CLASS news to touching base with friends. Charlotte Thorne Grant moved to Raleigh in late 2014 to be near family. She has enjoyed seeing Hadley Morgan Hines, Sue Bergamini and Molly Cooper Safrit. Amelia Yancey Bond was looking forward to our reunion. Her big news was an amazing mission trip to Ecuador last summer, followed by a visit to the Galapagos Islands. She loves seeing Janie Stronach Wood ’62HS ’64C and Dickie Robinson Front Row: G.G. Saunders Buxton, Hadley Morgan Hines, Linda Latham Tyler ’56HS ’58C in Sutton Second Row: Molly Cooper Safrit, Sue Bergamini, Lii Lii Ridenhour Viola, Amelia Yancey Bond Third Row: Ann Swindell Wyche, Janet Dawson, Edenton. Amelia plans Anne Metts Smith, Charlotte Thorne Grant plenty of trips to Annapolis, Md., now that ily have been wonderful. Time does help. I her son and his family have moved there. enjoyed seeing friends at our 55th reunion Next year I hope to have more news. In the in April. Ann Swindell Wyche retired in meantime have fun and stay well. June 2014 after teaching English at High Point Central. She has travelled to Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Paris, and will be spending part of this summer in Canterbury, College Sue Battle Moore ’63C U.K., and London. She also visits her sons Dear Class of ’63, Where is everybody? and grandchildren as much as possible. BeWhile the news is “slim” this year, it’s all sides travelling, she stays busy in High Point, good and I’m happy to report what I’ve serving on the board of directors of the High learned. Our classmate, “The Duchess of Point Arts Council, Alexander Martin ChapWindsor,” better known as Verna Gillam ter DAR, DKG, Chi Chapter, High Point Perry, is still holding court in Windsor, N.C., Literacy League, St. Mary’s Choir, and too and writes that she and family are all doing many others. She says, “Have fun while you well. She wishes the same for the rest of us. can!” She also retired from a part-time job From Dunn, Diane Croonenberghs Tilghteaching voice at UNCSA Community Music man reports that she and husband Granville School. Arden Fobes Scott and her husband, are enjoying spending time in Wrightsville Jack, returned to North Carolina four years Beach. Their favorite company is their four ago and are living in Penick Village in her grandsons (one seven- and three five-yearhometown, Southern Pines. Her husband’s olds). Sophronia “LeaLea” Hall Ivey is in health has delayed her from getting together Oxford, enjoying her husband’s retirement. with Molly Cooper Safrit, but they have She is busy with club meetings and fambeen in touch. She is delighted to be home, ily gatherings. LeaLea’s needlepoint kneeler and when the time is right, she looks forward
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project for St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church is still a work in progress, three years down and seven to go. Hopefully, there will be a story about these colorful kneelers in Our State Magazine, as well as the Episcopal publication, The Disciple. Bert Bradshaw Hall supposedly lives in Pinehurst, but from her news, she is seldom there. She and her husband are always on the go—Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Princeton, N.J., Tucson, Ariz., as well as Wrightsville Beach. Bert is looking forward to seeing Marty Fales Stanfield at Wrightsville this summer. It was wonderful to hear from Greensboro’s Mary Stella Leak Jones that her granddaughter, Stephanie Jones, is a freshman at Saint Mary’s and qualified to swim in the state swim meet. Mary Stella and husband Charlie celebrated their 50th anniversary last summer and are blessed to have seven grandchildren who are growing up much too fast. For our classmate “Go-Go Girl” Flo Pitts Carter, 2015 was another travel year. From Costa Rica in January, she was off to Alaska with the Carter family, where they enjoyed a cruise of the Inside Passage and then took the train to Denali. In September, Flo and her travel buddies (two of her Morganton friends) toured Madrid before going to Morocco. Flo rounded out her travel year with a trip to London to celebrate her daughter’s birthday. For 2016, Flo is taking a travel hiatus and staying put at Lake James, where she enjoys kayaking, paddle boarding, and driving the boat while Walter skis! In her “spare time,” she plays “bad golf” a few times a week, as well as stays active in community activities, D.A.R., and serving as president of U.M.W. Moving from North Carolina, I found Hilda Little Janes still in Pensacola, Fla. She and husband Ray enjoyed trips to Morocco and Cuba in 2015. They will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with a big party in June! From Rocky Mount, my news is slim. Granddaughter Grace Battle Thompson ’18 is a sophomore at SMS, and I have enjoyed serving as chairperson of the Grandparents Annual Fund for the past two years. Until next year, my best to all, Sue
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