MAGAZINE

fall 2012 Dear Friends:

n this issue of the Sweet Briar Magazine you will find several pieces on various aspects of the arts, among them a profile of artist and alumna Fay Chandler and an article on the new Barton-Laing Professorship in Art History, along with highlights from the theater, dance and creative Iwriting programs. At a liberal arts college, studio and performing arts play a central and rich role. Some students make art in preparation for a career or a lifetime avocation. Others make art to explore the possibilities for expressing ideas in new media. Research increasingly indicates that asking students to express themselves artistically fosters creativity that expands their ability to analyze and solve problems in any field. Many students who do not make art study it. The arts can be viewed through the lenses of many academic disciplines — economics, history, psychology, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, religion, anthropology. And the arts play a role in many of the professions students will enter — obviously, for example, arts management (a very strong program here at Sweet Briar, by the way) or education; perhaps less obviously, economic development or psychotherapy. Whatever their majors or career goals, students benefit from contemplating paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, installations and videos by learning to look attentively and thoughtfully. The same is true, of course, of listening to music or watching theater or dance. If we learn how to attend to them, the creative expressions of others open vistas that our own experiences could never reveal. The arts of all cultural traditions are an indispensable stimulus to thinking inclusively and broadly about what it is to be human. For all these reasons and more, at Sweet Briar the fine and performing arts remain at the center of the liberal arts. I hope this issue will provide you an interesting peek at the many ways the arts infuse campus life. Best,

Jo Ellen Parker, President

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Features

8-13 14-18 20-23 24-25 26-27 Boston Art’s Big Cat-roversy Real-world Stage Wright Home Away Grande Dame Wildlife economists Experience 2012 graduate From Home? At 90, still coloring study environmental Sweet Briar interns follows her passion UVa’s young writers outside the lines cost of hunting ban covered the map dig this place

Departments

Cover 2-7 28-33 34-69 artwork: On the Quad Because of You Class Notes & “Mirror Image,” 2005, Summer Scholars; 21st-Century Learning Alumnae News 64 x 48 inches, latex on Teaching Teachers; Spaces; Art History Fulbright in Turkey; canvas, Fay Chandler, A New Dean; Yoga Gets a Lift; Seniors Up The M&M Files; from the collection of Man; Salty Winners; the Ante Reunion Snapshot; Larry Bell Arts Galore A Poet and a Painter

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 1 Summer Scholars Spencer Beall ’14 was one of nine Sweet Briar students who received an Honors Summer Research Program scholarship in 2012. Beall spent much of her time in Cochran Library researching the project, in which she translated art commentaries from pre-20th century French writers and critics and discussed how changes in social and cultural norms are reflected in these texts. Professor Marie-Therese Killiam supervised her work.

2 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Wrangling Wigglers in the Name of Science

In June, Sweet Briar and Lynchburg College hosted the “Central Virginia Consortium Conference,” the result of a 19-month project funded by a $199,502 grant from the Virginia Department of Education. During the 2011-12 school year, 17 local teachers were trained in inquiry pedagogy and developed, implemented, assessed and reviewed experiment-driven lessons to create six fully integrated STEM (science, technology, engineering The project launched in March and math) units for grades 4 and 5. During the 2011 under the lead of chemistry conference, the 17 teachers demonstrated the new professor Jill Granger and lessons for their “students” — 80 of their colleagues from engineering director Hank Yochum, across the region. along with adjunct biology professor Arlene Vinion-Dubiel. Teacher participants were walked through the hands-on lessons and techniques, which ranged from introducing squeamish kids to live All six STEM lessons and instructional videos can be earthworms to racing matchbox cars carrying magnets to learning downloaded for free at stem4teachers.org. Conference about induction and electrical engineering. Fifth-grade lessons instructors and attendees planned to implement the lessons included “Earth Shaking Tsunamis,” “Dance by Numbers” and in the 2012-13 school year in the city of Lynchburg and “Cookie Mystery.” surrounding counties.

25 and Counting

In October, Professor Bill Kershner celebrated his “first 25 years” in the theater department with a “Silver Soiree.” The party was held following the Oct. 20 performance of the Sweet Briar Theatre musical “The King and I.”

Kershner is theater’s longtime director and became chair of the Performing Arts Division when it was formed in spring 2011. The division is composed of the music, theater and dance programs, as well as musical theater, which was added as a major at that time.

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 3 Artsapalooza

Everywhere you looked on campus Page 26). The five-week camp brought in nearly 200 this summer, a young scribe, thespian, painter or high school students interested in fiction, non-fiction, sculptor was liable to look back at you. The College poetry and song- and scriptwriting. hosted the second Blue Ridge Summer Institute for Both art camps also engaged with Endstation’s Young Artists, known as BLUR, attracting 30 high Playwrights Initiative through workshops and school writers, actors and visual artists from all over readings and attended several performances. In the country. addition, they visited the neighboring Virginia Center Meanwhile, Endstation Theatre Company, a theater for the Creative Arts, where practicing artists-in- troupe in residence at Sweet Briar, added an extra residence of all genres shared their experience with month for the fifth season of its Blue Ridge Summer the youngsters. Even the June 29 derecho that cut Theatre Festival, with a second outdoor Shakespeare some sessions short couldn’t suppress the vibe brought production. BLUR students were able to work about by this confluence of eager young talent, with the festival, as did the University of Virginia’s veteran teachers and dynamic artists, all brimming renowned Young Writers Workshop, which took with excitement for their crafts. place at Sweet Briar for the first time (Read more on

‘Salty’ Winner One to Watch

Leah Busque, a 2001 Sweet Briar computer science graduate, took home the award for overall Entrepreneur of the Year at the Sweet Briar business department’s second Salt Block Project Awards Dinner in October.

Busque is the founder of TaskRabbit, a website that lets people and companies outsource odd jobs to pre-screened “runners” who bid against one another for the work. Since launching in 2008, her company has raised $40 million in funding and operates in nine U.S. cities. TaskRabbit has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and on CNN, Fox News and ABC News. Earlier this year, Busque made Fast Company’s list of the “100 Most Creative People In Business,” and Inc. Magazine named her one of “15 Women To Watch In 2012.” TaskRabbit’s most famous runner is ABC’s Katie Couric, who recently tested the service on her show.

Other “Saltys” went to Marti Beller, CEO and co-founder of PlanG, and Bob Vosburgh, founder and president of 9g Enterprises.

4 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine New Dean of Enrollment Steven W. Nape began work as dean of enrollment management at Sweet Briar College on May 29.

Nape started his career at Gordon College in Barnesville, Ga., where he served as director of institutional research and director of enrollment services. In 2000, he moved to Randolph-Macon College, where he was director of admissions, then dean of admissions and financial aid. From 2009 to 2011, he served as vice provost for enrollment planning and management at Radford University. Nape comes to Sweet Briar from Enrollment Intelligence, an enrollment management consultancy where he worked as the managing vice president.

He holds a bachelor’s with a double major in philosophy and economics from the University of South Carolina, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He also received his Ph.D. in economics from USC.

Slave Dwelling Project

Joe McGill of the National Trust for Historic Preservation created the Slave Dwelling Project to preserve and interpret structures that once housed enslaved blacks. On Oct. 7, McGill spent the night in the Sweet Briar College 19th-century slave cabin along with eight other individuals, including Crystal Rosson. Rosson is the great- granddaughter of Sterling Jones Sr., the last person to live in the cabin.

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 5 Technological Steppes

Professor of anthropology Claudia Chang ancient plant and animal remains, prehistoric ceramics and was in Kazakhstan this summer and fall, leading an archaeological architecture at Iron Age sites circa 400 B.C. to A.D. 100. research project in the Talgar region steppes. Recently plowed earth is good hunting for archaeologists. She is taking notes on her fieldwork on Bento, the blog of the Transecting endless crop rows, the team used handheld GPS Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries. Her writings appeared devices to record the precise location of each artifact they weekly during the exhibition of “Nomads and Networks: The found. Nowadays the process is quick and easy, says Chang, Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan” in the Sackler Gallery who began teaching at Sweet Briar in 1981 and has conducted from Aug. 11 to Nov. 12. She also contributed an article for the field research in Kazakhstan since the mid-1990s. Back then, it “Nomads and Networks” catalog. took up to 15 minutes with a compass and map.

Chang’s project in Kazakhstan was funded by a National She marvels at how high-speed computing, satellite imagery Science Foundation grant. She is a principal investigator on the and “good hard field work” reveal landscapes used by ancient collaborative research, titled “Bronze and Iron Age Prehistory people, the size of their settlements, and the nature of their on the Margins of the Eurasian Steppe,” with Irina Panyushkina ceremonial and burial practices. of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of “After a long day of walking amongst the soy plants, there is Arizona. nothing better than being able to come home, plot our artifact The researchers were trying to reconstruct prehistoric climatic scatters or kurgan locations on a Google Earth map, and see conditions through dendochronology — dating trees through ring the pieces fit together,” Chang says. analysis — and palynology and geomorphology, disciplines related to earth science. The archaeological component involves studying

6 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Many Hands, Light Work On the morning of Sept. 28, about campus. Sweet Day is a revival of the Patchwork Day tradition 180 students, staff and faculty participated in the College’s when students donned their grubs and set to work with rakes, second Sweet Day of Service. Everyone pitched in to complete paint brushes or whatever tool the job called for. 17 projects such as trail maintenance, landscaping, cleaning, interior and exterior painting, and generally sprucing up the

Bend it Like Magruder Sweet Briar College dance program director Mark Magruder has released a CD of original music compositions, “Yoga Dreams.” He wrote and performed the works to use during his yoga classes.

“I wanted at least an hour of music that could be used for relaxing, meditating and practicing yoga postures, a A Mighty Wind collection of soothing sounds that For physical plant workers, would help to relieve stress from today’s it was all hands on deck in the wake busy lifestyles,” said Magruder, who has of the June 29 derecho that left taught dance at Sweet Briar for nearly 28 years. behind widespread destruction and power outages across the region. Magruder plays a number of instruments and frequently composes Sweet Briar sustained some and performs music to accompany his structural damage and numerous dance choreography. He wanted to combine downed trees, limbs and power several instruments with looping pedals and other lines. Summer programs were expression effects to create an ideal music set for yoga disrupted and the College closed practice. The result is “Yoga Dreams.” for a week while crews worked to The CD is available on iTunes and Amazon. clean up debris and restore power.

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 7 8 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Color not convention

Art Connection founder doesn’t mind life as an ‘oddball’

Story by Katie Beth Ryan ’08 | Photos by Thomas Baker

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 9 At age 4, Fay Martin Chandler ’43 Belafonte’s “Banana Boat Song.” Chandler calls it her “elevator music.” was denied the chance to hold her “All of my life, I’ve been sort of an oddball,” she baby cousin, and instead was offered muses. “I think it’s just been my life to be that way and not really mind it.” a doll to play with. Chandler’s home is only a glimpse of what is This was not a consolation prize that Chandler, literally a colorful life. The term “whimsical” is often who turned 90 in September, was willing to accept. Her used to describe her bright, figurative paintings. She recourse was to stick out her tongue at a photographer uses bold hues to create the larger-than-life characters who snapped her picture. in her paintings, which she gives fun, unpretentious Chandler displays the photo in the converted titles. “Hold Tight” features a dirt bike racer and firehouse in Brighton, Mass., that doubles as her home “How I Wished I Looked In the First Grade” depicts a and the studio where she paints. The image is proof that pretty blonde girl in a blue flowered dress. The figures her rebellious streak began early in life. It never really dominate the canvas, inhabiting colorful micro worlds went away, judging by the other accoutrements around of their own. her living space. Fifty years ago, art wasn’t such an integral part of A sign tells visitors, “If you’re not barefoot, you’re Chandler’s life. She was happily married and raising four overdressed.” A family of prickly red, orange and green children. She had met Alfred Chandler, a former Navy cacti in small pots line the windowsill in her kitchen, man, in her hometown of Norfolk, Va. They married a giving off an air of friendliness. A plush monkey in the year after she graduated from Sweet Briar, where she’d building’s cramped elevator serenades riders with Harry followed her sister Alpine “Piney” Martin Patterson ’41.

10 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine At Sweet Briar, Chandler studied sociology and enjoyed her classes with professors Belle Boone Beard and Fritz Rohrlich. She was tapped as a Chung Mung and elected to the May Court. She socialized on the weekends with students from Hampden-Sydney and UVa, and once showed up at a dance at the U.S. Naval Academy with purple hair after a peroxide experiment went awry. She and Alfred moved north when he took a job at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was the first stop in a storied academic career that led him to prominence at Harvard Business School. Meanwhile, Fay sometimes struggled in Cambridge’s academic community. She once went to a neighborhood picnic in blue jeans, only to find everyone else in cocktail attire. “I felt like a misfit,” she recalls. Nearing 40, she began to sketch and paint portraits. Her drive to paint came from a spiritual longing; it was “time to learn to pray,” she says. She had begun “Vote Today,” 2008, 36 X 24 reading about spirituality, and the words of Christian philosopher Paul Tillich — to make full use of one’s eyes in order to see — resonated with her. “I got the message that learning to look was very important. It could be a very important start in learning to pray, and a good way to learn to look was to learn to draw,” she says. Seeing anew the world around her, Chandler essentially received a second education. She kept Tillich’s words in mind as she taught herself about art. Looking was paramount. While visiting museums Chandler observed, “Everybody would go and stare at something and then everybody would go another place. I didn’t like that. So I just would wander around and look.” She didn’t try to overanalyze the pieces she saw. She was learning to see the world through new eyes, and recording her visions on paper and canvas. While Albert was in residence at All Souls College at Oxford, she toured the U.K. by bus, people-watching “Face the Facts,” 2011, 36 X 24

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 11 90th birthday celebration at Irish pub Converted firehouse

“Sometimes if you just … let it happen, sometimes the result is quite different than what you expected it to be. Or maybe it will lead to something that’s more exciting than you thought it could be.” — Fay Chandler

all the way. “I had a wonderful time, traveling all around Chandler liked that people could view the donated with a sketchbook,” Chandler says. Coupled with pieces and draw their own conclusions about them, but formal training at the Maryland Institute College of she knew art has healing properties, too. She recalls a Art, she moved from portraits to more figurative-based client served by an Art Connection-affiliated nonprofit. paintings. After years on the streets, the woman had come to the By her early 70s, she had accumulated a backlog of nonprofit to rebuild her life. She was drawn to one unsold work in her home. Not wanting her children to of Chandler’s paintings: a piece juxtaposing light and face tax liabilities on the work they inherited from her, darkness. It was the perfect analogy for her life. she founded the Boston-based Art Connection. It’s an “She said, ‘I look at this painting every day. I come exchange that lets artists display their work instead of it and I sit beside it and I see my life on the street, which sitting unseen and unsold in an attic. At the same time, was no longer what I could do. … On the other side, I nonprofit organizations can select pieces to display that see the way it is now and the way it’s going to be.’ ” they otherwise can’t afford. Chandler pauses, letting the story take hold. “Boy,” “I always say it was the best idea I’ve ever had in she says. my life. And I’ve had a lot of ideas,” Chandler says, Chandler’s involvement with The Art Connection grinning. It’s also a successful idea: Some 350 artists has solidified her status as the grande dame of Boston’s have donated more than 3,000 pieces of art through The art scene. In 2010, a retrospective show of her work, Art Connection. “Just As I Am,” was held at the Boston Center for the

12 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Freshman fashion show 1941 May Court

Arts, where she was one of the earliest studio artists. These days, much of the vision in her right eye is And one of her paintings adorned the buttons worn by gone, and she usually wears an eye cap or tinted lens revelers at the city’s 2012 First Night celebration. over it. Her diminished hand-eye coordination has led “You say her name and people smile,” says Mary her to stop making her multi-media mini-sculptures. Coogan, a longtime friend and former chairwoman of “It wasn’t because I lost interest in making things. It The Art Connection board. “She’s extremely generous, was too confusing, I guess,” she says. not only financially, but with ideas and emotional But Chandler has no room in her life for negative support and helping people see how to manage their thinking. She invites other artists into the basement careers and manage their work. “junk room” to sift through the plastic bins full of “She’s a model for women artists in Boston, and assorted objects that she once used in her sculptures. maybe all over the country.” It’s fun, she says, to see what other uses fellow artists Chandler also recently decided to extend the find for unmatched earrings, rotary telephone parts and organization’s reach by making a $50,000 gift to Sweet party poppers. In this sense, Chandler considers herself Briar’s arts management program to support a local a Pollyanna of sorts. “She saw the sunshine where maybe partnership with The Art Connection. it was gloomy.” Chandler moved to her Brighton studio after Alfred And in many ways, the visions she imparts in vivid died in 2007. Down the street is an Irish pub where, in colors to her canvases at age 90 are clearer and brighter true Boston fashion, everyone knows her name. Their than they have ever been. faces light up when she walks through the door. “This “Sometimes if you just … let it happen, sometimes is Fay’s home,” a waiter explains. She’s on a first-name the result is quite different than what you expected it basis, too, at Big Daddy’s, the pizza joint next door to to be. Or maybe it will lead to something that’s more the firehouse, and at the Benjamin Moore store where exciting than you thought it could be.” she buys her paint samples.

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 13 Hunting for Data

14 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Hunting for Data

Conservation research informs animal rights debate

Story by Amanda Wisz Keener ’08 | Photos by Rob Alexander

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 15 It’s not uncommon for Alexander, a wildlife economist, studies the economic incentives behind human behaviors that contribute to the work of Sweet Briar global species decline and endangerment. This year, in researchers to impact collaboration with former Sweet Briar assistant professor of economics Joseph Craig and researchers from the wild audiences far from cat conservation group Panthera, Alexander published a home. Rob Alexander, study in the South African Journal of Wildlife Research professor of economics titled “Possible relationships between the South African captive-bred lion hunting industry and the hunting and environmental studies, conservation of lions elsewhere in Africa.” hopes folks in South Africa Lions are among the most coveted big-game African trophies. According to the study, hunters visiting southern are paying attention to his and East Africa pay $1,800 to $3,200 a day for two- to latest research. three-week safaris and the chance to shoot a lion. Up to half never encounter one. Those who book trips in South Africa, however, may spend thousands less and, 99 percent of the time, head home with a trophy after a few days. How? The latter participate in “put-and-take” or “canned” hunting, which takes place in an enclosed compound stocked with captive lions bred to be hunted. About 90 percent of South African lion hunting is canned hunting, but the practice remains highly

16 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine controversial. It’s unpopular among animal welfare groups Another claims that canned hunting increases demand for such as the Humane Society and the International Fund for bones of both wild and captive lions in Asia, where they’re Animal Welfare, which recently co-sponsored a petition used in traditional medicine. to list the lion as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Alexander joined his longtime collaborator Peter Species Act. An IFAW commentary described canned Lindsey of Panthera to bring some clarity, and data, to the hunting as “the cruel practice of containing animals (mostly controversy. The two had published a paper together in lion) to fenced-in areas, with animals often drugged or 2006 gauging the potential of wild lion hunting to create sedated and conditioned to trust humans.” incentives that promote habitat and wildlife conservation Some also see canned hunting as detrimental to South in several African countries. This concept was supported Africa’s tourism image. Earlier this year, the international in a study Lindsey published this year that was met with activist group Avaaz launched an ad campaign throughout debate from animal rights groups. Johannesburg Airport calling for an end to the practice. Alexander, who is also an accomplished wildlife photographer and has traveled in Africa, tries to remain In 2010, more than twice as many lion trophy exports unbiased. came out of South Africa than from the rest of Africa “It’s something I’ve found to be ironic,” he says. “I’m combined. How a ban on canned hunting in South Africa not a hunter, but as a conservationist, I’m willing for our would influence wild populations throughout the rest of society to do these things for the sake of conserving the the continent remains unclear. land and the animals that live on it. I have to acknowledge “Would there be a sudden surge in demand for wild the positive role hunting plays in conservation.” lions?” Alexander asked. He and Lindsey saw the potential for a ban on canned One argument asserts that hunting captive-bred hunting to increase danger for the species and its habitats lions should remove the pressure from wild populations. throughout Africa. “This is not just an animal rights issue,”

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 17 Alexander said. “There is a whole different question The survey data did uncover strong trends. Nearly about conservation of wild lion populations.” all hunters who had been on wild hunts (96 percent of To determine if canned and wild hunting are those surveyed) said they would not be interested in a related, Alexander and the Panthera researchers asked canned hunting trip. It’s possible the differences in cost if the two industries share overlapping markets. They and time needed for the two types of hunts create two designed and administered a survey to hunters and disparate markets, and those who can take wild hunting operators at hunting expos in the U.S. and Germany. trips already do. The survey also revealed, however, that The survey helped them compare several aspects of 20 percent of hunters who have gone on canned hunts wild and canned hunting, including length of the hunt, would consider trying a wild hunt. According to the hunter success rates and impressions about the two study, such a shift could have a big impact: types of hunting. “Owing to the large size of the captive-bred lion Alexander brought Craig into the study to hunting industry, even if a small proportion of the work on the statistics and technical aspects of the market was transferable, the increase in demand for analysis. This was the first project the two economics wild lion hunts could be significant if the hunting of professors had worked on together, and Craig’s first captive-bred lions was ever prohibited. A shift of 20 environmental project. percent of the captive-bred market could lead to an “It was really cool for me to work outside of my increase of 42.9 percent in the demand for wild lions.” normal niche,” he said. “If we did have a ban,” Alexander says, “it would be His main question was simple: “How responsive very important for governments of African countries to are people to changes in lion hunting costs?” Answering exert more control over hunting.” the question was not so simple. “Getting accurate data He is quick to note that this study is preliminary. in pricing in Africa is almost impossible,” he said. Still, he hopes it will invite people to consider the In the end, he had too few observations to make relationships observed and take precautionary statistically supported conclusions. Craig conceded that steps, responding to changes in demand rather than it’s unlikely any hunting company would agree to the dangerous changes in lion populations. invasive study that would be necessary to really answer his question, fearing bad publicity.

18 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine if you generate two, what could it do?

We recently challenged every member of the Alumnae Board to generate two admission applications to Sweet Briar College. Thank you to all those who participated; your support is critical to our success.

Now, we are extending the challenge to every alumna and parent. To “sweeten” the deal, we will waive the fee for the two applications you refer.

What will just two applications do for the College?

Here’s the math:

50 alumnae x 2 applications = 100 applications

100 applications = 24 young women who will find their place at Sweet Briar College

To learn more, contact: Steven Nape, dean of enrollment management (800) 381-6142 | [email protected]

Paula Ledbetter, associate director of admissions (800) 381-6142 | [email protected]

You can make a difference!

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 19 {what they did this summer}

Whether you’re looking for that first job or the perfect internship, networking often is key. Last spring, while assisting the editorial staff of this magazine on an assignment in Washington, D.C., Sarah Lindemann ’13 seized one such opportunity. The story featured the women of Sweet Briar’s extensive alumnae community working in and around the nation’s capital. Susan Scanlan ’69, president of the National Council of Women’s Organizations and newly elected Sweet Briar board member, was among them. Scanlan gave her card to Lindemann, who called a week later and netted an unpaid public relations and photography internship with the council. “She essentially created the position for me,” Lindemann said. “If I hadn’t followed up with her, I never would have gotten this amazing internship!” All summer, Lindemann photographed high- profile events in the capital, including a rally in support of Betty Dukes’ gender discrimination case against Wal-Mart, a briefing on the current status of Title IX in honor of its 40th anniversary, a press conference on the Paycheck Fairness Act, and the Girl Scouts 100th birthday celebration. The internship went beyond taking pictures (some of the images in this story are hers) says Lindemann, who is still exploring career options. As an environmental studies major with a minor in journalism, new media and communications, her interests are varied. “I’ve learned so much more about the inner workings of D.C. and how important networking and maintaining professional relationships are. “I’ve worked on teaching myself more about photographing events and creating an efficient workflow,” she added. “I have also learned how much I still have left to learn. Every day I have more questions about certain aspects of photography or politics, and how they can impact one another.” Lindemann wasn’t the only one to land a killer internship this summer. Sweet Briar students fanned out across the globe, doing great things and gaining incalculable experience.

20 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Jessica Murphy ’13 Alyssa Berkeley ’13 Sarah Hibler ’14 MAJORS: Liberal studies, dance MAJOR: Elementary and special MAJOR: Business Student-teacher assistant at education MINOR: Anthropology R.S. Payne Elementary School, Student-teacher assistant at Intern at BritBound, a travel company Lynchburg, Va. R.S. Payne Elementary School, in London Lynchburg, Va. BritBound is an international travel Murphy was one of two Sweet Briar students interning at R.S. Payne company that offers assistance to people Elementary School in Lynchburg in May and June. She taught one of who are moving to the UK. In addition the fifth-grade classes in the school’s Gifted Opportunities Center — a to connecting with “BritBounders” and perfect fit for her: “An unexpected surprise when I first began teaching helping them to relocate, Hibler wrote was to find that they were working on their spring musical. When I articles for the company’s website, scoped informed my mentor teacher of my dance background, she allowed me tourist attractions, organized events, and to choreograph several of the numbers.” traveled around the country and to Italy. Berkeley taught mostly science to fourth-graders in the gifted center. “The best part of this internship by far has been having my students tell me that learning science with me is the best part of their day. It has inspired me to want to learn more and become a better science teacher for them.”

Lilian Tauber ’14 MAJORS: International affairs, history MINOR: German Writer, editor at online forum E-Joussour in Rabat, Morocco E-Joussour is an online forum that highlights the work of civil society Madeline Hodges ’13 organizations (CSOs) and non- governmental organizations (NGOs) in the MAJORS: History of art, studio art Arts Management Certificate Middle East and North Africa region. As Curatorial assistant interning for the U.S. Army Center of Military History at part of the editorial staff, Tauber wrote, its Museum Support Center at Fort Belvoir, Va. edited and translated various publications for the website on human rights issues Hodges assisted the head curator of the Army Art Collection for credit in the region. E-Joussour publishes in toward her Arts Management Certificate. English, French and Arabic. Tauber posted several original reports, including one titled “Diplomacy unlikely to ease humanitarian crisis in Syria, despite recent massacre in al-Houla.”

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 21 Amanda Johnson ’14 Elizabeth Hansbrough ’13 MAJORS: Engineering science, physics MAJOR: Business Student researcher in the Harvard-MIT Health MINOR: Government Sciences and Technology Summer Institute in Legislative research intern in the public policy and governmental affairs Biomedical Optics program in Boston group at Grant Thornton LLP in Washington, D.C. Johnson was one of 20 student researchers “I am particularly interested in the intersection between business and who were selected from the U.S. and Korea government and I think helping Grant Thornton with researching to participate in a project at the Wellman legislation related to the accounting profession will be a great exposure Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts to that area. I am hoping the internship helps me decide if I would like General Hospital. Johnson worked on a new to pursue a career in corporate law in the future.” detection system that would “allow for more rapid diagnosis and therapy determination of tumors.”

Katie Holloway ’13 MAJOR: Studio art Intern for the University of Virginia’s Young Writers Workshop Suzannah Feldman ’13 Holloway gained valuable experience this MAJOR: English summer as an administrative intern for MINOR: Journalism, new media and communications UVa’s Young Writers Workshop — and she Public relations intern, South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston didn’t even have to go anywhere. For the “Being behind the scenes at the aquarium is my favorite part. I’ve already first time, the camp took place at Sweet shared a ride in the [staff] elevator with some pretty cool fish! It’s not Briar. “It is a wonderful experience to watch unusual to share a ride between floors with a sea turtle, otter or some fish so many brilliant, flexible people work on its way to get a check-up or coming out of quarantine.” together and brainstorm to re-establish this program in a new place.” Feldman says science just isn’t her thing, but animal species conservation is. “I come from a long line of veterinarians, so saving animals is definitely my passion. I knew I couldn’t contribute in that way, which is why I’m working on publicity that raises awareness about threatened environments.”

22 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Pamela Webster ’13 MAJOR: Economics MINOR: Business Accounting intern at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Charlottesville, Va. “My favorite part about working at Monticello was learning how a nonprofit ran, and how strongly the foundation held to its main purpose.”

Frankie Beyer ’14 Ashley Rust ’13 Ashley Baker ’15 Noelle Ames ’13 MAJOR: Psychology MAJOR: History MAJOR: Chemistry MAJOR: Environmental Intern at Kurn Hattin, a MINOR: Spanish Intern, Good Housekeeping science home for at-risk children in Arts Management Certificate Research Institute (home Environmental intern with Westminster, Vt. Intern at Danville Regional appliances/cleaning products/ the Naval Research Lab at Foundation, an economic the Stennis Space Center in Beyer combined two of textiles department), New development organization in Mississippi her passions this summer York City Danville, Va. — psychology and riding Baker spent the summer Ames worked on a project — working with at-risk Rust worked with doing something she related to geographic children through the area leaders to develop has been interested in information systems and school’s therapeutic riding programs to enhance the since high school: testing environmental prediction. program. community. Such efforts consumer products. The work expanded skills included initiatives to Besides testing, she she learned in Professor “Many of the children attract and retain young brainstormed editorial Rebecca Ambers’ GIS have attachment disorders professionals, and to projects, contributed class and gave her the and other psychological collaborate with nonprofit to blogs on the Good opportunity to explore new issues due to their family organizations and other Housekeeping website, technologies. situations. This kind of community partners in the and attended research and work is something that I field of philanthropy. publishing press events. am very interested in and could see myself doing as a career after Sweet Briar.”

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sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 23 A ‘Quiet Passion’

When Sierra Wright ’12 She also starred in the musical “Hello, Dolly!” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lynchburg and landed her first paid gig graduated from high school, as the lead actress in a North Carolina theater production this her career path was clear summer. Wright first discovered acting the summer after eighth — at least as far as her grade, when she auditioned for a community play. She was cast parents were concerned. for two roles in “Fiddler on the Roof” — a boy and Grandma Tzeitel. “I didn’t realize what I was getting into because I’d never They urged her to study done theater before,” she remembered. “But once I got into it, science, so Wright enrolled I really enjoyed it. I realized that this is something fun that I could do.” in the engineering school at But she didn’t act again until her senior year, when she the University of Virginia. studied vocal music in a magnet program. Again, Wright loved it, but the idea of theater as more than a hobby never fully In May, the Prince William formed. Then she took a theater class at UVa. “This was like a County resident graduated turning point for me. It was the most fun I had ever had. I never got any pleasure like that from my engineering classes.” from Sweet Briar College — Wright quit the engineering program and moved back home. with a degree in theater. After several months of working and thinking about her future, she applied to Sweet Briar. “I said, ‘Theater is what I’m going to do,’ ” she recalled. “It was scary because up until that point, I had

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24 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine never made major decisions for myself. But by that point, my Wright didn’t spend all of her time at Sweet Briar in mother was like, ‘Well, you’ve got to figure out what makes you the theater department, and she’s glad she didn’t. She was happy because I don’t want you to be in college for six years involved in tap clubs, worked as a resident advisor for three trying to figure out what I want you to do.’ ” years and in the Annual Fund’s Phonathon. She also explored Today, she’s happy with the decision. At Sweet Briar she classes unrelated to theater and enjoyed making connections was able to gain more practical theater experience than she between different subjects and with her professors. would have at a larger college or university. More determined than ever to pursue acting, Wright “If you know nothing about theater, you can come in drove through the night for the North Carolina audition. It and work on sets or be a stage manager … you can do things was during the week and she didn’t want to miss any classes. that you wouldn’t expect to be able to do right off the bat. It was worth it. Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre, one of When you audition for a show at UVa, a lot of times the more than 75 companies scouting for actors at the Institute graduate students get the lead roles and upperclass students of Outdoor Drama, liked her immediately and offered her the get the supporting roles, whereas you come here to Sweet lead role of Esse in “Pathway to Freedom.” Briar, and your first year you could get a lead role.” “It was exciting for me because I’ve never had a job offer Wright performed in plays every year and had for a role before,” she said. opportunities to work with professionals when companies For the first time, Wright signed a contract and was such as Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre performed and getting paid for doing what she loves. Through July and held workshops on campus. For her senior project last fall, August, she performed almost every day. she directed “Doubt,” putting the entire show together — What’s next? Wright is practical, but she has dreams. including designing the set — in just one month. “It was a One of them is working in New York. Graduate school is little stressful, but I’m pleased with the results,” she said. an option and in the short term — well, she has restaurant When she was awarded Sweet Briar’s Jessica Steinbrenner experience to help pay the bills and save money. But even Molloy Theater Arts award in April, it was icing on the cake. then, theater isn’t far from her mind. “I was really excited. I even started crying,” she said. “It’s “It’s funny, but last time I worked there I kept thinking one of those things that you hope will happen, but you don’t of the restaurant as a theater, and anytime I had to go in the expect it. … I’m not your typical ‘loud’ theater student. When kitchen, I’d accidentally say, ‘I’m just gonna go backstage.’ people meet me, they don’t think I’m involved in theater at all. People thought, ‘What is wrong with her?’ ” I guess you could say I have a quiet passion for theater.” It’s that quiet passion coming through.

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 25 Young Writers Dig

songwriting. Some students have been coming for This Place years; others became counselors and now teach some of the writing labs. The second session, which lasts It’s a sultry July morning and the second three weeks, typically draws 50 percent of its applicants session of UVa’s Young Writers Workshop is in full swing. from workshop alumni, according to assistant director In a tiny classroom, a handful of songwriting students Jeff Martin. have picked up their guitars, their fingers searching for One thing is different in 2012: It’s the first time notes that might inspire words. Handwritten signs taped the workshop is taking place on the campus of Sweet to the wall with bright pink duct tape read “Contribute,” Briar College, and not at the University of Virginia in “Take risks” and “Revisions.” Charlottesville. In the kitchen lounge just outside the classroom, “It’s been wonderful,” says Margo Figgins, founder another student is listening to hip-hop beats on his and director of the program, which admits between computer, his head nodding as he scribbles down lyrics. 150 and 200 students each year. For 30 years, high school kids from across the After renovations at UVa forced a hiatus last year, country and abroad have been she’s glad to have a new home for her young writers gathering during the summer to — at least for the moment. It’s immerse themselves in their art. too early to say whether Sweet There are workshops in fiction, Briar will become a permanent poetry, non-fiction, script- and residence, but so far the campus seems like a natural fit for the program. “The location here is much nicer,” says scriptwriting student

26 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Natcher Pruett, a 17-year-old from Minneapolis. It’s his second time participating in the workshop. “It’s nice to wake up in the morning and see the mountains when you look out of the window.” Chicago native Leah Barber, 16, agrees. “I really like Sweet Briar College as a location because it brings character to the program.” Some students call the landscape “inspiring.” The campus environment emerges as a theme so often that it prompts Figgins to speculate on its impact. “It’ll be interesting to see what role the landscape plays and how it enhances their experience,” she says. There’s something else, too. “Queer Theory in Beatles Songs,” invented a sock “Here at Sweet Briar they’re surrounded by other puppet world based on a YouTube video of an old arts programs, which wasn’t the case in Charlottesville,” MTV show, and delved into the art of a concept album, Martin says. which involved listening to “Ziggy Stardust.” “Between BLUR [Sweet Briar’s interdisciplinary “The VCCA is such an amazing resource,” says arts camp] and [the College’s theater company-in- poetry student Zoe Jeka, 17, from Maryland. residence] Endstation, we’ve had opportunities for Pruett, Barber and Jeka’s eyes light up when collaborations that we’ve never had before, and they talk about their classes. One of their favorite the effect of that is pretty powerful. After a while, experiences was the 24-hour play, a workshop tradition students simply accept that they’re surrounded by in which students write and rehearse an original play in all kinds of different artists, and when art becomes just one day. Barber and Jeka also loved finding random the comfortable norm, the creation and sharing of it science books in the library to use as inspiration for becomes much easier to do.” their poetry. Scriptwriting students assisted Endstation On weekends, counselors organize field trips to playwrights with some of their new scripts, and all local orchards and farmers’ markets; during writing labs, workshop participants attended at least one Blue Ridge students occasionally visit coffee shops and antique Summer Theatre Festival performance. stores in Lynchburg. Sometimes, activities are meant The Young Writers Workshop also collaborates to inspire, other times they’re just for fun. But the one with the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, an artists’ thing everyone wants to do — all the time — is write. colony just across U.S. 29 from Sweet Briar. VCCA With just days left in the workshop, all three fellows come to campus to read from students say the time has gone by too fast. They’re not their works and to teach ready to part from newly found friends and return to electives — classes high school, where writing is just one of many subjects. that fall outside of the “I wish it was all summer,” Barber says with a sigh. students’ disciplines, Martin steels himself for “lots of tears” come but are always tied to closing day. “Which is a little sad to watch, but it also writing. They’ve explored means we did our job.”

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sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 27 Moving Forward All across campus, philanthropy is remaking Sweet Briar’s learning spaces.

Fletcher, Benedict and Pannell Makeovers of seven seminar rooms are nearly complete and funding is in hand to renovate eight additional “smart” classrooms across campus by fall 2013. The College matched $310,000 in foundation grants to make it possible. New features include: › Crestron touch-panel controls to operate all audio/ Guion The Margaret Jones Wyllie ’45 Engineering Program visual equipment, with help screens and instruction used its endowed funding to refurbish and improve video for easy use several classrooms and labs, including better storage, › True videoconferencing capability using H.323/SIP wheeled tables, extra whiteboards, dedicated student- standards faculty research space and personal workstations for › Interactive smart board engineering students. › Widescreen TV, Blu-ray and DVD player › Document camera for projecting non-digitized “The renovations have not only bonded our class by images giving us [the circuits lab] to work out of both as a › Standard ceiling-mount or short-throw projectors study group or individually, but it has also made us › Mac mini computers with AirServer software for proud of the engineering department.” simultaneous projection of multiple mobile devices — Grace Caskey ’14, engineering major

28 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Cochran Library The $8.8 million donor-funded historic renovation and expansion project is slated for completion in 2014. Babcock 127 Plans call for preserving and honoring the original Ralph Adams Cram building while creating a library for the With new drywall and wainscoting, window treatments, 21st century — filled with digitally plugged-in “people flooring, fresh paint, and new audiovisual equipment, spaces” to learn, research, study and collaborate. the piano studio is a much-improved space for teaching, rehearsing and performing. A group of individual “The best academic libraries today provide points of donors got together to redo the room in honor of music connection between scholars, locally and globally.” professor Rebecca McCord. — President Jo Ellen Parker

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 29 Inspired Teaching, Inspired Giving

Eleanor Barton and Aileen “Ninie” Laing ’57 didn’t know each other despite both arriving on campus in 1953. Laing studied chemistry and left for George Washington University after two years, never taking a course with the art history professor. In 1971, Barton, who chaired the art department for much of her 18 years at Sweet Briar, had a hand in recruiting Laing for a vacancy in art history just as she was leaving. Bridging these slim karmic gaps is Winnie Leigh Hamlin ’58, who knew one as a teacher and the other as a contemporary — and who grasps the profound influence of both women. That’s why she gave the College $1 million to establish the Eleanor Barton and Aileen “Ninie” Laing ’57 Endowed Professorship in Art History. The

Barton new chair was announced in August along with the appointment of the first person to hold the title of Barton-Laing Professor in Art History, Christopher L.C.E. “Chris” Witcombe. “We can all remember the teacher who made the biggest difference in our lives, the one who inspired us to work our hardest and to explore new fields,” Hamlin says. Over the years, Hamlin has heard from Laing’s students, too. “I realize that they appreciated her as much as we did Eleanor Barton,” she says. “Hopefully, starting the Barton-Laing Professorship will motivate others who benefitted from their courses to contribute to

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30 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Elizabeth Glassman ’71 echoed the rigors of the discipline, noting that today more than ever it’s important to be able to decode the images in front of us. “Art history educates you on how visual images take their meaning and helps you create the larger context for that meaning.” Glassman is president of an international art organization, and credits Barton with nurturing her passion for art history. “Being in her class as a young college student was like lifting a veil on a whole new world of history, images, ways of looking at things,” she says. She remembers a tall woman with great presence who seemed at once distant and yet generous. Barton was patient with students even as she pushed them. And she stressed seeing original works, although it meant a three-hour drive to Laing the National Gallery of Art. Her emphasis on learning how to look has stuck with Glassman. the fund in their honor, or to establish a professorship named Thirty years later Emily Pegues ’00 and her classmates for the professor who most affected their lives.” hustled to keep pace with Ninie Laing, now professor emerita The gift supports one outstanding faculty member and after retiring in 2002. can be used for salary, research or professional development “You used to have to sprint to keep up with her because — a significant benefit to any department. she went walking down the National Mall at Mach speed,” Laing could hardly have been Pegues said, describing a brisk, organized expecting the tribute when the “I fell into the thing person who was apt to tell you to “pull up phone rang last summer. “When that I absolutely adored, your socks and get on with it.” Heidi [McCrory] called I thought Like Barton, students say Laing was she was going to ask me for I love art history and I tough but kind. And funny. money,” she said. “She was teaching you but she was also Instead what she heard from love telling other people keeping her eye on the big picture of trying the vice president for alumnae and about it. I still love the to develop young women. And she did that development was validation and both in teaching but also as an example,” appreciation for her years of service. discipline.” Pegues said from London, where she is “I was very honored,” she says. –Ninie Laing studying for her doctorate in art history at And pleased, too, with the Courtauld Institute of Art. the support for what she sees “I think students [wanted to be like her] and in every as a quintessential liberal arts major. Art historians must aspect,” she says. understand the culture that produced a work of art and be “She was always doing interesting things, she had classes able to interpret and articulate what they are seeing, which is bulging with students who wanted to be there. I think in not so easy, she says. some ways my being here is trying to emulate Ninie.”

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 31 Pegues isn’t the only one. Amy Barton ’90 switched from biology after taking an elective with Laing. “I wanted to be the type of professional art historian she represented,” Barton says. “Today I investigate and make discoveries about the 19th-century art in the U.S. Capitol.” There seems no mystery to how these women inspired their students. Each was accomplished and widely published. Barton earned her art history degree from Vassar in 1938, her master’s at New York University and her Ph.D. from Harvard. She was considered an authority on sculpture and wrote her dissertation on Alessandro Algardi, for which she spent a year in To join in honoring Barton and Laing, gifts may be Rome as a Sachs Fellow. She taught at Smith for 11 years prior to made to the Eleanor Barton and Aileen “Ninie” Sweet Briar and later at the University of Hartford. She died in Laing ’57 Endowed Professorship in Art History, 1987 in Windsor, Conn. Sweet Briar College, P.O. Box 1057, Sweet Briar, Laing was a certified medical technologist at the GWU VA 24595. Call (434) 381-6131, (888) 846-5722 or hospital when she completed her undergraduate degree in art email [email protected] for more information. history at the university. Encouraged to go to graduate school, she won two Woodrow Wilson Fellowships to support her doctoral studies and dissertation at Johns Hopkins. A medievalist with a so compelling to students. It’s why among the professional focus on manuscripts, she later studied the decorative arts and accolades on her curriculum vitae, none means more to Laing architecture of England and America. than the 1990-91 SGA Excellence in Teaching Award. She had discovered her love for art history while traveling “I fell into the thing that I absolutely adored,” Laing says. abroad; she stumbled on teaching in graduate school. The passion “I love art history and I love telling other people about it. I for both is what unites these two women and it’s what made them still love the discipline.”

maintains Art History Resources, a top Google-ranked website that

First of a Kind turned 17 in October. He has also produced a popular series of Chris Witcombe, Sweet Briar’s podcasts called “Art History in Just A Minute,” available on iTunes. first Barton-Laing Professor in Art History, has taught at Being named to the chair is immensely gratifying, Witcombe the College for nearly three says, because it reflects the College’s strong support for faculty decades and is a prolific scholar. scholarship as well as teaching. And one is informing the other. He has published more than 30 articles and essays and three books, He and his colleagues are working on changes to the art history including the award-winning “Print Publishing in Sixteenth-Century program at Sweet Briar — some of them based on his research and Rome: Growth and Expansion, Rivalry and Murder” in 2008. A writings on vision and perception over the past decade. fourth book is due out next year and three others, including a novel, The new approach is intended to ensure students acquire the ability are in progress. His third book is an interactive digital iBook Author to analyze and understand how images work and how they affect textbook for the Apple iPad, “The Visual Experience of Art.” us. One goal is to better articulate the value of image studies and Witcombe has long embraced digital technology in the classroom bring them to the fore more than they have been in the past, as an and began teaching web-based courses in 1996. He created and essential skill students need to have today, he says.

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From left: Lauren Morgan ’13, President Parker, Sarah Lindemann ’13 and Torry Mott ’13 at the Senior Campaign Kick-off event for the Annual Fund. The senior class surpassed its goal of $6,000, thanks in part to two anonymous $1,000 gifts.

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sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 33 She didn’t speak a word of Turkish when she arrived, and her host mom spoke no English. “It led to some pretty confusing, as well as hilarious, situations,” Dalvini says. “Despite the initial language barrier, we lived well together. She Fulbright really took it upon herself to introduce Scholars: me to her family and friends. These interactions allowed me to experience Destination how open and hospitable Turks are CL ASS N OT ES with those who want to learn about Turkey their way of life.” Those eight weeks made applying Erin Dalvini ’12 is the second experience there was on an eight-week for the Fulbright a no-brainer and, she Sweet Briar graduate in as many years Critical Language Scholarship from the believes, made her a stronger contender to receive a 10-month Fulbright U.S. State Department last summer. for the prestigious grant. English Teaching Assistantship in Dalvini sought the State “I loved the CLS experience — Turkey. She is teaching at Amasya Department scholarship because she having to rely on myself and my new University in Amasya. Kat Alexander, a wanted an experience that would allow language skills to navigate through 2011 graduate in government, recently her to learn a language while “fully everyday life,” she said. “When I was completed her assistantship in Trabzon, immersed in the society that it belongs in Turkey, every day was an adventure. on the Black Sea in the country’s to,” she said. Waking up in the morning and knowing northeast. The intensive language instruction that you are not going to understand Dalvini, who graduated from and cultural enrichment program, most of what is being said around you is Sweet Briar in the spring with a which she attended at Ankara an experience like no other.” degree in anthropology, has returned University TÖMER, provided just to a country she fell in love with on that, and affirmed her affection for two previous visits. Her most recent Turkey and its people.

Terry Hotel. Laura Graves Howell’s Julie Mills Jacobsen husband Henry (my brother, 91) still 1938 daughter, Laura Howell James, is an 4416 Edmunds St. NW love St. Petersburg. They have their Frances Bailey Brooke outstanding artist in Annapolis. I’m Washington, DC 20007 circle of travel, church and Racquet 405 Jackson Ave. still in pretty good health, still live in [email protected] Club; she still drives. Of 4 boys, 2 Lexington, VA 24450 my home of 50-plus years and enjoy are in town—one across the state my yard. I continue to go to SBC for Mary Haskins King and one in Ellijay, Ga. They have 10 the summer theater and Friends of 501 Kimberly Dr. grandchildren. 1942 Library. The new expansion is unbe- Greensboro, NC 27408 Jean Ridler Fahrenbach had a busy Ann Morrison Reams lievable. We mourn the loss of our summer with a cruise on the Great 771 Bon Air Circle dear friends, Virginia “Beasle” Thayer Our class numbers 52 today. Julia Lakes and trips to Portland, Maine for Lynchburg, VA 24503 Boothby, Jessamine Boyce Morris, Mills Jacobsen, whose sight is im- family reunions. She looks forward to [email protected] Nancy Goldbarth Glaser, Elizabeth paired, ran her electric scooter into a Rhodes Scholar Program at Glacier Reunion was great, though I missed Chamberlain and Mary Stone the side of the house a year ago. She Park in Sept. She stays busy with you! Even though I was the only one “Stoney” Moore Rutherfoord. I’d love nearly lost her leg and had a lengthy Mah Jong, volunteer work and her representing our class, everybody to hear from you whether or not you hospital stay. She hopes to visit SBC computer/iPad. welcomed me into their functions. As have any news. one more time—our 70th? Julie stays Betty Gray is in a retirement commu- always, the panels of faculty, adminis- in touch with Peggy Wyllie. nity. She keeps in touch with friends. trators, students and other alumnae Anne Dickson Waldrop and her sec- Mary Haskins King sees her Lookout were fascinating. I hope all of you 1944 ond husband are living in Salem, Va. Mt. friends occasionally. Hilda Hude read the College magazine and keep Alice Lancaster Buck In Roanoke she sees Edie Page Gill Chapin and her husband, Ed, are still up with all the additions and renova- 21085 Cardinal Pond Ter., Apt. 106 Breakell, who suffered a stroke in Jan. in their home. Mary’s daughter is tak- tions. However, the overall look and Ashburn, VA 20147 and is still recovering. ing her to visit SBC in Oct. feeling of the campus we love remains [email protected] Amanda Parsley Worth was widowed Frances Estes Seibels has 11 great- the same. Unfortunately, none of you in 1991 after 43 years. She has 3 granddaughters and another on the have sent any news. I saw Sally Schall children, 3 grandchildren and 5 great- way—amazing after having 2 daugh- VanAllen at the Mother’s Day tea, 1945 grands. She reads, cooks, walks, knits ters and 2 sons. given each year by her son Kent and Dale Sayler Morgan and visits the beach. Hedy Edwards Davenport built a wife Kay. Once in a while, I hear news 486A Beaulieu Ave. Mary Kathryn Frye Hemphill says: house on the brow of Lookout Mt. at from one of your grandchildren. Lucy Savannah, GA 31406 “Find a good retirement place, a good age 72. She plays golf and bridge, Call Dabney’s granddaughter, Lucy, [email protected] solution to your children’s worries travels and spends winters in her continues to do a good job running about what to do with Mama.” house in Fla. She goes to Spoleto in the dining facilities at the Craddock Wyline Chapman Sayler (88) and

34 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Charleston, S.C., every year and the Music before 9/1, then on to “The Nutcracker” More class notes online Festival in Aspen, Colo., in the summer. 1946 for Dec. I’m much engaged with fall sched- She has 9 great-grandchildren. Mary Vandeventer Saunders ule, working until 7:30 each night. sbc.edu/magazine Cappy Price Bass has 4 children, 8 grand- 955 Harpersville Rd. Janet Broman Dingle: In 11/11 I moved children and 2 great-grandchildren. Her Newport News, VA 23601 into a retirement village. My new address husband Bruce is 94, and they’re celebrat- is: 200 Hamlet Hills Dr., Chagrin Falls, a vengeance...Thereafter she hunted… ing 66 years together. OH 44022. My husband, Larry, resides before turning to dressage in the early 90s. In addition, she has owned many Lile Tucker Bell (90) lives at Westminster 1947 in a nearby Alzheimer facility and, sadly, horses, and most recently her Century Canterbury, Richmond. Her dear Tom died Linda McKoy Stewart his health is declining. I enjoy visits from Club ride, the Andalusian Icastico ‘Ferdie’ in 1997. She has 3 daughters, 6 grands 18 Osprey Ln. my 2 daughters and their families. How (18)…On 5/26/12, the pair received a and 4 great-grands. A son and daughter-in- Rumson, NJ 07760 surprised I was to be reading my College score of 60.645% at First Level, Test 3, law live in Staunton. Recent highlight was [email protected] magazine this past fall and run across a at MDA’s Heavenly Waters’ Recognized a grandson’s wedding in Raleigh. picture of my grandson, Jeff Carl, who was Dressage show to join the Century Club!… Mildred Carothers Healy has lived in an performing a concert at my alma mater! Annie has volunteered for MDA, MCTA and assisted living facility since her Bill died 1948 Rosalie “Pinkie” Barringer Warnham: I’m the Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll 2 years ago. They had been at Vicar’s Nancy Vaughn Kelly Tom’s caregiver. I still swim a half mile County to name a few.” Landing Retirement Community in Ponte 4800 Fillmore Ave., Apt. 614 every day at the Bishop’s pool. We recently Mary Pease Fleming: We moved to Vedra, Fla. for 18 years. They have 8 Alexandria, VA 22311 adopted Charlie (Cairn/poodle). I keep Cedarfield on 5/30/12 and are happy, but grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. [email protected] up with my Altar Guild duties at St. James gradually settling in to a 3-room, 2-bath Nancy-Ellen Feazell Kent and her husband by the Sea. I never thought I’d live to be apartment. New address: 2300 Cedarfield divide their time between Atlanta and Peggy Sheffield Martin almost (Nov.) 83. Cataract surgery sched- 2525 Peachtree Rd. NE, Apt. 24 Parkway, Apt 368, Richmond,VA 23233; Hilton Head. They have 4 grands and 5 uled for fall. Atlanta, GA 30305 new email address: rfleming2300@ great-grands (4 boys, one girl). Angie Vaughan Halliday: Susan Taylor comcast.net. Our tel.is the same: (804) [email protected] Hubbard came to visit us on 4/25 for the Harriett Porcher Barnwell is in a retire- 288-4835. ment home in Charleston, S.C. She’s a Wildflower Weekend at Natural Bridge Patty Lynas Ford: We recently had lunch widow; has 3 children, 3 grandchildren State Park, Ky., and returned to Norfolk on with Julie Micou Eastwood and Dick in and 6 great-grandchildren. She uses a 1949 the 30th. She had not been to Louisville our favorite restaurant in St. Helena in the walker, reads constantly, does water aero- Catherine C. Reynolds for many years—wonderful time! 20 Loeffler Rd.T408 Napa Valley. We had a brief visit with our bics, drinks martinis and tries to laugh! Jean Graham “Randie” Randolph Bruns: Bloomfield, Ct. 06002 daughter and family in Leesburg, Va. in We’re slowly recovering from the wild Sarah Temple Moore is having fun with [email protected] May. Watching our great-grandson grow storm. Wonderful community spirit, but old friends, going out to social events, up is a pleasure. Alas, we didn’t have everyone is still frazzled. For the first time family reunions held at the Homestead, I’m writing this column on 8/20/12, hav- time to drive down to see Jean Graham in 30 years the sound of the approaching Richmond and Savannah. She’s a proud ing just returned from a reunion in Aspen, “Randie” Randolph in Warm Springs, Va. wind sent me into my inner closet with matriarch of 22 grandchildren and 12 Colo. with Preston Hodges Hill and Carolyn I’m now in my 16th year as a volunteer lamp and flashlight. Lightning was blinding great-grandchildren. She still lives in the Cannady Evans. We stayed for a week in at the Healdsburg Animal Shelter. I don’t long into the night. same “yard” where she was born 89 years Preston’s condo talking about old times, work with big dogs anymore, but there are Ruth Oddy Meyer: I’m still a hospital vol- ago. She keeps up with Mary Haskins King attending many concerts, lectures and plenty of little ones who need cuddling unteer and attend painting and exercise and Hedy Edwards Davenport. plays and taking scenic walks and rides. and walks. Ellen Marcus Kates says that her son and Preston Hodges Hill is busy with children classes, but had our last visit to London in daughter-in-law, who live nearby, bring her and grandchildren as well as activities in June as our eldest son and family returned much pleasure. She reads, knits, goes Denver. She still plays tennis and partici- home after 7 years of living in the U.K. We 1952 cruising, works word puzzles and studies pates in a book and bridge club. now have a freshman granddaughter at U. Richmond, another one a junior at U. Jane Russo Sheehan earth sciences. Carolyn Cannady Evans lives in a retire- 600 S. Main St. Miami, Fla., a third who graduated from Mary Symes Anderson celebrated her ment community in Ashburn, Va. She’ll be Mansfield, MA 02048 Middlebury a year ago and is now living 90th birthday (in Woody Creek, Colo.) with taking over as our class secretary with the [email protected] her 5 children, 6 of her 9 grandchildren next edition of the SBC magazine. Please and working in N.Y., and a 4th who is a and assorted in-laws and friends. send news to her at 21045 Cardinal Pond freshman in h.s. Mona Wilson Beard and Thanks to Pat Layne Winks and Joanne I keep in touch by email, but if anyone After graduation, Doreen Brugger Wetzig Ter. No.1199, Ashburn, VA 20147-6124, Holbrook Patton for help with these notes. has any news of Sis Hayden D’Wolf, I’d worked in a research lab where she met tel.(703) 729-1133 or email ccevens49@ Our 60th Reunion was a blast. The week- greatly appreciate hearing from them at her future husband, a Dr. from Colo. They verizon.net. end was beautiful, but went by too quickly. [email protected]. moved from N.Y., with a son and daughter, My last report was inadvertently omitted Joanie and I flew to Washington where and lived in Colo. for 60 years; where they from the SBC magazine. Those of you Sue Lockley Glad: I’m at Black Butte we met Nancy Morrow Lovett and drove had another son and daughter. She now without email may not have received it Ranch for the summer enjoying golf, to SBC together. We caught up on the has 3 great-grandchildren. Her husband from the college. Sadly my news contained bridge, family. Two quick trips, one to ride. Joanie was in process of negotiat- passed away in 2006. She has had a many obituaries. A more recent death is L.A. to see the USS IOWA, now open as ing with the Town of Hamilton to gift the stroke, but improves daily. that of Judy Baldwin Waxter who died July a museum in San Pedro Harbor. My hus- Patton estate to the town. (It has since band, Ned, had served on the ship from Mary Herbert Taylor in Columbia, S.C., 30 in Cockeysville, Md. She and Bill lived been accepted.) She’s about to move into 1943-1945. Accompanied my daughter still lives in the house they built 57 years at Broadmead, a retirement community a smaller house down the street: 135 and granddaughter to N.Y.C. to check out ago. Edward (96) still plays tennis and she outside Baltimore. Bill survives. Asbury St., Topsfield, MA 01930. Nancy Columbia U. Having lived in N.Y.C. for 9 walks 1 1/2 miles each day. They’re in- I’ve enjoyed being in touch with so many is active with DAR, traveling, dancing and years, I acted as tour guide. deed blessed with lots of family and a first of you as your class secretary. I’m sure more. Others present at Reunion were: great-grandchild (girl) born 8/28/12. Carolyn will do a fine job as my successor. Ann Mountcastle Gamble-Blechta: In Grace Wallace Brown, Nancy Hamel 2/12 I lost “The Love of My Life” George Clark, Grace DeLong Einsel, Grace Jones I, Dale Sayler Morgan, lost my dear Philip Please send her your news and start think- Blechta (98). He died peacefully, quietly Fishel with husband Harry, Mary Barcus 10 years ago and have missed him every ing about our next reunion in May of 2014. and quickly. I went to Richmond, Va. this Hunter, Sue Judd Silcox with husband day. I’m still active with Trustees’ Garden spring and had lunch with Mary Pease Jack, Patricia Beech Thompson with Club, Colonial Dames; needlepoint, bridge Fleming and Sue Taylor Hubbard. I’m off husband Calvin and daughter Jennifer, twice a week, attending church, civic 1951 to Paris this week until the end of Aug. I do and Pat Layne Winks with partner Henry. events and social events. My thanks to Patty Lynas Ford this every year. My 5 grandchildren are 16, Pat Beech Thompson impressed every- Sarah Temple Moore for sending me a 2165 West Dry Creek Road 17, 17, 21, 24. one with her one-woman show, “Women clipping with my picture from The Garden Healdsburg, CA 95448 Thru the Ages.” Beginning with women in Club of America August Bulletin, greeting [email protected] Ann Benet Yellott: Excerpts from an antiquity, Pat brought to life the contribu- the delegates at the GCA Annual Meeting article written by daughter Andie Yellott tions of famous women, including SBC’s held in Savannah last April. My 2 sons Thank you all for contributing to our class ’67. “…She took every opportunity to ride founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams. I think and their families live here. My daughter notes. anything and everything available, rid- we have a lot to be proud of in SBC’s ef- Diane and her husband Dick Viall are still I am sorry to report that we lost 2 of our ing at SBC as Huntsman to a pack of 2 forts to preserve the best and keep up in Sewickley, Pa., except for late Nov. thru classmates this year: Joan Widau Marshall ½ couple foxhounds with her roommate with the times to prepare young women April when they’re in San Martin de los died on 4/17/12 and Anne Adams Billie Herron as her Whipper-in, and find- for a rapidly evolving world. Our 60th Andes, Argentina. I have 7 grandchildren. Coulbourn died on 8/31/12. Should you ing horses to ride on the various Marine Reunion Class Gift, with a participation My fondest memories are of SBC and the wish to write to the families, please con- Corps bases she lived on as a young bride rate of 65%, was $55,683! $11,280.19 of friendships made when we were there. tact the alumnae office. with her beloved husband, Kin. Raising Lynne McCullough Gush: We’re performing 2 children then took precedence and her that was from a fund from income earned “Midsummer Night’s Nightmare” 4 times riding career was back-burnered until the by the note cards and shirts with folk art mid-70s when she returned to riding with scenes of life at SBC provided by Grace

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 35 Wallace Brown and sold at the bookstore. Joanne mentioned that her reunion report Douro River. Hope to see all of you in May a week with my San Francisco family at Sunday morning we ended Reunion with to Marion “Shug” Graves was returned at our 60th Reunion (May 31-June 2). Camp Mather on the Hetch Hetchy road a memorial service in the chapel. Our from her last Lexington, Ky. address. Do bordering Yosemite. Our older son is still classmates who passed away this past any of you know about her? The alumnae in Costa Rica where he and his wife both year were remembered: Winifred Collins office has quite a list of our classmates 1954 work for the American Embassy. Their 3 Brister, Edith Marsh Fonda, Mary Gesler classified as “lost” or “no mail.” Any help Bruce Watts Krucke children are all in the states, 2 in Calif. Hanson, Suzanne Bassewitz Mentzinger in locating those folks would be welcome. 7352 Toogoodoo Rd. and the married one in Washington, D.C. and Catherine Coxe Page. Shortly after Please send me your news for the next Yonges Island, SC 29449 Our younger son and wife plus 3 sons (10, Reunion, we heard the sad news that issue. I wish I had known all of you better [email protected] 13, 15) are still in San Francisco. Donna Reese Godwin had died in Jackson, when we were students, but I am trying to Dallas “Dilly” Johnson Jones: Daughter Miss., on 6/08. make up for it now! Our sympathies and condolences go to the Louise ’84 and Jim have son Charlie, Other news: Kate Shaw Minton has moved families of classmates who have passed a sophomore at Wofford playing soc- from her home of 54 years to 122 Palmers away recently. We can be proud of their cer, and son Giles, a freshman at W&L Hill Rd., Stamford, CT 06902. Joanie 1953 lives of service. We lost our May Queen, playing soccer. Their daughter Lucia is Fran Reese Peale Nancy Patton and Ginger Dreyfus Karren met for Florence Pye Apy , last March and a freshman at the Atlanta International Maury Mille lunch in N.Y.C. with Suzanne Bassewitz 67 Rivers Edge Dr. r in July. It’s a shame that School. They still live in Atlanta. Daughter Louise Mentzinger a few months before her Little Silver, NJ 07739 the first we’ve ever heard about Sanford and husband Gene are in Great Skinner McLaughlin death. Nell Dumas Herff regretted miss- [email protected] is that she has died. Falls, Mont. where Gene is president of ing Reunion, but her grandson was being Full obituaries for these classmates can the Univ. of Great Falls. Their triplet boys married on their ranch. Martha Legg Shortly after submitting the last class be read in the online version of the notes are freshmen in h.s. (Dilly might get to Edie Norman Shirley Kates and Bill cited health issues holding notes, reported that located on the alumnae website. see Vicky Toof Johson when visiting in Rankin Dumesnil them down, but said they’re taking care ’s husband, Ed, died Sally Gammon Plummer had a family Great Falls.) In May, Ann Collins Teachout of each other. They were able to get to on 1/29/12 of leukemia. Edie expressed reunion in July. She rented a cabin near and Bill came to visit and later Vaughan Fla. with family (15 of them in all) to see her condolences at a later date at lunch Bozeman, Mont. Eldest daughter Lisa and Inge Morrissette spent a night! The news Jane sister Sallie (SBC ’49) shortly before she with Shirley. Edie also reported that husband Bill came from Portland, Ore.; from Ruth Frye Deaton and Hugo is not Dawson Mudwilder died. Lillian Thu Pham sent regrets, but of Anchorage, Ky., died son Dave came from Missoula, Mont.; and so cheery. Several years ago Ruthie had had a granddaughter graduating from law on 5/18/12. Jane was a retired realtor. Sally drove up with her younger daughter bone surgery on one of her ankles, and school. Nancy Morrow Lovell visited her Her husband Robert predeceased her. She Nancy, who lives in Arvada, Colo. On Sept. it hasn’t gone well. Hugo has had cancer. after Reunion in Washington, D.C. Kier was survived by 4 children and 6 grand- 8 Sally leaves for a weeklong birding trip He’s had a procedure and chemo. They’re Caroline Miller Ewing Henley Donaldson also had a granddaugh- children. attended to Cape May, N.J., and has high hopes home with help. Last I heard from Merrill ter graduating from college. She’s still ac- the viewing. Our class extends sympathy for reaching 500 North American species Underwood Barringer and Paul, they were tive with the Pawling, N.Y. Concert Series, to both families. Our sympathy also seen. She still volunteers weekly at the taking a condo in Charlottesville, but Louise Somerville selecting artists and doing promotions. goes to the family of Denver Museum of Nature and Science were also keeping a place in Weldon. One Krotzer She has 2 sons, 2 granddaughters, works , who died in Philadelphia, Pa., and is active at church. more thing: I recently received an invite out, reads and plays bridge. Ann Hoagland on 11/10/2008. She was survived by Lamar Ellis Oglesby lost her husband in to a party in Highlands, N.C., to educate Plumb Kelsey went on a cruise through her husband, Henry, 3 daughters and 3 Feb., had her knee replaced in May and people about a Historic Trust house here the Panama Canal, then flew to Boulder, grandchildren. I spoke with Louise several will have cataract surgery in Aug/Sept. in Macon. The hostess for the party was Colo. for Jack’s grandson’s graduation months before she died. She had com- Her knee op was successful, and she is listed Mrs. Frank McLain. When I called from U. Colo. Granddaughter Sarah Plumb pleted her freshman year at Sweet Briar. walking without pain. She and 19 family to regret, I told the lady that I had a class- June Arata Pickett graduated from Dartmouth. Polly Plumb ’s husband Bob died members are going to Costa Rica together mate named Mary Lee McGinnis McLain Katzy Bailey Nager deButts had surgery this year, which kept on 5/8/12. C. J. and after Christmas. Lamar solicits our prayers and her husband was Frank. Could this be her down. Benita Phinizy Johnson spent attended the funeral. June and Bob’s son for her daughter Frances who has been the same person? Indeed it was! had already made plans before Bob’s Christmas in N.C. with her sons. Mary Lois fighting cancer for 7 years. Ann Collins Teachout says Dilly will be death to move to Vero Beach to be near Miller’s husband High has been having Jean “Sissy” Morris Long writes: We’ve visiting them in Oct. She and Bill are busy June and Bob. Again, our sympathy to June health problems. Carroll Morgan Legge just moved and love our new digs. Anne volunteers and have had an eventful year and her family. has moved to Blakehurst Community, White Connell is across the street. She with grandchildren: 2 graduating from col- Kirk Tucker 1055 Joppa Rd. Apt #206, Towson, MD Happier news: Jack and just got home to stay from Houston and lege and one of those marrying, another Clarkson 21204. She has 3 married daughters and celebrated the 60th anniversary her long round of successful chemo. Our producing twin girls making them great- 8 grandchildren—4 boys, 4 girls. She still of her Junior Year in France with her Paris Friday night supper club has dwindled, and grandparents. They also took a spring plays golf and bridge, takes art, writing roommate. She saw all the members of Betty Gene Orr Atkinson is mostly at home cruise to the Caribbean with his older sis- and other courses. She tells us that Louise her French family and stayed in a coun- now. I visit her often. I do see “Peaches” ters. Their oldest daughter moved to New Warfield Stump hasn’t been well. She also try home near Tours with the son of the Davis Roane. She lost Jack on Mother’s Haven last year and they love that excuse is in touch with Marianne Vorys Minister, lady with whom she had lived. This was Day in May. She went to Sea Island this to visit New England. followed by a trip to England to visit her who has sold her decorator business summer with her daughters. I published Ann Thomas Donohue had news of the World War II pen pal. and moved to a retirement community in my book, “Finding Kate,” last Dec. (his- derecho in June. In Arlington, where Ann Caroline Miller Ewing Columbus. I also heard that Peggy Nelson wrote that she had tory of my grandmother who came to Ark. lives, it consisted of a weird ‘sturm und Harding lost her husband Nort, and that moved to a “smaller place.” She added from Va. to teach school in 1885). Elaine drang’ with lots of lightning and formidable she had been ill. that the skills in theater and set design Colmer ’55 also lives here in an apt. with winds, which did in countless trees and Pat Layne Winks and Henry had a trip she learned as a member of Paints and husband Bob. wiped out electricity for a spell. Ann and to Paris. I see Betsy Wilder Cady from Patches have helped her in “downsizing.” Magaret “Peggy” Jones Steuart writes Tom spent a few days on the eastern shore time to time. Betsy told me that she saw She takes joy in having her granddaughter from Jamaica: We’re in Jamaica right now with kids, grandkids and dogs. matriculate at Georgetown U., husband a film about Harvey Milk in which our with some of our family, Brad, middle son Our London classmate, Joan Oram Reid, Bud’s alma mater. classmate Sally Gearhart plays a big part. and his 5 children. All 28 have been here wrote: Husband Bob and I still live in Nan Locke Rosa Coincidentally, I just learned that one of and Frank are looking this summer at one time or another. Ages central London as he’s still the chairman Sally’s former drama students in Texas into a Panama Canal cruise to celebrate of the grandchildren range from one to 28! of ICE Futures, the oil trading exchange. in 1963, Carla Blumberg, has endowed their 55th wedding anniversary. For Nan’s I see Doreen Booth Hamilton occasionally I’m still busy with my historical research, $1.2 million to U. Ore. for the Sally Miller 80th birthday her daughter, son-in-law and and a group of alumnae in other classes, mainly to do with Benjamin Franklin. I’m Gearhart Chair of Lesbian Studies. Sally husband feted her with a surprise party for Tuttie Webster, Kay Diane Bowles ’57 to also curating a small exhibition at The had already donated her papers there. 30 friends and family members. name a few. We’re fortunate to have 4 Wallace Collection Feb. through April Carla said, “I wanted to honor Sally be- Polly Sloan Shoemaker and Jimmy and lovely daughters-in-law and a great son-in- 2013, showing the 300-year silver in- cause she is one of the bravest women Betty Behlen Stone spent a weekend in law. Everyone lives about 15 minutes from scription collection of the Past Overseers with the most integrity of anyone I have April with Jack and Kirk at their Fla. home. us. Still volunteering as chair of the garden Society of Westminster. The family is ever met.” Kirk also sees Eleanor Johnson Ashby and committee at the Washington Cathedral busy with 4 small businesses starting Nancy Laemmel Hartmann and Bruce Katty Turner Mears frequently. In May the and on the Board of Tudor Place Historic up. Cirrus Communications, Frog, Fish are still in Nashville and enjoying the last 2 of the Clarkson’s 4 grandchildren Home and Gardens in Georgetown. and Scoobits. Fish has just sold some grandchildren. graduated from college, Jack III from Ole Jerry Dreisbach Ludeke: My big trip this software to the FBI in Washington. Joan’s Dick and I are still in our farmhouse. I still Miss and Tucker from U. of Ga. year was to Iceland and Greenland with grandchildren are all growing up, with 2 of ride, but gave up dressage judging. I went The Apys expect the last of their 10 grand- Overseas Adventure Travel. Since then I’ve the Australians with them at the moment to Dallas in June to my granddaughter children to graduate in 2033 on a date had 2 camping trips in the High Sierra. for their work and gap year activities. Joan Julia’s Bat Mitzvah. Diana and Ethan, Julia which may conflict with our 80th reunion! One was an Elderhostel starting with a noted that they’re devastated by the loss and Emmett were here several times over In the meantime we enjoyed a mini-re- hike from 6000’ to 8000’ elevation in of Anne Sheffield Hale and her husband the summer. The rest of the family isn’t union with Princeton’s Class of ’54, which the first mile and finally settling down at Bradley. too far. took us to Portugal and Spain via the 7600 for a week. The second one was

36 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine I spent a week with a friend who lives in Emily Hunter Slingluff, Virginia Beach: Life years with 2 children, 7 grandchildren Leila Thompson Taratus graduated from Merida on the Yucatan Peninsula in Feb. In is full and exciting. Friends tell me that it and 2 great-grandchildren. She is a liberal Emory Univ. with a B.A. degree. Her hus- May I spent a long weekend in Savannah is good that I am busy rather than bored, Democrat and a devout Episcopalian. band Kenneth is a retired orthodontist. with a photo club from Southern Pines, but I think of my mother telling me, and I Ann Train Ross, our Scottish classmate, She had open heart surgery in 2011. She N.C., as the guest of a member. June saw agree, that an educated person is never received a degree from the U. of St. enjoys golf. They have 3 children and 8 us at North Topsail Island, N.C., for an- bored. Love to all. We’re the tops! Andrews in Scotland. She retired from grandchildren. Her daughter, Leila, mar- other get together with my sister, Virginia medical research and training and lives ried Helen Wolf Evans’ son, Thomas. Watts Fournier ’44, and family. In July, Bill in England with her husband. She volun- Recently, she had lunch with Weesie and I enjoyed a boat trip down the Elbe 1956 teers at the Village Primary School as a Grant, Laura Bowen and Pryde Brown, River from Hamburg to Prague. I’m into Frances Shannonhouse reading tutor. They have 3 children and 6 whose daughter is an art professor at photography, gallery website, journaling Clardy grandchildren. Emory. trips, choir, folding bulletins and driving 1700 Queens Rd. W Kathryn “Kay” Smith Schauer spent a year Marguerite Geer Wellborn graduated from senior citizens to appointments. It doesn’t Charlotte, NC 28207 at Stanford after Sweet Briar. She teaches Univ. of Ga. Her husband Marshall is a take much to keep in touch—email me! [email protected] elementary school, is a book keeper and retired banker. They have 4 children and 9 tax preparer. Kay and husband Bob have grandchildren. Nancy Salisbury Spencer been married for 51 years. They have 3 Mary Ann Hicklin Willingham has been 1955 2580 Club Park Rd. children. She has enjoyed participating in married 12 years to husband Jim. She Emily Hunter Slingluff Winston-Salem, NC 27104 political activities and is currently organiz- lives in her family home in Asheville and is 1217 North Bay Shore Dr. [email protected] ing her community’s plans to deal with a retired realtor. She has 3 daughters and Virginia Beach, VA 23451 natural disasters. 6 grandchildren. She is blessed with good [email protected] Before our last reunion, our classmates Nancy Salisbury Spencer and husband health and continues to be active in her community and church. It’s sad to report the deaths of 2 of our received questionnaires asking for the Jim, a retired captain airline pilot, live in classmates. Mary Judith Trevor Nettles news of their lives. Half of the news ap- Winston-Salem. Nancy has 2 children. Joan Broman Wright and husband Jim, a died on Jan. 21. Carolyn Neighbors Hart peared in the last magazine. The remain- She and Jim, between them, have 12 retired account executive at Merrill Lynch, died on July 2. Their names will be read ing classmates’ news appears here. First grandchildren. Nancy remains a “passion- live in Charlottesville, Va. They chose to at the memorial service during Reunion we received sad news that our classmate, ate gardener.” Her beautiful garden is well retire there after living many years in Fla. 2013. I know we all send love to their Catherine Colquitt Blue of Shreveport, known in the state, and she generously They have 2 children and 2 grandchildren. families. La. died. After 2 years at Sweet Briar she opens it to visitors throughout the year. She is active in a gardening club and graduated from the Univ. of Ok. She is She is also active in her Episcopal Church opera guild and enjoys gardening and Frankie Marbury Coxe writes from survived by a son, daughter and several and has served on the board of visitors of reading. Menerbes, France: Tench and I loved grandchildren. Kanuga Episcopal Conference Center. Atlanta and for 40 years, threw ourselves Frances Shannonhouse Clardy has lived into the life of the community. Our 2 chil- Sally Ann Hyde McMillin lives in Ithaca, Jane Street Steele lives in Raleigh. Her in the same house in Charlotte, N.C. for 47 dren, Tench and Molly, went to Dartmouth, N.Y., and is a ticket manager for the husband Henry is an adjunct professor at years. A widow, her husband Jim for who Princeton and Harvard. Today we live in Cornell Concert Series. A widow, her Maryland College and an industry consul- she was married to for 51 years was an in- the medieval village of Menerbes, France, husband’s book on musical theater was tant. Jane has a son and daughter. She vestment banker. She has 2 children and in a restored 11th-century chateau. Tench published posthumously and won the served as a docent at the N.C. Museum of 5 grandchildren. She enjoys spending time Jr. is a venture capitalist in Palo Alto, Calif., George G. Nathan Award in 2007. She has Art for 20 years and currently serves as a with her grandchildren, gardening and and Molly is writing and illustrating chil- 3 children and 4 grandchildren. Stephen Minister at her church. She and volunteer work. She continues to be very dren’s books in Bellingham, Wash. They all Anne Parker “Parksie” Carroll Mulhollend Henry have traveled extensively. active with the Colonial Dames. come to Provence at least once a year for and husband Jack, a retired doctor, divide 2 or 3 weeks. their time between Fort Myers, Fla. and Camille Williams Yow writes from Atlanta: Charlottesville, Va. She received a degree In June, I spent a week in Rome immersed in radiologic technology from John Hopkins in music provided by Robert McDuffie’s Univ. and is a retired radiologic technician. THE BOOK SHOP Rome Chamber Festival, now in its 10th They have 3 children and 7 grandchildren. year. (Robert McDuffie is Camille’s son-in- She enjoys the winters in Fort Myers and law and a famous violinist.) The music was plays lots of golf. performed in the Palazzo Barberini in the Helen Turner Murphy and husband Tayloe Quirinale area and, also, one evening at still live in the country near Mount Holly, the residence of our ambassador to Italy. Va. Tayloe is now retired. They have a Then on to Paris for another week of music daughter and grandson. Helen enjoys all and a day trip to Normandy. In Aug. I spent outdoor activities including fishing, tennis, a week in Aspen. All 4 of my grandchildren sailing and gardening. She has served on are now in college. many boards and has been Senior Warden Newell Bryan Tozzer sees our Atlanta of her church. classmates often. Kathleen Peebles Margaret Anne “Peggy Anne” Rogers Ballou had a luncheon for Mary Reid received an M.A. in journalism on a grant Daugette, who moved to a retirement at Univ. of Iowa. She worked for Saturday area. Classmates who attended were Evening Post and Lippincott Publishers in Newell, Sue Lawton Mobley and Camille N.Y. She also served as a guidance coun- Williams Yow. selor at a Catholic school and worked as Meta Space Moore in Charleston, S.C. a truant officer. Now she lives in a retire- is very involved with ministry at St. ment community and enjoys traveling. Michaels Episcopal Church. She sees a Allison Scott “Scottie” Boykin Parsons lot of her children, some in Charleston, received her B.A. at Univ. of Md. She and and also keeps up with our classmates husband Jim live at a retirement home Derrill Maybank Haygood and Nella Gray in Glenwood, Md. Jim worked at the U.S. Barkley. Senate Sergeant of Arms Office and Betty Byrne Gill Ware writes from Scottie worked for the National Cathedral Richmond about their travels and their vis- and Hillwood Museum. She keeps ac- its with their children. She plays lots of golf tive through exercise, tennis, bridge and and bridge plus does important volunteer 5 book clubs. Five of her 6 children live work; she and Hudnall exercise regularly nearby. They also have 11 grandchildren. when in Richmond and in Naples, Fla., in Betty “Bett” Forbes Rayburn received the winter. an A.B. from Univ. of Ga. She and her Sweet Briar tapestry now 40% off! Honey Addington Passano writes from husband Donnie live on her 150-year-old Gibson Island, Md., where they spend family farm. She’s a farmer and he’s a much of their time, that life there is full as great gardener and tractor driver. She has You can now place orders online by going to always with family and friends and boat- 3 children and 5 grandchildren. www.sbc.edu/bookshop ing. When in Baltimore, they enjoy living in Brandon Forrest Rohr graduated from a nice retirement place. George Wash. Univ. A widow, she and her We accept Visa, MasterCard and Discover. husband both had careers in the insur- ance business. They were married 53.5

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 37 to all of you who participated in our 55th Jini Jones Vail: In the last 12 months I was Ali Wood Thompson: I guess it’s time to 1957 Reunion Gift to establish scholarships on book tour most of the time, giving 26 get the calendar out to find out what I have Carol McMurtry Fowler for students who will be named “Class of talks and loving my new life! Still working done in the past 6 months…My cousin 10 Woodstone Sq. 1957 Scholars.” By the way, you can still full time—breaking records! Photos on (80) from Maine came out for a visit so Austin, TX 78703 donate to our scholarship effort with any Facebook and website: jinijonesvail.com. we decided to go paddling in a 6-man [email protected] Annual Fund gift. Virginia MacKethan Kitchin: Spent a trip at outrigger canoe twice. Off to Nice in April Nannette agreed to continue as class our Sandbridge Beach cottage in Aug. with for a week and then caught a plane to Notes were written by Nannette McBurney fundraiser and Carol as our permanent our 6 grandchildren, 7th due in December. Amsterdam where we picked up an 11-day Crowdus and Jane Pinckney deButts. journalist. Note: Jane and Nannette are Still working at selling real estate and be- boat trip up the Rhine to Zurich and then The Class of 1957 was well represented writing this because Carol messed up her ing a docent at the Chrysler Museum in home to Maui. In early June, it was off to at our 55th Reunion last May. Attending dates and was in France during Reunion. Norfolk. I am not playing tennis anymore, Freeport, Maine to see my oldest grand- were Judith Ruffin Anderson, Kay Diane No comment on her planning. Jane was but I love watching the pros. daughter graduate from Cheverus HS. Moore Bowles, Mary Landon Smith elected president because she hasn’t Jane “Puss” Moore Banks: At 75 I decided Then a few days later we went on down Brugh, Nannette McBurney Crowdus, done it before; she will do a good job and to turn the day-to-day operation of the to N.J. to see Travis’ sister for a nice visit. Jane Pinckney deButts, Baba Conway she is back in Va. Many thanks to Cynnie family assisted living business over to my I thought it would be good to get some Debicki, Catherine Meacham Durgin, for serving for the last 5 years. daughter, Bunny. She has worked with me more exercise at the senior center, so I Ninie Laing, Joy Peebles Massie, Cynnie Quite a few of us visited Nancy Godwin side by side for more than 20 years and signed up for a Line Dance and Diva Ball Wilson Ottaway, Virginia Marks Paget, Baldwin in her nursing home in Amherst. has taken on the mantle with grace and and Stretchy Bands class right after Line Chips Chao Pai, Dee Robin, Sandra She was thrilled to see us and she was all dignity. Dance (a lot of stretching to jazzy music). Stingily Simpson and Charlotte Heuer dressed up for us, wearing her wonderful Judy Nevins LeHardy: Ward and I and all In July we hosted the top 4 teenage girls Watts. Accompanying them were John frog necklace. our family were very proud to attend our (ages 15-17) from the state of Ariz. for the Bowles, Bill Crowdus, Hunter deButts, Breakfast with Jo Ellen Parker for the 55th grandson Barrett LeHardy’s graduation Girl’s Junior America’s Cup Tournament Jimmie Massie, David Pai and Bob Watts. ladies was on the agenda Sunday morn- from West Point in May. He won special here in Wailea. There were 18 teams from Honorary class member and former presi- ing, followed by church, then a visit to recognition as the fastest runner on the the western third of the U.S. And lastly, dent, Betsy Muhlenfeld, and her husband, Sweet Briar House where we were enter- cross country team. His sister Annie will we had to fly off to Bellevue, Wash. for Larry Wollen, joined us. Jane Fitzgerald tained by Daisy Williams, a most charming be a sophomore at UNC this year. She is a memorial service, but we were able to Treherne-Thomas, Margie Scott Johnson young lady. It’s time to mark your calen- on a full scholarship for her running! The see many of our old friends and meet up and Day Gibson Kerr planned to come, dars for our 60th! other 8 grandchildren are ages 11 to 31, with our son because he was in Seattle but were unable to because of illness or and our youngest son, Peter, was married on business—hadn’t seen him in 2 years, injuries. We missed everyone who wasn’t last year. They live in Annapolis. The other a real treat! there! The scrapbook that Carol McMurtry 3 families live in Fredericksburg, Arlington Keep me abreast of all address, phone Fowler put together was poured over from 1958 and Roanoke. Three adult grands live and email changes. Remember, if you cover to cover by all who attended. Thank Jane Shipman Kuntz 4015 Orchard View Pl., No. 1 in Los Angeles. None are married, but want me to resend you the address list you, Carol, for your usual fabulous job. Powell, OH 43065 the eldest is engaged. I enjoyed going to just drop me an email and I will send it It is indeed a great way to catch up with [email protected] Judy Chalmers Simpson’s luncheon for on to you. everyone. the “Richmond gang” in June and seeing Friday evening we gathered for cocktails classmates I hadn’t seen for years. and picture taking on the deck of the Debbie Von Reischach Snyder: What a 1960 Elston Inn. We enjoyed a brief visit from 1959 beautiful summer; great weather, grand- Carol Barnard Ottenberg President Jo Ellen Parker and Louise and Ali Wood Thompson 89 Pukolu Way children (7), sailing, tennis, golf. We’ll be 1420 41st Ave. E Scott Zingaro. Our “hangout” was the re- Wailea, HI 96753 in Maine until the beginning of Oct. Have Seattle, WA 98112 ception room at the Inn, wonderful spot! [email protected] to leave for a week to go to Shelter Island, [email protected] Sat. morning we found our way to the N.Y. to my great aunt’s 100th birthday Prothro Dining Room for a fine breakfast For those of you that sent in your news, so party. Don’t want to leave Maine, but it featuring omelets made to order, which many thanks to you! Mark your calendars could be worse. We travel to Portugal and 1961 fortified us for the bean bag toss challenge for our 55th Reunion in 2014, May 30- Spain for 3 weeks the day after Labor Day, Elizabeth Hutchins Sharland from the Class of 1982. Cynnie’s daughter June 1! return to Maine for 10 days and then drive 1724 Aberdeen Cr. Lele is a member of ’82 and had set up Passings: Susan Timberlake Thomas of home to Williamsburg. Crofton, MD 21114 everything in front of the Senior Stairs. [email protected] Staunton, Va. died Monday, 8/20/12. Ann Smith Heist: We took the 4 grand- For “everything,” think Bloody Marys, Contact Updates: Mary Boyd Davis: 1000 children and Mommy on a week’s cruise Mimosas, water, etc. plus the bean bag Vicar’s Landing Way # D201, Ponte Vedra to Bermuda where they snorkeled till they boards made by Lele and her daughter Beach, FL 32082. Tel. (904) 285-7118. dropped. Our daughter is sorry to leave the 1962 featuring Vixens. The winner received a Pat Davis Stuker: 8548 Pepper Tree way, Boston area, but they will make Ridgefield, Parry Ellice Adam bottle of champagne (we won, of course). 33 Pleasant Run Rd. Naples FL 34114. Tel. (239) 417-4012. Conn., home now—2 hours less for us to There will be a rematch during our 60th, Flemington, NJ 08822 Lucy Frost Dunning: lucdunning37@gmail. drive up from Fla. I still write schedules so practice. 908-782-3754 com and do flower shows through GCA and [email protected] President Parker’s college update meeting Mary Boyd Davis: Irvin and I are moving to Federated, and John stays a step ahead Sat. was packed. She’s quite attractive a local (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) life care of new technology. If our health holds up and held our attention completely with Since so many of us gathered at Reunion, community on Aug. 14. We hate to give up we may head out for the islands in the much news was shared then. It was a reports concerning the strategic plan. our home of 25 years, but the time has Baltic in the spring. Traveling with oxygen One thing which caught our attention was spectacular event (including the weather) come. We still have a guest room! I plan to gets tricky, but we have surmounted all with about 50 classmates in attendance. A the information that a matching grant of meet with Jini Jones Dyer, Sarah Murdock obstacles so far. $20,000 is available for every $20,000 lovely memorial service was held on Friday Moore, Erna Arnold Westwig and Sandi Polly Space Dunn: Playing lots of golf, raised to renovate classrooms with cutting evening prior to our class dinner. We cer- LaStaiti Sylvia in Williamsburg in Oct. painting and enjoying our home in the edge technology. We have been chal- tainly missed those of you who were un- Pat Davis Sutker: We just sold our sum- mountains. My daughter Eleanor and her lenged by the Class of 2007 to match their able to attend and hope to hear from you mer cottage, hurrah! son Austin (5) live in Statesboro, Ga. about gifts up to $10,000. If you want to be a in the near future. Betsy Duke Seaman: Hope everyone’s well 50 miles from Savannah. Elizabeth, our part of this effort, let Nannette know. Just a repeat of how to access the and surviving the summer heat. Thanks to older daughter, lives in Rumson, N.J. with Scrapbook: you can download it for a The Reunion luncheon and the evening Judy for organizing a reunion. her daughter (12) and son (9). cocktail buffet were held in the gymna- limited period of time at the following link: Alice Cary Farmer Brown: We’re at our Tabb Thornton Farinholt: Several of us sium of the new Fitness and Athletics http://wikisend.com/download/138974/ summer house on an island off the coast gathered at the cottage Judy rents in Center, which is an impressive multi- classof1962(1).pdf .The password is: of R.I., but just leaving now to go down to Gloucester each summer. For that occa- purpose facility with rooms and offices do- sbc1962. Please be advised that there Fla. for a week where we’re renovating my sion (in June) Barbara Sampson Borsch nated by some of our class members. We may be some compatibility problems recently deceased mother-in-law’s house. came to stay with me for several days announced that our lifetime gifts to Sweet between WikiSend and Internet Explorer, Pat Frawley Gates on her way to Los Angeles! It’s so good Briar total $12 million! No other class is : Three years later a which may prevent it from download- to reconnect with classmates. Blair and even close to that number! The applause beautiful display from our 50th Reunion ing correctly to your computer. Should I are just about to fly to N.H. to Camp was deafening. And of course, we still hold Sweet Briar Rose—the dear little blooms that happen, or if you prefer, you can Pasquaney’s final weekend to see grand- the record for the most ever given by any lasted all of 10 days, then I gave it a send Adele Vogel Harrell a check for sons perform in plays: “Mark Antony” in class at any Reunion with our gift for our drastic hair cut. Anyway, it’s all good, and $6. She will send you a CD with a copy “Julius Caesar” and “The Paperboy” in 50th: $617, 657.57. Pictures were taken I knew if I kept singing our College song it of the Scrapbook on it. Adele’s address “Our Town.” at Prothro in front of the plaque com- would finally bloom its heart out. is: Stonewall Farm, Box 234, Hume, VA memorating our achievements. Thanks 22639.

38 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Photo by Nathan Weber Medaling in the Arts

Elizabeth “Liz” Glassman ’71 will flatly In Bonheur’s day, achievement in arts and culture could tell you that her junior year abroad changed her life. only be officially recognized through the Order of the Legion She arrived in Paris in the fall of 1969 as an of Honor. Since the government established the Order of international relations major eying a career in diplomacy. Arts and Letters in 1957, American recipients have included “I went back my senior year as an art history major,” author Paul Auster, jazz artist and composer Ornette she said by phone from her Chicago office at the Terra Coleman, architect Richard Meier, and actors Robert Foundation for American Art. “I was seduced by the Redford, Morgan Freeman and Meryl Streep. discipline and the excitement of looking at original Glassman appreciates France’s efforts to acknowledge masterpieces.” cultural contributions. Nor was Glassman immune to France’s charms, then “To recognize achievements in the arts and letters with or in the ensuing years. Her charge as president and CEO one of its highest honors says something about the country,” of Terra is to share American art with the rest of the world. she said. “And it makes the recipient that much more Yet the foundation has a special relationship with France attached to the country.” that dates back to 1992, when founder Daniel Terra For Glassman, the journey that led to the recognition opened a museum in Giverny. Since Glassman became the began even before her junior year — international relations organization’s leader in 2001, she has demonstrated both her is a useful background to have in her position. After Sweet devotion to her mission and to the country. Briar, she earned a master’s in art history from the University The French government took notice. Not long ago, of New Mexico and an M.B.A. from the University of she opened a letter informing her that she had been named St. Thomas, Houston. Her accomplishments include an officer in the Order of Arts and Letters. The distinction, establishing the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, of which she signified by a medal corresponding to the rank awarded, is president emerita. recognizes “eminent artists and writers, and people who have Nonetheless, when the medal is placed around her neck contributed significantly to furthering the arts in France and in a ceremony later this year, she will know it’s because she throughout the world.” chose to study abroad, she says. Glassman remembers calling Terra’s Paris office. “I “I think this is really about Sweet Briar’s Junior Year in said, ‘What does this mean? Who do I write to say yes?’ ” France program and how an international experience has she recalled. “One of my associates there told me that the grown into a lifelong passion.” [renowned] French artist Rosa Bonheur was the first woman to receive the honor.”

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 39 Cynthia Hubard Spangler was treated by Melinda Musgrove Chapman is going to Saralyn McAfee Smith and husband 1963 her son and daughter-in-law to a glorious Germany in Oct. to visit her son and his Hamp will attend his 50th high school Jane Goodridge 70th birthday dinner party. That was fol- family. His oldest son has just started col- reunion near Haddonfield, N.J. Their older 31-C Archdale St. lowed by a family vacation at her partner lege in Fla. so he won’t be there. granddaughter Sierra (7th grade) debuted Charleston, SC 29401 Charles Askew’s family cabins in Glacier Lurline Tolbert Sweet sent her news since in a local production of “Persephone.” [email protected] National Park, Mont. They had all daugh- 1990. Her husband Paul Buppert died Their younger granddaughter Cheyenne is ters, spouses and grandchildren along at age 47 in 1990, and she was on her in kindergarten. Saralyn is on the board of Our class co-presidents Betty Stanly with her son and grandchildren. own for 11 years, preparing taxes and their local senior center. Cates and Allie Stemmons Simon want to Mary Trabue Meyer went to Teotihuacan, working as a church secretary. In 2001 remind you to put the dates of our 50th about an hour’s drive from Mexico City, in she married Jim Sweet, a pastor and Reunion on your calendar—please save June to see the temples and pyramids of widower, so abruptly had 3 stepsons, 3 1966 May 31-June 2, 2013. Do it now! We’re the Toltec. Her daughter Molly opened a daughters-in-law and 6 grandchildren. Jim Penn Willets Fullerton counting down and hoping for a huge yoga studio, Studio Dakini, in Nashville; has served as interim pastor in several 124 Linden Ln. turnout! her son Will has an architectural business churches—in Port Charlotte, Fla., where San Rafael, CA 94901 The artists among us have been busy. in N.Y., Meyer Davis Studio. She continues Hurricane Charley demolished their home; [email protected] Irene Pschorr Belknap is getting ready with her artwork and is working in water- in Cleveland, Ohio; and now in Ocala, Fla. for a show in Paris in Sept.; her son was color. Her mom (95) is still a big part of Life with him has been an adventure. Susan Sudduth Hiller going to be married in her garden in July; her life. Gabrielle “Babette” Fraser Hale is expect- 4811 Garrison Rd. her stepdaughter lives in Wash. and has a Marta Sweet Colangelo had a visit with ing her first grandchild in Sept. She has Little Rock, AR 72223 one-year-old, and her daughter is moving Cathy Detmar Nicholls and her husband retired from her energy job and re-entered [email protected] back to Manhattan. Jean Meyer Aloe re- Peter prior to traveling around in England, the publishing world. Her husband Leon ceived 3 awards from the National League Scotland, and Wales in May and June. has celebrated his 91st birthday, and Keenan Colton Kelsey of American Pen Women and the Biennial Cathy lives near the English coast in they’ll continue to spend a lot of time at 101 Hawthorne Ave. Celebration in D.C. in May: one for a prose Somerset. In summer 2011, Marta and their country place and fit in grandbaby Larkspur, CA 94939 poem, one for a free verse poem and one Susan Terjen Bernard had a delightful trip visits to N.Y. [email protected] for a one-act play. Then she was invited to to Greece and Turkey. Sally McCrady Hubbard read her poetry at the Library of Congress. ’s husband Charles Lee Kucewicz Parham Stevie Fontaine Jane W. Nelson In July 2 of Nerissa vom Baur Roehrs’ , died at home on 8/19/12 under hospice Keown Kathy Caldwell Patten May 407-C N Hamilton St. piano pieces were performed in Leipzig , and care. His 81st birthday and their 38th Bowers Morris were going on a “girl” trip anniversary were in June. Their children, Richmond, VA 23221 and were reviewed in the local paper. In [email protected] Dec. 2013 the famous St. Thomas Boys to Sedgwick, Maine, in mid-Sept. and will stepchildren and several of his 10 grand- Choir (Bach’s church) will perform a 4-part stay at Kathy’s home there. Lee is still children came to Sewanee for his funeral Our SBC 50th is not too far away! Let’s Christmas carol with organ accompani- involved in the DAR, as is Keitt Matheson Sept. 8. Thanks to all of you who sent kind start preparing now to be there! Our 45th ment. A couple of her art songs were sung Wood, who is regent of her chapter in encouragement. was a meaningful weekend at Sweet Briar. recently in Beijing, Shanghai and Sydney; Louisville. Lee is also in 2 very active book Harriotte Dodson McDannald invites The best part, I think, was sitting around her 2 songs for contralto will be sung in groups. Sweet Briar friends to the Oct. 8 lecture and getting to know classmates whom we recital in Zwickau (Schumann’s birthplace) This is the last year of teaching history at in the Dodson Memorial Lecture Series perhaps hadn’t gotten to know well when in March 2013. She has CDs of her music UNC-Greensboro for Rinda King deBeck. at St. John’s-Roanoke. The Rev. Fleming we were at SBC. Thanks for your news! Let and next year will make a 4-CD version of Parker McColl and Jim enjoyed many Rutledge ’59 will speak on “Jesus Christ us know if you did not receive the email collected works taking the best of each beautiful days in Blowing Rock, N.C. during and the New Skepticism.” requests so that we won’t miss you next and adding a couple of new things. the summer with lots of tennis. Their 2 Nancy MacMeekin and Vicky Barrette time. Sue Jones Cansler and Chuck will mark granddaughters in Charlotte (4 and 2 ½) skied twice this year, at Zermatt and Robin Cutler Maw’s 2 high school re- their 10th year of retirement and reloca- are a joy. Nancy McDowell still works. She Crested Butte; and went to Austria in May. unions last fall were wonderful. She still tion to St. Simons Island, Ga. They volun- has cut her clinical hours to about 20 per This summer she made weekly early morn- lives in N.Y.C., but commutes often to Calif. teer for the regional symphony and the week. She’s still struggling with health is- ing kayak outings, exploring the local tidal to see children and grandchildren. So St. Simons Land Trust. This year they trav- sues; last year she had spine surgery. creeks of southern Md. She’s been riding Keenan, Randi Miles Long and I hope to eled to Australia and New Zealand, then Lynn Gabel-Brett is retired, but her spouse bike trails with her kayak friends. She also hook up with her soon! Robin got together visited Israel for 2 weeks with a church Leslie is supporting both of them and tutors literacy/ESL, and stays busy with with Ann Mason Curti and Ginny Butters. group. This summer they were back on is the director of education and public church work, home maintenance and wa- Robin is in the midst of publishing a book. the road again (literally) as they took 2 of affairs for Lambda Legal, the largest tering flowers. Penny Steketee Sidor’s first grandchild, their grandchildren to a family reunion in gay rights legal organization in the U.S. For Laura Haskell Phinizy, it was the year Danny, was born this past Christmas Eve, Leesburg, Va., and then on to Gettysburg They have an apartment in Park Slope of the grandchild. She flew to D.C. to help and on Labor Day weekend her second and Williamsburg. and a home in West Hartford, Conn. She daughter Laura drive the twins, Spencer son was married. alternates between the 2 and visits her Allie Stemmons Simon and Heinz con- and Sarah Frances, to Augusta for 2 1/2 Randi Miles Long and Herb went to their mother in Rochester who just celebrated tinue to go back and forth between Texas weeks. Then she met daughter Marion in 50th high school reunion in Westport, her 101st birthday and is doing well. They and Colo. Ann Clute Obenshain had a south Ga. to pick up Stewart and Wesley. Conn. and 2 more in Md. this fall. have 3 granddaughters; the oldest is at great family reunion at their cottage on Four grandchildren (6 to 9) played base- Preparing for her mother’s 90th birthday Hampshire College (Mass.) and the young- Seneca Lake in upstate N.Y. and is plan- ball and other sports in the yard. Then has been a huge focus: boxes of letters, est is Jasmine (4). ning a trip to Paris and London over the they all went to Kanuga for vacation. genealogy, finding people she thought holidays with daughters Liza and Meg. I want to thank everyone for contributing Milbrey Sebring Raney and her husband were lost, all rewarding but overwhelming! Ginger Cates Mitchell came to Charleston to the column, and I hope to see you at Bev are well and enjoying their grandchil- Randi has 4 grandchildren from daughter for the Spoleto Festival with Laura Lee Reunion. dren in Charlotte and Austin and some Melissa in Charlotte, and son Kent lives Brown and Cecil Collins Scanlan! She and travel. nearby in the Bay Area. She looks forward Mitch had an adventure in the Arctic this Carol Reifsnyder Rhoads and her hus- to seeing everyone at Reunion! summer watching wildlife, hiking on the 1964 band Bob went to China in June with their Andrea Pearson Pennington welcomed tundra and in the Norwegian fjords among Virginia “Ginny” deBuys Chinese daughters-in-law and 3 grandsons her first 2 grandchildren born in 2011. She H16 Shirley Ln. fields of wildflowers. Back in Ga. they have (6 to 14). Bob is nearing retirement, but retired after 28 years as juvenile court Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 welcomed their son Edward and his family will work one more year as chairman of referee and now volunteers with children. [email protected] back from years in Mexico. Their other 2 biochemistry at LSU Medical Center. Soon She works with the League of Women children continue with their own entrepre- they plan a life of 6 months in Shreveport Voters. Another project is civic engage- neurial endeavors in N.Y. and N.C. while and 6 months in Colo. ment with teens from a distressed com- raising 3 more grandchildren. 1965 Magda Salvesen, curator of the Jon munity in Mobile. Susan Scott Robinette retired from real Sally Hubbard Schueler Estate, sends news of 2 Schueler Martha Madden Swanson 52 Sherwood Trail In D.C., and estate sales in Litchfield, S.C., married her exhibitions in N.Y. this fall. The current Sewanee, TN 37375-2166 David enjoy classes at Georgetown as well husband and moved to the Clemson, S.C. exhibition of 5 very large paintings is in [email protected] as athletic events on campus, especially area. They live with 4 dogs and 2 donkeys the Lobby Gallery at 499 Park Ave. until the sailing team. They’ve been traveling on a 37-acre farm near Clemson. They Vicky Thoma Barrette took a 4-day Jan. 5. The next exhibition, “Jon Schueler: abroad this past spring. She and David hike, go boating on nearby lakes, and windjammer cruise in Aug. while looking The Mallaig Years, 1970-75,” will be at the continue to raise funds for a Jesuit school attend concerts and lectures at the uni- forward to a big trip in the fall: Nancy David Findlay Jr. Gallery with opening re- in the slums of Kenya, for children whose versity and in Greenville and Atlanta. They MacMeekin and Vicky will be off for 7 ception on Sept. 6. Magda spent 3 weeks parents are AIDS victims. Martha and travel a lot, mostly to Europe, and try to get weeks of travel in Australia and New in Pompeii in June and is preparing the Dave’s children live in the D.C. area and back to the beach twice a year. Zealand. course on Ancient Roman Gardens that in L.A. she will give at N.Y.U. this semester.

40 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Joe and Pamala Jones Brown celebrated years of active Presbyterian ministry! In Susan Tucker, and sees Mimi Harrison More class notes online 46 years of marriage in Aug. and enjoy the midst of a compelling career she man- and Flossie Mobley a couple times a year. living close to their 4 sons and 5 grand- aged to travel to the Baltic area last year Barbara Tillman Kelley and Carlton are sbc.edu/magazine children. Pam’s jewelry design business, and Cuba recently. She gets to care for still in Birmingham; they’re both retired “Stoneprints Jewelry,” is going well. Pam grandbaby Betty every Friday and vaca- now and love traveling. Two years ago, they uses her French major often and feels that tions with grandboys Miles and Sammy visited Egypt! They take 2 or 3 big trips a received her MBA. I guess our next re- Sweet Briar prepared her for every aspect whenever she can. year. Barb reports, “Dave, our oldest, is union in 5 years is the 50th one!” of an entrepreneurial business. Penn has 5 grandkids, 3 of whom are a manager at Gramercy Tavern in N.Y.C. Barbara Annan writes: “I missed the Muriel Wikswo Lambert continues to close by. She teaches creative writing Our daughter, Darcy, is a veterinarian here 45th Reunion as I was trekking in Tibet in teach and do research at N.J. Medical in the public schools and is trying to get in Birmingham. Trey, our youngest, is in the spring. I live in Madison, Wis. with 2 School. She too has a new granddaughter some picture books published. She and Charleston, S.C., and is a financial man- Siamese cats. I will be completing a certifi- and expects the second one mid-Dec.! All George have a little place in the Sierras for ager with a large company. I just retired cate in folklore studies from U.W. this fall, 3 of her children are in medical school! weekends. as the president of Assistance League of a hobby after years as a Ph.D. psycholo- Tom and Mary Anne “Coon” Calhoun Once again, many, many thanks to those Birmingham, spending most of my free gist. I am enjoying active travel and last Farmer have been on the road since Tom’s of you who helped create this class mes- time volunteering with Assistance League. week went on a kayaking trip in Canada.” retirement from real estate: South Africa, sage. Mark your calendars for Reunion, I’m still a docent at our local history mu- Judi, Bonnie and I drove over on Sun. after Zimbabwe, Portugal, Spain and France! May 2016. Let’s aim for a record turnout! seum. Carlton still enjoys backpacking and Reunion to see Randy Brown on the Va. They now have 6 grandchildren and cel- he and Trey are taking a trip to Australia coast. Randy has had health issues and ebrated their 45th anniversary in Oct. and New Zealand and going backpacking has bought a darling house close to her A note from “Memaw”—do you know 1967 there in Dec.” son and her mother. She still sees Hallie who this classmate is? Anyway, we are Gail O’Quin Victoria Baker is still dancing and enjoying Darby Smith who was not able to come to sending her news, because many of you 2651 Kleinhert Ave. retirement with dance partner/life partner Reunion; Hallie is an Episcopal priest and probably do know! She’s blessed with 5 Baton Rouge, LA 70806 Lee. She was working on 12 anthropology had duties Reunion Weekend. beautiful grandchildren to enrich her life, [email protected] lectures she will give in an enrichment As for me, I am in Baton Rouge, La., wait- with a granddaughter off to college this lecture series on a Panama Canal cruise As new class secretary, I now know what a ing for Hurricane Issac. My husband Bill fall! Memaw is a real estate specialist in Nov. and I live with 2 standard poodles and for Baltimore County, Md., and has just job Toots has performed over these many Jane Stephenson Wilson is enjoying this years. Many thanks, Toots. a junkyard dog. We have 4 grandchil- bought a second home on Lake Champlain time of life, especially her grandsons. They dren with one on the way. My daughter Those attending our 45th Reunion: in upstate N.Y. where she plans to spend are close by, one 4 years old and his twin Madeleine lives 4 blocks away with her Gretchen Bullard Barber, Katharine the better part of the year when she finally brothers almost 2. 9-year-old and 2-year-old—great, but I am Barnhardt Chase, Stephanie Ewalt retires. Diane ‘Toots’ Dalton sent in a brief report: not a good grandmother nor frequent Coleman, Diane ‘Toots’ Dalton, Linda Fite, A cross-country trip took Sally Kalber “After a busy year of retirement, I’m enjoy- babysitter. Please, if you’re ever in this Pam Ford Kelley, Lynn Lyle, Mellie Hickey Fiedler and Jay (Richmond, Va.) to see ing a month in Canada mostly off the grid.” part of the world (New Orleans, although Nelson, Lindsay Smith Newsom, Gail their grandkids last Christmas. A Black Anne Stuart Brown writes, “Suffice it to say a third world country, is included), please Robins O’Quin, Bonnie Blew Pierie, Page Sea holiday was scheduled for this fall. I’m still married to the same husband (45 get in touch with me. We have lots of room Munroe Renger and Judi Benson Stigle. You may have heard that our class has lost years so far), have 2 married sons who live and run a B&B for wayward travelers, not Toots was honored for all of her service 3 wonderful people in the past year. It is nearby, and am blessed to have 2 grand- Bed & Breakfast but Bed & Bar—kitchen is to Sweet Briar. Our class raised the most with great sadness that I relay the news sons and 3 granddaughters. I’ve lived in closed here! money that we ever have; our Annual Fund of their passing: Anne Mercer Kornegay, Bethesda, Md. since 1975.” Best to everyone and keep in touch so my total was $65,254 and our 5 Year Giving Cindy Michel Blakely and Patricia Martin Eleanor Crossley sadly reports the passing job will be easy. I do hope Sarah Ramage total was $196,465! We also have 40 Rodier. If you should want to contact their of her beloved husband of 56 years. He is not rolling in her grave over this report. Consistent 5-Year donors and 78 Silver families, the alumnae office can supply died a few months ago, and she is bravely I’ll never forget that you “raise chickens Rose members, classmates who have you with addresses. trying to make a new life for herself. When and rear children,” nor should you! included Sweet Briar in their last will and Sidney Turner in Baltimore has polycystic she started Sweet Briar, she was the first testament. kidney disease. Her husband also shares married student with children they had this same condition! She’s exploring Reunion was fantastic. Some roommates ever had; her 3 preschoolers are now in 1968 whether or not she is a candidate for a were even paired together in their old their 50s. Eleanor, our prayers are with dorms. I won’t recount the discussions Lynne Gardner Detmer transplant. Sid and her husband are both you and your family. 448 Styles Brook Rd. that took place in the smoker after ev- participating in a study at the Rogosin Toni Naren Gates writes: “I still have hair Keene, NY 12942 eryone had been celebrating, but I will Institute in N.Y.C.—they’re the only married (sometimes in places I wish I didn’t, but a [email protected] say that we are still a fun-loving class—no couple with this same disease! good magnifying mirror takes care of that); holds barred! Judy Wilson Grant writes from Denver that glasses? You bet! Hearing? Selective—at Lindsay Smith Newsom Page Monroe she plans for her 2-year-old granddaughter and least that’s what I tell everybody (deaf 1969 Renger to be Sweet Briar bound! Her new grand- want everyone to make it to our is such an ugly four-letter word). And as- Nancy Crawford Bent son arrived July 24! 50th. Page and husband Mac are spend- sorted aches and pains that seem to have 14 Dopping Brook Road ing the summer at Atlantic Beach, N.C. Jeannie Jackson Exum and Marcia Pace settled in for the rest of the ride. But really, Sherborn, MA 01770-1049 Feb. saw them in Cambodia and Vietnam Lindstrom have had wonderful times over at 67 I’m feeling well, staying active, and [email protected] where they had a wonderful visit with duplicate bridge, even attending a work- having fun. We spend 9 months in Wichita Lindsay’s goddaughter and her family in News from classmates has been scarce, shop with Nancy McLean Parker ’67. being real people and 3 months in upstate Ho Chi Minh City. She calls the week they except from those I’m personally in touch Four others who have managed an an- N.Y. relaxing. My recent passions are ten- spent outside Verona in June “agritourism” nis, pilates and Zumba, planning events with, and I feel reluctant to share their nual visit each year (!) are Keenan Colton because of all the wineries, cheese mak- news every time because that doesn’t Jane Nelson Susan Sudduth Hiller for our art Museums, some continuing Kelsey, , ing, balsamic vinegar making, etc. places keep faith with the idea of CLASS notes. Penn Willets Fullerton education, movies, books and Girls Night and . This year’s they visited. Maybe it’s because SBC doesn’t send the venue is N.H. to see fall colors. Last year Out! We have 2 grandchildren and one on Judi Benson Stigle and Bonnie Blew Pierie postcards out anymore. Or because all of we gathered for Penn’s daughter Lucy’s the way. Every Christmas we have been were once again roommates in Grammer you are on Facebook except for me? How wedding in the Calif. wine country. going to the Turks and Caicos. This year where they started as roommates in 1963! we’re attempting a trip to South America. about putting me on your holiday card Jane loves her work as chaplain at Judi, still our class president, has orga- lists? Westminster Canterbury, Richmond, where Definitely on the list is a trip to Chile and nized calling lists from those who attended Argentina wine country.” Toni keeps up I did hear from Almena Hill Pettit many alumnae live. She enjoyed a Holy the 45th. She and her committee will be (Tallahassee, Fla.) a while ago. Brooks and Land pilgrimage last Feb. with a church with Betsy Kurtz Argo. contacting class members to attend the Maria Wigglesworth Hemmings writes: “I she had 9 grandchildren at the time and group. High school and family reunions in BIG 50TH in 2017. If you need encourage- were still involved in community volunteer Culpeper have been wonderful. haven’t retired. I’m a staff nurse in an ICU ment for the 50th, Judi states that she step-down unit at Norwalk Hospital. My efforts, but were backing off more and Susan and husband Chuck celebrated and Bonnie had “lots of wine and lots of more “to let the younger people have their 15th wedding anniversary last husband, Jeff, retired last Nov. and that laughs!” For Judi’s off-campus activities, is another reason for me to keep work- opportunities!” And I heard from the alum- spring with a trip to Warsaw and Krakow, she’s still working and playing lots of golf. nae office that our 45th Reunion weekend Stuttgart and Budapest. Her life includes ing. We continue to travel, having visited She has a new Yorkie puppy. the Ukraine/Black Sea last year and is on the calendar: May 30 - June 1, 2014. regular visits to see her daughter and Diane Mann Lankford still works in the Please save the date and make your best grandchildren, as well as continuing work Morocco this year, and go to Australia to interior design and architecture industry. visit my brother next year. Eldest daughter effort to be there. As always, Reunion will with 2 hospices and one lay chaplaincy Diane has 5 grandchildren (1 mo. to 8 certainly be fun and, given the way things group in Little Rock. Emery is still in Jackson, Wyo. and has years) living close by. She’s going to the her own landscaping/gardening business are going with the Class of ’69 (or is it When we meet in N.H. it will be partly to antique market with Melissa Sanders and daughter Anne is in N.H. having just me?), it may be the only way for us all to celebrate Keenan’s retirement after 18 Thomas, still talks to Kay Hightower and catch up.

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 41 business. Kathy Wilson Lamb and Becky Kathy Fisher Morland loves retirement. Gina Mancusi Wills and Ashley are living 1970 have gotten together in Lexington. She’s hiking regularly with a great group in Arlington, Va. Gina retired in 5/12 from Stuart Davenport Simrill Judy Brown Fletcher says: “I’m having of women friends, teaching adult ESL, and her job in the U.S. State Dept. Their son 4945 Dupont Ave. S fun in the dog show world with a bitch I keeping up with 2 grandsons in Boston Zachary is working in the finance sector in Minneapolis, MN 55419 bred and co-own. She’s currently the top and parents (92 and 95) in Ohio. The big N.Y.; daughter Olivia married in 6/12 and [email protected] bitch in her breed (GCH Sawmill’s Nymph event of the summer was their younger is a therapist in Los Angeles. of Riverwalk). We took ‘Daphne’ and her son’s wedding in 9/12. Lynne Manov Echols (note the new name) mother Deme down to Perry, Ga., for the Kathy Garcia Pegues and her husband re- was married on 7/28/12 and plans to 1971 Peach Blossom Cluster—at the GSMDCA tired 2 years ago. They bought a condo in bring Frank to our next reunion. Carol Remington Foglesong Cotton Classic Daphne won the Specialty Charlottesville. At home in the Warrenton, Amanda Megargee Sutton reports that 1750 Chippewa Trail and her mother CH Riverwalks Lunar Va. area, they’re serious gardeners. Kathy things have changed since 2007. That is Maitland, FL 32751 Diademe won Best Veteran. teaches seminars at the governor’s school when Robert Goodman (aka Goody), her [email protected] Katharine Brown Grala is still working at and works as an educational consultant. beau when she was in graduate school Provident Bank in N.Y., running and biking. They’re looking forward to the SBC trip to at UVa got in touch with her. And he did Anne Milbank Mell She just watched her youngest finish the France in Sept. it through SBC! He wrote to the alumnae 16 Valley View Ave. N.Y.C. Ironman. He works at JPMorgan in Liz Glassman was awarded the rank of of- office and asked them to forward an email. Summit, NJ 07901 the private bank. Her daughter is a resi- ficer by the Order of Arts and Letters of the They corresponded regularly, and visited [email protected] dent at Johns Hopkins and her oldest is Legion of Honor of French Government. when they could. Amanda’s mother died living and working in Vt. in between moun- Certainly this is no indication of the that Friday, 1/9/9, of a sudden heart Beverly Van Zandt tain climbing, skiing and rock climbing. strength of her French capacities from attack. Goody came to Md. from N.Y. to 220 North Zapata Hwy No. 11 She looks forward to retirement soon. SBC, but her Sweet Briar Junior Year in be with her. Later, Amanda retired and Laredo, TX 78043 Jeannette Bush Miller had an emergency Paris did start her on a road of loving moved to N.Y. Amanda loves retirement [email protected] appendectomy in 7/12. All is healing, but all things French. She will be “medaled” and is involved at church, garden club, the “bugger” ruptured while she was wait- sometime during 2012 or early 2013. Liz the library and her garden. She’s now a Rhoda Allen Brooks’s son and his wife ing for the surgery to begin, which made it remains president of the Terra Foundation Master Gardener. Amanda’s son Jamey is and baby moved back to Cincinnati last a bigger pain. Thankfully, she’s doing well. for American Art in Chicago and Paris, and living in her house in Va. He finished grad summer. Rhoda and John have a cottage Cami Crocker Wodehouse hiked with their work was featured in the 3/15/12 school in 12/9 with an M.L.S. in archiving in northern Mich. for recuperating and New York Times. and works at the Petersburg Public Library. escaping the Midwestern heat. friends for 10 days in Grindelwald and Zermatt, Switzerland in 9/11 (bucket list). Lendon Gray continues to teach dressage Anne Milbank Mell and John are still work- Louise Archer Slater purchased Brighton Her second grandson, Austin, was born to focusing on programs for youth riders at ing, although retirement is looking better. Pavilion in 5/99 after a career as a found- her son and his wife in 10/11, joining his the local, national and international levels. Daughter Meredith and husband in San ing regional director and national mar- brother, Trent, who is 17 mos. older. The Sioux Greenwald still works. She crossed Francisco have 2 boys, while John, his keting director for the Worth Collection. family recently moved to Birmingham from paths with Gil and Wendy Weiss Smith in wife, and Caitlin are still in N.Y.C. Daughter Brighton Pavilion (a furniture-making Richmond. Cami’s daughter and husband Tokyo in 5/12, as they were on different Meredith and her boys came to Summit company) has won the prestigious “MADE: are still in Richmond. In 9/12 she went vacations to Japan. She visited with Mollie for 2 weeks. In America Build It in America” Award, on a cruise to Greece and Turkey. Cami and Robi Randolph at the end of 7/12 for Liz Mumford writes that she’s still in her the only company owned by a woman to volunteers at an elementary school, tutor- D.C. touring and catching up. house in Hyannis Port, painting, taught be selected for this honor. Also in 7/12, ing in reading and math and serves on the Anne Helms Cooper summer school at the community college Louise was selected as one of the 90 went on a trip to Leadership Development Committee at (art history intro class). Her son (24) is liv- women honored for the “90 Years, 90 England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales this Sawgrass CC. ing here as well. She got a new knee last Women of Achievement” award by the year. She discovered her husband’s family Rosemary Dunaway Trible winter so is enjoying golf and gardening. Junior League of Memphis, of which she works with is from the Edinburgh area in Scotland. Wendy Norton Brown is a member. Carol Remington Foglesong students and helps her husband Paul at She has grandsons (13 and 11) as well as had her first grand- and Louise hoped to meet up when Carol Christopher Newport U., where he is presi- a granddaughter (3). Anne and her hus- child in 9/11 and got to babysit him 4 is in Memphis in 8/12. dent. In 2010 Rosemary published a book, band retired in the fall 2011. They’ve been days a week for almost 3 months. His “Fear to Freedom,” in which she shares working on projects at their home and parents are in town so they can see him Frances Barnes Kennamer and husband, her journey from fear to freedom after be- their house at Smith Mountain Lake. often. Martha Roton Terry and several friends ing raped at gunpoint when she was 26. Pam Henery Arey Mary Frances Oakey Aiken visited southeast Germany, Austria, the writes, sadly, that reports, last She has launched a nonprofit (www.fear- Czech Republic and then took a Danube her husband Pat died from pulmonary year they sold their Roanoke, Va. home 2freedom.org) dedicated to helping others river cruise from Nuremberg to Budapest. fibrosis on 7/31/11. They were married and their Naples, Fla. condo and bought who have suffered sexual abuse and to Back home in Montgomery Frances plays for 40 years and have 4 children (2 with another home in Naples and a summer/ making college students aware of this golf often. Since she visits her married spouses). Pam is adjusting to widowhood holiday home in Manakin Sabot, Va. They issue. Her daughter, Mary Katherine, just daughter in Nashville frequently, she has and still teaches 3-year-olds and serves love being closer to their children (4 of the gave birth to Rosemary’s second grand- also joined a fun ladies’ golf group there. as the director of His Kids Preschool. She 5 live in Richmond) and grandchildren at child, Truitt, in Richmond. Her son, Paul They’re considering a second home in the sings in her church choir and serves on least part of the year. She and John are III, also lives in Richmond and started the Nashville area and have already been in the Steering Committee for Camp Amazing looking forward to the Sweet Briar trip to online men’s fine shirt company, Ledbury touch with Linda Whitlow Knight. Grace that serves children whose parents France in Sept. (www.ledbury.com). are incarcerated. She is sorry to have Jacque Penny Andrea Bateman was officially 63 on is heading to Newfoundland Betty Duson and husband Al spent this missed Reunion. 7/30, but is still working. She stays busy this summer to visit relatives. And then last year settling estates, negotiating the Louise Jackson and runs into Carol Remington Foglesong loves retirement. She’ll she’s going on to Prince Edward Island to sale of rice farms and learning about and another alumna from time to time at host Christmas Eve dinner again, where stay with her parents for a week. types of soil, mineral rights and farm the library. she feeds hordes of family and relatives. Carol Remington Foglesong now has subsidies. Betty and her husband, also a Carolyn Jones Walthall Kristi Bettendorf’s son, an Air Force writes: “I’ve been 4 grandkids and another will arrive in psychologist, will present a workshop in retired from my youth leadership develop- 11/12, and the son with 3-plus kids has captain in N.M., has married another Air Oct. in Newport, R.I. to university counsel- Force officer. Her “baby” daughter finished ment work for about 2 years, and Julian moved into her neighborhood. She’s fin- ing center directors on ethical decision- retired May 31 as a full-time Presbyterian ished up her terms as volunteer president graduate school at G.W. in political man- making. Then they’ll add onto that a trip agement. They went on a graduation trip minister. We have our first grandchild, of 2 national groups involved with land through Maine and N.H. Betty will be Madeleine Douglas Walthall, born in Dec. records, thinking of retirement. for her around France at the end of July joining family in N.Y.C. earlier in Oct. for a 2012. Two years until retirement for Kristi; 2011 to our son Claiborne and wife Beth Rene Roark Bowditch retired 2 years ago surprise celebration of her sister-in-law’s outside Albany, N.Y. Our son, David, still from being an adjunct professor of law she’s enjoyed the last 33 years as a pros- 50th, and will then spend 10 days with ecutor and doesn’t know what retirement lives in Siena, Italy.” at the William & Mary Law School and hubby in Honolulu and on Kauai right after Carol Johnson Haigh and her husband volunteers full time at the breast health holds beyond more time to spend on her Christmas. botanical illustration hobby. returned from 7 weeks in England, organization she cofounded 5 years ago, Michela English writes to report that she Becky Bottomley Meeker (Gloucester, Scotland and Wales. Their travels included Beyond Boobs! It focuses on women who and her husband Rob moved into a hip the Henley Regatta, Wimbledon and are diagnosed with breast cancer before Va.) says they’re now happy grandparents urban condo between Dupont and Logan of 3 boys and 2 girls with one more on the Olympics. They sold their house in menopause, as she was. They plan to go Circles in D.C., 11/11. They spend many Sudbury, Mass., 10/11, and divide their nationwide. Check out their website the way—all 3 years and under! They’re weekends at their house in Mathews fortunate to see their 3 sons and their time between Boston and Ludlow, Vt. (beyondboobs.org). Their annual “A County, Va., on the Chesapeake Bay. Linda Lewis Brauer moved into a condo. In Calendar to Live By” for 2013 will pre- families often either at home or by travel- Their daughter Eleanore was married over ing to Bethesda, Jacksonville or Sebring, less than one year they lost 3 parents and miere on 9/15/12 in Williamsburg at the Memorial Day weekend. Rob and Michela had one wedding for their daughter. She BB! Rene is also helping her husband, Fla. Their daughter Ashley is still between then took off for 2 weeks in Morocco with Napa and San Francisco in the wine says she’s lost track of a lot of people and David, and his brother with their B&B in Martha Holland ’72 and her husband. it’s time to find them. She needs some Yorktown, the Hornsby House Inn. Lastly, good laughs! their daughter Tilden is starting her senior

42 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine year at Washington & Lee. Son, David (24), Caroline Tuttle Murray and Rick still live Wendy Weiss Smith wrote that overlap- is working in Bel Air, Md. in Reidsville, N.C. She spends most of her ping trips allowed her and Gil to enjoy 1972 Martha Roton Terry and Frances Barnes time enjoying their 2 grandkids, Lilly (4) Sioux Greenwald’s company in Tokyo this Jill Johnson Kennamer went to southeast Germany, and Caleb (1). Their daughter, Cassidy, is spring. They now have a Plott hound, the 2012 Wolftrap Oaks Ct Austria, Czech Republic and then down a CPA with E & Y in Greensboro, and son, N.C. state dog. Wendy is teaching ESL and Vienna, VA 22182 the Danube from Nuremberg to Budapest. Scott, graduated from UNC Law, works volunteering with the woman’s organiza- [email protected] Fantastic trip! Martha and her son, in Raleigh, and is getting married in Dec. tion at Duke Plus at Duke Gardens. She Facebook Private Group: Sweet Briar Class Caldwell, have purchased (as of 8/1/12) Rick closed his law practice many years enjoyed celebrating her mother’s 96th of 1972. Please consider joining. There the Wild Birds Unlimited franchise in ago due to health. She sees Diana Zeidel birthday this summer with Sweet Briar ’74 are great posts, photos and lots of good Mobile. Her daughter has just begun a and Mimi Pitts Dixon from time to time. sisters, Cathy Thompson and Chris Pfeil. info sharing. new career as a copywriter for J. Jill in Libby Tyree Taylor works on projects Kathy Wilson Lamb and Rex continue to Boston. and boards that focus on education and love their retired life in Lexington, Va. They How can I not mention Reunion? Our 40th. Can it really be? First, let’s pat ourselves Trudy Slade McKnight moved back to women’s issues in the Bay Area. She trav- were expecting their third grandchild (a on the back for yet another amazing fun- her home in Atlantic Beach, Fla. with her els the world and U.S. with her husband. boy to join his sister and his boy cousin) draising success led by Susan Snodgrass husband, Jack. She has enjoyed spending Daughter, Alexa, is getting married 5/13. in 9/12. Kathy spent a night with Becky Wynne. The Class of ’72 has now achieved time with Kathy Burns Beaudreau. She Her son, Lee (also a UVa grad), lives in Bottomley Meeker last spring, and spent a fifth Reunion Class Gift award. NOTE: We loved her 17-year adventure of moving San Francisco and works at a high tech a night with Lee and Wendy Norton Brown hold 4 current Reunion Class Gift Award around the country but is happy to be company. Libby has seen Anne Milbank in 6/12. records on the Award Wall in Glass—the home. She works part time in her life Mell, Jeannette Bush Miller and Kathy Nancy Young Gilpin told us that she’s mov- most of any SBC Class! Next, check out coaching business. Cummings Catlin recently. ing to Boston for a few years and asked the photos from Reunion Weekend at sbc. Martha Stewart Crosland Beverly Van Zandt still loves living in San about classmates in the Boston area. We reports that she edu/reunion2012 to view the fun. and Ed celebrated their 40th wedding Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Both daughters provided her with information on those in Susan sends a big Thank You to all our anniversary in early Aug. They’re trying to are doing well. Beverly is back in school the area, so you may be hearing from her. classmates who participated in our 40th spend more time at their house in Palm heading toward a new career in medicine, Alisa Yust Rowe is still a board member Reunion fundraising effort and found it Beach Gardens. and Roberta continues with Blackstone for Arts for Rural Texas and is running the great catching up with those who were Brooke Thomas Dold in N.Y.C. auction in Nov. She always needs original and Wylie still live in able to attend. When not leading the Miriam Washabaugh Meglan and Vaughn art to auction if any generous artistic Houston. Two of their 3 children are mar- charge for ’72, Susan and husband John vacationed in the Canadian Rockies and classmates would like to donate. Rowan ried, no grandchildren. Brooke is a parale- “Dubby” enjoy their 3 young grandchildren, are making major home improvements. (16 mos.) makes grandchild number 4. gal at a public/municipal law firm and has 2 girls and a boy (3, 2 and 1), living in She is happy in her church job but finds Alisa and Richard celebrated their 40th worked with the same lawyer since 1998. Virginia Beach and Charlotte. They enjoyed herself growing weary of maintaining the anniversary in spring 2012. They did get out to Calif. in 6/12 to visit with a wonderful 40th anniversary trip this schedule. their daughter Lindsay and husband Conor. summer to France and Italy.

Alumna Explains Why One M&M Isn’t Enough

Alexandra Gold “They ate the equivalent of a 150-pound human DiFeliceantonio ’08 is the consuming seven pounds of M&Ms,” said DiFeliceantonio, lead author behind a recent a Ph.D. candidate in biopsychology at the University of study that explains why we Michigan. can’t stop eating chocolate. “We then asked whether the injection was making the rats The study was published just want to eat more or actually making the M&Ms taste in the journal Current better.” Biology and is featured in Through a test using lip-licking as an indicator, the the Smithsonian’s online researchers found that while the rats ate more, they didn’t magazine. like the M&Ms any more than before. “So, enkephalin in The question they asked was: What is it in our neural this area is a purely motivational signal saying, ‘Eat more system that prevents us from knowing when we’ve had now!’ ” DiFeliceantonio explained. enough? To find out, the researchers measured enkephalin “This means that the brain has more extensive systems levels in rats. Enkephalin is an opium-like chemical naturally to make individuals want to over-consume rewards than occurring in the neostriatum, an area of the brain supposedly previously thought,” she said in the Smithsonian article. related to craving. “It may be one reason why over-consumption is a problem In the first step, the rats were offered unlimited amounts today.” of M&Ms, while their enkephalin levels were monitored. The study may also explain some of the underlying mental When they started to eat, enkephalin levels surged. In the reasons behind other addictions, the magazine notes. second step, the researchers injected synthetic enkephalin “It seems likely that our enkephalin findings in rats mean into the neostriatum to determine whether the chemical that this neurotransmitter may drive some forms of over- might actually cause the rats to eat more. The results were consumption and addiction in people,” DiFeliceantonio said. astonishing. With the stimulation, the rats ate twice as many candies as they did before.

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 43 If you wish to write to a member of the family of someone recently In Memoriam deceased, please contact the Alumnae Office for name and address.

1933 1941 1948 Belle Hancock Doris Albray Clarita Fonville Mrs. Asa I. Atkins Mrs. D.A. Bardusch Mrs. Neal Buie Nov. 20, 2001 May 12, 2012 July 5, 2011 Janet Blood Juliet Fisher Joyce Sentner Mrs. William K. Brown Jr. Mrs. Winfield Firman Mrs. Joyce S. Daly Oct. 15, 1993 July 24, 2012 Jan. 4, 1995 Margaret Nelson Marion Webb Mrs. William Hartman Mrs. Barclay Shaw 1949 May 8, 1997 June 11, 2012 Sallie Legg Mrs. Robert B. DeMartine 1934 1942 May 6, 2012 Dorothy Prince Mary Stone Moore Patricia Davin Mrs. George S. Oldfield Mrs. Julian H. Rutherfoord Mrs. Alexander C. Robinson Jan. 1, 2012 Aug. 1, 2012 June 29, 2012 Jean Taylor 1938 1943 Miss Jean G. Taylor Emma Glass Marion Graves May 27, 2012 Mrs. Emma G. Beasley Mrs. Robert Arrington Julia Baldwin June 12, 2010 Dec. 10, 1996 Mrs. William D. Waxter III Amelia Hewlett Primrose Johnston July 30, 2012 Mrs. Marion Bowers Mrs. Arnold B. Craven March 24, 2004 Sept. 9, 2012 1950 Cornelia Armfield Margaret Swindell Jean McLean Mrs. Cornelia A. Cannon Mrs. M. Paul Dickerman II Mrs. Richard Davis Waxter Forum Creator Dies June 16, 2007 Sept. 4, 2011 Aug. 16, 2012 Genevieve Clary Jane Gilbreth Barbara Favill Miss Genevieve A. Clary Mrs. George P. Heppes Jr. Mrs. Barbara F. Marshall The Sweet Briar community was Oct. 21, 1998 Jan. 10, 2006 July 13, 2012 saddened to learn of the death of Julia “Judy” Billie Smith Helen Rawn Mrs. Joseph T. Dickinson Mrs. Lockwood Miller 1951 Baldwin Waxter ’49 on July 30, 2012. April 20, 2012 Jan. 15, 1994 Anne Adams Waxter, who earned her degree in political Dorothy Mather Louise Moore Mrs. Robert M. Coulbourn III Mrs. John E. Goyert Mrs. Louise M. Nelson Aug. 31, 2012 economy, had a strong interest in the sciences Jan. 18, 2012 Aug. 14, 2012 Joan Widau and environmental issues. A longtime supporter Margaret Kearns Barbara Briggs Mrs. Gordon E. Marshall Jr. Miss Margaret C. Kearns Mrs. William Y. Quinn April 17, 2012 of the College, she and her husband, Bill, June 23, 2004 March 23, 2010 Lois Annette Aitken Jane Job Catherine Parker Mrs. Robert H. McRoberts Jr. created a fund to host the annual Julia B. Mrs. W. B. Manning Jr. Dr. Catherine Silverman May 18, 2012 Waxter Environmental Forum at Sweet Briar. April 14, 1997 July 31, 2009 Elizabeth Loudon 1952 Since 1999 the forum has featured such Mrs. William S. Steele 1944 Donna Reese notable speakers as naturalist E.O. Wilson, Aug. 13, 2007 Martha Williams Mrs. George W. Godwin Jr. Mrs. Robert Norman Alday June 8, 2012 environmental journalist Mark Hertsgaard, and 1939 Sept. 10, 2012 Cherrie Willson Virginia Gowen 1953 food journalist and activist Michael Pollan, as Mrs. Cherrie W. Arrington Mrs. Robert G. Brown III Anne Clark well as a spirited debate between Virginia state July 1, 2012 May 15, 2012 Mrs. Michael M. Gildea Jane Miessner Cecile Waterman Aug. 28, 2012 climatologist Patrick Michaels and climatologist Mrs. Richard K. Beauchamp Cecile W. Essrig Louise Somerville Mrs. Henry Krotzer Michael Mann on global warming. June 27, 2012 June 29, 2012 Suzette Boutell Marion Saunders Nov. 10, 2008 Her survivors include her husband, her Mrs. John H. McLeod Jr. Ms. Marion Montgomery Jane Dawson Oct. 24, 2011 July 10, 2012 Mrs. Robert Mudwilder children Susan and Peter, and grandson James Julia Gray Saunders May 18, 2012 Waxter. Mrs. Richard A. Michaux 1945 Sept. 11, 2012 Anna Mary Chidester 1954 A memorial service was held Aug. 12 at Mrs. Anna Mary Heywood Louise Skinner Aug. 22, 2012 Mrs. Edward H. McLaughlin Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Baltimore. The 1940 Marion Daudt Rosemary Newby Aug. 10, 2012 family requests that memorial contributions be Mrs. Thomas W. McBride Mrs. C. Sutton Mullen Jr. Anne “Nancy” Maury April 6, 2012 July 2, 2012 Mrs. Bruce Miller made to Irvine Nature Center, 11201 Garrison Amanda Hamblett July 28, 2012 Forest Road, Owings Mills, MD 21117. Mrs. Robert W. White April 19, 2012 An obituary appeared in the Baltimore Sun on Aug. 3.

44 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 1955 Carolyn Neighbors Mrs. Lamar Hart July 2, 2012 Judy Trevor Mrs. Lawrence B. Nettles Jan. 21, 2012

1956 Catherine Colquitt Mrs. Robert Bruce Jr. May 24, 2012

1959 Susan Timberlake Mrs. Colin J. S. Thomas Jr. Aug. 20, 2012

1961 Barbara Stanford Mrs. Keith T. Mason May 21, 2012

1963 Frances Graham Patricia Rodier (right) Mrs. William L. MacIlwinen July 5, 2012 1964 Remembering a Pioneer in Autism Research Sheila Carroll The Rev. Sheila Cooprider Feb. 8, 2012 Patricia Martin Rodier, Ph.D., Sweet A native of Roanoke, Va., Rodier received Briar College Class of 1966, died May 3 at Strong her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Sweet 1966 Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. She was 68. Briar, where she graduated in 1966 alongside her Anne Mercer Mrs. Anne Mercer Kornegay A professor in the Department of Obstetrics twin sister, Donna Martin Zahorik. Rodier later May 28, 2012 and Gynecology at the University of Rochester completed her master’s and doctorate degrees in 1970 Medical Center, Rodier was the “first scientist psychology at the University of Virginia. Her career Katharine Potterfield Miss Katharine B. Potterfield to formulate and study the idea that autism can at the University of Rochester began in 1980, July 22, 2012 originate long before a child is born,” according to where, after studying anatomy and embryology as a 1971 an article on the university’s website. Her research, post-doctorate fellow, she taught anatomy until the Paula Sherrill Marks along with advanced clinical work conducted at the early 1990s. Mrs. Sherrill M. Byrd April 27, 2012 medical center, earned the autism program national Rodier was a passionate traveler and loved recognition. From 1998 to 2008, the program was art, frequently visiting museums around the world 1973 Pamela Ivens designated by the National Institutes of Health as with her husband, Robert Kern. She also enjoyed Mrs. Michael D. Renner one of 10 Collaborative Programs for Excellence in the opera and was an avid sports fan “able to recite Nov. 26, 2010 Autism in the United States. statistics on any sport, from professional baseball to Non-alumnae Rodier was also a world expert on mercury NCAA basketball,” according to the article. Susan Kitchen, staff July 20, 2012 toxicity, analyzing how single exposures to the Aside from her husband, Rodier is survived Emma Johnson, staff chemical during pregnancy influence a baby’s brain by her twin sister, as well as a younger brother and Sept. 19, 2012 development. Much of the research on mercury two stepchildren. exposure and birth defects continues to rely on It was Rodier’s wish that her body be donated Rodier’s early findings. Rodier served as a key to the Anatomical Gift Program at the University government witness for the highly publicized court of Rochester Medical School to further medical cases regarding vaccines containing thimerosal, education. A memorial to honor and celebrate her a mercury-containing preservative. She played a life was held this summer. key role in determining that the preservative and vaccines are not linked to autism.

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 45 Marion Walker, our Class President in with our classmates who came to Reunion Dora, Fla., and moved from N.J. in June. “I moved to New Haven to begin his resi- Perpetuity, reports she felt the 40th and is still playing Words With Friends with work remotely for my N.J.-based company. dency and fellowship at Yale. Our daughter Reunion was a wonderful success. Carter Frackelton. Our daughter Kelly delivered our first grand- Emily is in Philadelphia with our twin Connecting at the campus was as special DeDe Conley and her husband went to child, Hailey Brynn, on July 1. Our other grandsons (2). Ernie is looking forward to as ever. After 6 years with Ford & Harrison, France at the end of April and planned to daughter Tracy moved from Chicago to retirement in a few years, and I continue to Marion went out on her own and is now go home by boat via Southampton in Oct., Atlanta. Can’t wait until our 40th next year!” write grants for Snow Hill, Md.” sharing office space with some law school so organized 2 weeks in southern England Renee Sterling sent a notice: “Morgan Diane Dale Reiling: “We’re enjoying sunny friends in downtown Birmingham. She is before sailing, their first visit to London Stanley Smith Barney’s Renee Sterling is Medford, Ore. Chuck and I plan to be at still a labor and employment defense and and England. She had a wonderful sum- recognized as a 5 Star: Top 100 Wealth Reunion 2013. We have a Class Facebook business litigation attorney. Fortunately mer, a week in Venice, visits with friends, Manager appearing in Texas Monthly… page at “Sweet Briar College, Class of there is time for golf, sailing, reading and construction on their house, working on Renee Sterling has been recognized 1973” and would love to have everyone gardening. Her grandniece is adorable; their garden and lots of good food and for the second time in 4 years in Texas join as we approach Reunion. We already another nephew to graduate law school open air markets. In Aug. she took a 2-day Monthly as one of the 2012 5 Star: Top have 39 members! Homecoming is Oct. next year and marry; nephew Jesse Walker “organic” gardening class near Grenoble Wealth managers in the Dallas/Fort Worth 19-21, 2012 and will be a great planning graduated from Ga. this year and was at “Terre Vivante.” She belongs to an area. The article appears in the August session, if you are close enough to come inducted as a second Lieutenant in the organic coop there, and in the summer 2012 issue of the publication and less to both! I cannot wait to see y’all, so start Marines; her niece, Mary Kathryn, has she put on an Organic Festival. In Sept. than 4 percent of licensed wealth manag- planning your road trip now.” moved back to Birmingham and has a DeDe went to Tunisia where she was a ers in the area were recognized.” Mary Buxton: “My son graduated from h.s. darling boyfriend. Peace Corps volunteer just after SBC. She Lisa Fowler Winslow: “I still work as a I’m learning outrigger canoe and do other In Tallahassee, Rosie Brache Leparulo had meetings with the American Embassy law librarian at a law firm in Century City sports. I’m traveling to see my mom a lot and husband William have 2 grandchil- personnel and more to try to jump start (L.A.) My son and daughter are attorneys. I more. I hope to attend Reunion.” dren—Gracie (4) and Anthony (2). In 7/10, a development project to help Kasserine, keep busy with travel, golf and Bocce ball Kristin Howell writes “still in Key West half- Rosie retired from teaching after 32 years. where I served. Dede is VP of the Friends league. I hope to make Reunion.” time and on the Cape Fear River half-time! William is still on the faculty at FSU, and of Tunisia that represent the 2600 Peace Trish O’Neill is in the process of moving to Going to Belize in Nov., Texas as usual for they’ll soon celebrate their 38th anniver- Corps volunteers that have served in Greenwich, Conn. “As one son is in N.Y.C. Christmas, and to Peru in Feb. (Texas is sary. Their sons are 36 (single) and 34 Tunisia, and they think a memorial center working on his M.B.A. and the other is always the wildest!)—still love adventure (married with children). Her mother lives for the 6,500 Americans who died at in Fla. doing the same, they’re happy to and the animals!” on her own about a mile away; at 88 and Kasserine Pass during WWII (first battle have us closer by. We still visit Hawaii and And right now I am in Mont. enjoying fish- twice widowed (Rosie lost her Dad in ’92), with Rommel) could be a visitor center consider it home. I went to Oman for a few ing, hiking and photography with some Va. she is doing well. that would attract tourism and create jobs. days last month.” friends. Still riding, painting and gardening Carol Cody Herder and husband Charlie Mary Sue Morrison Thomas was truly Linda Lipscomb: “I have now moved to my when in Va. and Reynolds is still working. are busy building a new home that is delighted to reunite with close friends new place in Richmond. My first guests I will be attending homecoming to start half an hour outside of Aspen on a horse and classmates at our 40th Reunion and for some wine and inspection tour were planning our reunion and attend the ranch. Carol has just moved her mother is inspired about helping to increase our Jane Potts, in town for the weekend, Lisa Riders Visiting Committee weekend. I went into a retirement home. Carol continues to class attendance for the 45th in 2017 Wickham Haskell and Lacy Williams.” to the riding reunion weekend at SBC, and be an active volunteer in her DAR chapter and beyond. She was able to locate some Kristy Alderson: “We just came back from it was a blast. Join our Facebook page and and the annual Theta Charity Antiques of the ‘lost’ members of our class and a 6-day road trip looking at colleges with try to come to Reunion. I know the last one Show. Both kids, Sarah (29) and Charles has pledged to try to find more. She also our daughter Tegwyth. I will gladly tell you was great!” (25), are happily married. urges all ‘72ers’ to check our Facebook how the search comes out at our 40th! Vivian Finlay is enjoying living in Homer, page frequently for pictures, information, Or Tegwyth will tell you since she (and Alaska, in her new home of almost 3 announcements, etc. and to keep up with Mark) have been to every single reunion 1974 years. She and husband Clyde Boyer are news at SBC by following Pres. Jo Ellen with me.” Rosalind Ray Spell Parker’s blog at sbc.edu/blogs. active in their Rotary service clubs and Jane Potts: “I was just in Richmond in Aug. 2710 Orchard Knob SE have again traveled to Siberia in June I (Jill) continue to have a wonderful time and got together with Lisa Wickham, Lacy Atlanta, GA 30339-4625 for Rotary (the last trip of many in recent with forever friends from SBC. This past Williams and Linda Lipscomb. Linda has [email protected] years). They were able to visit Vivian’s June Karen Medford entertained Mary moved to Richmond from Dallas and has sisters in England and Ireland en route to Heller, Eileen Gebrian, Janet Nelson a job at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Meredith Thompson Sullivan and from Russia. Vivian also participated Gibson and me at her lovely Rehoboth I’m going to Highlands, N.C. with Deborah PO Box 1283 in a vocational and cultural exchange Beach house. Ginnie B Payne Sasser and Zeigler Hopkins over Labor Day and hope Livingston, MT 59047-1283 through Rotary as leader of a maternal Carter Frackelton would have joined us, to see Harriett Broughton Holliday who [email protected] and child health professional team to New but Ginnie B got a bad cold and Carter has a house in Cashiers. Also in June, we With sadness I report the passing of our Zealand and Fiji in March and April. Vivian had to prepare for a trip to Mich. and then had a dinner party in Charleston at Jane classmate Peggy Crawford Reichard on continues a very limited part-time practice her “camp” in the Adirondacks. Karen Perry McCutcheon McFadden’s house, 4/14/12 after a courageous battle with doing psychotherapy in Homer. continues to travel a lot, with a trip to with lots of SBC classmates: Mac Cuthbert cancer. Peggy was a resident of Amherst “So enjoyed Reunion last May,” writes Bev London and Bath in the fall and then off Langley, Susan Craig, Robin Harmon and was a primary school teacher for Horne Dommerich. Her first! Later in May, to N.Y. for a 3-month extended play in the O’Neil, Diane Leslie, Lisa Marshall, Nan many years in schools in Va., Ohio and S.C. John, her brother Coco, and Bev took a Big Apple. Eileen Gebrian has been after Robertson …and more I think!” me for years to visit her and husband Tim Sally Brice-OHara writes, “On July 1, I back roads trip to the Piedmont area of Nan Robertson Clarke: “Our 2 youngest Barberich at their Nantucket beach house. retired from the U.S. Coast Guard. In my Italy. After a week of riding bikes through sons Charlie and Robbie both engaged. I overcame my fear of little planes by find- 37-year career, I reached the rank of Vice the Piedmont area, they took a train They plan to get married in the summer ing a 2-leg jet trip and had a wonderful Admiral and for the final 2 years, was the down to the Italian Riviera for a week and of ’13, one in Charlotte and the other in time with Eileen and Tim, as they were Vice Commandant, which is the second walked Cinque Terre as well as to Portofino Fort Worth, Texas, only a month apart. preparing for daughter Sophie’s wedding highest position in the Coast Guard. I’m from Santa Margherita. I also went to a mini-reunion this past on the island in Sept. Eileen looks terrific on the boards of 2 nonprofit organizations Holly Smith has been made a trustee of spring at the beach and saw Susan Craig, and I thought I looked the same, too, until and the Board of Trustees at the Coast Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of Emily Garth Brown, Diane Leslie, Robin I saw the photos. Oh well. Guard Academy. I only spent one year at George Washington’s family, near Oxford, Harmon O’Neil, Lisa Marshall Chalmers, Sweet Briar, yet my experience and friends England. She does fundraising for the Please, please consider joining the Sweet Mac Cuthbert Langley, Jane Potts, Jane are never forgotten!” charity, a task she is also carrying out in Briar Class of 1972 Facebook private McCutcheon McFadden, and I may have her role as a trustee of the International group. Post some photos and share your left someone out!” Lynn Watson Norfleet loves her retire- news or non-news. From the experience ment job in finance at the U. of Mary Friends of the Natural History Museum Marion Humphreys: “I’m now dividing my at Reunion, I can tell we all want to know Washington. Daughter Kate is finishing (the one in London). Holly and her hus- time between 3 grandchildren, Hunter what’s happening in our classmates’ lives, her doctorate in physical therapy, and son band Neil Osborn have just returned from (5), Madelyn (2) and Tucker (1). I’m still mundane or not. Drew is finishing his undergrad in civil a vacation in Calif., where Holly lived in her swimming, lifting and now biking on our engineering technology. Lynn caught up mid-teens. fabulous new green line. We go to our lake with roommate Carol Martin after 38 years From Richmond, Barbara Tessin Derry has house in Ark. about 2 weekends a month. thanks to Facebook! taken up bridge again and thinks fondly 1973 Everyone is now in Memphis, and one Carol Martin of the marathon bridge sessions she and Evelyn Carter Cowles son is a lawyer (like Dad) and the other married a Spaniard and has Marcia Wittenbrook played in the base- PO Box 278 teaches at Soulsville Academy, a charter been living in Madrid since 1975. After ment of Grammar and the Pit instead of Free Union, VA 22940-0278 school. I’m involved in a chronological working in the travel industry for 35 years studying. Her son Will (27) is a radiology [email protected] Bible study that keeps me on track.” she is now retired. resident at UCLA; daughter Alice (25) is a Mary Shaw Halsey Marks still lives in Kathy Pretzfelder Steele and husband Ann Major Gibb: “Our son David got his Spanish teacher at Thoreau Middle School M.D. and Ph.D. from VCU in May and has Greenwich, Conn., doing architecture in Vienna, Va. She enjoyed catching up Dave built a house on a lake in Mount work, traveling with husband Rob to places

46 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine like India and China. Oldest son Ned is group from her church installing a Living had a mini-reunion in 10/11 at the Beth Bates Locke’s husband Claude an executive recruiter in N.Y.C. Daughter Waters for the World clean water system. Greenbrier with Jane Hutcherson Frierson, produced 2 Texas Health Resources com- Caroline graduated in June from Stanford Barbara Ashton Nicol and Robert are both Susan Stephens Geyer and Leslie Elbert Hill. mercials. Daughter Becky finished sum- where younger son Tyler also attends. still working in Tuscaloosa, Ala., but hope Marcia Brandenburg Martinson and mer school and will continue her studies Kathleen Kavanagh writes, “I’m still in to retire in 2014. Three of their 4 boys are husband Terry are moving to the town of at Brookhaven College in Dallas. Beth is philanthropy for nonprofits, a career that engineers—Robinson (recently married) in Plymouth, Mass. after living in a church still in agent sales at Briggs Freeman/ started way back in 1974 when SBC gave Atlanta, Sage in Corpus Christi and Ben in parsonage for the past 34 years. Marcia Sotheby’s in Dallas. me my first job. I moved into consulting in Tuscaloosa. Chris is still figuring out what and Terry became grandparents with the Sherry Buttrick continues her work (20 1995 when I joined GG+A; I get to work he wants to do with his life. Barb joined birth of granddaughter Hadley Jane on years!) for Virginia Outdoors Foundation with a terrific set of colleges, universities, Ellie Plowden Boyd, Nancy Lea Houghton Aug.15. They spent 2 weeks in England as assistant director of Easements in independent schools, medical centers and Beth Jones Elkins (’75) at the wed- (with family) and France (with friends) in Charlottesville, Va. Sherry and her hus- and cultural organizations. I moved from ding of Liz Thomas Camp’s son in Mobile. July. band Forbes are building a house on downtown Boston to downtown Chicago 6 Emory Furniss Maxwell: “We had a mini- Tricia Barnett Greenberg and Phil spent 2 about 80 acres they own. years ago.” reunion when my daughter, Christy ’03, weeks in Spain and France this summer. Teesie Costello Howell’s youngest child, Elaine Mills and husband Bob Kline, par- was married in Atlanta last spring. Jane Daughter Patty is getting married April 6 in Suzannah, graduated from William and ents of son Chris (25) and daughter Jenny Hutcherson Frierson, Edie McRee Bowles, Charleston, S.C., son Barnett is in real es- Mary. Oldest child, Jackson, finished a (21), have lived in the same Sears bun- Liz Thomas Camp, Barbara Ashton Nicol tate in Charleston and son Andy practices year of teaching in France and is now in galow in Arlington, Va. for 27 years. When and Mary Bush Norwood were there. dentistry there. Tricia and Phil divide their N.Y.C. Teesie continues to originate mort- not working in her garden, Elaine sings in Other SBC alumnae present were Mary time between Debordieu, Charleston and gage loans, and husband Chris is still at the church choir, and in July she and Bob Emory Hill Rex ’42, Aline Rex McEvoy Florence, S.C. Dom. Resources. Teesie’s father passed joined about 25 other choir members for a ’67, Kimberly Olmsted Calhoun ’92, Amy Laurene Sherlock’s first job as a travel away in 2/12, so she is spending more performing tour of Wales and Ireland. Gardner Adams ’02, Shandy Hamner agent took her to many interesting places time with her mom. Jane Piper Gleason writes, “The week ’04, Sonya Truman ’02 and Kylene Smith over 25 years. Then her best friend, In Chicago, Melanie Coyne Cody has just after our 35th Reunion in 2009 Joe and DeFrate ’03. Charles is retired and we still Sandie Schwartz Tropper ’73, suggested finished renovating her home. The Cody I moved from our house in Webster to a live in Ariz.” that she consider becoming a personal family went skiing after a train trip from condo in Clayton on the 23rd floor. Nine Ellie Plowden Boyd is pursuing a long-term property appraiser. “And so here I am in Chicago to Colo. last Jan. They spent months later Joe was dead from a mas- interest in painting with a focus on por- career 2 after a few years of courses and Easter in Hilton Head, and in July swel- sive stroke. I was in England in 6/11 and traits and landscapes. She just organized apprenticeship to get to accredited an- tered in the hottest week in Wis. (over went with Sherrie Snead McLeRoy to the a plein-air group, Pomperaug Outdoor tiques appraiser.” 100 degrees) with Missy Briscoe McNatt. Trouping of the Colour. This June, I was in Painters (POP), which meets and paints Sandra Taylor will become the Alumnae Fun connection—Melanie hired a summer London for the Jubilee celebrations. around Southbury, Conn. Oldest son Association president in 2013, joining intern from Scripps College (daughter Mimi Hill Wilk is excited to have oldest Clayton lives in Brooklyn and is a photog- Janie Reeb Short, who is currently serving Sarah’s alma mater) who turned out to be son Beau back from Alaska and living in rapher for Gilt Group. Youngest son John on the Alumnae Board. Julie Pettinga Stalnecker’s daughter Zoe Ariz. where he is a department chair at is studying engineering at Vanderbilt and At the time of this writing, Meredith Stalnecker. Northern Pioneer College in the White Ellie hopes to catch up with Wendy White Thompson Sullivan and husband John Galvin Gentry called in her update from Mountains; daughter Liz still lives close by. Feinberg (whose daughter also attends were spending Labor Day weekend at Baltimore, Md., saying she appreciated Mimi had the best time with Lou Weston Vandy) at parents’ weekend. Ellie and hus- their condo on Flathead Lake in Mont. being contacted and her news was “she Rainey and Rip traveling in Ariz. last band Doug have been married 28 years. Fortunately, their home in Livingston, has had a heart attack and stroke, but still summer. Ceci Kirby Wraase still lives outside Mont. was spared from forest fires. is glad to be alive!” We all wish Galvin a Lee Wilkinson Warren joined the interna- Washington, D.C. with husband Dennis Rossie Ray Spell: I had my best birthday speedy recovery! tional hunger and relief organization Stop and is most involved with Neighbors in ever on Omaha Beach in Normandy, Lynn Kahler Rogerson is living in her 1815 Hunger Now in 2006 and now serves as Need, a program to assist safety net chari- France in July. My husband, Penn, planned home in Old Town Alexandria, Va. Her the community relations manager. Lee and ties, and the Trust for the National Mall. a memorable trip to celebrate my 60th. daughter is now in 8th grade at National her husband have been married almost Daughter Beth is in her second year as I am also thrilled to have begun serving Cathedral School in D.C. and continues 40 years and have one granddaughter a Teach for America elementary school on the Board of Trustees of Atlanta Girls with piano and is on Pointe in ballet. with another baby on the way. She stays in teacher in eastern N.C. Stepson Reid School along with fellow SBC alumna Anne Lynn continues organizing exhibits for close touch with Ruthie Lentz and Susan and family live about an hour away. Karla Mobley Hassett. My daughter Anna gradu- museums. Stubbs Brown. Debbie Pelham Bigum Kline Bradshaw and Ceci enjoy visits at ated from AGS in 2011. Mark your calen- Ann Kiley Crenshaw’s son Clarke married and Randy have relocated to Miramar the Wraase’s lake house in the Allegheny dars: Reunion 2014 will be May 30-June 1. Whitney Walker in Charlottesville on July 7. Beach, Fla. Mountains. Hope to see everyone there. Classmates Sally Old Kitchin, Lisa Nelson Ruthie Willingham Lentz still works as a Bonnie Chronowski Brophy’s daughter Robertson, Catherine Adams and Melanie financial advisor for Wells Fargo Advisors, Meghan is PR manager at J. Mendel so Rice Holland were there for the festivities. where she was recently awarded the Bonnie gets to go to Fashion Week every 1975 Clarke Jr. is living in Houston. Younger “Premier Advisor” distinction for the firm’s year. Son Chris, asst. brand manager for Johna Pierce Stephens son, Gordon, lives in N.Y.C. In Virginia highest level of client service and produc- ketchup at Heinz in Pittsburgh, is engaged. 1703 Beard’s Creek Ct. Beach, Ann stays busy with law practice tion. She’s active in her church’s More Bonnie took up bridge and is going to a Davidsonville, MD 21035 at Kaufman & Canoles and volunteering. Than a Meal neighborhood meal program, tourney in Bermuda in Jan. 2013. She has [email protected] Ann had a mini-reunion with Mary Beth the West Tennessee Haiti Partnership coordinated Bible study in her parish for 6 Hamlin, Sally Mott Freeman, Sally Old and Leadership Memphis. Ruthie enjoyed years with a good friend. Kitchin and Cathy Slatinshek Prillaman in a week at Edisto Island with Liz Thomas Jan Renne Steffen and husband Jim northern Va. in Aug. Camp and Robin Christian Ryan, whom have been married 15 years and live in 1976 From Rye, N.Y., Mare Moran works as she’ll also join in Philadelphia with her Fallbrook, Calif. Jan has retired, but still Cissy Humphrey marketing and client relations director for aunt Ruth Preucel ’49 over Labor Day quilts and teaches quilting. They travel in 5016 Les Chateaux Apt. 234 the law firm of Dorf & Nelson, LLP. She en- weekend. their 5th wheel about 3-4 months a year Dallas, TX 75235-8750 joyed some time off traveling to Phoenix, Betsy Banks Daley is back in school and just returned from a 2-month vaca- [email protected] Scottsdale, Sedona, Grand Canyon, Myrtle learning sign language, which she hopes tion through northern Calif., Ore., Wash. Beach and Colo. Son Chris (h.s. junior) will help aid her in teaching children with and Vancouver, B.C. They drove to Coeur Kari Andersen Shipley writes: “1977 works as a part-time photographer. autism. She and her husband celebrated D’Alene, Idaho, then down to Meridian to classmates Angela Scully Elser, Cindy In 2011, Tennessee Nielsen joined Jewish their 30th anniversary. visit family before heading home. Webb, Linda Guardabassi Michael, Paula Family Services of Dallas as an employ- Andria Francis still lives in northern Calif. Haideh Khosrowshahi Partovi writes, “I Brumm Hennessey, Vera Blake Theirs and ment counselor. She enjoys facilitating an and works at CTB/McGraw-Hill (her 26th have been enjoying grand-motherhood Janet Williams Osborne spent a 4-day employment networking group for Women year) developing educational tests. She for the past 16 months! Little Rochanne weekend together at the Shipley home. 50+. Daughter Kelsey Indorf relocated and her sister took a transatlantic cruise (meaning light) is half French and re- They celebrated Cindy Webb’s recent re- from Atlanta to D.C. to be a campus re- from Fla. to Rome with a stop for shop- sponds to Farsi, French and English. I’m tirement from the CIA where she was head cruiter for PricewaterhouseCoopers. of counter-intelligence and was awarded ping in Provence on Market Day. Andria’s still enjoying working as a therapist in a In April, Dede Ryan Ale moved from the Presidential Award for Meritorious daughter Ashleigh (27) was in Kazakhstan hospital and privately.” Houston to Santa Monica, Calif. John is Service by President Obama and General last year on a Fulbright scholarship and Elizabeth Andrews Watts and Bobby are now general counsel of OXY (occidental Petraeus. Kari continues to fundraise for has just returned to England, where she is planning to retire in 2014 after a long petroleum). Son John graduated from 4 charities and paint. Youngest son Matt completing her doctorate in archaeology. career at Episcopal HS. Daughter Betsy UVa in 2010; son Matt graduated from will finish his 2-year Peace Corps term in Ann Pritchett Van Horn loves being grand- had a baby girl, Elaine “Laney” Andrews Vanderbilt in 5/12. Both boys are working Paraguay this year. Middle son is off to law mother to her son’s 3 boys (5, 2, 4 mos.) Metcalf, on July 9. Son Rob lives in Norfolk in Richmond, Va. school; oldest son is working in south Fla. In May, she was in Cardenas, Cuba with a with his wife and 2 young sons. Elizabeth

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1 From left: Preston Hodges Hill ’49, Katie Cox Reynolds ’49, Ann Millardi (Preston’s childhood friend) and Carolyn Cannady Evans ’49 at Maroon Lake and Maroon Bells near Aspen, Colo.

2 2006 classmates Lindsey Cline, Kelly Rogers Bell, Abby Adams, Jodie Weber Kavanah and Emily Burke at Jodie’s wedding on March 31, 2012.

3 Jesse Durham Strauss ’96 threw a birthday pool party with classmates, left to right: Sarah Chaffee Paris with Bella (9) and Charlie (2); Bridget Bayliss Curren with Aoife 5 6 (1); Jesse Durham Strauss with Anna (5), Audrey (4) and Ari (2); Lee Foley Dolan with Henry (10), Mattie (7) and Fred (4); Laura Lechler with Sarah’s son Stevie (5); Rachel Baltus Price with Winona (1).

4 Stacey Sickels Locke ’88 and Lyn Locke were married in Annapolis, Md., July 2011.

5 Lisa Thompson Barnes ’88 and Trevon Barnes, Nov. 2011, Vero Beach, Fla.

6 Kat Allen ’12 (left), visiting the sites in Cambodia.

7 Ginny Wood Susi’s (2004) baby girl, Evelyn “Evie” Sheffield.

8 Betty Skeen ’07 and fiancé Hunter Gorinson. 7 8

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9 Morgan Roach ’07 and fiancé Stephen Vina in Aruba.

10 Allie Garrison Bridges ’10 and Kevin Bridges married at Sweet Briar on June 2, 2012.

11 1976 classmates gathered in August; front row: Sally Mott Freeman and Mary Beth Hamlin; second row: Ann Kiley Crenshaw, Cathy Slatinshek Prillaman and Sally Old Kitchin.

12 Bev Horne Dommerich ’72 with her husband John on their summer bike trip in Italy.

13 Owen (preschool) and Jackson (third grade), sons of Sarah Dennis Roberts ’96. 14

14 Katie Niemeier ’05, far left, hosted a tea party at the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Va. The following alumnae were in attendance: Lauren Wade ’05, Laura Denson ’05, Karen Dennehy Godsey ’05, Krystal Dean Tucker ’05, Laura Brockman Bryan ’05, Lyndsay Welsh Chamblin ’05, Angela Grisby Roberts ’02, Tiffany Williamson Norwood ’02, Hilary Cooper Cook ’05 and Ashley Forehand Oakley ’05.

15 From left: Morgan Harris ’14, Grace Herion ’15, Mehegan Morgan ’15, Caroline Baker ’15 and Kristen Frey ’16 at Sally Old Kitchin’s annual Hampton Roads back-to- school event. 15

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16 Vivian Yamaguchi Cohn ’77 with her husband and sons in Japan on a family trip.

17 Bev Horne Dommerich ’72 with her brother Coco on their summer bike trip in Italy. (Many in our class know Coco well.)

18 Mary Copeland Dellinger ’96 and her fiancé, Martin.

19 Jeff and Ashley Forehand Oakley ’05 welcomed their first daughter, Bradleigh Scott Oakley, on 8/3/12.

20 2002 classmates Monique Moshier, Jen Brown Robinson, Heather Minor Gelormine, 21 Leigh Riddell, Corinne Wieland Zeruto and Shannon Robison.

21 Alumnae from the class of 1977, back row: Janet Williams and Cindy Webb; front row: Kari Anderson Shipley ’76 and husband John, Vera Blake Thiers, Linda Guardabassi Michael, Angela Scully and Paula Brumm Hennessy.

22 The wedding of Samantha Adams ’12, with alumnae from left to right: Caitlin Philips ’11, Petra Weisbrich ’10, Samantha Adams Newburn ’12, Katheryn Coombs ’12 and Megan Moncure ’12 23 1988 classmates Katie Keogh Weidner, Kathryn Ingham Reese, Kate Cole Hite, Mary Halliday Shaw and Whitney Bolt Lewis. 22 23

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24 Bridesmaid Nancy Kleinhans Carr ’06, bottom left, and husband Chris Carr with family celebrating at the Sinner/ Kleinhans wedding with bride Megan Sinner Kleinhans ’04 and groom Hugo Kleinhans IV.

25 Megan Owen Thompson’s (’04) son Aiden Michael.

26 Betty Stanley Cates and Allison Stemmons Simon, co-presidents for the Class of 1963.

27 Victoria Bradley Gentry ’12 surrounded by Sweet Briar wedding attendees and friends.

28 1974 classmates had a mini reunion in April 29 in Atlanta at Emory Maxwell’s daughter Christi’s (’03) wedding. Left to right: Liz Thomas Camp, Mary Bush Norwood, Edie McRee Bowles, Jane Hutchison Frierson and Barbara Ashton Nicol at the bridesmaid’s luncheon.

29 1974 classmates at Liz Thomas Camp’s son’s wedding in Mobile, left to right: Nancy Lea Houghton, Sophia Camp, Ellie Plowden Boyd, Barbara Ashton Nicol, Liz Thomas Camp, and Beth Jones Elkins ’75.

30 1996 classmates at an Easter mini reunion.

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sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 51 Karina Schless is still working at Shire picked up our youngest, Krista (21), from True Dow-Datilio’s sons have gone to Pharma in HR Ops, riding her quarter her semester abroad in Barcelona. After 1979 school in Kent, Ohio and Lake Forest, Ill. horse Angus (now 21 but doing great) and her program we flew to Milan and traveled Mary “Robbie” McBride True has left her job of 12 years for a new off to Jackson Hole for ranch holiday. between there and Amsterdam. Best of all, Bingham career path in the arts. In Tenn., Gina Spangler Polley and hus- we visited Vera’s home in Frankfurt.” 2044 Murdstone Rd. Brooks Cunningham Dykes’ 3 boys are all band David are doing fine with their carpet Vivian Yamaguchi Cohn: “We took a family Pittsburgh, PA 15241 in college, one at SCAD, one at Tulane and business. Gina is starting to show her Jack trip to Japan to visit son Cliff (23) who is [email protected] the youngest in school in Colo. Russell Terrier in rally obedience classes. working for Rakuten in Tokyo. Oldest son Pam Koehler Elmets’ twins have gradu- She got her therapy dog certification and Clay (25) trades options in L.A. Youngest, ated from college and are employed! Her is taking her dog to schools and nursing twins Charlie and Will (18), are heading to 1980 youngest, Caroline, is a h.s. junior. Pam homes. Gina and David will take a river Colo. College and U. of Denver this fall. Stu Phyllis Watt Wilson enjoyed a visit with Missy Gentry Witherow cruise in China next Aug. and I will celebrate our 30th anniversary 3939 Livingston St. NW this spring. Missy’s eldest daughter, Susan Verbridge Paulson is still the princi- in Sept.” Washington, DC 20015 Somer, graduated from h.s. and is a fresh- pal at Ranch Creek Elementary School in Dee Hubble Dolan: “I enjoyed seeing ev- [email protected] man at Skidmore. Colo. Springs, and is awaiting the birth of eryone who attended our 35th Reunion. Both of Fran McClung Ferguson’s children her first grandchild in Nov. I still work in sales and marketing at Fran McClung Ferguson graduated from college in the past year. Sue Walton Klaveness retired from The Brandermill Woods Retirement Community 1917 Maylin Dr. Robert is an educator at Discovery Place Coca-Cola Company after 25 years! Susan in Midlothian, VA. At home, I still take Salem, VA 24153 in Charlotte, N.C. Carol graduated from and husband Mike are making travel in rescue animals until a foster home is [email protected] Sweet Briar and is now studying at Union plans, beginning with N.Y.C. then Ireland. found.” Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Va. They still enjoy ballroom dancing, Indie Debbie Koss McCarthy: “It was great We send out requests for notes by email: if Jill Steenhuis Ruffato’s book “Art, Soul movies and their cats OK and Thomas. seeing a small but stalwart group of class- you didn’t hear from us, then Sweet Briar & Destiny” is available on her website Mary Woodford has been in Pinehurst, mates at Reunion. The Augustine Literacy doesn’t have your email address. Please (jillsteenhuis.com) and the SBC Bookshop. N.C. for 2 years. She works part time and Project continues to thrive and grow. David send your news to either of us! She’s still painting and having shows and on her golf game. Mary’s 2 stepdaughters and I have a new grandbaby: Miles David, Felecia Bernstein and John live near the still with Serge, now a full-time sculptor continue to impress; one has completed born in June, joining sister Anna Grace (3). ocean in a small N.J. town. Son Sam (29) and lithographer. They had a show in Paris her Ph.D. in history from Yale, the other Alex has met a special girl.” lives in Sonoma Valley, Calif. Felecia works and in Aix in 2011. Jimmy Lee is a h.s. is working on Ph.D. in public health at Ellen Sellers McDowell: “We had a great as a surgical coder and has launched a senior, Sergio graduated from SCAD, and Berkeley. Mary and husband Jim were time at Reunion and wished for more nonprofit called Rose’s Fund for Animals Alexander is married to Erin and does mar- to connect, albeit briefly, with Sally classmates to attend. After Reunion our (rosesfund.org). keting for semis-Paris.com. Crickenberger Brady and husband Gordon family took a trip to France to celebrate Lisa Faulkner O’Hara took daughter After many years in D.C./Bethesda, Mary at their son’s wedding in June. Mary Susan’s graduation from TCU. We Evan to Paris. Next spring, her son Bud Jane Young Thistlethwaite and family Gail Ann Zarwell Winkler continues her stayed with Jill Steenhuis ’80 who gave us will graduate from Boston College and moved to rural Ky. Mary Jane is a founder job in sales management for Doncaster in an artist’s tour of Provence to see where Evan will graduate from h.s. Lisa works in of the Museum of American Music in Neenah, Wis., while husband John works Cezanne and Van Gogh painted. Then we advertising. Helena, Ark., serves on the Advisory for the Small Business Development met my sister Susan Sellers Ewing ’71 in Karen Black Meredith continues to love Council for the Governor School of Arts, is Center for Wis. Daughter Laura is back Paris with her daughter Caroline. Emily being a real estate agent in Santa Fe, finalizing 2 screenplays and writing music. from graduate school in Wales and work- and Mary Susan are working in Houston, N.M.! Bill (W&L) is a surgeon. They have 2 sons: ing on her thesis in event management Ginny is working in Dallas and Kate is a Catherine Mills Houlahan works 2 part- Taylor (26) works as an American spe- while son William is in his second year of junior at Samford in Birmingham, Ala. I en- time jobs in Newport News and Hampton, cialist with Case Antique and Auction in business school at William and Mary. joyed having lunch with Lochrane Coleman Va. and is a full-time single mom. She Knoxville. Clay (17) is a junior at Glasgow And I, Cissy Humphrey, continue to work Smith ’76 and Eve Jackson London’ 78 enjoys her jobs as a course administrator HS. in Dallas and occasionally have dinner when I was in Birmingham.” and a paralegal at a software company Betsy Thomas Rook’s husband Roger and fun times with Beth Bates Locke, Missy Flanigan Clark writes that her while waiting for one to hire her full time. had prostate cancer last year, but has Tennessee Nielsen and Kay Ellisor daughter and husband made her a grand- Her eldest is in college 6 states away. She been cancer free since March 2011. He Hopkins. Keep sending me your news and mother this year thanks to baby Isabelle. has one daughter in h.s. and one in middle is a retired actor and president of the notes! Gay Owens Gates: “Bob and I are finally in school. Southwest Herpetological Society in LA. the same residence again after 3 years. Amy Campbell Lamphere’s son graduated Son Wiley (18) attends community college Lily heads to Westfield State U. on 9/2 ma- from Nebr. Wesleyan U. Daughter Sarah is in Salt Lake and works as a nursing assis- 1977 joring in special education. Lauren gradu- at KU. Amy and Jim celebrated 25 years tant. Son Kirby (14) is in h.s. and big into Sally Bonham Mohle ated in May and is juggling different the- last Nov. She dances, teaches Nia and sports. Betsy is writing and auditioning, 5039 Lewisetta Dr. ater jobs in Philly. Seeing Lisa Carangelo baby ballet/tap, and writes. “Business-y” and will be participating in “Monologue,” a Glen Allen, VA 23060 ’80 soon, can’t wait!” trips have given her a chance to see show on Pasadena public access TV simi- [email protected] Roxane Clement: “I’m working on the Mary Cowell Sharpe, Eithne Broderick lar to “America’s Got Talent.” She enjoyed Obama campaign and will be going to Carlin, Ann Connolly Simpson, Mimi seeing Susan Boline Thompson and Myth Reunion was fun! Vivian Yamaguchi the Democratic National Convention in Walch Doe, Ashley Wilson Brook, Beth Monnich Bayoud in Dallas last year. Cohn made SBC and our class proud as Charlotte next month.” Blair McKinney, Megan Coffield Lyon and Laurie Newman Tuchel’s eldest son National Reunion Giving Chair. If you didn’t Sarah Bruce Kelly: Last winter, my histori- Catherine Flaherty. graduated from Emerson College (Boston) get an email from me soliciting this news, cal novel, “Vivaldi’s Muse,” won an inter- Eithne Broderick Carlin writes from Cape in May and is relocating to LA. Her young- please send me your email address. national literary award. I’m still teaching Cod where she’s building DJ’s Family est has entered his final year at the U. Ebet Little Stevens: “Sad to report that music and Latin at St. Michael Catholic Sports Pub #2 in Falmouth. Her husband of Edinburgh, Scotland. She and Chas my mother (93), who lived just a few miles School as well as courses at Coastal and children (a senior and a junior) love have a home in the Bahamas and one in away in Chapel Hill, died in June. Daughter Carolina U. Last Nov. I was invited by the life. Eithne got to visit with Amy Campbell Edinburgh. Liz and her family, including baby Libby university to lead a student trip to Italy. Lamphere, Mary Sharpe and Missy Gentry Sandra Rappaccioli Padilla and hus- who was born in Jan., are still in Houston. Frank came and we celebrated our 32nd Witherow. band Max live in Managua where Max Daughter Anne and her husband have anniversary. Mary Catherine is married Carolyn Hallahan Salamon enjoys living in is a full-time coffee grower. Their eldest moved back to N.C. to Raleigh. Son Rob is and living in Bethlehem, Pa., and Frankie Frederick, Md. Her son (13) and daughter son Max Carlos works in Atlanta. Jorge off to Madrid for a semester. Reunion was is in San Diego. (11) are both in middle school. She works graduated from SMU and is back work- a lot fun.” Pete and I, Sally Bonham Mohle, took our in IT in project management. ing in Managua. Sandra Lucia is studying Barb Bernick Peyronnet: “I enjoyed a fun first overnight trip in 4 years in July. Drove Phyllis Watt Jordan saw Lisa Ward culinary arts at Johnson and Wales U. in time at our 35th Reunion. We’re planning up through New England, flew to Nova Connors and Kevin, and Flo Rowe Barnick Miami. Violeta just started her freshman a Nov. wedding for Maggie and searching Scotia, all to see friends and family and this year. Phyllis works as a communica- year at Villanova. Felipe is a sophomore for colleges for Annie!” eat lobster…then turned around and came tions consultant for nonprofits and founda- in h.s. Linda Guardabassi Michael: “Some of us home. I really enjoyed Reunion in May. tions to get children to attend school and Anne Secor and husband live in the had our own mini-reunion in Delray, Fla., at learn to read by 3rd grade. (Her kids, 8th- Laurentian Mountains north of Montreal Kari Shipley’s (’76) house. In attendance and 10th-graders, read just fine.) Lisa’s and have opened a store called TECHSPA, besides Kari and me were Cindy Webb, 1978 last child left for college this fall. She which specializes in technology. Anne also Angela Scully, Paula Brumm Hennessey, Suzanne Stryker Ullrich works for World Education Services in N.Y. started a new full-time job in Jan. as art & Janet Williams and Vera Blake Thiers. 820 Waverly Rd. Barbara Wesley Bagbey teaches pre- design director for a community newspa- Vera wins the prize for coming all the way Kennett Square, PA 19348 school in Richmond. Her daughter is also a per called Main Street (themainstreet.org). from Germany. This spring Doug and I [email protected] teacher and her son is in his second year Her twin girls, Romy and Naia (6), are now at Clemson. Her husband is back from first-graders! Iraq, Italy and Germany.

52 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine ‘Art, Soul & Destiny’ Jill Steenhuis ’80 recently published “Art, Soul & Destiny: An Artist’s Journey from America to Provence.” The 162-page book is a culmination of Steenhuis’ 31 years as an American living in Provence.

Diana Tarride Palmer was diagnosed with Beth Blair McKinney feels content in Wishing there was room for every word Susan Graham Campbell is living and breast cancer in March. After chemo in Ft. Wilson, N.C. Her law practice is going well from Ginny Faris Hoffman! Even though, working in Philadelphia. She writes “I had Worth in Oct. she was scheduled to go to and Mac is in D.C. working on the Hill. or maybe because we’ve all skidded past a great time on a riding trip in Carmona, MD Anderson in Houston for radiation. Her Shannon Thompson Eadon’s son Logan 50, Ginny is more grateful than ever for Spain in early July and then went to my daughter Anna is a senior in h.s. this year. graduated from MICA in June and is her Sweet Briar sisters. She’s “had as first away horse show (Saugerties, N.Y.) Francie Root had a fascinating trip to looking for a job in graphic design in N.Y. good times with my SBC buds as ever in late July. My daughter Sarah (26) has Cuba with Georgia Schley Ritchie in Jan. Tucker is a junior at Endicott. Shannon before, maybe even better” with friends, moved back to the Philadelphia area after Francie’s summer was spent recouping fundraises for the Count Basie Theatre, “each a remarkably resilient, smart and almost 7 years in N.Y.C.” from bilateral knee replacement and wait- an arts and education venue. Gordie is an funny vixen.” Lynn Croft Reeves and husband Jack are ing for the bionics to kick in. Georgia’s investment banker. They’re coming up on So, who’s ready for Reunion? Lots of still living in Hanover, Va. Lynn says: “I en- son Addison moved to Ohio Wesleyan for 30 in May. us, apparently! 2015 is just around the joy playing tennis and volunteering at my his freshman year. Georgia is headed to Ann Connolly Simpson traveled this sum- corner! church. Son Henry (19) began his first year Marrakesh in Sept. mer in Va. and N.C. with her new beau and at VMI. Savannah (17) is a senior in h.s. Nancy Bade Fuller and Drew travel to see celebrated 22 years at The Dragon’s Nest This past May I got to see Naomi Weyand their daughter Caroline and her husband toy store. Hannah (23) is in grad school at 1981 Smith and her daughter Emily.” Tee and baby Tripp in Philadelphia, where Simmons for her M.Ed. Claire McDonnell Purnell Deborah Donigan Bullett (Ashburn, Tee goes to business school. Elizabeth Claire Dennison Griffith works with juniors 4 Thompson St. Va.): Son Xavier is graduating from works in Houston and Craig, their young- and seniors on SAT and ACT prep through Annapolis, MD 21401-3833 Randolph Macon Coll. in Ashland and Jax est, is a sophomore at Ga. Direct Hits Education and oversees the [email protected] (Jacquelyne) is a sophomore at SBC. Lind Robinson Bussey plans to spend publishing and sales of 2 vocabulary Hope Keating is still living in Tallahassee, a lot of time in Charlottesville, Va., books. Find her on twitter @directhitsfan. Facebook page: SBC Class of 1981—We Fla. She and her fiancé, G.W. Harrell, are where daughter Jenny Lind lives. They Ted (26) works in Atlanta and Charlie (20) have 44 members! looking forward to their upcoming spring were expecting a baby boy in early Oct. is a sophomore at TCU. Luther is in ven- May Carter Barger is taking a weeklong 2013 wedding. While visiting her daughter this summer, ture capital. visit to Jill Steenhuis ’80 and oil painting For so long I (Claire McDonnell Purnell) Lind ran into Missy Gentry Witherow Florence Rowe Barnick is still with the in Aix, France. May writes, “Daughter Josie have written how things are the same in and her daughters, Ann Darden Self newspaper (associate publisher of the (17) is a senior. Son Ben (15) is in 9th Annapolis, but now they are different since with her daughter who is a sophomore Free-Lance Star). Her twins received as- grade. My husband’s glass fabrication my older daughter Mary (18) has left for at UVa, Martha Fruehauf, and Lisa sociate degrees from Landmark College business is picking up.” May’s kids are the U. of Del. We’re looking forward to Sturkie Greenberg whose youngest son and are now at Wentworth Institute of also learning to drive! Parents Weekend in Oct. Lizzie (15) is a Christopher is at UVa. Back home in Technology in Boston. George is a sopho- Elaine Arozarena splits time between N. sophomore. A note to everyone: With each Jackson, Miss., her son John is working more at Stafford HS. Y. and Madrid, Spain. She writes, “I’m on issue of the magazine, I get a new set of with his dad. Her youngest son, Anderson, Catherine Flaherty has sent her el- some boards for some nonprofits and very email addresses from SBC. I send out the is a senior at Ole Miss. dest, Killian, to college at Creighton in busy trying to get some new ventures go- request and still, many of them bounce Liz Swearingen-Edens enjoyed a summer Omaha. He’s there with his cousin, son ing. My husband Carlos (Spanish), retired back to me. However, email seems to be visit to Canada. Her eldest is driving and of Catherine’s sister-in-law Anne Riordan some years ago, but is very active as a the best way to reach you. PLEASE contact her “baby” has started h.s. Her design/il- Flaherty ’78. Catherine’s son Callaghan historian, a Chevalier of Malta.” Elaine SBC and give them your correct email ad- lustration business continues, as does Liz is a junior at Benilde St. Margaret’s and stays in touch with Wendi Wood, Sandra dress. Thanks and take care. Paper (lizpaper.com). a starting linebacker on the varsity team. Rapaccioli ’80 and Wendy Weiler ’71. Toni Santangelo Archibald (Rye, N.Y.) is Macartan is a h.s. freshman and plays Mary Kate Ferguson is living in Baltimore divorced, happily living in a great apt. at soccer. Her direct mail business, Money and writes that she “got back into horse- 1982 Westchester Country Club, and working at Mailer, is doing well. She mentioned good back riding last spring with Brendy Reiter Jennifer Rae her h.s. alma mater, Holy Child. Her eldest times with Fannie Zollicoffer Mallonee, Hantzes. It took me back to my first experi- 1013 Debeck Drive Johnny (25) works in Denver. Her other Ginny Faris Hoffman and Amy Campbell ence with riding 31 years ago at Sweet Rockville, MD 20851 kids are 23 and 20. Lamphere. Briar.” [email protected]

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 53 Mary LaVigne’s daughters, Eugenia and Anne Pridgeon Bortz is married and living Thanks for the great responses. Chris and her physical health and well-being. After Henley, will be together in h.s. Eugenia is in Brentwood, Tenn. She’s the founder I can’t wait to see everyone at Reunion! defying her doctor’s advice to have radi- preparing for the college process. Henley and CEO of Franklin Card Company, a new Alice Cutting Laimbeer and Rick still fox- cal surgery, she regained her wellness will be a freshman. She and her daughters photographic e-card website. In 2010, she hunt. They have 2 Welsh pony broodmares thanks to her wildlife garden, daily yoga, all ride together. They played polo cross climbed to Mount Everest Base Camp for in foal. Rick and Alice are traveling to Italy a session of reiki and E-lyber treatments at camp, and Eugenia has been invited to her 50th birthday. She enjoys staying in to pick up Margot when she finishes her and consuming only the most wholesome ride in Nationals! Mary went to a 2-day in- touch with Jennifer Rae and Heidi Willard. semester in Florence. Alice hopes to get foods. She and her husband gave up their tensive seminar at Joel Salatin’s Polyface Rosemary Hardy works as a behavior/ together with Wylie Jamison Small, Lucy government jobs in 11/11 and are now Farm.” autism specialist in the Shawnee Mission Chapman Millar and Anne Little Woolley awaiting positive outcomes regarding a Cathy Miller and husband had a trip to School district—been with them now for for sporting clays in the fall. Alice will see couple of proposals for either ecological Russia in May. They took a cruise from St. 23 years. She vacationed in Mass. with everyone in May! fieldwork or a conservation awareness Petersburg to Moscow. After a summer her brother and his family. In all, she now Alicia Nygaard Formagus and Nace were campaign. She misses daughters Tanya family trip to Blowing Rock, N.C., they’ll has 15 nieces and nephews ranging in proud to present Mr. and Mrs. Lee William Salas Platt ’10 (23) and May (16), both take the girls off to their colleges, Ferrum age from 30 to a newborn—loves being the McNutt IV on 7/28/12 in Knoxville, Tenn. excellent students: one is at CalArts, the and Randolph-Macon. doting aunt. The couple lives 2 miles from Alicia and other is in her last year of h.s. in Quito. Mary Ames Booker is still enjoying work Jean Bryan is back from their family re- Nace while son William returns to law Deirdre writes son Martin (8) isn’t keen on as the curator on the Battleship NORTH union and has 2 children in college! Jean school and new daughter-in-law Michelle school and prefers cooking! CAROLINA in Wilmington. In her Episcopal had a blast at Reunion. Peter and she begins teaching 3rd grade at a nearby Diana Duffy Waterman had just returned church she assists with stewardship, fi- celebrated 24 years of marriage. school. Thankfully, younger son Thomas from Tampa, Fla., where she had been a nance and the annual fundraiser. Her aunt Marie Engel Earnhart shares that Mary was out of the area during the Texas Md. delegate at the Republican National Suzanne VanHorne ’47 and uncle still live Whitney is a junior at SBC. She’s doing a A&M shooting, 100 yards from his home. Convention. Her daughter Caty Waterman in Columbus, Ohio. semester abroad in Panama City, Panama. Alicia continues her work as a business ’11 flew in from London (where she had Heather Pirnie Albert is getting settled Son Chandler starts college this fall. consultant working primarily with First just finished her master’s at the London in Fate, Texas. She took a job as a dis- Angela V. Averett has been living the Responders. School of Economics) to come along. trict manager for Ace Cash, a financial dream, retired in Jaco Beach, Costa Rica Leslie Malone Berger is a speech- After the convention, Diana was heavily services company, and runs a district this past year. Son Daniel (25) lives and language pathologist for Roanoke County involved in the Republican politics in Md.: in east Dallas. Michael is looking for a works in Brest, France; daughter Claire Public Schools. Leslie’s son Alex is a junior Eastern Shore of Md. coordinator for the teaching job. Her oldest, Rebecca, is get- (23) lives in Brooklyn and works at Time, at Washington and Lee. Kiernan started Romney campaign, the county coordinator ting married in Nov. Heather’s youngest, Inc. in Manhattan; daughter Catherine his freshman year at High Point U. Emilie for her congressman’s re-election cam- Samantha, graduated in May from the U. (22) lives and works at an Equestrian is a sophomore in h.s. Leslie looks forward paign, chairman of her County Republican of the South, and is a business analyst for SurgiCenter in Tampa, Fla. to Reunion! Central Committee, and up to her eyeballs in Republican state party activities! Last Mercer Capital in Memphis. Beth Reed retired from teaching in 2011. Amy Boyce Osaki is celebrating being summer Diana and her husband visited Monika Keiser Neheim shares Alexa grad- A number of years ago she began showing self-employed since 1996. Their travel Caty in London. They’re also excited that uated from the U. of Miami, Frost School Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. Besides business is thriving and has 2 websites: their son and daughter-in-law live so close of Music with a double major in musical showing in AKC, she trains for obedience mountainhikingholidays.com for mountain because they can see their grandson Liam theatre and English literature, as well as a and therapy. Daughter Kate (Vanderbilt) hiking trips and walkingsoftly.com for walk- (16 mos.) often. minor in music business. Julius will start is now an area coordinator for housing ing trips with a focus on art/history/archi- his senior year in h.s. this Aug. She and and residential education on the Peabody tecture. Amy has been married 26 years Elena Quevedo has been dating a won- Julius visited her family in Germany for 2 Campus at Vanderbilt just 3 hours away. and has a daughter (12) in 7th grade this derful man, Kevin, for the past 2 years. weeks in June. Richard is still with Pepsico Son Matthew, after graduating from the year. She saw Desiree Bouchat last year. They have had adventures in Nova Scotia, International. They’ll celebrate their 25th U. of the South (Sewanee ’10), works in Amy is considering attending Reunion. Hungary, Poland, El Salvador and last July in Jan. She’s still volunteering at school Birmingham. Kate hopes that even more Amy Painter Hur is divorced and still liv- to Turkey! Elena and Kevin both have 2 with the PTSO, the school calendar com- of the class will be able to attend our ing in Austin. Her daughter attends U. of children the same ages. Elena’s daugh- mittee and the drama dept. reunion in 2017, and as our current class Texas, Austin. Her oldest daughter is a ter, Olivia, left the coop to attend Bates Heidi Willard was in a life-threatening president, she welcomes all communica- senior at the U. of Ala. Amy is attending College in Lewiston, Maine. Son Sebastian horse riding accident in July out in Mont. tion any one would like to share. Reunion! (16) is doing beautifully in his school, in spite of his disability. Last year he was She has a broken back and her shattered Jennifer Rae was thrilled to be at a class Angelia Goodwin Ashley lives in invited to participate year-round, once a left leg. She’s so glad that she saw every- reunion. She has been busy with rebrand- Richmond, Va. and still works in bio-tech month, in a mentoring leadership program one at Reunion and sends her love and an ing of her public relations consulting LLC. sales. Jimmy and Angelia went to the at the camp he attends in the summer in open hand for those reunion donations! She enjoys conversations with Anne Bortz Olympics in London! Angelia is riding again upstate N.Y. While at the camp he learned Chip McPheeters was sorry to miss and reconnecting with all of our class- at a farm next to Kathy Barrett Baker and to mentor other children with autism. Reunion, but she went to the riding re- mates as class secretary. She reached her husband Jim and sees them often. Elena still fundraises and manages the union in April with her daughter. Her son out with some phone calls and thanks Ann Sterling Hart has been working hard major gifts program for The MacDowell James and his wife had their first child, those for talking. She sends a big thank running dressage horse shows and dodg- Colony’s N.Y.C. office. She looks forward to Mary Elizabeth McPheeters, on 1/27/12. you to all of our classmates connecting on ing Hurricane Isaac. Ann began Mixed seeing everyone 30 years later! Daughter Heather Ann McPheeters ’10 LinkedIn and Facebook. Want to extend Martial Arts classes 2 years ago. Youngest Ellen Claire Gillespie Dreyer’s daughter became engaged this July. They’re busy a big thank you to our past class board daughter Ali is a senior at U. of Fla. and Gilly is a junior at Sewanee and is study- planning her wedding for 5/18/13! 2007-2012! Well done, you all! Her hubby, applying to vet schools. Her oldest, Steph, ing this fall in Madrid. Daughter Sissy is a Francie Belliveau’s son Ned (20) is in his Luigi, enjoyed being with a handful of our is in Vail, Colo. freshman at SMU. Son Stone is a sopho- third year at Hampden-Sydney. Michael class at Molly Grenn’s. Anne Little Woolley has a senior at Elon more in h.s. (18) is getting ready for college next year. U., a freshman at U of Ga. and a sopho- Gigi Harsh Mossburg was thinking about Anna (16) may be an alumna one day! more in h.s. Anne has seen some SBCers Sally Ride, the first woman astronaut in Scott is still at VMI writing, teaching and over the year—Melissa Byrne Partington 1983 space because she passed away in 7/12. occasionally acting! She still loves teach- and Elizabeth Taylor Seifert. Anne is still in Cary Cathcart Fagan Sally Ride was a guest lecturer at SBC in ing 3-year-olds! 329 Kelford Ln. Richmond, Va. 1983. Gigi was impressed meeting her Ethel Burwell Dowling and her family Charlotte, NC 28270 Bobbie Serrano Black ’s 2 oldest girls and thinking how great it was to be a stu- love living in Lexington, Va. She sees [email protected] are at Sewanee. Her oldest, Lizzie, is a dent at SBC. classmates Anne Edmunds Hansen and senior and her middle daughter, Anna, is a As I’m writing these notes my beautiful Kathy Barrett Baker and Jim vacationed in Francie Mantho Belliveau. Over the sum- junior. Bobbie’s youngest, Gracie, is a h.s. city of Charlotte is being frenzied with the Bermuda last year for a belated birthday mer Molly Johnson gave the Dowlings a senior. Bobbie has enjoyed seeing Sally Democratic National Convention. It has present. Kathy keeps busy with her 4 step- tour of Chicago, including a tour of Molly’s Davis Daniels ’82, Ellen Claire Gillespie brought back a great memory of when grandchildren. Her nephew (16) visited favorite tire store. Dreyer and Lilli Gillespie Billings ’84, all Nancy Trimble Howell ’82 and I were 2 of them from Miami for a month last sum- Martha Cordell will be an empty-nester in with kids at Sewanee. Bobbie and Paul the 8 delegates from ZBT representing mer. Kathy’s step-granddaughter Ashley 2 weeks with a son at Tulane and a daugh- celebrated their 27th wedding anniversary N.M. at the W&L Mock Convention in May (12) is quite a dancer and artist. Please ter at TCU. She continues to serve as dean last summer! 1980. We built a float, rode in the parade send prom, wedding, graduation, and any of students at The U. of Tulsa Coll. of Law, Carolyn Hall Ringhoffer and were on the floor when we nominated is a practicing OB other life event photos to Kathy for our plays bridge, belongs to a book club and Ronald Reagan. He called and thanked all GYN in Mobile, Ala. She and husband Joe class scrapbook (with this being a reunion continues to run and play tennis. In their of us over the loudspeaker! More recently, have 2 daughters, Alexandra (13) and Ava year we really want to fill it up!) Send to free time, David and she like to spend time my stepson Christopher Fagan II finished (18). Alex is a freshman at SMU. Joe is an [email protected] , through FB or at their condominium on the Gulf Coast. his tour of duty in the Air Force, has gradu- investment broker in Mobile. snail mail. Early this summer, she met her dear friend ated from college as a medical assistant Deirdre Platt (Pto Lopez, coastal Ecuador) Althea Hurt Randolph ’80 in N.Y.C. Last summer, Kim Howell Franklin and and continues living in San Antonio, Texas. spent most of last year concentrating on husband shared a week in Paris with their

54 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine daughter Isabelle “Izzy.” Izzy is in 10th N.Y. Pam’s mother is struggling with Harriette Cooper Liederbach has a new grade at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School Parkinson’s. Back in N.Y. Pam has 3 stores 1984 career teaching 8th-grade science at the in Alexandria, Va. Kim had a fabulous open full time, running between N.Y.C. Debbie Hodgkinson school her children attend. Harriette’s Reunion Weekend last May in Chicago and the Hamptons. Pam is still loving the Jones oldest is a sophomore at N.C. State U.; with Melissa Pruyn Vaughan, Dani Depaul peace that practicing yoga brings her. 4416 Bromley Ln. her second is a freshman at Appalachian Morganthaler ’85 and Ellen Howard Attar. Ruth Lewin met family at the Vineyard, Richmond, VA 23221-1140 State U. Their youngest is in 8th grade. Kim is still working in the Relocation & where she calls home, for a reunion. It’s [email protected] Burke Morrow is still teaching h.s. earth Immigration Team at Booz Allen Hamilton been 7 years since they’ve been there. science and chemistry. She had a blast in the D.C. area and her husband contin- Sarah Sutton Brophy attended the riding Debbie Jones: Staying connected with seeing everyone at Reunion. ues his career as a preservation archi- reunion with Sarah Babcock. Son #1 is Ginger Reynolds Davis ’84 with fun trips. Beth Ann Trapold Newton reports that son tect on Capital Hill. Kim plans to attend finishing up an aerospace engineering de- Still riding my horses, working in mortgage Gus (19) received his Eagle Scout award Reunion. gree at Drexel and son #2 started at Paul banking and helping my sister with her last year and is a freshman at Christopher Libby Glenn Fisher and husband Charlie’s Smiths in natural resource management. Square One Organic Spirits biz. Newport U. in their Presidential Leadership son Wil is in his junior year at Pepperdine; Sarah’s environmental sustainability con- Juliet Jacobsen Kastorff: Running white- Program. Her daughter Bonnie (17) went daughter Mary Kathryn is a freshman at sulting to museums is full time, and she is water trips internationally during the win- to the summer Explore Engineering course UVa. Charlie retired from P&G last June co-leading the national summit on green ter along with a business in N.C., and this at Sweet Briar—loved it! Annie (10) is in and has started a consulting business standards for museums. year our new RioQuijos Eco-Lodge opened 5th grade. Beth Ann is in her third year as that doesn’t tie them down to a city, so Sharon Patton Massie and husband up in Ecuador. the executive editor at The Social List of they have bought a house in Santa Rosa Sammy are still with Massie Insurance Ginger Reynolds Davis: Jeffery has gradu- Washington (aka: The Green Book). Beach, Fla.! Libby plans to attend Reunion. Agency Inc. on Main St. in Amherst. ated. He now drives heavy equipment. Mary Jo Biscardi Brown and Frank still re- Lucy Chapman Millar dropped off her They’re no longer on the farm but have Carter has just begun his junior year at side in the Philadelphia area. They visited son Schuyler at SMU last summer. He moved further up the mountain. Sharon Presbyterian Coll. Can’t wait to see y’all at Portland, Ore., for the first time in June, joined the freshman class along with is still working, healthy, and happy to no Reunion. followed by a relaxing week in Cancun. Ellen Claire’s daughter Sissy. Daughter longer be farming. Vida Henry Fonseca: I’m back in the Mary Jo serves on the Boxwood Circle Peyton will graduate from UGA in Dec. Susan Hughes Huffman has received Nashville area to be around family and Giving Committee. Thank you for your gifts Lucy sells Etcetera women’s clothing and her master’s in school library media from care for my dad and looking for a job. to the College! is in charge of her local agency. Elizabeth Longwood U. and has moved from the Shannon Young Ray: The triplets (Megan, Michelle Miller Haddad and Sam cel- Sprague O’Meara sells with her. Lucy plays classroom to be the librarian at Tye River Taylor and Carson) are seniors this year ebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in lots of tennis, shoots sporting clays and Elementary School. She and Roger are so we’re busy with all that entails x3! Our March, followed by the marriage of their goes to tournaments. She is co-chairing busy with their picture framing and custom “middle child” Peter is a junior at Texas A oldest daughter, making Michelle and a big 3-day sporting clays charity event in furniture/cabinet business. & M, business school. Our oldest, Breck Sam in-laws! Michelle is nostalgic about the spring that will benefit local Atlanta Tracy Gatewood is putting her real estate Jr., graduated 2 years ago from St. Louis her study abroad in Spain as her middle children’s charities! Lucy will attend license to good use. Please send Tracy U. and has now returned to Fort Worth daughter prepares to take off for a year Reunion. every single referral from your friends as a private banker. He’s engaged to be in Madrid. M. Churchill Bird McMurrain is living in sending their kids to the U. of Ala. tracy- married June 2013—right after the triplets Elizabeth Lindsay is doing contract copy- Vail, Colo. She dropped off the first of her [email protected] graduate and before we take them to their editing for the United Methodist Publishing 4 children at college last summer, SBC Wendy Chapin Albert is doing well in 3 separate colleges. House again. She still takes figure skating that is! Churchill has lived in Vail for 7 Ruxton, Md. Daughter Annie is spending Sloane Yeadon Mills: Mary Pate (21) is and ballet lessons and continues to drive years. She caught up with Tish Littleton fall semester in Perugia, Italy! Daughter at King’s College in London for JYA. She’s Elsinore Basset-Hound to her monthly Byrne Eliades. Eleanor is a junior at St. Paul’s School majoring in art history with pre-med focus. “job” at a hospice. Mandy Beauchemin’s son Zachary (Zack, for Girls. Both girls ride and show. Daisy is a senior at Wesleyan and editor- Mimi Holland Dinsmore is still living in 18) is now a 4/C Cadet at the U.S. Coast Wendy is trail riding with their large pony in-chief of the school paper. Jack is in 7th Charleston, W.Va. She and Tyler celebrated Guard Academy in New London, Conn.! Boysenberry. Tolly is a stockbroker at grade at Wesleyan. Sloane is going on 23 their 25th wedding anniversary. Son Mac Mandy was promoted to practice adminis- Chapin Davis, plays golf and trains race years with FDIC. is a freshman at Dickinson Coll. in Carlisle, trator and manages about 45 employees. horses! Wendy sells residential real estate, Pa. Mandy is looking forward to Reunion and loves gardening and riding. She is taking Ingrid Weirick Squires is still teaching 2nd hopes to attend. an oil painting class. 1985 grade in Virginia Beach, Va., married to Mary Ware Gibson still teaches 3rd grade Wylie Jameson Small’s son Rudy (18) Ellen Reed Carver Dave and mom to Thomas, in 6th grade. at the Charlotte Latin School and writes started his freshman year at Hobart & 1315 Bolling Ave. Thomas went to Australia for 2 weeks this they have several alumnae there! Husband William Smith College. Wylie and Stuart Norfolk, VA 23508 summer without his parents. He plays Brian continues his ENT practice in are thinking of getting another Jack [email protected] lacrosse in Williamsburg every spring so Charlotte. Taylor (24) is an EMT with Medic Russell to add to their brood of Peyton (5) Ingrid visited with Sue Finn Adams and and part-time student at UNCC; Andrew and Maris (15). In May, Wylie will be taking Mike who came out for Thomas’ game. (21) is a senior at Appalachian State U.; on the presidency of a Rochester club that 1986 Missy Duggins Green’s son Miles is in 8th and Claire (19) is in the Textile School at her grandmother founded in 1923! She April Adelson Marshall grade; Nancy is in 7th. Ken celebrated his N.C. State. Mary enjoyed the girls’ week- can’t wait for Reunion in May! 7809 Coddle Harbor Ln. 50th birthday in March and they continued end with Mason Bennett Rummel, Lea Wynn Henderson, Atlanta, is working Potomac, MD 20854-3253 celebrating it for several months after by Sparks Bennett and Kathy Barrett Baker. at her mom’s jewelry store and is the [email protected] visiting Las Vegas in May and then Cabo Mary and Brian are attending the 30th. assistant to children’s ministries at her san Lucas in July. She catches up with Mason Bennett Rummel is almost fin- church. Wynn has 2 children, Adelaide Leigh Ann White nearby Jennifer Frost Holden. Katie Hearn ished with her master’s degree in philan- (18) and Jack (16). She also has an ex- 165 Gray St., Apt 2 and Karen Gonya Nickles will join Jennifer thropic studies. Oldest son, Bennett, lives change student from Germany, Florian. Arlington, MA 02476 and Missy for the Chiefs versus Ravens in N.Y.C. Daughters, Annie and Emma, are Adelaide spent last year (as a junior) in [email protected] in Oct. at U. of L. Mason expanded on the girls’ Germany and was awarded a scholarship Holly McGovern Barber was working on McKenzie Reed van Meel has 2 middle weekend getaway in W.Va. Mason, Mary, from the State Dept. Jack and Wynn loved the 2012 Republican National Convention schoolers: Mercer in 6th grade and Lea and Kathy stayed in a cabin and lost being able to visit her overseas. When since March 2011. Holly and Ralph have Madison in 8th. McKenzie is a soccer and power for the entire weekend the thunder- Adelaide returned, the family went to sent their oldest, Chas (18), to Ole Miss field hockey mom. While the kids are in storms came through. She and Rick are St. Martin. Wynn has exchanged emails this summer. Caroline (17) is in her junior school, she tends to her growing home- planning to visit Costa Rica. Mason will with Tracy Gatewood, Joan McGettigan, year in an International Baccalaureate based reiki practice in Old Greenwich, attend Reunion. Kim Howell Franklin, Ellen Howard Attar, program, and Will (7) is starting first grade. Conn. Mimi Kitchel DeCamp’s younger son Lizzie Pierpoint Kerrison, Penney Hartline Holly had a reunion this spring with Ashley Colleen Handte Jones lives in Charlotte, will graduate from h.s. the weekend of ’84, Bobbie Serrano Black, Dani DePaul Simmons Bright, Meme Boulware Hobbs N.C. with husband Jonathan and daugh- Reunion, so she won’t be attending. Her Morganthaler ’85 and Nancy Cunningham and Linda Cudd Miller in New Orleans, ter Emma (8), who is in 3rd grade at St. older son will be graduating from college. Mauck trying to arrange a reunion but has where Ashley’s daughter Ella was named Patrick Catholic School. Colleen enjoys Mimi is still in Nashville, still selling resi- yet to be successful, but will keep trying! the Queen of Mardi Gras. Holly will have working part time at Emma’s school as a dential real estate. I have an idea Wynn, why don’t all of you a fall reunion with Linda Cudd Miller and teacher assistant for 3 different grades. Miriam Baker Morris oldest son, from ’83 plan on coming to the 30th in Ann Irby Smithey. They had a fun summer visiting D.C., Tenn. Claiborne, started working in Birmingham May? Tracy G. has great idea of organiz- From Hermosa Beach Calif., Shelby Burns and Hilton Head, S.C. at an accounting firm. Daughter, Sally, is a ing an Amtrak trip for all the girls on the writes in to say she’s working, doing some Meme Boulware Hobbs spent a great senior at College of Charleston. southern train route to take the trip to SBC freelance web-writing and taking care of extended weekend in New Orleans last Pamela Weekes spent most of last spring together and arrange a shuttle from the her 3 boys Jack (12), Calvin (10) and Sam Feb. with Holly McGovern Barber and hus- traveling between N.Y.C. and Williamsburg, Amherst Station. Sounds like a blast! (7). Sadly, Shelby’s father died last year. band Ralph. They were guests of Ashley Va., where her parents retired to from

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 55 Simmons Bright and Edgar whose daugh- went to Disney World with Lindsay’s dance ter, Ella, was the Queen of Carnival. As for school. Also this year, Terry begins a 2-year Meme’s children, Libby (18) is a freshman term as co-president of her school’s PTO at Texas Christian U. in Ft. Worth Texas and looks forward to continuing as leader and Whit (16) is a junior at Woodberry of the girls in the Girl Scout Troop. Forest School in Orange, Va. Dayna Avery Hulme is still a carpool mom Sarel Cousins has her master’s in natural with 9th-grade daughter, Alexandra, who resources from Virginia Tech. She’s look- is at Harpeth Hall School. Older daughter ing for a job in the environmental field Courtney is a sophomore at TCU in Ft. with the government or a nonprofit in the Worth. More recent alumnae and current Baltimore-D.C. area. students from Nashville gathered for a Catherine Stevens works as an analyst at Back-to-School event at a local frozen yogurt the Southern Virginia Higher Education favorite, Sweet CeCe’s. Among the group in- Center (South Boston, Va.). She completed cluding some parents (and me) were Allison a graduate certificate program in higher Stansberry ’11, Noelle Adams ’13, Lydia education assessment through JMU. Son Ethridge ’15, Tobi Adegore ’16, Elizabeth Henry started 7th grade and plays on 2 Lindsey and Jonna Lee Ashwood ’87. soccer teams, plays baritone saxophone, Liz Maraffi Michaud is still enjoying, after takes voice lessons and serves as patrol 18 years, her job at PC Connection and Poetry Her Way leader for his Boy Scout troop. her current position as operations man- Sweet Briar last reported on 2010 graduate Linda Thoma Parson retired from teaching ager. Her 2 daughters are both in middle math, and Bill retired from project man- school this year. Liz will be leading their Carina Finn when she was nominated for a 2012 Pushcart agement at the Nevada Test Site. Linda Girl Scout Troop again this year. Prize. Now her first book of poetry, “My Life Is a Movie,” had a transatlantic vacation to Italy with Robyn “Bynnie” Bailey-Orchard is busy Jean Notestein and Bea Fore. Linda and teaching 8th-grade English, directing has sold out of its first run and gone into additional printings Bill are enjoying their horses, gardening plays, coaching forensics, advising the since its release in June. and traveling. school newspaper and cheering for son Gail Glifort completed a 3-year adoption Jem (17) at soccer games. Her older son “That’s not just remarkable for a small [publisher] like process and brought Emerie (4) home Tatt (20) is pursuing a culinary career. Birds of Lace,” says poet John Casteen, Finn’s teacher and with her from Russia. Emerie is a sweet, BTW: Her 1986 yearbook was damaged animated, affectionate little girl. beyond saving; does anyone have a sug- mentor at Sweet Briar. “It’s unheard of for first books of Mary Beth Miller Orson is still living in gestion about how she can get another poetry. ... In the poetry world, this is a home run.” Scottsdale, Ariz. with her husband Carl copy, if at all? and children Caroline (13) and Eric (9). Louanne Woody teaches at the Dare He oversaw Finn’s honors thesis, which included “I Heart She is still VP and associate general coun- County Alternative School, Outer Banks, sel in charge of the business law function N.C. She’ll be coordinating and teaching Marlon Brando,” the poem cycle that eventually earned her at Apollo Group, Inc., still active in the Ariz. in a program that will give suspended h.s. the Pushcart nomination. Alumnae Club, and still busy with work, students a second chance at improving family, friends, travel, school and various their behavior and academic performance. “She’s a spectacular writer with a raw, gritty, ferocious sports and activities! On the family front, her daughter-in-law is talent, and it comes as no surprise to me … that she has found Eve Hill was married 2 years ago to Henry expecting twin girls! Claypool, a disability health policy expert. Sally Engleby Farrell still lives in Bedford, such profound and early success,” Casteen says. Eve was appointed senior counselor to the N.Y. Her oldest son finished his first year Except given Finn’s non-traditional approach to assistant attorney general for civil rights at of college in Durango, Colo. He is an EMT the Dept. of Justice where she supervises and very involved in the local volunteer fire publishing her work. the Civil Rights Division’s disability rights dept. Sally’s twin boys will be starting h.s. “I’d never want something in a magazine, however work. Eve and Henry live in Arlington, Va. this fall. Husband Chris works for Verizon. with Eve’s cat (20) and dog (14). Sally finished her first year as director of ‘prestigious,’ if I don’t respect the writing or the way they Laura Hand Glover says it feels incredible St. Mark’s Nursery School in New Canaan, operate, and I only submit manuscripts to presses I actively to be back at home in Okla. She loves her Conn. She is the interim director of chil- new job, being close to her mother and dren’s ministries at St. Mark’s Church. read,” she says. daughter again and gardening in good Sally is earning her M.A. of Christian for- Hers is not the quickest route to a tenure-track teaching Okla. dirt. Her son’s concert and jazz band mation at Virginia Theological Seminary. contributed to his h.s. being the first to win position, something she thinks she’ll want one day. In May, the sweepstakes in every band category at she completed a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Notre a state contest. 1987 From Boston, Leigh Ann White and Brian Lee Carroll Roebuck Dame, then immediately returned to New York City after and their 2 cats have moved into a home 11423 Mays Chapel Road spending last summer there on a Nicholas Sparks Fellowship in Arlington, Mass., 2 1/2 blocks down on Lutherville, MD 21093 the same street. Her job as a health econ- [email protected] and working for a big publishing house. omist at Biogen Idec has been by far her She snubbed subsequent 9-to-5 jobs to immerse herself favorite; it’s both rewarding and challeng- Pamela Miscall Cusick ing to work toward the hopeful success of 1328 Rayville Road in the city’s bountiful poetry scene, freelance, bartend, and a new drug for ALS. Parkton, MD 21120 [email protected] make art through poetry and playwriting, music and film. April Adelson Marshall is now a Virginian, still single, and an official empty nester! Holla Holla to our very own Teresa Pike She’s involved in The Poetry Society of New York, runs April needed a change, said goodbye Tomlinson, recipient of Sweet Briar’s the interdisciplinary performance series Bratty Poets and to Potomac, Md., and moved to Tysons Distinguished Alumna Award for 2011. Corner, Va., where she is renting an apt. in Along with a host of other accomplish- occasionally blogs at ladyblogblah. Heidi Belofsky Turk’s (’85) home. April is ments, Teresa was elected the first female It’s all research for that “steady-ish” teaching gig down the recruiting for the IT industry. mayor of Columbus, Ga. in 11/10. Teresa Evie Newell Angevine is living in writes, “My husband Trip and I had an road. “I’ve had more amazing teachers than any one person Earlysville, outside of Charlottesville, with incredible time at our 25th reunion. It was could hope for, and I’m going to pass on all the knowledge her husband, son (10) and daughter (12). wonderful to see Verda Andrews Colvin, She’s involved in her children’s schools Vikki Schroeder and others in Columbus, and energy that has been given to me,” she says. and works part time in property manage- Ga., this summer for the Distinguished ment. Evie reports that a poetry professor “I feel like it’s important, though, for students to get a Alumna Award. Trip is still practicing law at SBC helped her organize an overnight and I’m headed into my 20th month as perspective from way outside of academia, to have teachers trip at the Outing Cabin with her Girl Scout mayor. Heading to Sweet Briar in fall to troop 2 years ago—it was great! speak to a few classes on government and who can show them many ways of making the same thing.” Terry Cerrina Davis, an at-home mom, leadership.” is busy running around with daughter Lindsay Claire (11). This summer they

56 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Shannon Wood Bush writes from Texas, Chesapeake Bay with husband Ed and daughters Contessa (5) and Kendall (9). More class notes online “We finished building our house and 2 daughters. “I have spoken with Paul “My husband, Steve, and I celebrated our the kids are at boarding school! Eleanor Cronin numerous times this year about 12th anniversary in April. I still work with sbc.edu/magazine will be a junior at Cranbrook in Mich. some foxhunting advice in the Va. area. seniors to keep them active.” and Bennett is in 8th grade, starting He reminds me of all the support I have Malinda Bradley Bergen lives in the boarding school search. I’m sailing received over the years through my Sweet Savannah, Ga. with her husband, Fred. party especially for our class. Please make competitively about once a month. Sorry Briar contacts.” Their 23rd anniversary is this Oct. Fred Jr. plans to be there! to miss Reunion, but I was back for the Beth Nelson Suhr has lived in Denmark is a junior at UGA and Fontaine is a fresh- Kathryn Ingham Reese (Wilmington, Del.) annual alumnae Old Lady Lacrosse Game since 1990. “It was through a Sweet Briar man at UT-Austin. keeps busy with her 2 daughters and their in April.” friend (Marianne Jensen ’88) that I ended Mary Sue Cate Mayes is still in Iowa with activities. She continues to teach 5th- Mary Hunter Adams and Jim have one up here. My husband Johannes and I have her husband Larry. “We celebrated our and 6th-grade English at Tower Hill and son, Hunter (13), and have lived in 2 kids: Caroline (13) and Johannes (11). I 25th anniversary. I’m still on the staff at coaches middle school lacrosse. She looks Barboursville, W.Va. for 12 years. Mary is a enjoyed our 25th—looking forward to next Iowa State U. I’m an assistant scientist forward to Reunion. family nurse practitioner for a nonprofit. reunion.” in the Animal Science Dept. Andy is a In Pa., Katie Keogh Weidner’s oldest Louise Gilliam Williams was married in Deborah Brennan Leslie moved to Perth, freshman at Simpson Coll. and Jenny is a son Jake is a sophomore at Penn State. Charlottesville on 6/9/12 to Jim Williams. Australia, for her husband’s job. “With the sophomore at Gilbert HS.” Second son, William, is a senior in h.s. Kem McCoid Roth ’88 and Brooke kids beginning an age of independence, it Tami Trebus-Ross is still living in Daughter Caroline is in 8th grade. Rinehart Dunn ’88 attended. has allowed me to reevaluate my life.” Morristown, N.J. with husband Eban and Kate Cole Hite reports from Md. that she, Mary Yorke Robison Oates is still coaching Paige Franson is in Falmouth, Mass., on 2 boys, Jack (12) and Sam (10). She is Katie Keogh Weidner, Kathryn Ingham 8th-grade field hockey at Charlotte Latin. Cape Cod working for MEDITECH in the a graphic designer and works out of her Reese, Whitney Bolt Lewis and Mary “Taking my oldest son to Birmingham- Fall River, Mass., building. “I have been home. She’s still in touch with friends, Halliday Shaw got together in Feb. in D.C. Southern Coll. this fall; he’ll be playing there for 25 years as of 6/12, program- Moira Carroll, Dana Ostrowsky and for their annual girls’ weekend. She writes, lacrosse.” ming software. I play softball, take figure Charlotte Hudson. Dana lives in N.Y.C., “We had a blast—a given when we get to- Carol Sue Jones Smith lives in skating lessons and play ice hockey. In Moira in Chicago and Charlotte in Va. gether.” She adds, “Son Chase is a junior Kathmandu, Nepal, with her husband Will the spring, I coach youth lacrosse. I vis- Maggie Fogarty, husband Tim and their this year, Mackenzie is in 8th grade, and and 4 children (2 in h.s. and 2 in primary). ited Elizabeth Lindsey ’86 in Nashville in 2 children Danny (14) and Mary (11) are my youngest, Cole, will be in 4th grade. “We love living in this crazy country! I’m 2011.” enjoying life in Dover, N.H., making annual This year I attempted not one, but 2 half- involved with a group of women seeking to Blair Beebe Smith, her husband and 3 return trips to Bolivia where they lived for ironman triathlons.” battle sex trafficking throughout the sub children have been in Richmond since almost 4 years when the children were Amy Gould-Pilz sends greetings from continent.” 1990. “Sarah attends Denison U. and younger. Maggie is a community organizer Bonsall, Calif. (in north San Diego County) Angela Callis Ellis got her M.Ed., teaches is spending her junior year in Prague. and policy advocate for the American where she lives with daughter Maddie full time and lives in the northern neck of Peyton is a freshman at William and Friends Service Committee, a Quaker (16). She writes, “Since getting my teach- Va. She married Mike Ellis (VMI ’86) and Mary, and Harvard (15) is the last one at organization working on peace and social ing credentials in 2008, there have been has 2 children, Quinn, a third-year at VMI home. I keep up with Cameron Clark Sipe, justice. few openings, so I’ve been scrambling with this year, and Mary Katherine, in the 8th Caroline Trask Wallace, Liz Wilson Parrish Brooke von Maur Fleming lives in Duxbury, long-term substitute positions and shared grade. and Mary Via Cuoco.” Mass. and has 3 children, daughters contracts for a few years. I have found my Sydney Marthinson Coffin lives in Cameron Clark Sipe is still in Peyton (15), Quinn (13) and son Jan (11). passion in teaching! I’m looking forward to Charlotte, N.C. with Charlie and 3 kids, Charlottesville. Charles is a freshman “I now work as a gardener/landscaper. coming to the reunion with my daughter. Detlow (12), Hugh (10) and Kit (8). “I have at Hobart Coll. in N.Y. where he will play Since graduation I’ve started 2 busi- We’ll do a college seeking/trolling mission a small stationery business and keep up lacrosse. Clark (16) and Ann Carter (11) nesses, one private and one nonprofit and this summer as our annual trip.” with Dede Connors King in Spartanburg, are still home. worked several corporate jobs. I often visit Caroline Corum returned to the D.C. area S.C. and run into Mary Yorke Oates. I Verda Andrews Colvin writes from Macon, Dena Driver and her family who live in and started nursing school. Caroline sees touch base with Ellen Carver ’85. Every Ga.: “I’m assistant U.S. attorney for the Brooklyn.” Beth Stookey Sargent regularly. Caroline summer, Catty Hubbard Andry ’85 and I Middle District of Ga. serving as anti-gang Pam Miscall Cusick and I, Lee Carroll and Beth got together with Cecilia Moore spend a girls’ week at her family’s cabin coordinator and POC human trafficking. Roebuck, have both ended up in last Christmas. Cecilia still teaches at the near Mount Mitchell, N.C.” My son is a senior in h.s. and my daugh- Baltimore. Pam and Ted (VMI ’88) have 2 U. of Dayton. Anne Farrell has been busy practicing vet- ter a 4th-grader. I went to the ceremony sons, Conor (12) and Colin (10). Pam is Denton Freeman writes from Richmond, erinary medicine in Antioch, Ill., for almost honoring Teresa Pike Tomlinson as SBC special projects manager for a healthcare “I’m bringing back my handbag firm, 20 years. “Occasionally, I’ll get to some of Distinguished Alumna. I’m so proud of my consulting firm based in Norfolk. When Poesis (poesisonline.com), with a limited the Chicago SBC events.” classmate and road trip buddy.” Pam travels to Norfolk, she sees Kristen edition release of some of the bags fea- Melanie Nelson Gibbons is senior di- Kim Houtman lives in San Francisco and Kreassig Carter, husband Dave (VMI ’88) tured in Lucky and InStyle magazines. rector of marketing at CoStar Group in works at PG&E as a compensation man- and son Scott (12). Charles and I will be Connect with me on Facebook (Poesis Washington, D.C. She gets together with ager. “My domestic partner, John, and I celebrating our 20th anniversary in 2013. Handbags) to check them out!” Christina Knowles for beach time. are happily child-free. We enjoy frequent Our children, C.J. (16) and Emily (14) are Kelly Meredith Iacobelli (Marietta, Ga.), Caroline Trask Wallace writes, “I work for travel. I keep in touch with Robyn Bailey busy high schoolers. I volunteer and coach husband John and daughter Kathleen are Brownell Travel and book high end trips Orchard ’86.” field hockey. Emily plays club field hockey, attending our 25th. She went to reunions worldwide— carolinetravelstheworld.com. Sam Lewis Guergai just joined Fairfax so I travel with her to national tourna- for our sister classes in her role on the Our oldest daughter Lizzie is a senior at County Public Schools teaching Spanish at ments. Missy Ackerman and I were able alumnae board—such fun to see everyone. St. Catherine’s in Richmond, Va., and our McLean HS. to catch up at a tournament in Richmond, Kelly is a Girl Scout leader, Sunday school youngest daughter Anna is in 9th grade. I Ellen Tozzer Smith just helped oldest Va. where Missy is athletic director at St. teacher and still loves her job at Coca- keep in touch with Blair Beebe Smith, Liz daughter, Gingy, move into her dorm at Gertrude HS. Our 25th reunion was a lot of Cola. Daughter Kathleen (10) is a competi- Wilson Parrish, Amy Watkins Tankard, Agnes Scott in Ga. Mamie is a junior in h.s. fun. A special shout-out to our classmates tive gymnast. Cameron Clark Sipe, Ansley Merritt and Asa is a freshman. Ellen and Powell who attended: Beth Nelson Suhr all the Kathryn Deriso Schwartz’s daughter Kacki Conner and Carol Goodman Doty.” (W&L ’87) will celebrate their 25th anniver- way from Denmark! Julianne Burkhardt, (20) will be a senior at FSU and then is Teresa Pike Tomlinson, Junie Speight Paige Taylor Hall lives in Mount Pleasant, sary in Sept. Ellen was glad to visit Stacy heading off to medical school 2 years Meyers, Kristen Kreassig Carter, Teeki S.C., with her husband and 2 children, Lee Pae at her art studio in Calif. last early. Twins, Burgen and Webb (18), will be Taylor, Vikki Schroeder, Teresa Aagaard, Taylor (8) and Breeden (6). “We went spring. “We miss the Blue Ridge Mountains seniors in h.s. Daughter Chandler (13) will Pam Miscall Cusick and me. Look forward to Jupiter, Fla. for a year or so, but are and our college friends and would love to be in 8th grade and is in the photography to seeing more of you in 2017! pleased to be back in the Charleston hear from you: [email protected].” magnet program. “I’ve been busy playing area. Evan Wright Castelo and I met in Stacy Lee Pae reports, “Just visited SBC duplicate bridge and getting ready for D.C. this summer with our families and with my second daughter in Aug. while tournaments. I have also picked up a new had fun touring Mount Vernon and the driving through Va. to visit family. I’m living 1988 sport—stand-up paddle boarding. Alan and International Spy Museum.” in Irvine, Calif. and opened up an art stu- Maia Free Jalenak I will be celebrating our 22nd wedding an- 605 Camelia Ave. Angelyn Schmid dio, Art Smart Studio & Gallery, in Tustin niversary in Jan.” She is looking forward to writes, “I’m a stay-at- Baton Rouge, LA 70806 (artsmartsg.com). My daughter Emily (19) the reunion. home mom. My daughter (12) and son (9) [email protected] both play sports and piano. My husband is a sophomore at Fordham U., N.Y. Ashley Susan Detweiler (in Jackson Hole) and John weathered the telecom meltdown, (16) is a senior at Beckman HS. Been hap- Our class presidents Katie Keogh Weidner partner Ned guided climbers in the Tetons landing a great job he enjoys at Eaton pily married 22 years to Peter who is the and Kathryn Ingham Reese are actively this past summer. Jennifer Bach Rosen’s Corp. I’ve got a blog: angelynschmid.com.” technology editor for the LA TIMES.” planning for our big 25th reunion the son Matt (15) was in one of her tour Amy Watkins Tankard lives on a farm Sharon Staley Kelly is still caretaking for weekend of May 31-June 2, 2013. A high- groups. Suz and Ned hope to be working in the eastern shore of Va. on the her grandmother (100) as well as her light of the weekend will be a Boathouse together in Antarctica guiding scientists this fall. She and Jennifer Roach Childs

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 57 will attend Reunion. She enjoyed a visit Husband Jay and I look forward to his H-SC I have private psychology practices in brother-in-law got remarried in May in with Kim Belcher Harvey’s son AJ (20). reunion in Oct. and to my reunion in May. Omaha and Council Bluffs, Iowa—work in Rocky Mount, N.C., and my youngest sis- Liza Dalehite Brinkmann (SBC our fresh- both states. My oldest son (22) manages a ter Katharine had her first baby in Aug., man year and transferred to UT Austin) fitness center. My other 2 sons are in h.s. a girl. My husband Matthew and I have lives in Austin with husband Johannes 1989 and junior high. My husband manages a been helping his mother and stepfather and their 3 children. Their oldest, Patrick, Emmy S. Leung fitness center as well. We travel with my through health issues. We made a trip to is in college at UT Austin, and daughters 7102 Wynnewood Ct. husband’s power lifting and see family in Tybee Island with my family in June, and Monika (15) and Robin (10) are in 10th Richmond, VA 23235 Calif., Va. and Fla. then Matthew took Harry (11) to N.Y. while and 5th grades. She’s a pediatric nurse [email protected] Allison Novellino: I keep up with Sallie Joanie and I were in Texas. My oldest practitioner at a pediatric endocrinol- McIlheran Wunner who is living in Freising, Miller was away at camp. ogy clinic. Her husband is the CFO with Lisa Claypool Stevenson found our class Germany. She’ll be in Dallas at the Allene Doucette: Alastair started kinder- an Austin based semi-conductor related banner! It’s ready for our next reunion! Norwood Flynn Gallery this Nov. garten this year. company. Liza writes, “Warm greetings Raquel Hickman Thiebes and family have Elizabeth Horsley: I moved into a new Mary Price (Fairfield, Va.): I’m writing for to my old SBC third floor Reid buddies moved to the resort town of Garmisch, house this summer. Still in Richmond VMI’s newsletter, the Institute Report. My Robin Frazier, Lisa Thompson Barnes and Germany! Husband George is attending working at Williams Mullen and was husband, Tim, is a computer programmer. Stacey Meadows Apter.” the Marshall Center there. Alex is in 10th selected as a Va. “super lawyer” in trust Ginny and Elaine, fraternal twins, turned Lisa Thompson Barnes says “It’s been grade at the Munich International School, and estate litigation. I ride in my free 7 in May. Tori Hutcheson and I met at the almost a year since I married Trevon. and Matthias is completing the 8th grade time and catch up with Lisa Waldrup Virginia Horse Center for a show in March We’ve traveled to La. (Trevon’s home at the school on the U.S. Army base. Hammerschmidt at local shows. and saw Tori’s daughter Megan (10) ride in state) for his daughter Emily’s h.s. gradu- Raquel’s blog: lifelessonsmilitarywife.com. Sallie McIlheran Wunner: I joined a del- a jumper class. ation and to Key West. My law practice is Elizabeth Fokes is working on her master’s egation from Ft. Worth, Texas in April and Lorraine Haire Greer: We re-located to busy and serving as chair of trustees for in information technology with a focus on went to Guiyang, China with the Fort Worth New England. Alex is growing so fast. First Presbyterian of Vero. Stacy Meadows information security and digital forensics. Sister Cities Organization and represented I’ve been doing lots of volunteering in Apter and I keep in touch and plan to at- Ellen Duffie-Fritz, Keith and their 3 teen- Fort Worth as an artist. I had a showing in various groups including (of course) SBC tend Reunion. age daughters have relocated to the Vienna, Austria in March. 11/10/12, I’ll Riding. I’ve been traveling to obtain some Stephanie Wilt Smirnov went on a fam- Philadelphia area. Ellen leads Strategic be having a solo-exhibition at the Norwood specialized training certificates/endorse- ily vacation to the London Olympics and Consulting & Analytics Practice for the Flynn Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Website: ment. I plan to start my own educational renovated their home. Stephanie was pro- global marketing products division of GSI sallie-mcilheran.de. consulting services. I’ve been grateful for moted to CEO of DeVries Public Relations, Commerce, an eBay company. Amy Donnelly Tobik: We moved from Fla. the support of some of my close SBC and the PR agency in N.Y. at which she’s Pauline Hanson Palm and husband Chris to Fort Mill, S.C. over the summer when N.C. friends, such as Jen Kemper Wallis, worked for the past 12 years. She keeps celebrated their 20th anniversary and her Siemens transferred my husband, Steve, Beth Hensley Martin, Stephanie Berger, up with Kate Cole Hite, Tina Savage Lytle, 20th year of teaching. to the Charlotte, N.C. facility. After 8 years Melanie Duke, Karen Hott and Amber Stacey Sickels Locke and Kelly Meredith Kimberly Willock Pardiwala lives in as the main feature writer for a Fla. news- Vellenga. I hope to send a class newslet- Iacobelli on FB. Larchmont, N.Y. with husband Cyrus and paper, I now work from home as a techni- ter every quarter to keep us focused on Stacey Sickels Locke has a new job work- their son Becket (2). She keeps in touch cal writer for a financial website. Daughter giving back to SBC. Be on the lookout for ing in development for the University of with Lisa Claypool Stevenson, Sarah Katie (16) travels with her new h.s. march- the next newsletter in late Nov.—ideas/ Md. She’s enjoying life with husband Lyn West Reeves and Heather Daly Jones ’92. ing band and daughter Emily (13) keeps comments welcome. Please update your and her boys. Kimberly and other like-minded class- us busy with her intense Charlotte United personal information with the Alumnae Lee Ann Conard is a pediatrician. She mates are raising funds for the SBC music soccer schedule. Office in order to receive our quarterly moved to Cincinnati to work at Cincinnati dept.! The long-term vision is to support newsletter, etc. Much of our personal Children’s Hospital Medical Center in the the growth of the music program. If you class information is outdated. In regards Division of Adolescent Medicine. are interested, contact Kimberly at kim- 1991 to our 20th reunion scrapbook, please Denise Landau Blind visited with Julie [email protected]. Lorraine Haire Greer submit your photos and captions to me. Martin Collins when she and her family I have enjoyed catching up with many 38 Maple St., Unit 2 For those who were able to attend you will came to visit in N.J. in May. She writes, of you. Other than work, I’m continuing Derry, NH 03038 receive a small questionnaire to be added to the book of memories. Al Doucette has “We’re looking forward to Reunion next my fundraising and volunteer work for [email protected] year!” Denise’s son, Tyler, is a senior in the American Heart Association and Lab offered to head up and coordinate a mini- h.s. He hopes to be recruited to play col- Rescue of Greater Richmond. I still trail Carey Bates is an independent consultant reunion for next year. Please contact her lege baseball. Daughter Chelsea starts ride. Feel free to send news and photos. for a software company in Manhattan, directly if you are interested and she will h.s. this year. She’s on the competitive I’ll start working on the next update and creating her own LLC and running her be able to provide you will all the details gymnastics team. Denise and husband our scrapbook, too! Take care! own business. She has had a couple of of the trip. Check the FB page for updates. Fred continue their work in the family truck visits with Amber Vellenga. She enjoys Thanks to Elliot Pitt for helping it. Thanks tire business. keeping up with Karen Hott, Suzanne to our class president Karen Hott for keep- ing us focused. Heather Gregory Skeens writes from 1990 Petrie Liscouski and Kathryn Hagist Yunk Raleigh that her daughter, Mckinsey Kelly Wood Erickson on FB. Carey has plans to go to Paris this Skeens, is a senior at SBC (class of 2013), 104 S Winterberry Ct. summer. a double major in religion and creative Smithfield, VA 23430 Joan Dabney Clickner writes from 1992 writing and editor of the newspaper—The [email protected] Charlottesville that Ian (10) and Georgia Charlotte Bonini PO Box 145 Voice. Son, Taylor, is entering N.M. Military (5) are great playmates. Joan may soon Ashburn, VA 20146 Institute as a freshman this year. Kelly Wood Erickson: Started a new job in work from home as a copy editor for an a different school district as a K-5 read- Brenda Payne writes about her grand- Atlanta-based publishing firm. ing specialist. Husband Steve is finally daughter, “Kenzie Dawn Godsey was born Karen Holland Carlisle still lives in Fla. Amy Peck Driscoll stationed back in Hampton Roads. Jack 3848 Thalia Drive on 6/29/10 at 5:50 a.m. in Lynchburg, and works at Chico’s. Hayden is starting (14) starts h.s. this fall. Sophie (12) will be Virginia Beach, VA 23452 Va.” They celebrated her mother-in-law kindergarten. Keeping in touch with Elise in 7th grade. Elizabeth “Dolly” Ball Payne’s 95th birth- Scott. Bless Karen Hott, who keeps us all day in April and son, John, and grandson, Julie Brooks Nyquist: We’ll be moving to informed. Austin, came in from Calif. Chicago at the end of 2012 where my Kristen L. Walberg: Moving from D.C. to 1993 husband Stephen has taken a position Jeanne Rovics Mexic married Scott Dees R.I. and will be working for the U.S. Sailing Stacey McClain with Ernst and Young. I completed 10 1856 Christopher Point Rd. N on St. Simons Island, Ga., on 4/7/12. Association as director of membership. My years at the John S. and James L. Knight Jacksonville, FL 32217 Jeanne now has stepdaughter Madeleine daughters are entering 5th and 6th grade. Foundation. Andrew (3) looks forward to [email protected] (8). Her son Blake (14) isn’t quite sure Laura Rose Martin: Chris and I will be being near grandparents. what to do with a little sister. Jeanne loves celebrating our 22nd anniversary in ’13! Tracy Meir Mason and husband Derek Kelleigh Klym Friesen: I went to the SBC her job with Hilton WorldWide, which con- We’ve been in Dothan, Ala. for 20 years. are proud to announce the birth of Jacob riding reunion in April. We have 3 foals. tinues to take her to many international We have 3 kids: Kyle (17) is a senior and Burbank Shaw Mason on 5/22. They had Ava (4) has a pony, Tippy-Toes, and was in cities. Kristen Petersen Randolph was at is hoping to attend VMI; Nathan (15) is a a great visit from Carolyn Imperato and her first lead-line. Pediatrics is super and Jeanne’s recent wedding. sophomore; Elizabeth (12) is in 7th grade. her family this summer. we have a new colleague to assist with I (Maia Free Jalenak) had the pleasure Our family keeps busy with Boy Scouts, clinical coverage and teaching. I hope to Our 20th reunion is set for May 31-June 2, of seeing Jeanne and meeting her new swim team, SCUBA diving, dock dog diving be out in Va. next spring. 2013. Save the date and be on the look- husband this summer when his family in and our 3 Morgan horses. out for more information—check our FB Brandy Beck: After 16 years in Los Ocean Springs, Miss. had a party celebrat- Mamie Farley: My youngest Joanie (8) and page regularly for updates! facebook.com/ Angeles, Dasha (7) and I moved to N.Y.C. ing the recent wedding. My son is a sopho- I went to Austin to visit Christine and her groups/sbc1993/ more at LSU and daughter is in 8th grade. Rosanna Jones Thruman (Papillion, Neb.): family. We’ve had lots of family events—my

58 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Tara Moran Weyer: Celebrating 15 years breast imaging fellowship at MCV in 6/11. In Aug., Gina Miller Brown and family 1994 working for Discovery Channel and living in Since then, she has been with Radiology moved to Pittsford, N.Y., just outside of Mary-Linda “Molly” Md. with my husband of 10 years and Julia Associates of Richmond, where she works Rochester. Gina’s husband has been work- Morris Flasche (5) and Evan (3). at the HCA Breast Centers. ing there for 1½ years so they’re thrilled to 152 N Remington Rd. Catharine King Laufer: We moved to After 12 years of locking up drug dealers be together again! Mason (5) just began Columbus, OH 43209 Aiken, S.C. in June for Jordan’s new job. I while in the narcotics unit of the Richmond Kindergarten and Garett (3) in now in [email protected] started teaching at a private school and City Police Dept., Amanda Acuff is now nursery school. Plus, Baby Brown #3 will Jackson attends the 3K program there on the Mounted Squad. Yes, she rides a arrive late Feb.! as well. horse around the city conducting PR and Stephanie Pappanikou Foley is expecting 1995 Sarah Dennis Roberts (Oklahoma City): enforcing law! She’s planning her Oct. a baby girl this winter! Good thing that Beverley Stone Dale Jackson (9) and Owen (3) are happy wedding to Scott, a Va. State Trooper. Steph and her husband recently moved 2006 Ashcrest Ct. attending Crossings Christian School. “Whoomp” and Scott have been living to- into a 4-bedroom home in Raleigh, N.C. Richmond, VA 23238 Jackson enjoys playing whatever sport is gether in Chesterfield for close to 3 years What they thought would be a guest room [email protected] in season, and Owen is trying gymnastics. with their 3 dogs. will come in handy as a nursery for a baby Sarah is working at Inasmuch Foundation Cassie Thomas Campbell and Katrina sister for Parker (4) and Conner (1). Leigh and Hayden is working at Western Heights Balding Bills ride as often as they can. Wilson gets to play Auntie and visit the 1996 Public Schools. Over the summer, we took Cassie works at Peaks View Animal Foleys on occasion! Sarah Reidy Ferguson a great trip back to Tenn. for the 4th of Hospital and lives in Lynchburg, Va., with Alison Hall also enjoys the role of aunt 1915 Edinburgh Ter. NE July and we look forward to a trip to N.Y.C. her daughter Lexi, boyfriend Tim and Tim’s for her 2 nephews, Trevor and Preston. Atlanta, GA 30307 this fall. son Timothy. Together, they’ve been travel- Dothan lives in Auburn, Ala., serving as the [email protected] Heather Baskett: My partner Layla and ing to places like Bonaire and Fla. Cassie city’s community and special programs I purchased a townhouse in March and is becoming an amazing photographer, director. She’s also been named county Mrs. Kelly Collins Lear have been enjoying northern Va. I’m too! chair for the United Way of Lee County 24 Prescott Dr. a biologist in the Dept. of Nutrition at Katrina Bills and hubby Kevin are build- fund drive! Dothan did take time to travel Hudson, OH 44236 Smithsonian National Zoo. I keep in con- ing 2 businesses. Her Mary Kay business back to SBC and have a blast at Reunion, [email protected] tact with Penelope Spain and Melanie continues to grow, and Kevin is now, in which she followed up by traveling to vari- Vracas. addition to his job at Sprint, a full-fledged ous civil war sites with Jess Hiveley. Abby Phillips Hinga: Still in Denver and Amy Daugherty Michel: Sam and I are BrewMaster for and co-owner of Corcoran Way up in New England, Christina Benson having fun with Laura Powell Gatling and expecting baby #3 around 10/5, a girl! Brewing Company in Waterford, Va. Keara Stanton works part time and lives in her 3 kids! We also went back to D.C. Xander (5) is in Kindergarten. Owen is 3. (3) started preschool and Kenny (9) is in Stamford, Conn., with her husband, 2 to visit friends, including Easter at the Paige Vaught Campion will visit later in 3rd grade. Katrina writes that all sister boys, a cat and a dog. Durhams’ with Jesse Durham Strauss, the fall. Vixens are welcome in Corcoran Brewery’s Katherine Seder Karon and Ticia Harbour Bridget Bayliss Curren and Rachel Baltus Jen Beck Locke: Hunter is the general tasting room. Kerri Rawlings Burtner was Berg caught up in Aug. while Ticia was in Price. We’re also very excited to be expect- manager for RockTenn Corporation in the first one to give it a try! Boston, where Katy lives with her husband ing baby #2 this fall. the Jacksonville and Gainesville areas. Kathryn Black Watson still calls Jackson, and 2 boys, Stephen (2) and Max (5 mos.). Annie Pankoski Sherman: Enjoying sum- We just moved (move #8). Marte (9) is in Miss., home. She and Allen celebrated Katy previously worked for a hedge fund, mer in Larkspur, Calif. Found time to visit 4th grade and is playing soccer and golf. their 15th wedding anniversary! She but is now staying at home. Ticia and her Janeen Sharma in Boulder, Colo. Annie Thomas (6) is in K. Trae (4) is in Pre-K is teaching again. Caroline is in 8th husband live in Vienna, Va., with their 3 and husband Peter have 2 children, Max and playing sports. I volunteer at the grade, Elizabeth in 5th and Robert in kids, 2 of whom are in French Immersion (6) and Elsa (3). Annie is a busy stay-at- school, as well as several local autism and Kindergarten. school. home mom as she shuttles Max to various Asperger’s support groups. I’m the proud Jill Gavitt is in her second year teaching Northern Va. is also home to Becky Moats therapies; Max was diagnosed with autism aunt of Chris and Susan’s first child, Ann h.s. Spanish in Staunton, Va., where she Miller and Kerry Coleman-Proksch. Becky in 2009. Mason “Macey” Chastain Beck. lives with her hubby and 2 dogs. Besides and husband Chip, along with Michael (4), Mary Copeland Dellinger: Just got en- Kelly Collins Lear (Hudson, Ohio): Evelyn seeing the crew at Reunion, she’s been live in Warrenton, Va. They enjoy working gaged! We’re living in Pala, Calif., and is in first grade, Teddy is in K. I’ve been keeping in touch with Kathy Johnston in their real estate business, as well as on planning the wedding for 2013. volunteering in school and am home with and Jill Butcher. She also saw Alicia their farm raising Angus beef. Becky sees Jennifer Smith: I’m going into my sec- Penelope (2). Aaron is practicing sports King briefly this summer as Alicia and Julie Nelson ’96 and her growing family ond year as a h.s. administrator in medicine at Akron General Hospital. friends embarked on a week of hiking regularly. In addition to attending our class Charlottesville City Schools. In Dec., I vis- Amelia Dudman Atwill: Thank you to my the Appalachian Trail. Alicia and 5 of her reunion in May, Becky had a mini-reunion ited Andie Thomas-Young ’95 and husband fellow Vixens for your love, prayers and friends completed their 50-mile hike, and with Vaiana Teriitehau Williams and Terance in N.C. as they were preparing for support during Pierce’s surgeries last fall. she’s now safely back in Atlanta, Ga., do- Tasha Swales Newill. Kerry still lives in the arrival of their son Christopher, born in Pierce is doing very well, has grown about ing SEO for WebMD and walking down the Woodbridge, Va., with husband Steven and Jan. I’m in constant communication with 2.5 inches and thriving. We aren’t out of aisle in Nov! their 2 sons, Jack (6) and Patrick (3), and Yolanda Davis Saunders as we prepare for the woods (all clear will be when she is 17- Alicia Allen is stationed in Mauritania with works part time as an adjunct professor our 20th h.s. reunion! 18), but we have jumped a hurdle. (Pierce the Army. She writes that she truly sees at NOVA-Woodbridge. Kerry visited Tanya Jesse Durham Strauss: I enjoyed a pool has a condition called craniosynostosis.) the resilience of the human spirit in her Ketchum Young and her daughter Talley party birthday on 8/1 with several class- On 4/14/12, Charles Bailey Atwill III ar- work there, and I promised to send out while she was in Tenn. in July, and took the mates: Laura Lechler; Rachel Baltus rived! Janna McLarty Chandler and her a loud Holla Holla to her favorite Vixen, boys on their annual visit to see Amy Cook Price and her daughter Winona (1); kiddos passed through Richmond on their Christy Jordan, who is halfway through her Rexrode and her family in Petersburg, Sarah Chaffee Paris, husband Jon and way to a family event. Looking forward to graduate program at Notre Dame. W.Va. children Bella (9), Stevie (5) and Charlie our next reunion. Lisa DuCharme Elwell and Tristan are en- Cape Healey Boyd lives in Charlotte, N.C., (2); Lee Foley Dolan and children Henry joying life in London with their 2 boys Evan with husband Brian, twins, Aiden and (10), Mattie (7) and Fred (4); and Bridget (3) and Edward (1). She works part time at Katherine (6), and Brendan (3). Cape is a Bayliss Curren, husband Rich and daugh- 1997 Fidelity International and enjoys belonging stay-at-home mom. Aiden loves baseball ter Aoife (1). My children Anna (5), Audrey to the American Women’s Group. and basketball, while Katherine loves (4) and Ari (2) loved getting to play with Amy Leigh Campbell PO Box 134 Rachelle Colquitt Rose and husband soccer and her Daisy Troop. They also their Sweet Briar pals! Sweet Briar, Virginia 24595 Lenny lived in England for 2 years after swim and are already prepping for their Sarah Reidy Ferguson: I sell hand-selected [email protected] they were married in 2009. Rachelle is VP First Communion to take place during 2nd vintage decor and one-of-a-kind finds of Colquitt Company, a land development grade. Brendan attends preschool. through One Kings Lane. My blog, Duchess If you haven’t yet visited and fallen in love company in Chaparral, N.M. and VP of Tamber Marea Hannah graduated from Fare: duchessfare.com. with MacaroyKangaroo.com, you should! Lake Section Water Company in the same nursing school and lives in Miles City, Robin Bettger Fishburne: Joseph “Parker” The cute shop for mamas and kiddos is city. Rachelle and Lenny moved to San Mont., with her fiancé, Doug Dalton. They was born on 7/7/12. Gibbs (7) is in 2nd run by our very own Kristen McCowan Antonio, Texas. That means she can hang enjoy horseback riding, camping, fishing, grade. Sarah Betz Bucciero ’97 is Parker DeLargy! Kristen and her husband are liv- out with Lucretia Bock, our new class hunting, their chickens, cats, dogs, turkeys and Gibbs’ godmother. We see them more ing in Leesburg, Va., with kids Daniel (8), president! Lucretia lives in her hometown and tending to their large garden. often now that they moved to Greenwood, Davis (6) and Sullivan (3). This past spring, of New Braunfels, Texas, in a very cool After moving all over for med school and S.C. Sarah’ son Carter (3) lost his battle Kristen and kids took a beach vacation 1850s cottage retro-fitted with running wa- residency, Jennifer Swisher Lynes lives with cancer on 8/13/12. Carter and with Nicole Kelleher Linkonis and Holly ter and electricity. In addition to hanging in her hometown of Tallahassee, Fla., big brother Mason (4) are our blessed James Trent. Nicole and her husband, out with Rachelle, who is only 50 minutes with her husband, Richard and daughters godsons. Thank you to everyone who Rich, make their home in Richmond, Va., away, Lucretia recently caught up with Morgan (4) and Madison (18 mos.). She has contacted me from SBC and all your with their 3 children Gabi (5), Valentina CeCe Valentine ’95. commutes to a small ER in Cairo, Ga., and messages. I’ve been in real estate for 11 (3) and Porter (14 mos.). Nicole com- loves the job, which she’s been doing for years. pleted her radiology residency and then a

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 59 the past 3 years. Being a doctor came in Let’s all join together to support Alison (William HSC ’04) 30th birthday. Cady Angela Walton Carpita, husband Chris and handy, to put it mildly, when her dad had Hall as she walks in honor of Carter hopes as many of you as possible with son Tommy (2) welcomed baby Morgan a cardiac arrest while driving just outside Bucciero, as well as her nephew Preston, participate in Reunion. Christopher Hughes Carpita with open her home. Jen’s training and quick action in the St. Jude 5K in Dec. in Memphis. She Heather Smith is relocating to arms and hearts on 3/26/12. Angela con- saved his life! She writes that he is almost welcomes all classmates to join her! If you Birmingham, Ala., this fall for her job. She tinues to be in touch with Kibby Ferguson, back to normal, and is even playing base- can’t walk, you can still give—donate to her still works as a dietetic technician in en- Astrid Liverman and Mary Lea Harris. ball again. walk page at heroes.stjude.org/alisonhall! teral nutrition. Constantly she remembers Jessica Tinfo As for me, Amy Leigh Campbell, 2012 Stay in touch on our class Facebook page Chantel Bartlett is 5 months into her new with deep fondness, pure laughter and marks my 10th year as an entrepreneur! and send your updates to me at amycamp- job. She’s looking forward to Reunion. now loves her from a greater distance. Pink Collar (pinkcollarink.com) has grown [email protected]! Babies born: Jacqueline “Jake” Weiner Sarah Dorminey is working at Earth Fare to include e-learning and training, and Flaherty announced the arrival of Jack and coaching JV field hockey at Charlotte the web programming/mobile apps piece Liam Flaherty born on 7/5/12. Tonya Country Day School. She is also designing of our business has grown large enough 1998 Grudier Montgomery welcomed baby landscapes on the side. to be self-supporting. The new entity is Chantel Nicole Bartlett girl Ryan Marie in July. Jenny Hogan Kelly Turney Gatzke and family are still branded HTMelle (thehtmelle.com), and 7775 Tiverton Dr. Kohen and husband David welcomed a stationed at West Point (Ben is teaching will be my day-to-day focus beginning Springfield, VA 22152-2021 son, Alden Burke, on 6/14/12. He joins math). Amelia and Cameron are getting Nov. 1! [email protected] big sister Adella (2). This Sept., Cynthia big. The Gatzkes will be on to new adven- 2012 has been a roller-coaster year for Bumgardner Puckett welcomed her 4th tures in summer 2013 to wherever the so many 97ers, but none more so than Cynthia Bumgardner child, a 2nd son! In addition to home- Army sends them! She also had a mini- immediate past class president Sarah Puckett schooling, she’s co-chairing our Reunion reunion in D.C. this spring with Julie Harju Betz Bucciero. In 8/11, Sarah gathered 7123 High St. Committee. She looks forward to recon- Miskinis, Kelli Rogowski, Erin Vlasaty and 10 of our amazing classmates to focus Floyds Knobs, IN 47119-9538 necting with fellow classmates! Alicia Marisha Bourgeois! on Reunion Giving, and thanks to her [email protected] Foster Wilbun announced the birth of their Becky Hamby has been working as an leadership and all of your generous con- 3rd daughter, Roslyn Victoria (Dec. ’11). executive assistant at Chesapeake Energy tributions, the Class of 1997 broke not Our 15th reunion is about 9 months away! Krista Wigginton Gravatt ’99 came for a in Oklahoma City. Just celebrated her 5th one, but 2 giving records! Reunion was You’ll be hearing from a fellow classmate visit in April. Estelle (2nd daughter) had to year with the company. She’s training for a wonder-full, joy-full, and tear-full event, very soon with Reunion updates and have her adenoids removed. Alicia’s dad her first triathlon. She looks forward to highlighted by our class’ generosity in giv- fundraising. was in the hospital for a while with blood traveling to the UK this fall! ing to SBC, but also in another special way. Valerie Walston still lives in Santa clots in both lungs and legs, but he has re- Lindsey Neef Kelly and Sean are proud to Lucretia Bock organized and pulled off a Barbara, Calif. She works from home covered. Alicia is trying to keep her sanity, be sending their oldest, Catherine (5), to Not-So-Silent Auction, assisted by many of writing freelance. This allows her to work being a mom of 3 little girls! Kindergarten this fall. Rachel (4), Alice (3), our classmates and fellow alumnae, which as an EMT for the Santa Barbara County Expecting babies: Courtney Morgan and Joe (1) are still at daycare/preschool. raised over $10,000 for Sarah’s son, Search and Rescue. Harris is expecting baby #2, a boy, in Dec. Lindsey’s taken up running, sewing, home- Carter, who was diagnosed with a brain Another Calif. girl, Candice Broughton Courtney also told me that Emily Meger brewing, thrift store shopping, fantasy tumor in 10/11. Carter and his big brother Maillard’s husband Richard became an will be getting married in Oct. to Ohad football and making homemade spices. Mason (5) were a huge hit at Reunion, American citizen on 8/24. Braha. In her free time (otherwise known as 9-5 entertaining everyone and enjoying the Rush Harris’ Kattie Anne just celebrated job), she continues her crusade to keep festivities with Sarah and their dad, Paul. her first birthday. Her town of Mooresville, the banks and mortgage servicers afloat. Despite treatment at St. Jude, and an Ala. (only 53 residents) will be featured in 1999 Deborah Lanham finally joined Facebook army of prayer warriors pulling for him, the Dec. Southern Lady Magazine. Ms. Lindsey Neef Kelly and has been having a great time recon- Carter earned his angel wings on 8/13 Bobbie Hedrick Atristain was recruited by 15012 Ashby Way E necting with so many great SBC friends! and was buried in Cincinnati, Ohio, on IBM, so now works near Atlanta. She flies Carrollton, VA 23314 She and the kids still live in Sneads Ferry, 8/20. Stacy McKimm Stevens, who lives down on Mondays and returns home on [email protected] N.C. on the coast. in Memphis, Tenn., with husband Rich and Thurs. for the weekends. She’s in charge Heather McLeod and TJ Griffin are still in Devon Vasconcellos Bijansky 2 girls, Mattie (5) and Lily (1), made sev- of the web infrastructure for online sites left a bad Austin and have children who are 3 and 5. eral trips to visit Sarah while Carter was re- of Macy’s and Bloomingdales. She’ll job situation earlier this year and has Heather recently took up freelancing with ceiving treatment at St. Jude’s Children’s celebrate her 10th wedding anniversary been enjoying exploring opportunities in Simon & Schuster again after taking sev- Hospital in Memphis. Stacy also attended in Nov. sustainability-related fields and especially eral years off to parent full time. Carter’s funeral in Ohio and carried to loved reconnecting with Lindsay Watrous In Aug., Anne-Claire Wackenhut Kasten Emily Sartor Patterson and husband Sarah all our love and sympathy. Over 30 during a trip to Phoenix. started her 5th year of teaching at the Brad are celebrating having both kids in alumnae from our class and sister classes Rachel Bratlie Friends School of Atlanta. She and Scott and husband Chris Taylor preschool this year: Claire (3) and Tyler traveled to Concord, N.C., after Carter’s took Jacques (b. 04/30/11) on his first welcomed their first child, Zachary Ryan (2)! Emily continues to work part time at passing to support our dear Sarah, and at- trip to France, where he thoroughly en- Taylor, on 10/14/11. They still live in Duke Medical Center providing marriage tend Carter’s memorial service. joyed the experience. Anne-Claire and Oakland, Calif. and family therapy for those affected by Sarah and her family have established Jacques have also connected several Amy Brown got together with Megan cancer. Sweet Briar’s Carter Bucciero Memorial times with fellow Atlanta-area alumnae: Leypoldt in Atlanta. Tina Hansel Snover and family now live in Scholarship, which will ease the financial Tanya Ketchum Young ’97 and Lisa Tedder Christy Carl Allison is in Leesburg with Grand Junction, Colo. She is still maintain- burden of a student that has survived a Baker ’97. Anne-Claire’s sister Sophie husband James and Laurel (3). When ing her résumé business and is also the bout with cancer or has been impacted Wackenhut Szymanski ’02 has also re- she’s not working for conscious-awareness graduate coordinator at Colo. Mesa U. by a sibling or parent with cancer. Please turned to town with her children this past expert Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, she’s in the Center of Teacher Education. Her visit CarterBucciero.com or contact SBC’s year, and her parents now live there per- singing and assisting worship at Unity of oldest, Brenae (6), started Kindergarten. development office for more information manently as well. Loudoun County. Lizzie is 3. Tina has also started playing and ways to give! Diana Jordan Avery is part-time job sales This past spring, Marisha Bourgeois trav- soccer again and put together a whole Cancer has touched so many lives in our associate at Soma Intimates in Richmond. eled to Austin, where she visited Catherine team of moms. Their team name is the Sweet Briar family, and we’re not taking it Daughter Meredith started 2nd grade. Zahrn ’98 and Shannon Zahrn and met “Mom Squad.” lying down! In Sept. 2011, Ticia Harbour She keeps asking when she gets to go to their magnificent baby, whom she calls Tiffany Tyler just got married to Jesse Berg completed a century ride (100-mile college and can’t wait to get to SBC! Son “Koala,” along with Heather McLeod Rodriguez, a wine director for a resort, and bike ride) and raised $6700 for breast Aaron started 3-day preschool in Sept. and Devon Bijansky. In Dallas, she saw lives in San Diego; Tasha White Gamboa cancer research in honor of her little Kelly Bowman Greenwood caught up Jennifer Crutcher. Nessim Yafi, Julie Harju was in attendance. The reception was in sister, who is a survivor after a double with Sophie Simonard ’97 on her recent and Kelly Gatzke visited her in D.C. She Palm Springs. mastectomy and chemo in 2011. Rachelle trip to Calif. They had a blast with Helen moved cross-country and met up with Erin Vlasaty Colquitt Rose was diagnosed with thyroid is unexpectedly enjoying being Greenwood (class of ’28, if a double major Jill Meadows in W.Va., Erin Vlasaty in St. cancer our senior year at SBC and it took a grantwriter in St. Louis. She and hus- in drumming and paleontology is offered) Louis, and Becky Hamby in Oklahoma City. her 8 years, but she beat it, and now she band, JP Cooper, are expecting their first at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Now she is a speech language pathologist son and first child in Nov. helps other women who have the disease at a rehabilitation hospital in Ariz. and the and runs marathons to raise money! Page Darney is now Deputy Attorney General in the Civil Litigation Section for southwest correspondent for Cool Like Pie. Cancer took the life of my nephew Thomas Kristine Brown had a baby boy, Tyler (2) in May, as well as my aunt Becky this the Pa. Office of Attorney General. She is in 2000 love with her new white German Shepherd Alexander Brown, on 1/16/12. Kristine past July, and Liz Drendall Zinckgraf is continues to work at Connecticut Marilen Jordas Sarian also praying for a cure after losing both puppy, Samson! 212 Rock Creek Ct. Cady Thomas visited with Serena Renaissance and has been there for al- Yorktown, VA 23693 her mother and grandmother to breast most 6 years. cancer. Putegnat and sister Tara ’00 this sum- [email protected] mer in Texas to celebrate their brother’s

60 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Ambergis Caye in Belize. She got married dental hygienist for a progressive dental Maria Thacker Goethe, Sonya Truman, 2001 in 2009 and has a girl (2) and a baby boy. practice in Virginia Beach. Kelly Monical Goossens and myself dur- Julia Varner Kientz Olive and her husband have a cleaning Katherine Morse is taking college courses ing a girls’ trip to Oak Island, N.C. Ashley Ambersley service and a restaurant. Olive says she toward a degree in nursing. Her M. K. Johnson McGee ’03 hosted us all at her 912 N Glenwood Trl. “has been very lucky to meet up with SBC Wellington Art, LLC business has grown, family’s beach house. I am still working Southern Pines, NC 28387 family here in Belize, such as Natasha and starting this fall a new location will in my family’s lighting showroom and am [email protected] Stevens ’01, Professors Leigh and Susan be added. Plus she’s expanded into currently training for my third marathon Piepho and family of Lori Kovatch Long.” doing outdoor portraits. Katherine has in Nov. Julia Kientz Ambersley was so excited to Erin Packard Harrison and Phill just cel- completed her second show by doing the see Ashley Moring Voss, Angela Browning ebrated 11 years of marriage. They also Shrimp & Grits Festival on Jekyll with the Montgomery, Leigh Harpel, Emily Keating welcomed their 2nd son Zayne in July. help of Sarah Peterson ’03 this Sept.! 2003 Haag and son Nicholas and Dawn Martin Catherine Peek and Ariana Wolynec- Katherine has now been with Jekyll Island Courtney Arnott Silverthorn and daughter Katie when they all came to Werner are writing these class notes Club Hotel for over 6 years and has met a 152 Clubhouse Dr. SW, Apt 203 visit for Gus’s 6th birthday party in Sept. jointly over weekly Sunday night dinner. few SBC graduates that have stayed. She’s Leesburg, VA 20175 Julia is Nicholas Haag’s godmother, and Catherine just moved to North Bethesda, been able to see Nathalie Benton not [email protected] she was able to go to Philadelphia to visit Md., to continue her architectural cre- only in D.C., but also in Hilton Head this him in April and again for his christening ativity and legacy in the national capital summer, and Rachel Roth ’02 and Sarah Courtney Yerdon Gleason and husband in May. She’s busy teaching 5th grade at region. Her husband and twins enjoy their Peterson ’03 for lunch in D.C. David welcomed Rosemary Ruth Gleason Vass-Lakeview Elementary and serving as new home. Thank you to everyone for Nia Fonow Ravenstahl had a busy on 7/5. Lindsay Kinyon Ashton threw the grade level chair. Ashley Moring Voss your votes in favor of Catherine’s submis- year. She assumed department leader- her a shower in Richmond Va., which and her husband, Jason, are expecting sion, “Field of Stars,” to the Washington ship for special education at Cherry Danielle Ross Oberg, Jane Mckenzie Davis their first baby at the end of Oct. Angela, Monument Ideas Competition. She’s Run Elementary school in the ’11-’12 and Lara Hansen attended. Sara Shank Leigh and Julia all attended Ashley’s served on several expert panels and school year. This past summer Nia and Sims and husband Tim had a baby girl, baby shower in Sept. Angela Browning taught underserved students how to ex- her daughter Cassidy spent 6 weeks in Adelaide Temperance Sims, on 7/26. Montgomery is busy working towards press their budding architectural prowess Beijing visiting family and consulting for Shirley Pinson Hendricks and her husband her real estate license. She and her hus- to redesign the 11th Street Recreation an English summer camp. When they got welcomed their first child, John Rallson band, Joey, are closing on a new house Bridge over the Ancostia River. Catherine home the family was in one place for a Hendricks, on 12/23/11. Shirley is look- in Fairhope, Ala. Emily Keating Haag and and her work have been featured by few weeks and then Maris, Nia’s oldest ing forward to seeing everyone at Reunion Nick have been very busy with Nicholas National Public Radio and highlighted in stepson, left for his freshman year at VCU. next year! (6 mos.) Metropolis Magazine (a solicited author- Seth (15) is the starting freshman quarter Megan Gaillerdet Steiner is expecting her Both Natasha Nickodem Stevens and ship for their blog, “Point of View”), the back and Cassidy (3) started preschool. first child around 12/25—she says “it’s a her husband got promotions this sum- Washington Post and other renowned Nia’s husband Matt continues to work on girl!” She’s still working for a national in- mer! Natasha is an associate director periodicals. Follow Catherine on Twitter his doctorate at Durham U. in northern surance company in downtown Charlotte, for Individual Giving at the Art Institute @cpeek. Ariana is training for her 7th England, which means Nia gets to enjoy N.C. while her husband owns an executive of Chicago and her husband Matt is now long-distance endurance event and looks her annual catch up with Jessica McClosky recruiting firm also in Charlotte. a VP for Insurance at Mesirow Financial. forward to the 5-mile Austin Turkey Trot on over Thanksgiving this year. Tiffany Williamson Norwood received a Natasha and Matt are godparents of Thanksgiving Day. At this writing, Ariana is promotion to senior analyst at BrownGreer Stephanie Sherrard’s son Cullen Hawkins. actively pursuing unsuspecting victims on PLC. She made time to visit Angela Grisby Natasha traveled with Christine Rangel eHarmony and Catholic Match. 2002 Roberts and Megan Gaillardet Steiner. to Baltimore for Misa Sarmento’s (’02) Lori Kovatch Long and her husband are Lori Smith Nilan Angela and husband Gregory joined wedding to Rob Francis on 9/8/12. Sarah enjoying their new bundle of joy, Caelee 14600 Windjammer Dr. Tiffany and her husband for a vacation in Bellanger Levison also returned to the Brooklyn Long who was born 4/3/12. Midlothian, VA 23112 Jamaica in 4/12. They missed Megan on east coast in Sept. for Misa’s wedding They are still living in Massanutten, Va. [email protected] the trip, but recently visited her outside of and enjoyed a great reunion with Casey She is enjoying the challenges of her job Charlotte. Their next mini-reunion was in Perlow Davidson ’02, Whitney Bryant ’02, at Merck. Margaret Brooks Buck 10/12 for Megan’s baby shower. Allison Funkhauser ’02, Donyele Gibson Erin Alberda has had a busy couple of 4436 Yoruk Forest Ln Tica Stoevhase Fetiveau is now leading a Sarah Belanger Levinson Wilkerson ’02, months juggling her acupuncture prac- Charlotte, NC 28211 team of women responsible for customer and Victoria Zak Rosenthal ’00. Sarah tice and campaigning for the London [email protected] success. She adopted a cat, “Chaussette.” enjoys living in St Louis. She has started Paralympics. Erin did not make the team Laurel Speilman Rodgers recently moved to volunteer with the local chapter of Girls this time, but she is grateful for all the We had a great turnout at Reunion this to Winchester, Va., and is starting a posi- Christine Rangel on the Run. was happy support of her Sweet Briar sisters, and past May! For those of you unable to at- tion as assistant professor of biology at to attend the wedding of Kim Martin ’02 Rio is just 4 years away! Erin still lives in tend, please plan to come to our 15th! Shenandoah U. at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palm Beach, Woodinville, Wash., with her longtime boy- Aja Grosvenor Stephens still lives in the Megan Fla., in June. She also got to see friend Brian. Detroit metro area. She’s expecting her Beley-Withrow and her husband Brett Erin Bronson Phillips still lives in Charlotte, first, a boy, in Oct. She recently saw Amy 2004 and meet their new baby, Avery. Christine N.C., with husband Josh and daughter, Mullen, Tia Trout Perez, Ashley Trantham, Virginia Wood Susi was lucky enough to catch some of the Libby (3), who is in preschool. In April their Alicia Watson, Jee Park Pae and Katie 7975 Dunstable Cir. London Olympics excitement during a family moved to a house right down the McNamara in Washington, D.C. Orlando, FL 32817 trip to Scotland this summer, with sisters road. Meg Bronson Braddy lives down Liz Waring McCracken and her family have [email protected] Victoria ’04 and Jane ’06. She was also the road from Erin with her husband and been settled in Boone, N.C. Chris is busy [email protected] happy to see Natasha Nickodem-Stevens their 2 children, Colston (3) and Laine (15 with his family medical practice, and she’s in Chicago. Our facebook page: Sweet Briar c/o 2004 mos.). Meg and Erin plan to have lunch busy raising Isadora (3). They’re expecting Sarah Houston Kenning announced that with Meg Eubanks soon. their 2nd daughter, Athena Lee, in early Ginny Wood Susi and her husband Phil Lauren Elizabeth Kenning was born 7/24. welcomed Evelyn Sheffield on 2/28/12. Alden Rivers Potts had a baby boy, Brooks Sept. Liz writes it was great seeing old Sarah stays home with Lauren. Her son On 8/4/12, Ginny hosted Sarah Ruff, Pinckney Potts, on 9/13/11. friends at Reunion. Jackson is in preschool. Diana Marshall, Denva Jackson ’05, Jana Putnam Sayler and husband Erik Corinne Weiland Zeruto and husband Meghan Frier Stawasz and husband Michelle Badger ’06, Alex Grobman ’12, welcomed their 2nd child, Kirk Putnam welcomed a little girl, Cynthia Grace, on Nick welcomed Katherine Elizabeth on Lindsay Profenno ’15, Kait Goodwin ’15 Eiriksson Sayler, on 9/4/12. 3/5/12. 5/15/12. and incoming first-year Madi Cromwell at In May, Tamara Trout completed an M.S. in Alicia McCartney’s boyfriend was trans- Erin Wiley still works as a speech patholo- her summer house for the Maine Back-to- biomedical sciences with an emphasis in ferred back from Paris in 10/11. They gist in Seattle. She and her husband have School Barbecue. medical sciences from Marshall U. She’s spent their last weekend in Europe visiting been traveling a lot this year due to his job Sarah Ruff purchased 19 acres in now working as a lab technician and medi- Nice, Cannes, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat and with the Seattle Sounders soccer team; Waterville, Maine, and is currently hav- cal scribe and applying to medical school. Saint-Paul-de-Vence. They are settled in they were fortunate to go to London in ing it cleared for building. She got to Her daughter Elyse (10) will be playing D.C. Alicia returned to Freddie Mac in June Feb. and Sydney, Australia in June. Their see Michelle Badger ’06 when Michelle Flounder in a local production of the Little and works as a project management ana- daughter Holiday just started preschool stopped in on her way back from Canada Mermaid, Jr. Her twins, Layth and Nadia, lyst in the Multifamily Division. They visited and will turn 3 in Nov. Over Labor Day Erin with her parents. Denva Jackson ’05 also are 4 and in Pre-K. She divorced in 2010 Istanbul during Thanksgiving 2011 and met up with Elizabeth Puckett Haworth, came to spend a couple days with Sarah and is now in a committed relationship London, Scotland and Geneva for a week Sarah Riggs Stapleton, Marian Spivey before heading to the SBC Maine Back- with a third-year medical student. after Labor Day 2012. Estrada and Rachel Souder Arguedas in Brook Buck and her husband Trey are sell- to-School event that was hosted by Ginny Sedona, Ariz. for their annual get-together. Elizabeth Finch Wright graduated with a Wood Susi. B.S. in dental hygiene from Old Dominion ing their townhome and are excited about Olive Eiley lives in her hometown island of Stephanie O’Sullivan Fitzpatrick loves U. in May and is working as a registered moving into a house with a backyard for their lab, Beaufort. Brook recently saw living in Falls Church, Va., and working in

sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine 61 Washington, D.C., at FBI Headquarters. and graduate with a Ph.D. in Spanish Erin Mays started graduate school at In June, Cara Cherry moved to St. Paul, Along with husband Brendan and son next spring. She and her husband enjoy Purdue U. (an online program, so she’ll Minn., to start her residency in Veterinary Bailey, she welcomed Chloe Amelia on biking and running together. She caught be staying in northern Va.). She hopes to Public Health and Preventative Medicine 7/2/11. She planned to attend Shannon up with Sarah Ruff while biking the Trek complete a M.S. in education in spring at the U. of Minn. She is working on her Smith’s wedding in 11/12 and Lisa Across Maine this past June. She has also 2014. Erin was elected president of the master’s in public health along with her Moore’s wedding in 9/12. loved singing with her church choir, with Braddock Dogs Assoc. in June, which is residency duties and will be in the Twin Cat Scheer Rymer gave birth to Samuel whom she had the opportunity to travel to working to build new dog parks in Fairfax Cities for the next 2 years. Thompson on 3/13/12. England and sing in Westminster Abbey, County. She said they’re now collect- Julie Drake is in San Jose enjoying start- Briana Beckham Pitt and husband John St. George’s Chapel at Windsor, and ing pledges of support for the first dog ing her 4th year teaching 2nd grade at have just moved to Knoxville, Tenn., to Gloucester Cathedral in 8/11. park, which will be located in Burke, Va.! Challenger School. begin his medical residency, specializing Megan Owens Thompson and husband Otherwise, she went to Kings Dominion Melissa Massy graduated from Colo. State in family medicine. Briana takes care of Mike welcomed their first son, Aidan with Liz Churchill Beazley and her hus- U. with a master’s in social work in May. Beckham (16 mos.) and works part time Michael, on Mother’s Day. Two weeks band in June, and she sees Diane Lotz She took advantage of time off and visited as an online contract editor for American before Aidan’s arrival, they moved from Warren when she joins her role-playing family and friends in the Fla. Keys, Santa Education Corporation in Oklahoma City, Charlotte to Concord, N.C., to where group on the internet. Barbara, Atlanta and Charlotte, as well as Ok. Megan works. Megan just returned to work Heather Wright is still working with the a few relaxing weeks in Trinidad. Melissa Brienna McLaughlin Pruce and her hus- at Cannon School, where she is the middle Dept. of State. She just started her next just began a new job as a school-based band are ecstatic about their first baby school counselor and community outreach assignment in Lisbon, Portugal. She is therapist at an elementary school. due this winter as they transition from coordinator. working on energy, environment, science, Victoria Chappell Harvey is looking at her England to Calif. Brie continues teaching In April, Nicole Basbanes started her tech and health issues and is currently fill- last year in Japan as an ESL teacher. She yoga and selling her art at brienna.net. first full-time library job serving children ing in as acting economics unit chief. hopes to travel with her husband around Andrea Staton Koplowitz and husband and young adults at a local public library. Liz Eager Marvell finished her first year Japan, and possibly venture to South Dale are buying their first house near She married Billy Claire on 6/16/12 at of graduate school at Gordon-Conwell Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand. Charlottesville, Va., and will move in Sept. Nashoba Valley Winery in Bolton, Mass. Theological Seminary where she is work- Michelle Badger spent time on a mini Andrea continues to work full time for UVa They honeymooned in London, Paris, and ing on an M.A. in history. She and husband cruise to Boston on the T.S. Kennedy and Medical Center Laboratories while making Rome for 17 days. Brett are expecting a baby girl at the is beginning a new job with the Mass. art and exhibiting in galleries. She exhib- Camille Simmons is starting her 8th year beginning of Oct.! She plans to continue Maritime Academy. ited 3 drawings in a group show, titled of teaching middle school Spanish in school part time this fall and return full Kerri Faust de Monsalve lives in Columbia, “Sin,” at Firefish Gallery in Charlottesville, Bermuda. She was able to hang out with time next spring. In Aug., Liz spent a week teaches school and is enjoying her first Va., during the month of Feb. She sells Caville Stanbury ’06 and Khadine Fisher in at the beach with Lauren Wade, Karen year of marriage with Felipe. They’ve been prints on Etsy.com. the Big Apple in Dec. Dennehy Godsey, Kerry Martin Sprurill, working with indigenous shelters in down- Erin Coleman continues her Hollywood Erin Gibbs and Maggie Murray Watts ’06. town Bogota, teaching English and working pursuit and signed with a commercial She also met up with Lyndsay Welsh with the children’s ministry. Chamblin in Boston this summer. agent. She also has a film premiering at 2005 And I, Nicki Brandt, will be returning to the Seattle Bumbershoot Music and Film Mindy Wolfrom St Augustine, Fla. for another winter near Festival. This past March, she ran the Los 5925 Almeda Road the beach, working with Florida Fish and Angeles marathon. This fall she’ll be par- No. 10711 2006 Wildlife doing aerial surveys to study North ticipating in the Los Angeles AIDS walk. Houston, TX 77004 Nicole Brandt Atlantic right whales. I spent the summer Tiffany McCabe Carr is starting her 9th [email protected] 105 Prestwick Ct. in San Juan Island, Wash., working for the year of teaching elementary music for Yorktown, VA 23693 Soundwatch Program, a boater education Mindy Wolfrom has been living in [email protected] Southampton County Public Schools in Va. Houston, Texas, for the past year and program conducting research and monitor- She still lives in Franklin with her husband teaches Latin and ancient Greek at a Abby Adams is in grad school for her ing of boat/whale interactions, specifically Joseph, son David (3) and 2 wild dogs— private school. She and Virginia Myers master’s in Advanced Practice Pediatric with endangered Southern Resident killer Lola and Ruger. Last June, Tiffany partici- (Amherst County native and daughter of Nursing. She’s still working full time as a whales; and working towards my USCG pated in the local Relay For Life event in SBC alumna Margaret Gillmer Myers ’66) nurse caring for newborns. She lives with Captain’s License. During road trips be- honor of fencing coach Jennifer Crispen. hosted a large Cinco de Mayo rooftop her boyfriend and their “zoo”: 2 dogs, 2 tween the 2 locales I was able to visit with Melissa Massy Jozanne Summerville and Sascha Rogers party, and Carolyn Burton came out from cats, 2 bearded dragons and a snake. She in Denver. visited campus during the spring semester Colo. to plan, coordinate and attend. keeps in touch with Jenn Wiley Schmidt, to host the Black Pearls’ Sparkling Cider Brentz Basten East is a portfolio manager Meg Shortlidge, Joanna Meade and Brunch. Jozanne has a new position in the at API Funds and Portfolios. Her children, Lindsay Cline. On 3/31, Abby served as 2007 Navy and lots of traveling. Looking forward Rosa (4) and William (19 mos.), had a full maid of honor at Jodie Weber Kavanah’s Emily Olson 382 E. Scripps Rd. to Rio’s World Cup in 2014! summer of swimming and beach trips. wedding to William Kavanah. Kelly Rogers Lake Orion, MI 48360 Kerry Keins Mutschelknaus left her Brentz still plays a lot of tennis and has Bell, Emily Burke and Lindsey Cline at- [email protected] marketing career in 2011 to stay home had only one loss in the 4.0 Lynchburg tended the wedding. Jodie is working for with son Connor (2). Kerry and husband Women’s Summer League. Brentz caught CarMax in Charlottesville as a senior sales The class of 2007 held our first reunion Joe welcomed second son Quinn Walsh up with Laura Densen, who was passing consultant and received a promotion to in May. I, Emily Olson, had a fantastic on 8/9/12. Kerry and family still live in through. In Nov., Brentz will head down sales manager in training. weekend! At our reunion class meeting it Arlington, Va. to Disney with Lauren Byrne ’04, Cat Jennifer Jones Collins and husband was decided that I would continue as class Schyler Ellis Burke’s husband Peter re- Brumley and Tamara Himelright Helton to Thomas still live in Germany. Jennifer wel- secretary and Rachel Moretta and Martha ceived a promotion with Halliburton. He’s brave the Mickey’s Jingle Jungle 5K. comed her first child, William Thomas, on Loftin were elected co-presidents. Our now the account manager for EQT. Schyler, Lynsie Watkins Steele still lives in 4/5/12. They moved for the third time in 2 class will partner with the Class of 1957 in Peter and their 3 children, John, Victoria Charlottesville with husband Colin. They’re years and now live in Birkenfeld, Germany. sponsoring a new classroom on campus. and Marin, will be moving to Pittsburgh. building an addition to make room for She was sad to leave her teaching job at Our efforts are being coordinated by our Lisa Moore married Marshall Walton on their newest “addition,” Declan Shea, Heidelberg Middle School, but enjoys be- new presidents and class giving chair- 9/2 at Beale Manor in Parkesburg, Pa. born 3/26/12. Lynsie tries to see Megan ing a stay-at-home mom. Jessica Mercier woman, Maggie Saylor Patrick. Lisa and Marshall live in Hendersonville, Knight and Samira Hossain when she Andryshak came to visit in May. On 5/29, Morgan Roach’s boyfriend Tenn. can. Lynsie is still training for and running Ivey Tabor Godfrey lives near Raleigh, of 2 years, Stephen Viña, proposed Virginia Fowler Voigt is still happily living races: her next race is a half-marathon N.C. She has established her own graphic while they were vacationing in Scotland. in Nashville, Tenn., with her husband John in Nov.! design company called Godfrey Design Stephen, from McAllen, Texas, is counsel and daughter Rosie. Virginia teaches 3rd Sarah Kidd Burchett lives in Richmond and Company while husband Ryan Godfrey for the Senate Homeland Security and grade at The Ensworth School. Virginia has been working at Renew Dermatology (HSC ’05) works towards a Ph.D. in phi- Government Affairs Committee. They’ll and Rosie traveled to Va. this summer as an aesthetician for 2 years. She recently losophy of religion. Their kids Caroline (4), be married next May in Washington, D.C. where they enjoyed a visit with old room- passed her NCEA exam to earn a national Gabriel (2) and Levi (1) are happy and Morgan’s sister Ryan Roach ’10 will be the mate Erin Keck Walsh ’03 and her 3 certification in aesthetics. Sarah enjoyed healthy. maid of honor. Morgan continues to work daughters. attending a back-to-school gathering held Nancy Kleinhans Carr is so happy to at The Heritage Foundation where she Anne Oakes lives with her partner, Randi, at Hilary Cooper Cook’s house in Richmond have Megan Sinner Kleinhans ’04 as leads the Africa portfolio. In July, she trav- in Durham, N.C. She manages a group and had fun meeting a variety of alumnae. her sister-in-law! Megan was married to eled to Johannesburg, South Africa and home for adult men with autism and en- Sarah hopes that she and other alumnae in Nancy’s older brother Hugo in 5/11. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. joys fishing and volunteering at Carolina Richmond can set up a happy hour. the fall, Nancy will be attending the U. of Megan Meighan lived and worked in N.J. Tiger Rescue on weekends. Leah Reedy Revelle and her husband wel- South Fla. to receive a master’s in English and N.Y. for the last 3 years at SRSsoft, Jennifer Warde Darrell is in her 5th year comed Mary Clay Marlowe “May” Revelle education. an electronic health records software at Yale, hoping to finish her dissertation on 11/12/11. company. She recently moved back to

62 sbc.edu | Sweet Briar Magazine Charlotte, N.C., and continues to work for O’Connor and Elsa Mittelholtz Cannon U. for a degree in liberal studies with a More class notes online SRS from her home. since my move!” concentration in humanities. Carina Finn Danielle Briggs-Hansen continues to work Natalie Pye graduated cum laude from graduated with an M.F.A. in poetry and sbc.edu/magazine at Systems Planning and Analysis as an A.U., Washington Coll. of Law in May and a minor in gender studies from the U. of accountant. She writes, “I’ve been working accepted a position at Shiffman & Ricci, Notre Dame in May. She has since moved on some commissioned paintings in my P.C., a boutique personal injury law firm to N.Y.C. and is working in the proposals spare time. I’m still playing volleyball and in Washington, D.C. She writes, “I enjoyed dept. at Sotheby’s, N.Y. Carina serves 2011 will be playing for 2 teams this fall.” seeing my fellow class of ’07 members as a coordinator/publicity assistant for Ms. Ashley Corren Hinkle Heidi Trude was planning on attending who made it to the one evening of Reunion the Michael Mut Gallery’s Love Yourself 1124 Lady Ginger Ln. Reunion, but was ill and couldn’t make it. that I could attend and can’t wait for 10- Project. Carina has also published “MY Virginia Beach, VA 23455 She writes, “I traveled to France and Spain year! I also enjoyed the mini-reunion of LIFE IS A MOVIE,” been interviewed by [email protected] with 20 students in 6/12. I’m entering my Laura Schaefer, Jennifer Wolf and Maggie Thethe Poetry & PANK magazine, reviewed 5th year of teaching at Skyline HS. I’ll be Saylor Patrick who were in D.C. to cel- by The Poetry Foundations’ Harriet the returning to campus in Oct. to participate ebrate Rachel Reynolds’ engagement.” Blog, and became a contributor to the liter- 2012 in the Modern Languages Career event.” ary/cultural theory blog Montevidayo. Elizabeth Davey Maggie Saylor Patrick writes, “This past Last Dec., Sarah Maroney graduated with 1317 North Decatur Rd. May I headed down to Washington, D.C., 2008 her master’s in criminal justice from the Atlanta, GA 30306 where I helped plot the secret proposal to Kathryn Purnell Mills John Jay College of criminal justice in [email protected] Rachel Reynolds on the part of her boy- 6004 Treyburn Pl. N.Y.C. She has since graduated from the friend, Dean. Natalie Pye, Laura Schaefer, Glen Allen, VA 23059-5483 South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy Only 3 months after graduating from Jennifer Wolf and Margaret Loebe ’06 [email protected] and is now a certified law enforcement beloved Sweet Briar, the swans of ’12 were also there. We then all traveled down officer. She works as a police officer with waste no time in living up to their motto, to SBC together for Reunion!” Maggie is Clemson U. Madeline Davis has accepted “Actions not words.” From William and working towards her M.A. in political sci- 2009 a teaching position at Kecoughtan HS in Mary’s School of Accounting to the U. ence part time, as she works full time in Julia McClung Hampton, Va. She’ll be teaching sculpture. of Essex, alumnae are traveling far and the development office at Miami U. She 5111 Block House Ct. Apt 728 Kathleen Thomas graduated in May from wide to change the world. Katarina and husband Martin recently adopted a Charlotte, NC 28277 the U. of Mass. with an M.A.T. in Latin and Allen has ventured to Phnom Penh, retired racing greyhound named Temi. [email protected] classical humanities. In Aug., she started Cambodia, to receive TESOL certification via LanguageCorps. During this training, Emily Fitzpatrick is starting grad school a job teaching Latin in Pembroke, M.A. In she teaches at the International School in at the U. of West Florida and is a graduate addition, Kathleen is engaged to Joseph Phnom Penh. She’ll later travel to China hall director for the Village West apart- Gamache and the wedding will take place 2010 to complete a one-year teaching contract, ments on campus. Alaina Cavelier McKee in the summer of 2013. Also working towards her M.A.T. is Melissa Ramos who educating children from ages 4 to 18. Laura Schaefer writes, “I made the trip out 100 Kimball Ave. has been accepted into the M.A.T. pro- Follow her blog at katsmanyadventures. to Va. for Reunion, coming a few days early Apt. M149 gram at UNC at Charlotte. blogspot.com. to celebrate Rachel Reynolds’ recent en- Salem, VA 24011 Victoria Bradley Gentry married Jesse gagement. I loved being back on campus [email protected] In 8/11 Paige Kaylor graduated with her Gentry (Longwood ’12), her fiancé of 2 and catching up with everyone.” M.B.A. from Loyola U. of Md. She lives with Katie Taylor is a behavior analyst for Leighanne Arnold and Cynthia Roden in years and h.s. sweetheart, in Suffolk, Betty Skeen is getting married! She met Individual Advocacy Group in Romeoville, Va. In Jan. Paige became engaged to Jack Va., June 1. Sarah Melvin ’11 served as the man of her dreams 4 years ago and Ill. In July, Catherine Gumpman was pro- Ruddy (HSC ’10). Allie Garrison Bridges maid of honor, Jordan McIntire ’11 as a they’re tying the knot next Sept. moted to assistant director of admissions married Kevin Bridges on June 2 at Sweet bridesmaid and Khristian Salters read Caitlin Ashley still works for the State of at Sweet Briar. Briar College. Alumnae present included scripture during the ceremony. Simone W.Va. She passed the CGBP exam in May Sydney Davis works for a mortgage firm the maid of honor, Alaina McKee, Melissa Morris ’11, Hilary Bowie, Chiquita Sharp and then reached her 5-year anniversary called Dominion Capital Mortgage as Ramos, Misty Purvis and Caroyln Vaccaro ’14, Eleftheria Treklas, Lydia Marsh, in Jun. She writes, “My last trade mission a licensed mortgage loan originator. ’11. Allie and Kevin honeymooned in Emily Jones, Martha Schley Kemp, Kelly was to Santiago, Chile. I’m working on an Alysha Norbury works in Real Estate and Jamaica and currently live in Greensboro, Mosher, Brook Watts, Caroline Heltzel, upcoming trade mission to Seoul, South volunteers with Rising Tide, a therapeutic N.C. Since the wedding Allie has started Lauren Babineau, Rachel Lasky, Carolyn Korea.” She recently had lunch with Carey equestrian center for people with dis- a new position as a h.s. Spanish teacher. Hicks, Tiffany Hunter, Caitlin Daniel ’15 Fleming ’78 and says, “It was great to abilities, and will soon be teaching there. Heather McPheeters became engaged and Peggy Hoy McFadden ’74 also at- connect with another Vixen in Charleston.” Laura Jett lives in San Diego with her to Will Lake on 7/7 at his new home in tended the wedding. In July, Victoria and In May, Caitlin made a visit to Rosanna roommate Michelle Anderson ’11 and is Charleston, S.C. They’ll be married on Jesse moved to Lynchburg and they now Hawkins Winner and celebrated her a market research analyst with Cricket 5/18/13 in Columbia, S.C. Leigh Anne attend Liberty U. School of Law to pursue sister’s graduation from Shenandoah U. Communications. This year Laura also Arnold will be Heather’s maid of honor. law careers with a Christian foundation. She says, “I also got to see Avarose—what received her M.B.A. from Claremont Petra Weisbrich started boot camp on We congratulate Victoria and all other a personality! Her baby brother Wade will Graduate U. Alaina McKee graduated with July 24 for the Air Force where she has members of the Class of 2012 for the be here soon!” Following that visit she her M.A. in history from UNC-Greensboro taken a job as a medic. She was also a achievements already accomplished so drove through Va. to attend Erin Coyne’s and began her job this past April as the bridesmaid at the wedding of Samantha soon after beginning this new chapter in (’08) bridal shower. She got to see several education coordinator for the History Adams to Bradley Newburn on 5/26. The their lives. alumnae including Claire Bryan. This fall Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke, maid of honor was Caitlin Phillips ’11 and Caitlin is planning a trip to N.Y.C. to visit Va. the other bridesmaids included Katheryn Betty Skeen and also to visit Rosanna and Celeste Rustom has moved to Wash. and Coombs ’12 and Megan Moncure ’12. her new baby in Va. is stationed at Joint Base Lewis McChord. Changes of Address: Carina Finn, 157 E Whitney Wheeler earned her M.B.A. in or- She’s now officially an engineer officer. On 2nd Street, Apt. 4b, New York, NY 10009. ganizational leadership/management and Memorial Day weekend Celeste got a visit Alaina McKee, 100 Kimball Ave., Apt. Certificate of Adv. Grad. Studies in human from her family as well as Rachael Vaughn M149, Salem, VA 24011. resources management from Johnson & and Alle Taylor. Wales U. in Providence, R.I. She moved Helen Bradshaw completed an M.A. back to hometown Charlotte, N.C., and in Anglo-Irish literature and drama at is a personal stylist/sales consultant at the University College Dublin in 2011. Nordstrom, Inc. She is an active member Since then she has been working as a of The Junior League of Charlotte (JLC). bookseller for Bubray Books. She lives “First of all, I want to say that I had a fan- in Bray, Ireland. Next year Helen will be tastic time at our 5-year Reunion” writes working towards a second M.A. in chil- Jennifer Dick. In June Jennifer moved Please submit your notes to dren’s literature at Trinity College Dublin. to Centreville, Va., from her hometown Helen Phillips is in the M.A.T. program at Staunton, to be with boyfriend Adrian (VT Randolph Coll. and also teaches biology [email protected] as follows: ‘06), and also for more job opportuni- at Brookville HS in Lynchburg, Va. This fall ties. She says, “I hope to finish my M.A. Alli McGill is earning a Psy. D. in clinical once I adjust to life here. I’m working at • Spring 2013 magazine by February 18, 2013 psychology from Antioch University New a preschool right now. If you live in the England in Keene, N.H. NOVA area, I’d love to get together! I have Lindsey Davis has started the DVM pro- • Fall 2013 magazine by August 19, 2013 had phone dates with SBC friends and gram at St. George’s U. Ashley Carroll have been able to meet up with Eleanor started a graduate program at Hollins

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Reunion student assistants Ann Morrison Reams ’42 (center) Vivian Yamaguchi Cohn ’77, with President Parker and national reunion giving chair Joanne Holbrook Patton ’52

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