CLASS NOTES travel! This winter we plan to spend most of our time in Salida, CO and hope to visit Taos, Sante Fe, Seattle, the Grand Canyon and Minneapolis. I also enjoy serving on two community boards, helping children and families. I am active in yoga classes, book clubs, coffee groups and I help lead bible study classes at church. Tim’s and my greatest joy is visiting our lovely daughter in the Twin Cities. She is working on a human development and educational degree in counseling. She is also certified in sign language and works with the deaf population. We enjoy our visits with her and her sweet dog Murphy, a king Charles cavalier. See you all soon!” Molly Butler Swanton ’64 is busy traveling and enjoying her new winter home in Arizona. Molly and her husband also own a home in Myrtle Beach, SC where she :: Molly Butler Swanton ’64 can golf. She volunteers at the American Legion and works with several local writers, both teaching and editing. She’s a “cat woman” and says, “I would have dozens if my husband would allow it!”
:: Healdsburg High School girls’ tennis team coached by Elenita Jackson Parker ’68
in Wisconsin: “Views of the Ridge: Oral Perspectives from the Military Ridge Prairie Heritage Area in Southwest Wisconsin”. The first book, “Sand Country Memories: Oral Perspectives of Wisconsin’s Northwest Pine Barrens”, was published in 2008. In Ohio, Susan continues her involvement with storytelling and has begun volunteer work with PVS (Prison Visitation and Support). She has also taken up watercolor painting. Elenita Jackson Parker ’68 coached the Healdsburg High School girls’ tennis team this fall. “I can’t believe how easy it was to remember their 20+ names...Mia, Maja, Mollie and Maddie, 2 Gillians and Baileys, and Angelicas. I look forward to the next alumnae gathering in San Francisco, CA!” Priscilla Bohlen ’69 regularly shows her artwork throughout the Philadelphia area. Once a year she has a show of her new work at Beaumont or Waverly. She is on the board at Beaumont and does volunteer work for three art organizations: Artist Equity Association, Delaware Valley Art League and Artsisters.
:: L iz, bred by Janie Martin Emerson ’65, has shown at Westminster Kennel Club Show. Liz and Janie have won two national Westie awards: one for the #1 Westie Bitch in 2012 and the other for the Best Owner Bred Westie Bitch for 2012.
Susan Cantrell Gilchrist ’65 retired from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in 2007 and moved to Ohio when she married Mike Latham in 2009. Susan has just completed her second oral history book creating a sense of place
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foxed terrier puppy who has given us both pleasure and constant trouble! In 2014, I will have been teaching 36 years with the end in sight either next or the following year and our departure from St. Andrew’s, our home of over 26 years, shortly thereafter to somewhere in the world!
Mary Park DeSalvo ’69 writes, “Over the past five years, I have gained two new titles - Mother in Law and Official Dinosaur/Geezer at St. Anne’s Episcopal School! David and I celebrated 30 years of marriage two and a half years ago and our children are off the family payroll. My most memorable travel experience was fulfilling my mother’s dream of seeing elephants in the wild at Kruger National Park and a most unexpected and welcome blessing of receiving Holy Communion from Archbishop Tutu in his hometown church in Cape Town! On another note, a definite mixed blessing was getting a
:: 1 969 classmates Alida McIlvain Haslett, Mary Park DeSalvo, Mercy Brown and Weesie Stengel Barton (l-r) at the wedding of Andrew DeSalvo November 9, 2013 in Orlando, FL
Julia Wood Foster ’69 is still working as a pathologist at Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta, GA. Her husband, Larry, is a history professor at Georgia Tech. Now that her kids are finished college, she and Larry are starting to travel. Her son David, 27, is a software engineer in Seattle, WA and her other son Paul, 26, is in graduate school in computer science/robotics at University of Michigan. Her daughter Laura, 23, is working as a jeweler and looking into graduate school for art. Eric, her youngest, 23, works for the caterer at Emory University.
1970-79 Frances Moran Abbott ’74 writes, “In September 2013, my dear friend Eliza