CLASS NOTES
Lisa Phillips Perkinson is raising chickens in Greenville, S.C. She is also enjoying an empty nest.
Shahab Isfahani said that he has gotten a major Hollywood studio to add to his customers in his company, Resolute Limousine. Way to go Shahab! Elizabeth Davis Treanor is doing well and living in Naples, Fla. with her husband, Gregor, and two sons John, 21, and Robert, 19.
Valli Corbin on the death of her mother, who passed away in May. In January, the ‘70s classes had a decade reunion featuring Mother’s Finest playing. They invited the early ’80s classes. From the class of ‘81, the following came and had a wonderful time: Mary Grady Koonce Bell and Vic; Beth Lyon Murray and her husband, James
Joyner; Dan Morrison; Gigi Johnson; Candice Norris Greene; and Scott and Sylvia Jurgenson. All who went had a great time.
I recently took a segway tour with Triangle Glides in Raleigh. You won’t believe who my tour guide was — the one and only Bruce Miller. He did a great job and I highly recommend these guys. You might be lucky enough to have Bruce as your tour guide like we did. Sympathy to Sally Smith on the death of her father, who passed away in June and to John Hogan, whose father passed away in May. We have our 35th reunion coming up this fall on Nov. 1. It will be at my house and I hope that you all will come. It will be fun, and it is always great to see all of our classmates. Our committee has been hard at work so please come out and support us and our class.
1980 35th Class Reunion Time! Mark your calendar for May 2, 2015! If you would like to serve on the planning committee, contact your class agent or Tammy Haywood at thaywood@ravenscroft.org.
Kate Kenney Kgcgcg@aol.com
Bill Joyner writes, “Beginning this August, I will spend the 2014-2015 academic year as visiting assistant professor of voice in the University of North Texas College of Music. I will teach voice to graduate and undergraduate students, as well as a course on French lyric diction. The website for the UNT College of Music is music.unt.edu. I am very excited about this coming year!” Sympathy to Lucy Corbin on the death of her mother who passed away in May.
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Madeline Gilbert madgilbert1963@yahoo.com
Sympathy goes out to Kellie Falk on the death of her father, David, who passed away on April 14 and to
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Congratulations goes to Scott Jurgensen and Sylvia on their marriage the day before Thanksgiving. Scott and Cathy’s oldest daughter, Ginny, is working in the front office of the Denver Broncos. Congrats go to Scott and Cathy’s son Anderson who has joined the Marines. I had drinks with Mary Grady Koonce Bell this past spring. It was great catching up with her. We talked a lot about her daughter Mary Grady Bell ‘14, who is one of this year’s Morehead Cain scholarship recipients to the University of North Carolina. Young Mary Grady and 11 other students at Ravenscroft ran the Hood to Coast relay race in Oregon. They raised $50,000 for the American Society of Cancer and completed the course in 27 hours and 37 minutes. Mary Grady and Vic did not go and watch this hard relay race.
Harriet Ashby Bond’s son, Jack, just graduated from Christ School and will be attending Clemson this fall. Her youngest is still at Christ School.
Nancy Christian’s youngest, Carson, will be going to Elon University. Nancy is now working for Jonathan Adler. Mary Duke Saunders Grubb’s daughter, Sarah, is going to the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Nina Anderson Cheney’s daughter won the Gold Eagle, the highest academic honor at Woodward Academy in Atlanta. Nina’s mother recently received an honorary doctorate. Kim McCall Whitley is working at Meredith College on their capital campaign. Jay Hardison writes that he and his family have been in Darien, Conn. for 22 years and love it. His daughter is a freshman at Boston University and plays lacrosse, his son is a freshman in high school and plays football and lacrosse. There was a great article in the Eastern Wake News about Susan and Bill Little and that they are multisport race enthusiasts. It was a great article about both of them. Then to continue on this theme, Bill posted