alumnae Connection
class notes Compiled by the Office of Alumnae & Parent Relations from May 2012 to September 2012. Information may be edited for space limitations and content restrictions. Submit class notes to your class agent, online at www.meredith.edu/alumnae, by e-mail at alumnae@meredith.edu, by fax (919) 760-2818, or by phone to the Office of Alumnae & Parent Relations at (919) 760-8548. Deadline for Spring 2013 issue is January 16, 2013. Submissions received after this date will appear in the Summer 2013 issue.
’48
Jolene Weathers Edwards writes that she was
honored to represent the Class of 1948 at the inauguration of President Jo Allen, ‘80. She is still active in clubs, church and Curves. She is looking forward to her 65th reunion in the spring.
’49
Betty Jean Johnson Brown and her husband happily celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with good wishes from their five children, two sons-in-law and three grandsons. Brown retired after 20 years as headmistress at The Langley School in McLean, Va., where the Lower School Building was named in her honor. Since retirement she began helping other schools and is now serving as the grandparents’ coordinator at The Woods Academy in Bethesda, Md.
’58
Beulah Cameron has been living at Springmoor
Life Care Retirement Community for 24 years. At 95, she writes that she is enjoying life and still playing piano for vespers, memorial services and choir. Martha Bone Crow has been undergoing some medical tests, but everything is in good shape. Anne Howard Farmer and her husband have not yet retired. They are involved with their Shenandoah Springs ministry in Virginia, church, community and their family. On their campus, they host college students from the U.S. and abroad along with churches, weddings and family reunions. She writes that they would love to see the class and meet President Allen. Janet Jenkins Harding, after living in Northern Virginia for 41 years, has moved back to a retirement facility in Matthews, N.C. They are closer to their extended family and to people that “understand their language.” She sends her cheers to everyone! Margaret Creech Sutton is still struggling with some health issues but her life has been brightened by the return of her granddaughter to Meredith for 22
/ Meredith M a ga z i ne / fa l l 2 0 12
her senior year. Glenda Eddins Temple has been spending time with her two daughters and their families. They spent time together this past summer in Isle of Palms, S.C. She has six grandchildren and is looking forward to flying to New York to visit her daughter and her family this fall.
’64
Betsy Rose Long Bucks still enjoys an adventur-
ous life. An early Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia, South America, she recently helped organize a reunion of her Peace Corps contemporaries and contributed to a book about their experiences. She continues to travel widely, having most recently visited in Germany, Canada, the Southwest and Guatemala. When not traveling, she and her husband enjoy spending lots of time with the two (of three) grandchildren who live near their Elkridge, Md., home. After teaching math and having three children, Mary Lyon McKenney Camper worked for 17 years in a textile business that she and her husband founded in New York City. They later moved to Virginia
Beach, Va., where, after his death, she became senior managing director of a New York-based entertainment company. Camper has served as minister of music for various churches. She co-founded and directs a community faith-based mission choir that has traveled in the past 11 years to seven countries, most recently to Guatemala. She has 11 grandchildren. Betty Bass Shows has been in the Atlanta area where she taught special education for 30 years. She and her husband have two children and five grandchildren. Shows has been a community leader in Junior League, the Arts Board, and the Library Board. She is also active in her church where she sings in the chancel choir and directs the cherub choir. She still plays bridge, has taken up golf, and says she “can’t wait ’til our 50th!”
’65
Carol Brenda Long Cobb has a new grandson born
in August to daughter Collins and her husband. Jean Hutcherson Ebert and a friend, Charlotte Ruth, have just started a non-profit called No to O. Both women
Meredith Mayhem Are You Ready for The Mayhem? Meredith Mayhem 2013 Coming to you in February! meredith.edu/giving