The Onyx | Spring 2023

no. 11 Spring 2023

Class News Editor: Tasida Webster ’21

Assistant Class News Editor: Aurora Harkins ’26

Designer: DanWatson

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The Agnes Scott College Alumnae Association Board of Directors and the Office of Alumnae Relations are pleased to present the following names for a vote by affirmation of the assembled body of the Association during the 2023 Alumnae Weekend Convocation:

The Agnes Scott College Alumnae Association Board of Directors and the Office of Alumnae Relations are pleased to present the following names for a vote by affirmation of the assembled body of the Association during the 2023 AlumnaeWeekend Convocation:

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Katherine Mitchell ’68

Gué Pardue Hudson ’68 (ex officio, Decatur Chapter Co-Chair)

1970s

Janet Bolen Joiner ’73 (ex officio, Atlanta Chapter Chair)

1980s

Ruth Feicht ’86, Kecia Cunningham Vaughn ’87

1990s

Dawn Swift ’93, Asiyah Sarwari ’99

2000s

Jodi Dixon Taylor ’03,Whitney Brown ’07 (ex officio, Decatur Chapter Co-Chair)

Thank you to the following Board members who are completing their term of service in 2023:

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Carolyn Crawford Thorson ’55

1960s

Marilyn Little Tubb ’65

1980s

Jenny Spencer Parker ’80

1990s

Tracy Oliver-Gary ’98

Heather Ricks Scott ’99

2010s

Shilin Zhou ’13

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| Lucy Herbert Molinaro ’64, seated left and Eve Anderson Earnest ’64, seated right. Joh Lybass ’64 standing left, a bear standing center, and Mae Hall Boys ’64 standing right at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. 2 | Carolyn Newton Curry ’64 with some of her novels. Sudden Death has been nominated for Georgia Author of theYear Award for best first novel. 3 | It rained and rained but we had some intrepid souls who ventured out and about - Terry Phillips Frost ’65, Mary Lowndes Smith Bryan ’65, Sandra Wallace ’65, and Patsy Gay Nash ’65. 4 |Nora Rooche Field’s ’64 Great Dane, Akhie, was awarded Champion status in Brooksville, Fla. in January. 5 | Left to right: son Tommy, daughter Mary Claire, Kay Gerald Pope ’64, grandson Avery, son Andrew, and husband Tom helped to bring in Kay’s eighth decade in style!

6 | Nancy Hammerstrom Bishop ’65, Carol Sutton Lumpkin ’65, Nancy Carmichael Bell ’65, and Louise Lewis ’65 indoors. 7 | Staying in the warmth of the Lodge were Sarah Timmons Gladden ’65, Helen Davis Hatch ’65, Nancy Auman Cunningham ’65, and Kathy Johnson Coskran ’65. 8 | Nancy Auman Cunningham ’65, Kitty Coggin Hagglund ’65, Marilyn Little Tubb ’65, Marcia McClung Porter ’65, Helen Davis Hatch ’65, Linda Kay Hudson McGowan ’65, Jean Hoefer Toal ’65, Mary Lowndes Smith Bryan ’65, and Georgia Gills Herring ’65 enjoying some sunshine! 9 | Anne Morse Topple ’66 and Husband Jim enjoy their children and grandchildren at a family reunion. 10 | 34 classmates were able to come to our mini reunion! Absent from picture is Libby Malone Boggs ’65.

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Bettie Anne Humphreys Mahony ’66 tours Eudora Welty’s garden with Susan King Johnson ’67. 2 | Karen Gearreald ’66 in NewYork City for the College Bowl 1966 Reunion. 3 | Carolyn Newton Curry ’64 of Women

Alone Together with NFL widows Sylvia Mackey and Lynn Nobis at a seminar about brain injury 4 | Barb Symroski Mayer ’66 celebrates the Winter Solstice in Alaska! 5 | Debbie Rosen ’66 welcomes Peggy Marion Ryals ’66 to her new home in Merrill Gardens in Columbia, S C.

6 | Members of Class of 1968 enjoy a holiday lunch and reunion planning at the home of Kathy Blee Ashe ’68. 7 | Lucy Hamilton Lewis ’68 and grandson, Henry, enjoy Christmas in NYC. 8 | Pat Bell Miller ’68, daughter Allison, and granddaughter Ella swim with stingrays in Grand Cayman. 9 | John and Leslie Campbell Sutherland ’67 distributing bling at a Mardi Gras event. They were married last March. 10 | Marty Ryan Clayton ’67 pictured at Carnevale in Venice, Italy.

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| Allyn Smoak Bruce ’68 with new granddaughter, Lily 2 | Jan Burroughs Loftis ’68 and Lucie Barron Eggleston ’68, roommates junior year, have a long-overdue reunion on Edisto Island in September, 2022. 3 | Gué Pardue Hudson ’68, Elizabeth Kiss, former president of ASC, Mary K. Owen Jarboe ’68, and Ann Glendinning ’68 surprise Lea Ann Grimes Hudson ’76 with a room in Main named in her honor.

4 | L to R: Suzie Blackwood Foote ’74 with daughter Sarah Ashby Norwood and granddaughters June and Rose attended “The Nutcracker” ballet in Jackson, Miss. 5 | Melisha Miles Gilreath ’74 and Ann Patterson Clites ’74 enjoy a mini-reunion last September at the Clites’ home in Silverton, Ore. 6| Mary Jane Kerr Cornell ’74 and husband Gary visited the Seongeup Folk Village on Je-Ju Island, South Korea last November.

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1 |Victoria Burgess Stephan ’75 and family, December 2022. 2 | RebeccaThompson ’75, M.A. Bleker ’75, and Rose Ann Cleveland ’75 inWashington, D.C. in November 2022. 3 | Allyn Fine Linas ’75 and grandson, Cy, November 2022. 4 |CathyWalters ’78 in front of the "Adventure Awaits" float she worked on for the 2023 Tournament of Roses Parade.

5 | Joy “Wendy” Brooks Crew ’80 riding camel in Morocco. 6 | Dixie Lee Washington ’80 and Jennifer “Jenny” Spencer Parker ’80 visit at Mt. Vernon January 2023. 7 | Leigh Clifford Drake ’81 in the beautiful Scottish Highlands! 8 | Dawn Shields Sparks ’80 (far right) and family in Jackson Hole, Wyo. 9 | Wedding of Lizzie Booher ’16, daughter of Celia Shackleford Booher ’84 Nov. 5, 2022 in Atlanta GA. L to R: Leslie Lyons Watkins ’84, Rachel McConnell Palko ’84, Mary Bolton ’16, B Bailey ’16, Celia Shackleford Booher ’84, Lizzie Booher ’16, Gingy Smith ’16, Jac Caldwell ’16, Dani Arroliga ’16, Leslie Miller ’83, Beth Shackleford ’82, Camille Pham-Lake ’16, Grace Starling ’16. 10 | CNN Screenshot from June 15, 2022 when Catherine Fleming Bruce ’84 won the Democratic Primary for US Senate in South Carolina.

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and Heather Ricks Scott ’99 enjoyed each other’s company for their annual Friendsgiving get together.They enjoyed catching up and spending time with their children, who range from preschool to high school students! 2 | Ashlea Mittelstaedt

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Liza McDaniel Fewell ’99. 5 | Jennifer Marcum Gelder ’99 and family.

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5 | Pictured with Jennifer Hethcox ’00x (4th from left) are members from the Carolinas District of CKI and all the awards they received from International Convention.This is Jennifer’s 6th term serving as District Administrator for the Carolinas District. 7 | Pictured (L to R) President Leocadia I. Zak and Saycon Sengbloh ’00 at the 2022 spring commencement. 8 | LoraBeth Allen ’15, Deborah Vincent Scianna ’02, and Laynea Allen ’02 with the Saturn V rocket at Space Center Houston. 9 | The cast of The WonderYears, including Saycon Sengbloh ’00 as family matriarch, Lillian. Credit: ABC/Matt Sayles 10 | Selyka Givan ’02 won the Overall Female Bodybuilding award at the NPC National Championship in Orlando, Fla

1 | Alicia Benson Przygocki ’03 and her husband of 13 years, Al Przygocki. 2 | Jennifer Bartell Boykin ’05 has been selected as the next Poet Laureate of the City of Columbia, S.C. Her four year term began on January 1, 2023. Jennifer plans to bring a poetry festival to the city and create an event remembering people who have died by gun violence and promoting non-violence. Her debut book of poetry,Traveling Mercy (Finishing Line Press), will be released in November 2023. 3 | Leslie Bacastow ’03 gave birth to a daughter on August 31st, 2021. She was welcomed with love into the family by her two brothers. 4 | Jen Garnett ’03, her partner, Amanda and their family

| Dr. Geeta Ganesh ’03 is the Co-Medical Director of Norton Neuroscience Institute’s Hussung Family Multiple Sclerosis Center in Louisville, Ky 5 | Alana Aisthorpe Penley ’04, Erin Turner Verner ’04, Rachel Hale Baker ’04, and Lindsay King ’04 celebrate Rachel’s 40th birthday in Decatur. 6 | Jenny Bunny Davis ’02 at work in her tattoo studio Specializing in fine line geometric, dot work, mastectomy/top surgery tattoos, Asian style and watercolor, her studio aims for a high end boutique experience. 7 | In addition to becoming certified to teach yin yoga + meditation, Lisa Thrower ’03 launched Subtle-Arts, a virtual "consciousness collective" that provides resources and inspiration for anyone on a similar path of creative, personal inquiry

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| Twanda Broughton ’06, Brandon Seabrook . 2 | MILLOO’S MIND by Reem Faruqi ’06 3 | Denise Farley-Gardner ’06, Nicole Kilby ’07,Twanda Broughton ’06, Arsed Joseph ’06, and Terica Black-Bashir ’06. 4 | Asia Wynn ’06, Isabella, and Adam Wynn, December 22, 2022, Covington Square, Covington, Ga. 5 | Tatiana Farrow ’06, Amanda Harris ’06

6 | Arsed Joseph ’06, CourtneyWare Lett ’06, with DJs BallTech and Salah Ananse. 7 | AshleyTimmons Nicely ’06, Twanda Broughton ’06, and Tiffa y Lee ’06 in Amelia Island, Fla. 8 | Denise Farley ’06, LaTwanda Broughton ’06, and Arsed Joseph ’06 with AshleyTimmons Nicely ’06 at her baby shower. 9 | Brielle Elaine Nicely born August 25, 2022 and big brother Clarkston 10 | (L-R) Adam O'Donnell, Cillian O'Donnell, and SpringWalker '07 welcome new family member Nora Inez O'Donnell.

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1 | Celeste Fredericks '07 adopted sons (L-R) Fabien, Dorien, and Adrien Fredericks after three years of fostering. 2 | Liz Hartnett Santamaria ’08 and Jayme Walton ’07 at the Steinbeck’s Chili Cook-Off i November 2022. 3 | Professional headshot of Joanna Hair ’10 for her new attorney position at the law fim of Morgan & Morgan in Atlanta, GA. 4 | Emily Hansen ’08 and Liz Hartnett Santamaria ’08 volunteer at Pancake Jam in December 2022. 5 | Kristi Chenault Herin ’10 at her commencement ceremony at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, where she earned her Master of Science in Data Analytics, Computer Science concentration.

6 | Gina Luttrell '11 launched the beauty-meets-tech company Firedrake Beauty Labs in November 2022. Seen here is the first-in-industry app, the Universal Palette Builder, feauting ASC photos. 7 | Onyinye Edeh ’11 at her PhD orientation with the former Surgeon General of the US, Jerome Adams. 8 | Poppy, daughter of AnnaYoung ’11, born September 23, 2022.

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1 | Kelly Domino ’12 got married to Nick Beaty on October 21, 2022 in Denver, Colorado. 2 | Christen Thompson ’12 and her husband Carson Lain celebrated the birth of their fist child, Stephen Isaac Lain, on March 19, 2022 in Charleston, South Carolina. 3 | Courtney Faye Taylor’s ’15 debut poetry collection, CONCENTRATE, is nominated for an 2023 NAACP Image Award. CONCENTRATE explores Black girlhood and the murder of Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-ear-old Black girl killed by Korean American shopkeeper, Soon Ja Du, after being falsely accused of shoplifting a bottle of orange juice in 1991. 4

| Amber Stapleton ’14 being sworn in.

5 | Leah Kuenzi ’12 and Katie Thompson ’12 were there to help Kelly Domino ’12 get ready and celebrate on her special day 6 | Rae Pietkiewicz ’12 and Samantha Schlosburg are beyond excited for their wedding, which is planned for winter 2023. 7 | Ryland All ’17 with a precious new kitten, Browny B. Baby

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1 | Flash forward: Isaac is 10 months old as of this submission and so far is exhibiting signs of being an awesome child, but no clear indication ofYellow Jacket tendencies. (see 3, pg. 24)

2 | Shavonne Orr ’15, received a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy in May of 2022 from Jacksonville University. 3 | Isaac Jennings born to Aimee McKibbin Jennings ’15 and Joshua Jennings, in Feb. 2022. He joins his older twin sisters Amber and Hannah who are 4.5 years old. 4 | Leon Theodore Petree, Alan Petree, and Denisse Saucedo Petree ’17 celebrate Leon’s first Christmas.

4 | Laniqua Collins ’18 working on her award-winning documentary film #ThroughOurLens. 5 | Maddie Brasgalla ’20 on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage. 6 | Alums with Brittany Gilliland ’18 at their wedding. Left to right: Jesse Echols ’22,WrenYost ’21, Brittany Gilliland ’18, Jordan Keesler ’19, Kellina Pierce ’18.

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No identified class secretary. Please send any news to share to alumnae@agnesscott.edu.

Charlotte Jones reports that, at the age of 97, she is still active in a wonderful retirement community where she works in the library and still loves to read. She is exercising regularly by riding her bike, lifting weights and participating in many activities. Many of her activities relate to her degree in political science as a self-proclaimed news junkie. She remains in good health.

Genevieve Harper Alexander continues to live in Dublin, Georgia in her own house. Her health is good, and she does not need assistance. She continues to go to the retail shop she started and ran over her career, but her daughter runs the business now. She has many younger friends and an active social life, but she certainly does miss the ones who have passed away.

Joyce Huggins moved to Tennessee to be closer to her son and volunteers at a Tennessee volunteer center.

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Adele Dieckmann McKee

AdeleMcKee46@msn.com

Your secretary wishes to thank the seven donors who responded with gifts to the Dabney Adams Hart Class of 1948 Scholarship in honor of our 75th reunion in May. Final numbers will be given in the next issue. Donations will be accepted up until the reunion.

Beth Jones Crabill is enjoying the devotional group meetings at her retirement home in Alpharetta, Georgia. They are streamed to residents as well as being in-person events.

Susan Daugherty writes of two big wildlife happenings at Presbyterian Village in Austell, Georgia, where she lives. A Canada goose nested and hatched fie little ones on a third-floor balcoy. A pair of wild turkeys had six little ones in the front yard of a cottage and raised them to adulthood. Cars stopped to let feathered friends pass.

Susan Pope Hays has just spent 10 days in the hospital with pneumonia. Her doctor granddaughter Claire Montaigne died from melanoma, leaving a daughter, Charlotte, aged 3. Our deep sympathy goes out to Susan, who will be 96 this October.

Mary Alice Compton Osgood sends out an invitation to let her be a tour guide for anybody traveling around South Hadley, Massachusetts this year.

Nancy Deal Weaver is gradually getting used to her new surroundings, but enjoys being near three of her four children; son Dick near her in Black Mountain, daughters Ann in Brevard and Carolyn in Charlotte, North Carolina. She has had much pleasure in going to classes at Highland Farms, one in history and one in literature. These are taught by residents there.

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No identified class secretary. Please send any news to share to alumnae@agnesscott.edu.

Martha Ann Howell writes, “I AM OLD!” as she will be 95 years old this August. She has lived at Presbyterian Village, west of Atlanta, for 25 years. Her husband, Trent, died 18 years ago; they had six years together at the Village. Her oldest son is 69 years old; her oldest grandson is 47; and her oldest great-grandson is 18 years old. She still lives in the cottage she and Trent moved into in 1999. She has a golf cart (no car), so she is

keeping active and will continue to do so – as long as she can take the garbage out.

Mary Price Coulling is still hanging in there, though slower and shorter than in the past years. She enjoyed a wonderful 95th birthday celebration with all the family late in November 2022 — four generations, 36 family members in all.

2023 has been a tough year for Mary Aichel Samford. She has fallen several times. In July, she broke her left leg and had to move to a skilled nursing home. She has two delightful caregivers who are truly a life blessing. Hard to believe she will be 96 years old.

Susan Reid, daughter of Ellen Page Reid, reports her mother passed away on Sept. 29 after a short illness. Our deepest condolences.

Olive Wilkinson Turnipseed sends her love and best wishes to be enjoying her 94th (and every other) year. What a happy surprise to have lived so long!

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No identified class secretary. Please send any news to share to alumnae@agnesscott.edu.

Betty Phillips Lindsay is still living and grateful to Carolina Meadows, where she has been residing in assisted living over the past fi e years — as well as the 10 years prior in independent living. None of her children live close by, but she is happy to report that she is still active and is grateful for good health, friends and staff at Carolina Mead ws.

Jo McCall Cobb is frequently in touch with Sally Thompson Aycock and is still an active member of her book club. Some of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren live near, and life is never dull. She has fond memories of her time at Agnes Scott.

Diana Durden Woodson is well, still alive and driving! She moved to Woodstock fi e years ago and has a daughter and a granddaughter near her. Another daughter and two great-grandchildren are also near her. Her son, who had a liver transplant two years ago, lives with her. She moved from Big Canoe in the mountains to here. She hated to move, but this is much better at her age. She would love to hear from classmates or other friends from Agnes Scott days.

Bett Williams wishes to report that a critical aspect of her morning routine recently has been

to read transcripts of the podcast “Letters from an American” by Heather Cox Richardson. The podcast can be found at substack.com daily. Bett enjoys Heather’s takes on each day and the opinions and knowledge she shares. Bett also wishes to disclose some weather comments. In her words, spring doesn’t know whether it’s coming or going in Georgia! Bett’s sister Ellie has a big watercolor show happening at Canterbury Court for the time being. Scotties in the area should check it out!

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No identified class secretary. Please send any news to share to alumnae@agnesscott.edu.

Amy Jones McGreavy spent October of last year, plus an annual week, in the North Carolina mountains. In November, 14 of her family members gathered for Thanksgiving in Charlotte, hosted by her son Brian. December brought about her granddaughter-in-law’s swearing in as a judge, which Amy flewto Pensacola to attend. January heard wedding bells! Amy’s daughter Maribeth hosted a bridesmaids’ luncheon for Brian’s daughter, who was married at Saint Philips. Amy writes that she rode to the reception in a police car! From Jan. 25 to 27, Amy attended “Mere Anglicanism,” the world’s largest C.S. Lewis forum. Authors, preachers and more were present, as well as Amy’s dear friend Archbishop Foley Beach and his wife, Allison, with whom Amy enjoyed a wonderful lunch!

Katherine Nolson Major is still at her home in Florida and is doing well, though she is having to deal with impaired vision. It is not always easy, but she manages. She has two sons, and their families are in Florida. Son Cam and his wife, Amanda, are in Oviedo with their children, Quest and Lana. He is retired U.S. Air Force, and she works at University of Central Florida. Son David and his wife, Colleen, and their daughters Summer and Carlie are in Tarpon Springs; he is self-employed, and she works from home. Summer was a top student in high school, and Carlie is a ninth grader.

Martha Ann Stegar was delighted to have a Valentine’s visit from her Atlanta stepchildren, George and Emily Peker, in February. Due to COVID, she had not seen them since she moved to Winchester, Virginia, three years ago. Among the activities at her assisted living facility, she enjoys several concerts put on each month by local artists. As befitsthe hometown of Patsy Cline, the fare is predominantly country music and bluegrass, of which this lover of symphony and opera has become an aficionad.

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No identified class secretary. Please send any news t share to alumnae@agnesscott.edu.

As fund chair for her class, Keller H. Barron has enjoyed working with Amy Chastain of the Development Officto put together the “ASC Class of 1953 Photo Album.” What fun it was to remember how we looked then! To celebrate her 91st birthday, her daughter took her to Asheville and the Grove Park Inn, where her parents stayed on their honeymoon in 1930.

Kitty Goff Beckham has maintained a 30-year friendship with her friend Dean Thomas from Oxford University, where she matriculated for two terms, many years ago. Dean often expresses admiration for her educational background — Agnes Scott, of course. More than once, he has said, “Imagine being able to quote Wordsworth, Shelby and Keats after all these years.” Kitty sends her thanks to Miss Sammy, Miss Preston and Agnes Scott.

Lilla Kate Parramore Hart has put together a little book about her mother, Linda Roberts, class of 1922 — “Letters to Linda.” She looks forward to coming to her 70th reunion in May.

All of Evelyn Basset Fuqua’s close Agnes Scott friends have passed away. Her dear husband, Paul, had a severe stroke last year, so these days, they just enjoy themselves and are thankful to be alive. Her sweet rescue cat, Bella, and good neighbors keep both company.

Jane Hook Conyers and husband Joe are still living in their home of 53 years in Austell, enjoying the woods behind them and watching the birds at the feeders. She still drives, and they enjoy being active members at Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. She hopes to see all at the 70th reunion in May.

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No news was submitted for this class, and there is no identified class secretay. Please send any news to share to alumnae@agnesscott.edu.

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No identified class secretary. Please send any news to share to alumnae@agnesscott.edu.

Marilyn Belanus Davis has recently completed her memoir. She expects to have

a limited publication this year after she has selected photos to be included. She is approaching her 90th birthday and finds herself less efficienthan she used to be!

Mary Newell Rainey Bridges and her husband, Burt, are still living in their home of 60 years, much to their children’s dismay. Fortunately, she has been in good health except for atrial fibillation. (See Helen McGowan French.) Most Sundays are spent at Sunday School and church and talking to Josey Hahne frequently. She also talks to Sue Purdem Arwall about once a month, and she is hoping to get together for lunch very soon. She has attended the Atlanta Winter Seminar for some of the sessions.

Florence Fleming Corley has been having good days after a lot of rain. She received a lot of happy birthday cards for her 90th birthday. Her birthday is Jan. 6.

Martha D. Swartwout lost her husband, Don, on July 5, 2022, due to Alzheimer’s; it had been a long, hard struggle for them both. She is still living in their home and still driving at 91!

Katherine Hefner Gross is very comfortable living in her new home — a retirement community. She enjoys walks in the beautiful park with many tall trees.

Martha Gail Conner now has three greatgrandbabies (a boy — 3 years, two girls — 2 ½, 1 ½), which she thinks is pretty great! Her own fie kids threw her a 90th birthday bash in January, which raked up a number of oldies.

Barbara Severinghaus’s four years in a senior living facility in Joplin, Missouri, near her daughter have been delightful. Her son Joel is a research administrator for the Nanovaccine Institute at Iowa State University, and her son Bob is a robotics researcher at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. She has six grandchildren in Phoenix; Los Angeles; San Francisco; NYC; and Warsaw, Poland, and one great-grandson to complete her family. They are all celebrating her 90th birthday in May near Baltimore and at her favorite North Carolina beach near Wilmington. She can’t wait!

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No news was submitted for this class, and there is no identified class secretary Please send any news to share to alumnae@ agnesscott.edu.

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Helen Haynes Patton  helenpatton@comcast.net

Things have changed for Anne Welborn Greene! Anne feels good about her decision to move to Wesley Woods Towers in January, but she finds that getting her house in order to sell is a nightmare. Feeling that she waited too late to do this, she is very grateful for “family who are handling everything!” Anne looks forward to hearing about everybody.

Ann Alvis Shibut is a few steps ahead of Anne Greene. She moved in September from Richmond,Virginia, to live with her son and daughter-in-law in a rural setting, where she is enjoying a new lifestyle. She reports that “We’re getting ready to start having chickens and buying a quarter of a cow to go in our big new freezer. I’ve been taking a portrait painting class, which is fun, but I’m no Rembrandt!”

Emmie Hay Hancock continues to enjoy the activities and amazing people living with her at The Pines in Davidson — including several Scotties. She is now in the process of transitioning her family consulting and training business to her son and Jerry’s grandson. She also reports that Jerry has made an amazing recovery from surgery for esophageal cancer. “We are very blessed ”

Eleanor Swain All reports that she has good physical health, along with mild dementia. She and her husband, Bill, are enjoying a new lifestyle in the Oaks at West Cobb retirement home and have the opportunity to travel and enjoy time with their daughter, fi e married granddaughters (one a Scottie and two great-grandchildren. “Life has been good.”

COVID finally caught up with Anne Vincent Ferguson and her husband, Charles, in spite of their having been fully vaccinated and boosted. Their symptoms were mild but lingering. Still in their home, they are very thankful for the technology that keeps them in touch with their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They are also active with Smart Growth Boyle planning and zoning issues.

Stella Biddle Fitzgerald has usually had at least one trip to report, but currently, her grandson is keeping his parents busy with Lego blocks.They have made a Ferris wheel, a roller coaster, Big Ben, a carousel, a red London bus and a Vespa. Stella says there’s no time for him to get into trouble!

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No identified class secretary. Please send any news to share to alumnae@agnesscott.edu.

Virginia McClurkin Jones enjoys visits with her family online and in person, especially her greatgrandson, aged 2, near Nashville. She is still active in the American Association of University Women (Public Policy and the Rotary Club of Oak Ridge. She is happy to see spring coming.

Elizabeth Ansley Allan continues to live at Canterbury Court in a ninth-floor apa tment looking over a lovely garden and toward Kennesaw Mountain and the distant Smoky Mountains. She has been able to attend several on-campus functions, including when President Zak came last year for a luncheon with many alumnae who live here. She continues to be very, very proud of her college’s past and current programs and reputation. Elizabeth is a proud grandmother of nine, with one great-grand on the way!

Anne Terry Sherren is enjoying being active in her retirement community. She coordinates her weekly ecumenical worship services and is currently serving on her resident council.

Jackie Johnson Woodward continues to enjoy the many activities in the Blakeford Retirement Community, especially the exercise classes. She hasn’t cooked dinner in four years. She and her classmates Karen B. Bullock, Cemele M. Richardson and Joyce S. Wimberly are still enjoying having lunch together and met recently at Cemele’s. Jackie does wish to report some sad news — Warren Bullock died on Jan. 21. He was a lovely man and shall be missed greatly.

At age 87, Helen Sewell Johnson is living in a retirement community, and “news” is likely something like chocolate cake for dessert. She still likes a weekly lesson with her classic guitar and a goldwork embroidery class — both on Zoom. She also reads with two book groups.

Jean Price Knapp and her husband, Robert, moved in late December to Patriots Colony in Williamsburg,Virginia, to be closer to their children.

Nancy Brock Blake and classmates celebrated their 65th reunion with a representative group of nine classmates who gathered. She is indebted to Sis Newsome, who provided for a gathering at her home. She missed those who could not attend. She is grateful for good health and for the greatgrandchild due in the spring of 2023.

Margaret Minter Hyatt reports that classmate Emiko Takeuchi celebrated her 99th birthday in January Emiko’s niece Miko reports that she falls easily but is in good health and attends church with her sister.

Lucy Robertson Greene is still serving as consultant to the Moody Support Team/liaison between our city and county with Moody Air Force Base and Air Force leadership. She was recently (2/6/2023) chosen as a “Champion” by the Association for Defense Communities as one of 17 to compete for the national recognition at the D.C. March summit. She is honored and humbled.

Patricia Guynup Corbus has moved from Florida to Charlotte, North Carolina, and would love to meet Scotties in her area. Her third collection of poetry is coming out in March. ’58

Elizabeth Hanson Duerr ebelld@aol.com

Mary Ann Wilhemi Betke passed away unexpectedly on Aug. 13, 2018. She leaves behind her husband, George; daughter, Heath Betke Shelby; son, Richard Eric Betke; and fi e granddaughters. She was always interested in the arts; she combined motherhood with a semiformal career as an antiques dealer-collector with the spiritual and moral authority instilled by family and her Agnes Scott educational experience.

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Blanche Helm Nichols nchobo331@gmail.com

Wardie Abenethy Martin became a fi st-time great-grandmother! Wright Johnston Martin was born in Charlotte a year ago in November and is now a precious toddler.

Suzi Bailey Mann enjoys a simple (sometimes) life in Cambridge and Maine. She got much news of our classmates from Mary Clayton Bryan DuBard when Mary Clayton visited Boston in May.

Mary Clayton Bryan DuBard, after 40 years as a Methodist, was humbled and honored to be ordained and installed as elder at Durham’s Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Anne Dodd Campbell traveled with her daughter Lila to San Miguel Allende, Mexico and Mexico City. She found San Miguel Allende to be a festive, warm, friendly and beautiful city, full of art, life and energy. She wished she had taken Spanish at Agnes Scott!

Mary Dunn Evans DeBorde was glad to get to Tetra when she visited Israel with a church group. In addition to spending the summer at Lake Rabun, she joined classmates at Montreat for a special lecture event and attended her grandson’s wedding on Jekyll Island.

Betty Edmunds Grinnan and her extended family have enjoyed the trips that Betty has planned recently — to NYC, Nantucket and always Kanuga. Betty reports that there are nine residents in her home at Westminster Canterbury in Richmond who are graduates of Agnes Scott!

Trudy Florrid van Luyn and Bob, who emigrated from the Netherlands fi e years before her, celebrated Bob’s 60th anniversary as a naturalized citizen.

Hearing Barbara Brown Taylor preach at Duke University Chapel on Communion Sunday was a highlight experience for Blanche “Boogie” Helm Nichols and a few of her Glenaire friends. The message as well as the pageantry were incredibly memorable.

Wynn Hughes Tabor and Dwight became greatgrandparents when Charles Copeland (“Cope”) was born to their oldest granddaughter and her husband in December.

Lila McGeachy Ray, Jane King Allen, Pat Forrest Davis, Mary Evans DeBorde and Jane Kraemer Scott attended an Inklings Theological Conference in Montreat in September. The conference, sponsored by the Presbyterian Heritage Center in Montreat, was attended by about 300 people from all over the country and Great Britain.Their absentee host, Wardie Abernethy Martin, who was recovering from knee surgery, surprised them with a luncheon visit.

Frances “Carol” Rogers Snell’s husband, Fred, reports that they have moved to Village Park Senior Living in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. He asks for prayers, as Carol is in Memory Care struggling with dementia.

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Sally Sanford Rugaber and Walter visited his hometown, Macon, Georgia, for a three-day lookaround and a visit with his sister. They enjoyed searching for family tombstones in a cemetery and marveled at the changes in the city.

Nancy Turner Gibson feels blessed to have a huge family and a great community in which to live. She recalled her close friendship with her roommate, Ann Harvey, with gratitude for being able to virtually attend her memorial service.

Hope Weathers Bothwell and David have moved to Wesley Woods Towers, which is on Emory property (including landscaping) but operated by the North Georgia Conference of the Methodist Church. They enjoy having meals prepared, as well as the other advantages available.

Kay Wilson Shurden and Buddy moved to Maryville, Tennessee, to be near a daughter. They are in Shannondale, a Presbyterian retirement center. She is currently planning a workshop for the residents on the Enneagram, which she has taught a number of times previously. ’60

Ellen McFarland Johnson ecmcjo@gmail.com

Phyllis Cox Whitesell writes that she and Bill have resumed attending the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra, both easily accessible by train. They have seen all of their family in the last three years but have been unable to have everyone together. They visited a grandson at Earlham College last spring and plan on visiting granddaughters at their New England schools later this spring. Two grandchildren will graduate from college this May after struggling through the COVID restrictions and online classes for the fist year and a half.

The last book of June Hall McCash’s trilogy about Jekyll Island will be published this spring. It’s called “The Memory of Home” and follows “Marguerite’s Landing” and “The Truth Keepers.” She gave a talk at the Alumnae House on March 9 to a group of fellow alumnae about the book at the invitation of Carolyn Curry ’64. June had a mild bout with COVID earlier in the year, but was able to travel to Grenada in December, and is now planning a Caribbean cruise with her stepgranddaughter in April, and is looking forward to the May graduation of one grandson from law school and another from high school.

In October, Mary Jane Pickens Skinner had great fun when she traveled from Toronto to Vancouver by train with alumni from about eight universities.The food on the train was delicious, and she loved being lulled to sleep each night by the rocking of the train. She was the lone representative of the University of Alabama, and because no one on the trip had ever heard of Agnes Scott, Mary Jane thinks we, the alumnae, have some work to do in spreading the word about our fine college

Anne Morrison Carter hikes, plays bridge, enjoys theater productions in NewYork City and locally, and is on the board of Ethical Culture.These activities give her fun, stimulation, friendship and a pleasant lifestyle. Her two cats are great company at home. She and two friends are going to Curaçao for a week in March, and she hopes to hike in Maine in September. She has occasional conversations with Kathleen Kirk-Leason and Charlotte King Sanner. She reports that Kathleen and Charlotte are in senior residences.

Angelyn Alford Bagwell is adjusting to life at Westminster retirement community in Tallahassee. She is on her church’s financ committee and is the moderator of her women’s circle. Five of her grandchildren are in college, and two are out and working.

Carolyn Hoskins Coffman and her husband continue to live in their home with help from Home Instead.

Although Helen Mabry Beglin has stopped most pastor-like activities, she will do weddings if she knows the couple. She is in a couple of theology-related study groups, including one at her retirement community. She is reading “The Righteous Mind,” a book about how good people can differ on religion and politics.

Corky Feagin Stone has been cleaning out her house with help from a former student tenant. Corky is also hoping to clean out the raccoons in her attic.

Suellen Beverly attended her grandson’s wedding in California.There were 250 guests, maybe 300, at the winery owned by the bride’s family. Suellen is a member of a Quaker meeting that is attracting people from all sorts of religious backgrounds.

Lucy Cole Gratton has been experiencing a lot of sadness. She lost her sister and brother-in-law this past year. Lucy was a caregiver during her sister’s illness.

Ellen McFarland Johnson and her husband, Charles, recently moved from their home of 34 years to a nearby Chapel Hill retirement community Three grandsons are out in the world pursuing three different caree s — software developer, freelance photographer and auto technician.

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Janice Henry Coleman reports sad news — the loss of her husband, Jim, on Sept. 5, 2022. The service was held on Oct. 19, 2022, when he would have celebrated his 89th birthday. Jim has a large family, and Janice felt blessed to have over 40 relatives come to Nashville in his honor. By searching Jim Coleman Nashville and selecting the Dignity Memorial site, you can find the completed obituary.

Anne Russell Hagler is happily retired in Memphis and facilitates grief support groups and a clergy cohort. She enjoys traveling with her partner and is hoping to visit Anne Christensen Pollitzer soon in Beaufort, South Carolina.

After nearly 20 years back home in Thomasville, Theresa Kindred Brown is downsizing and has totaly redone a house on the Fairways — much smaller than Glen Arven Country Club, where she and her husband, Joe, met at the pool when 14 and 16 years old. Both of her daughters arrived from Europe and Washington D.C. to help with the move, and one of her grandchildren is coming in between semesters at the University of Munich to hang pictures.

Mary Ann McSwain Antley has published a book — “John Donne in the Time of Covid: An Analysis of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.” The book compares Donne’s response to a pestilential illness to Kubler-Ross’s “On Death and Aging ” Congrats, Mary Ann!

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Milling Kinard

emkinard@verizon.net

In August 2022, Betsy Jefferson Boyt boarded a cruise ship for a weeklong trip around Puget Sound.Two days later, she tested positive for COVID and was confined to her cabin for the remainder of the cruise. Soon after she returned home, she was hospitalized with heart failure, from which she thankfully recovered. Betsy believes the onset of heart failure was precipitated by her

experience with COVID. In February 2023, an ice storm in Austin left her without power for six days. Fortunately, she was able to stay with her son and daughter-in-law until power was restored. An interesting seven months.

More weather-related comments came from Betty Kneale Zlatchin, who said it is not always sunny in California after rivers of rain inundated San Francisco from late December through midJanuary. Last fall, she and Carl spent fie weeks in Paris enjoying wonderful exhibits and great theater. Recently, she took a wonderful class in English poetry, which reminded her of Miss Leyburn and her fist-year English professor Merle Walker. Both contributed to Betty’s love of English literature and taught her how to write a good paper. She enjoyed Professors Harn and Cilley who gave her one-on-one help with their classes and with formal speaking of a foreign language. Every morning at 8 o’clock, she met with Professors Harn to discuss the merits and miracles of Spanish poetry. They reminisced about Betty’s aunt, Mary Kneale Avrett, who was taught German by Professors Harn. Betty says the small class sizes and excellent professors at Agnes Scott enabled her to form a foundation for continued lifelong learning.

Louise Kimsey Sheftall is battling Lady Windermere Syndrome, a lung disease known medically as middle lobe syndrome. She would like to hear from anyone who has had experience with this disease.

In February, Sue Amidon Zoole spent a week in Cuba with her sister-in-law. She said traveling is easier when one is accompanied by younger folk. Painting remains her default activity while she finds her place in a new retirement community. The courtyard facing their apartment needed grooming, and she became de facto chair of the committee to make improvements. She findsthis a pleasant task as it involves meeting and engaging new people to search for creative solutions. Sue declared, “I’ve gotten over being 83 and really don’t mind it a bit!”

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Mary Beth Thomas thomasmb1980@gmail.com

Ipek Absugur Duben, an internationally known and highly respected artist who has devoted her career to addressing the sociopolitical issues of discrimination and gender inequality, is the recipient of Agnes Scott’s Distinguished Career Award! Her installation “Love Game” was in the exhibition “Guilty, Guilty, Guilty”

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at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg-Berlin and a sculptural piece, “Untitled” (2022), in “Multiple Perspectives” at the Yarat Contemporary Art Center in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Dudley Milward Zopp, another fine atist, whose passion is the environment (Dudley Zopp), finished her fouth artist’s book, “The Peony” (housed at Bowdoin College). She has paintings at the Audubon Center in Falmouth, Maine, where they make the connection between her work and the conservation mission of the Audubon Society.

Lynn Denton’s feature film project“The Milliners” earned a Planning Grant from the Philadelphia Independent Media Fund. In the Black and White Short Film Festival, Lynn was named “Best Director” for her film“Scumbling.” Mimi St. Clair spends several evenings a week singing and playing the flutewith her music groups.

Like our artists, classmates stay involved. Becky Bruce Jones preaches as a supply minister at small churches around Wilmington, North Carolina. Stokie Cumming Mitchell is clerk of session at Second Presbyterian in Charleston, South Carolina. Nancy Duvall Hargrove, on the board of the Rotary Club of Starkville, Mississippi, is on Rotary’s committee for Oktibbeha Young Leaders (starkville.org/about/programs-events/ oktibbeha-young-leaders/). Mary Ann Gregory Dean is involved with Rotary projects at several Title 9 schools in Orlando. Betsy Schenck Kylstra has a counseling practice and consults for Restoring the Foundations. When not serving as our fund chair, Sandy Johnson Barrow is a real estate broker in Cashiers, North Carolina (mckeeproperties.com/meet-our-team/sandybarrow/). Mary Beth Thomas is always involved with leading either Earth Day or National Recycling Week events at Park Springs in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Like Energizer bunnies, classmates stay active. Page McGavock Kampmeier traveled to New Zealand with her daughter and family, where they not only hiked and biked but also kayaked in the Pacific and wam with dolphins. Kaylynn Ogburn Suttles plays tennis. Mimi St. Clair walks a mile each day with her black Lab Callie. Deedie Withers Estes, recovering from multiple knee surgeries, says she is “exercising like a madwoman to get back to normal.” Ellen Hodgson Oakes went with her daughter and family on a ski trip to North Creek, New York. She didn’t ski but got some exercise shopping!

As with Ellen, families — particularly grandchildren and beyond — play a huge role in our lives. Kaylynn Ogburn Suttles spent Christmas in Atlanta with her daughter, grandchildren and five great-granddaughters. Helen Jones Robin celebrated the wedding of her fi st grandson, Nathan. Celia Turnage Garner enjoys living near her younger daughter so she can “hug her grandchildren.” Betsy Schenck Kylstra lives near her son and two granddaughters, so “something’s always happening.” Mary Ann Lusk Carlson brags that one of her grandchildren is fi st chair cellist in the Buffalo High School Orchestra another is an education professor, and two have MBAs from Duke.Those in the next generation are “growing like weeds, and it all happened while my husband and I were going nowhere . to escape COVID,” she says. Nancy Rose Vosler remarks of her two grandsons, “They’re amazing (no bias, of course) Gen-Z young men, ages 25 and 22.”

Edna Vass Stucky has, in addition to a daughter, a son who lives near her in a log house her late husband built. Sandy Johnson Barrow reports that grandson Mark graduated from Georgia Tech with highest honors, Samuel is on Mercer’s tennis team, and Jack is in law school at the University of Tennessee.

Life has not been all upbeat. Several classmates, including Lynn Denton and Cheryl Winegar Mullens, are caring for husbands who are slipping into dementia. Cheryl says, “This land of ambiguous grief can be wearying, but gifts abound,” and starts that list with “three devoted daughters . . .”The class extends its thoughts to Lynn and Cheryl and to the family of Betty McMullen Harrington, who died in August.

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Brenda Brooks Jackson beba@jacksonpnw.com

Joh-Nana “Joh” Sunday Lybass continues hosting her annual mini-reunion in the North Carolina mountains. Eve Anderson Earnest and Lucy Herbert Molinaro joined her this year, and they met Mae Hall Boys at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville for lunch. This past Christmas, Mae and her daughters visited Dunnellon and joined Joh for lunch.

Shirley Lee found her October visit to the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery to be a powerful and moving experience. While attending the Ending Mass Incarceration Conference at

Ebenezer Baptist Church and The Temple, she was challenged to look at issues, pick something that she wanted to see change and commit to working to make it happen.

Karen “Kay” Gerald Pope and her husband, Tom, had a mini vacation in D.C. in December to see “Winter Revels,” an annual musical production celebrating the Winter Solstice (and Christmas). They also visited the African American Museum. She enjoyed having her whole family home to celebrate her 80th birthday in November.

Mary Womack Cox and her husband, John, had COVID again in August (very mild) and got their bivalent booster as soon as possible. They continue doing “what we’ve been doing.”

Catherine “Katie” Shearer Schane reports that she is still alive and living next door to Nina Warren Jagers .

Lucia Bacot was happy to report “no news.”

Brenda Brooks Jackson and her husband are glad to report that they made it through the pandemic with no COVID or flu! Knockwood!

Susan “Sue” Parkin TeStrake is grateful to have granddaughter Kitty nearby at Emory and that her daughter Rebecca comes and goes between Atlanta and Manhattan.

Carolyn Craft is still working part-time as an Episcopal priest but has retired from Longwood University teaching.

Nora “Rooche” Field’s Great Dane, Akhie, became a champion in Brooksville, Florida, in January. Rooche is also a state officer (librian) for the DAC (Daughters of American Colonists) as well as a National Vice Chair appointee (SE Division Scholarships) for the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Only 1 percent of membership receive a national appointment.

Mary Jo Beverly Limbird moved closer to her children in California after her husband’s death this fall.

Barbara White Frederic has moved from her home in Incline Village, Nevada, to Reno, Nevada.

Garnet Foster moved from the Chicago area to Goodwin Living at Bailey’s Crossroads. Although she hated leaving her community, she needed to move to be closer to family and somewhere she could get care if needed.

Carolyn Newton Curry announces that her book “Sudden Death” has been nominated for the Georgia Author of the Year Award for best fist novel. She also reports that she is still involved with Women Alone Together, which meets at the Anna I. Young Alumnae House each month. womenalonetogether.org

Lila Sheffield Howland and her husband, Slocum, are continuing to enjoy decent health and feel blessed to have each other. She will be moving her older sister from her home in Albany, Georgia, to live with her in Highlands before moving to a nearby assisted living community. Lila sees Anne Minter Nelson , Clair McLeod Muller ’67 and Anne Coggins Sapp frequently and keeps up with Adelaide “Lally” Hutto McGurk and Sue McLeod Holland

Sincere concern was expressed by many classmates for the happiness and well-being of the current Agnes Scott faculty. Good teachers are at the heart of what our Agnes Scott education was all about. Some have suggested we might directly channel our annual financial suppot toward improving faculty salaries and benefit.

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Carol Sutton Lumpkin lumpkin@optilink.us

Nov. 8-11, 2022, the Agnes Scott class of 1965 was able to have a mini-reunion at Flat Rock, North Carolina. Mary Lowndes Bryan reports that “it was a magical time.” Alumnae in attendance learned about genealogy from Linda Harrell Randolph , made beautiful watercolors with Betsy Dykes Leitzes , and did many fun activities like walking, golfin, shopping in the rain and chatting by the fire! May conversations were had celebrating friends who could not make it and the alumnae we have lost. Ideas were also tossed around about how best to celebrate the 60th graduation anniversary in 2025. The class of 1965 wishes to extend thanks to organizers! A good time was had by all, and the food at the Lodge was delicious!

Nancy Hammerstrom Bishop reports that she and Jim just got back from a fabulous Tauck Bridges Tour to Costa Rica. They took her children, spouses and four grandchildren, ranging in age from 10 to 14. She and Jim were the oldest on the trip by at least 20 years, but . . . they successfully did white water rafting, zip-lining (terrifying!) and snorkeling, among other “tamer” activities. It was an amazing, adventuresome

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trip, and Nancy reports she was out of her “comfort zone” for a lot of it. It was a great family time together, and that’s what is important to her.

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Peggy Marion Ryals

mryals001@sc.rr.com

Barb Symroski Mayer has swapped her job as pro bono educator in national parks for Grandkids National Parks: one in Anchorage with Eva and Aedan and one in Hawaii with Lyra.

Bettie Anne Humphreys Mahony visited Susan King Johnson ’67 in Jackson, Mississippi, and toured Eudora Welty’s home together.

Bonnie Jo Henderson Schell, while being treated for small cell carcinoma and isolating during the COVID pandemic, collected her stories and poetry into a book entitled “Growing Up Mad in the South,” available on Amazon.

Ellen King Wiser broke her right ankle, but after two surgeries, a stint in rehab, and home PT, she is now zipping around with her walker.

Jan Gaskell Ross and Art moved from their Raleigh home of 27 years to a retirement community. Downsizing and moving were challenging, but they managed (with the help of their two children). Jan was amused to realize that their son was moving his daughter into a fifth-floo dorm room for her fi st year of college just as he was helping move his parents into a fifth-floor uni for their fi st year in a new community

Karen Gearreald participated in a reunion of the Agnes Scott and Princeton 1966 College Bowl teams in the same Radio City studio where the teams competed. Malinda Snow participated by Zoom, as did some of the Princeton team members. From this meeting emerged the possibility of fulfilling Karen s long-held desire to narrate audiobooks. To be continued . . . .

Libby McGeachy Mills led an intrepid group of 11 Sixty-Sixers to meet via Zoom for six sessions to discuss four contemporary works of “speculative fiction” These literary encounters with science included Richard Powers’ “Galatea 2.2” and “Bewilderment,” along with Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go” and “Klara and the Sun.” Classmates who willingly pushed themselves beyond their comfort boundaries included Alice Davidson, Betty Anne Humphrey Mahony,

Betty Rankin Rogers, Ginny Finney Bugg, Jan Gaskell Ross, Kay Roseberry McCarron, Martha Thompson, Mary Brown Bullock, Peggy Marion Ryals, Nancy Bruce Truluck and Portia Morrison

Louise Smith Nelson has consigned 2022 to the rubbish heap after breaking her pelvis fist on one side and then on another, along with her hip. Idaho winters! They caused her to miss a trip to the Galápagos Islands.

Nancy Bland Norton has found a new home in Seattle, Washington, blocks from her son Matt and his wife . . . a big change from life in a small, Southern town to a bustling, Northwestern city. Already she has found a spiritual home at Seattle Unity and made new friends in the community.

Carol Davenport Wood and Tom welcomed Patty Williams Caton and Randy for a visit in their Louisiana home.

Sue Ellen Hipp Adams and several fellow Daughters of the American Revolution quilters met in Kentucky to sew together the winning blocks of the National DAR America 250 quilt contest, in which each state made a quilt block representing its state during the period of the founding of America. The America 250 quilt is to hang in the DAR headquarters in Washington D.C. Sue Ellen has also been appointed as the American Heritage Committee National Vice Chair for Music for the fist three years of the new DAR administration.

Suzanne Scoggins Barnhill has been program chair of the Tuesday Book Review & Lecture Series at the Fairhope Public Library since 1993. This year, her review was “A Cook’s Tour of Britain” with Albert Smith’s and Rex Harrison’s (fake service dog) superior sense of smell, which usually solves the case, even though Albert gets the credit. Suzanne tried to give a sense of the humor even though she was focusing on the foods.

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Avary

Hack Doubleday avaryd@juno.com

Margaret “Marty” Ryan Clayton moved into a new concrete (Insulated Concrete Forms) home on Pensacola Beach last year, and her wonderful builder’s assistant was so helpful that Marty took her to Carnevale in Venice, Italy, this February. Marty shared a photo from her last trip there in 2017. She now intends to travel as

often as possible since “travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer!”

In October, Anne Divine did something she had wanted to do since she was about 10 years old: She went to Egypt. With one of her sisters and her husband, she took a Road Scholars trip, and it was wonderful, fulfilling her expectations the pyramids, the Sphinx, the cruise on the Nile, the Rameses statues. And she rode a camel!

Avary Hack Doubleday and her husband, Gerry, celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary in a restaurant overlooking the Colosseum in Rome and then joined The Grand Gourmet Tour of Sicily, sponsored by Center for Life Enrichment in Highlands, North Carolina. Many of the delicious meals were at wineries, where they were accompanied by tasty Sicilian wines.

Ellen Wood Hall spent Christmas in Santa Monica, California, with her two sons, Jason and Clinton; her daughter-in-law, Rebecca; and grandchildren, Teddy (8) and Georgia (5). It was a special time for them.

Susan Stevens Hitchcock’s great-grandson, Silas, turned a year old in September; she and Garland enjoyed two cruises and several short trips; she co chaired the Agnes Scott College Outstanding Alumnae Awards Committee in November; and she published fie Next Generation SHEro interviews and profiles including two with Agnes Scott alums! All the recent SHEro profiles are available on the Turknett Leadership Group website under Women in Leadership. Susan and Garland began 2023 with a winter “getaway” in late January-early February (Caribbean cruise), and she started a new interview/profile seies called Everyday SHEroes — inspiring women who live and work with purpose and passion.

Bettie Anne Humphreys Mahony ’66 from El Dorado, Arkansas, and her friend Gay Bechtelheimer, a watercolor artist, visited Susan King Johnson in Jackson, Mississippi, for a long-overdue catchup. They toured the Eudora Welty House and dropped in at the Research Club to hear a presentation, “Witchcraft, Urban Legends, Conspiracy Theories, and Folklore of the Pandemic,” given by Susan’s friend, Jo Anne Prichard Morris.

Elizabeth “Cookie” Johnson Kohn and her husband will be great-grandparents of a little girl in June. After the happy event, she will travel to Italy with two granddaughters, aged 17 and 19, and meet her husband in Trieste.

It is well-known that many Scotties marry guys who graduated from Georgia Tech. Last March, Leslie Campbell Sutherland married just such a man, John C. Sutherland, Georgia Tech ’62, ’64, ’67. John was getting his doctorate when we were freshmen. He moved to Augusta several years ago and is the dean of the College of Science and Math at Augusta University; he and Leslie met at an AU Foundation event. She sent a photo from a Mardi Gras event.

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bderrick1968@att.net

Pat Bell Miller; her daughter, Alison; and granddaughter, Ella, spent a week in Grand Cayman in August celebrating Ella’s 10th birthday. One of their favorite activities was swimming with the stingrays. Now, grandson Aubrey’s 10th birthday is approaching, and he wants equal treatment!

The blessing in Gué Pardue Hudson’s life is that Will, her oldest son, gave John, her youngest son, a kidney. Both are doing well. She hopes all will choose to be organ donors on their driver’s licenses!

Ann Glendinning, Gué Pardue Hudson and Mary K. Owen Jarboe joined former Presidents of Agnes Scott Mary Brown Bullock and Elizabeth Kiss to name an office iAgnes Scott Hall in honor of Lea Ann Grimes Hudson ’76, associate vice president and secretary of the board. The surprise event honored Lea Ann for her more than 40 years of devoted service to the college and occurred on Jan. 30.

Chee Kludt Ricketts has been able to honor the life of her father, Karl Vernon Kludt, a Marine aviator shot down in South Korea in 1950. Chee had just turned 4. In July 2022, Chee; her daughter, Michelle Evans; and her husband, Travis, attended the unveiling of the Wall of Remembrance at the Korean War Memorial in Washington D.C. In November, Michelle, Travis and Chee traveled to Hawaii to locate her father’s name in the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacifi.

Jan Burroughs Loftis and Lucie Barron

Eggleston, roommates junior year, had a longoverdue reunion at Lucie and Bob’s home on Edisto Island in September 2022.

Lucy Hamilton Lewis and grandson Henry had some Christmas fun and great adventures in NYC — not the least of which was getting to stand in the

middle of Fifth Avenue, which was closed off to vehicular traffic one Sunday aft noon!

2022 was a challenging year for Allyn Smoak Bruce, as she lost her husband, Mike, onValentine’s Day. A fall caused a torn rotator cuff and surge y. Redeeming the year was the birth of her second granddaughter, Lily Carolyn Bruce, in September.

A.J. Bell Churchman and Charlie’s daughter, Sarah Catherine Churchman, received a master’s in digital media from GeorgiaTech in May. Sarah received a $500 cash award for having the best master’s project in her department. She has moved back to Alabama and started her own one-person company called Churchman Creative.

Travel plans in October brought Vicky Plowden Craig close to Atlanta, and she was able to visit and lunch with Jo Callaway. Jo is now living at Rockdale Healthcare Center.Vicky had shoulder replacement surgery after Christmas and is doing physical therapy diligently

Just before the pandemic, Eleanor McCallie Cooper enjoyed a trip to Japan with her daughter. Eleanor loves indigo and white fabrics and has made several quilts from Japanese fabrics. She also enjoys arranging flowers in the Japanese style, ikebana.

Members of the class gathered on Dec. 13, 2023, at the home of Kathy Blee Ashe to enjoy festive Christmas decorations and plan their 55th reunion in May

Susan Aikman Miles and Shelton are thoroughly enjoying life at Presbyterian Village. Their house is perfect, and Susan has joined a committee in the community. Moving here was one of the best decisions ever.

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Lalla Griffis Mangin lallamangin1@gmail.com

Mary Anne Murphy Hornbuckle mahornbu@charter.net

Margaret “Peg” Barnes Carter, following the death of her husband, is residing in an assisted living facility near her daughter, Janet, in McLean,Virginia.

Minnie Bob Campbell noted that Dr. Penny Campbell, one of the last living professors of our era at Agnes Scott, passed away at age 88 on Jan. 15, 2023.

Sandra Earley, with her husband, Phelps Hawkins, is about to begin her fifth year of retirement from the practice of journalism (him, network TV; her, various publications) and teaching journalism, first in Bulgaria and then at an Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in Savannah, now home. Recent months have been devoted to the search for a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) like their mothers lived in. At the top of their list currently are places in Stone Mountain, Asheville and Rock Creek Park in Washington D.C.Their major requirement? Good conversation.Their only child, Bradshaw, prospers in Dallas, where he practices law. He and his wife, Charity, have four children, ranging in age from 7 to 17. All play lacrosse, and their weekends are filled with sports travel.They love seeing the children play when tournaments come to the East Coast.

Anna (Eliza) Stockman has had an eventful year. She lost her older brother, Jim, last year, and on the way home from the funeral, she was in a severe one-car accident, hitting a tree. She has spent a lot of time in various health care facilities recovering from her injuries. Due to the kindness of family and friends, she has been able to stay in her home with her beloved pets.With a positive attitude, Eliza looks forward to spending time with her Agnes Scott roommates, Mary Garlington Trefry and Flora Rogers Galloway, on their yearly reunion/adventure. She mentions that she enjoyed a recent lunch with Nancy Sowell Williams and Marion Hinson Mitchell

Marion Hinson Mitchell and Carol Blessing Ray, class of 1969 fund chairs, are looking ahead to our 55th reunion.The college’s tentative dates for 2024 Alumnae Weekend are May 17-19, 2024; Alumnae Weekend is now the weekend after Commencement. Marion and Carol want our class to once again win the trophy for the highest percentage of Fideles members. Fideles membership is based on three consecutive years of giving to Agnes Scott. If you gave last year, please give before June 30, 2023, for this fiscal year and then again before May 2024 for the next fiscal year. THANKYOU to all who have already donated for this fiscal year. Any gift of any size in any year is crucial to the success of Agnes Scott.

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Janet Pfohl Brooks

JBrooks48@aol.com

Cathy Vogel and her husband enjoyed a postChristmas holiday in Fernandina Beach, Florida, and enjoyed having lunch with Sharon Elliot ’00 and her husband.

Linda Gibson Wages writes that while 2022 was not an easy year for her family with the death of her daughter’s partner and several medical issues for her, she and Dan have been able to continue to camp often and had two great trips with other family members, introducing them to the natural wonders of the area we live in, including a lot of national parks.

In January, Christine Cope Pence spent time in India and UAE on a photographic trip, her fist major international trip post-COVID. She was able to meet with an international community of photographers in each place and traveled with two excellent female photographers.

Hollister Knowlton writes that she and Nat FitzSimons Anderson, Susan Ketchin, Mary Margaret MacMillan, Judy Mauldin Beggs, Ruth Hyatt Heffron, Betsy Sowers and Deborah Kennedy Williams (former cottage mates) are still meeting via Zoom twice a month. She and Nat Anderson drove from Philadelphia to Belfast, Maine, for Thanksgiving with Ruth Heffron and her husband, John, where they also met up with Betsy Sowers to visit the Falmouth Art Museum in Rockland.

Talissa McCormick is living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and “thought it might be good to hear from those on the road less traveled.”

Janet Pfohl Brooks and her husband recently returned from a trip to Antarctica, her seventh continent, where they were able to kayak, go on a submarine excursion and make several landings to walk among thousands of penguins. ’71

Cindy Ashworth Kesler

cindyk315@gmail.com

Sarah Ruffing Robbins welcomed her third grandchild, Charles Pryce Davis, in late December. Baby’s mom, Patty Robbins, is on leave from her work as an attorney for DoorDash, and Patty’s

sister, Margaret, teaches at Mount Vernon School in Atlanta. Sarah still teaches in the English department at Texas Christian University

Grace Pierce Quinn is happy to be in “Nanaville” since her daughter Lauren and husband, Harrison Hudgins, had their first child. Everett Quinn Hudgins was born on Jan. 8, weighing in at 7 pounds, 10 ounces and 20 inches long. Luckily, new grandson and parents live close by.

Joann Spencer Siegrist, professor emerita, West Virginia University, winters with her husband, Frederick, in Naples, Florida. She was recently highlighted in the Fall 2022 issue of The Forum, National Mortar Board magazine, for her USA and International Puppetry and Theatre Education work spanning over 40 years. She has her own company now, PUPPETATIONS, which specializes in literacy shows.

Lynn White Montanari lives in Connecticut but enjoyed spending Christmas in South Carolina, catching up with family in Spartanburg and Charleston. If you are in Charleston, she recommends her nephew’s wonderful wine shop, GRAFT Stop by and tell him his Aunt Lynn sent you!

Carolyn Nodell Glasgow happily announces two new grandchildren. Cooper Mac Attayek was born in January in Durham, North Carolina, and Juniper Wren Glasgow was born in October in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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Louise Röska-Hardy sent news of the birth of her daughter Susanne’s third child, a son, in Huntsville, Alabama. Louise is now the proud grandma of six grandchildren, three of whom live in Germany. Louise continues to teach one or two graduate courses at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. She is a researcher at Essen’s Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities, has worked with two colleagues to organize a recent conference on neurasthenics and periodically speaks with several Agnes Scott College classmates about her special interest in the experience of “awe,” which involves a frisson or physical response to art or music.

Louise says that most of her research and writing focuses on the relationship between neuroscience and the humanities. She regrets having missed the

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class Zoom on Jan. 18 but was recovering from a case of COVID at the time.

Mary Ann Powell Howard and her husband, Henry, thoroughly enjoy family get-togethers. Last summer, they traveled with their daughter Christy and her family to Florida and were awed by the Kennedy Space Center. After a wonderful Christmas together, the entire family celebrated son Walter’s completing his LPC (licensed professional counselor) certification with a huge party in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, complete with an oyster roast! Mary Ann is also an avid fan of Atlanta United and her grandsons’ soccer and is a regular at theYellow River Wildlife Sanctuary with her youngest grandson, Jack, where they are both on a fi st-name basis with favorite sanctuary residents such as Hank and Bluebeary.

Marian Berman decided that age 72 was too young for retirement and started a new business called “Living in Place Solutions ” Her partner, who came from the construction industry, joined Marian to help people remain in their homes.They provide safety assessments and detailed reports with recommendations and contractor referrals, as well as project management. Marian recently added concierge services to her company’s offerings. As Marian says: “We are seniors helping seniors ”

Pam Arnold Milhan and her husband, Randy, have stayed very busy for the past 15 years raising their grandchildren. In 2022, their household increased from four to five grandchildren when their teenage grandson returned to live with Pam, who describes herself as a “grandma Mom,” and her husband.The children’s school groups span pre-K through high school.Though Pam’s unique life is not what she expected as a sociology major at Agnes Scott moving on to a master’s program in family relations at Florida State University, she is fully involved in her grandchildren’s lives and is amazed by the technology of cellphones and their apps. She writes of life made more manageable with cellphone sports apps, a family-shared calendar, banking apps and a location app that allows her to keep track of her brood! While Randy still works as a controller, Pam retired almost fi e years ago to become a stay-at-home mom.

Sandra Smith Harmon and her husband, Paul Young, visited daughter Heather in Medford, Oregon, this past September.While there, Sandra and Paul enjoyed some glorious West Coast scenery by driving up to Crater Lake and then down the Pacific coast of southern Oregon. After retiring from a medical career that kept her occupied

indoors for decades, Sandra took up birding during COVID as an appealing reason to be outdoors and get some exercise. Sandra and Paul divide their time between south Florida and northeast Georgia, which provides the opportunity to see both wetland and shorebirds, and Appalachian songbirds and migrants. Paul and Sandra visit Snowbird Mountain Lodge in Robbinsville, North Carolina, and go birding with professional guide Emilie Travis. Sandra and Emilie are planning a trip to Colombia to participate in a program called “Salsa Rhythms and Sexy Birds”! In support of Cuban and African missions and their programs, Sandra and Paul are also looking forward to traveling to Zambia, with a visit to Victoria Falls and a cruise of the Zambezi River.

Mary Beaty Watkins writes that she and her husband, Jim, enjoyed a winter vacation during the most recent of numerous visits to Love City, which is two-thirds national park, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Mary invites anyone who is interested in visiting Love City to contact her for information.

Belita Stafford Walker is convinced that “no news is good news”! However, she does enjoy collecting book and podcast titles, binging eclectic series, discovering hidden treasures while decluttering her house, and spending as much time as possible enjoying family, friends and church. She had good things to say about our fist post-50th reunion Zoom on Jan. 18. Belita also included news about Montie Smith Acuff who is away with her husband, Steve, on their annual dental mission to Belize.

Lane Ervin Lotspeich and her husband, Rick, happened to be in Denver, Colorado, for a family Christmas during one of the worst snowstorms in memory.

Jeannie Kaufmann’s health has improved.

Anne Kemble Collins writes that 2022 was a year to remember. Winter brought a back problem that sidelined Anne for a while. Spring was a busy time, with preparations for an amazing 50th reunion for the Agnes Scott class of 1972 in early June. Late summer ended in sadness due to the loss of a beloved pet. At last, fall arrived, and with it came the happiest of events, a long-awaited visit from fist grandchild Odhran (“Oran”) Alan Yang Collins. Older son, Stuart, and daughter-in-law, Goree, traveled with Odhran from South Korea to spend two wonderfully hectic weeks in Atlanta. Younger son, Penn, came home from New York City to join the party, and Steve was able to host a

small gathering of Georgia Tech classmates on the occasion of their 50th reunion.

Patricia “Pat” June Austin tells us that since her retirement, writing has been her focus. She is having two books published this year. “Tales From a Teaching Life:Vignettes in Verse” and “Butterfly of Joy,” a collection of poetry for children, will launch in spring and fall 2023, respectively. “Tales” describes teaching experiences Pat had at Agnes Scott. During her fi st year, Pat assisted in a class tutoring children with learning disabilities, and as a sophomore, she trained at Agnes Scott and taught in the Laubach Adult Literacy Program. She would love to hear from other Scotties who may have been involved with the Laubach program. She says that 20 years have elapsed since her first children’s book, “The Cat Who Loved Mozart,” was published, so she is excited to have her two recent works about to be released!

Sharon Jones Cole writes that she is very excited to be on a fabulous trip to Egypt and South Africa accompanied by her husband, Matt.

Susan Landers Burns passed away on Jan. 14, 2023. Sidney Kerr Mize has kept in close contact with the family and attended Susan’s funeral on Jan. 23. Susan’s obituary was posted in The Birmingham News. Susan Williams Gornall also provided news of Susan’s death.

Nancy Thomas Tippins’ mother, Virginia Mason Thomas McLean, died Jan. 17, 2023, at the age of 99. Her obituary can be found at greenvilleonline.com.

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Andy Hankins Schellman and her husband, Jim, enjoyed an August cruise to Turkey, Greece and ports along the Adriatic coast, a trip that made up for the one that was COVID-canceled in 2021. Just as meaningful was a Thanksgiving gathering with their children’s families, the fi st time they had all been together since 2014, when the group was much smaller.

Marcia Krape Knight has enjoyed several trips with family and friends to Gloucester, Massachusetts, to visit her brother; to Highlands, North Carolina, with Janet Bolen Joiner to visit Lynn Ezell, ’74; and on a beach trip with her daughter, with whom she is working in their interior

design business. Currently, they are collaborating with a nonprofit — Funish with Love — on a fast-track project to furnish a home for a family transitioning from homelessness. She’s also working with 1973 classmates Ann Cowley Churchman, Carolyn Arant Handell, Janet Jackson and Mary Paige Lucas on our 50th class reunion, coming up this May.

Janet Bolen Joiner enjoyed the visit to Lynn Ezell ’74 with Marcia Krape Knight in August for a luncheon with Scotties in western North Carolina. While there, they brainstormed ways to resurrect the programs of the Atlanta-area alumnae, which had been mothballed during COVID. First up: In October, Marcia and Janet cohosted the Annual Fall Luncheon with a record 75 alumnae attending, many of whom raised their hand to engage in the Renaissance of our traditional programming. Janet is now chairing the Steering Committee for the Atlanta-area Alumnae Chapter and is thereby ex officio on the Alumnae Association Board of Directors.

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Ann Elizaeth Clites

annclites52@gmail.com

In November, Mary Jane Kerr Cornell and her whole family had a two-week journey to South Korea to celebrate son Glen’s marriage to his wife, Alison, with Alison’s family. The ceremony in Seoul was beautiful, and many of the celebrants wore traditional Korean hanboks. After a week in Seoul, Mary Jane and her husband, Gary, visited Busan and flewto Je-Ju Island, where they explored the Seongeup Folk Village.

After many years of living in Atlanta and practicing pathology there, Lynn Ezell retired a few years ago and moved this past May to her hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina. She’s living in an older neighborhood in a home built in 1926 while continuing to spend about half her time in Highlands, North Carolina. Lynn says, “It’s great being near friends of long standing, many of whom go back to my years of elementary school. It seems that in some cases, anyway, you can go home again!”

Cindy Goldthwaite Hames is teaching in person and virtually at a local charter high school. When she’s not teaching or doing research at the University of Georgia for a novel based on her family’s history, Cindy findstime for testing varieties of garlic for winter survivability and making molds for pouring beeswax candles. She reports that one of the joys of living on the family

farm is watching the otters, which are regular visitors to the farm pond.

Relaxing of COVID restrictions allowed Melisha Miles Gilreath to make good on her promise to visit Ann Patterson Clites in Silverton, Oregon. The Clites’s home in Silverton was Melisha and her husband, Ron’s, fist overnight stop on their drive to see Crater Lake, old growth forests of the Rogue River area and back up the coast of Oregon to Portland. Ann and Melisha enjoyed their minipreview of the Agnes Scott class of 1974’s 50th (yikes!) class reunion next year!

Jamie Osgood Shepard is looking forward to her transition from full-time work to as-needed/ desired contractor status with the Florida Veterans Business Outreach Center. She and her husband, Randy, go to California as often as possible to see their sons and their families. “All in all, life is good by the beach,” reports Jamie.

Martha Howard Whitaker is delighted to be a grandmother for the second time. Grandson Isa Branciforte was born in late July, joining older sister Frankie, who’s almost 4. Martha is glad that she and her husband, Richard, moved to Durham to be close to them. Last May, Martha was diagnosed with ALS. She feels fortunate to be a part of the Duke ALS clinic and to have access to new medicines that slow down ALS. Martha writes, “We are learning to appreciate each day we are given and make adaptations as they come.”

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Marie Newton

mhnewton@sbcglobal.net

Marene Emanuel spent Christmas 2022 with Michelle Oltman in Yountsville, California. Michelle transferred after our fist year, but remembers Agnes Scott, Hopkins Hall and classmates fondly. She works for Frog’s Leap Winery in California. Marene and Michelle enjoyed a wine-tasting tour. In September 2022, Marene went with a friend on a trip to Peru, visiting various cities and enjoying the beautiful country and the food.

Lyn Satterthwaite spent Christmas in Asheville, North Carolina, and New Year’s in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It was warm enough to walk on the beach while enjoying the Christmas lights, Christmas shows and other events at the beach resort.

Allyn Fine Linas was finally able to spend two weeks in Melbourne, Australia, visiting her daughter Isabel; her daughter’s husband, Blaine; and her 2-year-old grandson, Cy. Allyn had to cancel previously planned trips due to COVID restrictions and is madly in love with Cy, whom she met for the first time. She has fought COVID twice as well as two weeks of the flu Her current fights are with coyotes in her neighborhood and watching and protecting her dog and cat.

Victoria Burgess Stephan and Bruce evacuated their waterfront home in Fort Myers, Florida, for Hurricane Ian and were very happy that while the house flooded with a few inches of water, it is now back to normal after a lot of hard work.Vicki’s Rotary Club continues to give lots of money and lots of work hours to help those in need. She is loving being a grandmother to Sophia Victoria.

Charlotte Gillis saw the Pumpkin Lights at Dollywood but no sight of Dolly, celebrated the Winter Solstice in Chattanooga with neighbors and friends, is hoping for the best with her yard after a serious deep freeze, and is attending Atlanta Braves spring training in South Florida. Charlotte also went to a sold-out speaker series at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga that featured Dr. Angela Davis. She continues an active lifestyle playing pickleball, rowing and hiking.

Rebecca Thompson is fully in a grandmother role, with three new grandchildren in 2022. Son James and his wife, Nora had a second baby boy, Graham, in August, who joined older brother, Jack, and daughter, Caroline, gave birth to identical twin girls, Josephine Lee and Charlotte Rebecca, in December. Caroline and her wife,Tracey, are meeting the challenge of two growing baby girls.

Rebecca, M.A. Bleker, and Rose Ann Cleveland enjoyed a leisurely brunch in November when M.A. was in theWashington D.C. area.

Susan Gamble Smathers stays busy with her local garden club activities and as a horticulture judge with the Garden Club of America. She also serves as Conservation/National Affairs & Legislation Representative for GCA ZoneVIII, which comprises Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.This requires a lot of time and travel.

Shelby Cave Cobb does volunteer work with her Atlanta neighborhood, Historic Brookhaven. She serves on the board of directors, chairs the Transportation Committee, and serves on the

Community Maintenance and Enhancement Committee. Her son, Forrest, is 30 and works as the production engineer at H & H Metal Fabrication in St. Louis

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Brandon Fortune ebbfortune@gmail.com

Beth Boney Jenkins continues to work as a development officer for the North Carolina Community Foundation. She has just completed certification as a chartered advisor in philanthropy. She reports that “it was a pretty intense study process that brought back memories of pulling allnighters on Third Rebekah and McCain Cottage!”

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Ruth McMullen Bursi

ruthbursi@bellsouth.net

The class of 1977 was well-represented at our 45th reunion gathering in June. Feeling perhaps a bit too seasoned to act like Dennis the Menace, we skipped the denim overalls and bright yellow tees and instead carried bright yellow sunflowers, which were reminders also of the ongoing war in Ukraine. A high note in our celebration was Dr. HarryWistrand’s laudatory comments on his former biology student Sue Jinks Robertson’s achievements in her research into genetic links in cancer.

Congrats to Ellen Fort, who has welcomed a new grand baby! Ellen went to NYC not too long before Christmas for snuggles with new, little Ava Sophia.

Barbara Byrd Gaines lost her mom in September. Her mom hadn’t been well for quite a while but remained a bright, positive light in the world. Barbara proudly reports that her son received his doctorate from Georgia State, writing on “Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning in Medical Decision Making ” Kudos to your son, Barbara!

Lynn Wilson McGee retired from the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) on Oct. 1, 2022, after 16 years of service. As vice chancellor of advancement for 13 years, Lynn received the highest international award in State Legislative Relations Programs given by CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education). She served on the department of business administration faculty and as business internship coordinator during her final three years at USCB. Lynn and David are happy to call Callawassie

Island, South Carolina, their home. All four McGee sons — Philip, Peter, Will and Skip — continue to serve in the U.S. military across the U.S. and overseas. Sadly, Lynn’s brother, Chip, who graduated from Davidson College and worked for International Management, their father’s consulting fim, passed away this year. Lynn enjoys visits with her father, Frank Wilson, who has lived at Lanier Village Estates in Gainesville, Georgia, for the past 20 years.

Melinda Morris Knight wasn’t with us at our reunion in June because she and Graeme were celebrating their 45th anniversary on a magnificent cuise in the Greek isles! She got COVID not long after returning, but it didn’t keep her down long — Melinda, Graeme, grandkids and extended family enjoyed a great week at Disney World later this past summer.

Your class secretary, Ruth McMullen Valdez, visited son Lt. Col. (U.S. Air Force) Chuck Bursi and family in Boston, where he’s studying in an international economics consortium at Harvard. She enjoyed time with her grandsons seeing some great historical sights, a wonderful bookstore and a Boston Bruins hockey game. She gained a sweet new grandson this past spring; between them, she and Dave have 13 grandkids, a lot to keep track of! ’78

Mimi Holmes mimiholmes@mindspring.com

Cathy Walters fulfilled a childhood dream o going to the Tournament of Roses Parade for New Year’s! After volunteering to help on a dragon float inthe 2022 parade, Cathy began “working” on the 2023 floatwhen members voted for the design in February 2022. Not only that, but Cathy also roller-skated the 5.5 miles of the parade to illustrate the theme “Adventure Awaits” for people 55 and up. What a fabulous way to start her Retirement Year!

Trish Dale retired from teaching third grade, giving her time to paint the deck, volunteer at school and church, and return to crafting. Tom and Trish love living in Morehead City, North Carolina, and are navigating the realities of his newly diagnosed heart failure. Their children, Michael (27)and Andrew (24), have both moved to Florida. If the kids can’t findtheir way back to North Carolina, a move to Florida might be in Trish and Tom’s future.

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Cindy Peters continues to work at Duke University and has just celebrated 22 years with the Nicholas School of the Environment. Despite COVID, Cindy continues to get together with a few friends (her COVID pod) for cards and fun. More recently, she has attended concerts and restaurants as things have opened up. So far Cindy has avoided COVID and has made sure she has been vaccinated, boosted and inoculated.

Marty Knight has nine grandchildren under the age of 9!

Janet Blount, owner of Careers Are Us, spoke to the School Board of Baltimore County (Maryland) Public Schools for three minutes to share information about how she supported a local elementary school as a community partner volunteer. Someone who was in the audience at the school board meeting invited Janet to speak for 15 minutes at their Baltimore County Public Schools Advisory Council meeting.The topic was the role parents can play in becoming career-awareness advocates for their children.

In October, Kathleen O’Brien Burchill, Mary Brown Diehl and Barbara Duncan enjoyed several days at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. Highlights included being wowed by the beautiful leaves, viewing the elk in CataloocheeValley, eating a delicious lunch at the Pisgah Inn dining room and wearing hooded jackets on the cold Blue Ridge Parkway

Elaine Wilburn Zullo has a new grandson, Jack, born in August, a month early, thanks to her daughter-in-law and her son, John. Christmas saw daughter, Sarah; Sarah’s husband; two grandkids; and their dog coming to visit Elaine and Jeff in Connecticut for two weeks. So, life is just now returning to normal.

Mimi Holmes finally has a website for the memoir writing and other classes she teaches online through Zoom. She invites you to check it out at mimiholmeswritingourstories.zyrosite.com. Mimi wants to thank classmates Janet Blount, Elaine Willburn Zullo, and Lynne Oswald for taking classes with her.

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Leslie Doyle

lesliedoyle26@gmail.com

Melinda Tanner White reports that she retired three years ago but was taken out of retirement and has spent the last four months as interim office manager for her church. She loved getting

to know the church staff better and was thankful that she had a skill set that made a difference in the functioning of a church. Melinda has taken up pickleball with gusto, but her most fun recent memory is of a river cruise in October with a group of friends on the Rhine.The adventure included a pre-cruise trip to Lake Como, Italy

Leslie Doyle thinks that maybe, just maybe, she has finally conquered her gardening attempt However, the “pretty stuff is taking time away from her efforts to “conquer Mother Nature” and control the ivy that is so persistent. Leslie is still enjoying hiking and biking, but cold weather has turned her attention to learning to knit in her downtime. Leslie has joined a new book club and is adding to her “foreign recipe” file

Debby Daniel-Bryant and her husband, Bill, were hit particularly hard by tornadoes that ripped through their county, Spalding (Griffin in mid-January Miraculously, their house was undamaged, but they lost four out of fi e acres of surrounding forest. However, Debby wishes to communicate her gratitude for being so lucky, as many others in the county have lost their homes. She says they have been blessed by the outpouring of help to dig them out.

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Sarah Fairburn Pannill thepannills@gmail.com

Margaret “Maggie” Evans Porter’s 14th novel, “The Limits of Limelight,” was a historical fictio finalist inthe 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards. Her novel “The Myrtle Wand,” a retelling of the ballet “Giselle” set in 17th-century France, was released in October 2022. (margaretporter.com)

The past year has been a time of family, celebration and travel for Katherine “Kathy” Zarkowsky Broderick, including her daughter’s wedding in upstate New York on Seneca Lake, travels to Morocco, a “Broderick Christmas” week that included over 75 family members and featured a kayaking Santa (husband John), and celebration of 43 years of marriage on Jan. 5, 2023.

Margaret “Peggy” Somers Shepard had quite the Return to College adventure living near the Basilica of Santa Croce, studying realistic drawing and painting at the Florence Academy of Art for two months (plus learning how to buy groceries and operate Italian appliances). She was one of two older students in a very international class taught in English.

Kathleen “Kathy” Hollywood welcomed her third grandchild in August 2022 — a baby girl named Eulaylie Piper Frady Kathy celebrated her (Medicare) birthday with Sarah Fairburn

Pannill and Katherine “Kathy” StearnsThomas ’82, a tradition about 40 years old! In January, Kathy enjoyed a birthday trip to NYC, taking in four shows and reporting “MJ the Musical” was stellar!

Sarah “Sally” Harris shared that she is thrilled with her cochlear implant! After surgery in December, all the components were activated in mid-January, and although the initial sounds were very mechanical, improvement was quick. She reports that her hearing is way better, and conversations are much more fluid

After traveling back and forth between Georgia and Arizona for six years, Dawn Sparks

Shields has returned full-time to Alpharetta — although she has still spent much time traveling elsewhere. In 2021, Dawn and her husband, Ted, traveled from Hawaii to Maine as well as exploring Alaska. In 2022, they journeyed to Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Maine, Michigan and Germany and had an amazing month-long family South Pacific vacation to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Hawaii. In 2022, Dawn and Ted celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.

Dixie Lee Washington and Jennifer “Jenny”

Spencer Parker caught up with each other in January at Mount Vernon. Dixie reported that they had not seen each other in at least 15 years and had a wonderful time hiking, talking and eating. Dixie continues working as a real estate broker, and her husband has added a greenhouse to their property for year-round gardening.

Joy “Wendy” Brooks Crew practices law in Birmingham, Alabama, and is active in many professional organizations, including as presidentelect for the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) for the United States. She and her husband enjoy travel, with their most recent adventures being to Tokyo; Palma de Mallorca, Spain; and Marrakech, Morocco (which included a camel ride!). She and her husband enjoy spending time at their home in Miramar Beach, Florida, and being part of the Krewe of Iris for the New Orleans Mardi Gras.

During August/September, Sarah Fairburn

Pannill took a big road trip with her husband from Atlanta to Prince Edward Island, Canada, where they were dropping their youngest daughter off for her semester abroad at the University of Prince

Edward Island in Charlottetown. After traveling 4,516 miles and 19 days on the road, she and her husband were still speaking — success!

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Liz Steele Forman yellowpages1981@gmail.com

Retirement is on the horizon for many in the class of 1981, and Beth Richards reports that she is approaching that milestone after directing the academic writing program at the University of Hartford, where she teaches a mix of academic, professional and creative writing classes. She and her partner, Joy Christi, who is also retiring, will be able to pursue their ongoing mini-golf competition in more places. (Beth is ahead, as of publication!)

Our condolences to Sarah Campbell Arnett, who recently lost both her cousin and her sisterin-law. Sarah is staying with her new company and was able to see Agnes Scott friends Alice Harra ’82 and Marjory Sivewright Morford ’82 in Portland three times this year!

The Yellow Pages love to travel, and to gather updates for this column, a question was posed in our Facebook group: “Where were you in 2022?”

Susan Barnes Ellis traveled the country, visiting Pam Mynatt Moser in a cabin near Carters Lake in North Georgia. Visits to Virginia (son’s graduation from the University of Virginia), Maine and Colorado followed.

Nancy Brock Johnson enjoyed a Mediterranean cruise that started in Barcelona and ended in Turkey. Their day in Ephesus was one she will never forget! The year also brought family trips to Colorado and Mexico, with the end of the year seeing a 41st-anniversary trip to Paris.

Leigh Clifford Drake spent time in the gorgeous Scottish Highlands.

Maggie Conyers Zerkus spent the month of May in Italy, seeing Puglia, Naples, Pompeii, Milan, Venice, Pisa, Florence and Rome . . . with beautiful red poppies all along the journey!

Becky Durie Cottingham shared that a highlight of their year was taking a Mediterranean cruise along the coast of Spain, France and Italy.

Betsy Long Wech’s travels were closer to home, spending time with her son in Athens. He teaches

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at the University of Georgia, and her grandson is a freshman there.

Laura McCrary Saunders ventured to Park City, Utah, as well as to Highlands, North Carolina, and the South Carolina coast. She also spent time in the beautiful Berkshires of Massachusetts. Concerts at Tanglewood are Laura’s favorite part of this very special place.

Laurie McMillian Mosier did not travel internationally in 2022 but prepared her son’s dog to do so. He is in the MBA program at the University of Edinburgh and very wisely spent time getting settled before sending for his precious pet.

Melanie Merrifield Podowitz and family spent a week in Vermont, which they loved. Visits to Asheville, St. Simons and New York were also highlights, with many return trips planned to New York, as daughter, Lydia, now lives in Brooklyn.

Lucia Rawls Schoelwer retired from her retirement job in December, so her overseas trips will finally subside as she and her husband Mike, focus on exploring the U.S. in their newly purchased Winnebago RV. Last year’s trips included Tanzania for work, Belize for the annual family week at the beach, and camping trips to the mountains and coast of Virginia.

Liz Steele Forman returned to her favorite snorkeling spot off Grand Cayman in May and spent a blessedly cool August week in Upstate New York on beautiful Lake Piseco.

Christine Suggars cruised up the coast of Norway to the North Cape . . . crossing the Arctic Circle as part of her journey. She also took a two-week overland trip to Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Christine finishedthe year with a cruise that began in Panama and went down the coast of South America, visiting Ecuador, Peru and Chile.

Our Facebook group is very active, so please join us there and on Instagram!

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Kathy Fuller Seeley

Khfuller@aol.com

Lee Kite

lee.kite@alum.agnesscott.edu

Bonnie Etheridge Smith and her husband, Mark, are enjoying retired life and checking out

all the great things to do around their new home in Tennessee.

Kathy Fuller-Seeley gave a lecture for the International Museum of Dishware Design in January, discussing how dishware companies worked with movie theaters to give away dishes and attract female moviegoers during the Depression. A close friend of Dr. Penelope Campbell, Kathy is glad to have spent time with her during reunion weekend and several times this past fall. Kathy even took custody of Dr. Campbell’s elderly cat, Minnie.

Ann Conner Harrell and Cindy Monroe

Alexander met up at the Georgia-Florida game and had a great time, despite rooting for opposite teams. They had gotten together earlier in the fall in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for a quick getaway.

Laura Gutierrez Spencer and David Hathaway were married in January 2023. Congratulations, Laura!

Georgia Anna Mitchell and her husband, Scott Shirley, have been remodeling their almost 100-year-old home in Columbia, South Carolina. After getting the kitchen done, they started to work on the butler’s pantry and sunroom. Your secretary can’t wait to go see it all!

Lee Kite gets together regularly with Catherine Craig Threlkeld ’81, and Kathy Fuller-Seeley She has also persuaded Kathy’s husband, Kenny Seeley, to teach her some automotive repair. Lee also plays Words with Friends regularly with several Scotties, including Kathy Stearns Thomas and Marion “Pinky” McCall Bass ’58.

Cindy Foster Grace and her husband, Michael, traveled to Scotland in May. Also, in May, she and Lu Ann Ferguson attended a meeting of the Jamestown Society in Jamestown, Virginia. And in January, Cindy and Michael became grandparents for the fist time. Besides her board meetings, civic groups and adoring her granddaughter, Cindy is writing a periodic column for her hometown paper called “Grace Notes,” about art in northeast Georgia.

Lu Ann Ferguson and her husband, Randy Johns, enjoyed a trip to Morocco in February.

Cristy Clark and her husband, Nick Adams, traveled to Japan in May to meet their new grandchild.

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Margaret Kelly Parry

maggieparry@comcast.net

Kate Blanton Towler reports that she and her husband, Bill, traveled to Glasgow last year to visit their youngest daughter, Sarah, who is in her fourth year of vet school at the University of Glasgow. They enjoyed seeing the reindeer in the Highlands! Once they returned home, they set about relocating their parents into assisted living. Kate welcomed granddaughter Finley Phoebe Towler on Sept. 27. Although she spent four weeks in the NICU, she is doing great now! After tearing her hamstring playing tennis and undergoing surgery, Kate spent the holidays wearing a hip brace and on crutches. She is grateful to her husband, Bill, and middle daughter, Natalie, who took care of the holiday decorating.

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Linda Newland Soltis

Linda.soltis@international.gc.ca

Fran Ivey Lemmen franlemmen@gmail.com

Celia Shackleford Booher ’s daughter, Lizzie Booher ’16, married Greg Hendler in Atlanta on Nov. 6, 2022. Following in Celia’s footsteps, Lizzie wore her grandmother Betty Akerman Shackleford ’54’s wedding gown. Generations of Scotties were well-represented.

Betsy Shaw Brown teaches third grade in Greenville, South Carolina, where she and her husband, Keith, have lived for 30 years. Daughter Ashley is a senior at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and daughter Katherine graduated from medical school in 2022 and married Bennett Hardymon. Betsy lost her mother in 2022 but is grateful to visit her father in Black Mountain and Montreat, North Carolina.

Katherine “Kap” Wilkes has a small farm in northern Minnesota with her husband of 38 years, Craig Kvale. She grows apples, vegetables and berries; has honeybees and taps for maple syrup; and has plans for egg-laying chickens and cattle. She is an organizational development consultant helping improve rural health/wellness.

In 2019, Kim Fortenberry Siegelson began backpacking the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail, reaching 750 miles in 2022 and aiming for 200 miles in 2023. Kim is active in the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club and volunteers as a trail ambassador for hikers.

Catherine Fleming Bruce is director of operations for the Richland County Democratic Party. In 2022, she campaigned to become a U.S. senator from South Carolina, receiving the most votes on primary night and making it into the runoff After that, she worked to support U.S. Senate candidates such as John Fetterman, Pennsylvania, and Raphael Warnock, Georgia.

Janet Bundrick Burnley retired in February 2023 after a 39-year career, 13 years with SunTrust and 26 magical years with Disney in Orlando, Florida. Husband Rick and Janet will travel and spend time with family, including their son and his wife and their growing family in Washington D.C.

Carla Eidson Pierce and Connie Haywood Patterson took a fall 2022 trip to Charleston, South Carolina, celebrating Connie’s birthday and attending Carla’s son’s football away game at The Citadel. Carla and her husband, Jeff are celebrating their son’s graduation — with honors — from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. For six years, Carla was full-time caregiver to her father-in-law, whom they lost to cancer in 2022. She is dusting off her resume forthe next chapter.

Tracey Veal Booker’s career in public health has her implementing a School Champions grant with the National Association of School Nurses for school immunizations missed during COVID. She calls it a “logistical wonder” to coordinate mobile vaccine clinics throughout the country’s largest county, Los Angeles County. On a lighter note, a mall visit resulted in Tracey’s selection as a Talbots trunk show model. She says it’s a nice break from the intensity of public health! The new clothes were appreciated during California’s extreme weather. Tracey says the runway may call again.

Kathi Welch Campbell had an eventful 2022, starting with the birth of a fist grandchild, Hayden Rose Campbell, born in England, where her son is on a three-year U.S. Marine Corps pilot exchange with the Royal Air Force. Her daughter graduated from college, ending years of tuition payments! Kathi lives on Sanibel Island, Florida, heavily hit by Hurricane Ian, forcing her to an off-island rentalwhile her house gets repaired. She and her husband are thankful to be alive and that their home was not destroyed.

In 2022, Julie Custer Altman became grandmother to Wyatt Parris and is thrilled that daughter Sandi lives in St. Augustine, Florida, minutes from her St. Simons Island home. Son Ronnie Altman lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. For Christmas Eve, 2022, Julie enjoyed a beach

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oyster roast with classmate Pam Waters

Boushell

and her husband, Paul.

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Ellen Grant Walker arizonascarlett@yahoo.com

It seems that several of the Sundance Kids were bit by the travel bug. Ann Fitzgerald Aichinger was able to travel to Austria, Germany and Switzerland in September 2021. Highlights of the trip included a tour of Salzburg, Austria, where Ann sang many songs from “The Sound of Music” throughout the city; the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Germany; a Zurich city tour, including a tour of the Lindt Chocolate factory (with free samples of chocolate); Lucerne and the Swiss Alps peaks of Jung Frau, Eigor and Meunch. She also took a day trip on her own to northern Italy and ended up on the wrong train but disembarked before it left for Bologna, Italy. She loved the beautiful countryside as well as the city tours. She is ready to go back, but it will be a while. In March 2023, she will be going on a Viking cruise on the Danube with a friend and Ann’s parents (Stella Biddle Fitzgerald ’56 and George Fitzgerald).

In September 2022, Sharmaine McNeil took a fabulous repeat trip to Paris and Amsterdam and visited Bordeaux. She toured the right and left bank vineyards along with sampling many excellent wines and dining at Le Pressoir d’Argent in Bordeaux. One notable highlight of her trip involved seeing the iconic Patti Smith at the Centre Pompidou Museum in Paris and getting inadvertently caught in a political protest crowd while taking a walking tour — all of which was quite exciting.

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Holly Rogers Markwalter hmarkwalter@yahoo.com

Maria Adelina Gonzalez-Bigner is working all the time. Primary care today gets bogged down by a lot of nonsense paperwork (Ellen, close your ears. LOL), so fortunately, she found another little cottage on the tiny lake to move into this year. Shoutout to Mary, Margaret and Vicki, who visited her at the fist one. This one is a lot more civilized! She says to come visit, one and all!

Hope Hill Westphal and her husband, Mark, continue to live just north of Philadelphia. Their youngest child graduates from college this spring.

All three of their children are currently a train ride away, which is convenient. Hope’s mom now lives with them, so she doesn’t make it to Atlanta very often anymore. They enjoyed fantastic hiking trips to Glacier National Park and Scotland/England during the summer. Hope invites anyone visiting in the Philly/NYC area to please reach out!

Amy Hoskins is learning to option literary work, such as her novel “Rebekah’s Closet.” Her team of actor/producer and writer/actor have almost completed the 15-minute short film scipt. A budget and fundraising plan will be developed soon, and they hope to film in New Orleans ver an early summer weekend.

Edie Hsiung Krakowiak completed a yearlong online course in The Enneagram for Conscious Living with Russ Hudson and is now in a sevenmonth teacher training certification She’s also learning qi gong! Edie is in her fifthyear at Mary & Martha’s Place as the operations manager and is learning. She and her husband, Andy, are undertaking a home renovation and looking forward to their daughter Lacey’s wedding.

Beth Webb and her husband, David, celebrated 26 years of marriage in September 2022 with a trip back to Germany, where they were married. Daughters Nancy and Michelle graduated from college in 2021 summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with degrees in International Business. Beth completed 31 years in public education and is serving as president of GATESOL (Georgia Association of Teachers of English as a Second Language). She is also serving as an elder on Session for Decatur Presbyterian.

Holly Rogers Markwalter enjoys the adventures of retirement. The renovation of the farm continues with a focus on landscaping and pond refurbishment. New challenges include taking on the duties of treasurer for their small threechurch rural United Methodist Church Charge and building a new chicken coop and running with her husband, Brian. Fun travel adventures include a Pacific Coast Highay trip as well as numerous trips to visit grandchildren. ’87

Melissa Martin Calandro melissajcalandro@gmail.com

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Susan

Martz Hutchinson

suzaruuu@gmail.com

Reminder! The class of 1988 will celebrate our 35year reunion this year at Alumnae Weekend, May 19-21, 2023. Classmates Lynette Lounsberry Quigley, Sally Mairs Dugan, Kathryn Sanchez Kasper, Adele Clements and Lynn Wilson Watkins have been hard at work planning an excellent activity-filledweekend to relax, reconnect and enjoy fellowship with our fellow 1988 pilots.

Julie McConnell has been named an Outstanding Faculty Award recipient by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. The Outstanding Faculty Awards are the highest honor for faculty at Virginia’s public and private colleges and universities.

Elizabeth Adams Bengtson reports that she and her spouse findthemselves in that “sandwich” time of life. These past two years have been full as they’ve been moving parents, handling estates, and celebrating a college graduation and an engagement. Elizabeth reports being grateful that her husband retired at the end of 2021 and has been and is available to participate more fully in these life tasks. The family is looking forward to a time when travel can replace some of these duties.

Susan M. Hutchinson continues to enjoy watching her two grandsons unfold their characters and essence as they age and mature into their distinct personalities. Susan will celebrate her 25-year anniversary with her current employer (Sunbelt Title) in April 2023. Susan is looking forward to attending Alumnae Weekend this year and catching up with her classmates.

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Dolly Purvis

dali.llama@yahoo.com

Jill Jordan continues to participate enthusiastically — both in her position on the board of directors and as co-chair of the shrub committee — at the Rutgers Master Gardener organization. In her latest shrubbery news, Jills says she is working to shift the inventory of unique shrubs to mostly native plants while educating people on the importance of incorporating native plants in the home garden. “It’s so fun,” Jill reports. Meanwhile, in her professional life, she continues to navigate the exciting world of selling real estate in NYC (still the greatest city on earth!) while working with her husband and father to manage commercial

properties in New Jersey and South Carolina.

Louisa Parker Mattozzi hosted some of the D.C.-area crew — Tina Carr Buckreis, Mini Abraham Paniker and Elsa Jann Schaefer — from the class of 1989 at her house for a potluck brunch in January. Her daughter, Louisa Margaret, is in her junior year at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and will study abroad this summer in Urbino, Italy. Combining her Italian major with her creative advertising major, her daughter will be making a documentary interviewing people from Urbino about their culture. Louisa’s son, Michael, is a senior in high school, is about to get his Eagle Scout award, and is thinking about double majoring in history and cybersecurity once he’s offto college.

Carolyn Weaver and her sisters, Nancy Weaver Willson ’72 and Ann Weaver Evans ’84, celebrated their mother, Nancy Deal Weaver ’48, at her 95th birthday party a few months ago.

Members of the class of 1989 have experienced other recent triumphs:

In “my Agnes Scott education taught me a thing or two about economics” news:

Allison Adams reports a big, big economic outlier (ground lamb on sale at Aldi’s). In an effot to maintain a positive balance sheet, she stocked up.

In January, Mary Ruth Oliver Ray kept an eye on the Federal Reserve and interest rates as she put together her plan to save for a downpayment on a dozen eggs.

Ann Broaddus Jackson has important mental wellness news. She surpassed the fist phase of “Do I reorganize my cabinets” well-being by thinking about it.

Three classmates report significant travel:

Elsa Jann Schaefer tested the supply chain with a trip to the UPS store (she rolled the windows down for the dog on the way home).

Jeanne Bressoud Higgins , needing a solution through chemistry, visited the Home Depot to buy outdoor bleach to power-wash her driveway (and picked up a junction box for fun).

Dolly Purvis is slowly gathering enough data for a study she hopes to present at a yet-to-bedetermined conference: “View from Georgia’s

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Crustiest State Highways: Keeping Business Miles to a Minimum in the Age of Waze.” ’90

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’91

Annmarie Anderson Anderson.Annmarie@gmail.com

The past three years brought about a lot of change for Susan Cowan Morse! She and her husband, Matthew, moved a few times. They are now living with her in-laws in Wilmot, New Hampshire, where they lived for twenty years, and her husband grew up. They are supporting his parents as they navigate health challenges. In 2022, Susan and Matthew bought land in the White Mountains region of New Hampshire and are building a small cabin for their next residence. Hopefully, they will have the project complete by fall 2023. They aim to live as sustainably as possible, to live beneath their means, and to be able to travel and hike. During this change and flux Susan re-branded and shifted her business. She has worked for herself for the past fifteenyears as an educational coach and consultant. She turned her practice to life coaching and energy healing during the pandemic. Susan is a Reiki practitioner, a spiritual mentor, a medium, and a yoga teacher in training. She will complete YTT200, 200-hour yoga teacher training, in April and then begin teaching some yoga classes on Zoom. Her private practice is robust and booming, especially as individuals are eager to grow and expand as life moves beyond the pandemic. Susan and Matthew have two sons who are “grown and flwn.” Brandon is 28, and Trevor is 26. Both are doing well and enjoying life in their chosen field. Both decided to carve a path for career and success that did not include a 4-year college degree, and they are very happy with their choices.

Cara Cassell and Kerri Williams (MAT ’95) traveled to Costa Rica in December 2022. They hiked through rainforests and cloud forests and crossed hanging bridges. They zip-lined 1.5 km across a valley. Squirrel monkeys ran across telephone wires; howler monkeys howled before dawn; macaws dined above their heads, and sloths carried their young from one tree to another. Kerri took her fist surfing lesson and they kayaked among the mangroves.

Allyson Whitley Burroughs has loved being a part of Ricoh for the past year as their Vice President of Brand, Digital, and Communications. Before Ricoh, she spent two years helping launch the intelligent automation start-up company, JIFFY.ai. On the personal front, Allyson has loved the ongoing tradition of weekend gatherings and lunches with several classmates. Allyson and Mark are still living in Decatur and can’t wait to host the Class of ’91 again for our next reunion year in 2026!

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Aida

Najarian aidanajarian@gmail.com

Lauren Fowler was hired as a professor of neuroscience at Wake Forest School of Medicine in August 2022. She is a founding faculty member for the new Charlotte campus of the Wake Forest medical school set to open in 2024. Lauren will continue to live in Greenville, South Carolina, and work virtually until her daughter graduates from high school in 2024 and then will move to Charlotte.

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Elena Adan Esquen elenaesquen@gmail.com

Kendra Outler was recently featured in a Medium article for her successful career in health and wellness: medium.com/authority-magazine/ power-women-dr-kendra-outler-of-uzima-healthand-wellness-on-how-to-successfully-navigatework-8f347cd0f5a

’94

Nikki Webb Alger nicolealger@me.com

Christine Wade has been named the Louis L. Goldstein Chair in Public Affais at Washington College, where she also serves as the chair of political science and director of Latin American studies. The 10th edition of her co-authored, co-edited book, “Latin American Politics and Development,” was published in August 2022. She continues to work with asylum seekers from El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Classmate Theresa Hoenes joined her in Maryland for Thanksgiving.

Perrin Cothran Conrad and her husband and son moved into Perrin’s childhood home in downtown Summerville last year and are in the middle of a slowmoving renovation, decluttering and redecorating project. Perrin also took a solo cruise in November to celebrate her 50th birthday and enjoyed the white sand, blue water and warm sunshine. Her son has begun racing cars, and Perrin findsthat she is spending lots of time at racetracks smelling exhaust but loves the noise, the thrill and watching her son pursue his passion. She also loves meeting up with Martha Lauer every time Martha visits the States from Singapore! They most recently met up in Anderson, South Carolina, in August.

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Emily Stone

emilyrdstone@outlook.com

Lisa Sebotnick Durette has been working with the BE A SHERO Foundation to create an education platform for disseminating prevention and awareness content to mitigate human trafficking sherofoundation.org). In addition to her volunteer work at BE A SHERO, she has been promoted to the role of interim chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She also continues to serve as the program director of the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship program. To keep from going crazy doing all this while raising a teenage daughter, she indulges her addiction to yarn with knitting and crocheting.

Karen Jordan began working at Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) in August as an embedded behavioral health therapist in the OB/GYN department. MAHEC’s mission is to increase access to health care in underserved communities, and Karen is extremely grateful to be able to support folks as they navigate those divine spaces of birth and death. Karen’s family is all well. Her son, Finley, is in third grade, and her daughter, Tilda, is in fist. Karen’s older brother, Jeff has been living with her for over two years now up in beautiful Pisgah National Forest.

Paulina “Paula” Pendarvis has taken on a new role as professional liaison with Big Bend Hospice in North Florida. This is a continuation of her career focused in rural health care marketing and program management. Her prior experience was with hospital administration and primary health care for underserved populations.

’96

Mary Carol Patterson Sheffie msheff@uga.ed

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’97

Deanna Turner georgiagirl121@gmail.com

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’98

Ann Marie Taylor Malkoc anntaylormalkoc@gmail.com

Dinah M. Conti accepted an administrative role at her company, UnityPoint Clinic, in May 2022. She remains a full-time pediatrician but also oversees 19 other pediatricians and pediatric nurse practitioners in her region.

’99

Amelia Tomlinson scottiegossip@gmail.com

In 2022, Jennifer Marcum Gelder officiall became the mother of two teenage girls (15 and 13), and celebrated 18 years of marriage and 20 years as an attorney at Progressive Insurance Company in New Orleans (working for Flo really is as fun as it looks). Her family also made up for lost time and traveled near and far, including a trip back to the German town she grew up in and an afternoon stop at Agnes Scott while in Atlanta on business. Both her girls proudly wear their Agnes Scott gear whenever they have a chance!

Tiffany Prather McAneny recently accepted a new role as managing director, business controls officer a Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA).The English major has inexplicably found herself working in financial services for the last 11 years and really enjoys her career in risk management. She is currently busy taking her oldest daughter, Mia, on college tours this spring and planning trips with her class of 1999 Scottie friends! She sees Meredith Fields Kidd weekly, as they’re both in Jacksonville, Fla., and will get to visit with Jessica Ulack Carothers when she’s in Florida next month for a conference.

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Over the last 18 months, Ashlea Mittelstaedt moved to Oakland, had a baby, got married, bought a house and moved again. Despite having the same job, she is on her fourth new boss. At the same time. Somebody, please hand her a margarita.

Heather I. Scott, Ph.D., is proud to announce after a successful 10 years at Kennesaw State University as a tenured professor and administrator, she is now serving as assistant dean of SUMMIT Inclusive Leadership Curriculum and Co-Curriculum at Agnes Scott College. Her days are filledwith supporting Scotties through their leadership journeys and cataloging her gray hairs as she has encountered working with some of the children of her Scottie classmates!

Helayna Hoss Trask’s oldest child, Cole, was accepted at Texas A&M in engineering this fall. Helayna continues to edit and teach Spanish, music and chapel in a preschool near Dallas.

Liza McDaniel Fewell started her own freelance copywriting business, Hand-in-Hand Copy, in January 2022. She offes copy for blogs, newsletters and other marketing materials for local businesses. Following a successful surgery for achalasia in September 2022, she is ready to grow her business bigger this year! In other news, after seven years of home schooling plus two years of online schooling, her kids will be entering public high school for the fist time this August. Xander (17) will hopefully be completing his senior year at Central Gwinnett, and Indy (14) will start their fist year at Gwinnett’s School of the Arts.

Amelia Tomlinson has been your class secretary since 2009 and has loved being the conduit for your news. However, her current work travel schedule makes continuing on untenable — as you’ve likely noticed, given she hasn’t gotten your news into the last two editions! Thus, Liza Fewell is her new hero, as Liza has volunteered to take up the mantle for the rest of this term until our 25th reunion.

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Yalonda Rice

yalondarenee@gmail.com

Dur ing the 2022 Circle K International Convention in Austin, Texas, Jennifer Long Hethcox was awarded the Circle of Service award by the International Board of Trustees. This is the highest award any one person can receive from Circle K International and is only given once in a lifetime. Jennifer received this award for her work as district administrator of the Carolinas District of CKI and

longtime CKI alumni. During college, Jennifer served as Agnes Scott College CKI club secretary and club president. She was the fist governor to hail from Agnes Scott College and was immediately followed by Carol King Milligan ’01 and Rebekah Baum Knowles ’02.

Yalonda Rice accepted the position of executive director of the literary magazine Philadelphia Stories, focused on publishing work from writers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

Saycon Sengbloh proudly served as the speaker for Agnes Scott’s spring 2022 commencement exercises, where she received an honorary doctorate. In addition, Saycon returns this summer as Lillian for the second season of ABC’s reboot of “The Wonder Years,” also starring Don Cheadle, narrating the series as adult Dean Williams; Elisha “EJ” Williams as Dean Williams; Dulé Hill as Bill Williams; Laura Kariuki as Kim Williams; Julian Lerner as Brad Hitman; Amari O’Neil as Cory Long; and Milan Ray as Keisa Clemmons. ’01

No identified class secretay. Please send any news to share to alumnae@agnesscott.edu.

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Deborah Vincent Scianna deborahscianna@yahoo.com

On Dec. 2, 2022, Selyka Givan became a professional female bodybuilder and won the Overall Female Bodybuilding award at the National Physique Committee National Championships in Orlando at the age of 43. Currently, she is living out her passion as a health and fitness coach at Snap Fitness Decatur right next to Agnes Scott College.

Erica Robinson was named one of the top attorneys in San Antonio by Attorney Intel and featured in Vanguard Legal Magazine.

Jenny Williams recently moved to Denver, Colorado, with her family, where she coordinates social justice initiatives at a Jewish communal organization. She has guest rooms — Scotties, come visit! :)

Over the summer, Rebecca Baum Knowles was promoted to director of development for

Academy Prep Center of Lakeland, a private middle school specifically for students from lwincome backgrounds. She continues to live in her hometown of Lakeland, Florida, with her children, Clayton (14) and Alison (10). They love meeting up with Scotties vacationing in the Sunshine State!

Sisters Laynea Allen and LoraBeth Allen ’15 visited Houston at the end of December to help Deborah Vincent Scianna celebrate her birthday and ring in the new year in style! Highlights of the trip included a visit to Space Center Houston and The Museum of Natural Science, dinner at Ninfa’s, and ghostly fireorks seen through epic sea fog on Bolivar Peninsula.

Amanda Shopa successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at the University of Minnesota in January. Her dissertation, titled “My Easy Year: Breast Cancer, Narrative Reckoning, and the Art of Creating a Dissertation,” explores how artistic practices can be used to make sense of the existential crisis a serious illness can bring on.

Dana Neiger published her fist book, “Before I Knew It, They Were Gone: A Jewish FirstGeneration American Woman’s Journey through the Darkness,” in January 2023. She has owned HIVE Talent Acquisition Firm, an HR and recruiting consulting fim in Sandy Springs, Georgia, since 2017 and just accepted a two-year term as Temple Emanuel president. She is the loving mother to the amazing Deagan (6), and her husband, Dustin, was just promoted to VP with his transportation engineering design fim HNTB. Dustin is the program director for the Major Mobility Investment Program with Georgia Department of Transportation fixing infrastucture.

’03

Anla Gisclair Etheridge butterflyanla6318@gmail.co

Kendrah Underwood has been married for seven years to Terrence Underwood, and together they have a 13-year-old son, Malachi. She and her family currently live in St. Louis, Missouri. Additionally, she is the VP of schools at Kairos Academies.

April Carter-Chau is the new deputy chief of recruitment advertising and marketing at her federal government agency. She also was selected to be a national delegate representing the Nation’s Capital Girl Scout Council at the 2023 Girl Scouts National Convention.

Jenny Townes made it through the pandemic, even with a feral pandemic toddler. She joined Emory University Libraries as the Open Access librarian in 2022.

Tiff Troutman and her family moved back to Georgia in August 2022 and have no intentions of ever leaving again.

Christy Conway has moved to Columbus, Ohio, and is pursuing a doctorate in special education.

Brigid Scarborough lives with her partner, Ermis Zayas, and was recently promoted to manager at Deloitte, where she works as an organizational design consultant within the government public sector practice.

Alicia Przygocki has been married for 13 years. She has a career as a stockbroker at E*TRADE by Morgan Stanley and three fur babies.

Jen Garnett and her partner, Amanda, live in Bristow, Virginia, with their four teenagers, Daniel, Alexis, Autumn and Ray, their two Frenchies, Gus and Jaq, and their two cats, Oreo and Eve.

In 2021, Whitney Peoples became the inaugural director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for the University of Michigan School of Public Health. In July 2022, she married Jason Walker in Detroit. They were married by fellow Scottie Zeena Regis ’02, and fellow Poison Ivy classmate Brigid Scarbrough was also in attendance.

Amanda Balaz Owens currently resides in Cumming, Georgia, with her husband and two cats. She has been working as an elementary school counselor in high-poverty schools for more than 15 years and enjoys her work.

Faith Garlington is working as a technical strategic project manager in financial sevices and fintech She recently cofounded a multigenerational, co-living community in San Francisco, 1.5 blocks from the iconic Painted Ladies and Alamo Square. The community currently has three co-parents; two formerly homeless LGBTQ youth (both 20); and two kids aged 9 years old (one boy; one nonbinary; one foster; and one biologically connected to Faith and her partner).

Gretchen Deitze is recovering from a partial hip replacement and about to start a temporary position in her company in the Real Estate and Land Management Department as a real estate

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billing analyst.

Jenny Davis opened a private tattoo studio in January 2020, and business has been thriving. Her studio is minority woman-owned and operated and is a safe place for BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent clients. theinkbunnystudios.com

After more than 20 years working in museum administration/art consulting, during the “great shift” of 2020, Lisa Thrower took a welcomed break from the industry. In addition to becoming certifiedto teach yin yoga + meditation, she launched Subtle-Arts, a virtual “consciousness collective” that provides resources and inspiration for anyone on a similar path of creative, personal inquiry. Lisa currently serves as the programming chair for the Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, which works to champion women artists in the state of Georgia as well as raise awareness about the initiatives of the National Museum. She is also a board member for Laughing Dogs Yoga, a nonprofit organization that provides yoga instruction within underserved schools in the Atlanta area.

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Martha Gaston magaston@aol.com

Sofía Becerra-Licha is the lead archivist at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, most recently serving on the planning team for the center’s new permanent exhibit “Art and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy,” which includes some content from the Kennedy Center Archives: kennedy-center.org/memorial/jfk/overview/. Sofía also continues to sing in local choral groups, most recently participating as a guest member of the Heritage Signature Chorale as part of the adult chorus in the Kennedy Center’s fall 2022 restaging of Leonard Bernstein’s “MASS” to close out the center’s 50th anniversary season (with the work commissioned for its opening in 1971): kennedycenter.org/nso/home/2022-2023/bernstein-mass/

Kim Lichtveld reports that her life has been a whirlwind for the past fie years. She welcomed her oldest child, Jacob, in March 2017; her middle child, Case, in March 2019; and her daughter, Grace, in August 2020. Last year, Kim became the chair of the Department of Environmental Safety and Occupational Health Management at the University of Findlay in Ohio. She is also the current president of AEHAP (Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs). Kim and her husband, Seth

Ebersviller, have been working on student/faculty research using their outdoor atmospheric enclosure She says she’s blessed to have these opportunities to serve and educate future environmental health and safety leaders.

Ellen Watters Wiemers has been on a new career path to becoming a registered professional land surveyor in Texas. As of November 2022, after a grueling exam, she is officially a certified surveyor-in-training. It will still require a couple more years until she receives her full certification but she is eagerly on the path!

Alana Aisthorpe Penley, Erin Turner Verner, Rachel Hale Baker and Lindsay King got together in Decatur to celebrate Rachel’s 40th birthday on Jan. 14.

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Ruth Owen Sambuco ruth.sambuco@gmail.com

Alice Hudson Pell has been appointed executive director of TennGreen Land Conservancy, the oldest statewide land conservation organization in Tennessee.

Emma Gant joined the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis,Tennessee, as a clinical pharmacist. She lives in Arlington,Tennessee, with her wife, Natasha Gant, and their two favorite boys — their son, Brooks (who turned one on Feb. 3, 2023), and their Lab, Bear

Ashley French has been promoted to director of In-House Agency (Campfire Creative) at Georgia-Pacific.

’06

Courtney Ware Lett courtneydware@gmail.com

Asia Wynn was promoted to assistant director of academic advising for Oxford College of Emory University Asia welcomed her first child, Isabella NoelWynn, with her husband, Adam, in September 2022. Asia is already looking forward to her daughter sharing a room at Agnes Scott College with some of her fellow vixens’ daughters around the same age

Reem Faruqi has a new biographical picture book for children titled “Milloo’s Mind” (HarperCollins), which was released on Jan. 17, 2023.Thank you for all your support of her books!

Kirby Hager Johnson was honored to be selected for and able to complete the most recent Leadership Chattanooga program, a 10-month leadership development program hosted by the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce, which prepares participants to succeed in prominent, local professional and volunteer roles.

In October 2022, Christine Skowronek earned a master’s degree and was selected to speak at her graduation ceremony The speech is under 10 minutes, about 29 minutes into this video: youtu.be/ AuRBz4TsAJs; and you can read an article about the speech here: news.gcu.edu/gcu-news/emotionalspeaker-shares-her-life-transformation/ Christine has been working as an enrollment counselor at Grand Canyon University for the past four years.

Twanda Broughton eloped with Brandon Seabrook on Feb. 22, 2022. She had a postnuptial bachelorette party in Cancun with her “bridesmaids,” including fellow Scotties Denise Farley-Gardner, Nicole Kilby ’07, Arsed Joseph and Terica Black-Bashir

Candace R. Salim is honored to have been elected to serve as reunion chair for the class of 2006 in preparation for the 20th class reunion in 2026!

On July 29 and 30, 2022, Courtney Ware Lett and Arsed Joseph celebrated a decade of ARTiculate ATL, an annual summer group art show and exhibit cofounded in 2012 and curated by Courtney and three others.The two-night event was held at MINT Gallery in Atlanta and featured 50 local emerging visual artists — who sold over $75,000 of artwork — as well as music curation by Arsed aka DJ Sed the Saint and two other renowned Atlanta DJs. Learn more at articulateatl.org.

Catarina Gutierrez was offered and accepted yearlong fellowship opportunity to develop some resources and activations across her city in New Zealand through cycling advocacy — something she is deeply passionate about. It includes $5,000 and support from the local community. As their treasurer, Catarina will be representingWomen in Urbanism

Aotearoa, Auckland, New Zealand, the nationwide nonprofit that focuses on improving cities for women.

In November 2022, Amanda Harris and Tatiana Farrow celebrated 20 years of Agnes Scott-inspired friendship with a trip to the Costa Rican cloud forest. They explored the forest trails, saw sloths, soaked

in the thermal pools and fli ted shamelessly Tatiana convinced Amanda that she wouldn’t die zip-lining, and — spoiler — she didn’t! She did, however, scream like a toddler, but at least she got to use her favorite Spanish curse words!

Scotties Ashley Timmons Nicely, Twanda Broughton and Tiffany Lee celebrated a weekend getaway to Amelia Island, Florida.

Scotties Denise Farley, Twanda Broughton and Arsed Joseph sprinkled Ashley Timmons Nicely with love at her baby shower.

Ashley Timmons Nicely and her husband, Desmund Nicely, welcomed a sweet baby girl into their family. Brielle Elaine Nicely was born on Aug. 25, 2022, and joined her big brother, Clarkston, who is absolutely in awe of her.

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Kristin Hall

krelhall@gmail.com

Julie Ceigler celebrated four years of running her own private counseling practice in early 2023. Since August 2022, she has also fostered two children: a boy (3 years old) and a girl (17 months old).

After three years of fostering, Celeste Fredericks officially adopted son Adrien (11 years old), Dorien (9 years old) and Fabien Fredericks (8 years old) in December 2022.

Kristin Hall premiered “GhostTown Suite,” her onewoman song cycle about grief, at the San Francisco Fringe Festival in September 2022, where it won a Best of Fringe award.That same month, she and her husband, Bill March, also purchased their fi st home in San Carlos, California.

Spring Walker, husband Adam O’Donnell, and son Cillian, welcomed Nora Inez O’Donnell to the family on Dec. 15, 2022. She has since become the youngest attendee of the Atlanta Alumnae Winter Seminar, learning about the Renaissance.

’08

Dominique Khan

dkhan08@gmail.com

Sabrina Cintron Cassell

sabrina.cintron@gmail.com

Lily Takata currently resides in Athens, Georgia, and was recently accepted to and will be attending

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Agnes Scott College starting fall 2023 for their Writing and Digital Communications Graduate Certificate Pro ram.Takata also recently accepted a position as the marketing and guest relations specialist for Pole Active.They also teach yoga at Crunch Fitness in Athens.

For the last three years, Mary Pope has worked as a leader on the support team at Calendly LLC, most recently receiving a promotion to support team manager in 2022. She resides in Atlanta, Georgia, enjoying a life of quiet solitude, travel and joy.

Rev. Catherine “Cat” Boyle is now serving the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, California, as their minister of religious education.

Kaitlyn Klein started working last summer as a swim instructor at theYMCA.

Liz Hartnett Santamaria teamed up with Jayme Walton ’07 to compete as the only all-female team in the Steinbeck’s Chili Cook-Off in November 2022. Liz also volunteered at Pancake Jam in December 2022, along with fellow ’08er Emily Hansen.

Anastasia Ball Johnson is currently working for the ThINC College and Career Academy She switched from being a licensed therapist to a teacher and is excited to start on this path.

’09

Tiffany

Claiborn

tiffanydaniellec@gmail.co

The class of 2009 is continuing their gradual world takeover this year, with new children and education in their sights this time.

Leah Anderson McCraney welcomed her new daughter, Sophia Rose Leslie McCraney, to the world in August 2022. Fun fact: Big brother Whit initially hoped for twins that he could name “Polar” and “Express,” but finally accepted only one baby sister he wanted to call “Rosabella.” He got part of his wish in the middle name Rose.

Stephanie Hansard and her spouse, Colin Vinson, were also overjoyed to grow their family with two new additions: 8-year-old twins, Jhase and Jimmorion, whom they adopted in May 2022. Jhase loves art, dancing and math, while Jimmorion loves the library, playing outside and making new friends. Stephanie reports that they are extremely proud of their sons, who are creative, strong and goofy.

In the academic world, we raise a book to Kimberly Watt-McCune, who recently began a new journey in graduate school for an MLIS (Master of Library and Information Science) degree atTexasWomen’s University. On top of that achievement, she was also promoted to a senior assistant at the Norwood Branch Library, part of the Knox County (Tennessee) group of public libraries.

Meanwhile, Shannon Yarbrough completed her MFA in creative nonfiction from Georgia College and State University, fulfilling a decades-long dream. Her first published personal essay, found in the online, progressive magazine Salvation South, is titled “Eat Les Chikin: A Queer Southern Mother’s Complicated Relationship with Chick-fil-A ”

Renu Sagreiya rsagreiya@gmail.com

Olivia Greene-Knight ogreene87@gmail.com

Kristi Chenault Herin graduated in December 2022 from the University ofTennessee, Chattanooga, with her master’s in data analytics, computer science concentration. It has been one of the hardest and most rewarding things she has ever done, and she is continuing to work with her capstone project adviser to try to publish her research in spring 2023.

Joanna Hair recently accepted a new attorney position with the Atlanta office of Morgan Morgan. She is in her 10th year of practice and is excited to begin this new adventure, representing Georgia’s injured workers in workers’ compensation matters.

Esther Wallace has never done one of these before, and she’s been up to a lot in the last 13 years! Semi-recent highlights include getting married in 2017, going to graduate school, and earning a Master of Divinity degree from Starr King School for the Ministry in May 2022. In addition to being a religious educator at a Unitarian Universalist congregation, she hosts a bunch of podcasts on topics ranging from spirituality to tabletop role-playing games. She is currently living with her spouse and their elderly pets (a rabbit and a German shepherd) on the shores of beautiful Clear Lake, Calif.

Michelle Bach is graduating with an MD/ doctorate from Saint Louis University this May and starting a residency in psychiatry

Savannah Sharp Parison began her new role as the business officer fothe Film and Media Studies Department and the Carsey-Wolf Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in September 2022. She’s thrilled to be working in a department where being an English major is a conversation starter!

Renu Urvashi Sagreiya received the American Association of Law Libraries’ Foreign Comparative and International Law Interest Group Project of the Year Award in 2022. She was selected to speak at a roundtable titled “Researching Religion and Human Rights: Old Ideas Applied to Modern Issues” at the American Society of International Law 2023 annual meeting in Washington D.C. in March 2023.

’11 Sarah Bowen Hersh sbowen314@gmail.com

Julie Reynolds-Engel and her husband, Jon, welcomed a baby girl, Birdie Carol, into their family in December 2022.

Ashley Williams is halfway through her doctorate in art history at Columbia University! She lives in New York with her partner, Marcel, and their cat, Earl.

Onyinye Edeh began her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree program at George Washington University in fall 2022. This three-year program is focused on health leadership. Onyinye has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the Institute of Current World Affais (ICWA), an organization where she served as a travel fellow from 2016 to 2018, documenting the experiences of women’s and girls’ lives in Nigeria and Niger. Onyinye is engaged to be married on April 8 in Enugu, Nigeria.

Lauren Welch O’Connor ; her husband, Patrick; and her son, Tristan, are happily residing in Tucker, Georgia. Lauren continues to work as an archaeologist in Atlanta (having returned to her old company in June 2021) and is thrilled to see Sarah Batchelor, Caitlin Suilmann and Charla Gruber ’12 on a regular basis!

Gina Luttrell launched beauty-meets-tech company Firedrake Beauty Labs in November 2022. The brand debuted with a fist-in-industry app, the Universal Palette Builder. The Builder makes single eyeshadow shopping fun and stressfree by bringing the industry’s singles to one place and giving users all the tools they need to make their own color stories before purchasing.

With the support and encouragement of several members of the Agnes Scott community, Elizabeth Talaska left her role of nine years with a grassroots Atlanta nonprofitto accept a role as director of development at Georgia State University’s College of the Arts.

Chani Zwibel Butler earned an MLIS (Master of Library and Information Science) degree from Valdosta State University in December 2022. She also published another chapbook, “Circles of Roses Forever,” with Alien Buddha Press.

Anna Young moved back to Decatur last spring and welcomed her daughter, Poppy, on Sept. 23, 2022. She also enrolled in the new master’s program for clinical mental health counseling at Agnes Scott in the fall of 2022 and is enjoying being a Scottie student again.

Dr. Shama Panjwani launched her own virtual mental health counseling practice called SoHolisticEnergy Counseling and Consultation, LLC. In her practice, Shama uses a holistic wellness approach in working with clients dealing with depression, anxiety, life transition issues, multicultural issues, trauma, relationship issues, etc. You can find more infomation on her website: soholisticenergy.com.

Sarah Bowen Hersh started a new role as a consultant with Development Dimensions International (DDI) in October 2022. She previously interned at the DDI Atlanta officwhile at Agnes Scott and is happy to return to DDI! Sarah and her husband, Eric, are expecting a baby girl in May 2023.

’12

Devin Alford dlalford@comcast.net

Molly Saunders became the program manager for ALSO Youth, an LGBTQ+ youth organization in Florida. She manages two youth centers in Sarasota and Manatee Counties.

Rae Pietkiewicz graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law after four years of working full-time as a victim advocate. Pending successful passage of the Bar, Rae looks forward to continuing to advocate for survivors. In personal news, Rae recently became engaged to her partner, Samantha Schlosburg, and they are excited for their winter wedding, which will take place later this year.

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Kelly Domino got married to Nick Beaty on Oct. 21, 2022, in Denver, Colorado. 2012 Scotties Leah Kuenzi and Katie Thompson were there to help Kelly get ready and celebrate on her special day. Kelly will also be graduating with a master’s in nutrition and dietetics from Metropolitan State University of Denver in May 2023. After graduation, she will enter the match program to begin a dietetic internship in the fall.

Christen Thompson and her husband, Carson Lain, celebrated the birth of their fist child, Stephen Isaac Lain, on March 19, 2022, in Charleston, South Carolina. The child of a Scottie and a Georgia Tech grad, the jury is still out as to whether Isaac will indeed be a helluva engineer.

Bhumi Patel was named a national Dance/ USA Fellow in 2022 and is currently completing a doctorate at The Ohio State University. She is engaged to be married in December 2023.

Devin Alford graduated from the Pratt Institute School of Information in May 2022, earning a master’s in library science with a focus on archives. In June 2022, they accepted a position at the Savannah College of Art and Design as a visual media archivist and relocated to Savannah, Georgia.

’13

Rachel Branning Rieman rbranning@gmail.com

No news was submitted. Please send your news to your class secretary.

’14

Aminah Hussain aminah4488@gmail.com

Amber Imani Stapleton is proud to announce that, after passing the July 2022 Georgia Bar Exam, she was officiallyworn in and awarded admission to the practice of law in Georgia on Nov. 7, 2022. Ms. Stapleton is excited about this new chapter in life and is looking forward to starting her legal career as an associate attorney at the law fim Bovis, Kyle, Burch & Medlin.

Lindsey Shepard has been happily married since 2017, bought a house shortly after and has two amazing dogs!

Ashley Lawrie is completing her dual-degree international history program for an MA/MSc, respectively, from Columbia University and the London School of Economics & Political Science ’23.

’15

Shekinah Phillips sphill@uab.edu

Isaac Jennings was born to Aimee McKibbin Jennings and Joshua Jennings in February 2022. He joins his older twin sisters, Amber and Hannah, who are four and a half years old.

Shavonne Orr received a doctorate in occupational therapy in May 2022 from Jacksonville University.

Courtney Faye Taylor’s debut poetry collection, “Concentrate,” is nominated for a 2023 NAACP Image Award. “Concentrate” explores Black girlhood and the murder of Latasha Harlins ― a 15-year-old Black girl killed by Korean American shopkeeper Soon Ja Du after being falsely accused of shoplifting a bottle of orange juice in 1991.

’16

Claire Kircharr clairemk14@gmail.com

No news was submitted. Please send your news to your class secretary. ’17

Jessica Luegering jessica.marie.luegering@gmail.com

Ryland All recently adopted a precious kitten, Browny B. Baby.The fuzzy addition is sure to bring lots of joy to her home!

Denisse Saucedo Petree and her husband, Alan, welcomed a little boy into their family in November 2022.Welcome to the world, Leon Theodore Petree, and congrats to the proud parents!

Miranda Gammon Coker and her husband, Benjamin, welcomed a second baby into their family in January 2023.The addition of Hudson Bear Coker takes their family of three to a family of four. Congrats to the Cokers!

’18

Abigail Camden camden.abigail@gmail.com

Brittany Gilliland and Mary Baker were married in Decatur, Georgia, on Oct. 14, 2022. Several alumnae attended the ceremony, including Jesse Echols ’22,WrenYost ’21, Jordan Keesler ’19 and Kellina Pierce

In July 2022, Laniqua Collins, co-CEO of Untraditional Films, debuted an award-winning documentary film entitled “#ThroughOurLens” at the NAACP Cinematic Shorts Competition at the 113th NAACP Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.The film is a short documentary about the importance of photography for the Black liberation and how images have brought truth to power by capturing the Black experience. “#ThroughOurLens” was also screened in February 2023 at the NAACP Image Awards weekend in Los Angeles, California.

’19

Catherine Curtin catherine.e.curtin@gmail.com

No news was submitted. Please send your news to your class secretary

’20

Madeline Brasgalla mbrasgalla11@gmail.com

Madeline “Maddie” Brasgalla was asked to go on tour with the Kansas City Ballet to the Kennedy Center for their production of “The Nutcracker” in December 2022. At the start of 2023, she started a new position at Agnes Scott as admission operations coordinator.

Devyn Wittmeyer has been accepted into Georgia State’s master’s program for applied behavior analysis.

Tu Phung got a new job at UPS Capital as a business development supervisor.Tu also got married to alum Zoie Cushing ’18 and they got a fur baby, Gracie Grey.

Callie Pierce was recently accepted into the East Tennessee State University Master in Public Health program. She is starting her second semester this spring with a concentration in community health.

Mariah Lewis recently graduated with her master’s in peace and development studies from the University of Limerick in Limerick, Ireland.

’21

Teresa Enriquez Texis tenriqueztexis@gmail.com

Caitlin Weaver started a new job at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement as a forensic technologist in the Firearms section this past December.

’22 Ziyana Greene amil.greene1@gmail.com

No news was submitted. Please send your news to your class secretary.

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Association is happy to announce the births of these alumnae children.

’05

Scarlett Fojas, born to Kelly Lindquist Fojas and husband Mike, September 2022

’09

Sophia Rose Leslie McCraney, born to Leah Anderson McCraney and Dennis McCraney, August 2022

’11

Poppy Young, born to Anna Young, Sept. 23, 2022

Birdie Carol, born to Julie Reynolds-Engel and Jon, December. 2022

’12

Stephen Isaac Lain, born to Christen Thompson and husband Carson Lain, March 19, 2022

’15

Isaac Jennings, born to Aimee McKibbin Jennings and Joshua Jennings, in Feb. 2022

’17

Hudson Bear Coker, born to Miranda Gammon Coker and her husband Benjamin Coker, November 2022

Leon Theodore Petree, born to Denisse Saucedo Petree and husband Alan Petree, January, 2023

deaths

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Association offers condolences to the classmates, alumnae and families who lost loved ones over the last reporting period.

’41

Sabine Brumby Korosy, October 19, 2022

’48

Beverly Gordy Brown, March 12, 2023

’46

Alice Gordon Pender O'Shea, April 1, 2023

’49

Ellen Page Reid, September 29, 2022

Margaret Brewer Henry, January 1, 2023

’51

Richard Alden Denny Jr., husband of Margaret Hunt Denny, December 19, 2022

’53

Patricia Gleaton Threadgill, November 14, 2009

Carolyn Barksdale Linger, April 3, 2021

Kathryn Amick Walden, May 30, 2022

Jacqueline King Bozeman, September 17, 2022

Mary Ann Garrard Jernigan, November 21, 2022

Donna Dugger Smith, November 28, 2022

Adele “Dele” Thompson Schaudies, December 3, 2022

Barbara Johnston Bennett, December 25, 2022

Garnett Bowers Rush, January 6, 2023

Belle Miller McMaster, January 26, 2023

’55

Harriet “Har't” Stovall Kelley, August 13, 2022

Mason Lowance Jr., husband of Susan Coltrane Lowance, September 15, 2022

Martha Barrett Faillace, October 9, 2022

Nan Arwood Baker, November 16, 2022

Lucy Murray Phenix, January 19, 2023

’56

Martha Bridges Traxler, aunt of Sharon Jones Cole ’72, August 5, 2022

Sally Wilt Clifton, September 25, 2022

Harriett Griffin Harris, mother of Katherine Harris Ebbeson ’79 and sister-in-law of Laura Ann Lee Harris ’62, November 17, 2022

Frances Abigail Dewitt Chesson, January 13, 2023 ’57

Barbara Hass O'Donoghue, May 8, 2022

Mary "Rose" McClamroch Sessums, July 20, 2022

Virginia Anne Bethune, November 16, 2022

Patricia Conner Tucker, mother of Patricia Tucker Register ’80 and cousin of Sally Ellis Mitchell ’49, April 1, 2023

’58

Mary Ann Wilhemi Betke, August 13, 2018

Portia Strickland Jones, October 31, 2022

Thaddeus Penn McWhorter, husband of Eileen

Graham McWhorter ’58 and grandfather of Carroll McWhorter ’10, November 13, 2022

Carol Riley McDonald, January 18, 2023

’59

Susan Robinson Hardy, November 9, 2022

Ruby McCurdy Gaston, sister of Mary Anne McCurdy ’58, Sue Ayers Hosterman '61, Jean Meade '64, and Jane Anderson Vardaman '67, November 25, 2022

’60

Betty Lewis Higginbotham, September 23, 2022

’61

Sue Ann Smith Taylor, June 1, 1996

Ann Lipsomb Long, February 11, 2005

Caroline Ridlehuber, April 21, 2017

Sallie Elizabeth McDonald, January 14, 2021

Helen Patricia Rogers, November 7, 2021

Sarah Helen Clagett, February 6, 2022

Jim Coleman, husband of Janice Henry Coleman, September 5, 2022

Martha Smith Bates, October 18, 2022

Anne Frazer Drake, February 6, 2023

Sue McCurdy Hosterman, sister of Mary Anne McCurdy ’58, Ruby McCurdy Gaston ’59, Jean McCurdy Meade ’64, and Jane McCurdy Vardaman ’67, 2023

’62

Caroline Askew Westerhoff, October 19, 2022

Lebby Rogers Neal, November 6, 2022

Ann Dudley Wood Corson, December 8, 2022

Elizabeth "Liz" Withers Kennedy, January 27, 2023

’63

Ann Saylor Surles, August 17, 2011

Sarah Glenn Blanco, August 27, 2021

Sally Rodwell Whetstone, September 14, 2021

Betty McMullen Harrington, August 18, 2022

Lynne Cole Scott, daughter of JuraTaffar Cole 32 and sister of Lucy Cole Gratton ’60, December 6, 2022

Nancy Sibley Rempe, 2023

’64

Caroline Ackerman O'Brien, daughter of Victoria Ackerman, July 27, 2019

Glen Limbird, husband of Mary Jo Beverly Limbird, September 29, 2022

’65

Polly Boyce McLean, July 2, 2022

Virginia “Jinna” Clark, October 19, 2022

Sally Blackard Long, November 21, 2022

Betty Wirgman Harrison, March 6, 2023

Kathryn “Kathy” Reynolds Doherty, February 14, 2023

Dr. Robert E. Rychly, husband of Carol Jensen Rychly, September 4, 2022

Roscoe O. Carter, husband of Margaret “Peg” Barnes Carter, October 22, 2022

James Richardson, husband of Sally Gillespie Richardson, December. 6, 2022

Susanna “Susie” Wilson Epler, January 22, 2023

Lucy Taylor Chapman, April 3, 2023

’70

Celetta Randolph “Randy” Jones, October 26, 2022

Tom LeCroy, husband of Mary Wills Hatfield Lecroy, February 4, 2023

’71

Mary Carolyn Cox, September 8, 2022

’72

Kathy Susan Landers Burns, January 14, 2023

Virginia Mason Thomas McLean, mother of Nancy Thomas Tippins, January 17, 2023

’73

Stella Lee Walker Willard, March 28, 2023

’76

Nancy Elizabeth Mitchell Poehlmann, December 15, 2022

’78

Marybeth “Betsy” Whitmire Hegerty, January 3, 2023

’80

Mary Sue Dodson, mother of Susan Dodson Shewbridge, December 29, 2022

Annie Laurie Hogan Smith, mother of Judy Smith Willis, January 12, 2023

’82

Judson T Bailey, father of Lori Bailey Hodge, January 2023

’83

Mary Ann Hepburn, mother of Valerie Hepburn, November 18, 2022

Lawrence Hepburn, father of Valerie Hepburn, November 23, 2022

’85

Rob Scott, brother of Kathy Scott, September 27, 2022

’89

Scott Klap, husband of Carolyn Weaver, March 11, 2023

’90

Emily Pattillo, mother of Kathryn Pattillo Fisher, June 19, 2022

James “Jim” Stanfield J., husband of Paige Edwards Stanfield October 2, 2022

’93

Martin Nash, brother of Helen Nash ’93, October 1, 2022

John Nash, father of Helen Nash ’93, 2022

’97

Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Halvorsen, February 14, 2023

’00

Samuel P. Cook, Jr., father of Esther Cook Collins, December 8, 2022

’02

Emerson Milford Dickenson, March 1, 2023

’04

Nicole M. Ledbetter, October 7, 2022

’19

Ashlee Symone Wynn, February 17, 2023