Alumnae
note in our class news. Peace and be well, Sarah
1968 COLLEGE
Next Reunion: 2018 Paula Johnson Stewart ’68C Dear class friends, I guess since we just had our reunion, people didn’t feel as though they had much news. For those of you who were not able to come, we really missed you! PLEASE make it a priority to come to our 50th! It will be here before we know it! Cece May Scott wrote about how much she enjoyed seeing everyone and can’t wait until we get together again. I received a long email from Cathy Walp Askew. She is tutoring for the 12th year since she left the classroom. It allows her to keep her own schedule and be free to travel with her husband. She loves teaching one-on-one without all the other demands. Since our reunion, she was inspired to contact Susan Slover. Cathy was planning to visit both of her children in N.Y.C. in mid-May, and figured it might work to get in a lunch with Susan. Susan is incredibly busy, particularly with her design work for Steve Wynn, who’s opening a new hotel in China, but she happened to be in the city the day they were free. Cathy and Bucky met Susan at The Crosby Hotel for lunch and Cathy said, “It was wonderful and she looks marvelous and was as charming as ever.” Cathy had taken our reunion picture to show her, which she enjoyed seeing. At the end of May, Cathy and her husband visited Celie Smith Harris and Jeff at their beach house on Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina. They enjoyed several days together,
relaxing and taking advantage of some of the offerings of Spoleto. They also went on a beautiful tour of many of the private gardens in Charleston and watched an exciting dance performance. Even though Cathy had encouraged Debbie Almquist Rosen to come to our last reunion, she was disappointed Debbie didn't make it. But, they have talked since and Debbie says she will be at the next one! Susan Davis Virgin loved being with everyone at the reunion. She ran into Kem Toole Johnson in Highlands and had the opportunity to see Becky Bell Savitz's garden. The garden was on the front cover of the June issue of “Southern Living” magazine with a wonderful article and photographs! She also saw Nancy Richardson Watson ’68HS, Molly's sister, that same weekend. She, too, hopes everyone will come to our 50th. Anne Perkerson Thomas wrote, “What fun to reconnect with the
Saint Mary’s gang. I had heard through the grapevine about the reunion – after the fact! Sounds like a wonderful time. At any rate, I appear to be back on the mailing list now thanks to Susan Virgin! I am now fully retired and living at my East Hampton, N.Y., house year-round. Gave up the city apartment when I closed up my special events business over a year ago. After I left Carnegie Hall in 1989, I had started my own small shop to do events (almost all fundraisers for N.Y.C. institutions). Am having a ball not working (and don’t understand people who fret about what they will do when they retire!). Spend a month every winter in Arizona and the month of August in Sidney, British Columbia, where my sister has a great summer house. Otherwise busy with bridge, fun with friends and chairing the Landmarks Luncheon for the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society (do you love the name?) in the fall.” Diane Stockard Wade
First Row (left to right): Jo Crawford Phelps, Celie Smith Harris, Nancy Bowen Wiggins, Beverly Randolph, Beth Harris Isenhour, Carla Heaton Bailey, Cheryl Lee Taft, Juliet Smith Barrus; Second Row (left to right): Cathy Swain Crossett, Becky Bell Savitz, Carolyn Blaine, Cece May Scott, Laura Walter Hearn; Third Row (left to right): Molly Richardson Swan, Paula Johnson Stewart, Bettie Kellogg Blanchard, Mary Holden Harrell Burke; Fourth Row (left to right): Cathy Walp Askew, Susan Davis Virgin, Martha Vaughan, Keith Richardson, Lu Dixon Manekin; Fifth Row (left to right): Frances Garriss Jilcott, Claire Duff Dodd, Kay Lasater Culp, Mary Clark Whittle German, Pat Slater Holscher
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