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1 | 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 the Year 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, FL 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 classamates were able to come to our mini reunion! Absent from picture is Libby Malone Boggs ’65.




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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, Lea Ann Grimes ’76, Mary K. Owen Jarboe ’68, and Ann Glendinning ’68 surprise Lea Ann 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 Oregon.

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 | Rebecca Thompson ’75, M.A. Bleker ’75, and Rose Ann Cleveland ’75 in Washington, D.C. --November 2022. 3 | Allyn Fine Linas ’75 and grandson, Cy November 2022. 4 |Cathy Walters ’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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| Jamila (Heard) Lisbon ’99, Ayoka Shakir ’99, Asiyah Sarwari ’99, 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 ’99 and daughter Roxanne. 3 | Tiffany McAneny ’99 and Meredith Kidd ’99. 4 | Liza (McDaniel) Fewell ’99. 5 | Jennifer (Marcum) Gelder ’99 and family.

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1 | Alicia Przygocki ’03 and her husband of 13 years. 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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6 | Arsed Joseph ’06, Courtney Ware Lett ’06, with DJs Ball Tech and Salah Ananse. 7 | Ashley Timmons Nicely ’06, LaTwanda Broughton ’06, and Tiffany Lee ’06 in Amelia Island, Fla. 8 | Denise Farley ’06, LaTwanda Broughton ’06, and Arsed Joseph ’06 with Ashley Timmons 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 Spring Walker '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 in November 2022. 3 | Professional headshot of Joanna Hair ’10 for her new attorney position at the law firm 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, feauthing ASC photos. 7 | Onyinye Edeh ’11 at her Ph.D. orientation with the former Surgeon General of the US, Jerome Adams. 8 | Poppy, daughter of Anna Young ’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 first 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-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. 4



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 of Yellow Jacket tendencies. 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.





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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 five little ones on a third-floor balcony. 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