CLASS NOTES

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1940 Eugenia Lovett West

I published two books last year, Firewall and Sarah’s War, and I’m still writing.

1945 Kathryn Reed Smith

I have three great-grandchildren.

1946 Alison Erskine Farrar

I’m still upright and surviving COVID-19 in my Hanover condo. Only half of the Dartmouth students are here this fall and the colors were great, not many tourists! Miss my beloved husband and second son. Miss my sheep. Miss my dog. Hate my computer. Hate my cell phone. Love my kids, grandkids, great-grandkids. Love my large group of stepkids that make the total about forty. Love old friends. I am pretty gimpy, pretty lazy. Thank God for four years at Chatham! Love to all ’46ers.

1947 Esther Coke

Carol Babcock Davenport ’47 has done a good job of keeping the Class in touch.

1948 Margaret Ryburn Topping

Didn’t have our planned reunion celebration for my 90th because of COVID-19 but had so wanted all 50+ that were coming to know one another.

1950 Kathleen Herty Brown

I had a lovely phone chat with Cynnie Murray Henriques ’50. We were laughing over Chatham memories: constant knitting, and having to leave our handiwork outside Chapel, draped over bushes, while we were inside singing the daily service. Here in Lewes, DE I’m waiting for my vaccine and listening to hundreds of snow geese argue overhead as they change feeding grounds. I’m staying masked, distanced and mourning the lack of choir (St. Peter’s Episcopal Church), the chorus (Elder Moments) I lead at Lifelong Learning, my small group (Mixed Blessings) who meet on Monday nights in my back room, my piano player (Joe Holt) with whom I perform and most of all, the loss of my Texas niece, Susan Doyle who died from COVID-19 in December. My prayer list gets longer every day. I’m always thankful for my time at Chatham Hall!

1950 Elizabeth Barker Frank

I’m doing okay and I don’t go out much at all, especially in winter. I’m still living in my home of many years. My son Halsey Frank is stepping down, with the administration change, after three years as Maine’s top ranking federal prosecutor. Halsey lives in Portland, ME and there was a very complimentary article about him in Portland Press Herald.

1950 Nancy Gwathmey Harris

Everything is perfect, I can’t complain at all.

1950 Cynthia Murray Henriques

I’m chugging along as we all are. Have a 15 year old Jack Russell terrier who keeps me company and bosses me around some! I’m glad to be in a retirement community especially in the winter, they do a good job plowing and shoveling! I keep in touch with my family, I have six great-granddaughters, the oldest turns nine this month! My son Michael is retiring as head of Proctor Academy in June after 16 years as head of school.

1950 Mary Griswold Horrigan

I’m in an assisted living facility and I Zoom with members of my family. So glad I got my second COVID shot.

1950 Ellen Childs Lovejoy

My family and friends managed to get me on a sled for a ride down a hill at our farm! It was a project, but it was great fun. I spend as much time on the farm as I can.

1950 Ellen MacVeagh Rublee

I am keeping up with my family and my garden. I wish I had a secretary and a cook (don’t we all!). I’m enjoying living in a retirement community in Peterborough, NH.

1953 Judith Ruffin Anderson

I’m living in a new home near family, and I had a successful bout with bronchitis. My travel plans and two happy family weddings were put on hold last year. I read about a million books and keep jigsaws going 24/7. Overall, I am fine, just tired of all the mess the pandemic is causing and sad to see the general mess in D.C.

1953 Lucy McClellan Barrett

Hi everyone, hope all is going well during these difficult times. It appears that as a group, we are weathering the pandemic pretty well. I find that the weeks and months tend to blend together and now it is amazing to realize that more than a year has passed since the beginning of the lockdown. I can’t boast about cleaning out every closet, but I have enjoyed lots of reading of all kinds and walking and also taking online courses in art and history. Our daughter and I decided to tackle reading the Bible in a year. We completed the project in January and are moving on to Anna Karenina for 2021! Since two of our three children and all of our grandchildren now live on the West Coast, it has been a long time since our last family reunion. My best to all.

1953 Linda Lovelace Brownrigg

I live in Los Altos Hills, CA and spent the past four decades sharing life with Oxford legal scholar, Philip Lewis, both in California and in the UK. We moved to the Cotswolds in 2008 and Philip died there in 2019. I spent many years organizing Oxford conferences with scholars studying medieval book production and published three collections of papers in volumes under the Anderson-Lovelace imprint. My children, Sylvia and Michael, both live in the Bay Area. My six grandchildren are in California, although two of them work on the East Coast and one began college

Carlotta Hellier Parsons ’55 and Clark Brink

this year at Bowdoin. My gratitude for a Chatham Hall education and the positive and permanent influence it had on my life.

1953 Olivia Hutchins Dunn

I have a bachelor son on each coast. No grandchildren but a very special and beloved granddog who is kind, gentle, considerate and is my new and VERY good friend.

1953 Cecily Allen Mermann

Life is good. I am healthy and enjoying life in Norfolk, CT. I have family nearby and my grandchildren visit frequently. The education I received at Chatham Hall at a formative time in my life was excellent.

1953 Jane Clark Reeder

My husband John and I live in Providence, RI where he served on the faculty of Brown University, and is now retired. We have a daughter in San Francisco and a son in Washington, D.C. and four grandchildren. Like all of us, I am frustrated by the pandemic, but I have managed to fill the time with lots of reading. I am eager to get to the Big Apple once travel is possible again. I have much gratitude for my Chatham Hall education.

1953 Anne Bourne Rose

I moved from Washington D.C. to Maine with husband, Jim, some years ago to an assisted living place. Sadly, Jim passed away last year.

1953 Doris Silliman Stockly

My husband, Holmes, passed away after 94 wonderful years of life and 63 happy years of marriage. I have five grandchildren and two of the families live a mere 10 minutes away - lucky lady! Holmes and I often ran into other Chathamites in many places which delighted us both. Most recently it was Mary Hooker Crary ’45 in Florida.

1953 Barbara Billings Supplee

I moved to an assisted living facility near Gladwyn, PA about three years ago. The grounds are lovely, and it is a perfect fit for me. My three daughters live in Aspen, Seattle, and Charlottesville.

1954 Jane De Hart

After a year of sequestering in place during which my husband retired, we finally secured our COVID-19 shots. Following my full knee replacement in February and the months required for full recovery, we hope to be able to travel again when it is safe to do so. In the meantime, Knopf is doing a new printing of my Ruth Bader Ginsburg biography. It was also published in Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand and there is even a Chinese translation in the works.

Class of ’60 Margot Steenland Cater’s six year old granddaughter “Edie” Cater on our front porch 1954 Caroline Ramsay Merriam

Living in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. and worked to elect Joe Biden.

1955 Carlotta Hellier Parsons

2020 has not been a kind year, and I have suffered a great loss. In 2019 I fell in love again, and had a joyous year and a half with Clark Brink, who lost his wife to ALS five days after my husband John died. We took amazing trips to Tanzania, Kenya, Thailand and India, and planned on marrying. Then COVID-19 struck. Clark died of COVID-19 on October 19, and I am devastated, but grateful for the time we had together. The rest of my family are doing well, and I now have three great-grandchildren. I live at Glenridge, a wonderful continuing care community in Sarasota, and am glad I am here among wonderful supportive friends.

1958 Wissie Thompson

What a treat to have been able to visit Chatham in November 2019 when the remarkable Doris Kearns Goodwin was at the School. It seems especially wonderful considering the world of endless uncertainty into which we have all been plunged then. To my class of 1958 and to all of my Chatham friends, I wish you the very best. Please stay safe and well.

1960 Margot Steenland Cater

Although we are still mostly hunkered down, my husband and I are feeling a bit liberated having now had the second of our Moderna shots! (Bonus of age!) I have spent lots of time on Zoom, during this pandemic, playing duplicate bridge and in Bible studies. Who would have thought we would all get to know Zoom so well! We will spend our 19th summer once again in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Linville, NC where our two adult children come to visit with their families. Love to you all and stay well.

Carol Harkey Garner ’60 and husband being “locked down.”

Margaret Lloyd Keuler ’60 and family at a dude ranch in the Frank Church Wilderness of Idaho the summer of 2019. Email image for virtual book discussion hosted by Toinette Tucker ’60.

1960 Margaret Lloyd Keuler

As a birthday present to myself, I took my family for a week at a dude ranch in the Frank Church Wilderness of Idaho the summer of 2019. There were eight adults and seven children - ages 22 months to 15 years old. The siblings/cousins had such fun together and were mostly free ranging (within a safe area). There was riding twice a day and one all-day ride, and I went on every one and enjoyed every minute. I did physical therapy to strengthen my legs beforehand and admit to using a mounting block, but I had few aches and pains. The area is beautiful, and it was wonderful to have the whole family together in such a casual setting.

1960 Adelaide McKenzie Moss

Guess all I can say is that number one: I got both vaccines and feel much freer to be doing anything outside home. But I do feel like I’ve become a homebody with a big dependence on Netflix, public radio, and good books. Doing some art but it’s so easy to say I’ll do that later! Still with two projects coming up I will paint more! Spending time with my sons on Zoom - so glad that exists... imagine life in 1918!

1960 Toinette Tucker

Held a virtual book discussion in February for the alumnae community on my book Zen Dog.

1967 Margaret Perkins Sise

Bright spots in the pandemic: Outdoor dining with Mary Dykema McDonald ‘69 and fall foliage hike with Laurie Nussdorfer ’68. I am quite good at talking from a distance. Nothing stops me! I also find laughing with my sister Kate Perkins Hartsfield ’65 over the old fashioned phone is very cheerful. Hope you all have people who lift your spirits. Love to all!

1968 Muffy Dent Stuart

All is well and busy in Lexington, KY - Class Zooms have been terrific and fun!

Camille Agricola Bowman ’71 and Anne Burnett ’71

1969 Paget Humphreys

My husband Joel Dackman accompanied me to my 50th Reunion. He was already ill with blood cancer but he enjoyed himself immensely as did I. Joel passed away in July.

1969 Talmadge Ragan

I’m so excited about the release of my latest audiobook: The Tigran Chronicles by Meg Welch Dendler. It’s a fascinating story as well as a different kind of novel with halftiger/half human beings and their ongoing conscience and evolution into political realms. Hope you’ll check it out on Audible! This is something different and certainly resonated with me!

1971 Camille Agricola Bowman

In September, I thoroughly enjoyed a socially distanced mini-reunion in New Hampshire with Anne Burnett ’71, Anne Blodgett Holberton ’69 and Ginger Maurer ’69. What fun to reminisce with these Chatham ladies ... for some, it’s been 50 years!

1972 Anne Bowman Gowing

We’ve been living in the Pacific Northwest for nigh on 33 years, having moved from Pennsylvania in 1988 with a baby and a golden retriever in tow. Alain is a Classics professor at the University of Washington. I have worked at a veterinary clinic for almost 23 years and love it, although retiring in June of this year is a definite possibility! During the pandemic, Alain continued to teach and lecture via Zoom, and as an essential worker I was able to continue

Jane Garnett ’73 and Ardon Brown Armstrong ’73 in Boca Grande, FL during a December 2020 visit.

Julia Morris Kashkashian ’75, Sarah Martin Finn ’74, and Elizabeth Kirk Unger ’73.

Hunter Estes Barrat ’78, Grace Houghton ’78, Audrey Sawtelle Delafield ’60, Janet Sawtelle Houghton ’54, and Christina Sawtelle Teale ’51. Kristine Velasco Pincock ‘99 and Katherine Velasco Rutherford ‘00 and families.

working as well. Before COVID-19 I was involved at our church as deacon, in the Prayer Shawl Ministry, and singing in the choir. I sure do miss singing! Our son Ben works (interrupted by COVID-19) at the Seattle Aquarium. Alain and I share the home with our almost 18 year old Jack Russell, Kitt. Don’t know who of the Class of 1972 is out this way, but it would be nice to know so we could email or give a virtual wave. Hope all are doing well and staying healthy.

1974 Sarah Martin Finn

Julia Morris Kashkashian ’75, Elizabeth Kirk Unger ’73 and I had a lovely lunch here in Denver on January 4, outside as we are dealing with a pandemic. We had a wonderful time catching up after many years!

1978 Grace Houghton

Hunter Estes Barrat ’78 visited me in South Portland, Maine last August. Pre-testing, distancing, and masking were observed, and luckily we were able to be outside a lot. We also had a brief, masked visit with three other Chatham alums - the three Sawtelle sisters, aka my mother Janet and two aunts. We had a summer evening cocktail in my mother’s yard in Cape Elizabeth, ME and it was the first time I’ve seen my aunts in almost a year. We had a rousing rendition of the Chatham Hall alma mater, performed behind our masks!

1980 Elizabeth Agee

All is well in the Brooklyn compound. My older son Indigo will graduate this spring from Morehouse College in Atlanta with a degree in Business Administration. Orion (pronounced OR-EE-ON) is in seventh grade, a budding artist and trumpet player. I am well and still out there in our community working with high risk young people. Love and peace to the Chatham Hall community.

1980 Allison Sutton Fuqua

Randy and I are new grandparents. Our oldest daughter Caroline and Joe Owens living in Mount Pleasant, SC had a sweet little girl named Sarah Sutton Owens. Randy and I are very blessed.

1999 Kristine Velasco Pincock

My family has been healthy this season of COVID-19 and I am thankful for that. There are many projects we’ve enjoyed with the kids from cooking donuts to creating coloring books, board games, and taking local trips. I’m excited for what 2021 holds in store!

Coretta (Cora) Abigail Moradeyo Bamigboye, daughter to Jennifer HInson Bamigboye ’03.

2003 Jennifer Hinson Bamigboye

My husband Tunde and I welcomed our daughter, Coretta (Cora) Abigail Moradeyo Bamigboye on October 13, 2020. Cora’s birth was a bright spot of joy in an otherwise difficult year, and we look forward to introducing her to her many Chatham Hall aunties as soon as it’s safe. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 2021!

2006 Jessica Hills

Jessica Hills ‘06 was married to William Calkins on October 3, 2020 at her parents’ home. They had a small “COVID” wedding and the bride was attended only by her niece and nephews and the groom’s nieces. Their siblings, including Jennifer Hills ‘04, and families were also present. Jessica and Will currently reside in Sumter, SC but will be moving to Tokyo, Japan in the summer of 2021. Jessica is an archivist and Will is an engineering officer for the United States Air Force.

2009 Ridgely Knight

Miss Y’all! So thankful for the wonderful years and memories.

Jessica Hills ’06 married William Calkins on October 3, 2020 at her parents’ home.

2013 Mary Collins Atkinson

Since January 2019, I have served as press assistant for U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO). On January 19, I began my new job as deputy press secretary for U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), where I will continue my career in political communications on Capitol Hill.

2013 Lois Anne Daughtridge

Continuing to follow my equestrian passion and working in Lexington, KY at Finally Home Farm and loving it!

Mary Collins Atkinson ’13 with former boss, U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO).

“Chatham Hall was such a positive turning point in my life. I will always be thankful for the devoted teachers, coaches, and staff at Chatham who gave me self-confidence, an interest in learning, and a commitment to community. They truly shaped my life, as have the life long friends I made while at Chatham Hall. I want to ensure that other girls will benefit from these life-changing relationships through my giving today AND my planned gift to Chatham.” Kate Johnson Nielsen ’72

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