CLASS OF 1949 60th Reunion Alumnae Weekend, April 24-25, 2009 Representative: Mrs. Kitty Peeler Carson 401 Springdale Drive Union, SC 29379, 864-427-3353 E-mail: ladykc@bellsouth.net
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In October, Peggy Bradford Long wrote from Boulder, CO while babysitting triplet grandsons. She told about attending Rufus’ 60th Davidson College reunion and meeting up with Jean Garrison Wier, who recently recovered from heart problems. Jean reported having seen roommate Jean Rickenbacker Ravenel recently. Peggy was treated to a delightful trip to India by her Beijing, China, son whom she also accompanied to Scotland for a further delightful vacation. During her summer in Montreat, she had painted a mural of the Stoney Creek Boys quartet, traditional Montreat entertainers, and it was unveiled at the Conference Center there in their honor. Peggy is quite a globetrotter, having lived in several interesting corners of the world and she continues to enjoy exotic places! Molly Leatherwood Cuttino is still teaching piano, playing for church services, and trying to keep up with grandchildren with sports at Providence Day in Charlotte and activities at UNC Chapel Hill.
CLASS OF 1950 Next Reunion Alumnae Weekend, April 24-25, 2009 Representative: Mrs. Mary Alice Ingram Busch 1509 Cherokee Road Florence, SC 29501, 842-662-1622
CLASS OF 1951 Next Reunion Alumnae Weekend, April 24-25, 2009 Representatives: Mrs. Priscilla Beard Blosser-Rainey Post Office Box 706 Timberville, VA 22853, 540-896-9931 E-mail: prisrainey@hughes.net
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Malcolm Hamrick Brown is retired from his music career at Indiana University with specialties in Russian Music Studies. Mac has two daughters, four grands, and a great-grand son and still plays the piano. Sissie Snow McAlister is adjusting to a different life with husband, Dunk, deceased. Sissie enjoys her three daughters living in IL, GA, SC, who have among them five boys and two girls. We all remember Sissie, who could “shag” the socks off anyone, and brother “Bubba” winning shag contests around the South. Maude Bull Clinkscales has eleven grands and two great-grands. Crossword puzzles have a grip for enjoyment and Maude sometimes sees Georgia Free Laney in Bamberg, SC. Nan Adams Brooks, retired histologic technician, and husband, Bill Brooks, retired electronic engineer, enjoy grand kids in the summer, going to dinner and movies, with a doubles game of tennis thrown into the schedule of retirement. Nan has recently seen Louise Clinkscales Wilson, (one kid studying to be a vet) and Gardie Lewis Dollar, (who does volunteer work with the Elderly). Dot
Class of 1948 French Epting, has slowed her schedule from world travel to building a house in Columbia, SC. Nancy Cheatham Riggsbee traveled 24 days among the sheep in New Zealand and Australia in January of 2008 with her sister-in-law. Roz Senseney Davis says she is enjoying living in Florence, SC and can see all her children and grands in an hour’s drive. Roz has one spinning wheel in her house and one grandson in medical school, paints watercolors and photographs barns. Dot Jennings Chreitzberg, enjoys historical bus trips and social consciousness work of her Quaker community close to New Town, PA and ponders the big house/little house situation. Jane Taylor Milner enjoys the walking trails around Blowing Rock, NC and declares knitting is so much fun and satisfying. She partied at Figure 8 Island with Harriett Taylor Ramsey, Lou Lewis Holt, Max Barnard Hollis, and Jean Hollerith Case. Jane says that Jo Chenault Mattes is still skinny and looks sixteen. Carolyn Bearden Brown and Sylvia Makepeace Craven, where are you? Your phones don’t exist to me!
CLASS OF 1952 Next Reunion Alumnae Weekend, April 24-25, 2009 Representative: Mrs. Suzie Earnhardt Smith 370 Montgomery Drive Spartanburg, SC 29302, 864-582-2415 E-mail: sesmas@charter.net
CLASS OF 1953 Next Reunion Alumnae Weekend, April 24-25, 2009 Representatives: Mrs. Marilyn Mateer Sherrill 114 Briarwood Court Spartanburg, SC 29302, 864-583-8066 We had a wonderful time at reunion this year, although the number attending was few. Only seven of us came, but we had as much fun at this one as any of our other fifty reunions that our class has had. Joyce Day Sundling was there – boosting our spirits and brightening our lives. Always, she is such a joy. She and husband, Cy, stayed in Spartanburg with her sister Polly Day Judy ’52 and husband, Oren. Diane Dewey Leyburn came for the first time in
fifty-plus years, I think due to the fact she transferred to Chapel Hill, NC. We were overjoyed to see her, especially Becky Ramsaur Pennell and I, as we lived just across the hall from Diane and her roommate, Betsy Dale Gayle. Betsy, a wonderful, unique person left after our sophomore year to get married, and Diane left for Chapel Hill. We even called Betsy and loved talking to her! I’ve missed them all these years. A BBQ was held on the lawn on back campus and it was the best one ever! Our class dinner was held at Becky’s house and was lovely and relaxing. The others who attended were Jane Winn Pollitzer, Phyllis Teaster Petty, Frances Kirkwood Graham, and myself (Marilyn). I only attended a few things, due to a back problem, but I must say I enjoyed every minute seeing old classmates!
CLASS OF 1954 55th Reunion Alumnae Weekend, April 24-25, 2009 Representative: Mrs. Betsy “Bet” Shepherd Ancrum 35 Honeysuckle Woods Lake Wylie, SC 29710, 803-831-0205 E-mail: bancrum@bellsouth.net
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“You gotta write ’em in order to get ’em” and I’ve been pretty slack. But Mary Joe Erwin Worth called over the holidays, and we had a grand chat. Beth’s children are now 16 and 18, and Mollie’s are 6 and 8. The Worths are taking all of them to the Bahamas in June to celebrate Tom’s 80th birthday. Don’t you know they’ll have fun! In less cheerful news, Mildred “Hopalong” Roberts Robards, tripped over a basket Christmas night, and must have given one leg a good jerk, because she had to refrain from putting weight on it for six whole weeks. What a pain in the, uh, leg. It’s a good thing she wasn’t hurt worse. Barbara Hughes Bennett and her husband, David, have moved to a retirement home in the Holy City (that’s Charleston, for you non-South Carolinians), where one of their daughters lives. Nelda Greene Moyer still plays piano for Nordstrom and several assisted living homes. As for Reunion ’08, yeah, I dropped the ball, didn’t I? Now that we are “Golden Girls,” we are invited every single year, but few if any 54ers showed up this year, and I blame myself for that. HOWEVER – NEXT YEAR IS A BIGGIE FOR US. 2009 will mark our 55th anniversary