Bill Smithson and Meade Spotts, both ’75, checked out the action at the Village Green Fair in April. I traveled to South Africa this August for a trip of a lifetime to see the jumping great white sharks and the southern right whales with their calves off Cape Town. What a ‘two-fer.’ I returned to my home/ office in Jamestown, Rhode Island – nearly broke but exhilarated and inspired!! Here’s to private land conservation, thriving wildlife on all continents, and safe, healthy and happy travels to all in Collegiate’s family.” Beth Watlington Marchant and husband Ry Marchant ’71 have bought the old Montaldo’s building on Grace Street in downtown Richmond and are working on opening a new restaurant in that space in spring 2011. Their other restaurant, Six Burner, is still going strong and received a fourstar review from the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s reviewer Dana Craig who called it “a consistently enchanting culinary gem.” Margie Whiteside Farquhar writes, “This year has been a special one for me. Not only was my daughter Lizzie ’10 a senior, but she was also guided through much of the year by Missy Herod, my good friend, chapel talk partner, and classmate. It was especially nice having Missy in charge of The Pageant!” Margie also passed along news of Sarah Munford’s ’73 floral design business and recalled growing up in Goochland near the Munfords when Goochland was considered a far away land by city folks. “Sarah and I were neighbors in Goochland for years, back when Goochland was rural. In fact, it was so rural, that Sarah often tried to see if she could drive to Collegiate going down the ‘wrong’ side of River Road to see how far she could get
before having to move back into her lane. I think there were days she made it to Collegiate without having to move back over!! That’s about 5 miles going the wrong way down the road!! She drove an ancient Ford convertible (Fairlane, I think), and it was forever belching smoke!”
CLASS NOTES
DIED: Dr. R. Pryor Baird, on July 16, 2010. After he graduated from Collegiate where he was instrumental in organizing the first golf team, Pryor attended the College of William & Mary followed by UNC-Chapel Hill where he received a doctorate of clinical psychology. He graduated from UVA’s School of Medicine in 1988 and worked as a psychiatrist for the state of Virginia as well as in private practice. He was married to Dr. Christina DeVincentis and lived in Charlottesville. He is also survived by his mother, former Collegiate Lower School teacher Sara Baird, and his sister Anne Baird Newman ’71.
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Lyn Graybill writes, “As a Fulbright Scholar in Sierra Leone this year, teaching honors students in political science at Fourah Bay College, I was able to travel to Kenya where I lectured at the University of Nairobi and the United States International University.” Sarah Munford’s Norfolk floral design business, The New Leaf was featured in a two-page article
Allen Kemp ’76 and son Micah visited the Great Wall while on a trip to China in May.
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