Lunch with members of the Class of 1969: Kathy Waters Marshall Weatherly, Valerie Stafford Hardy-Sprenkle, JL Sprol Hurley, Jane Beazley DeCell, Ellen Reichenbach Gruber and Kathy’s sister Tricia Waters, 1973.
Jenn’s devoting her time to keeping the home fires burning and helping her husband Jay who started his own law practice last year. Jimmer heads up Tompkins Builders in DC, and he and wife Jess live in Odenton, MD. She says Woods’ daughter Kate is working at the Falls Road Animal Hospital and his son Eddie lives in Denver. Cathy’s still traveling a lot as director of the Michael Phelps Swimming program, which is in the process of expanding its swim school. Down time is often spent in Rehoboth in August. Baroness Christine Pierpont von Klencke (I just love writing that!) says her biggest news is “Celeste is expecting her first child any day now (I had hoped to be able to say it had arrived, but the deadline for the news might get there first). Anna is expecting her second child in early June. Other than being an expectant grandmother I am still running our café, tours, shop and events including weddings, parties and our Advent Fair. I was reelected to the synod of the Lutheran Church of Hannover for another six-year term and to the church Senate, which selects candidates for all the high church positions and is an advisory board that works closely with the bishop. Our latest vacation adventure was a trip to Oman and Dubai. The Arabian world is quite a different place! Love to all!” I live vicariously by all our world travelers. Jane Louise Sprol Hurley and Genie Harper-Jones are talking about getting together to share pictures. Genie says she hiked the Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu in April with her daughters Jessica and Josie. She also says in January, her niece Alli Harper’s 1997, daughter turned one! “I swear she can read. Alli and Jenn get mothers of the year
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award for their parenting.” Genie also saw Mary Hayes Volmer in February in Sanibel with Genie’s sister, Nini Harper, 1967 and met Jane Stafford, 1967 and Wendy Lyon Mitchell, 1967 and Eric Anderson (Gilman, 1968) and his girls. JL wrote me from a Scandinavian internet cafe. Sheesh. “Just for fun travel,” she says. Her daughter Jill married James in Bryant Park in NYC last September. JL says they both found jobs in DC and live there now. JL says she hopes everyone is having similar happy moments and that she smiles remembering us all as youngsters and hopes to see everyone at the reunion this fall! I follow Kathy Conklin’s travels through Facebook. It’s always a treat to see her wonderful photographs. She says she’s still a “very active” board member for NAMI (National Alliance for Mental Illness) of Northern Virginia. She says her current project
Valerie Stafford Hardy-Sprenkle, 1969 and her grandson Luke.
is to put on another show at the historic State Theatre in Falls Church, starring “the amazing Sarah Elizabeth Greer in her one woman show.” Kathy says she’s trying to schedule it for October. A group of the Class of 1969 got together recently to have lunch and then visit Hillwood Gardens: Kathy W., Valerie, JL, Jane Beasley DeCell, Ellen Reichenbach Gruber and Kathy’s sister Trish Waters, 1973. I can’t get over how tall Trish is! I remember when she was just a little thing! I am in my 20th year with CNN, having a great time doing standards for many of the outside programs we’ve been bringing in. I get to work on such exciting titles as Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, Morgan Spurlock’s Inside Man, the recent Chicagoland series and a new film series from Tom Hanks called The Sixties. Watch out for that last one especially – it’s our time! My husband George and I continue to be active barbershoppers, he’s a contest administrator now, I occasionally sing with my VA chorus and quartet and plan on returning soon to my Atlanta chorus. We spend our other leisure time on Lake Allatoona in our boat and playing with our two rescue dogs Buddy and Bertie. It’s not too early to plan on joining us this fall for our (gasp!) 45th Reunion! I have promised myself I will drop some weight so you all will recognize me! I’m excited because we’ll be sharing some events with my sister Catherine Spicer Tolliver’s, 1974 class.
Class of 1970 Kathy Lenhard Beck kathylbeck@gmail.com Mary Thomsen Davisson writes: I’m starting my tenth year directing the Baltimore International Seafarers’ Center. September is always intensely busy as we prepare for our annual October Harbor Cruise - October 9 this year - which is both a fundraiser and a fun way to show our guests where my incredible volunteers and I work around the port. So I can’t be part of the Delaware festivities. My husband E.O. has added producing the Seafarers’ Center newsletter to his retirement activities. Our son Edwin (Gilman, 2002, Princeton, 2006), a software engineer for Google in San Francisco, is engaged to a Princeton classmate, Sarah Dobkin. We are thrilled and look forward to their wedding on June 7, 2014. Son John, (Gilman 2004, Columbia 2008), after actually earning a living as an online journalist for a few years, is finishing up his first year of law school at Georgetown. I’ve missed choral singing during