused from classmates who are also DAR 2011 and visited Turkey, Egypt, and (VM’s friend from childhood in Char- by her Parkinson’s disease. She had members to compare notes. She and some Greek islands last fall. I continue lottesville, with whom I have taken sev- just written to me about plans to travel John continue to enjoy retirement and to slog through Arabic courses at the eral trips).” to the Caribbean, Panama and Costa grandchildren Emmeline (6th grade) and College of Charleston. Vera LeCraw Carvaillo writes: “It finally Rica this Feb. and to continue her Sister Jackson (9th grade). She, Stevie happened! We’re retired and delighted. Act—an annual reunion with her sisters Fontaine Keown, and Kathy Caldwell We’re enjoying being free of the pres- in Sarasota. Her note to me was from a Patten get together often for lunch and sure of the business and having the person living her life to the fullest. She to catch up. The Keowns and the time to appreciate our many blessings. was Reverend Cooprider to the end and Parhams are planning a trip to Rich- Our children, Patricia and Jean-Philippe had no plans to fully retire. She was en- mond to visit Lucy Boyd Lemon Ed- are less than 15 min. apart, so we’ve joying her new home in Colo. and being munds this summer. easily assumed our role as grandpar- near her children and grandchildren. ents.”

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 44 Anne Litle Poulet is now retired from ery in Ore. Husband John continues in site, www.ahouseoflight.com. the Frick and is splitting her time be- the practice of medicine. Beth continues 1967 Lindsay Smith Newsom had a wonderful tween a home in the Boston area and seeing adults and couples in her psy- Diane Dalton rendezvous with Sue Morck Perrin and Paris. VM Del Greco Galgano’s news is chology practice. Once a year Beth sees 1014 N Astor St., Apt 43 Bill at their house on Pawley’s Island that she has SBC connections on her Mimi Vogt Macht. Mimi gives French Milwaukee, WI 53202 last Aug. In mid Feb., she and Mac went mind. JoAnn Soderquist Kramer and and German lessons. [email protected] to Vietnam and Cambodia. She’s look- Mollie Johnson Nelson visited after their Libba Hanger Luther and her husband ing forward to coming to our 45th in SBC board meeting and Dona Van Ars- Steve lived in Guatemala City in the mid- With sadness I report the death of Judy May. dale Jones and I are trying to arrange a 70s and Libba reminds us that Alice Keyserling in Feb. Judy worked for the Mellie Hickey Nelson and Paul are well. “meet in the middle” lunch with Grace Perry was president of her family’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, the She reminded me that her son Gunner Mary Gary Oates and Gail Rothrock meat packing company, Empacadora Washington Ballet and the Milwaukee took his first steps at our 15th Reunion! Trozzo. Old friends remain great treas- Perry, which she took charge of after Symphony before founding her public re- Anne Stuart Brown Swann keeps in ures! Let’s start a trend of connect- her father’s death during our years at lations firm, Keyserling & Assoc. I en- touch with 2 classmates who are now ing...Suggestions anyone? It just takes Sweet Briar. Alice later married Bob joyed renewing my acquaintance with part of her family, Peggy Kennedy (mar- a phone call or email and remembering Park. Her mother had recently died be- Judy when she lived in Milwaukee. ried to brother Hill Brown) and Linda to put that special date (May 30-June 1, fore our last Reunion. She is survived Carroll Randolph Barr will be on a golf Grizzard (married to cousin Wallace 2014) on the calendar. Yes, we’re turn- by her brother Jim and one nephew. Her vacation to Ireland and will miss our Tiffany, Jr.). She enjoyed seeing Genie ing 70, but we can think and feel 50 if wry little smile, laugh, dry sense of hu- 45th Reunion. She enjoyed a small Bull Ryner several months ago. Genie we all come to our 50th Reunion! As for mor, and honesty will be so missed gathering of House 3 girls in Yulee, Fla., and Steve live in Northern Va. She and me, I’m happily enjoying 4 mos. in Sara- when we gather for our 50th. Please with Shelly Gearhart Lindstrom, Jacque- Kirk are still in Bethesda, Md., in the sota, Fla. We’re expecting newly retired note in your records that Libba’s new line Stevenson Bennett, Beth Glaser same house, keeping up with their 5 Libby Kopper Scholleart and Jim for a address is [email protected]. Isaacs, Lisa Braden Moody, Margy grandchildren. Older son, Kirk III, and visit soon. (Last season, we took a day Dana Wasson Noyes Paulus wrote that Dortch Brooks, Gayle Dearborn Vance, his wife are parents to Will (6), Henry trip to Naples, where Lynn Youngs Es- she enjoyed seeing other alumnae on a and hostess, Emily Chenoweth. (4) and Charlotte (1), and James and his may gave us a delicious lunch and tour SBC trip to Sicily a few years ago and Ginny Stanley Douglas and Bill live in wife have 2 little girls, Grier (2) and El- of her favorite spot.) Earlier in the year appreciates getting news about our the same neighborhood as their daugh- yse (7 months). we went to Brevard, N.C. to see Milbrey class. ter and her family and enjoy having time Pam Ford Kelley: I continue to work as I Sebring Raney ’65 and Bev and on the Milbrey Sebring Raney has talked with with their grandchildren, Miles (7) and found I missed the connection I’d had way stopped at Sweet Briar for a night. Alice’s husband Bob several times since Genevieve (5). They’re just finishing a with beautiful fabrics after selling my Band camp was in session. We toured her death. She has both his and Alice’s major house and garden remodel and company, Rue de France. Three years the new fitness center, watched bands brother’s mail and email addresses if have traveled to England and the Baltic ago I teamed up with a friend in the U.S. marching on the athletic fields during any of you want to contact them. Re- countries and will be going to Egypt and and a wonderful Indian textile company dinner, and saw young deer cavorting in cently Milbrey sang the Rutter anthem Jordan in 2012. to produce a bed linen and pillow collec- the dell near Sweet Briar house. The of George Herbert’s “God Be in My Linda Fite: I retired from my job at the tion that we sell at the large trade show campus never sleeps! Happy 70 and, as Head” at church, and tears made it diffi- Times Herald-Record in late June of in Paris, Maison et Objet. It gives me an Dottie might say, keep dancing! cult to sing the last line, “God be at my 2011—a great 20 years. In Jan., I went added excuse to get to Paris twice a end, and at my departing.” But she with 2 of my sisters and their husbands year. Plus I’ve had the chance to learn heard Alice’s voice teasing her, “Oh, for a 10-day trip to Costa Rica. I’m rent- about a new culture and go to Delhi to 1965 come on, Mibs, you can do it!” She ing a corner of an artist friend’s studio prepare the fall line. We’ve got cus- Sally Hubbard sang it well and with a smile. and am painting again. I have 6 loving tomers in Russia, Italy, the UK and 52 Sherwood Trail Sally McCrady Hubbard retired from the grandchildren. I feel so very blessed. Japan. Sewanee, TN 37375-2166 Music Festival in Aug. primarily because Toni Naren Gates’s daughter Lindsey Pam was diagnosed with cancer of the [email protected] of increased caregiving duties at home, moved back to N.Y. from San Francisco tongue, which meant surgery and head but also geriatric resistance to adding with her son Jake. Lindsey is back to and neck radiation. That’s posed its The loss of our classmate, Alice Perry Twitter, Facebook, etc. etc. to an al- her acting career. Son, Ryan and his own set of challenges in getting back to Park, on 12/11/11, prompted in- ready busy work day, dang. Her husband family have moved to Wichita. Ryan is the new “normal” as radiation is very creased email and questions about our Charles began hemodialysis in Jan. working for his father, Bud. Ryan and his destructive, but she’s feeling fine and class numbers. There have been 20 Book club, chorale, a writers’ group, two wife, Kate, now have a son (1). Toni is her speech is fairly good—even in deaths since 1977, and 156 of us are local brothers, and grandson Duncan, very involved with the 2 museums in French. Then her husband was diag- living. Messages of sorrow and condo- who plays violin, keep her going. town. nosed with Multiple Myeloma. Thank lence were received from Laura Haskell We should all begin to think about Adele Laslie Kellman retired from her goodness it’s a slow version of this Phinizy, Gabrielle Fraser Hale, Saralyn whether we’d like to plan a group trip af- career as an actuary in 2005, and she blood cancer that seems to be main- McAfee Smith, and Stephanie Eggle- ter our 50th. Be thinking about it; and and Paul have been traveling and spend- tained by chemo in pill form. ston Harrover. Then the computer contact our class president, Brenda ing summers at their 2nd home in Great Gracey Stoddard has worked for Con- crashed; apologies for any messages Muhlinghaus Barger, or Sally with your Barrington, Mass., where they enjoy go- gresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney for the that are missing from this report. ideas. Wouldn’t it be fun! ing to Tanglewood, seeing theater and past 3 years, loves it. She’s also in- Sarah Porter Boehmler remembered dance, hiking and kayaking. Both kids volved with several committees at her how extraordinary it was for Alice to at- live in N.Y.C. with their significant oth- church and a new non-profit board, The tend reunions all the way from 1966 ers. African Dream Academy. Gracey enjoys Guatemala. Penn Willets Fullerton Victoria Baker continues to enjoy retire- opera, jazz concerts and traveling. She Melinda Musgrove Chapman expressed 124 Linden Ln. ment, teaching an occasional anthropol- will travel to China this spring and miss sorrow about Alice’s death, and says San Rafael, CA 94901 ogy course and engaging in travel and our Reunion. what keeps her going are her grandchil- [email protected] ballroom dance with partner Lee Daigle. Marion MacRae is in Alexandria, Va., dren, working out 3 times a week, and This year they spent a vacation in the where she keeps busy with volunteer her real estate job. Netherlands with Victoria’s son, and work and tennis. Her mother (92) died Susan Sudduth Hiller last summer, and she’s been busy set- Mary Ellen Freese Cota’s husband Al- 4811 Garrison Rd. also explored parts of Egypt, Turkey, tling her affairs. berto turned 80 this year. Mel and Al- Little Rock, AR 72223 Greece, and Italy. Randy Brown says that after teaching berto go almost every weekend to visit [email protected] Betsy Kurtz Argo and husband Jim live his widowed sister Rosa in San Luis de in Mich. full time, up near Charlevoix. for 44 years, she hit a “big bump” and la Paz, Guanajuato. Mel studies yoga She retired from Columbus School for had to have half of her right lung and journals in preparation for teaching and Keenan Colton Kelsey Girls about 3 years ago and never parts of several ribs removed. She ap- 101 Hawthorne Ave. doing yoga, and loves being with her looked back. They return home to preciates every day and everyone! Larkspur, CA 94939 grandchildren. Columbus once a month to check on Direxa Dick Dearie is busy teaching and [email protected] Alice Virginia Dodd wrote about the 20 Betsy’s mother (98). The 3 girls are all with her 8 grandchildren. classmates we have lost and paused to married and they’re grandparents to 4. Jill Berguido Gill: Bruce and I have been remember them. Jane W. Nelson Betsy keeps busy as a community and living in our circa-1884 Haverford home Alice Foster Ficken said she could not 407-C N Hamilton St. church volunteer. She gave up on the for almost 28 years. Bruce is still the di- imagine our 50th Reunion without en- Richmond, VA 23221 horses and the foxhunting after 30 rector and curator of the historic Harri- thusiastic and generous Alice. [email protected] years and 2 knee replacements. ton House in Bryn Mawr. My son, Tim Elizabeth Hunt’s son Hunt Allcott (31) Mary Azima Jackson (formerly Bonnie) Clement, is pursuing a master’s degree received a $3 million grant from the enjoyed singing in a cabaret in the in public health at Drexel. I’m still doing McArthur Foundation for his pollution re- N.Y.C. theater district last winter. She’ll freelance tutoring, working with children search. Beth’s daughter Elizabeth works be opening a retreat center in Costa from elementary to high school age. I for the award-winning King Estate Win- Rica. Check out her work on her web- have no plans for retirement as yet, as I

45 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU enjoy my work. I enjoy taking long walks well Jr. We had a wonderful two years tronically. I’m still working full time as a More classnotes online with my dog and spending time garden- together, but sadly he suffered a mas- paralegal for a law firm that specializes ing. I’m a lay reader and chalice bearer sive heart attack on Christmas. I con- in Municipal Finance (our clients are utl- sbc.edu/magazine at Christ Church, Philadelphia. sole myself with the thought that we ity districts). Wylie is retired and anx- Stephanie Ewalt Coleman writes that by shared two years of days in the sun to- ious for me to retire. Two of my children far the most thrilling event of 2011 was gether. are married. My youngest daughter is Miriam Meglan Washabaugh: I’m still the birth of her first grandchild! Reagan Amy Thompson McCandless travels working on her degree in fashion design. enjoying the challenge of my church job, Grace Ayers, daughter of son, Lee, and with her sons the week after Christmas My mother continues to enjoy good and I’m still studying organ. I enjoy fol- his wife, Amanda, was born in May. each year. In recent years they have health, and I try to visit her in Conn. of- lowing Kristin Herzog’s (’70) develop- Then in Oct. she and husband Ron en- gone to Costa Rica, Spain, and in 2011 ten. ment as an artist via Facebook. She’s joyed their first Mediterranean cruise, to Paris. She continues as dean of the Brooke Carol Remington Foglesong: so talented. I also enjoy a lively email which was fabulous. graduate school at the College of Our 40th Reunion in May was great. If correspondence with Susan Greenwald. Jane Stephenson Wilson: I love this Charleston. She was part of a Historical you were there, you know; if you Barbara Wuehrmann: I’m still semi-re- time of life and am head-over-heels in Studies Delegation to South Africa; and weren’t, you missed it, and we missed tired working part-time both in Mich. in love with my 3 grandsons. The twins are she led a trip to England and Wales in you. We reconnected with smiles, hugs the summer/fall and Ariz. in the win- 1 ½ and their brother is almost 4. I’m 2011. and conversations Fri. night. We burned ter/spring. Winters are spent in Green lucky to have them close. And I’m up the dance floor and showed the oth- Valley, Ariz., where I’m active in the hik- amazed to think that we left SBC 45 ers how to have a good time Sat. night. ing club and working for the United Com- years ago! 1969 And without 1971, there wouldn’t have munity Health Center. I keep taking After 30 years with Milwaukee Rep, I re- Nancy Crawford Bent been much (if any) choir for Sun. Alum- Spanish lessons. My husband, Jim tired last summer and spent 5 weeks in 14 Dopping Brook Road nae Memorial Chapel. Palazzolo, is retired. I have 2 stepsons Canada transitioning to my new life Sherborn, MA 01770-1049 Bev Van Zandt, Anne Milbank Mell and and 4 step-grandkids. James (an execu- style. I remain involved with the Rep as [email protected] I agreed to be class secretaries. We tive with a medical device company) and a volunteer serving on the Friends of the each have 1/3 of the class. Don’t forget family in Silicon Valley area of Calif. and Rep Board. And, I remain active in my your special moment photos when you Mark (OB-GYN) and family in Orlando, volunteer work with SBC. Along with 1970 submit. You can find a crop of us (about Fla. I have kept up with Betty Rau San- Jane Eastin Hager, I serve on the SBC Stuart Davenport Simrill 45) connected via FB and our Sweet tandrea ’70 in Corning, N.Y. Board of Directors. I want you all to Briar College Class of 1971 group page. Diana Zeidel: We love living in Fla. 4945 Dupont Ave. S know that SBC finances are in Jane’s Kathleen Burns Halperin: I’m so de- (summers in Del.) and had a great time Minneapolis, MN 55419 capable hands as Chair of Finance. lighted to be using my prime gift of joy last winter when Mimi Pitts Dixon and [email protected] Many of you have sent glowing com- leading Laughter Workshops. In these Caroline Tuttle Murray came to visit. ments about your years at SBC—I hope fast-paced, somewhat chaotic times, we Marilyn Kolb was supposed to come, to see you all at Reunion because I 1971 forget what a beautiful tool we have to but couldn’t at the last minute. We miss know you’ll find it’s better than ever. boost our immune systems, release her and wish she had been able to join Carol Remington Foglesong stress and help the world raise its hap- us; we were absolutely shocked by her 1750 Chippewa Trail piness frequency. Keep Laughing! death. Both Jon and I still do some part- 1968 Maitland, FL 32751 Pamolu Oldham: I loved Patzcuaro, Mex- time consulting/training work in D.C. Lynne Gardner Detmer [email protected] ico and plan to be back next year. I was The best part about it for me is the 125 Wareham’s Point able to meet many of the potters in their chance to see Mimi and Caroline. Caro- Williamsburg, VA 23185 Anne Milbank Mell homes, seeing photos of ancestors who line and I met in Richmond last Sept. [email protected] 16 Valley View Ave. had lived in the same place, making Our girls are all doing great and our 3 Summit, NJ 07901 pots. I’m back in Fayetteville, N.C., writ- grandchildren are adorable. My parents Ladies, do you remember where your en- [email protected] ing, letting go of such a busy, demand- live in Fla. near us and are doing well. velope is? Have you added to it each ing, distracting teaching schedule. So Jon stays busy playing tennis. I do some year? Our 45th Reunion is May 31- June Beverly Van Zandt life is good. Jess, her husband Dan, and volunteer work, garden and have son Will (2) are thriving in Brooklyn. 2, 2013. We have SUCH a good time to- 220 North Zapata Hwy No. 11 learned to play mah jong. Jacqueline Penny: All’s well here in Fla. gether, and so I hope that each and Laredo, TX 78043 Still teaching Adult Ed at the nearby every one of you will put it on your cal- [email protected] endars right now—in INK. The last time state college part time and giving pri- vate computer lessons to the elderly. I sent out a request for news, I had al- Andrea Bateman: I’m still lawyering. I’ve 1972 Enjoying sunny days, nice beach walks, most 50% out of date email addresses. become active through church delivering Jill Johnson my wonderful parents, dear cats and Please send me your new ones! I need food to families of homeless school chil- 2012 Wolftrap Oaks Ct lots of good books. Planning a trip to your help! And send news via email or in dren through their guidance counselors, Vienna, VA 22182 Newfoundland this summer to visit my Christmas letters. and I’m serving on the Outreach Com- [email protected] father’s new found (pun intended) rela- Suzanne Edinger Boas retired from mittee. I’m part of a writing workshop tives. CredAbility in June 2011. She was presi- and volunteering for a historic museum. Alicia Yust Rowe: Our news is our new dent of the nonprofit credit counseling Barbara Brand: My husband, Michael 1973 grandson, Rowan (1). He is number 4 and education agency for 19 years. O’Heeron, died in Aug. of pneumonia. for us and a delight. I continue to be in- Evelyn Carter Cowles Lynne Gardner Detmer (yours truly) and He had just completed 3 months of in- volved with Arts for Rural Texas near PO Box 278 Jim went on a cruise over Christmas tensive chemotherapy for recurrence of where our farm is, and we enjoy spend- Free Union, VA 22940-0278 2011. We started in Cape Town, S.A., oral cancer, which he had been battling ing weekends there when we can. ARTS [email protected] and cruised the Indian Ocean all the since 2008. So, keeping very busy has is a small nonprofit bringing the visual way to Singapore. 35 days at sea, with been my best therapy. I missed our and performing arts to children in rural Sue Dern Plank: We were in Belize for 23 ports of call. Wonderful! 40th Reunion, but will see you all at our areas. several weeks in Nov., then had friends Frances Kirven Morse: We enjoy our re- 45th. Susan Schmidt: As developmental edi- and family here for the long Thanksgiv- tirement in Calif. I’m still involved with Wendy Norton Brown: Our first grand- tor, Susu advises authors how to revise ing weekend. In Jan., I accompanied my The Art of Yoga Project, doing yoga and child was born 9/30/11! We are thrilled book manuscripts for publication, both husband to his company’s annual meet- creative arts with incarcerated teen girls to be babysitting him 4 days a week for scholarly and popular, including self-pub- ing in Savannah, Ga., and caught up in San Mateo County. a few months until he gets into day lished novels and memoirs: www.susan- with a friend there. David and I then Sally Paradise Ingber married Tom Dia- care. schmidt.net. Happy in Beaufort, on the headed to Clarksville, Tenn., to see our mont in Jan. 2011. She says, “It was a Kate Comer Diehl: Last year, I moved in coast of N.C., she rows and kayaks, gar- daughter and her husband. They’re ex- full year with time in Hawaii, and our with my pregnant daughter Genna and dens, walks dog, and does yoga. pecting our first grandchild in June. honeymoon in Paris and Greece.” Anne her husband Mark Tricarico to help out Beverly Van Zandt: All is going so well Start planning now to attend our 40th Hinshaw Vanderweil visited Sally in with the arrival of my first granddaugh- in San Miguel. Daughters, Beverly and Reunion—it’s just around the corner on June. ter. Baby Ileana Johanna Tricarico was Roberta, are doing well. Beverly is mar- May 31-June 2, 2013—no excuses for Kristin Alexandre Kuhns: I’ve just com- born 8/8/11, and I’m having the time ried and teaching school in Dallas, and not coming! pleted my 3rd book, a graphic novel, of my life taking care of her and her Roberta works in hedge funds in N.Y.C. Barb Prentiss: My oldest son John and called “Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl in the momma and pappa. My son Justin and Planning a whirlwind trip to Texas, the his wife MacKenzie are expecting their Gilded Age.” The story is being trans- his fiance Mandy also live in Petaluma, east coast, and Aspen this summer. 2nd child in Sept. My son Chris is in the lated into a script for a TV series and so every day brings more joy and chal- Working on a nonprofit in Aspen and will Coast Guard and has been stationed in has launched a whole new career for lenges. be there the longest time period. Are the Middle East since last May. Chris, me. Brooke Thomas Dold: It was so impres- there any alumnae nearby? Would love and his wife Mackenzie (yes, I have two Gina Rulon-Miller Caldwell: I married sive to see how the sad news of Gale’s to get together in Colo. daughters-in-law with the same name!), the love of my life, Robert Henry Cald- illness brought everyone together elec- will be stationed in Hawaii upon his re-

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 46 47 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU "Sweet Briar College is an experience that I carry with me every day. I would say Sweet Briar College is a laboratory for experimenting; it's an environment that welcomes you to take risks and grow and then lovingly sends you into the world to make your way. The Happy Cook is a reflection of my lifelong passion for the gourmet ‘A Writer’s Gotta Have Nerve’ experience. Our store SINCE GRADUATING FROM SWEET BRIAR FIVE YEARS AGO captures my love of with a degree in English and creative writing, Shavonne Wei-Ming Clarke ’07 travel, especially French has made quite a name for herself. Last fall, her short story “!ird Wife” was cuisine and traditions. published in the Bellevue Literary Review and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Set in Singapore, the narrative pays homage to Shavonne’s grandmother, who I'm proud that we are a was born there and %ed to the U.S. during World War II. “!ird Wife” is the strong part of the result of a novel Shavonne began to write for her senior thesis project at Sweet Charlottesville Briar. community and “!e story was an attempt to enter the mind of one of the wives — eight innovators in the are spoken of in the novel — so that I could characterize her more e#ectively if gourmet retail market." she were ever mentioned in one of the chapters,” Shavonne explained. “Of course, Reumah’s story really took on its own life once I began to write it.” Monique Moshier, '02 While the novel remains in progress, Shavonne is also working on a new Owner, The Happy Cook project — another novel and a short story that is part of it. !is summer, she is traveling to England to "nish the "rst draft of the novel, which is set about two hours south of London. “I’m interested in writing about the riots that took place there last summer, exploring the social and political climate,” she says. !e short story will be published in the next issue of Hayden’s Ferry Review. With her writing career taking o#, Shavonne hasn’t forgotten where it all started. “I think I had some idea of how to express myself in writing before I went to Sweet Briar, but I was bottled up verbally. It was the best place for me to learn how to speak — and speak up — in a classroom.” Sweet Briar’s small class sizes and the close collaboration between faculty and students proved a real advantage for Shavonne. “I wouldn’t have received the encouragement I did for my thesis at a larger school,” she said. “It was a unique, important experience, since a writer’s gotta have nerve, and my professors were nothing but supportive.” After graduating from Sweet Briar, Shavonne went to Texas A&M University for a master’s degree in English. Since fall 2010, she’s been pursuing her M.F.A. in "ction at Purdue University, where she also teaches rhetoric, composition and creative writing and co-edits the Sycamore Review. I

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 48 turn. Last Nov. I became director of in- prove. I even organized a SBC Day ager with Suntrust Bank in Richmond, formation technology for the School of luncheon with 3 other alumnae from Va. After serving on the board of 1975 Medicine at the Univ. of Washington. Ashland, Ore. I have Reunion 2013 on trustees at Sweet Briar for a number of Sarah P. Clement Jane Perry McCutchen McFadden: Our my calendar! years, Sandra is now on the board of 5028 Domain Pl. oldest son, wife and daughter have Weezie Blakeslee Gilpin has had a the Young Women’s Christian League, Alexandria, VA 22311 moved to the Charleston area with an- busy, exciting year. Christopher and his Inc. She’s also awaiting the birth of a [email protected] other granddaughter born in Sept. Such wife Allison are living in Freshwater, new nephew in March. fun to be grandparents! Aus., with first grandbaby, Tillie. Alexa Meredith Thompson Sullivan writes, Jane Knutson James: Michael is still at married Mike Janssen on 10/15 in Lu- “John and I are just back from a Feb. Johna Pierce Stephens 1703 Beard’s Creek Ct. the LA Times (as long as newspapers ray, Va. Blake and Abbey had their first cruise along the west coast of South Davidsonville, MD 21035 exist), and I’m in my 3rd semester of child, Bear, on 2/8 in Columbia, S.C. I America. The highlight of our trip was an [email protected] art classes at a local community col- hope to see Mac Cuthbert Langley, excursion to Machu Picchu. Saw Jo Ellen lege. Our children are married and live Johnny, and any of their children who Lenoir Blunk ’75 while in Houston for close. are in town while we’re there. I’ve made the holidays. After Christmas, we flew 1976 Renee Sterling: There was a wonderful the decision to move back east, proba- down to our place at The Boulders in lunch for incoming students in Dallas bly to the Boston area. We’re planning a Carefree, Ariz. We’re leaving in a couple Cissy Humphrey last Sat.; caught up with Ann Stuart cross-country adventure beginning on of weeks to return to the desert.” 5016 Les Chateaux Apt. 234 Kling, Tennesee Nielsen, Cissy May 1, up the west coast to Vancouver, Mary Witt concluded her term as presi- Dallas, TX 75235-8750 Humphrey, Beth Bates and so many Lake Louise, and through glacial Moun- dent of the UVa Medical Alumni Associa- [email protected] others. The new recruiting literature I tain Park. Bob’s college consulting busi- tion. Mary writes, “This was a particular saw was creative and so appealing! Will ness is thriving. A student from my honor for me, being the first woman in Beth Bates Locke (Dallas) left opera- try to make Reunion. school has chosen SBC for next fall! this position.” Mary, Janie Reeb Short tions for Priscilla of Boston after 3.5 Rene Conover Reed: Have been busy Can’t wait to see everyone at the Re- and Sandra Taylor had a great time at years and is now executive concierge enjoying my granddaughter, Ava (6). In union in 2013. the Bizarre Bazaar in Richmond. Mary with the local Sotheby’s affiliate, Briggs May, my son Craig will graduate from Sandie Schwartz Tropper: This past sees Liz Thomas Camp about twice a Freeman. Daughter Becky (20) is going Wake Forest Medical School. year I served as chair of The Appraisal year when work travel takes her to At- to Brookhaven College after attending U. Kathy Pretzfelder Steele: Lots happen- Foundation Advisory Council. I’ve been lanta. She is very much looking forward of North Texas. Son Chris has 3 chil- ing in our lives this year. We’re building the representative of the Am. Society of to our next Reunion. dren and is a VP of Southwest Bank a home on a lake in Mount Dora, Fla. Appraisers to the Council for 5 years. Beth Francke Lynn became a grand- Corp. in Little Rock, Ark. Son Claude and plan to relocate from N.J. this sum- This year I’m also the International mother in Sept. when her daughter, Ann Locke IV has 2 children, is a sergeant mer. Our daughter, Tracy, an attorney, Chair of Education for the Am. Society of Bailey, had a baby girl, Lillian Bell with the Richardson Police Dept. Hus- moved from Chicago to Atlanta in 2011 Appraisers. In addition to appraising fine Lipsett. Beth continues her teaching ca- band Claude III joined forces with Jani- and our other daughter, Kelly, an animal art, I’ve been teaching principles of val- reer in northern Va. mation, where he is executive producer trainer at Sea World, and her husband uation courses for personal property ap- Kathryn Telfer writes, “I believe the last for live action. live near Orlando and are expecting our praisers at various universities including time I had any contact with Sweet Briar From Birmingham, Ala., Lochrane Cole- first grandchild in June. the Univ. of Calif. at Irvine and the R.I. chums (with the exception of Mac Cuth- man Smith writes that Ellen Sellers Mc- Carol Anne Provence Gallivan: Mills School of Design. bert Langley) was 1976. Besides hav- Dowell ’77 visited in Feb. Ellen’s daugh- continues to head up his law firm; loves Reynolds and I are still happily en- ing been seriously anorexic from 1974- ter is in college at Samford U. in B’ham. it. We’ve been traveling a good bit, as sconced in our now not-so-new home, 1999, I got married in 1982 and had 2 In Jan., Lochrane saw Dru Springer Os- he has become involved with several at- where I enjoy riding, painting, gardening, children, Courtenay Elizabeth Johnson walt ’78 and Kathy Jackson Howe ’78 torney organizations. Our oldest daugh- hiking, fishing and our trips to Mont. for (27) and Telfer Rockwell Johnson (23). at Mr. Jackson’s funeral. ter, Anne Genevieve, has her own mar- more of the same. He still practices vet- My marriage ended in 1995, but we re- From Fla., Marian Dolan says, “Remem- keting firm in Greenville. Our son, erinarian medicine. I love getting the main wonderful friends. Between 1983- ber hearing ‘Nowel, Nowel’ at 4 a.m. Henry, is an attorney in Greenville, and news from you all, and I’m looking for- 1998, I was hospitalized 12 times for when Sweet Tones caroled in the is married to an attorney, Mandy, who is ward to our 2013 Reunion. So plan on the side effects of anorexia. When my dorms?” Well, Marian and The Choir expecting their first baby and our first coming to see new and old friends and son was born and diagnosed with Project’s Lumina women’s vocal ensem- grandchild in mid-March! Harriet, our let’s try to have a big turnout. Autism, I began to see that going into ble happily resurrected that piece for youngest daughter, was married last the hospital 4 months out of a year was their 2011 Advent concert. She also Dec. to a wonderful young man, Matt, impossible. In 1999, I deeply regretted wrote them a 9/11 concert called and they live in West Palm Beach, Fla. 1974 all the energy I’d poured into leading “Voices of Courage.” Marian was a He’s in the Sugar Industry, and she, Rosalind Ray Spell such a self-destructive life and changed guest presenter at Festival 500 choral week in St. John’s, Newfoundland, with her Masters in OT, works at a Re- 2710 Orchard Knob SE my life. However, I had already done too Canada and will return in 2013. Follow hab Hospital there. Atlanta, GA 30339-4625 much irreversible damage, so I will pay the Choir Project on Facebook. Linda Lipscomb: I’m enjoying living and [email protected] for my behavior for the rest of my life. working in Richmond with a lot of com- I’ve tried to focus on living a self-satis- Lynn Kahler Rogerson enjoyed a lunch- muting back to Dallas. In Richmond, I Meredith Thompson Sullivan fied, relatively healthy lifestyle. When eon with Maureen O’Hearn Slowinski have had great visits with Jane Potts, PO Box 1283 I’m not attending to my gamut of health and her mother (93). Lynn enjoys contin- Lacy Williams, Lisa Wickham Haskell, Livingston, MT 59047-1283 issues, I do part-time substitute teach- ued work on the SBC Friends of Art and Melinda Williams Davis. Over the [email protected] ing, paint watercolor abstracts, volun- Board. Lynn’s daughter is now in 7th holidays, I was in New Orleans for Cary teer at the homeless shelter and Arbor grade and does ballet. Davis King’s daughter’s wedding and Elizabeth Andrews Watts writes, Hospice. I’m very proud of my daughter, Debrarae Karnes still lives in the house saw Deborah Ziegler Hopkins and Terry “Bobby and I are enjoying our 20th year Courtenay, who is an assistant producer her father built in 1962 in Stafford, Va., Christovich. at Episcopal High School, where Bobby to Bennett Miller (who produced still practicing land use law; she scuba Christine Eng Leventhal: I’m still teach- teaches and coaches, and I’m the “Capote” and “Moneyball,” among other dives and survived 2 knee replacements ing forensic science, genetics, and au- school photographer and a member of things). My son works at the Sporting about 18 months ago. thentic science research at Darien High the development staff. Our son, Rob, Wear and Gear store that supplies all of Cheryl Lux Cobb’s (Mont.) daughter, School, as well as one fitness class a and his family now live in Norfolk, where the Univ. of Mich. athletic teams. He Elizabeth Cobb, is now a first-year at week at our local parks and rec. Last he is stationed with the Navy. Our drives and will probably go back to SBC, part of the class of ’15. Elizabeth summer our extended family spent 2 daughter, Betsy, and her husband, school to obtain vocational training. I of- loves SBC! Cheryl, husband John, son weeks on Block Island, and I spent a David, are living in Atlanta and expecting ten reflect on what a great experience Adam are busy at the ranch. They’re week at the Henry Lee Institute of their first child, a girl, June 3.” college was. performance testing breeding bulls and Forensic Science taking a class in Re- Mary Bush Norwood was unable to at- I enjoy seeing Meredith Thompson Sulli- preparing for their annual spring sale in covery of Human Remains and Forensic tend our last Reunion because she was van and Tricia Barnett Greenberg at April. Anthropology. My husband Peter has running for Mayor of Atlanta. Regretfully, least once a year. My husband and I Marilyn “Mare” Moran sent news that been diagnosed with Parkinson’s dis- Mary didn’t win, but is very busy with had a wonderful time with Meredith and in Aug., Hurricane Irene sent 2 trees ease, and we’re learning how best to the Atlanta community. Mary and hus- John in Mont. last fall and celebrated down crushing part of her house in deal with it. Our 3 children are doing band Felton served as chairs of the our 27th anniversary in Feb. 2011 with Larchmont, N.Y., and they have just fin- well. Southeastern Flower Show in 2011. Tricia and Phil in Charleston, S.C. Penn ished reconstruction in Jan. On a Diane Dale Reiling: Chuck and I are en- Mary is serving as president of the and I are enjoying our “empty nest” sta- brighter note, Mare and her son are pur- joying retirement in S. Ore.! I worked at Cherokee Garden Club, (GCA) and will tus, although it isn’t very empty with 2 suing their love of photography and both Macy’s for the holidays. Both of our kids be in Washington with GCA talking with cats and 2 dogs. If any of you are in At- have works in 2 separate local exhibits. have been to visit, (Steven is in Seattle members of Congress on 3/1/12 with lanta, I’d love to get together. In the Meg Shields Duke’s husband Jamie had and Erica is now in LA), and they ap- all GCA clubs across the country. meantime, keep sending your news. a fun fall dinner in Richmond, Va., with Sandra Taylor is now a compliance man- Mary Beth Hamlin Finke ’76 and beau

49 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU Jimmy Shannon before the wedding fes- of school! We ended up rooming to- to them for research! From time to time More classnotes online tivities began for the daughter of Gray gether later at Parents’ Weekend. Hope I see Dee Hubble Dolan and Cindy Thomas Payne ’75. At that wedding, everyone comes to our 35th Reunion. Kendree Theiringer. sbc.edu/magazine Meg caught up with Ann Wesley Ramsey Some of us have a Riders’ Reunion in Carolyn Williams Seeling: Sarah (19) is ’75 and Beth Montgomery ’75. Gray and April too! a sophomore at Franklin & Marshall, Tom were guests of the Dukes in Vail, Linda Uihlein: I have started a 2nd busi- studying psychology and working in graduated from Chapel Hill is in N.Y.C. Colo., over Martin Luther King weekend. ness, Owl’s Nest Games LLC, which cre- F&M’s primate lab; son Justin (25) is liv- Elizabeth will graduate in May from UNC Meg is the Sweet Briar representative to ates an all-USA preparedness outdoor ing and working full time in the Fishtown and is student teaching 3rd grade in Denver’s “College for a Day” committee. series of board games. I still run Em area of Philadelphia and is enrolled in a Carrboro, N.C. Anne is a freshman at This organization of 9 colleges (the Paks LLC, an emergency preparedness master’s program at Boston U. for Intl. UNC. Had dinner with Jenney Kelsey “Seven Sisters,” plus Sweet Briar and company, which I started in 2004. I Business Marketing. Carolyn and family Breining in N.Y.C. and ran into Ashley Mills College) rotates bringing in profes- took an animal rescue course from Nan enjoyed trips to Korea, Bali, Lombok Wilson Brook I see Sally Colhoun En- sors from their colleges each Jan. This Stuart’s rescue school. I drive out to and India. gram around town. year Meg selected SBC Environmental Salt Lake City every summer for the Out- Nancy White: One fabulous year since I Economics Prof Rob Alexander, who door Retail Summer Market held the opened the flower bar in Larchmont, spoke to a sell-out crowd of 300 at the first 5 days in Aug. I also fly out in Jan. 1978 N.Y. Great staff and have learned a lot. Botanic Gardens. for their Winter Market. Last summer on Suzanne Stryker Ullrich My husband is my partner on this. He’s From St. Louis, Mo., Ann Stryker the way back I audited 7 days of Buck 820 Waverly Rd. a retired CEO/actuary of a multi-national Busch’s oldest daughter Katie is getting Brannaman’s, “The Horse Whisperer.” Kennett Square, PA 19348 corp so he brings the corporate and I engaged to be married Sept. 2012. Mid- I’m going to spend 8 more days with [email protected] bring the creativity. dle child Allie started her own business, him in Ariz. in March. Busy planning a Susan Anthony Lineberry: I gained a AM Busch Performance Horses, which central Va. emergency preparedness daughter-in-law in Sept. when Mark mar- breaks and trains horses. Ann’s son demo and trade show with about 25 1979 ried Lindsay in Colo. That makes 4 has one more year at Colo. State U. as vendors in late April. I’m looking forward Mary “Robbie” sons, 2 daughters-in-law and 3 grand- a finance major. to seeing everyone at the 2012 Re- children. Neal and I enjoy being grand- And I, your Class Secretary, Cissy union. McBride Bingham parents to Adam, Claire and Drew. In Humphrey, am living proof you can rein- Vivian Yamaguchi Cohn and husband, 2044 Murdstone Rd. Dec., I went on the White House Christ- vent yourself at any age! I’m 3rd genera- Stuart, celebrated their 29th wedding Pittsburgh, PA 15241 mas Tour with Cindi Little Townsend tion Oil & Gas Texan and have employ- anniversary. Their oldest son (25) is [email protected] and Pat Guild. ment in the Oil & Gas industry after trading options in Los Angeles. Her sec- Nancy Hatch Schwartzmiller: Our son is years in Legal and Telecom. I’m using ond son graduated from Vanderbilt U. in Karen Jaffa: Aug. ’11, I published my a freshman at UGA and our daughter is my International Law skills from Prof. May and is studying in Japan for a year. first novel, “The Dressage Chronicles.” a high school junior who plays lacrosse. Ken Grimm’s class! When I helped out Her twins (17) are graduating from high I’m still riding and just purchased Gia Between working for 2 financial literacy with my father’s independent oil and school and headed to Colo. College and (5), a Holsteiner cross mare. Lawrence nonprofits, keeping up sports sched- gas business in the 1970s and 80s, U. of Denver in fall 2012. In June 2011, is still practicing law with Fisher & ules, touring colleges and caring for everything was done manually. In 2012, Vivian has been General Counsel at Phillips. I see Prudance Saunders Pit- aged parents, Frank and I have full everything is computerized and I’m Chicago Underwriting Group, Inc. for 22 cock regularly and keep in touch with plates. learning the business from a whole new years. She also continues to serve on Cathy Calello Staples, who just pub- Jennny Kelsey Breining: Working the perspective! Keep those notes coming the SBC Visiting Committee for the Rid- lished a book of poetry. night shift as an RN on the in! ing Program and returns to campus reg- Margaret Hixon Griffith: Have my new maternal/neonatal unit at Hackensack ularly. She’s looking forward to seeing art website managed by FASO, just U. Medical center in northern N.J. My everyone at our 35th Reunion. browse Margaret Griffith Fine Art. I’m oldest daughter is in N.Y.C. and was an Tricia Waters loves her job as exhibi- now a member of Oil Painters of Amer- account exec. with a PR firm. My son is 1977 tions registrar at The Phillips Collection ica. pursuing a career in screenwriting and Sally Bonham Mohle in Washington, D.C. Tricia and John con- Aimee Kass: I’m an attorney in N.J. for my youngest is a sophomore at the public defender’s office defending 5039 Lewisetta Dr. tinue to live in Alexandria, Va. Lucy (21) Roanoke College, so I get to Va. about parents whose children have been taken Glen Allen, VA 23060 is a junior at Radford hoping for an in- twice a year. by child services, but don’t have the [email protected] ternship in N.Y.C. this summer; Will (19) Mary Bingham: My father (85) died in juggles community college, work, and means to petition the court to get them June 2011 in Pittsburgh, Pa. My family returned. Carolyn Williams Seeling keeps in booking house shows for touring bands. decided to move back to Pittsburgh. I Piper Allen Severns: Still in Orlando, touch with Jane Maloney ’74, Cora Sny- Stephanie Maxson Kenyon: Our oldest, was teaching in Albuquerque, N.M.; now Fla., teaching 1st grade at a charter der, Jane Mooney, Dorothy Lear Mooney Jay, started at Lynchburg College this I’m working on getting my teaching li- school. Annabel (11) is busy with ballet, ’78, Sophie Crysler Hart ’81. She says, year. Our youngest is applying to Va. cense in Pa. My sons are 13 and 16 piano and school. Husband Keith is a “I just returned from summer in Punta schools. years old. general contractor and is now working Cana with daughter, Vt. with my twin, a Debbie Koss McCarthy: Courtney is ex- as city manager. Last summer we trav- trip celebrating 30th wedding anniver- pecting a little brother for Anna Grace eled through Mich., Wis. and Minn. and sary to Korea, Bali, Lombok. Planning (2). 1980 had the time of our lives. for cruise to Alaska next summer. Active Elvira Cash Pecora (Chapel Hill): Oldest Lauren Huyett: Still in Concord, Mass., Phyllis Watt Wilson member at Himalayan Institute in son Greg (26) is working for Duke U. in 3939 Livingston St. NW only 1 ½ hours from our Cape Cod Honesdale, Pa. Special education in- their anesthesiology dept. Second son Washington, DC 20015 house. Kids as follows: Kate (28) NYC, structor at an elementary school. Still Kent (23) graduated in June from Dickin- [email protected] Phil (26) Tufts, Peter (23) Stark Corp at living in Audubon, Pa. Son Justin (24) son College and went on the following Boston Design Center, Chip (21) Gettys- just bought a townhouse in Philadelphia. week to win 1st place in the 3rd division burg College, Susan (17) applying to col- Fran McClung Ferguson Daughter Sarah is a sophomore at steeplechase for the U.S. Husband Chip leges. Bill is still with McKinsey and Co. 1917 Maylin Dr. Franklin and Marshall.” is with SunTrust bank as a financial ad- and traveling everywhere. I’m still a resi- Salem, VA 24153 Ellen Sellers McDowell: “I got to go to visor. I’m at Talbots as a “fashionista dential interior decorator and was part [email protected] Birmingham to visit my youngest daugh- advisor.” Hoping to make the Reunion. of a holiday house tour. ter Kate who goes to Samford U. and Just spoke to my old roommate Chris- Ashley Wilson Brook: Looking forward had dinner with Lochrane Coleman tine Davis Boulware, who has just to our next reunion. Mary Grayson (19) 1981 Smith ’76 and her husband Mel. I’m joined the advisory board. She even loves UNC-Chapel Hill. Sterrett (15) is helping Jill Steenhuis ’80 put on a paint- found a few lost SBC classmates, like Claire McDonnell Purnell busy being a Life scout and playing the ing workshop in Montgomery in April. Cain Thomas Linzee. Four Thompson St. violin. Hope to see all 1977 alumnae at Sweet Barb Bernick Peyronnet: Doug and I are Annapolis, MD 21401-3833 Corby Hancock Pine: 13th year of Briar in May. We’re planning a fun class proud of our Maggie (22). She gradu- [email protected] teaching biology at Towson U., love it. I meeting with a TEX MEX appetizer cook- ated a semester early from William & also teach preschool science at a nurs- off. Don’t miss it!” Mary and began a master’s in education Sad news. Lelee Frank Hazard’s son, ery school where Hannah Craighill Libby White Drbal (Princeton, N.J.): “Our at VCU in Jan. Annie (17) participates in John “Jack” Hazard (23), passed away Morehead teaches. My son is a high oldest, Drew, graduates from Elon U. the 3 high school plays a year. Doug is last Dec. while traveling through Asia school senior and daughter is 9th the same weekend as Reunion. My son still rockin’ with his ’60s and ’70s rock and writing. Lelee’s daughter Martha grader. Tyler is a freshman at Dickinson College and roll band. I love golf and skiing. Our (19) is living in Alexandria and working Becky Trulove Symons: We’re empty in Carlisle, Pa., along with Andrew Niss- Nine-hole group (I’m the treasurer) at Let’s Dish. Son Mitchell (17) attends nesters in Winston-Salem, less than 5 man! Molly Reeb Nissman and I ran into hosted the Massey Cancer Center Tour- St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School in Tenn. miles from my parents and sisters. Sally each other in the dining hall the first day nament this year and we sent $45,000 He played on the football team last fall

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 50 Jane “Ellie” Craddock ’11 is at the University of Virgina working on a master’s degree in the areas of mechanical and aerospace engineering. In her spare time she also works as a producer at 1070 WINA, part of the Charlottesville Radio Group. “Sweet Briar prepared me very well for the classes that I am taking at UVa,” she says. “I am at the same level or above most of my classmates from all over the world in each of the classes that I have taken.”

51 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU TERESA PIKE TOMLINSON GRADUATED FROM SWEET Briar in 1987, the same year the College established its Distinguished Alumna Award. Twenty-"ve years later, Sweet Briar announced that Teresa is the Distinguished Alumna of 2011. Given out by the board of the Alumnae Association, the award honors alumnae, preferably graduates, who have brought distinction to themselves and to the College through outstanding accomplishments in a volunteer or professional capacity. Any member of the Sweet Briar family — including students, alumnae, faculty, administration, sta#, and members of the Alumnae Board and the College Board of Directors — is asked to nominate candidates. Teresa was elected the "rst female mayor of Columbus, Ga., in November 2010. At Sweet Briar, she majored in government, with a minor in economics. After receiving her law degree from Emory University School of Law in 1991, she began working as an attorney for Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison & Norwood in Columbus. !e "rm’s only female partner, Teresa practiced law there for 16 years and is now of counsel with the "rm. In 2006, she became the "rst executive director of MidTown Inc., a community renewal organization seeking to revitalize the nine square miles in the center of Columbus. Over the years, Teresa has been recognized repeatedly for her community involvement. !e Columbus City Council honored her three times for her work on government-appointed boards and task force committees, and the Georgia House of Representatives recognized her as an Outstanding Volunteer. In addition, Teresa received a Certi"cate of Special U.S. Congressional Recognition for “outstanding achievement, service and public distinction.” She was also named a Columbus Woman on the Rise and Exceptional Role Model in Business, and a Concharty Council of Girl Scouts Woman of Achievement. A member of the Boxwood Circle Committee for nine years, Teresa has been involved in many alumnae activities and has donated to the College throughout the years. Twice, she helped to raise funds for her alma mater as a member of her class’ Reunion Gifts Committee. Teresa received the Distinguished Alumna Award this spring in Sweet Briar Names Distinguished Alumna of 2011 Alumna of Names Distinguished Briar Sweet her hometown. I

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 52 and is playing goalie on the school soc- Vickie Archer, husband Tad Imbrie, and Jean Bryan, the dancing machine, wrote their battles with breast cancer. She cer team. If you’d like to get in touch family are living in Pittsburgh, Pa. “not much is going on in Norfolk, Va.,” also came up with an excellent idea to with Lelee, her email address is lelee- Daughter Annie (20) is a “sophomore which is hard to believe, and looks for- discuss, in a forum-style, events impact- [email protected]. econ major at SBC. Son James (18) is ward to our Reunion in May. ing our lives, families, careers, futures Mary Stuart Bolling is living in Rich- getting ready to graduate from Bethel Fun was had by all at Molly Finney at Reunion and to continue the dialogue mond, Va. Daughter Lucy Gordon (18) is Park High School. Daughter Addison Grenn’s “get psyched” for Reunion after our Reunion. Finally, Nancy reiter- a senior at Collegiate School where (16) is in the 10th at Bethel Park High party. All who attended committed to ated that our class gift and participation Mary sometimes sees Susan Clay Rus- School.” coming to our class Reunion. Together not only helps sustain SBC for future sell and Kathy Levi Hoover at parent Mary Kate Ferguson is in Baltimore and with co-chair agents, Nancy Daugherty young women, it also demonstrates the events. Sweet Briar has offered Lucy has a small bookkeeping service called Davidson, Brianna Boswell Brown, long-term life power of maintaining rela- Gordon a scholarship endowed by her Beeswax Bookkeeping. Brendy Reiter Molly is spearheading our class gift par- tionships with others (Class of 1982!) grandmother’s classmate from the class Hantzes is one of her current bookkeep- ticipation for our Reunion and appreci- through an institution that supports and of ’49. Son Stuart is a junior at the U. ing clients, so not a lot of work getting ates all contributions. encourages women. of Mary Washington with a triple major done on that day! Mary Kate sees Cathy Miller will not attend Reunion as Jennifer Rae is thrilled to be back in in history/philosophy/classics. Mary Claire Purnell, Eve Devine, and Kears- she and her husband are going on a touch. She’s grateful to have regular writes: “Sarah Martin Herguner, Nancy ley Walsh as well. riverboat cruise from St. Petersburg to work. Jennifer registered with several Smith Jackson ’82, and I attended a Brendy Reiter Hantzes writes from Moscow, Russia. Daughter Madeline re- employment agencies, the one that Sweet Briar luncheon in Richmond at Chantilly, Va.: “I’m running an appraisal turned from her winter term in England came through with full time work was the Jefferson Hotel.” company. My husband Nick has given up studying business and economics. She the one she had the best working part- Sharon Resener Miller is living in Or- golf because he became addicted. My is studying at Randolph-Macon. Second nership. The agency markets itself na- lando, Fla., with husband Tony. Son Bai- son Harrison had a house fire; he was daughter Ali, a senior in high school, tionally as All U Need Personnel with a ley (18) is a freshman at NYU. Sharon very appreciative of underwear as a plans to attend Ferrum in the fall to personal, professional approach to busi- gets to see Sharon McGrath Gardner Xmas gift. My son Will is working as a study criminal justice. Husband David ness—Jennifer’s cup of tea. Jennifer every couple of months while in N.Y. paralegal while trying to decide if he and Cathy continue to enjoy their work. looks forward to hearing from our Kearsley Rand Walsh is in Arlington, should apply to law school. My daughter Lele Frenzel Casalini also enjoyed the “amazing” Class of 1982. Va., is now an empty nester. Angus (21) Molly lives at St. Mary’s Home for Dis- pre-reunion festivities last Nov. with Heidi Slavin Willard teaches history to is at Marshall and Duncan (19) is at Mi- abled Children and is doing well. De- Jean Bryan, Briana Boswell, Marie En- 9th graders who need support staying ami of Ohio. I’m working as office man- spite her profound disabilities she is gel, Nancy Davidson and Molly Finney! sober. She also is a business owner: ager at Habitat for Humanity of Northern very healthy and for that we are grate- She did the D.C. cancer walk with Molly Scrapbooks That Teach. The business Va.” ful.” and her daughters Grace, Jean, and Bri- keeps her busy designing unique class- Kathy Levi Hooper was sorry to have The Reunion last May was lots of fun. anna. Lele enjoyed a visit from Molly room activities in motivating students missed Reunion. That was daughter Brendy and Mary Kate, our class co- Johnson last fall where they had great and helping them to remember their les- Kate’s (22) graduation weekend from presidents, put a wonderful weekend to- fun being tourists in Indianapolis. Lele sons for assessments. She and Russell UVa. She’ll have another graduation this gether. We stayed in Dew Residence spent Jan. in Hawaii visiting a high have traveled to over 120 countries. May, as she finishes her master’s de- Hall. Our hospitality room was deco- school friend. Unfortunately she broke Heidi is a breast cancer survivor from gree. She looks forward to seeing my rated with pink and green. On Friday her foot and tore ligaments in her ankle, 2000. She looks forward to seeing SBC friends in the D.C. area more, as night, we played a Class of 1981 trivia but no worries, Lele will be out of the everyone at Reunion and found the Kate will begin working there in Oct. game. After that, very late, we painted boot and in fine shape for Reunion! Her party last Nov. for local Va. residents a Daughter Anna’s (16) travel volleyball the hitching post pink and green. The career teaching yoga, Pilates and spin- wonderful night to remember. Heidi ex- team will have a tournament at Sweet whole weekend was fun because of the ning is flourishing. Son Eli is in graduate pects the same liveliness and red wine Briar. She loves hearing from/seeing efforts of Brendy and Mary Kate who school studying physiology at Indiana at Reunion! her SBC friends! have been re-elected as our class presi- U., daughter Liza married last June, is Jill Fallon writes that all is well in west- Susan Campbell is living in Philadelphia dents. raising beef cattle and sister Sophie left ern Mass. JFallon & Company (jfallo- and continues to work at PNC. Daughter As for me, we are still in Annapolis, Md. Sweet Briar after freshman year to pur- nandco.com), her strategic marketing Sarah (25) has lived in Manhattan for Mary (18) is a senior waiting to hear sue a nursing career at Indiana U. Lele communications and events company, 5.5 years working as a freelance writer. from colleges. Lizzie (15) is a freshman looks forward to becoming a grand- continues to grow. She’s extending her Susan is looking forward to a trip to in high school, and she is beginning to mother in early March. expertise into planning social events Gasparilla Island in March and trip to think about a summer job. Thanks to Kit Johnson Parks is enjoying her free with JFallon Celebrations. Son Jack (17) Seville, Spain, to ride in July. everyone who sent their news. time exploring the Raleigh area and is honing his artistic skills in drawing Susan Pinkard Morgan and husband other activities now that her home is and sculpture, while younger brother Bill live in Lighthouse Point, Fla. Susan complete. She hikes and plans to hike a Harrison’s (13) fascinated with sports. teaches 6th, 7th, and 8th grade math at 1982 section of the Appalachian Trail this Deerfield Beach Middle School. Susan Consuelo Michelle Martínez June. stays busy with daughter Casey (15), 7007 N. Tripp Ave. Lee Watson Lombardy’s daughter Geor- 1983 who can’t wait to drive in July! Susan Lincolnwood, IL 60712 gia has her learner’s driving permit and Cary Cathcart Fagan writes, “I just finished my master’s in [email protected] continues to excel in Irish dance compe- 329 Kelford Ln. the science of teaching from Fla. At- titions. The family looks forward to a trip Charlotte, NC 28270 lantic U., and am working hard in karate Gracie Tredwell Schild wrote from to the North American National Irish [email protected] class.” Santa Fe, N.M.: “after a rough year of Dance Championships in Chicago this Carol Hays Hunley and family moved to custody, money battles and moving” summer. Husband Warren continues his Boston in the beginning of 2012. Carol she’s settled in with 2 cats and son career at Darden restaurants, while 1984 has taken a new job with Sovereign Christoph (13). Gracie works at The In- Lucy is at the Orlando City Attorney’s Of- Bank, after 26 years with PNC Bank in fice. She enjoyed a mini-reunion in Jan. Debbie Hodgkinson Jones stitute of American Indian Arts. She 4416 Bromley Ln. Pittsburgh. Carol writes “Last year was with Lucile Redmond Flournoy and her hopes to attend Reunion. Richmond, VA 23221-1140 a tough one after losing my dad, going sister, Frances Malone. Monica Kaiser wrote: “2011 started [email protected] through breast cancer treatment with out with a bang.” Daughter Alexa is a As part of the co-chair fundraising trio, my mom, so we’re making a fresh start. Nancy-Dirt Daugherty Davidson prefers senior at UM’s Frost School of Music. Colleen Kuebel Berthelot: Greetings Our middle daughter is a junior at Ohio the term fun agent. They had loads of She’ll graduate in May with a double from New Orleans, 27 years as a com- U. and is looking at Boston schools for fun at Molly Finney Grenn’s house in major in musical theatre & English liter- mercial real estate broker in New Or- graduate schools. Sovereign is owned Nov., everyone picking up where they ature, a minor in music business. Mon- leans, mom of 2 wonderful boys Colin by Santander out of Spain, so I will be left off years ago! Nancy says about ica will attend the graduation and have (23) and Alex (11), headed to London traveling quite a bit to Madrid. Our old- SBC, “Whether you graduated with a de- to miss Reunion. Son Julius, a high and beyond honoring our half century! est daughter is living in Cleveland and gree or not, you are part of a body of school junior, wants to pursue a career Liz Rodgers Boyd: Louie (my baby!) has working for the Cleveland Indians.” women who are bonded together for the in the medical field. He’s active in the been accepted to The Citadel. I’ve con- Hope Keating: “I am engaged to marry rest of our lives…We’re not just a group drama club and will be an International nected with several alumnae during my G.W. Harrell, an attorney here in Talla- of people who graduated from a school Thespian. Husband Richard still works trips to Charleston. Cathy Toomey Gre- hassee. We’re planning a spring 2013 with the same major—we’re a diverse at Pepsi while Monica is busy with the gorie will be his official mother away wedding. Also, in the throes of a mid-life group of women who have forged differ- drama club and school activities where from home! I’ve also seen Cheri Burrit crisis, I and 3 of my law partners ent paths into the 21st century and are she chaperoned the thespians to the Yates, Ginger Reynolds Davis, Helen formed a rock band called ILL ADVISED. succeeding!” She shared a recent email Fla. State Thespian Festival last March Pruitt Butler, Erika Dorr Foster and We play primarily in dive bars around conversation with Amoret Thisell and and remains an active member of the Lizzie Pierpoint Kerrison. My older son, town.” Molly Finney Grenn as they discussed PTSO. Tommy, transferred to Bethel U. He’s

53 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU playing football and basketball. Tom and James Thompson and our 2 dogs. I’m Susan Detweiler has a love in her life— I turn 50 this year (as do all of the rest still senior editor with Active Interest Ned, who shares her passion for the More classnotes online of you!) and celebrate our 25th anniver- Media’s Equine Division, working from outdoor/travel lifestyle that seasonal sbc.edu/magazine sary. home. In my spare time, I’m a living his- contract field work provides. Recently, Betsy Becton Hannah was vacationing torian/reenactor in the 17th, 18th and they went back east to meet his family. in Australia. She’s still a financial ana- 19th centuries, which makes me busy On the trip, Susan enjoyed getting to- lyst and volunteers with the Junior when it comes to Civil War Sesquicen- gether with Wendy Hastings over lunch. 1990 League of Honolulu and the Coalition for tennial events and events at Henricus Susan plans to guide climbers in the Kelly Wood Erickson a Tobacco Free Hawaii. She writes, Historical Park (which just celebrated its Tetons again this summer. She and Ned 104 S Winterberry Ct. “think we’ll be back on the mainland in 400th). I visit my mare Margaret (29), will return to Antartica in the fall. Smithfield, VA 23430 Oct. 2012.” who is happily retired in Aldie, Va., every Kathryn Deriso-Schwartz writes from [email protected] Ginger Reynolds Davis: All is well in chance I get, and still try to stay ge- Miami that her family is doing well. Spartanburg. Jeffery will graduate in nealogically active in UDC, DAR, Kacki is a senior at FSU and is heading Jacy Carter Allen: Husband Ben is a May. Carter is a rising Jr. at Presbyte- Jamestowne Society and Colonial to medical school. The twins, Burgen builder in Aspen and continues to have rian College. I turned 50 last Sept. and Dames XVIIth Century. I enjoy keeping in and Webb are juniors in high school. work. Children Noah (8) and Amelia (6) a group of my friends, fondly known as touch with fellow SBCers Amy Longley, Chandler is busy with photography. keep us busy and happy. Keep in touch the YaYas, this included Debbie Jones, Erika Dorr Marshall and Sarah Babcock Brenda Payne has been retired from with Carol Witherington Lumpkin, took me to Gettysburg. Can’t wait to through the miracles of Facebook. work for a year and finds herself miss- Brandi Beck, Elizabeth Mason Horsely, see everyone in 2014. Ann Alleva Taylor: I’ve been meeting ing it. Her daughter, Kristy, had a beauti- and a few others. Would love to hear Peg Twohy Devan: I work for the Aspen new alumnae in Vero Beach. In addition ful wedding at SBC on 2/11/12. Brenda from anyone. Ski Company in winter at Powder Pan- to new SBC friends, I’ve begun a new enjoys her grandchildren in Calif.; grand- Stachelle Gilmore Hanling: My daughter das and love it! Bob and I have been career as the director of development at son Austin just turned 5 and grand- Haylee is starting her junior year in high back and forth with our daughter show- the Indian River Land Trust. The girls are daughter Zoe is almost 3. school. My son is four. Love catching up ing in Calif. this winter. Carolyn ended adjusting to not having me around prob- Lisa Thompson Barnes had a beautiful with classmates on Facebook. up reserve circuit champion in the large ably more easily than I would like! wedding in Vero Beach, Fla., over juniors. Headed to Va. to show Crown Thanksgiving weekend. Lisa was thrilled Royal with Chris Wynne this summer. to have Stacy Meadows Apter in town 1991 Vida Henry Fonseca: Oops! I was at 1985 for the wedding celebration. Lisa and Mardi Gras and missed the deadline! Trevon went on a transatlantic cruise Lorraine Haire Greer Ellen Reed Carver 38 Maple St., Unit 2 Louise Jones Geddes: Oldest son Char- 1315 Bolling Ave. from Spain back to the U.S. She reports lie loves Wofford and is trying to have it that they’re settling into married life in Derry, NH 03038 Norfolk, VA 23508 [email protected] all: varsity soccer, fraternities, and [email protected] Vero Beach. Her law practice keeps her some academics too. Second son Giles busy. She enjoyed attending the annual heads to W&L in Aug. 2012, and he Sweet Briar alumnae reception in Vero 1992 hopes to continue playing soccer. 1986 Beach. Daughter Lucia heads to high school in Stacey Sickels Locke married Lyn Tricia Pheil Johnson Aug. 2012 and dances and plays some April Adelson Marshall Locke in July 2011 at St. Margaret’s 62 E Irvin Ave. 7809 Coddle Harbor Ln. sports. We enjoyed a visit with Jim’s Church in Annapolis followed by a recep- Hagerstown, MD 21742 Potomac, MD 20854-3253 family in Australia over Christmas 2011, tion at Old South Country Club. Her sis- [email protected] [email protected] and of course we always enjoy visiting ter, Susan Sickels Dyer ’91 (who lives with SBC friends! near Seattle and whom Stacey still calls Elizabeth Hicks: Husband Frank and I Leigh Ann White by her Q.V. nickname, “Buttons and 1993 keep busy at our restaurant in Win- 165 Gray St., Apt 2 Bows”), was her maid of honor. Leland Stacey McClain netka, celebrating 15 years in this loca- Arlington, MA 02476 is in 7th grade, an avid soccer player. 1856 Christopher Point Rd. N tion. We’ve been featured on NBC’s The [email protected] Kent attends a high school in N.H. She Jacksonville, FL 32217 Today Show and in national and local loves her job as VP for Development for [email protected] magazines. This spring we’re hosting Global Fund for Children. Lyn works with luncheons in conjunction with the 1987 Intercontinental Hotels. They’re living in Botanic Garden of Chicago. I enjoy keep- Jean Lewis Guergai Annapolis in the house she grew up in. 1994 ing in touch with Lisa Etz Picken ’86. 3641 Elderberry Pl. Kate Cole Hite writes that she loved Mary-Linda “Molly” Juliet Jacobsen Kastorff: Will be getting Fairfax, VA 22033 getting together for a girls’ weekend in back from Ecuador just in time to wel- [email protected] D.C. in Feb. with Katie Keogh Weidner, Morris Flasche come a group of SWEBOP ladies coming Kathryn Ingham Reese, Mary Halliday 152 N Remington Rd. to N.C. for spring break in our renovated Shaw and Whitney Bolt Lewis. Columbus, OH 43209 home. 1988 Mary Halliday Shaw says things are [email protected] Marguerite Kramer Kircher: This year I Maia Free Jalenak great in Atlanta. Twins Jack and Mike celebrated 25 years of marriage to are 20 and just finished their sopho- 605 Camelia Ave. Steve, and 25 years with my Wall Street more year of college. Kevin (16) is a 1995 Baton Rouge, LA 70806 firm of Wellington Shields & Co., where I sophomore in high school. Mary contin- [email protected] Beverley Stone Dale was named an equity partner. My daugh- ues to teach at Holy Spirit Preparatory 2006 Ashcrest Ct. ter Sable (14) started Catholic high School, and husband Brad is still in Cor- Kelly Meredith Iacobelli is a director of Richmond, VA 23238 school and my son Cullen (12) is in 7th porate Communications at The Home Industry Communications at Coca-Cola, [email protected] grade at our parish elementary school. Depot. and she looks forward to several trips Anne Richards: I still live at Sweet Briar Lee Ann Conard who is a pediatrician to Las Vegas this year. She bumped into Meredith Williams: My daughter Caro- in my house on Elijah Road. The boys writes that she just moved to Cincinnati Stacy Meadows Apter in an elevator at line and I joined Maren Howard Leggett are grown men. The one you might have to work in the Division of Adolescent Coke, and they recognized each other and Eileen Yates Von Herbulis and kids known, Arie, is a Leut. Col. in the army; Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospi- instantly. Stacy works in the Office of in Oct. for a trip to the National Zoo, has 2 children and a wonderful wife. I’m tal Medical Center. the Treasurer as the director of Global and then we all had a fun dinner catch- very involved in quarter scale minia- I’m looking forward to our 25th Reunion Benefits & Finance. In Oct., Kelly was ing up with Lynn Ivey Turner and family tures. just a year away. Please make plans to wearing an SBC sweatshirt at a corn that evening. Beth Bossong Russell: My oldest son attend! maze. A friend of Wendy Hastings took a semester off from college and started a conversation with Kelly, and hiked the Appalachian Trail (Feb.-June later Kelly and Wendy were able to con- 2011) and then returned to college this 1989 nect. Wendy coordinates EMS for 3 past fall. My second son graduated from Georgia counties, is the Sullivan County Emmy S. Leung Greensboro Day School and went to Tan- Coroner, and teaches local EMS through 7102 Wynnewood Ct. zania for a semester through NOLS. the Dept. of Health at a local community Richmond, VA 23235 He’ll go to Elon next fall. My daughter is college. She was a field paramedic for [email protected] in 10th grade at Episcopal High School 17 years, but when she got married 5 and loves it. years ago, her husband was much hap- Laurel Scott: I moved to Richmond, pier for her to have a job where she did- Va.’s museum district with my fiance n’t have to wear a bulletproof vest!

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 54 looking forward to baseball season. horse exercised. Eileen MacMurtrie, Szymanski ’02 and Celeste Wackenhut 1996 Thomas (6) will be coached by his dad, Meg Magistro Arcadia and I keep in ’08 were bridesmaids. Gretchen Grav- Sarah Reidy Ferguson Bader. Nikolaus (9) is moving up to the touch. I got to see Ardas Khalsa (Alex ley Tucker and Kate Rinehart Eskew 1915 Edinburgh Ter. NE next level, kid-pitch. I’m busy with a Hiribarne) at reunion and Leah Jor- were also in attendance. Anne-Claire en- Atlanta, GA 30307 part-time law practice and chairing the gensen over the holidays. joys motherhood to Jacques (born [email protected] board of directors of our local homeless Imogen Slade Rex: Imogen and hus- 04/30/11) and still teaches 1st/2nd shelter, Bartlett House. band Chip (VMI ’95) are enjoying year grade at the Friends School of Atlanta. Rachel Cooper Gray: I’ve decided to go two outside of Portland, Ore. Chip loves She met with Gretchen again at Sweet Mrs. Kelly Collins Lear back to school. I’m applying to physician his job with Bonneville Power, and I’m Briar Day in Jan., along with Kelli Scott 24 Prescott Dr. assistant schools right now, taking pre- home with Isabelle (4) and Connor (2). Uttley, Isabel Jean-Pierre, and Sara Cof- Hudson, OH 44236 requisites and gaining patient care ex- I’m also tutoring, editing, and selling fey ’06. [email protected] perience to strengthen my application. I Mary Kay. I love catching up whenever Kate Rinehart Eskew’s daughter is now was also really sad to see Juli Wilkison possible with fellow Portland resident, 18 mos. and they had their 2nd child Amelia Dudman Atwill: Daughter Pierce move back to Jacksonville, Fla., at the Leah Jorgensen. this spring! They love life on their farm is in 2nd grade and thriving after having end of Jan. after living up the road from Jesse Durham Strauss: Celebrating 10 in Portland. She looks forward to seeing major skull surgery. She has taught all me for two years. years as a meeting and conference everyone next year! of us what it means to be brave and Victoria Gajda Hartwell: Things are planner at Strategic Analysis, Inc. in Ar- Tonya Grudier Montgomery and family graceful. Also, Pierce is going to be a busy in the Hartwell household! lington, Va. I love catching up with class- enjoyed a visit from “Aunt” Katie Martin big sister. Her little brother is scheduled Leighton turns 5 in May, with a week- mates. I enjoyed seeing Rachel Baltus in Jan. They also surprised Katie with to arrive in May 2012. Thank you to my long celebration at WDW in the works. Price (and daughter Winona) when Ja- the news that she’ll be an aunt again in precious ’96ers for all the love, prayers And then starts kindergarten in Aug.! neen Sharma came to town for a quick July. Tonya continues to work at Indian and support during our several months Leilani turns 2 in July, not sure yet what visit in Jan. Work also took me to Creek School. at UVa. our plans will be due to the arrival of Boston in Dec. so I had lunch with Astrid Liverman and husband Taylor had Bridget Bayliss Curren: Bridget and Tiki, baby #3, on 6/29. We still keep in Sarah Chaffee Paris and her handsome their first baby in May. More baby news: Rich welcomed their little girl, Aoife close touch with Auntie Linda (Linda boys too. Catherine Zahrn and Shannon Bazar Rose on 5/10/11. She’s doted on by Towers) and meet up with her at Disney! Kelly Walker: Eric and I are expecting Zahrn ’99 welcomed daughter Maggie her grandparents, and has visited Jesse Working in CVICU and raising our family our first child, a girl, in May. Carrington in June 2011. Catherine con- Durham Strauss on several occasions. keep me busy. Kimberly Shaheen White: I was fea- tinues to teach dance and music to Angie Conklin Abell: I’m owner and prin- Nicole Johnson Kaler: An international tured in the paper and on our local news preschoolers in Austin, TX. cipal broker at Beach Bay Realty and exchange student from China has be- for my paperless classroom, the only Andrea Sheetz McCarney and family coaching my kids’ teams: soccer, bas- come part of my family for the past 3 one I’m aware of in the Memphis area. moved into a new home, and she’s ketball, and softball. I enjoyed having years. She’s now a freshman at Sweet opening her own Irish dance school with Tracy Walters and Lisa Aumiller visit Briar. I love being a Realtor in Okla., en- a friend. Andrea is a certified teacher me during last summer for the Chin- joy married life, and love my retired 1997 through North American Irish Dance Fed- coteague Island Pony Swim where my horse, Yukon (I showed while at SBC), eration and became the national adult daughter bought a pony with her own Kerri R. Burtner who is still with me today! champion this year. Andrea’s son is in money from selling lemonade. I’m head- 601 N Rosina Ave. Beth Ike: Charlottesville continues to 3rd grade and her daughter started ing to Dominican Republic with Heather Somerset, PA 15501 treat us well. We send lots of love to all kindergarten. Last fall, Andrea was diag- Terry Adams ’97 this May 2012 for a [email protected] the Vixens, everywhere! nosed with thyroid cancer, but surgery BFF getaway! Miss you all! Catherine Lanter: I’m teaching French went very well. Andrea reported that her Sarah Chaffee Paris: I had a great time to 3rd-7th grades at Viewpoint School in dad runs into Anne Smith Culver all the reconnecting with Elizabeth Groves Ay- 1998 Calabasas, Calif. This March I’m taking time while grocery shopping. Anne says cock when we visited Baltimore. I was 14 high school students to France. Re- Chantel Nicole Bartlett her family still lives in Chesterfield, Va. so happy to spend time with Jesse 7775 Tiverton Dr. minds me of the fantastic trips I took She teaches art at the school her chil- Durham Strauss when she came to Springfield, VA 22152-2021 during my Junior Year Abroad in France dren attend. Her oldest daughter, Beth, Boston in Dec. Bella (9), Stevie (4), and [email protected] with Sweet Briar, 1994-1995. is in the 6th grade. Her 2nd oldest Charlie (1) are doing great. Jenn Beck Locke: Our life is wonderfully daughter Emma is in the 4th grade and Julie Baer Diter: Moved back to France chaotic with our 3 wild Indians. Hunter Cynthia Bumgardner Puckett her son, Benjamin, is in the 1st grade. the summer of 2010 with my husband is General Manager at RockTenn Corpo- 7123 High St. Anne’s husband is hoping to finish his Grégory and children Alexandra (13), ration and received Plant of the Year Floyds Knobs, IN 47119-9538 seminary degree soon. Anne reported Justin (12), and Guillaume (2). We love honors for the 2nd year in a row. Marte [email protected] that she keeps in touch with Melissa living on the Côte d’Azur; it’s beautiful (9) is in 3rd grade and enjoying soccer, Pembrooke. here and the kids are finally bilingual. piano and art. She was diagnosed with Hola! Hola! It’s hard to believe that Sara Wilcoxson Bond and husband Jeff Lee Foley Dolan: We kicked off the New Asperger Syndrome, and we’re exploring we’re getting closer and closer to our live in Madison Heights. She’s still a pa- Year in Atlanta cheering on UVa in the the world of social classes and new ex- 15th Reunion. Please mark your calen- trol officer with the Lynchburg Police De- Chick-Fil-A Bowl. Henry (10) and Mattie periences. Thomas (6) is in a regular K, dars for May 2013! partment and loves her job! (7) (3-year-old Fred stayed back in Rich- but works with an autism aid daily. Stephanie Belk Loter and family moved Amanda Diamond Ring and husband mond) enjoyed their first plane ride. We’re active with his autism support to Hillsborough in Sept. 2010. She be- Kevin still love Asheville, N.C. Karleigh Later in Jan. we went skiing at the group. Trae (4) has an amazing person- gan working full time for Novartis Animal (9) takes ballet, which allows her to Homestead. In April, we’ll be in Virginia ality and enjoys working on any projects Health (Greensboro, N.C.) in Jan. 2012. keep in contact with her dance teacher, Beach for spring break where we hope involving tools. I’m active on the PTA They have 2 children, Abilene and Ben- Gregor Lee. Asher (5) starts kinder- to hang out with Laura Lechler. board, and volunteer at the school li- jamin. Stephanie has returned to her garten in fall and loves baseball. In Sarah Reidy Ferguson: Jim and I are in brary, health clinic, room mother (for all love of horseback riding. She saw Cady Aug., the family drove through Lynch- the Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta, 3 of them) and am in charge of Spring and Brandy Whitley ’99 at a local Sweet burg where they were able to visit with with our 4 rescue dogs and 2 rescue Festivities at their school. We joined a Briar Day. Charlotte Rognmoe Gilbar and family. cats. I’m in my 3rd year of writing my new Church and have become involved Kristy Winstead Anderson’s daughter Amanda saw Scarlett Swain in Char- daily lifestyle blog, Duchess Fare. I con- in a wonderful ministry there. Looking Katelyn (20 mos.) was hospitalized 3 lotte this past fall, where they shared a tinue to sell my Vintage & Mid Century forward to a mini-reunion in April with times this year with severe asthma and birthday weekend. They also met up home furnishings through my Etsy store. ’96 alumnae. respiratory complications. Fortunately, with Jenny Hogan Koehn and her daugh- I’m looking forward to mini reunions this Julie Hildebrand Nelson: Brett, Big she has recovered. Kristy is now a full- ter. spring and summer with girls from the Brother Grant and I welcomed twins time medical director for a large commu- Emily Virkus Calle reports almost daily Classes of ’96 and ’97. Brooke McKinley and Luke Kohut to the nity hospice agency. Her son (8) contin- via her blog (blog.danandem.com) about Robin Bettger Fishburne: I work at family on 9/14/11. We enjoy attending ues to grow and her stepson (15) her family’s adventures of living in Vi- Keller Williams Realty in Greenville, the Hunt Country Alumnae events and performed in the Tournament of Roses enna, Austia, learning German, visiting S.C., in my 7th year as a Realtor, love it. see Becky Moats Miller ’97 and Imogen Parade on 1/2/12. Husband Todd re- new places, Christmas in a new country We have a baby due on 7/9/12. This lit- Slade Rex as often as possible. turned safely from his TDY and contin- and even a visit from Pam Fine Auble tle one is due one year and one day af- Cindy Rakow Readyhough: Patrick, Sam ues to serve military men and women and her son. ter I lost my brother, Chris Bettger (40). (4), Katelynn (2) and I are all loving be- with mental health concerns. Lisa Hall Flynn welcomed her first Gibbs (7) has been asking for a baby ing back in Va. near family and friends! Anne-Claire Wackenhut Kasten and daughter Kayleigh Elisabeth Flynn on brother or sister for years. Joe and I just Patrick is running an exterior remodeling husband Scott blessed their civil union Sept. 11. She and her family live in celebrated our 11th anniversary in Oct company, and I’m the marketing director (held in July 2010 in France) with a reli- Woody Creek, 6 miles from downtown 2011. for a local bank in Reston, Va. I’m still gious service and reception in Atlanta Aspen, Colo. Melissa Snyder Giggenbach: We’re riding—helping Tracy Walters keep her last summer. Sisters Sophie Wackenhut Rush Harris Mitchell and husband Jory

55 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU welcomed their first child, Katie Anne ways, and it’s wonderful to see that so west. She still keeps in touch with More classnotes online Mitchell, on Sept. 5. They continue to many of us still make time for mini re- Brieanne Vogler Midura, Rachel Souder- work on their small organic farm in unions with SBC friends! Arguedas and Rebekah Burr. sbc.edu/magazine Mooresville, Ala. They hope to add Ameka Reeves Cruz continues to reside Audrey Dickson Pool is living in Man- goats this year. Jory is the president of in Lynchburg, Va., with husband Scott deville, La., with husband Chris and 2 the local SORBA (Southern Off Road Bi- and 2 children, Timbre (9) and Jeremiah daughters, Sophie (6) and Hope (2). gela Browning Montgomery, Jamie Soli- cycle Assoc.) chapter and manages the (4). Daughter Timbre, in 4th grade, is a She LOVES being a mom, a math mando, Stephanie Sherrard, Emily local bike shop. Rush just finished her runner and swimmer. In fall 2011, she teacher (at an all-girls high school) and Keating Haag, and Ashley Moring Voss. 3rd year as the volunteer coordinator for ran her 3rd 5K at Sweet Briar through varsity cheer coach for the brother They were lucky enough to get to see the Greater Huntsville Humane Society the Girls on the Run program. Jeremiah school down the street. each other at reunion, their annual mini Dog Ball. Lately she has enjoyed talking enters kindergarten in Aug. 2012. Lori Kovatch Long was sorry to miss reunion to the beach this summer, and with Heather Thomas Armbruster and Ameka teaches mathematics at Jeffer- Reunion. She got a new job as quality at Ashley Moring Voss’s Oct. wedding to Cynthia Bumgardner Puckett about ba- son Forest High School, was awarded operations microbiology manager at Jason Voss in Greensboro, N.C. They’re bies and to Fionna Matheson and Teacher of the Year at her school and Merck in Elkton, Va., and moved from excited to welcome a couple of new ba- Kelsey Larus about their recent moves High School Teacher of the Year for her Ky. with her husband, 2 dogs, 2 cats bies! Emily Keating Haag, and her hus- (Kelsey to N.C. and Fionna to Va.). county. Ameka, along with another and 2 horses in Aug. 2011. Around that band, Nick, welcomed Nicholas Michael Anna Meres Wade and husband Patrick teacher, started a Unity club to combat same time, Lori found out she was ex- Haag, Jr. on 2/18/12. Stephanie Sher- live in Knoxville, Tenn. Anna is a li- bullying and to embrace cultural diver- pecting her first child, due in March. Lori rard and her husband Matt Hawkins will censed marriage and family therapist. sity. The school was recognized in 2011 had a mini reunion in New Orleans in be welcoming a new baby in just a few Kelsey Larus left the White House last as a Mix It Up Model School by Teaching Oct. with Alison Brown Breene, Hillary short weeks! summer to be a director for the DNC Tolerance, and Ameka now serves on Herlehy, Christy Holterman Zeigler and I look forward to hearing from you for Convention 2012 in Charlotte, N.C. She the Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board. Lauren Kaplan Slobin. On a random our next alumni update! Keep me in- said it’s been an exciting adventure Ameka and family visited SBC during Re- note, Lori’s cousin took a scuba trip to formed about your goings on at jambers- these last few years with the Obama union weekend with Angela Aiken Belize and met up with Olive Eiley. [email protected]. campaign, the Presidential Inaugural Cameron and family. Katherine Wellington Morse says 2011 Committee, the White House, and now Tana Malm Baber and Chip (H-SC ’00) was a great year for her M. K. Welling- the DNC Convention. welcomed baby girl Tapanga Leigh on ton Art, LLC. She has 5 locations be- 2002 Natia Nemetisheva welcomed a 2nd 1/23/12. Big brother Tank and family tween Jekyll, St. Simonsa and Lori Smith Nilan daughter, Eliana, last June. In Jan., the are doing well. Brunswick, Ga., where either prints or 14600 Windjammer Dr. family moved to London. They’re settling Joy Powell Talmon still works at the Ani- note cards are sold. Katherine cele- Midlothian, VA 23112 in and enjoying their new adventure! mal Rescue League in Des Moines, brated 5 years of services as a front [email protected] Chantel Bartlett is still in job search Iowa, as the volunteer coordinator. This desk clerk for the Jekyll Island Club Ho- mode. Admittedly, it’s been harder than July she’ll become president for the lo- tel. She’s now preparing for several art she anticipated. She keeps in close con- cal DOVIA (Directors of Volunteers in festivals locally. Margaret Brooks Buck tact with Candice Broughton Maillard, Agencies) after serving on the board for Mariana Souza has been practicing law 4436 Yoruk Forest Ln Kim Izquierdo, Cynthia Bumgardner the past few years. Joy is enjoying mid- in one of the top 5 Brazilian law firms. Charlotte, NC 28211 Puckett, Natia Nemetisheva and An- west living with her husband Tamir and She married her husband, Humberto, in [email protected] drea Kubler Robinson ’00. 2 kids, Oren (4) and Liora (1). 2007 and in 2009 they had Beatriz. Alden Rivers Potts, Carter and Carter She’s learned that Rocio Guerrero, from Welcome to the year of our 10th Re- Potts, Jr., announce the birth of 2nd son Spain, is pregnant and will have a baby union (May 18-20)! Check out the class 1999 Brooks Pinckney Potts born 9/13/11. boy soon. of 2002’s Facebook page for updates Lys Burdette Paulhus and husband Christine Rangel is now government af- and remember to send in your scrap- Ms. Lindsey Neef Kelly book stuff to Lori. If you need the 15012 Ashby Way E Michael welcomed their 2nd daughter fairs and special projects executive at Elizabeth Camille Renault “Camille” in the National Electrical Contractors’ As- forms, email me and I will send them! Carrollton, VA 23314 Please also remember to update us [email protected] July. Lys was sad to miss the Reunion in sociation, N.Y.C. Chapter, and moved May, but still keeps up with many class- into a new place in Tribeca, downtown when you change your email address! mates. Manhattan. Come visit! She enjoyed a Shelly Kellogg and her husband wel- 2000 Sarah Herndon Snydor and husband great weekend with Shelly Steiman, comed their 1st child, Evan Christopher Raph welcomed their 2nd child, Henry Sarah Farber, and Ali Buffham ’04 in on 12/22/11. Marilen Jordas Sarian Wingfield Herndon Sydnor, on 7/19/11. N.Y.C., and is still an active board mem- Jamie Henna lives and works in the LA 212 Rock Creek Ct. Sarah Houston Kenning was busy visit- ber for The Mayor’s Alliance for N.Y.C.’s area. She’s a motion graphics artist Yorktown, VA 23693 ing with Sarah Belanger Levinson, Dawn Animals. and also set up a shop called “Snow’s [email protected] Martin and Natasha Nikodem Stevens Sarah Belanger Levinson is moving 13” on cafepress.com. She created over the Thanksgiving holiday in Va. She from D.C. to St. Louis, Mo., where her Joanna Mullen’s Paperhaberdasher.com Evangeline Easterly Taylor: Living in has had the pleasure of visiting with husband will start a new job. website. Azerbaijan, the past few months hus- Katie Wood Rae and family in Char- Leah Solivan Busque continues to grow Lindsey Sullivan’s son Easton Keller band Eric and I have traveled to many lottesville, and visited Emily Keating her company, TaskRabbit, launching new (18 mos.) amazes her every day. She places: Ireland, Maldives, United Arab Haag in Philadelphia. Sarah and family cities across the country. Her com- continues to work as an Equity Stage Emerites, and Republic of Georgia. In are going to have a busy June/July, as pany’s total funding is now close to $25 manager in Denver, Colo. In Sept. they Dec., met up with Amy Hess Snawder husband Tyler will finish his fellowship million. She and her husband, Kevin, moved into a new house in Highlands and Susan Bobb in Nuremberg, Ger- and their family will move (hopefully are enjoying the crazy adventure they Ranch, Colo. many, to visit the Christmas Markets. south). Jackson (3) will be a big brother have embarked on which moved them In Aug., Nicole McDaniel-Carter Sta- Amy Snawder has been leading a Family in July. from Boston to the Bay Area over a year mant moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and Readiness Group at the military base in Kim Schmidt Miscavage and husband ago, and she has enjoyed reconnecting started a new job at Agnes Scott Col- Schweinfurt, Germany, and in Dec. wel- Brian welcomed their 2nd child, Molly with old classmates, such as Sarah Far- lege as an assistant professor of Eng- comed back husband Jared after his de- Joan, on 9/6/11. Son Max (2) loves be- ber, in San Francisco. lish. Nicole got married on NYE 2011 to ployment to Afghanastan. Susan Bobb ing a big brother. Kim was promoted Born to Grace Turner Creasey and James Stamant in Austin, Texas. They is a professor and teaching at a univer- when she returned from maternity leave Steven is Elizabeth “Ellie” Grace had a tiny, but intimate ceremony at the sity in northern Germany. to Global Human Resources Business Creasey. Maribeth Turner ’10 is Ellie’s Zilker Botanical Gardens, and then Partner for TE Connectivity. She’s ex- proud aunt! Sarah Belanger Levinson spent their honeymoon week in New Or- 2001 cited that her first business trip is to sent Ellie her first piece of mail along leans, La. She’ll be at Reunion. Prague! with her first Sweet Briar t-shirt! Ashley Trantham lives in Raleigh, N.C. Julia Varner Allison Clark Joe is still living in Idaho Julia Kientz Ambersley and Robbie have and works for the National Council of Kientz Ambersley with her husband, daughters Elise (3) had a busy year. Julia left the school State Boards of Nursing as the N.C. co- ordinator for a nursing research project. 912 N Glenwood Trl. and Adele (1). Allison went back to part- where she had taught 3rd grade for Meg Anderson Richburg is still living in Southern Pines, NC 28387 time work in Jan., and the rest of the more than 6 years, and moved to the Arlington, Va., and teaching at a high [email protected] time she’s at home. public school system. Julia is so excited Vanessa Corry Julsen and husband that Sarah Farber is engaged to Jean school in Fairfax Co. Her son Aaron (2) and husband are the loves of her life! It was wonderful to see so many of you Trace joined a multispecialty group in Pierre. Julia treasured having Dawn Donyele Wilkerson is still working for at reunion in the spring. I think we all Spokane, Wash., and have lived in Martin, Katie Martin, Emily Haag, and the Dept. of Defense as an instructional appreciated how much fun dorm life can Wash. for 2 years. Our 3 kids, Austin Ashley Moring Voss come visit in Sept. systems designer. She can be seen in be (especially after a 10-year break)! It (6), Everett (3) and Catherine (18 mos.) for Gus’s 5th birthday. Julia keeps in the National Geographic “Inside the seems like everyone is as busy as al- love the adventures of the Pacific North- regular contact with Leigh Harpel, An-

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 56 2012 Outstanding Alumnae

Dalton Keuffel

WEET BRIAR COLLEGE HAS HONORED and the Indiana Fletcher Williams Associates, graduated from Nancy Hudler Keu#el ’62 and Diane Dalton ’67 Sweet Briar in 1967 with a degree in dramatic literature. She with the 2012 awards for Outstanding Alumna. later received a master’s in dramatic arts from Case Western !e awards were presented during Reunion in Reserve University. After working for the Milwaukee May, when Nancy and Diane celebrated their Repertory !eater for more than 20 years, Diane recently S 50th and 45th reunions. retired from her position as general manager. Nancy graduated with a degree in American studies and is Like Nancy, Diane has volunteered extensively for Sweet the owner and president of Acorn Strategies, a prospect Briar and other organizations in her community, including management "rm in Bloom"eld Hills, Mich. She shares her the Junior League. In 1994, she began serving on the talent with Sweet Briar and many other organizations in her Alumnae Association board in several capacities for 14 years, community, including the Junior League and the local school including region VII chair for the Midwest, board. She began her service to the College immediately after secretary/treasurer, president and nominating chair. She also graduating as the at-large member on the Sweet Briar was an alumnae-nominated member to the College’s board of Alumnae Association Board. directors. Diane has continued to serve as a director since Nancy served on the board in several capacities in the 2005. She has generously served her class as class secretary for following years, including reunion gifts chairman and 15 years, represented Sweet Briar at an inauguration in her president. From 2000 to 2008, she served on the College’s area, served on the Reunion Gifts Committee, and helped to board of directors and now has the distinction of emerita recruit students as an alumnae admissions representative. trustee. Nancy has given her time to numerous other Sweet Aside from supporting Sweet Briar by attending many Briar committees over the years, including the Reunion Gifts events on campus, the Milwaukee resident has traveled on Committee and the Boxwood Circle Committee, and has Sweet Briar tours abroad and supported the Alumnae College helped to recruit students as an alumnae admissions e#ort on campus in 2003. representative. “I am overwhelmed at the honor of receiving the Nancy says she was amazed when she found out the Outstanding Alumna Award,” Diane says. “It has been held College had picked her as one of two recipients for this year. by wonderful and deserving alumnae, and I am honored to “!ere are so many Sweet Briar alumnae who serve the receive it with Nancy Keu#el. I just couldn't believe it — College with their time and talents,” she says. there are so many outstanding alumnae.” At Reunion, she got the chance to reconnect with some Like Nancy, Diane was looking forward to catching up of them. Aside from catching up on Sweet Briar memories, with classmates and other Sweet Briar alumnae at Reunion. Nancy was excited to see some recent additions to the “Being back on campus is always a homecoming and an College, especially the Green Village and “smart classrooms.” opportunity to recharge my emotional batteries,” she says. Both were still in the planning phase when she served on the !e Outstanding Alumna Award was established in board of directors. 1968 by President Anne Gary Pannell as “!e Sweet Briar And then, there’s Sweet Briar’s future. Her 5 year-old College Alumna Award in Honor of the Class of 1910.” Up granddaughter attended Reunion this year. to three awards per year are given to alumnae who graduated Nancy is a member of the Silver Rose Society after at least 15 years ago to recognize outstanding service to Sweet giving 25 consecutive years since her graduation, and a Briar in a volunteer capacity. Nominations are invited from member of the Indiana Fletcher Williams Associates, having any member of the Sweet Briar family: students, alumnae, named Sweet Briar in her will. faculty, administration, sta#, and members of the alumnae Diane, who is also a member of the Silver Rose Society board and the College Board of Directors. I

57 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU Margaret Elizabeth McNamara and sister Kathleen McNamara Brown ‘02

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 58 NSA” special (not a speaking part stay busy. Trey was promoted to assis- spent the summer roadtripping across spends her time at home raising the though). She plays indoor soccer and tant vice president in Bank of America’s most of the U.S. She’s running the Vir- children. Her oldest son John started hangs out with her Earls (her 2 yr old international corporate tax dept. only af- ginia Beach Rock N Roll Half Marathon Montessori in Jan. and her husband). Donyele is looking ter being there less than a year! I’m in support of the Leukemia and Lym- Chasity Clarke Miller and husband Av- forward to the Reunion! looking forward to the Reunion! Hope phona Society in Sept. She’s running in ery are enjoying life in their new home Emily Johnston is still living in London, y’all are there and remember to donate! honor of family members as well as with daughter Finley Avery Miller, born England, and writing her successful Mary Davis Blood’s father. 12/26/11. Chasity enjoyed the opportu- fashion blog, Fashion Foie Gras. She Jozanne Summerville is in D.C. She’s nity to see Autum MatysekSnyder Fish was chosen by Coach to design a bag 2003 ready to finish the final semester of her and Casey Poore Flippin ’05 at her baby especially for a blogger, which they suc- Courtney Arnott Silverthorn master’s program at UMD. In between shower hosted by Sarah Parson Bree- cessfully sold out of in 24hrs! She also 152 Clubhouse Dr. SW, Apt 203 family projects, classes, and Navy cost den ’05 on 11/5/11, in Richmond. Cha- collaborated with an artist that was Leesburg, VA 20175 estimating, she gets to chat with Ginny sity enjoys working at the Virginia Mu- sponsored by Peroni beer. [email protected] Wood Susi, Sascha Rogers, Nicole Bas- seum of Fine Arts as a major gifts Maria Thacker Goethe married Patrick banes, Diana Marshall, Brandy Harman officer in the Development Office. James Goethe of Savannah, Ga., on Erin Keck Walsh, husband Terry, and and Erica Midkiff ’03. Jessica Porter Sadeq married Fady on 11/6/11 in Old San Juan, P.R. Brides- twins Annalise and Keira (3) welcomed Diana Marshall has moved back to 10/7/11 at Bluemont Vineyard in Blue- maids included Kelly Monical a new baby girl, Brienne Davis Walsh on Bass River, Mass., on Cape Cod with mont, Va. Her matron of honor was Goossens, Lori Smith Nilan, Denise Mc- 8/3/11. She travelled to Nashville, her parents after canceling her engage- Kerry Keins Mutschelknaus and her Donald Gentry, Brook Tucker Buck, Tenn., in 11/11 to visit Virginia Fowler ment and wedding this spring. She bridesmaids were Heather Shumaker, Sonya Truman, and Ashley Johnson Voigt ’04 for her baby shower, and saw spent a nice vacation with Peter and Caitlin Webber Mazzucca, and Andrea McGee ’03. Maria was promoted to di- Anne Bostain Legum in Virginia Beach Schyler Ellis Burke in W.V. in April. She Stassi. Stephanie Gleason Peppler, rector of operations for Georgia Bio, the this fall. Erin, Anne, and Christy Rose had a successful gallbladder surgery in Kirkland Wohlrab, and Anne Mohana at- nonprofit life sciences trade association Hart ’02 celebrated Samm Grist’s birth- April, and in July started Remicade infu- tended the wedding. for Ga. Patrick is a Senior Audit Man- day in Richmond, Va. sions for her Crohns disease, which are Leila Smith, Katie Barnette-Whisenant, ager for Deloitte. The couple resides in Danielle Ross Oberg welcomed Nora going well. Christina Chubb, Caroline Ogilvie, Kate Atlanta with their dog Cutter. Anne to the family on 9/27/11! Her Brienna McLaughlin Pruce loves paint- Lawson, and Lara Zvirbulis all got to- Corinne Wieland Zeruto and husband husband, Brian, left in Jan. for a 6- ing and teaching yoga while traveling Eu- gether in Charleston, S.C. last June for are expecting a baby girl in Feb. and month detachment to Bahrain with the rope with her husband. She can be a mini reunion that they try to do once a they’re very excited. Navy, and Danielle is juggling a full time found at http://brienna.net and at local year. Leila had her first baby, Caroline Christi Rose Hart and her family still job, the baby, and 3 animals. She’s Cambridge, U.K. art shows. Lilly, born 12/6/11. live in Richmond, Va. She’s still practic- looking forward to catching up with Virginia Fowler Voigt welcomed Virginia- Sascha Rogers lives and works in the ing law and stays busy with work and Megan Doughtie, Virginia Uchello Lyon, Anne Rose Voigt into the world on D.C. Metro area in Va. She’s been work- her 2 girls. Youngest, Kinsley, turned 1 and Carrie Deshazor soon. 1/12/12. Rosie looks forward to her ing as a pediatric occupational therapist in Dec., and her oldest, Kendall, will be Sara Sims is expecting a baby 8/2/12. first SBC trip this summer on a trip back for 4 years, loves it. She transitioned to 5 in March! They look forward to Re- Courtney Yerdon Gleason is expecting to Va. to visit family and friends. Erin a new private practice, and is expanding union! her first 7/4/12. Keck Walsh ’03 came to Nashville, her realm to include treating infants and Melissa Rudder is living with her fiancé Bobbi Conklin Lampron spent a week Tenn., to attend the baby shower in Oct. toddlers in the home health setting or Jon Garber of Brooklyn, N.Y. They wel- with Becca Gheen McMillan in Ed- and visited before the arrival of Rosie. Early Intervention. She still keeps in comed son Shaine Davis on 1/13/12. monds, Wash., helping her with the new Seana McGuffey is living in Virginia close contact with C.M. Burroughs, Lau- She’ll be returning to her job in Manhat- baby, Lucy Gray McMillan, born on Beach. She works at Dominion Enter- ren Byrne, Jozanne Summerville, and tan as director of catering for Financier 2/13/12. Bobbi and Becca also vaca- prises for the Employment Guide divi- Karen Story McKenzie. They’re planning Patisserie in late April. She’ll be at Re- tioned together in Cancun, Mexico last sion. Daughter Caroline is 2. a weekend getaway or a “Sweet Re- union too! summer with their husbands, and Becca Erin Coleman lives in Los Angeles, treat” at the Chocolate Spa at the Hotel Misa Sarmento got engaged on attended Bobbi’s wedding the year be- Calif., with her 2 dogs and her girlfriend, Hershey this summer. 2/16/12 to Rob Francis (University of fore that at the Greystone Castle in Lizzie. She joined SAG. Erin travelled to Sara Gredler lives and works in Austin, MD ’01)! She’s working as a physician’s Canastota, N.Y. Berlin and Munich to attend Oktoberfest Tex., and is the editor of The Chisholm assistant at Chesapeake Urology Asso- Jenny Neureuther Weitz accepted a ’11. Trail, the Williamson County Genealogi- ciates, and Rob works at Accuvant, an tenure track position 8/11 in astronomy Sarah Russ Warner runs a horse farm cal Society quarterly journal. Working on information security company. They’re with Paradise Valley CC in Phoenix, Ariz. outside of Charlotte, N.C. She and hus- a new presentation on the War of 1812 planning for fall ’12 wedding. She got married 11/11 at the Desert band Wray spend their summers in and another presentation on organiza- Denise McDonald Gentry and her hus- Botanical Gardens; in attendance (and Colo. at the 4UR Ranch, a fly-fishing tion of genealogy “stuff.” Visited Jes- band Temple (HSC ’03) welcomed Gra- holla holla-ing) were Alexis Kovacs ’02, guest ranch, where he works as the ex- sica Carter in Oklahoma City and had a ham McDonald on 4/20/11. The 3 of Christine Nail, Jennifer Temple Man- ecutive chef. great time catching up with SBC memo- them attended Maria Goethe’s wedding grum, Paula Brice ’02, Krista Schuler Katherine Boyle Chamrin trained and ries! in P.R. Ziegenfuss, Katie Kirkwood ’04, and completed Ironman Louisville in Maria Kitchin married Preston Moore in Kelly Monical Goossens married Dustin Mariana Lazarova ’05. Jenny roomed 8/2011. While in Louisville she caught Virginia Beach on 6/25/11. Goossens in Atlanta, Ga., in June and with Mariana in 1/12 at the American up with Lisa Moore. Andrea Stassi is currently living in New- had a family wedding/honeymoon trip to Astronomical Society Meeting in Austin, Nicole Basbanes works at a public li- port Beach, Calif. She works as an Envi- St. Lucia. Dustin’s band, Six to the Texas, and got to see her present her brary, having left her work at a private ronmental Regulatory Analyst/Scientist Wheels, has a new album out with the research on broad absorption line school, but not without a souvenir: a and is a member of the team responsi- help of Kelly’s company, Four Records quasars. man who is now her fiancé, Walter ble for conducting biological impact Music. William “Billy” Claire III, whom she met studies for the proposed Calif. High Lori Nilan is happy now that she has there. He proposed to her on 9/9/11, Speed Train. On the weekends, she vol- gotten back into running. She and 2004 and they plan to marry in June 2012. unteers at the Pacific Marine Mammal Brook Buck took a road trip from N.C. Megan Owens Thompson and husband Center, a rescue/rehabilitation center to Fla. to celebrate Maria Goethe’s up- Virginia Wood Susi Mike expect their first son, Aidan for seals and sea lions. 7975 Dunstable Cir. coming nuptials. On the way down they Michael, on 5/19/12. Megan and Mike Orlando, FL 32817 stopped in St. Augustine, Fla., and went are still living in Charlotte where she’s [email protected] on many outlet mall tours as well as a enjoying her 4th year as a middle school 2005 [email protected] great ghost tour; had fun at Magic King- counselor at Cannon School, an inde- Melinda Katherine Wolfrom dom, Animal Kingdom, and Universal pendent school in Concord. They plan Kelli Bergmann Thomasson and Will 1218 Columbus St., No. 2 Studios with Maria Thacker Goethe and on moving back to Wilmington, N.C., af- welcomed their new baby girl, Eleanor Houston, TX 77019 Kelly Monical Goossens; and stopped ter Aidan is born. Staton on 6/17/11. Kelli works for Vir- [email protected] on the way home in Savannah, Ga. She Sarah Barrett is enjoying life with her tual Virginia as an online instructor and husband Andrew (HSC ’01) had a husband in N.Y.C., and opened an on- teaching AP psychology and AP Euro- great time in San Juan, P.R., for Maria line jewelry shop at copperheadcre- pean history. 2006 Goethe’s wedding. She’s excited about ations.etsy.com, where she’ll be featur- Ginny Wood Susi and Phil are expecting reunion and can’t wait. ing a few pink and green designs. Nicole Brandt their first child in March. 105 Prestwick Ct. Lastly, I also had a great time on our Schyler Ellis Burke, husband Peter and Misty Vandergriff Forsberg and Adam Yorktown, VA 23693 road trip to Fla. and loved the Wizarding their children, John and Victoria, wel- are expecting their 3rd son in Feb. [email protected] World of Harry Potter at Universal Stu- comed a new baby girl, Marin Elizabeth Bre Leibering is still teaching high dios! Puerto Rico was great! Nursing is Burke, born 12/6/11. Godmother to school English in Richmond, Va. She Our Reunion this past May was a blast going well and our floor continues to Marin is Diana Marshall. Schyler

59 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU with 24 classmates in attendance. We and Christine Rangel ’01. A student of International Affairs as well More classnotes online SMASHED our class goals for giving and Michelle Badger was elected to the as English and Creative Writing, Jules now hold the record for 5th reunion giv- town of Plymouth School Committee spent time studying at St. Andrew’s Uni- sbc.edu/magazine ing as well as the participation award. (Plymouth, Mass.) and has loved the versity and loved to travel. She was a Ivey Tabor Godfrey lives in Wake Forest chance to get involved in her town to talented rider, a devoted friend, and a and is a part-time graphic artist and help create policy for the students. She courageous woman. To quote a class- Nancy Foster and loving it. She writes, stay-at-home mom of 3, Caroline (3), started a new job in Feb. working at mate, “She embodied the SBC motto “I’m really bummed that I’ll miss our re- Gabriel (18 mos.), and Levi (6 mos.) Mass. Maritime Academy as the assis- Rosam Quae Meruit Ferat.” union, but I’ll be in the Atlantic Ocean Ivey just got back from a Mexico vaca- tant director of advancement and has Please keep us updated with goings-on. doing a project for Grey’s Reef National tion and is looking into fundraising op- had many opportunities to travel. She If you’d be interested in guest-writing for Marine Sanctuary.” tions so her husband can minister to lo- spent a couple of days in San Francisco a class blog on any subject of interest, Elsa Mittelholtz Cannon married Scott cal youth while he works on his Ph.D. with Lisa Renfrow ’04 and saw Nicki please let me know. Can’t wait to catch Cannon in a beautiful wedding in Oct. Jennifer Jones Collins is still living in Brandt; a weekend at Cat Cox’s (’08) up with all the Sweet Briar ladies! 2012. There was a surprise appearance Germany with her husband and teaching farm Spider Hill with Jenn Wiley by Slapshot, the mascot to for the cou- 7th grade science at Heidelberg Middle Schmidt, Rebecca Olander ’09, Megan 2007 ple’s favorite hockey team, the Washing- School. She and her husband are enjoy- Behrle ’09, and Beth Farnsworth Warner ton Capitals. She writes, “The best part ing Europe and spent their anniversary ’05; N.J. for Caroline Chappell Hazarian Emily Olson was the mini-reunion!” Elsa is very ex- in Tuscany and Thanksgiving in Paris. ’09 wedding with Victoria Chappell Har- 382 E. Scripps Rd. cited for the upcoming class of 2007 They’re excited about their first child, vey; and to N.Y. to see Kate Dobie. A Lake Orion, MI 48360 Reunion in May. William Thomas Collins, due 4/6/12! reminder from Michelle: We did such a [email protected] Jennifer Dick says, “I’m hoping to at- Charis Lease-Trevathan Chase writes great job at Reunion last May, so don’t The class of 2007 is getting ready to tend Reunion in May, and I’m so excited that 2011 has been a busy year for her forget to make your gift to the Annual celebrate our 5th Reunion. It’s hard to to see everyone!” family with several moves thanks to Fund this year to continue to support believe it’s been that long, but we’re all Morgan Lorraine Roach works at The husband Chris Chase’s job in the Army: Sweet Briar! so excited to see each other soon! Heritage Foundation in Washington, From Savannah to Augusta, Ga., and fi- Victoria Chappell Harvey is loving life in Laura Schaefer writes, “I married Devon D.C., as a Foreign Policy Research Asso- nally to Clarksville, Tenn.; where they northern Japan. She’s teaching English Grace on 9/24/2011 in Portland, Ore., ciate, where she conducts research and bought their first home. On 9/20/11, and loves spending time with her Japan- with Margaret Loebe ’06 and Rachel analysis on transatlantic relations, they welcomed their daughter Verity ese students. This spring she hopes to Reynolds as bridesmaids. Jennifer Wolf, Africa and the Middle East. Her re- Catherine Chase. She’s enjoying staying travel to South Korea with some friends. Maggie Patrick, Natalie Pye, and Angel- search on the “Arab Spring” resulted in home with Verity. She’ll be living in Japan until May 2013 ica Shea-Lamke ’06 celebrated with me. her travel to Bahrain in Jan. Morgan is a Jenny Lynn landed her dream job this and hopes that maybe some more of They all, including Caitlin Cashin, sur- blogger for the Foreign Policy Associa- past Aug. working for Colonial Williams- her SBC friends come to visit! prised me with a new class ring just be- tion and an Africa policy staffer to Gov- burg as a public sites interpreter! She’s Colleen Karaffa Murray and Brandon, fore the rehearsal dinner! Their ode to ernor Mitt Romney’s presidential cam- living in one of the little restored Rosie (3) and Scarlett (18 mos.) moved me and the painted cups made my wed- paign. kitchens in the historic area, which is to Richmond, Va. She was so sorry to ding so special. I can’t wait to see Lynnsey Brown writes, “I got engaged to about the size of a Carson single, come miss Reunion, but they moved that everyone at Reunion! I still enjoy my job Brent Wilhelm on Christmas Eve. We’re to think of it. weekend! She was sorry to hear about at ONPRC as sustainability manager. I thrilled and look forward to celebrating Chris Howe proposed to Cole Shanholtz Julia Lockwood, with whom she’d done was able to represent Sweet Briar at a with family and friends.” at the Trevi Fountain on a student travel some traveling in Scotland during their college fair here in Portland this fall. De- Rachel Moretta joined BHP Billitons trip she was leading last summer. The junior year. von and I bought a house in Beaverton, Land Dept. and is working on projects in wedding will take place in Athens, Ga., Shanthi Ramesh graduated from med- Ore., and are busy settling in. south Texas and Ark. developing shale on 10/6 at the farm where her horse ical school in May 2011 and moved to Maggie Saylor Patrick writes, “Martin opportunities. She writes, “I’m heading Fidias is boarded. Susan O’Brien will be Chicago to begin residency in Obstetrics and I have moved home to Ohio, where back to school in July to get my PLM de- maid-of-honor, and Carlina Muglia ’07 is and Gynecology at Northwestern Univer- I’ve started working in Development at gree (Professional Landman). I’ve been a bridesmaid. Cole is teaching Latin in sity’s Prentice Women’s Hospital. She Miami U. and Martin is a librarian at the able to go on a few adventures in the north Georgia and next year will be mov- plans on pursuing fellowship training in local public library. I’m working on my past year since my parents moved to ing to wherever Chris is accepted to Family Planning following residency. In M.A. in political science. We’re adopting Qatar, that, tiny little country attached work on his MFA in new media art. other news, she and fiancé Chris Barker a greyhound in March.” In Sept., Maggie to Saudi Arabia.” Hilary Marlene Quesenberry married finally set a wedding date for Oct. 2012 flew to Portland for Laura Schaefer’s Emily Wiley just bought her first house Timothy Robert Quesenberry on in their new city! wedding and loved getting to visit the in Warwick, N.Y. She writes, “Anyone in 10/2/11 at Wintergreen Vineyards. Kerri Faust Monsalve moved to Bogota, city and spend time with Jennifer Wolf, the area is welcome to stop by! I still Maggie Murray Watts welcomed a baby Colombia, and is a 2nd grade teacher in Rachel Reynolds, Natalie Pye, and Mar- ride and show, and I work for the DOJ. I boy Callum McCauley Watts on 2/3/12. a biligual school. She was married in garet Loebe ’06. She says, “One of the keep up with Jo Gormley, also still riding Joanna Wood graduated from law school Nov. and celebrated the big event with highlights of the weekend was our sur- and going to vet tech school in N.C. in May 2011, passed the Virginia Bar SBC friends Melissa Massy, Nicki prise gift to Laura—a new class ring, Can’t wait to see everyone at Reunion! Exam, and is now working as an associ- Brandt, and Julie Drake. She and hus- identical to the one she tragically lost in I, Emily Olson, was able to meet up with ate at a small litigation firm in northern band Felipe also work in a Christian min- D.C. a couple years ago. We even wrote Eleanor O’Connor in Chicago for a long Va. She was happy to see former SBC istry with indigenous university students her a new ode and had painted cups to weekend in Jan. We had a blast explor- classmates, Tamra Scott and Lisa Mol- in Bogota. celebrate the weekend! I can’t wait for ing the city. While there I ran into Dr. lica Moore, at Lisa’s wedding back in And I, Nicki Brandt, spent the past 5 what I know will be the best Reunion Jonathan Green and Lynn Buck in the May. mos. working for The Marine Mammal ever! Art Institute, which was a pleasant sur- Courtney Pyrtle was married last June Center in Calif. One of the major high- Heidi Trude received a grant from the prise. I continue to work various theatre and is taking her pre-lims this spring. If lights was becoming comfortable re- Warren County Educational Endowment jobs in the Detroit metro area including all goes well she’ll be starting her dis- straining sea lions for veterinary proce- to purchase mini laptops for her stu- teaching, costuming, performing, and sertation at this time next year. dures and being involved in the dents to use in her classroom. She serving on the board of directors for a Lauren Martin Pinion married Chase stranding response for a gray whale in writes, “The Northern Virginia Daily fea- local community theatre. I too am look- Pinion in Marietta, Ga.; Cara Cherry, the Klamath River! I’m currently down in tured an article about the grant I re- ing forward to our reunion. I can’t wait Tabitha Dixon Ward, and Kassie Caola Fla. to work another winter season with ceived and how my students are using to be back on campus and get a chance ’07 were bridesmaids and Melissa Fla. Fish and Wildlife doing aerial sur- technology to communicate with our sis- to catch up with all my classmates in Massy made the journey from Colo. veys studying the endangered North At- ter school in France. You can find the ar- person! Laura Ann Toussaint is still enjoying life lantic right whale. After losing my mom ticle online at www.nvdaily.com.” Heidi in D.C. with her husband and dog, Ma- to cancer last year, it’s nice to be is excited about Reunion! son. She saw Olivia Ungerer, Hollylane nearer to family. While out in Calif., I Danielle Briggs-Hansen continues to 2008 Riley, Sara Coffey, and Shanthi had a chance to catch up with Julie work at Systems Planning and Analysis Kathryn Purnell Mills Ramesh for a weekend when they all Drake, and on the cross-country trip vis- and is living in Alexandria, Va. She at- 6004 Treyburn Pl. came back to town. ited with Mallory Sherwood ’09, Re- tended the wedding of Elsa Mittelholtz Glen Allen, VA 23059-5483 Sara Coffey finished her master’s de- becca Penny ’08, Tasha Marie Purcell Cannon in Oct. along with fellow alum- [email protected] gree at the U. of St. Andrews in Nov. ’04, Kimberly Gibson ’05 and Melissa nae Renee Modzelewski ’06, Francine and has had a fun time catching up with Massy. Anne Lojek became engaged to Jared Ely Cannon ’75, Margaret Barnes ’08, friends since then. She’s seen Jane For those who haven’t heard, sadly, Ju- McQueen while traveling to French Poly- Kelsey Jeffers, and Gwen Reyes ’06. Rangel, Hollylane Riley, Shanthi lia Lockwood passed away Sun., nesia in July 2011. They will be married Kelsey Jeffers is living in Charleston, Ramesh, Olivia Ungerer, Tori LaBrosse, 1/22/12, after a lengthy battle with in Miami, Fla. in April 2012. They cur- S.C., working for the NOAA Commis- Laura Ann Toussaint, Laura Pearson ’04 cancer (Metastatic Ewings’s Sarcoma). rently reside in Fairfax, Va. sioned Officer Corps on NOAA Ship

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 60 consultant at K12, an education com- Sarah Fishback is a member of the Jinhae, South Korea. I work at a private 2009 pany in Herndon, Va. 2011/13 class of the Darley Flying school, love it! I plan to either renew my Julia McClung Lisa Weisbrich works at Aetna as a new Start program. This program is a 2-year contract here, or travel to other Asian 5111 Block House Ct. Apt 728 business underwriting analyst for the management trainee program focused cultures teaching English, as well as to Charlotte, NC 28277 Northeast region. She’s working in the on the thoroughbred industry. Sarah is visit during vacations. [email protected] corporate headquarters in Hartford, based in Lexington, Ky., and has already Allison Garrison and Alaina McKee are Conn. Jennifer Lundy is working for Con- completed stints in Ireland and England. in their final semesters at UNC at Amber Lubeck: After working for an edu- gressman Issa on Capitol Hill, and is a After Ky., she’ll be going to Australia Greensboro. Allie will graduate in May cation non-profit in D.C., I’m living in Bu- new member of the Junior League of and Dubai before graduating next July in with her M.A. in Spanish and will be get- dapest and getting my master’s in inter- Wash. Emma Parker works for the Ireland. In July, Ashley Carroll will be ting married on 6/2/12. Currently she’s national relations and security studies. Earthquake Commission in Wellington, traveling to Athens, Greece. She also at- a teaching assistant for a Spanish 101 New Zealand. In Jan., Janika Carey tended a couple of mini-reunions, one course at UNC at Greensboro and a started work at Media, Marketing and this past summer with Amanda Spanish teacher for Lango Kids Inc. 2010 Communications at SBC as a staff McKenzi and one in Dec. with Liz Maso- Alaina will graduate in May as well, with writer/marketing specialist. nis ’11 and Laura Schein ’11. her M.A. in history and a concentration Alaina Cavelier McKee Celeste Rustom is a second lieutenant Britt Schneider is finishing her first year in museum studies. 5939 W Friendly Ave., Apt. 44K in the Army and was stationed at Ft. at Cumberland School of Law, at Sam- Greensboro, NC 27410 Leonard Wood, Mo., until March. Ce- ford U. in Birmingham, Ala. Jessica Pil- [email protected] leste met with Rachael Vaughan for grim is in her 2nd year of law school. New Year’s, and they had a lot of fun to- Last semester she made the Moot 2011 Lots of recent changes! Madeline Davis gether in Fernandina Beach. Rachael Court Board, and honor society at her Ms. Ashley Corren Hinkle got engaged on 2/6 to Brandon Brewer still works for Outward Bound. She says, school. She placed in the top 8 in the 1124 Lady Ginger Ln. and plans to wed in Oct. Melissa “I have the amazing opportunity to work Copeland, Cook, Taylor & Bush Appel- Virginia Beach, VA 23455 Ramos moved to Charlotte, N.C., and with at-risk youth and juvenile delin- late Advocacy Competition. In March, [email protected] works for WorldOne Research. Temma quents. I take them out on a river for 20 Jessica went to New Orleans to com- Clark-Braverman also moved. She days teaching them anger management, pete in the Judge John R. Brown Admi- works for CH2M Hill, in Northern Va., as decision-making skills, leadership, and ralty Moot Court Competition. a project controls specialist. Andria responsibility.” Sarah Packard: I’m teaching English in Pasquel has a new job as an enrollment

Annie Colpitts '11 is the full-time general manager at the Firehouse Theatre Project in Richmond, Va., where she began as a volunteer and moved into the position when it became available. “I attribute my ability to balance my priorities to my experience at Sweet Briar,” she says.

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1930 Barbara Thompson Charlotte Sprunt 1952 1962 Evelyn Ware Mrs. Barbara T. Parker Mrs. David R. Murchison, Jr. Edith Marsh Linda Byrd Mrs. Evelyn W. Saunders June 18, 2011 February 9, 2012 Mrs. Laurence B. Fonda Mrs. Carleton D. Powell February 9, 2012 December 28, 2011 Date unknown 1942 Edwina "Wheats" Young 1933 Jessamine Boyce Mrs. Douglas Call, Jr. Suzanne Bassewitz Sullins Stuart Jane Martin Mrs. Jessamine Morris September 28, 2011 Mrs. Suzanne Mentzinger Mrs. J. Thomas Arendall, Jr. Mrs. Harold E. Person August 26, 2011 April 26, 2012 September 30, 2011 May 3, 2012 1947 Virginia Thayer Jacqualine Stilwell Winifred Collins Carolyn Lamson Kathrina Howze Mrs. Virginia Boothby Mrs. David A. Clarke Mrs. Winifred Collins Brister Mrs. Miller G. Kimbrough, Jr. Mrs. Robert L. Maclellan December 19, 2011 October 27, 2011 March 4, 2012 June 17, 2011 September 26, 2011 Elizabeth Chamberlain 1948 Catherine Coxe 1965 Frances Neville Ms. Elizabeth R. Chamberlain Constance Hancock Mrs. Nelson Page Alice Perry Mrs. Frances N. Newberry March 28, 2012 Mrs. Albert A. Getman, Jr. November 21, 2011 Mrs. Robert Park October 7, 2011 March 9, 2011 December 11, 2011 Nancy Goldbarth 1953 1934 Mrs. Nancy W. Glaser Constance Somervell Sallie Gayle 1966 Margaret Ross January 16, 2012 Mrs. E. MacDonald Matter Ms. Sallie G. Beck Patricia Martin Mrs. Edward M. Ellice December 26, 2011 November 20, 2011 Dr. Patricia Rodier October 19, 2011 1943 May 3, 2012 Cynthia Smith Ann Orr 1954 1935 Mrs. John A. Brutzman Mrs. Robert Savage Frances Reese Lucinda Michel Frances Adams February 13, 2012 November 8, 2011 Mrs. Franklin V. Peale, Jr. Mrs. Robert T. Blakely III Mrs. Louis D. Simonds, Jr. March 4, 2010 April 13, 2012 February 18, 2012 Anne Noyes Betty Ann Jackson Mrs. Millard Lewis Mrs. William J. Ryan II Mary Winsett 1967 1936 March 4, 2012 April 12, 2012 Mrs. Charles Schmidt Judith Keyserling Mary "Polly" Rich April 30, 2012 Miss Judith Keyserling Mrs. John C. Ewing Anne Howard Mary Jo Armstrong February 11, 2012 March 1, 2012 Mrs. Charles S. Phalen Mrs. Armstrong Berryman 1956 November 28, 2011 November 18, 2011 Louise Barry Bennett 1970 Nancy Parsons Mrs. Homer B. Gibbs, Jr. Cathie Kelly Mrs. Vincent S. Jones Elizabeth Vrabek Patricia "Patty" Traugott January 22, 2012 Dr. Cathie Kelly February 14, 2012 Mrs. Elizabeth Potter Edwards Mrs. James W. Rouse February 26, 2012 October 22, 2011 March 5, 2012 Nancy St. Clair 1937 Mrs. Lilburn Talley 1974 Helen Rae 1944 1949 December 28, 2011 Peggy Crawford Mrs. Frederick C. Stebbins Anne Guthrie Ellen Ramsay Mrs. W. Thomas Reichard III February 7, 2012 Mrs. Lucien Yokana Mrs. Kenneth F. Clark, Jr. 1957 April 14, 2012 January 4, 2012 September 24, 2011 Margaret Liebert 1938 Mrs. M. Eugene Dobbins 1977 Lillian Williams Martha Falk Dorothy Bottom March 23, 2010 Mary Elizabeth Ford Mrs. Thomas S. Grymes Mrs. Harry T. Vallery Mrs. Dorothy Rouse-Bottom Mrs. Mary F. Hodges December 28, 2011 January 7, 2012 October 12, 2011 Mary Anne Wilson January 28, 2012 Ms. Mary Anne Wilson 1939 Sloan Hawkins Sarah Strickland April 2012 1987 Audrey Siebert Mrs. Simon V. Ward Mrs. Sarah S. Johnson Amy Tetteh Mrs. Harry H. Snyder October 20, 2011 November 14, 2011 1959 Mrs. Amy Tetteh Griffin January 21, 2012 Roberta Lohnes October 29, 2011 1945 1950 Mrs. W. E. Smythe Lucy Gordan Ann McLean Jane Lewis November 16, 2004 1989 Mrs. William N. Jeffers Mrs. Gilbert B. Loomis, Jr. Mrs. A. Augustus Zollicoffer, Jr. Jaenet Guggenheim December 20, 2011 October 25, 2011 February 6, 2012 Mary Picton Payne Miss Jaenet Guggenheim Mary P. Hester April 5, 2011 Narcissa Dillard Suzanne Thomason Margaret Craig January 9, 2012 Mrs. Narcissa D. Kelley Mrs. Suzanne T. Atkinson Mrs. Margaret C. Sanders 1999 March 28, 2012 October 2, 2011 March 24, 2012 Ruth Weaver Jessica Tinfo Mrs. McRae W. Williams Miss Jessica Alyse Tinfo 1940 1946 1951 September 7, 2011 October 8, 2011 Mary Frances Hazelton Hallie Tom Nixon Anna Coolidge October 17, 2011 Mrs. Jack J. Powell Mrs. Shelby Richardson 1961 2006 February 13, 2012 December 31, 2011 Marylee Matthews Julia Lockwood 1941 Mrs. Richard Bacharach Ms. Julia Marie Lockwood Eleanor Damgard Eleanore Sherman January 10, 2011 January 22, 2012 Mrs. Malcolm Firth, Jr. Mrs. Eleanore L. Sorensen November 21, 2011 July 2, 2009

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2 Anne Lojek '08 became engaged to Jared McQueen while traveling to French Polynesia in July 2011. They were married in Miami, Fla. in April 2012. They currently reside in Fairfax, Va.

3 Bridget Bayliss Curren '96 and Rich welcomed their little girl, Aoife Rose, on 5-10-11.

4 Cindy Rakow Readyhough '96 with family, (L-R) Katelynn (2), Cindy, Patrick, 8 Sam (4)

5 Dottie Norris Schipper '64 and Carolina Stars dancing partner Roy.

6 Ellie Creasey, daughter of Grace Turner Creasey '01, ready for SBC!

7 Ileana Johanna Tricarico, granddaughter of Kate Schmoeller '71.

8 Jessica Porter Sadeq '04 married Fady on 10-7-11 at Bluemont Vineyard in Bluemont, Va., Caitlin Webber Mazzucca, Kirkland Wohlrab, Kerry Keins Mutschelknaus, Jessica Porter Sadeq, Stephanie Gleason Peppler, Andrea Stassi, Anne Mohana, Heather Shumaker (Class of 2004).

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9 Kristin Alexandre Kuhns '68: This is an image of the cover of my book (an illustration by artist Tom Loepp of Neci (the gypsy Girl) and Ezra, the man she loves).

10 Maria Kitchin married Preston Moore in Virginia Beach on 6-25-11.

11 Nancy Lynah Hood '64 and her grandson.

12 Sabryna McClung Roberson '94 and Shannon Hetcel Dykes '94 in the Keys.

13 Susan Bobb '00, Amy Snawder '00 and Evangeline Taylor '00 drink gluhwein at the Nuremburg Christkindel Market in Germany.

14 Twin daughters of Anne Secor '80, Romy and Naia (5).

15 Susan Schmidt '71 in Beufort, N.C. She works as an editor, advising authors how to revise book manuscripts for publication.

16 Laurel Scott '84 (aka Pvt. Lawrence Scott) with the 24th Virginia.

SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 64 Melissa Gail Raymond and sister Michelle Diana Raymond ‘08

65 SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE | SBC.EDU Brittaney Michielsens and aunt Kimberley McGraw Euston ‘92

Margaret Mason and aunts Kate Robinson Hillestad '89 and Margaret Robinson Tallmadge ‘81

Carol Holbrook Ferguson and mother Frances Marshall McClung Ferguson ’80 and grandmother Margaret Graves McClung '53.

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SAVE THE DATE FOR Homecoming 2012 October 19-21

Homecoming Weekend is October 19-21. Alumnae and parents are invited to campus to celebrate a weekend with students, faculty, sta! and College administrators. Guests will enjoy lectures, athletics games, volunteer training, and a community picnic. More information will be available soon. Don’t miss this special weekend!