class notes

oyster roast with classmate Pam Waters

Boushell

and her husband, Paul.

’85

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.

'86

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 first 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 script. A budget and fundraising plan will be developed soon, and they hope to film in New Orleans over 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 fifth year 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 Highway trip as well as numerous trips to visit grandchildren. ’87

Melissa Martin Calandro melissajcalandro@gmail.com

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’88

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-filled weekend 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 find themselves 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.

’89

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 off to 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 effort 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 first 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