Yancey Richardson ’73, owner and curator of Yancey Richardson Gallery, was highlighted in the December 2010/January 2011 issue of More Magazine in an article entitled “The Art of Dressing: Women Live at the Intersection of Creativity and Commerce, Curating, Marketing or Making Art.” Check it out at www.more.com.
‘66 DeeDee Geraty Squires enjoyed working for the U.S. Census office in St. Joe, Missouri from November 2009 to August 2010 as the administrative assistant. She worked on hiring 5000 census workers and administered the census for 43 Missouri counties. ‘67 Annie Bailes Brown is a grandmother again! Mary Dorothy Brown was born in May 2010. ‘68 Shannon Wilson Ravenel reports that she loves being a grandmother! ‘70 Helen Croft Holliday had a great time at her 40th reunion last April and loved being back on the beautiful Ashley Hall campus. ‘71 Barbara Hall Beard is working as a coach at the Buckley School of Public Speaking in Camden, SC. She misses Charleston! Nancy J. Muller recently completed her Ph.D. in Health Services research at Virginia Commonwealth University.
‘72 Christy Holliday Douglas recently visited with classmates, Nancy Coggins Seymour, Sara Pat McKenzie Dyson, May Dowling Peach, Lou Dowling Davis, Menard Hall and Ruthie Barragan Clark and chatted with Anne Seifert Lander, Betsy Stone Richardson and Sally Green. She reports that they are all great! Christy is also writing a book called The South I Knew. Check it out at www.thesouthiknew.com! ‘73 Beth Ogier Barnwell lives in Mount Pleasant with her husband, Billy, and their son, Grayson, an 8th grader at Porter Gaud. Their oldest son, William, is a sophomore at Clemson. Helen Read Bertrand is still practicing pediatric medicine on James Island. Her daughter Gracie is a student at the College of Charleston, and daughter Annie is a student at James Island Charter High School. Vicki Hewitt Causey still works for the Confederate Museum. She has four daughters and has “three down, one to go” in college! Daughter Vicki graduated
from Clemson in 2005. Charlotte graduated from the University of Alabama Honors College in 2008. Ashley graduated from
Auburn University in 2009. Her youngest daughter, Rachel, is currently a student at USC. She reports that football season becomes a “war zone” in her home! Vicki had a great visit with Evelyn Beebe Beaumont ‘74 in Richmond last fall and also visited Cathy Rumble Lively ‘73 at their beautiful home in Nellysford, VA in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Mary deSaussure Cutler lives in Charleston, and has three children. She sells real estate. Mary Helen Trouche Dantzler lives in Mount Pleasant. Her daughter is a sophomore at
On November 29, Margaret Donaldson ’77 and Amy McKinney ’03 were on campus for a Women in Leadership speaker series. Margaret opened Margaret Donaldson Interiors, a Charleston interior design firm, in 1988. Her company’s work ranges from a 19th century plantation to resort condominiums and from an upscale retirement community to a lively orthodontist’s office. Amy joined Margaret Donaldson Interiors after graduating from Furman three years ago with a business and art major. Her own downtown condo was recently featured in the June issue of Better Homes and Gardens. Amy spoke to the upper school girls relating the path that took her from Ashley Hall to her current position with Margaret Donaldson Interiors, by way of Furman University and a study abroad program in Italy. Following that program, Margaret and Amy spoke to a group of alumnae and parents at a brown bag lunch and shared samples of their design work and inspiration.
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