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1970 classmates Kristin Rehder and Betsy Dennis spent some time together in the San Juan Islands north of Seattle last summer
Hello hot flashers, we hope you have had a great year. Debbie Andrews Dunlap welcomed her third grandchild: her daughter Blair Dunlap Edwards ’01 had a second daughter in June. Debbie’s whole family enjoyed a week’s vacation at the beach in August. Mary Palmer Trice Legare writes that in addition to a move to Tappahannock, Va. and a new job at Essex County Intermediate School, she has successfully completed her dissertation for her Ph.D. and is now Dr. Legare. Wow, two classmates in Tappahannock! Edie McRee Bowles, who now resides on the weekends in the Tappahannock neighborhood of Gwynfield, spends her weeks in Richmond working at VCU. Mimi Hill Wilk writes that she accompanied her daughter Liz on a business trip to Histon, England and they thoroughly enjoyed the countryside squeezing in trips to Paris and London. Mimi’s grandson Georgie and parents visited after their trip to Alaska. Molly Moncure and husband Charlie still enjoy life out in the country in Montpelier, Va. Her son Trip continues to travel with his photojournalism career while her other son Conway continues to live and work in Richmond. Kristin Rehder’s next photo documentary will be on refugees resettling in Lancaster Pa., with collaboration from the regional hospital and Church World Service. Jeanne Johns Cassin writes that her first grandchild was born in June to son Vern, who is a lawyer in D.C. Jeanne’s daughter Alice attends Darden and daughter Page is still at AMEX. Jeanne is hoping to put her house (in Groton, Mass.) on the market and move to northern Virginia, enabling her to see her grandson and his parents more frequently and get to Richmond more often. The Richmond Times Dispatch featured an article on Peggy Spilman Crowley’s business, Three Sisters Cheese Straws, which she owns with her two sisters, Isabel Bates and Alice Spilman Frankovitch ’74. Visit their website at www.threesisters3.com. Willis Lathrop O’Brien and husband Jim had a two week vacation bicycling in the Alsace region of France. They had fun
going through lots of villages and then touring the Champagne region for recuperation. Jean Wetzel Nance’s first grandchild has turned one and lives in Wilmington, N.C. “We are enjoying time with her — she has already been to the River as a newborn and a toddler. My daughters are now located in Wilmington, N.C. and Santa Monica, Calif. so I enjoy visiting both coasts.” Please keep in touch and send us news when you can...our 50th is right around the corner.
45th Reunion Christine Kjellstrom Douglas, 14 Lynacres Blvd., Fayetteville, NY 13066; ckdouglas@verizon.net When not at home with their two labrador retrievers in Rhode Island, Pete and Marshall Souder Lawson help organize and run sailing events in Europe. Virginia Drewry writes, “Anita Lippitt Rogers and I met up in Maine when she and husband Mike came to my husband’s funeral, and I was fortunate to have my cousin Julia Moncure Boysen ’64, her husband Bill and daughter Catherine with me as well. Both such wonderful, kind, accomplished women, those two St. C alumnae!” Ashton Williams Harrison “is enjoying retirement, going from the rivah to the mountains and getting ready to downsize the Richmond home! Having a ball!” Elizabeth Small Lipscomb wrote, “How many are looking to retire? At 62, I sure am! As a guidance counselor, I am enjoying my high school senior class of 2016. But oh boy! I hope when they graduate, I can too! I have enjoyed some wonderful vacations in the mountains, Green Turtle Cay, and exploring my lovely state. I’m looking forward to our reunion! My students of 2016 would DIE knowing how long ago high school graduation was for me!” Preston Lee Gomer’s daughter Charlotte ’10 is living in Richmond and working for the Virginia Capitol Foundation. Preston is busy working full time in her interiors business and serves as president of
her garden club. Nine from our class, Martha Ware Stone Bryan, Dorothy Young, Betsy Rawles, Eleanor Smith Wellford, Julie Johns Saunders, Mary Ellett Harrison, Carol Wood, Hilary Heistand Long, and Preston Gomer play bridge every other week. Always great fun! Betsy Rawles’ summer was consumed helping her niece, Caitlin Rawles, prepare for her wedding. The big event came off without a hitch on a beautiful evening with our own Eleanor Wellford officiating. The last of Carrington Pasco Brown’s five sons graduated from UVA in May so now she has three sons in NYC, one in San Fran and one in Richmond. She stays busy painting, leading dream groups, teaching yoga, weeding her vegetable garden and riding horses. Your correspondent Christine Kjellstrom Douglas loves seeing Rosamond Lawson in Charleston, S.C. when visiting her daughter who is in school there. That daughter, Christina, will spend this year in Richmond, Chattanooga, and Wilmington, N.C. on PT clinical rotations. Her other daughter, Edie, has left Birmingham, Ala. and is presently travelling in New Zealand. Christine and Rosamond are teachers yet another year! Save April 15-16, 2016: Our 45th Reunion!
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Holly Eason Holden, 130 Main St., Farmington, CT 06032; HollyHoldenLtd@aol.com Jane Blanton Stout, 140 Meadowlark, Princeton, WV 24740; jbgar831@aol.com Hello Girls! Lovely to hear from you! My co-correspondent, Jane Blanton Stout wrote that she seems to have become a professional volunteer, juggling rather mundane responsibilities for various community events. Primarily she is teaching classes at church on Wednesday nights, event planning and grant writing for our local Rotary Club, and mostly administrative and accounting work for Heaven Sent Ministries, a Christian non-profit organization committed to feeding hungry children. She travels as much as possible! Margy Priddy shared that she enjoyed the wedding of Rae Ann Lindberg Puff’s son at their house in New Hampshire. Margy told me that she had just walked back home from attending The Festival of Yesteryear at the Museum of the Cape Fear, where she ran into Belle Long who was there with her museum’s exhibit... a fun surprise, and nice to catch up! Margy’s other news is that her daughter Morgan graduated with her BS in Chemistry Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa on May 17, then gave her a new grandson June 3! She visits her son’s family in Augusta, Ga., where he and his wife work for Club Car. The twins are almost 6, and already loving golf and tennis. Rae Ann said, “Here’s my news in a nutshell: Our daughter, Tori, just got engaged to a great
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