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A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JO ELLEN PARKER ON STRATEGIC PLANNING
In introducing the current strategic planning process, I used the metaphor of the
"starting line." A starting line, of course, suggests that a race is about to begin.
There were several reasons I liked the metaphor of a race for this particular
strategic planning process. A race has a beginning, a middle and an end. It has a
clear goal and a clear pathway toward that goal. A race involves an awareness of
competition— even if only against one's own previous best— and success depends
on training, preparation and attitude. And, of course, a race involves moving
quickly!
The "Starting Line White Paper" (available in its entirety on the strategic planning
blog at strategicplan.blog.sbc.edu) laid out my charge to the community; in a way,
it charted out our racecourse for us. The rest of this message summarizes its key
points.
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SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010 VOL. 81, NO. 1
INSIDE FRONT COVER: Message from the President on Strategic Planning
2 Engineering Inspiration: 1945 Graduate Endows $3 Million Fund to Support Engineering Program
4 Engineering Inspiration: 2009 Engineering Graduates
8 1 01 st Commencement Links Class of 201 to SBC's 1 0th President
10 Going Places in the Foreign Service
1 2 All in a Life's Work: Elinor Stebbins '00 Receives the Congressional Gold Medal
1 4 Worlds Within Worlds: 201 Senior Art Show
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Printed by Progress Printing Company. INSIDE BACK COVER: In the Sweet Briar Tradition: Anne Walden Dewey Guerin '41
Cover Image: Juniors Sarah Lightbody (left) and Lauren Perhala work on one of the Mixed Sources >0° engineering department's ongoing projects to design and build a low-cost, functional prosthetic hand. The students are contributing to the project through the Honors Summer Research Program, which awards competitive fellowships to work one-on-one with faculty sponsors.
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1945 Graduate Endows $3 Million Fund to Support Engineering Program JENNIFER MCMANAMAY, STAFF WRITER
Margaret "Peggy" Jones Wyllie always wanted to be an engineer, but when she entered college in 1941 pursuing that dream, was nearly impossible. In those days, universities with engineering programs rarely admitted women and no women's college in the country offered the degree. So in 1945, Wyllie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from Sweet Briar College.
2 •Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu inspiration
Sixty-five years later. Sweet Briar is one of only two sending women engineers into today's marketplace
U.S. women's colleges to offer an engineering degree. prepared to use their skills responsibly, sustainably and The program's success has permitted Wyllie to revisit thoughtfully." her childhood dream while expanding opportunities SBC engineering director Hank Yochum also noted
for Sweet Briar's aspiring engineers of today. She and that the Wyllie s gift validates what the College has
her husband, Jesse Wyllie, have given $3 million to done to develop a high-quality program.
Sweet Briar to create an endowment in support of the "This endowment speaks to the success of
program. Shortly after the gift was announced, Jesse the program and to our commitment to creating
Wyllie passed away. opportunities for women to become engineers that
In recognition of the gift, SBC Engineering will make a difference in the world," Yochum said. henceforth be known as the Margaret Jones Wyllie '45 "The gift will help us provide even more The Wyllies
Program. It is the first named academic opportunities for our students, including funds Engineering appreciate the program in the College's 109-year history. for additional state-of-the-art lab equipment and Sweet Briar's engineering curriculum was built scholarships. It will also support community-based importance over several years beginning in 2002, largely with $1.5 design courses, like last year's collaboration with
million in grants from the National Science Foundation. disabled workers at Lynchburg Sheltered Industries. of sending The first class of degree candidates was enrolled in That project resulted in a national workplace innovation women 2005 and graduated last year. award for design."
The College offers a B.S. in engineering science Peggy Wyllie lives on her cattle farm in Troy, Va. engineers and a B.A. in engineering management. The She and Jesse retired there in 1982 after his career as into today's curriculum emphasizes experiential learning, design a research scientist and executive with Gulf Oil Corp. as a fundamental element of engineering, and creating They moved around, living in the United Kingdom, the marketplace solutions to human problems. engineering science Middle East, Texas. California Pennsylvania. The and and prepared degree track is multidisciplinary, rooted in mechanical While her husband, a Rhodes Scholar from South engineering and engineering design, with an emphasis Africa, climbed the ranks at Gulf to serve as president to use on electrical and mechanical systems. and chairman of the company, Peggy raised three
The B.A. option responds to the high demand children and pursued her own interests, including riding their skills among today's technical companies for graduates with horses. In a recent interview with Virginia Business, responsibly, strong educational backgrounds in both management Wyllie said she rode competitively at Sweet Briar and
and technology. Fundamental science, math and didn't stop riding until age 75. sustainably engineering courses, combined with an emphasis on There also was a time in the 1950s when she and developing management skills and interconnections satisfied her need for speed as a race car driver on between the disciplines, are the core of the program. the Sports Car Clubs of America circuit. What the thoughtfully." The Wyllies, who met at The Johns Hopkins somewhat diminutive Wyllie lacked in stature she made University where Peggy earned her master's in up in nerve, sometimes pushing the Jaguars she drove —JO ELLEN PARKER
chemistry, were early and generous supporters to 1 1 miles an hour.
of engineering at Sweet Briar. They contributed substantially for laboratory renovations and equipment,
computers and software from 2005 to 2007.
Earlier this winter. President Jo Ellen Parker invited
the couple to campus to attend a lecture, tour the department's labs and machine shops, and meet with students, faculty and administrators. "Peggy and Jesse Wyllie were impressed by the
quality of Sweet Briar's engineering students and faculty, by the mission of the program and by the
innovative curriculum," Parker said. "They appreciated the careful stewardship, which
made effective and thoughtful use of their previous gifts and of National Science Foundation grants. But Left to right: President Jo Ellen Parker with Jesse Wyllie, Peggie Wyllie '45 and Hank
mostly, I think, they appreciate the importance of Yochum.
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010 • 3 Engineering Inspiration 2009 Engi neering Graduates
In May 2009, Sweet Briar graduated its first full class of engineers — four women who helped pave the way for future engi- neering students. Recently, we learned that these new alumnae have begun promising careers or gone on to further study. From conducting research in nanotechnology to working with a government intelligence agency, these engineers are doing work that proves the program's success.
During interviews with the four graduates, each was asked about Sarah Smiley stands in front of Tuck School of Business where she attends many of her classes at Dartmouth. Smiley's intended degree integrates both engineering sci- her most memorable experience at Sweet Briar. Three, who ence and business. attended the spring 2007 Technology and Society course, said Sarah Smiley the same thing. As part of the class, they planned and executed Helping others in practical ways has always been important to Sarah Smiley, and engineering has a trip to Guatemala, where they helped build a clean-water sup- provided her with the tools to do just that. She chose
Sweet Briar's engineering program for its focus on ply system for a rural boarding school. They also built a pump mechanical and electrical engineering, small class connected to the storage tank that could be operated by hand sizes and varied course offerings. Having graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a double or electrically. All three alumnae spoke of how the project gave major in engineering science and mathematics. Smiley
now attends Dartmouth College where she is earning them the chance to help others, one of the fundamental goals of a master s degree in engineering management. engineering. "I believe that we're blessed to be a blessing,"
Smiley said. "And I want to help people. I want to be
the best leader that I can be, and I believe that one The newly named Margaret Jones Wyllie '45 Engineering way to obtain this goal is to challenge myself and get
the best education I am capable of." Program continues to grow with 20 students enrolled for the At Sweet Briar, Smiley was involved in the Falls- coming year. The number of women in engineering is steadily on-Nose tap club, golf club, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and she participated in three increasing through our Explore Engineering program for high separate internships.
During her sophomore year. Smiley traveled to school girls and through our engineering scholarship pro- Guatemala with her classmates where they began
construction on a water system for a local school. For gram, both of which are funded through the National Science Smiley, the project was rewarding, not only because Foundation and the Wyllie endowment. of the hands-on experience, but also because of the
4* Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Richmond Engineering Group Names weet Briar
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HI JENNIFER MCMANAMAY, STAFF WRITER
The Richmond Joint Engineers' Council
has selected Sweet Briar College Amanda Baker explored parts of Ecuador in January 2009 on a kayaking trip. to receive its 20 1 RJEC Award
for Outstanding Achievement in connections she made with the children at reconstruct the items before being caught. In Advancing the Study and Practice of the school. high school. Baker began taking engineering
"We got to throw a party with the kids classes at a community college and felt she'd Engineering. there with a pinata, which we helped them found her niche. Sweet Briar is the first recipient of to set up," she said. "The water system Now she is a full-time employee of the new award. The RJEC chose the construction was a lot of physical labor, but Straughan Environmental Services in College to recognize its creation of we learned about the culture while we were Columbia, Md. She spends her days doing degreed in there. We practiced our Spanish, drew on stream surveys and assessments, field programs engineering and our history of Latin America, really put to work, habitat assessments and storm water the graduation of its first class in the work our problem-solving techniques." management plans. She's also a part-time spring of 2009. Sweet Briar is one of Smiley always valued the intimate setting student at The Johns Hopkins University, two women's colleges in the country to she encountered at Sweet Briar and the where she's earning her master's in offer degrees in engineering. confidence that a women's college gave her, environmental engineering and science with especially since she has entered a field in a focus on stream restoration. She's also Hank Yochum, director of the engi- which women are the minority. part of the Johns Hopkins Outdoor Pursuits neering program at Sweet Briar,
Currently, Smiley is working toward program, leading kayaking, backpacking, accepted the honor at the RJEC's a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certificate, rock climbing and outdoor adventure trips. annual Engineers' Week Awards which focuses on developing best practices Baker chose Sweet Briar to provide Banquet, held Feb. 1 8 at the Jefferson in manufacturing production. Eventually, her with the necessary link between her Hotel in Richmond. she'd like to work for a technical company high school education and post-graduate in operations. She is on the Master aspirations. A double major in engineering "The award acknowledges the of Engineering Management Council and environmental sciences, Baker was College's commitment to increasing and is co-leader of the Operations and involved in clubs, activities and programs the number of women in engineering," Manufacturing Professional Club. She is all over campus, including the Sweet Yochum said. "We are especially a teaching assistant for the upper-level Briar Engineering Society, American pleased to earn this inaugural mechanical engineering class, machine Society of Mechanical Engineers, Women award design. Overall, Smiley is thriving in her in Engineering, SWEBOP (the College's from an organization with such state- new life at Dartmouth, and fondly cites her outdoor program) and Tau Phi. wide reach as the RJEC." Sweet Briar experience as the springboard During her sophomore year. Baker was Since the class of 2009 graduated, for her path. part of the Guatemala trip and said that it Yochum has been following the wom- was an adventure she'll never forget. en's progress as they pursue advanced Amanda Baker "I helped organize the logistics of the trip," Baker said. "It was one of the most degrees or begin careers in the field. As a young girl, Amanda Baker was curious demanding classes and at the same time one about mechanics. She took apart radios, "The success of our first graduates, in of the most gratifying." remote controls and toys with moving parts, graduate school and in practice, dem- The trip taught Baker that engineering is trying to figure out how they worked. When onstrates the high quality engineering about helping people. "That should be our she heard her mother's footsteps coming education a small liberal arts college number one priority," she said. down the hall, she'd quickly attempt to can provide," he said.
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Engineering; Inspiration 2009 Engineering Graduates
Guyer received a B.A. in engineering
management at Sweet Briar. The degree combines engineering science and the
business practices that are common in her
field, which include production management, marketing, human resources and accounting.
Guyer s Sweet Briar experience gave her the
confidence to work in a male-dominated field and also the practical knowledge she needed
to get a job and excel in it.
Like others in her major, Guyer was
involved in the Falls-on-Nose tap club and the Sweet Briar chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. A member of the
riding council, Guyer spent many hours at the barn planning in-house horse shows,
volunteering, riding and caring for horses.
At Sweet Briar, two events were particularly memorable for Guyer, who Kaelyn Leake
is now an intelligence specialist with the
National Ground Intelligence Center in Kaelyn Leake is doing something at the
Charlottesville, Va. In her first year, she University of California, Santa Cruz, that
and her teammates won the Cardboard Boat most people have never heard of. She's
Regatta, paddling to victory in Sweet Briar's specializing in nanoscale optofluidics, a
lake aboard their cardboard-and-duct tape research field that studies optic and fluidic
vessel. components in the same microscopic
During her sophomore year, the system. Leake is attempting to design a Lauren Guyer Guatemala project had a strong impact on portable, inexpensive device that will be her outlook as an engineer. Guyer and her used to detect dangerous viruses and strands team overcame numerous obstacles during of DNA, as well as many other processes Lauren Guyer found her way to SBC and before their trip including fundraising, that take extensive amounts of time and engineering along an indirect route. She bad weather, language barriers and sickness. money to detect in a laboratory setting. started with a strong interest in architecture In the end. the opportunity to have a tangible These devices would be useful to traveling and also in riding. Searching for colleges effect on a school in need was invaluable, researchers as they enter developing that offered intensive riding instruction, said Guyer, who feels that Sweet Briar helped countries and remote areas where they could she stumbled upon Sweet Briar and the her to become a confident leader, equipped to identify a hazardous virus on site. engineering program, which turned out to be handle the challenges in front of her. "Engineering is very much a the right fit. multidisciplinary field," Leake said. "We use
Engineering Students Recognized Nationally for Community Outreach
In a recent regional version of the Technology and Society course, students designed and created tools for physically and mentally challenged employees at Lynchburg Sheltered Industries, a local nonprofit company. The new tools created by the students are being 1 used at LSI today.
Students involved in the project participated in the EJ 1 2009 NISH National Scholar Award
Sarah Smiley '09, left, and Maxine Emerich '10 for Workplace Innovation and Design, a national engineering design competition. Sweet at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., where Briar students, including '09 graduate Sarah Smiley, earned third place in the competi- they were recognized for a project design. tion, an impressive accomplishment for our program.
6 'Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.erJu physics, chemistry, math and even biology daily at UC Santa Cruz. Sweet Briar s engineering program, which combines mechanical, electrical and some civil engineering, prepared me for this." As an undergraduate, Leake was involved in the Engineering and Physics Society, fencing, American Society for Mechanical Engineers and the Falls-on-Nose tap club. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with majors in engineering science and physics and received the George H. Lenz Excellence in Physics Award.
One of Leake's favorite moments at Sweet
Briar took place on a late night in the Guion
Science Center. In her first engineering class, she was tasked with creating a Beanie Baby launcher. The contraption had to launch a
Beanie Baby over a "mountain" at a certain angle and height. Engineering "The night before the assignment was ° AT SWEET BRIAR c^ due, the whole class was in the engineering The engineering program at Sweet Briar hosts lab trying to finish the building for the now a week-long summer project and calibrating the catapults ... course and two overnight Explore Engineering weekends for junior
There were many flying Beanie Babies, and senior high school girls. Participants engage in engineering projects such as collisions and races on wheeled chairs down creating robots that make music and art, designing electronic clothing, making the hall," Leake said. iPod speakers, building interactive stomp pad games and more. When most of the catapults did not meet The program emphasizes the creative nature of engineer- the specifications, Leake and her classmates ing and the ways that engineers the world better realized how much testing, thought and make a study goes into completing a seemingly place. Students see engineering in action as they simple task. work with current SBC students and faculty. Leake recently received a QB3 They also meet with area women engi- Fellowship for first-year studies in the Keck neers, learn about Sweet Briar's pro- Center at UC Santa Cruz and looks forward gram and stay in the residence halls. to new discoveries in the field of electrical engineering. No prior experience in engineering <^C
is needed. For more information on Explore
Engineering, visit: www.engineering.sbc.edu. ENGINEERING FACULTY
Honk Yochum Scott Pierce Dorsa Sanadgol T.C. Scott Scott Hyman Associate professor Assistant professor Assistant professor Associate professor, joint Whitney Guion Professor Program director Ph.D. Georgia Tech Ph.D. University of Virginia with UVA Ph.D. University of Ph.D. Wake Forest Registered Professional Interests: mechatronics, Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park University Engineer increasing opportunities Michigan Interests: radio astronomy,
Interests: nanotechnology, Interests: machine design, for women in engineer- Interests: heat transfer, image processing optics, engineering low-cost prosthetics, ing automotive engineering outreach robotics
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010 7 10 1st Commencement Links Class of 2010 to SBC's 10th President
T BY JENNIFER MCMANAMAY
Jo Ellen Parker opened Sweet Briar's 101st commencement on Saturday, May 15, ready to confer 155 undergraduate degrees and six Master of Arts
in Teaching degrees. When she left the stage at the conclusion of the ceremony, she had become an
honorary member of the first class to graduate since she became president. Senior class president Carlisle "Carlie" Adams announced the honor, and presented Parker with
a class ring. Adams noted that Parker had faced
challenges during her first year, but rose to meet them.
"I'll say to my new classmates, I'm just a little bit verklempt," Parker said in response, and noted that as
the College's 10th president she is numerically as well
as emotionally linked to the Class of 2010. Debra Elkins '93 delivered the commencement address, which struck an engineering theme
appropriate to her background. She is a risk analysis expert serving as a section chief with U.S. Homeland
Security. After receiving her bachelor's from SBC in
mathematical physics, she earned a master's in math
and a doctorate in industrial engineering. Elkins advised the Class of 2010 that the liberal arts
education they received at Sweet Briar has prepared
them to engineer the future in everything from health care and education to fixing energy shortages and environmental issues to ensuring the nation's security. "You have the rights and privileges that go along with being a Sweet Briar graduate, but you also have President Jo Ellen Parker was given a class ring by senior class president Carlie Adams at commencement. Parker is now an honorary member of the Class of 2010. a responsibility to use your education to help address
these tough issues," she said. honorary title of Emilie Watts McVea Scholar as the Elkins said each also has a responsibility to herself. highest ranking member of her class, a distinction she
"Find whatever it is that you love doing and that you shares with Elkins, who won it in 1993.
do really well, and go after that dream with all your As is customary, dean of the College Jonathan passion and energy. Then you will have found not only Green called each candidate to the stage to receive a job, but an interesting, fulfilling career path, where her diploma from President Parker. Other speakers you have lots of opportunities to give back to your included Rachel Flynn representing the board of community and broader society." directors and Jennifer Crossland '86, president of the Elkins comes from good stock and a proud Sweet Alumnae Association.
Briar tradition: A sister and two cousins also are Three guests also were acknowledged at graduates and her late mother was professor emerita commencement. President Emerita Betsy Muhlenfeld and former chair of Sweet Briar's math department, for and her husband, Larry Wollan, and Margaret "Peggy"
whom the family established the Judith Molinar Elkins Jones Wyllie '45, who with her late husband, Jessie
Prize. It recognizes outstanding achievements in math Wyllie, recently endowed a fund to support the
or science and is one of five all-College awards that College's engineering program. '93 delivers are presented during commencement each year. Visit www.sbc.edu/news/items/9680 for the full Debra Elkins the 2010 commencement Elkins was able to present the award named for story. address.
her mother to Laura Nicole Jett. Jett also earned the
8 -Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Aili McGill '10 and Marian McGill 02. Left to right: Missy Flanigan Clark '77, Barbara Clark McLaughlin '77, Kathryn Smith '10, Blair Clark Swoope '83 (mother).
L Lisa Weisbrich '10 with her sister, Petra Weisbrich, Maribeth Turner '10 and Grace Turner Malone Roberts ' 1 with her mother, who graduated in December 2009 and received Creasey '01. Martha Roberts '75. her diploma at the 2010 ceremony.
Four turning point students earned their bachelor's Autum Catalon Wade '04 Sisters Caroline Bailey '13 and Elizabeth Bailey '10 with degrees. Left to right: Wanda Spradley, Deborah Taylor, and Sarina Catalon '10. their mother, Susan Parr Bailey '81. Donna Kerley and Tina Thompson.
Six students received their Master of Arts in Teaching. Graduates from left to right are: Sarah Johnson, Elizabeth Shuford, Lisa Mazingo, Tracey Nicely, Jennifer Gottfried and Erin Coppersmith.
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010 • 9 Going Places in the Foreign Service
IhERJTHIRD DAY ON THE JOB, Heather Wright In the course of a day she may brief U.S. military personnel at Camp Lemonnier on participated in a Hindu cremation. Now in her local customs, visit an American in jail or arrange another's funeral. More often she second year, she has shared tea with an Afar sultan sleuths through visa applications separating ^fact from sometimes hilarious fiction made and stood on the deck of the USS Cole. up by people trying to get to the United States.
Wright is consular section chief at the U.S. "I do a lot of talking and meeting new
people in support of the U.S. government's Embassy in Djibouti, a small country on the Horn of mission. I also do a whole lot of writing,
something that I can thank SBC for," Wright Africa. She also is acting political chief and acting says. "My work is very interesting and
challenging, no day is ever the same as the public affairs officer. <.
0~ Summer 2)10 Sweet Briar ftillfigeHltinihae^lagazine www.akimnae.sbc .«du_ - day before. It can be stressful, but I love it and thrive in it." People are generally open here and if you Wright, an international affairs and Spanish double major, knew she wanted to make an effort to learn a few words in be a diplomat when she applied for a Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Somali, it will get you pretty far. I started Fellowship in 2006. Hers was one of 19
graduate fellowships to be awarded that year. out with just the words, 'yes,' 'no,' 'thank The Pickering paid her way through a 'I master's program at George Washington you,' 'please' and don't have any money' University, where she graduated magna cum
laude. It provided housing, a living stipend, have any money.' The last phrase normally
two summer internships, including one as an gets a lot of laughs, a handshake or a hug or
assistant public affairs officer in Asuncion, two when I'm in the market."
Paraguay, and a guaranteed job in foreign She discovered Djiboutians love to party,
service after graduation. too, to the point of shaming Americans. "I
In return, she has to fulfill all went to an International Women's Day Event
requirements for a regular Foreign Service in honor of the first lady. I got there at seven Officer, including security and medical p.m. and didn't leave until after two a.m., and i5V
clearances and passing written and oral that was only with other Americans. I later
exams. She also must have tenure by the found that the party lasted until six a.m."
end of her three-year service obligation in Wright's work hasn't just exposed her to
Djibouti. people and places that most Americans never
While the whole package was worth about experience, it's allowed her to see her own
$150,000, Wright said the opportunity "to country in a new light.
hob-knob with and be mentored by senior- "Not that many Americans get to see the
level personnel in the U.S. government" has good work that we do overseas," she said, been invaluable. So are the travel and cultural describing a visit to a food pre-positioning experiences that come with working for the warehouse. "It's the jump-off point for almost
State Department. all food aid going into Africa, particularly
She is a long way from her hometown of Ethiopia. It's really an incredible feeling to
Princess Anne on Maryland's Eastern Shore, see boxes of food stuffs piled thirty feet high, where she grew up with her mother and her all stamped with USAID. grandparents. "It's also a great feeling to visit refugee
Djibouti is in Northeast Africa on the Gulf camps that are really the last hope for people of Aden. It has nearly 200 miles of coastline fleeing horrendous conflicts and know that and encompasses coral islands off its shores. my country funds about twenty-five percent Bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, of their operation." much of it is rugged desert, where on hikes Even more gratifying, she said, is helping Wright said she has seen children seem to an American who has gotten himself stranded materialize out of the rocks. Though most in a dangerous situation in Somaliland to get
Djiboutians live in the cities, many remain home or helping a family in the United States nomadic herders, raising goats and cattle. deal with the loss or injury of a loved one in Wright lives among and works with Djibouti. the locals, who are predominantly ethnic While representing the U.S. government Afars and Somalis. Ethiopians, Arabs makes her more wary than she might be and Europeans also make up part of the otherwise, it hasn't hindered her immersion population. As a former French territory the in the culture. culture is influenced by African, Arab and "I'm not naive and I know that there are European customs. people out there who don't like Americans
Most Djiboutians are devout Muslims and Djibouti is right in the middle of it —
and some bear the mark of "sujood" on their Somalia, Eritrea, Yemen, pirates, need I say
foreheads from their daily prayers. more?" Wright said.
"It's a mark of piety and people are "But working for the State Department
very proud of it," Wright said. "People are has afforded me an incredible opportunity to
generally open here and if you make an effort live and work in a world that I scarcely think to learn a few words in Somali, it will get you I would have visited on my own. I'm getting
pretty far. I started out with just the words, to see and do things that not that many people
'yes,' 'no,' 'thank you,' 'please' and 'I don't can say they have seen or done."
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Elinor was everything that Sweet Briar is about . . . She was a living example for us sitting right there in the classroom. -Emily Pegues '00
SPOTLIGHT
Elinor Stebbins (far left) poses with some of her fellow pilots.
At age 19 Elinor Fairchild was among the writing. The occasion was most memorable, was well done.
youngest members of the Women Airforce she said, because her children and "It was expeditious," she said. "Nancy
Service Pilots, who in World War II became grandchildren were there to celebrate with Pelosi was graceful and brief."
the first women to fly American military her. Again, for Stebbins one of the best parts
aircraft. Nearly 10 years later, on March 10, of the whole experience was the family
At the age of 75, Elinor Fairchild 2010, she was one of about 200 veterans reunion that went along with it. Stebbins was the oldest person ever to of the WASP to accept a Congressional Stebbins decided to take flying lessons
graduate from Sweet Briar with a four-year Gold Medal during a ceremony at the U.S. after her first plane ride at age 18. She'd just
degree. Capitol. The medal, the highest civilian graduated from high school in Pelham, N.Y.,
She didn't really plan any of it, Stebbins honor bestowed by Congress, was overdue and moved to New York City, where she was
said. recognition for the women's wartime service working and going to college at night. It was
Retired and living in Richmond with her that for a long time the military barely in late 1943, on the day she logged her 35th
husband, Robert, she began attending classes acknowledged, let alone heralded. hour of flight time — the minimum required
because she admired poet Mary Oliver, It was an important event, and Stebbins to apply for the WASP — that someone who was then SBC's Banister Writer-in- borrowed back her old dress uniform, mentioned an Army agent was in the city
Residence. which she had donated to the Virginia War recruiting women pilots.
"One thing led to another and I finally Memorial, for the occasion. Numerous "I went in and signed up." Stebbins said.
matriculated," Stebbins said, laughing. dignitaries spoke, including House Speaker "You wanted to do something during World
In 2000 she graduated from Sweet Nancy Pelosi and former NBC news anchor War II. Everybody did." Briar with a degree in English and creative Tom Brokaw. Stebbins thought the ceremony As a student at Sweet Briar, her friend
12 -Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Elinor Stebbins was honored by family and friends at a nearby restaurant after the ceremony. Elinor Stebbins, March 10, 2010. Standing left to right: Douglas Seay, senior staff member House Foreign Affairs Committee; Lorna Stebbins Fossand, daughter; Rodger Stebbins, son; Elinor Fairchild Stebbins '00; Paul Stebbins, son; Ben Alexander, nephew, son of Elinor's only sister. Seated, left to right: Conrad Carter, friend of Elinor; Elin Stebbins Waldal, daughter; John Stebbins, son; and Janelle, John's friend. and classmate Emily Pegues '00 saw in her unit's mission was to prepare personnel men, she said, "treated us with respect and Stebbins' choices not an overt role model for overseas duty. She often flew the C-45, a kindness and friendship." but someone who was the "real thing." twin-engine transport, but her ambition was When it ended, she returned to her job
"Elinor was everything that Sweet to check out as first pilot on the four-engine at Esso in New York, where she edited the
Briar is about," Pegues said. "Yes, lifelong B-17 bomber. She did log one flight as first employee newspaper, the Esso Manhattan. learning, but responsibilities first, and then pilot of the famous Flying Fortress. She later worked at the Olympia News in she went back and did what she needed to For a pilot, going from single or twin Washington. In 1950 she married Robert H. do. Her priority was the war, then her family engines to four engines is a jump, she Stebbins, a geologist whose career would and when she had a chance, it was time for explained. "It's not a giant step for mankind take them to a mining camp in Washington, her." but it's a big step." and to posts in California, New York, Texas, As for women who go out and make a The B-17 was a "plane with no vices," Utah and Alaska. difference, "She was a living example for us Stebbins said, so forgiving that her only Her son Paul Stebbins says his mother sitting right there in the classroom," Pegues worry when flying it was that if she ever regards life as an adventure and that when said. had to bail out, "it would land peacefully by you see what you love, you go for it.
The WASP operated in the United States itself in a cornfield." Like flying — and literature and writing. between September 1942 and December "I thought it a distinct possibility that it Initially she commuted to Sweet Briar from
1944. relieving male pilots for combat duty. would be capable of landing itself," she said. Richmond, but lived in a single room in
They were civil servants, although they "Not so of other planes. A '17 could come Randolph for her last two years. She went woke to reveille and marched everywhere in on a glide. The B-25 had to be flown home on weekends, but during the week ate they went, Stebbins said. all the way to the ground. I flew it only as meals with friends and frequently attended
They went through seven months of co-pilot. The C-45 was easy to fly, but I lectures and events. basic, primary and advanced training, don't picture it landing itself either." Paul Stebbins said it was like her to the same as male pilots. According to the But Stebbins knows first-hand that planes immerse herself in the experience. "Why
WASP national archive at Texas Woman's don't land themselves and bailing out was would you rob yourself of the opportunity?"
University, 1,074 of 1,830 accepted pilots an ever-present danger. In fact, two of the he said, adding that his father, who died graduated from training. More than 25,000 38 women who lost their lives while serving in 2006, didn't mind. "My father thought applied. The program was ended when the in the WASP were her roommates and best that was the most wonderful thing on earth men began coming home, despite a bill friends at Sweetwater. One was returning — yet another reason to be amazed by this already before Congress to militarize the from her first solo in an AT-6 and collided woman I love."
WASP. In 1977 they were finally given with another plane. The other parachuted He believes his mother is typical of her veterans' status after a number of the from her plane as smoke billowed from the generation, the one Tom Brokaw wrote
WASP pilots successfully lobbied for the engine, but she was too low to land safely. about in "The Greatest Generation." She'll recognition. It fell to Stebbins to escort their bodies never brag about her accomplishments,
The WASP trained at Avenger Field in home. The Army paid the train fare and gave because she sees no reason to. It's what he Sweetwater, Texas, then were stationed her a flag for the families, with whom she finds so special about her: The sense that to at U.S. bases. Missions included testing stayed in touch after the war. Sixty-six years her everyone can do something remarkable. aircraft, ferrying planes, and towing targets later, she put on the same uniform she wore "She would say we should not be to give ground and air gunners practice with to her friends' funerals to accept the Gold surprised by the capacity of ordinary people live ammunition. Medal. to do wonderful things."
Stebbins began training in Texas in Stebbins' year in the WASP was marked
January 1 944 and later was assigned to by strong relationships with the people she Grand Island Army Air Base, Neb., where served with, and not just the women. The
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010- 13 The 2010 senior art show, "Worlds Within Worlds," unveiled the depth of thought, skill and creativity of six graduating seniors.
The collection exhibited a wide range of media and styles including photography, oil paintings, drawings in charcoal, pencil and pen and ink, and mixed media works. The seniors coordinated ^ publicity for the show and prepared all of their own works for hanging, a project they worked on for months before their debut. Each year, the campus community anticipates the opening of the senior show, and this year's display provided f ** an exceptional view into the artistic worlds of these six students. View more of HB
"Worlds Within Worlds" at worldswithinworlds.tumblr.com.
Meredith Paysinger Paradox
14 • Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA JENKS, OKLAHOMA
I am inspired by the The majority of my artwork in this collection is inspired by architec-
natural beauty of the ture. At the beginning of the fall semester, I struggled with creating
surrounding world. From artwork that genuinely expressed my vision as an artist. I explored
an early age, I have had a variety of different ideas, techniques and mediums, yet nothing I a strange connection V created resonated with me. That is, until I looked to architecture for with the curious nature inspiration. The overwhelming beauty of the architectural structures
of animals, which is s spoke to me, and I was able to find my voice. I have especially been
revealed in the focus if'.jm-. stimulated by the architectural design of old cathedrals. The intricate
of my work. I enjoy the details, awe-inspiring craftsmanship and grandiose form have been simplicity and beauty of nature, whether the source of inspiration in this collection. My artwork is not a literal translation of the it is the depths of an ocean or the top of structures that inspired me, but instead an abstract compilation of their lines, shapes and a mountain. When I create my work, I forms. definitely go somewhere else in my mind, I have also incorporated my digital design skills and graphic design background as if I am in that particular place or in the into this collection. I have used text to create images and then used a transfer technique animal's mind, feeling its emotions. I want to incorporate my computer artwork into a more traditional setting. I took a more people to look at my art and see what I see, contemporary approach with these pieces, which forced me to loosen my control over the which is the rare and unbelievable presence fate of the work. of the earth's amazing creatures and their My relationship with Jesus Christ is one that envelops my life and defines me as a natural realm of life. I want the viewer person. Because God is the center of my being and influences all that I am and accomplish, to feel as if they are within the world of the spiritual — which so strongly defines me — naturally translates into my artwork. the painting. I believe the Earth speaks to everyone, and if we just take the time to listen, we will hear what it is saying.
1 am open to trying all forms of art, though I gravitate toward oil painting. I like blending colors to find new ones and trying things to make a project come alive. I see a dreamlike quality within my art, which is not purposely done, but it's something that takes a life of its own. Thinking about it now, on some subconscious level I may dream of living a life free of what being a human entails; a life full of adventure.
I believe it's important to dream, living each moment with wonder, curiosity and amazement.
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Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010 • 15 Kuczynski WILLIAMSPORT, MARYLANI
The line between fantasy and reality is a fine one. I sometimes find it
difficult to differentiate between the two worlds, but as an artist I find this
trait helpful most of the time.
Motorcyclists are such illusive creatures. They have an air of mystery, danger and an undeniable level of "cool" that fascinates me. Brvca Brewer
With this romanticized perception, I set out on my most recent TULSA, OKLAHOMA photographic journey. However, after a couple of months of shooting,
reality set in. I had to deal with the fact that these people were indeed As humans, we dream
"real." Weeks of criticism made me doubt at times whether I would be when we are asleep, but able to express my fascination, and capture for my audience the mystery and elusive nature also when we are awake
that I saw. A momentary feeling that I had been defeated by reality forced me to strike back and unattached mentally
by diving deeper into fantasy. to anything around us.
During my struggles with the Biker project, I set forth on a new endeavor. I decided These dreams are often
to turn my friends and classmates into fairy tale characters. My goal in this project was bits of memories coupled to re-create scenes from some of my favorite stories and make the characters seem more with fantasy and things tangible by turning college students into damsels in distress. By creating these imaginary otherworldly. The focus
worlds and successfully capturing them with my camera lens, I was able to better see the of my recent body of work has been to target I had been missing with my Bikers, allowing me to reach a turning point in my work. transform my dreams and memories into
In these most recent bodies of work I have attempted to show two different yet connected works of art.
concepts. With my Bikers I have taken reality and sculpted it to match my fantasy, Making these fleeting and often shadow-
showing my viewers the magic and intrigue I see when I look at my new friends. In my images into drawings is not an easy task;
interpretations of classic fairy tales, I have explored the world of fantasy and brought it the original idea is not always the best or
much closer to reality. Instead of seeing the impossibilities of these timeless characters, I most informative. In moving from smaller hope my audience can now see real human beings in the same fantastic situations. drawings into larger ones with some of my
In my opinion, the connection between these two concepts lies in the constant struggle pieces I was able to transform the drawings
between fact and fiction. The ability to jump back and forth between the two with the use of slowly into the stories I wished to tell. For
my camera is what fuels and inspires me most as an aspiring artist. I now know that through instance. Life Within Ruins has a small and
my craft I can create and display my own interpretation of the world, whether it is real, large version, both related yet distinct in
fictitious or somewhere in-between. their own right. From the smaller to the
larger, I changed certain details in order Caiti Kuczynski Cool to the Touch to make my memories of Rome, as well as the images from my imagination, stand out separately, but also remain reliant upon
each other in order to make the story whole.
This piece evokes the spectacular life of the
Romans and their great conquests that fell
by the wayside, yet it depicts that new life emerged and flourished among the ruins.
In pulling from my personal life I've tried to make my work more emotional, connectable and interesting to myself and my viewers.
16 • Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Ashleiqh Hawkins Madeline Davis MANASSAS, VIRGINIA NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
Up until this year, I have always made art in the same way: using the Light fascinates me and
same techniques, using the same materials, and creating a specific motif I wonder at its infinite
that can be recognizable anywhere. I have a defined style when I paint capabilities. It has the
and when I draw, both with charcoal and ink. This semester, I branched capacity to sustain
out by using new materials and mediums. Both aspects of my art until this life, to change a mood
point in time are represented in this show: the past and the new. Although dramatically, to alter
I continue to love creating traditional works such as oil on canvas, people's emotions or charcoal on paper, and using pen and ink. the new mediums force me to feelings or to spotlight an experiment and come up with new ways to express my ideas and feelings. otherwise ordinary object
It is in this way that I feel freer, more ambitious and even more excited about creating art. and make it extraordinary.
In each of my self-portraits, I bring attention to internal growth, intimate emotion and With photography, light is crucial. The the challenge of overcoming pain. The organic nature of each piece shows that even through eye conveys an image to the mind. Through the most difficult circumstances, the artist within me continues to persevere and grow. Love, the magic of light, photography enables that compassion and the influence of the natural world calms even the most troubled heart. image to appear on paper. A single person
Questioning who I am and why I am here lies at the root of my existence. My images can, from a mere rectangle of information, have a confident and austere nature that confronts the viewers by asking them if they know create something multitudes can appreciate. the answers to these very questions pertaining to themselves. Through colors and contrasts, I Light makes the seemingly impossible, strive to create images that reflect the details of a reality that I am constantly searching for. I possible. discover a small piece of it every day. In my photography, light is the subject.
I marvel at the way it can make the most common objects beautiful; the way light makes a glass on the table seem magical
or a doorway seem like a portal to the
beyond. As light is the focus of my series
of photographs and not a mere element, all other components of the photograph are secondary.
I will forever be amazed by light's beauty
and will strive to use photography to depict
light as I see it.
Ashleigh Howkii It's the Humidity
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010 • 17 1 Sweet Briar Celebrates the of the
SHEILA ALEXANDER, MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER
Gladys Wester Horton '30, In the 1959-60 academic year, these three alumnae wanted to bring giving to a new high. They pooled their talents for fundraising. Wood looked at the impressive circle of 3
Elizabeth "Jackie" Bond boxwoods in front of Sweet Briar House and saw the inspiration for the name of the new
giving society. Their impressive goal that year was to find 3 1 alumnae who would each Wood '34 and Nancy contribute $1,000 or more to Sweet Briar College. Possessing such tireless determination Dowd Burton '46 were, and enthusiasm, perhaps they were not surprised at all to meet such resounding success. In 2010 the Boxwood Circle celebrates 50 years of existence. individually and together, When Wood was presented with the Outstanding Alumna Award in 1970, she said, "...our
role as alumnae should be to give to the College four of its primary needs: interpretation, forces to be reckoned ideas, students and money." That statement sums up the drive the three had for helping with in whatever project Sweet Briar continue to provide for other young women the exceptional education that they had experienced. they undertook. Now The vision of these founding members for a giving society exceeded all expectations. deceased, Sweet Briar Thanks to the leadership of Wood, Horton and Burton, and so many other dedicated alumnae leaders over the next 50 years, the Boxwood Circle has grown from an ambitious goal of celebrates the legacy securing 31 leadership givers at $1,000 in 1960 to securing 318 leadership givers in 2009.
Giving levels have risen to include $5,000 and $10,000, now the Fountain Society and they began 50 years ago Column Society respectively, and gifts at the Boxwood level are between $2,500 and $5,000 with the invention of the annually. These gifts are a vital source of support for the College. Those who gave to the Annual Fund last year at the Boxwood Circle level or above raised a total of $1,885,573 in
Boxwood Circle society. unrestricted support for the College. That is over 80 percent of the total Annual Fund!
This year's Boxwood Circle is led by Kimberley McGraw Euston '92. Euston is
enthusiastic about her continuing connection with Sweet Briar.
"The Boxwood Circle, as a leadership giving program, creates one of the strongest ties
you can have with Sweet Briar once you have graduated," she said. "I don't know of anyone
who didn't feel the tearing of a beloved bond at graduation, a sense of loss because of the
extraordinary experience we had as students. Part of that loss was about traditions. It doesn't
have to be a loss. Committing to Sweet Briar at a leadership giving level keeps you firmly
entwined with the College and brings you incomparably closer with the greatest Sweet
Gladys Wester Elizabeth "Jackie" Briar tradition of all, upon which this College was founded by Indiana Fletcher Williams: Horton '30 Bond Wood '34 philanthropy. This is the truest, purest tradition at Sweet Briar."
Euston, along with the Boxwood Circle Committee comprising 16 alumnae volunteers,
has a goal of 320 leadership members for 2010.
The 50th anniversary celebration in April paid respect to the founders of the society, as
well as the many dedicated volunteers who have contributed to the continued success of
the Boxwood Circle over the years. To honor this milestone, do your part through giving
and volunteer service to ensure that the Boxwood Circle moves forward toward another 50
remarkable years of distinguished achievement in support of the College.
Wood, Horton and Burton gave a firm start to a giving society that would support Sweet Nancy Dowd Burton '46 Briar into the future, long past their years of service. They pass on an inspiring tradition of
sustaining the future of the College so many of us love.
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Winnie Leigh Hamlin '58, Allison Garrison '10 and John Risher at the celebration luncheon.
Sweet Briar senior Laura Jett sits with Ann Morrison Reams '42 and Sarah Murdock Moore '59 at the 50th Anniversary Boxwood Luncheon.
Boxwood Circle Giving Chair Kimberly McGraw Euston '92 and her daughter Katherine at Sweet Briar House.
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine www.alumnae.sbc.erJu Summer 2010 • 19 • Brown is the author of the novels
Kose's Garden, Lamb in Love, The Hatbox Baby, Confinement and The Rope Walk, as well as the short story collection The
House on Belle Isle. She has received the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She has twice been the recipient of the Library of Virginia Book of the Year Award.
Over the spring semester. Banister Writer-in-Residence Carrie Brown the wisdom of her age and a wealth of experiences to include in this taught three award-winning hooks in her advanced fiction workshop: collection of stories, many of which are dark and terrifying, yet at
Too Much Happiness hy Alice Munro; Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth the same time full of beauty and majesty. Strout, 54, is writing in Strout; and The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi her prime. Her work often focuses around the American small-town
ichie. Brown chose these texts not only for their powerful, expertly existence, and Olive Kitteridge is full of everyday tragedies and joys.
itten prose, but also because she felt a strong personal connection Adichie, born in 1977, is a young Nigerian writer, bringing vitality with them. and insight into a foreign culture many of us have not experienced.
"I've read all of Alice Munro s work," she said, "and my admiration Many of the stories in the texts focus on the lives of women for her has only deepened over the years. Strout s Olive Kitteridge and their particular place in the world and in society. When Too was given to me by a friend long before it won the Pulitzer Prize, and Much Happiness won the Man Booker Prize in 2009, Jane Smiley
I fell in love with the book. I've been a one-woman distributorship wrote in her announcement speech: "Alice Munro understands and for it. I think I've given away about fifty copies to women who mean communicates that a moral life full of drama can be lived by any something to me. It s a perfect book for female readers because it's woman, in fact, must be lived by every woman. To read her work is so much about a woman's experience in the world. And Adichie's to see lives from the inside that in another author's work might appear work, though it is the work of a writer much younger than Munro or meaningless and unimportant — such is her capacity for empathy."
Strout, shows intellect and energy and range and heart, and I'm full of Strout and Adichie take on a similar task to Munro 's, writing admiration for those qualities." characters with nuanced and realistic experiences who suffer quietly in
Brown also wanled students to see how the sensibility of these lives full of drama and meaning. writers might have been influenced by their age and background, "I think all three of these books are towering works," Brown said. she said. In Too Much Happiness. Alice Munro is writing at 79, with "That's not an adjective typically used to describe the lives of women
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It's through the experience of reading that students are connected to the part of themselves that helps to inspire in fiction. That kind of moral majesty someone want to write in the first place. is more often ascribed to works by and their own stories. The struggle, again and again, to say about men. Yet the complex, moral the thing that feels inexpressible, to dimension of the work of all three of find language for the complexity of felt these writers is profound; these are experience, is thrilling and mysterious." very big and important books about the human experience. There's In any fiction workshop. Brown said, students learn from their nothing diminutive or quiet about them. For young women writers to own writing and from reading the work of their peers, but they also be reading the works of authors who see the lives of women in this — almost unavoidably — learn from the texts they read. "Students important way can't help but be an inspiration. I want students to feel will learn much more from their own experience as readers." she said, that their own lives, their own imaginations, are important." "their own encounters with stories — and all the dawning amazement
Brown hopes that her students will fall in love with the stories contained in that encounter — than they will learn from someone she teaches, that by reading them, they will gain skill in their own trying to tell them in an abstract way how it's done." Every story writing and appreciation of the craft in general, but also an enlarged provides a model for original creation, she said. understanding of humanity. It's through the experience of reading, she "It's a little bit like standing under a wave as it washes over you. said, that students are connected to the part of themselves that helps to You absorb the complex aspects of storytelling from these books and inspire their own stories. bring everything that has soaked into you to the next story you try to
"The experience of empathy one has as a reader is the same as write. The experience is cumulative and exponential. Students become the experience of empathy that is critical to the making of stories," more and more sophisticated as readers and writers as they read and she said. "The experience of being moved by a story — the pure write." astonishment and magic of that — is often the experience that makes —COLLEEN MURRAY, editor
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like a long time ago, but a tew Bearing and lifelong friendships. weekend at Sweet Briar dedicated a creator, a researcher. Every days on campus can bring it all Magic. These are the stories we'll to connecting you with a place you day you set out to learn new
right back. Playing all day without never forget and the ones we'll love. So this fall, come back to ideas, new languages and a care is what Homecoming is all talk about forever. Founders and Homecoming. Laugh, listen, share new cultures. All of those about. So call your classmates friendships, legends and leaders, and simply soak up the beautiful discoveries and more are still and see who's up for a trip back teachers and teammates: They surroundings of a campus so here at Sweet Briar. Learn to the Patch. Get out and play. are still here and will inspire you breathtaking and vibrant that it still something new at a
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Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • vmw.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010' 23 The Values particular ethnic or religious communities, first generation attenders, or students who identify with a particular Throughout the fall of 2009, 1 conducted "conversation interest or activity? Where are there students who could circles" with three key constituencies: faculty, first-year benefit from a Sweet Briar education, but who are not students and alumnae. Several themes emerged from these currently finding us? sessions powerfully and insistently. The faculty spoke of the importance of high standards for What are our strongest competitive advantages '.' Where student achievement. First-year students do our strengths resonate most strongly with what today's strategic expressed a desire for confidence and students and their families care most about? competence. And many of you as Programmatically, how can we ensure that our academic alumnae emphasized the friendships program incorporates the technological tools and planning at Sweet Briar, the you forged beauty resources that represent the current state of practice for of the campus and the way your young scholars in each discipline? JO ELLEN PARKER education prepared you for a lifetime of PRESIDENT unexpected opportunities. Our answers to these questions will allow us to envision The vision that emerges is of a college a Sweet Briar that is operating sustainably, competing where young women discover and learn effectively, engaging new populations and producing to respect their own abilities and prepare for a lifetime of liberally educated and digitally sophisticated graduates. adaptation and change, through the high aspirations their Our goal is to produce, through both strategic and faculty hold out for them and in an environment of natural operational planning: beauty and enduring friendship. If our strategic plan promotes and supports a culture of excellence, confident 1. A realistic model for a Sweet Briar that is sustainable and resourceful graduates, and an expanded network of in the present and which has significant potential for women active in business, academics and civic life who growth.
are proud to say they are Sweet Briar women, we will 2. A vision of a more inclusive student body and a
have done well. marketing strategy which is aligned with that vision.
3. An approach for distinguishing Sweet Briar in a The Process highly competitive marketplace. Until quite recently, academic "strategic planning" 4. A program which gives liberally educated graduates meant that institutions would convene a large number the technological sophistication they need for of large committees, which would dedicate two years academic, professional and civic achievement. to developing a comprehensive five- or 10-year plan. The plan will be effective only to the extent that it Current good practice looks rather different. Now, the accurately captures the aspirations and values of the recommended approach involves an active planning phase entire community. Imagination, research, frankness and a of six or nine months, focused on specific challenges, delicate balance of caution and ambition will be required contexts and opportunities; rolling implementation of to seize this opportunity. programs or pilots as soon as circumstances permit; and an iterative approach in which data are used annually to assess progress, revise planned activities, adjust goals and Opportunities redirect efforts. We want you, as alumnae, to be involved. Every one of Sweet Briar, what Our strategic planning process will therefore move you, no matter when you attended you left involved quickly, focus on specific questions, be informed by have done since you campus, and how you or not in the set a survey data and metrics, and will assume rapid implementation have have been past. We've up so that ideas feedback can be incorporated into and iterative review. In the end, strategic planning must your and our planning. survey is online, easily accessible, and identify the results we hope to achieve. Subsequent The will take longer than minutes for to complete. If operational planning will focus on the activities we intend no 20 you are to participate online, please simply contact to undertake to produce those results and the ways in you unable the office at will which we will measure our progress. alumnae 434.381.6131. We immediately send a copy of the survey to you through the mail. The Questions Also, we have dedicated an area online to keep you up-to- date on our planning. We invite you to visit strategicplan. There are questions that need to frame our efforts. They blog.sbc.edu, where you can follow along with each of the are not the only questions that could be asked, but they study groups that is under way. are the questions that must take priority at this time. Finally, I would like to say that the energy, intelligence How can we balance our facilities, resources, student and dedication that the campus community has brought body, faculty and staff to create a sustainable financial to this process is inspiring. In the months since the study model for the College? groups were convened the campus has been buzzing with Whom should Sweet Briar aspire to serve in coming interesting ideas, provocative questions, new data and
years? Should we educate more women of non-traditional optimism. There is no question that this race is off to a very age? Should be expand to serve more students from solid start, and that we have a winning team on the track.
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24 'Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine www.alumnae.sbc.edu "Til the Cows Come
Home. . .
The cows all came home during the SBC Annual
It is the beginning of Sweet Briar's fiscal year and the timing could not be more Fund's Third Annual Philanthropy Week, perfect for you to re-engage with Sweet Briar! Here's how you can become March 1-5, 2010. Both local and Sweet Briar more active with the College. . . artists were invited to participate in Philanthropy Week by painting "art cows," which consisted of Just as the value of a two-dimensional plywood cow cutouts. These art cows VolUIlteer. Stay engaged with the Sweet Briar degree were the Annual Fund's tribute to the Sweet Briar College through volunteering. Share your career is always related College Dairy that was in operation for over 40 years. knowledge with students interested in your field The herd of more than 30 cows went on parade and through work with career services. Reconnect with to the most recent moo-ved from place to place during the week. your classmates by serving as a member of your graduating class, On Thursday, March 4, the SBC Art Cows class giving committee in Reunion or host a young their opportunity to moo-ved to greener pastures when they were put on alumnae phonathon. Serve as a member of the succeed is directly the auction block during the live Art Cow Auction. Parent Steering Committee. English Griffith Koontz '95, related to you and For those who attended the auction, a wonderful time Annual Giving chair says, "I enjoy volunteering for your commitment to was had by all! Bidding was fierce with the most Sweet Briar. For me, it is an opportunity to give sought after cow, a mini moo by SBC art professor this back a little to the institution that gave so very much the College. So Laura Pharis, selling for more than $350! The Art to me. Additionally, it is a delight to meet and get to year commit to saying Cow Auction was just one event out of a wonderful know students, alumnae and friends of the College "yes!" to volunteering, week of activities highlighting supporters of Sweet —and to get back to campus for visits!" to giving, to coming Briar and the power of philanthropy. back and to Sweet To check out other highlights and to view more the VjrlVe. Make your best gift to Annual Fund Briar! photos from this year's Philanthropy Week, visit every year. The Annual Fund comprises unrestricted www.annualfund.sbc.edu/PhilanthropyWeek! gifts that impact each facet of the Sweet Briar
College experience. Unrestricted gifts are crucial to the success of the College and provide essential necessities such as student scholarships, faculty and staff salaries, academic programs, and other less exciting but equally important needs. So when you hear the phone ring and see Sweet Briar or a classmate's name on the caller I.D. this fall, please answer the phone. Now more than ever, your gift to the Annual Fund makes a difference!
UOII16 D81C.K. Return to campus for Homecoming, Reunion or Families weekends. Each weekend is action-packed and provides a wonderful opportunity for you to see old friends, make new ones, and take a tour of campus to see what has
changed and what has remained the same. Or, visit whenever! There is always something going on and we would love to see you. The gates are always open!
- Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010 25 ««^ REUNIONS
Alumnoe celebrated the wedding of Susan Snodgrass Wynne's son on Amelia Island, Fla., on May 9, 2009. Left to Left to right; Sarah Kingsley Foley '99, Molly Reeb right: Lisa Nelson Robertson '76, Sally Old Kitchin '76, Greyson Shuff Tucker '72, Kathy Upchurch Takvorian '72, Nissman '77 and Jane Reeb Short '74 met at the Norfolk Margaret Hayes Brunstad '72, Susan Snodgrass Wynne '72, Rhonda Griffith Durham '72 and Ginger Upchurch area YMCA luncheon. Collier '72.
A group of alumnae attended Barbara Perry's speech at the U Perry is the Carter Professor of Government at Sweet Briar.
Cindy McKay '78, left, met Barbara Paulson Goodbarn
'83, right, at the NCAA Division III Regional Cross Country Race where Cindy's son, Kevin Frick, and Barb's daughter, Biz Goodbarn, were running. fiB *•
Sweet Briar students accompanied financial aid officer Wanda Spradley to the General Assembly in Richmond to Jane Lauderdale Armstrong '78, center, and her husband
lobby for the Virginia Tuition Assistance Grant and met with Senator Patsy Smith Ticer '55. Left to right: Wanda Mike, left, reunited unexpectedly with Cindy McKay '78 Spradley '10, Whitney Waller '13, Patsy Smith Ticer '55, Michelle Messier '12 and Emily Masiello '11. Jane and Cindy were roommates at Sweet Briar.
26 • Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Tori Hankins '06 married Doug LaBrosse (HSC '06} on Nov. 21, Christopher Chamblin (HSC '97) and Lyndsay Wray Welsh '05 were married on Aug. 9, 2008, at St.
2009, in Charlotte, N.C. Several members of the Class of 2006 James Episcopal Church in Leesburg, Va. attended the celebration, including (left to right) Henslee Evans, Left to right: Kelli Bergmann Thomasson '04, Meredith Shaw Hansen '04, Katie A. Niemeier '05, Olivia Ungerer, Hollylane Riley, Sara Coffey and Shanthi Ramesh. Courtney Pfaff Kimble '03, Lyndsay Welsh Chamblin '05, Angela Grisby '03, Krystal Dean Tucker '05, Ashley Forehand '05, Laura Pearson '04, Laura Wolf '11.
I Maggie Saylor '07 married Jessica Mercier '06 and Mike Gwen Oiler Bombay '89 mar- Erin M. Dennehy '06 married Victoria Chappell '06 was wed Martin Patrick on Aug. 29, Andryshak were married on ried Greg Hess on May 5, Jason M. Kopczyk on May on April 4, 2009, to David
2009. Aug. 1, 2009 at Mountain 2009, After a honeymoon to 17, 2008, at Waldenwoods Harvey HI in Normandy, France. Meadows Lodge in Killington, Disney World, they're making in Hartland, Mich,, where they The service took place in a Vt. their home in Stone Ridge, Va. celebrated the day with close historic chapel and the recep- family and friends. tion was held on the grounds of Victoria's family home, where they were surrounded by close family and friends.
On September 12, 2009, Sarah Belanger '01 married David Levinson (W&L '00). Natasha Nickodem Stevens '01 was the matron of honor; Nancy Kleinhans '06 and '01 '02 '03, Christine Rangel and Casey Perlow were bridesmaids. Also in attendance were Misa Sarmento '02, Allison Funkhouser Maria Christopher Carr married at '04, '00, '01, '02 '86. Kitchin Vicki Zok Rosenthal Grace Turner Creasey Whitney Bryant and Heather Brown Evans Snow Shoe Ski Resort in W.Va. (Left to right) Misa Sarmento, Allison Funkhouser, Maria Kitchin, Natasha Nickodem Stevens, Sarah Belanger Levinson, Vicki Zak Rosenthal, Grace Turner Creasey, Casey Perlow, Whitney Bryant, Christine Rangel.
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Differentiation at Work, K-5, Principles, 6i dcMii Lessons, and Strategies, Kay Brimijoin, associate professor
Differentiation of education, and GRADS: TAKE CHARGE of Your First Lane Narvez, Corwin Year After College! Kathryn Marion '84, Pnncipl»», tvuom m St>al»g<» Press 2010. Based QwikSmarts Publishing, an imprint of Real on research and the Solutions Press, LLC, 2009. During college, authors' experiences Cliffs Notes helped you survive your exams, at one remarkable but where are they when you really need elementary school, them ... in real life? Grads: Take Charge is this book describes like getting summaries of all the best advice what schoolwide from over a dozen other books for new differentiation looks like in practice. The young professionals. It covers more than 140 authors show school administrators and teachers how differentiated curriculum and instruction can be successfully implemented JH schoolwide. They share data that shows sa_aa____ significant gains in school achievement as a
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focused on differentiation. Included in the book are nine lesson plans from a range of grade levels and disciplines, reflective topics from careers to credit to cooking and PLEASE SAVE THE DATE! dialogues with teachers about refining their everything in between to make navigating the design of curriculum and instruction, and Sweet Briar College real world of work and independent living examples of how coaching teachers on less stressful and more successful. And it's all differentiation improves their abilities to presented in fast-reading, bulleted action-item Families meet a range of learning needs in today's lists, which are perfect for the sound-bite classrooms. generation. Grads: Take Charge won finalist Weekend honors in the National Best Books 2009 Plato's Ghost, Spiritualism in the American Awards in two categories. October 15-17,2010 Renaissance, Cathy Gutierrez, associate professor of religion, Oxford University Press For more details call 434.381 .6205 '01, The Lipstick Nomad, Jenne Lauren 2009. Plato's Ghost examines the Spiritualist or visit the Web page: Eloquent Books 2010. The Lipstick Nomad movement as the legacy of European www.ccl.sbc.edu/general/families_ invites you to live your own Designer Life esoteric speculation, weekend.html — one where wisdom, righteousness and the particularly Platonic
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self — and in doing so, inspire others to do a new continent. The NEW LOOK: the same. movement, Gutierrez says, Lauren's book is a delight for all was a "renaissance of the In the fall of 2010, your alumnae your senses as she incorporates virtual Renaissance," a culture in magazine will become the Sweet soundtracks, films, books and recipes; love with history as much Briar Magazine and will have a beautiful fabrics; scintillating fragrances; a as it trumpeted progress completely new look! Watch for map of notorious and colorful places; and and the future, and an a workbook for creating changes to feature articles, photo- expression of what constituted religious your own Designer Life. hope amidst burgeoning technology and graphs and design. Written with fire, love colonialism.
and the unquenchable Gutierrez analyzes Spiritualist conceptions CORRECTION: desire for adventure, The of memory, marriage, medicine and finally Lipstick Nomad will paint In the Winter 2009/2010 issue, nascent psychology. In each she finds echoes a tapestry of true beauty Eage 3, Judith Shapiro should of Plato, pulling time backward even as it e listed as former president of within your heart. marched toward a brighter future.
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Choices, A. C. White (Anna 1933 1943 Effie Jane Gray 1959 "Chips" Ohio Pai '57). Elizabeth Moore Nancy Pingree Mrs. Philip A. Starck Gretchen Smith Miss Elizabeth V. Moore Mrs. Emerson H. Drake January 3, 201 Mrs. Gretchen Dorrance Publishing Co, Inc. January 1, 2010 October 22, 2009 Buntschuh 2009. A team of scientists have 1949 February 1, 2010 Catherine "Bunny" isolated an enzyme that allows 1935 Fayette McDowell Marion Walker Mrs. W. Roscoe Willett, Barnett Ethel Bruner them to Dr. Marion Walker Jr. Mrs. Walter H. Brown Mrs. Carl E. Campbell clone Alcaro June 5, 2009 February 19, 2010 January 23, 2010 December 2009 anything 13, 1944 1951 1960 or Sarah Turpin Dorothy Beuttell Tsun-Hsien (Sunshine) Griselda Fages anybody Mrs. Al Senecal Mrs. E. Chatfield Kwan Mrs. Giselle Theberge- that was October 24, 2009 Blakeman Mrs. Shantilal P. Bhagat Jeppson December 18, 2009 October 10, 2009 January 15, 2009 once alive, 1938 as long Josephine Happ 1945 1952 1965 Mrs. Spain Willingham Martha Holton Marjorie Levine Elizabeth Grant as they April 15, 2010 Mrs. Donald G. Glesser Mrs. Leonard S. Abrams Mrs. Peyton Peters have the May 26, 2009 March 1 1 , 2009 February 22, 2009 complete 1939 Elizabeth Barnes Joanne "Jodie" Morgan Barbara Hoyt 1967 set of DNA. This means being Mrs. Elizabeth B. Bird Mrs. James R. Hartman Mrs. John W. Boyer, Jr. Pamela Sullivan able to clone and bring to life February 1 1 , 20 1 March 18, 2010 October 26, 2008 Mrs. W. Curtis any individual who is dead or Livingston III Mary Buchanan Alice Nicolson Jane Mattas March 28, 2010 an extinct species if there is a Mrs. George H. Mrs. Alice Mcllvaine Mrs. F Philip Christian II source of their DNA. Scientists Flowers, Jr. September 9, 2009 November 27, 2009 1968 March 16, 2010 Lee Cooper could clone Abraham Lincoln Nancie McCann 1946 Mrs. Bernard H. Schulte from the blood on his shirt 1940 Mary Vinton Miss Nancie McCann December 1 3, 2009 when he was assassinated, or Margaret Woods Mrs. Douglas K. March 8, 2010 Mrs. M. W. Gillette Fleming 1969 Jesus Christ from the blood 1953 November 8, 2008 February 16, 2010 Mary Waterman Gage Bush gathered during his crucifixion Mrs. Mary W. H. S. (Stuart) Hensley Evaline Rife Mrs. Richard Englund — which a church in Italy Gildehaus Mrs. Gilbert H. Mrs. Leland Thompson, Jr. January 12, 2009 claims to possess. But what November 29, 2009 Woodward January 7, 2010 1954 would be the consequences December 29, 2009 1973 Virginia Wynn Barbara Wilson of such technology? Choices Deborah Smith 1941 Ms. Virginia Q. Wynn Mrs. Wilson Daniell Mrs. Deborah S. explores, through the of eyes Carolyn Spivey February 2010 April 1, 2010 5, Mardelli Dr. Ellen Chen, the head of Mrs. Carolyn Spivey February 9, 2010 Wilson 1947 1955 the team, what the potential Anne Webb Diane Hunt October 22, 2009 Barbara Livingston of such genetic cloning Mrs. George H. Moses Mrs. James D. Lawrence Ms. Barbara E. February 26, 2009 January 26, 2010 would mean to society. The 1942 Livingston Ruth Hensley book also depicts the politics Marie Holman 1956 August 28, 2009 Mrs. Joshua F. B. of academia at the highest Camblos Mrs. Douglas A. Sarah Sharp 1976 Mrs. Sarah S. Taylor levels, Swayze and the pressures on December 3 1 , 2009 Alicia Jo Ayotte November 30, 2009 January 24, 2010 scientists to be productive and Miss Alicia J. Ayotte Mary Ellen Thompson Jean Old Mary Pender December 1 7, 2009 to publicize discoveries before Mrs. Mary Ellen Beach Jean C. Old Mrs. Bertram Warren, Jr. competing laboratories can Ela 1996 March 1 1, 2010 April 5, 2010 October 8, 2009 Katherine Campbell do so. The pressures can be 1948 Joyce Lenz Ms. Katherine Campbell extreme, sometimes resulting Frances Meek Margaret McCallum Mrs. Hugh H. Young Brumley Mrs. John E. Rowe in catastrophic effects on the Ms. Margaret M. February 28, 2010 January 28, 2010 November 18, 2009 young scientists involved. Anderson 1958 Joanne Oberkirch November 8, 2005 Marian Martin Ms. Joanne Willis Suzanne Hardy Mrs. Paul P. Harrison October 25, 2009 Mrs. Suzanne H. B. January 3, 201 Barbara Freking Benson Miss Barbara Freking January 19, 2010 August 25, 2008
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Walter H. Brown, 1 19 Silver Moss Drive, Vero Beach, FL 32963.
Katherine "Kay" Macdonald ARTICLE COURTESY OF LYNCHBURG NEWS & ADVANCE
Katherine "Kay" Macdonald, 87, died March 4, 2010, in Yarmouth, Maine. She was the daughter of Arthur Souls and Katherine Cameron Macdonald of Putnam, Conn. Professor Macdonald received her B.S. degree from The Bouve-Boston School of Physical Education, Tufts University (now Northeastern University). After teaching
at Abbot Academy in Andover, Mass., she
went on to complete a master's degree at the State University of Iowa. Macdonald
then began a lifelong career as a teacher,
coach and administrator in Virginia at Sweet
Briar College, retiring in 1983 as professor Walter Brown and Catherine "Bunny" Barnett Brown '49. emerita. During these years, she took many homesick, troubled and disabled students Catherine "Bunny" Jersey and Florida homes and assisted with under her wing, befriending them until they '49 Recognition Weekends and FOCUS events. Barnett Brown could fly with their classmates. From 1981 to 1985 she served as a member Kay played a significant role in the of the Alumnae Association board as edi- The College is saddened to report the death development of interscholastic field hockey tor of the Sweet Briar Alumnae Magazine. of devoted alumna and former board member in Virginia. For many years, she held Afterward, she served as the 1949 class sec- Catherine "Bunny" Barnett Brown. Brown workshops for area high schools, delivered retary, faithfully recording and submitting the the died on morning of Feb. 19, 2010, at loan kits of equipment and hosted class news. USFHA Indian River Medical Center, Vero Beach. international teams and regional tourna- A member of the Keystone Society, For 32 years, she was active in both the ments. Leading by example, Silver Rose Society and the Indiana Fletcher Macdonald Vero Beach, Fla., and Convent Station, N.J., played club for than years Williams Associates, Brown made Sweet hockey more 20 communities. on the Blue Ridge Campus Characters team. Briar a philanthropic priority. In recognition Brown graduated with a degree in psy- As the College's tennis coach, she was of enduring commitment and devotion to the chology from Sweet Briar in 1949. As a College she was presented with Sweet Briars instrumental in bringing top tennis coaches student she was involved in the Bum Chums, to Sweet Briar for summer tennis camps. Outstanding Alumna Award in 1992. Brown Paint 'n' Patches and Chung Mung tap clubs. In 2006, Kay was inducted into the Charter also influenced others to work for Sweet After college, she went on to become a Class of the Sweet Briar Athletics Hall of Briar, most notably her husband Walter H. reporter, working for several newspapers and Brown, who served on the College's board of Time Life. directors beginning in 1986 and as chairman Brown was an interested and caring of the board from 1987 to 1995. alumna who worked tirelessly for Sweet Brown is survived by her husband of 59 Briar. Long before there was an Alumnae years, Walter H. Brown; sons, Walter H. Admissions Representative program, she Brown Jr. and Harold G. Brown; daugh- recruited students for Sweet Briar. She ters, Catherine G. Erickson and Rebecca K. served as a member of the Boxwood Holmes; sister, Jean Ketcherside; 12 grand- Circle Committee, her class's Reunion children and two great-grandchildren. Gift Committee, a Leadership Donor, the A memorial service was held at Sweet Campaign Leadership Committee and the Briar College's Memorial Chapel on Sat., Development Leadership Council. She June 19, followed by a reception at Sweet organized alumnae events in both her New Briar House. Katherine "Kay" Macdonald
30' Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnaesbc.edu Fame in honor of her devotion to Sweet Anniversary Scholarship Fund, a festival on Piepho remembers when the English
Briar and its athletic success. campus and completion of a short history of department was searching for a film studies
After retirement, Macdonald contin- JYF's first quarter-century. In addition, he candidate. It was clear that Salotto was the
ued her interest in education by taking arranged for a group of alumni to visit the right person, yet, at that point in her career,
undergraduate poetry courses, conducting Elysee Palace in Paris at the special invita- she needed additional professional develop-
aerobic classes for the faculty and assisting tion of Claude Jacqueline Pompidou, wife of ment before beginning to teach in the field. the College in fundraising. She was active France's then-president Georges Pompidou. She was given a two-year assistant profes-
in local Audubon activities, the Humane Those wishing to remember Marshall are sorship on a trial basis. Society and Amherst County Library. asked to consider a memorial to the Robert "In the summer, she went off and took
Macdonald promoted outdoor activities on G. Marshall Scholarship Fund, Junior Year classes at New York University," he said.
campus and received the Golden Shovel in France, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, "It was remarkable the way she grew. Her
Award from the Appalachian Trail Club for VA 24595, or Christ Church, P.O. Box S, St. accomplishment in the field was quite her service clearing trails. If there were a Michaels, MD 21663. extraordinary. The permanent results are her blue ribbon for a feline devotee, she would book and, of course, the students who stud-
have earned it for her many years of cater- Sweet Briar Remembers ied under her."
ing to an assortment of beloved feline Beloved Professor, On March 23, an informal gathering to companions. Eleanor Salotto reflect on her memory was held at Memorial Macdonald's travels covered a good part Chapel for the immediate community. of the globe, with considerable time in the The College community mourns the loss President Jo Ellen Parker noted Salotto's
British Isles. Always a champion of the of Eleanor Salotto, associate professor of devotion to her students, academic interests
underdog, her worldwide view led to many English, who died this past winter. Salotto and love of the College. Close friends and years of active involvement on behalf of began teaching at Sweet Briar in 1998 and colleagues spoke of her unconventional and
Amnesty International, USA. is remembered with fondness by her friends, vibrant personality. They shared unforget- For some time after retirement, colleagues, students and table stories of their friend, Macdonald lived in Fayetteville, Pa., then alumnae. saying in various ways that moved to The Highlands in Topsham, Maine. Salotto received a BA. "Eleanor was Eleanor"
As her health failed, she resided for the past in English and French and — a person of brilliant
five years at Brentwood R & N Center in an M.A. in English, both intellect, deep feeling and Yarmouth, Maine. from Temple University, mystery.
Macdonald is survived by two cousins, and a Ph. D. in English Parker also recalled
Sarah Wright, of Sugar Land, Texas, and from Bryn Mawr College. the first time she'd met
Joan Roberts, of Baddeck, Nova Scotia; and She taught 1 9th-century Salotto, 20 years ago. "I by many devoted friends, who will miss her British literature and film had the good fortune to easy companionship, many talents, strong studies at Sweet Briar. know Eleanor long ago, code of justice and whimsical sense of Among Salotto's stron- before we had any idea humor. gest interests were women's that we might reconnect
The Rev. Susan Lehman conducted a narratives and identity, film again at Sweet Briar. Eleanor Salotto memorial service in Memorial Chapel at noir, film theory and liter- Eleanor was a graduate
Sweet Briar College. ary theory. student at Bryn Mawr dur- Macdonald requested that memorial Her accomplish- ing my days on the faculty contributions be designated for the Nenah ments include her book, "Gothic Returns and in the dean's office there. We shared a
Elinor Fry Presidential Scholarship Fund c/o in Collins, Dickens, Zola and Hitchcock," passionate interest in 19th-century literature
Sweet Briar College, Box 1057, Sweet Briar. published by Palgrave in 2006; an intro- and in teaching.
VA 24595. duction for the Barnes and Noble Classic "When I realized she was on the fac-
Series edition of Emile Zola's "The Ladies' ulty at Sweet Briar, it was a joy to think Robert Marshall Paradise;" and articles on that novel as we would once again be colleagues. She
The Sweet Briar community was saddened well as on "Frankenstein," "Bleak House" approached me after my first faculty inter- to learn of the death on March 30, 2010, of and "Villette." She had been working on a view with her usual grace and generosity of
Robert Marshall, the former director of the book project linking Darwinian thought and spirit, offering words of support and encour-
College's Junior Year in France program. Victorian multi-plot novels. agement to a nervous job candidate. Marshall served from 1972 to 1984 as Lee Piepho, professor of English emeri- "I know many of you have similar memo-
the third director of JYF, which was founded tus, knew Salotto from the very first days of ries of the thoughtful kindness of our friend
in 1948. He dedicated his career at Sweet her career at the College and recognized her and colleague. We will miss her sorely; how
Briar College to improving and perfecting remarkable life as a professor and scholar. lucky we were to know her!"
the program, said Margaret Scouten, JYF's Early in her career, she took on the task of Notes of condolence may be sent to Salotto's
current director. teaching a combination of 18th- and 19th- sister: Carol Watkins, 603 Belvoir Road,
He also organized a number of events in century literature as well as heading the film Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462. observance of the program's 25th anniver- studies program, a growing topic of interest sary, including the establishment of a 25th among the student body.
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Zach Kincaid Media, marketing and communications
Zach Kincaid's first day as the new director of media, marketing and communications was March 29. He and his family moved from Milledgeville, Ga.,
where he served as director of marketing and publications and taught history at Georgia College & State University.
Kincaid has 15 years of experience in marketing, communications, strategic
planning, branding, Web site effectiveness and copy writing. His experience
includes 10 years in higher education and several at a promotions and events agency where he served as a marketing coordinator.
In 2008, he managed a campaign that placed eighth in University Business's "50 Best Branding Ideas." He has won several CASE Awards for design and
advertising projects and has served as a marketing and Web site consultant for the
film industry.
Kincaid will be responsible for creating and leading a comprehensive communications and integrated marketing program that emphasizes Sweet Briar's brand and enhances the visibility of the College. As a senior staff member, he will counsel the president and senior staff on communications and messaging work. He will work collaboratively across campus to integrate and improve institutional media, marketing and communication
initiatives, and to support advancement and recruitment goals.
Kincaid holds a bachelor's in English from Washington University in St. Louis
and a Master of Arts in history from Trinity International University. He and his wife, Heather, and sons Micah, Caleb and Benjamin reside on campus.
Bob Chase Retires to Life of Some Work, Some Play
Mathematics professor Bob Chase is retiring after teaching physics and computer
science courses at the College for more than three decades.
Chase and his wife, Kathy Earnhardt Chase '67, plan to remain in Amherst, where they reside. As a part owner and now vice president, secretary and treasurer
of Rebec Vineyards, he will spend much of his time working in the winery business.
He'll also get to do more fishing, he said. Over the past few years he has
trekked to the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana for eight-day horseback
and float-fishing trips, and he spent nine days in Alberta and British Columbia,
Canada. He hopes to take at least one trip per year in the Missoula-Bozeman area of Montana. This summer the Chases plan to travel to Poland, Hungary and the Czech
Republic, and they're already anticipating next summer's trip to Ireland.
Chase said he also will continue spending as much time as possible with his grand-
son, Holden, who turned 10 in May.
A reception was held in Chase's honor on April 29 at Sweet Briar House.
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I look forward each year to Bobby cated to former President Pannell. Chattanooga, TN 37405 Engh Croft's Thanksgiving letter. She's I have two grandsons, Jakub and As 201 gets underway your class keeping busy following Crosswell's Nikolas, ages 9 and 7. They're enrolled im scribe of these last few decades has death last Mar. still spends winters She Alice Lancaster Buck in Haycock Elementary School in Falls is far advanced in yrs. in Tucson, but planned a trip through decided she too 21085 Cardinal Pond Ter., Apt. 106 Church, and are bi-lingual. Their mother
(I 1 in Apr.), the Panama Canal in Jan. and one to turn 84 this st weekend and Ashburn.VA 20147 is Slovak. She owns and runs an art write column. AK in Jul. How wonderful to hear from I'm not able to another [email protected] restoration company in McLean; my son
After all, I walk with a cane or walker Edie Brainard Walter in D C, who works for the Washington Post in Arling- rolling chair, hearing aids, is enjoying her usual activities. Her or a have ton. I am now retired. Best wishes to a mouth full of partial plates, droopy daughter, Anne, and husband Michael everyone attending. eyelids, an occasional heart flurry, too are in India. They both have Fulbright m5 Dale Sayler Morgan license, grants to teach at Madras Christian Coll. many pounds, no driver's no 486A Beaulieu Ave. it! Betty Childs and Mackall (Annapolis) get up and go— I just can't do Then Savannah, GA 31406 me comes a warm, friendly voice and it's sent a beautiful card designed by their [email protected] Mary Vandeventer Saunders Wayne Stokes Goodall on the phone son-in-law, Sanford Murck, an artist 955 Harpersville Rd. from Pittsboro, NC, my friend since married to their daughter Dryden (Class Julia Mills Jacobsen Newport News, VA 23601 camp days in the 1930s who is always of '65). It won an award from the Land- [email protected] interested in what's going on, and she lover organization in Savannah. I also Mary Haskins King received my annual cherished card from suggests that maybe I could get some 501 Kimberly Dr. Ann Hauslein Potterfield and Tom. im help from computer whiz classmate Greensboro, NC 27408 Linda McKoy Stewart From AR, Alice King Harrison sent a Liz Barbour McCrea to communicate 18 Osprey Lane clipping trom the Chattanooga paper Holly Zweigler Schroeter wrote in to with classmates for news. This great Rumson, NJ 07760 in highlighting our alumna, Mollie Johnson the alumnae office: I write to say that idea creates conversations with Liz [email protected] I'm Alexandria, VA, join together to Nelson '64, who was the recipient of the I won't be able to attend our 45th. so we newsletter. had brief note Outstanding Alumna Award at Reunion waist-high in boxes still, but loving every write a She a
• Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010 33 from TX from Polly Rollins Sowell sometimes written up in the NY Times winter day. If you have e-mail, you may Richmond. Libby Trueheart Harris. saying she "plays bridge and jitterbugs Art Section. Spoon and Renee love liv- receive more recent news from time Margaret Towers Talman and Kitty by herself since her favorite partner Liz ing in beautiful Seattle. He's a financial to time. Those of you who decide to Hart Belew also live there. is in VA, and she's in TX." A call from consultant, does lots of volunteering, join the 2lst century and acquire email There seems to be a trend among
Peggy Sheffield Martin in Atlanta tells cooks for family and good causes and should let me know your address. 49s toward retirement home living. We me she has lost her precious daugh- plays guitar in bistros around town. Most of us have been involved with like to be relieved of cooking, cleaning, ter Lisa Tunnell who has had lupus Renee is head of Perfusion at Children's family and travel over the last year. snow shoveling and have the security for a long time. She died in late Feb. Hospital, rides a Vespa to work and However, Dot Rouse-Bottom's of onsite medical care. Carolyn Can- and some 300 attended her service. they all ski! Don lives near his parents, activities may have a wider impact. naday Evans needed such care this
Martha Davis Barnes didn't answer works for state of VT in health care She's celebrating Hampton, VA's 400th year. She broke 2 ribs camping trip with a call since she probably was on one and is getting a MA from the Woodbury birthday this year on 7/9/10. Hampton her son last fall, developed shingles and of her many trips, but we did learn that School of Mediation in Montpelier. His is the 1st continuously operating English fell on the ice and broke her wrist this she has a granddaughter who chose children do well in high schools and col- speaking community in the U. S. I had winter. However, she has recovered from to head to Hollywood to make a career. leges nearby. John and Julie live near thought that honor went to Jamestown, all those ailments and is now looking for
Her name is Ellen Woglan and she's in South Hamilton, MA, where he has but that settlement didn't last, and Saint a job as a court advocate for children active in movies and appears in weekly his own business franchise, Express Augustine and Santa Fe were Spanish in foster care in Ashburn, VA, similar
TV series, Bold Case. Another piece of Employment Professionals, matching speaking communities. So Dot is quite to what she was doing when she lived sad news is that my SBC roommate employers with employees. Julie works right that Hampton's 400th birthday is a in Reston. Carolyn sees Flip Eustis
Suzanne Hardy Benson died in late with him and their 4 children participate big deal. Hampton came into being on Weiner, who now lives in a retirement
Jan. and her memorial service was in in various sports as well. They all ski at 7/9 of 1610 when fully armed English- community in Silver Spring, MD. an old Episcopal church in downtown Mad River Glen. Colt and Lynn live in men came ashore, attacked the Indians Jean Taylor is still in her Washing- Augusta, GA. We recall when 8 of her San Rafael, CA, where they enjoy amaz- and established a maritime community, ton apt. She has a severe back problem,
Briarite classmates gathered there a few ing bird watching. Clo and Bruce live in which has grown and prospered to but is able to get out and about with the yrs. ago for her marriage to Cameron Anchorage, AK, and are kept busy with this day. By the time you read this, help of a back brace.
Benson. Conversations with classmates 2 young sons. Bruce is an expert on the celebration of Hampton's 400th June Eager Finney has been busy
Felicia Jackson Burns in Gainesville measuring glacier melt and undertakes anniversary will have culminated with preparing an art exhibit for a good friend and Diane King Nelson in Homer, LA, other environmental endeavors for the spectacular fireworks and significant in Baltimore. June says she doesn't brought back to my memory the con- National Park Service. Closey adds that historical events (conferences and draw anything, but is able to create her nection Suzanne's daughters, Zan and the Dickeys still live in the winter in the publications) thanks to Dot. images/scenes using an ordinary pair
Bon, had with ballet in Augusta. We also house they built 30 yrs. ago on Hardy As for travel, perhaps the award for of scissors. She sees something in her remembered that the Burns' daughter Hill in the midst of a wildlife sanctuary. the most miles covered should go to head as she flips through magazines,
Susan has 4 teenage children and 3 She plays duplicate bridge twice a wk. Peggy Cromwell Taliaferro She catalogues, newspapers, etc. that she of them are triplets! Interesting news and has recovered from a broken neck visited her sister in the Swiss Alps last can turn into an object to be mounted on from the Alexandria area reports that caused by adjusting a high Venetian summer and journeyed to the Galapagos whatever paper she has around. Good the Kelly Foundation, which was set up blind. They are active in the community Islands, 600 mi. off the coast of Ecua- recycling. by our Nancy Vaughn Kelly and Dan, of Lebanon, NH. Personal to my class- dor, in Feb. There she saw blue-footed Pat Brown Boyer had a chilly has been recognized for 10 yrs. of ser- mates... SBC 1948.... I'm wearing my boobies and the rarer breed, red-footed winter in FL, but was expecting to see vice with native Americans in Montana tee shirt with the roses on it from an boobies. (I noticed that SBC was running Judy Easley Mak and Dayton who encouraging them to better themselves almost forgotten reunion to inspire me a trip to the were stopping for a visit in Winter Park and improve their standard of living. We to get this done, and at the age of 84 it Galapagos this winter. Maybe some of on their way south. Dayton is working on heard that some of them put on feath- has been difficult. My dear David at age you went?) Alice Trout Hagan and an oral history of the State Department ers and danced in D.C. although they 88 has remained patient, good humored Patsy Davin Robinson are perhaps the and Judy is still selling real estate in mostly are getting educated to lead use- and very helpful. This has been a fun most inveterate participants in Sweet Washington, 30 yrs. and still going
ful and productive lives. I learned from thing to do over the decades because Briar trips, but Alice tells me that strong.
a conversation with Audrey Lahman I have gotten to know so many of you although they're both fine, they've given I hope it warmed up in New Smyrna
Rosselot about living in the Alexandria better than when we were at The Patch up long trips. Beach, FL for Sue Corning Mann's visit
area with SBC classmates the Kellys, back in the 1940 era. Thank you for Phil and I went to Morocco last at Hank's daughter's house. They have a
McCreas, Virginia Wurzbach Vardy sharing. winter. That may be our last overseas grandson in Argentina. Maybe that's all living in the same complex. Mary trip, but we're planning a cruise on the the place to go these days.
Jo Armstrong Berryman reportedly Erie Canal, Lake Ontario and the St. Phil and I enjoyed seeing Ann Hen- visited in D.C. from TX. m? Lawrence Seaway in Sept. Domestic derson Bannard and Yorke last Sept. Since this class letter doesn't have Catherine Cox Reynolds travel without long airtrips is more ap- when they were here on a great circle lots of names and news your scribe 20 Loeffler Rd. T-408 pealing these days. tour of the Northeast. They're just fine is going to take the liberty of quoting Bloomf ield, CT 06002 Caroline Casey Lindemann may and had seen Kay Veasey and Dave from Closey Faulkner Dickey and [email protected] surpass Peggy Cromwell's travel Goodwin, who are also fine. her unsolicited letter which arrived a record by the time she completes her My dear roomies, Preston Hodges month ago. This is to welcome spring- trips for 2010. She'll be going to Hill and Larry Lawrence Simmons I must start these notes with the sad time, do away with winter blahs and news that Bunny Barnett Brown died of Norway and, on a separate trip with the are both cause you to sit back in amazement pancreatic cancer on 2/1 9/1 0. Bunny Richmond Museum, to the Italian Lake widows now, but are keeping busy with at our classmate's life. "Our greatest kept us together as Class Secretary, District. Caroline will also be coming good works and family visits. Larry deliv- joy in the last 5 yrs. has been our new writing notes on our activities as well north to Cambridge to see her oldest ers food for Meals on Wheels and reads in summer home Quarry Cove, ME. as updates on the Coll. She worked grandchild graduate from Harvard Law weekly to third graders. Her daughter The kids and grandkids share a big tirelessly for Sweet Briar and was School. (I hope she'll stop in Hartford Dede has published a mystery called modular home designed by Whit and presented with the Outstanding Alumna en route). Caroline's adventures are Silent Screams under the pen name C.E. the waterfront activities include our by her lives in It's a real turner. Award in 1 992. I'll try to follow in her planned daughter who Lawrence. page kayak, a canoe, 2 sailing dinghies is and footsteps with your help. Thanks to all Richmond and a travel agent. Her 2nd our boat Wendelen. A quick rundown who sent me news. Some of the news son, Stephen McGehee, is in his 1st on their progeny begins herewith: Whit may be old hat by the time you read yr. at VA Theological Seminary having
Jr. is drumming and composing in NYC, this, because retired from a 30-yr. banking career in playing mostly with the Matthew Shipp I'm writing on 3/14 on a dark rainy late Atlanta. Caroline lives in Westminister Trio (sometimes in Europe). They are Canterbury, a retirement community in
34 • Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu to stay in touch. Make sure to keep wants. I've also heard from Joan Davis I'm gradually establishing a pattern and our new class secretary au courant Warren and am now friends with her on getting acquainted with the folks and mo even though you may think no one is Facebook, as well as Samuel B. Hellier, activities here. interested. We are! Jean Stapleton Hellier's husband who Betty Browder Nibley: I spent
It's always great to hear from was a Phi Psi and one of my father's fra- most of the yr. getting my house ship- classmates who left us midstream. ternity brothers (and mine as well now!) shape and downsizing (ugh) by throwing
Mary Ellen Davis Gettel, who earned mi It seems the more consistent I get about out, shredding, and otherwise dumping a B.A. from U. IN and an M.A. from Patty Lynas Ford sending out Mama's Christmas cards, 30 yrs. of stuff I'd accumulated in that 2165 Stanford, wrote "as I look back I realize W. Dry Creek Road the more folks I'm hearing from. Max big house. I've moved to a beautiful apt. how much help SBC has been and what Healdsburg, CA 95448 T, Ray, AEP, CLU, FBS, Family Business at Knollwood, a retirement community friendships it has brought about." [email protected] Associates, 2766 Smyer Circle, Vestavia for military widows and spouses. It's
Pat Owens Purvis and family Hills, AL 3521 6-1 025 located in Washington D.C. and there spent spring break traveling to Wash- Thank you to all who have contributed to Mary Pease Fleming Trying to are many friendly and gracious people ington D.C., VA, and NC looking over our class notes. free my desk of 2009, which includes here. I'm attending exercise classes and schools for her granddaughter. Then Sunshine (Tsun-Hsien Kwan) messages from '51 classmates. Ann a multitude of events and trips. Sold my she visited a grandson at Wake Forest died on 1 0/1 0/09 at age 81 . Her hus- Petesch Hazzard writes that her dear house to a nice couple (she went to SBC
U. He'll study next spring in London. band, Shantilal Bhagat called to let us husband, Rutledge, passed away in class of '93!) I'd love to hear from and/
Her other grandson at the U. AL went to know. She'd have been 82 on 1 1/6/09. 2009. She and Rutledge had moved or see classmates.
Cambridge (England) for the May Dance In 1/09, because of an irregular heart some yrs. ago to 4800 Fillmore Ave. Ruth Oddy Meyer: I look forward to
in Jun.l Pat herself plans to travel to beat, she had open heart surgery as 2 #551 , Alexandria, VA, 2231 1 . (As you any issue that has news of the Class of '51 Aspen, CO, and then to England this valves were leaking. She chose to have know Ann and Rutledge had retired from . It seems like a lifetime ago, but one
summer. them repaired rather than replaced. a lifetime career in the Army. At the time that I remember with much pleasure. I Edith Brooke Robertson attended The surgery stopped the leaking for a of his retirement he was a Brig. Gen.) have 4 granddaughters, but have been her grandson's graduation from U. Ml while, but only temporarily. Hypertension Many of their neighbors on Fillmore Ave. unable to persuade the 2 eldest to and then was off to CO to visit her son ensued and the causes of death were are also retired Army friends. Ann says consider SBC. They want to go where and family. congestive heart failure and septice- that she's grateful to be living "in this the boys are. I'll keep the pressure on
Ann Preston Vick has moved to St. mia. She had had a hysterectomy yrs wonderful place with wonderful people," the other 2. We're going to London in
Augustine; Anne McNeer Blanken to .ago, but had adhesions that had to be now that Rutledge has passed away. I Jun. for the graduation of the 2nd eldest
Lexington, VA, to be near her daughter repaired off and on so she was opened also heard from Eugenia Ellis Mason from the American School. After 5 yrs. and husband, both graduates of W&L; up 4 times, resulting in staph infections. in Petersburg, VA, and Jean Duerson of England's weather, she only looked and Mary Waller Berkley Ferguson After SBC she went to Cornell to get her Bade in Louisville, KY. Both are widows at colleges in warm climates and will be and husband are living at Westminister M.A in nutrition. There she met Shantilal now, Jean electing to stay in her big going to the U. Miami, FL, next yr. After
Canterbury in Richmond. who was getting a degree in agronomy. house. Jean frequently sees Diane graduation the whole family will be
Nancy Drake Maggard sent a They were married there; then went to Richmond Simpson, her friend of going to St. Petersburg, Russia for a few photo of her family of 8 children, 17 India for 1 6 yrs. There are 2 daughters many yrs. Diane is in a wheelchair from days. Aside from wild plans, Ed and I grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild. in San Diego and a son in Kansas City. an arthritic condition and unfortunately continue our hospital volunteering (ER
Can anyone top that? They had been married 57 J£ yrs. Isolde cannot continue to swim with Jean as for 24 yrs.) and in our spare time, bridge
Betty, B.G., Elmore Gilleland and Baisch Werhahn '53 was a close friend. she has done for a long time Jean still is his hobby and painting is mine. Mona
Guy are still traveling. Last year they Shantilal said that his son tried unsuc- does her laps in the pool "when I can"! Wilson Beard and I keep in touch took a trip to the Baltic and Scandina- cessfully to contact her in Stuttgart re- Also heard from Joan Davis Warren in by email, and I hope to persuade Sis vian countries. In Nov., B.G. attended a cently. A service was held on 1 2/6/09 at Philadelphia, but not from Barbara Birt Hayden D'Wolf to join in this yr.
Colonial Dames meeting in Jacksonville the Church of the Brethren in La Verne, Dow, who also lives there. Rives and Ann "Ben" Benet Yellott: Still and saw Margaret Murchison Corse CA. His number is 909-392-4078. Joan celebrated the holiday season with helping out with the local therapeutic who is living in Jacksonville again. B.G. Joanne Williams Ray: (Words Rives's shoulder in a sling from rotator riding program and the nature center. keeps in touch with Diana Dent, Nell from her faithful and caring son, Max.) cuff surgery on 1 2/9. He's doing well Love hearing about classmates. Really
Greening Keen and Nancy Storey Nothing significant this yr. other than and together they're looking forward sorry to hear about Sunshine (Tsun-
White, all of whom are happy in their her getting a cold 1 2/1 8 and was so to the summer wedding of our oldest Hsien Kwan). I waited tables with respective retirement homes. She and weak she couldn't get out of her chair, grandchild. They see Ann Sheldon her. She was a special person. I heard
Guy venture into the deep freeze in Ml and we feared the worst. She's doing Taylor Campbell often. She and Bill from Ruth Oddy Meyer at Christmas. every Christmas to visit their daughter OK, but we're still fearful of this turning Campbell travel some, but mostly The puppy is fine; we're busy now with and family. into pneumonia. She spends all day hang out at their apt. at Westminster agility, which is a blast! Trouble is, I can't Jean Probeck Wiant was unable to and from the bed into the kitchen Canterbury. keep up with him! to attend Reunion as she went to her to eat, a slow, but steady decline. She Sue Lockley Glad I have zero Jean Graham "Randie" Ran- granddaughter's graduation from the doesn't know us, much less other news! Ned and I spent the winter quietly, dolph Bruns: I avoided a dreadful siege
Manhattan School of Music and then family and friends, I'm sad to report. recovering from our lousy summer of of winter weather in postponing my on to her grandson's h. s. graduation in She was dropped from the Alzheimer's surgery. However, we're both on the return home (from FL) until a lot of melt-
Katonah, NY. She has moved to a new study 02/06/09, as she went from a road to mending completely and hope to ing goes on. Julie Micou Eastwood is retirement center east of Cleveland, but 23 to between 0-3 in a 1 2-mo. period get to OR this summer. There will be a planning to come "back east" to see her is still active on the Women's Board of on the mini-mental exam, and we're constant parade of children and grand- brother who isn't well. And I hope she'll the Cleveland Institute of Music and the told to expect to have to call in hospice children (accompanied by their dogs) have a few days in Warm Springs. board of a baroque music group. She between 6-1 8 mos. out. So we bide and that will be fun, if chaotic. However, Lynne McCollough Gush: I have also works with a mission group involv- our time and try to keep her happy, fed I think I'll retire from the competition on no real news for SBC, since dog, ballet ing transitional activities for the jobless and comfortable. (Note to PLF: As you the tennis court and golf course, maybe and teaching go along as usual. Not and homeless. may have noted, I'm pretty good about stick to croquet. We should all aim to enough teaching, due to the economy, to
Sally Bianchi Foster has another information retention. It's my job as a be healthy and prepared for our 60th warrant a trip to reunion, but sufficient
it all. I 2 grandchildren off to coll. (Earlham & financial advisor and doesn't suit badly reunion in 201 1 . Good grief! Best to for customary adventures. Nancy and mother's social secretary either! Wilson Beard: May and are working on the Liszt B minor sonata I Mona Lafayette) and have 1 , but no telling as where at this writing, as he applied to Mother is still going pretty well, consid- sunshine seem a long way off just now! arranged for 2 pianos by Saint-Sans.
13 coll.! ering. We endeavor to take good care of Thank you for the reunion dates. At least The garden needs doing. We didn't
This is my last report. I've enjoyed her. She still maintains a constant laugh, it won't be snowing 30 in. 60 yrs. is need a hard freeze of 2 days after the hearing from all over the yrs. and hope says thank you when you do what she a pretty long time! No real news here. drought, the hurricane, and the flood.
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 201 • 35 The greenhouse habitants are lovely, Coll. archivist and student interns to who wrote and enabled me to pass
but everything I failed to bring in is thor- prepare a database of the historic Patton along some news. I realize I've left out oughly Gothic. The Alumnae Magazine ma home and its contents, in order to deter- news of our baby-boomer children and is glamorous. So, in fact, is the campus Patricia Layne Winks mine their future use. Another classmate Generation X grandchildren, but this
these days, 312 Arguello Blvd., Apt. 3 dealing with the challenging prospect of time I wanted to be sure you heard
Patty Lynas Ford: While visiting San Francisco, CA 94118 downsizing is Nancy Morrow Lovell, about each other. More about our fami- our daughter and family in Leesburg, [email protected] who is first trying to organize her vast lies next time! Please keep me up to
VA, in Sept., we were fortunate to be files of genealogy research materi- date, so that I may share the news. able to go to SBC for the Inauguration Christmas 2009 brought the gift of als, before ultimately moving from her of our new president, Jo Ellen Parker, many messages from our class. To all of large home on 5 acres. As she notes, a most impressive person inaugurated you, thank you so much! "One of the best features of this home m3 in a stirring event. We are fortunate It was good to hear that a number is its fabulous storage space. One of Florence "Flo" Pie Apy to have her, a fine successor to Betsy of you reunited, sometimes after many the worst features of the home (at this 67 Rivers Edge Dr.
Muhlenfeld. The Upchurch Field House years. Janis Thomas Zeanah lunched point in my life) is the fabulous stor- Little Silver, NJ 07739 has to be seen to be believed! It's with Freddie Collins Brister when she age space." Mary Barcus Hunter has 732-747-4155 enormous and very adaptable for dif- was in Richmond — the first time they maintained her late husband's oil and [email protected]
ferent functions. I was able to audit the had seen each other in more than 40 gas business over the past 10 yrs. Now
Intermediate Greek class, exactly 60 yrs. yrs. As Janis noted, "The really good she's clearing out files in anticipation A big thank you to those who sent news after my time in 2nd-yr. Greek. Also, I news: we recognized each other." Ellen of turning over the business to her at Christmas: Kirk Tucker Clarkson was able to have some time with Dr. Eric Galey Sher drove up from Asheville, sons Florence Fitch Patton is looking and Jack began 2009 with a "fabulous
Casey, the excellent classics professor, NC, to visit with Laura Radford Goley forward to the last year of her three- trip to Southern Chile where we found to read selections from Oaphnis and and celebrate the inauguration of year term as National Corresponding the glaciers and fjords breathtaking."
Chlo . Greek was my dearest love at President Parker. Secretary General of the Daughters of The remainder of the winter was spent
in SBC so I was able, thanks to Dr. Casey's Joanne Holbrook Patton wel- the Revolution, though she'll continue at their home Ponte Verda, FL, near kindness, to be a part of his class. comed Edie Marsh Fonda and Jane activities and responsibilities at the local their family. There, she enjoys seeing
Afterwards, we had lunch with him and Russo Sheehan to her annual alum- level Martha Yost Ridenour is ahead Eleanor Johnson Ashby and Garnett. his wife who teaches religion. All meals nae picnic at Green Meadows Farm. of the rest of us: she already cleared The 3 Clarkson grandsons are all in are served cafeteria-style now, no more And most recently, at the Vero Beach out a treasure trove from her basement coll., and their granddaughter is a suc- student waitresses on the scene. And reception honoring Dr. Parker, Anne and uncovered, among other things, cessful caterer in Telluride, CO. Kirk had the dress code has become extremely Hoagland Kelsey reunited with 3 lamps from family steamboats, dueling a total knee replacement in May and relaxed. But that doesn't detract from classmates: Frances Street Smith, pistols, Bowie knives from the Spanish- a thyroidectomy in Aug. She's playing the spirit of the girls. We visited the new Kitchie Roseberry Tolleson, and Amiercan War, panning equipment from tennis again and ready to travel. Jack is student house called "The Green Vil- Mary John Ford Gilchrist the Gold Rush. (She'll leave the attic for substituting in the courts (judicial, not lage," which are very much in demand. Many of us continue to travel far relatives to deal with!) tennis) in Norfolk. Kirk often sees Katty
Recently, we had lunch with Julie and wide. Anne Hoagland Kelsey Leila Booth Morris is grateful Turner Mears at Chesapeake Bay
Micou Eastwood and Dick in the Napa probably racks up the most frequent for her continued health and mobil- Foundation meetings.
Valley. She's planning to go east later in flyer mileage, what with residences ity. Martha Yost Ridenour hopes to Sug Cantey Patton and Pat spent the spring to see her brother and plans in FL, Cape Cod and NJ, as well as continue in good health and able to care a delightful 4 days at Cashiers, NC, to go down to VA to visit Jean Graham children and grandchildren around the for herself. Nell Dumas Herff plans to with Anne Elliot Caskie and Challen
"Randie" Randolph Bruns Last week country. Between travels she remains enjoy life. and Edie Norman Wombwell and we had lunch in Santa Rosa with Anne involved in, among many activities, I'm impressed by the wide range of George, all enjoying the great weather
Sinsheimer who was in the area to Childcare Resources, an organization activities Peggy Nelson Harding bikes and mountain scenery. The Pattons are visit friends and relatives. She had had providing early childhood and family and kayaks. Ann Whittingham Smith expecting a great-grandson in Mar. via a splendid trip to Africa last yr. Her life is support for working parents. plays badminton and has rediscovered oldest grandson, Tim and wife Brooke. busy with community activities, her dog Trudy Kelly Morron observes playing the piano—even duets! Janis Great news for Jeanne Duff and and knitting (she was wearing one of her that with all the airport security, delays, Thomas Zeanah has regular exercise me—Parti Tighe Walden is returning gorgeous sweaters when we saw her). and general lack of amenities, "getting as a goal in 2010. to NJ after living for several yrs. in Las
Lynne McCoullough Gush sent youth- there is not even half the fun," but she Like many of you, I hope to continue Vegas. Parti's son-in-law has been ful pictures of herself and her fun-loving did get to London and Cornwall all the to travel. I was especially pleased to transferred back to Tishman's NY of-
Kensington Weimaraner. Our local same. Others anticipate journeys in hear that both Josie Sibold and Mary fice. She and the rest of the family will daughter, Elizabeth, is awaiting delivery 201 Mary Barcus Hunter plans a Lois Miller Carroll may include San return at the end of the school yr. Now
of the harpsichord she commissioned trip to the Italian Lake District with her Francisco on their 2010 itineraries. Jeanne, Patti and I can resume our
last yr. She painted the soundboard last sons, Bare and Tom. Florence Fitch Mary Lois and husband Hugh rejoice luncheon get-togethers. Jeanne and I summer and has put some finishing Patton will go on a cruise of the Orient, in his clean bill of health after a chal- have continued our meetings, but have touches on it. She's active in the Early visiting all the capitals of countries from lenging course of radiation and che- missed Patti. If any of you live within
Music scene in the Bay Area. I've been Japan down to Singapore. In late sum- motherapy. Helen Graves Stahmann, driving distance of Princeton, NJ, we'd at the Animal Shelter for 1 3 yrs. now, mer 2010 she'll see the once-a-decade who lives in Queensland, writes that be happy to have you join us.
3 mornings a wk., training and walking Passion Play at Oberammergau. Leila she hopes to clear her coastal property A Christmas card from Anne dogs and cuddling cats. Gardening gives Booth Morris is looking forward to a of lantana (Australia's equivalent of Joyce Wyman and Joseph pictured
Dick great I and me pleasure, and as trip to Tuscany, as well as a visit to West kudzu?) and to travel to the U. S. I hope their beautiful family—a handsome write this, the many camellias, daffodils, Point in May for what would have been she stops off in San Francisco, too. son-in-law, a beautiful daughter and two daphne and other shrubs and flowers her late husband Jim's 65th reunion. Not all our news is happy news. good-looking blond grandsons, but no are in bloom. It's good to hear from you When I asked you for one specific Several of you are bravely coping with comments. and to find connections with some of thing you'd like to accomplish in 2010, the care of seriously impaired spouses. From my roommate. Kay Amden you that we didn't know existed. I invite many of you echoed my own determina- Our thoughts and prayers go out to you. Mary Lou underwent total knee replace- others to write. It's hard to believe that tion (perhaps the word "hope" is more We lost three members of our class: ment (there seems to be an epidemic in 14 mos. (May 201 1) we'll have our accurate) to get papers, files, and gen- Barbara Hoyt Boyer, Marjorie Levine of that). The knee having been deemed
60th reunion! Thanks again. eral collections of junk/treasure in order, Abrams, and Jane Mattas Christian "better than over," she and Kay are
as Laura Radford Goley put it, "so the We are grateful for their presence in our taking their show "Sisters by Heart" on
kids won't have to." Joanne Holbrook lives, and now in our memories. the road to senior centers, retirement
Patton has enlisted the help of Gordon Again, thanks so much to all of you communities, and women's clubs, Kay
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mastered the art of Power Point presen- spent the summer on Cape Cod so she rural Africa. Manda and Don are enjoy hiking and to DE for a Smith family tation to illustrate the program. was near both families. Bexy Faxon having their older son with them for an reunion. Their volunteer lists includes tax
Sally Gale Beck and Doug enjoy Knowles and Bob may hold the record extended visit. preparation for AARP, Stanford's Arizona
life in Merida, Mexico. Sally reports that with 16 grands and twin greats. Now That's all I have. I echo Gail's senti- Cactus Garden, Unity Church. Add a her knees are no longer what they once that they're boatless, they take a cruise ment: "There's nothing happening here!" meditation group, 45-yr.-old book club, were, so she has curtailed climbing the or 2 every yr. With a grandchild count Palo Alto tree advocacy and you know
Maya ruins. She now has more time for of 1 5, Betty Byrne Gill Ware and why they lead "a wonderful life" and reading and research. Hudnall are a close 2nd. I love that she me send blessings to us sisters in the Class From the Apy household: In Oct., sends photos— her daughter looks like Meredith Smythe Grider of 1956.
Chet and I cruised the Mediterranean her twin! Emily Hunter Slingluffs 1307 Killiney PI. Karen Steinhardt Kirkbride and in celebration of our 55th wedding children both live within an easy drive Louisville, KY 40207 Dick focus their travel on beaches—DE, anniv. We toured Rome for 3.5 days so she can see them frequently. Her [email protected] FL, HI and St. Maarten. Apr. takes them before boarding the Grand Princess. 2 granddaughters are in school at to NYC for son Trevor's wedding pre- The ship took us to Naples (Pompeii), Princeton and UVA. Patty McClay Martha Anne Clay Nichols ceded by parties "from Fort Lauderdale Athens, Istanbul, Ephesus, the Greek Boggs and Flip will head north in May 3928 Old Brownsboro Rd. to Tokyo." (the Sphinx and h. island of Mykonos, Cairo to attend the s. graduation of one of Louisville, KY 40207 Nancy Greer Howe Entenmann Pyramids), Alexandria and then back to their grandchildren. The biggest event [email protected] recommends the book When Husbands Rome and home. I'm sure that this will in Ruth Campbell VanDerpoel's yr. Die, which had a strong impact on her bring back memories of your own travels was the marriage of son Jim last Sept. when she read it. She also says that In the last issue of this magazine, some of you to to a lovely girl at his cycling she's with the senior and perhaps encourage he met our class notes, written by Meredith, impressed SBC more of the world. club. Ann Jeffers Hogarty writes class. see was cut short, leaving an incomplete
before left, Chet and I got that although she very misses Barbara Darnall Clinton and Dean Just we much sentence and omission of news from the news that we will be welcoming Dick, her family is with her often so she have attended assorted engineering classmates—so much for technology! our 9th grandchild (a boy, as we later feels very blessed. Last summer Sue conferences in Puerto Rico and Kuwait. So the missed news will be included learned) in Apr. Six of the grandchildren, Bernard Odense and Larry spent 4 They attended grandson's graduation in with all the latest. all the young ones, live in CA—in 2 days with all the granddaughters—2 of Ghana where daughter, Mary Kay and It is with great sadness that we note households, 400 mi. apart so we're them home from coll. Lots of fun, but husband serve as Methodist missionar- — the following deaths: Betsy Meade commuting grandparents. As of Apr., it took her a wk. to recuperate! In the Hastings Carolyn Dickinson Tynes, ies; other grandson is in 10th grade. they'll range from age 0-30. Not exactly fall they went on their 1st cruise, from Daughter Laura has active teenagers Joyce Lenz Young Ann Irvin, Sarah a one-size-fits-all group. Boston to Nova Scotia, with 2 couples Sharp Taylor. Helen Wolfe Evans. Shannon and Connor—travels interna-
As I completing this column, I they've known for yrs. Many of us tionally for AEI Energy. Son Charles has was 50 Jane Slack's son Ethan Engl, Nancy notified the Sweet Briar alumnae spent time on the road one more made the Colonels List for the Air Force. was by —no St. Clair Talley's husband Lilburn, office that Bush Englund died than Joan Kelts Cook and Duncan. Barbara continues singing with her choir, Gage Nancie Howe Entenmann s husband over year on Jan. 1 2009. A Their family is scattered across the west especially at Easter. a ago 2, Dick, and Frances Shannonhouse in time Ettinger has earned long and interesting obituary appeared CA, OR and MT. They also spent Clardy's husband Jim. To each family Nancy Minor in the Jan. 1 5 edition of the NY Times, in the east visiting friends, cruising the bridge Life Master, but volunteers with we send our condolences in their loss
of found if islands exploring Disney World, elementary students in neediest Savan- a copy which can be you and and and our loving support. Internet. that doesn't even count the at nah schools, too. The Savannah Music Google her name on the 2 wks. From Sarasota, Bunny Burwell My inbox is now empty, so please their time-share in Mazatlan, Mex. last Festival is a highlight on her Apr. calen- Nesbit resides in The Glenridge, a dar. finds time to play golf in spite send me your news for our next column. winter Honey Addington Passano and continuing care retirement community, She Bill were finally able to fly out of snowy of a bum knee. Meredith and Macie can and enjoys life there. She's at the top Baltimore in mid-Feb. and headed to the sympathize as they each have 2 new as dean of a new community school, Bahamas for 7 wks. in the sun. Honey ones—anyone else? mi chairman of the cruise committee, social wrote of Sue Starkey Ragland's Joan Broman Wright and Jim Bruce Watts Krucke committee, liaison to performing arts death last fall. Sue was her freshman survived the blizzards of 2010, which 7352 Toogoodoo Rd. committee, opera guild and is active at roommate, and they had stayed in touch assaulted Charlottesville. So, off to FL Yonges Island, SC 29449 the Church of the Redeemer. What a through the yrs. for recovery and visits with family and [email protected] resume! Daughter, Katherine, married at By now, most of us are retired, friends up and down the coast. She and 50, lives in Charlottesville, works for the but we're still volunteering. Diane Federal Reserve and welcomes Bunny Mary Ann Hicklin Willingham are Johnson DeCamp is less active in planning our 55th in 2011 put May 1955 for long summer visits. Let her know — her Garden Club but still participates in 20,21 , 22 on your calendar now and Kathryn Beard when in Sarasota—she'd love a visit. their She also volunteers at her await more details. They won't accept 1074 Zanzibar Ln. events. Ruth Phillips Hollowed continues church as do Gail Bazzarre and Betty any excuses for not attending! Minneapolis, MN 55447 her career in advertising, but mostly
Sanford Molster. Even I put in my Jane Slack Sigloh has authored [email protected] "does everything" for her 9-yr.-old one morning a wk. at the County Adult a book, "Like Trees Walking," which granddaughter who lives with her and Facility! Others are enjoying Meredith reports is wonderful and avail- Corrections son/father, Chad. Well, Ladies, here I am again! I did more comfortable climates for their able from Amazon. Our class Scholar- hear from several of you, but most of Rose Montgomery Johnston
retirement. Gay Reddig Mayl and Jack ship Fund has a value of $1 1 ,739 and is us seem to be living quietly these days. travels to visit her 4 daughters when love sunny FL. In CA, Barbara Plamp helping a student in the class of 201 3. Quoting Gail Davidson Bazzarre her profession in psychotherapy allows. Hunt and George enjoy their retirement Additions to the fund may be made wrote to let you know nothing is hap- Holland and Croatia have been recent community. through annual giving and memorials. pening here!" That's just fine, as it's destinations as well as a drive through is complet- I am frequently in contact with Didi Martha Clay Nichols enough for me to know that "we are SBC, which inspired her with the beauty Stoddard Fritz Merriman Naylor, ing a 2-yr. term as President of the still here!" Gail still volunteers at their of the campus and with gratitude for her Ginger Chamblin Greene and Manda Colonial Dames in KY. where 2 museum church, and she and John enjoy their years there. Didi her partner, houses in Frankfort, which offer them McThenia lodice. and in "darling" great-granddaughter (2). Most Barbara Brown McFarland Jess Tobin, have a handsome new lots of volunteer challenges in addition of you echoed Pam Compton Ware s OR still enjoys her work and will have a grandson who they're silly about. Fritz to the normal Dame activities, She and sentiment: "Family continues to bring granddaughter/graduate this spring. is still teaching and shows no sign of Robert travel to Providence to Martha's great joy." For Christmas Marty Hede- Kay Smith Schauer and Bob
slowing down, so I assume she enjoys family, Barcelona for Rob's and spent man Buckingham's 2 children brought (battling cancer) keep a non-stop travel it. Ginger is still getting used to hot and 2 wks in Egypt last month—did it a//! their families to GA to celebrate. She schedule—Antartica, Central America, cold running water after her time in Dr. Martha is teaching French at Brown,
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juggles an amazing schedule; Rob is in Among her many accomplishments is life's unexpected gifts," his parents say. Hostess products and Lee continues
international real estate after 1 3 yrs. in practicing law for 1 yrs. after gradu- Daughter Elizabeth and husband Mac as the victim-witness coordinator for
Spain. Robert is retired, but busy and ation; she only substitutes now. Joan live in Durham, NC; their daughter is at the local attorney general. Anne loves
she's hanging on in the wonderful world also has had an antique business. UNC-Asheville and son Lewis is decid- her job as community coordinator at
of real estate. She keeps in touch with many SBC ing where he wants to go to college. Zusman. She lives with her "significant
Meredith Smythe Grider spends alumnae; Californian Polly Barnes Because Mac had serious surgery on other" Rick Farley, a funeral director,
summer plus in her Ml retreat as a Hester, a near professional golfer; Ann his foot, Beth and he have made the "in and daughter Lindsey (16). Eddie and
shopkeeper and hostess to many family Watkins Custer of NY, due for a visit, sickness and in health" journey together. I are delighted being so close to them
and friends. For a winter break, Sanibel with her husband David; and Carol Daughter Katherine and husband Bill and they've been great helpers with
for a few weeks is the balance. Her 3 McClave Duncan owner of a beautiful are both Episcopal priests. They're serv- our move.
girls and families are all right here in dairy farm in PA near the Land-O'Lakes, ing in a parish in Minnetonka, MN; they Since my postcards were not a suc-
Louisville and spend time with her a frequent visitor with her husband and their children Eva and Jesse love cess, I'll just ask you all to write your
wherever she is! Don. In Richmond Joan sees Mary Ann MN. Deborah, Katherine's twin sister, news before the next magazine, due
Now, if you aren't mentioned in this Vandevoort Large '57 and Bob; Molly in Concord, NH, is in her 2nd yr, as a out in the fall; that means getting your
tome, it's because nothing came to us or Haskell '61 when she visits her SBC nurse in a cardiac care unit in a local news to me as soon as possible, either SBC—please take a moment to share roommate Barbara Fowler; and Pearl hospital. Her daughter Sarah is in high by e-mail or snail mail. Both addresses some news for the next issue. And many Adamson '60 and Louise Dunham school; besides being a good student, are with this article. Our reunion just
thanks to those who sent news—we Williams and husband Harold are she competes in crew, track and cross- confirmed my opinion that our class-
can't do this without you! Keep in touch. neighbors as well as Weezie Laughlin country running. Son Alex is the owner mates are remarkable; they are attrac-
'57. Joan also sees a lot of Betty of a local paintball facility. Deborah will tive, bright and highly motivated, fine
Waddell Henson who lives in Roanoke. be remarried in Oct. ambassadors for Sweet Briar. Keep the
9957 Joan has fascinating family history: First, I want to apologize to all of news coming. Carol McMurtry Fowler her father, a professor at W&L, was you for not getting the summary of our
10 WoodstoneSq. British and still has many relatives fabulous 50th reunion in the Alumna
Austin, TX 78703 there; her mother was French and a Magazine. I raced home and wrote a 1959 [email protected] Cordon Bleu graduate as well as a comprehensive recap; the only problem Ali Wood Thompson member of Howard Carter's team when was that my e-mail didn't reach the 89 Pukolu Way
it he excavated King Tut's tomb in 1922. editor and I didn't realize until the Wailea, HI 96753 1956 As a result of all these connections, magazine came out. For some strange 808-874-8028 Jane Shipman Kuntz Joan and Paul visit England, France reason, I had no hard copy, my usual [email protected] and Egypt regularly. Joan's tales of her practice, so that column is still float- 4015 Orchard View PL, No. 1 youth are fascinating: she says she lived ing around cyberspace somewhere! Powell, OH 43065 One of our sad moments in Feb., was [email protected] in NYC, where she was a Rockette and Fall 2008 and winter 2009 turned out the passing of our wonderful Gretchen
later moved to Chicago and FL; when to be difficult because I developed a Smith Buntschuh. All of us who went her father joined the faculty at W&L low grade infection that just hung on Greetings from Buckeye Land! In case to the 50th Reunion in Sept. remember
the Nelsons moved to Lexington where and on; I was also diagnosed with the delightful time we had with her and you hadn't heard, Eddie and I have Joan met her husband Paul while he polymyalgia rheumatica, an unpleas- moved to suburban Columbus; more have fond memories of her. was in law school and she was a pool ant but treatable condition. The final about that later. Our notes are a little I want to thank all of you for such a life guard; after a few years in SC they straw was cracking my ankle from a sparse, but I'm grateful to the few wonderful response to this 2nd newslet- moved to Richmond where they raised fall while walking our dog. Then, due people who did get in touch. ter! For those that don't have email (for their 2 sons. Joan has also appeared on to the influence of our daughters, we Adele Scott Caruthers has the next edition of the SBC Alumnae "All My Children," courtesy of her god- moved to Powell, OH, in order to be retired again from her profession as an magazine), please send me your news
child Eden Riegel. I would be remiss not near Anne who started working for possible I occupational hand therapist. To help fill as soon as so that can include to send sympathy for the death of one the Zusman Hospice in 1/09; they felt her time, Adele volunteers helping 2nd- you in the next letter. of her sons not long ago. that, due to our "advancing yrs.," we graders learn to read. She's also taking Liz Chambers Burgess: I'm Thank goodness for holiday let- should be near one of them. We've a continuing education class using New still reeling from Gretchen Smith ters; Judy Graham Lewis and Jim, settled into a lovely patio condo, but I'd Yorker articles as a textbook. She's Buntschuh s death. It was so very Charleston, WVA, sent a delightful forgotten what a nightmare moving was. pleased to have extra time to paint and wonderful to renew that friendship at Valentine note. The Lewises celebrated Martha Schneck, Don and children, is writing her memoirs. Adele will have Reunion. Have started volunteer work in their 51 st anniv. on 6/1 4/09. Judy moved back to their home in Ashburn, her 2nd hip replacement in May; she the Archives/Special Collections section spends her time at their church where VA, after 4 yrs. in Pretoria, South Africa. of library. had the 1 st one 7 yrs. ago and coded the Old Dominion U. Also, she's a bellringer and sings in the Don is now advising on security mea- on the anesthesia, so she has a differ- I've agreed to be treasurer for my DAR choir, and serves food for Manna Meals, sures at new and remodeled embassies ent doctor and procedure. Adele serves chapter for the next 3 yrs. May be over a breakfast, lunch and dinner served to and consulates around the world for on the hospitality committee of her estimating my energy level, but it keeps as many as 400 people a day. She also the State Department; he just returned Episcopal Church in Albuquerque and me out of trouble! Chuck and I just got serves on the Straight Alliance from consulting in China. Martha is has recently moved. Gay & back from Atlanta, where we stayed with committee and tends the church gar- aquatic director at the Pavilion, the Elizabeth Gallo Skladal was to the our daughter and her family for a few den. Judy had a hip replacement 2 yrs. local community activities center. Katie selected as Alumna of the Year for days. Our one grandchild, a 5-yr-old
ago so she "walks vigorously" and starts is a jr. at Mary Washington U. majoring the U. of AK, Anchorage. The awards girl who is beautiful and brilliant as are her day in a water aerobics class at the in fine arts with an emphasis on pho- luncheon was held at the Gorsuch all grandchildren everywhere, is quite a YWCA. Jim has retired from the active tography; Lauren graduated from the Commons in Anchorage. Elizabeth said: drawing card for Atlanta visits. We visit Episcopal ministry, but just finished American Int'l School of Johannesburg "This award is personally shared with our son and his wife in NY regularly. interim minister for work as an "supply" last Jun. and is in a post graduate Otherwise, my main hobby is digging Sweet Briar as I feel my education there 4 parishes that combined into one. The year in VA and is taking flute lessons; prepared me for the role as leader into family history, which I do on the in- Lewis offspring are equally as active Cole is in the 8th grade and is an alto in community endeavors. Thank you, ternet with occasional trips to NC where as their parents' oldest son yr.'s Sweet Briar!" Stephen sax player. This snows were hard many of my ancestors were. Chuck is has moved back home with his parents on them after their sojourn in Africa. Joan Nelson Bargamin and still teaching part time at Old Dominion and is exploring new business oppor- Caira, Clarksville, husband Paul had attended the early Lee and Steve TN, U., although he's technically retired. tunities to support his 3 children who have a busy household with Steve's 2 curling contests at the Olympics after He loves it, and I love the fact that he's
live with their mother in MD. "Having children Ashley liv- a visit to Fort Worth to try bull riding! Ryan (19) and (16) happy with what he does. Stephen back home has been one of ing at home. Steve is a distributor with
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'59 Betsy Colwill Weigers: I'm off to mi. away. If the entire class of could a computer. Yesterday I had a pleasant ing forward to getting more involved in
the Caribbean tomorrow after having please come here on my moving day, moment when I won an award for this local education programs as a volunteer.
spent a few days in NYC where the carry an armload and enjoy a nice 4-mi. fun watercolor painting. I've been a little I'm involved in tennis and boating; I oc-
weather was the pits and coming home walk together, it could be a wonderful discouraged lately because it's seemed casionally ski and play golf. My current
to Vail where the weather was also experience for all. Besides I could save that only scribbles and splashes were passion is playing duplicate bridge. the pits. Whatever does one expect in on a moving van. You all would need to deemed "good art." "Why bother to learn Meriwether Hagerty Rumrill: I'm
Feb.? We sold our place in Mexico and make a few round trips, so plan to bring to draw or use paint?" I asked. Getting a so lucky to have the 1st (Charles Rumrill
are now looking for other venues. Have your most comfortable booties! As for little prize shut me up nicely. called Chip) of my 6 grandkids living
reconnected with Claire Devener (in me, I hyperventilate at the thought of This Jun., we're taking our camper close by in Alexandria and have the joy
Anguilla), and I hope to see her while climbing one flight of stairs to my cur- to Knoxville, TN, for John's annual West- of watching him change weekly. The
we're in St, Barts. I've also reconnected rent bedroom, so I'd have to follow the ern Writers of America Convention. We'll mighty snows that hit VA were also a joy
with Jackie Hekma Stone and Alice group in my Prius. (Snowdon, you can zigzag our way out and back so we can this winter since I could just walk out the
Carey Farmer Brown Along with Di ride in the car with me!) If I live through explore and I can paint some of the neat front door, put on my cross country skis
Doscher I hope to have a mini reunion this, it'll be a miracle. I've been here 38 places along the way. We're happy and and get on a trail through the woods and
this spring in NYC. yrs. I have enough stuff to fill ole Daisy's healthy and enjoying life. My Web site is: around my lake. Clients are beginning to
Tricia Coxe Ware: I'm looking for- gym and Babcock too. I'm clearly a bona www.pennyduncklee.com. call and I am eager to get back to work
ward to spring. Richmond had 30 in. of fide 'keepaholic.' (Ali's note: Did anyone want to know (that's from someone who loves her
snow this winter! At least my grandchil- Deborah Dunning: Primarily, I'm what "potty washing was?... I wrote work). I still feel the loss of Gretchen
dren, Mac and Riley, enjoyed it. very busy working to insure that our Penny and she answered: "Pottywashing Smith whom I was getting to know as
Caroline Blake Whitney: I'm a first children and the children of our children goes like this: I get up from the break- we shared our joy of dancing.
time writer of news. I've been reflecting and future generations have health and fast table and head to my studio. On the We were hoping to meet in DC so
or reviewing the past many yrs. since quality of life. The NGO I founded and way I see that the iron is still out on the we could enjoy together the best dance
departure from our alma mater. From serve as president, The Green Standard, counter from cooling off after ironing venue in the country. Great love of
the tranquil east coast of the Northeast is hosting a forum in Washington in late clothes yesterday. I stop and put the family, friends, fun and work, and good
to the "Old Country" after marrying, we Apr. to help manufacturers learn how to iron away, As the cabinet door is open health. I feel very blessed.
lived in Switzerland for a couple of yrs. "go green" and expand their exports and I see the plant fertilizer and remember Gay Hart Gaines: Sadly, Stanley
and even considered settling in England. sales. It's an adventure and, if any of you that I was going to feed the plants in the and I suffered the loss of our eldest
However, the call from my husband's are interested, you can learn about it front hall last week. I get the fertilizer son last Jun. 18, to the ravages and
father to come home to Argentina was atwww.TheGreenStandard.org. I'd love out, dilute some of it and go water and complications from his lifelong Juvenile
I only too irresistible. I had never been there, to see a bunch of you there and look feed the plants. Then notice that the Diabetes. (Type 1) He was 48, and
so it was a great adventure, never to forward to catching up wherever. window in the front hall is dirty. So I it was the worst blow we have ever
be regretted. My 4 children call it their Alice Cary Farmer Brown: We're wash the window and the ones in the had. One has to keep on going for the
country, having grown up surrounded trying not to feel ancient as our oldest dining room and living room. By then an sake of all our family. You never get
by family. My Mother-in-Law came from child turns 50 this yr. and our oldest hour has gone by, and it's time for a cup over it. Really. You somehow get around
a large Scottish clan who settled in the grandchild just turned 20 and 6 other of coffee. And, I haven't done my email it. We celebrated our 50th wedding
deep south of Argentina, near the Straits grandchildren are teenagers. One little yet. Suddenly it's 1 1 :30 and nearly time anniv. with all of our children and 1 of
I 1 1 it bitter of Magellan. Those were amazing, excit- guy is still just 1 1 . We managed to for lunch, and haven't touched a brush the grandchildren and was
ing and vibrant yrs. before everything drive up to The Pomfret School in a wild or wet the paints, or, even thought about sweet, but wonderful. We took the whole
began to crumble. The government was blizzard recently to see a granddaughter the painting. THAT is pottywashing. family to Williamsburg for a wonderful
never good, became enmeshed in ram- dance as a Flapper Girl in the school's Jackie Hekma Stone: Synopsis dose of history as well as sports and
pant terrorism, friends disappearing, and musical revival of "Thoroughly Modern of My Life So Far. After I graduated, wonderful food. It was a big success.
I still Vernon's our lives had to change from a steady Millie." A week earlier we had driven up I worked as a media buyer for Young represent FL on Mount '63 rhythm to an irregular, inconsistent life to Deerfield Academy to see a grandson and Rubicam until I got married in board and am totally committed to my
favorite hero, George Washington. I style. I guess it affected our marriage come in 2nd in a ski race of over 200 to Charles Lanier Stone. We moved lived elected chairman of the Capital more than I wanted it to do so. Sadly, skiers from 10 boarding schools. We're to Greenwich where we have in was
for yrs. Campaign to raise $80 million to build I had to accept that this part of my life off to FL to visit my mother-in-law (99) the same house 47 We had 2
was over, and due to continued strife in who wants to go out every night! We daughters and now have 5 grandchil- a library honoring our 1st and greatest
Argentina, it seemed best to return to plan to spend, as usual, all of May and dren (2-13), which we enjoy spending President and am very excited about
Boston. Shortly thereafter my husband Jun. at our place in Vienna. We were time with. After various volunteer jobs, it. I'm also working for some exciting
I Rubio for the I I political candidates, Marco died, thus I call myself a divorced there, also as usual, all of Oct. and Nov. realized love to teach and learn. got
in education from FL Senate, a thrilling young man, John widow. I had been away from the USA We returned in time for a big family my masters elem.
for over 25 yrs. It was similar to starting Christmas in Telluride, CO, with our Manhattanville Coll. In 74 and taught Kasich for Gov. of OH and think he's just
Lt. Col. Allen all over again, in a new country. Much youngest son and his family. I share middle school at Greenwich Academy what OH needs and West
had changed and seemed strange, our class's enormous sadness over for 1 yrs. before becoming the Head for our Congressman, here in FL. We wonderful even connecting with old friends. Their the untimely deaths of Ethel Bruner of Middle School in 1982. 1 loved that finally moved into our new
lives had moved on, just as mine had, and Gretchen Smith. Both were truly job, but decided to move on in '89 to a home on the ocean in time for Thanks-
giving Christmas, adore it. there were gaps in the connections special young women. I feel fortunate to degree in landscape architecture. Just and and we
it "Lalaland" all of unknown children, different friends, the have known them. at the time I decided this was not for We named because
is Lalaland! changes wrought by the 60s and early Penny Fisher Duncklee: Jan. me, I was asked to be a consultant to Palm Beach really
70s, which were not in my experiences. took me to CA to visit Clint and Dave the School of the Holy Child, which was Trudie Jackson Smither: I've
Today seems like yesterday in that once and their families. Of course, it was fun forming a middle school. I was the 1st been working on my h, s, 55th reunion
dir. the School of the Holy in Sept. have a very active and in- again I have lived just 2 yrs. short of visiting, going to the San Diego Zoo and of Middle We
my other life in Argentina, back here in Ventura beach. The train ride to Ventura Child in Rye, NY for 6 yrs. During that terested class and hope for even more,
In I'm Boston. Thus, reminiscing, it seems as from Oceanside was wonderful. We time, I pursued my Ph.D. in education perhaps, than for our 50th, May,
though there have been 3 volumes of should all get back to taking trains. from Fordham U., which I finally earned going out of the country for the 1 st time
'02. I'll my life. What will the 4th contain? I'm John is writing some neat books in Next I was a Clinical Assistant in yrs. to Prague, where be one of a
looking forward to a productive one! (www.johnduncklee.com), and I'm paint- Professor at Fordham teaching and tour of 17 people who will be sponsored Mary Harrison "Cookie" Cooke ing when I'm not "pottywashing" (doing running their Secondary Initial Teacher and led by the cultural leaders of the
Carle: I've decided to sell my house all the other stuff instead of what you say Program full time for 3 yrs. Since retir- Czech Republic in the US. It's 7 days,
taught ing, I occasionally teach an adjunct staying in Prague. I'm really looking in Wynnewood. I expect to move to a you are going to do that day). I've as
2-bedroom, 2-bath condo in Havertord 4 one of John's writing students how to use professor at local universities. I'm look- forward to it.
• Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010 39 Jame Jamison Messer At the though I hadn't ridden for many years. in Marion on Buzzards Bay. I gave up R Block; she's very busy. Her oldest moment I'm melanoma free. I see my Here's a brief bio of my life: At SBC sailing for kayaking over a decade ago son was married last Jun. to a fellow oncologist every 3 mos. at the cancer 'til end of soph, yr., I transferred to St. with a new interest in wildlife, ecology & Cornell graduate. My grandchildren are center in IN. We spent Christmas at Dis- John's, Annapolis to be with Jon Sweet. I geology, and go out regularly with AMC. very adventurous. One of them spent ney with 3 of my children and 6 of my did yr. 1 of the 4-yr. program as student; Hugh works for the local U.S. Power a semester in Italy, taking courses in '58; grandchildren. I had the wonderful thrill Jon & I married in held a variety of Squadron and gets his "crew" thru them. Italian. Another girl spent several mos.
of swimming with the dolphins and 5 of non-jobs while Jon finished senior yr. I also lap swim, enjoy "woodsing" on our in Senegal. In all I have 6 grandchildren: my grandchildren. A survivor indeed, I'm Then we moved to Denver where Jon's property and am relearning recreational 3 boys and 3 girls. I'm living in a CCRC, leaving tomorrow to go to Grand Rapids, started law school. Another variety of reading. We travel some. Our favorite like it very much.
Ml, to celebrate my granddaughter's non-jobs ended as sec. receptionist for home away from home being the Aigas Judy Welton Sargent: I'm in high birthday. I've made a snowboard cake! Denver Country Day (now Kent Denver) Field Centre, nr. Inverness, Scotland, gear trying to declutter and get my
still We'll go north for the weekend where where I stayed for 6 yrs., going to DU at Lizora Miller Yonce: We live in house ready to put on the market by
we spend part of our summers on beau- night. Unfortunately the marriage didn't Greenwich, but winter in Boca Grande, 4/1 . After 28 yrs. of being a pack rat, '65 tiful Torch Lake near Traverse City. succeed. In I earned a B.A. with a FL, and spend part of the summer in sifting through the accumulated papers,
Jini Jones Vail: I'm waiting for major in history and a minor in history. Fishers Island, NY. Mary Blair, Tabb & clothes of every size, and miscellaneous good news on my book. Hope it will of art. My parents died relatively young Mary Ballou came to BG in Jan., and junk, I'm somewhat overwhelmed. The '65 '66 come this week. It's being read by a new in and causing me to move back we had fun in the cold weather. I have good thing is that I've made some prog-
publisher in Yardley, PA. to CT. I went to SBC in part because 4 grandkids. Sam (14), Isabelle & Caro- ress. My 2 daughters, son-in-law and
Elizabeth Johnson Lipscomb my aunt Marjorie E. Silvester was '34; line)! 0), and Miller (3). precious grandson (2) moved to Austin
last fall, I'm trying with I continue to treasure opportunities to she rode for Miss Rogers (probably why Jane "Puss" Moore Banks: and to catch up
take advantage of SBC events. Lloyd and I "won" the Freshman Horsemanship The best thing that has happened for them. Enjoy the spring!
trip with I enjoyed a wonderful performance of Cup & majored in philosophy under me was a my daughter to Ecua- Mary Blair Scott Valentine: We
Dylan Thomas's radio play, Under Milk- "Lucifer." While I had many friends at dor and the Galapagos Islands last Jun. continue to have our 59 Book Club.
wood, transformed into a lively drama SBC, my best friends left when I did; as It was a learning and bonding experi- Everyone is going to hear Molly Haskell '61 by Professor William Kershner. He's the a Northerner then, it became tiresome ence. I work with my daughter every day, SBC (I think) talk at Randolph Macon
chair of the dept. of theatre and dance, to deal with the Mexican & Civil Wars. but there were so many things I learned Coll. in Ashland, VA. The topic is her
and his outstanding cast of SB students My manners were not "Southern;" I was from her, about her, and with her. I'm book Frankly My Dear, a critique of and neighbors. Dean Jonathan Green called into D. Jester's office regularly for fortunate to have my 2 older children in GWTW. Joe Knox, husband of late Ella composed music for the production. The being "rude" —e.g. forgetting to punctu- the business with me. My daughter, the Prince, came to talk to us about The program noted that this yr. marks the ate sentences with "M'am." In New RN, is dir, of nursing services and my Foreign Student. He had a SBC book
100th anniv. of Paint and Patches! I'll be Haven, we used "Sir" -surname for male son is business manager and will take bag! My daughter, who was living in
back on campus in Apr. for the spring teachers but Miss or Mrs. + surname for over when I retire. I'm not planning on Richmond, moved to Kiawah Island, SC,
meeting of the Friends of the Library. woman; even Hey, Sir was OK! In 1967, that real soon! Tennis, paddle tennis, loves it. So, Stukie and I continue living
Isa Mary Lowe Zieglar Though I moved to Cambridge to work on a Ted and three hrs. with a trainer each week in this cold. Bah! Off to Anguilla next it's not a competition, I'd love to know Sizer project at H'vard's Ed. School, keep me in shape. I'm lovin' life. wk. to thaw out. Hope to see Claire if I'm the oldest 1 st-time grandparent A Study of the American Independent Fleming Parker Rutledge: Dick Devener. (Ali's Note: just got in another
in the class. Our 1st just celebrated his School. I met Hugh a.k.a. Bear sailing; and I renewed our vows on our 50th email from M.B. who says, "Spent a
2nd birthday. he was an engineer at MIT/Draper Lab anniv. at the National Cathedral in Nov. lovely evening with Claire Devener in
Sorrel Mackall Mcelroy: All is on the Apollo space project; we married with family and a few friends including Anguilla, where we are now. Sweet Briar great with us. We're still in the country in '68 and have 2 children who were Susan Taylor Montague. The main girls can find each other everywhere.")
outside of Richmond enjoying good "Lifers" at BB&N in Cambridge: Rob, news, I suppose, is that I will be a visit- Anne Smith Heist: John and I health and our 1 3 grand children. We a graduate of Lake Forest, is married ing scholar at the American Academy are celebrating 50 happy yrs. We have just returned from a week of sailing and works as an engineer for Cbeyond. in Rome in Apr. Our granddaughter 1 daughter and 4 grandchildren who with one of the families in the BVIs. It's They live in Downers Grove, IL and Dabney will be studying the history of art live in Weston, MA. After being in the
treat. I of the ) in for I'm getting book clothing business for yrs., I've been such a love being part SBC have 2 children: Amelia (1 1 and Adam Rome a term, a 30 book club, We talk a lot, but do read the (8). Caroline, a graduate of Bowdoin, is of Old Testament sermons ready for active as a floral design judge with both books! Program Director for Outward Bound, publication early next yr. the NGC and GCA. We still live on the
Virginia MacKethan Kitchen: ME. She and her Brit husband Andy Ann Pegram Howington reports ocean in Ormond Beach, FL, and travel
Here I am faux belting out a song at the live nr. Bethel; they have 1 5 sled dogs her excitement with the SBC's Living as much as time allows, mostly by ship
Sun Studio, where Elvis recorded. Corky with whom they run tours and race. See Room Learning. She comments that to Europe and car and house rentals
and I were in Memphis for a wk. in Feb. my Grand Puppies at: www.sledpets. Richmond has just caught on to some- there. I was diagnosed with a rare lung
. 1 1 to visit our 3rd son, Cameron and his com While the children were young, I thing that has been happening in Atlanta condition yrs. ago and have been wife and 2 young boys. Our 2nd son volunteered in their various school librar- for 40 yrs. The SBC alumnae group of on oxygen that long. Don't let it get me
Alexander, who lives in Charlottesville, ies and earned a Simmons MLS in 1 991 20 or so get together weekly during down and all it does is complicate our was also there with his daughter and leading to work in Technical Services the 2 winter mos. to listen to lectures. travel a bit more as flying isn't possible.
son. Cameron is director of the Brooks (mostly cataloguing) in the h. s. library, The basic approach is to meet in a It makes John more creative. I see Ann
Art Museum in Memphis. For our 50th a special library in Boston (NEHGS), and member's home. They were fortunate to Pegram Howington at flower shows
bit. wedding anniv. celebration Corky and a Public Library on Cape until I retired have an outstanding professor (Patrick and she hasn't changed a Love to
I took a Tauck Tour trip last fall to St. in 2009, primarily to spend more time Allitt) from Emory U. lecture on Victorian read about all the other classmates, but
Petersburg and Moscow and then rented in genealogical research. A dog owner England. The series is so popular that long to see Sue Pohl, Barbara Kelly, an apt. for a wk. in Paris. since age 15, I've had 2 Dais, a string there is a long waiting list. The group Anne Wimbish Kasanin and Cath-
Vicki Meeks Blair-Smith: I've of 5 Goldens, and now a string of retired also went to Symphony Hall for an eve- erine Brownlee Smeltzer one day. been up to my ears with a 60th grade Alaskan Huskies from Caroline's sled ning of entertainment, including dining. Judy Sorley Simpson Not my school reunion, would you believe, and dog colleagues in ME. I moved to the The result was an elegant evening for best yr.: my precious husband, Kep then away at the CAN-AM Crown sled Cape about a decade ago between jobs Ladies of a Certain Age, plus friends and Simpson, died in England of mesothe- dog races. (Caroline did 206 mi. of the to be more at hand for Hugh's mother a spouse or 2. lioma last summer, from exposure to
250-mi. race.) Since I had to do some who lived into her 90s on the B-S family Virginia Ramsey Crawford: asbestos 51 yrs. earlier in the Royal
bio thing in I for the 60th May, gave it property in Dennis; Hugh followed about returned from St. John's in the Virgin Navy! I now parent our 7 grown children
a SBC touch for you. Ages ago, I went 2005 when he retired. Avid sailors, Islands. It was beautiful and we got and 20 grandchildren on both sides of
back to one reunion and enjoyed it, we cruised in ME with the kids for yrs. in lots of swimming. My 2 married the Atlantic, yo-yoing back and forth,
especially since I was able to ride even and now keep the same Vindo sloop girls are well. Wynne works for H & and spending every Jan., May and
40 • Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Sept. in our cottage in Little Missenden She's articulate, witty, informative, and who is moving from Virginia Beach to ed in seeing Ann's needlework can find
it in the UK. (If anyone is interested , delightful. We were fascinated by her College Station, TX. He's a veterinarian her teaching portfolio and commercial
is available for rent most of the year. incisive analysis of many aspects of dermatologist; his wife is working on a designs on www.needleartworks.com .
2 bedrooms in a delicious converted the movie's making, and its place (as pathology degree. They have 2 children. Laura Lee Brown was in FL where barn in one of the most charming 15th well as the novel's) in our culture. Molly Addie's daughter lives nearby in Canan- her husband Steve was training for century villages in Buckinghamshire. 50 Haskell, a renowned movie critic, is as daigua, NY, with her 2 children. coaching; after some back-and-forth min. from London by train.) Had just re- impressive and effective on her feet as Cute message from Bettye Thom- she explained that he was driving car- turned to NJ in early Feb. and fell flat on she is in print, and we were so proud to as Chambers: "If everyone has as little riages or carts. In Sept., Ginger Cates
black ice in our driveway, smashed my claim her and bask in all that reflected news as I do, you have a thankless job Mitchell, Prue Gay Stuhr, Mary Gro- forehead, elbow, and knees, 3 wks. in enlightenment. indeed. No children, no grandchildren, etzinger Heard, Sue Jones Cansler,
hospital and now about to go home, No Kathy Tyler Sheldon: I was no nobel prizes, no American Idol or Judy Gutches Needham, and Cinnie more snow for me. It has haunted me shocked and surprised to hear of lottery winnings," Hooten Magowan joined her in Louis-
from NJ to Atlanta to the UK, and it is Gretchen's death. I can see her so Ann Ritchey Baruch is spending ville for the Idea Festival. They stayed in still snowing, 28" in the last 24 hours, well in my mind's eye at Reunion. My 8 mos. of the yr. on Spring Island, SC, a Hotel 21c within walking distance of the and it's nearly Mar.! sympathy goes out to the family. We're beautiful marshland community focused lectures and had a splendid time. Laura Rew Price Came: A friend of snowed under this wk. after having on preserving native habitats with 35 Lee and Steve are off to Stockholm for
mine plus me, my brother and his wife a mild Christmas. John and I visited mi. of hiking trails and 200+ species of an art opening of an exhibit that features and a friend of theirs took a cruise to our daughter in Vancouver in Oct. and birds. Ginger Cates Mitchell is also American pieces from their collection. the southern Caribbean in Nov. We stopped off to see our eldest grandson there. Gardening is Ann's passion. She In her note Prue Gay Stuhr
visited 6 islands, a wonderful time. I who is playing ice hockey at the Ontario has started a native plant propagation mentioned an earlier posting from had cataract surgery in Feb. and that is Hockey Academy. He's off this wk. to and rescue group and has joined the Lea Osbourne Angell about a joint such a fantastic thing. Now I'm thinking play in Pittsburgh, but we don't know Board of the SC Nature Conservancy. replacement prior to our 45th reunion; about fixing a bunion problem. Such fun what all of this will lead to! She's still on the Board of NC Outward Prue now belongs to that small club
getting all these parts corrected. Ali Thompson: I just came up Bound School, running a scholarship as she had the final hip replaced in
Polly Space Dunn: Winter has been from the beach (5 min. walk) where I've program that sends 20-25 inner-city 1 2/09 and is recovering well thanks to
unusually cold; I painted a lot. We skied been taking a water aerobics class with young Philadelphians on 2-3 wk. the medical people and her husband one week with the grandkids, but did no a Styrofoam noodle—for an hour. We courses. Her son, David, will be married Ed. She mentioned the 50th anniv. of
in socializing in that I was recovering from call ourselves the "Noodle Soup Gang." on May 15. the Greensboro (NC) Four who sat at a face accident and couldn't talk too And, being it is humpback whale season Woolworth's and was reminded of the well. I'm minus my front tooth for now. here; we see a lot of whales and their brave women at SBC who sat in the that Then, I fell again on Sat. and busted calves cavorting around in the ocean 1963 Lynchburg Woolworth's. She hopes open my lip! They're trying to figure while exercising. My "Plunkers" Band Jane Goodridge the history will be recorded by a profes- what caused the falls in that everything is still plunking along with 16 members 31-CArchdaleSt. sor and student collaboration. It's been a checked out great, and I'm in "perfect and my oldest member just turned Charleston, SC 29401 while since we've heard from Barbara health"! No one seems too worried, but 90 in Feb. and she's still dancing the [email protected] Sullivan Wanamaker, but she's still
for now, I'm very uncomfy. I don't like hula! We'll be taking off for Turkey in in Huntington (NY) on Long Island and to talk ailments but honestly, that's all latter part of Apr., so that should be an After the long, cold winter everyone who selling real estate. She opened her own that's been happening! I'm looking for- interesting trip. responded to me was longing for spring! real estate company 2 yrs. ago after ward to a summer in the NC mountains Betsey Beale was struggling through leaving Coldwell Banker. She said that and to playing lots of golf. Other than back-to-back snowstorms at her farm she figured she "would give it a shot at this stage of my life" with a young that, Mrs. Lincoln! Still remembering mo and reported that even her Great Pyr- Reunion with lots of smiles! Carol Barnard Ottenberg enees dogs had trouble walking! Lynn builder; now they have 3 offices, 70
It's Val Stoddard Loring: I returned 1420 41 st Ave. E Carol Blau reported that CT has had agents, and 24/7 days! been very far hope keep with my sister from 9 days at Caneel Seattle, WA 981 12 more rain than snow and that a visit to successful so and they to
Bay on St. John to find that spring has [email protected] FL kept them in winter coats. She and growing! For more information see www. arrived in MA. There are buds on my Jeffrey were planning a trip to Honolulu sphhomes.com . Barbara spends any free time with daughter married SBC rose! Steve and I will return to the at the end of Mar. as well as a musical Amy, grandsons who live near island in late Mar. with 8 grandchildren mt summer atTanglewood and Aspen. CT to Joe, and 3 their others her. Her other daughter Laura is married and parents. Where have Jean Hutchins Sharland is still their base; Jeffrey is still work- of you taken successful family trips? I'd to Sebastien, a French chef; they have 1724 Aberdeen Cir. ing and Lynn has been active on the plan open their love to hear from you. Crofton.MD 21114 Hartford Art School and New Britain Art a son Alexandre and to 1 st restaurant named Coimtre in the I Le Susan Taylor Montague: took [email protected] Museum Boards Randy Kendig Young a 3-wk. cruise from Buenos Aires to had an unusually cold winter in FL; Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in May Santiago in Jan. They're beautiful cities she stays busy with Garden Club and and will welcome any SBC people. Her
son Dave lives in Manhattan and sells (or should I say, were, before the earth- golf. Her granddaughter was sailing in quake). Montevideo and Valparaiso are ma 1 real estate there so at least one followed the Bahamas for 5 /2 wks. of sea turtle Parry Ellice Adam her into the business! beautiful as well. I returned just in time tagging learning can be fun! 33 Pleasant Run Rd. —yes, for the 2 blizzards we had in Feb. We're Ann Funkhouser Strite-Kurz's Ginger Cates Mitchell and Mitch Flemington, NJ 08822 finally rid of all the snow, but, sadly, all are spending a lot of time at their home [email protected] recent travels have been to visit the the boxwoods, and holly and Magnolia in Spring Island (SC) and traveling as 908-782-3754 grandkids—3 boys (ages 10, 7, and 4) possible while they can. They trees in my yard are ruined. I'm so ready on the West Coast and twin boys (3) on much as for spring, the East Coast. They spent the holidays had wonderful trips last year to Peru and Addie Kamke Cook is busy teaching Tabb Thornton Farinholt: Really at Rehoboth Beach and were marooned a cruise on the Baltic; they're looking English at a local coll. She paints as trip to Italy in have nothing to report that's "news," at son Jeff's house in Alexandria for 2 forward to another May. well, having done several murals, wa- are also on the road a bit just surviving a brutal winter! We went days beforehand thanks to the 1 st big They good tercolors, and also some sculpture. They to see Molly Haskell '61 speak at blizzard that paralyzed Washington. They trying to keep up with a fast-growing live in the middle of the Finger Lakes passel of grandchildren spread from NY Randolph-Macon College (in Ashland, had 2 ft. of snow at the family farm in Region of NY, home of 267 wineries! to Mexico. VA). Her book, Frankly, My Dear, on the WV and the horses loved it! Her new They sold their lake house, but still have is still making of Gone With the Wind, we've book, Potpourri of Pattern Encore is on Pat Calkins Wilder photo- 2 guest rooms and a boat. Fishing and read and loved, and I've heard her track for a Jun. release. Anyone interest- graphing as full time as she can. Pat swimming are good. Addie has a son speak before. Can't get enough of her! plans to travel in the fall with a long
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010 -41 photo journey in the southwest. She and Aidan (9), Evan (6) and Kellan (1). Chuck now bi-coastal, racking up airline miles Canada and be involved on the board of
Mike finished a long, messy construc- has pretty well finished with his course between VA and CA. "My mother passed the Bata Shoe Museum, a small, tion project for which she packed away on retirement, but I'm only beginning to away in Jan. just after her 96th birthday. delightful museum with a fabulous everything to keep it out of drywall learn 'Retirement.' I'm trying to practice I'm clearing out centuries of family collection of shoes from early Egyptian, to
dust, and they hope to have things my new findings, but with faltering artifacts and art works! Anyone wishing Chinese to Christian Louboutin. I talked back together before the winter snows steps. I'm certain someday the picture to visit on either coast should contact to Judy Dunn Spangenberg She and
melt. Their kids are fine and liking what will clear. Come see us! Tuck Mattern me 1 st to determine where I am! We her brother continue to manage her they do; there's one grandchild in each Harvey visited and had a great reunion traveled twice with the Friends of the mother's photography collection. You can family: Ben (11) and Clara (2). They're in with Sheila. "Ralph and I are enjoying Freer and Sackler Galleries, to L.A., and see the pictures at www.pheobedunn.
Seattle and England. retirement. I play duplicate bridge and then Cambodia. Both were excellent com Grace Mary Gary Oates: I'm
Sallie Yon Williams wrote that we travel. I met Edi Lasher Birch last curator-led trips. Dona Van Arsdale taking my 3rd semester of Italian at the she spends her time bouncing back and Jun. and spent the evening catching up. Jones had a wonderful chat with Mary Univ, of Maryland. It's a tor of work, but
forth from Virginia Beach to NY to see Last Fall I visited with Pam Hellmuth Daes Boykin who is busy and happy. I'm happily surprised that I can still learn son Whit and his daughter Allegra (7) Wiegandt and Ebbie Evans Edwards Nina Sledge Burke is enjoying her a few new tricks in spite of being such an and to Istanbul where son Courtney lives and found them both well." In Mar., children and grandchildren and is still old dog; and I've thoroughly enjoyed all with his wife Nazli and Emyr (2). They Stephanie Stokes was "in Villefranche active as Master of Fox Hounds for the my new 20-yr.-old friends. Who knew I'd compromised at Christmas and met in for a mo. studying French, seeing the Low Country Hunt in SC. Tria Pell Dove fall in love with Italy? As you know, we've
Paris for a wk. together. By the time they museums of the Cote d'Azur, going to writes: "I moved to Geneseo, NY, to be been spending time in Rome every fall got organized the only tree available Opera Galas in Monaco and Nice, and near my sister with my dog, 2 cats and for the past 7 or 8 years, thanks to a nice looked remarkably like Charlie Brown's, seeing great friends. Will go on to a horse. Still living in horse country. My association Wally has with the U. of
but it had lights and a few ornaments Maastricht for the fair before returning." oldest granddaughter is a senior at St. Rome, La Sapienza. I adore Rome and with a paper star made by Allegra, so Sounds like fun! Stephanie now works George's School in Newport, Rl, and still cannot believe my incredible good the children were pleased. Santa found from home (when she's home!) Mary starting to look at colleges. My youngest fortune. This past Sept. we tested our them, stockings and all; it was one of Duer Colen is a grandmother for the grandchild was born 5/09, quite a stamina by going to Heidelberg for a
those last minute decisions that became 6th time. "We're building an addition to spread! I have 5 all together." Carrie conference (preceded by 5 lovely days in an unforgettable experience. our farm in MD, so that we'll have more Peyton Walker says: Why retire? "I like Paris), then came back here for the U.
My sincere thanks to everyone who space to share with them all." Mimi what I do. I'm doing one-on-one convocation recognizing Wally as a sent me updates and all the best to Couch Teschner "has recently retired language coaching at Gilead Sciences Distinguished U. Professor (something we everyone in our class! after years as director of develop- with fascinating people, people with really couldn't miss!), then back the next
ment for the Aspen Music Festival and really interesting personalities and week to Rome. Lesson: we are way too
School, one of the country's pre- unusual life stories. In other news, we're old ever to try such nonsense again! As
1%4 mier learning and presenting institu- still travel nuts. Venice (walking and for other classmates, I talk with Nancy Ginny deBuys tions in classical music and opera where vaporetti) and the Slovenian mountains Gillies, who is delightful and funny and H16 Shirley Lane every summer artists from Yo-Yo Ma to by car last summer. A friend of many never fails to cheer me up. I've had Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 Renee Fleming perform and work with years went with us, which led to some several delightful telephone visits with [email protected] students and faculty members from all humorous comments when we rented a Elizabeth Matheson this past spring
over the world. I plans to continue active room together to save money. And who We discovered that we're both besotted
volunteer service, while in England with Italy notes compare. If you haven't signed up to receive Presi- community the world goes to and so had many to
looking forward to exploration Scotland in the middle of winter? We do. Elizabeth lives in Hillsborough, NC, where dent Parker's blog postings, I encourage ." pursuits is Jul. you to do so. Some day's it's a light note of new Nancy Lynah Hood Academics get early Jan. and as she grew up, and, as many of you know, about an event on campus and on on the go. "Roger has been busy with travel time. It was a winter wonderland is a splendid photographer. Those of us others it's a serious reflection on the the Death Penalty Project group, with this year—the most snow in 1 00 yrs. who saw her wondertul photographs of academic program, the College's future conferences in China twice, and Taipei in and very cold. But who cares? A roaring Italy displayed in the Pannell Center or her experiences with the students. It's Taiwan. He did his stint at UVa in Apr, fire and falling snow are perfect during Reunion can attest to her talent. It a great way to keep in touch when you and I joined him for a spell in Charlot- together Missie Reeder Crosbie: We was wonderful to see everyone at are far away (http://blog.president.sbc. tesville and visiting Washington. We had spend a great deal of time in FL during Reunion last May, and I was especially edu). Thanks to Grace Mary Garry brilliant trips to Turkey in May and to the winter. I married a Canadian, we live pleased to see some classmates for
Oates and Dona Van Arsdale Jones Tunisia in Sept. Taipei houses the Chaing in Toronto, but I finally got so tired of the whom this was a 1st reunion (Mary who helped me gather news. Before Kai Chek collection of Chinese cold winters that we bought a little Fitzhugh and Anne Litle, for example) your next trip, get a class list and see antiquities taken from the Forbidden City house in Boca Grande on the Gulf Coast. and other dear old friends like Linda Lee where your classmates are. Almost in a huge Palace Museum, so that kept Allan and I live in the heart of this McAndrew whom I hadn't seen forever
" everyone who responds says to visit or me busy Vera LeCraw Carvaillo wonderful city, Toronto, and have raised and ever. I hope more people will decide
family here. the 50th, if they've never call if you're in their area. If you need enjoys her and granddaughter 3 boys The youngest 2 are to come to even more details, just ask me. Then Julie who is 2 and totally bilingual. After married: one couple in Manhattan and been before." Ginny concurs and says
a wonderful family Christmas near the other in Dubai. The eldest is with she couldn't have said it better. As for remember to look at the list! I just missed seeing Lynn Youngs Esmay in Geneva, they rented "a 32-ft. sailboat Doctors Without Borders in operations Ginny's news, I think retirement is really
and sailed between Marseilles and and management and considers his fun! A year ago I met a guy, a widower, Naples because I didn't check my list early enough Sheila Carroll Cooprider Cassis on the Riviera for 4 days, home base to be Cologne, Germany while ushering at concerts at a Princeton writes that she "retired on 5/1/09 from mooring in quaint little ports each night. where his girlfriend practices medicine. University facility. We're both retired and the active Episcopal priesthood. Have It was our present to Philippe for his These years have been very busy with free to play. This chilly Feb., we rented a you ever known a passive priest? 70th birthday! We've also purchased a various volunteer involvements, condo in Sarasota, FL, for a mo. and Retiring meant resigning from the new boat to keep on Lake Geneva near particularly with the boys' schools and then, since the Northeast was still snow
perfect job and then moving on to the daughter Patricia. We still haven't with the visual arts at the Art Gallery of covered, drove to the Keys (Key Largo to
Denver area (Bloomfield, CO) where retired! We continue looking for a Ontario. 1 yrs. ago a friend and I Key West) and then up to Cocoa Beach
Chuck's mother lives, and our daughter solution to avoid closing down the co-founded an advocacy group to and the Kennedy Space Center and then
LeaAnn, husband Geoff and son Logan company and abandoning employees support the visual arts in Toronto and home by autotrain. It was a great time. I
(3) and 6-mo.-old Maya live also. With and clients. It hasn't been easy, but we're so pleased with the financial tutor a very kind and interesting
more time now, we can also be with miracle after miracle has kept us going. contributions it has made to individual Palestinian woman as a literacy
our Illinois (St. Louis area) daugh- We're thankful for the health to go on artists and to artistic projects here. I've volunteer. Till next time, be well and keep ter Kathryn and her men, Roger and working and also to enjoy our also had the great privilege to serve on in touch.
blessings Marsh Metcalf Seymour is the board of the National Ballet of
42 • Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Laura Haskell Phinizy has been was ordained in Jan. not far from San
busy this winter helping daughter Laura Antonio and so met Cutler and Doug for 1965 get ready to sell her D.C. home, with 1972 lunch after their grandson's 1st birthday
Sally McCrady Hubbard real estate, and with beginning the Jill Johnson in Mar. It was great to see her and
52 Sherwood Trail process of settling her mother's estate. 2012 Wolftrap Oaks Ct. they look forward to many more visits
Sewanee, TN 37375 She had Laura, Keith, and the twins, Vienna, VA 22182 to come. (See Patricia's details below!) [email protected] and Marion's Wesley in Augusta over [email protected] Cutler was also lucky enough to see
the Christmas holidays, which was dear Susan Waller Nading at Liz Clegg
Eugenia Dickey Caldwell says she's and helpful, as her mother died 12/30 Ladies, here we are again. Lately, Woodard and Woody's daughter's in a flap trying to get ready to go to at home. The family and business are whenever someone says, "It's nice to wedding in Dec. Happy 60th birthday
Beijing in perking this spring, Guangzhou and late Mar. up though com- see you," I have begun saying, "It's nice everyone!
will join pared to D.C, the real is to teach a class. Peter her in estate market to be seen." That is, until I look in the After 25 yrs. of working in health-
Beijing and they'll be tourists for 6 days. slow and low. mirror and try to figure out who the care admin Patricia Reardon Riggins
She's looking forward to seeing us girls heck that fat old woman is looking back entered the Seminary of the Southwest at Reunion. at me. All information on new rejuvenat- in Austin, TX. She was ordained as an
Jane Merkle Borden, after 38 ing procedures, surgeon references, and Episcopal priest in 1/10 and is serving yrs. in Denver, decided it was time for Randi Miles Long miracle cosmetics are welcome and will as the Assistant Rector at St. Francis her (widowed 8 yrs.) to return to the 19 Hidden Valley Rd. be shared. by the Lake in Canyon Lake, TX. Her
East Coast where both her sons live in Lafayette, CA 94549 In the interest of our class and husband Mike is an engineer, work-
CT with their families. She's so happy. [email protected] adopting new avenues to connect, I've ing for Sandia National Laboratory in Great fun to be a hands-on grand- started a Group on Facebook—Sweet Albuquerque, NM and teaching atTX mother. No regrets. Makanah Dunham Morriss Briar Class 72. Just so you know, as Lutheran U. Their daughter Gloria and Sally McCrady Hubbard s feared 1317 Rocky Mountain Rd. the admin, I'm not letting anyone in husband live in Rio Rancho, NM. retirement lasted all of 9 mos. and Forest, VA 24551 except us girls. That's so we can post Vivian Finlay has moved to Homer then she took an unexpected 10-mo. [email protected] pics, tell stories, and make comments by the ocean in South Central AK, 300 temporary job as office manager of that only we will see. There are quite mi. south of where she had lived for the the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. a few of our class now on Facebook last 26 yrs. She hopes to find part-time
father the festival yrs. doing teaching Her founded 54 1967 who we don't hear from often, and I'll work psychotherapy or and she piano in ago, was a student Diane Dalton be trying to "friend" and get them to counseling/psychology at the U. of AK its 1 st 2 summers what goes around join the group. I'm not saying who, but campus in Homer. She was fortunate to — 1014 N Astor St., Apt. 43 comes around. They hope for 180 stu- there's in enjoy a brief winter break at her condo Milwaukee, Wl 53202 someone fabulous sunglasses dents, age 1 2 and up, and plan 4 wks. [email protected] in some chic cafe in San Salvador, then in Mexico. of intense study with ensemble and there's someone doing the "Hot Cha According to Lexington, VA, resident orchestra performances every weekend. Cha" and looking like a contestant on Margaret Lyle Samdahl Jennifer A great time to visit Sewanee: week- 1968 Dancing with the Stars, then there's Linsley Alphin also has a house in ends between June 19 and July 18. someone in a pool doing some kind that lovely pastoral place. It's to be her Lynne Gardner Detmer A favorite local h. s. art teacher, of solo water therapy, and then there retirement home! Jennifer contacted 125 Wareham's Point Christi Teasley, approached Sally at a are a few holding the most gorgeous Margaret with the news, and they hope Williamsburg, VA 23185 concert to say that her mother, Merrily grandchildren. Enough! Just consider to meet soon when Jennifer and hus- [email protected] Austin Teasley, had mentioned getting joining, OK? band Tom next come to visit.
SBC mail from her. Remember Merrily Ann Barton Brown reports that Cleveland Hall reports in for from our freshman class? She trans- 1969 over the past winter she enjoyed a the 1st time in a long time, "forever ferred and went on to run historic inns great wk. on the coast in rural Jamaica humbled by her classmates' high Nancy Crawford Bent in interesting parts of TN and NC. Hope eating fresh fruit and reading novels. A performance and grand accomplish- 14 Dopping Brook Rd. we hear more from her. perfect escape from the snows of PA! ments." She lives with her partner Lafe Sherborn, MA 01770 Brooke Patterson Koehler and She still loves consulting with nonprofits of 35 yrs. in the woods on Whidbey Ascb61 [email protected] Dan love to travel, but their style has and finds the challenges facing non- Island, WA, in a small log house of become seriously cramped by their profits during this economic downturn their dreams, built by their hands from golden doodle puppy, Max. Brooke lost a wonderful opportunity to help organi- Douglas firs on their land that took her head at Christmas and bought said 1970 zations completely rethink all aspects about 18 yrs. to not quite finish. (All Simrill puppy for Dan. They should have got- Susan Davenport of operations in order to survive and in the journey, not the destination.) 4945 Dupont Ave. S ten a pound dog—they support their better serve their constituencies. Ann is Cleveland works as a bookkeeper for local Humane Society in honor of their Minneapolis, MN 55419 welcoming a new cardigan corgi puppy small local firms, and keeps the neigh- beloved stepdog who's no longer with [email protected] into her home in Apr. and offers free borhood water system going, but her them. But Brooke secretly wanted the bedroom space to any SBC class of 72 passion is native plants, volunteering non-shedding golden doodle. members visiting Philly. She also has a with Native Plant Stewards to propagate Last year they took 4 awesome 1971 funky cottage in Cape May that is avail- natives for the local land trust and state trips: a cruise around Vietnam, sailing Lynne Manov Sprinsky able for a modest rental fee for those parks, salvaging natives for restora- from Hong Kong where they celebrated The Old Smithy seeking a beach getaway. tion projects and monitoring rare plant New Year's Eve amid unbelievable 2218Rt.87Hwy. Cutler Bellows Crockard and populations. Did you know there are fireworks, and ending in Singapore; a Montoursville, PA 17754 Doug enjoyed a wonderful fall '09 trip prairies (vanishing ecosystems) here in round-the-world wildlife trip by private [email protected] to the Amalfi coast, Rome, Venice, Lake the Northwest? Favorite activities are jet; an African safari with their son and Como and Paris. After the ordeal of set- hiking, camping, botanizing and getting daughter-in-law; and finally a cruise to tling estates, the economic meltdown lost in the woods. Maybe some of that
Antarctica in Nov. and the aftermath of hurricane Ike, beautiful territory at SBC had a subtle
Congratulations to Elvira who has it was nice to get away and think of effect after all... worked tirelessly and sometimes thank- nothing but the four major food groups: Rhonda Griffith Durham enjoys lessly; no one deserved it more! Brooke pizza, pasta, beer and wine. One of her work in independent school wishes she could be with us at Reunion, the highlights of the yr. so far has accreditation as executive dir. of the but this year it won't work; maybe the been reconnecting with The Reverend Independent Schools Association of the 50th. Patricia Reardon Riggins Patricia Southwest. The only not great thing
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about a fulfilling career is that it makes like a hundred years, and Rosie has mother using the PACE program avail- ting together a book about our class. keeping up with friends so challenging! been commuting to teach at North FL able in Lynchburg. During spring break She thinks it would be fun to collect
She goes to Houston every now and Community Coll. in Madison, FL, for the they are taking their (SBC!) daughter our various perspectives about our then and always wants to see Nathalie past 23 yrs. Can retirement be too far and her roommate to Disney for a much Sweet Briar experience and compile a
"Bobo" Ryan Hoyt. Since Bobo is a off? FL has the Deferred Retirement needed break after all of the snow dur- social history about a women's coll. in full-time educator and Rhonda is always Option Plan (DROP). When people ask ing the winter. the late '60s and early 70s. Perhaps on a mission, it rarely happens. Rhonda Rosie if she's on the DROP program she Peggy Morrison Outon celebrated some current students could help col- and husband Lynn had dinner with tells them she's been working so long, her 60th in Turkey, consulting with the lect interviews from us at a reunion,
Bobo and Mont on a recent trip. Rhonda she thinks of it more as the DROP DEAD goddesses about this growing older or over the phone? She'd love to hear reports that Bobo looked fabulous and is program. Can't wait to be playing Nonna business! She reports that son Ross from you if you have any suggestions or as thin as she was when she could eat full time! was named the winner of the Season would like to help. You can reach Ellen
what she wanted in the "Pit." Susan By the way, Rosie stays in touch I PBS show "The Winemakers"! Ross at [email protected].
Snodgrass Wynne and Rhonda keep with Cindy Miles Martinez, who is created his own wine from Paso Trish Neale Van Clief and in close touch. Susan, ever thoughtful a single grandmother of many—5 or Robles, CA, which was then sold to a husband Dg are moving back to the and "queen of making happy memories" 6. Cindy lives and works in Louisville, national market, courtesy of the show's Charlottesville, VA, to be near son for friends, sends fun messages and KY, and has 3 of her 4 children close nationwide audience. Her daughter Danny (32) and awesome Aussie keeps on the go. Susan keeps a sched- by. Also, Kathy Leibell Pasternak Katie also lives in Austin and paints, daughter-in-law, Anna, and 2 of their 3 ule that rivals that of Michelle Obama! and Rosie have never lost touch since cooks and lives with gusto. Peggy and grandchildren: Daniel (3) and George (7
They both serve on their alma mater the 10th grade! Kathy is happy to have Paul continue to live in their beloved mos.) Daughter Helen (31) and husband
Norfolk Academy's Board of Trustees. her 3 kids out of coll. and on their own Victorian house on the hill, although it's Chase (also an awesome architect,
So, that's an automatic quarterly visit. in the NYC area. Son DJ married last somewhat the worse for wear after the musician, and artist) are parents of
Rhonda's daughter Caitlin is getting summer and "the girls" are just starting snowiest winter mo. in Pittsburgh's Ginny (1 8 mos.) and are expecting a married this fall and hopes that a few careers. Kathy and husband Dana live in history. 2nd baby in Aug. They live in Austin,
SBC friends who know Caitlin well might New Canaan, CT Having lived 22 yrs. in Clifton, VA, TX, where Trish and Dg manage make it out to Midland. With a travel- "Busy year as the economy Kitty Howell Riordan is retired from many visits now that they are retired. ing job, a son in Salt Lake City, a son improves and wine business pick- middle management in a retirement Trish was happy to have seen several and daughter-in-law in Manhattan, and ing up," wrote Deidre Conley. She home and is planning on looking for friends from SBC this year, from 71 daughter in L.A., it's no surprise that missed Julia Woodard's wedding in part-time employment soon. Getting Cami Crocker Wodehouse, Nan Glazer
Rhonda related well to "Up in the Air" Dec. in Houston due to a conflict with her mother's estate settled has been LaGow and Michela English and from well /us? the tricks of going through her company's national sales meet- a big job, and continuing to support our class: Barbara Tessin Derry Gail security fast and getting perks! She and ing. Last summer Deidre and husband family and deal with older brother's Garner Resch, Lee Essrig Marion
Lynn are still blissfully married. Gerard had a fabulous trip to Austria roller-coaster leukemia recovery keeps Walker. Marcia Wittenbrook, Louise
Marion Walker has been ever so and Budapest. A mission to see the her very busy. Kitty and Dave celebrated Martin Creason and Char Sturbitts busy since 5/09 when 2 of the 4 law- original "Kiss" from Klimt was a suc- oldest son's 30th birthday and look Everyone discussed her favorite books yers in the Ford & Harrison Birmingham cess, while they also enjoyed the music forward to his move to local N. VA area (See our Facebook Group for details! office left with one day's notice. She in all the churches and squares in in summer. Youngest son is off to med -JJ) and focused at length on wrinkles, and her remaining partner managed to Vienna and the original architecture school in Aug., not sure which yet. Kitty lard, thinning hair, exercise, aching save a big case, but she has worked of Hundertwasser that they had never and Dave have a planned transatlantic joints, knees and rotator cuffs, suddenly practically non-stop until a big trial seen before. Spent a day in Budapest cruise to W. Europe (Azores to London) and profoundly becoming grandmothers, ended 2/1 2. With a bit of a breather she as Liz had always said it was one of her in Apr. and look forward to some relax- fears of job loss, the cost of insurance, took a trip with Nan LaGow 71 to visit favorite places and rising up on both ing, pampering, and stimulating times needing glasses and recalling all our old
Palmer Graham, Nan's SBC roommate sides of the Danube, it's spectacular. A at 6 ports, ending in 3-day stay in Sweet Briar times. All 72ers pledged the 1st 2 yrs., in Ochos Rios, Jamaica. boat ride on the not so Blue Danube London. 10 step-grandchildren, 10-16 to return to SBC for reunion in 2012!
The weather was wonderful and the to the wine country "the Wacau," west yrs., keep up the grandparenting activ- Trish sends best wishes to everyone rum drinks at 11 a.m. on the beach of Vienna, and a visit to MELK abbey ity, especially cheering on sports. Kitty these are tough, challenging times for were just the thing to wash away all too were a highlight. Drank delicious stays active with community peacemak- ourselves and our families—and urges serious thoughts of "the law." Marion Gruner Veltliner wines, the specialty of ing activities and Pastoral Care Team everyone to pick up the phone or email only bought one present and that was Austria. Also loved Salzburg, the Alps, leadership at church. She stops into the to stay in touch with their beloved for her new grandniece (!) Mary Knox a trip over to "Eagles Nest" in Germany SBC campus periodically when on route Sweet Briar friends. (Couldn't have said
Walker, who was born 10/22/09—the for a never forget history lesson and to Lynchburg for grandparenting duties. it better, Trish. Thanks for the nudge. day Marion headed off for Charlottesville a round trip through Graz—a World Nice memories of days gone by. You need an old friend's email? Contact for a mini-reunion with some SBC Heritage Site, worth a visit, Here's to Ellen Apperson Brown moved me! ~JJ) buds. Marion sees Margaret Hayes a great 201 0! (Check out a couple of back to Roanoke in Oct. (after spend- Hers may be redundant news, but
Brunstad frequently and attended her her fun photos on the Facebook Group ing the past 1 5 yrs. in Asheville, since Elise Webb Neeland turned 60,
2nd daughter's wedding last Nov, It was page. ~JJ) Blacksburg, Stuart, and Radford), and repetition isn't an unusual occurrence! gorgeous! Leaving the legal workload In Feb Jeannette Pillsbury is hoping to develop a new career as a Older daughter, Leslie Harvey, and her for a spell this summer, Marion will be received word that she was granted freelance writer/historian. Although this husband, Thomas, had a baby girl with going to Barcelona for a conference tenure and a promotion to associate is probably the worst time to be looking red hair in 4/09. The baby is named and then to France to spend a wk. with professor at Luther Coll.! She's most for work in the field of public history, Virginia, since both Leslie and Thomas a friend who purchased a house there. relieved and grateful. She promises Ellen keeps knocking on every door went to UVA law school and VA was
C 'est la vie, Bonnes Amies. even bigger news in the next Magazine and has completed a 50-page history their 1st home. They now live in San
Nonna Rosie Leparulo sends edition so please tune in again. (I know for the Roanoke Kiwanis Club's 90th Francisco in Alameda (a little too far for greetings from Tallahassee! William and what it is but am sworn.) anniv. celebration. Her latest bold idea grandparents, but frequent travel helps),
Rosie enjoyed their granddaughter's 2nd Peggy Hoy McFadden reports involves creating a website to teach and both have practices in intellectual
birthday in late winter. Gracie is their 1st that husband John joined the ranks of history, especially of Southwest VA, and property. 2nd daughter, Elizabeth, was
granddaughter, from son #2 Robert and the unemployed when he was laid off also provide assistance to genealogists, married in 2/09, and she and husband
his lovely wife Kristy. They expect their 1 wk. after the company he worked teachers, and people worldwide who Dave live in Charlotte, NC, where Liz
1st grandson in early Jun. Firstborn for was sold, A mo. later he became a are trying to learn more about their does PR and marketing for a large group
Willy is still playing the field. Fortunately, self-employed contract worker when ancestors in 1 8th and 1 9th century of lawyers. Liz and Dave moved from
both sons live nearby in Tallahassee. he found employment with another VA. In addition to several other books Atlanta to Charlotte just 2 mos. after
William is still at FSU after what seems company. They're still taking care of his in progress, she's thinking about put- they were married, so they have had a
44 • Summer 2010 Sweel Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.erJu busy 1st yr. Elise's husband David is still ping trip in Raleigh with Carter Frack- Tiara creations. (Photos on Facebook Belvoir and also was active in a program trying to slow down in his practice and elton last fall. Santa managed to stuff Group. ~JJ) Hopefully, we'll meet again, that escorted Iraqi War veterans around maybe will be able to retire in less than every stocking on Carter's list before the courtesy of Karen's ever-generous offer the sights of Washington while they re-
2 yrs! Elise and David hope it'll work out weekend was over. Carter then surprised of summer entertainment at her lovely cuperated at Walter Reed Hospital. She so they'll have more time to travel to see Marty and Bill this winter on one of their Rehoboth beach house, (Hopefully, we'll is survived by her mother of Annapolis, family and friends. world-wind stays in Fredericksburg with see pictures from Karen and Eileen her former husband and her 2 sons.
Last year was busy for Carol Cody special appearances from Dale Shelly Gebrian's trip last fall to Vietnam!) Tina Thank goodness spring is just
Herder's family. Son Charles graduated Graham, Jill Johnson, and Ginnie Hall Baugher, who also has a beautiful around the corner, at least we hope from MIT with 2 degrees, one in electri- B. Payne Sasser. (Yes, photos on beach home right around the corner, since snow was the big news this win- cal engineering and one in physics, got Facebook Page! ~JJ) promises to join us for cocktails and ter. Glenys Church had just finished engaged, and then completed his M.A. Carter had her 7s/ ever Christmas laughter. shoveling the snow from last weekend '09 in electrical engineering at MIT. Since away from home in and packed I appreciate all the news reporters and this wk, off the deck, only to have his fiance Tina is also an MIT grad, a lot in a short period of time. She who responded to my pleas. May the to start again! Renee Sterling even they decided to get married on a binary went to visit Marty and Bill Boney in rest of you feel a twinge of nostalgia/ had blizzard-like conditions Christmas date: 01-10-10! Carol's daughter Sarah Wilmington, NC, to celebrate the Sept. obligation and contact me at your Eve in Dallas! Cindy Bekins Anderson and son-in-law Marc Nathan just bought marriage of their daughter, Kristen to earliest. Email or USPS, either/both are wrote "I don't have any news to report
is with busi- their 1st home. Sarah busy Doug McBride at a lovely "East Coast" welcome. this time, but I hope your snow is as ness travel while Marc is returning to the reception on 12/23. It was a beautiful And, please keep me up to date pretty as ours was. We had about
U. of TX to pursue an M.A. in mechanical occasion, she loved being with them all with any email address changes! If you 20 in. in 2 separate storms, one Charlie engineering. Carol and husband for such a happy time. On Christmas aren't getting my rare emails, I do not on Christmas eve and the other just have decided it's time to downsize to a Eve, Carter flew to Cincinnati to join her have your email address. Again, not in time for the kids to return to school townhome. brother and sister-in-law and her father that I'm a rabid social media fan, but (worth 3 snow days!) It still hasn't
Pam Drake McCormick reports (who drove from Richmond) in sharing do check in, look, laugh, and contribute melted, and we got another 5 in. last that all is well in Wenham, MA. She and the holidays with her niece Sara, her whatever to the Facebook group, Sweet night!"
Gardner are adjusting to the "empty husband Evan and his family who also Briar Class 72 Big Thanks to all. Diane Dale Reiling has been nest," All 3 children have migrated to live there. The Feast of the Seven Fishes watching the winter weather in VA
CO. Tucker and Tim are in Boulder and was a memorable holiday meal that just with disbelief! "Susan Bundy has Molly is in Denver, Pam stays busy kept on coming! She then flew back to r?z3 posted some photos and even said they doing part time work for her town's local Charlottesville to make the tail end of a Evelyn Carter Cowles couldn't get out the front door and had Education Fund. Sadly, her mom, "Ping" holiday family dinner there, PO Box 278 to climb out a 1st floor window in order (Nancy Pingree Drake '43) passed away Carter has learned to knit. Working Free Union, VA 22940 to get out to shovel. Not much to report: suddenly, but peacefully in Oct. She with a group of friends, she has accom- [email protected] good weather, no snow and a slowly thanks all her SBC friends for all their plished a couple of scarves, a hat and improving economy and real estate
support. a baby blanket and cap which she market. I was admittedly relieved to not I have sad news to begin. . .Barbara
Needless to say, Pam sees sister-in- will be proudly delivering to nephew Livingston died the end of Aug. after a have to travel to SBC for board meet- law, regular Christine Kathy Walsh Drake, on a Robbie and wife at a baby long illness. Barbara had lived in Auburn, ings this winter in light of the record basis. Pam is reporting for Kathy who's shower. Their new baby boy is expected NY, for nearly 15 yrs. She'd been snowfalls (plural) in VA. "I enjoy keeping
the road in on south for 2nd daughter to arrive mid Apr. Meanwhile, Carter employed by Wells Coll. in Aurora, NY, touch on Facebook with so many
Hadley Nixon's opening of a fashion stays busy with volunteer activities in for several yrs. and recently was an ad- 73ers from around the country. I see boutigue in Chapel Hill, N.C. called addition to carrying out the duties of the ministrative employee with the Cayuga- Facebook as a great tool to use both
"Hadley Emerson." (Check it out on the family manufacturing business, which Onondaga County BOCES in Auburn. to keep in touch and to plan our 40th
is difficulties of (gulp). Internet, or better yet, stop by!) Kathy experiencing the same She was an active volunteer in a number reunion and David still live in ME and their other these tough economic times as most of organizations, from the SPCA to those Trish Gilhooly O'Neill writes "I'm
3 daughters are scattered, Elizabeth is businesses are, particularly those in the involving the performing arts, and the in Phnom Penh at the moment, I come an auditor at Price, Waterhouse, Coo- building related industries. Willard Chapel. Sara Meyerdierks here every yr. as I'm honorary trustee pers in Boston; Courtney is employed Dale Shelly Graham says she Hillgrove attended the memorial of a wonderful orphanage just outside at Thompson Financial in Boston and really doesn't have much to report service for Barbara Livingston in Oct., of the city. I just returned from taking a Virginia (Jen) is applying to nursing since she and James lead a pretty dull where, along with her brother from D.C. bus from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh school. Pam reports that Kathy's golf life. She's still following daughter Lily's and sister from CA, she recalled happy City. It's a 6-7 hr. bus ride. What was game continues to "shine." lacrosse games up and down the east SBC memories for the guests. "The I thinking? Interesting however to see
Marty Neill Boney writes that her coast as she plays for her 3rd yr. at theater ones were the best, as Barbara the countryside. I'm off to Bangkok for a biggest news is daughter Kristen's mar- Davidson Coll. Their son Fielding lives in few days, then to the U.S. before return- and I were the 2 theater majors in our riage to Doug McBride out in northern Dallas and works for Morgan Stanley, in class and were both very dramatic, then ing to the Cotswalds where we still live
in hit help part time. CA 9/09. Wedding excitement a case any of you Texans need some and in life! She was a good friend to me fevered pitch that Kris- with financial investments. In between, Robin O'Neil was jealous of our when word came in spite of being completely whacky. I'll ten had to have emergency abdominal Dale tries to keep in touch with local miss her." snow! "We have only the cold weather surgery 2 wks, before the wedding. As SBCers as they celebrate birthdays and I'm also sad to report the death of a with none of the fun. Although we Marty and Bill landed on the runway catch rays together at the beach. former classmate, Deborah Smith- do get to continue to foxhunt, very for the wedding weekend, son Andrew Well, Ladies. That just about covers Mardelli, in Feb. 2010 of lung cancer. important! Hunting with The Camden called to say that Kristen was headed it, with the exception of a wonderful After leaving SBC, she graduated from Hunt has been cold but good. I've been back into the hospital for an infection. 2-day weekend celebration of Mary George Mason U. Until recently she busy with family, both happy and sad.
After an overnight stay, Kristen some- Heller's big birthday! Postponed in had worked as a technical writer for a My nanny who, at 18, came to live how managed to rally in time to make Dec, it was finally wedged in between company contracted to do work for the with us when I was born is in a nurs- it down the aisle. Love once again con- Jan. snowmageddons and a wild time Justice Dept, She spent her younger yrs. ing home and has started receiving
all. hospice. I haven't with quered all! The newlyweds Kristen and was had by Janet Nelson Gibson, in Germany with her parents, then lived had experience
this, think it is really Doug are thrilled to be in the process of Carter Frackelton, and Ginnie B. the rest of her life in Northern VA. In but wonderful and buying a house in Berkeley. Meanwhile, Sasser drove up from Fredericksburg. addition to being a past president of the am so grateful for it. The extra atten- son Andrew still loves hangin' in D.C. at Karen Medford arrived from Annapolis. Northern VA Republican Women's Club, tion is most appreciated. My continued his editor's job at CQ Press. Dale Shelley Graham hosted the Deb was involved with a welcome home fundraising in the community for the
Marty reports great success in her guests, and I drove in from Vienna, VA, program for returning veterans at Ft. non-profits I support is really tough. I annual Christmas Extravaganza shop- both days. Mary wore one of my special just remind others that the world would
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010 • 45 be an awful place in which to live if it spring daffodils blooming and hope it's Thailand and Singapore for 3 wks. this
weren't for the non-profits." sooner rather than later." summer. I travel a fair amount in my Joan May Harden writes the only Anne McDougall writes "During job, and am heading to the UK on busi- im new thing in her life is a 60 lb., yr.-old the past yr. I've been taking some ness in mid-Mar. For fun, I run/walk half Rosalind Ray Spell
pit bull puppy they adopted from a shel- courses in Christian counseling and marathons. I did 4 last yr. and hope to 2710 Orchard Knob SE ter in Dec. "It's turned my life upside am working toward certification. The do a few this yr. as well. My job keeps Atlanta, GA 30339
down (in a good way) and given our process is slow since I haven't been in me busy, but I'm so looking forward to [email protected] beagle a very large friend. The snow school for many yrs. but I'm enjoying the day when all the college tuition is you've had this yr. has kept us in NJ the idea of embarking on a new career paid, and I can "retire" to something Meredith Thompson Sullivan more than we like! I think we'll probably at this (great) age. Husband Ed has a way less demanding to return the bal- PO Box 1283 be in Lexington full-time by this sum- new job working with our Central FL ance to my life!" Livingston, MT 59047 mer... here's hoping!" Presbytery. Daughter Maggie and her Weezie Blakeslee Gilpin I don't [email protected] Susan Craig reports "Our oldest husband Jonathan (UVA alum) and have much to report other than the son, Bennett, graduated last May from daughters Annie and Lily (my grandchil- hair being a little grayer and 2 children What a class! You came through in
Davidson, and after working in WY into dren!) are planning a move to India later mysteriously managing to be in their spades via e-mail, and we thank you for the fall, is now in the job search like so this yr. They've signed on for at least 4 30s, the other about to turn 28. To fight your updates! Many of you traveled to many others his age! Having a 23-yr.- yrs. of missionary work there. We'll miss the perils of gravity, I've been taking a SBC for our 35th Reunion last May, and old at home has been an adjustment, them immensely, but look forward to PE class at Bishop's called strength and some of you wrote your impressions of but also wonderful. Our younger son travelling to places we hadn't planned conditioning which is loads of weight the weekend:
Edward is a senior at Coll. of Charleston to visit! Son Jim got married last sum- lifting and other exercises designed to Sandra Taylor continues to be and plans to graduate in the spring, I mer and he and Rachel will settle in the make you stronger and fitter. I've dis- an active SBC alumna. She attended continue to work at my design and com- central FL area. Ed and I are thankful to covered I love bench pressing and do it Reunion, and said she realized her munication business, trying to keep up be healthy and involved in our careers, with gusto. One of my 9th grade "class- "dream" of staying in Randolph. She with technology and learning a lot, even church and community. Blessings to all mates" told his mother that he called thanks her classmates for helping reach with my aging brain. Wayne has joined in class of 1973!" class "weightlifting with Weezie." Bob our (financial) goal! She also attended a commercial real estate company after Christine Eng Leventhal is still shows no signs of slowing down doing the inauguration of President Jo Ellen being on his own for most of 30 years. teaching science at Darien H, S. "Peter college counseling and gap yr, counsel- Parker. Her sister, Marsha Taylor Horton
It's been good support in this economy. is teaching Tai Chi, doing nutritional ing and loves southern CA as much as '76, sang at the event, and reports
We're both working hard and enjoying counseling, and running his natural I do. No grandchildren yet, much to our the new Field House on campus is life's simpler pleasures, not a bad thing!" food store in Wilton; Amy, our eldest, is dismay. I'm trying not to be an obnox- spectacular.
Peggy Garner and John are mov- a certified personal fitness consultant ious mother and mother-in-law. Alexa On a recent trip to Atlanta, she met ing back to the Seattle area to be close in Montpelier VT, and is celebrating her is a student advisor at an on-line uni- Rossie Ray Spell and Mary Bush to John's oncology doctors and their 30th birthday (can't believe I have a versity and lives in the new snowbelt, Norwood for breakfast, and they talked dear friends and family. We send all our 30-yr.-old daughter!) with a 3-wk. trip MD. Blake has been at UNC Chapel Hill about Mary's recent bid for mayor of At-
is is best wishes to John. to Costa Rica; Nick (26) working on a as a scholar-in-residence and looking lanta. Unfortunately, it was a close race,
in coll. Laurie Norris Coccio writes house reconstruction Darien, and Jon for a teaching job and doing so at and she lost by less than 1 ,000 votes. "Having retired as an elem. school (22) is living in Boulder CO. We visited the worst possible time. Christopher Sandra sees Mary Witt, Con- principal, I'm now dir. of our town my sister and her husband in Phoenix and Allison are taking a yr. off from stance Scott, and Terry Starke Tosh library. I love it, and not just because last winter; went to my niece's wedding teaching and live in Australia for a yr. as '75, several times a yr. in Richmond, VA. the schedule is flexible! It's allowed us in MN last spring, and went to Block she has dual citizenship. So, life is full Sandra continues working at SunTrust to continue traveling, just recently surf- Island in Jul. Just returned from Boulder and it's easy to stay healthy while living Mortgage as a Project Manager. ing in Sayulita, MX, and skiing in Grand last weekend and planning another in the best climate in the country (La Rossie Spell had a wonderful time
Targhee, WY. Nevertheless, my husband Block Island visit in Jul. Jolla). Much love to all." at Reunion, and enjoyed spending time and I are looking to retire "again" and Debbie Pollock Arce writes "I Lisa Marshall Chalmers reports during and after the event with Daun will enjoy our next chapter when (if?) haven't written news in a long time, so her latest: "Our son, Marshall, gradu- Thomas Frankland, Tricia Barnett our house sells. We're having fun con- here goes: ated from Harvard Law and is working Greenberg. Beth Franke Lynn and sidering the possibilities." First, I connected with Diane & for the British firm, Freshfields, in Meredith Thompson Sullivan
Susan Dern Plank and Joan May Chuck this weekend. They were down London. Our daughter, Elizabeth, got Mary Witt, who also made it to
Harden attended the Inauguration in OR for a mini-vacation, and we married on 12/19/09 to Chris McGanity. the reunion, had a pre-reunion visit of President Jo Ellen Parker and met for Sun. brunch & caught up. We They're living in Nashville where he with several classmates in Richmond,
Homecoming on a soggy Sat. in Sept. traded what we knew about other attends Vanderbilt Law and she works VA before driving down to Sweet Briar.
"But the rain couldn't dampen anyone's classmates and promised to see each for Gaylord-Opryland as a marketing She and husband Fritz are doing well. spirits at such a wonderful celebration other more often when she is in OR or coordinator. David and I are great and Mary still works at Anthem Blue Cross of the coll. I urge all of you to visit cam- I'm in Seattle. I'm the CFO of a soft- I'm still painting portraits. and Blue Shield, but has recently been
till pus now; don't wait Homecoming or ware company in the greater Portland, Reynolds and I too survived the named medical director for care man-
Reunion! The new athletics center, with OR area. I was recruited away from a snow living down a little dirt road in our agement. In her new position, she works its Houston Bistro and the Upchurch similar position at another software new place. We are off this week to the closely with nurses and physicians to
Field House, is fabulous and the new company a yr. ago, and this one is a DR for my nephew's wedding and up provide the best care for patients with
"green" apartments are nicely-designed, little closer to home. I'm experiencing to Boston this summer for my brother's complex medical conditions. She will spacious and eco-friendly. It was heart- the empty nest as well. After getting wedding. All the kids and grandkids also be the first woman to hold the post warming to see and hear the students amicably divorced 3 yrs. ago, I still had (some of whom we have to look up to of president of the University of Virginia break into spontaneous applause as my youngest son, Reed, at home, but now!) are all doing well. Reynolds is Medical Alumni Association. their professors processed into the inau- he's now a freshman at OR State. My still treating horses, foxhunting, fishing Paula Hollingsworth Thomas: guration ceremony. The reception that older son, Ross, is a senior at U. of OR, and bird hunting. I'm still painting, fish- All is well in Lewisburg, TN. Steve is the evening was a special time with good majoring in English. My oldest child, and ing, hiking and hope to get back in the minister at Belfast Presbyterian and we food, music and conversation. Steve and only daughter, Cory, is a graduate of U. saddle with better weather. We plan to love our little church. Charles and wife
Kathleen Cochrane Schutze joined us of WA. She lives near Seattle, and is a spend time in MT this summer and fall. Julie live nearby in Franklin, TN. Elyse at dinner and we met their lovely family: manager for a wind energy company I, like Weezie, am attempting to fight is finishing coll. at Belmont Univ. in
daughter Emily, who is a member of the there. She and her boyfriend travel the gravity by an exercise class called "boot Nashville. We hear from Barbara, Ellie
' 1 SBC Class of 1 , and her elder and world for fun, heading off to Iceland this camp," the name says it all! On that and some other Boxwoodites. Sorry to
younger brothers. I'm looking forward to month for 6 days, and Japan, Korea, note, great to hear from you all!
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have missed Reunion. I'm sure that it D.C, where she saw Sally Rebentish Many of our classmates are traveling dinner with Jo Ellen Lenoir Blunk 75 in was wonderful. Randolph and her sister who was in the to interesting places around the world. Houston over the Christmas holidays.
Debbie Hooker Sauers said it class of 70. She also had a chance to Julie Shuer is still living in southern Victoria Bates continues to work was hard for her to get back to the real see Terry's sister, Dorothy Lear Mooney CA, but with 2 children in coll. and one as a family practitioner for an HMO world after being a coll. girl again over 78, at the Saturday brunch "at Clyde's." in a h. s. semester program in Israel, in Tallahassee, FL., and has started
Reunion weekend. Debbie and Drea Nancy's daughter, Kate, is graduating she traveled to Tel Aviv for 3 mos. to a part-time Osteopathic Manipulative
Peacock Bender Maureen Hynes from Gorgetown U. in May. Daughter continue her Hebrew studies. Her Treatment Clinic for back and neck
Binder and Pam Cogghill Graham Liz is 7th grade, plays basketball, and husband took off 3 wks. from his law within her practice. This yr. she'll take a helped Sue Castle Rolewick celebrate could be a Sweet Briar candidate since practice and joined her. After that, they 3-mo. sabbatical to better understand the wedding of her daughter, Katie. she loves horseback riding. Nancy works all met up again in Washington, D.C, to osteopathy. 3 yrs. ago, she moved her
According to Debbie, the wedding was part-time at Talbot's and sees Sandra attend their son's graduation, summa mother, Carolyn Bates, to an assisted liv- beautiful, and all the SBC girls were and Maria Vonetes 75 at the store of- cum-laude, from George Washington U. ing facility near her home. She and her there in style! ten. Sharon Mangus had a Christmas Afterwards, she took her 2 oldest on a husband took a quick trip to Copenha-
The week after Reunion, Jane Piper dinner at her house in Dec. where she road trip to Sweet Briar and Lynchburg gen, Denmark in Nov.
Gleason and Joe moved from their saw Cindy Conroy, Lisa Walker 75, where they visited friends. The graduate, Joan Buckley Saunders said, suburban house in Webster Groves, and Jody Anderson 75. She reports Benji Davis, is now living in Tel Aviv; their "I've never been in Class Notes, so here
MO, into a roomier urban condominium. that Sharon is an EMT in Alexandria, daughter, Gabrielle, is in her 2nd year goes." She's married to an Englishman
From their home on the 23rd floor, they VA; Cindy is retired and splits her time of coll. in Los Angeles; and Sofia, their (Robert), has been living in Andover, MA have a fabulous view of downtown St. between Alexandria and Cape Cod; Lisa youngest, is a junior in high. Julie enjoys for the past 26 yrs., and they have 3
Louis and the Arch. recently moved to Georgia; and Jody is swimming, cooking, walking the dog and children: Nicholas (24), Amanda (22),
"The fireworks around the metro- working at the SBA in Washington, D.C. a "great 25-yr. marriage." and Peter (19). She has her own design
politan area on the 4th of July were (I hope I got all that straight!) Bonnie Chronowski writes that business, and works mainly with fabric wonderful," Gleason added. She also Nancy Blackwell Marion is the she's facilitating a course for 46 regis- when she and her husband are not on said it was great seeing everyone and owner of The Design Group, a graphic trants on church history. Son Christo- the golf course. (You did a good job, that "we haven't changed a bit." and Web design firm in Lynchburg, VA, pher will graduate from the U. of VA's and we'll look forward to your next
Also the week after Reunion, which has been designing this magazine Darden School of Business in May, after installment.)
Marcia Brandenburg Martinson s for the last 25 yrs. She has also started which he'll work for Heinz in Pittsburgh. Marion Van Horn Eagan cel- oldest son, Andrew, was married, so she a publishing company, Blackwell Press, PA. Daughter Meghan lives in NYC and ebrated Mardi Gras and the Super Bowl was unable to attend. (The best excuse and so far is publishing local histories, is a public relations coordinator for J. victory in her city of New Orleans. She yet!) She still lives in South Weymouth, historic prints and a magazine, Lynch's Mendel, the 5th generation furrier and and Ann Pritchett Van Horn were
MA, and works at her h. s. as director of Ferry. She taught a graphic design designer of ready-to-wear clothing. Bon- looking forward to a visit from Robin alumni relations. She has fun follow- class at Sweet Briar for 8 yrs., but nie is looking forward to a vacation on Christian Ryan and Ruthie Lentz in ing some of her SBC classmates on resigned last year to concentrate on St. Barth's in a couple of wks. with hus- Mar. over spring break.
Facebook. her businesses. Now that her 3 children band Jim. They're also planning a trip to Elizabeth Watts reports that she
Jane Renne Steffen teaches at are grown and all but one out of coll., Oberammergau, Germany, in Jul. to see and husband Bobby are in their 18th
Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Divi- she and Dave are traveling quite a bit, The Passion play, which is performed yr. at Episcopal H. S. where he teaches sion. Her specialty is textiles for interior thanks to their son's perks as a Conti- every 10 yrs., and will be spending the history and coaches track, and she still designers. I teach quilting in southern nental Airline pilot. rest of the summer in Nantucket, MA. works for the development and commu- 8" CA. I just bought a new 1 long arm Val Gordon-Johnson wrote: We Debbie Pelham Bigum is living in nications offices. She's also the school's quilting machine and it's computerized. did one Broadway play in 2009 (Neil Orlando, FL, with husband Randy who is photographer. They're thrilled to be She enjoyed the 35th reunion and saw LaBute's "Reasons to be Pretty"), now working for Lockheed Martin after grandparents of Robert C Watts (Chip), many friends and made some new which was critical and popular hit, but retiring from the Air Force. Daughter born in 6/09. He and his parents, Rob ones. She wishes we could've had a closed too early. We spent summertime Lindsay graduated from U. of VA and and Alden, are now living in Japan. week together. Afterward she and her between NYC, WY and Toronto, and married Dan Huttman, also a UVA gradu- Daughter Betsy and husband David husband vacationed in D.C. and went to winter in HI. ate. She holds a master's degree and are living in Atlanta for a yr. before they dinner with Nancy Mortenson Piper Andria Frances has been develop- continues to work at Lockheed Martin in return to Washington, D.C in the fall. and Chris. ing educational assessments at CTB/ Human Resources. Daughter Courtney Laurie Epstein Dearlove says she
M. Tracy James wrote, "I always McGraw-Hill where she has been for will be graduating from FL State U. enjoys being "Nana" to her 1st grand- have fond memories of that gorgeous the past 24 yrs. Daughter Ashleigh (24) with a degree in recreation and leisure. child, Quincy, born 7/8/09. He lives in campus, beautiful rolling hills and area has a master's degree in archaeology. Debbie said she and her husband are Denver with his parents, Jenni and Jim, communities and the many wonderful She's been living in London for the past traveling quite a bit, their most recent but "there are numerous visits." Her
people I met there on campus, while several yrs. and has participated in 2 excursion to Costa Rica in Jan. Both are husband continues to create new busi- hiking and motorcycling." Tracy went on archaeological digs in Kazakhstan with now looking forward to a trip to Tuscany ness enterprises in the field of health to graduate from CO Coll. on the "Block SBC Professor of Anthropology Claudia in Apr., Atlantis in Jun., and a family and wellness. Stepdaughter Jessica is
Plan" where students study one course Chang. In the past couple of years, Andria fly fishing trip in Sept. to Steamboat back from a 3-yr. mission to Kenya to at a time. She worked on design exhibits has traveled to China, cruised down the Springs, CO. Last Sept., Debbie had provide AIDS testing and information to at the Children's Museum in Denver, and Yangtze River, walked along the Great lunch with her SBC roommate, Mary the Maasai as well as spreading God's community arts programs. She complet- Wall, seen the Terracotta Warriors in Xian Fantone Davies in Norfolk, VA. Word. She's now going for her master's ed law school in 1981 and is working as and enjoyed a foot massage in Shanghai, Meredith Sullivan and John trav- in psychology. The other stepdaughter, "1 a mediator in the court system. She has all of which were on her 00 Things to eled to Botswana this past fall to photo- Brady, will enter coll. in fall, and stepson
been married for 37 yrs., has 2 boys (1 Do Before I Die" list. She also went on an graph the "Big Five," including a viewing John is a junior at Glenbrook South H. and 20) and lives on what she describes African safari where she saw up-close of "ol' Silver Eye," an aging lion, known S. She also keeps active in her Pilates as a "semi-rural" farm in CO. She gave the elephants, giraffes, flamingos and far and wide for his opaque cataract eye reformer sessions and practices her up horseback riding a few years ago, lions in several state parks. She's on and bad disposition. We saw Rossie program of "Sheanetics," a combination but continues to hike, ski, and garden. the board of directors for "Baby Love," a Spell and her children in Atlanta on the of yoga, tai chi, ballet and Pilates.
She also enjoys "good food, wine and nonprofit organization that participates in way to catching our flight to Johannes- Betsy Hellmuth was sympathetic conversation!" "rocking the babies" in a hospital's neo- burg, South Africa. We ended in Cape to our plight as class secretaries since
Nancy Mortensen Piper attended natal intensive care unit. She continues Town at the Cape Grace for a much she herself compiles Class Notes for the SBC Homecoming where she met her volunteer work at the Animal Services needed rest before chugging north on her h. s. graduation class and is now new president, Jo Ellen Parker. She later where she plays with cats and kittens and the Rovos Rail to Johannesburg for planning its 40th reunion with Sarah gave a brunch for Parker in Washington, helps with adoptions. our trip back to MI Meredith also had Johnston Knobluach hosting one of
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the parties. She and husband Ted will Massey Cancer Center as I celebrate 6 law school and is now a practic- be grandparents at the end of May, in yrs. in May as a cancer survivor. ing attorney in Houston, TX! My son fact, the baby is due on Janie Reeb 1975 Angela M. Scully: I'm enjoying continues his career as a mid-level Short's birthday! Daughter Katie and Sarah Preston Clement serving as Exec. Dir. of the Darlington financial executive with his multinational husband live in Beacon, NY, after 8 yrs. 5028 Domain PI. Arts Center in PA. Daughter Clara gradu- corporation and is now weighing options on the upper west side of Manhattan. Alexandria, VA 22311 ated from Kenyon and is working in regarding an overseas assignment
Son TJ owns a RED movie camera and [email protected] theatre in Philadelphia and son Matthew fun! I continue weathering the economic travels on assignments as they come is a Jr. atClarksonU. storm as an executive recruiter, but have up. He and his wife live in Columbus Johna Pierce Stephens Molly Reeb Nissman: My kids are now begun the final stages of launching where she'll be teaching dance. Their 1703 Beard's Creek Ct. growing fast! Nancy (29) works at the our internet business, lndiefilmz.com. youngest, Kimberly, is in Chicago, where Davidsonville, MD 21035 national office of the American Diabetes Kathy Roantree Renken What a she is studying to become a certified [email protected] Assoc, in Washington, D.C. Andrew year! We've moved from MN to TX. It paralegal. She still sells Doncaster (1 7) and Matt (1 3) are both at Norfolk all happened very quickly, but now the clothing while her husband works as an Acad. I'm busy with my job at UBS as family is together. Jeff no longer has investment advisor, concentrating on me a Financial Advisor in Norfolk. I have to commute as he's now a full-time corporate bonds. Ann Kiley Crenshaw 3 partners at UBS, one of whom is my employee of Lockheed Martin. Children
Francesca "Checka" Delle is 1216 Cedar Point Dr. sister, Jane Reeb Short 74. We have have had lots of changes also. Doug still a kindergarten teacher at PS 7 in Virginia Beach, VA 23541 fun working together! I continue to play (23) graduated from SD School of Mines Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Her daughter [email protected] tennis; it's a great physical and mental and also started working for Lockheed is following the footsteps of her father, outlet. Last year, my 4.5 USTA team Martin, but in Marietta, GA. Emily (20)
Paul, and is in her 2nd yr. of Hofstra went to Nationals and we came in 4th! graduates this yr. from Evangel U. and Law School. Her son is a paramedic in im I'm renovating my house; there's always is planning a 3-mo. missions/internship the city. She hasn't seen anyone from Sally Bonham Mohle a project to do! trip to Nairobi. Then she'll be in the job SBC since her parents moved from 5039 Lewisetta Dr. Ellen Sellers McDowell: My market for a job in public relations. Tim
Washington D.C. to the eastern shore Glen Allen, VA 23060 youngest child Kate graduates from high (1 7) is a homeschooled h. s. junior; so I and unfortunately, was not able to make [email protected] school in May. We had a nice visit to have only one more year of teaching at Reunion. Checka plans to take a group SBC last fall but she has decided to go home. With the move everything is very
of 4th graders to a dairy farm in VT for somewhere else. I thought the campus new and starting over seems daunting. Hi, classmates! We now have a a wk. in the summer. She did it last yr. looked great and the food was wonder- SBC'ers in Fort Worth, give me a call! Facebook group, so if you're on Fb and and it was a blast. It exposes city kids ful. I would love to be going back. Kate Libby White Drbal: Life keeps haven't joined yet, please do! It's a great to a whole different environment and and I are going on a fun spring break cooking with Drew loving his sophomore place to reconnect. they learn so much from it, she says. trip together, 1st to England to plan a yr. at Elon in NC and the fraternity life Our deepest condolences to Jo Ella She and her husband are planning to summer mission trip for our church there. He hopes to study in Dublin fall Schneider Samp and Rich on the un- go to Saratoga Springs, NY for a few youth group and then to Paris where we semester next year, which would be expected loss of their son Peter in 2/09, days this summer. "Other than that I'm will meet my sister Susan Sellers Ewing very exciting. He'd check in on my which I just learned about recently.
trying to fight the battle of the bulge 71 . 1 hope I remember enough of family junior by Becky Mayer Gutierrez: My 3 my Amsterdam from semester running, biking, swimming, going to the French to get around. Rex is working abroad. I'm still in touch with them. Tyler sons and 3 grandsons are well. George gym and kayaking. I'm also involved in in AL every week so he's commuting (1 a junior, is in the throes of trying to and his wife bought a house; their son 7) my church as a eucharistic minister and between Dallas and Montgomery. Our complete his Eagle Scout project and was 1 on 3/1 4/1 0. Anthony and his girl- catechist. Hope you are well." oldest daughter Emily (24) is finish- focusing on where he wants to go to friend are very close and visit often with Sally Rebentisch Randolph ing a master's degree in Geology from college. Doug has a challenging new Gavin (3) and Gauge (2) on 3/15/10. Mi- who will become a grandma for the U. TX in Austin and will be moving to job as director of marketing in a small chael is in Heidelberg, Germany working 2nd time, reports, "This grandmother Houston this summer to work for Hess veterinary pharmaceutical company as an MP in the Army; he is doing well. thing is great!" She's still teaching 3rd Petroleum. Ginny (22) finished atTCU based in northern NJ. He loves the I hope to visit him during the summer grade and will be retiring in about 5 yrs. last year and is working in Dallas for a challenge of bringing in more business, of 201 1 . 1 continue to teach 5th grade, I Sally also saw Ceci "Kirby" Wraase, small communications company. Mary which he's doing, but not without losing love teaching and the students, I hate all
Sally Clary. Jane Frierson, and Karla Susan is sophomore at and few more hairs. I worked for small the paperwork and stress from the state (20) a TCU a a "Kline" Bradshaw recently when they is studying engineering. I'm volunteering saddlery shop last year, which was fun, standardized test. I also work weekends all met for "tea." (Tea? Riiiiiiggggghhh- at Kate's school, Parish Episcopal, as a but unfortunately it didn't survive the baking at a coffee shop, enjoy the hhttttttt . . Senior Mom planning fun lunches for the small business crunch and right before .) variety. My family has rented a house in
Alethea Lee is making the rounds, senior class (I still love to plan parties!) Christmas had to close its doors. I'm York Beach, ME, for a week in Jul., can't 1st spending Thanksgiving with her and at our church with the youth group interviewing, trying to get back into wait. We are truly blessed. family in Rl, and later visiting her mother Debbie Koss McCarthy: Our and with Altar Guild. veterinary pharmaceutical marketing and other family members over the All is part-time. Like all of 1st grandchild, Anna Grace Ramey, Stephanie Maxson Kenyon: communications,
Christmas holidays in ME. She also well in the Maxson-Kenyon household. us, and I continue to monitor our was born 1/25 to our daughter Courtney Doug reported, "As I was coming home I had We're gearing up for the h. s. baseball aging parents' health and home issues. and husband John. But Atlanta is too far a really bad auto accident on 95—high season. Jay's the starting Varsity catcher We're fortunate to still have all four of away from Chapel Hill! I'm taking a sab- speed, hit and run, 3 cars. I got a broken this year, so we get to sit in the bleach- them with us, but as you all know, aging batical in the spring and will spend lots hand and had to have an operation. My ers and sweat every pitch. Next it's col- is not for sissies. (Ain't that the truth! of time there. Alex still enjoys work and car is gone, but I'm alive!" Fortunately, lege tours. I'm still teaching 6th grade. These birthdays are getting ridiculous play in Manhattan. David and I are fine. she is in physical therapy and back to husband has retired, but substitutes for 77ers!) Barb Bernick Peyronnet: I'm busy My us knitting again. most days. Roxane Clement: I've been whip- with Annie (15) and Maggie (20). Mag- Please send more news for our next Scott: I've ping myself into shape going to Bikram gie attends William and Mary and Annie Fran begun a 2nd
Class Notes, and we'll "get it out there" decade with Scott Gardner Group, my Yoga with Gregor Lee (class of 2000). is a freshman in h. s. I continue to play
as they say on CNN! consultancy. I'll travelling back and forth golf and serve on the 9-holers board. marketing/branding Son soon be
Zach turns 21 this yr. and still hopes to between Asheville and MT for a decorat- We've had a great season snow skiing make his fame and fortune writing and ing job. I've enjoyed being able to touch at Wintergreen, VA, with terrific condi- producing in the music industry (as does base with more SBC classmates through tions! Doug & I stay busy with church, everyone else in Nashville). Facebook. kids and elder care. I'm walking in the Christine Boulware: Last year, my Nina Baker Neal: Got remarried 3 annual 1 0K and am raising money for youngest child, my daughter, finished yrs. ago to a wonderful man and moved
48 • Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.erJu to Ellicott City, MD. My daughter, Natalie, had SBC alumna Molly Haskell '61 as a at home, Susan, (16) a sophomore at replacement surgery at Duke in Jan.
is a sophomore at U. of St. Andrews in guest last summer. I manage a comedy Concord-Carlisle H. S. Kate is 26 and and am still recovering from that and
Scotland and really enjoys it. She has troupe called Full Metal Mamas in NYC working at Goldman-Sachs in NYC, hoping for good results." always been a rider, but is now into with edgy humor. The leader is Sam's Phillip (24) is at Tufts Medical School Elaine Arozarena is a global
playing polo! I stick to riding bikes with wife, Barbara Singer. And finally, I'm in Boston; Peter (21) is a senior at Advisor in Human Capital Solutions with my husband. busy with the Ethical Culture Society Gettysburg Coll., Chip (20) is a fresh- partners in Europe and headquarters
is Missy Flanigan Clark: Life in VA of Bergen County as Pledge Chair and man at Miami U. in OH. I have my own in Vienna, Austria. "The brand name
going well. David and I have our grown organizer of fund raisers. residential interior decorating company, is Neumann Partners, and my brand
kids, Lauren is married and graduating Betsy Byrne Utterback: Jim and a lot of fun. In Jan., I hosted the Boston in Iberia and the Americas is Global
from UVA with her masters and will be I moved to Tampa in Dec. where he's Alumnae SBC Club luncheon. Many Human Capital Solutions." She adds, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Patrick working for Moffitt Cancer Center. ages came (60 plus people), a lot of fun! "My husband Carlos Montero de Alba '44 finished NC State a couple of years ago I've been lucky enough to visit Laura My mother Lois Gene Patton and and I have no children but split our '44 and Philip is at ECU playing baseball Evans and Graham in Palm Beach and her friend Paulett Taggart sang the time between Madrid, Spain, and NYC. I for the Pirates in the spring and the Sally Ann in Key Largo. I'm looking into Senior Steps song that my Mom wrote also head a nonprofit foundation called
Outer Banks Daredevils in the summer continuing interior design in Tampa while at SBC! SABORES AUTENTICOS DE MEXICO
months. I love my work at Saint Patrick once I get comfortable. Our children are And I, Mary Robbie McBride where we will start qualifying Mexican
Catholic School as the Minister of out of the house: James (28) is in grad Bingham, have a wonderful job working restaurants by their authenticity with
Spiritual Formation, and I never have a school (architecture) at Syracuse, Chris at Helen Cordero Elem. in Albuquerque, ONE, TWO or THREE EAGLES...the idea dull moment as the lower school religion is working in Phila in clinical research working with the gifted and talented is to differentiate us from Tex-Mex, teacher. consulting and Jenny (23) is in NYC at students and the lower archiving kin- which is the food you eat in the U.S."
And I, Sally Bonham Mohle, am en- SonyMusic working at Epic Records. dergarteners. We have a promising Helen "Sam" Masters Durham
joying being near our new great-nephew Looking forward to the summer in NH. I 3-yr.-old at the racetrack and hope he is still in Rochester, MN, working as dir.
Alec Brown, born 1/18. He joins his had lunch with Louise about 6 mos. ago does well this spring. Please email me of marketing for the Mayo Civic Center
brother Jack (6) also nearby. We count and she's busy with her 2 girls who are at: [email protected] . I have with Buck (HSC '80) at the Mayo Clinic. them as our "virtual grandchildren," along wonderful swimmers! tried to email everyone, but got a lot of Rob (20), the youngest, is in his 2nd yr. with their cousins Zach (1) and Bella Can- Susan Andrews Cress: Leigh's returns! Also, please do not feel that the at Hampden-Sydney. Arch (27) is in NYC non (4) in NH. I'm also enjoying living in job, SVP Energy Marketing & Inter- only thing you can write in about is your and Ann Husted (23) is in NC. Helen
Richmond. Pete and I celebrated 32 yrs. national at Enbridge, had its ups and family. We'd all love to hear about what saw Mary Ware Gibson, Lea Sparks of marriage in Feb. downs. Travel mercifully slowed down makes you happy and your hobbies, Bennett and Mason Bennett Rummel '83 a bit with the sale in Apr. of Enbridge's passions, etc. Thank you! last mo. Helen writes "Sadly I lost
stake in a crude oil pipeline in Colombia. my mom right before Christmas and the W8 Sadly, that means no business reasons most touching text came from Mary Suzanne Stryker Ullrich for now to visit a country that Leigh mo Ware Gibson when she told me she'd 820 Waverly Rd. and Susan have come to love, but the Frances McClung Ferguson be driving up for the funeral, 'SBC girl
Kennett Square, PA 19348 May closing party in Bogota, preceded 1917 Maylin Dr. needs a hug, I'll be there.' It just goes [email protected] by a few days in Cartagena, was a Salem, VA 24153 to show you that the lifelong friends memorable farewell. Susan is in her 2nd [email protected] you make at SBC carry you through the year as president of the Junior League toughest times." W9 of Calgary, her full-time unpaid job. Her Phyllis Watt Wilson Boo Major is in her 1 2th yr. as eventful but rewarding, head coach for the U. of SC Equestrian Mary Robbie McBride Bingham term has been 3939 Livingston St. NW highlighted by steady growth in mem- team. She keeps up with Lisa Kean '80 7624 Coors Blvd. SW Washington, D.C. 20015 bership preparation for a celebra- who has built a beautiful vacation home Albuquerque, NM 87121 and [email protected] 60-year history in on the outskirts of Asheville, NC. Boo Sweetbriarl [email protected] tion of the League's Calgary. Her term ends in Jun. 201 and says, "You'd never know that Asheville
Susan will take some time to relax and is 5 min. from her house with the beau- Saralee Cowels Boetler writes: mi decide what she wants to do next. Jim is tiful views of the mountains she has." I'm still busy as senior partner with Claire McDonnell Purnell a 1st yr. law student at the U. of British Boo's son, Mac, is in the 4th grade and Fleishman-Hillard International Commu- Four Thompson St. Columbia. Andrew is a 3rd-yr. student at enjoys hunting and fishing; he shot 2 nications; serving on a National Trust for Annapolis, MD 21401 U. of Alberta. bucks this year. Mac also plays football Historic Preservation advisory board for [email protected] Deborah Parker Gibbs is still and baseball. "He's not too interested Historic Woodlawn (George Washington
practicing law in Baton Rouge, LA; saw in horses which leaves me relieved! I gave it to his step-granddaughter, Nelly Hello Classmates! A number of you
Carol Williamson in Boston in Oct. She couldn't afford it. Of course I still have 3 Custis) and Frank Lloyd Wright's Pope- sent your news. Thank you all. Naomi stays there often to visit her son at St. retired horses and a donkey at my farm Leighey House (only FLW building in VA Weyand Smith and husband Scott live Paul's. Margaret Hixon arrived to visit as pasture ornaments." open to the public) and spending time in Atlanta where Scott is the General
her just as I was leaving, unfortunately. Kathy Levi Hoover and Michael with George and dog, Angus at our WV Counsel of Genuine Parts Company. are living in they I had a good telephone visit with Mikki Richmond and have cabin. I'm starting to ride again (baby Naomi is an employment discrimination Farley Canning, who has a new farm finally emerged from 2 major renova- steps!) and spending as much time as I attorney at Fisher Broyles. She writes, in KY where she'll be spending time tions to their home. Kathy writes "We can with my 2 nephews, both of whom "I'm also on the Board of Directors of soon, nearer her sons at Vanderbilt loved our neighborhood and didn't had small roles in Academy-Award win- the Center for Family Resources, which '83 and Fort Benning, GA. In the small want to move (Anne Little Woolley ning film, "The Blind Side" with Sandra helps homeless families with hous- world department, youngest daughter is our neighbor). Kate (21), a '3rd year' Bullock. ing, food, and job training. Our son, Martha, a freshman at Sewanee, has at the Mclntire School of Commerce at Aimee Brett Kass: I work at Vort & Harrison (21), is a junior at Presbyterian befriended Sumner Dalrymple, Liz Day's UVa, is following in her dad's footsteps. Morgen, LLC, a law firm that concen- Coll. in SC and thinking about law attends Collegiate School in (78) daughter. I had a wonderful time Anna (1 4) trates on civil litigation with a focus on school. Our daughter, Emily (18) is a
parent's weekend seeing Liz and her Richmond I see Terrell Luck Harrigan DYFS and public education. I'm also the h. s. senior, and is considering SBC. often, both for husband Chris. I think often and fondly as we're room mothers producer of a popular radio talk show We recently moved to an old house in of the peaceful days at Sweet Briar and our daughters' 8th grade advisories. in the NY metropolitan region, The Sam Druid Hills in Atlanta, which we'll have
look forward to hearing news of our I also see Daughty Hagan Godfrey Greenfield Show on WVNJ. (The show to renovate. We also bought a house in class. when our daughters' sports teams play can be heard online.) We're not right or Nantucket and saw Roberta Perillo '82 Lauren MacMannis Huyett: I'm each other. Michael is president of left, just rational and entertaining. We in Nantucket last summer. I had ankle
in Concord, MA, and down to 1 child Caprin Asset Management. I keep busy
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae, sbc.edu Summer 2010 • 49 with family, friends, and volunteer work. Mackenzie, Andrew (13) and Meredith well, and we had a visit from Carolyn ing in Salamanca, Spain, last summer. '80 I enjoy planning our vacations. Our (1 0) enjoyed swimming every day. Most Birbick Thomason and Tish Longest Harriet writes, "I was able to go to Spain favorites so far have been Yellowstone of all, we enjoyed how friendly the locals Tyler '80. As for children, Anne-Marie for the end of her trip which was lots and San Francisco. I love to hear from were to us. We were happy to return and Helene are now working and have of fun. I'm still working part time as a and see all my SBC classmates!" home to warmer weather." Allison still their own apts. That still leaves me 4 CPA in a private company and I play
Stephanie Rinaldi Charlip is works on the Advisory Board of Walk at home! Constance and Louis are in tennis at least once a wk. Whitney is living in Weston, MA, and she writes, On Equine Assisted Activity. It's been graduate studies at universities in the still at Merrill Lynch and tries to get to
"This year my husband, Steve, (UVA a joy for her to see the program grow Paris suburbs, and Clotilde is study- AK every yr. or so for hunting, hiking
'81 '87) will class of , UVA Law class of to over 50 participants. Allison be ing dramatic arts at the Versailles and fishing. Walton went with him last
started his own commercial real estate participating in 3 upcoming fundraisers. Conservatory. My youngest, Bertrand, summer and they had a blast. I see law practice. My oldest child, Allie (23) Meanwhile, Carson continues to volun- is a senior in h. s., so we're almost out Dana Painter Parkey (who is Brooks' graduated from UVA in 2009; she'll teer as a Life Line Pilot. He just flew a of the school routine. Walter still works godmother) and Florence Baldwin be applying to vet school in the fall. In cargo mission for Haiti. for the Germans, in direct marketing. Langford whose daughter, Annie, plays
the meantime, she and I are going to Stephanie Stitt Fitzpatrick is He enjoys the shop on weekends, and field hockey and lacrosse with Brooks.
Panama in May on a Castration Vacation "immersed in the sandwich generation, spends all his free time searching for Florence Baldwin Langford and
(a program called SpayPanama, which with teenagers on one side and an things to sell." Hope more SBC alumnae Tom have been in Houston for 3 Yi yrs. spays and neuters over 5,000 feral 80-yr.-old mother on the other, family will stop by to see us. We're next to the and love it, although they miss the fall cats and dogs per yr). My middle child, life is full. Work has expanded, too, as wonderful food market in Versailles, in of the northeast. After 3 yrs. of living in
Annie (21), is a sophomore at the U. I've taken on clients with a large con- a pedestrian antique quarter, with about temporary housing, they have settled in of Ml, loves it. My youngest, Jeff (1 5) temporary art collection. It's all good, 50 other shops. So y'all come on over!" a house they renovated. Florence writes, is a freshman in h. s. I'm still training but after the snowy deluge D.C. experi- Eve Devine writes from Baltimore "Our son, Byron (21) is now a junior
and boarding dogs in my home. I have enced, I'll be glad when spring arrives!" "In 1/09, 1 left the hospitality industry at Middlebury and our daughter, Annie a new bird dog, an American Brittany Stephanie's kids, Alex (15) and Robbie and took a position with the Maryland (18), is a senior in h. s. and will be
puppy named Finn; and I have taken up (12), made "lots of $ for the Special Zoo in Baltimore as VP of Human going to Colgate next yr. We're thrilled
pheasant hunting. I see Anne Sargeant Olympics, shoveling!" Resources. I love my surroundings; I they'll be in the same general area. We
Rosenthal frequently, and talk to Mary Kate Ferguson is living in look outside my office window and see will be empty nesters, so I plan to do
Harriet Bielitsky as often as I can Baltimore and has enjoyed staying con- Giraffes, Elephants, Camels, and Lions. more volunteer work and travel with my
Susie Wilson Lyons writes from nected with so many classmates on The MD Zoo is the 3rd oldest zoo in the husband some. I didn't make it up to
Lexington, KY, "I wasn't a real active Facebook. Mary Kate writes, "I traveled U.S. and is part of a 200-acre park in SBC for the dedication of the new Bistro student at SBC so many may not even to VT several times this past winter to Baltimore. The property, built in 1809, in Sept., but hope to get up there soon!
know me! But, it was a good time with visit an old friend and got hooked on was once owned by a Revolutionary I see Harriet Harrison Leavell all the some super fun memories." Susie's the simple clean lifestyle there. Did a lot War hero and is the main administrative time—our girls go the same h. s. and oldest son, Will (24) has graduated from of knitting and opened a shop on etsy. office for the Zoo. It is a wonderful place play sports together." college; sons Michael (21) and Chris com." to work. If you are visiting Baltimore, Nancy Webb Corkery is working
(20) are in college and her youngest, DJ Stahnope writes from the come see us. I enjoy seeing Brendy part time for a jewel store in Wellesley,
Sam (16) is a sophomore in h. s. Susie Middle East, "I spent the last couple Reiter Hantzes Mary Kate Ferguson MA and for The Great American Rain
completed 2 yrs. at SBC and spent a of yrs. with Military Ministry, where I and Tania Voss Ryan as regularly as Barrel Company. She spent Easter with summer taking classes at the U. of AZ assisted in the production of a 30-hr. our schedules permit." Carla Cabot '84. Nancy is having fun then went to KY for a short while, or so DVD training series for churches, Diana Landau McCulloch has had playing tennis, cannot wait for golf sea- she thought. Susie met her husband, professionals and individuals on Christ- an exciting 3 yrs! "I went to my 30th son to start up, and is looking forward
Robbie, and the rest is history! centered healing for PTSD; and served h. s. reunion and re-met someone I to racing and some cruising on her
Susie writes, "I've decided, at the as volunteer coordinator in the Spiritual dated in 9th grade! Last summer I new boat this summer. All the boys are
age of 50, to go back to college to get Resources dept. I bought my 1st home moved my daughter, Pepper (11), the good. David is still working hard with my degree. It was interesting to say the ever in lovely Williamsburg, VA, and dogs and horses to the Jacksonville CBRE in Boston. Kevin, a junior at St. least to request my transcript from SBC, visited with many wonderful SBC pals area. Pepper is attending St. Johns Lawrence U., is majoring in Sociology
looks like I was not too into studying! who also now make VA their home, Country Day School on Doctors Lake and Education. Kyle, a sophomore, is
I'm loving it, working towards a B.S. including Betsy Kyle Donahue '82 (who and the horses/dogs enjoyed the mild a business major at The College of in management and ethics through hosted me for the past 4 Thanksgivings (for us!) winter. We're on the St. John's Charleston. Nancy is hoping to get to
Asbury U. My boys are constantly ask- at her house), Jean von Schrader Bryant River— it's HUGE—and I'm so glad Italy this fall to see Laura Evans 79. '82. ing me about my grades, and I seem '82, and Polk Green In Feb., I to be in the South again! I still have John, the girls, and I are still in
to need their help a lot! So interesting rejoined the USO for which I had previ- my Revolutionary farm in Chadds Ford Annapolis. Mary (16) is a sophomore to be reading books and writing papers ously worked overseas and stateside and as both our families are still in PA, and looking at colleges is on the hori-
again, but I love it." Susie and Robbie for 10 yrs., in order to return to direct we try to get up often to visit. I have zon. Seventh grader, Lizzie (13), is tak- own Hartwell Farms, a thoroughbred service to troops, which has always spoken a few times with Stephanie ing a pottery class and she loves it. breeding and sales company. She sees been my heart. Now serving as a duty Snead Jurascio, who was still in the If you get to the Lake Placid Pub
Ashton Nesbit Moynihan '82 and her 2 manager at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Baltimore, MD, area with 3 children. and Brewery, you will see the SBC pen-
wonderful daughters. Susie says hello I have a lot less responsibility than I Can't wait to see what all have been nant that I mentioned in my notes last to Betsy Simpson Huberts Anne had in senior leadership, but much up to!" time, hanging on the wall. A silly, but
Sargeant Rosenthal Stephanie more direct contact. I'm hoping to be Harriet Harrison Leavell writes fun, pursuit of mine. Thank you for shar-
Rinaldi Charlip Laurie Coe. Harriet tapped for a position in Afghanistan in that all is well in Houston (no hurricanes ing your news. Take care.
Bielitsky, and Nancy Webb Corkery the next 6 mos., bringing to bear all the in 2009!). Harriet's son, Walton (21) will
Allison Roberts Greene has had experience and training I've had from graduate from Rhodes College in May
a busy yr. looking at high schools for both USO and Military Ministry. I place 2010, majoring in international busi- daughter Mackenzie (14). Allison says frequent updates about my adventures ness. Last summer he was in Belgium
"It looks like she's headed to the Grier on Facebook and would welcome any- doing an international business program
School in PA after Labor Day and she one to 'friend' me if they'd like to follow through Rhodes. Her daughter, Brooks is excited about her choice. We just along or to send an email to djstan- (17), is a junior in h. s. and looking at returned from a wk. in Grand Cayman [email protected]." colleges. She plays field hockey, soccer,
Island. We had a wonderful spring break Anne Grovesenor Evard and and lacrosse and wants to continue seeing sea turtles, tropical fish, blue husband Walter are living in Versailles, lacrosse in college. In between lacrosse iguanas, and stingrays. The kids, France. "Our antique shop is doing tournaments, she spent a month study-
50 -Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu tan. She therefore joined the church, nance preventing a garbage incinerator Pittsburgh where she earned another
and the family celebrated Christmas Eve or landfill in the county, an unspoiled master's degree, this one in library
)O0 services. We look forward to reading area, void of strip malls and big box and information science. Carrie is the
Consuelo Michelle Martinez more of Amoret's unique encounters retailers. Our "Erin Brokovich" shared reference librarian in Whitehall (a suburb
7007 North Tripp Ave. with nature in future updates. that if a probate judge validates approx. of Pittsburgh). She enjoys managing the
Lincoln wood, I L 60712 Liz Hoskinson sent a Happy New 2,520 signatures there will be a referen- reference dept. in a small library, where
[email protected] Year "and all that" As it is winter; Liz dum. We wish them good luck and will she works on everything from 3rd grade
[email protected] has been at her writing desk more than stay tuned for the verdict. In addition to school projects, to finding a Swiss bank
usual, penning articles for CentralE- managing 3 jobs, preparing eldest son with Parisian offices, and then reading
Amoret Thisell was the 1 st to write, quine.com , TheEquestrianCorner.com for Mercer U. where he'll play tennis a recipe over the phone to a patron. Still
wishing her classmates ig Jul og Godt and the area newspaper on notable and hopefully "study a bit"; Ruth is also with the trademark global mystique and
NyttAr or New Year's greetings from NY trees. The subject was daunting, since busy with son Magill (12) and supports ready to assist others, Carrie also man-
where she was busy baking additional it dawned on Liz that she loves trees, husband Jack's busy coaching career at ages a resettlement project for refugees;
Julekake (Christmas bread). Daughter but "knows zero about them." It took a the U. of GA women's swim team. Sudanese, Bhutanese and Somali
Emma Grace (4) attends "International bit of scrambling to pull off a plausible "No earth shattering news to share," patrons. She also assists in providing job
Pre-School," with many United Nations piece. The horse business continues to but we're glad she wrote. Rosemary skills to unemployed patrons and helped
families. Big sister Diana (7) is the mirror do well, with a good roster of students Hardy continues her noble work as an 85-yr.-old man refresh his skills. The
image of the "girl" from the original Mod and fun horses. Liz continues to be con- a behavior specialist within several gentleman succeeded in obtaining a job, Squad show—same long hair and tie- cerned about the indifference towards elem. schools of the Shawnee Mission which Carrie states, indicates something
dyed clothes, (FYI it was actress Peggy global warming, especially among the School District. Fortunately Rosemary about the U.S. economy. Husband Tim
Lipton). While little sister Dorothea en- "soccer mom" crowd as she indicates, discovered a new outlet to help channel is retired after 1 5 yrs. with Bombardier joys PS 1 16 in Murray Hill, surrounded and works on a local committee to work-related stress, she has been and completed putting their 1 928 house
by children from the NY Medical Center address this. We look forward to Liz volunteering for several months at a "back together." What originally started families. Doro, as she's known, was very sharing with us how we can each do our no-kill animal shelter and "absolutely as just "freshening things up" turned
proud of her class project describing her part to gain greater awareness, taking loves it." Rosemary wrote that each dog into a major rehab with everything family's immigrant story and how her action in our own lives. at the shelter is a sweetheart and has replaced except the family dog. Son Pat, grandfather came to America from Nor- Speaking of global warming, Pris- something unique to offer their potential a junior, is in the college search way. Happy that builders finally finished cilla Ream McPheeters wrote from SC family. When not working or volunteering process. Like his parents, he's thinking a new deck for their beach house on the on a 68-degree day in Feb., just as she she stays in contact with Rebecca Cog- about a career in international business
East End of Long Island, she describes was beginning to think that the family gin Hubert ('83) who will visit Rosemary and has the travel bug. The family the three levels, as all raised, overlook- needed to head farther south for milder in Kansas City this spring. A refreshing traveled to Russia and will go to Turkey
ing beautiful Moriches Bay; near where days. In addition to celebrating the optimist, she writes that life is good, no this summer. In the meantime, they've
husband Edvard was born. The family balmy weather, Priscilla and husband complaints. been shoveling a lot of snow and looking will renovate the 1950's bathrooms, Chip just made their last tuition pay- SBC class of 201 4 will include the forward to the spring!
kitchen, and finish replacing the col- ment this semester to SBC as daughter smart, talented and lovely Mary Whitney Deborah Price Bowman looks
lapsed ceilings. An unheated summer Heather graduates on May 15th. She Earnhart, daughter of Marie Engel- forward to returning to SBC this May to
home, they look forward to it becoming still can't believe how fast 4 yrs. went! Earnhart. Congratulations to Mary see niece Lauren Miller graduate. The as livable as one of the dilapidated Priscilla hopes to see everyone at our Whitney who received a scholarship to Bowman family had a great summer va- beach houses in the area, an old East 30th reunion. attend SBC. cation in Basin Harbor in VT after picking
End tradition. Amoret extends the invite Theologian and horse back rider Danielle Bielenstein visited SBC daughter Katie (1 3) up from camp in to all who visit the East End. The family extraordinaire, Nancy Dougherty after 30 yrs. As part of a panel on math ME. She'll head there one last time in was busy, last summer, for the 3rd time Davidson wrote from VA. Daughter and science in government, she noted Aug. and the family hopes to take anoth- in 10 yrs.; they had a major field fire at Meredith is a freshman at Clemson, that the turnout was large, a good ses- er glorious wk. in New England. Deborah their farm in upstate NY. The fire was enjoying school and is a member of the sion. While looking out at the attendees, writes that Katie enjoys music, tennis, from power lines downed during a storm rowing team. Daughter Hyten, a junior toting their electronic accoutrements, soccer and Softball, while son Kessler and although the entire power line fell in h. s. runs cross-country and rides in (laptops, iPods, cell phones), she dryly (8) is interested in Star Wars, Legos down, the power stayed on and the hot her spare time, while Lydia the "baby", informed the audience that when she and baseball. Deborah is an avid tennis electric cable burned a trench into their is in 6th grade, rides all of the time with was at SBC, the greatest thing was player, on the courts at least 5 days a east paddock, turning the sandy soil into mom. Per my last update, Nancy earned to have a phone in our rooms! That wk. Sadly, late last year her father who glass! Thankfully the windstorm brought a master's degree in theological studies got a laugh, though the students were was battling kidney cancer, passed away rain, naturally controlling the spread of at the VA Theological Seminary and is shocked our class was so electronically right before Thanksgiving. Our sincere the fire. The electric company moved involved in her church while pondering deprived. The following morning, some condolences to Deborah and the family. all the power lines from the back of the the "valuable things she can do with the students came to her table in the caf- Hard to believe that "nothing is farm out to the street. Not only will it be degree." She continues to teach riding eteria with more questions; Danielle was going on in San Antonio, TX" according safer for the family, but the unsightly lessons in Middleburg and dabble in the delighted. While on campus, she met to Leslie Hertz Firestone The house
utility lines will be gone from the scenic jumper world with her horse Mar- with two professors, Brent Shea and Bob they built in '05 is on the market; once part of the property, she's thrilled. tini. Husband Mike a former West Point Chase. They had a wonderful catch-up, it sells they'll downsize and move to
Equally thrilling was Amoret's confronta- graduate, is a government attorney. as it was great to be back on campus, their "forever" retirement house either tion with the bats that invaded the old Never one to sit back and do noth- albeit almost 30 yrs. later! Her godsons, back home in Cleveland, OH, or back in farmhouse in Jul. You may ask how ing, Frances Ruth Fowler Bauerle Hugh and Christopher (Ande Tenant's Las Vegas, NV (where we moved from one gets rid of bats? With a trap, which is the consummate pro multi-tasker twin boys), will be turning 9 soon! Nation in '05). Husband Bob and she are still
Amoret did. So in case you planned with 2 sons, a husband and an organic, Institute of Health (NIH) continues to be weighing between friends or weather to visit Amoret and family upstate, do working farm 30 mi. outside of Athens, busy, with normal business as well as in deciding their next move. In the
not fear the bats, they were extracted GA. Her life has been consumed with yr. 2 now of the stimulus money they meantime, she's glad that Facebook, from the home at least for now. Back leading a grassroots effort in fighting an received. making it so easy to keep in touch with/
in the city, Amoret's genealogical work environmental cause. She and her fellow Fellow graduate school alum, find old friends from SBC and W&L. She uncovered that Edvard's American citizens of Elbert County, GA, collected Carrie Montague Stanny sent her claims she spends way too much time great-grandfather was an ecclesiasti- 3,520 signatures (about 28% of the news from Pittsburgh, PA, where she chatting on the social medium. Their
cal architect and active in the original registered voters) in only 1 days. The and husband Tim, also a T Bird alum, 2 grandchildren, Samuel (6) and Olivia
congregation of the Episcopal Church of petition requested the "right to vote" on live. After graduate school and having (3), still live in Vienna, Austria, making it the Heavenly Rest in midtown Manhat- an amendment on a solid waste ordi- son Patrick, Carrie attended U. of difficult to spoil them long distance.
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010- 51 Lee Watson Lombardy writes from travel, according to Monika, taking a friends. Grams, as she affectionately and attend her daughter's senior thesis
Orlando, FL, where husband Warren was plane to travel used to be the highlight is known to all, also opens her house play. Since Deirdre lives so far away in named director of campus services for of her vacations, however now with all during the summer mos. for the children South America SBC reunions aren't a
Darden Restaurants. He's responsible the restrictions, rules and regulations, to have fun on the lake with lots of water realistic possibility so I hope we had our for the new headquarters of the Fortune traveling is a nightmare. She fondly skiing, wake boarding, or anything else own mini-reunion in Apr. I'm listening
500 company (Olive Garden, Red remembers flying from Paris to NY in behind a boat. Her only rule; "to turn to my CD Rock of the 80's (V.3) to set
Lobster, etc.), located in Orlando. The 1 990 and having 3 seats to herself. As the outside lights off when you come the mood as I work on our notes so I'll
campus opened in late Aug./early Sept., always, Monika asks that if anyone is in home at night!" Lele also had fun with end with. . . "and the silicon chip inside they hope that once some of the kinks the area, please look her up. Jean, (Jean the Dancing Machine) her head gets switched to overload, are worked out of the building's new- Life has been busy for Lele Frenzel Von Shrader Bryan this past year as and nobody's gonna go to school today, ness, the family will see more of him. Casalini, her father hasn't been well they have visited one another. Daughter she's gonna make them stay at home"...
Competitive Irish dancer extraordinaire, for several mos., so she spends much Sophie had much fun with dear "Aunt aaah the poetic tones of Bob Geldof
Georgia, (1 3) enjoys 7th grade at the of her time with him. A tough and Jean", and her family. Jean and Lele are (hey, I could've quoted 99 Luftballons)! Christ School and took a brief break emotional journey, but one she found re- planning a mini reunion this summer, Away we go... from her dancing career due to knee warding. Lele continues to be busy with possibly Memorial Day, or a weekend Alice Cutting Laimbeer says problems. Trips to the orthopedist and her business teaching Pilates, Yoga and in Jun. for classmates to come to IN for that her big news is that her daughter physical therapist helped in the healing cycling. She enjoys working with clients a long weekend to celebrate our 50th Margot was accepted early decision process and Georgia is progressing well. and seeing the difference it can make in Birthdays. There are plenty of rooms and is headed to Elon where her big
At 57", she is taller than Lee and has one's life. She continues with her own on the farm for all, arriving on Thurs. brother Parker already attends. SBC was several more inches to go! An assistant physical therapy 3 days a wk. for the and leaving on Sun. Lisa Blake is Margot's second choice, but it lacked city attorney with the City of Orlando, past 4 yrs., continuing to gain strength even planning on coming. The 2 keep a football team! (Are you sure it wasn't
Lee encourages any classmates visiting back from her knee injury when she was in touch, unfortunately when Lele is in boys that SBC was lacking?) Last spring the area to give her a call, and if she 15 in kickball accident and a cinderblock Aspen, Lisa is not. She sends her love to Alice and family took a week long cruise gets any information on the soft launch wall, (reminding us that gym walls are all of her SBC buddies, we wish Lele's in the Caribbean, which Alice said "is of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter now padded). In addition to a fractured father all the best. saving this art teacher's sanity!" at Universal Studios, she'll surely pass spine when she was 35 and fell off her Ann Sterling Hart wrote that it along! horse, a cervical compression fracture horseshow season was in full swing Lucie Stephens Holland continues at age 41 (skiing) and finally a broken r?s3 and she was working very hard and to enjoy working part time in press rela- pelvis at 45, (pulling too many G's skiing Cary Cathcart Fagan long hours! Both her daughters are in tions and marketing at The Potomack Aspen Mt). A sport survivor, she feels 329 Kelford Ln. college now, Steph is about to graduate Co. auction gallery in Alexandria. She "great" now and has kept body, mind Charlotte, NC 28270 and Ali is just beginning. Ann's other
in this works with 3 SBC graduates, including and spirit, together despite 2 children cary 1 [email protected] children (her horses) are doing well the owner of the company, Elizabeth coll. and 1 in h. s. When not busy with yr. health wise and showing. Ann wanted
Haynie Wainstein '86, Tresy Robinson family, Lele spends her time walking to write more, but had to get back to her First, I apologize for my email problems
Hillyer '83 and Martha Loftin '07. Lucie her dogs (7, count them) and "thanks extensive duties as show secretary. in Mar. I hope to have all this sorted out is to help any classmates for her working farm, horses, Deirdre Piatt brought happy whose God" 6 by the next go round. If anyone wrote in and husband parents are downsizing to apts. or and passion for photography. Son Eli their 3 youngest children to the U.S. to and didn't make this issue it's because I assisted living and is also busy with her (22), is a senior at Indiana U., starting see their older sister, Tanya's, play at didn't get the email— I sincerely apolo- 14-yr.-old son and husband who is a out as a chemistry major, he switched to gize. 2010 started out pretty rough. SBC in Apr. Tanya's play is about the life White House correspondent for Reuters. biology and studied at Saint Andrew's U. My mother went through some tough and death of an Ecuadorian female poet
Monika Kaiser-Neheim and in Scotland his junior yr. Lele thinks Eli health issues, but made a remarkable and Deirdre wrote that it was going to
all family are doing well. After spending majored in golf, as she never heard him recovery and is healthier than she's be very elaborate. She was also hoping schools her living in elementary and middle at a speak about his classes, only golf as he been in almost a yr. Sadly, our little bar that brother, now upstate small private school, son Julius started the tier golf team. plans NY, able to join them at made 2nd He to didn't make it and closed 2/28/10. would be SBC. h. s. in Aug. Excelling in math and go to med school after taking next year There were too many factors against us: He had traveled to Ecuador earlier this science, he's also active in drama club. off to do mission work and an internship. the bad economy (which was especially yr. where they enjoyed going to the
Daughter Alexa, a sophomore at The Daughter Liza (21) is a junior at a com- hard on our blue collar regulars), a beaches, the forest and horseback rid-
Frost School of Music at U. of Miami, munity coll. in Indianapolis studying to bad partner (who we finally got rid of ing to see howler monkeys! Deirdre and will perform in the this the musical "RENT" be a marriage and family therapist while in 2/09), a liquor licensing glitch that her husband have been working on spring. Portraying a German princess in a serious relationship with "a darling took mos. to recover from, and lastly NC mountain called Cerro Jaboncillo, which
(Annemie von Neuhausen), she's one boy" according to her mother. Daughter went "smoke free" as of 1/1/10. Yes, is rich in archaeology and is covered of very few paid performers at the local Sophie (18) is a senior at Brebeuf Jesuit a state famous for Tobacco Rd., with in fine forest. She's doing research
Renaissance Festival. Husband Richard Preparatory School, pondering on where cities named Winston, Salem, Raleigh, and setting up a tourist trail. Deirdre is with Pepsi working "unbelievable to attend coll. next yr., SBC happens to Newport and even Marlboro went smoke writes that it is crucial to develop low hours" and traveling quite a bit. In his be one of her choices, her 1 st choice is impact tourism so as not to disrupt the free—go figure. Not even our little bar spare time, he participates in charity Miami U. of OH, they'll visit both schools (which didn't serve food) was exempt. archaeological ruins, the spectacular races and is also on the committee for vegetation, the views, the waterfall and before she makes her decision. Sophie Oh well, it's mostly just sad not to see 4H (Helping, Hand, Head, Heart) this mountain and a and Lele traveled to Africa 2 yrs. ago our friends all together in one place. most important to save charity to help the poor and disadvan- on a 3-wk. mission trip, since then her from the quarrying, which is already Enough sad, now onto HAPPY. . .for my taged in the all Dominican Republic and mission has been to save the children birthday present this year my husband causing destruction on sides. She in south FL. Monika is a volunteer at of the world. She hopes to study global says that the only trouble with this job, Chris and I are going to Lincoln, NE, in Julius' school tutoring German language health or work in the health field so she Sept. for UNL's Homecoming Weekend. apart from the danger of being seen as students and the drama department. can travel and work with an organiza- Finally Chris will get to experience the an enemy by the quarry workers, is that She designs posters for plays, manages tion such as Doctors without Borders. whole Cornhusker tradition and see the they have to commute by bus 3 hrs. and organizes meetings for fellow drama the little Montecristi (the Lele and the children enjoy going to team play in Memorial Stadium with its from town on parents. This spring she'll chaperone the FL to visit her mom, SBC '57, in the center of Panama hat production) where Sea of Red. Considering I converted him actors the to State's Thespian Festival, winter. During the Christmas holiday from being a Notre Dame fan almost the family is now living. which is always fun and extremely IN, all in Barrett Baker is having she comes to where they pile 1 yrs. ago, this is a big deal! We're Kathy tiring. In Jun. they'll travel to Europe keeping cars, head "up north" to northern Ml planning on traveling to SBC in Apr. so much fun on Facebook up to Richard's parents in France and her for fun in the snow, hot toddies by the to meet up with Deirdre Piatt's family with our classmates! She says it's great family in Germany. Dreading the actual fire, and a New Year's celebration with looking at the classmates' offspring,
52 -Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu their prom photos and videos. Kathy other students with weak pragmatic highlight this year! hard to believe her oldest, Annie (1 8) specifically mentioned Laura Mixon language skills). The camp focuses on Mason Bennett Rummel and Rick is graduating from high school. They
Rodriguez's blog "Mixonian." Kathy has social skill and role-playing while having are working and traveling a lot. In just 3 had already heard from 4 colleges and been busy serving Writs and Detain- fun with crafts, music and animals. Both mos. she was off to D.C, Denver, Pitts- were waiting on 2 more. Eleanor (14) ers for Jim's rental businesses. She Leslie and Diane recruited their own burgh, Atlanta, Colorado Springs, Kansas is psyched to be entering the upper continues to work on her manner blog: children to participate at the camp as City, San Juan and Napa Valley, wow! school next yr. Husband Tolly is still a www.betteretiquette.blogspot.com, and typical-peer models. They are all looking Mason is about 1/3 of the way through stockbroker with the firm Chapin Davis. is saving up particularly good blog posts forward to another great summer expe- her master's degree. This spring her The firm that Wendy's father started 52 for a future book. She was also doing rience. Check out the camp's website at son Bennett (the oldest) was accepted yrs ago. And even though he passed
some event planning for FIRST Robotics. www.campconnectVA.com, I did and it's into graduate school as well. Now the away in 2001 Wendy loves that Tolly is
Kathy and Jim welcomed their 4th amazing! When Leslie wrote they were race is on, but Bennett will probably get there and writes that she can still feel grandchild last spring! Kathy says that waiting to hear where their son Alex his 1st since he can attend full time. her father's spirit when she's at the our class' physical scrapbook is grow- (18) will be landing for college. They Mason's family has 2 graduations this office. Obviously, the family are animal ing, but she still needs more photos: old, had a great celebration for his Eagle spring within about 1 5 hrs. of each other people—they have race horses, 2 new, weddings, children, Christmas Card Scout award and loved seeing family and 300 mi. apart: Emma from high ponies, 3 mares (who were due to foal photos, etc. Please send photos to Kathy and friends. Kiernan (16) is also working school and Bennett from Case Western in the spring), a standard poodle and at [email protected]. Photos will towards his Eagle, playing lacrosse and Reserve in Cleveland. Annie is Vi way a large cat! Wendy adores living in her be used in the scrapbook and/or may learning how to drive. Emilie (1 3) keeps through Business School at the U. of childhood home! She's a Realtor with be posted on FB at SBC Class of 1 983. all of them busy with her dance and Louisville. So with these graduations O'Conor and Mooney. She still loves gar-
Everyone should check it out and Kathy music. Earlier this spring Emile got to Mason and Rick are just mos. away from dening and is looking forward to planting thinks if you aren't already on FB you sing with the Roanoke College Children's being empty nesters. Of course they'll a fabulous vegetable garden in May. For should join up! Choir at NY's Carnegie Hall. miss the kids, but she's actually looking spring break they spent a wk. at a very
Kim Howell Franklin said that she Mandy Beauchemin Frohn got forward to her and Rick having some special place, Rancho de los Caballeros was probably the 1 person in D.C. that a promotion to CFO of her cardiology fun! Mason saw Mary Ware Gibson in Wickenburg, AZ. Wendy writes "Hey, footfall the winter weather this past yr.! group (that's why she had to work on and Lea Sparks Bennett in Roanoke Sarah, Meg, and Blair would you believe
The 3 blizzards were spectacular and the Sun. she emailed me). Mandy wrote and commented how nice it is to pick up this year is my 25th anniv.!" If anyone is allowed Kim and her family to experi- better yet she has turned into a NASA where you left off 25+ yrs. ago. The bot- passing through Baltimore give Wendy a ence the monuments via cross country space "geek." She's making it a point tom line is things are great with Mason, call so you can get together! skis! For spring break her family went to see Atlantis, Endeavor and Discovery but she needed to take a nap. Wylie Jameson Smalls children's to Zion National Park. Kim's daughter, all launch before they retire the shuttle Melissa Byrne Partington wrote book The Great Prune Caperfinally be-
Isabelle, got her braces off this yr. and program. One of the benefits of living me the nicest email thanking me for came available for purchase earlier this looks very mature. By the time this in FL is that she is able to see the the job I've been doing with the notes. year on Amazon. The book is targeted
magazine comes out Kim is hoping that launches from her front yard! Mandy's You're very kind Melissa, but I say hats to those who enjoy the "Captain Under- the long time coming kitchen renovation even been traveling to Titusville to get off to you for carrying the torch for so pants" genre (mainly 2nd-4th graders).
will be completed. Kim wrote that's what the "up close" experience which she many many years! Both Melissa and I Wylie started working on the sequel she gets for marrying an architect that says is truly awesome. Mandy wrote that send a shout-out to Cathy "Cate" Mc- tentatively entitled There's Something
insists on doing everything himself. . .i.e. as a biology major at SBC, the science Nider where are you? Your old friends Strange about the New Kid (hint: he's a the shoemaker and the kids with no experiments being done up on the in- would love to hear from you! vampire). She got her 1st royalty check shoes! ternational space station have intrigued Miriam Baker Morris and husband in Mar., which was enough for 2 mochas
Lee Ann Mackenzie Chaskes her, so she's made it her latest hobby to Clay will be celebrating their 25th anniv. at Starbucks, yahoo! Wylie writes "aside wrote that this yr. has been an exciting follow the last few missions to the space this summer! They celebrated it early by from setting the literary world aflame" time in the life of her family. Their eldest station. Good luck Mandy! taking a trip in the spring. This past New she's gearing up for golf season, plan- son, Will, graduates from West Point in Mary Brown Watt Messer can't Year's weekend Miriam hosted Virginia ning a family reunion trip to VT in Aug. the spring and will begin living his army fathom where the time has gone. She Claus Buyck and family, and Elizabeth and teaching Rudy (16) how to drive. life in Fort Hood, TX. 2nd son, Robert, writes that it seems like only yesterday Cahill Sharman'84 and family at their Sorry Chris and I didn't make the Lilac loved his 1st yr. at Hampden-Sydney. she was putting her oldest on the bus lake house. SC was playing in the Papa Festival in Rochester this year, maybe
Lee Anne's 9-year-old, Adam, leads to kindergarten and now he's making a John's Bowl in Birmingham. Miriam also next? Hi to Stuart. a busy life as a 3rd grader. Adam's college decision! Mary vividly remem- hopes everyone is doing well!! passions are kickball, basketball and bers arriving at SBC in the fall of 79. Ruth Lewin and the firm she works football! Lee Ann still volunteers with She's back to work after 1 5 yrs. of being for, Summerfield's Interior Design had a rm Adam's school and scouting. (She says a stay-at-home mom. She's working special visitor, Bunny Williams, a loved Debbie Jones she does the scouting only to wear the part-time at BB&T Bank, and loving it! NY interior designer. She was there 4416 Bromley Ln. sexy uniform.) She still loves her job as Now Mary has to start saving for college to do a book signing and Ruth wrote Richmond, VA 23221 an Area Development Manager with the tuition! that they sold over 1 00 books in 2 hrs! [email protected]
NY fashion company ETCETERA. Rob Mary Pope Hutson wrote in to Bunny also did a lecture at a Port Royal and Lee Ann will be celebrating their share a great story. She continues to Club luncheon; this is the initial event Peg Twohy DeVan writes that all is
25th anniv. this Nov. She can't believe travel a lot for the Land Trust Alliance of the Naples Art and Antique Show. All well out west in beautiful Aspen, CO. that he has put up with her for that and earlier this spring she was on her proceeds collected from the event and Peg still works for the Aspen Ski Co. many yrs. We can believe it Lee Ann, way to a North American Wetlands the book signing went to Collier County in winter, running Powder Pandas at you're fabulous! Council Meeting in Louisiana and as charities. This is a highlight for not only Buttermilk. In the summer, she is play-
Leslie Malone Berger is in her she was walking through the Houston the firm, but for Ruth! Ruth wrote that ing USTA tennis for the Snowmass Club
6th yr. working for Roanoke County airport Mary Pope saw a lovely lady in a there has been an influx of tourism in FL ladies and mixed doubles. Also, going
Public Schools as a Speech-Language Lilly dress and remarked out loud to her over the winter mos. This is good news to horseshows every weekend with
Pathologist. She says her elem. school traveling colleagues "What an adorable for FL. Husband Marc is still playing her daughter Carolyn (14) and husband is wonderful with a gorgeous view of the lady." The next thing she heard was her piano gigs. Ruth writes that he's lucky Bob throughout the warm mos. in CO.
mountains as a bonus! She also works name being called. Sure enough it was because it's pretty cut throat out there in They'll be back in VA showing this sum- with a few students at the middle and Jane Dure '82, with her mother headed the music biz. They don't have any set mer for 2 1/2 mos. with their ponies and
high school level. A couple summers ago to Mexico on Jane's birthday. When plans for the summer, but will probably Carolyn's new horse Crown Royal. Come
Leslie and her friend Diane, a fellow SLP, she went to speak to Mrs. Dure, Mrs. at least get to the east coast and see visit anytime!
started a summer camp for students Dure said "I just love you Sweet Briar old friends. Louise Jones Geddes's children with Asperger's Syndrome (as well as girls!" Mary Pope wrote that this is her Wendy Chapin Albert finds it
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Summer 2010- 53 are approaching college age! Watching theme is American history, including at Wake Forest, loves life. Apart from blessing and addition to the Allport the hurdles they're jumping through several presidential museums as well her mom being sick, Nancy says things household. Miss Holly's Swim School
makes her glad that she's not trying to as Colonial Williamsburg, Mt. Vernon, are really good. opens again March 15, and she can't
get into coll. now! Was sorry to miss etc. (and a stop at the alma mater, of Shannon Young Ray says 201 wait to get back in the water with the
Reunion, but happy to hear the reports course!) promises to be a yr. of changes for her little ones and make them safe. Warm of fun. Hopefully will make it next time! Beth Bossong Russell can't and husband, Breck. Their senior at wishes to all.
Elizabeth Rogers Boyd writes that believe it's been almost 28 yrs.! Beth St. Louis U, Breck Jr., will graduate in Kirsten Void Larsen writes that
Tommy is now a senior and trying to transferred after her sophomore yr. to May with a degree in finance and has after 20 + yrs. in the Chicago area decide where he wants to go to coll. He UNC-CH. She graduated from there, a job in St. Louis as well! Their senior she'll be relocating with her family to wants to play football and has received married a fellow econ student (Ward in h. s., Peter, will also graduate in May Darien, CT, at the end of Mar. for her acceptances from several of the MN Russell) who was also her brother's and is anxiously waiting to see where husband's job in NYC. Kirsten has her
Division Three colleges. He's being roommate and they now have 3 children he'll land for coll. Their triplets are own design and drapery workroom
recruited by one of the last all men's (ages 19, 17, 14) and live in Asheboro, freshmen in h. s. and have completed on the North Shore and hopes to set
universities in the U.S., Saint Johns NC. Beth is a homemaker, but active in driver's ed. They're now being chauf- up shop when they get settled in CT.
U. in Collegeville, WIN, so he's kind of the community—loves to cook, travel, feured on a daily basis. Shannon contin- They're excited about the move! Kirsten following in Liz's footsteps. No Boyd and take care of their old home. The ues to work for her family's oil and gas has 2 children: Lars (11) and Eleanor
Boy will be going to SBC! Tommy plays kids are at NC State and Greensboro co., and has stayed active on several (13). Both kids play travel hockey. football, baseball and basketball. Louie Day School and her husband works local boards. Breck and Shannon look Although they'll miss the Chicago
is a sophomore and just finished hockey from Greensboro. Beth has joined forward to a busy summer of getting Blackhawks they're looking forward to season. Only 2 broken bones this year, Facebook and looks forward to using it everyone settled in apts., jobs, and coll., attending some Rangers games before
not bad! He also plays football and is to reconnect! with some family travel planned as well. the season ends. going to give the shot-put and discus Margy Kramer Kircher lives in Best to all and call her if you visit Fort Lee Hubbard aka Sr. Mary Leanne, a try this spring. Tom is in his 20th yr. Massapequa, NY, with her husband of Worth! SND is coming to the end of her 2nd of private practice and enjoys what he 24 yrs., Steve, and their 2 kids, Sable Elizabeth Sprague Brandt and yr. as director of pastoral formation and does. Liz is now dir. of individual and (12) and Cullen (10). She's with the husband and are empty nesters and field education at St. John's Seminary
planned giving for The Friends of the St. same Wall Street firm for almost her have determined that it's not so bad outside of Los Angeles preparing Roman
Paul Public Library (a real mouthful!) ... entire career, presently as a Senior Vice (probably because their daughter, Betsy, Catholic priests and lay ecclesial min- from a lawyer to a fundraiser. Some day President and Principal of Wellington is thriving as a freshman at Vanderbilt). isters for ministry in the most diverse
Liz wants to do something so people Shields & Co. She does the working They've enjoyed a lovely weekend in diocese in the country. She loves will be happy to see her coming rather mother juggle between her office and Nashville catching up with Elizabeth teaching on the graduate level, and is than want to run away! volleyball and baseball games. Margy Harley Willett and Marian Wahlgren pursuing the Doctor of Ministry degree
Sharon Ingham Brown writes that keeps herself sane by running almost in Feb. and are looking forward to an as she's working. It's satisfying work
her family is divided between Tampa every morning, skiing in winter, and action-packed summer when their where she can really make a difference and LA, as her husband and son Davis spending summers at a beach club on daughter returns from school and joins as a woman in the Catholic Church. A
(15) are temporarily living in LA to the southern coast of Long Island. The them on a trip to Spain. She's loved long way from her days as the Chair of
pursue Davis' acting career. It's been pace can be frantic, but it's all good; reconnecting with SBC friends on the Church and Chapel Committee with wild, but Caroline (12) and Sharon love she's aware of how blessed she is. Facebook. Chaplain Mike Bloy, but it was a start.
spending quality time together! She's Virginia Spigener Teel's children, Ginger Reynolds Davis writes that As for myself, Debbie Jones, I working on a fiction book based on the Annie Starr and Virginia Frances are Carter will graduate h. s. and will attend had the opportunity and joy to present story of her husband's injury. We wish 1 5 and 1 0, respectively, and love all Presbyterian Coll. this fall. at SBC's 1st annual CIELA confer-
her luck! that life offers. Her retail business, The Erika Dorr Marshall has been ence in early Mar, talking about
Ann Alleva Taylor says that Carter Wrinkled Egg, celebrates 20 yrs. this enjoying another season of foxhunt- entrepreneurship in business. CIELA and the girls (Cabot 8, Caroline 6, and summer. ing with Lowcountry Hunt where Nina is the Conference on Innovation,
Charlotte 5) keep her busy. Soccer, Helen Pruitt Butler doesn't have Sledge Burke '64 hosted the opening Entrepreneurship and the Liberal Arts.
ballet, gymnastics, you know the drill. much to report since reunion last May. meet. Erika usually sees Elizabeth Sher I shared my experience as co-founder
They continue to juggle living in Atlanta Spring is in the air here and the weather '85 too. Wiley is in her freshman year in my sister's company, Square One
and Vera Beach. One day they'll have is delightful. Real Estate is trying to pick at Coll. of Charleston and Helen Butler Organic Spirits, LLC. There were many
to decide where to stay for at least 9 up a little bit. Her daughter, Frances is is assisting in finding an apt. Foster great speakers, and I found the stu-
mos. of the yr. It was fun to hear about finishing up her jr. yr. and getting ready is a jr. and Elise is in 8th grade/home dents engaged and a fantastic business
everyone during the reunion planning, to start the coll. search. schooled. Foster and Elise hunt with faculty as well! Business is now a major
Ann wishes she had been able to join! Mary Earle McElroy Wright is Erika and Elise has joined Storybook at SBC! The campus wasn't the same She's been excited to re-connect with busy with 5 teenagers. She has 2 boys, Farm's IEA middle school team. She as the great fun we had at our 25th, but
friends from other classes. Facebook is and her husband Bill has 3 girls! She's qualified to go to Zones! Bobby enjoys it was great to be back again so soon.
amazing! a distributor with Monavie, an antioxi- his job at the National Wild Turkey I continue with my day job as well, in
Kathryn Marion is lovin' life in dant juice company and loves what she Federation the mortgage industry, which is nothing
gorgeous CO! Kids, biz, and travel does! Holly Pflug Allport thanks all who short of a challenge with the residual
keep her busy. Her beautiful Chinese Nancy O'Brien Albus continues were able to make it to our 25th and effects of the economy, but I'm grateful
daughters are now 1 4, 1 2, 1 0, and her work treating eating disorders and remembers what a wonderful time we for the employment while also fortunate
10. They're growing up fast; they can is currently running a residential treat- had. She encourages everyone to plan to see the vodka business surviving as practically manage the entire household ment program in St. Louis that treats on coming to our 30th—the more the well. I appreciate everyone's support in
themselves! Kathryn's book, GRADS: anorexia, bulimia and binge eating dis- merrier. All is good in Winter Park, FL. that venture and have a blast staying
TAKE CHARGE of Your First Year After order. They're in the process of expand- Peter is 1 5, Sarah is 1 4, Kate is 1 2 and connected on Facebook.
College! was released last fall, and ing and in the next 6 mos. will have 2 Julia is 9. In 2006, Pete and several
earned Finalist Honors in 2 catego- sites in St. Louis and one in CA. Tom is others left Wachovia to start FL Capital ries of the National Best Books 2009 still working hard and they've adjusted Bank. They're so grateful the bank con- 7965 Awards. Hubby, Mark, and Kathryn well to their kids being gone. Jenny tinues to do well and grow. Fall of 2009 Ellen Carver Burlingame celebrate their 20th anniv. this yr. with graduates in May from Notre Dame and brought them Kinsley, her friend's infant 1315 Boiling Ave. 3 wks. on their 2 favorite Hawaiian will be going to medical school next yr. whom Holly takes care of while her Norfolk, VA 23508 islands. The girls and she are looking She's in the process of deciding, but mom is at work. Unfortunately for her [email protected]
forward to several wks. in their big more than likely will be back in St. Louis ego, people assume she's her grand-
new motor home—this year's road trip at St. Louis U. Chelsea is a sophomore mother. Kinsley has been such a lovely
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Mary Beth Miller Orson is still back to Seville since her Sweet Briar year. Suzanne's daughter Elizabeth (10)
living in Scottsdale, AZ, with husband Junior Year Abroad so many years ago. is an avid horseback rider; she's jump-
Carl and children, Caroline and Eric In visited m6 (11) Jan., Laura Hand Glover ing and looking forward to her 1 st show. Mary Jo Biscardi Brown (7). She spends her time juggling fam- daughter Amber (SBC '03) and her She participated in Holiday Show Offs
29 Willowgreene Dr. ily, work and children's activities. Mary husband, who have settled back in and Summer Show Offs in Birmingham Churchville, PA 18966 Beth also organizes the occasional SBC Houston and are happy to be "home." and Entertainment Night. She had solos
Fbmb91 [email protected] Phoenix Alumnae Club event! Laura reports that Amber is scheduled in each of these song and dance stage
Harriet McNair Alexander and her to be in South Africa this summer as a productions. Suzanne continues to work
Mary Jo Biscardi Brown and Lynn family have been living in Houston for fellow at a research institute studying with JDRF and all efforts on Juvenile
Mather Charette are planning on see- over 8 yrs. now and simply can't believe great white shark behavior, her passion. Diabetes research to find a cure. She is ing everyone for our 25th reunion next they like it so much. One very bright Understandably, Laura is so proud of also writing a Christian Fantasy Trilogy,
is spring 201 1 ! Mark your calendars! We spot for Harriet seeing the marvel- her, just as she is of son Patrick, who is working with a fantastic editor in the had a great time and a great crowd at ous Bella Viguere Gsell every once in steeped in music with his sax: march- industry. Her goal is to finish her current our 20th. Don't miss our next one! awhile. Harriet's 3 daughters keep her ing, concert and jazz bands in addition manuscript for editing by this summer,
Lynn Mather Charette and hus- and her husband very happy and busy to the church ensemble. Patrick is also In addition, Suzanne has been asked band John still live in CT with their and insane (2 are teenagers). Harriet in JROTC and is in both rifle and drill by Christy Award winning author Shelly
3 children, Ben (16), Tucker (14), hopes she survives to see this in print! teams. Laura continues to work at SBC Beach to be a member of her prayer and Elizabeth (11). They spend lots of Lisa Leigh Ringler Bennett and and counts her blessings daily that she team, which is an honor and a privilege, time going to sporting events, on their Bob spent 3 amazing wks. in Costa Rica can enjoy time on the campus every day and has also been asked to be a core boat and at the beach with family, Lynn in Feb. She and Bob are getting ready among such fascinating and promising leader for Community Bible Study in hopes to see you all in 201 1 for things to start up on the farm. Lisa is young women and an amazing faculty Birmingham.
On June 30, 2010, Jennifer working in PR for the grower's industry. and staff. Every semester she wishes Sue Finn Adams is "living the
Crossland will end her tenure as Daughter Sydney (14) may not know it she could take half of the courses dream" in Williamsburg, VA! With her president of the Alumnae Association, yet, but they plan to put her to work this offered! She's greatly looking forward kids now in elem., middle and h. s„ though she will serve 1 more yr. on the summer! to working with our class for our 25th life is full. Daughter Elizabeth (16) is board. She has thoroughly enjoyed all of Louanne Woody continues to Reunion and invites anyone venturing starting to think about the future that her service to Sweet Briar, having been sell homes on the Outer Banks of NC, back to the Briar in the meantime to is all-too-soon approaching. Sons Ben
'98. though is not as she was few on the board since She considers as busy a contact her as she would love to see (1 3) and Thomas (1 1 ) aren't too far herself privileged and lucky to have yrs. ago. She has returned to utilizing you and reconnect. behind—time is flying by. Sue continues served with so many of our classmates her degree in mathematics by tutoring Susan Swagler Cowles and to work from home for a book publisher that the board in general got sick of h. s. math students. She enjoys the husband Robby celebrated their 1 8th in new project development. She enjoys '86! hearing about the class of "Our one-on-one interaction both with real wedding anniversary. Daughter Elli (1 7) the flexibility and being available to class always has been such an involved estate clients and students. Louanne's is a junior and is starting to "shop" her children when they get home from class, no matter what the task, as long flexible schedule allows her time to colleges; son Jake (14) is starting h. s. school as well as taking time off when as the task has served Sweet Briar work on projects with fellow church next yr. Susan works at The U. of AL in she feels like it. Sue loves keeping up
College; for that I thank you," she said. members at Mighty Wind UMC, includ- Tuscaloosa managing the Career Center with so many Vixens on Facebook. It's
Jennifer adds, "for those of you who still ing health kits for Haiti, doing local food for the Coll. of Commerce and loves amazing to hear what everyone is up to desire to contribute your time, talents pantry collections, and working on a working with students! Time flies, but on a regular basis—a little bit like living or your financial support to SBC, please new project called "Jesus Loves You Susan relays that it's been great recon- in the dorm again!
do. There are many opportunities. I can't Cradles." Additionally, Louanne attended necting with SBC friends on Facebook! I thank everyone for their contribu- wait to see you all at our 25th (can you the John C. Campbell folk school to Suzanne Craft Bailey and hus tions to this and every other edition of
in is believe it!) reunion next spring!" take a course creative writing and band Drew have been married 1 9 yrs. our notes. I hope to hear from you in the
Elizabeth Eisinger Mackes looking forward to visiting friends this and live in Birmingham, AL. After 23 yrs. future. If you aren't receiving reminder
spring in graduated from St. Louis U. School of NM. in corporate banking, Drew opened his notices from me for each publication I '91 Law in . She moved back to MD and Catherine McNease Stevens own company, ECA Risk Management, apologize, as I must not have a current married Joe Mackes in '94 and subse- lives in southern VA with husband working with small to mid-size banks e-mail address for you. Kindly contact quently had 3 children, James, Stephen Nelson and son Henry (10). She works developing their environmental policies. me at [email protected] with and Claire. For the last 7 yrs. she has as a research & data specialist for the Son Chris (15) continues to inspire your e-mail address. On behalf of all of
taught pre-K and is working on her Southern VA Higher Education Center everyone as he learns to live with Type us Class of 86'ers on Facebook, I invite practicum for the Orton Gillingham in South Boston and teaches hunt seat 1 Diabetes. In fall, he was featured on you to join us. Please remember that
Academy (teaching dyslexics to read). lessons in the afternoons. Henry is The Rick and Bubba Show, and raised Reunion 201 1 is just around the corner.
Rushton Haskell Callaghan ran foxhunting with his parents now, which over $3,500 for JDRF in the Walk to We're anticipating a great turnout and
2 marathons (12/09) and (3/10) and delights them to no end! Catherine is Cure. Two recent opportunities Chris hope to see you there! qualified for Boston Marathon 201 1 enjoying catching up with SBC class- had to raise awareness about juvenile
Rushton's children, Hampton (12) and mates and friends on Facebook. diabetes included his being featured Farley (10), keep her busy with their Karen Fennessy-Ketola and on Matters of Faith on ABC 3340 in AL 1W sports; Rushton volunteers at their Barry continue to live in Freeland, Ml and having co-written a song titled "A Jean Guergai school as well as serves on The Jax and are doing very well. Karen has Crooked Road" with Dove Award winner, 3641 Elderberry PI. Zoo Board, Girls on the Run Board, and just hit her 22-year mark with Dow Nashville singer songwriter, Steve Siler. Fairfax, VA 22033
Episcopal H. S. Alumni Board. She's Chemical Company. Barry is in the Solar Check it out at http://www.facebook. [email protected] looking forward to Reunion 201 1 Systems Group at Dow Corning. Karen com/l/20600;www.musicforthesoul.org.
For the past 4 yrs., Leigh Ann reports that Mid-Michigan is becoming Currently we're raising funds to pro- White has been living in Boston with a beacon for Alternative Energy and duce a full recording of the song, and 1968 Technologies. her 2 crazy kitties and the love of her Daughter Morgan (12) eventually turn it into a project and full Maia Free Jalenak is competitive gymnast, is in life, Brian. She works at a consulting a Poms, length CD. (Steve records the symphony 605 Camelia Ave. and loves math and science. firm conducting health economic Karen and music in Prague). If anyone would like Baton Rouge, LA 70806 studies for the pharmaceutical and Barry are having a lot of fun traveling to to donate towards the project, they can [email protected] biotechnology industry. Happily, she has her competitive meets in places such contact me at nascarfunbOwindstream. reconnected with her fellow alumnae as Chicago, Orlando, Columbus, etc. net. Chris was also cast as the lead Our class is involved in so many inter- online and hopes to see many of them The Ketola family traveled to Spain for character Frederick in his h. s.'s pro- esting endeavors and in such amazing soon! spring break this year; Karen's first time duction of "The Sound of Music" this
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places around the world. Facebook has and appreciate everyone's prayers and the Marine Corps Marathon. She notes, writes that the promotion came at the been a wonderful tool for reconnecting good thoughts. "Yes, I did say marathon, and no, I've same time that she was voted senior
and keeping up with old friends. I was Paige Shiller Okun writes "we're never done that before (nor will I ever warden at her church. She adds, "Now
delighted to hear from my freshman in our 7th yr. in Singapore and still love do that again!) The day was wonderful, if I could just find a full-time, long-term
and sophomore yr. roommate Alyson living in southeast Asia. My work with and the 2 of us ran it side by side. I'm job with benefits before I reach retire-
Springer who transferred to William Caring for Cambodia building schools so thankful to Beth Bennett Haga and ment age!" and Mary during our jr. yr. Alyson got is amazing. We support 7 schools (pre- Katie Keogh Weidner for their sup- Kathryn Deriso-Schwartz and a master's degree in social work from school to h. s.) with a total of 5,400 port and encouragement along the 6 Mary Nelson Densmore Notaro the U. of GA and bought a beautiful students! I'd love to talk to anyone who mos. of training. Since they've both run are planning a 22.5 yr. reunion for horse farm in Martinsburg, WV (near is interested in getting their community marathons, they gave me a lot of good anyone in our class who'd like to get
Shepherdstown, WV, and Hagerstown, or school involved in a service project advice!" together for a girls' weekend. It will
MD) called Whiting's Neck Equestrian overseas, (www.caringforcambodia.org). Kate Cole Hite. Kathryn Ingham take place the 1st weekend in 11/1010
Center. It's a full-service boarding and My boys are now 7 and 9, and very Reese, Mary Halliday Shaw, in Jacksonville, FL, at a house that training facility with indoor and out- involved in sports—soccer, baseball, Beth Bennett Haga Paige Apple belongs to Kathryn's family that used door arenas, miles of trails along the swimming and tennis. Because of the Montinaro, and Whitney Bolt Lewis to be a bed and breakfast. Anyone in
Potomac River, and programs for all tropical weather, everything runs year- had a blast at their annual get-together our class who'd like to go can contact
ages and levels of experience. round! If anyone is in Singapore, please weekend, this yr. in New Orleans. I Kathryn at (786) 877-3754 or e-mail Susan Detweiler writes that she look me up." drove down to New Orleans and had her at [email protected] didn't go to Antarctica this past winter Eden Brown works full-time as an a fun visit with them Mary Halliday I've been busy doing some free- because she needed to take care of her independent writer-director. She finds Shaw and husband Brad have a big lance museum projects in Baton Rouge climbing partner who was hurt in an this new job amazing. She never imag- milestone this yr. with the graduation of along with working on an exhibition accident initiated by a mountain goat ined making this career transition or their twins (Jack and Mike) who will be with the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in knocking off a big rock. Instead, she that she'd enjoy it so much. She's busily heading off to coll. in the northeast in Memphis. They're holding an exhibi- took a job teaching Nordic skiing and working on a short film that she'll direct, the fall. Their youngest, Kevin will start tion of the work of Helen Maria Turner, guiding ski/snowshoe tours in Grand a feature film and a documentary on the h. s. in the fall. the artist who was the subject of my
Teton National Park. After a spring Korean War Veterans Memorial. She and Kelly Meredith lacobelli has a master's thesis. One of the paintings in desert rock climbing trip, she plans husband Bill will celebrate their 17th new job as VP of marketing for BidAlert. the exhibition is coming from the Sweet to guide climbers again in the Tetons anniv. in Jun. com which is a construction leads sys- Briar collection. My son, Jack will be this summer and will probably return Stacey Sickels Heckel reports that tem. It's the 1st time she's worked for a starting his senior yr. in the fall and my to Antarctica (the science support job) sons Kent (14) and Leland (11), are do- small company and says it can be excit- daughter, Nina will be in the 6th grade. again this fall. She enjoys keeping track ing great and are involved in sports, arts ing and challenging. She's still on the I'm excited that they'll be at the same of SBCers on Facebook. and friends. "I pinch myself that I'm the alumnae board and is looking forward school this yr, even if it's just for 1 yr.
In 2009, Jeanne Rovics Mexic mother to a rising middle schooler and to going to Reunion to see friends in I'm looking forward to coming to VA and family went on an amazing trip high schooler! Every age with them gets classes a little older and a little younger this summer for a family reunion near to Jordan, Israel, and Dubai, and more fun. I'm still enjoying working as than ours. Charlottesville and hoping to make a they're getting ready to go on another the exec. dir. for the foundation for our Tracy Tigerman Shannon says side trip to Sweet Briar. Best to all! adventure in 201 to New Zealand local community coll., Anne Arundel. My things are pretty much the same. She's and Australia. She continues to work synchronized figure skating team, DC still teaching 3rd grade and getting for Hilton Worldwide's International EDGE, won the Eastern Championships used to her son being in h. s. on the JV r?s? Team and in the past few months has and then went on to get the silver medal baseball team. She's also gearing up Miss Emmy S. Leung traveled to: Venice, Barcelona, London, at the National Synchronized Skating for her 2nd grader to come to her class 7102 Wynnewood Ct.
Prague, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong Championships in Minneapolis. I recently next yr. for reading and math. She notes Richmond, VA 23235 and Singapore. She notes: "I'm VERY caught up with Kate Cole Kite who also that it should be a challenge (more for [email protected] lucky that I'm able to call this work, and lives in Severna Park. She reports that her daughter than herself). [email protected]
I've gotten used to sitting in small seats her children are doing great. I had a nice Dena Driver lives in Brooklyn, NY. for long distances (and am thankful visit with Leslie Corrado Stillwagon in She and husband Greg Morcroft (who 1 5'1 I'm not "). I see Kristen Petersen her beautiful home in Chestnut Hill. Her graduated from W & L) have 2 children: mo Randolph regularly, and she makes 3 boys are precious. My sister, Susan Emma (14) and Liam (9). They've been Kelly Wood Erickson '91 me do at least 2 workouts a day, so it's Sickels Dyer , is living in Seattle and married for 1 7 yrs. She works as a 104SWinterberryCt. a little like boot camp, but I keep going recently went the Olympics. Her property manager, which allows her to to boys Smithfield, VA 23430 back it and LOVE every time. Kristen got are into hockey and she keeps busy with find time to study yoga. [email protected] me hooked on Hot Yoga." their schedules and volunteering at their Brenda Childress Payne is happy
Kristen Petersen Randolph writes school." to announce a new addition to her that she keeps in touch with Jeanne Leslie Corrado Stillwagon and family. Her beautiful granddaughter, Rovics Mexic, Nici Fraley Pechman husband David moved from Australia Rae Elizabeth Payne was born on mi Zoe Victoria Campo Byrd and Laura Schumacher Kasprzak and are now living in Chestnut Hill in Thurs., 9/24/09 in Orange County CA. 2800 NE 22nd St. She and husband Ran keep busy with PA. She says it's wonderful being back She weighed 8 lbs. 5oz. and was 20 Vi Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305 their 3 boys and all of their activities. on the east coast after being away in. Brenda enjoyed traveling to CA to [email protected] Ran still works with the same law firm for over 20 yrs. Leslie loves being a visit with the new baby and her family. where he worked when they 1 st met; stay-at-home mom raising her 3 boys Anne Powell is still tax manager Mamie Farmer Farley Kristen does some real estate work (16-mo.-old twins and a 5-mo.-old, at Henry Schein in Southwest VA. 5302 Bewdley Rd. and a bit of personal training. On a sad Holden, Porter & Ridgeway). She says She traveled to London and Salisbury, Richmond, VA 23226 note, Kristen's sister Reilly's husband, it's hectic having had 3 boys in 1 England, where she got to play on the [email protected] Mark was diagnosed with non-smokers mos., but so fun! Leslie has enjoyed famous Father Willis pipe organ at lung cancer about a mo. ago after a seeing Katie Keogh Weidner, Kathryn Salisbury Cathedral. Another highlight of long bout with what was thought to be Ingham Reese and Stacey Sickels the trip was taking the Eurostar to Paris pneumonia. The cancer is advanced and Heckel and would love to hear from for a short holiday. Tricia Pheil Johnson he's taking chemotherapy treatments. any SB girls in the area! Vida Fonseca writes from New 10359 Church Hill Rd. Reilly and Mark are inspiring with how Kate Cole Hite and husband Tucker Orleans that she received a promotion Myersville, MO 21773 they're handling this heartbreaking time. celebrated their 20th anniv. in Oct. and with the Census OOS-QA/C, which she [email protected] Kristen says they're hoping for the best commemorated the occasion by running notes "rhymes with moose back." She
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in the local National Multiple Sclerosis bakery from home and been pleasantly approaching! Keep in touch and plan to
Society's Walk on 05/02/1 0. She's surprised by its success! Her goal is to celebrate our 20th on campus and in 1993 been busy hitting up friends, family, and open a storefront once the girls get into person! Stacey McClain alumnae online to donate. She has also school full time in a few yrs. Kimberly 2219BelotePI. learned to love the Wii and has danced had lunch with Susan Messikomer Jacksonville, FL 32207 and boxed her way to a 20+ lb weight Horenkamp in Maui, HI, in 02/10; they im [email protected] loss! Julie reports that Laurie Palmer were both there for their husband's win- Molly Morris just bought an 1 1 -yr.-old thoroughbred, ners circle trip with the company SAP. 1411 S 6th St. Ellen Ober Pitera loves life with Charlie and she'll be up and riding him ASAP. It was great to catch up and have some Columbus, OH 43207
(2) and is waiting patiently for the arrival Laurie is excited about the purchase. time together sans children! [email protected] of their 2nd baby from Korea. She hopes Julie occasionally gets to chat with Tracie Allen Webber and Lee just
Gretchen Petrus and Nalini Mani. She got trip travel to get him/her in winter 201 0. back from a to the Bahamas Thanks to all of you who attended Neil likes to talk about her gelato-eating ex- with Kelly "Pepper" Coggshall '95 and Mimi Davies Wroten and husband reunion last spring. It was great to see a welcomed baby Connor in 1 2/09! ploits on Facebook. Sally Estes Vigezzi Jim. The group had lots of fun diving, few faces of people who hadn't attended
yr. the Beth Gilkeson King gave birth learned how to fish last and spent although weather was a little cool. before, and a few of whom we can now Colby Alexander whole summer at the lake with her kids. Tracie reports that the kids are getting to twins, Sarah and call "regulars." It was wonderful to catch Gilkeson on 1/11/10! She plans to be The family has even bought a fishing big: George (1 0), Porter (6) and Anna- up, and we made some new memories. home with them until early May and boat and is excited to spend another Margaret (5). "Life is good!" Amy Loux, challenging some of the return to work. Tracy Camden Wilburn summer at the lake fishing! Sally is also Dianne Hayes Doss has been guys to a bike race on the pink bikes visited the babies and her, and Tracy planning a trip to VA this summer with promoted to a Software Development that the College has placed around enjoyed a lovely day together with her a few days in VA Beach to see Colleen Manager position at Cox Communica- campus - and that took place at what? husband, Adam. Beth is in touch with Losey Daughtry who she hasn't seen tions, where she's been working for One in the morning? Some habits are
K.L. Polevitzky who is deploying to since graduation! Their kids are all about the last 4 yrs. It's exciting and daunting hard to break when we get back on
Afghanistan in Apr. Jennifer Jarvis the same age, so both are excited about at the same time. Husband Bill has campus, I think.
the visit. Sally hopes to it to Ballard has been busy as a stay-at- make SBC resigned from HP and will be starting The class of 1994 is busy! Nicole home mom and helping in girl scouts for a day. a new job with TitleMax, working on Streeter-Hokes and her husband Tyson and cub scouts. She and daughter Debra Elkins has just moved back their consumer-facing website(s), which welcomed a daughter, Nahla Nicole
is working for Jessica (8) have been active in a brand to D.C. and now the U.S. will be new for him. Dianne and family Hokes in April 2009. LaQuinta Donatto new brownie troop. Jennifer says that Dept. of Homeland Security building have adopted a puppy, a female, black '92 hosted her baby shower. "it's great fun to work with these future strategic risk models. Good to know we lab-mix named Sophie. Kids Dan and Caitlin Sundby Russell finishing leaders. Maybe we'll get a Sweet Briar have Debra on our side! She writes that Jenny are doing very well at school her last year of classes to get her M.A. girl or 2 from these girls." it's great being back in VA. and are participating in the GA State U. in Nutrition. She has to complete a
Laura Warren Underwood, Holly Witt Aitken is still having a Sat. School program again this spring. 9-mo. internship in 201 1 , and then sit husband George, and girls Christine great time in Hong Kong. She and the They're planning a trip to Tampa for for the Registered Dietician Exam. She's
(9), Katherine (5), and Charlotte (2) family are headed to the Great Barrier a week in Jul., and otherwise will be thankful for her supportive family, es- have made another trip to the Magic Reef and Ayers Rock, Australia, on adventuring as kids, puppy, and energy pecially her husband, Scott. Eva turns 5 planning trips Shanghai for Kingdom! Laura reports they're pretty 03/10 and to allow. this yr. and will start Kindergarten in fall. the Expo, Wat, trip much experts now. Pictures are posted World Angkor and a Sabryna McClung Roberson Julia, hot on her older sister's trail, turns before on their website for all to see: friend T. back to the U.S. the end of 2010. reports that she's thoroughly enjoying 2. She enjoys keeping up with her SBC George Underwood on Facebook and go Patty Friend Douglass is expect- being a foster parent to 2 siblings, a classmates on Facebook, and wonders to links. al write, ing her 3rd girl in a few wks. She and and his little sister She and the Laura et. "We miss boy (6) (2). what we did without it.
Melissa are still our friends from SBC." Cranmer McManus hubby Greg are hoping to move toward Wendy Wall Nace is living in Tracy Stuart has moved to Mar- great friends have seen each other a lot adopting them late this summer! Sa- Birmingham and working as a Licensed tha's Vineyard and is working part-time this yr. Melissa's 3 children are Jack, bryna has started the countdown to our Professional Counselor. She'll celebrate Olivia, Patty's as a freelance writer. She loves life by and Finnegan, and kids spring break trip 'back home' to Islamo- her 13th wedding anniv. in 7/2010, and are Parker, Grace, Georgia the ocean surrounded by friends and her Sarah and rada, FL! The kids have never been to is planning a mini-reunion in Atlanta in boyfriend. (on her way.) Patty is still married in NY the Keys and are excited to finally meet 4/2010 (and is very excited.) She wishes
Maria Bergh and her husband and training horses, and she reports that her side of the family. (They met 31 everyone well! welcomed a 2nd daughter in 12/08 and Melissa in Mclean VA, is married and a members of Greg's family in AZ during Heather Bayfield Weidle and her
live in is very hard working momma. in now Madrid, Spain. She well a holiday wedding 12/09.) She and boys are doing great. Michael (5) and
Bulls Valentine is still look and keeps in touch with lots of Vixens. Norma Greg forward to volunteering again Matthew (2) are going to a Montessori
201 started with a bang for Nalini doing real estate in Aiken, SC, and Wel- at the 201 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach! school that they enjoy. Her business, Life
lington, FL. Sister is Mani. New job, but same career! After a Nancy Bulls also Sabryna (as always) hopes to visit with Management Advisors is going well, and yr.'s hiatus of not seeing the inside of a doing real estate in FL and busy taking anyone headed to Northern CA! was a finalist for Best Overall Company plane, she's back doing what she loves care of the 1 2 horses on our farm As for me, Stacey McClain, I'm re- and Best Entrepreneur categories for the most: travelling, albeit now it's primarily Annalisha "Lily" Anderson covering from a back injury and ready to Stevie Awards for Women in Business during the wk. within the U.S. Nalini McGinley and family are still in Panama be better so I can get out in the garden an international award given each year City FL, looking plans a trip to Rome during Memorial Beach, and to staying among other things! My daughter Ever in NYC. No win this year, but they're there for the foreseeable Day weekend and hopes to meet up with future. She's (5) is enjoying PK at Bolles and will be keeping their fingers crossed for next yr. '94 Amy Davis if she makes it over the working part time at her church, but attending Theatre Camp at the Jewish They're franchising with a concentration of pond from UK. She's also planning a 2 most her time is taken up being Community Alliance this summer. She's in FL. Check out their website at www. wk. trip to Tibet in fall and is determined a mommy and running a large local a reading, writing, and a budding artist lifemanagementadvisors.com. Misses to make it up to First Base Camp Ever- playgroup for pre-schoolers. Son Cash and performer and she never forgets a seeing Katherine Lindsay Auchter est. She hopes to see Prerana Thapa (3) will be getting a baby sister the 1 st thing! Husband Bob Folwell is enjoying since she moved to ME. '92 of Jun.! in Nepal on her way there. Nalini wk. work with Interline Brands as well as Elizabeth Thigpen Landry is living plans to celebrate the big 4-OH (shhhh!) Kimberly Cutting Winter writes the view from the 14th floor of their new in Pinehurst, NC with Aaron, Emma Gen- on Dec. 31 in Rio—come one come all that twins Evy and Lolly (4) make their digs. We are planning on a trip (or 3) try Caroline and Marshall, who'll (9), (8) if parents laugh with you want to enjoy Caipirinha's on the every day some of to Disney this year and hopefully some be starting Kindergarten in fall. They got Tropic of Capricorn (perfect for my sun the humdingers that come out of their time in VA to see family/friends/visit together a few times with Courtney sign!) mouths! Hayden (7) is enjoying school SBC and a trip CA to visit Sabryna's new O'Dea Plaisted and her kids over the
Julie Skilinski Brooks is walking and tae kwan do. Kimberly has started a clan. Yes, it is true, our 20th reunion is
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Vollmer Douglass in NYC while on a enjoy being engaged! met on her junior yr, abroad in France. businesses with marketing and com- trip with Aaron. Susan-Margaret Barrett and hus- She has 3 children Alexandra (11), munications strategies. She freelance
Mtesa Cottemond Wright and her band Scott welcomed Lillian Margaret Justin (10), and Guillaume (11) mos. writes about wine and gluten free husband Tony gave birth to a baby girl Johnson into the world on 7/1 0/09. She She's looking forward to warm weather living. She plans to see Meg Magistro on 1 0/1 5/09. She was a healthy 7 lbs, is joined by Charlie (4) and Benjamin (2). and travel. Julie sends a warm hello to Arcadia Cindy Rakow Readyhough,
13 oz, and 19 in. Susan Margaret and Scott are staying all old friends from class of '96. Eileen MacMurtrie and Ardas Kaur
Liz Gilgan has made the pro- true to their passions for photography April Collins Potterfield says her Khalsa (Alex Hiribarne) this summer, nouncement that she'll notbe pregnant and music, but are also very busy with big news is they will be moving to China Cindy Rakow Readyhough and this summer. Nicholas is 18 mos., and their growing family. Susan Margaret's in Jun. Russell is starting business husband Patrick live in Charlotte, NC. running all over the place and Liz had a stunning photographs were part of the ventures there and still functioning They have a little boy, Sam (2) and daughter 8/27/09 - Isabella Muirin.14 alumnae art exhibition at Reunion. as the CEO of Battenfeld Technolo- recently had their 2nd child, Katelynn, months apart, not quite Irish twins. She Amy Ross, living and teaching in gies. Benjamin will be going to Shekou who's 5 mos. Cindy will be going back saw Ashley Henderson Swigart in the Bay area, reconnected with an old International School, as will Oliver and to work soon with Ernst & Young and early Dec. She came to Boston with her friend and rediscovered her city over the Nathaniel (our 20-mo.-old twin boys). "I her husband still works for himself '96 son Preston. She saw Adria Lande summer—as a tourist. She visited New was just recommended for Tenure and in the building/construction industry. in Feb. for a short visit. She talks to Lia Orleans with some friends from Mem- Promotion at Westminster Coll. by the She keeps in touch with Meg Magistro
Colbert Amelia Johnson, Corinne phis and spent time with Corinne Gail- Board of Trustees, however, I'll be leav- Arcadia. Eileen MacMurtrie. Leah
Gaillard and Robyn Barto often and lard. She took her boys camping in the ing the biology dept. in May. It's hard to Jorgensen and Alex Hiribarne they're all doing well. Sequoia National Forest for a wk. (She be an Associate Professor from across Jennifer Smith reports all is well in
Nellie Kan was happy to report that is proof that Ms. High-Maintenance can the world. I intend to get the kids settled Richmond VA. "I'm in my 6th yr. as Dir. she and Al got engaged on Valentine's indeed go camping.) She also travelled into their schools, and their Mandarin of School Counseling at Varina H. S. in
Day. They're planning a small private to Costa Rica for 1 days, loved it. training, and then I might take some Richmond, VA, and am back in school wedding in a secret location. Best Tysha Calhoun Stroka enjoys life courses at Shenzhen U. myself in order pursuing my post masters certification in wishes! There will be a lot of traveling in central TX. She's working for SSA, to take advantage of all that China has Educational Leadership. I'll be graduat-
for the 2 of them in the next year! and is involved with and on the Board of to offer." ing in Dec! At work I get very excited
Katie Blaik-James is celebrating Dir. of the Gaslight Baker Theatre. The Susan T. Cash writes: "I live in Elon, speaking to my students about SBC. I
Elizabeth's 18-mo. mark. Conner is 10 latest addition to their furry family, Roux, VA, with my husband Jeff. I'm Dir. of Day hope to get more there! I stay in touch and Jackson is 8. She and John are just turned 1 and is over 1 0Olbs. Tysha Support Services at The Arc of Central with Lynn Davis Saunders, Reneca '97 celebrating their 5-yr. anniversary in still has a clean bill of health, but wants VA in Lynchburg. I have 3 children in Rose Atkinson and Andie Thomas
Jun. She's on indefinite maternity leave to encourage all her SBC sisters to get college and 2 adorable grandsons, Seth Young '95. We're hoping to find time to and loving it. checked out annually to make sure and Alexander, and 2 granddaughters, get together soon! Life is great!"
Amelia McDaniel Johnson reports everything is working properly. Trinity and Faith. When not working, Jeff Linday Mactavish Vogt was mar-
that Wyly and Jed are growing like Betsy Lanard married Kevin Mc- and I love to go to Nags Head and fish, ried on 3/21/10 in San Pedro, Belize. weeds. They have 2 yellow labs, Ruth Cafferty in 3/09 and on 2/23/1 gave and be with the kids and grandkids. Her husband, Brian, is from Hibbing, and Earl. Jed would like to grow up to birth to Brook Elizabeth. Marley is now 5. Amy Daugherty Michel & Sam MN, and they're currently living in be a "hunter" and Wyly is going to save Betsy is still teaching music for the Phila- welcomed 2nd son Owen Laine Michel Harrisburg, PA. Lindsay stays busy with the world by recycling. (Sounds like her delphia School District and Alvernia U. on 1/28/1 0.Xander was thrilled to final- work, trail running, mountain biking, and mom!) Amelia is teaching, and Wooten is I'm the wine buyer/general manager ly meet his baby brother, and has been adventure racing. working hard. for a wine shop and bistro in Columbus, excellent with him! Things were a little Abby Phillips Hinga and Sean wel-
Allison Vollmer Douglass and and I'm also an active member of an crazy in the beginning, as Owen was comed James Phillips Hinga on 2/5 (his
William welcomed Will on 1 2/4/08, independent restaurant group in town. I born 2.5 wks. early and then contracted due date!) He weighed 9lbs and was 22 joining Kate and Abby. They're in NY. seek out new member restaurants and RSV and bronciolitis at 1 1 days old. He in. long. He's a healthy, happy baby who
Allison is doing art appraisals part time give them the "tough sell." I'm also busy had to be hospitalized for a wk., though is letting his parents get lots of sleep, with her dad and William is at CIT. She planning a January 201 1 wedding to he has made a full recovery. Xander for which they are very grateful. The loves keeping up with the SBC girls on Chuck Flasche. He proposed on a trip turned 3 on 3/09/10, and continues to family is loving life in Denver and having
Facebook! to Rome just after the holidays, and be a smart, funny and joyful child. All of Janeen Sharma and Laura Powell
Amy E. Loux wants to thank the we're hoping to honeymoon in Australia. the Michels are looking forward to a visit Gatling close enough to see often!
SBC staff and alumnae office for a (He was the tall guy at Reunion, and from Paige Vaught Campion in Apr., As for me, life is treating me kindly. fabulous reunion. It was her 1st visit to yes, you'll be seeing him there again in and eagerly await the news of Imogen I've had a great time getting to know campus since graduation, and she was 2014. Possibly with something to make Slade Rex's new baby boy in early James Hinga in his 1st few wks. and re- so happy that so many others attended. those dorm beds appropriate for a guy Apr. Amy continues to enjoy keeping in cently had a wonderful visit with Annie
She caught up with Katherine Cook, who's 6'4".) touch with classmates and their families Pankoski Sherman. Annie is happily
Molly Phemister Sarah Underhill, through facebook, and especially loves living in the Bay Area with her husband,
Nellie Kan. Mtesa Wright, and was everyone's pictures! Peter, and their beautiful children Max thrilled to see other alumnae that had rw Christie Cardon writes in 6/09: (4) and Elsa (15 mos). After 5 yrs., I made the trek: Rebecca Carle '93, Beverley Stone Dale "I was delighted to be a bridesmaid still love living in Boulder, CO. Last yr., I
Laurel Knaup '95 and Mary "Cookie" 2006 Ashcrest Ct. in Ann Kay's wedding in MA and had finished my master's in psychology and Carle '59. She enjoyed visiting with Lisa Richmond, VA 23238 fun seeing other SBC friends. Then, on keep busy enjoying the Rockies and
Johnston and getting an update on the [email protected] 1 0/9/09, Darryl and I welcomed our 1 st working as a Human Factors Engineer. great work the library is doing. "Big love child, Alexander Leathers Anderson. He My best to the class of '96. to all my SBC Sisters!" was a full month early, but healthy and Andrea Buck got engaged to rm happy. I'm now back at work with King Christopher Bingham on 8/2/09 with Mrs. Amy Daugherty Michel & Spalding. In spring, we hope to travel 1997 a wedding planned in later 2010. She to Northern VA to introduce Alexander to 8185 E. Smooth Sumac Ln. Kerri Rawlings Burtner hopes that some of her friends in the area. SBC classmates Tucson, AZ 85710 our SBC 601 N Rosina Ave. will be able to visit Somerset to attend [email protected] Leah Jorgensen is living in Somerset, PA 15501 the celebration. 2009 was a whirlwind Portland, OR, and is enrolled in the [email protected] yr. for her. She finished working for the winemaking degree program at Julie Baer Diter lives and teaches h. Financial Times and completed her the Northwest Viticulture Center at s. English and French in Grosse Pointe Masters studies at Oxford U. She hopes Chemeketa Coll. in Salem. She's also
58 'Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.erJu chalet on the side of a mountain, which Mama (www.pinkandgreenmama.blog- Journalism Fellowship in Theater. She's
they love and will make their own in the spot.com) It's been fun catching up with considering going back to school to pur- rm spring when it gets a bit warmer. They SBC friends who read the blog and try sue an MFA in creative writing. Nathane Cynthia Bumgardner Puckett have a puppy named Quoia (for out her ideas with their kids. Amanda and Laura will be married 12 yrs. in 7123 High St. Sequoia, as she'll be huge) and Piki, a Diamond Ring made the ribbon bar- 6/1 0! Jessica Pavia Tra changed jobs Floyds Knobs, IN 47119 feral kitten. This past weekend she had rettes for her daughter and achieved and now works as a special education [email protected] a surprise visit from Cari Petrulli Class rock star mom status. Also check out administrator in Prince William County of '99 and her husband Scott and baby MaryLea's Peep Diorama "Goodnight Schools. Her job requires her to support Cady Thomas King. She was her freshman year room- Peep" (based on the children's book the teachers and school administrators, 2330 Byrd Street mate, but left SBC after. Carolyn Leddy Goodnight Moon) as one of 5 finalists in so the day is never the same twice. Raleigh, NC 27608 reports that with the situation looking this year's Washington Post's Peeps Jessica is working on a dissertation [email protected] bleak for Republicans in Washington, Diorama Contest. A few months ago, proposal for her Ed.D. in Educational D.C., she decamped to Tokyo this past MaryLea received news from Anne- Leadership. She hopes to submit her
Alicia Foster Wilbun says the Wilbun fall for a yr. Her husband remains in D.C, Claire Wackenhut when she proposal in the next mo. Her boys, family is doing great! She has learned to advocate the misguided policies of announced her engagement to Scott! Kenny (7) and Donovan (5), are getting
how to do Bunka (Japenese embroi- the Obama administration. But Carolyn She still sees Courtney Totushek Brown big. Ken and Jessica have been married
remains hopeful that he at least has the '97 for play dates with their kids. for yrs. keeps in dery), and it makes gorgeous pictures 10 Cady Thomas and is tons of fun! It's nice to get out good sense to keep the house clean Amanda Diamond Ring and Kevin touch with Katie Martin, Bronwyn
while she's Carolyn is spending celebrated of marriage in Oct. once a wk. for adult time. Brianna (4) is gone! a decade Beard, Lindsay Culp, Susan Barney
yr. on Council on Foreign Relations and keep active with Karleigh (who lots of other to reading 3 letter words. It was exciting to the a and SBC Ladies thanks watch and listen as she read her 1st fellowship at the National Institute for loves school and is perfecting her facebook and email. She's planning a word. She has also started gymnastics Defense Studies in Japan and is explor- Hebrew and correcting her mom trip with Susan and Lindsay this sum-
ing issues related to nuclear deterrence already!) and Asher who is starting mer. Cady and her family spent and is doing really well—a natural. (3) in Asia. She loves living in Tokyo, preschool this fall. Karleigh takes ballet with Estelle (1) is running now (started walk- East Christmas Serena Putegnat and '00. '00 ing at 10 mos.) and having a good time drinking sake and traveling around with Gregor Lee Amanda had a Tara Putegnat in Brownsville, TX, playing with Brianna. Alicia had a great Japan and looks forward to her husband great time at Homecoming with more and looks forward to seeing them again visit with Fionna Matheson in Jan. joining for a trip to Vietnam in spring. friends than she can name, but this summer. Chantel Bartlett and
Fionna saw the girls and they went out Carolyn will return to D.C. this summer Scarlett Swain, Gretchen Tucker, Kim Izquierdo returned from a long to join the Republican resurgence! Gilbar. Kimberly they reunited after to dinner; it was nice to laugh like they Charlotte Rognmoe weekend where were did in coll.! Alicia's family took a road Cyndi Hague Hineline is excited that Osborne Jerger. Jenny Hogan nearly 7 yrs. They spent the weekend in trip to Ml last May to see Krista winter finally seems to be ending in OH! Koehn, Lisa Hall Flynn, and Gregor to Sonoma, CA, barrel tasting. Kim
Wigginton Gravatt '99. They talk often She and Shawn are well, and it's been name a few. She saw Robin Bettger Izquierdo is celebrating 9 yrs. with '96 and hope to see her again this summer fun watching Alex grow (he never Fishburne when she rode her horse Phizer. She travels both personally and so Alicia can meet Grace! Alicia keeps stops!) and learn everything he can. at the Biltmore Estate. Amanda and her for work. She soon jets off for a week of in touch with Betsy Wilbun Ranson '99 Cyndi performed in a production of family /cveAsheville and requests all fun in Tokyo. Chantel continues to work and sees her when they visit Sweeney Todd last summer and is help- SBC ladies give her a shout when in the with foreign exchange students. In a few
Appomattox. Alicia talks with Chantel ing to develop a summer children's the- area. Nichi Benson Knox quit her weeks, she'll be turning in her 2 months
Bartlett often and hopes to see her atre program at her community theatre. teaching job this past summer to stay notice without a new job lined up! soon! Brigette Laib Mattox married Last May, she met Katherine Carr in home with her 2 boys. Robert David (3 Rather difficult to find a new job when
1 Mark Mattox in The Woodlands, TX, Louisville for a long weekend, and they /2) and Elijah (1 5 mos.) are full of you won't be able to start for 2 mos! visited with are her Chantel thinks return 1 1/28/09. Anna Meres Wade was a Cynthia Bumgardner energy and keeping busy! that she'll to work bridesmaid Cynthia Bumgardner Puckett. They had a great time, even Erikka Sund Neal and her husband as an executive assistant for a while,
Puckett was absent due to the though Cyndi managed to get them lost welcomed baby #2, Samuel Garrison take a break from high-stress jobs and
impending arrival of her new baby girl! a couple of times! She chats with Neal, on 5/27/09. He and Frances are focus on her new passion of becoming
Brigette and Mark are now living in Heather Thomas Armbruster via the 1 6 mos. Apart. Erikka is in her 7th yr. a Zumba instructor. She'll achieve that
Montgomery, TX, and loving married life! internet quite a bit, and it's been fun teaching 3rd grade and now teaches at in May and is considering going to the
Brigette is looking for a career change "reliving" the many late night discus- the same school that she went to as a Zumba convention in Orlando come from chemical sales to possible cos- sions they had in coll., although the child. Erikka spent a girl's weekend in Aug. She's hoping to have more time to metic sales. Cynthia Bumgardner subject matter is a bit different! Leslie New Orleans with Erin Wortley visit friends around the U.S. like Fionna,
Puckett gave birth to Eliza Joy Puckett Farinas Padron met with Samantha Valliere and Joanne Hopkins in Apr. Candice, Alicia and many more once on New Year's Eve 2009! Cynthia and Brodlieb Platner during Christmas in Erin Wortley Valliere says the Valliere work-life isn't so crazy. She keeps in
Darrin are enjoying the roller coaster NYC while she was home visiting family. family is great and life feels so much touch with Candice Broughton
ride of parenting 3. Although busy with They met up for coffee and cake at the more manageable with the baby turning Maillard. Candice and family are doing children, hearing from friends is a wel- Plaza Hotel. Leslie lives in Zaragoza, 2 this spring. She's working for the well, just always on the go with home- come respite during the day. Stephanie Spain, has been married for 3 yrs. Marine Corps as a government civilian schooling, swimming lessons and enjoy-
Belk Loter and Tom are expecting their Samantha Platner reports that she in Fire Support, loves it. Erin is running ing the great outdoors.
2nd child, a boy, on 5/19. Stephanie always looks forward to their annual quite a lot and signed up for a trail half We want to encourage you to give
says, "Pregnancy is going well; we're Christmas reunion in NYC. She and marathon Mar. and the Marine Corps to the Annual Fund! Our goal for the enjoying preparing the house, dogs, and Mary Friberg collaborated during Feb. historic half in May. She misses every- Pink Rose Society is underway, and
big sister for the new arrival." Abilene 201 New York Fashion Week on the La one. Erin is hoping to see folks at her we're aiming at a 1 00% participation
Fall (1 1/29/07) is growing like a weed and Perla 2010 show. Hourglass daughter's First Communion in May. rate for our class and want to challenge
exploring the world around her. She Cosmetics sponsored the makeup for Laura Fitton Pieper has been out of everyone to give $5. As of today, 37 amazes them with new words, songs, the La Perla show that Sam was pro- work for over a year now, after being of us have pledged and given $3,865.
activities. Stephanie works in ducing as PR Manager, La Perla North laid off from her last journalism job. We'd love to give a grand total of
Greensboro at Novartis Animal Health America. Mary was appointed PR She's trying to make do with freelance $10,000 with 100% participation by
part-time and lives in Wake Forest. She Director for Hourglass. It was fun work- writing and temp jobs. If any alumnae 6/30/10. Contact Cynthia or Cady for
keeps in touch with Cady Thomas and ing together! MaryLea Martin Harris out there work for publications that further information. Keep in touch with Susan Barney Astrid Liverman has is having fun making artsy messes with need freelance writers, give her a call! us via e-mail or Facebook. We want
moved to CO for a new job. She and her 2 daughters Emma (7) and Claire Laura had an amazing experience in to be the support network that uplifts,
Taylor bought a house in Evergreen, a (3). She blogs about their arts and crafts Los Angeles last spring as a fellow in encourages, and provides a haven for
adventures on her blog Pink and Green the National Endowment for the Arts' each of us when we need it.
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gren, Zakiya Norris and many others (assistant dir. of career services) and mon turned 2. Still enjoying Austin, not rm via facebook. Robyn Sanderson (dir. of student activi- that we get out much, she says. Lindsey Neef Kelly Brenda Elze still lives in Panama ties). Emily Sartor Patterson and hus-
15012 Ashby Way East City, FL, where she's taking classes Mamie Jackson lives in Atlanta, band Brad are expecting their 2nd child
Carrollton, VA 23314 "for fun" thanks to the Gl Bill! She had GA, and has a new position as assoc. in 7/2010: big sister Claire is excited [email protected] a fabulous time at Class of '04 Ginny vice president of development at about the arrival of the new baby!
Wood-Susi's wedding in Orlando in Feb., Spelman Coll. On 11/1 3/1 0, Mamie will Kathryn Taylor Paine and husband
Christy Carl Allison is a SAHM of little where she caught up with some alum- marry Robert Williams in Huntsville, AL. Jonathan welcomed Amelia Rose Paine
Laurel Elizabeth, born 8/21/09. Laurel nae she met at last yr.'s reunion. She Sean and Lindsey Neef Kelly, at 1 1 :42 a.m. on 9/10/09 in Houston, is happy, healthy and, just like Mommy, keeps in (almost) daily contact with Jen along with daughters Catherine and Ra- TX. Amelia's favorite activities are drink- loves to sing. Christy continues to pet Schmidt Major and enjoys monthly chel, welcomed Alice Marian (7 lbs) on ing milk, eating rice cereal, and staring sit and do some online freelance writing conversations with Alex Sienkiewicz 1 1/30/09. Lindsey is pleased to report at the family dog. After enjoying 3 mos. on occasion. She was excited to see Auer Jill Stromberg Abby Schmidt it was the most painless, uneventful, of maternity leave, Kathryn returned to
Kathryn Alfisi Marisha Bourgeois Casey Herman and Sarah Lester and boring childbirth one could possibly work as the dir. of volunteer services at and Sara Skoglund at a snow party Sarah Kingsley Foley moved into imagine. Alice was also the healthiest the Ronald McDonald House of Houston. she held this past Jan.! her own apt. in Sept. She started work- newborn of the family, until Christmas, In her "spare" time, Kathryn volunteers
Kim Bolz-Andolshek is keep- ing for the Hampton Roads Chamber when she went into respiratory arrest in at the patient and family library at TX ing busy with her 3 children, Kate (7), of Commerce running their young the ER. She was diagnosed with non- Children's Hospital.
Leo (5), and Gus (2). Kim and husband professionals division, Sync757, in Jul., RSV bronchiolitis and spent 1 days at Laura Walters Price can't believe
Justin are looking at some new models loves her job. Sarah recently added ad- the children's hospital, but emerged as that her daughter Olivia just turned 5 for their grocery store this spring as they ditional duties, coordinating the events good as new. The girls are thrilled with this past Jan. and that she and Jeff will have a new competitor building .5 mi. in Chesapeake, Suffolk and Portsmouth. their new sister, and surprisingly helpful, be married 1 yrs. on 4/29—time flies! from them. Kim was elected to serve Her son Cole (4) is doing great through for toddlers. Lindsey's now back at work Jackson (3) is so talkative and such a as chair for the 3rd yr. in a row on the his parents' separation and is a social at Glasser and Glasser, looking forward boy! Laura has gone back to Lynchburg
Pequot Lakes School Board. butterfly at his preschool. Sarah has to summertime trips to Busch Gardens Coll. to get her endorsement in early
Marisha Bourgeois is working on started auditioning again and per- with Sean and the girls, and working on childhood special education so that her M.S. in speech language pathology. formed in a "cliff notes" version of The launching a blog, details on Facebook. she can teach preschool handicapped
She's the proud recipient of the Dept. Nutcracker and also sings the National Valerie Roche Kite and Derek wel- or work in a home setting as an early of Education Grant that provides free Anthem at large regional events. comed Shealyn Marianna on 12/30/09, intervention specialist. tuition with a monthly stipend. In addi- Natasha White Gamboa has been weighing in at 7lbs., 14 oz. Tina Hansel Snover is enjoying life tion to her new love of science, Marisha busy chasing after son Sebastian (2) Meghan Pollard Leypoldt has had with her husband and 2 daughters (3 and spends the rest of her time in the D.C. and is anticipating the arrival of another a great time reconnecting with Vixens 1) and working part time. She's a resume dance world: performing, teaching, and baby boy on 3/11/10. She's still living over the past few mos. In Oct., Meghan consultant with Pathway Resumes and choreographing. Lately she's been cho- in Northern CA with husband Juan returned to SBC with Sarah Kingsley still lives in Lynchburg. She also stays reographing couples' wedding dances. and became a stay-at-home-mom last for a graduate school recruiting event. busy with her MOPS group and is the
Her 1 st couple's dance was for Sarah yr. after a full-time career as a tennis It was a blast to be back on campus, leader of the women's ministry at her
Dean in '08. She's also working on a professional. She still dabbles in the ten- see all the changes, connect with cur- church. Tina, Melissa Henning Hill Kris children's dance book, which her sister nis world as a part-time retail buyer at a rent Chung Mungs and sip wine in the Harris and Susan Hurley Upshaw all is illustrating. She speaks to Jennifer tennis pro shop, which has been fun! Bistro with Sarah like old times. In Dec, attended Meredith Tillery McNamara s
Crutcher daily and swears they're the 2 Kelly Turney Gatzke and husband Meghan had dinner in Durham with Jill wedding last fall in TN. old guys from the muppets. Ben have been enjoying Monterey, CA Triana Sarah Dorminey Megan Butt Leslie Stokes completed her MDiv
Rachel Bratlie and Chris are well in for the past yr. while Ben attends gradu- Glover and Elizabeth Melvin—talk from Emory U. in 5/08. Currently, she's
Northern CA. Rachel continues to work ate school. They'll be moving to West about trouble! In Jan., Meghan and in her 2nd yr. of supervisory training as an inpatient psychiatrist at a county Point, NY, in Jun. where he'll be teaching Brandi Whitley Hilder drove to MD for for Clinical Pastoral Education through hospital in Martinez, CA. She's now in the math dept. for about 3 yrs. Future Leslie Hager Holman s baby shower HealthCare Chaplaincy in Manhattan board-certified! Chris is working part- SBC Vixen, Amelia, just turned 3 and where they were also able to visit with a and serves as a staff chaplain at Memo- time in civil engineering. They've made is excited for her brother, Cameron, to very pregnant Joce Wiherle Greimel rial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She several trips to Phoenix and D.C. to visit make his arrival. (her due date was the next day). During moved from Brooklyn to Queens this fall. with family. They're planning a 2-wk. trip Krista Wigginton Gravatt was their time together, they had lovely In addition to working toward certifica- to Italy this May and can't wait! busy in '09 getting ready for the arrival dinner with Anne Jones Manning tion as a supervisor, board certification
Kristine Bria Brown and Andrew of daughter Alexis "Grace," born 9/16. in D.C. and got to meet her husband as a chaplain, and ordination in the are celebrating 2 yrs. of marriage this She was excited after 2 boys to finally too. The weekend afterward, Meghan United Church of Christ, Leslie is having
Mar. and look forward to starting a decorate a room in pink and green! and her daughter, Piper, celebrated fun planning her wedding to Rachel family soon. Kristine is excited about Husband Latham completed his MBA in Brandi's daughter, Amelia's 2nd birthday Small this coming Labor Day weekend. her new business she just started. While Dec, and they're now looking at relocat- in Chapel Hill. Meghan continues to They plan to have a religious ceremony still doing social work, Kristine has just ing to the Southeast, if possible. Krista enjoy family life with Piper and husband in Louisville, KY. where Leslie's fam- accepted an offer as a wardrobe con- enjoys keeping in touch with her SBC Steve. Piper is growing like a weed and ily lives and a legal ceremony in the sultant for the Doncaster Clothing col- friends on Facebook. enjoys saying words like "chicken" and Northeast. lection. Kristine is responsible for styling Sarah Elkins Ince is still living in "naked." Meghan fully indoctrinated Lindsay Hicks Watrous and hus the Trunk Shows as well as marketing the Charlotte area and recently returned Piper into the world of football with the band Tim welcomed a baby boy named
this fabulous upscale clothing line that to work after giving birth to her 1 st culmination of the Saints' victory of the Owen on Dec. 21 . Lindsay recovered is developed in the same clothing mills child Asa David Ince on 1 2/8. (Baby Superbowl GEAUX SAINTS! Hope every- well and Owen is healthy and chunky, as Prada, Lanvin, and Chanel. Kristine pictures on Facebook.) Sarah is excited one is having a wonderful new yr. and just like his brother Drew (2). Lindsay is is looking forward to this new adventure to report that 2 of her students have do visit when you are in the area! finding it challenging to divide her atten- and encourages all SBC alumnae to applied to been accepted to SB (though Jen Schmidt Major and Michael tion between them, but is managing to check out her website at http://www. they haven't made the final decision to welcomed Ryan Michael on 8/1 1/09, keep sane on most days. She keeps in facebook.com/l/f4bd7:www.doncaster. enroll yet). She also has several juniors much to Brenda Elze's delight since he touch with Anna Carmichael Redding. com/kbrown and please contact her if considering SBC. Sarah had a great time was born on her birthday. Shannon Weisenberger Habenicht you're interested in purchasing any of at the Charlotte SB Day event and looks Heather McLeod and TJ Griffin and Jera Niewoehner, as well as a the items available. Kristine keeps in forward to returning to SBC soon for welcomed daughter Hazel Belle on number of Facebook-sawy Vixens.
60 • Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu post-doc. Elizabeth continues to work Nia Fonow Ravenstahl and Tassone Dunlevy. Kathleen Fowler
for the nonprofit organization Harvest, husband Matt, and step sons Maris and and Amy Waller '04 in Feb. at Mary's 3,000 for which she traveled to Haiti, the Seth were delighted to welcome home baby shower (Mary is due 5 days before Marilen Sarian Dominican Republic and Honduras last their newly adopted daughter Cassidy Rachel), and is looking forward to seeing
760 Kings Ridge Dr. summer. Elizabeth and Peter recently Ellen Owings Ravenstahl, born on 9/17 Kathy and Amy again in Mar. along with
Newport News, VA 23608 welcomed Lord Finley Nelson, a beauti- in Port Charlotte, FL. The Ravenstahls Stacey Armentrout Fallah and Angel
[email protected] ful English bulldog, into their home! are enjoying being a family of 5 in Milone '03 at her baby shower. Rachel
Finally, Marian remains in Washington, Northern VA and will be spending the is also looking forward to serving as
D.C., working for the American Red summer in Durham, UK where Matt is a bridesmaid at Angel's wedding in
3001 Cross. Most recently, she was sup- working towards his Ed.D. Nia looks 2/1 1 . She and Toby will celebrate their Amanda Campbell Wright porting the Haiti earthquake response, forward to catching up with Jessica 4th anniv. in Aug. Liz Waring Mc- 19304 Anna Kate Ct. before going on maternity leave with McClosky who lives nearby in New- Cracken and husband Chris welcomed Pflugerville, TX 78660-2972 her 2nd child Benjamin. Big brother castle while the family is there. a baby girl on 1 0/26/09. Her name is Swi m VixenOI @yahoo.com Othoncito (2) eagerly welcomed the new Meredith Taylor Eads and hus- Isadora Anne. [email protected] arrival. band Micah (HSC '96) welcomed their There have also been exciting Amy Tabb and husband Dave are 1st baby, Isabella Grace, on 8/6/09! professional moves for our class. Emily
It seems that '01 ers have been up to expecting their 1 st child in late Apr. Everyone is doing well, and the new Yerby is enjoying her new career at The many exciting things and have a busy They bought a house last summer in parents are enjoying every second. Greater Boston Food Bank, she writes, 2010 in front of us! Congratulations to West Lafayette, IN, and are happy there Meredith wants to thank Tia Trout Perez "Aquiring food to feed the hungry is everyone on your accomplishments and while Amy finishes her Ph.D. (expected '02 for a fabulous baby shower! She's truly a rewarding career." She and her can't wait to hear what's in store for you sometime in 2010) and Dave teaches h. wondering how early is too early to partner, Gretchen, are enjoying life in the next! Remember that our 10-yr. (Can s. nearby. send in Isabella's reservation fee for her Boston suburbs and are looking forward you believe it?) Reunion is next May! Leah Brooks Waldrip and husband spot in SBC's class of 2031 ? Meredith to traveling this summer! Ruth Huff- Holla Holla! Adam welcomed their 2nd child, Sabrina also went back to graduate school this man is running a landscaping business Jennifer Stringfellow was Ann Waldrip on 3/8/10. Lucy Brooks fall and is working toward her Ph.D. in in Lexington, VA, and is also writing engaged to Paul Lamanna (UVA '02) this Thomas '00, and her new daughter, special education; she says it's been a for a local newspaper and playing past Sept. when they were vacation- Norah, came to visit their new niece crazy few months and wishes maternity upright bass fiddle in a bluegrass band ing in Napa Valley, CA. She and Paul and cousin. Leah is excited to introduce leave had been longer. with husband Rooster Ruley. Meghan are having a blast planning their Dec. Sabrina to SBC. Gregory is finishing off her last semes- wedding, which will be in Alexandria, Sarah Houston Kenning and hus- ter and will be graduating in 08/10 with VA. Sonya Truman '02 will be her maid band Tyler welcomed Jackson Alexander 3003 a MBA from Pfeiffer U. Sonya Truman of honor. Jenn enjoyed seeing Megan Kenning on 7/12/09. He only weighed 4 Margaret Brooks Tucker Buck accepted a new job in Oct. and is now Thomas Rowe and Angela Rodriguez lbs 3oz, but has quadrupled his weight 4436 Yoruk Forest Ln. the assistant general counsel in charge Newman last Sept at Kate Talaber over the past 9 mos. He was lucky to Charlotte, NC 28211 of litigation at Entaire Global Companies, Butler's wedding. Jenn is extremely visit his friend, Charlie Stawasz, son of [email protected] Inc. She just bought a house in Atlanta excited to have become an aunt in Jan. Meghan Frier Stawasz, for a weekend and is scheduled to close on 3/1 7/1 0! Her older brother, Charlie Stringfellow in Cape Cod. Sarah and Tyler have 1 Lori Smith Nilan She's anxious about the renovations, (HSC '96) and his fiance had a little girl, more yr. in Albany before they move to 14600 Windjammer Dr. but excited to move and to finally have a Chloe, a future SBC grad, perhaps?! In Philadelphia for Tyler's fellowship. She's Midlothian, VA 23112 huge yard that her golden retriever can May, Jenn will celebrate her 9th anniv. begun working 3 days a wk. at a reha- [email protected] run in. Juliana DeSantis married Tyler with her company, Jeremy Squire & bilitation hospital as a speech language Perkins in the midst of a snowstorm Associates. pathologist and hopes to visit Katie at her parents' farm in Culpepper, VA. It's been a busy yr. for the class of Sarah Machinist still works in Wood Rae and her family in Charlot- They said their vows in a greenhouse 2002. There are many new moms to sales for Kraft Foods and is in the tesville in May. Sarah is excited that her congratulate! surrounded by their friends and family. process of moving from Greenville, SC, term as president for the Junior League Amanda Davis Stevens and husband They took a wedding trip to CO where to Myrtle Beach, SC. She hopes to meet of Albany is winding down and hopes to they did lots of snowboarding. Kathleen Isaac are expecting their 1 st child this new friends and new horses once she travel more to see her SBC friends. summer, due 8/21/10. They've been Fowler is still teaching Latin in Fauquier is settled. Mariana Souza is happy in Rio and Cry, VA, and loving every minute (except busy preparing for the baby's arrival, Amy Whitney Rippey says hello to moving to a bigger house with husband for those pesky snow days). In summer and what's sure to be a long, hot sum- all her fellow Vixens! She and husband Humberto Beatriz Still practicing '09, and (1). mer. Amanda saw Jennifer Taylor Kathy (along with fellow FL teach- Brian are living in Westminster, MD. She law, loving it. in touch with ers) took group of students Ireland Has been Catano and her husband Dave while a to works for Arnold Palmer Golf Manage- Rocio Guerrero. Leslie Farinas. An- and the UK for 2 wks. to explore their they were in CA on their "babymoon," ment as a dir. of sales. She's looking drea Hidalgo and Olive Eiley through and Celtic roots, and then stayed and plans on attending her shower at Roman forward to the next reunion. Facebook. for a few extra to visit Cardiff, the end of Apr. Jennifer's sweet pea days Natasha Nickodem Stevens Erin Harrison and Phill are Wales, and had a blast! She writes, "In is due 6/2/2010. She's keeping the and husband Matt bought a house in '04 expecting their 1st boy in Waller I bought our baby 7/2010. gender a surprise, which has been Sept., Amy and Chicago's Mayfair neighborhood and are They're excited to expand their family. 1 st We're to be able to exciting. She's been getting great advice home. happy looking forward to visits from Stepha- Erin still loves teaching Jr. high and Phill from other SBC moms on Facebook, paint the walls!" nie Sherrard and Sarah Belanger is still in the credit union business. I've several of our including Rebecca Waite Del Piano seen classmates Levinson this summer. Gwen Wray-Samans and husband and Laura Reither Marcotte Mary recently: Mary Tassone Dunlevy for Last fall, Marian Spivey-Estrada Jamie are expecting their 1st child this Tassone Dunlevy and husband Dale her baby shower, Rachel Roth Allred joined Sarah Riggs Stapleton and Jun., and best of all: it's a girl! Hello, for her baby shower, and Stacey will welcome their 1st child into the Erin McKinley Wiley for a mini-reunion Class of 2028! The parents-to-be are Armentrout Fallah for her son's 2nd world in Apr. —a little girl and named at the home of Elizabeth Puckett moving to Alexandria in May. Gwen is birthday. I also took my 1 st trip to the Ariana Elaine Dunlevy. Mary writes,
Haworth in Sedona , AZ. Erin continues also expecting her M.Ed, in secondary Coast, to visit parents in their "She's already outfitted with Sweet West my to work as a speech therapist in Seattle education in English from the George new home in Portland, OR, over the Briar goodies, and we expect her to be and welcomed her 1st child, Holiday Washington U. this Jun. holidays." In the last edition of a future alumna." Rachel Roth Allred Christmas Joan in Nov. Sarah left her position as Rami Achterberg Heers and the notes, I incorrectly stated that Kim and husband Toby are expecting their an environmental science teacher in husband Jesse are expecting their 2nd Martin and her horse were featured in 1 st child, a baby girl, due in Apr. Rachel the Bay area and is now living in Japan child in Oct. Sidelines Magazine. The article actually was able to spend time with Mary while her husband Jim completes a was about Kim's good friend Megan
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'01 '02, '02, Beley Withrow . 1 apologize for the Stacey Fallah Mary Dunlevy Meredith Shaw Hansen has SBC alumnae CM Burroughs, Karen
mistake. I look forward to seeing Mar- and Amanda Schwink been working at Wintergreen Resort Story Mckenzie, and Jozanne garet "Brook" Tucker Buck Denise Amanda Crighton Trefzger since 8/09. Her son Carter (4) is grow- Summerville often. When she's not
McDonald Gentry, Maria Thacker started a new position as the enrollment ing like a weed and has loved all the going to the movies and to dinner par- and Ashley Johnson McGee '03 in Apr. benefits director with EBC, Inc. in Cincin- snow. Christina Chubb and Meredith ties with friends, she's busy planning for a girl's weekend, where they'll cheer nati, OH. She recently obtained her OH met in Richmond for a girls lunch in her next vacation abroad. on myself and Kelly Monical while we insurance license and graduated from 1/10. Kirkland Wohlrab is the exec, run the Charlottesville Half Marathon. Hondros Coll. She and husband Joe are Stacey Maddox is in her 1st yr. assistant for the Sigma Nu Educational
Brook and I hope 201 brings much enjoying married life and are planning a of medical school at WVSOM. She's Foundation in Lexington, VA. She's get- happiness and great health to you all! few trips for this summer to Chicago to enjoying the Problem Based Learning ting ready to make the big move from
visit with Anna Yankee; Virginia Beach Program, which is a self-study, small- Buena Vista to Lexington, a whopping
to see Lana Davis Booth and husband, group program. She also enjoys living 6 mi., in Mar. She enjoyed seeing all 2003 James; and to Canada. She keeps up in Lewisburg, WV, and the great outdoor of her classmates and meeting the Courtney Amort Silverthorn with other SBC friends regularly through activities in the area. Class of 1999 girls at Reunion last May.
501 Palmtree Dr., No. 4 Facebook, including Courtney Finklea Sarah Barrett is happy to Kirkland talks with Stephanie Gleason Gaithersburg, MD 20878 and Meghan Koury. announce that she and Ivar Aass were Peppier almost everyday and the 2 [email protected] Shirley Pinson Hendricks is married in a private ceremony on recently enjoyed a road trip to sunny FL
rounding out her 4th yr. of teaching; she 12/1 1/09 in NYC, where they reside. for Ginny Wood Susi's wedding!
and her husband are doing fantastic, Sarah is retaining her maiden name. I hope everyone is enjoying the East
and they visited (his 1st trip) in Andrea Staton Koplowitz mar- Coast thaw after that crazy winter! I, SBC Courtney Arnott Silverthorn, actually 5/09 for Betsy's farewell dinner. He was ried Dale Koplowitz in 5/09 in Crozet, 2005 '05 spent my last week of "work" at the NCI impressed with the campus and said VA. Katharina Fritzler and Shelly Melinda Wolfrom
fell it! Kellogg '02 attended. is still at home under 47 in. of snow (and paid, he could see how she in love with Andrea 105 State St., Apt. 1 at least) before taking a new position They hope to visit campus once more employed at UVA Medical Center in Newburyport, MA 01950 as an Intellectual Property Specialist prior to their move north this summer! Charlottesville, VA, and works in the tox- [email protected] with SAIC-Frederick on 2/16/10. Before Julia Schmitz was accepted into icology laboratory. She volunteered as SPIRE (Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators an arts calendar manager for Piedmont I left the NCI, I prepared a nomination Can you believe that our 5-yr. Reunion
in of in package for the Federal Laboratory Research and Education), a post- Council the Arts 7/08 and enjoyed is just around the corner?! Neither can
doctoral fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill providing art events in the community. Consortium's Excellence in Technology I! I hope you're all planning to attend that combines a research experience with She continues to work on art in what Transfer Award on behalf of an NCI (May 21st-23rd). I would like to say teaching experience. spare time find. scientist, which won at both the regional a She spent 2/10 she can congratulations to all of you who have interviewing at the partner institutions Diana Marshall had surgery and national levels! I will be traveling to had recent additions to your families,
will find at hospital to Albuquerque, NM in 04/10 to attend the across NC and soon out where on 10/23/09 UVA help and who have gotten engaged and/or '1 FLC's national meeting and awards cer- she'll be teaching for the spring her Crohns disease. She coded, and married within these past couple mos. semester. She recently went on a surprise lost half her blood due to internal emony. Matt and I attended 2 VT games Hope you all are doing well!
trip to visit Katy in NYC. bleeding in recovery, and required over the winter (1 football, 1 basketball) Kummer Liz Eager Marvel lives in and are looking forward to a Caribbean Nicole Crowder is loving her 2nd an emergency trauma surgery. Many Indianapolis, IN, with her husband. cruise for Matt's 30th birthday in 10/10. yr. of teaching at the U. of Mary Wash- SBC alumnae helped her through that She loves her job as events coordina-
Lindy Guill Cash and husband ington. Her husband Mike finally got a tough time, Breanne Leibering, Leah tor at Coll. Park Church. Her husband '05, Jonathan announce the birth of their 1st job in VA working for the DoD, and they Philhower, Kathryn Davis Andrea is in medical school, and this fall he's '01 son, Benjamin Jeffrey Cash on 2/17/10, decided to buy their 1 st house. Hidalgo , and Sarah Parson Breeden going to Tsiko, Togo, in West Africa to weighing 9lbs 21 oz. They're all doing Lisa Renfrow moved back to CA 05. Courtney Pfaff Kimble took Dee work in a missionary hospital for a mo. great and happy to have him home! from FL in 07/09. She'd been working at in post-surgery and used her nurs- Last Jun. Liz spent a wk. in Nicaragua
Christine Nail announces that she and Peju Winery in the Napa Valley, but just ing skills to help with proper recovery. with her family, a great trip. This past her husband had their 2nd son, Jaxson accepted a position as the consumer Diana's boyfriend, Erick Clepper, gave Sept., she was a bridesmaid in Karen Daniel Beisker, on 2/03/10. direct sales and wine club manager at her a promise ring for a pre-engage- Dennehy Godsey's wedding along Heather Cole Kraft and Kathryn Mariposa Wine Company in Madera, CA, ment soon after surgery. Additionally, with Lauren Wade Kerry Martin Kraft are meeting up with Caroline and is moving 3/1 0. during Diana's hospital stay, the 1st Spruill, Erin Gibbs, and Virginia Fowler
"Cookie" Williams and her girlfriend annual Brownie Science Try It Day, '04. Also in attendance were Dana for a week-long trip Honduras, Belize modeled after Prof. Jill Granger's event, Ripperton Maggie Murray Kathryn and Mexico! They are also expecting 2004 occurred. The event was organized and Strong, and Julia Geyer. They'll be Girl their 1st child in 08/10. Virginia Wood Susi planned with Scouts Virginia Skyline getting together again this summer for
Allison Albanis Strohmeyer 7975 Dunstable Cir. Council and Northrop Grumman Sperry Maggie Murray's wedding in CA. She married Dax Strohmeyer on 05/09/09 Orlando, FL 32817 Marine, Charlottesville, Women Initiative also went to Milwaukee to visit Casey for at The Breakers in Palm Beach, FL. [email protected] Networking and Success Group. Knapp Fleming last fall and had a
Blair Baigent served as maid of honor Diana spent Thanksgiving with Sara great time. '02. and Meg Foley, Carolyn Eney, Eliza Brienna McLaughlin Pruce is a free Lopez Dawson Mindy Wolfrom completed her 2nd
Chenault Hamnett '02, Brianna Meighan lance artist in Cambridge, England. She Kristin Trayer Barclay and hus- master's in classics at Boston Coll. in de Hanna '05, and Megan Meighan and her husband are traveling the world band Matt are still living just outside May '09, and moved to Newburyport,
'06 all flew in for the weekend. Allison and loving Europe. She started an art Charlotte, NC. Kristin is a church sec- MA, to begin her new adventure as piano lessons also reports that Carolyn Eney is store on her website: brienna.net. retary and teaches out an h. s. teacher! She's teaching Latin, engaged to Matthew Miller, and they're Ginny Wood Susi got married on of her home. In 2/10 Matt and Kristin Greek, and philosophy at Haverhill getting married 5/10 in Seabrook Island, 2/6/10. Her bridesmaids were Erin adopted an Australian Shepherd mix Public H. S. She had a very busy yet SCI Coleman and Jozanne Summerville puppy named Jack. Jamie Jensen '05, wonderful summer: travels with parents
Angelique Milone got engaged to In attendance at her wedding were residing in Charlottesville, VA, visited up to ME, with friends to the Cape,
William Lee Dodson in Richmond, VA, on Kirkland Wohlrab, Stephanie Kristin in 3/10. The old roomies had a and with Sweet Briar alumnae Nell
1 2/1 2/09. They are planning a 2/26/1 Gleason Peppier, Brenda Elze great time catching up and taking Jack Champoux and Natalie Pye '07 to Eric wedding in Richmond, VA. Her maid of '99, and Emily Suchta. Ginny and on long walks! Casey and Cathy Gutierrez's house for honor will '01 Sascha Rogers is working as be Katie Morse , and her husband Phill live in Orlando with their a visit of fromage, crepes, dachshund bridesmaids will be Rachel Allred '02, 2 dogs. a pediatric occupational therapist in kisses, and Moccamaster coffee. Northern VA, She speaks with fellow
62 -Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Mindy also visited Molly Mitchell in a big sister with the birth of their 2nd VA, and working at Henricus Historical as building a house and a barn for her 3
Minneapolis, MN, last Apr., where she daughter, Madeline "Maddie" Laurenza Park in Chester, VA, where she's the horses on 70 acres in Campbell Co.
presented her 1st academic paper at Bowe, on 1/20! Domestic Skills historical interpreter. Morgan Roach continues to
a classics regional conference. She's Jenniter Jones Collins is finishing Henricus is the 2nd settlement in colo- work at The Heritage Foundation as
also enjoyed the recent emergence up her 4th year teaching 8th grade nial VA, founded in 1 61 1 , and the recre- a research assistant on transatlantic
of the Sweet Briar Alumnae Club of science in Clarksville, TN. However, ated park is starling to ready for the relations, public diplomacy, Africa and
Boston, where she has been able to see this Jun., Jennifer will be moving to 400th commemoration. Jenny regularly Latin America. She's a member of
alumnae Denva Jackson and Michelle Heidelberg, Germany with her husband interprets the "Maids for Brides" sent American U.'s WeLEAD Program, a '06 Badger regularly! who is being stationed there with the over in 1621 , domestic servants, and series of seminars dedicated to further-
Diane Lotz Warren and Michael Army! They're so excited to have the Alice Proctor, one of the few women ing women's leadership in politics and
got married on 1 2/1 9'1 despite the opportunity to explore Europe! Life is from a nearby plantation who defended government. She's also a member of the
blizzard that struck the D.C./VA area. getting very hectic preparing for the her homestead during the 1622 Young Professionals in Foreign Policy
Tamara Himelright Helton and move! Jennifer was lucky enough to Massacre. (If you stop by Henricus this Discussion Group on Europe. This spring
Brian just bought a house in Palmyra, be maid of honor in Jessica Mercier summer, you might get to watch Jenny Morgan will be playing in D.C.'s tennis
VA, outside of Charlottesville. They Andryshak's wedding in Aug.! It was give a musket demonstration with a and soccer leagues. She continues to
recently became proud parents of a a beautiful VT wedding and she got to reproduction 1 7th century matchlock live in Washington, D.C.
little girl, Chloe Jane Helton who was catch up with Charis Lease-Trevathan musket!) Jenny is also performing Danielle Briggs-Hansen works
born on 2/1/10. Tamara plans to return Chase Nicole Bergeron and Alexan- regularly with the Crossroads Irish for Systems Planning and Analysis in to work mid-Apr. at UVA Healthsouth dra Blair Dance Troupe in Richmond and, during finance, since 5/11/09.
Rehab Hosptial. Leigh Darrell was sworn in to her time off, has been attending 18th Carlina Muglia continues to live
Sheena Belcher Hubbard and the MD Bar in Dec, and is enjoying and 1 9th century reenactments up and in Athens, GA, working at a law firm.
Matthew are happy to announce the her judicial clerkship on MD's Eastern down the East Coast. She recently moved to a new place
birth of their 1st child, Aubrey Hubbard, Shore. She took trips to visit Laura Lauren Martin is set to graduate that is next door to Cole Shanholtz '06. on 1/7/10. The family is doing well, and Pierce in KY and Kate Dobie in NY with her Doctorate of Physical Therapy "We still spend a lot of time with each
mom and dad are adjusting to the lack during the 1st few months of 2010. in May from the Medical Coll. of GA other riding and playing with our dogs," of sleep. Ivey Tabor Godfrey welcomed son after 3 long challenging yrs. This past she says. Carlina just finished taking a
Gabriel Martin on Mar. 5 and had a little fall she was able to visit with Cara trapeze class, is doing dog rescue and
bit of a bumpy road in the beginning as Cherry when she came to Atlanta to Crossfit. This summer she'll be moving 3006 he spent his first 8 days in the newborn intern at the CDC. If all goes according to Austin, TX, and will be visiting in early Victoria Chappell Harvey intensive care unit due to breathing dif- to plan, they'll room together in Atlanta May. She writes, "I look forward to the PSC 76 Box 7851 ficulties as he was 3 wks. premature. following both of their respective gradu- move and networking with any SBC girls APO.AP 96319-0057 He's home now and growing stronger ations. She stays in touch with Kassie in the area." [email protected] everyday and Caroline likes giving her Caola 07, Tabitha Dixon Ward, Nicki Natalie Pye is in her 2nd semester
little brother kisses. They're still living in Brandt, and various other SBC alumnae of law school at Washington Coll. of Law
Abby Adams bought her first home in Wake Forest and Ivey is a graphic art- through the wonders of free long- at A.U. in D.C, and just made the Mock
Ellicott City, MD, this past Sept.! She's ist and her husband, Ryan, works as a distance and Facebook. If anyone is Trial team. She writes, "School keeps me been doing a bunch of renovations youth director at their church. ever traveling through Atlanta, feel free pretty busy, but I hope to make it back to and has been living in the house for Tori Hankins married Doug to look her up! SBC for homecoming in the fall!" a bit with her dog, 2 cats, roommate, LaBrosse(HSC'06)on11/21 in Stephanie Scherer McCallister Laura Schaefer is still loving OR and roommate's dog. She's still work- Charlotte, NC. Several members of the has had a lot of entertainment since the and finishing up her AmeriCorps service ing in the newborn nursery at Greater Class of 2006 attended the celebra- Jan. addition of her second boarder col- term with the Beaverton School District,
Baltimore Medical Center in Towson, tion, including Henslee Evans Olivia lie, Max. This past Mar. also marked her which ends in Aug. She writes, "We re-
first cently MD, loves it! At Homecoming she saw Ungerer Hollylane Riley Sara year as a home owner! received funding to upgrade most some ladies and she has been staying Coffey and Shanthi Ramesh Colleen Karaffa Murray is still of the lighting in our school gyms and in touch with Jenn Wiley, Lindsey Victoria Chappell Harvey is lov- at Sweet Briar enjoying the beautiful cafeterias with more efficient fixtures; Cline Joanna Meade, and Jodie ing life in Japan! Besides exploring campus with her growing family. She the retrofits will be complete before the
Weber. Abby will be attending Jenn she has kept very busy with volunteer- and Brandon are expecting their 2nd end of Jun. and will be saving enough
Wiley's wedding in Vegas in Jul.! Abby ing on base along with her job. She child in Nov.! electricity each yr. to power 57 homes also tries to go riding whenever she looks forward to future visitors as she (700,000 kWh per yr, almost $70,000!) can. definitely suggests anyone to visit this We've had such a successful yr., and awesome country! This spring she's so I'm looking forward to learning more Joelle Andrews is still living in 3,007 Durham, NC, with her dog Lindy Lou. excited to be going back to the U.S. for Emily Nicole Olson about energy efficiency and starting my
She loves to dance blues and lindy a short visit to see family and friends. 382 E. Scripps Rd. career on the west coast. I had a short hop, and frequently travels around the While she's there, she'll have the Lake Orion, Ml 48360 and snowy visit back to D.C. to celebrate
of in '06 country for events. Joelle is still work- honor being a bridesmaid Allison [email protected] the holidays with Margaret Loebe '06 ing in Duke U.'s development office, Martell's wedding along with Lea and Angelica Shea before heading
but not for long! In Sept., she's moving Pyne, Charlotte Speilman, and Becky Thanks to everyone who sent in notes! up to PA to see my family." '07. '07 to Sevilla, Spain, to work as an English Teachy Kassie Caola will also As usual, '07 is up to some amazing Maggie Saylor Patrick started a teaching assistant with a JYS sponsored be in attendance. things. new job working as the assistant dir. of Coll. program. Maybe when she is there Charis Lease-Trevathan Chase Danielle Dionne is in her 2nd yr. of the Annual Fund at Macalester in
Joelle will get to visit Jenny Jones graduated from Savannah State U. in teaching 1st grade at Countryside Elem. St. Paul, MN. She says, "I keep dream-
May with a in social work. ing of VA, it Collins who is moving to Germany with masters in Northern VA, loves it. She's also in the moving back to but so far
her husband Tommy. But before the big Sarah Liston is still working for process of purchasing her 1st home. just doesn't seem to be happening."
move, Joelle can't wait to see Jenny an IT company in Columbus, OH, as a Megen Blaesing recently Husband Martin will be finishing up his
Jones Collins Alexandra Blair. project coordinator. She'll be competing graduated from V.C.U. with a M.A. in master's thesis in Apr., and they plan on Jessica Mercier Andryshak and in her 1st triathlon in Jul. She became Occupational Therapy. She's working as staying put another yr. or 2 before mov- '06), Charis Lease-Trevathan Chase at engaged to Jason Mitchell (RIT an a pediatric OT in Lynchburg, VA, where ing on. She writes, "I had the chance to
Nicole Bergeron s wedding! electrical engineer, on 3/6 and they're she lives with her fiance, Chris and visit with Rachel Reynolds when I was '12! Michelle Clark Bowe and her to be married in Mar. She's so their pets, Socks and Sophie. They're down for the Feb. board meeting, but I
husband Thomas made daughter Lillian excited! planning for their Aug. wedding as well miss getting to see everyone regularly.
Jenny Lynn is living in Richmond, Campus looks great every time I visit,
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and I'm so proud of the new Green Vil- nitely miss my SBC family. I do talk to work as a public defender in Clearwater, U. where she plans to earn her M.A. in lage and the FAC!" Betty Skeen and Rosanna Hawkins FL. Nothing too exciting—ask me in counseling. Studying keeps her busy, but
Sarah Kindschuh spent last Winner regularly, and am planning trips a couple a mos., and I should have she'd love to visit SBC to see all of the summer and fall working in NM at the to see them this spring/summer." passed the bar, gotten a job, and should wonderful new changes!
Valles Caldera National Preserve and Kim Wadelton is currently in grad. be a real grown up! Keep your fingers As for me, I continue to live in Ml
recently spent the mo. of Jan. working school at Georgia Tech for a dual M.A. in crossed!" with my wild and crazy family. In Oct., I with baboons in a National Park near architecture and city and regional plan- Emily Fitzpatrick is in her 2nd yr. started teaching musical theatre classes
Cape Town, South Africa, then spent ning. This summer she'll be in Bandung, of coaching lacrosse at Oberlin Coll. She for kids at a dance studio and in Jan. I Feb. touring around the area. She has Indonesia working at an urban planning writes, "As the recruiting coordinator for started working as the costume designer
lots of amazing pictures posted on firm. After that, she'll be going to Borneo the women's lacrosse program, I suc- for the local h.s.'s spring production,
Facebook. I wish I could remember more to do some volunteer work helping to cessfully recruited the largest incoming Annie Get Your Gun, which will go up in
of the specifics, but as I write this she's build a hospital which she and some class in recent history of 1 2 student- Apr. I'm enjoying both jobs, and looking moving back to NM to work in the same other tech students have been designing athletes." She's planning on moving forward to new adventures this sum-
place again for the spring through fall for the past yr. She writes, "I'll be there to MA for a grad. program in exercise mer. On the weekends I volunteer at a and she has no cell phone reception. to help them break ground and pour science and sports physiology. She's Family History Library and teach Sunday
You'll just have to believe me that it was the foundations. It should be awesome. waiting to hear back from Smith Coll., school to some rambunctious 7- and
really cool. I'd like to stay there longer to continue but was already accepted to Spring- 8-year-olds. In 8/09 1 was able to visit
Heidi Trude continues to teach overseeing the construction, but I'm field. She says, "I'm excited to move Kim Battad in San Jose, CA, which was
French at Skyline H.S. in Front Royal, VA. waiting to see if I get funding, and I'll to western MA and looking forward to a lot of fun. I didn't get to see Sarah
She was the head coach for the Aca- have to take a little time off school. But more coaching." Kindschuh in NM last yr. as I planned, demic Team (quiz bowl) this winter. Heidi no rush to graduate, right?" Kelsey Jeffers is living in Falls but plans are in the works for the com- had a blast coaching the team and was Eleanor O'Connor is still in London Church, VA, and keeping busy. She ing mos. I'd love to get to London to so proud that they came in 3rd place working on her M.A. in Publishing at U. writes, "I spend my mornings working as visit Eleanor O'Connor, but so far my in the district tournament. This summer Coll. of London. She says, "I'm having a laboratory technician for the Vitreous funding will only allow floating across
Heidi will be taking a group of students lots of fun exploring the city and taking State Laboratory at Catholic U. of Amer- the Atlantic in a barrel and that doesn't
from Skyline to Ireland, England, and day trips away. I start my placement next ica in D.C. Our research is in nuclear seem like the wisest plan, I keep in
France. Heidi had a fantastic time at mo. and am looking forward to attending environmental protection through the touch with many SBC friends and I love
Homecoming and President Parker's the London Book Fair! If anyone is going vitrification of nuclear wastes. I spend being able to catch up with a lot more of inauguration. She's planning on return- to be in London this summer, let me my afternoons at the Madeira School you twice a yr. for class notes! I'm really ing to SBC for graduation in May. know. I'd love to meet up!" in McLean, VA, as the assistant aquatic hoping to make it to SBC for Homecom-
Caitlin Ashley wrote in for herself Stephanie Norris is teaching 4th director where I coach swimming and ing this year, so hopefully I'll see all of and for Betty Skeen. She writes of Bet- grade in Richmond, VA, and working on teach lifeguarding to h. s. girls." you there! In the meantime, if anyone ty, "She's been studying at the U. of MD her M.Ed, in curriculum and instruction Hollie Jennings Payne and wants to visit Ml, let me know! since graduation and will be graduating at the U. of Richmond which she will husband Johnny are expecting their with her MFA in dance this yr. Her thesis finish in 5/1 1 1 st baby, a daughter they plan to name concert, entitled Geminuspace, was Ferrell Lyles writes, "Things are KadenceFaye, in Jul.! 2008 the 1 st weekend in Mar. and from what well here in NC! Since my fiance, Mary Petrie graduated from Kathryn Mills
I hear was well received. In addition Andrew Smith (VMI '06), returned from Shenandoah U. with her M.S. in Oc- 4310 Bromley Ln. to being a phenomenal dancer, she's Iraq in 1 1/09 we have been enjoying our cupational Therapy in 1 2/09. She was Richmond, VA 23221 dating a wonderful guy, Hunter." Cat also house in NC with our cat Isobel and her honored to be elected the class speaker [email protected] says Betty may be looking at moving to arch-nemesis: our Czech/DDR German for her wonderful occupational therapy
NYC after graduating and says, "so any Shepherd puppy, Baron. I'm still working class. As of 1/10, Mary is working for a SBC alumnae in the NYC area make for Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior small private outpatient rehab clinic in 200? sure to let her know you're there! consultant. I started my M.A. degree Lynchburg. Currently, she is performing Julia McClung As for herself, Caitlin is going on in diplomacy with Norwich U. in 12/09 contract services for this in company 14957 Santa Lucia Dr.
her 3rd yr. international will in 1 . district. as an trade and graduate 6/1 In other the Buckingham County School Charlotte, NC 28277 representative with the WV Development news, by the time you read this, Andrew Mary loves her new career and is look- [email protected]
Office. She says, "I assist WV business and I will be married! We're having a ing forward to trying many new things
with exporting. I organize international small wedding with close family that in 2010! trade missions or booths at international will take place on 5/30/10 overlooking Allison Shaw Camper is living 0,010 trade shows and give WV businesses Frenchman Bay in Bar Harbor, ME. Katie in VA and teaching 9th grade earth Alaina McKee the opportunity to sell their products Vaughan '06 and Lynnsey Brown '07 science. She's working on her M.A. in 9653 Wexford Cr. overseas." Since starting there, she has are bridesmaids. Also in attendance will education. Granite Bay, CA 95746 participated in the Governor's 2007 Mis- be Andrew's sister Lydia Smith (who Rosanna Hawkins Winner is [email protected] sion to China and led 3 trade missions attended SBC in fall '07) and Andrew's working at a school for children who with WV businesses, 2 to China and 1 to cousin, Amanda Ankerman '00. After have autism and really enjoys the work.
Canada. This yr., she's leading missions serious consideration of many options She says, "While it can be extremely to Australia and India. Also, she decided and the deliberation of a few, we finally taxing, it's rewarding in its own ways. to go back to school, and is getting an decided to take our honeymoon in the She and husband Rob are busy fixing up
EMBA from the U. of Charleston and will British Virgin Islands! I hope that every- their house, trying to get things finished.
graduate this Dec. (hopefully, she says). one is doing well! I miss you ladies!" She says they have been successful in
She writes, "The business program has Caitlin Cashin is halfway through some areas, "Our basement no longer scheduled an International Practicum to her M.A. in music and cultural history floods!"
Paris and Amsterdam for about 2 wks. at U. Coll. Cork in Ireland and having a Kim Battad still lives in the Bay this summer, so if there are any SBC wonderful time. area, working as a music teacher at girls in the area, let me know! I have Irene Maslanik will be graduating Noteworthy Music School, teaching an apartment in Charleston (would love in May from Stetson U. Coll. of Law in keyboarding for children and adults. She
SBC visitors) and am looking for a house Gulfport, FL. She writes, "In the last yr. misses SBC and her classmates and since I'm not leaving my job anytime of law school, I've had the opportunity to hope all is well with them! soon. My parents are nearby, so it's nice try several cases and it's been amazing Jennifer Dick is enjoying her 1st yr.
to have family around, although, l defi- experience. Upon graduation, I hope to of graduate school at Eastern Mennonite
64 • Summer 2010 Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu S IN THE SWEET BRIAR
Anne Walden Dewey Guerin '41
SHEILA ALEXANDER, development grants officer
Ann Dewey Guerin at the site of a restored ruin on an American Anne Walden Dewey Guerin, Class of 1941, loved Indian reservation in Santa Fe, N. M., during her junior year at Sweet Briar. her years at Sweet Briar, where she majored in
English. When she passed away, her brother, John Peyton "My mother loved Virginia. She 'Pete' Dewey, made a commitment to Sweet Briar attended Mary Washing-ton, but in memory of those happy years his sister spent at encouraged my sister, Anne, the College and in honor of his mother, Anne Henry, to attend Sweet Briar, which who was a native Virginian raised in Rappahannock she did. After sister passed County. my I Anne Walden Dewey Guerin '41 "My mother loved Virginia. She attended Mary away read an article in your
Washington, but encouraged my sister, Anne, to alumnae magazine, and I attend Sweet Briar, which she did," Dewey said. "After my sister passed away I thought that a gift to Sweet read an article in your alumnae magazine, and I thought that a gift to Sweet Briar Briar would be a great way to would be a great way to honor both of them and make a lasting contribution. I honor both of them and make know they would be pleased." a lasting contribution. I know Dewey created a bequest to the College, making him an Indiana Fletcher they would be pleased." Williams Associate, a donor who makes a planned gift to Sweet Briar. He also —John Peyton 'Pete' Dewey gave a generous endowment gift to the Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld Fund for
Historic Preservation. This gift will help bring Sweet Briar closer to rebuilding historic Tusculum on the College campus. This beautiful home was the birthplace of Maria Crawford, mother of Indiana Fletcher Williams, who founded Sweet Briar
College.
When funds are available, Tusculum will be reconstructed near antebellum
Sweet Briar House, home to College presidents and originally a sister plantation to
Tusculum and Mount Saint Angelo, which is also a College property and currently home to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
"It is important for friends of Sweet Briar to understand that we work to ensure that a donor's giving plan is satisfactory in every way to the donor's current and future needs," said Garry Buttner, director of major and planned gifts for Sweet
Briar. "There are many creative ways to plan a gift that contributes to the future of the College while creating a legacy in memory of someone special." 1
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