class notes

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 artist, whose passion is the environment (Dudley Zopp), finished her fourth 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 flute with 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 swam 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 first 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 first 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! Knock wood!

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 (librarian) 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 first 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 support toward improving faculty salaries and benefits.

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, golfing, shopping in the rain and chatting by the fire! Many 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