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Adele Dieckmann McKee AdeleMcKee46@msn.com A note from the Secretary: News is welcome twice annually — please contribute!! Ann Patterson Bynum expresses our common feelings that she is staying away from people but calling some friends daily to stay in touch; visiting children, grands and great-grands safely; doing church virtually; enjoying camellias blooming bountifully; and that’s about it. Hoping for the end of COVID-19! Greetings to all! Elizabeth Blair Carter reflects on the isolation felt in her assisted living unit at Park Springs in Stone Mountain, Ga. Probably this is made worse by some vision loss. She is no longer the musician for a men’s singing group there. Susan Daugherty enjoys her duplex living at Presbyterian Village in Austell, Ga. She has gotten her vaccine shots now, as has the entire village. Mary Elizabeth Etheridge lost her husband (married 71.5 years) just before Christmas. They served as Presbyterian missionaries in Brazil and the Congo before returning home to Atlanta, where they continued serving in various roles with the Presbyterian churches. Susan Pope Hays remembers, with much appreciation, the quotation on one of the ASC Library beams: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32) Sitting under those words while studying in her youth, she now muses on what a difference knowing these lines makes in a person’s thought processes. She wishes they were more widely known. She sends her best to all.
Jane Alsobrook Miller has been in the hospital and caught COVID-19. She is back home recuperating, about to start physical therapy. A chipper spirit! Mary Alice Compton Osgood, writing from Mass., notes that her daughter in Namibia had a hard time getting across national borders to visit her in the fall, and that there are many problems just moving about within the country. All of this is because of COVID-19. Martha Hay Vardeman lost her husband of 72 years on September 20, 2020. He fought in WWII as a Flight Radio Operator on a B-24 Liberator bomber that was often escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen, or “RedTails,” to whom he says he owes his life. (Burt later was made an honorary Tuskegee Airman). He served at Stillman College (while Martha’s father was president) as business and property manager, since his field of training was construction. Their life centered on the Presbyterian Church after they moved to Atlanta in 1965, where they served on various projects.
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Mary Price Coulling maryc@kalexres.kendal.org Like so many others in this country, members of the class of 1949 – the “Grand Old Gang” – have in recent months felt apprehensive, trapped and isolated, whether in retirement homes or living at home supervised by anxious children. Not being able to hug one’s children or visit with friends has been hard. But on the brighter side, everyone seems to be learning to Zoom with help from grandchildren, and many have already received their COVID-19 vaccines. May 2021 be a freer, happier, healthier year.
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