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1930s

There are no Class Notes from the 1930s, but several classes have scholarship recipients. Shaun McBride ’23 received the Edward Alvey Jr. Scholarship endowed by the Class of 1936. Recipients of the Nina G. Bushell Scholarship from the Class of 1937 are Jonni Hower ’20, Gwen

Fiorillo ’21, Kayleigh Rice ’21,

and Harper Cowan ’22. Veronica Daszkilewicz ’23 received the Eileen Kramer Dodd Alumni Scholarship from the Class of 1939.

1940

No Class Agent classnotes@umw.edu Recipients of the Oscar H. Darter Scholarship in History endowed by the Class of 1940 are Emily Johnson ’21 and Sarah Pietrowski ’20.

1941

Dorothy Shaw Dorothyshaw1919@gmail.com Recipients of the Mildred McMurtry Bolling Memorial Scholarship endowed by the Class of 1941 are Osahor Aghayere ’22 and Noell Evans ’21.

1942

No Class Agent classnotes@umw.edu Cindy Ly ’22 received the Class of 1942 Scholarship in Business Administration in memory of James Harvey Dodd.

1943

No Class Agent classnotes@umw.edu Lauren Quinn ’22 received the Class of 1943 Scholarship in memory of Levin J. Houston III.

1944

No Class Agent classnotes@umw.edu We were saddened to learn of the Nov. 5, 2020, death of longtime class agent Phyllis Quimby Anderson. A son let us know of his family’s loss and shared her obituary, which we excerpt here. After her Mary Washington graduation, 20-year-old Phyllis began teaching elementary school in New Jersey. Once she married Hank Anderson and began her family, Phyllis turned her attention to family and community life. She cheered on her nine children in all their endeavors. A music lover, Phyllis played baritone horn and sang with various groups and choirs throughout her life. She and Hank retired to Westminster, Vermont, where they founded their church’s handbell choir. A volunteer for Meals on Wheels since 1988, Phyllis accompanied one of her sons on his Meals on Wheels delivery route as recently as two weeks before her death. Phyllis lost Hank in 2011 and lost a daughter in 2014. Survivors include her other eight children, 10 grandchildren, and 13 grandchildren. Recipients of the Class of 1944 Memorial Scholarship are Bernadette

D’Auria ’22, Kaitlyn Mackewicz ’23,

Neonya Garner ’24, and Cassie Howe ’24.

1945

No Class Agent classnotes@umw.edu Jenna Diehl ’24 received the Class of 1945 Memorial Scholarship.

1946

Patricia Mathewson Spring classnotes@umw.edu Ryan Ruscitella ’24 received the Class of 1946 Scholarship. We were sorry to learn of the passing in November of Susan Tillson Metzger, who had been a May Queen. After her Mary Washington years, Susan earned a second bachelor’s degree in computer science and an MBA, and had a career as a computer programmer and college instructor. Survivors include three daughters.

1947

Betty Moore Drewry Bamman classnotes@umw.edu

1948

No Class Agent classnotes@umw.edu The Class of 1948 no longer has a scholarship representative. Any class member interested in receiving the student acknowledgments is asked to contact Maureen Aylward at maylward@umw.edu or 540-654-2065. Recipients of the Ellen Alvey Montllor ’48 Scholarship endowed by the Class of 1948 are Kimber Foreman ’23 and Emma Grehan ’23.

1949

No Class Agent classnotes@umw.edu Brandon Lefebvre ’20 received the Class of 1949 Scholarship.

1950

Marcy Weatherly Morris classnotes@umw.edu Happy 2021 to our special Class of 1950! I heard no news from anyone for this issue of the magazine. Juney Morris and I, Marcy Weatherly Morris, are doing as well as we can to stay healthy and are so happy we were able to finally get our vaccinations during a drive-through clinic in King George. Garry Lewis Jr. ’24, one of our great-grandsons at UMW,

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tested positive for COVID the week before Thanksgiving. He isolated, quarantined, and except for fatigue, is thankfully back to normal. Liam Prunczik ’24, our other freshman great-grandson, has escaped so far. Hopefully 2021 is bringing some order to the chaos we experienced in 2020. Was so looking forward to our belated 70th reunion but, as you’ve heard by now, the plans changed. Looking forward to the day we can all visit our alma mater and see our classmates in person! There are so few of us. Keep in touch, and stay safe and happy! organized by our granddaughter Kelly. Arizona. He completed a bereavement Our church organized a 60-participant course, became active in his church, drive-by to share anniversary wishes. and has spent the past eight years Great-grandson Lucas Prunczik ’20 graduated from our alma mater in May with no fanfare, so different from our experiences! counseling others. He and his late wife, Betty, enjoyed the Road Scholar program, and Tom has continued in the program with his son. Carol Bailey Miller no longer rides (her horse, Buddy, has a new, loving home) but has been involved with her local 4-H horse program and has enjoyed activities with these young people. Tom’s friend and fellow World War II veteran student Alford “Al” Taylor married Tom’s sister Charlotte just after graduation, and they passed away within two months of each other in 2017. Miriam “Mim” Sollows Wieland lost her husband, Earl, soon after their family Thanksgiving gathering in 2019. Family members were able to spend time with him in the hospital. She is in full quarantine at her retirement community and missed her grandson’s May 3 pandemic wedding as well as a second ceremony planned for late July. Virginia Felts Brown of Mount Holly, Virginia, passed away Jan. 25, 2019. She was a past president of the Mary Washington College Alumni Association. She was a former

Juney Morris ’50 and Marcy president of the Northern

Weatherly Morris ’50 have two great-grandsons at UMW and one Neck of Virginia Historical Society and edited the society’s magazine for many years. The great-grandson who is a 2020 Brown family grave marker graduate. inscription appropriately reads: “To Live in Hearts We Leave Behind Is Not to Die.” Madison Williams ’22 received the Class of 1950 Arrington Scholarship endowed at the class’s 50th reunion. Nan Riley Pointer and her husband still live in Gloucester, Virginia, under strict quarantine. Nan reads, knits baby hats for the Children’s Hospital of the King’s [Editors’ note: Class agent Marcy Daughters in Norfolk, sews dresses Weatherly Morris also sent notes for the for the Dress a Girl Around the World online-only fall/winter 2020 issue. We project, and works jigsaw puzzles. She republish a shortened version here.] shared this positive message: “I send Would you ever in your wildest my prayers for all of my classmates dreams (or nightmares) have imagined that they will stay positive, well, the events of this year, 2020? and safe. We are not alone – God is with us, and He is in control.” This COVID-19 pandemic has brought heartbreak and change. We must be Kathryn “Kay” Smith Majeski ’66 patient and have faith. We will see a shared the sad news that her friend light at the end of this tunnel as has Margaret “Peg” Penn Hutchins been witnessed throughout our history passed away March 20, 2020. Kay if we will just let go and let God! wrote that both her husband and Peg’s graduated from the U.S. Naval Juney Morris and I, Marcy Weatherly Academy and that the couples saw Morris, have faithfully followed each other on many occasions. the guidelines for our quarantine experience, a must at our ages. Our 70th Tom Augherton wrote that after wedding anniversary included a surprise his wife’s death in 2011 he moved meal delivery and more than 100 cards, next door to his son near Phoenix,

1951

No Class Agent classnotes@umw.edu

1952

Rita Morgan Stone rita.stone7@aol.com [Editors’ note: Class agent Rita Stone prepared these notes for the online-only fall/winter 2020 issue. We republish a shortened version here.] My calls to you classmates elicited similar responses. Many of you were sheltering in place because of the pandemic, but staying busy and productive. Susan Hutcheson Jurgens was disappointed that her barge trip to Alsace-Lorraine was canceled. She continued weekly, properly distanced Scrabble games, enjoyed organic veggies provided by her neighbors, and was joyous about the birth of greatgranddaughter Taliyah, an Arabic/Jewish name. Betty Litton Kilgour, after retiring from a career in education, lives in Leesburg.

Peggy Sherman ’52 recalled interesting classes at MWC, fun weekends, and visits to boys’ colleges and universities.

Having married an Army engineer, she traveled extensively in Europe and had a scary time in Anchorage, Alaska, when an earthquake shook things up. Her five children are in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Suzanne Branner Kessler lives at Westminster Canterbury in Richmond. She remotely attended her granddaughter’s wedding in Cary, North

Khalida “Kay” Showker ’52 has written 15 travel guides and is on YouTube.

Carolina, this summer. She’s an ardent Washington Nats fan and is concerned about the future of her favorite sport. Charlotte Adams Harrell lives at Westminster Canterbury in Virginia Beach. Husband Bob celebrates his 100th birthday this year. Mary Lou Finney Boyd was addressing 300 cards urging folks to get out the vote. A granddaughter adds decorative touches. Mary Lou swims three times a week and writes thank-you notes for MetaVivor donors, honoring her daughter who is a breast cancer survivor. Peggy Sherman of Augusta, Georgia, recalled the interesting classes at Mary Washington but especially the fun weekends and visits to boys’ colleges and universities. Lilly Longo Bilmond retired as an English teacher at Midlothian High School; she and her husband live in Richmond.

Marie “Weege” Attianese Harlow

enjoys life in a community retirement center in Bridgeport, Connecticut. When the pandemic ends, she plans to resume bridge gatherings and other activities. Her children are in Florida and Delaware, but when they come for vacation in Nantucket, she goes for a visit. Khalida “Kay” Showker has an exciting life, splitting her time between Sarasota, Florida, and New York. Kay began her career with Travel Weekly but went out on her own and has done 15 travel guides. Her most recent ones featured cruises. Kay has traveled all over the world and is on YouTube. Shirley King Buchanan lives on the family farm in Chesapeake, in a home built by her and her late husband, a physician in the area. She enjoys a huge backyard, visited by all sorts of animals. Shirley focuses on butterflies and birds. She was active in the medical auxiliary and is well-known to local politicians. Daughter Beverly lives with her since her husband’s death. Daughter Sherry Buchanan ’75 is a Mary Washington alumna. Joyce Long Moore has filled her pandemic time with reading, even some textbooks she wishes she had read more thoroughly in college. She recently celebrated a birthday at Nags Head with four generations in one house for a week. Ginny Orkney Philbrick of Bedford, Virginia, wrote that adopted daughter Betsy located her birth father and his family in California through the Ancestry website. Betsy’s half-sister Amy of Raleigh, North Carolina, has visited the Philbrick home, to the delight of everyone. Ginny’s grandson holds a doctorate in nutrition and works at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Corley Gibson Friesen and Ernie are settled in their retirement spot in Colorado and look forward to resuming fun activities after the pandemic is over. Jean Amis Hill lives in Martinsville, Virginia, and has recovered from her broken hip. She sees her daughter and family frequently. Mary Ann Jones Beard and husband Billy, who had a stroke, have lived in an assisted living complex in Virginia Beach for the past eight years. One of her children is in Carmel, California, and the other is in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Maryanne Heatwole Cox of Fredericksburg misses her friends, bridge club, book club, and many family gatherings, but keeps busy with the computer, reading, knitting, and painting. Claire Sindlinger DeGroot and husband Ward live in Arlington, Virginia. Daughter Gretchen had many connections with our Mary Washington classmates. Carol Edgerton Cooper introduced her to her husband and even helped her choose her wedding gown. When Gretchen lived in Lexington, she connected with Bobbie Burgess and Sissy Davis. Anne Hart Martin attended a service at St. John’s Church in Washington two years ago, and her family albums have many childhood photos of her playing in Lafayette Park. She was disturbed to see such turmoil in that beautiful part of the city. Selma Friedman Fink of New York wrote that her son-in-law is an anesthesiologist, and her granddaughter works in critical care at a hospital that had COVID patients exclusively for months. At 7 o’clock each day, residents opened their doors and applauded in gratitude for medical personnel. Selma, like so many of us, was concerned about the divisions in our country. Katherine Wells Ball of Tullahoma, Tennessee, lost husband Ted last year after 67 years of marriage. His life as an Air Force pilot provided the family with interesting travels. One son lives in Tennessee, and the other is a doctor in Northern Virginia. Kitty was named Volunteer of the Year in Tullahoma. Maxine Haley Hazelgrove lives in Ashland, Virginia, and remains in close touch with Susan Jurgens. Maxine’s granddaughter Abigail is a first-year student at William & Mary. Gwen Amory Cumming’s children are attentive and live nearby. Not having church services leaves a big gap in Gwen’s life. Betty Montgomery Handy and I celebrated my birthday with a lovely brunch, gifts of honey, and a flower arrangement created by Betty, a master gardener. Bobbie Fowler Childs has moved to a senior community in Olympia, Washington, after selling her home on Hartstine Island. She and Richard were married for 65 years before his death three years ago. Phyllis Farmer Shaffer wonders if anyone in the Class of 1952 lives near her in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. She would like to reconnect.

Ardent Washington Nats fan Suzanne Branner Kessler ’52 is concerned about the future of her favorite sport. I, Rita Morgan Stone, now must provide the sad news that we have lost three more of our very special classmates: Nancy Stump Motley, Nancy Moxley Stone, and Elaine Nader Powell. It’s been a pleasure having phone visits with so many of you. When you have news of interest to our classmates, please share it. Stay well and stay happy.

1953

Betsy Dickinson Surles surles@infionline.net

1954

Mary Ann Dorsey Judy ack915@gmail.com Nancy Root Skinner nan1367@comcast.net From Mary Ann: I wish I had news of classmates to give you. Please take a few moments to send us an update on you and your life! We are all carrying on with our lives as best we can during this troubling time. Memories of our years at Mary Washington stay in our minds and hearts, and updates on our friends would be wonderful. I spoke with Carolyn Barnes Houlgrave, my roommate junior and senior years. She is in Richmond and doing well. And I had a good catchup with Bobbie Scott Trenis in Catlett, Virginia. We are all staying in and hoping to see a normal life again soon.

I have a granddaughter in Berlin who expected a daughter in March, our first great-grandchild! more as it should be, with six of us feasting and snapping crackers. Our 15 inches of snow the week before gave us our white Christmas. Response to the postcards was even better than I had hoped. Dorothy Withers Stacks in Huntington, West Virginia, wrote that she attended Mary Ann’s daughter, Dr. Jennifer Doumas, Washington for her sophomore and tested positive in San Diego, California, junior years, then went to the University but was back on duty at her urgent care of Virginia and graduated in 1957 with facility. Her other daughter, Beth, has a a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She loved husband and sons working from home. being at MWC and lived with wonderful Son Mark is a retired engineer from girls in two different dorms. Dorothy was IBM and is in Tucson. His daughter nursing director for an autism services lives in Japan and works as a tour center for 30 years and retired at 80. director. By the way, when we were on the Mobil ladder and moved every Irene Hughes wrote that her new few years, my friends with IBM said book, Windfall, was coming this that stood for “I’ve Been Moved.” spring in print and in a digital version. I read constantly, and this book A Thanksgiving letter from Dorothy can’t come soon enough for me. Booth Sanders tells us they downsized to Story Point, a senior living Mary Margaret Papstein Carter emailed facility in Union, Kentucky. They that they are staying close to home tore down Dewey’s model train in New Jersey, with two sons nearby. layout and moved a portion to the They also have a condo in Arizona, facility for other people to enjoy. near another son, a daughter-in-law, three grandsons, and three great- We are all so proud of Ann Dunaway grandchildren. She keeps in touch with Criswell and the work she did on the Carol Cooper, Bobbie Sue article about her mother when she Smith Holdeman, and Ann was a student at Mary Washington Hungerford McKinlay. during the flu epidemic of 1918.

Mary Ann Dorsey Judy ’54 has a I received a Christmas card You can read it on page 56. granddaughter in Berlin who was from Inta Janners Ertel, The daughter of Maryann Etchison expecting Mary Ann’s first greatgrandchild in March. pictured with her grandson. He is 14 and is taller than Inta. Nichols let me know that after living in San Diego for 54 years, her mother now lives in Davis, California, near Sally Hanger Moravitz emailed family. Maryann has three children that she and husband Fran and six grandchildren, and she retired were riding out the virus in from teaching many years ago. their home in Falls Church, Virginia, with portal-to-portal visits to their Chesapeake On a sad note, Gretchen Hogaboom cottage. Their sons and grandchildren are Fisher lost her husband of 65 1955 a source of support and joy. Sally retired last year as a docent of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and received years, Marine Lt. Col. Albert Teal “Skip” Fisher, on Nov. 27, 2020. Our most sincere sympathy and Roberta Linn Miller the museum’s lifetime achievement award. thoughts go out to you, Gretchen. toromiller@embarqmail.com How wonderful, and what an honor! I had wanted to start a “without I, Roberta, am writing this on New Year’s Christine Harper Hovis wrote a lovely partners” group last fall but the virus Day, and it is rainy and dreary, but my note saying what I have said all along. intervened. I am still thinking of doing young neighbor is a bright spot. Nine- Not everyone in the class has computers, it next Christmas because I know year-old Miya writes me notes, and her so some did not have access to the last about 30 friends and former students family sends me food every weekend. magazine. Chris had a store for 40 years I have been giving her books, and she called the Dance Shop, with wonderful reads them and tells me about them. employees. Since retirement, she does a lot She wrote a school report about one. of artwork and writes children’s stories. Thanksgiving was interesting for me. Ann Strickler Doumas sent an article on I ended up receiving three dinners, Sen. Mark Warner, UMW President Troy including one from the man who Paino, and the Germanna Community mows my lawn. His wife also sent College president, who met and discussed me a Christmas gift. Christmas was the needs of higher education.

The 14-year-old grandson of Inta Janners Ertel ’55 is already taller than Inta!

Sally Hanger Moravitz ’55

received the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s lifetime achievement award when she retired there as a docent.

who are widows and would like to get together to talk and find friends. I, Roberta, have been busy writing a column for the local papers. It is called Perry Memories and it is about a little girl growing up on a farm, doing jobs, and living life as I knew it. Ralphie the springer spaniel is 18 months old now and just as bad as before! As I was typing this another email came buzzing in. Martha Harville ’77 was reading the Class of ’55 news and recognized a name she remembers fondly from her childhood and early teen years. She said I should tell Irene Hughes hello from her. [Editors’ note: Roberta also sent notes for the online-only fall/winter 2020 issue. We republish a shortened version here.] Ralphie the springer spaniel and I, Roberta Linn Miller, are enjoying the cool morning on the terrace while listening to the birdsong in the woods, seeing the many colors of the phlox and other flowers in the garden, and watching the doves having their morning snack. It is July and will get very hot later, so I will go inside the house and check in with some very nice people. Talked to Jean Brumback Hickman in Reno, Nevada, about our love of cats; we both have black kitties. Patricia Seibert-Siegel has lived in San Diego for six years. She has three

daughters and five grandchildren who are in their 20s. Patricia was an elementary teacher and her husband was an architect before both retired. They planned to move into an assisted-living facility. Christine Harper Hovis, also in California, lost her husband two years ago. She has a son in Maryland and a daughter in San Francisco. Polly Stoddard Heim lives next door to a daughter in Idaho. She has another daughter and two sons. Polly is a fortunate grandmother to seven grandchildren. Betty Fox Mapp transferred to Mary Washington from William & Mary after her first year. She was married in 1956, and they built their house in Virginia Beach in 1965. She and her husband have two sons and a daughter. Two of their grandsons graduated from college this year, and the other two grandsons are first-year college students. Charlotte Fisher Klapproth married a year after graduation and worked in a lab at Hopkins. She and her husband live in Delaware, and he does all the errands and a lot of the cooking. They have a son and a daughter. Marjorie Webb Wolfrey lost her husband to pancreatic cancer in December and is now in independent living in Charlottesville. She was a compensation manager at Sperry Marine. She and her husband had three daughters and a son. She has six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Mildred Haney Sandridge, also in Charlottesville, retired after 40 years as a trust officer in a bank. They have a daughter who works at the University of Virginia, one grandchild, and two great-grandchildren. Catherine Walton Hutchinson has lived for 30 years in Sapphire, North Carolina, and before that in Florida, where her husband practiced medicine. A son and his wife live in Milton, Georgia. Catherine reads and walks and says she is fabulous for an old 87. Anne Lou Rohrbach Culwell of Norman, Oklahoma, emailed that she is trying to stay safe but does go out some. She reads, does puzzles, and plays mahjong. Ann Strickler Doumas sent a note with news of her vegetable garden and how well it was doing but also with sad news about Beatrice Carver Clark, who passed away in June. She is survived by her husband and four children. Ann says the Clarks ran a big dairy farm in the Shenandoah Valley for years, and Bea taught school as well. Bea’s motherin-law, Mrs. Clark, was Ann Doumas’ piano teacher for many years. Another loss was my roommate and good friend Anastasia “Buttons” Petro, originally from Morristown, Tennessee, and then from the Seattle area. She had three sons, and one sent me an email with the sad news of her death after a short illness. He had her ashes, at her request, scattered over Puget Sound. Minnia Rainey Mayberry sent me a note with news of the loss of my former neighbor in Charleston, S.C., a Navy rear admiral. I am looking at our commencement booklet. Many events took place in the Sylvan Amphitheatre. Graduation was on Monday morning, May 30, 11 o’clock, with Colgate Darden Jr., chancellor, presiding. But why does the governor of Virginia pop into my head? The address was by Alvin Duke Chandler, president of the College of William & Mary. Do you remember?

Roberta Linn Miller ’55 writes a newspaper column about a little girl growing up on a farm and living life as Roberta knew it. 1956 Ann Chilton Power anncpower1@gmail.com There’s no news to report from my classmates this time. I, Ann Chilton Power, was scheduled to have my second shot against COVID on Jan. 24. I hoped to visit my youngest son, Stephen, and his family in Dallas soon thereafter. They moved there from Alexandria last July. The late Phyllis Block Brotman was named to the 2021 Baltimore Jewish Hall of Fame. Phyllis blazed a trail for women in business and became one of the most respected and influential women in Baltimore business and civic affairs. Her public relations and marketing firm, Image Dynamics, represented local, regional, and national clients. She helped establish the Maryland Public Broadcasting station and ran 176 political campaigns. [Editors’ note: Ann Chilton Power also sent notes for the online-only fall/winter 2020 issue. We republish them here.] The late Phyllis Block Brotman ’56 was named to the 2021 Baltimore Jewish Hall of Fame. I write from The Virginian, a continuingcare retirement community in Fairfax County, Virginia, where Marge Uhler Adcock and I reside. My youngest son, Stephen, and family have moved to Dallas. My eldest son, Ted, is retired and lives in Des Moines, which

Marilla Haas Stayed With Music and Mary Washington

No one ever had to remind 6-year-old Marilla Mattox Whether she’s at the – now Marilla Mattox organ, piano, or string Haas ’60 – to practice piano. bass, Marilla Mattox

Haas’ earliest memories of Sunday Haas shares her mornings in Richmond’s First Baptist talent with UMW and Church are of balcony seats carefully Fredericksburg. chosen by her mother so young Marilla could have a clear view of the organist’s hands. She and her mother frequented what was then Richmond’s Mosque theater, where they heard pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein, contralto Marian Anderson, and the Broadway cast of Porgy and Bess. “I was always exposed to music,” said the accomplished pianist, Peter Cihelka/The Free Lance-Star bassist, teacher, and accompanist. “That’s just been my life.” department chair Anne Hamer, and her second boy was born, she started

That love of music brought Haas orchestra director Ronald Faulkner. a master of music education degree to Mary Washington, where she Haas spent most of her time on program at Virginia Commonwealth earned a degree in music. But unlike campus in Pollard Hall. University. Before long, Haas had most graduates, she never really “I went to Mary Washington for three boys and a master’s degree, left. Haas played string bass with music, I lived in the music building, and she was teaching privately the orchestra for three decades, I lived in the practice rooms, and I and performing throughout the taught piano as an adjunct professor accompanied everyone who needed Fredericksburg area.in the Department of Music, and an accompanist,” Haas said. “That Haas took a part-time position accompanied Mary Washington and was just my life.” with the Real Estate Department for community musical groups. In her sophomore year, the the Fredericksburg Commissioner

“There was never a time when pastor of Spotswood Baptist Church of the Revenue in 1978. In a little I wasn’t on campus for something approached the MWC Baptist over a decade, she was promoted to between 1956 and when I stopped Student Union looking for a choir a full-time role as Fredericksburg’s teaching in 2008,” Haas said. “I was director. Haas accepted the job real estate supervisor. From 1978 there at least once a week.” in October 1957, and it changed through 2008, she taught piano at

Her first Fredericksburg home her life’s path. The following year, Mary Washington in the evenings as was in Betty Lewis residence hall on she met Frank Haas at Spotswood an adjunct faculty member. And all Sunken Road. She and her classmates Baptist, and they married in August the while, she continued playing by sledded on dining hall trays behind 1960, after her May graduation. More request on and off campus.duPont Hall, and her geology than 60 years later, Haas is still a “My sons all learned to cook,” she class studied silt and rocks in the member and the organist there. said of that busy time.creek below what is now Simpson Haas continued to play string bass Haas doesn’t like to be center Library. Haas has fond memories of with the Mary Washington Orchestra. stage, and she doesn’t really have Librarian Carroll Quenzel, Professor In 1961, she started studying piano at a favorite type of music. What she 28 UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON MAGAZINE SPRING/SUMMER 2021’60 of Psychology Eileen Kramer Dodd, and her “favorite French teacher,” Professor Miriam Bowes Hoge. But her music teachers had the deepest effect on her life: the accomplished pianist and composer Levin Houston III, the much-loved loves, she said, is playing any kind of music with other people. And, in Fredericksburg, that’s just what she does. – Neva Trenis ’00 American University, teaching piano from her Spotsylvania County home, and, for one year, teaching music to grades one through 12 at four Stafford County public schools. Soon her first son arrived, and she let go of the public school job. Before

leaves son Tom waiting on me during this period of social distancing. I phoned Betty Davies Morie to check on our classmates at Westminster Canterbury in Richmond. Angela Walton Barksdale, Turner Christian Richardson, and Connie Hook Felvey also have apartments there, although Connie has retreated to her home in Kilmarnock during this pandemic. When I have tried to contact others, the numbers or email addresses were no longer in service. I hope you will contact me so we can keep this column going another 64 years!

1957

No Class Agent classnotes@umw.edu Jean Durham Busboso sent the sad news of the death of Virginia “Judy” Brunner Fraser. Jean wrote: “Judy and I met our freshman year in Spanish I class and remained friends throughout the years. We shared many interests, one of which is our love for dogs. When Judy died she had two, which are being cared for by her son. I miss her terribly.”

1958

Susannah Godlove sgodlove5465@gmail.com

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said husband Rog still puts in 10-hour that she likes living near people her age days with his company. They enjoyed and enjoys walking and exercising. a trip to Egypt pre-pandemic. Barbara Gordon McNamee and Bob Dodie Reeder Hruby and Dale had a mostly good 2019. Barbara is a were exploring Williamsburg, longtime administrator and judge of Virginia, and enjoying new and synchronized swimming competitions old friends at Patriots Colony. and was busy with that work until, on Sally Warwick Rayburn hopes there will never be another year like 2020 but was grateful to have Maggie, a little dog with a little bladder, requiring four or five daily trips outside in the fresh air. Sally lost Jim in February 2019, soon after they had moved to Greensboro, North Carolina. a judging trip in California at Easter, she fell and fractured her pelvis and tailbone. Son Howard Crabtree and his wife, Margie, took her to the ER and cared for her till she was able to fly home to Bob. She was recovered and back to work in eight weeks. Joan Whittemore Loock and Jim had an eventful 2019 with travel to Wisconsin They had visits with Chris and Youngmi, Karen and Tony, and Rob. and to Playa del Carmen, Mexico. In Barbara Barndt Miller lost Wayne on 2020, Joni put shoulder surgery on June 25, 2019. He had several problems hold due to the pandemic but she and and hospital visits but passed peacefully. Jim were able to spend two weeks at They had moved to Pennsylvania toward the Playa del Carmen resort, wearing the end of 2018 and stayed with her face masks during travel. They planned daughter, Ann, until their new home was to spend Christmas 2020 in Virginia ready. Family members, her church, and Beach with daughter Mardy. In 2019 Ann Brooks Coutsoubinas and 17 members Edna Gooch Trudeau ’59 said that of her family vacationed in England and Scotland, where a family christening it is hard to believe we have known each other since August 1955! was held. I heard from Ann again in 2020, and despite the pandemic she was taking things a day at a time. Daughter Anastasia was working for a local drugstore, and every day was hectic with the community into which they moved have been very supportive. In 2020, Barbara met up with Ann in New York. old people demanding their pills. Later We were sorry to learn of the March in 2020, Ann reported that she’s still 2021 death of Arthur Old, widower of No Class Agent classnotes@umw.edu [Editors’ note: Longtime class agent Edna Gooch Trudeau has regretfully resigned as class agent, but she sent a little news for this issue. We are also republishing a selection of notes she sent for the online-only fall/winter 2020 issue. We wish her all the best and thank her for her service to the Class of 1959 and Mary Washington!] volunteering with her Greek church. Lois Gaylord Allen’s son, his wife, and six red-haired grandchildren spent Christmas 2019 with her. She has reduced her volunteer work at the local humane society. She has four cats and two dogs of her own. She dearly misses Howard. 2019 was a year of changes for Mary Eleanor Markham Old. After Eleanor’s death in 2003, Arthur regularly contributed to our Class Notes with humorous and newsy updates about their children and his own life. Irene Piscopo Rodgers had a lot of company in 2019. She took a river cruise and kept up with house repairs. More recently, she reported that she was doing better after a few days in the hospital. Christmas 2020 greetings arrived from several of you. Gloria Winslow Borden went to North Dakota in August with daughters Caroline Borden Kirchner ’82 and Cynthia, who Barbara White Ellis ’59 was doing well but had not been able to ride horses. Martha Spilman Clark and Paul were stuck in Peru – where they have long done mission work and cared for children in need – because of the pandemic. They’re back in the United States now and were enjoying seeing their great-grandchildren. insisted that she visit her 50th state. Frances “Bunky” Bourke Firth Massey, who left her house of 35 years and moved to a senior citizens community two miles away. She loves her grand Ann Watkins Steves let me know she and her husband are doing well, as did Anne Saunders Spilman and her husband. wrote of pandemic get-togethers in apartment and access to grass, trees, Audrey Dubetsky Doyle shared sad driveways, patios, and garages. She space, and privacy. In late 2020 she wrote news of the loss of daughter Jennifer.

I’m so sorry, Audrey. Daughter Tiffany and husband Rick check on Audrey and bring her groceries. 2019 flew by for Kay Rowe Hayes. In May she attended the UMW graduation of grandson Matthew Hayes ’19 (who went on to earn a master’s degree from William & Mary’s Mason School of Business in May 2020). Matthew’s twin brother, John, graduated the same day from Christopher Newport University. They are the sons of Kay’s son Tom and his wife, Tracy. In August, Kay visited sister Susan Rowe Bunting ’64 and Phil in their lake cottage in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Kay’s oldest, Kathy, loves living in Chula Vista, California. Kay’s daughter Karen and husband Harry enjoy life outside Atlanta. Tom and Tracy welcomed their college graduate twins back home while one attended graduate school and the other prepared for a new job. Kay called with an update in February

2020. She was downsizing, and in the book department alone she had enough to start her own Barnes & Noble. In late 2020, she said she was still working on home projects. Jane Coates Littlefield and Mo said son Scott, his wife, Susan, and their children, Chris and Mary Graham, fill their house with much activity and joy. Chris was a high school senior and college-hunting. Mary Graham was looking forward to middle school. Out of the blue, I got a call from Fay Jessup Young, my first-year suitemate. Sadly, she lost Avery in 2018. Two of her children live close, which is a big help. Her oldest granddaughter was touring the Netherlands when the coronavirus showed up, but she arrived home safely. Where are Carol Noakes Robinson, Eugenia “Jean” Ellis Perkins, and Patsy Peterson Griffing? Unfortunately, I could give no answers. Barbara White Ellis was preparing to host a birthday party for a friend, with a limited guest list because of the pandemic. Babs has had two hip replacements and was doing well but had not been able to ride – she was still on her farm but had no horses. She plans to return to horsemanship activities for pleasure only. Although quarantined, Jane Tucker Broadbooks and John really enjoy their senior apartment. John has some health issues but is doing better. Jon Karl drives his dad to weekly kidney dialysis. Jon Karl’s son, Tucker, is a college student and daughter Virginia was finishing high school. Jane and John celebrated their 60th anniversary in June. Jane said Molly Bradshaw Clark is in a senior apartment and still living in Florida. Marcia Phipps Ireland looked forward to her granddaughter’s graduation from Boston University in 2021. Well, my dears, it is hard to believe we have known each other since August 1955. We were all at the beginning of our new lives, and none of us knew what would happen next. Fortunately, we turned out to be an outstanding group of women with exciting careers, good husbands, lovely children, and for some, single, rewarding livelihoods. Thank you for all these years. It has given me great joy to share your stories, read, and write about you. (I tried not to talk about myself, but when Virginia and Lucas arrived, I had to write a sentence or two.) My brain’s wishes do not coincide with my body’s decisions! My macular degeneration is at the point that it is extremely difficult for me to read and write, and I feel I can no longer serve as your class agent. It breaks my heart. It seems I do not have a choice. Please accept my resignation as class agent for 1959. I love you all!

Sally Warwick Rayburn ’59 hopes there will never be another year like 2020 and was grateful to have her little dog, Maggie. 1960 Jody Campbell Close jclose2@cfl.rr.com Karen Larsen Nelson karenlarsennelson60@gmail.com From Karen: We have made it through 2020 and are now partway through 2021. Many of you have written beautiful notes for your electronic birthday card. Thank you. And our news is that each of us is working hard at keeping our body, mind, and soul active and healthy. [Editors’ note: Class agents Jody Campbell Close and Karen Larsen Nelson also submitted notes for the online-only fall/winter 2020 issue. We republish a shortened version here.] Believe it or not, ladies, we received some news even with the COVID-19 quarantine, and here’s the common thread: Staying near home. Taking walks. Church activities on Zoom. Missing family members. Being bored. Doing an exercise program. Enjoying puppy dogs. Those were the activities shared by Pat Garvin Dyke, Gretchen Squires Best, Jan Latven Allnutt, Gray Schaefer Dodson,

Sarah Forsyth Donnelly, Janet Spang

Hess, Emy Steinberg Hyans, Anne Butler Hyde, and Jeanette Meyer Juren. Marilla Mattox Haas can’t remember what day of the week it is now that she is not rehearsing with five different church groups every week. Read more about Marilla on page 28. Sue Smith Goodrick had to cancel a river cruise. Judy Davidson Creasy’s family surprised her with a garden party for her 82nd birthday, and she took a short trip to Sedona, Arizona, for a friend’s birthday. Sherry Farrington Green adopted a kitty. Gail Mooney Grobe was delighted to be able to buy toilet paper. Joanne Lister Jacobs did her own hair for a while and said she looked like Brunhilda from The Valkyrie. Tina Baensch Raver lives in New York City, but during lockdown she and her hubby quarantined at their home on Long Island. Janet Garriss Lewis has moved to a custom-designed, accessible apartment attached to her son’s home. She has finally parted with most of her lifetime collections, saving just enough mementos for her grandchildren. Sally Brown VanDuyne wrote they had tried twice to go to Vermont but hadn’t made it yet. Joyce Neill Krost did not make it to Spain last winter because last August she broke her neck and caught pneumonia, landing in a rehab center. Gaye Roberts Olsen can escape outside on her scooter chair if she stays where staff can see her. Sandy Poole goes to virtual church and helps Barb in her home office. Lucy Wu Wang and Jimmy were stuck in their Palm Springs, California, apartment and couldn’t travel to Shanghai. Penny Engle Burkhardt shared a story about an encounter with rabbits while

Gaye Roberts Olsen ’60 can escape outside on her scooter chair if she stays where community staff can see her.

I had hoped that by the time I submitted to Lookout Mountain for four months this, the dreaded virus would be during lockdown. Daughter May and history. Sadly that isn’t the case, but family have moved to Lookout Mountain we do appear to be moving in the from New York. Now five of her seven right direction with immunization. children live near her. Graham has Maybe by the time you read this we continued to work as a real estate agent, will have received the vaccine. but showing houses has been a challenge. riding her bike, and Penny, Jody, and I had also hoped that the transition from Connie Booth Logothetis to Renee Levinson Laurents and me, Lynn For Christmas, Graham lit her 100-foottall dawn redwood tree with 1,200 lights. She says, “Just call me Clark Griswold!” Karen had a hilarious exchange about it. Williams Neave, would be smooth, Debbie Phinney Stoke is following Jean Eubanks Holland had heart surgery last fall, followed by pneumonia. While recovering, she sold her townhouse and bought a new apartment. Nancy Cleaves Blaydes had glaucoma surgery. Syd Collson Chichester had Mohs surgery for skin cancer she attributes to her sunworshipping days on Mary Washington but Renee had computer issues and was not able to communicate with classmates A-L. I did hear from quite a few in group M-Z. Here goes! Pat Kenny recalled thinking that as a well-rounded human being, one should live in New York City for at least two years. But after living in Washington, masking and distance guidelines and volunteers with her local food pantry packing boxes and answering the phone. She misses contacts with clients. She also misses tennis. Two grandchildren virtually graduated from college last spring, and two more were to graduate this spring. dorm balconies. Syd is proud of daughter D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, she got [Editors’ note: Lynne Williams Holly Chichester, who is landscape and her dream job at the National Institutes Neave and Renee Levinson Laurents grounds manager at Mary Washington of Health and settled in Silver Spring, also prepared notes for the onlineand lives near Syd in Fredericksburg. Maryland, without ever living in NYC. only fall/winter 2020 issue. We Darrell and I, Karen Larsen Nelson, have spent part of each week in our little trailer, “mooch docking” at our friends’ As for the pandemic, she wrote, “The sooner we all listen to the scientists, the sooner we will all get through republish a shortened version here.] Connie Booth Logothetis fractured a vertebra and spent time in a hospital cabin in the cooler mountains in and rehab, sometimes in pain. She Arizona. I’ve also discovered I couldn’t have visitors, so she and can hike again a little – if I stick Lynne Williams Neave ’61 hopes Andy communicated by phone. to old logging roads, which are fairly level. Our greatgrandbaby No. 6 arrived in that by the time you read this we all will have received the vaccine. Sadly, Jean Ryan Farrell passed away May 22. She is survived by her husband, Frank, and three children. Jane Riles’ early May, but by late summer husband, Jim Dietz, passed away Feb. 13.we had only seen pictures. Jody Campbell Close lives alone, so this era on Planet Earth together.” From Connie’s group (Lynne Williams Neave reporting):doesn’t consider herself fully quarantined because if there is an errand to be done there is no one else to do it. But masks do not encourage long, witty conversations, and distancing 6 feet or more doesn’t help the hard of hearing. She stumbled on her father’s World War II diary, written as a young lieutenant and Pearl Harbor survivor. She was able to print a booklet for each family member of his Lloyd Tilton Backstrom and Art spend half their time in Hertford, North Carolina, with their two pups. They meet up with friends – masked and outdoors – about once a month on the grounds of a museum in Richmond, Virginia. They mentally replay past trips and look forward to working on their travel bucket list once it’s safe. Clara Sue Durden Ashley and Clarence had a visit from son Park and his three oldest children. They looked forward to a summertime visit from son Dennis and family, visiting from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where Dennis works for the Navy. Soon after that visit, the Ashleys firsthand accounts of naval engagements Marcy Trembath Pitkin in the South Pacific and in Alaska. lives in a 17th floor apartment in Philadelphia. The son of Graham Walker Burns ’61 1961 New cat Butterscotch keeps her amused. and his family came from England and stayed nearby for four months during Renee Levinson Laurents (A – L) Jane Riles will stay in lockdown. arjle@aol.com San Diego until the virus calms down. Lynne Williams Neave (M – Z) lyneave@aol.com Graham Walker Burns sadly lost sister Ann Walker Abney ’58 planned to drive to Beavercreek, Ohio, Editors’ note: With this issue, we to COVID in September 2020, and that for granddaughter Anwyn’s senior thank retiring class agent Connie made her very scared and careful. She recital – originally scheduled for spring Booth Logothetis for her long service has enjoyed more family time, not less, but delayed by coronavirus. Anwyn to her classmates and alma mater.] since the pandemic began. Son Jim and and another granddaughter, Abby, From Lynne: family came from London, England, graduated from high school in 2020.

Pepper Jacobs Germer and Hank were fortunate not to have been touched by a category 3 tornado in March that flattened 600 homes, a mall, and

an airport in Jonesboro, Arkansas. They were obeying COVID rules and actually enjoying staying home. The pandemic curtailed Jeri Barden Perkins’ travel plans for Italy, Mexico, and Greece. She stayed home but enjoyed Zoom classes, especially those from UMW. She wrote: “The pandemic has offered me the opportunity of using my voice for my community, the university, and NPR. It has taught me that I can live with less and have even greater appreciation for what I have. During the AIDS epidemic I was on the front lines seeing patients in a free clinic. During this pandemic I was afforded the opportunity of using my voice and the importance and power of messaging.” Maddy Contis Marken cleaned the refrigerator, scrubbed the shower stall, and baked bread. “Now that those chores are done, I probably won’t do them again for a long time,” she wrote. She took up sketching, reconditioned her bike, and has worked part time doing telehealth. From Renée: Mary Hatcher shared some pandemic and mask-wearing observations: “You have not lived unless you have had your hair cut wearing a mask, but it can be done. If you wear hearing aids, as I do, taking them out is the only way to wear both a mask and sunglasses at the same time.” On a much sadder note, she lost a sister-in-law to a non-COVID issue, and was heartbroken that her brother was not able to be with his wife while she was in the hospital for nine weeks. Margaretta Kirksey Bir was glad her Alabama county was requiring masks. Both of her daughters have autoimmune diseases, and her son-in-law and son’s oldest daughter have severe allergies. She was angry that mask-wearing had been turned into a freedom of speech issue, and that the U.S. hadn’t been able to devise strategies to contain the virus. “Once Americans went to the moon; now we can’t even go to Europe,” she wrote. Residents of Marcia Minton Keech’s retirement community in Winchester, Virginia, decided to grow vegetables in cottage gardens and on balconies as a way of coping with quarantine. Now they all have plenty of fresh vegetables, and the dining chef is thrilled! Marcia and Bill were faring well but missed seeing their children. Sandra Judkins Armitage was at Mary Washington for just two years but enjoys reading our class news. The pandemic brings thoughts of her grandmother, who lost two children to the 1918 flu. Betty Pace Rose attended Mary Washington for a year and loved living in Trench Hill even though the distance from other residence halls made it difficult to meet many people. Like many of you I, Renée Levinson Laurents, am finding quarantine just not easy. I read a lot, watch TV a lot (including Hamilton – Lin-Manuel Miranda is beyond gifted). My book club now meets on Zoom. A friend since junior high school lives nearby in Santa Monica, and I visit her and her husband in their large backyard, sitting 10 feet apart. I also escape these four walls by taking a drivethrough lunch to the ocean and gazing out at the Pacific. My cats help a lot. Sadly, in May my cute little rescue dog ran out as I got the mail. A huge husky attacked her before I could get to her,

and even with surgery the emergency veterinarian was not able to save her. The attack happened one year to the day after my dog Buddy died. The universe is telling me not to get another dog, I guess. From Lynne: I have been extremely fortunate during these hard times to escape New York City for a place in northern Connecticut. There are marvelous places to hike, plus I have great neighbors for occasional distant socializing. Sue Wilson Sproul, husband Dave, and dog Cooper returned to Virginia to be near three children and three grandchildren. They moved to a continuing-care community on the south side of Richmond in January and barely got to know other residents before the shutdown in March. Sue observed Richmond’s removals of Confederate statues with interest. She wrote, “Yes, Monument Avenue was ‘lovely’ to our eyes, but we have been insensitive to what [the statues] represent to so many others. Time marches on.” Lynne Wilson Rupert started 2020 with a cruise to Mexico to celebrate her 80th birthday and thought it was going to be a great year. She wrote, “Well, it has certainly turned out to be a memorable one!” Janie Riles doesn’t leave the house for anything. She plays online bridge and signed up for a Cornell Lab of Ornithology online class to learn about the birds in her garden. She enjoys Zoom sessions with artist groups. And she’s finally cleaned out her garage. Elizabeth “Bitsy” Wright Coxe has used her pandemic confinement to watch operas streamed from the Met Opera and art history lessons via the Frick Museum. She’s been reading a book a week, tending her orchids, cooking more than she has in years, and walking every day in her country neighborhood. Polly Updegraff Champ’s husband, Dan, had a hard 2019 with vision, hearing, and health issues, and they didn’t go to Florida for the first time in 22 years. They stayed in Connecticut and have had a lot of help from Polly’s stepdaughter, Theresa.

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had to learn how to walk again after a broken pelvis and two surgeries on the same hip. Daughter Jane moved in for a time to help and still comes once a week to do Eleanore’s shopping, though Eleanore is now comfortable alone. As for Eleanore’s other children, Jude, who

Pepper Jacobs Germer ’61

was fortunate not to have been touched by a category 3 tornado in Arkansas that flattened 600 homes, a mall, and an airport. Jeri Barden Perkins stayed home but enjoyed Zoom classes, especially those from UMW.

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lives in Milan, had come out of lockdown but still couldn’t I see them bloom, for me and you travel. Willard was able to be Kathleen Crothers Terrell ’62 and And I think to myself with family in Cincinnati while her husband manage the Great What a wonderful world.doing grant-funded research on 18th-century Russian history. Peggy Howard Hodgkins had Southern Ranch in Texas. 1963 completed a 14-day Panama by route of Joan Akers Rothgeb and Linkey Booth Green Canal cruise and was in Palm Springs visiting a niece when the pandemic forced her to cut her winter travels short and head back to Maine. In May son Greg and his wife joined Peggy in her lake house for two months of quarantining Marcia Kirstein Fitzmaurice. Kathleen Crothers Terrell and her husband live in Stephenville, Texas, and manage a cattle ranch, the Great Southern Ranch. They have three daughters and four grandchildren. One daughter lives on the linkeyg@embarqmail.com Linda Gulnac Steelman sent sad news of the loss of husband Bill on Feb. 4, 2020, after a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. They had planned to move to a together. They had weekend visits from ranch. As I recall, Kathleen grandchildren and great-grands. Peggy’s majored in Spanish at Mary sister Jean and family spent time in July at her camp next door, and sister Joanne Washington and lived in Spain our junior year. I can imagine Linda Gulnac Steelman ’63 enjoys and her husband visited for two weeks. they are familiar with Eddy Arnold’s Cattle Call. book groups and a bell choir that practices outside at her new 1962 Patricia Mackey Taylor was in Philadelphia for the birth of continuing-care community. Kathleen Sprenkle Lisagor a granddaughter, the child of klisagor@yahoo.com her youngest son, Daniel, and [Editors’ note: Kathleen Sprenkle Lisagor his wife. continuing-care community in Kennett prepared notes for the online-only fall/ Pat also shared the news that she lost her Square, Pennsylvania; Linda did move winter 2020 issue. We republish a sister Martha Mackey deMontpellier ’71 there in June. She likes the community shortened version here.] unexpectedly in September 2019, for and beautiful wooded campus, and has Dear classmates. Just how are you doing? Your news is so scarce! For our happy 80th birthdays do you often feel like the 1960s era has come again? We were living such a world of events as a vaccine for polio with sugar cubes, the ongoing struggle for which we send our heartfelt sympathies. Sympathies also to family and friends of our classmate Carolyn Livingstone, who passed away Sept. 10, 2020. As emails and correspondence seem especially tough on us now, I want to reflect on our MWC days. been able to join book groups and a bell choir that practices outside. I am so sorry for your loss, Linda, but I, Linkey Booth Green, am glad you are close by me. Perhaps we can get together once the COVID issue ends. Mary A. Settle Johnson, my freshman civil rights, the Cuban crisis, traumatic I still cherish those seated dinners and roomie, had a recurrence of her cancer assassinations, and Vietnam. At least we can just imagine the beautiful choir but had successful treatment. She still lies were heartened by the Space Age and Neil and orchestral concerts. The majestic in Panama City Beach, Florida. Armstrong on the moon. Let us not forget the invasion of the Beatles singing Yesterday and I Want to Hold Your Hand! Music was a great part of the spirit of the ’60s, and much of it has a haunting revival with our youth today, especially with their technical skills. Just think about those folk song lyrics and the emotion in Bridge Over Troubled Water as well as Yesterday, When I Was Young, and Elvis singing “but I can’t help falling in love with you.” Music knows no borders, and it heals also. sounds of the great organ pipes in George Washington Hall were just fantastic for the entrance of Dr. Simpson and staff! As a piano and organ music major, I truly appreciate the unique experiences and professors. My career has allowed me to share with many, including my talented daughter, Amy, and granddaughter, Kelly Burcher. This spring Kelly was voted the middle school teacher of the year in Manassas, where she has taught for six years while completing her master’s degree. They both have helped me to tackle FaceTime [Editors’ note: Linkey Booth Green also prepared notes for the online-only fall/ winter issue. We republish a shortened version here.] Betty Caudle Marshall shared the sad news that her husband, Tom, passed away April 29, 2020. Some UMW friends called him “Precious Tom.” Last fall Betty and Tom had hosted some of his friends from elementary school who were also Mary Washington alumnae, including Anne Marchant Long and Betsey Burke Christian. Betty also heard A fascinating message has just arrived teaching with my students, also. Kathleen Sprenkle Lisagor ’62 I’m looking forward to seeing some ol’ faces and our 60th reunion. No Class Agent? wonders if others felt like the upheaval of the 1960s had come again last summer. In the meantime in this crazy world, think on the winning words of Louis Armstrong: I see leaves of green, red roses too Your classmates still want to hear from you! Send news directly to classnotes@umw.edu.

from Betsy Chamberlain Hartz and Virginia Walker Jarvis. Elizabeth “Ibby” Le Sueur retired from teaching and lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Susan Rowe Bunting susan.bunting@gmail.com I hope you are well and like many of us, coping with the isolation, social distancing, and mask-wearing to stay safe. I, Susan Rowe Bunting, feel fortunate to be retired and living in a

rural community where folks check on and take care of one another. It’s amazing how long my husband and I can now last on the groceries we have in our home without the usual weekly shopping. We look forward to warmer weather and vaccine availability for all. After living for 30 years near the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, Margaret Goode Watkins downsized to a condo in Alexandria, Virginia, last April. She is closer to her son and his family, and closer to Mary Washington roommates Jane Showker Capehart in Winchester, Virginia, and Betsy Johnson Rule in Richmond. Susan Armistead Evageliou and Harry live in Ellington, Connecticut. Susan enjoys tutoring and challenged herself to manage online teaching. Susan and Harry look forward to resuming community theater musical productions once things get back to normal. They were in rehearsals for Mamma Mia when COVID shut down the production. The pandemic forced son George to temporarily close his New York City business, Urban Homecraft, but he’s been able to reopen. Son Nick is a pediatric oncologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In Northern Virginia, Patti Jones Schact feels fortunate to live on a small lake where she can see wildlife. She has used the pandemic time for reading; long, lazy naps; and catching up with friends via phone, Zoom, and FaceTime. Sadly, she shared news of the January 2020 passing of classmate Susan Jonas. Victoria Taylor Allen has lived in Westchester County, New York, for 50 years and downsized to a condo there in November 2019. Though much of New York’s cultural life shut down due to COVID, she notes that many museums were open by appointment. Victoria writes, “We New Yorkers are very faithfully following the mask mandates. You are not allowed to enter our shops without a mask and can be fined a great deal of money if you don’t wear it.” Victoria keeps in touch with Sally Crenshaw Witt in Richmond, Virginia. Judy Trevvett Lair and husband Bob of Columbus, North Carolina, moved four miles to a continuing-care community in December 2020. The Lairs, married 58 years, are active in their church via Zoom and in the local Rotary Club. They also support their local hospital. [Editors’ note: Susan Rowe Bunting also prepared notes for the online-only fall/winter 2020 issue. We republish a shortened version here.] Melinda Watterson attended Mary Washington for two years but went to Oklahoma University for her junior and senior years to be with her high school sweetheart, Chuck. They married in 1963 and had a wonderful 42 years together before Chuck died unexpectedly in 2005. In 2007 Melinda met John, a widower, and they married four years later. They have a blended family of three daughters and sons-in-law, four grandsons, and a granddaughter. Melinda would love to reconnect with roommates Francine Zuzzolo Taylor, Diane Smith, Martha Moore Townsend, and Verna Carlson Hawk, and riding buddy Carolyn Kendall. Barbara Ioanes has continued her work on community service art projects, including refurbishing of the Marilyn Monroe mural in northwest Washington, D.C. Kay Pannell Howe shared sad news of the death of her husband, Norton, of cancer. Our sympathy goes out to her and her family. Phil and I, Susan Rowe Bunting, recently adopted a 6-year-old boxer dog, Hettie, who has added excitement and interest to our self-isolation. Thankfully, I am now forced to take walks many times a day – sorely needed.

Susan Rowe Bunting ’64 adopted Hettie, a 6-year-old boxer dog who has added excitement and interest to her self-isolation.

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[Editors’ note: Former class agent Phyllis Cavedo Weisser submitted notes for the online-only fall/winter 2020 issue. We republish them here.] This is my last submission as class agent. I, Phyllis Cavedo Weisser, have enjoyed hearing from so many of you over the last almost 20 years. If you would like to serve as class agent, or to share news or notice of a death of one of our classmates, write to classnotes@umw.edu. If you have news to share directly with me or those on my mailing list, please continue to send those to me at pcweisser@yahoo.com. Like many others, Felicity Hallanan was disappointed that we couldn’t visit campus for our 55th reunion. She noted that 2020 will be remembered for events in our lives that did not happen, as well as those that did. In summer 2019, someone drove through three rooms of Lee Smith Musgrave’s home. The car went through the garage door and the mudroom and came to a stop in the guest bathroom – all while Lee was in the house. Her home was declared uninhabitable until a structural engineer declared it safe for repair. She took refuge with a neighbor for 11 days. In November, she and a neighbor enjoyed a Caribbean cruise, a welcome relief from the home-repair chaos. But summer 2020 brought more strife. Lee stepped off her scale and her femur cracked. She had surgery that day, and a rod and two screws were inserted to hold the bone together. She hoped to go home from rehab in mid-August. Janice Helvey Robinson and Rob are still in the Atlanta area, with their children close by. Their weekly visits are now driveway visits or Zoom meetings. They decided several years ago to travel in the United States and have been to Jackson Hole, Vail, Mount Rushmore, and Glacier

Linda Patterson Hamilton ’65 is writing a novel set in Virginia.

National Park. Their last outing was a New Orleans-to-Memphis cruise on the Mississippi River. No more travel plans until we get a vaccine! Meanwhile they play bridge online and record their church choir pieces individually, to be put together into a virtual performance. Linda Patterson Hamilton has been cancer-free for nearly two years, and she and husband Austin celebrated their 53rd anniversary in June. She’s participated in a weekly Zoom meeting of Tremble Clefs, a Parkinson’s disease singing therapy that strengthens vocal and swallowing functions. She is also writing a novel set in Virginia. Carol Meese continues to paint and exhibit. Her latest body of work was done during the stay-home phase of the pandemic. Margaret Cobourn Robinson and Kenny spent January to March in Vero Beach, Florida. Margaret’s brother passed away June 16, but they were blessed to fly out to Seattle to see him the week before. Kathie Drake Burgess practiced family law for 20 years and specialized in helping victims of domestic violence. Cheryl Gonzales Yancey just retired for the second time. On a sad note, we have lost several classmates recently. Sara Rieger Trub sent news that Phyllis Eure Rodrigues passed away on April 17 due to complications from COVID-19. It was very sudden, and her family was relieved that she did not suffer a prolonged illness. The nursing home director said she was wheeling around and being her funny, warm, and friendly self that very morning, and the staff was shocked and heartbroken. Saralyn Judd Pinson passed away in December 2018. Gertrude “Trudy” Kitchin Kohl passed away Oct. 6, 2019. Margaret Cobourn Robinson and Trudy were roommates sophomore year, and Meg was able to see Trudy a few days before she passed. Ed Amsbury wrote that Carole Dirling Amsbury passed away July 30, 2020.

While hunkered down, Mary Kathryn Rowell Horner ’66 sorted photos from our college days and posted many on the MWC 1966 Facebook page.

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Anne Powell Young collects Nativity sets, and the newest addition was a canine Katharine Rogers Lavery Nativity with a miniature Schnauzer like hlavery1@cox.net Barbara Bishop Mann and husband Robert celebrated Christmas quietly at home with a carry-out turkey Last fall, Catherine Cantwell Luria ’66 returned to Mexico, where she can dinner from Wegmans. Bobbi dine outside year-round. has traveled nowhere during the pandemic. Her only outings were trips to the gym to work with her personal trainer, who her doggie, Meg. Anne and Virgil planned has taught her to do a 30-second plank. a quiet, Zoom-only family Christmas in Carolyn Eldred has witnessed a burst the woods in Stafford, Virginia. of creativity and cooperation with Pam Kearney Patrick had sequestered ten months of Zooming – ElderStudy at home since March and depleted the sessions, meetings, social events and honey-do list. She and TaB connected even an occasional theater performance, with friends and family on FaceTime but all online. Carolyn is a member of The had to cancel a surprise 50th birthday Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, party for their son. Two of Pam’s which held its 50th annual Christmas watercolors sold during the limited Candlelight House Tour thanks to a summer season before all the art shows cellphone app, digitalized information, went digital for the rest of the year. Pam and an exterior-only tour of decorated met Ambler Carter at the Philadelphia historic homes. Carolyn looked forward flower show in March, before everything to a Zoom-free 2021. shut down. Mary Kathryn Rowell Horner and Anne Kales Lindblom and husband Steve husband Charlie spent most of 2020 in sailed their yacht from Northern Virginia Florida on COVID lockdown, returning through the Chesapeake Bay and along to Alexandria, Virginia, in October. the Intracoastal Waterway to winter While hunkered down in the condo, lodging down south, returning home in Mary Kathryn sorted out old photos time for the holidays. from our college days and posted many of them on our MWC 1966 Facebook page. Anne Meade Clagett was going out and about a wee bit more often in Fauquier County, experiencing less stress than last spring. Her two pods of local girlfriends managed outdoor lunches every month. Anne wrote, “I don’t know how to use TikTok, but I can write in cursive, do long division, and tell time on clocks with hands. So there’s that!” Elaine Gerlach McKelly and husband Tim returned from two weeks in Key West shortly before the pandemic lockdown began. Their retirement community has walking trails and indoor swimming, but the campus was closed to visitors because of COVID. They got together with their children and grandchildren, masked and distanced, in a nearby park. Two grandchildren graduated from college in May without ceremonies; the other five Catherine Cantwell Luria spent six returned to college with many online months living near her daughter’s family classes. Their youngest granddaughter is in Portland, Oregon, before she and at Mary Washington and loves it. Eric returned to Mexico at the end of September. The weather in their Mexican village is nice enough for outdoor dining year-round. Daughter Sacha, a teacher, and her three children all did their schooling by Zoom. The staff of Tom and Kathy Goddard Moss’ conscientious California retirement community provides Zoom exercise classes, writing groups, and chorus. Meals are brought to their door; van drivers do their shopping; and they can Sandra Hutchison Schanné had a visit (masked and distanced) or listen to houseful for Christmas. Son Brandon music in the courtyard. They did leave the and his family traveled from Texas to grounds to drive their presidential election spend the holidays with her, their first ballots to a dropbox! In September, when visit in two years. Daughter Amy, a nurse sister Eileen Goddard Albrigo broke her practitioner, stayed in Denver and carried hip (no surgery required), Kathy tested on with virtual schooling for her three negative for COVID then flew to Virginia children.

Human Resources Executive Keeps Giving Back

When James Llewellyn ’87 As Masonite’s vice president course, or helping our manufacturing was a senior, the of global total rewards, Llewellyn workers understand employee psychology suite in manages a team of 25 that benefits programs, Mary Washington Chandler Hall – where the University handles executive compensation, has always guided me,” he said. Center now stands – was voted one of incentive plans, benefit plans, In his profession, Llewellyn has the top 10 favorite campus hangout human resources systems, and focused on helping leaders motivate spots by Mary Washington students. payroll for employees throughout employees to excel at their jobs and

“The professors were so North America and worldwide. His reach their goals. It’s no wonder he’s engaging and fun; learning from team also works with vendors and chosen to do the same for UMW them was truly a gift,” said Llewellyn, supports front-line human resources students and alumni. He encourages who credits psychology faculty, staff. He’s found that his background them to reflect upon what Mary including retired professors Debra in psychology has been incredibly Washington has given them and how Steckler and Steve Hampton and the beneficial in the field of human they can give back to the university late Topher Bill, as strong positive resources. and future Eagles. influences on his college experience.

The exceptional liberal arts education Llewellyn received from Mary Washington is why he continues to give back to his alma mater. Now a seasoned humanresources professional, he applies Lessons learned at psychology in his work in the private Mary Washington sector, and he’s happy to share have served James his experience and advice with Llewellyn well in his psychology majors – in 2019 he was human resources the Department of Psychological career and helped him Sciences’ graduate-in-residence. make a positive impact

Llewellyn and his wife, Deborah, on others. have established a merit scholarship for psychology majors and contribute annually to the Fund for Mary Washington.

“We are proud to help Mary Washington provide the highest quality, most affordable education possible,” said Llewellyn, who also volunteered with annual giving campaigns as a college student.

And he serves on the Alumni Association Board of Directors as vice president of finance and alumni giving.

After graduating with honors “How humans communicate, what “Find a way to make a positive in 1987, Llewellyn pursued a creates engagement and inclusion, impact in life,” Llewellyn said. “Do master’s degree in industrial and what drives motivation to perform this through your work or with your organizational psychology from Old beyond expectations on the job … resources – time and money – and Dominion University. Early in his all of these concepts are core to start by being charitable with career, he taught human resources psychology,” Llewellyn said. organizations that are meaningful to 36 UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON MAGAZINE SPRING/SUMMER 2021’87 graduate courses for several years while working in the corporate world. In 2012, he joined Masonite International Corp., a global door manufacturer based in Tampa, Florida. you. Every dollar and every hour you give can help make a difference in others’ lives.” – Jill Graziano Laiacona ’04 Through it all, he credits his college education, especially the writing and research skills he now uses every day. “Whether I’m presenting to senior executives, facilitating a training

Kathy Goddard Moss ’66 left home only to drive her presidential election ballot to a dropbox!

background for his 80th birthday while wore her academic regalia, awarded a he was quarantined in their basement. makeshift diploma, and hosted a Zoom Once COVID-free, Terry flew to Chicago party. to visit her daughter. Terry self-published Brother Steve Stories, about her older brother’s eventful life, and published Mystical Pieces of Me about her own Marty Spigel Sedoff and Bob were staying isolated. They looked after Bob’s mother, who lives nearby in her own home. experiences. Ginny Bateman Brinkley used her to help out with the Albrigo clan’s busy schedule and enjoy some “twin time.” Susan Hanes Chaney and Bill concentrated on caring for their home, garden, and animals, and focused on all the positive aspects of their quiet life I, Katharine Rogers Lavery, and family rescheduled our Outer Banks beach vacation to July 2021 and stayed home all of 2020. Hank continued managing a small office building in Falls Church while I tutored geometry, precalculus, and trig on FaceTime and occasionally quarantine time to write poems for kids, published in May by BellAire Press. Granddaughter Brittany Hewitt performed her senior recital at Juilliard in February 2020 with 17 family members in attendance – the last performance before the pandemic. in the Northern Neck of Virginia. For Bill’s birthday they took a sightseeing flight over the area, remarking on how much beautiful water there is, though recorded trumpet music for our church’s online services. We welcomed a new grandnephew in August and a greatgrandson in December. Calls, Judy Wells Clark has continued playing music for church and teaching piano, in person or through FaceTime. vulnerable to climate change. When the messages, and occasional library closed due to the pandemic, Susan purchased a Kindle and enjoyed reading many good books. porch visits with family and friends were great, but we all hope COVID restrictions will Terry Caruthers ’66 published Brother Steve Stories about her Annette Maddra Horner used COVID be lifted and togetherness can brother’s life, and Mystical Pieces of time for her landscaping project of be restored. Me about her own experiences.removing and replacing invasive plantings [Editors’ note: Katharine with native trees, shrubs, and perennials. Rogers Lavery also submitted Two nieces started a group text including notes for the online-only Annette, two sisters, and adult children. Annette made field trips to visit her sister, a master naturalist who shares her country acres, beaver pond, and knowledge. Annette also participated in Zoom chapel and masked and distanced patio parties with neighbors and family. fall/winter 2020 issue. We republish a shortened version here.] After waiting five years for a San Diego retirement community to be completed, Dee Dee Nottingham Ward and Nat finally moved last February. While working at home, Jana Privette Usry completed at least eight mediation cases via conference calls, fax, and computer. Sally Souder missed her annual lunch meeting with Gerry Sargent Habas, with whom she keeps in close touch. Yvonne March and husband Chris were spending the holidays at home with virtual family connections. Yvonne, Betsy Chappelear Tryon, Katharine Rogers Lavery, and Susan Roth Nurin were saddened to learn of the April They adjusted to the change from the large house they had for 46 years to a 1,400-square-foot apartment. In March 2020 (pre-shutdown) Mary Kathryn Rowell Horner attended a Winnie Woodson Stribling researched patterns for face masks and made them before it became a requirement. She and husband Brad sheltered in place. Daughter Sarah lives with them and runs necessary errands. 2020 passing of their Spanish Yvonne Hutchinson March managed House housemate, Carolyn Corwin Thomas ’67. Diana Hamilton Cowell had an eventful 2019 and a reflective 2020. In October 2019 she and Dan traveled to The Dalles, Oregon, to which Annette Maddra Horner ’66 used COVID time to replace invasive plantings with native trees, shrubs, and perennials. to visit her son and daughter-in-law in Columbus, Ohio, in March 2020, just before all flights were canceled. Yvonne kept in touch with Susan Roth Nurin, who was feeling restricted in her NYC apartment, missing concerts, arts activities, and bilingual tours. her father’s ancestors had emigrated along the Oregon Trail in 1846. Now that she has hearing aids, Diana has discovered she is no longer surrounded by mumblers. In 2020, she and Dan enjoyed experiences luncheon hosted by Mary Grace Wright Day with President Troy Paino, Kelly Paino, and other Mary Washington alumni. Betsy Chappelear Tryon’s son, Frank, shares her townhouse and does the shopping and errands. Daughter Maureen lives nearby with granddaughter Maddy home from college doing online classes. in “the best little beach in Delaware” Joan Cuccias Patton managed to stay and looked forward to more joyful times ahead. isolated during a kitchen renovation and carefully disinfected everything each Let us hear from you! Terry Caruthers had both knees evening, per her children’s instructions. Deadlines for submissions replaced, caught COVID in the hospital and shared it with her sister (both recovered well), and did an oil painting In May, Midge Meredith Poyck and family conducted a backyard graduation ceremony for a granddaughter who was to class agents: July 15, 2021 • Dec. 9, 2021 of Don’s saxophone with a sheet music headed to college last August. Midge

practice, doing only urgent escape to their boat on the St. Johns River

Katharine Rogers Lavery ’66 said a huge, magical “Happy Birthday” sign appeared in the front yard the morning of her 75th birthday. surgeries and seeing patients who needed his physical presence for treatments. I, Katharine Rogers Lavery, spent the summer working on in Florida. Sadly, Doris Smith Parrish passed away in July 2020 from leukemia. Wilhelmina Endicott Perrine passed away in January 2020 after five-year struggle with ALS, the house, yard, and garden, also called Lou Gehrig’s disease. Kitty Down Gregg and husband Don stayed isolated at home, disappointed that son Chris and his fiancée had to postpone their wedding. keeping a close eye on the bird feeders, four fox kits, and twin fawns living in the backyard. A magical huge stand-up Happy Birthday sign appeared in the front yard the morning of my 75th [Editors’ note: Mary Beth Bush Dore also submitted notes for the online-only fall/winter 2020 issue. We republish a shortened version here.] Pat Lewars Pace and Linda Glynn birthday, and Hank and I celebrated our Hutchinson had planned a trip to 25th anniversary with a dinner of homeGermany to see the once-in-every-10years Oberammergau passion play. The trip was postponed until 2022. Katie Winn Green visited her son and caught crabs from our son’s river house. Tyla Matteson and husband Glen stayed home for months. She kept busy with Sierra Club meetings, all virtual, and Laurie Newman DiPadovaStocks ’67 has six children, 16 grandchildren, and seven greatfamily in Cardiff, Wales, last Christmas worked on local races in Hampton and grandchildren. before they moved to Sydney, Australia, Newport News, helping to elect several in February. Unable to visit them in environmental champions. Tyla and Australia this year, and with her choral group concert canceled, Katie picked up her acoustic guitar and practiced enough to build up finger calluses. Susanne Landerghini Boehm stay in touch. Susanne also heard from Kate Ginman, who had spent many years traveling abroad working with the armed Sarah Nabstedt Barnes and her husband live in San Diego and enjoy lovely weather and the mighty Pacific. Caroline Hogeland Ruppar and husband Allan flew to South Africa in February for 10 days including a safari and embarked on a scheduled 28-day cruise up the east coast of Africa and across the Indian Ocean. But the pandemic closed ports, and the 1,000 passengers and crew spent two weeks on the ship. They finally forces and is now retired. Kate relayed the sad news of the passing of her roommate, Linda Johnson Williams, from ovarian cancer in May 2020. We heard from Cherie Wells Brumfield in the summer and were shocked and saddened to learn that she passed away Sept. 6, 2020. We also remember our Laurie Newman DiPadova-Stocks and Hugh relocated from Parkville, Missouri, to Gilbert, Arizona, where Laurie is assigned to her university’s new branch campus. Together, she and Hugh have six children, 16 grandchildren, and as of June 26, seven great-grandchildren. She spoke recently with Florence Bishop. departed from Muscat, Oman, knowing classmate Barbara Ann Green, who Once local COVID restrictions eased, that they were safe because they had passed away May 6, 2020. And we Yvonne J. Milspaw and husband Douglas been quarantined aboard. Caroline and send condolences to Sandra Hutchison Evans were able to visit in person with Allan traveled 38 hours through four Schanné on the loss of her husband, their 3-year-old grandson, and Douglas international airports to get home. Richard, on June 6, 2020. took him flying in his private small plane. Genie McClellan Hobson spent much of her quarantine time sewing masks for the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, writing postcards to voters, and 1967 Mary Beth Bush Dore Yvonne was at work on arrangements for a planned fall 2021 meeting of the American Folklore Society in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Zooming with family. Genie was able to mbeth1945@gmail.com Charlotte Gregg Morgan’s poetry keep working as a Realtor while she and Don quarantined. Linda Mitchell Spiers retired as rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Collinsville, Connecticut, and traveled for the fourth time to Israel and Palestine. In August 2019 Linda was appointed interim priestin-charge at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Essex, Connecticut, and continues Christine Brooks had cataract surgery in fall 2020. She’s enjoyed taking pictures of the lakes in Reston, Virginia, during her daily walks. Ginger Blackwell Rigsby and John had planned 2020 travel to China and Russia via the Silk Road. Though the pandemic postponed their trips, they were able to chapbook Time Travel was published by Finishing Line Press in August. The memoir Are You Gregg’s Mother? was to be published by Legacy Book Press in 2021. Alexis “Lex” Ball Smith is mom to two and grandma to four, and she anticipated the arrival of her first great-grandchild in August 2020. to serve full time. Worship services continued via livestream, with meetings and programs via Zoom. Eileen Goddard Albrigo opened their home pool at the end of May, a welcome antidote for the COVID doldrums. The Katie Winn Green ’66 picked up her acoustic guitar and practiced enough to build up finger calluses. Gayle Atwood Channel and husband Warren drove from Portsmouth, Virginia, to visit while I, Mary Beth Bush Dore, was in rehab in Beaufort, South Carolina. We had a grandkids visited in shifts and mostly wonderful dinner visit. stayed outdoors, social distancing. Husband John continued his medical

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Daughter Ginger Dore Marshall ’94 and I met with UMW Development Officer Elizabeth Waters Hunsinger ’01 to find out about the new things happening at Mary Washington. Husband Casey and I have stayed at home as Ginger and the governor of South Carolina wanted us to do. Ginger took family leave to care for Casey after his back operation and me as I prepared for another hip operation. Virginia, where she has lots of flower beds and an excellent vegetable garden. She has been drawing in pastels for fun but nothing like her dear friend and artist Mel Wittig Neale, who has been a prizewinning exhibiting artist since our Mary Washington days. Julie Deane Webb lives in Connecticut. She and husband Rick miss daughter Mary, who lives in the Seattle area with her husband and two boys. Son Josh and family live in the Boston area. Julie had hip replacement surgery in October 2019 and by spring was able to lift and squat in her garden like she used to! She remembers our 50th reunion with affection and hopes we can get together again soon. Leneice Wu writes that shortly after our

50th reunion, she and husband John Thomas (married in 2013 after both being widowed in 2005) moved to a continuing-care community in Northern Virginia. It was not a minute too soon, as John needed skilled nursing care after his third surgery to repair a broken kneecap. She bought a condo in Vermont to continue downhill skiing as long as possible and to be closer to her son and his wife and her only grandchild, 4-yearold Lucas. Daughter Emily lives in California and was an unemployed pandemic Equity stage manager with an employed husband, which is good! Leneice says moving to a small community of 2,000 is a little like starting college. It does take a while to get used to all the rules!

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Iris Harrell, who have so ably taken on this responsibility in recent years. We now know how much fun it is, but it does come with some effort! Jean Polk Hanky was thankful to isolate with her husband of 48 years in a downsized house near all of their eight children, from whom they received lots of drive-by visits during the pandemic. Alec and Betty Olander Adams moved from their farm of 22 years in Maryland to a new farm in Fauquier County, Virginia, last October. “Totally different lifestyle, but glad Alec achieved his dream retirement.” Betty’s MWC roommate, Chris Phillips Farhood, and her son, Nick, caught COVID independently in New York City. Nick recovered well, but Chris experienced lingering exhaustion and Dale Saunders Kalkofen ’68 enjoyed summer in isolation on her has shifted her psychotherapy practice to an all-Zoom format. She’s finished her home painting studio and calls painting Meg Livingston Asensio meglala46@gmail.com Virginia farm, where she has lots of flower beds and an excellent and cooking her COVID-vanquishers. It’s no surprise that Iris Harrell has been [Editors’ note: Sally Monroe Kelly submitted notes for the online-only fall/winter 2020 issue. We republish a shortened version here.] vegetable garden. busy during the pandemic. She’s on the building committee at her 3,500-home retirement community in California, and they recently completed several major projects. Iris and wife Ann Benson, who Frances Rodgers Bryant shared the sad will celebrate their 42nd anniversary in news of the death of husband Julian May, bought a second home six hours on July 14. Besides Frances, daughter north in Ashland, Oregon, (home of the Jennifer Bryant Langdale ’91, son Shakespeare Festival) to have a place to William, and four grandchildren survive escape to during the fire season. him. 2019 was a banner travel year for Susan Morris and Don, with trips to the Panama Canal, Amsterdam, and London. 2020 began the same way, with Chris Phillips Farhood ’69 experienced lingering exhaustion travels to Atlanta and south Florida, after COVID and has shifted her and a Caribbean cruise. They went into psychotherapy practice to an all-lockdown in mid-March. “Really glad Don and I actually LIKE each other!” Zoom format. Susan wrote. Dale Saunders Kalkofen’s extensive travels have included two long pilgrimage Maria Canizares Daski and Lyn Howell hikes: El Camino de Santiago in 2016 Gray both checked in with us and and a hike through Scotland to England’s promised to share in a future issue. Holy Island in 2018, both with small groups from her church in Richmond. She enjoyed this past summer in isolation on Shadowland Farm in Powhatan County, 1969 Anne Hoskot Kreutzer annekreutzer@hotmail.com Debbie Morrison Gibson and husband Frank celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2019. Debbie had a 38-year career as a flight attendant with Pan Am and Delta, and Frank is a retired pilot. Last year Debbie and Anne Hoskot Kreutzer, Leneice Wu ’68 says moving to a Marianne deBlois Zentz freshman and sophomore MWC small continuing-care community is a little like starting college. MdeBZ@verizon.net As your new class agents, we shout out roommates, reconnected. Debbie lives in Arlington, Virginia, a block from where Anne’s family lived when she was huge thanks to Linda Eadie Hood and in college.

February 2020 fall. By January Ruth Jones Pierce was in the Class of

Nancy Yeager Allard ’69 read stories to her 6-year-old grandson 2021 she was finally able to walk by herself, but her ankle was still swollen and she was 1970 but finished a year early with our class. She and her husband have lived in Chesterfield County, Virginia, since via FaceTime. not allowed to drive. Eadie, we 1969. Ruth retired in 2003 after a 33know everyone joins us in the year career teaching special education. sincere hope that by the time They have two sons and two wonderful Dianne Johnson Clover married a you read this in the magazine, grandsons.Marine and has lived in Texas for 51 years. She retired from teaching, and you are fully healed. Carol Hewitt Guida reports that her husband Carl retired from law practice. Nancy Gleason has done graphite family is safe and well in Canberra, A planned 2020 cruise to the Baltics drawing and oil painting for the past Australia. She keeps in touch with U.S. was canceled, but they were able to take six years. During a safari in Africa friends by email, has lots of Zoom four of their five grandchildren to Lake in October of 2019 her group visited meetings, and reads The Washington Buchanan, in the Hill Country of Texas, Tanzania and Rwanda, where they saw Post and The New York Times every for swimming and exploring. gorillas in their natural habitat. Nancy morning. Pam Hogan Baynard found Roman Art and Architecture while cleaning out her bookshelves during the pandemic. From the inscription “E. Watters, Mason 120, Ext 485,” she realized she’d had and Gary, her partner of 18 years, got in four weeks of skiing out West in February and March 2020, getting home just a few days before Virginia shut down. Cathie O’Connor Woteki says she and husband Tom are utter failures at retirement. She remains on faculty at Iowa State University and as visiting distinguished professor at the University roommate Chibba Watters Miller’s book Carolyn Bauer LeJeune and Dave are of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute, all these years. Chib’s not been looking doing OK but had to cancel a planned and Tom heads Virginia Tech’s new for it, but she is missing her MWC trip to the Rotary International graduate program in data analytics and yearbook, which she thinks she left at a Convention in Honolulu. Carolyn applied statistics. Cathie serves on Dean reunion. Anyone have it? was finishing her first year as regent Keith Mellinger’s advisory board for the of her DAR chapter. They were hit by College of Arts and Sciences at UMW. Carol Greenwood Trejo shared that two hurricanes this past season, one Since the lockdown began, Cathie and monthly Zoom mini-reunions have downing many big trees. They had to go Tom have been at their small farm in been the thing for classmates Cheryl to their daughter’s house for a week. Rappahannock County on endless Ulmer, Tanya Belt Nickson, Judy Farrell Bechtold, Loretta Horgan Nagle, and Lou Myers Daly and husband Andy Zoom meetings. Jan Desmond Melluzzo. Initiated by got their first COVID shots in January It was great to hear from French House Doralece Lipoli Dullaghan ’70, they’ve housemate Martha Wilbourne also included Beverley Clare Coates ’68 Cummings, who’s been able to and Class of ’70 members Anne Howell spend time with most of her nine Wood, Kirsten Mackey Fleisher, and Cathie O’Connor Woteki ’69 grandchildren. She plays tennis Darlene Greenhalgh Hines. remains on faculty at Iowa and pickleball and goes on careful outings with her Garden Club Nancy Yeager Allard and husband State University and as visiting friends. She and Mike planned to Paul moved to the Greenspring retirement community in Springfield, Virginia, close to friends, church, and longtime doctors. Besides downsizing distinguished professor at the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. celebrate their 50th anniversary in June with all the kids at an oceanfront house in Virginia Beach. from their home of 42 years, Nancy has volunteered at her church since Linda Medica Martin teaches it reopened and read stories to their 6-year-old grandson via FaceTime. Budget cuts took Clare Burke Ardizzone’s job with the campus – lucky them! They are amused by the role reversal they are experiencing with their two adult sons, but appreciate the boys’ concern. Lou had a shoulder art history part time at Purdue University and struggles to keep up with online components in COVID-era classes. architect’s office at the University of replacement in late September. Ow ow Catharine Rossi Mannering and Illinois at Chicago, but she’s found ow. She hoped to be back on the golf husband Jerry live in Comfort, a retirement rewarding – aside from course in March or April. town of about 2,000 people in the her own bout with COVID. Free time has allowed her to learn more about vocal music and streamline 50 years of Patti Boise Kemp sends love and well wishes to all as we endure the pandemic. “We were fortunate to have our only beautiful Texas Hill Country. Both retired last year from the Comfort Independent School. They closed their possessions. She took a New Year’s trip grandchild, who now lives in Texas, to Costa Rica with her daughter and spend nearly seven months with us. son-in-law and the grands. Emily came for the summer and stayed Linda Eadie Hood has had a most to do her first semester of 10th grade difficult year, with a long recovery after virtually. It was a blessing having her breaking bones in her leg and foot in a with us!”

Linda Medica Martin ’69 teaches art history part time at Purdue University.

1969ers Shirley Myers Sorrentino and Kaye Lowe Reynolds visited Barbara Mangels in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

Angeles. Kaye, husband Alan, Shirley, and friend Richard Robbins toured both been living in Winter Park, Florida, for more than 20 years. Virginia’s Smith Mountain Lake in Two years ago Bill and Cece Smith October. Shirley has lived there for eight Riffer moved to Patriots Colony in years since retiring from teaching and Williamsburg. She thinks she may be real estate careers in the Fredericksburg the queen of quarantining, but they’ve area. Kaye and Alan recently returned been able to enjoy happy hours in their from living overseas, where Alan building and play computer bridge with worked in international banking and a couple from their old neighborhood. bed-and-breakfast after 23 years and sold their longhorn cattle. Now every day’s a holiday, and every night is Saturday. Kaye tutored. Betty Wade Miles Perry and her husband were able to have a family Christmas at their Virginia Beach home since their two daughters, UMW grads Cece sent sad news of French House amie Joan Mueller Goertz, who passed away Jan. 13, 2021, after a diagnosis of colon cancer. Husband George predeceased her. She leaves a daughter, Jenifer Higgins Clark is known as the in 2000 and 2003, and their spouses had Jennifer, and a son, Jonathan, a priest expert on the Gulf Stream’s currents. early, mild cases of the virus. who was with her for the last couple of In the mid-’90s she left NOAA and started a company that provides realtime information for sailboat racing, rescuing, navigational needs, distance ocean swim support, and commercial fishing needs. Barb Crickenberger Hall and husband Bob started 2020 by traveling with friends to Bogota and Cartagena, Colombia. Then they went to New York to celebrate Bob’s 80th birthday, and in February went skiing in Telluride, weeks. Susan Seay Ledbetter sadly shared that her husband of 38 years, William Ledbetter Jr., passed away in October 2020. He was a retired circuit court judge in the Fredericksburg area. We Jeanine Zavrel Fearns spent most of Colorado. And then … lockdown. send our condolences. 2020 at home in Fairfax, Virginia, but the lucky lady did get a new kitchen put in. Her favorite hobby, choral singing with the Reston Chorale, became virtual. Jeanine spends many weekends at her family cabin in the mountains of West Anne Hoskot Kreutzer ’69 said if not for FaceTime, her 2-yearold twin grandsons in San Diego At the request of our children, Tom and I, Anne Hoskot Kreutzer, have isolated for most of the past year in southern Virginia. If not for FaceTime, our 2-year-old twin grandsons in San Diego wouldn’t have a clue who we are. I’m also grateful for close contact with Virginia. wouldn’t have a clue who she is. MWC roomie Marianne deBlois Zentz. Anne Witham Kilpatrick cleaned closets, replaced wallpaper, added pullout shelves to kitchen cabinets, put lights in pantries and closets, trimmed bushes, put up new outside lights, rearranged the living room, washed windows, organized the pantry, put together a 56Barb continued her nonprofit board work and added a new role as chair of her Washington, D.C., co-op’s energy conservation task force. Marianne happily agreed to take on the class agent job with me, sent out a lovely note soliciting your news, and immediately caught COVID! She was fortunate to participate in a monoclonal antibody study, got an IV infusion of Eli Lilly’s bamlanivimab (I swear) and felt immediately better. page book for her woman’s club, joined Sissie Burnette Orris was a chemistry Marianne has kept up with Linda in many Zoom meetings, participated in major and lived in Stafford County, Gattis Shull, Patti Boise Kemp, Betsy virtual choir productions, and took part Virginia, near Fredericksburg. Now Crews Neilson, Betty Wade Miles Perry, in Wreaths Across America at two local they live part time in Bluffton, South Barbara Burton Micou, and Christie cemeteries. Whew! Carolina, and part time in Citrus Hills, Wineholt Warman. Former Virginia poet laureate Carolyn Florida. Linda and Barbara objected to an Kreiter-Foronda has relied on Zoom Kent and Teri Thibodeaux Cueman “unflattering portrayal” of Mary and Google Meet to conduct poetry planned to move from Yorktown, Washington in a University of Virginia workshops, readings, and presentations. Virginia, to Fredericksburg in May. Teri alumni magazine article about the One was a reading to promote her recent and Kent have weekly Skype visits with history of coeducation at U.Va. Their book, River Country: A Poem-Play, co- Kathleen Hill Marks, Debbie authored with Robert P. Arthur. Carolyn Blythe Weise ’70, Gail Shifflet conducted online writing workshops for Astor ’70, and their husbands 500 seventh-graders at Falling Creek – all Randolph-Macon College Thanks to participating in a Middle School in Chesterfield, Virginia. graduates from the Class of monoclonal antibody study, Shirley Myers Sorrentino and Kaye ’69. Marianne deBlois Zentz ’69 got Lowe Reynolds visited Barbara Mangels Barbara Macon Sacha and immediate treatment for COVID in Black Mountain, North Carolina, where Barbara lives after retiring from Barbara “Bobbie” Amos Roessler reconnected after 50 and recovered quickly. her speech therapy business in Los years. They found they had

Judge Reflects the Real World

When he was a kid in the have been if I 1980s, Kerwin A. Miller hadn’t met her, Sr. ’95 watched L.A. Law but right now it’s on his family TV and waited for ranked No. 1.” his favorite character – attorney As she Jonathan Rollins – to appear. Miller finished her liked how the impeccably dressed psychology law partner argued cases, how people listened to him, and how he won for his clients. And – unlike the characters Miller usually saw – the attorney was Black, just like him. “It made me want to do that – do something that actually made a difference and made an immediate impact on people,” Miller said of his decision to become a lawyer. “I thought about it so long that it was the only thing I could do.” degree, he started law school at Southwestern University in Los Angeles. He earned a juris doctorate in 1999, and the two decided to make a life together in Kerwin A. Miller Sr. and Alethea “Lisa” Patillo Miller stand with daughter Alanna and son K.J. in the Maryland courtroom where Judge Miller presides. Baltimore Sun Media. All Rights Reserved.

Miller overshot his childhood Maryland. They dream in January 2019 when, by wed in September became an administrative law judge, appointment of Maryland Gov. 2002, and immediately upon passing overseeing and ruling on appeals to Larry Hogan, he was sworn in as the bar exam, Miller opened a the actions of state agencies. That’s the second African American judge private practice in Harford County, where he was late in 2018 when he in the history of Harford County. planning to continue the business got the call from Hogan to serve as

It was a long road to the bench, law he’d done as an intern in L.A. associate judge in Harford County. even though Miller made the journey But his wife’s work as a forensic Besides being a judge, Miller much faster than most. When he interviewer exposed him to the needs is president of the bar association chose Mary Washington College, of vulnerable clients – children and there. He is active on boards and his mother and his sister made the senior citizens. He started picking in community associations. trek from his childhood home in up civil and criminal cases, and Since 2008, Miller also has been the Bronx to Fredericksburg each he realized he liked being in court teaching law classes at the University October for parents’ weekend. They more than poring over contracts. of Maryland, Baltimore County. He wouldn’t have missed graduation. In 2001, he joined the Legal Aid has meant to make every semester And they were by his side when Bureau, representing children in his last, but he just can’t quit. He’s he was installed as judge. abuse and neglect cases. He saw heard from too many appreciative

Mary Washington had the classes that the parents of those children students who have gone on to Miller wanted, and a beautiful needed better representation successful legal careers, and from campus. It was close enough while still – and that the children of some many who say how consequential offering a completely different world underprivileged families were being it was for them to learn from a from the boroughs of New York. removed from homes more from practicing Black attorney and judge.

“I grew up in the city,” he said. lack of services than from neglect or “I realized it’s important for them “I was young, and I wanted to get criminal action. He found his niche, to see this, and they are telling me away, but not too far away.” he said, when he transferred to as much,” Miller said. “I felt it was an

He played basketball in his first representing adults in criminal cases obligation as part of my service to the year, until an injury sidelined him. in the public defender’s office. community to continue to be there.” He was excited by lectures from “It was something I absolutely Miller’s two teenage children are professors, especially one who was a fell in love with and became very proud of their dad and sometimes practicing lawyer. And Miller found his efficient with,” Miller said. join him in the classroom. And “biggest takeaway” from college, wife Then state’s attorney Sandra he and his wife take the kids to 42 UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON MAGAZINE SPRING/SUMMER 2021’95 Alethea “Lisa” Patillo Miller ’96. “I am a little biased when I talk about Mary Wash,” said Miller, who delivered the keynote speech for UMW Black History Month in February. “I don’t know what it would O’Connor recruited Miller to her team in Baltimore County in 2006, and Miller eventually became deputy state’s attorney and chief homicide prosecutor in Cecil County, Maryland. In 2015, Miller Fredericksburg, to the place where their life together began. “We love going back to campus,” Miller said. “We point out things to our kids, the dorms where we lived, the fountain. That’s how much that school experience meant to me.” – Neva Trenis ’00

response, which the magazine reunion in Marble Falls, Texas, was published, quoted the article’s author saying Mary Lucia Smithey Bushway ’70 retired canceled, and she had not been able to visit her 97-year-young father in San Washington had “gone on from teaching at University of West Antonio. Kim’s daughter and family live to become a full-fledged Florida. near her in South Carolina, and they university.” They added, had drive-by and distant deck visits. She “And a darned fine one, at used FaceTime and Zoom with her son that!” in Chicago. The Class of 1969 has three scholarship recipients. Cedric Anash ’21 and Cathryn Puglia ’22 received the Laura V. Sumner Memorial Scholarship endowed 1971 Karen Laino Giannuzzi kapitankL11@yahoo.com Kim said Jan Reynolds Cooke, who lives in New Orleans, had recovered from COVID-19. Jan’s large family had supported her from a distance. Jan was for our 25th reunion. Morgan Bates ’21 [Editors’ note: Karen Laino Giannuzzi also in touch with Frannie Sydnor Cook received the 50th reunion scholarship. prepared these notes for the online-only in North Carolina. Susan Taylor Frank, fall/winter 2020 issue. We republish a Kim’s freshman roommate, still works 1970 shortened version here.] We are living in strange times indeed. part time at the Presbyterian Community Center in Roanoke, Virginia. Anne Summervold LeDoux Last fall, we were all traveling the Susie Sowers Hill passed through South ledouxanne@yahoo.com world. That was cut short just as we Carolina last year, and she and Kim [Editors’ note: Anne Summervold were preparing for Founder’s Day in caught up over dinner. Karen Clark LeDoux prepared these notes for the March 2020. Now we wonder, “What Jones has moved to Marietta, Georgia. online-only fall/winter 2020 issue. We next?” Kim, Jan, and Karen were high school republish a shortened version here.] The pandemic has changed so much in our world. Most of us are doing many of Sally Reichner Mayor wrote that Switzerland is affected by COVID, but with so many mountainous regions buddies in Newport, Rhode Island, and came to Mary Washington together as roommates. the same things at home, and nobody’s the numbers are low. Social going anywhere! distancing is easy. Kathi O’Neill passed along some news from a Zoom get-together: Susan Johnson Gillette is a first-time grandmother to beautiful baby Rebecca. Elizabeth “Betty” Whichard Robinson has been staying close to home in Indiana and trying to support small Kathy Lewis Newbold ’71 was able to keep golfing with new rules in place: Masks were the fashion I caught up with Loren Lawler Wilee who has moved from Chesapeake to Northern Virginia. Genie Hamilton Roper ’71 and I met up in , businesses. She works out, reads, and Zooms with friends. Betty’s is a recurring theme with most of us. statement of the day. Fredericksburg. I also heard from Lucia Along with webinar and Zoom visits to Laurie McIntosh homeschooled Smithey Bushway, who has retired from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, neighbors’ children, which was teaching at University of West Florida. Lisa Barker hopes for a trip to Ireland, challenging but fun. With historical She and Jeff have two daughters and two postponed from 2020. parks and trails close by, Laurie grandchildren. I know that many of us recently Bryn Irving Winn Roth missed her children, grandchildren, and a great grandson. She also missed a trip to Canada and a high school reunion. treks about five miles a day, meeting interesting people along the way. She finished a novel, set in 1968, and one of the central characters is a rising sophomore at Mary Washington. The Susan Johnson Gillette ’70 is a Kathy Lewis Newbold was able to keep golfing with new rules in place, but pandemic slowed her efforts to find a publisher. celebrated our 50th wedding first-time grandmother to baby Rebecca. she was sad that the traditional 19th hole had stayed empty. Cam and Kerry were home for the Fourth of July and joined with Kathy’s sister for a family barbecue. Masks were the fashion statement of the day. Diana “Diney” Rupert Livingston lives near Richmond’s Monument Avenue and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, so she was in the thick of the 2020 BLM and Confederate monument protests. Someone threw a rock through the firstanniversaries, including Susan Johnson Many of you wrote about the excitement floor window of her building and lit up Gillette and Nancy Buchanan Perry. of renaming E. Lee Trinkle to James a dumpster in her alleyway. Monument Happy anniversary to all. Farmer Hall. You also praised the Avenue certainly looks different these If you have not contributed to our class gift for the Talley Center, please consider donating to this most worthy cause. Alumni Association and UMW in general for online lectures, classes, and trivia nights. Kim Warren Noe and Bob appreciated the diversions. Her family days. Diney had been auditing Italian at VCU and continued her studies with a private tutor with the goal of returning to Italy when possible.

Beth Fleming Skidmore also lives in Richmond. Son Alex and his wife, Alli, finished five-year medical residences in Pittsburgh and, after a year in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, moved to Fredericksburg in July. They have a new son. Beth’s other son was to marry this summer but big plans were reduced to a small, immediate-family-only ceremony. Beth and husband Alex met over 51 years ago at Mary Washington and recently celebrated their 46th anniversary. Betty Barnhardt Hume retired from the library in Fredericksburg in 2016 but still works part time. Husband Randy Hume ’75 enjoys playing golf. Mona Davis Albertine’s downtown Fredericksburg store, Jabberwocky, was open with almost regular hours. For some time, the nonviolent but loud BLM protesters marched downtown daily. Mona and Jack were seeing relatives but not friends. Mona had gotten to know the wildlife on her property, including a crow family, cardinals, a snake she named Henry, and visiting bears. Nancy Belden and her husband run a polling firm in Washington, D.C., focusing on progressive issues such as human, civil, and reproductive rights. Their son, Giovanni Russonello, lives in New York and writes for The New York Times covering politics, jazz, and polling. Nancy had found time to escape to a small house on the Eastern Shore during the pandemic. Debbie Oja Tuttle and Ed spend winters in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, and summers in Linville, North Carolina. She said golf courses had remained open, and their club served meals at distanced tables. Debbie said that’s better than her cooking! Diane Mowrey was still at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, in March but she said it was to be her last semester teaching. At that point, classes were moving online. Susannah Athey Warner reminded me of two happy events in 2020, the appearance of the comet NEOWISE and the successful launch and recovery of SpaceX. Susannah is in touch with college roommate Karen Murray Wood. Susannah had some lovely mementos of Fredericksburg State Teachers College, which she got from her mother. Mary Jane Chandler Miller and Fred feel blessed in Vermont, where COVID cases were low. Her office on the Council of Aging and all schools closed in March, and MJ retired in June. MJ Zooms, reads, golfs, and plays tennis. Mary Carson, the grande dame of our class, and Roger have been married 62 years and walk several miles daily. In the past Mary served as alumni director and development officer for Mary Washington. Her daughter is news director of Sinclair News in

Washington, Virginia, and Maryland. Her sons are with Verizon and hospital security. Mary Weaver Mann reported that Jim has been in a long-term care facility for Alzheimer’s but was doing OK. Son Geoff is out of the Army and working as a pilot for a Richmond hospital. Daughter Emily and family live in Washington state. Son Zeph and daughter-in-law Erin were working remotely for a company in Los Angeles. Mary finally retired from the library and did some house renovations.

Penny Falkowitz Goodstein

wrote that the infection rates were still skyrocketing in Alaska. She misses seeing her grandsons. Her beloved 12-year-old dog passed away in March and her other dog was not well, so she and her husband adopted a puppy Canaan dog. Penny has taken up sourdough baking. She mentioned that after the online COVID-19 class many of us took, she reconnected with Gloria Shelton Gibson ’69, who was a freshman dorm counselor. Some of us recently learned that Natalee Spiro Franzyshen was diagnosed with ALS after several years of undetermined symptoms. Her husband also has had health problems, but they celebrated their 48th anniversary in late August.

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Sherry Rutherford Myers Sherryhon2011@gmail.com [Editors’ note: Sherry Rutherford Myers prepared these notes for the online-only fall/winter 2020 issue. We republish a shortened version here.] Salutations to one and all! In September 2019, Nancy Mahone Miller and her “traveling sisters” – Kathryn Ray, Mary Saunders Williams, Terri Hall Alford, Shirley Harris Sutton, and Anne Toms Richardson – took their third Rick Steves Tour together. This time it was 14 days in Spain, where they Nancy Belden ’71 runs a polling visited Barcelona, Madrid, firm in Washington, D.C., focusing on progressive issues. Granada, Sevilla, Toledo, Segovia, and Ronda. Also in 2019, Nancy was elected state corresponding secretary of Virginia DAR. Since the advent of COVID-19, Nancy and friends have met every other week via Zoom. Martha Stansell Vogel, Kathy Duley, and Sherrie Mitchell Boone have joined them. Cheryl Prietz Childress welcomed grandson Charlie, son of daughter Thea and son-in-law Eric. Granddaughter Ellie seems delighted with her new brother. Cheryl and husband Dave were able visit the family in the Atlanta area. Laurie McIntosh ’71 They’ve also been catching up on their farm and riding their new horses. homeschooled neighbors’ children, which was challenging and fun.

Check this site often for news about Life in the Roanoke area agrees with Sherry Rutherford Myers ’72.

Reunion Weekend: She takes drives on the Blue Ridge alumni.umw.edu/ Parkway and enjoys the scenery.

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Dennis and I, Sherry Rutherford Myers, have also been catching up on home projects – a gratifying feeling at the end of the day. Life in the Roanoke area has agreed with us. While we have all been disappointed by so many cancellations, my women’s club managed to have some events outdoors in summer. And we have the Blue Ridge Parkway close by to take drives and enjoy the scenery. Cynthia Howk recently reconnected with several classmates who share her concern for Ann Salter, who has been dealing with health issues. Cynthia has been corresponding with Barbara Reynolds Myerson, Debora Olsen Searfoss, Susan Regan, Linda Ann Wray, Clare Nugent, and Betty Snead DeLesDernier.

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Linda Ann Wray ’73 has been a faculty member at Penn State for Joyce Hines Molina 20 years. joyce.molina@verizon.net Save the dates for our 50th reunion, June 2-4, 2023. One plan for Barbara lives in Northern Virginia the weekend is to meet the student who with husband Jay, an attorney. They will be awarded the first scholarship have three children. Debora lives in from the Class of 1973 50th Reunion Indianapolis and teaches biology in Scholarship Fund. Our urgent need is to public schools, while her husband, who have a minimum of $25,000 in the fund is retired, coordinates “at-home” duties. by June 30, 2021. We were $15,000 Linda Ann has been a faculty member shy of our goal when these notes were at Penn State for 20 years. Susan is a prepared in early 2021. There are many retired educator and administrator and ways to support the scholarship for lives near Fredericksburg. Clare is also our immediate need as well as growth retired and lives near Fredericksburg. through planned giving, including by Betty, a retired registered nurse in credit card, gifts of stock, a multi-year Richmond, Virginia, was at Mary pledge, or including UMW in your estate Washington for two years but plans. When you make a donation, you transferred to complete her nursing must designate that it is for the Class of degree. Betty’s daughter is Lauren 1973 50th Reunion Scholarship Fund. DeLesDernier Glover ’05, M.S. ’06. Your contribution will help create a We were sorry to learn of the January legacy for our class. 2021 passing of Hazel Moss Putty, one On Facebook, “like” Mary Washington of the first students of color to graduate Class of 1973. Information about the from Mary Washington. She was a reunion will be shared on this social retired math teacher in Spotsylvania media page and through email. The County, Virginia, and a member of the local, state, and national education associations. Besides her husband of 43 Joyce Hines Molina ’73 wrote years, she is survived by three children that reunion updates will be on the including Jonathan Moss Putty ’10, and Mary Washington Class of 1973 by her sister, Princess Moss ’83. Facebook page. 1974

Class of ’73 Reunion Committee is MarySue Warren Wimer, Susan Jacobius Davis, Anne Bevans Cooper, Janet Hedrick, Virginia Davey Addison, and me, Joyce Hines Molina. I’ve decided to remain our class agent until our 50th reunion. At our reunion we will seek a volunteer to be our next Class Notes representative. Continue to send me your updates. Thanks!

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Margaret “Peg” Hubbard was disappointed that “The Jefferson 4th West gang” had to cancel its annual mini-reunion in June 2020, as the group had gathered every year since our 35th reunion. But they stay connected on Zoom. Peg reports the following: Lisa Tyree Sweeney continues to love the beautiful weather in San Diego. Susan McDonald Osborn ’75 is surrounded by family in Spokane, Washington. Karen Sunnarborg sold her Boston house early in 2020 and now lives in Connecticut. Patti Goodall Strawderman has finally retired from the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services and was waiting for husband Dennis to retire. Jonette deButts Hahn and George love to travel to exotic places. Susan Tyler Maguigan’s eldest daughter, Caitlin, lives in Geneva, Switzerland, with her husband and three children. After the passing of her husband, Nancy Pederson Trzcinski has settled in Elkin, North Carolina, closer to daughter Christine. Deb Ryan Howard lives in Charlottesville with her adorable puppy. And Peg herself is happy to be back in her hometown of Virginia Beach. Armecia Spivey Medlock vagirl805@msn.com I hope everyone is continuing to stay safe and healthy during this crazy time. I also hope, by the time you read this news, that you’ve been able to receive or will shortly receive the COVID vaccine. In my prior news, our daughter was expecting her first child mid-December. However, as anyone will tell you who knows anything about babies, babies have their own timetable. Ryder was born a month early on Nov. 16, 2020, but he was strong enough that he never had to spend any time in the NICU. To Sid Baker Etherington help our daughter with Ryder and to sidleexx@yahoo.com limit our COVID exposure, my husband Suzy Passarello Quenzer and I drove from our North Carolina suzyquenzer@gmail.com home to their Kansas home in one very long day. It was so worth it to be there Bernice “Bernie” Fain Svedlow retired from her nursing position in March because her husband, a recent heart The baby grandson of Armecia transplant patient, was immunosuppressed and her floor had become an all Spivey Medlock ’75 arrived early and strong. COVID unit.

Urban Forester Finds Love of Nature at UMW

The 11,000 to 12,000 trees shading the streets and parks of Lynchburg, Virginia, are a lot to keep up with. But Sarah Hagan ’11 has charge of them all, from roots to crowns.

It’s an ever-changing responsibility, varying with each season, storm, dry spell, and pest. As Lynchburg’s urban forester, Hagan oversees trees individually but also as an interdependent whole – the urban canopy that keeps the city healthy, vibrant, and beautiful.

Now in her second year with Lynchburg, Hagan has dealt with the inherited problem of the emerald ash-borer, an imported pest devastating the native ash species of the eastern to midwestern Sarah Hagan, an urban forester in United States. Almost all the city’s Lynchburg, Virginia, discovered ash trees have had to be removed. her passion for science while

City trees face other stresses studying biology at UMW. as well, from improper planting, poor soil, and road salt. Hagan constantly evaluates how long Lynchburg’s trees are lasting, how their lives can be extended, and ‘I’m going to learn science.’” the choir of St. George’s Episcopal how to bolster the overall health She researched biology Church. After graduating cum laude and sustainability of the resource. programs and decided to give from UMW, she worked another

To handle it all she works with Mary Washington’s highly regarded three years in the area, chiefly in Lynchburg’s public works department, Department of Biological Sciences an Americorps-funded position as a contract crew, and a corps of citizen a try. Professors including Stephen volunteer and stewardship coordinator volunteers known as tree stewards. Fuller, Joella Killian, Andrew Dolby, for Friends of the Rappahannock.

The role seems ideal for a biology and Deborah O’Dell welcomed, As her interest in conservation major with a passion for botany, challenged, and encouraged her. grew, she applied to graduate school hiking, and all things outdoors. “Mary Washington taught me and eventually earned a master’s But getting there involved “a lot science,” she said. “My first semester, degree in environmental management of zigs and a lot of zags,” Hagan I walked into Dr. Fuller’s botany class from Duke University, with a focus on said. “My 16-year-old self and my with no idea even how to prep a forestry and forest management. 33-year-old self, I think, would slide. I fell in love with it. I adored it. I While these days Hagan sings find each other amusing.” just couldn’t get over the miraculous mostly in the shower and the car –

Growing up in Botetourt County organisms that plants are.” her mother still urges her to join a near Roanoke, Hagan was an arts- It felt great to succeed in a choir for fun – she’s satisfied with oriented kid whose physician mother notoriously difficult class, and it a scientific calling that keeps her and lawyer father encouraged her set her on an academic and career outdoors much of the time and musical pursuits. Only after studying path she finds rewarding. “I was contributes to everyone’s well-being. music at another Virginia college hooked because plants were just “I’m happy where I am,” 46 UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON MAGAZINE SPRING/SUMMER 2021 ’11 did she conclude that she wouldn’t have a career as an opera singer. But if not music, what would be a more practical choice? “I had always hated math and science,” she said. “But I decided, so darn cool, and I wanted more.” And she loved living in Fredericksburg. As an older transfer student, she lived with roommates off campus, developed a great community of friends, and sang in she said, “because I get to do something that’s having a positive influence on future generations.” – Laura Moyer

with our daughter and enjoy lots of Ryder-holding time. I’d love to hear how you’ve been faring and what you’ve been doing, so I look forward to receiving your news for the next alumni magazine issue.

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Janis Biermann (A – M) biermannjanis@gmail.com Debra Smith Reeder (N – Z) dsmithreeder@gmail.com

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Anne Robinson Hallerman arhmwc77@yahoo.com

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Barbara Goliash Emerson emers3@msn.com Despite the pandemic, life goes on. Caroline Corr Newlon and husband Blaine became first-time grandparents when daughter Sarah gave birth to their adorable grandson Levi in 2020. Sally Hart Morgan wrote that she retired after 31 years in local government planning and development. Husband John had already retired from teaching at Emory & Henry College. Both were happy to have son Jack, who lives in Washington, D.C., and daughter Jessie, who lives in Denver, visit in December since they were able to work remotely. Sally also added that her freshman-year group from Randolph Third Right had been convening every two weeks on Zoom. She’s enjoyed seeing Lisa Bratton Soltis, Gayle Weinberger Petro, Donna Anaya, Karin Hedberg, Nancy Quaintance Nelles, and Shelley Roberts Havnoonian.

Nena Lee Kobayashi ’79 is with a defense contractor on a multimission surface combatant contract for the Department of the Navy. While looking for a new house, Cliff and Deb Caton Campbell ’80 were living in their RV on a lake just outside of Knoxville.

Lisa Jenkins has arranged for a couple of MWC Zoom get-togethers including Betsy Larson Kyker, Carol Middlebrook, Linda McCarthy Milone, and me.

Nena Lee Kobayashi

is working for defense contractor CACI on a multimission surface combatant contract for the Department and has a 3-year-old granddaughter. of the Navy. She also takes care of her Her daughter manages a Merrill store in 98-year-old father, who lives nearby. Leesburg, and her son works for the IRS in Seattle, Washington. Husband Tom, My sister, Patricia Goliash Andril ’80, who used to play for Thunderbay, is still had one of her drawings, Floating on in touch with Rob Powell and Kevin Clouds, featured in CP Treasures – Havens. Tom and Kevin have played Colored Pencil Masterworks From music this past year at local wineries. Around the Globe, Volume 7. Her beautiful rowboat drawing was also one Sandy has also recently been in touch of the three highlighted on the book’s with Jim Hely. They reminisced about cover. the crazy things they did at MWC and swapped old pictures. Sandy, Barbara 1980 Gant Kinner, Deb Caton Campbell, and I have gone on girls’ weekend trips Susan Garter throughout the years. When we get skgarter@gmail.com together it seems as though no time has passed. 2020 was quite a year! I was disappointed that our 40th reunion was Barb and husband Greg have been fullpostponed due to COVID-19, but I look time RVers for three years and were forward to celebrating with you all at a spending the winter out West. Deb later date. and husband Cliff sold their house in 2020 and were living in their RV on a I, Sue Garter, had hip replacement beautiful lake just outside of Knoxville, surgery in January 2020. During the summer, we moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, which Last summer, Becky Bradley was quite a feat during the pandemic. I still work for Verizon, although remotely Price ’80 motored cross country and later brought home a petite these days. bernedoodle puppy, Callie. I met up with Becky Bradley Price in New York City right before the pandemic was declared, and we had a lovely luncheon Tennessee, while looking for a new with her daughter and future son-in-law. house. They were also considering In September, Jan Stankiewicz taking to the road in their RV in 2021. McCarthy and her family stopped by Becky Bradley Price’s younger daughter, our new place for a socially distanced Laura, had planned to get married in barbecue. They were on their way to France but instead wed in New York New Jersey. Jan and husband Mike are City while Becky observed via Zoom. avid bicyclists, with Jan completing Becky’s elder daughter, Haley, and 2,020 miles biked in 2020. In December, husband Matthew were expecting their Wendy Prothro Howard ’82 visited with first child in February. In summer 2020, Jan in Panama City, Florida, after both Becky traveled cross country by car, tested negative for COVID. taking back roads and avoiding crowded After 37 years with Northrop Grumman, Sandy Slusher Smallwood areas. Recently, Becky brought home a petite bernedoodle puppy named Callie. learned that her part of the company Ana Catoni-Yildirim’s daughter Ana was being divested to Peraton. Sandy has Yildirim Adams ’13 gave birth to lived in Leesburg, Virginia, for 24 years sweet baby Ayla at the beginning of

Varna shared that Margaret Ginger Deane Bushman’s daughter “Peggy” Frahm Smith was to married her longtime sweetheart in

Jan Stankiewicz McCarthy ’80 welcome her first grandchild, September after a pandemic delay the pandemic. Ana is proud that three family members are Mary Washington graduates; her mother was the late Carmen Zeppenfeldt Catoni ’50. Please stay in touch with our classmates through our Facebook group, MWC Alum 1980 and Friends, and email your updates to me for the next issue of this magazine. 1981 Lori Foster Turley lorifturley@gmail.com Susan Flournoy Pierce of Walker Jones bicycled 2,020 miles in 2020. a boy, in early spring. Eric Olsen is serving his third term as commonwealth’s attorney in Stafford, Virginia. He has been working in the area since 1989 and still plays Frisbee. Well, if the next reunion celebration gets out of hand, we know who to call for legal advice. In January 2020, Monica Peterschmidt Ettinger became director of operations for Bioenergy DevCo, which uses anaerobic digestion to recycle organics that otherwise would be incinerated or sent to landfills. Also in 2020, she and her husband, married 31 years, adopted a COVID puppy, Chai. They and their daughter had COVID, but their symptoms were mild. All were recovered from May. They are now settled with a puppy, a cat, and baby on the way in July. Ginger’s husband, Scott, was to retire in late April, and they planned to relocate to North Carolina. The pandemic ended her contract work supporting students struggling to meet minimum standards, and she misses the kids but looked forward to new challenges. She keeps up with Ginger Wagner Pugh, Tad Gillie Stanley, and Laura Wong Dolloff ’83. Stay in touch, and remember that our 40th reunion is in 2022. 1983 Marcia Anne Guida Marcia.G.James@gmail.com PC in Warrenton, Virginia, was named by the holidays, and they were able to Susan Leavitt is still working. She sees a top personal injury lawyer in the Anne Marie Thompson November 2020 issue of Northern Steen weekly. In October Virginia Magazine. After majoring in political science and English at Mary Monica Peterschmidt Ettinger ’82 2020 Susan had a hip replacement, but that won’t Washington, she earned a degree from is director of operations for keep her down – she was George Mason University’s law school. 1982 Bioenergy DevCo, which uses anaerobic digestion to recycle organics. training for the July 2021 Iron Man competition in Spain! Susan rejoined UMW’s College of Arts and Tara Corrigall Sciences Advisory Board. corrigallt@gmail.com We are almost a year into the pandemic as I write these notes. Our everyday see their son and Monica’s 96-year-old mother-in-law, who lives next door. Condolences to Sharon Arnold, who lost her father in January 2020. Sharon retired from full-time lives may include a slipper collection, Jenifer Blair and I recently caught work in May 2020. After helping her improved baking skills, and the up with Trenda Powell Jacocks. She brother clear out and sell the family repeated use of “Zoom” as a noun, is married to Jake, who many of us home, she was helping her gentleman adjective, and verb, but we continue to remember for his romantic marriage friend keep his business afloat and cherish our college days and reconnect proposal at our graduation ball. focusing on creating a fun-filled with friends and roommates. They spent 2020 with family at home retirement life. MWC pal Judith Varna Boyd moved back to Fredericksburg in 2018 to take a position with Dovetail Cultural Resource Group, an alumni-owned cultural resources management firm headquartered in Fredericksburg. Dovetail now has a scholarship program with the university, and the firm was highlighted in the University of Mary Washington Magazine last year. in Fairfax Station, Virginia. Jake did his medical work and clinical work remotely, and Trenda served a congregation as associate pastor via Zoom and remained a pastor on call. Their elder daughter and her husband temporarily relocated to their home from Manhattan, Trenda’s 83-year-old mom joined the family bubble from March to September, and Trenda’s younger daughter and family were with Sweetman Gwynn has travel plans for 2022, so that will keep her dreaming of the adventure trail! Scott Harris, executive director of the University of Mary Washington Museums, gave the opening Great Lives lecture this year on George Washington and James Monroe. He’s been focused on guiding UMW Museums through the pandemic and is always on the funding hunt for operations and special them in June and July. projects, including restoration of Trenda and Jake traveled Belmont’s horseshoe staircase at Gari

Eric Olsen ’82 is in his third term as commonwealth’s attorney in quite a bit in 2019 for their 60th year – to Hawaii for work and play, to Alaska, Melchers Home and Studio. In a James Monroe Museum online program in March, Scott interviewed Lynne Cheney,

Stafford, and he still plays Frisbee. and to Ethiopia on a mission trip, with a side visit to historian and former second lady, about her latest book. And in winter 2020, Morocco. the White House History Quarterly

included Scott’s article The First White House Christmas Tree Remembered: The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site.

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Christine Waller Manca christine.manca@att.net

Greg Chambers finished his tour as adjunct researcher at the University of Virginia and was busy restoring the family farm in Orange County, Virginia. Greg keeps in touch with Rich Mason ’87, who lives in Florida. He runs into other alumni in Richmond and North Myrtle Beach South Carolina, having fun at beach music and shag dancing events. He looked forward to his granddaughter attending UMW in the future. Jena Efird Abernathy joined global organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry as a senior client partner and sector leader of healthcare board services in the firm’s healthcare practice. Anne Baber Wallis was saddened to hear of the January 2021 death of poet and author Richard McCann, who was an assistant professor of English at Mary Washington from 1983 to 1986. She posted a memory of being McCann’s student on her personal blog, Getting to Good: A Journey Through Love, Grief, Horses, and Music. She wrote, in part:

“He called us his Blue Girls, quoting

John Crowe Ransom, as we walked the brick pathways from the English department to the dining hall:

‘Twirling your blue skirts, travelling the sward/Under the towers of your seminary/Go listen to your teachers old and contrary/Without believing a word.’ For us, he was neither old nor contrary, and we believed every word.

We knew he was mocking us, just a bit, but he also knew just who we were. We were, indeed, Blue Girls. We walked with him, proudly, as though he were a beautiful object we’d acquired. We took him to the dining hall, white linens and all, as our guest. We ate through mediocre food with laughter and cunning jokes. We were splendid blue girls, and he was our guide.”

After finishing as adjunct researcher at the University of Virginia, Greg Chambers ’84 was restoring the family farm in Orange County, Virginia.

1985

Joanne Bartholomew Lamm Jlamm88@verizon.net No notes this time from any of you. Send your news for next time! Chris Lamm and I, Joanne Bartholomew Lamm, are proud of our daughter, Rebecca Lamm Vail ’13, as she completed her first semester at George Washington University in the MBA program. Her undergraduate years at Mary Washington surely helped shape her to succeed academically. Thanks, Mary Wash!

1986

Lisa A. Harvey lisaharvey@msn.com

1987

Rene’ Thomas-Rizzo Rene.Thomas-Rizzo@navy.mil

1988

Jay Bradshaw jaybradshaw747@aol.com Beverly Newman bevnewmn@yahoo.com

1989

Jim Czarnecki jimczarnecki@yahoo.com In January, Courtney Elliott Gardner became the director of Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts in Spring, Texas. Before joining Pearl Fincher, she was executive director of the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News, Virginia. Read more about Courtney in Notable and Quotable on page 20.

1990

Susan Crytzer Marchant march66358@verizon.net Jennifer Stouffer Newton is director of national accounts for Bodyarmor sports drink. In January, I, Susan Crytzer Marchant, reached my 30-year anniversary with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and its predecessor organizations. For all those folks out there who asked “Geography! What are you going to do with that?” I can say with confidence that I have made a great life and living with my Mary Wash geography education while supporting the missions of our nation’s Department of Defense and intelligence communities. I thank the late professors James Gouger, Richard Palmieri, Samuel T. Emory, and Marshall Bowen for the top-quality education and wonderful memories.

1991

Shannon Eadie Niemeyer sfniemeyer@comcast.net Christy Comer Tafoya planned to retire in late June as the director of New Mexico State Parks, according to the Albuquerque Journal. Christy, who studied history and historic preservation, joined the state parks in 1998 as the division’s first archaeologist. In 2015, the New Mexico governor appointed her to direct the department, which oversees 35 parks. She was the first woman to direct the department.

1992

Courtney Hall Harjung charjung@hotmail.com Prince Edward County, Virginia, has named Douglas P. Stanley county administrator and clerk to the Board of Supervisors. Doug has more than 25 years of local government experience, including 20 years as administrator for Warren County, Virginia.

1993

Cheryl L. Roberts Heuser chatatcha@yahoo.com

1994

Jennifer Dockeray Muniz dockeray@apple.com

Matt Covington ’95 and Shandie Hall Covington ’95 met in freshman chemistry in Combs Hall. 1998

Erika Giaimo Chapin erikagchapin@gmail.com

1999

1995

Shandie and Matt Covington mattandshandie95@gmail.com We, Matt Covington and Shandie Hall Covington, are the new class agents for 1995. Our class has been pretty quiet over the last few years, and our in-person reunion was postponed due to the pandemic. Let’s reconnect in preparation for when we can get together! Send us your personal and professional highlights to appear in the next issue of this magazine. After meeting in Combs Hall in freshman chemistry, we married a couple of years after graduation and moved to Michigan. We returned to Virginia in 2002 and then moved to New Jersey in 2015 for Shandie’s job. Our daughter is a sophomore at Virginia Tech, despite our hopes of having another Eagle. Our son is a sophomore in high school, so there is still hope! Matt is a high school administrator in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and has faced some interesting challenges because of the pandemic. Shandie is executive director of the American Society of Transplantation and is a passionate advocate for organ donation and transplantation. We look forward to serving as class agents. Be well in these crazy times!

1996

Jennifer Rudalf Gates teamgates17@gmail.com Richard D. Jacques Jr. has been elected a corporate officer for Noblis, a science, technology, and strategy organization that works with government clients. He joined Noblis in January 2019 and is vice president of intelligence and law enforcement. No Class Agent classnotes@umw.edu

2000

Jennifer Burger Thomas jenntec14@ gmail.com Stephanie Meriwether Zebrowski, a financial advisor for Bank of America Merrill in Vienna, Virginia, was named a top wealth advisor mom by Working Mother magazine for the second consecutive year. In February, Stephanie returned to Forbes Magazine’s Best-In-State Wealth Advisors ranking, repeating an honor she earned in 2019. David Smith is chair of the Virginia Coalition on Solitary Confinement, a group of individuals and organizations throughout Virginia advocating for the reduction and elimination of solitary confinement in Virginia. He also is on the executive boards for Interfaith Action for Human Rights and OARRichmond, the largest provider of reentry services in central Virginia. Melissa Fallen is pastor of Glen Allen Baptist Church near Richmond, Virginia. Her book Lost and Found: From Losing Your Pulpit to Finding Your Passion was to be released this fall. In 2020 Kevin Perry, Latin teacher at National Cathedral School in Washington, pivoted to online instruction and arranged virtual field trips for his students. In June 2020 he was named the cathedral school’s first Porter Family Fellow for Pedagogical Innovation. He planned to use the grant to revise the Latin curriculum to include more female perspectives and culturally diverse voices. He wrote, “There is no doubt that my studies at MWC with Dr. Diane Hatch and Dr. Liane Houghtalin prepared me well for this academic and pedagogical work.”

1997

Michelle Trombetta michelletrombetta@gmail.com

2001

Annie Johnston anniebatesjohnston@gmail.com Stacy Weller Fairfax and husband Robert welcomed a baby girl, Ruby, on Nov. 19. Michelle Carr Young lives in Stafford, Virginia, with her network engineer husband and fifth-grade daughter. She is in her 20th year with Prince William County Schools, where she is an instructional coach. Michelle recently completed her K-12 administration and supervision certification through the UMW graduate program.

2002

Travis Jones tljones8@gmail.com Carolyn Murray Spencer turtlecjm@yahoo.com

2003

Jessica Brandes jessbrandes@yahoo.com

2004

Sameer Vaswani sameervaswani@msn.com John Schirrippa and his wife founded a nonprofit project, Unity Bands, to improve community morale and support COVID-19 response and research efforts. They’re donating profits from the sale of customized wristbands and have already supported the University of Maryland’s medical center and school of medicine.

Ben Maxwell ’05 of Fredericksburg was named a principal with The Jones Financial Companies.

2005

Allyson “Ally” V. Lee Marzan allyvlee@gmail.com Edward Jones financial advisor Ben Maxwell has been named a principal with the firm’s holding company, The Jones Financial Companies. He was one of 161 individuals chosen this year

from more than 50,000 Smith ’10 Memorial Fund to support the associates across the United States and Canada to join the USA Triathlon honored Talley Center for Counseling Services. The fund will help with programming firm’s principals. He and wife Joni Briganti ’08 with a to help destigmatize mental health issues Stephanie Canny Maxwell ’06 live in Fredericksburg. lifetime achievement award. and increase awareness about suicide prevention. Jeff Longo is director of software development at the security firm Kastle Systems. During the pandemic he focused on enabling a safe return to work for others. Jeff studied computer science and is pursuing a master’s degree in engineering at George Mason University. School in North Chesterfield, Virginia. Mark works for Grove Eye Care in Richmond and Midlothian, Virginia. Rebecca Helsley Meadows, husband Jonathan, and 3-year-old Ella welcomed baby Holland June in July 2020. Contributions may be sent by check to the UMW Foundation at 1119 Hanover St., Fredericksburg, VA, 22401, or online through umw.edu/onlinegiving. Please direct your gift to “Phil Smith ’10 Memorial Fund” for accurate processing. 2006 Shana Muhammad email.shana@gmail.com Being pregnant during a pandemic was a unique and sometimes stressful experience, but they’re grateful for this little ray of sunshine in their lives. Lisa Blumfelder Shapiro ’07 and 2011 Hannah Hopkins hhopkins89@gmail.com Brandon Shapiro welcomed son Liam Kira Lanewala 2007 Jacob Shapiro on Feb. 28, 2020. klanewala@gmail.com Jay Sinha jay.sinha@alumni.umw.edu USA Triathlon honored Joni Briganti with a lifetime achievement award. 2012 Sarah Eckman 2009 Mandi Solomon msolomon211@gmail.comsarahje@gmail.com Elizabeth Jennings Robin Semelsberger started a clinical Marcella Cavallaro Wallin and her elizabethsjennings@gmail.com psychology doctoral program at Sam husband welcomed their second child, Cecilia, in August 2020. They live in southern California, where Marcella Alexandra Meier alexandra.m.meier@gmail.com Houston State University in the fall. She planned to specialize in clinical health psychology and the relationship between leads digital sales efforts for Esri, a software mapping company. 2008 Trish Lauck Cerulli Joyce Metzler Bodoh is director of energy solutions and clean energy for the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative in central Virginia. She oversees clean energy programs, energy efficiency, and energy solutions for REC customers. stress and health. 2013 Amanda Buckner McVicker Amandabuckner1@gmail.com trish.lauck@gmail.com Andrew Hogan Alyssa Lee alyssa.linda.lee@gmail.com Rose Ferguson Cohen is federal operations director at IBM Walton 2010 Kelly Caldwell kellyecaldwell@gmail.com andrew.hogan819@gmail.com In 2020, the Virginia Economic Developers Association (VEDA) presented its inaugural Rising Star Health. She was chosen as the 2020 Philip Price Smith died Oct. 2, 2020, in Award to Meghan Hobbs Welch of employee of the year from among 7,000 Raleigh, North Carolina, after a long the Virginia Economic Development employees. battle with depression. Partnership. The award recognizes Kristen Roscoe MacMillan and Mark MacMillan ’07 welcomed their second daughter in the fall of 2020. Older daughter Charlotte turned 3 in August. Kristen is entering her 13th year of teaching, her fifth at Monacan High Phil was the loving husband of Ashley and father of Annabelle, 3, and Cooper, 1. Friends and family remember his love of all things sports: football, golf, NASCAR, sports trivia, and especially the University of Virginia Cavaliers. A business administration a VEDA member who has made a difference quickly in a new role. Meghan joined the development partnership in 2018 and was promoted to senior business manager for business investment in early 2020. Read more about Meghan on p.20. major and certified public accountant, Phil Rose Ferguson Cohen ’08, federal operations director at IBM Walton had a business offering expert tax advice. Clients were impressed by his When Claire Pickard Mairead ’14 and Mason Moorman Mairead ’14 Health, was named 2020 employee professionalism, integrity, married, they chose a new last of the year. relatability, and kindness. name. In his memory, classmates have established the Phil

2014

Elizabeth Storey estorey@mail.usf.edu Claire Pickard Mairead and Mason Moorman Mairead were married Oct. 3, 2020, in Richmond, Virginia. Mairead is the new last name the couple chose. Jennifer S. Furlong has published a novel, Hidden City: The Unimaginables. It’s book 1 of a young adult series that “mixes coming of age heart with supernatural action adventure.” Lisa A. Zargarpur, M.Ed. was elected vice chairwoman of the Prince William County School Board for a one-year term starting in January 2021. She was elected to the school board in November 2019. Lisa is an elementary general music and chorus teacher in Fairfax County, Virginia, public schools. She and husband Yaqub have three children, the youngest in high school. Leo J. Titus, MBA, an engineer, has been promoted to chief operating officer for Engineering Consulting Services, where he has worked since 1997.

2015

Evan Smallwood esmallwood15@gmail.com Moira McAvoy moira.jo.mcavoy@gmail.com Erin Clark became chief ranger of visitor experience at Sky Meadows State Park, near Paris, Virginia, in January 2021.

2016

Quinn Doyle quinnmdoyle@gmail.com

2017

Samantha Litchford slitchfo@gmail.com

2018

Brittany McBride bmcbride2128@gmail.com

2019

Jasmine Pineda pinedajasmineem@gmail.com

2020

No Class Agent classnotes@umw.edu The classes of 2020 and 2021 need class agents. To volunteer – or to send a personal or professional update to share with your fellow alumni – write to the magazine at classnotes@umw.edu.

In Memoriam

Virginia Apperson Waldrop ’41 Louise Lucas Carnell ’42 Dorothy Thrasher Sutton Jones ’42 Marjorie Leap Kennedy ’42 Ruth Spotswood Spradlin ’42 Alice Glazebrook Gilleece ’43 Ann Dennis Logan ’43 Edith Winslow Staalman ’43 Phyllis Quimby Anderson ’44 Frances Ellis Chilian ’44 Mary Jane Ottinger Leonard ’44 E. Lane Gale Beale ’45 Lillian King Everett ’45 Mary Smith Hertling ’45 Kathryn Hale Hudson ’45 Jean Hudson Inskeep ’45 Natalie Kerns McWilliams ’45 Dorothy Potts Taylor ’45 Betty Cornett Wasson ’45 Virginia Oquist Cameron ’46 Frances Adair Edmonson ’46 Calista Upshaw Gilmer ’46 Kate Parker Hughes ’46 Joan Rosenthal Jessen ’46 Ruth Phipps Metzel ’46 Susan Tillson Metzger ’46 Dorothy Miller ’46 Viola Grosso Stokes ’46 Eleanor Hunter Adams ’47 Doris Lippold Burns ’47 Margaret Whitted Burruss ’47 Roberta Carter Doswell ’47 Betty Proctor Groseclose ’47 Meda Overman Hill ’47 Anna White Jones ’47 Anna Brauer Oxenham ’47 Jean Bramham Read ’47 Sally Wild Upshaw ’47 Marjorie Woody ’47 Lois Saunier Hornsby ’48 Elizabeth Griffin Mitchell ’48 Sylvia Sheaks Moore ’48 Amy Neels Nissen ’48 Virginia Carol Schachtler ’48 Mary Norvell Millner Thomson ’48 Laverne Powell Winn ’48 Barbara Henderson Vassar ’48 Doris Norman Carter ’49 Mary Roberts Guynn ’49 Christine Ridgwell ’49 Norma Craig Sisson ’49 Virginia Lee White ’49 Betty Tomlin Behling ’50 George Bidgood ’50 Kathryn Genoveses Bodley ’50 Virginia Felts Brown ’50 Lillie Powell Colegrove ’50 Dolores O’Brien Dowe ’50 Geraldine Boswell Griffin ’50 Elizabeth Gordon Haga ’50 Ann Montgomery Hogg ’50 Margaret “Peg” Penn Hutchins ’50 Marjorie Diener Knapp ’50 Virginia Barnes Price ’50 Janet Scott Allen ’51 Nilda Fernandez Alsip ’51 Marie Rhodes Cappiello ’51 Constance Cole ’51 Martha Lancaster Curtis ’51 Mary Oliver Darling ’51 Marian Boyd Hepler ’51 Kathryn Hope Allcorn Kasfeldt ’51 Gertrude Alfriend Kimbrough ’51 Nancy Lipps Nugent ’51 Dorothye Belden Wood ’51 Mildred Kolarik Bara ’52

Betty Jo Woodford Bates ’52 Jane Self Ellis ’52 Leah Sachs Gardner ’52 Sara Rowlett Gregory ’52 Anne Smith Harman ’52 Felde Lee Wagner Jones ’52 Ruth Hart Norwood Kemp ’52 Nancy Stump Motley ’52 Elaine Nader Powell ’52 Betty Jane Prufer ’52 Nancy Moxley Stone ’52 Lilla Hagberg Stubbs ’52 Carolyn Sheppe Alliss ’53 Shirley Widener Butler ’53 Sarah Hicks Hudson ’53 Betty Raynor Pittman ’53 Cardelle Gilderdale Redmann ’53 Elizabeth Mae Vandemark ’53 Martha Holbrook Boyd ’54 Nancy Gant Dyment ’54 Carol Young Godin ’54 Christie Gill Hartsock ’54 Nancy Miller Hatcher ’54 Ann Robertson Heard ’54 Florence Hood Kvalnes ’54 Ann Payne Long ’54 Susan Sykes Shipman ’54 Beatrice Carver Clark ’55 Carolyn Ann Miller Maclay ’55 Jacqueline Crump Nunnally ’55 Sarah Cooley Potts ’55 Virginia Wharton Whitmer ’55 Anne DePadro Bloom ’56 Betty Lou Jordan Dunton ’56 Joan Heath Sheehan Griffin ’56 Barbara Kowalzyk Heppe ’56 Carol Pope Howerton ’56 Alice Huff ’56 Allene Atkinson Hull ’56 Cynthia Michael Jensen ’56 Ann Tillett Leonard ’56 Barbara Ann Shotton ’56 Emilie Carlin Swartz ’56 Ruth Estes Tanner ’56 Nancy Brogden Booker ’57 Shirley Meeks Buck ’57 Barbara Mason Carper ’57 Grace Vakos Dragas ’57 Virginia “Judy” Brunner Fraser ’57 Barbara Broome Hamner ’57 Cynthia Stone Ray ’57 Bruce Ritchie Spain ’57 Sally Ann French Weber ’57 Jane Sjostrom Wyman ’57 Ann Walker Abney ’58 Patricia Ann Dillon ’58 Madge Iseminger Fleeger ’58 Nancy Richardson LeHew-Krogsund ’58 Nancy Doner Salmon ’58 Martha Collier Scruggs ’58 Martha Ann Blake Cooper ’59 Sara Bryson Damskier ’59 Joan Stahlhut Good ’59 Mary Stump Harrell ’59 Patricia Belcastro Hoffman ’59 Barbara Lewis Leddick ’59 Anne Johnson Maxwell ’59 Luanne Harrison Mortimer ’59 Elsa Query Rash ’59 Ann Hopkins Surrette ’59 Nancy Whitehead ’59 Judith Jones Bozarth ’60 Vera Taylor Bruton ’60 Hilda Beazley Burcher ’60 Nancy Floyd Gibb ’60 Elizabeth Rains Grymes ’60 Lynne Hays ’60 Joyce Hall Jones ’60 Jane Ferguson Junghans ’60 Susan Anderson Moore ’60 Martha Pace Patchan ’60 Barbara McCoy Patrick ’60 Marie Redman Stone ’60 Jean Ryan Farrell ’61 Mary Gilliam Dodson Larson ’61 Jennie Sue Breeden Minor ’61 Linda Giles Poole ’61 Ann Bodie Sweeney ’61 Elizabeth “Betty” Forrester Day ’62 Lynne Gourley Farrell ’62 Jimmie Barnette Fullinwider ’62 Carolyn Livingstone ’62 Mary McIntosh Lominack ’62 Kathryn Clark Wary ’62 Linda Richardson Wilkinson ’62 Jane Bateman ’63 Carolyn Scoville Brantley ’63 Robin Melton Hickman ’63 Winifred “Ann” Turner Hull ’63 Norma McNair ’63 Mary Lehmann Speir ’63 Mary Green Volckmann ’63 Rachel Kimmer Parker ’64 Letha Fuqua Simpkins ’64 Jacqueline Towler ’64 Florence Young ’64 Carole Dirling Amsbury ’65 Elizabeth Hudgins ’65 Betty Osborne Kelly ’65 Phyllis Eure Rodrigues ’65 Cherryl “Cherie” Wells Brumfield ’66 Mary Camper ’66 Otelia Thorn Frazier ’66 Carolyn Freeman Glover ’66 Barbara Green ’66 Mary Patricia Greenwald ’66 Pamela Paris Henderson ’66 Linda Johnson Williams ’66 Lynn Barnett ’67 Mary Diggs ’67 Patricia Rankin McLaughlin ’67 Doris Smith Parrish ’67 Carolyn Corwin Thomas ’67 Elizabeth Atthowe Howard ’68 Nancy Brown Keck ’68 Joan Pervier Bollenbacher ’69 Joan Mueller Goertz ’69 Ellen Smythe Grosskurth ’70

Brenda Dunlavey ’71 Catherine Davis Morgan ’71 Randi Marston Peterson ’71 Sharan J. Hill ’72 Mary Hollier Jones ’72 Elizabeth Pigg ’72 Sharon Richmond Janis ’73 Jan F. Kurtz ’73 Hazel Moss Putty ’73 David Kitterman ’76 Ann McKenna Newnam ’76 Kathleen Beecher Ingrao ’78 Linda Meeker Young ’78 Sally Hayden ’79 Karyn Kimball Bekit ’80 Catherine Sherertz Joppich ’80 Lloyd C. Martin Jr. ’81 Carol Eberly Ward ’81 Philip F. Cooke ’82 Stephen Goodwin ’82 Carmel Pellicciotto Andrews ’84 Violet Johnson Deel ’84 Lois Walthall Murdaugh ’84 John Thomson ’84 Patricia Williams Deutsch ’85 Wendy Monica Stone Frazier ’85 David Lynch ’85 Sandra Lee Goss ’86 Marianna O. Hall Seay ’86 Allison Sheppard ’86 Marian H.W. Bartenhagen ’87 Mark Schadly ’87 Stephen Clipp ’88 Darren L. Brady ’89 Melissa Carter Lipps ’89 G. Dunbar Moomaw ’90 Susan Thacker ’90 Judy W. Johnson ’91 Mary Katherine “Katie” Forester ’92 Katherine B. Payne ’92 Allen Phillips Jr. ’92 Glenn W. Cook ’93 Emily Anne Riebau ’93 Carol Alvey Swindell ’93 Christopher Irvine ’94 Elizabeth A. Pellegreen ’95 Charles H. Sperry III ’96 William T. Sherman ’97 Debra S. Beebe ’99 Helen Desarmeaux ’99 Kelly Richards ’99 Shawn T. Endler ’00 Barbara Jean Reed ’01 Jeremy L. Driver ’02 Kevin Dalmut ’03 Ailith Rogers ’04 Patricia Lynn Kelly ’05 Jessica Jaspin ’07 Charles “Chase” Llewellyn IV ’07 Kathleen Oliver ’09 Philip Price Smith ’10 Michael Bergeron ’12 Joseph Katz ’12 David T. Phillips ’14 Shacobe N. Johnson ’19 Katelyn Perger ’19

Condolences

Barbara Thomas Phillips ’48, who lost her husband

Erma Whitaker Henry Bockoven ’49, who lost her husband

Florence Overley Ridderhof ’50, who lost her son

Miriam “Mim” Sollows Wieland ’50, who lost her husband

Katherine “Kitty” Wells Ball ’52, who lost her husband

Carlene Mitchell Bass ’54, who lost her husband

Elizabeth McNeal Brann ’54, who lost her husband

Ann Johnston LeDuke ’54, who lost her husband

Jean Wiley Everly ’55, who lost her husband

Gretchen Hogaboom Fisher ’55, who lost her husband Marjorie Webb Wolfrey ’55, who lost her husband

Lucy Burwell Meade ’57, who lost her husband

Betty Rhodes O’Donnell ’57, who lost her sister

Audrey Dubetsky Doyle ’59, who lost her daughter Barbara Barndt Miller ’59, who lost her husband

Sally Warwick Rayburn ’59, who lost her husband

Fay Jessup Young ’59, who lost her husband

Jean Eubanks Holland ’60, who lost her husband

Eleanor Jane Riles ’61, who lost her husband

Graham Walker Burns ’61, who lost her sister

Catherine “Kitty” Boxley Swanson ’62, who lost her husband

Sallie Granger Daughtrey ’63, who lost her husband

Betty Caudle Marshall ’63, who lost her husband

Linda Gulnac Steelman ’63, who lost her husband

Kathryn Pannell Howe ’64, who lost her husband

Margaret Cobourn Robinson ’65, who lost her brother

Nancy Coates Wilson ’65, who lost her husband

Sandra Hutchinson Schanne ’66, who lost her husband

Patricia Eldridge Saldarini ’67, who lost her husband

Frances Rodgers Bryant ’68, who lost her husband

Rhoda “Dodo” Fischer Roberts ’68, who lost her mother

Anne Tooke ’68, who lost her mother Susan Seay Ledbetter ’69, who lost her husband

Willa S. Powell ’72, who lost her sister Cynthia Lloyd Creekmore ’75, who lost her partner

April Tooke Langevin ’75, who lost her mother

Linda Green Gaston ’77, who lost her father

Ellen Stanley Booth ’81, who lost her mother

Katherine Dozier ’81, who lost her brother

Bobbie Dwyer Leon ’81, who lost her father

Erin R. Devine ’82, who lost her mother Betsey Riester Lisenbee ’82, who lost her father

Christy Roach ’82, who lost her mother Karen Green Scanzoni ’82, who lost her father

Princess Moss ’83, who lost her sister Roslyn Roach Aroesty ’84, who lost her mother

Kerry P. Devine ’84, who lost her mother

Sara Riester Dillon ’87, who lost her father

James Llewellyn ’87, who lost his mother

Kimberly Swaim Brady ’89, who lost her husband

Jennifer Bryant Langdale ’91, who lost her father

Colette Epple ’94, who lost her father Maryleen Dudley Johnson ’95, who lost her husband

Nicole Johnson Boynes ’97, who lost her husband

Carol Hairfield Bowler ’98, who lost her father

Marne Dantone Sherman ’98, who lost her husband

Heather Flory Driver ’02, who lost her husband

Barbara J. Gary ’05, who lost her husband

Jonathan Moss Putty ’10, who lost his mother

Ashley Frazier, current student, who lost her mother

OBITUARIES

Aniano Peña, professor emeritus of modern foreign languages, died Oct. 9, 2020, in Reisterstown, Maryland.

He taught at Mary Washington from 1974 through 1995 and was known for his love of Spanish literature, especially the literary characters Don Quixote and Don Juan. He inspired students to speak and use the Spanish language with confidence, and he guided summer study trips to Madrid, Spain. He published several books and articles and presented at language conferences.

Born in the mountain village of Villamediana, Burgos, Spain, Peña was chosen at 12 to attend Catholic seminary and receive an education. He was ordained a priest and served several parishes but left Spain in the 1960s during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Peña eventually left the priesthood as well, married, and raised a daughter while teaching and completing a master’s degree at Temple University and a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.

He was an artist, painting in oils; an avid tennis player; and a fan of Real Madrid soccer. He loved to host fiestas and was famous among his friends for his paella, tortilla Española, sangria, and Spanish Swedish meatballs.

Peña’s marriage to the late Valerie Grimaldi ended in divorce. In recent years he lived in Maryland with his partner, Cynthia “Cindy” Lloyd Creekmore ’75, who survives him, as does daughter Alethea Gail Peña of New Jersey.