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triplets. Carter Miles writes “I am now retired after teaching for 41 years. Love being retired. I still tutor two days a week but love not being responsible for state tests. Have two grandchildren, Lauren and Aubrey. They live in Erie, Pa. so naturally I spend a lot of time there. My daughter’s name is Marti and her husband is Rick. Have a houseboat and float boat at the lake so spend time there also. Life is good.” Dianne Buckle Jefferson wrote: “My world is fashion. I have been blessed with two careers in my life. Freelance runway model from the age of 18 to 40 years old. After I turned 40 years old, I started a new career as a Designer Consultant for two small boutiques.” She now works for Saks Fifth Avenue. Jackie Spencer wrote that she was sad to miss the reunion, but she “was in the midst of putting together the first Thomas Nelson Science Summer Camp for 36 Middle School students” in Hampton, Va. When Ann Babcock moved to North Carolina after 7th grade, her classmates gave her a silver engraved charm which she still has. She lives in Asheville, N.C. Cathy Hall Stopher wrote that she met Ed on a blind date at Sweet Briar while he was at UVA Law School. They have been married since 1970. They have two children, Marshall who is married and lives in Chevy Chase, D.C. and has a son, and Charles who lives nearby in Louisville, is married and has a daughter and a son. She loves “playing ‘at’ golf, bridge and reading.” Lillian Young’s news is “after 43 years in Charlotte, N.C., I bought a house with the love of my life in Charlottesville, Va. in 2013.” Beth Herring Baylor wrote that she is retired, but still maintains active Real Estate Broker and Registered Nurse licenses. She has been working through hundreds of family letters, boxes and papers handed down from generations to compile a book. It has been a “labor of love” but she notes that the Virginia Historical Society has committed to keeping the originals that she has diligently cataloged, sorted and indexed. Abigail Norfleet James wrote that she “went back to graduate school at age 50 and started a whole new career! I’m still teaching, but now I work with teachers in single gender schools around the world. Several years ago, I worked with the math department in the middle and upper school at St C’s and you guys would be blown away by the differences between what we were taught and what the girls now are expected to be able to do.” Janie Pickard Hahn lives in Frederick, Md., and loves competing in her local county fair with her pickles, jams, jellies and baked goods. She often wins awards. Ann Lambdin Young wrote “Jimmy and I have been married 43 years and we live in the Jackson, Miss. neighborhood where I grew up! We have three married children and six grandchildren! Jimmy still practices law full-time and has been planting an Anglican church in metro-Jackson. It has been and continues to be a
blessing.” Gretchen Buis wrote that she “retired from 30 years teaching in Richmond, but am assisting part time in a college preschool. The pride and joy of my life are my daughter, Windsor Jones Betts ’97 and son, Hamill, a 2000 St. Christopher's graduate.” Holmes Bridgers Ramsay and Lillian Young stayed with Sally Archer Williams Christiansen during the reunion. Sally came to visit your class correspondent, Lillian, in Charlottesville for a night later in April. We went to Montpelier and a vineyard. If any of you are coming this way, give me a call. I would love to see you.
50th Reunion Louise Hayman, 1 Cumberland Ct., Annapolis, MD 21401; louise.lake.hayman@gmail.com You should have April 15-16, 2016, on your calendar circled in red with glitter and gold stars, ‘cause that’s when we will be reuning. We’ll have our traditional class party Friday evening and enjoy the all-alumnae “Party Through the Decades” the following evening. Yes, the day we thought could never possibly come….the 50th anniversary of our class’s Daisy Chain… is upon us! Miraculously, we have been transformed from carefree, exuberant youth into responsible, remarkable contributors to society. Besides the priceless opportunity to be together again, we will have the extra treat of doing so at the culmination of the school’s yearlong 125th anniversary celebration. Your mailbox and inbox will begin to fill with information and requests for information. Wallis Wickham Raemer and I are co-editing a publication designed to summarize our lives since school with both serious and entertaining information. Part of which will be the results of a survey we will take to create a fascinating profile of our class. Stay tuned…and don’t make us pester you, because we will stop at little to collect the goodies we need for this publication. And, now, we bring you the news: Oops, there seem to be some technical difficulties, interrupting the transmission of the news, as I have heard from only a few of you since I last reported! Katie Harris wrote from LA that she was closely following the demise of Sweet Briar College, along with so many of us former residents of the Briar Patch. Happily, the Vixens pulled it out in the end, and there is a future for our alma mater. Bromby Luck Earle reports that she is reviving her real estate practice in Richmond (Is she the only realtor in our class?) and that life is good. She begins a trip to Mexico on our reunion weekend. Kitty Moss Bayliss’ daughters Crandall Bayliss Thompson ’94 and Tucker Bayliss Deal ’99 (who was married in April) both live in Richmond. Crandall’s children are all Saints and Kitty predicts, “Looks like we’ll have more Saints coming.” Cindy Parke Beukema and husband John were headed
for a cruise to Alaska. Cindy writes, “I’m looking forward to my 50th reunion next year.” Evelyn Ragland Zink writes, “A lot of water over the dam in the many years since I left Richmond in Middle School, but my St. Catherine’s experience was the foundation of my life in so many ways... As I anticipate capping off my 27 years in Development next year, I hope that I will be able to join the Class of 1966 in April 2016 to celebrate such a milestone and reconnect with friends who have lived so long in my memory. For now, seven grandchildren age 4 and under are keeping me busy in what cannot accurately be described as Free Time. Ha ha!” Mary Bray, who lives in Atlanta, was planning to be in Washington and New York in late September for the opening of the opera seasons in those two cities. She does a lot of traveling for opera and plays duplicate bridge, at which I know her to be a wizard. Though there might not be time for opera or bridge at our reunion, she plans to attend. Alas, I can fill you in on the doings of Emily Borden Ragsdale (travel and more travel) and Lynn Hornor Keith (ditto) but that is unfair to the rest of you who surely must be up to something you feel comfortable relaying to your faithful class correspondent. Are you trying to work me out of a job? Modesty and a keen sense of what bores readers prevent me from droning on about myself. Briefly: lots of volunteer work, moderate physical activity and observing one of the cutest threeyear-olds ever. Can’t wait to hear all about each of you and counting the days ’til I see you.
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Flossie VanMeter Barnhart, 2248 Potter St., Eugene, OR 97405; florence@barnhart.us Holly Flint, 4952 Sentinel Dr., #102, Bethesda, MD 20816; hfcats@gmail.com Janie Hanes Lambeth, 2809 Shandy Ln., Wilmington, NC 28409; janehlambeth@gmail.com
Blair Barrett Curdts’ daughter Sophie was married at Tuckahoe Plantation last May. Blair reports, “It was beautiful! One down and two more to go!”
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Ginger Harrison Adamson, 4607 Leonard Pkwy., Richmond, VA 23226; adamsong@stcva.org Elsie Dickinson Hovis, 500 Cedarbrooke Ln., Richmond, VA 23229; elsie.hovis@gmail.com Helen Harrison Tripp, 5810 Three Chopt Rd., Richmond, VA 23226; hhtripp@aol.com
From our friend, Mary Tompkins Miller: “I am sad to report that I lost my dear husband, Jim, in early August to advanced prostate cancer after a valiant struggle to beat it. My wonderful St. C classmates were right there to support and strengthen me. I
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