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daughter Isabelle “Izzy.” Izzy is in 10th grade at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Va. Kim had a fabulous Reunion Weekend last May in Chicago with Melissa Pruyn Vaughan, Dani Depaul Morganthaler ’85 and Ellen Howard Attar. Kim is still working in the Relocation & Immigration Team at Booz Allen Hamilton in the D.C. area and her husband continues his career as a preservation architect on Capital Hill. Kim plans to attend Reunion. Libby Glenn Fisher and husband Charlie’s son Wil is in his junior year at Pepperdine; daughter Mary Kathryn is a freshman at UVa. Charlie retired from P&G last June and has started a consulting business that doesn’t tie them down to a city, so they have bought a house in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.! Libby plans to attend Reunion. Lucy Chapman Millar dropped off her son Schuyler at SMU last summer. He joined the freshman class along with Ellen Claire’s daughter Sissy. Daughter Peyton will graduate from UGA in Dec. Lucy sells Etcetera women’s clothing and is in charge of her local agency. Elizabeth Sprague O’Meara sells with her. Lucy plays lots of tennis, shoots sporting clays and goes to tournaments. She is co-chairing a big 3-day sporting clays charity event in the spring that will benefit local Atlanta children’s charities! Lucy will attend Reunion. M. Churchill Bird McMurrain is living in Vail, Colo. She dropped off the first of her 4 children at college last summer, SBC that is! Churchill has lived in Vail for 7 years. She caught up with Tish Littleton Byrne Eliades. Mandy Beauchemin’s son Zachary (Zack, 18) is now a 4/C Cadet at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.! Mandy was promoted to practice administrator and manages about 45 employees. Mandy is looking forward to Reunion and hopes to attend. Mary Ware Gibson still teaches 3rd grade at the Charlotte Latin School and writes they have several alumnae there! Husband Brian continues his ENT practice in Charlotte. Taylor (24) is an EMT with Medic and part-time student at UNCC; Andrew (21) is a senior at Appalachian State U.; and Claire (19) is in the Textile School at N.C. State. Mary enjoyed the girls’ weekend with Mason Bennett Rummel, Lea Sparks Bennett and Kathy Barrett Baker. Mary and Brian are attending the 30th. Mason Bennett Rummel is almost finished with her master’s degree in philanthropic studies. Oldest son, Bennett, lives in N.Y.C. Daughters, Annie and Emma, are at U. of L. Mason expanded on the girls’ weekend getaway in W.Va. Mason, Mary, Lea and Kathy stayed in a cabin and lost power for the entire weekend the thunderstorms came through. She and Rick are planning to visit Costa Rica. Mason will attend Reunion. Mimi Kitchel DeCamp’s younger son will graduate from h.s. the weekend of Reunion, so she won’t be attending. Her older son will be graduating from college. Mimi is still in Nashville, still selling residential real estate. Miriam Baker Morris oldest son, Claiborne, started working in Birmingham at an accounting firm. Daughter, Sally, is a senior at College of Charleston. Pamela Weekes spent most of last spring traveling between N.Y.C. and Williamsburg, Va., where her parents retired to from

N.Y. Pam’s mother is struggling with Parkinson’s. Back in N.Y. Pam has 3 stores open full time, running between N.Y.C. and the Hamptons. Pam is still loving the peace that practicing yoga brings her. Ruth Lewin met family at the Vineyard, where she calls home, for a reunion. It’s been 7 years since they’ve been there. Sarah Sutton Brophy attended the riding reunion with Sarah Babcock. Son #1 is finishing up an aerospace engineering degree at Drexel and son #2 started at Paul Smiths in natural resource management. Sarah’s environmental sustainability consulting to museums is full time, and she is co-leading the national summit on green standards for museums. Sharon Patton Massie and husband Sammy are still with Massie Insurance Agency Inc. on Main St. in Amherst. They’re no longer on the farm but have moved further up the mountain. Sharon is still working, healthy, and happy to no longer be farming. Susan Hughes Huffman has received her master’s in school library media from Longwood U. and has moved from the classroom to be the librarian at Tye River Elementary School. She and Roger are busy with their picture framing and custom furniture/cabinet business. Tracy Gatewood is putting her real estate license to good use. Please send Tracy every single referral from your friends sending their kids to the U. of Ala. tracygatewood@mindspring.com Wendy Chapin Albert is doing well in Ruxton, Md. Daughter Annie is spending fall semester in Perugia, Italy! Daughter Eleanor is a junior at St. Paul’s School for Girls. Both girls ride and show. Wendy is trail riding with their large pony Boysenberry. Tolly is a stockbroker at Chapin Davis, plays golf and trains race horses! Wendy sells residential real estate, loves gardening and riding. She is taking an oil painting class. Wylie Jameson Small’s son Rudy (18) started his freshman year at Hobart & William Smith College. Wylie and Stuart are thinking of getting another Jack Russell to add to their brood of Peyton (5) and Maris (15). In May, Wylie will be taking on the presidency of a Rochester club that her grandmother founded in 1923! She can’t wait for Reunion in May! Wynn Henderson, Atlanta, is working at her mom’s jewelry store and is the assistant to children’s ministries at her church. Wynn has 2 children, Adelaide (18) and Jack (16). She also has an exchange student from Germany, Florian. Adelaide spent last year (as a junior) in Germany and was awarded a scholarship from the State Dept. Jack and Wynn loved being able to visit her overseas. When Adelaide returned, the family went to St. Martin. Wynn has exchanged emails with Tracy Gatewood, Joan McGettigan, Kim Howell Franklin, Ellen Howard Attar, Lizzie Pierpoint Kerrison, Penney Hartline ’84, Bobbie Serrano Black, Dani DePaul Morganthaler ’85 and Nancy Cunningham Mauck trying to arrange a reunion but has yet to be successful, but will keep trying! I have an idea Wynn, why don’t all of you from ’83 plan on coming to the 30th in May? Tracy G. has great idea of organizing an Amtrak trip for all the girls on the southern train route to take the trip to SBC together and arrange a shuttle from the Amherst Station. Sounds like a blast!

1984

Debbie Hodgkinson Jones 4416 Bromley Ln. Richmond, VA 23221-1140 elliesam@aol.com

Debbie Jones: Staying connected with Ginger Reynolds Davis ’84 with fun trips. Still riding my horses, working in mortgage banking and helping my sister with her Square One Organic Spirits biz. Juliet Jacobsen Kastorff: Running whitewater trips internationally during the winter along with a business in N.C., and this year our new RioQuijos Eco-Lodge opened up in Ecuador. Ginger Reynolds Davis: Jeffery has graduated. He now drives heavy equipment. Carter has just begun his junior year at Presbyterian Coll. Can’t wait to see y’all at Reunion. Vida Henry Fonseca: I’m back in the Nashville area to be around family and care for my dad and looking for a job. Shannon Young Ray: The triplets (Megan, Taylor and Carson) are seniors this year so we’re busy with all that entails x3! Our “middle child” Peter is a junior at Texas A & M, business school. Our oldest, Breck Jr., graduated 2 years ago from St. Louis U. and has now returned to Fort Worth as a private banker. He’s engaged to be married June 2013—right after the triplets graduate and before we take them to their 3 separate colleges. Sloane Yeadon Mills: Mary Pate (21) is at King’s College in London for JYA. She’s majoring in art history with pre-med focus. Daisy is a senior at Wesleyan and editorin-chief of the school paper. Jack is in 7th grade at Wesleyan. Sloane is going on 23 years with FDIC.

1985

Ellen Reed Carver 1315 Bolling Ave. Norfolk, VA 23508 ellenreed8@yahoo.com

1986

April Adelson Marshall 7809 Coddle Harbor Ln. Potomac, MD 20854-3253 adm1127@yahoo.com

Leigh Ann White

165 Gray St., Apt 2 Arlington, MA 02476 leighann.white@gmail.com Holly McGovern Barber was working on the 2012 Republican National Convention since March 2011. Holly and Ralph have sent their oldest, Chas (18), to Ole Miss this summer. Caroline (17) is in her junior year in an International Baccalaureate program, and Will (7) is starting first grade. Holly had a reunion this spring with Ashley Simmons Bright, Meme Boulware Hobbs and Linda Cudd Miller in New Orleans, where Ashley’s daughter Ella was named the Queen of Mardi Gras. Holly will have a fall reunion with Linda Cudd Miller and Ann Irby Smithey. From Hermosa Beach Calif., Shelby Burns writes in to say she’s working, doing some freelance web-writing and taking care of her 3 boys Jack (12), Calvin (10) and Sam (7). Sadly, Shelby’s father died last year.

Harriette Cooper Liederbach has a new career teaching 8th-grade science at the school her children attend. Harriette’s oldest is a sophomore at N.C. State U.; her second is a freshman at Appalachian State U. Their youngest is in 8th grade. Burke Morrow is still teaching h.s. earth science and chemistry. She had a blast seeing everyone at Reunion. Beth Ann Trapold Newton reports that son Gus (19) received his Eagle Scout award last year and is a freshman at Christopher Newport U. in their Presidential Leadership Program. Her daughter Bonnie (17) went to the summer Explore Engineering course at Sweet Briar—loved it! Annie (10) is in 5th grade. Beth Ann is in her third year as the executive editor at The Social List of Washington (aka: The Green Book). Mary Jo Biscardi Brown and Frank still reside in the Philadelphia area. They visited Portland, Ore., for the first time in June, followed by a relaxing week in Cancun. Mary Jo serves on the Boxwood Circle Giving Committee. Thank you for your gifts to the College! Michelle Miller Haddad and Sam celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in March, followed by the marriage of their oldest daughter, making Michelle and Sam in-laws! Michelle is nostalgic about her study abroad in Spain as her middle daughter prepares to take off for a year in Madrid. Elizabeth Lindsay is doing contract copyediting for the United Methodist Publishing House again. She still takes figure skating and ballet lessons and continues to drive Elsinore Basset-Hound to her monthly “job” at a hospice. Mimi Holland Dinsmore is still living in Charleston, W.Va. She and Tyler celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Son Mac is a freshman at Dickinson Coll. in Carlisle, Pa. Ingrid Weirick Squires is still teaching 2nd grade in Virginia Beach, Va., married to Dave and mom to Thomas, in 6th grade. Thomas went to Australia for 2 weeks this summer without his parents. He plays lacrosse in Williamsburg every spring so Ingrid visited with Sue Finn Adams and Mike who came out for Thomas’ game. Missy Duggins Green’s son Miles is in 8th grade; Nancy is in 7th. Ken celebrated his 50th birthday in March and they continued celebrating it for several months after by visiting Las Vegas in May and then Cabo san Lucas in July. She catches up with nearby Jennifer Frost Holden. Katie Hearn and Karen Gonya Nickles will join Jennifer and Missy for the Chiefs versus Ravens in Oct. McKenzie Reed van Meel has 2 middle schoolers: Mercer in 6th grade and Madison in 8th. McKenzie is a soccer and field hockey mom. While the kids are in school, she tends to her growing homebased reiki practice in Old Greenwich, Conn. Colleen Handte Jones lives in Charlotte, N.C. with husband Jonathan and daughter Emma (8), who is in 3rd grade at St. Patrick Catholic School. Colleen enjoys working part time at Emma’s school as a teacher assistant for 3 different grades. They had a fun summer visiting D.C., Tenn. and Hilton Head, S.C. Meme Boulware Hobbs spent a great extended weekend in New Orleans last Feb. with Holly McGovern Barber and husband Ralph. They were guests of Ashley

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