CLASS news
Members of the College Class of ’76 gathered at the home of Jean Walston Neese ’76C for their reunion party.
her own record label (Track & Field Records) a couple of years ago. Paton (24) works for an accounting firm in Charlotte and loves living Uptown. Hope everyone is happy, healthy, and enjoying life! Much love, Trish
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College Mary Virginia Swain ’77C Hello, friends! Another year has passed, and here is some life news from classmates for our annual newsletter. Debbie Goodson Bunn is in her eighth year as the finance/human resources manager for a nonprofit that works with developmentally disabled adults. She and husband Henry have been married for 37 years. Henry farms around their home in Stokes, N.C., and their son, Brooks, works with his dad on the farm. Brooks and his wife, who works at East Carolina University, have a two-yearold daughter, who is the light of all their lives. Debbie says grandparenthood is wonderful and fun. Debbie’s daughter, Kelley, is a fifth-grade teacher in Williamston, and husband Daniel is a supervisor with Perdue in Lewiston. Debbie writes on a sad note that she lost her father in September after his long struggle with congestive heart failure, and the loss, of course, has left a hole in Debbie’s heart. Her mother is doing well and staying at their beach house in Atlantic Beach. Debbie, who I don’t believe has ever missed a reunion, is looking forward to our next one next spring. Louise Whitmire
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Front Row: Jane Cassedy McDonald, Bess Knotts Walker, Kim Jordan Second Row: Kate Taylor Hill, Beth Dalton Neale, Tracey Fountain Hall, Jean Walston Neese, Sally Pleasants Farrar, Mary Claire Seawell Thomas, Joan Pettit Perry Third Row: Stephanie Born Warren, Josie Forbes, Lee Broadfoot Hathaway, Betsy Hardwick Dawson, Ellen Stone Pittman Fourth Row: Towles Dunbar Napper, Hope Tyndall Hancock, Margaret Smith Chesson, Mary Kosterman Hopkins
Catania is enjoying her second year at theatre director at Saint Mary’s. She directed Pride and Prejudice in the fall and Legally Blonde, the musical, this spring, in Pittman Auditorium. Lou’s husband, Joe, masterfully builds the sets for the shows, and even had a cameo role in Legally Blonde in March. Lou is doing such great things with our theatre program, and her shows are spectacular. She invites you all to attend the future shows. Front Row: Catherine Rogers, Donna Byrd Getty, Debbie Gupton Van Zijl, Virginia James Shelley, Lee Scott Worth Second Row: Martha I will save you a seat, as I Murphy, Bebee Bason Lee, Elizabeth Vann McDuffie, Emily Hartzog, wouldn’t miss one of their Charlotte Trent Rinehart, Anna T. Webb Wheeless shows. Lou’s daughter, Nancy’s oldest son, David, was married last Elizabeth, has big plans for the fall that we May. Youngest son William has a new job can announce in the next issue, and daughter with a start-up marketing firm, and middle Margaret has just started a job with Higher son Sam Allen graduated from UNC MediAchievement in Washington, D.C. I love cal School and has moved with his family working at Saint Mary’s with Lou – she is a to Wilmington for residency in general surbright light at our school. Nancy Thompson gery. Nancy’s second grandson was born in Heathcote lives in Raleigh with her mother, January 2015. I went to watch the Tar Heels which works well for them both. She works official practice when they played in NCAA half-days at Trilogy School and paints and March Madness in Raleigh at the PNC Arena makes her famous pimento cheese and pound and looked down my row at one point, and cakes to sell. I always stock up on pimento there was Nancy also cheering on the Heels. cheese at Nancy’s table at the Saint Mary’s Linda Ramsey writes from Roxboro, where Alumnae Bazaar on Reunion Weekend! she is a judicial assistant to Judge Mark Gal-
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