C l a ss N ot e s The reunion committee honored our 52 classmates who have died with a memorial at our class meeting, beginning and ending with a prayer, and reading each woman’s name aloud. A chime was rung after each name was read. I discovered last year that my MWC roommate of three years, Mary “Jo” Dreher, had died two years before. Jo and her husband, Ralph Gibson, and family lived in Northern Virginia. Also at the class meeting, it was decided a committee would research giving a class gift to UMW. This needs to be with separate monies from our regular contributions to UMW. If you have ideas of how this could be done or a specific gift you would like to see given, please contact Karen Vandevanter Morrison at mms02891@gmail.com.
remarks about her “boring” life in Richmond. Susan Rutan Joehnk came from La Jolla, Calif., and Bev Sangston has retired and lives in Florida. Gloria Moskowitz Fischel was as enthusiastic and energetic as I remembered her. Barbara Bold Ducker and her husband enjoyed the weekend festivities, as did Barbara Moore Wheeler and Karen Gustafson. Congratulations to Sally Abbott Pomputius ’62, who received the Mary Washington Distinguished Alumna Award! Janice Coleman honored her friend, Wendy Shadwell, by describing the significant gift Wendy designated in her will to Mary Washington. Tom and Becky Ryan Dunkenberger celebrated their 50th anniversary around the time of our
Diego, Germany, and New York, and as a teacher and facilitator now working with adults and educators in a character education program. Linkey and Betsy have agreed to share the class agent duties, so feel free to contact one of us at any time with your news. Let’s make sure the Class of 1963 has lots of news in our next newsletter. Please try to get your news to us a couple of weeks before the deadline. Many thanks to Anne Radway for her years of service as class agent.
1964 Victoria Taylor Allen vallen1303@aol.com
It is always a pleasure to hear from you. I received a recent email and assume you did too, that next year’s Reunion Susan Roth Nurin ’66 is a Metropolitan Weekend – our 50th! – will be Opera volunteer, which involves sitting May 30 through June 1. Save the with student groups during performances date!
ancestors,” who came from County Down in 1853. Patti has a majestic bald eagle, a male red fox, and deer on their property. Patti has been recovering from shingles, and she and I urge classmates to speak to their internists about getting the shingles vaccine. It protects for life. Barbara Kellam Latham and husband Roger moved in January to the Eastern Shore of Virginia, to Cape Charles, where Barbara grew up. Their older daughter had gone to Cape Charles to visit her grandmother and liked it so much she stayed there, so Barbara and Roger decided to move back to family as well. Unfortunately, soon after the move, Barbara’s mother died at age 94. As Barbara writes, “She had had a good, long run.” Our sympathy to you and the whole family, Barbara. Their younger daughter, Sara Latham ’92, lives in London.
I loved hearing stories from Suellen Grant Knowles about her adventures Sally Crenshaw Witt stays busy at Mary Washington with her fabulous garden and with with roommate her and Sam’s 1-year-old grandson, Jackie Dahloff Henry. She said Sue Parker Burton’s Bumgardner of new grandson is her eighth, and and seeing every opera for free. going to Austria and Barbara Humphries Davenport’s Priscilla driving to Mexico new granddaughter is her eighth! Weatherby during spring break. Are there any others of us with eight Ryan and Ed reunion in North Carolina at their How many others remember those or more grandchildren? moved to the Eastern Shore of son’s home, and Judy Ross and her wild spring break trips to Florida Maryland after raising their family Beverley Jackson Johnston and husband joined them. or Mexico? Jackie is in Bridgeport, in the D.C. area. They love their new husband Jim arrived in Wildwood, Calif., where she raises and rides home, as it is close to the water and This summer Pete and I moved N.J., from their home in Texas in horses in endurance races. not too far from their daughter and to Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, the spring. They were thankful that her husband and growing family. and we love island life. Our friends I wish I could write about Hurricane Sandy spared their New They live in Grasonville, Md., near Len and Beth Davitt Eisenhood ’67 everyone who came to the reunion. Jersey home from major damage. the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. plan to move to Bainbridge soon. If I missed you, please write your Beverley and Jim’s daughter, Anna, Karen Vandevanter Morrison lives news for the next issue. Suitemates and husband Dale gave them their Nancy Booth was awarded the on neighboring Whidbey Island, Eileen Hildebrand Andrews of first grandchild last October. The title of professor at Hudson County Wash., and we planned to have Florida, Ginger Logie Carr of baby is, as Barbara writes, “the love Community College in New Jersey. lunch soon. Maine, and Carol Van Ness Clapp of our lives, of course!” Beverley She received her Ph.D. in 2009. of Florida, and their husbands had a is an involved and enthusiastic Congratulations, Nancy! Please take the time to share great time catching up. It was fun to photographer. see three other Betsys: Betsy Loving what you’ve done with your degree from Mary Chris Scheuring Robbins, Betsy Chamberlain Washington for our Kapfer lives near Myrtle Hartz, and Betsy Evans next Class Notes Beach, S.C., and has Manchester! Many of us agreed After 40-some years teaching column. I majored seven grandchildren. that we were glad we attended Mary in English and have They were saddened Washington in the era we did; we college English and humanities, always been grateful by the loss of their reminisced about the honor code, for the numerous oldest granddaughter, Yvonne J. Milspaw ’67 plans to dates in the parlor, wearing our PJs books I read and who passed away at under trench coats to early morning retire in a few years to loaf and read. for learning how age 20 in January of classes, waitressing at Seacobeck, to think critically. an illness. Another and being grateful for small classes I also got my granddaughter was to taught by interesting professors. teaching certificate begin college. One of “to fall back on in case I didn’t Lois Smith McDaniel, a Chris’ daughters raises alpacas on We send our heartfelt sympathy wonderful photographer, took many get married right away” – which her Idaho ranch. An injured goose to Barbara Ioanes, whose mother, I didn’t! Teaching has been my photos now on the Shutterfly site. befriended Chris’ dog, a husky Betty, passed away in June at age 96. lifelong passion, as a young Kitty Shannon had us laughing mix, even following them on walks. Patti Jones Schacht’s family secondary school teacher in San at her self-deprecating, witty As I (Vicky Taylor Allen) write planned to visit Northern Ireland this, I have plans to go to France to in August “to walk the land of the 46
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